227, Jesus, lover of my soul, let me
to thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters
roll, while the tempest still is high.
227, please.
Jesus, lover of my soul, let me to
thy bosom fly, while the nearer waters
roll, while the tempest still is high.
I give you my thanks, O Lord, in
the form of Christ, and on earth
as it is in heaven.
Holy is thy name, O Lord.
Christ, my God, my soul, O King, we
are weak, we are old, and the Lord
has come to thee.
Christ, our God, King and King, Christ,
our God, my soul, O King, we are
weak, we are old, and the Lord has
come to thee.
Christ, our
God, my soul, O King,
we are weak, we are old, and the
Lord has come to thee.
Let your faithful people take
the comfort of my spirit.
Let my hearing be heard when he
hears my prayer.
Let my heart be filled with the peace
of peace.
We are old, we are old, and the
Lord has come to thee.
I must have preached about four sermons up
to now, but it doesn't matter.
We're at this great last chapter of Daniel
chapter 12.
And you can see that I have called
this chapter, The Time of the End.
I think maybe the word time here is
the key to the chapter.
You see, as I read over chapters, I'm
always looking for the key.
And I assure you there's a key for
every chapter.
And I'm sure the word time here is
the key.
Now there are 13 verses in this chapter,
and I think that about 9 or 10
times the word time is here, or the
suggestion of time, or the question about time.
Have a look at verse 1.
And at that time.
And then down the chapter, down the verse
it says, And there shall be a time
of trouble, such as never was since there
was a nation, even to that same time.
And at that time thy people, Daniel's people,
the Jews, shall be delivered.
There are some folks who say there is
no deliverance for them, but they can't read,
you see.
The angel is saying, and at that time,
just at that time, thy people, Daniel, he's
talking to Daniel, thy people shall be delivered.
And if you think he's talking about the
church, if you're stupid enough, as the amillennialists
are, then go back up the verse, and
you'll find the word nation.
The church is not a nation.
Not in that sense.
But it's this word time that's there.
Look at verse 4.
But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words
and seal the book, even to the time
of the end.
See verse 6.
And one said to the man clothed in
linen, which was upon the waters of the
river, How long shall it be to the
end of these wonders?
There's a suggestion and question about time there.
Look at verse 7.
I heard the man clothed in linen, which
was upon the waters of the river, when
he held up his right hand and his
left hand unto heaven, and sware by him
that liveth for ever and ever, that it
shall be for a time.
Times.
And a half.
What's time, times, and a half of time?
Tell me that now.
Well I think the time refers to a
year, and the times to two more, and
the half to the half.
He's going back to the three and a
half.
But we'll get that out in its correct
form.
See verse 8.
And I heard what I understood not, then
said I, O my Lord, what shall be
the end of these things?
He's wanting to know the time.
See verse 9.
And he said, Go thy way, Daniel, for
the words are closed up, and sealed till
the time of the end.
See verse 11.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away.
When was it taken away?
In the middle of the week.
That's what we found out last week.
See the last verse.
Go thou thy way till the end be,
for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy
lot at the end of the day.
I'm sure that time is the key here.
That's why I call the chapter the time
of the end.
I think the chapter divides simply into three.
From verse 1 to verse 7, it's the
last vision Daniel receives.
I think if you know the book of
Daniel, you can nearly tell me all the
visions, couldn't you?
You remember Nebuchadnezzar.
That's the great image.
And then do you remember the dreams that
Daniel had about the beast?
And so on.
And this is the last vision that Daniel
receives, and it's a wonderful one.
In verse 8, we have the last question.
Daniel asked, Oh my Lord, what shall be
the end of these things?
And from verse 9 to verse 13, you
have the last exhortation Daniel ever had.
Go thy way, Daniel.
See the last verse too.
Go thy way till the end be.
So it's a very neat chapter this evening.
It has to do with the time of
the end.
It's in these three parts, and there they
are before you.
The last vision, the last question, the last
exhortation.
Now that again is the skeleton, and I
don't think you can feed on skeletons.
You must put it as an order, so
that we know where we're going and what
we're doing, but it's not much use.
Never just get occupied with bones too much.
You need to see what it says.
Now, let's have a look at this last
vision.
In the first phrase, and at that time.
You know, this is the mention of time.
And at that time, what's he talking about?
