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Speaker 1: Welcome in to the Wednesday Bible Study. Rick Burgess here,

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Speaker 1: Director of the Manchurch dot Com, Host of the Rick

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Speaker 1: to benefit if you've already been justified, because you're going

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Speaker 1: to be challenged and we're going to be sanctified and

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Speaker 1: we're going to make adjustments in our life and hold

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Speaker 1: But well, we never want to stop. Also the evangelism

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Speaker 1: are lost and bringing them in front of the presentation

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Speaker 1: of the power of the Gospel. So we will see

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Speaker 1: when you come to our conference, there's going to be

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Speaker 1: access to a resource that will not be available to

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Speaker 1: the rest of the country or the world until the spring.

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Speaker 1: But we're going to have a paperback version for all

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Speaker 1: the men to have access to when you come to

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Speaker 1: the conferences. So that'll be an exclusivity also involved in

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Speaker 1: your ticket when you come to see us, you have

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Speaker 1: an opportunity to get that while we're there. All right,

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Speaker 1: So let's open up in a word of prayer and

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Speaker 1: we will continue our study of the Book of Daniel.

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Speaker 1: Today we go to Daniel chapter eleven. Lord, thank you

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Speaker 1: for today, Lord help us. Today is all prophecy. It's

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Speaker 1: almost a history. And today as we watch the incredible

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Speaker 1: You are omnipotence, you are omnipresent, and you are omniscient,

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Speaker 1: and we will see that today. There's no doubt. So

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Speaker 1: Lord show that to us through your prophet Daniel, and

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Speaker 1: and the power of your Holy Word in your name,

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Speaker 1: we pray Amen. All right, So here's where we are. Okay,

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Speaker 1: we're getting close. You know, we're Daniel eleven. We're not

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Speaker 1: do Daniel eleven, Part B, and then we'll do twelve.

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Speaker 1: And I think we'll get through twelve in one Bible study,

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Speaker 1: so Daniel will be complete. I'm already kind of thinking

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Speaker 1: I have struggled with this Bible study today, not from

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Speaker 1: Sometimes it's easy to do the application part of a

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Speaker 1: told you last week. Those who opposed this, they try

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Speaker 1: said that Daniel was a prophet. So this is incredible

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Speaker 1: we're dealing with Hebrews right here, which is I told

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Speaker 1: looking back. Be careful, like a history lesson. I do

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Speaker 1: as clear, just as detailed. So you know, when you're

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Speaker 1: that he's so faithfully served. These things are not out

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Speaker 1: He sees them still ahead, and he sees these ages

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Speaker 1: gonna be a cat named Anticus. He's big in all this.

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Speaker 1: So you can kind of break it down in three

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Speaker 1: she shall not retain the strength of her arm and

428
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Speaker 1: he and his arms shall not endure. But she shall

429
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Speaker 1: be given up in her attendants, he who fathered her

430
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Speaker 1: and he who supported her in those times. And from

431
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Speaker 1: a branch from her roots one shall arise in his place.

432
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Speaker 1: He shall come against the army and enter the fortress

433
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Speaker 1: of the King of the North, and he shall deal

434
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Speaker 1: with them and shall prevail. He shall also carry off

435
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Speaker 1: to Egypt their gods. Here comes Egypt, with their metal

436
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Speaker 1: images and their precious vessels of silver and gold. And

437
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Speaker 1: for some years he shall refrain from attacking the King

438
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Speaker 1: of the North. Then the latter shall come into the

439
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Speaker 1: realm of the King of the South, but shall return

440
00:26:05,760 --> 00:26:09,680
Speaker 1: to his own land. Now, now we're getting into this

441
00:26:09,720 --> 00:26:12,679
Speaker 1: is where I'm just gonna have to to give you

442
00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,680
Speaker 1: an overview. We can we can dive in here and

443
00:26:16,920 --> 00:26:19,960
Speaker 1: never return. I mean, we could be in here. So

444
00:26:20,160 --> 00:26:23,959
Speaker 1: many things are happening here. So let's talk about the

445
00:26:23,960 --> 00:26:27,720
Speaker 1: Egyptian prince that they're speaking in. This was one of

446
00:26:27,800 --> 00:26:32,280
Speaker 1: Alexander the great successors. Uh. And he he went and said,

447
00:26:32,280 --> 00:26:34,159
Speaker 1: they I gotta I'm going to try to see if

448
00:26:34,160 --> 00:26:37,639
Speaker 1: I can't get a new dynasty going in Egypt. So

449
00:26:37,880 --> 00:26:40,600
Speaker 1: now his son is this strong king of the south.

450
00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:44,119
Speaker 1: What is which is being mentioned? Uh? Then we have

451
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Speaker 1: in verse six this Egyptian princess. There were two kings

452
00:26:48,359 --> 00:26:53,760
Speaker 1: that dominate this prophetic stage. You've got Tomi Lee Philadelphias,

453
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Speaker 1: and then you are who's gonna be the king of

454
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Speaker 1: the South. And then here he comes Anticus, theos king

455
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Speaker 1: of the North. And the daughter that is mentioned here

456
00:27:03,640 --> 00:27:07,240
Speaker 1: is actually the daughter of Anticus. Her name is Bernice,

457
00:27:07,760 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: and you can find her throughout throughout history. So what's

458
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:16,199
Speaker 1: going on here is now we we just go on

459
00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:20,680
Speaker 1: a wild ride of every all these different kingdoms fighting

460
00:27:21,320 --> 00:27:25,880
Speaker 1: and and all these different kingdoms. You know, I took

461
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Speaker 1: out this person. You took out me, uh the branch

462
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Speaker 1: of the of the of the roots that they're talking

463
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Speaker 1: about seven through nine. That's gonna be one of the

464
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Speaker 1: uh the other children of uh Bernice's parents. So Antiicus

465
00:27:40,040 --> 00:27:42,879
Speaker 1: had other children and they talk about there's other roots

466
00:27:42,880 --> 00:27:45,840
Speaker 1: that will be coming out of that. And Uh, this

467
00:27:46,040 --> 00:27:50,120
Speaker 1: is all dealing with with Anticus, who has now come

468
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,960
Speaker 1: on the scene. So he he is going to to

469
00:27:54,040 --> 00:27:57,920
Speaker 1: try to take over everything if he possibly can. Uh.

470
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Speaker 1: And then you're gonna see that Bernice, who is now

471
00:28:01,880 --> 00:28:05,320
Speaker 1: the Egyptian princess uh, is going to be kind of

472
00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,720
Speaker 1: used back and forth for leverage. Uh. And then you're

473
00:28:08,760 --> 00:28:12,760
Speaker 1: gonna see in seven through nine, you're it's talking about

474
00:28:12,840 --> 00:28:15,399
Speaker 1: there will be an Egyptian protest out of the branch

475
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Speaker 1: of her roots refers to, like I say, one of

476
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Speaker 1: her other children. We think it's her. It's Bernice's brother

477
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Speaker 1: who's also named tom Lee uh and who succeeded his

478
00:28:26,840 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: father Philadelphia. So you're gonna see them. You've got one

479
00:28:30,040 --> 00:28:32,560
Speaker 1: that came from Anticus and one that came from Tomily,

480
00:28:33,160 --> 00:28:36,760
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see them kind of go back and forth,

481
00:28:36,840 --> 00:28:39,560
Speaker 1: and they're gonna have all kinds of problems and uh.

