786 please, 786, Lord speak to me that
I may speak, in living echoes of thy
tone, as thou hast sought, so let me
seek thy erring children, lost and lone.
And listen for the tune please.
786 Lord
speak
to me that I may speak, in living
echoes of thy tone, as thou hast sought,
so let me seek thy erring children, lost
and lone.
Lord speak to me that I may speak,
in living echoes of thy tone, as thou
hast sought, so let me seek thy
erring children, lost and lone.
786 Lord speak to me that I may
speak, in living echoes of thy tone, as
thou hast sought, so let me seek thy
erring children, lost and lone.
786 Lord speak to me that I may
speak, in living echoes of thy tone, as
thou hast sought, so let me seek thy
erring children, lost and lone.
Lord speak to me that I may speak,
in living echoes of thy tone, as thou
hast sought, so let me seek thy erring
children, lost and lone.
The Book of Daniel And we're at chapter
11, and you can see that it's a
very long chapter this evening.
There are 45 verses in the chapter, and
so we're not taking the whole chapter into
mind.
But this chapter is not only a long
chapter, I confess to you that it's a
very difficult chapter.
There are difficulties here, and as usual in
the class, we shall not pass by one
of the difficulties.
We believe in facing things in this class.
Sometimes when I go to some of the
great so-called great commentaries, and I'm looking
for something, the thing that I can see
clearly and that any kid could see clearly,
they've written pages about it.
And then the thing that I'm stuck with,
they must have been stuck with too, for
they never say a word about it.
And I find out that the commentary is
not so wonderful at all, so that I
need to get on my knees and take
time and let the Holy Ghost talk to
me.
Yes, it's a long chapter, it's a difficult
chapter, it's a prophetic chapter.
I want to explain that, I want to
say that it's not a vision that Daniel
had.
You know, we have been looking at visions
before this.
You remember that Nebuchadnezzar had that great vision
of this great image with the head of
gold and so on.
And then you remember that Daniel himself had
the vision of the four beasts.
You remember that he had another one, and
saw the ram and the eagle, and we
looked at these great visions and we got
light and we got help and inspiration from
them.
But this is something that the angel is
saying to Daniel.
You remember where we were last week, see
verse 18 of chapter 10.
Then there came again and touched me one
like the appearance of a man, and dispensed
of me.
And said, O man greatly beloved, fear not.
Peace be unto thee, be strong, yea, be
strong.
And when he had spoken unto me, I
was strengthened and said, let my Lord speak,
for thou hast strengthened me.
Then said he, knowest thou wherefore I come
unto thee?
And in verse 21 he gives the answer,
but I will show thee that which is
noted in the scripture of truth.
And it's a pity that the chapter division
comes in there, because this first verse belongs
to the saying.
Also I, it's the angel you know, in
the first year of God is the meat,
even I stood to confirm and strengthen him.
And now will I show thee the truth.
So this is this great angel that came
to give Daniel understanding and knowledge.
He's now going to show Daniel something that
must be noted in the scriptures of truth.
And he's bringing him truth.
Truth of course that concerns him and concerns
his nation, the people of Israel.
And when this was given by the shining
angel to Daniel, remember it was all prophecy.
At that moment, it was all in the
future.
Yes, but as we started tonight, a great
part of it is history now.
And that's where the argument ranges.
Just where are we in the chapter?
How much has been fulfilled?
How much is past and is history now?
That was prophecy then.
Where does the history stop in the chapter?
Where does the prophecy that's still future begin?
And the scholars are having trouble getting it
settled.
Some of the great Bible prophetic teachers, such
as Newton and Pregelius, and many of the
other famous men that one has enjoyed and
has been enriched from, they believe that only
the first five verses, only the first five,
are history now.
And then you go on from there.
Now there's another school, and they believe that
the first 20 verses are history now.
Dr. Ironside, Dr. Schaefer, G.
H.
Lanyon, many others.
Now that's the place that I take.
I think that I can prove that the
first 20 verses here tonight, they're history now.
Now I want to say to the class
that while it's a long chapter and a
difficult chapter and a prophetic chapter, it's a
very detailed chapter.
It gives us little details.
