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Caption transcript for Daniel and the Last Days’ Battle for Planet Earth: “The Personal Battle” (1/8)

• 00:42 ANGER IN GAZA.
• 00:44 WAR IN LEBANON.
• 00:46 RUMBLINGS IN IRAN.
• 00:49 AS THE WORLD FOCUSES ON THE MIDEAST QUAGMIRE,
• 00:53 ZOLA LEVITT MINISTRIES PRESENTS
• 01:02 A HEARTY SHALOM TO ALL OF YOU.
• 01:04 JEFFREY SEIF HERE WITH MY FRIEND SANDRA LEVITT.
• 01:07 SHALOM. WELCOME BACK.
• 01:08 WE'RE GLAD YOU'RE JOINING US.
• 01:10 JEFF, WHERE ARE WE GOING?
• 01:11 WE ARE LOOKING AT DANIEL.
• 01:14 FASCINATING PROPHET,
• 01:15 WITH PIERCING INSIGHTS INTO THE WORLD AT WORLD'S END.
• 01:20 IT IS FASCINATING.
• 01:22 DANIEL TO ME THOUGH, IS SUCH AN ENCOURAGEMENT WITH HIS PRAYER TIME,
• 01:25 HIS MAKING TIME TO BE DIFFERENT FROM EVERYONE AROUND HIM.
• 01:29 YES. WHILE DANIEL TALKED ABOUT WORLD END WAR,
• 01:33 HE FOUGHT THE BATTLE WITHIN FIRST.
• 01:36 HENCE, HE'S A KNOWN AS MAN OF CHARACTER NOT JUST CHARISMA.
• 01:41 HE'S A WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL EXAMPLE FOR US.
• 01:44 YES, AND WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT HIM NOW
• 01:46 AS WE CONSIDER DANIEL A MAN OF PRAYER.
• 01:56 AND DANIEL WENT INTO HIS HOUSE.
• 01:58 AND HIS WINDOWS BEING OPENED IN HIS CHAMBER TOWARD JERUSALEM,
• 02:02 HE KNEELED UPON HIS KNEES THREE TIMES A DAY AND PRAYED,
• 02:06 AND GAVE THANKS BEFORE HIS GOD AS HE DID AFORETIME.
• 02:16 DRIVING TO THE ANCIENT SYNAGOGUE AT KORAZIM
• 02:18 I WAS REMINDED THAT GOING TO A PLACE FOR CORPORATE PRAYER
• 02:21 MUST BE COMPLIMENTED BY MAKING A PRIVATE PLACE FOR PERSONAL PRAYER.
• 02:30 IT'S SOMETHING OF A STORMY DAY IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
• 02:33 BUT THESE ARE PORTENTS OF THINGS TO COME FOR OUR PURPOSES
• 02:37 AS WE LOOK AT DANIEL AND THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH,
• 02:42 WHEN OMINOUS STORM CLOUDS WILL HOVER OVER THE LAND OF JUDEA
• 02:46 AND BRING TO BEAR THEIR THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS.
• 02:50 WELL, WE HAVE DARK SKIES AND RAIN HERE OVER KORAZIM IN NORTHERN ISRAEL.
• 02:54 AND I'M STANDING IN A RUIN HERE IN THE SYNAGOGUE OF KORAZIM.
• 02:58 BIBLE READERS MIGHT RECALL THAT JESUS CURSED THIS CITY.
• 03:01 AND SO WHAT WE HAVE IS A RUIN ROUND ABOUT.
• 03:03 IN THIS SYNAGOGUE PEOPLE GATHERED TOGETHER TO PRAY.
• 03:06 AND IT'S ALL COME TO NAUGHT RIGHT NOW
• 03:08 AND IT'S JUST A SIGHT THAT'S VISITED BY TOURISTS ON OCCASION.
• 03:13 IT'S A FITTING BEGINNING
• 03:14 AS WE LOOK AT DANIEL I BELIEVE.
• 03:16 BECAUSE DANIEL DID WHAT'S DONE
• 03:18 IN THIS PLACE.
• 03:19 DANIEL WAS A MAN OF PRAYER.
• 03:21 HE WAS A MAN OF FAITH.
• 03:22 EVEN AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES,
• 03:25 DANIEL WAS COUNTED UPON TO SEEK HIS GOD.
• 03:27 AND I BELIEVE PERSONALLY THAT THAT'S WHY DANIEL WAS ELEVATED TO SUCH HIGH STATURE.
• 03:32 THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS A GREAT BOOK AND I'M SO PLEASED TO BRING IT TO YOU
• 03:35 AND I'M SO GLAD YOU'RE INTERESTED IN IT.
• 03:37 AND I HOPE YOU'RE GOING TO DERIVE SOME BENEFIT FROM IT.
• 03:39 OF COURSE, PEOPLE ARE INTERESTED IN DANIEL BECAUSE THEY WANT TO LEARN ABOUT PROPHECY.
• 03:42 BUT BEFORE WE GET INTO PROPHECY PARTICULAR, I WANT TO TALK ABOUT THE PROPHET.
• 03:46 FOR IN DANIEL CHAPTER 1 AND DANIEL CHAPTER 3 AND IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6
• 03:51 WE LEARN ABOUT CHARACTER NOT JUST THEIR CHARISMA.
