Have Daniel’s Prophecies Come True?

1. Have Daniel’s Prophecies Come True? The Book of Daniel

2. Pseudo Prophecy A Famous Prediction “The senseless ire of the furious combat will cause steel to be flashed at the table by brothers. To part them, death, wound, and curiously the proud duel will come to hurt France.” • Nostradamus (Century II Q 34) Predicts the Camp David accord between Israel and Egypt and the assassination of Anwar Sadat.

3. Next Time Facts From Daniel So Far: • Israel will be re-gathered as a nation. • 10-Nation “Revived Roman Empire”. • Great Ruler Emerges: “The Beast” • World unites under his leadership. • Has complete power for 3.5 years. • Ushers in a “New World Religion” • Persecutes “The Saints”

4. Is It Plausible for Ancient Nations to Disappear, Then Reappear? Israel? A Revived Roman Empire?

5. Isaiah 11:12 Then it will happen on that day that the Lord Will again recover the second time with His hand the remnant of His people, who will remain, From Assyria, Egypt, Pathros, Cush, Elam, Shinar, Hamath,And from the islands of the sea. He will raise a banner for the nations and gather the exiles of Israel; he will assemble the scattered people of Judah from the four quarters of the earth.

6. Ezekiel 37:1-3 The hand of the Lord was upon me, and he brought me out by the Spirit of the Lord and set me in the middle of a valley; it was full of bones. [2] He led me back and forth among them, and I saw a great many bones on the floor of the valley, bones that were very dry. [3] He asked me, "Son of man, can these bones live?" I said, "O Sovereign Lord, you alone know."

7. Ezekiel 37:4-6 Then he said to me, "Prophesy to these bones and say to them, 'Dry bones, hear the word of the Lord! [5] This is what the Sovereign Lord says to these bones: I will make breath enter you, and you will come to life. [6] I will attach tendons to you and make flesh come upon you and cover you with skin; I will put breath in you, and you will come to life. Then you will know that I am the Lord.' "

8. Ezekiel 37:7-8 So I prophesied as I was commanded. And as I was prophesying, there was a noise, a rattling sound, and the bones came together, bone to bone. [8] I looked, and tendons and flesh appeared on them and skin covered them, but there was no breath in them.

9. Ezekiel 37:9-10 The Regathering? Then he said to me, "Prophesy to the breath; prophesy, son of man, and say to it, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe into these slain, that they may live.' " [10] So I prophesied as he commanded me, and breath entered them; they came to life and stood up on their feet--a vast army.

10. Ezekiel 37:11-12 • Then he said to me: "Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel. They say, 'Our bones are dried up and our hope is gone; we are cut off.' [12] Therefore prophesy and say to them: 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: O my people, I am going to open your graves and bring you up from them; I will bring you back to the land of Israel.

11. Ezekiel 37:21-22 and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign Lord says: I will take the Israelites out of the nations where they have gone. I will gather them from all around and bring them back into their own land. [22] I will make them one nation in the land, on the mountains of Israel. There will be one king over all of them and they will never again be two nations or be divided into two kingdoms.

12. 2 Samuel 7:12-13 [To King David] “When your days are over and you rest with your fathers, I will raise up your offspring to succeed you…I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever.” Ezekiel 37:24 “ ‘My servant David will be king over them, and they will all have one shepherd. They will follow my laws and be careful to keep my decrees.’ ” Context: The End of History as we know it.

13. Luke 21:20-24 “When you see Jerusalem being surrounded by armies, you will know that its desolation is near. [21] Then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains, let those in the city get out, and let those in the country not enter the city. [22] For this is the time of punishment in fulfillment of all that has been written.”

14. Luke 21:20-24 [23] “How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers! There will be great distress in the land and wrath against this people. [24] They will fall by the sword and will be taken as prisoners to all the nations.”

15. Luke 21:20-24 “Jerusalem will be trampled on by the Gentiles until the times of the Gentiles are fulfilled.” Luke 21:25-26 "There will be signs in the sun, moon and stars. On the earth, nations will be in anguish and perplexity at the roaring and tossing of the sea. [26] Men will faint from terror, apprehensive of what is coming on the world…”

16. Biblical vs. Pseudo Prophecy • Specific, not vague. • Straightforward. • Syntax, Context, Grammar, • Makes a Deliberate Point. • Objective. • IS FULFILLED!

17. Isaiah 44:6-8 “Thus says the Lord, the King of Israel and his Redeemer, the Lord of hosts: ‘I am the first and I am the last, And there is no God besides Me. [7] 'And who is like Me? Let him proclaim and declare it. And let them declare to them the things that are coming and the events that are going to take place. [8] 'Do not tremble and do not be afraid; Have I not long since announced it to you and declared it? And you are My witnesses.’ ”

18. Is a One-World Government Plausible? How would someone gain control? Wouldn’t America & others resist?

19. Globalization:A Peaceful Unification Rev. 17:12-13 “And the ten horns which you saw are ten kings, who have not yet received a kingdom, but they receive authority as kings with the beast for one hour. These have one purpose: they give their power and authority to the beast.” Rev. 13:3 “The whole world was astonished and followed the beast.”

