Revelation 6:1-2 - Setting the Chronological Stage

welcome to morningstar christian chapel if you're watching on youtube please remember to hit that subscribe button like button and the notification bell so you can find out when we go live or we post a new video and be sure to leave a comment about what god has shown you in this message thanks and enjoy the study all right let's open our bibles tonight to revelation chapter six and while you're finding that would you find daniel chapter nine and ezekiel chapter 36 as well revelation 6 daniel 9 ezekiel 36 those are the three places we're going to need to have you go tonight and so i'll give you plenty of time to find it okay ready no revelation 6 daniel 9 ezekiel 36 the good thing about studying the book of revelation is that you're exposure to it is over in chapter 4. the church is gathered raptured removed before the wrath of god is poured out and everything that you read forward after chapter 5 your experience 4 and 5 in heaven has to do with god's judgment upon the earth and you really won't show up again until the lord rides back to the earth with you and i to rule and reign with him everything in the middle all of these chapters we're going to go through chapter 6 through 18 is all future but you you won't be here for it you'll be in heaven singing songs with zach or whoever's leading worship that day and i think the lord gives us these things for a couple reasons number one because he is faithful and we know that he is going to do what he says and so it should motivate us i hope to go out to the world and say look you don't want to be here when this takes place as much as we want to get out of here you want to go with us when we leave you don't want to stay to face the wrath of god and so since we finished chapter five last week our time in heaven around god's throne it is vital that you see that that's where your life stays and your existence stays until the lord comes to rule and reigns so all of this beginning tonight is is god's wrath poured out his patience is finished there will be a great harvest but there will also be tremendous judgment i hope that you've brought your thinking caps with you tonight we're only going to look at two verses not because i'm tired but because i think it's vital that you have a good understanding of the chronology that of the things that take place and in what order they take place when we get to this final seven year period after you've been taken out and we arrive at this you know this time of jacob's trouble if you will it is essential that you get the big picture chronologically i think if you will when you get to the old testament prophetic books they'll make a lot more sense when you can place them correctly in the chronology of the of the final days if you will the book itself revelation is mostly chronological there are some um parenthetical chapters that either look back or look forward give a big bigger picture for example when we get through these first four uh no i guess the first six um seals in chapter six chapter seven is is kind of a pause where before you get to the seventh seal the lord says now i want you to see through all of this how many people are coming to know him what the fruit is coming out of the great tribulation and so it isn't an interruption in the chronology but it's kind of a step back to say here's the the wider view and then by the time that you get to the very next chapter chapter 7 you'll read after these things and then again they'll be you know the the seventh seal and then the which will lead to the seven trumpets and all but for the most part things are in chronological order so the seven seals lead to the seven trumpets which lead to the seven vials if you take them out of order or somehow you you move them around you're gonna have a hard time with most prophetic scriptures because they are presented in a in a way that's logical and and follow it follows chronologically so what i wanted to do this this evening is just look at verses one and two because it kind of sets the stage and then next week we'll take these uh four horsemen of the apocalypse um down through verse eight and we'll we'll just look at the beginning of the of the great tribulation which i i think we will show you tonight or if we haven't already that will take place starting at the three and a half year mark that literally after verse two of this chapter everything else in the book of revelation falls into the last three and a half years so um think it through with me if you will let's read verse one and two before we look at daniel chapter nine this says now i saw when the lamb opened one of the seals and i heard one of the four living creatures saying with a voice like thunder come and see and so i looked and behold there was a white horse and he who sat upon it had a bow and a crown was given to him and he went out conquering and to conquer this is the antichrist he looks like the jesus christ right he's coming on a white horse with a crown and and to conquer into overthrow but as we will learn tonight this is certainly the beginning of the end in the terms of of the judgment of the lord as he is revealed to the world but he's coming first to to conquer look he's got a bow in his hand but he's got no arrows he's coming to manipulate his way to smooth his way into the into the hearts of man who is going to look to him at least for the first three half years as a messiah as the savior as the one that they've been looking for all right so mark that we'll come back to this in 35 minutes or so but let's go over to daniel chapter 9 for a minute daniel was a young man very interested in prophecy he if you don't know his background he was captured by the babylonians when he was in his teens the babylonians began to besiege jerusalem as a result of god's judgment on the southern kingdom in 606 bc now they would come in 606 they would come again in 597 they would come again to level this place in 586 and then it would be 50 more years 536 the 70 years in total before they would be allowed to return to the land in that first wave though in 606 nebuchadnezzar sent and and kidnapped took by force most of the kids that he took came from wealthy homes cultured schooled intelligent wanting to use them in plans to just take this whole nation 700 miles away from their from their homeland and use them to interpret and to lead and to be the the go-betweens between nebuchadnezzar and and his world dominating babanalonian kingdom and the jews that he had taken captive