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Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy (Lesson 5) THE NATIONS PART 2
THE DARKSIDE OF KNOWLEDGE: WHAT GOD NEVER INTENDED YOU TO KNOW
Have you ever learned something… and wished you never had?
Some knowledge can take away our peace and cause us pain and restless nights.
What kind of knowledge is bad knowledge and how should we deal with it? (Pauer)
Welcome back to episode 5 of our 13-part series on understanding the present and future using the Bible as our guide.
What you’re about to hear will draw you into a deeper, more meaningful relationship with God and with others.
The Bible provides the keys needed to understand what we must do to effectively live in a broken world resulting from having bad knowledge.
In this series, we explore Bible stories, symbols, and signs to help us know and understand the times we are living.
They are the foundational keys to unlocking the future and understanding the special message specific for our day and what we can do to make preparation for the future.
So, keep watching.
What you’re about to learn about the future of our world could change the way you see God, the Bible—and help you know how to prepare for what’s coming ahead.
But, before we begin, Let’s Pray.
Allusions, Images, Symbols: How to Study Bible Prophecy
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 1 Introduction
Some knowledge can lead us away from peace—and into pain.
There are somethings, for our own protection, God would rather we not know.
Some information, God freely give us but like a loving parent there is some knowledge that God withholds from us.
In cases, where he withholds knowledge, we must trust Him and accept that it is for our good.
This is why God says in 📖 Psalm 46:10
🎤 “Be still, and know that I am God; I will be exalted among the nations, I will be exalted in the earth!”
✅ This verse is a reminder to stop worrying, stop panicking… and remember who’s really in control.
When we trust Him, even when we don’t understand, we find peace.
Over the years, there’s been a strange idea floating around…about God.
Some people have actually argued that God wanted the Fall to happen.
That it was His plan all along for humans to sin and die.
And that by doing this, He could show His deep love by sending Jesus to the cross.
They say: “How else could God show His love than by dying for us?”
But that thinking is ❌ dangerous and speculative.
It makes God look like He needed evil to prove He’s good.
The truth is:
It was never God’s plan for Satan to rebel.
It was never His plan for Adam and Eve to fall.
🎤 The Fall was a great tragedy with devastating consequences.
It cost our joy, our closeness with God, our security, and our peace.
Life would’ve remained perfect if our fore parents hadn’t eaten from the forbidden tree.
The tree of knowledge of good and evil.
To gain deeper understanding of how detrimental, the fall of Adam and Eve is to us today and what we can expect in the future we’re digging deep into what the fall has really brought us. (Pauer)
Ever since Eden, humans have wanted to run things their way, instead of letting God lead.
Like Adam and Eve where have we gone wrong.
We have fail to trust God as our King, so we asked for a human king or leader.
We wanted human rulers, governments, empires… instead.
📖 The book of Daniel paints a vivid picture of what happens when we reject God’s power and depend on human power.
God had warned His people: If you reject Me and choose human kings… you’ll suffer.
And guess what? That’s exactly what happened.
❌ Sinners ruling over sinners.
❌ Greedy men setting on thrones.
❌ Power-hungry rulers oppressing humans and crushing nations.
🔑 It was never a good mix then. And, It still isn’t a good mix today.
Thus, not all knowledge is good knowledge.
When we seek the kind of knowledge that leads us away from God—it’s dangerous.
But, if God did not want us to know about good and evil.
Why did He plant it in the Garden of Eden?
Read Genesis 2:9-17, what do you think, share your thoughts, then continue to Part 2: The Very First Commandment
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 2: The Very First Commandment
In the beginning, God gave us a classroom, a beautiful garden designed to teach us how to live a wonderful, happy, peaceful life on earth.
✅ The Garden of Eden wasn’t just a home. It was a divine school where Adam and Eve learned about God through the trees, the rivers, and every living thing.
The Garden of Eden schoolroom is where Adam and Eve and their off-springs was to learn more about their Creator.
🔑 Ellen White writes: “The holy pair were not only children under the fatherly care of God, but students receiving instruction from the all-wise Creator. The mysteries of the visible universe—‘the wondrous works of Him which is perfect in knowledge’ (Job 37:16)—afforded them an exhaustless source of instruction and delight.” 📚 (Patriarchs and Prophets, pp. 50, 51)
🧠 The Garden of Eden was a place to grow—spiritually, emotionally, and mentally—with God as Teacher.
