In today's troubled world
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people are
wondering where we are headed?
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Revelation Today
presents the answers.
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Bible prophecy reveals
what the future holds in store.
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Revelation Today.
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In recent years the
world has changed dramatically.
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With the
technological revolution
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of the last couple of decades
the world has become smaller
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and rather than technology
making us more secure,
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it seems that technology misused
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or technology in the wrong hands
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can make us all very vulnerable.
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Politically things
have changed dramatically.
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We can think of organization
such as the United Nations
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and alliances such as
NATO coming into being
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and in recent years
we've seen a massive shift
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with the rise of terrorism.
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So where are
things going in the world?
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You'll find out tonight
in tonight's presentation,
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"The New World Order."
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Please welcome our presenter
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for Revelation
Today, Ron Halvorsen.
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Let's bow our heads
in the word of prayers
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we seek His
presence and open His word.
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Gracious Father, I
thank you for these pilgrims
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who have come here tonight.
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God, bless them as
they listen to Your word
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and as they open
their hearts to Your--
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to Your wooing and that
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they might be
touched by Your spirit.
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God, whatever said maybe
Your truth from Your word.
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We pray in Christ
name, amen and amen.
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The question I'm sure
you're asking yourself is,
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why study prophecy?
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In what way does it help me
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and my family
get through the fears
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and the hurts and the
sorrows and the busyness
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and the anxiety every day?
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Why study prophecy?
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Because the times demand it.
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I mean Dickens said
"It was the best of times,
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and it was the worst of times."
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I mean it's true, isn't it?
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I mean advances in technology,
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science, medicine, robotics.
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They now have a
robot that can sit
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under the sink in your kitchen
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and you can sit
in the living room
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watching your favorite whatever
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and pushing
buttons that will come out
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sweep the floor,
dust, wash the floor,
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crawl back in the space
and everything looks nice
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when your husband gets home.
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Isn't that nice?
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I mean, that's the
advance-- the advantage
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that's the
advantage of this technology.
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Living conditions have really
increased just in my lifetime.
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I mean, then we talk
about technology and travel,
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I can get on a
plane in Los Angeles
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which have many times fly
over to Australia in 14 hours.
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I can get on a plane in Florida
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and be in California in 6 hours.
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Do you know what it took
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and how long it
took our forefathers
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to cross this
country in covered wagons?
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I mean, this is
in the 20th century
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and now we're
into the 21st century.
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I mean, space
exploration, walk on the moon.
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That's amazing, you
can walk on the moon
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but you can't walk in
some neighborhoods, isn't it?
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I mean, come on
now, come on now.
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I mean,
communications and computers,
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it's the best of times
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but it's also
the worst of times.
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There's no cure
for cancer really.
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I mean, no cure for
AIDS. Millions are perishing.
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I mean, then we had
9/11, we have terrorism
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where we're
afraid to board a plane
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and unless we go
through the security
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and you're wondering if
they're really watching.
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A nine-year-old
got through security,
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got on a plane
flew over to Las Vegas,
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no one knew about it.
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Give me a break here.
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So now when I get on a plane
I watch all nine year olds.
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I mean, the communication--
travel it's amazing to me
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and yet we have
a fragmented world.
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We have people hating each other
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and fighting with each
other in Somalia, in Bosnia,
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in Iran and two wars in Iraq
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and Afghanistan and North Korea.
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I mean...
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we can't get
along with each other.
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Could you imagine if the,
if the words of Jesus Christ
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would be
accepted by all mankind,
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we would live in
peace with each other?
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Wouldn't that be wonderful,
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if we, if we really
applied the Sermon on the Mount
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and every nation would
come together in peace?
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But there is coming a day
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when the Prince
of Peace will come
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and He will set up
a Kingdom of Peace.
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That is our hope tonight, amen.
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Come on Christian, amen.
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But because of all
this anxiety the Bible says
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that men's hearts
failing them for fear
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and heart disease is
still number one killer
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in our country.
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Why study prophecy?
Because it make sense.
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It's full of hope
and accurate in every way
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and it's reliable and as
I go through the prophecies
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with you night after night,
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you're gonna be able
to say this word is true.
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You're going to have evidence
that this word is reliable
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no matter what they
say, this word is reliable.
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Why study prophecy?
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It's through prophecy that
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God lifted the veil
in the Old Testament,
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so believers
could find their way
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through the pain and the loss
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and they would
come to new living.
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Why study prophecy?
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Because through prophecy,
Adam and Eve could find a way
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through their failure
and through their sin.
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I will put enmity
between thee and the woman
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between thy seed and her seed.
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When they had fallen into sin,
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they were cast
out of the garden.
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I was looking at the
Christian magazine the other day
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and I saw a little cartoon,
I thought it was kind of cute.
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Adam was walking
with his two sons
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and they came by Eden
and the gates were closed
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and Adam point and say,
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you see that's
where your mother ate
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and sat a house in home.
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That's where your mother
ate and sat a house in home.
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Some of you get
that by Christmas.
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Why study prophecy?
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Because Moses could
find a way out of bondage
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and he could find
a way out of slavery
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and he could find
a way into full hope
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to a new life and to new hope.
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Why study prophecy?
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Because Abraham
could take a journey
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with God as a
pilgrim and all that detours
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he would come back
to that narrow road
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that led to the kingdom
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and he would go
to his Promised Land.
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That's why we study
prophecy. Why study prophecy?
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Because Isaiah the prophet
could see in a day of crisis
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when his nation was in
crises and his king was dead.
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He could cry out to
the Lord, the Wonderful,
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the Counselor, the mighty God,
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the everlasting
Father, Prince of Peace.
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Why study prophecy?
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Because my Bible tells me,
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"Now abideth
faith, hope, and charity."
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That translate to
many translation is love.
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Now abideth what?
Faith, hope and love.
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But the greatest of all is love.
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You see, hope lies
between faith and love.
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Hope keeps faith from collapsing
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under the burden of
disappointment and delay.
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Hope keeps love from dissolving
under the acids of frustration.
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Hope fortifies our love
and lends its resilience.
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Hope stiffens faith
and forestalls collapse,
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hope fortifies
love and it's possessed
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and we are possessed with hope.
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In every circumstances
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in the New
Testament the story of Jesus,
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the story of our
Blessed Lord Jesus,
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I mean, look at your
Bibles He offers hope.
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There is the woman at the
well, this woman-- listen to me,
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she tried to find love
in all the wrong places.
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She had been
married seven times,
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couldn't find a right person.
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She's alone now,
she's living with another.
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I mean her
friends have forsaken her.
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Her family has forsaken her.
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Listen, everyone thinks
she's a loser until Jesus comes
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and Jesus sees something else.
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He sees a woman in
need of living water
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and He offers
her the living water.
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He offers her life
in the living water
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and she is changed by the--
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by the encounter
with Jesus Christ.
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Hope, I mean,
everywhere you read it
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about hope in the New Testament.
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You remember the woman,
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the woman who had
an issue of blood.
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I mean, she'd gone to
all the doctor she could go.
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She filled prescriptions
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at the drugstore
in the Middle East.
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I'm mean, she had
spend all that she had.
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Do you feel like
that woman sometimes?
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She tries to find
health but she can't.
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And then she hears about Jesus
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and she presses through
the crowd the Bible says.
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She gets close to Jesus.
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She reaches out,
touches the hem of His garment
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and the Bible
says she is healed.
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What God is trying to say
to our generation reach out,
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touch the hem of
God's garment and be healed.
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But there's hope,
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hope for a woman
with an issue of blood.
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Hope for a woman who found
love in all the wrong places.
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Hope for the
destitute and even Jesus comes
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to a mother and a
father with their baby
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dead in her arms and Jesus comes
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and she's heartbroken.
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You can
understand to a little degree
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and only those
who ever lost a child
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can really fully understand.
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And her heart is
broken and she's grieving
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and she don't
know where to turn to,
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she don't know who to turn to.
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And then Jesus comes
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and Jesus touches the
heart of that little baby,
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life quivers back in the heart
and the baby opens her eyes
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and smiles into a
face to her mother.
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Listen, that's hope,
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but you say Ron,
that's ancient time.
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No that's hope for the future
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because the same
God that lived yesterday
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is today and is forever.
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And that's hope.
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That's hope.
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I was a young
pastor and I was working
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in New York City
in Brooklyn, Manhattan
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and I was working
for the street people
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and someone got the weird idea
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that I should
come down to Carolina.
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I guess they got
tired of me in New York
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but they sent me to Carolina
and I had a wonderful year
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that I spent out
in the countryside
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of Carolina and I was visiting.
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I had a name I
was holding little
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meeting in a little
church in South Carolina
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and I had a name of a person,
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I thought I'd go
and visit with her
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and invite her to my meetings.
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And so I went down, I
took a pastor with me,
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drove down knocked on the door,
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a little girl came to
the door and she was crying.
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And big lug, you know, I
mean nothing touches me like
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and I almost started crying.
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And I said honey, what's wrong?
She says baby sister died.
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And now I am crying.
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How do you
explain it to that child?
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By the way I'm
gonna speak on the subject
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good God, bad world.
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Why? Why do bad
things happen to good people?
