The Real Thing -- Fiery Furnace Faith

Neal Frisby, The Real Thing -- Fiery Furnace Faith BK 24 | March 29, 1974

The following notes and excerpts are taken from the message delivered by Evangelist Neal Frisby. These excerpts do not represent all pertinent statements from the message.

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Let's deal "with Nebuchadnezzar" and the "fiery furnace" and Daniel in "the lion's den", and some more prophetic things! And also on Joseph and the time he was Prime Minister of Egypt.

Nebuchadnezzar was a prophetic figure, even though he was wishy-washy with God. He was a type of different sinister and dramatic events that would occur at the time of the end! God raised Nebuchadnezzar up to judge the earth! And to bring the Jews to Babylon! This was his job upon the earth and he ruled the entire earth -- the empire that surrounded Babylon at the time.

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Now regarding the captivity [of the Jews], god sent Nebuchadnezzar to Israel to get the Jewish seed and bring it back to his kingdom [Babylon]. Isaiah the prophet foretold [about 120 years before the captivity] Hezekiah the king [2 Kings 18:1-3] the seed royal would be carried away into the land of Shinar -- which is Babylon -- and he would plunder the Temple, and take away the vessels, the valuable vessels of gold and silver and carry them into the land of Babylon.

Then Jeremiah the prophet also said to the Israelites the king of Babylon would carry away the royal seed and take them into his empire in Babylon and they were Jews, the children of Israel, to help build the great structures of Babylon! Now we know Daniel was of the ryoal seed and the three Hebrew children -- they were of a king's line!

When they went into Babylon, Nebuchadnezzar immediately became acquainted after Daniel interpreted the unusual puzzling vision, "the mettalic vision of the great image! The King began to favor Daniel because Daniel had the wisdom of God in him and he saw he had supernatural power. Although Nebuchadnezzer himself, he could not ive for God it seemed like -- just until the time of the end, He didn't have the Spirit of God to live by like Daniel. Daniel took on the spirit of the Lord and he prayed daily.

Nebuchadnezzar was about his business and that he seemingly was always trying to draw out God to challenge his [religious] god. But he finally admitted after he had become a beast -- God turned him into a beast one time, and then turned him back into a man (Daniel 4) -- that he (Nebuchadnezzar) gave God the glory that He should have had in the beginning. Had Nebuchadnezzar believed the Lord in the beginning like he did in the end it sure would have been much better for him. But he was a figure and a type in the book of Daniel to bring forth these things for our admonition at the time of the end.

Let us read Daniel 3:1. Now this happened quite a few years after Daniel revealed to him the great image in Daniel Chapter 2.

Daniel 3:1

1 Nebuchadnezzar the king made an image of gold, whose height was threescore cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits: he set it up in the plain of Dura, in the province of Babylon.

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Now this is a different image than what Daniel interpreted to him, however he may have decided to make one of pure gold. But it was set up in the province of Babylon and at the time of the end, this is prophetic speaking, that an image of churches or even an image will be set up in the kingdom of Babylon -- which we know as East and West Europe or Rome (Revelation 13). Something of this occurrence will take place.

Now someone wondered what he made an image of -- now remember in Daniel 2:46, after Daniel revealed the dream he had, the king was carried away and suddenly Nebuchadnezzar said, in Daniel 2:46-47
46 Then the king Nebuchadnezzar fell upon his face, and worshipped Daniel, and commanded that they should offer an oblation and sweet odours unto him. 47 The king answered unto Daniel, and said, Of a truth it is, that your God is a God of gods, and a Lord of kings, and a revealer of secrets, seeing thou couldest reveal this secret.

Of course, Daniel refused this -- it was a type of worship and Daniel would have nothing to do with it.

But Nebuchadnezzar at the time was startled by the amazing powers within him (Daniel), telling what he had even forgotten and bringing it back again and revealing it to the king. So we see, after years pass in Daniel Chapter 3, that he may have made an image even to Daniel, or it was of Bel, the patron god of Babylon -- and even possibly of the king himself.

Editor's Note [It could also have been an image of the Son of God -- somehow king Nebuchadnezzar recognizes what the Son of God looks like when he sees him in the fire with the three Hebrew children]

Daniel was gone during the time he was going to set up this fiery furnace for all those who wouldn't worship the image.

Daniel 4:8
8 But at the last [after a long time] Daniel came in before me, whose name was Belteshazzar, according to the name of my god, and in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and before him I told the dream, saying,

But the three Hebrew children which had high positions with Daniel were there. Nebuchadnezzar had a strange way to draw God out to find out which was the greatest -- his god (Bel) or Israel's God (Jehovah God, The Lord Jesus Christ).

After he erected this image -- now remember this -- the image whose height was threescore (60) cubits, and the breadth thereof six cubits. Note the 6's are associated with the antichrist at the end of time and the gold too! Anyway we know this, that it was the form of some holy man.

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Now whether it was of the mountain he saw that was cut out without hands -- the figure or what, no one knows what he made his image of and why. It could have been a copy of the first dream that he had only he wanted to make it pure gold and have somebody to worship it! It was the wrong spirit that motivated him but God will use it for a good thing "to show us" what will occur at the end of time! He was fulfilling the plans of God and didn't even know it at the time!

Daniel 3:2-5
2 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king sent to gather together the princes, the governors, and the captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, to come to the dedication of the image which Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up. 3 Then the princes, the governors, and captains, the judges, the treasurers, the counsellors, the sheriffs, and all the rulers of the provinces, were gathered together unto the dedication of the image that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up; and they stood before the image that Nebuchadnezzar had set up. 4 Then an herald cried aloud, To you it is commanded, O people, nations, and languages, 5 That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of music, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

And when they heard the sound of this, all nations that were around there -- meaning just like at the end time, all nations will have to worship the image made unto the beast like it says in Revelation 13. And whoever didn't worship the golden image was cast into a fiery furnace!

Daniel 3:6
6 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth shall the same hour be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

See -- threatening! Like the mark of the beast at the end -- he was threatening them! Therefore at that, when all the people heard the sound of the cornet and all the musice they fell down and worshipped the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar had erected.

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Daniel 3:8-11
8 Wherefore at that time certain Chaldeans came near, and accused the Jews. 9 They spake and said to the king Nebuchadnezzar, O king, live for ever. 10 Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image: 11 And whoso falleth not down and worshippeth, that he should be cast into the midst of a burning fiery furnace.

This is exactly a type of the death spoken of in Revelation 13:11-17.

Then the accusers told the king...

