Daniel 7, great passage. We're going to do 2 parts today.
We're going to go through it piece by piece and then I'm
going to round it off. So let's, you'll need your
Bibles every time you go to church.
She'd have a Bible. You need your Bibles.
Daniel seven in the first year of Belshazzar, king of Babylon,
Daniel had a dream visions of his head while on his bed.
Now this chapter begins the second major division of the
book. Daniel is not written, written
in a chronological order, and Daniel is about to have a series
of visions that the Lord will give to Daniel and then they'll
be interpreted. This vision in Chapter 7
actually took place for Daniel between chapters four and five.
Backaways. Prior to Daniel being in the
lion's den, he was in the lion's den in the late 80s, nineties,
years of age. Chapter 7 Daniel is about 68
years of age at this time. And as we summarise Chapter 7 of
Daniel, we're going to see 2 views of the world, the
governments, the politics, the empires, past, present and
future. We're going to see the views
from man's viewpoint. You know, what man thinks of his
empires, his kingdoms. And then we're going to get the
actual truth of the matter as we get Heaven's vantage point as
God describes what he sees. So Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head while I was on his bed.
Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts.
Daniel spoke, saying, I saw in my vision by night, behold the
four winds of heaven. We're stirring up the great sea,
the four winds. We see that in the Book of
Revelation as well. There were four powerful angels
gathering. So 4, this is the power of God
gathering these things before Daniel in this vision, stirring
up on the great sea. The great Sea is 2 points.
It is both the Mediterranean Sea, because all the empires
we're going to discuss, we're all connected to the
Mediterranean, but on a higher level, it's the sea of humanity.
It's the world, all the peoples of the world.
And four great beasts came up from the sea, from humanity,
each different from the other. The first was like a lion and
had eagle's wings. If you go to the Museum in
London and you'll see the lions that they kept over from
Babylon, ancient Babylon, you'll see that the lions of Babylon
had wings, the wings of eagles upon them as well.
And I watched till it's wings were plucked off and it was
lifted up from the earth. And notice talking of Babylon,
made to stand on 2 feet like a man.
We're talking about Nebuchadnezzar here, because
what happened to him it says, and a man's heart was given to
it. Remember Nebuchadnezzar for that
seven years, as he is saying, look at the great Kingdom that
I've given. Then at that instant God struck
him and he lived then like a an oxen, like a beast for seven
years. And we believe that it was
Daniel who cared for him as he ate grass and his hair grew and
his nails grew until he came to his senses.
And then he proclaimed that God is the God of the world.
He alone is the one who brought the Kingdom in the Kingdom of
Babylon. And suddenly another beast, a
second like a bear, will see that this is the Medo Persian.
It's called a bear. A bear is slow and lumbering
now. When the Medes and the Persians
took on the fall of Babylon under God's direction, they had
an army of two to 3 million people.
It was by sheer weight of numbers.
It was just like a whole nation walking and fighting in the
battle. That's how they are described as
a bear. It had three ribs in its mouth.
Now, this is the three empires that the Medes and the Persians
conquered, Babylon, Egypt, and Lydia.
They're the three ribs and they said thus to arise devour much
flesh. After this I looked and there
was another like a leopard. That's the Greeks.
We'll get more of this in the interpretation which had on its
back 4 wings of a bird under Alexander the Great.
I think he died at the age of 3233, drunk out in the cold, got
pneumonia. But here's his battle tactics
are still used today. It wasn't the size of the army,
it was the speed and fast war like the Germans did Blitzkrieg
fast war. They copied much of Alexander
the Great's battle decisions and Alexander the Great when he took
on different armies. It was just the the cavalry and
the way that they would move the troops around with great speed.
The beasts also had four heads and dominion was given to it.
So the night that Alexander the Great dies, they said, what are
you going to do about the Kingdom?
He says I'll give it to the strongest.
And so he's 4 generals then took over and divided up the Grecian
empire. After this I saw on the night
visions, behold, a fourth beast. So we have Babylon meets the
Persians, now the great, the Grecians are now Rome.
A fourth beast, dreadful, terrible, exceedingly strong.
It had huge iron teeth. It was devouring, breaking into
pieces, trampling the residue with its feet.
It was different from all the beasts that were before it.
And it had 10 horns. The 10 horns.
A horn in the Bible always speaks of power.
