THE TIMES OF THE GENTILES 2023-06-22

The speaker discusses the book of Daniel and its connection to the times of the Gentiles. He emphasizes that the book is a prophecy and should be understood in the context of the Jewish nation. He explains the interpretation of the dream in Daniel chapter 2 and connects it to the prophetic events in the book of Revelation. The speaker also mentions the restoration of the kingdom of Israel and the reign of Jesus Christ. Overall, he highlights the importance of understanding the times of the Gentiles in biblical prophecy. All right we've been listening to the Rochester family and now it's time to get into the Bible. I hope you're listening. We're going to be talking about Daniel. This is a supplement to Daniel, a little bit more of an explanation for the book of Daniel. So we hope you're able to join us and listen. We will be posting this later on our sermon audio page. It's live now but hopefully we'll upload it soon after we're done. And if you have your Bible since we're going to be talking about the times of the Gentiles, let's go to Luke chapter 24 or Luke chapter 21 and we'll read the passage that talks about this. Luke chapter 21 and verse number 20. Luke chapter 21 verse number 20 and then we'll pray and then we'll get into our message tonight. Luke chapter 21 verse 20 says, And when ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. Then let them which are in Judea flee to the mountains, and let them which are in the midst of it depart out, and let not them that are in the countries enter therein too. For these be the days of vengeance, that all things which are written may be fulfilled. But woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days, for there shall be great distress in the land and wrath upon this people. And one thing you have to remember, a lot of times you'll see this people, thy people, my people, and throughout the Old Testament. He's not talking about the church. You have to rightly divide. He's not talking about the church. He's not talking about Gentiles. He's not talking about you and me. He's talking about thy people, his people, the Jewish nation, the Jews. So that's who's being referred to. It's the Jewish people who are being referred to. And so in this passage, to understand it and to rightly divide the scripture, you do have to realize that he's talking about the Jewish nation. Amen. All right, verse number 24 now. And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and shall be led away captive into all nations. Now if you're a Bible student, you know we've even looked at this Deuteronomy chapter 28, Deuteronomy chapter 32. Deuteronomy talks about how if you don't follow what the Lord said. Well, let's just look at it real quick. Let me go to Deuteronomy chapter 28. I think we want to be at Deuteronomy chapter 28 and verse number 63. And it shall come to pass that as the Lord rejoiced over you to do you good and to multiply you, so the Lord will rejoice over you to destroy you and to bring you to naught. And you shall be plucked from off the land, whither thou goest, to possess it. And of course they haven't gone into the promised land. Remember, we're studying Joshua. And Joshua, they're getting ready to go in and conquer that land. So at this time, the end of Deuteronomy, they hadn't yet gone in. And the Lord, verse 64, shall scatter thee among all people from the one end of the earth, even unto the other. And there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone. And among all these nations shalt thou find no ease, neither shall the sole of thy foot have rest. But the Lord shall give thee there a trembling heart, and failing of eyes, and sorrow of mind, and so on and so forth. Back in Luke chapter number 24. So this here that we're getting ready to read now. It says, they shall be led away captive. Verse, the middle of verse 24 of Luke 21. It says, they shall be led away captive into all nations. And of course this is what we're going to be seeing it is. And look at verse number, the middle of 24 again and continuing. It says, and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. Now Jerusalem, of course, was destroyed. The walls, you know, they went back with Ezra, Nehemiah, they rebuilt the walls, they built the temple. So that Jerusalem was destroyed. But this is prophetic. This is during the time of Christ. And so at this time, and when it says that to be trodden down of the Gentiles, that's when Titus, the Roman Empire, the Roman Emperor in 70 AD, went in and destroyed Jerusalem. He went in and he destroyed it, he razed it, and he leveled it out. And that was a confirmation of the beginning of the times of the Gentiles. Now if you go back to Daniel chapter number 2 now, well Daniel chapter number 1, if you remember, go to Daniel chapter 2. But if you remember, when we talked in Sunday School about Daniel chapter 1, we took you over into 2nd Chronicles chapter 36 and showed you the history of why Israel went into captivity. And because of the