Evangelize the Nation

Evangelize the Nation The purpose of this ministry is to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ. To minister to the local church and in the prisons across this nation.

05/23/2022

Wednesday, June 1st we will begin an in depth study of the Book of Revelation.
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11/09/2021

Dear Friends
As many of you know I have started a new ministry, Evangelize the Nation. We hope and pray that we can serve the needs of the local churches as well as reach those in our nation's prisons.
I ask that you pray (daily or hourly) for this ministry. To reach the local pastors I need the help of each and everyone of you. Please send me the name, address, phone number and email of your pastor. (and pastors you may know). I will send them a letter explaining our vision and hopes.

Thank you

Paul.

05/07/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 9 - 12, Part 2B
But Gabriel divided these 483 years into two parts – seven weeks (7X7 = 49 years), and sixty-two weeks (62X7 =434 years). Why? Well, it took forty-nine years to rebuild Jerusalem, and this was done (as Gabriel said) “in troublesome times.” Read Nehemiah and see how difficult a task it was to restore the city. Then, 434 years later we come to Messiah, the Prince, who is “cut off” (His death on the cross) for the sins of the world. It was His death on the cross that accomplished the purposes given in v. 24. What followed His death? Did Israel accept Him and His message? No. They lied about Him, persecuted His messengers, stoned Stephen and refused to acknowledge His kingship. What happened? Rome came and destroyed the city and wrecked the temple. The nation “cut off” Jesus Christ, so He cut them off from being a nation. Until May 14, 1948, Israel was not a free nation.
Rome is called “the people of the prince that shall come.” Who is this prince? Not “Messiah the Prince,” because that refers to Christ. “The prince that shall come” is Antichrist. He will be the leader of the restored Roman Empire. So, the destruction of Jerusalem in AD 70 was but an illustration of a future invasion and destruction to be led by Antichrist. This prince will make an agreement with the Jews to protect them from the other nations, and this agreement will be set for seven years. This final seven years is the completion of Daniel’s 490-year period. Between the death of Christ and the signing of this covenant you have the entire Age of the Church, a “great parenthesis” in God’s program. The 490 years are in operation only when Israel is in God’s will as God’s people. When Israel crucified Christ, she was set aside and the “prophetic clock” stopped ticking. But when the Antichrist signs this pace with Israel, then the last seven years of Daniel’s “seventy weeks” will start being fulfilled. This seven-year period is known as the Tribulation, or the time of Jacob’s trouble. It is described in Rev. 6-19.
After three and a half years, God and her allies will invade Palestine (see Ezek. 38-39), and God will judge them. Antichrist will invade the land, break his covenant, and set himself up as world dictator. He will stop all worship at the Jewish temple (see 2 Thes. 2) and force the world to worship him and his image. This is the abomination of desolation (see Matt. 24:15; John 5:43, Rev. 13). How will this period end? Jesus Christ will return to earth, meet the rebel armies at Armageddon, and defeat them (Rev. 19:11-21)

04/27/2021

The Book of Daniel Chapters 9 - 12, Part 2 A
2. Seventy Weeks of Prophecy (9:20-27)
There was no evening sacrifice being offered in Jerusalem, but Daniel was offering himself and his prayers at the time of the evening offering (see Ps. 141:1-2), and the Angel Gabriel came to give him his answer. Daniel was concerned about Jerusalem and the holy mountain (v. 20). Would the city be restored? Would the temple be rebuilt? Would the nation ever be redeemed from sin and would righteousness ever dwell on the earth? Gabriel had all the answers for Daniel, and we find them in the famous prophecy of the “seventy weeks.”
The number seven has been stamped on Israel from the beginning. They had a Sabbath of days (Ex. 23:12), setting apart the seventh day for honoring God. They also had a sabbath of years (Lev. 25:1-7); they were to let the land lie fallow on the seventh year and give it rest. Because they broke this law, the Israelites went into captivity, one year for each sabbatical year they failed to obey God (2 Chron. 36:21; Lev. 26:33-34). They also had a “sabbath of sabbaths,” with every fiftieth year set apart as the Year of Jubilee (Lev. 25:8-17)., But now Daniel was to be introduced to a new series of Sabbaths – seventy “weeks” (seven year periods), making a total of 490 years of prophetic time for the Jews. (The word “weeks” in v. 24 is actually “sevens” – seventy sevens are determined, making 490 years.) Please note that this 490 year period of time has to do with Jerusalem and the Jews: “your people… your holy city…” (v. 24). And God has specific purposes to fulfill in this period: the removing of sin and the bringing in of righteousness. The result will be the anointing of the most holy place in the temple, that is, the return of Jesus Christ to the earth to reign in glory from His temple in Jerusalem.
Now for the outline of the 490 years. Verse 25 tells us that the event that will trigger the 490 years is a decree (see Neh. 2:5) permitting the Jews to go back to Jerusalem and rebuild the city. (It is interesting that the event that will trigger the last seven years of this period will be the covenant of the Antichrist to protect the yews. We find a decree at the beginning and at the end of the 490 years.) History tells us there were four different decrees relating to Jerusalem: Cyrus, Darius, and Artaxerxes all made decrees concerning the rebuilding of the temple (Ezra 1, 6, and 7); and Artaxerxes decreed that Nehemiah could return to rebuild the walls (Neh. 2). This was in 445 BC, and it is the decree Dan. 9:25 is talking about; it took place nearly 100 years after Daniel received the message from God. Gabriel said that there would be a total of sixty-nine weeks, seven and sixty-two, between the giving of the decree and the arrival of Messiah, the Prince, in Jerusalem (69 X 7 = 483 years). Keep in mind that “prophetic years” in the Bible are not 365 days, but 360 days long. It has been calculated by scholars that there were 483 prophetic years between the decree in 445 BC. And the day that Jesus rode into Jerusalem on Palm Sunday.

