{"id":18404,"date":"2017-07-16T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sugar-land-bible-church.local\/sermon\/daniel-029-a-foreshadowing-of-things-to-come\/"},"modified":"2017-07-16T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2017-07-16T05:00:00","slug":"daniel-029-a-foreshadowing-of-things-to-come","status":"publish","type":"sermon","link":"https:\/\/slbc.org\/es\/sermon\/daniel-029-a-foreshadowing-of-things-to-come\/","title":{"rendered":"Daniel 029: A Foreshadowing of Things to Come"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","book":[72],"series_event":[467],"sermon_service_type":[472],"speaker":[6],"class_list":["post-18404","sermon","type-sermon","status-publish","hentry","book-daniel","series_event-daniel","sermon_service_type-main-service","speaker-dr-andy-woods","no-post-thumbnail"],"acf":{"sermon_title":"Daniel 029: A Foreshadowing of Things to Come","sermon_date":"20170716","sermon_month":"7","sermon_year":"2017","sermon_notes":4790,"sermon_slides":4791,"sermon_mp3":4797,"sermon_id":"71617959498","series_or_event":467,"service_type":[472],"speaker":6,"books_of_the_bible":72,"chapter_and_verse":"8:15-22","sermon_transcript":"Andy Woods\n\nA Foreshadowing of Things to Come\n\n7-16-17\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel 8:15-22\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Lesson 29\n\nGood morning everyone.\u00a0 If we could take our Bibles and open them to the Book of Daniel, chapter 8 and verse 15.\u00a0 The title of our message this morning is A Foreshadowing of Things to Come.\u00a0 And that\u2019s one of the things that we see here in this prophecy that Daniel was given back in the sixth century.\u00a0 Although this prophecy in the year 2017 is something that already happened in the past, in our past, it\u2019s a foreboding, if you will, it\u2019s a foreshadowing, a prefiguring, a typology, whatever phrase you want to use of something bigger that is yet future.\u00a0 In God history is cyclical; God gives history in advance by allowing things to happen and then saying something bigger than this, similar to this but bigger than this is yet on the horizon.\n\nIf you\u2019re studying with us for the first time we have been working our way through the Book of Daniel; God of course had raised up Daniel at a special time in the crisis time for the nation of Israel as Israel had been in the captivity for almost seventy years at this time, in a place called Babylon, 350 miles to the east of Jerusalem.\u00a0 The problem is there\u2019s no prophecy governing that time period so God is raising up Daniel to explain what\u2019s going to happen as the captivity has started and He gives Daniel a lot more than that; He gives him prophecies that will continue to happen right up to the Second Advent of our Lord Jesus Christ.\n\nWe have finished the first major section of the book, chapters 1-7.\u00a0 We\u2019ve gone through it very carefully and now we find ourselves in the second major section of the book, chapters 8-12.\u00a0 And this is a section where the language shifts from Aramaic, most of the book up to this point in time has been composed in Aramaic which is the language of the Gentiles at that time.\u00a0 Now the language shifts into Hebrew and that\u2019s important because its showing us that these are prophecies that specifically relate to Israel, her tribulations, her trials, her future and beyond.\n\nChapter 8 is the ram and goat vision which we\u2019re studying, chapter 9 is the very important 70 weeks prophecy.\u00a0 You know you can\u2019t understand, as I\u2019ll be explaining, God\u2019s blueprint for the future unless you understand the 70 weeks prophecy, chapter 9; chapters 10-12 is a final vision.\u00a0 So we\u2019ve been studying this ram and this goat vision that Daniel had.\u00a0 We\u2019ve seen the historical setting, verse 1; the year is about 551 B.C., the third year of Belshazzar, the last reigning king of Babylon, Daniel, being in his mid-60\u2019s at this particular point in his life.\n\nAnd he sees a ram and a goat and I believe the key to interpreting this is to let the Bible speak for itself because when you go down to verses 20-21, we\u2019ll be reading those verses a little bit later, you learn that the ram is Media Persia; the empire that would overthrow Babylon during Daniel\u2019s life.\u00a0 And then he sees the shaggy goat which represents Greece.\u00a0 So you\u2019ll notice that I\u2019m not just coming in and attaching any meaning I want to these symbols.\u00a0 I\u2019m not making one the United States and the one Britain and all these kinds of things that you see on the internet.\u00a0 Please don\u2019t get too much of your theology from the internet; get it from the Word of God and allow the Word of God to interpret itself.\u00a0 There\u2019s no real guesswork here needed when we let the Scripture interpret itself.\n\nSo we\u2019re dealing here, as Daniel has explained several empires in the course of history, chapter 2 and chapter 7, we\u2019re really dealing with some middle empires: Media Persia and Greece.\u00a0 The chest and arms of silver of the stature in Daniel 2, as well as the belly and thighs of bronze and then in chapter 7 the bear and the leopard, those middle two empires and it\u2019s just in our chapter they get different names; they get the name Ram and Goat\u2026 Ram\u2014Persia, Goat\u2014Greece.\n\nNow the vision itself begins to unfold; you have the two-horned ram and that would be the rise of Media-Persia, that would be the empire that replaced Babylon and this empire took control during Daniel\u2019s own lifetime in chapter 5 which is chronologically out of order.\u00a0 But Daniel kept looking and he didn\u2019t just see a two-horned ram, he saw a one-horned goat and this is speaking of Greece\u2019s conquest of Persia and this would happen several centuries after Daniel had died.\u00a0 And what he begins to see in this vision as the goat strikes the ram is eventually Media-Persia, that overthrew Babylon, Media-Persia herself would be overthrown by the empire of Greece.\u00a0 The horn on the goat would represent Alexander the Great.\u00a0 Alexander the Great died at a very early age and that\u2019s the whole significance of the horn being broken off, as we have studied in this vision.\n\nAnd then Daniel sees in substitution for the broken horn four horns growing up on the forehead of the goat.\u00a0 Alexander the Great, as we have studied, died with no heirs; he died at a very early age, his empire was divided amongst his four generals.\u00a0 The most important general here would be Seleucus because Seleucus took that area that we call today the land of Israel.\u00a0 God, in prophecies, particularly in these prophecies in chapters 8-12 is not giving us a panorama of world history; He\u2019s not telling you about the founding of America here in chapter 8.