Welcome to our Bible class this
morning and we're going to launch into a new A new place. We'll be looking at the Book
of Daniel. And we're not going to take an exegetical approach
to it as we normally have been in all of our previous Bible
studies for below these many years. But we're going to take
more of a survey view of it in 12 chapters and try to move through
that in the time before we take off for Arizona. If you join
me in Daniel chapter 1, what a marvelous book. What a great
book we have here. In Daniel chapter 1, Daniel deals
with the captivity, the being taken captive and hauled off
to Babylon for 70 years. It's kind of a narrative of that
period and deals with Daniel and several of his friends. In
Daniel 1, verse 1, it says, "...in the third year of the reign of
Jehoiakim, king of Judah, came Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon,
unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim,
king of Judah, into his hand." Just as Norm has pointed out,
He sold them into the hand of those folks because they were... doing abhorrent things to God,
and they were in idol worship. So the Lord gave Jehoiakim king
of Judah into his hand with part of the vessels of the house of
God, which he carried into the land of Shinar, to the house
of his God. And he brought the vessels into
the treasure house of his God, And the king spoke unto Ashpenaz,
the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the
children of Israel, and of the king's seed, and of the prince's
children, in whom was no blemish, but well favored, and skillful
in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding
science. And such as had ability in them
to stand in the king's palace, in whom they might teach the
learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans. And the king appointed
them a daily provision of the king's meat, and of the wine
which he drank, so nourishing them three years, that at the
end thereof they might stand before the king. Now among these
were the children of Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah,
unto whom the prince of the eunuchs gave names. For he gave unto
Daniel the name of Belteshazzar, and unto Hananiah, Shadrach,
and unto Mishael, Meshach, and unto Azariah of Abednego. So that's just the opening salvo
in the book of Daniel. But there's so much to Daniel. And he's a beloved hero of generations
of Sunday school flannel grafts. I don't know how many times he's
been cast into the flannel furnace and the flannel lion's den. I don't think there's anybody
that hasn't heard of Daniel and Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. In other places, he's the subject
of countless theories of the end times. And we'll kind of
take a look at that as we go through. But our story, and I'm
always hesitant to use that term in today's vernacular because
a story kind of implies a tale or a yarn or something of fiction. And the book of Daniel is none
of those. And it's really a chronicle. We just read the first bit of
Daniel. It's really a chronicle, and
much of it's recorded in the Chronicles of the Kings. The
first and second kings are records of those kings, and first and
second chronicles are also records of those kings of those times.
And so it's really a history, and it's a record of God Almighty. It's a testament of Messiah the
Prince. And that's what he records for
us in Daniel chapter 9, unto the coming of Messiah the Prince.
Messiah shall be cut off, but not for himself. One likened
to the Son of Man we find in Daniel. The Ancient of Days we
find in Daniel. And we find a testament to the
sovereignty of God, a testament to the covenant of grace. All
these things are in Daniel. And as we go through it, that's
what we're looking for. We're looking for Christ. And
that's going to be the topic of our, that's where we're going
to be focused every time we meet to study this book. And we're
going to bring out those things that, as Jesus said to those
in our closing remarks on the Luke chapter 24, the end of that
book of Luke, he expounded to themselves in all the scriptures,
the things concerning himself. And in other places, he said,
in all the books of Moses and the prophets, and Daniel was
certainly a prophet. And You know, one of the wonderful
things about this book, and we're looking for things that's valuable
to the church. I mean, we look for Christ, but
there's other things in there that are valuable for the church
to pay attention to and take comfort in. You know, this record
chronicles the long suffering of the Lord. Norm has been going through the
book of Judges. And the people did evil in the
sight of the Lord for so many years, and then He gave them
a judge that saved them. And as soon as that guy died,
well, then they went right back to their old ways. And let me
tell you, there's nothing different in the book of Daniel. So we see the long-suffering