There are details even about Cleopatra in this
chapter that might amaze you.
You know she's not a great personage of
history.
I know that the historians here know about
her.
And she's not very important to Bible scholars.
I suppose film goers who saw Richard Burton
and Elizabeth Taylor playing in Cleopatra, you didn't
think I knew that, but I do, I
suppose you know something of the story of
this young woman.
Well, we'll get down to it when you
see it in the scriptures.
It looks much better here.
But there are details just like that in
the chapter that makes it a very detailed
chapter of prophecy.
Now we're not dealing with the whole chapter.
We're only dealing, as you can see, we're
dealing with the historical bit now that's past.
It's past history.
But I want you to remember that it
was prophecy then.
In fact, you know, when you get down
to it and see how very wonderfully the
angel outlined the details of coming history for
Daniel, some of the modernists, they say it's
too exact.
It's too detailed.
It must have been written afterwards.
Now that's a very subtle way out of
it, isn't it?
One of them said to me, you know,
the details are too good.
They're too good for God.
He said, you know, there are so many
details about history in this chapter that it
couldn't possibly be done the way back then.
Because that's one of those characters that doesn't
know his God.
He's just limiting God.
You would never limit God, I hope.
I said, would you like to tell me
when it was written?
Well, you know so much about it.
He said it must have been written away
in the time of the Maccabees just before
Christ was born.
And all that's in the first 20 verses
were really fulfilled just at that point.
He knew when it was all right.
He said after it was fulfilled, they must
have written it down.
Well, I can tell you this, I said
to them, that about 130 years after the
Maccabees, our Lord Jesus Christ came on the
scene.
And one day, talking to his own, he
said to them, when thou seest the abomination
of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet,
when you see it come to pass.
So he didn't think it was all fulfilled.
He believed there was a great part yet
future.
Now, I don't think that it's even fair
for modernists to take this subtle slant of
doing the devil's work.
I think that we'll see all right, that
God, through the angel, was given Daniel a
very detailed, prophetic picture of the days that
lay just ahead of Daniel.
And so you can see that we're going
to look at it this evening.
Under these five headings.
We're going to look first of all at
the potentates of Persia.
Because the angel begins with Persia.
Persia was reigning then.
And he gives all the details that lies
ahead for the Persian nations.
And then, after the Persians were overthrown, of
course, by Alexander the Great, then comes in
the greatness of Greece.
And although Greece wasn't even thought about in
Daniel's day, yet the details are here, and
they fulfill the history of Greece all right.
And then, of course, we come to the
end of the great reign of Alexander the
Great, and you know from history, and there
are historians around me, you know that I
have to be very careful.
You historians know at least that his great
world empire was divided into four, towards the
four winds of heaven.
There was a kingdom on the north and
the south, and one all the way out
on the west, and one out on the
east.
And, of course, these details are given here
before the Persian empire had come to an
end at all, or Alexander or Greece was
ever thought about.
And you can see that the greatness of
Greece and how it was broken.
Then we come to look tonight at the
energy of Egypt.
Because Egypt was one of those four kingdoms,
it was actually the one on the south.
And then we come not only to look
at the energy of Egypt, but the strength
of Syria.
For Syria was the one on the north.
And so we're looking down this twenty verses,
this paragraph, at the potentates of Persia and
the greatness of Greece and the energy of
Egypt and the strength of Syria.
And then I shall bring in some of
these very precise details of prophecy, and that's
the preciseness of prophecy.
So you know where we're going and what
we're doing.
The first verse of the chapter is a
parenthetical one.
In the Companion Bible, and in many others,
there are parenthetical marks at this first verse.
It's actually a parenthesis.
It's the angel who was talking in chapter
ten, going on talking, saying, also I, in
the first year of Darius the Medieval I,
stood to confirm and to strengthen him.
And the first verse doesn't matter.
But he comes to the now.
Of now will I shall be the truth.
So you can almost see Daniel sitting at
the angel's feet, and the angel who knew
the truth to be noted in the scripture
of truth, is telling Daniel now some of
the details that will take place in this
great Persian Empire.
Do you remember that last week in chapter
ten, that the chapter began like this.
