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When he talks about the stone that’s cut out of the mountain without hands, and he’s talking about this stone is going to come down from somewhere and it’s going to hit the tin toes and destroy this cold image. See, Christ is the stone that comes down and smites this last world power and sets up his kingdom which will never be destroyed. The other thing that I found that was very interesting is several places, and I want you to see this.

Looked in Daniel chapter 2, and you’ll notice in verse 35, where it says in verse 35, it says, then was the iron, the clay, the brass, the silver, and the gold, broken two pieces, and look at that next word. That next word, together. Now wait a minute, one of them happened 500 years before the Roman Empire and then this last one is going to be at 2,000 years in between them. How can they all be destroyed together? So if there is a revival of the Roman Empire then there has to be a revival of all the empires.

So that doing this period of time all these kingdoms will be existing all at the same time in some form or another. Oh, that’s an interesting thought. Now I don’t know if you see what I’m talking about, but how can they all be destroyed at the same time unless they’re all existing at the same time? Remember, beast or image that they saw, the image was composed of or comprised of various kingdoms. So during this period of time, there is this beast that comes on the same and forms the image of the beast.

So the image is a conglomerate of nations that voluntarily come together and give their power unto a beast. In other words, there is one, one kingdom by which all the other kingdoms will become as one voice and become part. And we would probably not have understood some of this, but I want you to think for a moment. When a person wants to start a business and you get two or three people on a board, and then you follow the incorporation papers to the state.

And that secretary of state, she puts that seal on there. When she does this, she has just given life to a corpse. A corporation is a body. It’s a corpse. it gives it a legal standing as though it’s a legal person. And then people speak and move and act as though it is a person, but it’s not a real person. It’s just the image of a person. It looks like a person. It can act like a person, but it’s been given life.

Our state is incorporated. Our federal government is incorporated. But what if you got nations and bring them together and they’re all incorporated under one head, then that becomes an image that can speak and have life. Now I have to admit, I have never heard any other preacher say this, but that’s okay. It doesn’t mean I’m wrong. It’s just that I can’t prove them right. Take your Bible and look there in the book of Daniel in chapter 5. Daniel chapter 5 and look there in verse 1 where says, Bell Shazard, the king, made a great feast to a thousand of his lords and drank wine before the thousand.

Now this is what we believe to be the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, but it’s still under the Babylonian Empire. And it says that he had a nice banquet and lo and behold a man’s hand came out and wrote on the wall. The Bible says that it scared him to death. See, they’re in verse six. Then the king’s countenance was changed and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loose and his knees smote one against another.

That means he was scared to death. He trembled. He was afraid. So once again, Daniel is called for and he says, this is what’s going to happen. And what the hand wrote on the wall was found there in verse 25. This is the writing that was written. tickle the person. No. But anyway verse 26, this is the interpretation of the thing. Many who God hath numbered thy kingdom and finished it. So as I read this, the Babylonian, the head of God is over because then it says in verse 31, and Darius the Medes took the kingdom being about three score and two years old.

So now the Medes and the Persians have taken over so we know that the one is gone. And If you’ll notice in chapter 7 of Daniel, he says in the first year of Bill Shazor King of Babylon, Daniel had another vision and he says in verse 3, and four great beasts came up from the sea diverse, one from another. Each one was different from the other. Four great beasts. But now these four great beasts is that just the four that was mentioned in chapter 2, or if you look there in verse 17 where he says, these great beasts, which are four, are four kings which shall arise out of the earth.

So if Babylon was one and it’s over and numbered and finished, and now he says there’s four, but it says this when Belchaser was still in power, his dream. So that to me would mean five, not four. So if it’s four more and one is gone, well that makes sense. And so if you looked there in chapter 7 and it looked in verse 7, after this I saw in the night vision to behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth.

It devired and breaking pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of him and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it. And it had ten horns. So it says this one, which is the last one, is different from all the ones that went before it. So I’m not sure that this is going to be the revival of the Roman Empire because it says this last beast is different from all of those other ones. Possibility. But what makes it also important, if you look there in Daniel in chapter 7, where it says, in verse 13, I saw in the night visions and behold, one like the Son of Man came with the clouds of heaven and came to the ancient of days and they brought him near before him.

So this is also a reference to in the last days, I saw something, I saw something else. And he says in verse 14, And there was given unto him, Domingon and glory and a kingdom, that all people, nations and languages should serve him. I wonder who that is. His dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed. This is the stone without hands. He comes into the world, destroys the ten toes and sets up his kingdom up on the earth.

