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06 15 2025 Daniel Two and the Historicist Approach to Prophecy · Your Daily Portion with L. David Harris

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  Speaker 1: Most of us eat every day, some of us too
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  Speaker 1: vibrant lives. Welcome to your Daily Portion with your host,
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  Speaker 1: author speaker, Elle David Harris.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, Good morning, Good morning, it is Sunday. It's
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  Speaker 2: June fifteenth, twenty twenty five. Hello, my name is El
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  Speaker 2: David Harris. I am your host, and this is your
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  Speaker 2: Daily Portion where we give you God's word every single
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  Speaker 2: day and today is no exception. We are continuing in
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  Speaker 2: our lesson study series how to study Bible Prophecy, and
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  Speaker 2: our caption for today is Daniel iiO and the Historicist
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  Speaker 2: approach to Prophecy. Yeah. I won't be giving a full
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  Speaker 2: explanation of what the historicist concept is. You can go
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  Speaker 2: back to the Lesson study for that, but just suffice
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  Speaker 2: it to say, we're going to look and see what
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  Speaker 2: God has done in the past and how he is
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  Speaker 2: leading us into an understanding of our future. Okay, we'll
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  Speaker 2: get into that in just a moment, but first I'd
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  Speaker 2: Let's go ahead and pray, and then we will get underway. Father,
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  Speaker 2: work week. Yes, you said six days, shall we labor
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  Speaker 2: So thank you for starting us off well this morning.
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  Speaker 2: In Jesus name, I pray, Amen and Amen again. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: so let's go right into Daniel chapter two and see
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  Speaker 2: what lessons we can derive there. There's just way too
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  Speaker 2: much for us to cover in ten minutes time, okay,
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  Speaker 2: but we'll do our best. In the Bible Book of
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  Speaker 2: Daniel chapter two, verses thirty one through thirty five, I'll
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  Speaker 2: only read a little bit of it. We see the dream,
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  Speaker 2: the dream that God gave Nebuchadnezzar, and the Bible reads,
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  Speaker 2: thou O king saw ust, and behold a great image.
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  Speaker 2: This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee
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  Speaker 2: and the form thereof was terrible. And if you go
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  Speaker 2: down through the entire image, you'll see that there was
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  Speaker 2: a head of gold and chestun arms of silver, belly,
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  Speaker 2: and thighs of brass. Of course, these are symbols. There's
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  Speaker 2: symbolic language. Legs of iron, feet partly of iron and
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  Speaker 2: partly of clay. And then the stone. We don't stop there.
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  Speaker 2: Then the stone is cut without hands. A stone that
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  Speaker 2: is cut without hands strikes this image that represents world
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  Speaker 2: empires will get into that in a second at the
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  Speaker 2: feet and destroyed the image, and the stone became a
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  Speaker 2: great mountain that filled the earth. I think we summarized
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  Speaker 2: very quickly. Good. And so what was the interpretation? The
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  Speaker 2: Bible says here in Daniel, chapter two and verse thirty eight,
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  Speaker 2: he's speaking to nebuicad Nezer. Now that the saga has continued,
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  Speaker 2: and nebuchad Nezer is looking through all of his magicians
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  Speaker 2: and counselors and all these people he employs and says
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  Speaker 2: that one of y'all need to tell me what in
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  Speaker 2: the world I dreamt, and then give me the interpretation.
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  Speaker 2: And so long story short, God has his man present, ready,
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  Speaker 2: really willing and available to do the task. And it says,
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  Speaker 2: here thou art the head of gold. And so Babylon
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  Speaker 2: over which Nebuchadnezzar had ruled at the time, was the
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  Speaker 2: head of gold. You are the head of gold. And
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  Speaker 2: so the gold represents Babylon. Then the silver represents Medo Persia.
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  Speaker 2: Did you notice that the value of the particular metal,
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  Speaker 2: the precious metal, has gone down a touch? Well, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: silver is Media Persia. You can look into ancient history
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  Speaker 2: and see the succession of those world empires, and then
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  Speaker 2: brass are Bronze is Grecia, and then comes the Western
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  Speaker 2: Roman Empire. It with iron, and then iron and clay.
