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Episode 144 - Divine Orchestration · End-Time Revival Ministries, USA

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  Speaker 1: I will, I will, I will bless the Lord at
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  Speaker 1: all times, and may his praise continually be in my mouth.
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  Speaker 1: This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him and
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  Speaker 1: delivered me. Oh, I take it personally. He delivered me
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  Speaker 1: from all of my fears. So therefore, a man, I
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  Speaker 1: will not fear what man can do unto me, because
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  Speaker 1: God is my refuge and my strength, and he is
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  Speaker 1: my very present help in the time of trouble. We
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  Speaker 1: welcome you once again to this another edition of End
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  Speaker 1: Time Revival Ministry. She has a podcast for those of
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  Speaker 1: you are listening to us by way of our audio podcasts,
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  Speaker 1: and we also welcome those of you who are viewing
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  Speaker 1: us by way of our YouTube channel. One Voice in
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  Speaker 1: the Wilderness, a man, we thank God again and for
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  Speaker 1: this opportunity, this blessed, glorious spend it day that He
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  Speaker 1: has made and allowed us to speak forth again his truth. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: with boldness, with clarity, with plainness of speech. Amen, we
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  Speaker 1: come to you, Amen, with the word of the Living God.
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  Speaker 1: On this twenty fourth day of January, already approaching the
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  Speaker 1: end of the month, the first month of this new year,
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  Speaker 1: we are amen again grateful to the Lord for a
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  Speaker 1: man the breath of life that is in us. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: And we are swiftly, swiftly, and unless you are asleep,
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  Speaker 1: we are swiftly approaching the end of the age, the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Lord. And for those of us who
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  Speaker 1: are praying, as Jesus taught us to pray, even so,
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  Speaker 1: Come Lord Jesus, we are praying Amen, that God will
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  Speaker 1: amen again fulfill and he will all of his promises
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  Speaker 1: that he has spoken concerning his people. Amen. All right.
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  Speaker 1: First and foremost, let me just make you aware, those
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  Speaker 1: of you who listen by way of our audio podcasts.
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  Speaker 1: On last week our audio podcast for End Time Revival
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  Speaker 1: Ministri at USA, episode number one forty three, there was
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  Speaker 1: technical difficulties in the uploading of that podcast, and it
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  Speaker 1: is now available. Episode number one forty three is now
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  Speaker 1: available Amen on our podcast platform. It is the podcast
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  Speaker 1: from last week January seventeenth, And so today there will
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  Speaker 1: be this particular podcast available. Hopefully if there are no
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  Speaker 1: technical difficulties, it will be available a man on the
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  Speaker 1: platform as well. And so again, thank God again for
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  Speaker 1: all of you who listen by way of our audio
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  Speaker 1: podcast and for those of you who view us by
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  Speaker 1: way of our YouTube channel. All Right, today we're going
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  Speaker 1: to again, in the Word of Lord, demonstrate a man
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  Speaker 1: that God reigns and rules in the kingdom of men.
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  Speaker 1: And they were in a series on God, government, church,
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  Speaker 1: and state. And make no mistake about it, a man
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  Speaker 1: God reigns and rules over the affairs of this world.
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  Speaker 1: A man even though we may not see and understand
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  Speaker 1: and and can you know, you know, really delve into
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  Speaker 1: what God is doing and understand why He allows certain
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  Speaker 1: things to happen, especially and particularly all of the evil
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  Speaker 1: that transpires in our world. And even again when it
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  Speaker 1: happens when we have rogue governments and rogue leaders. But
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  Speaker 1: we've already addressed that to a certain extent, that even
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  Speaker 1: though this happens, God never allows any government, any rogue government,
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  Speaker 1: any leader of any rogue government, to run a foul
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  Speaker 1: of His word and of his a man commands to
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  Speaker 1: the point that it will disrupt with God, a man
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  Speaker 1: has already purposed to do so. Even when we have
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  Speaker 1: evil in our world, a man God is still a
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  Speaker 1: man sovereignly in control over all of the wickedness and
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  Speaker 1: evil that man may purpose to do and do actually
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  Speaker 1: in our world. And so those of us who a
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  Speaker 1: man know intrust in the word of a living God
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  Speaker 1: and trust in God himself. We know and we can
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  Speaker 1: be assured and rest in this assurance a man that
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  Speaker 1: God reigns and rules in the kingdom of men. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: So we're continuing today in our series on God, government,
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  Speaker 1: church and state. There is, by the way, again no separation. Amen.
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  Speaker 1: God is not aloof God is not asleep. God is
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  Speaker 1: not detached Amen, from what is transpiring in our world.
