<TITLE>02. Par 5-9</TITLE>L-5 Over in the Old Testament in the Book of Daniel, the 5th chapter and the 25th verse, I wish to read. And you who are taking your Scriptures down... And now, we're sorry that we do--do not have ample seating room for those that are standing. I want to read from the 25th verse. And may the Lord add His blessing.
And this is the meaning that was written, MENE, MENE, TEKEL, UPHARSIN.

L-6 As our Scriptures this morning take us back into the Old Testament to base our thinking for the next few minutes on a historical event... And we know that history repeats itself ever so often. And in my study now, I'm studying the Ante-Nicene Fathers and can see through the Scriptures how that we are repeating again the age that has passed by. And all Scripture is given by inspiration. And our blessed Lord said that the Scriptures cannot be broken. All the Scriptures must be fulfilled. And what a consolation that is to give to we, the people that read those Scriptures, knowing that what we have read cannot be broken. It gives us the most solid foundation to rest our faith on. And every Scripture must be fulfilled.

L-7 And then we find, that in the fulfilling of the Scriptures, the Word is so great till many times it has dual fulfilling and most all of it repeats at least once.
For instance, in the Bible, in Matthew the 2nd chapter, it--it reads to where, it said, "Out of Egypt I have called my Son." If you'll read that Scripture and run the reference, you'll find it back over that God called His son Jacob out of Israel--out of Egypt. And then it also is fulfilled again when He called His Son Jesus out of Egypt. And it just keeps repeating itself, because it's inspired.

L-8 If I wrote you a letter, you would perhaps appreciate that letter. And if you wrote me one, I'm sure I would appreciate it. But my letter would just be to you. And therefore, after you read it once, you know all the meaning, and the letter would be insufficient any more... Anybody else... it was just designated to you, or yours to me.
But it's not so with God's eternal Word. It's inspired. Therefore, It's to all peoples, and all ages, and to meet all conditions. That's what makes It keep repeating Itself. As history swings around, It swings with the history. And It never looses It's value, because It is the eternal Word of the eternal God. It cannot lose It's value.

L-9 And our scene this morning is in Babylon. It's very good for us that we find out a little about this great city. And I've been studying recently on Babylon, out of the--the... geographically where it's set. And I was studying it out of Hislop's "Two Babylons," one of the oldest histories of Babylon.
Babylon first appears in the beginning of the Bible. Then it appears in the middle of the Bible. And then it appears in the last of the Bible. The reason it begins in Genesis, is because Genesis is the seed chapter of the Bible. That's where the seed of everything that's on earth today was started in Babylon--in Genesis, pardon me. And Babylon begin in Genesis.
It was first founded by Nimrod, which was a son of Ham. And it was first called, "the gates of paradise." Then it was called Babylon. And the word "Babylon" means "backslidden." And Nimrod founded this in one of the most fertile parts of the known world. And it was a great city. And it was founded in the valleys of Shinar. And Shinar was... The valley of Shinar was the most fertile place in the known world, a great agricultural center. And the great Euphrates River irrigated it's land. The Tigris laid north, into the mountain. But the Euphrates irrigated Shinar.


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