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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Prophecy of History (Part 1) | April 13, 2025
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- Announcer: coming to you from new york city at the historic
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- Manhattan center with your host doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery, as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy.
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- Explore the timeless wisdom of god's word and see how it
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- Relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your amazing facts adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: tonight we're going to be studying one of the
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- Most important subjects dealing with the prophecy of history.
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- And if i was going to take one bible subject and say, "this is
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- The study of prophecy that we're going to have tonight that
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- Convinced me that the bible is a supernatural book," this is
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- The one.
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- Well, we always like to begin with an amazing fact, and i'm
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- Gonna get my little clicker here that will take us through some
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- Of these things.
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- From the very beginning of the bible to the end of the bible,
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- We hear about a kingdom called babylon.
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- Now if you have your bibles on your phone or if you've got a
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- Hard copy of the bible, you might want to turn to the book
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- Of daniel chapter 2, not far from the middle of the bible
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- There, daniel chapter 2.
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- Let me give you a little amazing fact about babylon.
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- Ancient babylon had a massive impact on world history.
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- It was a center of earthly mathematics, astronomy, and
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- Technology innovation.
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- The babylonians invented the wheel for work carts and
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- Chariots, sailboats to trade
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- On the euphrates river.
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- They created cuneiform writing records.
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- Babylon also developed a unique numerical system based on the
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- Lunar calendar with 360 days, which is, by the way, the same
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- Calendar as the jews.
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- Make a mental note of that because a year with 360 days
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- Comes up later in understanding time prophecies.
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- Thirty days in a month is how they calculated units for
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- Measurement and this is why we've got 60 seconds in a
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- Minute, and you've got--the number 60 is all through the
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- Babylonian calculations.
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- They also divided the starry heavens into 36 constellations.
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- I'm a pilot, 360 degrees to a circle, and we use that in
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- Mathematics now, they were excellent mathematicians.
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- Interestingly, now don't miss this, the babylonian sacred
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- Square is composed of 6 boxes by 6 boxes with the number 1 in box
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- 1, number 2, 3, 4.
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- When you add all those up, 1 through 36,
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- It comes to 666.
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- Babylon appears in the book of revelation.
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- And i hope you don't know what a roulette wheel is, but you know
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- A roulette wheel has got 36 numbers on it, and if you add 1
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- Plus 2 plus 3 up to 36, it comes to 666, 666 is a very
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- Unique number.
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- Did you know if you add up the first six roman numerals, you
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- Know, the roman numerals i, v, x, so forth, adds up to 666.
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- So this is gonna play into prophecy, but that's just to
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- Whet your appetite.
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- So the zenith of babylonian history was during the reign of
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- Someone by the name of nebuchadnezzar ii.
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- And we don't know much or hear much about nebuchadnezzar i, but
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- Nebuchadnezzar ii was an extremely intelligent,
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- Well-educated man, a master military man and an
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- Administrator, and he could also be brutal and ruthless, which is
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- One reason he was able to conquer, struck fear
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- Into everybody.
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- The zenith of the babylonian empire was from about 612 to 539
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- Bc, and nebuchadnezzar, in about 597, he came and that was his
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- First invasion of the land of israel.
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- During that time, he carried away about 10,000 captives.
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- Among the captives that he carried away from israel back to
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- Babylon, there were four young men.
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- By the way, this had been foretold by the prophet isaiah
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- To king hezekiah.
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- Hezekiah was told by isaiah, "your sons that issue from you
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- Will be carried off to the kingdom of babylon and
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- Made eunuchs."
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- And this is exactly what happened several hundred
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- Years later.
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- So it's just a little map on the screen here for those that are
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- Watching to give you an idea of the extent of the babylonian
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- Kingdom-added zenith, touching on the shores of five
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- Major oceans.
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- Now while we go through the prophecy tonight, i want to make
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- Something very clear.
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- We're going to be talking about the major empires of the world
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- That were foretold in prophecy before they existed, and the
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- Reason these empires are highlighted is they all occupied
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- God's people that were then israel.
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- And this was also the crossroads between three continents of
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- Europe, africa, and asia, so they saw this as a world empire
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- Because they controlled the trade between these continents,
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- They were fabulously wealthy.
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- So at the zenith of his power, and nebuchadnezzar had an
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- Incredible passion for building, so he's building, how many of
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- You have heard of the seven wonders of the ancient world?
