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Speaker 1: Including message of our study in the Book of Daniel.
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I hope you've enjoyed this study as much as I have.
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Because of travel plans, i'm recording this message in advance,
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but I want you to know that on the day
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you study Daniel chapter twelve, my heart is going to
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be with you because it's a great opportunity for all
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of us to thank God for this astounding book that
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originated in the life of a wonderful man by the
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name of Daniel, some six hundred years before the life
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of Jesus Christ. You know, in my time at o'kill's Church,
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I've preached well over fifty series to our congregation, but
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I think I can say this has been the most
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challenging series to date. This book is stimulating, it's perplexing,
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it's exciting, and I've done my best to present to
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you my best take on this wonderful study. What's important
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in this study is that we understand the big message,
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and that is that there is a God in heaven
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and that he is bringing all of history toward a
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powerful and decisive victory. Now, no one understands all the
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details of what's going to happen between now and the
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end of history. I don't. No Bible student does. And
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I've simply done my best to unpack to you what
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seems to me to be a fair interpretation of this
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wonderful book. And if your study takes you in a
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little different direction, that's okay. What's important is that we
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agree that there is a God in heaven and he's
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going to bring a great victory to this earth. Amen,
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And that's what matters the most. Well, We're going to
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dig into chapter twelve and wrap this up, put a
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ribbon on the book. But before we do, can I
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say a prayer and then we'll get to work. Heavenly Father,
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we thank you now. We thank you for this wonderful book.
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We thank you for what you've taught us in this study. Lord,
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it leaves us hungry, wanting to know more. We pray
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you'd forgive our teacher his sins her many and and
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we pray, Heavenly Father, that you would please reveal to
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him and to us just a deeper understanding of what
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your future is, what you hold for us in the future.
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And we pray that we could be like Daniel, people
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who are prepared, people who understand your word, who seek
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your truth. We pray this, for these are difficult, severe
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days in which we live, and so we pray in
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the name of Jesus Christ. And all the church said, Well,
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my dad made a big deal out of family vacations.
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He enjoyed preparing for the vacations as much as the
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vacation itself. Our vacations always consisted of a long road
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trip and then sometime in a campground in the mountains.
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Usually the road trip was from West Texas to Colorado,
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but there were a couple of times we ventured out
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as far as Yellowstone Park or Yosemite, one time to
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the Grand Canyon. He loved vacations and he loved preparing
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for them. In spring, when the spring weather began to change,
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he would start talking about our summer vacation, and he
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began making decisions as to where we were going to go.
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And he didn't always tell us. He would surprise us.
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He would talk about it until right up on the
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evening before the vacation, and then he would tell us. Now,
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this was back in the days before there was GPS
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and before there was cell phones, of course, so he
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would plan our trips the old fashioned way with an
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honest to goodness foldable map, and he would spend hours
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over that map in the days leading up to the vacation,
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and he would use a highlighter and he would highlight
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our route on the map. He would circle the restaurant
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or places where we were going to stop at restaurants,
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and he would circle the names of campgrounds where we
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were going to spend the night. And then, of course
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he would have in high highlights the name of the
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campground where we were going to spend most of our vacation.
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And then, in an act of great drama, in an
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act that I cherished, he would, on the eve before
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the trip, sit me, my brother, and his wife, our
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mother at the table, unfold the map, and he would
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let us see where we were going. Oh can you
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imagine how excited we were, my brother and I We
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were just single digit age, you know, nine or ten
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years of age, and oh how we would sit on
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the edge of the chair with both elbows on the
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table and our chin cupped in our hands, and just
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listening to Dad as he would describe where we were headed.
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And since we didn't know anything about travel, since we
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didn't know what to expect, since we were newcomers to
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the road, He not only told us where we were going,
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he told us what to expect. He would say, now, suns,
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when we get into New Mexico, that that desert wind
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can blow, you got to prepare yourself. And he'd say, sons, now,
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when we get close to the mountains, you're gonna you're
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gonna feel your ears begin to pop. He would say, boys,
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now you'll know we're getting close to the end when
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you see those wooden signs that say National Park. They
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all have green trees painted on them, those those those
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pine trees, and he would describe them to us. Now,
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why would he do that? I mean, aside from being
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a fun loving guy, why would he go to the
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effort of showing us the map? And then would he
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why would he go to the effort of preparing us
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ahead of time so we would know what to expect.
