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You You Daniel chapter 7 is where we get into the really heavily prophetic part of the book of Daniel starts out in verse number one in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters Daniel spake and said I saw in my vision by night and behold the four winds of the heaven Strove upon the great sea and four great beasts came up from the sea Diverse one from another now This is gonna be a throwback to Daniel chapter 2 and if you remember in Daniel chapter 2 there's that great image that Nebuchadnezzar dreamed about and the image had the head of gold and then as you went down the Image it went from gold to silver to bronze and then to iron and then you had the feet mingled with iron and clay and That dream was interpreted by Daniel to Nebuchadnezzar that the head of gold Was Nebuchadnezzar himself the great king of Babylon and that was the first great empire And the reason that it was gold is because it was the most superior Empire and then the next empire was the medo-persian Empire which makes sense that it would be this portion of the body with the chest and arms because it had two arms it had the mead Aspect and the Persian aspect and it said that that kingdom was inferior to Nebuchadnezzar's great Babylonian Empire and then after that the third section of brass was the Grecian Empire and then the iron Empire was the Roman Empire and of course Christ's first coming took place during the Roman Empire. Okay. Well in Daniel chapter 7 We're gonna see that these four beasts represent those same four kingdoms and they fit together perfectly Look at verse number four. The Bible says the first was like a lion Now right away the lion is used in the Bible often to symbolize a great king Because the lion is considered the king of the jungle and it's considered the Strongest among beasts that turneth not away for any as it says in Proverbs chapter 30 So, of course the greatest king in this series Nebuchadnezzar is symbolized by the lion It says the first was like a lion and had Eagles wings and that the eagle is considered the greatest flying bird it says I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked and It was lifted up from the earth and made stand upon the feet as a man and a man's heart was given to it now Again, this makes perfect sense about Nebuchadnezzar because if you remember in chapter 4 what happened? he was given the heart of a beast and his hair grew like birds feathers and his fingernails became as bird claws and He was on all fours like an animal eating grass outside for seven years. Well after that what happened? He was lifted up from the earth He was made to stand up like a man and a man's heart was given unto him Meaning that his sanity came back to him. So that fits perfectly Again with Nebuchadnezzar so everything fits there for verse number four with the head of gold being parallel with the lion okay, let's go to verse five and behold another beast a second like to a bear and it raised up itself on one side and It had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it and they said thus unto it arise Devour much flesh. So this is parallel with Daniel chapter 2 This would be the meadow Persian Empire which makes perfect sense again Why because in Daniel chapter 8 it likens the meadow Persian Empire to a ram having two horns? And it talks about how one horn was higher than the other Okay, because of the Medes and the Persians the Persians ended up being much more powerful and dominant So it makes sense that the bear is raised up on one side Meaning it's off balance because it's a lot more heavily Persian than it is of the Medes now It says that there are three ribs in his mouth that say unto it arise devour much flesh What are those three ribs represent? Well flip over to Daniel chapter 11 to get the answer Daniel chapter 11 because remember the bear with the three ribs represents the meadow Persian Empire or the great king of Persia Look if you would at Daniel chapter 11 verse 1 Actually, let's go to verse 2 and now will I show thee Behold there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia and The fourth shall be far richer than they all and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia now chapter 11 is a continuation of chapter 10 and in chapter 10 verse 1 It says that this is happening in the third year of Cyrus Okay So Daniel gets this vision in the third year of Cyrus that says that there are going to be three more kings in Persia Cyrus being that first king of Persia Cyrus the great there are gonna be three more kings in Persia after him, okay And the fourth which is basically the three plus Cyrus makes the last of the three the fourth That fourth king is gonna be the greatest most powerful one and he's gonna be the one That stirs up all against the realm of Grecia Well, these are the three kings if you study your Bible and if you look in Ezra Nehemiah and Esther You'll get the names of those three kings. Those three kings are named Artaxerxes Darius and Ahasuerus and if you remember in the book of Esther Ahasuerus is the really rich wealthy super powerful king that reigns over everything from Ethiopia to India 127 provinces and it just goes on and on about his wealth and luxury Well historically we know that Ahasuerus who's also known as Xerxes Is the one who ended up? Invading Greece and we you've heard about the famous battles of Thermopylae and Athens and so forth So that's the king that's being referred to so it makes sense If you go back to Daniel chapter 7 It makes perfect sense that this bear has three ribs in its mouth Because that represents the three kings that are going to be coming that are mentioned in Daniel 11 if we just kind of let the book define itself. There are three future kings associated with Persia, okay, let's go to the next beast. It says in verse number six after this I beheld and lo another like a leopard Which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl The Beast had also four heads and dominion was given to it Now we know that the next great kingdom that came after the Medo-Persians according to Daniel chapter 8 and the rest of the book of Daniel is the kingdom of Grecia Well, let's see if this description fits that kingdom first of all, it's symbolized by a leopard Well, what is a leopard known for more