Tidings from the East and the North

Let's pray. Dear Father God, the church is a place where we can

open the Bible and we can tackle deep things. You've said, Come now,

let us reason together, says the Lord. Nobody here has all the

answers, But we've been told that we're supposed to open the book. We're

supposed to study it and pray for the Holy Spirit to lead us into truth.

Now we are living at the end of time, Lord, I mean

people who aren't paying attention to news and realize that we're as close to nuclear

exchange since the end of the Cold War, and that this world is shaky,

and what we have enjoyed as religious freedom will one day be gone.

And so Father, you've moved on my heart to open Daniel eleven, the

most difficult chapter in the Book of Daniel, and to have a study with

the church today. May we not go bored because it's hard, open our

bibles and engage so we can be a found worthy of rightly dividing the Word

of God Jesus name, Amen, you kind of know what I'm going to

preach about today, and I actually teach preach because my goal today is to

show you the Gospel and the greatest attack to the gospel in the Book of

Daniel, and Jesus told us we needed to. And the title of the

messages Tidings from the East and the North, taken from Daniel eleven. The

scripture that you read just beautifully. Thank you, very proud of that.

Who was the one I read the verse today? Yeah, that's what I

thought. I thought, was you I got it? Yeah, you'll be

a preacher one day or something. No, Emmanuel, you did, Yeah,

No, I was thinking. Also the Sabbath school where you read up

there, both of you, two of you read that. You read the

scripture reading, but you read in the children's story, right, okay,

click, but you can read and you can read too, Emmanuel, thank

you so much. The title of the message is Tidings from the East and

the North. It has been said that bad news travels at the speed of

light, and that good news travels like molasses. Is that true? It

is? Why, because there's something in human nature wants to dwell on bad

news, and we want it as quick asly as we can get it.

The whole news network out there, that news networks are fashioned on the idea

get as much bad news as quick as you can. The ratings go up,

but sometimes we have a hard time latching onto the good news when it

comes into our lives. Now, the Bible is about good news. There

is bad news in it too, but not for the Christian there's good news.

The young Jewish girl Anne Frank, who died in nineteen forty five at

the end of the Jewish Holocaust, believe that every person is full of an

amazing potential that is fundamentally good news. She wrote this in her optimistic diary

and I have it on the screen. Everyone has inside of him a piece

of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you

can be, how much you can love, what you can accomplish, and

what your potential is. Now I mean this little girl struggle to stay alive

in World War Two. She died in nineteen forty five. They found them

hiding in their home. She is a victim of a holocaust, and yet

in the midst of her suffering, she could say, guess what, there's

something good inside of us. Let's lean on the good I believe that little

girl is going to be in the King of God and Frank. In the

Bible, it is revealed by the prophets that there is in sight of God

himself, an amazing potential beyond any human potential we possess. Because God has

an infinite potential, an infinite capacity to love us in his eternal nature and

power. We ever wrapped your heart around that God can love you infinitely,

and He can love every single being is vast domain infinitely. And yet,

as sinners that is not obvious to us, we have no idea just how

good God is inside of him self towards us in Christ. Unless Jesus is

the light that shows us exactly who God is. Why do we need Christ?

Why do we need Christ as God? Because we cannot come to the

Father Unless Christ is God. With us Emanuel, we would never know the

unseen Father. No creed being can reveal the character of God. In the

Old Testament, God told Moses that his name is I am who I am

the Lord Yahweh Jehovah. It means the same thing, I am who I

am God, And in fact is when you look at the ten Commandments,

I am the Lord your God who, and then it gives you the content

of I am as the ten God is his character, that is his name,

who he is. God is, Love has ever been, ever will

be. I am who I am. In Christ latches onto that language in

the Old Testament, he applies it to himself and the Gospel of John.

He says, I am the Good Shepherd. He says, I am the

life of the world. I am the Bread of life. I am the

Way, the truth of life. I am the Son of Man, the

God. No one comes to the Father, but through me, I and

my Father are one. These kinds of statements are rightly understood with the Rabbis

to be blasphemy, because you make who are a man, make yourself out

to be God. They got it. C. S. Lewis calls it

the shocking alternative. Christ is either God or he's not. He's right.

No one comes to the Father, but through me, I and my Father

are one. And he told Philip that if you see me, you have

seen what the Father. In the New Testament, the content of God's holy

character is that I am who I am God. Yeah, way, Jehovah's

finally revealed in Jesus Christ, who is himself the good news of the Gospel

of God. You see, if God is a bad guy, if God's

character is rotten, then who wants to know God. Let's get as far

away from him as we possibly can. But when Christ came to this world,

we finally see that our God is a beautiful God, that our God

is a loving God, that the authority of Christ. When you look into

the eyes of Christ, you see the Father. Jesus says. We would

never know God as a God of love, and we would never know who

he is in his character unless Jesus Christ came to show us, to demonstrate

to us his magnificent character and law of love, and to die for our

sins, to save us without setting aside one single precept of his holy law

of justice and mercy, without violating his character, he saves us. The

Gospel prophet Isaiah proclaimed that God's name, that is God's character, God's law

is revealed in the good News of the Gospel that concerns Jesus Christ, the

Gospel of Peace. He is the Gospel prophet. Open your Bible's turn to

Isaiah fifty two, verse six. Isaiah, who's a foretaste of Paul Paul's

theology of justification by faith in beca Romans is coming from Isaiah. Isaiah fifty

two is part of that as it works into the outward of the exposition of

Christ as the Lamb of God. Therefore my people shall know my name,

now God's name, God's laws, same thing, God's character, that's his

name. I am who I am. Therefore in that day they shall know

that is I who speak. Here am I Now what kind of I am?