• 03:53 DANIEL CERTAINLY HAD THE GIFT OF PROPHECY AND HE HAD FRIENDS IN TOW AS WELL,
• 03:58 SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO,
• 04:00 THEY HAD SOMETHING TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE WAR EFFORT AS WELL.
• 04:04 BEFORE LOOKING AT WHAT WAS SAID I WANT TO LOOK AT THE SAYERS
• 04:07 BECAUSE I BELIEVE THERE'S SOMETHING IN THIS FOR YOU.
• 04:09 IF YOU'LL OPEN YOUR BIBLES
• 04:10 PLEASE TO THE 1ST CHAPTER
• 04:12 OF DANIEL.
• 04:13 HERE WE LEARN HOW
• 04:14 NEBUCHADNEZZAR, KING OF BABYLON
• 04:15 BROUGHT FORCES TO BEAR ON JUDEA.
• 04:17 EVENTUALLY JUDEA GETS ANNEXED INTO THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
• 04:22 AND INDIVIDUALS FROM JUDEA PROPER ARE SENT OFF INTO CAPTIVITY.
• 04:27 THE PROMISING ONES THEN ARE GIVEN TRAINING IN ORDER TO
• 04:30 PREPARE THEM FOR ADMINISTRATIVE POSTS TO THE NEW WORLD ORDER.
• 04:34 DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS SHOW GREAT PROMISE
• 04:36 WITH A NET RESULT THEN THAT THEY ARE RATCHETED UP A LITTLE BIT AND GIVEN ASSIGNMENTS.
• 04:41 NOW, WE'RE TOLD IN VERSE 7
• 04:43 THAT ONCE IN THE CHARGE OF THE
• 04:44 BABYLONIANS THESE JEWISH BOYS
• 04:47 ARE GIVEN PAGAN NAMES.
• 04:49 DANIEL IS GIVEN THE NAME,
• 04:51 WE'RE TOLD,"BELTESHAZZAR"
• 04:53 WHICH MEANS "BAAL'S PRINCE".
• 04:56 DANIEL WASN'T GIVEN OVER
• 04:58 TO BAAL WORSHIP PARTICULARLY,
• 05:00 BUT HERE HE IS ASSIGNED A PAGAN NAME.
• 05:04 AND IT DOESN'T GET ANY BETTER WITH THE OTHERS.
• 05:06 HANANIAH MEANS
• 05:08 "THE LORD IS GRACIOUS"
• 05:11 AND "SHADRACH" IS THE NAME
• 05:13 HE'S GIVEN WHICH MEANS
• 05:14 "ILLUMINED BY THE SUN GOD".
• 05:16 SEE,THESE JEWISH BOYS FIND THEMSELVES IN A NEW WORLD AND THEY'RE GIVEN NEW NAMES.
• 05:18 WHAT HAPPENS IS THE NEW WORLD ORDER IMPOSES NEW NAMES ON THEM.
• 05:21 BUT THOUGH THEIR NAME IS CHANGED, THEIR HEART ISN'T.
• 05:24 AND THIS IS SOMETHING THAT'S GOING TO BECOME VERY APPARENT
• 05:26 BECAUSE IF YOU WANT GOD TO USE YOU -
• 05:28 I MEAN, WE'RE IN THE WORLD BUT WE'RE NOT OF THE WORLD -
• 05:30 WE HAVE TO MAINTAIN DIFFERENCE.
• 05:32 AND THEN THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY CAN EVEN WORK THROUGH US, STRANGE AS THAT MIGHT SOUND.
• 05:35 MISHAEL MEANS "WHO IS THE LORD?"
• 05:39 BUT HE'S GOING TO BE GIVEN
• 05:40 THE NAME" MESHACH" WHICH MEANS
• 05:42 "WHO IS ISHTAR?",
• 05:44 A PAGAN GOD ISHTAR
• 05:45 IF YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT.
• 05:46 THESE JEWISH BOYS ARE GIVEN THESE NAMES.
• 05:48 NOW WHAT'S INTERESTING IS THEY CAN BE GIVEN THE NAMES -
• 05:50 OH, I SHOULD TELL YOU AS WELL.
• 05:51 AZARIAH, "THE LORD IS MY HELP"
• 05:53 IS GIVEN A NEW NAME
• 05:54 "GOD IS MY SLAVE".
• 05:56 OKAY, THESE INDIVIDUALS
• 05:57 ARE GIVEN NEW NAMES BUT
• 05:58 THEIR HEART REMAINS THE SAME.
• 06:00 THIS IS EVIDENCED IN VERSE 8
• 06:02 WHERE DANIEL THOUGH,
• 06:03 WHO'LL TAKE THE NEW NAME,
• 06:05 HE DRAWS THE LINE IN THE SAND.
• 06:06 HE SAYS, "ENOUGH ALREADY.I'M
• 06:07 NOT GOING TO TAKE THE NEW FOOD.
• 06:09 I MEAN HE HAS TO DIG HIS HEELS IN THERE AND SAY,
• 06:11 "WAIT A MINUTE. I KNOWWHO I AM. AND THE WORLD CAN RENAME ME,"
• 06:15 "SITUATIONS, CIRCUMSTANCES CAN COME UPON ME. BUT I AM WHO I AM."
• 06:18 HE DOESN'T WANT TO BREAK THE KOSHERITE LAWS,
• 06:21 HE WANTS TO EAT THE KOSHER FOOD.