\u00a0 He\u2019s not talking about World War I, World War II, any of the great events of history that we think about.\u00a0 He is specifically highlighting in these prophecies key things that will happen in the life of the nation of Israel and they are very ominous foreshadowing\u2019s, forebodings of things yet to come for the nation of Israel.\n\nFrom the Seleucus, General Seleucus, comes forth an empire called the Seleucid Dynasty; from the Seleucid Dynasty Daniel continues to see in this vision, verses 9-14, a boastful little horn.\u00a0 This is a man who would arise, probably about 175 B.C., a man that the historians tell us is named Antiochus Epiphanes, and he is focused in on (like a laser beam) in Daniel\u2019s prophecies because he is going to launch one of the most horrific waves of persecution the Jewish people have ever experienced and in the process he becomes a prototype, he becomes a prefigurement of the coming antichrist.\u00a0 Antiochus is not the antichrist but he prefigures the antichrist in Daniel\u2019s prophecies.\n\nWhat did Antiochus do, roughly 400 years or so after Daniel left the scene?\u00a0 He persecuted Israel.\u00a0 He wanted to Hellenize that area which means he wanted a single Greek language, a single Greek culture, the nation of Israel is right in his path in terms of an obstacle, a tiny nation with their own culture, their own language.\u00a0 So he began to persecute these people, they didn\u2019t fit in with his opinion concerning where the world ought to be headed.\u00a0 That kind of sounds familiar, doesn\u2019t it?\u00a0 It\u2019s interesting how the globalists of the world today look at Israel as the big headache.\u00a0 What do they spend most of their time debating?\u00a0 What does the U.N. spend most of its time discussing?\u00a0 What are we going to do with Israel, they\u2019re right in the way of progress.\n\nThe reality of the situation, beloved, is God has designed it this way.\u00a0 He\u2019s showing that you cannot have lasting peace in the Middle East without the Prince of Peace, Jesus Christ.\u00a0 All of the turmoil and tumult that you see in your newspapers concerning the Middle East and as I\u2019ve been showing you here it\u2019s not something new, it\u2019s the exact design of God.\u00a0 It\u2019s showing the world and specifically the Jewish people that the lasting peace everybody wants is an impossibility without the Prince of Peace.\u00a0 So many people place their hopes for the future on some kind of political leader and the Lord, by designing things this way is showing us the futility of that.\u00a0 Not until Jesus Christ sits on David\u2019s throne from Jerusalem and rules and reigns in what we call the millennial kingdom will we have what the world is looking for.\n\nYou see, the Jews in the first century and before wanted a political kingdom but they didn\u2019t want the spiritual reign of Christ.\u00a0 I find the church of Christ, Jesus Christ, today is the opposite of that, we want a spiritual kingdom but we\u2019ve written off, many times, a literal interpretation of prophecies that talk about a political kingdom.\n\nWhat does Jesus want to bring to the world?\u00a0 He wants to bring a spiritual kingdom and a political kingdom simultaneously.\u00a0 He wants the world to understand that the politics that we\u2019re all interested in can\u2019t achieve the results we want until Jesus Christ has entered into the hearts of people and is ruling and reigning as King.\u00a0 And although that\u2019s happening to some degree to the church today in various ways it\u2019s not happening with the nation of Israel which is in unbelief.\u00a0 The peace that Jesus brings spiritually is a prerequisite to the peace He\u2019s going to bring politically and what holds up everything today is the unbelief of national Israel.\u00a0 Which is okay Paul tells us because even in their unbelief that the kingdom is in postponement God is at work today, is He not, through the church amongst the Gentiles.\u00a0 But as well intentioned as we may be we\u2019re not going to bring in the kingdom either.\u00a0 The kingdom will be brought in through the conversion of the nation of Israel in the events of the Tribulation period, which are prefigured here and that will result in spiritual peace which will bring in the lasting kingdom of peace that the Jewish people and the human heart have always wanted.\n\nBut Antiochus caused great turmoil there in the Middle East during the time period between your two Testaments.\u00a0\u00a0 You know, you close the Old Testament with the Book of Malachi, I like to call him Ma-lah-chi, the first Italian prophet, and there\u2019s about 400 years of so-called silence before you open the New Testament, Matthew\u2019s Gospel, and we call those years the silent years.\u00a0 Why do we call them the silent years?\u00a0 Because there\u2019s no prophecies given during that time period.\u00a0 God is not speaking, but let me tell you something; those 400 years are anything but silent.\u00a0 It is true that new Scripture is not being written during that time period but God is moving His hand in history over and over and over and over and over again to see to it that the specifics of His prophetic word are being fulfilled.\n\nAnd we\u2019re reading about it right here in Daniel 8.\u00a0 Verse 11 he would, the prophecies say, make himself equal with God, stop the Jewish sacrifices, desecrate the temple by setting up a pagan image in the temple.\u00a0 Verse 12 indicates that he would persecute Israel, stop the sacrifices which had begun after the Jews had returned to their homeland following the Babylonian deportation.\u00a0 You can read about that in the Book of Ezra.\u00a0 They would disregard the truth, Antiochus would, he would prosper for a season, and he would desecrate the temple.\u00a0 Antiochus, probably around 165-164 B.C., went into the Jewish temple.\u00a0 We only know this because of the Maccabees Books, which we don\u2019t accept as canonical but they contain good history in them.\u00a0 They show us how Daniel\u2019s prophecies were fulfilled 400 years later.\u00a0 He desecrated the temple, he set up an image of Zeus in the temple.\u00a0 He tried to humiliate the Jewish people by sacrificing a pig in the temple contrary to Jewish law.\n\nAnd as Daniel is seeing these prophecies they\u2019re so bad in terms of persecution of the Jewish people that one angel, verse 13, asks another angel, how long is this going to last?\u00a0 I mean, how long is God going to allow this evil to occur.\u00a0 And you might be asking that in your life; you have a problem you have a setback, you have a heartache, you say how long, oh Lord.\u00a0 And one of the great things we learn in the Bible is evil is on a leash.\u00a0 Aren\u2019t you happy about that?\u00a0 You know, even when Satan came to test Job, you recall that story, Job 1, Job chapter 2, even Satan himself was put on a leash by God.