You see, it's a very great pity that
the chapter division is there at all.
I know that the chapter divisions help us,
and probably has helped us in this great
vision that has come.
But you see, it's the angel still going
on talking.
The angel began away in chapter 11 to
tell Daniel a lot of things.
And you remember how the detailed prophecy of
the first part of the chapter came before
it, and it was so wonderful?
It's history now.
But then last week we were taken up
with a powerful, pernicious personality.
The willful king who would just exalt himself
above God.
The one whose forces would come into the
Jewish temple and take away the daily sacrifice
and set up the abomination of desolation.
And at that time, getting us down to
the mark, isn't it?
That's what he said.
When this Antichrist was about, and this daily
sacrifice was taken away, and all the things
at the bottom part of chapter 11, when
they are taking place, he says, Daniel, and
at that time.
That's the mention of time.
Now, which is he, what he said?
He said, and at that time shall Michael
stand up, the great prince which standeth for
the children of thy people, and don't forget
he's talking to Daniel.
Now, this is Michael, and the subject of
Michael in the scriptures is an easy one,
because there are only four or five mentions.
So you haven't any trouble with this, it's
quite a simple study, you can do it
in five minutes.
It may help the young folks.
Come way back to Jude, just before the
book of the Revelation.
Jude, and there's only one chapter in Jude,
just before the book of the Revelation.
And Jude says, in verse 9, Get Michael
the archangel.
Now, let's start to take a breath there.
So that we know who he's talking about
back there, when he talks about Michael the
great prince of thy people.
He's talking about Michael the archangel, and remember
he is not one of the archangels, as
I sometimes hear the young folks say.
No, when you get to know these great
created intelligences in heaven, these cherubims and seraphims,
up above and over all these great created
intelligences, there is one who is the archangel.
There is one archangel.
He's the archangel.
He's not one of the archangels.
He is the archangel.
So that you start to know who he
is now.
Now, he hasn't only a job to run
around heaven, flapping his wings.
You see, he's got a job to look
after Daniel's people.
If you go back to Daniel 12, just
go back and you'll see it properly.
You see, he says, And at that time,
when this, that shall Michael stand up, that's
Michael the archangel stand up, the great prince
which standeth for the children of thy people.
You see, he's got a special commission from
God.
He's got to look after Israel.
And I can think that he must have
had a terrible time when Hitler burned six
million Jews.
He's the prince which standeth for Daniel's people.
And he's been with them all down through
the history.
I suppose we shall never know until we
get to the glory of what all of
us owe to the angels.
You see, even the saints that are here.
There are angels detailed off to look after
you.
You see, it says that the angels are
sent to minister, to work for, if you
like.
To minister to those who are the heirs
of salvation.
And you know, the angel must have a
job with some of us.
I was saying to Mr. Pez the other
day, I'm sure when you get your last
sigh, the angel that looked after you will
say, Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Yes, you see, he's got a great job.
Now, he doesn't only look after Israel when
the nation's alive.
But he's got to look after the dead
bodies too.
Because there are bodies that are very precious.
You see, if we go back to Jude,
let's go back.
I'm sorry I do this, but this teaches
you better, I think.
Now, we're going back and you'll see the
archangel again.
Verse 9.
Get Michael when contending with the devil.
You see, some people come down and try
to tell me that there is no personal
devil, that he's just a thought of an
influence.
He's just like the flu.
Well, I would like to know how you
contend with the flu.
I would want to know how you would
argue with him.
Next time you get the flu, try arguing,
do you see.
It won't do you a better good.
Now, this is a person, and a powerful
person at that.
See, verse 9.
Get Michael, the archangel, when contending with the
devil.
He disputed about the body of Moses.
Remember Moses, don't you?
And you remember him dying.
There was nobody at his funeral.
Only God.
Died away up in the mountains.
And only God was there.
And God buried him, and nobody knows where
he's buried.
Well, the archangel knew.
And then you see, the Lord Jesus came
on the scene and was going up to
the Mount of Transfiguration, and God wanted Moses
there.
You'll find that when you look at the
Transfiguration, that Peter said, let's make a shelter
for me, and for Moses, and for Elias.
These two came to talk with Christ on
the Mount of Transfiguration.
You see, Moses had to have his body
raised.
It wasn't the spirit that appeared.
