Jan. 22, 2025

God's Hand in the Rise and Fall of Kingdoms - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 20

God's Hand in the Rise and Fall of Kingdoms - (Enmity with the Seed– Part 2 - From Daniel to Jesus), Episode 20

Send us a text Unlock the secrets of ancient Babylon and discover its monumental impact on spirituality and history. Travel with us through the opulent yet morally decaying city as we recount the infamous feast of Belshazzar, where sacred vessels were defiled in a drunken revel. Through the lens of the book of Daniel, we unravel the myth and magic that cloaked Babylon, speculating on its legendary stargates and its reputation as a hub of idolatry and mysticism. Experience the awe of divine in...

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Unlock the secrets of ancient Babylon and discover its monumental impact on spirituality and history. Travel with us through the opulent yet morally decaying city as we recount the infamous feast of Belshazzar, where sacred vessels were defiled in a drunken revel. Through the lens of the book of Daniel, we unravel the myth and magic that cloaked Babylon, speculating on its legendary stargates and its reputation as a hub of idolatry and mysticism. Experience the awe of divine intervention as we highlight God’s supreme power over empires, from Nebuchadnezzar’s reign to the anticipated rise of the Antichrist.

In a vivid exploration of Babylon's dramatic fall, explore how divine judgment shifted the power balance to the Medes and Persians, paving the way for the Jewish return to Judah. Witness the miraculous conquests of Darius the Mede, made possible by strategic brilliance and divine intervention, and reflect on the enduring lessons of God's sovereignty over earthly kingdoms. We examine how historical events, from the destruction of libraries to the rise and fall of empires, underscore the divine orchestration of human history.

Finally, we celebrate Isaac Newton’s extraordinary legacy, intertwining his scientific brilliance with his profound spiritual insights. Delve into Newton’s analysis of the book of Daniel, where he perceived prophetic truths about Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem, illuminating the union of faith and reason. As we journey through these historical narratives, we’re reminded of the enduring power of divine wisdom and the intrigue of spiritual insight that continues to shape our understanding of the world.

00:41 - Babylon's Degradation and Divine Intervention

15:40 - God's Rule in the Kingdoms

32:27 - The Fall of Babylon's Kingdom

37:55 - Babylon's Fall and Divine Intervention

52:47 - Divine Judgment and Kingdom Control

01:05:46 - Newton's Spiritual Legacy and Prophetic Insight

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Well.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Thank you, jesus.

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Blessed be the name of the Lord, hallelujah.

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We are going to be in Daniel, the fifth chapter.

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We're going to be studying one more episode in the book of Daniel concerning this rule of the Antichrist in the kingdoms of men, how that manifests how, when the enemy of men, how that manifests how, when the enemy comes in the spirit of the Lord, raises up a standard against him.

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And the book of Daniel is full of one episode after another where this kingdom ruled by Antichrist with Jezebel in tow.

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The Bible says in the book of Revelation that Babylon had corrupted and polluted all of the nations on the earth with her abominations, and this has been true since forever.

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We talked about on Sunday that at this time Babylon was likely the size of Fort Worth inside the beltway of eight, 20 and 20.

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So if you think about that loop around Fort Worth and how big that is, that would be about the size of Babylon.

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It was a walled city.

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So if you can imagine eight20 with a wall going around it on the inside part of the loop and then 820 itself being a moat.

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And that was the way that Babylon was structured, not only was it the largest city in the world, but it was the most important city.

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From it went.

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It was a city of science.

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It was a city of architecture, technology, art, spells, incantations, magic, all sorts of things.

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They'd been handed down for centuries, since the flood and before, for centuries, since the flood and before.

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So once again, we're going to be in at this story.

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We're going to be at a point in Babylon's history where the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, whose name was Belshazzar, was in control of the city.

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Now, whether he was in control of the kingdom or not I probably don't think so the guy who was Nebuchadnezzar's son or the son of his wife, was actually in control, but he didn't like to be king, so he was off doing something else.

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Anyway, let's start reading in verse 1 of chapter 5, where it says doing something else.

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Anyway, let's start reading in verse 1 of chapter 5, where it says Belshazzar the king made a great feast for a thousand of his lords and drank wine in the presence of the thousand.

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While he tasted the wine, belshazzar gave the command to bring the gold and silver vessels which his father now, this word father can also be translated as ancestor, because it really wasn't his father, it was his grandfather that had taken the vessels from the temple which had been in Jerusalem.

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So, before the temple was sacked and burned, nebuchadnezzar had taken these gold and silver vessels from the temple, brought them back to Babylon.

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Now Belshazzar, after several years, was ordering them out for this great feast that they were having, and it says that the king and his lords, his wives and his concubines might drink from them.

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So I want you to get this picture.

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Here's the king of Babylon.

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Okay, everybody say king of Babylon.

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In terms of degradation and given over to godlessness not necessarily godlessness, but an abundance of God's idolatry, debauchery, all of that kind of stuff he is the king of it.

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I could get graphic and all that, but I'm not going to do that.

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But just imagine every evil thing emanates from this place and this guy is the king of it.

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Have we got a picture here?

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There's nothing that this guy wouldn't do and there's not much that the people of Babylon wouldn't do.

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They're just totally given over to it.

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If you think they're just kind of misguided spiritual people who, with a little boosting, would come on over to the camp, you're significantly incorrect.

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These people are given over.

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These people make Sodom and Gomorrah look like Sunday school classes.

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Remember what the remember five, chapter five, verse one.

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These people remember that the name of Babylon means gate of the gods these people had.

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It is reported by some people that these people had a stargate.

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They had a stargate, they were at a stargate.

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They could literally go back forth through time, out of time, through locations, out of locations other parts of the galaxy, and that fallen angels came through these gates and brought them new secrets.

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I don't have time to go and go go into what a Stargate is.

