Jack Sterling Ward's Sermons

God only works through people and uses people who call upon Him for His glory and our good. He uses evil people sometimes for His purposes and glory but not for their good. He used Pharoah, Nebuchadnezzer, Cyrus, Pontius Pilate, Judas Iscariot and so on. But not for their good but out of the evil in their own heart. Who was the first preacher? Asked no one ever!!! Have you ever wondered that? Who started preaching. 1 Corinthians 1:18 For the preaching of the cross is to them that perish foolishness; but unto us which are saved it is the power of God. 1 Corinthians 1:21 It pleased God by the foolishness of preaching to save them that believe. Let’s meet the first preacher.

Nothing proves the legitimacy of Christianity like the resurrection. Without the resurrection we have no Christianity. We have no hope. We have no purpose for living today except to get all we can and live the law of the jungle. But there was a resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead and It’s not over yet. We also will be resurrected

One day we will meet the angel that has been with us all of our Christian lives. Hebrews 1:13-14 But to which of the angels said he at any time, Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool? 14 Are they not all ministering spirits, sent forth to minister for them who shall be heirs of salvation? They are here right now. Daniel experienced the greatest of Angels. Gabriel. He speaks to Daniel in tonight's text from Daniel ten. We thank Dr Cayce for the background on this study tonight.

One of the greatest prophecies in the Bible is Palm Sunday. We don't think of it that way but it's true as we shall see.

When in the presence of holy angels Daniel was in awe. In Chapter 7 he was in the presence of an Angel. Gabriel Spoke to Daniel in chapter 8. And Gabriel again in Chapter 9:21-27. Now in Ten he is visited again by an angelic like person. But this one has a lot of similarities to an Old Testament appearance of Jesus Christ.

Nothing new under the sun means a repeat of the things that have already been. Satan has great wisdom but he only does the same things over again why? Because it works! Man can be deceived and man can be lured into sin by the same old tricks. Mystery Babylon is man trying to be God or take God’s place. Exactly what Satan did as we will see later. Man is doomed to repeat history if he does not learn from history. How can we be so stupid? It’s not that we are stupid…. it’s that we have only one goal…to be our own god and replace the God of creation. Mystery Babylon is the embodiment the ultimate plan to replace God with man. It has many times reared it’s ugly head in the Bible. And of course it would. It is Satan’s ultimate plan that never changes it only takes on different characters and different paths.

The Bible that you have in your lap will never every be done away with. It will forever be. They say you can’t take it with you…well yes you can take one thing with you….the word of God and the salvation and the promises that it proclaims! Doesn’t that give you a great sense of security and confidence!

Job is the oldest book in the Bible. Written before Moses. It gives us a lot of interesting details about the devil and angels and God. It gives us the answer as to why bad things happen to God’s people. And how to handle the fact that this world is not our final home and it is a sinful, fallen world that has angels and Satan that are against humans. We must stand the test sometimes. That is we must stand in our faith, in our God, and we will neither falter or fail.

John 4:22 Ye worship ye know not what: we know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews.

Matthew 24:10-12 10 And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another. 11And many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many. 12And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold.

Daniel 9:1-19 Daniel prays for his people and repents for the nation. Daniel knows that the time is soon coming for Isreal to return to their land and he wants his people to be ready and clean before God.

Isaiah 65:17-25 The one thousand year reign of Christ will bring peace between, animals, Man and God.

Daniel chapter 8 requires and explanation to Daniel. But even the explanation doesn’t clear it up for him. Bible prophecy cannot be clearly seen until the time is near for that prophecy to be fulfilled. We understand it looking back. But Daniel had no idea what this vision was about. It was important because an Angel, the angel of all Angels Gabriel came and explained it to him for verification that it would happen for sure. It is amazing in it’s accuracy that should prove to us that the Bible truly is the word of God!

Luke 15:25-32

Daniel Chapter 8 contains another prophecy given to Daniel. This one is about the recent future in the 3rd century BC to about 150 BC. Chapter 7 was about the end times mostly. A little horn will come forth and do great harm to the people of God, the Jews and the temple. He is not the antiChrist but a precoursor to the anti-Christ to come.

