Now, he begins to reveal unto Daniel these
things that are going to transpire as far
as the future is concerned.
And here, Daniel gets into such interesting details
that many of the Bible's critics have a
difficult time with the eleventh chapter of the
book of Daniel and they say that it
was actually written in the year 166 B
.C. after all of these events took place
because it was impossible that he could have
written of these events until they had happened.
However, that's of course quite a miracle in
itself because the Septuagint version, the Septuagint version
was made in about 220 or so B
.C. and in the Septuagint, the book of
Daniel is included.
They accepted it as written by Daniel and
as authentic at least 60 years before these
critics say the book of Daniel was written.
So, it's interesting that they could have had
a copy 60 years before it was written
and translated it into Greek.
They say that figures don't lie, but liars
can sure figure.
Also, I in the first year of Darius
the Mede, even I stood to confirm and
to strengthen him.
And now I will show thee the truth.
Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings
in Persia.
Darius was the king at this time.
The three kings that would follow would be
Ahasuerus, Artaxerxes, and another Darius.
These are in secular history known as Cambyses,
Pseudo-Smyrdas, and Darius Hystapis.
So, there will be three kings that will
rise up and the fourth will be richer.
This is Xerxes.
Then they all, and by his strength and
through his riches, he will stir up all
against the realm of Grisha.
Xerxes was very wealthy, very powerful, and he
made an expedition against Greece and was able
to defeat, but yet not conquered, Greece.
And so, that particular part was fulfilled.
There were the three kings Ahasuerus, Artaxerxes, Darius,
and then Xerxes, the fourth, richer than the
others, made the expedition against Greece.
But then, Greece will arise and a mighty
king, Alexander the Great, shall stand up that
shall rule with great dominion and do according
to his will.
And when he shall stand up, his kingdom
will be broken and shall be divided toward
the four winds of heaven, but not to
his posterity, nor according to his dominion, which
he ruled for his kingdom, shall be plucked
up even for others beside those.
So, Alexander the Great will rise up, but
when he falls, the kingdom will not go
to his family, to his posterity, nor will
they receive the full extent of his dominion,
for the king of the south shall be
strong.
And one of his princes, and he shall
be strong above and have dominion in his
dominion, shall be a great dominion.
The king of the south was, of course,
the general Ptolemy, who took over in Egypt.
General Seleucid took over in Syria.
And there also was another general who took
over in Greece and another one who took
over in Thrace.
So, Greece was divided into the four dominions.
But he speaks now, and he doesn't bring
up the Grecian or the Thracian kingdom, but
only the Syrian and Egyptian, because they are
the ones that relate to Israel.
For in their wars, Israel was the middle
ground between Syria and Egypt.
And so in their fighting each other, they
had to pass through the land of Israel.
Now he begins to give some interesting details
that were all fulfilled in history.
The king of the south will be strong,
have a dominion.
His dominion shall be a great dominion.
And in the end of the years, they
shall join themselves together.
For the king's daughter, the king of the
north, king of the south, were fighting, but
in the end, they'll 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 nor 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, what happened is that the king of
Egypt gave his daughter Berenice to the king
of the north, who divorced his wife in
order to marry Berenice.
But when the Ptolemy died, then he got
rid of Berenice and took his wife back
again, who in turn poisoned him.
And she killed also Berenice and her son.
Now when Berenice had a son, the former
queen, her sons were exed out according to
the agreement.
But when she poisoned her husband and killed
Berenice and her sons, then of course her
sons were in line again for the throne.
And here Daniel tells all of this intrigue
and everything else that's going to take place.
And then the brother of Berenice gathered together
an army in Egypt and came up and
destroyed this wife, who had poisoned her husband
and had killed his sister.
And he that is begotten of her, actually
is referring to a family member, which was
her brother, and he strengthened her in these
times, and a branch of her roots, that
is her brother, shall one stand up in
his estate, which shall come with an army
and shall enter the fortress of the king
of the north and shall deal against them
and prevail.
It was Ptolemy or Getes, the brother of
Berenice, who invaded Syria, just as it's described
here.
He shall also carry away captives into Egypt
with their gods and their princes and with
their precious vessels of silver and gold, and
he shall continue more years in the king
of the north.
So the king of the south shall come
into his kingdom and shall return to his
own land.