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You need to hear it.
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You need to understand that
because until you understand
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that you
understand nothing about God.
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But anyway, the little girl said
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my mommy is down at
this-- at the cemetery.
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And so I took the preacher,
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we drove down
little white church
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there in South
Carolina country church.
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I parked the car, I
got out and walked around
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and there was a mother
kneeling down by a new dug grave
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way in the back at
the little cemetery.
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And I prayed as I
walked over to that woman,
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I wanted to say
something to encourage her
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in some way to
bring faith and hope.
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And she'd put a little
white picket fence around
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that little
graven, plastic flowers
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and she was trying to
make something of a grave.
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Listen to me,
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you can't make anything
of a grave, only God can.
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Some kids come through
and scattered the flowers
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and knocked
over the picket fence
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and so I knelt down,
I said, I'm a preacher.
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And so I knelt down beside her
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and I was helping
her fix the picket fence,
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put the flowers in
place and then I said to her.
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I said, you know,
Jesus is coming soon
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and He's gonna place
that baby in your arm again,
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and she said I wish I
could believe that, pastor.
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I assure you can because you see
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He says that in the
book and He's proof,
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He is the
resurrection in the life.
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I said look I'm
holding a series of meetings
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every Friday, Saturday,
Sunday, Monday, Tuesday night,
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I wish you could come.
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She's said, well, I work nights
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but she said I get off an
hour for a break I'll come.
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Hey, by the way if you really
want to come you will come.
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And she made it.
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She walked in
when we were closing.
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Let me tell you that sermon
took on a new meaning now.
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And I finished and she went home
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and the next
night, the next night
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she kept coming back
in and finally one night
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she gave her life to Christ.
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She found the
great joy of experience
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with Jesus at that moment,
00:14:04.96\00:14:09.13
touched her life from
death into life again.
00:14:09.16\00:14:13.77
And when the meeting
is finished she stayed by.
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She was the last
to leave the church
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and she came up and
she said Pastor Ron,
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and I gave her a holy hug
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and she gave me a holy
hug and I said what, hon.
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She said, Pastor
Ron, when I get to heaven,
00:14:25.03\00:14:30.56
I want to
introduce you to my baby.
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I said you look
for the tall ugly guy
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on the right hand of
the throne of God that's me,
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you bring her, I want
to meet that baby again.
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That's hope... from despair.
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Why study prophecy?
00:14:45.31\00:14:46.78
It brings you from
despair, from loneliness,
00:14:46.81\00:14:50.63
it brings you, I
mean, it give you hope.
00:14:50.66\00:14:54.74
It brings you amazing hope.
00:14:54.77\00:14:58.66
And that brings us the
Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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Why do we need to study
00:15:04.03\00:15:06.30
the prophecies
about world empires?
00:15:06.33\00:15:09.61
Because if God is
true about world dominion,
00:15:09.64\00:15:12.59
if God is true
about the nations,
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He is true about your life.
00:15:14.62\00:15:18.21
And the Bible
says in Revelation,
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John is writing not my words.
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"And I saw a new
heaven and a new earth,
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for the first
heaven and the first earth
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were passed away, and
there was no more sea."
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And he goes on to say,
00:15:32.71\00:15:34.56
"And I John saw the
holy city, for New Jerusalem,
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coming down from
God out of heaven,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband."
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What a description.
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I've never seen an ugly bride.
00:15:44.49\00:15:46.97
I've seen a few
grooms that needed help
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but never an ugly bride.
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And he says this beautiful bride
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Jerusalem coming down
from God out of heaven.
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Wow! What a description.
00:16:02.74\00:16:04.22
And then he goes on to say,
00:16:04.25\00:16:05.66
"And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying,"
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and when he uses that
term in Revelation on prophecy
00:16:07.77\00:16:10.67
that means whom he is
getting your attention,
00:16:10.70\00:16:12.89
saying "Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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he will dwell with them,
and they shall be his people,
00:16:17.01\00:16:19.83
and God himself
should be with them,
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and be their God."
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And then the most beautiful
verse in all of scripture.
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"And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes,
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there shall be no more death,
neither sorry, nor crying,
00:16:31.55\00:16:35.71
neither shall
there be any more pain
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for the former
things passed away."
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A cartoon in a Moscow
newspaper shows this story,
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a Soviet Union citizen
was received permission
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that he could leave the country
00:16:51.82\00:16:53.13
and immigrate
to another country.
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And so he went down
to the travel agent,
00:16:56.74\00:16:58.74
and he asked the travel agent,
he said, I have my papers,
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I can go and
immigrate to any country.
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Will you please tell
me where I should go?
00:17:04.57\00:17:06.29
And he said well, what it
if you go to United States?
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Oh, no I don't want to go there.
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He says, too much
financial problems there,
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I don't want to go.
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He said what about Israel?
00:17:14.52\00:17:15.55
He says, oh, no there's
too much Arabs in Israel.
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He said, no, no, I
don't want to go there.
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And he kept
naming countries and no,
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I can't go to South America,
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I mean, there's a
lot of violence in.
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Finally, the
man gave him a globe
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and said look at the
globe and then decide
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where you want to go.
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So the man went
out looked at the globe
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and for a long
time and came back in
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handed the travel
agent the globe and said,
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do you have another globe?
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Do you have another world?
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I mean, come on, do
we have another globe?
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Is there any place in
this world that's safe?
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I mean, free from
violence, free from crime,
00:17:57.63\00:17:59.77
free from political tension.
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I mean a new world,
perhaps we need a new world,
00:18:01.32\00:18:03.96
we need a new world order.
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Why is there so much talk
about the new world order?
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I mean, you read so
much about it today.
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I mean we talk
about the new world order
00:18:09.85\00:18:11.58
one-world
government you heard about it.
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I mean one world religion.
It's not so farfetched.
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I just finished reading
an article in New America
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and it mentioned
Mikhail Gorbachev
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he writes "My hope
is that this charter
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would be a kind
of Ten Commandments,
00:18:25.35\00:18:27.65
a 'Sermon on the Mount.'"
00:18:27.68\00:18:28.81
Can you imagine the
arrogance of such a person?
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"That provides a
guide for human behavior
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toward the environment in
the next century and beyond."
00:18:35.32\00:18:38.87
Now this venerated
earth charter as it's called
00:18:38.90\00:18:41.84
is housed and
supported and transported
00:18:41.87\00:18:44.58
in the ark of the hope.
00:18:44.61\00:18:47.43
And it's almost
like Ark of the Covenant.
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Come on now, I mean...
00:18:49.72\00:18:53.35
Are you surprised that they are
trying to destroy our freedom,
00:18:53.38\00:18:57.10
to pray in educational
system today in America?
00:18:57.13\00:19:00.95
Are you surprised you
can't have the Ten Commandments
00:19:00.98\00:19:02.83
showing in our government
buildings now in America?
00:19:02.86\00:19:06.96
Are you surprised that
our children can't even say
00:19:06.99\00:19:10.19
a silent prayer in America?
00:19:10.22\00:19:13.61
Read the other day
where a teacher was fired
00:19:13.64\00:19:16.26
because she had a cross
hanging around her neck,
00:19:16.29\00:19:19.45
just a symbol of
her faith in Christ.
00:19:19.48\00:19:23.59
I mean everywhere
we turn they talk about
00:19:23.62\00:19:25.95
a new golden age,
a new world order.
00:19:25.98\00:19:27.74
"Astrologers have
foreseen that the world
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is about to enter a 'Golden Age,
00:19:29.62\00:19:31.16
a New Age, an Age of Aquarius.'"
00:19:31.19\00:19:33.48
We've taken the
Bible out of school,
00:19:33.51\00:19:35.14
the creation
story out of school.
00:19:35.17\00:19:37.14
We have taken
the Ten Commandments,
00:19:37.17\00:19:38.47
you wonder why there's such
violence in the world today.
00:19:38.50\00:19:41.20
I mean, listen to me,
there is a move around the world
00:19:41.23\00:19:43.58
toward a new world
order and that world order
00:19:43.61\00:19:45.86
doesn't want anything
to do with Christianity.
00:19:45.89\00:19:50.57
One place they said this
is the end to the empire.
00:19:50.60\00:19:53.47
It remind me of another
decade just few years ago,
00:19:53.50\00:19:56.50
you remember when young
adults were singing this I mean,
00:19:56.53\00:19:58.95
the sung a new world order song,
00:19:58.98\00:20:00.84
they chanted it,
pot-smoking parents
00:20:00.87\00:20:03.67
and poets spoke
and a new world order,
00:20:03.70\00:20:06.37
to some it was
the impossible dream,
00:20:06.40\00:20:08.24
to others it was
a hope of mankind.
00:20:08.27\00:20:10.00
A new world order
peace and harmony.
00:20:10.03\00:20:12.19
Even John Lennon sung about it.
00:20:12.22\00:20:15.75
He wrote a song called "Imagine"
00:20:15.78\00:20:17.97
thousand misty eyed teenagers
00:20:18.00\00:20:20.05
and young people are
waving singing the song.
00:20:20.08\00:20:22.84
Listen Lennon
said, imagine a time
00:20:22.87\00:20:26.60
when there be no more religion,
00:20:26.63\00:20:29.10
no more heaven, no more
hell, no more possessions,
00:20:29.13\00:20:34.21
everyone living
for today the moment,
00:20:34.24\00:20:36.81
the now, a world one as one.
00:20:36.84\00:20:40.24
Hedonism
without religious faith,
00:20:40.27\00:20:43.20
without national pride,
00:20:43.23\00:20:44.98
sovereignty without
anything to believe in,
00:20:45.01\00:20:47.77
without anything to fight
for, without private property
00:20:47.80\00:20:51.29
but with one world government
and communal property.
00:20:51.32\00:20:54.34
That's what he sung.
It's ironic isn't it.
00:20:54.37\00:20:59.09
When he died he left
his widow $250 million.
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Politicians had the same dream
about this new world order.
00:21:05.55\00:21:09.58
Colonel Edward Mandell
House, Rockefeller, Carter,
00:21:09.61\00:21:12.62
James Baker, George H.W.
Bush, Hitler, the Illuminati.
00:21:12.65\00:21:16.76
The "Pope calls
for a new world order."
00:21:16.79\00:21:19.02
A new world
encyclical, the new world order.
00:21:19.05\00:21:23.07
Everywhere this new
world, this new world order.
00:21:23.10\00:21:28.53
Notice, even on your
dollar bill let me see,
00:21:28.56\00:21:31.65
I may have a dollar.
00:21:31.68\00:21:34.29
Hey, I have one.
00:21:34.32\00:21:38.87
Look at you dollar bill.
00:21:38.90\00:21:41.06
It says this,
"Novus Ordo Seclorum"
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Latin the new world order.
00:21:46.10\00:21:49.58
Hitler longed for
a new world order.
00:21:49.61\00:21:51.14
Stalin wanted a new world order.
00:21:51.17\00:21:53.29
Lenin wanted a new world order.
00:21:53.32\00:21:55.29
It meant the death
of 20 million people.
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Is there ever gonna
be a new world order?
00:21:57.77\00:21:59.74
Will there be
one world currency?
00:21:59.77\00:22:02.01
Will there be
one world religion?
00:22:02.04\00:22:03.74
Will there be listen,
will it affect your freedoms
00:22:03.77\00:22:07.15
and how will it
affect your security?
00:22:07.18\00:22:09.02
How it will affect
your family for the future?
00:22:09.05\00:22:11.45
I have good news and bad news.
00:22:11.48\00:22:13.29
You heard about the
farmer who came to his banker
00:22:13.32\00:22:15.09
and said I've
good news and bad news.
00:22:15.12\00:22:17.14
The farmer said, he
said what do you want first?
00:22:17.17\00:22:19.71
And the banker
said the bad news.
00:22:19.74\00:22:21.10
And he says, well...
00:22:21.13\00:22:23.08
because of the drought
I can't pay for the seed.
00:22:23.11\00:22:26.38
Because of the
drought I can't pay
00:22:26.41\00:22:28.12
my payment on my tractor.
00:22:28.15\00:22:30.37
And finally the banker
said what's the good news?
00:22:30.40\00:22:32.15
He says, well, I'm gonna
continue to bank with you.
00:22:32.18\00:22:36.74
And that's the good
news. That's the good news.
00:22:36.77\00:22:41.77
No friend, no friend,
00:22:41.80\00:22:43.97
the good news is
biblical prophecy.
00:22:44.00\00:22:46.14
The good news is the
rise and fall of nations.
00:22:46.17\00:22:48.70
The good news is that
Jesus Christ is coming.
00:22:48.73\00:22:51.61
The good news is
from Babylon to Babylon.
00:22:51.64\00:22:55.56
Prophecy stands as a bulwark
against wood world dictators.
00:22:55.59\00:22:59.39
Prophecy stands against would--
00:22:59.42\00:23:01.41
world empire under dictatorship.
00:23:01.44\00:23:03.93
The sovereign will of
Almighty God will be played out.
00:23:03.96\00:23:06.51
You can't play
God and expect to win.
00:23:06.54\00:23:12.69
In a 150 word prophecy,
00:23:12.72\00:23:14.23
God shows us the rise
and fall of the nations.
00:23:14.26\00:23:16.81
It's a key to
understanding prophecy.
00:23:16.84\00:23:18.49
I want you to
look at it with me.
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Nebuchadnezzar,
the year 605-539 B.C.
00:23:20.41\00:23:23.36
You say, Ron, what
is that old prophecy
00:23:23.39\00:23:25.23
had to do with us
in the 21st century.
00:23:25.26\00:23:27.09
Well, listen, first of all
00:23:27.12\00:23:29.27
Nebuchadnezzar
destroyed Jerusalem.
00:23:29.30\00:23:34.22
He brought the people
of God into captivity.
00:23:34.25\00:23:37.29
I mean he was a
king above kings.
00:23:37.32\00:23:42.04
Now the Bible tells us
about this that prophecy
00:23:42.07\00:23:45.13
is "Surely the Lord
God will do nothing,
00:23:45.16\00:23:46.92
but revealeth his secrets
00:23:46.95\00:23:48.04
unto his servants the prophets."
00:23:48.07\00:23:49.69
So prophecy comes through
the Holy Spirit to the prophet
00:23:49.72\00:23:53.60
and then to the people
through the Word of God.
00:23:53.63\00:23:55.68
And he says that he
revealeth his secrets.
00:23:55.71\00:24:00.10
And Isaiah tells us these words.
00:24:00.13\00:24:01.87
"Remember the
former things of old,
00:24:01.90\00:24:03.58
I am God, and there is no other,
00:24:03.61\00:24:05.21
I am God, and
there is none like Me,
00:24:05.24\00:24:07.08
declaring the
end from the" what?
00:24:07.11\00:24:09.18
"From the beginning, and
from ancient times things
00:24:09.21\00:24:11.73
that are not yet done,
Saying 'My counsel shall stand,
00:24:11.76\00:24:14.66
and I will do all My pleasure.'"
00:24:14.69\00:24:16.89
That's the Word of God.
00:24:16.92\00:24:18.63
In Daniel 2:1
"And in the second year
00:24:18.66\00:24:22.30
the reign of Nebuchadnezzar
Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams,
00:24:22.33\00:24:25.91
wherewith his
spirit was troubled,
00:24:25.94\00:24:27.45
and his sleep break from him."
00:24:27.48\00:24:29.52
Now have you ever
had a dream at night,
00:24:29.55\00:24:30.95
you woke up in the morning
and it bugged you all day.
00:24:30.98\00:24:33.91
Come on, but you see in that day
00:24:33.94\00:24:36.53
dreams were important.
00:24:36.56\00:24:39.39
You see dreams
fashioned their decisions
00:24:39.42\00:24:41.83
for their political status.
00:24:41.86\00:24:44.50
And so now he has a
dream, he can't think about it,
00:24:44.53\00:24:46.81
it bugs him all
day so what does he do?
00:24:46.84\00:24:48.65
He does what most people do.
00:24:48.68\00:24:50.16
I mean he
called the soothsayers,
00:24:50.19\00:24:51.73
the astrologers
and the channelers.
00:24:51.76\00:24:54.76
And he says, tell me
my dream and interpret it.
00:24:54.79\00:24:59.44
Wow, I mean, now that
the idea had taken back.
00:24:59.47\00:25:03.40
I mean, no, no,
you tell us the dream
00:25:03.43\00:25:05.26
and we will interpret it.
00:25:05.29\00:25:07.05
Hey, listen, you
could tell me your dream,
00:25:07.08\00:25:08.66
I could give you a
deli of interpretation.
00:25:08.69\00:25:12.35
But you asked me to
tell you what you dreamt
00:25:12.38\00:25:14.53
and then interpret
it, phew, I'm in trouble.
00:25:14.56\00:25:17.99
Well, these
soothsayers and these channelers
00:25:18.02\00:25:22.14
and these
astrologers and new age's
00:25:22.17\00:25:25.57
men has not really
changed, we want to know
00:25:25.60\00:25:28.55
and often turn to the
wrong source for our knowledge.
00:25:28.58\00:25:32.76
Turn to the Word of
God that's where it is.
00:25:32.79\00:25:35.20
In Daniel the
second chapter he says
00:25:35.23\00:25:36.99
"They speak to the Chaldeans
00:25:37.02\00:25:38.10
so the king in
Syriack, O king, live forever."
00:25:38.13\00:25:40.42
Now they're
giving him a snow job.
00:25:40.45\00:25:41.93
Come on, thou art the great king
00:25:41.96\00:25:45.48
and he says this.
00:25:45.51\00:25:46.65
"And we will shew
the interpretation."
00:25:46.68\00:25:48.97
That doesn't work.
00:25:49.00\00:25:50.58
"But if you will not
make known unto me the dream,
00:25:50.61\00:25:52.94
there is but one decree for you,
00:25:52.97\00:25:54.60
for ye have prepared lying
00:25:54.63\00:25:56.15
and corrupt words
to speak before me,
00:25:56.18\00:25:57.85
till the time be changed,
therefore tell me the dream,
00:25:57.88\00:26:01.82
and I shall know that ye
can shew me the interpretation."