Daniel 3:12-13

12 There are certain Jews whom thou hast set over the affairs of the province of Babylon, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego; these men, O king, have not regarded thee: they serve not thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.
13 Then Nebuchadnezzar in his rage and fury commanded to bring Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego. Then they brought these men before the king.

He was mad that they had insulted him and they had usurped seemingly, powers over him by doing this and he didn't like it!

Daniel 3:14-15
14 Nebuchadnezzar spake and said unto them, Is it true, O Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, do not ye serve my gods [trinity like, multiple gods], nor worship the golden image which I have set up? 15 Now if ye be ready that at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the image which I have made; well: but if ye worship not, ye shall be cast the same hour into the midst of a burning fiery furnace; and who is that God that shall deliver you out of my hands?

Daniel 3:16-18
16 Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, answered and said to the king, O Nebuchadnezzar, we are not careful to answer thee in this matter. 17 If it be so, our God whom we serve is able to deliver us from the burning fiery furnace, and he will deliver us out of thine hand, O king. 18 But if not, be it known unto thee, O king, that we will not serve thy gods, nor worship the golden image which thou hast set up.

Nebuchadnezzar, by setting this up, portrayed events which will definitely occur at the time of the end and even now over the nations they are going together, getting their governments together -- they are making provisions for just the same thing that is given to us in the chapters of Revelation and on further through the major visions of Daniel in the Book of Daniel.

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All of these things will occur in our time we're living in now this generation shall not pass -- I believe with all of my heart -- these things will be fulfilled, the people will be under punishment of death to worship the antichrist (worship or else die).

Daniel 3:19
19 Then was Nebuchadnezzar full of fury (stirred up the devil in him), and the form of his visage was changed against Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego: therefore he spake, and commanded that they should heat the furnace one seven times more than it was wont to be heated. (that's like idolatry -- trying to make them bow to idolatry is what it was)

Now Daniel the prophet was gone -- he's not in it, why? Where was Daniel? Could this image the king erected be of him as trying to get Daniel to come in on the thing so that they'd all do it? But Daniel said, yea -- "Daniel was a type of the Bride in this particular instance, where the Hebrew Children were a type of the 144,000 or the Tribulation group during the tribulation time. Daniel was not in this -- he was gone from the scene, because Nebuchadnezzar could not get ahold of him. It doesn't mention Daniel -- he was a type of the Bride, he was gone!

Daniel 3:20

20 And he commanded the most mighty men that were in his army to bind Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, and to cast them into the burning fiery furnace.

He tied their hands up. This is a type of man worship that they're getting into here with idolatry.

Daniel 3:21
21 Then these men were bound in their coats, their hosen, and their hats, and their other garments, and were cast into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

This is just like when the fierce fires of persecution comes against those 144,000 Jews during the Tribulation. But Jesus will walk among them again and bring them forth -- watch and see the hand of God!

Daniel 3:22

22 Therefore because the king's commandment was urgent, and the furnace exceeding hot, the flame of the fire slew those men that took up Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

The men that threw them in there, the fierce fire was so hot that it back-fired and burned them up alive!

The same thing with those nations who go up against the Jews at the time of the end! The fire will go right back upon them and burn them up alive as a flaming fire out of God's mouth destroys them that go up against Jerusalem and Israel.

Daniel 3:23
23 And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.

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You know, we see Nebuchadnezzar here that he had a problem with demons at times. At times he tried to seek God, but he had a problem with demon powers because of the great kingdom he had.

Of course God put it in his hands to judge the earth at the time -- the Bible said so -- and to bring the Jews into captivity because of their sins. He used a Gentile king to do it! These spirits were raging in him and full of fury, when they went against him, when the Hebrew children would not bow to his idol!

Now these same raging spirits, as we read in another chapter of Daniel -- those same spirits finally got such a grip on Nebuchadnezzar that he was actually turned into a beast, and the Bible tells us about it, when he was turned into and had the heart of a beast.

He should have got delivered and he wouldn't have had to go through the terrible judgment God put upon him. But he was restored back to his normal mind and his kingdom was added unto him again. But let's get along with this story right here. He also gave God glory at the end of the Chapter 4, when he wrote it as you'll read it. Nebuchadnezzar did strange things but he was just as strong one way for God as he was the other way at times during the whole story of Daniel in the book as you read it.

Daniel 3:24-25
24 Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonied (he saw no fire burning them at all!), and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king. 25 He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the "Son of God".

Now how did he know it was like the Son of God? Evidently Daniel had told him what the Son of God looked like. Or evidently Nebuchadnezzar himself saw the figure of God and he saw the Son of Man -- he had never come yet! This was the pre-incarnate state, this was like John saw Him on the Isle of Patmos, and Nebuchadnezzar got to see Him in the fire walking in the midst with the three Hebrew children! And he said this is like unto the Son of God!

So he evidently had once been told about the Son of God from Daniel or he himself had seen a glimpse of him, one or the other, nevertheless, he knew who He was! Even before He had come to the Jews, in the body that He was to die in and be resurrected and stand on the Isle of Patmos in that state.

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Nebuchadnezzar got a chance to see Him in some form of a glorified state standing with the Hebrew children.

Daniel 3:26
26 Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.

You see, they're coming right out of there, like during the Tribulation fires -- those Jews are going to step forth with Christ and nothing will harm them! And a 144,000 Jews will be sealed and they'll come out of the fires of the Tribulation by the protection hand of the Son of Man, the Living God will walk with them in the fire -- and His fire is greater than the fire of the fiery furnace or the Tribulation -- it is greater than those fires!

God's fire is! He's a consuming fire! And His fire caused the other fire not to burn at all -- and they were bound hand and foot and throwed in there and not even a smell was on their garments. This shook Nebuchadnezzar up like nothing else! See, he was trying to find out if their God was greater than his god. Even after he proclaimed there was a God before this, he should have kept the Spirit of God in him and sought God, then he wouldn't have fallen into the snares of Satan, but he didn't.

Like Daniel, he should have prayed three times a day and stood up for the Lord and he would have been able to not have an up and down Christian life -- but he would have been able to live a life that would have suited God instead of almost on his death-bed trying to come to God during that time of the end.

Daniel 3:27-28
27 And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them. 28 Then Nebuchadnezzar spake, and said, Blessed be the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who hath sent his angel, and delivered his servants that trusted in him, and have changed the king's word, and yielded their bodies, that they might not serve nor worship any god, except their own God.

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He admonished them, because they wouldn't bow to his prposterous idea -- he saw what kind of a fool he was and he saw quickly he had been outranked and outsmarted in every way by the wisdom of the three Hebrew Children!

You would have thought Nebuchadnezzar would have learned a lesson here, but he was just as strong one way as another. Now watch this, he was a complex man that God had sent upon the earth.