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- The only one that still survives today are the pyramids of giza.
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- Karen and i were there a couple of years ago.
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- It was just last year, well, time flies.
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- And they had things like the colossus of rhodes and the
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- Lighthouse of alexandria, one of the seven wonders of the ancient
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- World, according to herodotus the historian, was the hanging
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- Gardens of babylon.
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- Nebuchadnezzar married a girl from the mountains and babylon
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- Is a plain, she was constantly homesick because there were
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- No mountains.
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- He said, "i will build you a mountain."
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- She said, "but there are no trees."
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- He said, "i will plant trees and mountains and flowers," and he
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- Built these beautiful exotic hanging gardens, and some of the
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- Ancient historians say he had found some method to pump water
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- From the euphrates river up and irrigate it, so there were
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- Waterfalls coming down from this man-made mountain that he had.
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- So you have the picture in your mind, this massive kingdom, very
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- Powerful, very opulent.
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- One historian says that it was 60 miles around the perimeter.
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- That's bigger than los angeles today, just--it was huge.
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- Nebuchadnezzar went to sleep one night, and he was very proud of
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- The way that god had, you know, blessed him.
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- He thought he was pretty smart too.
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- He was a proud man, and he knew this kingdom was great and he
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- Wondered how long it would last.
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- He understood history, how one kingdom fights against another,
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- And in the midst of his sleeping this night, troubled, wondering
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- How long the kingdom would last, he had a dream that was unlike
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- Any other dream.
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- I don't know if you've had a dream and you said, "that wasn't
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- A normal dream," that was a three-dimensional dream.
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- It was a vision and he wanted to understand it.
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- Now if you have your bibles, we're going to pause here and
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- We're going to read about this.
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- If you go to the book of daniel chapter 2, we're not going to
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- Read the whole chapter, but we're going to do the
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- Introduction to this dream that nebuchadnezzar had and what that
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- Stood for.
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- What does that mean? daniel chapter 2.
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- And we'll read the first few verses here.
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- Verse 1, daniel chapter 2, "now in the second year of
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- Nebuchadnezzar's reign," this isn't the second year that he
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- Was out fighting and conquering, but after his father died and he
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- Had complete control.
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- "in the second year of nebuchadnezzar's reign,
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- Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, and his spirit was so troubled that
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- His sleep left him.
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- Then the king gave the command to call the magicians,
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- Astrologers, the sorcerers, the chaldeans, to tell the king
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- His dreams.
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- So they came and they stood before the king."
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- He had a pretty big entourage of wise men and counselors, and
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- They were all into the, you know, the occultish arts, and
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- Some of them were star gazers and supposedly these are the
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- Wise men, the spiritual men.
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- "so they came and stood before him and the king said, 'i've had
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- A dream and my spirit is anxious to know the dream,' and the
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- Chaldeans spoke to the king in aramaic, 'o king, live forever!
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- Tell your servants the dream and we will give
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- The interpretation.'"
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- You see, they were in the business of--the king would
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- Give a dream and they'd concoct some interpretation to try to
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- Satisfy him, but he said, "no, no, no, i'm not a fool," he
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- Said, "i want to know what this dream means, and i don't want
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- You to just manufacture something.
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- He says, 'if you're really wise men and you're really connected
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- With the gods, here's your chance to prove your mettle.
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- I want you to tell me what i dream, not only because that'll
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- Be good proof, but because it's starting to get fuzzy.'"
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- How many of you have had a dream and you thought, wow, it
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- Was vivid, and half an hour later, you know, your dream is
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- Happening in a different brain level from your consciousness,
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- And as you get into full consciousness, the dream is hard
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- To access.
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- And he's saying, "i'll remember it when i hear it, but if you're
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- A wise man, you tell me what i dream, and then i'll know you
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- Know the interpretation."
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- In verse 7 they said, "'king, let the king tell his servants
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- A dream, and we'll give the interpretation.'
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- And the king answered and said rather sternly, 'i know for a
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- Certain that you would gain time.
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- You're stalling because you see my decision is firm.
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- If you do not make known the dream to me, there's only one
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- Decree for you.
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- You're on the royal payroll and you're worthless,'" like others
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- On the royal payroll around the world.
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- "'only one decree for you.
