Dr. Robert Jeffress

Robert Jeffress - Countdown To Armageddon

November 25, 2025 | 29:0

In this episode of "Pathway to Victory," Dr. Robert Jeffress delves into the dramatic end of the world as prophesied in Daniel chapter 11. He discusses the rise of the Antichrist, the tribulations faced by Israel under various rulers, and the ultimate hope of Jesus Christ's return. Highlighting the unchanging nature of God's plan amidst changing political landscapes, the message emphasizes the importance of standing firm in faith and being prepared for the inevitable countdown to Armageddon.

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Dr. Robert Jeffress | Robert Jeffress - Countdown To Armageddon | November 25, 2025

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From the pulpit of the first baptist church
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Of dallas, texas,
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This is pathway to victory with dr. robert robert jeffress.
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Hi, i am robert jeffress,
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And welcome again to pathway to victory.
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Many scientists believe our planet is rapidly deteriorating
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As a result of human interference
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And that we ought to be doing
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Everything in our power to restore it.
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But while taking care of the earth is certainly important,
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No amount of effort on our part can change
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God's plan for its future.
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Today we're going to look at the dramatic end
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Of the world as described in daniel chapter 11.
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My message is titled countdown to armageddon
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On today's edition of pathway to victory.
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In a culture that celebrates compromise
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And rejects absolute truth.
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How can you stand firm in your christian faith?
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The prophet daniel faced this same challenge millennia ago
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And his unwavering courage offers a powerful example
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For believers today.
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In the book, "daniel: courageous living in a pagan world,"
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Dr. robert jeffress shares how you can remain steadfast
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And immovable in a culture ruled by darkness.
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I read a story this week about a man
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Who lived in long island, new york,
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And he had as his dream to purchase
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The world's finest barometer,
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And i don't know what kind of guy he was,
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Probably one of these guys who likes to watch
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The weather channel for kicks, but this was his goal.
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He wanted to purchase the world's finest barometer
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And so he found one in the catalog, he sent off for it,
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And it arrived by federal express a couple of days later.
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But when he opened the box,
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He was disappointed when he pulled out the barometer
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To see that the needle was stuck
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On the section that said hurricane.
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And so he shook the barometer vigorously
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But the needle wouldn't move.
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He was so angry he sat down and he wrote
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A scathing letter to the manufacturer,
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And the next morning he dropped it off in the mail
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On his way to work in new york city,
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When he got back that evening from new york city.
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You can imagine his surprise
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When he saw that not only was his barometer missing
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But his entire house was missing as well.
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Long island had been struck
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With the worst hurricane in history.
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You know the fact is daniel chapter 11,
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Is a biblical barometer, and the needle is stuck
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On a spiritual hurricane that is coming our way.
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The bible says there is going to be a spiritual,
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A political storm
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That will one day engulf this entire world.
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And regardless of the changing political situations,
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God's word remains constant.
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It says the storm is coming.
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I've divided this chapter into three parts.
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First of all, israel's tribulation under greece.
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That's verses one to 20.
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And secondly, israel's tribulation
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Under antiochus epiphanes a greek ruler
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That would be verses 21 to 35,
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And then israel's final tribulation,
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Under the future ruler known as the antichrist.
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That's verses 36 through 45. look at verse one.
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This is the beginning of the angel's message to daniel.
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He says, in the first year of darius the mede,
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I, the angel arose to be an encouragement
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And a protection for him.
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Now, to me that's fascinating.
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Darius was an unbeliever, he was a pagan.
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And yet this angel says daniel,
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In the first year of his reign i was assigned to him.
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God assigned me to him. i was to be an encouragement to him.
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You see, god had ordained 150 years earlier
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That this man named darius or cyrus would be the one
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Who would allow israel to go back
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To the land just as he had promised.
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And you know what this passage says to me?
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It reminds me that god is bigger than anyone in our life.
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Do you realize god can work through anyone in your life
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To accomplish his purpose?
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He's not limited to working
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Through christians in your life.
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God is so powerful he can work through that unbelieving
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Boss that you work under.
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He can work through that unbelieving mate
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Whose heart is cold for the gospel.
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He can work through that unbelieving parent,
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Children and teenagers.
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God is powerful enough to even use unbelievers
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To accomplish his plan for you.
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Proverbs 21 verse one says,
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The king's heart is like channels
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Of water in the hand of the lord.
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He turns it whichever way he wishes.
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This angel said darius was in my hand.
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I was raised up to encourage him
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And use him to accomplish god's purpose.
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Now here's what the angel says to daniel.
