Book Of Daniel | Ln 01:From Reading to Understanding - Pastor Doug Batchelor | 2020 Qtr 01

I knew this was coming and I looked at the calendar and thought oh I'm gonna miss the first study on Daniel and I was glad I was wrong because this is gonna be I think this is gonna be a rich time together for this next quarter delving into this wonderful book I want to welcome our friends who are joining us via social media or maybe a satellite broadcast for our Sabbath school study hour and as we travel we encounter people all over the world who are studying with us each week some live some are watching the rebroadcast I just returned from Martinique which is in the French Antilles not too far from South America and our last Sabbath we had 5,000 people that came out to study with and do it to worship and met people there even though French is the primary language many of them also speak English and they say yeah we get online we do Sabbath school with you there at the Granite Bay Church and so want to welcome our friends there in Martinique this is really holy ground of course when you study the word it all is but in a special sense I'd like to begin by going not to the Book of Daniel but to the book of Mathew you'll see why go to Matthew chapter 24 Matthew chapter 24 Jesus is giving the signs of his return and he says in verse 15 therefore when you see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet standing in the Holy Place and then it interjects whoever reads let him understand then let those who are in Judea flee into the mountains so here you have our Lord the Christ the Saviour referring to Daniel as a prophet and he said if you want to know what's coming then you need to read and you need to understand Daniel the prophet and so I think we've got pretty high authority here that this is a book that we can't understand says let him who reads understand and a book we need to understand and a book that is relevant for us in our day what do you think so we're excited that we can delve into the Book of Daniel I also meant to share with the young men are just saying that was beautiful I sure appreciated the special music that they brought to us our fountain viewgroup now if you go to Daniel chapter one we're not going to get very far because a lot of this is introduction we're sort of laying the groundwork for Bible study today but if you'll go in your Bibles to Daniel chapter one I'm going to read the first verse or two in the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it and the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand with some of the articles of the house of God notice it says some of the articles and you're thinking well then it Nebuchadnezzar destroy the temple temple and carry everything off not this time he actually came twice the first time he came they agreed to serve and to pay taxes and to be a vassal kingdom he even has set up another king another relative of King Josiah to serve as king they carried off a young king joy I come to Babylon where he stayed in prison for 37 years you'll read that at the end of the Book of Jeremiah but it was during this time a prophecy was fulfilled that God had made through Isaiah to King Hezekiah Isiah lived before Daniel you remember when King Hezekiah was sick and he cried and he wept Isaiah said set your house in order you're going to die this is in Isaiah 39 and he said he prayed and he cried and God said to Isaiah I'll go back till Hezekiah captain of my people I've seen your tears I've heard your prayer I'm going to give you 15 more years and what sign would you like do you want the Sun to go down 10 degrees or do you want it to go backwards and Hezekiah said well the sun goes down all the time if the Sun were to go backwards that would really be some and so Isaiah prays and the son goes backwards well star gazers and the wise men there's a group of people in Babylon called the Maggie I that sound familiar they were they weren't here you know just the stralla Jews you're wise men but they did also study the heavens and astronomy and they saw they couldn't help but notice that all of a sudden the sundial went backwards that just doesn't happen for that to happen everything has to change and they were inquiring what in the world did this mean what caused this sign and were dribbled back to them there was some trade there in the Middle East and and some caravans said yes this king of Israel his prophet Isaiah prayed he was sick and as a sign that he would be healed which he was son went backwards and the king of Babylon is thinking well what kind of God is this I want to know about that God and he sends emissaries to King Hezekiah and they come to inquire about the wonder that was done I'm quoting the Bible but when Hezekiah sees him he's much pleased and he thinks battle and Babel is like the center of architecture and technology and the studies and the universities and that ambassadors would come from Babylon to him it was one of the most ancient kingdoms I mean after all Nimrod first built Babylon and he said they've come to see me and he felt maybe a little unsecured thought well I'll impress them so Hezekiah takes him on a tour and he shows them the beautiful temple and he shows in his Treasuries and he shows them his perfume and he shows him is you know jewels and and he shows him all this stuff and then they go they're taking careful notes of all that they have and Isaiah comes to Hezekiah and he says though who are these men where they come from oh they are emissaries from Babylon and what did they see in your house I showed them everything in my house it's like he's still clueless that he missed a great opportunity and there's nothing among all my treasures I did not show them he never showed them God and that was the travesty you know the Queen of Sheba came to find out about the god of Solomon and he told her about his God here these messengers came from Babylon how differ the history of the world might have been if Hezekiah had told them about God so now the judgment comes Isis is here the word of the Lord he said these people that have come and they've seen everything in your house you didn't show them me says they're gonna come back and take everything you showed them and of your sons they will take to be eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon so when Nebuchadnezzar comes the first time and he subjugates Babylon carries off their king he appoints sort of a vassal king from among Josiah sons he carries away some of the Articles he carries away some of the best and the brightest in the kingdom including a small cadre of young men who were of the house of Judah of the royal seed Daniel and his friends were very likely related to David and because it said the prophecy said they will carry off of your sons and make them eunuchs Daniel and Shadrach Meshach Abednego of course their names were Hananiah Mishael Azariah they were made eunuchs in the palace of battle and this was an exact fulfillment of what Isaiah had foretold so nabiki Nezzer comes twice Daniels carried off in the first captivity the temple is not destroyed at this point the city is not burned that happens when the rebellion pops up again about 12 years later and so and actually at the end of the besieged meant following that rebellion the time of Daniel that were reading about is as in particular the Book of Daniel is taking place at about 600 BC and in the book the writing of the book happens over a period of 50 years and probably finishes sometime around 550 BC the book is written in both Hebrew and Aramaic Aramaic is the style of Hebrew that was spoken by Jesus and then you've got the more classical Hebrew it is possible there's one segment something unique about the Book of Daniel there's one segment in the middle of the book that is actually written by the Babylonian king you read chapter 4 Nebuchadnezzar is the first-person author of his vision and so it's a fascinating book now we're gonna delve into of course where the title of our study today's lesson number one the title is from reading to understanding and we have a memory verse I was so anxious to get into it I forgot that memory verses acts 8:30 and you can see it in the front of your lesson they're always like if you want to just say it with me acts 8 verse 30 are you ready so Philip ran to him and heard him reading the prophet Isaiah and said do you understand what you are reading it's one thing to read and you know what what the eunuch said to Philip how can i except some man help me understand people need people to understand the scriptures it it's good for us to study together I've noticed that Christians that isolate themselves and study by themselves there's a risk they can become eccentric in their conclusion the Bible tells us in the mouth of two or three witnesses let everything be established it's good for us to bounce things off each other helps us to stay balanced and make sure our interpretations are meshing with other scripture so first section we want to talk about is Christ and this is one of my favorite parts a tall book Christ is the center of the Book of Daniel people think when you study the Book of Daniel that you know you're talking about the kingdoms and the prophecies and the Lions Den and Shadrach Meshach and Abednego but really the central message of the Book of Daniel it's all about Jesus if you look in Luke chapter 24 verse 25 Luke 24 verse 25 this is when Christ rises from the dead and he's talking to the two apostles on the way to the little town of Emmaus you remember that they don't know who he is and they're complaining about their so devastated that Jesus has died and we thought he was a messiah and finally Jesus interrupts him and he says o foolish ones and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken ought not the Christ to have suffered these things and entered into his glory and beginning at Moses and all the prophets he expounded unto them in all the Scriptures the things concerning himself how much of the scripture is talking about Jesus he expounds unto them and and now when Jesus makes this statement is there a New Testament no we just read where Jesus called Daniel a prophet so among the things that Jesus covered with the two disciples on the road to Emmaus it says out of all the scriptures he expounded unto them about himself he probably touched on the Book of Daniel I wonder what Jesus said showing that he was the Christ through the Book of Daniel well I can think of several things that are possibilities but before I get to that let me give you another verse 2nd Corinthians 1 19 and 24 the son of God Jesus Christ who has preached among you by us by me Silvanus and Timothy was not yes and no but in him was yes for all the promises of God in him are yes and in him amen to the glory of God through us everything was all pointing to Jesus Christ said you search the Scriptures for in them you think you have eternal life these are they that testify of me so all of the Bible is really telling us about Jesus in some respect