• 06:24 HE BEGS PERMISSION THEN AND HE SAYS,
• 06:26 "LISTEN, JUST GIVE ME A CHANCE."
• 06:27 "I'LL SHOW YOU IF I EAT THIS DIET I'LL BE BETTER THAN THOSE DON'T."
• 06:29 I THINK YOU KNOW THE STORY.
• 06:31 HE COMES OUT LOOKING GOOD. SO HE'S GOOD TO GO TO KEEP HIS KOSHERITE LAWS.
• 06:34 DANIEL IS A FASCINATING BOOK FOR A VARIETY OF REASONS.
• 06:38 IN THE FIRST CHAPTER WE LEARN ABOUT THE INTRODUCTION OF DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS.
• 06:42 IN THE 3RD CHAPTER THEN, SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO
• 06:45 SHOW THEMSELVES TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE GOD OF ISRAEL, INVOKE THE IRE OF SOME OF THE BABYLONIANS,
• 06:51 WITH THE NET RESULT THAT THEY ARE GOING TO BE THROWN INTO THE FIERY FURNACE.
• 06:56 YOU MIGHT RECALL IN THE 6TH CHAPTER DURING THE ADMINISTRATION OF THE MEDES,
• 07:00 DANIEL AS WELL IS TURNED IN BECAUSE OF HIS LOYALTIES TO JEHOVAH.
• 07:04 THE NET RESULT IS HE'S THROWN INTO A LIONS DEN.
• 07:08 THE SAME GOD THAT DELIVERED SHADRACH, MESHACH, AND ABEDNEGO FROM THE FIERY FURNACE,
• 07:13 THIS IS THE SAME GOD WHO DELIVERED DANIEL FROM THE LIONS DEN.
• 07:17 NOW WHAT'S SIGNIFICANT IN ALL OF THIS
• 07:18 IS JEWS LEARN THAT EVEN THOUGH BAD THINGS CAN HAPPEN TO GOOD PEOPLE,
• 07:23 THEY CAN BE DRUG UP INTO CAPTIVITY, THEIR WORLD CAN TURN UPSIDE DOWN,
• 07:26 BUT STILL, IF THEY'LL REMAIN FAITHFUL TO GOD, GOD WILL REMAIN FAITHFUL TO THEM.
• 07:30 GOD SHOWS HIMSELF AS WILLING AND ABLE TO PRESERVE HIS PEOPLE.
• 07:37 BUT GOD CHOSE THAT BUT NOT JUST THAT.
• 07:38 GOD HAS A MESSAGE FOR THE FUTURE OF HIS PEOPLE,
• 07:41 AS THE WORLD COMES UNGLUED AS DEMONIC FORCES ARE UNLEASHED ON PLANET EARTH.
• 07:46 FROM THIS MAN DANIEL WE LEARN ABOUT GOD'S GREAT BATTLE PLAN
• 07:51 FOR THE LAST DAYS' WAR ON PLANET EARTH.
• 08:02 DANIEL'S NAME IN HEBREW MEANS "GOD IS MY JUDGE".
• 08:05 AND THEY WERE GIVEN ALL NEW NAMES AS YOU SAY
• 08:08 TO REFLECT WHERE THEY WERE.
• 08:11 RIGHT. THEY'RE TAKEN OFF INTO CAPTIVITY
• 08:13 AND GIVEN PAGAN NAMES BUT THEY DIDN'T HAVE A PAGAN HEART.
• 08:16 DANIEL BELIEVED THAT GOD WAS HIS JUDGE.
• 08:19 AND THEY KEPT THEIR "SET APARTNESS",IF THAT'S A REAL WORD.
• 08:22 BUT THEY KEPT KOSHER.
• 08:24 THEY KEPT THEIR PRAYER TIME.
• 08:26 THEY WERE GOD'S CHOSEN PEOPLE.
• 08:28 RIGHT. THERE'S A WAR GOING ON I BELIEVE
• 08:30 IN THE SENSE THAT WE'RE IN THIS WORLD BUT NOT OF IT.
• 08:32 WE HAVE TO WALK IN THIS WORLD
• 08:34 BUT IN SOME SENSE BE SET APART FROM IT. >>ABSOLUTELY.
• 08:38 DANIEL DOES A GOOD JOB OF TEACHING THAT.
• 08:40 HE PUT ON THE ARMOR OF GOD AND WENT INTO THE WORLD
• 08:43 AND WE'RE GOING TO CONSIDER THE BIBLE MORE NOW ON PUTTING ON THE ARMOR OF GOD
• 08:46 AND LIVING IN THE WORLD BUT NOT BEING QUITE OF IT.
• 08:50 SUN'S BEGINNING TO BREAK OVER KORAZIM RIGHT NOW
• 08:52 BUT FOR SURE THE SUN WASN'T GETTING BRIGHTER FOR DANIEL
• 08:56 WHO WE LEARN IN THE 6TH CHAPTER WAS NOW UNDER A DECREE
• 08:59 THAT IT WAS OUTLAWED FOR ANYONE, EVERYONE,
• 09:03 TO WORSHIP ANY PERSONALITY BUT DARIUS HIMSELF.
• 09:08 THIS WAS PROBLEMATIC. DANIEL WAS A JEHOVAH WORSHIPPER.
• 09:12 HE WORSHIPED THE GOD OF
• 09:13 ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB.