than anything else? It's known for its great speed. Okay. Well Alexander the Great was the one who conquered For the realm of Grecia and Alexander the Great's army was known for its great speed That's how it was able to be so effective Was that it moved in really fast and in Daniel chapter 8 the king of Grecia is Represented by a he goat and it talks about that goat coming so fast that it doesn't even touch the ground So whenever it talks about the Greek Empire, it's always talking about the speed whether it's a leopard or not touching the ground This is because of the rapidity that Alexander the Great's armies had when they attacked But then it talks about how this leopard like beast has four wings And four heads. Why is that? well You'll notice that over and over again in the book of Daniel the number four is gonna come up in Association with Greece and here's why because Alexander the Great died as a very young man And he died unexpectedly when he was only 32 years old And so because he died young and unexpectedly he hadn't really Assigned an heir to take over for him when he was gone because when you're 32 years old You don't really think that somebody else is gonna necessarily need to take over You're not necessarily thinking about those things And so when Alexander the Great died his kingdom was divided into four pieces And Daniel brings that up repeatedly later in the book So there were four of his generals that took over and they carved up the kingdom and it split into four Kingdoms and so that's why this leopard has four heads because there are four different people that end up being in charge You have the Seleucid Empire Being the main one in the north the Ptolemaic empires the main one in the south But it was split into four pieces and so we'll get into that in future lessons. I don't want to dwell on that for now So that makes perfect sense then when we get to verse 7 it says after this I saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast Dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth It devoured and break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse meaning different From all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns now this fourth kingdom that comes up is the Roman Empire that just crushed everything with an iron fist and Defeated and took over the previous empires And so those are the four kingdoms in succession the same ones that we saw in Daniel chapter 2 with the great image and if you've seen the film Babylon USA you remember we talked a lot about this in that film as well and Then here we have the four beasts that represent those same four kingdoms now if you remember the image in Daniel chapter 2 It didn't just have those four main sections though It didn't just have the golden head and then the silver and then the bronze and then finally the iron Because at the bottom if you remember it had the feet that were of iron mingled with clay the ten toes of Daniel you might have heard well in this scripture instead of being the ten toes We have ten horns But it still is compatible with that same idea and the ten toes of Daniel 2 and the ten horns of Daniel 7 here According to Revelation they represent ten kings right that we're gonna see in the end times So we have these four kingdoms that led up to the first coming of Jesus Christ right, but then there's also a Foreshadowing of a great kingdom that's gonna come up for the second coming of Jesus Christ What we often call the New World Order or a one-world system that's going to be in place before Christ returns flip over just quickly to Revelation 13 Revelation chapter 13 just quickly and we'll see that comparison With end times events because certainly these things were relevant to Daniel's time and the time leading up to Christ's first coming because they had to do with events that took place back then the kings of Persia Alexander the Great his four generals and the kingdoms that they had and then ultimately the Roman Empire taking control around 60 BC before Jesus Christ was born and so you have the Roman Empire Taking control in preparation for the coming of Christ the stage was set So that Christ came at the perfect time in history so that the gospel could be spread most effectively Obviously God and his infinite wisdom chose to allow Jesus Christ to be born at that particular time So In Revelation 13 though We have a future event because a lot of this like I said covered things that already happened in the past But there's also a future fulfillment because when we go to Revelation 13, which is written after all those things happened We see a similar beast look at verse 1 and I stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast Rise up out of the sea now if you remember back in Daniel 7 all four of those beasts they arose out of the sea Well, this is an end times beast arising out of the sea And it says that he had seven heads and ten horns and upon the horns ten crowns again the ten kings and upon his heads the name of blasphemy and the beast which I saw was likened to a leopard does that sound familiar and His feet was the feet of a bear. Does that sound familiar? And his mouth was as the mouth of a lion So it's the same beast just in the descending order the opposite order instead of going lion bear leopard It's going leopard bear lion And then it says in the dragon gave him his power and his seat and great Authority so the devil is putting this king in power this beast This great empire is coming into play in the end times That's sort of a mixture of all of them I believe that in the end times this great one world system that the devil is going to put in place It's going to have the power and the strength and the prestige of all four of those ancient kingdoms combined I Mean it's going to be greater than the Babylonian Medo Persian Grecian and Roman Empire's all combined It's gonna be super powerful It's like a mixture of all those elements coming together in one beast in one great Empire of the end times It talks about this beast in verse 5 and there was given unto him a mouth Speaking great things and blasphemies and power was given unto him to continue 40 in two months, so I want you to remember that this beast that arises Which is symbolic of a king and a kingdom? The Antichrist and his one world government That's empowered