of our Lord as the people called by His name continually rebel
and reject Him. Time after time, God is merciful. And through it all, we find that
He has decreed and purposed that there is a remnant according
to the election of grace. And we think, oh, man, hallelujah,
because He had every cause to eradicate them. Over and over
and over again, but we find through his purposes. that he's working all things
for good according to his purpose. I love that story in the in the
bulletin about the guy that was shipwrecked and he was there
a long time and he built the little house of driftwood and
he was off doing something one day and it caught on fire and
burned up and he was going oh man woe is me and then a little
bit later a ship pulls up and they They rescue him and they
said, how did you find me? So we saw the smoke. What a wonderful
example. So we read the first little bit
of Daniel, but today let's just take a quick look over at Matthew
chapter one. Here we have the generation of
Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham. And we're not going to read the
whole thing, as Norman says. We're not going to read all of
Psalm 119 today. But we're going to begin in verse
11. And Josias begat Jeconias. Well, that's a Greek rendering
of Jehoiakim in the Old Testament that we just read about in Daniel. And Josias begat Jeconias and
his brethren. About the time they were carried
away to Babylon. And after they were brought to
Babylon, Jechonias begat Salathiel, and Salathiel begat Zerubbabel,
and Zerubbabel begat Abiud, and Abiud begat Eliakim, and Eliakim
begat Azor, and Azor begat Sadok, and Sadok begat Achim, and Achim
begat Eliud, and so and so it goes, and we get down to verse
17. or 16, and Jacob begat Joseph, the husband of Mary, of whom
was born Jesus, who is called Messiahs, the Messiahs of Daniel chapter
9. the messiahs of the captivity of Babylon, the captivity of
Daniel. And so all the generations from
Abraham are 14 generations and from David unto the carrying
away into Babylon are 14 generations. And from the carrying away into
Babylon unto Christ are 14 generations. And let me tell you, not all
of those guys are sweethearts. But somehow they're just like
us. We can't trace our back and say, well, my mom and dad were
saved, and their grandparents were saved, and their grandparents
before them were saved. Many of us, our story is we had
parents that never darkened the door of a church, or they believed
some other gospel that is not another gospel, or they were
engaged in something else, some form of religious stuff, didn't
know Christ in the new birth. So are some of these folks, but
some of their progeny. All through this, there's a remnant
according to the election of grace. You know, our story really begins
in the garden with Adam. the first to rebel against God.
And that trait has been transmitted down to all of His progeny to
this very day. We're all born in that condition. And we're all affected by that. In this study, we're going to
examine the times and the situations as we find them recorded in Scripture,
particularly with Daniel. And Daniel, as we mentioned,
is a record of the captivity of Judah by the Babylonians,
Nebuchadnezzar. was the king of Babylon at that
time. But we know that the root cause
is always the same, that the natural man receiveth not the
things of the Spirit of God, neither can he know them because
they're spiritually discerned. And we find that in 1 Corinthians
2.14. So That sin problem, it's always
been the main problem. You know, we go back to, as we
went back clear to Adam and just said, that's how the nature of
man is because of the fall and because of their own nature. The Lord gave them the law. a schoolmaster to bring them
to Christ. And in the Old Testament, Norm went through all of those
books in infinite detail and brought out Christ in every message. And we find back in Leviticus,
we go back to Leviticus for the view of God regarding this serious
issue which is sin and abhorring God and His work. And that's,
the scripture says, before we're born again, we're at enmity with
Him. He loves us with an everlasting
love, but we're at enmity with Him. We don't want anything to
do with Him. We hate Him. And in Leviticus chapter 25,
we have this law of Moses that's been given to Moses by God. And
the Lord's speaking unto Moses in Leviticus 25, and He's telling
Moses a law, and it's for a spiritual purpose. In Leviticus 25, the
Lord spake unto Moses in Mount Sinai, saying, Speak unto the
children of Israel, and say unto them, When you come into the
land which I give you, then shall the land keep a Sabbath unto
the Lord. Six years shalt thou sow thy
field, and six years shalt thou prune thy vineyard, and gather
the fruit thereof. But in the seventh year shall
be a sabbath of rest unto the land, a sabbath for the Lord.
