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Speaker 1: a word of prayer. Today. We will continue in chapter

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Speaker 1: eleven of the Powerful Book of Daniel. We'll start in

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Speaker 1: verse twenty one. Lord, thank you for today. Thank you

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Speaker 1: unpacking your Holy Word, while at the same time, through

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Speaker 1: of people everywhere, and so we welcome all of them

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Speaker 1: as well, either live with us, are watching this, or

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Speaker 1: pray Amen. All right, So we when when I know

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Speaker 1: last week was was was a history lesson today will

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Speaker 1: low places, low places. Antichus the God had a lot

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Speaker 1: But this is that brother's son. So his uncle is

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00:25:16,200 --> 00:25:19,600
Speaker 1: Antichus the God, so he pretty crafty too. So this

426
00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:23,160
Speaker 1: whole family is pretty crafty. So what doesn't have Antichus

427
00:25:23,160 --> 00:25:26,760
Speaker 1: doesn't know is he's getting played right now by his nephew.

428
00:25:27,640 --> 00:25:31,360
Speaker 1: So he pretended to go along with the plan, hoping

429
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:34,720
Speaker 1: that his uncle Antichus the God would leave and return

430
00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,720
Speaker 1: to Syria. They spoke at the table here it is

431
00:25:37,720 --> 00:25:41,080
Speaker 1: in prophecy. God wasn't with either one of them. So

432
00:25:41,200 --> 00:25:45,159
Speaker 1: although the nephew formed another alliance and formed a proclamation

433
00:25:45,320 --> 00:25:49,399
Speaker 1: against Antichus the God, God ultimately was in control. I

434
00:25:49,440 --> 00:25:51,840
Speaker 1: love this and the prophecy when you study it. Really,

435
00:25:51,840 --> 00:25:54,800
Speaker 1: what Daniel's being shown is these people are just pawns

436
00:25:54,840 --> 00:25:57,919
Speaker 1: in God's plan. They can't be trusted. They're both evil.

437
00:25:57,960 --> 00:26:00,399
Speaker 1: God didn't like either one of them. They're lying to

438
00:26:00,440 --> 00:26:02,600
Speaker 1: each other, They're gonna try to turn on each other.

439
00:26:02,840 --> 00:26:06,480
Speaker 1: They're all just part of the plan. They'll ultimately destroy

440
00:26:06,600 --> 00:26:10,639
Speaker 1: each other. Because God is ultimately in charge of this

441
00:26:10,720 --> 00:26:13,920
Speaker 1: whole thing. They're not in control. He is, And as

442
00:26:13,960 --> 00:26:18,560
Speaker 1: the text declares, the end of the wars aren't done yet.

443
00:26:18,720 --> 00:26:22,760
Speaker 1: Why why aren't the wars over? That's always the question

444
00:26:22,800 --> 00:26:25,720
Speaker 1: isn't it. Well, God, why are you allowing this to

445
00:26:25,760 --> 00:26:29,359
Speaker 1: go on? Now? See, we foolishly think Daniel knew better.

446
00:26:29,680 --> 00:26:32,360
Speaker 1: We foolishly think this is all about a bunch of Greeks.

447
00:26:33,960 --> 00:26:38,080
Speaker 1: This is about this fragmented of Alexander the Great's kingdoms

448
00:26:38,080 --> 00:26:41,400
Speaker 1: and all these guys grabbing for power on what Alexander

449
00:26:41,840 --> 00:26:45,760
Speaker 1: left behind. But it's not about that at all. They're

450
00:26:45,800 --> 00:26:49,399
Speaker 1: just pawns in God's plan, as are the enemies of

451
00:26:49,520 --> 00:26:54,879
Speaker 1: Israel today, all just pawns. Okay, Well, who he's dealing

452
00:26:54,920 --> 00:26:59,240
Speaker 1: with in all this is Judea. He's dealing with his people,

453
00:26:59,680 --> 00:27:03,280
Speaker 1: And the reason why the wars are not going to

454
00:27:03,359 --> 00:27:08,280
Speaker 1: stop is that Judea has yet to repent. They haven't

455
00:27:08,320 --> 00:27:12,080
Speaker 1: learned their lesson yet. And so God is allowing this

456
00:27:12,240 --> 00:27:18,680
Speaker 1: to go on because we see that they are sitting

457
00:27:18,760 --> 00:27:23,080
Speaker 1: as a buffer between Egypt and Syria. So God's not

458
00:27:23,119 --> 00:27:25,679
Speaker 1: going to allow peace come to Syria and Egypt. Why,

459
00:27:25,920 --> 00:27:28,679
Speaker 1: because they're going to discipline that little country that's in

460
00:27:28,720 --> 00:27:34,600
Speaker 1: between them, Judea. The reason why that they can't get

461
00:27:34,720 --> 00:27:38,280
Speaker 1: peace and they're still caught in the crossfire of these

462
00:27:38,320 --> 00:27:43,280
Speaker 1: two kingdoms is they have not learned their lesson, So

463
00:27:43,640 --> 00:27:50,119
Speaker 1: remain as a buffer between two warring countries. And the

464
00:27:50,160 --> 00:27:53,800
Speaker 1: reason why I'm stuck between these two evil countries and

465
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:56,480
Speaker 1: they're firing across us, and they keep coming through here

466
00:27:56,720 --> 00:27:59,439
Speaker 1: and wreaking. Have it the reason why God has not

467
00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:04,760
Speaker 1: protected from these enemies. As we won't repent, we haven't

468
00:28:04,800 --> 00:28:10,880
Speaker 1: learned our lesson. Hello, there's a takeaway, learn the lesson.

469
00:28:13,160 --> 00:28:15,320
Speaker 1: I say this all the time when people talk about,

470
00:28:15,800 --> 00:28:18,800
Speaker 1: you know, the calamities that I've been through in my life,

471
00:28:18,840 --> 00:28:21,560
Speaker 1: and all of us have been through them. And anytime

472
00:28:21,600 --> 00:28:24,920
Speaker 1: somebody starts that garbage about whoa, how do you feel

473
00:28:24,920 --> 00:28:27,840
Speaker 1: about God? And only? I just get so sick of that.

