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and in that Jesus gives us what I call a
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road map a simple map God gives a map of
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the future it's flawlessly accurate it's
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a guide for us to understand history
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past present and future and when God
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Almighty who Rules From Heaven over the
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Affairs of man gave to Daniel this
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snapshot
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God's already seen it
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and God says what I told Daniel is
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what's going to be so what does God tell
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Daniel well basically
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God tells Daniel there are only four
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World Empires
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now you say wait a minute wasn't there
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an Acadian Empire wasn't there an
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Assyrian Empire weren't the Chinese I
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thought the Chinese were wasn't there an
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empire in the Indus Valley wasn't there
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the great you know you've all heard of
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Timbuktu you know as if it's it's a
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mythical place no it's a real place in
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Africa and there's a huge African Empire
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laced with gold and ivory and highly
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civilized in Africa
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that's not mentioned
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why does God mention
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that there are only four Empires from
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Daniel to the end of human history
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because God says all of history revolves
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around
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his people his chosen people of Promise
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let me show you what I mean I'll give
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you a real quick now I don't want to go
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very long in this I am watching the
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clock but remember I am a I did most of
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my doctoral work in history I could talk
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about history until all of you fell
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asleep in fact you should have seen me
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speaking at the nursing home I felt
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right at home you know they're dropping
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like flies falling asleep while I was
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talking but um
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you know God only sees four World
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Empires because number one the reason
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Babylon is first is Babylon is the one
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that took and marked the beginning of
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what God calls the times of the Gentiles
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up until Babylon God was fighting for
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and with Israel I've told you if you've
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ever been on Sunday nights talking about
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David that David was the most amazing
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fighter there ever was you know King
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David David never lost a battle and he
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was never wounded in battle yet he
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fought sword fights
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David won every battle he went in some
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of them he didn't even have to do
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anything God fought the War for him like
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when the the sound came in the trees and
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all the Philistines were scared to death
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and left all their images behind it
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David burned him up God said if you will
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do what I say you'll never lose a battle
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and the the Israelites never lost
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anybody in the conquest of Canaan unless
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they were disobedient they could go to
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war and you could send your sons to
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Afghanistan and Iraq and nobody got
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injured or killed how would you I mean
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Wars nice that way if only the bad guys
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get it that's what God said if you will
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obey me
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but Babylon
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was God's instrument that wiped out
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Israel because they wouldn't obey him
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and when Babylon became an Empire that
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what the Bible calls the times
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of the Gentiles that's a Biblical
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expression began this is when God says
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okay I am stopping my work with my
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chosen people of Promise the Jews I am
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temporarily setting them aside I'm
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letting them become the wandering Jews
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and they're going to live in every
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country of the world they're never going
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to find a home they're going to be
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persecuted they're going to be troubled
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they're going to wake up in the morning
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wish it was night at night they wish it
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was morning because they're going to be
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always
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pogromed and holocausted
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until the end and that's I just gave you
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Jewish history only they put a lot more
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detail in that's why this is the first
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Empire because this is the Empire God
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said starts the times of the Gentiles
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and and because Jerusalem is his focal
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point of all history they after only
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what is that 27 66 years that's all they
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lasted this in and you see the ending of
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each of these marks the beginning of the
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next the medo Persians now the
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Babylonians were really an amazing
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Empire lots of gold lots of building and
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over in Iraq the medo-persians were a
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huge Empire
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and they had a million-man army
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that lost to the Greek Empire
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Alexander's twenty or thirty thousand
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that would have been a battle to see
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you know what the Herodotus and other
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great historians tell us that when the
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army of the medo Persians do you know
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what they wore to battle
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turbans
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and flowing
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wide-legged
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Persian trousers
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cloths they met Alexander the Great who
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was a lightning speed mounted Calvary
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covered with bronze armor and bronze
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swords and these guys had
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Spears wouldn't
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so their marching the million of them
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and Alexander just comes through and and
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I mean you just hold the sword out you
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just
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I mean it's easy to go through cloth
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with brass razor sharp sword you know
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one on each side just mowed them down
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and Alexander completely wiped out this
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Empire that lasted for about 200 and
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some years and the Greek Empire came and
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the Greek Empire what's fascinating if
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you know anything about Alexander you
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know he only lived to be 32 and he died
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in a dissipated malaria-driven drunken
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orgy but Alexander had five