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Why was it important to our father for him to
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tell us what signs to look for? And as long
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as we're asking the question, why has God done the
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same over and over as we've studied through the Book
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of Daniel, I have suggested to you that this book
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is a roadmap of sorts, or it's a timeline, it's
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an itinerary of the human journey, especially the Book of Daniel.
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God has told us what to expect. He has told
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us what's going to happen, and he has prepared us
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so we will know how to behave when we begin
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to see the signs. Of course, the Book of Daniel
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is far from the only book in the Bible to
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do this. It may surprise you to know that thirty
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percent of your Bible is comprised of prophecy. Thirty percent.
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Did you know that entire volumes such as Isaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, Revelation,
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or prophetic. So to dismiss prophecy is to dismiss one
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third of your scriptures. Yet many people do many people
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do They dismiss prophecy. They say, just give me the
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Lord's Prayer and just give me the twenty third song,
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just give me the stories. I can't handle that prophecy.
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They may do so for a couple of reasons. First
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of all, prophecy it can be complicated. It can and
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it can be controversial, and teachers of prophecy will have
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a tendency to be opinionated. I understand the hesitancy, but
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I would encourage you, dear friend, I would encourage you
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don't be listed among those who miss out on the
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blessing of studying prophecy. Yes, blessing. God promises a blessing
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for those who study the words of the prophetic teachers.
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In fact, he closes the Book of Daniel with this promise.
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Those who are wise will understand. Those who study this prophecy,
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those who gather this wisdom, they will come to a
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sense of understanding. This is a promise of God that
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as you study prophecy, you will understand. You will come
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to new levels of understanding. You will have those aha
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moments in which you say, oh, now I see how
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this lines up. Oh now I see what this passage means.
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You see, God wants to give you what my father
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gave my brother and me, and that is a glimpse
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into the future. He wants to show us the journey,
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and he promises a special blessing, a special blessing for
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those who read and heed the words of prophecy. Maybe
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you've read these words found early in the Book of Revelation,
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the most famous of the prophetic books. God blesses the
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one who reads the words of prophecy to the church.
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I guess that's me, and he blesses all who listen
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to its message and obey what it says. I guess
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that thank you for the time is near. There's a
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story about an airplane that was lost over the ocean
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in the middle of a hurricane. The captain decided that
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it was time to assure the passengers that he was
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still in the cockpit, so he announced over the intercom, Well,
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I have good news and I have bad news. The
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bad news is I have no idea where we are
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or where we are headed. The good news is we're
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making great time. That describes the lives of many people today.
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We're busy, but lost in a hurry, but with no destination.
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You know, we're running faster than ever, but we have
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no idea where we are going. But to all who
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will listen, God will share the blessing of the destination.
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He'll show you the map, and in addition, he'll show
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you the signs to look for along the way. The
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map and tells us where we are headed. Chapter twelve
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begins with a reminder of where this history is headed.
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He calls this the tribulation Verse one of chapter twelve.
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At that time, Michael, the Great Prince, who protects. Your
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people will arise, and there will be a time of distress,
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such as nought has happened from the beginning of nations
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until then. But at that time, your people, everyone whose
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name is found written in the book will be delivered.
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Multitudes who sleep in the dust of the earth will awake,
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some to everlasting life, others to shame and everlasting contempt.
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Those who are wise will shine like the brightness of
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the heavens, and will lead many to righteousness like stars
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forever and ever. But you, Daniel, close up and seal
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the words of the scroll until the time of the end.
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Many will go here and there to increase. This passage,
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as well as the rest of the Book of Daniel,
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anticipates a major event in the future that called the Tribulation.
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We've come to see. That's a period of seven years,
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and I personally take that seven year time frame as literal.
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It's a seven year period in which there will be
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times of intense struggle for who the Book of Daniel
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calls your people, Daniel, that is the Hebrews. The others
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will be involved, but certainly those who are Jewish heritage
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in the city of Jerusalem will face a time of
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intense struggle. This is just one of several prophecies or
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several promises moments that are going to happen in the
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future that we have looked at. I might for us
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to take just a minute and back up and review
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some others, just so we can look at the timeline
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and look at the map one more time. Scripture tells
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us that there will be a sudden, unexpected resurrection of
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the saints. This is often called the rapture, and it's
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going to happen without warning. But at that moment, every
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believer who has placed his or her trust in Christ
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will be resurrected in a moment, in the twinkling of
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an eye, they will be given a new body. They
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will be welcomed as the bride of Christ to a
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wedding feast in heaven. This will be a glorious day
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for all who have trusted in Christ, but this will
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trigger a difficult day for all those left behind. You see,
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in this moment, in a millisecond, the Church and her
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restraining influence, the Holy Spirit, will be gone. He the
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Holy Spirit is what holds is who holds evil at bay.
