Pastor Paul Chappell: The Coming World Empire

take your bibles this morning turn to daniel chapter 2 if you would please daniel chapter 2 and let's stand together for the scripture reading this morning from daniel chapter 2 and of course we're beginning our series as we learn about things to come over the next several weeks and i'm so glad to welcome again many of our members that are coming back uh out of this pandemic and many have had their either vaccination or they had covet or whatever the case uh to give the folks a level of comfort but i'm glad that you're here this is a wonderful crowd this morning and we're excited about diving into this new study as we understand things to come daniel chapter 2 and we're going to read in a moment beginning in verse number 31. now over the next several weeks we're going to be preaching on various different subjects related to prophecy i'm going to be preaching next week on uh israel's role in prophecy the abrahamic covenant and and other promises made specifically to israel we're going to be preaching of course about the rapture of the church and then of course the tribulation period the great tribulation we're going to preach about the antichrist and what the bible says about the antichrist we're going to preach about the coming one world church from revelation 17 and of course ultimately we'll preach about the second coming of jesus christ and so we're going to hit the highlights and some things i always like to say when it comes to preaching on bible prophecy uh number one uh these messages will be uh they'll be deep in the sense of the material that we're looking into but there's an expansive amount of material and so let me say we have some good resources in the bookstore such as dwight pentecost book things to come we have some good books over there i believe by dr david jeremiah we have the book i passed out last week understanding the times if you'd like to get a copy in other words if you get interested after these messages get some good pre-millennial uh literal interpretation type uh study guides that will help you uh follow along and maybe gain a little more knowledge and we do not teach and preach prophecy to try to predict uh who the antichrist is or uh you know uh when jesus will come exactly the bible says no man knows the day nor the hour and if you ever find somebody trying to predict those things exactly you'll know that they really don't know what they're talking about all right that's how many false denominations started and you can go back to groups like the seventh day adventists who had a period in their in their journey where they all sat on the rooftops of their houses waiting for christ to return and it did not happen so we're not going to try to name the name of the antichrist besides that some of you already know who it is right and uh it's like your boss at work right or the the least your your politician you like the least i did see a little comic i thought kind of tied this up some people in their predictions and uh you might enjoy this the world will end november 25th and uh so if you're a turkey and you think thanksgiving is the world's end you might not be far from that but anyways i hope that this will be mostly we're not going to be predictive but the reason that i believe prophecy is important is because nothing should motivate us to live for jesus like knowing that he's coming again that's the real reason we preach about the things to come is because if we really believe that christ is coming then it should affect the way we live our everyday lives and i'm telling you folks i have seen people making decisions this last year that have nothing to do with eternity and everything to do with just feelings and emotions and and i want us to realize if jesus is coming soon then we ought to be living for eternity with all of our lives and so let's dive into this daniel chapter 2 the message is entitled the coming world empire we're going to begin reading in verse 31 thou o king sawest and be behold a great image this great image whose brightness was excellent stood before thee and the form thereof was terrible the image's head was a fine gold and his breast and his arms of silver his belly and his thighs of brass his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay thou saw as till that a stone was cut out without hands which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay and break them to pieces then was the iron the clay the brass the silver and the gold broke into pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth and a mountain here would represent a kingdom another rising kingdom and the bible says in verse 36 this is the dream and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king thou o king are the king of kings for the god of heaven hath given thee a kingdom power and strength and glory and wheresoever the children of mendwell the beast of the field and the fouls of heaven hath he given into thine hand and hath made thee the ruler over them all thou art his head of gold and after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee and another third kingdom of brass which shall bear rule over all the earth and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdue with all things and as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise and whereas thou sawest the feet and toes part of the potter's clay and part of iron the kingdom shall be divided but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay and as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken and whereas thou sawist iron mixed with miry clay they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men but they shall not cleave one to another even as iron is not mixed with clay and in the days of these kings shall the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed and the kingdom shall not be left to other people but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms and it shall stand forever and let us pray father thank you for this new series and i pray that you would enlighten us and encourage us and then motivate us to live with eternity and mind and i'll pray god that you will touch hearts and souls through this upcoming few months as we study together in jesus name i pray amen you may be seated well every day we hear news of globalism and sometimes it's subtle oftentimes it's woven into the curricula of public education but it is a common theme in the world today and it has been uh it has been a democratic theme it has been a republican theme i remember president bush senior