\u00a0 First of all, Satan had to ask God permission to sift Job, number 1.\u00a0 Number 2, God told Satan do what you must but you can\u2019t what?\u00a0 You can\u2019t take his life.\n\nSo it\u2019s interesting that even in the deepest valleys of life as we go through struggles it\u2019s limited in terms of the evil that can occur.\u00a0 And the limitation on evil here is given in verse 14; it\u2019s only going to last 2,300 evenings and mornings, roughly about six years.\u00a0 It\u2019s going to last from about 170 B.C. right up to about 164 B.C. or so.\u00a0 And so that is the vision that Daniel sees.\u00a0 Now what happens at the end of those 2,300 days?\u00a0 There\u2019s going to be a miracle; the Jewish people are going to revolt under a man named Judas Maccabeus, they are going to liberate the temple from Antiochus\u2019s rule, from Seleucid rule and the temple will be liberated.\u00a0 The temple will be rededicated and that\u2019s a special feast day in Judaism called what?\u00a0 Hanukkah.\u00a0 And as I explained last week the Minora to rededicate the temple has to burn for eight days; they only had oil for one day.\u00a0 Well they lit the Minora anyway and it miraculously burned ten days according to tradition.\n\nSo significant is this victory that a feast day is added to the Jewish calendar called Hanukkah which means dedication or feast of lights.\u00a0 According to John 10:22-24 it\u2019s actually a feast day that Jesus Christ Himself celebrated as He made His way to Jerusalem to celebrate the various feasts.\n\n[John 10:22-25, \u201cAt that time the Feast of the Dedication took place at Jerusalem; [23] it was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple in the portico of Solomon. [24] The Jews then gathered around Him, and were saying to Him, \u201cHow long will You keep us in suspense? If You are the Christ, tell us plainly.\u201d [25] Jesus answered them, \u201cI told you, and you do not believe; the works that I do in My Father\u2019s name, these testify of Me.\u201d]\n\nSo that\u2019s the vision and now what we move into is the interpretation of the vision as Daniel begins to request, as he typically does as these visions are unfolding more specific information.\u00a0 So verses 15-19 Daniel seeks an interpretation.\u00a0 Verses 20-25 we have an interpretation of the vision.\u00a0 And then in verse 26 we have the time frame of the vision and it\u2019s very clear that these things would not happen in Daniel\u2019s lifetime, although Daniel saw many prophecies coming to pass in his lifetime these would not transpire in his lifetime.\n\nNotice if you will verses 15-19, as Daniel seeks an interpretation.\u00a0 Notice if you will Daniel 8:15, \u201cWhen I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought]<\/sup>to understand it; and behold, standing before me was one]<\/sup>who looked like a man.\u201d\u00a0 You\u2019ll notice that Daniel seeks an interpretation.\u00a0 One of the things that\u2019s very troubling to watch develop in the body of Christ is Christians who have lost their appetite for the Word of God.\u00a0 They just don\u2019t, in some cases, hunger for the things of God, the deeper things of God.\u00a0 The deeper things of God always require a little bit more effort to get to and a lot of people frankly are just not willing to put in the extra effort it takes and they miss the insight that God has for them in their lives.\n\n1 Peter 2:2, it\u2019s very clear; it says, \u201cLike newborn babies long for the pure milk of the Word so that you may grow thereby in respect to salvation.\u201d\u00a0 When a young child is screaming in the middle of the night they don\u2019t want you to come in when they\u2019re infants and give them a theology lesson; they want to be fed because being fed right allows them to grow correctly.\u00a0 And so there\u2019s these hunger pains in the child.\n\nThat\u2019s exactly how it works in your life as a Christian.\u00a0 If you\u2019re not fed correctly through the Word of God you simply cannot develop the way God would have you to develop in terms of your spiritual man and so God places into the life of the child of God, particularly the newborn baby, a hunger to receive truth, to learn truth, to study truth, to get around people that perhaps are a little further down the road than they are that can explain truth to them.\n\nBut you know, when my wife makes me a nutritious meal at home and on the way home I instead stop at McDonalds and order the value meal, I order the Sundae with the hot fudge on it and nuts on top, you can tell I have a little bit of expertise with this, and I fill my stomach up with junk essentially, the appetite just is not there anymore, is it, for nutrition.\u00a0 When you look very carefully at this passage that I just read concerning Peter he talks about junk food in the stomach.\u00a0 Before he says, \u201clong for the pure milk of the Word of God\u201d he says this: get rid of the junk food. \u00a0\u00a0Verse 1, \u201cTherefor putting aside\u201d what kind of junk food?\u00a0 \u201call malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.\u201d\u00a0 Let me ask you a question: are malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy and slander part of your life as a Christian?\u00a0 They can be because Peter warns us not to have these things.\u00a0 But when we move off into that area we\u2019re filling our stomachs with junk food and as our stomachs are filled with junk food what is thwarted is the desire for the pure milk of the Word that he describes in 1 Peter 2:2.\n\nI only bring this up because one of the things I appreciate about Daniel is he is so interested in these things.\u00a0 You know, a lot of Christians they have this idea, premillennialism, postmillennialism, I\u2019m an pan-millennialist, it\u2019s all going to pan out in the end, I don\u2019t care about details, don\u2019t bother me with this stuff, and if that\u2019s your view of things I would just ask you to examine your spiritual condition.\u00a0 Is\u00a0 your life so filled with junk food that you\u2019ve lost, tragically, an appetite for the things of God.\n\nProverbs 25:2 says, \u201cIt is the glory of God to conceal a matter, But the glory of kings is to search out a matter.\u201d\u00a0 Did you know that there are certain things in the Bible that are there but they require just a little bit more effort to get to, a little bit more digging?\u00a0 You say well why is that?\u00a0 Because God designed it that way.\u00a0 The Bible is designed for the hungry, the person that wants to get to the truth, that has an appetite for spiritual things, has really no problem putting in a little extra time and energy to get to those things.\u00a0 And that\u2019s how Daniel was.\u00a0 I heard, he keeps saying, but I didn\u2019t understand and so I asked.