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The Daniel is one of the only books in the Old Testament that focuses on the Gentile kingdoms that will rule the earth over a period of these five kingdoms, okay, going from Babylon all the way down to the Antichrist kingdom, the iron mixed with clay. And so if you look at it, it's one of the few times God takes it upon himself to give us prophetically how the Gentile kingdoms will rule the earth. And it starts with the head of gold, Babylon, and it finishes with the iron and clay. And today we're going to really focus on the iron and clay at the end of that. A couple weeks ago, we took the whole chapter. But it's amazing, actually, when you look at the Gentile kingdoms that ruled the earth and the spirit behind them. And at some point, we're going to get to Daniel and chapter 10 and Daniel chapter 7, these other ones where you see the spiritual war of these Gentile kingdoms in the background. And remember, at some point, Daniel fasts and prays for 21 days, and the angel breaks through to him because the prince of the power of Persia was fighting and withholding him. And that's that spirit behind the. The empire of Persia that conquers Babylon. And what the angel says to him is, I must leave now because I've got to go fight the prince of the power of Grecia. And at that point, Greece was just this little island nation, but there's a spirit behind it, and that spirit that was driving Greece to take over the world ultimately, with Alexander the Great, it's incredible when you look at how the enemy tries to rule the earth through these different kingdoms. And so. Oh, is it good? Okay. All right. See if it works. Yes. All right, so then you've got. If you think about Alexander the Great, when he came in Daniel, he finds himself in the book of Daniel, the priest shows it to him and he spares the city, which is pretty amazing. And then, of course, Saddam Hussein tried to rebuild Babylon and along the banks of the Euphrates, and he has this synthetic mountain built with this palace of trying to reconstruct the palace of Nebuchadnezzar and the banquet hall and all these things. It's just incredible when you look at history of how these Gentile nations try to grab ahold of that power and use it to dominate the world. But Daniel is a beloved prophet, and he's validated as a prophet in Matthew by Jesus himself and in Mark. And even Abraham was only spoken of as called a friend of God in Isaiah 41:8 and 2 Chronicles 20 verse 7. Three times God declares that Daniel is greatly beloved in chapter 9, verse 23, chapter 10, 11 and chapter 10, verse 19. And he's the only one in the Old Testament that that name or that title is used of him directly, which is really a testament to Daniel and how much the Lord loved him and valued him. He's spoken of three times in Ezekiel as being so righteous that he would not even be able to spare the city had he been there at that time. And so if you remember, if you've gone through the book of Ezekiel, God's going to destroy the city. And he tells them, hey, even if Noah, Daniel and Job were in it, I wouldn't. Their righteousness wouldn't save this city. They would save their own soul, but not the city. And there's actually a lesson there that righteous people dwelling in a place can impact that land and that city, that property, how the city operates and is governed. And it can get to a point, though the city is so bad that it doesn't matter how righteous the people, a few people are that are in it, they can't spare it. But the opposite is true. If you can turn the tide in the city and have righteousness dwell in the city and the light of the world in the city. It's one of the reasons why Christians need to get more involved in local politics and local government and school boards. And for too many decades, Christians have taken the attitude of, well, we'll just let someone else deal with that. And they've retreated, nationally speaking. And when the light retreats, darkness creeps in for sure. And we, and we've let it go too far in a lot of ways in the city or in this nation. Okay, in the chapters one through six, okay, the outline here, they are chapters, they're historical, mainly in nature with some visions. And really a lot of the heavy prophecy starts around chapter seven and to the end to chapter 12. And we're going to see in chapter seven through 12 some very interesting things about the Antichrist. And one of the things that happens In Daniel, chapter 11, we'll learn that the nation of Jordan, what we would call modern day Jordan, does not fall under the leadership or the conquering of the Antichrist. And there's a lot of speculation as to why. But when you're seeing what's going on in the Middle east right now, just keep those kind of things in mind as you watch the pages of the Bible unfold. But what we learn in Daniel and Jeremiah and Isaiah, Obadiah and Hosea and all these Prophecies about the Middle East. Just pay attention to what's going on over there politically because things are shaping up in a big way. Okay, now keep in mind as we're going through too, one through four chapters one through four are in order, but chronologically in your Bible, the next chapter in time would be seven, then eight, then back to five. And so there's a list of how the chapters go in chronological order. Why God put it in the Bible the way he did is something that we'll have to explore as we're going. But it's interesting that he doesn't write it in chronological order in your, in the word of God. He puts the books in a different order or the chapters, I should say, in a different order. Okay, we've gone through this chart. My, my awesome excel chart. Extremely. It's such a good chart to even look at. It's so beautiful. Look at all these colors. But the first, second and third siege of Nebuchadnezzar on Jerusalem, Daniel's taken in the first siege and that actually starts the servitude of the nation. The desolations of Jerusalem started the third siege and then the servitude of the nation. That 70 year period, it ends with the decree of Cyrus. And that's really what starts the Persian Empire, okay, From that point on when Persia comes in and he and Cyrus, the general who's prophesied in Isaiah conquers Babylon and he is shown in the, in the book of Isaiah, probably by Daniel. A lot of, a lot of scholars think, but the Bible doesn't necessarily say, but it was probably Daniel that