fact that they disregarded the Sabbath, they disregarded the prophets, they laughed at them, they mocked them, they stoned them, they killed them. They would not repent, they would not forsake the evil of their ways, and so God brought them into captivity. Now the most, this description of the times of the Gentiles, if you, I had you go to, I had you go to Daniel chapter 2, but actually let me have you go to Matthew chapter 24. Matthew chapter 24, and just so, again, we're going to connect a little bit of this, we have to connect some of the dots. And we want to, again, I want to get you, I want you to understand, as a Bible student, we want to understand where the Bible fits and where we fit in it. Matthew chapter 24, if you're there, raise your hand, say Amen. All right, great, we got one of you there in Matthew chapter 24, look at verse number 15, Jesus says, When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, who shall read it, let him understand, and he's talking about reading the book of Daniel, then let them which be in Judea flee into the mountains. And so he says here, Daniel the prophet. And so now, go back to Daniel chapter 2, Daniel chapter 2, now we talked about, you understand that Daniel, Daniel was written by the prophet Daniel, and of course, none of the scholars, none of the Bible correctors, none of the doubters, none of the infidels, and not the modernists and liberals, they don't believe that Daniel was written by Daniel, because Daniel has too much information to be able to, you're going to Daniel chapter 2, Daniel has too much information, too much real information, too much real information to be, too much literal, real information to be written beforehand. But we read this passage before, and I'll read it to you now, you're in Daniel, but I'll read you Isaiah chapter 46, verse number 9, Remember the former things of old, for I am God, and there is none else. I am God, and there is none like me, declaring the end from the beginning and from ancient times the things that are not yet done, saying, my counsel shall stand, and I will do all my pleasure. And so God goes on to say, and he'll do, he'll accomplish, and he'll do the things that he said he would do, and that's what's going on in Daniel. Now in Daniel chapter 2, there's an oddity in the Old Testament, there's an oddity in the Old Testament, and that is the fact that all of the Old Testament is written in Hebrew, from Genesis 1-1 until Daniel chapter 2 and verse number 3. Then in Daniel chapter 2 and verse number 3, it is written in Aramaic, that it was a Gentile language of the Old Testament times. It was a Gentile language, and it ends in Daniel 7 and 28. So from Daniel 2-3 to Daniel 7-28, which is coincidentally the passages from Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7 more specifically, those two passages deals with the times of the Gentiles. Excuse me, I had to sneeze. Those two passages deal with the times of the Gentiles, Daniel 2 and Daniel chapter 7, and coincidentally, it's in the language of the Gentiles of that age. And again, I say coincidentally, and I say it sarcastically. In other words, God had a plan. So then from 729 through the rest of the Old Testament and the book of Malachi at the end there, and it's written back in the Hebrew language. So just make a note of that. You can make a mental note. You can put a little note in your Bible that Daniel chapter 2 verse 3 to 728 is written in Aramaic, the language of the Gentiles. And so it has to do with the times of the Gentiles. Now Daniel chapter 2, which the Lord Jesus Christ described Daniel as a prophet. Daniel didn't have to call himself a prophet, and it was God, the Lord Jesus Christ, that called him a prophet. And so his writings are prophetical. And if for those who doubt Daniel's authenticity as being the author, then they're just denying what the Lord Jesus Christ said. And you don't want to be in that boat come the Judgment Day. Now when these things, in Daniel chapter number 2, he is interpreting the king's dream. Nobody else could do it. And so Daniel goes and he does what a good Christian should do. He goes and prays, and he doesn't pray by himself. He has his friends pray with him. And Daniel is given the interpretation of the king's dream. The king couldn't even remember his dream. And so it's in Daniel chapter 2, verse number 31, Daniel says this in Daniel 2 and 31, he says, Thou, O King, sawest and behold a great image. This great image, whose brightness was excellent, stood before thee, and the form thereof was terrible. And then so he saw this in verse 32. The image, the image's head was of fine gold. So he had a gold head, his breast and his arms of silver, his belly and his thighs of brass, his legs of iron, and his feet, or not and, verse 33, let me read that again, his legs of iron, his feet part of iron and part of clay. And so he goes on and he describes that there. And then in verse number 34, Thou sawest that a stone was cut out without hands, which