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podcast, we are talking about the prophets and how they foretold the coming of the Messiah,

Jesus Christ, through the Jesse tree.

We've already talked about all sorts of prophets, but today we are going to continue to talk

about the prophet Daniel.

Now, yesterday, we went through some of the most well-known stories of the Old Testament,

the stories of Radshack, Mesheach, and Abendigo in the furnace,

and the story of Daniel in the lion's den.

But that is not the heart of the book of Daniel.

The heart of the book of Daniel is his prophetic message, meaning the message he had

for us as a prophet, the message that God delivered to him so that he could

deliver to us.

Now, to understand Daniel, you need to know one thing, and that is that Daniel had the gift of

interpreting dreams.

Just like Joseph from the Old Testament, he could both interpret other people's dreams and interpret his own.

At one point, the king of Babylon had a very troubling dream, and Daniel was the one that was able to tell him what it meant.

Daniel himself had an epic dream that takes up a large portion of the book of Daniel.

And although it is complicated and full of vivid imagery, I'm going to do my best to try to explain

to you what that dream was and what it meant. Daniel dreamed that four different beasts came out of the sea, and all of them

were covered in horns. Now, the beasts we know, and Daniel tells us, represent four great

empires. And as is commonly done in the Old Testament, horns represent kings.

So these four empires would come.

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