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(00:02) From coast to coast and around the world, praise the Lord everybody. This is brother Vaughn with First Harvest Ministries. I'm inviting you to get your Bibles and study with me tonight. A beautiful study that I believe will transform your thinking and will draw you closer to God, help you understand your destiny and your role in the work of God.
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(01:30) Well, the book of Daniel is probably the most prophetically important book in the whole word of God. The book of Daniel is filled with end-time revelation. It is one of my favorite books of the Bible and you're going to find out why tonight. So, if you have your Bibles, we're going to go to the book of Daniel and we're going to be in the second chapter this evening.
(02:08) Do me a favor and share this teaching right now. If you love truth, then hit the share button and let's get this message out there to the whole wide world. Amen. God is so good and we're just thankful tonight that you joined us for this Bible study. There are many believers out there tonight around the world that are longing for the coming of the kingdom of God upon the earth.
(02:42) Many people tonight are longing for the kingdom of God to come to the earth. Now, let me just warn you that tonight will not be a pep talk. It will be an intense Bible study. So, you're going to need to grab your Bible to see what we're teaching tonight. It's going to be a wonderful teaching and you need to get your Bibles right now and go to the book of Daniel chapter 2.
(03:16) Now, the kingdom of God is a very misunderstood subject. I misunderstood this subject all my life. Whenever someone said the kingdom of God, I just supposed that that was some uh ethereal feeling, some mystical uh mirage that we were part of the kingdom of God. I never realized that the kingdom of God is going to be a literal physical world-ruling government.
(03:54) I just never realized that. I grew up in the church all my life and no one ever really taught me that the kingdom of God was a government that was going to rule planet Earth for a thousand years. And so tonight, as we turn to the book of Daniel, we're going Shalom, brother McClendon. We are going to deal with the coming kingdom of God and I want to show you tonight some of the prophecies that Daniel gave us that tells us exactly what it's going to be like when the Lord returns.
(04:36) You know, you can go to church today anywhere. There's churches on every corner and you can hear everything preached on. But to hear the coming of the Lord preached nowadays is a rare treat. It's as if the church has gotten tired of waiting on the Lord. And so therefore, we've just quit preaching about his glorious return.
(05:04) But I dare say to you tonight that the coming of our Lord is the most critical message that the man of God or the woman of God can preach in this day and in this hour. And tonight, as we go into the book of Daniel, we're going to be discussing the coming kingdom of God on planet Earth. Now, years ago, thousands of years ago, ancient prophets saw the day that you and I are living in.
(05:42) They prophesied the rise and the fall of world empires. They revealed man's frantic efforts for world peace. They saw into the glass of the future and they wrote in their writings about a distant day that would be much further down the road than the lifetime that they were living in. Your Bible is all about the second coming of our Lord.
(06:20) But the sad thing about it is most of us in the church are clueless as to what it's going to be like when the Lord returns. If you're just tuning in, get your Bible and go to the book of Daniel chapter 2. In the book of Daniel, God reveals to us the entire story of world history and the future of all things. And this started out in Daniel chapter 2 and verse 2 and you can read that.
(07:02) In this chapter, King Nebuchadnezzar has a dream in the middle of the night. He's awakened. He's disturbed and he's perplexed by what he saw in the dream. And in Daniel chapter 2, the king calls all of his wise men, all of his astrologers, all of his magicians. Bless you, brother Weeks. He calls all of them in and you read Daniel chapter 2 and verse 2, he is disturbed by this dream.
(07:47) He was so certain that this dream had significance to it that he would not go back to sleep. He would not go back to sleep until he understood what he dreamed. So, in Daniel chapter 2 and verse 2, he called all the magicians together, the astrologers, and he demanded that they tell him the meaning of his dream.
(08:21) Of course, you know the story. Nobody could do it. But God had a prophet. God had a prophet there by the name of Daniel, a young boy, by the way, just a young preacher boy. And you can go read in Daniel chapter 2, verse 14 through verse 19, that God gave Daniel the meaning of King Nebuchadnezzar's dream. You see, the Bible says that God will not do anything without revealing it to his servant, the prophets.
(09:05) Amos chapter 3 and verse 7 says that. God will never leave his people in darkness about the future. I want you to remember these words that I'm teaching you right now. God is in control. You better believe that or the enemy will mess with your mind all the days of your life. God is in control. And in all the annals of human history, the rise and the fall of empires, God predicted them and God wants you to know the future.
