Israel: The Prophetic Connection

John Tweedie - When Empires Collide

April 28, 2026 | 27:24

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Israel: The Prophetic Connection | John Tweedie - When Empires Collide | April 28, 2026

What would you
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Give if you could know the future?
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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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You know,
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The future is described for us in the book of daniel,
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And daniel is a parallel book to the book of revelation.
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Revelation was written nearly 2000 years ago,
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But daniel was written 500 years before that.
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The people today, in the 21st century.
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Some of them, at least, would
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Dismiss daniel as the ravings of a madman
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Because of the things
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He describes in his book, the dreams and the visions that,
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He saw or others saw and he interpreted.
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But when we think of daniel, it's important to remember
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What jesus said about daniel
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500 years after daniel lived.
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Jesus lived.
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And yet he said this about daniel.
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It's found in matthew 24, in verse 15.
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And this is in the context of the answer.
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He gave his disciples
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About signs at the end of the day of days,
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And the signs that would point to his coming.
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Matthew 24 verse 15 jesus said,
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Therefore when you see the abomination of desolation
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Spoken of by daniel the prophet standing in the holy place,
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And we believe that this is an image the antichrist
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Figure will raise up
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In the temple in jerusalem,
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And there is no temple in jerusalem today.
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But we can interpret from this verse
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That there will be a temple built again in the holy city.
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And then jesus says, whoever reads, let him understand,
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Because many will read and will not understand.
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Many will dismiss daniel altogether,
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But the wise will understand.
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The daniel truly was a prophet,
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And the things that he had to say were revealed to him
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By the almighty god.
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As daniel continued to walk with god,
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He began to have dreams and visions about the future.
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However, he was troubled and confused by his first vision
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When he saw four great beasts rising up out of the sea.
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As daniel struggled to understand the visions
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Meaning a mysterious figure appeared and explained to daniel
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That the four beasts he saw represented
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In order for kings or empires to come,
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And that each of these kingdoms in turn
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Would conquer and supplant the one that preceded it.
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God seems to enjoy, or at least have a pattern
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Of revealing the future to daniel and to other servants.
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I'm remembering a passage of scripture that says,
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God reveals to his servants what will come to pass.
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So later in the book of daniel, we have more visions
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Where daniel is told by god or shown by god
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What will come in the future.
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I think that's god's nature in his vision.
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Daniel saw four beasts,
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But the fourth beast he described
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As the worst of the four, a beast that was dreadful,
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Terrible, and exceedingly strong,
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Not only from a chronological perspective, but from the jewish
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Interpretation of the story.
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That last empires rome.
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If you look at babylon, persia, greece, rome is the last one.
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Rome is in many ways considered to be the worst one.
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I mean, it's the roman empire
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That will destroy the second temple.
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It's the roman empire that will exile the jewish people.
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Not for 70 years like babylon, but for 2000 years.
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And in jewish thinking, rome, which jewish tradition says
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Comes from a sub, jacob's twin brother, is in
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Many ways always viewed as the greatest threat
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To the jewish people.
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Shows that that beast represents
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Is an accurate
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Portrayal of what's going to be in terms of the damage
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And the threat that the roman empire
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Has posed toward the jewish people.
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Even the antisemitism of europe that came
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Hundreds of years later, thousands of years later,
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Is the anti-semitism of assaf, which is
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Which is western civilization, which comes from rome.
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God allowed daniel to see the near future and events
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That would occur during his lifetime.
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But god also allowed daniel to see the very distant future,
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A series of incredible events that would occur at the end
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Of days and lead to the culmination of human history.
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The visions that daniel have have double meanings,
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Meaning for his time and meanings
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For the end of times as well.
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And to understand this,
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We need to get away from our western sequential logical
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Thinking and understand that these revelations
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Are coming out of the middle east.
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This is eastern thinking. it's more circular.
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And so it's not illogical for daniel to have visions
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That would have application for his time,
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But also in parallel, for the end of times.
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While daniel was clearly a prophet for his own times,
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The deep things god revealed to him
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Tell us he was also a prophet for all time.
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We know this because jesus quoted
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Directly from the book of daniel
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When he spoke about events on earth
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That would point to the nearness of his second coming.
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Things daniel had already seen and written about 500 years
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Earlier.
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Don't go away.
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After this short break, doctor
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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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When we come
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To daniel chapter seven we have a dilemma.
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And it's this that the chapter opens
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With the reference to belshazzar king of babylon.
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In fact it says
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In the first year of belshazzar, king of babylon,
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Daniel had a dream and vision of his head while on his bed,
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That he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts.
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Now we're in chapter seven,
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But we know that belshazzar died at the end of chapter five.
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In fact, in the last two verses, it's explains
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The transition of kingdoms.
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When belshazzar dies and then darius the mean
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Assumes control, he, being the age of 62.
