Daniel 12:1-7 brings us to one of the most awe-inspiring prophetic passages in Scripture. In these verses, the prophet Daniel is shown a coming time of unprecedented trouble upon the earth, yet also a glorious promise of deliverance for God’s people. The chapter introduces Michael the archangel standing in defense of Israel, speaks of the resurrection of the dead, and reveals mysteries concerning the final days before God’s kingdom is fully established. These verses remind believers that although darkness and persecution may increase in the last days, God remains in complete control of history and will ultimately vindicate His people.
End Time Prophecy
This morning I want us to again go back to Daniel and we’ll go back and look at Daniel again. We took a couple weeks off and we’re going to go back and look at chapter 12 and also some verses out of Daniel chapter 8 and perhaps some other verses as well this morning.
One of the things that the church has neglected and turned away from is the second coming of Christ. Many churches today don’t look for the rapture. They don’t believe that Jesus is coming until the earth is made righteous and we can somehow turn it into a place where He can return and establish His kingdom because we have established the righteousness.
Well, unfortunately it flies in the face of all prophecy and it flies in the face of circumstance and it flies in the face of the reality of the world in which we live. Yet sadly to say, many churches believe it. Many churches have turned their back on the rapture.
They’ve turned their back on Israel. They believe God is done with it. Yet we know from the book of Daniel that God isn’t done with Israel at all.
As a matter of fact, the book of Daniel reveals to us that there were 70 weeks that God had set aside to deal with the nation of Israel because of their sin and He didn’t take their sin lightly, but they were still His chosen people. He had called them when He called Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob and He promised all three of them three things. He promised them that they would have a people that would outnumber the sands of the sea.
He promised them that they would have a land and He set apart a portion of land that was to be given to them and their descendants, physical descendants, in the Middle East, in what we know as the nation of Israel today and much more that isn’t part of Israel today was promised to them. And the third thing was a Messiah. And this Messiah would come from the line of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
I don’t understand what has happened in the church. When I grew up as a young boy, you’d have sermons preached on Daniel or Revelation or other prophecies dealing with the second coming of Christ. You’d have dealing with the nation of Israel.
And I remember even as a young boy, I was born in 1952. That was already four years, if I’m doing my math right, after Israel had already become a nation. It was when I was born.
But people were excited because Israel was a physical nation just as God said. And just as His promise had said that they were leaving as two sticks, Judah and Israel, He would bring them back and He’d bring them from all the corners of the earth and He’d bring them back into the nation as one stick. Again, one nation, not two.
And it would be Israel. And that’s exactly what happened. And the amazing thing is you can look at the prophecies and today many churches, oh, they’re very happy to point out that Israel was scattered amongst the nations.
And then they point out, well, you can’t even determine who’s Jewish anymore. And is really anybody Jewish? Well, it’s really interesting. I’ve been reading some DNA studies over the last few weeks.
And one of the amazing things is there are markers that are specifically Jewish and can trace Jewish ancestry and they’re only Jewish markers. So when you hear people say you don’t know who’s Jewish and who’s not, that’s not true. Well, what about Daniel? Did he believe that God was done with the nation of Israel during his lifetime when Nebuchadnezzar was attacking Judah and tearing down the walls of Jerusalem and later desecrating and tearing down the temple? Did he believe that that was the end? No, as we’re going to see this morning, God revealed to him promises and prophecies that would deal with the nation of Israel and come up to our lifetime.
And what we’re going to look at this morning is we’re going to go back and review just a little bit and then we’re going to bring it forward to what Daniel is saying in chapter 12. But he’s talking about the last days. And I just want to read a portion of chapter 12.
And if Israel doesn’t exist today, then what’s this prophecy about? He says in verse 1,
Daniel 12:1-7
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
Dear Heavenly Fathers, we come before you this morning. Lord, I pray that you just help us as we begin to look at your word today. Lord, help us to understand, you are not done with the nation of Israel.
They are rather our timepiece. We are to look to them, and as we see what you’re doing with Israel, we understand how close we are to these last three and a half years, which are spoken of again in Daniel in this passage. Lord, speak to us this morning through your word.
This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen. It’s interesting you begin to look at this particular passage, and first of all it talks about Michael, who is one of two, the only real archangel that’s over the good angels of God that’s referred to in Scripture.
Another angel who was an archangel who’s fallen, and he’s over a third of the fallen angels, is Satan. These are the only two archangels that are spoken of as archangels. Lucifer was created, and as we saw, those of you who were here and were looking at the King of Tyre last Wednesday night, we looked at the fact that the King of Tyre was really dwelt by Satan, possessed Satan’s characters, and God referred to him and spoke to him as he spoke to Satan.
