The Kings Kingdom - Steve Zehr 6-8-2024

Well, good morning, like to greet you in the name of Jesus this

morning. It's good to be here with you. It's a beautiful facility,

nice place to meet together. Like to to greet you in Jesus name.

The King's the king, the King of the kingdom. And there's been a

lot of a lot of kings, a lot of kingdoms through time. But

what makes this kingdom, what makes this kingdom different than all the other kingdoms,

it's that eternal quality. It's an eternal kingdom. And I'd like to

think about this kingdom, the King's kingdom, this morning. And i'dn't vite

you to turn to the Book of Daniel, like to read Daniel chapter seven,

just as a like to take some from the Book of Daniel. So

Daniel chapter seven, verse one. In the first year of Belshazzar, King

of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed.

Then he wrote the dream, and he told the sum of the matters.

Daniel speak and said, I saw in my vision by night, and

behold the four winds of the heavens strove upon the great sea, and four

great beasts came up from the sea, divers one from another. The first

was like a lion, and had eagles wings. I beheld till the wings

thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made stand

upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it.

And behold another beast, a second like a bear with a right,

and it raised up itself on one side, and add three ribs in the

mouth of it, between the teeth of it. And they said, thus

unto it, arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld and lo

another like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of

a fowl. The beast had also four heads, and the dominion was given

to it. After this I saw in the night vision and behold a fourth

beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron

teeth he devoured and break in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet

of it. And it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it.

And it had ten horns. And I considered considered the horns, and

behold there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three

of the first horns plucked up by the root, by the roots, and

behold in this horn were eyes like the eyes of man, and a mouth

speaking great things. And I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and

the ancient days did sit whose garment was white as snow, and the hair

of his head like the pure wool. His throne was like the fiery flame,

and his wheels as burning fire. A fiery stream issued and came forth

from before him. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and ten thousand times ten

thousands stood before him. The judgment was set, and the books were open.

I beheld then, because of the voice of the great words which the

horns spake. I beheld even till the beast was slain, and his body

destroyed, and given to the burning flame. As concerning the rest of the

beasts, they had their dominion taken away, Yet their lives were prolonged for

a season. In time, I saw in the night visions, and behold,

one like the son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came

to the ancient of days. And they brought him near before him, And

there was given him dominion and glory in a kingdom, and all people,

nations and languages should serve him. His dominion was an everlasting dominion, which

shall not pass away. In his kingdom, that which shall not be destroyed.

I Daniel was grieved in my spirit, in the midst of my body,

and the visions of my head troubled me. And I came near into

the one of them that stood by, and asked him the truth of all

this. So he told me and made me know the interpretation of the things.

These great beasts, which are four or four kings, which shall rise

out of the earth, but the saints are the most high. I shall

take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever and ever. Then

I would know the truth of the four beasts, which was diversed from all

the others, exceedingly dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, and his nails

of brass, which devoured break in pieces and stamped the residue with his feet,

And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the

other which came up and before whom three fell, even of that horn that

had eyes and a mouth that spake very great things, whose look was more

stout than his fellows. I beheld, and then the same horn made war

with the Saints and prevailed against them, until the Ancient of days came,

and the judgment was given to the Saints of the Most High, and the

time came that the Saints possessed the kingdom. Thus he said, the four

beasts shall be the four kingdoms upon the earth, which shall be diverse from

all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down

and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are

ten kings that shall rise, and then another shall rise after them, and

he shall be diversed from the first, and he shall subdue three kings.

And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out

the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws.

And they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the

dividing of times. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away

his dominion to consume and to destroy it into the end. And the kingdom

and the dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be

given to the people of who the Saints are the most of the most High,

whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions will shirt serve and

obey him. Hitherto is the end of the matter. As for me,

Daniel, my coggitations much much troubled me, and my countenance changed in me,

but I kept the matter in my heart. Interesting vision of Daniel here,

I've a I don't know if I've ever heard of a I've heard some

pretty wild dreams in my life, a lot of them from other people.

But they're they're kind of interesting to listen to. They don't make a lot

of sense, but they can be pretty fascinating. But this vision of Daniel,

and it's very interesting. And I'll say right away, I'm not prophecy

experts, so but what I what I get out of this is very fascinating.

