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Now here's your host from
Amazing Facts International,
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Pastor Doug Bachelor.
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- Hello, friends, would you
like to hear an amazing fact?
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On November 17th, 2012,
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two fishermen
took their modest boat
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out on the Pacific Ocean
from a small Mexican port
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for a day trip.
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It was the first time
that Salvador Alvarenga
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and Ezekiel Cordoba
had worked together,
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overtaken by a violent storm,
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they were able to send
out one distress signal
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before their radio,
GPS, and outboard motor died.
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Driven into the open
sea, they drifted for weeks,
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tormented by thirst, eating
fish, turtles, and sea birds
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they caught with
their bare hands.
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From time to time a
thunderstorm would provide
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a little fresh water that
they caught in plastic bottles
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and in an oil drum they
had retrieved from the sea.
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In this small open
boat with no protection
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from the sun or cold,
they spent a great deal of time
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huddled together in
the insulated fish box
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that was about the
size of a refrigerator.
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Gradually sickened by the
diet, Cordoba stopped eating,
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and he died after 10 weeks,
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though desperately lonely,
Alvarenga refused to give up,
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he often prayed and said
that if God would spare him,
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he'd be a better man and
more dedicated as a father.
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Then on January 30th,
2014, Alvarenga's tattered boat
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washed up on the Ebon
Atoll in the southernmost tip
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of the Marshall Islands,
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6,000 miles from
where he had started.
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Adrift for 438 days,
Jose Salvador Alvarenga holds
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the record for the
longest solo survival at sea.
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Can you imagine that,
there's a picture of him there,
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a few days after
he had been rescued,
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and they had actually
gotten him where he could get up
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on his feet again,
when he first washed ashore
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on that island, and I've
been to the Marshall Islands,
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have been to Majuro, and
that's when he's landing there,
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he just started walking again.
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When he first landed he had
to crawl 'cause he hadn't stood,
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and barely stood, I
should say, in a year,
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and an incredible story of
someone surviving by themselves,
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catching rain water, turtles,
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he'd grab
sharks outta the water,
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he'd grab the little
fish, he'd eat the barnacles
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off the bottom of the boat,
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it's just an
amazing, amazing story.
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But one thing that I
didn't share that was in the,
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it's not in the
amazing fact I just read,
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is that his friend
Ezekiel Cordoba was
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a born-again
Christian, Alvarenga was not,
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he was kind of against
church, he believed in God, but,
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and before he died,
Alvarenga, Cordoba, rather,
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worked on his friend's
heart and softened his heart,
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he ended up turning to
God and redeemed his life,
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he went back home
and became a good father,
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and gave up his
wild partying ways,
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and it really was a
conversion experience for him.
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So, he was rescued
in more than one way,
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and I think we've
got an offer that.
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There's a verse, friends,
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I always like to
put in a Bible verse
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that goes along with our fact.
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Psalm 107:23-24, "Those who
go down to the sea in the ships,
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who do business
on the great waters,
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they see the works of the Lord
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and His wonders in the deep."
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- Well, he sure got to
see the wonders of the deep
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quite a period of time.
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It is amazing story
of just determination,
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doubtless, his
prayers made a difference,
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'cause he was
praying near the end,
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he realized that
his only help was God,
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and yet for him
to survive that long,
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not only just living
on whatever he could find,
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the fish and
drinking the rain water,
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but just being by himself
in the middle of the ocean
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for so long, you would
think somebody would give up,
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but he just refused to give up-
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- Yeah, I could go on
and on, it's quite a story,
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but there were about 20
times that tankers went by
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and he would wave
and they'd wave back,
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they just thought
he was out fishing,
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he was trying to get rescued,
and he'd see planes fly over
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and tankers go by,
and they just didn't stop,
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and so then he'd get
real discouraged for a while.
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- Sure, absolutely.
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Well, we do have a
free offer, Pastor Doug,
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that talks about a
much more important rescue,
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and that is called
"Rescue From Certain Death,"
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"Saved From Certain
Death," that is the free offer,
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it talks about salvation.