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- You have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me
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- Until the time has changed.'"
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- You think i'm just gonna get on with something else and forget
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- About this.
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- "'therefore, tell me the dream and i'll know you can tell me
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- The interpretation.'
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- And they answered and said to the king, 'there's not a man on
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- Earth who can tell the king's matter.
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- Therefore, no king or lord or ruler has ever asked such
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- A thing from any magician, astrologer, or chaldean.
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- It's a difficult thing the king is requesting, and there's no
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- Other one who can tell it to the king except the gods whose
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- Dwelling is not with flesh.'
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- For this reason, the king was angry and very furious, and he
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- Gave a command to destroy all the wise men of babylon."
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- Now the king back then could not just issue a fiat kill them all,
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- They had legal process.
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- And so they're writing up a decree to gather them and
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- Execute them.
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- So you understand it took a while to do this, but they're
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- Going to be under a death decree now because the king is mad.
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- So the decree went out and they began killing the wise men, and
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- They sought daniel and his companions to kill them.
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- Now at this point we need to understand something
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- That happened.
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- So daniel and his friends were wise men in training, and they
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- Had not yet been called in before the king.
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- And so what happened is the guard comes in and daniel says,
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- "it looks like they're rounding up all the wise men.
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- I don't know if we're in that category, we're sort of intern
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- Wise men.
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- And we were not there and maybe this was a little hasty from
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- The king."
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- Daniel remembered the story of joseph in the bible where the
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- King of egypt had a dream and none of his wise men could
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- Understand, but joseph trusted the lord and god gave him an
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- Answer and daniel said to his friends, "well, we serve the
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- Same god.
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- Let's tell the king, 'give us a chance,' and we'll tell him what
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- His dream means."
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- And that's what happened.
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- The guard went in and said, "you know, i've got some young
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- Hebrews that you tested, you said they were pretty smart.
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- They say that they can tell you what your dream means if you'll
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- Just pause the death decree.
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- What have you got to lose?
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- Give him 24 hours."
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- Well, the king is thinking, "well, i want to know what my
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- Dream means and what have i got to lose.
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- I don't want to just kill all the wise men and never know.
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- If they think that they're going to know, and i seem to remember
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- Hananiah, mishael, azariah, and daniel.
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- The new names were belteshazzar, shadrach, meshach, and
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- Abednego, the babylonian names.
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- He said, "okay, i'll give them some time."
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- Now this is where we launch into our study of what the dream
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- Was and what the dream meant.
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- But before we get to that, we're going to go to the streets of
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- New york.
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- Can anybody know the future?
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- We're going to go to our men and women on the street and see
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- What they have to say about that.
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- Male: i think people can have visions.
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- I think you can have a understanding of later,
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- Per se, future.
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- Female: you know, that's a spiritual question for me,
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- So possibly.
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- Female: yes.
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- Male: no, i don't think that's true.
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- Male: probably, yeah, if you read the book of revelation.
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- Female: the battle of armageddon--not in the bible,
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- Not necessarily in the bible.
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- Female: yeah, i heard of it, but i don't remem--i don't recall
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- What it was, so--
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- Doug: how many of you think that it is
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- Possible for someone to know the future, by show of hands?
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- It's kind of a mixed group here in new york, isn't it?
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- I'm going to ask that question again later after the study, and
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- I want you to tell me if i've convinced any of you that it is
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- Possible for someone to understand what is coming in
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- The future.
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- Why did god give the babylonian king this dream?
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- The answer is right here in the bible, daniel 2 verse 28, "but
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- There is a god in heaven who reveals secrets," and you can
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- Call out the blue color with me, "reveals secrets, and he's made
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- Known to the king nebuchadnezzar what will be in the
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- Latter days."
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- And that means "in the last days."
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- So what is this dream dealing with, the past or the future?
- 00:14:36.825 --> 00:14:42.231
- So you either believe the bible or you don't, and i want you to
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- Know that we know with certainty that the book of daniel was
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- Written hundreds of years before christ because it was in the
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- Dead sea scrolls, and it predates the dead sea scrolls.
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- Many of them were over 200 years before christ and daniel, all of
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- Jewish history.
- 00:15:01.417 --> 00:15:02.785
- They know that book was written during the babylonian captivity
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- By the prophet himself.
