"The Future - Do You fear it?" | Daniel Chapter 8 | Pastor Keith

Daniel Chapter 8 The title of this morning's message is The

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Future. Do you fear it?

I remember when Helen and I were newly married and those we knew

of the same age would then ask, well, are you planning on having

children? And the motive behind the

question was that many couples we knew said that they would not

have children, nor could they raise children.

In such a difficult world that has only a bleak future coming

next year in March. That's 50 years ago.

The same question is still being asked today.

How could you have children, raise children in this world?

I can see the fear in reality for those who are non believers

to ask that and believe that. But for those of us who have

Christ as our Lord and Saviour there's no such fear or concern.

Nor should there be, for we know, we know God has our future

in his hands and he says we are safe in Him.

I remember the first song as a child of the Lord that I

remember was in the world. In his hands he's got the whole

world. In his hands he's got the whole

wide world. In his itty bitty hands, he's

got the whole world. John chapter 10 tells us where

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that song came from. I recommend John 10 for you to

know. John 10.

It's one of the greatest securing and fear driving away

chapters in the Bible. John 10 verse 27.

John 10:27

My sheep hear my voice, Jesus said.

And I know them. They follow me, and I give them

eternal life. They will not die.

They shall never perish, neither shall anyone snatch them out of

my hand. Jesus says My Father who has

given them to me is greater than all, and no one is able to

snatch them out of my Father's hand.

The Bible is the only book that reveals our future, the future

of the world. Isaiah chapter 46 verse 10 in

Isaiah 46:10

the new Living Translation says God says only I can tell you the

future before it even happens. Everything I plan will come to

pass. Now we're in chapter 8 of

Daniel. Before the fall of Babylon.

Daniel is given a vision by God that Babylon, indeed this mighty

empire under Nebuchadnezzar, would fall.

It's the year 551, chapter 8 BC. It's 12 years before the events

of chapter 5, Belshazzar's feast, when the Medes and the

Persians came in, entered through the gates where the

river Euphrates came into the city of Babylon, the last night

of living for Belshazzar when the writing was on the wall.

It's 12 years before that. And at the time of this vision

and Daniel 8, Babylon itself is in its zenith of power.

It's dominating the world. And yet here Daniel is told by

God, this empire, what you see, it's not going to last.

It has an end day in God's plan. As I drive to church every

Sunday and I see people walking their dog, cups of coffee,

they're at the Dome and people going about their business,

going to all the gyms, etcetera. You know, all this is going to

this is going to end. This ain't going to be like it

is much longer. Verse 1 Daniel eight in the

third year of the reign of King Belshazzar, A vision appeared to

me, to me, Daniel, after the one that appeared to me the first

time I saw in the vision. And it so happened while I was

looking that I was in Shushan, the citadel which is in the

province of Elam, and I saw in the vision that I was by the

river. You lie there.

Then I lifted up my eyes and saw, and they're standing beside

the river was a ram which had two horns, and the two horns

were high, but one horn was higher than the other, and the

higher one came up last. And I saw the ram pushing

westward, northward, southward, so that no animal could

withstand him, nor was there any that could deliver from his

hand. But he did according to his will

and became great. Daniel in this vision is

transported to the river of Ulah.

It's modern day Iran. 362 kilometres to the east of

Babylon was the city of Suzanne or Sousa.

Suzanne was the home base of Nehemiah where Pastor Israel was

teaching Sunday nights and from where he carried out his role in

this location as cup bearer to the king Axexis.

It is also the city where a young Jewish girl by the name of

Hadassah. That's a great name, isn't it?

Hadassah. She rose up to become Queen

Esther, wife of the great king Ahasiris.

Daniel sees a ram. We know what a ram looks like

being Australians, and it's the Medo Persian Empire.

The two horns are the two leaders of the Medes and the

Persians, Cyrus and Darius. One horn was larger than the

other. That's Cyrus.

He became greater in power than Darius.

Now the headdress, it's interesting if you go onto any

history site you see the headdress that the Persian

Empire's wore in those days was fashioned in the image of Iran.

Now for more than 200 years the Medes and the Persians ruled in

great power over the nations and they conquered the Babylonians

who ruled roughly around 7090 years.

