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John Bradshaw - The Writing On The Wall

March 16, 2025 | S25:E11

John Bradshaw - The Writing On The Wall
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It Is Written with John Bradshaw | John Bradshaw - The Writing On The Wall | March 16, 2025
  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • >>john bradshaw: there's a 2,500-year-old story
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  • In daniel, chapter 5 that speaks directly
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  • To the final days of earth's history.
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  • The story introduces us to a new king.
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  • Nebuchadnezzar is dead by now, and his grandson,
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  • Now sitting on the throne, has a terrifying experience
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  • When he sees the writing on the wall.
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  • This story is the story of the downfall of babylon.
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  • [whoosh]
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  • ♪[orchestral music swells]♪
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  • [tinkling sound of wind-blown sand]
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  • [whoosh, distant bell rings]
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  • [wind blowing, sand swishing]
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  • Nebuchadnezzar was succeeded by his son, evil-merodach,
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  • Which doesn't mean he was evil, although one historian
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  • Did write that the man reigned "unjustly and lewdly."
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  • Evil-merodach is an anglicized version of his name,
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  • Amel-marduk, "man of marduk."
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  • That means he was named after the supreme god
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  • In babylon's pantheon of gods.
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  • Other than what we read about him in the bible,
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  • There isn't a lot known about him.
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  • He's the man who released jehoiakim, king of judah,
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  • After jehoiakim had spent 37 years in a babylonian prison.
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  • Amel-marduk was assassinated and was later replaced
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  • By nabonidus, who went to arabia.
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  • Now, for years critics of the bible claimed
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  • That the book of daniel was in error
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  • When it referred to belshazzar as king, as nabonidus was king.
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  • Adding to the puzzle is that there's little to be found
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  • About belshazzar outside the bible,
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  • Which shouldn't surprise anyone,
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  • As any records would be 2,500 years old
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  • And inscribed on clay tablets--
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  • Not easy to find, especially given that babylon
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  • Was systematically destroyed over hundreds of years.
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  • Higher critics--ignoring daniel 2, daniel 7,
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  • And daniel 9, strong evidence for the veracity
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  • Of the book of daniel--asserted that the name belshazzar
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  • Was an invention and that the book of daniel
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  • Was written in the second century ad.
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  • And then, what do you know, the cylinder of nabonidus,
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  • Now in the british museum, was translated,
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  • And it states that nabonidus entrusted the kingship
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  • To his oldest son, which is belshazzar.
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  • Daniel was right.
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  • Belshazzar was a co-regent with his father, nabonidus.
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  • Astronomer carl sagan is credited with saying,
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  • The "absence of evidence is not evidence of absence."
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  • And it pays to remember that when dealing with archaeology.
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  • Under belshazzar's rule babylon began to decline.
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  • At the same time the persian king, cyrus the great,
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  • Was growing in power.
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  • Cyrus and his army marched towards babylon
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  • And were at the gates of babylon
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  • At the time the events of daniel 5 unfolded.
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  • The chapter starts, "belshazzar the king made a great feast
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  • "for a thousand of his lords,
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  • And drank wine in the presence of the thousand."
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  • A colossal mistake-- belshazzar was partying
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  • While there was an enemy literally at his gates.
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  • His judgment was impaired
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  • Because alcohol impairs a person's judgment,
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  • Which leads to terrible outcomes.
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  • Crime, immorality, lust, and anger--and more--
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  • Are fueled by alcohol consumption.
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  • Experts will tell you alcohol is terrible for your health.
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  • The md anderson cancer center says, "about 5.5%
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  • "of all new cancer diagnoses and 5.8% of all deaths
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  • "from cancer are attributed to drinking alcohol,
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  • According to the national institutes of health."
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  • Didn't jesus drink wine?
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  • No, jesus drank grape juice.
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  • Didn't they drink wine in the bible?
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  • Yes, and some had multiple wives, and many owned slaves.
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  • The fact that some drank wine then
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  • Doesn't mean christians should do the same today.
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  • Belshazzar was getting drunk.