Sometimes people say to me, will we know
each other in Heaven?
Of course we will.
Peter never met Moses any more than you
did.
And it was thousands of years later, after
his death and his history was finished, that
he appears.
But you see, Peter was given the knowledge
there and then by God to recognize Moses.
Nobody told him.
He knew it was Moses.
When we go to Heaven and we're changed
and get the likeness of Christ, of course
we'll know one another.
Yes, the devil's disputing with him.
He says, you can't raise this body.
You see, the devil was wanting to argue
like this.
The redemptive price of a body has not
been paid yet.
You just can't raise this body.
Of course God had the Lamb chosen and
in the mind and will of God the
Lamb was slain before the foundation of the
world.
And God knew that Christ would die and
of course God is sovereign and he can
do whatever he likes and he raised the
body of Moses.
But you can see that the archangel had
a job to do.
He looks after Israel when they're alive and
he looks after the bodies when they're dead.
You know, one of these nights I don't
think I need to turn to this.
I think I can quote this.
That the Lord himself would descend from Heaven
with a shout and with the voice of
the archangel.
Well, what's he bottomed in for?
You see, the Lord is coming, isn't he?
And he comes with a shout.
And all the saints will rise to meet
him because the sheep of this dispensation know
the shepherd.
They know the shepherd's voice.
And that there's a lot of old Jews
who died in the faith who are buried
down there.
And the archangel has got a job to
look after them.
So the moment that Christ comes the Lord
himself would descend from Heaven with a shout.
You know, those old Jews that had faith
in Christ are going to rise with us.
And we're leaving this world, you know.
They without us shall not be made perfect
is what it says in Hebrews, in case
you would argue.
So that you can see the archangel he's
got a job.
And when the Antichrist is abroad at that
time, let's go back to Daniel 12 you
know the archangel is going to stand up
for Daniel's people.
The great prince which standeth for the children
of our people.
And I would think if he doesn't stand
up for them that there'll be a massacre
of Jews.
I think I should show you this when
we're at it.
Have a look at Revelation chapter 12 for
a moment.
Revelation 12 And this is taking us to
the very center of that time.
The time of tribulation.
You can see verse 6 And the woman
fled into the wilderness and when we come
to this chapter you'll find the woman is
Israel but don't bother now.
Where she had the place prepared of God
that they should feed her there in a
thousand two hundred and three score days and
I think you'll find that three and a
half years.
Look at this phrase And there was war
in heaven.
I think in the Greek it says there
was war in the heavens.
This takes place in the heavenlies as we
sometimes call it.
There was war there.
And it says Michael and his angels because
he's the boss over a whole lot of
these angels and there might be a million
of them and there might be more.
Michael and his angels fought against the dragon
and you can see in verse 9 who
the dragon is and the great dragon was
cast out that old serpent called the devil
and Satan and the holy ghost has put
all the words in in case you miss
it.
They're all there just at your nose written
in very carefully.
So that the archangel is going to stand
up for the Jews and the gentleman who
is now governing Egypt will have to take
note of that because he wouldn't pay any
attention to that.
He's so stupid.
He sent all the Russians home and now
he's pleading to get them back.
But whether he gets them or not doesn't
matter.
You know war is a funny thing.
When I was preaching at one of the
universities in America I said something like this
If some foreign power invaded this province of
ours I should go to war.
And I would you know.
I would have no quibbles at all.
I belong to a family where there were
16 boys in the family.
And the most of them went to the
war when Germany was going to take us
over.
And if Britain had failed is one of
the programs now.
Where would we be tonight?
I'm not talking about going against terrorists.
That is not my business.
That's the state's job and what a mess
we're making of it.
I have nothing to do with that.
I'm talking about war.
I said this you know.
Some old professor came up looking over his
glasses and said Just fancy this.
I'm the conscientious objector of this.
You come here to say you would go
to war.
And where would you nod?
I'm a holy man.
I said well Michael the Archangel is a
sort of holy person too.
And I have the sort of notion he's
more holy than you are.
And he's gone to war.
An old preacher never had seen this.
Oh yes he leads the angels.
To war.
To fight.
You see he's going to stand up for
the Jewish nation.
So that's what you call the intervention of
heaven.
Let's get back.
This night's going to be a terrible night.
I can see that already.
Alright let's get on with it then.