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  Speaker 1: But the Brother, as we're going to see today, in
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  Speaker 1: particularly in particular, rather he orchestrates. Amen. So in our
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  Speaker 1: previous sessions, Amen, we have both asserted and demonstrated from
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God that the God of Creation is
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  Speaker 1: intimately and actively involved and the affairs of governments are
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  Speaker 1: at all levels, not only in past history, but very
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  Speaker 1: much so in our present time, in our present world
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  Speaker 1: that we live in, and again especially as we are
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  Speaker 1: nearing the end of the age. And so if you
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  Speaker 1: have your Bibles, I want you to go with me
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  Speaker 1: to the Book of Daniel the Prophet, chapter number two,
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  Speaker 1: and will begin there in just a moment. But as
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  Speaker 1: always we want to take just a moment too, Amen,
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  Speaker 1: invote the presence of the Lord Father. Again, we Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for this day and all of your blessings upon
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  Speaker 1: all of your people everywhere. This is the day that
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  Speaker 1: you have made. We shall rejoice glad and you, the
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  Speaker 1: God of our salvation. Thank you for times and seasons.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you for wisdom and knowledge. Thank you for understanding
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  Speaker 1: and prudence. Thank you for direction and correction. We give
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  Speaker 1: you praise, glory and honor in all things. Speak to
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  Speaker 1: someone's heart. Today we pray in Jesus name. Amen. All right,
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  Speaker 1: we've seen the Amen in the word of the Lord,
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  Speaker 1: as we have again in our previous sessions, the direct
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  Speaker 1: divine intervention of God in the affairs of kings of nations,
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  Speaker 1: very early, by the way in the book of Genesis,
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  Speaker 1: where God appeared to kings in dreams in order to
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  Speaker 1: correct them, in order to chasen them, in order to
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  Speaker 1: turn them from the path of wrath and destruction. Because
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  Speaker 1: the Bible makes it clear, there's a way that seems right,
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  Speaker 1: and to the man to man and all in our mind,
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  Speaker 1: in all way it seems right, it looks right, it
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  Speaker 1: feels right. Ah, and and and so the Bible makes
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  Speaker 1: it clear. But it is a way of destruction, and
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  Speaker 1: God turns us from wrath he turns us from destruction.
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  Speaker 1: And the Bible also lets us know that the heart
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  Speaker 1: of every king is in the hands of God. And
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  Speaker 1: like the rivers of water a man, God directs, and
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  Speaker 1: he turns their hearts where he wills for it to go.
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  Speaker 1: And he never, by the way, directs them to sin.
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  Speaker 1: He never directs them to do evil a man, because
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  Speaker 1: evil is already what is in the heart of man.
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  Speaker 1: And it is God and God alone who directs and
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  Speaker 1: delivers us from evil. And that's why we should pray again,
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  Speaker 1: as Jesus taught us to pray, deliver us from evil.
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  Speaker 1: Deliver us from the evil one. Amen. And and and
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  Speaker 1: and we see that God has not only appeared the
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  Speaker 1: kings directly via dreams in order to correct and discipline them,
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  Speaker 1: but God is also revealed to kings by way of
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  Speaker 1: dreams to show them what he is going to orchestrate,
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  Speaker 1: to show to them what He's going to do. And
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  Speaker 1: this is precisely what transpired. A man with a very
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  Speaker 1: powerful pagan government, ruler, the king of the conquering nation
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  Speaker 1: of Babylon, a man whom God by the way directed
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  Speaker 1: and ordered and orchestrated to take his own people the
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  Speaker 1: Jews into captivity for a period of seventy years. And
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  Speaker 1: so what we're going to see today is while they
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  Speaker 1: were there in captivity. While the Jews were there in captivity,
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  Speaker 1: the God who reigns and rules again over the kingdom,
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  Speaker 1: over the affairs of all of the governments of this world,
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  Speaker 1: the God of creation, who is the master orchestrator of
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  Speaker 1: the affairs of every nation. This same God, as we're
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  Speaker 1: going to see, gave to a pagan king man by
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  Speaker 1: the name of nevkan Nezza. He gave to him a
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  Speaker 1: dream that the king could not understand, and God gave
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  Speaker 1: it to him to show to him what he was
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  Speaker 1: about to do. Daniel, chapter number two. Let's delve into
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  Speaker 1: it verse number one. Now, in the second year of
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  Speaker 1: Nebukannazza's reign, Nebkanza had dreams and his spirit was so
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  Speaker 1: troubled that his sleep left him. And this can be
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  Speaker 1: one of those times. This is one of those times, absolutely,
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  Speaker 1: of course, in this particular case, where a troubling dream
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  Speaker 1: is so disturbing, and it is so because God is
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  Speaker 1: revealing something and the king is disturbing. The sleep is
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  Speaker 1: left from him and he cannot get rest until he
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  Speaker 1: knows what it is that this dream is all about.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible tells us the verse number two.
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  Speaker 1: The king gave command to call the magicians, the astrologists,
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  Speaker 1: the sorcerers, the Chaldans to tell the king his dreams.
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  Speaker 1: So they came and stood before the king, and the
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  Speaker 1: King said to them, I have had a dream, and
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  Speaker 1: my spirit is anxious to know the dream. Then the
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  Speaker 1: Kaldans spoke to the king and Arabic, o King live forever.
