The Book of Daniel: Timing Is Everything (Part 10) 1/4/25

The Blessed Hope — Part 2 (The River, the Scroll, and the Timing of Yahweh) Pastor John Shane Vaughn — First Harvest Ministries International ________________ 1 It doesn't go overlooked; it may go understated but it doesn't go overlooked; I'm not talking about every few days; every single day up here; and look, I know everybody can't; you have jobs; some of you don't live close; and I realize if you did you would; but they do; and they retire to give their life to the temple; and I'm always grateful; so if I ever overlook you, no, it's not intentional; I appreciate you more than you know. 2 How about we give them; so God bless you today for all they do for this ministry; amen; and they never give me one minute of problems; well, maybe her; but he never gives me; no, I'm kidding; amen; and what about this good Elder right here? Y'all; hallelujah; amen; fine example; I'm trying to train y'all on how to give honor; honor is a beautiful thing in the kingdom; we've got to become people that bestow honor on one another; why? Because the world hates us; if we don't honor one another, will. 3 Amen; praise the Lord; learn to consider others; amen; learn to be okay if someone else gets the praise or the honor; learn to be okay with that; somebody gets a new car, that's your new car; because I promise you if you need a ride you can call them, they'll come get you; amen; somebody gets a new house, don't sit there and say where's mine, that is yours; we're all one family. 4 You ever need a place to stay, there's your place; if they get new clothes, be happy; truth is they probably got them from Goodwill and forgot to tell you; amen; Pastor, don't ever be jealous of nobody; nobody; I've never been jealous of anybody; I can truly say that; because I've got my little portion and I'm satisfied. 5 Sister Judy; boy, that Minister Judy; God, she is a treasure to me; boy, I love that lady; she loves truth more than anybody I know; she's held on to truth; she's a dear friend of mine; Judy, I love you, I appreciate you, honey; yes ma'am; Chassity Tomasic; yeah; wow; okay; is that; I remember; wow; come on now; that's a beautiful thing; amen; keep doing that work, Sister Judy. 6 I believe the day is coming when anybody that's been deceived will be back; yes sir; oh, Chassity is online watching right now; hello Chassity Tomasic; Sister Judy was just talking about you; amen; amen; y'all are welcome to come back home anytime, honey; we have an open door policy here; we just watch who comes through it; but we have an open door policy. 7 We're going to the book of Daniel chapter 9; I'm going to try to preach quickly; time is truly getting away from us; we do have food after the service today; now it's not prepared, it's leftovers from the other night; some good corn chowder and gumbo and pastalaya; so it may not be, you know, you may have to just eat leftovers; but we're going to enjoy it today; we have ice cream and cake. 8 What are we going to do tonight? What are we doing tonight? Does anybody know? I wanted to do something while everybody's here; y'all want to go to the shed? I thought we were; mama's going to bed; we're going to the shed? No; I don't know where we're going but I know y'all are not going to like this but I really thought we should go support New Orleans; no? Okay; did you feel that? 9 Well I've been thinking a lot about different things; I thought about going to Muffuletta, doing some Cajun dancing, but oh well; New Orleans could use our support; well, now we're not going to the Quarters; the Muffuletta is over by the Riverwalk Mall where you can do some shopping too; can't afford nothing in there; you can't afford nothing in there; it's one of them shopping centers where you just like, that's nice, but; right; everybody's broke now. 10 Well, we can go to the shed or we can; you can go to the shed; you can go to bed; or you can go where the murderers drive trucks down the streets and run over everybody; so there's your choices; we'll figure it out after church; we'll let everybody know; we'll all get on the church bus and go somewhere; maybe about 5 o'clock; hey, why don't we go to the Rickmans' house and I'll do chili dogs? 11 Y'all want to have a chili dog night outside? Okay, let's just all go to the Rickmans' house about five o'clock and I'll make chili dogs; I'll cook the chili, y'all get the stuff; okay; send me the bill; all right; it's settled; oh by the way, Sister Rickman, could we come to y'all's house tonight? Okay, thank you; so we're going to the Rickmans'; amen. 12 We would go to the land normally; we'd go to the land but it's so ugly out there with the winter and all my flowers; it depresses me; I don't want to go out there till Springtime; I get depressed when my flowers die; they covered Sister Tina's covered all my flowers up out there; feels like I'm in a graveyard when I go out there now; I hate winter; come spring, hallelujah; come spring the tulips will bloom again. 13 Daniel chapter 9 verse number two; in the first year of his reign, I Daniel understood by books the number of years which according to the word of Yahweh was given to Jeremiah the prophet, must pass by before the desolation upon Jerusalem would be accomplished, and it was 70 years; and I set my face towards Father Yahweh to seek him by prayer, supplication, with fasting, sackcloth and ashes. 14 Now after I did that, verse four, I prayed to Yahweh my father, made my confession, said oh Yahweh the great and awesome Father who keeps covenant and mercy with those who love you and with those who keep your laws; so in other words he don't have a covenant with the world; oh; well we have sinned and committed iniquity; we've acted wickedly; we've rebelled by departing from your precepts. 15 We have committed your precepts and your judgments; neither have we listened to your servants the prophets who spoke in your name; I want to preach to you today, Part 10 of the book of Daniel; the title of today's message is timing is everything; timing is everything; you may be seated; today I'm going to teach you about timing, where we are, and what this river of Euphrates is all about. 