by Satan. It says that he's given a mouth speaking great things. Remember that and Blasphemies and how long was he going to continue for 42 months, right? And then if you would go down to verse 7 it says it was given unto him to make war with the Saints and overcome them and Power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations Let's back up to Daniel 7 now and see how this fits together In Daniel chapter 7 it talked about how the fourth beast The dreadful beast the different beast the divers beast with the iron teeth had 10 horns it says at the end of verse 7 Well, look at verse 8 I considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn So this is not one of the ten horns. This is another horn right another little horn Before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the roots and Behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of a man and watch this a mouth Speaking great things now does that sound familiar from revelation 13? So this little horn of Daniel chapter 7 is the Antichrist So the little horn who comes up among the ten horns the ten horns are ten kings He ends up subduing three of those kings and he has a mouth that speaks great things We know from revelation 13. They are great things and blasphemies blaspheming the God of heaven and so forth Let's keep reading verse 9. I beheld till the thrones were cast down What thrones the thrones of these ten kings and the thrones of the little horn the Antichrist Until the thrones were cast down and the ancient of days did sit now That's a pretty interesting term the ancient of days. It's only found in Daniel chapter 7 This is the only place in Scripture that you come across it as a name of God And it has to do with the fact that God has always existed He is the ancient of days Meaning that he's always been around it's referring to the eternality of God here So it says here that I beheld until the thrones were cast down and the ancient of days did sit Whose garment was white as snow and the hair of his head like the pure wool His throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as burning fire a fiery Stream issued and came forth from before him Thousand thousands ministered unto him and ten thousand times ten thousand stood before him. What's ten thousand times ten thousand quick? It's a hundred million The judgment was set and the books were opened I beheld then because of the voice of the great words Which the horn spake or the Antichrist spake I beheld even till the beast was slain and his body destroyed And given to the burning flame Now when does that take place? Well, we know in Revelation chapter 19 The Lord wipes out the Antichrist and cast the beast and the false prophet into the burning flame He throws them into what the lake of fire As concerning the rest of the beasts Who are the rest of the beasts, you know, this would be the other kingdoms of this world They had their Dominion taken away. They're no longer in charge. Why because at that point When the Antichrist is tossed into lake of fire the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ So their Dominion is taken away yet their lives were prolonged for a season at a time That goes to show that when Christ sets up his millennial kingdom and takes away the power from the Antichrist Not every unsafe person is going to be wiped out at that time as some people erroneously believe now Jesus Christ is certainly going to wipe out the entire army That's there and Armageddon with the Antichrist the Antichrist and the false prophet and all the armies are wiped out But what about the rest of the people in the world that populate their kingdoms? The rest of the people in the world are not all going to die Many of them are going to survive and go into the millennium So in the millennium the saved will be ruling and reigning with Jesus Christ But there will be unsaved people who survived all of the wrath poured out in Revelation that go into The millennium their lives are prolonged So as we keep reading here It says in verse number 13 I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man Came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near Before him so a lot of this should sound really familiar from the book of Revelation if you're familiar with the book of Revelation The first thing that you'll notice is that the guy who's sitting on the throne the ancient of days His description is similar to the description of Jesus Christ in Revelation 1 But there's an important difference Okay, it says here that the ancient of days who's sitting on the throne It says that his garment was white as snow Isn't that what it says about Jesus in Revelation 1 that he has a garment that's white as snow It says that the hair of his head was like the pure wool Well, it says in Revelation 1 that Christ's hair was white like wool it says here that his throne was like the fiery flame and his wheels as Burning fire and a fiery stream issued and came forth before me say what are the wheels? Well, if you remember the descriptions in Ezekiel, it talks about wheels of fire and so forth that are around the throne of God Well, the big difference here though Is that we don't see his face because if you remember in the account in Revelation chapter 1 when it talks about Jesus It mentions his eyes were as a flame of fire and it says that his countenance Was like the Sun shineth in his strength So John is actually seeing the face of Jesus Christ and describing his countenance or face and the eyes that are like a burning fire Whereas here the ancient of days is seated on the throne, but you don't see his face described Why because no man can see God the Father's face and live and this is clear you say well How do you know it's God the Father that's sitting on the throne? Maybe it's Jesus Christ that's sitting on the throne Well, the reason that we know it's God the Father is because look at verse number 13 It says I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to The ancient of days and they brought him near before him So it's obvious that the Son of Man who comes in the clouds of heaven is Jesus and he's coming to The ancient of days so it's one person coming to another and then it says there was given him Dominion Well who gave the Dominion? to Jesus God the Father gave him the Dominion just as the devil had given