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00:02 male announcer: This presentation is brought to you 00:03 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:06 announcer: Coming to you from New York City at the historic 00:10 Manhattan Center with your host Doug Batchelor. 00:13 Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth 00:17 about Bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of God's 00:21 Word and see how it relates to our lives today. 00:25 Stay tuned. 00:27 Your amazing facts adventure begins now. 00:31 Doug Batchelor: Hi friends, welcome back. 00:33 In our last episode, we learned how God gave the ancient King 00:37 Nebuchadnezzar a fascinating dream of a giant statue that was 00:41 full of prophetic symbols and imagery. 00:44 Today, we'll continue this eye opening study of how God 00:48 revealed the meaning of the dream through His 00:50 prophet Daniel. 00:51 You'll discover how this stunning prophecy was fulfilled 00:55 in world history. 00:56 And more importantly, what happens next? 01:00 Remember, if you'd like to deepen your Bible knowledge, 01:03 check out our prophecy Odyssey Bible lessons and our 01:06 free offer. 01:07 I'll tell you more about how you can get those resources later in 01:10 the program. 01:11 Okay, it's time to get into today's presentation. 01:15 Doug: This vision is dealing with the empires that occupied 01:18 God's people that were the guardians of the Word. 01:21 You realize that the Jewish nation, God gave the oracles of 01:25 truth to them. 01:26 The Bible is mostly written by Jews, you know that? 01:30 You okay with that? 01:33 And if you, by the way, if you're a Christian, the Bible 01:35 says you are Abraham's seed. 01:37 So, this is talking about the preservation of God's Word that 01:41 would go to the world, the kingdoms that occupied them. 01:44 And you're gonna see all this if you paid any attention at all 01:47 when you were in elementary school to world history. 01:50 We know about Babylon, how it was a world empire. 01:55 Amazing fact, historians say the walls of Babylon were over 200 01:59 feet high and 50 feet wide, allowing for four chariots to 02:05 ride abreast on the top of the walls. 02:09 And as I said, one historian said they were 15 miles on 02:13 each side. 02:14 They had inner and outer walls, and they thought it would never 02:19 be conquered. 02:20 Once again, the map that talks about the extent of their domain 02:24 was massive, controlling the trade between three continents. 02:27 All that money was pouring in. 02:30 How many of you have been to Dubai? 02:32 Have you been to Dubai? 02:34 I've been there several times. 02:35 If you've never been there, it is the richest city in the 02:38 world, maybe Singapore, Dubai, but Dubai is different. 02:41 Just this city was built out of the desert. 02:43 They've got a river of money that flows into that city 02:47 from oil. 02:49 And I have been in hotel rooms that had--I didn't stay there, 02:52 someone showed it to me, that had golden toilet seats. 02:56 I am not exaggerating. 02:58 I saw it. 03:00 I mean, the wealth, the cars there, Bugattis, Lamborghinis, 03:04 Maseratis everywhere. 03:07 Car five or six years old, not allowed on the road, too old. 03:11 The money incredible. 03:13 Well, Babylon was like the Dubai back then. 03:18 Fabulous military power. 03:21 That was incredible. 03:22 You are the head of gold. 03:24 Number seven, would the kingdom of Babylon last forever? 03:29 That was the king's concern as he slept. 03:31 He said, "What will happen to my posterity?" 03:34 Nebuchadnezzar has reigned about 39 years, and he wanted his 03:38 sons, his successors to have an eternal dynasty. 03:42 But Daniel said, "No, it's not gonna happen that way." 03:46 "Babylon," he said, "was gonna fall." 03:48 Now you need to know how it happened historically. 03:52 It's given a little bit in the Bible, but not all the detail. 03:56 The Euphrates River ran under the walls of Babylon. 04:01 And the Euphrates River was much bigger then than it is now. 04:06 By the way, there's a prophecy in Revelation that said that the 04:09 Euphrates River will dry up in the sixth plague. 04:12 Have you read that? 04:14 Did you know all you have to do is listen to news reports and 04:17 they say the Euphrates River is drying up. 04:20 Now I don't think we're in the sixth plague yet. 04:21 We'll explain the plagues later, but I think it's 04:24 very interesting. 04:25 Well they had mighty ships that were navigating way up the 04:27 Euphrates River. 04:29 Now, man, you can't drab--drag a toad through the river. 