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Daniel 3

- Like Daniel, his three companions are faithful men to Yah.we and thus excellent examples for us!

- We don’t know anything about Daniel!

- That’s strange because he is one of the most important men of Babylon!

- Nebuchadnezzar is brutal!

- But he can easily change his attitude when something happens!

- Here, Daniel’s three companions are saved by Yah.weh!

- And he gives them a higher position!

- So they are also blessed because of their faithfulness!

- He doesn’t accept anyone’s disobedience but when somebody does it and survives, he can only recognize it!

- Thus he is pragmatic!

- Faithfulness leads you to find and keep the right direct, without going to the left or to the right!

- You just keep straight away!

- It is evidence!

- No evidence, no faithfulness!

- It requires hard work, no lazinessI

 

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Daniel 4

- Nebuchadnezzar is warned by God through visions but he doesn’t care so he pays the price!

- It was the same with the Israelites!

- It is the same with humanity!

- And humanity doesn’t care!

- And all the time Yah.weh gives time to people so they can change!

- But there is always a limit!

- Thus people will have to pay the price when God strikes humanity!

- It will be a shock!

- But the majority never understands!

- It’s always the same!

- So why lamenting!

- When someone doesn’t listen and pays the price even with death, that’s life!

- There is no need to be sad!

- People are adults and thus they make a choice!

- And the way we live shows what we choose!

- Then we can’t say I didn’t know!

 

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Daniel 5

- Once again a good example we may try to remember as a warning!

- Those who don’t care about God will pay the price!

- Belshazzar didn’t listen and was killed!

- We may remember the meaning of Tekel, that is “you have been weighed in the balances and found lacking.”!

- It can’t be clearer even if human beings don’t want to listen!

- Thus everyone will be weighed in the balances!

- Let’s also remember how Daniel reacted!

- He didn’t care about privileges!

- He just wanted to serve God faithfully!

- Making the right choice at the right time!

- If you make the right choice at the wrong time, you are dead!

- If you make the wrong choice at the right time, you are dead!

- Remember: Yah.weh’s time is not man’s time!

 

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Daniel 6

- Thus Kings change but Daniel stays and keeps his position!

- God keeps blessing him!

- Daniel is definitely a special one or as we will see later “a precious man”!

- There is no one like him because Yah.weh is with him!

- And also because he is humble, he doesn’t look for honors!

- Humility is one of the best qualities for Yah.weh, if not the best one!

- Daniel is a precious man and a humble one!

- Or he is a humble man and a precious one!

- Both are connected!

- Yes, there is no one like him!

- Thus there is a lot to learn from him!

- So much to learn!

 

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Daniel 6

- So here again we are told about Daniel’s attitude: trustworthy, not negligent and not corrupted!

- He was really different from the other important people!

- Today it would be the same!

- Corruption is everywhere!

- So here again we can see the types of men Yah.weh looks for!

- Something to remember and think about if we can do it!

- Trustworthy, not negligent and not corrupted: definitely a model to follow!

- We have to dig deeply to understand and approach such a model!

- Today, there is no such reference!

- No model!

- That’s why we are where we are!

- We can only look in the Bible for such guidance!

- This world is dying or better said is dead!

- It is only a fake and its models will lead you nowhere!

- They are also fakes!

 

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Daniel 6

- Nothing is more important for Daniel than his relationship to Yah.weh!

- So as soon as he is told about the decree, he prays to Yah.weh!

- What an example of faith!

- Here we have another opportunity to see the nature of his relationship with Yah.weh!

- Completely different from the one the Israelites have with Yah.weh!

- Let the one having ears and eyes listen and read carefully!

- Yah.weh is looking for such people, not for those who are spiritually deaf and blind!

- Today faith means nothing!

- Or just I believe in something I don’t really know!

- In the Bible, faith is essential to man!

- It is something people have to fight for!

- It is something people need to live 24 hours a day!

- It issomething people need to demonstrate!

- There is no question about it!

- It is evidence!

- Today most of the time, people don’t have faith!

 

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Daniel 7

- Daniel has a vision!

- But it is like a nightmare!

- Thus he is afraid!

- And more than that!

- Should we be afraid?

- What is coming is going to be a nightmare!

- For everybody!

- For those who will keep alive and for those who are going to die!

- The Bible is clear about it!

- It will repeat again after 1,000 years!

- Because the job won’t be finished!

- The restoration of paradise on earth implies it!

 

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Daniel 8

- Do you see the evolution?

- First he is afraid and greatly alarmed and he turns pale!

- Then he is terrified and sick for some days!

- What about us?