constantly talking about the new world what was it order the new world order and we hear these terms uh global economies global warming during the pandemic of covet 19 we have heard about uh global immunization and the world health organization and and how we need to have a global response and so globalism is a theme of this particular age earlier in march the world health organization released interim guidance for how digital vaccine certificates should work globally and how that the world health organization has 25 governments already involved in their uh in their experiment uh and in their cooperative effort for a global travel vaccine and so we are hearing more and more and more about uh this global concept in the culture in which we live now what we're going to learn this morning and what we're going to learn in the weeks to come is that the bible really does speak to many of the trends that we are experiencing now and it may not mention specific things such as a global vaccination passport or something like that but it does mention things that relate to doing business or going and coming or the centralization of power under a one world ruler and what we see in the scripture is the direction of things until the upcoming time of the return of jesus christ and it is interesting as we come to daniel this morning uh nearly 2500 years ago god uses daniel as one of his prophets and he used others he used ezekiel and jeremiah we'll see many different prophetic studies and in the new testament as well but in this particular passage this morning daniel uh was of course taken captive in 605 bc he was taken to babylon or to modern day iraq as a jewish captive in the kingdom and you know that daniel was a man of holiness he was a man of purpose in fact i love to preach to teenagers about daniel because in daniel 1 and verse 8 the bible says that he purposed in his heart that he would not defile himself in the kingdom where he was living what a great testimony for all of us that even though we live in a wicked kingdom we need to purpose in our heart that we're not going to be defiled by this kingdom that was daniel's testimony what a great testimony well the assyrians had taken the northern kingdom of israel captive in 722 bc and now 200 years later this southern kingdom of judah is taken into babylon and daniel was taken with it as one of the young princes from israel during his time there god of course elevated these hebrew children and daniel became a respected man in that kingdom and we know that the king had a dream and that none of the wise men of the king could interpret the dream now this dream as we're going to see in just a moment was of a prophetic nature and oftentimes god would use dreams as a form of revelatory means whereby they might know in their period of time the moving of god in their midst or even in prophecy now we have a complete word of god and we follow god's word as our prophetic utterance as our prophecy or as our as our way of living today but in these times these dreams were often used of god to give a glimpse into the future and so you'll notice in the passage before us this dream and i want you to notice in verse number 24 the bible says therefore daniel went in unto aryakum the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of babylon he went in and said thus unto him destroy not the wise men of babylon bring me before the king and i will show unto the king the interpretation so here we see that daniel has an anointing on his life uh he says spare these wise men of yours and bring me before the king and let me give the interpretation and one of the key passages to daniel is found in verse 27 by way of introduction i want you to see this it says daniel answered in the presence of the king and said the secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men the astrologers the magicians the soothsayers show unto the king let me just pause here if you think that an astrologer or if you think that the the witches down on lancaster boulevard with their little ouija ball if you think some of these tarot cards if you think that's where to get your answers for life you need christ as your savior this morning and you need the word of god in your hand this morning daniel even daniel 2 500 years ago said hey king i'm sorry to tell you there's just certain things that these uh little play magicians are not going to be able to figure out but he said there's a god in heaven that can help us figure it out in fact notice that's exactly what he says in verse 28 but there is a god in heaven that revealeth secrets let's say that together but there is a god in heaven that revealeth secrets and i'm thankful that god reveals uh his truth to us and it says there in verse 28 and maketh known to the king nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the what are the next two words please latter days thy dream and the visions of thy head upon thy bed are these and so we see this morning that there is a dream by nebuchadnezzar that is now going to be interpreted by daniel the prophet that this type of dream is not something that the unregenerate man the bible will see this in the message tonight the bible says the natural man receiveth not the things that are the spirit of god these astrologers couldn't figure it out but god gave daniel the understanding of the dream and in this dream we see first of all this morning the identity of the world's empires the identity of the world's empires nebuchadnezzar had this dream in his second year reigning about 602 bc and it's interesting that god is giving 2500 years ago daniel really a comprehensive prophetic insight this was the most comprehensive prophetic insight ever given to a man uh to this up to this time and amazing as we see it we're going to notice first of all concerning this empire that that nebuchadnezzar saw a symbolic image his dream contained an image that was very symbolic and in daniel chapter 2 here and verse 45 the bible says the great god hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter all right and so daniel is clearly establishing that what nebuchadnezzar saw is not something that happened prior it's something that is yet to come and then again in verse 28 he said there is a god in heaven that revealeth secrets and hath made known to king nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days so this is very clearly a prophetic passage of scripture it speaks about things to come it speaks about things in the latter days now the dream begins with nebuchadnezzar's own kingdom and it begins with his kingdom of babylon and it does not end until the return of jesus christ and some of you already caught on to that just when we were reading the scripture just a moment ago now the latter days when you read about this phrase and we saw that a moment ago here in verse 28 the latter days the latter days are often also mentioned in the context of the fullness of time and this speaks of the day when the lord jesus christ will return and so this is a prophecy that is spanning all of the upcoming events and kingdoms in the world until the time of christ romans 11 25 says for i would not brethren that ye should be ignorant of this mystery lest ye be wise in your own conceits that blindness in part has happened to israel until the fullness of the times of the gentiles be come in and again this speaks of the final days of the revelation until the coming of jesus christ so it's a symbolic image of coming kingdom secondly it is a sequential representation of these kingdoms that we're going to be studying here in daniel chapter 2 we see a giant figure of a man and uh i believe we have a slide of that and this figure of a man we're going to study this morning is also mentioned in daniel chapter 7 and in daniel chapter 7 it is a likening of four beasts those kingdoms are likened unto four different beasts daniel 7 17 and i believe you received some notes this morning the bible says these great beasts which are four are four kings which shall arise out of the earth so uh we have in this chapter two uh this image uh which is going to be a division of these four different kingdoms and then we have in chapter seven four beasts that represent the same four kingdoms and we'll see in this vision that there is greater value uh and then less strength as you go down in the vision and study each of the kingdoms in fact every metal that is represented is going to reflect the nature of a particular kingdom something that that kingdom was known for producing or something they were known as in the sense of strength so let's take a look at this briefly first we read in verse 32 about the head of gold this image head was a fine goal his breast and his arms of silver his belly and his thighs of brass the head of gold represents uh babylonian kingdom nebuchadnezzar's own kingdom 606 to about 538 bc and this was uh what nebuchadnezzar was reigning over and so it is speaking of the kingdom that he ruled and uh daniel said this head of gold is the kingdom of uh nebuchadnezzar then we read about the silver arms and chest in verse 32 the silver arms and chest and we'll see that this represents the media persian empire 538 to 330 bc uh the persian empire and this was the second great world empire after nebuchadnezzar then we read about the brass belly and the thighs verse 32. this next kingdom is the greek empire and this was the next great world empire and again this image speaking of these different kingdoms and uh we think for those of you that have perhaps been to athens and you've you've seen the parthenon or you've seen maybe the coliseums and you're reminded of the really the power of the greek empire this was the empire just after the media persian empire that was the most dominant world empire of the time then we come in verse 33 to the legs of iron his feet of iron and part of clay iron is a symbol in history of the roman empire and if you've been to rome maybe you've seen the colosseum or if you've been just about anywhere in europe you've seen the remnants of the roman empire it is the empire that was in power during the new testament era and it was the roman empire we studied just last week that was involved obviously in the crucifixion of jesus christ the times of christ the roman empire and the iron speaks of rome's unyielding power the legs make up almost half of the image's length indicating that this empire would last longer than the other empires did from 63 bc to 476 a.d the roman empire an amazing amazing empire roads throughout the world military might unbelievably so then we see coming down into the lower extremity the toes the toes of a final world empire and that is mentioned in verse 33 and his legs of iron his feet part of iron and part of clay and we see that there is this clay and iron mix and there is a continuation or some have called it a revival of the fourth roman kingdom and this really correlates with daniel chapter seven so look at this in your notes as we look at these ten toes for a moment in this vision and we'll be talking about this more a little later in the message but in daniel 7 and verse 7 we see this same prophecy after this i saw in the night visions and behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth it devoured and break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had ten horns i considered the horns and behold there came up among them another little horn now these 10 horns in daniel 7 or the 10 toes in daniel 2 represent a final kingdom or a revived roman kingdom of 10 global powers 10 global states 10 divided uh geography sections and and we do not know exactly where the where those will be where america fits into that but we believe that there will be 10 geographical sections of the antichrist kingdom and so we see that these are referred to as the final outcropping or the reviving of the old roman empire in the latter days now finally just as we look at this image we see one more thing mentioned and i want you to notice in verse 34 thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay and break them to pieces then was the iron the clay the brass the silver and gold broke into pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them and that stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth now this speaks of the lord jesus christ coming he is the stone that is represented here and uh and this mountain is his final kingdom the kingdom that is not an earthly kingdom it is the lord's kingdom it's not made of men or of nebuchadnezzar or of caesar the great or of some roman emperor it is the lord jesus christ himself he is the stone and i want you to see a great um teaching of christ notice in verse 34 thou saw is till that a stone was cut without hands in other words this is not a man-made emperor this is the stone without hands this is the lord jesus christ the ancient of days this is one of the names for christ he is the stone the rock made without man's hands and he also saw a stone then that did daniel that came down upon the feet and crushed the entire image into powder and then this stone grew and filled the whole earth like a great mountain