1 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:11,640 Daniel Chapter 8 The title of this morning's message is The 2 00:00:11,640 --> 00:00:13,680 Future. Do you fear it? 3 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:20,960 I remember when Helen and I were newly married and those we knew 4 00:00:20,960 --> 00:00:25,560 of the same age would then ask, well, are you planning on having 5 00:00:25,560 --> 00:00:29,440 children? And the motive behind the 6 00:00:29,440 --> 00:00:34,920 question was that many couples we knew said that they would not 7 00:00:34,920 --> 00:00:37,680 have children, nor could they raise children. 8 00:00:38,800 --> 00:00:44,720 In such a difficult world that has only a bleak future coming 9 00:00:44,720 --> 00:00:47,040 next year in March. That's 50 years ago. 10 00:00:48,800 --> 00:00:51,120 The same question is still being asked today. 11 00:00:51,880 --> 00:00:54,920 How could you have children, raise children in this world? 12 00:00:56,440 --> 00:01:01,160 I can see the fear in reality for those who are non believers 13 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:05,920 to ask that and believe that. But for those of us who have 14 00:01:05,920 --> 00:01:10,720 Christ as our Lord and Saviour there's no such fear or concern. 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:17,200 Nor should there be, for we know, we know God has our future 16 00:01:17,240 --> 00:01:21,240 in his hands and he says we are safe in Him. 17 00:01:21,240 --> 00:01:26,200 I remember the first song as a child of the Lord that I 18 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:29,680 remember was in the world. In his hands he's got the whole 19 00:01:29,680 --> 00:01:32,880 world. In his hands he's got the whole 20 00:01:32,880 --> 00:01:34,960 wide world. In his itty bitty hands, he's 21 00:01:34,960 --> 00:01:39,960 got the whole world. John chapter 10 tells us where 22 00:01:39,960 --> 00:01:44,960 that song came from. I recommend John 10 for you to 23 00:01:44,960 --> 00:01:45,920 know. John 10. 24 00:01:45,920 --> 00:01:53,240 It's one of the greatest securing and fear driving away 25 00:01:53,240 --> 00:01:56,320 chapters in the Bible. John 10 verse 27. 26 00:01:56,320 --> 00:01:58,720 My sheep hear my voice, Jesus said. 27 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:04,400 And I know them. They follow me, and I give them 28 00:02:04,480 --> 00:02:06,160 eternal life. They will not die. 29 00:02:07,080 --> 00:02:12,000 They shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of 30 00:02:12,000 --> 00:02:16,800 my hand. Jesus says My Father who has 31 00:02:16,800 --> 00:02:22,640 given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to 32 00:02:22,640 --> 00:02:24,680 snatch them out of my Father's hand. 33 00:02:27,160 --> 00:02:31,680 The Bible is the only book that reveals our future, the future 34 00:02:31,680 --> 00:02:36,080 of the world. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 in 35 00:02:36,080 --> 00:02:40,480 the new Living Translation says God says only I can tell you the 36 00:02:40,480 --> 00:02:45,760 future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to 37 00:02:45,760 --> 00:02:49,000 pass. Now we're in chapter 8 of 38 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,400 Daniel. Before the fall of Babylon. 39 00:02:53,880 --> 00:02:59,520 Daniel is given a vision by God that Babylon, indeed this mighty 40 00:02:59,520 --> 00:03:01,680 empire under Nebuchadnezzar, would fall. 41 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:10,840 It's the year 551, chapter 8 BC. It's 12 years before the events 42 00:03:10,840 --> 00:03:14,400 of chapter 5, Belshazzar's feast, when the Medes and the 43 00:03:14,400 --> 00:03:17,800 Persians came in, entered through the gates where the 44 00:03:17,800 --> 00:03:23,920 river Euphrates came into the city of Babylon, the last night 45 00:03:23,920 --> 00:03:27,400 of living for Belshazzar when the writing was on the wall. 46 00:03:29,560 --> 00:03:34,560 It's 12 years before that. And at the time of this vision 47 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:40,320 and Daniel 8, Babylon itself is in its zenith of power. 48 00:03:41,360 --> 00:03:45,880 It's dominating the world. And yet here Daniel is told by 49 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,920 God, this empire, what you see, it's not going to last. 50 00:03:50,160 --> 00:03:55,800 It has an end day in God's plan. As I drive to church every 51 00:03:55,800 --> 00:03:58,720 Sunday and I see people walking their dog, cups of coffee, 52 00:03:59,040 --> 00:04:01,520 they're at the Dome and people going about their business, 53 00:04:01,520 --> 00:04:06,760 going to all the gyms, etcetera. You know, all this is going to 54 00:04:07,280 --> 00:04:10,960 this is going to end. This ain't going to be like it 55 00:04:10,960 --> 00:04:17,279 is much longer. Verse 1 Daniel eight in the 56 00:04:17,279 --> 00:04:20,640 third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, A vision appeared to 57 00:04:20,640 --> 00:04:25,320 me, to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me the first 58 00:04:25,320 --> 00:04:29,120 time I saw in the vision. And it so happened while I was 59 00:04:29,120 --> 00:04:33,720 looking that I was in Shushan, the citadel which is in the 60 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,000 province of Elam, and I saw in the vision that I was by the 61 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:40,160 river. You lie there. 62 00:04:40,240 --> 00:04:44,200 Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and they're standing beside 63 00:04:44,200 --> 00:04:49,320 the river was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns 64 00:04:49,320 --> 00:04:54,480 were high, but one horn was higher than the other, and the 65 00:04:54,480 --> 00:04:58,720 higher one came up last. And I saw the ram pushing 66 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:03,480 westward, northward, southward, so that no animal could 67 00:05:03,480 --> 00:05:07,440 withstand him, nor was there any that could deliver from his 68 00:05:07,440 --> 00:05:10,480 hand. But he did according to his will 69 00:05:10,480 --> 00:05:14,120 and became great. Daniel in this vision is 70 00:05:14,120 --> 00:05:16,200 transported to the river of Ulah. 71 00:05:17,120 --> 00:05:22,560 It's modern day Iran. 362 kilometres to the east of 72 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:26,040 Babylon was the city of Suzanne or Sousa. 73 00:05:27,120 --> 00:05:31,600 Suzanne was the home base of Nehemiah where Pastor Israel was 74 00:05:31,600 --> 00:05:37,200 teaching Sunday nights and from where he carried out his role in 75 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:40,880 this location as cup bearer to the king Axexis. 76 00:05:41,960 --> 00:05:45,880 It is also the city where a young Jewish girl by the name of 77 00:05:45,880 --> 00:05:47,760 Hadassah. That's a great name, isn't it? 78 00:05:47,920 --> 00:05:50,720 Hadassah. She rose up to become Queen 79 00:05:50,760 --> 00:05:54,240 Esther, wife of the great king Ahasiris. 