04/23/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 9 – 12

1. Seventy Years of Captivity (9:1-19), Part 1 B

B. The prayer (vv. 3-19)
The word of God and prayer go together (Acts 6:4). Daniel did not go out and boast about his insight into the Word; in fact, he did not even preach a sermon. He went to his knees in prayer. This is the true attitude of the humble Bible student. It is sad to see “prophetic truth” making boasters instead of prayer warriors out of people. How strange it was for the people to see the former prime minister wearing sackcloth. Daniel’s prayer is one of the greatest examples of intercession in the Bible. He confesses his own sins and the sins of his people. He reviews Bible history and confesses that the nation has been wicked and God has been righteous to judge them. He knew the warnings Moses had given (v. 13, see Lev. 26), and he knew that he and his people deserved far greater disaster than God had sent to them. It is wonderful to see Daniel identifying himself with his sinning nation, though he himself had not been guilty of these sins. After confessing his sins and the sins of the people, Daniel begins to pray for Jerusalem (vv. 16-19). No doubt he had often prayed for the holy city; in fact, this is one reason why God blessed and made him to prosper (Ps. 122:6-9). But why pray for the prosperity of a desolate city? Because God had promised not only to end the captivity, but also to take the Jews back to their land that they might rebuild their temple. See Jer. 29:10-14 and 30:10-24. In Isa. 44:28, God promised that Cyrus would permit the Jews to rebuild the city of Jerusalem. So, Daniel was laying hold of these great promises and turning them into believing prayers. Now we will see how God answers his prayers. (Note how Daniel’s prayer in Dan. 9 is similar to those in Ezra 9 and Neh. 9.)

04/20/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 9 – 12, Intro and Part 1A

These closing chapters contain some of the most detailed prophecies in the Bible, and most of them have already been fulfilled. We want to focus our attention in chapter 9, because an understanding of “Daniel’s seventy weeks” is basic to Bible prophecy. This chapter deals with two different periods of time as related to the Jews.
1. Seventy Years of Captivity (9:1-19)
A. The prophecy (vv. 1-2)
Daniel was a student of the OT Scriptures, particularly those prophecies that related to the destiny of his people. He was now nearly ninety years old. He was reading Jer. 25:1-14, and the Lord caused him to see that his people would be in Babylon for seventy years. Note that God does not give people “visions and dreams” when He can teach them through His Word. Today His Spirit teaches us through the Word. Beware of “new revelations” that are supposed to come from dreams and visions. Daniel realized that the seventy years of captivity were about to close. Babylon invaded Palestine and began its siege in 606 BC. And Daniel understood the prophecies in the year 539-538 BC; so there were two years left in the seventy years promised by Jeremiah. What an exciting time Daniel had in his Bible study that day!

04/17/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 7 & 8, Part E

E. The judgment (vv. 9-14, 26-28)
It must have shocked Daniel to see a man in heaven. He saw Jesus Christ, the glorious Son of man. Of course, God could not permit the beast to control the world. He will send His Son to judge the beast and destroy his kingdom, and then to set up His own glorious kingdom, with the saints of God reigning with Him.
This vision complements and supplements the one in chapter 2. There we have man’s view of the nations (precious metals), and here we have God’s view (ferocious beasts). See Ps. 49:12.

04/13/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 7 – 8, Part D

D. terrible beast (vv. 7-8, 17-27)
This beast startled Daniel, because nothing like it had appeared in any of the previous revelations. It seems clear that we have here the Roman Empire, corresponding to the iron in Nebuchadnezzar’s image. But the picture seems to go beyond history into “the latter days,” because we see ten horns on the beast, and these parallel the ten toes of the image in chapter 2, the revived Roman Empire of the last days. Verses 8 and 20 both tell us that a “little horn” (ruler) will appear and defeat three of the ten kingdoms represented by the ten horns and ten toes. This little horn will then become a world ruler, the Antichrist. His mouth will speak great things, and he will persecute the saints (believing Jews and Gentiles during the Tribulation period) for three and a half years (v.25 – time, times, and half a time). This is the last of the half of the Tribulation period, the “seventieth week” that Daniel will tell us about in chapter 9. According to vv. 11-12, the three previous kingdoms (Babylon, Medo-Persia, and Greece) will be “swallowed up” and included in this last great world empire, but the Antichrist himself will finally be judged and slain. Read Rev. 13:1-2, where John describes the beast (Antichrist) and uses the very same beasts we find in Dan. 7. But notice that their order is reversed. This is because Daniel was looking ahead while John was looking back.

