And we're at chapter 8 this evening.
The book of Daniel, and we're at chapter
8.
And we're trying to go right through this
whole chapter this evening because we cannot make
any break in it anywhere, we've got to
take it all with us if we're to
get the truth that the Lord intended both
Daniel and us to get.
Before we get into the chapter, let's think
about some of the chapters that have gone
before.
You remember chapter 2 and the great image
that you could never saw.
You remember the metals that the image was
made up of, the head of fine gold,
the arms and breasts of silver, the belly
and thighs of brass, the legs and feet
of iron.
And as we looked at the image that
evening, and Daniel got the truth of this,
we knew that these metals referred to four
great world gentile empires.
The head of gold was Babylon, arms and
breasts of silver represented Mediterranean.
The belly and thighs of brass spoke of
that great kingdom of Greece under Alexander the
Great.
And the last one was, of course, the
Roman Empire.
And we had a vision of these four
great gentile world empires.
Now last Tuesday in the class, Daniel had
a vision all of his own this time,
and he saw four great beasts.
The first was the lion, the second one
was the bear, the third one was the
leopard, and the fourth one was an almost
indescribable monster of some kind that was fierce
and had great iron teeth.
And again, as we saw from this interpretation,
that again God was letting us see these
four great gentile world empires.
And tonight we are going to get another
vision that Daniel had.
It's the vision of the he-goat that
came against the ram.
And as we get into it again, we
are going to find that Mediterranean and Greece
were brought before us once more.
And we are going to have to view
once more this evening, these gentile world empires
that were given to us in these prophetic
pages of Daniel.
And you know, you wonder why it came
like gold and silver and brass and iron,
and you wonder why it came like lion
and bear and leopard.
You wonder why it should be a ram,
and you wonder why the he-goat is
used, and of course God is not playing
with us.
You see, I think that God was letting
us see in chapter two, the nations of
these great world empires are man-seasoned.
Man thinks that there is something golden about
his empire.
Well man may see its value in silver,
or even brass or iron.
And we are looking at this great pattern
that God is spreading out, we are looking
at it the way man sees it.
Man puts a treasure on things.
But it's not always true, you know.
Of course when we come to chapter seven
and see the same world empires, the four
of them, we are seeing them as God
sees them.
God just sees them as beasts.
Nothing wonderful about them as far as God
is concerned.
They are just starving for everything.
They are devouring, they are tearing apart.
God sees them as beasts.
And then when we come this evening, we
are going to see these world empires as
the Jews see them.
Because this is Daniel's vision.
And I can tell you that after Daniel
gets his vision this evening, look at the
last verse of our chapter, verse 27.
And I, Daniel, fainted and was sick certain
days.
And mind you he wasn't a fellow who
was easily made to faint.
You know he went into the lion's den
without any trouble whatsoever.
But he's getting a vision of things.
And he can see the end days of
his nation.
And he can see exactly what's going to
happen.
And he's looking at this great vision through
Jewish eyes.
Of course God puts these visions before us
that we might be fit all together correctly.
That it might have a bearing on our
behaviour.
And that's what we're trying to work out
in these meetings.
Not bothering too much about the historical tide.
We must get that if we're to get
anything.
Not even bothering too much about the prophetical.
Although it's very important.
And we must come to the spiritual that
we might be practical.
So we're starting off again on another vision
this evening.
We're at Daniel chapter 8.
And it begins in verse 1.
In the third year of the reign of
king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even
unto me Daniel after that which appeared unto
me at the first.
You see chapter 7 last week began in
the first year of Belshazzar the king of
Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of
his head upon a bed.
Now it's good to remember that at chapter
7 that was the first vision Daniel had.
Remember the great image was seen by Nebuchadnezzar.
Remember Daniel on his knees got the interpretation
of the thing.
But he himself hadn't seen the vision.
His own vision came in chapter 7 last
week.
And this is Daniel's second vision.
This too tells us and I saw in
the vision and it came to pass when
I saw I was at Shushan in the
palace.
Shushan was the principal city of the province
of Elam.
And if you know the map this province
lay in those days on the other side
of out of the Chaldees it ran down
and touched the Persian gulf and on the
eastern side of that little land ran this
river Uliah.
So that's where Daniel was in spirit at
any rate.
Taken over to the principal city of Elam
crossed by the river Uliah and he was
at least in the vicinity of the king's
palace.
