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  Speaker 1: If you have your Bibles with you, open them to
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  Speaker 1: Daniel chapter 12.
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  Speaker 2: Daniel chapter 12.
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  Speaker 1: And you'll be relieved to know that Daniel chapter 12
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  Speaker 1: is only a fraction as long as Daniel chapter 11.
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  Speaker 2: Amen. Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. Daniel chapter 12. And as
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  Speaker 2: you find Daniel chapter 12, we will read this chapter.
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  Speaker 1: And I think we say this every time we come
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  Speaker 1: to the end We always say how sad we are
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  Speaker 1: to see a book come to a close when we
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  Speaker 1: have preached all the way through a book. But I
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  Speaker 1: have to admit, dealing with the second half of Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: I'm sad to see Daniel go. But there will be
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  Speaker 1: a little relief not having to work through some of
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  Speaker 1: the most difficult passages in the entire Bible. And chapter
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  Speaker 1: 12 is no exception to that rule. Daniel chapter 12
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  Speaker 1: is another one of those places that's very difficult. But
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  Speaker 1: I am also encouraged because we read through Daniel and
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  Speaker 1: we wade through Daniel and we find all these passages
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  Speaker 1: that are so difficult. And every once in a while
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  Speaker 1: when we're beginning to feel like maybe we lacked intellectual
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  Speaker 1: acumen or maybe we just lacked spiritual maturity or whatever, there.
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  Speaker 2: Are these moments.
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  Speaker 1: And there's one here in Daniel chapter 12 where he goes,
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  Speaker 1: I don't get it. And I go.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Lord.
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  Speaker 1: I just needed to hear that from Daniel right now,
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  Speaker 1: that he's writing these things and he doesn't get it
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  Speaker 1: because I don't get it. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: We're not alone.
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  Speaker 1: But we will understand it better by and by, to
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  Speaker 1: quote the hymn writer. Daniel chapter 12. Let's read this together.
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  Speaker 1: As we read it together, note that we have two
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  Speaker 1: main paragraphs here in Daniel chapter 12.
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  Speaker 2: And they're almost symmetrical.
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  Speaker 1: Not quite exactly symmetrical, but you see the same pattern
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  Speaker 1: going on in the first half and the second half.
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  Speaker 1: You see an angelic being, and you see a reference
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  Speaker 1: to the tribulation coming to God's people. You see a
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  Speaker 1: reference to God's people being identified and separate from those
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  Speaker 1: who are wicked. You also see the sealing up of
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  Speaker 1: this vision, and so on and so forth. You see
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  Speaker 1: it twice here in Daniel chapter 12, and you'll notice
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  Speaker 1: that as we go from verses 1.
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  Speaker 2: Through 4 to verses 5 through the end of the chapter.
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  Speaker 1: It reads, at that time, and remember, we've gone from
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  Speaker 1: talking about Antiochus IV to talking about.
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  Speaker 2: The end of the age.
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  Speaker 1: And now we read, at that time shall arise Michael,
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  Speaker 1: the great prince of who has charge of your people.
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  Speaker 1: And there shall be a time of trouble, such as
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  Speaker 1: never has been since there was a nation till that time.
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  Speaker 1: But at that time, your people shall be delivered. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: whose name shall be found written in the book.
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  Speaker 2: And many of those who sleep in the dust of.
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  Speaker 1: The earth shall awake, some to everlasting life and some
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  Speaker 1: to shame and everlasting contempt. And those who are wise
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  Speaker 1: shall shine like the brightness of the sky above, and
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  Speaker 1: those who turn many to righteousness like the stars forever
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  Speaker 1: and ever. But you, Daniel, shut up the words and
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  Speaker 1: seal the book until the time of the end. Many
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  Speaker 1: shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase. Now,
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  Speaker 1: next paragraph. Notice some of the same elements. Then I, Daniel, looked,
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  Speaker 1: and behold, two others stood, one on this bank of
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  Speaker 1: the stream and one on that bank of the stream.
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  Speaker 1: And someone said to the man clothed in linen, often
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  Speaker 1: a reference to angels there, who was above the waters
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  Speaker 1: of the stream, so we know that this is an
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  Speaker 1: angelic being, how long shall it be till the end
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  Speaker 1: of these wonders? And I heard the man clothed in linen,
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  Speaker 1: who was above the waters of the stream. He raised
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  Speaker 1: his right hand and his left hand toward heaven, and
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  Speaker 1: swore by him who lives forever that it would be
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  Speaker 1: for a time, times, and half a time, and that
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  Speaker 1: when the shattering of the power of the holy people
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  Speaker 1: comes to an end, all these things would be finished.
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  Speaker 2: I heard, but I did not understand.
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  Speaker 1: Then I said, O my Lord, what shall be the
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  Speaker 1: outcome of these things? He said, go your way, Daniel,
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  Speaker 1: for the words are shut up and sealed until the
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  Speaker 1: time of the end. Many shall purify themselves and make
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  Speaker 1: themselves white and be refined, but the wicked shall act wickedly.
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  Speaker 1: And none of the wicked shall understand, but those who
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  Speaker 1: are wise shall understand. And from the time that the
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  Speaker 1: regular burnt offerings is taken away, And the abomination that
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  Speaker 1: makes desolate is set up. There shall be 1,290 days.
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  Speaker 1: Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
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  Speaker 1: But go your way to the end and you shall
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  Speaker 1: rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the
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  Speaker 1: end of the days. Amen.
