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[00:00:41] Hello everybody and welcome to an amazing thing. This is our early week show where we cover special lessons, current events, things that are happening in the news that help us to understand where we are in God's prophetic time clock. Our lesson today is entitled US in the Bible.
[00:01:01] And the US Is an acronym for the US and so we are going to cover that today.
[00:01:07] Some people say nations of the world, especially the United States of America, are not in the Bible. And when we see nations and places and people, it's always of a back gone error.
[00:01:20] But today's lesson is going to dispel that and we're going to show you where the United States is and other modern nations.
[00:01:31] Okay?
[00:01:33] We know that the word of God is full of symbolism and some things may have never been understood throughout history.
[00:01:40] Daniel had such an experience in this himself as he's recording in the book of Daniel as God is dictating to him. In chapter 12, verse 8, Daniel is writing some of the things that we're shown. We're going to show you today in symbols that he couldn't understand.
[00:01:58] And he asked God what shall be the end of these things. And in verse 9, God answers him and says, go thy way, Daniel. These things are sealed up and closed until the time of the end.
[00:02:15] So the end times are, is when we near the time when human government will be shut down and overthrown and the kingdom of Jesus Christ will be set up and never pass away again.
[00:02:28] And so that's where we are now. And that's why we're able to understand some of the things that we're going to study today. And it's not because we're smarter than anyone else. It's just it's meant for us and the time that we live in.
[00:02:41] And so let's begin to identify the modern nations in the Bible. We'll begin in Daniel, chapter seven, verse one, and we'll start reading there.
[00:02:50] In the first year of Belshazzar, King of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed. Then he wrote the dream and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night.
[00:03:08] And behold, four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea, and four great beasts came out of the sea, diverse one from another, the first like a lion and had eagle's wings I beheld until thereof the eagle's wings were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth and made to stand on its feet as a man. And a man's heart was given to him.
[00:03:38] Verse 5. And behold, another beast, a second like to a bear, and it raised itself up on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of between the teeth of it.
[00:03:52] And they said thus unto it, arise, devour much flesh.
[00:03:59] After this this beheld, lo, another like to a leopard, which had upon its back four wings of a foul. The beast had also four heads, and dominion was given to it.
[00:04:15] After this I saw in the night vision, behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly teeth it devoured and break breaking pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet of it. And it was diverse from all the other beasts before it. And it had 10 horns.
[00:04:38] I considered the horns, and behold, there came up among them another little horn, before whom there were three of the first horns plucked up by the root and behold it. This horn were eyes like the eyes of a man, and a mouth speaking great things.
[00:05:00] So this, these are the symbols that Daniel is seeing in, in the first eight verses of Daniel 7.
[00:05:09] And we'll see how these pieces, all these beasts are, are described here. We have a lion with eagle's wings, a bear with three ribs in his teeth.
[00:05:23] We have a leopard with four heads, and we have a ten horn beast. And so those are the beasts that are described here.
[00:05:33] Now let's see what these beasts are.
[00:05:36] Daniel 23 tells us the fourth beast is the fourth kingdom or nation.
[00:05:43] Well, if the fourth beast are kingdoms or nations, then all the other beasts would have to be kingdoms or nations as well.
[00:05:52] So that answers that question. So the fourth beast, the four beasts in Daniel, chapter seven, verses one through eight, are kingdoms and nations that would be up on the earth at a specific time.
[00:06:05] Okay, when is the specific time that these countries or nations will be on the earth?
[00:06:11] We find the answer in Daniel, chapter nine. I'm sorry, chapter seven, verses nine through 12. And I'll start to read at verse nine.
[00:06:21] I beheld to the till the thrones were cast down, and the ancient of days did sit, whose garment was white as snow, and the hair of his head was like pure wool. His throne was like a fiery flame, and the wheels as burning fire.
[00:06:41] A fiery stream issued and came forth from before him. Thousand thousands ministered unto him, and 10,000 times 10,000 stood before him.