You notice that this is the third year
of the reign of King Belshazzar.
Chapter 7 was the first year of King
Belshazzar.
Yet chapter 5 of Daniel is the place
where Belshazzar was slain.
So you want to watch a chapter for
the ways you might get mixed up you
know.
It doesn't run in chronological order.
God is not trying to work that out
at all.
God is giving us a vision and is
piecing it together for us.
And so we must be careful.
Remember that Daniel chapter 5 is where Belshazzar
had the feast and the writing came on
the wall and that night was Belshazzar the
king of the Babylonians slain.
And then last week it was his first
year of reign that Daniel had this vision.
Now it is the third year and he's
away at Shushan in Elam by the river
Uliah.
Now we want to get down to the
vision don't we?
Now I've called the first part of it
the revelation of the ram.
Verse 3 Then I lifted up mine eyes
and saw and behold there stood before the
river a ram which had two horns.
Wanted to get that into your minds.
Nothing extraordinary about that at the moment.
It's just a ram and it has two
horns.
In a moment we're going to see a
he-goat.
And one of the reasons that I'm persuaded
that this is being looked at through Jewish
eyes is that they knew all about sheep
and goats.
When I was travelling through Palestine some days
Mr. Torrance and I were sitting over there
some days we saw a shepherd leading a
flock of sheep and it was quite a
sight.
Maybe the next day we met one he
was leading a flock of goats and they
know all about goats.
So it's Jewish alright.
But we don't need to worry too much
about that.
Wanted to see this and he said and
the two the
words it used for high would almost make
it appear from the Hebrew that they were
sort of antlers.
But that doesn't matter to us either.
And it says and the two horns were
high but one was higher than the other
and the higher came up last.
Now that's unusual that the ram would have
one horn higher than another and it's certainly
most unusual that one would come up after
the other.
Of course in a moment or two we're
going to see quite plainly without any trouble
whatsoever for you that this ram is representing
the great empire of Medo-Persia and of
course the Medes were sort of stronger than
the Persians and they came up first.
And there's no problems there and there's nothing
there so exciting that we need to wait
with.
It's just that he could see the ram.
And we know because we've read the chapter
that it is Medo-Persia.
And then I want you to notice this.
Not only the height of his horns but
I want you to notice the power of
his pushing.
Verse four I saw the ram pushing westward
northward southward Now if you're quick where did
he come from?
Well if he's pushing west and he's pushing
north and he's pushing south he must have
come from the east.
You'd have no bother deducting that, sure you
would.
None at all.
So that's where Medo-Persia really came from.
They came from the east.
You know that the Persians are out there,
don't you?
If you didn't know anything about geography you
would know that.
And I saw the ram pushing westward and
northward and southward so that no beast might
stand before him neither was there any that
could deliver out of his hand but he
did according to his will and became great.
So there's the whole vision about the ram.
Daniel is somewhere at Shushan quite near to
the river Uliah in the province of Elam
and God has given him this vision of
this ram with these mighty horns and he
can see that one is higher than the
other he sees that one came at last
he knows that this ram came from the
east and it shored down all before it
it became a world power.
Isn't there anything wonderful about that?