- Though history we are told about wars which are becoming more and more destructive!

- We can think about World War 1 and World War 2 with a climax with the second one with the use of nuclear weapons!

- But this time it will be Yah.weh war directed by Jesus!

- With angels as warriors!

- Just think about forces in the universe!

- it is just incredible!

- And it will be incredible!

- We have to see what’s going on today to be able to believe it and to realize it and to imagine it!

- It will be the same for Yah.weh’s big one!

- People will see forces as never before!

 

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Daniel 9

Daniel speaks about the 70 years for Jerusalem to stay desolated and to be reconstructed. Then he prays to God so that Jerusalem can be reconstructed. In his prayer, he speaks about Israel: the country has sinned and done wrong and acted wickedly and rebelled and has deviated from God’s commandments and judgments and has not listened to God’s servants and prophets. And shame belongs to Israel: the country has acted unfaithfully and has rebelled and not obeyed the voice of God. And Israel has paid a high price for its attitude. And Daniel asks for forgiveness. And because DANIEL IS A PRECIOUS MAN, he is told that Jerusalem will be rebuilt and Messiah will come and will be put to death and a foreign nation will destroy Jerusalem. And after that there will be wars. And it is spoken about extermination.

- Yes, Daniel is called PRECIOUS MAN!

- And in his prayer he speaks about every sin Israel has committed!

- And he is told about the reconstruction of Jerusalem!

- And about the coming of the Messiah and his death!

- And the destruction of Jerusalem!

- And Israel will keep acting badly!

- And turning away from Yah.weh!

- And the same for humanity!

- They will never listen because they don’t care!

- And Yah.weh will cleanse this world!

- No need to cry for it because it deserves it just like Israel!

- YES, RESTORATION FOLLOWED BY DESTRUCTION!

- End of the story and the beginning of a new one!

- But as usual time is necessary to prepare the next one!

- Same for the next one!

- Many are still in the last one!

- But it has nothing to do with the next one!

 

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Daniel 10

Daniel is given a revelation about a great conflict. He has been mourning for three full weeks. When he sees the vision, the men with him don’t see it but a great trembling seizes them and they run away and hide. And because of what he sees, there is no power left in him and his dignified appearance leaves him and he loses all strength. Once again he is called PRECIOUS MAN. Daniel is trembling. His prayer has been heard because of his attitude and his humility. So Daniel is told about the final part of the days. But Daniel says he has no strength and no breath is left in him.

- Through all the Bible men have been warned!

- And here it is the same story!

- And when Daniel has a new vision, it is so powerful that he can’t stand it!

- Do you have an idea of what is going to happen when Jesus comes back as a warrior to cleanse the earth under the orders of his father?

- Think about the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans!

- But it will be nothing compared to what will happen to the world!

- But humanity keeps acting as if everything is normal!

- Of course, they are a bit afraid because the situation is degrading!

- Even when we know, it will be a surprise!

- Because at the present time we see things we could have never imagined at all!

- And we will see a lot more!

- But it will be nothing compared to the coming of Jesus as a king and warrior!

- Then human beings will realize they are nothing compared to Yah.weh’s power!

- We should always remember that!

- The Bible is full of examples!

- But as usual mankind is blind!

- And as usual, people are concerned about today!

- They don’t care about tomorrow!

- But they should!

 

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Daniel 11

Here we are told about a refining work and a cleansing and a whitening until the time of the end.

- Refining work and cleansing and whitening!

- It requires a lot of work!

- It requires you to be 100% active!

- It requires personal implication!

- Action is necessary!

- Read the Bible carefully to understand it!

- Nobody can stand quietly!

- Daniel couldn’t do it in his visions!

- Everybody must prepare oneself and encourage others to do the same!

- First you need to save yourself!

- Second, help others to save themselves!

- But if you wait for others to save you it won’t work!

- Personal implication is required from everybody!

- Being lukewarm doesn’t work!

- It has never worked!

- And people keep thinking it will work for them!

- Bad choice!

- Remember the time left is short!

- And it gets shorter and shorter!

- Remember Lot’s wife!

- She made a bad choice and she died!

- End of the story!

 

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Daniel 12

- Yes, DISTRESS!

- The possibility of waking up!

- The possibility to cleanse and whiten oneself and be refined!

- But it is necessary to make an effort!

- NO EFFORT, NO REFINING!

- And the wicked one won’t understand!

- He will keep doing his business!

- And Jesus will come back to strike the world!

- And they will be surprised by the violence!

- It is going to be a war!

- Completely different from Jesus coming on earth according to the Bible!

- But it has always been so!

- Adam and Eve were warned but they didn’t care and they died!

- Mankind was warned but people didn’t care and they died!

- The Hebrews didn’t care and they died!

- It will repeat again with mankind and people will die because they didn’t care!

- And after the period of 1,000 years, it will repeat again!

- Man never understands!

- Man always repeats the same mistakes!

- It seems to be that they have no brains!

- After the final war, Yah.weh won’t tolerate disobedience anymore!

- Finally, man will be able to live forever, in peace and in good conditions!

- But it will only be because of Yah.weh!

- His faithful servants will participate in turning the earth into a paradise!

- And Yah.weh will finally be recognized as the sovereign of the universe!

- END OF THE HUMAN STORY!

- BEGINNING OF YAH.WEH’S PERFECT SOVEREIGNTY!

 

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Yah.weh and Daniel / Daniel and Yah.weh


Daniel 1:

- Daniel is brought to Babylon because he is young without any defect, of good appearance, endowed with wisdom, knowledge, and discernment, and capable of serving in the king’s palace!

- And the more we read the book of Daniel, the more it appears that all this is connected to Daniel’s relationship with Yah.weh!

- Every aspect of his life has something to do with this relationship!

- No Yah.weh, No Daniel!

- And the more he learns the more he gets closer to Yah.weh!

- There is only another way that is getting away from Yah.weh!

- This relationship evolves perpetually!

- It has to be built up continually!

- Otherwise it goes away!

- There isn’t a third option!

- One way or the other!

- And it is a personal choice!

- Something you have to work at personally or not!

- You can’t take a break otherwise you go the other way!

- BURNING OR FREEZING!

- Imagine a tsunami coming!

- First the water goes away!

- Then the water comes back!

- But when it comes back, it is too late!

- It goes too fast!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 1:

- But Daniel resolves in his heart that he won’t defile himself with the king’s delicacies or with the wine He drinks!

- So he asks the principal court official for permission not to defile himself in this way!

- And the true God causes the principal court official to show Daniel favor and mercy!

- Yah.weh first!

- In any aspect of Daniel’s life!

- In particular food and beverages!

- So Daniel doesn’t wait, he acts straight away!

- He doesn’t let the others act for him!

- And Yah.weh is always present!

- That’s what we can call a deep and straight relationship!

- What about us?

- Can we measure the quality of our relationship to Yah.weh?

- Do we see any evolution?

- For Daniel, it keeps improving!

- there is no limit!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 1:

- At the end of ten days their appearance is better and healthier than all the youths who are eating the king’s delicacies!

- And the true God gives these four youths knowledge and insight into every kind of writing and wisdom; and Daniel is given understanding in all sorts of visions and dreams!

- Daniel is always ready to defend his relationship with Yah.weh so he doesn’t lose time but acts all at once!

- And he knows what to do and what to say!

- Of course, he may receive Yah.weh’s help and spirit!

- Because both Daniel and Yah.weh are part of the deal and each one plays his part!

- We are only told about Daniel and his three companions!

- But Daniel is above!

- He gets more because his relationship with Yah.weh is stronger!

- Of course, his three companions have a strong relationship with Yah.weh!

- And Daniel’s companions are not jealous about Daniel’s relationship with Yah.weh!

- They can also benefit too!

- Of course, the book of Daniel speaks mainly about Daniel!

- But his three companions are not forgotten!

- Even if Daniel has a special relationship to Yah.weh, his three companions have also a good relationship to Yah.weh!

- It shows us that it depends on us about what kind of relationship we want to have to Yah.weh!

- The others have nothing to do with such a personal relationship!

- We have to do the job!

- The others won’t do it for us!

- But we can help others to improve their own relationships!

- But at the end of the day, it’s up to us!

- if we don’t do anything, we can forget it!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 1:

- Imagine the quantity of people!

There are many!

- And among so many people only four get out of the mass!

- Can you visualize the scene?

- It is unbelievable!

- Four against a multitude!

- They definitely have Yah.weh’s spirit!

- And among the four, Daniel gets out of them!

- So first Daniel, second his three companions and the rest!

- Same with the flood!

- One man, Noah, and his family against the rest of mankind!

- Same when the Hebrews were supposed to get into the promised land!

- Only two men, Joshua and Caleb could get into it whereas the rest died in the desert!

- When Jerusalem was destroyed,it was not better!

- When Jesus destroys human society, it won’t be better!

- isn't there a distortion!

- Something is definitely wrong with men!

- They were created with Yah.weh’s spirit!

- But as soon as possible, they went away from him!

- And they keep doing it!

- And they keep complaining everything is going wrong!