Only verse 5, as I was considering, suddenly a male

goat comes from the West across the surface of the whole earth

without touching the ground. That means travelling fast.

The goat had one notable horn between his eyes.

He came to the ram that had two horns, which I'd seen standing

beside the river ran at him with furious power, colliding with

him. I saw him confronting the ram.

He was moved with Rage Against him, attacked the ram and broke

his two horns. There was no power now in the

ram to withstand him, but he cast him to the ground and

trampled him, and there was no one that could deliver the ram

from the goats hand. Therefore the male goat grew

very great. When he became strong, the large

horn was broken, and in place four small horns came up toward

the four winds of heaven, N, SE and West.

So from the West comes this goat at flank speed and attacks the

ram, breaking its two horns. This is the rise of the Grecian

Empire. Now this is all yet future.

Daniel is living in Babylon. Babylon is still ruling and

reigning. So this is all yet to happen.

The Greeks, their armies were known, renowned for their

military genius, their swiftness in battle, conquering the

Persians, the turning point of the Grecian and the Medo.

Persian battle plan occurred in 480 BC.

It was a naval battle. The Greek commander to Mastocles

lured the Persian fleet with their great ships into the

narrow waters of the straights, Straits of Salami, where the

mass Persian ships couldn't manoeuvre, it was too shallow.

And the Greek trimarines came out and attacked the Medes and

the Persians, ramming and sinking many of their vessels,

and the king sleeking back home. And so the mean Persian Empire

would fall to the Grecians. But there's a notable horn,

remember in this one goat that was Alexander the Great in June

323 BC. However, Alexander died at the

age of 32 following a two week febrile illness at which he said

they said, well, what are we going to do about the Kingdom?

He said to the strongest. And the Grecian Empire was

divided between the four powerful generals at that time.

Verse 9 And out of one of them came a little home, which grew

exceedingly great toward the South, toward the east, toward

the glorious land. And it grew up to the host of

heaven, and it cast down some of the hosts.

Now this is not talking about Alexander and some of the stars

to the ground and trampled them. He even exalted himself as high

as the Prince of the host. This is someone claiming to be

God. Alexander didn't do that.

And by him, notice the daily sacrifices in Israel were taken

away, stopped. The place of his sanctuary was

cast down, the Temple because of transgressions.

An army was given over to the Horn to oppose the daily

sacrifices. So power was given to this evil

new ruler, and he cast truth down to the ground.

Notice the wording. He did all this and prospered.

What happens is out of the dividing of the Grecian Empire

came the Seleucans, a 175 BC. Out of the solutions came a

dynasty. In Syria arose a wicked man, a

most wicked man, a type, a shadow of the coming Antichrist,

yet to appear, an enemy of God, an Israel.

His name, Antiochus Epiphanes, the 4th Philipeter, was his full

title. This man, Antiochus, was pure

evil. He believed himself to be God.

He even christened himself Epiphanies, meaning God

manifest. He was called Epimenes, however,

by the end by those who were against him, which means Mad

Men, he sent out a decree. Now this is happening back after

the breakup of the Grecian Empire before the Roman Empire,

and Antiochus sent out a decree throughout all the empire as his

ruling, demanding that every citizen in the empire worship

him as God. Does that sound familiar?

Everyone in the empire followed. I bowed down.

They worshipped Antiochus, called him God, deity, but for

one group of people who refused the Jews.

When Antiochus found out about the Jews and their resistance of

worshipping him as God, he went ballistic with rage.

He sent an army to Jerusalem and there he sorted over 100,000

Jews. His army stormed Jerusalem, and

as Daniel prophesied in the verses we've just read, he

ceased all morning and evening sacrifices.

He stopped all Jewish worship in the Temple.

He shut it all down. He forbid them having a Sabbath

or any feast. Instead, he built idols and

shrines throughout the holy City.

But worse was to come, for in 167 BC he had a sow that is a

pig sacrificed in the holy of Holies and then spread its blood

throughout the whole temple. He banned circumcision, outlawed

it. Finally, anyone who didn't bow

down to him and worship him as God was killed, executed.

That's back. This is a type and a shadow of

what's to come. You'll see this verse 13.

