 Good evening. Here in Kenya, it's evening. Good afternoon. Good morning wherever else, baby. We welcome you to our service and before we begin, we are going to have a few songs. Just before we do our songs, we'll have a short word of prayer. Let's humble ourselves for prayer. Dear Jesus, thank you so much for the gift of life for taking us through this day. We thank and glorify your name. As we sing, Lord the ask that you be with us, help us to sing a song in a way that glorifies your name. And for the rest of the program, we put it in your hands. Well, Jesus, may we pray. Amen. So we're going to have our first song from Swahili. Swahili is a language spoken here in Kenya. And we use a book referred to as Nimbosa Cristo. We'll sing song number 15 from Nimbosa Cristo, Nena Bungu. And in English, it is Speak to My Soul. Join us in the singing from wherever you may be. Nena Roho. Second hymn from S.D.A. Hymnol, song number 272. Give me the Bible. 272. Hi, good evening. God is good. And all the time, we thank God for this opportunity to come and worship Him. And during this spiritual week of prayer, we want to invite the Holy Spirit to come and expound to us the teachings that are being taught here since Sabbath until today. We want to, on behalf of the church leadership, the Department of Evangelism, the pastorate, and the whole church, you want to welcome you all, those who are following us online. Please feel free at the feet of Jesus. May we all come and learn of Him. And also the ones who are here in the sanctuary, we want to take this opportunity to welcome each one of you so that we might all be blessed. We remember from God's Word that we've been called to study the Scriptures to show ourselves approved workmen that need not be ashamed, rightly dividing the Word of Truth. Even as pastor is coming to expound the Word tonight, Pastor Francis Njau, we thank God for him. He has expounded it so well so far. We pray that he might continue to lead us into all truth and that the Holy Spirit will lead us also to understand and put in practice all that we've been taught. The ones who are serving here today who are leading this worship, we also want to thank you for leading the worship. May you all be blessed. So God bless you even as we continue with this service until we finish. God be with you. We're going to humble ourselves for prayer in a request that those in the congregation kindly kneel down so that you can pray. Let's pray. Father, in the name of Jesus, we thank you for the gift of life. We thank you for granting us an opportunity to come and worship you, Lord. We thank you for the peace we enjoy in our country where we can come to have worship at any time we wish that we may have it, Lord. Lord, you've been going through a whole day of work and we are grateful that you've given us this chance to be here at this time, Lord. We've had a week that has been going on. We've had a series that's going on, Lord. We put Pastor Njau into your hands, Father. We thank you for the teachings he has given us for the ones he's yet to give us. We thank you as well. As we continue with our worship service this evening, Lord, where satan may be with us, let us do only that that glorifies your name. Whatever Lord we may say or do that's against your will, Father, we ask for your forgiveness. Be with us for the rest of the service, for the rest of the week, until we meet here another time, according to your will. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen. Good evening once again. I'm going to do the scripture reading. And today's scripture reading, we are reading from the book of Isaiah. The chapter is five and we are reading verse 13. I'm going to read from the new King James version you can follow in your various versions. Isaiah 5.13 reads, Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. I'm going to repeat it. Therefore my people have gone into captivity because they have no knowledge. Their honorable men are famished and their multitude dried up with thirst. May the Lord bless his word. We're now going to have our opening song for the day and that is S.D. Himnal song number 439. How far from home? Join in singing whichever language you may be comfortable in as we praise God. You continue to be with us as we continue with the series this evening. We pray in Jesus' name. Amen. Good evening and once again welcome to our presentation about prophecy. Yesterday you remember we entered into the book of Isaiah. I told you that Isaiah has two streams of prophecy. The longest stream is the salvation stream that begins all the way from 740 BC to the time God will create the new heavens and the new earth. It will go past the millennium. The other one is the stream of deportation. This one was to show what God was to do with his rebellious people even before he brings in the Messiah to bless the world. Yesterday we saw how the plan of salvation