One of the greatest men of prayer in Biblical history was Daniel. We can learn much about fervent, effectual prayer - as well as being a righteous "man" - from him. He prayed faithfully three times daily, even when doing so meant a lions' den! Daniel studied Scripture (e.g. the scrolls of Jeremiah) to align his prayers with the Lord's revealed will. An interesting fact about the super-powerful prayer of Daniel (9:1-19) is 72% of it was confessional. In contrast, we spend about 72% of our prayers...
Mar 27, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 124
This lesson on Daniel 8:15-27. IMPORTANT LESSON on the last fierce king of the last Gentile Kingdom, the Antichrist.
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Ep. 258
Learn what Hanukkah is all about - very fascinating! Who is the "Little Horn"? Find out. This lesson is on Daniel 8:11-14.
Mar 24, 2025•57 min•Ep. 257
This lesson is on Daniel 8:1-10. With chapter 8, we begin to look at the third section of Daniel which we have entitled, "Daniel Prophetic History of Israel". The prophetic vision of Daniel 8 begins with the conflict of the two world powers that would sequentially follow Babylon (Medo-Persia and Greece), but the focus then narrows down to the specific persecution to occur in a small place on the map called Judah. In Daniel 7, we learn about the coming "little horn" of the last days - the Antichr...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 256
This lesson is on Daniel 7:15-28 and it deals with the divine interpretation of Daniel's God-given dream about the prophetic history of the Gentile nations (from the time of the ancient Babylonian Empire to the Revived Roman Empire of the Antichrist). Daniel received the dream, but wanted to know more about it from the Lord! When a person genuinely seeks to know and understand more about God and His plans and purposes, and when he sincerely wants to know Bible prophecy, the Lord honors that seek...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Ep. 255
The God-given dream of Daniel chapter 7 presents progressive revelation about that great day of transition from the kingdoms of men on earth to the Kingdom of God on earth. That final Kingdom will differ from all others for it will be ruled by the perfect love, justice, righteousness, and grace of the KING of Kings. It will be a benevolent Theocracy. In Lesson 25, we discussed Daniel's introduction to his own dream (7:1-3) and then we looked at the dreadful invasion of the various beast of the d...
Mar 14, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 254
Daniel 7:1-8 Another God-sent, very important prophetic dream, which was this time given to Daniel. It corresponded to King Nebuchadnezzar's God-sent dream of chapter 2, but rather than the Gentile world empires being pictured in the sequence downward of the body parts on a giant statue, they are portrayed as four successive beasts. The primary difference in the two dreams is that the pagan king (Nebuchadnezzar) was shown the course of the Gentile kingdoms as the world sees them - almost godlike...
Mar 10, 2025•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 253
The greatest "test" of Daniel's life was "The Lions' Den Test" - but perhaps the greater miracle of that true account was not his preservation from the lions, but his perseverance in prayer! Knowing the consequence he would face (lion food) if he persisted in his daily routine of praying to El Elyon, the Most High God, yet he flung open his window, faced East toward Jerusalem, got on his knees, and prayed knowing his jealous enemies could see him. How's that for a non-compromising, stedfast, cou...
Mar 07, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 79
No matter how often you may have read or studied your way through the true account of Daniel's in the lions' den, there are always new depths, insights, and personal applications to discover. That will very likely be the case as you engage with us in this in-depth two-part study on the famous Daniel chapter 6. The setting for the "lions' den" episode is in the new Medo-Persian Empire. The "lion king" was Darius the Mede (vassal king over the city of Babylon). Daniel was the pre-eminent president...
Mar 05, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 252
First John 5:13 is likely the most important verse in the entire epistle, for it is John’s summary statement as to the central purpose for it. He had other reasons (see Part 1 and Part II on our podcast), but his ultimate objective is that every true believer be confident is his or her salvation. Assurance of salvation is for the here and now; it is not something only attained when we leave this world and then find out we made it! Faith is not something we are always hoping to grasp "enough of" ...
Mar 03, 2025•54 min•Ep. 521
Seventy percent of the world’s population today is non-Christian, and even among the 30% who label themselves under the broad umbrella of “Christendom,” only 7.9% are evangelical. The Lord Jesus said, “strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it” (Matthew 7:14). The tragic truth is that many who think they are “Christian” will one day hear Him say, “I never knew you; depart from Me” (7:23). This is why the Apostle Paul tells us in II Corinthi...