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In modern lore there's been dozens of movies and dozens of TV shows and stuff like that about it.

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If you didn't get all that information then it wouldn't do me any good to bring it up.

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But I mean, it sounds like I have.

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I don't know if I still have it.

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I think I still have it, but I printed off a story off the internet 15 years ago about a guy who had traveled through them and he's he testified that he saw a man who would eventually become president on Mars.

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That's what he said.

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Well, you might think that, anyway.

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So the king?

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Now it's bad enough if the king calls for the vessels of the temple of the Lord just so that he could raise a toast, but he gives the vessels out.

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Listen to his lords, his wives and his concubines.

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I'm not even going to grace this with an explanation.

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And he passed out the gold and silver vessels to them, and so listen to verse 4.

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This is what they did with them they drank wine.

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Do you think they stopped with one little toast?

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No, they were drunk, they drank wine.

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They praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.

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So when I tell you that these people were capable of all manner of evil, I mean really, it just doesn't get a whole lot worse than this.

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They have ransacked Jerusalem, they have destroyed the temple, they have taken the silver and the gold out of the temple, brought it back to Babylon.

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Now, was God in this?

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Yes, god was in this, because what happened was that, because of of Israel and Judah's apostasy, god had to really re take them back to where Abraham came out of and start all over.

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Now you don't hear in the 500 years between their coming back to Jerusalem and the time that Jesus came.

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You don't hear about the gross apostasy, like you did in the 500 years between Daniel, between David and the Babylonian captivity.

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You know, in that period, you had one king after another, after another after another, doing all kinds of evil stuff and everything else, and God said okay, that's it, we're done.

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Take them out, take them back to Babylon and then bring them back again and we're going to start all over so that we're ready for when Jesus comes.

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Hallelujah Now, I've told you this before that when, when, when the people of God get rebellious against their God, god takes them back to Babylon and has them start over.

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This is a pattern.

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He took them to Egypt, which was a subset of Babylon, took him back to Babylon.

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This is a pattern, praise God, and we'll get into that some other time.

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So verse 5 says that in the same hour, the fingers of a man's hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace.

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I got a question for you what lampstand do you think they're talking about?

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If they brought out the gold and the silver, what lampstand do you think they're talking about?

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Now, there might be all kinds of lampstands, but there's also one lampstand that was in the holy place, that stood opposite of the table of showbread.

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Yes, so anyway, maybe may not be, but if it is, it would just be like God.

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And he wrote on the plaster of the wall of the king's palace.

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And the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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So you know, you may think you've seen some things from God, you know, but have you seen floating hands, white writing on the wall?

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And if you don't think Daniel's praying this in, you don't know the kind of power that Daniel had with God.

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I mean, we'll get to this story, but you're talking about a man that was tossed into a hole in the ground with lions and he had the spiritual wherewithal with God that angels came and ministered to him and together they shut the mouths of the lions.

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So the king saw the part of the hand that wrote.

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Then the king's countenance changed.

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So one second, the king's just.

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You know he's throwing back, he's playing chug-a-lug with the precious vessels out of the temple of God, you know.

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And he's, and he's got all of his wives and concubines and you know he's passing them around to all of his lords.

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You know, and who knows what's going on?

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All of a sudden a hand starts writing on the wall in a language that none of them know, and the king's countenance changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his knees knocked against each other.

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That's some serious fear.

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That's what the hips were loosened.

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That's what it is trying to say.

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So, being the king of Babylon, I just want you to see how depraved these people are.

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Being the king of Babylon, his immediate reaction is to call on the astrologers, the Chaldeans, who are the chief soothsayers, and warlocks and all that kind of, and the soothsayers, you know, this is the same bunch that never knows what's going on.

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They can't interpret dreams, they don't.

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They don't know what the words mean, they're just, you know, useless.

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But he keeps calling them.

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I'm trying to get you to see that this is not a, this is not necessarily a picture of just Babylon.

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This is not necessarily a picture of just Babylon, but this is a picture of how life is in nation states that are controlled by Antichrist with Jezebel in tow, which means you've got all kinds of false religion, all kinds of deception, all kinds of stuff going on.

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That makes no sense, to the point that you just keep calling on people who keep giving you absolutely no information, no insight, no revelation, and you end up calling on the man of God to make sense out of the situation and then, when you're done with him, you throw him in the fire, or you're done with him.

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You throw him to the lions, or you're done with him.

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Done with him, you know.

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They keep doing the same thing over and over and over, and it's happening today.

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So the king spoke and said to the wise men of Babylon you can insert in there, not so wise men.

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Whoever reads this writing and tells me its interpretation shall be clothed with purple, which is a color indicating royalty.

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They'll be given a royal position, have a chain of gold around his neck which speaks of authority, and he shall be the third ruler in the country.

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I don't know what that means about the second and first ruler, but that's a pretty high position.

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Now the king's wise men came, but they could not read the writing or make known to the king its interpretation.

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Then King Belshazzar was greatly troubled.

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His countenance was changed and his lords were astonished.

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Now, thankfully, the queen came in, says here because of the words of the king and his lords, the queen came to the banquet, spoke saying O king, live forever, do not let your thoughts be troubled, nor let your countenance change.

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There is a man in your kingdom in whom the spirit of the whole?

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In whom is the spirit of the holy God of the whole?

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In whom is the spirit of the holy god?

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Now, they had just been toasting and and lifting up their cups to to a bunch of useless, dead gods.

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Amen.

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But there is a.

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There is a living god, and the spirit of that living god lives in daniel.

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And what she was saying, even though she didn't know what she was saying, is that God rules in the kingdoms of men.

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It doesn't matter if it does not matter and this is one of the points I want you to get tonight it does not matter if Antichrist is in charge or not in charge, god rules in the kingdoms of men.