So that you can see the mention of
time can't you?
And that's fine.
And you can see the intervention of heaven.
Now it says this at that time shall
Michael stand up The great prince which standeth
for the children of thy people.
And there shall be a time of trouble.
There's no doubts about that.
That's the prophetic statement.
There shall be a time of trouble.
Such as never was since there was a
nation.
Even for that same time.
It's a tremendous statement.
It must have made Daniel quiver.
You remember where we were last week in
Matthew 24?
Have another look at it now.
Because it's most interesting just now.
Matthew's gospel.
Chapter 24.
You remember I told you that Jesus was
leaving the temple.
How he went out and prophesied that what
not one stone would be left upon another.
And then at verse 8 it said all
these are the beginning of sorrow.
And that part of the chapter would take
us down to where we are tonight.
And then the Lord will take the church
home one of these days.
And then shall they deliver you, that is
the Jews, to be afflicted.
And shall kill you.
And ye shall be heated off quick now.
All nations.
Yes he's talking to Jews and he's talking
about the Jewish nation.
And down at verse 21 he said this.
For them shall be great tribulation.
Such as was not since the beginning of
the world till this time no nor ever
shall be.
Is that the same statement that's in Daniel
12?
And I assure you it's the same statement.
You see if you're talking about the same
nation.
You can't say to the nation over in
Daniel you know you're going through a terrible
time.
And there never was anything before like it
and there'll never be anything like it again.
Then our Lord can't talk about the same
nation and say you're going to run into
trouble and there was never anything before like
it and there'll never be anything like it
again.
They're both talking about the time of Jacob's
trouble.
And you see when our Lord was speaking
in Matthew 24 it was still future.
Way in the future.
And it's a way in the future tonight.
I know that Israel is in the land.
I know the flag is flying.
I know that they're accepted by the League
of Nations.
I know all that but I also know
that there's going to come this powerful pernicious
personality.
I know that they'll build their temple.
I know that he'll make a covenant with
them.
I know that he'll break the covenant.
I know he'll take away the daily sacrifice.
And I know that there'll come a time
of trouble.
They never had anything like it before and
never will again.
And unless Michael the archangel intervenes they will
perish.
You know it's wonderful the old Jewish prophets
did this too.
It says well look up Jewel the prophecy
of Jewel.
If you can find Daniel then comes Hosea
and then comes Jewel.
And this is a very wonderful little prophecy.
And we should pay far more attention to
it than we do.
See chapter 2 verse 1.
The prophet is saying to them blow ye
the trumpet in Zion.
Sound an alarm in my holy mountain.
Let all the inhabitants of the land.
Don't forget that bit.
That's how it says in the Hebrew.
The land.
It's the promised land of course.
It's the land of promised land.
Let all the inhabitants of the land tremble.
For the day of the Lord cometh.
It is my hand.
A day of darkness and of gloominess.
A day of clouds and of thick darkness.
As the morning spread upon the mountains.
A great people in the strong.
There hath not been ever the like.
Nay there shall be any more after it.
Is that the same thing I ask you?
Of course it's the same thing because it's
the same people.
Because it's the same day.
And what a day it will be.
You know I know that Israel is doing
very well just at this moment.
And I think that Egypt knows in her
heart that she can't manage Israel just now.
And I know that when the common market
gets going properly.
And remember today this very day royal assent
was given.
The Queen signed it last evening before she
went away to Yugoslavia.
And today in Parliament it's accepted.
Royal assent has been given to us to
go into the common market.
And I know that when we go into
the common market there will be this great
Parliament of Brussels.
And I know that there will come a
President out of that Parliament who will prove
to be the Antichrist.
Sure of that.
You know we are just on the fringe
of things that would tell you that the
Lord's coming for his people cannot be very
far away.
The Lord can come.
May be the answer to lots of problems
as far as the believers are concerned.
And if the Lord comes.
Then this man will be so subtle.
Come in peacefully.
And by his subtle policies he'll make class
to prosper you remember.
Then he'll get in with the Jew and
sign the covenant.
He has no notion of helping the Jew.
Because he will be wicked against the covenant.
And then he will break the covenant.
And there'll be a time of trouble come
to that land.
There's never had anything before like it.
It must be bad.
Because if you read Israel's history right down
through the years.
My there have been times when the nation
has almost been blotted out.