In the third year of Cyrus, king of
Persia.
So let me set the date for you.
We're in the third year of Cyrus, king
of Persia.
That's where Daniel was just then.
And so the angel is saying to him,
verse two, Behold there shall stand up yet
three kings in Persia.
It will be three more kings.
And I put the names on you notes
for you.
Ahasuerus, Artaxerxes, and another Darius.
There's Darius I and II, and that's something
we must keep in mind.
And then he says, behold there shall stand
up yet three kings in Persia, and the
fourth shall be far richer than they all,
and by his strength through his riches, he
shall stir up all against the realm of
Grecia.
So you can see that the four kings
of Persia, and this is a fact of
history.
In fact all you need to do to
find out this, is to get the Encyclopedia
Britannica.
You just get it.
And get Cyrus.
And get the year that he was there,
and see how many kings of Persia are
behind him, and see who the fourth one
was, and it's Artaxerxes, and he's the great
and rich one, and he's the man who
went to make trouble with Greece.
Now that's where the kingdom of Persia ended.
Let's remember that when you flash across a
verse like that, and take a few words
in, and a few phrases, remember that you're
sweeping over about 40.
Try to get the time factor in.
Yes, one, two, three kings go by, just
like a flash.
It doesn't happen day after day, you know,
they all reign a little bit.
And then the fourth fellow, and that's where
the kingdom of Persia ended.
You see, when he went to stir up
trouble with Greece, a great general there took
command of the Grecian army, and he was
called Alexander, and he was Alexander the Great,
and he overthrew the Persians, and he ruled
the world.
And so we don't need to linger too
long this evening with these potentates of Persia.
But let's see this, the greatness of Greece.
You see, verse three, And a mighty king
shall stand up, that shall rule with great
dominion, and do according to his will.
And then he shall stand up, just when
he's at the peak of his power, his
kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided
towards the four winds of heaven.
And because we've seen this already, haven't we?
This has already been told to us in
this book.
Let's go back to Daniel 8, just for
a moment.
And this is the chapter where Daniel got
the vision of the ram and the he
-goat.
And just in case anyone would think that
we gave a wrong interpretation to the ram
or the he-goat, read verse 20.
Because this is where the angel's interpreting it
for Daniel.
We're at Daniel 8, verse 20.
The ram, which doth host, having two horns,
are the kings of Media and Persia.
And the rough goat is the king of
Grecia.
And the great horn that is between his
eyes is the first king, who is Alexander.
Now that being broken, whereas four stood up
for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out
of the nation.
And of course this is exactly what happened.
Alexander overthrew the Persians.
He conquered the world in no time at
all.
It is said somewhere in history that he
sat down and cried because there were no
more worlds to conquer.
And when he was 33 years of age,
just at the peak of his power, he
died.
So this all looks a great book, you
know.
This is all prophecy to Daniel, you know.
It's all history now.
But you can see that these things have
been fulfilled.
You can see in chapter 11 again, it
says, verse 4, When he shall stand up
his kingdom shall be broken and shall be
divided toward the four winds of heaven.
Now here's a bit of detailed prophecy, not
to his prosperity, nor according to his dominion
which he ruled, for his kingdom shall be
plucked up even for others beside those.
You see, when Alexander the Great died, and
this is just plain history, the great Grecian
empire was divided into four, and the four
portions of that great empire were toward the
four winds.
There was a kingdom on the north, and
a kingdom in the south, a kingdom in
the east, a kingdom in the west.
Now up in the north, one of his
generals took over, a man called Seleucius, and
he became the king of Syria.
Down in the south, there was another general
in the army called Ptolemy, and he took
command of the south, and he became the
king of Egypt.
Now I know who took over the west,
it was called Macedon, and I know who
took over the east, which was called Thrace.
But scripture here in this chapter doesn't take
the west or the east in anymore.
The angel just went on to show Daniel
what the king of the south and the
king of the north would do to each
other.
That's why I say that the boys that
stop at chapter 5 are stopping far too
quick.
Because these things went on.
In fact I believe this, that the reason
why the angel gave Daniel this detailed prophetic
outline of history, I believe it was to
let him see the sorrows that would come
upon his people.