Who I am God? We worship? We worship, and I am

who I am kind of God? Who says, I am here. See

I'm not so far out there that I can't be in your life. I

am and I am here kind of God. And I reveal my name by

coming into your life. Now look at the next verse. How beautiful upon

the mountains are the feet of him who brings good tidings, good news.

That's the Gospel, who publishes peace, who brings good tidings of good who

publish a salvation, who says, des I and your God reigns. We

worship, and I am here, I am who I am kind of God.

And when we have Jesus in their life, we know what that means.

We could see the Father in the eyes of Jesus. The good news,

friends, is beautiful because God's character, that is, God's law,

is revealed in the life the death and the resurrection, the ministry, the

coming to earth of Jesus Christ. So I'm not ashamed of the gospel.

You know, some people say, pastor mine in fact is I was in

a place many years ago where they thought I'd preach Jesus too much. Can

you believe that? I mean, I gotta, I gotta. One of

my administrators called me in preaching Jesus too much in the pulpit, and then

they said preaching prophecy too much too. Now, the funny thing is is

that prophecy is the testimony of Jesus. I mean, my goodness, I

want Jesus. I want Jesus and my whole Bible from Genesis to Revelation.

But don't ask me to cut my Bible out and throw away Jesus and the

person who shares the good news. The Bible says, his feet are beautiful

upon the mountain, how beautiful in the mountain of the fee of the one

who has good news. You know whose feet were nailed at the top of

Mount Calvary. It was Jesus's feet. Because Christ brought the good news to

this earth. He is the good news now. In the Book of Daniel,

Jesus appears in every single chapter. Some people don't realize this. And

Daniel one he is the Lord who allowed his nation to go into captivity and

to Babylon to discipline them for their horrible sins. And Daniel two he's the

what you know, He's the He's the rock cut out of them mountain at

the end of time, the Tarah Kingdom, the king rock that comes and

smites the image. And Daniel three he's the fourth person in the what in

the fire and it shows that he goes through the fire with us in life

and Daniel and Daniel four he is the watcher who comes down, who softens

Nebbi Kannezzar's heart, who passes judgment on him. And Daniel five he is

the unseen watcher who writes on the wall the final judgment of Babylon, Holy

Spirit hand, Christ's hand, the word of God on the wall opposite the

lambstand Jesus, the lad of the world. And Daniel six he's the Angel

of the Lord, who is the Lord in the lions den who will later

be called the lie. I have a tribe of Judah facing down to lions,

so Daniel will be okay. And Daniel seven he is the son of

Man who goes to the judgment in our beff to receive his kingdom for us

just before the second Coming. And Daniel late he is the wonderful certain one

the Hebrew would say, who knows the future, who is the mighty man

who appears to Daniels, the Prince of the Host who dies for the world

at the end of Daniel Late as the Prince of princes, he's the hero.

And Daniel nine he is the Messiah, prince cut off killed for his

people in the mighty flood of sin and woe. And Daniel ten he's the

man in Lenin who has a white robe of righteousness for all of us who

have no righteousness. And Daniel eleven he is the Prince of the Covenant verse

twenty two, swept away by the flood of the King of the North at

the cross, the Roman King of the North. And Daniel twelve he is

Michael, the great Prince who watches over God's people in every age, who

resurrects the dead at the end of the age, which means Michael has to

be God can't resurrect, deliver unless you are life, unless you have life

unborrowed underived, who is who's also the man in Linen and Daniel twelve,

who stands over the waters as the guardian protector of God's people in every age,

who ends the persecutions of the Middle Ages, who opens the Book of

Daniel at the time of the End, who brings a rise to the great

Advent movement in that prophecy around the year eighteen forty four. Like the book

Revelation, Let's not miss it, the Book of Daniel is a revelation of

Jesus Christ. We've been told that when the Book of Daniel is rightly understood,

there will be a revival among God's people and a whole new religious experience.

And Matthew twenty four, Jesus told us that the end will come one

day when this gospel goes to the whole world as a final witness to the

nations. In Matthew twenty four, Christ on the Mount of Olives, just

before he dies, is talking about the end that comes after the time of

the End and the end that comes after the fall of Jerusalem. He merges

them, and he's working off of Daniel eleven to twelve. In Daniel nine,

he's describing events that would happen with the destruction of Jerusalem, but also

at the very end of time. So we have to study to know the

difference and know how to integrate them. But Matthew twenty four thirteen to fifteen

has two applications. The Gospel went to the world in the days of the

apostles, and the Gospel goes to the world at the time of the end.

Let's read it verse thirteen. But he who endures to the end,

what does it say in your bible? So are you looking at it so

well he might be saved? Is that what it says in your Bible?

What does it say he will be saved? Is that the language of certainty.

I don't know about you. I don't like coming to church to have

someone made me feel like I can't be saved. How many of you know

that you struggle with sin in your life every now and then? You in

that camp, okay, the preachers in that camp. We all struggle with

faults of character. We fall short of the globe of God. And I

need to know that when I surrender to Christ and I say, Lord,

make me willing to be willing, because my nature struggles against God's law.