- 00:15:05.554 --> 00:15:07.189
- And if you don't believe that, just say you don't believe
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- Jesus, because jesus said that daniel wrote the book of
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- Daniel, amen?
- 00:15:12.795 --> 00:15:14.330
- So this is a book you can trust or you can't trust anything.
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- He says it's telling us what's coming in the future.
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- Question number two, when the king's counselors failed to
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- Reveal and interpret the dream, what was
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- Nebuchadnezzar's command?
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- How did the king feel about that?
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- The king gave command to what?
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- Destroy all of the wise men of babylon.
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- And you know, some of these wise men obviously weren't that wise
- 00:15:40.656 --> 00:15:45.327
- And they couldn't tell the king what his dream was.
- 00:15:45.327 --> 00:15:48.364
- We get a lot of mail at "amazing facts."
- 00:15:48.364 --> 00:15:50.165
- You know, we broadcast--we're on not only 3abn, we're on
- 00:15:50.165 --> 00:15:53.869
- Trinity broadcasting, daystar, history channel, lifetime.
- 00:15:53.869 --> 00:15:57.172
- Some of you have seen our programs, i get a lot of mail.
- 00:15:57.172 --> 00:16:00.676
- I do my best to personally answer all i can.
- 00:16:00.676 --> 00:16:03.212
- We have a team that helps us answer simple questions, you'd
- 00:16:03.212 --> 00:16:06.682
- Be surprised how many times people send me a dream.
- 00:16:06.682 --> 00:16:09.618
- They say, "pastor doug, i've had a dream," and they write out
- 00:16:09.618 --> 00:16:13.522
- This dream, sometimes pages, sometimes pages with
- 00:16:13.522 --> 00:16:15.924
- Illustrations, and they say, "can you please tell me what my
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- Dream means?"
- 00:16:19.795 --> 00:16:21.897
- I say, i'm sorry, that's not my gift, i know i can't do that.
- 00:16:21.897 --> 00:16:27.236
- So once again, we've got to go back and understand
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- What happened.
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- As i mentioned in about 597, nebuchadnezzar had--he'd
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- Conquered israel.
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- He came back and fought against them again and destroyed the
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- Temple, but when he first came, they agreed to terms of peace.
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- He took 10,000 of their youngest and their brightest to bring
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- Them back to his college and train them in the language of
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- The chaldeans, in the mathematics, the sciences, the
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- Arts of babylon, which at the time was considered the most
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- Sophisticated education in the world you could get back then.
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- They were masters of mathematics, they studied
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- The heavens.
- 00:17:03.505 --> 00:17:04.907
- Some of you remember when hezekiah was sick in the bible
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- And the sun stood still, ambassadors came from babylon to
- 00:17:08.377 --> 00:17:12.581
- Understand what caused that, what does it mean?
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- So they brought among the captives, among those 10,000
- 00:17:15.984 --> 00:17:19.354
- Were daniel, hananiah, mishael, azariah.
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- They were brought in, they were put in the babylonian
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- Educational system for three and a half years to study, then
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- The king tested them.
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- This is daniel chapter 1, "and the king found them ten times
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- Wiser than all the other young men that he'd brought back from
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- Other countries."
- 00:17:40.275 --> 00:17:41.810
- And so they were in training to be counselors and learning
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- Languages and the arts and the science and so forth, and so
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- When the decree is going out to kill all of the wise men, they
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- Had not been invited.
- 00:17:54.723 --> 00:17:56.125
- You can see in daniel chapter 1, verse 3, it says they were
- 00:17:56.125 --> 00:17:58.560
- "possessing knowledge and quick to understand, who had the
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- Ability to serve in the king's palace...
- 00:18:02.064 --> 00:18:04.833
- Now from among those sons of judah were daniel, hananiah,
- 00:18:04.833 --> 00:18:09.371
- Mishael, and azariah."
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- Those were their jewish names, they were later given
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- Babylonian names.
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- A lot of people in america that came to america through new york
- 00:18:16.145 --> 00:18:19.348
- City and ellis island had names difficult to pronounce, and so
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- The guards or whoever were processing the people there on
- 00:18:26.355 --> 00:18:29.291
- Ellis island said, "we can't say that, your name is smith."
- 00:18:29.291 --> 00:18:36.098
- How many of you know somebody like that?
