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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The Book of Revelation is
the capstone of the Bible.
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As the last book in the Bible
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it takes the major
themes of the Bible
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and brings them together
into a wonderful conclusions.
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Tonight we look into this book,
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a book which has been
the focus of a lot of study
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and a lot of speculation.
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We'll see that when
it comes to the Bible
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there's no need for
guesswork or sensationalism.
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But that if we
let God's word speak
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and then if we
listen to it carefully
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it will be a lamp to our
feet and a light to our path.
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Our subject tonight is
Unfolding the Revelation.
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Please welcome the
presenter of Revelation Today,
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Ron Halvorsen.
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Good evening. Good evening.
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Let's bow our
heads in a word of prayer
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before you open God's word.
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Gracious Father, I
pray for Your Holy Spirit
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to guide us and lead us.
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We pray that You'll
lead in everything we say
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and everything we do.
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May it honor and
glorify the Lord Jesus Christ.
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Tonight we pray there'll be
the unveiling of the Revelation
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that we might see the great
struggle in the Middle East
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and what you have said
about it and the outcome.
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Teach us thy will
and thy way always
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that we'll walk in Your path.
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In the name of Christ, amen.
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My subject tonight is
Unfolding the Revelation,
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The Middle East Crisis.
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Years ago when I
was a young preacher
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I was making a
visit in New York City
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and I happened to
have a name of a Jewish man
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who I'd been
studying the Word of God with
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and sharing the Messianic hope
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and the
Messianic prophecies with
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and so he invited
me to his apartment
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and I drove up as far as
I could, got on the subway,
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took it out to
Central Park West,
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got off the subway and
I came to this beautiful
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apartment
building, Central Park West.
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Now most apartments
in that building cost
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between 12 million
and 18 million dollars.
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So me being a
poor boy from Brooklyn
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I was nervous about this visit.
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I met the man at the door.
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He said who are you?
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I said, I'm
Pastor Ron Halvorsen.
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I've come to see so and
so. He said, well all right.
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You can go in up
to the 18th floor.
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When he opened the door
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I stepped into the rug
and I sunk up to my knees.
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I made my way over to the couch
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and sat down and
he got to talking.
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I always like to find out as
much as I can about the person.
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I said, well tell me
a little bit about you.
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And he said, well he said,
I live here in this apartment
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and I own this
apartment and then he told
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about the three
other houses he owned
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in the various
places in the world
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and about his
chauffer and he went on
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and on and on and
finally he finished.
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And I said, well tell
me really about yourself.
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And he said I was in Auschwitz
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and then he showed me the number
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that he still
carried from Auschwitz.
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And then we got
down to real business.
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And he said to me
with tears in his eyes,
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he said some day I'm going home.
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I said, what do you
mean? Where is your home?
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I thought perhaps it was
Poland or Germany or Russia.
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He said, no I'm
going to my home.
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I'm going back
to Israel, my home.
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We had a wonderful
visit and I showed him
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what God had said about Israel
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and what God had
said about the future
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and I had prayer
with him and I left
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and I guess some time after that
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he went back home to his home.
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Do you know what's
happening in the Middle East
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was predicted by
God centuries ago.
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What's happening
in the Middle East
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is the culmination
of biblical history.
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You have to hold a newspaper
in one hand as you read
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what's happening
in the Middle East now
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and your Bible
in the other hand.
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The Middle East is
not a war between nations.
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It's a war between families.
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Now let me take you
on a fascinating journey
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back to the future.
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I want to take you there
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and I think of
thousands of years
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Christians and Jews have
been looking for a Messiah.
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In fact, for the
Jews he's not yet come.
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But they wait patiently.
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I mean they wait
with great anticipation,
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with great sincerity,
gazing at their temple,
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hoping beyond hope He will come
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and deliver them
forever from the threat of war
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and reign in peace that they
might have peace in Palestine
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and He will rule them.
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That's their
dream, that's their hope.
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It burned in Jewish
hearts for 4,000 years.
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Christian's on
the other hand believe
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that Jesus
Christ has already come
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in the person of Jesus Christ.
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That Jesus
Christ was the Messiah.
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I mean they look
with anticipation
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not for the
first coming of Christ
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because they
experienced it in history
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that in Bethlehem
a virgin conceived
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and bore a son
and His name was Jesus
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because He would save the world.
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And so Christians on the other
hand believe that this person
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has already come in
the person of Christ.
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They, with great expectation,
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are looking for the
second coming of Messiah,
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the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
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Every believer, every Christian,
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whatever church you
belong, if you're a Christian
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you should be looking for
the second coming of Christ
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because that is burning
in the hearts of believers
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since the Book of Acts.
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That was burning in
the heart of the believer,
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Peter, when they
crucified him upside down
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and then his
world was right side up.
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It was in the heart of Paul
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when they killed Paul
and he became a martyr.
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It was in the heart of John
there on Patmos as a prisoner.
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There he saw in vision
the great return of Messiah
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the second time.
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This idea of Messiah
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is not some theory
for scholars to debate.
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This great story of the
Messiah is not some riddle
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for the
obsessed to try to solve.
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It instead, is the most
important truth of our age,
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not merely for
us to understand it
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but for us to anticipate it,
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to embrace it
and to live it out.
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Have you ever wondered why
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the burning need
in the human heart
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of both Christians
and Jews is for Messiah?
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Why are all eyes fastened
on the Middle East tonight?
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Is the coming of the
Messiah near, even at the door
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as I've been speaking
about these last two nights.
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Are we close to
the kingdom of God?
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Is He about to open the doors
of heaven and invite us in?
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I mean, we must ask pointed
questions about the end time.
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End time how soon is it?
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There are some indicators
that it's quite close.
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In fact, I live every day
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from when I wake
up in the morning
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and surrender my life
to Christ for that day
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and go to bed at night
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and with my last
prayer go to sleep,
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I go to sleep with the
fact that He is a heartbeat away
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and I want to be
ready at every moment.
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Amen.
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You want to be
ready at every moment
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because Jesus is
coming and He's coming soon.
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With the recent
events in the Middle East
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that's happening there,
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it tells us the
coming of Christ is near.
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With the death
rattle of the peace process
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in the Middle East,
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with the
terrorism on the West Bank
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and the problems,
with the war in Iraq
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and the war in
Iran and Afghanistan
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and Syria and
Egypt and death around
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and surrounding Palestine.
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The uniting of the
Muslim countries against America
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and especially their
hatred of Israel and America.
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These are strong indicators
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Jesus Christ is about to return.
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Jesus is about to
say enough is enough
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and we dare not be left behind.
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Amen? Amen.
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And there's no reason for it.
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We have enough
truth in this book,
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to know and understand
the times in which we live.
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In this book, the
Revelation of Jesus Christ,
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we can know the
end from the beginning.
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The Bible says he is
Alpha and He is Omega.
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He is the
beginning and He is the end.
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And in the Book of Revelation
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He is unveiled to us
and we can see the process
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in which what's going
forward in the process of time
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leading us to the
great day of God Almighty,
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the great day of God.
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We come to that
place in Revelation
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and there in Revelation
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the promise of the
coming of Jesus Christ,
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the second advent.
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And we come from
Babylon to Babylon.
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We see that from
Babylon to Babylon
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and all the events in
the Middle East tonight.
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Why are all eyes
focused on the East?
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Why not Russia? Why not China?
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I mean, do you wonder why
today the prophetic time table,
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people are looking
to the Middle East?
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I have Time Square here
and I read about an alley cat.
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You know an alley cat?
He's a cool cat really.
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I mean, an alley cat.
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I mean, that's not
like a cat, a kitten.
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That's not like one of those
fuzzy little things you know.
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I mean this is an alley
cat. This is a tough cat.
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And she has a
little kitten in her mouth
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and she comes up to the
curb and for some reason
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she wanted to get
across Time Square.
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I guess there was a
better alley over there.
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And so she'd
step into the street
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and the buses and
the taxis and the cars.
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How many of you have
ever been to Time Square
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let me see your hands?
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You can imagine this cat.
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I mean, this is a tough old cat
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but it can't make its
way across the street.
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Finally there was a big
Irish cop standing on the corner
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and he looked and
saw that old alley cat
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trying to get across the street
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and he stepped out into
the road, held up his hand
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and all the traffic
came to a screeching halt.
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The alley cat looked both
ways, kitten in her mouth,
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she dashed across
and into the alley.
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I wonder if we're not
like that big alley cat
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we want to make it across
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and Jesus is about
to put up His hand,
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stop it and say,
come on home children,
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come on home children.
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And I hope to show you
it's not time to procrastinate.
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I want to show you tonight
it's not time to be complacent.
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It's not time to put things off,
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to live for God this very day.
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Now what's happening
today is a sovereign act of God.
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It's a sovereign process
of prophetic proportions.
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The events
leading to the glorious--
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rapture of the glorious
church of the people of God
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taken to the kingdom.
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And every tick of
the prophetic clock
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brings us closer and closer
to that inevitable fulfillment.