80 00:05:55,360 --> 00:05:58,640 Daniel sees a ram. We know what a ram looks like 81 00:05:58,960 --> 00:06:02,400 being Australians, and it's the Medo Persian Empire. 82 00:06:03,160 --> 00:06:06,400 The two horns are the two leaders of the Medes and the 83 00:06:06,400 --> 00:06:12,160 Persians, Cyrus and Darius. One horn was larger than the 84 00:06:12,200 --> 00:06:13,360 other. That's Cyrus. 85 00:06:13,360 --> 00:06:16,400 He became greater in power than Darius. 86 00:06:17,440 --> 00:06:20,040 Now the headdress, it's interesting if you go onto any 87 00:06:20,040 --> 00:06:23,400 history site you see the headdress that the Persian 88 00:06:23,400 --> 00:06:27,760 Empire's wore in those days was fashioned in the image of Iran. 89 00:06:30,160 --> 00:06:35,360 Now for more than 200 years the Medes and the Persians ruled in 90 00:06:35,360 --> 00:06:39,800 great power over the nations and they conquered the Babylonians 91 00:06:39,800 --> 00:06:42,760 who ruled roughly around 7090 years. 92 00:06:42,760 --> 00:06:48,240 Only verse 5, as I was considering, suddenly a male 93 00:06:48,240 --> 00:06:53,120 goat comes from the West across the surface of the whole earth 94 00:06:53,800 --> 00:06:56,480 without touching the ground. That means travelling fast. 95 00:06:57,200 --> 00:07:00,480 The goat had one notable horn between his eyes. 96 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,720 He came to the ram that had two horns, which I'd seen standing 97 00:07:04,720 --> 00:07:10,040 beside the river ran at him with furious power, colliding with 98 00:07:10,040 --> 00:07:12,640 him. I saw him confronting the ram. 99 00:07:13,080 --> 00:07:18,480 He was moved with Rage Against him, attacked the ram and broke 100 00:07:18,560 --> 00:07:22,400 his two horns. There was no power now in the 101 00:07:22,400 --> 00:07:26,360 ram to withstand him, but he cast him to the ground and 102 00:07:26,360 --> 00:07:30,120 trampled him, and there was no one that could deliver the ram 103 00:07:30,120 --> 00:07:33,800 from the goats hand. Therefore the male goat grew 104 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,480 very great. When he became strong, the large 105 00:07:37,480 --> 00:07:45,120 horn was broken, and in place four small horns came up toward 106 00:07:45,120 --> 00:07:48,680 the four winds of heaven, N, SE and West. 107 00:07:49,440 --> 00:07:55,200 So from the West comes this goat at flank speed and attacks the 108 00:07:55,200 --> 00:08:00,120 ram, breaking its two horns. This is the rise of the Grecian 109 00:08:00,120 --> 00:08:02,600 Empire. Now this is all yet future. 110 00:08:02,880 --> 00:08:06,200 Daniel is living in Babylon. Babylon is still ruling and 111 00:08:06,200 --> 00:08:08,200 reigning. So this is all yet to happen. 112 00:08:12,120 --> 00:08:15,720 The Greeks, their armies were known, renowned for their 113 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:20,840 military genius, their swiftness in battle, conquering the 114 00:08:20,840 --> 00:08:26,720 Persians, the turning point of the Grecian and the Medo. 115 00:08:26,720 --> 00:08:30,800 Persian battle plan occurred in 480 BC. 116 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,720 It was a naval battle. The Greek commander to Mastocles 117 00:08:36,120 --> 00:08:39,919 lured the Persian fleet with their great ships into the 118 00:08:39,919 --> 00:08:44,400 narrow waters of the straights, Straits of Salami, where the 119 00:08:44,400 --> 00:08:48,400 mass Persian ships couldn't manoeuvre, it was too shallow. 120 00:08:48,920 --> 00:08:54,160 And the Greek trimarines came out and attacked the Medes and 121 00:08:54,160 --> 00:08:57,600 the Persians, ramming and sinking many of their vessels, 122 00:08:58,240 --> 00:09:03,920 and the king sleeking back home. And so the mean Persian Empire 123 00:09:03,920 --> 00:09:08,840 would fall to the Grecians. But there's a notable horn, 124 00:09:08,840 --> 00:09:15,400 remember in this one goat that was Alexander the Great in June 125 00:09:16,760 --> 00:09:20,960 323 BC. However, Alexander died at the 126 00:09:20,960 --> 00:09:29,480 age of 32 following a two week febrile illness at which he said 127 00:09:29,480 --> 00:09:31,240 they said, well, what are we going to do about the Kingdom? 128 00:09:31,240 --> 00:09:35,040 He said to the strongest. And the Grecian Empire was 129 00:09:35,040 --> 00:09:39,240 divided between the four powerful generals at that time. 130 00:09:39,240 --> 00:09:43,320 Verse 9 And out of one of them came a little home, which grew 131 00:09:43,320 --> 00:09:46,080 exceedingly great toward the South, toward the east, toward 132 00:09:46,080 --> 00:09:49,040 the glorious land. And it grew up to the host of 133 00:09:49,040 --> 00:09:52,760 heaven, and it cast down some of the hosts. 134 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:56,480 Now this is not talking about Alexander and some of the stars 135 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,840 to the ground and trampled them. He even exalted himself as high 136 00:10:00,840 --> 00:10:04,000 as the Prince of the host. This is someone claiming to be 137 00:10:04,000 --> 00:10:06,720 God. Alexander didn't do that. 138 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:14,800 And by him, notice the daily sacrifices in Israel were taken 139 00:10:14,800 --> 00:10:18,760 away, stopped. The place of his sanctuary was 140 00:10:18,760 --> 00:10:22,600 cast down, the Temple because of transgressions. 141 00:10:23,240 --> 00:10:27,240 An army was given over to the Horn to oppose the daily 142 00:10:27,240 --> 00:10:30,280 sacrifices. So power was given to this evil 143 00:10:30,440 --> 00:10:34,920 new ruler, and he cast truth down to the ground. 144 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:39,280 Notice the wording. He did all this and prospered. 145 00:10:39,880 --> 00:10:44,840 What happens is out of the dividing of the Grecian Empire 146 00:10:44,840 --> 00:10:51,880 came the Seleucans, a 175 BC. Out of the solutions came a 147 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:55,800 dynasty. In Syria arose a wicked man, a 148 00:10:55,800 --> 00:11:01,680 most wicked man, a type, a shadow of the coming Antichrist, 149 00:11:01,880 --> 00:11:06,440 yet to appear, an enemy of God, an Israel. 150 00:11:06,720 --> 00:11:13,440 His name, Antiochus Epiphanes, the 4th Philipeter, was his full 151 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:18,640 title. This man, Antiochus, was pure 152 00:11:18,640 --> 00:11:22,640 evil. He believed himself to be God. 153 00:11:23,440 --> 00:11:27,240 He even christened himself Epiphanies, meaning God 154 00:11:27,240 --> 00:11:32,320 manifest. He was called Epimenes, however, 155 00:11:32,520 --> 00:11:37,480 by the end by those who were against him, which means Mad 156 00:11:37,480 --> 00:11:43,960 Men, he sent out a decree. Now this is happening back after 157 00:11:43,960 --> 00:11:47,200 the breakup of the Grecian Empire before the Roman Empire, 158 00:11:48,880 --> 00:11:53,680 and Antiochus sent out a decree throughout all the empire as his 159 00:11:53,680 --> 00:11:58,800 ruling, demanding that every citizen in the empire worship 160 00:11:58,800 --> 00:12:01,840 him as God. Does that sound familiar? 