And remember Hitler determined that he would blot
out every Jew.
And he did burn six million of them.
More than the population of this island.
Another when he began the six days war
said that he would annihilate Israel forever.
Oh no he didn't.
But there's coming a time.
And it's not far away.
And the Jews have never had anything before
like it.
And they'll never have anything again.
That pin points it to that place.
It's there.
And unless Michael would stand up for them.
It would happen.
But God is running the affairs.
And we'll look again to get back to
Daniel.
Verse one.
And that time shall Michael stand up the
great prince which standeth for the children of
thy people.
And there shall be a time of trouble
such as never was since there was a
nation even to that time.
And at that time.
That's the very same time.
Thy people shall be delivered.
I'll tell you how.
The Lord Jesus will come to the land.
And in that day his feet shall stand
upon the Mount of Olives.
My I tell you that's a wonderful thing
isn't it.
Because it says at that time thy people
shall be delivered.
And watch what it says.
Everyone that shall be found written in the
book.
You know God has the whole thing under
control all the time.
Some old fellow argued with me once.
Which is all nonsense about this book.
Well I said I can tell you this.
That Moses didn't think it was nonsense.
Because the way back in Exodus 32.
When Moses came down from the mountain.
The three tables of stone and found the
people dancing round the golden calf.
He went on his knees before God in
his head.
He said.
Forgive them.
Or blot me out of thy book which
thou hast written.
How did he know that?
When David was writing the 69th Psalm about
Judas Iscariot.
That he would go to his own place.
He would be blotted out of the book
of the living.
How did he know that?
When Paul is writing to the Philippines.
He says.
Help those women which labored with me in
the gospel.
With Clement also.
With other my fellow disciples.
Whose names are in the book of life.
How did he know that?
And I tell you John.
Let us see the great white throne and
the books opened.
And whosoever's name is not found written.
In the Lamb's book of life.
Or in the book of life.
Be cast into the lake of fire.
But the Lord will have a remnant.
Even in the time of Jacob's trouble.
Because when we get to Revelation chapter 7.
Which comes after the four horsemen in chapter
6.
There is 144,000 Jews.
Sealed off.
God is not going to let them perish.
And the names are in the book.
Yes.
It's a wonderful revelation that Daniel is getting.
You can see the mention of time.
And the intervention of heaven.
And the tribulation of Israel.
And the preservation.
It says in verse 2.
That many of them that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake.
Some to everlasting life.
And I would think that the russelites must
submit.
That this is the resurrection of the body.
Yes.
There's nothing else sleeping in the dust that
I know of.
You're not wanting to come around and argue
with me.
Asking words of spirits for sleeping in the
dust.
Are you?
Because I'll tell you that a grave digger
would have bother burying a spirit.
I wouldn't know how you would plop a
spade on a spirit.
I wouldn't know that.
Just that you are dense.
That's all.
Pity of you.
You can't even read.
Yes.
This is what it says.
Many of them that sleep in the dust
of the earth.
Surely that's bodies.
There can't be anything else.
Shall awake.
Yes.
You know sometimes folks come round to tell
me.
That the only resurrection there will be.
Will be the resurrection of saints.
And the rest will be blathered on.
Annihilation they call it.
And if you've got salvation.
Yes.
You'll be awake.
And you'll get into heaven.
But the rest.
You see they're trying to do away with
hell and the damnation of hell.
So they just say.
Well.
They'll be buried and there'll be no resurrection
for them.
And that's not what it's saying just here
is it?
You watch it carefully.
Many of them that sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake.
Some.
To everlasting life.
Is that some?
And some.
To shame.
And everlasting contempt.
Is that what it says in your book?
You'd be better to go by the book
you know.
And mind you that's not preaching.
A general judgment and a general resurrection.
Because I know that some of my friends
believe in general judgment and general resurrection.
They just think you know that there'll be
no millennial.
And that there'll be no great tribulation.
In fact you know a fellow just the
other day told me that we're in the
tribulation now.
And I can tell you that he had
a big four litre Roval just sitting beside
him at the time.
And I said yours is a pretty good
tribulation I assure you.
Yes some of my dearest friends they say
you see that there'll just be the clap
of your hands at the end.
And the end of the world they call
it will come.
And there'll be a general judgment and a
general resurrection.