482
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Speaker 1: And then you're we're gonna get down to the wars

483
00:28:42,920 --> 00:28:46,880
Speaker 1: of Antichus the Great. Okay, So eventually uh he ends

484
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Speaker 1: up where he wants to be. And this is going

485
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Speaker 1: to start in verse ten. Uh. So and we're going

486
00:28:51,640 --> 00:28:55,480
Speaker 1: to go through, go through ten through twenty. So his

487
00:28:55,640 --> 00:28:59,720
Speaker 1: son shall wage war, and asseymbol a multitude of great forces,

488
00:29:00,120 --> 00:29:03,080
Speaker 1: which shall keep coming and overflow and pass through, and

489
00:29:03,120 --> 00:29:06,240
Speaker 1: again shall carry the war as far as his fortress.

490
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Speaker 1: Then the King of the South, moved with rage, shall

491
00:29:10,280 --> 00:29:12,400
Speaker 1: come and fight against the King of the North, and

492
00:29:12,440 --> 00:29:14,840
Speaker 1: he shall raise a great multitude, but it shall be

493
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Speaker 1: given into his hand. And when the multitude is taken away,

494
00:29:18,200 --> 00:29:21,160
Speaker 1: his heart shall be exalted, and he shall cast down

495
00:29:21,200 --> 00:29:24,680
Speaker 1: tens of thousands, but he shall not prevail, for the

496
00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:28,400
Speaker 1: King of the North shall raise a multitude greater than

497
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Speaker 1: the first. And after some years he shall come on

498
00:29:32,840 --> 00:29:35,920
Speaker 1: with a great army and abundant supply. So this is

499
00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:40,240
Speaker 1: ten through fourteen on exactly what's going on here. So

500
00:29:40,720 --> 00:29:44,920
Speaker 1: this is the first campaign Anticus was, you know, it

501
00:29:44,600 --> 00:29:48,800
Speaker 1: was at first in verse ten victorious, then kind of vanquished,

502
00:29:49,720 --> 00:29:53,000
Speaker 1: and we don't see him for a while, and he

503
00:29:53,120 --> 00:29:56,360
Speaker 1: kind of waits around, he waits on his time, and

504
00:29:56,400 --> 00:29:58,560
Speaker 1: then and then he kind of comes back after he

505
00:29:58,640 --> 00:30:01,720
Speaker 1: lets everybody else kind of kill each other off. He's

506
00:30:01,920 --> 00:30:04,520
Speaker 1: very very savvy, and then he kind of works his

507
00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:09,920
Speaker 1: way kind of back in to power again and so

508
00:30:09,960 --> 00:30:12,760
Speaker 1: he was ready for this. And while he's letting all

509
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Speaker 1: this go on in eleven and twelve, letting people vanquish

510
00:30:17,200 --> 00:30:21,560
Speaker 1: each other, he massed a great army of seventy thousand

511
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:27,360
Speaker 1: infantry five thousand cavalry, and confident of more speedy victories,

512
00:30:27,400 --> 00:30:31,800
Speaker 1: he besieged the Egyptian border fortress of Raphaia, not far

513
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Speaker 1: from Gaza. And then it goes into this battle. The

514
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Speaker 1: King of the South that they're talking about again is

515
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Speaker 1: doing battle with Anticus. I mean, he is the king

516
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Speaker 1: of the South doing battle with the King of the North.

517
00:30:43,560 --> 00:30:46,480
Speaker 1: I should say so before returning to Egypt and his

518
00:30:46,600 --> 00:30:50,040
Speaker 1: pride and self will Here's where Antichus starts all this.

519
00:30:50,760 --> 00:30:55,600
Speaker 1: He profaned the Jewish temple in Jerusalem. Now this is

520
00:30:55,680 --> 00:30:58,240
Speaker 1: gonna be an ig This is just gonna make the

521
00:30:58,320 --> 00:31:02,280
Speaker 1: Jewish people furious. And he demanded entrance into the Holy

522
00:31:02,320 --> 00:31:07,600
Speaker 1: of Holies. But you're going to find out that when

523
00:31:07,720 --> 00:31:15,120
Speaker 1: Anticus set he sent actually his priest religious guru. He

524
00:31:15,240 --> 00:31:18,440
Speaker 1: wanted him to go into this temple for him. He

525
00:31:18,480 --> 00:31:20,680
Speaker 1: wanted him to go in and grab all these things

526
00:31:20,720 --> 00:31:24,920
Speaker 1: out of the treasury of the Holy of Holies in Jerusalem.

527
00:31:25,280 --> 00:31:28,200
Speaker 1: He sends him there and it documents you'll see in

528
00:31:28,240 --> 00:31:29,760
Speaker 1: the future if you go back through history, you can

529
00:31:29,800 --> 00:31:33,040
Speaker 1: see this. So when Anticus tries to get in there,

530
00:31:33,480 --> 00:31:37,400
Speaker 1: and he starts trying to gather out of the temple's

531
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Speaker 1: treasury what he wants, profaning the temple and trying to

532
00:31:41,120 --> 00:31:43,719
Speaker 1: get to the Holy of Holies, believe it or not,

533
00:31:45,640 --> 00:31:47,880
Speaker 1: the person that he sent there, which was kind of

534
00:31:47,920 --> 00:31:49,960
Speaker 1: like a religious guru, if he is to go get this,

535
00:31:50,520 --> 00:31:54,400
Speaker 1: that person could not get in. And what stopped that

536
00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:58,840
Speaker 1: person was something supernatural. So here's Antikas saying, go get

537
00:31:58,920 --> 00:32:01,560
Speaker 1: us the money we need. I need to keep waging war.

538
00:32:01,680 --> 00:32:04,680
Speaker 1: I want to be the next conqueror. I want to

539
00:32:04,720 --> 00:32:08,160
Speaker 1: run Egypt. I want to run you know, all of

540
00:32:08,200 --> 00:32:12,320
Speaker 1: the Middle East. I need some more money. Go into Jerusalem,

541
00:32:12,360 --> 00:32:14,600
Speaker 1: go into the temple and get me some money out

542
00:32:14,600 --> 00:32:19,120
Speaker 1: of their treasury. And how about this. It didn't work. Uh, well,

543
00:32:19,440 --> 00:32:23,720
Speaker 1: he stopped by something that was supernatural and stopped him

544
00:32:23,760 --> 00:32:28,040
Speaker 1: in his tracks. So so this before returning to Egypt,

545
00:32:28,160 --> 00:32:29,920
Speaker 1: you know, and all that that was different. But the

546
00:32:29,960 --> 00:32:36,000
Speaker 1: Jewish people now come increasingly more prominent in the prophecy

547
00:32:36,480 --> 00:32:39,600
Speaker 1: focused in the rest of this chapter. Chapter all of

548
00:32:39,640 --> 00:32:43,600
Speaker 1: the history on Earth from a divine standpoint. This is

549
00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:45,080
Speaker 1: why we call it the center of the universe. I'm

550
00:32:45,080 --> 00:32:49,400
Speaker 1: gonna say this again, all of world history from a

551
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:53,680
Speaker 1: divine standpoint. And you got to understand this because I

552
00:32:53,760 --> 00:32:56,040
Speaker 1: know we get in our mind that we are the

553
00:32:56,080 --> 00:33:00,479
Speaker 1: center of the universe as Americans. We are not. We

554
00:33:00,720 --> 00:33:05,280
Speaker 1: are not the center of the universe. And the center

555
00:33:05,720 --> 00:33:12,360
Speaker 1: of God's divine prophecy and divine world history is Israel.