But his sons shall be stirred up and
shall assemble a multitude of great forces and
one shall certainly come and overflow and pass
through.
That is his sons, the king of the
north, who was defeated by her Getes, and
they will assemble a multitude of great forces.
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 the south shall be
moved with color and shall come forth and
fight with him, even with the king of
the north, and he shall set forth a
great multitude, but the multitude shall be given
into his hand.
And when he hath taken away the multitude,
his heart shall be lifted up, and he
shall cast down many ten thousands, but he
shall not be strengthened by it."
This is Philopator, who is the Ptolemy
Philopator, who is the king of the south
at this time.
He gathered together a great army, came against
the king of the north.
However, though he defeated him and took a
lot of loot, the guy did not take
full advantage and subjugate the people.
He was too interested in the licentious life
that he was living in Egypt.
And so where it says here, he will
cast down many ten thousands.
He did destroy a lot of the army,
but he will not be strengthened by it.
He didn't take advantage of it.
He just went back and lived a life
of luxury and licentiousness in Egypt.
For the king of the north then shall
return and shall 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 many stand
up against the king of the south.
So the king of the north came back
again, which was Antiochus Magnus, known as Antiochus
the Great.
But many shall stand up.
Philip of Macedon joined with him against Egypt
at this point.
Plus some rebels in Egypt, plus some of
the Jews who were called the robbers of
thy people will exalt themselves to establish the
vision and they shall fall.
So the king of the north, Antiochus the
Great, shall come and cast up a mount
and take most of the 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 comes against him shall do
according to his own will, and none shall
stand before him, and he shall stand in
the glorious land, and by his hand shall
be consumed, which by his face to enter
with strength of his whole kingdom, and upright
ones with him.
Thus shall he do, and he shall give
him the daughter of women, corrupting her, but
she shall not stand on his side, neither
before him.
Now, Ergetes is the king of the south
in Egypt.
When he took over, he was just seven
years old.
So he was just at that point a
figurehead.
But Antiochus the Great took his daughter
Cleopatra, and he made a deal that she
should marry Ergetes, figuring that when she got
there in the kingdom of Egypt, she would
be for her old man.
But when the marriage some years later was
made, and Cleopatra became the wife of Ergetes,
rather than siding with her father, Antiochus the
Great, she sided with her own husband against
her father, so his little plan backfired.
Now Daniel tells about the plan and how
it will backfire.
If he had only read the Bible, he
would have known better than to send his
daughter down there.
He shall give him the daughter of women,
corrupting her, but she shall not stand on
his side, neither before him.
She won't be for him.
And if he had only read that, he
would have known better than to send her
down.
Now after this, shall he turn his face
unto the isles?
So, not being able to conquer into Egypt,
he then turned and began, he gathered a
navy of three hundred ships and he began
to travel in the Mediterranean, beginning to fight
actually against Rome, which at this point was
beginning to be a power in the ancient
world.
So he turned his face unto the isles
and shall take away many, but the prince,
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.
And then he shall turn his face toward
the fort of his own land, but he
shall stumble and fall and not be found.
Then, now what happened, of course, is he
was defeated by the Romans and they determined
then that they would charge him for all
of these wars.
And so he was given a sum that
he was to pay every year.
Well, he and his men went into a
temple to take away the treasures and the
people of the city were so incensed, they
killed him.
And so he fell, he stumbled and fell,
was not, you know, he was lost in
the place of history.
And there shall stand up in his place
his son, Seleucus Philopator, who would be a
raiser of taxes.
He tried to raise the taxes to pay
this Roman tribute in the glory of the
kingdom, but within a few days he will
be destroyed.
Neither in anger nor in battle, he was
poisoned and killed.
And after just a very short reign, because
the people didn't like the taxes, he was
trying to exact from them.
And in his estate shall stand up a
vile person Antiochus Epiphanes, to whom they shall
not give the honor of the kingdom, and
he shall come in peaceably and obtain the
kingdom by flatteries.
Now this Antiochus Epiphanes was a real treacherous
person and with the arms of a flood,
shall they be overflown from before him and
be broken.
Yea, also the Prince of the covenant and
after the league made with him, he shall
work deceitfully for he shall come up and
shall become strong with a small people.
And he shall enter peaceably even on the
fattest places of the province.
And he shall do that which his fathers
have not done, nor his father's fathers.