04:33 It's becoming a series of stagnating pools down because 04:37 Turkey and up higher, they're damming the water and there's 04:39 been droughts and things have changed. 04:42 But what happened is after Nebuchadnezzar died, for one 04:46 year, his son Evil-Merodach was king, and he was assassinated 04:50 and it ended up--his uncle ended up becoming king. 04:53 And the uncle was off fighting other battles, and the grandson 04:58 Belshazzar was in charge of the kingdom. 05:02 And the Persians and the Medes realized that they did not have 05:06 the military might, meaning the Babylonians, that the 05:10 Persians had. 05:11 Nebuchadnezzar was gone and he was a military genius, and Cyrus 05:15 the Persian and Darius the Mead, they thought, "We can 05:17 conquer Babylon." 05:18 They surrounded the city. 05:20 They were gonna besiege the city. 05:21 The king, this young whipper snapper, 05:24 and you find this in Daniel chapter 5. 05:27 Belshazzar said, "We don't need to be afraid of them. 05:30 They will never get through our walls. 05:31 We've got our soldiers. 05:32 We've got our massive gates. 05:34 We'll starve them. 05:35 They--we've got enough food in the city. 05:37 We got the water running under the walls. 05:40 They can't sustain their army long enough." 05:42 And they had a big party in the city of Babylon, and they all 05:46 got drunk and in the peak of the revele, this blasphemous 05:51 young king, he knew that his grandfather Nebuchadnezzar had 05:55 been turned to Jehovah from Daniel. 05:58 And he--really they resented that and he said, "This God of 06:01 the Jews, He has no power and we're gonna prove it. 06:04 Bring me the vessels we captured from Jerusalem, we're gonna 06:07 praise our idols." 06:09 And they took the holy vessels from the temple of God. 06:13 And all of the Babylonian lords and leaders began to drink and 06:16 to mock the gods of heaven--the God of heaven, Jehovah. 06:20 And in the middle of this blasphemous drunken revelry, all 06:25 of a sudden, over against the plaster on the wall a bloodless 06:29 giant hand appeared. 06:32 Kind of like Thing in "The Addams Family." 06:36 And it began to write the words, "Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin." 06:41 You've ever heard the expression the handwriting on the wall? 06:45 And when the king looked up and everybody saw this, they dropped 06:49 their cups and their knees began--the Bible says his knees 06:52 were smiting together. 06:54 And he said, "What does it say?" 06:57 Nobody knew. 06:58 "Bring in the wise men." 06:59 They didn't know. 07:01 They didn't know any more than they knew 39 years earlier when 07:04 Nebuchadnezzar called them. 07:06 And finally the queen mother said, "You know, if you wanna 07:10 understand a vision, you need to call in a Jew. 07:13 And there is a man in your kingdom," gives me goosebumps 07:16 whenever I say that. 07:18 She said, "There is a man." 07:20 God still has some people. 07:22 "There is a man who is close to the Lord, he understands God. 07:27 He'll tell you what this will say." 07:29 Daniel is brought in. 07:30 The king said, "Tell me what the writing says and I'll give you a 07:34 golden necklace," like he cared, you know? 07:37 "And a special garment and make you third ruler in the kingdom." 07:40 The reason he said you'll be third ruler is because 07:42 Belshazzar was only second ruler. 07:46 And Daniel said, "Keep your rewards because I know what it 07:49 says and you're not going to be in any position to give anybody 07:52 anything pretty soon." 07:56 He said, "It says, 'Mene, Mene, Tekel, Upharsin.' 07:59 You are weighed in the balances and found wanting. 08:03 You are being judged, and the kingdom is being divided and 08:07 given to the Medes and the Persians." 08:09 And at that very moment, that mighty General Cyrus had 08:14 diverted the Euphrates River way upstream into a dry lake bed. 08:20 The water level where it went underneath the walls of Babylon 08:23 dropped precipitously during the night. 08:25 The soldiers of Babylon inside the city were drunk because they 08:30 thought there was no attack. 08:31 They left the inner gates unlocked because they thought, 08:33 "Well, they haven't gotten to the outer gates yet, 08:35 no problem." 08:36 Just like Trojan soldiers, a contingent of Persian army went 08:40 underneath the walls. 08:42 They came up, they opened the gates. 08:44 The Persians and the Medes swarmed into the city, and in 08:48 one night Babylon fell, that mighty city. 08:51 And it is foretold in the Bible in incredible accuracy long 08:56 before it happened. 