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I want to talk to you about some things today that of course is not designed to make anybody mad or upset unless you disagree with me. So what we’re going to do is talk about the prince that shall come. You know that’s found in the Bible, the prince that shall come. But I wanted to read a couple things to you just so that you know this. America was not founded to be a democracy but a republic. I’ve had people say, well, I didn’t come to church to hear about politics.

Well, you know, there’s only two things in this world that’s religion in politics. Religion is what you believe and politics is how you live, how you govern. And so we usually want a form of government that will allow us to live the way we believe. So you got to figure this out first. What are my rights? Well, what are my responsibilities? So we have the right to fulfill our God-given responsibility. So if you can find out what the responsibilities are, we know what our rights are.

And rights come from God, but government in America was instituted to secure the rights, inalienable rights, rights given to us by God, not government. Those legislators are not up there trying to decide what our rights are. We go by the Bible to know what our rights are. And no man is to make any laws contrary to the word of God. Because the word of God is truth, and truth doesn’t change. And today we have people that you think, well, they’re progressive.

We’re getting better and better and better. No, no, no, no, no, no, no. They’re going backwards, not forward. Truth takes you forward. Lie takes you back. And that’s why you need to understand this. But just to give you a little note here, a democracy cannot exist as a permanent form of government. It can only exist until the voters discover they can vote themselves largest out of a public treasury. In other words, when we find out we can get politicians that are voting to take money from somebody else and give it to us, that person usually gets the votes.

Cause we want somebody to take it away from somebody else that has it and give it to us. Cause remember politicians don’t have anything to give you. Government can’t give you anything and take it from the first. They can only sprinkle back a little bit. And democracy only works until they’ve used all the money on the Republicans. When there’s no more money to go around, then nobody has anything. You know where if you only got a piece of pie, it doesn’t make how many slices you put it into is still the same amount.

And you’re going to try to take the pie away from somebody else and give it to somebody that doesn’t deserve that pie. You think, well, after all, what, when all the pie is gone, now what are you going to do? Well, anyway, that’s just my humble opening remarks. And I know you appreciated that. So I want to read something to you. You know the constitution, praying to the constitution, where it talks about our Creator and nature’s God. They say, well it’s not in there by the God, yet it is.

Who do you think created nature? But anyway, here’s a little statement that was made. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal and they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. And now they come together to form a government to secure those rights, not to take them away. See, government doesn’t determine what our rights are. That’s why we’re supposed to study the Bible and know the truth.

The Bible is the foundation of which this country’s been built. And don’t let nobody tell you any different. If they do, they haven’t studied history and they don’t understand it. Another little statement. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations pursuing invariably the same object invinciences they designed to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty to throw off such government and to provide new guards for their future security. Woe to the people who do not have a power or an authority or the means to throw off a government that becomes abusive to our freedom and liberties.

That’s why you’ll have some that wanna always, every time something happens, legislate and take away your guns because you can protect yourself from the very government that’s supposed to secure your right and the only way they want your weapons away from you is so they can take away your rights eventually. Just understand it. You cannot trust the sinful nature of man. We are wicked people. We have a wicked nature, an evil heart. and we’re filled with greed, only the Lord can make a difference.

There needs to be a revival in our country of people getting back to what is truth and understanding truth and standing upon truth and you’d be surprised what we can do. Another little statement that is written in the Constitution, it makes a statement. We the people of the United States in order to form a more perfect union Establish justice and ensure domestic tranquility provide for the common defense. That’s the main purpose of our federal government to defend this country.

And then the second thing, promote the general welfare. You see, provide defense is something they’re supposed to do. Promote is something you’re supposed to promote it for general welfare, for people to take care of themselves. Because government is not to promise you anything, give you anything. is to defend this country so you can work and you can have. It’s not my next-door neighbor that is supposed to feed my kids, and close my kids, and educate my kids. If you have kids, that’s your responsibility.

And you ought to have the right to work, and to provide, and fulfill your responsibility. It’s not your next-door neighbor’s responsibility to educate your kids in any school. That’s why government’s not to be involved in any form of education. When they did start Princeton and Yale and Harvard and some of those school, that was for those who voluntarily came to learn, and they were to learn the principles of the Word of God, and most of them were schools that turn out preachers.

I’m not wrong. I challenged anybody to prove me wrong on what I just said. It’s not wrong, because I’ve already done study that. I haven’t found out. I’ve looked in the Constitution. I’ve looked in the founding charges of these schools. and their original documents is to produce preachers. And most of them, the men that was on the board, worked preachers. How are we doing today? Don’t give me side tracks sometimes. Promote the general welfare and secure the blessings of liberty, that’s part of our job.

