WEBVTT 1 00:00:00.800 --> 00:00:03.680 You're listening to The Bible Guys, a podcast where a 2 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:06.440 couple of friends talk about the Bible in fun in 3 00:00:06.559 --> 00:00:13.599 practical ways. Hey, good morning everybody. We are Chris and 4 00:00:13.679 --> 00:00:16.120 Jeff and we're the Bible Guys. And today we are 5 00:00:16.120 --> 00:00:21.160 wrapping up the Book of Daniel and we're reading. 6 00:00:20.879 --> 00:00:23.280 The last chapter today, Daniel, chapter nine. 7 00:00:23.480 --> 00:00:26.399 Yes, and Daniel is gonna go out with a blaze 8 00:00:26.440 --> 00:00:27.160 of glory. 9 00:00:27.000 --> 00:00:31.839 He prays for his people and he tells us about Jesus. 10 00:00:32.039 --> 00:00:33.039 Yeah, which is amazing. 11 00:00:33.039 --> 00:00:33.759 It's gonna be awesome. 12 00:00:33.920 --> 00:00:34.119 Yeah. 13 00:00:34.119 --> 00:00:36.039 But before we do that, we're gonna go ahead and 14 00:00:36.119 --> 00:00:39.880 jump right into a segment that Desiree for Fun has 15 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.280 placed on our what do you call this a show sheet? 16 00:00:42.759 --> 00:00:43.039 Is it? 17 00:00:43.079 --> 00:00:45.560 And today is guess the word? So it's just like taboo. 18 00:00:45.640 --> 00:00:46.240 It's like taboo. 19 00:00:46.600 --> 00:00:48.640 I'm gonna have to guess or I'm gonna have to 20 00:00:48.759 --> 00:00:50.759 say you guess. 21 00:00:50.799 --> 00:00:51.280 I'm the guests. 22 00:00:51.399 --> 00:00:52.479 We have done this in a long time. 23 00:00:52.399 --> 00:00:54.280 Yeah, and I haven't been the guesser in forever either. 24 00:00:54.399 --> 00:00:56.000 Yes. So here's what we're gonna do. 25 00:00:56.039 --> 00:00:58.880 If you're watching on YouTube, We're gonna put the words 26 00:00:58.920 --> 00:01:01.439 that I'm not allowed to say on a screen to 27 00:01:01.479 --> 00:01:02.560 see if you guys could. 28 00:01:02.600 --> 00:01:04.439 There's a lot of words you're not allowed to say, Chris, 29 00:01:04.760 --> 00:01:05.719 that we won't put on the. 30 00:01:05.640 --> 00:01:09.439 Screen, but specifically for this game, for the game. Okay, 31 00:01:09.560 --> 00:01:10.079 are you ready? 32 00:01:10.159 --> 00:01:10.359 Yep? 33 00:01:10.400 --> 00:01:14.319 First one, the best part about Thanksgiving is the next 34 00:01:14.400 --> 00:01:15.879 day leftovers. 35 00:01:16.159 --> 00:01:18.079 Yes, yeah, I wasn't. 36 00:01:17.959 --> 00:01:24.760 Allowed to say fridge, microwave, old tupperware, or food leftovers. Okay, okay, 37 00:01:24.959 --> 00:01:28.760 bigger type of alligators are called crocodiles, and shorten that 38 00:01:28.920 --> 00:01:30.439 multiple plural crocs. 39 00:01:30.760 --> 00:01:31.000 Yes. 40 00:01:31.200 --> 00:01:33.920 Oh, the shoes, Yes, I. 41 00:01:34.920 --> 00:01:37.879 Wasn't allowed to say shoes, ugly, holes, plastic, or company. 42 00:01:37.959 --> 00:01:38.400 Good job. 43 00:01:39.200 --> 00:01:40.120 Okay, how about this? 44 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:44.359 My daughter Tory bought me a mug and if you 45 00:01:44.400 --> 00:01:45.840 scan every day, it tells you today. 46 00:01:46.400 --> 00:01:47.760 Yes, it tells your dad. Joke. 47 00:01:48.560 --> 00:01:52.560 I wasn't allowed to say pun, grown, laugh, corny, or father. 48 00:01:53.000 --> 00:01:54.560 See I pay attention, Chris. 49 00:01:54.799 --> 00:01:57.120 Yeah, okay, ready for this. You're gonna love this one. 50 00:01:57.159 --> 00:02:00.400 Okay, Okay, what is this called a burp? 51 00:02:00.760 --> 00:02:00.920 There? 52 00:02:00.959 --> 00:02:04.680 It is? No? I did you can't use sound effects 53 00:02:04.719 --> 00:02:07.879 on taboo? What you're not allowed use sound effects on taboo? Oh? 54 00:02:07.879 --> 00:02:09.800 Come on, I get an a for effort on that one. 55 00:02:09.840 --> 00:02:12.360 Okay? That was It was gross? Though it was We're 56 00:02:12.439 --> 00:02:14.080 sorry all of our listeners out there. 