smote the image upon his feet, that were of iron and clay, and break them to pieces. Now, Daniel here, in verses 31 through 34, describes the last 2,500 years of history. Describes that there's a lot of history in those verses. There's an awful lot of history. It's amazing what God puts in in those few verses. Now, so he had the law, he had the head of gold, the silver, the bronze, the legs of iron, and iron and clay for the feet and the toes. And then Daniel gives the interpretation thereof. Daniel also gives the interpretation, and he says, and he says about it, and let's pick it up in verse number 36. This is the dream, and we will tell thee the interpretation thereof before the king. Thou, O king, art the king of kings, for the God of heaven hath given thee kingdom, power, and strength, and glory. And wheresoever the children of men dwell, the beasts of the field and the fowls of the heaven hath given it into thine hand, and hath made thee ruler over them. All thou art this head of gold. And so Daniel tells the king Nebuchadnezzar that he's the head of gold. Now his kingdom, his kingdom, until his kingdom lasts, then another kingdom shall come in, verse 39, and after thee shall arise another kingdom, inferior to thee, and another third kingdom of brass, which shall bear rule over all the earth. And so he gives two kingdoms here. He gives two kingdoms in verse number 39, and that kingdom, where are my dates at? Let me get my dates here real quick. I don't have the dates of the kingdoms memorized. You may have them memorized, but I don't, so I gotta find where I put the dates of the kingdom. The dates of these kingdoms are, let's see, the dates of the kingdoms. Well, I'm gonna wait just another second to see if I can find it, and if I can't find it, then we'll just go on. The dates of the kingdom. Soon as I'm done, I'll just look down and it'll be there. All right, we're not going to worry about the dates of the kingdom. So we have the kingdom, that is, his kingdom. So he had these four kingdoms, the three of them, and the first one would be the king of Babylon, and then you'd have the Medes and the Persians, and then you'd have, which would be Greece, and that would be, in verse number 39, that would be the brass kingdom, that would be, verse 39, that would be Alexander the Great, and so you had him, and then Rome took over, and then, and that is verse number 40. And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron, for as much as iron breaketh in pieces and subdueth all things, and as iron that breaketh all these shall it break in pieces and bruise. And then, now, verse 41 comes down to the last days. That's where we're at today, in verse number 41, right at here, right at this beginning, when these kingdoms here, the feet of iron and clay mixed together, those are about to happen today. And so that's, of course, and then Jesus will come back and he'll destroy that kingdom. And so these kingdoms with these dates, with these dates that I don't have, these kingdoms with these dates, that's why they did not believe that Daniel could have written it, because it is so detailed about their prophecies. And as we look at them later and get into details of the prophecies, you'll see that the details can leave no interpretation for actually who they were. And so in succession, these details ruled of the known world at that time, the Gentile world. But most importantly, their thumb has been over the nation of Israel. Israel has been under the thumb of the Gentile, the Gentile nations for the past 2,500 years. And in fact, you remember in the beginning of the Gospel, in Luke, if you remember the Gospel of Luke, let me see, Luke chapter 2, verse number 1, the Bible says this, And it came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed. And this taxing was first made when Cyrenius was governor, and all was to be taxed into his own city. And Joseph also went up from Galilee, out of that city, into Nazareth, into Judea, unto the city of David, which is called Bethlehem. And of course, why is that? Because prophecy had to be fulfilled. And so the Gentile nations are the ones who God is using to fulfill His prophecy, to fulfill it. And they did it. Now, go to Revelation chapter number 13. Now, if you would compare, if you, if we compare, and we will when we get into this, we compare Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7. Again, we're just talking about the times of the Gentiles. Revelation chapter 13, verse number 1, And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw the beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his head the name of blasphemy. Now, in Revelation chapter 13 here, you remember that Rome was the legs of iron. Well, Rome has not been in power. However, Gentiles have been in power. But the ten, so the ten toes and the feet, mixed of iron and clay, has not come into power yet. And notice what he says there in Revelation chapter number 13. He says that these, he stood upon the sand of the sea and saw a