<TITLE>11. Par 72-78</TITLE>L-72 Now, the prophet Daniel had been in Babylon for sixty-eight years (You who wants to run references back and save yourself some of the time that I've had to--to looking it up)--sixty-eight years. He went into captivity in B.C. 606. And when the vision came to him was--was B.C. 538; 538 from 606 leaves 68. Sixty-eight years he had been in Babylon amongst heathens and still had the victory. Amen. We can't stay a hour.
But he had been in the very midst with nobody but three companions, and them in different parts of the kingdom. But Daniel standing alone with God held the victory for sixty-eight years. Think of it. (I don't want to start preaching, because this is supposed to be a teaching message.) But sixty-eight years he had kept the victory and was undefiled before God without the baptism of the Holy Ghost, without the Blood of Jesus Christ to make intercessions for him, with only the blood of bulls and goats and heifers which he had to offer secretly, because of the heathen traditions of that land. They'd been taken down there. Jeremiah prophesied of them that they were going down.

L-74 Now, Daniel (Oh, my.), he had begin to see that the time was getting close, just as we are today. Daniel begin to understand, he said, by the reading of books. And in the first year of the reign of Daniel--in the reign...
I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, therefore the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that should be accomplished seventy years in... desolation of Jerusalem.
Jeremiah in B.C. 606, prophesied because of their sins and ungodliness that they would be seventy years.

L-76 You remember there was another prophet came up in that day; I can't call his name at this time. I might be able to catch it for you in a--in a few minutes if I'd look back for a while. But he came up and said, "Jeremiah, you are wrong. God's only going to keep Israel down there for so many days--for so many--about two years."
Jeremiah said, "So be it. Amen." He said, "But wait a minute. Let's you and I check up with one another as prophets." He said, "Remember, there's been those who prophesied before us, and they told things that was wrong. And God dealt with them for telling wrong things. So let us be sure. But the Lord God has told me there's seventy years yet." God smote that false prophet and took his life that same year. Because God had told this true prophet that there was seventy years.

L-78 And I want you to notice how Daniel, yet an alien, yet ousted from his people, ousted from his church, without one church service, without any church to go to, without any hymns to be sang but what he sang hisself, in the midst of all of this, still held onto what that prophet said. Amen. Amen.
No church to go to, nobody to fellowship with; everybody went to heathen temples; everybody worshipped their idols. No Christian songs, nobody believed the same thing he did, and in sixty-eight years, from a young man of about twelve, fourteen years old when he was taken down there, he held true to God and understood by Jeremiah's prophet that the days were almost accomplished. How that would warn the heart of any true prophet of God today, that we look back and see what this true prophet said, and know that we're at the end time.
He said, "I understood by books that Jeremiah, my brother, many, many years ago prophesied that Israel would stay down here seventy years, and that time's about fulfilled." And he made hisself ready, and he called a fast, and he sanctified himself, and when--ashes, and sackcloth, and put it upon his head, and went to fasting and praying to understand about what day they were living in.


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