(09:49) I want to say this to every one of you. God wants you, his beloved precious people, to know the future. God is not hiding anything from his elect sons. Bless you, Brother Weeks and Brother McClendon. God is not hiding anything from his people. He's only hiding it from the world. Amen. He's only hiding it from those that have no part in the future events.
(10:26) But in the book of Daniel, it's all about the future. Now, in this dream, Nebuchadnezzar asked Daniel, "Are you able to give me the interpretation?" Greetings, Brother Jenkins, and welcome. One of our precious ministers. He said, "Are you able to give me the meaning of this dream?" And you can read in Daniel 2:26-28 that Daniel interprets this dream for King Nebuchadnezzar.
(11:08) And basically, in this dream, God outlines the rise and the fall of global empires. If you're just joining me, go to the book of Daniel chapter 2 and study with us tonight. In this dream, God gives us the entire future in this dream. He moved beyond their current day and told about the world's last great world empire.
(11:46) And then in Daniel chapter 2, verse 28, here is what Daniel says. Says, "God has made known to the king what it is that shall be in the latter days." I want you to write that down. Daniel chapter 2:28. He says, "This dream" Now, I'm fixing to deal with this false doctrine that's going through the land today called preterism. I call it crazy-anism.
(12:26) That says that Jesus has already returned in AD 70. And that that was the second coming of the Messiah. We're going to show you in these verses how impossible that is for my dear friends that have fallen into this trap of preterism. Because Daniel is going to show in this vision what it's going to be like.
(12:56) He says in verse 28, "In the last days." Now, you can read the interpretation in Daniel 2:29-39. He says in verse 29, Daniel 2 and 29, "That God has come to make known to thee, O king, what shall come to pass." Remember, saints, God's not hiding anything from his children. He hides it from the world, but not his children.
(13:38) It's the Father's good pleasure to reveal to you what's about to happen in the earth. This was a dream whose interpretation was to reveal the future. Brother Steve, I told you I would deal with you next week, my dear friend, and we will have that. Uh I'm going to ask you to refrain, if you don't mind, during this teaching, and then I'll be happy to debate you publicly once uh I'm back home in front of my laptop where I can do it.
(14:19) I'm I'm on the road right now, so but we'll definitely deal with um uh these wonderful friends of mine that are in preterism. Now, let's go forward, shall we? The book of Daniel chapter 2 and verse 29 tells us the events that will lead to the establishment of the last great empire of all. Now, there was four kingdoms that Daniel saw Nebuchadnezzar saw in this vision.
(14:55) The first kingdom was the kingdom of gold. He saw a statue. The top of that statue was made out of gold. Now, we know that was the Babylonian Empire. At that time, the Babylonian Empire was the greatest world empire that the world had ever known. Bless you, Brother Campbell. Now, in this vision, he saw a second empire, and that was the empire of silver, and we know that that was the Medo-Persian Empire, uh which destroyed the Babylonian Empire.
(15:31) Uh you remember when Babylon, the handwriting was on the wall, "Mene, mene, tekel, upharsin." That was the end of the Babylonian Empire. And it was then uh that that empire fell to the Medo-Persians. And that was King Cyrus, of course. Now, there was another empire that Nebuchadnezzar saw. He saw a third empire of brass.
(16:01) Now, we know that that was Alexander the Great or the Grecian Empire. Alexander the Great destroyed the Medo-Persians. And then the next world empire came into uh existence, uh just like Daniel's vision. It was all perfect. Now, we come to the fourth empire that King Nebuchadnezzar saw, and it was a kingdom of iron.
(16:33) Now, we know that that was the Roman Empire. That uh came in and destroyed the Greece Empire of Alexander the Great. And Daniel said to Nebuchadnezzar in Daniel 2 and 40, "And the fourth kingdom shall be strong as iron." And then he talks about how that that kingdom would come in, and it did.
(17:06) That was the kingdom of Rome. It subdued everything in its path. Like iron, it broke in pieces and bruised everywhere that it went victoriously. Now, this is the end of the empires that Nebuchadnezzar sees. This is the end of the empires that Daniel sees. Now, this is very important that we understand this. All prophecy teachers have taught that there was another empire that was yet to come in the last days after Rome was destroyed, and they've called that the revived Roman Empire.
(18:00) And here's where they get that from. After the fourth kingdom, indeed, Daniel Nebuchadnezzar sees a fifth kingdom. Now, Daniel went on to talk about this fifth kingdom when he talks about the 10 toes of the statue. Here's what he said. Daniel 20 Daniel chapter 2, verse 41-42. "And whereas thou sawest the feet and the toes parts of potter's clay and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided.
(18:48) " I want you to underline those words, "shall be divided" in your Bible. Underline them. Now, he continues in verse 41. "But there shall be in it of the strength of the iron for as much as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. And as the toes of the feet were part iron and part clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong and partly broken.
(19:24) " I want you to underline "partly strong and partly broken." Underline that. "Partly strong and partly broken." If you're just tuning in, we have hundreds right now that are tuned in. Go to Daniel chapter 2, and you can pick up in our study with us. Verse 41 is where we are right now, and verse 42. So, at the bottom of this statue, there are 10 toes.
(19:54) And it is said that these toes are a mixture of iron and clay. And it says that these toes will be partly strong and partly broken. Now, the fall of the Roman Empire was a gradual thing. It did not happen overnight. The Roman Empire was destroyed by luxury, vices, moral breakdown, uh disintegration of the family values, and it culminated in A.D. 476.
(20:37) 400 years is whenever this culminated and the Roman Empire was overthrown. Now, it was overthrown by 10 different groups of people. I'm going to name them for you if you're taking notes and you want to do your research. The Roman Empire was not destroyed by any organized group of people. That's the funny thing about this.
(21:10) See, whenever you start living for yourself, when you drop your morality, when you drop your standards, when a nation drops its values, it can be destroyed within. And the Roman Empire was so drunk on their own successes and drunk in their own sexual deviances and their entertainment, their sports, their music, that the whole nation begin to devalue what was valuable.
(21:48) And because of that, 10 ragtag armies of people moved in in their weakness and destroyed the Roman Empire. Now, I'm going to name those 10 kingdoms or those 10 toes because Daniel said that the kingdom of Rome would be divided into 10 toes. And indeed, there are 10 groups of people that moved in to Rome and I'm going to name them now.
(22:25) They're known as the Ostrogoths, the Visigoths, the Allemani, the Franks, the Vandals, the Suevi, the Burgundians, the Heruli, the Anglo-Saxons, and the Lombards. The kingdom was divided by these 10 barbaric groups of people that had no standing armies of their own. They were a ragtag bunch of people. They moved in and destroyed and the kingdom, just like Nebuchadnezzar saw in a dream, was divided into 10 different kingdoms.
(23:14) Now, these barbaric people not only overran the Roman world, but they planted themselves within the territory of the Roman Empire and they became the empire. Now, where is this place today? It's in Europe. As a matter of fact, if you'll listen to some of these European names of different countries, you will hear those 10 nations.
(23:45) The Anglo-Saxons is England and Great Britain. Then you have the Burgundians, Burgundy. The Lombardies, then you have the Franks, which is France. The geography of Europe today is made up of these 10 toes. Now, in Daniel chapter 2, verse 43, we are told by Daniel that the earth would never again see the cohesive strength such as the Roman Empire.
(24:27) Daniel said in Daniel 2:43, "Whereas thou sawest iron mixed with clay, the 10 toes shall mingle themselves with the seed of men, but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay." What I just read to you is one of the most important verses in understanding end-time events. Notice that.
(25:05) He said that these 10 groups of people would mingle themselves and interbreed themselves with the rest of men and they would never unite. They would never again cleave one to another. There would never be another world-ruling empire such as Rome, Greece, Babylon, and the Medo-Persians. They would never cleave to one another. They would never be united.
(25:44) Unlike what your prophecy teachers are teaching you, Daniel said, "After the Roman Empire, there would never be another worldwide government ever." It's important that we understand this because many preachers out there today, many that I love, many that I respect, are screaming about a revival of a Roman Empire under the Antichrist.
(26:20) That is a lie. It's a lie. There will never be a revived Roman Empire. Some say there's got to be a one world beast government, which they believe is coming from the European Common Market, like the United States of Europe, and that this would be a revived Roman Empire through which the Antichrist will rule the world and enforce the mark of the beast.