00:26:01.85\00:26:04.57
They couldn't
do it so right away
00:26:04.60\00:26:06.64
he sends out a death decree.
00:26:06.67\00:26:08.73
But you say what does
this have to do with us?
00:26:08.76\00:26:11.10
Come on, what this
have to do with us?
00:26:11.13\00:26:12.71
Well, follow me.
00:26:12.74\00:26:14.70
And so this death decree
00:26:14.73\00:26:17.44
and they call in
the prophet Daniel.
00:26:17.47\00:26:20.50
And listen, "For this king
was angry and very furious,
00:26:20.53\00:26:24.09
and commanded to destroy
all the wise men of Babylon."
00:26:24.12\00:26:26.69
Now they call in Daniel.
00:26:26.72\00:26:29.21
You see, listen to me, friend.
00:26:29.24\00:26:31.77
You see, there is the antichrist
00:26:31.80\00:26:33.89
and there is
the ones falsifying,
00:26:33.92\00:26:36.49
lying and trying
to get away with it.
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But not Daniel the prophet.
00:26:40.99\00:26:43.93
No, he knows for
he says in verse 13,
00:26:43.96\00:26:48.43
"And the degree when out forth
with wise men should be slain,
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and they sought Daniel
and his fellows to be slain."
00:26:50.99\00:26:52.91
There is the story.
00:26:52.94\00:26:54.78
Daniel the prophet,
he prays to his God.
00:26:54.81\00:26:57.13
Listen to me, pray, pray
and after that pray again.
00:26:57.16\00:27:03.59
I wrote a book
called "Prayer Warriors."
00:27:03.62\00:27:06.80
It teach you about
intercessory praying
00:27:06.83\00:27:09.53
and prayer has been
a big part of my life.
00:27:09.56\00:27:13.61
Have been a big
part of my ministry,
00:27:13.64\00:27:16.38
in my churches, prayer,
00:27:16.41\00:27:17.93
prayer meeting was almost
important meeting of the week.
00:27:17.96\00:27:20.44
And so now
Daniel sees the vision.
00:27:20.47\00:27:22.27
Let's look at it.
00:27:22.30\00:27:23.33
"Then the secret revealed
to Daniel in a night vision.
00:27:23.36\00:27:26.10
And Then Daniel
blessed the God of heaven."
00:27:26.13\00:27:27.84
Listen, he
blessed the God of heaven.
00:27:27.87\00:27:29.81
"And there is a God in
heaven that revealeth secrets,
00:27:29.84\00:27:31.80
and maketh known
to King Nebuchadnezzar
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what shall be in the" what?
00:27:33.76\00:27:35.33
"Latter day."
00:27:35.36\00:27:36.53
This prophecy has to
do with the last days
00:27:36.56\00:27:38.72
not the days of Babylon.
00:27:38.75\00:27:40.68
And Thou, O king, sawest,
and behold a great image.
00:27:40.71\00:27:43.53
And this great image,
whose brightness was excellent,
00:27:43.56\00:27:46.39
stood before thee, and the form
00:27:46.42\00:27:47.61
thereof was
terrible," the Bible says.
00:27:47.64\00:27:49.70
And he goes on.
00:27:49.73\00:27:50.98
And those you ever
study the Bible Old Testament
00:27:51.01\00:27:53.22
you know it was a great image.
00:27:53.25\00:27:54.81
And so he had that dream.
00:27:54.84\00:27:55.87
He saw and he described--
00:27:55.90\00:27:56.97
and the king
says, wow, that's it.
00:27:57.00\00:28:00.37
I mean, that's the dream.
00:28:00.40\00:28:02.67
And what is that have to
do with us, listen carefully.
00:28:02.70\00:28:05.39
Notice that golden empire.
00:28:05.42\00:28:06.60
"This image's
head was of find gold,
00:28:06.63\00:28:07.80
the breast and arms of silver,"
00:28:07.83\00:28:09.07
follow me "and his
belly and thighs of brass,
00:28:09.10\00:28:11.38
his legs of iron, his feet
part of iron and part of clay."
00:28:11.41\00:28:14.12
Here's a description.
00:28:14.15\00:28:15.22
He says there are four sections,
00:28:15.25\00:28:16.77
there is a head of
gold, arms, breast of silver,
00:28:16.80\00:28:21.34
thighs of brass, legs of iron
00:28:21.37\00:28:23.30
and then feet part of
iron and part of clay.
00:28:23.33\00:28:27.98
What is that have to do with us?
00:28:28.01\00:28:29.60
Well, it does in the sense
00:28:29.63\00:28:31.44
that it's the rise
and fall of kingdoms.
00:28:31.47\00:28:33.71
Listen, "Thou
sawest till that a stone
00:28:33.74\00:28:35.57
was cut out without hands,
00:28:35.60\00:28:37.26
and smote the image
upon the feet that were iron,
00:28:37.29\00:28:39.73
clay and break them in pieces.
00:28:39.76\00:28:42.26
Then was the iron, and the clay,
00:28:42.29\00:28:43.99
brass and silver, gold
broken to pieces together
00:28:44.02\00:28:46.69
became like the chaff of
the summer threshing floor,"
00:28:46.72\00:28:50.16
and what happened?
00:28:50.19\00:28:51.22
"The wind carried them away.
00:28:51.25\00:28:52.55
No place was found for them,
00:28:52.58\00:28:54.46
and the stone
that smote the image
00:28:54.49\00:28:55.88
became a great mountain,
and filled the whole earth."
00:28:55.91\00:28:58.62
What is that has to do
about the new world order?
00:28:58.65\00:29:00.99
Follow me.
00:29:01.02\00:29:02.41
"This dream, and we
tell the interpretation
00:29:02.44\00:29:05.20
thereof to the king."
00:29:05.23\00:29:07.01
And he comes before the king
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.76
and there he
has the golden head,
00:29:08.79\00:29:11.12
the arms of silver,
the thighs of brass,
00:29:11.15\00:29:14.15
the legs of iron
and the feet and toes
00:29:14.18\00:29:16.74
part of iron and part of clay.
00:29:16.77\00:29:19.07
Here is one of the
most magnificent prophecies
00:29:19.10\00:29:21.11
ever made in the Old Testament.
00:29:21.14\00:29:23.58
God is going to show you
what history will take place
00:29:23.61\00:29:26.92
from the time of Nebuchadnezzar
00:29:26.95\00:29:29.52
to the final day, he
history of the world.
00:29:29.55\00:29:33.32
Follow me and
see if it's not true.
00:29:33.35\00:29:36.02
Follow me.
00:29:36.05\00:29:37.08
The storm comes, the rock come,
00:29:37.11\00:29:40.44
and that rock is none
other than the Lord Jesus Christ
00:29:40.47\00:29:42.94
who is called the rock
and He is the rock of ages.
00:29:42.97\00:29:47.84
Now the first golden head.
00:29:47.87\00:29:49.80
"Thou, O king, a king of kings,
00:29:49.83\00:29:51.04
the God of heaven
has given thee a kingdom,
00:29:51.07\00:29:52.61
strength, glory.
00:29:52.64\00:29:53.73
And whatsoever the
children men dwell,"
00:29:53.76\00:29:56.16
he says this, "the
beasts of the field
00:29:56.19\00:29:58.15
and the fowls of the heaven
00:29:58.18\00:29:59.30
he is given into thine hand,
00:29:59.33\00:30:00.56
hath made thee
ruler over the all.
00:30:00.59\00:30:02.20
Thou art this head of gold."
00:30:02.23\00:30:03.39
That's Babylon, mighty Babylon.
00:30:03.42\00:30:07.37
This was not just some
chug water town in the desert,
00:30:07.40\00:30:11.33
this was an empire.
00:30:11.36\00:30:13.24
This was the greatest kingdom
00:30:13.27\00:30:15.10
or the greatest
nation of all time.
00:30:15.13\00:30:17.36
At that time Babylon,
00:30:17.39\00:30:19.10
mighty Babylon with
its beautiful gardens,
00:30:19.13\00:30:21.84
one of the seven
wonders of the world,
00:30:21.87\00:30:23.50
it had golden streets Babylon,
having the lion gates Babylon,
00:30:23.53\00:30:27.77
I mean, Babylon was a strong
nation against all nations.
00:30:27.80\00:30:31.26
And King Nebuchadnezzar
felt pretty comfortable.
00:30:31.29\00:30:35.69
Babylon would last
forever he thought.
00:30:35.72\00:30:38.05
Then came Belshazzar
followed Nebuchadnezzar.
00:30:38.08\00:30:41.07
And there on that one night
00:30:41.10\00:30:42.25
remember the
night of Belshazzar,
00:30:42.28\00:30:44.06
he's partying, he's
drinking, he's having a ball,
00:30:44.09\00:30:47.57
everybody's there
and they're all happy
00:30:47.60\00:30:50.18
and God comes
with a judgment on him
00:30:50.21\00:30:52.41
and writes upon the wall
the graffiti of God and He says
00:30:52.44\00:30:55.84
"you're weighed in the
balance, you're found wanting."
00:30:55.87\00:30:58.42
Boom, the kingdom
will give it to another.