Now verse 5 and I've called this the
galloping of the goat and as I was
considering he was just thinking about what he
had seen Behold an he-goat came from
the west on the face of the whole
earth and touched not the ground I don't
know if you were ever chased by a
he-goat or not but I was once
and I assured you that I wouldn't like
it to be chasing me now because when
I was about 16 and wandering about the
country I went into a particular field one
evening and before long I came face to
face with a he-goat and it didn't
like me at all and it really came
bounding after me in those days I could
run and I was only up on the
gate with the leg over when it hit
the gate what a rattle it did and
I think this is the sort of thing
that Daniel saw he saw this he-goat
and it really bound you galloping and he
can see it covering watch this phrase now
we mustn't miss the phrases and the he
-goat came from the west this time great
old book you had you know you only
took time to read it it's going to
meet head on with the one that came
from the east isn't it it came from
the west now watch this on the face
get it now of the hoar it touched
not the ground and the goat had a
notable horn between that's something very unusual this
talks about one horn a horn out in
the front between his eyes now that's something
for us to think about and I know
that Daniel thought a lot about this horn
but I'm just going slow with the reading
so that I'll hold your attention and try
to get your nose on the book to
get these things before you verse 6 I
should carry the notes with me in verse
5 there you can see his greatness the
greatness of this goat he covered the whole
earth and you can see the glory of
this goat the glory of this goat and
the goat was his notable horn and you'll
find that there's real glory there when we
get it all teased up now I want
you to notice this and he came to
the ram that had two horns which I'd
seen standing before the river and ran onto
him in the fury of his power and
I saw him come close onto the ram
and he was moved with colour against him
and smote the ram and break his two
horns and there was no power in the
ram to stand before him but he cast
him down to the ground and stamped upon
him and there was none that could deliver
the ram out of his hand and we're
just getting little glimpses of his glory in
not only chapter 6, verse 6, but verse
7 and then he goes on with this
vision verse 8 he says therefore he therefore
the he goat waxed very great and when
he was strong the great horn was broken
I want you to sort of mark that,
you know this is his grief I'd call
this do you see the galloping of the
goat you can see its greatness, its glory
now you're looking at his grief this great
horn was broken and for it came up
four notable ones toward the four winds of
heaven north, south, east and west four horns
coming up you're getting this into your mind
you didn't see the ram you know about
his horn you can see the he goat
can't you and his hair moving you can
see the notable horn there's the head down
just when he's at the peak of his
power his horn is broken and four horns
coming up north, south, east and west they
come up makes them quite a nod looking
character doesn't it and then it says this
and out of one of them that is
out of one of the four came forth
a little horn now maybe you don't know
this but I want you to know this
this evening that that's one of the most
important verses in your bible and I'll show
you how important it is in a moment
or two you saw the ram you saw
the horn you saw it being broken you
saw the four coming up now out of
one of the four out of one of
the four came forth a little horn and
I want you to watch it now which
wets the exceeding great toward the south toward
the east and toward the present land and
it wets great even to the host of
heaven and it cast down some of the
host and of the stars to the ground
and it stomped upon them this little horn
was quite a horn wasn't it and then
it says of this little horn yea he
magnified himself because he is talking about a
person you know almost under this figure yea
he magnified himself even to the prince of
the host and by him the dearly sacrifice
was taken away and the place of his
sanctuary was cast down and a host was
given him against the dearly sacrifice by reason
of transgression and it cast down the truth
to the ground and it practiced and prospered
quite a lot of details about this ram
and this notable horn and this notable horn
being broken and these four coming up and
this one coming up and then it goes
on to talk about this one verse 13
then I heard one saint speaking and another
saint said unto that certain saint which speak
how long shall be the vision concerning the
dearly sacrifice because this particular saint was all
worried about the dearly sacrifice being taken away
how long shall be the vision concerning the
dearly sacrifice and the transgression of desolation because
the taking away of the dearly sacrifice out
of the sanctuary completely was the beginning of
the desolation that spoken of by Daniel the
prophet it's the beginning of the abomination of
desolation but don't let's get too much on
the plate before we start picking through it
just take your time and he said unto
me the saint seemed to answer Daniel unto
two thousand and three hundred days two thousand
three hundred I want you to get that
figure in your mind then after that shall
the sanctuary be cleansed but don't let's bother
about the number of days just for the
moment I assure you we won't leave them
there we'll come back to them but for
teaching purposes we must take it just bit
by bit now we'll read verse 15 and
it came to pass when I even I
Daniel had seen the vision and sought for
the meaning then behold there stood before me
of the appearance of a man and I
heard the man's voice between the banks of