- Something is definitely missing in man’s brain!

- We need Yah.weh’s guidance!

- And the more time passes, the more evident it will be!

- The human world is a prank!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 1:

- Right, they are better!

- But no, they are ten times better!

- Can you imagine the gap?

- Yes, building a deep relationship with God requires a lot of efforts and a strong will!

- It is not a game!

- It is not something you think about from time to time!

- No way!

- And all the Bible is about that!

- Why do you think there is such a minority of exceptionally faithful servants of God?

- Yes, having a straight relationship with God requires many efforts and the majority is not ready for that

- Yah.weh is exceptional and his faithful servants must be exceptional!

- But being an exception means a lot of effort!

- Faithfulness must be demonstrated!

- No demonstration, no faithfulness!

- Adam and Eve weren’t faithful: it was an easy job!

- The Hebrews weren’t faithful: it was an easy job!

- Mankind has never been faithful: it has been an easy job!

- Faithful servants of Yah.weh keep being faithful: it has always been a hard job!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God

Daniel 2:

- All the wise men of Babylon are going to be killed!

- And Daniel and his companions!

- When Daniel hears about that, he acts discreetly and cautiously!

- That’s interesting!

- Daniel has a special relationship with Yah.weh but we can be sure that he acts discreetly and cautiously with Yah.weh!

- Thus if he is used to communicating with Yah.weh, he is used to communicating with important human beings who are nothing compared to Yah.weh!

- So this special relationship is very helpful!

- He is ready to communicate in any situation!

- We must remember that!

- And he does everything in the right order!

- And he stays calm!

- We need to follow his example!

- ORDER, ORDER, ORDER!

- Real communication with positive results!

- Communication for nothing means nothing!

- We are used to human communication for nothing!

- Thus we don’t care about human communication!

- When we get people with real communication, we listen to them!

- But it is becoming more and more rare!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God

Daniel 2:

- That’s another extraordinary situation!

- Daniel has a special relationship with Yah.weh but he asks his companions to pray to him too!

- He could have thought: I don’t need their help!

- I just need to pray to Yah.weh alone and he will tell me the vision!

- No: he has such humility!

- Moreover, the situation is dangerous!

- He needs the information as soon as possible!

- He knows what to do and gets the best results!

- When dealing with Yah.weh we learn ORDER because God is a God of Order!

- So we need to think like him, not like the people in this old world who are overwhelmed!

- And today the situation is also dangerous: if we don’t react properly we may die and we won’t have a second chance!

- And when we think of all the possibilities we will get to work for Yah.weh in the new society, it would be a shame to miss them!

- Think about that!

- At the time, Daniel can be called the best human friend of Yah.weh!

- He knows exactly the kind of relationship he has with Yah.weh!

- But it is a question of life and death!

- Many people are going to be killed!

- It is similar today!

- But people are not conscious of the situation!

- But this time there is no human king but Yah.weh!

- He has been waiting for this time!

- Thus there is only one option!

- This human society is going to be destroyed!

- The question is: are we going to be destroyed with it or are we going to survive?

- As usual, the majority doesn’t care!

- That’s its problem!

- As usual, we have to think as individuals!

- We have to save our lives if life is important for us!

- Then the life of our families!

- Then the life of those who are ready to listen!

- We have a responsibility!

- It doesn’t matter if people listen or not!

- But till the last moment, we have to testify!

- That’s it!

 

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God and Daniel / Daniel and God


Daniel 2:

- Daniel never forgets to thank Yah.weh for everything he receives from him!

- He tells everybody who is Yah.weh!

- That there is no one like him!

- And it isn’t a small thing that Daniel has received from Yah.weh!

- It is a present which will save many people!

- It has an incredible value!

- We should never forget to thank Yah.weh for his creation!

- Even if we can’t get the best of it because of human stupidity and waste!

- But we must get ready to get the best of it in the near future if we understand its value!

- There is so much to learn from Yah.weh!

- And so many incredible actions to see in the future!

- We can’t even imagine what God will do!

- Once again, it’s incredible to think about the personal relationship between individuals and Yah.weh!

- Such faithful servants of Yah.weh receive so much!

- It tells about what men will be zble to receive in the near future when they work hand in hand with Yah.weh!

- But we can’t even imagine!

- It is necessary to get into the new promised land and see with our own eyes!

- Just like today we need to see with our own eyes to believe what men are able to do to destroy everything!

- And it goes faster and faster!

- Yah.weh’s kingdom will be able to do the complete opposite!

- And above all, we will receive his guidance which has so much value for those who can appreciate it!

- Human stupidity vs Yah.weh’s wisdom!