Wow! Well, listen. Tonight Elder Charles Bradford 00:00:48.89\00:00:52.45 is our opening speaker. Amen. 00:00:52.65\00:00:55.41 And then we've got a music program planned 00:00:55.61\00:00:58.05 for an hour. This is a three hour... I don't want to 00:00:58.25\00:01:01.75 use the word extravaganza 00:01:01.85\00:01:03.38 but in a sense it really is. 00:01:03.58\00:01:05.76 A three hour program and then Mark Finley will be preaching 00:01:06.06\00:01:09.60 at 9 PM tonight. 00:01:09.80\00:01:11.66 So we want you to call your friends, 00:01:11.86\00:01:14.12 call your neighbors, anybody else... relatives 00:01:14.42\00:01:18.57 and what else. Enemies. 00:01:18.77\00:01:19.92 All right. That makes quite a list. That's right. 00:01:20.12\00:01:22.40 Yeah, that's what we need for sure. 00:01:22.53\00:01:23.83 And invite them to tune in for the Fall Camp Meeting 00:01:23.96\00:01:27.16 that is beginning right here in West Frankfort, Illinois - 00:01:27.36\00:01:31.04 that's right - in the Worship Center. 00:01:31.25\00:01:32.22 Center of the universe right here. It is for 3ABN 00:01:32.23\00:01:37.21 and for our family and for so many people that watch. 00:01:37.41\00:01:41.39 And did you know that Christopher, Illinois, which is 00:01:41.49\00:01:44.26 only about 10 miles from here 00:01:44.37\00:01:45.77 I read it's the center of population in the United States 00:01:45.87\00:01:48.66 of America. Is that right? Yeah, um-hmm. 00:01:48.77\00:01:50.75 That's true. So it's the very center of the population... 00:01:50.95\00:01:53.80 of the population of the United States of America 00:01:53.90\00:01:55.62 just about 10 miles over here. I think they made a mistake. 00:01:55.72\00:01:58.54 It's really right here. I think so too. 00:01:58.74\00:02:00.30 So what's the population of Christopher? 00:02:00.50\00:02:02.49 Well probably about 800 or 1000 or something. 00:02:02.69\00:02:05.47 I don't know... not very big. But it's still the center 00:02:05.50\00:02:07.60 of the population of our country. 00:02:07.70\00:02:10.30 So we feel like this is the center of the universe. 00:02:10.50\00:02:12.91 Brother Hal Steenson years ago 00:02:13.18\00:02:14.95 he and Mollie now, of course, the general manager 00:02:15.15\00:02:17.10 and Hal works in pastoral 00:02:17.30\00:02:18.61 told me years ago that he saw southern Illinois as the hub 00:02:18.81\00:02:21.38 of a wagon wheel with spokes reaching into all the world. 00:02:21.58\00:02:24.57 Yeah. And that was before it ever happened! 00:02:24.77\00:02:26.81 Yes. And so now when he talks I listen. 00:02:27.01\00:02:29.44 Yeah... well I do too 00:02:29.64\00:02:31.33 because Hal has some very good information to pass on. 00:02:31.53\00:02:34.93 And we love him, appreciate him 00:02:35.13\00:02:37.56 and we certainly love and appreciate Mollie. 00:02:37.76\00:02:40.11 They're a great part of the team. 00:02:40.31\00:02:41.59 And they were with you early on even though he was pastoring 00:02:41.79\00:02:44.99 another church - THEY were pastoring together 00:02:45.09\00:02:47.32 another congregation from another denomination 00:02:47.52\00:02:51.12 but they were encouraging you to begin 3ABN. 00:02:51.32\00:02:54.25 They were. And I was a carpenter at the time 00:02:54.45\00:02:56.65 so I would go help them and they had a large church. 00:02:56.86\00:02:58.86 And so every time we met 00:02:59.06\00:03:01.28 he would talk to me about speaking in tongues 00:03:01.48\00:03:03.28 and I would talk to him about the Sabbath. 00:03:03.48\00:03:05.25 Right. Who won? Well, I'll let him tell you. 00:03:05.45\00:03:08.57 They are members of our church by the way... 00:03:08.87\00:03:11.11 baptized. Yes they are... absolutely are. 00:03:11.31\00:03:14.48 And he has the most beautiful teaching on the Holy Spirit 00:03:14.68\00:03:18.90 that I've heard anywhere at any time. 00:03:19.10\00:03:22.94 And it's most requested on our program, and we have so many 00:03:23.14\00:03:28.07 people that ask for the entire set of DVDs that Hal presented. 00:03:28.17\00:03:33.50 So it's just a great thing to be together 00:03:33.70\00:03:37.75 for this Fall Camp Meeting. 00:03:37.95\00:03:39.29 I've looked forward to this Camp Meeting. 00:03:39.49\00:03:41.15 I have too. And we asked right before the program 00:03:41.25\00:03:43.82 this is not going to be our biggest crowd this weekend 00:03:44.02\00:03:46.28 but we said: "How many came here from a distance? " 00:03:46.48\00:03:49.75 and almost every hand went up. 00:03:49.86\00:03:51.18 Some of you are here from the local area, but you predicted 00:03:51.38\00:03:54.45 sunny weather today, you said, and then it rained on us. 00:03:54.65\00:03:56.61 And then it rained, yes. Well, that's OK. 00:03:56.71\00:03:58.47 What are you predicting tomorrow? 00:03:58.57\00:03:59.63 I'm predicting rain. And that's good... it'll be sunshiny. 00:03:59.73\00:04:02.67 When it comes to predictions I'm not always that good... 00:04:05.76\00:04:09.02 particularly with the weather, but... That's all right. 00:04:09.22\00:04:11.44 But, you know... Even the weather people 00:04:11.68\00:04:13.31 aren't good at that. Well sometimes they're not. 00:04:13.41\00:04:15.73 I'm amazed how... Partly cloudy with chances of thundershowers 00:04:15.93\00:04:21.26 and sunshine. Can't miss on that? No, no, 00:04:21.46\00:04:24.63 you're pretty well just covered all. 00:04:24.74\00:04:26.02 That's right. Could be good weather or it may not be. 00:04:26.99\00:04:29.23 It may not be. But it's going to have sunshine here. 00:04:29.43\00:04:31.92 Well listen, we have a theme- song for our... We do. 00:04:32.12\00:04:34.84 I'm going to ask C.A. Murray if he's back here. I don't know 00:04:35.04\00:04:37.36 if Pastor Lomacang is here. 00:04:37.56\00:04:39.08 And Bro. Tim Parton is going to be playing. 00:04:39.28\00:04:41.36 We're just going to do as a theme song for the Camp Meeting 00:04:41.56\00:04:44.33 When the Roll is Called Up Yonder. 00:04:44.63\00:04:47.42 And maybe the words will come up. We're just going to do 00:04:47.62\00:04:49.66 the first verse and chorus so you probably know it anyway. 00:04:49.86\00:04:52.71 When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound... 00:04:52.74\00:04:54.21 is that the first verse? All right, let's do it. Tim... 00:04:54.41\00:04:56.75 If you want to stand, you can. 00:05:00.11\00:05:01.79 You're going to sit for a while so if you want to stand 00:05:01.99\00:05:04.45 it's all right. 00:05:04.56\00:05:05.70 Thank you; you can be seated. All right! 00:05:43.13\00:05:45.22 Well that sounded like real singing to me. 00:05:45.42\00:05:47.56 And I... Danny, I'm going to ask you if you would have prayer 00:05:47.66\00:05:52.44 for us right now to open. Would you do that? Sure. 00:05:52.54\00:05:55.52 Heavenly Father, we thank you for Your many wonderful 00:05:55.72\00:05:57.86 blessings. We thank you as always for life, 00:05:57.96\00:06:00.21 for health, for strength, for this opportunity 00:06:00.41\00:06:02.63 of being here... not only in this building but 00:06:02.83\00:06:04.99 for the viewers that are watching literally 00:06:05.09\00:06:06.84 from around the world. Thank you for 00:06:06.94\00:06:08.95 what You have done. Thank you for the tool 00:06:09.06\00:06:10.71 that You have provided with 3ABN that we literally can go to 00:06:10.82\00:06:14.05 every inhabited continent on planet earth. 00:06:14.15\00:06:16.49 Thank you for those that are watching, those who will be 00:06:16.69\00:06:19.16 watching. We pray for the speakers, 00:06:19.26\00:06:21.18 for the singers, the musicians - everyone taking part - 00:06:21.39\00:06:23.73 that we're asking, Father, that You lead, guide, and direct 00:06:23.93\00:06:26.90 in everything that's said and done. 00:06:27.00\00:06:28.77 For our viewers at home, for those that have needs, 00:06:28.97\00:06:31.13 we know there's all kinds of problems. 00:06:31.33\00:06:32.87 Satan is putting up smoke screens trying to discourage. 