Is God wrapping up history?

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• Is God wrapping up history?
• Daniels outline of world history
• Dan 231 You, O king, were watching as a great
  statue one of impressive size and extraordinary
  brightness was standing before you. Its
  appearance caused alarm. 232 As for that statue,
  its head was of fine gold, its chest and arms
  were of silver, its belly and thighs were of
  bronze. 233 Its legs were of iron its feet were
  partly of iron and partly of clay.

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• 234 You were watching as a stone was cut out,
  but not by human hands. It struck the statue on
  its iron and clay feet, breaking them in pieces.
• 235 Then the iron, clay, bronze, silver,
• and gold were broken in pieces without
• distinction and became like chaff from
• the summer threshing floors that the
• wind carries away. Not a trace of them
• could be found. But the stone that struck
• the statue became a large mountain that
• filled the entire earth.

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• 238 Wherever human beings, wild animals, and
  birds of the sky live he has given them into
  your power. He has given you authority over them
  all. You are the head of gold. 239 Now after you
  another kingdom will arise, one inferior to
  yours. Then a third kingdom, one of bronze, will
  rule in all the earth. 240 Then there will be a
  fourth kingdom, one strong like iron. Just like
  iron breaks in pieces and shatters everything,
  and as iron breaks in pieces all of these metals,
  so it will break in pieces and crush the others.
  241 In that you were seeing feet and toes partly
  of wet clay and partly of iron, so this will be a
  divided kingdom. Some of the strength of iron
  will be in it, for you saw iron mixed with wet
  clay.

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• 242 In that the toes of the feet were partly of
  iron and partly of clay, the latter stages of
  this kingdom will be partly strong and partly
  fragile. 243 And in that you saw iron mixed with
  wet clay, so people will be mixed with one
  another without adhering to one another, just as
  iron does not mix with clay. 244 In the days of
  those kings the God of heaven will raise up an
  everlasting kingdom that will not be destroyed
  and a kingdom that will not be left to another
  people. It will break in pieces and bring about
  the demise of all these kingdoms. But it will
  stand forever. 245 You saw that a stone was cut
  from a mountain, but not by human hands it
  smashed the iron, bronze, clay, silver, and gold
  into pieces. The great God has made known to the
  king what will occur in the future. The dream is
  certain, and its interpretation is reliable.

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• Lets look at history as a whole, to determine
  how far down the line we really are.
• 600 B.C. Jerusalem falls to the Babylonians, this
  begins the time of the gentiles.
• Jer 258 Therefore, the Lord who rules over all
  says, You have not listened to what I said. 259
  So I, the Lord, affirm that I will send for all
  the peoples of the north and my servant, King
  Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon. I will bring them
  against this land and its inhabitants and all the
  nations that surround it. I will utterly destroy
  this land, its inhabitants, and all the nations
  that surround it and make them everlasting ruins.
  I will make them objects of horror and hissing
  scorn.

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• 2. 586 B.C. Jerusalem destroyed
• Jer 5212 On the tenth day of the fifth month, in
  the nineteenth year of King Nebuchadnezzar of
  Babylon, Nebuzaradan, the captain of the royal
  guard who served the king of Babylon, arrived in
  Jerusalem. 5213 He burned down the Lords
  temple, the royal palace, and all the houses in
  Jerusalem, including every large house. 5214 The
  whole Babylonian army that came with the captain
  of the royal guard tore down the walls that
  surrounded Jerusalem.

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• 3. 539 B.C. Babylon falls, beginning of
  Medo-Persian
• Dan 529 Then, on Belshazzars orders, Daniel was
  clothed in purple, a golden collar was placed
  around his neck, and he was proclaimed third
  ruler in the kingdom. 530 And in
  that very night Belshazzar, the Babylonian king,
  was killed. 531 So
  Darius the Mede took control of the kingdom when
  he was about sixty-two years old.

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• 4. 538 BC Second return of the Jews to their land
• Ezra 11 In the first year of King Cyrus of
  Persia, in order to fulfill the Lords message
  spoken through Jeremiah, the Lord stirred the
  mind of King Cyrus of Persia. He disseminated a
  proclamation throughout his entire kingdom,
  announcing in a written edict the following
• 12 Thus says King Cyrus of Persia
• The Lord God of heaven has given me all the
  kingdoms of the earth. He has instructed me to
  build a temple for him in Jerusalem, which is in
  Judah. 13 Anyone from his people among you (may
  his God be with him!) may go up to Jerusalem,
  which is in Judah, and may build the temple of
  the Lord God of Israel he is the God who is in
  Jerusalem.