took off when it came, who executed it and how he did it. We saw that. Now before the Messiah was to save the human race during the last days as we saw in Isaiah chapter 2 and thereby introduced an international worship order whereby all nations were to worship Yahweh. Something was to happen. The people whom God had appointed to be his instruments to achieve this goal were the children of Israel, went into very deep rebellion. God could not continue with them just the way he could not continue with the undiluted world who were destroyed with the flood. And this time as I had told you that the United Kingdom of Israel was governed or ruled by Saul, David and Solomon. And after that it is played in the two kingdoms, the northern kingdom called Israel, ten tribes and the southern kingdom, two tribes, Judah and Benjamin called Judah. Now the northern kingdom went into so much rebellion that God had to write them off history. And therefore this evening we are going to see what we call the promises of deportation and what happened to God's people whom he had chosen as his own. He decreed my people. They are still his but he says my people are going into captivity. I think that was the text that was read to you. The first prophecy concerning the deportation of Israel was in Isaiah 5 verse 13 where God says therefore my people will go into exile for lack of understanding. Their men of rank will die in hunger and their masses will be perched with dust. That was the first prophecy concerning deportation. God has made it very clear he is going to deport his people for rebellion. Now this prophecy happened 18 years after it was proclaimed. Therefore we call it the immediate future prophecy for it happened too soon after it was prophesied. In 722 BC the nation of Assyria came to Israel and destroyed the northern kingdom. They took the northerners, the Israelites and scattered them all over the Middle East. They scattered them among the gentile nations. The reason was the Assyrians did not want these people to regroup and raise a rebellion and therefore the Assyrian way of handling the people they conquered was to scatter them. That's what they did and then brought in gentiles or gentile colonists into the land of Israel. It is these gentile colonists who intermarried with those Israelites who are left in the land. And they produced what we know as the Samaritans. The Samaritans was a product of the gentile colonists and the Israelites who had been left when the deportation happened. And the 10 tribes of Israel were lost in history. That was the prophecy of deportation and its fulfillment. Prophecy allowed 740 BC fulfilled 18 years down the line when Assyria destroyed the northern kingdom. That's why they called it the lost tribes. Then in Assyria 6, now we got Assyria 6, we read the second prophecy on deportation. Assyria 6, verse 11, then I said that is Assyria who is asking God for how long, oh Lord. You know Assyria 6 is where Assyria was commissioned as a prophet. And he was given a ministry by God. But God told him that your ministry will not be fruitful. People will not accept your message. Very discouraging. And then Assyria said, for how long? Then came the answer from God. Until the cities lie ruined and without inhabitants. Until the houses are left deserted and the fields ruined and ravaged. Until the Lord has sent everyone far away and the Lord is uttered forsaken. And though attend the remains in the land, it will again be laid waste. But as the tyrant may perish, an oak leaves terms when they are cut down so the holy seed will be the stump in the land. That is the second prophecy on deportation. The Northern Kingdom has been destroyed. And yet now is the second prophecy on deportation and there is a difference between these two prophecies. The first prophecy has no element. None of the deputies was to come back. But this second prophecy has an element that was left and came back and were repatriated. The first prophecy pointed to the destruction of the Northern Kingdom. The second deportation now concerned the Judah. Although Judah had seen what had happened to the Northern Kingdom, they never repented. They even seen just like the Northerners, perhaps worse. And they never learned anything from what had happened to their brothers, the Northerners. And therefore God said we're also going into captivity. But now here was a difference. Although God had allowed the ten tribes to be lost, he could not do it for the Southern Kingdom because the Southern Kingdom was composed of Judah and Benjamin. I do remember Judah was the one who was given the staff of rulership by his father Jacob and he was told Judah, your tribe must keep this staff until the owner comes. And therefore Judah was the one who was given the pipeline of bringing the Messiah. And therefore if God would allow the Southern Kingdom to be destroyed like the Northern Kingdom, his