Yesterday we talked
a little bit about Jesus using HISTORY, using PROPHECY. Do you believe the Bible? Do you believe
Jesus? If you do then you should believe in prophecy. So often people say that there are many
different interpretations of prophecies so who knows which is true, which is
God's real meaning? I have a webpage
with a few others and the name of that webpage is- "Who's To Say We're
Right?" We study and study more and
more. We have been proven wrong on a lot of precious beliefs, cherished beliefs
that we had to give up in light of truth. To cling to cherished beliefs means
clinging to false beliefs, fables, and God's word warns us against that.
1Ti_1:4 Neither give heed to fables and endless
genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in
faith: so do.
1Ti_4:7 But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and
exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
2Ti_4:4 And they shall turn away their ears from the
truth, and shall be turned unto fables.
Tit_1:14 Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and
commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
2Pe_1:16 For we have not followed cunningly devised
fables, when we made known unto you the power and coming of our Lord Jesus
Christ, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty.
Clinging to beliefs
which can be Biblically proven false is to cling to lies and if we cling to
lies we are NOT clinging to Christ, our Savior.
Do we want lies or
truth? If you want truth then the truth
will be made known to you. Studying is
necessary…
2Ti_2:15 Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a
workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing the word of truth.
If we aren't
studying, truly studying to show ourselves approved unto God- if we aren't
rightly dividing the word of truth, are we following God's will?
We are going to
continue the prophecy study and IF you are just joining this study please go
back and start at the beginning to gain full comprehension.
May God BLESS us
with understanding to do His will in all things. Please, Father, by the grace
and mercy of our Savior, Jesus Christ our Lord!
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Continuing with
prophecy we're going to pick up with Daniel--
We were talking
about the Beasts in Daniel 7 depicting the same kingdoms that Daniel 2 speaks
of and so far it seems very clear that history has proven that the first two
beasts correspond with the head of gold and chest and arms of silver in the
great statue of Nebuchadnezzar's dream. Will we find the same of the 3rd beast-
will it match up with the belly and thighs of brass which is Greece?
Dan 7:6 After this I beheld, and lo another, like a
leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also
four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Another kingdom
comes up like a leopard with four wings of a fowl on its back. Remember the lion of Babylon had 2 wings like
eagle's on its back and we talked of the swiftness of the conquering? Well if
we believe 2 wings mean swiftness then 4 wings means an even faster conquest
and the fact this was another of the feline family says a lot as well. While
not the majestic king of the animals, a leopard is impressive as well. Leopards are known for their stealth and this
is something a conquering king can use to their advantage and we know for a
fact that Alexander the Great was one of the most famous of conquerors for
Greece.
Read this… and keep
in mind the 4 wings on the leopard denoting speed in conquering.
Alexander conquers his world
Inheriting
a kingdom from his father didn't really please Alexander. What kind of hero
gets everything given to him? This wouldn't satisfy Achilles or Hercules and it
wouldn't satisfy him.
Alexander wanted to get started conquering
ASAP.
He
got his first opportunity almost immediately. Some of the Greek city-states saw
the ascension of the 20-year-old Alexander as a chance to regain their
independence from the foreign Macedonians. By the way, "foreign" is
how the Greeks saw the Macedonians, not how the Macedonians saw themselves. To
this day, there's still contention over whether Macedonians are Greeks.
Alexander
took care of the little rebellion post-haste.
To set an example, he completely razed the Greek city of Thebes in 335 B.C.,
killing most of the population -- including women and children -- and enslaving
those few left alive. After that the Greeks were happily united behind
Alexander and he could focus his attention on expanding the empire.
He
immediately began pushing east, against the old enemy Persia -- which his
father never succeeded in defeating.
After
winning a battle for the city of Gordium, Alexander is said to have solved the
famously tricky Gordian Knot. He sliced through the thing with his sword rather
than fool around it. A legend supposedly foretold that whoever solved this
puzzle would rule all of Asia.
Alexander rapidly moved on to destroy the city
of Tyre ... push through Palestine, Syria, Iran, and Afghanistan ... and
conquer Egypt (or, depending on your perspective, "liberate" Egypt
from the Persians). In bloody battle
after bloody battle the Persian Empire and most of the known world fell to the
hero Alexander and his Macedonian war machine.
Pasted
from <http://www.interesting.com/stories/alexander/>
Amazing! Simply
amazing how these prophecies fit together. We can choose to ignore things. We
can choose to close our eyes and stop our ears from hearing because we don't
want anything to mess with our preconceived ideas of how things are and/or will
be. We make choices all the time and some choices we make affect our lives-
making the true life or death decisions. When we make choices with God's word
they can be eternal life or death choices we are making. Let us pray earnestly
that we are being guided by the Holy Spirit unto all truth. Let us NOT close our eyes or cover our ears.
Continuing on we
need to look at the rest of the verse---
Dan 7:6 ...the beast
had also four heads; and dominion was given to it.
Four heads. This is really important to note. For all
that Alexander the Great came up strong and very fast conquering, becoming one
of the greatest conquering leaders of all time, he died very young. When he died- he died without any heirs but
there were four generals… four…
These
plans ended in 323 B.C., however, when Alexander was struck with fever and died
in Babylon, leaving no heir. His empire
was divided among four of his generals.
…. And these four
generals divided Alexander the Great's Grecian kingdom among them. It's NO coincidence that there were four
heads on that leopard, no coincidence at all.
A bit of history
mentioning the 4 generals--
In 315 he turned his
attention towards Seleucus, the
satrap of Babylon. Alarmed, Seleucus fled to Ptolemy
in Egypt, and warned him of Antigonus’s ambitions. This can hardly have come as
a surprise to Ptolemy, or to the remaining successors, for in the same year
Ptolemy, Cassander and Lysimachus
issued an ultimatum to Antigonus. In it they demanded that he return Syria to
Ptolemy, allowed Seleucus to return to Babylon, give Hellespontine Phrygia to
Lysimachus and possibly give Cappadocia and Lycia to Cassander. He was also
ordered to split Eumenes’s treasury between them all. This would have left
Antigonus with part of Asia Minor. Unsurprisingly he refused.
Seleucus, Ptolemy,
Cassander, Lysimachus
These four men took
over that which Alexander the Great conquered. So why weren't there ten or twenty, one or
two others who took over? There were
four major players here that divided the kingdom of Greece and there were four
heads to the leopard. Coincidence? Some would say so and others would pick it
all apart to pieces not wanting anyone to make connections. People will warp
anything and everything they can just to put doubt to God, doubt to prophecy,
doubt to understanding.
There will be those
who argue that believing and holding fast to a belief is NOT allowing room for
God to reveal what He will. I have to believe that if we truly love God and
desire His will over our own, His righteousness over our filthiness, His perfect
love over our poor excuse for love, His life over ours then God will open our
hearts to ALL TRUTH. If we hold false beliefs God will reveal the true beliefs.
We must trust in our Savior in all things and believe as He unfolds truth to
us. We must be ever ready to follow
where God leads.
This is short
tonight, but it is a lot to take in, a lot for us to study and pray about. We
are learning about prophecy - history proven prophecy.
By His grace!
Amen.
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