Neither shalt thou sow thy field, nor prune thy vineyard, and that
which groweth of its own accord of the harvest thou shalt not
reap. Neither gather the grapes of the vine undressed, for it
is a year of rest unto the land. And the Sabbath of the land shall
be meat for you, and for thee, and for thy servant, and for
thy maid, and for the hired servant, and for the stranger that sojourneth
with thee, and for thy cattle, and for the beasts that are in
thy land shall all the increase thereof be meat. So we have this
law of Moses, and spiritually the idea was for them to address
the Sabbath. And we have a clear
understanding of that from Hebrews and the Old Testament as well,
where the man that enters into his rest has ceased from his
own works. So the Lord provided for them
just like He did with the manna. You know, you should gather manna
every day, but before the Sabbath you'll get plenty. Gather enough
for like three days and then don't gather any on the Sabbath
day because it won't work. It'll turn to mush on you and
it'll be a violation. Well, here we have kind of the
same thing. You know, He will provide for you and then the
seventh year you let things rest. Well, economically that wasn't
appealing to the Jews. They said, you know what, that's
a whole year of revenue. whole year of money that we're
not going to get because we're not picking the grapes, we're
not harvesting the grain, and we're not doing all the things,
we're not shearing the sheep or whatever. I was explaining this to Norma
this morning about that part of my lesson. He says, well,
as long as they tithe part of it, it was okay. He said that facetiously, of
course, but that was their that was their thinking. You know,
we can break the law, but we'll make up for it by doing. But
I know we broke the law, but we did this with the we gave
you a part of it, so. So if we go down to Leviticus,
the next chapter, let's go over to Leviticus 26. And the Lord is speaking through
Moses again, and He says, if you walk contrary to Me, and
won't hearken unto Me, I'll bring seven times more plagues on you
according to your sins. Verse 23, and if you will not
be reformed by Me by these things, but will walk contrary to Me,
then I will also walk contrary unto you, and I will punish you
yet seven times for your sins. Verse 28, Then I will walk contrary
unto you also in fury, and I, even I, will chastise you seven
times for your sins. Then we'll skip down to verse
34, Then shall the land enjoy her sabbaths, as long as it lies
desolate, and you be in your enemy's land, even then shall
the land rest and enjoy her sabbaths. And seven times, I'll punish
you. And so what do we find? 70 years
captivity for them. Historians recorded that the
Hebrew people disregarded the Sabbath of the land for 490 years
unto the captivity. 2 Chronicles chapter 36, 21 says
they were carried off captive in this block of scripture. And
we're going to read that here in a bit. But to fulfill the
word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had
enjoyed her Sabbaths for as long as she lay desolate, she kept
the Sabbaths to fulfill three score and 10 years, 70 years
captivity. Isn't that interesting how the
Lord put all that together? It's pretty detailed, and yet
we find it's what Norm always brings up. Well, we promise to
be good, but then we don't. And it all depends on our behavior
and what we do and not looking to Christ for the remedy. And
that's what Daniel points out as Messiah, the prince. You know, an important truth
revealed through the scripture, and particularly in Daniel, is
that God rules everything and everyone. He is sovereign. He
is not sovereign about this, but not that. Sovereignty is
an absolute. Those kings, even the Persian
kings, even Nebuchadnezzar, when he issued a ruling, that was
it. And we find that in Daniel. Well, you made a law, and the
law of the Medes and the Persians cannot be broken once it's enacted. You know, the proverb says, the
king's heart is in the hand of the Lord. As the rivers of water,
he turns it whichever way he will. And he does that with all
these leaders. I think Isaiah prophesied that,
I'm going to bring Nebuchadnezzar against you guys because you
didn't do what I said. And after he punishes you, I'm
going to punish him for punishing you. Another great truth that we find
in Scripture, notably in Daniel, is that there is, there was,
and there always will be a remnant according to the election of
grace. We just saw a glimpse of that in Matthew. where all
these people that should have been destroyed, maybe the long-suffering
of the Lord let them go a little bit so that they could produce
a Daniel, or a Shadrach, or a Meshach, or an Abednego, or one of us. You know, Elijah, he was mourning. He said, they killed everybody,
and they're after me. And the Lord says, Yet I've left
me seven thousand in Israel that you don't know about, all the
knees of which have not bowed to Baal, and every mouth which
has not kissed him. I have reserved to me the sovereign
hand of God as an election. And that's what Paul quotes in
Romans 11th chapter. I've reserved under myself the
7th chapter. He says, even now, Even in our
day when things look pretty bleak, there's a remnant according to
the election of grace. The book of Daniel relates this
wonderful work of God in reserving to himself a remnant who wouldn't
bow then or now. And throughout, we find the hand
of God directing the affairs of men according to his purposes.
We've been kind of, in our narration, we've been kind of pointing out
here and there how God said, through Isaiah, I'm going to
bring Nebuchadnezzar. And then we find Cyrus. I have surnamed you. You're going
to be my servant and you're going to do what I tell you to do.
