John Tweedie - Life at the End of Days

May 14, 2026 | 27:24

Dr. John Tweedie hosts from outdoor scenes in Israel, as he shares God’s Word, chapter by chapter. Other experts provide insight throughout.

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - Life at the End of Days | May 14, 2026

Could
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We be living in the terminal generation,
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That last generation that will witness the second
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Coming of christ to jerusalem?
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That's next.
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On the prophetic connection.
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Soft music
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It's true to say that
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Every generation of christians has lived with the expectation,
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Even the hope that they would witness christ's second coming.
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We know that the people of paul's day had that expectation.
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In fact,
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They didn't have the same means of communication that we have
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In the 21st century.
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So it was easy for rumors to spring up
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And people to think that christ had come,
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When in fact he had not.
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And paul addresses this concern,
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And presumably these rumors
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That were going around the early church
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About the coming of christ.
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And then he gives them markers that must precede the
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Second coming,
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So they will not be deceived and not listen to the rumors
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That are hearing.
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Listen to what he says in his second letter to the church
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At thessalonica in chapter two and verse one,
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He addresses this very concern now,
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Brethren, concerning the coming of our lord jesus christ
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And our gathering together to him,
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We ask you not to be soon shaken in mind, or troubled,
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Because they were troubled
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Either by spirit or by word, or by letter,
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As if from us, as though the day of christ had come.
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Then paul goes on to explain the signs that must take place
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That must precede the second coming of christ.
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Harbingers, markers that point to his coming.
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But you
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Know, there are more markers in the book of daniel as well.
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And that's why we're considering these markers
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In this particular episode.
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As chapter 12 opens,
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The mysterious messenger from heaven
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Who spoke to daniel throughout chapters ten and 11
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And said he had come to explain the prophetic
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Meaning of daniel's troubling vision.
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Now gives daniel a revealing glimpse into the distant future
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By telling daniel that in the latter days,
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Michael will stand up for daniel's people.
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But who are daniel's people
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And why does michael need to stand up for them?
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So we have this mysterious angel.
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His name is michael.
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Michael, who is god? it means in hebrew.
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And in an earlier chapter, he appears to help
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The prayer of daniel get through
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Over against the opposition from the prince of persia.
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After 21 days, that prayer is answered.
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He appears later in chapter 12, and it says that he stands
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On guard for daniel's people, daniel's nation.
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And in that context, it's about the end of times.
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It's just before the resurrection of the saints
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And the nation of israel at a time of restoration before
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The coming of the lord.
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Does this
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Mean that michael is an angel of superior rank,
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And has been entrusted with special responsibility
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For the well-being of the jewish people?
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Michael is an angelic being of the highest order.
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He's considered an archangel, a ruling angel,
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And it's understood
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That he's the angel that watches over the people of israel.
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And so he's had a tremendous task over the
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Centuries and millennia that have passed.
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And he's going to be very active in the end times, because,
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As we understand,
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As the world moves towards the culmination of history
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And the return of the lord.
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World events are
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Going to go into a circle and to center around the nation
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And the people of israel. so michael's going to be very busy.
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I see the
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Figure, michael, differently than i see the other angels.
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I see some angels coming for protection.
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I see
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Gabriel coming multiple times as that which bears a message.
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But michael seems to be the one designated for war.
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He does battle on behalf of the lord.
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We see in the book of joshua that yeshua
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Himself comes and he calls himself
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The commander of the lord of hosts.
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And i believe that
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Any delegation that the commander being yeshua himself,
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Anything he delegates of war, goes directly to michael.
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Michael is the next one in line that will walk out the commands
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Of yeshua himself.
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So i see michael as a war angel,
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Certainly working in conjunction with the other angelic host.
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But when it comes to battle,
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When it comes to spiritual battle
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And maybe even the battle at the end of this age,
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I think michael is going to be a prominent figure we see again.