161 00:12:03,360 --> 00:12:07,080 Everyone in the empire followed. I bowed down. 162 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:11,880 They worshipped Antiochus, called him God, deity, but for 163 00:12:11,880 --> 00:12:15,280 one group of people who refused the Jews. 164 00:12:16,640 --> 00:12:21,240 When Antiochus found out about the Jews and their resistance of 165 00:12:21,240 --> 00:12:26,000 worshipping him as God, he went ballistic with rage. 166 00:12:26,800 --> 00:12:32,640 He sent an army to Jerusalem and there he sorted over 100,000 167 00:12:32,680 --> 00:12:38,240 Jews. His army stormed Jerusalem, and 168 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:43,720 as Daniel prophesied in the verses we've just read, he 169 00:12:43,720 --> 00:12:47,240 ceased all morning and evening sacrifices. 170 00:12:47,440 --> 00:12:50,600 He stopped all Jewish worship in the Temple. 171 00:12:50,840 --> 00:12:56,120 He shut it all down. He forbid them having a Sabbath 172 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:00,600 or any feast. Instead, he built idols and 173 00:13:00,600 --> 00:13:02,760 shrines throughout the holy City. 174 00:13:03,560 --> 00:13:11,360 But worse was to come, for in 167 BC he had a sow that is a 175 00:13:11,560 --> 00:13:17,840 pig sacrificed in the holy of Holies and then spread its blood 176 00:13:17,840 --> 00:13:23,480 throughout the whole temple. He banned circumcision, outlawed 177 00:13:23,480 --> 00:13:27,120 it. Finally, anyone who didn't bow 178 00:13:27,120 --> 00:13:32,040 down to him and worship him as God was killed, executed. 179 00:13:32,680 --> 00:13:37,000 That's back. This is a type and a shadow of 180 00:13:37,000 --> 00:13:39,360 what's to come. You'll see this verse 13. 181 00:13:40,200 --> 00:13:44,360 Then I heard this is Daniel, a holy one speaking, and another 182 00:13:44,360 --> 00:13:49,280 holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, how long 183 00:13:49,320 --> 00:13:51,720 is this going to occur? How long will the vision be 184 00:13:51,960 --> 00:13:55,440 concerning the whole thing of the daily sacrifices and the 185 00:13:55,440 --> 00:13:59,760 transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and 186 00:13:59,760 --> 00:14:01,480 the host to be trampled under foot? 187 00:14:02,440 --> 00:14:08,400 And he said to me, 2300 days and then the sanctuary shall be 188 00:14:08,400 --> 00:14:11,760 cleansed. Daniel heard the holy ones, 189 00:14:11,760 --> 00:14:15,480 angels we believe talking together. 190 00:14:15,640 --> 00:14:19,360 And he said he wondered, how long is this Antiochus going to 191 00:14:19,360 --> 00:14:26,080 do this blasphemous thing in the temple when all sacrifices, all 192 00:14:26,080 --> 00:14:29,360 worship is suspended and the sanctuary desecrated? 193 00:14:30,640 --> 00:14:37,400 This prophecy was written in 350 years before the time of 194 00:14:37,400 --> 00:14:45,400 Antiochus Epiphanes, amazing for 2300 days, as the Bible said in 195 00:14:45,400 --> 00:14:54,120 this prophecy, from 171 BC to 165 BC, Antiochus, this evil 196 00:14:54,120 --> 00:14:58,720 rule committed great abomination against God and against the 197 00:14:58,720 --> 00:15:04,400 people of Israel. But then in December, 165 BC, 198 00:15:05,600 --> 00:15:09,800 culminating in that date, there arose of priests by the name of 199 00:15:09,800 --> 00:15:15,120 Judas Maccabees, and he drove out, raised up an army, drove 200 00:15:15,120 --> 00:15:18,960 out the Syrian Army. He cleansed the temple, 201 00:15:20,040 --> 00:15:23,880 rededicated it, got the priest to rededicate it after its 202 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:32,720 pollution, and this cleansing was thereafter celebrated and 203 00:15:32,720 --> 00:15:37,320 called the Feast of Lights. It's also known as Hanukkah. 204 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:43,320 There was just enough oil, because to light the menorah in 205 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:46,360 the temple, you had to have a special oil. 206 00:15:46,360 --> 00:15:49,880 The Vegas tells us they had to grind up a special oil ground 207 00:15:49,880 --> 00:15:52,000 out and made with this, and only the priest could do that. 208 00:15:52,240 --> 00:15:59,120 There was enough oil to put in the menorah for one day and they 209 00:15:59,120 --> 00:16:03,360 put it in, lit the menorah, but it went for eight days. 210 00:16:03,720 --> 00:16:07,560 It was a miracle. And so the festival is 211 00:16:07,560 --> 00:16:11,680 celebrated today. The cleansing of the temple, the 212 00:16:11,680 --> 00:16:14,840 lighting of the menorah. It's often, it's also called the 213 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:16,920 menorah. It's also called Hanukkah. 214 00:16:17,440 --> 00:16:23,240 It was a nine branched lamp and it's celebrated December 2025 215 00:16:23,240 --> 00:16:27,440 each year. Now this prophecy, however you 216 00:16:27,440 --> 00:16:28,880 go, So what? What's that? 217 00:16:29,000 --> 00:16:31,200 What's all that stuff in the past got to do with me today, 218 00:16:31,200 --> 00:16:37,720 2025, stay with me. This prophecy that Daniel gave 219 00:16:38,200 --> 00:16:43,840 had a dual prophecy. Yes, Antiochus Epiphanes, but in 220 00:16:43,840 --> 00:16:49,760 the days yet ahead for you and I in Matthew chapter 24 verse 15, 221 00:16:50,200 --> 00:16:54,040 Jesus is on the Mount of Olives and he gives what's called the 222 00:16:54,040 --> 00:16:57,880 Olivet discourse when they said Jesus tell us, tell us what's 223 00:16:57,880 --> 00:17:01,440 going to be the end of the age. And then you go through Matthew 224 00:17:01,440 --> 00:17:04,280 24. He deals with the tribulation 225 00:17:04,280 --> 00:17:06,920 and all the events that are going to occur with Israel. 226 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,839 Hear Jesus words. Matthew 24 verse 15. 227 00:17:10,280 --> 00:17:15,960 Therefore Jesus said when you see the abomination of 228 00:17:15,960 --> 00:17:19,720 desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet. 229 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:23,280 So who refers back to Daniel's words standing in the holy 230 00:17:23,280 --> 00:17:26,560 place? It happened in Antiochus before 231 00:17:26,560 --> 00:17:30,280 Jesus. Now Jesus says this is going to 232 00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,480 happen in the future. Whoever reads, let him 233 00:17:33,480 --> 00:17:37,320 understand. Then let those who are in Judea, 234 00:17:37,320 --> 00:17:40,200 it's Jewish, flee to the mountains. 