Q&A: CURRENT EVENTS & HOW THEY RELATE TO THE BIBLE'S PROPHECIES OF THE END OF DAYS

he said would you comment on current world affairs and uh what the bible has to say about them and so i that's the only one i remember so why don't you open your bibles with me to uh daniel chapter 10 and uh this should be a very interesting time because um i haven't really thought about this before and and as i was this afternoon thinking about which questions i could remember i started thinking about how prominently persia figures in the scripture and persia as in iran today is the old nation of persia but thanks phil very much but what i thought about in uh daniel 10 let's see what color we are here's persia uh just to give you a little history uh uh before we look at daniel 10 to kind of connect between the time of daniel in the 6th century bc and the modern times first of all daniel earlier in chapter 2 sees this and i'm not an artist but he saw this image of this figure how do you like that for art they had a head of gold and a chest so this is gold you remember all this from sunday school and silver and then we had the the brass then we had the iron and then we had the oh it doesn't i was telling someone this morning probably you didn't notice it but my slides for easter sunday i had to print six times the screen had all the words but the printing of the sides wouldn't come and i said we have an unsaved printer here at church ken you need to you know go talk i'm teasing but ken's an evangelist and and he could but uh you see the screen doesn't like me uh uh for some reason i'll move that away but this image in daniel 2 uh do you remember the the dream that nebuchadnezzar had and the interpretation it's told twice and it's very significant but what i what i want to get to is the gold the silver uh the bronze the iron and then the iron mixed with clay and so it's iron and clay and the lord interprets this for us through daniel and gold was babylon boy there's a current you know in the news that's a city in iraq the babylonian empire would be somewhat parallel to the not exactly but the land area of iraq and of course you know that's the area that abraham was from the general area and came up through turkey going to israel so it's all part of the biblical land the silver was the medo persian empire there's the persia part which now uh was renamed and you all know about um you know the the process we got the current unusual configuration of geography in the middle east i'll mention that in a minute and then the bronze uh the the persians were defeated at uh uh uh at that great um battle where alexander comes in with his 25 000 and beats an army of a million and uh and the whole medo-persian empire crumbles before greece and uh that by the way this this whole process is detailed in daniel in fact this is one of the reasons why bible prophecy is so magnificent daniel in the the 6th century bc actually saw the history into the future from the babylonian empire through the persian empire through the greek empires into the roman empire and to the end of days and it's a phenomenal prophetic study and then of course the iron are the uh the people that destroyed jerusalem which we know from 80 70 are the romans and then uh this image in the last days it had you know there was an eastern roman empire and a western roman empire and you know that's the the two legs of iron and then the feet and ten toes are iron mixed in clay so just you know that's a god's overview of all of human history that interesting the first empire was the babylonian empire now there were there were great things you know the all the different things going on in in the mesopotamia mesopotamian area and you know the in this valley and whatever was going on off in china and everything else but from god's perspective god always puts jerusalem in the center of the world and the universe he says his throne is over jerusalem god's throne that's how important jerusalem is to god and in fact even the way god tells directions in the old testament is phenomenal it's posture i mean the way god shows us he's situated himself is before my face is east behind my back is west and to my left and to the right is north and south that's the hebrew words as if god is sitting in the the temple looking out the gate of the temple through the eastern gate god builds his even orientation to us humans around israel so this whole map and persia i'm glad mr tibble you asked me this i mean i wish i would have time last week to talk about it because i hadn't thought about it before but if if you look at how god looks at human history through this image god says the first global empire was was nebuchadnezzar in babylon he was by the medes and persians conquered you remember they diverted the river and came under the wall and wiped out the babylonians and the medo-persians took over and as i said they were defeated by alexander and alexander basically died of dissipation and corruption and drank too much and whoever whatever else and and his four generals took over and finally they were defeated by the romans and what's interesting is the western roman empire you all have heard rome fell in 476 bc you had to learn that in school or 476 a.d everyone had to learn that in school what what people don't think very often about is that the eastern side of the roman empire the roman empire divided eastern western the western city of rome the you know the the italian peninsula and all of that that fell to the the you know the visigoths and gas and whoever else all these barbarians that came down from europe the eastern empire headquartered in modern-day