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It doesn't matter who's in charge, god rules in the kingdoms of men.

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It doesn't matter who's in charge.

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If God rules, then God is the king.

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This is why he is called the king of kings and the lord of lords, because there are kings who are kings in other realms other than just here.

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And God rules in the kingdoms of men.

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He also rules in the kingdoms of fallen angels.

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Now, there would be nobody better suited to testify to that than the spirit of Antichrist, the spirit of Jezebel, the spirit of death and hell, the spirit of Satan the accuser, and they will, matter of fact, they already have.

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When Jesus came out of the grave, they had to confess that Jesus was Lord over them.

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We can't.

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There's nothing we can do about this.

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I mean, we are duty bound to oppose you, but we are defeated.

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What the devil doesn't want you to know is that the resurrection defeated them because Jesus was able to bring forth the new creation in spite of all of their opposition.

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Now, all they can do, they can't keep the new creation from being manifest.

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All they can do is keep it from being powerful and try to steal its power and its thunder.

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But they can't.

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You know they're going to fail at that too.

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Why?

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Because God rules the kingdoms of men.

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The fact that we don't see that clearly is just a tribute to how much deception and web creation that the enemy does so that we don't see clearly.

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So one way and why I'm doing this is to see clearly is to go back in time and let God teach you about how he has been doing this over time, time and time and time and time again.

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Amen.

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This is what we're seeing.

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What we're facing today is not a new problem.

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The tools have just changed, praise God.

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It's worse in some ways because it's worldwide simultaneously ways because it's worldwide simultaneously.

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Before it was isolated in various places, like in sodom and gomorrah, with the amorites in in egypt at the time of the exodus.

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You know different times, different places.

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Now it's happening all all over the.

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There's more people, there's just more going on, but the basic plan of attack is more or less the same.

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In fact, when we get to the end of this if we ever get to the end of it is that in this attack that's going now, all of the previous attacks are being brought forward and they're using those tools.

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So we'll get to that.

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In the days of your father, light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, were found in him.

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And King Nebuchadnezzar, your father, or your ancestor, your father, the king made him the chief of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans and soothsayers.

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What she's saying to the king is this she's saying that you have become I'm paraphrasing this so we have a point of comparison you have become like the pharaohs in the days of Joseph, that there was a pharaoh after Joseph and then another pharaoh after Joseph, and in the book of Exodus they said that the pharaohs had forgotten Joseph and they put Joseph's descendants.

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And they put Joseph's descendants to work as slaves where the people in Joseph's day, when Jacob came down with 75 of his family, that Pharaoh would never have put them in slavery, nor would his son, because they remembered Joseph and the kindness that that Pharaoh had shown him.

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However, by the time that it got close to Moses coming, that Pharaoh had forgotten Joseph and had placed the Israelis in bondage, amen.

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This king, two generations after all the things that happened to his grandfather and we're going to get into that in just a second had forgotten him.

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He had forgotten Daniel.

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His wife had to remind him of who Daniel was, even though Daniel was the chief of the wise men, the soothsayers, the Chaldeans and all the rest of the charlatans.

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Daniel was the chief of that.

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The king didn't know that.

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It says it right there, right in verse 11.

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Inasmuch verse 12, as an excellent spirit, knowledge, understanding, interpreting dreams, solving riddles and explaining enigmas were found in Daniel.

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I mean you would want Daniel on your crossword puzzle team, wouldn't you?

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Whom the king named Belteshazzar?

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That's hard to say.

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Now, let Daniel be called and he will give the interpretation.

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Daniel was brought before the king.

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Now this is proof positive that he didn't know who Daniel was.

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He said are you that Daniel, who was one of the captives from Judah, who my ancestor to the king brought from Judah?

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I've heard this that the spirit of God is in you.

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Light and understanding and excellent wisdom are found in you.

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Now, all these wise men that are supposed to be working for you can't tell me what the interpretation.

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They can't tell me what it means.

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But I have heard verse 16, that you can give interpretations and explain enigmas.

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Now.

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Now he's going to bribe him.

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Now, if you can read the writing and make known to me its interpretation, you shall be clothed with purple and have a chain of gold around your neck and be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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And Daniel was just salivating at this point.

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I mean, he just couldn't wait to get all these trinkets that the king was going to give him.

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Right, the king showed his blatant ignorance of what exactly was going on in the fact that all of his demonic minions couldn't do anything.

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And he's calling on the one guy who is connected to the real God and he's trying to bribe him.

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And so listen to Daniel.

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I just love this.

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Listen to daniel's response.

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In verse 17 he said let your gifts be for yourself and give your rewards to another.

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Oh, I love it.

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Just, you know, give it up, king, see I, you, you know, you know, you know, you got to know this.

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Daniel knew what was going to happen.

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And he's sitting there because normally you don't talk this way to the king.

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You always you do.

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Oh, king, live forever, kind of a thing.

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And you know, you, you.

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But Daniel had just about enough of this and he said you know, keep the gifts, give them to somebody else.

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I'm already reading what's on the wall.

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You're toast.

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I will read the writing and I will make known to him.

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The reason we're reading this is because it's just so rich and I can't I can't tell the narrative better than the Holy ghost.

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So we're just going to read this.

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I'll make known to him the interpretation.

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Now he goes on I'm I, because we have read this before.

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He goes on and says how great his grandfather's kingdom was and that all peoples, nations and languages trembled and feared before him.

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He had the power of life and death.

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But verse 20 says his heart was lifted up and his spirit was hardened in pride and he was disposed from his kingly throne and he took his glory away from him.

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He went, he was like the wild beast.

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He was dwelling with the donkeys.

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They fed him with grass.

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His body was wet with dew from heaven until he knew what that the Most High God rules in the kingdom of men and appoints it over whomever he chooses.

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Now, by this time, belshazzar has not heard anything that he wants to hear.