plan of salvation would be in a problem. And therefore that's why Judah was preserved in exile. But where were they to go into captivity? The third prophecy now, Isaiah 39. Isaiah 39 is the third prophecy on deportation. This is, we begin from verse one, it's not a very long chapter so that we get the whole story. At that time Merodag, Merodag Baradan, son of Baradan King of Babylon sent Hezekiah letters at a gift because he had heard of his illness and recovery. Hezekiah received the envoys gladly and showed them what was in his tow houses. The silver, the gold, the spices, the fine oil, his entire armory and everything found among his treasures. There was nothing in this palace and in all his kingdom that Hezekiah did not show them. Then Isaiah the prophet went to King Hezekiah and asked, what did they come from? From a distant Lord Hezekiah replied, they came to me from Babylon. The prophet asked, what did they see in your palace? They saw everything in my palace Hezekiah said. There is nothing among my treasures that I did not show them. Verse five, then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, now listen, this is not the prophecy. Then Isaiah said to Hezekiah, hear the word of the Lord Almighty. The time will surely come when everything in your palace and all that your fathers have stored up until this day will be carried off to Babylon. Nothing will be left. Says the Lord and some of your daughters, your own flesh and blood, who will be born to you, will be taken away and they will become eunuchs in the palace of the king of Babylon. That is the third prophecy on deportation and the second one and the second for Judah. And it is very interesting that this time God specifically says where the exile will take place. It will be in a Babylon. And therefore the children of Judah went to Babylon in fulfillment of Isaiah's prophecy on deportation. Now go with me to the book of Daniel. Daniel chapter one where we are told, what we are told. In the third year of the reign of Joachim king of Judah, the book of Dineza king of Babylon came to Jerusalem and besieged it. And the Lord delivered Joachim king of Judah into Islam along with some of the articles from the temple of God. This he carried off to the temple of his god in Babylonia and put in the church house of his god. Then the king ordered Aspenas chief of his court of issues to bring in some of the Israelites from the royal family and the nobility. Young men without any physical defect had some showing aptitude for every kind of learning, were informed, quick to understand and qualified to serve in the king's palace. He was to teach them the language and the literature of the Babylonians. The king assigned them a daily amount of food and wine from the king's temple. They were to be trained for three years and after that they were to enter the king's service. Among these were some from Judah, Daniel, Hananiah, Mishaeri, and Azaria. I want you to see that Daniel one is the fulfillment of Isaiah 39 and that is what we have been calling the missing link. This is the missing link. In fact, when some church members in Britain read my book on Daniel and they saw this in the year 2011, they called me to Britain to call and preach on this missing link. We advocates are very much known for prophecy. But we don't start prophecy from Isaiah. We begin it in Daniel and we leave that very important portion which is the foundation of a scatology or last days prophecies. Because Daniel was taken to captivity 605 BC in fulfillment. Daniel one is the fulfillment of Isaiah 39. Isaiah 39 had said that your people will go to Babylon and it was specific that some of your young people of the nobility will be taken to Babylon and they will serve the king as a unit. And therefore Daniel clearly fulfills Isaiah 39 which means that now when they are alive in Babylon that means 605 BC that was the first deportation. The second deportation came nine years later, 597 BC that was the second deportation when another group was taken to Babylonia by Nebuchadnezzar. And at that deportation and the last one was in 586 BC three deportations, 605 BC when Daniel and his comrades were taken to Babylon, 597 BC were now executed, was taken to Babylonia as a young man. Then 586 BC when Jerusalem was destroyed and the temple was destroyed, the temple that Solomon had built was destroyed 586 BC. And that is when we lost the Ten Commandments, the Ark of the Ten Commandments because it was in the temple and the temple was burnt down. Now what happened to the Ark of the Ten Commandments? LNG White Services that when Jeremiah and the priests saw the building on fire, they entered the hall of haulers, took the Ark of the Covenant and went with it into the mountains and they hid it there. Nobody knows where it is. There's a lot of archaeology being done to try to get the Ark but it was lost during the final attack 586 BC. That's how now the children of Judah went to Babylon. Very interestingly, in my book, my second book on Prophets that means, no, not that book, Daniel, the subtitle is God Locates to Babylon. What does it mean? You see when God was conducting all his affairs in Jerusalem, that's where he raised the prophets to handle the kings and the masses. Jerusalem was the center of the Jerusalem region. But now after Jerusalem was destroyed, God also moved from Jerusalem to Babylon. In fact, he had said that he was going to do it. I have no time to make all these connections but because this is very crucial and you are hearing it perhaps for the first time, Ezekiel, let me give you the historical connection. 