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  Speaker 2: Beautiful way to end the book of Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: And there are a number of things here, again, elements
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  Speaker 1: that you find in the first half and in the second.
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  Speaker 2: Half that are parallel to one another.
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  Speaker 1: And what I want you to do is I want
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  Speaker 1: you to see these elements, but I also want you
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  Speaker 1: to think about presuppositions that we have about the end
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  Speaker 1: of the age. Because I believe that Daniel chapter 12
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  Speaker 1: turns some of those presuppositions on their head. There are
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  Speaker 1: things that we just presume to be true, things that
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  Speaker 1: we've been told again and again and again and again
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  Speaker 1: and again, things that have been written in books that
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  Speaker 1: have been popularized that we just absolutely do not question,
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  Speaker 1: that we ought to question. And I believe Daniel chapter
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  Speaker 1: 12 helps us to question that. One thing that we
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  Speaker 1: see is we see the encouraging presence of angelic beings.
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  Speaker 1: We see that in verse 1 and also in verses
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  Speaker 1: 5 and 6.
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  Speaker 2: Look again with me in verse 1.
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  Speaker 1: At times shall arise Michael, the great prince who has
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  Speaker 1: charge of your people. Angels are, according to Hebrews 1.14,
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  Speaker 1: ministering spirits sent out to serve for the sake of
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  Speaker 1: those who are to inherit salvation. So angels and angelic
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  Speaker 1: beings are those sent out to serve God's people. To
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  Speaker 1: keep watch over God's people, if you will.
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  Speaker 2: This is encouraging.
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  Speaker 1: When you see the angelic beings there also in verse
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  Speaker 1: 5 and 6. This is encouraging to us. It is
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  Speaker 1: an encouragement to us. Now, just like anything else, there's
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  Speaker 1: a ditch on both sides of the road. There's a
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  Speaker 1: ditch on one side when we pretend like there is
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  Speaker 1: no spiritual realm. when we pretend like there is actually
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  Speaker 1: no angelic aid for the people of God. And the
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  Speaker 1: ditch there, of course, is that we're ignoring the clear
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  Speaker 1: teaching of Scripture. The Bible teaches very clearly that angels
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  Speaker 1: exist and that angels are ministering spirits and that they
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  Speaker 1: are ministering on behalf of God's elect, on behalf of
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  Speaker 1: God's people. So we need to understand that and believe that.
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  Speaker 1: The ditch on the other side of the road is
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  Speaker 1: that everything becomes angelic.
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  Speaker 2: Amen, somebody?
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  Speaker 1: You know what we wrestle with, for example, the same
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  Speaker 1: thing happens when we talk about demonic, which are fallen angels.
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  Speaker 1: There's the world, the flesh, and the devil. How many
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  Speaker 1: of you know that most of what you deal with
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  Speaker 1: is the world and the flesh?
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: The devil ain't worried about you. You're absolutely not that important.
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  Speaker 1: And you're so wicked that, you know, you don't even
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  Speaker 1: need his help. You can't even deal with the world
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  Speaker 1: and the flesh and you're worried about the devil all
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  Speaker 1: over the place. Amen? So most of the time what
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  Speaker 1: we're dealing with is the world and the flesh and not,
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  Speaker 1: you know, these demonic spirits directly acting upon you or
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  Speaker 1: against you.
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  Speaker 2: And the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Occurs when you talk about the spiritual realm and angels
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  Speaker 1: and the way that angels operate. It is not that
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  Speaker 1: we are somehow walking around in this bubble of angels
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  Speaker 1: and that everything that we do is sort of being,
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  Speaker 1: you know, handled by them, if you will. It's not
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  Speaker 1: the way the world works, but God in his providence
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  Speaker 1: has provided angels as ministering spirits who serve and intervene
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  Speaker 1: on behalf of his people. The second thing is that
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  Speaker 1: angels are frequently mentioned in passages about the.
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  Speaker 2: General resurrection on the last day. We see that here,
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  Speaker 2: by the way, clearly.
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  Speaker 1: At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince who
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  Speaker 1: has charge of your people. And there shall be a
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  Speaker 1: time of trouble such as never has been since there
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  Speaker 1: was a nation till that time. But at that time,
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  Speaker 1: your people shall be delivered. Everyone whose name shall be
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  Speaker 1: found written in the book. And many, verse 2, of
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  Speaker 1: those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake.
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  Speaker 1: Some to everlasting life. and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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  Speaker 1: It's interesting that you read about the angelic beings here
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  Speaker 1: in the context of this passage. Matthew chapter 16 and
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  Speaker 1: verse 27, for example. For the Son of Man is
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  Speaker 1: going to come with His angels in glory, in the
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  Speaker 1: glory of His Father. And then He will repay each
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  Speaker 1: person according to what He has done. So Christ is
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  Speaker 1: going to return. He's going to return with his angels.
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  Speaker 1: And he's going to return at the end of the
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  Speaker 1: age to pay each person according to what he has
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  Speaker 1: done or to judge the living and the dead according
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  Speaker 1: to what they have done. And so here we see
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  Speaker 1: judgment and angelic beings at the time of judgment. Matthew
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  Speaker 1: chapter 24, verse 24, verse 31. And isn't it just providential?
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  Speaker 1: Just like God that today we're here in Daniel chapter
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  Speaker 1: 12 and our New Testament reading just, you know, quote, randomly,
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  Speaker 1: Matthew chapter 24. And he shall send out his angels
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  Speaker 1: with a loud trumpet call, and they will gather his
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  Speaker 1: elect from the four winds, from one end of the
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  Speaker 1: heaven to the other. So here's a picture. Christ is
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  Speaker 1: coming with his angels. He's going to judge the living
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  Speaker 1: and the dead. But now we see a picture of
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  Speaker 1: the angels being active participants in calling up those believers.