And it talks a lot about what Satan’s position was there, what God created him to be, and the fact that he willfully chose to rebel against God, and when he did, the book of Revelation talks about the fact that he took a third of the angels of heaven, rebelled with him. But two-thirds remained loyal to the Lord, and the amazing thing with angels, they look upon our salvation with wonderment, because they cannot choose. They had a choice once, and that choice is sealed forever.
Those that chose to rebel against God shall one day face eternal judgment, and they know that they’re facing that day of eternal judgment. You can find that written in the Gospels, where Jesus confronts angels, or rather, confronts demons, and demonly possessed people, and they know that they face a final day of judgment, and they know who Jesus was, that he is God. They acknowledge him as that.
James talks about the fact that the demons of hell know who Jesus is, and they fear and tremble, but the problem is, they still choose to rebel. And that is the case of the fallen angels. Well, who is Michael? Michael is the archangel, and he has been given responsibility to look over a nation.
And I want you to see something interesting here, because if there is no Israel today, we can just start cutting verses out of the Bible. We can start cutting out different passages and say, why do we even need these? But I want you to see it says, and at that time, what was that time? Well, we go back to the lesson that we had a few weeks ago, where we were looking at the Antichrist. The Antichrist was coming to power.
That time was referred to in the passage we are reading here, where Daniel saw the man dressed in linen, standing on the river, raising his hands to heaven. And if you look at the reference earlier in Daniel’s vision of a man in linen, it was referring to the Lord himself, the Lord Jesus Christ. And he talks about the fact that there is going to be a three and a half year period yet, before the end comes.
And Michael has come to deal with the nation of Israel and to watch over them, because this three and a half year period is going to be the worst period in the nation of Israel’s history that the world has ever seen. A lot of Jewish people say, how could it be worse than World War II under Hitler, where six million Jews were killed? How could it even be worse than October 7th, when women, children, elderly, and young men were slaughtered, raped, and desecrated? How could it be worse than having the world rise up in anti-Semitism at various times throughout history? And there has always been a flow of anti-Semitism throughout the world. How could it be worse? But it’s going to be worse.
The Bible speaks of this man that’s going to come to power that we studied. And he’s referred to in Daniel in a couple of places. First, keep your finger here in chapter 12.
We’re going to come back to chapter 12. But if you go back to chapter 8 of Daniel and begin at verse 23, he’s referred to as the little horn. And if you look at Scripture, and the prophecies, it talks about there’s this beast that rises out of the sea that’s got ten horns.
And then there’s a little horn that arises. And this little horn destroys or takes the power and authority away from three of the big horns. We’ve talked before that a lot of people were always talking about that that was the resurrected Roman Empire.
I believe it has things to do with the resurrected Roman Empire. But the day in which we’re seeing, there’s very interesting things happening. There are currently two world maps out there where people, organizations, that are really luciferic in their intent.
They are really worshippers of Satan. And one of them is a club of Rome. And they established that in order to bring about a one world government, which is their goal.
Where do you find that? You find that in the Bible. They want to bring about a one world economy, which is their goal. Where do you find that? You find that in the Bible.
And they also want to have a one world religion. So they want to have one world political leadership, one world economy, one world religion. And those things are being just pushed really hard.
Today, the club of Rome, you’ve got also groups like the Masons. You’ve got also technocrats. And probably some of you are going, what are technocrats? Technocrats are people that, a bunch of them just flew to China with our president.
He had all these leaders that are billionaires that flew with him to China that believe that they are the ones that have the ability to rule the world in peace because they have technology. Some of them are like Elon Musk, who wants to implant computer chips in our brains so that we can be hooked up to the cloud. And he offers things that sound really good, like paralyzed people will be able to walk again.
People who have lost feeling will be able to feel again. But what he fails to acknowledge is, they don’t acknowledge that men have souls. They don’t acknowledge that we are to be communicating with God, not the computer in the sky.
The technocrats really have their own world map, just like the club of Rome has their world map. If you go on the Google world division, according to technocrats, world division according to a club of Rome, you probably still can get the 10 regions. There’s not 9, not 6, not 12.
There’s 10 regions of the world they want the world divided into. And we are seeing events happen in our day that are bringing about the 10 regions of the world. The first region of the world that really fell into place was Europe.
And that’s why everybody thought, Oh, it’s the Roman Empire is coming back in because they had Europe came back together as one entity. There are no longer borders. You still have different countries in Europe.