so daniel and if you read the first couple of chapters in the book of daniel he'll tell you the experiences daniel was 15 or 16 years old when he was taken in his mid-80s he was reading [Music] the books of isaiah and jeremiah and realized from the prophecies written there that the captivity that he had been a part of nearly all of his life would end after 70 years and he was pretty good at doing numbers and so he had read in for example in isaiah chapter 45 of a man named cyrus he was coming and the lord names him by name several hundred years before he was ever born but he declared of him that when he came he would deliver israel from its captivity or literally allow the jews to go back out of babylon back to jerusalem into their their homeland again reading chapter 29 of jeremiah daniel had learned that the captivity in babylon would be exactly 70 years that then the lord would heal his people of their idolatry that the 70 years were determined by the fact that they had they had neglected as a people to give the land a sabbath day rest one year forever seven don't plant and they had ignored it for 490 years and so they owed the lord 70 years that's that was his word to them out of the book of uh leviticus in chapter 25 also the last couple of verses of second chronicles chapter 36. so you can read there that that that they would the the land would enjoy her sabbaths and as long as she remained uninhabited desolated if you will she would receive her sabbaths back and it said for 70 years so the official captivity of jerusalem and and of the southern kingdom the jews began in 606 like i said 68 years later or two years before this was over 538 bc daniel realized that he was near the end of the captivity and in his old age he began to pray lord what can i do that i'm here positioned amongst your people he'd been a prophet for all of his life had walked with god even when others had not what would you like me to do what do you want from me and with that in mind we we come to chapter nine verse one says of that chapter in the first year of darius the king of ahazu the son of a hazarirus and the lineage of the medes who was made king over the realm of the chaldeans in the first year of his reign i daniel understood by the number of the by the books the number of the years specified by the lord through jeremiah the prophet that he would accomplish 70 years in the destruction in jerusalem and so i set my face towards the lord god to make requests by prayer and supplication with fasting and sock cloth and ashes so daniel begins to pray lord i see it's just around the corner well i'm available what can i do what should be done here's a guy in his 80s that is still just as excited as ever to serve the lord darius by the way was the it was a mede you read that in other places cyrus was the persian the world kingdom that followed the babylonians is called the medo-persian empire if you will and so they had overthrown the babylonian world kingdom as a world kingdom and now this fellow darius and cyrus would come and he would be the one as as we read in isaiah 45 though he hadn't been born he'd been named that he would be the one that would allow the children of israel to go back home so daniel kind of puts it in frame if you will and he begins to pray and if you read the prayers down through verse 19 or so he he confesses the sins of his people he acknowledges that he's part of the problem he said we brought this upon ourselves we we're idol worshipers we we forgot you lord but you with you there's mercy and forgiveness even if verse 9 we've rebelled against you we know that god you're a forgiving god and so he begins to just seek the lord's face to cry out upon the lord please listen to us and deliver us verse 19 oh lord hear o lord forgive o lord listen and act do not delay for your own sake my god for your city for your people that are called by your name and so there is this crying out he stops praying or or while he is praying verse 20 while i was speaking and praying and confessing my sin and that of the people israel and presenting my supplication before the lord for the holy mountain of my god yes while i was speaking in prayer the man gabriel whom i had seen in the vision at the beginning being caused to fly swiftly reached me at about the evening offering and he informed me and he talked with me and said oh daniel have come forth to give you skill to understand and at the beginning of your supplications the command went out and i've come to you but you are great for you are greatly beloved therefore consider the matter and understand the vision i love the fact that there are at least a couple places in the bible where the lord answers while you're praying i hang on to those because the typical experience is you pray and then you wait and sometimes you wait a lot longer than you like to but here's one of those occasions that daniel began to pray and as he began to pray as he was in the midst of praying god sent the angel gabriel to give daniel notice skill to understand what he's going to tell him next he says to him you are greatly loved of god and by the way there are only very few people called loved of god in the bible solomon is david is daniel is the apostle john is and then you get to the new testament and you are but it is kind of reserved for the for the precious few paul i think in romans chapter 1 verse 7 says you are the beloved of god he says the same thing in second thessalonians 2 13 you're beloved of god so nice class to belong to yeah we're the people god loves and so daniel is told that now notice verse 23 you read the words at the beginning of your supplication from verse 3 to verse 20 in heaven the command was already given and orders were already directed and the angel was already dispatched with information i want you to notice something i'll just show it to you really quickly if you'll turn to chapter 10 just flip the page over verse 2 we read these words ah in those days i daniel was mourning for three full weeks and then if you skip the first 12 when when the angel comes to speak to him he says this do not fear daniel for from the very first day that you set your heart to understand and you humbled yourself before the lord your your words were heard and i have come because of your words but the prince of the kingdom of persia withstood me for 21 days and behold michael one of the chief princes had to come help me so that i've been left alone there i had been left on there with the king of persian but now i've come to make