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• 5. 515 BC. The Temple begins to be rebuilt
• Ezra 31-13456.
• 6. 445 BC. Nehemiah rebuilds the walls
• Neh 1-6
• 7. 445-396 BC. City itself rebuilt
• Dan 925 So know and understand
• From the issuing of the command to restore and
  rebuild Jerusalem until an anointed one, a prince
  arrives, there will be a period of seven weeks
  and sixty-two weeks. It will again be built, with
  plaza and moat, but in distressful times.

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• 8. 331 BC. Beginning of the Grecian empire.
• Dan 76 81-22
• After these things, as I was watching, another
  beast like a leopard appeared, with four
  bird-like wings on its back. This beast had four
  heads, and ruling authority was given to it.
• 9. 242 BC. Beginning of the 4th empire, Rome
• Dan 240 Then there will be a fourth kingdom, one
  strong like iron. Just like iron breaks in pieces
  and shatters everything, and as iron breaks in
  pieces all of these metals, so it will break in
  pieces and crush the others.

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• 10. 63 BC. Rome conquers Jerusalem
• 11. 20 BC. Herod the Great begins rebuilding
  the temple.
• 12. 5-4 BC. Jesus is born
  
• Luke 24-11
• 13. AD. 30-33 Death and resurrection of
  Christ.
• 14. AD. 64 The Temple completed.
• 15. AD. 70 Temple and Jerusalem destroyed by
  Rome.
• Deut 2863 This is what will happen Just
  as the Lord delighted to do good for you and make
  you numerous,

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• he will take delight in destroying and decimating
  you. You will be uprooted from the land you are
  about to possess. 2864 The Lord will scatter you
  among all nations, from one end of the earth to
  the other. There you will worship other gods that
  neither you nor your ancestors have known, gods
  of wood and stone. 2865 Among those nations you
  will have no rest nor will there be a place of
  peaceful rest for the soles of your feet, for
  there the Lord will give you an anxious heart,
  failing eyesight, and a spirit of despair. 2866
  Your life will hang in doubt before you you will
  be terrified by night and day and will have no
  certainty of surviving from one day to the next.

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• 2867 In the morning you will say, If only it
  were evening! And in the evening you will say,
  I wish it were morning! because of the things
  you will fear and the things you will see. 2868
  Then the Lord will make you return to Egypt by
  ship, over a route I said to you that you would
  never see again. There you will sell yourselves
  to your enemies as male and female slaves, but no
  one will buy you.
• 16. AD. 1897 Zionist movement, Israel begins
  to pursue movement back to land.

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• 17. AD. 1945 The rise of Gog and Magog
  (Russia).
• 18. AD. 1946 The beginning of first World
  government in the form of the United
  Nations.
• 19. AD. 1948 Israel is established as a nation,
  3rd return begins in force.
• 20. AD. 1948 Beginning of the first attempt at
  a world church (World Council of
  Churches).
• 21. AD. 1956 Israel attacked, Israel gains
  ground.

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• 22. AD. 1967 Israel attacked, Israel gains
  ground.
• 23. AD. 1974 Israel attacked, Israel gains
  ground.
• 24. AD 1974 Rise of the middle East to world
  prominence through oil.
• 25. AD 1980 Russia invades Afghanistan.
• 26. AD 1989 Russia collapses. Nuclear
  weapons technology spreads throughout
  Middle East and Asia. ECM becomes
  EU and begins to work for unification.

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• 27. AD. 1991-92 Kuwait is invaded by Iraq, US
  and multinational force is drawn to
  the Middle East.
• 28. AD. 1992 -2008 Terrorist cells increase
  worldwide violence never before
  experienced.
• 29. AD. 2001-2008 USA attacked and is drawn
  into beginnings of World War 3.
• 30. AD. 2008 Oil raises to 135 per barrel,
  Israel threatened by Iran. Iran and Syria
  pursuing nuclear weapons. Russias return to
  power increasing alliances with Iran, Syria,
  Libya, Sudan and the exact alliances of Ezek 38.

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• 31. AD. 2008-09? World armies being drawn to
  Middle East. US/Israel strike Iran, setting off
  global tensions between major superpowers. Russia
  on alert, relations with US deteriorate
• Next week Jews, Arabs, Israel, and the land of
  promise.