474
00:28:28,119 --> 00:28:30,000
Speaker 1: I just get so sick of that. Every time those

475
00:28:30,080 --> 00:28:31,560
Speaker 1: kind of people come into my life, I go, well,

476
00:28:31,560 --> 00:28:34,840
Speaker 1: here's somebody else that's never read the Bible, And what

477
00:28:34,880 --> 00:28:37,639
Speaker 1: good are they to me? If you don't know the

478
00:28:37,680 --> 00:28:40,840
Speaker 1: word of God, you're not any good to me. Whatever

479
00:28:40,880 --> 00:28:42,440
Speaker 1: you're telling me is flawed. You don't know what you're

480
00:28:42,440 --> 00:28:46,200
Speaker 1: talking about. It's imperfect. It's just your opinion. It may

481
00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:50,240
Speaker 1: even be your feelings. Okay, But what I know is

482
00:28:50,320 --> 00:28:55,120
Speaker 1: this the reason why I have been allowed to suffer.

483
00:28:56,760 --> 00:29:00,920
Speaker 1: It's because God loves me enough to know this what's required.

484
00:29:03,440 --> 00:29:07,400
Speaker 1: I'm not mad at him, I'm mad at me. Why

485
00:29:07,440 --> 00:29:09,560
Speaker 1: have I got to be so sinful that this is

486
00:29:09,600 --> 00:29:14,400
Speaker 1: what it takes. And that's the same thing with his people.

487
00:29:15,240 --> 00:29:18,320
Speaker 1: He's doing it because he loves them. He's given them

488
00:29:18,400 --> 00:29:21,360
Speaker 1: everything he can to make them turn to him. And

489
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:24,360
Speaker 1: he did it over and over and over. And what

490
00:29:24,560 --> 00:29:28,000
Speaker 1: did calamity always do for the Hebrews? And it always

491
00:29:28,080 --> 00:29:35,560
Speaker 1: does for us? It works? It works. Anybody remember trying

492
00:29:35,560 --> 00:29:37,560
Speaker 1: to get us seat in the church after nine to eleven?

493
00:29:39,080 --> 00:29:42,120
Speaker 1: Ain't no seats? Right? Where do all these people come from?

494
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:47,240
Speaker 1: They're afraid? You remember thinking on that day, America, because

495
00:29:47,240 --> 00:29:49,320
Speaker 1: that's probably the only thing most of us did together.

496
00:29:50,120 --> 00:29:53,080
Speaker 1: Do you remember wondering if how many more are things

497
00:29:53,080 --> 00:29:56,440
Speaker 1: we're going to be attacked? We couldn't believe that we

498
00:29:56,520 --> 00:30:00,200
Speaker 1: had in our lifetime there was a war going going

499
00:30:00,480 --> 00:30:04,320
Speaker 1: inside our country. That wasn't the Civil War, it wasn't

500
00:30:04,320 --> 00:30:08,320
Speaker 1: the revolutionary war. We had ever since the Civil War,

501
00:30:08,400 --> 00:30:12,920
Speaker 1: we had been fighting somewhere else. And now somebody has

502
00:30:12,960 --> 00:30:17,000
Speaker 1: found a way what we thought very arrogantly just like

503
00:30:17,600 --> 00:30:21,280
Speaker 1: just like, just like the Babylonians, we thought our country

504
00:30:21,320 --> 00:30:25,440
Speaker 1: couldn't be attacked. We think it was possible, and we

505
00:30:25,520 --> 00:30:28,640
Speaker 1: had a false sense of security. And when those planes

506
00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,880
Speaker 1: started dropping out of the skies and we didn't know

507
00:30:30,920 --> 00:30:33,400
Speaker 1: how many planes were going to drop, we didn't know

508
00:30:33,440 --> 00:30:36,560
Speaker 1: how many terrorist attacks were going to happen. There was

509
00:30:36,600 --> 00:30:40,800
Speaker 1: a time there where everybody was afraid. And then even

510
00:30:40,840 --> 00:30:42,960
Speaker 1: after we got under control, we're like, well, surely there's

511
00:30:42,960 --> 00:30:45,120
Speaker 1: more to come. And then what did that do? That

512
00:30:45,280 --> 00:30:49,200
Speaker 1: drove everybody into the house of God, didn't it. But

513
00:30:49,240 --> 00:30:52,520
Speaker 1: as soon as we gained control of the situation, as

514
00:30:52,560 --> 00:30:57,280
Speaker 1: soon as peace returned to the country, those pews that

515
00:30:57,320 --> 00:31:03,360
Speaker 1: weren't available suddenly were available again because nobody was scared anymore,

516
00:31:04,320 --> 00:31:07,520
Speaker 1: and we went back to our biggest problem, self reliance.

517
00:31:10,000 --> 00:31:13,920
Speaker 1: So this is what this is all about. Why are

518
00:31:13,960 --> 00:31:17,120
Speaker 1: they in trouble? Look at twenty eight. And he shall

519
00:31:17,160 --> 00:31:20,160
Speaker 1: return to his land with great wealth, but his heart

520
00:31:20,240 --> 00:31:24,000
Speaker 1: shall be set against the Holy Covenant, and he shall

521
00:31:24,040 --> 00:31:27,960
Speaker 1: work his will and return to his own land. Really,

522
00:31:28,280 --> 00:31:32,520
Speaker 1: this is bad, bad, bad, Okay. So now the scripture

523
00:31:32,560 --> 00:31:35,040
Speaker 1: is going to focus on the cruelty of Anticus, the

524
00:31:35,080 --> 00:31:39,280
Speaker 1: god many Jewish people talking about verse twenty eight. Now

525
00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:44,440
Speaker 1: now had become apostates from Judaism, they didn't practice any

526
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:49,800
Speaker 1: of it anymore. Okay, rationalizing what their beliefs, they begin

527
00:31:49,960 --> 00:31:55,120
Speaker 1: to adapt the Greek way of life. Anticus love this,

528
00:31:55,840 --> 00:31:59,920
Speaker 1: he loves seeing the Hebrews embracing paganism, embracing the greed

529
00:32:00,120 --> 00:32:04,760
Speaker 1: way of life and in the Greeks ways. But then

530
00:32:06,080 --> 00:32:11,000
Speaker 1: after he was returning to Syria, he's got to go

531
00:32:11,040 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: through Judea. Now, now, remember we already have that he's

532
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:24,040
Speaker 1: been duped by his nephew. The nephew, as you're going