Another little statement goes this way. They added the Bill of Rights because they want an extra security, spelling it out. And then I like this part, said, they will regulate in militia be necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people in those states to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. In other words, Congress, none of your business, stay out of it, leaving alone. We have a right and we want that right because we want to fulfill our responsibility.

And we ought to have one fear, mainly of one thing, and that’s government. You can’t trust government. Period. Yankee said so. Now, I want you to take your biblical and turn to the book of Daniel chapter two. Daniel chapter two. A man in the Old Testament, a man by the name of Nebuchadnezzarid, had a nightmare. He had a dream, but nobody could tell him what his dream was and accept Daniel. God revealed to Daniel what this man had dreamed what he had dreamed was an image of a beast.

And you’ll notice that I had a gold, and then it had arms, and so forth, silver, and then it had a belly of brass, legs of iron, and feet part of iron, and part of clay. And that was this beast that he saw, and he says, what does it mean? And so you’ll notice there in verse 32, this image’s head was a fine gold, Breast and arms of silver, billion thighs of brass, legs of iron, feet part of iron and part of clay.

I count five. And verse 35, then was the iron one, clay two, brass three, silver four, gold five. I count five again. Broken together. So what does it mean? So he tells them they’re in verse 37. He says, Oh King, you are the head of gold. And so he’s naming the kingdoms in advance. Now this is written over 600 years before Christ came. We’re talking about in the days of Nebuchadnezzar when he was king of Babylon. And he says, you are the head after you was going to come to the Medes and the Persians.

After the Medes and the Persians. is going to come the Alexandian Empire. After the Alexandian Empire, it’s going to be the Roman Empire, Eastern and Western Division, the legs of the Roman Empire. And then you’ll notice on the love of drawing, I cut off the speed. Did you see that? I cut his feet off. What are the ankles? Because that’s the last one to come. It was doing that Roman Empire that you have the cross. That’s where you have Jesus Christ crucified.

Last week we talked about when he is cut off. This is really about the 70 weeks of Daniel. And you’ll notice there’s a gap after the feet, after the ankles, separating. That’s the period of time in which we live. Because God describes another government, a world government, and all of these governments that are mentioned ruled over Israel. These are Gentile powers, not Israel ruling the world. Israel has never had the kingdom that ruled the world, but God promised them that one day they will.

But first of all, he talks about the times of the Gentiles. You and I, if we’re not Jewish, we’re Gentiles. But there are Jews and there’s Gentiles and Gentile nations have conquered Israel and have ruled over Israel. First of all, by the Egyptians you have back there and then you have the Assyrian, then you have all the rest of them that we just mentioned. But there’s one more common. The one that’s coming down the road is the most vicious of all kingdoms that the world has ever seen that’s ever known.

Take your Bible and look in chapter 7. Shh, I want you to see this one verse there. Look in chapter 2 of Daniel and look in verse 44. Verse 44, in the days of these kings, he says this, in the days of these kings, talking about the 10 kings, the 10 toes 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 kingdom and it shall stand forever.

Well this hasn’t happened yet because we know the all the other ones are the Babylonian empires come and gone the major and the person that came and gone and the Christian empire they came and gone the Roman Empire came and gone and we got one more left the fifth one and this fifth one is talking about the period of time that’s right ahead of us the time in which we live we’re seeing the forerunners of all these kingdoms they’re gonna come together it’s gonna be awesome I love living at the time in which we live God has not left us now look what he says in verse 45 for as much such as thou saw us that the stone was cut off out of the mountain without hands, that it break in pieces of the iron one, brass two, clay three, silver four and the gold five,

and this God is going to come, and he is the stone that smites upon the ten toes and destroys Gentile powers over the nation of Israel. Now God promised that in advance over 500 years, and at that time, Babylon existed. aren’t they hit a gold? But he promises about something that’s coming. Now taken look at chapter 7. Chapter 7 Daniel says I had a dream, I had a dream. This is way before Martin Luther’s King never said I have a dream.

He had a dream. And so he says here I had visions upon my bed in verse 1 and verse 3 and 4 great beat came up from the sea, diverse one from the other. So now he mentions 4, why only mentions four because the head of gold was Babylon and they’re already off the same because this is now Bill Shazard, his grandson, his ruling and now he’s talking about four that shall arise and in he names these four kingdoms that’s coming but it’s the last kingdom.

Remember in Tactor 2 it talks about the ten toes. The ten toes is what’s going to be the last kingdom upon the and they’ll have one man over these 10 kings. Now here in verse seven, after this I saw the night vision, behold a fourth beast dreadful and terrible, strong exceedingly and it had great iron teeth that devoured and breaking pieces, stamped the residue of the feet of it and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it and it had 10 horns.

The 10 horns, the 10 toes, the 10 kings are all the same thing. It’s the one that’s ruling when the God of Heaven shall come back and he’s the stone cut out of a mountain without hands and he’s gonna smite the gentile. You often hear about the battle of Armageddon and all these kingdoms and nations come together. And Jesus Christ comes down and he smites these nations and destroys the nations upon the earth and sets up his kingdom. That’s what Daniel is talking about.