showed him in the book of Isaiah where he was called out by name as God's servant and what he would do to go rebuild the temple. But that starts. And then after that decree, when you fast forward a little bit after the desolations of Jerusalem, also a 70 year period, the decree of Artaxerxes is to go and rebuild the wall and the city, the street, okay? And so that starts actually the 70 weeks of Daniel. So the 77 year periods that are all about Jesus. So from that decree to when Jesus rides in on the donkey in Luke, as you see in the New Testament, is exactly 483 years to the day. So it's 69 of those 70 weeks. And we're going to unpack that prophecy in detail when we get there. But then the final seven year period is when this kingdom of iron mixed with clay rules the earth as the Antichrist kingdom. That's the 70th week of Daniel that final seven year period. Okay, so we're going to just look at the kind of the metals again and the iron mixed with clay here and kind of dive into that side of it. But going all the way down in verse 31, Here, thou, O king, sawest and behold a great image. So remember, all of this is leading up to, if you remember the beginning of chapter two, Nebuchadnezzar has this dream. It terrifies him. He goes and calls the astrologers and the witchcraft PR practicing sorcerers and warlocks and these wizards and people, and they try to come into. And he demands, you will explain the dream to me and the interpretation thereof. And of course they say, hey, we can't do that. No man could tell you what dream you had. And Daniel and his friends, he goes and tells the, the guy that's put over them in the, in the cell, basically, hey, let us go to the God of Israel. He'll give us the dream and the interpretation of it. And so they go and Daniel prays with his three friends and they get Daniel gets the dream and the interpretation and goes to Nebuchadnezzar. And so here he is giving Nebuchadnezzar exactly what he saw, which can only be given by God, right? It's a very, it's a pretty amazing thing. So in verse 31 here he says, thou, O king, saw us and behold a great image. This great image whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. Now it doesn't say that the, that the image or the statue is a man, although that's the assumption when you look at all the artwork that people draw, that the image is a man. It doesn't necessarily say that. He says it's a terrible, the image thereof was terrible. So just keep that in mind. The image's head was of fine gold, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, and his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. Okay? So the metals represent the Gentile kingdoms. Going in order from the gold is Babylon. And in chapter seven we're going to see Daniel gets this vision of these animals that represent the same kingdom, okay. Or the same kingdoms. In Daniel 7, Babylon is represented by a winged lion. So then silver is Persia. In chapter seven it's a bear on his side. Greece is the brass. In chapter seven it's a leopard. Iron is the Rome is Rome. In chapter seven, it's a terrible beast is what Daniel sees. Then there's the iron and clay Mixed together, which is the final world empire with the Antichrist or these fallen entities, the ten heads in Daniel 7, ten horns in Revelation 12. And so those are kind of the order the medals go in decreasing order of value and worth. Keep that in mind. From brass all the way to iron and clay, which you really can't do much with. They go in decreasing order of usefulness for kingship, from kingship down to forging weapons. And so it's kind of amazing. They go and they get worse and worse and less valuable until the very end when Jesus comes and sets up his kingdom. So they also decrease in specific gravity. We talked about that a couple weeks ago, which means they literally physically get closer and closer to water. And Jesus said, I am the living water. So we're getting closer through these kingdoms to the living water himself setting up his throne. And now I know all of you remember from two weeks ago, that specific gravity is taken at 39.2 degrees F. But in case you forgot, that's your fun, your fun fact for the day. So if anyone, you can just challenge all your friends with that 39.2 degrees F. So they continually get closer to the true kingdom being established. And you can look at that. There's those numbers again, from gold at 19.32 down to iron and clay, which is just around 2 or just less than 2. Okay, here's the picture we looked at last time. And I think people assume the statue is a man because it's ruled by Gentile kings. And the Lord does use personal pronouns in giving the dream to Nebuchadnezzar, his arms, his head. And so that's where the assumption comes from. But just keep in mind, Daniel interprets it as, you saw a terrible image. So here you have Babylon as the head of gold, Persia, the chest, the arms of silver, the abdominal area, grease, the gold, silver, brass, and then the iron, which is Rome. And remember, Rome had two legs. So when Rome ruled the world, they had in Rome, Italy, and then they had a headquartered section in Turkey, in Constantinople. And so you had these two, or Istanbul, whatever you want to call it, but that area of the earth. So these two legs of Rome, the eastern leg of Rome, outlived the western leg for a long time. I remember exactly how many years. But. And then the final kingdom, the feet of iron mixed with clay, which a lot of people, because it comes off the legs, tend to believe, or you might hear this in Bible circles, roam in two phases. And they talk about the second phase of Rome ruling the world. One of the Things that Rome did that's unique to all these kingdoms is what you would call imperialism. So they would go. Whereas what you're seeing with Nebuchadnezzar, Nebuchadnezzar would go and he'd conquer a land and take the best of it and incorporate into his kingdom. Rome forced their beliefs and their system on whatever they conquered. And so they would go in imperialism. They'd go and set up, you know, people to rule over this region and keep the peace, but usher in their religion or whatever it was. It's kind of interesting. And so that's going to happen in the Antichrist kingdom, as you see in Revelation a lot. Okay. In verse 34, Daniel says to Nebuchadnezzar, thou sawest till that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet that were