istanbul constantinople didn't fall until 1453. there were romans legionnaires wearing the armor and everything until 14 53 a.d christopher columbus was alive during the roman empire that's how how close to history the bible i mean that's still the roman empire the one leg of it was existing until the conquistadors you know we're talking about modern history here they were conquered by the ottomans the turks you know turkish people and the turks the obama empire actually didn't form until 1517 martin luther time fell in 1917 in world war one defeated by the british 1917 ending 400 years that they ruled over all the middle east all i mean the the muslim rule the ottoman empire was amazing in 1917 they had to divide up the land and they they carved out these countries um that as in iraq as in persia or iran as in jordan as in you know all of these you know syria and everything else and they just kept the they just kept partitioning off this land in different ways so most people think of of iran or persia it's kind of a modern thing but it's not a modern thing so let's go to daniel 10. i want to show you and tie together from god's perspective um i think it starts in about verse 13 and and goes from there but um you know daniel in verse one is in the third year of uh cyrus the king of persia so you know just give you an orientation chapter 10 uh immediately follows this incredible prophetic that i've taught through many times chapter nine daniel in chapter 10 now is is having further revelation and he's in the third year of cyrus the king of persia so there's where we are uh we're starting he's actually in this land of persia the medo-persian empire that conquered the babylonians that daniel originally had been carried off from jerusalem as a young boy and was inducted into the civil offices and now he's the prime minister it's amazing and and we could go through all that history but look at verse 13 daniel is is praying and he's having a real hard time and verse 13 explains what the hard time is there is there is some being called the prince of persia now for those of you that are teenagers you probably know that as a movie or a video game but it's actually a demonic super angel fallen remember there are hierarchies of angels in both directions god made there's actually well we know for sure there's seven orders of angels downward seven orders of of worse and worse angels that are named in the bible there are also uh normal angels uh cherubim these are the good ones seraphim which there are many similarities between cherubim a cherub is a living one a seraph is a burning one then then there are these ark angels and we're going to meet one in just a second he's up here so we know of four named good these are the the good ones the bad ones uh there are plain old demons but also paul rattles off some uh names in ephesians six he calls them principalities and powers and uh you know spiritual wickedness and high places we also know about the devil himself lucifer we also know about god keeps some of these angels that are the worst the most malignant he keeps them in chains and everlasting chains under darkness we also know there's one he lets out now and then but he can't let him out for very long he's called the destroyer there we go it's another video game isn't it it's interesting how much of our modern culture media and gaming is starting to draw on biblical named horrific demon creatures here's one of them prince of persia look at look what's happening it starts in in verse 10 suddenly a hand touched me which made me tremble and on my knees in the palms of my hands and and said to me oh daniel man greatly beloved i understand the words i speak unto you and stand upright i've been sent to you while i was speaking the word to me i stood in trembling he said do not fear daniel from the first day that you set your heart to understand to humble yourself god toward god your words were heard and i have come because of your words so this is one of the good angels coming to daniel and he says to him in verse 13 but the prince of persia withstood me for 21 days now it sounds like frank peretti i mean we're really getting all over the board here thanks for asking us this tom tibble you know doesn't this sound like peretti and if you read that 10 15 years ago you know piercing the darkness this present darkness that whole thing the prince of the kingdom of persia resisted me 21 days and behold michael one of the chief princes michael is one of the two named ark angels now we know if you if you can't deliver scriptures that there are seven of them now the jews named them all but god doesn't name them all and we know that that gabriel is one and we know that michael here talked about is one we don't know the other five but we do know this jesus said that there are angels who always stand around god and face him all the time now jesus said that in the gospels and he said the context of it is not angelology the context of it is soul winning every time someone gets saved the bible says here's god and here are seven angels that always surround his throne and jesus said there is rejoicing in the presence of those angels there are seven of them they're not rejoicing something in improse then as the greek word m pro before the face of who's rejoicing god every time someone gets saved god rejoices and they witness it so these seven are talked about but they're not numbered there until we get to revelation and revelation talks about in chapter one the seven spirits that are before the throne and they're called pillars or flames of fire you say wait a minute i thought we said angels