Mar 03, 2025•59 min•Ep. 520
In this lesson, we discuss many interesting subjects regarding the first epistle of the Apostle John, including why he was called both a "Son of Thunder" and "The Apostle of Love," and how both titles are evident in his writing. We discuss why boldness for truth and compassionate love need to go "hand-in-hand" in every believer's life and testimony for Christ. We take a jet-tour look at John's life before, during, and after his physical time spent with "the Word of life" - Jesus. We also specula...
Mar 03, 2025•1 hr 26 min•Ep. 519
Daniel chapter 5 contains the downward spiritual journey of the last king (Belshazzar) of the ancient Babylonian Empire - it is also a microcosmic, prophetic picture of the downward spiritual journey of the whole anti-God, Israeli-oppressive world system. As the proud young king rejected the testimony of his grandfather (Nebuchadnezzar) about the truth of Daniel's Most High God and had not sought wisdom from God's true "wise man," Daniel during all the years of his rule - preferring to trust in ...
Mar 02, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 251
The arrogant, degenerate young King Belshazzar of Babylon had directly challenged God by using the holy vessels stolen from God's House (the Temple in Jerusalem) to praise his worthless chunks of metal, wood, and stone that his pagan culture called "gods". Putting his ridiculous "gods" against the all-powerful Supreme God was extremely foolish and met with an immediate, very frightening response! Supernatural fingers appeared from out of nowhere to write a cryptic message on the candlestick illu...
Feb 27, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 250
In Daniel chapter 25, which is the record of events that took place 25 years after King Nebuchadnezzar's public testimony to the greatness of the Most High God (see 4:2, 37), we meet Nebuchadnezzar's grandson, Belshazzar. He turned out to be the final king of the ancient Babylonian Empire. He was a degenerate, drunken fool, who learned nothing from the experience of his grandfather. He brazenly desecrated the Temple vessels of God in drunken toasts made to his false "gods" with all his young and...
Feb 25, 2025•1 hr 15 min•Ep. 249
Will post a blurb on this lesson on Daniel 4:28-37 at a later time. This lesson is about King Nebuchadnezzar's great humiliation, as he lived like an ox in the field for seven years, after he claimed for himself glory that belongs only to God. It is also on the king's great humiliation, when he lived like an ox in the field for 7 years after having claimed for himself the glory that belongs only to God.
Feb 24, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 248
Daniel 4:19-27 Telling the most powerful man on earth he is about to be "cut down" is not the most desirable aspect of the "job description" of a prophet, who doubled as a prime minister, but that was exactly what God required of Daniel. As soon as Daniel heard Nebuchadnezzar's second God-given dream, his God-given gift of dream interpretation "kicked in," for he knew what it meant. It predicted great shame and disgrace for the king, and Daniel had come to love the king - as chapter 4 shows us. ...
Feb 22, 2025•1 hr 4 min•Ep. 247
Daniel 4:1-18. It will surprise many to find that Daniel chapter 4 is one of the great love stories of Scripture! How in the world can the account of the fall of a mighty king be considered a love story? The answer is simple, for this is the record of God demonstrating His merciful, unconditional love on an arrogant king until that man was humbled and became a true believer in Him (YHWH)! This is the climax of King Nebuchadnezzar's spiritual journey. The first four chapters of Daniel present (al...
Feb 19, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 246
The grande finale! You DO NOT want to miss this exciting end to the account of Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael, who were cast into the fiery furnace for their steadfast obedience to God's command to not bow before any other "god". Lo and behold, they were not instantly "turned to toast"! In fact, they were so completely protected and preserved from the flames of great tribulation, there was not even the smell of smoke upon them! Their greatest blessing, however, was that they enjoyed fellowship w...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 10 min•Ep. 78
This is the continuing account of the three brave, bold, and purposed-to-stand for the True God young men King Nebuchadnezzar tried to force to bow before the golden image (of himself). Although literally thousands obeyed the king's command and bowed low before the colossal idol, those three alone stood tall. Even when given a second opportunity to avoid the horrible consequence for disobedience to the king's decree, they refused to budge. Nebuchadnezzar went into a wild rage! How could anyone d...
