Daniel 7:14-18 Dominion and Distress | Adult Sunday School

As wood, each part of chosen blood, Bring many sons to glory.

Behold the man upon the cross, Light -sitter upon his shoulders,

Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice,

Call out upon the scoffers, Impose my sin that hath impaired,

Until it was accomplished. His dying breath has brought me life,

I know that it is finished. As wood, each part of chosen blood,

Bring many sons to glory.

Behold the man upon the cross, Light -sitter upon his shoulders,

Ashamed, I hear my mocking voice,

Call out upon the scoffers, Impose my sin that hath impaired,

Until it was accomplished.

Lord, you're calling me to come, And behold the wondrous cross,

To explore the depths of grace That came to me at such a cost,

Where your boundless love Conquered my boundless sin,

And mercy's arms were open wide. My heart is filled with a thousand songs,

Proclaiming the glories of Calvary. With every breath,

Lord, how I long To sing of Jesus who died for me.

Lord, take me deeper into the glory. I have a red light.

That never made me stop before. Hello. Good morning. Welcome to Kootenai Community Church Adult Sunday School.

We are in Daniel chapter 7. So let's open reading

Daniel and then we'll pray. I'm going to read to verse 19.

Actually, we will read 13 through 19. Daniel chapter 7, 13 through 19.

We're still on page 1151. Well, I have the authorized

Kootenai version. I can come pin the number 1151 if you'd like that.

Verse 13, Daniel chapter 7. I kept looking in the night visions, And behold, with the clouds of heaven, One like a

Son of Man was coming. And He came up to the Ancient of Days, And was presented before Him. And to Him was given dominion, glory, and a kingdom,

That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language might serve Him. His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away,

And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. As for me, Daniel, my spirit was distressed within me,

And the visions in my mind kept alarming me. I approached one of those who were standing by, And began asking him the exact meaning of all this.

So he told me, and made known to me the interpretation of these things. These great beasts, which are four in number, are four kings who will arise from the earth.

But the saints of the highest one will receive the kingdom, And will possess the kingdom forever, for all ages to come.

Then I desired to know the exact meaning of the fourth beast, Which was different from all the others, exceedingly dreadful,

With its teeth of iron and its claws of bronze, And which devoured, crushed, and trampled down the remainder with its feet.

The meaning of the ten horns that were on its head, And the other horn which came up, and before which three of them fell,

Namely that horn which had eyes and a mouth, uttering great boasts, And which was larger in appearance than its associates.

Let's open in prayer. Lord, it is our incredible delight and glory and restful thought

That You will be given dominion forever, And that that dominion will not be taken away. We look forward to that day,

When no more wrongs will be made, That we won't have to wait generations for bad things to be undone,

Because You will have taken care of everything. It is Your Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, Who has made it all so bright, spotless.

Let us be that spotless bride and live out in the world today In a manner that brings glory to the

Lord Jesus Christ. We look forward to what You have to say to us in Your Word this morning, And thank

You for it, in Jesus' name. Amen. Well, what a week, huh? So I'm looking at this current victory in the

Supreme Court. I was telling Jim about this, and I just kind of developed this thought a little bit, So I might be a bit spotty, but in 1914, in World War I, There was what was called the

Christmas interlude. And for one night, in a couple of spots more than one night,

But for the most part, one night, battle ceased. And people celebrated

Christmas. They shared a meal together. They played football, which is not football in Britain, by the way.

It's soccer, but I guess they do use their feet. They played together, they commiserated together for a night,

And then the next day they began killing each other again. Let us not lose sight of that. We live in a fallen world.

And the battle will not end here, Until the Lord Jesus Christ comes and reclaims this planet for Himself.

And reclaims all of eternity for Himself. And I look forward to that day. But thankfully, we'll take whatever wins we can get,

If it saves babies' lives. That was Cornell 23 -5.

On page 1157. So we're going to pick up where we left off last week,

On chapter 7, verse 14. And I tried to think about how to give this particular verse

More and more time, Because it is such a wonderful statement.

When a Son of Man, the Son of Man, Is presented before the Ancient of Days, And Daniel chapter 7, verse 14,

Daniel says this, Do you know what that means?

What that actually means? You know these girls that put curls on their hair,

And they call that a permanent? It ain't. This is. It's permanent.