Then I heard this is Daniel, a holy one speaking, and another

holy one said to that certain one who was speaking, how long

is this going to occur? How long will the vision be

concerning the whole thing of the daily sacrifices and the

transgression of desolation, the giving of both the sanctuary and

the host to be trampled under foot?

And he said to me, 2300 days and then the sanctuary shall be

cleansed. Daniel heard the holy ones,

angels we believe talking together.

And he said he wondered, how long is this Antiochus going to

do this blasphemous thing in the temple when all sacrifices, all

worship is suspended and the sanctuary desecrated?

This prophecy was written in 350 years before the time of

Antiochus Epiphanes, amazing for 2300 days, as the Bible said in

this prophecy, from 171 BC to 165 BC, Antiochus, this evil

rule committed great abomination against God and against the

people of Israel. But then in December, 165 BC,

culminating in that date, there arose of priests by the name of

Judas Maccabees, and he drove out, raised up an army, drove

out the Syrian Army. He cleansed the temple,

rededicated it, got the priest to rededicate it after its

pollution, and this cleansing was thereafter celebrated and

called the Feast of Lights. It's also known as Hanukkah.

There was just enough oil, because to light the menorah in

the temple, you had to have a special oil.

The Vegas tells us they had to grind up a special oil ground

out and made with this, and only the priest could do that.

There was enough oil to put in the menorah for one day and they

put it in, lit the menorah, but it went for eight days.

It was a miracle. And so the festival is

celebrated today. The cleansing of the temple, the

lighting of the menorah. It's often, it's also called the

menorah. It's also called Hanukkah.

It was a nine branched lamp and it's celebrated December 2025

each year. Now this prophecy, however you

go, So what? What's that?

What's all that stuff in the past got to do with me today,

2025, stay with me. This prophecy that Daniel gave

had a dual prophecy. Yes, Antiochus Epiphanes, but in

the days yet ahead for you and I in Matthew chapter 24 verse 15,

Matthew 24:15

Jesus is on the Mount of Olives and he gives what's called the

Olivet discourse when they said Jesus tell us, tell us what's

going to be the end of the age. And then you go through Matthew

24. He deals with the tribulation

and all the events that are going to occur with Israel.

Hear Jesus words. Matthew 24 verse 15.

Matthew 24:15

Therefore Jesus said when you see the abomination of

desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet.

So who refers back to Daniel's words standing in the holy

place? It happened in Antiochus before

Jesus. Now Jesus says this is going to

happen in the future. Whoever reads, let him

understand. Then let those who are in Judea,

it's Jewish, flee to the mountains.

Let him who was on the housetop not go down to take anything out

of his house. Let him who was in the field not

go back to get his clothes. Run for your life, but woe to

those who are pregnant, to those who are nursing babies in those

days. Pray that your flight may not be

in winter or on the Sabbath, for then there will be great

tribulation, such as not been since the beginning of the world

until this time, nor ever shall be.

So Jesus takes us into the seven year tribulation period in this

passage. And unless those days were

shortened, no flesh, no one would be saved.

But for the elect's sake, those days shall be shortened.

And so for you and I, what happened with Antiochus and the

temple back at the time in Daniel's vision, it happened

with Antiochus. But now we look forward to

events that have not yet happened because there's a

coming world leader, the Antichrist.

The Bible calls him the Lawless 1, and he's soon to appear on

our political ward. It's very interesting that many,

many people now, many people who aren't Bible scholars, aren't

believers, are saying certain people have this, this, this

thing, this, you know, they call him the Antichrist because many

people are going, well, you know, is Trump, is it him?

Is it, Is it Putin? Is it GG Ping?

Just who is this This powers? We see the powers in our world

just seemingly going about their everyday affairs now, aren't

they? We've got the pressure now on

Ukraine. Give up the land, reduce your

army. That's a pretty good deal, isn't

it, Putin? Remember, he invaded.

Who is the Antichrist? Well, becoming Antichrist, what

he will do is he too, Jesus says, will cease all temple

worship. You go, well, that doesn't make

sense. Why doesn't that make sense?

Because you and I, when we go to Israel, we have to get

permission to go up on the Temple Mount.

And ladies, you remember, you went up.

You had to put on dresses over the clothing that you're wearing

to cover up. You weren't allowed.

Hal and I were holding hands, which we walked past.

No, no, I'm not allowed to hold hands on the Temple Mount by the

Muslims who are in charge of the Temple Mount at the moment.

So for temple worship to be started, you need something, a

temple, for it to be halted, it needs means, it needs to be

underway. It has to be instituted in the

1st place. And so it requires in Israel.

And as you and I look at Israel now with the war in Gaza, a new

template to be built in Israel. And there's only one place you

can build the temple. You can't build it down just

over here or over here or over here.

There's only one place. The place where Abraham offered

up Isaac. There's only one place with the

Temple of God can be built. That's on the Temple Mount.

The question is you and I ask, with the current world, rising

anti Semitism, hatred against Israel, the conflict in Gaza,

they're still fighting, how on earth is this going to be

possible? How will the Muslims allow the

Jews to rebuild a temple when they've been?

The Muslims have been saved for years.

There's never been a temple there in any place any time,

even though it's built on the foundations of the temple.

Well, the New World leader will bring all this to pass.

And the Mount Lawley synagogue we visited, David Solomon was

the rabbi. And I said to him, David, how

the Messiah hasn't come. He says, no, he isn't.

How will you recognise the Messiah?

Oh, it's easy. The Messiah will be the man who

will allow us to rebuild the temple, be the man who will

enable us to rebuild the temple. Verse 15 We'll come back.

Then it happened when I, Daniel, had seen the vision and was

seeking the meaning, that suddenly they stood before me,

one having the appearance of a man, and I heard a man's voice

between the banks of the EULA, which call who called and said,

Gabriel, make this man, that's Daniel understand the vision.

So Gabriel the Angel. So he came near where I stood.

Daniel said, When he came I was afraid, and I fell on my face.

But Gabriel said to me, Understand, Son of Man, that the

vision refers to the time of the end.

Now as he was speaking with me, I was in a deep sleep with my

face to the ground, but he touched me and stood me upright.

And he said, Look, I'm making known to you what shall happen.

Notice in the latter time of the indignation, for at the

appointed time the end shall be the ram which you saw.

He goes back dual purpose to the prophecy, having two horns.

They're the kings of Media and Persia.

The male goat is the Kingdom of Greece.

The large horn that is between its eyes is the first king and

the broken horn, and the four that stood up in its place. 4

kingdoms. The four generals shall arise

out of that nation, but not with its power.

Verse 23. And in the latter times notice

of the Kingdom, when the transgressors have reached their

fullness, a king shall rise. This is Antiochus, initially

having fierce features, who understands sinister schemes.

His power shall be mighty, but not by his own power.

Antiochus, but also Jewel. Speaking of the Antichrist,

notice that his power shall be mighty, but not by his own

power. Antiochus was a type of the

Antichrist, absolutely the coming world leader.

The coming Antichrist will be superhuman in intelligence and

cunning. How in Revelation chapter 13

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John writes this one. Then I saw a beast rising out of

the sea. It had 7 heads and 10 horns with

10 crowns on its horn and written on each head were names

that blasphemed God. This beast looked like a

leopard. It had the feet of a bear and

the mouth of a lion. And the dragon, that's the

dragon is Satan gave the beast his own power and throne and

great authority. You remember what Satan promised

to Jesus on the 40 days and 40 nights in the wilderness if he

would just bow down to him. I'll give you the world.

Well, Satan is going to take over the world and he's going to

do it through the embodiment of the coming world leader.

He will personally possess the Antichrist.

Is that was that going to happen really Well back in John chapter

John 13:27

13 verse 27, you remember a fellow called Judas when Jesus

said Judas, I know it's you go and do what you got to do and

says in John, John Judas went out into the night and it said

verse 21 Satan entered him. So the Antichrist will be

empowered by Satan himself and he shall prosper and thrive.

He shall destroy the mighty and also the holy people.

He was 25 of Daniel. Through his cunning, he shall

cause deceit to prosper under his rule.

That's a good politician, isn't it?

And he shall exalt himself in his heart.

What did Satan do? What did Lucifer do?