And when that happens, it makes the statement in verse 24, and the 10 horns out of this kingdom are 10 kings. And then in verse 25, when he talks about the head of this last world power, he shall speak great words against the most high and shall wear out the saints of the most high and think to change times and laws and they shall be given into his hand until they get this a time times and a dividing of time.

time is one year. Times two years, divided in time half a year, three half years. If you look up here, the seven year tribulation, because of the 70th week of Daniel, you have three and a half years. So-called peace and safety. This is when the power struggle begins to take over the Antichrist is revealed in the middle of the tribulation period. But when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction, so this is the last three and a half years which is known as the Great Tribulation.

All of it is the tribulation period but the last three and a half years is the worst period of time that any man has ever known on the face of the earth. So this is what’s ahead of us. So you see, Washington is not going to create a utopia up on this earth. It ain’t gonna happen. America is not going to be the Savior of the world. It’s going to get worse and worse and worse. The worst period of time in the whole world lies right ahead of us.

There’s never been a time like it before. So when you understand that, you’ll understand that, no, you don’t need to look to the White House. They’re not going to solve our problems. I don’t care who’s in power, it’s not going to happen. All they do is prolong a little bit of our peace and quietness, but you and I ought to know and understand it has to collapse. This bubble has to explode. You cannot sustain a government such as ours with all the government giveaway programs.

It will not happen. It cannot happen. Socialism does not work. And that’s where we are today in America. It’s what I don’t like that. I don’t care. I’m telling you the truth. Now, get what he says. Down in verse 27 he says, and the kingdom and dominion and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven shall be given to the people of the saints of the Most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom. And all the minions shall serve and obey him.

So we know in the end time, we, God’s people, are going to win. It will be given to the saints. But until then, in verse 25, He’s going to wear out the saints. Multitudes of God’s people are going to be destroyed during this period of time. It’s on the way. All these things the Bible says is what’s going to take place. And I believe the Bible. Now take your Bible and turn to the book of Revelation chapter 13. in chapter 13.

If you want to know if the Bible is true, this enough is to convince me. It tells about the kingdoms in advance. Even mentioned the meagen the person and even dares his name, Cyrus is in the book of Isaiah. He was shown his name was already in the scripture before he ever became the head of the meagen the person. But anyway, in Revelation chapter 13. You’ll notice that there’s talk about a beast and in verse 3, and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death.

His deadly wound was healed. All the world wondered after the beast. Now, I don’t really know what beast this is talking about. It’s in the future. Some say this is referring to the Roman Empire and it was dead at the head and so it’s going to come back to life, but maybe. Or it says in the book of Daniel where we were, thou art the head of gold and it was destroyed. Why can’t I just say that that’s the kingdom because you had a wound in the head, now it’s alive.

Or is it talking about a literal individual that’s going to be here and kill and come back to life? And it’s not referring to the the kingdom, but the man who heads up the kingdom. All of it gets interesting. This is what makes Bible study so exciting. It’s not just written in such a way to satisfy the curiosity seekers, but for somebody who really wants to dig and study, and you might get a little jewel here, a little nugget there, but you’re not going to probably get all of it, because the Bible says in the book of 2 Thessalonians, he says, and then shall he, the anti-Christ, be revealed.

So of course, we’re trying to figure out in advance, oh I think it’s this guy, I think it’s this guy. So I think it’s the Pope. Sometimes I think it’s Obama. Somebody with Bush. Somebody thinks it’s it doesn’t matter. One of these days, yes there’ll probably be a four-runner, that will meet the criteria. And lo and behold he’s gonna be able to convince the world. Boy, aren’t we living in exciting days. And isn’t it true that there’s cry for peace you saw all over the world.

And now we need to have a world bank, and it’s a world economy. Everything is global. Well, isn’t it strange that the Bible just talks about in the last days these nations are gonna come together because you’re gonna have a one world government. You see, if you had a one world government, who would you fight against? Everything would be peace and wonderful, be joy. It means that everybody will be poor and have nothing. Because there’s always somebody willing to take whatever you have.

If they can do it by the legislation, by the power of the pen, they’ll take it that way. And they just happen to be the one that gets in the office because somebody else out there likes to vote for the person who’s going to give them the most. So here in the book of Revelation in chapter 13 talks about two beasts. One comes up out of the sea. One comes up out of the land. And Bible talks about how that there’s going to be.

On image of a beast. Look here in verse 11. And I beheld another beast coming up out of the earth. He had two horns like a lamb in his spake of the dragon. So many believe that this is like, you know, in the sense, the spiritual sense. You have a political leader and then you have a person that’s supposed to be in charge of getting all the religions together. So you got political and you got religious. And the one that’s religious is going to try to get all the people to worship the beast.

Oh boy. So he says in verse 12, and he exercise all the power of the first beast before him, causes the earth and then that dwell their into worship the first beast whose deadly wound was healed. And he doeth great wonders so that he make a fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast, say unto them that dwell on the earth that they should make an image to the beast which had the wound by a sword and did live.

Now some believe that they’re going to be able to by DNA take something from somebody and create a, hey there’s the masterpiece. You know somebody that’s got it all to get a Superman. Well whether it’s going to be that way and that becomes the image of the beast because they cloned somebody, we probably will be able to do that. I don’t know. Or whether or not he’s talking about the image that was found in the book of Daniel and the image represented a conglomerate of nations that had the power to move and talk as one.

And if you will hold your place right here. Look in chapter 17 of the book of Revelation. And you’ll notice there in verse 12, where he says, and 10 horns which style sawth are 10 kings. Right? We just read that while ago in the book of Daniel, which have received no kingdom as yet. So as far as the scripture goes, it says they don’t exist yet or did not have a kingdom yet. And that becomes interesting. So is these 10 a revival of something that never existed?

Makes it interesting to look at this. And he says, but receive power as kings one hour with the beast. Get this, they all have one mind shall give their power and strength unto the beast. shall make war with the lamb, and the lamb shall overcome them. For he is the Lord of Lord and King of kings, and they that are with him are called and chosen and faithful. Look up here, when Christ comes back, those that are with him, he is the one that will smite the ten toes, the ten kings, and set up a kingdom upon the earth.

And that’s why he says here, the lamb shall overcome them. This is that the battle of Armageddon, you’ve often heard it. And even people talk about it, it’s on the news all the time. Is this the Armageddon, the Armageddon, Armageddon. It means the last final days. Well, that’s not even the last final days. That’s just here. There’s another thousand years upon the earth that’s going to be like the Garden of Eden. Then there’ll be a new heavens and a new earth because this earth is going to be destroyed by fire.

It was destroyed once by water, but next time by fire. That’s what God said. So I’m not even worried about global warming. If Gore thinks it’s hot now, wait till then. And what’s he gonna do? Try to get God to be a little bit more conservative. God’s the one that’s gonna do this. And he often talks about in the tribulation period that the sun becomes so hot that men’s bodies will be burnt and scorched. Great sores all over their bodies.

It’s all coming. Don’t you just love it when you see a plan come together? And we’re living at the most exciting time to see all these things happening. I get excited just thinking about it, even if I don’t even have half the pieces of the puzzle. It’s like I’ve got a picture, but I don’t know how to put all the pieces in there together yet. But I’m working on it. But I want you to see this. They give their power to them.

Look there in verse 16. and the tin horns which thou sought upon the beast. These shall hate the whore and shall make her desolate and naked and shall eat her flesh and blah, blah, blah, blah. For God had put in their hearts to fulfill his will and to agree and get to give their kingdom unto the beast. And when if the Bible talks about when Christ comes back and he destroys this image of these beast, is it possible that all these kingdoms could come back into play?

Take for example, do you know where Babylon was located? A place called Iraq. I remember when Bush was in office he talked about the axes of evil. I think it was Iraq and Syria and North Korea. Alright, I’m back. Could they come back into power? Aren’t people worried about that now? I’m even getting the nuclear bomb. Who knows how everything is going to finalize, but sooner or later you understand this? All the nations will come against Israel. Zachariah chapter 14 says, and all these nations shall come against Israel.

So we have all these great big old nations. there surrounding this little little strip of land called Israel. And the world is Israel going to exist. And remember this was written when Israel was already out of the land. And then whenever Christ was here during the Roman Empire, and this is why if you look there in chapter 17 up there in verse 9, where it says, and here is the mind which hath wisdom, the seven heads or seven mountains on which the woman siteth.

And there are seven kings and 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 and he’s the eighth and is up to seven isn’t it exciting there’s enough to blow your mind but remember when John wrote this he was living during the Roman Empire he says five are fallen you see before Nebuchadnezzar was the Assyrian and the Egyptian so you had the Assyrian in the Egyptian in the Babylonian and the meet in the Persians in the Alexander Empire, that was five that are fallen before Rome that existed at that time.

He said, and one is. And one is yet to come, and the Antichrist is the eighth, but he’s up to seventh. He’s up to last one. But this last one is made up of these conglomerate of nations that come together and give their power unto the beast. So there’s going to be in the last days nations are going to figure out, hey, we need us a world leader. need somebody that can be like a Superman brilliant to understand all this stuff and Buddy Satan is going to have his man.

Who is he going to be? I don’t know and I don’t care because it does not change my job, my responsibility. I am still supposed to be preaching, here’s where we are. I’m still supposed to preach the gospel to as many people as I possibly can. So I let all of this motivate me not to waste my time and thinking, I’m going to build me a mansion down here. All I need to do is just think about myself and get secured.