00:30:58.45\00:31:01.59
And not only that I
wish I had time tonight.
00:31:01.62\00:31:06.22
If I had time
tonight I could show you
00:31:06.25\00:31:08.49
that God prophesied
how Babylon would fall.
00:31:08.52\00:31:11.54
Not only that
the Bible prophesied
00:31:11.57\00:31:15.80
who the king would be that
would defeat Babylon 400 years
00:31:15.83\00:31:20.09
before he exist
Cyrus, he name him.
00:31:20.12\00:31:23.97
And Babylon fell,
00:31:24.00\00:31:25.03
the two-leaved
gates were left open
00:31:25.06\00:31:26.87
and the armies of
Meads and Persians
00:31:26.90\00:31:29.05
came and the Bible says
00:31:29.08\00:31:30.17
"And after thee shall
arise an inferior kingdom."
00:31:30.20\00:31:33.03
And that was
represented by the two arms
00:31:33.06\00:31:34.91
by the way Medo and
Persia came together in alliance
00:31:34.94\00:31:39.12
and later on Persia
became more powerful.
00:31:39.15\00:31:41.11
I wish I had time, I
could show you another prophecy
00:31:41.14\00:31:43.48
that shows you how
Persia would become
00:31:43.51\00:31:45.17
more powerful than
Meads and it would rule.
00:31:45.20\00:31:47.75
And it ruled the
second kingdom ruled
00:31:47.78\00:31:50.02
and it seemed like
it would last forever.
00:31:50.05\00:31:51.89
That's Persia, the
mighty kingdom of Persia.
00:31:51.92\00:31:54.39
But God said no.
00:31:54.42\00:31:55.75
He said after Cyrus,
00:31:55.78\00:31:57.43
He said who
subdued nations before him,
00:31:57.46\00:32:00.03
who traveled under the
gates took over the city.
00:32:00.06\00:32:03.08
He says this kingdom,
this Medo-Persia Kingdom
00:32:03.11\00:32:07.37
a third king shall come
00:32:07.40\00:32:08.90
and that kingdom
would rule over the earth.
00:32:08.93\00:32:11.02
And that third
kingdom by the way
00:32:11.05\00:32:12.80
was the brazen kingdom.
00:32:12.83\00:32:15.36
It was Greece.
00:32:15.39\00:32:17.31
The third kingdom
was Greece, brass.
00:32:17.34\00:32:19.76
Its wonderful
symbol because you see
00:32:19.79\00:32:21.30
the Greek armies
they had brass helmets,
00:32:21.33\00:32:24.15
they had brass
spears, they had brass swords.
00:32:24.18\00:32:27.55
It was the brazen kingdom
00:32:27.58\00:32:29.10
and they thought
Greece would last forever,
00:32:29.13\00:32:30.96
the philosophical
Greece, the mighty Greece.
00:32:30.99\00:32:36.01
But Greek fell
subdued because God said,
00:32:36.04\00:32:38.71
after thee shall
come another kingdom
00:32:38.74\00:32:40.69
not the first kingdom
it wouldn't last forever,
00:32:40.72\00:32:42.92
not that one world water,
00:32:42.95\00:32:44.57
then there came
another, not that new world.
00:32:44.60\00:32:46.46
God sets up kings
and takes them down.
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.34
Got puts men on the
throne and he takes them down.
00:32:49.37\00:32:52.52
You can't get bigger than God.
00:32:52.55\00:32:57.16
You can't get bigger than God.
00:32:57.19\00:32:59.68
And the third kingdom,
00:33:02.43\00:33:03.98
but God said there
would come another kingdom.
00:33:04.01\00:33:06.45
By the way, this is Alexander.
00:33:06.48\00:33:09.01
By the way he was
the general, remember.
00:33:09.04\00:33:11.42
He led the Greeks to victory.
00:33:11.45\00:33:13.53
But it was Alexander who
died and the Bible tells us
00:33:13.56\00:33:17.17
where it says, that
there wouldn't be in one ruler
00:33:17.20\00:33:19.69
to rule Greece after Alexander.
00:33:19.72\00:33:22.25
But four rulers and it was
the four generals of Alexander.
00:33:22.28\00:33:24.75
Amen.
00:33:24.78\00:33:25.81
That's he told
exactly what would happen
00:33:25.84\00:33:28.06
and that happened in a
Grecian-- in the Empire.
00:33:28.09\00:33:31.36
Listen, "And the fourth
kingdom shall be strong as iron,
00:33:31.39\00:33:33.96
forasmuch as iron breaketh
in pieces subdueth all things,
00:33:33.99\00:33:37.31
and as iron that
breaketh all these,
00:33:37.34\00:33:38.66
shall it break in
pieces and it shall bruise."
00:33:38.69\00:33:41.65
It shall bruise.
00:33:41.68\00:33:42.73
Legs of iron, that was Rome.
00:33:42.76\00:33:45.23
I mean, the iron monarchy,
00:33:45.26\00:33:46.56
in fact the historians have
called it the iron monarchy.
00:33:46.59\00:33:49.66
"The images of gold,
and silver, and brass,
00:33:49.69\00:33:51.65
might serve to represent
the nations and their kings,
00:33:51.68\00:33:54.74
successfully broken
by the iron monarchy,
00:33:54.77\00:33:57.71
the iron monarchy of Rome."
00:33:57.74\00:34:00.26
And this is exactly what
happened there in history
00:34:00.29\00:34:03.82
and it was the iron monarchy,
00:34:03.85\00:34:05.87
it was the iron
Rome that was there
00:34:05.90\00:34:07.56
when Christ was born.
00:34:07.59\00:34:08.96
It was the decree that
sent the mother back to Egypt
00:34:08.99\00:34:11.73
and then back to her home city.
00:34:11.76\00:34:13.84
It was there that it was there
00:34:13.87\00:34:15.46
the iron monarchy of
Rome crucified Christ.
00:34:15.49\00:34:19.19
It was there the Roman
seal was placed on His grave.
00:34:19.22\00:34:22.19
This was the
fourth universal kingdom
00:34:22.22\00:34:24.47
known for that Rome
would ever be defeated,
00:34:24.50\00:34:27.59
Rome would never fail,
00:34:27.62\00:34:29.11
this would be the
world empire forever.
00:34:29.14\00:34:33.40
God is not through,
He is not through friend,
00:34:33.43\00:34:39.21
not at all, for Jesus
Christ will be the next ruler
00:34:39.24\00:34:44.37
and I'm going to show you that
from the Word of God right now.
00:34:44.40\00:34:48.06
"And whereas thou
sawest the feet and toes,
00:34:48.09\00:34:49.87
part of potters'
clay, and part of iron,
00:34:49.90\00:34:51.68
the kingdom shall be divided."
00:34:51.71\00:34:53.25
Wow, that's amazing.
00:34:53.28\00:34:54.94
There's not gonna
be another kingdom,
00:34:54.97\00:34:56.30
He said that,
it would be divided
00:34:56.33\00:34:58.30
and that's
exactly what happened.
00:34:58.33\00:34:59.89
"And there shall be in
it the strength of iron
00:34:59.92\00:35:01.82
forasmuch as thou sawest
iron mixed with miry clay."
00:35:01.85\00:35:05.16
And this is what happened.
00:35:05.19\00:35:06.52
You see Rome was divided
00:35:06.55\00:35:08.25
and there came forth
the Anglo-Saxon and Franks
00:35:08.28\00:35:11.03
and the Alamanni
and the Burgundis
00:35:11.06\00:35:13.51
and the Heruli and the
Lombards and the Ostrogoths
00:35:13.54\00:35:16.61
and the Visigoths and the Suevi.
00:35:16.64\00:35:18.72
Ten kingdoms
representing the toes of Rome
00:35:18.75\00:35:21.71
were divided and
became divided Europe.
00:35:21.74\00:35:25.34
Amazing prophecy come on, now,
00:35:25.37\00:35:28.59
thousands of years
before God tells us
00:35:28.62\00:35:32.16
through the Prophet Daniel
00:35:32.19\00:35:33.74
that Rome the mighty
iron kingdom would crumble
00:35:33.77\00:35:36.97
and it would be divided
into the ten toes of history
00:35:37.00\00:35:40.27
and it's divided today.
00:35:40.30\00:35:42.34
I wish I had time tonight,
00:35:42.37\00:35:43.53
I'm gonna do it one night
00:35:43.56\00:35:44.94
where a little horn will come up
00:35:44.97\00:35:46.34
and pluck up
three of those kingdoms
00:35:46.37\00:35:48.44
and what we see
today in the common market,
00:35:48.47\00:35:50.30
what we see today in Europe
00:35:50.33\00:35:51.69
is of the visions
of the Roman Empire.
00:35:51.72\00:35:55.79
Tell me prophecy isn't reliable.
00:35:55.82\00:36:00.34
"Whereas thou sawest
iron mixed with miry clay,
00:36:00.37\00:36:02.48
they shall mingle
themselves with the seed of men,
00:36:02.51\00:36:04.29
they shall not
cleave one to another,
00:36:04.32\00:36:06.28
even as iron is
not mixed with clay."
00:36:06.31\00:36:08.25
Hey they tried to unite
the kingdom by the seed of men.