Daniel 3:29
29 Therefore I make a decree, That every people, nation, and language, which speak anything amiss against the God of Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, shall be cut in pieces, and their houses shall be made a dunghill: because there is no other God that can deliver after this sort.

Nebuchadnezzar made a decree that all people and nations were to worship the Living God. He'd cut them to pieces and make their houses dunghills! So he was just as strong for Jehovah God as he was against him before hand! Now he was for the Lord. And everyone, every nation was to worship this God and he passed a decree.

So we see that by providence -- God wins out! And the Lord showed a great miracle to Nebuchadnezzar. So here we see this prophetic figure of Nebuchadnezzar working right with those jews showing us wht shall be at the time of the end!

Many of these events will be symbolized and they will happen just the same at the time of the end. He was portraying things to come -- and how little did he know at the time. We know Nebuchadnezzar's emprew was the third world empire. Because there was the preceding Egyptian empire, the Assyrian empire and then the Babylon empire! Then we go to the Media Persians and from the Media Persians to the Greece empire of Alexander and then from there, Rome, the iron -- we know that but the other two are not listed in Daniel's visions, but the are in the Book of Revelation 17:9-10.

Then when Nebuchadnezzar told them that there was no other god that can deliver after this sort -- no where. Then the king promoted the three Hebrew children in the province of Babylon. And the book closes on the fiery furnace and God delivered His true children from the depths of death and brought them forth! O grave, where is they vistory? O death, where is thy sting? God brought them forth!

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When Nebuchadnezzar made the golden image it was about ninety feet high, but the numbers associated were cubic which were 6's and that number is associated to the antichrist system at the end. But we notice it was on a pedestal -- this included a pedestal and possibly it wasn't pure gold but it was plated with gold because it was about ninety feet high.

We noticed, involved in this was music -- it repeated music over, and over, that when the music played -- like as if it was some kind of thythm. Now the Lord is showing us at the time of the end that all of this music rock and roll and all kinds of music it said, they had all kinds -- they'll be mixed up! All of the kinds of music, western music, rock and roll, folksy music, jazz music -- all kinds of music mixed up into one blend and it makes some kind of a sodomite cry -- a sodomite sound, it'll be an insanity type sound. It'll be crazy like, at the end of time, in this Babylon.

It brought in this music that was involved with bowing to this image! And the Lord showed us at the time of the end -- that they'll be in some kind of a frenzy. they'll be sort of like in a strong delusion, intoxicated with dope, narcotics and with music and they'll be in some kind of a deep delusion -- man worshipping, and idolatry and all of this steeped on all of this debauchery and the most fantastic orgies the world has ever heard of.

Even now, they're stripping their clothes off and running wild up and down the streets. Why? God is about to do something! It shows when Satan reveals himself and goes wild that God's about to reveal His Ownself to His people -- the glories of the Lord are beginning to come in! A great revival will be poured out!

So the Lord is showing us when Satan begins to strip himself and the people begin to go crazy and pull their clothes off and run wild and do all of the things that they're doing in sin. It shows God is about ready to move, that Satan is stirred and that God is about to drop a mighty great work upon the earth and gather His people together in a supernatural powerful revival the earth has ever seen -- "to His Bride Elect and He will join them together, unite them to His head and be translated! And that is THUS SAITH THE WORD OF THE LIVING GOD! He shall do this very thing and His people shall know Him and they shall see His face and they shall glorify the living God!

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About the kingdom of Nebuchadnezzar -- it's been long forgotten upon the earth, but they say even to this day the hanging gardens and the great walls that Nebuchadnezzar built and the kingdom type that he built would hardly be matched in our day -- the only thing close to it they said in great architectural wonder would be the Great Pyramid which is still standing -- the seventh wonder of the ancient world.

Nebuchadnezzar was very wealthy and he had the greatest kingdom the earth had ever seen at that time and he was in great glory. God allowed it to happen like this -- "and just think one of His children, the prophet Daniel, was able to play a great role and a major part in that time of the end.

Also in the time of the end God will send another messenger -- the Lord will send His word to His people and it's here now and the Lord is doing it at Capstone! Right in the midst of world Babylon, God will raise up a people and a messenger and God will speak to them! And that's occurring right now as these things are being brought forth in this ministry! Praise ye the Lord forevermore!

So we see the world empire of Nebuchadnezzar was no little thing -- but it was a huge impregnable city no one could break through or do anything with and it was a city that could exist within itself on the inside, but finally God showed the Media Persians how they could divert the river and go underneath and they did take it over, after Nebuchadnezzar had left the scene they took it over from Belshazzar.

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Daniel 6

1 It pleased Darius to set over the kingdom an hundred and twenty princes, which should be over the whole kingdom; 2 And over these three presidents; of whom Daniel was first: that the princes might give accounts unto them, and the king should have no damage.

[In other words, they were to take care of the king's business that nothing would go wrong.]

3 Then this Daniel was preferred above the presidents and princes, because an excellent spirit was in him; and the king thought to set him over the whole realm.

Now he was going to prefer him above all the presidents -- set him up as next to him. Remember Daniel sat in the gate of Nebuchadnezzar as a second figure and the second ruler in the kingdom. And here he is again, Daniel rises again under Darius. He was going to make him right next to him in the kingdom, of course with Cyrus, he would have been the third ruler, but in the immediate kingdom he would be over all of the other presidents and all of the other men that were in the realm. Because they found an excellent spirit in Daniel and he was full of knowledge and understanding and a wise gentleman, he was a wise messenger from God.

4 Then the presidents and princes sought to find occasion against Daniel concerning the kingdom; but they could find none occasion nor fault; forasmuch as he was faithful, neither was there any error or fault found in him.

He was faithful! There was no error, no fault found in him. What a wonderful testimony! They tried in every angle to find fault with that man but they couldn't find any in him -- he was spotless, standing before God in that kingdom, and Darius knew this too.

5 Then said these men, We shall not find any occasion against this Daniel, except we find it against him concerning the law of his God.

Now they're going to get in trouble! Now they've touched the heart of the thing, they are now touching their own doom! Just like the men who cast the Hebrew children in the fiery furnace and it backfired on them and it ate them up with fire and burned them to death. These men now are going to ask for doom when they touch the hand of God. They wanted to find something against him concerning his law of God.

6 Then these presidents and princes assembled together to the king, and said thus unto him, King Darius, live for ever. 7 All the presidents of the kingdom, the governors, and the princes, the counsellors, and the captains, have consulted together to establish a royal statute, and to make a firm decree, that whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of thee, O king, he shall be cast into the den of lions.