Like Romans seven says that if I have faith in Christ, I hang in

there with Christ, I will be saved. I'm in that club of will

be saved kind of people because of Jesus. Are you in the club?

Raise your hand? So what does it mean? Though? It means that

if you don't give up on Jesus, God will save you, and Jesus

will not give up on you, period. So why would anyone in their

sane religious theological mind choose to give up on Jesus Verse fourteen. And this

Gospel of the Kingdom will be preached throughout the whole world as a testimony,

a legal testimony to all nations. And then what does the text say?

Then the end will come. Now, friend, let's think about this.

Jesus isn't coming just because things get bad. So, oh, the world's

getting so bad, Jesus coming. Well, no, that's not why he's

coming. Jesus is in coming because we want him to come and we're impatient.

Oh, I don't know how I can make another day. Jesus is

coming. Jesus isn't coming now, hear me on this one. Because a

final generation arrives at some glorious perfection that forces God's hand to make Jesus come.

Christ doesn't come for those reasons. According to Jesus, and Jesus is

the expert of theology. Jesus is coming when the whole world here's the Gospel,

the good news about salvation and Jesus, when mercy goes to the planet,

when every nation, kindred, tribe, and tongue has a chance to

hear the good news, and then and only then does Jesus come. So

what business should we be in. We should be in the sharing the good

news business instead of brow beating people about how imperfect they are. Now I

believe in Christian perfection. Are you hearing me? But I believe it's in

Jesus, and it's given to me as a gift. And the more I

dwell on it, the less I dwell on Jesus. So we should dwell

on Jesus and grow up into the fullness and statue of Christ. So as

soon as Jesus shares the good news, he immediately points us back to the

Book of Daniel to better understand the primary challenge to the Gospel at the time

of the end. Now look at verse fifteen, falling with me Matthew twenty

four. So when you see the desolating sacrilege spoken of by Daniel, the

prophet standing in the Holy place. Let the reader understand, now what book

is Jesus saying we need to understand? Can we say it loudly? Does

Jesus goof up now? If he's talking to us with the Gospel going to

the world at the time of the end, do we need to say,

Jesus, I am tired of the Book of Daniel. No, we should

study it, shouldn't we? Do you realize that if Jesus is speaking to

us, the Holy Spirit is speaking to us to open our bibles and understand

prophetic truth. So Danil nine, the abomination of desolation appears after Jesus dies

and after the temple in Jerusalem is destroyed. Its context according to Bible prophecy

in Daniel and I and Jesus died in the year eighty thirty one, and

we know that Jerusalem fell in a d seventy. These are facts of history

that means the abomination of desolation follow me here in the Book of Daniel comes

after jesus death, burial, and resurrection, which is the gospel. Because

Christ is saying it's coming later. I mean great theologian types will tell you

the abomination of desolation is Antiochus the Epiphanies who lived in second century BC,

and all that. It doesn't work. Jesus died for our sins. That's

the gospel first and most important truth. He was buried to take away our

sins from us. The second truth of the gospel, he rose from the

dead for our justification Romans for twenty five, which means our legal acquittal.

That's a lawyer term, our personal acceptance before God, our forgiveness, not

guilty. The resurrection means that. So the death, the burial, and

the resurrection of Jesus is the gospel. The gospel shows the love of God,

and the abomination of desolation in the Book of Daniel is the great attack

on the gospel that comes after the ministry of Jesus, not before it.

Yeah, I've seen theologians arguing about, you know, the abomination of desolation

of the Daniel second century. Don't they just read Jesus and get to the

right answers. You know, Now, go back to Dayil nine, twenty

six, twenty seven. Let's look at this in the context. Like I

said, our sermons, a Bible study today. I want you to be

opening those Bibles of yours. Daniel Levin, We're gonna be kind of landing

in it. Nine twenty six and after sixty two weeks Messiah shall be cut

off, but not for himself. What does that mean? The Messiah dies

and the people of the prince who is to come. That could be understood

three ways. The prince of this world is coming, Christ said the devil.

It could be the Roman prince, it could be Christ himself. The

truth is it's all three in a way that the people are the people of

Israel. They came under Satan's power, they were attacked by the Romans,

and Christ was their prince that they gave up. So it doesn't matter.

All three work. Then the people of the Prince who was to come shall

destroy the city in the sanctuary. That's eighty seventy. The end of it

will be with the flood. The Hebrew can read his end will be with

the flood. You go either way. Both are true. The Messiah be

swept away like a flood. The city be swept away like a flood.

Until the end of the war, desolations are determined, decreed. Then he

shall confirm a covenant literally mighty Man a covenant with many for one week,

but in the middle of the week he shall bring an end to sacrifice and

offering. The last seven years of the seventy week prophecy, Christ dies for

our sins and on the wing of abominations. Now notice this, see as

soon as Christ dies for our sins, it says, on the wing of

abominations shall be one who makes desolate, even until the consummation, which is

determined as port out in the desolate and the words, Danio says, the

abomination of desolation follows the cross. Jesus is working off of that in Matthew

twenty four. So at Tacus Epiphanies doesn't work. Friends, Jesus dies for

our sins in eighty thirty one in the spring. But forty years after Jesus

died, the city of Jerusalem was destroyed in eighty seventy and the Fall.