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  Speaker 1: The angels will call us out of the grave. The
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  Speaker 1: angels will swoop down and gather up God's people. That
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  Speaker 1: there is this spiritual, supernatural activity that is going on.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, it has to be a spiritual, supernatural
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  Speaker 1: activity going on for dead people to rise.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? Matthew 25, 31.
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  Speaker 1: When the Son of Man comes in his glory and
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  Speaker 1: all the angels with him, then he shall sit on
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  Speaker 1: his glorious throne. Mark chapter 8 and verse 38. For
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  Speaker 1: whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in
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  Speaker 1: this adulterous and sinful generation, of him will the Son
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  Speaker 1: of Man also be ashamed when he comes in the
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  Speaker 1: glory of his Father with the holy angels. Again and
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  Speaker 1: again and again, we see this reality. So we know
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  Speaker 1: angelic beings are ministering spirits, but nowhere are they more
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  Speaker 1: active than at the end of the age. It is
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  Speaker 1: as though the end of the age comes, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: talk about this momentarily, but in a moment we're going
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  Speaker 1: to see this sort of heightening tension that comes at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the age. And as there's this heightening tension,
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  Speaker 1: there is a heightening persecution. But as there is heightening
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  Speaker 1: tension and heightening persecution and we get close to the
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  Speaker 1: end of the age, it is as though God is
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  Speaker 1: amassing his troops and the angels are making ready and
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  Speaker 1: they're standing at the ready waiting for the trumpet call
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  Speaker 1: that they might descend with Christ to do battle on
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  Speaker 1: his behalf and awaken his elect, call them to his
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  Speaker 1: presence and inaugurate the end of the age.
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  Speaker 2: Wouldn't you like to see Cecil B. DeMille get a
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  Speaker 2: hold of that?
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  Speaker 1: I just fear sometimes that our faith is not supernatural enough.
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  Speaker 1: I just fear sometimes that we get so caught up
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  Speaker 1: in the mundane and the day-to-day that we begin to
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  Speaker 1: think that we only serve a God who deals with
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  Speaker 1: sprained toes and headaches and grandma's trip to the doctor
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  Speaker 1: and these things that we sort of become accustomed to
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  Speaker 1: praying about and bringing before the throne of grace which.
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  Speaker 2: Are so petty and so small in.
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  Speaker 1: The grand scheme of things. Now I know when you
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  Speaker 1: get ready to go see the doctor it's not small
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  Speaker 1: to you. But if you put it into the perspective
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  Speaker 1: of the God whom you serve whose forces will be
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  Speaker 1: amassed on that day It changes things. When you recognize
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  Speaker 1: that these beings stand ready for service to God, you
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  Speaker 1: recognize that whatever it is that you're dealing with or
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  Speaker 1: wrestling with, it's not going to overwhelm the God whom
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  Speaker 1: we serve.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: Beyond this, we also see the angels here are not
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  Speaker 1: just coming for ethnic Jews at the end of the age,
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  Speaker 1: but for all God's people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen? Notice this, and watch the transition.
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  Speaker 1: At that time shall arise Michael, the great prince, who
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  Speaker 1: has charge over your people. Now, immediately we hear that.
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  Speaker 1: He's speaking to Daniel. Daniel's a Jew who's in exile
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  Speaker 1: in Babylon, right? So Michael has charge over your people,
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  Speaker 1: and we think the Jews in Babylon. And there shall
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  Speaker 1: be a time of trouble such as never has been
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  Speaker 1: since there was a nation till that time. What nation?
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  Speaker 1: I guess we're talking about the nation of the Jews, okay?
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  Speaker 1: But at that time, your people shall be delivered.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this.
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  Speaker 1: Everyone whose name shall be found written in the book.
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  Speaker 1: Is that every ethnic Jew? Absolutely not. So now your
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  Speaker 1: people doesn't refer to every ethnic Jew. And many of
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  Speaker 1: those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake,
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  Speaker 1: some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting contempt.
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  Speaker 1: What's being referred to here? Who are your people? Your
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  Speaker 1: people are the people of God. Daniel's people are the
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  Speaker 1: people of God. There are some people who are ethnic
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  Speaker 1: Jews with him in Babylon who are less his.
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  Speaker 2: People than you and I are if we're in Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Let me say that again.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Daniel in Babylon in captivity with other ethnic Jews.
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  Speaker 1: And there are some of those about whom this statement
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  Speaker 1: is true. You and I, who are not ethnic Jews,
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  Speaker 1: are more his people than those who were with him
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  Speaker 1: in Babylon at that time.
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  Speaker 2: Why? Because if they were not gods by faith....
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  Speaker 1: They did not belong to God by faith. They weren't
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  Speaker 1: really Daniel's people at all. But you and I who
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  Speaker 1: belong to him by faith are Daniel's people. And so
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  Speaker 1: Michael is not just in this picture. When you read
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  Speaker 1: it and flesh it out, there is this coming for
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  Speaker 1: the people of God. This is not just coming for Israel. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: it's coming for the Israel of God, the church of
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  Speaker 1: Jesus Christ.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Amen. But this is not just about one particular ethnic
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  Speaker 1: and geopolitical people group. But isn't this what we read
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  Speaker 1: in Romans chapter 9, verses 16 to 13? But it
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  Speaker 1: is not as though the word of God has failed.