They were preparing a trap but they were going to fall into it themselves. No one could worship any kind of God, except the king -- no one, no one in the kingdom there. A lot of people wonder why the king couldn't change it. There is a law in the Media Persians, once it became a statute, once it became a law -- they did not change it, they could not change it because that was a ruling of the Media Persians and these counsellors knew that.

8 Now, O king, establish the decree, and sign the writing, that it be not changed, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not. 9 Wherefore king Darius signed the writing and the decree.

10 Now when Daniel knew that the writing was signed, he went into his house; and his windows being open in his chamber toward Jerusalem, [he looked toward Jerusalem, the land he came from] he kneeled upon his knees three times a day, and prayed, and gave thanks before his God, as he did aforetime.

Daniel knew they had signed it, but he was going to show it wouldn't work, He had faith in God! He was going to bring this thing to a head because he had foreseen it coming way before it happened. Daniel received visions and dreams from God so he knew it was coming and he was glad it was coming to a head so he could prove his god was real to Darius like he did to Nebuchadnezzar.

Daniel prayed three times a day -- that was what stirred the devil up. If you want to stir the devil up, you get on your knees about three times a day like Daniel did and you'll stir up devils and they'll begin to force against you. You begin to pray and seek God and praising the Lord, three times a day or even more, you'll stir up the devil if you continue faithfully. You can't do it a day or two -- it's got to be faithfully each day. And you'll also stir up the hand of God, that's the most important thing -- the hand of God will be stirred up also and it will be in your favor!

11 Then these men assembled, and found Daniel praying and making supplication before his God. 12 Then they came near, and spake before the king concerning the king's decree; Hast thou not signed a decree, that every man that shall ask a petition of any God or man within thirty days, save of thee, O king, shall be cast into the den of lions? The king answered and said, The thing is true, according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not.

13 Then answered they and said before the king, That Daniel, which is of the children of the captivity of Judah, regardeth not thee, O king, nor the decree that thou hast signed, but maketh his petition three times a day. 14 Then the king, when he heard these words, was sore displeased with himself, and set his heart on Daniel to deliver him: and he laboured till the going down of the sun to deliver him.

You see, the king was for Daniel all the time. He knew they had laid a trap for him. And he set his heart, not on their side but on Daniel's side immediately to see if he couldn't set him free according to his law, any way that he could.

15 Then these men assembled unto the king, and said unto the king, Know, O king, that the law of the Medes and Persians is, That no decree nor statute which the king establisheth may be changed.

Already today, this here is a prophetic figure and a type that God allowed. They have banned the prayers in our schools today. They have passed a law the same way -- they will not allow people to pray. They do not want our children to pray in the schools -- they banned it. I might say this, that they are going to be cast into the fiery furnace and the lions' den of the end time, these lawmakers who do these things. Because God will have the last say! And this is exactly what's happened today. But Daniel shows you if you believe in God you can still win. We know at the end of time they will ban prayers completely in this nation and in the nations of Europe and around the world, they will ban all prayers except it be to the antichrist beast, it's the only one they will be able to pray to, the last three and a half years during that Tribulation of time.

Even possibly before that it will set in very strong against the children of the Lord. They're going to bring strong measures against the people who love God upon the earth. But those who love God will do great exploits and the Lord will stand with them. So we see, this is a prophetic figure.

16 Then the king commanded, and they brought Daniel, and cast him into the den of lions. Now the king spake and said unto Daniel, Thy God whom thou servest continually, he will deliver thee.

There's the secret! Thy God whom thou "servest continually" -- there's the secret that Daniel was unable to be defeated. He continually sought the Lord and Darius knew Daniel would be delivered. He felt in his heart he would be!

17 And a stone was brought, and laid upon the mouth of the den; [just like a stone that was laid against Christ's tomb] and the king sealed [just like they did in the days of Christ] it with his own signet, and with the signet of his lords; that the purpose might not be changed concerning Daniel.

In other words, they sealed him away. Live or die, Daniels was set in the lions den! It was sealed, no one could remove that from there. It was signed and sealed and he was delivered into the hands of the lions -- which were hungry lions.

18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting: neither were instruments of musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.

19 Then the king arose very early in the morning, and went in haste unto the den of lions. 20 And when he came to the den, he cried with a lamentable voice unto Daniel: and the king spake and said to Daniel, O Daniel, servant of the living God, is thy God, whom thou servest continually, able to deliver thee from the lions?

Oh, he cried out -- that king loved Daniel. Somthing about Daniel that those kings loved -- they loved him! Then we hear the cry from Daniel.

21 Then said Daniel unto the king, O king, live for ever.

The king had salvation at that time -- he said, O king live for ever.

22 My God hath sent his angel, [there's the pillar of fire! The same angel who was in the fiery furnace -- "the angel of the Lord" was the same one in the fiery furnace, stood with Daniel in the Lions Den!] and hath shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me: forasmuch as before him innocency was found in me; and also before thee, O king, have I done no hurt.

He said, "He sent His angel and shut the lions' mouths, that they have not hurt me! Daniel had harmed nobody, and "the king was innocent too" somewhat in this whole matter.

23 Then was the king exceeding glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no manner of hurt was found upon him, because he believed in his God.

The same as the Hebrew children, there was no hurt found upon them!

24 And the king commanded, and they brought those men which had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions, them, their children, and their wives; and the lions had the mastery of them, and brake all their bones in pieces or ever they came at the bottom of the den.

We find out that it backfired in the fiery furnace and those men were eaten up alive -- but here it's more severe, not only were the men thrown in the lions den but their wives and their family. You see God, He gets vengeance and fierce when He has shown a kingdom as many signs and wonders as He showed in that kingdom and still the men go against Him! Another thing was -- you say, well why didn't the king throw them in there in the first place? He wanted to show the people also that God was with Daniel and this gave him power that he could show the people that a misdeed and a misjudgment had been done to Daniel! Therefore he also knew he could convince the people God was real and he could do something and allow God to work for them!

25 Then king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages, that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you. 26 I make a decree, That in every dominion of my kingdom men tremble and fear before the God of Daniel: for he is the living God, and stedfast for ever, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed, and his dominion shall be even unto the end.

This was a type even unto the end -- into the millennium right on into the end of all things, right into the new holy city coming out of heaven!

27 He delivereth and rescueth, and he worketh signs and wonders in heaven and in earth, who hath delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.

Now Nebuchadnezzar also made a strong decree that all people were to worship the living God! Now Darius made another stout decree -- all people were to worship the God of Daniel. So we see the Lord was working in providence -- not only in that kingdom but to show us at the end of time how prayer would be banned but ultimately the people who know their god would be delivered and the Lord would stand upon those people's side that would not hesitate but would pray and cry out to God even though they forced them not to. The Lord would stand! So here was a prophetic picture and it will happen again at the time of the end.