- 00:18:36.098 --> 00:18:38.066
- They came into the city, they had one name and then they ended
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- Up with a new name that was a little easier.
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- Number three, when daniel learned about the death decree,
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- What did he ask of the king?
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- And he did this through the guard, arioch, what did he ask
- 00:18:48.944 --> 00:18:52.014
- And what did he tell his friends?
- 00:18:52.014 --> 00:18:53.515
- The answer, and this is daniel 2, verse 16, "daniel went in
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- And he asked the king to give him," what?
- 00:18:57.553 --> 00:19:00.122
- "time, that he might tell the king the interpretation."
- 00:19:00.122 --> 00:19:04.393
- And nebuchadnezzar--and this is a relief, an ancient
- 00:19:04.393 --> 00:19:10.365
- Relief that--of nebuchadnezzar.
- 00:19:10.365 --> 00:19:11.800
- He thought, "all right, i like these young men.
- 00:19:11.800 --> 00:19:17.639
- I will postpone the mass execution.
- 00:19:17.639 --> 00:19:20.842
- After all, they were not brought in with the others, let's give
- 00:19:20.842 --> 00:19:23.011
- Them a chance.
- 00:19:23.011 --> 00:19:24.346
- If they think they can tell me the dream, i want to know
- 00:19:24.346 --> 00:19:26.982
- The dream."
- 00:19:26.982 --> 00:19:28.383
- So what did they do?
- 00:19:28.383 --> 00:19:30.118
- What would you do?
- 00:19:30.118 --> 00:19:32.221
- "daniel went to his house, he made known the decision to
- 00:19:32.221 --> 00:19:36.558
- Hananiah, mishael, and azariah, his companions, that they might
- 00:19:36.558 --> 00:19:40.796
- Seek mercies from the god of
- 00:19:40.796 --> 00:19:42.731
- Heaven concerning this secret."
- 00:19:42.731 --> 00:19:46.401
- Does god reveal secret things to his prophets?
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- He does.
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- What happened that night in response to their earnest,
- 00:19:51.840 --> 00:19:55.677
- Heartfelt prayer?
- 00:19:55.677 --> 00:19:57.045
- Can you imagine praying, saying, "lord, i need to have a dream
- 00:19:57.045 --> 00:20:00.716
- Tonight, but i don't need any dream, i need to dream the
- 00:20:00.716 --> 00:20:04.319
- King's dream.
- 00:20:04.319 --> 00:20:05.787
- But i not only need to dream the king's dream, i need to know
- 00:20:05.787 --> 00:20:10.058
- What the king's dream meant."
- 00:20:10.058 --> 00:20:12.661
- That is a pretty big prayer, that takes pretty big faith.
- 00:20:12.661 --> 00:20:17.666
- What happened in response to that prayer and to whom did
- 00:20:17.666 --> 00:20:20.435
- Daniel and his friends give the credit?
- 00:20:20.435 --> 00:20:23.205
- Answer, daniel 2 verse 19 and verse 28, "then the secret was
- 00:20:23.205 --> 00:20:29.711
- Revealed," not to all of them, but to daniel.
- 00:20:29.711 --> 00:20:33.649
- "so daniel blessed the god of heaven.
- 00:20:33.649 --> 00:20:36.818
- And he said, 'there is a god in heaven who reveals secrets.'"
- 00:20:36.818 --> 00:20:42.324
- And you're going to have some secrets revealed to you tonight,
- 00:20:42.324 --> 00:20:44.960
- Friends, that i think are gonna change your life.
- 00:20:44.960 --> 00:20:47.596
- What two principal objects did daniel say he saw in the dream?
- 00:20:47.596 --> 00:20:52.668
- So the dream is composed of two principal things.
- 00:20:52.668 --> 00:20:55.971
- Now i want to read this to you, go back to your bibles again.
- 00:20:55.971 --> 00:20:58.674
- Let me read what daniel saw.
- 00:20:58.674 --> 00:21:00.442
- He's brought before the king, and the king says, "what can you
- 00:21:00.442 --> 00:21:03.679
- Tell me?
- 00:21:03.679 --> 00:21:05.013
- Have you had the dream?"
- 00:21:05.013 --> 00:21:06.381
- And go to verse 31, daniel chapter 2: "'you, o king,
- 00:21:06.381 --> 00:21:10.352
- Were watching.'"