(26:55) Everybody's looking for a world government under the beast to arise out of a united Europe. And right here, before going any further, I want to say to you that it will never happen. There will never be another world government. And that it's important for you to get this because I'm about to show you why we are not and we have not seen the coming of the Lord.
(27:31) Now, the church today is full of energetic preachers, well-meaning preachers. I've got so many people inboxing me. I'm so sorry for the noise. The church today is full of energetic preachers who are bubbling over concerning the things that are going to happen in the end days. 100 years ago, they said that Kaiser was the Antichrist.
(27:58) Then Mussolini rose up and they said he was the Antichrist. And then, uh Hitler rose up and they said he was the Antichrist. And then, uh the Pope is the Antichrist. And then Ronald Reagan was supposedly the Antichrist. To many, Barack Obama was the Antichrist. It's a bunch of foolishness is what it is. It's because you don't understand the Antichrist is not coming.
(28:29) The Antichrist has been here for 2,000 years. The Apostle Paul said that the spirit of Antichrist was already working in the churches in that day. The man of sin is not coming out of Europe. The man of sin is coming out of you, your flesh. But here's two reasons why there will never be another world government because Daniel says "They shall mingle with the seed of men and they shall not cleave one to another.
(29:09) " Hear it? "They shall not cleave one to another." In other words, they will never unite again. The whole world is dreaming about world peace. Everybody on our planet's dreaming about a one world government to bring peace to all men. You hear my words and hear them well. Until the prince of peace returns, there can never be peace on our planet because these 10 toes will never cleave to one another.
(29:48) They will never unite for any reason. There will never be a revived Roman Empire. Let's look at history and let's prove it. In the afterglow of a thousand battlefields, in the shattered dreams of world conquerors, in the light of two world wars, these words stand invincibly true. They shall mingle with the seed of men, and they shall never cleave one to another.
(30:30) Charlemagne in A.D. 800 was crowned the Holy Roman Emperor, and he tried to conquer the world. It didn't happen. He tried to conquer Europe, those 10 toes, it didn't happen. Louis the 14th tried it, didn't happen. Napoleon tried it, didn't happen. Kaiser Wilhelm tried it, didn't happen. Hitler tried it, and it did not happen.
(31:03) Time and again, men have dreamed of bringing these these fourth kingdom into one mighty empire to bring forth the fifth kingdom of Daniel's vision. But brothers and sisters, remember this kingdom is partly strong and partly broken. They shall not cleave together, and yet men has tried every way in the world to get people to unite.
(31:38) In the United Nations, they're doing everything in their power to bring forth this fifth kingdom that Daniel saw in these 10 toes, and it will not happen. The word of God says it will not happen. But I say to you today, the fifth kingdom that Daniel saw and Nebuchadnezzar saw in a vision will come forth.
(32:11) I prophesy to you by the word of God. There is coming a kingdom that will be the fifth kingdom, and Daniel saw it, and he once Nebuchadnezzar was through with the vision, it did not end at the feet. Remember that. I pray that you remember that. The feet was not the fifth kingdom. The feet was a divided network of nations, but it was not an empire.
(32:44) But there is a fifth kingdom in Nebuchadnezzar's vision. And it did not end with the feet of clay and iron. The greatest event of this dream was yet to come. Because Nebuchadnezzar saw a stone cut out of a mountain without hands, which smote those 10 toes on its unsteady feet. The blow fell upon the feet because they represent the ruling power at the time of the end when these events take place, and when this vision is finally fulfilled.
(33:38) The moment that blow was struck by the stone from the mountain, the whole system crumbled to dust, and it became like the dust of the summer threshing floor, and the wind blew it away, and that little stone that was cut out of the mountain became a great mountain that filled the whole earth. Read that in Daniel chapter 2, verse 35. Here's what it says.
(34:12) Uh well, let's go to verse 44, shall we? And in the days of these governments shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom which shall never be destroyed, and this kingdom, the fifth kingdom, shall not be left to other people, but it shall break into pieces and consume all of these kingdoms, and it, what, the fifth kingdom, shall stand forever.
(34:44) Verse 45 of Daniel chapter 2, for as much as thou sawest that the stone was cut out of the mountain without hands, and that it break into pieces the iron, the brass, the clay, the silver, and the gold. The great Yahweh hath made known to the king what shall come to pass hereafter. The dream is certain, and the interpretation is sure.
