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Good evening, friends, Welcome again to Prophecy Countdown. We are

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So tonight, Lord, our prayers that we have an encounter

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Amen, please be seated now before we have our special

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But we do want to remind you this evening we

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We have a very important final weekend dealing with these

different Bible topics. Well, I'd like to invite pass A

Doug to come join me and we will get right

into your Bible questions. Good evening, Passa Doug.

Good evening. Weren't those kids great? That was fun? And

man they did a good job all right.

Christ Number one, does Satan have power to bring natural

disasters upon the earth?

Yes. For one thing you can read in the Book

of Job that it says the devil went forth from

the presence of the Lord, and among the things he

did is bringing fire down from heaven. He smote the

corners of one of their children's homes with some tornado,

a great wind and so often when there's a storm

or bad weather, people call it an act of God.

But the devil actually can manipulate the elements. In one

of the final signs in Revelation thirteen, he will bring

down fire on the earth and the side of men

to deceive them. So yes, to some extent, Satan does

have some controller power over weather and the elements.

All right. Question number two is the Garden of Eden

in heaven? And if it is, how did it get there?

Well, we believe it is in heaven because the Bible

tells us that God planted a garden. It's a special

garden that he planted, and it had boundaries because when

Adam and Eve sinned and Eve were evicted from the garden,

and there was an angel place at the gates to

guard the way to the Tree of life. You read

in Revelation twenty one the New Jerusalem will come down

out of God from heaven, which makes us believe before

the flood, God assumed it up to heaven, just like

Jesus was caught up to heaven to preserve it. So

God's garden will be restored. It will be central park

of the New Jerusalem. And so I think that he

brought it up before the flood to preserve it along

with the Tree of Life, because the Bible says the

Tree of Life is in the New Jerusalem, and so

if God can bring a city down, he can bring

them a garden up. Amen, that's what we believe. All right.

Well, last night you spoke about clean and unclean meats,

and we have a couple of questions that came in

about that. So the first one is, can you please

explain first Timothy, Chapter four, verse four, which seems to

state that everything God created is good, good and should

not be rejected.

All right, let me read this to you more. Let's

see where shall I begin. Now I'll start with verse one. Now,

the spirit speaks expressly saying that in the latter time,

some will depart from the faith, giving heed to deceiving

spirits and doctrines of devils, speaking lies and hypocrisy, having

their own conscience seared with a hot iron, forbidding to marry. No,

there's a clue. This religious power is going to maybe

forbid their priesthood to marry, forbidding to marry and commanding

me see forbidding to marry and commanding to abstain from foods,

what kind of foods? Foods which God has created to

be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know

the truth. These are foods that are created to be received,

which means there are some foods that are created not

to be received. They're called unclean. And then he says,

for every creature of God is good, and nothing is

to be refused if it's received with thanksgiving, for it

is sanctified by the word of God in prayer. Now,

Paul is not saying that you can eat anything that

crawls across your plate. Let me prove that. Are you

sitting by anybody tonight, Take a look at them for

just a minute. They are a creature. Every creature of

God is good, and nothing is to be refused if

it is received with thanksgiving in prayer. Are you cannibals?

Is God making a blanket statement here that you can

eat anything, cockroaches, skunk's, vultures. No, he's saying it is

sanctified by the word of God. There are creatures which

are sanctified by the Word of God, and there are

some that are not. And the big battle is in

the early Church, the gentiles who converted to Christianity were

being told by the Jewish Christians, oh, you can't eat

that lamb or that chicken because it was offered in

a sacrifice in the Temple of Apollo and it is unclean. Now,

it had nothing to do with clean and unclean meats.

It had to do with things offered to idols. Let

me bring this to our day. How many do you

like Chinese food? Have you ever been to a Chinese

or a Thai restaurant that had a statue of a Buddha?

Does that keep you from eating? Are you worshiping Buddha?

There are some people that are very sensitive and they think,

you know, if I eat in the place that has

an idol of Buddha, then maybe I'm supporting false religion. Now,

you and I you say, well, look, I'm receiving it

with thanksgiving and prayer. It's not a problem. This is

what they were facing back then. The very fastidious Jews

were saying, you can't eat things sacrifice in these Roman marketplaces.

Proof of this is Paul says, and I think it's

First Corinthians. Whatever is sold in the shambles, that means

the flea market eat, asking no questions for conscience. Sake.

Don't go say did you offer this to Jupiter? Did

you offer this to Apollo? Just buy it. If it's

a clean animal, pray over it. It's okay. Does that

make sense. He's not saying you can eat anything. That

would be an absurd interpretation. All right.

Another question that we have related to the same subject.

How do you explain Mark chapter seven, verse nineteen, where

it says that Jesus declared old foods clean?

All right, Mark chapter seven. Let's read this he's talking about.

First of all, the discussion has nothing to do with

any particular food. It has to do with your disciples

are eating without ceremonially washing their hands. That's what they're

talking about. And let's see here. We'll go to verse

seventeen when he entered a house away from the crowd.

As disciples asked him concerning this parable, he said, are

you thus without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever

enters a man from the outside cannot defile him because

it does not enter his heart but his stomach and

is eliminated, thus purifying all foods. So well, it makes

it sound like is Jesus there purifying all foods? No,

that actually is translated it goes in the mouth, and

it is eliminated, purging you ever, you know what a

purgative is. A purgative is a laxative. The original language

is saying it is eliminated. He said, that's not touching

your heart. And he's talking about eating with unwashed hands.

If you're reading a new King James version, you'll see

it's different than the NIV says thus declaring all foods clean,

that is not in the original Greek. The translators added

that Jesus did not say that you can eat anything.

Your doctor will not tell you can eat anything. You

will not tell your children that they can eat anything.

He's talking here about a discussion about eating with hands

that were and were not ceremonially washed. All right, by

the way, pardon me. It's not what goes in your

mouth that defiles you, but what comes out. That's what

Jesus said. I use that verse against the pastor that

told me, Doug, you need to quit smoking. I said,

I read it right here, Pastor. It's not what goes

in your mouth that defiles you, but what comes out.

He said, yeah, but what's going in your mouth is

defiling what's coming out, And girls told me when they

kissed me it was like licking an ash tray. Its

pretty defiling. If you drink alcohol and you say, it's

not what goes in my mouth defiles me, but what

comes out, what goes in your mouth defiles what comes out.

Isn't that right? So let's not abuse the scriptures to

say more than it's really saying. All right.

Another question that we have, also from John. It says

some priests claim the power to forgive sins based upon

the understanding of John Chapter twenty, verse twenty one. Can

you please explain John twenty, verse.