[00:06:52] The judgment was set, and the books were opened. Verse 11 beheld because of the voices of the great words which the horn spake, I beheld till the beast was slain and his body destroyed and given to the burning flame.
[00:07:07] Verse 12. As concerning the rest of the beast, they have their dominion taken away, yet their lives are preserved for a season and a time. So we know that the time just ahead of us is when the ancient of days will come and he will overthrow all the governments of this kingdom of the earth and set up his kingdom.
[00:07:29] Those all the kingdoms that are here existing at the time now, they'll survive and go on over into the kingdom of Jesus Christ, but they'll have their dominion taken away from them. So they will have to submit to Jesus Christ as King of kings and Lord of Lords.
[00:07:46] So the ancient of days is Jesus.
[00:07:49] These countries are nations and they have to be on the earth at the time of the coming of Jesus Christ.
[00:07:55] These countries are nations that will be transitioned into the kingdom of Lord Jesus Christ.
[00:08:01] If these nations and countries exist on the earth right now in this scripture along with other scriptures that say the return of Jesus Christ is very, very close, even at the door. So we are the people now who are starting to understand some of these things that have been a mystery for a long time.
[00:08:22] And we are the people who will see the return of Jesus Christ.
[00:08:25] And I know a lot of times we think about things and we say, you know, that things have been going on around the world for thousands of years and how many more thousands of years are we going to continue?
[00:08:36] But we can't continue forever. And now we're starting to understand some of these things that let us know where we are in time.
[00:08:47] And so when we come back we can, we're going to continue to study these things and we'll be right back.
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[00:10:02] And welcome back. We'll continue our study here of us in the Bible.
[00:10:07] Okay, We've learned there are multiple meanings of beast in the Bible. We're going to study how we know that. Right here. This is Daniel, chapter 7, verse 17.
[00:10:19] These great beasts which are four, are four kings which shall rise out of the earth.
[00:10:26] So beast not only symbolize kingdoms or nations or countries, but they also symbolize the leader, those kingdoms, nations and countries.
[00:10:38] So let's identify the nations and the countries found in Daniel, chapter seven, verse one through eight.
[00:10:45] And there have been many, many misinterpretations and accepted explanations of the beast of Daniel, and many books have written those. And so we will see from this lesson that those have been mistaken interpretations.
[00:11:02] We've heard in books that the lion is Babylon, the bear is Media, Persia, the leopard is Greece, and the ten horned beast is Rome.
[00:11:11] And these assumptions cannot be correct because we find another place in Daniel where the ram is fighting with a he goat. And God himself identifies these two beasts. And this found in Daniel, chapter 8, verse 20, 21. The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media, Persia in verse 21. And the rough goat is the king of Greece.
[00:11:39] The great horn that is between his eyes is the first king. So we'll go on to find out that the Greece had several kings after that when the horn was broken. We know four horns grew up in this place. But so therefore we have dispelled some of the understanding that so many of us hold because of books that have been written that have been mistaken in the identity of these things. So we can know from the earlier descriptions, given that quite a lot of explanation in books so forth are not true. But let's break down the clues that it gives us so that we can know what the true identity of these beasts are.
[00:12:23] We'll start with a lion here. This is Daniel, chapter seven, verse four.
[00:12:28] Now we know the official symbol of Great Britain is the lion. And I think, you know, no matter where in the world you are, you would know that because of so much has been written about it.
[00:12:40] We know that Trafalgar Square in London, the infamous lions are there, looking all four ways. Located at the base of Nelson's Column.
[00:12:50] They face all four directions. And this is an amazing landmark. And anytime we travel to London, we want to see that.
[00:12:58] And so my name is Rich Young the third. And I had, I have had people joke a lot and they'll call me Richard iii. Are you the lionhearted?
[00:13:08] And you know, we joke and laugh. Although Richard III officially wasn't the lionhearted, Richard the First was.