beast rise, excuse me, and saw a beast rise out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns. And of course, these are the ten, these are the ten kingdoms, and this all talks, this all goes in with Daniel chapter 2 and Daniel chapter 7. And then again, which we will study, but this is the revived Roman Empire. And I saw, verse number 3, Revelation 13, and I saw one of his heads as it were wounded to death, and his deadly wound was healed, and all the world wondered after the beast. And so this is going to be the Roman Empire revived. That's going to be the Roman Empire revived, and that's why we believe, and it's not just because, you know, it's a, this is the King James Bible, the Bible of the Protestant Reformation. No, we believe that King James Bible has been preserved, and it is the Word of God. But we believe that these, this kingdom is going to be restored, is going to, the Antichrist is going to have an association and come out of Rome, or be working with Rome, and that's Revelation chapter 17 and 18. Now, the ten toes in Daniel chapter 2 and verse number 41, the ten toes, part of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided, but there shall be in it the strength of iron, for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. Now that matches the ten horns of the fourth beast in Daniel chapter 7. Look at Daniel chapter 7, verse number 7. He says, And after this I saw in the night visions, and behold, a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible and strong exceedingly, and it had great iron teeth. It devoured and break in pieces and stamped the residue with the feet of it, and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it, and it had ten horns. Look down at verse number 20, I think we want to be. And of the ten horns there were in his head, and of the other which came up, and before whom three fell, even of that horn that had eyes and a mouth that spoke very great things, whose look was more stout than his fellows. And so there it just, again, another confirmation of Revelation chapter number 13, verse number 24, Daniel 7, and the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise, and another shall rise after them, and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. Revelation chapter 13, Daniel chapter number 2. So after defeating these nations, these ten nations, the Antichrist is going to gain control and dominate the world powers, which of course Rome ruled at its most power, and this Antichrist is going to be back behind it. And then because of this, empowered by Satan, this Antichrist, he's going to have three and a half years of the Great Tribulation. It will be the Great Tribulation and worldwide domination. So Daniel interprets this dream, and he goes beyond the image, for the sake of the children of Israel now, in Daniel chapter 2, in verse number 45, he goes beyond and he says this, for as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to thee what shall come to pass hereafter, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is sure. And so not only is there trouble coming, but God says there's relief coming, and that is the Lord Jesus Christ, the King of kings and the Lord of lords. And so he's going to come and he's going to crush everything. He's going to smite the image, he's going to crush the Gentiles, he's going to end the domination thereof, and it will come to an end. The line of the tribe of Judah will restore the kingdom of Israel, he's going to restore the capital of Jerusalem, he's going to restore the throne of David, just like we studied, the throne is all about the king and the kingdom. And then Deuteronomy chapter 28, verse number 13, it says there in Deuteronomy chapter 28, 13, if I can get there, Deuteronomy chapter 28, Deuteronomy chapter 28, in verse number 13, it says this, it says, And the Lord shall make thee the head and not the tail, and thou shalt be above only, and thou shalt not be beneath, if thou hearken unto the commandments of the Lord thy God, which I command thee this day, to observe and do them. And so they're going to be the head, and God's going to make them the head at this time. They're going to be the head, they're going to rule over the earth, they're going to rule over the earth from, Jesus is going to rule over the earth from Jerusalem, and he's going to rule and reign a thousand years. He's going to rule and reign a thousand years. And so he starts with giving the times of the Gentiles, he starts Daniel, and God reveals that when this Gentile nation took over the nation of Israel, of course because of their sin. And so 606 BC thus began the times of the Gentiles. That's the times of the Gentiles, and he said there in Daniel 2 45, the dream is certain and the interpretation thereof is sure. And so let's just consider for a moment, a moment, a moment, thinking about these things where he said about the, and understanding of these things. And remember we talked about types, we talked about types and understanding the types