So this was a power. This is Rome was the only empire
that was not defeated in battle. He just fell apart within and
will be revived again, which we'll see.
I was considering the horns and there was another horn.
So now Daniel is seeing the revived Roman Empire ahead, and
it's Speaking of the revived Roman Empire, which has its
grass roots in the European Union today, the UN, not the UN,
the European Union of States and nations, the gathering of the
nations. And there will be a leader that
will lead the European Union, this government, this one world
government, more powerful, more demonic than any other before.
And this will be led by a man. He's the first horse rider in
Revelation Chapter 6, riding on the White Horse 4 Horsemen of
the Apocalypse. He'll come bringing peace.
The world will want him. You know why the world will want
him? Because at the moment, the
world's in chaos, isn't it? You know what, politically it's
not going to get any better. Who would think that you would
have to have now nearly $1,000,000 to buy a house in
Australia? You know, when we first moved to
Secret Harbour, the blocks of land here were $40,000.
Now that's not 100 and five years ago either.
But what I'm saying is we're living in a time of chaos now.
Russia has just put to Trump, and Trump has okayed it to the
Ukraine to surrender the land that's been seized by Russia,
not be part of NATO, cut down their military forces, and
Trump's gone. OK, Putin has gone awesome.
I invaded the country. I'm going to get everything that
I wanted now. Part of the 20 point plan that
has been written for Israel under 2 billionaires, not
members of government from the US, but two billionaires,
businessmen. Part of the 20 point plan that
Israel has done this peace agreement at the moment is that
eventually they'll recognise Palestine and that there will be
a Palestinian state. That's the area of the Bible
calls Judea and Samaria and Trump's OK with it.
So what you can see, I think as we take a step back, the world
and anti semitism is still exploding even though there's
peace. They haven't stopped on Israel,
have they? Yesterday in in Italy, massive
massive protests of pro Palestinian, thousands of people
protesting against Israel. And then don't forget what
people want, the pro Palestinian people want.
And I just want the land. I want the annihilation, the
removal, the genocide of every Jew.
And I think this is just going to keep bowling along and things
aren't going to get very clean. This is going to be messy.
And along will come this guy, and the world will go finally.
And because he's going to be intelligent, he's going to speak
well, and he's going to solve the Middle East crisis.
And Israel will sign an agreement with him.
Part of that deal, I think I'm rebuilding the temple will be
the dividing of the land. It'll be as Trump has said to
Zelensky of Ukraine, hey, you got nothing to you.
Surrender some of the land, get peace, stop the war.
And that's going to be the push by the US the same time with
Israel. Watch and see.
And so there was this little horn and there this horn eyes
like the eyes of a man. It is a man and a mouth speaking
in my king, you King James. It has pompous, it has grand.
Some of different words in your Bible.
What they are, are blasphemous words.
He will politically, publicly come against God.
I watched 2 Thrones were put into place and the ancient of
days was seated. This is God the Father.
His garment was white as snow and the hair of his head was
like pure wool. His throne, God's throne, was a
fiery flame. It's wheels are burning fire
wheels on the throne of God. Yes.
If you go to the book of Ezekiel, you'll see this very
description of the throne of God.
A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him.
This is God now 1000 thousand ministered to him.
That's the Saints and the angels. 10,000 * 10,000 stood
before him. That's the people who are going
to be judged called the great white Throne judgement the
second resurrection because notice the court was seated.
This is a judgement, but it's not a trial to see if you're
guilty or not. This is a sentencing we covered
that in the Book of Revelation in the second resurrection when
all the dead, those who have died without Christ and then a
revive brought back to stand before God, the great white
throne judgement, the second resurrection.
You won't be there and go well, you know, I want to appeal my
you know, your judgement will be on the on the length and base of
the treatment that you'll receive as you were cast into
the lake of fire because there is a measuring of the punishment
that would be given out to all those who rejected Jesus Christ.
The court was seated. How is the sentence made?
The books are opened. Remember, the books are open.
What does that mean? It means every word, everything
that you've done, every thought that you've had.
It's all been logged. And so the books will be open.
Here's the evidence and you'll be judged on what God gave you.
That is a life that you could have lived for Him, whereas you
rejected that and you live this other life and all these things
will be raised up. And that's the sentence, the
length and weight of the sentence you'll be given
according to those books. I watched them because of the
sound of the pompous words, pompous again, which the horn,
the Antichrist was speaking. I watched till the beast was
slain. Because at the second coming,
the battle of Armageddon, everyone knows about that.