235 00:17:40,600 --> 00:17:43,840 Let him who was on the housetop not go down to take anything out 236 00:17:43,840 --> 00:17:47,160 of his house. Let him who was in the field not 237 00:17:47,160 --> 00:17:51,040 go back to get his clothes. Run for your life, but woe to 238 00:17:51,040 --> 00:17:54,320 those who are pregnant, to those who are nursing babies in those 239 00:17:54,320 --> 00:17:57,240 days. Pray that your flight may not be 240 00:17:57,240 --> 00:18:02,360 in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be great 241 00:18:02,720 --> 00:18:07,600 tribulation, such as not been since the beginning of the world 242 00:18:07,800 --> 00:18:10,600 until this time, nor ever shall be. 243 00:18:10,920 --> 00:18:15,680 So Jesus takes us into the seven year tribulation period in this 244 00:18:15,680 --> 00:18:18,360 passage. And unless those days were 245 00:18:18,360 --> 00:18:21,560 shortened, no flesh, no one would be saved. 246 00:18:22,120 --> 00:18:25,840 But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened. 247 00:18:26,680 --> 00:18:30,760 And so for you and I, what happened with Antiochus and the 248 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:35,680 temple back at the time in Daniel's vision, it happened 249 00:18:35,680 --> 00:18:39,640 with Antiochus. But now we look forward to 250 00:18:39,640 --> 00:18:43,280 events that have not yet happened because there's a 251 00:18:43,280 --> 00:18:46,680 coming world leader, the Antichrist. 252 00:18:46,680 --> 00:18:52,960 The Bible calls him the Lawless 1, and he's soon to appear on 253 00:18:53,000 --> 00:18:56,280 our political ward. It's very interesting that many, 254 00:18:56,280 --> 00:19:01,680 many people now, many people who aren't Bible scholars, aren't 255 00:19:01,680 --> 00:19:07,520 believers, are saying certain people have this, this, this 256 00:19:07,520 --> 00:19:11,520 thing, this, you know, they call him the Antichrist because many 257 00:19:11,520 --> 00:19:15,760 people are going, well, you know, is Trump, is it him? 258 00:19:16,240 --> 00:19:20,000 Is it, Is it Putin? Is it GG Ping? 259 00:19:20,760 --> 00:19:25,360 Just who is this This powers? We see the powers in our world 260 00:19:25,760 --> 00:19:29,360 just seemingly going about their everyday affairs now, aren't 261 00:19:29,360 --> 00:19:31,360 they? We've got the pressure now on 262 00:19:31,360 --> 00:19:36,080 Ukraine. Give up the land, reduce your 263 00:19:36,080 --> 00:19:38,400 army. That's a pretty good deal, isn't 264 00:19:38,400 --> 00:19:42,520 it, Putin? Remember, he invaded. 265 00:19:48,040 --> 00:19:55,960 Who is the Antichrist? Well, becoming Antichrist, what 266 00:19:55,960 --> 00:20:01,480 he will do is he too, Jesus says, will cease all temple 267 00:20:01,480 --> 00:20:04,520 worship. You go, well, that doesn't make 268 00:20:04,520 --> 00:20:06,960 sense. Why doesn't that make sense? 269 00:20:07,440 --> 00:20:10,600 Because you and I, when we go to Israel, we have to get 270 00:20:10,600 --> 00:20:12,440 permission to go up on the Temple Mount. 271 00:20:14,160 --> 00:20:16,760 And ladies, you remember, you went up. 272 00:20:17,520 --> 00:20:21,320 You had to put on dresses over the clothing that you're wearing 273 00:20:21,320 --> 00:20:23,560 to cover up. You weren't allowed. 274 00:20:23,560 --> 00:20:26,040 Hal and I were holding hands, which we walked past. 275 00:20:26,200 --> 00:20:30,120 No, no, I'm not allowed to hold hands on the Temple Mount by the 276 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,200 Muslims who are in charge of the Temple Mount at the moment. 277 00:20:36,360 --> 00:20:41,960 So for temple worship to be started, you need something, a 278 00:20:41,960 --> 00:20:48,760 temple, for it to be halted, it needs means, it needs to be 279 00:20:48,880 --> 00:20:52,320 underway. It has to be instituted in the 280 00:20:52,320 --> 00:20:56,600 1st place. And so it requires in Israel. 281 00:20:56,800 --> 00:21:00,880 And as you and I look at Israel now with the war in Gaza, a new 282 00:21:00,880 --> 00:21:04,080 template to be built in Israel. And there's only one place you 283 00:21:04,080 --> 00:21:06,640 can build the temple. You can't build it down just 284 00:21:06,640 --> 00:21:08,360 over here or over here or over here. 285 00:21:08,920 --> 00:21:12,240 There's only one place. The place where Abraham offered 286 00:21:12,240 --> 00:21:17,160 up Isaac. There's only one place with the 287 00:21:17,160 --> 00:21:20,600 Temple of God can be built. That's on the Temple Mount. 288 00:21:21,480 --> 00:21:26,360 The question is you and I ask, with the current world, rising 289 00:21:26,360 --> 00:21:31,200 anti Semitism, hatred against Israel, the conflict in Gaza, 290 00:21:31,200 --> 00:21:35,360 they're still fighting, how on earth is this going to be 291 00:21:35,360 --> 00:21:39,200 possible? How will the Muslims allow the 292 00:21:39,200 --> 00:21:41,560 Jews to rebuild a temple when they've been? 293 00:21:41,760 --> 00:21:43,080 The Muslims have been saved for years. 294 00:21:43,240 --> 00:21:46,080 There's never been a temple there in any place any time, 295 00:21:48,000 --> 00:21:49,920 even though it's built on the foundations of the temple. 296 00:21:52,720 --> 00:21:58,680 Well, the New World leader will bring all this to pass. 297 00:22:00,360 --> 00:22:07,640 And the Mount Lawley synagogue we visited, David Solomon was 298 00:22:07,640 --> 00:22:15,840 the rabbi. And I said to him, David, how 299 00:22:17,440 --> 00:22:20,440 the Messiah hasn't come. He says, no, he isn't. 300 00:22:21,840 --> 00:22:23,520 How will you recognise the Messiah? 301 00:22:24,160 --> 00:22:30,640 Oh, it's easy. The Messiah will be the man who 302 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:38,080 will allow us to rebuild the temple, be the man who will 303 00:22:38,080 --> 00:22:44,440 enable us to rebuild the temple. Verse 15 We'll come back. 304 00:22:45,360 --> 00:22:48,680 Then it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was 305 00:22:48,680 --> 00:22:51,680 seeking the meaning, that suddenly they stood before me, 306 00:22:51,680 --> 00:22:55,880 one having the appearance of a man, and I heard a man's voice 307 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:59,400 between the banks of the EULA, which call who called and said, 308 00:22:59,400 --> 00:23:03,480 Gabriel, make this man, that's Daniel understand the vision. 309 00:23:03,640 --> 00:23:08,000 So Gabriel the Angel. So he came near where I stood. 310 00:23:08,320 --> 00:23:11,800 Daniel said, When he came I was afraid, and I fell on my face. 311 00:23:12,440 --> 00:23:16,160 But Gabriel said to me, Understand, Son of Man, that the 312 00:23:16,160 --> 00:23:19,800 vision refers to the time of the end. 313 00:23:21,640 --> 00:23:25,120 Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my 314 00:23:25,120 --> 00:23:28,480 face to the ground, but he touched me and stood me upright. 315 00:23:28,520 --> 00:23:32,880 And he said, Look, I'm making known to you what shall happen. 316 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:40,160 Notice in the latter time of the indignation, for at the 317 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:46,120 appointed time the end shall be the ram which you saw. 318 00:23:46,120 --> 00:23:50,240 He goes back dual purpose to the prophecy, having two horns. 