00:36:08.28\00:36:12.00
You remember your history,
00:36:12.03\00:36:14.13
the princess of one kingdom
00:36:14.16\00:36:16.19
married the
prince of another kingdom
00:36:16.22\00:36:18.29
and therefore they could
you know through the seed,
00:36:18.32\00:36:20.55
they could make
one kingdom in Europe
00:36:20.58\00:36:22.42
but they didn't realize that
00:36:22.45\00:36:24.43
nothing worse
than a family fight.
00:36:24.46\00:36:28.12
And so they were worse off
after mingling the seed of men.
00:36:28.15\00:36:31.54
These words stand as a
bulwark against future empires.
00:36:31.57\00:36:35.80
They shall not
cleave one to another.
00:36:35.83\00:36:40.68
In other words, they'll
never come united unto one
00:36:40.71\00:36:43.81
because they will be divided.
00:36:43.84\00:36:47.52
Charlemagne tried
it. Charles V tried it.
00:36:47.55\00:36:51.66
Louis the XIV tried it.
00:36:51.69\00:36:54.16
Napoleon Bonaparte
tried it to unite the kingdoms
00:36:54.19\00:36:58.71
but they failed because God said
00:36:58.74\00:37:00.83
they would never bring it
together as one again, no.
00:37:00.86\00:37:05.70
"And in the day's of
these kings" what king?
00:37:05.73\00:37:07.47
The king of Babylon? No.
00:37:07.50\00:37:08.54
The king of Medo-Persian? No.
00:37:08.57\00:37:10.64
The king of Greece? No.
00:37:10.67\00:37:11.72
The king of Rome? No.
00:37:11.75\00:37:13.78
But the days of these
kings of divided Europe.
00:37:13.81\00:37:17.92
The Europe we know today
"In the days of these kings
00:37:17.95\00:37:23.33
shall the God of
heaven set up a kingdom,
00:37:23.36\00:37:28.26
which shall never be destroyed."
00:37:28.29\00:37:32.38
That's the assurance
you have here tonight.
00:37:32.41\00:37:34.06
Amen.
00:37:34.09\00:37:35.18
That's the assurance
you have here tonight.
00:37:35.21\00:37:37.98
That God will intervene,
00:37:38.01\00:37:40.18
God will take them
down from their power
00:37:40.21\00:37:43.29
and He bring them low
and bring them low again.
00:37:43.32\00:37:46.11
They tried to unite the
kingdoms but they failed.
00:37:46.14\00:37:50.28
In fact, "The kingdom shall
not be left to other people,
00:37:50.31\00:37:54.11
but shall break in pieces
consume all these kingdoms,
00:37:54.14\00:37:57.18
and it shall stand for ever."
00:37:57.21\00:37:58.89
That is the kingdom of God.
00:37:58.92\00:38:00.47
"Alexander, Caesar, Charlemagne,
00:38:00.50\00:38:02.16
and I have
founded" this is Napoleon.
00:38:02.19\00:38:04.15
"We founded empires.
00:38:04.18\00:38:05.57
But on what did we rest
the creation of our genius?
00:38:05.60\00:38:07.99
Upon force.
00:38:08.02\00:38:09.33
Jesus Christ
founded His empire on love
00:38:09.36\00:38:11.82
and at this hour millions
of men would die for Him."
00:38:11.85\00:38:16.67
Napoleon couldn't understand it,
00:38:16.70\00:38:19.32
I can because once you come
00:38:19.35\00:38:22.93
under the power of
the cross of Christ,
00:38:22.96\00:38:24.52
once you come under the
power of the grace of Christ,
00:38:24.55\00:38:27.27
you would die for Christ.
00:38:27.30\00:38:30.50
Ask Peter, I'm not worthy
to be crucified like my Lord.
00:38:30.53\00:38:35.60
And so they
crucified him upside down
00:38:35.63\00:38:38.80
then was his
world right side up.
00:38:38.83\00:38:42.92
Ask Paul, I mean, ask the
early church fathers I mean,
00:38:42.95\00:38:49.45
ask Huss and ask
Jerome and ask those men
00:38:49.48\00:38:52.36
who went to the state
for their faith in God,
00:38:52.39\00:38:54.97
if they wouldn't die for
the name of Jesus Christ.
00:38:55.00\00:38:59.80
Great problem today
00:38:59.83\00:39:00.91
is we have
tourists and not pilgrims.
00:39:00.94\00:39:05.76
Great problem
with the churches today
00:39:05.79\00:39:08.81
as well if we
feel right we will go
00:39:08.84\00:39:12.34
or it's near Christmas I
guess I got to do something.
00:39:12.37\00:39:19.04
They shall not
cleave one to another.
00:39:19.07\00:39:23.45
Today we have the common market,
00:39:23.48\00:39:27.09
the Middle East
countries, the United States,
00:39:27.12\00:39:32.54
we have China and the days
of these kings divided Europe
00:39:32.57\00:39:38.64
I mean, in these days the God
of heaven will set up a kingdom
00:39:38.67\00:39:41.88
and it shall last
forever and forever and forever.
00:39:41.91\00:39:45.97
Revelation offers
hope to us tonight.
00:39:46.00\00:39:49.39
They say, Ron, you are
not the mister of pessimist.
00:39:49.42\00:39:52.80
I'm an optimist because I know
00:39:52.83\00:39:57.48
who controls tomorrow
00:39:57.51\00:39:59.78
and that is none other
than the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:39:59.81\00:40:01.74
Amen.
00:40:01.77\00:40:02.86
I mean listen
carefully my, friend,
00:40:02.89\00:40:05.26
I mean it's like the
Titanic that fateful night.
00:40:05.29\00:40:08.91
I mean, the
nations of this world
00:40:08.94\00:40:10.30
are on a collision
course with destiny.
00:40:10.33\00:40:13.50
In fact Jacques Cousteau,
00:40:13.53\00:40:15.10
he wrote a book in French called
00:40:15.13\00:40:17.19
"Man, Octopus and
Orchid" and he said this.
00:40:17.22\00:40:20.98
"The road o the future
leads" this is not a preacher,
00:40:21.01\00:40:24.17
some theologian, some believer.
00:40:24.20\00:40:27.24
He's writing and he says
00:40:27.27\00:40:28.48
"The road to the future
leads us smack into a wall.
00:40:28.51\00:40:32.27
We simply ricochet
off the alternatives
00:40:32.30\00:40:34.83
that destiny offers."
00:40:34.86\00:40:36.77
He goes on.
00:40:36.80\00:40:38.29
"A demographic explosion
that triggers social chaos
00:40:38.32\00:40:41.58
and spreads
death, nuclear delirium
00:40:41.61\00:40:43.96
and quasi -
annihilation of the species."
00:40:43.99\00:40:45.96
Wow! What a
picture? What a picture?
00:40:45.99\00:40:49.44
"Our survival is no
more than a question
00:40:49.47\00:40:51.40
of 25, 50 perhaps 100 years."
00:40:51.43\00:40:57.30
Bad news. No friend, good news.
00:40:57.33\00:41:01.13
The prophecy can help us.
00:41:01.16\00:41:03.60
I tell you Jesus
Christ promised and prophesied
00:41:03.63\00:41:06.91
that the next ruler
would be none other than
00:41:06.94\00:41:08.49
the rock Jesus Christ smiting
the images of this world,
00:41:08.52\00:41:11.81
the political
institutions of this world
00:41:11.84\00:41:14.50
and making it
into the kingdom of God
00:41:14.53\00:41:16.76
and another great mountain
00:41:16.79\00:41:18.52
will come forth
the people of God.
00:41:18.55\00:41:21.37
That's Book of Revelation.
00:41:21.40\00:41:23.52
The God of this
book will help us.
00:41:23.55\00:41:26.48
The God of this
book will speak to us.
00:41:26.51\00:41:29.24
The God of this book I mean,
00:41:29.27\00:41:30.75
He speaks and He
does not stutter.
00:41:30.78\00:41:32.75
The words of the
book of the prophecy,
00:41:32.78\00:41:34.52
the rise to the
fall of the kings.
00:41:34.55\00:41:36.82
There was Babylon, Medo-Persia,
00:41:36.85\00:41:38.98
there was Greece
and there was Rome
00:41:39.01\00:41:40.47
and then the
divided kingdoms of Europe
00:41:40.50\00:41:42.63
that God is going to intervene.
00:41:42.66\00:41:45.06
The words of this book is
not some magic hocus-pocus,
00:41:45.09\00:41:48.24
it's a revelation of a moral God
00:41:48.27\00:41:50.09
and the story of a
plan for your family
00:41:50.12\00:41:52.76
and for my family and
for believing families
00:41:52.79\00:41:55.60
in Charlotte and
around the world.
00:41:55.63\00:42:00.23
What we have in this book
00:42:00.26\00:42:01.32
is not a jumble
of historical events,
00:42:01.35\00:42:04.95
without
pattern, without purpose.
00:42:04.98\00:42:07.91
It's the unfolding of
the righteous will of a God,
00:42:07.94\00:42:11.90
trying to warn
us, trying to keep us,
00:42:11.93\00:42:17.58
trying to love us.