and this speaks of christ's coming it speaks of his establishing the kingdom and so you have nebuchadnezzar and you have uh the media persian empire and you have uh the roman em roman empire and you have the greek empire and all these empires coming down ultimately to a revival of of these uh empires in ten sections of the ten horns the ten toes and all of that ultimately is destroyed by a stone that comes a stone not made with hands and that stone will raise up his own kingdom and that is the reference to the coming of the lord jesus christ as he promised david that he would rule uh on this throne forever and forever and so christ comes and establishes the kingdom now the final human kingdom on earth this ten-toed kingdom this this geographical uh or global kingdom that is ruled over by the antichrist will be utterly destroyed and we'll preach in the upcoming weeks about the battle of armageddon and the kingdoms that will gather against the lord jesus christ but as the ancient of days as the stone cut without hands he will destroy and disseminate this final world kingdom and the bible speaks of this in matthew 21 i believe it's in your notes and verse 44 and whosoever shall fall on this stone shall be broken but on whomsoever it shall fall it will grind him to pattern to powder and so we see here uh that this image uh is a picture of world history men and women think that human civilization is so strong and i i get so tickled with the united nations or the world health organization all these different groups and i'm sure there's people that really have tender hearts in these organizations but they seem to think somehow nato all these groups that they have the ability to solve all of the world's problems to bring peace to the world and and all of these things that we hear about and yet the reality is that human civilization is not so strong and enduring actually our entire civilization civilization according to daniel 2 is resting on very brittle feet today and we are not as high and mighty as we think we have a depraved sin nature in this world and that sin nature is a very brutal nature and people in this world are going to run to follow the one world leadership of the antichrist and that is not a picture of strength that is a picture of weakness as we will see and so in daniel 2 36 daniel says this is the dream and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king and so through daniel god gave king nebuchadnezzar a composite history of the remaining days of the world a prophecy of the final gentile empires and uh in this message today we're going to focus on one of those we're going to focus on the final days of the ten toes or the revived roman empire uh as some would refer to it so we see the identity of the world's empire starting with nebuchadnezzar coming all the way down through the roman empire and i believe into the present day as we see this yearning for globalization these 10 geographic areas that will form now let's notice secondly the immensity of the roman empire because we're going to focus on this roman empire mostly this morning the bible says of it in verse number 40 and the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things and as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise and whereas thou saw us the feet and toes part of potter's clay and part of iron the kingdom shall be divided but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thou sowest the iron mixed with clay now the imperial roman empire this empire that is mentioned here in verse number 40 as strong as iron the fourth empire displayed in the image is symbolized by its legs of iron and uh dr david jeremiah in his book what in the world is going on wrote these words he said in the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdue with all things and as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise and he says here the word iron is used 14 times in the text describing rome and when we come to this roman empire we realize we're dealing with the longest lasting and the strongest of the ancient empires headquartered in rome and then constantinople or modern-day istanbul and it was an amazing strong strong empire the headquarters came back to rome vatican city is a real emphasis in rome and a very strong political player even to this day what is amazing to me about the roman empire it went down to egypt uh it went as far as the persian gulf and arabia the caspian sea and then all the way the other way to england and and when you think about how they traveled on little ships or uh how they would walk long distances that's quite amazing to me and i really until 15 or 20 years ago did not fully understand how expansive the roman empire was even throughout uh england and it is interesting to me hadrian's wall built in the second century uh stretches from chester england all the way to the east coast of england the romans marked this territory this wall is just below the uh the the border of scotland and and uh and england and it is amazing to think that thousands of miles from rome these soldiers went to mark their territory maybe you already knew this i didn't know this until some years ago but the town of the city of london was originally called londonium it was a roman settlement and they came up the river thames and they established uh their settlement there so the roman empire was an amazing expansive empire in the imperial roman empire but what about those ten toes that come out of the legs of iron what about this final empire that has its relativity to that roman empire the bible speaks of this and again in verse 44 and in the days of these kings shall the god of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed so notice this in the days of these kings speaking of these uh ten uh that are going to give themselves to the antichrist as we'll see in a moment according to daniel then there is yet to be another division in the roman empire not a division of two as indicated by the image's two legs but of ten as is symbolized by the ten toes now again i cannot say the boundaries of the final empire and i cannot even predict where the headquarters will be but i believe the final empire will have 10 boundaries and all of these giving credence to the antichrist and so this will be the final kingdom period warren weirsby said when you come to the iron and the clay you have our present governments he said what is the strength of democracy it is the law what is its weakness human nature we are seeing that today that lawlessness comes when human nature refuses to be