6 of 5 BC, Daniel and his components go to Babylon and they enter the University of Babylon, they qualify. Now, when the second deportation came, 597, Daniel is already serving the king. I told you that Daniel was a parish prophet. God had raised him to hunt on a book at the Nezah, otherwise Nezah would make draconian rules against good people. And therefore he was there and the second deportation took Ezekiel to Babylonia. Now, 5 years down the line, 592 BC, God chose Ezekiel as a prophet and therefore God had two prophets in Babylon. Daniel and Ezekiel, that's why they are called exeric prophets or prophets of the captivity. Therefore during this time, God had three prophets. Daniel and Ezekiel in Babylon and Jeremiah in Jerusalem. Jeremiah never left Jerusalem. But now after 586 BC, Jeremiah also left Jerusalem for Egypt. By force because he was forced by the Jews who had remained behind when they ran away to Babylon to Egypt. After killing, the governor of Nezah had put to govern Judah for him, Gadaria. And therefore they killed Gadaria and they ran away to Egypt and they carried Jeremiah against the will to Egypt. He died in Egypt and from 586 BC, Jerusalem had no prophet. God had removed his operational headquarters to Babylon and that's why people should know the two books of Daniel and Ezekiel were written in Babylon. Not in Jerusalem, for God was no longer in Jerusalem. Why did God move to Babylon? He moved to Babylon to be with his people. He knew that these people may even do bad things in Babylon than they were doing in Jerusalem. And therefore he wanted to be with his people. Secondly, he wanted to crush the belief of the Gentiles or heaven that their gods were real. In effect, the reason why Nezah carried the verses is because the Jews did not have any God because all the Gentile gods were feasible. They were made, but Nezah did not have such a God. That's why they carried the verses as a sign of the defeat of their God by the Babylonian God, Maduk. And God wanted to show the Gentile world that they are no other gods except him. And therefore he had to relocate to Babylon to fight the gods of Babylon in their own soil if they were there. And therefore that is what happened to Babylon, not to Judah. Now when now these people were in Babylon, God raised Daniel and started giving him prophecy. In fact, Daniel worked for Nebuchadnezzar for so many years before he became a prophet or given the first prophet. In fact, Daniel was not given any prophecy during the time of Nebuchadnezzar. People don't know. Daniel was not given any prophecy during the time of Nebuchadnezzar. He was just Nebuchadnezzar's political advisor. That's why even in the Jewish religious economy, they don't know Daniel as a prophet. They know him as a statesman. He was like an other to David. He was a prophet to the king. And that's why he interpreted Daniel too. Daniel too was not Daniel's prophecy. It was Nebuchadnezzar's vision. And Daniel only interpreted it as his advisor. Then he interpreted to him the vision, the dream of Daniel for when Nebuchadnezzar became a beast for seven years and then went back. Now, it is after the death of Nebuchadnezzar and things had changed in Babylon. Because after the death of Nebuchadnezzar, his son Abel Maduk took over. But he was removed by another general called Nelligrisa. Nelligrisa was also removed by another one called Abash Maduk. And even this was removed by another one called Nabonidus. And Nabonidus was the father of Belsazar, who was the king in Babylon while Nabonidus was in Arabia. And that's why in Daniel chapter 5 when Babylon is falling, it is Belsazar who is in Babylonia. Because his father was away in Arabia. Now, this Daniel, if you read Daniel chapter 5, no, Daniel chapter 7, the first prophecy. We must know that the first prophecy of Daniel is Daniel 7. And Daniel says, in the first year of the reign, let me see what he says. Daniel 7 verse 1, listen to this. In the first year of Belsazar, king of Babylon, Daniel had a dream when he saw those beasts. By this time, Nabonidus had died. Therefore, the prophetic ministry of Daniel started during the time of Belsazar, when Babylon was almost to fall. And then