16 We're going to start a timeline here and we're going to go through here and stop right there; now this is when Babylon captured Jerusalem; okay; now this is where the 70 years; how long is this captivity supposed to last? All right; now I'm going to talk about the 70 years today; but something you may not know about is something that happened before the 70 years; okay; and his name is Jeremiah. 17 Now why did I read the verse I just read to you? Because Daniel tells you that he was reading the Bible; he was reading that same book of Jeremiah that's in your Bible; he was reading; now where was he reading it? While he was in Babylon; in those 70 years; he's sitting there doing what you do every morning; so in the morning when you get up to read your Bible you're doing just what Daniel did. 18 He read the book of Jeremiah and he said that while he was reading that book that Jeremiah gave a prophecy; and what was that prophecy? That Daniel could quit trying to change God's mind; that's right; right; he could quit complaining about how bad the world's getting; he could quit watching Fox News, CNN, and worrying about what the terrorists are going to do next; come on now; he could settle down, shut up, be still and know. 19 You can be still, Daniel, and know; the only way you will ever be able to lose your anxiety, children, you listen to me; I've never had anxiety; I'm never depressed; I'm never discouraged; you know why? I know the plan, from front to finish, from back to forward; I can be still; because I know. 20 How could Daniel so willingly submit to an evil king? Turn these fans off; I've got some ladies that are cold; the reason he could submit is because he knew; no matter how much he prayed, oh God, look how they treating us, why would you let them treat me like this, why would you not help me right now Lord; Daniel didn't waste his time on them prayers. 21 Y'all need to quit praying them prayers; you need to know that you're living in the hour of Great Tribulation; you need to know that you're hated of all men; if you'll ever know that, you'll quit all them kind of prayers; I never pray, ever, ever, ever, for God to change my enemies; cuz I know I need them; I pray for God to change me; yes sir; to be more like him; yes sir. 22 I thank him for my enemies; I thank him for the sign in front of my land that reminds me: not only is that thing watching me, but he's watching; and I don't have to worry; I can be still and know; but the problem with Christians, they don't know what time it is; and therefore they live in such a fret that all they can hope for is a Rapture to get them out of this mess. 23 I don't want out of this mess; Daniel never wanted out of his mess; hallelujah; why? Because he had read the book; yes sir; yes sir; amen; Jeremiah told him in the book: when they come and take you to Babylon, 70 years; build houses; that's right; build your vineyards; don't go around telling people we living in an evil world, ain't we, things is falling apart; they putting chemtrails all in the air. 24 I wish they would put more cuz I'm telling you, I know what time it is; I ain't worried about no chemtrails; I ain't worried about him trails or her trails; I'm worried about his trail; I know the trail; I know what time it is; I can be still; Pastor, they running you down; did you hear? Oh, you don't understand, I read in the word you'll be hated of all men for my name's sake; I read in the word that no one will like you; I read in the word that they'll eat you on one side and try to destroy you on another; be still and know. 25 Yes; you know; oh, I don't know how; oh, my bills is coming; I'm going to tell you one thing: when you know that David said, I once was young and now I'm old, and David said I want to tell you what I know: I've never seen the righteous man forsaken or his seed begging for bread; hallelujah; quit praying them begging prayers; and start standing on what you know; be still and know. 26 Daniel survived those 70 years because he didn't want a Rapture; come on; amen; the problem with the Christian church, they're so worried about tomorrow, they're trying to get away from it; but see Daniel; now, by the way, if you've seen the Daniel play, he was very mistreated; they was thrown in a fiery furnace; come on now; what about the lions' den? But Daniel, he ain't never, he ain't never praying; God, please. 27 See, if he was to ask God to bring them back to Jerusalem he would be praying against the will of God; it is God's will for you to suffer; and you tell Creflo Dollar I said so; these people quit; they done lied to y'all so long; it ain't God's will for you to be broke; I wish you'd go tell some of them saints over in Africa that don't have food today it ain't God's will for them to be broke. 28 If you were never broke you would never know how to trust God; for everything you've got to learn to trust him; amen; you've got to suffer; I didn't say you'd be broke forever; but there's going to come times in this walk when you don't have $2 to rub together; that's all right; we've got the Lord; and when you get the next $5, if 50 cents comes out of it, you're passing the test; faithful; faithful on. 29 Until you learn faithfulness you've learned nothing; how could Daniel be faithful? He knew; he had read the book; and he said right there in Daniel where we was just reading, he said I was reading the book, sir, and I saw what Jeremiah said; might as well quit praying like you're praying; right when they first got there they, every day, oh God bring us back to Jerusalem, please Lord, get us out of this mess, this job, whatever, get us out of here. 30 And then somebody said, hey, have you read this? We gotta pay for our sins; we got this for 70 years; you might as well go ahead and buy you a house; yes sir, yes sir; plant you a cotton field; plant you a vineyard; cuz trouble ain't going nowhere; amen; hallelujah; you're stuck in this thing called life, Sister Lydia; you're stuck in this thing called life; it's going to be there when you walk out them doors; it's going to be there all week long. 31 But if you know that you know that you know, life won't do you, but you will do life; so before Daniel was taken into Overcomer training; 70 years; why do you think it was 70? That's the number of the Overcomer; seven; Jeremiah prophesied what was coming. 