Josephus tells us it was forty years before that that the Great Stone Lentel broke

that had the veil of the temple. And so we can plug in Daniel's

dates with historical corroboration. The abombination of desolation is always an attack on God's

people and the Gospel in every age. That's what the Book of Daniel teaches

us. As soon as you have Jesus and the Cross, you have the

abomination of desolation and starts destroying things. Jesus said that we need to understand

these things because the abomination of desolation will be the great thing that we will

encounter at the time of the end. So I affirmed, the Gospel is

beautiful, but the abomination is ugly. The Gospel gives us eternal life.

The abomination of desolation destroys death. So in Danie eleven we see the abomination

of desolation again outside of Daniel nine, as the great attack on the work

of Jesus Christ, after Jesus came to this earth to die for our sins.

The prophecy of the King of the North and the King of the South.

How many have you have studied the King of the North, King of

the South and your Bible of Danie eleven. Oh, you got to get

into angels and the Glen dot Org and let John walk you through that.

With the overview of Daniel eleven. Do you realize we're living in Daniel eleven,

verse forty today we're living right there, getting ready to move into verse

forty one, and most Seventh day Abns Christians don't have a clue what's going

on Danie eleven because they don't stay to their Bibles. Let's get into the

Bibles. The prophecy of the King of the North, King of the South

and Daniel eleven is actually an exposition of the twenty three hundred year prophecy of

Daniel eighth fourteen that reaches to the time of the End. So we have

a prophecy that goes from Persia to the time of the End to Christ's coming,

all in one chapter, a single chapter. It starts in Danil ten

twenty one and Daniel eleven one to two with Michael the Great Prince and the

Book of Truth, when Gabriel became a helper for dry Us the meat in

the early days of the meat of Persian Empire. Take your Bible's turn down

ten twenty one. But I will tell you what is inscribed in the Book

of Truth. Now, Jesus said, I am the Way, the Truth

and the Life. Now Gabriel said, I'm going to tell you it's in

the Book of Truth, the Book of Truth. It's Christ Christ knows the

future. There is none who contends or who holds to me literally with these

things against these forces, except Michael, your prince. So who's the one

that defends the truth better than anyone else? Grant that verse Michael Daniel eleven

one, and ask for me. In the first year of derive us the

meat I stood up to and confirm and strengthen him. And now I'll show

you the truth. Behold, three more kings shall arise in Persia, and

a fourth shall be far richer than all of them. And when he has

become through his riches, he shall stir up all against the Kingdom of Greece.

The prophecy moves on in Daniel eleven to describe the rise and the fall

of Alexander the Great, and then the divided Greek Empire after Alexander died,

and then it splits into four pieces, and then finally it coalesces into two

pieces, the North and the South. The Seleucid Kingdom of the North and

the Talmaic Kingdom of the South. Is the divided Greek world after it all

pans out after war, and so the North and the South are dooking it

out. And then we read the Bible, it says in Ezekiel that God's

people are in the center of the earth. They're between the North of the

South. They're in the Holy Land. You got to get through Palestine to

get to one country or another. So the south in Egypt. South in

Daniel eleven eight is called Egypt. It was the Egyptian Kingdom established by the

Greeks after Alexander's death, the Talmaic Egyptian Kingdom, and the north is the

Seleucid Empire of the Greeks under the Seleucias and Tichuses and so on, later

to be replaced by Rome and Daniel eleven sixteen, Rome and principle after that

switch off goes all the way to the end as the king of the North

in some way the abomination of Now, how do we know that? I

remember the image of Daniel two. I mean, if you study Daniel two,

the head of gold represents what kingdom helped me. I'm quizzing you.

Babylon, all right, chest of silver, what kingdom met of Persia?

All right? The waste of brass, what kingdom Greece? The legs of

iron Rome, now the feet of iron and clay. Europe, the Western

world that came out of Rome. Noticed that iron goes to the ends,

it changes in its capacity, it's mixed with it's mixed with clay. That

means Rome goes to the end. The king of the North goes to the

ends. So Rome is the contender here. Remember that Rome invaded Palestine and

subject gave the Jewish people under Pompey for century BC, and to do so

as the character Rome in its early DNA, Rome crucified Jesus under Pontius Pilot,

persecuted the apostles Nero, beheaded the apostle Paul, and crucified Peter.

Rome in the Church state, Fusion and Middle Ages continue to persecute just like

Pagan Rome had done before. Christian Rome was no different, and Rome will

one day do it again. According to Bible prophecy, I'm telling you the

truth. Friends. You know it'd be easy to preach nonsense to you today,

but I'm telling you the truth. This is the truth of the Word

of God. We are living before the end of final prophecy. I want

to pray, Dear Father, I pray for the Holy Spirit. Here the

testimony of Jesus is the testimony of Jesus give us the Bible today in his

name, Amen Rome. In the Church State Fusion Middle Ages, Daniel eleven

describ it continue to persecute, just like Pagan Rum had done before. And

we learn in Daniel eleven forty to forty five that one day Rome will do

it again, because the kingdom of this world, the world kingdom order,

all the way down the timeline to the time of the end, is Rome,

and Jesus called it the abomination of desolation. The North and the South

and Daniel represent the political and philosophical right and left. Now, how many

of you feel that most of us tend to lean politically toward the right or

politically toward the left? Am I right in that assumption? Now, don't

tell me what party you belong to. I belong to no party but Jesus

party. Because he says you're not to go to the right or the left,

to go to God. We see the North and South is really the

right and the left duking it out with God's people in the middle. And

Daniel eleven sixteen, Rome overcomes the sluicty king of the Greeks and then invades

Palestine and becomes the new king of the North. Daniel eleven sixteen. So

here's the switch out between Tai Guess the Third the Great to Rome that invades

Palestine under Pompey. It's described, but he who comes against him shall do

according to his own will, and no one shall stand against him. That's

Rome. He shall stand in the glorious land that's Palestine. He invades Palestine

with destructionist power. So the abomination of desolation is Rome that invaded Palestine.