But if you’re a European, you can travel from country to country. You don’t have to have passports like you used to. They have a one nation currency, the euro dollar.
Every country used to have their own currency. And now England bowed out of that and has their pounds still. But the rest of the countries have their euro dollar.
And they have one currency. That’s happened. Well, if you look at the maps of the club of Rome, and also the technocrats, you’ll find that Europe is region number two, or area number two of the 10 state government, world government.
Area number one is North America consisting of North America, South Central America, Venezuela, and all of the Caribbean islands, including Cuba and Greenland. Our president came to power. What was the first thing he did? He said, Canada really needs to be the 51st state.
In other words, they need to be united with America. The second thing he did is he said, we, the US, need to take over Greenland. We need to have Greenland for our national security.
The third thing he did is they invaded Venezuela, and they took over. We threw the people in Venezuela out of power, which was a bad regime. And then also I forgot to mention the very first thing he did was he took over control of the Panama Canal, which Jimmy Carter had given back to the Chinese.
So as of today, the technocrats’ map of region one of the world is falling into place. What does this all have to do? Well, Daniel said that there was this little horn that would rise out of these 10 kingdoms, and he would be all the powerful force on the earth. The Bible talks about him as specifically the Antichrist.
We mentioned the last time we met and looked extensively into the Antichrist and his character. We said that there’s always been Antichrist spirits in the world, and it’s almost as if Satan doesn’t know exactly when God is going to allow this to fall into place. So he’s always had a man ready.
And you can go back and look at some of the emperors of Rome. You can go back and look at some of the rulers that ruled in the Far East, the Mongolian rulers. You can go back and look at others like Adolf Hitler who fit the spirit of the Antichrist, who hated the Jewish people.
And that’s exactly what this man will do. Now it’s interesting, as you go back to Daniel 8, and you look beginning at verse 23, it says, In the latter time of their kingdom, when the transgressors are come to the full, and a king of fierce countenance and of understanding dark sentiments shall stand up. This is the Antichrist.
Of fierce understanding and dark sentences. He doesn’t like the truth. He replaces evil with good and good with evil.
And the world is being prepared to fall in place following this man. Verse 24 of chapter 8, And his power shall be mighty, but not by his own power, and he shall destroy wonderfully, and shall prosper and practice and shall destroy the mighty and the holy people. Now who are the mighty and the holy people? I want to tell you it’s not the church.
It’s Israel. When the Bible refers to the holy people, and we’re going to see again back in chapter 12, it refers again to Israel. So how is he going to come against Israel? And why would he hate Israel? And why would he speak against Israel if Israel doesn’t exist? There are so many lies about the Jewish people being spoken today.
And it’s being spoken by podcasters that have huge followings. And some of which used to speak favorably of the Jews. But today are speaking that they’re the whole problem of the world.
And something needs to be done with the Jewish people. That’s the lie out of the pit of hell that this man will promote. Now it’s interesting.
Verse 25, And through his policy, also he shall cause craft to prosper. What is craft? Craft is that which is occultic in nature. Craft is that which is demonic in spirit.
Craft is that which is against God. Is craft prospering in the world today? And as you look at what’s happening in our world today, if you stand for Israel and the Jewish people and call them the chosen of God, that God’s got a special place for them, and He’s not done with them. And simply because they rebelled and did that which was wicked many times.
As a matter of fact, the Bible doesn’t cover it up. It continually reveals it. God was constantly dealing with them because of their disobedience to Him and their lack of faithfulness.
He calls them an unfaithful wife. At one point in time He says, I’m going to divorce you because of your unfaithfulness, because you pursue all these other gods. But then He says, but I’m going to call you back.
But I’m going to bring you back. And the amazing thing is, the last judgment that God speaks of that was a big judgment upon the nation of Israel and the Jewish people was when He scattered them to the uttermost parts of the earth. And when did that happen? The final dispersion of the Jewish people throughout the countries of the world was in 70 A.D. But as I mentioned, God said that He wasn’t done with them.
And He said He was going to use this people, this rebellious people, this people who He’d given all of His covenants and promises to and worked those covenants and promises through them, He was going to use them to teach the rest of the world about who He is, about His promises, His authority, His power, and the fact that He delivers on His Word in spite of what all the circumstances see. If there’s one group of people that should have never been a nation again, it should have been the Jewish people. If you go and look at history, throughout history, most of the Jewish people tried to just fade into the cultures that they were in.
But they couldn’t do it. There are Jewish people today that keep the Passover, that don’t believe in the Bible, don’t believe in God, but they keep the Passover. Why? Because God said they would.
God said that this would be something that they would keep until the end of time. And it would show a promise that He had done and worked through them. And it would also show that through them would come the ultimate Passover.
And it would point them to the Messiah. And He said, they will keep it. Why would unbelieving Jews who don’t even believe in the Bible, don’t go to synagogue, but you have to keep the Passover? Why? Because God said they would.
Why would this people who want to disband, if you look at Jewish names, Jewish people that came out of Germany, you ever notice their names? They’re German names. Why did they take German’s names? Goldstein, Vetter, other names that are German names. Why did they take those names? Because they wanted to melt into German culture.
They wanted to be part of Germany. They didn’t want their Jewishness to be known. And yet, their Jewishness remained known.
God said, all the problems that they have had are not going to be anything until it is going to be in the last three and a half years of history. And what happens in those last three and a half years, He will reveal His power to the world in such a manner that they cannot deny that He’s not God, even though they will still try to. If you go to the book of Revelation, read what’s going to happen, and we don’t have time to look at all the chapters that speak of the last, what we refer to as the Great Tribulation, the last three and a half years where God’s wrath is poured out on the earth, where the Antichrist at the midpoint of what is referred to as the Tribulation, or the last week of Daniel, that at the midpoint of that Tribulation, the Antichrist will reveal himself to the whole world.
We read in Daniel that he’s going to stand in the Temple of God declaring himself to be God and denying the truth of God’s Word and the reality of the true and the living God. It’s at this point, at the beginning of the Tribulation, there are two events that are going to really be marks of the set off of the Tribulation. One is the Rapture of the Church.
Today many people wonder, as I mentioned at the beginning of the message, want to deny the Rapture of the Church, but yet one looks at the fact that Paul talks about the Rapture of the Church. The Rapture of the Church is evident in other portions of Scripture, even though the specific word rapture is not used, but caught up is. It says that the Lord will come and meet us in the air and we’ll be caught up.
Those who are dead in Christ shall go first and then we or our lives shall be caught up. What are you caught up? If you’re not getting caught up, what does it mean? It means that the Rapture is going to occur. When that occurs, it says that the power of the Antichrist will not be revealed and his full agenda will not be…
He put into place until the restrainer is removed, until the restrainer is removed. Well, the restrainer some Bible teachers have said has been the Holy Spirit. I do not believe that the restrainer is necessarily the Holy Spirit because during the Tribulation, the Great Tribulation, there will be those that come to know Christ.
The Bible tells us that. Because there will be martyrs during the Great Tribulation. When they accept Christ as their Lord and Savior, they will be immediately killed by the Antichrist.
They will be martyred. In the book of Revelation, it talks about that they are in heaven and they say, how long, how long before you will come and judge. So we have a picture of what is going to happen.
And the restrainer, I believe, is the Holy Spirit working in our lives. Jesus said you have a unique position in the world. If you are a believer in Jesus Christ today, you have a position that nobody who is in the world that is not a Christian can have.
You are light to the world. What does light reveal? Light reveals where darkness exists. It reveals what truth is.
It shows what is real and what is not real. You are light to the world. And you are also salt to the world.
What is salt? We don’t use salt in the way that they did back in my grandparents’ days. They didn’t have electricity back then. Back in my great-grandparents’, I guess.
They didn’t have electricity. They didn’t have refrigerators. They didn’t have freezers.
How did you preserve meat? One of the ways you preserved meat was to salt it. Salt acted as a preservative. It wouldn’t allow that material, bacteria and other things to attack it and cause it to decay quickly.
Jesus said we act as salt in the world. The sad thing is, when Satan gets the church not to believe the Bible, not to believe what the words of Jesus are, not to believe in the rapture, not to believe in the Jewish people, not to believe in Israel, and then you don’t really believe in the Word of God, so then are you salt and light? And what does salt and light mean anyway? Because you look at the church today, many people in the church want to act just like the world. Want to live just like the world? Want to carry on just like the world? Want to do the activities that the world does? And you don’t see differences.
When I grew up, there was people who claimed to be Christians and you knew they were Christians by the things they did and the places they went. You wouldn’t see Christians hanging out at the bar. You know today, I hear people that say they’re Christians and know what they want to talk about? Beer, wine and the greatest, latest drinks.