Will not pass away. And His kingdom is one which will not be destroyed. All of men's kingdoms have been destroyed up to this point.

They have been wrecked. Some of them survived a little longer, Daniel said. They were given a little bit of extra time.

They influenced the kingdom after them. But when Jesus comes and reforms and changes all things,

All of the horrifying parts of men's kingdoms Will be completely influenced in the kingdom to come.

It will be perfect. It will be forever. And it will be with Him at the head. The Son of God.

And so this is where it happens in Daniel. Jesus is given His final dominion, glory and kingdom.

This is not an angel, as some have translated it. It's not the body of saints. This is the

Lord Jesus Christ Himself, the Ancient of Days, The Son of Man, the Son of God, The second person of the

Trinity, Who is finally and permanently put in the position by the

Father That He so greatly deserves. He has redeemed the elect. He's going to redeem the earth.

It all changes here. This is such an incredible verse just by itself.

If we just read this verse and then went to sleep, it would be good enough. His dominion is a forever rule

Over all nations. And it's a rule over nations. The universe, yes, but here on this planet, nations.

Psalm 72, 11, And let all kings bow down before Him, All nations serve Him. They foresaw this.

Revelation 19, 5, John foresaw it. From His mouth comes a sharp sword, So that with it

He may strike down the nations, And He will rule them with a rod of iron. And He treads the winepress of the fierce wrath of God, the

Almighty. So those who have opposed the Son of Man Will be done away with.

And those who have loved Him, who have loved His appearance, We love His appearing.

Those who have loved His appearing will be elevated To the right hand of the Son of God, to the right hand of God.

The dominion given to the Son of Man comes after, Immediately after the destruction of the

Antichrist. And it's permanent, glorious, and not one of suffering. It is all -pervasive and does not come in stages,

But rather comes instantaneously. And it comes upon the destruction of the Gentile nations

And the sending of the Antichrist and the false prophet Into the lake of fire. Now, I'm not saying we want to be happy about,

I'm not happy about anybody who goes into the lake of fire. I'd rather no one went into the lake of fire.

But it is to God's glory that they do. And we need to remember that. It's a hard thing about glory to remember,

But it is to His glory. He has made the gospel known,

And they would rather pull the mountains down upon them, It says in Revelation, than change their minds,

Than trust Christ, than repent. So it comes after the destruction of the Antichrist And the false prophet sent into the lake of fire.

It is not, as some believe, a steady, slow change, But rather it is an instantaneous blast

That results in the kingdom of the Messiah taking center stage And it will be completely and perfectly done.

It will be done by the Father Himself and by the Son. Culver says in his commentary,

This is evident in both chapters 2 and 7, The language is applicable only to an all -prevailing,

Irresistible, glorious, civil as well as religious kingdom. This utterly does away with the postmillennial view,

It also mitigates against the amillennial view, For though they do allow that in its final manifestation

The kingdom will be thus, they postulate a present earthly kingdom Of Christ under the same figure, some do.

Remember, there are various iterations. When the figure will not allow it in Scripture, They are placed in the unenviable position

Of trying to have their logical cake and eat it too. Their church kingdom they try to relate to the saints in the passage,

But the saints are clearly not the kingdom here, But the ones who after a period of suffering receive the kingdom.

So even granting, which he does not, he says, That the saints herein are the

New Testament church, Their theory will not fit. Now, it's not to say that in progressive revelation

Christ can't, through the book of Revelation, Add in other celebrants,

How do you pronounce that word? Celebrants, I'm going to pronounce it that way, In the final millennial kingdom.

But Daniel saw Old Testament saints inheriting this kingdom. As we move through the rest of this chapter,

We will talk about who the saints are. There are numerous references to the saints in chapter 7.

Oh, by the way, the paper that was handed out, I do this the opposite of Rick. He does it the smart way.

He hands out a paper and then he teaches you what's in the paper. I teach and then three weeks later I hand out the paper.

Page 1157 of my book, yeah. So, We will look more at saints as we go through this chapter.

We also must acknowledge that in this vision, Daniel takes us to the first coming of Christ, And then jumps to the end of history.

In the end, the fourth kingdom is revived, And it is ended at the second coming of Christ.