bound by god's order and laws and so this mixture of iron and clay is an indication of lawlessness or weakness based upon the fact that many of these countries may claim some form of democracy but the clay and the satanic involvement is going to represent a weakness in fact there will be a demonic influence obviously in the final empire verse 43 says whereas thou saw as iron mixed with mary clay they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men uh this uh this verse in my studies indicates a demonic influence there will be a mixing with the seed of men of satanic influence as we read in the old testament as well on occasion and and this time of the 10 the 10 kingdoms is going to be a time where satanic spiritualism is prevalent people are going to be spiritual they're not going to believe in christ they're going to be spiritual they're going to do meditation they're going to smoke marijuana they're going to be you know psychedelic and and emotional and spiritual but not in the sense that we think of spirituality they are going to be ready for the programming of the antichrist these kings will literally give their loyalty to the antichrist so let's look at that revelation 17 and verse 12. revelation 17 12 it may be in your notes but you might want to open your bible too remember the ten kings are represented by the final toes of the image also by the ten horns of daniel and in revelation 17 we see it again and by the way the best commentary on the bible is the bible so when you want to understand these terms you keep looking in the scriptures and seeing them repeated gives us in light enlightenment so revelation 17 12 says and the ten horns which thou sawest are ten what's the next word kings which have received no kingdom as yet but receive power as kings notice this one hour with the what beast so these ten geographic uh areas of the world in the latter latter moments of world history are going to have an agreement with the beast for about an hour it's going to be a short period of time that they have this agreement with the antichrist verse 13 says these have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast so though there are ten geographic kingdoms mentioned uh with the ten toes or the ten horns uh they all have one mind they're all kind of thinking this global thought and they all gladly give over their uh their freedoms if you will they give over their allegiance to the beast to the antichrist so this global sense is so strong that even though there's still some divisions maybe some uh cultural identities within those ten regions nevertheless they all give their power and strength unto the beast and that might mean some form of uh of military treaties that might mean some form of other signed agreements with respect to giving allegiance to maybe brussels or a place like that but the fact of the matter is uh that they will be under the control of the beast according to revelation 17 13. so both daniel and the revelation associate the antichrist with this confederation of ten nations that correspond in some way to the old roman empire and form an outcropping of a federation of tin a revival of that roman empire as we saw in the image of nebuchadnezzar so there's this final kingdom period that is coming there is this sense of preparing to give power to a central one that sense is happening in our world today that leads to a transference of world power now the transfer of power will be brought about by mutual consent every member of this alliance uh will give it freely to the antichrist they may obtain some of their and retain some of their own identity nationally or culturally but they give their power to the beast according to revelation 17. and this is what we see here in revelation 17 13 these have one mind and shall give their be their power and strength to the beast now that spirit that we're not saying that that's happening in the sense of literally the ten regions and the giving of power to the antichrist yet what we're saying today is that that spirit of acquiescence that spirit of globalism is well underway in the world today uh i remember reading some years ago vice president pence in fact in 2010 he was in brussels and he was giving a speech and and again i've heard speeches like this from republicans and democrats but this particular speech by vice president uh vice president biden rather said uh he said i believe brussels should would be more suited to be called the capital of the free world than washington dc biden said quote it seems to me that in this great city which boasts 1 000 years of history and which serves as the capital of belgium the home of the european union and the headquarters of nato that this city has its own legitimate claim to that title capital of the free world when i read that i thought what an interesting thing for a vice president to say that brussels would be such a fitting capital of the free world now you say well i was probably just diplomatic speech words are words and the fact is that he was uh in a in a globalistic type of a sense saying that brussels would be a great capital of the free world last week secretary uh treasury secretary janet yellen was giving the administration's aims with the new budget that is coming forth and she said our goal is to fight poverty and promote inclusive global economic values she said further from a headline perspective you will see two big proposals in our budget we are aiming to get g20 nations to agree listen now on a minimum global corporate tax we want to approve 650 billion dollars in special drawing rights that will provide us dollars to imf entertain international monetary fund members so now we hear in present present-day language the talk of a global tax where all of the uh g20 nations would agree to an equal tax for their businesses and and these are the types of talks that are actually happening no longer uh will each nation determine a tax rate but yellen is proposing a global corporate tax in the current language of our administration and so we see the immensity of the original roman empire but then we also see how that in the latter days these ten kings will give over to a global centralized power and already the talks of taxation the talks of world health you go on and on with just about any subject there's a global office there's a global concept being established and so we see the identity of the empires in nebuchadnezzar's vision we see the immensity of the roman empire and the continuation of it in the last days before christ establishes his kingdom and then i want you