I will exalt myself. I will be like the Most High

God. He will exalt himself in his

heart. He shall destroy many in their

prosperity. He shall even rise against the

Prince of Princess. He'll come against Jesus Christ

himself. But there's a semi colon there.

Notice what happens. But he shall be broken.

That is the Antichrist. How?

Without human means. In other words, no army's going

to defeat him. No man's going to defeat him.

God's going to take him out. This coming New World leader

called the Antichrist, the Lawless 1, the Bible tells us,

will rise in the power of Satan himself.

He will promise false security. This is where he'll dupe the

world. Because you and I, aren't you

tired of the way the world is? Can't someone just settle

things, bring things to ease? I mean, everyone's getting

robbed. I'm in Melbourne now.

People are just leaving Melbourne in droves because

they're sick and tired of being burgled over and over and over.

People are scared to go out into the streets.

This is in our cities. But the Antichrist, he will

bring false security because the first horseman of the

apocalypse, What horse does he come riding in on?

White one. Here comes the good guy, and

he'll bring a seeming peace to our land, but in particular to

the Middle East. He will be intelligent and

persuasive, so persuasive that three nations, Daniel tells us,

will actually give over their sovereignty to this man.

We want to have a parliament. You rule us, and the other 10

will follow. He will gain, and here's the

here's the here's the the key. But he will gain the trust of

Israel, who will accept him as Messiah.

Now, right at this moment, Israel trusts nobody.

Can you blame him? They like Trump, but somehow

rather this man will rise up and he will do a deal that Israel

will go. You know what?

Yes, because he will say, I'll arrange for peace to come and

you can rebuild the temple and you can begin what you haven't

been able to do since AD 7. And the nation of Israel will

accept him as Messiah, and they will sign an agreement of a

seven year period covenant. But this man will be controlled

by Satan. He will be, in the end, Israel's

greatest adversary, because halfway through that agreement,

as Jesus said in Matthew 24, he will March into the Holy of

Holies. He will set up an image of

himself in there, and he will say, I am God.

Stop everything else, and you will now worship me.

You'll receive my mark, and if you don't, you'll die.

Flee, literally, Jesus says. Run for your lives.

He will raise himself up in opposition to Jesus Christ

Himself, the Prince of Princess, but his rule will be terminated

by divine judgement. But he will rule after breaking

that agreement, after going into the Holy Hole of Holies for 3

1/2 more years, he will rule the world and great tribulation will

be upon this planet and anyone who becomes a Christian during

that time and many millions of people will come to Christ.

But each one will die for their faith.

You will die. You'll become a Christian.

Yes you can, but you will die for your faith.

Are you troubled when you read this for your future?

Well, man, that's a great I'm going to read that to the kids

tonight as they go to bed. Are you concerned for the future

of your children? Daniel was was 26.

The vision of the evenings and the mornings which was told is

true. Therefore seal up the vision for

refers to many days in the future.

And I Daniel fainted is all sick for days sick.

When I heard about this, understood it, after what I rose

and went about the King's business, I was astonished by

the vision, but no one understood it.

Or maybe this morning you're wondering.

Hang on a minute. Stop, stop, Keith.

Why did and why does Israel have to?

Why did they have to go through all this?

Why are they yet still to go through so much more?

There's more for them in the future.

They're going to be duped. Remember, Jesus said this would

happen. He says, oh, you net you, you

rejected me, but there will come another and him you'll accept.

Why does this role go through all this?

You've got to ask that question. Well, the Bible tells us book of

Jeremiah. Jeremiah was a young kid between

the age of 14 to 17. God calls him.

He says, I knew you before you were born.

I've got a mission for you. He says I'm just a kid.

I kill you. No, you're not a kid.

I'll tell you what to say. See, you can't go.

It's my age and I'm like, no, no, no.

God says, I'll tell you what to do.

I'll enable you. So God told Jeremiah, the

prophet in Chapter 7 to tell the people of Israel the exact

things they needed to do to repent of this is prior to their

the Babylonians invading Israel. In Chapter 7, verse 3, God says

he told Jeremiah, I want you to go to the temple.

Can you imagine? You're standing out in front of

the church. You go to the temple.