you understand so there was a interesting insight you know the the minute that daniel prays heaven responded sent an angel who ran into a problem and he ran into the the king of persia well it wasn't a physical guy it was the demon that ran this place wasn't it and so there was a battle in the spiritual realm uh gabriel's not a fighter he's a delivering message he's a post office worker you know he delivers the mail so he goes to get michael who's really good he's got like a 10th degree black belt he's got something and he shows up you know and he he he delivers the messenger and so what is what does gabriel say to daniel hey i came the moment you began to pray sometimes delays are just because there's something going on you can't always see you know there's a war in the heavenlies for your life so um greater issue that's in you certainly but here's a good lesson it's just a lesson for another bible study we can't kind of go into it tonight but but needless to say he gets the answer right away and and the answer in chapter 9 here beginning in verse 24 is one of the most amazing prophecies that you will find in the bible it gives us a definitive time chart for god's dealing with israel and i want to stress that to you this is god's word to god's prophet about god's people israel and his dealing with them not as individuals but as a nation this is the timetable for for from this day forward or from this time forward how god's going to deal with and lead and speak to and speak through the nation of israel that he has made such great promises to and we're going to see that this includes the last seven year period of the tribulation or what we call the tribulation that we're studying that follows on the heels of the rapture of the church and directly precedes the second coming of jesus at the end of those seven years so let's look at verse 24 and we're just going to look at 24 25 26 and 27 this prophecy because we want to kind of get a handle on what's going on after we are taken out verse 24 says that 70 weeks are determined for your people and for your holy city so they can end the transgression they can make an end of sins they can make res reconciliation for iniquity they can bring in everlasting righteousness seal up the vision and the prophecy and anoint the most holy so 70 weeks are determined upon your people notice this pro the prophecy and like i said i want you to mark it down if you don't this is all about the people of israel they're the ones that back in verse 20 the daniel had prayed for i prayed for the sins of my people israel and so i was supplicating for my people we're the ones in captivity he's praying for the nation so i've come to give you god's answer because he loves you he wants you to know and and i just i i want you to consider verse 23 of the matter i want you to understand this vision that i'm about to give you and then he says the 77s are determined for your people the word weak is the word and it literally is the word for seven and here certain return refers in a lot of place seven years so this literally 77 year periods if you will if you go to chapter 29 of the book of genesis when jacob is being told by laban that you know he had fallen in love with uh with rachel but when you know he went to be married that night and to meet his wife you know in the in the honeymoon tent he he woke up in the mirror and went that's leah and that's not the good looking woman i wanted to marry and he went back to laban and said you ripped me off he says no no you know that's what we do here the oldest gets married before the youngest but if you'd like to spend the rest of your time and fulfill her week then i will give her to you as a wife as well and that it's the same word it's a seven year period and it is it's kind of like when you you know use the word decade and you say well that's 10 years this is a word that most often just means 70 or 7 years i should say so 70 and 70 is the word shabeem and then the the word seven is shubha and so seventy seven year prayers are determined by the lord from this time forward on to deal with national israel and the holy city of jerusalem and in this list in verse 24 daniel is given by the angels six specific things that need to take place during this 70 years or 70 years of seven weeks or if you will 490 years or do the multiplication the first three were accomplished when jesus died on the cross to finish the transgression make an end of sin provide reconciliation for iniquity that's that's what the lord came to do when he died the last three will be accomplished at his second coming he will bring in everlasting righteousness he will seal up the word means to finish or to complete or to close the prophecies and the visions and to anoint the most holy gabriel then breaks those 77-year period down to some definable actions beginning in verse 25. where we read no then daniel therefore and understand that from the going forth of the command to restore and to rebuild jerusalem and remember it's two years out right it's 5 38 that commandment is going to be given in 536 to command to go and to restore it and rebuild jerusalem until the messiah the prince will be seven seven year periods and 62 seven year periods so those are two divine one is seven sevens one is 62 sevens one is 49 years the other is 400 and what is that 34 years uh the the streets will be built again or the yes the streets shall be able to go in the wall even in some troubleless times so here daniel i'm going to tell you how god's going to deal with the nation for the rest of the time until the lord's here and he gives like i said a frame of reference and he begins to say to daniel um from the moment that the commandment is given to go forth and to restore and to rebuild jerusalem until the messiah the prince notice there will be seven sevens and 62 sevens or 69 seven year periods are you following me so far i don't want to confuse you i know i'm talking fast but there's a lot to go through know and understand when does the clock start the clark starts the clock starts when the command is given to go forward and rebuild jerusalem if you go to nehemiah chapter 2 we are told that arctic xerxes ii gave the command to nehemiah who he worked for to go and to restore jerusalem and and we get a specific day there it was the first day of nisan in the 20th year of his reign that is found like i said in daniel nehemiah chapter 2. if you look at the julian calendar which we use that would extrapolate to march 14th 445 bc that was the date that