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Now here are just a few events.
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The rise of Israel. I
mean here's a few events.
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Communism's collapse,
just a few in my lifetime.
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The geopolitical struggle
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for the control of
oil in the Middle East.
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These are all signs.
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The rising tide of
lawlessness in our country.
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The jettisoning
of all that is moral.
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The staggering
strides of technology.
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All this is
telling us the end is near.
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Moral bankruptcy of the nations.
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Vast changes in religion.
Emergence of the drug culture.
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Ecological threat to our planet.
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All this is
speaking about the end time.
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First I want to give you
a history lesson tonight.
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I want to give
you a history lesson
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and then I'm going
to give you a prophetic,
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a prophetic lesson.
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First let's look at history.
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The Jewish nation was
called the Israel of God.
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In fact, the Israel of God
was called the remnant of God.
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There are three
passages of scripture
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I want you to
consider with me tonight
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from the Book of Revelation.
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Now notice first of all
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I want you to
notice Revelation 12:17.
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"And the dragon was
angry with the woman."
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The dragon is Satan.
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Someone asked me is the
book symbolic or is it literal.
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Well in some places it's literal
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and in some
places it's symbolic.
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And the only way you can
tell is by knowing the symbols.
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And once you know
the symbols Revelation
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is like a puzzle put together.
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You see the glorious
face of Jesus Christ.
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Now the devil is
angry with the woman.
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If I had time tonight
I'll show you from the Bible
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that the woman, the
woman in Revelation,
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there are two
women in Revelation.
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One is the scarlet woman,
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one is the pure
woman dressed in white.
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The woman represents
the church of Jesus Christ
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and I'll give you those texts
when I give you this chart.
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It says he's angry
"and went to make war
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with the remnant of her seed."
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Which woman will
he be angry with?
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The pure woman.
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The pure woman. The pure church.
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He would be angry with the woman
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he went to make war
with the remnant of her seed,
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those who are
left out or left over,
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those who come later on it says
those who come out of Babylon,
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who come away from the confusion
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and conspiracy of the
devil in the last days.
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And they line up
with Jesus Christ.
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By the way, the Bible
says Revelation 7:1-4,
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"And after these
things I saw four angels
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standing on the four
corners of the earth,
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holding the four
winds of the earth,
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that the wind should
not blow on the earth,
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nor on the sea,
nor on any tree."
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The Bible tells us.
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"And I saw another
angel ascending from the east,
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having the seal
of the living God,
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and he cried with a loud
voice to the four angels,
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to whom it was
given to hurt the earth
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and the sea, and
saying, hurt not the earth,
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neither the sea, nor the trees,
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till we have sealed
the servants of our God
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in their foreheads."
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The servants of
God, the remnant of God.
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He has his remnant.
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But the Bible also says,
"And I heard the number of them
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which were sealed,
and there were sealed
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an hundred and
forty and four thousand
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of all the tribes of
the children of Israel."
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And then he goes on to
say, "Except the Lord of hosts
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had left unto us a
very small remnant,"
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Isaiah 1:9,
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"If he had not
left a small remnant,
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we would have been
as Sodom and Gomorrah."
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In other words,
we would have been
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totally wiped from
the face of the earth.
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But there is a
remnant, the Bible tells us,
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and the Bible tells
us let me define it.
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Remnant means
seed. It means sperma.
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If God had not left the sperma
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to reproduce the
church of Jesus Christ,
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if it would not
reproduce, the remnant church,
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we would be like
Sodom and Gomorrah.
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You see the
calling of the church,
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the calling of the Christian,
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is not just to go to
church one day a week,
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it's not just to say
your prayers in your closet.
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It's to make you to reproduce
Jesus Christ on the earth
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and the love of
God on the earth.
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The world needs to
see in Christians today
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the image of the
Lord Jesus Christ.
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They should see the
smile of Jesus on your face.
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I'm tired of these
sour puss Christians.
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You can smile and go to heaven.
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You can smile and go to heaven.
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So the apocalyptic words
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speak of the
meticulous care of God for those
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who are His remnant.
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I mean the words represent
careful consideration for God
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and for His
people through the ages
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past, present and future.
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The sealed ones,
the protected ones,
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the prophetic ones.
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Listen to me,
we don't have to be
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taken out of this
world to escape tribulation.
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We can live in this world
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and be protected
by the almighty God
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that a thousand
will fall at our side,
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10,000 our right hand.
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It shall not come
nigh thee nor thy dwelling.
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The protection of God, friend.
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Can you say amen
here in this place
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here in Charlotte?
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Amen.
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Let Egypt come to Jews.
Let Egypt come against her.
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Hands laden with bricks of Jews
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made without straw
under lash of the taskmaster.
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They tried to destroy them.
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Let Assyria come against her
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and show her swords
wet with Jewish blood.
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They tried to destroy them.
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Let Persia and Babylon
come with clanking chains.
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They fought with Jacob's sons.
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I mean, they tried, they tried
to kill them, to murder them,
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to annihilate
them but they failed.
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They failed. The Jew remains.
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I mean, their preservation
is a miracle of history,
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you have to admit that.
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However you feel
about the theologically,
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how you feel
about it emotionally,
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listen to me, it is
a miracle of the ages.
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You see we've been
told by historians empires
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have passed away into a shadow
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leaving behind them only a name
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but the Jew still
lives on standing apart
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from all the races
in the days of Jesus.
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Christ rich to a
thousand times to spoil.
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So scattered for 18
centuries around the world
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to the extremity of the
globe, yet they have survived.
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Happenstance no prophecy.
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Listen to the Word of God.
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It was a family fight
between Isaac and Ishmael.
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"I will make
thee a great nation,
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I will bless thee,
and make thy name great,
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and though shalt be" what?
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"A blessing." He says.
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He goes on, "And
I will bless them
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that bless thee, and curse them
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that curseth thee and in thee
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shall all the families
of the earth be blessed."
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Listen to me tonight.
Don't make light of it.
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This prophecy--
history has shown us
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that God governs
the destiny of nations.
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The rise of
Babylon, the fall of Babylon.
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The rise of Medo-Persia,
the fall of Medo-Persia.
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The rise of the Grecian empire,
the fall of the Grecian empire.
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God said enough is enough.
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Down to Rome, mighty
Rome, the iron monarchy.
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God said stop, that's enough
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and divided into the 10
kingdoms of Europe today.
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My God is about to
say, that's enough, stop.
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Amen. Stop.
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Listen to these
people. They live on.
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The Red Sea
couldn't drown them out.
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The gallows of Haman
couldn't hang them out.
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I mean, the great
fish couldn't digest them.
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The fiery furnace
couldn't singe them.
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The lions of Babylon
couldn't devour them.
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For history has showed us
Balaam could not curse them
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and nations could not
assimilate them and the west,
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was because the
Lord said I am with thee.
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Listen to what the Lord
says about these people.
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It's not crystal ball gazing.
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He says about these people
00:19:26.26\00:19:27.97
"For I am with
thee, saith the Lord,
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to save thee though I
make a full end of all nations
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whither I have scattered thee,
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yet I will not make
a full end of thee."
00:19:33.76\00:19:35.95
The Jews have outlived Egypt
and Chaldeans and the Assyrians
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and the Persians and
all dynasties of the past.
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Despite universal discrimination
00:19:42.70\00:19:44.48
universal persecution,
satanic interception,
00:19:44.51\00:19:47.31
murder, opus and purpose,
the Jew is persistent a Jew.
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For 4,000 years
the thought of Zion
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warmed the hearts and
the minds of the world
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scattered Jews.
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From ghetto to ghetto,
from Bombay to the Baltic,
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from Siberia to Sinai
00:20:01.32\00:20:03.32
there was a
dream and that dream,
00:20:03.35\00:20:06.66
that dream was a place to pray.
00:20:06.69\00:20:08.79
That dream was
a place to be born
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and for their
children to be born,
00:20:11.04\00:20:12.95
a place to live in peace
and a place to die with hope.
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This has been the dream
00:20:17.97\00:20:19.47
stemming back
4,000 years to Abraham.
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Listen, the animosity,
the hatred, the fighting,
00:20:23.19\00:20:27.53
the fiendish enemy
goes back to biblical times.
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You see history unfolds
the Middle East problem.
00:20:30.90\00:20:33.38
It unfolds and we should
not be caught by surprise.
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You see, he has something
for us read from the Bible.
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Again and again there
is hope, read the Bible.
00:20:40.37\00:20:43.43
In 1 Thessalonians
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"But of the
times and the seasons,
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brethren, ye have no
need that I write unto you.
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For yourselves know perfectly
00:20:49.61\00:20:51.36
that the day of the
Lord so cometh as" what?
00:20:51.39\00:20:53.40
"A thief in the night.
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And when they shall
say, Peace and safety,
00:20:55.42\00:20:57.42
then sudden
destruction cometh upon them,
00:20:57.45\00:20:59.58
as travail upon
a woman with child;
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and they shall not escape."