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  Speaker 1: For not all who are descended from Israel belong to Israel.
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  Speaker 1: And not all are children of Abraham because they are
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  Speaker 1: his offspring. But through Isaac shall your offspring be named.
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  Speaker 1: This means that it is not the children of the
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  Speaker 1: flesh who are children of God, but the children of
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  Speaker 1: the promise according to the promise are counted as offspring.
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  Speaker 1: The children of the promise are counted as offspring. The
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  Speaker 1: others are not counted as offspring. Who belongs to God?
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  Speaker 1: Who are God's people? Those by faith are God's people.
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  Speaker 1: Notice the difference between the people who belong to God
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  Speaker 1: and the people who don't is whether or not they
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  Speaker 1: are Now, that reference to wisdom doesn't mean that if
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  Speaker 1: you're really smart, you belong to God, and if you're not,
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  Speaker 1: you don't belong to God. But those who are wise
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  Speaker 1: are those who are made wise. They come to knowledge.
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  Speaker 1: They come to understanding. They are given this knowledge and
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  Speaker 1: this understanding. We see this later. Look with me, for example,
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  Speaker 1: in verse 10. Many shall purify themselves and make themselves
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  Speaker 1: white and be refined. We know that's a picture of salvation.
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  Speaker 1: We've been seeing that in Revelations. Those who clothe themselves
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  Speaker 1: in white robes, the ones who are made righteous by
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb. But the wicked shall act wickedly, and none
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  Speaker 1: of the wicked shall understand. But those who are wise
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  Speaker 1: shall understand. Those who are wicked. So wisdom here is
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  Speaker 1: the opposite of wickedness. He's not here talking about intelligence.
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  Speaker 1: He's talking about those who understand by the grace of God.
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  Speaker 1: Those who come to this truth. You are not saved
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  Speaker 1: because you are smarter than other people.
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  Speaker 2: Amen.
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  Speaker 1: Smarter people than you will go to hell. First of all,
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  Speaker 1: there are smarter people than you. I should probably start there.
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  Speaker 1: For some of you, you need me to take that step, okay?
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  Speaker 1: There are smarter people than you. And there are smarter
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  Speaker 1: people than you who will end up in hell. Coming
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  Speaker 1: to faith in Jesus Christ is not about your intellect.
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  Speaker 1: It is about the grace of God And on that
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  Speaker 1: last day, it will not be about those merely who
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  Speaker 1: were intelligent. Another great passage is Ephesians 2, 11 to 22.
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  Speaker 1: I'll leave you to read that one. In addition to
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  Speaker 1: this encouraging presence of angelic beings, we also have the
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  Speaker 1: discouraging reality of persecution. We see that in verse 1.
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  Speaker 1: 1 and also in verse 7. Look at verse 1 again.
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  Speaker 1: At that time shall rise Michael, the great prince who
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  Speaker 1: was in charge of his people, and there shall be
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  Speaker 1: a time of trouble such as never has been since
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  Speaker 1: there was a nation till that time. Go down with
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  Speaker 1: me in verse 7. And look at verse 7. And
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  Speaker 1: I heard the man clothed in linen who was above
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  Speaker 1: the waters and the streams. He raised his right hand
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  Speaker 1: and his left hand toward heaven and swore by him
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  Speaker 1: who lives forever that it would be for.
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  Speaker 2: A time, times, and half a time.
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  Speaker 1: And that when, listen to this, the shattering of the
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  Speaker 1: power of the holy people comes to an end. The
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  Speaker 1: shattering of the power of the holy people He said
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  Speaker 1: it again and again and again and in multiple ways
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  Speaker 1: that at the end of the age, there would be
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  Speaker 1: great persecution of the people of God at the end
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  Speaker 1: of the age. Let me tell you this, brothers and sisters.
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  Speaker 1: The church will not escape tribulation. The church has not
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  Speaker 1: escaped tribulation. The church is in the midst of tribulation.
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  Speaker 1: And again, this flies in the face of what we
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  Speaker 1: hear so often. We have all just been inundated with
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  Speaker 1: dispensational premillennialism.
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  Speaker 2: And all of us, I mean, we're just washed in
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  Speaker 2: it and bathed in it.
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  Speaker 1: I'll never forget my first interview that I had to
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  Speaker 1: interview for a church position.
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  Speaker 2: I was a young seminarian. I was going through this
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  Speaker 2: interview for a church position.
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  Speaker 1: And I was actually asked, you know, if I believed
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  Speaker 1: in a pre-tribulation rapture. And everybody in the room knew
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  Speaker 1: that if I said I did not believe in a
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  Speaker 1: pre-tribulation rapture, and at that time I did because I
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  Speaker 1: didn't know that there was anybody who was a real
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  Speaker 1: Christian who didn't believe in a pre-tribulation rapture of the church.
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  Speaker 1: And so I'm like, yeah, yeah. Church ain't going to
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  Speaker 1: go through no tribulation, man. We're going to be out
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  Speaker 1: of here. We're going to be raptured. We're gone.
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  Speaker 2: Of course I believe in that.
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  Speaker 1: I guess I didn't pay attention to Daniel chapter 12.
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  Speaker 2: Watch this. Look at what he says.
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  Speaker 1: And there shall be a time of trouble such as
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  Speaker 1: never has been since there was a nation till that time.
