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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - America's Coming Storm | July 1, 2026

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Male announcer: from the pulpit
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Of the first baptist church of dallas, texas,
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This is "pathway to victory" with dr. robert jeffress.
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Dr. robert jeffress: hi, i'm robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to "pathway to victory".
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Thousands of years ago, the prophet daniel received a
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Vision of the future, one that mapped out the rise and fall
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Of world empires all the way to the end of history.
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Some of what he saw has already occurred, and some is currently
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Unfolding right before our eyes.
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What did daniel's vision reveal, and what does it mean
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For the world today?
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My message is titled "america's coming storm,"
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On today's edition of "pathway to victory."
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Jeffress: this past week we witnessed one of the most
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Devastating storms in american history,
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Tropical superstorm sandy's damage is estimated
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At $50 billion and still counting.
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Sandy was a severe storm, but it was not a storm
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That was a surprise storm.
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And for weeks, a meteorologist had predicted sandy's arrival.
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For days, they had been able to track her path and predict
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When she would strike, where she would strike, the intensity
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With which she would strike.
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But that wasn't the only prediction, the new york times
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Reported, this week, that for the last 10 years,
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Meteorologists have been warning that such a superstorm was going
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To strike the northeast.
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There have been all kinds of signs over the last decades,
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Of the rising sea levels, the frequent flooding, the irregular
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Weather patterns, last year's tropical storm irene.
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All were precursors, they were warnings for a storm.
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And yet, even though the superstorm had been predicted,
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When it struck, the northeast was largely unprepared for it.
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The bible says that there is another kind of storm coming,
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It's going to be a severe storm, but it's not going to be a storm
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That is a surprise, it's a storm that will have many signs
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That will accompany its arrival.
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In a way, the prophet daniel was a spiritual meteorologist,
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Because in his book, daniel foretells, what will precede
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This coming storm that will engulf all the world.
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Daniel says there's going to be a churning among the nations,
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There's going to be political unrest, and that political
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Unrest will climax in the reign of a figure we call
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The antichrist.
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And his reign will, one day, however, be toppled by the
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Cataclysmic event known as the second coming of jesus christ.
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What's interesting is, daniel looked down the corridor
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Of history 2,500 years ago, and he was able to predict
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All of these events.
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And nowhere in the book of daniel, nowhere in the bible,
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Is there a greater panorama of human history that will result
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In the return of jesus christ than the passage we're going
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To look at tonight.
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If you have your bibles, i want you to turn
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To daniel chapter 7, verse 1.
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"in the first year of belshazzar king of babylon,
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Daniel saw a dream and visions in his mind as he lay
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On his bed; then he wrote the dream down and related
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The following summary of it."
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Now, this is when belshazzar was king, so this dream takes place
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Somewhere between chapters 4 and 5.
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Belshazzar, remember, was the last king of babylon.
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So, sometime between chapters 4 and 5, daniel had this dream.
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Have you ever had a dream and five minutes later you
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Couldn't remember what it was?
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Well, daniel had that dream, and he decided to write it
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Down so he would remember it.
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Look at verses 2 and 3.
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"daniel said," here's the dream, "i was looking in my vision
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By night, and behold, the four winds of heaven
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Were stirring up the great sea.
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And four great beasts were coming up from the sea,
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Different from one another."
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Now, in the bible, the sea usually refers to gentile
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Nations, and the constant churning of the sea is
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A reference to the churning, the strife between nations
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In the world.
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But notice where this strife was coming from, it was the heavens
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That were stirring up the great sea, and that is a reminder,
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Ladies and gentlemen, that god is in control of human events,
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God has a plan that he is working out for the nations
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And that's what we see right here.
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Now, notice that daniel sees four beasts, in verse 3,
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Coming up out of the sea.
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These four beasts, as we'll see in just a moment, were the four
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Great world empires, beginning with babylon, in daniel's day,
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And extending to medo-persia, and to greece, and ultimately
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To rome.
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Now, let's look at these beasts very quickly.
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In verse 4, "the first beast was like a lion and had the wings
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Of an eagle.
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I kept looking until its wings were plucked, and it was lifted
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Up from the ground and made to stand on two feet like a man;
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A human mind was also given to it."
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Now, when we see a lion with wings on it, we know immediately
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What that is, archaeologists have told us that the winged
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Lion we've discovered in archaeology was the sign
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Of babylon.
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And not only that, it says that, "its wings were plucked,"
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From it and, "a human mind was given to it."
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This is no doubt a reference to what happened
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To nebuchadnezzar, remember?
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He was made, he was reduced to an animal, to act like an
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Animal, until, out of humility, he repented, and finally, then,
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He was restored to his humanity.
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Babylon ruled the world from 612 to 539 b.c.