Twenty Okay, here we go. Let me see here. Uh So,

Jesus said to them, peace be to you, as the

Father sent me, I send you. And he breathed on

them and said, receive the Holy Spirit. And I think

they're talking about verse twenty three. If you forgive the

sins of any, they are forgiven. If you retain the

sins of any there retained. Now is Jesus telling the

apostles you get to decide aenie meanie minem. I'll forgive you,

but I'm not going to forgive you. I don't like

the looks of you. And no he's saying, in preaching

the gospel, people's sins will be forgiven. In not distributing

the gospel, people's sins are retained. It's in that sense

that you and I are making a difference for eternity

as we share the message of Christ. Jesus is not

saying the apostles had the power to go around say

I think I'll forgive you, and I will not forgive you.

All right. Another question that we have. The Bible says

that God hardened Pharaoh's heart. What does this mean?

Compare scripture with scripture. In one place it says God

hardened Pharaoh's heart, it does say that. Another place it

says Pharaoh hardened his heart. God sent circumstances, and those

circumstances hardened Pharaoh's heart. Where some people might be humbled

by the same circumstances. You know, some people go through

a tough time and they become angry at God and

they harden their hearts. The same circumstances soften. The sun

shines on clay and it gets hard. The same sun

will shine on wax and it gets soft. Same sun.

The substance is different. Pharaoh had a proud heart. The

circumstances that God sent. He got prouder and prouder and

more stubborn. Even his own counselors said, can you not

see this as the finger of God? Let the people go?

Humble yourself. But he was proud and stubborn. So when

he said I'm hardening his heart, he just meant I'm

going to send circumstances and you're going to see what

he's really like. All right.

Another question that we have Revelations, chapter sixteen, verse twelve.

It's it is that the waters of the river Euphrates

are being dried up to prepare the way of the

kings of the East. What does this mean?

Yeah, when the children of Israel were in Babylon, in

order for them to go home from Babylon, it needed

to be conquered by the Persians. The general Cyrus diverted

the Euphrates river. Because the Euphrates ran under the walls

of Babylon. Well, unless you had scuba gear, you couldn't

get in that way. But they had not anticipated that

the Persians. He had a whole army. They dug a

big channel that diverted the river into a dry lake bed.

They dug all the whole channels, and they waited until night.

They broke the dam. All the water suddenly turned and diverted.

The water level going under the walls of Babylon dried up,

it went down. Some soldiers went in, not the whole army,

but enough went in. Like the Trojans, they opened the

gate unless the rest of the army in. They had

actually left open the inner gates because they thought they're

never going to get in. And that's foretold in Isaiah

chapter forty four and forty five. Even the name of

the King says, I will dry up the rivers before you.

And that's what happened. All right.

Another question that we have, Oh how does this time

to the Book of Revelation in the Last Days.

Yeah, well, when it says the sixth plague, it says

the Euphrates river will dry up, it's saying that the

resources and the life that supplies Babylon. The Euphrates was

the main source of life and power and vitality to Babylon.

It dried up. And you can also read darknesses on

the seat of the beasts spiritual Babylon. So all of

their power and their light is just going to dry

up and don't be surprised if the Euphrates river doesn't

also literally dry up, because the other plagues are literal too. Right,

we see that the Euphrates level is going down. I

think that's interesting, but it's not the last plague yet, all.

Right, Next question that we have. The Bible says that

if we confess that sins, that'll be forgiven. But what

if I can't remember the sins that I have committed,

therefore I can't confess them.

Well, don't worry about that. I think it was Mark

Twain that said, it's not the mysteries in the Bible

that caused me sleepless nights. It's the good I know

I should do. Don't worry about what you don't remember.

The Holy Spirit may bring something to your attention, and

you may pray that prayer. King David prayed where he said,

Lord and psalms, search me and try me see if

there be any wicked way in me, and lead me

in the way everlasting. God will reveal to you the

things that need repenting, and you repent of those things,

and God will forgive you. You might make a list

like the ten Commandments, and just go through the ten

commandments and say Lord, I'm guilty of all these things.

Summarize it. I've lied, I've stolen, I've had impure thoughts,

or whatever it might be, and then say God forgive

me for my sins. You don't have remember every specific

sin because no one here can just confess the categories.

All right, Well, I think that's it for our Bible

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I hope you're ready decoding the longest prophecy. That's our study.

Welcome once again, friends to prophecy. Countdown what's next? And

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I always like to start with a little amazing fact.

You know, today it seems like almost everything is run

by battery. Cars are run by battery, and motorcycles are

run by battery, and bicycles are run by battery, and

your phones are run by battery. And that there's been

a great surge in the world of finding materials to

make enough batteries and make batteries last longer. But who

would you guess is making the longest running battery, Tesla

Duracel are ever ready none of them. The longest running

battery is from the Oxford Electric Bell that is in Oxford, England,

and it was made in eighteen forty and it has

been ringing a bell very gently for one hundred and

eighty five years. And they are still mystified by exactly

how this company made these two cylindrical batteries. It's wax

coated with zinc and magnesium and different subjects and paper,

and they can't wait until it stops working. It's slowing down.

Now they know it will eventually stop. But can you

imagine that battery has been powering this little lid ball

has been ringing a bell between it's under a glass

doome there in England for one hundred and eighty five years,

and they can't wait to find out what technology did

they have back then to do that. Well, we're going

to look at something that is the longest time prophecy

in the Bible. If you have your Bibles, I would

like to invite you to turn to the Book of Daniel,

chapter eight, and we're going to I won't have time

to read Daniel eight and nine, or we won't get

through it all. I'm gonna highlight different points, but I

want you to have it open in your hands. The

prophet Daniel has a vision in chapter eight. Now, in

chapter seven, he has a vision that contains four unclean

animals lion, leopard, bear, this dragon like beast. When you

get to chapter eight, you know they're a nation of shepherds.

They have a vision now of clean animals, a goat

and a ram. And he has this vision of a

ram with two horns, and Daniel eight verses one through four,

what does the ram represent? Now, I'm not making these up.

The Angel Vin comes and tells Daniel what the interpretation is.

You'll see the answer. The Angel gives right up on

the screen. The ram that you saw having the two horns.

They are the kings of Media and Persia. You know,

now we think of it as the Persian Empire. Originally

it was called the Meadow Persian Empire. It tells us

in the vision that the ram had one horn that

was bigger than the other, and that was because the

Persians were more powerful. Eventually they really subsumed the Median power,

and it's known as the Persian Empire. And then you

go into question number two. Moving right along, Daniel next

saw a goat, not a ram. A ram, of course,

is a male sheep. This is a goat with a

great horn, a single horn between his eyes. And this

goat furiously charges at the ram, breaks its horns and

beats it to smitherings. Who is this goat power? What

does the angel tell us Daniel? Chapter eight verse twenty

one and twenty two. The male goat is the kingdom

of Greece. Remember we learned when we talked about beasts

and revelation, that these beasts are talking about kingdoms. And

here's an example of that. And the large horn between

its eyes is the is what the first king. And

as for the broken horn horn and the four that

stood up in its place, four kingdoms will rise out

of that nation, but not with the same original power

of that king. Who do you think that great Grecian

king was. That's better known as Alexander the Great. He

was of Macedon, but that's in Greece, the son of

Philip of Macedon. He was highly educated by Aristotle, a

very bright and brave young man with an ambition, one

of they believe, one of the greatest military geniuses of history.