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So how do we resolve this dilemma?
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Well, it's simply
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This, that chapter seven and eight of daniel properly
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Belong between chapters four and five.
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And that's how we resolve this dilemma.
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And why is it this way, then?
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Well, the first six chapters are arranged
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Because of their historical events, whereas
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The last six chapters cover visions
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And dreams that daniel had, and they're prophetic.
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More prophetic in nature, in fact, than the first six
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Chapters.
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So they the chapters have been arranged this way.
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So we just need to understand
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That if we're doing this chronologically,
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Then these two chapters and the two visions that are random,
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The visions that daniel had belong actually before
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Chapter five, which records the death of belshazzar.
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And so daniel has a vision
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And he describes it like this
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In verse four, he sees creatures.
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The first was like a lion and had eagle's wings.
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I watched till its wings were plucked off,
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And it was lifted up from the earth
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And made to stand on
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Two feet like a man, and a man's heart was given to it.
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And suddenly another beast, a second like a bear.
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It was raised up on one side and had three ribs in its mouth
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Between its teeth.
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And they said thus to it, arise, devour much flesh.
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Now let me give you the
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Interpretation as we go along, because we can easily get lost.
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In the translation here, the first beast was like a lion.
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And of course, lions were used in babylon.
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They were symbols of babylon, especially with eagle's wings.
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And so we believe this to be the babylonian kingdom.
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But then it's there's a second beast, which is really,
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Pointing to the coming of the middle persian empire.
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And it was raised up on one side
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And had three ribs in its mouth between its teeth.
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This signifies the power of persia
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Over the power of the medes.
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In other words,
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Persia was the stronger of the two,
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Even though they formed a military alliance.
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Verse six.
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After this i looked, and there was another, like a
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Leopard, which had on its back four wings of a bird.
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The beast also had four heads, and dominion was given to it.
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Now we interpret this to mean the kingdom of alexander
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The great, who at the age of 20 assumed the kingdom of greece.
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Actually, macedon,
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Which is the northern part of greece, after his father,
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And alexander assumed command of the army.
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And it moves like a leopard because alexander conquered
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Much of the known world in a matter of 12 years,
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And he died prematurely at the age of 32.
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So daniel, in this vision is seeing the prophetic future,
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The coming, the rise and fall of empires in succession.
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Now we come to verse seven.
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After this i saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth
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Beast, dreadful and terrible, exceedingly strong.
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Now he doesn't identify it with any animal that we would know.
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It's if you like a non-descript beast.
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It had huge iron teeth.
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It was devouring, breaking in pieces,
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And trampling the residue with its feet.
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It was different from all the other beasts
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That were before it.
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And it had ten horns.
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Now here's the bit of a shift, because this fourth
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Nondescript beast represents the empire of rome.
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And so rome, of course, came and conquered the middle east
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After the greeks conquered the holy land.
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But the romans were particularly cruel to the people of israel.
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I mean, the other empires had their influence
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On the people of israel, but none of them really.
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Well, the babylonians certainly destroyed the first temple.
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But when the romans came, they destroyed the second temple.
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And worse than that, they,
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Forced the people of israel out of the land of israel.
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They dispersed them into the world.
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And jewish people today talk about the diaspora
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Or the dispersion of the jewish people from the land.
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The romans wanted to wipe out every vestige of jewish history
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And presence in this promised land. now
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There's a shift that occurs, and it's this.
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I was considering the horns, and there was another horn
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A little horn coming up from among them, before
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Whom three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.
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And there in the is this first horn,
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Where eyes like the eyes of a man
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And a mouth speaking pompous words.
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Now we remember that the fourth nondescript beast had
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Ten horns,
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But now there's
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One of these horns is distinguished in particular.
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It's a little horn, but it's a little horn with great power.
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Now, when we read this verse,
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We can be interpreting, history.
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Soon after daniel wrote the words
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And certainly the coming of antiochus epiphanies,
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Who was a greek general who desecrated the temple
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In jerusalem, he could be seen as the little horn.
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But i believe it's also pointing forward.
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It's perhaps he is a type
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Of antichrist, but this verse also points forward.
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And this is why
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Sometimes prophetic scriptures are difficult to understand,
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Because they can be speaking of
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More than one period of history.
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And so this is clearly identified as a man
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Who speaks pompous words.
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Now we have seen, in other places and certainly
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In other series of the prophetic connection.
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We've learned much about the antichrist figure,
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And i won't take the time to go there,
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But revelation 13 describes this figure
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Who is to come the very end of the bible,
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The last book of the new testament.
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We have the description of the antichrist figure.
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And of course, jesus
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Alludes to him in the sense
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That there will be a time
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Of great tribulation when this individual, rules,
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But does so under the power of satan.
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Well, now there's a shift again in in the scriptures
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And in verse nine, i watched till thrones were put in place,
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And the ancient of days was seated.