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Now look at the second beast in verse 5.
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"and behold, another beast, a second one, resembling a bear.
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And it was raised up on one side, and three ribs were in
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Its mouth between its teeth; and thus they said to it,
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'arise, devour much meat!'"
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This was the medo-persian empire that ruled from 539 to 331 b.c.
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These ribs in its mouth probably refer to the kingdoms that
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Medo-persia overtook, egypt, babylon, libya.
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"the third beast is found in verse 6, and that's greece.
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After this i kept looking, and behold, another one,
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Like a leopard, which had on its back, four wings of a bird;
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The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it."
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Now, greece ruled the world from 331 to 63 b.c.
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The leopard probably is a reference to the speed
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With which the ruler of greece, alexander the great,
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Overtook the world.
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We'll talk more about him next sunday night.
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Remember when he died at the age of 33, his kingdom was divided
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Among his four generals, and that's the reference here
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To the four wings of the bird and the four heads.
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But the bulk of this vision has to do with this fourth kingdom,
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The kingdom of rome.
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Look at verses 7 and 8.
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"after this i was looking in the night visions,
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And behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrifying
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And extremely strong; and it had large iron teeth.
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It devoured and it crushed and trampled down the remainder with
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Its feet; and it was different from all the beasts that were
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Before it, and it had ten horns.
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And while i was contemplating the horns, behold, another horn,
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A little one, came up from among them, and three of the
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First horns were pulled out by the roots before it; and behold,
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This horn possessed eyes, the eyes of a man and the mouth
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Uttering great boast."
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Now, what is this fourth kingdom?
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This fourth kingdom, unlike any other, was the roman empire,
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There was no empire more cruel or powerful than
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The roman empire.
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And notice what history tells us, rome began ruling the world
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In 241 b.c, it ruled until 1453 a.d., when muhammad ii
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Conquered constantinople and the last roman ruler died.
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But even though rome ceased to exist as a world power,
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It did not die, and that is key to understanding this
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Fourth empire.
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Because, as we'll see in a moment, the book of revelation
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Tells us that the roman empire, though dormant, is not dead,
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And it is going to come alive again.
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The roman empire's not dead.
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We see vestiges of it still in our culture.
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And notice what happens.
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Now, daniel has seen this disturbing scene of these
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Beasts, especially the fourth beast with the ten horns and
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The little horn, but then his dream shifts to heaven,
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Look at verses 9 and 10.
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"and i kept looking until thrones were set up,
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And the ancient of days took his seat;
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His vesture was like white snow and the hair of his head
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Like pure wool.
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His throne was ablaze with flames,
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Its wheels were a burning fire.
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A river of fire was flowing and coming out from before him;
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Thousands upon thousands were attending him,
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And myriads upon myriads were standing before him;
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The court sat, and the books were opened."
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This is probably the only reference in the bible where god
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The father is described in human form, and what i want you to see
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Is even though on earth there's great turmoil, the beast,
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The final world dictator is devouring the world,
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God is still on his throne, nothing has changed.
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Now, back to earth in verses 11 and 12.
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"then i kept looking because of the sound of the boastful words
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Which the horn," that is, the little horn, "was speaking;
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I kept looking until the beast was slain, and his body
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Was destroyed and given to the burning fire."
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Now, this is the reference to the final judgment
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Of the antichrist.
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What will happen to antichrist?
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In revelation 20, verse 10, we find these words, "and the devil
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Who deceived them was thrown into the lake of fire
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And brimstone, where the beast," that is, the antichrist,
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"and the false prophet are also."
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They had been put there 1,000 years earlier at the beginning,
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Before the millennium, they had been cast into the lake of fire.
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But now, 1,000 years later, we see the devil who deceived them
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Was also thrown into the lake of fire.
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Now, look at verse 12.
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"as for the rest of the beasts," that is, babylon and medo-persia
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And greece, "their dominion was taken away, but an extension
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Of life was granted to them for an appointed period of time."
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These other world kingdoms, they weren't destroyed completely,
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They continue, and in the form continue today, even though
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They're not great powers.
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But when the antichrist is destroyed, his power will be
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Destroyed forever.
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Now, look at verses 13 and 14, these are the key verses
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In this chapter.
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"i kept looking in the night visions, and behold," as daniel
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Looks into heaven, he says, "with the clouds of heaven,"
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I saw, "one like the son of man coming, and he came up to the
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Ancient of days and was presented before him."
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The son of man is a reference to jesus christ, daniel sees him
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Being presented before god the father.
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"and to him," that is, to the son, "was given dominion,
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Glory and a kingdom, that all the prophets, nations and men of
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Every language might serve him.
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His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass
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Away; and his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed."