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So it's going to get worse.

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But you, his son Belshazzar he doesn't even call him king at this point have not humbled your heart, although you knew all of this.

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Now this is the point that you really need to see.

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The difference between Nebuchadnezzar and his grandson was that they both knew.

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Nebuchadnezzar knew what God had done by rescuing the three Hebrew children.

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He knew that.

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He forgot.

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Remember, we talked about that when he was the three Hebrew children.

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He knew that he forgot.

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Remember, we talked about that when he was walking around his palace.

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He forgot, hardened his heart, lifted himself up.

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God judged his pride.

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Okay, at the end of the day, he repented.

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At the end of this day, his grandson's not going to be alive to repent, because I'm telling you what.

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What's happening here is just exactly what happened in Egypt.

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Egypt was an instrument.

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Egypt was an instrument to put Israel into bondage so that they would seek the Lord for deliverance and depend on the Lord for deliverance, because they didn't have the military might or the military training to lead a resurrection.

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So they had to depend on the Lord.

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But the Lord had to allow this to happen.

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Also, he had to allow for a time for the sins of the Amorites to be fulfilled, and Egypt was the pawn in this game that kept.

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Now, I'm not making this up.

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You can read this in the book of Romans.

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Paul had the understanding of it in New Testament terms that the Egyptians, even though they were being used as an instrument of God in putting Israel into bondage and then setting them free and then giving them gold, silver and all kinds of other precious things and sent them out into the wilderness, god still dealt with them.

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He still killed their firstborn, he still destroyed their army, he still led them into the midst of the Red Sea and then had the Red Sea swallowed them up.

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He judged Egypt and he judged Pharaoh and said I will have mercy upon whom I have mercy, and I will harden who I harden who I pardon.

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And then Paul said that the lesson out of this is, if you're the lump of clay who's going to talk to the potter and tell him I don't want to be made this way, you can't do that.

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If God wants to deal with Pharaoh, if God wants to deal with the king of Babylon, amen, they're going to have to.

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You know, just because they're being used by God to fulfill a thing with his people, amen.

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He's still going to judge them for doing it.

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That's a really hard thing to understand about God, because when we have been taught that you know God's a good God and that's it, well, we got.

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There's some things that there, it's not quite that simple that it may end up being that, but there are some.

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There are some definite things that you're going to have to explain and get a revelation on for it to really end up that way, because there's some other things.

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I mean that's a difficult scripture.

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It's a difficult scripture, you know, when he says Jacob I loved and Esau I hated.

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Well, you say OK, well, that's because Esau was a jerk and he sold his birth.

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No, he hated it.

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He hated Esau when he was in the womb.

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If that's not the case, then why was Jacob permitted to, to, to reach out and be the one that receives the birthright.

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Why, glory to God?

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Why was Jacob permitted to do what he did?

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To deceive Esau?

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It's more because of destiny, esau.

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It's more because of destiny.

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It's more because that in the halls of heaven, before either of them were created, god had made the decision that Jacob was going to be the head of Israel.

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Esau was just going to be a thorn in their side and it didn't matter what Esau did.

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And it doesn't matter what Esau did he was destined to sell his birthright.

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Anyway, the point is that God, because he rules in the kingdoms of men, can do things like this, and we have to try to understand it, not just brush it away and not deal with it, but we have to try to understand it because it's part of how he rules.

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He rules.

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In other words, anytime.

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Anytime there is a lifting up of the rule and kingdom of the Antichrist over a nation, there is going to be great oppression against the people of God.

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That is just going to happen.

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Out of that oppression is going to come a glorious deliverance.

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That is the pattern that is shown over and over In this case.

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The oppression that occurred for 70 years is going to result in Israel being transplanted back into Judah and the temple recreated.

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That's a notable miracle.

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Amen, because it wasn't.

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It wasn't supposed to happen that way.

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But that's how God does things.

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But he still judges Babylon for their part in destroying the temple, even though he wanted it destroyed for safeguarding the, for safeguarding the gold and the silver, because they took it back with them.

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Nebuchadnezzar and his kingdom were responsible for safeguarding it for 70 years, even though they abused the trust and they had to pay the penalty.

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But they were still doing the will of God.

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But the way that they did the will of God, god didn't like, so he judged them.

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You go, how does that work?

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He said, because God rules in the kingdoms of men and you can't say to the king why do you do things like this?

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That's not allowed.

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What you have to do is show me how this works so that I can understand you more, because if it works like this for Israel, it's working like that for me.

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I'm going through this.

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I want to know how this works.

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Glory to God.

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I'm not going to tell that.

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Praise God.

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Belshazzar did not humble his heart, even though he knew all this, and you have lifted yourself up against the Lord of heaven.

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You have brought these precious vessels into your house and you and all these blah blah, blah have drunk wine from you.

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Praise the gods of these inanimate objects which do not see or hear or know, and the God who holds your breath in his hand and owns all your ways.

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You have not glorified him.

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I'm telling you what, if Daniel was buck, was, was was jockeying for a, a, a new promotion.

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That wasn't going to, that wasn't going to work.

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He probably, just, probably, just should have.

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You know, oh my goodness, not only have you defiled the vessels of the temple, but you've defiled them in the most, in the grossest form of fornication and and revelry and idolatry, and and you're sitting here with God-ordained instruments of righteousness and you're praising inanimate objects and the God who gives you life and breath.

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You won't even give him credit.

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So then Daniel goes on and reads the inscriptions.

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So then Daniel goes on and reads the inscriptions Mene, mene, tekel, upsarshin, upfarshin.

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And this is the interpretation of each word.

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Each word had extreme prophetic power, because this is the end.

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Everybody say this is the end.

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Everybody say this is the end.

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This is the end of the temporal kingdom of Babylon.

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In that location.

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It never comes back.