He shall scatter among them the prey and
the spoil and the riches.
He began to conquer and he did what
his fathers did not do in that they
amassed the wealth for themselves.
But he began to give away all of
the money to all of his generals and
those that were with him.
So his practice of distributing the loot among
the men is here predicted by Daniel.
He shall scatter among them the prey and
the spoil and the riches.
Yes, and he shall forecast his devices against
the strongholds even for a time.
And he shall stir up his power and
his courage against the king of the south
with a great army.
And the king of the south shall be
stirred up to battle with a very great
and mighty army, but he shall not stand
for they shall forecast devices against him.
So he came against Egypt with a tremendous
army and Egypt met him, but he began
to defeat the Egyptians.
Yea, they that feed of the portion of
his meat shall destroy him and his army
shall overflow and many shall fall down slain.
And both these king's hearts shall be to
do mischief.
Now they were stopped by the Roman government
and yet both of them sought to do
mischief.
And of course you read the history and
it's interesting.
The king of Egypt, his brother was in
Alexandria and both of them were doing a
lot of lying and cunning and and all.
And so the king's heart should be in
them to do mischief and they shall speak
lies at one table and shall not prosper.
They were just lying to each other, making
treaties and everything else, which neither of them
intended to honor for yet at the end
shall be the time appointed.
Then shall he return into his land with
great riches.
His heart shall be against the holy covenant
and he shall do exploits and return to
his own land.
And at the time appointed, he shall return
and come toward the south.
So he sought again to invade Antiochus Epiphany
sought again to invade Egypt, but it shall
not be as the former or the latter.
For the ships of Chittim, actually when he
came this time to Alexandria, the Roman ships
were there in the port.
And so the Roman general Pompilius Linus came
to him and he said, the Roman Senate
has ordered you to go home with your
troops.
And he said, I will consult with my
men and we will send an answer to
Rome.
And Pompilius, the Roman general, took his cane
and he drew a circle in the sand
around him.
And he said, make your decision before you
leave that circle.
And he was intimidated by the Roman general.
And so he said, I've decided to go
home.
Tell the Roman Senate.
And so here, this is all predicted here.
The Roman Navy met him.
They were waiting in port at Alexandria when
he came all predicted in advance.
Amazing that God would speak in such detail
of these things that had not yet transpired.
Now he was angry because he was rebuffed
by Rome.
And so he determined to take it out
upon the nation of Israel.
And on his way back to Syria, he
came to Jerusalem and really sought to desecrate
the place.
He shall even return and have intelligence with
them that forsake the holy covenant and arms
shall stand on his part and they shall
pollute the sanctuary of strength and shall take
away the daily sacrifice.
And they shall place the abomination that maketh
desolate.
He came back to Jerusalem and polluted the
temple.
He built an altar, a pagan altar above
the altar of God.
And he offered a pig upon this altar
to an idol that they had set up
there in the temple of God.
And such as do wickedly against the covenant,
shall he corrupt by flatteries.
But the people that do know their God
shall be strong and do exploits.
His desecration of the temple so incensed the
people that Judas Maccabeus gathered together a group
of zealots and they began to attack the
Syrians in guerrilla type warfare.
And they defeated every Syrian contingency that was
sent against them.
And they finally retook the temple and purified
the temple, which period we've just gone through
the feast of dedication or Hanukkah in the
Jewish calendar to celebrate Judas Maccabeus retaking and
rededicating the temple unto God.
So the people that do know their God,
Judas Maccabeus and those Maccabean brothers will be
strong and do exploits.
And they that understand among the people shall
instruct many.
Yet they shall fall by the sword and
the flame and by captivity and by spoil.
Many days, both Judas and his brothers were
all slain by the sword.
Now when they shall fall, they shall be
helped with little help, but many shall cleave
to them with flatteries.
And some of them shall understand and shall
fall and try to purge and to make
them white, even to the time of the
end, because it is yet for a time
appointed.
Now at this point, Daniel's prophecy goes out
to the end and he sees now the
man who is commonly called the Antichrist, but
in scripture is called the son of perdition
or is called the man of sin or
is called the beast.
And the king shall do according to his
will, the Antichrist.
He shall exalt himself and magnify himself above
every God and shall speak marvelous things against
the God of God and shall prosper until
the indignation, which is the Old Testament word
for the great tribulation, shall be accomplished.