He was absolutely fearless. He would lead his battles in

charging and once he nearly got killed because he was

the first over the wall and he got stabbed badly.

But he conquered the Persians, it says, the male goat

represents Greece, which conquered the Persian Empire. Its big horn

is a symbol of this first ruler Alexander the Great.

The Kingdom of Alexander even expanded farther than the Kingdom

of Persia. But while Alexander or could conquer the world,

he could not conquer himself. And you heard the story

that he sat down and cried because there was no

worlds left to conquer. That maybe a little bit of mythology,

but it is true that he at a party became

discouraged and he was drinking, and they don't know whether

it was malaria or alcohol poisoning, but he woke up

with a fever the next day and as they could see,

he was dying. The big question was who will rule

in your place, and he famously answered the strongest. And

what happened then is his kingdom was divided among his

four generals, and their names were Cassiander, Lessimicus, Potolemy, and Seleucus,

and that ended up being divided into these four empires.

And the Greeks really they spread their Hellenization, their Greek

culture all through this empire. Even if you go to

Afghanist Antony, they've done DNA studies and they can see

that they have Greek blood among the Afghanis. Because his

kingdom stretched all the way to the borders of India,

into Egypt, up into Greece, and the borders of what

would be the next kingdom. Now a little horn grows

out of one of the four horns. The four horns

were the four divisions of Alexander's kingdom. A little horn

springs up of the four. What power or kingdom does

this little horn represent? Well, if you know your history,

you know what kingdom ended up following You got Babylon, Meado, Persia,

Greece than what Rome. You can read there in Acts

chapter eighteen, verse two, Claudius Caesar had commanded all the

Jews to depart from Rome. And it came to pass

in those days Luke chapter two that Caesar Augustus commanded

all the world should be registered or tax. Rome was

ruling the civilized world surrounding the Mediterranean at that time.

Pilot was a vassal of Rome. He was Roman governor

of Judea. And when he said to the Jewish leader,

shall I then kill your king? You know what? They said,

we have no king but Caesar, and so here they

were kind of makes you shudder to think they would

say we have no king but Caesar. And they said,

if you are friends with this man, then you are

not Caesar's friend. And of course that frightened Pilot, where

he finally washed his hands and he said, his blood

is not on me, and they said his blood be

upon us and our children. And the nation really did suffer.

Following that, they were ultimately destroyed by the Romans. This

little horn that persecuted God's people and trampled holy things

that stood against Jesus starts out Pagan Rome. Rome ruled

by Caesars. As Rome eventually began to disintegrate and crumble,

it was then replaced by we learned Papal Rome during

that time. This is the power that followed Greece, and

Papal Rome followed Page In Rome, it was during the

time of Rome when Christ was born. They were Roman

swords that killed the babies in Bethlehem, and it was

a Roman spear that pierced Jesus' side in Roman iron

nails that went through his hands. Rome was the empire

ruling during that time from about one sixty eight BC

to about four seventy six. They didn't fall in one

decisive battle. They sort of crumbled from the inside out.

Number four Daniel is then told that this little horn

power ends up growing and it would defile the sanctuary.

How long until it's cleansed. Let's go to the Bible now,

because I want to actually read this to you from

the Bible Daniel chapter eight. And if you look in

the Book of Daniel chapter eight, you can read this

whole prophecy here. And I'll start with verse twelve, speaking

of the little horn power. Because of transgression, an army

was given over to the horn to oppose the daily sacrifices,

and he cast the truth down to the ground. He

did all this, and he practiced, and he prospered. Then

I heard a holy one. These angels were acting out

this vision before Daniel. I heard a holy one speaking,

And another holy one said to that certain one that

was speaking, how long will be the vision concerning the

daily sacrifice and the transgression of desolation and the giving

both of the sanctuary and the host to be trodden underfoot?

And he said to me, for two thousand and three

hundred days, then the sanctuary will be cleansed. Now, this

is the longest time prophecy. How is it being cleansed?

It's two thousand, three hundred days. And a day in

prophecy represents a year. All right, let's go to our

study here, and you know what, let me put the

answer up here on the screen. It says here, because

of transgression, an army was given over to the horn

to oppose the daily sacrifices. He cast down the truth

to the ground. He did all this, practiced and prospered.

And there you've got the number for how long two

three hundred days. And what does a day represent in

Bible prophecy? It's a year. Then it will be cleansed. Now,

where is God's sanctuary? The Bible tells us that back

in seventy a d that the Jewish Temple was destroyed.

So if we're looking at something that happens during the

time of the Roman Era and beyond, God still has

two sanctuaries. You're reading Hebrews, Jesus is our high priest

right and the sanctuary on earth was modeled after God's sanctuary,

his dwelling place in heaven. But then the Bible tells

us Christ said, destroy this temple made with hands, and

all make another one without hands. God has also a

sanctuary on earth. What was the problem that the little

Horn caused? He would cast what to the ground. The

truth would be cast down, the truth about God. Jesus said,

he came to show us what the fathers like, the

truth about salvation, and many biblical truths were cast to

the ground. During the Dark Ages, we discovered that Christianity

went through a great apostasy. Paul said, I know that

after my departure, grievous wolves will come in, not sparing

the flock, even from among your own selves. Deceivers would

arise to draw away disciples after themselves, and that there

would be a corruption of the truth. And this happened now.

During the Dark Ages, we learned the church in Rome

began to sacrifice a lot of Christian truths for the

sake of compromise. And they said, well, you know, if

we make a few compromises with the Pagans, we'll bring

them in. You know, by the way the church is making,

I think that same mistake. Today. A lot of pastors

want to grow the church at any cost. So what

they do is they do a survey in the community

and say what would you like in the church, And

they say, well, we'd like to be able to be

more relaxed in how we dress we'd like better, louder,

more modern music. We would like to have coffee and

donuts in the lobby. We would like to have this,

and we'd like to have that. And so a lot

of churches are trying to grow their church based on

what the people want. Is that how we're supposed to

market Christianity or does Jesus say we tell people deny yourself,

take up your cross and follow me. It's a little

different marketing plan. It's amazing that Christianity survive with a

marketing plan like that. But back in those days after

the Early Church, they said, you know, we'll get a

lot more Pagans in the church if we're not so

hard on them, if we're not so conservative, let them

have their idols. And they made a lot of adjustment.

Now I'm going to give you a list, and you're

going to see some of this on the screen, some

of the areas where the Protestant leaders I told you,

I'm going to talk about some of the compromises that

were made by Catholicism. We're going to be talking Friday

night about compromises that have been made in the Protestant churches.