00:21:01.71\00:21:04.03
He says watch. He says look.
00:21:04.06\00:21:08.13
Notice, "But ye,
brethren, are not in darkness,
00:21:08.16\00:21:10.85
that that day should
overtake you as a thief.
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Ye are all the
children of light,
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and the children of the day."
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If you knew the thief was coming
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you would be waiting,
00:21:19.02\00:21:21.96
or you'd have
the police waiting.
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It's all going to
one who's packing.
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So he says you'd be waiting
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if you knew the
thief was coming.
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Take heed.
00:21:38.72\00:21:40.59
Biblical history
and biblical prophecy
00:21:40.62\00:21:42.33
must be looked out in light
of all that's happening today.
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The Almighty God is
working out His plan
00:21:45.84\00:21:49.78
and we can't change it.
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History unfolds
God made a promise
00:21:52.91\00:21:56.17
to Abraham and
to Sarah, his wife.
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You remember the
story if you've ever gone
00:21:57.88\00:21:59.83
to Sunday school
or Church, you know.
00:21:59.86\00:22:01.96
Remember about Abraham's wife
and he wanted to have a child
00:22:01.99\00:22:05.27
and God said that
she would have a child
00:22:05.30\00:22:07.07
and that child would
be the child of thousands
00:22:07.10\00:22:10.20
it would be the
child of his calling.
00:22:10.23\00:22:14.39
She got older and
older and older and older.
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You remember the
story. Come on now.
00:22:16.58\00:22:19.91
Remember the story? Yes.
00:22:19.94\00:22:21.99
And then what happened.
00:22:22.02\00:22:23.22
Remember he thought
he'd do it man's way.
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He took a handmaid.
00:22:27.11\00:22:29.27
She bore him a son
and his name was Ishmael.
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And then finally after
age-- I mean, this is a miracle.
00:22:37.25\00:22:43.80
I'm sure none
of you here tonight
00:22:43.83\00:22:45.11
want to have a baby at that age.
00:22:45.14\00:22:49.58
Some don't even
want to have it at 21.
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"We are not of
night, nor of darkness.
00:22:53.12\00:22:55.13
Therefore let us
not sleep as do others
00:22:55.16\00:22:57.58
but let us watch and be sober."
00:22:57.61\00:22:59.64
That's what he
says in 1 Thessalonians.
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And my dear
friend, God made a promise.
00:23:01.57\00:23:04.16
He made two things about God.
00:23:04.19\00:23:05.90
If God makes a
promise He does what?
00:23:05.93\00:23:07.97
He fulfills it. He fulfills it.
00:23:08.00\00:23:09.55
And secondly He
fulfills it what?
00:23:09.58\00:23:11.82
Precisely. Precisely.
00:23:11.85\00:23:15.02
God fulfills a
promise and He does it--
00:23:15.05\00:23:17.89
God will do it precisely.
00:23:17.92\00:23:21.27
And the promise was Abraham.
00:23:21.30\00:23:23.10
It was made and that
promise was fulfilled
00:23:23.13\00:23:26.99
and it became a great
nation just as God had promised.
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Tell me this book is
just a book of history.
00:23:30.53\00:23:34.54
This book is a book of prophecy.
00:23:34.57\00:23:37.82
This book is a book about a God
00:23:37.85\00:23:39.35
who knows the past and
the present and the future.
00:23:39.38\00:23:42.10
A God who knows your past,
00:23:42.13\00:23:43.30
knows your present
and knows your future.
00:23:43.33\00:23:46.40
A God who counts
the hairs on your head
00:23:46.43\00:23:48.57
and you worry if you
can get through a day.
00:23:48.60\00:23:51.05
With a God like
that you can get through
00:23:51.08\00:23:53.53
a whole
lifetime, a God like that.
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You see there's
nothing impossible with God.
00:24:03.32\00:24:05.37
Here's a barren woman.
00:24:05.40\00:24:06.47
She's old, old, old.
00:24:06.50\00:24:11.64
I don't want to
tell you how old.
00:24:11.67\00:24:12.82
You'll have a nightmare tonight.
00:24:12.85\00:24:13.95
She was old.
00:24:13.98\00:24:19.61
The delay.
00:24:19.64\00:24:23.09
Listen to me.
Delay is not denial.
00:24:23.12\00:24:28.78
Get the drift? Come on now.
00:24:28.81\00:24:31.30
Delay is not denial
00:24:31.33\00:24:33.27
because God's second
coming has been delayed
00:24:33.30\00:24:35.60
that doesn't mean
He's not going to come.
00:24:35.63\00:24:38.74
Because God made
out a promise to you
00:24:38.77\00:24:40.42
and hasn't fulfilled it yet
in your life that doesn't mean
00:24:40.45\00:24:43.34
that He's not
going to give it to you.
00:24:43.37\00:24:45.48
He made a promise.
00:24:50.77\00:24:52.76
There's nothing
impossible for God.
00:24:52.79\00:24:56.52
Two brothers, Ishmael and Isaac.
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And let me tell you something,
half-brothers, the war begins.
00:24:59.84\00:25:04.81
Nothing worse
than a family fight.
00:25:04.84\00:25:07.93
I think my
brothers are watching this.
00:25:07.96\00:25:09.34
I hope they are.
00:25:09.37\00:25:12.97
We had many of
them when we were young.
00:25:13.00\00:25:15.83
But there's nothing
worse than a family fight.
00:25:15.86\00:25:20.82
And what we see
today in the Middle East
00:25:20.85\00:25:22.35
and the hatred and
animosity is a family fight.
00:25:22.38\00:25:27.95
And the only way a
family fight can end
00:25:27.98\00:25:33.47
and a new beginning is
for the father to step in
00:25:33.50\00:25:39.92
and say boys, enough is enough.
00:25:39.95\00:25:43.39
Enough is enough.
00:25:43.42\00:25:45.59
The longest family
feud in history, friends.
00:25:45.62\00:25:48.67
In fact let me give you
a brief history about this.
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"And as for
Ishmael, I have heard thee,
00:25:50.87\00:25:52.41
Behold, I have blessed him."
00:25:52.44\00:25:54.68
You know sometimes we
Christians forget the blessing
00:25:54.71\00:25:57.06
that was given also to Ishmael.
00:25:57.09\00:25:58.83
" I have heard thee, Behold,
00:25:58.86\00:26:00.07
I have blessed him
will make him fruitful,
00:26:00.10\00:26:02.54
multiply him exceedingly,
twelve princes shall he beget,
00:26:02.57\00:26:06.07
and I will make
him a great nation."
00:26:06.10\00:26:08.39
Don't just pick
out the text you want.
00:26:08.42\00:26:11.54
Don't pick and choose.
00:26:11.57\00:26:15.28
Let God open His
word to you fully, amen.
00:26:15.31\00:26:17.48
Amen. That's the story.
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Let me give you a
little history here.
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The law in 1857 said
this, Only 300 Jewish families
00:26:20.55\00:26:25.95
could live in the
land of Palestine.
00:26:25.98\00:26:29.34
That was 1857 to be
exact, only 300 families.
00:26:29.37\00:26:33.74
But the promise
burns in the Jewish heart.
00:26:33.77\00:26:37.18
Follow me closely. World War I.
00:26:37.21\00:26:39.66
Jewish financiers,
00:26:39.69\00:26:41.86
they were asked by
Britain to help them win the war
00:26:41.89\00:26:44.45
and if they overcame the Turks
00:26:44.48\00:26:46.23
they would give
Palestine to the Jews.
00:26:46.26\00:26:48.98
But at the same time
00:26:49.01\00:26:50.61
Lawrence of
Arabia, you remember him,
00:26:50.64\00:26:54.38
he was making a
deal with the Arabs.
00:26:54.41\00:26:57.63
And he said to the Arabs,
00:26:57.66\00:26:58.69
now if you will
help me win this war
00:26:58.72\00:27:01.75
I'll give you Palestine.
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You see both
promises could not be kept.
00:27:05.20\00:27:09.96
And so came the
Balfour Declaration
00:27:09.99\00:27:12.94
and Palestine was given back,
00:27:12.97\00:27:15.27
Palestine was
given back to England.
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And I mean there was a
mandate by the League of Nations
00:27:17.93\00:27:21.81
which led by the way, that
led to the Triangle War, 1947.
00:27:21.84\00:27:27.39
England, Jews and Arabs.
00:27:27.42\00:27:30.57
England had discussed
00:27:30.60\00:27:31.76
gave Palestine back
to the United Nations.
00:27:31.79\00:27:33.99
That was in 1947.
00:27:34.02\00:27:35.64
And the General Assembly
made two states in Palestine,
00:27:35.67\00:27:38.75
one Jewish and one Palestinian.
00:27:38.78\00:27:43.18
Now it's heating up.
00:27:43.21\00:27:45.66
A half a century of
later follow me closely,
00:27:45.69\00:27:48.23
that led to the '56 war, 1956.
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Then 1967 the Six-day War.