you can find there's a great quote by a Spurgeon it's in his you know his devotional called morning and evening which is got some great material and he talks about how all of the Scriptures are summed up in Christ and he said if you unroll the scriptures they are the swaddling band in which rides Jesus they are the chariot of our king and then he says the quintessence of the Scriptures is Christ I mean in the sum total of the Bible is Jesus so when you delve into the Book of Daniel do we see Jesus you know one thing even in the story Daniel is the son of David who comes from Jerusalem to his people in captivity to be their intercessor among the pagans to plead in their behalf and this is really what Jesus is the son of David who comes from the New Jerusalem to our world to his people that are in captivity down here to be our intercessor and he gives divine messages and so was Jesus ever married to a human girl he's married to the church you could say he's the bridegroom and churches the bride was Daniel ever married to his people he saw himself principally as an advocate and intercessor for his people you read Daniel 9 he's praying and interceding for his people so like Christ he's a great intercessor go to Daniel chapter 3 then King Nebuchadnezzar was astonished you know when a Shadrach Meshach and Abednego are thrown in the furnace and he spoke saying to his counselors did we not cast three men bound into the midst of the fire they answered and said to the king true O king look he answered I see four men loose walking in the midst of the fire and they are not hurt and the form of the fourth is like what the son of God in fact before you even get to chapter three so that's pretty clear it says the fourth is like the Son of God you see Jesus and Daniel who is the stone that strikes the image in Chapter two of Daniel that grows into a great mountain and falls the whole earth it's Christ the rock of ages' the word of God that brings down all the idolatry of the world do we see Jesus and Daniel go to now I'm not doing every passage because you know we still have stuff do we need to cover I don't want to steal all the thunder from our other lessons Daniel chapter six I can't wait till we get there Daniel in the lion's den we think this is a cute little story for the kids look what happens in this story enemies are following Daniel around spying on him because the king is thinking to set him over the whole realm they're threatened by the position of Daniel with the king you know the religious leaders were threatened by the position of Christ with the father and they were afraid of his authority so they spied on him and finally they turned Daniel over to this pagan King to get a death decree Jesus has turned over to Pilate to get a death decree the king doesn't want to kill Daniel he Labor's to deliver him Pilate Labor's to deliver Christ now the law is finally regarding his God you know they accused Jesus they say he makes himself out to be a king and he's breaking our laws and then he doesn't want to do it but the king sends Daniel to the Lions in so a stone is removed Daniel is placed inside the stone is replaced a seal is put on the door when Jesus is in the tomb stone is rolled away stone is put in place seal government seal is put upon the door he spends one night there says the king passed the night in fasting this is very early in the morning what time does Jesus rise very early in the morning Daniel is going through a special time of Prayer when he's finally carried off Jesus is in the Garden of Gethsemane praying when he's then captured and carried off and Daniel comes out alive hope I didn't ruin the story for you did you know that the the stone is rolled away Jesus comes out alive Daniel is exalted to the right hand of the king Jesus exalted to the right hand of the Father I mean you look at the story of Daniel and you see so many parallels for the gospel of Jesus so Daniel is not just a book of prophecy the whole book is an allegory of Christ in many ways go to Daniel 7 I was watching in the night visions and behold one like the son of man coming with the clouds of heaven he came to the Ancient of Days and brought him near before him this is an amazing verse for one reason because it's one of the few places in the Bible you see the father and the son prior to the incarnation together the Ancient of Days is God the Father the one like the Son of Man I'd be Christ same one that appears in Daniel chapter 3 Daniel 9 you see the sufferings of Christ and that 490 year prophecy or the 70 week prophecy says after the sixty-two weeks Messiah shall be cut off but not for himself so who is Jesus cut off for he's cut off for us you see the gospel in the story of Daniel and then and I'm just taking some high points here there's a lot more like I said but we want to wait until those lessons come Daniel 12 at that time Michael will stand up the Great Prince that stands for the children of thy people and now who is Michael yeah I just I even heard a sermon this morning I was listening to something in the car on my way here and they said yeah some of these cults believe that Michael is Jesus guilty but but you know that's not a cultish teaching if you look at the commentaries of the Protestant reformers like Adam Clarke and Matthew Henry they said Michael can be none other than Christ our Lord because Joshua gets on his knees before him and he takes off his she's to worship Him message later today we're talking about angels so I I'll go into that more later