to see thirdly with me this morning the influence of this empire the influence of this final empire re referenced in the ten toes it is first of all seen in the realigning of power the realigning of the world's powers again uh aligning with the antichrist and we see uh that this iron mixed with miry clay in daniel 2 42 and as the toes of the feet were part of iron and part of clay so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken so this final kingdom will align all the nations both strong and weak into one unified as we saw a moment ago giving their strength to the beast now how does that happen how does the realigning of power happen it doesn't happen overnight perhaps it happens through a series of world wars uh it happens through a series of perhaps educational changes uh various different things happen to weaken uh the sense of perhaps uh national strength of nations and so forth but over time we're seeing now the conversation really take a swelling i'll give you a few thoughts first you will see in the leading in the times leading into the end a lessening of national pride a lessening of national pride you'll hear constantly a talk of the new world order you'll hear protesters calling for a destruction of property a destruction of borders calling for socialistic and global union that will be a common chant in the last days uh because we obviously have more than 10 borders right now uh you're going to hear people that are calling for a destruction of the borders as we know them you're going to see various political unions that are made i want to share a quote with you that i think was uh pretty amazing uh from sir winston churchill and i'm a i'm a big churchill fan i've been to his birthplace his burial ground i've been to the churchill war rooms and i've read lots of his books he was a great and courageous man who helped in world war ii but you'll be shocked with this quote and that's why i said sometimes wars will will dishearten uh people and it said in 1946 following the devastation of europe winston churchill said in a speech that the tragedy of europe could be solved if the issues of ancient nationalism and sovereignty could give way to the sense of european national grouping he said that the path of european peace and prosperity on the world stage was clear we must build the united states of europe so even people that you might really revere in history had or have a sense of this uh uh bringing the nations together uh perhaps you have visited uh europe and you have noticed as i did years ago the european flag it just amazed me and i forget how many nations are presently in there being one or two added sins but over or at least next to every flag in europe is the european union flag and much of the european union could be representative of uh the old roman empire geographically speaking and this is the prevalent flag in europe and uh rather than stamping your passport when you uh when you go in terry was so excited i forget which country maybe we were taking a trip somewhere says i'm going to get a i'm going to get a stamp in my passport of these different countries you know what she got european union european union european union because that's the dominant uh political force in europe and you've heard about brexit and how that some of those people that are maybe a little older maybe a little more conservative who maybe have studied passages like this were not so excited about the european union and they had a moment of brexit how that continues to play out as older people die and younger people come in is yet to be seen but the fact is that the european union is amazingly strong in this in this very moment in which we are living this past friday uh the little uh climate crybaby greta thundberg maybe some of you have heard of her uh she said i'm not going to attend uh the upcoming uh united nations summit on she said unless vaccine nationalism is discontinued thundberg said vaccine nationalism won't solve the pandemic she argued she's saying global problems need global solutions so the cry of the socialist is uh that even if a country uh develops vaccines and they have the advancement to do so and and even as they're vaccinating their country if every other country isn't equally vaccinated at the same rate and at the same time then she says i'm not even going to go to the council on getting the vaccinations to those other countries because i don't believe in vaccine nationalism global problems deserve a global solution now listen every one of us would say every person in the world deserves medical care we all understand that but the emphasis comes down to nationalism versus globalism in their mind and the push what i'm trying to say this morning the push is towards this globalism whereby the powers of the world consent to a leader and to a central place and person of leadership in the coming days and so there will be a lessening of national pride how many of you see that in our own country from time to time a lessening of national pride uh and i'm gonna and by the way i i'm going to address something about that at the very end so so stick with me to the very end there will be secondly an increasing of centralized government when we think about the realigning of power there will be an increasing of centralized government the jerusalem post recently wrote the european union is deeply involved in middle east politics including sanctions against israel presently the european union is wooing members into their assembly that include terrorist states such as syria as as recently journal in the jerusalem post now this is amazing to think about when we study next week the abrahamic covenant and god's view of israel and the fact that the european union is trying to bring syria into the european union tells us uh that this uh hatred towards israel will grow in the last days uh years ago i was preaching in romania and we finished the revival meeting and we came back through to catch the airplane in budapest and i remember as we stayed overnight terry and i and some other preachers we were walking that morning to get some breakfast and i saw all these limousines came into a hotel and i mean just just a probably a couple dozen of them all the european union flag and it just caught my attention i said let's go see what this is and so we ran in the hotel we snuck past the security and i got up to the third floor of this balcony and we looked down below in this open conference room and and sure enough there was mikhail gorbachev and all of the leaders of the european union and i i