In his commentary on the book of Daniel, Herbert Leupold acknowledges what conservative scholars have held

Regarding the views of the ancient prophets. He says this, Why does the sequence of historical kingdoms in this vision extend no

Farther than the Roman? Whereas we know that many developments came after the

Roman Empire And have continued to come before the judgment. We can venture only opinion under this head,

Opinions that we believe are reasonable and Conform with the situation as it is outlined.

One suggestion to be borne in mind is the fact that the prophets, Barring the inclusion of chapter 9 in Daniel, Never see the interval of time lying between the first and second coming

Of Christ in the matter of history. Therefore, Daniel does not see beyond Christ's days in the flesh,

And perhaps the persecution as it came upon the early church. So although he was a classical

Omnilinearian, He also believed that the destruction of the revived Roman Empire At the end of the days is a literal instantaneous destruction.

He said this, Did Jesus coming to the earth in the first century destroy the Roman Empire? We could only say yes if we interpreted the destruction of the fourth kingdom

In a non -literal way. I choose not to do this because the destruction of the previous kingdom

Was literal. It seems that we should also expect That the destruction of the fourth kingdom by the fifth kingdom

Will be literal. Therefore, the second coming of Christ must be The initiation of the fifth kingdom and the final destruction of the fourth.

If this is so, Then the prophetic picture that Daniel saw did not include The present age in which we live.

And you can look at Isaiah 61, 1, and 2, which we looked at last week. And Luke 4, 18, and 19.

Which is a rephrasing of that, not a rephrasing, A quoting of that by our Lord.

He quoted Isaiah 61, 1, and 2 Leaving off the reference to the second coming.

This conclusion has seemed reasonable, Leopold says, To some all millenarians as well as to pre -millenarians.

So 14, I don't know that it's the most important verse In all of Daniel, but I really like it.

I'm going to read it again Just because it's such a wonderful verse. Unto him was given dominion, glory, and a kingdom

That all the peoples, nations, and men of every language Might serve him. His dominion is an everlasting

Dominion which will not pass away And his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed.

Even so, come quickly, Lord Jesus. What a wonderful statement Daniel makes there. I'll bet that was comforting to Daniel.

Now he's having this dream and he allows himself That it just unsettled him.

And I know what dreams that have unsettled me do to me. They cause me to lose sleep. They make me wonder stupid things.

I'm not a dream, I mean, I think dreams are dreams. You know, when my brother -in -law shot me in one of the dreams

He didn't really shoot me. We're actually good buds. So, you know, it's not like I started

I better watch Dale while I'm around him. I didn't do that. It was a dream. Give me a break.

But Daniel's dream was given to him by The Ancient of Days. And then the

Ancient of Days Begins to provide a general interpretation. So he says, as for me, in verse 15

As for me, Daniel, and that always struck me As I read that. Who did he think we were thinking?

Wrote this. But I'm glad that God told him to be specific. So he was. As for me, Daniel, My spirit was distressed within me.

And the visions in my mind kept alarming me. So as any of us might have done

During such an alarming vision, Daniel struggles with what he has seen. What does this mean? What do these things mean?

Now, it must be, I'm grateful that The prophetic revelation is done.

And that we have the Word of God. And that's all we need. I wouldn't have wanted to be this. Because I would have thought

Was it the taco I ate? The really bad taco I just ate? No.

Nothing against tacos. I'm just not a taco person. So as any of us might have done, he was

Struggling with it. He struggles with what he has seen. The Aramaic word here for distressed has the idea of a piercing.

He's pierced through. This was gut wrenching. This wasn't just a bad dream. This was a vision.

And he was struggling with it. In like manner, the Aramaic word for alarming denotes being Frightened or terrified.

So he was Pierced and he was terrified by this dream. It didn't just unsettle him.

This is the kind of dream you wake up from In a cold sweat, possibly screaming. If it's one you had today. Now, I don't think that's what happened to Daniel.

But the potential is there because this was extremely distressing. Daniel's statement that my spirit was distressed within me

Refers to his whole personality. Suffice it to say, Daniel was disturbed,

Concerned, and frightened by what he had seen. Despite his great ability, as it says earlier

In the book of Daniel, and his ability to understand and interpret dreams, He was having trouble with this one.

