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A Grand Entrance
Today’s Audio Devotion:
A Grand Entrance
Each year, the Cannes Film Festival brings the world’s greatest movie stars to the French Riviera where they walk down the famous red carpet. But what happens to the carpet after the festival is over? It’s cut up and made into handbags, hats, and slippers. For a cost, you can have a hat made of material walked on by the world’s celebrities.
You may never walk with the stars on a red carpet, but you will walk with the angels down golden streets. Various translations render 2 Peter 1:11 in different ways, using phrases like lavish reception, glorious welcome, triumphant admission, and grand entrance.
Heaven is a place of ultimate rejoicing, a wonderful home where we will know all our brothers and sisters in the Lord. It will feel like home, and its love will fill the air. The fact that God wants us all to live in heaven with Him shows us how much He loves and cares for us. Thank Him today that you can feel calm and safe in the knowledge that He has provided an eternal, perfect future for us.
Now, my fellow sinner, you are as welcome to Heaven as Jesus was. Your sins would have forever kept you out; but on the accursed tree He took those sins away.
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Some 2,600 years ago, God gave King Nebuchadnezzar a dream. In this dream, the king saw a five–part statue made of five different metals (see Daniel 2). Each section represented an empire, beginning with Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon. Four of these empires have already risen and fallen in history—a clear fulfillment of Daniel's prophetic interpretation. The fifth and final empire indicates a future Europe—a ten nation coalition that will unite under the Antichrist's rule.
You can read about the King's dream and Daniel's interpretation in Daniel 2, but let's take a quick visual look at what you will find:
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King Nebuchadnezzar's Babylon
Daniel's words to the king are clear. "You are this head of gold" (Daniel 2:37–38).
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Medo–Persian Empire
The Medo–Persian Empire conquered Babylon in 539 BC and remained in power for approximately two hundred years (Daniel 5:28).
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Grecian Empire
Greece's Empire succeeded the Medo–Persians (Daniel 8:21).
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Roman Empire
When the Grecian empire was conquered by Rome, all the lands and peoples of the previous kingdoms were assimilated into the Roman Empire through the strengths of the "iron legions of Rome" (Daniel 2:40).
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Future European Coalition
This empire has not yet risen. Daniel foretells a time when the Roman Empire—Europe—will consist of ten kingdoms or leaders. The future Roman Empire will be present on the earth when God sets up His earthly kingdom (Daniel 2:44).