\u00a0 Do you ask God for insight and understanding?\u00a0 The book of James tells you to do that.\u00a0 If you lack understanding or wisdom, ask; the passage goes on and says God gives in abundance.\u00a0 [James 1:5, \u201cBut if any of you lacks wisdom, let him ask of God, who gives to all generously and without reproach, and it will be given to him.\u201d]\n\nBut so many times the appetite isn\u2019t there because our minds are so preoccupied with worldly concerns that the appetite is lost.\u00a0 One of the tragic things you hear from Christians, and I don\u2019t know why this is with older Christians, but you start a study in the church on a particular doctrine, the doctrine of salvation for example, and people say to themselves oh, I\u2019ve heard all that before, I don\u2019t need that study.\u00a0 Every time I hear that I say in my heart of hearts I hope I never get like you; I hope I never get to a place where I think I don\u2019t need the church of Jesus Christ or its regular teaching because no matter who I sit under\u2026 I went to a conference this weekend, Lamb and Lion Conference, I was one of the speakers, I didn\u2019t sit there in the lobby and chat with people during the sessions; I was in there listening.\u00a0 Why was I listening?\u00a0 Because I have an appetite for things, praise God.\u00a0 And I picked up insights that I didn\u2019t have before.\n\nI hope that\u2019s your attitude, that you\u2019re interested in the things of God, you want to sit under the teaching of the Word of God, you want to study the Word of God.\u00a0 You never arrive at truth completely; there\u2019s always things an infinite God is wanting to show and yet that whole process is short-circuited when the stomach is filled with junk food, the appetite is gone and somehow we think because we\u2019ve walked a certain number of years with the Lord we\u2019ve learned it all.\u00a0 God help us with that.\n\nAnd yet Daniel, what is he saying here: \u201cWhen I, Daniel, had seen the vision, I sought\u201d that would require energy, wouldn\u2019t it?\u00a0 \u201cI sought to understand it;\u201d one of the things I like about the Bible is you don\u2019t have to guess as to what the interpretations mean.\u00a0 We have a vision, now we\u2019re getting an interpretation through Daniel\u2019s question.\n\nDon\u2019t overlook the fact that he says \u201cI, Daniel, had seen the vision,\u201d because the history channel, Mysteries of the Bible, all of these liberal type sources of media that you run into, they\u2019re going to tell you that we all know Daniel didn\u2019t write the Book of Daniel; we all know that right?\u00a0 Well, why do you think that?\u00a0 Well how could he have seen these events in advance?\u00a0 Obviously someone other than Daniel wrote that?\u00a0\u00a0 And that\u2019s called the late dating of Daniel argument.\u00a0 \u00a0If you do that you destroy what the passage says.\u00a0 It says, \u201cI Daniel,\u201d in other words the Daniel in the sixth century.\n\nDo you think Jesus was a pretty good interpreter of the Book of Daniel?\u00a0 Matthew 24:15 He says, \u201cTherefore when you see the ABOMINATION OF DESOLATION which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet\u2026.\u201d\u00a0 He\u2019s quoting Daniel 9:27.\u00a0 \u00a0[Daniel 9:27, \u201cAnd he will make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering; and on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate, even until a complete destruction, one that is decreed, is poured out on the one who makes desolate.\u201d]\u00a0 He\u2019s saying Daniel spoke that.\u00a0 You start to play games with the Bible and you find yourself contradicting what the biblical text plainly says and what Jesus Himself taught.\n\nSo Daniel makes an inquiry, verse 15 notice verse 16, and he says, \u201cAnd I heard the voice of a man between the banks of<\/em> Ulai, and he called out and said, \u2018Gabriel,\u201d\u2019 that\u2019s our youth pastor\u2019s name, isn\u2019t it, \u201cGabriel, give this man<\/em> an understanding of the vision.\u201d\u2019\u00a0 Now here of course we\u2019re talking about the angel Gabriel.\u00a0 So what you start to see in the Book of Daniel is a distinction amongst angels in their angelic role. \u00a0Gabriel, in the Bible, shows up to give people insight into things.\u00a0 Luke 1:19, \u201c\u2026 I am Gabriel, who stands in the presence of God, and I have been sent to speak to you and to bring you this good news.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 Luke 1:26, \u201cNow in the sixth month the angel Gabriel was sent from God to a city in Galilee called Nazareth.\u201d\u00a0 Who showed up in the time of Christ to give insight concerning what was happening in the wombs of Mary and Elizabeth?\u00a0 The angel Gabriel.\u00a0 Now Michael is different.\u00a0 Daniel 12:1 says this, \u201cNow at that time Michael,\u201d a different angel, \u201cthe great prince who stands guard over the sons of\u201d Israel.\u00a0 Gabriel gives new insight.\u00a0 In fact, it\u2019s going to be Gabriel who\u2019s going to supply the Seventy Weeks prophecy in Daniel 9.\u00a0 You\u2019ll see Gabriel mentioned in Daniel 9:20-24.\n\n[Daniel 9:20-23, \u201cNow while I was speaking and praying, and confessing my sin and the sin of my people Israel, and presenting my supplication before the LORD my God in behalf of the holy mountain of my God, [21] while I was still speaking in prayer, then the man Gabriel, whom I had seen in the vision previously, came to me in my<\/em> extreme weariness about the time of the evening offering.\n\n[22] He gave me<\/em> instruction and talked with me and said, \u2018O Daniel, I have now come forth to give you insight with understanding. \u00a0[23] At the beginning of your supplications the command was issued, and I have come to tell you,<\/em> for you are highly esteemed; so give heed to the message and gain understanding of the vision.\u201d]\n\nBut Michael is different.\u00a0 Michael stands guard over the nation of Israel; different angels do different things.\u00a0 God has an order.\u00a0 Did you know God has an order everywhere?\u00a0 He has an order in His church; not everybody in this church does the same thing.\u00a0 I\u2019ve noticed the worship team never asks me to sing a solo.\u00a0 [Laughter]\u00a0 God never gifted me to do that.\u00a0 Now Veronica down here, that\u2019s a different story.\u00a0 But my gifting is different than hers; her gifting is different than mine.\u00a0 And we have to understand the hierarchy of God. We have to understand the order of God and we have to try to figure out, as God gives\u00a0 us wisdom, where each of us individually fit.\u00a0 I mean, there\u2019s nothing as sad as the person trying to be Michael Jordan when they\u2019re five foot one.\u00a0 \u00a0I mean some things in life just don\u2019t work out the way we want them to because we disregard the order and the hierarchy of God.