said to terry i said i wonder if the antichrist is in that room right now you know i was so curious about it all you know how many of you understand in a city you would naturally think wonder what they're talking about you know because there's got to be something interesting and so the paper said uh the next day the budapest times former soviet leader mikhail gorbachev last week called for the european union and russia to put their differences aside to create a major european voice that would counteract the influence of the u.s in defining global politics if we don't get russia in europe won't have a big voice in the world right so there's this globalization there's this realignment of world power where it settles where the ten lines are i do not know but the fact is we all see it happening in the day in which we live a lessening of national pride and increasing of centralized governance and thirdly there will come a quest for global currency and this is heavy underway i believe right now uh we will see more about this when we preach about the antichrist but the fact of the matter is that this quest for global currency will be a sign that we're coming closer to the final earthly kingdom of man and we see this in revelation 13 if it's in your notes you can read it or term revelation 13 16 speaking again of the antichrist it says and he causeth all both small and great rich and poor free and bond to receive a mark in their right hand or in their foreheads and that no man might buy or sell save he that had the mark or the name of the beast or the number of his name now when i preach on the rapture you will understand that i believe in a pre-tribulational rapture i believe that god's people will be spared from the wrath to come and that will not be a part of the great tribulation however much of the technology and the geopolitical movement much of what's going to be taking place uh that brings to past the devastation of the tribulation will be in my mind well underway even before the rapture and i believe one of those to be the technology that's necessitating or providing a one world currency sometimes people wonder why is it that christians don't want to have some kind of an international uh indicator of their health or their finance or whatever how many of you know that's what some people think is if there's going to be a international uh health indication then maybe they'll just throw finance into that maybe they'll throw something else in it then let's find a convenient way that that can be taken so it's never lost and and so you'll find that people are asking why are evangelical christians hesitant about some form of global type of identity that deals with their health and i believe personally the reason that a person who has studied the bible has these hesitancies is because we know what is coming and it's not just about health there will be a realigning of world power it will it will be seen in a lessening of national pride and increasing of centralized global governance and then a quest for global a quest for global currency now that realigning of power will ultimately lead to the return of the lord jesus christ so let's end with some great news learning how we're going to return with the lord for his kingdom the bible says in verse 34 of our text thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay and break them to pieces then was the iron and the clay the brass the silver the gold broken in pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors and the wind carried them away that no place was found for them and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth so christ the stone will appear the beast the antichrist he will bring about a peace treaty they will say peace and safety the bible says then cometh sudden destruction and we'll learn about the vials of judgment and the great tribulation it will be a time of great devastation and all of these nations will realize that they gave up a sovereignty they gave in to a power that utterly uh created uh difficulty and death for them and the bible says that at the very end of this time the lord jesus will appear revelation 19 and verse 11. and i saw heaven opened and behold a white horse and he that sat upon him was called faithful and true and in righteousness he doth judge and make war and he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written king of kings and lord of lords let's say that together king of kings and lord of lords here are ten leaders here is the antichrist but one is coming whose name is king of kings and lord of lords and so we see the stone is defined as the lord jesus christ and the stone will rule verse number 44 says that this stone cut out of the mountains with hands that he will break in pieces the iron christ will establish his kingdom and what a great day that will be and the saints will rule and reign in this kingdom daniel 7 22 says it this way until the ancient of days came by the way how many of you would agree with me isn't that a beautiful name for jesus the ancient of days uh he is eternal god before abraham was i am jesus said he's the ancient of days until the ancient of days came and judgment was given to the saints of the most high and the time came that the saints possessed the kingdom so good news is if you're saved and you're one that is raptured with the church then when jesus comes we're going to be with him and we're going to be ruling and reigning with the lord jesus christ in his kingdom john wolverd a great scholar i believe from dallas seminary wrote years ago the 10-toe stage is simultaneous that is the kingdoms existed side by side and were destroyed by one sudden catastrophic blow and then he said this nothing like this has ever happened in world history and that is true it will only happen at the coming of jesus christ david jeremiah says he tells us that this final form of the roman empire will be on the earth when god sets up his earthly kingdom so these ten toes are ten horns these ten kings that give their strength to the antichrist that that revived roman empire will be on this earth when jesus christ comes again and he will crush them certainly at the battle of armageddon but there will be a devastation of those kingdoms that will align in the end now as we close this morning uh 250 years ago there was a song written by isaac watts and it was based on psalm 98 you might want to read that this week psalm 98 and it was speaking of the second coming and i don't want to burst your bubble but this song i'm about ready to read has nothing to do with christmas at