It's been very interesting to me. But so this vision, he's it's

at night and he's seeing the sea. And now out of this sea it's

this, this, this the wind strove four winds strove. So it's like

this category five storm at night on the ocean, or maybe maybe more than

that, maybe it's a seven or eight category. There's huge it's tapping.

If you think about the ocean and the sea and the Bible, tapping into

some of the deepest fears of mankind, this ocean, the sea, storm,

hurricane at night. But then out of this, out of this tremendous

storm, comes these beasts. And uh, I'm not scared afraid of the

dark like maybe I used to be, but for for a lot of humans,

for children, for us, this taps into another fear, these the

tremendous beast and uh m hm. The first one in verse four is a

lion with eagles wings, and a lion is known as the king of the

beast. And did you know that? I had to look it up,

but an eagle is considered, at least by one place I looked up,

an eagle is considered the king of the air. So they have this cross

breathe, this terrible beast, King of the air, King of the King

of the beast. They say that even a golden eagle can challenge a lion.

Did you know that? I guess they're huge, and if they get

in the right right place they can maybe scare a lion. I'm not sure.

But so this was a Babylonian kingdom, Nebukanezer, the king of kings,

as I understand it. Then we have the bear with three ribs,

and he was the king of Persia, and he was actually the last king

during Daniel's life, so just a little context there. Then there was the

leopard with four wings. It's not quite like the line on the egle,

but it still kind of a cross breeds, still powerful. And this was

what I understand is Alexander the Great or the Greek Empire. And then verse

seven and eight we have the beast that was terrible, and it talks about

the ten horns and the iron teeth and kind of gives almost more description on

what this beast did. It really was destructive, devoured and stamped the residue

with his feet broken pieces. And so Daniel has this vision of four kingdoms,

four terrible, terrifying kingdoms, and it says there that he watched this

all play out, this whole thing happen until I beheld the thrones, until

they were all cast down. I don't know how this was in his dream,

if the sea calmed and but these beasts all and then it says that

there was a fifth kingdom. He describes another kingdom here and he talks about

the ancient of days in verse nine. There his hair was pure like wool

on a fiery, fiery throne. His throne was fiery flame. Talks about

the one who's like the son of man, maybe the one nebuchan Ezer saw

in the furnace. Which kingdom is this? Which kingdom was his fifth kingdom?

It was the King's kingdom, the King's kingdom. And I've been reading

through the Book of Daniel. Daniel was an amazing person. I think anytime

I read through that book, and a lot of especially those of us as

men, I think about the Book of Daniel, and I think about Daniel

what I went through, and I wonder could if I'd done what could have

I done what Daniel did and resisted those temptations and managed to come out where

Daniel did with all the issues that he faced. And I asked myself the

question, what was it? That was it? How was Daniel able to

do with that? What was the key for Daniel to be able to do

that? Was he just a very very charismatic person. He just had a

way with kenings, with kings, the kenachh to get along with very important

royal royal people. He lived through a lot of four kings. Nebukanazer bel

Shaz de Duras and Cyrus and uh these were very powerful kings, very unpredictable

and dangerous individuals maybe like Kim John Un or Putin or somebody, just as

people he did not want to mess with or rub the wrong way. You

know how he did it. Daniel was a part of the Fifth Kingdom.

Daniel was a part. He was a citizen of the king's kingdom. And

Daniel always reminded these other kings. He didn't care who is around. He

always reminded these other kings about which kingdom he was a part of, about

the Fifth Kingdom, and think about some of the kings he was through,

you know, the reign of nebecan Ezra. He had a dream one time

and Daniel interpreted that dream and he said, one day you're going to eat

grass like a cow, like the oxen of the field out there in the

pasture. And you know the story. How he went and he stood in

front of his kingdom, his kingdom, Nebicanezer's kingdom. He looked out over

that kingdom and he said, is not this the great Babylon that I have

built for my power, by my power, for my honor. And in

that moment he was struck down, and he spent seven years eating grass like

a like like our cattle do. And Danel Daniel, when he presented this,

he gave him fair warning. He said, you're gonna do that for

seven years till you know that the most High God reigns in the affairs of

men, and he sets up who he wants to. Daniel never back down

from that. He always reminded the kings that he was around of the Fifth

Kingdom. This is how he survived in the world. He did these great

beasts and the storms. Belshazzer and he was this proud, arrogant son of

steps and I'm gonna say it was of Nebekanezzer. And he he was drinking,

you know, the temple cups, and a hand came and rode on

the wall. You imagine if that happened. Just just terrified this great king.