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  Speaker 1: Tell your servants the dream, and we will give the interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: The king answered and said to the Kaldns, my decision
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  Speaker 1: is firmed. If you do not make known the dream
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  Speaker 1: to me and its interpretation, you shall be cut in pieces,
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  Speaker 1: and your houses shall be made in ashe. However, if
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  Speaker 1: you tell the dream and its interpretation, you shall receive
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  Speaker 1: from me gifts, rewards, and great honor. Therefore, tell me
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  Speaker 1: the dream and its interpretation. Wow. By the way, for
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  Speaker 1: those of you who are not familiar with Never He
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  Speaker 1: was the most powerful king that ever lived on the earth.
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  Speaker 1: He had autonomous power, only answering to God. He did
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  Speaker 1: not answer to a court, He did not answer to
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  Speaker 1: any advisers. He did not answer to any legislature. He
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  Speaker 1: answered only to himself as it were as it was
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  Speaker 1: among men, and only as we'll see, to the God
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  Speaker 1: of heaven. And so he had the authority. And he
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  Speaker 1: did do this, by the way, because the Bible even
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  Speaker 1: says whom he would he slew and whom he would
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  Speaker 1: he kept alive. If king never pronounced a death sentence
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  Speaker 1: upon you, you had no recourse, You had no appeal
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  Speaker 1: a man. So this is why a man, and he
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  Speaker 1: issued this. A man decree to these, or issue to
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  Speaker 1: them this mandate that they tell him not only what
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  Speaker 1: the dream meant, but they had to tell him what
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  Speaker 1: the dream was. And so they answered again verse number seven,
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  Speaker 1: Let the king tell his servants the dream and we
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  Speaker 1: would give its interpretation. The king answer that I know
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  Speaker 1: for certain that you would gain time. In other words,
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  Speaker 1: you're trying to stall because you see that my decision
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  Speaker 1: is firmed. If you do not make known the dream
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  Speaker 1: to me. There's only one decree for you, for you
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  Speaker 1: have agreed to speak lying and corrupt words before me
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  Speaker 1: till the time has changed. Therefore, tell me the dream
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  Speaker 1: and I shall know that you can give me its interpretation. See,
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  Speaker 1: only God can do this kind of stuff y'all look
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  Speaker 1: at verse number ten. The Calvins answer the king and said,
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  Speaker 1: there is not a man on earth who can tell
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  Speaker 1: the king's matter. Therefore, no king, lord or ruler has
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  Speaker 1: ever asked such things of any magician, astrologer, or cow den.
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  Speaker 1: It is a difficult thing that the king requests, and
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  Speaker 1: there is no other who can tell it to the
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  Speaker 1: king except the gods, who's dwelling is not with flesh.
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  Speaker 1: Now they are partly correct, except for, of course, the
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  Speaker 1: plurality of the plethora of gods that they served or
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  Speaker 1: looked to that simply did not and do not exist.
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  Speaker 1: They are correct, and that it is very difficult. It
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  Speaker 1: is impossible. But the king has requested of them. They
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  Speaker 1: don't know, They have no idea. They could have guessed
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  Speaker 1: ten thousand times, one hundred thousand times a billion times,
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  Speaker 1: and they never ever would have come up this dream
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  Speaker 1: that the king dreamed on his bed. Never And as
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  Speaker 1: they correctly said, there is nobody that can tell you, king,
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  Speaker 1: what you dream, except for the God, not the gods,
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  Speaker 1: the God of heaven who's dwelling. And they're correct about this,
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  Speaker 1: his dwelling is not with flesh. God reigns and ruins,
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  Speaker 1: and he resides in the heavens of heaven. Amen, above
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  Speaker 1: the heaven that we see. Amen. And and man, look
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  Speaker 1: at verse number sixteen. I'm sorry verse number twelve for
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  Speaker 1: this reason. After they responded in this way to the
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  Speaker 1: king there now he's hot, never can as by the way,
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  Speaker 1: had a temper. And you see this if you know
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  Speaker 1: the story familiar in chapter number three. Amen, he if
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  Speaker 1: you defied the king, if you didn't get this king
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  Speaker 1: what he wanted and what commanded, what he demanded of anyone,
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  Speaker 1: he would boom, you're dead. He has no use for you.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, these people are on his payroll. I'm
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  Speaker 1: certain they were uh eating and dining off of his revenue,
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  Speaker 1: as it were, and they served at his pleasure, and
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  Speaker 1: he simply required of them what they were supposed to
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  Speaker 1: be experts in. They were magicians, they were sous sayers,
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  Speaker 1: they were fortune tellers, they were wise men, they were
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  Speaker 1: all of what all of that, and these people again
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  Speaker 1: on his payroll. So why am I paying you if
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  Speaker 1: you can't tell me, if you can't give me what
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  Speaker 1: I'm I'm paying you for. And that's his reasoning, I'm
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  Speaker 1: sure that's his rationale. In his mind. So now he
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  Speaker 1: is furious, the Bible says, and and and he gave
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  Speaker 1: the command the decree, issued a decree to destroy all
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  Speaker 1: the wise men of battle. And so the decree went out,
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  Speaker 1: and they began killing, the Bible says, the wise men,
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  Speaker 1: and they sought Daniel and his companions in order to
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  Speaker 1: kill them. Of course, if you're not familiar with this,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel shot red Mescheck and the Bennigo a man. They
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  Speaker 1: were captives, taken into captivity along with the children of
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  Speaker 1: the Jews, and they were now serving in the king's court.