Dominion to the Antichrist the devil gave him his power and his seed and great authority Well, Jesus Christ receives Dominion from God the Father why because the devil is a counterfeiter So his Antichrist is set up to be like Jesus Christ to impersonate Jesus Christ to be a counterfeit of Jesus and the dragon or the devil is like a counterfeit God the Father and The false prophet is like a counterfeit Holy Spirit. So it's like a satanic Trinity or an evil Counterfeit Trinity. So what we see here is that the ancient of days who is seated on the throne is God the Father and that's why we don't see his face described because Daniel would not be able to see his face and live and Then we have the the Son of Man come in the clouds of heaven to God the Father and then there is given unto him Dominion and Glory and a kingdom that all people Nations and languages should serve him his Dominion is an everlasting Dominion Which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed so we know that Jesus Christ The Son of Man who comes in the clouds of heaven is worthy of receiving all praise and all glory and all Worship and that all people should worship him now the Bible is pretty clear that you're only supposed to worship God Says thou shalt worship the Lord thy God and him only shalt thou serve So this is another proof of the deity of Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ is God Because he's worthy of worship and in fact when Thomas falls on his knees before him in John chapter 20 and says my Lord and my God and Worships Jesus. He says blessed art thou Because thou is believed and in fact all throughout the four Gospels you'll find Jesus Christ receiving worship Now when people try to worship the Apostles, what do they do? They pick them up off their feet and say hey, we're men like you don't worship us worship God, but Jesus Christ Being God is worthy of all Worship see the Bible tells us that in him in Jesus Christ Dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead Bodily now a lot of people misunderstand that word Godhead because it's a very old word And I think very few people actually understand what this word means Okay, there's actually a suffix in the English language hood But in older forms of English like Middle English around the 14 1500s this ending was not hood it was head and It changed over time But Bible words are slow to change So this word Godhead it actually means God hood is what it means. It's just an archaic form For example, there are old words like maidenhead the word maidenhead You can even look it up in a modern dictionary Maidenhead means virginity we would say maidenhood, but it used to be called maidenhead Well the same way with Godhead Godhead is just an old form of the word godhood Okay, and in fact, even if you just look up the word godhead in the dictionary You know what it'll say as one of the definitions godhood It's just an old form. Okay. So a lot of people have just taken the word godhead or godhood and just said Oh, well, that's just another word for the Trinity Like it's the Father Son and the Holy Ghost all collectively are the Godhead in a sense That's true because of the fact that obviously that does represent the godhood of you know Those are the three people that are God but When we actually look at the three times in Scripture that the word godhead is used because it's only used three times It's not a word that's used a lot It actually makes perfect sense that it means godhood or divinity or the state of being God Godness or godhood. It's just like we have other words like brotherhood maidenhood, etc Well, and and I encourage you to to fact-check me on this and you'll see that I'm telling the truth You got maidenhead godhead These are archaic forms from Middle English that just we're still hanging around Some of these forms even hung around till the 1800s I first noticed this when reading a book from the 1800s and it used the word maidenhead And it kind of took me aback and then it all started to make sense But if you look up the actual verses that use the term godhead for example in Romans chapter 1 It says that the invisible things of him from the creation of the world are clearly seen Being understood by the things that are made even his eternal power and godhead So that they're without excuse it makes sense that it's his eternal power and Godhood or divinity then when you get to acts when he talks about not making idols he's saying look we ought not to think that the godhead is Like to what carved images out of gold and silver and stone, right? You can't make divinity down to the level of being a carved chunk of whatever the material and then when you get to Colossians chapter 1 It makes perfect sense to say in him in Jesus Christ dwelleth all the fullness of the godhead Bodily, what does that mean? That means that Jesus Christ is fully divine. He is fully God So it's not that he's part of God or partially God or that you know The other two have to all come together and then they form God like Voltron Okay, but rather if you know what Voltron is And I'm not a Voltron expert but Voltron is like the Trinity in one way, but unlike the Trinity in another way Because it's true that all of the robots collectively make up Voltron Who even knows what Voltron is anybody? Oh, well great. Yeah. I'm a monk. We're among friends here in our escape I haven't seen it in about 25 years. So bear with me. But anyway All of the robots collectively make up Voltron so you could use that as an illustration that you know, the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost collectively make up the Trinity But the difference between the Trinity and Voltron is that each robot I correct me if I'm wrong I don't think you could call each robot individually Voltron Whereas the thing with the Trinity is that the Father just on his own can be called God Just God the Father all by himself in his own right is God and Jesus Christ all by himself in his own right is God and the Holy Ghost is All by himself and his own right God, you know, that's three different gods No wrong because the Bible teaches that there's one God that is made up of these three persons Three persons one God. Okay. So the Father is God the Holy Ghost is God the Son is God But yet it's one God that's the whole reason why we talk about the Trinity