\n\nGabriel gives you insight, Michael protects the Jewish people.\u00a0 Have you ever wondered how the Jewish people keep surviving all of these centuries, even in most cases being out of a relationship with God in terms of personal salvation?\u00a0 And yet you kick the Jews out of their land and they go right back into the land 2,000 years later.\u00a0 And every time the nation of Israel is attacked by the nations of the earth not only does Israel survive but Israel actually gets a holiday out of the whole thing.\u00a0 Purim, for example, in the Book of Esther, celebrating the Jewish deliverance from Haman.\u00a0 Hanukah was celebrating their deliverance from Antiochus as we have been studying.\n\nWhy is it that you just can\u2019t knock out of existence the Jewish people?\u00a0 There\u2019s a lot of answers to that but one of them is Michael who has a different function, who stands guard over the nation of Israel and boy, he\u2019s going to have a tremendous job to do in the events of the tribulation when the Jews are going to need his activity the most.\n\nNow take a look, if you will, at verse 17 as this interpretation continues.\u00a0 It says, \u201c\u00a0<\/sup>So he came near to where I was standing, and when he came I was frightened and fell on my face;\u201d why would Daniel fall on his face?\u00a0 That is always the reaction of holiness coming into the presence of sin.\u00a0 You remember the calling of Isaiah?\u00a0 Isaiah 6, Isaiah is called into the ministry, Isaiah says, \u201cIn the year Uzziah died I saw the Lord.\u201d\u00a0 Remember his next reaction?\u00a0 \u201cWoe is to me ... I am a man of unclean lips.\u201d\u00a0 [Isaiah 6:1, \u201cIn the year of King Uzziah\u2019s death I saw the Lord sitting on a throne, lofty and exalted, with the train of His robe filling the temple.\u00a0 Isaiah 6:5, \u201cThen I said, \u2018Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the LORD of hosts.\u2019\u201d]\n\nThat is always the reaction of holiness coming into the presence of sin.\u00a0 You remember John on the Island of Patmos when Jesus appeared to John.\u00a0 John fell down as though he were a dead man.\u00a0 [Revelation 22:8, \u201cI, John, am the one who heard and saw these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship at the feet of the angel who showed me these things.\u201d]\u00a0 If an angel representing the holiness of God or Jesus Christ Himself expressed Himself in unveiled holiness the reaction of everybody in this room, even at Sugar Land Bible Church, would be abject fear and terror.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Because you\u2019re standing as a sinner in the presence of holiness; holiness, by definition has the obligation to destroy sin, which is a\u00a0 problem for us, isn\u2019t it, because we\u2019re sinners by nature.\n\nThis is why Adam and Eve were running from God when they fell; I mean, they used to stroll with God in the cool of the garden, not anymore, after sin they are running from God.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Holiness in the presence of sin, it\u2019s like our police officer that comes, he just walked there into the restroom as I was having a conversation with somebody else\u2026 the presence of that police officer brings me comfort but what if I had just driven in here 85 miles an hour and stopped by 711 and stolen this or that or helped myself to a cup of coffee without paying for it, or I had been cheating on my taxes. All of a sudden in the presence of that police officer I\u2019m uncomfortable.\u00a0 See that.\n\nThat\u2019s why holiness coming into the presence of sin always invokes fear and when you start to understand this you begin to understand our desperate need for the transferred righteousness of Jesus Christ.\u00a0 I desperately need, as a lost sinner, the righteousness of Christ transferred to me at the point of faith.\u00a0 Otherwise I am on a collision course with the judgment of God.\u00a0\u00a0 Daniel, as godly as he was, still had a sin nature and he says there in verse 16, \u201cI heard the voice of the man between the banks of Ulai, and he called out and said, \u2018Gabriel, give this man an understanding of the vision.\u2019\u201d Verse 17, \u201cSo he came near to where I was standing, and when he came I was frightened and fell on my face; but he said to me, \u2018Son of man, understand that the vision pertains to the time of the end.\u2019\u201d\n\nNow don\u2019t get too confused about this expression \u201ctime of the end.\u201d\u00a0 This is not the end end, this is the end of the empire of Greece because that\u2019s the context that we\u2019re dealing with.\u00a0 \u00a0When we say that the game went into overtime and the game came to an end we\u2019re not saying that\u2019s the last basketball game that\u2019s ever going to be played in the history of mankind; we\u2019re saying in context that game came to an end.\u00a0 So the end is defined by its context which concerns Persia and it concerns Greece.\n\nIt goes on there in verse 18 and says virtually the same thing.\u00a0 Verses 18 and 19, \u201cNow while he was talking with me, I sank into a deep sleep with my face to the ground; but he touched me and made me stand upright.\u201d\u00a0 See, it\u2019s a problem when holiness comes into the presence of sin but there\u2019s always a provision.\u00a0 If God has an assignment for someone there\u2019s always a provision allowing the sinner to relate to God.\u00a0 And of course, what is our provision to relate to God?\u00a0 It\u2019s through Jesus Christ.\u00a0 If a person seeks to come to God through their own path other than through Jesus Christ they don\u2019t have the transferred holiness to stand in the presence of the Almighty, the One that the cherubim sing round the clock, what\u2019s the expression, \u201cHoly, Holy, Holy, is the LORD God Almighty.\u201d\u00a0 Isaiah 6:3, Revelation 4:8, what do the angels say over and over again?\u00a0 [Isaiah 6:3, \u201cAnd one called out to another and said, \u2018Holy, Holy, Holy, is the LORD of hosts, The whole earth is full of His glory.\u201d\u00a0 Revelation 4:8, \u201cAnd the four living creatures, each one of them having six wings, are full of eyes around and within; and day and night they do not cease to say, \u2018HOLY, HOLY, HOLY is THE LORD GOD, THE ALMIGHTY, WHO WAS AND WHO IS AND WHO IS TO COME.\u2019\u201d]\n\nThey don\u2019t say grace, grace, grace is the LORD God Almighty, although grace is one of God\u2019s attributes. \u00a0Mercy, mercy, mercy is the LORD God Almighty, although mercy is one of His attributes.\u00a0 They don\u2019t says love, love, love is the LORD God Almighty, although love is one of the attributes of God.\u00a0 They draw attention around the clock to the dominant attribute of God which is His holiness, His perfection, a standard that\u2019s so high that it demands destruction when it comes into the presence of mere sin.