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You can make a case that the United States was sent into Iraq in two separate waves to keep them from rebuilding the ruins of Babylon.

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That was the plan of what's his name?

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The leader of Iraq that was hung Hussein.

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Hussein, meaning God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

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Okay, so what I've been saying is that this kingdom is done.

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It's done at that location.

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Now, is it done?

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No, it's not finished.

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It's done at that location.

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Now is it done?

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No, it's not finished.

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It's not finished.

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It moved within 700 years.

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It would move to Rome.

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What it's right there in verse 26.

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God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

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God has numbered your kingdom and finished it.

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In other words, god has settled accounts, as it were.

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Verse 27,.

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Oh, you don't want to hear that.

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Nobody wants to hear that.

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You've been weighed in the balances and found lacking.

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And then, finally, so what?

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What?

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What is Daniel saying?

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So far, your kingdom is gone.

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You're gone.

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And then here's what's going to happen after you leave your kingdom has been divided and given to the Medes and the Persians.

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Medes are Greeks, persians are the Iranians on the other side of Iraq.

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Amen, medes and the Persians had surrounded Babylon and what Belshazzar did not know is that, at this precise moment, the Medes had already infiltrated the city and were at the gate.

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So Belshazzar, being the wise and Johnny-on-the-spot, fine-tuned appraiser of the moment of time, gave the command and clothed Daniel with purple and gave him a gold chain you might as well have given him a gold watch, for all it mattered and made a proclamation that he should be the third ruler in the kingdom.

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Yay, because verse 30 says that very night, belshazzar, the king of the Chaldeans, was slain and Darius the Mede received the kingdom, being about 62 years old.

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This is essentially, as I've said, was the end of the physical kingdom of Babylon that stretched back to the flood and had ruled the entire earth with blasphemies and abominations.

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Now, just because it was destroyed didn't mean that its spiritual influence was destroyed, because it was not, but because of what happened the fact that Babylon was overthrown and the kingdom was given between the Medes and the Persians.

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It was subsequently decreed that the Jews should be returned to Judah and that the temple.

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Not only did they get to go to Judah, but they were given the instruments and they were given monies to go back and rebuild the temple.

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Now these things are written for us as an example upon whom the end of the ages have come, I mean the.

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We have to look at this and say there's something here for us, because this is what the Old Testament is for us.

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We don't get doctrine out of it as much as we get examples, because that's what Paul said these things are written as examples for us so that when the enemy comes in like a flood, the Spirit of God will raise up a standard against him.

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If he did it then, then he can do it again Right Right Now.

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If you think that God can't deal with difficult situations, I want you to consider this, and we talked about this on Sunday.

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But I'm just going to mention a couple things.

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This 15 square mile area was completely surrounded by a wall that was 320 feet high.

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320 feet high, oh, a lot higher than Wallach High.

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It's, by my reckoning, it's probably higher than any building that's in Fort Worth.

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So if you had this wall surrounding Fort Worth and you were on the other side of Fort Worth and you weren't on a hill, you couldn't see any of the buildings that were in it.

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You know how far away you can see buildings in Fort Worth 15, 20 miles, but you can't see them.

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You couldn't see them there because the wall would be in the way.

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320, that's 32 stories, and it was 80 feet thick, wide enough for chariot races, wide enough for a four-team chariot to be able to turn around, and a large and deep moat full of water ran all the way around this 60 mile wall.

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Through the middle of the city ran the river, the river euphrates, and it cut the city in half and it was a major defense for the city.

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It fed the moats and it was a source of drinking water.

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I'm going to read this so you can kind of see, because the Bible is real ziplipped about this.

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The Bible just said that night the king of the Chaldeans was slain and Darius the Mede received the kingdom.

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However, there were some other sources that wrote about what happened that night, in the Greek and the Persian sources.

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So what happened was that the Mede army entered the city through the riverbed of the Euphrates.

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What they had done was, north of the city, the river flowed north to south and in the north of the city they had dug diversion trenches and what they basically did was they diverted the river from going through the city to go around the city and they let enough water go through that the Babylonians never knew what was going on.

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And then, all of a sudden, All they had to do was get A few hundred thousand guys With buckets of dirt and build a dam.

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The dam would then force the river Into the channels and go around the city.

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Because the river was now passable, they could go underneath the walls and get right into the middle of the city and get underneath the gates, the water gates that guarded the city from the river.

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They could grow underneath that.

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They basically just created a large tunnel out of the river bank, out of the riverbed, and just marched into the city.

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They really didn't have to have a very big force.

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What they were going to do was they were going to go in and cut off the head.

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They knew that enough of the military and the other people and the other leaders didn't like this king.

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They didn't like the fact that he was put in charge and another king was off taking vacations all the time.

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They didn't like that.

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They were banking on this, so they diverted.

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This was all done while Belshazzar was having this party and defiling himself with the instruments of the Lord.

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Amen, he's doing all this stuff and he's not paying any attention at all until the hand shows up and he still doesn't know what's going to happen.

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And while all this is going on, they're just like a bunch of ants just coming up the banks, the bed of the river.

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Get into the town, get into the city, find the closest way to get to the king's palace, take that up there and here we go.

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They were the whole city.

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Not only was the king in celebration, but the whole city was in celebration.

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It was a major worship of the moon god.

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They were all drunk.

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Even the guards on the tower walls were drunk and nobody saw them coming.

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Tell me that's not.

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God Gets the whole town drunk so the opposing army can come in on a dry riverbed of one of the five principal rivers in the world.

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Just think okay, instead of changing the Nile River to blood, let's just say we make it disappear.

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The only problem is that at Memphis or Cairo, where the mouth of the Nile empties out, basically starts to empty out, it's like the Mississippi.

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It's about a mile wide and several hundred feet deep.

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Think Euphrates, are you hearing me?