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Now i will tell you verse two the truth.
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Behold three more kings are going to arise in persia.
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That is after darius,
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There would be three more persian kings,
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And then a fourth will gain
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Far more riches than all of them
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As soon as he becomes strong through his riches,
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He will arouse the whole empire against the realm of greece.
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Look at verse three, and a mighty king will arise
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And he will rule with great authority and do as he pleases,
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But as soon as he has arisen, his kingdom will be broken up.
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Who is this greek leader who came 150 years later?
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We know him. his name is alexander the great.
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He was a greek ruler who in just 12 years
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Conquered the entire world,
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And yet he died at the age of 32.
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He could conquer other nations. he couldn't conquer himself.
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He he died as a result of drunkenness and other debauchery.
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And when he died the greek empire,
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The mighty greek empire that ruled the world,
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It was broken up into four pieces,
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And those four pieces did not go to alexander's family.
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We see here in verse four,
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This was a prophecy of what would happen.
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It will be parceled out verse four toward the four points
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Of the compass, though not to his own descendants
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Nor according to his authority which he wielded
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For his sovereignty will be uprooted
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And given to others besides them.
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And again, daniel prophesied this.
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It's exactly what happened when alexander died.
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His kingdom was divided
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Among his four generals and you remember them.
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Cassandra took macedonia,
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And then lysimachus took asia minor,
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But the ones we're concerned about
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Are the remaining two parts of the greek empire.
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One of the generals lucid seleucus took what we call syria.
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He was known as the king of the north,
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And then the other final general was ptolemy
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And he took egypt, what we call egypt,
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And it is these two kingdoms
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That are the focus of this prophecy.
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You had the king of the north syria,
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And you had the king of the south egypt.
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This continuing conflict between syria and egypt
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Sets the stage for verses 21 through 35
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And that's israel's tribulation under antiochus epiphanes.
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There is one of the lucid,
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One of the kings of the north who rose to prominence
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And he would play an important role in israel's history.
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We call him antiochus epiphanes. he was lucid.
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He was able to come to power by intrigue.
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He had a way of weezing his way to become the king of syria.
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That's a very fascinating story to read,
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But suffice it to say he came to power
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Just as the bible prophesied.
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Look at verse 22.
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The overflowing forces will be flooded away before him
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And shattered and also the prince of the covenant.
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Now we saw this in daniel chapter eight, verse 14,
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Where antiochus epiphanes is talked about,
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He would rule over israel,
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He would bring persecution against
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God's people for 2300 days.
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That's what daniel 8:14 says.
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And that beginning persecution started
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With the slain of onias, the high priest of israel,
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Or as he is referred to here, the prince of the covenant.
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And from the time that an antiochus slew the high priest
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And installed his own false priesthood,
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Until the time he desecrated the temple in jerusalem
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And until the time it was restored under judas maccabeus,
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There was about 2300 days.
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Now look at verse 24.
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In a time tranquility,
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He will enter the richest parts of the realm,
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And he will accomplish what his fathers never did,
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Nor his ancestors.
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He will distribute plunder, booty and possessions among them
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And he will devise his schemes against strongholds,
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But only for a time.
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This ruler who is by the way, a forerunner of the antichrist
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Will do what the antichrist will one day do as well.
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He will start out his reign immensely popular in the world
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And that's true of antiochus epiphanes.
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He was very popular and we find out
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How he became popular in verse 24,
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What did he do?
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He will distribute plunder, booty,
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And possessions among the people.
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That is he will take from wealthy people
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And give their wealth to the masses and become popular.
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(audience laughing)
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I mean, if you want to be a popular politician,
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Just take from a few and give to the masses
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And you'll go up in polls.
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That's exactly what antiochus epiphanes did.
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Now intoxicated by his growing success,
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He decides to go after egypt,
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And look at verses 25 to 28 that record his defeat of egypt.
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Verse 26 says, those who eat his choice food,
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Now his refers to one of the ptolemy,
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One of the egyptian kings.
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Those who eat as choice food will destroy the king of egypt
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And his army will overflow, but many will fall down slain
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Because of disloyalty within the king of egypt's own ranks.
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The defeat by antiochus epiphanes was relatively easy.
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Verse 27, as for both kings talking about