artaxerxes ii gave to dmi remember nehemiah was praying he had such a heart to go and rebuild the city and and he worked for a king he was his cup builder and he had months of prayer nothing was going on and he finally showed it on his face and the king called him out on you you remember the story and so he shared what he wanted to do and the king said what do you want and he gave daniel permission for the next 49 years from that commandment seven sevens or seven seven year period seven weeks the city of jerusalem was indeed rebuilt and restored but things did not go easily if you go back and again read the account nehemiah was able to rebuild the walls of the city in a record 52 days it was like phenomenal everyone said only the work of the lord but it took many delays politically before the city itself could be built so that was accomplished in those first 50 almost years the next 49 i should say but moving on from that part verse 26 it says and after the 62 weeks so first of seven sevens 49 years accomplished the city was rebuilt and re-established and the the children of israel were able to move home in in smaller increments for a while and then we read in verse 20 uh verse 25 there will be seven weeks and 62 weeks so in verse 26 after then 62 weeks the messiah jesus will be cut off but not for himself and the people of the prince who is to come shall destroy the city and the sanctuary and the end of that will be with a flood and the end of the war desolations are determined so moving on from the point of the rebuilding of the city we turn to the 62 seven year periods 434 years where we read after the city has been rebuilt if you continue to go forward and count days and weeks and months and years we should find ourselves at a place that the messiah would be cut off he would die again there's the old testament saying the messiah is going to die but he's going to die for us not for himself right so again we get the calendar out the jews use a calendar babylonians calendar 360 days a year as daniel would have used we use a calendar with with a five and a quarter more days but but in any event you know it should be easy to do the math you you move forward you account for leap years and all and for the the the one bc one aed kind of a deal and there's a fella who worked for scotland yard for a for a lot of years called robert anderson he wrote a book called the coming prince did a really good job of the calculations it had they've stood the test of time for the last hundred years um no one's been able to dispute them they're they're really well done but he takes these 430 uh four years and he marches them forward and he arrives at a date it happens to be passover week 30 2 a.d april 6 the very day palm sunday that jesus rode into town on a donkey and presented himself officially to the nation as their messiah according to zechariah chapter nine verse nine you remember that scripture rejoice uh greatly o daughter of zion shadow daughters of jerusalem behold your king is coming and he has he is jesse has salvation he's lowly he rides on a donkey right so a cult the full of a donkey so big day but again to daniel the 80 plus year old wanting to serve the lord the angel comes inside i want you to get this right understand god's dealing with israel first those seven sevens that's finished the nation has been developed moving forward from that another 434 years or 62 uh seven year periods brings us to this this time of april 6 32 a.d the sunday before the lord was to be crucified palm sunday if you will now if you go through luke chapter 19 for example you will find the lord that day riding on a donkey big deal if you look at the scriptures how the the disciples were able to get this donkey and just tell them the lord has need and and they they laid the palm branches down and the people began to sing and they began to say what hosanna save now lord save now the pharisees so angry with this public display of worship told the lord to knock it off tell him to knock it off and jesus said if if they don't cry out the rocks well in that very day and on that very day as the lord got down closer to the city of jerusalem down the mountain he began to weep and he said out loud to the nation before him if you would have just known in this your day singular the things that long belong to your peace this is the day that the lord has made you'll read in the psalms it's more than just a day it's the day what day it's the day that god specifically told daniel this is the day you can find the messiah this is the day that the lord has made it's a very specific day read and understand daniel understand what is being said and so this day should not have been missed only jesus can be the messiah according to the prophecy of daniel if he is not then the time has come and gone and we have no messiah that very week jesus will go to the cross he'll be cut off and in that public declaration also came a an official rejection and jesus is crucified for the sins of the world that's 69 weeks that's it seven weeks 62 weeks 69 weeks but the prophecy is 70 weeks where does that final week end up it ends up after the church age it's that last seven year period where god no longer just deals with the world he deals with the world through national israel he'll protect them in petra he'll watch over them the witnesses 144 000 jw's jewish witnesses will be at work and through the nation itself god will fulfill his promises he'll return to them they'll look upon him whom they've pierced he'll rule and reign from jerusalem everything that that comes and takes place in this last seven year period will be accomplished through the nation not through the church which has been taken out but through the nation so 69 seven-year periods have been fulfilled the messiah was cut off and there is one seven year period that still waits and that's the one that begins in chapter six verse one of revelation the church age begins with the death of christ his resurrection his breathing upon the church the book of acts pentecost and israel the nation god's dealing with israel nationally is put on hold it isn't moved forward it is put on hold if you read romans chapter 11 verse 25 you will read that saying you shouldn't be ignorant of this ministry sorry this mystery brethren don't be wise in your own opinion blindness in part has happened to israel until the fullness of the gentiles have come in now the gentiles by and large as a reference to non-jews but in the context it's a reference to everyone except national