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Happy New Year!!! The Book of Daniel (Introduction)

News of the week

  1. Understanding the Times: Today at 1:00 on 88.1 FM or anytime at links below
    1. Jan replays a talk by Jack Hibbs & Charlie Kirk “The End Game”
    2. OliveTreeViews: https://olivetreeviews.org/radio-archives/
    3. YouTube: YouTube: https://bit.ly/3WWZoMG Rumble: https://bit.ly/3VuL7Wl
    4. Complete original session https://bit.ly/3CezNXn
  2. Prager U and Will Witt documentary on the “Green Religion”
    1. https://youtu.be/UTgNtvTuYRU
  3. News Highlights from this week’s Amir Tsarfati’s ‘Telegram’ feeds
    1. Join Amir Tsarfati’s Telegram feed @ https://t.me/beholdisraelchannel
    2. Dec 26
      Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky said that he wanted a law that would “make it impossible for religious organizations affiliated with centers of influence in the Russian Federation to operate in Ukraine”, referring to the Ukrainian Orthodox Church’s affiliation with Moscow.  
    3. Dec 26 “The Economist” has ranked Israel as the fourth best performing economy in 2022.
    4. Dec 26 Serbian President Alexander Vucic orders highest level of military readiness for Serbian Army and all Special Police units to protect Serbian people and maintain territorial integrity.
    5. Dec 28 Zohar Palti, the former Intelligence Director in the Mossad, says Iran is days to weeks away from enriching uranium to 90% military-grade level.
    6. Dec 28 The Rial traded in the Iranian markets at a rate of 430,000 Rials to the dollar. Iranian citizens are rushing to the dollar. 1.5 months ago, the exchange rate was about 340,000 Rials to 1 US dollar.
    7. Dec 28 On his last day in office, Israel’s defense minister Benny Ganz said that in recent years Israel has significantly improved its readiness to a strike on Iran’s nuclear sites.
    8. Dec 28 The new government in Israel is planning on bringing back to government documents the “mother” and “father” instead of “parent 1” and “parent 2”. The liberals are going nuts!
    9. Dec 28 The 37th government of Israel will be sworn in this afternoon at the parliament. This new government is the most conservative government Israel ever had.
    10. Dec 29 Singapore’s Ministry of Manpower informed BI that it decided to reject Amir’s application for a speaker’s license. The enemy is doing its best to stop me from going on this speaking tour.
    11. Dec 29 Netanyahu: “Our main goal will be to thwart Iran’s nuclear arsenal”
  4. Most shared verse shows we need God in the midst of chaos: https://bit.ly/3Q7mptN
  5. Is the UN trying to force a 2 State Solution in Israel? https://bit.ly/3WDcNcK
  6. American values return to the Military, but not why you think https://bit.ly/3Ie8Uqi
  7. Pool of Siloam to be developed and opened to public https://bit.ly/3WPORTc

The Book of Daniel

  1. No other book in the Bible has been as vindicated (corroborated) by history as the Book of Daniel
  2. Details recorded in Daniel have been confirmed as historically correct through archaeological discoveries show that the author of Daniel had to have been an eye witness to the events recorded.
  3. Daniel recorded is both Hebrew and Aramaic:
    1. Daniel 1:1-2:4 recorded in Hebrew
    2. Daniel 2:4 – 7:28 recorded in Aramaic
    3. Daniel Chapters 8-12, back to Hebrew
  4. Shakespeare was wrong: there IS significance in a name!
    1. Daniel’s Hebrew name means “God is my Judge” Babylonian name Belteshazzar means “Bel Protects Him” (Bel, AKA ‘Marduk’ was the chief god of Babylon)
    2. Hananiah’s Hebrew name means “God Has Been Gracious” Babylonian name Shadrach name means “The Commander of Aku” (“Aku” are spirits of the dead)
    3. Mishael’s Hebrew name means “Who is like God” or “Who is What God is” Babylonian name Mishach means “Belonging to Aku”
    4. Azariah’s Hebrew name means “The Lord is my Helper” Babylonian name Abednego means “Servant of Nego” (“Nego” was the Babylonian god of vegetation & the patron god of writing)
  5. Daniel is both historic and prophetic
  6. Daniel is not in chronological order; if it were, the order would be 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 8, 5, 9, 6, 10, 11, 12
  7. Chuck Missler video on Daniel can be found at [https://bit.ly/3G3y9sJ ](https://bit.ly/3G3y9sJ