You see if you get Alexander the Great
dying at 33 and his kingdom is divided
into four, if you get Syria up in
the north, if you get Egypt down in
the south, you know what lies in between
Syria and Egypt.
It is Palestine that captures Syria there, Palestine
that captures Egypt there.
And then the king of the north and
the king of the south went to war.
These were the wars of the middle east
at that time.
Well the battleground was Palestine.
And it was Daniel's people that got amused.
And the angel's actually giving Daniel a detailed
prophetic vision of what lies ahead, that he
might know the sorrows that his people will
pass through.
And so this chapter takes up from verse
5 down to verse 20 these wars between
the king of the south which is Egypt
and the king of the north which is
Syria.
When we use the word south, what do
we mean?
You need to have some sort of direction.
Well it's the land south of Palestine.
That is Egypt.
When we use the king of the north,
why do we say north?
Because it's the land directly north of Palestine
and that is Syria.
And the battleground, Palestine, was in between.
Well this is a very detailed prophetic paragraph
now from verse 5 right down to verse
20.
And that brings us to look at the
energy of Egypt.
Look at verse 5.
And the king of the south this is
one of these generals of Alexander's taken over
this great kingdom in the south and the
king of the south shall be strong and
one of his princes and he shall be
strong above him and have dominion.
And this is perfectly true in history that
the most prolific did take the kingdom.
There was one of his princes who became
greater even than himself and have dominion and
his dominion shall be a great dominion.
How detailed the thing is.
And in the end of years they shall
join themselves together.
Now I think that we want to stop
and think there just for a moment because
if the king of the south made himself
so strong and became such a mighty dominion
then there must have been wars and battles
somewhere.
And I think that they battled with the
king of the north.
And I think I'm going to prove that
just now.
Because when these two get together and have
this amalgamation and have their differences settled it
says and in the end of years and
again mark the time flying past and in
the end of years they shall join themselves
together for the king's daughter of the south.
And her name was Berenice.
Berenice.
And all the historians know the story of
Berenice because the king's daughter of the south
shall come to the king of the north.
You know this is exactly what the king
of the south did.
You know after he got this great dominion
and had this amalgamation with this other prince
then he sent his daughter Berenice to the
king of the north.
And it was Antiochus who was the king
up in Syria just then and he divorced
his own wife and disinherited his own son
and married Berenice and then wickedly murdered her.
Now that's all history.
But there were details given here in Daniel
that's amazing and would amaze the historians.
In fact so amazes them that they think
it was written afterwards rather than before.
But we're not just stopping with the details
because they don't matter too much to a
class like this.
We're putting them in as they go quickly.
Verse 6 And in the end of years
they shall join themselves together for the king's
daughter of the south shall come to the
king of the north to make an agreement
but she shall not retain the power of
the arm neither shall he stand on his
arm but she shall be given up and
they that brought her and he that begat
her and he that strengthened her in these
times Now watch this but but these buts
are very carefully put in but out of
a branch of her roots shall one stand
up in his estate Now that's very interesting
because she had a brother back there she
had a brother called Ptolemy too who became
Ptolemy the second and watch this out of
a branch of her roots shall one stand
up in his estate and shall come with
an army and shall enter into the fortress
of the king of the north and shall
deal against them and shall prevail So I
hope you're watching this because I'm not wanting
to linger on the details nor do I
want to pretend to be a historian because
while history interests quite a few of you
in this meeting it certainly doesn't interest me
I just happen to have to know and
put my nose in the history book to
learn but I detest it I would rather
stick to the old book I'm just a
bible preacher but in occasions like this I
just have to know what the history is
all about and the bible amazes me and
it's this end that I want to get
over that the book we hold is the
word of God it must be because the
details are amazing and this fellow Ptolemy the
second or the third maybe he was he
went up now and he prevailed against the
king of the north see verse 8 that
is he shall continue more years as conqueror
than the king of the north now while
these wars were going on in the middle
east at that time Daniel's people and Daniel's
country was having a hard time first it
was the king of the south going north
then it was the king of the north
coming south and these battles continued for quite
a number of years you see for you
younger students in the class tonight let me
say this try and remember this that when