08:57 Isaiah lived long before Daniel. 08:58 Do you have a Bible? 09:00 You can go to, let me see which one. 09:03 You go to Jeremiah actually, we'll start there. 09:08 Go to Jeremiah chapter 50. 09:09 By the way, why is this important? 09:11 If you wanna understand Revelation, Revelation 18 talks 09:14 about the fall of Babylon. 09:16 Jeremiah chapter 15 and 51 talk about the fall of Babylon. 09:19 Isaiah chapter 13 talks about the fall of Babylon. 09:22 Not only was there a Babylon in the Old Testament, there is a 09:25 Babylon today. 09:27 The Bible tells us in the last days there's a Babylon 09:30 and God's people are being called out of Babylon. 09:32 You need to know what you're supposed to come out of. 09:35 So, we need to understand the subject of Babylon. 09:38 But here you can just look in Jeremiah chapter 50. 09:43 He discusses the fall of Babylon, the utter destruction 09:46 of Babylon. 09:47 "Thus says the LORD," this is 51, "'Behold, I'll raise up 09:51 against Babylon, and against those who dwell in Leb Kamai, 09:54 a destroying wind.'" 09:56 It says that the soldiers will be afraid. 09:59 Let me see here. 10:00 "The king of Babylon has heard a report," verse 43 of chapter 50, 10:04 "and his hands grow feeble; and anguish has taken hold of him, 10:08 as pangs of a woman with childbirth." 10:11 And it goes on to say, "The gates will be left open." 10:15 And it says, "Their soldiers have become like women. 10:17 They cannot fight. 10:19 The city fell in one night." 10:21 And in Isaiah it says, "The rivers would be dried up in 10:25 ancient Babylon." 10:26 Look at Isaiah chapter 45. 10:28 Now I've switched from Jeremiah to Isaiah. 10:32 Isaiah wrote this about 700 A.D., hundreds of years before 10:36 King Cyrus was born. 10:39 "Thus says the LORD to His anointed," the dead sea scrolls 10:42 have the entire book of Isaiah. 10:45 We know this was written--it's ancient prophecy. 10:49 "Thus says the LORD to His anointed, to Cyrus, whose right 10:53 hand I have held to subdue nations before him, to loose the 10:57 armor of kings, to open before him the double doors, So the 11:01 gates will not be shut: 'I will go before you and make the 11:05 crooked places straight; I will break in pieces the gates of 11:08 bronze and cut the bars of iron.'" 11:10 Just read all of this. 11:12 It foretells what happened. 11:14 And that's why when you get to Revelation, it talks about the 11:17 Euphrates drying up, you understand the spiritual 11:21 significance of the Euphrates drying up, it preceded the fall 11:24 of Babylon in the ancient history, you understand? 11:29 So, did Babylon last forever? 11:32 No, it fell. 11:34 Another little interesting tidbit of history here is some 11:37 of you know that Saddam Hussein a few years ago, you know, he 11:41 invaded Kuwait and you had the two Gulf Wars. 11:44 One of our sons was in the Marines and he fought in one of 11:47 those wars. 11:49 And Saddam Hussein had plans to rebuild ancient Babylon because 11:54 the prophecy in Isaiah and Jeremiah said Babylon would 11:59 never be rebuilt. 12:00 And if you want it, it's Isaiah chapter 13. 12:02 It says, "Babylon will fall, it will become ruins, it will 12:05 become heaps, it will never be inhabited, it will never 12:07 be rebuilt." 12:09 Someone told that to Saddam Hussein, Nebuchadnezzar was 12:12 his hero. 12:13 Saddam Hussein said, "I am the reincarnation." 12:15 He wanted to be the leader of the Arab world. 12:17 That's why he attacked Iran. 12:20 And he started to try to rebuild Babylon. 12:24 It got stopped during the first Gulf War. 12:27 Then there was a brief pause. 12:28 He tried to renew construction. 12:29 It got stopped again. 12:31 He was trying to overthrow the Hebrew prophecy. 12:34 You cannot overthrow--heaven and earth will pass away, God's Word 12:37 will not pass away. 12:39 Ancient Babylon is still heaps today. 12:43 Isn't that interesting? 12:44 And Saddam is gone. 12:47 Says, "Another kingdom will arise after you." 12:49 Now we're going from gold to what metal? 12:51 To silver. 12:53 This is the Persian kingdom. 12:55 Started out as the Medo-Persian kingdom. 12:57 It ended up where the Persians became the dominant kingdom 13:00 under Cyrus the Great. 13:02 I've been there, friends. 13:03 You go to the British Museum. 13:05 Here is the Cyrus cylinder that was excavated near 13:08 ancient Babylon. 13:09 In the cylinder, it says that he was--he conquered Babylon and he 13:13 let the captives of the Babylonians go back to their 13:16 native lands. 