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

Through the Bible with Les Feldick LESSON 2 * PART 2 * BOOK 81 THE FOUR GREAT EMPIRES INTERPRETED - 2 Daniel 7:14-9:2 Okay, good to see everybody back. For those of you joining us on television, if you would like to come in for an afternoon of Bible study and coffee and all the goodies over there – it’s almost like a feast day, isn’t it? Just come over to Tulsa, normally the first Wednesday after the first Sunday, and you’ll enjoy the day. We’ve got folks today from Oklahoma City, Enid, Texas, Florida, and Nevada. My goodness, I hope I didn’t miss anybody. But anyway, we’re always glad to have visitors come in and join us. All right, this is a Bible study. We’re going to just keep right on going verse-by-verse through Daniel chapter 7, and we’ve just left off at verse 18. And again, I do want to thank our television audience for all of their kind letters and prayer support and financial support. I can’t renege on doing that. All right, verse 18 again: Daniel 7:18a “But the saints of the most High shall take the kingdom,…” Now you know, people will just do anything with Scripture and twist it for their own ends. Now, I don’t know when it started, but somewhere back in church history there was a movement abroad called Reconstructionism. What they were really preaching was that the Church would finally take over the world almost by force, militarily, and then be ready to hand it over to God at His Second Coming or whenever. And as a result of that theology came two of our favorite hymns, at least they were for me when I was a kid. One was “Onward Christian Soldiers.” Now just stop and think a minute. See how militaristic that is? And it is the same way with “The Battle Hymn of the Republic.” It is militaristic. And that’s not the way God is going to do it. God is going to let the Body of Christ fill up, and then He will take it out in the Rapture. In will come the anti-Christ and those final seven years, and then Christ Himself will be the One that will take the world by force with His wrath and vexation of those final seven years, especially the last three-and-a-half. So anyway, it’s amazing how people can twist the Scriptures to fit their own theology. All right, so enough of that. Now we can move on to verse 19. Daniel goes on. Daniel 7:19a “Then I would know the truth of the fourth beast,…” Or this fourth empire. Now never lose sight of what I closed with. In Daniel’s day, yes, Nebuchadnezzar came in 606 B.C. They held forth for a hundred years or so. Then came the Medes and the Persians, which is present day Iran and a part of the world just north of them. Then came Alexander the Great and what we call the Greek Empire. Then that faded away. A couple of hundred years later and the Romans came in. And, of course, the Roman Empire held forth, like I said in the last half hour, until around the fourth or fifth century. After that you have the appearance of Mohammad and the world of Islam. They pretty much became the occupiers of that part of the world up until World War I when the British took over the Mandate of Palestine and so forth. Daniel 7:19 “Then I would know the truth of the fourth empire, (the Roman) which was diverse from all the others, exceeding dreadful, whose teeth were of iron, (See, that’s exactly the way it was seen in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream as well.) and his nails of brass; which devoured, broke in pieces, and stamped the residue with his feet;” Now all that shows is the absolute authority of these empires, and this Roman Empire especially. But, the Revived Roman Empire that’s going to appear for the final seven years of Daniel’s 490 years of prophecies, which will be coming, maybe not this taping but the next one. That will even be worse than anything that has ever been before, because it is an outpouring not only of God’s wrath, but of Satan’s. Satan, as we’ll see later, is also a major player—especially in those last three-and-a-half years. All right, now verse 20. This is definitely Tribulation ground, because the ancient Roman Empire was not associated with the ten horns and so forth. So whenever you get to ten horns and ten crowns, then we’re leaping up to those final seven years. Daniel 7:20A “And of the ten horns that were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell;…” Now remember, we’re talking about nations. We’re not talking about some creature with ten horns sticking out of his head. We’re talking about an empire composed of ten distinct nations and kings and so forth. All right, out of the ten, three will disappear. Now for thirty years I’ve taught it, and I still haven’t found any reason to change. It is that I feel these ten nations will be the original ten that came out after World War II. #LesFeldick #BibleStudy #Bible