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  Speaker 1: And they had been promoted to a man a position
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  Speaker 1: of among the wise men, because of their wisdom and
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  Speaker 1: knowledge and understanding that God had blessed them with. And
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  Speaker 1: so they now are caught up in this a man conundrum,
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  Speaker 1: if you will, of this slaying of the wise men,
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  Speaker 1: because of the decree that went out before the king.
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  Speaker 1: And so they sought for Daniel and his companions in
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  Speaker 1: order to kill them as well, the Bible says in
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  Speaker 1: verse fourteen. Then, with counseling wisdom, Daniel answered Ariac, who
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  Speaker 1: was the captain of the king's guard, and he who
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  Speaker 1: was also among them who had gone out to kill
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  Speaker 1: the wise men of Babylon. He answered and said to
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  Speaker 1: the king's captain, why is the decree from the king
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  Speaker 1: so urgent? Why is it so hasty? Arak made the
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  Speaker 1: decision known to Daniel, explained to Daniel what was going on. Now,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel was not one of those who had been in
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  Speaker 1: the court of the king and had the opportunity to
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  Speaker 1: a man hear what the king had requested. So Daniel
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  Speaker 1: went in the Bible says and asks the king to
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  Speaker 1: give him time that he might tell the king the interpretation. Now, Daniel, again,
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  Speaker 1: please understand, he did not know. First of all, he
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  Speaker 1: didn't even know what was going on with all of this.
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  Speaker 1: He didn't know what the king had dreamed in his bed.
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  Speaker 1: But he did know, and he did understand that it
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  Speaker 1: is the God of heaven, the God of creation, who
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  Speaker 1: both speaks to and gives rebelations and understanding to all men,
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  Speaker 1: certainly and especially to those who will seek and ask Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel is confident that God will show to him what
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  Speaker 1: the king has demanded Verse seventeen. So Daniel went to
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  Speaker 1: his house and made the decision known to Hannanayah, Michel
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  Speaker 1: and Azariah. Those are their Jewish names. His companions that
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  Speaker 1: they might seek mercies from the God of Heaven concerning
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  Speaker 1: this secret, so that Daniel and his companions might not
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  Speaker 1: perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon.
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  Speaker 1: Then the secret was revealed to Daniel in a night vision.
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  Speaker 1: I love it. I love it. Only God can do this, y'all.
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  Speaker 1: Only God can Only God God the same thing. What's
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  Speaker 1: the probability What is the probability that even twin twins
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  Speaker 1: who act alike, think alike, walk alike, talk alike. Maybe
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  Speaker 1: I mean identical twins who have some of the same
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  Speaker 1: mannerisms and characterixists and so of and so on. How
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  Speaker 1: it's what is the probability that they would dream the
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  Speaker 1: same dream on the same night, or the next night,
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  Speaker 1: or a week later, unbeknownst to one another. What's the
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  Speaker 1: probability of that? This is God at work, y'all? This
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  Speaker 1: is God. This is something that only God can do.
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  Speaker 1: And so the Bible says, the secret was revealed to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel in a night vision. So Daniel blessed the God
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven. Daniel answered and said, blessed be the name
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  Speaker 1: of God forever and ever. I love this praise. By
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  Speaker 1: the way a man for wisdom and might are his.
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  Speaker 1: And he changes the times and the seasons. Do you
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  Speaker 1: understand what Daniel is saying here? Do you understand? Daniel
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  Speaker 1: has not only seen the dream, but he understands what
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  Speaker 1: God is doing. What God is a man predestined to do,
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  Speaker 1: determined to do. Amen. What God is going to do
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  Speaker 1: long after their days are over? Amen, He changes the
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  Speaker 1: times and the season seasons. This is what he says
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty one. He removes kings and raises up. Can
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  Speaker 1: you know what that means? That God is in charge
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  Speaker 1: of governments, That God is the one who promotes and
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  Speaker 1: installs and puts into office and puts into place leaders, princes, kings, governors, mayors,
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  Speaker 1: prime ministers, you name it, God, God raises them up.
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  Speaker 1: You said, well, I don't agree with what. I don't understand.
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  Speaker 1: I don't want, I don't get it. Your ways, our
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  Speaker 1: ways are not his ways. We don't think, we don't
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  Speaker 1: understand like God. We don't know what God is doing.
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  Speaker 1: Even when God permits, Even when God allows wicked rulers,
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  Speaker 1: and he, oh my God, have they ever reign and rule?
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  Speaker 1: They still can never and will never run a foul lord?