• 09:16 WE'RE TOLD IN DANIEL CHAPTER 6
• 09:19 VERSE 10 THAT WHEN DANIEL KNEW
• 09:21 THAT THE DECREE WAS IN WRITING -
• 09:24 I MEAN JUST WHEN THE INK IS DRYING ON THE PAGE
• 09:26 WE'RE TOLD THAT DANIEL WENT HOME AND IN HIS UPPER ROOM
• 09:30 HE KNELT DOWN AND PRAYED THREE TIMES TOWARDS JERUSALEM AS HIS HABIT WAS.
• 09:36 AND HE PRAYED TO GOD AND HE GAVE THANKS.
• 09:39 TALK ABOUT GIVING THANKS AMIDST THE TURBULENCE OF TRYING TIMES,
• 09:43 DANIEL IS HERE UNSWAYED, REFUSING TO BE SET OFF HIS COURSE.
• 09:49 THIS WAS A MAN THAT HAD BUILT A HABIT OF SEEKING GOD IN HIS LIFE.
• 09:52 HE HAD SOME PRAYER TIME AND HE WAS NOT TO BE DISSUADED FROM HIS TASK.
• 09:57 WELL, YOU KNOW THE STORY, I TRUST, THAT DANIEL IS BETRAYED BY INDIVIDUALS THAT SAY,
• 10:02 "LISTEN, THIS GUY IS PRAYING!"
• 10:04 AND THE NET RESULT, OF COURSE, IS THAT DANIEL IS GOING TO IN EFFECT BE ARRESTED
• 10:07 AND HE'S GOING TO FIND HIMSELF THROWN INTO A LIONS DEN TO BE SAVED THERE BY GOD.
• 10:14 IT'S RATHER INTERESTING,
• 10:16 IT SEEMS TO ME,
• 10:17 IN DANIEL CHAPTER 1
• 10:18 AND DANIEL CHAPTER 3
• 10:19 AND DANIEL CHAPTER 6,
• 10:21 THERE'S EXAMPLES OF A MAN STANDING UP FOR JEHOVAH.
• 10:24 AND THE WORLD TURNS UPSIDE DOWN FOR HIM BUT GOD SHOWS HIMSELF TO BE AN ABLE DELIVERER,
• 10:30 CERTAINLY OF DANIEL IN THE 1ST CHAPTER AND THE 3RD CHAPTER,
• 10:34 HIS FRIENDS SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO
• 10:36 ARE THROWN INTO A FIERY FURNACE. BUT GOD DELIVERS THEM.
• 10:39 AND HERE DANIEL FINDS HIMSELF IN THE LIONS DEN BUT HE'S RESOLUTE,
• 10:44 HE'S DETERMINED TO FOLLOW THE LORD, DIFFICULTIES NOTWITHSTANDING.
• 10:48 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD DELIVERS HIM.
• 10:51 WE HAVE A GOD WHO DELIVERS. JEHOVAH JIREH IS A PROVIDER,
• 10:55 ADONAI TZEVA'OT,
• 10:57 "THE LORD OF HOSTS,
• 10:59 THE LORD OF THE ARMIES".
• 11:00 WE HAVE A STRONG GOD WHO ACTS ON BEHALF OF HIS PEOPLE.
• 11:04 AND DANIEL LEARNS THAT FIRST HAND.
• 11:06 NOT ONLY DOES GOD SHOW HIMSELF STRONG TO SAVE DANIEL PERSONALLY,
• 11:10 BUT IT'S THROUGH DANIEL THAT WE LEARN THAT GOD HAS A PLAN TO SAVE ISRAEL COLLECTIVELY.
• 11:15 AND SO IT IS THAT WE ARE LOOKING AT DANIEL
• 11:18 AND THE STORY OF THE LAST DAYS' BATTLE FOR PLANET EARTH.
• 11:24 WHAT I WANT TO FOCUS ON IN THE OPEN, HOWEVER,
• 11:26 IS THAT IN AS MUCH AS GOD WANTS TO SAVE THE PLANET -
• 11:30 YOU KNOW THE PLANET IS MADE UP OF INDIVIDUALS, ONE AT A TIME.
• 11:33 AND I WANTED TO LOOK AT THIS ONE PERSON DANIEL AND HIS FRIENDS
• 11:36 AND NOTE SOMETHING ABOUT HIS CHARACTER.
• 11:40 BEFORE LOOKING AT HIS CHARISMA, HIS GIFTING TO UNDERSTAND FUTURE EVENTS,
• 11:43 I WANT TO LOOK AT THE NATURE OF THE PERSON
• 11:46 AND UNDERSCORE THE FACT THAT THIS FELLOW WAS RESOLUTE TO SERVE GOD.
• 11:50 I BELIEVE PERSONALLY THAT IF SOMEONE WANTS TO SERVE GOD,
• 11:52 THAT HELL HAS AN ASSIGNMENT AGAINST THEM.
• 11:55 THERE ARE THREE CHAPTERS THAT UNDERSCORE THIS IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
• 11:58 THAT SEEMS AN INORDINATE AMOUNT OF TEXT.CHAPTER 1, CHAPTER 3, CHAPTER 6,
• 12:03 THEY'RE ALL DEDICATED TO THE CHARACTER OF THE EMISSARY SHOWING STERLING RESOLUTION.