13:17 God foretold in the book of Jeremiah. 13:20 It's also you find it in the end of 2 Chronicles that the 13:24 children of Israel would be captives in Babylon for 70 years 13:27 and after 70 years, they would be allowed to go back and 13:30 they did. 13:32 You know, if for no other reason, if you're going to 13:35 believe the Bible, believe it because the Jews are an 13:39 unusual people. 13:42 There is no other people in the world that has been dispossessed 13:45 from their land three times. 13:48 In the days of Jacob, they went down to Egypt, but they got it 13:51 back after the Exodus. 13:53 Then they were carried off to Babylon, but they got it back 13:57 during the time of Cyrus. 13:59 Then they were scattered by the Romans for 1900 years, and they 14:03 got it back and they remained a distinct people. 14:06 Every other nation that was conquered, intermarried, 14:09 disappeared, lost their identity. 14:12 Try and find someone that speaks Comanche today. 14:16 They used to occupy the Great Plains. 14:20 But the Jews, God said they would come back, they'd 14:22 remain distinct. 14:24 It's incredible. 14:25 Prophecy comes true. 14:26 And then yeah, silver was the principal currency in 14:31 ancient Persia. 14:32 It is a silver kingdom. 14:34 Here's the expanse of Persia. 14:36 It gets bigger, you'll notice. 14:39 The kingdoms are getting bigger, but it would not last. 14:42 He said, "You'd have silver, but the silver would transition." 14:45 Number eight, what metal would represent the kingdom that 14:48 followed Medo-Persia? 14:51 And another third kingdom of what? 14:54 Bronze. 14:55 Some of your Bibles will say brass. 14:57 Technically it's not brass because they didn't use brass 15:00 back then. 15:01 Brass also has tin in it, makes it a little shinier. 15:04 This is really bronze, which shall rule over all the earth. 15:08 Again, they're talking about it's going to be an empire 15:11 that's gonna spread everywhere. 15:13 The brass kingdom of Greece came into power with Alexander the 15:16 Great, 331 B.C. 15:18 when he conquered the Persians, and it lasted till about 168. 15:24 Alexander the Great marched his armies approximately 15:27 11,000 miles in mostly ten years. 15:32 They didn't march the whole time. 15:35 He conquered the world. 15:36 He was, you know, taught by Aristotle, very bright military 15:39 genius, very brave. 15:41 And he spread the Greek culture, they call it Hellenization. 15:44 Even at the time of Christ, Greek was the language 15:48 of learning. 15:49 And even governments of the world, the Roman governments, 15:51 were influenced by the Greeks and these great philosophers 15:55 of Greek. 15:57 One historian, Aryan said, "I am persuaded that there is no 16:02 nation, city or people then in being where his name did not 16:06 reach, for which reason, whatever origin he might boast 16:09 or claim to himself, there seems to have been some divine hand 16:14 presiding over his birth and his actions. 16:18 But even this kingdom would not last." 16:21 Now the kingdom of Greece, guess what they used his armor? 16:25 Bronze. 16:26 They were known as the brazen soldiers because they use bronze 16:29 swords and bronze shields and bronze helmets. 16:32 There's an example of one that was recovered that you see there 16:35 on your screen. 16:36 And here is a map of the extent of Alexander's kingdom. 16:39 He marched his armies all the way 16:42 to the borders of India, 16:44 where they were fighting elephants. 16:46 And extended up to Egypt and Damascus and Greece. 16:52 I want you to notice something that's happening here with these 16:54 different kingdoms, and they all occupied Jerusalem. 17:00 The Greeks were a little better at first, Alexander was. 17:04 Some of the later Greek leaders like Antius, Epiphanes, and 17:06 others were very brutal to the Jewish nation, but each kingdom 17:14 is lasting longer, but the metal is less valuable than the 17:20 one before. 17:23 Babylonians about 70 years. 17:26 And then you get the Persians, which lasts longer, but it's 17:28 silver, not worth as much as gold. 17:31 Then you got the bronze, which isn't worth as much as silver, 17:34 but it's harder. 17:35 Each one is harder than the one before it. 17:38 They last longer and they're harder. 17:41 And watch what happens next. 17:43 Number nine, what metal represents the fourth kingdom? 17:48 You read here, Daniel chapter 2, verse 40, "And the fourth 17:52 kingdom will be as strong as iron." 17:57 The Romans had mastered the forging of iron weapons, and 18:00 that's one reason they were able to conquer. 