You're going to give the command to build and restore Jerusalem. And that's the crux of the prophecy
in Daniel 9, from the commandment to rebuild
Jerusalem. And that's recorded for us as
Norm went through in the book of Ezra. The Lord stirred up
the heart of Cyrus. And Cyrus, he kind of knew. He
says, you know what? God appointed me. to do this. The hand of the Lord stirs the
hearts of the kings to do his will. And he stirred up Cyrus,
and Cyrus gave the command to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild
it. What a wonderful What a wonderful history of the
grace of God and working through the things of the affairs of
men and directing them according to his purpose. You know, in
approximately 605 BC, if we if we had a chart up here, Norm's
got this really crazy I don't know, it's like a 1950s Bible
chart or something, scrolled, and you laid it all, it's got
so much information on it that you couldn't really, it would
take you a long time to just look it over and read it all.
But if we had a chart up here and said, Okay, over here is
605 BC and over there by that wreath there is 0 AD or the time
of Christ. We find all this stuff happens
in between here and there. And all the things that occur
in Daniel have come to pass. In 605, we find that the Egyptians
had invaded Babylon and they also
struck Jerusalem. And they had put Jerusalem under
tribute, which meant that you can still have your king and
everything, but you've got to mail me a check once a year or
send me so many grapes and so much gold. whatever they declared
the tribute was going to be, but they were under tribute to
Egypt. But the Egyptians had done that, and then they had
also invaded Babylon, the Persian Empire, or Chaldea, I guess we
would call it at that time. And Jerusalem was kind of on
the western front door of that empire. And so Nebuchadnezzar
swept through that area, and he smote the Egyptians all the
way down to the Sinai and defeated them at Carchemish. And he came
back through and he says, OK, you are not under the tribute
of Egypt anymore. You're under tribute to me. So
they were supposed to pay the king of Babylon money, a tribute
every year. And they said, OK, don't kill
us now. We'll pay for which we'll gladly
pay you on Tuesday. And when Tuesday came, they didn't
pay. And so the Babylonians came back
in 597 and killed them again. And they
said, you better pay us. And they said, oh, we'll pay.
Just like they told God, all that thou sayest, we will do. And then they didn't do it. And
I think it's Isaiah said, any nation that I put under the yoke
of the Babylonians that doesn't obey them, I'm going to punish
them. He said that. So in 597, they came against
Jerusalem again for rebellion and failing to pay tribute. And
then again in 587, Nebuchadnezzar, he besieged Jerusalem this time. for the third and final time.
And we know we've talked about besieging again many times and
what that involves. They surround the city and no
one can come or go. And for a time you can look over
the wall and stick your tongue out at them and go, yeah, yeah,
yeah, can't get us. But eventually you starve out. Eventually things happen that
are beyond your scope of imagination, and you have to give in because
the result is terrible. And all that's recorded in the
Scriptures, what happened unto them in these times. And I was reading the other day where
in one of the prophecies it says, you'll be eating your sons and
daughters. That's a, we just can't fathom
that. We just, we're just, Yvonne and
I are always talking about something that we'll see or learn about.
And we just, that's just so far outside of the scope of what
we're familiar with that we just can't, we have no grasp of that. We have no understanding of that.
We can't understand how that could happen. But yet there it
is. And, you know, evidences of things. Well, some people say, oh, I
know what that's going on there. That's because of this. And we
say, We just didn't have a clue about it. But you know that in
587, he besieged them and he led them off captive. Daniel. and his friends, princes of Judah,
the kings, people. They took Jehoiakim. It says
in the scripture that says they took Jehoiakim in chains and
shackles and drug him off to go to Babylon, but he died. Apparently,
according to the historians, he never made it to Babylon.
He died and was buried in some valley in between there. I don't recall the exact details
of it. Now we meet Daniel. You know
what's great about Daniel? It says, He was greatly beloved
by the Lord. In the midst of all these people
that were not obeying the Sabbath, that were worshiping idols, that
were, when you go through Ezekiel, it's just page after page after
page out of the scripture there in Ezekiel, idol worshiping. You've turned to Baal. You've
adopted this religion. You've adopted that religion.