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And the ancient of days can only be god the father.
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God almighty, the ruler of the whole world.
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And the description is here.
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And actually,
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This is reminiscent of revelation chapter 20
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And the great white throne judgment, where god
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Almighty sits in judgment of individuals.
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But listen to the description.
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His garment was white as snow,
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And the hair of his head was like pure wool.
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His throne was a fiery flame, its wheels are burning fire.
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And daniel is describing what he sees
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A fiery stream issued and came forth before him.
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A thousand thousand ministered to him 10,000 times.
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10,000 stood before him.
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The court was seated and the books were opened.
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That is a very strong parallel to the great
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White throne judgment of revelation 20.
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Actually, the end of that chapter.
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And then we see this.
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I watched then because of the sound of the pompous words
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Which the horn was speaking.
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So now this horn is placed, if you like, in the same context
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As the ancient of days.
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And if it is a great white throne judgment, we realize
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These are the end of days that are being addressed here.
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I watched till the beast was slain
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And his body destroyed and given to the burning flame.
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Now i'll give you a very specific reference,
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Parallel reference that we find
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In the book of revelation in chapter 19.
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And of course, this comes
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At the very end of the battle of armageddon
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That takes place in revelation 19.
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But listen to the, parallels and the similarities
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Between what i just read and daniel
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And what i'm going to read here in verse 20.
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Then the beast was captured.
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That's another word for the antichrist.
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And with him, the false prophet who work signs in his presence
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By which he deceived those
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Who received the mark of the beast
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And those who worshiped his image.
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These two were cast alive into the lake of fire,
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Burning with brimstone
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And the rest were killed with the sword, which proceeded
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From the mouth of him who sat on the horse.
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And all the birds were filled with their flesh.
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And the individual sitting on the horse is the king of kings,
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And the lord of lords, that is the christ who is to come.
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So now let me read.
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Read verse 11 of daniel seven.
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I watch then, because of the sound of the pompous words
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Which the horn
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The antichrist was speaking, i watch to the beast.
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Now we have the same parallel language.
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The beast was slain,
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And is its body destroyed and given to the burning flame.
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There's a very strong parallel
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Between what i just read and daniel,
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And what i read a minute ago in the book of revelation. now,
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As we continue on
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Verse 12.
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As for the rest of the beast,
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They had their dominion taken away, yet
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Their lives were prolonged for a season and a time
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I was watching in the night vision
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And behold, one like the son of man
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Coming with the clouds of heaven.
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Now we have another shift.
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Now the focus is on the messiah who is to come.
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He came to the ancient of days.
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They brought him near before him,
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Then to him.
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Now in my bible, the pronoun him has a capital
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H, which suggests that this is the messiah figure,
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And the description is clear that it's the messiah figure.
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Then to him was given dominion and glory, and the kingdom,
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But all peoples, nations, and languages should serve him.
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His dominion is an everlasting dominion
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Which shall not pass away,
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And his kingdom, the one which shall not be destroyed.
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Now it's interesting.
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I'm standing, south of jerusalem, and i'm standing
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Among ruins and the ruins that you find in israel.
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I mean, these ruins are, first and second century
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Before christ.
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And in fact, they're probably earlier still,
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Because i believe there was a palace that stood here as well.
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But wherever you go in the land, in fact,
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Wherever you go in the middle east,
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You're going to come
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Across ruins that are 2000, 3000 or more years old.
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And that's because of the
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Empires that have risen up, have conquered and destroyed.
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But the difference here in this text
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Is this final kingdom of the messiah
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Will never be destroyed, because it is an eternal kingdom
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And of course, nebuchadnezzar confessed that, earlier
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We saw that earlier in the teachings in the book of daniel.
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Now daniel sees all this, and he says in verse
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15, i, daniel, was grieved in my spirit, within my body.
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And the visions of my head troubled me.
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I came near to one of those who stood by
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And asked him the truth of all of this.
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So he told me, and made known to me
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The interpretation of these things,
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Those great peace, which are four, are four kings
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Which will arise out of the earth.
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But the saints of the most high
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Shall receive the kingdom, and possess the kingdom forever,
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Even forever and ever,
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The eternal kingdom of christ.
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Then, then i wish to know the truth about the fourth beast,
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Which was different from all the others,
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Exceedingly dreadful,
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With its teeth of iron and its nails of bronze, which devoured
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Broken pieces and trampled the residue with its feet,
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And the ten horns that were on its head,
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And another horn which came up before which three fell, namely,
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That horn which had eyes and a mouth which spoke pompous
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Words, whose appearance was great, greater than his fellows.
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And then i'm jumping to verse 24.
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The ten horns are ten kings who shall arise from this kingdom,
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And another shall rise after them.
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He shall be different
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From the first ones, and shall subdue three kings.
