SWYC 2007: In This Generation

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GYC Southwest

SWYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Stephen Bohr

Changing The Times

Revelation’s Sanctuary Pattern

Lessons from the Two-horned Beast

Ivor Myers

Samson’s Riddle

His Death Shall Bring

Without Hands

The Law of Relationships

I left Napa this morning which is up by PUC.

I was visiting my daughter who lives up there.

Left about 8 o'clock in the morning and arrived here at almost 6 o'clock.

Has anybody here come from a further place than PUC?

On second thought, I just came from around the corner.

It's a real privilege to be here with this very select group of youth and young adults.

I see very encouraging things happening in the Seventh-day Adventist Church and I'd like to just share 2 of them with you before we open God's Word.

I had the privilege about a month ago of speaking at the Inter-American Division Youth Congress in the city of Medellin, Colombia.

They had about 6, 000 young people gathered there.

This was an event that was organized by the Inter-American Division.

It was very spiritually enriching, but the music was deplorable.

And it was exciting for me to have youth directors from conferences and youth directors from unions and youth and young adults coming to me constantly complaining about the music.

You know if this had been just some denominational leaders, it would be different.

But it was actually originating at the grassroots, which is very, very encouraging.

A second interesting episode, I had the privilege last week of speaking to a group of 200 lay leaders near San Juan, Puerto Rico.

And they are having just terrible problems in Puerto Rico with worship styles.

It's come to the point where they have dancing on the stage, raising the hands, shouting, clapping.

The only thing that's lacking is speaking in tongues, you know, but that might come down the road.

But the encouraging thing is that when I got back home, which was on Thursday, I got a call from the youth director of the West Puerto Rico Conference.

He said, Pastor Bohr, I've had multiple requests by the young people in our conference to have a camp at our campsite with you presenting a series on proper biblical worship.

He says the encouraging thing about this is this was not an idea that we came up with.

This was an idea that the young people came up with.

And there's over 500 young people that want to go to this camp out and want to learn proper ways of worship according to Scripture so that they can go back to their churches and they can teach their churches the proper way to worship.

So there are exciting things happening in the Seventh-day Adventist church.

You know, Israel did not cease being God's special people even in the periods of the worst kings like Ammon and Manasseh which were horrendous times for Israel they were still God's people they were an apostasy but then you had Josiah's show up and they allowed God to use them in a powerful way to bring revival and reformation among God's people and as I look at this group I have no doubts whatsoever that the future of the church is bright and the finishing of the work is here gathered here this evening through the power of God us lending ourselves as instruments in the hands of God I want to thank Michael James whom I've only met online and I want to thank Norman also for the privilege, because I know that he had some clout for me being here, because I was with Advent Hope at Loma Linda last year.

And so I want to thank them for the awesome privilege of being here to spend this weekend with this very select group.

Now before we get into our study this evening, we want to have a special moment of prayer to ask the Lord's guidance.

All right, let's bow our heads for prayer.

Father in heaven, we thank you for the awesome privilege of being here in this place of worship.

We thank you Father that you brought us safely, that your angels have watched over us as many of us have traveled from different places.

And Father we ask that as we open your holy word that your Holy Spirit will manifest himself powerfully here.

I ask Lord that you will open our minds and give us understanding and that you will open our hearts and plant the seed of truth in each heart.

And we ask Lord that you will help us understand the urgency of the times that we're living in Father that if there's anyone who is indolent anyone who is just sitting around doing nothing I ask Lord that this evening we might be inspired to get out and shout from the rooftops that Jesus is coming again and we must prepare.

We thank you Father for the privilege of prayer.

We thank you for hearing us for we ask it in the precious name of Jesus.

I'd like to begin this evening by reviewing a prophecy which I believe that probably most all of us are acquainted with.

And we're not going to study all of the details of Daniel chapter 7.

I'm just going to review certain aspects of the chapter and my special interest is in getting to the point of the fourth beast of Daniel 7.

Now you're going to help me along to review this chapter so you know that in Daniel 7 there's a lion what does the lion represent?

Then you have a bear what does the bear represent?

The bear represents Medo-Persia very well.

And then you have a fourth beast which is a terrible beast.

We call it the nondescript beast but really it's a dragon beast and what does this dragon beast represent the dragon beast represents Rome now what I want us to notice as we begin our study this evening is that this fourth beast has 4 consecutive stages of dominion.

The fourth beast has 4 consecutive stages of dominion.

Now let's turn in our Bibles to Daniel chapter 7 and take a look at that.

Daniel chapter 7 and we want to read verse 23 and then we'll continue reading also verse 24 Daniel chapter 7 and verses 23 and 24 want you to notice 4 stages of the fourth beast.

Verse 23, thus he said, the fourth beast shall be a fourth kingdom on earth, which shall be different from all other kingdoms, and shall devour the whole earth, trample it and break it in pieces.

Stage number 1, the fourth beast governing by itself, no horns yet, just the dragon beast by itself.

That dragon beast represents the Roman Empire, what we call pagan Rome.

The 10 horns are 10 kings who shall arise from this kingdom.

Let me ask you must the kingdom be there in order for the 10 horns to arise from the kingdom?

So in other words the kingdom is there for a while before the 10 horns come out.

The dragon beast with the 10 horns represents the second stage of this fourth beast of Rome.

In other words it represents Rome as it's been divided up by the barbarians who have invaded from the north.

But then I want you to notice that there is a third stage in this fourth beast.

And now notice, and another shall rise after them.

He shall be different from the first ones and shall subdue 3 kings.

So you notice that there's a third stage to this fourth beast.

The third stage is when a little horn rises among the 10 and uproots 3 of those 10 kingdoms.

And of course we know that that little horn represents what?

Represents the papal system, the Roman Catholic papacy.

Rome ruling by itself, Rome divided into 10 kingdoms, and papal Rome represented by the little horn.

Now I mentioned that there are 4 stages to the fourth beast.

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SWYC 2007 Plenary Sessions

Changing The Times

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