533
00:32:24,080 --> 00:32:28,560
Speaker 1: to see here in a minute, cuts a deal. Okay,

534
00:32:30,400 --> 00:32:34,320
Speaker 1: that gets the Romans to side with him, and that's

535
00:32:34,360 --> 00:32:36,720
Speaker 1: going to be the end for Antichus the God as

536
00:32:36,760 --> 00:32:41,560
Speaker 1: far as his pursuit of Egypt. So anyway, he's he's

537
00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:45,640
Speaker 1: returning home and he got the news that a rumor

538
00:32:45,840 --> 00:32:51,600
Speaker 1: had run through Palestine all of Judea that he actually

539
00:32:51,720 --> 00:32:54,800
Speaker 1: had been killed in this attempt to conquest to take

540
00:32:54,840 --> 00:33:02,000
Speaker 1: over Egypt and Alexandria. And he finds out that they're celebrating,

541
00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:06,560
Speaker 1: they're glad he's dead. Can I give you heads up

542
00:33:06,600 --> 00:33:09,600
Speaker 1: if you're under the rule of an evil dictator, make

543
00:33:09,680 --> 00:33:15,320
Speaker 1: sure he's dead before you start celebrating his death, because

544
00:33:15,360 --> 00:33:18,440
Speaker 1: it's not good if he finds out you're celebrating his

545
00:33:18,560 --> 00:33:25,080
Speaker 1: death and he's not dead. Okay. So so here's some

546
00:33:25,200 --> 00:33:28,680
Speaker 1: other things that that are going on at this time.

547
00:33:29,640 --> 00:33:33,560
Speaker 1: So you're you're going to see that we're gonna have

548
00:33:33,600 --> 00:33:37,280
Speaker 1: a Hellenist who's Jewish. You know, these are the those

549
00:33:37,360 --> 00:33:43,760
Speaker 1: that that are Jewish people who are Greek. That Jason

550
00:33:44,560 --> 00:33:48,000
Speaker 1: at one time was the high priest. Now he was

551
00:33:48,040 --> 00:33:50,800
Speaker 1: there as as you know, because he has enough Greek

552
00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:55,720
Speaker 1: that Antichus said, I want him to be in charge

553
00:33:56,960 --> 00:33:59,600
Speaker 1: and be the high priest there in Judea. He placed

554
00:33:59,640 --> 00:34:02,840
Speaker 1: him there. Well, there was an overthrow by a guy

555
00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:08,560
Speaker 1: named Minilus Minilaus uh. And what and what he did

556
00:34:09,320 --> 00:34:12,960
Speaker 1: is is he went in and uh and and he

557
00:34:12,960 --> 00:34:15,640
Speaker 1: he kind of got I'm sorry Jason was in charge.

558
00:34:16,040 --> 00:34:19,439
Speaker 1: And then this guy took a bribe uh but from

559
00:34:19,480 --> 00:34:21,960
Speaker 1: Antichus to go in overthrow Jason. I have that backwards.

560
00:34:22,000 --> 00:34:27,680
Speaker 1: So so now many Minilaus comes in and overthrows Jason,

561
00:34:28,160 --> 00:34:33,480
Speaker 1: who was a hell Hellenist Jewish high priest. And Jason

562
00:34:34,160 --> 00:34:37,520
Speaker 1: didn't like that, so he mobilized a thousand mercenaries and

563
00:34:37,560 --> 00:34:44,360
Speaker 1: marched on Jerusalem and forced the Anticus appointed Minilaus forced

564
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:47,319
Speaker 1: him out. Now Antichus, the God doesn't know this, and

565
00:34:47,360 --> 00:34:50,360
Speaker 1: pushed him all the way back to the castle. Anticus

566
00:34:50,520 --> 00:34:54,200
Speaker 1: took this as a revolt. You removed my guy. You

567
00:34:54,280 --> 00:34:57,719
Speaker 1: are celebrating my what you think death, And he says,

568
00:34:57,800 --> 00:35:00,279
Speaker 1: I tell you what I'm gonna teach you Jewish people

569
00:35:00,360 --> 00:35:04,279
Speaker 1: a lesson that you'll never forget. So his heart was

570
00:35:04,360 --> 00:35:07,640
Speaker 1: against the Holy Covenant. That's what this first means, the

571
00:35:07,640 --> 00:35:11,480
Speaker 1: Holy Land and all it stood for. He fell on

572
00:35:11,600 --> 00:35:17,640
Speaker 1: Jerusalem with seasoned veterans, killed forty thousand of its inhabitants,

573
00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:23,680
Speaker 1: sold another forty thousand into slavery. He plundered the temple,

574
00:35:24,360 --> 00:35:27,480
Speaker 1: carried off the treasure valued Now you're not gonna believe

575
00:35:27,520 --> 00:35:30,160
Speaker 1: how much treasure was in the Jewish temple. You're not

576
00:35:30,200 --> 00:35:34,839
Speaker 1: gonna believe the number. They believe the number, and it

577
00:35:34,920 --> 00:35:39,520
Speaker 1: was somewhere about somewhere around eighteen hundred talents. Now let

578
00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:43,000
Speaker 1: me tell you how much money that is by today's standard.

579
00:35:43,760 --> 00:35:48,360
Speaker 1: I've seen different commentaries on it. The lowest, the lowest

580
00:35:48,960 --> 00:35:52,560
Speaker 1: it would be for eight for a talent. The lowest

581
00:35:52,600 --> 00:35:56,879
Speaker 1: number a talent represents is half a million dollars. That's

582
00:35:56,920 --> 00:36:00,000
Speaker 1: the lowest. The highest is around a million. There's that much.

583
00:36:00,080 --> 00:36:04,640
Speaker 1: There's that much difference. So he's taking away Antichust the

584
00:36:04,680 --> 00:36:08,279
Speaker 1: god with all his mercenaries and with all his seasoned

585
00:36:08,400 --> 00:36:11,720
Speaker 1: military people. He kills forty thousand Jewish people, sells another

586
00:36:11,760 --> 00:36:15,959
Speaker 1: forty thousand into slavery, takes the treasury away. They think

587
00:36:16,000 --> 00:36:18,960
Speaker 1: by today's money, what he took away was between one

588
00:36:19,000 --> 00:36:24,360
Speaker 1: and two billion dollars, so that's a lot of money.