of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. So this stone, Daniel didn't have the book of Psalms yet, but look at Psalms 118:22. The stone which the builders refused has become the headstone of the corner. And so the builders, being the Jewish people, and when they rejected the stone cut without hands, that stone becomes the headstone of the corner which the entire world will be built on, and his kingdom will fill the earth. In Matthew 21:42, Jesus saith unto them, did you never read in the Scriptures, the stone which the builders rejected the same has become the head of the corner. This is the Lord's doing, and it is marvelous in our eyes. So remember when the Pharisees and the Sadducees and all these different groups wanted to reject Christ? And he's telling them, did you not read in the Scripture the stone which the builders rejected? He's quoting Psalms 1:18 22. Now, the stone, the rock that followed them in the wilderness, and the rock, throughout the entire Bible, it always speaks of Jesus, 1st Corinthians 10:4. And did all drink the same spiritual drink, for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them, and that rock was Christ. So he's going back and looking in the wilderness wanderings that he's making the typology that throughout the Bible, when you see the rock, the rock of ages in Daniel, the stone cut without hands, the stone the builders rejected, the rock that will either you either fall on it and surrender to it, or it will fall on you and crush you. The rock throughout the Scripture always speaks of Jesus. He is the rock of ages. And so you just have to keep that in mind as you're reading the Bible. This typology throughout scripture, it stays consistent, which is why it's a thumbprint of the Holy Spirit throughout the Bible. Now, Jesus destroys the final world kingdom at the end of the Tribulation when he returns in Revelation 19 and we are with him. Okay? Then was the iron, the clay, the brass in verse 35, here the silver and the gold broke into pieces together and became like the chaff of the summer threshing floor. 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. Now the wind carries these other kingdoms away. See, the metals are built one on another. And so there is a type or some attribute of the last kingdom that's operative in the next one. And what God is saying here is when this stone, when it comes back, the stone cut without hands and destroys the Antichrist kingdom, all of the other kingdoms, the Gentile world order, everything the World Economic Forum tries to put in the un, the club of Rome, these leagues of nations. You saw it during COVID with the montage of all the world leaders saying, we need a one world answer to this. We need a one world answer this. They're all saying the exact same script that was handed to them. What God is saying is that thread of Gentile rulership over the earth will never come into play again. It's gone forever. It's going to be done away with. So this is the dream and. And we will tell the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art a king of kings. For the God of heaven hath given thee a kingdom, power and strength and glory. Now keep in mind Daniel 2:21, that was earlier in the chapter, speaking of God Almighty. 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. So God alone sets up and takes down kings. No one else does. The Lord does this. And wheresoever in verse 38, here the children of man 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 this head of gold. And after thee shall arise another kingdom inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron. For as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdue with all things, and as iron that breaketh all these, shall it break in pieces and bruise. So Rome did that Rome was known for coming in and just decimating nations. They bruised everywhere they went. And that's what God prophesied there in verse 40. And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, so the final kingdom is just the feet, okay? And it's interesting, too, that the feet represent what the whole statue is standing on. It's the base. It's what they're trying to ultimately build a gentile empire off of. Part of potter's clay and part of iron. The kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron. For as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay, and as the toes of the feet were part of iron, part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken. Okay? Now the ten toes represent the ten kings of the final world, kingdom or empire. And look at Revelation 12. 3. And there appeared another wonder in heaven. And behold a great red dragon having seven heads, ten horns, and seven crowns upon his head. So in the book of Revelation, when you get to Revelation 12, if you've never really studied the book, it's written in this heptatic structure where there's six things and then there's a break where God explains something that opens the seventh, and the seventh then opens up the next six items. So the six seals go. And then there's a pause. The seventh seal opens up the seven trumpets. So then the six trumpets go. There's a pause. God explains something. The seventh trumpet opens the seven bowls. The six bowls go. Then there's a pause. Well, Revelation 12 is one of those pauses in the book. And what it does is it outlines basically the whole Bible in one chapter. And it talks about the man child, the red dragon that's there with the woman clothed with the sun and the moon and. And the 12 stars, it's representing Israel. It goes all the way back to Joseph's dream that he had, remember? And he went and told it to his dad, Jacob, and it frightened his brothers. Remember? They were all like, well, who are you to dream and tell us that we're going to serve you someday? And if you remember that dream, Jacob, God says in Genesis. But Jacob kept the matter in mind, and he held onto it. He remembered that dream of Joseph for a long time. But the woman in the 12 stars represents Israel. She's giving birth to the man child, who represents Jesus. The dragon, the red dragon is Satan, obviously. And then he's there to devour the man child. He's trying to destroy Jesus before he can rule the earth. And that dragon has seven heads and ten horns and seven crowns upon his heads. Well, the seven heads are the seven. The ten toes in Daniel two represent the ten kings. Three of them get destroyed by the Antichrist. So there's seven left. That's those seven heads. And it's also seven heads is Satan's seven super kingdoms we'll look at in a minute. Okay, stay with me. I know we sprung forward, but stay with me here. Wake up, grab some coffee. And seven crowns upon his heads. Okay, so you have the ten kings that have been trying to set up these ten regions going all the way back before World War II. Really? Well, then you fast forward to Revelation 17, 9, 13. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. I love when God says that anytime in the Bible you read here's a mind that hath wisdom. Just sit on that for a minute and tell the Lord God, I need wisdom. You need to show this to me and go get wisdom from the book of Proverbs. Wisdom is a personal pronoun in Proverbs and speaks of Jesus. But the seven heads are seven mountains on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings. Five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come. And when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings which have received no kingdom as yet. So they're not on a map yet. Don't try to find these 10 regions or kingdoms, but receive power as kings. One hour with the beast. In other words, when the Antichrist and these ten kings or rulers rule the earth, they're going to receive power for a short time with the Antichrist. These have one mind and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. Okay, so this is kind of to break that down. These ten kings are possibly some type of oligarchy. Okay, think. I know we've talked about this in the past, but think how many people right now in big Tech and these billionaires that influence the World Economic Forum. And think about in 2020, why were unelected officials trying to dictate what you and I did in our daily lives? It's that spirit of Antichrist trying to creep in. That's what it's from. It's from Daniel 2 and Revelation 17 and Revelation 13. And it's that spirit of Antichrist trying to creep in to take over the earth. And what was happening in during COVID in 2020. I can't believe that was six years ago now, this month. But what was happening was the spirit of Antichrist was trying to catch the Church in the tribulation. He was trying to push it into being with the church still here and not raptured home yet. Because Satan seeks to change times and seasons from Daniel 7, verse 25, whereas God sets them in order. So Satan's war is always against the Word. If he can corrupt God's Word and get something to happen that God didn't say would, or get something not to happen that God said would happen, Satan wants to twist God's word and usurp it. If he can do that, he thinks he wins. And so that's his wars with the Word since the Garden of Eden. So these seven heads or mountains, okay, when the Holy Spirit gives John the book of Revelation and he gets that prophecy in that chapter, indeed, Rome did sit on seven mountains. There's a deeper meaning, though. These seven mountains are Satan's seven gentile kingdoms going all the way back to Egypt. So you have Egypt, Assyria, Babylon, Persia, Greece, Rome, and then the final Antichrist kingdom with the ten kings. When he says, when the Holy Spirit says the beast that was and is not, that's in Revelation 17:11. It's my personal suspicion that he's talking about Assyria, because right now you can find all of these nations on a map somewhere. Except the Antichrist kingdom, of course. But except Assyria, you can't find Assyria anywhere on a map. It's kind of the borders are gone, the people are gone. They don't really have any major homeland. But Egypt you can find the city of Babylon is still there. Persia right now is being turned over by God over in Iran. Greece is still there. Rome is there. So Those are Satan's seven super kingdoms. Now in Revelation 17:11, the little horn rises up and puts three down. So when I mention a lot that the Antichrist comes out of those ten kings, puts three of the kings down, and they consolidate power. It's from this verse in Revelation 17:11. And the beast that was and is not even he is the eighth and is of the seven, and goeth in perdition. Sorry, no, it's not 1711. It's there in the chapter. I guess I didn't put that in your notes. But they consolidate power to him, the Antichrist. Now this is interesting. He's referred to as the Assyrian multiple times in the Old Testament in Micah 5, 5, and this man shall be the peace. When the Assyrian So that's a personal name by God given to someone very specific. The Assyrian shall come into our land, and when he shall tread it, tread in our palaces, then shall we raise against him seven shepherds and eight principal men. Now, people have spent thousands of years trying to figure out what is God talking about with the seven shepherds and the eight principal men. And to be honest, you can go and explore all kinds of commentaries and Bible helps and things, and no one really has an answer that I've ever seen. That. That just feels awesome. That feels great. I don't know if we actually know. That may be something that is a mystery still to us. But during the Tribulation, when the Antichrist treads the palaces of Israel and enters their land, God raises up against him seven shepherds and eight principal men. Now, these are not, you know, the two witnesses in Revelation are separate. The 144,000 in Revelation are separate. So this is a different group that God raises up in some regard during that season in the Tribulation. Look at Isaiah 14:25, that I will break the Assyrian in my land. So notice whose land it is, number one. It's God's land. His name is on the land of Israel. His name is on Mount Zion. His name is on that land that he promised to Abraham all the way back in Genesis. And it hasn't changed. And so all of these nations that sit around and argue about, well, we need this Palestinian state, or we need to divide the land and give it to so, and so they literally are poking their finger in the eye of God every single time they do that. And it did not turn out well for England after World War II when they annexed part of that land and gave it to Jordan and created Transjordania or Jordan today. They've never been the same since then. So nations have to beware of whose land it truly is. And God says it's his land throughout the Bible. And upon my mountains tread him underfoot. Then shall his yoke depart from off them, and his burden depart from off their shoulders. So God is going to take care of the Antichrist, the Assyrian that walks in this land and tries to take it over, as the prophecy in Daniel 2 says. Okay, so the next verse. This is the verse that gives rise to so many speculations just in the Christian community. So just look at this in verse 43. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they so God turns it to a personal pronoun. The iron mixed with miry clay they shall mingle themselves with with the Seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. So this verse just gives rise to a lot of speculation. What is God talking about here? Clearly the iron and the clay. So whoever they are, they are trying to mingle or co. Mingle themselves with the seed of men. So whoever they are can't be the seed of men. They're trying to. They're trying to do some kind of human genetic experiment or something to mingle themselves with the seed of men. Now, Jesus is a man, 100% man, 100% God. He's the creator of the universe. He has dominion over everything. Now we, as mankind lost dominion to planet Earth in the garden when it was forfeited to Satan and the enemy. And first John talks about that. But that's part of the reason why Jesus has to come forward and take the scroll out of God's hands. In Revelation 4 and 5, he's taking dominion back of everything that was lost. The enemy, all the way back to Genesis, has wanted to create man in his image, not in God's image. Satan is as sick and twisted as you can even imagine. And he has always wanted to create man in his image. He did it back in Genesis 6 with the flood. Before the flood, he did it. He's doing it today with genetic manipulation in a lot of different ways. He's trying to twist the genome of man and corrupt God's creation. Okay, in Matthew 24:37, look what Jesus said. But as the days of Noah were, so also will the coming of the Son of Man be. So when Jesus returns in Revelation 19 to destroy that kingdom, it will be like the days of Noah. So you've got to really understand the days of Noah to understand what you're looking at when the. What will the environment be like when Jesus comes back? Now, that's in the tribulation, not before the rapture of the church and all those things. But when you're seeing that setup of it becoming like the days of Noah down ahead, down the road, then you shouldn't realize, okay, the Rapture must be that much closer because that is definitely setting up, okay, in Jude 1, verse 6, when we went through Jude here at the church, but in the angels, which kept not their first estate, but left their own habitation, he hath reserved in everlasting chains under darkness unto the judgment of that great day. So these angels left their own Oketrian, okay, they left their first estate, what God had given them, going all the way back to Genesis 6 they came down. And it's not in the Bible, but according to a lot of Jewish writings, these fallen angels that came to the earth in Genesis and created this illegitimate offspring, the Nephilim, came down on Mount Hermon, exchanged knowledge with mankind in exchange to try to corrupt the human genome. And you can see this reference again in 2nd Peter 2. 4. For if God spared not the angels that sinned, but cast them down to hell or Tartarus and delivered them into chains of darkness to be reserved unto judgment. So that word okaterion from Jude, it means a dwelling place, habitation of the body as a dwelling place for the Spirit. Now, Second Corinthians 5, 2, this is for you and I what we groan for. For in this we groan earnestly and desiring to be clothed upon with our house, which is from heaven, or our okaterian, our final resurrected body. And if you read 1st and 2nd Corinthians, the Holy Spirit through Paul, he was obsessed with not wanting to die before the Rapture. He wanted to. He didn't. He called it being naked, being in the Spirit with the Lord. But you don't have your resurrected body yet, because we all, the church, we all get our resurrected body at the Rapture. At the last trump, you shall be changed when incorruptible shall show or corruptible is put on incorruptible. Okay? So the body which those angels disrobe themselves of, it's the same body that we aspire to put on our okaterian, Our. Our eternal habitation. It doesn't mean you and I will become angels. I don't mean that. Your body will be very different, Jesus. Remember in the scripture it said, we will be like him. Jesus in his resurrected body, for we shall be changed. So however Jesus was in his resurrected body, you will be similar in some regard to that. And that's what you and I have to look forward to. No more. No more pains of any kind. I don't know if we sleep in heaven. I have no idea. That would be kind of interesting to think about, though. Does your. But does your immortal body need restoration via sleep? I don't know. We do get to eat a lot. We know that Jesus ate in his resurrected body. And throughout the scripture, a lot of our rewards are tied to eating and dining with the king. So that's awesome. Tartarus, that Tartaro. It's the word Tartarus. Okay? This is the only place in the Bible God uses it in second Peter 2. 4. And it's a very unique place prepared by God. For. For the angels that sinned all the way back in Genesis 6, and if you go down and you read Genesis 61 4, and it came to pass when men began to multiply on the face of the earth and daughters were born unto them, that the sons of God, so that in Hebrew is the Benai Elohim saw the daughters of man, that they were fair, and they took them wives of all which they chose. And. And the Lord said, my spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh, yet his day shall be 120 years. And indeed from that point to the flood was exactly 120 years. So there were giants or Nephilim or Nephale. Nephilim in the earth in those days. And also after that, when the sons of God came in, the daughters of men, and they bear children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown. So when you hear Jesus talk about the days of Noah, you have to really understand the complete wickedness and the manipulation of mankind that Satan was after. He had gotten with it so far that Noah and his family were the only unblemished humans on planet Earth again at that point. And so those eight people that went into the ark, God had to reset the entire human line at that point. So what Jesus is saying is when you fast forward to what the environment will be like when I come back to rule and reign, it will be similar. It'll be like the days of Noah. And when you look at what's going on in the world right now, you can see it. You can see how the enemy tries to corrupt so much. The whole transhumanism movement, the movement of you trying to. They have an AI bot now that you can download all of your dead relatives, social media posts and accounts into and it will take them and continue their feed for them after they're dead. So it will post on Facebook like updates or messages to you of, hey, happy birthday or whatever. It's weird. It's so weird. But Satan is trying to do that. He's trying to. It's necromancy. It's. He's trying to corrupt the human. The human line for sure. Heterose. So going after strange flesh back in Jude 1:7. In the Greek, it's. It's heterose in Greek, not allos. And so heteros means the same nature, form, class of, or kind, but different. So it's the other kind. They were going after a flesh not of their kind. That's what that Greek word means anywhere in The Old Testament, you see the word benaihe Elohim. It literally means angels of God. And it's used in Job, Genesis 6:2, Job 1:6, Job 2:1. You see it in Job a lot because remember the Satan and the sons of God come to God and they're talking and discoursing with him about Job and about mankind. Now we're creating God's image and the Messiah was to be of the human race to save mankind. You see that in Genesis 3:15. Thus the enemy tried to create man in his image and completely corrupt the human genome. But Jesus was victorious, praise God in 1st Peter 3:19, 20, by which also he went and preached unto the spirits in prison, the ones that sinned back in Genesis, which sometime were disobedient, when once the long suffering of God waited in the days of Noah, while the ark was a Preparing, wherein few, that is eight souls, were saved by water. Now that verse in First Peter 3, he didn't go to preach, you know, repentance or preach in the way we think of preaching. That word in the Greek literally means to declare victory. He went to declare to those angels, you try to stop me from arriving to save my creation and save mankind. But I won. I was victorious. And so he went to go declare victory to them and show them that he alone has the keys of death, hell and the grave. So the attempt was to stop any chance of the Messiah arriving. So then when you think about, when you study those hybrid creatures throughout the Bible, we looked at them in Joshua not that long ago when they came in, and Caleb and Joshua fought the Anakim and these long necked, necked creatures, they defeated Og, the king of Bashan, who had 24, you know, six fingers and six toes on each hand, had 24 digits. And they fought these things that were giants. They were huge. They were the things that movies are made out of. But God's people had to conquer them constantly in the land and fight with them always because Satan is trying to stop them from taking what's rightfully theirs. To have the Messiah come to save all of mankind and Jesus to set up his kingdom. It's just that simple. So when you see, when you see people today like Yuval, Noah, Harari at the World Economic Forum make statements like, well, in the future, what will define humanity? And he goes on these speeches about, well, will you be man or will you be a transhuman? Meaning not really man, not fully 100% man. And you see in Revelation 13, whoever takes the mark of the beast is forbidden from Being saved in the tribulation. If they take the mark, it is literally that's it, they've made their decision, they can no longer be saved. What is that about? You know, we don't really know because we always think of, well, God's salvation is strong enough to overcome anything, but maybe it doesn't, maybe it can't overcome a non human. I don't know. There's a lot of questions around those kind of things. And like the Bible says, we see through a glass dimly, but at some point we'll see it all. And it's just very interesting to think about. Now, those Nephilim returned after the flood, mainly through the Tower of Babel and other things that Satan tried to do again with dark witchcraft and black magic and sorcery and opening those gateways. And you see that at CERN, CERN's trying to attempt to open a gateway to the other side. And when you listen to their scientists, they talk about entities that they discuss with and who they've talked to on the other side. The guy from that message I gave about quantum computing a while back, when that guy talks about the founder of that quantum computing company, you know, all these politicians are sitting around arguing about what's in the healthcare bill, and meanwhile we're opening up dimensions to other gateways to other dimensions. And they have no idea that these entities could come through like a flood and just wipe out the earth. And they're talking about it in the open, and it's just wild. Mondo talked last week about the Age of Disclosure, that documentary I've been watching and going through it. It's really good if you haven't seen it, but it's really well documented what they're seeing. But you have to look at all that through the lens of the Bible. And what they're seeing is these angelic behavior. Beings of some kind that are rebelling against God to try to strike fear into mankind are showing up in weird ways, and they have been for a lot of decades. But that's. The whole movement is pushing back to the days of Noah. So that's where it's heading now. The antichrist in Daniel 8, verse 10, this is a prophecy about him. And it waxed great, even the host of heaven. And it cast down some of the host and of the stars to the ground and stamped on them. So the little horn, the Antichrist, it makes war not just on the earth, but with some type of angelic entities or beings in heaven. So, and you see that in Revelations 12, Revelation, chapter 12, 7, 8. And there was war in heaven. Michael and his angels fought against the dragon and, and the dragon fought and his angels and prevailed not. Neither was their place found anymore in heaven now. So this, this war in the heavenlies, that's going to cascade onto the earth, you just have to see as that begins to unfold and that veil is thinning and thinning and thinning and we're pressing on toward that time. You have to be aware, because the only thing we're promised is that we won't see the Antichrist. We're promised that. Now how much of this war