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  Speaker 1: But at that time, your people shall be delivered. Everyone
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  Speaker 1: whose name shall be found written in the book of life.
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  Speaker 1: Written in the book of life. And then we have
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  Speaker 1: the general resurrection. after this tremendous persecution. Here's the other thing.
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  Speaker 1: It's going on now. The only thing we find at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the age is just that it has
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  Speaker 1: continued to intensify. There is no secret rapture of the
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  Speaker 1: church before the great tribulation. It's just not there. There
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  Speaker 1: are no multiple raptures. It's just not there. The calling
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  Speaker 1: up of the dead at the end of the age
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  Speaker 1: is just that.
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  Speaker 2: It's the end of the age. It's one event, one
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  Speaker 2: fell swoop. Bam! Christ comes and it's over. Give me
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  Speaker 2: a break.
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  Speaker 1: Jesus is going to return for a thousand years and
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  Speaker 1: there's going to be a new temple where there are
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  Speaker 1: sacrifices being made to him while he's ruling on the
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  Speaker 1: earth and he's going to allow that blasphemy to go on?
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  Speaker 2: Help you if you believe that. That's blasphemy.
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  Speaker 1: Here's Jesus, who is the Lamb of God, who was
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  Speaker 1: slain for the sins of the people of God. And
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  Speaker 1: you're going to put a lamb or a goat on
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  Speaker 1: an altar and kill that lamb or that goat while
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  Speaker 1: the Lamb of God is ruling and reigning?
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  Speaker 2: No. Absolutely not. And that is all presuppositional. All of it.
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  Speaker 2: Every last bit of it.
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  Speaker 1: It's not what the scriptures clearly teach. But the good
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  Speaker 1: news is that God preserves his people in the midst
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  Speaker 1: of it. There's also this picture of the inevitability of
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  Speaker 1: the general resurrection and the judgment. Verses 2, 10, We already.
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  Speaker 2: Looked at verse 2. Look at it again.
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  Speaker 1: Many of those who sleep in the dust of the
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  Speaker 1: earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, some to shame
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  Speaker 1: and everlasting contempt.
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  Speaker 2: Notice this, okay?
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  Speaker 1: Because the secret rapture, the secret pre-trib rapture, basically what
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  Speaker 1: that's supposed to mean is that God's people are going
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  Speaker 1: to be raptured and they're going to be taken out
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  Speaker 1: of here secretly, okay? And everybody else is going to
• 25:01
  Speaker 1: be looking around going, you know.
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  Speaker 2: What happened to them? Here's a general resurrection that happens
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  Speaker 2: at the end of the age for everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Look at verse 10. Verse 13. I believe that's a
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  Speaker 1: reference to the fact that Daniel's going to die. And
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  Speaker 1: shall stand in your allotted place at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the days. That's a reference to him being resurrected.
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  Speaker 2: But when? At the end of the days. At the end.
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  Speaker 2: At the end. At the end. At the end. At
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  Speaker 2: the end.
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  Speaker 1: Hebrews chapter 9. In verse 27, verse 26 through 28.
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  Speaker 1: Just as it is appointed to man to die once,
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  Speaker 1: and after that comes the judgment. So Christ, having been
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  Speaker 1: offered once to bear the sins of many, will appear
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  Speaker 1: a second time, not to deal with sin, but to
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  Speaker 1: save those who are eagerly waiting for him. He appears
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  Speaker 1: a second time, not a second and a third.
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  Speaker 2: Says he appears a second time. Again, look at that again.
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  Speaker 2: Every man will die.
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  Speaker 1: And then he will face the judgment. And then right
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  Speaker 1: after that, Christ is going to appear a second time.
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  Speaker 2: For what? For the judgment, not for a secret rapture.
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  Speaker 2: For the judgment. Listen to this.
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  Speaker 1: One of the passages that is often used to refer
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  Speaker 1: to this idea of a secret.
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  Speaker 2: Rapture of the church.
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  Speaker 1: 1 Thessalonians 4, 13 through 18.
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  Speaker 2: I'm going to read.
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  Speaker 1: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: about those. By the way, I heard this passage preached
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  Speaker 1: not long ago. And the pastor took this, this was
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  Speaker 1: his text, and he was preaching the whole idea of,
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  Speaker 1: you know, dispensational premillennialism and the secret rapture of the
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  Speaker 1: church and, you know.
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  Speaker 2: And then, you know, all this sort of stuff. This
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  Speaker 2: was his text.
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  Speaker 1: But we do not want you to be uninformed, brothers,
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  Speaker 1: about those who are asleep, that you may not grieve
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  Speaker 1: as others who have no hope. For since we believe
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  Speaker 1: that Jesus died and rose again, even so— Through Jesus,
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  Speaker 1: God will bring with him those who have fallen asleep.
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  Speaker 1: For this we declare to you by a word from
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  Speaker 1: the Lord, that we who are alive, who are left
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  Speaker 1: until the coming of the Lord, who are left until
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  Speaker 1: the coming of the Lord, who are left until the
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  Speaker 1: coming of the Lord, this is when he comes at
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  Speaker 1: the end of the age, will not precede those who
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  Speaker 1: have fallen asleep. For the Lord himself will descend from
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  Speaker 1: heaven with a cry of command with the voice of
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  Speaker 1: an archangel. Does that sound like a secret? And with
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  Speaker 1: the sound of the trumpet of God and the dead
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  Speaker 1: in Christ will rise first. Then we who are alive,
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  Speaker 1: who are left, will be caught up together with them
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  Speaker 1: in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air.