556
00:33:13,400 --> 00:33:16,520
Speaker 1: It is not the United States of America. We play

557
00:33:16,560 --> 00:33:19,440
Speaker 1: a role in world history, just like all these other

558
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:23,560
Speaker 1: empires you see in this prophecy, But everything that is

559
00:33:23,640 --> 00:33:28,760
Speaker 1: happening in the world from God's standpoint all focuses on Israel.

560
00:33:29,120 --> 00:33:31,920
Speaker 1: My goodness, we get there for the final battle of

561
00:33:32,000 --> 00:33:36,200
Speaker 1: all time. Okay, and he's he's working out if you

562
00:33:36,200 --> 00:33:39,400
Speaker 1: want to look at what's happening here. Oh, this is

563
00:33:39,440 --> 00:33:45,640
Speaker 1: gonna be email, but it's absolutely true. Okay, everybody hear me. Now, Look,

564
00:33:46,080 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: we're not gonna have a talk about how all this works.

565
00:33:50,360 --> 00:33:55,320
Speaker 1: Because this dance between God's sovereignty and him allowing choices

566
00:33:55,360 --> 00:33:58,400
Speaker 1: to be made, I'm just gonna break it to you.

567
00:33:58,760 --> 00:34:01,440
Speaker 1: I know, people claim that they understand that they don't.

568
00:34:02,600 --> 00:34:05,280
Speaker 1: Anybody that thinks they can understand that with a finite brain.

569
00:34:05,560 --> 00:34:08,799
Speaker 1: They just they're just arrogant. They really, we just have

570
00:34:08,880 --> 00:34:13,239
Speaker 1: to accept it. Is God sovereign? Yes? Can he see

571
00:34:13,280 --> 00:34:17,879
Speaker 1: time for beginning to end? Yes? Is he surprised by anything? No?

572
00:34:18,640 --> 00:34:25,080
Speaker 1: Does he seem to allow people to make choices? Yes? Yes? Uh,

573
00:34:25,120 --> 00:34:26,520
Speaker 1: we can't even get out of the guard to even

574
00:34:26,560 --> 00:34:30,040
Speaker 1: with that one. Okay. And then so this is where

575
00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:35,520
Speaker 1: we see this again. Now, does God know what's gonna happen? Yes, okay, So,

576
00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:38,920
Speaker 1: but this is that moment about the center of the universe,

577
00:34:38,920 --> 00:34:40,839
Speaker 1: and you're gonna see it. This makes the revelation, if

578
00:34:40,880 --> 00:34:44,520
Speaker 1: you remember, we talked about this so so, so so interesting.

579
00:34:45,480 --> 00:34:50,080
Speaker 1: The the intention, even though he knows and we're gonna

580
00:34:50,480 --> 00:34:54,839
Speaker 1: I was gonna go, was that the Hebrews would acknowledge

581
00:34:54,920 --> 00:34:59,720
Speaker 1: Jesus as Messiah. They would acknowledge that the sacrificial ritual

582
00:35:00,760 --> 00:35:05,280
Speaker 1: rituals were all over the sacrificial system was fulfilled in Jesus,

583
00:35:05,680 --> 00:35:09,359
Speaker 1: the final Lamb of God. Okay, and then when he

584
00:35:09,400 --> 00:35:13,160
Speaker 1: would be if the Hebrews accepting him as Messiah, they

585
00:35:13,200 --> 00:35:18,360
Speaker 1: would then take the gospel to the rest of the world. Saying,

586
00:35:18,760 --> 00:35:21,920
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, the Son of God, has come. This is

587
00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,279
Speaker 1: our Messiah. He has now redeemed the world. He is

588
00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:30,080
Speaker 1: now fulfilled the sacrificial system, and redemption is available in

589
00:35:30,120 --> 00:35:34,560
Speaker 1: the Lamb of God. But that didn't happen. Matthew twenty

590
00:35:34,560 --> 00:35:39,200
Speaker 1: three thirty seven, crying over Jerusalem, Jesus says, you have

591
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,920
Speaker 1: killed the prophets, You have stoned those that my Father

592
00:35:43,000 --> 00:35:46,720
Speaker 1: has sent you. Oh, how I long to gather you together,

593
00:35:46,920 --> 00:35:52,600
Speaker 1: the Hebrews and protect you under my wings like a

594
00:35:52,719 --> 00:35:56,640
Speaker 1: hen who protects her cheeks are chicks. But you were

595
00:35:56,760 --> 00:36:02,920
Speaker 1: not willing. You rejected me. So now what happens. Israel

596
00:36:03,000 --> 00:36:05,200
Speaker 1: is still the center of the universe, but there's a

597
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:09,560
Speaker 1: shift now to the gentiles. There's a shift now to

598
00:36:09,600 --> 00:36:15,000
Speaker 1: the Church. Now the Church has been given at Pentecost

599
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:20,200
Speaker 1: the commandment from God to take Messiah to the rest

600
00:36:20,280 --> 00:36:23,880
Speaker 1: of the world, and Messionic Jewish people too. All of

601
00:36:23,880 --> 00:36:29,239
Speaker 1: those that have acknowledged Jesus as Savior, as Lord, as Messiah,

602
00:36:29,320 --> 00:36:33,240
Speaker 1: gentile and jew y'all go out and evangelize the world

603
00:36:33,520 --> 00:36:35,280
Speaker 1: until we get to the end of the Church age,

604
00:36:35,280 --> 00:36:38,799
Speaker 1: which is a time nobody knows. But the center of

605
00:36:38,840 --> 00:36:42,800
Speaker 1: the universe is still Israel because it's all coming back there.

606
00:36:43,440 --> 00:36:46,000
Speaker 1: And then we get to the revelation. We see one

607
00:36:46,080 --> 00:36:49,600
Speaker 1: hundred and forty four thousand Hebrews, who are some of

608
00:36:49,600 --> 00:36:53,279
Speaker 1: the greatest evangelists the world have ever seen. The only

609
00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:58,200
Speaker 1: bad part is now they're evangelizing during the tribulation. But

610
00:36:58,280 --> 00:37:02,480
Speaker 1: they finally do wake up. So what we're seeing here

611
00:37:03,200 --> 00:37:10,440
Speaker 1: is all these attempts by the evil forces, Satan and

612
00:37:10,480 --> 00:37:13,720
Speaker 1: the third of the Demons. All of this you're seeing

613
00:37:13,800 --> 00:37:16,080
Speaker 1: right now, if I can just simplify it for you,

614
00:37:16,360 --> 00:37:20,240
Speaker 1: are all the attempts to keep these things from happening.

615
00:37:20,760 --> 00:37:23,279
Speaker 1: But they're going to happen. But all of this is

616
00:37:23,320 --> 00:37:26,759
Speaker 1: about somehow somebody's got to take control of Israel and

617
00:37:26,840 --> 00:37:31,799
Speaker 1: keep it. And it's still going on today. Okay, this

618
00:37:31,920 --> 00:37:35,040
Speaker 1: is what this is the time of the Gentiles. And

619
00:37:35,080 --> 00:37:39,560
Speaker 1: what do the Gentiles do? They persecute the Hebrews, and

620
00:37:40,239 --> 00:37:43,520
Speaker 1: so how long does this persecution of the Hebrews continue?