28 So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.

Isn't that wonderful, how God delivers!

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There was something about Joseph that was similar to Daniel the prophet, and they both had dreams and visions of prophetic events and things that were to occur. In Genesis Chapter 37 clear through Chapter 50 is the main story.

Now remember Jacob had a son Joseph and Jacob told Joseph to go and look for his brothers who had gone over into another part of the country and he hadn't heard from them. Little Joseph was loved by Jacob and he gave him a rainbow coat -- a coat of many colors, because he was a revelator like Daniel! He was a revealer of secrets and just like Nebuchadnezzar named Danield Beteshazzar we know later that Pharaoh gave Daniel a name and it meant the revealer of secrets or one who reveals secrets!

Now Joseph was told by his father to go look for his brethren. So here goes Joseph, coat and all, going towards his brethren! Finally he found them over in another part, of the country and they said to themselves, there were nine of ten of the brethren there, and they said to themselves -- here comes Joseph, "the dreamer". See they didn't like Joseph -- he was full of the spirit of God. They were always mischievous boys -- those other tribes, they were mischievous, but they were to learn -- like the other stories we just old -- they were to learn the hard way, that only God rules and not man.

So here came Joseph and they began to make fun of his dreams that he had had and his visions and what all he told them was going to take place. He tlkd them all about how the kingdom of the world would have to come under his jurisdiction and all the tribes would be under his jurisdiction at one time in the future! They laughed about it and they scorned him and they said here comes this dreamer.

So Joseph stood before them and they began to figure out what they were going to do with him as he approached them. Shall we kill him? What shall we do with him? They thought to themselves -- You know, those dreams and visions he had, if we kill him, then those dreams and visions won't take place and it will prove that he didn't have God. So you see, Satan had got into them.

They said to themselves, Let's get rid of him then, of course, the visions can't take place and God won't do anything to us because there wasn't anything to Joseph anyway -- he was just telling us some things. So they planned. So they decided they were going to kill him.

But one of the brothers said -- no, we don't want to do that! So instead they threw little Joseph in a ditch and they thought to take his coat, put animal blood on it, take it home and tell Jacob that he had died. Here came some traders that were going to Egypt and they came by and they said, Let's sell him. So they sold Joseph for twenty pieces of silver.

You remember, Joseph was a prophetic type of Christ in many ways -- I'll tell you why. They sold him for twenty pieces of silver when he was 17 years old and Jesus, we know, was 33 years old and Judas sold him for thirty pieces of silver. You see the typing -- both under the providence of God.

Now Joseph was 17 years old -- about there -- when he went into Egypt and we know he did real good wherever he went in Egypt. Potiphar's household -- he prospered. Then we know the trouble that the woman accused him of and how he was thrown in the dungeon and met the butler and the baker and of course he told them that the baker would die but the butler would be taken out of prison and we know Joseph was lied upon and put there in the first place -- but he revealed the dreams to these two.

Then it shows that later Pharaoh had this dream and Joseph interpreted it.

Joseph rost to power after he interpreted the dreams to Pharaoh -- they were doubled unto him twice. He rose to great power -- Joseph rises to power as the Prime Minister of Egypt and he was the ruler. In fact, he was the governor of all the land and Pharaoh only in the throne was greater as he sat down! And we find that even one time Joseph said he was in the place of God to his brethern -- that he spoke for God! In other words he wasn't God, but he was speaking in the place of God -- he was God's mouthpiece!

He rises to power at thirty years old and stood before Pharaoh -- that's the same as Christ when He stood before the Jews under the mighty power of God. and we find out that Joseph married a Gentile bride like Christ will spiritually -- so we see Joseph typed Him all the way through.

He was taken from the dungeon and exalted to the right hand of power the same as Christ! He was rejected, he went towards his brothers that day and he was going to talk to them and he had dreams and visions and they rejected him, the Jews did, they rejected Joseph and would have killed him but providence took him out!

The same as Jesus, He went, to the Jews on day -- His Father sent Him, the same as Jacob had sent Joseph and He came before them and He stood there -- Jesus -- and they rejected Him and they did kill Him! He arose again out of the pit, just like Joseph there and He (Jesus) was exalted! He turned back into the pillar of fire, sat down as the Immortal God before the world and everyone will pass through there and get a chance to see who, just exactly who He is. There'll be no argument about who He is when you stand before the Immortal Lord Jesus Christ!

We find out in Genesis 42, there was great famine in the land. Now Joseph's brethren thought he had long been gone, perhaps even dead. They didn't know what had happened to him. They lied to their father Jacob, took his coat home with blood on it and said he was destroyed by wild beasts. About like Christ, you know prophetically he was destroyed by the "wild beast" of "Rome" and the "Jews" there at that time. See the prophetic picture?

And old Jacob was grieved. There was great famine in the land set in -- that's in Genesis 42. and Jacob told them to take money and go down in the land of Egypt where he heard there was corn. "Now you see, God was smoking them out." It was like the Tribulation period at the end of time! They were beginning to come forward and they were going to have to stand before a mighty counselor and that would be Christ during the Tribulation! But at this time they were going to stand before another mighty counselor -- which was typing Christ, that was Joseph -- the Prime Minister of all of Egypt, world empire!

Joseph in the kingdom of Egypt was way before Daniel and the kingdom of Babylon. Egypt was the first world empire. So Joseph came on the scene many years before Daniel did in the kingdom of Babylon.

We find this out too, from Abraham to David, there are fourteen generation -- David the great king of Israel. And from David to the time of the Babylon Captivity with Daniel was fourteen more generations. And from the Captivity of Babylon where Daniel was at there are fourteen more generations and then Christ appears upon the scene in the land of Israel as the Messiah.

So we see that events are predetermined and they're by the counsel of God and they're timed in exact order and things do occur as God wants them to occur and they will occur as He says so! They're providential that God brings the major events upon the earth. His brethren came up before him and of course Joseph saw them.

They didn't know who he was and he began to deal with them (roughly for awhile) and finally he told them they were spies and he began to accuse them of this and that. He was playing his hand --0 he was like a great role or symphony at this time -- he knew just what he was doing. Oh, but the Spirit of God on him was wise! How he would bring the story out would break anybody's heart, what he was trying to do and even at times the Bible said, he wept while he was doing it! Turned his face aside -- one of the greatest men upon earth a monarch was standing before them, a powerful one! No hand moved in Egypt without Joseph saying so.