right? That's the the unity Is that it's one God in? Three persons, but each of them in his own right is God. That's why we say that they are co-equal Persons of the Godhead why because they are all equally God Meaning that Jesus is just as much God as God the Father is God and the Holy Ghost is just much God Jesus is not an inferior God or a Separate God or a created being but rather Jesus is every bit as much God as God The Father is God right why because in him dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily Jesus Christ is fully God and Part of being God is that you've always been around So Jesus is not a later created being but rather God Exists the one true God Jehovah the Lord God exists eternally as three persons The Father the Son and the Holy Ghost in eternity past and on into eternity future So I hope that helps you understand a little bit once you get the right meaning of the word Godhead It makes a little bit more sense But if you would look at verse 13 It says I saw in the night visions and behold one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to The Ancient of Days and they brought him near before him and there was given him Dominion and glory and a kingdom that all people nations and languages should serve him his Dominion whose Dominion Jesus Christ Dominion is An everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom that which shall not be Destroyed now you say wait a minute. I thought that Jesus Christ only gonna rain for a thousand years Why is it saying it's gonna last forever? Here's why because at the end of the thousand years Christ Kingdom is not destroyed At the end of the thousand years Christ Kingdom doesn't pass away at the end of the thousand years Jesus Christ delivers up the kingdom to the Father and then it says that the Son himself will be subject unto the Father and So at that point Jesus Christ continues to rule and reign under the Father's authority So it's accurate to say that he's gonna reign forever That's why it says the kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ and he shall reign forever and ever But then in the next chapter it says well, he reigned a thousand years, right? Well, he reigned a thousand years until what? until the devil rebels and Gog and Magog and all that and then what then the Father rules directly But Jesus continues to rule just as we continue to rule for a thousand years we rule and reign with Christ But you know what after the millennium we're still gonna be raining and ruling with him for all eternity It's just that the kingdom will enter a new phase, but it hasn't been destroyed I mean, that's what they're trying to do at the Battle of Gog and Magog is destroy that kingdom, but they fail Because the Lord destroys them So the Bible says his kingdom Christ's kingdom Jesus Christ Kingdom that which shall not be destroyed verse 15 I Daniel Was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of my head troubled me I came near unto one of them that stood by and asked him the truth of all this So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things So now we're gonna go back and interpret some of these things these great beasts which are four are four kings Which shall arise out of the earth, but the saints of the Most High shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever And just in case that wasn't enough even forever and ever Okay, so not only is Jesus gonna reign forever who else is gonna reign forever the Saints Well, yes the Father but in this verse who's gonna reign forever never the Saints shall take the kingdom and they shall reign forever And ever even forever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever and ever okay Verse 19 then I would know The truth of the fourth beast so he wants to ask specifically about that fourth beast And I think the reason why he wants to know specifically about that fourth beast is that he has a greater Understanding of the first three beasts. It's a little bit of a simpler prophecy to understand Babylon Medo-persian Empire the Greeks that makes sense. He wants to know about that fourth beast. That's the one that's the most interesting Which was diverse from all the others? Exceeding dreadful whose teeth were of iron and his nails of brass which devoured breaking pieces and stamped the residue with his feet and of the ten horns that were in his head and Of the other which came up and before whom three fell Even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spake very great things whose look was more stout than his fellows I beheld and The same horn made war with the Saints and prevailed against them now What did it say in Revelation 13 about the Antichrist? It said that he made war with the Saints and Overcame them, right? Well here it says that he made war with the Saints and prevailed against them so again There's no question that the little horn of Daniel chapter 7 is the Antichrist. That's crystal clear, isn't it? It says that he made war with the Saints and prevailed against them until So he prevails against them until the Ancient of Days came and Judgment was given to the saints of the Most High and the time came that the Saints Possessed the kingdom now. Wait a minute earlier in the chapter. It was the Ancient of Days that was sitting on that throne and It was the Son of Man who came Right and that word came is pretty important because we talked a lot about what the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ Christ second coming in the clouds So it said the Son of Man came with the clouds Now earlier in the chapter when he comes to the clouds He's coming to the Ancient of Days who's on the throne. Why? Because he just finished coming in the clouds to the earth and All of the dead in Christ rose first and those which were alive and remain were caught up together with him and they all Go where to heaven right? So that's why the Son of Man comes with the clouds to the Ancient of Days sitting on the throne But now in this scripture, it says the Ancient of Days came now Why is that the reason why is that the name Ancient of Days can be applied to either the Father or the Son? Just as the name God can be applied to the Father or the Son or the Holy Ghost just as the name Jehovah is Applied to the Father the Son and the Holy Ghost now I think the best way to illustrate this is