[00:13:14] But that just shows us that people know these stories and they know about the lion and that being Great Britain. And so I think we've, we've pretty much come to that. So the land, you know, the lion is probably the beast that needs the least amount of explanation.
[00:13:34] One other thing about the line when we get to, in, in the fourth verse is the lion had eagles wings.
[00:13:41] It says the eagle's wings were plucked from the lion.
[00:13:45] Well, everybody knows that about 250 years ago, the United States of America was born and we were separated from our mother country, Great Britain, the lion.
[00:13:56] And so our national symbol is the bald eagle. There's a story that floats around and some people say it's a mythical story, never really happened. But Benjamin Franklin wanted the American symbol to be the turkey.
[00:14:10] And so I had an English client that would come in the shop and she would talk about, you know, for Christmas they would. The meals they were serving, reminiscing about her growing up. And she said, we always wanted turkey, but we could never afford it. And they were very, very hard to find.
[00:14:28] And I said, why is that?
[00:14:30] And she looked at me for a long time and said, the United States is the only place that has turkeys.
[00:14:37] North America, turkeys is a North American animal. And I was, you know, embarrassed that I lived in America and I did not know that. But that did answer the question for me of why Ben Franklin, if that story is correct, wanted the turkey to be the, our national symbol. And they go on to say that, you know, they had. The rest of the founding fathers nicknamed him turkey man and all those sorts of things. So I don't know if that's true or not, but you got to think a bunch of guys sitting around in velvet suits, you know, having a laugh here and there.
[00:15:15] Also, there's an additional information given about this. It says that a man's heart was given to it and it was, would stand up on its feet as a man. Well, we as a United States of America has more than one symbol. We have the symbol of a man, which is Uncle Sam.
[00:15:35] And you don't see it so much anymore. But when I was a kid, you know, in the post office in any federal building, you saw that picture of Uncle Sam pointing, saying, uncle Sam wants you.
[00:15:45] And so that was everywhere. And you don't see it so much anymore. And I don't get to the post office much, but I don't think I've seen that for years.
[00:15:57] And so.
[00:15:58] And I think when the Bible says a man's heart was given to. We are probably the most compassionate country on the face of the earth.
[00:16:07] The United States of America has done some things wrong, but there's probably nobody on the face of the earth that we have not helped.
[00:16:15] If we happen to get into some scrimmage or something or war with somebody, after the war is over, we go back and build the city that we bombed back better than it was before.
[00:16:26] So I think certainly that is a man's heart that is given to the symbol that is also a symbol of the United States of America. So it's also amazing that that particular scripture where the eagle is separated from the lion happens to be Daniel, chapter seven, verse four, which happens to be our independence day in the fourth of July. And if we ever thought that God would have a sense of humor, certainly this is proof of it.
[00:16:57] And that's an amazing thing.
[00:17:00] Let's go on to the bear. The bear is in Daniel, chapter seven, verse five.
[00:17:05] This is another country with an animal symbol that's undeniable. The Russian bear.
[00:17:11] Now, we've all heard the Russian bear.
[00:17:14] I remember reading about the big Lift. That was what happened after World War II, when Russia gobbled up all the eastern portions of Europe, and the United States started to fly in all the supplies that they needed in West Germany, in Western Europe.
[00:17:34] And so it was called the big lift. And when that first started, a lot of people around the world didn't think it would last because, you know, Russia was such a powerful country, brutal in a lot of ways. And so they had a saying that. They said that when the bear growls, the eagle will fly, saying that we will be frightened off and not continue our help of Europe. But that never happened. We continued to help them, and we continued to show the compassion of a man's heart. And certainly that is something that we should take note of. But in any case, we know that Russia is known as the bear. Almost every publication about Russia uses the bear to deliver puns or even serious news, whatever the case may be.
[00:18:28] I think we all know that the bear is Russia. And that is another undeniable thing that we can know from these symbols in the Bible.
[00:18:39] The Bible gives us another one. The leopard.