And he called in the queen said, I know a man whose spirit

of the of the gods is in him. He can interpret this. And

Daniel came in and he said. The king said, I'll give you up

to a third of the kingdom. And Daniel said, let your rewards be

to another. He knew where his citizenship was he didn't want to be a

part ruler of this kingdom, this world's kings. And he said, you

know, you knew all this, you knew your dad's story. You were

there, you saw what happened, and yet you did not humble yourself.

Daniel always was ready to remind the people of the king's kingdom. Drias he

really liked Daniel, you know, but it's so typical of politics. He

got himself all tangled up and contradicting himself and ended up with the law that

he couldn't back out of. And now he was throwing one of his best

friends into the lions den because of it. And he comes running down there

in the morning and he said, Daniel, it was your daddy able to

save you. And Daniel said, my God sent angels to deliver me.

Cyrus. He was the one with the bear with three ribs. We don't

know. I don't know a lot about him. I think he was actually

a little more tolerant towards the people, the Jewish people, and help them

go back and rebuild the temple. But but Nevick and As when I talked

about a little bit more, because he had a vision and a dream that

paralleled this one I just read in Daniel chapter seven. And it was one

with a big image that went up to heaven and it was gold at the

top and silver and what it was at brass and then iron mixed with clay

at the bottom. And Daniel had this this great, big dream of this

statue and he couldn't remember it. And uh, he said, he's gonna

kill all the wise men, and Daniel said, don't do that. I

serve a god that can tell dreams of God of heaven, he said.

And this is this story is in Daniel chapter two. But as Daniel described

this, this whole story to him about all the different kingdoms, like like

we just talked about here in this in this uh. In Daniel chapter seven,

Daniel told Nebucannadie said, you are You're the king of kings, You're

the gold head, You're the best there is. You're at the top of

this image. I can imagine that really really puffed up his ego. Made

him feel good, you know, that he was the golden head of this

image that he had. But Daniel said, guess what, Silver's coming.

Silver's coming. And I was talking to a man the other day about these

things, and I told him what I was studying here. It's an important

thing to remember the peak of your life, peak of your health, peak

of your wealth, of your kingdom, everything's going for you're you're the top

of everything. Just remember silver's coming. And that's what Daniel reminded him,

because even the greatest kingdom doesn't last forever. And Daniel again reminded him of

this fifth kingdom, the King's Kingdom, Daniel chapter two. It's a as

I understand that the same same vision here, same same dreamer or image.

But Daniel said, he said that the king saw in his dream this statue

and everything about it, and then out of this great, big mountain was

that stone was carved out of this mountain, and this stone came down and

just crushed these kingdoms to absolute powder, until they were just like the chaff

of a threshing floor. He says, there and Daniel chapter two, till

the wind just carried away the chaff. And then this rock continued to grow

after it had crushed these other kingdoms to absolute powder. This rock continued to

grow and to grow and to grow until it became a mountain that filled up

the whole earth. It's an interesting prophecy about somebody we read about later in

the Bible. Luke chapter twenty. It says that the stone which the builders

rejected, the same has become the head of the corner. Whomsoever shall fall

upon that stone shall be broken, but on whomsoever shall fall it will grind

him to powder. It's an interesting dynamic to think about which side of the

equation we're on the king's kingdom. And then Daniel summed up Nevig and Ezra's

dreamed there in verse forty four. He said, in the days of these

kings, the gold, silver, brass, iron, and clay. He

said, in the days of these kings shall the God of Heaven set up

to the kingdom, which shall never be destroyed. And the kingdom shall not

be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all

these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever. You think about the beast in

chapter seven, how terrible those were, and yet and terrible these kingdoms were,

and yet the prediction of what's going to happen to them, they were

going to be taken apart, They're going to be destroyed. I thought about

this, how that you know, there's been a lot of kingdoms. Since

we live in the United States of America and that's considered. We keep being

told by our politicians that this is the most powerful nation on earth. And

I'm not sure why they weren't in the Book of Daniel. But the point

is that these kingdoms are going to be destroyed, They're going to be taken

away. What has happened all these all these kingdoms? There's a I don't

know. There's there's a very interesting poem that I've I've seen many times or

I've thought about in connection with this. The title of the poem is Ozzi

Mandias and this was written some by Shelley Puerce Shelley. He lived in the

early eighteen hundreds. But Ozzi Mandius was the nickname for the pharaoh Pharaoh Ramsey's

the second, who possibly was the pharaoh that Moses encountered. And they found

an image of him a statue, a giant statue, as what had been

a statue had fallen over in the sand, but I guess over in Egypt

somewhere. They found this statue out in the desert, and it was a

huge statue. It was a good handsome likeness of this fierce king Ramsey's the

second and on the pedestal where these were the words that I am, Ozzi

Mandius, king of Kings. If anyone would know how great I am and

where I lie, let him surpass any of my works. But see when

they found him years later, and when Shelley would have written this poem,

this whole image had fallen over, had broken up, and just the sands

of time had just destroyed it. And so he wrote this poem. And

I like this poem because that depicts what's going to happen to all kingdoms,

all kingdoms, but the King's kingdom, King's kingdom. Ozzi Mandez I met

a traveler from an antique land who said, two vast and trunkless legs of

stone stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, half sunk,

a shattered visage lies, whose frown and wrinkled lip and sneer of cold

command tell that its sculpture. Well, these passions read which yet survived,

stamped on these lifeless things the hand that mocked them and the heart that fed,

And on the pedestal these words. My name is Ozymandias, King of

Kings. Look on my works, he mighty and despair nothing besides remains round

the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bear the lone and level sands

stretched far away. It's something serious to think about for the kings of this

earth, for all of us, you know, because silver's coming. I'm

fifty years old now, and I grew up in the grew up in the

Willamette Valley, and I love the farm I love the culture which my father,

my dad, he was involved in the seed business. And in my

little world, these farmers, these these farmers that I heard my dad talked

about were they were like the kings to me, the kings of the Willamette

Valley, and they owned all this land and farmed, and it's amazing to

me. Just the other day, Dad left a message on my phone or

called me and said, hit another one died. I just I just remembered.

I remember being in his warehouse loading trucks and box cars out of his

warehouse. I remember how his funny stories and the land he farmed, and

the things he said. All these kingdoms, and you know, my little

kingdom and how little it is. But these are beests and the issue is

which side which king? And I want to talk about that a little bit.

This thing of separation. I'm not going to talk about separation, but

the thing of separation is really clear here. Either you're aligned with the beasts,

you're trying to make a pet out of a cross between a lion and

a golden eagle, or else your part of the King's Kingdom, like Daniel

was. And Daniel didn't try to make pets out of these beasts. He

was part of the Fifth Kingdom, part of the King's Kingdom. And I

think about you know, if you think about it just a little bit,

you take up just think about the earth, this round, beautiful globe spinning

through a dark space, and hearing all this on this earth is all these

people, these kingdoms, these empires, you know Hitler, good and evil

men, and we're right over here, and God's looking at this, and

you know hear Prutin is trying to take over Ukraine and powerful United States is

going to send them weapons. What that looks like for like from heaven,

it's little firecrackers going off Israel and Hamas to us, this is this could

overtake us. This is a big deal. This this could something. There's

bad things that could happen because of this, and over here around the other

side, wherever it is. It is Taiwan and China, and they say

that's a oh, that could be a terrible thing of China invaded Taiwan.

Did you know that in the average car there's something like three hundred semiconductors and

I guess up to three thousand, and these teslas and electric cars. There's

semiconductors in your fridge and your microwave, and your phones, and tractors and

equipment, factory equipment. Imagine if that's if that stopped, it'd be would

be way worse than COVID. There's all these scenarios and here here, above,

here, above all this, well, this beast is incoherent, devouring

beast is destroying humanity. There's a god in heaven that's looking here, and

he's watching all this. He's watching these beasts destroy themselves. He's set up

a king he's set up a kingdom that no, no putin, No Kim

Jong Yang no, she can destroy, can disrupt. And I don't I

don't know. Maybe they're more right than we are in the United States.

I'm not sure. We live here so we get biased. But it's all

the world's kingdoms and there. I just like to think about this. He's

the eternal Dominion, and God of Heaven is looking down, and they're at

the right hand of the Father. Is the son of Man, the Son

of God, the Messiah, Jesus is at the right end of the God

making intercession for us, making incesion. The same God there was somehow making

intercession to make sure Daniel wouldn't get gobbled up by the lions that night,

just one man in that Babylonian kingdom, and God cared about him. People

like you and I can be a part of that kingdom that the people like

Daniel are part of that of the King's kingdom. We talked about a little

bit Daniel seven, the ancient of days of the King's Kingdom Verse fourteen.