57 00:02:14.560 --> 00:02:19.240 But I wasn't allowed to say mouth loud, soda, excuse 58 00:02:19.479 --> 00:02:19.960 or rude. 59 00:02:20.120 --> 00:02:22.319 Okay, so I just bur I'm gonna love this one. 60 00:02:22.360 --> 00:02:25.120 You should command No, really, yeah, I can't. 61 00:02:25.240 --> 00:02:26.599 Huh. 62 00:02:26.639 --> 00:02:30.599 All my brothers can, so how about this. 63 00:02:30.840 --> 00:02:33.439 All my brothers can, really, you know that about your brother? 64 00:02:33.520 --> 00:02:36.039 All three of my brothers can, but I cannot. I 65 00:02:36.080 --> 00:02:40.280 was raised right under what circumstance or you're not to 66 00:02:40.560 --> 00:02:42.719 under what circumstance would a gentleman need that skill? 67 00:02:42.879 --> 00:02:47.800 That's true, that's true, which is why there's no reason 68 00:02:47.800 --> 00:02:52.919 why you shouldn't have it. I never got Disney's characters 69 00:02:52.960 --> 00:02:55.240 are Donald and Daisy Duck? 70 00:02:55.520 --> 00:02:56.639 And what sound do they make? 71 00:02:56.879 --> 00:02:57.199 Quick? 72 00:02:57.520 --> 00:02:57.759 Yes? 73 00:02:58.280 --> 00:02:58.639 Wow? 74 00:02:59.360 --> 00:03:04.599 I was not allowed to say job duck, I said sound. 75 00:03:05.639 --> 00:03:09.879 I said the word sound, I said, said yes, I 76 00:03:11.400 --> 00:03:14.159 lost that one. I thought I was so clever. 77 00:03:14.520 --> 00:03:16.919 Oh that was what you got me there too. That's 78 00:03:16.960 --> 00:03:18.840 what's bad about it. I mean you got right up 79 00:03:18.879 --> 00:03:23.120 to the without the word sound. Yeah said noise? 80 00:03:23.520 --> 00:03:27.120 I get said noise? Yeah, Yeah, I forgot. I thought 81 00:03:27.120 --> 00:03:28.280 I was so clever with the whole. 82 00:03:28.159 --> 00:03:30.560 Disney's Donald and I think you were clever that. 83 00:03:30.960 --> 00:03:35.919 I was allowed to say duck, sound, waddle beak or pond? Okay, 84 00:03:36.000 --> 00:03:40.120 so I said sound. I'm so sorry. We get four 85 00:03:40.159 --> 00:03:42.439 to five and I'm the loser in that one. 86 00:03:42.520 --> 00:03:46.159 Yep. Well that was a riveting segment. I know people 87 00:03:46.199 --> 00:03:49.680 are like, oh, please keep going. Yes, yes, only she 88 00:03:49.719 --> 00:03:53.280 only gave us five only five? Yes, okay, well that's it. 89 00:03:53.639 --> 00:03:56.199 Well good we raced through that one. Yes, we are 90 00:03:56.280 --> 00:03:59.759 super skilled. Well if the if the podcast thing doesn't 91 00:03:59.759 --> 00:04:02.199 work out for us, maybe we could start playing taboo online. 92 00:04:03.280 --> 00:04:03.680 Maybe. 93 00:04:03.919 --> 00:04:05.319 Yeah. I don't know. 94 00:04:07.080 --> 00:04:09.960 What I was going to say, is you know, speaking 95 00:04:10.080 --> 00:04:14.039 of only five, there's only nine chapters in Daniel? 96 00:04:15.400 --> 00:04:17.920 Is there there's only nine chapters? Okay? 97 00:04:18.240 --> 00:04:19.279 Yeah? 98 00:04:19.639 --> 00:04:21.399 Is that right here? 99 00:04:21.399 --> 00:04:22.800 Which has nothing to do with only five? 100 00:04:22.879 --> 00:04:28.319 Yeah, but only as the word only. Okay. So we 101 00:04:28.360 --> 00:04:33.000 are in Daniel chapter nine and Daniel is praying for 102 00:04:33.040 --> 00:04:36.439 his people, and this is a really interesting passage to me, 103 00:04:36.720 --> 00:04:39.920 very interesting both segments. So it's kind of divided into 104 00:04:39.959 --> 00:04:42.360 two pieces. But this first piece, see if you figure 105 00:04:42.360 --> 00:04:43.920 out what it is that I think is so interesting. 106 00:04:44.319 --> 00:04:46.079 It says it was the first year of the reign 107 00:04:46.199 --> 00:04:49.560 of Darius the Mead, the son of a Hazarus who 108 00:04:49.600 --> 00:04:52.560 became king of the Babylonians. During the first year of 109 00:04:52.600 --> 00:04:55.279 his reign, I Daniel learned from reading the word of 110 00:04:55.319 --> 00:04:58.839 the Lord as revealed to Jeremiah the Prophet, that Jerusalem 111 00:04:58.959 --> 00:05:02.240 must lie desolate for seventy years. So I turned to 112 00:05:02.279 --> 00:05:04.680 the Lord God and pleaded with him in prayer and fasting. 