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  • Never wise, always harmful, and if that's you,
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  • You can stop because god is able to give you the victory.
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  • If you're thinking of cutting back,
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  • Keep in mind that the world health organization says,
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  • "when it comes to alcohol consumption,
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  • There is no safe amount that does not affect health."
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  • In other words, if you're going to cut back,
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  • Cut back to zero, or else you're doing yourself real harm.
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  • Belshazzar's drunkenness spurred him to make a reckless decision.
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  • He "gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels
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  • "which his father nebuchadnezzar had taken from the temple
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  • "which had been in jerusalem, that the king and his lords,
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  • His wives, and his concubines might drink from them."
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  • When nebuchadnezzar sacked jerusalem,
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  • "the lord gave jehoiakim king of judah into his hand,
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  • "with some of the articles of the house of god,
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  • "which he carried into the land of shinar
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  • "to the house of his god; and he brought the articles
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  • Into the treasure house of his god."
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  • Now in a display of brazen defiance,
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  • Belshazzar had god's own holy items brought out
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  • So he and his friends could drink alcohol out of them
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  • While they praised false gods, and god wasn't having it.
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  • You know, this is really a serious warning.
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  • You can play with god, you can keep god waiting,
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  • You can ignore god,
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  • But there comes a time when your decision is irreversible.
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  • People can get bold when they insult god
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  • And god doesn't seem to do anything about it.
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  • The wise man wrote, "because the sentence against an evil work
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  • "is not executed speedily,
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  • "therefore the heart of the sons of men
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  • Is fully set in them to do evil."
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  • That's ecclesiastes 8, verse 11.
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  • That's solomon saying,
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  • Because things carry on as normal when some folks sin,
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  • They continue in sin, and they harden toward god.
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  • And that's where belshazzar was.
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  • He knew better.
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  • He abused the mercy of god and turned it into license.
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  • He was shaking his fist in god's face in open rebellion,
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  • And god said, "enough is enough."
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  • It was time for the prophecy in daniel 2 to be fulfilled.
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  • Remember how the head of gold gave way
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  • To the chest and arms of silver?
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  • We're about to watch that play out in real time.
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  • "then they brought the gold vessels that had been taken
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  • "from the temple of the house of god which had been
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  • "in jerusalem; and the king and his lords, his wives,
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  • "and his concubines drank from them.
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  • "they drank wine, and praised the gods of gold and silver,
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  • Bronze and iron, wood and stone."
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  • The holy things of god were being used to honor the devil.
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  • Belshazzar was going to use vessels that had been
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  • Specially made for the worship of the creator god
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  • To worship marduk, as well as the gods of air,
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  • Water, love, fertility, and on and on.
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  • But god intervened.
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  • Now, this wasn't a matter of god losing his temper.
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  • God had extended mercy to belshazzar and had given light
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  • To belshazzar, but the babylonian king was stating
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  • He just was never going to respond to god's mercy.
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  • So, "in the same hour the fingers of a man's hand
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  • "appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand
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  • "on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace;
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  • And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote."
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  • And now we see something for the third time
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  • In the book of daniel.
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  • When belshazzar's grandfather had a dream
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  • In daniel, chapter 2, daniel interpreted the dream.
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  • The same thing happened in chapter 4.
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  • Now, there's the mysterious writing on the wall.
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  • Just as nebuchadnezzar needed someone to interpret his dreams,
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  • Belshazzar now needs someone to interpret
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  • This communication from heaven.
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  • His wise men couldn't do it, so the queen,
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  • Who was likely the queen mother, given that she refers
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  • To what happened in the past, recommended daniel be summoned.
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  • She said that "light and understanding and wisdom,
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  • Like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him"
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  • And that "an excellent spirt, knowledge, understanding,
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  • "interpreting dreams, solving riddles,
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  • And explaining enigmas were found in this daniel."
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  • Daniel is older now. he's about 80.
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  • The monarch promises daniel,
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  • "if you can read the writing and make known to me
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  • "its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple
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  • "and have a chain of gold around your neck,
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  • And shall be the third ruler in the kingdom."