Christ was very clear in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, and Luke that

Rome is the abomination of desolation because Rome, as the abomination desolation, invaded

Judea. Turn with me to Luke twenty one. Look at verse twenty.

But when you see Jerusalem surrounded by armies, then know that its desolation is

near. Okay, So what armies is Jesus describing here? What armies was

Rome? Rome came surround Jerusalem destroyed the city. Look at Mark thirteen fourteen.

So when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel, the

prophet standing where it ought, not the reader what understand, just like Matthew

twenty four fifteen, Then let those who are in where showda flee the mountains,

So what's the abomination of desolation? Mark here, it's Rome, so

we don't have to figure that out. We can plug it back into Daniel

Rome as the King of the North always invades the Holy Land. God's people

from the time of the Greeks to the end of time are always caught between

the King of the North the right, and the King of the South the

left, and that image of Daniel two. The iron of Rome goes to

the end. It's mixed with clay, but it's there all the way down

to the end. And so the North and the South, which is really

the right and the left, duke it out with God's people in the middle

all the time. So people's come to me and they say, Pastor Mike,

we need to line with this president of that party. And I say

leave them outside the church door, because I don't want to be caught on

the wrong side of the North of the South, which is the right and

the left. In the center of Daniel eleven, the King of the North

and the King of the South prophesy Jesus dies as the Prince of the Covenant,

the hands of Rome on each side of the prophecy, the King of

the North and the King of the South we find Michael. So the book

ends of this prophecy is Michael. He's first called your Prince, and then

the Great Prince. And then we have the Book of Truth in the book

that is the Lamb's Book of life. So we have Michael rescue me on

each side, but in the very center of the prophecy we have the Prince

of the Covenant broken by the King of the North. In each case,

Michael helps. In the center, Michael dies when Gabriel can't get the job

done, Michael steps in. The victory is assured, Michael stands up.

Michael comes to help. That means in Daniel twelve one, at the time

of the end, Michael stands up and is a time of trouble, the

one who has guard, who guards God's people, the Great Prince. That

means he's the good shepherd that loves and protects believers in every age. The

Reformer's got that right. The reformers to almost to the person understood who Michael

was. We live in the age of bad Bible study, where people don't

study their Bibles very well, and so they don't know who Michael is.

In Hebrew, Michael is a question, who is just like God? And

what's the answer in the New Testament? Emanuel God with us, so the

center of this prophecy. He turned to Daniel eleven twenty two. Here it

is. You can write this in your bibles. It's a Bible study sermon.

Today army shall be only swept away and broken before him, the king

of the North, that's Rome, and the prince of a covenant. What

also, when Pilot condemned Jesus he was he expressed fealty to what power Rome?

He was a Roman procurator who condemned Jesus. That the power of Tiberius

Caesar was expressed through him when he said you're going to die. Jesus died

in the eighteenth year of Tiberius Caesar, predicted in Daniel eleven twenty two.

Rome continues in Daniel eleven to the Middle Ages as the holy Roman Empire that

persecute the saints of God, that suppressed the Gospel of God in the church

state fusion in the Middle Ages. Somebody say, pastor Mike, what's the

holy rowin empire? It was a It had two parts to it, a

political leader and a religious leader. It was an emperor that kind of ruled

generally over a divided Europe, and the Pope of Rome that united in that

fusion to create its church state fusion in the Middle Ages, it's Rome that

continues to the end. It's Rome. In the feet of the image of

Daniel two. Christ warned us that popular religions never God's religion. On the

Middle Ages, this was the popular religion. Everybody followed the institutional religion.

Christ says, that's not how it works. Speaking to the Pharisees, Jesus

said this, turn to look sixteen. Let's look at verse fifteen. And

he said to them, you are those who justify yourselves before men. But

God knows your hearts. So we can't be in the hypocritical business as Christians.

Can we We have to be upright and forth right. We're sinners too,

right. We can't go virtue signaling other people. That's not our role.

And then Christ makes the statement, He's going right back to Daniel eleven

eleven thirty six for what is exalted among men as an abomination in the side

of God. He goes to Daniel eleven thirty six and Daniel eleven thirty one,

and he puts it together in that verse, he's talking about a popular

Christianity that acts like the Pharisees, that's legalistic, and that's the religion of

the Middle Ages, that takes people away from Jesus, that denies his law.

It's not merciful, that can't forgive, that persecutes. And look at

verse sixteen. The law and the prophets were unto John. Since then the

good News, that's the Gospel of the Kingdom, is preached and everyone enters

it violently. The Gospel is persecuted by popular Christianity. The abomination of desolation

is always at war with the Gospel, and it persecutes those who believe.