113 00:05:05.079 --> 00:05:08.439 I also wore a rough burlap and sprinkled myself with ashes. 114 00:05:09.000 --> 00:05:11.680 I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, Oh Lord, 115 00:05:11.720 --> 00:05:14.279 you are a great and awesome God. You always fill 116 00:05:14.319 --> 00:05:16.959 your covenant. Fulfill your covenant, and keep your promises of 117 00:05:17.040 --> 00:05:20.079 unfailing love to those who love you, and obey your commands. 118 00:05:20.439 --> 00:05:23.519 But we have sinned and done wrong. We've rebelled against 119 00:05:23.560 --> 00:05:26.360 you and scorned your commands and regulations. We've refused to 120 00:05:26.399 --> 00:05:29.959 listen to your servants, the prophets who spoke on your authority, 121 00:05:30.000 --> 00:05:32.319 to our kings and princes and ancestors, and to all 122 00:05:32.360 --> 00:05:35.160 the people of the land. Lord, you are in the right, 123 00:05:35.600 --> 00:05:38.279 But as you see, our faces are covered with shame. 124 00:05:38.639 --> 00:05:40.360 This is true of all of us, including the people 125 00:05:40.480 --> 00:05:43.240 Judah and Jerusalem, and all Israel, scattered near and far 126 00:05:43.319 --> 00:05:45.600 wherever you have driven us because of our disloyalty to you, 127 00:05:46.319 --> 00:05:50.680 Oh Lord, We our kings, princes and ancestors, are covered 128 00:05:50.680 --> 00:05:53.199 with shame because we've sinned against you. But the Lord 129 00:05:53.240 --> 00:05:55.879 our God is merciful and forgiving, even though we have 130 00:05:55.959 --> 00:05:58.800 rebelled against him. We have not obeyed the Lord our God, 131 00:05:58.839 --> 00:06:01.040 for we have not followed the inset diruction he gave 132 00:06:01.120 --> 00:06:04.360 us through his servants, the prophets. All Israel has disobeyed 133 00:06:04.360 --> 00:06:06.839 your instruction and turned away, refusing to listen to your voice. 134 00:06:06.879 --> 00:06:09.920 And so now the solemn curses and judgments written in 135 00:06:09.959 --> 00:06:12.240 the Law of Moses, the servant of God, have been 136 00:06:12.279 --> 00:06:15.079 poured down on us because of our sin. You've kept 137 00:06:15.079 --> 00:06:18.680 your word and done to us, our rulers, exactly as 138 00:06:18.720 --> 00:06:21.839 you warned. Never has there been such a disaster has 139 00:06:21.879 --> 00:06:24.639 happened in Jerusalem. Every curse written against us in the 140 00:06:24.720 --> 00:06:27.720 Law of Moses has come true. Yet we've refused to 141 00:06:27.720 --> 00:06:30.000 seek mercy from the Lord our God by returning from 142 00:06:30.040 --> 00:06:33.519 our sins and recognizing his truth. Therefore, the Lord has 143 00:06:33.519 --> 00:06:36.680 brought upon us the disaster he prepared. The Lord our 144 00:06:36.720 --> 00:06:38.399 God was right to do all of these things, for 145 00:06:38.480 --> 00:06:41.279 we did not obey him, Oh Lord, our God, you 146 00:06:41.360 --> 00:06:44.560 brought lasting honor to your name by rescuing your people 147 00:06:44.560 --> 00:06:47.079 from Egypt in a great display of power. But we've 148 00:06:47.120 --> 00:06:49.759 sinned and are full of wickedness in view of all 149 00:06:49.800 --> 00:06:53.399 your faithful mercies. Lord, please turn your furious anger away 150 00:06:53.399 --> 00:06:57.160 from your city, Jerusalem, your holy mountain. All the neighboring 151 00:06:57.279 --> 00:07:00.319 nations mocked Jerusalem and your people because of our sins 152 00:07:00.319 --> 00:07:03.639 and the sins of our ancestors. Oh, our God, hear 153 00:07:03.680 --> 00:07:07.040 your servant's prayer. Listen as I plead for your own sake. Lord, 154 00:07:07.079 --> 00:07:10.480 smile again on your desolate sanctuary. Oh my God, lean 155 00:07:10.560 --> 00:07:12.480 down and listen to me. Open your eyes