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  Speaker 1: Just an all? What God is already predestined and determined
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  Speaker 1: that he's going to do and is doing in this earth. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: especially and particularly when it comes to saving whom he
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  Speaker 1: will save and delivering whom he will deliver. So he
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  Speaker 1: changes the times of the seasons. He removes kings and
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  Speaker 1: raises up kings. He gives wisdom to the wise and
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  Speaker 1: knowledge to those who have understand He God does, reveals
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  Speaker 1: deep and secret things. He knows what is in the
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  Speaker 1: darkness and light dwells with him. I thank you and
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  Speaker 1: praise you, Oh God of my Father's This is Daniel's prayer.
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  Speaker 1: You have given me wisdom and might and have now
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  Speaker 1: made known to me what we ask of you. For
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  Speaker 1: you have made known to us the King's demand. Now
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  Speaker 1: let me just say this. Whenever we are faced with
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  Speaker 1: difficult problems, circumstances, situations, challenges that are not addressed in
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  Speaker 1: God's Word. And now let me just again, if it's
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  Speaker 1: already in the Word of God, we don't need to
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  Speaker 1: pray about it. And particularly when and when I say that,
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  Speaker 1: I mean when God has already instructed us, When God
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  Speaker 1: has already commanded us what to do in certain situations,
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  Speaker 1: you don't need to pray and ask God what to do.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I mean by we don't need to pray
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  Speaker 1: about what to do, because we already should know what
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  Speaker 1: to do when it's already been told to us what
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  Speaker 1: to do. Now, they did not have all of the
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  Speaker 1: Word of God, all of the scriptures as we now have.
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  Speaker 1: So there were times and seasons and places and circumstances
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  Speaker 1: and situations where they had to go to God in
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  Speaker 1: prayer to get revelation and understanding to know what the
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  Speaker 1: will of God is. But for the most part, we
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  Speaker 1: know what the will of God is now that we
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  Speaker 1: have all of the revelation that God has desired for
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  Speaker 1: us to have. All that we need to know is
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  Speaker 1: in His word. Now. Again, we're not talking about some
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  Speaker 1: things that again will come up that are not addressed,
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  Speaker 1: particularly in the Word of God. But for the most part,
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  Speaker 1: we have guidelines, we have principles, we have precepts a man,
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  Speaker 1: we have commands that God has given to us that
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  Speaker 1: we can make decisions based upon what is already in
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  Speaker 1: the Word of God. This is not one of those situations,
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  Speaker 1: and so we are not face. Daniel was not faced
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  Speaker 1: with a situation where the Bible was already clear what
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  Speaker 1: the Bible or the Word of God was already clear upon.
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  Speaker 1: And so whenever we are faced with such a challenge
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  Speaker 1: as it were, as it may be a man, we
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  Speaker 1: can go to God in prayer, just as Daniel did
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  Speaker 1: and his friends did, his companions did, and trust that
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  Speaker 1: God will answer our prayers and he will direct our path.
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  Speaker 1: He answered for Daniel and his companions. And again is
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  Speaker 1: another thing that's very important. What Daniel did immediately, he
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  Speaker 1: blessed the God of Heaven. He praised him. He gave
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  Speaker 1: him the glory that is due only to him. Never
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  Speaker 1: forget that God gets to glory, that God gets to
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  Speaker 1: glory Verse twenty seven. So Daniel answered in the presence
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  Speaker 1: of the King, because now he has the revelation, he
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  Speaker 1: has understanding he's seen but never can as a sult.
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  Speaker 1: I only saw significant as a saul. But he Daniel
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  Speaker 1: understands what the dream is all about. And he now
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  Speaker 1: can go with confidence and full assurance to the King
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  Speaker 1: to tell him what he dreamed and give him the interpretation.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, this is, this is how faith operation
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  Speaker 1: Bible tells us to just shall live by faith and
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  Speaker 1: understand that even before Daniel got the revelation, before he
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  Speaker 1: got the understanding, before God revealed to him what the
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  Speaker 1: dream was. What did Daniel do? He went in and
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  Speaker 1: requested of the king, what time? Give me time to
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  Speaker 1: make known to you what God has given to you,
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  Speaker 1: what God has shown you. So Daniel, even before he
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  Speaker 1: got the revelation, understood that God not only again is
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  Speaker 1: the one who gives these but God it is who
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  Speaker 1: would give it to him. He believed that God would
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  Speaker 1: reveal it to him. He trusted that God would do it,
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  Speaker 1: because he said it with confidence. Give me time, Give
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  Speaker 1: me time, amen, and I will tell the king amen,
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  Speaker 1: what he has dreamed, and give to him the interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of the dream. All right, So Daniel now goes in
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  Speaker 1: to the presence of the king. We skipped down the
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  Speaker 1: verse twenty seven, and he answers in the presence of
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  Speaker 1: the king and said, the secret which the king has demanded,
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  Speaker 1: this is what he says. The wise man, the astrologers,
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  Speaker 1: the magicians, and the soothsayers, they cannot declare it to
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  Speaker 1: the king also true. You know why that is, ladies
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  Speaker 1: and gentlemen, because they could You know why they couldn't
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  Speaker 1: Because it's impossible. First of all, because it came from God.