israel god will again deal with the nation but the church now consists of believers that are jew and gentile right male and female those are always the comparisons that are made but god has set aside national industry until when until the church is removed until the fullness of the gentiles comes in and then he turns and that clock begins to tick again the day you're raptured that seven year clock begins to tick and you can tell exactly the day the antichrist is going to show up at the time we'll go hey i'm god worship me or die we can know the exact day that the lord's coming back with you and i to rule and terrain all of that stuff now becomes time driven and predictable the only thing that's not is the rapture which is why we're constantly being told to watch and to look up and to wait so the 70th week of daniel as it is referred to the great tribulation period begins like i said in chapter six right now we're still in this age of grace that are ushered in but there's one more seven year period according to this prophecy okay let's go back to this prophecy for a minute we read in verse 26 and the people of the prince who is to come they shall destroy the city they'll destroy the sanctuary they'll end this destruction with a flood and until the end the war uh the end of the war desolations will be determined less than 40 years after jesus's death in 70 a.d the romans under the leadership of titus marched into jerusalem and took it apart the even the temple stone by stone they started a fire the gold melted into the cracks they were very average they wanted every little bit they could get literally a million people in jerusalem died in one day read the history and the people of israel were dispersed notice the word flood here they were dispersed throughout the whole world and from 70 a.d until 1948 the jews had no homeland at all it's a miracle in itself that they're still jews by then every every people that have lost their homeland for more than three generations is usually assimilated and lost you won't find any phoenicians you won't you know there's just a lot of folks you won't find anymore you'll find them in the you'll find people living in those geographical places but no longer identified with the people that once lived there except for the jews so there were jews from africa there are jews of every color there was jews of every language and so today in israel literally 51 of the jewish population of the world have moved back to israel we're waiting lord they're in the land they're waiting lord it won't be long now you may want to get a copy if you haven't gotten one of the works of josephus he is a jewish historian he lived from 36 37 a.d to about a hundred a.d he's not a believer he's kind of an agnostic guy but the records that he he records the death of jesus which is an amazing to read he records the fall of the city he writes about a lot of jewish history prior to that day gives you some good insights but interestingly enough to me one of the most exciting signs of the days in which we live is that israel is back in the land after all of those times there are roughly 15 million jews in the world i think 7.7 million live in israel the rest live in new york or in california new jersey i think there's less than one percent that live in outside of the out of outside the u.s but but needless to say as we draw closer to the 70th week of daniel it will require that israel is in the land and that there is a capital jerusalem where the lord will come and from which he will rule and it is it is imperative that the jews become a thorn in the sides of every nation round about when the lord returns which is exactly what's taking place now so we have some pretty concrete evidence if you will that we're living in the last days just by the work of god amongst his people the ones that this prophecy says he will go back to when you and i are raptured and taken up so who are the people that shall come the prince shall shall come is definitely an is definitely a a reference to the antichrist and and we're going to find that to be so because he is verse 26 we jump 2 000 years into the future and and we read this of him in verse 27 then he again that prince will confirm a covenant with many for one seven year period but in the middle of that seven year period at the three and a half year mark at the 42 month mark if you will he shall bring an end to sacrifice and suffering and on the wings of his abomination he shall shall be the one who makes desolate until the consummation which is discernment is poured out upon the desolate or if he will until the final judgment falls so the prince of the romans the people of a prince that shall come because what we know for sure is that the last kingdom world kingdom will arise out of the ashes of the old roman empire so here daniel gabriel gives daniel an outline for this final seven year period of god's dealing again with national israel delineating the beginning the middle and the end with very specific markers at the beginning here comes the prince that is to come in the middle he shows himself for who he truly is at the end god will bring judgment upon his kingdom and the lord will rule forever more so in one verse you get beginning middle and end if you will now we learn from verse 26 and from daniel's other places there that the antichrist will come out of the nations that compromi or that comprise not compromise com comprise the old roman empire daniel tells us much about that in his prophecies let me show you one real quick you got you got a minute why not i don't know if i'm going to be able to fit this in but we'll try daniel chapter 2 verse 20 39 daniel 2 39. in in chapter 2 we are given by the lord and then in chapter 3 the the interpretation from the lord through daniel we are given nebuchadnezzar the king of babylon the the king of the world dreams and daniel's interpretations from the lord about world kingdoms now historically and maybe you know that already before the babylonians became world rulers there were only two world empires that ruled the world the first one was the egyptians and the second one was the assyrians there were really no other world powers until we get to babylon babylon was the third the fourth one which overthrow them in 538 where the medo-persian empire lasted for quite some time they would eventually be overthrown by a fifth world kingdom the greeks who would be overthrown by a six world kingdom the romans and the romans in the west and in the east they they lasted much different