that we have names that we share with our Father, don't we? Like for example, my dad's name is Raymond Anderson So if you were to call out brother Anderson We're both gonna turn around my dad's gonna turn around and I'm gonna turn around because we're both brother Anderson Okay, we both could share that title brother. We're both saved. We're both brothers in Christ and we could both share that name Anderson right but if somebody said Steven Anderson Well, Anderson is a name that I share with my dad, but Steven is a name that's unique to me That's a name that my dad doesn't have so if you said Steven Anderson, you're specifically talking about me You're not talking about my dad Okay, if you said pastor Anderson, you're no longer talking about my dad because he does not share that particular title either So there are certain titles and names that my father and I share and then there are certain Names and titles that could be unique to me like my first name or my title of being pastor. It's the exact same way With Jesus, okay. Jesus shares certain names with God the Father Like he shares the name God He shares the name the Lord. He shares the name Jehovah, right, but he does not share the name Jesus Okay, Jesus is a name that is unique to the Son of God. The name of the Father is not Jesus Okay, God the Father does not share that name. And again, I don't have time. I've done other sermons a Lot of other sermons where I proved that with Scripture that the name of the Father is not Jesus But we see that the term ancient of days Which is a rare title that we only find in Daniel 7 and nowhere else in Scripture is Applied to both father and son. What do we learn from that? We learn that they're both co-eternal We learn that they both are the ancient of days. Why because they both exist in eternity past That's why Jesus talked about the glory that he shared with the Father in John 17 he said before the world began that Jesus shared glory with God the Father So in eternity past you had the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost So the Bible says the ancient of days came verse 22 and judgment was given to the saints of the Most High That's us by the way, and the time came that the Saints possessed the kingdom us again verse 23 Thus he said the fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth Which shall be diverse from all kingdoms and shall devour the whole earth and shall tread it down and break it in pieces That's what's coming in the future folks This New World Order is not all sunshine and rainbows and unicorns It's gonna be treading down and breaking in pieces the earth. That's what the Bible says It says That the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise and Another shall rise after them. Who's the other that rises after them the little horn the Antichrist it says That another shall rise after them and he shall be diverse from the first and he shall subdue three kings Now we know from the book of Revelation that eventually in chapter 17 the ten kings have one mind They're all in lockstep ready to do the Antichrist bidding They are ready to do his will to give their kingdoms unto the beast that the Word of God might be fulfilled but apparently in the beginning there are three kings that are offering the Antichrist some resistance and He has to put them down. He has to subdue these three kings okay, but in the end all ten of them are on his side and the Bible says in verse 25 and he The little horn the Antichrist shall speak great words against the Most High and shall wear out the Saints of the Most High and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time now, we know of course that the times are years when Nebuchadnezzar went nuts Seven times was seven years a time and times and half a time Or here it says a time times and the dividing of time meaning part of a time Represents the three and a half years that the Antichrist will be in power How long did revelation 13 say he was going to be in power 42 months was 42 months? Three and a half years a time times and the dividing of time But the judgment shall sit and they shall take away his dominion To consume it and to destroy it under the end and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom Under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High Whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom and all? Dominions shall serve and obey him meaning they're all gonna serve and obey Jesus Christ hitherto is the end of the matter as For me Daniel my cogitations What is it? What are cogitations? His thoughts right cognito ergo sum, right? I think therefore I am so cogitations he says they much troubled him So his thoughts bothered him and that's how some people feel about this sermon right now You know, they're listening to all this Bible prophecy preaching or maybe when they read this in the Bible and it could be a little bit overwhelming It's a lot to process This is a complicated subject. So don't feel bad If some of this stuff goes over your head The first time you read through Daniel or the first time you hear Daniel preached You might not grasp everything the first time through the first time you read revelation or hear preaching through revelation You might not grasp everything the first time through. This is some heavy stuff and So it was so heavy that Daniel's cogitations much troubled him And he said my countenance changed in me Meaning his the way he looked his face changed Meaning you could look at him and tell man. There's something wrong with you He talks about later in the book receiving similar prophecies and being sick for weeks Just because this stuff is just so overwhelming It's so stressful being in the presence of these angels and and just seeing all these scary things That he ends up getting sick. You know this this these visions really lowered his immunity So he ends up being sick and troubled and and going to bed for a while It talks about later in the book his countenance changed in him But he said but I kept the matter in my heart and then the next verse in chapter 8 We're in a totally different Year, so at the beginning of chapter 7 verse 1 it said in the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Well when we get to chapter 8 it says in the third year of the reign of King Belshazzar So he gets this vision in