And there was given him a dominion and glory and a kingdom and all people,

nations, languages, all these people are going to be a part of

it. It's not going to be just a certain race, a certain group

of people certain time Verse eighteen and nine eighteen to twenty two. It says

that the saints are going to take the kingdom. That's you and I.

There's people like you and I that have given our allegiance in our hearts to

the king, the wound be part of the king's kingdom, and verse twenty

seven at the end there but verse and I just want to go briefly a

little bit through Daniel. I'm not going to read it, but chapter eight.

I read through the Book of Daniel different times here preparing for this.

But Daniel, chapter eight, we have another vision of the goat and the

Ram. And I don't know what all this is. I don't think the

Ram was like the Lamb of God. I think it was another kingdom of

this world. We understood it. But this Ram and this goat could have

been the Greek Empire and the Means and the Persians. That's what I read.

That part doesn't matter. These kingdoms are just going at it, just

trying to destroy themselves. And then in verse twenty four of that chapter,

it says and it says, and his power is talking about one of the

beasts, and his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power.

And he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and practice, and he

shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. I wonder what you thought when

you read, well, I wondered about those verses for what is that he'll

destroy wonderfully? And again I'm not making claims here because I'm not a prophecy

expert. But what I'll tell you what comes to my mind is this idea

of destroying wonderfully. I should have looked it up in another version, I

guess, but I didn't, so it It reminds me of somebody that's that's

kind of ingenuitive about how they go about it, like controlled demolition, and

they kind of have a system to it and they know how to do it.

It says with practice, doesn't it say that? There with and practice

and she'll prosper. Remind me of the United States of America, the way

they're going about aligning up things against I just heard an interesting story from a

young lady that was she was an older older lady came to our place.

She talked about this incident she had in an airport. She had forgot her

ID and she was praying, praying, and this big tall TSA officer came

up started visiting with her. The long story short, he helped her through.

She got through, She got she was going to a funeral, really

wanted to go, and she's praying about this and this big TSA officer came

over. She hadn't meta. I looked just like you, and I'm over

and talked to her where you go and said, what religion are you?

She took her over to the side. What religion are you? So I'm

a Christian identify with the Mennonites. He said, persecution is coming for us,

and he walked away. He showed destroy wonderful m hmm. Now if

we go to Daniel chapter nine, and this is the one that I really

like, because Daniel starts to read this, he is he has seen these

visions. He don't know what to do with and so what does he do?

I think there's some real principles here for you and I have when we

get in ourselves in this it worked up by semiconductors in war. What does

Daniel do? He goes to the Word of God. He goes to the

Book of Jeremiah and he begins to read it, and he begins to understand.

You know, when he was taken captive. It's like a lot of

things happened to when we're little. We don't understand what happened. I know

he was a youth, but he gets taken captive, and now all these

years later, he's reading about it. He's reading why we were taken captive,

and he just starts to cry and repent and cry out to God when

he's reading from Jeremiah the Prophet, and he repents and for the people for

himself. He says in verse seventeen, chapter nine, Now therefore, O

our God, hear the prayer of thy servant and his supplications, and cause

thy face to shine upon thy sanctuary that is desolate, for the Lord's sake,

Oh my God, and climb thine ear and hear open thine eyes and

behold our desolations and the city which is called by thy name. For we

do not present our supplications before thee for our righteousness, but for thy great

mercies. O Lord, here, O Lord, forgive, O Lord,

hearken and difernaught for thine own sake, Oh My God, for thy city

and thy people are called by thy name. And he says, there,

while I was speaking and praying and confessing my sins and the sins of the

people of Israel, presenting my supplication before the Lord, before God of the

holy Mountain of my God. While I was speaking, the man Gabriel came

to me, and what Gabriel said was prophecy. He said something this seventy

weeks. And I did a little looking into that, and it's a little

bit interesting how some people have that figured out. Seventy weeks equals seven years,

so seventy times seven years before in their ninety years, and they have

that figured out to where it comes out right at the right at the time

of Jesus' birth or crucifixion or something. I mean, to the year according

to some of the things. I don't know how important that all is to

look at, but it is very interesting how that happened. But here's the

point that I'm trying to bring out with Daniel, is that, so this

Gabriel comes and he says, listen, while he was repenting, okay,

up, while he's repenting, Gabriel comes and said, listen, the Messiah

is coming. There's a kingdom coming. While he's repenting, that's the point.