00:06:32.90\00:06:35.85 But Father, I just pray right now 00:06:36.06\00:06:37.53 that we can come apart from all of these problems 00:06:37.73\00:06:40.78 and look to You and realize that You are the only 00:06:40.98\00:06:43.14 answer for this world's problems today. 00:06:43.24\00:06:45.21 So thank you for hearing, for answering our prayers. 00:06:45.42\00:06:48.03 In Jesus' name we pray, Amen. Amen. 00:06:48.23\00:06:50.83 You know, Danny, so many times I have people say 00:06:51.13\00:06:53.75 to me: "It looks like you and Danny 00:06:53.95\00:06:57.52 and C.A. and John and the whole team really like each other. " 00:06:57.72\00:07:00.70 And it is true, folks. 00:07:01.00\00:07:04.26 We really do like each other; we love each other. 00:07:04.46\00:07:06.51 We enjoy working together. 00:07:06.71\00:07:09.76 It's a real thrill to work together, 00:07:09.97\00:07:11.70 and we just praise God for that opportunity. 00:07:11.90\00:07:15.00 And one of the things that I've enjoyed being around Danny 00:07:15.20\00:07:18.48 is to hear him sing. 00:07:18.69\00:07:20.97 And one of my favorite songs is one that he wrote. 00:07:21.17\00:07:25.19 And I'm going to ask him... you're going to change it on me? 00:07:25.49\00:07:29.09 Yeah, I'm going to change. I felt like the Lord 00:07:29.19\00:07:30.88 impressed me to do a different song tonight. All right. 00:07:30.98\00:07:32.91 Which one are you going to do? I asked Tim Parton 00:07:33.12\00:07:35.12 to play for me, and we only got to go through it once 00:07:35.32\00:07:38.01 so we're going to practice with you all if it's OK: 00:07:38.21\00:07:40.14 Surely the Presence of the Lord is in this Place. 00:07:40.24\00:07:42.95 OK. He did change on me 'cause that' not what's written here. 00:07:43.05\00:07:46.61 Surely the presence 00:07:54.60\00:07:58.36 of the Lord is in this place, 00:07:58.76\00:08:03.64 I can feel His mighty power 00:08:04.04\00:08:09.00 and His grace. 00:08:09.40\00:08:13.54 I can hear the brush 00:08:14.04\00:08:17.27 of angel's wings, 00:08:17.57\00:08:19.24 I see glory on each face; 00:08:19.64\00:08:24.93 Surely the presence 00:08:26.32\00:08:30.31 of the Lord is in this place. 00:08:30.71\00:08:36.62 In the midst of His children 00:08:39.88\00:08:43.85 the Lord said He would be. 00:08:44.78\00:08:49.27 It doesn't take very many... 00:08:49.57\00:08:54.22 it can be just 2 or 3. 00:08:54.52\00:08:59.89 And then I feel that same sweet Spirit 00:08:59.99\00:09:05.22 that I've felt oft times before. 00:09:05.72\00:09:11.70 Surely I can say 00:09:12.00\00:09:16.79 that I've been with my Lord. 00:09:17.09\00:09:22.79 Surely the presence 00:09:23.19\00:09:28.18 of the Lord is in this place, 00:09:28.48\00:09:33.04 I can feel His mighty power 00:09:33.44\00:09:38.15 and His grace. 00:09:38.45\00:09:42.90 I can hear the brush 00:09:43.20\00:09:46.76 of angel's wings, 00:09:46.86\00:09:48.54 I see glory on each face; 00:09:49.04\00:09:53.85 Surely the presence 00:09:54.96\00:09:59.69 of our Lord is in this place. 00:09:59.99\00:10:05.73 There's a holy hush around us, 00:10:09.06\00:10:13.05 as God's glory fills this place. 00:10:13.75\00:10:18.45 I touch the hem of His garment; 00:10:18.95\00:10:23.38 I can almost see His face. 00:10:23.68\00:10:28.82 And my heart is overflowing 00:10:28.93\00:10:34.35 with the fullness of His joy. 00:10:34.85\00:10:39.94 But I know without a doubt 00:10:40.24\00:10:44.98 that I've been with my Lord. 00:10:45.38\00:10:51.28 Surely the presence 00:10:52.28\00:10:56.18 of the Lord is in this place. 00:10:56.68\00:11:01.42 I can feel His mighty power 00:11:01.83\00:11:06.74 and His grace. 00:11:07.04\00:11:10.18 I can hear the brush 00:11:11.20\00:11:14.69 of angel's wings, 00:11:14.99\00:11:16.55 I see glory on each face; 00:11:16.95\00:11:21.61 Surely the presence... 00:11:22.61\00:11:26.81 surely the presence... 00:11:27.31\00:11:32.32 surely the presence 00:11:33.80\00:11:39.07 of the Lord 00:11:39.37\00:11:42.25 is in this 00:11:42.55\00:11:47.47 place. 00:11:47.77\00:11:52.90 Amen. Thank you, Danny. 00:11:59.90\00:12:01.88 All right! 00:12:02.09\00:12:03.53 Now that's what's called in the sports world 00:12:07.32\00:12:10.00 Danny called an audible in the line of scrimmage. 00:12:10.20\00:12:12.72 And... in other words, he changed the whole play on me 00:12:13.02\00:12:16.61 there. And it's all right 00:12:16.71\00:12:18.33 because we really feel the Holy Spirit was leading. 00:12:18.53\00:12:20.90 Wasn't that a beautiful song? Amen. 00:12:21.11\00:12:22.72 I do believe the Lord led him. 00:12:23.03\00:12:24.43 He's going to sing that other song which I like so much: 00:12:24.63\00:12:27.91 Heaven Means Home To Me. 00:12:28.11\00:12:29.52 He promised me he'll sing it before 00:12:29.73\00:12:33.07 the week's over and... weekend is over. 00:12:33.27\00:12:36.06 So we'll look forward to hearing that as well. 00:12:36.26\00:12:39.46 Our speaker tonight is know by people all around the world. 00:12:39.76\00:12:44.07 He's a man who was president of the North American Division 00:12:44.17\00:12:48.11 and is an able leader of people 00:12:48.71\00:12:54.71 and of ministers and of the church. 00:12:54.91\00:12:57.02 I first heard him speak... 00:12:57.32\00:12:59.39 I hate to tell you when it was, 00:12:59.69\00:13:01.63 but it was back in the 60's... 00:13:01.83\00:13:03.33 And I was a student at Andrews University, 00:13:03.63\00:13:06.61 and he came to preach. He was president of 00:13:06.92\00:13:10.83 the Lake Region Conference, 00:13:11.03\00:13:12.72 and he came to speak at Andrews University. 00:13:13.03\00:13:15.50 I immediately liked this man. 00:13:15.80\00:13:19.06 I liked him; I liked what he had to say; 00:13:19.36\00:13:21.80 I liked the way he said it; 00:13:22.00\00:13:23.31 and I felt a kinship to his personality. 00:13:23.61\00:13:27.06 And in addition, he reminded me of one of my favorite 00:13:27.36\00:13:31.55 baseball players: Roy Campanella. 00:13:31.75\00:13:33.72 And so afterwards I went up and told him. I said: 00:13:35.06\00:13:38.58 "Has anyone ever told you that you look like 00:13:38.78\00:13:40.70 Roy Campanella? " And he acknowledged that 00:13:40.90\00:13:43.91 they'd even stopped him on the streets of New York 00:13:44.11\00:13:46.27 and other places in those days 00:13:46.47\00:13:48.17 and thought that he was that great Brooklyn Dodger catcher. 00:13:48.47\00:13:53.34 I... I called him "Campy" for a number of years 00:13:53.64\00:13:59.00 just because of that. But then as I got to know him 00:13:59.30\00:14:05.07 I called him Elder Bradford 00:14:05.27\00:14:08.04 because he's a man who knows God, 00:14:08.34\00:14:11.07 loves God, and he's a man who God has used 00:14:11.37\00:14:16.09 in a very powerful way. 00:14:16.29\00:14:20.70 I love him. I appreciate him. 00:14:21.00\00:14:24.59 I believe in his ministry. 00:14:24.89\00:14:26.85 And I'm so happy that he can be with us tonight. 00:14:27.15\00:14:30.44 The title of his message is: 00:14:30.74\00:14:33.69 We Are Located In Time. 00:14:33.79\00:14:37.29 Pastor Charles Bradford. By the way, his wife Ethel 00:14:37.59\00:14:41.17 is with him. What a wonderful helpmeet Ethel is. 00:14:41.37\00:14:45.39 She's sitting here on the front row next to my wife Camille. 00:14:45.59\00:14:48.31 Ethel, we're so glad that you could come. 00:14:48.34\00:14:50.99 God bless you Elder Bradford. 00:14:51.29\00:14:53.26 Appreciate you, man. Thank you; thank you. Appreciate you. 00:14:53.56\00:14:56.06 You have talked enough. All right. God bless you. 00:14:56.16\00:14:59.17 Good evening, friends. Good evening. 00:15:00.45\00:15:02.72 We are delighted to be here in this place. 00:15:03.02\00:15:07.09 Surely the presence of the Lord is here as was sung. 00:15:07.40\00:15:10.70 We are well situated. The 3ABN administration 00:15:11.95\00:15:16.61 has taken care of us. 00:15:16.81\00:15:18.83 They even put make-up on us here tonight. 00:15:19.13\00:15:22.75 I tried to tell them I've been preaching against cosmetics... 00:15:23.68\00:15:26.91 but now I'm roped in myself. 