So I'm hoping to offend everybody before we're done with

this program. But I want to tell you what the

Bible says, and I'm going to be plain. The Bible

says we are not to bow down to statues. That

is one of the ten commandments. Shadrack Niche a Bendigo,

would not bow down to an image. They went to

the fiery furnace. They stood up for God, and Jesus

went to the furnace with them. Amen. Because they stood

up for that commandment. What's going to happen in the

last days? Those who do not worship the beast and

its image should be killed. But the Catholic Church says

it is okay to bow down to images. The Bible

says that all have sinned except Jesus. The Catholic Church

says that Mary was sinless. The Bible says that Jesus

is the only mediator between God and man. First Timothy

two five. Catholic Church says Mary is a comediator, that

we pray to Jesus. He's real busy, but we can

go through his mother. The Bible teaches that Christ offered

his sacrifice on the cross once for all, but within Catholicism,

and I used to go to Catholic School and Catholic Church.

They say every time that the priest conducts the Mass,

that he is re offering, and that the priest is

the mediator. The Bible teaches that all Christians are saints,

and we are nation of kings and priests. Within Roman Catholics,

that's Ephesians one to one, and on Peter two, verse nine.

Catholic Church says that the saints and the priests are

a special caste, and there's a hierarchy within the church.

The Bible teaches that we should call no religious leader father.

Jesus said call no man father. You have one father

in heaven. It doesn't mean you can't call your father daddy.

He's talking about spiritual leaders. But we already know that

the Catholic priests and the Pope are called father or

the Supreme Father. The Bible teaches not to pray in

vain repetition, as the heathen do. Yet, if you confess

your sins to the priest, the priest will say, say

ten Hail Mary's or four our fathers, or whatever it is,

to repeat these prayers in vain repetition. The Bible teaches

us to confess our sins to God, for God only

can forgive sin Isaiah forty three to twenty five, Luke

five twenty four. Now you see what happened during the

Dark ages the truth and I'm not talking. I mean,

what more shall I say about purgatory and about and

baptism was compromised, and salvation is a gift. And there's

so many areas where things were changed. The Truth was

cast to the ground. But God said he was going

to clean the sanctuary. Now there would be a cleansing

of the sanctuary on earth and a cleansing of the

sanctuary in heaven. And he foretold when and how that

was going to happen. Stay with me, friends, this is

a fascinating prophecy. All right, So I gave you this list.

You might pull your cameras out if you want to

snap a picture of it. We're going to put some

of this up on your screen very quickly. And I

just gave you like about eight points. Maybe we're not

going to put it up on the screen. There we go, okay,

And so I've got this list in my Bible. This

does not make you popular. I did not assemble this list.

This is a traditional list that all Protestants use to

show what are some of the distinctive differences. But in

recent years Protestants have been saying the Protest is over.

They're not saying the protest is over because the Catholics

have changed the theology. They haven't. They're just saying it's

better that we all love each other and don't worry

about doctrinal differences. Jesus prayed that we might be one,

but he said, be one in truth. We should not

sacrifice the truth for the sake of unity. I'm going

to say that again. We should not sacrifice the truth

for the sake of unity, because then you'll end up

with neither unity or truth. All right? Number five? How

did Daniel respond when he saw the persecution that came

from this little horned power that persecuted God's people and

cast the truth to the ground. That Daniel's an old

man when he has his vision, it tells us I

Daniel fainted. He could not even take it all in.

He saw very vividly what the church was going to

go through God's people, both jew and gentile. Says I fainted.

I was astonished by the vision, but no one understood it.

Of course, how could he from his perspective seven hundred

years or five hundred years before Christ. So you go

to Daniel chapter nine. God is not going to leave

us in darkness. A day with the Lord is a

thousand years. So God says, all right, Daniel, I'm going

to give you a few years. I'll come back and

explain it later. In the next chapter, the Angel returns

to complete the prophecy. How long was the additional time

period included in the vision? Or go to your bibles

and go to Daniel chapter nine and Daniel chapter nine.

If for no other reason you ought to read the

prayer that Daniel gives in chapter nine. It's one of

the most beautiful prayers in the Bible. The Angel comes

back to him. During his prayer, you can see here,

let me see here, verse twenty Daniel nine. He's praying.

He's confessing his sin, the sins of God's people. Daniel.

They've been in Babel in seventy years, Daniel says, I've

been reading the prophecies of Jeremiah. The time is fulfilled.

It's been seventy years. When are we going back to

the Promised Land? God, will you forgive your people? When

is the Messiah coming? Is at the heart of his prayer.

The principal purpose of God calling the Jewish nation. They

were to be the guardians of the truth. Paul says,

they were guardians of the oracles of truth, and they

were to present the Messiah to the world. The Messiah

was not just for Jews. The Savior was for the

whole world. Can you say amen? And so the Jews

had this great privilege and responsibility, and they actually did it.

They kept the scriptures together, and at Tenecost the disciples

presented the Messiah to the world, and it was taken

by devout Jews throughout the Roman Empire. And they really

did fulfill their greatest purpose at that time. So Daniel's

praying go to verse twenty. Now, while I was speaking,

praying and confessing my sin and the sin of my

people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the Lord my

God for the holy Mountain that means the Kingdom, the

nation of my God. Yes, while I was speaking in prayer,

the man Gabriel, that's an angel whom I had seen

in the vision at the beginning. This is chapter eight

being caused to fly swiftly. That is an understatement. He

reached me about the time of the evening offering, and

he informed me, and he talked with me, and he said, oh, Damndaniel,

I've come forth to give you skill to understand. Understand

what chapter eight. He says, no one understood. Now he's

completing the chapter eight vision. I've come to give you

skill to understand. At the beginning of your supplication, the

command went out, and I have come to tell you

so Gabriel makes it from heaven to Earth, not going

the speed of sound or the speed of light, but

the speed of angels, which like the speed of thought,

he has gone very quickly. At the beginning of your supplication,

the command went out, and I have come to tell you,

for you are greatly beloved. Therefore consider the matter and understand.

The vision is in understand what we started in chapter eight.

Seventy weeks are determined for your people. Now, how many

days in a week? Seven? Am I going too fast? Okay?

Just to make sure, okay, seventy times seven is what

four ninety four hundred and ninety days. But in prophecy,

a day is what four hundred and ninety years. Seventy

weeks are determined. That word determined means cut off. I'm

giving your people seventy weeks to fulfill their purpose in

introducing the Messiah, and for the Holy City Jerusalem to

finish the transgression, to make the end of sins, to

make reconciliation for iniquity. Several things are happening here to

bring in everlasting righteousness. This is Christ to seal up

the vision, to complete this vision of the seventy weeks,

and to anoint the most Holy. That means to anoint

the anointed, the Messiah. Know therefore an understand that from

the going forth of the commandment to restore in Bill Jerusalem.