He will prosper until the tribulation be accomplished.
For that that is determined shall be done.
Neither shall he regard the God of his
fathers, and so he will obviously be a
Jew, nor the desire of women.
Now this not regarding the desire of women
can have one of two meanings.
It was the desire of every Jewish girl
to be privileged to bear the Messiah.
And Christ was called the desire of nations,
but the desire really of every young girl
to be chosen to be the mother of
the Messiah.
Mary was the one that God chose.
But the desire of women, that is why
so many of the Jewish mothers named their
child Joshua, hoping that God would use him
for the salvation of Israel.
Now it is interesting today.
There is an off branch of the Moslems
known as the Druze.
It's a very secretive kind of a religion.
In fact, the people do not know what
it's about.
Only the priests know what they believe.
They don't teach the people.
It's a secret religion.
And the priests are the ones that do
all of the worship, and they're the ones
that know the secrets, and no one else
knows but them.
And of course, they're sworn not to reveal
the secrets to anybody.
Now you go into the Druze villages, and
you see the priest, and they have a
special little headband by which you know that
they are priests.
But not only that, they have these baggy
pants with a big sack, sort of a
contraption here in the front.
And the reason why they have this big
sack contraption in the front is that among
the Druze religion, they believe that the Messiah
will be born of a man.
And thus they have this big sack in
the front in case they get pregnant.
That's true.
I've got pictures of them.
And you can go to the Druze villages
today, and it's very amusing and interesting to
see these men walking with these big sacks
hanging down the front of their pants there
in the front, and all of them in
hopes that they'll be chosen to bear the
Messiah and to become pregnant with the Messiah.
So the desire of women would in that
sense be a reference to Jesus Christ.
So he does not regard the God of
his fathers, nor Jesus Christ.
He is a man who speaks blasphemously, not
regarding any God, for he will magnify himself
above all.
So that is no doubt the
correct interpretation.
There are some that says he'll be a
homosexual, not regarding the desire of women.
But more apt looking at the context of
the Hebrew people, referring to a homosexual, it
is probably referring to the fact that he
does not regard Jesus Christ.
But his God is the God of forces.
A God whom his father knew not shall
he honor with gold and silver and precious
stones and pleasant things.
Look how today men are honoring the God
of forces with gold and silver.
Do you realize that one trillion dollars was
spent this year for weapons?
One trillion dollars was spent this year in
order to build tanks and guns and equip
the military and all.
One trillion dollars.
What a tragic misuse of the resources of
the world.
But it's all preparing for this man who
honors the God of force.
Thus shall he do in the most strongholds
with a strange God whom he shall acknowledge
and increase with glory.
And he shall cause them to rule over
many and shall divide the land for gain.
So the land of Israel, he will divide
it for gain.
And at the time of the end, shall
the King of the South push at him
and the King of the North shall come
against him like a whirlwind with chariots and
horsemen, many ships.
And he shall enter into the countries and
overflow and pass over.
And he shall enter also into the glorious
land and many countries shall be overthrown.
But these will escape out of his hand.
Edom and Moab, which is Jordan and the
chief of the children of Ammon.
So Jordan will not be taken by the
Antichrist, though Israel will.
Interesting, because the Jews will actually flee for
protection to Jordan at this point to the
rock city of Petra, where they will be
preserved by God for three and a half
years during the time of the great indignation
or the wrath of God, which is to
be poured out upon the earth.
So Edom or Jordan escapes.
However, he moves towards Egypt.
He shall stretch forth his hand also upon
the countries and the land of Egypt shall
not escape.
He will take the land of Egypt and
he shall have power over the treasures of
gold and silver and over the precious things
of Egypt and the Libyans and the Ethiopians
shall be at his doorsteps or at his
steps.
But tidings out of the East and out
of the North shall trouble him.
Therefore, he shall go forth with his great
fury to destroy and utterly make away many,
and he shall plant the tabernacles of his
palace between the seas and the glorious holy
mountain.
He shall come to his end and none
shall help him.
Now this is a reference to the Antichrist,
who will be the leader of the United
Nations of Europe.
He shall be moving towards Africa in the
conquest of Africa, taking Egypt, passing through Israel,
taking Egypt, moving towards Libya and Ethiopia, at
which time he will hear of the troops
from China and Russia coming against him.