• 12:08 "RAVE SHAUL", THE APOSTLE PAUL,
• 12:11 UNDERSCORES THE SAME KIND OF
• 12:12 BUSINESS IN THE 6TH CHAPTER OF
• 12:15 HIS WRITING TO THE EPHESIANS
• 12:16 AND THAT'S WHERE I'D LIKE TO
• 12:17 ATTEND RIGHT NOW.
• 12:19 THEREIN, HE ENCOURAGES INDIVIDUALS TO BE STRONG IN THE LORD.I LOVE THE TEXT.
• 12:25 HE SAYS IN VERSE 10,
• 12:34 SOMETIMES WE CANT JUST DRIFT ALONG AND LET LIFE HAPPEN TO US. WE HAVE TO DECIDE TO PUT IT ON.
• 12:38 SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO PUT ON OUR GAME FACE AND GO OUT THERE
• 12:41 AND FACE THE PLANET, DIFFICULTIES NOTWITHSTANDING.
• 12:44 AND WE'RE SURELY ABLE TO DO SO THE BETTER, IF WE BELIEVE THAT GOD IS WITH US
• 12:47 AND THAT HE HAS A WONDERFUL PLAN FOR OUR LIFE AND THAT WE'RE DESTINED FOR SUCCESS.
• 12:51 WE'RE DESTINED TO BE THE HEAD AND NOT THE TAIL.
• 12:53 WE'RE DESTINED TO BE A VICTOR AND NOT A VICTIM.
• 12:55 WE'RE DESTINED TO BE A CONQUEROR NOT CONQUERED.
• 12:58 WELL, HERE PAUL ENCOURAGES THE BELIEVERS.HE SAYS,
• 13:00 "LISTEN, BE STRONG IN THE LORD." AND THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE 11,
• 13:32 IN A PREVIOUS LIFE, I DON'T MEAN REINCARNATION, I MEAN IN ANOTHER CAREER,
• 13:36 I SERVED AS A LAW ENFORCEMENT OFFICER, AS A COP.
• 13:39 AND I REMEMBER BEING A BIG CITY COP THAT I WOULDN'T GO OUT
• 13:42 WITHOUT PUTTING ON MY KEVLAR VEST.
• 13:45 WOULDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT.
• 13:47 SOMETIMES THE DAYS WERE HOT AND I'D FEEL MORE COMFORTABLE NOT WEARING IT.
• 13:50 BUT I ALWAYS WOULD SUIT UP WITH ALL THE ARMOR AVAILABLE.
• 13:54 I BELIEVE PERSONALLY THERE'S TOO MANY OF US THAT GO INTO LIFE
• 13:57 WITHOUT PUTTING ON ALL OF OUR ARMOR.
• 13:59 WE DON'T HAVE THE DEFENSIVE AND OFFENSIVE WEAPONS THAT WE NEED
• 14:02 TO GET THE BETTER OF THE CHALLENGES THAT COME OUR WAY.
• 14:05 WELL, HERE THIS RABBI, THIS RABBI SHAUL, SAUL, PAUL WHO BELIEVED IN JESUS,
• 14:10 HE ENCOURAGED, HE SAID, "PUT ON THE WHOLE ARMOR OF GOD, A HELMET, A BREASTPLATE."
• 14:15 HE SAYS THE SWORD OF THE SPIRIT WHICH IS THE WORD OF GOD,
• 14:19 "WE'VE GOT TO SUIT UP, WE'VE GOT TO ARM UP."
• 14:22 HE GOES ON TO SAY IN VERSE 17,
• 14:28 SOME OF YOU MIGHT HAVE BUSTED HEADS WHERE ARE CIRCUMSTANCES IN LIFE MIGHT HAVE KNOCKED YOU OUT.
• 14:32 VARIOUS SINS, THINGS BESET YOU, DIFFERENT DAYS, DIFFERENT WAYS, BUT YOU GOT WIPED OUT BY IT ALL.
• 14:37 YOU CAN PUT ON A NEW HEAD, YOU CAN GET A NEW HEART, YOU CAN GET A NEW LIFE WITH GOD.
• 14:41 THE FORGIVENESS IS YOURS FOR THE ASKING.
• 14:43 YOU CAN GET THIS NEW HELMET OF SALVATION TO GUARD YOUR HEAD,
• 14:46 TO GUARD YOUR MIND AND NEW AND BETTER WAY OF THINKING.
• 14:49 YOU DON ALL THIS ARMOR IN SOME SPIRITUAL SENSE AND THEN PAUL SAYS AS WELL, HE GOES,
• 15:04 IT'S NOT BAD TO PUT ON PRAYER. IT'S NOT SISSY'S BUSINESS.
• 15:07 ONE OF THE THINGS THAT I LEARNED EVEN IN LAW ENFORCEMENT,
• 15:10 IS THERE'S A WHOLE LOT OF POLICE OFFICERS THAT REALLY ARE GODLY PEOPLE.
• 15:13 I KNOW THAT REPUTATION ISN'T OUT THERE BUT IT'S TRUE.
• 15:15 SOMETIMES WHEN YOU PRESENT AGAINST THE CHALLENGES OF HUMAN EXPERIENCE,
• 15:19 YOU WANT TO LOOK TO GOD THE MORE SO.
• 15:20 AND I'VE SEEN MORE THAN ONE PRAYER GO UP
• 15:22 AMONGST THOSE IN THE ARMY AND THOSE THAT ARE POLICE.
• 15:24 WELL, HERE WE'RE ALL IN BATTLEFIELD, IF YOU WILL.
• 15:27 IT'S A BATTLEFIELD FOR PLANET EARTH AND THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, "WE'RE IN THE BATTLE."
• 15:31 "WE NEED TO HAVE OUR WEAPONS UP, OUR HEART UP, OUR PRAYERS UP, OUR SHIELD OF FAITH."
• 15:36 WELL, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT THAT BATTLE FOR LAST DAYS' PLANET EARTH
• 15:39 AS WE CONTINUE OUR STORY IN DANIEL.
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• 17:08 ONE OF THE PLACES WE VISIT IN ISRAEL IS KORAZIM.
• 17:11 I HOPE YOU GET AN OPPORTUNITY TO GO TO ISRAEL.
• 17:13 IT IS A WONDERFUL, EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCE.
• 17:16 AND JEFF ONE OF THE PLACES WHEN WE TEACH IN KORAZIM
• 17:19 IS THAT WE DRAW THAT LINE IN THE AND AND SAY,
• 17:21 "WHERE DO YOU STAND?"
• 17:23 ZOLA LOVED DOING THAT IN THE SYNAGOGUE. DIDN'T HE?
• 17:24 HE REALLY DID.
• 17:25 THE QUESTION OF WHERE WE STAND
• 17:27 IS A QUESTION WORTH ASKING.
• 17:29 I HOPE WE STAND ON GOD'S SIDE RATHER THAN AGAINST. >>ABSOLUTELY.
• 17:32 ESPECIALLY AS WE PRESS FORWARD IN TIME
• 17:35 WE WANT TO BE IN GOD'S PLACE
• 17:37 AND WE WANT TO LIVE LIFE IN GOD'S TIMING.
• 17:39 A WAY TO DO THAT IS FOR OURSELVES TO GET RIGHT WITH GOD
• 17:42 AND THEN BE GIVEN OVER TO PRAYER MUCH AS DANIEL WAS.
• 17:45 RIGHT. AND PRAYER IS SO IMPORTANT.
• 17:47 IN DANIEL WE SEE HOW IMPORTANT IT IS WHEN HE'S PRAYING
• 17:49 AND HE'S NOT LETTING ANYTHING GET IN HIS WAY OF PRAYING.
• 17:52 THAT'S RIGHT. AND GOD ANSWERS PRAYER TOO.
• 17:53 THERE'S A GREAT STORY HERE OF A PASTOR IN ISRAEL
• 17:57 WHO WAS GIVEN OVER TO PRAYER AND GOD BLESSED HIM
• 17:59 WITH MILLIONS AND MILLIONS OF DOLLARS
• 18:02 OF DONATION TO BUILD A WORK.
• 18:04 GOD'S IN THE BUSINESS OF ANSWERING A LOT OF PEOPLES PRAYERS.
• 18:06 CHECK THIS OUT.
• 18:09 COULD YOU SHARE WITH US IN BRIEF, WHERE WE ARE
• 18:11 AND HOW YOU GOT WHERE YOU ARE?
• 18:12 WELL, JEFF WE'RE SITTING
• 18:14 RIGHT NOW IN WHAT'S CALLED
• 18:15 THE PAVILION PRAYER TOWER AND
• 18:16 THIS IS A PLACE WHERE WE PRAY.
• 18:18 AND WE PRAY FOR JERUSALEM.
• 18:20 AND WE'RE AT 17 STORIES UP ABOVE JAFFA ROAD
• 18:23 RIGHT IN THE HEART OF JERUSALEM AND BEGAN THIS ON
• 18:26 THE DAY OF PENTECOST IN JUNE OF THIS YEAR.
• 18:28 AND THREE TIMES A DAY PEOPLE ARE COMING UP HERE TO PRAY,
• 18:33 6:30 IN THE MORNING, 12:00 NOON, 5:15 IN THE EVENING
• 18:36 AND PRAYING FOR THIS AMAZING CITY.
• 18:38 NOW,WHERE DO YOU GET THE IDEA THREE TIMES A DAY?
• 18:41 WELL, WHEN THE LORD ASKED US TO BUILD THIS CENTER,
• 18:45 THE FIRST PLACE THAT THE LORD LED ME TO LOOK IN THE SCRIPTURE WAS AT THE LIFE OF DANIEL,
• 18:50 AND SAW THAT DANIEL HAD NOT JUST A PROGRAM OF THREE TIMES A DAY PRAYING FOR JERUSALEM,
• 18:58 BUT IT SAYS ACTUALLY IT WAS HIS HABIT TO DO SO.
• 19:01 SO FOR MANY, MANY YEARS THAT WAS HIS HABIT, MORNING, NOON, EVENING.
• 19:05 AND HE WOULD PRAY WITH HIS WINDOWS OPEN TOWARD JERUSALEM.
• 19:08 AND THAT'S WHERE WE ARE IN JERUSALEM.
• 19:11 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE WE OPEN OUR WINDOWS HERE,
• 19:13 WE'RE LOOKING AT JERUSALEM.
• 19:14 AND WE LOOKED TO DANIEL FOR INSPIRATION.
• 19:16 WE LOOK TO DANIEL FOR A PATTERN OF PRAYER
• 19:19 AND WE'VE BEEN FOLLOWING THAT NOW FOR SEVERAL MONTHS.