00:15:27.32\00:15:30.95 But it is a pleasure - it's a blessing - 00:15:31.25\00:15:34.24 for my wife and me to be here. 00:15:34.44\00:15:37.10 We've looked forward to this for some time. 00:15:37.30\00:15:39.47 And I do hope that the Lord will bless us as we 00:15:39.77\00:15:43.30 work and pray and study together. 00:15:43.51\00:15:48.25 We want to open the Word of God. 00:15:48.55\00:15:51.15 I want to talk about - these several times 00:15:52.40\00:15:55.96 they've assigned me to talk - 00:15:56.16\00:15:57.64 I want to talk about a general theme 00:15:57.85\00:16:01.37 which is: God's End-Time People. 00:16:01.57\00:16:05.71 God's End-Time People. 00:16:06.01\00:16:09.14 If this is not the end time, I don't know what it is. 00:16:09.44\00:16:13.01 But we are talking about God's End-Time People. 00:16:14.26\00:16:19.44 We want to know what He has to say about us 00:16:19.84\00:16:22.87 and we want to know what He says to us 00:16:23.28\00:16:27.67 because we are His end-time people. 00:16:29.28\00:16:31.98 We are privileged to be here because this is a pioneer 00:16:33.24\00:16:37.25 institution. Dear Brother Shelton had a vision 00:16:37.45\00:16:42.73 and he stepped out on it. 00:16:43.03\00:16:46.83 Our children and grandchildren used to sing 00:16:47.13\00:16:49.89 "Father Abraham has many sons, " 00:16:50.19\00:16:53.19 and he is one of them. 00:16:53.49\00:16:56.16 And then my friend Elder Jim Gilley, 00:16:56.47\00:17:00.80 who talks too much about me, 00:17:01.00\00:17:02.76 I wanted... the least he says of me the better it is 00:17:03.06\00:17:07.15 with you because if he says too much 00:17:07.18\00:17:09.24 your expectations will be too high. 00:17:09.44\00:17:12.57 Is that right, Brother Finley? 00:17:12.87\00:17:14.51 Expectations too high. 00:17:14.81\00:17:17.23 But he and I have worked together, and I've been 00:17:17.46\00:17:20.26 privileged to serve him in his pastoral work 00:17:20.46\00:17:23.65 and as a conference president. 00:17:23.85\00:17:26.16 But enough of that, because if I keep on I will be 00:17:26.46\00:17:29.22 talking too long before getting into the Word of God. 00:17:29.42\00:17:33.55 God's End-Time People. 00:17:33.95\00:17:36.99 Now I am somewhat of a frustrated school teacher. 00:17:38.59\00:17:41.47 I didn't have an opportunity to do that for a living. 00:17:42.90\00:17:46.17 They said: "You'd better go out and preach, " 00:17:46.47\00:17:48.98 so that's what I did. 00:17:49.28\00:17:51.27 They didn't realize the Lord had told me before they said, 00:17:51.37\00:17:53.89 you know, to go and preach. 00:17:54.09\00:17:56.18 And so I would like to really get into the Word here. 00:17:56.48\00:18:00.42 Tonight I want to talk about the location 00:18:00.72\00:18:05.48 time... where we are. 00:18:05.68\00:18:08.23 The old Adventist preachers used to have a saying - 00:18:08.53\00:18:11.31 a little sentence they would ask: 00:18:11.51\00:18:13.41 "Where are we in the stream of time? " 00:18:13.61\00:18:18.50 Time is an ever-rolling stream, 00:18:18.90\00:18:23.91 but where are we? You see, Christian 00:18:24.21\00:18:27.74 idea... the Christian idea of time... 00:18:27.94\00:18:30.59 is not like Eastern religions which have time... 00:18:30.79\00:18:34.68 time is a cycle. It just keeps going around and around. 00:18:34.88\00:18:39.64 In fact, in one Eastern religion 00:18:39.94\00:18:42.90 the cycle is 30,000 years. 00:18:43.10\00:18:46.93 It just goes around. 00:18:47.23\00:18:48.95 But the Judeo-Christian idea 00:18:49.25\00:18:52.93 and concept of time is that it is a line. 00:18:53.13\00:18:57.06 It has a beginning point... 00:18:57.26\00:18:59.06 Come on and listen to me here... 00:18:59.26\00:19:01.31 It has a beginning point and an ending point. 00:19:01.61\00:19:04.29 It's linear. 00:19:04.60\00:19:06.67 So I'm asking the question: where are we 00:19:06.97\00:19:09.98 in the stream of time? I'm going to just read a verse 00:19:10.28\00:19:14.97 and then I'm going to have a little prayer. 00:19:15.17\00:19:17.02 Matthew. What book did I call? 00:19:17.32\00:19:20.09 Matthew. I told you I was trying to be a teacher. 00:19:20.29\00:19:22.72 Matthew 24 00:19:24.05\00:19:27.28 chapter 24 and we're going to look at verse 3. 00:19:27.68\00:19:31.98 "And as He sat upon the Mount of Olives 00:19:33.40\00:19:35.61 the disciples came unto Him privately saying: 00:19:35.91\00:19:38.39 'tell us... tell us 00:19:38.70\00:19:41.88 when shall these things be and what shall be 00:19:42.08\00:19:45.33 the sign of Thy coming 00:19:45.53\00:19:47.80 and of the end of the world? ' " 00:19:48.10\00:19:50.84 Tell us. The disciples were concerned about it. 00:19:51.14\00:19:55.10 Any Christian who loves his Lord 00:19:55.40\00:19:59.99 wants to know when He's going to come back. 00:20:00.20\00:20:02.85 And any inquiring mind wants to know 00:20:03.15\00:20:07.03 when will we get to the end of the journey. 00:20:07.23\00:20:10.80 Like my children used to say 00:20:11.10\00:20:12.96 when we were traveling, you know, going to camp meetings 00:20:13.16\00:20:15.49 and all these places, driving long... 150 and 200... 00:20:15.69\00:20:20.19 I just did 300 and some today. That's not much 00:20:20.49\00:20:23.09 but we just drove across country. 00:20:23.29\00:20:25.75 And they would always say: "Daddy! 00:20:25.95\00:20:28.60 Are we almost there? 00:20:28.80\00:20:30.68 Are we almost there? " 00:20:31.97\00:20:34.08 So the disciples wanted to know "When shall these things be 00:20:34.38\00:20:38.11 and what shall be the sign of Thy coming 00:20:38.31\00:20:41.13 and of the end of the world? " Shall we pray. 00:20:41.33\00:20:44.68 Father God, we are looking to You tonight to help us 00:20:44.98\00:20:47.98 just to unpack these words of Jesus. 00:20:48.29\00:20:52.33 We are over our heads in this. 00:20:52.53\00:20:55.63 We can't do it correctly. 00:20:55.93\00:20:58.51 We can only do it correctly in our spirit 00:20:58.71\00:21:01.17 and then You will have to add to it and open our eyes, 00:21:01.37\00:21:05.31 Lord, that we may see 00:21:05.51\00:21:08.03 these visions of truth You have for us tonight. 00:21:08.23\00:21:11.82 In Jesus' name, Amen. 00:21:12.12\00:21:14.11 Where are we in the stream of time? 00:21:14.31\00:21:16.32 That's Jesus' word to us. 00:21:16.42\00:21:18.71 And by the way, when we come to a certain point 00:21:18.91\00:21:21.99 in Jesus' life - His ministry - 00:21:22.19\00:21:24.77 He began, it seems to me now, 00:21:24.97\00:21:27.91 He begins to focus on this end time. 00:21:28.21\00:21:33.16 Do you see that as you read the Word of God? 00:21:33.46\00:21:35.86 He focuses on us! 00:21:36.17\00:21:38.57 That ought to make you feel pretty good: 00:21:38.97\00:21:41.58 Jesus focused on us. 00:21:41.78\00:21:44.22 Of all the people of all the generations He focuses 00:21:44.52\00:21:47.81 on us. And these words that He speaks in Matthew, 00:21:48.02\00:21:52.14 Mark, and Luke... in these chapters... 00:21:52.34\00:21:54.69 Matthew 24; Mark 13; 00:21:54.90\00:21:57.34 Luke 21 and so on... 00:21:57.54\00:21:59.61 He's talking to end-time Christians. 00:21:59.81\00:22:03.71 We are end-time people of God. And by the way, 00:22:04.85\00:22:08.78 please don't let anybody tell you that Jesus was not 00:22:08.98\00:22:12.12 a prophet. He just said nice words, you know. 00:22:12.22\00:22:16.42 All of this is wonderful and so forth 00:22:16.62\00:22:19.08 and carrying the people on. 00:22:19.18\00:22:20.58 No! Jesus pointed out those things that would happen 00:22:20.71\00:22:24.83 just before He returns. 00:22:25.03\00:22:27.78 He was precise! 00:22:28.08\00:22:30.17 He was focused in His ministry. 