\u00a0 That\u2019s why John is afraid, that\u2019s why Isaiah is afraid, that\u2019s why Adam and Eve are afraid.\u00a0 And if you\u2019re not in Christ, beloved, you ought to be afraid too because you just don\u2019t have the standing unless the righteousness of Jesus is transferred to you.\u00a0 But you see this provision, he was told to stand up; he was made upright.\u00a0 God loves us so much that He gives us the provision to relate to Him and our provision, of course, by way of application, is Jesus Christ.\n\nVerse 19, \u201cHe said, \u2018Behold, I am going to let you know what will occur\u201d isn\u2019t that interesting that God wants us to know the future.\u00a0 He says, \u201cBehold, I am going to let you know what will occur at the final period of the indignation, for it<\/em> pertains to the appointed time of the end.\u201d\u00a0 There you see those expressions \u201cfinal\u201d time of \u201cindignation,\u201d it\u2019s not talking about the final final, it\u2019s talking about the final in relation to the empire of Greece.\u00a0 When it says the time of the end it\u2019s not talking about the ultimate end, it\u2019s talking about the end of the empire of Greece.\u00a0 Context is king when you interpret the Bible.\u00a0 The three rules of real estate are location, location, location; the three rules of Bible study are what?\u00a0 Context, context, context.\u00a0 Words mean things based on their context.\u00a0 If you will not respect the context you can twist the Bible into a pretzel and make it sound any way you want it to sound.\u00a0 Judas went out and hung himself, go thou and do likewise\u2026 according to the Bible, and what you do, do quickly.\u00a0 [John 13:27, \u201cAfter the morsel, Satan then entered into him. Therefore Jesus said to him, \u2018What you do, do quickly.\u2019\u201d]\n\nSo what did I just do?\u00a0 I strung together a bunch of statements that have nothing to do with the context and made it sound like we all ought to go out and commit mass suicide.\u00a0 And yet when you respect the context you see how silly stringing words together like this is; words mean things based on their context.\u00a0 You know, if you did this in the field of law you would be disbarred but somehow in the field of spiritual teaching the rules get suspended; it\u2019s anything goes.\u00a0 And yet that\u2019s a danger, that\u2019s a trap because the Bible can be made to say anything if you won\u2019t respect its context.\u00a0 And by the way, people are always trying to get the Bible on their side, whatever it is they\u2019re promoting, because they think it gives them authority in what they want to do.\u00a0 So everybody appeals to the Bible to manipulate it to get it to support their point of view.\u00a0 But if you become a student of context you see how those ideas disintegrate.\n\nFor example, the two sticks there in Ezekiel 37, the northern kingdom and the southern kingdom being reunited in the millennial kingdom, one of those sticks there in Ezekiel 37 is called the stick of Joseph; it\u2019s very easy to understand when you look at the context, there was a rupture between the north and the south after Solomon left the throne and in the millennial kingdom, Ezekiel prophecies the kingdom is going to be reunited and never divided again. But not if, but when the Mormons come to your house they will try to convince you that the stick of Joseph is Joseph Smith who had the alleged vision of the new revelation of Jesus Christ in the 1800\u2019s where Jesus made a guest appearance here in North America.\n\nLet me tell you something about cults; they thrive on people who believe the Bible but don\u2019t know it very well.\u00a0 They thrive on people who have a respect for this book but because of a lack of time in their lives to grow or because they\u2019re not in the right environment, whatever the case may be they just haven\u2019t learned the Bible, but they believe it\u2019s true.\u00a0 And we kind of laugh at this argument about Joseph Smith and the stick of Joseph but put yourself in the position of someone who doesn\u2019t hardly know anything about the Bible but they believe it; they are a sitting duck for a deception that most of us that are a little bit more studied in the Word of God would never fall for.\u00a0 I\u2019m just pointing this out to let you know I\u2019m not just engaging in intellectual exercises here; I want to fortify you against deception and the study of the Scripture in context is probably, more than any other single thing I can think of, one of the best bulwarks or defenses against deception that you can possibly have.\n\nThat\u2019s why the Bible, in Ephesians 6 says, \u201cPut on\u201d now \u201cPut on\u201d is a command, it\u2019s not going to come on automatically.\u00a0 Ephesians 6, \u201cPut on the belt of truth.\u201d\u00a0 How do you \u201cPut on the belt of truth\u201d?\u00a0 You figure out what this Book is saying contextually so you can see through the silly arguments of man and the wiles of the devil.\u00a0 \u201cPut on\u201d is a command that requires energy and effort on your part.\n\nSo the time of the end is not the end of the world; it\u2019s the end of the regime, if we can put it that way, of this man, Antiochus.\n\nWe move into verses 20-25 now, Daniel is no longer seeking an interpretation of the vision but now the vision is interpreted to him. Verse 20, which we\u2019ve already read, the ram is Media-Persia, the goat is Greece.\u00a0 Notice verses 20-21, \u201c\u00a0<\/sup>The ram which you saw with the two horns represents the kings of Media and Persia.\u00a0 [21]\u00a0<\/sup>The shaggy goat represents<\/em> the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king. \u00a0\u201cThe shaggy goat represents<\/em> the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.\u201d\u00a0 So the ram is Media Persia, the goat is Greece.\u00a0 Now who is this horn between the eyes in the goat.\u00a0 Well, as we have studied the only biblical historical character that fits is Alexander the Great, verse 21.\u00a0 \u201cThe shaggy goat represents the kingdom of Greece, and the large horn that is between his eyes is the first king.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0 That\u2019s Alexander the Great.\n\nWe move on into verse 22 where we see the goat charging at the ram.\u00a0 This is the destruction of Greece by Media Persia, which happened around 331 B.C.\u00a0 Notice, if you will, verse 22, \u201cThe broken horn<\/em> and the four horns that<\/em> arose in its place represent<\/em> four kingdoms which<\/em> will arise from his<\/em> nation, although not with his power.\u201d\u00a0 The horn, verse 22, is broken on the goat; that is the early death, if you will, of Alexander the Great.\u00a0 Alexander the Great, as we have studied, died at a very early age, probably around the age 32.