Daniel 1:21 NKJV
21 Thus Daniel continued
until the first year of King Cyrus.
Daniel worked for 4 different
kings.
Daniel 6:28 NKJV
28 So this Daniel prospered
in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.
Israel was in captivity for 70
years.
It is covered in the first 6 chapters of the book of
Daniel.
Daniel 7:1 NKJV
1 In the first
year of Belshazzar king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream and
visions of his head while on his bed. Then he wrote down the dream, telling the
main facts.
Chapters 7 to 12 are
prophetic.
Daniel recorded his prophesies by the king that he
served.
Daniel 8:1 NKJV
1 In the third
year of the reign of King Belshazzar a vision
appeared to me—to me, Daniel—after the one that appeared to me the first time.
Daniel 9:1-2 NKJV
1 In the first
year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the lineage of
the Medes, who was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans—
2 in
the first year of his reign I, Daniel, understood by the books the number of
the years specified by the word of the Lord through Jeremiah the prophet, that
He would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
Daniel 10:1 NKJV
1 In the third
year of Cyrus king of Persia a message was revealed to
Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar.
The message was true, but the
appointed time was long; and he understood the message, and had understanding
of the vision.
Daniel 11:1 NKJV
1 “Also in
the first year of Darius the Mede, I, even I, stood up to
confirm and strengthen him.)
Skeptics struggle with the book
of Daniel because it is so accurate.
He foretold the year that Jesus
Christ would begin His ministry.
He foretold the rise of the
Greek empire, and it's division into 4 empires.
Daniel 12:1-2 NKJV
1 “At that time Michael
shall stand up,The great prince who stands watch over the sons of your
people;
And there shall be a time of trouble,Such as never was since there was a
nation,Even to that time.
And at that time your people shall be delivered,Every
one who is found written in the book.
2 And many of those who sleep
in the dust of the earth shall awake,Some to everlasting life,Some to shame and
everlasting contempt.
If you are seduced by pride, you
are stubborn and easily deceived.
Pride can be reversed.
A prideful person can become a
humble person.
God humbles people.
God humbles you to keep you from
being destroyed.
1. God’s plans for you are for
your good.
Deuteronomy 8:16 NKJV
16 who fed you in the
wilderness with manna, which your fathers did not know,
that He
might humble you and that He might test you, to
do you good in the end—
Jeremiah 24:5 NKJV
5 “Thus says the Lord, the
God of Israel:
‘Like these good figs, so will I acknowledge those who are
carried away captive from Judah,
whom I have sent out of this
place for their own good, into the land of the Chaldeans.
God sent Israel into captivity
for their own good.
Jeremiah 29:11 NKJV
11 For I know the thoughts
that I think toward you, says the Lord,
thoughts of peace and not of
evil, to give you a future and a hope.
Jeremiah 29:10-11 NKJV
10 For thus says the
Lord:
After seventy years are completed at Babylon, I will
visit you and perform My good word toward you, and cause you to return
to this place.
11 For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says
the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.
God sent Israel into captivity
for their good in exile.
II Chronicles 36:22-23 NKJV
22 Now in the first
year of Cyrus king of Persia,
that the word of the Lord by
the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled,
the Lord stirred up the
spirit of Cyrus king of Persia,
so that he made a proclamation
throughout all his kingdom, and also put it in writing, saying,
23 Thus
says Cyrus king of Persia:
All the kingdoms of the earth
the Lord God of heaven has given me.
And He has commanded me to build
Him a house at Jerusalem which is in Judah.
Who is among you of all His
people?
May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!
May the Lord his God be with him, and let him go up!
These are the last two verses in
the Hebrew Scriptures.
There are 24 books in the Hebrew
Scriptures. 5 books of Torah. 8 Books of the Prophets. 11
books are the writings.
Some of the Hebrew books are
divided into 2 books in the Christian Scriptures which total 39.
Genesis 37:4-5 NKJV
4 But when his brothers saw
that their father loved him more than all his brothers, they hated him and
could not speak peaceably to him.
5 Now Joseph had a dream, and he
told it to his brothers; and they hated him even more.
There was pride in Joseph.
What
would cause you to tell older, stronger brothers a dream that they would bow down
to him?
