Is the best. In any consideration of the proof in religion no question and as with in any. Question and the Christian religion does not and so on. The existence of God That and many people who believe in God who are not Christians as vague kind of theism is common in England today and a star a gang a c s m That is an uncompromising denial of the existence of any kind of supernatural being is rare in this country most people accept the fact that there is something or someone and this is the last and intricate unit that's in which we live. That this belief in God conceived in some senses that created and sustained the world and of the universe is shared by all regret for elections and done as a loss of his hand to believe in God like that does not make the believe that a Christian. You know. The central question in the Christian religion which must be asked and which cannot be evaded is Who was Jesus the peasant Carpenter of Nazareth because the Christian religion is concerned fundamentally with his person who he was and what his mission what he'd come to do . Well who was he. Meant if you was widely divergent have been held. And it's popular at least I think in this country today God Jesus as having been a good man even somewhat said the best man who's ever lived. And as having been a great teacher. Said the greatest teacher who has ever George. And I want to commend to you today the suggestion that the next important line of investigation is to inquire. He held about in a so. To me this is the obvious the self-evident point of departure. It's curious how many people at all who. I read it to tell us what they think of Jesus whenever never even bothered to inquire what he thought of himself. This is the illogical and inconsistent position in which they found themselves that prepared to handle Jesus as a wonderful teacher. And yet to ignore his teaching about himself. Well then when the dusk What did he teach about himself. An excellent summary of this teaching is given in a text and loop 1910 the Son of Man came to seek and to say that which was lost. These words a speck into a man called us who was a dishonest tax collector in the employment of the realm and this. Jesus had called Heaven was a kiss had received Jesus into his house and Jesus had said. Salvation has come to this house and then he went on the following the 10 the Son of Man came to seek and to save that which was lost and I think it will be hard to find a more concise and comprehensive statement of his view about his person and mission than we have in this verse in this innocent sounding sentence 3 basic truths are in flight. Test here a god himself as the Son of Man. The son of man he said came to seek and to save that which was lost. He was here referring to himself in the 3rd person instead of saying I care to seek and to set that which was lost he preferred the expression the son of men. And this was in fact is favorite title for himself as Enniskillen. Couldn't of the Gospels nervous Jesus frequently used it of himself in the 3rd person and I could give you many examples perhaps these will do . The son of the man he said has or started to. To forgive since he had just to get in the sense of a man who was paralyzed then recite it to himself he says the Son of Man has all thought of it again or again to he had broken some of the scribe or regulations about Sabbath observance he said the son of man is Lord even of the Sabbath but again the Son of Man Messiah a man a thing this and the Son of Man will be delivered into the hands of men and they will kill him referring to his and anticipated sufferings and death. He did use this title a great deal for him so. The question is What does it mean. Well it's an aromatic expression and literally of simply means man and perhaps part of the reason why Jesus used this title was to emphasize his real humanity. About the title meant more than this and scholars are agreed that it was a title borrowed from the Old Testament wedded to used of the Messiah. God's King who is coming to establish a kingdom on Earth the Jews eagerly expecting. The message driving test it is in the prophecy of Daniel. Chapter 7 Let me read the 1014. I saw in the night vision says Daniel and behold with the clouds of heaven there came one night the son of man. And he came to the engine to is that your son and for the eternal God and was presented before him and to him that is to the Son of Man. Was given dominion and glory and a kingdom that all nations languages and peoples should serve him his dominion is an everlasting Dominion which shall not pass away and his kingdom won the chill not the destroyed. The essence of this remarkable vision of the prophet Daniel is that the Son of Man is coming with the clouds of heaven and going to establish an everlasting kingdom. On the remarkable thing is that there is no doubt what. Jesus applied this prophecy to himself. His whole message concerned the kingdom of God. The 1st words of his public ministry where the time has been fulfilled the kingdom of God is drawn near. Jesus taught that the Kingdom of God was being inaugurated by his 1st coming that he was going to come back at the end of the world to conceal that the Kingdom which he had in order at it. And this final event this council National the kingdom of Jesus called the Son of Man coming in His Kingdom. I suppose the next striking example of all is when Jesus was on trial at the end of his life before the High Priest in the Jewish Council the Sanhedrin when he said. You