\u00a0 As we have noted this is a man who could conquer the known world but he couldn\u2019t conquer his own passions and lusts.\u00a0 He died\u2026 historians differ, perhaps venereal diseases, perhaps alcoholism, he died of a debauched lifestyle.\n\nAnd as I have looked a little bit at the life of Alexander the Great the verse that comes to my mind over and over and over and over and over again is John 8:34, \u201cJesus answered them, \u2018Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who commits sin is the slave of sin.\u201d\u2019\u00a0 You know, sin advertises itself as freedom, liberation.\u00a0 What do we call the sexual revolution?\u00a0 Sexual liberation, sexual freedom.\u00a0 And yet what is sin in the end?\u00a0 Bondage; it\u2019s slavery.\u00a0 Sin always has a price tag.\u00a0 \u201cThe wages of sin is\u201d what?\u00a0 \u201cdeath.\u201d\u00a0 [Romans 6:23]\n\nAnd here\u2019s Alexander the Great, this man with all of these political gifts, abilities, not able to reign sin under control in his own life; probably thought he could control it, probably thought he could master it.\u00a0 You can\u2019t control sin; sin itself is more powerful than you are. I don\u2019t know if you\u2019ve thought much lately about what God said to Cain in the first murder recorded in the Bible.\u00a0 You know, before that murder took place God actually gave Cain a warning.\u00a0 It\u2019s found there in Genesis 4 and it says there in verse 7, \u201cIf you do well, will not your countenance be lifted up? And if you do not do well, sin is crouching at the door; and its desire\u201d that would be the desire for control, \u201cits desire is for you, but you must master it.\u201d\n\nCain,\u00a0 you\u2019re angry that your sacrifice was rejected and your brother\u2019s was accepted and I want to warn you about something that\u2019s happening in your heart that\u2019s about to manifest itself in the first murder of the human race unless you get this under control.\u00a0 Sin is desiring you; it\u2019s desiring to control you but you must control it.\u00a0 Think if Cain had obeyed those instructions; the first murder in the human race perhaps wouldn\u2019t have occurred.\u00a0 Think of Alexander the Great that had access to the teachings of Jesus and had obeyed those instructions; perhaps Alexander the Great could have lived a very long and prosperous life.\n\nMy question is what warnings are you ignoring?\u00a0 What warnings am I ignoring?\u00a0 What things exist in our lives that God is saying under My power you\u2019ve got to get rid of this.\u00a0 And we think well, I\u2019ll just negotiate with it a little bit because I enjoy it so much.\u00a0 You know, the children of Israel, they came into the land and God was very clear, He said look, (you can read about this in the book of Judges, the book of Joshua) you\u2019ve got to take every single one of these Canaanites that are in this land and you\u2019ve got to wipe them out.\u00a0 You need to wipe out the children, you need to wipe out the women, you need to wipe out the whole civilization.\u00a0 And we look at that and say what a mean God God is; but God\u2019s warnings were very clear, if you don\u2019t master them the day will come when they will master you.\n\nAnd isn\u2019t it interesting how 800 years after the time of Judges is a record of how Israel didn\u2019t do what God said and they went into almost 800 years of idolatry, spiraling eventually into full blown adultery which they learned from the Canaanites, which God said get rid of them.\u00a0\u00a0 And it led to ultimately sin that was so bad that the Babylonian deportation took place.\n\nI say this just as a warning, I know so many people that have been disqualified from ministry because of things that we would consider big sins, and I just wonder, and I wonder about you, I wonder about myself, I wonder how things could have been different for them if they had heeded the warning of God.\u00a0 You can\u2019t negotiate with Him; you can\u2019t appease Him.\u00a0 You start giving way to sin, as God is my witness the day will come when the sin will ultimately enslave you.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened with Alexander the Great.\u00a0 That\u2019s what happened with the children of Israel.\n\nThis is what Jesus is warning about here in verse 22.\u00a0 So he says the horn is going to be broken off, verse 22, the destruction of Alexander the Great because of his very early death.\u00a0\u00a0 \u201cThe wages of sin is\u201d what? \u201cdeath.\u201d\u00a0 Because of his very, very early death he had no heirs, so his kingdom is divided amongst his four generals.\u00a0 That is exactly what we see happening here in Daniel chapter 8 and verse 22 as this interpretation is being given to Daniel.\u00a0 The broken horn and the four horns that arose in its place represent four kingdoms which will arise from his nation, although not with his power.\u00a0 The horn broken off, four horns grow in its place on the goat, and this is speaking, of course, as we have said of the division of Alexander the Great amongst Alexander\u2019s four generals.\n\nAnd each of these generals develop dynasties, the most important for our purposes is the Seleucus general, the Seleucid Dynasty because from Seleucus is going to come Antiochus Epiphanes; he\u2019s a prefigurement, if you will, of the coming antichrist.\u00a0 And as powerful as the Seleucid Dynasty became it never had the same power as Alexander the Great\u2019s empire because a house, Jesus said, divided against itself cannot what?\u00a0 Stand!\u00a0 You get internal divisions in a business, you get internal divisions in a church, you get internal divisions in a family, you get internal divisions in a marriage and every single time the end product is weaker than the original product.\n\nI\u2019m in favor of divisions over significant issues but beloved, to be completely honest with you, in the body of Christ today so many of our divisions have to do with the pettiest of issues; personality conflicts, turf wars, preferences, and we don\u2019t even understand what we\u2019re doing to ourselves when we cater to these things.\u00a0 We\u2019re weakening the church; we\u2019re weakening Christianity.\u00a0 You know, Paul in Corinth said to the Corinthians in 1 Corinthians 6, who were so divided that they were suing each other.\u00a0 Do you believe that?\u00a0 And they were taking their cases before pagan judges to resolve their cases before them and Paul makes an interesting statement in 1 Corinthians 6, he says you\u2019re defeated already; you\u2019re already defeated because \u201ca house\u201d bringing in the teachings of Christ, \u201cdivided against itself\u201d cannot stand. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0[Mark 3:25, \u201cIf a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.