589
00:36:24,840 --> 00:36:27,440
Speaker 1: So then he's not done. And you remember this guy

590
00:36:27,480 --> 00:36:29,440
Speaker 1: in history, and this is probably make you remember him

591
00:36:29,440 --> 00:36:33,399
Speaker 1: because you probably ever read this before. He sacrificed a

592
00:36:33,440 --> 00:36:36,520
Speaker 1: female pig on the brazen altar in the temple square.

593
00:36:37,560 --> 00:36:40,680
Speaker 1: So he takes a big old pig and sacrifices it

594
00:36:40,760 --> 00:36:44,080
Speaker 1: on the brazen altar. Then he makes a broth out

595
00:36:44,160 --> 00:36:47,640
Speaker 1: of the swine's flesh and begins to sprinkle it all

596
00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:51,400
Speaker 1: over the temple. This is why we call him a

597
00:36:51,560 --> 00:36:58,920
Speaker 1: type of Antichrist. He is blaspheming the temple. Okay, in

598
00:36:59,800 --> 00:37:04,080
Speaker 1: his crimes will now be next twenty nine through thirty

599
00:37:04,080 --> 00:37:09,600
Speaker 1: five at the time appointed underline that he shall return

600
00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:12,359
Speaker 1: and come into the south. But it shall not be.

601
00:37:12,520 --> 00:37:15,680
Speaker 1: It shall not be this time as it was before.

602
00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:20,759
Speaker 1: For the ships of it's actually pronounced Chittam. Here it's

603
00:37:20,880 --> 00:37:26,080
Speaker 1: Kiddom that one different translations call that different. It shall

604
00:37:26,120 --> 00:37:28,880
Speaker 1: come against him, and he shall be afraid and withdraw,

605
00:37:28,960 --> 00:37:32,520
Speaker 1: and turn back, and be enrage and take action against

606
00:37:32,560 --> 00:37:35,400
Speaker 1: the Holy Covenant. He shall turn back and pay attention

607
00:37:35,480 --> 00:37:40,560
Speaker 1: to those who forsake the Holy Covenant, for forces from

608
00:37:40,640 --> 00:37:43,319
Speaker 1: him shall appear and profane the temple here it all

609
00:37:43,480 --> 00:37:47,080
Speaker 1: is and fortress, and shall take away the regular burnt offering,

610
00:37:47,400 --> 00:37:51,440
Speaker 1: and they shall set up the abomination that makes it desolate.

611
00:37:52,640 --> 00:37:56,560
Speaker 1: He shall seduce with flattery those who violate the covenant.

612
00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,480
Speaker 1: But the people who know their God shall stand firm

613
00:38:01,080 --> 00:38:04,080
Speaker 1: and take action. And the wise among the people shall

614
00:38:04,080 --> 00:38:07,400
Speaker 1: make many understand, though for some days they shall stumble

615
00:38:07,440 --> 00:38:12,160
Speaker 1: by sword and flame, by captivity and plunder. When they stumble,

616
00:38:12,239 --> 00:38:15,799
Speaker 1: they shall receive little help, and many shall join themselves

617
00:38:16,120 --> 00:38:19,520
Speaker 1: to them with flattery. And some of the wives shall stumble,

618
00:38:19,920 --> 00:38:23,880
Speaker 1: so that they may be refined, purified, and made white

619
00:38:24,000 --> 00:38:27,360
Speaker 1: until the time of the end, for it still awaits

620
00:38:27,440 --> 00:38:30,440
Speaker 1: the appointed time. This is everything I just told you about,

621
00:38:31,239 --> 00:38:35,719
Speaker 1: so Anticus took up this second campaign against Egypt, but

622
00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:41,280
Speaker 1: it's not recorded here. It's almost like Gabriel is like, Okay,

623
00:38:41,320 --> 00:38:43,440
Speaker 1: he's going to try the second time. It's so insignificant

624
00:38:43,480 --> 00:38:45,160
Speaker 1: and not im going to cover that, so he jumps

625
00:38:45,239 --> 00:38:50,960
Speaker 1: right to the third time that he tries it. It overshadows.

626
00:38:51,120 --> 00:38:53,520
Speaker 1: It's overshadowed by the third. Now this is the final campaign.

627
00:38:53,520 --> 00:38:58,319
Speaker 1: We're about to be done with Antichus because it's going

628
00:38:58,400 --> 00:39:02,279
Speaker 1: to have dire consequences for Syria and Judea. So after

629
00:39:02,320 --> 00:39:06,120
Speaker 1: the second campaign, the Pharaohs had enough of suffering and

630
00:39:06,200 --> 00:39:09,000
Speaker 1: the oppression of Anticus. They really got tired of him

631
00:39:09,000 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: showing up trying to fight all the time, and they've

632
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:15,239
Speaker 1: had enough, Okay, so they go and get Greek mercenaries

633
00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,840
Speaker 1: to strengthen their own forces and sent an embassy to

634
00:39:19,000 --> 00:39:22,560
Speaker 1: Rome to appeal to them for help, and Rome agrees.

635
00:39:23,560 --> 00:39:26,680
Speaker 1: We think it's spring of one hundred and sixty eight BC.

636
00:39:27,560 --> 00:39:33,840
Speaker 1: Anticus was ready demanding immediate surrender of Cyprus, Pelusium, and

637
00:39:33,960 --> 00:39:38,480
Speaker 1: other territories. No one could stop him. Memphis fell. Anticus

638
00:39:38,520 --> 00:39:41,600
Speaker 1: thinks he is on the way again, and he appears

639
00:39:41,680 --> 00:39:45,960
Speaker 1: before once again the city of Alexandria. But as the

640
00:39:46,080 --> 00:39:50,800
Speaker 1: text tells us, what are these ships, he sees, really,

641
00:39:50,840 --> 00:39:54,200
Speaker 1: what this word means is Cyprus, but here it represents

642
00:39:54,239 --> 00:39:57,880
Speaker 1: the Romans. He sees the Roman ships are all in

643
00:39:57,920 --> 00:40:02,000
Speaker 1: the harbor there at Egypt, and he's like, uh oh,

644
00:40:02,320 --> 00:40:06,080
Speaker 1: they got the Romans. The Romans beat him there. The

645
00:40:06,200 --> 00:40:10,280
Speaker 1: Romans had come and the Romans were done with mister

646
00:40:10,360 --> 00:40:15,240
Speaker 1: Antika Antioch Antichus the god. He had met his match.