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of his generals that fought over the
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Empire but God said only four were going
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to get to divide his Empire and you know
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what if that fifth one would have won
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out the word of God would have been
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wrong but God already has seen and
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decreed and so Alexander's Empire ended
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in 63 if you remember when Pompey
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you all knew Pompey didn't you uh the
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Roman Victorious General wiped out the
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the Greek army that started what is in
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history the beginning of the Roman
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Empire now notice this that the metals
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get increasingly stronger but cheaper
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gold is most malleable you can bite it
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you know on westerns silver is stronger
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bronze is hard iron breaks bronze bronze
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can cut silver silver is stronger than
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gold but look at these Empires but
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when did Rome end
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see a lot of people don't pay attention
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to history classic history tells us in
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476 A.D no Rome didn't end it's just the
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person sitting on the throne of the king
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of Rome was a pagan one of the you know
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remember there were the vandals and the
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Huns and the Goths and the visigos and
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the ostrogas and The Goth Gods you know
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there are all these Pagan Germanic
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tribes that came down and basically Rome
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was living you know the Romans were just
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drinking and carrying on and having
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night and day parties and they killed
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the king and a one of the vandals one of
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the pagans became the head of Rome
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so Rome didn't end in fact remember in
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the statue that God gives
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there are two legs to the Statue and if
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you remember this is the Roman Empire
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I'm not a good artist my dad was a nurse
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I'm not nurse but this two legs
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of iron there was an Eastern Empire and
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a Western Empire of Rome and the the
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Western
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I mean I mean Rome the 476 was the
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Western which kind of dissipated in 476
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but Constantinople
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while Christopher Columbus was working
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on his plans to come and find us or the
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new world there was still a Roman Empire
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in Constantinople
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did you know it existed until 1453 and
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it really never ceased to exist it just
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got dispersed
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in fact
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every piece of the old Roman Empire has
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had its day running the whole world
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the Spanish
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you know with all their counties the the
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Germans with the Holy Roman Empire and
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of course you know all the Napoleon with
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France they all conquered the greatest
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of all was Britain one of the furthest
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parts of the Roman Empire Britain ruled
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the largest Empire of the world's ever
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had but no one has ever been able to
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unite the whole thing
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and What God Says is there's a future
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time coming and the well I'll show you
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instead of telling you I will show you
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because Jesus explains that so real
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quickly some of you think we'll never
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get out of here Daniel 3 I mean Daniel 2
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shows the gold and silver in that if you
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read Daniel 7 God shows the very same
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four Empires but it's from his
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perspective have you ever heard a man
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describe something a woman describes
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something when when humans describe
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World Empires they say oh they're gold
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and they're silver or they're shiny
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brass God calls them beasts
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the bite and devour see God looks at how
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you treat people and and in chapter
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seven God calls all those Empires beasts
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but look at Daniel 9. that's where I
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want you to turn Daniel 9 verse 24. this
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is the most amazing prophecy and if you
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wonder where dispensationalism and
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prophetic and Hal Lindsay and and
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anybody that you know that believes
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biblical prophecy you know like Dallas
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Samurai and Walbert and John MacArthur
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anybody like that this is where they get
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it from
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and what I'm going to show you in man in
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Daniel 9 24 is how God look at this God
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connects the Roman Empire
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that was that was in the time of Christ
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in the past
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to the Roman Empire that's coming in the
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future
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now you say who saw that Hal Lindsey
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this is what Jesus talks about and and
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the way we see that is right here look
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at Daniel 9 24. first thing to learn God
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is very clear remember I told you the
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big box with 1200 pieces it gets
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confusing the Lord just has three
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numbers for us this morning here's the
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first one 70. God says everything
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everything about the future is 70 weeks
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this word this Hebrew word is actually
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the word for a seven and it's actually
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what we would call a heptat now you you
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think in terms like this only we have
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dozens those are twelves or we like tens
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you know we like our our numeric system
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inches or dozens but but all other
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numbers we like in tens and and that's
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how we do our math the Jewish mind God
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communicates in seven she said he does
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yeah seven fat cows seven skinny cows
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seven lean years seven fat years
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remember all the stuff with Joseph's
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dream then we get to the the
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descriptions of the Jewish calendar they
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had seven days in a week and when you
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had seven or six years the seventh year
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was the Sabbath year and and all of this
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calendar of Israel including the Jubilee
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year and everything else was all hepatic
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that's in sevens so think about what
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this says 70 weeks 70 weeks
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so 52 weeks are in a year so you have 70
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and so you have approximately
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18 weeks left that's an 18. it won't do
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it there we go well it is kind of an 18.
