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Open your Bible and let's go to it. Steve Thanks Mike if you have your Bible open it to Daniel. I'm not gonna spend all the time today on Daniel But I'm gonna wrap it up Say goodbye to our old friend Daniel and hello to our new friend Jose as we continue with our Old Testament survey and we're taking time in each of the books of the Old Testament I'll I'll tell you about it. I'm later on but but the staff is putting together two or three booklets that will cover this entire teaching that will be sort of like a mini commentary for you to keep in your Bible when you read the Old Testament because can we talk Christians don't read much in the Old Testament You know, we think that God Took a hacksaw and cut off that part of it and dropped it in a fire and said my children It's no longer relevant No quick let it is relevant and it's relevant to your life With the possible exception of the perfect exceptions in Daniel I have As as we've gone through those a couple of days last week and and yesterday and I ask Eric I said Eric. He's our producer. That make any sense. He said, yeah, that's cool. Tell me about the 70 weeks again And I said what? What's you listening? I explained it in great profound detail you ought to understand it and be able to teach it to others and he said well it did make sense He said what about that elastic part Well if you were listening yesterday, I said in Daniel and I and then that's where everybody fights about prophecy There's 70 weeks most believe that 70 weeks of years and I said that Everything's been fulfilled there up through the 69th week and that we're now in the seventh week which is elastic And I told you why because the number seven is used in the Bible symbolically And I don't know how long that number seven that seven years in which we're living now There are some Bible believers who believe that the clock stopped At the coming of Jesus or at the stopping of the sacrifice that's mentioned in Daniel and that we are living in kind of a Place where time stands still that is cold the time of the Gentiles and then when and some prophecy teachers Teach that when the Jews returned to Israel That that was the beginning of the clock starting again and we're in the seven years however you interpret that I Understand that but I don't think that's true I simply want to say that those seven years are elastic and Nobody knows and if you were listening yesterday, I quoted a very good source Jesus Matthew 2436 where he says you don't know The angels don't know And I don't even know in my incarnational state. So Trust God and let the devil take the hindmost and that brings me to the final comment on the book of Daniel I want you to if you will look at the very last verse in the book of Daniel the 13th verse of the 12th chapter of Daniel But go your way till the end and you shall rest and shall stand in your allotted place at the end of days I love that verse God is just described to Daniel's some Cataclysmic changes Frightening in their proportions Daniel has just seen the heavens open up in the future revealed He's had a vision of God that is so awesome that if he wasn't left Trimbling there was something wrong with him and then he was saying whoo What am I gonna do and then God says Daniel? Go your way till the end and you shall rest and you'll stand in your allotted place and we know now that's in heaven at the end of days Good about your business Be cool When it's all happened you'll be in your allotted place Is that good or what I like that One time a lady asked John Wesley what he would do if he knew that he was gonna die at midnight The next day. Let me give you his answer Why madden just as I intend to spend it now I would preach this evening at Gloucester and Again at five tomorrow morning after that I would ride to Tupesbury Preach in the afternoon Meet the societies in the evening. I would then go to Rinn Matins house who expects to entertain me Talk and pray with a family as usual Retire to my room at ten o'clock Commend myself to my heavenly father lay down to rest and wake up in glory plus in the teaching on Daniel Now just go to the next book. We're gonna look at the prophet Hosea and I want you to know this Maybe well, it's not my favorite, but it's one of my two or three favorite books in the Old Testament Because it's built around a story that is so filled with the good news of God's love that sometimes I can hardly stand it Now we said this a number of times The Hebrew Bible was divided in the three sections. Are you taking notes? There's the law those are the first five books of the Bible Torah the prophets. That's eight books the Riding 11 books now in the Hebrew Bible under the section titled the prophets there are two sections the former prophets and the latter prophets The former listen this could change your life. Listen up The former prophet sections contains four books, Joshua Judges Samuel King's and the latter prophets contained four books Isaiah Jeremiah Ezekiel and a book called the twelve Hosea is the first prophet in the last book of the twelve the first of the twelve Now in the English Bible their three sections historical poetic and historical books are 17 books poetic Five books and prophetical books that are 17 books under the prophetic books there are two sections the first is titled major prophets And that's not cause they were smarter a better looking or More profound are more true in what they said But they contain Isaiah Jeremiah Lamentations Ezekiel and Daniel and of them under the minor prophets their 12 books Hosea is the first of the minor prophets Frankly, we we don't know much about the prophet Hosea We know that he was a prophet of the northern kingdom We know that he was the son of B.A.R.I. and that he prophesied during the closing days of Jeroboam The second the north and that the time of his prophetic work at the time of his prophetic work He was a contemporary of Eusiah Jotham a.S. and Hezekiah in the serve a southern kingdom of you now We know that his ministry lasted for about 30 years from 750 to BC to Circa that means around 722 BC that makes Ozea contemporary of the prophet Isaiah and it makes his ministry Follow closely on the ministry of the prophet Amos Now when we get to Amos we're going to talk a lot about Amos, but in order to help you understand the book of the prophet Hosea I'm going to start today and tomorrow. I'm going to compare Amos with Hosea If you want a key passage in Amos and we get to it we'll talk about it a lot more It's from Amos 5 18 through 24 Whoa do you who desire the day of the Lord why would you have the day of Lord? It's darkness and not light if a man fled from a lion and a bear met him or went into the house and Lean with his hand against the wall and a serpent bid him is not the day of the Lord darkness and not light and gloom with no brightness and at I hate I despise your feast and I take no delight in your solemn assemblies even though you offer me your burden You get the idea that's Amos. He's not the guy you invite to a lady's a dinner party Now let me take something about Amos and we'll see it in more detail as I said later on Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam II just as was Hosea both prophets spoke of judgment to the northern kingdom of Israel which fell in 722 But that's where the similarity comes to an end. Let me let me give you the first of these and I've got two or three of them And I'll give you some more tomorrow First Amos lived in the south that's in Judah and he spoke to the north That's safe Hosea lived in the north and he spoke to the north If I told you about Will Campbell will Campbell was on the staff of the National Council of churches during the Civil Rights Movement And he came from the north to help the benaded south But he was by birth a southerner and then he realized I am making no impact whatsoever And he resigned from the staff of the National Council of churches and he reached out To the southerners that he knew on both sides the Ku Klux plan the white citizens council The black power groups and made a tremendous and an awesome impact in that sense Will Campbell was a little bit like Hosea and not like Amos As you guys know I travel around a lot I Get into churches one day maybe two days maybe three days and then I come home I can say all kinds of radical strong judgmental things But I'll tell you something the pastors got to stay there God likes the pastor a lot better than he likes me I mean Listen if you don't have the summer magazine. 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