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Right now, the world is under satan's control, but it don't
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Remain that way forever, there will be a great climax of the
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Antichrist rule, but one day god will topple the antichrist
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And give the kingdoms of this world to his son,
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The lord jesus christ.
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Now, beginning in verse 15, we see god's interpretation
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Of daniel's vision.
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Daniel was troubled, he wanted to know what all of this meant.
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Now look at verse 17.
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First of all, there's an identification of the beast
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In general.
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"these great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings
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Who will arise from the earth."
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We've already talked about that, it's babylon, medo-persia,
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Greece, and rome.
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But then, beginning in verse 19, he centers specifically on
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This fourth beast, he recaps the vision beginning in verse 19,
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This awful fourth beast.
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He talks about the ten horns on its head and then he talks about
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The little horn that subdues three of the horns
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On the beast's head.
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Now look at verse 21, "and i kept looking, and that little
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Horn was waging war with the saints and overpowering them."
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Verse 23, "thus he said, 'the fourth beast will be fourth
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Kingdom on the earth, which will be different from all the other
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Kingdoms and will devour the whole earth and tread it down.'"
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Rome was different in two ways.
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First of all, it was different in its power and cruelty, but it
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Was also different in, the roman empire was thought to be dead,
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It's thought to be dead today, but unlike any other world
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Empire, it will rise to power again.
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Remember the prophecy in revelation, and people think
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It's talking about antichrist, that he was slain and
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Miraculously came back to life?
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I don't believe that's the ruler antichrist, it's the kingdom
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Of antichrist, it's the roman empire, that was thought
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To be dead, but will rise again miraculously.
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Now, look at verse 24, the revelation of this little horn,
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Now we're honing in on what the real heart of this message
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Is about.
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Verse 24, "as for the ten horns, out of this kingdom ten kings
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Will arise; and another will arise after them, and he will be
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Different from the previous ones and will subdue
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The three kings."
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Who is this little horn that daniel keeps talking about?
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It is the final world dictator, the one we call antichrist.
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I want you to notice five facts about this world leader known
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As antichrist that we piece together from the book of daniel
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And the book of revelation.
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Jot these down, five things the bible tells us about this
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Great world dictator.
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First of all, he will be a gentile, revelation 17:15.
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Secondly, he rises to power after the rapture of the church,
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2 thessalonians 2, verses 3-12, are very clear that he does not
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Come, the man of lawlessness, until the rapture of the church
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Has occurred.
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Now, he could be alive right now, he could be known,
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But he hasn't come to power yet.
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Number 3, he is extremely intelligent and persuasive,
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Daniel 7, verses 8 and 20.
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Daniel 11:42, this is key number four, he will be an adversary
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Of israel and will control jerusalem, he will be
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An adversary of israel and will control jerusalem.
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Number five, he will be assisted in his rise to power
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By a corrupt religious system described as,
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"the horror of babylon," revelation chapter 17.
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For the first 3 1/2 years of the seven years, he will rise
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To power and he will be assisted by this false religious system.
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But at the end of the first 3 1/2 years, he will break his
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He covenant with israel, he will turn on the apostate church
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That he has created and he will demand worship of himself.
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By the way, people wonder, how in the world could religious
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People be so duped as to fall in line with the antichrist?
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All you have to do is look at history to answer that question.
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Some of you remember world war ii,
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And those of you who don't remember it have read about it.
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Remember what was going on in nazi germany?
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By and large, german christians supported adolf hitler.
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German christians supported the nazis because the nazis
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Had promised to restore morality to germany.
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In fact, did you know that the german christians had this
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Motto: "with the swastika on our breasts and the
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Cross in our hearts."
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I want you to listen to me very carefully,
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Not misunderstand what i'm saying.
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I love our country.
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I'm grateful for america.
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I'm grateful mostly for the christian heritage of
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Our nation, but, ladies and gentlemen,
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We should never confuse love of country with love of god.
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They are not the same thing.
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There is coming a day, and we better prepare our people
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For it, when they are going to have to be disloyal to america
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In order to serve god.
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There is coming a day, i predict,
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When we are going to have to make a choice.
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We are either going to obey government authorities or we're
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Going to obey god, and i think it is imperative,
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As much as we love our country, to remind our children and our
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Grandchildren loving america is not the same
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Thing as loving god.
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We pledge allegiance to one person,
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And that is our lord and savior jesus christ.
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He is the one who receives our allegiance.
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And to the extent that our government authorities follow
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The laws of almighty god we will follow those laws,
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But if there is ever a contradiction between the law
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Of god and the law of man, we will always choose god over man.
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And that is important for us to be teaching our children today
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Because the time is coming, the time is coming when we are going
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To have to make that choice.
