The Word and the Cross

For those who have come to Christ, Spurgeon has an encouraging word to those now wanting to be holy.

Daniel 7 Commentary. Matches Daniel 2 exactly! And Daniel wants to know about this 4th kingdom again, seen in this new light.

Prophecies against Egypt, Philistia, and Moab. Egypt will recover. Moab, only in the latter days.

The Eastern Leg offers several possibilities: The Byzantine Empire followed by the Ottoman Empire but inhabited throughout with the "Orthodox" Church. We move then to Daniel 7 where a prophecy that parallels Daniel 2 appears.

Don't go to Egypt thinking you will be safe there! But they do... and they take Jeremaih with them! Two views of history. A surprising word to Baruch.

The Eastern "leg" of the Roman Empire. Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul The Ottoman Empire/Muslims Eastern Orthodoxy

Zedekiah wants to hear the word of the Lord... he does, and then disobeys it. Jeremiah spared, remains in Judah as exiles are taken away. Gedaliah is the new governor. Mudered. Murderer Ishmael works for Ammonites and brings captives away from Judah, only to be rescued by Johanan.

The Rome of tomorrow. The ten toes/2 feet. Iron plus clay. Islam invasion of Europe.

Jeremiah dictates the Word of the Lord to Baruch: twice! The prophet comes close to death.

The face of Rome we know today. Not so threatening but still very influential. It doesn't go away, like all the other empires did...

Restoration is coming! Zedekiah given a warning! Servants freed then recalled. God angry. The marvelous holiness of a family in Israel.

How can a just and holy God "justify" a sinner? Mr. Spurgeon will help with this serious question.

The New Covenant coming! Jeremiah buys property in a neighborhood that may soon be destroyed! Why?

Babylon being rebuilt? Did Roman Catholicism pick up where Roman Empiricism left off?

Jeremiah is commissioned to write a letter to those who have already gone into exile. They are encouraged to make the best of it there, and look forward to their restoration.

Rome, phase 4: Papal Rome, the Roman Catholic System. Rome did not end when the Empire ended. Rome still lives. Comparison of the Old testament background of Babylon with the New testament background of Rome. Two powers strikingly alike!

The whole world to be judged. Plan to murder Jeremiah is thwarted. Israel and surrounding nations' peoples to submit to Nebuchadnezzar or die! Hananiah's false prophecy and its result.

Rome, the Eternal City (says man). Rome replaces Greece. Phases 1, 2, and 3 of Rome.

The coming of the Branch! False prophets who go but are not sent. How the false prophets speak out of their own imaginations... like today?

The third kingdom Daniel saw was the Greek Empire of Alexander the Great, who unified much of the world under his reign. After his death and many struggles of his generals, the kingdom narrowed down to two separate and rival kingdoms. In other words, Greece follows the same contours as the human body.

We are in Daniel 2, beholding the statue in the dream of King Nebuchadnezzar. God has told us what the dream means. Here's the beginnig, the head of gold and the chest and arms of silver, the first and second kingdoms.

The broken jar and what it meant. Pashhur punishes Jeremiah and is cursed. Jeremiah's message for King Zedekiah. Jeconiah ends the royal line of Solomon.

This is good. Spugeon takes the simple but powerful statement of Paul, "God justifies the ungodly" and drives it home with such accurate force as to make any believer hear and rejoice.

Jeremiah prays and is answered. Judgment... and still restoration! The potter and the clay.

The pure in heart will see God. That's not poetry. That's fact, from the lips of Jesus.