shall see the Son of Man sitting at the right hand and coming with the clouds of heaven which was an abundantly clear. Plan to fulfill the prophecy. That is down there no evidence whatever that Jesus regarded himself as simply add another prophet continuing or maybe completing the long succession of The Testament prophets know Paul from regarding himself as another prophet Jesus claimed to be as a massage whose cutting the prophets had predicted. The scripture is that witness to me he sent. Us is the great log of the bread about me. The father of the Jewish nation Abraham rejoiced to see my day. Or again on another occasion speaking to his disciples he said Blessed said I your eyes but I tell you it that men in prophets and cadence of this to see what you see and to hear what you hear that have been able neither to see and no hear it in other words that you are living in the day as a fulfillment. You are seeing and hearing that that is sickness which the prophets had predicted and said Jesus explanted on to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself he said that he was the shepherd of whom the prophet Zechariah writes. Who would see the sheep scattered abroad after he was some of them. Again he said that he was a suffering servant of the Lord whose dramatic portrait is painted in the 2nd part of the book about. What again he was the Son of Man coming with the plods of heaven in the vision of Daniel. Then Jesus believed and taught that all the marvelous prophetic Godhead and says that the Testament cotton urged upon him and that there found fulfillment in Him Jesus taught that his task was to set up the divine Kindle the rule of God in the lives of men which the prophet said for sale long horsy. All that suggesting is implied in this title The Son of Man. Not 2nd. He's also read God it himself as the Son of God. It's quite text again the Son of Man. Came to seek and to set that which was lost. Well your message was no mention of this the city believed he was the Son of God. It's not ex-president Screw that I'm bowed to said that it is clearly implied in this the us and that in the the Jesus you are to the Son of Man. He said part of me where did the son and then come from. Did he mean that the Son of man that come from the Galilean to Judea. Or that he'd come into Jericho. Oh that he'd come into the kiss is hot as. Plain that he didn't mean that the sun is now not just common to suggest his HA's to seek and to said that which was lost the sides in the Greek the verb which is an infinity in Attic position in the sentence is in the air is tense that is the Fed refers to a decisive event in the past not the Son of Man has come into Jericho but the Son of Man came. And that is the only one that just in that interpretation of the of this or that and that is that he can die from heaven. The whole teaching of Jesus expresses his consciousness that his life and his existence did not begin in the stable in Bethlehem where he was born the north Jesus was aware of the pre existence full. And his language witness to it. Take a man to day who is imbued with a strong sense of the cash an admission in the world he would never use the language Jesus used he might say of his life's work for this I was born but he could scarcely say I came for this so I was told that which of the 2 expressions Jesus used and when he said I came he meant from heaven and when he said I was sent he meant. And I think of the risk of living you must give some examples. Are you a king conscious that us Jesus during the trial and our Lord's reply the this or this I was born and for this I came into the world to bear witness to the truth. Jesus you see the recognize that he came. Into the world. Or again 1045 the Son of Man came not to this but to serve to give his life around some for many born again that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly John 10 the stem Oh Joy I'm 65 I am the living bread which can die from heaven. Born Again no man has ascended into heaven but he who came down from heaven the Son of man you see how often and these are. Examples elected at random but you see how often Jesus referred to his coming meaning his coming into the world. Or take the other expression is being sent I must preach the Good News of the Kingdom of God he said to the other set is also full I was sent for this purpose for us 43 and in the bread discourses us and John's Gospel God is described comment about Jesus as the Father who sent me what he described himself as he whom he had set. As an example John the side that says that a 730 at the Father who sent and has himself borne witness to me that you do not believe him whom he has sent. Well I don't think there's any need to multiply these examples the evidence is really quite plain and unequivocal that Jesus believed and taught that before he was born into the world of time he had lived with the father in eternity. Abraham was he said I am eternally preexistent. He kneeled in the word choice and John implies that he had come from God and that he went to God. Now this eternal relationship with God which I have suggested Jesus was conscious during the days of his flesh he described in terms of god being the thought and himself being the son. He was a way out of this intimate relationship between himself and the thought that it is not possible honestly to blur the issue about shrugging one showed us and saying Well that isn't God the Father of or man and bond or men the the sons of God because all their Jesus did