All right, we're going to finish our series today called the Kings of Babylon, and we're going to be talking about the fourth king, which is Cyrus, and I'm going to just give you a little bit of history on the book of Daniel first and then I'll tell you

what this message is about.

You need to know that Daniel ministered to all four of these kings.

And just let me show you some quick scriptures.

Daniel 121 says thus Daniel continued until the first year of King Cyrus. And we're going to be talking

about Cyrus today. And Daniel 628, this is actually where we ended last week at

the end of chapter 6, so this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus,

the Persian.

So we talked about Darius last week, now Cyrus.

Now to let you know, Daniel has 12 chapters. The first six chapters are historical chapters.

They're the history of what happened during the exile. The exile is the 70 years when God took Israel, the people of Israel, out of the land in the Babylon in captivity.

Okay, that's called the exile.

So the first six chapters are the history of the exile. The second

six chapters, chapter 7 through 12, are the visions that Daniel received that most people

believe are about the end times and some are about the end

times but some are about things that were going to happen until the Messiah came

and when the Messiah King.

So let me just show you, you can read these, but it would take a whole other series,

but just Daniel 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, just the first verse, all right?

Daniel 7 1, in the first year of Bel Shazar,

King of Babylon, Daniel had a dream.

And then I have actually preached through some parts of Daniel 7 last Easter. I use Daniel 7 to show how Jesus fulfilled that.

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