(35:19) Brothers and sisters, after the Roman Empire, the next world-ruling empire will be that little stone that was cut out of the mountain. This will be God's own nation on earth. God's sons must take up the scepter of the fifth kingdom. And notice what he said in verse 44, that this kingdom shall not be left to any other people. See, the Babylonian kingdom was left to the Medo-Persians.
(35:55) The Medo-Persians was left to the Greeks. The Greeks was left to the Romans. But of this coming kingdom, it will never be left to any other people. It's unconquerable. It's undestroyable. It will be the fifth kingdom that will rule planet Earth. The my my my my Notice what he said in verse 45, the dream is certain, and the interpretation is sure.
(36:28) The Roman Empire was the last empire of planet Earth. Now, in days gone by, we thought that this stone cut out of the mountain was Yeshua, or Jesus as he's called in the English language. But Yeshua, we always said that the stone cut out of the mountain was the man Christ Jesus, the Messiah of Israel, and that's what I always believed.
(37:01) But we have come to understand that this stone cut out of the mountain is not a man. This stone cut out of the mountain is a kingdom, a government. This text does not say that the God of heaven is going to set up a man who will never be destroyed. Uh-uh, it don't say that. Oh, but read what it says in verse 45, that this stone that was cut out of the mountain was a kingdom.
(37:36) Christ was not cut out of a mountain, but this fifth kingdom will be cut like a diamond out of a mountain. And the next verse states that this kingdom is set up by God. It says, "In the days of these 10 kingdoms." That is the kingdom of these toes that divided in the days when there's no unity among the nations.
(38:05) In the days when the nations are angry at one another. At the end of those kingdoms, the God of heaven will set up a kingdom cut out of the mountain. Now, notice what Peter said in 1 Peter 2:9, "But you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation." What does Peter call the Israel of Yahweh? A nation.
(38:38) He also calls us a race. For the word generation, where he says that um a chosen generation, that word generation is from the Greek word genea, which means a race of people. So, what he actually says is you are a unique race of people. You are a nation unto yourselves. And nations are built up along ethnic lines.
(39:12) So, therefore, the Israel of Yahweh is both a race and a nation because it is composed of people who have been begotten by the spirit of God. God is the head of this entirely new ethnic group. That's why I tell everybody listening to me, if you're still white or black, if your if your pride is in your race, then it's not in His grace.
(39:41) Because by His grace, you're no longer white, you're no longer black, you're no longer Hispanic, you no longer have to go by your culture. You are a new race of people from a new bloodline. You are a new nation which is born in heaven. You are the offspring of Yahweh. And in the scriptures, mountains are used to represent kingdoms and nations.
(40:12) So in Daniel 2:45, he said, "I saw a stone cut out of a mountain." Or I saw a stone cut out of a nation of people. Hallelujah. And that nation, brothers and sisters, is God's Israel or God's church or His congregation. And the stone is the elect 144,000 that have been specifically cut out of the mountain called the church or the congregation.
(40:52) You see, there is a people within a people. There's a bunch of God's people that will not be in the government that will rule and reign over planet Earth. They will be in the kingdom, but they will not be in the elect overcoming bride. They will not be among the 144,000. They are not sold out. They are not They don't follow the Lamb wherever He goes.
(41:16) They are not part of this stone that's cut out of the church, this heart of the church that's going to come and set up a kingdom. We have this exact same analogy in Revelation 12:5. In Revelation 12, we see a woman that gives birth to a man child. Well, the woman is the church at large. Just like the mountain is the church at large.
(41:53) The man child was born out of the woman. And that's the company of God's overcoming sons who are to rule all nations with a rod of iron according to Revelation 12:5. So for those of you that say the Lord's already come, I've not yet seen anybody ruling the nations with a rod of iron. But this woman in Revelation 12:5 is going to give birth to the elect.
(42:28) The church gives birth to the bride. The church gives birth to the sons. The church gives birth to the overcomers. And just like that mountain, it's not the mountain that's going to be the government, it's going to be the stone cut out of the mountain that's going to be the government, the fifth kingdom. Amen.