the last dot of your old testament is
placed there at Malachi it is Persia that
is in command of the world don't forget
that and all the details are given in
Daniel yet Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah, Jonah, Micah,
Nahum, Habakkuk, Zephaniah, Haggad, Zechariah, Malachi are all
under Persia now between the last dot in
Persia and the first word in Matthew's gospel
there are 400 silent years we call them
400 of them now it is in those
silent years that Alexander comes up and overthrows
the last Persian king and it is just
a few years after he exerts his strength
and shows his power that he suddenly dies
at the age of 33 that his kingdom
is divided into four and there is one
part in the north and one part in
the south and it is the way there
in those years coming up to 100 years
before Christ was born that these wars take
place well you know where we are and
Daniel's people was getting no word from their
God for God was silent the Maccabees come
in there and they did make a stand
there is no question but you can see
that these wars must have been given Daniel's
people a terrible time you see what I
am edging round to and what I will
edge round to why did God allow it
we just take your time because we will
meditate in later this evening when north and
south goes to war but let's get the
thing done a bit more properly we are
way down at verse 9 now after carrying
the captives and the gold and the silver
back to his own country it says verse
9 so the king of the south shall
come into his kingdom and shall return into
his own land now we are at verse
10 and his son now you could go
wrong here if you didn't take your time
because after talking so much about the king
of the south doing so many wonderful exploits
as you may be allowed to say that
you might think that it's talking about his
sons but it's not it's talking about the
sons of the king of the north and
I'll explain that to you just as we
read but his sons shall be stirred up
and you know this is the most interesting
thing because these two sons are mentioned in
the Encyclopedia Britannica if you have it at
home it is volume 24 it is page
604 so I can't go close unless I've
got all the books with me but you'll
find the two sons mentioned there and they're
the two sons of the king of the
north but you'll get it clearer in scripture
but his sons shall be stirred up and
shall assemble a multitude of great forces and
one shall certainly come and that is very
wonderfully put because Encyclopedia Britannica says that these
two boys who set up this great force
preparing for battle one fell off the horse
and broke his neck and there's only one
comes of course this book's a great book
that you're reading out of don't you ever
think that I'm quoting Encyclopedia Britannica to hold
up this book that I'm quoting this book
to show that they must have done their
homework in Britannica the Bible's right now watch
this one shall certainly come and overflow and
pass through then shall he return and be
stirred up even to his fortress and the
king of this house shall be moved with
colour and the word means anger and shall
come forth and fight with him even with
the king of the north that's why I
knew the two boys were the sons of
the king of the north because the king
of the south going to meet him even
with the king of the north and he
now watch it again because you can go
wrong if you don't watch and he that
is the king of the north shall set
forth a great multitude but the multitude shall
be given into his hands and that is
the king of the south the fellow that
came out with anger really stopped him now
how am I sure just watch me now
and when he hath taken away the multitude
and I say it's the king of the
south his heart shall be lifted up and
he shall cast down many persons but he
shall not be strengthened by it winning that
battle didn't help him for the king of
the north shall return didn't I tell you
it was the king of the south because
the king of the north is going to
return now I'm not doing that to let
you know that I just know exactly every
detail that's there I'm doing this that you
might realise what happened in the land of
Palestine now first it's the king of the
north then it's the king of the south
then it's the king of the north then
it's the king of the south and these
middle east wars battles, raids for years and
years and years and Daniel's heart must be
sore looking on at this see verse 13
for the king of the north shall return
and set forth a multitude greater than the
former and shall certainly come after certain years
with a great army and with much riches
and in those times there shall be many
stand up against the king of the south
king of the north had a great army
and a lot of other boys joined in
too also the robbers of thy people shall
exalt themselves now that's a wee bit you
must get in you know when war is
wretched even tonight when we're at sixes and
sevens here in our province and we might
see it just like this it's like a
battle from the king of the north and
the king of the south you know there
are a lot of boys running about and
they would tell their grandmother to make money
just at this time and they're the robbers
of thy people they're the robbers a fellow