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I mean, we're talking Mississippi, we're talking the Mississippi-Missouri River Complex, we're talking.

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The Amazon Complex, the Nile Complex, the Yangtze River in China, the Yellow River in China, the Ganges River in India, the Tigris and Euphrates River system in Iraq, these are the major rivers in the world.

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This was not a minor league river.

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This was a big river and all of a sudden it just goes dry and nobody noticed.

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So we're not talking it.

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We're not talking about clear fork of the trinity, you know which is.

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You know, not even a good size creek.

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You know we call it a river here because we get real excited anytime we see water.

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But you know that was a big river in euphrates, glory to to God.

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And so everybody was drunk.

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So Darius led a detachment of men to the capital and they killed the king of Babylon.

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That night the whole city is given over to revelry, including, to some extent, the guards.

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Those who opposed the forces under Darius were struck down.

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They couldn't offer much resistance, they were too drunk, including those now I'm reading from people who actually wrote at this time Including those outside the banquet hall.

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They entered, they met some opposition and those that opposed them were struck down and slain.

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Others, when they saw the people coming in, fled, fled to their houses and they raised a.

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You know, the Medes are here, the Medes are here.

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The Medes are here.

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But Darius and his friends covered their cry with their own shouts as though they were the party goers themselves.

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So they acted like they were drunk and they just got real loud and they quieted down the alarm.

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The fact that you know you can't get around the fact that because they were given over to the worship of a false god, the entire city was given over to the worship of that god.

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This was one of their principal gods.

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That God was able to use that to destroy the city.

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And so they made their way by the quickest route into the banquet hall or into the king's palace and found themselves before the king's palace.

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So the detachment under Darius found the gates to the palace closed.

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But the men appointed to attack the guards rushed on them as they lay drinking round a blazing fire and closed in on them and finished them as the noise and the shouting got louder and louder.

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Those within became aware of the tumult until the king bidding them to see what it meant, some of them opened up the gates and ran out.

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Bad move, because Darius and his men, seeing the gates swing wide, darted in and hearted on the heels of those who had fled back again, and they chased him at sword's point into the presence of the king.

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And they found the king on his feet with his drawn scimitar in his hand, by sheer weights of numbers.

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They overwhelmed him and not one of his retinue or the group of people that were with him escaped.

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They were all cut down, some flying, others snatching up anything to serve as a shield and defending them as best they could.

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But it didn't work.

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Within a matter of minutes, daniel interpreted the writing on the wall your kingdom is up.

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You've been weighed into balance and found lacking.

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Your kingdom is going to be given to the Medes and the Persians.

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And who shows up but Darius, the Mede and a few soldiers who have somehow miraculously got through a 320-foot-high wall that's 80 feet thick and there are guard houses every 100 feet.

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Tell me, this is not a miracle.

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I don't care whether he used men to do it or not.

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With that technology, to cause the Euphrates River to be diverted so that people could use the riverbed as a way to bypass the wall and bypass the gates was a miracle of engineering in that day.

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That's the other thing.

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There was a lot of planning going on with this and they may have caused this diversion to happen in the river a long way back up river, because they had to have control of it, because they couldn't have done all of that work in one night.

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I don't think.

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Both secular accounts and biblical accounts the one we're reading in Daniel and others describe the demise of Belshazzar on the night that the city was taken.

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So in other words, daniel gives an account of somebody that was inside the king's palace when all this happened, and the secular accounts from the Medes and the Persian gives another account from the, from a point of view of being outside the palace.

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So you have one inside, one outside, and they come together with Darius coming through the doors as they're opened up.

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The King wants to know what's going on outside.

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They opened the doors, darius and his and his soldiers come in and within a matter of seconds it's all over and the kingdom is done.

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It is over.

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There is no such thing as a kingdom of Babylon from that point on Good question, we talked about that the the other day when any place where there are ruins, over time people will use the stones of those ruins to build other houses.

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If you went to.

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If you went, I'm sure that if you in the excavation of Jerusalem today that they are, they will find stones of previous buildings that have been used to build houses that are now under layers and layers and layers of dirt.

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Because that's what, what gets done.

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They just you know people.

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You know, if I, if I'm, if I want to build a house and there's a pile of rubble over here, what am I going to do?

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Go out to the stone quarry and cut my own stones when there's a whole pile of stones there?

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No, I'm going to take those stones, mix up a little concrete and turn it into a stonemason.

00:50:44.996 --> 00:50:47.994
But because it was part of Babylon, wouldn't that?

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Well, maybe so, but there wasn't.

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The city did not get destroyed.

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That night, the government of Babylon got taken out and a government of the medes and the persians was put in the city of babylon, was, was, was held intact.

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Now, what happened to that over years?

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I don't know, but I'm going to tell you this.

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I'm getting ahead by several weeks but in the 1200s, the Mongols out of Asia came across under Genghis Khan and under his children, and they entered Iraq and they entered the site of Babylon and they destroyed it and they took all of the scrolls and the papyri and that sort of thing that went back and told about how to do incantations and all that stuff and they threw them all into the Euphrates River so that the Euphrates River turned black from the ink that was in those scrolls, because they knew that had to be destroyed.

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They did not want it in their kingdom.

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So there's been, you know, all kinds of waves of people through that area.

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Praise god, but but I'm, yes, it is.

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But I'm telling you, you that if God did it, then he can do it, and it did not take a lot of military and it didn't take a lot of bloodshed, but it had to be targeted to the highest ranking authorities in that kingdom.

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And because God is king over kingdoms, he can do things like this.

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He can take one kingdom and raise them up against another kingdom and cause the one kingdom to fall on another kingdom.

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That's exactly what the Bible says.

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He gives it to whomever he wills and then he'll take it away from them and judge them for what they did.

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I mean, you can't deal.

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How do you deal with this?