teach that his disciples whether the children of God and that God was the father yet he meant and that this relationship was with the father which he enjoyed was unique and that their relationship was 2nd and to do it was derived from his it was a kind of a reception of the eternal reality which he knew and isn't consciousness. Yet is the Ness cracking statement of it all things have been delivered to Ned on that thought that no man has the sup except the father neither has any and then the next step the son and he to whomsoever the son chooses to reveal him. You see he speaks of the Father and the son in absolute terms and he claims that that is a unique reciprocal knowledge and understanding between the Father and the son. Or that on suggest it is implied in this that the Son of Man. From Heaven into the well. There then is the 2nd lesson that we may learn from this text that Jesus regarded himself as the Son of God. And that brings us to the 3rd which is the Jesus also regarded himself as the savior of the world. The Son of Man What did he come for what was he sent into the world for. The Lord Jesus gives us is a not for the Son of Man came to seek and to say that which was lost yet is a bit pregnant friends it's one of the catalyst definitions that you'll find in the Gospels of the purpose of which Jesus came into the world and it was taken up in a remarkable way the epistatic writers of the New Testament take Paul and John. Paul this is a faithful saying and worthy of all men to the received that Christ Jesus came into the world to say since it's a clear Echo isn't it of Luke 1910 or John one John for those 14 the thought the sent the son to the said. So the reason why Jesus was sent into the weather reason he came from heaven was not primarily to teach the ignorant nor even to reform the way would but rather to say of the last. That man fundamental need is not education that was there Sion there's no need to disclaim ish about the use of that word Jesus used it it comes in the previous 1st 9 he said has come to this hoss you see what is wrong with men it's not ignorance that sin that is rebellion against God a breach of the commandments of God a refusal to submit to the or starting of God This is the meaning of sin and the cause of his sin man is guilty and he stands on the righteous judgment of God. And salvation means 1st and foremost as deliverance from the guilt and penalty it. Was. This deliverance. Jesus came to bring He came to seek and to save that which was lost he took the initiative in his love. You remember the parable of the good shepherd who had a 100 sheep and the last one of them what happened. Where he went out into the wilderness to find that he didn't talk Leslie abandon it to its head he didn't leave it to bleated sway to the old No it was lost and the Shepherd went out to seek it and to say that. And the Bible says that we all know all relied sheep are gone astray we've turned everyone to his and way will last Sunday Adam's separated from God but in his infinite compassion God refused to give us up to the just reward about this he came most of us in Jesus Christ His Son He came down from heaven to seek and to save that which was lost. And his. His longing for us our vision took him to the death of the cross to bear the Good Shepherd laid down His life for the sheep he underwent on the cross for judgment to Josh in sadness righteously does it. Said Diana did jesus love us that in order to spare us the penalty of sin as he bore that penalty himself instead of us. The greatness of His love and that his suffering for our sins is not to diminish about the web which lacerated his back or by the crown of thorns on his head or by the nails which tore his flesh or the spear that were thrust in his side. We men measure the Gretna said he. That Gosling. My God my God Why has the sacred met. The penalty of sin is banishment from God. And this God forsaken mess which we discern the innocent Jesus in do it for us build his own us this is the lengths to which he was willing to go this is the depths to which he was willing to stoop in order that he might seek and. To a lost. Had them is all and said to the question of who was Jesus of Nazareth that this is what he thought and thought about himself he regarded himself as the Son of Man fulfilling Old Testament prophecy by stablish in the kingdom of God. Second he regarded himself as the Son of God who though eternally with the Father in Heaven yet came died to us. And that he regarded himself as the savior of the world who came and died to seek and to say of that which was lost. These us to display something to bestow on of men Son of God savior of the world and. Watch the show with him temporal while the said It is not recognized that the one cries for whose existence that is any evidence at all isn't a reckless figure making stupendous claims. And I think at this point I'm equipped problem Professor c.s. Lewis who says this on the one side. This isn't the Gospel story that is clear a definite moral teaching on the other claims which if not true there's a megalomaniac. Compared with whom Hitler was than a sane and humble of men there is no halfway house and there is no pattern that another religion has. If you were going to build up a notch 10 for you the son of Brahma he would have said my son you are still in the veil of illusion. Gone to Socrates and dos. Use us he would have laughed at you. If you don't deny Hammett in us while you ally he would have us to read his players and then