Then we find out he told his brthren and he asked them many questions and finally he told them he wouldn't let them go unless he put one of the brethren, Simeon, into prison while the rest went back to Jacob. Oh, they didn't know what to do. He said, bring back Benjamin with you, you see, now he wanted to see Benjamin because that was his true (biological) brother.

Leah, the one that Jacob worked for for seven years with Laban -- she was the one that Laban gave Jacob first, but he wanted Rachel. Then finally Jacob worked seven more years and he got Rachel.

But Rachel could never have any children for years and years, and we find Leah and her maid servants had ten and more, the boys which made up the ten tribes. Ten of the boys. Gen. 46:8-18.

And we find out that Rachel finally had two sons -- Oh, how mighty God gave her! Joseph -- one of the greatest figures of all time, a spotless life in the Bible, and a king upon the earth! Not only was Joseph a spiritual king God was speaking through -- a spiritual ruler upon the earth, through the providence of God -- but he also materially and physically ruled the earth with Pharaoh. What power! Behold, the Egyptian kingdom was put in the hands of Joseph and he loved the Lord Jesus Christ -- he loved the Lord!

Now we fine that Joseph loved Benjamin -- that was his true brother. Benjamin and Joseph were true brothers, his half-brothers, the other ten boys, were from Leah -- and Rachel only had two before she died. And those two were mighty! Little Benjamin and Joseph, as we know a renown man of the Scriptures -- the only two that she had. The ten boys came from Leah which made up the other ten tribes.

So we find out that he said, "bring your little brother back -- Benjamin". because he had talked to them and they told him they had a little brother "and I'll keep Simeon here and you go get and bring back Benjamin or surely you'll never see my face again".

So they left and they went to Jacob and Oh, he was bereaved and "oh, what shall I do? I've lost the other boy Joseph" -- see they didn't know who Joseph was in Egypt; he had grown up. He was probably nearly, I would say, forty at that time. Possibly by the end of the famine he was probably forty-three or forty-four, by the end of the famine. But he was thirty-nine or forty during that time, somewhere in there.

They couldn't recognize him because of the great age since they had seen him as a young child before. So he told them, "go get Benjamin". So they went back home and told Jacob. Jacob cried and said, "I've lost one boy and now my little Benjamin. The only little boy that I've got left from Rachel"

Now we know Rachel is dead, too -- Rachel had died and I imagine Leah was still alive, but Rachel had died. The boys told him what had happened and Joseph didn't even take any money from them for the food, he put it back in their sacks and when they got back home, that worried them.

Then Jacob, finally when the corn began to run low and the famine was hard and heavy he said, "Go back to Egypt" So he finally gave over and said, "Take Benjamin with you".

He was bereaved and Jacob said, "surely I'll go down to the grave in sorrow". He told them to take him with them. But his heart -- he was trusting God. Oh, he was trusting God! Once, and still was, a great prince with God -- Jacob was. How little did he know is son has superceded him in power that the world had never seen down in Egypt.

So, away they went -- they went back to buy more. They came and stood before Joseph and Joseph saw them coming, and when he did, he talked to them. He said, "is the old man still alive?" They said, "Yea, he's still alive". He talked to them some more and he saw little Benjamin and there it touched his heart and he brought Simeon out and he began to gether with them there. He began to gather with them and talk to them and there he was there, and he fell upon Benjamin and he kissed and he loved him and the Bible says -- Oh, how he treated Benjamin.

Finally he told them he was going to let them leave and we know the story is he put a silver cup in Benjamin's bag and when they caught them leaving they had to bring them back because Joseph was still yet to test them some more.

"Oh", they said, "My lord, we didn't steal anything." Joseph had vised it to where it looked like this. Then when they brought them before Joseph they fell on the ground before him, the great Prime Minister, and they fell before him on the ground and they were in sorrow because the cup had been found in Benjamin's bag.

We know this, Joseph began to talk to them and raised them up and finally, while he was there, Judah made one of the most pitiful -- I mean one of the most sorrowful pleas in sorrow he made before Joseph to please understand and hear about his father and how that the old man and how he would be bereaved and probably die because of all of this.

Joseph listened to him and it touched the heart and Joseph turned and he wept. He got ahold of little Benjamin and he hugged him and he said meet me at the house and he got them in the house and just before he did that he told them, "I am your brother and I'm yet alive -- I am Joseph, governor of all of Egypt".

They couldn't believe it, they didn't, they were in silence and when he asked them a question they were dumbfounded! They didn't know what to do!

They were standing before one of the greatest men of all time and they knew it! Here he had absolute power to destroy them! Even though Joseph test them, he was trying to bring them forth as gold! He sat them all at a table and he gave Benjamin -- he gave him more than he did any of the rest of them. It showed the favoritism -- that was his own brother there.

That was the brother, little Benjamin, did not try to cast him in the ditch, little Benjamin did not go against his vision, little Benjamin did not go against his dreams, little Benjamin had nothing to do with what his brethern had done to him years ago.

Of course Joseph loved them, and he told them all that it was done that hi might preserve life and save the Jews and also the Gentile world in the land there.

He forgave them and it said he gave little Benjamin three hundred pieces of silver -- three hundred pieces! And gave little Benjamin -- that was his true brother -- the other were just half-brothers but it was a true brother that had never been against him.

So little Benjamin and all of them just rejoiced and made their hearts merry and Joseph loaded them up and their wagons with all that they could carry and they went back to Jacob and they stood before him and they told him what all things that happened in Egypt and his son was yet alive and that Joseph was there.

It said he couldn't believe them! He couldn't believe! Then they showed him the wagons full of silver and all the materials and food and all of this. Jacob being a shrewed one himself said -- I knew you boys couldn't do this, my Joseph is still alive! The boy with the rainbow coat is in Egypt! Only Joseph could do something like that!

His heart was revived after he saw the wagons of wealth that Joseph sent. Because he knew those boys couldn't do anything like that! But he knew there was one who could do it. That was Joseph! He knew he was alive! Because he saw "the evidence", he saw "the substance" and he knew that boy had faith and God had saved him alive!

So Joseph said, let me get ready. Of course we know God appeared to Jacob and told Jacob to prepare himself and go down and sojourn down in the land of Egypt, that he would go down in there and see his boy Joseph. So he arrived in Egypt, and we know this, when he arrived -- Joseph talked to him and we see the law of giving here!

Now when he appeared in the land, Joseph was very wealthy -- everything was under his control. You see, he did it for good -0- he had all state power, he had all spiritual power, he had all government poewr under his control and it was for good. "Now at the end of time we see that it will come in the same manner but it will be under evil men and not good men -- but we'll go into that in a minute!