So he will turn from his proposed conquest
of Africa and come back and they will
meet in the valley of Megiddo.
There in Israel, the tremendous force of the
Chinese, for whom the river Euphrates will be
dried up in order that they might cross,
according to the book of Revelation.
Those forces that are remaining in Russia, gathering
against the combined forces of Europe and the
United States will no doubt be in league
with those forces of Europe at this point.
And this final great world war, the major
scene of battle will be the valley of
Megiddo there in Israel.
This is what is commonly called the Battle
of Armageddon, of which you have read and
heard so much about.
And this, of course, is what will perpetrate
this battle.
As he is moving against Africa, getting news
that the Chinese and the Russians have confederated
together to come against him, he turns in
great anger and the place of their meeting
is the valley of Megiddo.
And it is at that time where the
blood will flow to the horse's bridle throughout
the whole valley of Megiddo as the slain
of the earth.
Millions destroyed in that great carnage and bloodshed.
Now it is during the time of this
great battle of Armageddon that Jesus will return.
And at that time shall Michael stand up,
the great prince which stands for the children
of thy people.
And there shall be a time of trouble,
the great tribulation, such as never was since
there was a nation, even to the same
time.
And at that time, thy people shall be
delivered.
Everyone that shall be found written in the
book.
So there's going to be a time of
great tribulation, but Daniel's people are to be
delivered.
Now their deliverance will come in several ways.
Number one, there will be a hundred and
forty-four thousand of them who are sealed
by God and protected from the plagues of
the great tribulation.
Number two, there will be those who will
make their flight to the rock city of
Petra, where God will preserve them.
Jesus was warning his disciples or the Jews
actually, that when you see this abomination of
desolation that was spoken of by Daniel the
prophet standing in the holy place, when you
see the Antichrist standing in the temple of
God, declaring that he is God, then flee
to the wilderness and don't stop to get
your jacket.
Just get out of there as fast as
you can.
If you're out in the field, don't even
go home.
Just run.
In the book of Revelation, we are told
that God gives to them wings of an
eagle, sounds like helicopters, that will bear them
to this place in the wilderness where they
will be preserved for three and a half
years.
In the book of Isaiah chapter 16, the
Lord says to Jordan, open up and receive
my people.
Bear them safely to Petra until the great
tribulation is over.
And so the Antichrist, when he finds the
Jews are fleeing, will send out an army
against them, but the earth will open up
and swallow the army.
And then of course, he'll be taken up
with the other issues of the invasion of
China and Russia and will not pursue them
any further, but they will be preserved for
three and a half years.
So thy people will be delivered.
Everyone that shall be found written in the
book.
Now those that do not flee, the Antichrist
will then go and make war against the
remnant of the people that stay in the
land.
And there will be a horrible devastation of
those people.
Once again, a time of trouble such as
never existed since they were a nation up
until that time.
Jesus said the time of great tribulation, such
as the world has never seen before or
will ever see again.
Now Daniel here is told of the resurrection
and many of them that sleep in the
dust of the earth shall awake some to
everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting
contempt.
There is to be a resurrection of the
dead.
Now they will not take place simultaneously.
The righteous dead will rise a thousand years
before the unrighteous dead, but it's all lumped
together in one here in the book of
Revelation.
We see the time differential between the two.
The resurrection of the righteous dead, they that
sleep in the dust of the earth shall
awake some to everlasting life.
Of course, if the resurrection of Jesus Christ
there began the great resurrection, the body of
many of the, the, the graves of many
of the saints were open and they were
seen walking through the streets of Jerusalem after
his resurrection from the dead.
The great resurrection of the unjust dead will
take place at the end of the Christ
thousand year reign when they stand before the
great white throne judgment of God and the
rise to everlasting shame and contempt.
And they that be wise shall shine as
the brightness of the firmament and they that
turn many to righteousness as the stars forever
and ever.
They that be wise shall shine as the
brightness of the sky and they that turn
many to righteousness as the stars forever and
ever.
You know, there are some people whose life
is like a skyrocket.
They make a big flash, but they burn
out very fast.
You know, they, they hit the scene.
Everybody says, Oh, you know, but just that
fast they fade away.
The glory of man is so transient.