18:02 Now, I just want you to think about this. 18:06 Are you aware in the book of Daniel that he foretells later 18:10 in Daniel, the Greek Empire by name, calls it Grecia. 18:15 The chances of the Greeks ruling the world when Daniel said that, 18:21 no offense to anybody out there right now. 18:23 I hope I don't offend anybody, but if I were to tell you, in 18:26 100 years, the world's gonna be ruled by Uruguay. 18:31 Who here would predict that? 18:33 No, I mean anything's possible, but who would predict that? 18:37 The likelihood of the Greeks and the Romans ruling the world when 18:41 Daniel made that prophecy was ludicrous. 18:44 They just--they saw no way that would happen. 18:46 But he foretold it and he even foretold the Greeks by name 18:49 in Daniel chapter 8. 18:51 Now he says this fourth kingdom, a kingdom of iron. 18:54 The Romans had mastered an iron. 18:56 They were getting the iron from the forges and the mines in 19:01 northern or in southern Spain. 19:04 A place called Tarshish. 19:07 The iron monarchy conquered the Greeks in 168 19:12 at the Battle of Arbela. 19:14 And you think about it, with an iron sword, you can literally 19:19 cut a bronze sword in two. 19:22 So, the weapons made a big difference. 19:24 That's why the medieval knights, they had this armor mail, and in 19:28 the Bible you can read how the soldiers of Israel, they 19:34 couldn't get any iron from the Philistines, and the Philistines 19:37 were able to subdue them because the Philistines had the iron and 19:40 only David and Saul and Jonathan had actually iron swords. 19:45 And so, that was like, you know, having nuclear weapons back then 19:48 if you had the iron. 19:50 It was iron nails that pierced Jesus's hands. 19:54 And an iron spear that pierced his side and iron swords killed 19:57 the babies in Bethlehem. 19:59 And the Romans ruled with an iron fist, and they lasted 20:03 longer than the Greeks. 20:07 They had, you know, for a while there, there was what they 20:10 called the Pax Romana. 20:11 There was the Roman peace, and it was during the time of 20:14 the Roman Empire, God saw fit for the incarnation. 20:18 God came into the world during that time for a good reason. 20:22 There was a period of time during the time of Augustus 20:24 Caesar for 40 years where there was a degree of peace. 20:28 They built roads everywhere. 20:31 So, when Christ came and the knowledge of the gospel and 20:35 Pentecost was poured out and Jews from all over the Roman 20:38 Empire heard about Jesus, they scattered all around the world 20:42 and the gospel spread, and Jesus said something outrageous. 20:45 This carpenter said, "My teachings will go to all of the 20:51 world," and it did. 20:53 And the Romans influenced the government of every world, the 20:57 world today. 20:58 You know, we're still--why do we have a month called July? 21:02 Julius Caesar. 21:04 Why do we have a month called August? 21:06 Augustus Caesar. 21:08 Why is February short? 21:10 Because Augustus Caesar wanted a month that was just as long 21:13 as July, so he had to take some days off of February to put it 21:16 on August. 21:19 Why do we have a day of the week called Sunday, Monday, 21:21 Tuesday, Wednesday. 21:22 We got it from the Romans. 21:24 Sun worship, moon worship, Saturn worship, Odin worship, 21:28 Thor worship. 21:29 It all kind of came from the background of the Roman power. 21:33 What would happen after the fall of the Roman Empire? 21:37 The kingdom will be divided as the toes and the feet were 21:41 partly of iron and partly of clay, so the kingdom will be 21:45 partly strong and partly fragile. 21:49 The Roman Empire began to crumble about 476 B.C. 21:53 It didn't happen any one particular day, but because they 21:56 were so preoccupied with entertainment. 21:59 And the family fell apart. 22:00 You know, Augustus Caesar, he believed in marriage. 22:04 He in spite of his problems, he supported the strength of 22:06 the family. 22:08 Then you got people like Nero and Diocletian and these guys 22:11 were despicable. 22:12 And the kingdom became weak and the soldiers became weak. 22:17 And the barbarians and the Aryans, they came in from the 22:20 north and the kingdom fragmented into ten parts just like the ten 22:24 toes on the image that Nebuchadnezzar dreamed about. 22:28 "Until now you've moved from the iron to the iron mixed 22:32 with clay." 22:33 But it says later in Daniel, not just clay, it says miry clay. 22:37 Now what happened? 