• 19:21 WELL, LOOKING AT DANIEL FOR A PATTERN OF PRAYER
• 19:24 AND YOU PATTERNED OTHER ASPECTS OF YOUR MINISTRY AS WELL.
• 19:27 CORRECT?
• 19:29 WELL, WE CERTAINLY LOOK AT THE CHARACTER OF DANIEL AND WE GET INSPIRATION.
• 19:32 I MEAN THIS WAS MAN OF TRUE CHARACTER.ONE WHO WAS A MAN OF GOD.ONE WHO WAS HUMBLE.
• 19:41 ONE WHO WOULD NOT COMPROMISE WHEN HE WAS TEMPTED TO DO SO.
• 19:44 FOR WELL OVER A DECADE WE'VE HAD SEVERAL PRAYER MEETINGS EVERY WEEK,
• 19:49 PRAYING FOR THE CITY OF JERUSALEM, FOR THE NATION OF ISRAEL,
• 19:53 FOR OUR OWN LOCAL CONGREGATION IN OUR MINISTRY HERE
• 19:56 AND NOW OF COURSE PRAYING -
• 19:59 I THINK WE HAVE 17 PRAYER MEETINGS A WEEK NOW HERE IN THE PRAYER TOWER.
• 20:03 WE SEE THAT AS FAR MORE POWERFUL
• 20:06 THAN GREAT PROGRAMS HAVING GREAT PREACHING
• 20:12 OR GREAT MUSIC OR WORSHIP OR WHATEVER.
• 20:14 I THINK GOD IS FAR MORE INTERESTED IN OUR HEARTS AND OUR DEVOTION TO HIM
• 20:22 AND PRAYER IS AN EXPRESSION OF THE DEPTH OF REALITY IN OUR LIVES.
• 20:26 AND I DO THINK IT PAYS.
• 20:30 SO YOU HAVE THIS BEAUTIFUL CONGREGATIONAL FACILITY DOWN BELOW HERE.
• 20:34 BUT THEN YOU ACQUIRED THIS 14TH FLOOR OF THE TALLEST BUILDING -
• 20:38 I THINK IT'S THE 2ND TALLEST BUILDING IN JERUSALEM. >>- IN JERUSALEM.
• 20:41 HERE IN PROXIMITY YOU CAN LOOK AND SEE MEA SHEARIM DOWN BELOW
• 20:46 AND YOU GET A BEAUTIFUL VISTA OF THE WHOLE CITY
• 20:49 AND THEN FOLK MEET HERE HOW MANY TIMES A DAY TO PRAY?
• 20:52 AND THERE'S MEETINGS THAT PEOPLE GO ROUND
• 20:54 AND PRAY OVER ASPECTS OF JERUSALEM.
• 20:56 THERE'S THREE PUBLIC MEETINGS A DAY
• 20:58 AND THEN OF COURSE IT'S OPEN 6:30 IN THE MORNING
• 21:00 TILL 7:00 AT NIGHT FOR JUST PERSONAL DEVOTIONS.
• 21:03 THEY CAN COME IN AND USE ONE OF OUR PRIVATE PRAYER ROOMS HERE TO DO THAT.
• 21:07 SOMETIMES IN CHURCHES A FEW OF THE FAITHFUL
• 21:10 WILL MEET BEFORE THE SERVICE TO SAY A CURSORY PERFUNCTORY PRAYER.
• 21:15 BUT FOR THE PURPOSE OF PRAYER YOU'VE REALLY STUCK YOUR NECK OUT,
• 21:19 HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS OF DOLLARS TO RAISE, AND A LOT OF ENERGY
• 21:23 BECAUSE YOU THINK THAT THE COMMUNITY NEEDS TO GATHER TOGETHER
• 21:29 AND PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM. YES?
• 21:31 ABSOLUTELY. AND IT'S NOT JUST OUR OWN LOCAL CONGREGATION.
• 21:33 WE'VE OPENED THE DOORS TO THE WHOLE BODY IN JERUSALEM.
• 21:36 WE'VE HAD SEVERAL CITY WIDE PRAYER GATHERINGS IN OUR MAIN WORSHIP CENTER DOWNSTAIRS.
• 21:42 WE'VE HAD OVER A HUNDRED PASTORS NOW
• 21:45 UP IN THE PRAYER TOWER PRAYING WITH US AS WELL.
• 21:48 IN FACT, TWICE A WEEK WE HAVE A PASTOR OR A LEADER OF A MINISTRY
• 21:51 COME UP RIGHT HERE WHERE WE'RE SITTING
• 21:53 AND WE GATHER AROUND THAT INDIVIDUAL AND WE PRAY FOR THEM.
• 21:57 THEY TELL US WHAT'S GOING ON IN THEIR MINISTRY,
• 21:59 THE STRUGGLES THEY'RE HAVING, THE VICTORIES THEY'RE HAVING
• 22:02 AND WE PRAY INTO THAT.
• 22:03 AND SO IT'S REALLY -
• 22:05 I SEE PRAYER ALSO AS A CATALYST FOR UNITY IN THE BODY.
• 22:08 WHEN YOU KNOW SOMEBODY IS PRAYING FOR YOU -
• 22:11 I MEAN THAT'S A POWERFUL THING.
• 22:13 IT'S A POWERFUL EXPRESSION OF THEIR LOVE AND THEIR COMMITMENT TO YOU.