(42:54) It's an elect part. Many are called, many is the mountain. But few are chosen to be cut out of the mountain and used for the Lord's service in the millennium reign. So this woman of Revelation 12:5 and this mountain in Daniel's vision are one in the same. The man child is the stone cut out of the mountain. They are the 144,000 who come to Mount Zion to reign.
(43:33) See, the problem today is many of you listening to me, you went to Mount Calvary, but you didn't go to Mount Zion. Mount Calvary's where you got saved, but Mount Zion is where you're given authority to rule the nations. Many of you went to Mount Calvary, but you did not go to Mount Zion. Mount Calvary is where you got saved, but Mount Zion is where you're granted authority in this coming kingdom of God, the fifth kingdom that Daniel saw, the stone that was cut out of the mountain.
(44:21) Hallelujah. I tell you tonight that the denominational churches are experts on Mount Calvary. And they all say, they all tell me on Facebook, Brother Vaughn, "Just preach about Calvary." And I tell them, "That's the problem." Everybody's preaching on Mount Calvary and they camp out on Mount Calvary instead of marching to Mount Zion, the city of our God.
(45:02) It's on Mount Zion that you will find the 144,000. It's on Mount Zion that you will find the elect, the stone that's cut out of the mountain. The mountain is the church at large, but the stone that's cut out of the mountain is the chosen elect of Yahweh. They will rule the nations according to Revelation with a rod of iron.
(45:39) Listen to what he said in Revelation 2 26 and 27, and I'm almost done, children. Revelation 2:26 and 27. I thank God for the hundreds we have tonight that's studying with us. May you May the God of heaven bless each one of you. Revelation 2:26. And he that overcometh and keepeth my works unto the end, to him will I give authority over the nations.
(46:17) And he shall rule them with a rod of iron. Notice what he said. He didn't say he that goes to Mount Calvary and takes a blood bath. He didn't say him that goes to be baptized in water. No, that's the beginning. What he said is to he that makes it all the way to Mount Zion. He that overcomes, he that keeps my commandments unto the end, he will be given power and authority over the nations.
(46:58) Listen to me right now. There's no such thing as the finished work of Calvary. That's one of the greatest deceptions in the church today. When Christ said, "It is finished," he was speaking of his suffering. But had he not risen again, nothing would have been finished on Calvary. Had he not the If he doesn't come again, nothing is finished on Mount Calvary.
(47:32) Anybody can die, but can't everybody rise again and come again. Hallelujah. Oh, we we got to get this thing right because if you don't make it to Mount Zion, you will be in the kingdom of God, but you will not be in the government. You will be part of a mountain, but you won't be the stone that's cut out of the mountain.
(47:58) These lying preachers got y'all living any kind of way you want to live. Long as you come to church and pay your tithes, they don't They've not preached to you this message that you've got to be counted worthy to enter in to this government. Hallelujah. So the man child and the mountain is one in the same. The overcomers rule and break the nations.
(48:26) So the fifth kingdom, brother and sister, that Daniel saw, the stone cut out of the mountain, is not Jesus. It is a kingdom. It is the brothers of Jesus. The many sons that He has brought to salvation. They are the ones that follow Him wherever He goes. It is that kingdom of which there shall never be any end, the last world ruling government that this Earth is going to see.
(49:00) The next world ruling government that this world is going to see will be when Yeshua the Messiah returns and calls His sons, His brethren, up from the grave in the first resurrection. Those that come up in the first resurrection, those are the stone that was cut out of the mountain. The mountain will come up in the second resurrection, but that stone that was cut out of the mountain comes up in the first resurrection.
(49:35) And each one of these is coming out of something. Hallelujah. Out of a larger group of God's people. The next world empire is the coming kingdom of God. Now, we have some that are teaching that the kingdom of God is already here. And yet, when I read my Bible, I see that when that kingdom comes, it will start off as a little stone.
(50:12) And then that stone will fill the entire earth. And that has not happened, my brothers and sisters. There is nothing being ruled by the sons of God yet. For we're still in the sixth days. We're still in the sixth days of flesh rule, Satan's rule, man's rule. But there is coming a day called the Sabbath day, the 7,000th years, the seventh day of his glorious reign, when the Lord of the Sabbath will return and set up his Sabbath government.
(50:52) That's why we keep the Sabbath every week in our church. It's a glorious reminder of the great Sabbath that is coming to our planet, when the wicked shall cease from troubling and the weary shall be at rest. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Amen, Elder McClendon. That is nothing but the truth. It will be taken by force.