And Jesus made it clear that what is exalted in the eyes of men is

an abomination to God. So Rome is the King of the North, exalting

itself over God by invading Palestine, crucifying Jesus, continuing to persecute God's people

all the way down to the time of the end. In Daniel eleven twenty

two, we have the death of Jesus right there in the verse we looked

at previously the center of the King of the North, King of the South

prophecy. In Dan eleven forty, we have the time of the end.

Now, if someone do the math with me, just subtract twenty two from

forty. Can you get your calculators out, come on our math brains.

Help the preacher. What eighteen So add eighteen to verse twenty two. And

when you come up with now divided by two, divide eighteen by two.

Go to the middle of it nine add nine to eleven twenty two. What

verses that thirty one? So Dani, eleven thirty one if you just take

verses is right in the middle from the cross of eleven twenty two. The

time of the end eleven forty. Now what do we call the period of

history between the cross and the time of the end? The Middle Ages?

That see eleven thirty ones in the Middle Ages, and that's the abomination desolation.

It comes after the cross. Turn to verse thirty one. Forces from

him shall appear profane, The temple on the fortress shall take away the continual

bird offering literally the daily hot to meet, and they shall set up the

abomination that makes desolate. And he shall seduce with flattery those who violate the

covenant. But the people who know their gods will stand firm and take action.

There was a resistance, the apostasy and the attack on Christiane that followed

the Christ's death, bear and resurrection in verse thirty three. Now what happens

during the Middle Ages is described in verse thirty three. And those among the

people who are wise shall make many understand, though they will follow by what

by sword? What was it say? By flame? Captivity? And the

Church goes into captivity and plunder for some days, literally for days, I

mean these days are the days of the Middle Ages, the years of the

Middle Ages, when the Gospel is on the run, where people being persecuted,

when armies came overtook the Western Empire, stopped sabbath keeping, made it

impossible to believe in the Gospel, turned the mass into religion where it was

taught that somehow the priests could forgive you, and that the Church didn't forgive

you. You weren't forgiven. And so the Gospels corrupted the Middle Ages Day

eleven thirty six. And the king shall do according to his own will.

Now, what did Jesus say in Luke sixteen, Whatever has exalted among men

is an abomination before the Lord. Right, we have the abomination of desolation

in the Middle Ages in leven thirty one. Now look at verse thirty six.

He exalts himself, and the king shall do according to his will.

He shall exalt himself and magnus up by himself above every God, and shall

speak astonishing things against the God of gods. And he shall prosper till the

indignation is accomplished. For what is determined shall be done. Now, this

power that operated in the Middle Ages, that attacked the Gospel Rome in the

Middle Ages. In verse thirty five, it says he goes all the way

down to the time of the end, and then it's brought to an end

in its political power. In dani eleven thirty five, it shares that it

would be Daniels, saying it would be the dominant religio political power in the

Middle Ages. The end of this medieval system came in the French Revolution,

which rebooted Western civilization, which moved us from the church state era of the

Middle Ages to the modern era of divided nations, of nationalism that has given

us World War one, World War two, and everything else that were struggling

with the day and the Bible says it would go to the time of the

end, that deadly wound that gored the King of the North is described in

Daniel eleven forty. It brought us into the modern era, that is the

time of the end. Go to Daniel eleven forty. At the time of

the end, the king of the South shall attack him. Now, there

was one nation in the French Revolution that was claiming to be the rebirth of

ancient Egypt. You know what nation that was. It was the French.

Napoleon went down there, they got these obelisks, They dragged him up to

France. They changed their calendar to match the ancient Egyptian calendar that was a

ten day solar calendar, and they were running into the streets having nature festivities

like the ancient Egyptians did. And revolutionary France was Egypt reborn at the time

of the end. So the Bible just at the time of the end,

the king of the South, that's the French Revolution, shall attack him.

The Roman king of the North, the Church, state, system of the

ages. But the King of an Arts shall rush upon him like a whirlwind.

Now God appeared to job in a whirlwind with chariots and horsemen, with

many ships. He shall come into countries, shall overflow and pass through global

dominance at the time of the end, just like Rome invaded Palestine the days

of Pompeii and Dania eleven sixteen. Just like when Rome crucified Christ in Dania

eleven twenty two, End time Rome, the third manifestation of Rome, Pagan

Rome, Religio, political Roman, Middle Ages. Finally, end time Rome.

When the Glorious Land unite the world all over again, Western civilization will

coalesce into a global power again. The Glorious Land represents God's people universal in