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  Speaker 1: And only God can give it. And so the false
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  Speaker 1: gods to whom these idolators a man look to and
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  Speaker 1: dependent upon, are no gods at all. And they cannot
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  Speaker 1: declare anything, They cannot make known anything, simply because these
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  Speaker 1: gods do not exist. They're not real. They are demons
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  Speaker 1: who have infiltrated the wicked heart of delusional men, men
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  Speaker 1: who refuse to acknowledge God in their hearts, who refuse
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  Speaker 1: to acknowledge the truth and the living God. So what
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  Speaker 1: does where are these gods come from? Where did all
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  Speaker 1: these idols come from? They are the figments of imagination.
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  Speaker 1: They come out of Hell itself. Amen. But Daniel answered
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  Speaker 1: and said, in verse twenty eight, there is a God
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  Speaker 1: in heaven, the God of Heaven. See these, these these astrologers,
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  Speaker 1: these magicians, they were not the true, They were not
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  Speaker 1: true worshipers a man, and God was not going to
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  Speaker 1: reveal anything to them. Amen. God reveals his secrets, the
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  Speaker 1: Bible says to his servants, the prophets. And so there is,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel says, a God in heaven who reveals secrets, and
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  Speaker 1: he has made known to King. Never can Azah, what
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  Speaker 1: will be in the latter days your dream and the
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  Speaker 1: visions of your head upon your bed were these? Now
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  Speaker 1: Daniel is about to tell the king exactly what he dreamed.
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  Speaker 1: Only God, oh, only God, can do this, y'all. Look
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  Speaker 1: what he says, verse twenty. I ask for you, o King,
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  Speaker 1: thoughts came to your mind while you while on your
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  Speaker 1: bed about what would come to pass after this. And
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  Speaker 1: he who reveals secrets has made known to you what
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  Speaker 1: will be. But as for me, this secret has not
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  Speaker 1: been revealed to me, because I have more wisdom than
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  Speaker 1: anyone living. But for our sakes, who make known the
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  Speaker 1: interpretation to the king, and that you may know the
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  Speaker 1: thoughts of your heart? Now Verse number thirty one. Now listen, listen, listen.
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  Speaker 1: This is all God. This is all God's doing. This
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  Speaker 1: is this is this is God again, not only intervening.
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  Speaker 1: This is what we're going to see here. Not only
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  Speaker 1: is God intervening in the affairs in the within the governments,
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  Speaker 1: within the ruling and the reigning of kings governments of
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  Speaker 1: this world, But in this particular case, he is orchestrating, fully,
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  Speaker 1: orchestrating what is and what is to come. Oh my God,
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  Speaker 1: oh my God. All right, listen, listen, whatddy this is
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  Speaker 1: a dream that the king never Caneza had. You, old King,
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  Speaker 1: were watching and behold a great image. This great image,
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  Speaker 1: whose splendor was excellent, stood before you, and its form
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  Speaker 1: was awesome. This image's head was of fine goal, It's
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  Speaker 1: chest an arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
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  Speaker 1: its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and
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  Speaker 1: partly of clay. You watched while a stone was cut
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  Speaker 1: out without hands, which struck the image on its feet
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  Speaker 1: of iron and clay and broke them in pieces. Then
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  Speaker 1: the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the
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  Speaker 1: goal were crushed together and became like chaff from the
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  Speaker 1: summer threshing floors. The wind carried them away so that
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  Speaker 1: no trace of them was found, and the stone that
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  Speaker 1: struck the image became a great mountain and filled the
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  Speaker 1: whole earth. That's the dream that the king had, and
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  Speaker 1: no wonder he was astonished. Now when you see all
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  Speaker 1: of the specifics in this particular dream about this image,
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  Speaker 1: what it was made of, all of the you know,
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  Speaker 1: particulars in the script in describing the parts of it,
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  Speaker 1: and all of that. When you see this there is simply,
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  Speaker 1: I mean, there's just no way. There is no way
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  Speaker 1: that Daniel could have just made this up. There is
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  Speaker 1: no way any of the astrologists, magicians, Chaldy Andenzious says,
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  Speaker 1: which graft workers, whatever, no way any of them would
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  Speaker 1: have come up with this. There's simply no way. Only God,
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  Speaker 1: only God. And so now Daniel has shown the king
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  Speaker 1: told to the king exactly what he dreamed, precisely what
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  Speaker 1: he dreamed. And I know I can just if you
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  Speaker 1: will imagine in my mind, I can see it in
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  Speaker 1: my mind. This king and all everybody who has who's
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  Speaker 1: standing there has to be completely stupefied and astonished that
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  Speaker 1: this man could recount to this king very specifically everything
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  Speaker 1: that the king dreamed, just as he dreamed, not in
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  Speaker 1: some kind of obscure you know, or you know, and
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  Speaker 1: sometimes people prophesy call themselves prophesy, and they'll, you know, speak,
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  Speaker 1: there's no specificity at all. I mean, that's why I'm
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  Speaker 1: not gonna go there. I'm not gonna go there. But
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  Speaker 1: Daniel saw exactly what the king saw, and he told
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  Speaker 1: him exactly what he saw. In verse thirty six, Daniel says,
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  Speaker 1: this is the dream. Now we will tell the interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of it before the King not only did he have
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  Speaker 1: the dream, y'all. Now, that would have that should have
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  Speaker 1: been enough. That, I mean, for most people, that would
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  Speaker 1: have been enough. And as matter of fact, I believe
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  Speaker 1: I'm almost I'm almost. I could just say it. Let
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  Speaker 1: me just say that. And this is just me guessing.