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  • But daniel says, "let your gifts be for yourself,
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  • "and give your rewards to another;
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  • "yet i will read the writing to the king,
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  • And make known to him the interpretation."
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  • In other words, "i'll interpret the dream,
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  • But you can keep your money."
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  • For daniel, serving god was not about financial gain.
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  • Then daniel explained to belshazzar
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  • The history of his grandfather,
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  • The great sovereign nebuchadnezzar,
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  • How god had given him "a kingdom and majesty, glory and honor."
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  • He referenced the seven years
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  • Nebuchadnezzar spent in the wilderness,
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  • Bereft of his right mind, living like an animal,
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  • "till he knew that the most high god rules in the kingdom of men,
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  • And appoints over it whomever he chooses."
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  • And look at what daniel says next:
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  • "but you his son, belshazzar, have not humbled your heart,
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  • Although you knew all this."
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  • He knew.
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  • Daniel said, "you have lifted yourself up
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  • Against the lord of heaven,"
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  • Before recounting belshazzar's wicked deeds:
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  • Using the holy worship vessels from the temple of god
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  • In jerusalem to honor and worship
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  • And praise "the gods of silver and gold, bronze and iron,
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  • "wood and stone, which do not see or hear or know;
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  • "and the god who holds your breath in his hand
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  • And owns all your ways, you have not glorified."
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  • When nebuchadnezzar was convinced that the god of heaven
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  • Was the true god, he humbled himself.
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  • Belshazzar refused to.
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  • Now daniel interprets the cryptic script
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  • Written on the wall in the presence of the partygoers
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  • By the hand of god.
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  • "it said, 'mene, mene, tekel, upharsin.'"
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  • He told the king that "mene" meant,
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  • "god has numbered your kingdom, and finished it."
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  • When god looked into his case, he found that belshazzar
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  • Had chosen to harden his heart against god.
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  • His kingdom was finished.
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  • "tekel: you have been weighed in the balances,
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  • And found wanting."
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  • It's important to recognize every one of us
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  • Is going to experience what belshazzar experienced.
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  • That is, the bible says, "every knee [shall] bow," and
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  • "every tongue [shall] confess that jesus christ is lord."
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  • Paul wrote that "we must all appear before the judgment seat
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  • Of christ," in 2 corinthians, chapter 5.
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  • If you haven't accepted jesus as your savior
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  • And surrendered your life to him, you still have time.
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  • Don't wait until it's too late, because one day it will be.
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  • God wants you to invite him into your life now.
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  • Then, "peres: your kingdom has been divided,
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  • And given to the medes and persians."
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  • It's over for belshazzar-- and over for babylon.
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  • And then the king does something absurd, really.
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  • Daniel has just told him that his kingdom is finished,
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  • That babylon had fallen,
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  • And the king still "gave the command, and they clothed daniel
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  • "with purple and put a chain of gold around his neck,
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  • "and made a proclamation concerning him
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  • That he should be the third ruler in the kingdom."
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  • That poor, confused, misguided, and, i expect, fearful ruler
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  • Honored the man who just told him his kingdom
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  • Was going to be ripped away.
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  • It was one of the last things he would ever do.
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  • "that very night belshazzar, king of the chaldeans,
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  • Was slain."
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  • Now, i want you to see something incredibly important.
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  • The fall of babylon in the old testament book of daniel
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  • Prefigures the fall of babylon
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  • In the new testament book of revelation.
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  • Revelation borrows heavily from the old testament.
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  • Around 70 percent of the verses in revelation
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  • Contain quotes from or allusions to the old testament.
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  • The tree of life in revelation 22,
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  • John got that from ezekiel, chapter 47.
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  • It appears john got the imagery for the four horses
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  • In revelation 6 from zechariah, chapter 1.
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  • And all through revelation are references
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  • To the old testament sanctuary services.
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  • Where revelation talks at length about babylon,
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  • That's drawn from ancient babylon in the old testament,
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  • Which tells us that babylon in the end of time will contain
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  • Many characteristics of ancient babylon.