well they are they are angels but hebrews 1 tells us actually hebrews 1 14 it says angels are and he maketh his angels flames of fire so god refers to angels as flames of fire in revelation 1 he says he has seven pillars of fire that are always around his throne and you see them here and there throughout revelation and two of them are sent off from before his face to do special things now gabriel is all over the place we've been seeing him on the map you know when we were doing the holy land map uh you know he zipped off to tell mary and he zipped off to comfort joseph and he zips off to you know meet with zechariah in the incense time and etcetera etcetera all these uh birth of christ so gabriel seems to un this archangel of the seven good angels and their their seven malignant ones uh orders this one is always surrounding the the birth of christ and christ and messenger thing michael look what michael does verse 13 uh the the prince of the kingdom of persia so there is some fallen angel a step below satan who is very powerful who is shaping world events do you think vladimir putin is thinking of all the stuff he thinks of do you think that rouhani or whatever the persian iranian guy that just snookered the u.s you know in the arms deal do you think they think about that themselves no they're just chess players are chess pieces that are being played with these these this prince of persia and all the other demons are involved and they were they were actually withstanding an angel sent from god now that doesn't compute with us we just think bam you know do whatever you want you know we're so into science fiction movies you know god says go the angel goes and nothing can stop it but god has allowed satan to be the god of this world you know some people always are trouble where jesus said you know that that you call yourself gods and there are gods there are other gods other than god they're little g gods satan's one of them he is the liturgy god of this world there are many gods they're demons they're they're fallen they're they're malignant they're they're not divine supporters of the true and living god but they're created beings and and they are very powerful in fact jude tells us that when michael when when michael was facing off with satan face to face michael the archangel would not directly rebuke he could not directly rebuke because he's a pay grade below satan satan was the very highest created being in the universe and still is and michael's not and he could not order satan he said in jude the lord rebuked you i'm i it actually says in jude michael dared not bring a railing accusation against satan dared not so there's a whole bunch more it and you know we don't spend our lives into this but there is so much more going on that we don't know about but now people make a lot of money and make a lot of fantastical claims that aren't in the bible but just the stuff we do know is amazing the prince of kingdom persia this demon whatever he is resisted this angel and behold michael one of the chief priests came to help me for i had been left alone there with the kings of persia now i have come to give you understanding so now the angel is is is telling him what's going on and then verse 18 again the one having the likeness of a man touch means strength to me so angels by the way can touch people and strengthen them you know they're doing that with jesus remember in the temptation in the garden they were strengthening him but then verse 19 oh man greatly beloved peace be with you be strong as to be strong when he spoke to me i was strengthened let the lord speak for you strength to me and he said now look at verse 20. now we have another uh insight into this horrific creature do you know that i've come to you and now i must return to fight with the prince of persia and when i've gone forth indeed the prince of greece will come that means that this whole image deal there was there is a demon there is a fallen powerful angel one angel killed 185 000 assyrian troops one angels are unincomprehensible us humans powerful there is a demon angel that that is tied to helping persia advance i don't mean all persians are demonic people but what we don't realize is that world events are being shaped at two levels god who has this master plan that's written down in the bible the devil who doesn't believe it nor understand it is doing his own thing and god is orchestrating everything that satan thinks he's doing as the god of this world to accomplish satan's purposes is actually fulfilling god's so what does it have to do with persia well mr tibble said is there anything in current news that has to do with correlation to the bible well if you read all this stuff uh starting in chapter 11 basically chapter 11 of daniel's writings all the way from verse 1 down through verse 35 is is one of the most amazing prophetic four views or previews of history there is he he talks about in verse two uh someone that you've and i read about in in esther ahazueras he's the king there uh verse three alexander the great rises he's a mighty king with great dominion he does according to his will and that alexander goes all the way down through verse 9 and and you can i mean get in a good study bible you can read that then he talks about antiochus the great and he starts in verse 10 and goes all the way down to oh well verse 20. then we have someone that that is uh very famous in verse 21 of daniel 11. this is the one that sacrifices a pig on the altar in jerusalem and and foments the maccabean rebellion in israel uh in the about second century bc that's antiochus and all this goes on and