times but needless to say they were the the romans were the last world empire that the world has ever seen there weren't any more for from them but there's coming a seventh and final world kingdom of man's power led by the antichrist that will rise out of the ashes of the old roman empire and so uh it is led by the antichrist it is represented by ten toes and later by ten horns but it will be during this last worldwide seventh worldwide kingdom that jesus will return to crush the rebellion establish this kingdom it'll be the eighth one it'll be the last one it'll be the number of eight is always the numbers of new beginnings so here in in daniel chapter 27 we're told about the antichrist who will make a covenant with many including israel at the beginning of the seventh year or 70th seven year period but in the middle of that week he will cause the sacrifices to cease declare himself to be god demand to be worshipped under penalty of death but for the first three and a half years he will gain power through shrewdness and worldly wisdom it will be a time of relatively peace and safety deception if you will as man turns to him as the promised messiah i've got you at john chapter 2 right verse 39 we read this so after these things another kingdom inferior to yours will arise a third kingdom which shall rule over the world and then a fourth kingdom shall be as strong as iron and as much as iron breaks and pieces and shatters everything like iron that kingdom will be will break in pieces and crush all of the other all of the others this is now the fourth one but it'll be this that's the sixth one if you will uh in world history whereas you saw the feet and toes partly of clay potter's clay and partly of ireland this kingdom would be divided yet the strength of the iron shall be in it just as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay and as to the toes of the feet partially of iron and partially of mixed clay the kingdom shall be partially strong partially fragile and as you saw the iron mixed with ceramic clay they will be mingled with the seed of men they will not adhere to one another just as iron does not mix with clay in those days so this is the the sixth world king this is the the reviled roman kingdom if you will the one that the antichrist is going to rule in those days of these kings the god of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed the kingdom shall not be left to other people it shall break in pieces and consume all of the kingdoms and it will stand forever and in so much as you saw that a stone was cut out of the mountains without hands and that it broke in pieces the iron and the bronze and the clay and the silver and the gold that great god has made known to the king what shall take place after these things the dream is certain the interpretation is sure this is what daniel refers to in chapter nine it is in those days in the this last world kingdom and the antichrist is going to have the last world kingdom before jesus comes to rule and to reign the turning point in daniel 9 27 here is the halfway mark right it's defined in the bible and as the abomination that brings desolation or the horrible behavior that brings the final judgment if you will we read in ii thessalonians of this time he opposes and exalts himself about everything that is called god or that is worship said he sits as god in the temple of god showing that he is god that'll be that'll be the the turning point right it'll be at that point at the halfway mark that all of the judgment from god's throne upon the earth will begin it'll be at the time of his of this of this action by the antichrist jesus if you read matthew 24 tells the disciples that very things uses those very words the abomination that will make delta so um the antichrist is going to do really good for a while conquering with a bow without arrows in john chapter 4 verse no it's chapter 5 verse 43 jesus said i've come in my father's name and you won't receive me but another will one day come in his own name and him you will receive so you can just imagine the deceptiveness that is coming the antichrist will seek israel's approval perhaps enabling them to build on the temple on mount moriah which right now would cause world war iii with the arabs in revelation chapter well let's go back to revelation chapter six for a minute hold on to the ezekiel passage until just a couple more minutes in revelation chapter 11 there is a there is a insight that we have into this temple that is going to be built during that time and and in verse 1 of chapter 11 of revelations it says then i was given a read john says like a measuring rod and the angel said to me i want you to rise and measure the temple of god the altar those that worship there but leave out the court which is outside the temple don't measure it it's been given to the gentiles and they will tread the holy city under foot there it is again for 42 months or for three and a half years you're going to constantly see that same reference there is a there is a place up on the temple mount where we take our group when we go to israel that has a little dome on us called the dome of the spirits it is believed by many christians in israel and and they've written books about it as well it's something to think about the the fellow who wrote the the book on his is a professor at mount scope is called asher kaufman but he said you know the jews could literally build their the temple of god here as long as you didn't have an outer court and it would not interrupt the dome of the rock which is you know it's like world war three you can't hardly go up on the temple mount without people yelling at you so it it it provides an alternative and it's interesting that here in revelations 11 we are told that john is asked to measure and leave out all of the big porticos beyond the temple that was built initially and just measure the place of the of the of the tabernacle the altar if you will so um there's a temple society in israel that's that's pushing for you know the third temple to be built obviously um but when it comes to the completed temple what we know for sure is when it's completed the antichrist who is has maybe made all of this work is going to reveal his true self right he's going to come and he's going to demand worship and then the final movement of god's wrath will begin in fact daniel writes in chapter 12 we were just in chapter 9. he writes this of this time and at that time michael he's the fighting angel will stand up that great prince