22:39 Notice, up to this point, these kingdoms are occupied around 22:42 Israel during the time of the iron Rome. 22:46 But during the time of Christ, when the Romans ruled, the 22:49 gospel and God's people then spread. 22:52 And even the Jews were conquered and the great dysphoria, they 22:56 spread everywhere. 22:58 So, now it's not just restricted to the Middle East. 23:01 Now we've got the ten divisions of the Roman Empire that end up 23:04 spreading around the world. 23:07 I think it's very interesting. 23:09 It says, "But there shall be in it the strength of the iron for 23:13 as much as you saw the iron mixed with miry clay." 23:16 Who would like to guess what is the number one building material 23:18 in the world today by far? 23:21 It's called reinforced concrete. 23:23 Which is what? 23:25 Iron mixed with miry clay. 23:28 Number 11, would these kingdoms ever succeed in uniting? 23:33 What did the prophecy say? 23:36 Daniel 2:43, "They'll mingle themselves with the seed of men; 23:40 but they will not adhere one to another, as iron does not mix 23:43 with clay." 23:45 You know, they all tried. 23:47 They all tried to get back the power of the Caesars. 23:50 You've heard of Kaiser Wilhelm. 23:52 You know how you--what what does the word Kaiser mean? 23:56 It's German for czar. 23:58 I mean German for Caesar. 24:00 And what does the word "czar" mean? 24:02 It's Russian for Caesar. 24:04 And Hitler wanted the Third Reich. 24:06 He wanted to be the Caesar. 24:07 They wanted to reunite it. 24:10 And the English tried to do it through marriage. 24:12 Queen Victoria was called the grandmother of Europe because 24:14 her kids and grandkids were married into every family 24:17 in Europe. 24:19 Who will set up the final kingdom? 24:21 Praise God. 24:23 The Bible says there is a stone. 24:26 There is a rock of ages cut without man's hands because He 24:32 came in the image of God. 24:34 And in the days of these kings, friends, we are living in the 24:37 days of the final empire. 24:40 "The God of heaven will set up a kingdom that will never 24:42 be destroyed." 24:44 All the other kingdoms passed away, but there's a kingdom that 24:45 will never be destroyed, amen? 24:48 Quickly review. 24:49 Go back and I'm gonna put it on the stage. 24:51 You see it again, and you call out the answers with me. 24:53 All right, let's see if we can get our statue back up here. 24:56 So, you've got the gold. 24:58 What kingdom is the gold? 25:00 Babylon. 25:02 Followed by silver which represented Medo-Persia 539 25:06 to 331. 25:07 Followed by what kingdom? 25:09 Greece, 331 to 168. 25:12 Followed by the iron of what kingdom? 25:15 Rome. 25:17 And then you get the iron and clay which is the divided 25:19 kingdom from the ten nations of Europe that you have the Alamani 25:23 and the Franks and the Saxons, the Burgundians, the Swevi, and 25:27 I'll list them for you another night. 25:29 What does the stone do to the other world kingdoms? 25:33 "You watched while the stone was cut out 25:36 without hands, it struck the image on its feet 25:39 of iron, and clay and broke them in pieces. 25:42 And the stone that struck them, 25:44 the image became a great mountain 25:47 and filled the whole earth." 25:49 The Bible says, "Blessed are the meek," What's the answer? 25:53 They will fulfill--they will fill the earth, friends. 25:57 I wanna be one of those that will be in that kingdom. 25:59 Do you know the spiritual kingdom came when Jesus came? 26:03 Jesus said, "The kingdom of heaven is at hand." 26:06 What did the king say when he heard this vision? 26:09 After hearing Daniel's clear interpretation of the dream, 26:13 Nebuchadnezzar said, "Truly your God is a God of Gods and a Lord 26:20 of kings since you could reveal this secret." 26:24 Now how many of you think that God can tell the future? 26:27 If everything else in this vision has happened right on 26:30 schedule, why would we doubt the last thing is gonna happen? 26:35 Friends, we are living on the very cusp of eternity now. 26:39 The next thing is for Jesus to come. 26:41 Doug: You know, Jesus came into our world for three reasons. 26:45 First of all, He came as our example to live a life that we 26:48 might follow his steps. 26:50 He came to show us the Father. 26:52 He said, "If you've seen me, you've seen the Father." 26:55 And then He came as our sacrifice. 26:57 He died on the cross as a substitute for all our sins, but 27:01 we must come to him. 27:02 We repent of our sins. 27:04 We confess. 27:05 He'll receive us with loving arms. 27:06 Why don't you ask him now? 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