\u201d]\n\nDivision for truth is a wonderful thing; division over things that are \u201chow many angels can dance on the head of a pin\u201d kind of thing or some kind of personality conflict is a trap of Satan himself.\u00a0 And Alexander the Great\u2019s empire, because of its division here amongst these four generals never fully recovered.\u00a0 That\u2019s what the prophecies there in verse 22 indicate; it\u2019s not as powerful as it once was.\n\nWe go down to verses 23-25 and we begin to see the activities of Antiochus Epiphanes.\u00a0 Verse 23-25 is a tremendous description of what this Seleucid ruler would do to the Jewish people, making him a prefigurement or a foreshadowing of the coming antichrist; what has been will be again.\u00a0 Ecclesiastes 1:9 says this, \u201cThat which has been is that which will be, and that which has been done is that which will be done.\u00a0 So there is nothing new under the sun.\u201d\u00a0 There \u201cis nothing new under the sun,\u201d the whole end time scenario regarding the nation of Israel has already been played out in terms of a dress rehearsal.\u00a0 That\u2019s what Daniel is seeing here; that\u2019s what happened in the intertestamental period.\u00a0 The main act is\u00a0 yet to come.\n\nLet me just show you one fast thing and we\u2019ll conclude.\u00a0 Daniel 11:31, it\u2019s a prophecy of Antiochus.\u00a0 Daniel 11:31, \u201cForces from him will arise, desecrate the sanctuary fortress, and do away with the regular sacrifice. And they will set up the abomination of desolation.\u201d\u00a0 That, in context, as I\u2019ll be showing you, assuming we get to Daniel 11 before the rapture of the church, is a prophecy also of Antiochus.\n\nNow with that verbiage in mind take a look at Daniel 9:27, this, as I\u2019ll be showing you, is a prophecy of the antichrist.\u00a0 Look at what it says, virtually the same things, \u201cAnd he\u201d that\u2019s the antichrist, \u201cwill make a firm covenant with the many for one week, but in the middle of the week he will put a stop to sacrifice and grain offering;\u201d haven\u2019t we read about that already, with Antiochus, didn\u2019t he do that very thing, \u201cand on the wing of abominations will come one who makes desolate,\u201d that is almost the identical language of Daniel 11:31.\u00a0 What the Holy Spirit is saying is look, you want to build your doctrine of the antichrist, the doctrine of the antichrist has already been around in a miniature form because what Antiochus did the antichrist simply will do in a much fuller, greater, grander respect.\n\nThat which has been is that which will be and that which has been done is that which will be done!\u00a0 So there is nothing new under the sun.\u00a0 This is, beloved, a biblical philosophy of history.\u00a0 How does paganism view history?\u00a0 Meaningless, random events that have no logic to them at all; things just happen because they happen.\u00a0 That\u2019s not the biblical view of history; history is designed.\u00a0 In fact, history is so carefully designed by God that He\u2019s allowed prefigurement of what will be; He\u2019s allowed those prefigurements to be studied.\u00a0 You see, this is the blessing of Daniel 8; the ram and the goat, who would have thought all this is here?\u00a0 But it is here if we would simply diligently apply ourselves and let the Lord speak.\n\nI hope you don\u2019t think that you\u2019re an accident, a biological mistake.\u00a0 I hope you understand who you are in God.\u00a0 The God of design has brought you into existence, allowed\u00a0 you providentially to live at a specific time in history.\u00a0 In fact, He ordained the circumstances by which\u00a0 you would come to know Him personally.\u00a0 Why is that?\u00a0 Because He\u2019s got something He wants to do with your life.\u00a0 I don\u2019t know what it is, but God does!\u00a0 And it\u2019s just a matter of pressing into the design, whatever it is, that He has for you because God is a God of design who designed people\u2019s salvation, history, in the most intricate detail.\u00a0 And what a tragedy it is for a person to go through their whole life thinking they\u2019re an accident, having never come in contact with the God that created them and redeemed them.\u00a0 You miss why you exist if you miss the Savior.\n\nWhy is He the Savior?\u00a0 Because He saves.\u00a0 Why do we need salvation?\u00a0 Because he is holy and we\u2019re sinful.\u00a0 So to bridge that gap He stepped out of eternity into time to do something for us that we could never do for ourselves\u2026 bridge the gap between our sinfulness and God\u2019s holiness through the gospel, called the gospel because it means good news.\u00a0 It\u2019s good news because Jesus did all the heavy lifting; He did all the hard work.\u00a0 He died on a cross to pay the penalty for our sins.\u00a0 He authenticated who He is through his resurrection from the dead.\u00a0 He asks humans to do one simple thing, to receive a gift.\u00a0 The story of the Bible is not what we do for God; it\u2019s what God has done for us.\u00a0 How do you receive this gift?\u00a0 In God there\u2019s only one way to receive it which is by faith alone!\u00a0 The Spirit of God convicts a person of their need to trust in Christ, they respond in the privacy of their own mind and heart to the convicting ministry of the Holy Spirit, they place their faith for their eternity and the safe keeping of their soul into the hands of Jesus Christ and that\u2019s what saves.\n\nAnd I\u2019m wondering, have you done that?\u00a0 Have you received by faith what Jesus has done in our place.\u00a0 If the Spirit is convicting you, you can receive Jesus Christ by trusting in His provision right now.\u00a0\u00a0 You don\u2019t have to walk an aisle to do it, join a church to do it, give money to do it, it\u2019s a matter of privacy between\u00a0 you and the Lord.\u00a0 And if it\u2019s something you are doing or if it\u2019s something you have done then on the authority of the Word of God you\u2019ve altered your eternal destiny and you\u2019ve now been ushered into the intricate design of God that he now wants to work in and through you to achieve His purposes on the earth.\u00a0 If you\u2019re confused about the gospel I\u2019m available after the service to talk.\u00a0 Shall we pray.\n\nFather, we\u2019re grateful for this section of Scripture as we\u2019re studying it and what it reveals about the past, what it reveals about the future and what it reveals about Your nature.\u00a0 We ask Father that You would make us good stewards of these truths and these things would radically alter our priorities in our lives.\u00a0 We\u2019ll be careful to give you all the praise and the glory.\u00a0 We ask these things in Jesus\u2019 name, and God\u2019s people said\u2026 Amen.","series_sermon_number":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t