Now if this was general judgment I can
tell you this that Paul must have been
all wrong.
Because Paul says that he sacrificed everything.
That I may know Christ and the power
of his resurrection.
And the fellowship of his sufferings being made
conformable unto his death.
That I might attain unto the resurrection.
Now there's no need to struggle to attain
unto the resurrection.
If it's a general resurrection you'll come out
with a cloak.
But what Paul actually said was this.
That I might attain unto the resurrection out
from among the dead.
Because there's going to be a resurrection out
from among the dead.
And when we come to revelation you will
see the saints being raised.
And it actually says the rest of the
dead live not again until the thousand years
were finished.
Because if the Lord came tonight you know.
The saints would go.
And we buried Mr. Morrow just last week.
And the body would come out.
Just like that you know.
And the archangel would come.
And all Jews would love Christ.
And then of course the trouble would start
for the nation.
And when Christ comes back you see.
And the kingdom is going to be formed.
Many of them that sleep in the dust
shall awake.
And some to everlasting life and some to
shame and everlasting contempt.
And do you see this?
And they that be wise shall shine of
the brightness of the firmament.
And they that turn many to righteousness as
the stars forever and ever.
You see if we're going to do any
good for God at all.
You know we'll need to be wise.
And I think that we would need great
wisdom of Christians just now.
In this land.
And I think we would need to try
to turn many to the Lord.
I wouldn't cross that road out there you
know to make a Baptist.
Everybody knows that around here.
Never would you know.
But I would go a thousand miles on
my knees to help a man to know
Christ.
It's my job in life.
I need to be wise.
You see I hear some of them going
to preach the gospel.
And they have to have a go at
the Pope first.
Well I can tell you my dear young
fellow if you listen to an old campaigner.
You can't catch fish when you're throwing stones
in the river.
Because you'll catch no fish.
You never saw a fisherman yet throwing stones
in the river.
Unless you would put your shadow across the
water and say get back a bit.
We need to be wise.
He that winneth calls his wives.
And we need to shine.
We need to let the Roman Catholics around
us know that we love them.
And we need to really love them.
Don't pretend to love them.
We need to love them.
Don't forget that.
You see this is the last vision that
he's got.
Look at it again verse 4.
But thou O Daniel set up the words
and seal the book even till the time
of the end.
Many shall run to and fro and knowledge
shall be increased.
That's one of the signs of the time
of the end.
I wonder that we don't see it sometimes.
You know up to 100 years ago.
Oh it's 100 years back.
It's actually less.
It's a body of it.
Up to 100 years ago the whole world
was going at the same rate as Abraham
went at.
Abraham had the camel.
The old men around here had the pony
and cat.
And you know the combustion engine came in.
And in these last 100 years we have
moved along faster and faster and faster.
You can leave here and be in New
York and have them eaten and back again.
The way the time goes you're nearly here
before you went.
Describes the days that went to and fro.
And of course knowledge is increased.
It just tells us that we're at the
time of the end doesn't it.
Verse 5.
Then I, Daniel, looked and behold I stood
over to the one on this side of
the bank of the river.
The angels he's talking about.
And the other on that side of the
bank of the river.
And one said to the man clothed in
linen which was upon the waters of the
river.
How long shall it be to the end
of these wonders?
And I heard the man clothed in linen
which was upon the waters of the river.
When he held up his right hand his
left hand went to heaven.
And swear by him that lives forever that
it shall be for a time.
Times.
And half a time.
It's three and a half he's saying.
It's very well wrapped up.
And when he shall have accomplished to scatter
the power of the holy people.
All these things shall be finished.
Here's a lovely little verse.
And I heard.
But I understood not.
I'm sure there must be sometimes when young
believers are just saved and come to the
class.
And I get on in my own way.
And do and say things that maybe you
hear all right.
But you just don't understand.
And I assure you that there are times
I come to this book to difficult passages.
And I can hear but I don't understand.
Well I'll tell you the best thing to
do then.
Get down and pray.
That's what Daniel did.
He says I heard.
But I understood not.
Then said I.
Oh my Lord.
What shall be the end of these things.
You know this praying business is a great
business.
When you hear and you don't understand.
Pray.
You know our Lord said.
May not always to pray and not to
say.
When you're going to faint.
When terrorists scare you.
And I know you know my congregation.
