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(00:00) A brief overview of the Book of Daniel.
(04:41) The historical background of the Book of Daniel.
(07:39) This book encourages its readers to be brave, stand strong, and not become like the world.
(15:20) The examples in Daniel encourage us to cultivate relationships of respect, even those we disagree with.
(26:19) Daniel interprets the king’s dream. He sees that the Kingdom of God will eventually replace all other kingdoms, like the stone cut out of the mountain without hands. Good government must align with true principles.
(43:49) Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon, has a dream of a world tree and watchers. The king experiences seven years of madness.
(47:34) Belshazzar sees writing on the wall, which is interpreted as a message of Babylon’s destruction.
(53:25) Daniel is put into a lion’s den. Daniel remains steadfast and true to his faith amid opposition. The king declares that Daniel’s God is the “living God,” and that “his kingdom shall not be destroyed.”
(58:22) Daniel experiences four apocalyptic visions in chapters 7-12.
(1:02:14) The Son of Man prophecies during this time period.
(1:06:58) The final three apocalyptic visions of Daniel.
(1:14:51) We live in digital Babylon, surrounded by pressures to bow to the images of the world. May the book of Daniel inspire us to maintain our focus on Christ.

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(00:00) A brief overview and the historical background of Ezekiel.
(05:41) Ezekiel’s vision of the throne of God.
(18:33) The righteous people of Ezekiel’s day receive a mark on their forehead, similar to John’s vision in Revelation.
(21:11) The glory of God leaves the temple in Jerusalem and goes eastward. Jehovah does not abandon his people during the Exile.
(24:38) Ezekiel 16 is an allegory of an abandoned newborn girl cast away in a field. The Lord washed and clothed her, but when she grew up, she left the Lord. The Lord compares this image to Israel.
(27:28) Why does God punish? The destruction of the temple in Jerusalem was a deeply troubling dilemma for the Jews in exile.
(40:36) Past works of righteousness do not permit us to abandon our faith in God today.
(43:45) Ezekiel’s oracle against Tyre is partially fulfilled in the days of Alexander the Great.
(50:10) The rule of the prophets.
(56:19) The rule of the shepherds.
(1:04:50) The promise of the restoration. “Behold, I, even I, will both search my sheep, and seek them out” (Ezk. 34.11).
(1:09:14) Ezekiel’s vision of the valley of dry bones and the restoration of the House of Israel.
(1:14:06) Ezekiel is told that the stick of Joseph and the stick of Judah will “become one in thine hand.”
(1:19:44) The Lord destroys Gog and Magog and makes his holy name known.
(1:22:45) Ezekiel’s visionary experience of the future temple in Jerusalem, with sacred waters coming forth and the healing the land.
(1:32:10) Ezra Taft Benson shared that “the temple will be a standing witness that the power of God can stay the powers of evil in our midst.” Our communities and families will be protected by living the gospel and being connected to the temple.

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(00:00) A brief overview of the historical background of these chapters.
(08:32) Qualities Jeremiah sees in future Israel.
(24:39) “David shall never want a man to sit upon the throne.” This prophecy can be read as being fulfilled in the kingship of Jesus Christ.
(26:27) Zedekiah’s court opposes Jeremiah’s message. Discerning voices of truth from error is a challenge today like it was in Jeremiah’s day.
(29:28) True friends find a proper and affectionate manner with which to reclaim you.
(36:50) Jeremiah 31 contains a message of hope. “I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow…my people shall be satisfied with my goodness, saith the Lord.”
(40:36) The people of Zarahemla in the Book of Mormon are descendants of Zedekiah. Jeremiah 32 shows Jeremiah redeeming his family land in Anathoth. This symbolic action could portray a reconciliation with his family and the future hope of the Jewish people reclaiming the land.
(48:25) The Rechabites left Jerusalem after the king purged them out of the temple in Jerusalem. This righteous group of pious believers were told by Jeremiah that their family line will continue. The Rechabites are an example of how the visionaries of Lehi’s day were rejected by the authorities in Jerusalem.
(52:49) Nebuchadnezzar, the king of Babylon, lays siege to Jerusalem in 586 B.C. and “puts out the eyes of Zedekiah.” Jehoiakim burns Jeremiah’s prophecy, which Baruch wrote upon a scroll. Jeremiah’s scribe Baruch is seen by some scholars as the person who compiled and edited much of the Old Testament.
(1:01:57) Lamentations depict the great sadness the Jews felt after the destruction of the temple and their captivity in Babylon.
(1:05:06) Jeremiah emphasizes that the Lord loves Ephraim. The Abrahamic covenant is still in force today and remembered by God.

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