and see 156 00:07:12.519 --> 00:07:15.560 our despair. See how your city, the city that bears 157 00:07:15.560 --> 00:07:18.360 your name, lies in ruins. We make this plea not 158 00:07:18.399 --> 00:07:22.560 because we deserve help, but because of your mercy. Oh Lord, 159 00:07:22.639 --> 00:07:26.519 here o Lord forgive. Oh Lord, listen and act for 160 00:07:26.639 --> 00:07:29.199 your own sake. Do not delay, oh my God, for 161 00:07:29.279 --> 00:07:33.240 your people and your city bear your name. Then he says, 162 00:07:33.279 --> 00:07:35.279 I went on praying and confessing my sin and sin 163 00:07:35.319 --> 00:07:37.040 of my people, pleading with the Lord, my God, for 164 00:07:37.120 --> 00:07:42.279 Jerusalem and his holy Mountain. As I was praying, Gabriel, 165 00:07:42.399 --> 00:07:45.120 whom I had seen in the earlier vision came swiftly 166 00:07:45.160 --> 00:07:48.360 to me at the time of the evening sacrifice. Explain 167 00:07:48.439 --> 00:07:50.399 to me, Daniel, I've come here to give you insight 168 00:07:50.439 --> 00:07:53.560 and understanding. The moment you began praying, a command was given, 169 00:07:53.600 --> 00:07:55.120 and now I'm here to tell you what it was. 170 00:07:55.199 --> 00:07:58.000 For you are very precious to God. Listen carefully so 171 00:07:58.040 --> 00:08:00.680 that you can understand the meaning of your vision. A 172 00:08:00.720 --> 00:08:04.040 period of seventy sets of seven has been decreed for 173 00:08:04.120 --> 00:08:07.040 your people and your holy city to finish their rebellion, 174 00:08:07.240 --> 00:08:09.079 to put an end of their sin, to atone for 175 00:08:09.120 --> 00:08:12.319 their guilt, to bring an everlasting righteousness, to confirm the 176 00:08:12.319 --> 00:08:15.199 prophetic vision, and to anoint the most holy place. Now 177 00:08:15.240 --> 00:08:18.639 listen and understand. Seven sets of seven plus sixty two 178 00:08:18.680 --> 00:08:21.160 sets of seven will pass from the time the command 179 00:08:21.279 --> 00:08:23.920 is given to rebuild Jerusalem until a ruler, the Anointed 180 00:08:23.920 --> 00:08:27.920 One comes. Jerusalem will be rebuilt with streets and strong defenses, 181 00:08:28.199 --> 00:08:32.200 despite the perilous times. After this period of sixty sixty 182 00:08:32.240 --> 00:08:34.720 two sets of seven, the annoying One will be killed, 183 00:08:35.080 --> 00:08:38.440 appearing to have accomplished nothing, and a ruler will arise 184 00:08:38.480 --> 00:08:41.000 whose armies will destroy the city. In the temple, the 185 00:08:41.120 --> 00:08:43.360 end will come with a flood and a war, and 186 00:08:43.399 --> 00:08:46.120 its miseries are decreed. From that time to the very end, 187 00:08:46.879 --> 00:08:48.799 the ruler will make a treaty with the people for 188 00:08:48.879 --> 00:08:51.480 a period of one set of seven. But after half 189 00:08:51.519 --> 00:08:53.600 this time he will put an end to the sacrifices 190 00:08:53.639 --> 00:08:56.720 and offerings, and as a climax to all its terrible deeds, 191 00:08:56.720 --> 00:09:00.120 he will set up a sacrilegious object that causes desecration 192 00:09:01.279 --> 00:09:03.879 until the fate decreed for this defiler has finally poured 193 00:09:03.919 --> 00:09:09.240 out on him. There you go, wow, Well, this is 194 00:09:09.440 --> 00:09:13.120 definitely two very different moments here, Yeah, very different. 195 00:09:13.759 --> 00:09:18.440 And so one is a prayer and a confession really 196 00:09:19.279 --> 00:09:24.159 just a big apology and acknowledgment, and he's speaking on 197 00:09:24.240 --> 00:09:27.679 behalf of I mean, honestly, his whole people, right is 198 00:09:27.720 --> 00:09:30.639 he's speaking on behalf of his ancestors, on behalf of 199 00:09:31.639 --> 00:09:36.519 you know, everybody, and acknowledging consequences for disobedience and not 200 00:09:36.559 --> 00:09:40.159 acknowledging profits. And then the next moment it shifts in 201 00:09:40.240 --> 00:09:45.639 verse twenty where the angel Gabriel shows up and gives 202 00:09:45.720 --> 00:09:52.159 a very on the surface sort of a confusing vision, right, 203 00:09:52.200 --> 00:09:54.240 I mean, because it's hard to understand you have to admit, 204 00:09:54.320 --> 00:09:55.120 like a period of. 205 00:09:55.120 --> 00:09:57.480 It's less hard for us on this end of it. Yeah, 206 00:09:57.960 --> 00:10:01.120 for Daniel and his end it's easy. It's very difficult, yes. 207 00:10:01.080 --> 00:10:01.639 Very difficult. 