scripture. They were in captivity in the Middle Ages in Day eleven thirty three,

but not in verse forty. And so the King of the North attacks

the people of God at the time of the end. When you invade the

Glorious Land at the time of the End, you attack God's people wherever they

are found, be it in Africa, Asia, Europe, wherever God's people

are found, there you find the Glorious Land. There are two attacks against

God's people at the time of the end. Look at Daniel eleven forty one

and then Day eleven forty four. You have them. Now we are living

at the end of verse forty today. That's where we live. You just

say now you put now verse forty just before the first attack. In Daniel

eleven forty one, the final world kingdom order, that is Roman principle will

attack the people of God, and Daniel says many will fall. How many

of you feel that if you're just in the church, you're okay? I

don't. Do you realize if you're not engaging in God's word, You're going

to fall away. You cannot coast in the Avenue church at the time of

the end and be okay. I can't either. It doesn't matter if your

mom and your papa or Avenue and you were born in the church. You

can fall out of the church at the time of the end. You know

what else, if you don't love the truth enough to study your Bible and

to get close to Christ in the Word of God, cherish every part of

it, then because of skepticism, you will fall away at the time of

the end. Do you realize when persecution starts and we're put on trial for

our faith, You're not gonna make it if you don't live your faith right

now before the time, the very time of the end. So the Bible

is talking about us here in verse forty one, Many fall we are headed

toward a time in Earth's history when the Church that God raised up at the

end of twenty three days is in mortal jeopardy because we need the Bible,

we need a revival, a primitive godliness. We need Jesus high and lift

it up. We need to forget this philosophical nonsense from the right and the

left and come to Christ and obey and share our faith with other men and

women. And believe me, we will fall away if we are not found

in Christ. Now, notice who's delivered Eden Moab in the main part of

the Ammonites. Eden was the brother of Jacob, who became Israel the Old

Testament. Moab and the Ammonites were relatives of Abraham as children of his nephew

Lot in the Old Testament. So together they represent believers who are close to

the truth, who know of God. They're on the borders glorious land.

There are Bible promises for them, but they're not yet there. You see,

there are Christians who don't know the whole truth of God, who don't

know what's happening in Bible. Prophecy can't interact with the law in the Gospel

correctly. But there's still God's people. They're delivered in this first attack.

But you know, those people who've had the truth for a long time,

since the end of the twenty three year Prophecy, those truth people have been

sitting on it and doing nothing with it. Many of them fall away when

this first attack occurs. That first attack contextually is the mark of the beast

issue. They're almost there, these this group edan Moebban, the first sons

of Ammon, but they're not quite over the lying and Daniel two forty three.

The King of the North, that is the political right at the time

of the end, totally overtakes the King of the South. Some people say,

well, you know, secularism has the world, but not forever.

The King of the Earth, representing the political and philosophical right, eventually overtakes

the left and absorbs all power. According to Daniel eleven, when the King

of the Earth, it is the right, gets done with the South that

is actually the left, there's nothing left of the left in terms of power

influence. Yes, power, No, all power comes under the King of

the North and Danie eleven, which means there's a church state, political economic

fusion at the time of the end that will have total mastery of the world.

Look at Daniel eleven forty two. He shall stretch out his hand against

countries in the land of Egypt, shall fall, shall not escape. He

shall become ruler of the treasures of gold and silver and the precious things of

Egypt, and the Libyans and Ethiopians shall fall in his train. Every part

of the King of the South is taken under the control of the King of

the North. Now in the Old Testament Danie eleven, when the King of

the South is defeated, like it is earlier on, the King of the

North focuses on persecuting God's people. And as soon as the King of the

South is totally under the control of the King of the North, that's when

the King of the North makes his move at the time of the end to

annihilate the people of God from the face of earth. The second attack follows

the first attack. There are challenging days ahead of us. According to Bible

prophecy, there is no room for compromise with the world. We need Jesus.

The good tide is and Daniel leven. When the King of the North,

the King of the South is out of the way, the King of

the North comes after the Glorious Land again, the Holy Mountain after the Cross.

God's country is the Christian Church that is faithful to Jesus Christ, that

keeps his commandments and has the testimony of Jesus, wherever it may be found

in any part of the earth. And when you attack God's people, be

in America, America, Asia, Africa, or any other place, you

are attacking the Holy Mountain of God, the glorious Mountain of God. Lucifer

attacked the Holy Mountain of God and the North that is in heaven, because

God is the true king of the North that is in heaven. So the

king of the North, that is Rome, is the use surper of God,

who is the king of the North. The Bible predicts that one day

and the not too distant future, there will be no place left on earth

for faithful Christians who follow Jesus. The final manifestation of Rome will attack the

Holy Mountain of God to destroy fit faithful Christianity with a single mighty blow at

the very end. And what Rome tried to do with Pompeii, with Warm

tried to do with Christ, what Rome did to the Christians in the Middle

Ages and in the sixth century. What they did in the Reformation, well

one day happen on a global scale. When Western civilization coalesces to be the

final phase of Rome. It will attempt to take out the people of God

in a single night. It will be Earth's darkest hour, and evil will

seem to triumph in a single blow. It will look like Christianity is faithful.

God will die at the hand of a sword and spear gun, and

one thing will deeply disturb the King of the North above all others, so

that he moves aggressively destroy the people of God for all time. Look at

verse forty four. Here is the contact verse of the morning. But tidings

from the east and the north shall alarm him, and he shall go forth

with great fury to exterminate and utterly destroy many. The word here utterly destroys

the word harem. It means to dedicate the destruction to create a new world

order to destroy God's people. You must do it to create the new beginning.

So what are these tidings from the east and the north that will disturb

the King of the North. They are the gospel tidings of the Good News

of Salvation in the book of Ezekiel. God comes from the east, and

God comes from the north for final judgment. The east is the direction of

deep time, the east the distant past. Christ journeys from the dawn of

time to the end of time, from east to west. In the Bible,

the Hebrew word for north means to hide. Saphone means the hidden place.

God's throne is found the highest places of the North, in the hidden

place of the most holy place, in the heavenly Mount Zion, where Lucifer

challenged him and tried to dethrone God Almighty Isaiah fourteen thirteen. Lucifer, you

said in your heart, I will send to heaven above the stars of God.

I will set my throne on high. I will sit on the mouth

of the Assembly in the far north. The king of the North is God

Almighty. King of the North is not Rome, Rome, as he is

Surper. I will send above the heights of the clouds. I will make

myself like the most high. Michael's name means who is just like God?