A lot of trouble with this one. And I think any time God spoke to the prophets of old

With momentous things, It disturbed them. And in some cases, remember

Jonah didn't like it. You want to save those people? I'm out of here. He did not like what

God was going to do. I love that the scripture paints The picture of humanity using humanity.

Warts and all. And it's not some fake, systemic book

That only shows the good side of humans. Of which there is none. Okay, moving along here.

Verse 16, any questions about 14 or 15? I kind of got carried away there, sorry. Okay, verse 16.

I approached one of those who were standing by. Now this is strange. So did he do this in the vision or did he do this?

I believe he did this. He approached one who was standing by and began asking him the exact meaning of all this.

So he told me and made known the interpretation of these things. So Daniel, in his humility,

Has no problem asking somebody, asking one of those standing by To give him an interpretation. He doesn't say, well,

I'm the dream understander. I don't need anybody else. I don't need anybody to help me understand this.

I'm glad that God made Daniel a humble man. So that he asked someone.

He later asked also a specific interpretation of the fourth beast. So it's generally acknowledged

That one of those standing by would have referred to the angel messenger. Angel's messengers.

So liberal commentators have made hay out of the fact That Daniel could not interpret all of the dream. In Genesis chapter 28,

God has to explain the dream to Jacob That he had about the angels on the ladder. In Exodus chapter 3,

God has to speak to Moses out of a burning bush And give instructions. John has walked through an interpreted vision in Revelation chapter 20

And later in chapter 21. So this is not an uncommon thing. How can we expect men to know the mind of God?

Unless God decides to give them his mind. We can't know that. But I'm really grateful that God chose to speak through one of these messengers

And give Daniel an interpretation. Daniel was asking for the truth of the things of which he saw

For this is what the word's exact meaning denotes. The Aramaic word there is to get at the truth.

To understand the truth of something. The underlying truth of something. And that's what Daniel's looking for. Any questions?

Daniel was a humble man all through his life. Verse 17. So here's the interpretation.

This is going to be a general interpretation. I would say, Lord, would you take a brick

And tie to that brick a definition of each of the words In their original context

And then a commentary on each word And then by phrase and then by paragraph So that I can understand exactly.

That's not what God did. But he gave enough. He gave Daniel this. These great beasts, which are four in number,

Are four kings who will arise from the earth. So in this general interpretation, the angel reveals that the four beasts

Represent kings who came from the common population of the earth. These kings also represent kingdoms, as the beasts did.

There's no conflict here with verse 3, which denotes The beasts coming up from the sea. It's just two ways of wording the same thing.

Both statements are symbolic references to the kingdoms arising out of humanity. Whether it was the words the sea, which has from antiquity

Related to the mass of humanity. Or the words the earth, which is also a general statement

Referring to humanity. As Walvert notes in his commentary,

What is symbolic in Daniel 7 .3 Is literal in 7 .17.

So the sea and the earth Are just two ways of talking about How these four kings came up out of the earth.

Further, the angel is making sure that Daniel understands That there are four, and only four. And that they are both kingdoms and kings

Which the beasts and the kings represent. Verse 18, but the saints of the highest one

Will receive the kingdom and possess the kingdom forever For all ages to come. So here's our first reference to the saints

In this up -and -coming section of prophecy. So who are these saints? Daniel would have understood them to be

The covenant people of God, Israel. Now, there's no reason to assume that believers cannot be included in this group

But we must ask ourselves what was meant in this Old Testament book By this Old Testament prophet

At this Old Testament time. So the New Testament church will be joined with Christ as rulers

As shown in Revelation 20, but that is irrelevant to this. So does this chapter affirm that Israel, the covenant nation

Shall have a place in that kingdom And in a real sense possess it? If so, then national restoration is in the plan of God For that nation, for the nation of Israel.

A national restoration is in the plan For Israel. Now, that doesn't mitigate against the saints being

The New Testament saints being involved in things But when God redeems this planet

Which He intended to be perfect from Adam Served it up to Satan When He redeems this planet

Israel has a national Part in that.