00:22:30.37\00:22:32.49 Oh, if I could only teach like He did. 00:22:32.59\00:22:35.28 "Never a man spoke like this Man. " 00:22:35.58\00:22:40.34 And so I can't get beside myself. I can't do it. 00:22:40.64\00:22:43.33 All I can do is ask Him to help us... 00:22:43.53\00:22:45.54 help us to understand what He says. 00:22:45.84\00:22:48.19 These are for us. These mean something to us! 00:22:48.39\00:22:52.15 Now you may want to take this down. 00:22:52.45\00:22:54.30 By the way, I am not preaching anything new. 00:22:54.60\00:22:58.32 I'm preaching what I began preaching more than 00:22:59.80\00:23:02.39 60 years ago. Yeah, I'm 86 now. 00:23:02.59\00:23:07.82 Now don't you come up looking at me like: 00:23:09.03\00:23:11.24 "Poor old Brother Bradford. " 00:23:11.44\00:23:13.38 Just come up and say: "Man, what's happening here? " 00:23:13.58\00:23:15.74 You know, talk to me in today's language. OK. 00:23:15.94\00:23:18.55 Now here I am preaching the same thing 00:23:18.75\00:23:20.97 all these years, and thank God 00:23:21.17\00:23:24.20 I still believe it's true. Amen! 00:23:24.40\00:23:26.86 I still believe that Jesus meant what He said 00:23:27.06\00:23:30.40 and I don't need to ask Him a lot of questions. 00:23:30.60\00:23:35.07 Nobody said "amen" then. 00:23:35.17\00:23:38.62 I don't need to ask Him a lot of questions. 00:23:38.83\00:23:40.95 He spoke. All I need to ask is: "Lord, help me to understand. " 00:23:41.15\00:23:44.21 Now He is the greatest of the prophets; 00:23:44.41\00:23:46.24 He outlines the future. 00:23:46.34\00:23:47.67 And there is a phrase that I picked up from some theologian - 00:23:47.87\00:23:52.12 I think his name was Oscar Cullman - 00:23:52.32\00:23:55.90 who coined the phrase "Between the already 00:23:56.10\00:24:00.94 and the not yet. " 00:24:01.15\00:24:02.80 And I said: "Well, I'm going to make an Adventist phrase 00:24:04.69\00:24:07.38 out of that. " 00:24:07.48\00:24:09.37 I've gotten to the place where I put an Adventist twist 00:24:09.57\00:24:12.61 on everything. Amen. 00:24:12.71\00:24:15.23 And I put... I don't want to use the wrong words, 00:24:15.43\00:24:18.01 but I put an Adventist spin on it. 00:24:18.21\00:24:20.56 We are living, my friends, between the already 00:24:21.87\00:24:27.03 and the not yet. I was reading here just today 00:24:27.23\00:24:32.56 in Revelation. Where are we going now? 00:24:32.76\00:24:34.69 We're in class. We're in class now... we're in class. 00:24:34.89\00:24:37.56 Revelation 6. Look at Revelation 6. 00:24:37.77\00:24:40.14 We're going to read this. 00:24:40.34\00:24:41.56 Look at what it says: Revelation 6 00:24:41.66\00:24:43.30 and we're going to begin at verse 12. 00:24:43.50\00:24:46.28 Revelation 6 verse 12. 00:24:46.58\00:24:48.45 "And I beheld... " 00:24:48.75\00:24:51.16 You know, John's always looking at something, isn't he? 00:24:51.46\00:24:53.85 "I beheld... I beheld... I saw it... I saw it. " 00:24:54.15\00:24:56.10 "I beheld, " he says, "when He had opened the 6th seal 00:24:56.30\00:25:00.29 and lo there was a great earthquake 00:25:00.49\00:25:03.56 and the sun became black as sackcloth of hair 00:25:03.76\00:25:07.70 and the moon became as blood. " 00:25:07.90\00:25:09.90 Now that ought to remind me of what Jesus said, 00:25:10.20\00:25:12.52 didn't He? Jesus said: "The sun shall be darkened, 00:25:12.72\00:25:15.55 the moon shall be red like blood. " 00:25:15.76\00:25:17.80 He said that, didn't He? 00:25:18.00\00:25:19.57 "Stars will fall from heaven. " 00:25:19.77\00:25:21.70 Every good Bible scholar ought to know 00:25:22.01\00:25:25.13 that in the... the Lisbon earthquake took place 00:25:25.33\00:25:29.31 in 1755. 00:25:29.51\00:25:31.56 There was a dark day that extended across this country - 00:25:33.25\00:25:36.78 especially the northeast - May 19, 1780. 00:25:36.98\00:25:41.93 Then there was the great falling of the stars 00:25:43.63\00:25:46.40 the greatest Leonid shower seen 00:25:46.60\00:25:52.09 took place November 13, 1833. 00:25:52.30\00:25:57.50 By the way, 00:25:57.71\00:25:59.43 I've been getting e-mails... 00:25:59.84\00:26:01.64 You know, you don't believe everything you get on e-mail. 00:26:02.05\00:26:05.46 But you can't erase all of them 'cause you may erase 00:26:05.86\00:26:08.82 something good. So you've got to glance at it anyway. 00:26:09.02\00:26:11.60 And I saw one that said: "earthquakes increasing. " 00:26:11.80\00:26:14.68 I wish I'd brought it here. 00:26:14.98\00:26:17.13 I can get it; maybe I can get it before we leave. 00:26:17.43\00:26:19.55 I think it has some merit to read it 00:26:19.85\00:26:22.68 how earthquakes are increasing, increasing, increasing... 00:26:22.88\00:26:25.68 exponentially until they're everywhere. 00:26:25.98\00:26:30.99 By the way, the United States of America 00:26:31.29\00:26:33.96 likes to think that we are insulated against 00:26:34.36\00:26:39.99 all these kinds of things that happen in Africa. 00:26:40.19\00:26:43.25 Big storms in South America. 00:26:43.55\00:26:46.39 In Inter-America. 00:26:46.69\00:26:49.25 But we are feeling a little heat - aren't we? - ourselves. 00:26:49.55\00:26:52.55 When my son called me he said: "Daddy, something 00:26:53.15\00:26:56.69 happened here. " He lives in Washington, D.C. 00:26:56.79\00:26:59.26 And he didn't know what he was talking about, but I know 00:26:59.56\00:27:02.31 what happens. The earth was shaking. 00:27:02.51\00:27:05.12 I remember when I was a little boy in Harlem, New York. 00:27:05.32\00:27:07.95 We had a church down on 123rd and Lennox Avenue. 00:27:08.15\00:27:11.48 A great church called Ephesus Church. 00:27:11.68\00:27:13.75 And on Friday night there was just a little tremor... 00:27:13.95\00:27:17.28 just a little shake. 00:27:17.48\00:27:18.85 But you know, Sabbath morning the church was packed! 00:27:19.05\00:27:21.76 Amen. Earthquakes in diverse places. 00:27:24.10\00:27:26.30 I don't want to digress too far now. 00:27:26.50\00:27:28.84 But here we are now. We have this all taking place 00:27:29.15\00:27:32.72 and everybody can see it. Isn't it marvelous that 00:27:32.92\00:27:36.73 when God gets ready to preach 00:27:36.83\00:27:39.03 He has the greatest screen in the world; 00:27:39.23\00:27:42.37 He has the greatest sound system in the world. 00:27:42.67\00:27:46.11 When God gets ready to preach, He can take the heavens: 00:27:46.41\00:27:51.04 shake them. Take the earth: shake it. 00:27:51.07\00:27:55.18 I read somewhere that the earth is getting old like a garment. 00:27:55.48\00:28:00.03 Wearing out. I don't buy many suits. 00:28:00.33\00:28:04.96 I'm too old to buy suits now. 00:28:05.16\00:28:06.99 But the ones... You know, I have bought this suit... 00:28:07.49\00:28:12.41 I hate to tell you. My wife is looking at me over there. 00:28:12.61\00:28:15.82 Please, ma'am, don't get me. 00:28:16.13\00:28:17.78 This... I don't know when I bought this suit. 00:28:17.98\00:28:21.54 But bye and bye... bye and bye... 00:28:21.74\00:28:26.49 Brother Bradford will have to get another suit. 00:28:26.79\00:28:29.26 Don't look too hard at me now. 00:28:30.68\00:28:32.06 You may think I ought to get one today, but this... 00:28:32.26\00:28:34.55 there it is. But the earth is growing old as a garment 00:28:34.75\00:28:39.07 that's wearing out... that's decaying. 00:28:39.27\00:28:42.35 Coming apart at the seams. 00:28:42.65\00:28:44.63 So that's why I wanted to preach... 00:28:44.84\00:28:47.59 the Holy Spirit is prompting me to preach 00:28:47.79\00:28:49.95 on God's end-time people... which you are! 00:28:50.15\00:28:53.22 Amen. God's end-time people. 00:28:53.52\00:28:57.19 Jesus brought us right down to the end. 00:28:57.49\00:29:00.41 He pointed to the signs that would take place. 00:29:00.61\00:29:03.60 They have all taken place. 00:29:04.00\00:29:06.89 I'm going to go back to Revelation now. 00:29:07.19\00:29:09.13 I want to get that between the already and the not yet. 00:29:09.33\00:29:11.68 6:12: "And the stars... " 00:29:12.92\00:29:17.06 verse 13: "of heaven fell unto the ground 00:29:17.26\00:29:19.89 on the earth even as a fig tree casteth her untimely figs 00:29:20.10\00:29:24.97 when she is shaken of a mighty wind. 00:29:25.18\00:29:27.10 And... " Verse 14... I don't see many heads going down. 00:29:27.30\00:29:32.18 When I'm preaching like this I want every head down 00:29:32.58\00:29:35.04 looking in the Bible. 00:29:35.24\00:29:36.32 All right. "And the heaven departed as a scroll 00:29:36.42\00:29:39.47 when it is rolled together. And every mountain and island 00:29:39.77\00:29:44.10 were moved out of their places. " 00:29:44.30\00:29:45.91 Now I'm going to go to verse 13 again. 