on and on through antiochus epiphanes until we get to verse 35 and then daniel switches gears and most bible commentators say that in verse 36 we're looking forward to what we would call the tribulation time in the antichrist now why am i saying all that because what you get from daniel is daniel 10 tells us that there is a persian connection there there's something going on with persia uh that is specifically pointed out by god now go to ezekiel i want to show you ezekiel 38 because we have our second persian um just back up a book ezekiel actually was captured and went to the land before land of babylon before daniel there were three times the babylonians took prisoners and most likely in the first of the times ezekiel was taken in the second group another group came and then daniel went in the final one in 586 but look at chapter 38 and this is what's so interesting now the word lord came to me i'm in ezekiel chapter 38 and said son of man set your face against gog in the land of magog the prince of rosh actually rosh means prince so it's the the prince or rosh of meshech and tubal so rosh doesn't seem to be a separate geographic place it's it's a rash is always used as a kind of a title um like pharaoh pharaoh isn't a name it's a title it's like president you know we talk about the president we know who we're talking about but you know in future if we just say the president they don't know which one unless they can date us well this this rosh thing is a prince so it's whoever is the prince in meshach and tubal so that's great and you know it doesn't really matter but but look at what it says if you keep going down to verse 5 it says there are going to be all of these who come against israel and i only want you to see the the first one in verse 5. i mean all of them are significant because i mean just last week the whole ethiopia and somalia and the massacre of the 147 kids in the christian university in kenya i mean the the muslims came in at gunpoint separated the the christians from the other muslims let the muslims leave and they butchered the christians i mean this this this whole uh stirring up of the south the bible talks about it's interesting to watch it start but verse 5 what i want you to see is in ezekiel 38 who's at the head of the line that's coming against israel in verse 5. what's the first word there in your bible say it out loud persia so we know that daniel saw there is the persian politics were being deeply behind the scenes influenced by this high-ranking principality and power this this demon over a country now there's another demon over greece he seems to be wasting money right now if you're following you know uh current world news you know the greeks are going broke uh and falling out of the euro but and i'm just teasing about that probably there's some uh prophetic implication that but what we see is this persian deal figures into ezekiel 38 saying that there is going to be a coming invasion of israel that is headed up by persia now why is that well if you read the rest why is that important if you look at all those other names in verse 5 persia ethiopia and libya and with them and and all the house of gomer and togarmah and meshech and tubal and all that that group never in history has ever done anything together this this is an historical anomaly looking back never in history has persia sudan libya algeria turkey central asia never have they all attacked israel ever this is a coalition coming and ezekiel says the one that's going to rev it up is persia if you want to find persia in the news it's called iran there is no nation on earth that has threatened israel more completely for annihilation now hitler just wanted to kill jews he didn't care about israel he's going to kill jews the soviets pilgrim the jews until a million of them fled and went to israel i mean we know history i mean the the spanish martyred and killed the jews and on and on the crusaders killed the jews but no country has so frequently publicly categorically even this week said there's no reason for israel to continue to exist and we will destroy them not just we don't like them we're going to boycott them we're going to apartheid them and economically ruin them we are going to kill them now last thing because it's time to go there's something that always identifies where satan is involved [Music] he it says in john 44 satan was a murderer from the beginning satan satan is always close to murder and and bloodshed and killing it's almost like a fly satan loves killing that's why i would strongly encourage you if you're a young man and you have any desire to serve the lord you need to abandon killing video games because you're honoring the devil they're not neutral satan came to kill and steal and destroy those are the three themes of most male dominated video games killing stealing destroying you know what is it grand auto theft stealing and killing and destroying are all the rest satan's realm he's a murderer he loves bloodshed he loves destruction he calls his demons abaddon destroyer and all that and this is all the video game stuff satan is one who comes to kill and steal and destroy when satan is influencing a nation they only talk about killing and destroying and i'm not talking about the persian people i think the the iranian people today i mean i've baptized several and and i count iranians as some of my dear friends i'm not talking about the iranian people i'm talking about the nation of iran in the hands of its current leaders who are tied to high up principalities have this unhuman it's demonic it's not human it's a demonic passion to destroy god's