32 Now last week I talked to you about the Euphrates River; I talked to you about draining that river; and I don't think some of you got it; so what I want to do is revisit that and line it up with this; Yahweh was not draining the river for Babylon; come on now; he was not draining it for Babylon. 33 Daniel knew, at about that 69-year mark, you need to start looking down; your deliverance is on the way; I don't know where it's coming from, but Daniel, you can stand and know it's about time; timing is everything; timing's everything; how long we've been here, Daniel? 69 and a half years; you see, you see anybody coming? Shadrach, you see anybody? Is there any armies out there? I don't see nothing yet. 34 69 and three-quarters; you see anything out there yet? No; but I'm watching; I'm praying; I'm watching; I know what time it is; I can stand still and just know; you know how your life bills are going to get paid tomorrow? Same way they've been getting paid the last 50 years of your life; unexplained; just; and you just quit and know; but the reason people can't do that is because they're not controlled by Jeremiah's writing; they're controlled by their emotions. 35 Yes sir, Pastor; amen; if you don't get your emotions under control you'll never be able to stand still and know; your emotions is your enemy; you've got to know, when you wake up in the morning, that we're creeping closer and closer to the 70 years; we're moving down the line to where the end. 36 I can ask you a question: how many's ever watched a scary movie? Jason, Freddy Krueger, all that; how many knows the second time you watch it it ain't scary? What'd you say? Oh; if some of you would read the script to this movie called life you would never be scared another day in your life; you could stand still and just know. 37 All you're waiting for; if you've got a lost child today, you're not waiting for them to come home; no, no; you're waiting for the timing where they have to come home; it's not if they're coming, it's when; you've got to know it. 38 So when we see Daniel praying when it's almost 70 years, notice his prayer; it ain't asking for deliverance; it's confessing rebellion; it's confessing sin; Daniel confessing sin; sir; oh, the closer we get to the coming of the Lord, you're going to see God's people begin to confess their sin of breaking the Sabbath; confess their sin of eating anything they want to; confessing. 39 If we're in the moment now, your prayers have to change; go read that prayer when you get time; Daniel wasn't praying for deliverance; he knew deliverance was on the way; he was preparing for deliverance; here's what we've got to be doing, saints of Israel, right now in this moment: your prayer life has to change; it ain't about you no more; it's time to prepare. 40 We're at timing is everything; hallelujah; it's time to get every sin, every rebellion, every personal problem, every weight that so easily beset you, out of your life; why? Timing is everything; remember when I started this series, what did I say? I said you're Daniel and Daniel is you; this whole book is about you. 41 Now I want to prove this point to you; Yahweh is not draining the river for Babylon; but see, he's draining the river for Jeremiah; what'd you just say? For his name's sake; because Jeremiah had prophesied in his name; now you see why he could use an evil man like King Cyrus or a worldly man like Donald Trump; don't you understand? Babylon, America; I'm not doing it for you; I'm doing it for my people that's stuck in there; I'm doing it for my name's sake; I'm doing it because I said I would do it; 70 years; it's time. 42 I need a man; well, I ain't really got nobody to choose from; I can't use the church, ain't going to vote him in cuz he got a criminal history; you, uh; she, uh-uh; I know about her; uh-uh; let me look; find a man; hold on; oh; oh there's a good man right back there; oh, prob, he ain't got no backbone though, I can't use him; oh, what about, there's a good man right there; come on; would you go drain that river? Oh, you too scared to fight; you want to just love the Lord; okay; I got you; all right. 43 But the problem is it's time; and when it's time I've got to use somebody; I'll reach way below the bottom and pull up a man because it is time; and I'm not doing it for Cyrus; I'm not doing it for Darius; I'm doing it because a prophet prophesied in my name; I feel the Holy Ghost; God's going to protect his word; he'll protect his name no matter who he has to use; hallelujah. 44 Daniel, ain't no need of praying like that; you better pray repentance; that's all you need to pray; listen to me, house of Israel, your prayers now; you need to forget praying for new cars; you need to forget praying for, oh God I need my pimples to pop; uh-uh; no no no no no no no no no; you need a pimple to pop and it's the one inside your brain; you need right now is the time to turn to sackcloth and ashes and repent before Yahweh; oh, house of Israel, for what you have done; somebody say it's time. 45 God didn't raise up First Harvest Ministries because of me; it was time; it was time; and when it's time, God will find anything he can get a hold of to make his word come to pass. 46 You may be seated; Jeremiah said 70 years; brothers and sisters, who was stuck in here? Who was stuck in Babylon? My people, sir, sir; Israel, sir; the Jews; Judah, Ephraim, was stuck in that system called Babylon; and do you think that God sent King Cyrus into Babylon to set Babylon free? But to set my people free; because remember, it wasn't Babylon that set his