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Right now and for a time, the Holy Spirit will
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step away now imagine the ensuing chaos when the Church
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and the Holy Spirit are removed from society, when all
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those who seek to do good are suddenly gone, when
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all those who teach truth are suddenly missing. It seems
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to me that their sudden departure will cause a moral, financial,
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and political tale split, and this world as we know
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it will turn into a chaotic miss And this chaos
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will set the stage for an evil despot, a tool
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of Satan, the Antichrist. He's a primary character in the
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book of Daniel. Now, according to the prophecy of Daniel nine,
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this Antichrist is going to step forward, and he's going
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to broker a peace treaty in the Middle East that
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will seem to settle everything down. It's going to encompass
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the world. The promise is this, that leader speaking of
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the Antichrist will make a firm agreement with many people.
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For seven years, he will stop the offerings and sacrifice
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his After three and one half years, a destroyer will
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do terrible things until the ordered end comes to destroy
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the city. So the Antichrist will step forward. He will
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broker a peace treaty. Apparently, this peace treaty involves the
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reconstruction of the temple. Yet after three and a half years,
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he's going to stop the offerings and he will engage
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in what Jesus Christ himself calls the abomination of desolation.
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He will position himself as God and demand to be worshiped,
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and this will trigger a season of suffering. But after
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this season of suffering, a resurrection will occur, as we
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just read in Daniel chapter twelve, a sum to everlasting life,
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and some who rejected God to shame and torment. Even
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most important, at the end of these seven years, Christ
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himself will come. Can we reread the promise from Daniel
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chapter seven. This king, speaking of the Antichrist, will speak
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against the Most High God, and he will hurt in
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king old God's holy people. He will try to change
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times and laws that have already been set. That is
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to say, who will try to create a religion that's
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set up around himself. The holy people that belong to
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God will be in that king's power for three and
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one a half years, but then the court will decide
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what should happen. That's the court of God. The power
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of the king will be taken away and his kingdom
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will be completely destroyed. Then the Holy people who belong
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to the Most High God will have the power to rule,
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and they will rule over all the kingdoms under heaven
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with power and greatness, and their power to rule will
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last forever. That's the beautiful promise of the Book of Daniel.
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The Church will be raptured, the tribulation will be severe,
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but it won't last forever. Christ will return and he
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will establish his kingdom on this earth with his saints,
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and he will rule forever. Now you may have more
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questions Daniel did. But before Lord Daniel could ask for
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an explanation, did you notice he was told to seal
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up the book of Prophecy, That is to say, no
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further revelation is going to be coming. Daniel had been
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given all that he would be given. The review was complete.
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Even so, a couple of questions remained. And as we
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read further in Daniel chapter twelve, Daniel saw what appeared
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to be an angel, and he heard the angel ask, now,
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how long before these amazing things come true? Well, what
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do you know? We used to ask that question on vacation.
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How long Dad, how long before we get there? I
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guess that was an angelic question. The answer came from
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Jesus himself. Reading again. In Daniel twelve, the man dressed
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in lenin who stood over the water, raised his hands
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toward heaven, and I heard him swear by the name
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of God who lives forever. It will be for three
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and one half years the power the holy people will
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finally be broken, and then all these things will come true.
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I heard the answer, Daniel said, but I really did
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not understand. So I asked Master, what will happen after
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all these things come true? He answered, go your way, Daniel.
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The message is closed up and sealed until the time
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of the end. Many people will be made clean, pure
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and spotless, but the wicked will continue to be wicked.
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Those wicked people will not understand these things, but the
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wise will understand them. The angel needed an explanation. Daniel
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needed an explanation how long? Asked the Angel? What shall
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be the end of all these things? Asked Daniel, give
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us more details? In other words, and Jesus came and
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gave them more details. Now you and I would love
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more details too. We don't have all of our questions answered,
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but as we have sought God, he has given us
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more details. I believe that God has done for us
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what he did for Daniel. God has given us more details.
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In fact, the details that God has given to us
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efficient enough to cause me to think we really may
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be nearing the end. I do not say that lightly.
