Darius tries to play Savior after sentencing Daniel to Death: Jesus Christ is the Savior who gives eternal life.

Daniel 6:18-28

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• Torment in human physiology to harden us against the Spirit of Christ.
• Loyalty to the government of the beast with pretentious urgency towards the persecuted.
• We glorify and praise God through Jesus Christ.
• Jesus Christ will receive us into the Kingdom of God.
• Eternal punishment is for the enemies of Jesus Christ.
• Belief in God cannot be legislated, it is a matter of the heart.

Torment in human physiology to harden us against the Spirit of Christ. “Now the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting; and no musicians were brought before him. Also his sleep went from him.” Daniel 6:18 The king made a deliberate decision to follow the laws of the “worldwide” government of only allowing prayers to be made to him. A death sentence was issued for anyone who prayed to any other god. Daniel knew the law and continued to pray to God morning, noon, and night. The decision the king made was eating at him to the point he couldn’t eat, sleep, nor could be comforted.

There is a thing in this world which forms what we feel, think, and do, which enables the image of the beast to live and speak through people. It is designed to destroy the human spirit from mixing with the Spirit of Christ. It will torment emotions and thoughts after an offensive act against others has been done. Its purpose is not to bring a person to repentance but to harden emotions and feelings against the Spirit of Christ and the teachings of the Bible. Iron does not mix with clay, so the government of the beast intends to eliminate the clay. The human spirit is the clay, and the Spirit of Christ is the potter, and the iron is the thing that forms emotions, feelings, and thoughts against the Spirit.

It’s impossible to abide by the unwritten laws requiring conformity to the image of the beast and to live peaceably in the pursuit of being conformed to the image of Christ. Very often, it is the hours when we are supposed to be sleeping that we are caused to have feelings and thoughts that make us loathe ourselves. The Spirit of Christ wants to live within the human spirit, but the image of the beast wants to harden the human spirit against Christ.

Loyalty to the government of the beast with pretentious urgency towards the persecuted. “Then the king arose very early in the morning and went in haste to the den of lions. And when he came to the den, he cried out with a lamenting voice to Daniel. The king spoke, saying to Daniel, “Daniel, servant of the living God, has your God, whom you serve continually, been able to deliver you from the lions?”” Daniel 6:19-20 Christians experience affliction in many different forms, and the same ones who rejoice to see us are the same ones who are doing the persecuting.

The king made it clear that his first priority was to the government laws which he presided over and would not change his allegiance to save Daniel from persecution. His belief was not in the God of Daniel but used God as a pretext to flatter and esteem Daniel. The king made it look like a matter of urgency to check on the welfare of Daniel while he is the one who condemned Daniel to be ripped apart by lions.

Today, the authorities within the government of the beast have mandated the elimination of Christianity and have allowed the followers of Christ to be thrown into the hostile den of lions. The den of lions is formed by those who welcome the image of the beast to live and speak through them. Every city around the world is dominated by those who live for the “democratic” society of the beast, and they are hostile to the Gospel of Christ.

No matter how caring, supportive, compassionate, and loving we come across to others, it means nothing if the “democratic” society of the beast means more than the welfare of the followers of Christ.

“Though I speak with the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a clanging cymbal. And though I have the gift of prophecy, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and though I have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. And though I bestow all my goods to feed the poor, and though I give my body to be burned, but have not love, it profits me nothing.“

This is the love of God, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16

1 Corinthians 13:1-3 and also John 3:16

The humanitarian and churchy sounding words used towards us is coming from the beast with two horns like a lamb, those two horns are like humanism and the churches. “Then I saw another beast coming up out of the earth, and it had two horns like a lamb and spoke like a dragon.” Revelation 13:11 Although it comes across like a lamb, it speaks like a dragon referring to being hostile to God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit. It is the kiss of betrayal which Judas used to betray Jesus Christ. It’s like a silent killer in the form of a psychotic “lamb.”

We glorify and praise God through Jesus Christ through tribulation. “Then Daniel said to the king, “O king, live forever!” Daniel 6:21 As followers of Jesus Christ, He expects us to always be respectful of those in authority, even during afflictions, hardships, mockery, belittling, deceitfulness, and all sorts of hate towards us. Even then, our King is the Lord Jesus Christ who lives forever and because He lives, we will live eternally with Him. 

“My God sent His angel and shut the lions’ mouths, so that they have not hurt me, because I was found innocent before Him; and also, O king, I have done no wrong before you.” Daniel 6:22 We glorify God and praise the name of Jesus through all things because He is able to preserve our soul until the day when we meet Him face to face. Because we live for Jesus Christ, we are found innocent in the eyes of God. At the same time, we have no ill-intent towards those who have authority and power in this world.