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so we're talking about one year and a
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third of a year okay let's see if that
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works one year and a third of a year are
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determined for your people that's the
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Jews
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and for your holy city that's Jerusalem
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remember who is he talking to he's
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talking to Daniel Daniel's people were
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the Jews his holy city that he turned
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and opened his window to was Jerusalem
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so we're talking about the Jews in
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Jerusalem and it says 70 weeks are
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determined to do all this stuff and he
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continues and he says know that
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therefore from the command to restore
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and build Jerusalem until
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Messiah the prince that's Jesus Christ
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will be seven weeks and 62 weeks back to
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our simple numbers I told you there's
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only four of them
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70 weeks
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and he says will be seven
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and 62.
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now
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does 70 equals 7 plus 62.
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yes or no
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What's missing
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okay now let me show you because right
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there is why Calvary Bible Church is a
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dispensational church which means we
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believe what the Bible says look at this
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from the command to restore and build
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Jerusalem what is that that's Nehemiah
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chapter 2 verses 1 through 8. that is
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when artist Xerxes allowed Nehemiah his
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cup bear to go back and rebuild the
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walls and make Jerusalem a sovereign
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place with rules I mean with Gates and
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walls and someone that's governing it
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living inside
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it hadn't been that way
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but that command actually happened
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if you you can even look it up on you
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know the the most unreliable source of
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all Wikipedia and it'll tell you that
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it's 4 45 or 444 BC and like a broken
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clock it's right twice a day you know
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and and so that occurred in 445 BC until
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Messiah the prince there shall be seven
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weeks and 62 weeks so God says there are
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70 somethings
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well 445 BC when did when was Jesus
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crucified
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no either depending on you know if you
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listen to Chuck Swindoll or Dallas
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Seminary or John McArthur or whoever
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it's somewhere between 30 and 33 A.D and
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that's because of the lunar you know
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Passover it's it's a lunar calendar and
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to have Friday be the day he's crucified
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you have to look for when that would be
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and because of that 30 or 33 A.D is the
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common conservative View
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445 BC so you have 445 years you get 30
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more
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wow
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that's not
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that's that means that these weeks are
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not weeks of days or weeks of weeks
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they're years heptats are years so what
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it's saying is God has back up here
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right there it is God says I have 70
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weeks I have
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490 years
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490 years planned
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until the world ends now do you see
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where everybody you know gets all these
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wild zany ideas Watch What Happens he
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says
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there is a command and until Messiah the
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prince Jesus something happens to him
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seven weeks and 62 weeks that takes us
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7 and 62 is only 69 weeks or the 483
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years
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and did you know what if you calculate
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in it's 475 but we operate on the
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Gregorian calendar and we have to
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realize that they had first a solar
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calendar then they had the jewelry
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encounter then they went to the
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Gregorian calendar and if you want to
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take the time and look at a good study
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Bible you'll find that it exactly comes
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down not just to the year
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but from this command until Christ
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marched into town on Palm Sunday is
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exactly
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173 880 days which is exactly 490 360
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day years but that doesn't matter we've
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covered that many times on Sunday night
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what's missing still
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one
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now watch what the rest of this says and
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after the 62 weeks Messiah shall be cut
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off so if you had the other verse it's 7
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and 62. so after 69 weeks 483 years
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Messiah will be cut off what's that it's
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the crucifixion now look at this this is
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what we're getting to Jesus quote not
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for himself Jesus was a substitute and
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the people of the prince who is to come
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oh
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anybody can figure this out
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the people
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that destroyed Jerusalem and the temple
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who was that in A.D 70 who killed 1.1
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million Jews and who leveled the city of