But you’re going to find out there’s not much security in this world. Now this is why if you have not trusted Christ as your Savior, should you? Let’s just say it’s true. If it is true, that means that hell is real and heaven is real. It does mean that Christ is going to come back again because he gave scripture of how he would come the first time and it all happened just like he said. So it means he’s coming back.

So when it comes back the next time he’s coming back right here called the rapture. He comes in the air and we are changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye and caught up to meet the Lord in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. And then he says the worst part of time upon the earth is right here, Matthew chapter 27, read sometime, especially verse 23. Then Christ is going to come back here and power and great glory and every eye is going to see him.

And it says, the light was shine from the east to the west, rather than the new day sun. So it’s interesting. If I get all the pieces of the puzzle, no, I got a few more pieces, but I ain’t got time to tell you all of them. But I got a few ideas. Anyway, look up here. This hand represents you and me, the wallet represents sin. Everybody is a sinner. It means that we’re all imperfect. None of us are good enough to go to heaven.

Because of sin, we can’t get in. The Bible says the wages of sin is death. And since we’ve all sinned, everybody, we’re all condemned. Understand, if all this is true, if you do not trust Christ as your Savior, you will spend and eternity in a literal fire burning hell forever. I don’t know how it sounds to you. I’m just telling you the truth. If this is true, hell is real. And if hell is real, then what God said is the truth.

And He says, you cannot earn your way to heaven. Your good deeds will not get you to heaven. That’s why you need a Savior. So the Bible says that Jesus Christ, this hand representing Jesus Christ, God, is the truth. in the flesh came into this world because he loves us hates our sin because our sin separates us from the Lord. So Jesus Christ who had no sin didn’t have to die, but because he loved us he took all the sin of all the world, paid for it on the cross, came back from the dead.

And he said that if you and I would believe he did it for us, he would put this payment to our account, we go to heaven on what he did. You see I’m not going to heaven because I’m good. I’m not going to heaven because I go to church, or I read my Bible and I pray, or give money. That has nothing to do with me going to heaven. I’m going to heaven because Christ died and paid for my sins.

If He paid for my sins, it means I don’t have to pay for them. All I have to do is believe He did it for me. There’s no trick to that. He can’t get any easier. See, I don’t have to stop something or promise something. All I have to do is just receive it. God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, Jesus Christ. The hosts who ever believe it. That’s all you have to do is believe it.

And when you believe it, He says you will not perish. It means that I will not go to hell today. It means I cannot go to hell in the future. He has saved me from ever going to hell. And He has promised me eternal life. So if I can’t go to hell and there’s only one other place, guess where I’m going? I’m going to heaven. And I have known that for 52 years. And the only reason I know it is because it’s free.

I had to earn it. Couldn’t make it. God loves you. Pay for your sins and the person of Christ. So if you’ll believe it, he’ll give you eternal life. Never cast you out. Never lose you. Let’s pray, shall we? Every hit bow, and every eye closed, and no one looking around. If you hear this morning, and maybe you’ll never trust the Lord. You’ve heard about it, but you just never did trust the Lord. Would you right now, Sid, bring to that made sense to me.

I want to be sure I’m going to heaven when I die. So right now, the best I know how I will accept Jesus Christ as my Savior. And then if you trust Him right now, God said He would save you right now and give you eternal life as a gift. I’m not going to have you for it. I’m not going to embarrass you. I’m not going to put you on the spot and nail you against the wall. I just want to know that what I said made sense and that you trust that Christ is your Savior.

And I’d like to have prayer for you. So it hits by a nice close and they’ll look around. Is there anyone else that says, yes, that made sense to me. And I will trust Christ right now as my Savior. And I’d pray to I’d like you to pray for me. Would you just slip the hand a very quickly to put a right back down? Yeah, well done. Yeah, well done. No tricks to it. No giving. God loves you so much.

Wait, just a minute. Anyone’s wrong. If you have trusted Christ as your Savior, yes, God bless us, sir. You can put it down. No one else. If you trust Christ right now, you’re saved. You God saves you right now and gives you eternal life. He’ll never cast you out and never lose you. You had his word on it. Our Father, we thank you again for your blessings. We thank you for the individually indicated bond up with the hand that by faith and faith alone, he believes that you died on that cross and paid for his sins.

And that by trusting you, you said you were giving me eternal life, that he can know he’s going to heaven when he dies. We ask your blessing upon each one of us, As your children, see the importance of serving you. Time is short. Help us to do right. Bless each one here in Christ and we pray. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold. We pray that you are blessed by today’s message.

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