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I mean, whatever
happens here on this earth,
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if we are saved
from eternal destruction,
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we have hope, we have peace,
and so that's the free offer.
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How can we have the
assurance of salvation,
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it's called "Saved From
Certain Death," to receive it,
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all you need to do is
call the resource number,
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that's 800-835-6747 and
ask for offer number 109.
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Again, the number to
call is 800-835-6747,
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and you can ask for the gift,
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it's called "Saved
From Certain Death,"
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we'll be happy to send it
to anyone in North America,
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if you're
outside of North America,
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we encourage you to go to
the Amazing Facts website,
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just amazingfacts.org,
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and you can actually read
the lesson there for free.
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You can enroll in the free
Amazing Facts online course,
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and I know many
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by going through
those series of lessons,
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and that's all
available at amazingfacts.org.
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Well, Pastor Doug, We've got
some folks who have called in
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with their Bible questions,
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if you have a
Bible-related question,
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the number to call,
again, is 800-463-7297.
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Again, that's 800-463-7297,
that is the phone line
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to our studio with
your Bible question.
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Our first call of
this evening is Diane,
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listening in British Columbia.
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Diane, welcome to the program.
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- [Diane] Thank you, yes.
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I have a
question, I have a friend
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who's just picking up the Bible
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and she's reading
through the Old Testament,
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and she's really struggling
with all of God's violence
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that's talked about
in the Old Testament,
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and it's making her
question how God can be love,
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and I'm just wondering
where do I start by helping her
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to see the love of God
when she's reading this?
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- Well, one really
important place to direct her
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is the teachings of Jesus.
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He said, "If you've seen
Me, you've seen the Father,
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so she wants to
understand something
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about what God is like,
the God in the Old Testament
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is the same God that you
see in Jesus, and God is love,
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this is what the apostles saw,
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the love and the
compassion of Jesus.
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Now, in the Old
Testament, you're often reading
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about God leading a nation
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and those nations
were often warring,
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and so God, not wanting
His people to be annihilated,
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they had to defend themselves.
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God, He does not
want anyone to die,
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the Bible tells us the Lord
does not want anyone to perish,
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and in the Book
of Ezekiel it says,
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"Turn ye, turn
ye, why will you die?"
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God has no pleasure in
the death of the wicked,
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but because of sin in the world,
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and because there
was sinful people,
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sometimes there was war and
sometimes there was violence,
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and I know some people, Pastor,
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will struggle with just the
idea of the sacrificial system,
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why would these
innocent animals die?
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And it tells us something
about the deadly nature of sin.
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- And despite the
violence and the war
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that you do read
about in the Old Testament,
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'cause it's talking
about different kingdoms,
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you also get amazing
revelations of God's love,
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His mercy, His long
suffering with Israel,
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and His protection.
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I'm just thinking
the children of Israel,
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as they wandered
through the wilderness,
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how God fed them with
the special food from heaven,
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how He gave them
water from the rock,
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how that God forgave
them time and time again
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from their rebelliousness
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and throughout
the history of Israel,
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you can see how
God's mercy was there
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and how He forgave them.
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- Yep, amen.
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- All right, well,
thanks for your call, Diane.
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We've got Lee
listening in North Carolina.
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Lee, welcome to the program.
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- [Lee] Oh, hi,
pastors, thank you so much
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for taking my call.
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- Yeah. - My question is
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about Genesis, and
actually the Sabbath.
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Chapter 2 in Genesis, right?
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"And God sanctified the day,"
and then in Exodus you have
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the Ten
Commandments where, of course,
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the Sabbath is the Fourth.
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My question is how did
God communicate to the Jews
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about the Sabbath?
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Because Noah wasn't a Jew,
did he know about the Sabbath?
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Did he keep the Sabbath?
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How did God communicate
that before the actual laws?
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- Yeah, you can find where,
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and Pastor Ross
might find the reference,
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where it talks about Abraham.
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Now, Abraham's not a Jew,
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Abraham lived before they
ever went through the Exodus
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and came to Mount Sinai,
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and the Bible says, "Abraham
kept my laws, my statutes,
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and my judgements,"
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and I don't remember
if that's Genesis 20.