What’s wrong with the picture? Don’t they see the world going to hell? Don’t they sense the urgency? No, I want to be like it so I’ll be accepted. Jesus said that if that was going to be the case in the last days, one of the great signs would be the apostasy in the church. Apostasy is a turning away from the truth.
And back to what is the restrainer? I believe the restrainer is a true Bible-believing Christian who the Spirit of God lives in. And we stand as a direct opposition to what the reality of evil is in the world. And so when you have people that say, I’m a Christian, I believe in abortion.
I’m a Christian, it’s okay to kill grandpa. I’m a Christian, it’s okay to do this and that. And the other thing that the world’s promoting, and I don’t stand up and say, that’s wrong.
One needs to examine their faith. But the Bible says that the restrainer is going to be removed. I believe the church is removed in the rapture.
And when that happens, this man of perdition will come to full revelation. But the problem is, he comes in the power, not his own power, in the power of Satan. Those of you who were here Wednesday night, we talked about the power of Satan.
Jesus revealed to us the power of Satan in the Gospels. He’s talking to people and he says, Satan, you are of Satan, of your father Satan. He was a murderer, a liar, and a thief from the beginning.
That is the power of Satan. To murder, to lie, and to steal. The Antichrist is going to come in the power of Satan.
One of the things he’s going to do is murder. You know, one of the interesting things, if you look at what the world wants to do, it says we’ve got too many people, we’ve got to get rid of people, we’ve got to murder people. Bill Gates was very open with it during COVID.
He said, the world has got two billion too many people. We need to get rid of them. And he says, this isn’t the only pandemic that’s coming.
Well, what’s their goal? Kill people. What’s Satan’s goal? Kill people. Who’s their father? Not God.
People in the church should be standing up saying, that’s of Satan, that’s of Satan. That’s what’s going to open up the world to the Antichrist. And when we aren’t here to say it, who’s going to say it? God will still have witnesses.
He’s going to have the 144,000 Jewish people, Jewish men that are going to go throughout the world proclaiming the gospel. He’s going to have an angel from heaven that will proclaim the gospel. He’s going to have two witnesses in Jerusalem that will proclaim the gospel.
The majority of the people won’t listen, just like it’s getting to be the majority of the people who don’t want to listen today. Now, so we see here, the Antichrist is going to come to power. Now let’s go back to chapter 12.
And in chapter 12, verse 1, it says, And at that time, that time is the three and a half year period. That time is the middle of what we refer to as the tribulation, and it becomes the great tribulation where God begins to pour out His wrath. The first three and a half years, you see the working of the Antichrist coming against God and the wickedness that he employs in the world.
And some of that is being done today. He wants absolute control. He wants control of your bank account.
He wants control of your life. He wants control of everything you do. And that will be implemented in the first three and a half years in its entirety.
But the second three and a half years, because of man’s total rebellion in not accepting God, God will pour out His wrath upon the whole world. But at this time, at the beginning of what we refer to as the great tribulation, I said there was a second event. The second event is going to be this man of perdition is going to make a peace treaty with Israel.
And it’s going to appear that for once and all, peace is going to come from the Middle East. Today, what are Tucker Carlson, Candace Owens, Steve Bannon, all the other pundits on the blog say is the biggest problem to peace in the Middle East. Israel.
Just get rid of Israel. It’s the Jewish people. Really? Last I saw Israel fighting a war, they were dropping leaflets so they could get all the innocent people out of an area where they were going to drop bombs.
I haven’t heard of the U.S. doing that, nor Russia, nor Ukraine, nor any other country. But I just got an email from a former friend of mine that said, Oh, the Jews are killing babies in Gaza. I just saw a picture.
They had a marathon in Gaza about a week and a half ago. I don’t know. They’re killing babies.
It’s kind of strange. Lies. Who’s the father of lies? Jesus told us.
Satan. Well, anyway, the last three and a half years, the peace is going to all of a sudden disappear as the Antichrist lets out his full colors and he wants to destroy Israel. Because Satan knows if he can somehow destroy all… Why are the Jews the object of so much hate in the world? And yet you look at all the things that they have brought to the world, and inventions, and all kinds of things.
They’ve won more Nobel Prizes for their tremendous discoveries than any other group of people, yet they’re a minority of people. Why does the world hate them? Because Satan hates them. Because if Satan can kill the Jews, God can fulfill His promises to them, and to Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob.
And God isn’t God. That is why God said in the last days, You watch the nation of Israel, and you will see how I will work, and you will see My clock on when the day of judgment will come. So Jesus is on this river.
There’s an angel on each side. Daniel asks Him, How long? And He says, three and a half years. Three and a half years from the midpoint.