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And I realized in every generation there have been those
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who have said, now this is the last generation. And
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yet there are certain things about our generation that command
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our attention, that cause us to wonder, are we truly
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toward the end? Are we truly nearing the final rapture.
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I believe that Christ could come at any moment. I
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believe this not just because of what I read in
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the scriptures, but also because of what I read in
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the newspaper. Now again, to be clear, no one knows
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the exact time of our Lord's return. Jesus said, no
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one knows about that day or hour, not even the
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angels in heaven, nor the son, but only the Father.
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The exact time is hidden from the followers. We do
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not know the hours. But we have been told to
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look for the signs, and we are told to respond
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to the signs. Now you know how to respond to signs.
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You see signs on the highway whenever you're driving or
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riding in a car, for example, when you see this sign,
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what does it tell you? Well, because of that sign,
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you're going to anticipate a wet road. You don't know
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the exact location or the amount of the water, but
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you anticipate water. What about this sign? Now, do you
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know the amount of construction or the purpose? No, but
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you know you need to be alert. What about this sign? Well?
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Who put that in there? That must be from God.
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I mean, we sure don't want to ignore the signs,
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do we. Now? Jesus has not given us the hour
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of his return. But Church, we have signs. We have
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signs as we're traveling through life, as we're traveling toward
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our final destination. Just like my father told my brother
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and me, what signs to look for? So Jesus christ
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Is said, not hear some signs. He criticized the religious
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leaders of his day for not looking for signs. The
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Pharisees and Sadducees came to Jesus and tested him by
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asking him to show them a sign from heaven. He replied,
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when evening comes, you will say it will be fair weather,
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for the sky is read and in the morning today
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it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.
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You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky,
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but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. Now
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what Jesus need to give us the same rebuke. We
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know how to read the weather forecast, but we're not
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paying attention to the signs of the times. Consider what
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Jesus says about reading signs. Watch out that no one
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deceives you, for many will come in my name claiming
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I am the Christ, and will deceive many. You will
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hear of wars and rumors of wars. But see to
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it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen,
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But the end is still to come. In other words,
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we shouldn't be too quickly misled. And men have been
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declaring the end since the very beginning. There are endless
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skirmishes and conflicts and rumors of wars, and these mean nothing.
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They are not signs. But the true signs are these.
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Look what he says. Next, nation will rise against nation,
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and kingdom against kingdom. There will be famines and earthquakes
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in various places. All these are the beginnings of birth pains.
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Now note that phrase birth pains. We men are really
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not qualified to explain what a birth pain is. But
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I have it on good authority that birth pains are painful,
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and they come with increasing frequency as the time of
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delivery draws near. Jesus is saying that there are certain
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signs that are going to be painful, they're going to
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be just, and they're going to come with increasing frequency
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as the end draws near. With that in mind, consider
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a couple of signs of the end. He says, nation
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will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Now, now,
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this is a colloquial expression used by Hebrew rabbis in
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ancient literature, found often that describes a unique type of war.
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It's an expression that describes a widespread conflict. Our phrase
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for this conflict would be world war world war. So
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Jesus is saying, you will see world wars, now have we?
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Of course we have twice in the last century. We
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have seen conflicts that are so universal that they earned
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the phrase world war. In fact, the first one was
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called the War to End all wars, but then came
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the second one, World War two. More people died more
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in the twentieth century than in all the other centuries
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leading up to the twentieth century. Combined, combined increasing frequency,
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increasing pain, What about natural disasters, specifically, Jesus says famines
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and earthquakes. Of course, the world has always seen both,
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but did you know we're seeing them with increasing frequency? Examples,
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for example, earthquakes. According to one study, from nineteen thirty
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nine to nineteen seventy six, there were seventy one earthquakes,
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Yet from nineteen seventy seven to twenty fourteen, there were
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one hundred and sixty four. That's an increase of one
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hundred and thirty one percent. Does it seem to you
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that the birth pains are increasing in frequency? These are
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signs on the road, and there are more signs. I
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have time for just couple, but consider this one. The
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most remarkable sign I think of our generation is the
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regathering of the Jewish people in Israel. Did you know
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that the Bible speaks of a day in which the
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Jewish people will reoccupy their homeland Way back in the
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Book of Jeremiah. The days are coming, declares the Lord,
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when I will bring my people Israel and Judah back
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from captivity and restore them to the land I gave
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their forefathers to possess. Now, almost all the key prophecies
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in the Book of Daniel depend upon a repopulated geographical Israel.