647
00:40:15,880 --> 00:40:22,160
Speaker 1: The Romans now controlled Alexandria, and Antiicus public humiliation and

648
00:40:22,239 --> 00:40:26,160
Speaker 1: his need need to save face took out his frustrations

649
00:40:26,560 --> 00:40:31,160
Speaker 1: on tiny little Judea. He had to do something. He

650
00:40:31,239 --> 00:40:34,040
Speaker 1: was angry, he got embarrassed. If you look at history,

651
00:40:34,120 --> 00:40:36,480
Speaker 1: they say that he tried one of his little cunning

652
00:40:36,520 --> 00:40:40,400
Speaker 1: moves again. Hey I'm gonna stop, I'm gonna surrender again,

653
00:40:40,760 --> 00:40:43,040
Speaker 1: And they said the Romans, and you can find this

654
00:40:43,120 --> 00:40:45,760
Speaker 1: in history, went to him, and one of the commanders

655
00:40:45,800 --> 00:40:48,800
Speaker 1: walked out and took his sword and drew a circle

656
00:40:49,280 --> 00:40:51,960
Speaker 1: around Anticus the god in the sand, and said no, no, no,

657
00:40:52,880 --> 00:40:55,839
Speaker 1: you step outside this circle. We're gonna kill you right now.

658
00:40:56,760 --> 00:40:59,359
Speaker 1: You better you better commit right now that we see

659
00:40:59,400 --> 00:41:02,160
Speaker 1: you leaving and going back to where you came from.

660
00:41:02,560 --> 00:41:04,640
Speaker 1: There'll be no more of this shucking in jib than

661
00:41:04,680 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: we're done. And he embarrassingly tail between his legs, is

662
00:41:11,280 --> 00:41:15,719
Speaker 1: going back humiliated, and that's when he finds out they

663
00:41:15,760 --> 00:41:19,319
Speaker 1: overthrew the guy he put in charges high priest. They're

664
00:41:19,360 --> 00:41:22,319
Speaker 1: all laughing and celebrating because they think the Romans killed him.

665
00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:28,960
Speaker 1: And then he just brings down fury on Judea. So

666
00:41:29,239 --> 00:41:32,960
Speaker 1: he has friends and accomplices in Judea, meaning some of

667
00:41:32,960 --> 00:41:36,719
Speaker 1: those sided with him. He invades Judea, he attacks them.

668
00:41:36,760 --> 00:41:40,080
Speaker 1: If you look in history on the Sabbath, troops ravished

669
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:44,319
Speaker 1: the city, tearing down buildings, spreading terror. They took over

670
00:41:44,360 --> 00:41:47,080
Speaker 1: the citadel that overlooks the temple. They're going to take

671
00:41:47,120 --> 00:41:51,840
Speaker 1: away the sacrificial rituals system completely. They're going to replace

672
00:41:51,880 --> 00:41:56,440
Speaker 1: it with worship of Antichust, the god. He will be

673
00:41:56,520 --> 00:42:01,279
Speaker 1: worshiped the Greek religion will be embraced, or you will

674
00:42:01,320 --> 00:42:05,520
Speaker 1: be killed. The temples we know was consecrated to Jupiter

675
00:42:06,640 --> 00:42:12,000
Speaker 1: and also uh there they erected. There's two thoughts. They

676
00:42:12,120 --> 00:42:16,200
Speaker 1: put an ashrath pole there, which is a sexual connotation

677
00:42:16,440 --> 00:42:19,840
Speaker 1: in the paganism, or others say no, they actually erected

678
00:42:19,840 --> 00:42:24,080
Speaker 1: a monument to Zeus slash Antichus the God. It's like

679
00:42:24,400 --> 00:42:27,879
Speaker 1: he was like, you're gonna worship Zeus and me. That's

680
00:42:27,880 --> 00:42:31,480
Speaker 1: where he gets the nickname. He must be worshiped as well.

681
00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:37,600
Speaker 1: Jewish sacrifices would cease immediately. They destroyed copies of the scripture.

682
00:42:38,520 --> 00:42:43,160
Speaker 1: He stopped all the feast and replaced them with pagan feast.

683
00:42:44,280 --> 00:42:47,919
Speaker 1: And then the worst when, of course we talked about

684
00:42:47,960 --> 00:42:52,040
Speaker 1: he desecrated the temple. He built an idol over the

685
00:42:52,080 --> 00:42:53,759
Speaker 1: brazen altar. That's the one. They don't know whether it's

686
00:42:53,760 --> 00:42:57,920
Speaker 1: an ashrapole or or Zeus above it. He wrote, See

687
00:42:57,960 --> 00:43:01,000
Speaker 1: if this doesn't sound like a type of Antichrist above

688
00:43:01,080 --> 00:43:03,279
Speaker 1: whatever it was he put there. We do know that

689
00:43:03,320 --> 00:43:10,360
Speaker 1: he wrote this, the abomination that maketh desolate. This was

690
00:43:10,400 --> 00:43:14,319
Speaker 1: said to represent Zeus. That's why most people think it

691
00:43:14,360 --> 00:43:16,560
Speaker 1: was something to do with Zeus. Think about that, the

692
00:43:16,600 --> 00:43:22,440
Speaker 1: abomination that maketh desolate? What is Antichrist called the abomination

693
00:43:23,520 --> 00:43:29,200
Speaker 1: of desolation? Whatever it was, it was an abomination. And

694
00:43:29,239 --> 00:43:37,400
Speaker 1: to disobey anything that Antichus the God laid down was death. Okay,

695
00:43:37,160 --> 00:43:42,960
Speaker 1: So again here's God working and suffering. So what happened well,

696
00:43:43,760 --> 00:43:47,400
Speaker 1: to a lot of the Jewish people, Antichus the God

697
00:43:47,480 --> 00:43:52,520
Speaker 1: had gone too far? Enough was enough? There's always a remnant, Okay,

698
00:43:53,080 --> 00:43:58,120
Speaker 1: So what you have is some gave him a massive

699
00:43:58,239 --> 00:44:02,000
Speaker 1: resistance to the oppression, but not everyone. Look at look