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The king of syrian, the king of egypt,
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Their hearts will be intent on evil,
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And they will speak lies to each other at the same table.
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That is the peace table, but it will not succeed
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For the end is still to come at the appointed time.
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One of the many things antiochus did against israel
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Was to take a swine and alter it on the altar,
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Offer it on the altar of the temple in jerusalem,
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And then he took the temple in jerusalem
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And dedicated it to the pagan god, zeus,
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And then he began killing god's people without mercy.
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We read stories about antiochus taking baby boys
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Who had been circumcised and slaying them
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With a sword and then taking those dead babies
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And tying them around the necks of their mothers
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And making them jump off the cliff,
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Or burning their children alive before their mothers.
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This was antiochus epiphanes,
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And for 2300 days he persecuted israel.
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The desecration of the temple took place in 167 bc
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And you remember what happened from history in 165 bc,
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In december of 165 bc,
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There was a man named judas maccabeus
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Who led what we call the maccabean revolt against antiochus
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And the temple was restored and rededicated
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To the one true god, and the jews began celebrating
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That deliverance of the temple and dedication back to god
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In a festival they called the festival of lights
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Or now as it's known hanukkah,
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For eight days they celebrate this event
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When the temple was delivered
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From the hands of antiochus epiphanes
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And rededicated toward god.
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Now look at verse 35.
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Some of those who have insight will fall,
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In order to refine, purge and make them pure
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Until the end of time.
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Underline that because it is still to come,
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Underline that at the appointed time.
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The angel gave daniel the reason these terrible persecutions
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Were going to happen to israel.
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It's not because god hated israel,
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It's not because god had rejected israel,
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It's because god loved israel.
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The reason he allowed these hardships
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To come in israel's history,
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The reason there is still one final seven year period
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Of tribulation for israel, we call it the great tribulation,
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Is to so break israel that she will turn in faith
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And salvation to jesus christ.
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It's not god's anger toward israel,
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It is his love toward israel.
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And that leads to the final section of daniel
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And that is israel's final tribulation under the antichrist.
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Now i want you to notice the four characteristics
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Of this future world leader who will be the one responsible
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For the final tribulation that israel
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And all of the world will experience.
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And that is he will blaspheme the name of the true god.
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The first characteristic of the antichrist
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Is he will blaspheme the name of the true god.
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Look at verse 36, then the king will do as he pleases
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And he will exalt and magnify himself above every god
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And will speak monstrous things against the god of gods
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And he will prosper until the indignation is finished
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For that which is decreed will be done.
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Now that phrase speak monstrous things
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Against the god of gods,
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That's what the word blasphemy means.
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It means to strike against.
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It means to speak against god.
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Secondly, he will magnify his own name.
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Verse 37 says, he will show no regard for the gods
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Of his father or for the desire of women,
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Nor will he show regard for any other god,
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For he will magnify himself above them all.
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In the end times, there will be such a desire
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For a political leader who can bring peace
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In this chaotic world.
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There'll be such a desire for anybody
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Who can put an end to the fiscal crisis that the whole world
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Will be experienced at that time,
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That anyone who is able to do that will be worshiped
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As the lord and savior.
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That's what it says about the coming of the antichrist.
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That is how he is going to be able to elevate himself
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Above god without any revolt at all except from the remnant.
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Thirdly, he will place his faith in military might.
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He will place his faith in military might,
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Look at verses 38 and 39,
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But instead of worshiping the true god,
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He will honor a god of fortresses,
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A god whom his fathers did not know,
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He will honor him with gold, silver,
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Costly stones and treasures.
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Is he talking about a specific god
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That this antichrist will worship?
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No, what he's saying is he will put his faith
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In military power.
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He will want to acquire military power.
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In a way none of his predecessors ever had it,
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And he will spend an inordinate amount
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Of the world's resources to acquire those powers.
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He will worship the god of might with gold and silver
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And costly stones and treasures.
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Again, i think we ought to have a strong military,
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But there is absolutely no amount of armaments
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We could acquire that can protect ourselves
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Against the judgment of almighty god,
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And the best defense policy we could have as a nation