Here's your starting point. From the going forth of the

commandment to restore in Bill Jerusalem, unto the Messiah the Prince,

there will be seven weeks and sixty two weeks. What

is seven plus sixty two sixty nine. Well, in order

to get to four hundred and ninety one week missing,

we'll get to that the streets shall be built again

in the wall, even in troublous times. It describes what

happens in Ezra and Nehemiah when they go back to Israel.

They rebuild the city and the walls and the streets.

With great persecution and resistance from their enemies, and after

the sixty two weeks, Messiah will be cut off, but

not for himself. Who's the Messiah? Was he cut off

for himself or for us? He was wounded for our iniquities.

The chastisement of our peace was upon him and the

people of the prince who will come. Speaking of the

Roman power, it's a small pe shall destroy the city

and the sanctuary, and the end will be with a flood,

meaning an army coming in like a flood, till the

end of the word, desolations are determined. Now going back

to the Messiah, who's the topic, and he will confirm

a covenant with many for one week. Some think that's

talking about the Antichrist. That's not the subject of the vision,

and is nowhere where the Antichrist makes a covenant with

anybody in the Bible. The Messiah will confirm the covenant

with many for one week. I'll get to that, but

in the middle of the week. What is half of

seven three and a half? How old was Jesus when

he was baptized? Says as he began to be thirty

years of age. That's how old you had to be

to be a priest. It's interesting. Joseph went out over

Egypt he was thirty. David began to reign he was thirty. Jesus,

Joseph and David are types of him. Thirty years of age.

How long did he minister? Three and a half years.

In the midst of the week, he will cause the

sacrifice and oblation decease. Jesus dies on the cross, and

what happens in the temple when he dies? The veil

is torn. Does Jesus fulfill the purpose of the sacrificial system?

Do we still need to sacrifice lambs? Or is he no?

In the midst of the week, he will cause a

sacrifice to cease. And on the wing of abominations, let

me see, I want to back up. Yeah, And on

the wing of abominations shall be one who makes desolate

even to the consummation, which is determined is poured on

the desolate. Speaking here of the abomination of desolation, Jesus says,

we need to understand that. According to Daniel the Prophet

in Matthew twenty four, he tells us know what that says?

All right? In the next chapter, the angel returns, I

reviewed it. Now we're going to go over and review it. Again.

In the next chapter, the Angel returns to complete the prophecy.

How long was the additional period of time? He the

Angel Gabriel informed me and talked to me, Daniel, I've

come to give you skill and understanding. At the beginning

of your prayers, the supplication went out and he was

commanded to come. You're greatly beloved. Considered the vision. What's

the time period there? It is? What is it? Seventy

weeks are determined for your people who were Daniel's people,

the Jewish nation, for the holy city, your holy city?

What city did Daniel pray towards Jerusalem? To finish the transgression,

to make an end of sin, to bring in reconciliation

for iniquity, to bring an everlasting righteousness, to seal up

the vision and the prophecy, and to anoint the most Holy.

Notice all the things that are happening in this four

hundred and ninety year time period. And it also goes

on to say the street in the wall would be

built again in troubleous times. Here's the starting point. No, therefore,

an understand from the going forth of the command to

restore and build Jerusalem unto the Messiah shall be seven weeks.

That's the time when they built the wall in the

streets in troubleous times. In sixty two weeks. It'll be

built again in troubleous times, and after the sixty two weeks,

so you've got seven weeks plus sixty two, that's sixty

nine weeks. Messiah is cut off, Jesus is cut off

after that time, but not for himself, cut off for us,

And on the wing of abominations shall be one who

makes desolate the Romans. These are actually pictures of the

stones that still have not been moved in Jerusalem from

the destruction of the temple in eighty seventy, and Jesus

said there would not be left one stone upon another.

They still have those great stones at the base of

the whaling wall. Until the consummation is determined, which is

poured on the desolate. He will confirm the covenant with

many for one week, but in the middle of the

week he'll bring an end to the sacrifice and the offering.

All right, So you got seven days in a week,

seven weeks, four hundred and ninety years, okay. The angel

Gabriel explains that God would give his chosen nation an

additional four hundred and ninety years they would go back

from the Babylonian captivity to the promised land. They had

four hundred ninety years then to complete their purpose. Seventy

weeks are determined upon your city to complete this vision.

I'm moving along as that have a lot to cover.

What was the starting point that God gives for this

twenty three hundred year prophecy? Oh wait, pasdev we were

just talking about a four hundred and ninety year prophecy,

But in chapter eight it's two three hundred days. There's

only one starting point given for both prophecies. It is

the same starting point. What is the only starting point

that is given in Daniel eight and Daniel nine. No,

therefore an understand from the going forth of the command

to restore and build Jerusalem until the Messiah the Prince.

You can find that command in Ezra chapter seven. It

is in the Bible. It's also very well known in history.

The Elephantine Papyrit gives strong support to our conclusion that

the decree of our dessert Sees was issued. Is the

decree given by the King of Persia Art Dexerxes to

restoring bill Jerusalem. There were several decrees but the final

complete decree is given by art Deserxes four fifty seven BC.

This is from Zigfried h Horn in his book on

the krol Anology of Ezra, Chapter seven. One day in

prophecy is a year. I give you three scriptures here

that show interpreting these prophecies. It is a day for

a year two thousand, three hundred years from four to

fifty seven takes us way back down in time to

eighteen forty four. But if you go four hundred and

ninety years from fifty seven, it goes to thirty four AD.

But the first part of the prophecy says it's sixty

nine weeks, and it's after the sixty nine weeks the

Messias cut off. All right, look at what's happening here?

Got the chart on the screen? All right? When is

the starting point for the prophecy? What year four fifty

seven BC. There'd be four hundred and eighty three years.

If you go four hundred and eighty three years from

four point fifty seven, it says that would be the

beginning of the last week to anoint the most holy

Guess when Jesus was baptized twenty seven eighty then it says,

in the midst of this last week, he would cause

the sacrifice and the oblation to cease. Three and a

half years after Jesus is baptized, he dies on the cross.

The veil in the temple is ripped. The High Priest

rips his garments. When Jesus has tried, because now we

have a new priesthood and we have a new temple.

You and I are a nation of kings and priests, right,

and you are a living temple. What don't you know

that ye are the temple of God? Paul says, But wait,

there's still three and a half years left, It says,

he will confirm the covenant with many for one week

to get to the end of the time for the

Jewish nation. Jesus did not end it with his cross.

He said, I'm going to give you more time because

some of the Jewish people don't understand what's happening. At Pentecosts.

Peter preaches. Is Peter preaching to gentiles or Jews? It

says in chapter two of Acts, Now many devout Jews

were gathered out of every nation under heaven. They had

come to worship. The Holy Spirit is poured on the apostles,

they preach, and three thousand Jews are baptized. You get

to Acts chapter five, five thousand Jews are baptized. I'm sorry,

that's Acts chapter four. So they're all Jews. Jesus told them,

don't go everywhere preaching. Yet, he said, wait for the

ondpoint of the Holy Spirit, and you are to go

exclusively to the lost sheep of the House of Israel.