We go to Israel, we go to the valley of Jezreel Megiddo, just
down from Mount Carmel, and there is going to be that great
battle with the Antichrist army, the kings of the East army, a
meeting to do battle. And then Christ appears and that
battle is over. Before, before anything happens,
it's the second coming of Jesus and he has come to establish his
throne. The Antichrist has grabbed,
judged and cast forever into the lake of fire along with a false
prophet. I watched till the beast was
slain, its body destroyed, given to the burning flame, the lake
of fire. As for the rest of the beast,
the nation's notice each of these nations that we've
discussed, they had their dominion, that is their power,
their rule taken from them, yet their lives were prolonged for a
season at a time, God allowed these nations to rise.
But then he says at the end, the second coming, no longer is man
going to govern this world. It's over.
I was watching in the night visions and behold one like the
Son of Man, Jesus Christ coming with the clouds, clouds of
heaven. He came to the ancient of days,
God the Father, and they brought him near before him.
Then to him was given dominion and glory and a Kingdom, the
thousand year reign, the second coming.
Jesus establishes his rule and reign upon the earth in
Jerusalem, begins to rule the world for 1000 years, the
Millennium. His dominion is an everlasting
dominion, which shall not pass away.
Now all the other kingdoms and empires been and gone, but when
Christ sets up His this is it. Man's rule is over for good.
God is ruling which shall not be destroyed.
I, Daniel, was grieved in my spirit within my body, and the
visions on my head troubled me. I came near to one of those who
stood by and asked him the truth of all this.
Many believe this is Gabriel. He's coming to ask what, what?
What am I seeing? Is an Angel?
A messenger speaks to him. So he told me and made known to
me the interpretation. So now we actually read, we get
told what? What Daniel's vision is those
great beasts which are 4 or 4 kings.
Babylon made a Persian Grecian Roman which arise out of the
earth. But the Saints of the Most High
shall receive the Kingdom and possess the Kingdom forever,
even forever and ever. That is, everyone who's born
again will rule and reign with Christ in the Millennium
forever. Then I wish to know the truth
about the fourth beast, this other one, this revived Roman
Empire which was different from all the others, exceedingly
dreadful with its teeth of iron, it's nails of bronze which
devoured broken pieces, trampled the residue with its feet.
The 10 horns which were on its head, and the other horn which
came up before 3 fell, namely the horn which had eyes and
mouth, which spoke again pompous, blasphemous words,
whose appearance was greater than his fellows.
I was watching in the same horn was making war against the
Saints. The war against the Saints here
is Israel. It's Speaking of the tribulation
period. The Antichrist takes over
Israel, signs an agreement. Halfway through that agreement,
3 1/2 years in, he breaks that agreement.
He goes into the temple that he has allowed Israel to build.
He says I'm God, you're going to stop worshipping anyone else and
anything else but me. And he makes war against Israel
and prevails against them, chase them, kills many of them until
the 2nd coming. At the end of the seven years,
the Ancient of Days and 2nd coming of Christ and a judgement
was made in favour of the Saints Israel of the Most High and the
time came for the Saints to possess the Kingdom.
Thus he said, the 4th beast shall be a fourth Kingdom, A
world power like no other, of which the Antichrist.
The little horn will rule our world, which shall be different
from all other kingdoms. Why?
Babylon just looked after an area.
Greeks needs Persians, Romans the Antichrist.
He will rule the world. His power will be like no other
power, because remember, he will be personally driven by Satan
himself. He shall devour the whole earth,
trample it, break it into pieces.
The 10 horns of 10 kings, so that's ten of the European
nations are the 10 kings, and he shall subdue 3 kings.
Three nations will actually say, you know what?
We don't want to have a government of our own anymore.
We're going to let you, Antichrist.
Actually, you be our you. You govern for us.
We give you our sovereignty. Wonder which nations they will
be. He shall speak pompous words
against the Most High. They are again blasphemous
words. Shall persecute the Saints of
the Most High Israel, and shall intend to change times and law.
That is the abomination of desolation.
When he walks into the Temple, the Jews, for 3 1/2 years I've
been having this sacrifice, the priests and all this.
Everything's been going great. He says stop, Everything stops.