319 00:23:50,600 --> 00:23:52,320 They're the kings of Media and Persia. 320 00:23:52,920 --> 00:23:55,160 The male goat is the Kingdom of Greece. 321 00:23:55,720 --> 00:23:59,720 The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king and 322 00:23:59,720 --> 00:24:03,720 the broken horn, and the four that stood up in its place. 4 323 00:24:03,720 --> 00:24:05,840 kingdoms. The four generals shall arise 324 00:24:05,840 --> 00:24:08,360 out of that nation, but not with its power. 325 00:24:08,920 --> 00:24:12,560 Verse 23. And in the latter times notice 326 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:16,280 of the Kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their 327 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:22,120 fullness, a king shall rise. This is Antiochus, initially 328 00:24:22,640 --> 00:24:28,320 having fierce features, who understands sinister schemes. 329 00:24:28,840 --> 00:24:34,920 His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power. 330 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:39,520 Antiochus, but also Jewel. Speaking of the Antichrist, 331 00:24:39,520 --> 00:24:44,400 notice that his power shall be mighty, but not by his own 332 00:24:44,400 --> 00:24:47,720 power. Antiochus was a type of the 333 00:24:47,720 --> 00:24:52,600 Antichrist, absolutely the coming world leader. 334 00:24:53,800 --> 00:25:00,320 The coming Antichrist will be superhuman in intelligence and 335 00:25:00,320 --> 00:25:04,760 cunning. How in Revelation chapter 13 336 00:25:08,880 --> 00:25:13,880 John writes this one. Then I saw a beast rising out of 337 00:25:13,880 --> 00:25:17,040 the sea. It had 7 heads and 10 horns with 338 00:25:17,040 --> 00:25:21,480 10 crowns on its horn and written on each head were names 339 00:25:21,480 --> 00:25:24,960 that blasphemed God. This beast looked like a 340 00:25:24,960 --> 00:25:27,240 leopard. It had the feet of a bear and 341 00:25:27,240 --> 00:25:31,240 the mouth of a lion. And the dragon, that's the 342 00:25:31,240 --> 00:25:38,840 dragon is Satan gave the beast his own power and throne and 343 00:25:38,840 --> 00:25:42,120 great authority. You remember what Satan promised 344 00:25:42,160 --> 00:25:46,000 to Jesus on the 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness if he 345 00:25:46,000 --> 00:25:49,000 would just bow down to him. I'll give you the world. 346 00:25:50,360 --> 00:25:54,600 Well, Satan is going to take over the world and he's going to 347 00:25:54,600 --> 00:25:58,400 do it through the embodiment of the coming world leader. 348 00:25:58,920 --> 00:26:04,080 He will personally possess the Antichrist. 349 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:09,560 Is that was that going to happen really Well back in John chapter 350 00:26:09,560 --> 00:26:16,040 13 verse 27, you remember a fellow called Judas when Jesus 351 00:26:16,040 --> 00:26:21,240 said Judas, I know it's you go and do what you got to do and 352 00:26:21,240 --> 00:26:25,560 says in John, John Judas went out into the night and it said 353 00:26:26,360 --> 00:26:34,280 verse 21 Satan entered him. So the Antichrist will be 354 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:48,320 empowered by Satan himself and he shall prosper and thrive. 355 00:26:48,320 --> 00:26:51,240 He shall destroy the mighty and also the holy people. 356 00:26:51,480 --> 00:26:57,560 He was 25 of Daniel. Through his cunning, he shall 357 00:26:57,560 --> 00:27:01,360 cause deceit to prosper under his rule. 358 00:27:01,360 --> 00:27:05,320 That's a good politician, isn't it? 359 00:27:05,320 --> 00:27:08,920 And he shall exalt himself in his heart. 360 00:27:09,240 --> 00:27:12,720 What did Satan do? What did Lucifer do? 361 00:27:12,960 --> 00:27:16,840 I will exalt myself. I will be like the Most High 362 00:27:16,840 --> 00:27:20,280 God. He will exalt himself in his 363 00:27:20,280 --> 00:27:23,800 heart. He shall destroy many in their 364 00:27:23,800 --> 00:27:27,200 prosperity. He shall even rise against the 365 00:27:27,200 --> 00:27:29,880 Prince of Princess. He'll come against Jesus Christ 366 00:27:29,880 --> 00:27:33,000 himself. But there's a semi colon there. 367 00:27:33,400 --> 00:27:36,600 Notice what happens. But he shall be broken. 368 00:27:36,880 --> 00:27:39,640 That is the Antichrist. How? 369 00:27:40,440 --> 00:27:43,280 Without human means. In other words, no army's going 370 00:27:43,280 --> 00:27:45,040 to defeat him. No man's going to defeat him. 371 00:27:46,080 --> 00:27:51,160 God's going to take him out. This coming New World leader 372 00:27:51,880 --> 00:27:56,680 called the Antichrist, the Lawless 1, the Bible tells us, 373 00:27:56,680 --> 00:27:59,240 will rise in the power of Satan himself. 374 00:28:00,360 --> 00:28:03,600 He will promise false security. This is where he'll dupe the 375 00:28:03,600 --> 00:28:05,440 world. Because you and I, aren't you 376 00:28:05,440 --> 00:28:08,200 tired of the way the world is? Can't someone just settle 377 00:28:08,200 --> 00:28:11,480 things, bring things to ease? I mean, everyone's getting 378 00:28:11,480 --> 00:28:13,040 robbed. I'm in Melbourne now. 379 00:28:14,120 --> 00:28:16,680 People are just leaving Melbourne in droves because 380 00:28:16,680 --> 00:28:19,640 they're sick and tired of being burgled over and over and over. 381 00:28:19,840 --> 00:28:22,000 People are scared to go out into the streets. 382 00:28:22,160 --> 00:28:27,720 This is in our cities. But the Antichrist, he will 383 00:28:27,720 --> 00:28:32,680 bring false security because the first horseman of the 384 00:28:32,680 --> 00:28:35,040 apocalypse, What horse does he come riding in on? 385 00:28:35,480 --> 00:28:40,280 White one. Here comes the good guy, and 386 00:28:40,280 --> 00:28:46,240 he'll bring a seeming peace to our land, but in particular to 387 00:28:46,240 --> 00:28:53,200 the Middle East. He will be intelligent and 388 00:28:53,200 --> 00:28:57,840 persuasive, so persuasive that three nations, Daniel tells us, 389 00:28:58,080 --> 00:29:01,600 will actually give over their sovereignty to this man. 390 00:29:02,360 --> 00:29:06,560 We want to have a parliament. You rule us, and the other 10 391 00:29:06,560 --> 00:29:10,680 will follow. He will gain, and here's the 392 00:29:10,840 --> 00:29:14,880 here's the here's the the key. But he will gain the trust of 393 00:29:15,040 --> 00:29:18,360 Israel, who will accept him as Messiah. 394 00:29:18,360 --> 00:29:20,360 Now, right at this moment, Israel trusts nobody. 