people free; it was the kings of the East that dried up the river and snuck into Babylon; that's the ones that set his people free. 47 If you hear me by the spirit, refresh my memory: tell me what the word East is; Rising Suns; listen to me; God is raising up a silent army; come on now; that's getting ready to drain this river and set the suns, the Rising Suns, the rising, manifested sons of God, are getting ready to march into Babylon; not because we're all that; but because it is time. 48 If you ever wonder, you may be seated; if you ever wonder why y'all hadn't been able to bring down First Harvest Ministries yet, contacting, destroying me night and day; you don't understand, darling; you're playing in a ball field; you don't have a ball for it; it's the timing of God and there ain't nothing you can do; it's time. 49 It ain't time for a bunch of loose Bible studies; it's time for the kings of the East, the Rising Suns, to band together, to bind together with cords that cannot be broken, and rush into Babylon with a saving message for the house of Israel; it's time; but I want to give y'all hope: if it was any other time you could get us; your timing's off; we didn't raise this up and you can't bring it down because the timing is here for the end-time move of God; in spite of ourselves. 50 I mean, think about it; if all God's got to use is an ex-drug addict like Allan Morgan, how desperate is God? I'll tell you how desperate he is: his word's got to come to pass and he's got to find somebody that will bring his word to pass; hallelujah. 51 I've heard of the Civil War; when we went to get their bearer; it boiled down to this: what was the name of that battalion that rushed in that won the victory at Gettysburg for the north? It was a stroke of luck, our timing rather; because they weren't even supposed to charge that certain hill at that time; and if you go listen to the Gettysburg tour they will tell you that had the timing been off by 30 minutes the South would have won the war. 52 But there was a general from the north that accidentally came at the wrong time; and I want to tell you something: you hear me now, it may be the wrong time, but if God's involved it's the suddenly of God; it's the right time; hallelujah; now let's find out why Yahweh is drying up the Euphrates River. 53 At the 69-year mark; and guess what? Belshazzar, the king, had no idea anybody was drying up the river; somebody noticed the river maybe getting a little low; oh, it's just the summertime; but down the river there were soldiers diverting the lies; yes sir; so they could bring in the truth; oh, here a little and there a little; oh, just a trickle; slow that river of lies down. 54 I had a woman email me; I shared it in the chat group last night; she said for years I have fought you and what you're preaching; for years I said to my husband that you was preaching lies; she said but you are now my pastor; why? A little by little, little by little, you dammed up the river; you diverted one lie and then another lie, then another lie. 55 Oh, we may not be making much noise but we move a lot of water; God's up to something in this hour; every time I put a Facebook post I'm putting a stone in the river; a stone; I'm making a way for what's about to happen; oh, Brother V, you're not touching the world; I'm not trying to touch the world; I'm trying to touch Babylon; I'm trying to find God's people; I know they're in there somewhere; come out, come out, wherever you are; the kings are looking for you. 56 We have a mandate to divert this lying river with stones of truth; you know how they diverted it, don't you? King Cyrus brought stones, began to stack the stones in the river, and then they would dig for the river to go somewhere; until one day that great river on the other side of the stones is dry; the stones is the truth. 57 But let's go now and read what Jeremiah said; Jeremiah 51 and 59; let's go read now; remember where are we? We're starting right here at the beginning; let's go back before Babylon was captured; verse 59; read; by the way, we're baptizing three people in a few minutes; amen; in the river of truth; hallelujah; in the only name given among men whereby you must be baptized; amen. 58 Jeremiah 51:59; the word which Jeremiah the prophet commanded Seraiah the son of Neriah the son of Maaseiah when he went with Zedekiah the king of Judah into Babylon in the fourth year of his reign; hang tight; all right; here's Jeremiah living in Jerusalem and he found out that King Zedekiah was going to Babylon; because in those days all the vassal kings had to go to the Empire every year, headquarters, so the leader could look in their eyes and see if there was going to be any revolt. 59 Yes sir; Zedekiah was a king under Nebuchadnezzar, Babylon; and here he goes; and Jeremiah got wind of it; now Jeremiah had a secretary; his name was Baruch; well, guess what? The boy Seraiah that's going to Babylon with King Zedekiah is, by chance, Baruch's brother; okay; follow this story; now, if you don't believe Yahweh doesn't put things in place, people in place, this Seraiah was in a political office and Yahweh put him there for this moment. 60 Now let's read verse 60 through 64; amen; so Jeremiah writes in a book all the evil that should come upon Babylon; so Jeremiah prophesies, writes it down, about what's coming to Babylon; now where is King Zedekiah headed? To Babylon; him and his secretary; and Jeremiah says, oh, uh, Seraiah is going to Babylon, Baruch, your brother; good; we're fixing to play a political, we're fixing to get involved in politics; amen. 61 He began to write down to Babylon what was going to happen; amen; read; even all these words that are written against Babylon; and Jeremiah said to Seraiah, when thou comest to Babylon; when you get to Washington DC, when you get to the head of the political empire, I'm going to show you who's in control of all governments and all presidents and all kings. 