00:27:51.18\00:27:54.27
I mean, that was
the greatest triumph
00:27:54.30\00:27:55.94
and the greatest
travail of Israel.
00:27:55.97\00:27:58.80
Israel's armies and air force
swept over Gaza up to Sinai,
00:27:58.83\00:28:02.88
took the entire
West Bank of Jordan
00:28:02.91\00:28:04.98
and the Golan
Heights in the north.
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War and terrorism
has followed since
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and all the rest is history.
00:28:09.72\00:28:11.36
1960, war, 1970, war, 1980, war,
00:28:11.39\00:28:17.11
1991, almost a war,
2001, on the brink of a war,
00:28:17.14\00:28:22.02
2013, facing the possibility
of war with Syrian and Iran
00:28:22.05\00:28:27.52
and the other Arab states
00:28:27.55\00:28:29.41
living under the nuclear threat.
00:28:29.44\00:28:31.50
But Israel still exists.
The Palestinians still exist.
00:28:35.44\00:28:40.88
The sons and daughters
of Abraham still exist.
00:28:40.91\00:28:44.24
We sometimes forget that
he had made that promise.
00:28:44.27\00:28:47.02
He is the miracle of
the ages, Jesus Christ.
00:28:47.05\00:28:49.32
He is reliable, Jesus
Christ and He tells us,
00:28:49.35\00:28:52.11
"And the Lord shall
scatter thee among all people,"
00:28:52.14\00:28:54.66
speaking of the Jews.
00:28:54.69\00:28:55.92
"And one of the
earth even unto the other."
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Here is the prophecy of God
00:28:58.30\00:29:00.22
and this is
exactly what happened.
00:29:00.25\00:29:01.88
I mean it's accurate.
It's divine intervention.
00:29:01.91\00:29:04.64
The Jews are a
people within a people,
00:29:04.67\00:29:06.86
part of a nation and
yet not part of a nation.
00:29:06.89\00:29:09.69
I mean they are
persecuted, they are rejected,
00:29:09.72\00:29:13.07
they are
scattered for 2,000 years.
00:29:13.10\00:29:17.02
Jerusalem, has been
conquered no less than 28 times
00:29:17.05\00:29:21.06
and yet the Jew survives.
00:29:21.09\00:29:22.86
The
Carthaginians, they perished,
00:29:22.89\00:29:24.95
the Phoenicians, they perished,
the Vandals, they perished.
00:29:24.98\00:29:28.68
Those nations are no
more, the Jew survives.
00:29:28.71\00:29:30.87
Why?
00:29:30.90\00:29:31.93
Because God said
about these people,
00:29:31.96\00:29:34.15
God said "And I will
bring you out from the people,
00:29:34.18\00:29:36.39
I will gather you
out of the countries
00:29:36.42\00:29:37.91
wherein ye are scattered,
and with a mighty hand,
00:29:37.94\00:29:40.11
will stretch out my arm
and with fury poured out."
00:29:40.14\00:29:42.57
He says.
00:29:42.60\00:29:43.63
Fear not for I am with thee,
00:29:43.66\00:29:45.12
I will bring thy
seed from the east,
00:29:45.15\00:29:46.83
and gather thee from the west,
00:29:46.86\00:29:48.42
and I will say to
the north give up,
00:29:48.45\00:29:50.47
and to the south,
00:29:50.50\00:29:51.85
keep not back,
bring my sons from far,
00:29:51.88\00:29:54.47
and my daughters from
the ends of the earth."
00:29:54.50\00:29:57.47
1857 unique fulfillment,
300 Jews in Palestine.
00:29:57.50\00:30:02.91
1917, 50,000 Jews in Palestine.
00:30:02.94\00:30:06.19
1950, 650,000 Jews in Palestine.
00:30:06.22\00:30:09.60
1973, 205 million
Jews in Palestine.
00:30:09.63\00:30:12.85
1988, three
million Jews in Palestine.
00:30:12.88\00:30:15.67
History has borne out.
00:30:15.70\00:30:16.82
1990, four
million Jews in Palestine.
00:30:16.85\00:30:19.75
In 2013, there are six
million plus Jews in Palestine.
00:30:19.78\00:30:24.60
I will bring thee back from
the four corners of the earth.
00:30:24.63\00:30:29.03
Back from eighty
countries of the world
00:30:29.06\00:30:31.90
the land of
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
00:30:31.93\00:30:34.66
Listen friend, no coincidence.
00:30:34.69\00:30:37.49
For the first time since
Nebuchadnezzar ruled in 569
00:30:37.52\00:30:41.02
there is truly an independent
Jewish state in Palestine.
00:30:41.05\00:30:46.04
Follow me.
00:30:46.07\00:30:47.10
The Jews taken into captivity,
00:30:47.13\00:30:48.94
the Jews
scattered in 80 nations,
00:30:48.97\00:30:51.26
now comes the change of status
00:30:51.29\00:30:53.44
and here's where the
preachers of prophecy fail.
00:30:53.47\00:30:56.48
Here's where those on TV fail
00:30:56.51\00:30:58.88
because they're
talking about the literal Jew.
00:30:58.91\00:31:01.57
I want to talk to you about
something greater than that.
00:31:01.60\00:31:03.97
I want to talk to you something
about cosmic than that.
00:31:04.00\00:31:06.61
I want to talk to
you about what God says
00:31:06.64\00:31:08.39
about a new
Israel, about a new people,
00:31:08.42\00:31:10.96
a new remnant of God not
heir according to Abraham,
00:31:10.99\00:31:14.46
but heir according
to the God of Abraham.
00:31:14.49\00:31:17.77
Luke 21, the
great prophecy of Luke,
00:31:17.80\00:31:21.77
"And they shall fall
by the edge of the sword,
00:31:21.80\00:31:24.66
and shall be led away
captive into all nations,
00:31:24.69\00:31:27.70
Jerusalem shall be
trodden down of the Gentiles,
00:31:27.73\00:31:31.08
until the times of the
Gentiles be fulfilled."
00:31:31.11\00:31:35.25
Now that little
word until. Until what?
00:31:35.28\00:31:39.41
Jerusalem will be trodden
under foot by the gentiles.
00:31:39.44\00:31:42.31
The word until
denotes a change of status.
00:31:42.34\00:31:46.23
Follow me now, in Acts 13
00:31:46.26\00:31:50.38
"Then Paul and
Barnabas waxed bold,
00:31:50.41\00:31:52.22
and said, it was
necessary the word of God
00:31:52.25\00:31:54.52
should be first
have been spoken to you."
00:31:54.55\00:31:56.95
Who? The Gentile.
00:31:56.98\00:31:58.23
And then the Bible says
that seeing you put it from,
00:31:58.26\00:32:00.44
or the Jews, put it from you
00:32:00.47\00:32:02.65
and judged yourself
unworthy of everlasting life,
00:32:02.68\00:32:05.01
lo we now turn to the Gentiles.
00:32:05.04\00:32:07.16
He said we preached to you,
00:32:07.19\00:32:08.84
we shared the good news
00:32:08.87\00:32:10.10
of the gospel of
Jesus Christ to you.
00:32:10.13\00:32:12.11
You have rejected it.
00:32:12.14\00:32:13.65
With the stoning of
Stephen you have rejected it.
00:32:13.68\00:32:16.44
He says now, a change of status.
00:32:16.47\00:32:19.76
He says, now, we
go to another people.
00:32:19.79\00:32:24.77
That for a moment
doesn't say Jews can't be saved,
00:32:24.80\00:32:27.88
but it doesn't mean
that because you're a Jew
00:32:27.91\00:32:29.87
you're gonna be saved.
00:32:29.90\00:32:32.44
That doesn't mean a
Norwegian can't be saved.
00:32:32.47\00:32:35.33
It has to do not
with the blood of Abraham.
00:32:41.14\00:32:45.43
It has to do with the blood
of the cross of Jesus Christ
00:32:45.46\00:32:48.94
that we become heirs
according to Abraham.
00:32:48.97\00:32:50.80
Come on now, you
can give God praise,
00:32:50.83\00:32:54.02
you could give God praise.
00:32:54.05\00:32:57.62
And yet so many people
are talking about the Jews,
00:32:57.65\00:32:59.78
the Jews, the Jews.
00:32:59.81\00:33:00.94
They're even trying to
build a temple for the Jews.
00:33:00.97\00:33:03.41
You are the
temple of the Holy Ghost.
00:33:03.44\00:33:08.75
We don't have to build a temple.
00:33:08.78\00:33:10.29
We're not gonna
slay a lamb again.
00:33:10.32\00:33:12.27
Jesus is the lamb slain
00:33:12.30\00:33:13.76
from the
foundations of the earth.
00:33:13.79\00:33:15.33
Can you say amen
in this place tonight?
00:33:15.36\00:33:17.47
That's until.
That's the until, until.