So there are five references in this group of verses To the saints of the Most High The same expression is used

In verses 22 and 25 In verse 22 they are simply called saints My God sent

His angel and shut the line I'm in chapter 6 That was on page 1150

Verse 22 Until the Ancient of Days came and judgment was passed In favor of the saints of the

Highest One And the time arrived when the saints took possession of the kingdom So I'm jumping ahead of myself But I just want to give us some meat to think about As to who these saints are

The people of the saints of the Most High Those are all the same

Aramaic words To one verse in the Old Testament scriptures These can be understood in only one fashion Of the covenant nation

Israel Consider the evidence The Hebrew adjective equivalent to the

Aramaic Kaddish saint Is Kaddosh Now I'm not a linguist

But I found this interesting as I read through this In Exodus chapter 19, 6 it is used of Israel And of Israel only in her peculiar relation to God As the covenant people,

His covenant people In Leviticus chapter 20 verses 7 and 26 It is used in the same sense as also in Deuteronomy 7, 6

And 14, 2 and 21 for those of you who are interested The Hebrew noun Kaddish is also equivalent

To this Aramaic word and is used of Israel And of Israel only in this special sense of describing

A people peculiar to God This use appears many times However one need look no further than the book of Daniel itself

To find out who the saints or the holy people are Chapter 8 may contain eschatological material

Viewed in a typical fashion but most interpreters of every school Of eschatology unite in regarding it as primarily

A prophecy of the conflict of the Jewish people This is chapter 8 with the Greek kingdom of history

Especially as it developed between the Jews And Antiochus Epiphanes So this is the conflict between the

Jews and Antiochus Epiphanes Who did a horrible thing

I believe he sacrificed a pig on the altar of God Now in verse 24, let's read that As for the ten horns out of the kingdom ten kings will arise

And another will arise after them and he will be different From the previous ones and will subdue three kings

The Jewish people are called by the name Amkadoshim In the

English versions translated the holy people But in the Hebrew literally the people of the saints

This is as near a linguistic equivalent Of the name given to the people of Daniel in 727 as possible

Which is Then the sovereignty, the dominion and the greatness Of all the kingdoms and the whole heaven will be given to the people

Of the saints of the highest one His kingdom will be an everlasting kingdom

And all the dominions will serve and obey him So it's as near a linguistic It's as near a linguistic equivalent as could be

The people of the saints of the most high Even Keel, Leopold and Young Who were at this time when

I was studying The documents I'm studying here Were the leading advocates of Amillennialism Think that this expression refers to the

Israelites in chapter 8 Why then, he says Why then not the same in chapter 7

There is only one answer, it does not harmonize With their eschatological system So Daniel chapter 12 verse 7 mentions the holy people

Amkadesh There also, as in chapter 7, they suffer for three and one half times

Or years The correspondence with the suffering of the saints of chapter 7 For the same period of time in verse 725

If you read that, is unmistakable, let's read that And he will speak out against the most high

And wear down the saints of the highest one And he will make alterations in times and in law

And they will be given into his hand For a time, times and half a time Same reference, the three and a half years

That there will be great suffering So Keel is certainly in error

As this person points out when he writes this He says this Disagree, it is speaking of Israel It's speaking of the covenant people

Now later on, in progressive revelation In revelation especially, Jesus through John Continues this revelation

But here in Daniel, it's speaking of the covenant people of God And their restoration

The whole point is that Daniel was referring to his own people When he used these terms And whatever the

New Testament may add Does not contradict this simple fact So Dr.

Delitch, the famous collaborator with Keel On the Keel and Delitch commentaries With that many words in his name

It just looks like I'm not pronouncing it right That many letters They regarded it as an essential progress in prophetic theology

That the following three ideas are recognized in their intimate connection One, Israel in prophecy

Is not merely a type of the church Number two, Israel has yet a future

Number three, before the last judgment There will be a time of a glorious kingdom of God And with these words,

I believe So these facts demonstrate

Sufficiently that premillennialism And only premillennialism gives a satisfactory explanation Of the prophecy of the four beasts and of the ancient of days

Especially when we consider that we take it literally We look at it literally, we look at the historical connections

And the things that were said earlier, the things that are said later So it's also important to notice

That regarding this restoration of the kingdom to Israel When the disciples asked Jesus in chapter one of Acts If he would restore the kingdom to Israel He didn't say, you guys, you got it wrong

Actually what's going to happen here is the saints have become the kingdom And they will be whom the kingdom is restored

He didn't say that Let me finish my little paragraph here

When the disciples asked Jesus in chapter one If he would restore the kingdom to Israel He did not correct them and say, oh but you err