My people are scattered out. Though. Yes, there were some

Jewish leaders that rejected Jesus, but there were a lot

of faithful saints that just had not heard about Christ,

and they were to preach to them. Notice number eight.

The Angel said that when counting the sixty nine weeks

from four to fifty seven BC, it would come to

the Messiah, the Prince. What happened? Did this happen there?

Look at what it says, Acts ten, verse thirty seven.

That word, you know, after the baptism which John preached,

how God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with the Holy Spirit

and with power? When was Jesus anointed with that dove

at his baptism? When did he begin his ministry in

his miracles? At his baptism? He began preaching and teaching

at his baptism. That is the starting point. The best

historian in the New Testament's probably Luke. He was very thorough.

He gives four dates in history connected with the baptism

of Jesus. We know exactly what that time period was.

He tells who was ruling where. When we have that

written down in Roman history, we know it was twenty

seven a d. Twenty seven AD. Jesus turns thirty. I

know you get confused because he say, why did Jesus

be twenty seven and seven seven years after Christ? When

they established the ADBC dating method. After it was accepted,

they realized that they were off about three and a

half years because King Herod the Great they killed all

the babies in Bethlehem, and they figured Jesus was about

two years old at that time. That's why he killed

all the babies. Two years old and under he died

to BC. So, and when you add up the other

ages and dates that Luke gives us, we know they

were all off when they set up the ADBC dating method.

So four p. Fifty seven, four hundred and eighty three years.

Jesus is baptized in twenty seven eighty they're rebuilding Jerusalem.

There is no year zero when you're counting, so don't

count that in. You can't say one year for the

year zero, right on time, right on schedule. But we're

not done yet. It says there's still three and a

half years to go. What happened? Jesus came to Galilee

preaching the Gospel of the Kingdom, saying that tie is fulfilled.

What did Jesus mean when he started preaching the time

is fulfilled? As soon as he was baptized, he said,

the time is fulfilled? What time? The time that was

given to Daniel? He said, whoever reads Daniel, let him

understand that he was anointed right on schedule. This prophetic

time was fulfilled. He preaches for three and a half years.

What was to take place next? In the prophecy? After

the sixty two weeks, Messiah is cut off, but not

for himself. He'll confirm the covenant with many for one week.

How long is a week? So how long did Jesus

confirm the covenant? He confirmed the covenant in person for

three and a half years. Then he confirmed the covenant

for three and a half years through the apostles, only

going to gentiles. You realize it wasn't until after the

stoning of Stephen. The Gospel then went to the gentiles.

That's when Peter has his vision. God says, do not

call the gentiles unclean. You must now go to them.

Look at what it also says here, for indeed, Christ,

our passover was sacrificed for us. So you go three

and a half years later, and what happens Stephen a stone.

Now some people, when they read the prophecy in Daniel

chapter nine, they say, we're supposed to tear that last

seven years off of the four hundred and eighty three years.

We pull it down at the end of time and

you get the seven years of tribulation. Is there any

example or reason given in the Bible for tearing the

last week of the prophecy apart from the whole and

moving it. There's no other prophecy in the Bible that

does that. It is all given as one contiguous, complete prophecy,

and that's the only way it makes sense. Follow me.

Jesus told his disciples to focus their preaching first on

what group of people read it for yourself. Friends, do

not go on Matthew ten, verse five and six. Do

not go in the way of the Gentiles, but go

rather to who the law sheep of the House of Israel.

And when they first began preaching, they went to the synagogues.

They talked to the Israelites. Now circle this scripture and

don't miss it. Paul says in Hebrews chapter two, verse three,

how shall we escape if we neglect so great a

salvation which at the first began to be spoken by

the Lord first three and a half years Jesus in person,

and was confirmed by those who heard him. So did

Jesus also confirm the Covenant through those who hurt him.

You with me, he will confirm the Covenant with one week,

three and a half years in person, and also through

those that heard him. If you look then and acts.

Chapter seven, one of the most magnificent sermons in the

Bible is given by the martyr Stephen, the first Christian martyr.

He takes the Supreme Court, he is being tried for

his faith before the leaders of the Jewish nation. He

takes them through the leading and the way that God

led his people, and it's wonderful the power. And when

he finally gets to the point where he's introducing Jesus.

The Bible says they plugged their ears and they gnash

on him with their teeth. Now that doesn't mean they

went and bit him. You ever have somebody get angry

and they grind their teeth. They went and that we

don't want to hear it. You know why, because he's

saying your messiah finally came and you just crucified him.

And the guilt of that blood being on their hands.

And what did they do. They did not even take

Stephen to the Romans like they did Jesus. They took

him out of the city. They stoned him to death.

It was a kangaroo court. Now, was Jesus taken out

before he was executed? They said? They laid down their

clothes at the feet of Saul. Did they take jesus

clothes away before he was executed? Then Stephen looks into

the heavens. He says, behold, I see Jesus standing on

the right hand of power. Did Jesus say, Father, into

your hands, I commend my spirit. And then Jesus said, Father,

forgive them. They know not what they do. What did

Stephen say, three and a half years later, Father, lean

out this into their charge Stephen repeats the same experience

of Jesus condemned by the same people. Three and a

half years later. At that point a great persecution arose

in Jerusalem. And now the Gospel goes to the Gentiles.

Do you see, friends, this is the end of the

four hundred and ninety years. He realized Jesus when he

began his ministry, he said, take these things, hence, speaking

of the temple, My father's house is to be a

house of prayer for all nations. You've made it a

denta thieves. When he left and they rejected his teaching,

he said, your house is left to you, desolate. Something happened,

all right, Now we've gone the first four hundred and

ninety years. The stoniness Stephen that at that point the

Jewish nation had completed their work in introducing the Messiah

to the world. Now, does God still have a special

work for the Jewish nation? Yes, Paul said, Is God

done with the Jews? God forbid? He still has a

work for them to do. I hope I'm living in

evidence to them. My mother's Jewish, and so God is

still working through the Jewish people, And I think there's

going to be a great revival among the Jewish people.

But is God prejudice? Does God love some people because

of their genetics more than ever? Or does the Bible say,

does Peter say God is no respector of persons. I

hear some evangelicals talking like God loves Jews more than

other people. God loves everybody, friends, Amen. But he's made

a covenant to the Jewish people and he's going to

I think work in a special way. But he loves everybody.

Number eleven. Who is God's chosen nation? Now according following acts.

I'm sorry following eighty thirty four, the Kingdom of God.