208 00:10:01.799 --> 00:10:05.399 Yes, after this period of sixty two sets of seven, 209 00:10:06.360 --> 00:10:10.279 so sixty two times seven, right, Holy Christmas, so four 210 00:10:10.360 --> 00:10:13.879 hundred something years whatever, it is, right, that's pretty crazy. 211 00:10:14.919 --> 00:10:17.799 So but yeah, but at the same time it's it's 212 00:10:17.919 --> 00:10:18.559 pretty awesome. 213 00:10:18.759 --> 00:10:21.360 Right. So on the front end, let's deal with the 214 00:10:21.360 --> 00:10:27.200 prayer first. So he's praying as a result of reading 215 00:10:28.080 --> 00:10:31.399 the Book of Jeremiah, which he acknowledges is the word 216 00:10:31.399 --> 00:10:35.559 of the Lord. Right, But Jeremiah was written during his lifetime, 217 00:10:36.159 --> 00:10:39.519 isn't it amazing and amazing? So Jeremiah wrote about it 218 00:10:40.440 --> 00:10:46.919 before Jerusalem was destroyed, and was perhaps alive when Daniel 219 00:10:47.039 --> 00:10:50.080 was born. But he was saying, hey, Jerusalem's going to 220 00:10:50.120 --> 00:10:51.799 get wiped out. The Babylonians are going to come and 221 00:10:51.799 --> 00:10:53.679 get us, the Syrians are going to wipe us out. Right, 222 00:10:53.919 --> 00:10:56.600 He wrote all these things, and then Daniel knew about it. 223 00:10:56.639 --> 00:10:59.080 And then in Jeremiah's prophecy it said that they would 224 00:10:59.120 --> 00:11:04.240 be exiled for seventy years. Well, how old was Daniel now? 225 00:11:04.279 --> 00:11:06.960 He's in his eighties. This is the first year of Darius, 226 00:11:06.960 --> 00:11:09.200 so it means he's eighty one if he was fifteen 227 00:11:09.240 --> 00:11:12.159 when he was hauled away. Yeah, is so this has 228 00:11:12.159 --> 00:11:15.159 been sixty six years. We do know that. Sixty six years. 229 00:11:15.320 --> 00:11:17.879 So he knows he's coming very close to that seventy 230 00:11:17.919 --> 00:11:19.879 year window. I think on one side, he's hoping he 231 00:11:20.000 --> 00:11:22.320 lives long enough to be able to see them not 232 00:11:22.399 --> 00:11:25.000 be exiled anymore, right, And then the other part of 233 00:11:25.039 --> 00:11:27.639 it is he knows they're coming to the end of 234 00:11:27.679 --> 00:11:30.080 what God had said, and he just wanted to make sure, okay, 235 00:11:30.320 --> 00:11:33.399 we're good, right, And he's confessing the sins of the 236 00:11:33.399 --> 00:11:36.279 whole nation, not only his own, but you know he 237 00:11:36.399 --> 00:11:41.679 was he was royalty. You know, That's what Nebu Kenezer 238 00:11:41.679 --> 00:11:45.879 did is hauled away all the royal young men, and 239 00:11:45.919 --> 00:11:48.120 he hauled away all the princes and he hauled away, right, 240 00:11:48.440 --> 00:11:50.679 and so that's who got taken to Babylon. So he 241 00:11:50.679 --> 00:11:52.559 would have been part of one of the royal families. 242 00:11:53.559 --> 00:11:58.519 And he's confessing sin for the whole nation, saying, God, hey, 243 00:11:58.720 --> 00:11:59.320 you were right. 244 00:12:00.440 --> 00:12:02.720 Sure he was a princeman to get hold off for. 245 00:12:03.440 --> 00:12:05.799 It, said that that was the first in the book. 246 00:12:06.399 --> 00:12:09.639 I thought what it said was fine young men who 247 00:12:09.679 --> 00:12:12.279 are good looking and knowledgeable and sharp and skilled, and 248 00:12:12.320 --> 00:12:14.320 then we will make them princess. 249 00:12:14.399 --> 00:12:17.200 Ye know, it took it said in the very first chapter. 