more evidence that Michael is Christ so quickly says the Lord Himself will descend from heaven with a shout and the voice of the Archangel the Lord has the voice of the Archangel says Michael when disputing over the body of Moses Jude verse 9 Michael brings the resurrection of Moses the Bible tells us that Michael and his angels fought with the Dragon who's the dragon Satan is the pinnacle of the leaders of evil Michael is the pinnacle of the leader of good that's Christ Michael is simply an Old Testament name the word Michael means who is as God that's what the name means who is as God it's an Old Testament name of Christ prior to his incarnation and so yes Michael is not we don't believe Jesus is a created angel we believe Jesus is eternal God but one of the ways he is pictured is as the greatest messenger from God he is not a cherub or a Seraphim so you do see Jesus the Great Prince that stands for the children of thy people even in the very last chapter of Daniel alright let's talk about the structure of Daniel it's a fascinating book I heard a really good talk on this that if I could find it I probably wouldn't plagiarize it from mark Finley and where he goes through the the structure of Daniel from the first chapter to the twelfth chapter the Book of Daniel is written in a chiastic structure and I the chiastic structure it it basically has parallels like bookends that reach the pinnacle that's repeated in the middle and so things are said they're repeated and then they go down again and it's it's like you have a series of bookends with the tallest books the central theme in the middle and you find this in the Book of Daniel for example Daniel chapter 2 Nebuchadnezzar has a vision of four kingdoms Daniel chapter want to sort of like an introduction you've got the four kingdoms then judgment falls upon this great idol when the stone falls Daniel three God delivers Daniels companions from a fiery furnace then judgment falls on the soldiers that throw them in and they're their exalted at the end of Daniel two God's kingdom is exalted you go to Daniel for judgment comes upon Nebuchadnezzar and it tells us then that that you know the tree is cut down there's a judgment there he glorifies God then at the end in Daniel five Belshazzar exalts himself against God judgment comes upon him and God is glorified in Daniel is exalted in the end daniel 6 again they tried to destroy daniel and his enemies are judged and he is exalted Daniel 7 you've got the four kingdoms the great Judgment Day associate judgment you see these multiple dreams that happen and where the central fame in the end it talks about how God's kingdom is again exalted now in prophecy that is given well let me just get read something to you from Psalm 9 verse 7 and 8 it says there but the Lord shall endure forever he's prepared his throne for judgment he shall judge the world in righteousness he will administer judgment for the peoples and uprightness this is like a theme through the Book of Daniel by the way Daniel read the Psalms why did Daniel pray three times a day because he read who knows what verse it is psalm 55:17 morning evening in at noon will I pray Don Daniel read Solomon where Solomon if the dedication of the temple says if your people are carried away if they pray towards this place why did Daniel pray with his windows open towards Jerusalem because he read the Bible if you get to Daniel chapter 9 it says Daniel was reading the prophecies Daniel the prophet was reading jeremiah the prophet and that interesting and he said as I was reading the prophecies of Jeremiah I realized that seventy years should be fulfilled I set my heart to pray and so you can see that a lot that's said about God's kingdom enduring forever Daniel read this as a theme all through the song since I just read to you now talking about prophecy and this is a very very important point it'll help you in understanding Revelation helps you in understanding Daniel how many of you remember in the story of Joseph Joseph is in a prison in Egypt and and while he's there you know that he had talked to a butler and interpreted the dreams of the butler and the Baker and well the baker died but the butler made it back to the palace joseph said remember me but he forgot Joseph then the Pharaoh has a dream and he has a dream of what seven fat cows and sevens skinny ones skinny ones eat the fat ones wakes up pagan King goes back to sleep has another dream what's that one seven seven fat ears of corn from Iowa and did you ever see the size you know the Indian corn that the settlers used to eat that pilgrims and like that big little thing so what you're seeing now is like super high bread when you go with all the big ones a cob now and so they see see seven fat ears of corn but then seven skinny ones appear and the skinny ones eat the fat ones in there no fatter now why does that dream come to different visions or is God telling one truth with different pictures in the story of Joseph their God establishes a principle for understanding some of these prophetic visions so when you get to Revelation revelation gives the same history many different ways from many different visions you have the history of the of the first coming of Jesus to the second coming of Jesus it is given in the seven churches it's like a religious overview it's given in the seven trumpets a military overview it's given in the seven seals a political overview they're covering the same kingdoms during the same time they have a lot of the same time periods