in the heavenlies and things will manifest on the earth before the Rapture? We have no idea. You're seeing a lot of it right now. The main war from Revelation 12, 7, 8 happens during the Tribulation. So you will not be here for that. Praise God. But I always thought this quote was interesting too, because Ronald Reagan, he made a statement a long time ago. He said, the only thing that will unite the Earth is an intergalactic attack from the outside. And that was long before this whole disclosure and all this stuff happening. That was in the 80s, I think that he said that, but I don't think he was a prophet, but he knew he recognized something. And so that's just very interesting because the enemy's attack is always on the word of God. And the enemy despises mankind because we get to rule and be co heirs with Christ. And that is the great news now. The great news despite all of that corruption and they trying to mingle themselves in the seed of men again, but they shall not cleave one to another after they try to do that in the days of these kings, shall the God of heaven in verse 44, set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and the kingdom shall not be left to other people. So no matter what you see, no matter if you see some alien mothership hover over Manhattan, just know Jesus is going to defeat whatever that is. And it's going to come at a point where we go up in the rapture of the church. We're going to be there in the throne room of the universe, praising God and celebrating with him as all of this unfolds on planet Earth. And we're going to come back with Christ and watch him destroy his enemies, and according to Romans, put Satan under his foot, and you're going to be given the chance to stand upon your enemy, on your enemy that day. It's going to be pretty amazing. And the kingdom shall not be left to Other people. He will rule forever. In my daily reading right now I'm in First and Second Kings and just finished Second Samuel with David taking over. But all the promises of God to David, I should say I said Daniel, all the promises of God to David, that he and someone from his line would sit on the throne forever. It's constantly reiterated to him. And that's what you're seeing right here. Because the kingdom shall not be left to other people. There is no heir successor to Jesus. For as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it break in pieces the iron and the brass, the clay, the silver, 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. Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face and worshiped Daniel again. Mistake. He should worship the God of Daniel and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odors unto him. Offer them to God, not to Daniel. The king answered unto Daniel and said of a truth it is that your God is a God of gods and a Lord of kings and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret. Then the king made Daniel a great man and gave him many great gifts and made him ruler over the whole province of Babylon and chief of the governors over all the wise men of Babylon. Then Daniel requested of the king and he set Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego. Remember Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah, They're Israeli godly names over the affairs of the province of Babylon. But Daniel sat in the gate of the king and Jesus will rule. Now what you see right now is the entire world trying to call Jesus onto the battlefield constantly with how they treat his children, with how they treat Israel, with the abominations that they are worshiping false idols constantly across the world, they are trying to put in this imperial rule of the earth, all while disregarding God's creation, his people, the children of the earth, etc, and it does not stand forever. And when you look at this in Psalms 2. So Psalms 2 is A. It's a. It's an amazing psalm, but it is one of the few times where you see the entire, the entire Bible. Oh, I forgot this was. I didn't have this in the notes, I don't think. Is it in your notes? It is. It is. Okay. All right. In the Bible, you see, this is a dialogue of the Trinity. So in Psalms 2, starting in verse 1. Look at this. Look at what the Lord is saying and what I put on the side for you. 1, 4 is the Holy Spirit speaking. Verse 5 and 6 is the Father, then the Son, then the Father again, and then it closes the Holy Spirit. So it works from the midpoint is the Son Jesus and goes out to the Father and then the Holy Spirit. So this is a firsthand account of the Trinity sitting around and talking about this. I think this is so amazing. Why do the heathen rage and the people imagine a vain thing? So this Holy Spirit asking, why are they raging? Why do people imagine this vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, against the Lord the Father, and against his anointed. So Jesus saying, now, this is now that he's quoting the kings of the earth. Let us break their bands asunder and cast away their cords from us. He that sitteth in the heavens shall laugh. The Lord shall have them in derision. Then the Father says, then shall he speak unto them in his wrath and vex them in his sore displeasure. Speaking of the Son, yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion. So he's speaking of Jesus. Then Jesus says, I will declare the decree. The Lord hath said unto me, thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. Then the Father says to the Son, ask of me, and I shall give thee the the heathen for thine inheritance. And the uttermost parts of the earth for thy possession. Thou shalt break them with a rod of iron. Thou shalt dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel. Then the Holy Spirit closes. Be wise now, therefore, O ye kings, be instructed, ye judges of the earth. Serve the Lord with fear and rejoice with trembling. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him. And so it's literally the most outrageous war, the most outrageous war man has ever declared, which is war against God himself. War. War against the Son of God. They're going to the kings of the earth come together. Let us break their bands asunder. In other words, let us do what we want to do. We don't want rulership of the Messiah. And you see this. If you go to Blue Letter Bible and you just type in he rode upon a cherub anywhere, you see this in the Bible. This is that time when the mountain cut without hands comes and destroys the entire Antichrist kingdom. At the end of the seven year tribulation at Armageddon. This is the scene. And he rode upon a cherub and did fly. Yea, he did fly upon the wings of the wind. And you see that in Ezekiel too. His throne with the cherub under them he made darkness his secret place, his pavilion Round about him were dark waters and thick clouds of the skies. At the brightness that was before him, his his thick clouds passed hailstones and coals of fire. The Lord also thundered in the heavens, and the highest gave his voice. Remember, he just destroys them with his word when he comes back. Hailstones and coals of fire. Yea, he sent out his arrows and scattered them, and he shot out lightnings and discomfited them. Then the channels of the waters were seen and the foundations of the world were discovered. At thy rebuke, O Lord, at the blast of the breath of thy nostrils. Can't wait to see that. To see the foundations of the earth and the channels of the sea just open up when he comes back. He sent from above. He took me. He drew me out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemy and from them which hated me, for they were too strong for me. They prevented me in the day of my calamity. But the Lord was my stay. He brought me forth also into a large place. He delivered me because he delighted in me. Praise God for that. So Jesus is going to come back. So whatever and you can find, There are scriptures all over the Bible of what it looks like when the Lord returns. In Zechariah 14 and Revelation 19. In Revelation earlier, the blood comes up to the horse's bridle. When he comes back, it's going to be. It's going to be amazing. But whatever we're going through right now is just temporary. And as we're living in this time and sojourning through this world right now, you and I have got to stay focused as a Daniel in that we too are a captive in a wicked society and we can't stop serving God. We've got to stay strong and follow exactly what the Lord says to us to do. Just like in Joshua 24:15, choose you this day whom you will serve. And right now, God is looking across to and fro across the earth. Remember, he says in the New Testament, Jesus said, pray for the laborers. The harvest is there. Pray for the laborers. The laborers are few. And he's looking right now for anyone that would raise their hand and say, God, I'll serve you. Just what would you have of me? I will do that, no matter how insignificant it may be in the world's eyes, it's significant to God and he just wants to know, can I trust you? And then see what happens next. Well, if you're here, if you don't know the Lord, it's very simple. Romans 10:9, that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, you shall be saved. So every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. You want to make sure you do that before you're forced to do it by bowing at his feet. You want to do it and bow at his feet. Now, there will come a time that you do confess that if you haven't accepted him, and if you're forced into it after you die and you have to make that confession, it's too late. But every knee will bow and every tongue will confess that Jesus is Lord. So Father, we come before you and we just thank you for this time together. God, I thank you so much for the book of Daniel. Thank you Lord, for preserving this book for us and structuring your word. God, we thank you for all of these prophecies throughout the Bible from COVID to cover. God, we thank you that we can have confidence and stand as we see the day approaching. And Lord, we just pray that each one of us would have the faith to stand no matter what the enemy throws at us. And God, we pray that we would take up the shield of faith and the sword of the spirit, both that are the word of God. Because faith comes by hearing and hearing by and only by the word of God. And so let us dig in and build up our faith to have the shield and to practice with the sword. And God, we pray for the peace of Jerusalem right now and the peace of your nation and your land. God, we know prophetically in the Bible that there are lots of wars to be yet to happen. And guys, we are seeing the setup of them over time. We pray right now that revival would sweep across the Middle east and this earth like never before so that more and more people can get into the Ark before it's too late, before you call us home in the rapture of the church. And we thank you God that we have that to look forward to. Our blessed hope from Titus and God, we cannot wait for that day when we hear a shout as the voice of a trumpet that shakes heaven and earth, that wakes the dead in Christ and we meet you in the air. And Lord, we are so looking forward to being with you and dining with you in your kingdom. And Lord, between now and that time, God, I just pray that you would give each one of us discernment and strength and that, Lord, you endow us with the oil of gladness. And that, God, we would walk exactly as you would have us to walk. So thank you again, God, for this time together. And we pray that you'd be with us in the week ahead and teach us how to pray for your people, your people overseas that right now need you so desperately. Lord, just protect your people in Iran and God, show them where to find refuge in the shadow of the Almighty God. We pray a supernatural hedge of protection around that church in Iran, Lord, going back to the covenant you made with Esther as the queen of Persia, Lord, from that time, you've had a heart for the Persian people, even before her, with Daniel, when he rose up to be prime minister in Persia. God, your name has been in that land for many, many centuries. And God, we pray that you would bring that to remembrance and that you would fight for your people there. And just like in the days of Esther, God, when the gallows turned on Haman, whatever they've set up in Iran to try to destroy your people, we pray that those gallows would turn on them. And God, we pray Babel in the camp of the enemy that there would be no more attacks on our soil. That God, you would. You would let Babel and confusion enter into the camp of the enemy. That Lord, they would turn on one another and run in complete terror because the spirit of the Lord is over this nation. And we pray that that would continue, Father. So thank you again for this time together. We love you and we just praise your name, Lord, in Jesus' name, amen.