There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true. —Soren Kierkegaard. "…truth is true even if nobody believes it, and falsehood is false even if everybody believes it. That is why truth does not yield to opinion, fashion, numbers, office, or sincerity–it is simply true and that is the end of it" – Os Guinness, Time for Truth, pg.39. “He that takes truth for his guide, and duty for his end, may safely trust to God’s providence to lead him aright.” – Blaise Pascal. "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily" – George Washington letter to Edmund Randolph — 1795. We live in a “post-truth” world. According to the dictionary, “post-truth” means, “relating to or denoting circumstances in which objective facts are less influential in shaping public opinion than appeals to emotion and personal belief.” Simply put, we now live in a culture that seems to value experience and emotion more than truth. Truth will never go away no matter how hard one might wish. Going beyond the MSM idealogical opinion/bias and their low information tabloid reality show news with a distractional superficial focus on entertainment, sensationalism, emotionalism and activist reporting – this blogs goal is to, in some small way, put a plug in the broken dam of truth and save as many as possible from the consequences—temporal and eternal. "The further a society drifts from truth, the more it will hate those who speak it." – George Orwell “There are two ways to be fooled. One is to believe what isn’t true; the other is to refuse to believe what is true.” ― Soren Kierkegaard
November 30 – The Son of Man receives the Kingdom from the Ancient of Days! — VCY America
November 30 Daniel 7:1-28 1 John 1:1-10 Psalm 119:153-176 Proverbs 28:23-24
Daniel 7:1 – Nebuchadnezzar had dreams, now Daniel has his own dream. Notice also that this chapter is not in chronological order. According to Jimmy DeYoung “The way to read through Daniel, chapter by chapter, is in the following order: 1-2-3-4-7-8-5-6-9-10-11-12. This is the chronological order for the book of Daniel.”
The “lion with eagles wings” is the Babylonian Empire, verse 4. The “bear with three ribs in its mouth,” verse 5, is the Medo-Persian Empire. In verse 6, the “leopard with four wings and four heads” is the Grecian Empire. The “dreadful beast” in verse 7 is the “Roman Empire” (See my audio series, “The Daniel Papers”).Notice the “ten horns” of the “dreadful beast” in verse 7 and in verse 8, the “little horn” that comes out of the “ten horns”. The “ten horns” represent the “Revived Roman Empire” and the “little horn” is one of twenty-seven names for the “Antichrist”.
Daniel 7:13-14 – Notice the “Son of man” and the “Ancient of Days.” John MacArthur states that Daniel 7:14 is when the Son “receives the kingdom.” MacArthur lists five features of the Kingdom: authority, honor, monarchy, universal, eternal. Jesus identified himself as the Son of Man (Matthew 25:31-32), but in doing so identified Himself as the Lord GOD (Ezekiel 34:17).
Notice the themes throughout Scripture – Compare Daniel 7:14 – “dominion, glory, kingdom” to 1 Peter 5:11 “glory and dominion”, Jude 1:25 “glory and majesty, dominion and power,” or Revelation 1:6 “glory and dominion”
Daniel 7:24-25 – Meet the Antichrist: 1) rebuking the most High, 2) repressing the Saints, 3) redefining the times and laws.
Daniel 7:28 – Scared by the Antichrist? So was Daniel.
1 John 1:1 – Notice the testimony of John: I heard it with my ears, saw it with my eyes, handled it with my hands, and I’m showing it to you so that your joy may be full (1 John 1:4).
1 John 1:5 – Follow John’s logical argument (a modus tollens, to be technical).