least in isaac watts initial writing and this is what he wrote some of you know the words joy to the what joy to the world the lord is come let earth receive what her king isn't that great that's what isaac was had in his mind when he wrote that song joy to the world this tribulation this devastation this antichrist who required the mark who who killed the faithful this antichrist is utterly destroyed joy to the world the lord is come oh what a great day that will be let every heart prepare him room and heaven and nature sing no more let sin and sorrows grow no thorns infest the ground he comes to make his blessings flow far as the curse is found he rules the world with truth and grace and makes the nations prove the glories of his righteousness and the wonders of his love that's the second coming of jesus christ now let me close with this and some of you are sunday school teachers and there's new christians in the room and you're going to talk to some perhaps who wonder about well what is all this nationalism and aren't some of these weirdos nationalists and this and that and i hear some of these people taking this to an extreme so let me put that into some context as i close let me say first of all i love america i believe for the purpose of missions and preaching and for the purpose of getting the gospel out i believe in a strong america i really do i love our country we fly our flag we have difficulty when we see people disrespect the flag to that extent i am a patriot and i'm speaking about me personally how many believe a pastor gets a personal life so i'm just telling you a little bit about your pastor i'm a conservative nationalistic patriotic person that's who i am that's how i was raised that's how my granddad was my parents and so forth that's that's kind of where it came from and i believe that globalism as we've discussed will lead to a hindrance and limiting of the gospel the globalistic mindset three pandemics from now could be you know we just can't do church anymore that could become a globalistic mindset so the more and more power that becomes centralized there could be edicts made that literally hinder like people like like right now going to certain countries and being missionaries it's almost impossible already in some places so globalism uh is going to lead a way in my opinion from great movements in the sense of there will still be people saved up until the coming of christ but it the indication is that there will be a demonic growth of spiritualism in the last days and a laodicean or weakened church not a revivalistic church and i i pray for one more revival before jesus comes that's that's who i am that's what i believe so i love our country there's things about it that frustrate me there's things about our current president that frustrate me uh to no end and things related to for example uh life i believe in the freedom of a of an unborn child to be born i believe i believe that life begins a mother's womb i i'm frustrated yesterday that president trump in the speech he gave incessantly used curse words towards other political leaders including mitch mcconnell i i'm more of a reagan person that way the 11th commandment of reagan was thou shalt not criticize a member of my own party so i get frustrated at men on both sides of the aisle and that's okay because my hope is not found in nationalism it's not found in a political party come on now some of you need to help me here that's not where my ultimate hope is that's where i'm going with this so stay with me because as much as we have national pride there is a kingdom that deserves our greater loyalty because if you only want to have national pride one day there's going to be 49 states that are leaning globally and one that's holding on and i suppose we'll all have to move there if national pride is more important than serving jesus christ but somewhere along the line like the people in china who are under the repression of communism who are still worshiping god in spite of potentially being imprisoned there's got to be some people who say i love america but there's a kingdom that i love more everybody with me okay turn in your bibles to one more verse and we'll be done colossians 1 13. colossians 1 13 last verse will be done notice what it says and there are many passages as i said we're we're giving a 30 000 foot view here today but let me just close with this one on the subject of the kingdom of the lord speaking of jesus it says who hath delivered us from the power of darkness and hath translated us into the what kingdom i am a part of the kingdom of jesus christ i am a citizen of heaven jesus is my king this world is not my home i am just a passing through my first loyalty is not to a party not to a nation my loyalty is to my king and my king is jesus christ and if we are called to worship and i and you hear something else is going on two years from now and everyone's saying stay home and hunker down and if you hear hey pastor chapel's preaching it will not have much to do with a loyalty to a party or to a nation it will have everything to do with my loyalty to my king jesus christ of whom the apostles said we ought to obey god rather than men and notice verse 14 in whom we have speaking of jesus in whom we have redemption through his blood what does it say i might mention this in a few weeks and if i do in an upcoming sermon i want you to say amen then okay before i tell you what i'm going to tell you i want that agreement if i say what i say in a minute in two weeks you still have to say amen two weeks from right now okay because i thought of this this week i might say it more than once have you gotten tickled when they say the pfizer vaccine is 94 and the johnson johnson is 97 curate can i tell you something the blood of jesus christ is 100 that's why he deserves my ultimate loyalty my coming king jesus christ 100 has redeemed me and if you're here this morning and you do not know that you are ready to see jesus christ again you don't know that you're saved you don't know that your sins are forgiven then there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from immanuel's veins that blood can cover your sin if you would just believe on the lord jesus christ and keep your trust in jesus christ put your faith in him today and christian friend oh you may get discouraged as you see the globalism the liberalism the knocking of our country all these things i preached about but lift up your heads your redemption draweth nigh and his name is jesus christ

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