250 00:12:17.240 --> 00:12:21.600 It said that they took the princes of huh Of. 251 00:12:23.600 --> 00:12:26.200 So it could be that Daniel was royalty. 252 00:12:26.240 --> 00:12:27.799 He would have been one of the royal families. 253 00:12:27.879 --> 00:12:29.320 Yeah, oh, I never, I never. 254 00:12:29.720 --> 00:12:32.960 I don't think I quite underderstood that part. 255 00:12:33.840 --> 00:12:37.000 Let me see, you're there, Yeah, I'm getting there. 256 00:12:37.159 --> 00:12:38.000 See this is fun. 257 00:12:38.080 --> 00:12:38.759 Yeah, keep going. 258 00:12:39.240 --> 00:12:43.840 Okay, so I will say this so Daniel, Yeah. 259 00:12:43.639 --> 00:12:50.840 Here you go, keep going, It says he here in 260 00:12:50.919 --> 00:12:53.960 verse three, chapter one. Then the king ordered Ashpin as 261 00:12:54.000 --> 00:12:56.320 his chief of staff to bring to the palace some 262 00:12:56.360 --> 00:12:58.720 of the young men of Judah's royal family and other 263 00:12:58.759 --> 00:13:00.639 noble families who've been brought to Babylon. 264 00:13:00.960 --> 00:13:02.480 Oh so either way he had nobility. 265 00:13:02.559 --> 00:13:05.000 Yeah, so he was either a noble family or a royal. 266 00:13:05.159 --> 00:13:05.720 Son of a gun. 267 00:13:05.799 --> 00:13:09.200 Yeah, yeah, I get that wrong in my brain. 268 00:13:09.320 --> 00:13:12.440 And so he acknowledged the fact that he was. He 269 00:13:12.480 --> 00:13:16.600 had he had influenced responsibility over the people, right for sure. 270 00:13:16.639 --> 00:13:18.840 And so he's confessing the sin of the people. If 271 00:13:18.879 --> 00:13:21.279 nobody else will, I will, and then he tells God 272 00:13:21.360 --> 00:13:24.120 you were right for doing it. It's very rare that 273 00:13:24.159 --> 00:13:27.279 you find somebody who has suffered because of their sin 274 00:13:27.399 --> 00:13:29.679 or the sins of others and then telling God you 275 00:13:29.720 --> 00:13:32.600 did the right thing, right, talking about humility. 276 00:13:32.279 --> 00:13:33.480 Yeah, yeah, you're right about that. 277 00:13:34.080 --> 00:13:36.759 You know, to acknowledge your own mistakes or even the 278 00:13:36.919 --> 00:13:39.879 mistakes of your people. It's just, hey, no wonder why, 279 00:13:40.000 --> 00:13:42.600 you know, we get what we deserve, Like, no wonder why. 280 00:13:43.240 --> 00:13:46.399 It's it's sort of like a statement that we would say, 281 00:13:47.759 --> 00:13:50.639 you know, taking God out of schools, right, You remember 282 00:13:50.639 --> 00:13:51.399 when we grew up. 283 00:13:52.200 --> 00:13:55.000 You know, and and we remember during. 284 00:13:54.759 --> 00:13:57.840 Our lifetime when when it was you know, separation of 285 00:13:57.879 --> 00:14:00.000 church and state and and and all of a sudden 286 00:14:00.080 --> 00:14:02.480 no more pledge of allegiance and no more under God, 287 00:14:02.519 --> 00:14:05.559 and all these kinds of different things, and we might say, hey, 288 00:14:06.159 --> 00:14:09.120 you know, it's no wonder why our schools have gotten 289 00:14:09.120 --> 00:14:12.360 the way that they've gotten, and our families have breakdowns, 290 00:14:12.399 --> 00:14:15.039 and we can make an observation around our nation and 291 00:14:15.080 --> 00:14:18.080 say we sort of deserve it. We could speak on 292 00:14:18.120 --> 00:14:20.720 behalf of our people. 293 00:14:20.919 --> 00:14:25.600 And that's what Daniel's doing, right, yeah, it's very rare 294 00:14:25.720 --> 00:14:28.120 you find a person who, you know, the Bible says 295 00:14:28.120 --> 00:14:30.519 God opposes the proud, and he gives favor to the humble. 296 00:14:30.960 --> 00:14:35.000 I've never known a humble person that wasn't able to 297 00:14:35.000 --> 00:14:39.039 acknowledge their mistakes. And I know a lot of gifted, 298 00:14:39.080 --> 00:14:42.200 talented people who cannot acknowledge the fact that, hey, that 299 00:14:42.320 --> 00:14:45.399 was wrong or and then he is acknowledging and we're 300 00:14:45.440 --> 00:14:48.799 guilty about it. We feel bad about the fact that 301 00:14:48.799 --> 00:14:51.559 we have done those things right. So he's acknowledging his 302 00:14:51.600 --> 00:14:54.759 own guilt, he's acknowledging the guilt of the people. He's 303 00:14:54.799 --> 00:14:58.200 acknowledging that God was right and they were wrong, and 304 00:14:58.720 --> 00:15:01.279 that kind of humility. The byle says God gives favor. 305 00:15:01.600 --> 00:15:03.639 And it turned out it took seventy years to get 306 00:15:03.679 --> 00:15:07.919 a prayer like that right. And I'm not saying that 307 00:15:08.000 --> 00:15:11.519 Daniel was prideful. I'm saying that Daniel realized, Okay, you 308 00:15:11.559 --> 00:15:13.039 know what, we're coming to the end of what God 309 00:15:13.080 --> 00:15:15.440 had said, and I'm going to agree with you, God, 310 00:15:15.480 --> 00:15:15.919 you were right. 311 00:15:16.080 --> 00:15:19.120 So just recently, probably within the last what four or 312 00:15:19.159 --> 00:15:22.000 five weeks or so, do you remember me referencing a 313 00:15:22.120 --> 00:15:24.320 quote from the book by Bill Hivels. 314 00:15:24.360 --> 00:15:26.159 He wrote, descending into Greatness. 315 00:15:26.440 --> 00:15:29.519 Yes, yeah, yet yeah, And we're talking about pride. Remember 316 00:15:29.919 --> 00:15:33.519 during the Silent Killer series, And do you know that 317 00:15:33.519 --> 00:15:37.360 that book changed my entire life. 318 00:15:38.600 --> 00:15:40.480 Because I, for some. 319 00:15:40.519 --> 00:15:45.240 Reason, I'm not sure that I really got that lesson 320 00:15:45.440 --> 00:15:46.279 of humility. 321 00:15:46.720 --> 00:15:50.360 It's what I needed, right, So growing up I. 322 00:15:50.279 --> 00:15:53.039 Need a lot of things growing up, right, I needed 323 00:15:53.039 --> 00:15:53.720 a lot of things. 324 00:15:53.879 --> 00:15:55.039 You were run a wild. 325 00:15:54.840 --> 00:15:55.799 I was running while yeh. 326 00:15:55.799 --> 00:15:58.000 But I think one of the things that I didn't 327 00:15:58.080 --> 00:16:02.240 realize it was like this appropriately said. It was a 328 00:16:02.240 --> 00:16:05.279 silent killer of my life. And I became a youth pastor. 329 00:16:05.759 --> 00:16:08.080 And you know when somebody grows up and they have 330 00:16:08.120 --> 00:16:10.559 a lot of attention on them and maybe they're gifted 331 00:16:10.679 --> 00:16:12.320 or whatever, you know, you. 332 00:16:12.960 --> 00:16:14.039 Sort of get full of yourself. 333 00:16:14.080 --> 00:16:17.480 And I just remember my boss at the time, he 334 00:16:17.600 --> 00:16:18.879 was a really good friend of mine, one of my 335 00:16:18.919 --> 00:16:22.519 best friends at the time, Chuck. And Chuck told me 336 00:16:23.120 --> 00:16:25.480 he looked at me and he said, I have a 337 00:16:25.480 --> 00:16:27.000 book for you that you need to read. 338 00:16:27.440 --> 00:16:28.600 And you know what he was really saying. 339 00:16:29.559 --> 00:16:32.120 He was saying, like, you need a very big dose 340 00:16:32.159 --> 00:16:35.440 of humility. And I didn't I would have never guessed 341 00:16:35.480 --> 00:16:37.480 at the time, I would have never seen it in myself. 342 00:16:37.919 --> 00:16:39.679 And I remember, I'm not kidding. 343 00:16:39.720 --> 00:16:43.240 I remember the moment that I was. 344 00:16:43.240 --> 00:16:43.879 Told that I was. 345 00:16:43.919 --> 00:16:46.600 I was lifting tables and I was stacking tables against 346 00:16:46.600 --> 00:16:49.639 the wall, and he went into his office, got the book, 347 00:16:49.679 --> 00:16:51.440 came out and it's just a thin little book, and 348 00:16:51.519 --> 00:16:53.399 he gave it to me and he said, you need this. 349 00:16:53.480 --> 00:16:56.159 And I just remember thinking being hit and struck with 350 00:16:56.240 --> 00:16:59.639 like what does he mean? And then when I read it, 351 00:16:59.639 --> 00:17:03.200 it on me that if it's true that this is 352 00:17:03.200 --> 