BIBLE PROPHECY TODAY

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What is our key text

 

in our study of

Bible Prophecy ? 

 

2 Peter 1:19    We have

 

 also a more sure Word

 

 of Prophecy; whereunto

 

 ye do well that ye take

 

 heed, as  unto a light

 

that shineth in  a dark

 

 place, until the day

 

 dawn, and the

Day Star

 

arise in your hearts: 

 2 Peter 1:20  

 

 Knowing this first, that

 

 no Prophecy of the

 

 Scripture is of any

 

 private interpretation. 

 2 Peter 1:21  

 

For The Prophecy came

 

 not in old time by the

 

 will of man: but holy

 

men of God spake as

 

 they were moved by

 

The Holy Ghost.”

 

The Old Testament, is a

 

 Prophecy about the

 

 Saviour who was to come

 

 and die for the sins of the

 

 world, and the

 

New Testament

 

is the fulfillment of the

 

 Prophecies of the Old

 

 Testament and further

 

 Prophecies that were to

 

 take place in the very end

 

 of time. Do you believe we

 

 are living in the very end of

 

 time just before return of

 

 Jesus Christ ? Yes, we

 

know from Bible Prophecy

 

 that we are in

 

the very last  days,

 

very little time

 

 remains for this

 

sin cursed

 

 planet !

 

We are going to examine a

 

 prophecy that is a key to

 

 understanding just where

 

 we really are in the history

 

 of this earth. This is one of

 

 my favorites !

 

Daniel 2: 1 – 49

 

Daniel lived about 600

 

 years before Christ was

 

 born. As our story begans,

 

 Daniel is a prisoner in

 

 Babylon, but he has been

 

 chosen along with three of

 

 his Friends to receive

 

 special training in the

 

 wisdom of the Chaldeans

 

 and to be placed in a

 

 government position when

 

 he would graduate.  So

 

 Daniel was living in the

 

 palace of

 

King Nebuchadnezzar

 

of Babylon.

 

One night the king had a

 

 dream.  When he awoke he

 

 could not remember what

 

 he had seen, but, he was

 

 very very troubled about

 

 it.  So he called in his

 

 wise men, magicians and

 

 astrologers” and asked for

 

 an interpretation. Lets

 

 read it from the Scripture

 

 as we go:

 

And in the second year of the reign

 

 of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar

 

 dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit

 

 was troubled, and his sleep brake

 

 from him.

 

 2:2 Then the king commanded to call

 

 the magicians, and the astrologers,

 

 and the sorcerers, and the

 

 Chaldeans, for to show the king his

 

 dreams. So they came and stood

 

 before the king. 

 2:3 And the king said unto them, I

 

 have dreamed a dream, and my spirit

 

 was troubled to know the dream. 

 2:4 Then spake the Chaldeans to the

 

 king in Syriack, O king, live for ever:

 

 tell thy servants the dream, and we

 

 will show the interpretation. 

 2:5 The king answered and said to

 

 the Chaldeans, The thing is gone

 

 from me: if ye will not make known

 

 unto me the dream, with the

 

 interpretation thereof, ye shall be cut

 

 in pieces, and your houses shall be

 

 made a dunghill. 

 2:6 But if ye show the dream, and the

 

 interpretation thereof, ye shall

 

 receive of me gifts and rewards and

 

 great honour: therefore show me the

 

 dream, and the interpretation

 

 thereof. 

 2:7 They answered again and said,

 

 Let the king tell his servants the

 

 dream, and we will show the

 

 interpretation of it. 

 2:8 The king answered and said, I

 

 know of certainty that ye would gain

 

 the time, because ye see the thing is

 

 gone from me. 

 2:9 But if ye will not make known

 

 unto me the dream, there is but one

 

 decree for you: for ye have prepared

 

 lying and corrupt words to speak

 

 before me, till the time be changed:

 

 therefore tell me the dream, and I

 

 shall know that ye can show me the

 

 interpretation thereof. 

 2:10      The Chaldeans answered

 

 before the king, and said, There is

 

 not a man upon the earth that can

 

 show the king's matter: therefore

 

 there is no king, lord, nor ruler, that

 

 asked such things at any magician,

 

 or astrologer, or Chaldean. 

 2:11      And it is a rare thing that the

 

 king requireth, and there is none

 

 other that can show it before the

 

king, except the gods, whose

 

 dwelling is not with flesh. 

 2:12      For this cause the king was

 

 angry and very furious, and

 

 commanded to destroy all the wise

 

 men of Babylon. 