Now. You worship me also.
You get my mark upon you that tells me you are devoted to me.
And it's the mark of a man. The number of a man.
You won't be able to buy or sell unless you worship me.
And if you don't worship me, I'll kill you.
That's basically it. The Antichrist coming, then the
Saints shall be given into his hand.
Notice for how long a time times and half a time, 3 1/2 years.
This is after he breaks the seven year agreement.
Israel has built the temple and then 3 1/2 years in he breaks
the covenant. But the court shall be seated
back to the judgement time. They shall take away his
dominion. He'll be judged by the Lord of
the Second Coming to consume and destroy it forever.
Then the Kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the
kingdoms under the whole heaven shall be given to the people,
the Saints of the Most High Christ's Kingdom.
His Kingdom is an everlasting Kingdom.
All these other kingdoms come and go.
Even the Antichrist, it's going to come and go.
He's going to have 3 1/2 years and that's it.
And all the minions shall serve and obey him.
This is the end of the account. As for me, Daniel, my thoughts
greatly troubled me and my countenance changed.
I kept the matter in my heart. The view of the world past,
present and future. Your world, our world.
We see God prophesying of the rise and fall of the world
powers, and as you study history, you can see it
beautifully compared. God said this is going to happen
and it happens. It happened just as God planned
it right through the ages and it will until the 2nd coming of
Christ at the end of the seven year tribulation period and His
everlasting Kingdom here on earth shall be established just
as He said it would. And now you and I, like Daniel,
we find ourselves, you and I are living now in a world where
everything is upside down, isn't it?
I mean $1,000,000 for a house? You got to be kidding $1,000,000
God said it would be this way in the last days.
He prophesied in the book of Isaiah.
Isaiah said in the last days, the times in which you and I
live, Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put
darkness for light, light for darkness, who put bitter for
sweet and sweet for bitter. Each of these empires,
Babylonian, the Meno, Persian, the Grecian, the Roman and the
one coming world, one world government that's just around
the corner overseen by the Antichrist.
Each of these, they've sought to rule the world as men and as man
in rebellion against and in place of God.
How things have changed so rapidly for you and I in just a
few generations post World War 2.
I think if we were able to resurrect the World War Two
people, bring them back now and say this is the world they go,
what happened? What's going on?
New definitions of what constitutes marriage.
Remember it was created and instituted by God in the book of
Genesis. Man, woman.
New definitions of what defines a family used to be husband,
mum, dad, kids didn't, not that way anymore.
We now have new definitions of what is a man, what is a woman?
It's whoever you want to identify with.
As I'm getting older, I think I'm going to identify as a 21
year old. But, you know, my body tells me
the truth and I ain't 21 anymore. 34.
But you see these definitions, you know, the thing that's
happening is what? They're fluid.
They change. How can truth change?
It can't. You know, gravity's never
changed. I don't like, I don't believe in
gravity. We need to change the laws of
gravity. Yeah.
Go jump off a building. I think it's changing.
I think.
No, it's not changing. It's not changing.
We have a complete and total disregard for the sanctity of
life. Now you know, euthanasia in WA
alone has seen a significant increase since its
implementation in 2021. That is, you can say I want to
go to hospital, I want to be put to death.
The number of deaths rose from 191 in 2021 to 22 to 292 in two
thousand 2324 and further to 480 in 2000 and 2425.
That's representing a 63.8% jump in one year.
That is 151.3% increase from the first year 2000 and 2425.
It's on the rise. Hey, when you're around don't
cough, don't get any older. Good chance there's going to be
a group of blokes like they do at the horse racing.
You fall and you your leg cracks, out will come 4 blokes,
they'll put a sheet around you and bang, that's it, you're
dead. Abortion and a recent article
read by group titled Children by Choice.
It is estimated that half of all pregnancies in Australia are
unplanned. You know what, if I ask them,
I'm not going to ask. But how many people in here were
unplanned? It's a fair whack.
And that half of those are terminated.
Half 50%. Also that between 1/4 and one
third, 1/4 and 1/3 of Australian women will experience an
abortion in their lifetime. By the way, let me tell you
this, abortion is not the unforgiven sin.
I want to just tell that parental rights, we no longer
have rights over our children. The Right to discipline Human
Rights Commission now rules that governments and schools systems,
government departments now have seized the right of your
children from parents. But there's another powerful
revived religion that it's now dominating world politics both
here and throughout the woke Western world.