621
00:37:43,960 --> 00:37:48,240
Speaker 1: We don't know. We're told by Jesus to the number

622
00:37:48,280 --> 00:37:51,880
Speaker 1: of the Gentiles. Come in. Now you can get to

623
00:37:52,000 --> 00:37:55,480
Speaker 1: some of the dispensation lists out there, and they'll tell

624
00:37:55,480 --> 00:38:00,200
Speaker 1: you this everything that needs to take place on this earth.

625
00:38:01,000 --> 00:38:04,919
Speaker 1: For Jesus to return and take his church had been

626
00:38:04,920 --> 00:38:11,440
Speaker 1: accomplished in the forties, okay, And some will even go

627
00:38:11,480 --> 00:38:14,800
Speaker 1: as far as to say, really, maybe even the late twenties,

628
00:38:15,920 --> 00:38:20,840
Speaker 1: and so people have been saying, what is the delay

629
00:38:21,680 --> 00:38:25,680
Speaker 1: for Jesus to return, especially once we acknowledged Israel as

630
00:38:25,680 --> 00:38:32,400
Speaker 1: a sovereign nation again at forty eight And there in

631
00:38:33,280 --> 00:38:36,759
Speaker 1: one of these speculations, and that's what it is. It's

632
00:38:36,800 --> 00:38:40,560
Speaker 1: this number Jesus is talking about. So if you are

633
00:38:40,600 --> 00:38:44,440
Speaker 1: not out doing what Jesus told you to do, and

634
00:38:44,480 --> 00:38:47,359
Speaker 1: you're not being a disciple, and you're not making disciples,

635
00:38:47,520 --> 00:38:50,640
Speaker 1: you are delaying the return of Jesus because the number

636
00:38:50,640 --> 00:38:54,240
Speaker 1: hadn't come in. We're not hustling to get to the number.

637
00:38:55,719 --> 00:38:59,040
Speaker 1: Jesus is waiting on a number of gentiles to come

638
00:38:59,080 --> 00:39:01,919
Speaker 1: to faith in Christ and we don't have it yet.

639
00:39:03,400 --> 00:39:06,080
Speaker 1: Are we still hanging around here in twenty twenty five

640
00:39:06,239 --> 00:39:11,839
Speaker 1: because you and I aren't doing our job. It's up

641
00:39:11,880 --> 00:39:17,520
Speaker 1: to consider. So now we're going to see where things

642
00:39:17,640 --> 00:39:23,839
Speaker 1: in verse Let's continue on in verse fourteen. In those

643
00:39:23,880 --> 00:39:27,240
Speaker 1: times many shall rise against the King of the South Antika.

644
00:39:27,239 --> 00:39:29,480
Speaker 1: It's got a lot of fights going on, and violence

645
00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:33,600
Speaker 1: and violent among your own people shall lift themselves up

646
00:39:33,680 --> 00:39:38,399
Speaker 1: into up in order to fulfill the vision, but they

647
00:39:38,440 --> 00:39:41,200
Speaker 1: shall fail. Then the king of the North shall come

648
00:39:41,239 --> 00:39:45,040
Speaker 1: and throw up siege works and take a well fortified city.

649
00:39:45,400 --> 00:39:48,120
Speaker 1: And the forces of the South shall not stand, and

650
00:39:48,200 --> 00:39:50,920
Speaker 1: even his best troops, for they shall be no strength

651
00:39:50,920 --> 00:39:54,640
Speaker 1: to stand. But he who comes against him shall do

652
00:39:54,680 --> 00:39:57,520
Speaker 1: as he wills will, and none shall stand before him.

653
00:39:57,719 --> 00:40:00,880
Speaker 1: And he shall stand in the glorious land with destruction

654
00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:03,600
Speaker 1: in his hand. He shall set his face to come

655
00:40:03,880 --> 00:40:06,160
Speaker 1: with the strength of his whole kingdom, and he shall

656
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:09,360
Speaker 1: bring terms of an agreement and perform them. He shall

657
00:40:09,400 --> 00:40:12,319
Speaker 1: give them the daughter of women. You're not gonna believe

658
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:15,200
Speaker 1: who that is to destroy the kingdom, But it shall

659
00:40:15,239 --> 00:40:18,640
Speaker 1: not stand or be to his advantage. Afterward, he shall

660
00:40:18,680 --> 00:40:22,120
Speaker 1: turn his face to the coast lands and shall capture

661
00:40:22,200 --> 00:40:25,160
Speaker 1: many of them. But a commander shall put an end

662
00:40:25,640 --> 00:40:31,120
Speaker 1: to his insolence. Indeed, he shall turn his insolence back

663
00:40:31,920 --> 00:40:34,680
Speaker 1: upon him. Then he shall turn his face back toward

664
00:40:34,760 --> 00:40:38,600
Speaker 1: the fortress of his own land. But he shall stumble

665
00:40:38,680 --> 00:40:42,200
Speaker 1: and fall and shall not be found. Then shall arise

666
00:40:42,239 --> 00:40:45,560
Speaker 1: in his place one who shall send an exactor of

667
00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:48,319
Speaker 1: tribute for the glory of the kingdom. But in a

668
00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: few days he shall be broken, neither in anger nor

669
00:40:52,160 --> 00:40:56,359
Speaker 1: in battle. All right, let's pick up, because really down

670
00:40:56,360 --> 00:40:59,879
Speaker 1: to seventeen, it's still the same stuff I've been talking about.

671
00:41:00,280 --> 00:41:02,799
Speaker 1: Seventeen is now going to get us to where we'll

672
00:41:02,880 --> 00:41:10,360
Speaker 1: finish today through twenty. So Anticus is going after Egypt.

673
00:41:10,920 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: He wants to take over Egypt. Okay, he's all this

674
00:41:15,840 --> 00:41:19,399
Speaker 1: remnant laying around after Alexander the Great, and Anticus says,

675
00:41:19,520 --> 00:41:22,160
Speaker 1: I think i can go back and have world dominance again.

676
00:41:22,800 --> 00:41:26,400
Speaker 1: And I've cut all these deals, I've done all these things,

677
00:41:26,400 --> 00:41:29,839
Speaker 1: I've defeated these people, I've over here, I've hid, I've manipulated,

678
00:41:29,880 --> 00:41:32,520
Speaker 1: I tried to even go get treasury out of the temple,

679
00:41:32,560 --> 00:41:35,640
Speaker 1: and I got all these things going on. But here's

680
00:41:35,680 --> 00:41:40,680
Speaker 1: what happens. So you're going to find here that he

681
00:41:40,800 --> 00:41:44,560
Speaker 1: makes a really big mistake because guests who's come on

682
00:41:44,600 --> 00:41:49,200
Speaker 1: the scene now the Romans, and Anticus thinks that he's

683
00:41:49,239 --> 00:41:51,920
Speaker 1: just going to wage war on them, and that's going

684
00:41:52,000 --> 00:41:57,719
Speaker 1: to be a huge, huge mistake. Okay, So Egypt realizes

685
00:41:58,000 --> 00:42:02,440
Speaker 1: they're not at that time ready to beat Anticus. Okay,

686
00:42:02,880 --> 00:42:06,839
Speaker 1: we can't beat him, and we think that Rome is

687
00:42:06,880 --> 00:42:10,040
Speaker 1: now who we're loyal to. So we're going to tattle

688
00:42:10,200 --> 00:42:13,480
Speaker 1: and tell Rome on Antiicus. That's really what they do.