62 When you get to Washington at the inauguration and put your feet on the ground, you're going as a prophet, even if you're not one, because you are the word; you're carrying the word; when President Trump was arrested in Atlanta Georgia with granny fanny, we went like a bunch of crazy folks blowing shofars all over that jail; our people were blowing shofars all down the street; we look crazy to the world; but I never doubt that we blew away the plans of the enemy; we won the war for Donald Trump; not because of who we are but because of the voice in that shofar. 63 Seraiah, you're going to see the president; well, let me show you who the real president is, through Jeremiah; read; and shalt see and shalt read all these words; verse 62; then shalt thou say, oh Yahweh, thou hast spoken against this place; you have spoken against Babylon; read; to cut it off, that none shall remain in it; you're going to destroy, destroy Babylon; go tell Nebuchadnezzar: I'm Yahweh the God of heaven, going to destroy his fake four-year presidency. 64 Wow; amen; wow; because if you don't go declare it, God won't do it; he took a little man named Toto, for four years, he said, take that microphone, son, and you bring the word of the Lord to the nation; you declare: I'm cutting this fake president off; I'm going to turn it around; there's going to be an overturn, overturn, overturn. 65 And that's what I did, sir; I stood in the pulpit of Brother Henry Schaefer; the video is out there somewhere; I looked in the camera in 2021 and I said, as sure as I'm standing here, God's going to reveal the fake presidency of Joe Biden and overturn it and restore Donald Trump to the White House; sir, sir; I did it while my own family laughed at me; I did it while people thought I'd lost my mind. 66 Mixing politics with religion; baby, I don't mix politics with religion; I put politics under religion and put religion on top of politics; we don't mix it, we control politics; right; why? We are the army of heaven; I told you when we didn't have a Red Wave in 2022; the next morning I didn't run from that camera; I didn't hide; I came up the next morning and I said rejoice, we got a bigger miracle than we even asked for; and God's going to use this miracle so Donald Trump can control the government through the House of Representatives. 67 God has never failed this ministry; hallelujah; you think I liked waking up every day with another Newsweek article talking about my criminal history? You think I longed to wake up every day and see the shots of my face the way they would grab? You think I enjoyed that burden? It's called the burden of the Lord. 68 You think I enjoyed being hated and people commenting on my chats and attacking? You know, but God somehow found a boy raised by Marvin Terrell and said, son, I checked your record and it's bad, but I checked your backbone and it's still; I need to use you. 69 I need to use you; when every American in this; I want you to remember who we are; yeah; when every American in this nation was in bitter fear over their careers and their jobs, losing jobs all over this nation, military careers all over this world, God spoke to me and said: I'm making you the pastor of America; you become their pastor and write them a letter and I'll set them free from the rule of Babylon. 70 How do I know God did it? Cuz I'll never forget; I walk to my mailbox; I needed help; come on, come on; holding all the money; amen; amen; cash money poured into this ministry like oil, black gold; checks was being written to this ministry from Hong Kong, from all over the world; I'm one man; from Hong Kong someone sent $80,000. 71 And I mean, folks, that don't happen; that's right; hallelujah; I'd be coming out to the post office hoping none of my enemies would see how much money I'm carrying; it's so blessed; so blessed; I'm looking around; I go back three or four times so I didn't look like I had so much; I couldn't stop the money; still can't stop it. 72 I want to tell you why: because when God needs his work to be done he will finance it; he will make a way where no man can control you, no man can dictate to you; hallelujah; and let me tell you something; everyone that ever sent one dime to this ministry; you did it; look in these eyes; I'm talking to some of you that don't even like me; you sent me money. 73 And I want you to think about something; think about it real good; that I never asked for; who made you do it? Who touched your heart to do it? I've never asked you for one penny; you need to understand who we are; hallelujah. 74 Have you ever heard me in four years ask for one penny? No sir; for me, no, no; never have I ever, ever, now there's a business side of Toto that you know, that's totally separate; an opportunity; never have I ever for this church asked for a penny; I've never taken nothing from nobody ever; not in this ministry; if there's somebody in this church today that I've ever asked you for one penny, stand up and tell the world. 75 There ain't one person; ever wrote a check in this whole world to me that I asked for; and if y'all don't understand that you're in the wrong place; this ministry is here for one purpose: to obey Yahweh; hallelujah; and I'm sorry if that brings blessings. 76 If you will obey God it will bring blessings; read Elder; amen; was in verse 62; none shall remain in it; none shall remain in Babylon; none; read; neither man nor beast; uhhuh; but that it shall be desolate forever; read; and it shall be when thou hast made an end of reading this book that thou shalt bind a stone to it. 77 Okay, now hold on; Seraiah, Toto, anybody that Yahweh uses: go tell Babylon, I'm putting an end to it; now here's Daniel standing in Babylon, being mistreated, fiery furnaces; and you wonder how he could stand; right; amen; Yahweh had already; Daniel decided to live in tomorrow, hallelujah, rather than today; and he could do it because he knew what tomorrow held; he had read the book. 78 If you're in this ministry, you know the kingdom is coming; so therefore the kingdom of evil cannot bother you; you already know what time it is; hallelujah; but he said now once you've prophesied, Toto, Seraiah, once you have told the politics, once you've said it, here's what I want you to do: read; tie a stone around it and cast it into the midst of the Euphrates; go to the Euphrates River; amen. 79 And turn my word, oh hallelujah, into a seed; wow; go take my word, Seraiah, and throw it in the river; the river that I'm going to dry up; hallelujah; and it ain't going to be Cyrus that dries it up; it's going to be my word; hallelujah; throw it in the river. 