You know, the crowd may be cheering you
today, but during you tomorrow, the glory of
man is so transient, the big flash, Oh,
but the burnout, but the place to really
shine is in God's kingdom.
You know, on the 4th of July, I
like to go out and see the big
pyrotechnic display and I ooh and aw at
the beautiful skyrockets.
And you know, when it's all over for
a while, you lose sight of the stars.
You know, there's so much flash in the
atmosphere around you.
You don't see the stars up there, but
when it's all over there, they are shining
forever and ever.
Maybe not with such a big flash, but
they keep going.
Some people make a big flash, but that's
the end of it.
They that be wise will shine as this,
as the brightness of the firmament and they
that turn many to righteousness as the stars
forever and ever.
Which sky do you want to shine in?
But thou O Daniel, shut up the words
and seal the book even to the time
of the end.
The book was to be sealed when and
to the time of the end.
In other words, Daniel, you're not going to
understand this.
It will be understood in the time of
the end for many shall run to and
fro and knowledge shall be increased.
The knowledge increased in its immediate context would
be the knowledge of the book of Daniel
or the knowledge of these prophecies.
And surely God has unfolded the book of
Daniel in these last days as we can
now see it with the advantage of hindsight
and we can see how accurately he wrote
of the past.
And now as we see the things of
the past, we can also understand as they
relate to the present and future.
So the book of Daniel is no longer
a sealed book, but an open book and
easily understood by any diligent student of God's
word for knowledge has been increased.
Now that knowledge increased has also been interpreted
to be just the general amassed knowledge of
man.
And surely this has happened in our generation.
Between the years of 1950 and 1960, man's
total knowledge doubled.
In other words, everything that man had learned
from Adam up until the year 1950 accumulated
knowledge of man in the next decade was
doubled.
By the year 1970 men knew or 1960
men knew twice as much as what they
had learned in all of the years up
to 1950.
And of course now with the ability through
micro data processing and computers and all, we
are again in this decade doubling the amassed
knowledge of man.
Knowledge increased and interesting men going to and
fro.
Tomorrow morning I get on a jet and
tomorrow I eat lunch in Spokane, you know,
and it's amazing what you can do now
in jet travel.
Many running to and fro.
Then I, Daniel, looked and I beheld and
there stood two others.
The one on this side of the bank
of the river and the other on the
other side of the bank of the river.
And one said to the man that was
clothed in linen, you see, with, with this
one in linen, there were other personages.
That's why I believe the one in linen
was Jesus Christ.
And there were angels with him, which was
upon the waters of the river.
How long shall it be to the end
of these wonders?
How long before the end of these things,
the tribulation and all.
And 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 he swear by him that lives forever
and ever that it shall be for a
time, a year times half a year, or
I mean two years and a half, which
would be a half a year.
And when he shall have accomplished to scatter
the power of the holy people, all of
these things shall be finished.
And I heard, but I did not understand.
Then I said, Oh my Lord, what shall
be the end of these things?
And he said, go your way, Daniel, for
the words are closed up and sealed till
the time of the end.
So don't worry about it, Daniel, you just
go your way.
These words are sealed until the time of
the end, until now, when the Lord has
opened up understanding.
Many shall be purified and made white and
tried, but the wicked shall do wickedly and
none of the wicked shall understand, but the
wise shall understand.
Now, even as Daniel predicted the very day
that the Messiah would come 173,880 days
from the commandment to restore and rebuild Jerusalem.
So he has predicted the very day that
Jesus will come again.
Not the day that the Lord will take
his church.
No man knows that day or the hour.
We don't know when the Lord's going to
come for us, his church, but from the
time that the daily sacrifices and prayers are
caused to cease by the Antichrist in the
middle of the last seven year cycle, it
will then be 1,290 days.
According to the testimony of the Lord.
If you were still here upon the earth,
you can mark your calendar and you can
count off the days and you'll be wanting
to, because it's going to be a fierce,
horrible time as God's wrath is poured out
in judgment upon this earth.
At this point, maybe you should this week,
read revelation six through 18 to find out
just what's going to be happening during this
three and a half year period of time.
Terrible blessed is he who waits and comes
to the thousand 335th day or 45 days
after the coming of Christ.
Matthew 25 31, when Jesus returns, he's going
to gather together the nations for judgment and
separate them as the shepherd separates the sheep
from the goats.