And that religion is the worship of the earth.
It's called climate change. This is not a new science, many
cry out. In fact, the previous key figure
on climate fora and fauna in the world was a fellow called Doctor
David Bellamy. Used to be on TV Botanist hear
what he said because he was removed from the BBC.
Doctor Bellamy and I quote said because he dismissed evidence of
any human caused climate change. He says there's none.
He maintained that the Earth is heading for another Ice Age and
that increased carbon dioxide would be beneficial to plants.
He would know. He's a botanist, and this stance
significantly impacted his public profile as a television
presenter. He was the previous David
Attenborough. Can't have him, Doesn't fit.
Bellamy publicly stated that climate change is a natural
phenomenon and that the link between fossil fuels and global
warming is a myth. He believed that Earth's
temperatures have risen and fallen throughout history as
part of natural cycles, and that the planet was actually heading
towards another Ice Age. He used examples from history
such as warm periods in the past to support his claims but he was
criticised for his anti climate change views.
Take him off when Earth worshippers, climate change
devotees and I read again this week a statement and the letters
to the editor make this statement.
We are doing all of this for the planet and for the future
generations, for the future of our children.
Got that? Heard that?
They say that these same hypocrites are those who support
abortion. The abortion of 92,000 children
in Australia alone a year. That's twice Optus Oval.
And those children, they have no future.
Their life has been taken already.
As you read through the history of creation worship in the Old
Testament, and it started way back and Israel fell for it over
and over and God judged them, we come across the worship of the
God Molech. The God Molech was a brass
statue put into a a fire heating up until it was molten red.
And into those arms were placed infants.
It was common in ancient days. And God said, don't you ever do
that? And they did.
Israel did that. Israel even followed to have
their newborns place and go through the fire of Molech.
You know what it was for, for the blessing of agricultural
gain, for better fruit, fertile lands, at which time, as the
child was put into these arms, drums were played.
You know where the drums are played to drown out the cries of
the children. The Egyptians worship the sun
God RA, Osiris, the river Nile, the God of the Nile, and the
earth Ammon. They worship Ammon.
Who was he? The God of the air, Horus, Who
is he? They worship God of the sky,
Seti. Who is he?
God of storms and deserts. It's all climate stuff.
The earth worshippers of today, The high priests are public
figures, such as members of the royal family.
They're the high priests of this new religion, Hollywood, TV
celebrities, Doctor David Attenborough and now climate
change, every new work political leader because why votes?
The world has fallen for the lie and begun to worship creation
instead of the creator. And where we hold any political
leader who would make a stance and go, we're not doing this.
In Romans 121, it says, yes, they knew God, but they wouldn't
worship him as God or even give him thanks.
We're going to do that Wednesday.
They traded, they sold out the truth about God for a lie.
He says it's not true. So they worshipped and served
the things God created instead of the Creator himself who was
worthy of eternal praise. Amen.
We look at our nation, Australia.
We have APM who is living in an adulterous situation, travels
the world. As such, we are members of his
government living in relationships that are
completely against the teachings of the Word of God.
And thus we as a nation, Australia, the social and moral
decline of our nation is lower than it's ever been.
We have no one to blame but ourselves, for we voted these
people into government. I've just read, finished reading
first and Second Chronicles, just started Ezra, As I've gone
through first and second Chronicles, I've found out and
it's been drilled into me. And once again, we're in
Australia. Guess what?
We're going to get judged. God judged his people each time
they did stupid, stupid stuff. When they turned their backs on
God, when they worshipped evil, when they lived immorally, when
they did that, God judged them. He allowed other nations to come
and and and take over and and slaughter their armies.
I tell you what, we we are ostriches with their head in the
sand. If we think our nation in 2026
is just going to calmly, glibly go along and God goes, you know,
yeah, that's fine. It ain't going to happen.
Judgement is going to fall upon our nation.
But there is more, just as Paul said there would be as he wrote
to the church about the last days, the days in which you and
I live. To Timothy 31.
You should know this, Timothy, that in the last days, we're
living in those. There will be very difficult
times. That's for the church, for
people will love only themselves and their money.