00:33:17.50\00:33:23.16
Now they do
survive and I thank God
00:33:23.19\00:33:25.50
and I like to
share faith with them
00:33:25.53\00:33:27.55
and I've met
many Messianic Jews,
00:33:27.58\00:33:29.63
I've met many people who
are coming to know Christ,
00:33:29.66\00:33:32.76
but let me tell you this friend,
00:33:32.79\00:33:34.27
as a believer
in the Word of God,
00:33:34.30\00:33:36.29
as a gospel preacher, we cannot,
00:33:36.32\00:33:39.79
we will not be saved
00:33:39.82\00:33:41.27
save for the blood of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:33:41.30\00:33:44.12
And whether He
places the blood on a Jew
00:33:44.15\00:33:46.30
or on a Norwegian,
it will take the blood.
00:33:46.33\00:33:52.24
They've survived
in spite of Masada.
00:33:52.27\00:33:54.19
I know that.
00:33:54.22\00:33:55.41
They survived, the Jewish nation
00:33:55.44\00:33:58.03
they have survived
in spite of Masada.
00:33:58.06\00:34:00.79
They have survived
in spite of Auschwitz,
00:34:00.82\00:34:03.41
they have survived as a people
00:34:03.44\00:34:05.67
and I thank God for
that, but listen to me friend,
00:34:05.70\00:34:09.55
the key to
understanding Revelation
00:34:09.58\00:34:11.90
and the people of God.
00:34:11.93\00:34:13.56
What so many interpreters
of prophecy fail to see
00:34:13.59\00:34:16.44
they miss the whole point.
00:34:16.47\00:34:19.34
Many interpreters are
denying the impact of Revelation
00:34:19.37\00:34:21.91
on contemporary times
and contemporary issues.
00:34:21.94\00:34:24.86
Everything for
them is capsulated
00:34:24.89\00:34:26.93
in some future event.
00:34:26.96\00:34:28.85
Well, it will come future,
it will come antichrist future.
00:34:28.88\00:34:34.39
Listen to me.
00:34:34.42\00:34:35.49
Jesus said at His day
00:34:35.52\00:34:37.50
that there are many
among you antichrists.
00:34:37.53\00:34:43.16
I'm gonna speak on
the antichrist by the way.
00:34:43.19\00:34:45.74
I'm going to
take a whole evening
00:34:45.77\00:34:46.81
to talk on the antichrist.
00:34:46.84\00:34:48.13
I'm going to talk
about the beast that
00:34:48.16\00:34:49.97
the Bible says it comes up
and power and religious power
00:34:50.00\00:34:54.32
and how that he
thinks to change times
00:34:54.35\00:34:56.70
and laws and will persecute
00:34:56.73\00:34:59.85
and I mean I'm gonna
talk about those things.
00:34:59.88\00:35:02.05
I'm gonna talk
about the tribulation.
00:35:02.08\00:35:03.73
In fact, I'm
gonna have advanced,
00:35:03.76\00:35:05.65
three advance
seminars in the future
00:35:05.68\00:35:10.46
and on a Saturday morning
00:35:10.49\00:35:12.36
I'm gonna do three
seminars on eschatology.
00:35:12.39\00:35:15.62
That's just a big
word for last day events
00:35:15.65\00:35:19.56
and we're going
to spend some time
00:35:19.59\00:35:20.72
in the Word of God together.
00:35:20.75\00:35:21.97
But listen to me,
that last day people,
00:35:22.00\00:35:26.68
like in John's day, the church
must choose Christ or Caesar.
00:35:26.71\00:35:32.45
Christ or antichrist.
00:35:32.48\00:35:36.01
When God raises
up His new Israel,
00:35:36.04\00:35:39.98
God's people I tell
you the war against them.
00:35:40.01\00:35:45.11
The tyrannical
leave of government
00:35:45.14\00:35:46.51
will try to pass
laws against them
00:35:46.54\00:35:51.34
and they will
persecute the church
00:35:51.37\00:35:52.72
as they did in
the first century.
00:35:52.75\00:35:55.72
It's not only dealing
with future end time events
00:35:55.75\00:35:57.97
but it's speaking
about believers today.
00:35:58.00\00:35:59.64
Listen believer,
spend time in prayer.
00:35:59.67\00:36:02.09
Listen believer, I want to pour
my heart out to you tonight.
00:36:02.12\00:36:05.14
Listen, spend time in prayer.
00:36:05.17\00:36:07.95
Spend time
reading the Word of God.
00:36:07.98\00:36:10.14
Spend time texting God.
00:36:10.17\00:36:12.39
You see Revelation is not about
an old city with a golden dome.
00:36:20.99\00:36:25.63
It's about a new
city called Jerusalem
00:36:25.66\00:36:28.01
that comes down
from God out of heaven.
00:36:28.04\00:36:30.19
That's what scripture is about.
That God is about to come.
00:36:30.22\00:36:33.48
Revelation's Israel is
the people of a new promise,
00:36:33.51\00:36:36.75
a new covenant.
00:36:36.78\00:36:37.95
They are not from
the loins of Abraham
00:36:37.98\00:36:39.71
but from the heart and
soul of Abraham's Messiah.
00:36:39.74\00:36:42.83
You see through Abraham
all nations are blessed,
00:36:42.86\00:36:45.44
but through Jesus
Christ all nations are saved.
00:36:45.47\00:36:52.15
That's why the Bible says,
"This gospel of the kingdom
00:36:52.18\00:36:55.22
shall be preached
in all the world."
00:36:55.25\00:36:56.76
Gospel is good
news. It's good news.
00:36:56.79\00:36:59.21
"There is neither Jew nor Greek,
00:36:59.24\00:37:02.53
there is neither bond nor free,
00:37:02.56\00:37:04.88
there is
neither male nor female,
00:37:04.91\00:37:07.41
for ye are all
one in Christ Jesus."
00:37:07.44\00:37:11.53
Why don't they tell you that?
00:37:11.56\00:37:13.64
Tyrants come and go
00:37:22.60\00:37:25.51
but God's word stands
fast forever and ever.
00:37:25.54\00:37:31.29
The hope of God
is found in His word.
00:37:31.32\00:37:33.76
It stands fast.
It changes lives.
00:37:33.79\00:37:38.20
It changes lives.
00:37:38.23\00:37:40.41
It makes sons of
anarchy children of God.
00:37:40.44\00:37:45.50
It makes gang
bangers children of God.
00:37:45.53\00:37:50.21
It makes
prostitutes children of God.
00:37:50.24\00:37:53.39
I makes-- I was
invited to go to Harlem
00:37:53.42\00:37:55.51
and preach my brother
and sisters up in Harlem,
00:37:55.54\00:37:59.38
they said would
you like to come up.
00:37:59.41\00:38:00.44
I said, Yes.
00:38:00.47\00:38:01.51
It was during the
time of black power.
00:38:01.54\00:38:02.95
Remember back there in the 70s
00:38:02.98\00:38:05.82
and I was the only
white man in Harlem
00:38:05.85\00:38:07.15
you know and I was preaching.
00:38:07.18\00:38:08.21
But I always
carry my Bible with me.
00:38:08.24\00:38:10.63
If they shot me they had
to go through Genesis, Exodus,
00:38:10.66\00:38:12.98
Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy.
00:38:13.01\00:38:16.21
And so I went up to Harlem
00:38:16.24\00:38:17.27
and they invited me
to this beautiful church,
00:38:17.30\00:38:21.39
my wife and I
and my two children.
00:38:21.42\00:38:23.89
They were always
a part of my team.
00:38:23.92\00:38:25.03
We were always
together and I remember
00:38:25.06\00:38:29.28
the first night of that meeting,
00:38:29.31\00:38:31.34
I'm standing up to preaching
00:38:31.37\00:38:32.40
and in walks this
beautiful black woman
00:38:32.43\00:38:35.51
but she had one of these Afros,
00:38:35.54\00:38:37.14
remember those Afros,
remember those big Afros?
00:38:37.17\00:38:40.87
But the difference
was it was a gold Afro.
00:38:40.90\00:38:45.69
It was a gold Afro.
00:38:45.72\00:38:48.54
And right away you
know I taught homiletics
00:38:48.57\00:38:51.16
in three seminaries
in three universities
00:38:51.19\00:38:53.87
and I always taught my students
00:38:53.90\00:38:55.16
don't look at the
same people all the time.
00:38:55.19\00:38:57.03
They think you're
preaching at them.
00:38:57.06\00:38:59.46
So here I am trying not
to look at the gold Afro.
00:38:59.49\00:39:04.04
I mean everywhere I go,
there's the gold Afro, I mean,
00:39:04.07\00:39:08.64
I'd turn around, oh,
there's the gold Afro
00:39:08.67\00:39:12.57
and I'm caught up in the
Spirit and the gold Afro.
00:39:12.60\00:39:19.13
I finally got through the sermon
00:39:19.16\00:39:22.19
and I went to the
back to greet people.
00:39:22.22\00:39:26.40
I tried that last night.
I ran around the building.
00:39:26.43\00:39:29.73
By the time I got there,
00:39:29.76\00:39:30.82
they had to give me
mouth to mouth resuscitation.
