“In the second year of Nebuchadnezzar’s reign, Nebuchadnezzar had dreams; his spirit was troubled, and his sleep left him. So the king commanded that the magicians, the enchanters, the sorcerers, and the Chaldeans be summoned to tell the king his dreams. So they came in and stood before the king. The king said to them, ‘I have had a dream, and my spirit is troubled to know the dream.’”
“You, O king, the king of kings, to whom the God of heaven has given the kingdom, the power, the might, and the glory, into whose hands he has given human beings wherever they live, all animals of the field, and the birds of the air, and whom he has established as ruler over them all—you are the head of gold.”
“God has numbered the days of your kingdom and brought it to an end. You have been weighed on the scales and found wanting. Your kingdom is given to the Medes and Persians.”
“I looked and saw a ram standing beside the river. It had two horns… both horns were long, but one was longer than the other, and the longer one came up later… The ram that you saw with the two horns—these are the kings of Media and Persia.”
“As I was watching, a male goat came from the west… The goat had a horn between its eyes… It came toward the ram… and struck the ram, breaking its two horns… The male goat is the king of Greece, and the great horn between its eyes is the first king.”
“The head of that statue was fine gold, its chest and arms of silver, its belly and thighs of bronze, its legs of iron, its feet partly of iron and partly of clay… a stone was cut out, not by human hands, and it struck the statue on its feet of iron and clay, and broke them in pieces.”
“Then I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first heaven and the first earth had passed away, and the sea was no more. And I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down out of heaven from God… And I heard a loud voice from the throne saying, ‘Behold, the dwelling place of God is with man. He will dwell with them… He will wipe away every tear from their eyes, and death shall be no more, neither shall there be mourning, nor crying, nor pain anymore, for the former things have passed away.’”
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for welfare and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will hear you. You will seek me and find me, when you seek me with all your heart.”
“This dream tells us the flow of history from the time of Nebuchadnezzar all the way to 2026.”
“Does God know the future? Does God reveal to us what is going to happen on earth? The answer is yes.”
“There is no empire in human history that was not enslaved and oppressive… no empire in human history has not dehumanized people.”
“The statue was huge, extraordinary… its appearance was frightening. The Hebrew word there is defal—it means terrifying, overwhelming, and degrading. That one word summarizes human history.”
“That stone represents the arrival of the kingdom of God… It shall crush all these kingdoms and bring them to an end, and shall stand forever.”
“This final kingdom of glory is going to wipe away every trace of the statue that went before it.”
“It’s not going to be built on oppression, it’s not going to be built on conquest, it’s not going to be built on enslavement, it’s not going to be built on injustice.”
“Jesus taught us to pray, ‘Thy kingdom come, thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven.’”
“God isn’t just the Lord of history—He is concerned about us as individuals.”
“God wants everybody to be part of His kingdom of glory.”
“God is waiting because He is not willing that any should perish. He wants as many people as possible to accept His invitation.”
“Put your trust in the King of kings, the God who knows the future.”
“The Lord of history is walking side by side with you.”
“The prophecy said the kingdom of Rome is going to split, and we find ten… These barbarian tribes took over and the modern nations of Europe are direct descendants of those ten barbarian tribes.”
“Has anybody tried to unify Europe? Imperial Rome tried… Charlemagne tried… Napoleon tried… Hitler tried… the European Union has tried—they have not succeeded. The text says they will not hold together.”
“I pledge allegiance to the Lamb, with all my strength, with all I am. I will seek to honor His command.”
“To the Lamb of God who bore my pain, who took my place before the shame.”