They'll be boastful and proud, scoffing at God, disobedient to
their parents, ungrateful. They will consider nothing
sacred. They will be unloving and
unforgiving. They will slander others and
have no self control. They'll be cruel and hate what
is good. Like Isaiah said, they will
betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with
pride. They will love pleasure.
It's called hedonism rather than God.
They will act religious. Every Australian you talk to,
you wish. I wish God in my own way.
Yeah, your own God. Your way.
You've got your own God. They will act religious, but
they will reject the power that could could make them godly.
Stay away from people like that. Paul says yes.
Sadly, the church too has become woke.
What does woke actually mean? The term woke, it means
excessive political correctness or liberalism.
Excessive political correctness or liberalism, social justice
and political tolerance are driving our world.
You teachers, you're having to deal with that at schools where
a kid can come to the school and go, no, I want a red tag today.
You call me they. These are my pronouns.
I can't. You can't.
Anyway, they've replaced the teaching and authority of the
word of God. It's sunk into the church.
Watch and read because prior to Christmas they'll have all the
main religion church leaders give their spiel in the West
Australia, because you know what?
The spiel's set for one. There's usually just one guy
Baptist, and they'll all speak oh, what do I wish for
Christmas? We we look for all the social
justice issues it's called. They'll promote what's called
progressive ideology instead of God's word, instead of being bad
Jesus coming from the sins of men born in a Manger, God in the
flesh. What is progressive ideology?
You need to know. Progressive ideology in religion
involves listen to this because it's happening.
It involves reinterpreting religious traditions and texts
to align with modern values. How many people said, yeah, the
Bible's old fashioned, it's got to change.
It's not. I know that's what it said, but
let's go back then to align with modern values of social justice,
equality, individual dignity, often emphasising actions over
rigid dogma. This can include advocating for
economic, gender, and racial justice, challenging traditional
interpretations, and reforming religious structures to be more
inclusive. Doesn't matter who what where
you are, we can all do this together.
Right now, November 23, 2025, there are just two anchor points
that are stopping the world plunging into the abyss. 2
things stopping the coming evil tsunami.
And it's going to come that will soon sweep over the entire world
led by the false prophet of the Antichrist, politically,
morally, and religiously. One of those two things, the
Holy Spirit and the Church of Jesus Christ.
That's it. Paul said to the church on 2nd
Thessalonians chapter 2, verse 7.
For the mystery of lawlessness is already at work.
The spirit of Antichrist is already here.
John says that was 2000 years ago.
Only he, that is the Holy Spirit who now restrains will do so.
Do so until he is taken out of the way and God says OK devil
you're in church is taken out. You got it, run with it.
First horseman of the apocalypse.
But each day the enemy state is gaining ground.
The world we live in now, the one in which you are raising
your children has 1 mission outside these doors.
It has 1 mission. For you and your children,
Satan, supported by a third of the fallen angels behind him, is
seeking to have you conform to the way of a sinful world.
For you to be like the world but Christ's mission.
For the Church, you and I who have repented of our sins,
received Jesus Christ as our Lord and Saviour, and have now
the Holy Spirit residing within us.
God wants us not to conform to the world, but to be
transformed. Romans 12, verse one.
I beg you, Therefore, Paul says, brothers, by the mercies of God
that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy,
acceptable to God, which is your reasonable or logical service
and do not be conformed to this world when your kids come up to
you, but everyone else is still bad.
Dad, all the other parents red light, but you're not like them
and we're not like their parents.
You're going to make a stand when your daughter gets dressed
and goes to the going to go to the beach.
You ain't going to the beach dressed like that.
You're not wearing that. Don't be conformed.
You're in one of these two camps this morning.
That's it. You are either conforming to the
world means you just live like your neighbours and differences.
You maybe on a Sunday you drive up to church or you're being
transformed while the Holy Spirit, God speaking to you
through the word as you read, as you pray, as you study the word
of God, as you hear the word of God, God speaking to you today.
God is you saying saying yes, I need to I need to watch that.
Yeah, I need to stand. I need to change in that area to
be shaped in his image. Hear what the apostle Paul says
about being what what a Christian really is.
I love this Galatians 220. I have been crucified with
Christ that is in him. I have shared his crucifixion.
It is no longer I who live. Remember your baptism.
What is that? It's a simple it's a funeral.
It's a funeral for the dead old you.
We go take you down to the ocean.
We put you in the water and we don't want the old you coming
out, the new you. Romans chapter 6 is you coming
out now to walk in the newness of life.