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- Genesis 26:25. - 26, okay.
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You wanna read
the whole verse there?
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- Yeah, it says, speaking of
Abraham, "He obeyed my voice,
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kept my charge, my commandments,
my statutes, and my laws."
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- So God had a
law, the Bible tells us
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that God told Cain
that sin was at the door
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when he murdered his
brother, that was clearly a sin,
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and God told Joseph
that adultery would be a sin
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when Potiphar's
wife tempted him,
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and before the children
of Israel got to Mount Sinai,
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the bread from heaven
would rain down six days a week,
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but there'd be none on
the seventh day of the week,
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and God said,
"This is the Sabbath."
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So I do believe when
Noah was building the ark,
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he took off every Sabbath day,
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I don't think he
worked seven days a week,
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and that they knew
about that day of rest.
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Man has always
needed that rest physically,
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and as our
quality time with God,
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that's why Jesus said
the Sabbath was made for man
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and the word there,
man, is, it's not Jew,
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it's anthropos,
it means humanity.
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So God gave Adam and Eve
the Sabbath back in the garden
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and they passed it
on, faithful, kept it,
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those
unfaithful did not keep it,
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as with the other commandments.
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- You know, we do have a study
guide that talks about that,
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it's called "The
Lost Day of History,"
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and it goes back into
the history of the Sabbath
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and how that was
established at creation.
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If you'd like to
learn more about that,
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the number to
call is 800-835-6747,
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and again, you can
ask for that free offer,
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it's called "The
Lost Day of History,"
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we'll be happy to send that
to anyone who calls and asks,
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it's 800-835-6747.
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Thanks for your call, Lee.
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We've got Maya
listening from North Dakota.
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Maya, welcome to the program.
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- [Maya] Okay,
so my question is,
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I've been studying Ezekiel,
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and at the end of Ezekiel,
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God takes him in a vision
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and the angels measuring
the sanctuary on earth,
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the heaven
sanctuary, or the new Jerusalem?
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I'm confused on what's
going on at the end of Ezekiel.
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- All right, Ezekiel is one
of the four apocalyptic prophets
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in the Bible, meaning
that God spoke to them
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in these visions
that were full of symbols,
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and not always to
be taken literally.
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It's like when
you get to Revelation,
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it talks about a woman
riding a beast with seven heads,
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well, that's not
real, those symbols,
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the woman represents a church,
there it's a fallen church.
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In Ezekiel, the temple of
God, the Bible says, what?
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"Don't you know that
you are the temple of God?"
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Is what Paul tells us.
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And so when a Ezekiel is
measuring the temple, it's also,
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there's a measuring of
the temple in Revelation
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that is
referring back to Ezekiel,
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and it's talking about, really,
a judgment of God's people.
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So all these
things, it's talking about
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that beautiful
temple in Ezekiel,
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I think are in
symbolic language.
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Yeah, 'cause
there's no time in history,
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in Jewish history,
or to the present time,
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when that temple
was physically built.
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First of all, it was huge,
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it's much bigger than
when they rebuilt the temple,
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and then you read
about the river and he says,
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he goes into this
river that's a mile long
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and a mile wide, I
should say, and halfway in,
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he's only up to his
thighs, it's this huge river,
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and then he talks
about the trees by the river
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continually bear fruit, and
their leaves are for healing,
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or for medicine.
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Well, that's
taken from Revelation,
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where it says the
leaves of the tree of life
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are for the
healing of the nation.
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So a lot of
parallels between Ezekiel,
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especially to the last
chapters there, and Revelation,
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they should
probably be studied together.
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- That's right, so
one might even understand
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that is to be a symbolic
representation of the sanctuary
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in the new earth, in the new
Jerusalem that we read about,
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where the river is
flowing forth, the river of life
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that flows out.
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So there's some parallels there
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in that study with Revelation.
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Thanks for your call.
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We've got Caleb
listening in New York.
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Caleb, welcome to the program.
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- [Caleb] Hello,
Pastor Ross and Pastor Doug,
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thank you so
much for everything.
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- Thank you for calling.
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- [Caleb] Thank
you for picking up.