Uliah which called and said Gabriel make this
man to understand the vision and you know
who Gabriel is don't you this is the
angel it comes more than once in this
book to tell people things sometimes when I
get into the depths of a chapter like
this and there's some things I want to
know and I take down the commentaries that
I have and I assure you I have
about twenty of them very often the thing
that I don't know they seem to not
know either the thing that I know quite
well on my own they write about three
pages on that and the whole bunch of
the commentaries as far as I can see
they're not worth to dig my what a
lot of writing we have about something you
can perfectly understand and the thing that I
want to know they don't touch so I
have to do what Daniel did I have
to get down on my knees and seek
for the meaning and it's not Gabriel that's
sent now you know I know the Holy
Ghost who's here and the Lord promised when
he the spirit of truth is come he
will guide you into all truth I have
to wait on my knees at times it
helps me to know how stupid I am
just have to wait for God to talk
and if you wait you never wait in
vain it's no vain thing to wait on
the Lord no God comes and tells you
and so on this occasion it was Gabriel's
case verse 17 so he came near where
I stood and when he came I was
afraid and he fell upon my face and
he said unto me understand oh son of
man for at the time of the end
that's a pretty good phrase isn't it the
time of the end yes that's a very
good phrase and I want you to just
take your time and look at it for
a moment the time of the end cause
this vision that was given that has so
many historical details it happens to stretch on
out to the time of the end it's
just like the wonderful image that we have
and we saw the head and the breast
and arms and the belly and thighs and
then we saw the legs and then we
saw the feet and the last expression of
that image were ten toes Mr Heath is
doing his best to get the ten toes
properly formed and it was just the same
last week when we were at this last
monster this poor world empire the last expression
of it the last expression were ten horns
my he had seen everything about it and
then last of all ten horns and out
of the ten came one ah yes God
wanted us to gather something out of this
wonder are we living at the time of
the end but let's listen on and we
might get more truth he says so he
came near where I stood and when he
came I was afraid and fell upon my
face and he said unto me understand oh
my son of man for at the time
of the end shall be the vision now
as he was speaking with me I was
in a deep sleep on my face toward
the ground but he touched me he set
me upright and he said behold I will
make thee know what shall be the last
end the time of the end the last
end of the indignation for at the time
appointed the end shall be and the whole
thing you know that God wants to get
over because of the end bitch it's the
time of the end it's the last end
it's the time appointed the end shall be
and then he begins talking quite friendly the
ram which thou sawst having two horns are
the kings of Meda and Persia there isn't
any trouble about that is there no arguments
at all quite plain he just comes out
into the open says that's what that was
see the ram you saw see the horns
you saw well that's that great empire of
Meda Persia mind you Belshazzar is still alive
here in this chapter and Meda Persia hasn't
taken over from Babylon yet but God is
telling Daniel that Meda Persia are going to
take over and this is a very wonderful
thing he says verse 20 the ram which
thou sawst having two horns are the kings
of Meda and Persia and the rough goat
is the king of Greece here and the
great horn that is between his eyes is
the first king now that's a very thrilling
verse you know there are historians in this
meeting and I've got to be careful you
see a way back in Daniel's day God
allowed the Babylonians, the Chaldeans to become the
first great Gentile world empire he's set this
thrill aside but not forever set them aside
they deserve that and he's allowing the times
of the Gentiles to begin and they began
of course he's not going to let the
Babylonians rule forever and he's showing Daniel that
in a few days the Medes and Persians
will come and overthrow Belshazzar and they'll take
the kingdom and they did it that's what
the writing on the wall was all about
God hath numbered thy kingdom Belshazzar and divided
it now it's a very thrilling thing for
me to know that Meda Persia is ruling
this world of the Gentiles under God when
your Old Testament proves it if you go
through the Old Testament Daniel, Ezekiel, Ezekiel, Daniel,
Hosea, Joel, Amos, Obadiah Jonah, Micah, Nahum, Habakkuk,
Zephaniah, Haggag, Zechariah, Malachi if you go right
from Daniel now right on down to the
last letter in Malachi when your Old Testament
closes it is Meda Persia who is ruling
if it was Cyrus the Persian that let
Nehemiah go back to build now in between
the last letter of the Old Testament and
the first letter of the New Testament there
are 400 years make no mistake about that
you young people 400, some of us teachers
say 400 silent years in there now it's
in the middle of that 400 years that
Alexander the Great overthrew the Meda Persians and
made Greece the first great Gentile world empire
coming from near of the west it was
Greece and to think that way back in
Daniel God had said that this he ghost
with this multiple hole that's Alexander the Great
so he said that God didn't know the
end from the beginning of course the modernists
you know they say that this must have
been written after Alexander of course they would,
they couldn't believe anything it's a pity of
them they couldn't believe that God could foretell
but I shall prove that it was written
long before that you know this is very
plain isn't it there's no bother about this