(51:18) The violent taketh by force. We are coming with him to rule and to reign. Brothers and sisters, the fifth kingdom is not a revived Roman empire. There will never be one. The fifth kingdom is that little stone cut out of the mountain, which will be the elect sons of the almighty God. I hope that you're living a life that will cause you to be ready to rule and reign when he returns. Hallelujah.
(51:54) Yeah, I bless the name today above every name. I want to call every one of you tonight out of your trance of death. Don't think because you're saved that you've arrived. Listen to me. Not one of you under the sound of my voice is saved. The Bible said, "He that endures to the end will be saved." But if you're listening to me right now, you have been begotten by the spirit of Yahweh.
(52:27) In the waters of baptism, you have been begotten by the confession of faith, by the infilling of the Holy Ghost. But now your journey begins. It's time for you to go out into the wilderness alone with God to die to everything that you love so that you might be part of that stone cut out of the mountain. I pray that you will share this teaching as we continue to watch this ministry grow.
(52:58) Go subscribe to our YouTube channel, First Harvest Ministries. May the God of heaven, Yahweh, the almighty, bless each and every one of you. Good night.
Summary
Shane Vaughn presents a prophetic study of Daniel chapter 2, focusing on the image revealed to King Nebuchadnezzar and the establishment of the fifth kingdom.
He begins by explaining that the kingdom of God is not merely a spiritual experience but a future literal government that will rule the earth. He identifies the four kingdoms represented by the image as Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
He explains that the ten toes of iron and clay represent the division of the Roman empire into separate kingdoms. He names ten historical groups associated with the decline of Rome and argues that their division fulfills Daniel's prophecy that the kingdoms would not remain united.
He challenges interpretations predicting a revived Roman empire, a future worldwide government under the Antichrist, and the fulfillment of the second coming in A.D. 70.
Turning to Daniel 2:44–45, he explains that the stone cut without hands represents the fifth kingdom, which will destroy the preceding governmental systems and establish an everlasting kingdom.
He then interprets the mountain as the church and the stone as the elect 144,000 who are separated from the larger congregation for governmental authority. He connects this interpretation to the man child of Revelation 12:5 and the promise of authority over the nations in Revelation 2:26–27.
He concludes by emphasizing the distinction between belonging to the kingdom and qualifying to govern within it. He urges believers to progress beyond their initial conversion, overcome their carnal nature, and remain faithful until the return of Yeshua.
Core doctrine
Shane Vaughn teaches that the fifth kingdom described in Daniel chapter 2 is the future literal government of God that will replace the kingdoms of this world and rule the earth under the authority of Yeshua the Messiah. He identifies the four kingdoms represented by the prophetic image as Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
He teaches that the ten toes of iron and clay represent the divided remnants of the Roman empire rather than a future revived Roman empire. According to his interpretation, these nations will never unite into another worldwide government. He rejects the teaching that a future Antichrist will establish a revived Roman empire and also rejects the claim that the second coming of Yeshua was fulfilled in A.D. 70.
Shane Vaughn identifies the mountain in Daniel's vision as the church or Israel of Yahweh. He teaches that the stone cut out of the mountain without human hands represents a specially chosen company of overcoming believers rather than Yeshua as an individual. He identifies this company as the 144,000 elect sons who will participate in the government of God.
He connects the stone cut out of the mountain with the man child of Revelation chapter 12 and the overcomers promised authority over the nations in Revelation chapter 2. He distinguishes between the larger congregation of believers and the smaller company of faithful overcomers who will receive governmental authority.
He teaches that Mount Calvary represents the beginning of salvation, while Mount Zion represents spiritual maturity and preparation for rulership. He emphasizes that baptism and an initial profession of faith are not the completion of the believer's journey. Obedience, overcoming, faithfulness, and endurance are necessary qualifications for participation in the coming government.
Shane Vaughn further teaches that the elect will participate in the first resurrection, while the larger company of God's people will participate in the second resurrection. He identifies the coming millennial kingdom with the seventh day of God's prophetic plan and describes weekly Sabbath observance as a reminder of that future reign.
The central doctrine is that the fifth kingdom is God's everlasting government, established through Yeshua and administered by a chosen company of overcoming sons who have been prepared to rule and reign with him.
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