409 we are going to be seen the fight is on page 409 the fight is on
0 9 let's sing it together on the first the fuck the crowd the trot to a soon-to-be
Soul sister of God before the soldiers brave and true
Jehovah's tree before to certain victorans God's glory
Soul to faith, sing the victor
Brother Kyle could you have a word of prayer second song be song number 230 heavenly sunlight song number
230 heavenly sunlight song two three zero. Let's sing it together on the first
walking in sunlight all of my journey
He fed Jesus. I said we're sick and fed
This is my way notice that but that light just flickered on and we're singing heavenly sunlight, too
Because it always is on but this back one literally appeared on during that song so it's a sign
Okay on the side. Let's sing it out shadows around shadows above and see the sun
Waves above sun losses mom. Amen good scene this time
We'll have our now back everyone the verse of the week is first Corinthians 10 verse 12 first Corinthians 10 verse 12
Wherefore let him that thinketh he standeth take heed lest he fall first Corinthians 10 verse 12
Alright, so those times are at 10 30 this morning 3 30 this afternoon and Wednesday
We have the 6 30 Bible study so winning times was yesterday at 12 30 today at 1 p.m
So warning today, but and actually not even my like what anyone ever go out and no one literally answers
It's one of those days, which is just kind of interesting and we hit 30 houses
I know a few people got to talk but just kind of a weird day today, but it's good
I'm glad everyone was able to go out despite the rain. Thank you for those that did go
Congratulations to everyone who finished the New Testament challenge and hey, if you only started great
You're on a good start to finish the Bible reading for this year. All right
February 14th coming up quickly is the married couple sweetheart banquet on February 17th
We'll be the next kids homeschool day and Valentine's party with games and pizza
So just let miss Kylie know if you're going to attend with your kids that day and then
March 6 is going to be the wazoo college soul-winning event which we're doing with numerous churches around the country to go reach the
Very lost and very cold areas. All right, we know uh college kids man. That's just one of those interesting things
Do you want to remember a few weeks guy? Maybe a few months ago
I thought we were at like a daycare center because it was superheroes and cartoon characters on doors with names
I was like, what is this? Is it like that? And I figured out we were at the literal
College campus down here, dude, like and here's thing
I have fun all that but it's like you're the future leaders America and you still got to have spider-man as your logo
Like anyway things change with time, but I just thought it's funny
But hey, it's great to go out reach those kids no matter where they are
And when I mean kids, I literally mean like they're old enough to that's not a good way to judge
But they're in their early 20s. All right, like they're not really kids anymore
But as my hair falls out everyone seems like a kid to me, but it's great March 27th
We'll be our church anniversary. So looking forward to it. Pastor Thompson is going to come out and preach Friday night
I'm sure there'll be more events
there usually is so looking forward to what's coming out with that and
Just plan that brother Ramon will come out in March sometime
it hasn't quite been set but he's gonna come preach and I'm looking forward to that because he's just a
I mean if you want to see the right heart you should have for serving Lord
I mean that he humbles me with what the sweetness and kindness and dedication that man has so
I'll be it's a real weird blessing to see him and if his wife comes out
She's a blessing as well. So really great for that looking forward to that
Rules are all the same
down there, please remember that
Aaron's birthday is coming up. Just give him, you know
Happy birthday and quick healing from the surgery just had so looking forward to that if you have any other prayer requests or
Praises, please let the Thompson known they will get them into the bulletin. So with that, let's pray our next song be song number
335 if Jesus goes with me, I'll go song number 335 if Jesus goes with me
I'll go three three five. Let's sing together on the first it may be in the valley
Where countless dangers hide it may be in the sunshine
That I in peace abide
But this one thing I know
if it be dark or fair if
Jesus is with me. I'll go
anywhere if Jesus goes with me, I'll go
Any tis heaven to me wherever I may be if he is there
I counted a privilege here is cross to bear
If Jesus goes with me, I'll go
scary said were burning deserts to those in sinful strife and the loss goes with me
Jesus goes with me. I'll go into me this goes with me his judgment face goes with me
I'll go this goes with me. I'll go Jesus goes with me. I'll go to me this goes with me
I'll go sure foundation Baptist Church this evening. You can go ahead and take your Bible your King James Bibles and go to
Ezekiel chapter 26 Ezekiel chapter 26 and here at sure foundation Baptist Church
We read the entire chapter before the preaching so Ezekiel chapter 6 Ezekiel chapter 6
the Bible reads and it came to pass in the 11th year in the first day of the month that the word of the Lord came
Unto me saying son of man because that tyrus hath said against Jerusalem
Aha, she is broken that she was the gates of the people. She has turned unto me
I shall be replenished now. She has laid waste therefore thus saith the Lord God
Behold I am against thee
Oh tyrus and will cause many nations to come up against thee as the sea causes his waves to come up and they shall
Destroy the walls of tyrus and break down her towers
I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock
It shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea for I have spoken it saith the Lord God and it
Shall become a spoil to the nations and her daughters which are in the fields shall be slain by the sword and they shall know
That I am the Lord for thus saith the Lord God behold I will bring upon tyrus nebuchadnezzar
King of Babylon a king of kings from the north
horses and with chariots and with horsemen and
Companies and much people he shall slay with the sword thy daughters in the field and he shall make a fort against thee and
Cast a mount against thee and lift up the buckler against thee and he shall set
Engines of war against thy walls and with his axes he shall break down thy towers
By reason of the abundance of his horses their dust shall cover thee thy walls shall shake at the noise of the horsemen
And of the wheels and of the chariots and when he shall enter into thy gates as men enter into a city wherein is made
A breach with the hooves of his horses shall he tread down all thy streets
he shall slay thy people by the sword and by and thy strong garrisons shall go down to the ground and
They shall make a spoil of thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise
And they shall break down thy walls and destroy thy pleasant houses
then they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water and I will cause the noise of
Thy songs to seize and the sound of thy harp shall be no more heard and I will make thee like the top of a rock
Thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon thou shalt be be built no more
For I the Lord have spoken it saith the Lord God thus saith the Lord God to Tyrus
Shall not the Isles shake at the sound of thy fall when the wounded cry
When the slaughter is made in the midst of thee then all the princes of the sea shall come down from their thrones and lay
Away their robes and put off their broidered garments. They shall clothe themselves with trembling
They shall sit upon the ground and shall tremble at every moment and be astonished at thee and they shall take up a
Lamentation for thee and say to thee how art thou destroyed that was inhabited of sea-faring men?
The renowned city which was strong in the sea she and her inhabitants which caused their terror to be on all that haunted
Now shall the Isles tremble in the day of thy fall
Yea, the Isles that are in the sea shall be troubled at thy departure for thus saith the Lord God
When I shall make thee a desolate city like the cities that are not inhabited
When I shall bring up the deep upon thee and great waters shall cover thee
When I shall bring thee down with them that descend into the pit
When with the people of old time and shall set thee in the low parts of the earth in places
Desolate of old with them that go down to the pit that thou shalt thou that thou be not
Inhabited and I shall set glory in the land of the living
I will make thee a terror and thou shalt be no more thou that be sought for
Yet shalt thou never be found again saith the Lord God
Brother Paul and pray for the sermon amen
All right, so we're in Ezekiel chapter number 26 and we're gonna come back there a little bit later in the sermon
But if you want to go ahead and turn to Isaiah chapter number 44 Isaiah chapter number 44 and this evening
I wanted I wanted to preach about biblical prophecies that were most of them were given in the Old Testament
There's gonna be one that was given in the New Testament
But biblical prophecies that were given in the Old Testament that were you know major prophecies that were fulfilled
later on and the reason why I wanted to preach about this is because
You know, it's just another way that we can know that the Bible is true, you know
I just wanted to build people's faith in the Bible and you know
There there are a lot of different reasons why we have our faith in the Bible why we know the Bible is true
But one of the great reasons is because of the fact that the Bible has prophesied many different events and
These events always come to pass the way that the Bible said it was and you know
There's, you know, just certain things in the Bible you just read in the Old Testament
that it's like, "Okay, you know, I don't know how you could possibly honestly explain these
things away."
And, you know, this is something that's, of course, unique to the Bible.
You know, you're not going to find, you know, in the Koran, you're not going to just find
all of these prophecies that are coming true, and you're not going to find in the Vagabad,
you know, what are the Hindu writings called, the Vagabad?
I can't even pronounce it, you know, it's just wrong, so, you know, maybe it's good
I can't pronounce it, I don't know, but it's the Vagabad, you know, whatever, Gita, whatever,
you know, but it's the Hindu writing, you know, and then there's these different Buddhist
writings or whatever.
I mean, you're not going to find in the Buddhist writings, like predicting like the exact fall
of an empire or specific person that's going to come along later.
You're just simply not going to find that in these other false, you know, holy scriptures.
You're only going to find that in the Bible, you know, where you see things that are written
down hundreds of years before something major happens, right?
And so I just wanted to give some of these examples and show the fact that the Bible
prophesies about major things happening way before they happen.
And the only way that that could be possible is that if God were the one that was writing
down the book, because He knows the end from the beginning, He can give us the information
before it happens.
And again, you know, these are basically, these are undeniable things that the Bible
has in it.
And the first example is in Isaiah chapter number 44, we're going to look at Isaiah
44 and Isaiah 45 here.
But in Isaiah chapter 44 verse number 28, the Bible reads, it says, "That saith of Cyrus,
he is my shepherd, and shall perform all my pleasure, even saying to Jerusalem, Thou shall
be built, and the temple, thy foundation shall be laid."
Now, we're going to come back to that verse in just a second, but we're going to read
Isaiah 45, verse number one, it says, "Thus saith the Lord to his anointed, to Cyrus, whose
right hand I have holden to subdue nations before him, and I will loose the loins of
kings to open before him the two leaves gates, and the gates shall not be shut."
So basically, Isaiah 45 here is basically prophesying about Cyrus coming to power and
him subduing all these kingdoms, but in verse number 44 is where it's kind of what I want
to focus on, Isaiah 44, 28, where the Bible specifically prophesies about the fact that
Cyrus is going to have Jerusalem rebuilt and specifically the temple to be rebuilt.
It says, "Thou shalt be built, and to the temple thy foundations shall be laid."
Now here's the thing, Isaiah is written about 200 years before those events occur, and it's
very interesting because right now when Isaiah is writing this stuff down, the temple is
sitting there.
I mean Solomon's temple is built, right?
It's sitting there, it's constructed, it's there.
People are using it, it's being occupied, it's being used for its intended purpose,
and here in Isaiah 44, he's like, "Hey, the temple, its foundation is going to be laid."
It's like, "Okay, well, what are you talking about, Isaiah?
The temple is already here.
Why are you saying that the temple is going to be laid?"
Well, because the fact that God, or excuse me, that Isaiah is getting revelation from
God, he knows the temple is going to be destroyed, and he knows when it's going to be destroyed,
and he also knows that it's going to be rebuilt, and he's predicting this or prophesying this
200 years before it happens, and these are things that we know from outside, because
a lot of people will scoff at the Bible or whatever and say, "Well, how do we know the
Bible is true?
I mean, why do you just believe the Bible, because it's just writing all this crazy stuff?"
But the thing about it is that historians from outside of the Bible have verified this
stuff outside of the Bible as well.
So the real world is corroborating what the Bible said, right?
And also it's interesting that in Isaiah 44 it specifically says Cyrus, okay?
And Cyrus, that's somebody's name.
How would you be able to know?
That would be like if somebody in the year 1800 prophesied that basically there was basically
that Donald Trump was going to become the president in 2024 or 2025, right?
I mean, like somebody wrote down specifically his name, Donald J. Trump is going to be president
in 2025, 200 years ago.
I mean, that would be crazy.
That would be insane, right?
And so, but here in the book of Isaiah, we have specifically the name Cyrus.
And this is, Cyrus is actually a pretty major character in history, right?
He's not like a very little known person.
Cyrus is, you know, out of all the characters of antiquity, he's one of the bigger guys
on the list.
Okay.
And so he's been verified by different historians, you know, and he's been written about throughout
the ages.
And you know, here we are in Isaiah reading about Cyrus 200 years before he came on the
scene.
So I mean, this is pretty direct evidence that the Bible was inspired by God.
Like this wasn't just Isaiah, you know, kind of had a lucky strike here.
No, no, no, no, no.
He wrote down specifically his name, right?
And people might say, oh, well, you know, it's just because Isaiah wrote it down, you
know, 200 years beforehand.
But that's why they just-- that's why they named him Cyrus.
But that's so stupid because he's going to become the king of a different nation.
And so, I mean, it's not like, you know, the Hebrew nation was just like conquered the
world or something.
And so the Hebrew-- you know, Israel's just this inspiration to the rest of the world
or whatever.
And they're like, hey, you remember that prophecy?
Everyone's just talking about the, you know, the prophecies that Isaiah had.
They're like, hey, we're going to-- it's 200 years, you know, the temple's been destroyed,
just like he said it was.
And so now let's go ahead and-- no, he's in a different nation, okay?
I'm pretty sure they didn't give a flip about Isaiah's prophecy.
The reason why he was named Cyrus is because God wanted him to be named Cyrus.
And the reason why he's like, hey, I'm going to go ahead and build the temple is because
God wanted him to build the temple because he was God's servant.
I mean, that's what the Bible says here.
I mean, in Isaiah chapter 44-- or 45, it says, "Thus saith the Lord his anointed, Cyrus,
whose right hand I have holded to subdue before him, whose loose loins of kings."
And so I believe in Isaiah 44, it calls him his servant, right?
And so Cyrus is God's servant, so that's why he's doing these things, right?
So this is very clearly the Bible prophesying something that came true.
Why?
Because God knew that it was going to come to pass because that was His plan.
So to me, this is absolute proof that the Bible is God's word.
Again, there's different mountains of proof that the Bible is true.
And this is just one of the pieces in one of the mountains.
And go ahead and turn to Isaiah, or excuse me, not Isaiah, Ezra chapter number one.
Ezra chapter number one, we can see later in the Bible, this prophecy being fulfilled.
It says in Ezra chapter one, look at verse number one, it says, "Now in the first year
of Cyrus, king of Persia, that the word of the Lord by the mouth of Jeremiah might be
fulfilled.
The Lord stirred up the spirit of Cyrus, king of Persia, that he made proclamation throughout
all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 'Thus saith Cyrus, king of Persia,
the Lord God of heaven, hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth, and he hath charged
me to build him a house at Jerusalem, which is in Judea.'"
And so we can see here that the Bible is basically recording Isaiah's prophecy being fulfilled
where Cyrus gives a proclamation to say, "Hey, you know, God," and even Cyrus is saying here,
he's like, "Hey, God told me to go build this temple."
Like he's basically saying that he got the commandment from God.
You know, "The Lord God of heaven hath given me all the kings of the earth,
and he hath charged me to build him a house at Jerusalem."
You know, and again, you know, this basically he is king of the known world.
And so, you know, if God hadn't commanded him to do it, you know,
it's not like he's like groveling at the feet of the Jews here or something.
You know, this isn't like today where the whole world, you know,
all the leaders of the world are just flying over to kiss the wall or whatever,
because, you know, the Jews, you know, are basically controlling everything.
And they have dirt on everybody, you know, they have pictures of everyone,
all the world leaders that have seen the island and, you know,
different weird paintings of them in dresses.
You know, this is not what's going on here.
Like, Cyrus is legitimately the king of the world at this point.
So nobody's got any blackmail on him, you know, nobody's got control over him.
He's doing what he wants in this situation, where he's the king of the world, okay?
You know, and probably back then, you know, again, he's the king of the world, it probably
wouldn't even matter if somebody had dirt on him.
Like, he would just have that person killed.
He can have whoever he wanted killed, and even, you know, like, I don't believe for
one second that Cyrus was a pedophile, but let's just pretend that he was.
It wouldn't matter, because he's the king, and anybody that's going to accuse him of
anything, he could just have them killed, right?
And so I believe for sure that Cyrus is doing this because God commanded him to do it, right?
And it was prophesied 200 years before it happened, and then Cyrus, who's God's chosen,
he's God's servant, is just fulfilling God's will.
And it's just, again, it's just proof that the Bible is God's word.
This is the only holy book there is in the entire world, right, is the Bible.
And we have concrete evidence, because, I mean, otherwise, how do you explain this?
I mean, how does the world explain the fact that the Book of Isaiah basically predicted
that there was going to be a king named Cyrus that was going to specifically rebuild the
temple, you know, of a nation and of a religion that he probably was not born with?
I mean, I don't think Cyrus was necessarily just born, you know, in the Medo-Persian Empire
as like a Bible-believing Christian.
Like he wasn't a Bible-believing, you know, Baptist or anything like that.
He was probably born with, you know, Zoroastrianism or whatever religion they had in the Medo-Persian
Empire.
But at some point, you know, I believe because, I mean, the Bible is specifically saying that
he's God's servant and God charged him.
I think Cyrus was saved.
And so at some point, you know, he got saved and he's like, okay, time to do God's will,
time to go rebuild the temple.
And again, you know, he's the king of the world.
And so that just shows us that God was in control of this situation and he's causing
Cyrus to go do his will, right?
Now, obviously, you know, I preach many, many sermons against Calvinism.
And the fact that God is telling us that Cyrus is doing his will actually proves Calvinism
wrong, because in the Calvinist mindset, everything is always God's will.
And if that were true, why would he have to tell us that, oh, by the way, he's doing
my will?
Because I told him to.
Why?
You know, that just, it makes no sense at all.
But anyways, so I think this is just a, and this is a pretty famous example of this pretty
well-known example of the fact that the Bible predicts, you know, even specifically somebody's
name who's going to be the ruler of basically the king of the world, of the known world
at that point.
So go ahead and turn to Daniel chapter number eight, Daniel chapter number eight, Daniel
chapter number eight.
So the first, the first example was of Cyrus being predicted 200 years before it happened.
And I'm going to, I don't know if I mentioned this, but I'm going to have four of these
different examples.
And the next example I have is basically the Bible predicting Alexander the Great destroying
the Persian empire, taking it over and then him dying.
And then the four kingdoms that split up after he died.
The Bible predicts all this.
And this is in Daniel chapter number eight, verse number three, it says, "Then I lifted
up mine eyes and saw and behold, there stood before the river a ram which had two horns
and the two horns were high, but the one was higher than the other and the higher came
up last.
I saw the ram pushing westward and northward and southward so that no beasts might stand
before him.
Neither was there any that could deliver out of his hand, but he did according to his will
and became great.
And as it was considering, behold, and he goat came from the west on the face of the
whole earth and touched not the ground and the goat and a notable horn between his eyes.
And he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river.
And he ran unto him in the fury of his power.
And I saw him come close unto the ram and he was moved with collar against him and smote
the ram and break his two horns.
And there was no power in the ram to stand before him, but he cast him down to the ground
and stamped upon him.
And there was none that could deliver the ram out of his hand.
Therefore the he-goat waxed very great.
And when he was strong, the great horn was broken.
And for it came up from four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.
And so here in Daniel chapter number eight, you know, we're getting the story about there's
this goat, and then there's this ram with one horn, and it comes and it's most the horn.
What is the Bible talking about here?
Well, the Bible does clarify.
If you skip down to verse number 19, the Bible gets a little bit more specific about
what's going on here.
It says, "And he said, 'Behold, I will make thee known what shall be in the last end
of the indignation, for at the time appointed the end shall be, the ram which thou sawest
having two horns are the kings of Medea and Persia.
And the rough goat is the king of Grecia, and the great horn that is between his eyes
the first king, now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall
stand up out of the nation, but not in his power."
And so the Bible is specifically telling us, hey, this is, you know, the goat is the king
of Persia, the media of Persia, excuse me, not the goat, but the ram is the king of media
in Persia, and the goat is the king of Grecia.
Now if we go back earlier in the chapter and kind of analyze what's going on here, we have
basically the goat with the two horns, he's pushing westward, northward and southward.
And we know from history that basically the Medo-Persian Empire expanded westward, right?
Over time it expanded westward and northward and southward, and eventually it conquered
basically all of what we know as today Turkey, it conquered all of that, and that was kind
of part of the Greek world.
But then they actually they crossed over and they were attempting to conquer Greece.
But basically, you know, the Greek people warded them off, but then eventually Philip
of Macedon united the Greek kingdoms together and they kind of became one nation.
And then his son, Alexander the Great, took an army and went over into Turkey, what we
would call Turkey today, and started fighting against the Medo-Persian empire.
And you know, they call him Alexander the Great because basically in almost every single
battle that he was involved in, he was greatly outnumbered.
And you know, it's very interesting how specific the Bible is here because let's see, look
at verse number, look at verse number five, it says, "And as I was considering, behold,
and he goat came forth from the west," so I mean, it's telling us the direction that
this king is coming from, "from the west," which actually happened, "on the face of the
whole earth and touching off the ground. And the goat had a notable horn between his eyes,
and he came to the ram that had two horns, which I had seen standing before the river,
and ran unto him in the fury of his power." And, you know, this really goes along with kind of the
narrative we get just from secular history about Alexander the Great. I mean, you kind of picture
this leader, he's like, "I'm going to get the meat of Mercia." He was, you know, he wanted to take
out King Darius. Like, he wanted to get him. And so it's interesting that the Bible gives us, he's
like, "Hey, in the theory of his power, it says in verse number seven, "And I saw him come close
under the ram, and he was moved with collar against him, and he smote the ram and break his two horns,
and there was no power in the ram to stand before him." And again, you know, if we look at the
account that we get from just from secular history, basically every single battle that he was involved
in, you know, he basically, the whole time he was fighting, it was always he had 40,000 troops.
Every single battle was like 40,000, 40,000, 40,000. And you know, the different enemies
that he fought would have different numbering armies, but they were always bigger. They were
always a lot bigger. And there was one really famous battle, basically, where he kind of
destroyed the Persian Empire, really took away their power to stand against him. Basically,
they had 250,000 and he had 40,000, right? So it was like five to one, and they had elephants,
you know, and all these chariots and all this heavy infantry, but it didn't matter. And the
real reason, you know, and of course history, you know, they'll go in and analyze all the different
tactics and all the different things that he did in order to win every single battle that he was
ever in. But really the real reason is because this was the will of God, because this is what
God wanted to happen. Basically, each of these empires, they had a time to be in power and then
he's going to bring in the next empire, right? And so it was the will of God for Alexander the Great
to conquer the Medo-Persian Empire, and that's why he was so successful, right? That is the true
reason. And you know, I enjoy this kind of thing, and you know, to get down into the nitty-gritty of
all the different tactics and whatnot, it is very interesting. But you know, at the end of the day,
it is because that was God's will. You know, and it didn't matter how much Alexander was outnumbered,
he was always going to win. Why? Because that's what God said was going to happen. Because God
said that he was moved with color, and he was going to go and smite the King of Persia. And you know,
from history, we know that he eventually did kill King Darius. And you know, in that famous battle,
you know, he didn't specifically kill him in that battle. I believe it was the next battle after
that, you know, where he had the 250 Medo-Persians coming against him. But you know, he was like very
aggressive. And he just went after the King. Basically like he had one wing of his army charge
against him with the Calvary and then his the main line like held the line against their Calvary or
whatever. And then there was like a little gap. And then he just went through the gap towards the King,
you know, moved with collar against the King, right? And then the King just ran away.
And then when the army saw him running away, there's like, "Oh crap!" And everyone just started
running away. And that's basically, that's how they won the battle, which goes along with this
narrative that the Bible is giving us where he's moved with collar and he had no power to stand
against him, right? And so let's continue on here. Verse number eight, it says, "Therefore,
the he-goat waxed very great, and when he was strong, the great horn was broken." And again,
this is another thing that the Bible calls very specifically that we see happening just from
secular history. So basically, we know from history that Alexander, he took over the whole
Persian empire and he even started to come into India, right? But then his army was like, "We hate
India." You know, we don't like people pooping everywhere and all these elephants and whatnot.
We don't like India. And like, we want to go back home. So he's like, "All right, we're going to go
back home." But I mean, basically he's in the greatness of his power. And by the way, I just
wanted to mention, like he was young. When he, I believe when he went into, you know, the Medo
Persian empire for the first time, I think he was like 25 years old. And basically he very quickly
conquered it all. And so when, when they're leaving India, basically he's like in his thirties,
early thirties. I mean, he might've been like 33, 32, something like that. I don't remember
the exact age, but he was in his early thirties. And so it goes right along with, you know, when
he was strong, right? I mean, he just literally conquered pretty much the known world at that
point. He's 30 years old and he dies on the way back. He gets really sick and he just dies. And
what does the Bible says? When he is strong, the great horn was broken for it came and for it came
up four notable ones toward the four winds. So, you know, the Bible gives a specific prediction
that when he is strong, he's going to die. And, you know, how often does that happen? Just this
world beating military leader, you know, he just goes into battle after battle after battle,
you know, and in a lot of these battles, like he almost dies, you know, like there's this one
battle where basically, you know, somebody's like about to kill him. And then like his guard just
chops their arm off like right before they strike him. Like he's just like this close to being,
you know, taken out or whatever, but he, he, you know, he doesn't get killed or whatever.
And then he's just in all these different battles and he's just super aggressive. He's like, you
know, we're going to get up, we're going to beat him. And then like, he just gets sick and dies.
What? You know, I mean, like if that was in a movie, that would be like a shocker. That would
be like a plot twist. I'd be like, he's, he's just conquering a hat, you're like halfway through the
movie. And then like, you're like, oh yeah, he's about to conquer the rest of the world or whatever,
or like he's done, or maybe, you know, you know, I don't know how the plot goes, but like he's,
he's done conquering or whatever. And then the main character just dies out of nowhere. You're like,
what? How did that happen? But it's like, you know, this is what the Bible said was going to happen.
Like in it, like if you think about somebody in their strength, do you think about somebody
who's just like 68 years old? I mean, brother Paul knows a guy that you could say that about,
you know, he's like 72 and he's like doing a 10 minute, you know, not, not 10 minute mile.
That's an, that's like consulting him probably like a, you know, like six and a half minute
mile or something. Like, I don't know what the guy was doing, but probably can run a faster mile
than I can. And he's like, you know, however old, I don't know. But you know, most of the time,
like if you think of somebody who's like, you know, 68 years old, you're like, okay, well,
he's not really any strength anymore. He's not in his prime anymore. Like if you think about,
you know, like a UFC fighter or something like what, like if somebody's like 36 or 37 years old,
it's like, well, you know, he's just a little bit past his prime, you know, like he's still really
good. But you know, the speed is the first thing to go. And the last thing to go is his power,
you know, but like, like, when somebody's like 35, 36, 37, like physically, you're just a little
bit past your prime, right. But when when they're like 30, 31, 32, 33, it's like, all right, that's
the prime. The body's still there. You know, they got all that experience from their 20s. They're in
their prime. This is the best time for them. This is when they're at their greatest, their full power,
right. And the Bible saying here is like, when he was strong, he's in his full power, he dies. It's
like, you know, it's amazing that the Bible predicted that very specifically. And that's
what happened in history. And he didn't die in battle. You know, he died just getting sick just
right after he conquers the world. Dude conquers the world, gets the flu and, you know, dies to the
flu. It's like, you know, what in the world? But because that's what was God's, that's what God's
will was. And so, but then, you know, the Bible gets another thing right. It says, "And for it
came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven." And back in, if we skip down, verse
number 22, it says, "For that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand
up out of the nations, but not in his power." And so, we know from history that, you know,
right after Alexander died, there's this big power vacuum. And it's like, well, who's going to rule
this giant kingdom that, you know, our bro Alexander just conquered? And basically, it ended up
splitting into four different kingdoms, because, you know, these different people, they were
fighting for power. And it ended up, you know, that's, that is exactly how it happened. And by
the way, so, you know, the book of Daniel was written, and I'm going to get, you know, it's
probably not down to the year, but it's basically around 500 BC is when the book of Daniel is
written. And you know, somebody might say, Hey, no, it's specifically this year, whatever. But,
you know, it's around 500 BC. It's in that ballpark. Okay. But all of this happens with
Alexander the Great basically in the in the 330s BC. So this is like you know almost 200 years later
after the book of Daniel is written that all of this specific stuff is coming true and is happening
right and so again you know they can't say that well Daniel knew about Alexander because you know
he heard he read about him in a history book but no no no no no Daniel wrote it all down like 170
years before it happened and so it's and and again this is one of those things where they they you
literally just can't say well this was a self-fulfilling prophecy because Daniel uh wrote it down it just
kind of manned itself manifested itself in the universe just because he you know he Daniel
caused it to come true no no Alexander is not going to go out there and just literally conquer
the entire world just because Daniel wrote it down I mean Daniel's a pretty powerful dude if you think
that is you know it's a self-fulfilling prophet no that is absolute insanity the reason why
Alexander the great conquered the world and then died in his prime you know it's a conspiracy that
Alexander was in on Alexander read the end of the prophet he's like I'm going to go conquer the world
to make that come true and then kill myself when I'm 33 no like that's insane no the reason why
it came true is because God wanted it to come true because God said it was going to happen
therefore it happened okay and so again this is just uh how do you call it on not unexplainable
what what's the word i'm looking for undeniable proof that the bible is God's word that it that
because it happened exactly the way God had said it was okay uh go ahead and turn to Ezekiel chapter
number 26 so so Daniel chapter number eight that's kind of a that's about Alexander the Great coming
to power destroying the Medo-Persian empire him dying in his strength uh and then the the the
Greek empire being broken up into four different parts which all came true but in Ezekiel chapter
number 36 it also uh it's also going to talk about Alexander but this is kind of a specific event
that happened um with Alexander now in Ezekiel chapter number 26 and obviously this is the
chapter that we read uh this prophecy basically it kind of happens in multiple parts okay because
uh we see here in um in verse number uh which verses it talks about the fact that Nebuchadnezzar
came and broke down the city uh which is true basically the way that Ezekiel 26 happens is
basically you have the city of Tyre which is basically it's an island kind of north of uh of
where uh Jerusalem was or north of where the the nation of Israel was basically it was a little
island and then there was kind of a city that was on the island or excuse me that was on the mainland
near the island so basically that's kind of that the whole area would be considered higher right
but let's let's read about the prediction here in Ezekiel 26 it says uh verse number one it says
and it came to pass in the 11th year on the first day of the month that the word of the Lord came
unto me saying son of man because that tyrus hath said against Jerusalem ah she was broken that was
the gate of the people she is turned unto me I shall be replenished now she is laid waste therefore
thus saith the Lord God behold I am against thee a tyrus and I will cause many nations to come upon
up against thee as the seas causes his waves to come up and they shall destroy the walls of tyrus
and break down her towers I will also scrape her dust from her and make her like the top of a rock
it shall be a place for the spreading of nets in the midst of the sea for I have spoken it sayeth
the lord god and it shall become as a spoil to the nations and her daughters which are in the
fields shall be slain by the sword and they shall know that I am the lord for thus sayeth the lord
god behold I will bring upon tyrus nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon and king of kings from the north
with the horses and with chariots and with horsemen and companies and much people and so you know we
see here that there's there's you know there's a couple different things that are mentioned here
that is the the towers are going to be broken down and it's going to be scraped and then people are
going to spread their net on it but basically this this happens in basically two different
sections basically you have nebuchadnezzar coming in basically when he's conquering the nation of
israel he also conquers and destroys tire now here's the thing so so nebuchadnezzar he comes
in and he destroys the towers and he breaks down the walls of the part of the city that was on the
mainland okay so he destroys basically the mainland part of the city of tire but then he
leaves the island alone and so the people that were on the island they're like hey you didn't
get us nebuchadnezzar we're still safe we're still fine we're still got our ships and we're still
trading and we're still doing all the stuff but here's the thing you know in his eco chap number
26 you know he never gave like a specific timeline of when any of this stuff was going to happen
he just said it was going to happen okay so nebuchadnezzar comes in and he destroys the
mainland he breaks down the towers he destroys their gates and takes out that part of the city
but they're on the island so he can't get them so he's like all right i'm not going to worry about
them you know they you know they're not going to be able to attack me from behind because their
main city is destroyed and so he's just going to move on but basically 200 so basically this again
this all happened in basically three like three i think the number is like 332 bc and you know
basically nebuchadnezzar comes in you know probably like 50 years before daniel is writing what he's
writing because you know daniel uh daniel obviously he was in the captivity and so this all happens
before basically right at the beginning of the captivities when nebuchadnezzar comes in um to
destroy tyre so this is all happening before uh daniel uh comes in but so this um this happens
basically when alexander the great this happens like again like 200 years later after this is
written down and so if you look at uh look at verse number 12 it says and they shall make a spoil of
thy riches and make a prey of thy merchandise and they shall break down thy walls and destroy thy
pleasant houses and they shall lay thy stones and thy timbers and thy dust notice this in the midst
of the water and will cause the noise of thy songs to cease and the sound of thy harps to be no more
heard and I will make thee like the top of a rock and thou shalt be a place to spread nets upon
thou shalt be built no more for I the Lord have spoken it spoken it saith the Lord so notice this
that it specifically says as a verse number 12 it says and they shall lay thy stones and thy timbers
and thy dust in the midst of the water and you know why is that why is that significant well
because when Alexander the Great came by he was just conquering everything right so this is just
one of the one of the places he was that he was conquering he comes by and he's like a city tire
I don't like the look of their faces I'm going to take them out so what he does is he shows up and
he's like all right well they're they're they're on an island you know how am I how am I going to
get these guys you know they got this big fancy navy you know it's a it's a Phoenician cities
and the Phoenicians are known for their for their um for their seamanship right and you know there's
uh there's a really famous Phoenician city called Carthage right and what are they known for well
they're you know they got that harbor you know with the you know the shape of the harbor whatever
and they got all their fancy Phoenician ships they're really good at ship building so this is
a Phoenician city it's on an island they've got the really fancy navy so it's like okay well we
can't beat them with the navy because we don't really have a navy so what are we going to do
well we're going to take all the the rubble from the city that that uh that nebuchadnezzar destroyed
what are we going to do we're going to cast it into the water so what do they do they took the
rubble of the city and they literally built a bridge they're like all right tire you want to
make fun of us uh we're going to build a bridge to your little island we're going to we're going to
bring the land to you okay and and they used the basically all the all the rubble from the the city
that Nebuchadnezzar had destroyed so again the bible is very specific here he says you know
they shall lay thy stones and thy timber and thy dust in the midst of the water they built a bridge
out and then built up and then conquered them and destroyed and wiped the city out just destroyed
the whole city broke all the buildings and like you know scraped the top of it and so there's
nothing left and you know that's basically the way the bible tells the story is exactly what
happened right but you just kind of have to break it up into two different sections you have the
section with nebuchadnezzar destroying the mainland and then you have alexander the great coming in
and destroying the island and basically throughout history that uh that island is no longer an island
now you can actually look at it on google earth there's like you know a big um you know uh it's
not really a bridge but basically it's connected to the mainland now but basically throughout
history it had just been a place where it was just a big smooth rock so they would lay nets there
they would i mean just like the bible said they would lay their nets out and you know and then
and they made it like the top of rocks and they got rid of all the buildings and so you know it
pretty much happened exactly the way that that the bible said it was but this is again like 170 or
like 200 years later and so you know again this is just another proof that the bible is absolutely
100 god's word and you know there's it's not like it's not like alexander the great was
just reading ezekiel and he was like you know what that's going on my checklist i'm gonna i'm
gonna go ahead and take out tire and oh they put it in the water i was like oh oh they're they're
broken uh they're wood and they're stones that's how i'm gonna attack no this is because that's
what god wanted to happen okay so uh and you know this is this is just one of the one of those
amazing things it's like okay this is irrefutable evidence that this is this is god's word go ahead
and uh so my final example go ahead and turn to luke chapter number 19 luke chapter number 19
so the last uh the last three examples i gave were all from the old testament the the um the
prophecy was given in the old testament and then basically was fulfilled uh between the old and
the new testament of except of course for the very first one which was you know was fulfilled
before uh you know it was recorded in the old testament you know we see from ezra and other
other books of the bible as well but in luke chapter number 19 this is this is one that
jesus gave and we were kind of talking about this a little bit before the before the preaching
but it says in luke chapter number 19 look at verse number 43 it says for the days shall come
upon thee that thine enemies shall cast a trench about thee and compass the round and keep thee
in on every side and shall lay thee even with even with the ground and thy children with within
thee and they shall not leave in the one stone upon another because thou knewest not the time
of thy visitation and this is here jesus he's prophesying about the destruction of the temple
in 70 ad by titus the destroyer okay and you know again this is this is a very specific prophecy
because you know he says hey they're gonna they're gonna they're gonna cast thee a trench and
encompass thee around and keep thee on every side and that is actually how it happened basically
the romans they they slowly conquered jerusalem and then they surrounded the temple and you know
it was there was it was horrible bitter fighting and there was just loads of casualties on both
sides but eventually the romans did what they were came to do they showed up and they destroyed
that temple and they cast every single stone off of the temple mount and they threw it down off
at the temple mount and they're historically they say like 600 000 jews were killed in this attack