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  Speaker 1: It's just me, and I'm basing this on my own,
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  Speaker 1: on my own intuition or my own humanity and my
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  Speaker 1: own sense of awe of you know, if it was
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  Speaker 1: me and I'm the king and this man is just
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  Speaker 1: coming here and told me exactly what I dream at
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  Speaker 1: that moment, if he had requested of me additional time
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  Speaker 1: and said to me, now, King, this is what you dream.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm gonna need about three more days before i
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  Speaker 1: can give you the full interpretation. Even that, if that
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  Speaker 1: I would have been man, you got it. You got
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  Speaker 1: your seventy two hours because you told me exactly what
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  Speaker 1: I dream. But that's not the case here, y'all. Daniel
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  Speaker 1: not only had the dream, Daniel had the full interpretation
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  Speaker 1: of what it meant. And the interpretation is more astonishing
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  Speaker 1: than the dream itself. Oh my God again, only God,
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  Speaker 1: only God, only God. Now Now now look what we said.
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  Speaker 1: Now not tomorrow, not next week. Now we will tell
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  Speaker 1: you the interpretation of the dream verse thirty seven. You,
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  Speaker 1: o King, are a king of kings, For the God
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  Speaker 1: of Heaven has given you a kingdom, power, strength, and glory.
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  Speaker 1: Now Daniel makes known to the King that where his authority,
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  Speaker 1: where his honomy, where his power, where his sovereignty comes from.
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  Speaker 1: Where never can gets all of this from is from
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  Speaker 1: the God of Heaven, God, the God of Heaven. Not
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  Speaker 1: the gods, not the gods, but the God of Heaven
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  Speaker 1: gave you a kingdom. He gave you power. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one who given who has given you strength. He's the
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  Speaker 1: one who's given you the glory that you are enjoying,
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  Speaker 1: reveling in. And wherever the children are men dwell or
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  Speaker 1: the beasts of the field, and the birds of the heaven,
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  Speaker 1: he has given them into your hands and has made
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  Speaker 1: you ruler over them. All. You are this head of gold.
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  Speaker 1: But after you shall arise another kingdom inferior to yours,
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  Speaker 1: then another a third kingdom of bronze, which shall rule
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  Speaker 1: over the earth over all the earth. And the fourth
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  Speaker 1: kingdom shall be as strong as iron, inasmuch as iron
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  Speaker 1: breaks in pieces and shatters everything and like iron that
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  Speaker 1: crushes that kingdom will break in pieces and crush all
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  Speaker 1: the others. Verse forty one. Whereas you saw the feet
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  Speaker 1: and the toes partly of Potter's clay and partly of iron,
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  Speaker 1: the kingdom shall be divided. Yet the strength of the
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  Speaker 1: iron shall be in it, just as you saw the
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  Speaker 1: iron mixed with ceramic clay, and as the toes of
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  Speaker 1: the feet were partly of iron and partly of clay,
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  Speaker 1: So the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly fragile.
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  Speaker 1: As you saw iron mixed with ceramic clay. They will
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  Speaker 1: mingle with the seed of men, but they will not
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  Speaker 1: adhere to one another, just as iron does not mix
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  Speaker 1: with clay. And in the days of these kings, the
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  Speaker 1: God of Heaven will set up a kingdom which shall
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  Speaker 1: never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not be left
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  Speaker 1: to other people. It shall break in pieces and consume
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  Speaker 1: all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. Inasmuch as
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  Speaker 1: you saw that the stone was cut out of the
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  Speaker 1: mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces, the iron,
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  Speaker 1: the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The
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  Speaker 1: Great God has made known to the king what will
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  Speaker 1: come to pass after this, the dream is certain and
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  Speaker 1: its interpretation is sure. Now, ladies and gentlemen, Daniel was
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  Speaker 1: as comfortident and firmly persuaded in the fulfillment of this
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  Speaker 1: revelation from God that was given by the Way again
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  Speaker 1: to a pagan head of state, of a I don't
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  Speaker 1: worship in nation. He was so confident, he was so assured,
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  Speaker 1: he was so persuaded that this would come to pass,
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  Speaker 1: and that ought to speak volumes to us. Daniel was confident.