We love our children, our grandchildren, and our favorites sports teams and our favorite food and drink. We love our favorite drug of choice and we love our sin of choice. Not everyone loves their country. Not everyone loves their spouse, or their extended family. Not everyone loves their jobs. Not everyone loves their homes. Not everyone loves their life and where they are in life. And sadly, not everyone loves God or His word. Who and what you truly love says a lot about you. Jesus told us that you can be disqualified from following Him by not loving Him more than anything else in the world. Is Jesus being strict and unreasonable, arrogant and cruel or is He actually showing His great love for us by saying this?

his is one of the greatest combacks found anywhere in Scripture. Of which there are many. Jesus Christ IS coming back. Israel made three comebacks. Egyptian Slavary, Babylonian captivity and 1948 after the holocaust. And one to come at the return of Christ! Habakkuk had faced the frightening fact that his nation would be invaded by a merciless enemy. The prophet knew that many of the people would go into exile and many would be killed. The land would be ruined, and Jerusalem and the temple would be destroyed. Yet he told God that he would trust Him no matter what were to happen. A man spent his life running from God living only for himself and his wants and desires. One day he lost everything he had….. his wealth, his family, and his home. Then God told him…Now do I have your full attention? Sometimes Christians can lose their wealth, their family, and their home. What is God telling them? Yes you lost these things, you suffered great pain and loss, but I’m giving you a comeback better than you could ever imagine and you will glorify my name through it all! That’s today message from Habakkuk!

Daniel Chapter 8 contains another prophecy given to Daniel. This one is about the recent future in the 3rd century BC to about 150 BC. Chapter 7 was about the end times mostly. The events in Daniel chapter 8 come before the feast in Daniel chapter 5.

The door to life you would think would be large and accommodate all people of the world. But that is not the case. It can accommodate all the people of all time… but it is narrow. And few find it. Why is that? Jesus tells us why.

Daniels vision or dream of chapter seven verses 1-14 is explained to Daniel in Verses 15-27. What a glorious God we have who lays out the end time scenario for us. All we have to do is read it and understand. God promised that those will understand who follow Him. Daniel 12:10 Many shall be purified, and made white, and tried; but the wicked shall do wickedly: and none of the wicked shall understand; but the wise shall understand.

Very few people today are faithful to the Lord Jesus Christ. Even fewer are watching for Him! The globalist elite have laid out their agenda very clearly. They are faithful to this new world order, this world economic reset, the agenda of 2030 and the Georgia guidestones that call for a new world order with a greatly reduced population so the planet can survive. They are not only patiently setting this up (it has taken almost 100 years) but they are watching for it to occur at any moment when their savior will appear. Who is their savior? The anti-Christ! Who will lead the world into this great utopia with no god but man and accountable to a group of global elites….. the ten horns and the ten kings of the dragon.

Ancient of Days is a term used only in Daniel Chapter 7. It represents God in His glory. Jesus Christ is God so the references here are to Him and the Lord of glory! Daniel sees this great vision of the glorified Son of Man…the Lord Jesus.

It’s not good math but it’s correct theologically. Evolutionists use even worse math. They believe nothing plus nothing equals everything! Faith plus nothing equals Everything! Jesus came and lived and died and rose again for our salvation. All we have to do is believe it by placing our faith and trust in Jesus Christ. That’s all we have to do to be saved! But many in the world cannot accept this. They want a part of the process. They want to do something in order to earn God’s favor. The Galatians were falling to this as we see in our text today.

Daniel 7:1-10 Daniel has a dream of four creatures and ten kings. The four creatures are the Babylon, Medio-Persia, Greece and Roman empires. The ten kings are ten elites, or nations or power groups that will arise in the last days. One of the kings will start out small but rule the others eventually. This is the beast, the Anti-Christ, the man of sin who will rule the world during the seven years of tribulation.

The Bible is about the redemption of man by the grace of God through faith in Jesus Christ. The Bible explains how we got to this point of salvation by grace alone through faith alone. God created the world. He created a people to introduce Himself to the world. He sent a Savior to save the world. And when the fullness of time is come….He is coming back to rule the world. Mankind sinned. So we can never be good enough to save ourselves from our sin problem predicament. We need to become sinless and holy. Impossible!! But with God all things are possible!