- 00:21:10.352 --> 00:21:11.920
- And matter of fact, i'm gonna stand to the side here, and
- 00:21:11.920 --> 00:21:14.122
- Those of you in the hall, if you look on the screen, you might
- 00:21:14.122 --> 00:21:16.358
- Even actually see what daniel saw in his dream,
- 00:21:16.358 --> 00:21:18.860
- And nebuchadnezzar.
- 00:21:18.860 --> 00:21:20.929
- "'you, o king, were watching.
- 00:21:20.929 --> 00:21:23.432
- And behold a great image.
- 00:21:23.432 --> 00:21:26.268
- And this image whose splendor was excellent stood before you.
- 00:21:26.268 --> 00:21:31.139
- Its form was awesome.
- 00:21:31.139 --> 00:21:33.508
- It's image's head was a fine gold, it's chest and its arms of
- 00:21:33.508 --> 00:21:38.146
- Silver, its belly and its thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its
- 00:21:38.146 --> 00:21:44.486
- Feet partly iron and partly of clay.
- 00:21:44.486 --> 00:21:48.457
- You watched while a stone was cut without hands, which struck
- 00:21:48.457 --> 00:21:53.395
- The image on its feet of iron and clay and broke them
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- In pieces.
- 00:21:56.965 --> 00:21:58.333
- Then the iron and the clay and the bronze and the silver and
- 00:21:58.333 --> 00:22:02.371
- The gold were crushed together and became like the chaff from
- 00:22:02.371 --> 00:22:06.575
- The summer threshing floor, and the wind carried them away so no
- 00:22:06.575 --> 00:22:11.646
- Trace of them was found and the stone that struck the image
- 00:22:11.646 --> 00:22:17.085
- Became a great mountain and filled the whole earth.
- 00:22:17.085 --> 00:22:21.757
- There you have the dream.'"
- 00:22:21.757 --> 00:22:23.759
- Did you see the image, friends?
- 00:22:23.759 --> 00:22:26.161
- All right, it may show up again before we're over because we're
- 00:22:26.161 --> 00:22:29.131
- Going to need to review that.
- 00:22:29.131 --> 00:22:30.899
- So back to our lesson, let's talk about what this is
- 00:22:30.899 --> 00:22:33.201
- All about.
- 00:22:33.201 --> 00:22:35.103
- The bible is pretty clear, if you look at the ten
- 00:22:35.103 --> 00:22:37.272
- Commandments, who knows what the second commandment is?
- 00:22:37.272 --> 00:22:40.776
- "thou shalt not make unto thee any graven images."
- 00:22:40.776 --> 00:22:43.779
- This is what you would call in the bible an image.
- 00:22:43.779 --> 00:22:46.715
- He had a dream of an image, images represent false religion.
- 00:22:46.715 --> 00:22:51.620
- And these false religions, with all the metals and minerals in
- 00:22:51.620 --> 00:22:55.557
- This image, represent people worshiping idols of gold and
- 00:22:55.557 --> 00:22:58.927
- Silver and bronze and iron and clay, porcelain, whatever, the
- 00:22:58.927 --> 00:23:05.267
- Things of the world that they worship, counterfeit religion,
- 00:23:05.267 --> 00:23:08.637
- Kingdoms in the world that are in opposition to the kingdom
- 00:23:08.637 --> 00:23:11.506
- Of god.
- 00:23:11.506 --> 00:23:12.874
- But finally in the end, you've got a stone that is cut, notice,
- 00:23:12.874 --> 00:23:16.978
- "without man's hands."
- 00:23:16.978 --> 00:23:20.148
- Do you know when the jews built their altar they were told, "do
- 00:23:20.148 --> 00:23:23.351
- Not lift up your tool upon it, you will pollute it.
- 00:23:23.351 --> 00:23:27.222
- Don't be tempted to start carving it into some statue of a
- 00:23:27.222 --> 00:23:30.258
- Cow or something."
- 00:23:30.258 --> 00:23:32.060
- "so take rough stone, i want it to be a stone without man's
- 00:23:32.060 --> 00:23:36.465
- Hands, and it will destroy all the other kingdoms.
- 00:23:36.465 --> 00:23:41.136
- It will grow into a mountain and fill the whole earth."
- 00:23:41.136 --> 00:23:45.574
- And mountains in the bible represented kingdoms.