The kingdom will be going to the church No, he not only did not correct them He affirmed their idea and just told them

That when it would happen was not known to them Not to be known to them, Acts chapter one verses six and seven

So when they had come together They began asking him saying, Lord Is it at this time that you are restoring the kingdom to Israel But he said to them, it is not for you to know

Periods of time or appointed times Which the father has set by his own authority And you know what, that's where I end today

I went a little fast and I didn't cover A lot of ground mainly because as I was studying this

I had to do a lot of reading to really thoroughly Understand this, what is it about us wanting

To be supplanting Israel I'm trying to understand that What is the purpose

What would be the purpose of that And I haven't come to a good conclusion So if there's any of you out there who

Have thought this through much better than I have And I'm sure there are plenty, maybe you have something to offer there But the point is, at the end

The kingdom is going to be handed to the Lord Jesus Christ And he is going to dispose of that kingdom

Dispose meaning do with as he will As he chooses, I don't mean dispose, get rid of I mean disperse, dispose, hand out

Reward, send to this place Send to that, the goats here, the sheep here

Is it so important for us To be the church when rather we should be

Greatly excited And wonder at the fact that God Is going to complete his plan, he's going to redeem the earth

He's going to cause the earth to be what it was intended to be From the very beginning when he intended for it to be

A perfect place for men and women to live He's going to redeem all of humanity that has chosen

That has trusted him, that has repented and trusted him And those who are not in that camp

Are going to be sent into the lake of fire But Israel has a place, the church has a place

And we need not to mix those And with that, I hate to end this early

But that's kind of how it worked out this week It was one of those weeks Thomas, can

I pray for 20 minutes? So the judgments that are to come

As that paper that was handed out Like I said,

I hand stuff out after we've gone through it The judgments that are to come that we need to be thinking about As we're progressing through the rest of Daniel And who knows where else

God will take us Should he tarry These are the judgments and how they line up Either way

There was a question a few weeks back About the angels

That we would judge angels So pardon me for us to take a little left turn here

People had asked about that verse When we talked about the fact that one of the judgments Is the judgment of angels

And it was asked what that judgment meant And so I went back and looked at 1

Corinthians 6 So it says in 1 Corinthians 6 Do you not know that we will judge angels how much more than matters of this life

And here's what we went through when we went through 1 Corinthians 6 It is interesting to consider that the elect will actually judge angels

Scripture is not clear on just which angels Though it appears that the fallen angels will be judged by the

Lord 2 Peter 2 For God did not spare angels when they sinned But cast them into hell and committed them to pits of darkness reserved for judgment

Jude 1, 6 And angels who did not keep their own domain but had abandoned their proper abode

He is kept in eternal bonds under darkness For the judgment of that great day So the wording of both of those verses allows for the possibility

That believers will be involved in the judgment of the sinning angels The word translated judge can also mean rule or govern

Since Christ was exalted above all the angels Ephesians 1 Which he brought about in Christ when he raised him from the dead

And seated him at his right hand in the heavenly places Far above all rule and authority and power and dominion

And every name that is named not only in this age But also in the age to come And he put all things in subjection under his feet

And gave him as head over all things to the church So then I said this I said in a sense we are in Christ And are like him and are given to reign with him are to reign with him

Which while one cannot be dogmatic about this It's not too much of a stretch to assume

That believers will assume some sort of authority over the holy angels Those who were created to serve humanity and to deliver

God's commands in favor would probably consider it an honor But the fallen angels including

Satan will be horrified by this Satan must gloat over every person that is cast into hell

Noting that they will not judge him The word structure in this sentence indicates that Paul places A very high value on the proper judgment of things in this life

Even as compared with the idea of judging angels in the life to come That is why the way that Christians treat each other

Is so very important that Paul stresses here You will judge angels He says but more importantly can you not judge the situations

In your own lives here today properly So that was the point of that section And then

Jim brought this up and I added it in but I didn't say this It's entirely proper or entirely possible

Although one cannot be in any way dogmatic about this That the elect will be involved in handing out rewards

To God's ministering spirits who were sent to minister To the saints while we were here I'm not going to go building some kind of strange

Doctrine on that and put it on page 1153 But it's entirely possible

Jim mentioned this to me and so I added it in And I'm actually going to cite him I don't know how to do that Jim Osmond may have or whatever day it was

So lastly the judgments that are coming Are The tribulation period

The judgment seat of Christ The judgment of the nations The judgment of angels which we just spoke about And the great white throne judgment

What are we to do about those things? What are we to be about in our daily lives today

With the fact in view that there are these judgments coming The nations are going to be judged

People The judgment seat of Christ That is resurrected and raptured believers will be judged for their works

Sin is not in view in this judgment What is our responsibility with that judgment in view?

