111 - Les Feldick Bible Study Lesson 1 - Part 3 - Book 10 - Nebuchadnezzar and Dream: Daniel

https://lesfeldickbiblestudy.com Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 1 * PART 3 * BOOK 10 NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND DREAM (DANIEL 3) Let's get right back to Daniel Chapter 2, where we left off in our last lesson. Politically, these great empires that Nebuchadnezzar saw in symbolic language, you might say of the head of gold and so forth, we pointed out how that politically everyone of these empires will become weakened by an increasing number of people involved in decision making. It will be a glorious Kingdom. Militarily, each one became greater, until we get down to what we call the revived Roman Empire, or our present European Community. So keep this in mind, that as these Gentile empires came on the scene, in everyone of these empires, Israel was connected. I personally think he will come from Western Europe. Look at Europe tonight with all their turmoil, their ethnic problems and their immigrant, political, economical problems. Well the world is getting ready for that. And so as we see these empires, they have come and gone through history, but we are now down to the iron and clay toes of the Western Europe consortium of nations. Let's wind up this vision with Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel Chapter 2. Daniel 2:43 The Sovereign God is in control of the whole thing. The plan of God for the whole Age of History. That a Sovereign God lays it out, gives man and nations their free will, and they all meet at the end. Daniel 2:44 "And in those days of these kings (when these ten nations of Western Europe, headed up by the Anti-christ, have run their course of 7 years) shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom,..." What Kingdom? The Kingdom He is going to have on the earth. A Kingdom that will never be destroyed. The Book of Revelation puts a time element on the Kingdom. How long? That the thousand year reign of Christ is limited in time. Never lose sight of that. Daniel 2:44 "...and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms,..." All these great Gentile kingdoms that were precipitated and were based on nothing but greed. Greed. Let's move to Chapter 7. Now in Chapter 7, Daniel has his own vision. And Daniel is going to see, basically, these same Gentile Empires. Daniel 7:1,2 Daniel spake and said, `I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven (East, West, North and South) strove upon the great sea.'" Now verse 3: Daniel 7:3 "And four great beasts..." The beast term in Scripture is simply a government. Now the reason God has chosen the word "beast," is because all these great empires, as we will see from Daniel's point of view, are bestial in their behavior and again in their greed. Now verse 4. Daniel 7:4 Daniel 7:5 Verse 6. Now this is history: Daniel 7:6 "After this I beheld, and lo another (another empire), like a leopard (the leopard is one of the swiftest animals in the world. It depicts Alexander the Great who was swift in his conquests. Now what does Daniel see? Four wings. Instead of having one great dictator such as Nebuchadnezzar, this third empire is divided into four.); the beast had also four heads: and dominion was given to it." Now in verse 7, after the Grecian Empire falls, up comes the Roman Empire: Daniel 7:7 It was the start of democratic form of government, the world had never experienced that before. As we look back on history, that semicolon jumped about 1700 years of time, because we are coming all the way from the Roman Empire, which ended between 300 and 400 A.D. up to the present time, and the appearance of the European Community as the revived Roman Empire. Ten horns. The horns again in Scripture merely refer to kings. Revelation Chapter 13. Revelation 13:1 The sea of humanity.), and saw a beast (government) rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns(see how that fits with Daniel? Revelation 13:2 "And the beast (this Government will be headed up in one man, this Anti-christ) which I saw was like unto a leopard, and his feet were as the feet of a bear, and his mouth as the mouth of a lion (what does that tell you? What we just read in Daniel 7. Revelation 13:3 A lot of people think that the man Anti-christ will be shot, and brought back to life. I prefer to think that we are dealing with the Roman Empire. The Roman Empire was the one that suffered a deadly wound. If you think I am stretching the point, about Western Europe being a revived Roman Empire about two years ago in "Insight Magazine" was an article on the European Community. An so even a secular writer can see that what we are having come out of Europe now, is the very outline of that same old Roman Empire. The head that was wounded is the old Roman Empire, and all of a sudden it is alive and well and on the scene today. So I say, watch Western Europe. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible