The
American
Wisdom Series
Presents
Pamphlet 5035 KC Daniel 14-2
You either believe Him that God
has ALL power in both heaven and earth, or you don't!
So Daniel has declared to king Darius that God sent His
angel to shut the mouths of the hungry lions because of the innocency God
found in him.
You "see", Daniel was never really alone for God was with
him all along.
You might even say that the Lion King Himself, that Lion
of the tribe of Judah, which is another way of saying the King of kings,
the King of the just (Melchiszedek), was with him.
It is written concerning God's children that their angels
have the face of God at anytime... and there is no time like when you are
inches away from the cheek teeth of a hungry lion.
The point is that God did send His
angel to shut the mouths of the lions which is evidence and an ensample
of the promise He makes to always be with His disciples in these last days.
In fact, that is the very last thing Jesus Christ said
to His disciples in the book of Matthew, i.e. that He would always be with
them.
Matthew
28:18-20
And Jesus came
and spake unto them, saying, All power is given unto me in heaven
and in earth.
You either believe Him that
He has ALL power in both heaven and earth, or you don't!
If you do then you can dare to be a Daniel even when being
forced to looking closely at the salivating taste buds of a ferocious lion.
[19]
Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the
Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:
To baptize someone in the name
of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost is to immerse (baptizo)
them in the Word of God, both the Old Testament and the New, and in
the Spirit of truth.
[20]Teaching
them to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded you:
and, lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of
the world. Amen.
Again, He has promised if you
do as He commands He will be with you until the end of this flesh age,
which is until His return at the sound of 7th Trump... which comes after
the reign of Antichrist that begins at the sound of the 6th Trump.
Then too, the point should be made that in as much as
Daniel was a type of God's elect in these last days, the "innocency" that
God found in him was because of his predestination, which is the destiny
of his calling to which he was ordained in the world that then was (2 Pet.
3:6), as in before the foundation of this world (Eph. 1:14).
You can read about the "innocency" of God's elect in the
8th chapter of Romans.
Romans
8:30-34
Moreover whom
he did predestinate, them he also called: and whom he called, them he also
justified: and whom he justified, them he also glorified.
There is a difference between
a declaration of not guilty and justification, for where there is justification
it is as if something never happened, i.e. there is no record to be found.
To wit, a person who is justified
has been judged to not have been guilty in the first place.
[31]
What
shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against
us?
What shall we say concerning the predestination,
the justification, the glorification and the calling of those whom God
has chosen "before the foundation of this earth age according to His purpose
(Eph. 1:4)"?
If God finds "innocency" in His elect, who can be against
them?
The answer is, no one!
[32]
He
that spared not his own Son, but delivered Him up for us all, how shall
He not with Him also freely give us all things?
[33]
Who shall lay any thing to the charge of God's elect? It is God that
justifieth.
God found Daniel innocent, so how dare someone come
against and lay charge to those whom He has justified.
[34]
Who
is he that condemneth? It is Christ that died, yea rather, that is risen
again, who is even at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession
for us.
And so it is that God sent His angel on behalf of
Daniel to shut the mouths of the lions that they could do him no harm!
However, there is much more to this in that we shall "see"
that those who have laid charge to and delivered up Daniel
(God is [my] Judge) to death have brought forth their own judgment
and they are going to receive their just recompense.
They are going to get what is coming to them because our
Father is completely fair and just.
You see, He is not going to judge someone or sentence
someone without a case, without witness and without testimony.
To that end, let us also recognize the fact that Daniel
was found innocent before the king.
Remember again that Daniel is a
type, an ensample for us in these last days, and he maintained his credibility
and did those things that are right, yet he was persecuted and delivered
up... for righteousness sake!
This is important to take heed to in order to make sure
when you are delivered up it is for His name's sake (Luke 21:12)!
Daniel
6:23
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.
What a witness!
What a display of our Father's protection upon those who
love and serve Him.
You are never alone for He is always
with you, "even unto the end of the world", and "He has all power in both
heaven and earth".
That just makes those two questions in Romans 8:31 ever
so profound:
Romans
8:31
What shall we
then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?