was telling me that the man was shot
the other day just the other week or
two back two doors from me he says
I says poor creature poor creature nothing at
it he says he's been selling guns to
the IRA and then selling them to the
UDA and he's been working both ways and
you get into trouble if you do that
sort of thing you're asking for trouble and
in this land you'll get it he's one
of the robbers of thy people and you
know friends this is what was happening in
these wars there were jews who were prepared
to stand in with the king of the
south when he came up with a big
army and they were prepared to stand in
with the king of the north when he
came down with a bigger one it's a
great book you're reading out of, maybe this
chapter would be so difficult for you you'd
give it up and throw it down but
if you get it put out piecemeal it's
wonderful you know not so difficult at all
it's all there and it stares at you
clear and clean let me get this over
because this is what I must get over
friend from this day forward you remember that
the book you hold in your hand is
God's word that's what I want this class
to get that's what I'm responsible for we
treasure that this book must not be thrown
around this is God's holy word and there
are wonderful things in it but let's get
on with this verse 14 and in those
times there shall stand up many against the
king of the south you know we've come
quite a long way because this king of
the south at this particular verse he is
Ptolemy V we began with Seleucius and then
Ptolemy V and then we have Ptolemy V
now the historians here know this when he
came to the throne he was only 12
years of age so this wee fella got
a very unhappy throne and no wonder the
king of the north is giving him a
lacing just now and no wonder the robbers
of Daniel's people old Jews that were out
to make money no wonder they were standing
in with the king of the north it
says and in those times there shall many
stand up against the king of the south
also the robbers of thy people shall exhaust
themselves to establish the vision because they pretended
that they were standing up for prophecy but
they shall fall they made the biggest mistake
of their lives because the man they were
standing with was Antiochus the great and he
destroyed the temple eventually but let's take our
time verse 15 so the king of the
north shall come and cast up a mountain
take the most fenced cities and the arms
of the south shall not withstand neither his
chosen people neither shall there be any strength
to withstand but he that cometh against him
that's the king of the north coming against
this shall do according to his own will
and none shall stand before him and he
shall stand in the glorious land that must
have touched Daniel's heart because that's what God
wanted to do God wanted Daniel to see
what his people were going to pass through
in the years that lay immediately ahead and
the glorious land is the land of Palestine
which by his hand shall be consumed they
really went through terrible times he the king
of the north shall also set his fist
to enter with the strength of his whole
kingdom and upright ones wisdom when we get
that sort of phrase it just means that
he's bringing counsellors to try to get an
upright agreement thus shall he do and he
shall give him that is he shall give
this wee fellow the daughter of woman corrupting
her now that's where Cleopatra comes in because
those of you who used to go to
the pictures and you know something about the
story you know that Ptolemy the fifth was
just twelve years old on the throne of
Egypt and you know that the king of
the north gave him his daughter Cleopatra and
she was only twelve do you remember the
story because I can tell you that while
I hold no votes for Elizabeth Taylor or
Richard Burton they did it pretty well let
me tell you that because I had to
look through the book of the film once
just to see for my own information I've
got to look at things I wouldn't advise
you to do and it was pretty well
done and the pictures that were there amazed
me that this young king on the throne
was given to this young girl at eleven
years of age and her father instructed her
that she would really overthrow the kingdom of
the south but it turned out different she
fell in love with a wee fella and
she overthrew her father she went against him
I can tell you this the angel told
it to Daniel long before Richard Burton was
ever dreamed about I can tell you that
here it is right in the book it's
very thrilling to me you know watch it
in the middle of verse seventeen life shall
he do and he shall give him the
daughter of woman corrupting her wee girl of
eleven being married to a fellow of twelve
but she shall not stand on his side
that is on her father's side neither before
him she turned against him that's what the
whole theme of the film is about if
you remember now we're at verse eighteen after
this shall he that is the king of
the north turn his feet onto the isles
you know he's turning away from Egypt he
can beat Ptolemy he's only a kid he's
overrun Palestine till he's fed up he's turning
outside now going towards the isles going towards
Mastodon yes that's the blunder he made and
he shall turn his face onto the isles
and shall take many but a prince did
you get that?