700
00:44:02,000 --> 00:44:04,880
Speaker 1: at thirty two A look at look at verse thirty

701
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:10,480
Speaker 1: two A. He shall seduce with flattery those who violate

702
00:44:10,680 --> 00:44:13,960
Speaker 1: the covenant. So what always happens when there's some false

703
00:44:14,000 --> 00:44:18,720
Speaker 1: religion or somebody blaspheming God. There's always people who claim

704
00:44:18,760 --> 00:44:21,920
Speaker 1: to be with God that ultimately go with them. And

705
00:44:22,239 --> 00:44:25,880
Speaker 1: why did they go with them? Flattery? He found a

706
00:44:25,920 --> 00:44:28,439
Speaker 1: way to win them over by saying, I'll take care

707
00:44:28,480 --> 00:44:30,120
Speaker 1: of you. And here's the thing, this is one of

708
00:44:30,200 --> 00:44:34,160
Speaker 1: the takeaways for us, what is the flattery? These people

709
00:44:34,280 --> 00:44:39,400
Speaker 1: that left worship of God came to the conclusion that

710
00:44:39,600 --> 00:44:44,120
Speaker 1: being liked by Anticust the God and being safe with

711
00:44:44,360 --> 00:44:47,800
Speaker 1: him and all the wealth and all the riches, that

712
00:44:48,080 --> 00:44:54,520
Speaker 1: was more desirable than sacrificing being killed and being right

713
00:44:54,560 --> 00:44:59,600
Speaker 1: with God. We got to make the decision, what do

714
00:44:59,680 --> 00:45:02,160
Speaker 1: we just just want comfort? Are we willing to say

715
00:45:02,200 --> 00:45:04,920
Speaker 1: to the world if you just won't bother me and

716
00:45:05,040 --> 00:45:09,360
Speaker 1: I just won't have to suffer. I'll blaspheme God for comfort,

717
00:45:10,480 --> 00:45:16,360
Speaker 1: for protection, for security. But let me tell you something, brothers,

718
00:45:16,400 --> 00:45:19,000
Speaker 1: there's no more dangerous place to be, and sisters that

719
00:45:19,040 --> 00:45:22,279
Speaker 1: are watching, there's no more dangerous place to be than

720
00:45:22,520 --> 00:45:27,360
Speaker 1: opposing God. And there's no more secure place to be

721
00:45:27,760 --> 00:45:32,480
Speaker 1: than to be right with God. And this is what

722
00:45:32,520 --> 00:45:36,800
Speaker 1: we see even today. But then we see in thirty

723
00:45:36,800 --> 00:45:41,040
Speaker 1: two A that those who went with him, they went

724
00:45:41,120 --> 00:45:45,920
Speaker 1: right along with the false gods. That's fine, Hey, we

725
00:45:46,040 --> 00:45:48,000
Speaker 1: left devotion to God a long time ago, so this

726
00:45:48,080 --> 00:45:50,640
Speaker 1: is not even hard for us. They were doing fine.

727
00:45:50,840 --> 00:45:53,640
Speaker 1: They didn't want to make trouble, and they were forced

728
00:45:53,640 --> 00:45:58,960
Speaker 1: to decide, and they decided. They picked. You have to

729
00:45:58,960 --> 00:46:02,719
Speaker 1: decide all the time. Don't others think about how many

730
00:46:02,760 --> 00:46:05,479
Speaker 1: things that are blaspheming the one and only living God

731
00:46:05,520 --> 00:46:08,480
Speaker 1: in our country right now. And it's allowed to go

732
00:46:08,560 --> 00:46:12,160
Speaker 1: on because no one will stand up. Everybody says I

733
00:46:12,200 --> 00:46:15,799
Speaker 1: don't want to make trouble. I got news for you.

734
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:18,719
Speaker 1: I'm not saying it's a wonderful thing to do. I

735
00:46:18,760 --> 00:46:21,919
Speaker 1: don't like I don't like suffering. I don't I don't

736
00:46:22,000 --> 00:46:24,200
Speaker 1: like to have people after me I don't have people

737
00:46:24,239 --> 00:46:26,680
Speaker 1: threatening me. I don't enjoy that at all. But I'm

738
00:46:26,680 --> 00:46:32,200
Speaker 1: willing because if you're gonna blasphem God, and if that's

739
00:46:32,239 --> 00:46:34,359
Speaker 1: going to bring discomfort to me, if I won't, then

740
00:46:34,360 --> 00:46:36,080
Speaker 1: I'll just have to. I'll just have to do it,

741
00:46:36,960 --> 00:46:39,040
Speaker 1: because even if you kill me at that point, I'm

742
00:46:39,040 --> 00:46:41,480
Speaker 1: gonna face the ultimate judge, and I wanna hear from

743
00:46:41,560 --> 00:46:45,480
Speaker 1: him well done, good and faithful servant. If I look

744
00:46:45,520 --> 00:46:48,440
Speaker 1: for a well done, good than faithful servant from the world,

745
00:46:49,520 --> 00:46:53,840
Speaker 1: well how long is that gonna last? Well until the

746
00:46:53,840 --> 00:46:57,120
Speaker 1: next evil person takes over, and then I'm gonna get

747
00:46:57,160 --> 00:47:00,320
Speaker 1: in trouble for being devoted to that person. Better be

748
00:47:00,400 --> 00:47:02,360
Speaker 1: devoted to the one we know we're never wrong to

749
00:47:02,360 --> 00:47:04,319
Speaker 1: be devoted to, and that's the one and only living God,

750
00:47:04,360 --> 00:47:07,480
Speaker 1: the King of Kings, the Lord of lords, the one

751
00:47:07,560 --> 00:47:10,719
Speaker 1: that takes these people that think they're so important and

752
00:47:10,760 --> 00:47:13,839
Speaker 1: to him, he wipes them out like they're nothing. As

753
00:47:13,880 --> 00:47:18,080
Speaker 1: the Great Steve Ferar said, please stop worshiping and fearing

754
00:47:18,200 --> 00:47:23,160
Speaker 1: people that God has to allow to breathe. But then

755
00:47:23,239 --> 00:47:28,920
Speaker 1: you have those who defied Anticus. That's who we need

756
00:47:28,960 --> 00:47:30,960
Speaker 1: to be. There's always a remnant you know. That's the thing.