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For example, the Book of Daniel prophesies a covenant between
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the Antichrist and Israel. This can only happen if the
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nation of Israel exists. The Book of Daniel Prophesies or
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rebuilding of the Temple. Again, Israel must exist. It must
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occupy the land in order for this to happen. Daniel
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forecasted an utter sacrilege of the Temple. Well, no Israel,
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no Temple. The war of Armageddon only makes sense if
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Israel is occupying the land where the valley is found. Now,
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the idea of a repopulated Israel was unthinkable just a
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few decades ago. You know the history. The Jewish people
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were dispersed to over seventy countries for more than twenty centuries.
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Yet in our day we are seeing them return. Did
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you know that today, for the first time since a.
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D One thirty five, there are more Jews living in
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Israel than any place on earth. There is a regathering
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of the Jews to Israel. Could this be a sign
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It's unique to our generation, that's for sure. The supersign
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in itself is enough to get our attention. Maybe we
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have time for one more how about globalism? Globalism? You know,
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the Book of Revelation prophesies a day in the Tribulation
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in which an evil ruler will commandeer the world economy
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and that no one will buy or sell without his permission. Well,
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one hundred years ago this was impossible. How could anybody
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commandeer the world economy one hundred years ago? But today,
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thanks to the proliferation of electronic banking and credit and
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debit cards, it's possible. The world is a smaller place.
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Globalization has shrunk the globe, and scripture repeatedly promises a
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plunge into immorality in the end times. I know the
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world has always been immoral, Yet because of globalism, because
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of the Internet, because of accessibility that we have between
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one culture and another, between another country and this one,
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pornography is peddled on a global scale like never before.
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Porn pedlers in Russia can poison the thoughts of a
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teenager in Kansas at any point during the day. Folks,
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that wasn't true when I was a kid. That wasn't
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true when I was growing up. Was it true thirty
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years ago? But it's true today. Might it worsen? Yeah? Probably?
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But can we say that we have plunged into a
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dark cesspool of immorality. Absolutely, we can say that the
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world is smaller, and because the world is smaller, the
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possibility of global disasters are more likely. The Antichrist during
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the time of tribulation will unleash atrocities upon the globe.
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What's he going to use? Bacteria, nuclear power, financial sabotage,
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a combination of them. All. We live in a day
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in which he could thanks to globalism. Now we could
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add more signs to this list. The mysterious blood moons,
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the attempts at peace in the Middle East, the increased
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apostasy of the Church. But all of these add up
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to make us wonder if we couldn't be getting close
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to the end. Not again, no one knows. No one knows,
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and anyone who says they know, well, they're wrong. But
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we should pay attention to the signs. The Father has
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told us what to expect. Now, if you're in Christ,
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you have nothing to fear. And I suggest these signs
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not to increase a level of anxiety at all, just
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the opposite, but to affirm you. You see, Christ said
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these things. What happened, so we know He's in control.
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You know what is coming. But if you've never given
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your heart to Christ, I share these signs to alert
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you you need to be ready and you need to
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make sure that you have placed your trust in the
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hands of the one who controls society. By the way,
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we never did answer that question, why did my father
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tell my brother me about the map? Why did he
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show us where we were going? Well, I think there's
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a simple answer to that question. I never did ask
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my dad, but I as a dad myself, I think
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there's an answer. I think he wanted us to know
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that he knew where we were headed and what would happen.
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You see, it turned out he was right. When we
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got to New Mexico. The winds did blow. When we
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reached the mountains, our ears did pop. And you know,
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when we got close to the campground, we began seeing
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those wooden signs that said National Forest, and they all
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had that little green ever tree, evergreen Tree imprinted on them.
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By the time we reached our destination, I was proud
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of my dad. I trusted him because he had promised
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and he had delivered. My friend, our God deserves our worship.
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He has promised and he has delivered what he said
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he would do he has done. So what he says
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he will do, he will do. Amen. So, Heavenly Father,
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thank you now for this great book, this powerful book
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called Daniel. We thank you Lord, for where we have
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succeeded in our study. We pray for mercy for where
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we have fallen short. We asked that you would give
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us the blessing that you have promised, a blessing of assurance,
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confidence and faith and grant that we can be like
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Daniel in these severe times, and that we can trust
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you through Christ. We pray, and all the Church.
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Speaker 2: Said, stand stand at the.
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