cut your head off. If you'd ask and fuchsias all you haven't I think he would probably have replied remarks which are not in accordance with Ned thought in that test. The idea of a grad model t. Just saying the kind of thing that Christ said is out of the question in my opinion went on Professor Lewis the only person who can said that sort of thing is either God or a complete lunatic suffering from that hole in the delusion which on the mind is the whole mind of the now. Well I agree with Professor Lewis to you. Here to the stupendous claims of Jesus of Nazareth we must come to terms with them we cannot ignore them and we cannot helplessly dismiss Jesus of Nazareth as having been just a good man and a great teacher as measures of our fellow countrymen tried to do why if this is what he taught about himself that he was a son of man a son of God to say that of the world we cannot dismiss him like that rather we shall have to decide that he was either a dastardly pasta who has deceived millions of people into believing his lies or he was himself deluded his poor 9 and missed or he was cruel as I suggested the end the 3 possibilities were Christian. Unconditionally reject the slot and the Jesus was either a liar on the one hand or a lunatic on the other these there is some good to not had the facts that are inconsistent with the evidence. Take a lie are we to believe that he who said. The truth and that he had come to bear witness to the truth deliberately and lied himself. All the disappeared that he who condemned the south to Caesar the hypocrisy went and it clips their hypocrisy about his. Surely we can not believe that. Alright then was he mad. But was he was he mad who lives of July had incomparable Maro Splenda he loved publicans and sinners he had compassion on the og cos and lepers and harlots he washed the feet of his disciples like a common sled and he prayed for the forgiveness of those who inflicted upon him the torture of prisoners action Tell me all these things his compassion and love his humility and on the selfishness and self must that a god these things the sometimes of paranoia. Short of you cannot believe that. Christian then prefer to accept. What Jesus taught at its face value that he was the Son of Man and The Son of God and the save out of the word out and this is the irreducible minimum the Christian belief about Jesus that after his person he was a son of man the son of God as to his notion he came to seek and to say that which was lost. Do you believe that not enough to believe we've got to act upon our belief. We must come person at a Jesus of Nazareth and with Thomas full and. His feet and said in my go out. And then. Receive Jesus into his. We must receive Jesus into some lives and then go up personality and we commit to him. And. That's what it means to be a Christian and only a Baptist in the system. And can say that which was the last. You've been listening to John Stott listen to Faith of Our Fathers and hear more greats 20th century preachers the preceding program is sponsored by Crawford broadcasting. The nation's most powerful Christian Voice World War orld y. At 678 Kayla t.t. Dot com and all over Colorado in digital age d n a m 670 Kayla t.t. Comer City Denver. A. Distance slowed. Oh no no but it is. Were close is. One of the many reasons that I love the Bible is that it records God at work in the lives of people not only in people's lives but in the life spans of nations as well as in Pires welcome through the Bible I'm your host Steve Schwartz and I'm so glad that you're here for another intriguing study in the Book of Daniel as always our teacher is Dr j. Vernon McGee and we're in Daniel Chapter 2 beginning at verse 40 and as we've already seen the Book of Daniel not only records the history of what was specifically the Babylonian Empire but it also describes what will be in terms of God's program for future events still to come now this is Dr McGee sweet spot as he recorded a special introduction to this section of our study so let's listen to it now. I want us to get our tea and of this book of Daniel because it's one of the greatest minds stretches that there is it's mind boggling in the vast area that it takes in as we show say we won't explore the significance of this vision that we've been looking at and also Yet some background material and in this vision we have an overview of the over Gentile world power and we need to get a broad perspective of God's great game plan for the future of this little planet on which we happen to be God vacs a who David and his line of glow Rhea's future of a global Kingdom quicksand vision the end tar world listen to this from Psalm 45 Verse 6 live for Oh no God is forever and ever a scepter of the Kingdom is a right. Doll love is innocent it is wickedness therefore God by God Athan on it be with the all of gladness above by fellows that speak solve the largest cry and in the time that he's a Ryan on this earth some day now that that kingdom by the way that he vouchsafed to David is in shambles. And was in shambles at the time of Daniel and its site waited 8 people were in captivity then Jerusalem was in rubble and the temple was in ruins and petted tribal to achieve by the name of Ned You can has found himself a whirl ruler after a few brilliant military exploit and he wondered about the future and God gave him a dream spoke to him in his own language but the wise men could not interpret if he had sent the Harvard of Harvard had been in existence at that time they