The answer again is NO ONE because no one contend
with the power and might of our heavenly Father.
And He can deliver His children even when the most powerful
man on earth can do nothing, as was the case here with Daniel.
Try as he might, Darius could not help him for his hands
were tied.
Next comes the just recompense for king Darius is going
to execute it according to righteousness, according to that which is right.
Daniel
6:24
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.
Those who had accused Daniel and plotted to have
him cast into the den of lions to be devoured are merely getting a taste
of their own medicine.
The only problem is they have no lion tamer sent to protect
them.
Notice also that king Darius commanded that their wives
and their children be tossed into the lion's den which
symbolically means that their wicked seed will be cut off at judgment!
So... there has been a purging in the government, hasn't
there?
God has used this one Daniel as the means by which to
justly removed corrupt presidents and princes as an ensample to show us
that there shall be no political and economic corruption permitted in the
Millennium.
God's elect will see to it.
Our Father will see to it!
And you know what else?
The rulers of all nations shall turn their people to the
God of Daniel, to the King of Just, to Yahshua Messiah!
[25]
Then
king Darius wrote unto all people, nations, and languages,
that dwell in all the earth; Peace be multiplied unto you.
There shall be peace on earth when the Prince of
Peace returns to this earth to set up His ruling dominion.
[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.
That is quite a decree in honor of our Father which
surely pleased Him very much, and when our Father is pleased He blesses
those who please Him.
And so it would come to pass that king Darius would be
blessed by God in that He will name his son "Cyrus" before he is even born,
one of only three men in the entire Word of God named before they were
born.
That is quite an honor!
[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.
He delivers, He rescues, He works signs and wonders
both in heaven and right here on earth, and He has ALL power to deliver
His children from the power of the lions, thereby giving us the victory!
[28]
So
this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius, and in the reign of Cyrus
the Persian.
What a great chapter this 6th chapter is!
Again, this story of Daniel and the lion's den has inspired
young and old alike down through the ages who see the faith and trust that
Daniel had in our Father to deliver him from the power of the lions.
To those who have eyes to see and
ears to hear they also see this as a wonderful ensample giving us encouragement
and giving us a witness to see and to know how it shall be in these last
days.
Of course, those who love and serve our Father already
know that He is real and know that He is the Deliverer and that He will
deliver.
So let us not miss the point that is often overlooked
in this chapter which is a large part of what we are to learn.
Daniel's name means "God is Judge" and Yahshua Messiah
is returning at the sound of the 7th Trump to the Valley of Jehoshaphat
(Joel 3) to judge all nations.
Again, "Jeho-shaphat" means "Yahveh Judges" and as it
is written that He shall separate the sheep from the goats.
He shall purge the nations of their corruption and liberate
their people from oppression and tyranny and execute justice throughout
the entire world.
At that time everyone shall receive his or her just recompense
and God's elect, the kings and priests of the Zadok, shall be the instruments
through whom His rod of iron is enforced, for ALL nations shall look to
Jerusalem from whence truth and justice shall flow like mighty rivers,
and all nations shall serve Him for those thousand years!
It is written, and so shall it be!
In our next study we are going to begin to see the events
that lead up to the sound of the 6th Trump.
Isn't it wonderful?
Our Father is so good to us for He has foretold us all
things (Mark 13:23)!
Live Link to- The Book of Daniel Table of ContentsIt is important that YOU Read it all!
Jesus said, "the book of Daniel
was where one could go read and gain understanding"
Jesus Christ told us in Matthew
24 and Mark 13 when He sat upon the Mount of Olives and gave His disciples
the seven seals concerning the knowledge and the events that would transpire
during the final generation of the fig tree, that the book of Daniel was
where one could go read and gain understanding concerning
the abomination of desolation, that abominable desolator (antichrist)
who would come stand in the holy place claiming to be God.
The book of Daniel is the Apocalypse of the Old Testament
and
a sister book to the Apocalypse of the New Testament,
the
book of Revelation. To study the Bible is the noblest of all pursuits;
to understand it, the highest of all goals.
We pray that with the guidance of the Holy
Spirit, you accomplish both.
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