80 So read the rest of it; verse 64; and thou shalt say, thus shall Babylon sink and shall not rise from the evil that I will bring upon her; and they shall be weary; thus far are the words of Jeremiah. 81 Listen; I want you to go to Jeremiah; Seraiah; when you get there; you're going to look around and it's going to look like Babylon's in control of the world; oh, there's going to be dancing, feasting; and they're going to have my people in bondage; my Sabbath-keeping people; they're going to look defeated; oh, but we're not. 82 But here's what I want you to do: I want you to take the word that I just gave you, throw it away, and let it do what the word always does: not come back void; that's right; throw it in the river; throw it in the river; and it will be that scroll in the river that will dry up this river when the time has come; timing is everything. 83 20 years, Brother Michael; that scroll's at the bottom of the river; but I thought God said; God will never say anything that doesn't have a timeline attached to it; I'll never forget when God showed Sister Kendrick this very scene that's in this building today; now who was here that day? 84 Y'all; she stood up; she said, I had a dream; and it was about six of us, maybe, in here; she said I looked around this building and I saw people here from all over the nation, from different states; she said and they were good-looking people; so all you people ought to feel good; she said they was good-looking people, they was pretty people. 85 Good-looking people; but you know what, Brother Walick, we came back the next service; none of them people was here; we came back the next year; none of them people was here; we had thrown that word in the river; and while you think it's at the bottom of the river doing nothing, I want you to hear me well: everything that falls in the bottom of a river turns into mire; that mire has nutrition; and everything the river needs is in that mire. 86 Anything God ever promised you, it may be hidden at the bottom of a river; but when it's time you cannot stop it; if you'll drop it; I said you cannot stop it; if you'll drop that word, know it, it's going to come to pass; never doubt it; you'll never be without it; it's growing. 87 Houston, Texas; I'm sorry; no; well in Texas; a man was up preaching; God; I now I've just thought about this; this blows my mind actually; I had just finished preaching for Merl Yung in Lake Charles, Louisiana; and I went to visit my grandfather in Port Arthur, Texas; I'd never been to Port Arthur but I was coming from Brother Yung's and that's on the way when you leave Lake Charles; so I went to see my grandfather. 88 Now I want y'all to hear what I'm about to tell you because this is the first time I thought about it; the Holy Ghost just brought it back to my mind; I'm in Port Arthur and I go into a store and there's a flyer on the; you know back then they would announce revival services, people would put in the windows; and there was going to be a revival at a church. 89 And I'm just going to be honest with y'all; now back then I was old school Pentecostal; and the pastor's wife had on makeup and jewelry in the picture and I didn't want to go to that revival; you know cuz they couldn't be right; you know; so my point I'm making is I wouldn't have went; okay; I get to my grandpa's house and guess what? My, not really my grandma, but the woman he left my grandma for; guess where she's a member? 90 And she said, champ, you want to go to um revival with me? And I said, would them Jezebel makeup-wearing women; no, I don't want to go over there; Jezebel; I've always liked that word; Jezebel; I said, now, I'm good; finally she talked me into it; she made me a pot of spaghetti and talked me into it; she made the best spaghetti in the world; with a little heathen self. 91 Anyway, we walk into the church that night; and now I'm really messed up; the evangelist comes to the platform; he's got hair down to his waist; his name: Kim Clement; oh yes; I'll never forget it; Kim Clement was the evangelist; that was back when he was small time; nobody knew him hardly; he had hair down to here. 92 And I'm thinking, my God, if I can't get out of this hell hole; and when I'm sitting there miserable, I'll never forget when he said, and there's a young preacher right there, come up here; and he called me up, laid his hands on me, gave me a word from the Lord; and I'm going to be honest with you: I can't remember a word he said; the anointing came upon me so strong. 93 And yes, I fell out with that long-haired man; I don't remember a word he told me; but evidently heaven remembered it; hallelujah; evidently heaven remembered it; he threw that word in the river of my life; he threw that word in the river of my life; some of y'all have some words in the river of your life. 94 And if you'll wait on the Lord, when the time is right, oh, it's going to come forth; hallelujah; and it just so happens that me and Kim Clement was the voice in the last four years that kept hope in America; oh, how could that be? How did Yahweh arrange all that? Oh; and know that word didn't come to pass for 20 or 30 more years; I was about 18 years old when that happened. 