wouldn't have been able to help him either God let him see the vista of the future on follow it for his eyes or great whirl and pies with splenda and a band of trumpet and I don't know about you but I say they'll look at our Rose Parade out here and it's just larded with bands from all over the country and the world. And the van that I like to hear above all others as them are ringing by and that comes by and knows well as stand ins right and tall and they're playing a patriotic number I resent the lowering in our nation my friend and I'm afraid that many of us have lost the glow Ray that was in our nation and I think that it's departed and has gone elsewhere and now the question though arises why do we have. An POTUS why wasn't Egypt included Well Egypt and had its day about the time of Daniel already his true had been written and so he begins with this man that you can as a 1st of the great world rulers and as we've said they is a great man of the past in these kingdoms but as Kipling wrote the captains and the Kings depart stales stans than ancient sacrifies anomaly when I come try hard so that the pride of these nations went down in the dust and finally there is a stone cut out without hands and friends that stone as cut out without hand it means that the it day of human hands had nothing in the world to do with it it wasn't human it was God himself the one that is mentioned here in the 45th Psalm now we live in the time of the our iron and the clay and actually there is to be one world ruler and he's coming now be one will serve and that will not be and tell a large Jesus comes but. Why. That kingdom that comes into existence is the kingdom of Christ and it seems to me that we're moving raft fast that we're that Kingdom today and I want to look at young not Kingdom however and say that hang down that is to be set up on this earth but I'm going to wait on next time to describe that kingdom because it's end contrasts. Kingdom today as we show say Wow that's quite a survey of history let's pray and go deeper into the Book of Daniel now Heavenly Father we look forward to the day that your kingdom comes and your perfect will is done on the earth help us keep our eyes on you until then in Jesus name Amen Now here's through the Bible with Dr j. Vernon McGee. Now we're back today friends at 40 a verse of the 2nd chapter of the Book of Daniel and we saw last time that then you know is now call into the presence of King net you can as and he has not only told him his dream but he said interpret thing is dream this man is saying a great image and God is speaking to him in the language that this man understands and care you have the outward splendor and lowering and the majesty of the kingdoms of this world and they do have an outward splendor and lowering and God is revealing that this man and he's been told that he is the head of go and he has also Colette after him is coming on kingdom that's in theory a tilling and that would be the arms and brass of silver and then after that kingdom would be a kingdom bronze and that kingdom would by rule with the whole learn that would be Alexander the Great the grackle Macedonian Empire and the Empire before it was the medio Persian Empire now we come in verse $48.00 to the 4 Kingdom and I want to reiterate again that does not happen to be a 5th king yes for that's important to keep in mind verse 40 and the 4th kingdom shall be strong is on bar as much as our break if in pieces and subdue it all things and as I and that break of all days shall it break in pieces and broods Now verse 41 and whereas the house saw I saw the he and toes part of potter's clay and part of on the King. Shall be divided but the actual the end of the strength of the on this much is now so as they are next with my recliner and as the close of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken and where as now so I sign next with my rick play they shall mingle themselves with the seed of man but they shall not here one to another even eyes is not mixed with clay Now that's a remarkable passage of Scripture 1st of all let me say that more attention is directed to this 4th chain them than the other 3 kingdoms put together 4 verses are used here to describe it and to interpret it by Daniel where as 2 of the kingdoms the media Persian and the right go Macedonia only one verse describes it that's verse 39 and the 4th kingdom is the kingdom of the latter days and you remember that is exactly what Daniel told him that you can as that they image was all about he says the God in Heaven the living God that you know nothing about this man that he can as a worship that which he could say I don't Babylon has been called a fountain head of idolatry and God is speaking game through an image but it's an image not to be worshipped by the way and he tells him that he can as a what shall be in the latter days in other words that was the thinking of this man that you cannot use area as a whirl ruler west of this thing go and Diane and friends were still living in this period I think of the latter days and not still of vital question today how in a world is a single and I am I have a message on the subject what's this world I'm into so that here. We have what is this world coming to it's a very pertinent question in this day in which we're living that is something else that I'd like to call attention to now I want to stand off and look at this image it's all inspiring tremendous size I think it towered over the entire plane of Babel and as a net beacon as