04/09/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapter 7&8 Part B and C

B. The bear with ribs (v.5)
Here we meet the Medo-Persian Empire, known not for its swiftness or skill, but for its brute force, just like a bear. The three ribs depict the three empires already defeated (Egypt, Babylon, Libya); and the fact that the bear stood “raised up on one side” indicates that the one half of the empire (the Persian half) was stronger and more honorable (higher) that the other half (the Medes). Medo-Persia conquered Babylon in 539 BC, but their empire lasted only some two hundred years.
C. The winged four-headed leopard (v.6)
This is certainly Greece, led by Alexander the Great, who swiftly conquered the world, defeating the Persians about 331 BC. But the great general died 323, and his vast kingdom was divided into four parts (and thus the four heads). Four of his leading generals each took a part of the kingdom and ruled it as the monarch.

04/06/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapters 7 – 8,
Intro and Part 1 A
Until now, Daniel has been interpreting the dreams of others. Now God gives him extraordinary vision of his own. These two chapters take place before chapter 5, of course, since Babylon has not yet fallen to the Medes and Persians. Remember that Belshazzar’s father, Nabonidus, was actually king of Babylon (the empire) and Belshazzar was his co-regent in the city of Babylon. Nabonidus became king in 556 BC, so we may date chapter 7 in 556 and chapter 8 in 554. Other historians prefer to date chapter 7 in 550, when Nabonidus left for Arabia and put Belshazzar officially in charge. This would put chapter 8 in the year 548. In these visions, Daniel sees the course of Gentile world history and helps us understand what will happen to the Jews in the end times.
1. The Vision of the Four Beasts (7)
The restless sea in the Bible is a picture of the Gentile nations (Rev. 17:15; Isa. 17:12). Here it is the Great Sea, or the Mediterranean Sea, and all the empires mentioned in this vision bordered on this sea. Daniel saw four beasts, and the angel explained what they meant. Each beast represented a kingdom (v.17).
A. The lion with wings (v. 4)
Here we have Babylon, corresponding to the head of gold in Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great image (2:36-38). The winged lion was a favorite image in Babylon; you may see these figures in any museum that has a Babylonian display. The animal made to stand like a man certainly reminds us of Nebuchadnezzar’s humbling experience in 4:27-37. Babylon was still ruling the world at this time, but in just a few years (as chapter 5 explains), the empire would fall. So, that takes us to the next beast.

04/02/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapter 6, Part
6. A Morning of Destruction (6:24-28)
Our souls revolt at the thought of whole families, including children, being thrown to hungry lions. But this was the law of the land, the same law that these wicked men had tried to use against Daniel. How tragic that their innocent children had to suffer; however, such are the awful penalties of sin. We believe that the children under the age of accountability went to be with the Lord. God always vindicates His own. “The righteous is delivered from trouble, and it comes to the wicked instead” (Prov. 11:8). If you are going through persecution and you wonder if God cares, read Ps. 37:1-15 – and trust Him the way Daniel did.
Now we see why God permitted Daniel to go through this experience (vv. 25-27). It brought glory to His name. Peter may have had Daniel in mind when the Spirit led him to write 1 Pet. 3:10-17. When Christians overcome temptation, they always glorify the Lord, even if only the angels and demons are watching. May we, like Paul, desire that Christ might be magnified in our bodies, “whether by life or by death” (Phil 1:20).
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03/30/2021

The Book of Daniel
Chapter 6, Part 5

5. A Night of Deliverance (6:18-23)
What a contrast between Darius in his palace and Daniel in the lions’ den. Darius had no peace, yet Daniel was perfectly at peace with himself, the Lord, and the lions. Daniel was in a place of perfect safety, for God was there. Darius could have been slain by some enemy right in his bedroom. Darius had labored all the previous day to save Daniel from judgment, yet he could not break his own laws. Daniel simply talked to the God of the universe and received all the power he needed. In every way, Daniel was reigning as king while Darius was a slave.
It was Daniel’s faith in God that delivered him (6:23; Heb. 11:33). It is amazing that he had any faith at all, after living in that idolatrous heathen land for so many years. His daily fellowship with the Lord was the secret; he had faith, and he was faithful. See Ps. 18:17-24.
Christians today face many temptations to compromise, and it often appears that the “safest” course is to go with the crowd. But this is the most dangerous course. The only really safe place is in the will of God. Daniel knew that it was wrong to worship the king and pray to him, because Daniel knew God’s Word. He would rather die obeying God’s Word than live outside of God’s will. Satan comes as a roaring lion (1 Pet. 5:8-9) and uses our enemies to try to devour us (2 Tim. 4:17), but God can deliver us if it is for His glory. It is not always God’s will to deliver His children from danger; many Christians have given their lives in the place of duty. But what a reward they receive! Read Rev. 2:10 carefully.

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