395 00:29:20,760 --> 00:29:26,400 Can you blame him? They like Trump, but somehow 396 00:29:26,400 --> 00:29:31,680 rather this man will rise up and he will do a deal that Israel 397 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:32,840 will go. You know what? 398 00:29:35,400 --> 00:29:43,440 Yes, because he will say, I'll arrange for peace to come and 399 00:29:43,440 --> 00:29:47,360 you can rebuild the temple and you can begin what you haven't 400 00:29:47,360 --> 00:29:52,560 been able to do since AD 7. And the nation of Israel will 401 00:29:52,560 --> 00:30:00,160 accept him as Messiah, and they will sign an agreement of a 402 00:30:00,160 --> 00:30:08,320 seven year period covenant. But this man will be controlled 403 00:30:08,320 --> 00:30:13,360 by Satan. He will be, in the end, Israel's 404 00:30:13,360 --> 00:30:17,280 greatest adversary, because halfway through that agreement, 405 00:30:17,320 --> 00:30:22,040 as Jesus said in Matthew 24, he will March into the Holy of 406 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,640 Holies. He will set up an image of 407 00:30:24,640 --> 00:30:27,880 himself in there, and he will say, I am God. 408 00:30:29,400 --> 00:30:32,280 Stop everything else, and you will now worship me. 409 00:30:32,760 --> 00:30:37,320 You'll receive my mark, and if you don't, you'll die. 410 00:30:39,280 --> 00:30:45,320 Flee, literally, Jesus says. Run for your lives. 411 00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:52,880 He will raise himself up in opposition to Jesus Christ 412 00:30:53,360 --> 00:30:58,920 Himself, the Prince of Princess, but his rule will be terminated 413 00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:03,600 by divine judgement. But he will rule after breaking 414 00:31:03,600 --> 00:31:08,040 that agreement, after going into the Holy Hole of Holies for 3 415 00:31:08,040 --> 00:31:12,800 1/2 more years, he will rule the world and great tribulation will 416 00:31:12,800 --> 00:31:18,000 be upon this planet and anyone who becomes a Christian during 417 00:31:18,000 --> 00:31:21,360 that time and many millions of people will come to Christ. 418 00:31:21,920 --> 00:31:24,760 But each one will die for their faith. 419 00:31:25,920 --> 00:31:29,400 You will die. You'll become a Christian. 420 00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:32,720 Yes you can, but you will die for your faith. 421 00:31:34,720 --> 00:31:37,280 Are you troubled when you read this for your future? 422 00:31:37,280 --> 00:31:39,440 Well, man, that's a great I'm going to read that to the kids 423 00:31:39,440 --> 00:31:46,280 tonight as they go to bed. Are you concerned for the future 424 00:31:46,280 --> 00:31:50,920 of your children? Daniel was was 26. 425 00:31:51,800 --> 00:31:54,640 The vision of the evenings and the mornings which was told is 426 00:31:54,640 --> 00:31:57,120 true. Therefore seal up the vision for 427 00:31:57,120 --> 00:31:59,760 refers to many days in the future. 428 00:31:59,760 --> 00:32:04,800 And I Daniel fainted is all sick for days sick. 429 00:32:04,800 --> 00:32:08,560 When I heard about this, understood it, after what I rose 430 00:32:08,560 --> 00:32:11,800 and went about the King's business, I was astonished by 431 00:32:11,800 --> 00:32:14,560 the vision, but no one understood it. 432 00:32:15,920 --> 00:32:17,400 Or maybe this morning you're wondering. 433 00:32:17,560 --> 00:32:19,280 Hang on a minute. Stop, stop, Keith. 434 00:32:20,320 --> 00:32:23,280 Why did and why does Israel have to? 435 00:32:23,360 --> 00:32:25,280 Why did they have to go through all this? 436 00:32:26,640 --> 00:32:30,000 Why are they yet still to go through so much more? 437 00:32:30,920 --> 00:32:32,560 There's more for them in the future. 438 00:32:32,920 --> 00:32:35,960 They're going to be duped. Remember, Jesus said this would 439 00:32:35,960 --> 00:32:38,640 happen. He says, oh, you net you, you 440 00:32:38,640 --> 00:32:43,040 rejected me, but there will come another and him you'll accept. 441 00:32:46,400 --> 00:32:48,280 Why does this role go through all this? 442 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:53,640 You've got to ask that question. Well, the Bible tells us book of 443 00:32:53,640 --> 00:32:57,720 Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a young kid between 444 00:32:57,720 --> 00:32:59,760 the age of 14 to 17. God calls him. 445 00:32:59,760 --> 00:33:01,800 He says, I knew you before you were born. 446 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:03,800 I've got a mission for you. He says I'm just a kid. 447 00:33:03,960 --> 00:33:06,160 I kill you. No, you're not a kid. 448 00:33:06,320 --> 00:33:08,160 I'll tell you what to say. See, you can't go. 449 00:33:08,320 --> 00:33:10,040 It's my age and I'm like, no, no, no. 450 00:33:10,040 --> 00:33:11,480 God says, I'll tell you what to do. 451 00:33:11,480 --> 00:33:15,520 I'll enable you. So God told Jeremiah, the 452 00:33:15,520 --> 00:33:19,800 prophet in Chapter 7 to tell the people of Israel the exact 453 00:33:19,800 --> 00:33:24,520 things they needed to do to repent of this is prior to their 454 00:33:24,680 --> 00:33:32,240 the Babylonians invading Israel. In Chapter 7, verse 3, God says 455 00:33:32,400 --> 00:33:34,880 he told Jeremiah, I want you to go to the temple. 456 00:33:34,880 --> 00:33:36,520 Can you imagine? You're standing out in front of 457 00:33:36,520 --> 00:33:37,960 the church. You go to the temple. 458 00:33:37,960 --> 00:33:40,480 I want you to stand there. He's just a teenager, but we 459 00:33:40,480 --> 00:33:41,880 still got pimples and everything else. 460 00:33:42,120 --> 00:33:44,480 Stand there. Then I want you to say these 461 00:33:44,480 --> 00:33:48,560 words to everyone, every Jew that's coming to worship me. 462 00:33:49,240 --> 00:33:55,160 Wow, what a task. Amen your ways. 463 00:33:55,240 --> 00:33:58,240 You Amen your ways. Amen. 464 00:33:58,240 --> 00:34:05,400 Your ways, in other words, repent of your sins, turn your 465 00:34:05,400 --> 00:34:08,000 lies back to me, turn your lies back to God. 466 00:34:08,120 --> 00:34:10,000 Can you imagine saying that in front of a church? 467 00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:15,320 People are coming. In verse 4 of Chapter 7 and 468 00:34:15,320 --> 00:34:22,320 verse 8, Jeremiah was told to say stop trusting in lying words 469 00:34:22,320 --> 00:34:27,199 that cannot profit because the false prophets of those days 470 00:34:27,199 --> 00:34:30,000 were saying, hey, everything's going to be good, everything's 471 00:34:30,000 --> 00:34:31,480 going to be good. Everything comes between our 472 00:34:31,480 --> 00:34:34,840 right. Jeremiah 7, verse 4, do not 473 00:34:34,840 --> 00:34:38,239 trust in these lying words saying the temple of the Lord. 474 00:34:38,239 --> 00:34:40,480 Well, we got the temple and nothing's going to happen to us. 475 00:34:40,600 --> 00:34:43,920 The temple of God is here, the temple of the Lord, the temple 476 00:34:43,920 --> 00:34:46,560 of the Lord. Oh well, I go to church, I've 477 00:34:46,560 --> 00:34:48,520 been going to church, I go to church. 478 00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,560 Nothing will happen to Australia. 479 00:34:51,679 --> 00:34:53,960 We think of our nation, we're a Christian nation. 480 00:34:54,040 --> 00:34:58,320 We're far from it, aren't we? Oh, we're a Christian nation. 481 00:34:58,480 --> 00:35:01,600 Nothing terrible could happen to us as a as a people, as a 482 00:35:01,600 --> 00:35:07,680 nation. In verse 9, Jeremiah said to 483 00:35:07,680 --> 00:35:10,720 those coming in, stop worshipping other gods. 484 00:35:12,920 --> 00:35:16,120 He says, will you steal, murder, commit adultery? 