🔑 We discover the first time God gave a direct command is in Genesis 2:16, 17
16 And the Lord God commanded the man, saying, “Of every tree of the garden you may freely eat;
17 but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of it you shall surely die.” (Genesis 2:16, 17)
🎤 This command was simple: “Don’t eat from that one tree” the tree of knowledge of good and evil.
Why would God forbid Adam and Eve from having this knowledge?
That’s because all knowledge is not good knowledge.
🧠✅ Obeying God’s command meant trusting God’s wisdom.
❌ God knew that if they disobey his command to not eat of the tree, of the knowledge of good and evil, the knowledge they would obtain from eating of the tree would bring death, pain, and separation.
🔑 God knew that having the knowledge of sin, guilt, shame, and rebellion would surely lead to lifelong suffering.
❌ So, God wasn’t holding anything good back.
He was protecting His children from evil!
Such as what would later happen when people chose to rule themselves rather than to be ruled by God, the Creator of the Universe.
🎤 God’s plan was to teach us humans everything we needed… but in the right time and in the right place.
✅ He wanted us to live in joy—not in sorrow.
🏛️ Now fast forward thousands of years after the incident in the Garden of Eden.
People still didn’t want God to be in charge.
Just like in Eden, they wanted to decide what was good or bad on their own.
📖 So, thousands of years later, when Israel asked for a king, They are warned in 1 Samuel 8:10-18 of the danger of having such a king.
🗣️ Samuel warns them that a king will take their sons for military service, their daughters for labor, their property, and a tenth of their crops, all for his own benefit and that of his servants.
He warns them that a king will also appoint leaders and officials who would exploit the people for their own gain.
❌ Still, they chose human government over God’s government.
🔑 Like the choice of Adam and Eve, their choice would affect us until the end of time.
📖 As the kings of Israel grew more wicked, the people lost their way.
They became so worldly and so removed from God they forgot their true purpose.
❌ Instead of leading the other nations to God, they became just like the nations around them.
🎤 So what did God do?
He let them have even more of what they asked for…
He gave them human government.
⚖️ With more human rule, came more earthly power, with more earthly power, came more struggles and more pain.
With this backdrop in mind the book of Daniel comes to light.
📖 The Book of Daniel picks up, showing us the results of putting God aside and choosing human leadership and power.
🔑 Daniel’s visions don’t just reveal what happens to the other nations.
They expose what happens to God’s own people when they prefer the directions of human government over God’s commands
❌ Instead of the freedom found in Eden, God’s people ended up in captivity.
🎤 Centuries of subjection would become their new classroom.
This new classroom would become a place to learn just how different the kingdoms of this world are compared to God’s kingdom.
Think about the things you’ve learned in life the hard way.
Think about the pain that came from knowing too much… too soon.
Maybe it was betrayal.
Maybe heartbreak.
Maybe guilt you still carry.
🎤 God never wanted us to carry those things.
🔑 That’s why He said “Don’t eat.”
That’s why He says “Follow Me.”
✅ When we trust Him even now, we avoid the pain that comes from walking away.
❌ But when we go our own way… it never ends well.
We have a choice—right now—to step into God’s classroom and trust Him with our lives.
So, we now we take a look at God’s first command in the Garden of Eden, from the perspective of Daniel 2.
Read it paying special attention to Daniel 2:31-35.
What do you see is the consequences of successive nation because of the choice of choosing human government over God’s government.
What is the consequences of them choosing the knowledge of good and evil?
Share your thoughts in the comment section.
Then, View the next segment of this video, Part 3:Daniel 2
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 3: Daniel 2
When knowledge replaces our trust in God, it becomes dangerous.
It becomes downright evil!
What happens when people trust in human power and forget the One who holds all power in His hands.
🎤 It was during a very dark time for God’s people…
📍 They were no longer free.
They had been taken away from their land into Babylonian captivity.
Their temple destroyed; the people were no longer independent; they would now reap the consequences of their own choices.
“We want a King like the other nations.”
✅ But even in that dark place, God hadn’t given up on them.
🔑 Through the prophet Daniel, God gave one of the most powerful lessons in the whole Bible about what happens when people trust in kingdoms of this world instead of trusting in Him.