who stands watch over the sons of your people and there shall be a time of trouble such as never was seen as a nation even to this time and at that time your people will be delivered everyone who is found in the book and many of those who sleep in the dust will come alive but some to everlasting life while some to shame and everlasting contempt this is this is the the final act right this is the time when the lord puts his foot down and says enough is enough so um at the end of those finest three and a half years 1260 days 42 months whatever you like to call it jesus will return and will return with him going back to revelation now have i lost you yet okay i think this is the hardest part of the whole book anyway you've done well in verses one and two we are given the opening of the first seal remember that was the the title deed to the earth that the lord had purchased with his own blood as a result of him opening this first seal and remember the church is out of the way the the time clock has begun right that 70th week of daniel as a result of him opening the first seal the antichrist is introduced to the world and notice he looks like a good guy he's riding on a wide horse he's got a crown of rulership on his head he has a heart that he wants to conquer he he appears much like the vision of jesus like i said when he returns but don't be deceived this is the antichrist himself but the clock is ticking and for the first three and a half years they're going to be relative calm lots of hope lots of hopefulness if you will as the church is not found in the first 69 years weeks of years those 483 days years i should say the church is not found in the 70th week either another good argument for those that would tell you the church has to go through the tribulation it would be an odd place to put them because this is the 70th week that god said he would deal with israel and like i said israel doesn't show up in any of those this is god's word to daniel concerning his dealing with national israel all of god's wrath is about to be poured out against you was received by the lord for you at calvary in other words all of god's wrath has been removed through the blood of the lamb so you read isaiah chapter 53 he was wounded for our transgression bruised for our iniquity chastisement of of our peace was upon him by his stripes we're healed so there's no more wrath for you jesus paid the wrath this is the wrath of god in fact if you go to the end of chapter 6 you will see the people in the world crying out hide us from the one who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the lamb the day of his great wrath has come thus the distinction you are not going to be anywhere near here all right well let's end with ezekiel 36 and i i'm only bringing you to this point because the only other thing that is going to take place in those first three and a half years of peace that we are sure about biblically are found here in the in the in the chapters of ezekiel it documents for us the actions of god to remove the threat from the eastern bloc that would challenge and interfere with the rise of antichrist and his power based remember he is rising out of the ashes of the old roman empire to have a seventh and last world empire of man's dominance now i'm not going to go through all of the verses but you can write down and go to study them for yourself ezekiel 36 speaks about the restoration of israel to the land it is all about god bringing his people back to the land like i said from 7080 to 1948 that did not happen a prophecy to their mountains of the coming work of god to in restoring the people to the land it's a great it's a great prophecy of god about what's coming to israel and now it has in chapter 37 it is the prophecy of the dry bones the lord's saying to ezekiel can this live and there's this dead bones there there and ezekiel goes i don't know you but lord you know and and you begin to watch god put flesh and bones and life back into this what was then what seemed to the world to be a dead society that can never be restored in chapter 38 we then read about the overthrow of the north and it is a reference by what we read there to the independent states that are to the north of israel formerly known as the soviet union today they are mostly independent they are they are majority they are islamic they are anti-israel and their removal as a threat to the governing of the antichrist is documented here as the lord draws these nations south to attack god's people so that he might destroy them he literally blows up any kind of opposition that would come against them and so that they would know that they're fighting the law so verse 1 of chapter 38 the word of the lord came to me saying son of man set your face against gog against the land of magog against the prince of rosh and meshach and tubal prophesy against them and they say they'll saith the lord god behold i am against you oh god the prince of rosh meshach and tubal i will turn you around i will put a hook in your jaw i will lead you out with all of your armies and horses and horsemen and splendidly clothed a great company with bucklers and shields all of them handling swords and to persia and ethiopia and libya all of them all of them with shields and helmets gomer and all of its people the house of tagarma from the north and all of its troops many people are with you so prepare yourself and be ready you and your companies are gathered together be a guard because literally i'm coming to take you out and the lord talks about dragging them down towards israel and destroying them so gog is certainly a person the prince of magog is the association with the skidians or the the area that anciently it was around the crimean area the caucus mountains if you will the black sea the caspian sea meshach is is the word the old old word for moscow tubal is the word for to to blornix which was the capital of uh siberia for a number of years it is irkuts today i believe um but you get to verse five and you read about some of her allies persia is modern day obviously iran which is by the way xi'an shiite fundamentalist by far ethiopia is very strongly muslim today libya is 97 percent sunni muslim so they don't get along very well to shias gomer and tagorma are northern turkey which is about 99.8 nominally muslim mostly sunni 20 shia big bunch of fighting going on uh as a food for thought and i'll just run this by you it is interesting who does not stand with these that are being pulled by the lord south to attack israel and