that was pretty well put now that's a
very interesting one because that's a Greek that's
a Hebrew word that's there for prince it's
the word Kuzin K-U-Z-I-N
and let me tell you it's only once
in the Bible so you haven't divulged it
I know that we get the word prince
many times it talks about Messiah the prince
but it was a different word at least
it's very filling to me I'm not a
Hebrew scholar nor do I pretend to be
and I have to learn at their feet
but there's a man called Wigdom who is
probably in my humble estimation the greatest Hebrew
scholar that ever lived and we have a
man in the meeting now who knows a
lot about Hebrew and Greek and I think
he would know this that the word Kuzin
it means general it's not proper translated prince
now this is the first time and the
only time in the Bible when you get
this word for general and once we get
this general coming into this this is the
beginning of the Roman Empire and this fella
turned his face away out from the eyes
he was one of the Roman generals I
can give you his name all right and
it doesn't matter he met him face to
face this was the beginning of the end
of both the king of the north and
the king of the south because Rome was
going to take over because you would know
this wouldn't you?
you young people ought to know this that
the last dot in Malachi it is perisher
that's reigning 400 silent years then comes Alexander
the Great and that's Greece he dies at
33 then his kingdom is divided into four
and we get the king of the north
and the king of the south in these
Middle East battles but then your new testament
opens it is Rome that is ruling the
world because the day that Jesus Christ was
about to be born it was Caesar Augustus
that commanded the whole world to protect what
he taught them about he was just the
boss so that Rome is in charge when
your new testament opens and this is the
first glimmer of it it's very interesting isn't
it?
you see this but a prince for his
own behalf shall cause the reproach offered by
him to cease without his own reproach he
shall cause it to turn upon him then
that's the king of the north then he
shall turn his face toward the fort of
his own land but he shall stumble and
fall not the sound he was overthrown then
shall stand up in his estate, in his
place in the place of the king of
the north another king a raider of Texas
this fellow is going to work it another
way in the glory of the kingdom of
course he is going to get money so
that he can pay all these boys that
might come against him as one way of
keeping the enemy at bay it never pays
it says then shall stand up in his
estate a raider of Texas in the glory
of the kingdom but within few days he
shall be destroyed neither in anger nor in
battle isn't that wonderful details because he wasn't
killed in a fight he wasn't killed in
a war, he wasn't killed in a battle,
he was poisoned how accurate is this book
my dear friends we've got to the end
of the 20th verse now I've got to
start next week, now hold on don't be
rushing take your time the car will be
there when you do a hope I've got
to show you why that that part of
the chapter is the historic part and ends
there and I believe from 21 to the
end we're going to look at a bit
that is not fulfilled but will soon be
fulfilled there's a vile person going to arise
in this world and I think he's going
to arise out of the United States of
Europe and I think that Britain's going in
and even if Norway stays out it may
be all the worse you know, because Spain
may go in, it's a Roman Catholic country
and we'll not go into that for much
I've got to tackle this next week and
show you but wait a minute let me
ask the question over again why did God
permit, why does God permit bloodshed and war
and murder in a land surely that's a
question that we need to face you know
God has a permissive will he has a
directive will he directs some folks he permits
some folks to do things you know that
if you were going down a country road
you could get over a gate and enter
a field and you could cross that field
and the farmer standing in the farmyard might
see you and he might permit you to
do so that's quite different from him coming
onto the road to direct you to do
so there is what we call God's permissive
will, he allows things to happen now he's
not directing the things that happen he's just
permitting them now what we want to try
to discover is why he allows things to
happen you know Joseph was a great character
he was one of the characters of the
old testament against whom we can find no
fault when he was seventeen his brethren were
envious of him and took him in wickedness
and threw him into the pit I've called
that long before this night the bitterness of
brethren and you young preachers will find out
a whole lot about it because if you're
going to be any use you know there's
a whole lot of old preachers who would
like you and all the young folks around
here know that I'm on their side I
had two young men here on Sunday and
God blessed both of them and I shall