It’s prophetic in the sense that it’s down the road and it’s going to take place during that period of time. Now look there in chapter 8 and look at verse 15 Daniel chapter 8 and verse 15 Where he says Daniel, he said I was greed in my spirit in the midst of my body and the visions of my head troubled me So I want to know what is the interpretation of these things and so in verse 17 and these great beasts which are four or four kings which shall arise out of the earth.

That’s in the future. But of course everyone wants to know about the fourth beast because the fourth beast is the one, the last one, and it’s going to be composed of ten kings and one beast over the top of them. In other words one man will be in charge of the world, a one government. Now look what he says here in verse 18. But the saints of the most high shall take the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever, even forever, and ever.

That hasn’t happened yet. So after this fourth kingdom, then God is going to set up His kingdom and there will be no end to it. Now that hasn’t happened yet. Then He starts down here and explains some of these things. In verse 21, I beheld and the same horn made war with the saints and prevailed against them. This last beast is going to prevail against even God’s people doing the seven-year tribulation period and will prevail against him but eventually they will win.

It hasn’t happened yet but it’s going to not like in verse 23. Then he said the fourth bee shall be the fourth kingdom upon the Europe which shall be diverse from all kingdom before it in verse 24 and the ten horns out of his kingdom this kingdom are ten kings. See I didn’t make that up that’s in the Bible that shall arise and another shall arise after them and he shall be diverse from the first.” Now these are things that God says is going to take place.

Now in verse 25 it says that he’s going to take over by promise and peace and safety and prosperity and he shall brainwash the believers. We’re out to say to me to brainwash. And God says this is what’s going to happen and he’s going to change times and change laws and look in verse 25 the last part of verse 25 and he says, and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and to divide into times.

Our look of error. A time is one year, times is two years and a half a time is a half a year. So that’s three and one half years. Remember last week we talked about and when you shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet sent in the holy place in the book of Matthew in chapter 24 and verse 15. There you have this verse being fulfilled because it’s going to take place just like the Lord says is going to take place.

But he says that the people of God are going to win in the end. So we always know, we’re going to say what happens, we’re going to win. You see the last part of verse 27 where it says, shall be given to the people of the saints and the most high whose kingdom is the everlasting kingdom and all the minions shall serve and obey him. In other words, we win in the end. That’s already been decided. Now there’s a lot of things that happening between now and then.

So take your Bible and turn with me to the book of Isaiah. The book of Isaiah in chapter three. God describes how Israel went astray. And because they went astray, God’s going to bring judgment upon them. And this judgment was going to be because of their bad decisions because they wouldn’t listen to what God has to say. So if you want to know, is the Bible true is God real. Oh God, do a study. You wanna know. I mean, I can’t get ahold of God and bring him down here, says, there he is.

Open your eyes. Everything that you see, somebody made it. God did that. You see, that’s his evidence. When you see a mountain, you see the water, you see the sky, you see the sky. Those are tracks that God left here, as evidence he exists, because you know you didn’t do it. And I know you didn’t do it, but somebody did it. Because see, you can’t have something come from nothing. And if something is here, who put it here? Well, I believe the Bible says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth.

I don’t know more explanation. God did it. And he says he did it. All you gotta do is prove he didn’t. Can you prove he didn’t do it? Anyway, look at this. In the book of Isaiah in chapter 3, look in verse 5. In verse 5 he says, and the people shall be oppressed, everyone by another. And everyone by his neighbor, the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient and the base against the honorable. In other words, the time is coming when kids are going to be so rebellious against authority.

That didn’t happen in now, is it? Isn’t it wonderful that we have got the most beautiful raised kids in all the world? We’ve really done a good job. Just go to your public schools. Teachers being beat up, gangs, all the stuff that goes on. No, but no, get this. God says this is what’s going to take place, not looking in verse 9. He said here in verse 9, the show of their countenance both witnessed against them and declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not.

In other words, you’ve heard of coming out of the closet, coming out of the closet. Well, see, they came out of the closet and now they want to put decreases in the closet. No, I don’t like that. Now you’ve got to be very careful. Don’t say anything against the the LGB, whatever their initials are. When the Bible changes its position, I will change my position. Until then, homosexuality is a sin and it is wrong and it is wicked and love doesn’t change that.

People having sex outside of marriage, you can’t make it right, it is wrong. You can do whatever you wanna do. But this preacher, a Catholic community church, is not gonna move just because the opinions have changed. You know, the world’s changing, yankin’. Now we’ve got Christian so-called colleges that are beginning to accept homosexuality, women with women and men with men, and prematurely it’s okay now. If it was back then wrong, it’s wrong today. We got a source of truth.