• 22:16 PRAYER IS HARD WORK.
• 22:18 AND WHEN SOMEBODY WILL PRAY FOR YOU AND YOU KNOW THEY'RE PRAYING,
• 22:20 THAT'S SUCH AN ENCOURAGEMENT.
• 22:23 IS THERE A WEB ADDRESS YOU COULD GIVE FOR FOLK
• 22:25 THAT CAN'T COME HERE BUT WANT TO CONNECT WITH YOU SOMEHOW?
• 22:28 ABSOLUTELY.
• 22:33 PAVILION WITH ONE "L".
• 22:36 AND THEN OUR CONGREGATIONAL WEBSITE WHICH IS INTERESTING.
• 22:38 IN FACT, IF THEY PLUG IN THEY CAN GO TO THE ARCHIVES
• 22:41 AND WATCH YOUR SERMON THAT YOU PREACHED AT KING OF KINGS COMMUNITY
• 22:45 WHICH IS THE NAME OF THE CONGREGATION.
• 22:47 SO THAT WEBSITE IS
• 22:51 STANDS FOR KING OF KINGS
• 22:52 COMMUNITY JERUSALEM.ORG
• 22:54 WELL, BLESS YOU IN YOUR MINISTRY.
• 22:56 YOU'RE AN INSPIRATION TO ME
• 22:57 AND WAYNE'S AN INSPIRATION TO ALL OF US.
• 23:00 HE REMINDS US THAT PRAYER PAYS.
• 23:03 AND THAT'S AN IMPORTANT LESSON I BELIEVE.
• 23:04 WE DO WELL TO BE REMINDED OF THAT.
• 23:06 IT SEEMS TO BE AN ESSENTIAL MESSAGE IN THE BOOK OF DANIEL.
• 23:10 FOR THEREIN WE HEAR THE STORY NOT JUST ABOUT A WORLD AT THE END OF DAYS
• 23:14 BUT ABOUT A MAN WHO'S LEANING INTO GOD TO GET HIS MIND AND WILL,
• 23:17 WHOSE GOT A LOT MORE CHARACTER THAN HE DOES CHARISMA.
• 23:20 WE DO WELL TO LEARN FROM HIM. DO WE NOT?
• 23:22 GOD BLESS.
• 23:33 ( ♪(ZOLA PLAYING THE PIANO)♪ )
• 25:08 DANIEL MAKES FOR A FASCINATING STUDY.
• 25:11 WHAT A BOOK! WHAT A MAN!
• 25:14 BEFORE CONSIDERING HIS PROPHECIES WE WANTED TO CONSIDER WHO HE WAS,
• 25:19 SO AS TO LOOK AT HIS CHARACTER NOT JUST HIS CHARISMA.
• 25:23 AND WHAT HAVE WE SEEN? WE'VE SEEN A MAN OF PRAYER.
• 25:26 AND WE NOT ONLY SAW DANIEL OF YEARS AGO,
• 25:29 WE SAW A MODERN VARIETY OF A DANIEL IN WAYNE IN JERUSALEM
• 25:33 WHO PRAYS, WHO SEEKS GOD AND GOD BLESSES.
• 25:36 ISN'T IT A GREAT COLLECTION OF STORIES THERE?
• 25:38 IT'S A WONDERFUL, IT'S ENCOURAGING.
• 25:40 PRAYER IS THE FOUNDATION THAT WE NEED.
• 25:43 EVERYTHING STARTS WITH OUR PRAYER.
• 25:45 IF WE'RE NOT PRAYING NOTHING IS HAPPENING.
• 25:47 RIGHT.AND GOD ANSWERS PRAYERS.
• 25:50 NOT JUST FOR JEWS BUT FOR ALL OF "YOU'S".
• 25:54 GOD'S AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER WHEN IT COMES TO PEOPLE
• 25:58 COMING TO HIM AND GETTING A JOB, A NEW LIFE WITH HIM.
• 26:00 BUT THE GREAT VISUAL ALSO IS THE ARMOR. THE SPIRIT OF THE WORD.
• 26:03 PUT ON THE HELMET. PUT ON ARMOR.
• 26:06 WE HAVE TO BE ARMED EVERY SINGLE DAY.
• 26:09 THAT'S TRUE.
• 26:11 THERE'S SO MUCH IN THIS WORLD TO ERODE BIBLICAL FAITH. >>ABSOLUTELY.
• 26:14 THAT WAS DANIEL'S PROBLEM.
• 26:15 HE WAS TAKEN AWAY FROM HIS ANCESTRAL HOMELAND.
• 26:18 HE WAS IN ENEMY TERRITORY.
• 26:20 HOW WOULD YOU FEEL?
• 26:22 I THINK ABOUT DANIEL.
• 26:23 HOW WOULD I FEEL BEING TAKEN AWAY?
• 26:26 WELL, SOMETIMES WHEN YOU'RE IN TROUBLE
• 26:28 YOU FALL BACK ON THE THINGS THAT MATTER.
• 26:30 AND HE GOES TO PRAYER.
• 26:32 WELL, I CAN'T WAIT FOR NEXT WEEK.
• 26:33 IT'S GONNA BE REALLY GOOD.
• 26:34 AND AS YOU GO,
• 26:35 SHA'ALU SHALOM YERUSHALAYIM,
• 26:37 PRAY FOR THE PEACE OF JERUSALEM.