Daniel 8 says, in the third year of king Belsazar's reign, the second version was during the time of Belsazar, the third year. And therefore, we can see that Daniel was raised in Babylon because he had gone there as a captive. And this connection is very important. The connection of Isaiah 39 and the connection of Daniel 1. So that Bible prophecy for the last days should begin in Isaiah. So that Isaiah prophesies about captivity. And Daniel goes to Babylon and then God raises him there. That should be the sequence. And therefore, it is my argument that instead of having two books of prophecy, Daniel and Revelation, there should be three, Isaiah, the foundation, Daniel and Revelation. Isaiah is the book of salvation, prophesying about salvation. And Daniel is the book of conflict showing us how the plan of salvation will be opposed. And then Revelation comes later during the New Testament times. That was the sequence of the prophecies of deportation. But now Isaiah not only prophesied the deportation. He also prophesied the repatriation of Judah back to the Allat because they were not to be lost like the Northern Kingdom. And therefore, now we have seen the prophecies of deportation. And how Judah went to Babylon and when they were there, God raises Daniel as a prophet. But Isaiah also had predicted how Judah was to go back to their land. And therefore, once again, we go to the book of Isaiah and we read Isaiah 13, the first prophecy of repatriation. The prophecy of repatriation. Isaiah 13 and verse 17. See, I will start up again as to them. The men, those who do not care for silver, that have no delight in gold. Their bows will strike down the young men. They will have no mercy on infants. Nor will they look with compassion on children. Babylon, the jewel of kingdoms, the glory of the Babylonian pride, will be overthrown by God like Sodom and Gomorrah. Isaiah has said that although Babylon will deport Judah, they also will be destroyed or defeated. And God names the kingdom. He calls them the menace. And God is saying, I have raised. Yes, I have stirred up the menace again as the Babylonians. And do you remember, Daniel, when he got to Daniel, when he came to Daniel, the second kingdom that he came after Babylon and defeated it is called Medopascia. But here we have menace only. How did it become Medopascia? Because God had prophesied it. In Isaiah 44, verse 28, God says, Who says of Cyrus, he is my shepherd, will accomplish all that I please. He will say to Jerusalem, let it be rebuilt. And of the temple, let its foundations be laid. Isaiah 45 verse 1, this is what the Lord says to his anointed. And of Cyrus, whose right hand I take hold of, to subjugate nations before him and to strip kings of their armor, to open doors before him so that gates will not be shut. I will go before you and roll over the mountains. I will break down the gates of blows and cut through bars of iron. He is a prophetess of repatriation. Who is going to take Judah back to their land? Menace and Cyrus. Menace is the kingdom, Cyrus is the king. And Cyrus was a passion. Now what happened? Cyrus had been predicted by God. God didn't faith years before he was born. That is the one who was going to take the children of Judah back to their land. Only two people in scripture have been prophesied and given names. Cyrus was not only prophesied to come but he was given the name. The Lord says, I have chosen Cyrus and he gives him two titles. Cyrus, my shepherd. Can you just imagine God choosing a gentleman, a heathen king, to be a shepherd of his people because the kings of Israel were not shepherding his people. Then he calls him my anointed. Now very interestingly, Cyrus was anointed. God anointed a heathen king for the task of repatriating his people. And therefore, what happened is that when Cyrus was born, he did not know that he was born under God's direction. He came of age and then became a king, the king of Persia, a tribal kingdom. But he started conquering the surrounding kingdoms just as God had said. And he overthrew them. He even annexed the Mendez as part of his kingdom after defeating them. And he created a dual kingdom, Mendopasia. Therefore, Cyrus was the overall king of Mendopasia. And he allowed or he appointed the king of the Mendez Darius to be his king of the Mendez. And therefore, we had Cyrus the overall king and Darius as his as a zeith. That's why when Babylon is going to fall, Cyrus is not where being mentioned. It is Darius whom Daniel mentions. And therefore, this is what happened when the time came for Babylon to fall. Cyrus, whose headquarters was Sousa, directed Darius to go and attack Babylon. And therefore, the person who used to the nose attack Daniel says attack the Babylon is Darius. But he had been sent by Cyrus the king. And when they came to Babylon, it was providential that the very day they first of all came, saluted Babylon, they