Dan 4:1-37 “ Hew down the Tree ”
(1) Our framework revisited: The Babylonian captivity foreshadows the proclamation of the gospel in all the world.
2:46-49 - “ Christ is the revelator and Christ is the revelation”
In chapter 3:26-30 He sees Christ as the power of God:
(2) 3 characteristics of the godly in the midst of trouble:
Clear discernment ( Lev 10:811/ Ps 119:104)
Calm resolve: 3:16-18: /.( Phil 1:27,30 ) - Mt 24:15 “When you see”
A purposeful and intentional witness: ( Isa 8:17,18 / Mt 24:14 )
5 Lessons:
1. My name shall be great among the heathen. Vs1: Mal 1:11/
Dan 4:1-3/34-37 “ How do our leaders talk? Atheistic? Rom 1: 21,28
2. Trouble in the midst of prosperity: Vs 3 / Luke:12:16-21
God spoke through dreams: Job 33: 14-17/
3.The futility of the natural man to understand God’s message: Vs 6,7 : ( Ignorant Isa 29:11-16)- ( Defiantly willful Gen 11:4 / Ezek 11:3/ Malachi 1:5 / “Not build, bow ” ( They mock 2Pet3;3-9 - Rev 20:7-10- Gen 19/
4. Daniels astonishment: Vs 18,19 (1.) Revelation / (2) cared for the king /(3) His desire for him, to be saved: Repent, change, bow. vs. 27
5. A 5, fold
interpretation: The tree, is man. Ps 1, 37:35, 52:8,92:12,
, Earthly kingdoms Ez 17:
“ LESSONS FROM JONESTOWN ”
I am the vine, ye are the branches: He that abideth in me, and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. 6 If a man abide not in me, he is cast forth as a branch, and is withered; and men gather them, and cast them into the fire, and they are burned. John 15:5.6
Many of us remember this horrible and tragic event which shocked the world, in the year 1978, when 913 people lost their lives to a delusional megalomaniac. What are the lessons?
1.“ Those who forget history, are doomed to repeat it. Prov 4:26, eccl 3:15 , Deut 5:5. God leave us the painful past, to learn.
2. When anyone, a man, woman, politician, or preacher, promises you utopia, he is the devil, incarnate. Prov 20:19, 26:25 / Ps 5;9/ Dan 11:21,32. They always use flattery, and impossible promises.
“ I thought I had met god, but instead I met satan” a witness!
3. Hatred, malcontented-ness, for your country, makes you a prey for a diabolical socialism: which always leads to a godless oppression. Instead, Learn your rights, privileges and responsibilities and behave as godly Christians according to the will of God. Mrk 12:17/ Rom 13:1-4 / 1Tim 2:1-4
4. Remember! The call of the church, is the preaching of the gospel of God’s glory in Christ. Only Christ, HIMSELF, can bring true unity, harmony, peace, and lasting joy! John 12:31
5. Never, Never listen to a preacher who wears shades in the pulpit and foams at the mouth. He’s on something, for sure!
6. There is ONLY ONE MESSIAH! John 10:1 / Mt 24:24
“ They ARE KNOCKING at the DOOR ”
And they smote the men that were at the door of the house with blindness, both small and great: so that they wearied themselves to find the door. Gen 19:11
With uncanny precision, before our very eyes, in order that the Word of God may be clearly seen as both true and veritable, the behaviors of the “hostile homosexual groups” are clearly depicted in scripture.
History also leaves it’s
volumes for anyone who really wants to know, what happens when disorder and
confusions of nature are reinforced as normal, and then, activated as
instruments of intimidation and threat for change. (
These acts, are strategic exploitations of a larger more sinister coalition, whose purpose is to eradicate God’s thoughts from the WORLD!
You know them, they have opened their mouths and spoken. T.V, politics, education, entertainment. They haven’t hid a thing they wish to see come to pass. They say it a thousand ways. Are you blind, or deaf?
Rev 13:4,5
They play on civil rights, use alleged victims, advance their agenda, and transform society into the image of the beast, while advocating, change and peace. Rev 13:11-18. All while entertaining the masses.
What they mean, is , we will not have God to rule over us. And we will do away with you, by law, legislation, harassments intimidation, and Judicial tyranny, as was the case in Lots day !
The Christian Church ought to be foremost concerned about this openly hostile progression towards a biblical world view, because it means that there are powers that either are supporting or are silently approving of this attempt to destroy the gospel of marriage.
When our politicians can openly and confidently approve of this behavior, and seek to overthrow the constitution, it means that the inroads of social thought has so permeated the infrastructure of our society that resistance appears to be futile. Rev 13:4
When our Churches seek to argue for biblical marriage only on the grounds of the emotional well being of the children, rather than the
clear declaration of the bible. Rom 1:18-32 / 1Tim 1:9,10 / Mt 19:4-6 / Lev 18-20 / Det 22:5 The woman shall not wear that which pertaineth unto a man, neither shall a man put on a woman's garment: for all that do so are abomination unto the LORD thy God. Why? It is rebellion against the distinction God made between the sexes. And that cross dressing signifies confusion and disorder; they undermine the bible!
And folks, when a society can openly tolerate it’s leaders practicing this sort of behavior, you can be sure, God is in the process of giving that people over to dark authority. Jer 5:31 / Ezek 8;7-18
And when the pastors who call themselves stewards of the mystery, promote and endorse, for the sake of political correctness these deeds, for which sake the wrath of God, comes upon the children of disobedience, you may know that Satan rules in those assemblies.
Compromise of the gospel, will never , never result in true unity, or real peace. The Church will yet pay the price for it’s capitulations.
God will not save the
churches of