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What is the jewish view of michael,
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Especially when he appears
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To have been given the responsibility
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Of protecting the jewish people at the end of days?
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There's only a few angels we know by name.
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You know, we have rafael, we have michael.
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We have gabriel.
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They all have god's name in their name.
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But he is an angel
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Who is considered like a guardian angelic force
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For the jewish people, who appears in a number
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Of different examples.
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Not just, by the way, in the torah,
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But in different jewish traditions.
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He's associated with, an angel very closely
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Connected to the jewish people and their destiny,
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And often communicates information to people.
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And for instance, in that particular story,
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The end the last chapter is arguably the most,
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Hard to understand of all the chapters in terms
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Of the prophetic theme of what's going on in there.
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It's interesting.
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At the end, daniel is told, you know, this is a big mystery.
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Don't say anything to anyone about it.
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As we say in hebrew, maven yavin.
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Those who get it will get it.
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But what's being revealed at the end of the book
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Are the deepest secrets that have to do with the end of days.
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And, and that's the stuff which jewish tradition where
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No matter where it appears in the bible, is always the hardest
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To understand and the least revealed of everything.
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Why did
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The angelic messenger tell daniel to seal the book,
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And then go on to explain that at the time of the end,
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Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
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Verse four i see is a very good picture
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Of our times, knowledge increasing.
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I mean, this is this.
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The story of the 21st century
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Is explosion of knowledge and social media.
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People running to and fro, modern communications
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And transportation, and never before in the history
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Of the world of people travel like they've they've traveled.
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But one of the things that is said is that these truths of dan
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Ought to be sealed up
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Until the end times, and then to be revealed.
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And this is what excites
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Me, and is so mysterious and wonderful about daniel,
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That we are living today in those end times
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And that that today, these truths
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Are now being unfolded gradually for us to understand.
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God tells daniel to keep this a secret
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Until the last times
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When it will be revealed, and he says that knowledge
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Will increase.
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It says that people will be rushing to and fro
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That will be characteristic of those last days.
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And, you know, we're kind of in an age like that, aren't we?
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We we have this incredible transportation system
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Where we can get to anywhere on the planet really fast.
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Of course, they're talking now about going into outer space.
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So that you arrive
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In tokyo from new york in just a couple of hours.
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And then we've got the internet multiplication
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Of knowledge, unprecedented in our history.
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It's amazing how knowledge has increased.
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Do jewish people have a
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Different point of view than christians,
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Where this end of days explosion of knowledge is concerned?
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It's not just, by the way, in the book of daniel.
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There are other traditions that specifically talk about
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The wellsprings of knowledge.
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Opening up
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Doesn't mean when it talks about knowledge,
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It doesn't necessarily mean torah knowledge.
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It means general worldly knowledge
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As opposed to specific jewish wisdom.
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So clearly that is a theme in jewish
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Consciousness always associated with the end of days.
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And by the way, if you look at the reality of human history,
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The, the explosion of knowledge,
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The explosion of literacy, the printing press,
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Then going to what we have today with, you know, basically
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The internet is the
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We have the
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Massive accessibility
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Of knowledge is unprecedented in human history.
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You can access it from your phone.
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Anything you need to know anywhere,
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Anytime, anywhere in the world.
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And the running around is also an interesting
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Image of the ability to move from place to place.
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When you think about it
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That for most of human history,
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People who were born, lived
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And died
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Within a few miles of the places
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That their great grandparents were born, lived and died.
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And today you can hop on a plane and travel around the world.
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And the world is such
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A, incredibly different place than it was even 100 years ago.
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It seems to be hinting at, and clearly that last
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Chapter of daniel is very much hinting at the, eschatology.
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What's going on at the end of days, the final showdown.
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Good evil in this scenario.
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It seems to be giving us a very broad
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View of what will be as we approach the redemption.
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The powerful part of that is if you read into the text
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And most people don't understand it.