00:29:46.22\00:29:48.59 Yes. Stars fell... fig tree casteth figs... 00:29:48.79\00:29:52.95 shaken of a mighty wind. 00:29:53.15\00:29:54.76 And then verse 14 says what? 00:29:54.96\00:29:57.26 Come on. Verse 14 says: "And the heaven departed as a" 00:29:57.56\00:30:02.35 What? "scroll. " Now, stars have fallen. 00:30:02.38\00:30:05.50 Earthquake came. 00:30:05.70\00:30:07.60 Dark day came. 00:30:07.90\00:30:09.38 All those signs have been fulfilled. 00:30:09.68\00:30:11.68 But where are we now? 00:30:11.98\00:30:13.56 Well, look at... 14 says: "And the heaven 00:30:13.86\00:30:17.31 departed as a scroll. " 00:30:17.51\00:30:18.76 Has that happened yet? 00:30:19.06\00:30:20.91 Oh my dear children, 00:30:21.21\00:30:23.85 we are between the already and the not yet. 00:30:24.15\00:30:28.78 The stars falling already. 00:30:29.18\00:30:31.49 The earth shaking already. 00:30:31.69\00:30:33.77 The moon black and blood already. 00:30:33.97\00:30:36.97 But not yet... 00:30:37.20\00:30:38.43 The scroll of heaven has not departed yet. 00:30:38.74\00:30:43.01 Elder Snyder... one of my old great evangelists, man, 00:30:43.31\00:30:44.28 I'm glad to have known those brethren. 00:30:44.31\00:30:49.65 Bro. Snyder had an evangelistic sermon, and I used to preach 00:30:51.14\00:30:54.61 his sermons, you know. 00:30:54.71\00:30:55.83 We used to get sermons from the brethren that would print them. 00:30:56.03\00:30:59.23 And I'd get up and read them. Sometimes I'd be reading it 00:30:59.43\00:31:01.77 and it said "here in New York City" and I was preaching in 00:31:01.97\00:31:04.33 Jackson, Mississippi, you know. 00:31:04.53\00:31:06.80 But Bro. Snyder had one that he gave us. 00:31:07.10\00:31:10.15 He said: "My subject tomorrow night is 00:31:10.35\00:31:13.85 Heaven Split Wide Open. 00:31:14.05\00:31:17.84 It hasn't happened, has it? 00:31:18.14\00:31:19.65 Not yet. Heaven has not... 00:31:19.95\00:31:22.25 So where are we living? The old-time Adventist preachers 00:31:22.46\00:31:26.07 used to preach we are suspended. We are in suspended animation. 00:31:27.91\00:31:33.67 We are between verse 13 and verse 14. 00:31:33.97\00:31:38.78 That's where we are. 00:31:39.08\00:31:40.43 And we are living in the most dangerous period of earth's 00:31:40.73\00:31:43.85 history because there are no dates 00:31:43.95\00:31:47.15 that we have to reach. 00:31:47.35\00:31:49.35 There are no prophecies that we have to see 00:31:49.65\00:31:54.14 before Jesus comes. 00:31:54.45\00:31:56.27 Everything has happened except heaven departing 00:31:56.67\00:32:02.57 as a scroll. 00:32:02.77\00:32:04.97 This is a time... What do they call those things over there 00:32:05.27\00:32:10.34 in Iraq and the other places where they are now? 00:32:10.65\00:32:13.41 What's the other place where we are now? 00:32:13.61\00:32:15.08 We're trying to get out of there. What's the other place? 00:32:15.28\00:32:17.73 Huh? Afghanistan. 00:32:17.93\00:32:20.47 It's... You'd better be careful walking. 00:32:20.77\00:32:26.59 Something may jump out and bite you. 00:32:26.89\00:32:28.57 And if you hit the wrong thing... 00:32:29.93\00:32:31.60 Give me what they call those kind of... 00:32:31.70\00:32:34.61 Huh? Ah, you're so smart, folks. 00:32:35.22\00:32:38.90 I just love smart people... and it helps me. 00:32:39.20\00:32:41.93 But we are in an enchanted forest as it were 00:32:42.17\00:32:46.67 where the mines are all around about us. 00:32:46.97\00:32:50.89 I'm talking now to God's end-time people. 00:32:51.19\00:32:54.17 We've got to watch where we walk 00:32:54.47\00:32:56.33 because there may be a landmine over there! 00:32:57.61\00:33:00.97 And you know, the devil is setting his traps all the time. 00:33:01.17\00:33:04.18 They've got me on this time thing here. 00:33:04.48\00:33:09.22 I'm not a time preacher, brethren. 00:33:09.52\00:33:12.42 And don't cramp my little style, please, sir. 00:33:14.07\00:33:18.03 No, don't... But we've got to be careful. 00:33:19.36\00:33:22.81 You know, we may get hung up on little things that may 00:33:23.01\00:33:26.02 become a landmine to us. 00:33:26.22\00:33:28.78 I don't know what... You know, they tell me I'm 00:33:31.46\00:33:34.20 talking to people all around the world, so 00:33:34.30\00:33:36.32 I don't know. I'm just looking at you here. 00:33:36.53\00:33:38.91 Now I'm not going to preach to those people around the world. 00:33:39.11\00:33:41.07 I'm going to preach to you 'cause I see you. 00:33:41.27\00:33:43.02 Sometimes I have to be careful of myself. 00:33:46.43\00:33:49.63 What are the brethren doing? 00:33:49.83\00:33:51.51 Getting mighty quiet in here now. 00:33:52.84\00:33:54.56 What are those brethren doing at the General Conference? 00:33:54.96\00:33:57.74 What are they doing in the Union? 00:33:58.04\00:34:00.52 What are they doing in the local conference? 00:34:00.82\00:34:02.95 Now that's nice. I've already been talking tonight 00:34:03.26\00:34:05.88 with some of the brethren about things happening. 00:34:06.08\00:34:08.49 But you know, when we begin to surmising 00:34:08.69\00:34:11.63 we may begin to fabricating a little bit. 00:34:11.94\00:34:16.64 Are you listening to me? 00:34:16.85\00:34:17.95 When we become absorbed in these things... 00:34:18.25\00:34:21.44 The apostle Paul had to tell the people in his day 00:34:21.75\00:34:24.60 "Examine yourselves... not me. " 00:34:24.80\00:34:27.05 Let's go ahead around... And we are in a time 00:34:28.76\00:34:31.98 that Daniel... Let's go to Daniel. 00:34:32.18\00:34:33.80 We've got to go to Daniel. Adventists always 00:34:33.91\00:34:36.37 got to go to Daniel and Revelation. 00:34:36.47\00:34:38.03 There was a... I shouldn't tell these things... 00:34:38.23\00:34:40.14 You'll get me afterwards. But there was a certain town 00:34:40.17\00:34:43.99 where the Adventist evangelist was preaching, and everybody 00:34:44.19\00:34:46.61 got angry with him and the ministers met against him. 00:34:46.81\00:34:48.71 And so they said: "This book of Revelation 00:34:48.92\00:34:51.78 and Daniel... I'm so tired of those books. " 00:34:51.98\00:34:54.17 If we didn't have those books we wouldn't have to be 00:34:54.47\00:34:56.73 worried with these Adventists around here. 00:34:56.86\00:34:59.06 Well I'm glad the Lord left Daniel and the Revelation 00:34:59.20\00:35:01.77 in there. In the 12th chapter of Daniel... 00:35:01.87\00:35:04.19 You know I'm going there. 00:35:04.39\00:35:05.74 12th chapter of Daniel... look at verse 1. 00:35:06.04\00:35:08.13 "At that time Michael shall stand up 00:35:08.33\00:35:10.14 great Prince, stand before the children of Thy people. 00:35:10.34\00:35:13.91 There will be a time of trouble such as never was 00:35:14.11\00:35:16.34 since there was a nation even to that same time. 00:35:16.54\00:35:18.49 And at that time, Thy people shall be delivered... 00:35:18.69\00:35:21.05 everyone that shall be found written in the book. " 00:35:21.25\00:35:23.39 And we're going to go down to the four... Four says: 00:35:23.60\00:35:28.80 "But thou, oh Daniel, shut up the book. 00:35:29.00\00:35:31.99 The words... seal them... even to the time of the end. " 00:35:32.29\00:35:36.24 Aren't we God's end-time people? Amen. 00:35:36.54\00:35:39.49 So I say the book is open now. 00:35:39.79\00:35:41.42 Close up... now it's open. 00:35:41.72\00:35:44.01 Then he says: "Many shall run to and fro. 00:35:45.47\00:35:50.47 Knowledge shall be increased. " 00:35:51.60\00:35:53.96 We old-time preachers like to preach about transportation 00:35:54.26\00:35:57.67 and all the rest of that from the horse and carriage 00:35:57.77\00:36:00.14 to the automobile to the jet plane and all the rest of it. 00:36:00.34\00:36:04.83 Then even to the stars. I live in Huntsville, Alabama, 00:36:05.03\00:36:08.26 where all the rockets are made that go up. 00:36:08.46\00:36:10.55 But that isn't the end of that. 00:36:10.75\00:36:12.54 The end of that is, my friends, 00:36:12.74\00:36:15.41 that there will be some people who will go through 00:36:15.61\00:36:19.74 the Word of God searching the scriptures. 