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  Speaker 2: Are the divided kingdoms of Europe, seven of which seven
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  Speaker 2: countries of which still exist today. I wish I had
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  Speaker 2: the time, partly strong and partly brittle, and really and
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  Speaker 2: truly Europe will never unite. The Bible teaches that, so
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  Speaker 2: we have Babylon, Media Persia, Grecia, the Western Roman Empire,
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  Speaker 2: and then the divided kingdoms of Rome, the divided kingdoms
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  Speaker 2: that came out of Rome, which are Europe, and seven
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  Speaker 2: of those nations continue untill this day. And then we
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  Speaker 2: see from Pagan Rome the iron okay, and then down
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  Speaker 2: to Papal Rome that arose out of that same out
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  Speaker 2: of that same imagery. I wish I had the time,
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  Speaker 2: but the fact is, and the Bible reads in verse
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  Speaker 2: forty four, in the days of these kings, God, the
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  Speaker 2: God of Heaven, shall set up a kingdom which shall
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  Speaker 2: never be destroyed. And so this, along with what we
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  Speaker 2: see in Daniel chapter three, Daniel chapter eleven, we see
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  Speaker 2: that kingdoms they rise up, they come down, They rise up,
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  Speaker 2: they come down. They stand up through alliances, they stand
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  Speaker 2: up through different powers that they exert over the people,
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  Speaker 2: but then they come down. And then ultimately in Daniel twelve,
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  Speaker 2: we see mike chl Jesus Christ standing up, standing up,
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  Speaker 2: and he does not sit down, He does not come
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  Speaker 2: down until he is seated firmly on the throne of
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  Speaker 2: the universe as King of kings and Lord of lords.
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  Speaker 2: So this is the stone that is cut without hands
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  Speaker 2: out of the mountain. And then destroys all earthly inventions,
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  Speaker 2: all earthly empires, all earthly kingdoms. Somebody today, I know
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  Speaker 2: we've said a lot, but somebody today is disheartened because
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  Speaker 2: you feel like the kingdom that you're a part of,
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  Speaker 2: the where you are domiciled right now, where you are
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  Speaker 2: a part of, you feel like it's out of control.
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  Speaker 2: And maybe indeed it seems to be. But the fact
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  Speaker 2: is that God has always had his hands on the reality.
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  Speaker 2: His hand is always on the wheel in human what
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  Speaker 2: we go through on planet Earth. So in the same
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  Speaker 2: way that God was present during Babylon, present, during media Persia,
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  Speaker 2: present during Brass and Bronze Grecia, present during papal Rome,
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  Speaker 2: or the Western Roman Empire, present when those individuals broke
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  Speaker 2: up into ten empires, which are ten divisions that are
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  Speaker 2: now just the seven that still exists. As He was
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  Speaker 2: there then, and he was there when Papal Rome sprang up.
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  Speaker 2: He was there in all of the things that we
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  Speaker 2: have done in our human imagination, and He is going
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  Speaker 2: to be with us all the way through to the end.
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  Speaker 2: But what is the lesson. The lesson in this case
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  Speaker 2: is that God alone reveals the future. No human being
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  Speaker 2: by ourselves can see the future. Human kingdoms they rise
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  Speaker 2: and they fall, but God's kingdom will never pass away.
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  Speaker 2: So what are the lessons that we can learn? There
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  Speaker 2: are so many, but let's just begin with a few.
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  Speaker 2: God reveals secrets that no human can know. We see
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  Speaker 2: in Daniel chapter two and verse twenty eight that God
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  Speaker 2: revealed to nebekad Nezzer and then gave the interpretation through
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  Speaker 2: his man Daniel, what would happen when the world seems uncertain.
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  Speaker 2: God already knows the outcome. And so for us we
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  Speaker 2: need to realize that when we are confused and unsure,
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  Speaker 2: that all we need to do is ask God to reveal,
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  Speaker 2: reveal what he wants us to understand for the moment
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  Speaker 2: that we're in and what we must do, and we
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  Speaker 2: can trust him. And then, of course Daniel chapter two
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  Speaker 2: and verse twenty one shows us that God sets up
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  Speaker 2: and he removes kings, He sets up kingdoms, he removes them,
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  Speaker 2: And so rulers and kingdoms and governments are not ultimately
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  Speaker 2: in control God indeed, and in fact is so don't
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  Speaker 2: put your hope in political powers. I don't care where
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  Speaker 2: you live in the world, don't put your hope there.
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  Speaker 2: Pray for your leaders. I live in Jamaica, pray for
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  Speaker 2: my leaders here in Jamaica. You live in whatever country
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  Speaker 2: you live in, pray for your leaders. But depend upon God.
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  Speaker 2: There are so many more things I could say, but
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  Speaker 2: let me just rush down to the bottom. God confirms
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  Speaker 2: his word with certainty when he interprets and shows us
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  Speaker 2: what's going on in our world and what things will come.
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  Speaker 2: It is sure, and now we can stand in God's
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  Speaker 2: word with confidence.
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