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Pamphlet 5032 KC Daniel 13-1
Did you know that scorpions do not
hunt for their prey but rather lie in wait for them.
The name Daniel means "God is (my) Judge" and that is
precisely what this Book of Daniel is all about.
God's judgment is coming and we've seen a good bit of
it in this book already such as in the fifth chapter we have just completed
where we saw a king, Belshazzar, appropriately named "Prince of Bel", who
totally disregarded Daniel (God is Judge) and lifted up himself against
the Lord of heaven by bringing the vessels of
God's house
into his banquet hall where he and his lords, and his wives, and his concubines
drank
wine in those vessels while praising the gods of silver, and gold,
of brass, iron, wood, and stone, which see not,
nor
hear, nor know anything.
But the God of heaven who gives them every breath of air
they breathe, they glorified not Him.
And so it came to pass that God's written word "weighed"
Belshazzar in the balance.
The handwriting on the wall declared his judgment and
he was slain and his kingdom was taken from him and given to the Medes
and Persians, according as it was also written concerning the first division
of the beast whose head was of gold.
This division would continue down
through history to these last days when the supernatural would come and
the powers, the horns, etc. of all those kingdoms would be combined to
form the most formidable and awesome kingdom ever to reign upon the earth.
Why will it be so awesome?
Because of the presence of Satan
and his angels who are cast out of heaven to this earth (Rev. 12:7-9) and
come and mingle with the seed of mortal flesh.
There has never been a time like it in the history of
the world.
Jesus Christ Himself declared in
Matthew 24 and Mark 13 "For in those days shall be affliction, such
as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this
time, neither shall be."
We are fast approaching the time
of the delivering up of God's elect to kings and rulers and even to the
king of Babylon himself as were Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, our ensamples
of what to expect when the mightiest men of the king of Babylon's army
come and take hold and try to bind up and cast the servants of God into
the pit, into the burning fiery furnace.
However, those mighty men in Satan's
army will surely fail because Satan's fire has no power whatsoever against
the power of the Holy Spirit, a fact to which we are given a pictorial
demonstration in this Book of Daniel.
What a great guidebook our heavenly
Father has given to us to show and teach us how to prepare ourselves with
the knowledge and wisdom contained herein concerning the coming abomination
of desolation.
For it is written that the desolator
shall surely come with his locust army and take captive and spiritually
devour anyone who does not have the gospel armour on, which is to have
the seal of God locked in their foreheads.
To that end, let us begin today's
study by turning to the ninth chapter of Revelation and document the coming
of the supernatural, Satan's locust army, and what it is they shall be
doing when they come.
Rev.
9:3
And there came
out of the smoke locusts upon the earth: and unto them was
given power, as the scorpions of the earth have power.
Scorpions sting their prey with their tails through
which they inject their venom into their victims.
Did you know that scorpions do not hunt for their prey
but rather lie in wait for them.
Furthermore, they are nocturnal creatures who operate
during the night and then hide in crevices and burrows during the day to
avoid
the light!
[4]
And
it was commanded them that they should not hurt the grass of the earth,
neither any green thing, neither any tree; but
only those men which
have not the seal of God in their foreheads.
If you have the rich wisdom
and knowledge of God's Word sealed in your mind, then Satan's locust army
cannot harm you.
You "see", the
final battle, aka the great tribulation,
is a spiritual battle, not one waged "against
flesh and blood, but
against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness
of this world, against
spiritual wickedness in high places (Ephes. 6:12)."
And their comes a time at the sound of the 6th Trump when
Satan and his locust army come against our people wearing "crowns" and
"breastplates" claiming to be the kings and priests of the Most High God.
Rev.
9:7-10
And the shapes
of the locusts were like unto horses prepared unto battle;
and on their heads were as it were crowns like gold, and
their faces were as the faces of men.
Horses are symbolic of power in warfare and Satan's
angelic host will indeed be powerful.
They will have crowns "like" gold on their heads because
they are those symbolic ten toes, those ten kings who are given power to
reign one hour with the beast.
[8]
And
they
had hair as the hair of women, and their teeth
were as the teeth of lions.
They will appear peaceful and gentle as women
but what comes forth from their mouths will spiritually rip and tear and
shred like the cheek teeth of lions all those who do not have on the whole
armor of God to protect them.
[9]
And
they had
breastplates, as it were breastplates of iron; and
the sound of their wings was as the sound of chariots of many horses running
to battle.
These are breastplates of priests
for Satan's angels shall come and appear as "angels of light", ministers
of God!
In other words, just as Satan shall
claim to be Jesus Christ, they shall claim to be His kings and priests.
[10]
And
they had tails like unto scorpions, and there were
stings in their tails: and their power was to hurt men five
months.
Here we are given to understand the length of the
"shortening" of the time the abomination of desolation is allotted to stand
in the Holy Place and make desolate the souls of men.
Matthew 24:22 "And except those
days should be shortened, there should no flesh be saved: but for the elect's
sake those days shall be shortened."
Also, it was his tail that the great red dragon used to
draw one third of God's children away from truth and justice in the first
earth age.
That tail consists of the Four Hidden
Dynasties of Religion, Politics, Economics, and Education or information
dissemination, as in lies and propaganda.
You will find all four of these
powers in the 28th chapter of Ezekiel where Satan, called the king of Tyrus,
corrupted justice, corrupted wisdom, defiled the sanctuary and engaged
in merchandising and trafficking in drawing away 1/3 of the stars of heaven
(Rev. 12:4).
This is important to understand
because as it is written in Rev. 13 that when the second beast comes, the
religious one who is Satan, he will exercise all the power of the first
beast who controls those Four Hidden Dynasties.
As an ensample, we are going to see in our study how the
enemies of God's elect, the kenites, use deceit and the power of politics
and law to try to sting a servant of God and cause him to
be devoured.
Will, it work?
Of course not, because the one they
go after has the seal of God in his forehead which means an "excellent
spirit", God's spirit, is found in him.
Live Link to- The Book of Daniel Table of ContentsIt is important that YOU Read it all!
Jesus said, "the book of Daniel
was where one could go read and gain understanding"
Jesus Christ told us in Matthew
24 and Mark 13 when He sat upon the Mount of Olives and gave His disciples
the seven seals concerning the knowledge and the events that would transpire
during the final generation of the fig tree, that the book of Daniel was
where one could go read and gain understanding concerning
the abomination of desolation, that abominable desolator (antichrist)
who would come stand in the holy place claiming to be God.
The book of Daniel is the Apocalypse of the Old Testament
and
a sister book to the Apocalypse of the New Testament,
the
book of Revelation. To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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