689
00:42:13,880 --> 00:42:18,239
Speaker 1: They call Rome for help. Now. Anticus then is going

690
00:42:18,280 --> 00:42:21,440
Speaker 1: to back off because he realizes that that's not a war.

691
00:42:21,480 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: He wants to fight, and he tries to make peace,

692
00:42:24,760 --> 00:42:28,319
Speaker 1: and he makes a proposal to the Egyptians that are

693
00:42:28,320 --> 00:42:32,640
Speaker 1: you ready for this? That his daughter the daughter of

694
00:42:32,760 --> 00:42:35,040
Speaker 1: women and all that means that she was a child.

695
00:42:35,920 --> 00:42:39,880
Speaker 1: Let's take my daughter. And you remember my old foe

696
00:42:40,000 --> 00:42:44,560
Speaker 1: that I had, Tomily. He's got a child that's seven

697
00:42:44,680 --> 00:42:48,040
Speaker 1: years old, who's now there in Egypt, And why don't

698
00:42:48,080 --> 00:42:52,400
Speaker 1: we do this. I'm gonna say that I'll take my

699
00:42:52,600 --> 00:42:56,120
Speaker 1: daughter and let's go get Tommi Lee, who's now you

700
00:42:56,160 --> 00:43:01,040
Speaker 1: know with the Romans, Let's take your son who let's

701
00:43:01,200 --> 00:43:04,279
Speaker 1: let's say they're gonna be husband and wife. Let's make

702
00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,480
Speaker 1: a deal right now as a dowry, because Anticus had

703
00:43:08,480 --> 00:43:11,719
Speaker 1: done pretty good. I'll give you Syria, which i've taken over.

704
00:43:12,080 --> 00:43:14,680
Speaker 1: I'll give you Phoenicia, which I've taken over, and i'll

705
00:43:14,719 --> 00:43:18,840
Speaker 1: give you Palestine. That's my dowry from my daughter. Okay,

706
00:43:19,560 --> 00:43:22,439
Speaker 1: and uh, by the way, in history, he never kept

707
00:43:22,440 --> 00:43:25,480
Speaker 1: that promise. He didn't give any of that to him.

708
00:43:25,560 --> 00:43:28,920
Speaker 1: But he's he's proposing that Anticus is a worm. Okay,

709
00:43:29,520 --> 00:43:33,839
Speaker 1: So listen to this. Yes, guess what the daughter's name was, Cleopatra.

710
00:43:34,960 --> 00:43:38,160
Speaker 1: Y'all may have heard of her. So Cleopatra now comes

711
00:43:38,160 --> 00:43:41,479
Speaker 1: on the scene. And so here's what we know though.

712
00:43:42,080 --> 00:43:45,719
Speaker 1: So he wanted Cleopatra to now kind of win him

713
00:43:45,719 --> 00:43:48,560
Speaker 1: some peace. He's gonna promise this dowry that never delivers,

714
00:43:48,920 --> 00:43:52,319
Speaker 1: and then he wants her to be taken inside and

715
00:43:52,360 --> 00:43:57,160
Speaker 1: then be loyal to daddy. But that doesn't happen. Cleopatra

716
00:43:57,320 --> 00:44:00,000
Speaker 1: goes in there and actually becomes loyal to who the Egyptians.

717
00:44:01,840 --> 00:44:05,520
Speaker 1: She goes against Daddy, So this kind of backfires on

718
00:44:06,040 --> 00:44:09,319
Speaker 1: him a little bit. She likes her new family more

719
00:44:09,320 --> 00:44:14,320
Speaker 1: than she likes her daddy, So she went all in

720
00:44:14,560 --> 00:44:19,040
Speaker 1: with Egypt. And now if she went all in with Egypt,

721
00:44:19,040 --> 00:44:23,080
Speaker 1: guess who Egypt's going all in with? The Romans. You

722
00:44:23,120 --> 00:44:25,560
Speaker 1: remember some of those stories that some fictional, some not

723
00:44:25,719 --> 00:44:29,640
Speaker 1: with Cleopatra and mark Antony and all that. So she's

724
00:44:29,680 --> 00:44:33,600
Speaker 1: now in with the Romans. And now Anticus still wasn't

725
00:44:33,640 --> 00:44:36,560
Speaker 1: finished in verses eighteen to twenty that I just read

726
00:44:36,560 --> 00:44:39,319
Speaker 1: to you, He's gonna try one more time. So he

727
00:44:39,360 --> 00:44:42,480
Speaker 1: puts a fleet of three hundred ships together. He attacks

728
00:44:42,520 --> 00:44:46,520
Speaker 1: the coastland, the coastland and the islands of Asia Minor

729
00:44:46,600 --> 00:44:50,200
Speaker 1: and Greece. Romans try to negotiate with him, but he

730
00:44:50,280 --> 00:44:55,360
Speaker 1: will not negotiate, and so he says that these places

731
00:44:55,400 --> 00:44:58,160
Speaker 1: that he's taken, keep in mind, the Romans are taking

732
00:44:58,200 --> 00:45:01,680
Speaker 1: these places over themselves. Antichus is saying none other Asia

733
00:45:01,719 --> 00:45:05,279
Speaker 1: Minor and Greece, Greece, that's me, that's mine, and the

734
00:45:05,360 --> 00:45:08,279
Speaker 1: Romans going, no, it's not anymore. And and so now

735
00:45:08,280 --> 00:45:11,040
Speaker 1: he's trying to attack them to take them back, and saying,

736
00:45:11,080 --> 00:45:15,000
Speaker 1: I'm not going to negotiate with you because these are mine. Well,

737
00:45:15,320 --> 00:45:17,359
Speaker 1: the Romans, you ever get to the point where you're

738
00:45:17,360 --> 00:45:20,160
Speaker 1: trying to work with somebody and you just done. You

739
00:45:20,280 --> 00:45:22,400
Speaker 1: just say, you know what, I can't, I can't, I

740
00:45:22,400 --> 00:45:25,440
Speaker 1: can't trust you. You don't hold anything. And as I

741
00:45:25,520 --> 00:45:29,560
Speaker 1: have finally had enough, Well, the Romans finally had enough

742
00:45:29,560 --> 00:45:33,480
Speaker 1: of Anticus and all his conniving ways, and they had

743
00:45:33,520 --> 00:45:36,680
Speaker 1: the power over him. They defeated him soundly, and they

744
00:45:36,760 --> 00:45:40,920
Speaker 1: expelled him from Greece altogether. So a few months later,

745
00:45:41,560 --> 00:45:44,400
Speaker 1: I mean this guy, a few months later, he and

746
00:45:44,440 --> 00:45:48,040
Speaker 1: some of the men try to plunder a Roman temple.

747
00:45:48,600 --> 00:45:52,040
Speaker 1: It was one of the temples for Zeus there, and

748
00:45:52,080 --> 00:45:55,560
Speaker 1: it infuriated the locals, and the locals actually rose up

749
00:45:55,560 --> 00:45:59,480
Speaker 1: and killed them, so took him out. So that that's

750
00:45:59,560 --> 00:46:03,880
Speaker 1: verse night team. So in twenty uh, this is telling

751
00:46:03,960 --> 00:46:09,799
Speaker 1: us that that even though that even though Anticus was

752
00:46:09,920 --> 00:46:15,520
Speaker 1: killed by these locals, Anticus has been producing children. Okay uh,

753
00:46:15,560 --> 00:46:19,520
Speaker 1: And so look what it says in twenty twenty tells

754
00:46:19,600 --> 00:46:22,440
Speaker 1: us this. It says, then shall arise in his place.