and and here's the thing the jews absolutely brought it upon themselves okay because they
rejected jesus and because they rejected jesus god brought it upon them but but here's the thing
so you know they uh they rejected jesus and then uh years and years later they get their
their own messiah i can't i mean i believe paul you remember the guy's name is like hobar or
something like that barcoba that's right so this guy barcoba he's like hey i'm the christ i'm the
messiah and what does he do he leads a revolt against the romans and kills a bunch of them
basically he leads like a mass murder spree and you know they're just killing romans everywhere
and then there's like some local you know there's some local um not militia but basically um like
two legions or whatever uh that are trying to hold them back or or a couple cohorts or whatever
and you know the they're overwhelmed by the jews and the jews like yeah we have our kingdom you
know we have our messiah kobar and uh and uh i can't remember the emperor's name but he's like
okay we're gonna we're just we're gonna put this down and he sends titus in and titus goes in and
just wipes them out kills 600 000 jews surrounds the temple just completely destroys the temple
throws every single rock off and it's just complete annihilation and guess what it's exactly the way
that uh that god said it was gonna happen right and and and here's the thing so there's there's
people out there that that don't believe in pre-millennialism they reject pre-millennialism
they believe in post-millennialism or all-millennialism or whatever but and and
and here's one thing that's always i thought is always very interesting is that the people
that believe in post-millennialism or all-millennialism they pretty much they all
reject at least most of the time they reject zionism they don't believe the jews are god's
chosen people right but it is kind of weird that when they read revelation they think it's actually
talking about 70 ad and the temple you know being destroyed and and basically titus is the antichrist
or whatever but it's like yeah but the book of revelation says that he's going to make war with
the saints are the jews the saints so basically in that form of mind they're they're basically
saying they're kind of calling the jews the saints because they're saying that you know he's going
to make war with the saints and he did he made war with the jews it's like wait what what are you
talking about i mean i know what you know i've heard them you know say that oh well you see on
millennialism and post-millennialism you see that that's uh that's jesus centric and you see you know
uh pre-millennialism well that's jews centric it's like you actually know i don't think so
because you're you're calling the jews you know god's people because in the book of revelation
it's god's people that are going to be persecuted by the antichrist but you're saying the antichrist
already came in 70 ad when he destroyed the temple it's like that that doesn't make any sense it
seems like you're the ones that are jew centric because for some reason you thought in 70 ad the
jews are still god's chosen people because he's calling them the saints and his people and whatnot
that's kind of weird but anyway that's that's kind of a side point you know pre-millennialism
is absolutely biblical that's the biblical doctrine you know the book of revelation has
not happened yet it didn't happen in 70 ad you know jesus is still to come okay he hasn't come
yet i don't know for some reason that should be pretty obvious you just read scripture and it's
like hey you know the sun and moon are going to be darkened you know and then you know the sign of
the son of man is going to be here and it's like yeah yeah that hasn't happened yet you know we
probably would have seen that written down in history somewhere where the sun and moon are
darkened and the earth is shaken and literally the Lord descends you know it's like but anyways um
yeah but but again so this is a this is a this is a prophecy that absolutely came true
exactly the way that Jesus predicted it and it's just another proof that that the Bible uh is true
now you know when when Jesus said this and when this was penned down was you know probably like
40 years before 70 AD before it happened right and so this isn't something that you can be like oh
well he knew that it was you know like he like he wrote it down after it happened or something
no that's not true it was written down you know long before those events happened and again you
know it's a specific event that Jesus said was going to happen and absolutely came true and it's
like you know I don't know how the Jews get off on rejecting Jesus when he literally told them he's
like hey guess what your stupid temple is going to be destroyed and there's not even going to be
one brick left on the temple mount and then it happens and they're and they're not like hey uh
didn't that guy Jesus that we crucified and literally rose again from the dead didn't he
say this was going to happen maybe he was right maybe we should go believe on him and you know
what people this applies to people today too any Jews anybody that rejects Jesus maybe you should
look at what he said here the fact that that came true and you can go read about it in a history
book that happened just the way he said it was and go oh he was right maybe I should believe all the
other things that he had to say maybe I should believe because like you know again you know it
doesn't really take faith to believe Jesus here because it happened you can literally just read
in a history book so it doesn't really take much faith to believe that but maybe it's like okay
maybe I should put my faith on the other things that he said too maybe I should put my faith in
what he said about salvation maybe I should put my faith in Jesus Christ because he's obviously
the things that he's saying is true and so if he said hey verily verily I say to you he that
believes on me half everlasting life maybe I should believe that maybe I should believe him when he
said in John chapter number eight that if you believe not that I am he you shall die in your
sins maybe I should believe that he is the son of God maybe I should believe that he's got manifest
in the flesh and that he died on the cross for my sins arose again maybe I should trust that
and just get saved and then and then you don't have to be the subject of God's wrath you don't
have to be the subject of God's wrath with with Titus coming in and destroying your your religious
site right and so you know again so these are just four different examples of different
prophecies that happen in the Bible that we can observe that came true and you know it's just
another proof another stone in the mountain approves that we can know that the Bible is true
and that we can rely on the Bible and we can know that it's God's word. So let's go ahead and bow
our heads and have a word of prayer. Heavenly Father I thank you for this day Lord I thank you
for everything everything you've done for us Lord we thank you for all the different prophecies
that you've given us that we can observe the that came true Lord that we can build our faith and
know that we can trust the Bible Lord in dear Jesus name amen.
Father Jason, sing us a song number 119 "Till the storm passes over" song number 119 "Till the storm
passes by" number 119 first in the dawn of midnight my faith while the stones above me
know the crash of the thunderous blow he says is about the storm is over the thunder move the mosses will show
become the storm.