485 00:35:16,320 --> 00:35:19,160 Now we think of this and we go, wow, remember Jesus on the 486 00:35:19,160 --> 00:35:22,760 Sermon on the Mount said we can do all these things in here. 487 00:35:23,880 --> 00:35:28,640 In here people don't steal, people don't murder, people 488 00:35:28,920 --> 00:35:31,000 don't do other thing because they don't want to get caught 489 00:35:31,000 --> 00:35:33,040 and they don't want to go to gaol, but they wish they could 490 00:35:35,440 --> 00:35:39,080 stop swearing falsely. You burn incense the ball, walk 491 00:35:39,080 --> 00:35:42,000 after other gods whom you do not know. 492 00:35:42,160 --> 00:35:45,400 It's funny how people will worship every other God but 493 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:48,520 Jesus Christ. They don't know anything about 494 00:35:48,840 --> 00:35:50,560 the Mormons, the Jehovah Witnesses. 495 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:53,280 If you read any of their histories, you read their 496 00:35:53,280 --> 00:35:55,160 background. I mean, you got to be kidding. 497 00:35:55,680 --> 00:35:59,600 Mormons believe someone's on the moon, that every man and woman 498 00:35:59,600 --> 00:36:01,640 eventually have their own planet, start their own. 499 00:36:01,720 --> 00:36:04,640 They'll be the new Adam and Eve. That's what Mormon doctrine 500 00:36:04,640 --> 00:36:06,880 says. You know, that black people 501 00:36:06,880 --> 00:36:08,920 couldn't be in a Mormon church had to change that. 502 00:36:09,400 --> 00:36:11,480 Now they allow black people in because they first of all 503 00:36:11,560 --> 00:36:13,240 initially killed anyone that had colour. 504 00:36:18,890 --> 00:36:23,890 Verse 10, Jeremiah 7. But we're still he says, you, 505 00:36:23,970 --> 00:36:29,360 you come to, you come to temple, you come to my house and you say 506 00:36:29,360 --> 00:36:33,440 you will be delivered by me from all your abominations. 507 00:36:33,680 --> 00:36:37,760 But you keep serving them. You come and you keep living 508 00:36:37,760 --> 00:36:41,440 exactly the same way. You don't change. 509 00:36:41,680 --> 00:36:45,440 And then you come here and stand before me in my temple and 510 00:36:45,440 --> 00:36:48,440 chant, we're safe. Oh, I believe in God. 511 00:36:49,520 --> 00:36:53,320 I need to go right back. You walk out Sunday, place the 512 00:36:53,320 --> 00:36:57,320 Bible down and you go back and you live exactly like every 513 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:02,400 other Tom, Dick and Harry. These words are for us. 514 00:37:04,200 --> 00:37:09,120 And God says through Jeremiah, but God says, hey, hey, finally 515 00:37:09,920 --> 00:37:11,640 verse 19. He doesn't leave it there. 516 00:37:13,240 --> 00:37:14,840 He said don't provoke me to anger. 517 00:37:15,400 --> 00:37:21,440 God says I don't want to do this by continuing to ignore all that 518 00:37:21,440 --> 00:37:24,880 I said don't just keep coming to temple, coming to church and 519 00:37:24,880 --> 00:37:30,280 just ignoring what what I'm I'm telling you Jeremiah 719. 520 00:37:30,520 --> 00:37:32,360 Do they provoke me to Angus says the Lord. 521 00:37:32,360 --> 00:37:35,840 Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces? 522 00:37:36,840 --> 00:37:43,320 In verse 23, God says obey my voice and I will be your God. 523 00:37:45,040 --> 00:37:47,240 We heard Nat, Pastor Nat talking about grace. 524 00:37:47,680 --> 00:37:51,680 Do you know about grace? Obey my voice and I will be your 525 00:37:51,680 --> 00:37:59,040 God and you shall be my people. Walk in my ways and it may be 526 00:37:59,040 --> 00:38:01,040 well with you. You know what? 527 00:38:01,520 --> 00:38:06,600 That's for you and I today. I fear for so many people today 528 00:38:07,160 --> 00:38:13,520 who treat God as a casual, part time religious thing that they 529 00:38:13,520 --> 00:38:17,440 fit in when they can. I can't. 530 00:38:18,280 --> 00:38:22,000 Can you imagine a marriage where the husband and the wife is 531 00:38:22,000 --> 00:38:26,480 treated casually and just? It's fitted in when you you 532 00:38:26,480 --> 00:38:28,240 might, when you have a little bit of time. 533 00:38:28,560 --> 00:38:32,000 Instead of giving him the best, you give him the the leftovers. 534 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:38,120 The coming new world leader, the Antichrist, will be a ruler of 535 00:38:38,120 --> 00:38:43,760 fierce countenance, understanding dark sentences. 536 00:38:45,160 --> 00:38:48,280 And to the future political world, it will seem as if the 537 00:38:48,280 --> 00:38:53,000 Antichrist with his relentless power and ungodliness, it will 538 00:38:53,000 --> 00:38:58,520 seem to the world that he's defeated God, that he's crushed 539 00:38:58,520 --> 00:39:07,000 Israel. In today's world, as Jeremiah 540 00:39:07,000 --> 00:39:12,320 said to the children of Judah coming to temple, if you live 541 00:39:12,320 --> 00:39:20,720 arrogantly against God, if you live indifferently to him, if 542 00:39:20,720 --> 00:39:24,440 you are too walking the path like those that Jeremiah was 543 00:39:24,440 --> 00:39:28,920 warning, if any of those words bring the conviction of the Holy 544 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:36,080 Spirit into your life, don't this morning turn your back on 545 00:39:36,080 --> 00:39:38,840 God. I feel like a watchman today 546 00:39:40,040 --> 00:39:42,600 because I'm desperate for our nation. 547 00:39:44,440 --> 00:39:48,200 We had a gay parade in Perth last night. 548 00:39:49,240 --> 00:39:56,360 People are lost. As people are lost, they need 549 00:39:56,840 --> 00:40:01,000 Christ. You know you can be living in 550 00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:03,160 that lifestyle and you can come out of it. 551 00:40:03,160 --> 00:40:07,240 Christ can save you. The blood of Jesus Christ washes 552 00:40:07,240 --> 00:40:10,360 away every sin. Everything. 553 00:40:11,280 --> 00:40:14,160 You can be living in an adulterous situation this 554 00:40:14,160 --> 00:40:15,760 morning. Maybe you're here and you're 555 00:40:15,760 --> 00:40:19,400 sleeping with someone and you're not married today, right? 556 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:25,080 Today, without Christ, you stand condemned before God and you 557 00:40:25,080 --> 00:40:28,800 will not go to heaven. Should you die, you will go to 558 00:40:28,800 --> 00:40:31,560 hell. But God gives you the 559 00:40:31,560 --> 00:40:37,200 opportunity to repent and you can receive forgiveness right 560 00:40:37,200 --> 00:40:41,680 now and the blood of Jesus Christ will wash away all of 561 00:40:41,680 --> 00:40:44,880 your sins. But you see, today we kind of 562 00:40:44,880 --> 00:40:46,520 treated indifferent. Well, are we getting away? 563 00:40:46,520 --> 00:40:49,200 It's not real. I'll just wait and I'll, I'll be 564 00:40:49,200 --> 00:40:51,280 on my deathbed and I'll just say, God forgive me. 565 00:40:54,160 --> 00:40:57,440 You don't know when your deathbed is going to be. 566 00:40:57,440 --> 00:40:59,320 You don't know if you're going to be alert. 