You know, as we're going through the book of Daniel, I would just encourage all of you,

if you spend any time during the week studying the Bible on your own and reading through the

Word of God, which I know all of you in here do. Everyone in here does. If you haven't,

if you haven't started doing that after almost six years of the church being in existence,

then come and talk to me. Let's get that fixed.

So for Sean 227 and 28, but as you're going through it, just I would encourage everyone, you know, when you, not just here in these messages, but anywhere, any podcast you listen to any, if you're visiting another church, if you're out town and you go to a service somewhere, whatever, if you're listening to another pastor, take anything they say

and just take it to the Word of God yourself and just prove that those things be so from Acts 17, 11,

because you have the Holy Spirit from 1st, John, 27, and 28 that you don't need to outsource teaching from the Lord in your own life.

He will bring people along to supplement what he's doing in your life.

He did that for me radically back in 2011 when I started reading through the Bible verse by verse cover to cover every year.

But give him first right of refusal because he won't refuse, I promise.

So as we're going through Daniel, you know, we looked last time at chapter four as the only

chapter in the Old Testament, an entire chapter that's written by a Gentile king.

Most of the Old Testament's written by Jewish kings or

prophets or Jewish people. And it's Daniel is the one book in the Old Testament that changes

focus on the Gentile kingdoms that will rule the earth for a season. And in Daniel, the whole focus is on these

Gentile powers from Babylon all the way to the Antichrist's kingdom. And then Jesus's kingdom

coming to the earth as that stone cut without hands and shattering the Antichrist's kingdom

and setting up a kingdom that will fill the world,

fill the earth for eternity, never to be disposed again. So he's not going to be here for just a

season. It's not just the thousand years. The thousand years is the millennial reign and then one

last rebellion, but he's here forever from that point. The rebellions put down,

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