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  Speaker 1: Daniel was persuaded before he came to pass. Ladies and gentlemen,
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  Speaker 1: we are living now in the aftermath of the vast
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  Speaker 1: majority of that dream already behind us, those of you
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  Speaker 1: who believe God, who believe the word of God and again,
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  Speaker 1: and I know that there are critics, and they absolutely
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  Speaker 1: hate Please understand that, first of all, they hate all
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  Speaker 1: of the Bible, almost all of them. I'll just say
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  Speaker 1: almost all of the Bible. Most of these unbelievers critics.
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  Speaker 1: And I'm talking about those who reject the word of God.
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  Speaker 1: I'm not talking about unbelievers in the sense that though
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  Speaker 1: they are those who will be brought into the faith,
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  Speaker 1: they may be categorized as unbelievers as of now. And
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  Speaker 1: this is why we pray, and this is why the
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  Speaker 1: church is still here, because we believe in God that
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  Speaker 1: he will change unbelievers into believers. And that's exactly what
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  Speaker 1: he does. Amen. And so I'm not talking about them.
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  Speaker 1: I'm speaking of those who are intentionally, deliberately, willfully rebelling
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  Speaker 1: against God. And they know rebelling against the word of God,
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  Speaker 1: and they know that it is true. And I say
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  Speaker 1: that because the Book of Daniel, the writings of Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: what Daniel recorded here and not only in chapter two,
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  Speaker 1: but going forward, all of the prophecies of Daniel, but
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  Speaker 1: God revealed concerning what was about to happen, what was
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  Speaker 1: happening now then, rather and what was going to transpire
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  Speaker 1: even thousands of years later. They hated because they want
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  Speaker 1: to Again, it keeps going back to some number two.
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  Speaker 1: They don't want to acknowledge. They don't want to live
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  Speaker 1: under the authority of God. They're they're they're they're they're
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  Speaker 1: rebelling against God. They don't want his rule, his commands,
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  Speaker 1: his ways, a man to direct them, to order them,
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  Speaker 1: to instruct them, to correct them. They don't want it.
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  Speaker 1: And so they deliberately, willfully defy the God of Heaven.
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  Speaker 1: But we know the word of God is sure, the
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  Speaker 1: word of God is explicit. These things that have happened
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  Speaker 1: proven in history. This image that never can as a
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  Speaker 1: dream about Babylon. The head of gold, the silver represented
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  Speaker 1: the Means and the Persians. The bronze represented the Greeks,
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  Speaker 1: Alexander the Great his empire, the iron represented the Roman Empire. Amen,
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  Speaker 1: and we are living in the aftermath of it. But listen,
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  Speaker 1: please understand what art showed to this pagan king. This
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  Speaker 1: was not only God intervening, but it is clear that
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  Speaker 1: God a man, is orchestrating and what he has shown,
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  Speaker 1: what he did show reb to this pagan king. It
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  Speaker 1: came to pass. Y'all. Now you can argue, you can
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  Speaker 1: debate about when it was written, and it had to
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  Speaker 1: have been written after all of this. No, no, no,
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  Speaker 1: it happened now if you want to believe that, Okay,
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  Speaker 1: Daniel couldn't have known this, Daniel couldn't have seen this.
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  Speaker 1: God didn't give it to Daniel alone. He first gave
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  Speaker 1: it to a pagan king. Because God reigns and rules
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  Speaker 1: in the kingdom of men, and not only again and
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  Speaker 1: intervenes in the affairs of nations and their governments. But
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  Speaker 1: please understand and make no mistake about it, Amen, because
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  Speaker 1: if you do, it's going to take you down the
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  Speaker 1: path of putting your faith, your hope, your trust, and
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  Speaker 1: your confidence in Man. If you go down that path
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  Speaker 1: not believe in God, there's only one other path to go.
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  Speaker 1: You got to put your faith, hope, and trust and
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  Speaker 1: confidence in man. You don't want to go that way.
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  Speaker 1: Please understand that God range and rules over and he
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  Speaker 1: overrules and he overrides. Not only that he orchestrates within
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  Speaker 1: the governments of all nations, so that what God has predetermined,
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  Speaker 1: what God has purpose, what God has willed, it shall
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  Speaker 1: come to pass. Jesus said, heaven and earth will pass away.
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  Speaker 1: But my word, that which I've spoken, that which I
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  Speaker 1: have decreed, it shall not pass away. Father, again, thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your word, thank you for your promises. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for revealing to us, showing to us, making known
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  Speaker 1: to us that you are the God who reigns and
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  Speaker 1: rules in the Kingdom of men, and there's none that
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  Speaker 1: can stay your hand. Thank you for your mercy. Thank
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  Speaker 1: you for your plan of redemption that you've carried forth
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  Speaker 1: and brought forth even to this point in time where
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  Speaker 1: you've saved us and delivered us, and we pray that
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  Speaker 1: you will continue, Lord, in your mercy, to deliver, to
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  Speaker 1: set free those who are yet in bondage. May your
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  Speaker 1: kingdom common Your will be done in us and through us,
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  Speaker 1: for your glory and honor, forever and always, we praying
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  Speaker 1: your thanks, Amen and amen,