What would His people learn from being in captivity?
🔑 The dream in Daniel 2 gives us a panoramic view of world history until the end of time. It shows us the rise and fall of human kingdoms—but we also see that God’s kingdom lasts forever.
📖 Daniel 2:31–35
31 “You, O king, were watching; and behold, a great image! This great image, whose splendor was excellent, stood before you; and its form was awesome.
32 This image’s head was of fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze,
33 its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay.
34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.
35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. (Daniel 2:31-35)
✅ The stone that crushed the statue wasn’t made by human hands. That stone represents Jesus and His coming everlasting kingdom!
🎤 Every government, every empire, every nation built by man will eventually crumble and fall.
But God’s kingdom will never fall.
🎤 Now let’s fast forward to the late 18 and early 19 hundreds.
🎉 It was an age of excitement! Technology was booming.
The world was dreaming big.
✅For instance, at the Paris Exposition in 1900, the world showed off its greatest inventions and believed a new age of peace and progress was coming.
Many people thought that technology and science would fix humanity’s problems as we entered int the 1900s.
There was hope among great thinkers that Enlightenment ideas like human improvement and the power of reason would create a better time for everyone.
🎤 Society believed human beings were getting better and better.
🔑 They thought science, reasoning, and knowledge would save us.
❌ But then came World War I.
🎤 And that dream of peace was shattered.
❌ By the time the 20th century ended, over 200 million lives had been lost to war.
🗣️ Martin Luther King Jr. said it best:
“We have guided missiles, but misguided men.”
❌ And that, my friends, is a scary combination.
🎤 We had advanced in machines—but not in morals.
We know how to build weapons—but not peace.
🔑 Let’s go back to Daniel’s dream for a moment.📖
🎤 Notice something interesting…
✅ The statue starts with gold—something pure and valuable.
But it doesn’t get better.
❌ It gets worse.
➡️ Gold changes to silver.
➡️ Silver to bronze.
➡️ Bronze to iron.
➡️ Then finally… iron mixed with clay. (Paurer)
What is that saying?
🎤 The world’s powers aren’t rising in value but declining.
📚 But some thinkers in the 1800s, like Charles Darwin and Karl Marx, tried to convince us otherwise.
🎤 They said we are evolving upward—that we are getting better as a species and as a society.
🔑 And, in some ways—our physical lives may have improved.
✅ We have cleaner homes, faster travel, better medicine, access to information at our finger tips, advance in technology…
❌ But ask yourself this:
🎤 Does anyone really believe this world is moving toward peace, security and prosperity?
❌ Look around… Wars, hatred, broken families, fear—all of which is the results of trying to rule without following the commandments of God.
📖 Matthew 24:6–7
6 And you will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you are not troubled; for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet.
7 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. And there will be famines, pestilences, and earthquakes in various places. (Matthew 24:6–7)
🎤 Jesus didn’t leave us in the dark.
He told us these things would happen.
🔑 He warned us—not to scare us—but to prepare us.
This is good knowledge.
✅ When we see these things, we remember: He already knows. He is still in control. His kingdom is coming, and his kingdom will last forever.
This is the kingdom you want to live in!
🎤 There’s a kind of knowledge that leads to pride… and destruction.
❌ But when we lean on God instead of our own wisdom—there is hope, peace and surety.
Choose the Kingdom that will last.
If you think Daniel 2 was something. Look at the beasts in Daniel 7, what do you think they symbolize? Share your thoughts. 🎤Then, Continue to the next segment of this video, Part 4: Daniel 7
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 4: Daniel 7
🎤 Sometimes knowledge lifts us up. But other times, it opens the door to pain, fear, regret and worry.
What happens when people reject God’s commandments and try to live like the world around them.
🎤 Let’s start with the two dreams found in Daniel … both are powerful… both are from God… but they are given to two very different people.
📜 In Daniel chapter 2, the dream was given to a Babylonian king—King Nebuchadnezzar.
📖 But in Daniel chapter 7, the dream was given to someone else. Daniel himself, a man of God who was a Hebrew prophet and a part of God’s covenant people, the Israelites.
🔑 Both dreams, are the same subject, but from different points of view.
🎤 King Nebuchadnezzar saw a tall statue made of different metals.
Daniel on the other hand saw a more disturbing scene.