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  • If you want to learn about babylon in the end of time,
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  • Study babylon in the old testament.
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  • The fall of babylon features prominently in revelation.
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  • Now, look at these parallels.
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  • In jeremiah 51:13, babylon dwelled "by many waters."
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  • In revelation 17:1, babylon,
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  • The great apostate power of earth's last days,
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  • Is "the great harlot who sits on many waters."
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  • Again in jeremiah, babylon is "abundant in treasures."
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  • In revelation 17:4, babylon is "adorned with gold
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  • And precious stones and pearls."
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  • In jeremiah 51:7, "babylon was a golden cup
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  • In the lord's hand."
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  • In revelation 17:4, babylon has "in her hand a golden cup."
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  • In jeremiah 51, verse 8,
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  • "babylon has suddenly fallen and been destroyed."
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  • In revelation 14:8,
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  • Babylon in the last days "is fallen, is fallen."
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  • In isaiah 47, babylon says, "i shall be a lady forever....
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  • "i shall not sit as a widow,
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  • Nor shall i know the loss of children."
  • 00:14:38.267 --> 00:14:40.636
  • In revelation 18:7, "i sit as queen, and am no widow,
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  • And will not see sorrow."
  • 00:14:45.908 --> 00:14:48.043
  • Back in jeremiah 51, "my people, go out of the midst of her!"
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  • In revelation 18:4, god says to his people in babylon,
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  • "come out of her, my people."
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  • Jeremiah 51:48, when babylon falls,
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  • "then the heavens and the earth and all that is in them
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  • Shall sing joyously over babylon."
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  • Revelation 18:20, "rejoice over her, o heaven,
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  • And you holy apostles and prophets!"
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  • Jeremiah 51:64, "thus babylon shall sink and not rise
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  • From the catastrophe that i will bring upon her."
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  • Revelation 18:21, "thus with violence the great city babylon
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  • Shall be thrown down, and shall not be found anymore."
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  • In describing the great apostasy of the last days
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  • Of earth's history, john reaches back to ancient babylon
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  • And draws parallels.
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  • Ancient babylon was pagan and deep into spiritualism,
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  • Sun worship, and idolatry, with a corrupt priesthood
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  • And enormous wealth and influence.
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  • The great apostasy of earth's last days
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  • Will have many of these same characteristics.
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  • God did everything he could to reach babylon back then.
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  • In jeremiah 51, verse 9, the prophet says,
  • 00:16:04.920 --> 00:16:08.057
  • "we would have healed babylon, but she is not healed."
  • 00:16:08.057 --> 00:16:12.694
  • So how was it that a city as mighty,
  • 00:16:12.694 --> 00:16:14.930
  • As powerful as babylon fell?
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  • It was the greatest city in the world
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  • And thought to be impenetrable.
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  • Two chariots could pass by each other
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  • On the top of the city walls.
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  • That's how broad those walls were.
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  • The euphrates river flowed right through babylon,
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  • Much like the danube flows through budapest
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  • Or the nile through cairo.
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  • In 539 bc, cyrus wanted to conquer babylon,
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  • But how do you enter a city
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  • Surrounded by those massive walls?
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  • The people of babylon knew cyrus was on his way
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  • But weren't the least bit concerned,
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  • Believing they could wait out cyrus
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  • By holing up in their invulnerable city.
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  • Not able to enter babylon,
  • 00:16:58.507 --> 00:16:59.808
  • The brilliant strategist diverted the euphrates river.
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  • When the water level dropped, his soldiers marched through
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  • Knee-deep water and into the city.
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  • Here's another thing about this amazing story:
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  • It was predicted that cyrus would lead the armies
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  • Of the medes and persians 150 years before he was born.
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  • The book of isaiah was written around 700 bc.
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  • Babylon fell in 539 bc.
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  • Isaiah wrote, "who says to the deep, 'be dry!