755
00:46:22,480 --> 00:46:26,400
Speaker 1: That's Anticus, one who shall send an exactor of tribute

756
00:46:26,719 --> 00:46:29,399
Speaker 1: for the glory of the kingdom. But within a few

757
00:46:29,480 --> 00:46:33,160
Speaker 1: days he shall be broken, neither in anger or in battle.

758
00:46:33,239 --> 00:46:37,800
Speaker 1: So what is this, Well, it means that that Anticus

759
00:46:38,360 --> 00:46:42,040
Speaker 1: had a son here who was your typical tyrant. And

760
00:46:42,080 --> 00:46:44,920
Speaker 1: what do tyrants always do? We know this in our

761
00:46:44,960 --> 00:46:48,480
Speaker 1: own country. What does a tyrant always do? They raise taxes,

762
00:46:49,360 --> 00:46:51,600
Speaker 1: They're they're gonna raise taxes, and they're gonna try to

763
00:46:51,640 --> 00:46:55,359
Speaker 1: take take, take, take, take fill their coffers. They live

764
00:46:55,440 --> 00:46:58,640
Speaker 1: one way, the ruling class lives one way, and everybody

765
00:46:58,680 --> 00:47:03,120
Speaker 1: else lives another way. That's called what a tyrannical government.

766
00:47:04,040 --> 00:47:08,439
Speaker 1: And that's why socialism is called soft tyranny. Socialism looks

767
00:47:08,480 --> 00:47:11,799
Speaker 1: good unless you have to live in it. Communism you

768
00:47:11,840 --> 00:47:13,480
Speaker 1: can sell as long as you never live in it,

769
00:47:13,520 --> 00:47:16,440
Speaker 1: because what ends up happening. Everybody's gonna be equal, everybody's

770
00:47:16,480 --> 00:47:18,880
Speaker 1: gonna be equal, and you end up with what a

771
00:47:18,960 --> 00:47:23,239
Speaker 1: ruling class and everybody else. And really, you ever wonder

772
00:47:23,280 --> 00:47:26,680
Speaker 1: why politicians want socialism or communism, I'll tell you why.

773
00:47:26,760 --> 00:47:30,720
Speaker 1: For them, it's gonna be great. Their life's not gonna change.

774
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,080
Speaker 1: If there's a food shortage. Guess who's got food the government,

775
00:47:35,040 --> 00:47:37,440
Speaker 1: I mean so, guess who still has a nice house

776
00:47:37,520 --> 00:47:40,440
Speaker 1: the government. Guess who isn't living like everybody else? And

777
00:47:40,480 --> 00:47:42,879
Speaker 1: why don't they live like us? Go, Well, they can't

778
00:47:42,920 --> 00:47:45,600
Speaker 1: be expected to do that. They're too important. Where would

779
00:47:45,640 --> 00:47:48,000
Speaker 1: we be without them? They provide everything that we have.

780
00:47:48,600 --> 00:47:51,480
Speaker 1: And you go, but rick want the grocery stores everybody

781
00:47:51,520 --> 00:47:54,319
Speaker 1: can get food. Well yeah, but the only problem is

782
00:47:54,360 --> 00:47:57,440
Speaker 1: the grocery store will only have in it what's available.

783
00:47:58,440 --> 00:48:01,839
Speaker 1: You run out of toilet paper. It is gone because

784
00:48:01,880 --> 00:48:05,279
Speaker 1: there's no capitalism, there's no there's no there's no real

785
00:48:06,040 --> 00:48:08,160
Speaker 1: push to to produce anything because you're not gonna make

786
00:48:08,160 --> 00:48:10,239
Speaker 1: any money off of it. So what you do is

787
00:48:10,280 --> 00:48:11,920
Speaker 1: you get to go to the government grocery store and yes,

788
00:48:12,040 --> 00:48:15,400
Speaker 1: what you get to eat whatever the government's got on hand. Uh.

789
00:48:15,480 --> 00:48:18,560
Speaker 1: So so it's it's not a good thing. So he

790
00:48:18,560 --> 00:48:22,440
Speaker 1: he's a tyrant. He's raising track uh taxes, He tries

791
00:48:22,520 --> 00:48:26,560
Speaker 1: to raise funds and uh and sends his his tax

792
00:48:26,560 --> 00:48:30,080
Speaker 1: collectors once again. Can you believe the son's gonna try this?

793
00:48:30,200 --> 00:48:33,560
Speaker 1: Now he's gonna try to go uh into Jerusalem and

794
00:48:33,640 --> 00:48:37,400
Speaker 1: he's gonna try to plunder uh the the temple again.

795
00:48:38,000 --> 00:48:40,959
Speaker 1: Uh And and then that that goes terribly, terribly south

796
00:48:41,040 --> 00:48:45,720
Speaker 1: for him because once again uh he he sends another

797
00:48:46,800 --> 00:48:50,239
Speaker 1: priest type pagan, I don't know what they would call

798
00:48:50,320 --> 00:48:53,360
Speaker 1: the title book, a religious leader uh to go in

799
00:48:54,280 --> 00:48:57,120
Speaker 1: uh and to to take this h this money again

800
00:48:57,200 --> 00:49:00,920
Speaker 1: and plunder the temple, and he is also stopped by

801
00:49:01,040 --> 00:49:04,720
Speaker 1: supernatural force. This guy he sends in this time gets

802
00:49:04,760 --> 00:49:08,200
Speaker 1: so mad on this particular son of Antichus. He gets

803
00:49:08,200 --> 00:49:11,080
Speaker 1: so mad about being sent over there and being attacked

804
00:49:11,120 --> 00:49:14,120
Speaker 1: by a supernatural angel or something again at the temple.

805
00:49:14,400 --> 00:49:16,520
Speaker 1: He gets so mad about it he comes back. Guess

806
00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: what he does. He poisons the guy he's working for.

807
00:49:20,200 --> 00:49:24,120
Speaker 1: So down goes another Anticus son and so. But then

808
00:49:24,560 --> 00:49:32,719
Speaker 1: not long after, Antiicus has after this son dies poisoned

809
00:49:33,120 --> 00:49:36,960
Speaker 1: by the tax collector and the religious pagan leader that

810
00:49:37,000 --> 00:49:40,800
Speaker 1: he sent to the temple. So he's down and everybody thinks,

811
00:49:41,360 --> 00:49:47,000
Speaker 1: are there any more sons from Anticus? What's next? Well, sadly,

812
00:49:47,320 --> 00:49:51,480
Speaker 1: the answer is yes, another son is going to come

813
00:49:51,520 --> 00:49:53,960
Speaker 1: on the scene and we're going to pick that up

814
00:49:54,000 --> 00:49:57,200
Speaker 1: next week. And the other son that comes on the

815
00:49:57,200 --> 00:50:01,480
Speaker 1: scene has Daddy's name, but he he refers to himself

816
00:50:02,080 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: as Antichus, the God. Now what you're gonna find there,

817
00:50:06,239 --> 00:50:09,760
Speaker 1: and we'll come back and unpack it next week. Remember

818
00:50:09,800 --> 00:50:14,000
Speaker 1: what you have to understand. Remember throughout scripture, you see

819
00:50:14,080 --> 00:50:17,400
Speaker 1: people throughout scripture that we say are a type of Christ.