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  Speaker 1: And so we will always be with the Lord. Therefore,
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  Speaker 1: encourage one another with these words.
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  Speaker 2: Where do you get a secret rapture from that passage
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  Speaker 2: of Scripture? It's not there. That's the end of the age.
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  Speaker 2: One fell swoop, one event.
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  Speaker 1: We also see a clear call to proclaim the truth
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  Speaker 1: until he comes. Notice what we find back in verses
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  Speaker 1: 3 and 4. Those who are wise shall shine like
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  Speaker 1: the brightness of the sky above, and those who turn
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  Speaker 1: many to righteousness like the stars forever and ever. Those
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  Speaker 1: who turn many to righteousness will shine like the stars
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  Speaker 1: forever and ever. The same thing we see again at
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  Speaker 1: the second half, especially there in verse 10 that we've
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  Speaker 1: read a couple of times. The idea there is that
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of all of this, there is this
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  Speaker 1: promise that of God's angelic protection of his people. There's
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  Speaker 1: also this promise that there's going to be this persecution.
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  Speaker 1: But you see, in the midst of this, that there
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  Speaker 1: is going to be this resurrection at the end of
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  Speaker 1: the age, but also that between now and then, that
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  Speaker 1: the people of God will be called forth under righteousness,
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  Speaker 1: and that there are those among the people of God
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  Speaker 1: who will be especially marked out as those who call
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  Speaker 1: forth others to righteousness.
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  Speaker 2: This sounds very familiar, doesn't it? It ought to.
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  Speaker 1: Romans chapter 10, verses 14 to 17. How then will
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  Speaker 1: they call on him whom they have not believed? And
• 30:08
  Speaker 1: how are they to believe in him whom they have
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  Speaker 1: never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching?
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  Speaker 1: And how are they to preach unless they are sent?
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  Speaker 1: As it is written, how beautiful are the feet of
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  Speaker 1: those who preach the good news.
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  Speaker 2: They have not all obeyed the gospel. For Isaiah says, Lord,
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  Speaker 2: who has believed what he has heard from us, so
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  Speaker 2: faith comes from hearing, and hearing through the word of Christ.
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  Speaker 1: What's being referenced here in Daniel is the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: That God's people are going to be called forth from
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  Speaker 1: now until the end of the age. How are God's
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  Speaker 1: people going to be called forth from now until the
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  Speaker 1: end of the age? By the faithful proclamation of the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, not by scaring them with, you know,
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  Speaker 1: the idea of the second coming.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: People aren't scared into the kingdom of God. That's not
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  Speaker 1: the gospel. Paul says, I'm not ashamed of the gospel
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  Speaker 1: of Jesus Christ because it is the power of God
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  Speaker 1: unto salvation.
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  Speaker 2: It's the gospel.
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  Speaker 1: This picture of the second coming, quite frankly, is of
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  Speaker 1: much more use for those of us who know God
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  Speaker 1: than it is for those who don't. Yes, we warn them,
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  Speaker 1: but we warn them because of their sin that God
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  Speaker 1: will judge them, not warn them about the second coming. Folks,
• 31:35
  Speaker 1: chances are you're not going to make it to the
• 31:36
  Speaker 1: second coming. I've said it before, I'll say it again.
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  Speaker 1: Last time I checked, the death rate was one per person.
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  Speaker 1: I didn't look today, I promise. But if I did look,
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  Speaker 1: I doubt that it would have changed. More than likely,
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  Speaker 1: you're going to die. Here you are sitting up worried
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  Speaker 1: about the second coming of Jesus when just before you,
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  Speaker 1: you could die before you get your neck all the
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  Speaker 1: way fixed to look up for him to come again.
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  Speaker 2: What do you do then? It's not the second coming,
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  Speaker 2: but the gospel. Amen?
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  Speaker 1: Amen. The second coming is a picture that encourages us.
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  Speaker 1: It encourages us in the midst of tribulation. And I
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  Speaker 1: guarantee you, folks, we are in the midst of tribulation.
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  Speaker 2: You read it before, let me read it again.
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  Speaker 1: In Revelation chapter 1, verse 9, I, John, your brother
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  Speaker 1: and partner in the tribulation and the kingdom and the
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  Speaker 1: patient endurance that are in Jesus Christ. was on the
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  Speaker 1: island called Patmos on account of the word of God.
• 32:50
  Speaker 1: John says in Revelation chapter one, by the way, the
• 32:54
  Speaker 1: idea is that the great tribulation happens beginning in Revelation
• 32:57
  Speaker 1: chapter six, okay? So one through three, you have the
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  Speaker 1: church age and then chapters four and five, the church
• 33:04
  Speaker 1: has already been raptured up and we're in heaven. And
• 33:07
  Speaker 1: then in chapter six, we're looking at the great tribulation
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  Speaker 1: that's going on on the earth while the church has
• 33:12
  Speaker 1: already been raptured up. We'll get back to that in
• 33:14
  Speaker 1: a couple of weeks. But let me just say for now,
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  Speaker 1: we don't buy that. That chapter 6 on in Revelation
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  Speaker 1: has nothing to do with you and I in the
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  Speaker 1: here and now. I don't buy that for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Chapter 6 on in Revelation has everything to do with
• 33:30
  Speaker 1: you and me in the here and the now.
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  Speaker 2: Amen?