in the Bible, and these things you look at for example Job 42 chapters, 42 months in the old, 42 months and three and a half years, the Great Tribulation is three and a half years, 42 months, Job is being persecuted for 42 months. God vindicates him and restores him at the end, just like Israel will be restored. So the book of Job is a picture of the children of Israel going into tribulation, and God bringing them out of the tribulation at the end. And if you read your Bible and you study your Bible, you see these types over and over again, and you start to understand and it starts to make more sense. Now so as I said before, you can't understand some of these things about rightly dividing the scripture, you can't understand these things by just having it thrown out one time, because the Bible is so full of all these explanations. And for people who become amillennialists, in other words don't believe in a millennial, or believe in a post-millennial rapture of the church, there are so many types in the Bible that you can't believe those kind of things. You know, you can read a passage, and you can look at a passage, and you can find a passage and believe just about anything, but when you actually rightly divide the scripture and study it day in and day out, and look at it over and over and over again, and from so many different angles and so many different perspectives, you have to come to the conclusion that there is an author of this book, and he is God, and he knows what he's talking about. Let me say this when it comes to interpreting, and I think I'm talking fast, but because I'm excited, but let me say this, when it comes to interpreting the Bible and interpreting prophecy, years ago there were no writings that understood and rightly divided the scripture as we do today. And I don't want to say that they didn't understand it, because they did. You'll find writings for the rapture of the church, and all those things, and about the end times, and all those things. They're all there, but they didn't understand it as we do, because prophecy becomes fulfilled. As prophecy is fulfilled, we understand more of the scriptures. I mean, there's no question in my mind about that, that the more, the closer we get to the second coming, the second advent of the Lord Jesus Christ, the more we are going to understand scripture. I remember hearing Dr. Sam Gipp teaching one time, or preaching, and he was talking about the, oh, he was talking about the Antichrist and second Thessalonians. Let me turn there. He was talking about the Antichrist, and that just stuck with me when he preached, and he was talking, and it stuck with me, and let me see where he said it. Let's see. Let's pick it up, and let me pick it up here. I'm in second Thessalonians, and two, I don't see it, so I'll just have to read it. Let no man deceive you by any means, for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition. Now, the day of Christ, he's talking about there in verse 2, second Thessalonians chapter 2, verses 2 and 3. The day of Christ is the day of the rapture. It's not the day of the Lord, and this is distinguished from the day of the Lord. This is the actual rapture of the church, or the catching away, that you find in first Thessalonians chapter 4, first Corinthians chapter number 15, and so you have here, he says, at the end of verse number 3, he says, and that man of sin be revealed the son of perdition, and what Dr. Sam Gibbs said as he was preaching that, he said, you know, he believes, and you know, it's not something that you would die at the stake for, and this is the way it has to be, all that kind of stuff, but he said he believes that when it comes time for the rapture, he says, that man of sin be revealed, that man of sin be revealed. You know, I preach, and I've been preaching for a long time, the man of sin, the Antichrist is the Pope, and he's from hell, and all that kind of stuff, and I still believe that, and however now, he says, the man of sin be revealed the son of perdition, and so what he said is that as we get closer and closer, then when the time is near for the rapture of the church, the uptaking of the saints, that we will all, like, immediately, or start to understand, maybe in phases, and I don't remember I said it, this is probably 30 years ago, but I believe this, that we will understand more and more as closer we get to it. For example, we might be sitting in church one day, or we might be sitting at home, and we might hear some news, and we might be learning of a specific leader who's coming into power, and maybe some kind of war, and rumors of war has broke out, and then all of a sudden, that we'd be, you know, this great tragedy upon the earth, and some kind of, maybe, nuclear detonation, or something, and some kind of world leader, maybe a religious leader comes, and he starts talking, and he starts having these things, and the Holy Spirit of God starts talking to us, and revealing to us, this is it! This here, he is the son of