00:39:30.85\00:39:34.74
So if you want to meet me,
00:39:34.77\00:39:35.80
meet me up front
all right, anyway.
00:39:35.83\00:39:39.57
It's not that I don't love you
00:39:39.60\00:39:40.74
but I want to live
through this thing.
00:39:40.77\00:39:43.74
So after the
meeting I got back there.
00:39:43.77\00:39:44.98
I wanted to shake
hands with the people.
00:39:45.01\00:39:46.27
Beautiful people,
00:39:46.30\00:39:47.33
most beautiful
and wonderful people
00:39:47.36\00:39:48.53
I've ever met
were there in Harlem.
00:39:48.56\00:39:49.82
I mean they came out in January.
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.74
They came out in snow storms.
00:39:51.77\00:39:53.64
I mean the
church was packed full.
00:39:53.67\00:39:55.37
I mean rain didn't stop them.
00:39:55.40\00:39:58.77
Mugging didn't stop them.
00:39:58.80\00:40:02.30
They took subways,
buses to get there.
00:40:02.33\00:40:07.78
And so I'm
preaching away and after that
00:40:07.81\00:40:09.19
I'm greeting the
people and she comes, Goldie.
00:40:09.22\00:40:12.58
I shake her hand and I say hi,
I'm Ron, she says I'm Goldie.
00:40:12.61\00:40:14.97
I said Oh, perfect.
00:40:15.00\00:40:19.97
I mean, that's
absolutely perfect.
00:40:20.00\00:40:23.72
I said I'm so happy
to meet you, Goldie.
00:40:23.75\00:40:26.11
And she smiled
and she started out
00:40:26.14\00:40:28.46
and a deacon
came over and he says,
00:40:28.49\00:40:30.41
you know who she is?
00:40:30.44\00:40:32.11
I said yeah, keeping you
in suspense, that's Goldie.
00:40:32.14\00:40:38.40
He said that's right.
00:40:38.43\00:40:39.69
She's the prostitute from
145th Street, Amsterdam Avenue.
00:40:39.72\00:40:43.91
Now I don't know how
the deacon knew that.
00:40:43.94\00:40:45.98
But he wanted me to know it.
00:40:59.06\00:41:00.41
So me being who I am, you
know, I'm happy in the Lord.
00:41:00.44\00:41:07.50
I said oh, wow? I
couldn't sleep that night.
00:41:07.53\00:41:10.08
My wife had to
beat me to bed, I mean.
00:41:10.11\00:41:12.71
And I'm praying for Goldie.
00:41:12.74\00:41:13.87
I said it didn't matter
if anyone else came back,
00:41:13.90\00:41:16.97
please bring Goldie.
00:41:17.00\00:41:19.00
Next night there she came.
That big beautiful gold Afro.
00:41:19.03\00:41:24.32
Sat down. Night after night.
00:41:24.35\00:41:26.85
One night she was going
out and I said hi, Goldie.
00:41:26.88\00:41:28.78
I'm going to come
visit you. Her head fell.
00:41:28.81\00:41:35.17
She says no
pastor, I'll come here.
00:41:35.20\00:41:36.73
I said oh no, Jesus never said
00:41:36.76\00:41:38.76
meet me at the
office at 2 o'clock.
00:41:38.79\00:41:42.32
These new
professional ministers.
00:41:42.35\00:41:45.11
I'll meet you at 3--
let me see my calendar
00:41:45.14\00:41:47.30
and see if I can fit you in.
00:41:47.33\00:41:50.83
I said, no I got to
visit you. I'll come.
00:41:50.86\00:41:52.63
She said but I live where I work
00:41:52.66\00:41:53.76
and I work where I live.
00:41:53.79\00:41:57.66
So I said oh I'll be there.
00:41:57.69\00:41:59.12
She gave me her
address and I said
00:41:59.15\00:42:00.71
its Thursday
afternoon 2 o'clock.
00:42:00.74\00:42:02.30
She said that's
as good as anything.
00:42:02.33\00:42:05.42
So on the way home I
broke the news to me wife.
00:42:05.45\00:42:07.44
I said Honey,
I'm going on Thursday
00:42:07.47\00:42:08.99
to the house of prostitution
00:42:09.02\00:42:10.14
on 145th Street,
Amsterdam Avenue.
00:42:10.17\00:42:16.14
I said would you like
to come? She says, yes.
00:42:16.17\00:42:18.70
See you still can
laugh and go to heaven.
00:42:25.01\00:42:29.13
And so I'm rejoicing.
00:42:29.16\00:42:30.19
I can't wait till
Thursday afternoon.
00:42:30.22\00:42:33.00
Two o'clock my wife drives me.
00:42:33.03\00:42:34.32
My wife drives me everywhere.
00:42:34.35\00:42:36.27
In fact, I don't drive
hardly. My wife drives.
00:42:36.30\00:42:40.70
So if you see me
in a car relaxed,
00:42:40.73\00:42:42.24
my wife is driving.
00:42:42.27\00:42:43.63
Last month she
drove 9,000 miles with me.
00:42:43.66\00:42:46.28
She drove me. So
she drives in Harlem.
00:42:46.31\00:42:49.83
We have to triple park.
00:42:49.86\00:42:51.30
Anybody from Harlem?
Anybody here from Harlem?
00:42:51.33\00:42:54.35
Okay, you know
what I'm talking about.
00:42:54.38\00:42:57.32
You triple park. So she parked.
00:42:57.35\00:43:01.69
I said Honey, I'll be right out.
00:43:01.72\00:43:03.24
I'm just going
for a little visit
00:43:03.27\00:43:04.94
and pray for me.
00:43:04.97\00:43:08.65
I took my Bible, ran up
the stairs down the hall
00:43:08.68\00:43:12.81
and the customers were waiting.
00:43:12.84\00:43:14.97
Here I am the only
white guy in Harlem.
00:43:15.00\00:43:19.62
Come on now
because I love everybody.
00:43:19.65\00:43:22.07
You're all my brothers.
00:43:22.10\00:43:23.13
You can't come to
Christ and not love everybody.
00:43:23.16\00:43:26.47
So here I am.
00:43:26.50\00:43:27.77
And they say, hey
man, where you going?
00:43:27.80\00:43:29.54
I said, I'm going to see Goldie.
00:43:34.12\00:43:38.08
They said, Yeah man so are we.
00:43:38.11\00:43:41.43
I loved that moment. I
says, but I'm a preacher.
00:43:41.46\00:43:45.96
That got them
nervous. I knocked on the door.
00:43:45.99\00:43:53.53
She said, who is
it? I said, Pastor Ron.
00:43:53.56\00:43:58.03
Wait a few minutes, pastor.
00:43:58.06\00:44:01.49
So I waited.
00:44:01.52\00:44:02.55
The customer came
out and I went in.
00:44:02.58\00:44:03.95
What do you do?
What do you talk about?
00:44:03.98\00:44:08.74
The deep things of life? No.
00:44:08.77\00:44:13.15
What do you talk about?
00:44:13.18\00:44:17.09
The judgment? No.
00:44:17.12\00:44:20.51
What do you
preach? You don't preach.
00:44:20.54\00:44:23.50
I said Honey,
tell me your story.
00:44:23.53\00:44:27.20
And she says, you know preacher,
00:44:30.44\00:44:33.06
when I was a little girl
00:44:33.09\00:44:34.12
I learned in
Sunday school a song.
00:44:34.15\00:44:38.12
Jesus Loves Me, this I know.
00:44:38.15\00:44:43.03
She says, you know
pastor, she says all my life
00:44:43.06\00:44:46.51
I've had that song echoing
and reechoing in my mind even
00:44:46.54\00:44:50.07
when I'm doing
this for a living.
00:44:50.10\00:44:54.55
I said, that's a fact.
00:44:54.58\00:44:57.64
Jesus loves you,
Goldie, with an eternal love.
00:44:57.67\00:45:04.04
Love Him back.
00:45:04.07\00:45:05.10
She said I don't
know how to love.
00:45:05.13\00:45:09.06
I don't know how to
love. I said, let's kneel here.
00:45:09.09\00:45:14.67
I mean, it's a bed,
big bed nothing hardly.
00:45:14.70\00:45:19.08
So I knelt beside the
bed and Goldie knelt with me.
00:45:19.11\00:45:24.56
And I said Goldie, pray.
00:45:24.59\00:45:25.62
She said I don't
know how to pray.
00:45:25.65\00:45:26.74
I said just talk to God
like you would a friend.
00:45:26.77\00:45:29.49
why is it with religious people
00:45:29.52\00:45:30.99
when you pray you've
got these almighty God,
00:45:31.02\00:45:33.23
Thou in the heavens and earth
and yea, nay, though I talk.
00:45:33.26\00:45:37.06
What is that all about?
00:45:37.09\00:45:39.26
You don't talk to
a friend like that.
00:45:39.29\00:45:40.92
Hey nay, friend.
00:45:40.95\00:45:42.87
The higher the church the
larger your words, come on.