- 00:23:45.574 --> 00:23:48.510
- The kingdom of christ is that stone cut without man's hands,
- 00:23:48.510 --> 00:23:53.482
- It's the stone that brought down goliath, amen?
- 00:23:53.482 --> 00:23:56.885
- It is the stone, jesus said, "if you build your house on this
- 00:23:56.885 --> 00:24:00.155
- Stone," what is that stone?
- 00:24:00.155 --> 00:24:01.857
- "he that hears these words of mine and does them is a wise man
- 00:24:01.857 --> 00:24:05.660
- Who's building on the rock, and the storm will come and the
- 00:24:05.660 --> 00:24:10.665
- House will stand."
- 00:24:10.665 --> 00:24:12.000
- I hope you're building on the rock, friends.
- 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.169
- So this is talking about the kingdoms of the world, and it
- 00:24:14.169 --> 00:24:17.472
- Outlines the kingdoms that will occupy god's people that will
- 00:24:17.472 --> 00:24:21.009
- Ultimately be destroyed.
- 00:24:21.009 --> 00:24:22.377
- All right, back to our lesson.
- 00:24:22.377 --> 00:24:24.613
- What are the two things that are mentioned in the image?
- 00:24:24.613 --> 00:24:26.848
- Daniel 2 verse 31, "you, o king, were watching, and behold,
- 00:24:26.848 --> 00:24:31.386
- A great image."
- 00:24:31.386 --> 00:24:33.622
- You can also say, "a great idol."
- 00:24:33.622 --> 00:24:35.891
- Babylonians had no shortage of idols, neither did the other
- 00:24:35.891 --> 00:24:39.261
- Succeeding kingdoms.
- 00:24:39.261 --> 00:24:40.962
- The other thing that's very different, that is separate,
- 00:24:40.962 --> 00:24:44.165
- That crushes the idol, you watched while a what?
- 00:24:44.165 --> 00:24:48.370
- A stone was cut without hands.
- 00:24:48.370 --> 00:24:51.139
- Again, ten commandments, written on what?
- 00:24:51.139 --> 00:24:54.409
- By the finger of god, not the hands of man.
- 00:24:54.409 --> 00:24:59.047
- So notice the contrast here, and in the image you've got--and
- 00:24:59.047 --> 00:25:04.986
- They can put it back up again, and i would just want to review
- 00:25:04.986 --> 00:25:07.055
- It because we're going to go through it.
- 00:25:07.055 --> 00:25:08.890
- You end up with, you've got the gold, and then you've got the
- 00:25:08.890 --> 00:25:12.694
- Silver, you've got the bronze, you've got the iron, and then
- 00:25:12.694 --> 00:25:18.333
- You've got the clay in the feet.
- 00:25:18.333 --> 00:25:20.902
- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by
- 00:25:20.969 --> 00:25:22.337
- Today's presentation.
- 00:25:22.337 --> 00:25:23.872
- But the most important thing is not the information and the
- 00:25:23.872 --> 00:25:26.775
- Details, it's the relationship.
- 00:25:26.775 --> 00:25:29.311
- Do you have a personal relationship with jesus?
- 00:25:29.311 --> 00:25:32.147
- You're watching because he's planned that, and he wants to
- 00:25:32.147 --> 00:25:34.950
- Come into your heart and change your life.
- 00:25:34.950 --> 00:25:36.918
- He wants to forgive you of all of your sins.
- 00:25:36.918 --> 00:25:39.387
- He died for your sins, but you need to ask him.
- 00:25:39.387 --> 00:25:42.157
- He won't force his way in.
- 00:25:42.157 --> 00:25:43.825
- You can ask him now.
- 00:25:43.825 --> 00:25:45.327
- He loves you, he'll accept you, do it right now.
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- Doug: hi friends, i trust you're being blessed by what
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- You're watching.
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- This amazing facts study guide reveals bible secrets on how you
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- Can have a longer, stronger life.
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- To get your free copy,
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- Simply follow the instructions on
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- Your screen, and you're gonna be blessed.
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- ♪♪♪
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- Doug: what you've seen just now is only part one in
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- This presentation.
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- Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for
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- Some of the most important points on this topic and to
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- Complete the corresponding study guides.
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- Until then, god bless.
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- ♪♪♪
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