I want you to stand there. He's just a teenager, but we

still got pimples and everything else.

Stand there. Then I want you to say these

words to everyone, every Jew that's coming to worship me.

Wow, what a task. Amen your ways.

You Amen your ways. Amen.

Your ways, in other words, repent of your sins, turn your

lies back to me, turn your lies back to God.

Can you imagine saying that in front of a church?

People are coming. In verse 4 of Chapter 7 and

verse 8, Jeremiah was told to say stop trusting in lying words

that cannot profit because the false prophets of those days

were saying, hey, everything's going to be good, everything's

going to be good. Everything comes between our

right. Jeremiah 7, verse 4, do not

Jeremiah 7:4

trust in these lying words saying the temple of the Lord.

Well, we got the temple and nothing's going to happen to us.

The temple of God is here, the temple of the Lord, the temple

of the Lord. Oh well, I go to church, I've

been going to church, I go to church.

Nothing will happen to Australia.

We think of our nation, we're a Christian nation.

We're far from it, aren't we? Oh, we're a Christian nation.

Nothing terrible could happen to us as a as a people, as a

nation. In verse 9, Jeremiah said to

those coming in, stop worshipping other gods.

He says, will you steal, murder, commit adultery?

Now we think of this and we go, wow, remember Jesus on the

Sermon on the Mount said we can do all these things in here.

In here people don't steal, people don't murder, people

don't do other thing because they don't want to get caught

and they don't want to go to gaol, but they wish they could

stop swearing falsely. You burn incense the ball, walk

after other gods whom you do not know.

It's funny how people will worship every other God but

Jesus Christ. They don't know anything about

the Mormons, the Jehovah Witnesses.

If you read any of their histories, you read their

background. I mean, you got to be kidding.

Mormons believe someone's on the moon, that every man and woman

eventually have their own planet, start their own.

They'll be the new Adam and Eve. That's what Mormon doctrine

says. You know, that black people

couldn't be in a Mormon church had to change that.

Now they allow black people in because they first of all

initially killed anyone that had colour.

Verse 10, Jeremiah 7. But we're still he says, you,

you come to, you come to temple, you come to my house and you say

you will be delivered by me from all your abominations.

But you keep serving them. You come and you keep living

exactly the same way. You don't change.

And then you come here and stand before me in my temple and

chant, we're safe. Oh, I believe in God.

I need to go right back. You walk out Sunday, place the

Bible down and you go back and you live exactly like every

other Tom, Dick and Harry. These words are for us.

And God says through Jeremiah, but God says, hey, hey, finally

verse 19. He doesn't leave it there.

He said don't provoke me to anger.

God says I don't want to do this by continuing to ignore all that

I said don't just keep coming to temple, coming to church and

just ignoring what what I'm I'm telling you Jeremiah 719.

Do they provoke me to Angus says the Lord.

Do they not provoke themselves to the shame of their own faces?

In verse 23, God says obey my voice and I will be your God.

We heard Nat, Pastor Nat talking about grace.

Do you know about grace? Obey my voice and I will be your

God and you shall be my people. Walk in my ways and it may be

well with you. You know what?

That's for you and I today. I fear for so many people today

who treat God as a casual, part time religious thing that they

fit in when they can. I can't.

Can you imagine a marriage where the husband and the wife is

treated casually and just? It's fitted in when you you

might, when you have a little bit of time.

Instead of giving him the best, you give him the the leftovers.

The coming new world leader, the Antichrist, will be a ruler of

fierce countenance, understanding dark sentences.

And to the future political world, it will seem as if the

Antichrist with his relentless power and ungodliness, it will

seem to the world that he's defeated God, that he's crushed

Israel. In today's world, as Jeremiah

said to the children of Judah coming to temple, if you live

arrogantly against God, if you live indifferently to him, if

you are too walking the path like those that Jeremiah was

warning, if any of those words bring the conviction of the Holy

Spirit into your life, don't this morning turn your back on

God. I feel like a watchman today

because I'm desperate for our nation.

We had a gay parade in Perth last night.

People are lost. As people are lost, they need

Christ. You know you can be living in

that lifestyle and you can come out of it.

Christ can save you. The blood of Jesus Christ washes

away every sin. Everything.