And to those on his right hand, come
you blessed of the father enter into the
kingdom that was prepared for you from the
foundations of the earth to those on his
left.
Apart from me, he worked as of iniquity
into the everlasting darkness, which was prepared for
Satan and his angels.
So if a person, and there will be
many who will live through the great tribulation,
they will be able to survive.
Now, if they survive the great tribulation, providing
they have not worshiped the antichrist, nor taken
his mark upon them, nor worship the image
for if any man worships the antichrist or
takes the mark of the antichrist on him
or worships the image, he will not have
any chance for salvation at all.
In revelation, chapter 14, John saw the angel
flying through the midst of the heaven, declaring,
Whoa, whoa, whoa to the neighbors of the
earth.
And if any man shall take the mark
or worship the beast or his image, he
shall be cast into the lake burning with
fire.
And there's no hope for his salvation.
The angel would be warning people not to
take that mark.
Of course, on the other hand, if you
refuse to take the mark, they can put
you to death for it, not taking the
mark.
So you're going to have to, you're going
to have to join with McKeever and some
of these guys and get you a little
hideaway back up in the woods in Oregon
and stock it with your food and your
wheat and your guns and everything else in
order.
You'll be able to survive this three and
a half year period of time, and then
hopefully make it through the 45 days of
judgment.
Because having come through the great tribulation will
not necessarily ensure your entrance into the kingdom.
Then you have to pass this judgment.
When Christ says, I was hungry and you
fed me thirsty and you gave me to
drink and naked and you clothed me, Lord,
when did we see you this way?
Not when you were, you know, shooting those
that were trying to come and get your
food.
So you better put your guns away, I
guess, if you're going to survive the 45
days.
And as much as you did it under
the least of these, my brethren, you've done
it unto me.
And they are allowed to enter into the
kingdom.
So there will be some who will live
through the great tribulation and will enter into
the kingdom.
Most of those that enter into the kingdom
though will be those who belong to the
Lord and who return with Jesus.
Then he will be coming with ten thousands
of his saints to execute judgment upon the
earth.
And we shall live and reign with him
upon the earth for a thousand years.
But to Daniel, go thy way till the
end is for thou shalt rest and stand
in thy lot.
In the end of the days, you'll stand
with your group in the end of the
days, Daniel, but in the meantime, just go
and take your rest and you'll stand in
the end time.
So the fascinating prophecies of Daniel, marvelous man
of God, high on my list of those
I want to meet when I get to
heaven.
I so respect this man of God, so
admire him that I'm looking forward to quite
a bit of time just sitting and learning
from the depth of this man, of his
walk and love and relationship.
That's going to be one of the neat
things of heaven is just getting acquainted and
knowing some of these glorious people of God
from history.
Next week we get into the book of
Hosea.
We'll take five chapters of Hosea for next
Sunday.
Moving through, it won't be long before we'll
be through with the Old Testament now.
For the rest of the books are very
short little books.
Many of them we will be taking in
just one week and then moving on into
the New Testament.
So as the Lord carries and as the
Lord wills, it won't be long before we'll
be back in the New Testament and going
through it.
Peter asked a very pertinent question in the
light of the fact that the material world
is going to soon be dissolved.
The works are to be burned up.
The elements will melt with the ferment heat.
What manner of persons ought we to be?
If you are a materialist and your whole
values are set in material things, when this
material universe goes, everything that you have and
hope for is gone.
Therefore, it is not wise to be a
materialist or a humanist.
What manner of persons ought we to be?
Peter answers in all holiness, godliness, godly manner
of living.
We ought to be spiritual.
We need to have our things upon, our
eyes upon the things above, not upon the
things of the earth.
We need to have our hearts set upon
the eternal, not on the temporal.
May God help us to each one make
an evaluation of ourselves, our own priorities, our
own lives, to find out where our values
are.
Find out what we truly treasure.
For where a man's treasure is, there will
his heart be also.
So God help us to treasure heavenly things,
spiritual things, and mark them as the true
values of life.
And thus may God cause us to examine
our hearts, examine ourselves, our lives, our lifestyles.
And may we so live in anticipation of
our Lord's return in glory to establish God's
kingdom.
God bless you.
May he keep his hand upon your life.
May he fill you with his love and
with his spirit.
And may he guide you according to his
purpose through Jesus Christ our Lord.