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  Speaker 1: John says he's our partner in the tribulations. We are
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  Speaker 1: in the midst of tribulation even now. And God has
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  Speaker 1: a word for us in the midst of tribulation. Two
• 33:46
  Speaker 1: words for us. Number one, it's going to get worse
• 33:48
  Speaker 1: before it gets better. And number two, it won't last indefinitely.
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  Speaker 1: How long is it going to last? This angel says,
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: a time, times, and half a time.
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  Speaker 1: Of course it does.
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  Speaker 2: You can't just have like three and a half. Three
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: and a half what?
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  Speaker 1: Three and a half days, three and a half hours,
• 34:43
  Speaker 1: three and a half years, three and a half millennia,
• 34:45
  Speaker 1: three and a half what? Ah, dear friend, remember our
• 34:50
  Speaker 1: time in Revelation. There are numbers that are extremely important.
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  Speaker 1: One of the most important numbers is the number seven.
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  Speaker 1: The number seven is the number of completion.
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  Speaker 2: Completion.
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  Speaker 1: The number three and a half is a broken seven,
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  Speaker 1: which means prior to completion. Prior to the completion of what?
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  Speaker 1: Look with me again.
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  Speaker 2: Verse seven.
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  Speaker 1: I heard the man clothed in linen who was above
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  Speaker 1: the waters of the stream. He raised his right hand
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  Speaker 1: and his left hand toward heaven. and swore by him
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  Speaker 1: who lives forever that it would be for a time, times,
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  Speaker 1: and half a time, and that when the shattering of
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: the power of the holy people comes to an end,
• 35:46
  Speaker 1: all these things would be finished. The shattering of the
• 35:59
  Speaker 1: power of the holy people. Three and a half. If
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  Speaker 1: it's a seven, you have the complete shattering of the
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  Speaker 1: power of the holy people and they're done. Three and
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  Speaker 1: a half is a broken seven. God stops it before
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  Speaker 1: his people.
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  Speaker 2: Are wiped out. That's what a time, times, and half
• 36:28
  Speaker 2: a time means. That shattering. Shattering.
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  Speaker 1: Is not seen through to its completion. God halts it.
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  Speaker 1: How does he halt it? He amasses his armies. And
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: the Son of God himself rides in as the general
• 36:51
  Speaker 1: of his armies. And before the shattering of the power
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  Speaker 1: of the people of God can be complete, Christ comes
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  Speaker 1: and makes an end to those who are attempting to
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  Speaker 1: make an end of us.
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  Speaker 2: That's what it means.
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  Speaker 1: There is this intensification there is this gathering and growing
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  Speaker 1: but God will not leave us utterly forsaken finally We
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  Speaker 1: see the certainty that these things will come to pass.
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  Speaker 1: In verses 4 and verse 9, he's told to seal
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  Speaker 1: up these things, seal up this vision. Now, to seal
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  Speaker 1: it up, what does that mean? Well, seal this up. Daniel,
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: close this up so other people won't see it. Well,
• 37:43
  Speaker 1: we see in the first half and in the second
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: half that knowledge is going to increase. People's understanding is
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: going to increase. So he's not telling Daniel not to
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  Speaker 1: do it. By the way, we have the book of Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: So seal it up. Does it mean, Daniel, I'm telling
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  Speaker 1: you this stuff, but I don't want you to tell anybody,
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  Speaker 1: so don't write it.
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  Speaker 2: Because he wrote it.
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  Speaker 1: Amen?
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  Speaker 2: So it doesn't mean that. Seal up these things. Does
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: it mean, Daniel, here's the deal.
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  Speaker 1: You get these things and they're clear, but I want
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  Speaker 1: you to obscure them so that other people don't get them.
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  Speaker 2: It can't mean that.
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  Speaker 1: Why?
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  Speaker 2: Because Daniel went, I don't understand. I don't understand. Amen?
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  Speaker 2: So we know that it can't mean that. Seal it up.
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  Speaker 2: It can't mean that. What does it mean?
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  Speaker 1: Well, remember when we read about that broken seal over
• 38:29
  Speaker 1: in Revelation? And there is a picture of the document
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  Speaker 1: being sealed up, which is about the unleashing of the
• 38:37
  Speaker 1: judgment of God, but also the idea of a will
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  Speaker 1: that is sealed.
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  Speaker 2: And it's broken.
• 38:44
  Speaker 1: It's broken.
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  Speaker 2: When it's time for you to receive your full inheritance.
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  Speaker 1: By the way, there can be copies of it out
• 38:50
  Speaker 1: there that are unofficial copies so that you can know
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  Speaker 1: what's in the will, but you don't get what's in
• 38:55
  Speaker 1: the will until the finality of the event and the
• 39:00
  Speaker 1: breaking of the seal on the original. Seal it up, Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: It's going to come to pass. My judgment will be
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  Speaker 1: poured out on the wicked, and my people will have
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  Speaker 1: their full inheritance, but not right now. Daniel can't understand
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  Speaker 1: this because Daniel just thinks we're talking about getting.
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  Speaker 2: Back to the Holy Land. That's what he's thinking. There's
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: this land. of promise. We're going to get back to
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: that land of promise, and that's going to be the deal.
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: That's going to be it right there. No, Daniel, you
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  Speaker 2: have no idea.
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  Speaker 1: That's not the breaking of the seal because that land
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  Speaker 1: right there is just a picture of the idea of
• 39:42
  Speaker 1: the land of promise for the people of God. And
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  Speaker 1: this people right here is just the picture of the
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  Speaker 1: actual people of God. You don't get the reality, Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: You can't comprehend the reality, Daniel. But it will be
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  Speaker 1: made clear. And the judgment and the promise will be
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  Speaker 1: manifested in its entirety. Then we get this last part here.