00:45:47.02\00:45:50.77
I said, just talk to
Him like you would a friend.
00:45:50.80\00:45:53.50
She prayed the
most beautiful prayer
00:45:53.53\00:45:54.61
I've ever heard
this side of heaven.
00:45:54.64\00:45:58.00
And when she got
through with her prayer
00:45:58.03\00:46:01.25
I shared with her the good
news that heaven is a free gift.
00:46:01.28\00:46:07.06
You don't earn it,
nor do you deserve it.
00:46:07.09\00:46:09.81
And I asked if she would like
to give her heart to Christ?
00:46:09.84\00:46:12.74
And there by that bed at
145th Street Amsterdam Avenue
00:46:12.77\00:46:16.75
this woman gave her
life to Jesus Christ.
00:46:16.78\00:46:19.14
You say Brother Halverson,
00:46:23.86\00:46:25.11
that's just
emotionalism, that don't work.
00:46:25.14\00:46:27.27
She became a Bible worker
00:46:27.30\00:46:31.01
and she's won 100s of
people to the Lord Jesus Christ
00:46:31.04\00:46:34.27
and was faithful till her death.
00:46:34.30\00:46:35.97
Why do we talk about prophecy?
00:46:41.04\00:46:44.17
Because Jesus Christ is
the greatest of all prophets.
00:46:44.20\00:46:49.31
And because the Bible tells
us that things are wrapping up.
00:46:49.34\00:46:53.98
This book is still
a light unto our path,
00:46:54.01\00:46:56.41
this book is still
the book of God for us.
00:46:56.44\00:46:58.98
"For the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of man,
00:46:59.01\00:47:01.90
but holy men of God
spake as they were" what?
00:47:01.93\00:47:04.52
"Moved by the Holy Ghost."
00:47:04.55\00:47:06.82
My Bible tells me
from ancient history
00:47:06.85\00:47:09.90
in Matthew 24
00:47:09.93\00:47:11.32
"Therefore be ye also ready,
00:47:11.35\00:47:13.34
for in such an hour as ye think
not the Son of man cometh."
00:47:13.37\00:47:17.35
Listen carefully,
take heed, take warning.
00:47:17.38\00:47:22.29
Wake up to the
possibility that this seed,
00:47:22.32\00:47:27.67
this seed born in a manger,
00:47:27.70\00:47:30.60
this seed who came from the womb
00:47:30.63\00:47:33.30
of a woman called Mary.
00:47:33.33\00:47:35.52
Don't you ever
belittle that woman?
00:47:35.55\00:47:38.95
If you preexisted your mother
00:47:38.98\00:47:41.08
what kind of
mother would you choose?
00:47:41.11\00:47:46.29
And she bore herself a Son.
00:47:46.32\00:47:50.49
Thou shalt call his name Jesus.
00:47:50.52\00:47:53.73
The seed born in Roman
tyranny and Jewish bigotry
00:47:53.76\00:47:58.14
would live to become
the Savior of the world.
00:47:58.17\00:48:02.40
He would hang upon the
cross and say to the world
00:48:02.43\00:48:05.24
Father, forgive them for
they know not what they do.
00:48:05.27\00:48:08.76
Messiah of the new heirs
of Abraham, spiritual Israel.
00:48:08.79\00:48:13.64
Those who have a
covenant in the blood of Christ.
00:48:13.67\00:48:16.63
You tonight can be
heir according to Abraham.
00:48:16.66\00:48:22.37
You tonight can be Israel.
00:48:22.40\00:48:26.68
You tonight can be a remnant.
00:48:26.71\00:48:31.06
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:48:31.09\00:48:33.36
here are they that keep
the commandments of God,
00:48:33.39\00:48:35.16
and the faith in Jesus."
00:48:35.19\00:48:36.75
You see the Middle East
00:48:36.78\00:48:37.81
conflict is cosmic in its scope.
00:48:37.84\00:48:41.05
What happens in the
Middle East is cosmic,
00:48:41.08\00:48:43.74
not something that happens
just in a little piece of land
00:48:43.77\00:48:47.16
but in the hearts of
those for the future.
00:48:47.19\00:48:50.63
Jesus Christ is
the Man of Revelation.
00:48:50.66\00:48:53.32
Don't tell me we can't
study the Book of Revelation
00:48:53.35\00:48:56.11
because we want
to know about Jesus.
00:48:56.14\00:48:58.00
You know more about Jesus
studying the Book of Revelation
00:48:58.03\00:49:01.06
for He is the One,
Jesus Christ is the One
00:49:01.09\00:49:04.27
reaches out to us and
He is the God of glory.
00:49:04.30\00:49:08.95
John sees vision of love,
he sees a vision of justice,
00:49:08.98\00:49:12.58
and he sees a vision of hope
00:49:12.61\00:49:14.96
that this new people
emerges from the fire,
00:49:14.99\00:49:18.11
these people
emerge the saints of God
00:49:18.14\00:49:21.07
singed in fire,
00:49:21.10\00:49:22.13
trampled under
the feet of godless
00:49:22.16\00:49:24.03
but emerging
forever the saints of God.
00:49:24.06\00:49:27.61
Revelation is about a
God who fulfills His promise,
00:49:27.64\00:49:31.36
the promise that
was made to Abraham,
00:49:31.39\00:49:32.80
then the promise
was made to you and I
00:49:32.83\00:49:37.43
"That there is neither
Jew nor Greek, bond nor free,
00:49:37.46\00:49:41.25
there is neither woman nor male
00:49:41.28\00:49:43.87
but we are all
one in Jesus Christ."
00:49:43.90\00:49:47.33
Galatians 3:28. John
looked out over Patmos.
00:49:47.36\00:49:53.20
That Patmos was the
place of persecution
00:49:53.23\00:49:56.36
and it was the place of death.
00:49:56.39\00:49:57.99
"John sees the sealed ones
00:49:58.02\00:49:59.48
the 144,000
like sands of the sea
00:49:59.51\00:50:02.26
who are the people of God.
00:50:02.29\00:50:03.75
And they over came him
by the blood of the Lamb,
00:50:03.78\00:50:06.35
and by the word
of their testimony
00:50:06.38\00:50:07.96
and they loved not
their lives even unto death."
00:50:07.99\00:50:10.92
The Bible teaches us that
we will not fail under God.
00:50:10.95\00:50:14.58
They overcame Him by
the blood of Jesus Christ.
00:50:14.61\00:50:18.15
We overcome 666. We
overcome the antichrist.
00:50:18.18\00:50:21.61
We overcome the
evil of deception
00:50:21.64\00:50:24.25
and the
conspiracy of the last days
00:50:24.28\00:50:26.35
because they are
the people of God.
00:50:26.38\00:50:28.43
They are the people
of God. We will not fail.
00:50:28.46\00:50:31.68
I am with you what? Always.
00:50:31.71\00:50:34.27
During World War II
you remember Churchill
00:50:34.30\00:50:36.42
that great statesman.
00:50:36.45\00:50:37.52
And Churchill,
he wanted his people
00:50:37.55\00:50:40.19
to understand
that God was with them.
00:50:40.22\00:50:43.20
And you recall
that prime minister
00:50:43.23\00:50:45.35
that 350,000 troops remember
were pushed back in Europe
00:50:45.38\00:50:49.25
and then they came from England,
00:50:49.28\00:50:50.43
took them back, 350,000 people.
00:50:50.46\00:50:52.72
They were redeemed from Europe
and they had their feet on--
00:50:52.75\00:50:56.69
the English
people were euphoric.
00:50:56.72\00:50:58.02
They thought this is great.
00:50:58.05\00:50:59.32
Churchill stood up
at the house of Commons,
00:50:59.35\00:51:00.97
he said wars are
not won by evacuation.
00:51:01.00\00:51:04.32
It was considered the
finest speech of 1,000 years.
00:51:04.35\00:51:07.64
Many said the speech
was worth a 1,000 guns.
00:51:07.67\00:51:10.12
Typically stoic Englishmen
wept and listened to him,
00:51:10.15\00:51:13.33
"We shall not flag not fail.
00:51:13.36\00:51:15.20
We shall go on to the end.
00:51:15.23\00:51:16.91
We shall fight in France
and we shall fight on the seas
00:51:16.94\00:51:19.40
and we shall fight on the oceans
00:51:19.43\00:51:20.99
and fight with
growing confidence
00:51:21.02\00:51:22.87
and growing strength in the air.
00:51:22.90\00:51:24.69
We shall defend our
island whatever the cost.
00:51:24.72\00:51:27.70
We shall fight in the
fields and the streets.
00:51:27.73\00:51:30.60
We shall never surrender!"
00:51:30.63\00:51:33.26
And I say to you
tonight here in this place
00:51:33.29\00:51:36.04
you must have that fortitude,
00:51:36.07\00:51:38.26
you must stand
up for God and say,
00:51:38.29\00:51:41.89
we will never surrender.
00:51:41.92\00:51:46.54
In the name of
Jesus Christ our Lord.
00:51:46.57\00:51:49.08
Good evening,
everyone. I'm John Bradshaw.
00:52:07.26\00:52:09.48
Glad to be answering
your Bible questions tonight.
00:52:09.51\00:52:12.66
We'll go to the Word of God
and find answers that matter
00:52:12.69\00:52:16.32
and that are going to
be a blessing to our life.
00:52:16.35\00:52:18.28
Okay.
00:52:18.31\00:52:19.34
Now here's a Bible question
we're gonna take a look at.
00:52:19.37\00:52:21.17
It's a good one.
00:52:21.20\00:52:22.81
"I've heard a
lot of explanations
00:52:22.84\00:52:24.44
for some prophecies that
don't seem to make sense.
00:52:24.47\00:52:27.66
How can I know who to
trust?" Now there's a question.
00:52:27.69\00:52:32.85
I've heard some
explanations for prophesies
00:52:32.88\00:52:35.88
that don't seem
to make sense either.
00:52:35.91\00:52:39.87
If you go back in
time, you remember hearing
00:52:39.90\00:52:42.08
that the beast of Bible prophecy
00:52:42.11\00:52:44.91
was a computer in Belgium.
00:52:44.94\00:52:47.19
You've heard about that, right?
00:52:47.22\00:52:48.83
Now, Brussels, the nerve
center of the European community
00:52:48.86\00:52:54.51
and somewhere in
the basement of the UN
00:52:54.54\00:52:56.33
building was a
great big computer
00:52:56.36\00:52:58.71
and the computer
was called the beast
00:52:58.74\00:53:00.84
and so I'm not
quite sure what actually
00:53:00.87\00:53:04.64
because it doesn't
make any sense at all today.
00:53:04.67\00:53:07.28
It didn't make a
lot of sense then
00:53:07.31\00:53:08.68
but somebody said it
and we who didn't know
00:53:08.71\00:53:10.73
a whole lot
better just thought well
00:53:10.76\00:53:12.28
that must be the way it is.
00:53:12.31\00:53:13.83
You know what's important?
00:53:13.86\00:53:15.30
Is if you read the
Bible for yourself.
00:53:15.33\00:53:19.29
Regarding a
computer being the beast
00:53:19.32\00:53:21.08
the Bible doesn't talk
about the mark of the computer.
00:53:21.11\00:53:24.21
The Bible talks
about the mark of the beast
00:53:24.24\00:53:25.89
and nowhere in the Bible
00:53:25.92\00:53:26.95
does the Bible say
a beast is a computer.
00:53:26.98\00:53:28.98
But this was a
commonly believed idea
00:53:29.01\00:53:33.79
for a good period of time.
00:53:33.82\00:53:35.28
And then when people
talked about the antichrist
00:53:35.31\00:53:37.12
they said well the antichrist
is going to be Henry Kissinger.
00:53:37.15\00:53:40.70
And there were various reasons
00:53:40.73\00:53:41.99
as to why the
antichrist was Henry Kissinger.
00:53:42.02\00:53:44.12
Then they said, well, years ago,
00:53:44.15\00:53:45.51
in fact, Adolph Hitler.
00:53:45.54\00:53:46.94
And you can understand
why they might have thought
00:53:46.97\00:53:50.00
Adolph Hitler was the antichrist
00:53:50.03\00:53:51.38
as he was the
personification of evil.
00:53:51.41\00:53:53.17
But no, Adolph Hitler
00:53:53.20\00:53:54.62
wasn't the
antichrist of Bible prophecy
00:53:54.65\00:53:56.64
even though he was
a dark, dark figure.
00:53:56.67\00:54:01.84
But more recently they said
00:54:01.87\00:54:02.90
the antichrist
that's Mikhail Gorbachev.
00:54:02.93\00:54:05.37
Remember him the
premier of the Soviet Union.
00:54:05.40\00:54:08.08
Because he had a
mark on his forehead,
00:54:08.11\00:54:10.83
sort of a port wine
stain, a birth mark.
00:54:10.86\00:54:13.42
And they said, well a
mark on your forehead.
00:54:13.45\00:54:16.58
Gorby has to be the antichrist.
00:54:16.61\00:54:18.08
But he wasn't and he isn't.
00:54:18.11\00:54:20.03
And so they said
it to Ronald Reagan
00:54:20.06\00:54:21.83
and you know why, right?
00:54:21.86\00:54:23.23
His name was Ronald Reagan.
00:54:23.26\00:54:24.61
Do you know his middle name?
00:54:24.64\00:54:26.65
Ronald Reagan's
middle name was Wilson.
00:54:26.68\00:54:29.82
Ronald, R-O-N-A-L-D, six letters
00:54:29.85\00:54:33.90
Wilson, W-I-L-S-O-N,
six letters six, six.
00:54:33.93\00:54:39.04
Does it hold true
for Reagan? Yes it does.
00:54:39.07\00:54:41.60
Ronald Wilson
Reagan, six, six, six.
00:54:41.63\00:54:46.38
Now that's a
whale of a coincidence
00:54:46.41\00:54:48.52
but it's not a good way
to study Bible prophecy.
00:54:48.55\00:54:51.23
Poor old Ronald
Reagan wasn't the antichrist.
00:54:51.26\00:54:54.89
I have been to his graveside
because it is very near
00:54:54.92\00:54:59.74
where I live and I've been there
00:54:59.77\00:55:02.42
and taken a look at
his final resting place
00:55:02.45\00:55:04.59
and there's nothing
about it that suggests he was
00:55:04.62\00:55:08.09
or possible ever
could be the antichrist.
00:55:08.12\00:55:12.13
King Juan Carlos
of Spain, antichrist.
00:55:12.16\00:55:14.14
Some people said Prince Charles.
00:55:14.17\00:55:17.65
No joke.
00:55:17.68\00:55:18.82
The antichrist of Bible prophecy
00:55:18.85\00:55:20.26
that's what they said.
00:55:20.29\00:55:21.32
Now it's worse than a joke
because a joke is harmless.
00:55:21.35\00:55:24.16
This is harmful if
it leads people astray.
00:55:24.19\00:55:26.26
And I mean, no disrespect to you
00:55:26.29\00:55:28.26
if you ever believed that
00:55:28.29\00:55:29.32
or even if you believe it today.
00:55:29.35\00:55:31.21
These are strange explanations
00:55:31.24\00:55:33.96
that you don't find
supported by the Bible.
00:55:33.99\00:55:37.23
So our questioner asked
I don't know who to trust.
00:55:37.26\00:55:40.19
I'll tell you who to
trust. Trust the Bible.
00:55:40.22\00:55:44.55
Trust Jesus if
you're looking for who.
00:55:44.58\00:55:46.97
Trust the Holy Spirit.
00:55:47.00\00:55:49.11
Now that's somebody you
can really, really trust.
00:55:49.14\00:55:53.37
There are going to be
different interpretations,
00:55:53.40\00:55:55.42
fanciful interpretations,
floating here and there
00:55:55.45\00:55:57.76
and the truth is we can listen
now and say Ronald Reagan?
00:55:57.79\00:56:01.86
That doesn't seem to make sense.
00:56:01.89\00:56:04.59
Let me challenge
that idea a little bit.
00:56:04.62\00:56:06.56
What if somebody spoke about
00:56:06.59\00:56:07.77
an
interpretation to Bible prophecy
00:56:07.80\00:56:09.58
that to you didn't
make a lot of sense.
00:56:09.61\00:56:13.04
Is that any
reason to dismiss it?
00:56:13.07\00:56:15.63
Well, maybe not.
00:56:15.66\00:56:17.26
Maybe what you need to do
00:56:17.29\00:56:18.67
is go to the
Bible, study the Bible
00:56:18.70\00:56:21.60
and see if the Bible
supports the idea or not.
00:56:21.63\00:56:25.20
Because I'm certain
there are some things
00:56:25.23\00:56:26.98
that you might
discover in the Word of God
00:56:27.01\00:56:28.69
that might not
depending on who you are,
00:56:28.72\00:56:31.08
where you're from,
what your background is,
00:56:31.11\00:56:33.81
make a lot of sense to
you, so at least not at first.
00:56:33.84\00:56:38.19
So go to the Bible.
That's what you can trust.
00:56:38.22\00:56:41.55
Follow the leading
of the Holy Spirit,
00:56:41.58\00:56:43.24
that's who you can trust.
00:56:43.27\00:56:45.34
Let people say what they
need to say, that's okay.
00:56:45.37\00:56:48.81
But let's be certain that
when it comes to something
00:56:48.84\00:56:51.00
as important as understanding
00:56:51.03\00:56:53.12
the prophecies of the Bible
00:56:53.15\00:56:54.74
that we purpose in our hearts
00:56:54.77\00:56:56.69
that we will
follow the leading of God
00:56:56.72\00:56:58.91
as revealed in the scriptures.
00:56:58.94\00:57:01.30
That's the safe, the
only, safe way to go.
00:57:01.33\00:57:06.12
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