three and a half 1260 so forth forty-two months Daniel does the same thing the prophecies of Daniel are in varying detail covering these four kingdoms that are then overcome by the fifth being the kingdom of Christ now that fourth kingdom goes through a change it goes from iron to iron and clay so people have argued is it really kingdoms are for kingdoms but so you've got these four principal powers you get Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome and then you get to rome pagan rome in the rome papal rome and then you know after those divisions of pagan Rome then God comes and sets up his kingdom we're living in that time now that message is given several different ways it's like when you look at a diamond you've got one diamond and because of the way it's cut you have several different facets of the diamond in the Book of Daniel you've got this diamond of truth and what you're doing is you are walking around it and you look into the truth same truth but the facets reflect differently as you walk around it so don't try to make the the prophecies of daniel you know all tell wildly different stories they're really covering a history which brings me to an important point you got Daniel - you've got Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome recovered there and God establishes his kingdom Daniel 7 Babylon medo-persia Greece Rome and they have only judgment Daniel 8 well at this point it's already talking about the fall of Babylon so it's talking about meet of Persia Greece Rome purification of the sanctuary then you've got Daniel and that's the angle 8 and 9 Daniel 10 through the end of the book you've got me - Persia Greece Rome again final judgment Michael stands up so they're covering the history of God's people in the visions of Daniel a lot of the early part of the vision is dealing specifically with God's people Israel but once Christ comes what happens to Israel the Jews are dispersed and the gospel is dispersed and so it's not just talking about a geographic country it's talking about God's spiritual nation now that's all around the world alright so going into the section now talking about apocalyptic prophecies in Daniel you know in the Bible you've got a couple of different kinds of prophecy and that's actually several different but let's talk for a minute about classical prophecy and apocalyptic prophecy people open the book of Revelation and they often I've heard pastors say don't read revelation nobody can understand it I mean you know it's talking about this street that's got a crossing the sign says warning there's a woman riding on a beast with seven heads you know and they think how can that be literal it's obviously a symbol and you've got this his woman standing on the moon and she's clothed with the Sun at 12 stars above her head the Dragons trying to eat her baby sounds like a fairy tale you got these creatures around the throne of God and one's got my head like a lion and then others like a calf another like a man nothing like a eagle and you go to his eagle and they're all full of eyes I got you know you got a lamb with seven eyes you ever see that it would be a freak and so you look at these really strange symbols that you see in Revelation and people go what in the very beginning of Revelation that says God sent his angel and signified it that word signify it's very much in the original as it is in English it means to sign a PHY the message of Revelation is it's an apocalyptic prophecy God gives spiritual truths through symbols sometimes they're wild symbols and illustrations and allegories Daniel is one of the apocalyptic prophecies you've got these goats with four horns and and you've got beasts that you know got iron claws and and you see a lot of really strange pictures in there and have you ever seen a leopard with four wings so when you get into the apocalyptic prophecies now there are a few other prophecy books that you would call apocalyptic you know what they are I forget sometimes this is a Sabbath School class I just are preaching but I what are some of the others so if you've got Daniel if you have revelation and they are apocalyptic they're like your wild visions Ezekiel correct Zachariah yeah you've got the you know for horses in Zechariah and you got the two olive trees which you also see in Revelation and they're given in a lot of visions now there are places that some of the other prophets have briefed dreams but so your main apocalyptic prophets are gonna be Daniel Ezekiel Zechariah and revelation and Jonah is a prophet and but when Jonah marches up the street and says forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed that is not apocalyptic prophecy it may seem apocalyptic to them but it's it's given in plain language and I daddy's Aswang he explains Matthew 24 it's not apocalyptic he's talking about the history of his people in in that section so you've got those prophecies in the classical prophecies the big emphasis is on the word of the Lord says this the word of the Lord says that some of the classical prophecies will illustrate things God will say to Hosea I want you to go take a wife of the harlotry and the point being my people have been committing harlotry against me well it's it's actually something happening it's an allegory but it's not an apocalyptic prophecy God will tell Jeremiah I want you to take a vas and I want you to bury it then I want you to dig it up again and yeah he's going through symbolizing something but it's not an apocalyptic vision he's trying to