He saw nations rising from the sea, driven by violent winds, with constant fighting and shifting power among them.
❌ He saw wild beasts rising up out of a stormy sea.
📖 Daniel 7:1–3
1 In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the main facts.
2 Daniel spoke, saying, “I saw in my vision by night, and behold, the four winds of heaven were stirring up the Great Sea.
3 And four great beasts came up from the sea, each different from the other. (Daniel 7:1-3)
🔑 This vision shows chaos. Movement. Noise. War.
🎤 The winds are blowing hard. The water is churning. It’s a picture of confusion and strife.
✅ In the Bible, wind and waves often represent conflict between nations.
📖 Psalm 65:5–8, Isaiah 17:12–13, and Jeremiah 46:7–8 all use this picture of floodwaters and waves to describe political strife and turbulence among the nations
🎤 But here’s the contrast…
✅ While the nations are like a raging sea, the Promised Land was meant to be something different—
🔑 A peaceful place. A sacred nation. An island of calm in a world of chaos.
🎤 God’s plan was for His people to live by His laws, under His rule, protected from the madness of the nations around them.
And it did at least for a period of time. It was as an island of peace and safety amid a sea of Gentile kingdoms. It was for a time a sacred nation established on the solid foundation of God’s government, as opposed to the unruly nations around it.
❌ But when they chose to live like the Gentiles… everything changed.
🎤 Back to the vision in Daniel 7:1-3,
Daniel watches the chaos of Gentile warfare from the shore, when suddenly the beasts start coming up on the land_—into his territory!
❌ The Gentiles the surrounding nations, move from the sea and onto the land.
Therefore, the Gentile problems now becomes his people’s problems.
The people of God wanted be like Gentiles, the other nations around them, so they would now live with them and be under their government.
In other words,
❌ Because God’s people chose to live like the Gentiles, now they would live with the Gentiles—and even be under their control.
🔑 What was “their problem”… has now become “our problem.”
🎤 Starting with Babylonian domination, God’s covenant people never again gained complete or long-lasting self-government.
🔑 Thier loss of freedom didn’t end in the Old Testament. It continued into the New.
🎤 In Jesus’ day, they were under the rule of the Roman Empire. And after that, came even more oppression—this time under the persecuting power of the little horn, pagan Rome.
📖 God’s people have been pressed down again and again.
Although certain nations have had more success than others historically, and some periods have been marked by greater peace, the majority of history reflects a succession of tragedies and government systems, moving from one form of oppression to another system of oppression.
❌ Even when rulers say they’re doing what’s best, it often turns into pain and tragedy.
🎤 It’s been one oppressive government after another… one war after another… one false hope after another.
🔑 All because we traded God’s leadership for man’s government. If only the people of God had chosen to remain under God’s rulership and obeyed his commandments.
🎤 Can you imagine what things would be like if we had chosen God’s rule instead?
📖 Romans 3:10–18 is our reality
10 As it is written: “There is none righteous, no, not one; 11 There is none who understands; There is none who seeks after God. 12 They have all turned aside; They have together become unprofitable; There is none who does good, no, not one.” 13 “Their throat is an open tomb; With their tongues they have practiced deceit”; “The poison of asps is under their lips”; 14 “Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness.” 15 “Their feet are swift to shed blood; 16 Destruction and misery are in their ways; 17 And the way of peace they have not known.” 18 “There is no fear of God before their eyes.” (Romans 3:10–18)
🎤 These words explain so much of what we see in the world today.
🔑 Nobody, on their own, does right all the time.
❌ Even the best human leaders fall short.
❌ Even the best human plans lead to brokenness.
📖 Romans 3:19 says it best
“Now we know that whatever the law says, it says to those who are under the law, that every mouth may be stopped, and all the world may become guilty before God.” (Romans 3:19)
This verse helps us to see that we need the gospel, and it shows why we need Jesus so badly.
✅ We can’t fix this world on our own. But Jesus can. And He will.
🎤 When we try to live by the world’s wisdom, we lose our peace.
✅ But when we choose God’s way, we find hope—even in hard times.
🎤 So don’t be fooled—some knowledge leads us away from God. But His truth will always lead us home.
The idea of land and sea resurfaces in the last book of the Bible Revelation.