perdition! This is the man of sin! Just wait! In a couple of days, you don't have long, you're going to hear, and our hearts are going to start rejoicing, and we're going to know that the Lord's coming is nigh, and it's about ready to take place, and that's what prophecy is, as we get closer and closer to these end times that were written about, more and more will be revealed to us, and that's why we look at all these different types found in the Scriptures. So, having said that, Daniel chapter 3 is a demonstration that during the times of the Gentiles, Daniel chapter 3, of course, is where Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego is thrown into the fire, a fiery furnace, and what happens to them? They don't get burned. You know what that is? That's the Jews being supernaturally preserved during the time of the tribulation, and again, it's just another type that shows what is true, and it's just the intensity of that heat being seven times turned up, and it doesn't have any power over them, and the form of the fourth man is like the Son of God! In other words, he's there, he's coming back, and he's going to rescue the Jews. Man, that's exciting stuff, and you know, we understand that. We understand all that, because we rightly divide the Scripture. Daniel chapter 4 is another picture of that. Daniel chapter 4, the pride of the Gentile world. You have the pride of this Gentile world. You have the pride of the Gentile governments today. That's like Nebuchadnezzar the King, and Nebuchadnezzar the King there, he's brought low, and he said, I built all these great things, and our politicians thinking they'd do something. Donald Trump thinking, you know, I'm gonna make America great again, and all that kind of stuff, and he sends them low. He sends them to eat off of the earth like an animal, and again, that's just another confession, another illustration that shows that the Most High ruleth in the kingdom of men, and giveth it to whomsoever he will. Daniel chapter 4 and verse number 32. Daniel chapter 5, again, the times of the Gentiles, they're writing on the wall, they mock God, they're drinking. King Belshazzar is drinking out of the cups of gold from Jerusalem, and he's mocking God, and then, thou art found in the balances, and found waiting, and then that finger writes on the wall, and there's coming a writing today. These Gentiles, listen, the lost world is going to see that their writing is on the wall, and God is going to come and judge, and there's nothing they're going to be able to do about it. And it's the Lord Jesus Christ. Daniel chapter 6 is another thing, the times of the Gentiles, when they set up, he set up that decree that at any time this music plays, you're going to fall down, bow down in worship, and again, that picture's the times of the Gentiles, believing that man is the ultimate, and deify man, and deify his religion. Listen, you can't cross, listen, you can blaspheme God publicly all you want, but you can't say anything about somebody's gender. If you discourage somebody, if you disparage, I mean, not discourage, if you disparage somebody in their gender, why, that's their God today, and you're going to be punished for that. That's deifying man. Don't say anything about a gender, don't say anything about man, or anything like that, because you're going to be punished, you're going to be outed, we're going to outlaw you, and blacklist you, and we're going to punish you, we're going to get you fired from your job, we're going to get you kicked out of school, you won't be able to do anything on television, your radio programs will be shut down, and we will talk all we want against the God of heaven, and that's the decree that was made in Daniel chapter number six, deifying man in his music. Oh what a day that's going to be when God shows up, and he's going to put an end to all that stuff, he's going to put an end to all that stuff. So anyhow, that's the times of the Gentiles, the times of the Gentiles, and of course the four beasts, now we can get into that, and we will as we go in in Daniel chapter seven, but it's no question that the lion was Babylon in Daniel chapter seven, and that's the head of gold, the bear is Media Persia, that's the silver, and the leopard is Greece, and that's the bronze, and then Daniel chapter the fourth is the Roman Empire, which slinks away and then comes and be revived again in the ten toes and the feet of clay, and so on and so forth. So what are we saying, the times of the Gentiles brethren, the times that are Gentiles are coming to an end, they are coming to an end, and Israel has been in the land, and since Israel's been in the land, when you talk about prophecy, let's go to Psalm chapter number 90, and I'll finish here. I don't know how this ties in, but I think it does, and you know when you read prophecy, again, if you're reading something, you're reading prophetic things into a scripture, now I could be wrong or I may be right. Now I'm not willing to die at the stake and say, oh