95 And then mother Gad's word; she threw a word in the river of my life; oh; and the floods may come; and I can't focus on the flood in my river; I've got to focus on the word that's been forgotten; you may not remember the word but the word remembers; the word remembers the word; I've got to hurry; I'm on page 4 of 20; Lord help me. 96 He said drop that word; and what's in that word is timing; Daniel, go ahead and build your house; quit trying to run every time problems come your way; Brother Chifflet; Yahweh said, buy a house, settle down; why? It's time; I'm about to do something; it's time; now to get to the good part of this message I must move along; hallelujah; blessed be the name of the Lord. 97 Let's go to Daniel chapter 5 and we're going to try to bring you to the climax here; hallelujah; now, Daniel chapter 5, let's start at verse number five where we left off last week; I'm ready; in the same self hour; in the same hour came forth a man's hand; what? After Babylon was drinking false doctrine out of holy cups; amen. 98 After they had drunk their fill of false Trinitarian doctrine in the house of Israel's cups, then they saw a hand; tick tock; amen; read; and wrote over against the candlestick upon the plaster of the wall of the king's palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 99 Read; then the king's countenance was changed; I want to show you what happened to the king of Babylon; his countenance changed; and then read the rest; and his thoughts troubled him so that the joints of his loins were loosed; he messed on himself; and his knees smote one against another. 100 The Bible said his loins were loosed; he literally messed on himself; wow; that's what happens to these Babylonians when you bring them truth; after they've been drinking the lies of Babylon they've got to mess it all out; the king messed on himself; why? There's about to be a change; your control is over; listen to me: when you hear this message your control is over; you can't even control your bowels anymore; you yield every part of yourself to the word that's in the river; why? Because there's about to be a change in your life. 101 Read; the king cried aloud to bring the astrologers and the Chaldeans and the soothsayers; and the king spake and said to the wise men of Babylon, whosoever shall read this writing and show me the interpretation thereof shall be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold around his neck; read; and shall be the third ruler in the kingdom; now Daniel's going to be the third ruler in Babylon; keep that in mind. 102 Read; then came in all the king's wise men but they could not read the writing nor make known to the king the interpretation thereof; then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled; now what was happening by the way while this hand is writing on the wall? Tell me what's happening at the same time they're trying to get it figured out; river; oh, river's going down; amen; while the warning is coming to Babylon the kings of the East are sneaking in; it's time; they're draining the lies that have controlled Babylon. 103 Read; but evidently Babylon wasn't worried; they didn't even realize what was happening; them poor little Sabbath-keeping people; they've got a little YouTube channel; tick tock; watch out Babylon; amen; all we've got to do is drain a little bit of water in one person's mind. 104 Be careful, whatever Baptist church y'all was a part of; be careful who we're pulling out; one by one; be careful; don't underestimate the sun, the Rising Suns; because what we're doing, we're not taking over Babylon yet; we're draining the lies, sir; little by little; there's somebody watching me live right now; I'm draining the river for you right now; in your mind; little by little; we're going to find you; hallelujah. 105 Read; then was King Belshazzar greatly troubled and his countenance was changed in him and his lords were astonished; now the queen, by reason of the words of the king and his lords, came into the banquet house; and the queen spoke and said: oh king live forever, let not thy thoughts trouble thee nor let thy countenance be changed; there is a man in thy kingdom in whom is the spirit of the Holy gods. 106 And in the days of thy father's light and understanding and wisdom like the wisdom of the gods was found in him; there's a man here that has answers to Bible questions; that's what she told him; wow; there's somebody here that's got the spirit to be able to reveal the mysteries and reveal the truth in this kingdom stuck in this Babylon. 107 Read; whom the king Nebuchadnezzar thy father, thy king, I say thy father, made master of the magicians, astrologers, Chaldeans, and soothsayers; forasmuch as an excellent spirit and knowledge and understanding; do you hear that brother; this ringing back there; okay, go ahead; interpreting of dreams and showing of hard sentences and dissolving of doubts. 108 Now what's the person with this spirit doing? Solving hard sentences; making it make sense; right; that's what the true Holy Spirit does; he reveals truth and reveals the hard sentences; read; dissolving of doubts were found in the same Daniel whom the king named Belteshazzar; now let Daniel be called and he will show thee the interpretation. 109 Then was Daniel brought in before the king; and the king spoke and said unto Daniel, art thou that Daniel which art of the children of the captivity of Judah? Are you that Daniel that's bound in my kingdom? Wow; are you that Daniel that is bound in my kingdom? Are you one of them? Amen; are you one of them that goes to church on Saturday and don't do Christmas and Easter like we do? 110 Are you one of them? I can see Daniel now: I'm one of them; I'm one of them; I'm one of those Holy Ghost Believers; I know about the gifts and signs; you came too late; already changed my Holy Ghost-filled mind; I'm one of them; wow; read. 111 Whom the king my father brought out of Jewry; I have even heard of thee; I have heard of you; I've heard that you got the Holy Ghost; wow; read; that the spirit of the Gods is in thee; and that light; how do you know the spirit of God is in me? Here's how: that light, that understanding, amen, of what the time, amen; you've got an understanding; I've heard about how you understand things differently than we do; and that's the proof you've got the spirit of God, because it is leading you into all truth. 