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He put Israel into bondage so that the Amorites could keep on sinning and then sent the Israelites free now of their bondage across the wilderness for a 40-year sojourn so that they could enter into their promised land and kill Amorites for sinning, when God gave them 450 years to keep on sinning.

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Now there's revelation in that, if you want to go chase it, but I'm just telling you, that's the surface level understanding of it, because he told Abraham in a vision.

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He said I'm going to take your people into bondage until the sins of the Amorites are fulfilled.

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What's that mean?

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And then I'm going to send it back and they're going to chase the Amorites out of town because I'm going to judge them for sinning.

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Wait a minute, you just told them they could go on sinning for 450.

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Yeah, but I'm going to judge them for that because they should have known better.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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Same thing happened to Belshazzar.

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He should have known better.

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That's what Daniel told him.

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You just forgot.

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You forgot what happened to your grandfather.

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You should have known better, but you didn't.

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And because you didn't, you raised your head.

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You did something.

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I mean, okay, nebuchadnezzar did some bad things.

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He raised up the golden statue, he threw the Hebrew children in the fire.

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You know this.

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That and the other.

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One thing goes, you know, here and another thing goes there, and I mean he's not a good guy, but he at least kept his hands off of the silver and gold vessels and didn't defile the things of God that they had plundered out of Israel, because it was given to them to safeguard, it was not given to them to abuse.

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Plus, he repented and Belshazzar just came across as a giant fool who did A did not honor the kingship of his grandfather and B didn't honor the revelation that his grandfather had come to about this God, or else he'd have laid his hands, he'd have drunk out of his own vessels and kept his hands off of the things of God, but he didn't do that.

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The things of God, but he didn't do that.

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And because he didn't do that, not only was his life forfeit, but his kingdom was forfeit.

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Hallelujah, praise the Lord.

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I'm going to tell you this there are some people on this planet that are serious imitators of this kingdom.

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But that's what they are they're imitators.

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They are another 2,500 years away from the apex of this kingdom, which is right now what we're reading about.

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There have been major house cleanings.

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There was one in Ephesus, where Paul was, because of Paul's preaching in Ephesus, where Paul was.

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Because of Paul's preaching, 50,000 pieces of silver's worth of books were destroyed.

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Incantations, spells, magic.

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How to do it, how to make things happen.

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That was destroyed.

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The library in Babylon destroyed.

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The library of Alexandria destroyed.

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He said well, that shouldn't have been destroyed.

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That was the hand of God destroying the written documentation.

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You may not know this, but in the early days of the Nazi takeover of Germany, ss people were sent all over the world.

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They were sent to Tibet, they were sent to India, they were sent to various places in China, they were sent to places in South America where there might be repositories of ancient knowledge, and they were sent to find out what those people knew so that they could be brought back to Germany and incorporated into this myth of the Superman that they were trying to weave, so that they could do things.

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Look at some stuff on YouTube.

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You'll see how they learned how to master light and learn how to master the movements of large crowds and learn how to master.

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You think you look at some of the things that Hitler was doing in the mid thirties, right around the time of the Berlin Olympics in 1936, you look at some of the mass meetings that they had in Nuremberg and other big cities of hundreds of thousands of people, perfectly ordered into squares of units, and Hitler coming out of this place and then walking down the center of all of these people with all of these huge spotlights and and playing with lights against the clouds and things like that.

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You have to.

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They didn't come.

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They didn't get into power in Germany until 32.

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And you're, and you're, you're telling me that within five years they mastered that kind of crowd control and that kind of psychological operations to manipulate an entire population.

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They learned that in five years.

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Are you kidding me?

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We're talking about a bunch of drunks who couldn know, who couldn't keep out of jail in the twenties.

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And now they've got a mastery over populations of 30, 40, 50 million people with these massive spectacles that just just mind meld people into, into compliance.

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Are you kidding me?

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That didn't happen.

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They went and found out what ancient civilizations were doing.

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Glory to God and the people that were on the planet closest to this time that we're talking about right now.

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They knew some of this stuff was so powerful that if it got loose in the wrong hands it was going to be bad news.

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Praise God, hallelujah.

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Paul knew.

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Paul knew because Paul was trained and he knew Others knew.

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He knew that if he went to Mars Hill and strangled this thing at the root, paul going to Mars Hill and dressing down the philosophers of his day was the same equivalent move as Darius the Mede going into the palace of Babylon and cutting off the head of the king.

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If you go into the palace and cut off the head of the king, you have achieved a victory.

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And that's what Paul did.

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He went in and made mincemeat of the world's smartest people by preaching the resurrection the most foolish thing that they could possibly ever imagine.

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Paul just jerked it right out of a piece of stone down on the street.

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That said to an unknown God.

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He said the one that you don't know.

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I'm going to declare him to you today.

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And about 20 to 30 seconds later he's preaching about the resurrection and pretty soon after that he's caused a major revolution.

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Glory to God, hallelujah.

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If God did it, then with somebody that didn't even acknowledge him, what will he do with somebody who belongs to his own kingdom when he says that I control, I am the Lord, I rule over the kingdoms of men?

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Needless to say, he rules over the kingdom of heaven and if he can rule over the kingdom of heaven and rule over us as his ambassadors, as his emissaries, as his warriors, then, coupled with the authority that he has over the nations of men and this thing that he does with us, there is a force on the planet that has not been seen.

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Hallelujah, praise God, praise God, praise God.

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He was given the vision.

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Nebuchadnezzar was given the vision.

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He was the gold head and the part, the armor of silver that was the next part, is this army of the army of the Medes and the Persians, but it's going to be given over to legs of iron, which is the Roman Empire.

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Amen, it was already told.

01:01:51.822 --> 01:01:59.108
It was told what was going to happen Of that empire, of the Babylonian empire.

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It is a very small group of people and they have people underneath them that are well-versed in the arts of Babylon.