What are we to be about With that judgment in view? The work of God And when does that end?

When we're out of here Keep it up until we're out of here

The judgments of the tribulation period Do you want any of your family to go through that?

Assuming we're right and the tribulation saints The saints will not be in the tribulation It should animate us

These kinds of things are designed by God Not just to communicate truth but to animate us in his service

To do the kinds of things necessary to keep people from being judged that way And then last of course The final judgment

In which the beast and the false prophet are cast into the lake of fire

The final judgment ends it all And that's what's in view in chapter 7 verse 14

Which we will read one more time And to him was given dominion Glory and a kingdom that all the peoples and nations and men of every language might serve him

His dominion is an everlasting dominion which will not pass away And his kingdom is one which will not be destroyed

Next week I'll have a longer lesson Thank you for your indulgence this week Are there any questions or comments

Or commentary about page 1152 I mean about Daniel chapter 7

Yes, and I'm not an astute enough historian

To systematically refute that It's one of those things, it could be a continued Roman Empire Or a revived

Roman Empire But we'll look at that when we look at the fourth beast

Peter Oh the question was Or the statement, well actually it wasn't really a question

It was just, there are those historians who believe that the final That the Roman Empire, I believe you're talking about the

Eastern Roman Empire Actually, pardon The Western Roman Empire didn't fall, that it continues on So you're talking about England, Britain, the

Anglo -Saxons Sure, yeah, okay That the Western Roman Empire continued, and I don't know that I can't quite nail that down As far as my study of history, but one way or the other

The fifth kingdom will be a revived, will be the Roman Empire again A revision of the Roman Empire or a continuation

But probably, I think, a revived Any other questions, comments Salvation comes from the

Jews Or salvation comes from them So why would God supplant the

Jews When the church actually draws its life From Jew number one

Christ, so you're talking about Romans 11 17, but of Some of the branches were broken off and you being a wild olive

Were grafted in among them and become partaker with them of the rich Root of the olive tree, verse 18 answers that question

This is a concern about what I was talking about earlier It's Paul's concern that the

Gentiles Would be arrogant about their new position in Christ He wasn't, there's eschatological teaching here

But what Paul was primarily teaching here Was what Paul always taught Humility, love of Christ first And moving people towards Christ It says, do not be arrogant toward the branches

Who are the branches? Israel Do not be arrogant, but if you are arrogant, remember that it is not you

Who supports the root, but the root supports you Now the original root of course we know is the

Lord Jesus Christ himself But the tree that he created In Old Testament times, I'm all metaphysical on us here

Is the nation of Israel And we were grafted into that Don't get on your high horse

Is what Paul's saying here, let's keep humble It's the root that supports you

Do your part But don't try to supplant the root And that's what's always amazed me

But Paul didn't leave us unknowing about what he was teaching here Don't supplant the root

And then you will say then, branches were broken off So that I might be grafted in We should be first, incredibly grateful

Thankful and bless God Sorrowful for those who will be lost But thankful that we have been elected and chosen to be part of these things

What a momentous thing it's going to be When verse 14 happens I think I'm going to read that verse for the rest of my life every day

You almost bought the cow Okay, let's close in prayer

Father, yes we are grateful for being grafted in And we trust you To monitor our hearts, for our hearts are wicked above all things

And no one can know them, but you know them Monitor and change our hearts So that we will stay grateful, humble, thankful And dedicated to the cause

Of bringing the gospel to the world And to your covenant people They need to hear the gospel, they are saved in the same way we are

There's no difference there We ask for your blessing today On this momentous happening in our supreme court

Stepping into that Lord we pray that the church would step up I know the true church everywhere will step up And those babies who are now allowed to live

If they need adoption, if they need care, if they need clothes The true church will take care of that Let us be about the business that you've placed us in Which is bringing the gospel to the people, to the world