757
00:47:31,000 --> 00:47:34,000
Speaker 1: How many times do we see scripture when somebody we think,

758
00:47:34,719 --> 00:47:37,160
Speaker 1: poor poor Piti for me, nobody else is devoted to

759
00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:40,600
Speaker 1: God but me, And then you find out, now there's

760
00:47:40,680 --> 00:47:42,600
Speaker 1: I've got a remnant. I've always got a remnant. You're

761
00:47:42,640 --> 00:47:46,440
Speaker 1: not the only one. You're not alone. That may not

762
00:47:46,480 --> 00:47:49,640
Speaker 1: be many of you, but you always got others. There's

763
00:47:49,680 --> 00:47:52,800
Speaker 1: always a remnant. Some took a brave stand for God

764
00:47:52,880 --> 00:47:57,000
Speaker 1: against the wickedness of Antichus, the God. This is going

765
00:47:57,040 --> 00:48:00,000
Speaker 1: to last, by the way, for three years. Don't think

766
00:48:00,080 --> 00:48:03,760
Speaker 1: that Anticus came in there and he was destroyed quickly.

767
00:48:04,040 --> 00:48:05,960
Speaker 1: They had to go through three years of this. Do

768
00:48:06,000 --> 00:48:09,840
Speaker 1: you notice the symbolism for the tribulation here? Three years

769
00:48:10,760 --> 00:48:17,040
Speaker 1: of Antichus just wreaking habit. Many paid the price, But

770
00:48:17,160 --> 00:48:24,640
Speaker 1: I love this. They would not blaspheme God. Can you

771
00:48:24,680 --> 00:48:27,799
Speaker 1: make that commitment today? Can you honestly say that, no

772
00:48:27,840 --> 00:48:31,719
Speaker 1: matter what threat is made against us, we will not

773
00:48:32,480 --> 00:48:39,920
Speaker 1: blaspheme God. We won't. I mean, I watch this blasphemy

774
00:48:40,080 --> 00:48:42,520
Speaker 1: as some sort of prayer service yesterday as part of

775
00:48:42,560 --> 00:48:45,399
Speaker 1: the new administration taking over in our country. And why

776
00:48:45,440 --> 00:48:47,400
Speaker 1: in the world somebody didn't stand up in that service

777
00:48:47,440 --> 00:48:54,279
Speaker 1: and say enough enough, this blasphemy will not continue. But

778
00:48:54,320 --> 00:48:56,399
Speaker 1: you know, I understand everybody said, well, that's rude, sit

779
00:48:56,480 --> 00:48:59,360
Speaker 1: and be nice. But I just hope there's not a

780
00:48:59,480 --> 00:49:03,680
Speaker 1: day that these people that were sitting in that room. Now,

781
00:49:03,680 --> 00:49:06,080
Speaker 1: some of them said something after it was over, But

782
00:49:07,520 --> 00:49:10,520
Speaker 1: that God is going to look down and say, when

783
00:49:10,800 --> 00:49:14,680
Speaker 1: when the woman was up there running me down, why

784
00:49:14,680 --> 00:49:19,160
Speaker 1: didn't you say anything, Why don't you just stand up

785
00:49:20,280 --> 00:49:24,080
Speaker 1: right then and say this stops. This stops. Well, Rick,

786
00:49:24,120 --> 00:49:28,080
Speaker 1: that would be rude. That wouldn't be very nice. It's

787
00:49:28,120 --> 00:49:32,440
Speaker 1: not very civil. Well yeah, I mean, but there comes

788
00:49:32,440 --> 00:49:35,800
Speaker 1: a time. All I can hear is Jesus and Matthew

789
00:49:35,880 --> 00:49:41,080
Speaker 1: ten saying, anyone that will not acknowledge me before men,

790
00:49:42,080 --> 00:49:46,680
Speaker 1: I will not acknowledge before the father. Anyone who denies

791
00:49:46,760 --> 00:49:50,560
Speaker 1: me before men, I will deny before the father. There

792
00:49:50,640 --> 00:49:52,960
Speaker 1: is a time sometimes to stand up and point to

793
00:49:53,000 --> 00:49:58,759
Speaker 1: heresy and say no more. Either leave the room or

794
00:49:58,840 --> 00:50:04,200
Speaker 1: just stand up and say this must stop. I know

795
00:50:04,480 --> 00:50:06,200
Speaker 1: I have a brother that went to something that was

796
00:50:06,200 --> 00:50:10,200
Speaker 1: supposed to be something about the faith, and he was

797
00:50:10,239 --> 00:50:12,160
Speaker 1: standing there and they let this guy get up and talk,

798
00:50:12,239 --> 00:50:14,320
Speaker 1: and it was supposed to be a faith based I

799
00:50:14,360 --> 00:50:16,720
Speaker 1: won't to get into all the details. The guy starts

800
00:50:16,760 --> 00:50:21,160
Speaker 1: using foul language. He starts using sexual innuendo when talking

801
00:50:21,200 --> 00:50:26,000
Speaker 1: about Bible study. And he said, I just stood up

802
00:50:26,040 --> 00:50:28,920
Speaker 1: and looked around everybody, and I walked out. I was like,

803
00:50:29,000 --> 00:50:30,359
Speaker 1: I can't. I'm not going to stand here and listen

804
00:50:30,360 --> 00:50:35,120
Speaker 1: to this. There comes a time we have to stand

805
00:50:35,200 --> 00:50:36,960
Speaker 1: up and say, you will not blaspheme, the one and

806
00:50:37,040 --> 00:50:42,719
Speaker 1: only living God, not why I'm here. And so then

807
00:50:42,800 --> 00:50:46,080
Speaker 1: we go on to see more of the suffering and

808
00:50:46,160 --> 00:50:48,680
Speaker 1: the wise among the people. This is verse thirty three.