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Instead of just the acquisition
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Of an endless number of armaments.
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The best defense policy we could have to protect
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Our nation would be to turn away
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From ignoring god's almighty law.
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To turn away and say no to these things
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That god has said no to,
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To turn around and repent from the murder of millions
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Of children in the womb through abortion,
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To turn away and say no to what god
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Has called an abomination, homosexual marriage.
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To say no to the continued allowance of god's name
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To be blasphemed or banned from the public square.
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It is turning away from sin and turning
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To the almighty god and repentance
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That is the best way to defend our country
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From harm in the future, and that's the message from daniel.
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(audience applauding)
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Final characteristic of the antichrist
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Is found in verses 40 to 45,
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He will battle against the nations.
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Look at verse 40 and the end.
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At the end of time the king of the south will collide
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With him and the king of the north will storm against him
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With chariots, with horsemen and with many ships,
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And he will enter countries, overflow them and pass through
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And he will also enter the beautiful land
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That's israel and many countries will fall.
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I don't have time to explain all of this,
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But let me give you the capitalized version of it.
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Remember when the antichrist comes to power,
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He does so as the head of a 10 nation confederacy
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Over which he presides.
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But during the last three
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And a half years of that seven year period,
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God is reigning down his judgment on the earth
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And these other kings of the other nations are growing wary
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Of living under the tyranny of the antichrist.
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And so they plot to overthrow him,
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And they make several attempts to overthrow the antichrist.
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Now look down at verses 44 and 45,
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But rumors from the east, and from the north,
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Will disturb this ruler the antichrist,
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And he will go forth with great wrath
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To destroy and annihilate many.
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I think this is a reference to what is told about
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In revelation 9 when a force of 200 million soldiers
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Start marching from the east toward israel
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And at that time look at what happens in verse 45,
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Antichrist will pitch the tenths
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Of his royal pavilion between the two seas.
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That is the mediterranean, and the dead sea,
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And the beautiful holy mountain.
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Yet he will come to his end and no one will help him.
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What is the application of this.
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Application very, very simple.
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The first 35 verses of daniel 11,
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Contain 135 prophecies that have all been fulfilled.
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Verses 36 through 45, contain a few more prophecies
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That are yet to be fulfilled.
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Is there anyone here who doubts that the same god
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Who has already fulfilled those 135 prophecies
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Is going to fulfill the final remaining prophecies
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About the return of jesus christ?
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The end is certain, and as verse 27 says,
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It will come at the appointed time.
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God has a calendar and nothing changes that calendar.
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What appears to be chaos that we hear about on the news
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Or reading the newspapers, syria, egypt, israel, iran,
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What appears to be meaningless chaos
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Is all a part of god's plan that will precede
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The coming of the lord jesus christ. and god is going to bring every one of those events
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To come at his appointed time.
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God is in control of what's happening in the world.
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He's in control of what's happening in your life as well.
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There is no pointed time for everything that happens to you,
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But if there's one thought i want to leave you with today,
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It's this.
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As interesting as all of this is as christians,
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What we're looking for is not the antichrist,
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It's we're looking for the return of jesus christ.
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That's what our hope is.
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I was reading this week true story about billy graham.
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Years ago he had a meeting with the chancellor
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Of west germany, conrad adenauer, and during the meeting,
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Chancellor adenauer asked billy graham,
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Do you believe jesus christ arose from the dead?
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Dr. graham said, yes, i believe he did.
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The chancellor said, well, do you believe he ascended
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Into is there right now?
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Graham said, yes, i believe that.
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Chancellor adenauer said,
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Do you believe he's coming back to earth one day?
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Billy graham said, i certainly do.
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And after a pause, the west german chancellor said,
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So do i, because if he doesn't come,
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There is no hope for this world.
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Jesus christ.
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His return is truly our hope, our only all for the world.
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Changed daniel and his three friends' names.
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Courageous living in a pagan world.
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As terrible and as senseless as it was.
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It is not the end of the story.
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The bible says there is a final chapter
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Of this story that is yet to be revealed,
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That truth of the second coming of jesus christ.
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That is our hope and the focus of daniel chapter 12.
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Robert Jeffress - Countdown To Armageddon

November 25, 2025 | 29:0

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