As a question Hebrew and Jesus is the only answer, since Jesus is God

with us Emmanuel. Jesus comes from the East at the time of the end,

to destroy the King of the North and to save us Matthew twenty four

to twenty seven. For as the lightning comes from the east shines as far

as the west, so will be the coming of the Son of Man.

Son of Man is the hero in down seven. He comes tidings from the

east and the north. Christ told his disciples Matthew fourteen that this Gospel of

the Kingdom will be preached in all the world as a testament to all nations.

Then the end will come. And Jesus told us plainly in Matthew twenty

four to fifteen that the abomination of desolation is Rome that invaded Jadea. His

power would oppose the gospel all the way down to the time of the end.

And he told us all to study the Book of Daniel to better understand

it in its three phases. How many Christians today bothers study in the Book

of Daniel. You know, when I was a young believer, I came

into the church because of the study of the Book of Daniel. It answered

fundamental questions. Does God exist? Can you prove the divinity of God?

Can he predict the future? Be living a time of skepticism where people don't

realize the gift God has given to us. How many Christians today, as

I said, bother not to study it. Sad mountain Zion and the Bible

represents God's heavenly kingdom that is not of this world. As Christians, we

belong to a different kind of kingdom, the mountain kingdom, the stone mountain

kingdom, the king of the North. At the end is the final manifestation

of the political and philosophical right. Positioning his forces between God's Holy Mountain the

nations of the earth. He meddles with Legion at the time of the end,

and he will attempt to destroy God's people in a single blow because of

the Gospel. See God's waiting on us to preach the Gospel with prophetic power

and truth. And there will come a day when the whole world will be

the loom with the glory of God's word. And then, and the Bible

is very clear in verse forty five, no one like Gabriel will help him,

and he shall pitch his palatial tents between the sea and the glorious Holy

Mountain. He's trying to attack the Holy Mountain. Yet he shall come to

his end with none to help him. Remember that Jesus is the Prince of

princes, the mighty Son of God, and all the Bible there is no

prince mightier than Jesus. So that means Jesus. That means Michael has to

be Jesus, because Michael is called the Great Prince who has guard or watch

over your people in every age. Don't run from a solid Bible connection.

Michael is a question, who is just like God? And Jesus Christ,

the pantocratar, the one who holds all things, is the answer to that

question. Your Testament Daniel twelve one. At that time shall arise, Michael,

you could plug it in. At that time will rise the Son of

God, Jesus Christ, the Great Prince who has charge of your people,

the good shepherd Prince. And there will be a time of trouble. So

has never been since there was a nation till that time. But at that

time, now here is the language of certainty. Your people shall be delivered.

Say it again, Your people shall be delivered. And who are they?

Everyone whose name shall be found written in the book. I mean You're

not going to get through the time of the end without a relationship with Jesus

based on faith in his righteousness because he's the man in Linen. But you

will get through the time of the end if you have Jesus. The gospel

tidings from the East of the North is the good news of salvation. So

happy for Jesus. Christ died for you and me. He died for our

sins as a first importance. Heaven is a free gift, and God forgives

us all our sins. The Kingdom of the North is raw. You don't

have to plaquate God, go on pilgrimages and do all kinds of crazy things

to be forgiven. Fall on your knees in faith, and God in Jesus,

forgives you tidings from the east and the North that will make the heart

to sing the foot to dance because our God reigns. How beautiful upon the

mountains are the feet of one that brings good news that establishes peace. God's

kingdom is a kingdom of kindness, of love, of forgiveness, and that

is what brings the King of the North down at the time of the end

and the end. God does not deliver us because we are better people than

other people. He delivers us because we belong to Jesus. Because our names

by faith are written in the Lamb's Book of Life. Friend, the only

way to face the end is to face Jesus before the end on your knees,

and to accept him as the Great Prince who died for you, who

forgives you, who writes your name in the Lamb's Book of Life, because

God loves you. The Key of the North hates the truth that is the

Gospel of God, and he will come to his end with none to help

him. Jesus warned us of the abomination of desolation. And he who accepts

the glad tidings and obeys the truth, who believes, will be delivered on

the last day, and Jesus when Jesus stands up to save. When Jesus

comes again, the one who endures to the end will be saved. Let's

stand, thank you, Let's pray. Father, We're so grateful for Jesus.

We live in a time of terrible compromise. We are children of the

Reformation, children of the early Apostolic Church that was universal, and Father,

the only tie we have to the past is our Bible and the faith of

Jesus. So Lord give us Jesus, help us to love our dear brothers

and sisters wherever they are found in the world. Help us to realize that

we're not any better than anybody else, but we do have a knowledge of

things, and Lord, help us to share the Gospel and the truths for

our times, and our Bible studies and our personal interactions in our homes with

our friends and neighbors. What a horrible thing would be, Lord for our

next, our neighbor, to be lost because we didn't reach out to them.

We didn't even bother to try and share anything with them. So Father

helped me as the preacher, to do better at that. I pray for

my neighbor Mail and his wife. Pray for the others that are in my

mind right now. These neighbors are our field of labor and thought. Lord

of Maybe, never be ashamed of that which you have given to us for

the good of others. In Jesus Name, bless your dear people. May

they walk out these doors forgiven saints because they have accepted Jesus in their life.

In Jesus Name, Amen, Amen,