Notice the contrast between water and earth. How are they are utilized. What can they tell us about interpreting prophecy? Read Revelation 12:15, 16 and Revelation 13:1, 11. Then, continue to the next segment of this video, Part 5: Between Land and Sea
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 5: Between Land and Sea
🎤 Not all knowledge is good knowledge. Sometimes, it leads us away from truth, and into trouble.
When we lean on our own understanding and forget God’s voice, even something that starts out innocent can turn dark. That’s why even when we are studying God’s word we must ask for the aid of the Holy Spirit so that we do not lean to our own understanding.
🎤 In Bible prophecy, symbols like land and sea have deep meaning.
🔑 These images aren’t just poetic. They’re powerful lessons for our time.
📘 One scholar, Beatrice Neall, put it like this:
“Symbolically, when earth and sea are juxtaposed, earth often represents the ordered world, or even the land of Israel, while sea refers to the Gentile nations that menace it as the sea menaces the land.” 📖 (Sealed Saints and the Tribulation, p. 260)
🎤 In simple terms—
✅ Land represents a place of peace and stability, built on God’s government.
❌ But sea? It represents chaos. Trouble. The unstable, prideful nations that do things their own way based on human pride.
Revelation 12:15–16 the water and earth are shown side by side.
15 So the serpent spewed water out of his mouth like a flood after the woman, that he might cause her to be carried away by the flood. 16 But the earth helped the woman, and the earth opened its mouth and swallowed up the flood which the dragon had spewed out of his mouth. (Revelation 12:15-16)
📖 And Revelation 13:1, 11 does the same
1 Then I stood on the sand of the sea. And I saw a beast rising up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and on his horns ten crowns, and on his heads a blasphemous name.
11 Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and he had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon. (Revelation 13:1, 11)
🔑 The dragon—Satan—uses water to flood the woman, a symbol for the church.
Of course, this flood is not literal. It represents massive persecution stirred up by earthly governments and crowds of people led by corrupt rulers.
❌ Throughout history, Satan has used the systems of this world—the governments, the kings, the mobs—to persecute God’s people.
🎤 But then something incredible happens…
📖 Revelation 12:16 says: “The earth helped the woman.”
✅ Many Seventh-day Adventists believe this is a prophecy about the New World—America—where believers fleeing persecution found safety.
If our understanding of land and sea is correct, what does this say about the founding of the American republic?
🔑 It would say that just like the Promised Land was a refuge for God’s people in ancient times, this “earth” became a modern place of protection, for God’s people as well.
🎤 That’s why we often see the United States symbolized as the “land beast” that first appears like a lamb.
Though America has never been the “New Israel” as some of its early founders may have thought, for a long time it has been a land of religious freedom for millions.
✅ Lambs are gentle. This land—America—offered freedom. It gave hope to millions running from religious persecution.
🎤 But here’s where the knowledge of man turns dangerous…
❌ Revelation 13:11 says this lamb like beast one day speaks “like a dragon.”
📛 This means that the same land that once gave refuge will one day turn into a dominant religious persecutor!
🎤 The nation that once welcomed the oppressed… will one day help to oppress them.
🔑 This is another example of what happens when nations, even ones founded on good principles, choose to rule themselves instead of being ruled by God.
🎤 This isn’t just about prophecy—it’s about the heart of every person, every leader, every government.
❌ Knowledge without God leads to pride… and pride leads to persecution.
🎤 Land and sea. Order and chaos. Lamb and dragon. The Bible warns us clearly…
❌ The world’s wisdom will
fail us.
✅ But God’s ways lead to peace—even when everything else is falling apart. Read Revelation 10:1-11, where do you see peace even though things seem to be falling apart. Share your thoughts. Then, continue to the next segment of this video, Part 6: Prophesy Again
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THE NATIONS PART 2
Part 6: Prophesy Again
Sometimes the truth gets lost in tradition or buried beneath pride and power. But when God opens the book—truth rises up.
I am talking about a movement that rose rise up with power, purpose, and prophecy… all in the right place, at the right time.
🎤 The remnant church, a faithful group of believers, wasn’t born in Europe or in the halls of kings. It rose up in the New World—right in the heart of what became the United States. (Pauooeeor)
🔑 It began where people had run to find freedom. Where those escaping religious control and persecution found open land, open hearts, and open doors.