00:42:17.61\00:42:20.61
Good news the new world order
00:42:20.64\00:42:25.49
will be the kingdom
that Christ prayed for,
00:42:25.52\00:42:28.42
thy kingdom come on earth
00:42:28.45\00:42:33.40
as it is in heaven.
00:42:33.43\00:42:36.59
Listen to me,
good news, a new world
00:42:36.62\00:42:41.30
and in that new
world new world order
00:42:41.33\00:42:44.23
where righteous will
reign we must take heed.
00:42:44.26\00:42:49.19
The Titanic was a love story
00:42:49.22\00:42:53.21
with an unhappy
ending, a bitter ending.
00:42:53.24\00:42:57.96
A cold dark
night on a frozen ocean
00:42:57.99\00:43:00.83
is that the only future
we have on the frail ship
00:43:00.86\00:43:03.56
we call planet earth.
00:43:03.59\00:43:05.70
Are we about to sink
into a dark eternity?
00:43:05.73\00:43:09.12
I have good news tonight,
00:43:09.15\00:43:11.37
intervention is on
its way not to Stockholm,
00:43:11.40\00:43:15.54
I mean, not
those flimsy lifeboats
00:43:15.57\00:43:17.73
but the image of stone and feed
00:43:17.76\00:43:19.72
and history is His story
and Jesus is about to come.
00:43:19.75\00:43:24.81
Look up, lift up your heads
00:43:24.84\00:43:30.96
and the world
divided by nations in a world
00:43:30.99\00:43:33.13
is in by divided by love
and the world divided by ideals
00:43:33.16\00:43:36.66
and the world
divided by politics
00:43:36.69\00:43:38.34
and the world
divided by money and power,
00:43:38.37\00:43:40.45
divided by culture and class
00:43:40.48\00:43:42.18
in that world
divided by religion,
00:43:42.21\00:43:44.21
Jesus Christ the Prince
of earth will come back again
00:43:44.24\00:43:47.79
and He will strike
the image at the feet
00:43:47.82\00:43:50.45
and He will set up His kingdom.
00:43:50.48\00:43:52.14
The rock is about to
strike human history.
00:43:52.17\00:43:57.39
And that rock is none other
than the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:44:00.00\00:44:02.90
Are you in turmoil tonight?
00:44:02.93\00:44:04.46
Calm down, chill out because God
00:44:04.49\00:44:09.14
will intervene
for you in your need.
00:44:09.17\00:44:12.81
Hey, listen to me,
listen to me, good news.
00:44:12.84\00:44:17.02
God has a plan for you.
00:44:17.05\00:44:19.16
Why do you think
you're here? Happenstance.
00:44:19.19\00:44:23.54
No, you're here
by the will of God.
00:44:23.57\00:44:27.76
God willed you to be here.
00:44:27.79\00:44:29.70
You could be at
hundred other places
00:44:29.73\00:44:32.20
but God willed you to be here
00:44:32.23\00:44:33.29
so that you could
hear about the future
00:44:33.32\00:44:35.58
and the hope that
believers have in the future
00:44:35.61\00:44:38.97
that our future is not
tied up in today's politics.
00:44:39.00\00:44:42.32
Thank God for that.
00:44:42.35\00:44:44.89
They are still
fighting about my money?
00:44:44.92\00:44:51.43
I know, I should say
00:44:51.46\00:44:52.55
my great-great-great
grandson's money.
00:44:52.58\00:44:57.11
Hey listen, keep
your faith in God,
00:44:57.14\00:45:02.60
have faith in God.
00:45:02.63\00:45:04.89
Good news-- bad news
for those who mock God.
00:45:04.92\00:45:10.16
Bad news for those who play God.
00:45:10.19\00:45:12.66
Bad news for those who laugh
at the prophecies of God's word
00:45:12.69\00:45:15.79
just as the king way back
in the day of Nebuchadnezzar.
00:45:15.82\00:45:18.78
Let them build
their golden images,
00:45:18.81\00:45:21.78
but we will bow down like Daniel
00:45:21.81\00:45:24.69
and we will be like
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:45:24.72\00:45:28.25
During the dark
days of World War II,
00:45:28.28\00:45:31.49
Winston Churchill asked
the young American clergyman.
00:45:31.52\00:45:35.14
Young man, can
you give me any hope?
00:45:35.17\00:45:40.84
For the answer to
Churchill's question
00:45:40.87\00:45:42.66
I take you back to the future.
00:45:42.69\00:45:45.45
The King is coming
and that's a great hope.
00:45:45.48\00:45:50.49
I mean, I've seen people's
lives changed by prophecy.
00:45:50.52\00:45:55.26
I was sent to Hawaii to
have a meeting like this.
00:45:55.29\00:45:58.85
Now, they always send
me usually to tough places.
00:45:58.88\00:46:01.19
They send me to
East LA and Brooklyn
00:46:01.22\00:46:03.91
and they send me to Detroit,
00:46:03.94\00:46:05.53
they send, you
know, the big cities
00:46:05.56\00:46:07.01
where I work
where I feel at home.
00:46:07.04\00:46:08.78
But I was praying to
the Lord one day I said,
00:46:08.81\00:46:10.49
Lord, why are
these other evangelists
00:46:10.52\00:46:11.93
going to these exotic places?
00:46:11.96\00:46:14.01
I mean, that's all
right, I respect them,
00:46:17.66\00:46:19.29
I'm help-- I'm thankful for.
00:46:19.32\00:46:21.39
But why, don't I ever
get to an exotic place?
00:46:21.42\00:46:24.07
And I was
feeling sorry for myself
00:46:24.10\00:46:25.84
and we do and I've even had
the audacity to say one time,
00:46:25.87\00:46:32.78
I said, Billy Graham's
is going to nice places
00:46:32.81\00:46:35.12
and Lord said, well,
you are not Billy Graham.
00:46:35.15\00:46:36.49
I said well, thank you.
00:46:36.52\00:46:38.10
Lord he got me there
00:46:38.13\00:46:39.69
and I could not
come out of that.
00:46:39.72\00:46:41.46
But I got a
telephone call one day
00:46:41.49\00:46:43.50
and that
telephone was from friend,
00:46:43.53\00:46:44.88
he had just become a president
of a mission in Hawaii.
00:46:44.91\00:46:47.46
He called he said, Ron,
would you like to come to Oahu
00:46:47.49\00:46:50.25
and have a series of prophecy
00:46:50.28\00:46:52.37
here in the city
of Oahu in Hawaii.
00:46:52.40\00:46:54.78
I said let me pray about it.
00:46:54.81\00:46:56.39
Thank you Jesus, it
was little one of those--
00:46:56.42\00:46:59.53
it was one those
incidents you know the kind.
00:46:59.56\00:47:05.14
I went over to Hawaii
00:47:05.17\00:47:06.64
and I was
preaching the Word of God
00:47:06.67\00:47:07.85
showing prophecy
and in the first night
00:47:07.88\00:47:10.24
staggered this
drunken marine and his wife
00:47:10.27\00:47:14.61
and he came up and
sat about the third row
00:47:14.64\00:47:16.68
and he was three
sheets to the swinging on.
00:47:16.71\00:47:21.04
And so I was
preaching to him all night,
00:47:21.07\00:47:22.71
you known, and after a
while he kept coming back.
00:47:22.74\00:47:27.79
Stop at the bar stagger in.
00:47:27.82\00:47:31.67
And so we were giving Bibles up.
00:47:31.70\00:47:33.83
By the way we give Bible
to you if you come 12 nights,
00:47:33.86\00:47:36.52
you get a
beautiful prophecy Bible.
00:47:36.55\00:47:39.27
You want to, you
want to have that
00:47:39.30\00:47:40.68
but anyway he wanted a Bible
00:47:40.71\00:47:42.69
and he came to the
night he was there 12 nights
00:47:42.72\00:47:44.33
went to the table and
they run out of Bibles.
00:47:44.36\00:47:48.63
He said, is this a gimmick?
00:47:48.66\00:47:50.53
And so I said, oh,
no, I wanted more Bibles
00:47:54.51\00:47:57.21
and I put my arm
around and carried him
00:47:57.24\00:47:58.63
over to the corner you know
00:47:58.66\00:48:01.46
and he came about two night's
later the Bibles were there
00:48:01.49\00:48:03.40
he stood on line got there
when the Bibles would run out.
00:48:03.43\00:48:07.84
So I visited him in his home.
00:48:07.87\00:48:10.46
In the first Iraq
war he was a sniper
00:48:10.49\00:48:16.04
knocking Arabs
off hills a mile away.
00:48:16.07\00:48:22.68
In that prophecy
seminar he found God.
00:48:22.71\00:48:26.34
The second Iraq war
he went as a chaplain,
00:48:26.37\00:48:30.79
a Christian chaplain to Iraq.
00:48:30.82\00:48:33.10
Amen. Come on.
00:48:33.13\00:48:34.65
Why study
prophecy? Why study prophecy?
00:48:34.68\00:48:40.47
Because prophecy
can change lives.
00:48:40.50\00:48:45.40
Because it brings
to us frail creatures
00:48:45.43\00:48:48.39
to know there's
an omnipotent God.
00:48:48.42\00:48:51.61
That there is a
powerful and gracious God
00:48:51.64\00:48:54.79
and that God seeks in every way
00:48:54.82\00:48:59.02
that God seeks to save us.
00:48:59.05\00:49:02.48
And so God
raises up His pilgrims,
00:49:02.51\00:49:05.97
His faithful, His
followers in every generation
00:49:06.00\00:49:10.78
as He did back there in Babylon,
00:49:10.81\00:49:13.08
Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.
00:49:13.11\00:49:16.64
I mean faith, faith,
00:49:16.67\00:49:22.83
bow down, worship me.
00:49:22.86\00:49:26.89
They could have bow down
and sung a hymn of something,
00:49:29.13\00:49:34.55
fool them but
they were transparent,
00:49:34.58\00:49:38.86
you see they were pilgrims.
00:49:38.89\00:49:41.63
They said I can't
bow down, I can't.
00:49:41.66\00:49:47.32
We'll throw you into the fire.
00:49:47.35\00:49:51.26
If that's what
you must do, do it.
00:49:51.29\00:49:55.96
Our God will be with us.
00:49:55.99\00:50:00.97
And you know that story.
00:50:01.00\00:50:03.59
Come on, I mean they heated
the fire seven times hotter,
00:50:03.62\00:50:09.92
I don't know how you do that.
00:50:09.95\00:50:13.36
And even the people
were throwing them in
00:50:13.39\00:50:16.40
perish from the flames.
00:50:16.43\00:50:20.10
And they're in the midst of
a flake I tell you believer,
00:50:20.13\00:50:22.86
you're gonna be in
the midst of a flame
00:50:22.89\00:50:24.82
if revelation is true and it is.
00:50:24.85\00:50:29.27
It's gonna take more
than a picnic type belief,
00:50:29.30\00:50:32.41
it's gonna take a
wharf here belief.
00:50:32.44\00:50:35.15
Throw me into the fire.
00:50:40.61\00:50:42.75
They threw them in the fire
00:50:45.48\00:50:47.89
and the Bible says
that Shadrach, Meshach,
00:50:47.92\00:50:50.56
and Abednego three
men thrown in the fire
00:50:50.59\00:50:52.64
but they looked and they
couldn't believe their eyes.
00:50:52.67\00:50:55.32
They didn't see
three men in a fire,
00:50:55.35\00:50:57.42
they didn't see
just Shadrach, Meshach,
00:50:57.45\00:50:59.20
and Abednego in a fire.
00:50:59.23\00:51:00.63
They saw one like unto
the Son of Man in the fire.
00:51:00.66\00:51:03.87
They saw Jesus in
the midst of a fire.
00:51:03.90\00:51:06.25
I want to tell you friend,
00:51:06.28\00:51:07.71
Jesus will come to you
in the midst of your fire.
00:51:07.74\00:51:11.89
Jesus will come to you
in the midst of a fire.
00:51:18.97\00:51:24.16
May the God in heaven bless you
00:51:24.19\00:51:26.61
and keep you and
I'll look for you
00:51:26.64\00:51:29.65
and I'm gonna
have our friend come.
00:51:29.68\00:51:32.47
Good evening
everyone, I'm John Bradshaw,
00:51:49.04\00:51:51.03
the director of It Is Written.
00:51:51.06\00:51:52.50
As I told you last night
I wish I was there with you,
00:51:52.53\00:51:55.35
but I'm glad I
can join you this way
00:51:55.38\00:51:58.05
in answering
your Bible questions.
00:51:58.08\00:52:00.19
Thanks for writing
out your Bible questions
00:52:00.22\00:52:02.04
and getting them
to us each night.
00:52:02.07\00:52:04.27
We will try to
give you a Bible answer
00:52:04.30\00:52:06.49
to your Bible question.
00:52:06.52\00:52:07.75
If we don't know the answer
00:52:07.78\00:52:09.32
we'll try to find
out what the answer is.
00:52:09.35\00:52:11.46
If we still don't know it
we'll tell you we don't know.
00:52:11.49\00:52:15.07
And I don't mind admitting that
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because nobody knows
everything about the Bible.
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So now our first
question is a Bible question.
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Regarding last
night's presentation about
00:52:25.55\00:52:27.63
"Where we are in Prophecy"
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Haven't people
been saying for years
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Jesus is coming back soon.
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Even the Apostle Paul believed
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Jesus would come back in his day
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and it has been 2,000 years.
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Now there's a point.
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You know it is
said that even Eve
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was looking
forward to the Messiah,
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that's the first
coming of the Messiah
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that when she said I've
gotten a man from the law.
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There are some
scholars who say that
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what she said was,
I've gotten a man the Lord.
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She thought that she'd
given birth to the Messiah
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but of course He
didn't come for 4,000 years.
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So could it be that the people
in the New Testament Church
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were looking for
the return of Jesus
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and He has come way
later than they expected.
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Well, I understand why people
refer to the Apostle Paul.
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I'll tell you why.
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He said in 1
Thessalonians Chapter 4,
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"The Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
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with the voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God,
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the dead in
Christ will rise first
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and we which
are alive and remain
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shall be caught up together
with Him in the clouds."
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Sounds like Paul
was putting himself
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in the frame, doesn't it.
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However he went on to say,
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"But of the times
and of the seasons,
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you have no need
that I write to you
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because you know
perfectly the day of the Lord
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comes as a thief in the night."
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Well, then notice what he wrote
in 2 Thessalonians Chapter 2.
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It seems that
part of his motivation
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for writing 2 Thessalonians
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was to disabuse the
Thessalonians of the idea
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that Jesus coming
could be like any day now.
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Notice what he said.
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"Now we beseech you, brethren,
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by the coming of
our Lord Jesus Christ,
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and by our
gathering together unto him,
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that ye be not
soon shaken in mind,
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or be troubled,
neither by spirit,
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nor by word, nor
by letter as from us,
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as that the day of
Christ is at hand."
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Even if somebody was
to write a letter to you
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and sign it with
my name Paul said,
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don't you be getting too excited
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that Jesus return might
be just around the corner.
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He said this.
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"Let no man
deceive you," strong word,
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"by any means for
that day shall not come"
00:54:36.82\00:54:39.38
that's the day of Christ return
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"except there come
a falling away first,
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and that man of sin be revealed,
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the son of perdition,
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who opposes and exalts himself
above all that is called God,
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or that is worshipped"
00:54:52.26\00:54:53.40
and this will
carries on a little bit.
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Paul was saying clearly oh, no,
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you don't have to think
that Jesus is coming right away,
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certain things must take place
one of those is the arrival
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of the last day deceiver,
the last day antichrist.
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So Paul didn't really think
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that Jesus was
gonna come in his day.
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But yes, people
have been saying yes,
00:55:17.67\00:55:20.23
that for years that
Jesus is coming back soon.
00:55:20.26\00:55:22.72
Does that make them wrong?
00:55:22.75\00:55:25.28
Well, it makes them wrong
00:55:25.31\00:55:26.68
if they say Jesus is
coming back Wednesday.
00:55:26.71\00:55:29.50
If He doesn't
then they were wrong,
00:55:29.53\00:55:30.98
if they say Jesus
is coming back in 2000
00:55:31.01\00:55:33.26
and whatever and He doesn't
come back in that year well,
00:55:33.29\00:55:37.38
sure that could make them wrong.
00:55:37.41\00:55:40.15
But somebody says
Jesus is coming soon
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and 50 years later
Jesus doesn't come back
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were they wrong?
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Well, it all depends on
how you define soon I suppose
00:55:45.87\00:55:49.21
and I'm not just trying
to get people an easy pass.
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Here's what we know.
00:55:52.48\00:55:53.94
People have been
saying for a long time
00:55:53.97\00:55:55.39
Jesus is coming back
soon, Jesus is coming back soon.
00:55:55.42\00:55:58.03
You know something, sooner
or later they gonna be right
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and I don't mean
just keep on saying it
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because
eventually, I don't mean that.
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But every day
that passes is a day
00:56:04.80\00:56:07.08
that we are closer
to the return of Jesus.
00:56:07.11\00:56:09.66
Every day that passes is a day
00:56:09.69\00:56:11.86
that we are closer to
the Kingdom of Heaven.
00:56:11.89\00:56:14.06
Aren't you glad
about that? I know I am.
00:56:14.09\00:56:16.59
So I'm not too concerned
about people who believe well,
00:56:16.62\00:56:19.97
Jesus is coming
back soon and so forth
00:56:20.00\00:56:23.35
because He is coming back soon.
00:56:23.38\00:56:25.27
We don't want to set
dates. Let's not do that.
00:56:25.30\00:56:28.15
We don't-- Jesus
warned against that.
00:56:28.18\00:56:30.14
He said, no man
knows the day or the hour.
00:56:30.17\00:56:32.97
But He did give us
signs that we could know
00:56:33.00\00:56:35.19
that He was coming back soon.
00:56:35.22\00:56:37.90
In Matthew 4:4
the Word of God says
00:57:04.83\00:57:07.39
"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
00:57:07.42\00:57:10.55
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
00:57:10.58\00:57:14.27
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