 

Have you ever had a dream, but

 

 when you woke up you could

 

 not remember what you had

 

 seen but wished you could ?

 

  Well this was the case with the

 

 king of Babylon 600 years

 

 before the birth of Christ. 

 

He could not remember, but he

 

 was greatly troubled by what he

 

 had seen.  He calls for the

 

 magicians, astrologers, the so

 

 called “wise men” of his

 

 kingdom and demands that they

 

 tell him his dream and explain

 

 what it all means. Well as we

 

 just read they told the king it

 

 was impossible, that only the

 

 “gods” could reveal it. The king

 

 was furious and decreed for the

 

 whole lot of them to be

 

 destroyed. Now at this point

 

 Daniel enters the scene. 

 

 

 2:13      And the decree went forth that the wise men should be slain; and they sought Daniel and his fellows to be slain. 

 2:14      Then Daniel answered with counsel and wisdom to Arioch the captain of the king's guard, which was gone forth to slay the wise men of Babylon: 

 2:15      He answered and said to Arioch the king's captain, Why is the decree so hasty from the king? Then Arioch made the thing known to Daniel. 

 2:16      Then Daniel went in, and desired of the king that he would give him time, and that he would show the king the interpretation. 

 

How did Daniel become one of the “wisemen” of Babylon ?  It was the custom of the king of Babylon, when he conquered a nation, to chose from the captives, young men whom he thought could be trained to assist in the affairs of government.  Daniel was chosen along with three of his Hebrew Friends for this honor. Daniel chapter One gives us the details.  Well, Daniel and his Friends were given the same food as the king, but Daniel and his Friends could not eat the food because it was “unclean” , It wasn’t “kosher” as the Jewish people say today.  God has specified in Scripture the clean and the unclean foods and the Hebrew  people even today are careful  to obey the instruction.

 

So Daniel asked for a Vegetarian diet and a ten day trial for his Babylonian manager to witness the effects.  After ten days the difference was very noticeable between Daniel and his three Friends and those who ate the food from the kings table !  So Daniel’s request was granted. At the end of the three years of training Daniel and his Friends were found to be 10 times wiser than the others young men who feasted on the king’s dainties.  So Daniel and his Friends were appointed to top positions in the kings government.

 

Now Daniel and his Friends are in danger of being slain because the magicians, astrologers and sooth sayers could not tell the king his dream.

 

Daniel is granted some extra time to seek his God for the answer, so reading now from verse 17 > 

 

 

 2:17      Then Daniel went to his house, and made the thing known to Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah, his companions: 

 2:18      That they would desire mercies of the God of heaven concerning this secret; that Daniel and his fellows should not perish with the rest of the wise men of Babylon. 

 2:19      Then was the secret revealed unto Daniel in a night vision. Then Daniel blessed the God of heaven. 

 2:20      Daniel answered and said, Blessed be the name of God for ever and ever: for wisdom and might are his: 

 2:21      And he changeth the times and the seasons: he removeth kings, and setteth up kings: he giveth wisdom unto the wise, and knowledge to them that know understanding: 

 2:22      He revealeth the deep and secret things: he knoweth what is in the darkness, and the light dwelleth with him. 

 2:23      I thank thee, and praise thee, O thou God of my fathers, who hast given me wisdom and might, and hast made known unto me now what we desired of thee: for thou hast now made known unto us the king's matter. 

 2:24      Therefore Daniel went in unto Arioch, whom the king had ordained to destroy the wise men of Babylon: he went and said thus unto him; Destroy not the wise men of Babylon, bring me in before the king and I will show unto the king the interpretation. 

 2:25      Then Arioch brought in Daniel before the king in haste, and said thus unto him, I have found a man of the captives of Judah, that will make known unto the king the interpretation. 

 2:26      The king answered and said to Daniel, whose name was Belteshazzar, Art thou able to make known unto me the dream which I have seen, and the interpretation thereof? 

 2:27      Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, show unto the king; 

 2:28      But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days. Thy dream, and the visions of thy head upon thy bed, are these; 

 2:29      As for thee, O king, thy thoughts came into thy mind upon thy bed, what should come to pass hereafter: and He that revealeth secrets maketh known to thee what shall come to pass. 

 2:30      But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but for their sakes that shall make known the interpretation to the king, and that thou mightest know the thoughts of thy heart.

 

The phrase:  “but for their sakes”

I was not sure who this was directed to so I looked it up in three other translations .