00:36:19.84\00:36:23.71 Reading the Word of God. 00:36:23.91\00:36:26.50 William Miller spending several years studying nothing 00:36:26.71\00:36:31.05 but the Word of God. Up there in New England, 00:36:31.15\00:36:34.10 poor farmers... not educated at Harvard and Yale... 00:36:34.30\00:36:38.53 but God spoke to them and the book was opened. 00:36:38.73\00:36:42.04 It was opened! It was opened 00:36:42.24\00:36:43.55 and they could read it and understand it. 00:36:43.76\00:36:45.44 The world did not understand it. 00:36:45.64\00:36:48.21 They laughed at these people. 00:36:49.48\00:36:51.58 They made fun of them. 00:36:51.78\00:36:53.96 Talking about Jesus' coming. 00:36:54.26\00:36:57.04 They were not thinking about Jesus' coming. 00:36:57.24\00:36:59.60 The religious world at that time was thinking about 00:36:59.80\00:37:02.34 betterment. Improvement. Things getting better. 00:37:02.54\00:37:06.41 The kingdom of God coming on earth. 00:37:06.51\00:37:08.50 All the bad people becoming good. 00:37:08.70\00:37:11.01 And they believed that foolishness. 00:37:13.84\00:37:17.06 I started to say junk, but I'm here at 3ABN. 00:37:17.26\00:37:19.94 They may not approve of those kinds of words. 00:37:20.14\00:37:22.34 But they believed that things were going to be so much better. 00:37:22.47\00:37:25.80 And when other... when these old Advent preachers 00:37:26.00\00:37:29.15 began to preach it's not going to get better 00:37:29.35\00:37:32.00 it's going to get worse! 00:37:32.21\00:37:34.20 Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and worse. 00:37:34.50\00:37:38.15 In the latter days, evil times will come upon us. 00:37:38.35\00:37:42.07 It's chronicled there by the apostle Paul and others. 00:37:42.37\00:37:46.26 And do you know, they looked at us 00:37:46.56\00:37:49.29 and said: "You are fear mongers. " 00:37:49.49\00:37:52.61 "You're scaring the people to death. " 00:37:52.92\00:37:55.58 But World War I came 00:37:55.88\00:37:58.40 and they got a little quieter. 00:37:58.70\00:38:00.90 World War II came and they got mute. 00:38:01.20\00:38:03.42 And all the wars we are having today 00:38:03.82\00:38:08.54 has pushed them into obsolescence 00:38:08.74\00:38:11.77 because the Word of God stands true. 00:38:13.01\00:38:15.59 And we found out that this is the time Jesus spoke about: 00:38:15.79\00:38:19.73 the watching and the waiting time. 00:38:20.03\00:38:24.59 That's where we are living. 00:38:24.99\00:38:26.74 Watching... waiting. And God's true people are always 00:38:27.04\00:38:32.40 characterized by their looking for and hastening to 00:38:32.60\00:38:38.38 the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. Amen. 00:38:38.68\00:38:42.82 Now don't let anybody rob you of that intelligence. 00:38:43.02\00:38:47.12 Don't let any smooth-talking devil come along 00:38:47.52\00:38:51.10 and say: "everything's going to be better now 00:38:51.40\00:38:54.90 and you join my political party 00:38:55.10\00:38:58.49 and we will make things better. " 00:38:58.69\00:39:00.44 Now I'm not against any political party. 00:39:00.54\00:39:02.70 But I'm going to tell you one thing: 00:39:02.90\00:39:04.23 in this life I'm not going to get tied into any one 00:39:04.33\00:39:08.07 political family. Amen. 00:39:08.17\00:39:16.04 I make my own decision on the basis of God's Word - Amen - 00:39:16.17\00:39:21.54 and I can't get too tight with anybody 00:39:21.87\00:39:25.85 who doesn't believe as I do. 00:39:26.15\00:39:28.05 You ought to be hearing me... One of these days you shall. 00:39:28.35\00:39:31.15 There is a warning that Paul gives us. 00:39:31.35\00:39:33.60 He talks about it in I Thessalonians. Where are we? 00:39:33.80\00:39:36.24 I Thessalonians. I want to go there. 00:39:36.54\00:39:39.05 I Thessalonians. Oh, I love the writings of Paul. 00:39:39.35\00:39:43.28 I Thessalonians 5. What does he say there? 00:39:43.59\00:39:47.06 Listen to this: "But of the times and the seasons, brethren, 00:39:47.26\00:39:51.10 you have no need that I write to you 00:39:51.30\00:39:53.02 for yourselves know perfectly 00:39:54.36\00:39:57.61 that the day of the Lord shall come as a thief in the night. 00:39:57.81\00:40:01.05 For when they shall say peace and safety 00:40:02.66\00:40:05.27 then... " What? "sudden destruction cometh upon them 00:40:05.47\00:40:08.77 as travail upon a woman with child 00:40:08.97\00:40:11.55 and they shall not escape. 00:40:11.65\00:40:12.67 But ye, brethren... ye are not in darkness 00:40:12.77\00:40:15.73 that that day should overtake you as a thief. 00:40:15.93\00:40:17.83 Ye are all children of light. " 00:40:18.03\00:40:20.00 That's what you are. 00:40:20.20\00:40:21.59 You are children of light! 00:40:21.79\00:40:23.76 You shouldn't be looking at too much TV unless it's 3ABN! 00:40:24.97\00:40:29.18 You should be more into your Bible. 00:40:29.48\00:40:31.68 What about it, my brother? 00:40:31.88\00:40:33.25 The Word of God should take all of your... 00:40:33.45\00:40:36.24 you should be absorbed in it just looking at it. 00:40:36.44\00:40:39.39 Eating it. "Thy words are found and I did eat them. " 00:40:39.59\00:40:43.21 There's joy and rejoicing in my heart. 00:40:43.51\00:40:46.10 "Ye are children of the light, children of the day. 00:40:46.30\00:40:48.72 We are not of the night nor of darkness. 00:40:48.92\00:40:51.60 Therefore, don't sleep! 00:40:51.80\00:40:54.02 Watch and be sober! " 00:40:54.32\00:40:55.75 25th chapter of Matthew Jesus spoke it for us 00:40:56.05\00:40:59.23 virgins going along the way. 00:40:59.44\00:41:01.61 But you know He said... in the 25th chapter He said... 00:41:01.81\00:41:03.91 "they all slumbered and slept. " 00:41:04.12\00:41:06.33 All right, brother preacher. 00:41:07.70\00:41:09.24 I'd better be careful here because they hear me 00:41:11.08\00:41:13.32 in other places, but yeah, Brother General Conference 00:41:13.42\00:41:15.65 brethren. Oh, we've got one of them here tonight. 00:41:15.75\00:41:18.13 All of us slept. 00:41:19.96\00:41:22.08 The wise and the foolish virgins all slept. 00:41:23.56\00:41:27.90 A period of quiescence came 00:41:28.20\00:41:32.35 but thank God He did not forget His end-time children. 00:41:32.38\00:41:37.42 Amen. He sends them messages to wake them up - Amen! - 00:41:37.62\00:41:43.54 so that He doesn't come as a thief. 00:41:43.74\00:41:45.81 But what it means to me... I think what it means to me 00:41:46.11\00:41:49.47 I must always be in anticipation 00:41:49.68\00:41:54.42 of His coming and not take it for granted 00:41:54.92\00:42:00.87 that times will be better. 00:42:00.97\00:42:03.15 I just pulled this out of my little computer. 00:42:03.45\00:42:06.48 I am using a computer in writing my sermons. 00:42:07.88\00:42:10.79 I'm using a computer; I feel very proud of myself! 00:42:10.99\00:42:15.58 Writing... computer. My children and grandchildren: 00:42:16.64\00:42:19.52 "Granddaddy! " "Listen, don't bother me, I'm on my computer 00:42:19.72\00:42:22.68 writing my sermon. " 00:42:22.88\00:42:24.19 And look what He says in Matthew 24. 00:42:25.54\00:42:28.01 We go back right to where Jesus was. 00:42:28.15\00:42:30.02 It's for me: Matthew 24:48. He says: 00:42:30.22\00:42:33.57 "But and if that evil servant 00:42:33.77\00:42:36.49 shall say in his heart 00:42:36.89\00:42:39.37 'my Lord delayeth His coming... ' " 00:42:39.67\00:42:42.94 Please be aware that there will arise among us 00:42:43.24\00:42:48.69 people who will say: "It's not right now. " 00:42:48.89\00:42:51.62 Even if they don't say it with their words 00:42:52.22\00:42:55.28 they say it with their deeds and attitude: 00:42:55.49\00:42:58.13 "Oh, it couldn't be right now. " 00:42:58.33\00:43:00.60 You know, if it knew it was right now, 00:43:00.90\00:43:02.71 I couldn't mistreat you. 00:43:02.81\00:43:04.48 If I knew my Savior was coming tomorrow, 00:43:04.78\00:43:06.89 I couldn't mistreat you. In fact, I'd be running to you: 00:43:07.09\00:43:09.65 "Please forgive me for all those bad things 00:43:09.85\00:43:11.79 I've said about you. 00:43:11.89\00:43:13.02 I want to be right with you before He comes. " 00:43:13.22\00:43:16.71 They say: "My Lord delayeth His coming. " 00:43:17.01\00:43:19.13 What happens after this? 00:43:19.33\00:43:20.70 When they say "my Lord delayeth His coming, they shall begin 00:43:20.90\00:43:23.78 to smite his fellow servants, 00:43:23.88\00:43:25.76 eat and drink with the drunken. " 00:43:25.86\00:43:27.76 Isn't that something? 00:43:27.96\00:43:29.63 After hearing this wonderful message 00:43:29.93\00:43:32.44 after saying: "Lord, I believe. " 00:43:32.74\00:43:35.13 After going in the waters of baptism 00:43:36.15\00:43:38.68 taking on the habiliments of heaven 00:43:38.88\00:43:41.04 becoming identified with the end-time people of God, 00:43:41.24\00:43:46.34 the question comes: "What if that evil servant 00:43:46.54\00:43:51.04 shall say in his heart? " He begins to 00:43:51.25\00:43:54.98 eat and drink with the drunken. 00:43:55.18\00:43:57.02 He smites his fellow servants. 00:43:57.23\00:43:59.77 Jeremiah said that smiting is "with the tongue. " 00:43:59.98\00:44:02.77 With the tongue. And then he says: 00:44:03.08\00:44:05.65 "The Lord of that servant shall come in a day 00:44:05.85\00:44:08.52 when he looketh not for Him 00:44:08.55\00:44:12.12 in an hour when he is not aware of 00:44:12.33\00:44:16.18 and shall cut him asunder and appoint him his portion 00:44:16.48\00:44:20.58 with the hypocrites. 00:44:20.78\00:44:22.53 There shall be weeping and wailing 00:44:22.83\00:44:27.49 and gnashing of teeth. " 00:44:27.79\00:44:31.66 But I don't leave you with a sour lemon in your mouth. 00:44:31.96\00:44:36.64 I leave you here with a happy thought 00:44:37.14\00:44:40.56 because I look to Christ in His Word and what He says 00:44:40.76\00:44:44.21 to me. I look over in the book of Revelation. 00:44:44.41\00:44:47.72 And here are God's end-time children wrestling. 00:44:48.02\00:44:52.20 We are still wrestling, friends. 00:44:52.30\00:44:53.68 We are going to have to wrestle till the end. 00:44:53.78\00:44:55.38 We're His end-time children, 00:44:56.85\00:44:59.46 but we still must go through the blood bath. 00:44:59.66\00:45:03.05 The Daniel situation. 00:45:03.35\00:45:05.81 Time of trouble such as never was since there was a nation 00:45:06.01\00:45:10.00 is going to come. 00:45:10.30\00:45:11.59 But He always leaves us a ray of hope. 00:45:11.79\00:45:14.69 Not just a ray of hope. Sometimes a whole flood 00:45:14.89\00:45:18.13 of ray of hope comes to us to keep us. 00:45:18.23\00:45:20.89 Let us sing a song that will cheer us on our way. 00:45:21.10\00:45:25.58 Amen. "We're almost home! " That's what we must say. 00:45:25.78\00:45:29.09 In a little while we're going home. 00:45:29.39\00:45:32.05 So I go to the 19th chapter of Revelation. I read verse 7 00:45:32.26\00:45:34.91 where it says: "Let us be glad and rejoice 00:45:35.01\00:45:38.77 and give honor to Him 00:45:47.51\00:45:49.70 for the marriage of the Lamb has come. 00:45:50.78\00:45:52.89 His wife has made herself ready. And to her was granted... " 00:45:53.09\00:45:55.89 that is us... you and me - 00:45:56.09\00:45:59.13 "to her was granted that she should be arrayed in fine linen 00:45:59.33\00:46:02.89 clean and white. 00:46:03.09\00:46:04.13 For the fine linen is the righteousness of the saints. " 00:46:04.43\00:46:08.26 Amen! - "And he saith unto me: 'Write, 00:46:08.46\00:46:10.59 blessed are they which are called unto the marriage supper 00:46:10.89\00:46:13.80 of the Lamb. ' And he saith unto me: 00:46:13.90\00:46:16.02 'These are the true sayings of God. ' " Amen! 00:46:16.12\00:46:21.21 That's a message I want to speak because I got it from His Word 00:46:21.51\00:46:25.50 to God's end-time children. 00:46:25.70\00:46:28.62 Yes, we are living between the already and the not yet. 00:46:28.92\00:46:33.29 But we have never let go 00:46:33.49\00:46:37.59 of the Man who can span both already and not yet. 00:46:37.79\00:46:41.81 Amen! He can handle any circumstance. 00:46:42.01\00:46:45.39 He's an on-time God. 00:46:45.69\00:46:48.27 May not come when you want Him but He always is on time. 00:46:48.58\00:46:52.64 Amen. Sometimes you have to say He shows up. 00:46:52.94\00:46:56.61 Things may get dark and discouraging. 00:46:56.81\00:47:01.12 Like my dear old... another old preacher friend of mine 00:47:01.32\00:47:04.90 I can't think of his name now used to preach and say: 00:47:04.93\00:47:07.35 "The outlook may be drear 00:47:07.55\00:47:09.86 but the up look is always clear. " 00:47:10.06\00:47:13.61 Just keep on looking up. 00:47:13.92\00:47:15.54 What do you say out there? Keep on looking up. 00:47:15.74\00:47:17.97 He never has forsaken us yet. 00:47:19.58\00:47:23.19 And don't become down in the mouth 00:47:24.29\00:47:26.89 because you don't have $250,000 and have to pay more tax on it. 00:47:27.19\00:47:32.67 Don't look down. No, no, no. 00:47:32.97\00:47:35.63 "Sufficient unto the day... " 00:47:35.93\00:47:37.06 He has given us more than we need. Amen. 00:47:37.16\00:47:40.31 Bread shall be given you; your water shall be sure. 00:47:40.51\00:47:43.84 May it is a blessing for me to have come 00:47:44.14\00:47:46.47 through the depression... the Great Depression. 00:47:46.57\00:47:50.93 I go in restaurants now... 00:47:51.23\00:47:52.86 On the highway I went in the restaurant this morning - 00:47:53.06\00:47:55.09 Country Garden or somewhere wherever it was. 00:47:55.29\00:47:57.70 I went there and had a little bite, and people were 00:47:57.90\00:48:01.30 streaming in there. Well, I remember the days in the 30's - 00:48:01.40\00:48:04.70 1930's - 00:48:04.90\00:48:08.46 when very few people could go into a restaurant. 00:48:08.66\00:48:11.35 Not down here in the South. 00:48:12.73\00:48:14.25 Is this the South or the North? 00:48:14.45\00:48:15.57 No, this is not the South; I live in the South. 00:48:15.77\00:48:17.61 You would be very incensed at me if I called this the South. 00:48:17.91\00:48:21.79 And the people in the South don't want to hear me say that 00:48:22.19\00:48:25.07 either. But there are a lot of times in the South 00:48:25.17\00:48:27.40 that I couldn't go in the restaurant if I had the money. 00:48:27.61\00:48:29.56 But those who could go couldn't get in 00:48:30.06\00:48:33.05 because they didn't have the money. 00:48:33.25\00:48:34.84 And we learned how to squeeze a nickel. Amen. 00:48:35.14\00:48:40.68 And so today people go: "terrible depression. " 00:48:40.99\00:48:43.17 What do you mean depression? I see you riding in big cars. 00:48:43.37\00:48:46.57 Well, I don't want to get on that. 00:48:46.80\00:48:48.44 I want to stay on my side where Jesus said: 00:48:48.74\00:48:52.52 "I will take care of you. " 00:48:52.72\00:48:54.97 Amen. When the great time of trouble comes 00:48:55.27\00:48:57.68 Michael, the archangel, the Son of the Living God, 00:48:57.88\00:49:01.81 He will stand up. Why does He stand up? 00:49:02.01\00:49:05.76 Because somebody's messing around with His people 00:49:06.06\00:49:09.42 and Michael has been put in charge of the end-time people. 00:49:09.52\00:49:14.14 Amen. They are His people. He must take care of His people! 00:49:14.44\00:49:18.32 As the kids say on the streets these days: 00:49:18.62\00:49:20.80 "I've got your back. " 00:49:20.90\00:49:22.39 Amen. He always has it. 00:49:22.70\00:49:24.43 He always is there and He knows, listen to me, 00:49:24.63\00:49:28.29 He will not allow the devil to go one hair beyond 00:49:28.59\00:49:33.08 what you can bear. Amen! 00:49:33.29\00:49:35.52 And so now I want to wind up. 00:49:36.88\00:49:38.95 I want to give you a little quote from Ellen G. White. 00:49:40.29\00:49:43.34 Sister White. 00:49:43.64\00:49:46.43 Some people are afraid to call Sister White. 00:49:46.73\00:49:50.29 "Oh, that's what Mrs. White... Ellen G. White. " 00:49:50.69\00:49:54.35 That's fine; I do the same thing. 00:49:54.49\00:49:56.00 When I'm in certain crowds I do the same thing. 00:49:56.20\00:49:58.58 But tonight I'm just going to say "Sister White says. " 00:49:58.88\00:50:03.68 Listen to what Sister White says. She says: 00:50:05.05\00:50:07.98 "The shortness of time... " 00:50:08.28\00:50:11.15 Listen to this now. This is for preachers and other sinners. 00:50:11.36\00:50:14.40 "The shortness of time is frequently urged us 00:50:14.70\00:50:18.86 as incentive for seeking righteousness 00:50:19.06\00:50:22.84 and making Christ our friend. " 00:50:22.95\00:50:24.70 We're going to scare the people. 00:50:25.00\00:50:26.68 Going to scare everybody. 00:50:26.99\00:50:28.85 Run to Jesus because it's... It's incentive for us 00:50:29.15\00:50:32.45 to scare you. "This should not be the great motive 00:50:32.65\00:50:37.15 with us. It savors of selfishness. 00:50:37.36\00:50:42.43 Is it necessary that the terrors of God should be held before us 00:50:42.74\00:50:47.96 that we may be compelled to right action through fear? 00:50:48.16\00:50:51.62 It ought not to be so. " 00:50:54.08\00:50:57.66 Don't come trying to scare me 00:50:57.96\00:51:00.43 because already I love Jesus. 00:51:00.73\00:51:03.77 Amen. 00:51:04.08\00:51:05.14 That's what she says here: "Jesus is attractive. 00:51:05.44\00:51:08.20 He's full of love, mercy, and compassion. 00:51:08.50\00:51:11.59 He proposes to be our friend. " 00:51:11.89\00:51:14.69 Isn't that wonderful? Amen! 00:51:16.06\00:51:17.66 I have people that I grew up with 00:51:19.10\00:51:21.25 and they became wealthy and famous. 00:51:21.55\00:51:24.71 Now they don't know me hardly. 00:51:25.01\00:51:27.07 "Oh, did we meet somewhere? " 00:51:27.37\00:51:29.02 But Jesus is my friend. 00:51:29.42\00:51:31.83 He doesn't deny me. He doesn't say "I don't know you. " 00:51:33.15\00:51:35.97 No... not unless He really doesn't know you. 00:51:36.27\00:51:39.37 "To walk with us through all the rough pathways of life. 00:51:39.77\00:51:42.81 He says to us: 'I am the Lord thy God. 00:51:43.01\00:51:44.91 Walk with Me; I'll fill your path with light. ' 00:51:45.11\00:51:47.74 Jesus - the majesty of heaven - proposes to elevate 00:51:47.94\00:51:51.52 to companionship with Him. " 00:51:51.62\00:51:53.89 You know, the British like to say 00:51:54.09\00:51:55.98 "the favor of your companionship. " 00:51:56.18\00:51:59.70 You know, I want to get friendly with you. 00:52:00.00\00:52:03.35 But Jesus says: "I want to be your friend; 00:52:03.65\00:52:06.49 I want to be your companion. " 00:52:06.79\00:52:09.57 "With Him and those who come to Him with their 00:52:09.77\00:52:13.32 burdens, their weaknesses, their cares 00:52:13.42\00:52:14.93 He counts them as children and finally He gives them 00:52:15.13\00:52:18.17 an inheritance of more value than the empires of kings: 00:52:18.27\00:52:22.67 a crown of glory richer than has ever decked the brow 00:52:22.97\00:52:28.52 of the most exalted monarch. " 00:52:28.66\00:52:30.94 Jesus is our friend. 00:52:31.14\00:52:34.71 Amen. So we are His end-time people. 00:52:35.01\00:52:37.23 Amen. He is our friend. 00:52:37.53\00:52:40.78 Sticketh closer than a brother. 00:52:41.08\00:52:44.11 Thinks about us all the time. 00:52:44.42\00:52:47.39 We're always on His mind. 00:52:47.69\00:52:50.18 When He was on the cross we were on His mind. 00:52:50.48\00:52:54.03 When He was in Gethsemane we were on His mind. 00:52:54.43\00:52:57.68 Wherever He was we were on His mind. 00:52:57.78\00:53:01.60 And in the eons of eternity past 00:53:01.90\00:53:06.30 when He saw the magnitude of that rebellion that came with 00:53:06.60\00:53:11.51 the little lump of pride... a lump, 00:53:11.71\00:53:16.26 a malignant lump of pride... He saw 00:53:16.47\00:53:19.64 the terrible sense of danger that brought to the universe 00:53:19.84\00:53:24.75 and He thought way back there 00:53:24.95\00:53:26.89 as the old black preachers of the South used to pray... 00:53:26.92\00:53:29.75 used to preach... Before there was a where or a when 00:53:29.95\00:53:33.05 or a there or a then, He was there thinking about us! 00:53:33.25\00:53:38.25 Amen. Ya'll don't understand what preaching is all about. 00:53:38.55\00:53:41.87 You're supposed to answer the preacher and urge him on. 00:53:42.17\00:53:45.61 Amen. 00:53:45.91\00:53:47.23 That's what He says. 00:53:50.96\00:53:53.14 He saw the emergency. 00:53:53.45\00:53:57.77 He laid the plans. 00:53:58.07\00:54:00.29 He executed them. 00:54:00.59\00:54:02.84 Finished it off on Calvary. 00:54:03.34\00:54:06.14 And He's coming back to take us to inherit 00:54:06.64\00:54:11.17 what He's gone to prepare for us. 00:54:11.47\00:54:14.08 Doesn't that make you happy? 00:54:14.29\00:54:15.83 Amen! Yes it does. 00:54:16.13\00:54:17.85 So now the rest of this week 00:54:17.95\00:54:20.16 I want to talk about... Tomorrow morning: 00:54:20.76\00:54:26.67 Good Man Lost and Bad Man Saved. 00:54:26.87\00:54:31.02 Hmmm? 00:54:32.05\00:54:33.42 Good Man Lost; Bad Man Saved. 00:54:33.72\00:54:35.67 I want to talk at 7 tomorrow evening: 00:54:35.97\00:54:38.92 We Are Identified. 00:54:39.12\00:54:42.66 They gave me... Just now they came and put this badge on me. 00:54:42.96\00:54:48.21 You see that? 00:54:48.31\00:54:49.47 That 3ABN badge. But I'm telling you, when the Lord grabs you 00:54:49.67\00:54:53.60 He puts a badge on you for the kingdom of God. 00:54:53.70\00:54:56.32 And then on Sabbath 00:54:56.63\00:54:59.99 I want to talk about Our Assignment. 00:55:00.29\00:55:03.48 He didn't call us here just to sit down and sing. 00:55:03.78\00:55:06.11 And then finally on Sabbath evening 00:55:08.94\00:55:11.24 I want to talk about Buy That Field. 00:55:11.44\00:55:15.94 Somebody took the property from our family 00:55:16.24\00:55:20.10 and somebody got to go and get it back. 00:55:20.40\00:55:24.53 Buy That Field. Oh Jesus, blessed Redeemer, 00:55:24.83\00:55:29.71 near to the heart of God. Hold us who wait before Thee 00:55:30.01\00:55:34.93 near to the heart of God. 00:55:37.29\00:55:42.18 Give us a song in our heart 00:55:43.93\00:55:45.27 and during these days, this time here together, 00:55:45.31\00:55:49.30 help us dear Lord to feast on Your Word. 00:55:49.44\00:55:52.94 Help us to come close to each other. 00:55:53.14\00:55:56.22 Then they that fear the Lord spake often one to another. 00:55:56.52\00:56:00.00 The Lord heard and He wrote all of that in a book. 00:56:00.21\00:56:03.49 So Father God, be with us tonight 00:56:03.69\00:56:07.31 and throughout our days. 00:56:07.51\00:56:11.97 Forgive our sins 00:56:12.27\00:56:14.86 and keep us to Yourself alone. 00:56:15.16\00:56:18.04 In Jesus' name, Amen. Amen! 00:56:18.34\00:56:23.42 Amen. I see I have a full 22 seconds left. 00:56:23.72\00:56:28.87 God bless you, Brother. 00:56:31.11\00:56:32.58 Amen. Thank you. 00:56:32.88\00:56:36.10 Didn't you appreciate this message tonight? Amen! 00:56:36.41\00:56:38.48 Amen. All right. 00:56:38.78\00:56:40.18 You know, that's what it's all about: Jesus is coming again! 00:56:40.48\00:56:43.32 He's coming soon - Amen - in the clouds of glory. 00:56:43.62\00:56:47.74 That's the whole message of 3ABN. 00:56:48.04\00:56:50.23 And this is a message that is going around the world. 00:56:50.53\00:56:53.94 It's been the message of our people since the 1840's 00:56:54.15\00:56:58.01 and it has continued to grow. 00:56:58.31\00:57:00.44 And as an official group since the 1860's. 00:57:00.65\00:57:04.38 And so we're excited to be a part of that message 00:57:04.68\00:57:09.55 going around the world. 00:57:09.76\00:57:11.89 Jesus is coming again. 00:57:12.09\00:57:16.29 We hear a lot of people talking about it. 00:57:16.50\00:57:18.17 Some people unfortunately setting dates about it 00:57:18.37\00:57:21.34 because that's exactly what Jesus said don't do. 00:57:21.54\00:57:24.39 But He said: "Be ready, for in such an hour 00:57:24.69\00:57:28.58 as you think not I will come back. " 00:57:28.88\00:57:34.52 And I believe that He's coming very, very soon. 00:57:34.92\00:57:39.19 Now those of you at home, be ready to join us again 00:57:39.39\00:57:42.42 in a few minutes for a beautiful music program. 00:57:42.62\00:57:45.72