always help the young preachers but don't be
alarmed if you find some of the older
brethren thrown into the pit and God may
well alert and of course he was thrown
down into Egypt and there was a woman
told a lie on him, she said a
sexual thing about him it was a lie
it's what you call the wickedness of the
world and if the devil can't get at
you one way they'll get at you another
and sometimes the devil uses believers to do
it some of you have used your mouth
for the devil before now you know once
Peter spake and the Lord told him like
a fly to get him behind me said
he oh the devil was talking through him
and if you're going to live down here
you know you'll get the bitterness of brethren
and the wickedness of the world and he
went down into the prison and made a
friend of the butler and the baker and
he told them their dreams and he told
the butler you'll be reinstated and when you
get into the king's palace and you give
him all that he needs will you speak
for me and get me out of here
and this book says the butler forgot Joseph
that's what you call the forgetfulness of friends,
sometimes you defend somebody you do them good
a woman passed me on the street the
other day as I was talking to Cecil
Docherty, he's here tonight my ears is here
going past me things are throaty things are
feet but she just owes me about 40
quid that's all I have a good notion
of calling her back and asking her what
she oh I defended her alright she wouldn't
owe me nothing she's probably one of the
ones that helps the devil yes but you
don't worry about the forgetfulness of friends you
see God allows this to happen why did
he allow it I'll tell you this he
wanted to bless Joseph and sometimes the pathway
to blessing is through the pits and through
the prison and through all the trouble God
lets you go because that's the way to
the soul he was allowing the wicked man
and the wicked woman oh but he was
directing Joseph that's quite good isn't it only
God can do the like of that he
just allowed them you know once the Lord
allowed the devil to touch Job he gave
him permission go ahead and in one day
24 hours Job lost 5000 sheep my I
can tell you there is not a man
in the north of Ireland who owns 5000
sheep not a man and I'll tell you
if any sheep farm were one or two
here tonight if you lost a dozen of
sheep in one day you would nearly die
5000 comes to be a bold mark I
can tell you but he not only lost
5000 sheep he lost 7 sons and 3
daughters take the stark truth of your actions
why did God allow the devil how God
wanted to bless Job and I'll tell you
that God blessed them double at the end
you'll find when you count the sheep at
the end he's got 10,000 sheep and
7 sons and 3 daughters again somebody said
to me once why didn't he have 14
sons and 6 daughters I said why why
did you think the other 7 and 3
would be a ruffle the other 7 and
3 were in heaven and he only needs
7 and 3 to have double doesn't he
they're not blotted out they are too small
when God was going to bless them sometimes
God allows because he wants to bless sometimes
God allows things to happen because he wants
to chastise I wonder is God wanting to
bless the church in Ulster or is he
chastising it he's allowing things to happen anyway
I know that there's blood in our streets
there's desolation and death at every corner is
God going to bless us with the great
revival or is God trying to put us
on our knees honestly before him you know
God allowed those old wicked Jews to stone
even to death he allowed it he stood
back while he stoned this man of God
you see sometimes God allows things to happen
because he's going to bless because he's going
to chastise because he's going to try faith
sometimes God wants men to die for him
God allowed
these things to happen that he might bring
a remnant out of Israel who would be
ready and waiting for his son it was
coming up to the time when his son
would come and I'll tell you this when
his son came there was an old woman
Anna the prophetess she was waiting for the
Lord to come there was Simon and he
held Christ in his arms he said the
Lord told me I wouldn't die till I
would see the Lord's Christ God had brought
a remnant out of this terrible time of
trouble who were ready to follow his son.
May God bring us out into the open
true to his son it's a great part
of the chapter it's a difficult one but
it's a good one now we'll follow it
on next week and it's better next week
because it's there you see the people that
do know their God who shall be strong
and do exploits 258 please 258 this is
a great hymn I don't think we often
sing this father of mercies in thy word
what endless glory shines forever be thy name
adored for these celestial lines here may the
wretched sons of want exhaustless riches find riches
above what earth can grant and lust too
of the mind 258 and we're singing the
first or we'll sing it all it'll be
short 258 listen for the tune O
O O O O O O
O O O O O O O
O O O O
O O O O O
O O O O
O O O O O O
O O O O
O O O
O O O O O O O O
O O O O O O
O O O
O O O O
O O O O O O O O
O Amen Thank you