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This thing that you just saw, this thing that was on TV for two weeks, weeks, is the latest incantation of what I just told you about that went on in germany of mass mind manipulation, opinion, thought control.

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You know they had umpty, umpty, um, umpty, umpty, umpty, umpty, umpty.

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Hundreds of millions of people tuned in watching all the time.

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How many places did you go to where it was on every television?

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You know, normally you go to a place and then it'll have this game, that game, this game, that game, this thing, that thing, this one had wall to wall.

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Why do you think they do that?

01:02:53.025 --> 01:02:55.619
They don't do that because everybody cares about ping pong.

01:02:55.619 --> 01:03:01.750
Everybody cares about ping pong or badminton or that kind of stuff.

01:03:01.750 --> 01:03:04.643
There's not enough sports enthusiasts to do that.

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They do that because their magic is strong enough that if you watch it.

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I purpose to try to deliberately not watch anything live.

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I only watch stuff that was recorded, little bits and pieces of it Shouldn't even watch that, but I purpose not to watch anything live on broadcast television.

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All you have to do is just watch it and you're sucked in.

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Well, praise the Lord, hallelujah, glory to God.

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All I got to tell you is that if he did it, then he can do it again.

01:03:39.802 --> 01:03:41.855
He did it, then he can do it again.

01:03:41.855 --> 01:03:43.641
If he did it, then he can do it again.

01:03:43.641 --> 01:03:45.882
It's just as simple as that.

01:03:45.882 --> 01:03:48.436
He did it, then he can do it again.

01:03:48.436 --> 01:03:51.179
If he didn't do it, then then we might as well.

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Just you know why are we doing this?

01:03:54.003 --> 01:03:55.780
Why are we even paying attention?

01:03:55.780 --> 01:03:59.311
If you think, if you think that the book of Daniel is just just you know, why are we doing this?

01:03:59.311 --> 01:03:59.974
Why are we even paying attention?

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If you think, if you think that the book of Daniel is just there for comic relief and a few kids, kids stories for Sunday school, I mean, I, I mean to tell you, this man talked to angels.

01:04:07.902 --> 01:04:11.364
This man talked to Michael the archangel.

01:04:11.364 --> 01:04:16.307
This man, this man, pet lions Like you would pet your dog.

01:04:16.307 --> 01:04:20.960
He had friends that walked with Jesus in the fiery furnace.

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Are we hearing any of this?

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Glory to God.

01:04:25.170 --> 01:04:26.634
God sent it.

01:04:26.634 --> 01:04:45.717
God sent a formless angel with a hand to write a message on the wall that marked the end of this, of this, that marked the end of this of this godless, nimrod city.

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Glory to jesus.

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Hallelujah.

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I am not afraid.

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I am not.

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I I am.

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I am full of faith because I know that he did this.

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This is not fable, this is not silliness, this is not stupid idol talk.

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This is I'm telling you one thing, I've told you this before and I'll keep on telling it Amen.

01:05:06.856 --> 01:05:26.242
That one of the smartest men that has ever lived, whose name was Isaac Newton, wrote more about religion than he did about physics and he invented modern physics, and he invented modern physics and he invented calculus, he invented the whole discussion of the study of light and he you know just all kinds of stuff that the man did.

01:05:26.242 --> 01:05:36.163
But one of his greatest achievements was the study of the book of Daniel and he figured out because he was he was one of the smartest men that ever lived.

01:05:36.163 --> 01:05:38.389
He figured out the problem.

01:05:38.389 --> 01:05:46.541
The prophecy of Jesus coming into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday was so accurately predicted by Daniel.

01:05:46.541 --> 01:06:02.018
It was almost down to the hour and he said this this is the one of the smartest men that has ever lived said this this is one of the smartest men that has ever lived.

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And he said this that on the basis of that one prophecy, it is sufficient to believe the entirety of the word of God.

01:06:07.929 --> 01:06:10.117
You don't need any more proof.

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That prophecy right there, that was given 483 years before Jesus came down there, was so accurate.

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You can believe it all.

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You can believe it all.

01:06:25.001 --> 01:06:43.043
Now, if, if this was some itinerant prophet, you know, you know some guy that, just you know, stumbled out of bed and thought he had a good idea Until Einstein came, newton was the last word in physics for almost 300 years.

01:06:43.043 --> 01:06:52.463
It took somebody of Einstein's intellectual power to take what Newton had done and take it here.

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And because he did, we have the 20th century.

01:06:56.882 --> 01:07:03.427
The 20th century in science is basically laid at Einstein's doorstep.

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A few other people that followed after him, but he's the one that took Newton off the pedestal and said he was right up to this point.

01:07:11.922 --> 01:07:16.507
But Now somebody's going to take they're about to take Einstein off the pedestal and say he was right to a point.

01:07:16.507 --> 01:07:18.458
But now somebody's going to take they're about to take Einstein off the pedestal and say he was right to a point.

01:07:18.458 --> 01:07:22.380
But and then there'll be somebody after that and somebody after that.

01:07:22.380 --> 01:07:27.481
But Newton had that position for a long time.

01:07:28.784 --> 01:07:38.585
He was very smart, but I keep saying this his greatest work was spiritual, not physics, not math.

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I wonder how many great people like that he's lost.

01:07:41.389 --> 01:07:44.822
Well, I hope not any, but I know better than that.

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Praise God, hallelujah, lord, wrap us with understanding.

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I want to read what I want this excellent spirit, god, as you said, of Daniel.

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An excellent spirit full of knowledge, understanding, interpreting of dreams, solving of riddles, explaining of puzzles.

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A spirit of God in us, with light and understanding and excellent wisdom to be found in us, that comes from you, god, and we give you praise and glory and honor and thanksgiving in Jesus.

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And everybody said amen, praise God.