“For this reason I also suffer these things; nevertheless I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed and am persuaded that He is able to keep what I have committed to Him until that Day.” 2 Timothy 1:12

2 Timothy 1:12

Jesus Christ will receive us into the Kingdom of God. “Now the king was exceedingly glad for him, and commanded that they should take Daniel up out of the den. So Daniel was taken up out of the den, and no injury whatever was found on him, because he believed in his God.” Daniel 6:23 The rejoicing and gladness that the government of the beast has for us is never beyond the earthly realm and nothing more that superficial flattery and bolstering of the esteem. They can never pretend to be our Savior. However, Jesus Christ is our King and Savior who rejoices for each one of His children who overcomes this world, the image of the beast, and the mark of the beast. Throughout tribulation, our soul remains unharmed by the seal of the Holy Spirit, and Jesus will take us to be with Him for eternity in the new even and earth in the New Jerusalem.

And I saw thrones, and they sat on them, and judgment was committed to them. Then I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their witness to Jesus and for the word of God, who had not worshiped the beast or his image, and had not received his mark on their foreheads or on their hands. And they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years.

Revelation 20:4

The “1000 years” on this earth with Christ is the first resurrection and comes after the Battle of Armageddon and this world’s government is destroyed. After those “100 years,” the second resurrection happens to bring judgment on everyone who has ever lived. After that judgment, the old heaven and earth will be totally destroyed, and the new heaven and earth created. Then we will live eternally in the New Jerusalem. All of that is written from Revelation 19 through 22.

Eternal punishment is for the enemies of Jesus Christ. “And the king gave the command, and they brought those men who had accused Daniel, and they cast them into the den of lions—them, their children, and their wives; and the lions overpowered them, and broke all their bones in pieces before they ever came to the bottom of the den.” Daniel 6:24

The global government of the beast is able to take physically violent, deadly, and earthly retribution out on those who let them down. However, that is not the retribution that the followers of Christ are looking forward to. We are looking forward to the retribution which Christ takes out on His enemies and those who persecute us. They will be thrown into the burning lake of fire and will suffer torment even before they come to the bottom of the pit.

And I saw the dead, small and great, standing before God, and books were opened. And another book was opened, which is the Book of Life. And the dead were judged according to their works, by the things which were written in the books. The sea gave up the dead who were in it, and Death and Hades delivered up the dead who were in them. And they were judged, each one according to his works. Then Death and Hades were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And anyone not found written in the Book of Life was cast into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:12-15

Belief in God cannot be legislated, it is a matter of the heart. “Then King Darius wrote: To all peoples, nations, and languages that dwell in all the earth: Peace be multiplied to you.” Daniel 6:5 The global government of the beast sends a lot of messages to the people around the world through the internet, social media, etc. For example, the United Nations has a webpage and is on all the social media platforms, etc. However, to talk about future peace for the world when God has not said anything about peace is false prophecy. However, God has sent His word to the world through Jesus Christ and through Him we have peace. It’s not the type of peace this world gives but it is peace with God through the Spirit of Christ.

“I make a decree that in every dominion of my kingdom men must tremble and fear before the God of Daniel. For He is the living God, and steadfast forever; His kingdom is the one which shall not be destroyed, and His dominion shall endure to the end.” Daniel 6:26 The global government of the beast thinks they can pass laws to bring about their earthly utopia, but it doesn’t work. They are depending on requiring all people to be receptive to the thing which forms what they think feel and do. It enables the image of the beast to live and speak through a person and to synchronize them to the mark of the beast. As we know, it results in global tribulation and the destruction of civilization.

There is only one true living God, and we cannot come to Him in any other way except by believing in our heart that Jesus is risen for the dead and to confess that He is Lord. This verse sums it all up, “For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life.” John 3:16 God, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Spirit are the same today as yesterday, and they stand forever. His kingdom is eternal. We can’t pass a law to make everyone believe God, it is a matter of the heart, faith, and belief.

“He delivers and rescues, and He works signs and wonders in heaven and on earth, Who has delivered Daniel from the power of the lions.” Daniel 6:27 God is not the thing which has power over physiology to be able to do signs and wonders for the global government of the beast, “…it performs great signs, so that it even makes fire come down from heaven on the earth in the sight of men. And it deceives those who dwell on the earth by those signs which it was granted to do in the sight of the beast, telling those who dwell on the earth to make an image to the beast who was wounded by the sword and lived.” Revelation 13:13-14

Jesus Christ is our deliverer who has rescued us from sin and death. He gives us the victory over the thing which forms what a person thinks, feels, and does, He gives us the victory over the image of the beast which lives and speaks through a person, and He gives us the victory over the mark of the beast. “Therefore He is also able to save to the uttermost those who come to God through Him, since He always lives to make intercession for them.” Hebrews 7:25

“So this Daniel prospered in the reign of Darius and in the reign of Cyrus the Persian.” Daniel 6:28 On this earth, Daniel gained favor in the eyes of people and God, just like Jesus Christ did. As followers of Christ, we live to please God by being conformed to the image of Jesus Christ. Isaiah 53 details the faithfulness of the Son Jesus Christ to God His Father even to the point of suffering and dying on the Cross. He gave His life to reconcile us to God by the remission of sin so that we will live eternally with Him. As followers of Christ, we live to share His testimony and to prosper in His Spirit.

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“….to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan’s so-called deep secrets,
“‘I will not impose any other burden on you, except to hold on to what you have until I come.’”
“I am coming soon. Hold on to what you have, so that no one will take your crown.”
Revelation 2:24-25, 3:1