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Two questions, I
wanna know if Daniel 11
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has any correlation with Russia,
and my other question is,
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is that I live
with one of my friends,
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I have a lot of friends that
aren't Christians and one time,
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not too long ago, I had a
discussion with my friends,
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I didn't wanna get to,
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he was very passionate
about what he believes,
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but I felt like I didn't
say enough to defend God.
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Do you think God's
gonna punish me for that?
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'Cause I was just, I
said, told him the truth,
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but I wasn't
very forward about it.
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- Yeah. - I think I was trying
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to avoid an argument.
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Do you think God's
gonna punish me for that?
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- I know exactly how
you feel, it's often true,
00:14:06.24\00:14:09.18
and don't be discouraged.
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I think Pastor Ross will
say that there's probably times
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that he also has thought,
after talking to someone
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about the Lord, "Did
I say the right thing?
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Did I say enough?
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Did I miss an opportunity?"
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That happens every day, and
if we do miss an opportunity
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or say something
wrong, or don't say enough,
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and sometimes I've been
ashamed at being ashamed,
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sharing my faith.
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You ask God to
forgive you and you move on.
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I mean, even Peter,
he boldly denied Christ
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and Jesus forgave him.
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So, it's wrong, we
should pray that God helps us
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to be faithful, and courageous,
and accurate, and bold,
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even Paul says pray for boldness
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because sometimes we're
intimidated to be timid,
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but don't be
discouraged if that happens,
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'cause I think every believer
has times where you think,
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"Oh, I wish I'd
done a better job."
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- Does that help, Caleb?
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- Oh, now you asked about,
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we never did answer your
question about Daniel 11.
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Daniel 11 does cover
the panorama of history
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from the time of, I
guess it's from Persia to,
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'cause Babylon's already fallen.
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So it covers the time
of history from Persia
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to the second coming,
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and so, yeah, it's
got Michael standing up
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in the great final time of
trouble in the resurrection,
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so it covers that time span.
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I don't think there's any verses
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that particularly
mention the battle
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that's going on in
Russia with Ukraine right now.
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It does talk
about a number of wars,
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but I don't know of anything
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that would allude
to that in Daniel 11.
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- Mm-hm, yeah, I think
Daniel, especially Daniel 9, 11,
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you've got some time
periods, well, Daniel 11 too.
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It's covering a lot,
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much larger time
period than just a few years,
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talking about hundreds of years,
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thousands of years,
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that's been
reviewed within that chapter.
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- Kinda sweeping
overview, very quick.
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- Mm-hm.
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All right, well,
thanks for your call, Caleb.
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We've got Aaron
listening in New York.
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Aaron, welcome to the program.
00:16:02.62\00:16:04.59
- [Aaron] Hello pastors,
Thank you for taking my call.
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- Thank you for calling.
00:16:07.46\00:16:08.66
- [Aaron] My question is,
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was Noah and
his three sons alive
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when the Tower of
Babel was being built?
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- Good question, as
far as Noah, let me think.
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I think after the flood he
still lives about 300 years,
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so there's a good chance,
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definitely his
sons were still alive
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because Shem lived all the
way through the time of Abraham,
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and the Tower of Babel had
been considerably before that.
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So, you go from,
it's not long after Shem
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that you end up
with Terah and Aaron,
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the parents and
brother of Abraham,
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so it doesn't necessarily
mean that Noah had moved
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to the Mesopotamian valley
where they built the tower,
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so Noah may have been alive.
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A lot of people went down there
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and they congregated
in the land of Sinar,
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and that's where they
built the Tower of Babel,
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not everybody went, Noah
may have stayed somewhere
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in the foothills of Ararat,
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where the ark settled.
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- Mm-hm, we do have
a interesting timeline
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that's available online,
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it's a website that Amazing
Facts has, Bible Timeline
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and if you were to look that up,
00:17:20.67\00:17:22.24
you could
actually page through it
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and you can see
the time of Noah,
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and then see who
was alive at the time,
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and after that, and when Noah
died, and what was happening,
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it's just very informative,
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so you might wanna
take a look at that.