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Jewish tradition
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Says that very few people have really been able
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To figure out what daniel's talking about.
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He specifically told to like,
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Obfuscated to hide it, to make it hard to understand.
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But even a superficial reading of the text seems to indicate
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That we're pretty close to that period of time.
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And that's as much as we don't understand
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A lot of the prophecies with the broadest brushstrokes.
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Time has seemed to have come to the point where we're
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At the end of the story, as daniel foresaw it, about 2500
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Years ago.
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Could these prophetic milestones about travel and knowledge
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That were prophesied 2500 years ago
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Really be happening today, right before our very eyes
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In the opening decades of the 21st century?
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Often when we read prophetic books or prophetic visions,
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We have to contemplate how far into the future
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Is this prophecy meant to be taken in chapter 12?
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But we see that there appears to be a long looking vision
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That talks about the increase of movement,
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The increase of travel, the running to and fro,
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But it also mentions an increase of knowledge.
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Many people will say that today, in our culture,
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In our modern age, we are the generation
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That has the easiest and most access to information.
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It is not common anymore
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That people are disconnected from the outside world.
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That would be very uncommon today.
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Meaning we can share knowledge, we can share information,
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We can share research, but also after,
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You know, you get into the 1700s and the 1800s and travel
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Has now taken us completely global, building bridges,
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Whether it's by boat, by, by airplane
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Travel, we've now had these bridges built
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We can get from continent to continent.
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So if i was looking for a time in history
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That would describe an increase of travel on a global scale
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And the increase of knowledge more than ever before,
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It might be that that prophecy is trying to describe the day
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In which we live now.
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But who precisely was this messenger from heaven,
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Since he speaks to daniel, was such authority,
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And tells him what he should or should not do?
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You know, daniel is a prophet of the highest order,
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And jesus considered him a prophet.
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I believe that jesus knew daniel
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And spoke to him, and even before the incarnation
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Of the lord, before the cross and the atonement,
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Jesus still was able to have a relationship with this man.
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And i believe that this is a pre
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Incarnational appearance of jesus to do his prophet.
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While the identity of this messenger from heaven remains
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A mystery to this day, he shared prophetic insights with daniel
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That could only have come from someone
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With intimate knowledge of the father's will.
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For time and eternity.
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Don't go away after this short break.
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Doctor john tweedie returns with his teaching.
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What has happened in israel over
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The past two years is heartbreaking.
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Lives lost, families
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Torn apart, children suffering hunger and homelessness.
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The people of israel are going through a time of overwhelming
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Pain and despair.
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But hope can still be found even in the deepest darkness.
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Today, as christians, we stand together with god's
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Chosen nation to rebuild what has been shattered by war.
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We can fulfill god's call to comfort his people
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By offering food and humanitarian aid
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To those who have suffered during these difficult days,
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Including thousands of children who are still at risk.
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The key to
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Understanding the timing of christ's return.
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Is the holy city.
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You can see behind me jerusalem.
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Now jerusalem has been surrounded by armies
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Numerous times.
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It has been conquered time and time again.
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But the bible tells us that there was one more
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Conquering to come.
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And we read in zechariah chapter 12,
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Giving us the context for this last push against jerusalem.
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The burden of the word of the lord against israel.
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Thus says the lord, who stretches out the heavens,
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Lays the foundation
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Of the earth, and forms the spirit of men within him.
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Behold, i will make jerusalem a cup of drunkenness
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To all the surrounding peoples when they lay siege
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Against judah and jerusalem.
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And it so happened in that day that i will make jerusalem
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A very heavy stone for all peoples.
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All who would heave it away will surely be cut in pieces.
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Though all nations of the earth are gathered against it,
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I believe that
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This final push against jerusalem has begun. why?
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Because we've seen that
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The american embassy has been moved to jerusalem,
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Followed by the ecuadorian embassy.
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And surely other embassies will follow.
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But these are, i believe, harbingers
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That we are at the end of days
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When these scriptures will be fulfilled.