a saw it in his vision and is a multiethnic image it has a head a goal that speaks of Babylon this man Daniel says and that it can as a lark I had to go and they brass in arms are seldom needy and Persian brass is the Rakhal Macedonians that is the sides of it and then they legs are of iron and that's Rome now there is inserted clay into. And that's the lice form of the Roman Empire by the way now all you have here for am parts now there are several observations that I want to my about this image that is 1st of all the definite deterioration from one kingdom to another and it's made there it clear in I think here several various piece. And I must add ness that this is on. A modern philosophy a modern opinion of the point today that we're all getting better and better every day and that evolution is working and my it's on we're not we're for ever and that after former government is the best form of government which it's not and that actually today we are a supply area people and we are not but that's the way we've been taught and I you know they're human race has always loved a padded cell phone the back and say like a little comma Tucker it was a little comma talk. Some level file and he sat in a corner and he reached into the PIOs eating and he stuck in his thumb and pulled out aplomb and he said what a smart boy there's a lot of folks running around like a little comic talker and I'm not sure it was a little comma Tucker that did that but is one of the little fellas that was in Mother Goose may I say to you that you have here de Terry Asian one kingdom after another and each one is inferior to the one before it now that is revealed 1st of all in the quality of the mantel its goal is finer than Silva and celebrates finer than brass and actually brass is finer than. An iron is better than Clay although it's mixed with it so that there is definite deterioration then here is something that tray gallies called attention to years ago it was a great Stalin and that is these face the gravity of the metals those of you study chemistry now know about this that each metal shows deterioration Jealous is the one calls attention to that of the specific gravity of the metals and then the 3rd thing that reveals to carry ation is the possession of each metal that a head has more on her than the feet have I'm sure that we all agree to that then the 4th is the various the same fix statement of Scripture here for instance we had told to Les here in verse 13 man and after the show arise another kingdom in Syria to day and another 3rd kingdom and that is to be in theory again so that the statement of scripture it's very clearly stated here that each kingdom is in. Variant of the one before e. Now that bell rang that I would have you observe is the division of sovereignty and that's important to see there is a definite division of sovereign debt that denotes weakness Now never you can as is the head of go but there are 2 arms of the media Persian Empire and the Babylonian Empire was stronger because there was not that division not bifurcation in the Empire and the Graco Macedonia an Empire begins with one but it soon divided into 4 and Rome has 2 legs of on but it eventually send a 10 toes that are composed of both Tire and Clay cells at that yes here and I'd have vision of sovereignty. And I heard one of these movie stars in one of the as interview programs program and I'm convinced that they talk too much but make all of us who for that matter but this party make this statement she says I believe in democracy Well I don't rans I believe in our form of government and our form of government is actually not a democracy it is a representative form of government they don't ask me to come up to Washington to make any decision that a lot of people have been going to Washington telling them how to do and I think somebody needs to tell them but that it telling them are the wrong people that doesn't mean I'm the one to go up that because I think I would make as big a fool of myself as some of them have made of themselves and it's quite interesting these bleeding hearts that were running around your member talking about we should stop the bomb and then that we should get out of North the Naam and we'd bring our boys home and I never heard one of those fellows have anything to say inserting I was bleeding heart they actually said they were hurting them several statements have been made that those people actually were on our side of the enemy so that where frankly I'm a detention that a democracy is not really the best form of government and you know what God's form of government's going to be just exactly like that of the head of go only this time it's that rock that's cut out without hands and that one is none other than a large Isa's Christ and he's going to reign over this or and he's not going to ask anybody's advice about how to do it he will not have a Congress and he'll not have a cabinet and he'll not be calling the put you to vote for him if you don't make a decision for him my friend you just won't be there that's all. And not don't rebel against that because this happens to be his world he created it what did you and I have a do we're just you know little pygmies running around down here and God has as much right to remove you or me from this little world as I have to remove those ions that get into my house and to get into my yard I put out poison for those followers I want to get a read out why because they don't fit into my program well I want to tell you there