verse 21 the rough goat is the king
of Greece here and the great horn that
is between his eyes is the first king
now that's been broken isn't that a very
wonderful thing you know it said back there
when we were looking at the vision verse
8 therefore the he goat waxed very great
and certainly Alexander the Great waxed great alright
and then he was strong just at the
peak of his power he died oh the
historians here know everything about his death he
died in Babylon at the age of 33
33 years of age that's how old he
was he sat down and wept once because
there were no more worlds to conquer he
defeated the world but God knew that he'd
be broken God knows when you'll die too
if you must die your days are numbered
you know yes may God teach us to
number our days too isn't it well written
just when he was at the peak of
his power this was written a long time
before he appeared you know and God writes
it out very wonderfully now it says in
verse 22 now that being broken where are
four stood up for it four kingdoms so
stand up out of the nation is that
true you see that's very true because history
would tell you that when Alexander the Great
died at the age of 33 he had
a young son but he was very young
but his four generals took the kingdom in
fact it's believed that had he lived much
longer they would have taken his life he
would have been assassinated but he died and
the four generals took the kingdom you know
it's very interesting that one of them took
Egypt over right down in the south and
one of them took all the far east
and it was called in those days Scythe
and he took the eastern part it was
one of them took Macedonia that's quite over
in Greece Greece and Macedonia were all around
and the other one took the north which
was Syria so they divided the kingdom into
four towards the four winds of heaven one
on the south was Egypt one on the
east was Greece one on the west was
Macedonia one on the north was Syria all
the things working out the way God said
it would work out the big horn is
broken four come up towards the four winds
of heaven and that's exactly what did take
place now with this verse 23 and that's
very important and in the latter time of
their kingdom you see there are little fragments
even today of these great kingdoms well we
do hear about Greece yet and we're coming
to what God wants us to come to
in the latter time of their kingdom when
the transgressors are come to the full mind
you God's watching this world tonight and there's
no doubt at all that evil men are
watching worse and worse and there's no doubt
at all that this old world of ours
is reeling tonight with transgressors and transgressors they're
holding eight or nine men hostages in a
little room where they're having the games tonight
these Arab terrorists walked in today shot a
couple of men pushed the rest of them
into a room if they're pushed very far
or anybody makes a foolish move these sportsmen
will be shot this evening most surely will
and I would say without any hesitation that
Diane has no notion of letting the prisoners
out not for a moment not for a
moment and he might push the terrorists a
wee bit further but we have terrorism in
our own country and we have fools all
around us north and south and you can
see this thing you know it's so diabolical
that's the thing I want to say or
whether he's a Roman Catholic and you take
him up into a room and you nail
him out on the floor and this has
been done on both sides nail a fellow
out and then burn him with this and
that and the other and then cut his
tongue off and cut his ears off but
that's not the devil in I don't know
anything and we give up now God!
and I'll tell you things will start happening
you know we're getting terribly near to leaving
this world for good terribly near far nearer
than what I can impress on you far
nearer now let's get this bit correct just
don't let me run away with this just
for a moment and in the latter time
of their kingdom when the transgressors are come
to the fool a king of fierce countenance
and understanding dark sentences so stand up now
this king of fierce countenance this is this
little horn coming up among these four out
of one of them and you remember that
because that's a very important verse because I'm
sure that I'll be able to show you
in a moment or two that this is
the man of sin this is the one
that will sit in the temple that Israel
is thinking of building and he'll profess to
be God and the whole world will have
to fall down and worship him or they'll
know the reason why he'll be a king
of fierce countenance the man of sin would
speak to us of his sinfulness the son
of perdition would speak to us of his
corruptness he's called in another part of the
Bible that wicked one which would show us
his wickedness and this book is trying to
show us his fierceness just now have you
got this?
do you remember this ego?
do you remember this horn?
do you remember it being broken?
do you remember four coming up?
north, south, east and west and out of
one of them out of which one?
that's the tickly bit isn't it?
have a look at it again now way
back to verse 9 and out of one
of them came forth a little horn which
wept great towards the south so it didn't
come from the south it didn't come from
Egypt that's one thing sure towards the east
didn't come from Greece towards the pleasant land
he didn't come from the west mid-west
either you know this one came from the
north came from Syria you know I'm perfectly
sure tonight that the Antichrist will be a
Syrian Jew he'll have to be a Jew
before the Jews accept him he will certainly
not be an Orthodox Jew he'll be a
Syrian Jew you know it might surprise you
tonight that Syria is behind what happened today
in Munich it is the Syrians who are
organizing most of the terrorism in this world
at this moment are they going to produce
a sort of super terrorist?