You surrendered your life to God.
That's what baptism is. It's an outward showing of
what's happened to your heart. It is no longer I who live, but
Christ lives in me, the life I now live in the body.
I live by faith, By how? By adhering to, relying on, and
completely trusting in the Son of God who loved me and gave
himself up for me. But Babylon where Daniel was
living and Babylon we, you and I are living today.
Australia is Babylon is the world system that is against
Christ, against his people. The governments of the world
under its power are going to force you into its mould, to be
shaped into its image. What is the image?
The image of a man? Revelation 1318.
There is wisdom. Let him who has understanding
calculate the number of the beast.
That's the little horn. For it is the number of a man.
His number is 666. What's your view?
You can tell if you're conforming or transforming.
I can tell you. Here's a quick quiz to see
whether you're conforming or transforming.
What's your view on Israel? What's your view on the nation
of Israel? That'll tell you.
What's your view on the Bible? I know the Bible says, but
what's your view on the Bible? What's your view on gender?
Is it male or female? What's your view on abortion?
Well, you know, what's your view on adultery?
What's your view on promiscuity? What's your view on premarital
sex? That'll tell you if you're
conforming or you're transformed.
You remember back in the book of Genesis, the book of beginnings,
it's called a man by the name of Cain.
He said, and I'm paraphrasing God, I'm not going to do things
your way. I'll worship, I'll do it my way.
It says in Genesis 4, verse 3. And in the process of time it
came to pass that Cain brought an offering of the fruit of the
ground to the Lord. Abel also brought of the first
born of his flock and of their fat.
And the Lord respected Abel and his offering, but he did not
respect Cain and his offering. Cain was angry and his
countenance fell. Then just a few chapters on
after the after the flood, the floods occurred few chapters on
Chapter 11 of Genesis humanity again, it's growing.
We're not going to do worship God.
You're we're going to do our own thing.
And they decide to build a tower to the heavens, to worship their
gods their way. Genesis 11 Four.
And they said, Come, let us build ourselves a city and a
tower whose top is in the heavens.
Let us make a name for ourselves, lest we be scattered
abroad over the face of the whole earth.
But the Lord came down to the city and the tower which the
sons of men had built. And the Lord said, indeed, the
people are one, they all have one language.
And this is what they begin to do.
Now nothing that they propose to do will be withheld from them.
The world's way is to recruit your children.
It's time your kids go out and leave your house.
The world's ready to indoctrinate, to shame your
beliefs. You don't believe in the Bible.
You don't believe in God. Surely you don't to mock your
faith in Jesus Christ. You believe in Jesus Christ, You
believe that, You know this whole dying on the cross stuff.
And if you do not go along with the world, and here's the new
world, the word and the term that fits our world these last
days, you know what the world will do?
It will cancel you. It cancels you.
We never had that terminology before.
You're cancelled. Call what you believe from God's
word, I'll call what you believe from God's word, I'll say that's
hate speech. Israel Folau, greatest rugby
union player we've had for many years.
We've got what it did to him and all he did was cut and paste the
book of Romans. And he said if you live this
way, it's not good. You'll you'll go to hell.
He was saying in a way, don't live this way, receive Christ.
Australian Rugby Union team, a union took him on and if you do
not go along with the world, they'll call you intolerant,
intolerant and they'll call you unloving.
They'll call you unloving of all the phobias and there's a lot of
phobias around now. People are labelled with in our
work world. Have you ever heard the term
someone being told off the papers read or you know what
you've got? You've got Christophobia.
Ever heard that? No.
You've heard all the other phobias, homophobia,
Islamophobia. Never heard anyone.
You know what that is? Got something against
Christianity? No one's ever.
No one's ever called out for that.
Interesting. If you don't think like the
world, if you don't talk like the world, if you don't act like
the world, and if you stand up for your faith in Jesus Christ,
Here's the next step and it's coming.
The next step for the Church of Jesus Christ to face is that
they will persecute you. Just a matter of time.
We have a flag of Israel up front.
It's just a matter of time. We're like protesters.
What people trying to up upstage us in, in, in, in, in the
churches here standing up and let them throw them here.
This is our future. Oh, great, Keith, that's
awesome. Now I'm telling you, Daniel was
troubled. You and I, we can be troubled or
we can go hang on a minute. We know what's coming.