 

1.  [30] But as for me, not because of any wisdom that I have more than all the living has this mystery been revealed to me, but in order that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that you may know the thoughts of your mind.” RSV

 

30 But as for me, this secret is not revealed to me for any wisdom that I have more than any living, but to the intent that the interpretation may be made known to the king, and that thou mayest know the thoughts of thy heart.”

Hebrew to English Bible

To summarize what we just read from verse 17 – 30; What is the first thing Daniel did after being granted some time to seek his God for the answer ?  He called his three Friends and they had a prayer meeting !  Did God answer their prayer ?   Yes He did . God delights to answer the prayers of those who honestly seek Him and God will do  great things for those who are walking in obedience to His Holy Word.  

God revealed to Daniel the kings dream and the meaning of it so Daniel hastened to see the king !

 

 

 2:31      Thou, O king, sawest, and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee; and the form thereof was terrible. 

 2:32      This image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, 

 2:33      His legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay.

 

 2:34      Thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and brake them to pieces. 

 2:35      Then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken to pieces together, and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floors; and the wind carried them away, that no place was found for them: and the stone that smote the image became a great mountain, and filled the whole earth. 

 2:36      This is the dream; and we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king.

 

 The image in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream would have looked something like this according to the pictures and drawings that have been found at the sites of these ancient cities.

 

 

 

 2:37      Thou, O king, art a king of kings: for the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. 

 2:38      And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath he given into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them all. Thou art the head of gold.

 

 

Notice that the parts of this image were of different metals, why do you think God made it this way in the kings dream ?  Well, it is interesting that history shows that Babylon was indeed the Golden Kingdom.  She possessed more of this precious metal than the kingdoms that followed her.

 

2:39 And after thee shall arise another kingdom

inferior to thee,

 

The next kingdom was represented by

 

              

 

 

 What kingdom conquered Babylon ?  The Medio Persians.  They were known for their abundance of silver.  Not as rich as Babylon but still very prosperous during their reign.

 

and another third kingdom of brass..

 

 

Do you remember Alexander The Great ?

What nation was ruled by Alexander ?

Greece.

 

Under his leadership the Greeks destroyed the

 Medio Persian Empire .

 

And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron;

 

What nation came up after Greece ?

 

The Roman Kingdom headquartered in Italy with its capital being the city of Rome.

 

 

 

 2:41      And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters' clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 

 2:42      And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 

 2:43      And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

 

Iron and clay will not stick together, have you ever tried it ?  The kingdom of

Rome was strong for about 200 years and then it began to fall apart because of pleasure seeking and as we would say today, life became a party of drunkenness and immorality.

 

The Romans were invaded by 10 Germanic tribes from the north and divided into the 10 nations that form the basis of modern Europe. 

 

Look again at verse 43:

 

2:43 And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.

 

These German tribes were all related .  They were in one sense one big family. So they thought if they intermarry with each other in the families that were the rulers of each nation, they would never have war or trouble between themselves.  Did it work ?  No they have fought each other and barely managed to keep their 10 nations from totally falling apart.  They are still divided on many issues but the Catholic Church is trying hard to unite Europe and form a so called Holy Roman Empire !

 

Will they succeed ?  Never !

Why will they not succeed ?

They will not succeed because the Word of The Living God, The Mighty Creator of Heaven and earth said:

 

“they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”

 

Napoleon tried to gain control over Europe on behalf of the Catholic Church under the direction of the Rothchilds  and the Jesuit Order. Napoleon was a tool of the Illuminati which was formed in 1776.  Then came the horror of the French Revolution, which was the first experiment in the doctrines of communism.  From that terrible event in France, Napoleon was chosen to bring Europe under the control of the Jesuit Rothchild Illuminati.  Napoleon failed.  He is reported to have said after his defeat at Waterloo, God Almighty has been too much for me” !

 

Napoleon thought he could prove The Word of God false.  God said, “they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay.”

 

The Catholic Church tried to defeat this Prophecy in World War One,  They tried again in World War Two.  They are trying Again through the European Union !  They  will not succeed !  No man can defeat the Word of God !

 

Ever hear of the New World Order !

 You surely have it is common talk today !  The Jewish, Jesuit, Catholic Illuminatti   is trying, not to just unite Europe but to bring the whole world  under the direct control of the

Roman Catholic Church !

 

It is not just a “New World Order”

It is a

 

 

“Catholic

New World

 Order” !

 

Will they succeed ?  Never !

Look at the next verse. 

 

Daniel 2: 44.

  

 

 2:44      "And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever." 

 2:45      "Forasmuch as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it brake in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold; the Great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter: and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof sure."