illustrate something happening with God's people all right and I got so much to say so in just you know you look in Ezekiel the faces were the faces of a lion an ox an eagle and a man so you see that in Revelation you see that Ezekiel very similar vision when Amos says the days are coming that there'll be a famine on the land not for eating bread or drinking water but hearing the word of the Lord is that a classical prophecy or an apocalyptic prophecy that's a classical prophecy all right now something that this just want you to understand you're gonna hear about this there are very rarely prophecies in the Bible that might have what you call a dual application they are very rare do not throw those terms around freely let me give you an example King David has finally conquered all of his nemesis around him he's really subjugated all the other empires and now he's thinking about the temple of God that's the Ark is still on the tent Hyrum is built David a very nice palace but the Ark is in a tent and he's thinking about building a temple Nathan the Prophet comes they're friends and they're talking together and Nathan says go for it David build a temple but after Nathan leaves the word of the Lord came to Nathan said Nathan that was not my word that was just your opinion go back and tell David you will not build me a house and this is this is what the prophecy says and I want you to tell me what this means first chronicles 17 11 first chronicles 17 11 Nathan says to David and it shall be when your days are fulfilled and you must go to be with your fathers that I will set up your seed after you who will be of your sons and I will establish his kingdom he will build me a house and I will establish his throne forever who is that son of David that was gonna build a house and have his throne established forever okay son said Jesus some said Solomon you're both right did David have a son who literally built a physical house and that his name was what Solomon and we know even later in the Bible it says David talked to Solomon said build the house it must be glorious years of material here's the plans that was a fulfillment of that but did Jesus say destroy this temple made with hands in three days I'll make one without hands was Jesus a son of David did he build a house that was to last forever Solomon's Temple is gone so this is an example of a dual prophecy when Moses said to the children of Israel Deuteronomy 28 says if you're unfaithful your enemies will beseech you at your gates until you're high fortified walls in which you trust will come down I'll carry you off and you'll be captives when was that fulfilled destruction of Jerusalem under Nebuchadnezzar and destruction of Jerusalem under the Romans had one prophecy was fulfilled at least twice and very vivid since and it happened to the Northern Kingdom when the Assyrians destroyed them you could say was three times that that was fulfilled in Matthew 24 when Jesus talks about the abomination of desolation what was he talking about he said you'll see Jerusalem surrounded with armies those that be in Judea flee into the mountains and then in Matthew it says when you see the abomination of desolation let those are being Judea flee into the mountains well Christ had just had that apostles asked him three questions when will these things be not one stone left on another in Jerusalem the destruction of the temple and what will be the sign of your coming and the end of the world they thought all that would happen together actually is two thousand years between the destruction of the temple and the end of the world Jesus answers it together because these things sometimes repeat themselves desire of Ages 628 this entire discourse was given not for the disciples only but for those who should live in the last scenes of the Earth's history it's got a couple of applications fought from the mounts of blessing the prophecies that receive partial fulfillment in the overthrow of Jerusalem have a more direct application to the last days and you can also see this principle in Joel chapter 2 verse 28 now when it says in the last days I'll pour out my spirit on all flesh and your sons and daughters will prophesy it's that pastor future I'm gonna catching on it's both what is Peter's say in Acts chapter 2 he says this it went when the Holy Spirit poured out of Pentecost Peter says this is that that was spoken of Joel the Prophet it's what he says but is that the last interpretation don't we hope for a latter reign of Joel 2 so it's a dual prophecy and so you see a number of examples of this happening in the Bible when we read about the hold I send you Elijah the Prophet before the Great dreadful day of the Lord has that happened in the past did Eli John the Baptist come in the spirit in the power of Elijah yes but you know what Jesus said Elijah will come and Elijah has come Christ Himself said yes it was fulfilled in John but Elijah will come so there is we believe some future fulfillment of that before the great and terrible day of the Lord so some of the prophets have a dual application and I think that most of what you're gonna see in Daniel does not fall in that category but just wanted to give you an idea that when you read these things well there may be one place you know when Daniel had Nebuchadnezzar had his dream of the tree I'm assuming you all know these I haven't read it I don't have time to read it all this great tree well the Jewish nation not only saw that was fulfilled in Nebuchadnezzar they felt something