chosen people of promise the jewish people and how does it all end and i'll end now because we only have four minutes go to revelation 12 because what's really interesting is the end of the bible is all built around all this stuff that daniel and ezekiel talk about god kind of wires it all together if you look at the bible there's prophecies in genesis in deuteronomy a few in the psalms a lot in jeremiah a lot more in ezekiel and then daniel and zachariah those are all kind of streams of prophecies uh about the last days but all of them are wired into the book of revelation and that's what makes revelation so interesting the revelation of jesus christ has 404 verses and it has 800 quotations and allusions to there's even some in exodus to all these these old testament books are all feeders into you can't really understand revelation without following the the trails back to what it's talking about and look at chapter 12. this is just phenomenal and i think i passed mr tibble's question but i'll just read this and then we'll quit and a great sign appeared in heaven a woman clothed with the sun the moon under her feet and on her head with a garland of 12 stars and what on earth would that be well if you go back to genesis and you look in the life of joseph genesis 37-50 bingo you know what that's talking about that's a description of israel that's a description of the 12 tribes and the whole thing that that joseph saw when his brothers were you know he saw all of that it's interesting okay so we've got israel and being with child so israel has a child that's interesting and then comes this dragon and now it sounds kind of like we're in lord of the rings stuff or something i mean it sounds like science fiction and verse four the dragon gets a third of the stars that's where we get satan getting a third of all the angels that he got one third of all that they fell with him but look at verse four at the ending it was ready to give birth to devour her that's israel's child as soon as it was born and if you have certain versions of bible child is capitalized this is talking about christ so the nation of israel had christ you know through mary and you know through the seed of of the woman and we've talked about the virgin birth and everything but it was it was through the line of of david and abraham isaac and jacob and the the 12 tribes and all that but look what happens verse 5 she bore the male child who was to rule all nations that's christ with a rod of iron that's psalm 2 i mean all this stuff is just wired back to the rest of the bible and her child was caught up to god now that's the end of the 40 days after the resurrection the ascension jesus went up and so the woman fled in the wilderness and god prepared a place for her for three and a half years and war broke out in heaven verse seven and michael and his angels fought with a dragon and all of a sudden we are seeing in revelation that satan has one goal and he's going to use the nations of the world that will be usable but satan's goal is he has one goal he wants to destroy israel because god made a sovereign election of israel and if satan can destroy them all it ruins god's plan and so the whole book of revelation is all tying together the promises of god that he has sovereignly made to his people israel why do you think god parks his throne over jerusalem if if the church took israel's place he should park his throne over rome you know the roman catholic church or maybe over i don't know nashville or something i mean why does he park it over jerusalem because he has sovereignly elected israel and the whole end of the world is all of these prophecies being revealed in how god defeats the devil and especially when you get to zechariah satan gets every nation on earth to march against israel not rome and not washington jerusalem every nation on earth starts going toward israel and zechariah 12 through 14 says that at the last moment god rescues israel and israel jews look up and see the one they pierce and mourn and are gloriously saved so mr tibble thank you for asking that you're not even here tonight but i'll answer it anyway in modern news fascinating is there's a persian connection to ezekiel 38 which ties the devil into desiring to destroy israel and the current nation he is really fomenting is iran and in verse 5 ezekiel 38 iran leads the pack against israel and before anybody falls asleep after that long answer let's all stand up i'm a close in prayer and uh let's uh ask the lord to use his truth to change our lives father i pray that we'd see that our goal in this world is not to change the political makeup or or be involved in trying to save nations but individuals and lord i thank you that right here at calvary bible church faithful people have led to christ some persians and have gloriously discipled them and and have stood around them and the waters of baptism and i thank you that you are saving people from every kindred and tongue and tribe and nation of this world and you want to use us to do it and our little easter outreach was just to get us all practiced up for the big season of the rest of our lives learning to ask you to give us opportunities to share and i pray that you would keep opening doors for us keep us praying for those around us that we love keep us amazed at how people really do want to hear the wonderful words of the life that you offer oh christ give us boldness protect us use us prepare us until you come or call to be good servants in the name of jesus we pray and all of god's people said amen god bless you as you go you

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