could not enter Babylon because of its high wars and the security. And therefore, they fought outside and the Babylonian army was defeated. But it ran fast into the city and closed the Easter gate, the main gate. When they closed the Easter gate, Babylon could not be penetrated because of its high wars. And why wars were the head chariots up there guarding the city. Babylon also had enough food for 20 years at any time. And therefore, there was no way to get into Babylon. But because God had said that Cyrus must conquer Babylon and repatriate his people, Berserja prepared a banquet. The one we read in Daniel 5 that Berserja prepared a banquet. This banquet was the downfall of the kingdom of Berserja and the Babylonian kingdom. And when now they were collapsing inside the city because they knew they were secure, the soldiers of Darius started how they could help it into the city. And they dug a canal and divided river Euphrates out of the city because river Euphrates passed through the city with gates at the entrance of the river and at the exit they had river gates which they could move up and down according to the volume of the water. Now there were gods who were guarding those river gates. And during this particular time, because everybody in Babylon was drunk, the soldiers, those who guarded the river gates did not see that the water of Euphrates was descending. And therefore they diverted the river and then they moved in through the river bed. They went and opened the Easter gate and the Babylonian and the Medo-Passion army entered, went all the way to the palace and only Berserja was killed. You remember during that time what happened, because you have read it in Daniel, that as Berserja was enjoying his drinks, he called for the vessels of God which his great father had kept in the temple in the Babylon so that they can come, they can be brought so that they can use them to drink wine. And God could not allow this and therefore you remember the men and men on the wall and then that is when the soldiers came in and because everybody was drunk in the Babylon, even when they saw the Medo-Passions coming in, they well-capped them instead of fighting them and only Berserja lost his life. It is God who had predicted that the Babylon was to be defeated so that Sairas could take over the kingdom and take his God's people back. Now, a Greek historian called Herodotus has recorded this story. How Sairas took or defeated the Babylonians by passing through the river bed. Now, although Daniel 5 says that it is Darius, the reason is because Darius was the feud commander. Just as you remember during the desert storm, the American war against Iraq Bush was the president. Colin Powell was the chief of the John's staff of the American forces but the scientist general Norman Chioskov to go to Iraq. Therefore, all the records in Iraq were recording Chioskov. Not calling power or Bush. In the same way Daniel 5 could own a record, although he had been sent by Sairas and therefore that's how Babylon was defeated by Medo-Passion. But the real issue was not to defeat Babylon. It was for Sairas to take Judah back to the Elad. How did he do it? Go with me with the book of Ezra. Ezra chapter one, we read these words. Ezra chapter one, verse one, down ones. In the first year of Sairas, king of Persia. In order to fulfill the word of the Lord spoken by Jeremiah, the Lord moved the heart of Sairas, king of Persia, to make a proclamation throughout his reign and to put it in writing. Verse two, this is what Sairas king of Persia says. The Lord the God of heaven has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build and temple for him in Jerusalem in Judah. And one of his people among you, may his God be with him and let him go up to Jerusalem in Judah and build the temple of the Lord, the God of Israel, the God who is in Jerusalem. And the people of the place where the survivors may now be living are to provide him with silver and gold, with goods and livestock and with free will offerings for the temple of God in Jerusalem. Now, Sairas is saying that the Lord, the God of heaven, has given me all the kingdoms of the earth and he has appointed me to build and temple for him in Jerusalem. How did Sairas know this? Sairas was a heaven king. In fact, his religion was the rightism. And here he says that the God of heaven has appointed me. How did he know about it? History records it. Josephus is the most respected and known Jewish historian. He was one of the generals who fought during the war against the fall of the temple in 70 AD but he later became a historian. Now listen to what Josephus says. Josephus, the Jewish historian, reviews how Sairas was uniformed of these provices of Sairas concerning him by Daniel after the fall of Babylon. In the first year of the reign of Sairas, which was the 17th, from the day that our people were removed out of their own