You've adopted that heinous thing. You've ignored me in spite of
all the things that I've shown you throughout time from the
deliverance out of Egypt. That's all out the window, and
you just abhorred me. But in the midst of this, we
find a remnant according to the election of grace. Daniel, greatly
beloved of God. And that's what he thinks about
all these people. Even when we're at enmity with him, he looks
at us. There's no condemnation to those
that are in Christ. He looks at us and said, you're
greatly beloved. Welcome. Inherit the kingdom
prepared for you from the foundation of the world. So, you know, we find in Ezekiel,
Ezekiel was a contemporary of Daniel, and he wrote about Daniel
in his narrative, and God is speaking. Again, we find God
speaking through Ezekiel in chapter 14, verse 14. We'll just maybe read that verse real
quick. And the Word of the Lord came
unto me again, saying in Ezekiel 14, 12, verse 13, Son of man, when the
land sinneth against me by trespassing grievously. Isn't that an interesting
way he puts that? The land sinneth against me.
Men were responsible for not doing the Sabbath of rest on
the land, but now the land is is tied into it. When the land
sinneth against me by trespassing grievously, then I will stretch
out mine hand upon it, and I will break off the staff of bread
thereof, and I will send famine upon it, and will cut off man
and beast from it. Though these three men, Noah,
Daniel, and Job, were in it, they should deliver but their
own souls by their righteousness, saith the Lord God. If I cause noisome beasts to
pass through the land, and they spoil it so that it be desolate,
that no man may pass through it because of the beast, though
these three men were in it as I live, saith the Lord. They
shall deliver neither sons nor daughters. They only shall be
delivered, and the land shall be desolate." And that's what
he had to say about the time and the land at that period. The land was not going to be
spared because there was some righteous folks in it. They
were going to be swept up in it, and yet we're going to find just
like Joseph. It seemed like evil, but God
meant it for good to save much people alive. So now that we've kind of got
a little history, let's go over to 2 Chronicles. Chapter 36, the last chapter
of the 2 Chronicles. 2 Chronicles 36, verse 1, Then
the people of the land took Jehoiaz the son of Josiah, and made him
king in his father's stead in Jerusalem. And Jehoiaz was twenty
and three years old when he began to reign, and he reigned three
months in Jerusalem, a whole three months. And the king of
Egypt put him down at Jerusalem, just like we said. and condemned the land in a hundred
talents of silver and a talent of gold." That's what the tribute
was that he demanded of them. The king of Egypt made Eliakim
his brother king over Judah and Jerusalem, and turned his name
to Jehoiakim. And Necho, that would be a pharaoh
of Egypt, took Jehoahaz, his brother, and carried him to Egypt.
And Jehoiakim, that's the Hebrew name that we found in Matthew
1. And Jehoiakim was 25 years old when he began to reign, and
he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem, and he did that which was evil
in the sight of the Lord his God. Against him came up Nebuchadnezzar,
king of Babylon, and bound him in fetters to carry him to Babylon."
Of course, we mentioned that he didn't make it. He died en
route and was buried. Nebuchadnezzar also carried off
the vessels of the house of the Lord to Babylon and put them
in his temple at Babylon. Now the rest of the acts of Jehoiakim
and his abominations which he did, and that which was found
in him, behold, they are written in the book of the kings of Israel
and Judah. And Jehoiachin, his son, reigned
in his stead. And Jehoiachin was eight years
old when he began to reign." This is a serious... He was eight years old and he... He did that which was evil in
the sight of the Lord. So much for the age of accountability.