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But there's more in zechariah, in addition to what he writes
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In the first verses of chapter 12.
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In chapter 14, he gives a very vivid description
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Of the siege that is coming, the one that will bring
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The return of the lord to jerusalem.
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Behold, the day of the lord is coming,
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And your spoil will be divided in your midst. for
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I will gather all the nations to battle against jerusalem.
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And the description is not pleasant.
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But the word of god is true.
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The city shall be taken, the houses rifled,
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And the women ravished.
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And this is because of the evil of the antichrist
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And his system that will come against the jewish people.
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Half of the city shall go into captivity,
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But the remnant of the people
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Shall not be cut off from the city.
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Then the lord will go forth and fight against those nations
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As he fights in the day of battle.
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And in that day his feet will stand on the mount
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Of olives, which faces jerusalem on the east.
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So if you were to look over my right shoulder, that's
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Where the mount of olives.
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Olives is, across the valley of kidron, from the temple mount.
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And you can see the golden dome
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That signifies where the temple once stood.
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So this is the setting for this final battle.
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And you have a great view of it this morning.
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And then it says, and the mount of olives shall be split
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In two from east to west, making a very large valley.
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Half of the mountain shall move toward the north
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Where i'm standing,
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And half of it toward the south, in the other direction.
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And it's just my own interpretation of the scripture.
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But when this presumably earthquake occurs,
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I believe that the mount will be divided
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Toward the golden eastern gate that is closed roughly
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In the vicinity of the golden dome that you can see,
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Because that gate stands in front of the golden dome,
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Not precisely
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On an east-west axis, but close enough for you to see
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The location where i believe the mountain will be split.
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Now, that's
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That's zacharias interpretation or prophecy, if you like,
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Of the end time events.
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But when we move back into daniel chapter 12,
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Which is the source, the focus of our study,
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We have more clues about this.
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Because when you put the prophets together,
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You get a composite picture of the events.
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So in verse one of daniel 12,
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And this presumably is gabriel speaking at that time,
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Michael shall stand up.
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The great prince who stands watch over
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The sons of your people.
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And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was,
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Since there was a nation even to that time.
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And at that time your people shall be delivered.
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Everyone who was found written in the book.
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Now, this book, in its old testament context, is the book
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That moses described, the book of life
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That presumably contains the names
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Of the righteous of israel from moses time.
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In fact,
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Even preceding moses time, in the old testament period.
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But it is a it's a book that records those
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Who are righteous in the sight of god.
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And this is, of course,
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Before the coming of the christ who gave his life
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And became the salvation for all who believe in him.
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And then the scriptures continue.
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And here,
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Here are the hopeful words that are in this chapter 12
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And many of those who sleep
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In the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting
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Life, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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When we go to the book of revelation,
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To the passage concerning the great white throne judgment,
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We read there that books are opened.
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The presumably record
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Those who are righteous before god and those who are not.
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And in that context, in the new testament context,
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Of course, the book of life of the righteous in jesus christ.
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But what we're seeing here in daniel
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Is that there is a resurrection that comes after death.
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And then there's a judgment that follows that
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Son to everlasting life,
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But sadly, some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Those who are wise shall shine like the brightness
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Of the firmament, and those who turn many to righteousness
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Like the stars forever and ever.
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Then daniel is told, but you, daniel,
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Shut up the words and seal the book
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Until the time of the end.
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Many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.
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Verse five.
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Then i, daniel looked, and there stood two others,
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One on this riverbank and the other on that riverbank.
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And one said to the man clothed in linen,
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Who was above the waters of the river.
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How long should the fulfillment of these wonders be?
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So this is a dialog between two individuals that show up.
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But one is it seems to be hovering above the river.
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Then i heard the man clothed in linen,
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Who was above the waters of the river.
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When he held up his right hand and his left hand to heaven,
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And swore by him who lives forever and ever, that
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It shall be for a time, times, and half a time.