You can be living in an adulterous situation this

morning. Maybe you're here and you're

sleeping with someone and you're not married today, right?

Today, without Christ, you stand condemned before God and you

will not go to heaven. Should you die, you will go to

hell. But God gives you the

opportunity to repent and you can receive forgiveness right

now and the blood of Jesus Christ will wash away all of

your sins. But you see, today we kind of

treated indifferent. Well, are we getting away?

It's not real. I'll just wait and I'll, I'll be

on my deathbed and I'll just say, God forgive me.

You don't know when your deathbed is going to be.

You don't know if you're going to be alert.

You don't know what's going to happen to you.

And I want to warn you today, today we're living in the last

days. God is giving you time now to

repent. If you think you can get away

with things and that God is not noticing, that he's not stopping

you, that he's turning a blind eye to you, and that as you look

at the world, you say, well, Satan's winning.

You know, evil is just going on. You're very, very wrong and

you're living in great spiritual danger.

The people and nation of Israel, you know what, sadly, they did.

They didn't listen to Jeremiah, they didn't listen to God's

word. They continued living foolishly.

And I see Australians, we're living foolishly.

We're the richest nation in the world.

We have everything before us. We have the greatest beaches,

the greatest lifestyle, whether and we have turned our back upon

God. And I tell you, I fear for our

nation. We go to Daniel Chapter 9 next

Daniel 9 · chapter mention

week and you know what that that Chapter 9 is?

It's Daniel's prayer for his people, which you and I as a

church, we're going to be called into that because I think the

hand of God is about to fall upon the nation of Israel, of

Australia. Sorry.

You see, the people of Judah did not heed Jeremiah's words, and

they continued living foolishly. You know what happened.

God opened the door and the Babylonians came and judgement

fell. The temple was destroyed.

Millions of lives were lost. Those remaining like Daniel,

Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego were taken captive.

They were made to March for four to five months, all the way to

be slaves in Babylon. There thou were emasculated and

became servants of King Nebuchadnezzar, simply because

they refuse to heed God's Word. The Bible tells us in Galatians

Galatians 6:7

chapter 6, verse 7, Do not be deceived.

God is not mocked. Whatever a man sows, that he

will also reap. What you're sowing in your life

today, you'll reap. He goes on to say, he who sows

to his flesh you mean that means you live without God.

You'll reap corruption. He who sows to the Spirit, that

means you live for God. Will of the Spirit reap.

Is this everlasting life There is coming to this world?

A world leader like Antiochus, but so much more.

Worse Bible prophecy, this vision from Daniel.

Why has God given it to us today?

To read and to know. Ask yourself that question.

Why would we need to know this now?

Here's the reason. Because God is not willing that

any should perish to have us all ready for Christ's return.

There is nothing biblically in prophecy that needs to occur for

the rapture of the church. Nothing.

It is imminent. It's it's, it's ready to happen.

It's just when God says now and the speed of it will be at the

twinkling of an eye, faster than twinkling of an eye.

As the worship team comes forward, I want you to listen to

these last words. We have been given this

prophecy. Why?

Because God is deeply concerned about how we are living in these

last days. He doesn't want you to be here

when the world leader hits the stage.

Who's the Antichrist? I don't know, I don't care, and

I won't find out because the church will be raptured before

He comes to power. But once the church is gone and

you're left behind, he will rule your life.

You'll have Satan living in a man ruling the world.

Jesus warned us of this. This vision should help us to be

passionate about knowing Christ, serving Him as this new world

leader who I believe is alive today and preparing to make His

presence soon. The world is ready.

The political stage is absolutely ready for someone to

fix the Middle East problem. How amazing.

Will it be a turn around for the Jews to sign a peace agreement

and the Muslims to allow a temple to be built?

This guy is sharp and he will pull off the greatest deal.

But then that's just the first horse, the white one.

But then the other three follow and you wish you'd never been

here. Let's pray.

Father, I pray for our hearts to be repentant here today.

I pray for any who are uncertain of their future, uncertain as to

whether the rapture will involve them or not.

I pray for any who have never received Christ that today

they'll not walk out these doors without having their salvation

cure and their life everlasting.