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  Speaker 2: Verse 11. Out of nowhere.
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  Speaker 1: Out of nowhere. And from the time that the regular
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  Speaker 1: burnt offerings is taken away, and the abomination that makes
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  Speaker 1: desolate is set up, there shall be 1,290 days.
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  Speaker 2: Blessed is he who waits and arrives at the 1,335 days.
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  Speaker 1: Huh?
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: We know that we see that number 1,260 days, which
• 40:26
  Speaker 2: is right at three and a half years. There is
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: the solar....
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  Speaker 1: Rendering of time that they had, which was 364 days,
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  Speaker 1: and the lunar rendering of time that they had, which
• 40:48
  Speaker 1: made a year, 354 days. Their solar lunar sort of
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: rendering that made it right at 360 days. And 360 days,
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: you're right there smack dab in the middle at 1260 days.
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  Speaker 1: But this goes beyond any of those to 1,290 days.
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  Speaker 1: So it's a little beyond the three and a half years.
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  Speaker 1: And then there's another number, which is 45 days later.
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  Speaker 2: Several possibilities.
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  Speaker 1: One is that we turn back and we talked about
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  Speaker 1: Antiochus again because we know that the work of Antiochus
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  Speaker 1: against the people of God lasted right about three and
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  Speaker 1: a half years. And then it was a little over
• 41:33
  Speaker 1: a month later after God's people were delivered from Antiochus,
• 41:38
  Speaker 1: it's only about a month and a half later that
• 41:39
  Speaker 1: he dies. But this is pointing forward. I believe even
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  Speaker 1: beyond that. I believe this is one of those prophecies
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  Speaker 1: that has multiple fulfillments.
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  Speaker 2: We see this in Antiochus. Yeah, we see this in Antiochus.
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  Speaker 1: But Jesus in Matthew chapter 24 refers back to this
• 41:59
  Speaker 1: prophecy again, talking about the end of the age. I
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  Speaker 1: believe we saw this in AD 70 as well with
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  Speaker 1: the destruction of the temple.
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  Speaker 2: I believe we saw that. But it also points to
• 42:12
  Speaker 2: the same ultimate reality. What's that ultimate reality?
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  Speaker 1: The ultimate reality is this, that there are those who
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  Speaker 1: oppress the people of God, sometimes manifest in individuals who
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  Speaker 1: do so in a very public way. But even that
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  Speaker 1: is cut short because there is no man who can
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  Speaker 1: oppress the people of God. And ultimately, he will meet
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  Speaker 1: his end. And I love it because in the very
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  Speaker 1: next verse, we get the so what. Because we're left
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  Speaker 1: with that verse right there, you know, verses 11 and 12,
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  Speaker 1: scratching our heads going, what is that?
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  Speaker 2: Who is that?
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  Speaker 1: Could be this, could be that. Probably a combination of
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  Speaker 1: this and that and something else. Okay, so what do
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  Speaker 1: we do with that?
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  Speaker 2: Verse 13, go your way to the end You shall
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  Speaker 2: rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the
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  Speaker 2: end of the days. That's not just for Daniel. That's
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  Speaker 2: for you and me. What do I do with this?
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  Speaker 2: Go your way until the end. Do what God's called
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  Speaker 2: you to do. Be what God's called you to be.
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  Speaker 2: And then you're going to rest. You're going to die.
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  Speaker 2: But that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. Because even death won't stop you from standing in
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  Speaker 1: your allotted place at the end of the age. Where's
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  Speaker 1: your allotted place? With Christ. So what's the 1290 and
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  Speaker 1: the 1335? Whatever it is, it's somebody who meets their end.
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  Speaker 1: And they don't get to stand where I stand. They'll
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  Speaker 1: stand for a while. But their standing and my.
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  Speaker 2: Standing are two entirely different standings.
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  Speaker 1: Because I stand with the King of Kings and the
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  Speaker 1: Lord of Lords. I stand with Christ himself. I don't
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  Speaker 1: know what you are going to be called to endure.
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  Speaker 1: But I do know this. In this life you shall
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  Speaker 1: have trouble. I know that all those who desire to
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  Speaker 1: live a godly life in Christ Jesus shall be persecuted.
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  Speaker 1: And I know that whether you and I are alive
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  Speaker 1: at the end of the age when these things have
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  Speaker 1: intensified or whether we die a thousand years ahead of that,
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  Speaker 1: we are going to experience trials, tribulation, persecution, heartache, and difficulty.
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  Speaker 1: We are going to see men who mock God, who
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  Speaker 1: terrorize the people of God. And we're going to ask
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  Speaker 1: ourselves when we see this, God, how long are you
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  Speaker 1: going to allow this man to do what he's doing
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  Speaker 1: and say what he's saying before you do something about it?
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  Speaker 1: And when you get to that place and just before
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  Speaker 1: you kind of lose yourself and shake your fist at God,
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  Speaker 1: remember what he says to Daniel.
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  Speaker 2: I'm in control. I'll deal with that. You just go
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  Speaker 2: your way until the end.
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  Speaker 1: And then you just rest until my angels call you.
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  Speaker 1: And then you'll stand in your allotted place. Because of
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  Speaker 1: Christ who died in your allotted place. And trust me,
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  Speaker 1: there will be no one at that time making a
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  Speaker 1: mockery of God or his people.
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  Speaker 2: Let's pray.