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  • "and i will dry up your rivers'; who says of cyrus,
  • 00:17:35.210 --> 00:17:40.015
  • "'he is my shepherd, and he shall perform all my pleasure,
  • 00:17:40.015 --> 00:17:43.352
  • "'saying to jerusalem, "you shall be built,"
  • 00:17:43.352 --> 00:17:46.188
  • And to the temple, "your foundation shall be laid."'"
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  • Cyrus, you know, allowed the rebuilding of jerusalem.
  • 00:17:49.758 --> 00:17:53.695
  • "thus says the lord to his anointed, to cyrus,
  • 00:17:53.695 --> 00:17:57.166
  • "whose right hand i have held--to subdue nations
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  • "before him and loose the armor of kings,
  • 00:18:00.402 --> 00:18:03.338
  • "to open before him the double doors,
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  • So that the gates will not be shut."
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  • A century and a half before he was even alive,
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  • God named cyrus as the man
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  • Who would lead the overthrow of babylon.
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  • Now, if god had promised years before that babylon would fall
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  • And even named the man
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  • Who would lead the armies into the city,
  • 00:18:23.659 --> 00:18:26.094
  • Was god really giving belshazzar the opportunity to repent?
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  • Oh, absolutely.
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  • The fact that god knew what was going to happen in the future
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  • Does not mean that he didn't give the king every opportunity.
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  • Belshazzar wasn't doomed by the will of god.
  • 00:18:38.073 --> 00:18:41.710
  • He simply wouldn't repent, and god knew that.
  • 00:18:41.710 --> 00:18:46.014
  • And that says a lot about god.
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  • He knew the king had a hard heart,
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  • But he appealed to him anyway--like judas.
  • 00:18:50.919 --> 00:18:54.590
  • The betrayal of jesus by judas was prophesied
  • 00:18:54.590 --> 00:18:57.859
  • More than 500 years ahead of time.
  • 00:18:57.859 --> 00:19:00.963
  • But jesus appealed to judas, giving him evidence
  • 00:19:00.963 --> 00:19:04.533
  • That he read his heart, even washing his feet.
  • 00:19:04.533 --> 00:19:08.837
  • So, with the fall of babylon, the head of gold in the image
  • 00:19:08.837 --> 00:19:12.040
  • Of daniel 2 gave way to the chest and arms of silver.
  • 00:19:12.040 --> 00:19:15.978
  • This prediction was made in jeremiah 51, verses 36 and 37:
  • 00:19:15.978 --> 00:19:20.048
  • "therefore thus says the lord: 'behold,
  • 00:19:20.048 --> 00:19:23.352
  • "'i will plead your case and take vengeance for you.
  • 00:19:23.352 --> 00:19:27.122
  • "'i will dry up her sea and make her springs dry.
  • 00:19:27.122 --> 00:19:31.393
  • "'babylon shall become a heap, a dwelling place for jackals,
  • 00:19:31.393 --> 00:19:35.797
  • An astonishment and a hissing, without an inhabitant.'"
  • 00:19:35.797 --> 00:19:40.602
  • Which seemed impossible.
  • 00:19:40.602 --> 00:19:43.305
  • Mighty babylon? desolate?
  • 00:19:43.305 --> 00:19:46.408
  • That prophecy was read in babylon 55 years
  • 00:19:46.408 --> 00:19:50.112
  • Before the fall of babylon by seraiah, a jewish priest.
  • 00:19:50.112 --> 00:19:54.783
  • And here's something interesting.
  • 00:19:54.783 --> 00:19:56.285
  • It is, it is possible--now, there's some speculation here,
  • 00:19:56.285 --> 00:19:59.621
  • But it's possible--the bible says seraiah,
  • 00:19:59.621 --> 00:20:03.625
  • Who was commissioned by jeremiah to read this prophecy
  • 00:20:03.625 --> 00:20:06.461
  • In babylon, went to babylon with king zedekiah of judah.
  • 00:20:06.461 --> 00:20:10.499
  • It's possible zedekiah went to babylon at that time
  • 00:20:10.499 --> 00:20:15.504
  • To attend the dedication of nebuchadnezzar's image
  • 00:20:15.504 --> 00:20:18.473
  • On the plain of dura when daniel's three young friends
  • 00:20:18.473 --> 00:20:22.277
  • Were cast into a fiery furnace.