this is what's going to happen, but I'm pretty confident, and we'll see how it turns out when it comes to Israel. Israel, of course, 70 years Israel has been a nation in 2018. Donald Trump went over and celebrated with them, and he moved the embassy to Jerusalem, and so 70 years, of course, when you're studying Bible, you see that 70 years is important, 70 years is important in the land of Israel, and in the Bible, and so this nation, I look at the Psalm chapter number 90, and so I thought the rapture, a lot of people, a lot of Christians thought the rapture was going to happen in 2018, because that's 70 years. Let's read Psalm chapter 90, and verse number, where am I at, I'm not at Psalm 90 yet, Psalm chapter 90, I'm still not at Psalm 90, Psalm chapter 90, and verse number, we'll speak, we'll start in verse number five, well we'll start in verse number four, for a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night, that's talking about God, verse number, verse number five, thou carryest them away as with a flood, they are as asleep, that's years, that's time, in the morning, they are asleep in the morning, they are like grass which groweth up, in the morning it flourisheth and groweth up, in the evening it is cut down and withereth, for we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled, the time of Jacob's troubles, thou hast set our iniquities before thee, David, Daniel confesses his sins in the book of Daniel, as the sins of the nation, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance, verse number nine, for all our days are passed away in thy wrath, and we spend our years as a tale that is told, that truly is the experience of man, but especially of the children of Israel, the nation of Israel, the days of our years are three score and ten years, and we say that's how, that's the life of man, three score and ten years, look what it says, and if by reason of strength they be four score years, that's eight years, a score is twenty years, yet is their strength labor and sorrow, watch what it says, for it is soon cut off and we fly away, you know that is that's death, but also we know that we fly away some glad morning, when this life is over, I'll fly away, and so we're talking about fly away, we're talking about the rapture, so he says if reason of strength it's four score years, but now watch this, who knoweth the power of thine anger, even according to thy fears, so is thy wrath, so teach us to number our days, that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom, return O Lord how long, and let it repent thee concerning thy servants, now he said there that seventy years is the time, and so that's why we thought some of us who study prophecy thought that it was, and listen I'm not a great prophetic teacher, but that was kind of, this is kind of obvious to me, so he says three score and ten years, now I don't think that it has to be to the date in four score years, in other words eight years, which would be 2028, and so but I do believe that before 2028 May, what is it May 7th, I forget the date, May 16th, I don't remember, but before that date in 2028, that would be 80 years before that date, Jesus is coming back, and we will fly away, and I'm looking forward to that, and that's prophecy, and if you study prophecy, you get to know prophecy, you understand prophecy, you see these types in the Old Testament, like I was preaching about a few minutes ago, you see all these things, you have no doubt that you, you, you, you will find that you have no doubt that the King James Bible is the Word of God, and God's Word is sure, and it's true, and it's, and it's, and it's going to happen, just like he said it would, and these things are, how did he say it in Daniel chapter 4 and verse number 25, I think it is, how did he say it, oh where is it at here, Daniel, no 2 Daniel chapter 2 45, for as much as thou sawest that stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it break in pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold, the great God hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter, watch it, and the dream is certain, and the interpretation thereof is sure, that's the times of the Gentiles, believe your Bible, believe the prophecy that's written, have confidence in that, and know that you're on the winning side, amen, and amen, Father thank you for studying the scripture tonight, thank you for enabling me, giving me the time to study the scripture, I pray Lord God that you'd bless as we finish here tonight, I pray Lord that you'd bless everything that's done, help our understanding just to see another way that the Bible is revealed to us, and we prayed in Jesus's name for his sake, amen, and amen, all right I'm going to play a few more songs here if you want to listen, if not log off, thank you for joining us, and I'll be posting our these sermons up to sermon audio, but of course I won't be posting it with the with the music, just the sermon itself, here's some music for you, God bless you.