In John chapter 1518, Jesus said if the world hates you, you know
that it hated me before it hated you.
You know what Jesus did? He loved people, didn't he?
Didn't he do good to everyone? Didn't he?
But he called out hypocrisy. John 1519 if you're of the
world, the world around would love its own.
So if you get on well with everybody, I have a bit of a
think about your Christianity. Maybe your Christianity is home
in a pocket in a drawer along with your Bible.
Yet because you are not of the world, but I chose you out of
the world, therefore the world hates you.
To Timothy 312 Paul said to Timothy, yes, and all who desire
to live godly in Christ Jesus will suffer persecution going to
come, but evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse,
deceiving and being deceived. But you must continue in the
things which you have learned and being assured of knowing
from whom you have learned them. I want to ask you, Are you ready
for tomorrow? Are you ready for the future?
Is your faith ready? A faith that can't be tested is
a faith that can't be trusted. In just this last century, by
the way, more Christians have been martyred than the previous
20 centuries combined. Look at Nigeria.
Why God's truth here, listen, is offensive.
It says you're a Sinner. But it doesn't stop there,
doesn't it? It says we've all fallen short
of the glory of God. But it goes on to say, but the
gift of God is what salvation through Jesus Christ.
As a Christian, do you tell people the truth?
Hear this, We are not responsible for their feelings.
Oh, I don't want to get upset. I think I'd rather have someone
upset and saved than they're not upset and damned.
We're not responsible for their feelings, We're not responsible
for their reactions to us sharing the truth.
That's God's problem. We are messengers.
We're to proclaim the gospel, but you are and I are to share
the truth. And what is the truth?
For God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten Son,
that whoever believes in him, that's all you have to do,
should not perish. Let us be separated from God
forever, but have everlasting life.
In Daniel 7, we see man's foolish and futile attempts at
running the world, commanding and demanding what you should
worship and bow down to. The Antichrist is going to do
that. What your children should give
their lives to, what they should bend their knee to.
But Jesus Christ is coming and He's going to set up his rule,
his government, his Kingdom. And the old King James says
forever and ever and ever, all of man's foolish attempts and
rebellion powered by Satan will come to an end of the judgement
day at Christ's second coming. It says in verse 12 of all these
empires, the times of the Gentiles, Daniel 712, They had
their dominion taken away by who?
By God, in this dramatic vision, Daniel had seen the vast sweep
of our world's history, beginning with Babylon, closing
with the thousand year reign of Christ on earth, sitting in
Babylon 68 years old, far away from his home in Jerusalem,
forced to become a eunuch. How this vision must have
brought great strength and comfort to him in his struggles,
in his exile, living in a Pagan Kingdom.
Why he knew that one day Messiah would come and his reign on the
throne of David would occur because God said so.
Today, Sunday 23rd of November 2025, we Christ Church, look for
the return. When we shall be caught up, the
trump of God shall sound and the church shall be snatched away
and taken up to meet the Lord in the air.
So shall we ever be with the Lord.
And then the Judgement Day the restraining will stop,
Tribulation will begin and all hell will break out upon earth.
We shall return with Christ at the end of the seven year
tribulation to rule and reign with Him for 1000 years.
When do you stand with God this morning?
If you were to die right now, if your heart was a stop beating
right now, One of your children, one of your children, Have you
conformed? Are you conforming?
Are you buckling or are you being transformed each day as
you read the word of God, as you pray, as you gather like you've
done today? Are you ready today to stand
before God? We all will.
Time is short. Nothing, nothing needs to happen
for the rapture occurred to occur.
You're living in the last days. We're here.
Jesus is coming. If you're here today and you
don't know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Saviour, we will pray
with you and show you what the Bible says you need to do to
receive Christ. Christ, you need to repent of
your sins, you need to accept that Christ died on the cross
for him and you need to ask Him to come into your life and
forgive you and He will. If you've never done that, you
can do that today and you can walk away from here knowing I
stand right before God because Christ is my Saviour.
Let's stand and worship the Lord, shall we?
The pastors will be available to pray with you.
If you have any other issues you'd like prayer with, please
come to the front and we will pray with you.
Show you if you want to become a Christian, Romans chapter 10
verse verses 9 and 10 that if you believe in your heart, you
confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord.
The Bible says you shall be signed.