But see, America is not gonna be brought down until you destroy our foundation. And this is our foundation. And so people will keep chipping at it until they destroy the Bible. And people will have confidence. Look at our schools and our colleges today. They have got faith-reaking teachers that want to destroy people’s confidence in what the Bible has to say. And then later on Don Roussey, they’ll be voting. And that’s scary.

And then he says down here in verse 11, over the last part of verse nine, woe unto their soul for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.” In other words, when you do wrong, you’re going to get the results of doing wrong. And you can’t win, especially when you’re going to have a better than a nation. Remember that little statement that’s found in the book of Matthew when he says, and Jesus said it, he says, remember Lot’s wife. Remember Lot’s wife.

Why? All of us that you’re teaching all this stuff, and then you’re just going to remember a lot’s wife. Because she was told not to look back. You see, people of the day, they’re not progressive in the sense, they want to progress, progress. If it’s toward evil, yeah, but for truth and for a better country, righteousness exalts a nation. But sin is a reproach unto any people. And if we don’t go toward righteousness, you’re going backwards. You can’t challenge God and win.

You can’t go against this book and win. Whether it’s a nation or whether it’s a family or whether it’s an individual. So understand that. Now, there’s a lot of the things that can say in these verses, but I do know that I have not much time. Here in the book of Isaiah, look in chapter five. Chapter five. And look in verse 20. Just wanna read a couple verses here. In verse 20 it says, whoa unto them that call evil what?

And call good what? In other words, we’ve got things all mixed up. You see, the Christian who stands for what’s right, we’re the one that’s persecuted, condemned, O fo ye, no good anymore, Bible thumpers, you can not, in other words, to denigrate the person who stands for what’s right. But because so many in our country today, exalt that which is wrong. And so they’ve taken that which is good and changed it into something evil and taken that which is evil and making it good.

Now we can have gay pride. And you’d be surprised how many Christians, isn’t that wonderful? Everybody just loves each other. Oh really. apego RHP APPLICManchester\- smir $\ Beiapego?soType The Bible says, love wants the best for the other person and commits himself to doing right. Why would you want to do anything with anybody that would get them in trouble with God? And doesn’t make any difference. The law of the land cannot make what God says wrong. They can’t make it right.

It’s still sinning. It’s still wicked. It’s still wrong. Law’s being passed to favor. It’s like less past laws and making it right. And you can’t offend us anymore. 349 Well, if you can do it for that sin, why can’t you do it for other sins? All those who believe in stealing, let all the thieves, you can say, we’re fighting for our right. Right to do what? Steel. So after a while, say everybody has the right to do whatever they want to do, but rights came from God, and that isn’t right, so it must be wrong.

You see, God keeps things simple. But when you start going down that road about rejecting the truth, all we like sheep have, and you cannot trust your flesh. You see, this is for spiritually guarded guided men who want to do what’s right. When you don’t do what’s right, of course, put that aside and let your flesh be your guide. Let that sinful nature that you have determine what you do and don’t do. And if you want to steal, steal, you want to rape, you want to murder, murder, you want to do whatever you want to do it, you want to kill that baby inside of that mother’s womb, which ought to be the safest place in the world.

That’s murder. You say, well, it’s my body. No, it isn’t. God says it belongs to him. Your body belongs to God. It doesn’t belong to you. It belongs to him. And you have no right to abuse that body. the one you have. Oh, the baby that’s inside the womb. That’s why you don’t have a right to abuse anybody else’s body. God made things so simple and so clear, but we don’t want to believe what God’s Word has to say.

So look what he says here in verse 21, we’ll unto them that are wise and they’re what? In their own eyes, they appear to be so smart and so intelligent, they are so Don’t so stupid. And people say, oh, oh, there’s a so smart, they’re so wise. No, they’re not. There are a bunch of idiots. You say you shouldn’t say things like that. Yes, I should. I’m supposed to tell you the truth. I’m not here to tickle your ears or make you feel good.

You say, I don’t like what you’re saying. You ought to be thankful for what I don’t say. Look at verse 22. Woe unto them that are mighty to drink wine and men of strength to mingle strong drinks, which justify the wicked for reward, justify the wicked for reward, and take away the righteousness of the righteous from Him. In other words, the out of all, everything gets one backwards. I don’t believe Christians are supposed to be a rug mat for people just to walk on.

The Bible talks about taking a stand and doing what’s right. That takes a bunch of men. We got a bunch of sissies running our country. and in most places in politics, they don’t even have a clue what the Constitution says. They don’t know what our rights are because if you don’t know this, you can’t understand our Constitution or the foundation for it. You’ve been listening to Bibleline, a teaching ministry of Calvary Community Church in Tampa, Florida with Dr. Ralph Arnold.

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