Three and a half years from the revelation of who this man really is. That the world will be sucked into believing He is the Christ. And then what happens at the end of the three and a half years? Well, it’s an amazing thing.
As you study in the book of Ezekiel, and as Ezekiel is listing out the nations that are going to be judged, there’s three nations that are judged because they did not treat Israel well, and they’re all relatives of the Jewish people. The descendants of Lot, which is Ammonites, and the Moabites. The descendants of Esau, which is the Edomites.
And today, if you go over to Israel, the country right next to Israel is Jordan. And Jordan consists, the very northern portion of Jordan consists of a portion of land that was promised to two and a half tribes of Israel. That is half the tribe of Manasseh, Gad, and Reuben.
That would be the Golan Heights area. South of there, you have the Moabites, then the Ammonites, and then the Edomites. That’s Jordan.
It says in Scripture, there is one nation in the world that will be a refuge. Actually, it’s three areas of the world, but it becomes one country right now, and that’s Jordan. The Bible tells us that the Jewish people are told to flee to Basra.
Where’s Basra? Basra is in southern Jordan. It’s near Petra. It’s where the Edomites live.
And that would be the only area that they could find safety. It says that when Jesus returns, He returns and His gowns are covered with blood, and He goes to Basra. Why? To retrieve His people.
And they will look upon Him whom they pierced and weep, because they will realize He is their Messiah. Everything the Bible had said and they had been denying was true, and Satan had been blinding their eyes to the truth, and now they see clearly He’s the Messiah. And it says in that moment, all the Jewish people that are alive will be saved.
Those that have accepted the Lord right now, there’s revival going on in Israel. People are coming to know Jesus as Messiah, both Arabs and Jews, in a fashion that’s never been seen before. But guess what? They’re going to be gone with us.
They’re part of the church. But these have been denying the authority of Jesus, and Jesus is going to come and redeem them. So we go back to chapter 12, and it talks about the fact that the Lord is going to send Michael, His archangel.
He’s going to send him to protect the Jewish people. And to stand up the great prince, which standeth for the children of thy people. And there shall be a time of trouble such as has never been seen since there was a nation, even to that same time.
And at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. If Israel isn’t real, if Israel doesn’t exist, that verse doesn’t exist. Because guess what? It hasn’t happened yet.
So then God’s the liar, and Satan’s the liar. That’s what the Masons teach you. They say Adonai is the bad God, and Lucifer is the good God.
I look at the world, and I see Lucifer is the father, a murderer, the father of lies, and God proclaims the truth. So this morning as you look at world events, and look at your Bible, and see what’s happening, and do not fall for the lies of those people who say, God’s done with the Jews. The Jews are where we need to place our eyes, and Israel is the nation we need to be looking at, and saying, why does the world hate Israel? And then look at scriptures and say, it gives me the answer.
Satan kills all the Jews. God’s a liar. Israel becomes a nation as it did in one day.
God’s telling the truth. Who do you want to follow? The father of lies, who was a murderer from the beginning, or the author of truth in life? Let’s just close in prayer. Lord, I pray that you just help us to understand the significance and the importance of Daniel’s Gospel, of Daniel’s words.
Lord, I pray that you just be with us now, and as we prepare to go downstairs to eat, and have a time of fellowship together, help us to focus on you, and help us to be influenced by you, and not the God of this world, who would desire to deceive us, and lead us astray. This we ask in Jesus’ name. Amen.
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. 2 And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt. 3 And they that be wise shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. 4 But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end: many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall be increased.
5 Then I Daniel looked, and, behold, there stood other two, the one on this side of the bank of the river, and the other on that side of the bank of the river. 6 And one said to the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, How long shall it be to the end of these wonders? 7 And I heard the man clothed in linen, which was upon the waters of the river, when he held up his right hand and his left hand unto heaven, and sware by him that liveth for ever that it shall be for a time, times, and an half; and when he shall have accomplished to scatter the power of the holy people, all these things shall be finished.
8 And I heard, but I understood not: then said I, O my Lord, what shall be the end of these things? 9 And he said, Go thy way, Daniel: for the words are closed up and sealed till the time of the end. 10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand. 11 And from the time that the daily sacrifice shall be taken away, and the abomination that maketh desolate set up, there shall be a thousand two hundred and ninety days. 12 Blessed is he that waiteth, and cometh to the thousand three hundred and five and thirty days. 13 But go thou thy way till the end be: for thou shalt rest, and stand in thy lot at the end of the days.