  • 00:20:22.277 --> 00:20:25.113
  • Jeremiah wrote that babylon "shall be desolate forever."
  • 00:20:25.113 --> 00:20:29.284
  • He said, "when you...[finish] reading this book,...
  • 00:20:29.284 --> 00:20:32.187
  • "tie a stone to it and throw it out into the euphrates.
  • 00:20:32.187 --> 00:20:36.258
  • "then you shall say, 'thus babylon shall sink and not rise
  • 00:20:36.258 --> 00:20:41.296
  • From the catastrophe that i will bring upon her.'"
  • 00:20:41.296 --> 00:20:44.266
  • When alexander the great attempted to rebuild babylon,
  • 00:20:44.266 --> 00:20:48.136
  • He could not. within a few hundred years,
  • 00:20:48.136 --> 00:20:50.138
  • Babylon was a ghost town, and it still is today.
  • 00:20:50.138 --> 00:20:54.843
  • We learned several things in this story.
  • 00:20:56.244 --> 00:20:58.246
  • We learned that when the bible says, "god so loved the world,"
  • 00:20:58.246 --> 00:21:01.516
  • It means the whole world,
  • 00:21:01.516 --> 00:21:03.652
  • Even people like nebuchadnezzar and belshazzar.
  • 00:21:03.652 --> 00:21:06.621
  • He did all he could to give both men everlasting life.
  • 00:21:06.621 --> 00:21:11.626
  • We learned that prophecy will be fulfilled.
  • 00:21:11.626 --> 00:21:13.929
  • The destruction of ancient babylon was predicted by god,
  • 00:21:13.929 --> 00:21:17.032
  • And it happened just as god said.
  • 00:21:17.032 --> 00:21:20.469
  • We know that the fall of ancient babylon is a precursor
  • 00:21:20.469 --> 00:21:24.573
  • To the fall of modern spiritual babylon,
  • 00:21:24.573 --> 00:21:27.809
  • Which will take place not too far into the future.
  • 00:21:27.809 --> 00:21:31.046
  • And we learn again that god does what he does
  • 00:21:31.046 --> 00:21:34.816
  • Because he wants people to turn to him in faith--
  • 00:21:34.816 --> 00:21:38.286
  • Not because he has an ego,
  • 00:21:38.286 --> 00:21:40.288
  • But because he is the source of life.
  • 00:21:40.288 --> 00:21:43.158
  • Of course he is. he's the creator.
  • 00:21:43.158 --> 00:21:46.395
  • There is no life outside of god, other than what you can squeeze
  • 00:21:46.395 --> 00:21:50.866
  • Out of your few short years
  • 00:21:50.866 --> 00:21:52.868
  • During the few passes you make around the sun.
  • 00:21:52.868 --> 00:21:56.505
  • And then what?
  • 00:21:56.505 --> 00:21:58.340
  • These stories are hugely consequential.
  • 00:21:58.340 --> 00:22:02.677
  • They show you that god is real, present,
  • 00:22:02.677 --> 00:22:06.481
  • That he cares about this world and the people in it,
  • 00:22:06.481 --> 00:22:09.818
  • That he cares about you.
  • 00:22:09.818 --> 00:22:13.622
  • Are you going to live your life
  • 00:22:13.622 --> 00:22:16.324
  • Without inviting god to be part of it?
  • 00:22:16.324 --> 00:22:19.895
  • The god who made this world,
  • 00:22:19.895 --> 00:22:22.364
  • Who preserved these remarkable stories,
  • 00:22:22.364 --> 00:22:25.967
  • Who allowed his son jesus to die for you on a cross
  • 00:22:25.967 --> 00:22:29.738
  • Is appealing to you now.
  • 00:22:29.738 --> 00:22:32.174
  • He's asking for your heart, and you can give him that.
  • 00:22:32.174 --> 00:22:36.044
  • He's the one who knows history before it happens.