Pride.
2. God knows you before you know
Him.
Isaiah 45:1 NKJV
1 “Thus says the Lord to
His anointed,To Cyrus, whose right hand I have held—
To subdue nations before him And
loose the armor of kings,To open before him the double doors,So that the gates
will not be shut:
We think Daniel showed Cyrus the
writings.
Isaiah 45:4 NKJV
4 For Jacob My servant’s
sake,And Israel My elect,
I have even called you by your name (Cyrus) ;I have named
you, though you have not known Me.
Cyrus's, grandfather the king, dreamed that his grandson would
overthrow him.
His grandfather gave his grandson over to be
killed.
The person responsible for killing him switched him out with a
shepherd's still born baby.
The shepherd named him Cyrus.
Isaiah 44:28 NKJV
28 Who says of Cyrus,
‘He is My shepherd,
And he shall perform all My pleasure,Saying to
Jerusalem,
“You shall be built,
”And to the temple, “Your foundation
shall be laid.” ’
Isaiah wrote these words 150
years before this.
Isaiah gave his name, Cyrus, and foretold that he would be a
shepherd.
Daniel must have showed Cyrus
these writings.
That's what prompted Cyrus to rebuild the temple.
3. God’s plans for you include
provision.
Ezra 1:4 NKJV
4 And whoever is left in
any place where he dwells,
let the men of his place help him with
silver and gold,
with goods and livestock, besides the freewill
offerings for the house of God which is in Jerusalem.
Ezra 3:7 NKJV
7 They also gave
money to the masons and the carpenters, and food, drink, and
oil
to the people of Sidon and Tyre to bring cedar logs from Lebanon
to the sea, to Joppa,
according to the permission which they had from Cyrus
king of Persia.
II Chronicles 7:14 NKJV
14 if My people who are
called by My name will humble themselves,
and pray and seek My
face, and turn from their wicked ways,
then I
will hear from heaven,
and will forgive their sin and
heal their land.
We are to humble ourselves even
before we pray. Prayer without humility goes nowhere.
II Chronicles 12:6 NKJV
6 So the leaders of Israel
and the king humbled themselves; and they said, “The Lord is
righteous.”
II Chronicles 32:26 NKJV
26 Then Hezekiah
humbled himself for the pride of his heart, he and the inhabitants of
Jerusalem, so that the wrath of the Lord did not come upon them in the days of
Hezekiah.
II Chronicles 33:23 NKJV
23 And he did not humble
himself before the Lord, as his father Manasseh had humbled himself;
but Amon trespassed more and more.
II Chronicles 34:27 NKJV
27 because your heart was
tender, and you humbled yourself before God when you heard His
words against this place and against its inhabitants, and you humbled
yourself before Me, and you tore your clothes and wept before Me, I
also have heard you,” says the Lord.
II Chronicles 36:12 NKJV
12 He did evil in the sight
of the Lord his God, and did not humble himself before
Jeremiah the prophet, who spoke from the mouth of the Lord.
James 4:10 NKJV
10 Humble yourselves in
the sight of the Lord, and He will lift you up.
I Peter 5:6 NKJV
6 Therefore humble
yourselves under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you in due time,
How do you humble
yourself?
Philippians 2:3 (ESV)
3 Do nothing from selfish ambition or conceit,
but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
but in humility count others more significant than yourselves.
Rank yourself below
others.
Philippians 2:5-8 NLT
5 You must have
the same attitude that Christ Jesus had.
I consider you better than
me.
6 Though he was God,he did
not think of equality with God as something to cling to.
You must renew your
mind. Make it new again.
7 Instead, he gave
up his divine privileges;he took the humble position of a
slave and was born as a human being.When he appeared in human
form,
8 he humbled himself in
obedience to God and died a criminal’s death on a cross.
Numbers 12:3 NKJV
3 (Now the man Moses
was very humble, more than all men who were on the face of
the earth.)
Romans 10:9-10 (NKJV)
9 that if you...
confess with your
mouth the Lord Jesus...
and believe in your heart that God has raised Him from the
dead,
you will be saved.
What is the Holy Spirit saying
to me through this message?
Robert Morris, Gateway Church
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