112 He said I know you've got the Holy Ghost; not just cuz you run in the aisles and speak in tongues; but you're speaking in sense; you're making things make sense; read; and that light and understanding and excellent wisdom is found in thee; and now the wise men the astrologers have been brought in before me that they should read this and make known unto me the interpretation thereof; but they could not show the interpretation of the thing; they could not explain to me what time; amen; and neither can the Christian church. 113 Those are the Chaldeans, the astrologers; none; he said nobody can explain to me an understanding of the times; read; and I have heard of thee that thou canest make interpretations and dissolve the doubts; I've heard you can dissolve difficulties; I've heard if I come to you with a Bible question you can make it make sense; amen; that's what I heard; amen; I know you've got the Holy Ghost cuz you can reveal the word; Pastor, you can reveal the secrets. 114 Now if thou canst read the writing and make known to me the interpretation thereof, thou shalt be clothed with scarlet and have a chain of gold about thy neck and shalt be the third ruler in the kingdom; now let's see what this Overcomer said; read; then Daniel answered and said before the king, let thy gifts be to thyself; keep your gifts; because I'm not going to be third in your kingdom; I'm going to be first in his; go ahead now; hallelujah; I don't play third fiddle; hallelujah; woo; I've got a kingdom already promised to me; thank you very much; hallelujah. 115 Now how could he look to the king and say I don't need your money, I don't need all; he knew; he knew; go ahead on; yet I will read the writing unto the king; but I'm still gonna obey God; that's right; no, I don't need to meet President Trump; no; come on pastor; I know who I am; he ought to meet me; hallelujah. 116 He ought to meet some of you; because if it wasn't for some of your prayers he wouldn't be getting out of all the mess he's gotten out of; be warned, Donald Trump: what? Your art of the deal? Oh no; it was the mouth, the power of the Almighty, that delivered you; and that same voice that has supported you will speak against you if the time comes; amen. 117 I was never a Trump worshipper; see, that's what they don't understand; no no no; I'm sorry, Trump got in my way and I had to support him; why? Cuz I obey God; uh-huh; yes sir; I'm not even mad at Joe Biden; I'd sit down and have lunch with him; I'm mad at Joe; I had a job to do, sir; reveal the usurpation. 118 See, this ain't personal for me; when I have to correct members of this ministry it ain't personal for me darling; when I'm done, let's go have lunch; but I've got a job to do; I'm the shepherd of this flock; and I would encourage some of you, warn some of you: don't ever think we're too close of friends; cuz I don't have no friends when I'm holding this microphone; that's right; I don't want no friends. 119 Hallelujah; nobody in this ministry is my friend; I want you to hear me; I'm your shepherd; don't get too familiar with me; why? Because I'm your shepherd; and even though I die for any one of you, I won't become your friend; because if I become your friend I can't preach to you; I can't correct you because I like you too much. 120 Now some people call that pride, aloof, they don't have nothing to do with the people; let me explain something to you: we don't have much to do with the people; you know why? I can't afford for anybody in this church to think that's my friend more than you're my friend; that's right; you can never doubt my preaching; that's right; you can never say, well, why didn't you say; oh, they friend? No darling; I have no friend; I'm so secure in my calling; anybody could leave this ministry; I will cry and I will keep preaching. 121 I have no friend; why? I'm his servant; now you can take that how you want to; but be careful how familiar you get; why? Because my job, brothers and sisters, is to bring you the word of the Lord without fear or without favor; I can't favor nobody; as much as I love Elder Morgan and we are very close, I've got to be able to correct him from this microphone like I can anybody else in this church. 122 Why? Because folks, this ain't a friendship game; this is the family of Yahweh; hallelujah; hallelujah; woo; now let's all go eat together; hallelujah; I love the people but I can't become familiar with the people too much. 123 You parents, if you would take my advice and quit being friends to your kids; hallelujah; your children don't need a friend; they need a mama and a butt-whipping daddy; that's what they need; hallelujah; they don't need somebody to understand what they're going through; let me tell you: get there and wash them dishes or you're going; I'm going to know what you're going through; a butt whipping, that's what you're going to go through. 124 When this pastor looks in your eyes and makes you mad, listen to me: know my heart; know that I want you to make it in that first resurrection; and we've got to get rid of the junk to do that; hallelujah. 125 I'm closing; read page seven; go ahead; verse 18; yes; oh thou King, the most high God gave Nebuchadnezzar thy father a kingdom; now here's why you see the handwriting on the wall; I tell you what; nope; the good stuff; I have to wait; I've gone too long; let's stand this morning; hallelujah; blessed be the name of the Lord; come on sweetheart and let's close the service out. 126 I didn't realize it was so late; oh but my Lord, the good stuff is coming; I didn't even get to the timeline; we'll get there; uh, Brother Rickman? Yeah, we could; amen; let's sing about that river; amen; let's all gather around tonight; there is a river that flows from deep within; there is a fountain that frees the soul from sin; there is a river that never shall run dry; come to this water, come to these waters, there's a vast supply; come drink from this fountain that never shall; it'll free your soul from sin; hallelujah.