chapter 7 and then it's two years later That he sort of gets the next installment and the next installment builds on some of the things that he learned in chapter 7 But it's completely different So when the Bible says that the Antichrist in verse 25 is gonna speak great words against the Most High and shall wear out the saints of the Most High and think to change times and laws and These shall be given into his hand unto a time and times the dividing of time Let me say a few more words about this verse and then I'll be done. This is an important verse first of all this 42 month time period Begins at the midpoint of what we know as Daniel's 70th week Okay, because it's at the midpoint that the abomination of desolation is set up which we're going to talk more about in chapters 8 and 9 But when that abomination of desolation is set up at the midpoint That's where the Antichrist Becomes the Antichrist and begins to rule and power is given unto him to continue from that point for 42 months That's why even after God begins to pour out his wrath for example with the fifth vial being poured out in Revelation chapter 6 it Says that the fifth vial was poured out upon the kingdom of the beast why because he's still raining the Antichrist continues to rain Through the trumpets and vials of God's wrath that are being poured out His kingdom is not taken away until after all the vials are poured out When he's wiped out at Armageddon and cast into the lake of fire, so that's the timing Now the Bible does say that he will wear out the Saints Okay, why because when he begins his reign of terror at the midpoint of Daniel 70th week Guess what? The Christians are not gone. The rapture hasn't happened yet. They're still there Okay So a lot of people believe in the pre-trib rapture and they think that everybody's just gonna be taken out of here before Any of the tribulation starts or any of the events of the end times, right? That's why it's called pre tribulation rapture or the imminent second coming of Christ or the imminent rapture But what the Bible actually teaches is that he does not come in the clouds for his elect until the Sun and Moon are Darkened so we're not raptured until the day of the Lord We're not raptured until the Sun and Moon are darkened which is the opening of the sixth seal Which takes place after the midpoint? Okay, because at the midpoint is where the Antichrist begins to make war with the Saints Well, who's he making war with if everybody's out of there and a lot of people say oh well You'll never see the church mentioned in Revelation after chapter 4. Yeah, but you see the Saints mentioned and The Antichrist is making war with the Saints. He's making war with Christians and That begins at the midpoint that's the opening of the fifth seal because what happens when the fifth seals open in Revelation It talks about how there's all these martyrs that appear in heaven that have been beheaded for Christ Why because that's the point where the Antichrist begins to severely persecute God's people and to even slay many of them and Except those days should be shortened There should no flesh be saved But for the elect's sake those days shall be shortened the Antichrist reign of terror is going to be cut short By Christ coming in the clouds and the rapture so there's going to be a period of Great Tribulation where many will be beheaded for the cause of Christ where the mark of the beast is implemented but it's not gonna go the whole 42 months because Christ is gonna come and Rapture the believers out part way through that. Okay. Now he will continue to reign for 42 months But he's only gonna wear out the Saints until they're taken out of this world So he's going to make war with them He's going to wear them out and then it says at the end of the verse he shall think to change times and laws Now modern Bible versions will change What the Bible calls the Antichrist which is the man of sin Right in second Thessalonians 2 the Antichrist is called the man of sin talks about the man of sin being revealed in The modern versions they change it from the man of sin to the man of lawlessness The man of lawlessness So when you hear these so-called Bible scholars or people that are into these modern versions the Bible of the month Club They don't talk about the man of sin Because the King James is much too hard to understand here The word sin is much too complicated and difficult of a word So they're gonna make it easier for you by calling it the man of lawlessness Now the Antichrist is not the man of lawlessness Because does it say here That he's going to seek to eliminate laws No, what does the Bible say it says that he shall think to change Times and laws now, let me tell you something. The Antichrist Kingdom is not going to be a lawless Kingdom Let me ask you this does it seem like America's heading toward lawlessness? No way. We have more laws than we've ever had We have too much law Okay, so the New World Order This one world system that we see coming into place. It's gonna rule with an iron fist Didn't we see that in this chapter? It's gonna break in pieces. It's gonna subdue It's not gonna be some anarchist paradise. I Mean a lot of anarchists would hear the man of lawlessness and say that sounds pretty good But let me tell you something. Nothing could be further from the truth. He's not eliminating laws He's not coming in with a big tax simplification and a big law simplification and we're gonna make it No, no, he's gonna be even more strict. He's just gonna change laws. It's gonna be a police state But it's gonna be different laws He's gonna seek to change times and laws. What are the what is that about? The times and laws are the current world order The laws that we have now and the times that we have now you say what what does that do with the time? Well, all of our time is based on the Bible Because even the very year 2018 what does it mean? 2018 years into Jesus Christ having been born in the year of our Lord Anno Domini 2018 so even atheists every single day when they write the date or sign a check They're actually acknowledging the Lord Jesus Christ and all these wicked God-hating Atheistic type scientists who create all these lies and don't believe the Bible they'll say 2018 CE So instead of saying Anno Domini in the year of our Lord they say CE current era