965 - Les Feldick Bible Study - Lesson 2 Part 1 Book 81 - The Four Great Empires Interpreted - 1

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 1 * BOOK 81 THE FOUR GREAT EMPIRES INTERPRETED - 1 Daniel 7:14-9:2 Okay, good to see everybody in this afternoon. My, we’ve got the room about full today. We appreciate so many of you that are in for the first time. For those of you joining us out in television, we always like to thank you over and over for your prayers, your letters, as well as your financial help. And we appreciate that so many of you pass it on to others and give them our time of broadcasting and so forth. We just praise the Lord for every part of it. Well, we’re a Bible study, and we’re going to come right in and take up where we left off in our last taping. Since this is the first program of these four this afternoon, we’re going to go right back to Daniel chapter 7. You’ll remember that verse 14 was where we kicked off and spent two, three, or four programs on the Kingdom. And the reason I do that is that so many church people across the whole spectrum of denominations know nothing of this thousand year glorious Heaven-on-earth Kingdom. They just don’t know what it’s all about. So that’s what we did the last several programs. So now we’re going to continue on, after hitting verse 14 for a kick-off verse, and pick up verse-by-verse in Daniel chapter 7 again. Daniel 7:14a “And there was given him (Now remember, this was all part of a vision that Daniel had, and in that vision he saw all this.) And there was given him (that is God the Son) dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, (That’s why we kicked off and had all those references on this coming earthly Kingdom. Not only would it be a Kingdom,--) that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom…” Now remember I stopped and asked—what does a Kingdom involve? A King, a people, and a land—that’s three prerequisites for having a Kingdom—and He’s going to have it all. It will be: Daniel 7:14b “…an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” All right, now we’ll go on from there and drop down into verse 15, where now Daniel has come away from this vision experience. He says: Daniel 7:15 “I Daniel was grieved in my spirit in the midst of my body, and the visions of my head troubled me.” You know what I think he had? He had a migraine! He had a headache after all of these revelations. Now I always have to repeat and repeat and repeat—don’t just read this as some kind of a myth or a legend, because all through Israel’s history the supernatural was commonplace. So for someone like Daniel to have these visions one right after the other is not just a figment of someone’s imagination. They were real. This was how God was dealing with His Covenant People. All right, after seeing these visions of not only the coming world empires (we’re going to come back to them in verse 17), but also of this glorious throne room experience where he saw God the Son standing before God the Father with the admonition that He would one day be King of Kings and Lord of Lords. All right, verse 16: Daniel 7:16 “I came near unto one of them that stood by, (And that has to be an angel.) and asked him (this angel) the truth of all this. So he told me, and made me know (or understand) the interpretation of the things.” Verse 17, and here we come to a recap, again, of his vision that he experienced up there in verses 3, 4, 5, 6, and so forth. Daniel 7:17a “These great beasts,…” Now always remember that when either the Book of Revelation or the Book of Daniel or even Ezekiel, when they speak of these beasts, they’re speaking of empires. And, of course, the beast of all beasts will be the anti-Christ and his rule over those final seven years. So don’t picture some humongous, horrible looking animal. Even though it is depicting wild animals, yet it’s an empire. It’s a government. Daniel 7:17 “These great (empires depicted as) beasts, which are four, are four kings, which shall arise out of the earth.” Who will be heading up these four Gentile empires? Now just for a second, turn back to the first part of the chapter, still in chapter 7; and we’ll just hit them briefly. Daniel 7 back to verse 4: Daniel 7:4a “The first was like a lion, (see, a carnivorous killing animal) and had eagle’s wings:…” Well, an eagle is pretty good at ripping flesh. Then you come down to verse 5. The next empire after Babylon, which was the Mede and Persian, and it, too, is pictured as a carnivorous beast. Daniel 7:5a “And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, (And you can see it’s carnivorous, because what does it have in its mouth?) and it had three ribs in the mouth of it…” #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible