This sermon opens Daniel 10, explaining that in the third year of Cyrus, Daniel is crushed in spirit, mourning and semi-fasting for three weeks because he sees God’s people largely choosing comfort in Babylon over returning to rebuild the ruined temple in Jerusalem—an issue of materialism, apathy, and compromise. The pastor connects this to Haggai and Ezra, showing how only a small remnant returned, how opposition and offers of syncretistic “help” tried to derail the work, and how this all illustrates real spiritual warfare that still confronts the church today. He stresses that believers are not on a cruise ship but a battleship, that the time until Christ’s return will be “long and difficult,” and that we must respond like Daniel—grieved over spiritual ruin, refusing compromise, and fighting with God’s armor and Spirit-empowered perseverance rather than in our own strength.
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5/31/2026End Times – Book of Daniel: The Ram, the Goat, and a Preview of Antichrist, Daniel 8 and Antiochus Epiphanes
5/27/2026End Times – Book of Daniel: 7 Part 2 Ten Kings, the Little Horn, and the Ancient of Days
5/24/2026End Times – Book of Daniel: Four Beasts and the Coming World Order and 7 Part 1 and the Rise of Antichrist
5/20/2026End Times – Book of Daniel: In the Lions’ Den, When Obedience to God Overrides the Decrees of Men
5/17/2026In this free PDF downloadable resource from In the Word and Gold Country Calvary Chapel, you'll learn what the word Eschatology means and why being equipped with knowledge about the last days is so crucial for Christians.
In this free PDF downloadable resource from In the Word and Gold Country Calvary Chapel, you'll learn what the word Eschatology means and why being equipped with knowledge about the last days is so crucial for Christians.