These are the words of Jesus, friends, so don't take

it up with pastor Doug. The Kingdom of God will

be taken from you and given to a nation, bringing

forth the fruits of it. It's a spiritual nation. Romans

Paul said, he is not a Jew who is won outwardly. Now,

you can be a Jew outwardly and inwardly, but most importantly,

you must be a Jew inwardly. Amen. The Bible says

it is circumcision of the heart. John the Baptist said,

do not say within yourselves we are children of Abraham,

and so we're going to be saved. God is able

to raise up from these stones children to Abraham. And

so the most important thing is are you the seed

of Abraham? Do you have the faith of Abraham? Jesus said,

Abraham longed to see my day, and he saw it.

Abraham was saved by faith looking forward to Christ? Are

we saved by faith in Christ? According to Daniel? This

is question twelve. Who spoke? According to the Angel who

spoke with Daniel, what final event would begin the end

of the two than three hundred years? He said, for

two thousand, three hundred days. Then the sanctuary will be cleansed.

Now once a year on the day of Atonement. How

often they had a special service. We call it yng kipper.

It's the day of atonement, the cleansing of the sanctuary.

All the sins that were symbolically stored in the sanctuary

were cleansed. They would fast and pray for ten days.

It was a time of searching the heart. The priests

would enter into the Holy of Holies and complete his

cycle of intercession for the nation at the end of

their religious calendar once a year. So when it says

two thousand, three hundred days and the sanctuaries cleansed. We

know a day is a year here because if you

say two thousand, three hundred days of atonement, if two thousand,

three hundred days of atonement, if it only comes once

a year, that's two thousand, three hundred years. You're with me.

So some people say, well, it's just talking about well

the evening and morning sacrifice on the day of Atonement,

Well that was once a year. No matter how you

look at it, this is twenty three hundred years from

four fifty seven BC. We're going down. That leads us

to the year eighteen forty four. And you're thinking what happened?

Then stay with me, friends, God began a special work

in heaven and on earth said the sanctuary would be cleansed.

Notice you go from four to fifty seven, you go

twenty three hundred years. That's your bottom line. It comes

to eighteen forty four. If you look at the seven

churches in Revelation, those are seven ages and stages of

the church. The last stage of the church, the last

name of the church is called what laotica. Laotsa means

a judging of the people. We entered the last age

of the church. When does judgment begin for God's people

before he comes or after. Judgment must begin at the

house of God, and a judgment begin at us. What

will be the end of them that know not the Gospel?

And in Ezekiel nine begin with the ancient men before

my sanctuary. And in Mark chapter eight, Jesus is judging

those who are judging the woman. There is a judgment

that begins to who much is given, much has required.

God starts with those who know the truth? Who should

know better? Isn't that fair? Why don't you want to

start judging with those who've had the longest opportunity. So

judgment begins with the church. And so there's a special

judgment that has begun, a cleansing of the heavenly sanctuary. Christ,

our high Priest, entered into the last phase of his

heavenly ministry. But when I talk to people about that,

their eyes kind of glaze over, and they go, Okay,

I believe it if you say so. It's in the Bible,

But I can't see what's going on up there right now.

Does the Bible say that Jesus is our high Priest

and Hebrews he ever lives to make intercession for his

look here Hebrews, chapter four, verse fourteen. I'm sorry I

ran through question thirteen. When Jesus ascended to heaven, where

did he continue his ministry? Is this what Pastor Doug says?

Or is this what the Bible says? Seeing then that

we have a great high priest who has passed through

the heavens, Jesus, the Son of God, let us hold

fast our confession. But Christ came now Hebrews nine to eleven.

Christ came as a high priest of the good things

to come, with a greater and more perfect tabernacle, not

made with the hands, that is not of this creation,

not man's hands, but the tabernacle of God in the

presence of God is not an arc of the Covenant.

It's the throne of God. He's holding out his nail

scarred hands he ever lives to make intercession for us.

And we have entered now the last phase of world history.

When Jesus died on the cross, what was the purpose

of the earthly temple flowing with blood? It was finished.

But when he incended to heaven, he's presenting the real thing.

At this point, he is the real lamb of God.

Does God still have a temple on earth. What does

the Bible say Phesians two nineteen, The household of God

having been built on the foundation of the apostles and

the prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief cornerstone in

whom the whole building, being fitly together, grows into a

holy temple in the Lord, in whom you are also

being built together for a dwelling place of God and

the Spirit. Paul says, what don't you know that? Ye?

Not only does he say your body is the temple

of the Holy Spirit, he says, ye collectively are the

temple of God. And He gives us all different gifts,

and we are living priests. So did God do something

on earth in eighteen forty four that we can point to? Yes,

he did. Eighteen forty four Jesus, our High Priest, began

cleansing the heavenly Sanctuary, and a phenomenal worldwide revival began

and restoring the biblical truths that the Beast had obscured

and distorted during the twelve hundred and sixty year reign.

What did Daniel say was the problem? The truth was

cast to the ground. Now, I don't know if you

know about what they called the second Great spiritual Awakening

that happened in America. But a lot of Christians thought

Jesus was coming back because of Daniel chapter eight. They said, well,

that's going to be eighteen forty four, and he didn't

come back. They called it the Great Disappointment. The sum

equate that with seventh the Administs. The Seventh the administ

did not exist. Then it was called the Advent movement,

because that's a general word for anyone who believes in

the return of Christ. But out of that movement believers

from the Baptist Church, Congregational, Methodist, Pentecostal, Catholic Orthodox. They said,

let's put aside our differences and let's just use the

word to find out what does the Bible really say.

Rediscovered the truths that had been cast to the ground

during the Dark Ages, and God began cleansing his sanctuary

on earth while he is cleansing his sanctuary in heaven.

I may not have photographs of what's happening up there,

but I can tell you what's happening right down here.

The fastest growing Protestant movement in the world today is

the Seventh Day administ Church. It is growing by the

thousands overseas, and God began a movement. Something else happened

in eighteen forty four. Have you ever thought about how

unique that year was? Karl Marx You ever heard that name?

That was the year he wrote the Communist Manifesto that

became the birth of communism. Then the first electronic message.

How many of you use electronic messages today? Do you

know what? The first electronic message was sent by Robert

Morse who was actually a great artist, but he invented

Morse code. You know what the first message was? He

was quoting the Bible? What hath God? Wroughtt? Look what

God has done? Charles Darwin completed his essay on natural selection,

and you have the birth of evolution, The birth of evolution,

the birth of communism. Eighteen forty four, Charles Goodyear receives

his patent for vulcanization, a process that strength and rubber

transformed the industrial world. You had the birth, you might say,

of the Industrial revolution is happening in the Edict of

Toleration allowing the Jews. Everyone thinks about nineteen forty eight

when it was formed as a nation. Do you know

before that they were not even allowed to go into

the promised land till eighteen forty four. It was called

the Edict of Toleration. One hundred years later, almost exactly

one hundred years later, they were then established as a nation.