00:17:06.279 what I need, that means that everybody that knows me 353 00:17:07.720 --> 00:17:11.279 thinks that I'm prideful, or every that knows me most 354 00:17:11.440 --> 00:17:14.480 likely understands that this is what I need. And I 355 00:17:14.480 --> 00:17:18.640 remember just being so humbled just by that fact, right, 356 00:17:19.319 --> 00:17:21.359 and and honestly it was a turning point for my 357 00:17:21.400 --> 00:17:24.839 life because I remember thinking, Oh, my goodness, like like 358 00:17:25.240 --> 00:17:27.160 this is a this is a. 359 00:17:27.079 --> 00:17:28.640 Pretty big deal to Jesus. 360 00:17:29.279 --> 00:17:31.680 Yeah, it's a big deal. Yeah, Well, thank goodness he 361 00:17:31.720 --> 00:17:33.799 gave you that book. Otherwise we would have never been 362 00:17:33.839 --> 00:17:35.559 able to see the man sitting before us today. 363 00:17:35.720 --> 00:17:37.240 Right, I am the humblest ever. 364 00:17:37.440 --> 00:17:40.559 Yeah, who could imagine? Yeah, no way remember having those 365 00:17:40.559 --> 00:17:42.839 same kind of those same kind of epiphanies as well. 366 00:17:43.240 --> 00:17:45.920 Yeah, so yeah, but do you feel like do you 367 00:17:45.920 --> 00:17:48.559 feel like you sort of grew up the same way 368 00:17:48.720 --> 00:17:50.519 like you know, you said you were always sort of 369 00:17:50.519 --> 00:17:51.319 the star kid. 370 00:17:51.200 --> 00:17:55.359 And yeah, yeah, Well for me, my freshman year of college, 371 00:17:55.359 --> 00:17:57.720 I got in big trouble, almost got kicked out of school, 372 00:17:57.920 --> 00:17:59.559 and that was the first time it dawned on me 373 00:18:00.079 --> 00:18:02.279 and maybe I'm not what I think I am. And 374 00:18:02.359 --> 00:18:05.000 then I got expelled twice from two different Bible colleges. 375 00:18:05.039 --> 00:18:09.680 And then I almost quit ministry completely between my junior 376 00:18:09.680 --> 00:18:12.440 and senior year, and then God pulled me back, but 377 00:18:12.519 --> 00:18:14.880 at that time it was in a really humbled situation. 378 00:18:15.319 --> 00:18:17.960 And then I got fired from my second church and 379 00:18:18.079 --> 00:18:21.880 my third church that I worked at. So those are, 380 00:18:22.000 --> 00:18:25.000 you know, again because of my one because of my 381 00:18:25.039 --> 00:18:27.759 wilful attitude, and the other one just because my pastor 382 00:18:27.759 --> 00:18:31.359 didn't understand church planting. So that was that. But yeah, 383 00:18:31.480 --> 00:18:33.279 so those were I kind of got it beat out 384 00:18:33.279 --> 00:18:37.400 of me a little bit. So you can learn things 385 00:18:37.440 --> 00:18:41.359 from reading a book, or you can learn things from Paine. 386 00:18:41.519 --> 00:18:45.680 Pain brings change. Pain will force you to change, so 387 00:18:45.720 --> 00:18:46.680 then you have the other part. 388 00:18:46.759 --> 00:18:49.000 I've definitely been humbled the other ways, you know. 389 00:18:50.279 --> 00:18:53.519 So then the next half there that verse twenty, Oh 390 00:18:53.599 --> 00:18:56.240 my goodness, he starts talking about the seventy weeks. And 391 00:18:56.279 --> 00:18:58.559 so let me just read a note here. You need 392 00:18:58.640 --> 00:19:00.839 a life application study Bible for these kinds. 393 00:19:00.680 --> 00:19:02.440 Of things, or a similar study Bible. 394 00:19:02.519 --> 00:19:04.640 No, get the Life Applications stand No, I like the 395 00:19:04.759 --> 00:19:09.960 ry read. It's okay. If you want a neutral Bible, 396 00:19:10.559 --> 00:19:12.680 get the Life Advocation of the Bible. Ok So, I'm joking. 397 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:14.480 You get whatever one you want, but I like this one, 398 00:19:14.559 --> 00:19:17.920 and I think you're dumb forgetting anything else. So Daniel 399 00:19:18.000 --> 00:19:20.359 nine twenty four to twenty times joking. 400 00:19:20.160 --> 00:19:22.200 That company needs to pay us. 401 00:19:22.519 --> 00:19:23.599