I saw a face flashed on the TV
the other night I have to look at
the news to get a lot of details
sometimes and it was a Syrian it just
came on he had his name I couldn't
get time to get it properly but it
said this is going to be the wise
man of Syria I don't know who he
is but I know I know we are
away at the end time I know that
the ten dozer horns I know that the
ten horns are seen I know that if
they get this great amalgamation this European economic
community that he raves about I know that
they're going to have a common parliament at
Brussels and I know they're going to get
a president before long and I'll be very
much, if I'm still here I'll be very
much surprised if he's not a Syrian and
if he is for God's sake get down
on your knees we're going away one of
these days half of us is only believing
just saying yes for small, that's right yes,
the modernists and some of the amillennialists they
try to argue away from this one of
them said to me once see this fellow
with the fierce countenance see this fellow that's
going to take away the morning and evening
sacrifices out of the century see this fellow
that's going to bring in the abomination of
desolation well he was anti-Akoth epiphany away
back there in history cause he did terrible
things and destroyed the temple of God I
said son two hundred years after anti-Akoth
died Jesus Christ said when thou seest the
abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the
prophet he didn't believe it was past he
believed it was future cause I follow him
when John wrote the book of the Revelation
he wrote it somewhere about I.A.D.
96 or 93 and I'm not sure and
it doesn't matter but it was 60 years
after the death and burial and resurrection of
Christ and the man of sin is still
future for him ah this trite from boys
who can't read annoys me Christ oh this
abomination of desolation is coming I read to
you from a little slip of paper that
I had that's a I haven't yet the
New York Times that's a great paper the
New York the New York Times recently carried
a full page out for the purpose of
collecting funds for the rebuilding of Solomon's Temple
they are sponsored by Orthodox Jews it is
also reported that the Hebrew University in Jerusalem
is offering courses on the preparation of the
temple they're determined to build the temple they're
collecting money and they mean business when they
collect money they're going to build the temple
and in the temple they're going to offer
sacrifices and there's going to be the morning
and the evening sacrifices and the church is
leaving this world one of these days and
this man of sin this son of perdition
this wicked one this king of fierce countenance
who will most surely have some reference to
failure he'll be revealed and he'll make a
covenant with Israel and then he'll break it
and he'll stop the morning and the evening
sacrifices you see up the chapter a bit
I left out because that was very important
one saint said on to another in verse
13 how long shall be the vision concerning
the daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation
and he said unto me on to 2300
days let's get the figure in our minds
2300 days now the seventh day Adventist who
put out more error than anybody else that
I know well some of you might be
on the fly sending for the correspondence course
and you're so stupid you don't know what
you're paying for well I'll tell you a
wee thing about them now seventh day Adventist
they said that these days here 2300 days
they say these days are years days of
years 2300 years and one of their great
leaders wrote a book about from the building
of the going forth of the commandment to
build the temple in the year 457 he
added 2300 to it and it brought them
to the year 1844 BCE and they have
written a great book and they can't get
rid of it now that the Lord would
most surely come in 1844 and they have
tried a thousand ways to wipe that out
but they're not allowed because it was error
of the deepest kind because these are not
days that fear at all had they had
somebody among them that could have read the
book these are not days oh I know
the word is used there but it's used
in Hebrew in many ways look at it
again and you say don't they aren't the
2300 days is there a little figure at
the word there haven't you got a marginal
bible what does it say in the margin
what's the Hebrew word in the margin it
means morning and evening 2300 sacrifices morning and
evening sacrifices ah that's different isn't it because
it's not days and it's not years it
happens to be morning and evening sacrifices now
if he stopped the sacrifices morning and evening
until 2300 of them would be stopped how
many days is that if you divide it
by two you get the days don't you
one, one five oh 1160 you remember last
week let's have another look at that now
the time is going tonight but you may
have to eat your peace yet we're at
Revelation chapter 11 verse 1 and there was
given me a reed like unto a rod
and the angel stood saying rise and measure
the temple of God and the altar and
them that worship therein but the court which
is without the temple leave out and measure
it not for it is given unto the
Gentiles and the holy city shall they tread
on the foot forty and two months and
I will give power unto my two witnesses
and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred
and sixty days one thousand two hundred and
sixty days one thousand and two hundred and
sixty days for Robert Anderson said that the
prophetic year in this book is 360 360
multiplied by three and a half is one
thousand two hundred and sixty and when you
get one thousand one hundred and fifty you're