✅ It was not the results of human hands, power or ingenuity, but the hand of God.
God sparked a movement that may have never taken off in the same way anywhere else. He moved at the right time and in the right place.
Revelation 10:1–11 describes the birth of this movement.
🔑 This vision in Revelation 10 is full of symbols like those found in Daniel 2 and Danuel 7 land, sea, the nations, and the voice of urgency.
🎤 This angel in Revelation 10:1-2 shouts with a loud voice, just like the three angels in Revelation 14 and the angel in Revelation 18.
Revelation 10:1-2
1 I saw still another mighty angel coming down from heaven, clothed with a cloud. And a rainbow was on his head, his face was like the sun, and his feet like pillars of fire. 2 He had a little book open in his hand. And he set his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, (Revelation 10:1-2)
✅ This vision describes a critical moment in earth’s history. It describes the formation of the remnant church.
This church was established for the sake of doing the work set forth in the prophesy of Revelation 10:11
11 And he said to me, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, tongues, and kings.” (Revelation 10:11)
In other words, A global mission was being launched so that every nation, every language, every leader could receive the gospel.
🎤 Notice that the angel in Revelation 10:1-2 is holding a “little book” in his hand that is open and ready to be shared.
📖 Most Bible scholars believe this refers to the book of Daniel which had been sealed up for generations as referenced in Daniel 12:4
4 “But you, Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book until the time of the end; many shall run to and fro, and knowledge shall increase.” (Daniel 12:4)
🔑 But now the Book is for the first time in many generations opened. The truth that was once hidden is being brought back into the light.
🎤 This angel has One foot on the sea. One foot on the land is no accident.
✅ It shows that the message is for the entire world, the message is global it is for both the Old World and the New.
The message is for the Jews and the Gentiles. The persecuted and the free. The rich and poor. It is a message for everyone. It is a message for all nations.
🎤 What is the goal in all of this?
📖 Matthew 24:14
“And this gospel of the kingdom will be preached in all the world as a witness to all the nations, and then the end will come.” (Matthew 24:14)
🔑 Just like Israel, God’s church today has one mission: preach the truth—everywhere. To everyone.
🎤 Therefore, God isn’t interested in building an temporary earthly empire, massive cathedrals or houses of worship. He’s preparing us for His final, eternal kingdom.
God is pushing human history toward its grand conclusion: the end of human empires and the permanent enthronement of Christ as in Daniel 2:34–35, 44–45
Daniel 2:34-35
34 You watched while a stone was cut out without hands, which struck the image on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces. 35 Then the iron, the clay, the bronze, the silver, and the gold were crushed together, and became like chaff from the summer threshing floors; the wind carried them away so that no trace of them was found. And the stone that struck the image became a great mountain and filled the whole earth. (Daniel 2:34-35)
Daniel 2:44-45
44 And in the days of these kings the God of heaven will set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed; and the kingdom shall not be left to other people; it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand forever.
45 Inasmuch as you saw that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it broke in pieces the iron, the bronze, the clay, the silver, and the gold—the great God has made known to the king what will come to pass after this. The dream is certain, and its interpretation is sure.” (Daniel 2:44-45)
🔑 The Bible makes is perfectly clear, there is no question about it, this is the end of every man-made kingdom… and the rise of God’s kingdom.
All the kingdoms of this world will be completely destroyed, annihilated with nothing left behind. God’s eternal kingdom will take their place. In his Kingdom, there will be:
✅ No more suffering. No more sin. No more sickness. No more death.
🎤 The stone cut without hands—that’s Jesus. And His kingdom will last forever!
🎤 So, when you look back at the prophecies of Daniel, especially chapters 2 and 7, it’s amazing how accurate they are.
📜 He saw the rise and fall of empires—long before they ever existed.
✅ Every detail came true.
🎤 So if God’s Word was right about the past…
🔑 You can trust Him about the future.
❌ Man’s knowledge—without God—led to power hunger people, broken promises, and lost truth.
✅ But God’s knowledge leads to restoration, healing, and a kingdom that never ends.
🎤 When knowledge is bad—it divides, destroys, and deceives.
✅ God reveals truth saves.
🎤 The book is open. The call is loud. The mission is clear.
🎤 So the question is: Will you stand with the remnant? Will you speak the truth? Will you help light up the world?
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