[00:18:45] The Bible says dominion was given to the leopard. And so we know that the leopard is Germany.
[00:18:53] Several times in the last 200 years, Germany has been given dominion until their aggressive nature has had to be taken away by the uniting of armies of different countries around the world.
[00:19:06] We know the Franco Prussian War of 1870.
[00:19:11] We know that there was World War I from 1914 to 1918 and that was started by Germany. We know that World War II from 1939 to 1945 was also started by Germany.
[00:19:29] After the fall of the Berlin Wall, Germany has dominated European economic power as well as world political influence.
[00:19:38] So we can see that dominion was given to the leopard. And the leopard is Germany.
[00:19:47] We know that they have tried to replace the leopard as Germany's animal symbol by the black eagle. But God says that the animal symbol of Germany is the leopard. So I think that's what we should go with and just come to that conclusion.
[00:20:06] In Daniel's vision, the leopard had four heads. And their descriptions of why they have four heads is found in Revelation chapter 17.
[00:20:17] Revelation 17:10 says this, and there were seven kings, five are fallen and one is and the other is not yet come.
[00:20:29] And when he cometh, he'll continue for a short space. So we know by this explanation and other scriptures lets us know that the number of heads on a beast shows how many times that beast will rise and fall.
[00:20:44] So that we can answer that question now. So the leopard had four heads. And so let's see what the forehead stand for on the leopard. We know like we said the Franco Prussian alliance in 1870, the first hand, that is Germany's first Reich.
[00:21:03] Okay, we had World War I again started by Germany. That is Germany's famous second Reich.
[00:21:11] Okay. World War 3 again started by Germany, Hitler's famous third Reich.
[00:21:19] And so now since the Berlin Wall come down, we have the fourth and richest Reich now rising.
[00:21:26] You know, like I said before, there is great economic domination by Germany, which now probably is the most powerful economic and political power in the European Union. So we know that dominion has been given to them throughout the even before the beginning of these last days.
[00:21:50] The leopard had the wings of a foul.
[00:21:54] There was a symbol of France called the Gaelic rooster.
[00:21:59] And that is a foul. A rooster is a foul.
[00:22:03] The Franco German alliance certainly allied these two countries. The leopard, Germany and the foul French. French. The France is what that means.
[00:22:15] And Germany and France share common ancestors going back hundreds if not thousands of years. Most notably Charlie Maine. Charles the Great was a common ancestor of Germany and France.
[00:22:30] So I think we can pretty much come to the conclusion that France is the rooster.
[00:22:39] The rooster is a foul and rooster. The rooster which is France and the leopard which is Germany have come and on ancestors going back thousands of years.
[00:22:52] Now let's go to the tin horn beast or ten horn kingdom. We know that the beast are kingdoms and the Bible says this was a different from all the other beasts. And when you think about something, taking the time to talk about the difference between this beast and all the other beasts of this kingdom and all the other kingdoms in the context we're talking about today is extremely different.
[00:23:20] And it takes time to offer up that explanation. So there is no animal that Daniel had ever seen that looked like this. Well, we know that Daniel said it looked like a leopard. So obviously he knew what a leopard looked like in a bear and a eagle and whatnot. He didn't say that this tin horn beast looked like a rhinoceros or hippopotamus or something. He'd never seen a beast that looked like this before.
[00:23:44] Some of the notable things about this kingdom, it was dreadful.
[00:23:49] And that is a definition that is invoking fear and was very formidable.
[00:23:55] And that certainly is an aspect of. That is dreadful to all of us.
[00:24:00] Another attribute was terrible, burly or mighty or stout.
[00:24:06] So it's certainly a formidable kingdom.
[00:24:10] And so we can understand that. Strong, exceedingly well, too strong, you know, who can stand up against something that strong? And that is what this is saying to us. It had great iron feet, teeth, huge, domineering, overwhelming ability to devour.
