Sep 13, 2026 · 43 min · 11 segments
The Bible tells the story of how human beings lost our birthright, how the world was taken over by beasts, and how Jesus came to restore the original plan of the Father. Series: Daniel Speaker: Matt…
Matt MenzelHost
of the veil that so often covers our eyes and the eyes of the people we love in our city, in our country, around the world.

I want to remind you, we talked about last week, the biblical apocalyptic is heavy with symbolism and imagery, but I don't want you to confuse that with fiction or fantasy.

He's showing you how to, my great grandfather who was a pastor in Maple Ridge for 40 years, he would always say, and he's borrowed this, but like he wrote a lot on end times.

And he would always say to my grandpa who passed it down to me that, you know, we read the Bible with a newspaper in the other hand.

But as you look around at what's happening in the world, you need to understand God has told us what this is ahead of time.

Thousands of years before we ever got here, God said, like to Daniel, I mean, for us, when we unpack these four beasts like we did last week, this is ancient history.

You have to remember, Daniel is writing before Medo-Persia took over Babylon, before Alexander the Great and the formation of ancient Greece, before the empire of Rome was ever a thing, before Rome, as Sir Isaac Newton pointed out, was divided into 10 ethnic groups, 10 kingdoms, 10 hordes.

the fourth beast, not shattered like the others, but divided into these 10 kingdoms.

of the veil that so often covers our eyes and the eyes of the people we love in our city, in our country, around the world.

I want to remind you, we talked about last week, the biblical apocalyptic is heavy with symbolism and imagery, but I don't want you to confuse that with fiction or fantasy.

He's showing you how to, my great grandfather who was a pastor in Maple Ridge for 40 years, he would always say, and he's borrowed this, but like he wrote a lot on end times.

And he would always say to my grandpa who passed it down to me that, you know, we read the Bible with a newspaper in the other hand.

But as you look around at what's happening in the world, you need to understand God has told us what this is ahead of time.

Thousands of years before we ever got here, God said, like to Daniel, I mean, for us, when we unpack these four beasts like we did last week, this is ancient history.

You have to remember, Daniel is writing before Medo-Persia took over Babylon, before Alexander the Great and the formation of ancient Greece, before the empire of Rome was ever a thing, before Rome, as Sir Isaac Newton pointed out, was divided into 10 ethnic groups, 10 kingdoms, 10 hordes.

the fourth beast, not shattered like the others, but divided into these 10 kingdoms.
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