are a lot of us are not sitting in God's program this is his world he's going to make it to suit himself and my friend I don't care what you think or what I think it's going to be what he thinks it's and that's the thing is important and his form of government is going to be I think one of the most strict form of government in the world has ever seen I don't think Roosters going for a war and that day then get his permission and you talk about a dictator the Lord Jesus Christ is going to be a dictator and my friend if you not well in the vow to him I don't think you would even want to be in His Kingdom when He sadnesses that era punished sir and maybe it's good to ease got another place where the folk like that because it wouldn't be nice for them to be here and I don't think that enjoyed it all large form of government is absolute ruler of a team now I say to you last sovereign take one ruler and it's going to be dictatorial and His will is going to provide that's a reason that it's well to practice today that when they him brands and acknowledging him because of the fact he's going to take over one of these today now will you notice something else is that from the head of dough that it can toast of iron in the cellar can that is marked deterioration. Now I'm telling back to all of this in chapter 7 and I'm not giving stay safe it's concerning each one of these kingdom when we get to Chapter 7 we'll be dealing with stay safe and at that time we're going into a great deal of detail because the vire the 4 wild piece that Daniel saw in his dream cover the same period the same kingdoms and a great deal more was given to Daniel and was given a name you can as of now there's something else I'd call your attention to here before we move on no great world power follows Rome the Roman Empire is the last and it will be in existence in the latter days actually it exists today you see all of these other OS were destroyed by an enemy on the outside but no enemy destroyed Rome until of the Hun came inside the city but he was so awestruck by what he saw and he realized he couldn't handle it he took his barbarians and left town and no enemy destroyed it the Roman Empire fell apart and you have actually Rome living in the great nations of Europe today Italy I'm sure is one of them Rome is there of course I'm sure France is part of a Great Britain mostly Germany Spain that is they all Roman Empire just fell apart and the laws of Rome live on actually the language nobody speak in Latin but Latin does help you to understand French and Spanish and I'm told it helps with these other languages that it's very important to laws of Rome live on in these different nations and the spirit the warlike spirit far Europe has been at war ever sence that. In the east kingdoms now what's happening today there is actually a new psychological viewpoint taking place in Europe they come a Young people today many of them in France and Italy they don't like to be call Italians or French or German they like to be call your opinion but may I say to you that's creating a basis because one of these days this is coming along a man and he's known in stitches the my on the sand are they and I price he's going to put that back together again now they're trying to do it but they have a common market and I'm sure that they are well along and doing that but not in Tel God takes down the road block with that man a pair because he Satan's man and God won't let him a pared girl he calls out his people to his name and when he does he'll remove his church that is carrying on his program day friends whether it looks like it or not and that 4 we find here that will come want to put that Roman empire back together again that's the reason I never speak of the resurrection of the Roman Empire that implies it died it never did die I could go to the nursery and pick up something else and dump this out on a war come to dump they had a great law and all the king's man and all the king's horses just can't put Humpty Dumpty back together again but you say it fell apart like Humpty Dumpty and they've done a lot to try to put it back together again but they haven't succeeded that was one of the missions of the Roman Catholic Church at the beginning and you find Charlemagne attempted to put it that together again and he didn't succeed and you find Napoleon attempted it and several Empress of Germany Kettler attempted muscle lenient them but so far the man has not yet appeared I think the gall actually had that. In mine but he didn't get very far with it but it's not quite ready for that one to appear now we come to curse 44 and 45 and you here now say the destruction of Gentile world powers and the full establishment of the kingdom of heaven upon the earth how is all of this going to end what will be the end of this last kingdom the one that's represented by the claim which I think speaks of the masses of the people the different nations and that's in the 10 toes and then they are and that's Rome that lives on how is all that going to end well it's going to and just the way that we're told here and in the days of these teams shall of God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be just throw and the kingdom shall not be left to another but it should break in pieces consume Ollie's kingdoms and it shelves than are ever now break off the reading right there. Dan Rivers or the 4 and we're going to pick up the next time because this is very important to say how it ends and then we'll move on into Chapter 3 so on tell next time my daughter actually bless you my beloved. 