20. Globalization Is Irresistible Today! • Ecology • Media & Entertainment • Economy & Business • Information & Technology

21. 10 Billion + 1999 1985 1975 1960 1930 1830 World Population in Billions 2000 BC 1000 BC 0 1000 AD

22. Globalization:Ecological Pressures “Humans have destroyed more than 30 percent of the natural world since 1970…Consumption pressure has doubled in the past 25 years and continues to accelerate.” • “Living Planet Report” 1998 London, Cambridge, funded by the World Wide Fund for Nature, the New Economics Foundation, and the World Conservation Monitoring Center at Cambridge, England, reported in Columbus Dispatch, Oct. 6, 1998, p.4A.

23. Globalization:Ecological Pressures The amount of irrigated land around the world has not significantly increased since 1992, and erosion, the salinization of fields, and other forms of desertification are taking millions of acres out of production each year. Linden The Future in Plain Sight 105

24. Globalization:Ecological Pressures “I think it is folly to expect science to pull a rabbit out of the hat in the 11th hour to solve the food production problem. The hunger and misery of millions will provoke a great global holocaust.” • Dr. Norman Borlaug, agricultural scientist at Univ. of Minnesota, winner Nobel Peace Prize, op. cit.

25. Globalization:Ecological Pressures • Erosion of Irrigated Land • Desertification of arable lands. • Depletion of fresh water resources. • Carbon dioxide emissions. • World fish catch fully exploited / decline. • Ozone depletion.

26. Globalization:Media and Entertainment “Unlike American automobiles, television sets, and machine tools, American cultural products--movies, TV programs, videos, records, cassettes, and CDs--are sweeping the globe.” • Richard J. Barnet and John Cavanagh, Global Dreams, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994), p.25.

27. Globalization:Economy and Business “The emergence of a full-blown global marketplace in which goods, money, and people flow easily back and forth across national borders around the world comes as a shock. Suddenly, the volume of world trade has reached staggering proportions.” Global Embrace, Corporate Challenges in a Transnational World, Henry Wendt, (New York: Harpers Business) 1993, p27

28. Globalization:Economy and Business “The past two decades have seen the most rapid and sweeping institutional transformation in human history. It is a conscious and intentional transformation in search of a new world economic order in which business has no nationality and knows no borders.” Global Embrace, Corporate Challenges in a Transnational World, Henry Wendt, (New York: Harpers Business) 1993, p27

29. Globalization:Economy and Business “In 1970, there were 7,000 multi-national corporations in the world, with over half in the US and Great Britain. By 1990, there were 35,000, and the US, Japan, Great Britain, Germany and Switzerland all combined had less than half.” - UN Center on Trans-National Corporations, Op.Cit., p27

30. Globalization:Economy and Business “In 1947 when the current system of trade laws was established, tariffs worldwide averaged almost 40 percent of the price of each product. Today, they average about 5 percent.”- Lester Brown, World Watch

31. Globalization:Economy and Business “Under current law regulators cannot keep up with the swoosh of homeless money. Unregulated speculation is a major threat to the world economy and global regulation is clearly a formidable task.” • Barnet and Cavanagh Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and The New World Order, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994), p.40

32. Globalization:Information & Technology “Well over $2 trillion a day travels across the street or across the world at unimaginable speed as bits of electronic information.” • Barnet and Cavanagh Global Dreams: Imperial Corporations and The New World Order, (New York, Simon & Schuster, 1994), p. 386 More Next Time...

33. Globalization Is Irresistible Today! World Bank • Ecology • Media & Entertainment • Economy & Business • Information & Technology Trilateral Comission NATO European Union IMF NAFTA United Nations Economic Summits

34. Globalization Is Irresistible Today! • Ecology • Media & Entertainment • Economy & Business • Information & Technology

35. Conclusions: • The conditions for globalization are present today as never before! • The Bible says it will happen. • Globalization was impossible--yet predicted--in 90 AD! • Israel’s Dispersion & Regathering was also impossible! • Predicted 2,600 years beforehand!

36. Exciting Times for Prophecy! Europan UnificationIsrael RegatheredGlobalizationHuge PopulationsEtc., etc., etc… Daniel, Isaiah,Ezekiel Jesus Christ Last50years 730-530 bc 33 ad

37. Applications: • This word is the product of the Lord of history. • Why has he revealed the future to us? Hebrews 11:13-14 …and having confessed that they were strangers and exiles on the earth. [14] For those who say such things make it clear that they are seeking a country of their own. 1 Tim. 2:4 [He] desires all men to be saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

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40. Biblical Prophecy:How Globalization is Achieved Rev. 13:16-18 He also forced everyone, small and great, rich and poor, free and slave, to receive a mark on his right hand or on his forehead, [17] so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark, which is the name of the beast or the number of his name. [18] This calls for wisdom. If anyone has insight, let him calculate the number of the beast, for it is man's number. His number is 666.