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Today is Thursday September 17, 2009 and we are continuing our studies in the book of Daniel, please read chapters 7-9 in your Bible or Click Here to read them. http://www.readytofollow.com/bible-september-17

Today's Message: Eternal Treasures
Eternal treasures can only be gained as we truly desire, more than anything else, to be guided by the Word of God and the Holy Spirit.

When one thinks of the word giant one can imagine a person or thing of unusually great size, power, and importance, these giants can be a career, hobbies, or people. The powerful influence of these giants often seek to lure us away from God's eternal purpose for our lives. Actually, the these giants are beasts that can steal our time and destroy our testimony of God's blessings, if we yield to them. Fifty years earlier, Nebuchadnezzar had viewed a great, glorious giant figure, representing succeeding world empires that would exist until the end of time (Chapter 2). These same world kingdoms were presented from far different points of view. God reveals these future world events to Daniel in a dream. “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters. Daniel spake and said, I saw in my vision by night, and, behold, the four winds of the heaven strove upon the great sea. And four great beasts came up from the sea, diverse one from another. The first was like a lion, and had eagle's wings: I beheld till the wings thereof were plucked, and it was lifted up from the earth, and made stand upon the feet as a man, and a man's heart was given to it. And behold another beast, a second, like to a bear, and it raised up itself on one side, and it had three ribs in the mouth of it between the teeth of it: and they said thus unto it, Arise, devour much flesh. After this I beheld, and lo another, like a leopard, which had upon the back of it four wings of a fowl; the beast had also four heads; and dominion was given to it. After this I saw in the night visions, and behold a fourth beast, dreadful and terrible, and strong exceedingly; and it had great iron teeth: it devoured and brake in pieces, and stamped the residue with the feet of it: and it was diverse from all the beasts that were before it; and it had ten horns.” - Daniel 7:1-7. The great sea driven by opposing winds represents the confusion and competition that exist in the world, and from this violent situation arise four savage beasts, whom are world rulers, representing the history of the world from the time of Daniel to the kingdom of Christ. The savage beasts represent the kingdoms of Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.

These beasts were symbols of selfishness, heartless cruelty and strife. Daniel saw world monarchs in their rebellion against God and contending for mastery over competitors. Selfish ambition to achieve worldly dominion has reduced men to the level of beasts and the result will be the destruction of many great nations. However, in the midst of all the chaos God assures us that He will support and comfort His people through it all. “I saw in the night visions, and, behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” - Daniel 7:13,14. The Son of man, is none other than Jesus Christ and He is coming to destroy every anti-christian power that is deceiving His people and will have dominion over His own kingdom upon the earth, which He promises will not be destroyed.

It is desirable to obtain the right and full sense of what we see and hear from God, those that want to know, must ask by faithful and fervent prayer. Daniel, eager to learn of what his visions meant, asked in prayer for the meaning. “Thus he said, The fourth beast shall be the fourth kingdom upon earth, which shall be diverse from all kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, and shall tread it down, and break it in pieces. And the ten horns out of this kingdom are ten kings that shall arise: and another shall rise after them; and he shall be diverse from the first, and he shall subdue three kings. And he shall speak great words against the most High, and shall wear out the saints of the most High, and think to change times and laws: and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and the dividing of time. But the judgment shall sit, and they shall take away his dominion, to consume and to destroy it unto the end. And the kingdom and dominion, and the greatness of the kingdom under the whole heaven, shall be given to the people of the saints of the most High, whose kingdom is an everlasting kingdom, and all dominions shall serve and obey him.” - Daniel 7:23-27. This refers to the second coming of our blessed Lord, when the saints shall triumph in the complete fall of Satan's kingdom. The saints of the Most High shall possess the kingdom for ever. The full accomplishment will be in the everlasting happiness of the saints, the kingdom that cannot be moved. The gathering together the whole family of God will be a blessedness of Christ's coming.

While we are blessed to enjoy many things here on earth, we must not let the giants that keep us from doing the will of God have dominion over us. “Love not the world, neither the things that are in the world. If any man love the world, the love of the Father is not in him. For all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life, is not of the Father, but is of the world. And the world passeth away, and the lust thereof: but he that doeth the will of God abideth for ever.” - I John 2:15-17.

Today's Prayer:
Dear God,
Lord, I thank You for the great deliverance and transfer that took place when I surrendered my heart to You. You delivered me from the dominion of darkness and transferred me into the Kingdom of Your Son in whom I have redemption and the forgiveness of all sin.  Now I walk in the light of Jesus and His kingdom which is righteousness, peace and joy in the Holy Spirit. Help me never to forget the great rescue and change You brought into my life. In Jesus' Name.............Amen.

Have a wonderful and blessed day/night and enjoy the rest of your week.
God Bless You,
Christina

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