567 00:40:59,840 --> 00:41:01,280 You don't know what's going to happen to you. 568 00:41:01,280 --> 00:41:09,280 And I want to warn you today, today we're living in the last 569 00:41:09,280 --> 00:41:17,560 days. God is giving you time now to 570 00:41:17,560 --> 00:41:20,680 repent. If you think you can get away 571 00:41:20,680 --> 00:41:25,600 with things and that God is not noticing, that he's not stopping 572 00:41:25,600 --> 00:41:30,400 you, that he's turning a blind eye to you, and that as you look 573 00:41:30,400 --> 00:41:31,840 at the world, you say, well, Satan's winning. 574 00:41:31,840 --> 00:41:36,360 You know, evil is just going on. You're very, very wrong and 575 00:41:36,360 --> 00:41:38,160 you're living in great spiritual danger. 576 00:41:39,800 --> 00:41:43,400 The people and nation of Israel, you know what, sadly, they did. 577 00:41:45,280 --> 00:41:49,720 They didn't listen to Jeremiah, they didn't listen to God's 578 00:41:49,720 --> 00:41:53,400 word. They continued living foolishly. 579 00:41:53,600 --> 00:41:56,240 And I see Australians, we're living foolishly. 580 00:41:56,480 --> 00:41:58,120 We're the richest nation in the world. 581 00:41:58,360 --> 00:42:01,400 We have everything before us. We have the greatest beaches, 582 00:42:01,400 --> 00:42:06,440 the greatest lifestyle, whether and we have turned our back upon 583 00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:11,240 God. And I tell you, I fear for our 584 00:42:11,240 --> 00:42:14,040 nation. We go to Daniel Chapter 9 next 585 00:42:14,040 --> 00:42:16,440 week and you know what that that Chapter 9 is? 586 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:20,680 It's Daniel's prayer for his people, which you and I as a 587 00:42:20,680 --> 00:42:23,960 church, we're going to be called into that because I think the 588 00:42:23,960 --> 00:42:27,600 hand of God is about to fall upon the nation of Israel, of 589 00:42:27,600 --> 00:42:28,520 Australia. Sorry. 590 00:42:30,320 --> 00:42:35,400 You see, the people of Judah did not heed Jeremiah's words, and 591 00:42:35,400 --> 00:42:38,040 they continued living foolishly. You know what happened. 592 00:42:38,280 --> 00:42:42,760 God opened the door and the Babylonians came and judgement 593 00:42:42,760 --> 00:42:46,000 fell. The temple was destroyed. 594 00:42:46,600 --> 00:42:51,440 Millions of lives were lost. Those remaining like Daniel, 595 00:42:51,760 --> 00:42:55,240 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were taken captive. 596 00:42:55,520 --> 00:43:01,040 They were made to March for four to five months, all the way to 597 00:43:01,040 --> 00:43:05,440 be slaves in Babylon. There thou were emasculated and 598 00:43:05,440 --> 00:43:11,080 became servants of King Nebuchadnezzar, simply because 599 00:43:11,080 --> 00:43:18,280 they refuse to heed God's Word. The Bible tells us in Galatians 600 00:43:18,280 --> 00:43:21,920 chapter 6, verse 7, Do not be deceived. 601 00:43:23,760 --> 00:43:29,600 God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that he 602 00:43:29,600 --> 00:43:33,640 will also reap. What you're sowing in your life 603 00:43:33,640 --> 00:43:39,480 today, you'll reap. He goes on to say, he who sows 604 00:43:39,480 --> 00:43:43,320 to his flesh you mean that means you live without God. 605 00:43:44,640 --> 00:43:48,720 You'll reap corruption. He who sows to the Spirit, that 606 00:43:48,720 --> 00:43:52,400 means you live for God. Will of the Spirit reap. 607 00:43:52,640 --> 00:43:59,520 Is this everlasting life There is coming to this world? 608 00:43:59,560 --> 00:44:02,320 A world leader like Antiochus, but so much more. 609 00:44:02,760 --> 00:44:06,840 Worse Bible prophecy, this vision from Daniel. 610 00:44:07,040 --> 00:44:10,200 Why has God given it to us today? 611 00:44:10,760 --> 00:44:13,800 To read and to know. Ask yourself that question. 612 00:44:14,080 --> 00:44:16,120 Why would we need to know this now? 613 00:44:17,960 --> 00:44:20,680 Here's the reason. Because God is not willing that 614 00:44:20,680 --> 00:44:25,600 any should perish to have us all ready for Christ's return. 615 00:44:25,840 --> 00:44:30,560 There is nothing biblically in prophecy that needs to occur for 616 00:44:30,560 --> 00:44:32,680 the rapture of the church. Nothing. 617 00:44:32,960 --> 00:44:37,880 It is imminent. It's it's, it's ready to happen. 618 00:44:38,520 --> 00:44:44,160 It's just when God says now and the speed of it will be at the 619 00:44:44,160 --> 00:44:46,640 twinkling of an eye, faster than twinkling of an eye. 620 00:44:47,320 --> 00:44:50,800 As the worship team comes forward, I want you to listen to 621 00:44:50,800 --> 00:44:54,360 these last words. We have been given this 622 00:44:54,840 --> 00:44:55,840 prophecy. Why? 623 00:44:57,320 --> 00:45:01,480 Because God is deeply concerned about how we are living in these 624 00:45:01,480 --> 00:45:07,480 last days. He doesn't want you to be here 625 00:45:08,240 --> 00:45:09,880 when the world leader hits the stage. 626 00:45:09,880 --> 00:45:13,960 Who's the Antichrist? I don't know, I don't care, and 627 00:45:13,960 --> 00:45:18,560 I won't find out because the church will be raptured before 628 00:45:18,560 --> 00:45:22,720 He comes to power. But once the church is gone and 629 00:45:22,720 --> 00:45:26,080 you're left behind, he will rule your life. 630 00:45:26,920 --> 00:45:31,040 You'll have Satan living in a man ruling the world. 631 00:45:33,760 --> 00:45:37,440 Jesus warned us of this. This vision should help us to be 632 00:45:37,440 --> 00:45:43,280 passionate about knowing Christ, serving Him as this new world 633 00:45:43,280 --> 00:45:50,720 leader who I believe is alive today and preparing to make His 634 00:45:50,720 --> 00:45:55,400 presence soon. The world is ready. 635 00:45:55,760 --> 00:46:00,840 The political stage is absolutely ready for someone to 636 00:46:00,880 --> 00:46:08,400 fix the Middle East problem. How amazing. 637 00:46:09,200 --> 00:46:18,280 Will it be a turn around for the Jews to sign a peace agreement 638 00:46:19,200 --> 00:46:22,240 and the Muslims to allow a temple to be built? 639 00:46:24,560 --> 00:46:30,320 This guy is sharp and he will pull off the greatest deal. 640 00:46:32,000 --> 00:46:35,400 But then that's just the first horse, the white one. 641 00:46:36,200 --> 00:46:40,120 But then the other three follow and you wish you'd never been 642 00:46:40,120 --> 00:46:42,080 here. Let's pray. 643 00:46:42,120 --> 00:46:47,760 Father, I pray for our hearts to be repentant here today. 644 00:46:49,440 --> 00:46:56,120 I pray for any who are uncertain of their future, uncertain as to 645 00:46:56,120 --> 00:47:01,160 whether the rapture will involve them or not. 646 00:47:02,200 --> 00:47:09,560 I pray for any who have never received Christ that today 647 00:47:09,560 --> 00:47:14,360 they'll not walk out these doors without having their salvation 648 00:47:14,760 --> 00:47:18,440 cure and their life everlasting.