The world's oldest handwritten bible, the Codex Siniaticus, is uncovered

at Egypt Saint Catharine's monastery. A lot of things happened,

went through a radical transformation, and it was also the

birth of the movement that is bringing you this seminar

that is going around the world. We are living where

God is now cleansing the sanctuary from the false doctrines

of the Dark Ages. We are returning to the faith

that was once delivered to the saints. During the Dark Ages,

they stopped baptizing by immersion, they started charging forgiveness of sins.

All these strange doctrines came to the church. God is

bringing his people back to the Word of God. Amen,

Jesus is coming for a church that has returned to

the doctrines that were once delivered to the saints Jude

verse three. For instance, a church that keeps the seventh

day Sabbath. I mean, friends, I can understand now there

are some things that may not be as important as others.

We may disagree on who are the one hundred and

forty four thousand, and what are the seven trumpets? But

if there's something that a church ought to stand up for,

I would think it would be one of the ten commands.

I mean, if one of the ten commandments is not important,

then what in the Bible is important? I mean the

word spoken by God, written by his finger, given to

his people. And it's not just one of the commandments.

There's some churches that are forgetting Commandment number two. Some

churches a forgetting Commandment number seven. Is marriage under attack

in our world today. Even in some churches they're saying

it doesn't matter whether you marry a man or a woman. Now,

if you're a man, you marry a woman. Jesus made

them male and female. What about the command that says

thou shalt not kill. I believe the Bible says that

life begins at conception. I told you, I'll make everyone

mad tonight. There are churches that are standing by things

that are just totally unbiblical. We need to stand it

for the truth. Jesus is coming back for a church

that has taken a stand for the truth. Number fifteen.

What unique aspect of his redemptive ministry. Did Jesus commence

for his church in eighteen forty four? The Bible says,

the time has come for judgment to begin where at

the house of God? And if it begins at us,

what will be the end of them that know not

the Gospel? I think I already quoted that to you.

There is a judgment. Now do you realize that God

has got books. Every work will be brought into judgment,

with every secret thing. This is the conclusion of Solomon's

book Ecclesiastes. So let us hear the conclusion of the

whole matter. Fear God and keep his commandments, for this

is the whole duty of man. Did he say that

we get a ten percent discount Fear God and keep

his commandments? What does it say speaking of a message

that goes to the world before Jesus comes back, It

tells us that fear God and keep his commandments. Behold,

I am coming. My reward is with me to give

to every man according to his work, as his work

shall be. Now I'm going to quickly review for you.

You've got this picture of the sanctuary. We talked about

this a little bit last night. You've got the courtyard.

This is where sanctification takes on, sorry, justification takes place.

You've got the Holy Place. This is sanctification. Where you've

got the candlestick, and you've got the bread, and you

got the altar. These are the three Christian disciplines. If

you read your Bible every day, that altar of incense

is prayer. The bread is the word of God. The

lamp is letting your light shine, exercising your faith, being

a witness. You do those things, you will grow and

will ultimately go into the presence of God. And what

was in the Ark of the Covenant, the Ten Commandments.

And I think I told you before you got the

Holy Land, you got the Holy City, Jerusalem, got the

Holy Mount, got the Holy Temple, got the Holy Place,

you got the Holy Holy And in the Holy of

Holies you've got the Holy Law. And in the Holy

Law you've got the word holy one time. And it's

in the Fourth Commandment and the message that is supposed

to go to the world before Jesus comes back, says

worship him that made the heaven and the earth, and

the seas and the fountains of waters. That's an excerpt

from the fourth Commandment, for in six days, God made

the heaven and the earth and the sea. God is

calling his people back in the last days to worship

a creator. In eighteen forty four, they started saying we evolved,

started teaching communism. Do you know the Bible is where

you get the idea that you have property. In the

Ten Commandments, it says you're not to steal. The government

does not own the property in the Bible. In the

Ten Commandments, it says you've got your husband and you've

got your wife. If you go to communist countries, it's

like everything's owned by the government. Those things all began

in eighteen forty four. It was a deliberate attack on

the final movement of God. Eighteen forty four, Jesus, our

High Priest, began his final ministry in the heavenly Sanctuary.

And the judgment that takes place before he comes again

is happening. Friends. The Bible says that when Christ returns,

he's bringing rewards, so some of the judgment must happen

prior to his coming. Does that make sense? Behold, I come,

My reward is with me to give to every man

according to his works. Some judgment happens before he comes back.

We are living in that time. At some point Revelation

chapter twenty two, Jesus stands up. You can read in

Daniel chapter twelve. At that time Michael will stand up,

and there will be a time of trouble such as

there never has been since there was a nation even

under that same time. And Revelation chapter twenty two, Jesus

stands up. Judgment is over, Intercession is over. He says,

he that is pure, let him be pure still, He

that is filthy, let him be filthy still. That means

a day is coming when probation is going to close.

We don't know exactly when that's going to be. By

the way, when you die, your probation's closed. So probation

can close for anyone at any time. And there are

people in the Bible, like Judas and Saul and Balem,

their probation closed while they were still alive, Like the

people in Noah's day. The door was shut and life

went on for seven more days, and they didn't realize

their destiny was seal. That's why, friends, I see these

things because don't play Russian roulette with your eternity. Don't

keep saying well, I know I've got tomorrow. I've got tomorrow. Friends,

if you hear God's voice speaking you today, he wants

to cleanse the sanctuary. Jesus wants to drive all of

the world out of that temple. Your body is the

temple of God. He wants to purify you and live

in your heart as Lord and King. Amen. The standard

in both phases of the judgment is the Ten Commandments.

You can read this in Revelation twenty two says every

man is judge according to his works. You can read

it in the Book of James. You can read it

in Ecclesiastes. The children of Israel before they enter the

Promised Land, they all march by the ark of the Covenant,

and we will all be judged by that. Unless our

sins are under the blood of the Lamb, we are

in big trouble. Friends. The evidence is in both phases

come from the heavenly books contained all the details of

our person's life. Fear God Revelation chapter fourteen. Fear God

and give glory to him, for the hour of his

judgment will come, has come, is come. We're living the

words Laodicea means a judging of the people we are

living in that time. Friends. Now I know what's going

on on earth, and I know and believe what's going

on in heaven. And we are in the last chapters

of the last prophecies in the Bible, friends, and we

need to get ready, Get ready, get ready, Amen. The

final events will be rapid ones. How many of you

want to say, Lord, you can be Lord of my life,

cleanse my sanctuary, and I want to be part of

your people, Father in heaven. I pray that you'll bless

each one here listening, that these things will make sense

and the power of the spirit will bring it home,

and we'll choose to give you our hearts and our lives.

We ask in the name of your Son through his blood. Amen.

God bless you. Friends. When's our next study Friday night.

I'd love to see you tomorrow, but I won't be here,

so we hope you'll come again. And we're going to

be talking about a Babylon and the Lamb like beast,

talking a little about Protestantism. Don't miss it. Thank you

very much and God bless you.