  • 00:22:36.044 --> 00:22:38.713
  • It doesn't matter what others think or say.
  • 00:22:38.713 --> 00:22:40.882
  • Daniel 5 is evidence of god's love for you.
  • 00:22:40.882 --> 00:22:46.755
  • Belshazzar didn't just refuse to repent.
  • 00:22:46.755 --> 00:22:51.393
  • He refused to repent while having irrefutable evidence
  • 00:22:51.393 --> 00:22:54.663
  • Of the love and providence of god.
  • 00:22:54.663 --> 00:22:57.899
  • ♪[soft reflective music]♪
  • 00:22:57.899 --> 00:22:59.901
  • You have that, too--in the sunset you witness every day,
  • 00:22:59.901 --> 00:23:04.406
  • In the majesty of mountains, the splendor of creation;
  • 00:23:04.406 --> 00:23:08.677
  • In the laughter of a child;
  • 00:23:08.677 --> 00:23:10.312
  • In the remarkable machinery of the human body,
  • 00:23:10.312 --> 00:23:13.281
  • Your heart beating every couple of moments,
  • 00:23:13.281 --> 00:23:15.317
  • Your brain constantly sending chemical and electrical signals
  • 00:23:15.317 --> 00:23:18.620
  • Throughout your body;
  • 00:23:18.620 --> 00:23:20.121
  • And then the bible, with its remarkable predictions.
  • 00:23:20.121 --> 00:23:24.192
  • We've seen today many of them fulfilled.
  • 00:23:24.192 --> 00:23:27.529
  • This book is the word of god.
  • 00:23:27.529 --> 00:23:31.199
  • And then? the cross, where jesus died for you.
  • 00:23:31.199 --> 00:23:37.072
  • The cross is the greatest argument in favor
  • 00:23:37.072 --> 00:23:40.208
  • Of surrendering to god.
  • 00:23:40.208 --> 00:23:42.477
  • Jesus gave his life for you.
  • 00:23:42.477 --> 00:23:44.513
  • You have to respond to that.
  • 00:23:44.513 --> 00:23:46.748
  • And jesus is coming back soon,
  • 00:23:46.748 --> 00:23:48.783
  • To take the saved to be with him forever.
  • 00:23:48.783 --> 00:23:51.686
  • And you can be part of that, if you'll believe
  • 00:23:51.686 --> 00:23:54.389
  • That god is who he says he is,
  • 00:23:54.389 --> 00:23:57.259
  • If you choose to believe that jesus died for you,
  • 00:23:57.259 --> 00:24:00.629
  • And if you'll allow him to live his life in you right now--
  • 00:24:00.629 --> 00:24:06.401
  • And from now on.
  • 00:24:06.401 --> 00:24:08.904
  • Daniel 5 ends, "and darius the mede received the kingdom,
  • 00:24:08.904 --> 00:24:14.943
  • Being about sixty-two years old."
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  • >>john: let me pray with you now.
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  • Our father in heaven, thank you for evidence
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  • The bible is trustworthy, reliable, true--truth.
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  • We thank you today for the christ of the bible,
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  • Who's coming back soon for those who have welcomed him
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  • Into their heart.
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  • Friend, jesus is speaking to you right now.
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  • If you've never said, "jesus, be my lord and savior,"
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  • Would you pray that prayer now?
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  • "jesus, be my lord and savior. live your life in me.
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  • Guide me into my eternal future."
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  • Lord, we thank you for your word;
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  • We thank you that it is clear.
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  • We thank you that the past illuminates the future,
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  • And that shortly into the future,
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  • Jesus is coming back to take us home.
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  • Grant that we be ready now and ready then.
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  • We pray with thanks, in jesus' name,
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  • Amen.
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  • Thank you so much for joining me.
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  • I'm looking forward to seeing you again next time.
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  • Until then, remember:
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  • "it is written, 'man shall not live by bread alone,
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  • But by every word that proceeds from the mouth of god.'"
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  • ♪[dramatic, triumphant theme music]♪
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  • ♪[music ends]♪♪
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