How firm a foundation, ye saints of the Lord is laid for your faith in his excellent word.

Welcome to Through the Bible, I'm Steve Sweats,

welcoming you to another great study in God's word.

Every one of these studies is a great study in God's word. Every one of these studies is a great

study in God's word. Our teacher of course is Dr. J. Vernon McGee and he's got a

lot of great material to take us through so let's get to it. As you open your

Bible to Daniel Chapter 2 at

verse 44 here are a few introductory thoughts.

Now I want to give today again some background material for this section that we're in because it seems to me that

it's very needful at this time. There are two kingdoms down ahead of us.

We may be closer to them than we think we are.

I do not know.

I know that we have here in California and across the country today,

quite a few men that seem to know that this century will not end until the

Lord Jesus comes.

And of course that means that this kingdom of Antichrist that he's going to set up is that kingdom that the

Lord Jesus will destroy it is coming. That kingdom is everything that the kingdom of the Lord Jesus is not that kingdom of anti Christ. And it today is

moving ever closer that I think is obvious and this kingdom is in direct

contradiction to God's kingdom. Man's kingdom is going to be set up according to man's philosophy.

It'll be a contradiction to God's kingdom and it'll be the antithesis today of God's kingdom it'll be set up by man's philosophy and man's psychology

now I have here the book of Dr. Rinale Showers on the book of Daniel the Most High God and I don't think he'll mind me quoting from his book because I'm mentioning on this

broadcast and I want to say it's a very fine book on the book of Daniel done by a man who is a good research scholar by the way. Now I want to

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