809
00:50:48,719 --> 00:50:52,080
Speaker 1: Now shall make many understand, though for some days they

810
00:50:52,120 --> 00:50:57,279
Speaker 1: shall stumble by sword and flame, captivity and plunder. Who

811
00:50:57,280 --> 00:51:01,560
Speaker 1: are these people? They're the ones wouldn't take it? And

812
00:51:01,600 --> 00:51:03,239
Speaker 1: what did they say? I love this? I love this

813
00:51:03,320 --> 00:51:06,560
Speaker 1: line here and the wise among the people. So what

814
00:51:07,120 --> 00:51:10,359
Speaker 1: tells you about their wisdom? What makes them wise? They

815
00:51:10,360 --> 00:51:13,799
Speaker 1: fear God. They don't fear Antichus anymore. They fear God,

816
00:51:14,520 --> 00:51:17,480
Speaker 1: So they're wise. So the Bible tells us fear of

817
00:51:17,520 --> 00:51:21,640
Speaker 1: God is the beginning of all wisdom. So the wise

818
00:51:21,680 --> 00:51:24,200
Speaker 1: among the people shall make many understand, so they win

819
00:51:24,320 --> 00:51:26,840
Speaker 1: some over. But look what happens, though for some days

820
00:51:26,840 --> 00:51:30,000
Speaker 1: they shall stumble by sword, they're getting killed and flame.

821
00:51:30,239 --> 00:51:34,440
Speaker 1: They roasted them by cactive captivity. I'm in jail. And

822
00:51:34,480 --> 00:51:36,239
Speaker 1: then some that he just took everything they have, burned

823
00:51:36,239 --> 00:51:39,120
Speaker 1: their property down. Yeah, when you go and look at

824
00:51:39,120 --> 00:51:41,719
Speaker 1: the history of this, Antichus would roast some of the

825
00:51:41,760 --> 00:51:48,080
Speaker 1: Hebrews like they were food. That would that defied them.

826
00:51:49,360 --> 00:51:53,360
Speaker 1: But they would rather be roasted alive by an evil

827
00:51:53,400 --> 00:51:56,799
Speaker 1: dictator than to blaspheme, the one and only living God.

828
00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:04,560
Speaker 1: And they're called wise. Here comes God's purpose explained. Hang on,

829
00:52:06,200 --> 00:52:11,040
Speaker 1: when they stumble, they shall receive little help, and many

830
00:52:11,080 --> 00:52:14,839
Speaker 1: shall join themselves to them with flattery. So some are

831
00:52:14,880 --> 00:52:18,799
Speaker 1: going to just go along, and they're gonna stumble and

832
00:52:18,840 --> 00:52:23,000
Speaker 1: reject God. But look at thirty five, and some of

833
00:52:23,080 --> 00:52:27,040
Speaker 1: the wise shall stumble, meaning some of the ones that

834
00:52:27,120 --> 00:52:28,960
Speaker 1: even know better and are doing the world, they're not

835
00:52:28,960 --> 00:52:30,440
Speaker 1: going to do it perfectly. They're going to make a mistake.

836
00:52:30,440 --> 00:52:35,080
Speaker 1: Here come suffering, you ready, so that they may be refined,

837
00:52:36,600 --> 00:52:41,880
Speaker 1: they may be purified and made white until the time

838
00:52:41,920 --> 00:52:47,000
Speaker 1: of the end, For it still awaits the appointed time.

839
00:52:50,480 --> 00:52:55,120
Speaker 1: Do you hear that? Don't leave here? So many people

840
00:52:55,680 --> 00:53:01,200
Speaker 1: start saying, why does God allow suffering? Where is God

841
00:53:01,239 --> 00:53:03,680
Speaker 1: in all this? Of course you've heard me say many times.

842
00:53:03,719 --> 00:53:05,719
Speaker 1: My wife makes this point in her book about this,

843
00:53:06,239 --> 00:53:08,640
Speaker 1: where God said through her, if you want to know

844
00:53:08,640 --> 00:53:10,960
Speaker 1: where God is, He's right in the middle of it.

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Speaker 1: God's purpose is explained. I'm doing this to purify the

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Speaker 1: nation from its apostasies, and it's sin. That's why I'm

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Speaker 1: doing it. And when you look at any country, when

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Speaker 1: you look at any church and you see it turning

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Speaker 1: into an apostate, and you see it turning to paganism

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Speaker 1: and embracing and justifying sin, God is on record that

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Speaker 1: he will not tolerate it forever. And there will come

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Speaker 1: a time that who will bring down fury by his

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Speaker 1: own hand or by using pagan and wicked people who

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Speaker 1: are under demonic force, He will use them. If he

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Speaker 1: has to to purify you as an individual, me as

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Speaker 1: an individual, or to purify a church, or to purify

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Speaker 1: a nation, he will do it. He has done it,

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Speaker 1: and he continues to do it because it works. So

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Speaker 1: what our job is to do is to be assessing

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Speaker 1: ourselves and our individual rejection of God, but also being

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Speaker 1: those that are crying out to the nation, to the church.

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Speaker 1: This is the wrong road, be part of the wise.

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Speaker 1: We got to change. God's wrath is coming, his refinement

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Speaker 1: is coming. He's not going to continue to tolerate this.

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Speaker 1: And if somebody says, how do you know that, you

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Speaker 1: can say, because He's given me a history of his

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Speaker 1: character and how he sees this, and I believe it

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Speaker 1: because I've seen him do it time and time again.

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Speaker 1: So why it's difficulty allowed for our own good? For

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Speaker 1: our own good? So what I would do I just

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Speaker 1: heed the warning. I wouldn't say to God, I'm not

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Speaker 1: going to turn unless you do something that forces me

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Speaker 1: to turn. I just turn. I just acknowledge him for

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Speaker 1: who he is now. And see Daniel is watching all this,

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Speaker 1: and he sees what his people are going to have

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Speaker 1: to go through, and this is why he's so distraught.

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Speaker 1: But God keeps telling him, I'm doing it to refine them.

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Speaker 1: And you know what, while we're alive right now, this

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Speaker 1: is still going on. He's still refining them. But he's

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Speaker 1: also going to refine his church, because what does he say,

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Speaker 1: I don't stay married to an unfaithful bride. Let's pray Lord,

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Speaker 1: thank you for today. Thank you for our time together.

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Speaker 1: Thank you for this difficult but clear message. May you

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Speaker 1: be glorified. Lord, forgive us of our sins, forgive us

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Speaker 1: of our apostasy, forgive us of our heresy, and Lord, really,

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Speaker 1: forgive us of our passiveness when heresy and apostasy is

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Speaker 1: all around us. May we stop being so tolerant of

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Speaker 1: people and be more afraid of You and your holy name.

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Speaker 1: We pray, Amen, Thank you for being with us.