Eight years old and he was already up to no good. And it must have
been in a major way. I suppose even if eight years
old and you're the king of a country, you can get into a lot more mischief
than me and my brother did out in the hay fields when we were
eight. When the year was expired, King
Nebuchadnezzar sent and brought him to Babylon with the goodly
vessels of the house of the Lord, and made Zedekiah his brother
king over Judah and Jerusalem. Zedekiah was one and 20 years
old when he began to reign, and he reigned 11 years in Jerusalem. He did that which was evil in
the sight of the Lord his God. and humbled not himself before
Jeremiah the prophet, speaking from the mouth of the Lord. And
he rebelled against King Nebuchadnezzar, who made him swear by God, But
he stiffened his neck and hardened his heart from turning unto the
Lord God of Israel. Moreover, all the chief priests
and the people transgressed very much after all the abominations
of the heathen and polluted the house of the Lord, which he had
hallowed in Jerusalem." And we can look in other scriptures
and find out the Lord said, hey, you know what? You're going to
take all the vessels of the temple and use them for heathen practices. I'm taking them out of there. And the Lord God of their fathers
sent to them by His messengers, rising up in times and sending,
because He had compassion on His people and on His dwelling
place, He sent them prophets that said, turning to the Lord, but without
the Lord saying, because I gave you not a heart to believe, they
wouldn't and couldn't do it. They mocked the messengers of
God, despised His words, misused His prophets, until the wrath
of the Lord rose against the people, till there was no remedy. Pretty serious. These guys, when
they besieged and they took refuge in the temple, they went right
in there and killed him right there on the spot in the temple. They took refuge in the house
of their sanctuary, but they had no compassion upon young
man or maiden, old man, or him that stooped for age. He gave
them all into his hand. And all the vessels of the house
of God, great and small, and the treasures of the house of
the Lord, and the treasures of the king, and of his princes,
all these he brought to Babylon. Before he just took a portion
of them. Now he's taken the whole ball of wax. And they burnt the
house of God, and they broke down the wall of Jerusalem, and
they burnt all the palaces with fire, and destroyed all the goodly
vessels thereof. And them that had escaped from
the sword carried he away to Babylon, where they were servants
unto him and his sons, until the reign of the kingdom of Persia."
Cyrus. to fulfill the word of the Lord
by the mouth of Jeremiah until the land had enjoyed her Sabbaths.
For as long as she lay desolate, she kept Sabbath to fulfill three
score and ten years." Now the rest goes on about Cyrus. Boy, what a lot of detail. And it's just not one little
place. It's just like throughout the Old Testament Scripture.
And it's just interesting that, you know, we meet Daniel, and
we meet Hananiah, and Mishael, and Azariah in the first chapter.
And we discover all that was brought against them in their
captivity. They were young tads when they were taken captive.
I read a lot of things, and they must have been in their early
teens or 12 to 15-ish kind of age when they were taken captive
there. And first to be under siege. and experience the horror of
that, to be surrounded by an army that's kind of going to
kill you, even if you're in the temple. Then they're taken captive. Then
they're led as slaves to Babylon. And that usually was a humiliating
experience to have that happen to you. The Assyrians, they just
stripped them all naked and put chains around their necks and
marched them naked all the way to wherever and sold them. What they must have observed
with physical eyes We compare that in this book
with what they saw and experienced with spiritual eyes. Because
from the very beginning, they were under attack physically
and spiritually, and we have a record of how that went in
the book of Daniel. All the ploys that were attempted
to turn them from Jehovah to the false gods of the land. We
saw right in that first few verses that they changed their names. It was kind of like repentance
in reverse. They wanted to turn them from serving the living
God to serving all the false gods of Babylon. And like Jesus, they were led
into the wilderness by the Spirit and experienced many temptations.
You know, they were kind of, when they got to Babylon, he
says, okay, give them some of my good food. These ones that
were set aside that were special that he said, these could be
servants in the palace that I'd have to look at every day. Fatten
them up with some of my good food and give them some of my
wine and treat them real good and give them good clothes to
wear. And so your ordinary person would say, well, except for being
turned into a eunuch, this was not too bad. I got plenty to
eat. All I got to do is learn how
to speak Babylonian and learn their laws and customs. I'm good. So we're about out of time. I
just wanted to point that out that those guys experienced a
lot right off the bat. But even early on, they loved
the Lord their God with all their heart and all their soul and
all their might. And Daniel, greatly beloved of God. So we're going to probably stop
here. We're going to look some more
later on and some things about Daniel that through time people
have used that for an attempt to turn it into something that
it was never intended for. The main thing they try to do
with Daniel is use this chronology as a timetable and then from
the timetable They've gone into this millennial reign thing and
they say, OK, well, we can predict when Christ is going to come
back and then we can all be ready. But we can do whatever we want
up until next Tuesday when we don't pay the... Then we look at Daniel's prayers.
So much there in Daniel's prayers, chronologies. To take home today,
the events of Daniel have transpired and been recorded. They're all
done. The main thing to take away from
that is Messiah, the Prince, came and made an end of the transgression. So we'll stop for now and pick
this up again next time. Hope you enjoyed part of that. Be free.