While he's repenting, Gabriel says, the Messiah is coming, the Kingdom

is coming, Thy Kingdom come. Interesting how that happened. He is confessing

and repenting and he has told the Messiah is coming. There's a Kingdom coming.

You know, it's still that way today when Jesus came in Luke chapter

twenty or Matthew chapter four. Did you know that the first thing Jesus began

to preach by some accounts, just looking at the Bible, and if you

got read in there you can just very quickly figure that out. But in

Matthew, at least, the first thing Jesus began to teach, that's what

repent for the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand. You know what the second

thing he taught, just like two verses down, follow me and I will

make you fishers of men. So it's very interesting, how, Daniel,

how this paralleled and how that's still the way it is when we repent,

the Messiah comes and the Kingdom comes into our hearts. And Jesus as he

preached, you know, right after Matthew chapter four, the Sermon on the

Mount, and Jesus often preached that kingdom, the Kingdom of and the Kingdom

of God is like. And the parables and the stories he told were all

a lot of them. Most of them were about the kingdom, the Kingdom

of Heaven, the everlasting kingdom, and that's where this kingdom was established when

this rock, as I understand it, maybe could it be that rock was

hewn out of the mountain and this kingdom began to fill up the whole earth,

And maybe Rome was the last kingdom, I think is what i'd read,

the last beast. And so this kingdom is warring against this rock and

trying to crush the rock, and the rock is crushing it because of the

resurrection, and people are repenting and getting baptized and joining the kingdom, and

this mountain is filling up the earth. And I was part of the goal

here was try to give this kingdom from God's perspective, Like God is looking

down on this earth, and this is happening, these great beasts. There's

storm, there's people running around scared and crying out to God, repenting,

but they're becoming a part of the Fifth Kingdom, the King's Kingdom. And

I think it might help a little bit if we look at it, if

we want to see how the king the King's Kingdom from the king's perspective,

We could look at it a little bit from the perspective Jesus was looking at

things when he was here on earth, and when Jesus was here on earth,

there was people were broken. There was broken people all around him.

There's a cripple, the blind, the sick, the destitute, and these

people were not made for this kingdom. You know. I was thinking about

this, how in our town we live close to the Indian reservation and these

people are broken people. They're into drink, they're into a lot of things.

And often we talk about how the white men are at fault, you

know, the white men did it to them, but was it really it's

partly the white men, but the kings of this earth, ambitions of men

of other kingdoms, is really what did this to them? Really what destroyed

them? And sometimes when i'm central organ there and going down through there,

I think about what it must have been like hundreds of years ago, when

these dear Indians are beautiful people, gentle by nature. It seems like they're

what it must have been like for them to just have the planes and to

be here back before all this was disrupted, when they're not passed out,

and I think how they weren't made for this. They weren't made for this.

They weren't made for the way they got treated. They weren't made for

all these things. But neither were we We weren't made for this, We

weren't made for the sins that get a hold of us and destroy our lives

and our souls. But the King came to do more than just make than

to just feed the hungry. He came to make citizens of his kingdom.

Over the last couple of years, I was helping Latino guy Mexican man become

a citizen in the United States. He wanted to tide. Loaned him some

money and he did. The process took quite a while, he got all

done. He was so proud of being a citizen in the United States.

And then recently I heard about some of my relatives getting their children and going

and become citizens of Canada. And I'm like, well, maybe I should

be make my family a citizen of Canada. And maybe I should have helped

him become a citizen of Canada. Which king was Daniel's favorite? Which empire

was he a city? Which was which was his favorite king? To vote

for the campaign for? What did Jesus say? My kingdom is not of

this world. Jesus came to make people that would be like Daniel in a

kingdom of darkness. And I just want to read the last couple of verses

here in closing in Daniel chapter twelve, Verse one to three. Now just

leave you at a question here, which kingdom are you a part of?

In verse two there where it says that many who sleep will come up out

of the ground, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting

contempt. Which kingdom are you a part of? And at that same time

shall Michael stand the great Prince which standeth for the children of thy people.

And there shall be a time of trouble such as never was since there was

a nation, even to them to that same time. And at that time

thy people shall be delivered everyone that shall be found written in the book.

Any of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some

to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. And they that

be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament, and they that turn

many to righteousness as the stars forever and ever