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So what we're being told is that there'll be a revived,
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I believe, a revived roman empire made up of nations,
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And they will shift, and one will rise to prominence,
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But one will be the kingdom of the antichrist.
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And in verse 25 he shall speak pompous words
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Against the most high,
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Shall persecute the saints of the most high,
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And shall intend to change times and law.
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Then the saints shall be given to know his hands
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For a time, times and a half a time,
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Time, times and a half a time.
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Three and a half years.
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We're back to the great tribulation theme
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That jesus had so much to to say about.
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And then we're told
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At the very end of the chapter, the court will be seated,
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And they shall take away his dominion, the dominion
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Of the antichrist, to consume, destroy it forever,
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And then the everlasting kingdom shall be ushered in.
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It ends with this.
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This is the end of the account.
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As for me, daniel,
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My thoughts greatly troubled me, and my countenance changed.
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But i kept the matter in my heart.
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But we're left with a question.
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Who is this antichrist figure?
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And could he be in the world today?
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Don't go away.
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When we try to determine the identity
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Of the little horn of daniel seven, verse eight,
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We interpret this to be
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A symbol of the antichrist figure who is to come.
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We have strong parallels in the book of revelation,
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The last book of the bible.
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And in fact, although the books of daniel
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And revelation are some 600 years apart,
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Scholars look at both books as being intertwined.
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In fact,
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The same themes,
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Some of the same themes, run through daniel
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That are also found in revelation.
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I'll give you a parallel
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When we speak about the antichrist figure.
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We know, for example, in daniel
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Seven, in verse eight,
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I was considering the horns, and there was another horn,
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A little one coming up among them before him.
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Three of the first horns were plucked out by the roots.
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These seem to be.
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The horns represent nations,
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But one of them is more powerful than the others.
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And there are this in this horn, where eyes like
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The eyes of a man and a mouth speaking pompous words.
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So now we're not simply talking about nations,
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But an individual
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Within the nations, in fact, a ruler of one nation,
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That puts in subjection the other three
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And then in fact ends up having worldwide influence.
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But when we get to the book
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Of revelation, notice this parallel in the visions
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That john the apostle saw revelation 13 verse one.
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Then i stood on the sand of the sea,
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Perhaps the sea of humanity in this sense.
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And i saw a beast rising up out of the sea,
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Having seven heads and ten horns.
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And here we have
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The horns reference that we just saw in daniel chapter seven,
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And on his horns ten crowns,
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And on his heads a blasphemous name,
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Because this is the characteristic.
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Well, one of them, at least, of the antichrist figure.
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Now, the beast which i saw was like a leopard.
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His feet were like the feet of a bear,
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And his mouth like the mouth of a lion.
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The dragon, a synonym, another name for satan
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Gave him his power, his throne, and great authority.
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So satan is empowering this evil individual to do his bidding.
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And i saw one of his heads as if it had been
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Mortally wounded, and his deadly wound was healed,
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And all the world marveled and followed the beast.
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You can imagine if someone today was,
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Say, an attempted assassination.
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In fact, if a wound was mortal, he was in fact killed
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And was resurrected, the world would be.
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And all of that individual.
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Well,
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The antichrist
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Is going to be empowered by satan, so he's going to have
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Unusual demonic powers and a demonic presence.
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And because of it, we read in revelation.
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So they worshiped the dragon who gave authority to the beast,
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And they worshiped the beast, saying,
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Who is like the beast who was able to make war with him?
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And then
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And he was given a mouth speaking great
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Things and blasphemies,
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And he was given authority to continue for 42 months.
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Remember three and a half years, in fact,
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To the end of the
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Great tribulation period, which is really,
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We believe, seven years long.
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But the second three and
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A half years are far worse than the first three and a half.
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So he's allowed to continue until until that is over.
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And then it says in verse seven,
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It was granted to him to make war with the saints
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And to overcome them, and authority was given him
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Over every tribe, tongue, and nation.
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Now we have studied the antichrist
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A lot in various seasons of the prophetic connection.
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So i'm going to read something that you've been made aware of
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Before in other seasons about his economic system
00:26:24.619 --> 00:26:28.757
That he will introduce that will make it difficult
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For those who follow god to buy and sell, in fact, function
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Verse 16 of revelation 13, he calls us all both small
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And great, rich and poor,
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Free and slave, to receive a mark
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On the right hand or on their foreheads,
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And that no 1st may buy or sell except one who has the mark,
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Or the name of the beast, or the number of his name.
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Here is wisdom let him who is understanding calculate
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The number of the beast, for it is the number of a man.
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I emphasize man his number is
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Six, six, six.
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So we here we have a direct parallel
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Between revelation and daniel.
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Speaking of horns, and one in particular
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That we believe will be the antichrist figure.
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John Tweedie - When Empires Collide

April 28, 2026 | 27:24

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