Now when Jacob came, Joseph introduced his father to Pharaoh, and Pharaoh thought very much of Joseph and he knew Joseph was of an excellent spirit and was one of the wisest men upon the earth at the time -- Joseph was. And without Joseph, why, he would have lost his throne and the people would have all died! So they knew Joseph was a wonder from God Himself!

Pharaoh talked to Jacob for awhile and Joseph gave him -- and of course Pharaoh agreed with him -- he gave him the land of Goshen! When he gave him the land of Goshen, the law of giving came into effect! Not only Joseph had already sold food and the wealth had begun to come into his hands like they had never seen before. All the people from round about would come and Joseph was prospering. But we see the law of giving at that time.

After he had given the land of Goshen to his father, through the friendliness of Pharaoh, they agreed together to give it to him! Now we see that Pharaoh also propsers and so does Joseph. Now watch what begins to happen. Even greater things begin to happen in Joseph's life as far as huge and great, massive programs -- watch what begins to take place.

Genesis 47:14
14 And Joseph gathered up all the money that was found in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, for the corn which they bought: and Joseph brought the money into Pharaoh's house.

Now you see, after he gave his father all that land -- the law of giving came back, Joseph was even prospered more. All the money was brought into the house of Pharaoh and even Pharaoh prospered.

Genesis 47:15-20
15 And when money failed in the land of Egypt, and in the land of Canaan, all the Egyptians came unto Joseph, and said, Give us bread: for why should we die in thy presence? for the money faileth.

16 And Joseph said, Give your cattle; and I will give you for your cattle, if money fail. 17 And they brought their cattle unto Joseph: and Joseph gave them bread in exchange for horses, and for the flocks, and for the cattle of the herds, and for the asses: and he fed them with bread for all their cattle for that year.

18 When that year was ended, they came unto him the second year, and said unto him, We will not hide it from my lord, how that our money is spent; my lord also hath our herds of cattle; there is not ought left in the sight of my lord, but our bodies, and our lands: 19 Wherefore shall we die before thine eyes, both we and our land? buy us and our land for bread, and we and our land will be servants unto Pharaoh: and give us seed, that we may live, and not die, that the land be not desolate. 20 And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh's.

After he gave his father that land, he wound up with all of the money and all of the land!

Now at the end of time there's going to be a massive gathering of the wealth and it will all be put into one place and no doubt through economics of some sort the antichrist system will be able to take over all of the land during the last three and a half years of the tribulation upon the earth and even a little bit before this -- their great tenacles, like an octopus will begin to take all of the land and put it under one power and mark the people of the earth.

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And we see that Joseph did good and here's what he did. We'll read on further how he relocated the people even. He got all the land, and all the cattle and all the money.

Genesis 47:21
21 And as for the people, he removed them to cities from one end of the borders of Egypt even to the other end thereof.

He brought all the people into the citieis so that they survived. The history books say that era of time was one of the greatest land turnovers the world has ever seen, during the time of that Pharaoh and the time Joseph was in Egypt. So history bears out there the time that the Bible records.

Genesis 47:23-24
23 Then Joseph said unto the people, Behold, I have bought you this day and your land for Pharaoh: lo, here is seed for you, and ye shall sow the land. 24 And it shall come to pass in the increase, that ye shall give the fifth part unto Pharaoh, and four parts shall be your own, for seed of the field, and for your food, and for them of your households, and for food for your little ones.

He rented the land back to them and gave them seed and they could live on the land and give Pharaoh just one part of it. Isn't that marvelous how Joseph was able to do all of those things! And still yet, Joseph was able to bring those people out of the famine and still give them something back they could work! Isn't that marvelous!

If there had been a tyrant on the throne, he would have taken it all from those people and they would have all died, but Joseph was a type savior -- as we might call it in that manner! Joseph was sent from God to save the people and he most certainly did! And showed a marvelous astute businesslike manner in which he did it. He was a marvelous figure upon the earth at the time.

And Joseph told them only the priest he would not take the land and rent it back and he gave the priest the land so the priests were exempt from the turnover. They got to keep their little land and they did not have to rent it from Pharaoh. Joseph made this as one of the rulings.

Genesis 47:25-27
25 And they said, Thou hast saved our lives: let us find grace in the sight of my lord, and we will be Pharaoh's servants.
26 And Joseph made it a law over the land of Egypt unto this day, that Pharaoh should have the fifth part; except the land of the priests only, which became not Pharaoh's.
27 And Israel dwelt in the land of Egypt, in the country of Goshen; and they had possessions therein, and grew, and multiplied exceedingly.

Now we know this, the world will be entering a period similar to ancient history in the time of Joseph and his visions that he interpreted were not only for his time but had a prophetic significance for our time.

Pharaoh received two dreams from the Lord (Genesis 41:1-7 and v25-32)

The first portrayed seven well-favored kine coming up out of the river Nile followed by seven others, ill-favored kine and lean which ate up the first.

In the second dream he saw seven ears of corn large and good which were devoured by the thin and blasted corn -- verse 24 -- both dreams meant the same thing. They describe that seven good years of great propsperity would come upon Egypt and then would follow seven severe years of famine -- verses 29 through 32.

Joseph explained that the dream was doubled to Pharaoh twice because it was established by God and would shortly come to pass. The same thing happened to Daniel where something important was given -- it was doubled unto him twice.

The second chapter of Daniel unveiled Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great image foretelling the rise of four successive empires. In Daniel chapter 7 it explains the same thing again only adds more details. So when something is vital and important it is doubled or even given three times. The Lord wants to make sure that they understand what He's doing and also it is very important that they understand it!

And as we said a while ago, Joseph was made ruler over all of Egypt (verse 43) and Joseph gathered up all the corn (food) and put it in the storagehouses (verses 48, 49, 57) and during the famine all of Egypt's wealth came into the hands of Joseph and at this point he had absolute power to do good or evil but he did good. (Genesis 47:14-26). But as a young man he saw all of this come under his control.

Genesis 37:7-9
7 For, behold, we were binding sheaves in the field, and, lo, my sheaf arose, and also stood upright; and, behold, your sheaves stood round about, and made obeisance to my sheaf. 8 And his brethren said to him, Shalt thou indeed reign over us? or shalt thou indeed have dominion over us? And they hated him yet the more for his dreams, and for his words.
9 And he dreamed yet another dream, and told it his brethren, and said, Behold, I have dreamed a dream more; and, behold, the sun and the moon and the eleven stars made obeisance to me.

Joseph was foreshadowing what would happen to Christ concerning his people when everything would be put under His control.