[00:24:30] So we know it's in. It has three horns in his mouth. So obviously this is the devoured three kingdoms.
[00:24:38] When it gives us this here and by the time, the time that we live in, this was given to us 2500 years ago.
[00:24:44] So now is devoured. How much more flesh as we continue through the times. And this is a beast that is talking about from Daniel's point of view, a beast that was certainly from a time far off from the time that he lived. He had great iron teeth and able to destroy these things. A notable aspect of this kingdom are ten horns.
[00:25:10] And so in Daniel 7:24, it tells us what the horns are. The ten horns out of this kingdom or beast are ten kings that shall arise.
[00:25:23] There are ten kings. There's going to be in some future events. We still can't identify the ten kings. And I think now we probably can identify the great beast because it's going to rise up from the European Union. And that's where this beast is going to originate. But it's not in its entirely in what it's going to be yet.
[00:25:45] So we know these 10 kings are going to rise up out of the European Union.
[00:25:50] And also it says another king shall rise up among those ten, different from the others. He will uproot three kings.
[00:26:02] So we see a picture where we have ten kings of ten kingdoms.
[00:26:09] Some union, the beginning of some union. Another king will rise up and expand the kingdom to 11.
[00:26:17] He's going to uproot three somehow. He, he's going to be the eighth.
[00:26:23] So we don't know if he's going to accomplish this through a military means or political means or how, but he's going to uproot three in the state of the being 11, there's going to be eight after that. And he's going to wax great.
[00:26:38] This king is also going to be called the Antichrist, and that is yet ahead of us. And we are so very, very close. And we will have future lessons that help us to identify these things. And like I said in one of the previous lessons before, in order for me to be able to talk about certain things, we have to cover details of these things. So when we address them in the future, we will already have had lessons to teach us what these things mean.
[00:27:08] And so in the future, I'll refer to the ten horned beast, and by that time we'll know what the ten horned beast is and we can continue our lessons to learn the characteristics and, and what is about to happen. We'll be able to look at the conditions of the world and know what is about to happen because of what the Bible says. The Bible gives us these, these prophecies.
[00:27:31] And Jesus said that the, his testimony was prophesied. I tell you these things before they come to pass, so that when they do come to pass, you might believe.
[00:27:42] And so God has given us things that we can look for and know that his word is true.
[00:27:48] This king will rule over one world government.
[00:27:51] So all those governments that will rise up will become one government are one kingdom of the end time.
[00:27:58] And this kingdom will be the result of globalism. And a lot of times we use things like globalism when we think that's a good thing.
[00:28:07] Even in this prophecy, it says one of the kings is going to rise up and wax great. Well, a lot of people say, well, if we can combine the earth have one army, one army can fight with itself.
[00:28:22] Well, what happens if Adolf Hitler or someone worse takes control of the one army? Then there's no counterpart for him. And that is what the Bible says is going to happen. We see how wicked Adolf Hitler was, and he didn't even control the, the whole world.
[00:28:41] Well, the Antichrist will control most of the world. One of the things that we learned in this, as I was looking this up, it says that the feet of this one world in time beast will tread. And, and, and I looked up the definition it did, it said tread in most places distinguishing is not going to be absolute rule because we know the Bible gives us three different kings that would never come under his control.
[00:29:11] And so in the Bible also says he will fight batters during his his reign. The Bible says that tidings out of the eth east and the north will trouble him.
[00:29:22] And so he's going to have total control where he is in control.
[00:29:26] But he won't have total control throughout every nook and cranny of the world. And so we will have to have other studies where we can know that. But the purpose of this particular lesson was to know that we are in the Bible. Modern nations throughout the world are in the Bible. We can trust our Bible to know what we ought to do. We are there. God has given us instructions and that is what one thing we can know here.
[00:29:55] There is quite a lot of study among this particular pattern that we're going down and we are going to eventually cover quite a lot of things that we're going to talk about.
[00:30:09] And we'll be right back after this message.
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