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Look again at verse 24, "as for the ten horns, out of this
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Kingdom ten kings will arise; and another will will rise after
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Them, and he will be different from the previous ones
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And he will subdue those three kings."
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Now, remember, that word "subdue" is sometimes translated
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In some of your translations, "he will uproot,"
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As if it's a violent action.
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That's not what the word means, it really is a gradual subduing,
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Kind of like the new growth on a tree just gradually pushes away
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The old growth.
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And notice what he will do, in verse 25, when he takes over
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The world.
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Verse 25, "he will speak out against the most high and he
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Will wear down the saints of the highest one, and he will intend
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To make alterations in times and in law; and they will be given
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Into his hand for a time, times, and a half a time."
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That's a way of saying 3 1/2 years, a time is one year,
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Times is two years, one plus two is three, a half a time is
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A half a year, that is always in scripture, in daniel and in the
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Revelation, antichrist's reign of terror will last
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The last 3 1/2 years of the great revelation.
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Now, i want you to look at each of the phrases and write them
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Down that describe the antichrist's rule.
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First of all, "he will speak against the most high."
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In psalm 2, we find these words.
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The psalmist said, "why are the nations in an uproar
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And the people devising the vain thing?
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The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers take
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Counsel together against the lord and against his anointed
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One, saying, 'let us tear their fetters apart and cast away
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Their cords from us!'"
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That is what the pagans are saying, today, in america,
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"we're not gonna be bound up by the laws of god, we are gonna
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Cast those laws aside and follow our own way."
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That's what they will say in the days of the antichrist.
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He will, first of all, speak out against the most high, secondly,
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He will wear down the saints.
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Look at that, verse 25, "he will wear down the saints," that is,
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He is going to launch an unprecedented attack against
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God's people, both the jews and those who become christians
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During the time of the great tribulation.
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He'll restrict their free speech, he will restrict
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Their freedom of worship, he will restrict their ability
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To buy and sell, unless they take the mark of the beast
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And declare allegiance to the antichrist.
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Not only that, number three, "he will alter the times
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And the laws."
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"altering the times," that's a reference to he will change,
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Try to change the religious rituals of god's people,
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But he will also alter the law.
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Aren't we seeing that right now, aren't we seeing an attempt
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To alter god's laws?
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Now look at daniel 7, verses 26 and 27.
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As troubling as this vision was to daniel, he saw antichrist's
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Ultimate destruction that will come about when the son of god
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Receives the kingdom from the ancient of days.
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Look at verses 26 and 27, "but the court will sit for judgment,
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And his dominion will be taken away, annihilated
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And destroyed forever.
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Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness
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Of all the kingdoms under the whole heaven will be given to
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The people of the saints of the highest one; his kingdom will be
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An everlasting kingdom, and all the dominions
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Will serve and obey him."
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Daniel was looking forward to that final, coming kingdom,
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The coming of the kingdom of jesus christ.
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We find that coming foretold and described in revelation 19,
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Verses 11 and 16.
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John says, "and i saw heaven opened, and behold, a white
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Horse, and he who sat on it is called faithful and true,
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And in righteousness he judges and he wages war.
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His eyes are a flame of fire, and on his head are many
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Diadems; and he has a name written on him which no one
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Knows except himself.
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He is clothed with a robe dipped in blood, and his name is called
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The word of god.
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And the armies which are in heaven, clothed in fine linen,
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White and clean, we're following him on white horses.
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And from his mouth comes a sharp sword, so that with it he may
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Strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod
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Of iron; and he treads the wine press of the fierce wrath
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Of god, the almighty.
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And on his robe and on his thigh he has a name written,
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'king of kings, and lord of lords.'"
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You know, the fact is, it has always been the prayers of god's
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People for that day when the son of god would receive
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From the ancient of days the right to rule this earth.
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Jesus taught us to pray for that day, remember the lord's prayer?
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"thy kingdom come.
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Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven."
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That day is coming, and that day has been the central prayer
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Of god's people for hundreds, for thousands of years.
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♪♪♪
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Jeffress: the storm is coming, the warning signs are clear,
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And it's time to pray for our nation and for our world.
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Well, the in god we trust matching challenge is quickly
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Coming to a close.
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Jeffress: america was founded on the principles of the
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Jeffress: the groundwork for the antichrist reign is clearly
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Being laid, and while we can't stop or reverse that trajectory,
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We are still called to push back
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Against the tide of unrighteousness.
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Well, many people believe america was founded as a
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Secular nation, free from religious influence, but next
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Time i'll share why that version of american history is a
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Complete myth.
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In our series, "america and the bible."
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To say, the truth is this.
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America was founded as a christian nation.
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And our success as a nation depends upon our fidelity
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To god's word.
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Robert Jeffress - America's Coming Storm

July 1, 2026 | 27:29

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