almost at that three and a half because
he's making a covenant with them for seven
years and he'll go along very nicely within
the midst of the week he's going to
break it and it's only three months or
just a few days over three months later
that he's going to stop the sacrifices oh
yes and from then until Jesus comes let's
have a look at this fellow again you
know it says he's a king of fierce
commandments in Daniel 8 and 23 and understanding
dark sentences when there is a seeking the
devil's help and things you know it was
said that Hitler shut himself up in the
room and prayed to the devil for help
and somehow I think the devil gave him
help and I think the devil's helping a
whole lot of other folks I don't know
whether they're praying for it or not but
I know that this man that's coming the
devil will give him his power I know
that verse 24 says and his power shall
be mighty but not by his own power
I would think not the old devil will
be enemy and he shall destroy wonderfully and
shall prosper and protect us and shall destroy
the mighty and the holy people I think
he'll burn a lot more of the Jews
and through his policy also he shall cause
class to prosper you see I haven't any
doubts at all that if we go into
the common market I think that there will
come great prosperity and not as daft as
to just argue I don't like it but
then I can't close my eyes I think
the engineering world in Britain will make a
fortune and I think the farmers who can
grow grass and grow beef in the north
of Ireland will make a fortune they'll always
be looking for beef but I think that
money's not everything and it's not and it's
very often been true in this world when
a boy begins to get a lot of
money he gets away from God and money
has been the curse of all men money's
not everything when we have more prosperity and
more money we'll have more sin yes it's
what we're heading for it's watch him again
through his policy also he shall cause class
to prosper he shall magnify himself in his
heart and by peace and the word in
the margin is by prosperity shall destroy many
and you can preach on that any Sunday
morning you like because that's one of the
devil's nets for men he shall also stand
up against the Prince capital P of princes
and that is our Lord how well he's
a mighty character you know there will be
a sinfulness and a corruptness and a wickedness
and a diabolicalness that's never been seen in
the world before but when he begins to
meet the Lord Jesus he finds he has
taken on too much for Christ will destroy
him without hand it says here my dear
friends what a chapter it is it says
here shall stand against the Prince of princes
but he shall be broken without hand and
the vision of the evening and the morning
which was told is true you know Daniel
was looking at this through Jewish eyes no
wonder he fainted terrible times coming for the
Jewish nation I know they're in the land
tonight but I know that God is going
to put them into the melting pot friends
let's take a moment this evening would you
say with me tonight that this is a
great book would you say as we read
through it and remember these are just Bible
readings and I'm only reading and putting in
an odd word here and there and trying
to keep out of it as much as
I can would you say it's amazing all
to see that great image with the gold
and silver and brass and iron all to
see those beasts to see that ram and
the he-goat to see the horns to
see the little horn friends tell me this
are the ten toes appearing are the ten
horns appearing are we at the time of
the end and we're going to get nothing
out of this meeting not just have knowledge
that we want let me talk to you
young ones just sit tight for a minute
now is your mother at home looking at
the television is she watching the Olympics tell
me this is she nearer hell now than
she ever was before tell me this now
what are you doing about it you just
being a nice girl carrying your bible bless
you for that coming to church thank you
you're letting her go to hell what are
you doing about your pals young fella what
are you doing about your sons and daughters
fathers and mothers what are these knights to
tell you we're leaving you know we're leaving
they can keep Ulster and everything you'll find
in here they can keep it too we're
leaving we're going out as sure as you're
on the seat we're going out but we're
going to leave a lot of folk behind
you know do we ever invite them to
the meeting do we ever get down on
us to God on our knees at our
bedside and pray for them half of you
are backsliders you never wait before God for
anything you just enjoy this you just lick
it up but there's nothing being done oh
my God well might we say may
we never be the same again may we
stop tonight before you move from the seat
may we stop tonight real earnest for God
only a few days to go in my
opinion would you like to discern that you're
best for God may God awaken us let's
bow together just take a moment now don't
take a moment say a wee prayer to
God where you're sitting if you've been sort
of fast asleep in the bottom of your
boots the Lord is saying to you what
meanest thou, oh sleeper Paul is saying it's
time to arise the day is fast tempered
oh God look down kindly on us we
have wasted time we have not been at
our best for thee Lord we have been
sidetracked and taken up with so many things
oh God there are souls around us going
to perish for all eternity and thou art
coming soon awaken us we pray make us
to give our lives to thee and our
money to thee and every ounce of strength
we have and every drop of blood oh
God come and bless us tonight with a
touch of quickening power for thy name's sake
Amen