what you don't have on the list is egypt or syria or iraq so it could very well be that those nations somehow figure it out i don't know but they're not listed here that doesn't mean this list is complete but certainly this is all we have to you only go about what the lord gives you the rest just kind of go i don't know but they're certainly not on the list if you will in in chapter 39 of ezekiel let's read verse 1 here and you son of man prophesy against gog and say to them thus saith the lord god behold i'm against you gog prince of again these these places i will turn you again and lead you and bring you up from the far north and bring you against the mountains of israel and then i will knock the bow out of your left hand and and cause the arrows to fall out of your right hand you shall fall upon the mountains of israel you and your troops and the people who are with you i will give you to the birds of the prey of prey to every sword and to the beasts of the field to be devoured you shall fall on the open field i have spoken saith the lord and i will send fire upon magog and on those who live in the security of the coastlands and they'll know now that i'm the lord and i will make my holy name known in the midst of my people israel and certainly verse 8 this is going to come this is the day for which i have spoken so this judgment of god will fall we if you read chapter 39 here you will read that 5 6 of the invading army is going to be destroyed by the lord the results of the war is described in in this chapter most commentators believe that what is being told you is that it is a result of a nuclear confrontation again okay there are certainly some indicators for example the the dead are supposed to be left in place for seven months and then buried by professionals israel is told they should wait seven years to burn the artifacts of war which are left behind but all of this battle to the north of israel and the removing of any kind of power to the to the rise of the antichrist maybe he'll be the one that leads some of these uh wars anyway to enamor himself to the people but but in in any event um we read in verse 29 of this chapter these words and i will not hide my face from you anymore i will certainly pour out my spirit upon the house of israel god's promises he's not leaving them again alone so this battle for the former soviet republics that are setting the stage you can watch i guess the news watch to see how that is positioned because it'll happen after you're gone but it you know it should be it should be in the in the works at some point and like israel going back in the land i would keep an eye on it's always interesting to watch the news from that part of the country in their relationship if you will to israel the antichrist could very well be aligned with eastern europe with the eu we have no idea for sure but we know this when you're gone this is all going to take place and halfway into this seven year period he's going to be seen for who he truly is so here in chapter six verses one and two and like i said we'll take the first four seals next week here's the sage is set right this happens sometime after the rapture you're already in chapter four and five in heaven when the lord opens the seal right three and a half years later all of god's wrath is going to be poured out and from this seal forward everything else in the book of revelation except for the parenthetical chapters of looking around happen forward from those first three and a half years or if you will in the last 42 months of the great tribulation so i want you to have those time frames at least in your memory so that next week when we look at the four horsemen of the apocalypse we'll begin to see a world ripe for judgment and i think the only thing it should do to us christians is get us out witnessing to others don't stay here for this this is no time to hang around right you think this pandemic is bad just read the rest of the book are you all right did you do good are you okay did i lose you i was worried about it all right let's pray father thank you for your word to us tonight i know that we covered a lot of ground and unless you know everyone's been thinking this through i know it's a lot of details to throw at them i pray that you would continue to just teach us that we would be good students of your word rightfully able to divide it that we could get a good grasp on on all that we see in the prophets and as we go through in these in these judgments and we're able to turn to to ezekiel and isaiah and jeremiah and and we'll be able to see what they were prophesying and how it applies in this time frame in this setting as you warned us so that we can identify what we read as that which you have promised to do and we can understand it better so lord we thank you for your word thank you that you've told us to to study to show ourselves approved able to rightfully divide the scriptures so may we do that tonight may you stir us up as the church we we can't keep this to ourselves this is this is monumental it is eternal things are going to get far worse in the world than they are today for us it only gets better so we've got to tell people about you that's why you've come that's why the judgment comes people have refused to honor your son who gave his life may we preach his love may we show his love maybe may we be aware of the times in which we live that even as we read daniel's prophecy the world's not getting better every world kingdom according to daniel's interpretation of the uh nebuchadnezzar's prophecy is it's a weaker kingdom less stable less cohesive less able to get along with one another things are just getting worse man's hope in his politics man's hope and his in all of his activism worthless we need to hope in you you've come to to give us life and that more abundantly so stir us lord to share with someone this week as we continue to study about what comes next so that we might understand what we see as we wait for the trumpet to sound you need prayer tonight you need to give jesus your life i wouldn't wait if you're if you're not right with god don't don't leave until you pray with someone to sign the lord wants to give you life he's ready he has all that you need so you come up and pray with one of the pastors one of the elders let the lord just into your heart ask him to be your lord and he will come and when he comes for the church you'll be out of here with the rest of us gathered up into his arms

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