See Joseph in Egypt was showing that one day Christ would step forth, take over the world, redeem it back and give it to His children. And we know this will occur at the end of time. [7th millennium] Through his dreams and visions he was a prophetic figure and a type and a shadow of what he was doing -- Christ later would come and do Himself! We find absolutely as we've been speaking at this time that this is exactly what happened.

Revelation 12:1

1 And there appeared a great wonder in heaven; a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars:

This speaks of Israel and the church of the ages. The twelve stars correspond to the Old Testament Patriarchs and/or to the twelve Apostles. And the child she brought forth in verse 5 is the Elect of our time.

The Man Child does not represent all the sun-woman's children because verse 17 reveals to us that there are others of her seed fleeing in the tribulation. The Man-child, however, holds the pre-eminent position -- they are translated.

No doubt the world is entering a time similar to Joseph's or already has started well into it, which covered 14 years -- I believe we're well into it! And I believe this -- that we will know within a few years just where that God's clock is about to strike. We are nearing a time similar to Jospeh's. And it will be upon the earth.

Of course the antichrist is able to cause crafts to prosper, but at first there may be a slight depression until he somehow puts his money or wealth behind it. Men today are gathering up "all the valuable metals" it seems like and the vast riches because they're going to try to back a monetary system of some sort and then the antichrist will be head of that and no one will work, buy or sell!

So we're entering a time -- now Joseph's time, it covered 14 years. Seven good years and seven bad years.

Editor's note: This Generation's Fig Tree Decade [2018 to 2028] + 1st 74 Capstone Scroll's Decade [2015 to 2025] = 14 Year Timeline [2015 to 2028]. see Capstone's Scroll's 14 Year Prophecy Dates

Also, Jesus said of our time, it would be shortened! There will arise a man similar to Joseph -- he'll act like it, you won't know it at first -- he'll be a man of the hour. He will have compassion seemingly upon the poor. And it seems like at first that he's trying to really do something but only he's a sinister figure -- when he pulls his mask off, we know him as the beast and his nature is that of a Jekyll and Hyde (in comparison to or like the classic story). First he's like Dr. Jekyll and then next thing you know he's like Mr. Hyde -- he turns into a beast!

But he will be the antichrist. During his seven years of time will be propserity and during the last 3 1/2 years in the tribulation, there will be great famine. He will also have his world storage foods and world bank and world worship of him! But unlike Joseph, he will "demand a mark" for those who eat or have prosperity.

Silimar to Joseph only in a wicked way! He will have all the gold, money, land, military under his control! Also remember, when Satan realized he could not rule the heavens and found his ambitions paralyzed -- he now enters through the body of the antichrist beast and tries to rule the earth and does for awhile! But ultimately fails! We find out in Rev. 20:10. When the Bride is raptured, Satan comes down in great wrath. Revelation 12:9 & 12

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Europe -- Western Europe -- is looking for a strong man, and one will arise from the Babylon system. And he will not only be a religious man, but a military genius and a business man. He will know what he's doing! He will be a superman to them and that's what they're looking for! And even to this day they have cried for a superman -- and they will get the answer to their cry! But he will be an evil man.

Even the United States, i this land of America -- they're also crying for an unusual leader. They want a magnetic leader -- they want one that's endowed with supernaturalism, but the wrong kind! They want a wicked person, one that's a superman himself. They want a leader that is strong! One with power! One that can mix with all nations! They also will get the answer to their cry! And this figure will step forth in the United States.

Between these two figures -- the first one is Rev. 13:1, and then verses 13 through about 17 is the other [false prophet] figure, the other beast -- they will arise upon the earth.

Then of course the third figure is Russia going into a covenant. These things will take place upon the earth! But iron [religion] and clay [communism] -- in Daniel's vision said it does not mix. The seed of men will not mix together. So the iron, the religious systems, and government systems cannot stay together, and we know this, the covenant is broken and Russia then comes down on the land of Israel and then a great Armageddon erupts in there and a great war. Then God comes down and pours his plagues out.

The nations are preparing for a strong leader -- and they will get their answer to their cries! Both in the United States -- and it's THUS SAITH THE LORD! They will get the wrong person! And it is THUS SAITH THE LORD in Europe -- they also will get the wrong person! These leaders will lead the world to doom!

The frogs that are depicted in the Book of Revelation as going up and lying and leading the world to Armageddon. "And I will judge them! Because the world, saith the Lord, did not take the heed of My word or the prophets that I have sent. Then she will be allowed to believe a lie and her strong delusion is now coming upon the world! And they will be intoxicated with evil spirits, and they will go in the wrong way and the way of Cain. I will give them up and will give them over! And they shall be led into the wrong path and believe a lie and I will judge them at the Great Day of the Lord in the Valley of Megiddo at Armageddon.

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The Lord shall be King of all the earth and ruler in all the heavens! For I Am the Lord! I am gathering My people together now to escape the things that shall soon come upon the world. My Word is true and My Word is fair! My justice is balanced and I knoweth them that love Me and I will come and gather them together. For they are My seed that I have created in the beginning -- the vine has reached its fullness. I will come for them, and will gather them in the land of Capstone and I shall feed them and shall bless them and shall prepare them. Then I shall take them away. Not only them, but all those over the world that are My bride. I shall translate them in an hour the world thinks not this shall occur.

Behold, saith the Lord, time is running short! Ye are entering the last era of time. Be steadfast, sober, vigilant, and watch -- for I cometh soon! Prepare thyself and listen to My servant -- for My Word shall be in him the same as it was in Joseph and in Daniel! For he doth not speak this -- but the Most High God who ruleth -- He speaketh these things unto the people of the Living God! Hear him and ye will hear My Word, for I speaketh unto thee. I Am the Lord, and I shall tell thee the things that thou shall hear as I gather thee together under My shelter and under My wings and then I shall lift thee up and carry thee away! For I Am the Lord! Amen!

Now to finish this up. During the famine, Joseph's brethren came up to and accepted him where once they rejected him. This is the type of the 144,000 Hebrews who will accept Christ during the Tribulation. Genesis 45:1-5

Joseph, when he gave the warning, was near and in the land of the Great Pyramid. And now God is giving the warning from His Capstone pyramid -- where His voice is thundering messages to prepare! The energy, money and food crisis will work right into the hands of the antichrist system. It's coming upon the earth -- the antichrist system is coming upon the earth.

So we must be close to the last years of fulfillment upon the earth. Daniel's seventieth week must be close, the Tribulation Temple must be close! All of these things are headed up and everything is drawing close to an end that I have just brought forth to you is a preview -- the events in Daniel and about Joseph.

God bless your hearts and may He bless every reader of this book until I see you again or you hear from me -- Lord bless you real good!

Neal Frisby