820
00:50:17,960 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: Joseph is a type of Christ. He's not a he's

821
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:23,200
Speaker 1: not Jesus, but he's a type of Christ. If you

822
00:50:23,239 --> 00:50:25,160
Speaker 1: go through the story of Joseph, you see a lot

823
00:50:25,360 --> 00:50:28,319
Speaker 1: of foreshadowing of what Jesus will do. So he's a

824
00:50:28,360 --> 00:50:33,400
Speaker 1: type of Christ. And we have these throughout Scripture, Joseph

825
00:50:33,440 --> 00:50:37,120
Speaker 1: being the first example that comes to mind. Well, we

826
00:50:37,200 --> 00:50:42,600
Speaker 1: also have throughout Scripture a type of anti Christ. Remember

827
00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:45,040
Speaker 1: what we've learned last week and what I don't know

828
00:50:45,080 --> 00:50:47,840
Speaker 1: about y'all. I feel like last week was would be

829
00:50:47,920 --> 00:50:50,560
Speaker 1: would go into some of our top ten Bible studies

830
00:50:50,640 --> 00:50:54,879
Speaker 1: last week, and in there we discovered that all of

831
00:50:54,960 --> 00:51:01,359
Speaker 1: the evil empires throughout time, ultimately at their route, they're

832
00:51:01,400 --> 00:51:05,800
Speaker 1: being powered by demons. And you know, we didn't like

833
00:51:05,920 --> 00:51:08,480
Speaker 1: last week learning that one demon was so powerful that

834
00:51:08,680 --> 00:51:12,880
Speaker 1: the Prince of Persia that a heralding angel could not

835
00:51:13,040 --> 00:51:17,680
Speaker 1: defeat him, needed an archangel to come help him defeat him. So,

836
00:51:18,040 --> 00:51:20,719
Speaker 1: but what we're seeing now is like when you look

837
00:51:20,760 --> 00:51:23,800
Speaker 1: at something that we're very familiar with, you know, because

838
00:51:24,040 --> 00:51:26,239
Speaker 1: even though I'm thinking we have anybody here old enough

839
00:51:26,239 --> 00:51:28,799
Speaker 1: that lived there and it maybe, but we all are

840
00:51:28,960 --> 00:51:31,680
Speaker 1: very well versed on Hitler. We're very well versed on that.

841
00:51:31,920 --> 00:51:35,400
Speaker 1: Once again focused on what the Hebrews, I must annihilate

842
00:51:35,400 --> 00:51:39,760
Speaker 1: the Hebrews. Well, Hitler was just a man. But Hitler

843
00:51:39,880 --> 00:51:43,960
Speaker 1: was being run by a demon that became the ruler

844
00:51:44,000 --> 00:51:48,719
Speaker 1: of Germany to go after the Hebrews and to annihilate

845
00:51:49,880 --> 00:51:54,440
Speaker 1: millions of them, unfortunately. But we also see another marker

846
00:51:54,480 --> 00:51:58,480
Speaker 1: of Hitler being demonic, is he killed himself. You know

847
00:51:58,560 --> 00:52:00,920
Speaker 1: at the end. You know the demon always when everybody's

848
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Speaker 1: closing the in, you know they're gonna kill the host.

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Speaker 1: And so you see that throughout throughout time. So what

850
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Speaker 1: you're gonna see next is though Anticus the God will

851
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Speaker 1: be a son of Anticus the Man, and he will

852
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Speaker 1: be a man. He's a type of anti Christ because

853
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Speaker 1: he will be run by demonic forces and he's gonna

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Speaker 1: take us. When you next week, you'll see because Daniel

855
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Speaker 1: now is going to start. He's now seeing the Romans.

856
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Speaker 1: The Romans are empower now for the first time. And

857
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Speaker 1: remember how Daniel looked at the future. He sees these

858
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Speaker 1: Romans and then he kind of sees them go away,

859
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Speaker 1: and then he sees what he thinks and it is

860
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Speaker 1: Roman Empire, Babylon rising back up again. And he doesn't

861
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Speaker 1: know exactly what that is. Now we do because we

862
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Speaker 1: know that's that's that's what we study in the revelation.

863
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Speaker 1: But so you're gonna see Anticus the God is so

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Speaker 1: wicked we're gonna start working our way there now when

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Speaker 1: we come back. But he's a type of Antichrist, is

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Speaker 1: infamous in world history. So if you went and studied

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Speaker 1: world history and we'll get the rest of it next week.

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Speaker 1: People are blown away at how this chapter eleven. And

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00:53:15,880 --> 00:53:18,000
Speaker 1: I didn't go through every detail because again, it would

870
00:53:18,040 --> 00:53:20,680
Speaker 1: just it would turn more into a history lesson, and

871
00:53:20,920 --> 00:53:22,879
Speaker 1: I didn't want to spend too much time on that.

872
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Speaker 1: But if you took your history book and you laid

873
00:53:26,280 --> 00:53:32,160
Speaker 1: it next to Daniel chapter eleven, it is so detailed

874
00:53:32,200 --> 00:53:36,640
Speaker 1: about these empires, in these kings and these rulers and

875
00:53:36,680 --> 00:53:40,920
Speaker 1: even their children. It all matches up and lays there,

876
00:53:40,960 --> 00:53:44,640
Speaker 1: and it's so detailed, and it's so accurate that people

877
00:53:44,640 --> 00:53:50,080
Speaker 1: have tried to dispute its authenticity. That's how it's unbelievable,

878
00:53:50,320 --> 00:53:55,319
Speaker 1: how history is laid out by Daniel long before it

879
00:53:55,400 --> 00:53:59,760
Speaker 1: ever happened. So though we may be looking back, Daniel

880
00:53:59,840 --> 00:54:02,480
Speaker 1: was looking a head. And when we come back next week,

881
00:54:02,680 --> 00:54:05,160
Speaker 1: we'll look back for a little bit, but then we're

882
00:54:05,200 --> 00:54:07,879
Speaker 1: going to look ahead too, because we're going to see

883
00:54:07,920 --> 00:54:10,960
Speaker 1: things that are yet to come. Okay, all right, but

884
00:54:11,080 --> 00:54:16,360
Speaker 1: the takeaway is this the God of the universe, the

885
00:54:16,440 --> 00:54:22,359
Speaker 1: beginning and the end. Sees history as it as if

886
00:54:22,400 --> 00:54:25,399
Speaker 1: it has are you know, sees the future as as

887
00:54:25,520 --> 00:54:28,680
Speaker 1: as if it has already happened. Remember that analogy, and

888
00:54:28,760 --> 00:54:31,200
Speaker 1: a lot of you said, hey, that was one that

889
00:54:31,280 --> 00:54:34,759
Speaker 1: helped you, just like it helped me. It's that analogy

890
00:54:34,840 --> 00:54:38,160
Speaker 1: of a parade. I can't see the whole parade unless

891
00:54:38,239 --> 00:54:40,800
Speaker 1: I could get up high enough, if it was possible

892
00:54:40,800 --> 00:54:43,080
Speaker 1: to get up high enough to see the beginning of

893
00:54:43,120 --> 00:54:45,680
Speaker 1: the parade, you know, but at the same time see

894
00:54:45,719 --> 00:54:47,839
Speaker 1: the end of the parade, all at the same time,

895
00:54:48,000 --> 00:54:50,320
Speaker 1: not just as it was coming by me. You know.