like the tree that was to be a tree of life for the world they hadn't fulfilled what they were supposed to do they were cut down when they are carried to captivity but a band of iron and a band of brass meaning the Romans and the Greeks they came back again and they go back into a nation so they've always saw themself that way the Jews also saw the story of Jonah not just as something that happened to Jonah they said we were captive and went through great trials and because of our trials we then got scattered among the pagans like Jonah went to Nineveh to reach the pagans so they saw that some of these prophecies were allegories it's not quite the same as a dual prophecy of the Jewish nation so anyway that's sort of a lengthy understand covering of that Oh God's timescale preterism there's there's four principal ways that people look at prophecy you get the preterists they believe like when a predators reads revelation they think the Antichrist was Nero that it's all happened in the past it's pre then you got the futurists that's you're left behind people they believe that everything from revelation four on is still in the future you know when God speaks to John and he hears a trumpet and says come up hither they say that's the trumpet of the resurrection and the rapture and they think everything from revelation four on is all still future well we know a lot of stuff is in the past beyond revelation four then you got idealism that it basically holds of these apocalyptic prophecies or Central's assembles us to teach kind of moral lessons and we fall in the category of the historicist and that's pretty much where most of the Protestant reformers fell and that means that these apocalyptic prophecies are giving a panorama of history dealing with the last days now when we get a time prophecy in Daniel how do you interpret those time prophecies we believe you're supposed to use that day for the year prophecy principle where do you get that well if you look at numbers 14:34 says according to the days that you spied the land they spied the land for forty days for each day you will bear your guilt namely for one year for forty years it was gonna be a year for every day Ezekiel 4:6 and when you have completed them lie again on your right side you will bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days I've laid on you a day for a year and here's a great one from the New Testament look in Luke 1332 the Jews came to Jesus and they said King Herod killed John the Baptist and he's probably gonna come arrest you you need to run for cover here's what Jesus said now John died about six months into Christ's ministry Jesus taught three and a half years jesus answered and said to them go tell that Fox namely Herod behold I cast out demons I performed cures today tomorrow and the third day I'll be perfected that did Jesus preached three more days for three more years so even Christ here uses the day for the year principle right and so and the only way the other proof is in the pudding if you study the 70 week prophecy in Daniel chapter 9 it doesn't make any sense at all unless you apply the day for the year principle jesus said speaking to the Jewish nation this generation will not pass away till these things are fulfilled they're not being one stone left upon another in Jerusalem what is a Bible generation it's 40 years wasn't 40 days later was 40 years later Jesus had no sign I'll be given but the sign of Jonah what did Jonah say forty days and Nineveh will be destroyed Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days journey he enters the city a day's journey meaning 12 hours he got three and a half and then Jonah says in 40 days it'll be 2 droid Jesus that I am the sign of Jonah I am preaching three and a half years and in 40 years this city will be destroyed isn't that what happens answer he said the age if you want to find out what's gonna happen to Israel he told them he says the greater than Jonah is here the Ninevites repented those pagans repented at the preaching of Jonah a greater than Jonah is here no sign will be given but the sign of Jonah and Jesus used the day for the year principle to help them understand what was coming well and then you've got of course the contemporary relevance of Daniel you know when you read the prophecies of Daniel 2 7 8 through 12 we realize we are now living in the end of time and if I want to teach personal devotions I read Daniel chapter 6 if I want to teach about boldness and courage you can study Daniel chapter 5 if I want to talk about the mark of the beast you can do Daniel chapter 3 where there is an image they would not bow to and so when we study Daniel I think we're going to agree it's a very relevant and current book for us today amen well thank you very much friends thank you those who have been joining us we've run out of time we're looking forward to our study of Daniel together don't forget we've got the free offer called the ultimate resource if you'd like a copy of this you simply call eight six six seven eight eight three nine six six ask for offer number seven two eight we'll send that to you for free or you can text it download it right now just text the number sh0 nine one and you text that number two four zero five four four you should see it on your screen you can read that book right now and then pass it on to a friend god bless we'll study his word together again next week

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Length: 43min 54sec (2634 seconds)

Published: Sat Dec 28 2019