1st us alone eons for tells us to encourage one another by reminding each other of wonderful things to come in God's program for the future Dr McGee has written and spoken a great deal on biblical prophecy and you can find many of these resources at t t v dot org And you can always call us at 1865 Bible if we can help you find something specific now as we go I pray that God richly blesses you as you walk with him today and every day until we join the Lord in His presence at last and see all these marvelous truths that we've learned about today with our own eyes I'm Steve sweats and I'll meet you back here on Monday as we continue to make our way through the Bible. Service now live lol. 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Recent events in Adela's courtroom have brought the ire of the Freedom From Religion Foundation this is the public square with Dave's an Audi and the crew of the American Policy Roundtable m when Shepard Davis pick up the story once again when we've got a lot of new listeners and not everyone is for 1000000 with the Freedom From Religion Foundation and other organizations like them that have weighed in criticizing the judge in the Texas case who dared to come off the bench and privately have a conversation with the person who had just been convicted and was on her way to prison and handed her a Bible Jeff we're talking about this organization you got there byline right here's their Web site right here in the top it says they are the largest Free Thought Association in North America 40 thought that the Freethought unless you happen to be a Christian or to Maryland express those are trying to stifle free or I guess religious at any level because they're the freedom from religion organization in their defense I've got to tell you sometimes I'm very happy to be free from religion if what we're talking about or some of the institutional human practices that have been done in the name of God or the Bible or the scriptures or his son there's a lot of religion I'd like for everybody to be free from but in this particular case they're trying to sanction a judge for her free speech for free expression she wasn't preaching to anybody she I mean we were saying an hour long from our practice if she had gotten off the bench taken off her robe and met the woman across the street in a coffee shop and said the same thing to her they still would have objected because they don't like what she said and this is a unique case I don't know if she does the same thing if the brother has an. He forgiven this person and suggested she differ life to Christ and that's true and I think she was following through with what the everyone had just witnessed you've just had a taste of what it's like on the long form edition of the public square you can listen to that on radio and on line at the public square. One of America's most famous lighthouses Cape Hatteras light has been guiding ships for nearly 2 soon Crucible weathering more than 100 hurricanes so many lives that we depend on don't always survive the storms the marriage we thought would last forever the person who let us down our health we need something it's unshakable to guide us through the toughest times Jesus said I am the light of the world never follows me will mock walk in the darkness oh nothing like why he is the one certain mind your heart only he can remove the wall see the doing and God for all your storm store time is in even for your final journey there's a light there will always be there his name is Jesus to learn more a day. That a day. Or visit Hell God origin. Blessed are the peacemakers Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness Blessed are the most of all. But they sound receive mercy. Sees this coming back soon a crafter Broadcasting Company God and Country moment. 60 minutes of good news starts now on the nation's most powerful Christian voices this is am 67 days calle t.t. Entail t g h d commerce it again and streaming world war 670 calle t j God God No f. a 95. A. Company in. The craft stand this week the president of Crawford Broadcasting Company Dawn Crawford is going to talk about sex so do you need to ask the kids to leave on the contrary they need you to help them understand what we thought was once pretty clear God made them male and female a creation there was no l g b t Q There was only male and female. And a man show cleave to a woman says the Scriptures his wife and a woman to a man her husband and the Scriptures should you believe them make it clear that a man shall not lay with a man and a woman shall not lay with a woman to do so as not only biologically unnatural but morally and spiritually unacceptable that according to the God of Abraham and our Lord Jesus Christ it wasn't up to us to decide or categorize differently that was the way it was and that was accepted as the norm the normal the right since the time of Adam and Eve the definition of the term sex was clear and accepted and respected. And that definition was understood by all including our very own Congress when in 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed that act provided protection for male and female and Title 7 prohibiting discrimination based on race color religion national origin and of course you're ready for this and sex but then came l g b t Q And the definition of sex was challenged and a new legal and constitutional question arose does the term sex in Title 7 of the 1964 Civil Rights Act.