But just because you call it current era guess what nothing else big happened that year So by saying 2018 you're still acknowledging that the current era started with what? the birth of Jesus Christ So that most significant event in world history when God was manifest in the flesh is the basis of all of our times Okay, how about the weeks? Where does that come from God creating the world in six days and resting on the seventh day? That's where that comes from So the seven-day week is acknowledging God and it's acknowledging actually the God of the Bible Even the date itself. That's why in the French Revolution when things got a little bit out of control and the Atheistic factions within the French Revolution started to get power and take over. You know what they did They actually sought to change times and laws. They switched from a seven-day week to a ten-day week Why just to distance themselves from religion just to become irreligious a Lot of people thought the end times were happening when they saw those guillotines and the French Revolution 1793 1794 beheading people and they thought Robespierre was the Antichrist many people thought that now obviously he wasn't But they saw things that were similar to that where they're getting rid of the seven-day weeks They changed all the names of the months To be names that had nothing to do with religion Okay from the previous French names and they even changed the years they didn't call it anymore 1793 1794 they called it year 2 and year 3 because they started with The French Revolution and started calling a 1 2 3 4 5 6 and counting the years in that way now that didn't last long It fell apart There was wrangling between different factions and eventually the monarchy was reinstalled and then there was another revolution And then the monarchy was raised I think France is on like their fifth Republic right now because they've had so many revolutions and gone back and forth But we know in the end times Something similar will happen. So we've already seen how it could happen Because you say oh man people will never change the date on the calendar. That's never gonna happen Really? It already happened in France In 1793, so there you go so it could happen again, so That goes to show just a little bit of a lifelike You know dress rehearsal of what it could look like when the Antichrist Thinks to change times and laws, so he's not the lawless one and I'll tell you why they changed it to the man of lawlessness There's an agenda behind that Because part and parcel of the end times is this Hebrew roots movement Right because we know that who is a liar, but he that deny it that Jesus is the Messiah He's Antichrist who denied the father and the son. Okay, we know that Judaism is going to be Part and parcel of the end times gonna be the religion of the Antichrist Why because they're still waiting for the Messiah to come so when the Antichrist comes that's their Messiah that they're gonna embrace and accept Well think about it. What are the Jews really into more than anything else the Torah? Isn't it all about the Torah for them and what does Torah mean Torah is just Hebrew for law Don't let this fancy word Torah fool you Torah just means law it's the Hebrew word for law, okay So they're pretty into what the Torah So to them well, the Antichrist is the guy who is not into the Torah The man of lawlessness because we need to get everybody back on the Torah Right. We need to get everybody on the Judaic System and That's what's going on and you could listen to my sermon The devil's master plan for the end times where I lay that out very clearly and I prove all that from the Bible That's outside the scope of this particular sermon, but he's certainly not the man of lawlessness. He'll have laws They're just gonna be different than the laws of the Bible That's why he's called the man of sin because he's all about violating God's law Sin is when you're violating God's laws But he's gonna have his own laws that are different from the laws of the Bible. He will change times and laws or he will at least think to or seek to not to say that he's going to be Entirely successful and then we have the great happy ending that he's wiped out and the Saints are the ones who inherit the kingdom Now, I hope that tonight's sermon helped you understand Daniel chapter 7 And I hope that you'll see from this sermon that although on the surface the book of Daniel seems pretty hard to understand pretty Cryptic pretty complicated. I Feel like we were able to break it down together I feel like everybody who's listening to me right now understands Daniel chapter 7 right now You were able to follow on so it's really not that hard when you just take it just one verse at a time but the key to understanding Daniel 7 or any chapter in Daniel is You've got to take what you learn in Revelation and apply it Because without revelation you're gonna end up like Daniel where your cogitations are really gonna trouble you You might end up having to take some sick days and just be getting a headache trying to process it all But that's good. Daniel didn't have the book of Revelation. I think if Daniel Would have studied the book of Revelation, which was obviously not available to him And if he would have just memorized it and understood it and known it like the back of his hand When the angel would have explained this stuff to him he would have just been like, of course Because it all fits like a glove and that's the wonderful thing about the Bible The Bible is very consistent with itself. And so the point is that Daniel is Not impossible to understand. It's not even that hard to understand but you just got to compare Scripture with Scripture and you can't isolate it from Revelation You've got to put it side by side with revelation and let revelation interpret it and then it all comes clear Let's bow our heads and have a word of prayer. Father, we thank you so much for this great book Lord and this great chapter I pray that you would help all of us to study to show ourselves approved to read your word to Meditate upon it. We have so much more of the Bible than Daniel had we had the whole 66 books Lord Help us to take advantage of This great library of your perfect word and of absolute truth Lord Help us to meditate upon a day and night in Jesus name we pray amen You You You