The Future Looks Uncertain...but God - Daniel 2 - Skip Heitzig

[Music] would you uh please turn in your Bibles to the Book of Daniel chapter 2 we are doing our series but God and this week and next week we'll finish that off but we're in Daniel chapter 2 and I brought with me a book that has been in my library for a few years it's called

predictions for the next millennium and these are predictions by celebrities and they predict what will happen in the next 1000 years these are celebrities who are some politicians summer statesmen others are musicians others are actors so some of them are not deep and some of them are downright funny but some of them are interesting among the

predictions of what will happen to us in the next thousand years one predicts that we'll have a common language and a common currency someone else has a world government that will heal the planet good luck with that and even this one the Earth's politicians will be taking interplanetary economic lessons from alien beings to find out how to

cooperate and operate a government without taxing people to death interestingly that was given by one of the original cast members from Star Trek I kid you not knowing the future or predicting the future is big business from reading fortune cookies to reading horoscopes people have tried to create an industry and it's no less than an

industry it's a two billion dollar per year industry in our country in fact it's triple that for some unknown reason in Italy it's a six billion dollar industry when I say industry it includes palm-reading cartomancy which is predicting the future using cards mediumship are our readings and astrology in fact today has been

called the new era of astrology they tell us there's a resurgence of astrology among a very particular group of people an age group called Millennials you know they are and according to Atlantic magazine it says Millennials have taken astrology and run with it they feel that they are the most stressed-out generation of all and