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So if you watch time times plural,
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And a half a time, which is symbolic of three
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And a half years,
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Which we find throughout the prophetic books
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And certainly in the book of revelation.
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And that's why people say
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There are so many strong parallels
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Between what daniel saw and heard.
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And the book of revelation,
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The writings of the apostle john.
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So these mysterious figures and they've just
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We speculate who they might be.
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And i'll simply put it this way.
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Could one of them,
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The one that, stood above the waters with his right
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And left hands raised toward heaven?
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Could it have been jesus of nazareth?
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Well, we can't say categorically that it was.
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But we're left with the mystery, and we're left wondering.
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And then we read these things, and in fact,
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It says a time, times and a half a time.
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And when the power of the holy
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People has been completely shattered.
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So we're back
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To the tribulation, theme again, when the antichrist comes
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And the power of israel has been shattered by him
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And his armies,
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All these things shall be finished.
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So we're at the end of days.
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When we read this, daniel chapter 12.
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And then daniel says, although i heard,
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I did not understand, then i said, my lord,
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What shall be the end of these things?
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Daniel's rhetorical question he didn't understand.
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Now we have the benefit of the perspective of the new testament
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And all the
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Writings of the apostle paul and the gospel writers,
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And of course,
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The words of jesus himself to give us a bigger picture
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And place daniel's prophecies within that larger picture.
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Then we can see things, presumably, that even daniel,
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As a prophet living before the cross, could not see.
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Daniel asked his question.
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One of the amazing things about the book of daniel,
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A book that was written 2500 years
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Ago, is its ability to forecast the future.
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In fact, a future that hasn't happened yet.
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As i stand here with the mediterranean sea
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As my backdrop, as the sun is setting,
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And of course, the sun
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Is setting on the book of daniel as i wrap up chapter 12,
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Daniel had asked of the angel a question.
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He was curious about all he had seen
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And heard, but now he wants to know.
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And he asks the question, my lord,
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What shall be the end of these things?
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Now he had seen much,
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But everything that he saw is not recorded in this book.
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In fact, some things are kept secret.
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And he was told that to keep them secret,
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Because they would be secret until the time of the end,
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When the fulfillment of all things would take place.
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So here's what the angel said to daniel.
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An answer to that question.
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My lord, what shall be the end of these things?
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And he, the angel, said, go your way, daniel,
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For the words are closed up and sealed
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Until the time of the end, meaning
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Till the final fulfillment of all that you have seen
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And all that god has planned for the world, his creation.
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And then these words, many shall be purified,
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Made white and refined, but the wicked shall do
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Wickedly, and none of the wicked shall understand.
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But the wise shall understand.
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And we could be living
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In the days of the fulfillment of all things.
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The end of things that daniel saw.
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And today people go on as if there is no tomorrow.
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But one of these days tomorrow will come,
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Because it will be god's tomorrow
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And the end of all things that he has planned
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And his prophets have prophesied.
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At the very last book of the book of daniel ends
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With a wonderful promise for those who believe in god
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And the truth of his holy word.
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The very last verse
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Of the book of daniel at the end of chapter 12.
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But you go your way till the end, for you shall rest
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And will arise to your inheritance.
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At the end of the days, what an incredible promise.
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We know loved ones that have died,
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But who have believed in god.
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We can think of them now as resting
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Until the time of fulfillment takes place.
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And then, as the angel promised daniel,
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They will have their inheritance because god has promised.
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It is so.
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Now we've come
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To the end of the book
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Of daniel, but we have one more episode to go.
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We want to look at the things that daniel learned
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And why he was so faithful to god,
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And why god revealed these incredible things to him.
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Life lessons from the book of daniel.
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Thanks for watching the prophetic connection
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And join us next week for life lessons from daniel.
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John Tweedie - Life at the End of Days

May 14, 2026 | 27:24

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