We have some dear old widowed ladies here.
And they live alone you know.
And sometimes a blast goes off.
Maybe sixty yards away.
And that rattles their windows in the house.
And there's nobody in.
Only an old woman.
Forgive me for saying it like that.
And she just gets out of bed and
she's scared.
And she walks up and down all night.
Just into the wee room and out of
it again.
Many folks are scared you know.
Dear I'll tell you what they don't walk
about too much.
Get down and pray.
Talk to the Lord.
If you don't talk to the Lord you'll
faint.
May not always to pray and not to
faint.
What Jesus is saying is this.
You either cry or you'll collapse.
And it's true.
You remember when Paul was.
His feet fast in the stocks.
When the world is treating you rough.
Pray.
Ah yes he just prayed.
At midnight Paul and Silas prayed.
It's when you don't know.
Pray.
When you're scared.
Pray.
When the world is treating you rough.
Pray.
The Lord's lead them across.
And they're putting the nails through his hands.
And they pray.
Can pray when they're persecuting.
Pray.
Friends I think we don't know how to
pray.
That's the trouble.
We need to pray all the time.
Pray.
This is what Daniel did.
Let's get on with it.
And he said.
Go thy way Daniel.
For the words are closed up.
Unsealed till the time of rain.
That's a great statement you know.
Because for hundreds of years.
Men have tried to.
Break through this wonderful book of Daniel.
And they're way back you see.
Many many years ago.
Go back three or four hundred years.
And the old expositors.
Were nearly afraid to talk about mountains being
moved.
I have no problem with moving mountains tonight.
The kids going to school know better than
I do.
They know just exactly what atomic energy can
do.
They know it better than me.
But you see the whole thing was sealed
and closed.
Till we get to the time of the
end.
It's so clear now.
We have a dear brother Albert down there.
He's a good preacher.
He said to me the other night.
You know.
Where but twenty years ago.
I started your feet and lessons.
And you know you're making things far clearer
now.
Than you did then.
The whole thing's.
Made clear on its own now.
With the common market nearly there.
Twenty years ago when they talked about the
common market.
Some of them thought I was ready for
Armagh.
Well I'm here already now.
But it doesn't matter.
Yes have a look at this.
Many shall be purified and made white and
fine.
But the wicked shall do wickedly.
And none of the wicked shall understand.
But the wise shall understand.
And from the time that the daily sacrifice
shall be taken away.
And the abomination that maketh death with its
head up.
There shall be a thousand two hundred and
ninety days.
Blessed is he that waiteth and cometh to
the thousand three hundred and five and thirty
days.
And I believe maybe.
In the very near future we'll get the
revelation of that too.
I see the scholars working at it.
And I could work the elastic all right
to make it fit.
I don't think we see it clear enough
yet.
But I think we're going to do very
soon.
Here's his last words of Daniel.
Go thou thy way till the end be.
For thou shalt rest.
This is my sweet bit.
And shall stand in thy lot.
You see three things there.
There was a Daniel in captivity.
There was a Daniel.
There is a Daniel in the glory.
He's resting now.
He's resting in peace.
Yes.
There will be a Daniel in eternity.
He'll stand in his lot at the end
of the day.
May God bless you.
Don't forget to noise it abroad that we're
starting the new series next Tuesday in Revelation.
Reading and reaping in Revelation.
983 and we're singing two verses first and
last.
983 when the trumpet of the Lord shall
sound.
Time shall be no more.
983 first and last verses.
When the trumpet of the Lord shall
sound.
Message has just come through.
And it concerns people going to Belfast tonight.
They're shooting and rioting with barricades in the
Donegal Road.
Belfast.
So I feel you to avoid it if
possible.
Somebody to go that direction.
They'll be praying for you.
But you avoid the Donegal Road going home
this evening.
Last verse please.
Just take
a very special moment for our friends.
We must go back.
Lord we remember once in the Acts of
the Apostles when the storm was raging.
The poor went the way down to the
base of the ship and prayed to thee.
And you said that no harm shall come
to them that sail with thee.
We would ask that thou would say this
again Lord.
That these friends who have left their homes
and come because they love thy words.
We would ask in Christ's name.
That not one of them shall be hurt
in any sense this evening.
Spread thy covering wings around.
Let thy blessing be upon us for good.
For Christ's sake.
Amen.