896
00:54:50,360 --> 00:54:52,279
Speaker 1: I almost have to take a parade in bites if

897
00:54:52,280 --> 00:54:54,480
Speaker 1: I don't, if I can't see it all. God can

898
00:54:54,520 --> 00:54:57,560
Speaker 1: see the parade from the beginning to the end. He

899
00:54:57,719 --> 00:55:01,719
Speaker 1: sees Adam and Eve, and really he sees everything even

900
00:55:01,760 --> 00:55:04,279
Speaker 1: before Adam and Eve, because we know when Adam and

901
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,479
Speaker 1: Eve got here Satan it arb thrown down to Earth.

902
00:55:06,760 --> 00:55:11,360
Speaker 1: He sees all the way back to the creation of

903
00:55:11,400 --> 00:55:16,120
Speaker 1: the angels, to the attempt to the overthrow of Lucifer,

904
00:55:16,520 --> 00:55:18,640
Speaker 1: the third of the angels, going with them him being

905
00:55:18,640 --> 00:55:21,160
Speaker 1: cast down to Earth. He sees Earth when it was

906
00:55:21,160 --> 00:55:24,839
Speaker 1: without form. He saw darkness over the water. He saw,

907
00:55:24,960 --> 00:55:28,400
Speaker 1: let me be light. He sees all of that, let

908
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:30,759
Speaker 1: there be light, which means, if you really let me

909
00:55:30,840 --> 00:55:34,040
Speaker 1: be like I am light. The creation of all of

910
00:55:34,080 --> 00:55:38,239
Speaker 1: that breathe life into humans. He sees that all the

911
00:55:38,239 --> 00:55:42,040
Speaker 1: way to the return of his son, and the new Heaven,

912
00:55:42,120 --> 00:55:44,160
Speaker 1: the new Earth, in the New Jerusalem. He sees it

913
00:55:44,160 --> 00:55:47,360
Speaker 1: all at the same time. And I want you to

914
00:55:47,400 --> 00:55:51,040
Speaker 1: rest in that, because you may not know your future,

915
00:55:51,360 --> 00:55:56,080
Speaker 1: but God does. For him, that's no big deal a dog,

916
00:55:57,000 --> 00:55:59,640
Speaker 1: and rest in that. And if you're in his will,

917
00:56:01,640 --> 00:56:05,200
Speaker 1: he'll decide when your life is over. And you may

918
00:56:05,200 --> 00:56:07,000
Speaker 1: be sitting here right now, and his desire is that

919
00:56:07,040 --> 00:56:10,400
Speaker 1: you're gonna be here when the sun returns. Remember Jesus

920
00:56:10,400 --> 00:56:14,600
Speaker 1: talking about John, and Uh and everybody in the disciples

921
00:56:14,640 --> 00:56:17,160
Speaker 1: were having the little fight about all that, and Jesus says,

922
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Speaker 1: what is your concern about John when he's gonna die?

923
00:56:20,719 --> 00:56:23,080
Speaker 1: If I want John to be here for the rest

924
00:56:23,120 --> 00:56:24,960
Speaker 1: of the time, then he will be. Now that don't

925
00:56:25,000 --> 00:56:28,160
Speaker 1: mean he is. But but we know John outlived the

926
00:56:28,160 --> 00:56:32,360
Speaker 1: rest of them. But Jesus was telling all of us,

927
00:56:33,040 --> 00:56:37,760
Speaker 1: I decide, you know, so I mean look at James

928
00:56:37,760 --> 00:56:40,480
Speaker 1: and look at Peter. When they both got put in

929
00:56:40,560 --> 00:56:47,719
Speaker 1: jail together. James didn't survive it, Peter did. So what

930
00:56:48,280 --> 00:56:51,040
Speaker 1: God said is, yeah, James has done. Peter's not yet.

931
00:56:51,600 --> 00:56:55,239
Speaker 1: But then Peter was done when God decided. Nobody crucified

932
00:56:55,239 --> 00:56:59,480
Speaker 1: Peter until God allowed it, and that and that was

933
00:56:59,680 --> 00:57:01,919
Speaker 1: you remember what he told Peter one day they're gonna

934
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Speaker 1: take you, They're gonna kill you because from me, but

935
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Speaker 1: I'll be there with you. And you remember Peter right

936
00:57:08,120 --> 00:57:09,960
Speaker 1: in the second, Peter, I know it's about to happen.

937
00:57:10,000 --> 00:57:11,759
Speaker 1: The Lord has revealed it to me. I'm not gonna

938
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Speaker 1: be around much longer. But the day that Peter took

939
00:57:15,480 --> 00:57:17,520
Speaker 1: his last breath is the day that God said. It said,

940
00:57:17,560 --> 00:57:19,680
Speaker 1: that'll be the day, and the same thing for you.

941
00:57:20,560 --> 00:57:24,840
Speaker 1: So live your life knowing that until God says you're done,

942
00:57:24,880 --> 00:57:29,320
Speaker 1: you're not. And if he says you're done, to live

943
00:57:29,360 --> 00:57:33,720
Speaker 1: as Christ to Die's game. You are in the hands

944
00:57:33,760 --> 00:57:36,360
Speaker 1: of the one and only living God that sees the

945
00:57:36,440 --> 00:57:41,600
Speaker 1: future as if it were the past. Let's pray Lord,

946
00:57:41,640 --> 00:57:44,160
Speaker 1: thank you for today. I pray Lord that we take

947
00:57:44,200 --> 00:57:46,600
Speaker 1: this and apply it to our lives today. And I

948
00:57:46,640 --> 00:57:50,360
Speaker 1: hope today brings us great peace, even though, like Daniel,

949
00:57:50,400 --> 00:57:52,840
Speaker 1: you look ahead and say, man, there's some rough stuff coming,

950
00:57:54,080 --> 00:57:56,919
Speaker 1: But ultimately it's just you working out the ultimate plan

951
00:57:56,960 --> 00:58:01,840
Speaker 1: when all this horrible stuff is over. Lord, may we

952
00:58:01,920 --> 00:58:04,480
Speaker 1: look at it that way. Yeah, there's difficult things coming,

953
00:58:05,840 --> 00:58:08,880
Speaker 1: but all that's doing is expediting when they won't be

954
00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:15,200
Speaker 1: here anymore. Yes, my body is dying, but as it dies,

955
00:58:15,240 --> 00:58:17,920
Speaker 1: it's just getting me closer to when it will be glorified.

956
00:58:19,280 --> 00:58:22,440
Speaker 1: Were all of us that are redeemed, we're working to

957
00:58:22,600 --> 00:58:28,440
Speaker 1: something better. As I talked to a friend of mine

958
00:58:28,480 --> 00:58:33,240
Speaker 1: just this week that said his dad always had everywhere

959
00:58:33,240 --> 00:58:38,000
Speaker 1: in their house. The best is yet to come. The

960
00:58:38,040 --> 00:58:42,440
Speaker 1: best is yet to come for the redeemed. To you

961
00:58:42,520 --> 00:58:45,400
Speaker 1: be the glory and your holy name. We pray Lord, Amen,

962
00:58:45,880 --> 00:58:46,640
Speaker 1: thank you very much,