land to Babylon, God incarcerated the captivity and calamity of these poor people according as he had foretold to them by Jeremiah the prophet before the destruction of the city that it was going to seven years. And this means God did afford them for he started up the mind of Sairas and made him write this throughout all Asia. And then Sairas goes down and says that he had been... Sairas was read the prophecy of Isaiah. Isaiah 44 where I read you where he says, Sairas is going to build me the temple. The second person I'm referring to who records this is Ellen White in the book, Professor King's. She says, the deliverance of Daniel from the den of lions had been used of God to create a favorable impression upon the mind of Sairas, the great. The sterling qualities of the man of God as a statesman of seeing a better to lead the Persian ruler to show him marked respect and to honor his judgment. And now just at the time God had decided he would cause his temple in Jerusalem to be built he moved upon Sairas as his urgent to discern the prophecies concerning himself with which Daniel was so familiar and to grant the Jewish people their liberty. This is what happened. When the time came for the repatriation of Judah broke their land and when just before the fall after the fall of the kingdom, Daniel was appointed as an advisor to King Darius. Very interesting for when Babylon fell that very night Daniel was in the Babylon and he was not killed. Why was he not killed? Because by military standards he should have been killed as an enemy but he was preserved. And when Darius now took over Babylon he discovered Daniel and made him one of his rulers. Then after that he planned to make him the overall president. And you remember what happened? And Daniel was taken to the lion's den. After coming out of the lion's den then he told Darius, Darius you know you see all these photos happen how you conquered Babylon and how you had been sent by Sairas all these is not of your making. You are not the one who conquered Babylon militarily. It was, it had been decided by the God I worship. And then Daniel read the prophets of Sairas to Darius. Darius told Daniel this is not my message. It is for my senior. And Daniel was taken to Sousa, to King Sairas and he read him. And Sairas heard how God had appointed him to take the Jews back to their land. And that's when our Sairas made the proclamation. That's how Sairas knew that the God of these deputies of these exiles is a wonderful God who had prophesied my birth and even me becoming a king. He ordered the proclamation. That is how God works. He used Nebuchadnezzar to deport these people and he used Sairas to take them back and all this was recorded by Isaiah. That's why Isaiah is this wonderful magnificent prophet. Now after the Jews went back to their land God also relocated once again to Jerusalem. For 70 years he was in Babylon, raised two prophets, allowed them to write the two books in Babylon. Then after the captives came back God also came with them. And because now he was closing his work he raised only the prophets. After that that means prophet Haggai, prophet Zechariah and then Malachi and God closed Old Testament chapter. That is how God used Isaiah to tell the world who he is and how he does his people. And therefore we have covered the deportations of people went to Babylon and came back and all this was prophesied by Isaiah. Having now finished the prophecies of deportation tomorrow we are going now back to the long stream of prophecies concerning our salvation until we come to our times and may God bless us. In the name of the Father in Heaven we thank you for the prophecies you reviewed to yourself and Isaiah. The prophecies of deportation because of the rebellion of your people. But we thank you Lord that you did not let Judah go for they were the carriers of the seed of salvation. Even though they were in Babylon you took the baptism and continue with the mission until they will bring the Messiah. And as we continue in this series continue to be blessed and we pray this in Jesus name. Thank you pastor for the beautiful exposition on the word of the Lord. Our closing song will be song number 439 from our S.D.A. hymnal. How far from home 439. How far from. The prophecy. We have learned how prophet Isaiah was a magnificent prophet. All this has been analyzed by our pastor which simplifies the prophecy which is normally regarded as a very difficult subject in the Bible. Furthermore there is a book that the pastor has published which simplifies the prophecy. So if you would like to have a copy there are copies available at our ABC bookshop where we can get one and get the prophecy really simplified. Otherwise we have come to the end by let's say word of grace. May the grace of our Lord Jesus Christ the love of God the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with us now and forevermore.