Feb 14, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 77
This is the first of three messages on three VERY brave and VERY committed believers in Almighty God, and we like to use their godly Hebrew names: Hananiah, Azariah, and Mishael. How often are our decisions, attitudes, and behavior determined by either external or internal pressures? We do what we do and we say what we say based either on inner convictions or external pressures. Most people yield to external pressures in order to "fit in" with their prevalent culture or their peers. But these He...
Feb 11, 2025•1 hr 12 min•Ep. 76
In concluding his interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's God-given dream prophecy, Daniel spoke of the Stone cut out without human hands that came from the sky and smashed the colossal image on its feet and toes. The entire statue, representing the whole godless world system, came crashing down, broken into pieces that became like chaff which the wind carried away. The Stone then became a great mountain that filled the whole earth. The Stone is the Lord Jesus at His Second Coming. The great mou...
Feb 09, 2025•1 hr 16 min•Ep. 227
nKing Nebuchadnezzar learned from Daniel that his God-sent dream of a huge image represented successive kingdoms, beginning with him (Babylon, the head of gold). The various body parts and metallic substances perfectly symbolized each of the four Gentile kingdoms directly involved with Israel in the period of time known as "The Times of the Gentiles". From Daniel's time in the Sixth Century B.C., all the kingdoms of the image except Babylon were yet-future; from our time in history, there is onl...
Feb 08, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 226
This is the beginning of Daniel's interpretation of King Nebuchadnezzar's God-given prophetic dream. The colossal image of the dream corporately represents the whole, anti-God world system; the various parts of the image represent four successive now-past Gentile Kingdoms - which were yet-future (except for the head of gold, representing Babylon) at the time of Daniel. The four Gentile kingdoms are: Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome. The feet and toes of the image represent the yet-future k...
Feb 07, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 225
Daniel reveals the content of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream, which presents the blueprint for all Biblical eschatology! Concisely stated, the dream is about "A Statue and A Stone"! In this lesson, we look at the statue's description, the statue's devolution, the statue's destruction, and the Stone's dominion! Learn how the giant colossus of Nebuchadnezzar's God-sent dream disavows (refutes) the evolutionist's worldview of science and history!
Feb 04, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Ep. 191
In this lesson on the Prophet Daniel and his providential intervention the night King Nebuchadnezzar had a (God-given) disturbing dream, which nobody could interpret (because he did not tell them what it was), we learn incredibly important lessons on being "Christlike in a Crisis". It truly was a crisis; Nebuchadnezzar threatened to cut into pieces all his "wisemen" and turn their homes into dunghills if they could not interpret his dream. Daniel and his 3 Hebrew friends were included among thos...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 11 min•Ep. 75
The questions answered in Daniel chapter 2 (which we discuss from this lesson through lesson 13) are questions mankind in general asks: What does the future of the world look like? Will there ever be a day of peace, harmony, and prosperity among the nations? Will lawlessness, immorality, violence, wars, envies, and injustices always dominate the world scene? Will there ever be a day when righteousness and a true spirit of brotherhood among men prevail? Will peace on earth, good will toward men e...
Feb 01, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 190
Lesson from Daniel 1:8-21, in which we discuss Daniel's daring proposal to have the king's "meat and wine" replaced (for him and his three friends) with "pulse and water" for ten days. Daniel was so determined not to disobey God's dietary laws, he risked offending the king himself with his request. He was confident the Lord would bless their obedience by making them healthier in appearance than all the other young captives who compromised by eating the Babylonian delicacies - and He did!...
Jan 30, 2025•1 hr 6 min•Ep. 189
If there is one thing this world (caught up in pandemic panic and fear of death and/or financial ruin) desperately needs, it is men, women, and young people like Daniel, the servant of the Most High God! For centuries, Daniel has stood as an extraordinary example of solid faith, uncompromising spirit, steadfast conviction (based on God's Holy Word), boldness for his God, yet with kindness and compassion to all, even his enemies. He remains an extraordinary example of Christlikeness to us today. ...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr•Ep. 74
There are consequences to disobeying God's commandments, which is what Israel encountered in the Babylonian Captivity for having turned to the worship of idols, embracing "the queen of heaven cult," and disobeying the Law of the Sabbatic year. The captivity was used to purge His people, and Babylon certainly had a way of sifting "the tares" from "the wheat" and causing the godly "wheat" to grow stronger in their faith! In this lesson, we discuss the clever indoctrination program of King Nebuchad...
Jan 26, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 188