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Jerusalem and who
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quelled the Jewish Revolt Rome
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so when it says the people it's Rome
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the Roman Empire that's the people who
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destroyed the city in the sanctuary
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after Jesus was crucified Jesus was
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crucified in 30 A.D
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and 40 years later in 70 A.D the Romans
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came
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and said enough is enough Jews and
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deported anybody that survived but
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killed a million one
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hundred thousand wow
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but notice what it says
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this
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is the Antichrist this is the one who is
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the worst human that will ever live he
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is the prince of the people who
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destroyed the city in the sanctuary now
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look what Jesus says about him then he
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who is the he
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here he's called the prince that will
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come
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if we had enough time and I took you
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through chapter 7 chapter 8 chapter 11.
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he's called a lot of other names he's
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called the little horn he's called the
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one with the fierce countenance he is
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called the the uh Abomination that makes
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desolate
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do you remember when we looked in
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Matthew 24
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Jesus said when you see this
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this Abomination that causes desolation
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in the temple
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what Temple would he be in well look
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what happens he the Antichrist or the
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Beast of chapter 13 of Revelation he
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confirms a covenant
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with many how many
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well how many Muslims are there 1.2
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billion how many Jews are there 7
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million
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this man not only is the the Antichrist
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not only the worst human that ever lived
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he's also the smartest and most clever
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and you know what he gets he gets the
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1.2 billion Muslims to shake
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hands with Israel and they say you can
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build that Temple you always wanted up
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there in Jerusalem
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you can build it not just that
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he allows them to sacrifice and offer to
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God do you want to know what would cause
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World War III today
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if you got the Jews up by the Dome of
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the Rock slitting some Lamb's throat and
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burning it
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all Muslim hell would break loose for
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that
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this man he makes a peace Covenant with
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Israel and the world how does he make it
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he
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is the prince
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who is to come of the Roman this is
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where if you've ever heard of the
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revived Roman Empire
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the the dispensationalist didn't think
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of it God says it but what is it well
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there are 70 weeks
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seven of them are gone 62 of them are
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gone you already did the math one of
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them is left a week of years is seven
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years how long is the Tribulation
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say it out loud seven years look what it
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says here it says in the middle of the
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week
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what is that that's why if you read the
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book of Revelation it says 42 months
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what's 42 months 42 months is three and
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a half years what is that it's one
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thousand two hundred and sixty days what
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is that it's from the middle to the end
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of seven years what is the seven years
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it's the 70 weeks God has planned for
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his people minus the 69 that are already
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accomplished that ended at the cross
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meaning there's one week of human
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history seven years left on the clock
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but it's an indeterminate time between
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the cross in ad 30 and today the Lord
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has allowed Us in the church
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to thrive to go to Every Kingdom and
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tongue and tribe a nation and share the
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gospel
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but there's a moment coming
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when God is going to call back every
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demon that's out in the universe and the
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Devil Himself
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and confine all of them to planet Earth
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that period of time is one week or seven
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years long and for the first three and a
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half this guy is doing this
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he's making everybody happy he's using
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the NSA records and you've got to
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worship or whatever he uses you know to
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to make sure no one can buy or sell and
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he's putting himself up as the global
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Peacemaker he gets the Jews sacrificing
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in Jerusalem but he breaks his word in
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the middle and turns on the Jews
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and that
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is the seven year tribulation the second
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half which is horrific which culminates
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with the Abomination which makes
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desolation
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