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Just go to the
Amazing Facts website.
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- I think it's biblehistory.com
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- Bible History,
is that what it is?
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- Yeah, I'm looking
it up and I think so.
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- Okay, yes, we have a
number of websites, friends,
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if you're wondering about that,
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but this is one that
Amazing Facts put together
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that is a great resource
00:17:47.40\00:17:48.86
for people wanting
to study the Bible,
00:17:48.86\00:17:50.87
get an idea of the timelines,
biblehistory.com or.org,
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and take a look at that,
got a lot of good information.
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We've got Lance
listening from Texas.
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Lance, welcome to the program.
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- [Lance] Yeah, I
know that Ellen White,
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she wrote a prophecy,
and it pretty much says
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that there's going to be
people alive from her time
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for the second coming of
Christ, and if that's the case,
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I guess then it
must be really close
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'cause what's the
longest living person ever
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for this modern era?
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It's like 122 years,
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so I would like to know
what's your take on that.
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- Yeah, well, I think I
know what you're talking about.
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She made there's one statement
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in the book
"Prophets and Kings,"
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where she talks about in
the days of Queen Esther,
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there was a law
that all of God's people
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had to worship a certain way
or they were gonna be killed,
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and she said, "There's
some living on the earth today
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that will see
those words fulfilled."
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Well, there already
have been some people
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that have lived to
see the words fulfilled,
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that if you didn't worship a
certain way, you'd be killed.
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There are people who
are killed for their faith
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all the time.
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If she was talking specifically
00:19:02.74\00:19:04.31
about the second coming
there and the final events,
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she could have been talking
in what you call hyperbole,
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and what I mean by that
is, Paul, for instance, said,
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"The gospel's been
preached in all the world,"
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well, he meant
in the Roman empire.
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And so when she made
a statement like that,
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if she's speaking in hyperbole,
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she means we're
really near the end.
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- Something
else to bear in mind,
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whenever you read the
New Testament and you read,
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for example, Paul,
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he speaks of being alive at
the second coming of Christ,
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it says, "We who
are alive and remain
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until the coming of the Lord
will be caught up to meet them,
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and the dead in
Christ will rise first."
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The prophet in
vision never saw himself
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coming up amongst
those who are resurrected,
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they always see themself
amongst those who are alive
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at the second coming of Christ,
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that doesn't mean, of
course, that Paul was wrong
00:19:52.75\00:19:55.96
in saying that we
who are alive and remain
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until the coming of
the Lord, but in vision,
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he always saw himself
amongst those who were saved.
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- And they called
it the blessed hope.
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- Mm-hm.
00:20:03.93\00:20:05.07
So you wanna
also bear that in mind
00:20:05.07\00:20:06.43
as you study through these
different prophetic passages
00:20:06.43\00:20:09.20
of the Bible.
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All right, well,
thanks for your call, Lance.
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We've got Jerry
listening in Arizona.
00:20:11.84\00:20:13.64
Jerry, welcome to the program.
00:20:13.64\00:20:15.21
- [Jerry] Thank you,
pastors, for taking my call.
00:20:16.64\00:20:19.15
So, my question
is in the gospels,
00:20:20.25\00:20:23.12
when it refers to
Jesus's resurrection,
00:20:23.12\00:20:25.72
they all say on the
first day of the week,
00:20:25.72\00:20:28.42
well, I kinda
discovered that the we word week
00:20:28.42\00:20:31.66
is actually plural in Greek,
and it's the word for Sabbath,
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which some people
talk about referring
00:20:36.77\00:20:38.67
the beginning of the
seven weeks to Pentecost,
00:20:38.67\00:20:41.87
so, I'm just wondering how
people can tie this to worship.
00:20:41.87\00:20:46.84
- Yeah, well, there's
no question that Jesus rose
00:20:48.61\00:20:52.21
on what would be called the
first day of the week or Sunday,
00:20:52.21\00:20:55.88
because it says after
the Sabbath was passed.
00:20:55.88\00:20:59.69
Well, what do you
have after the Sabbath?
00:20:59.69\00:21:01.29
If the Sabbath
is the seventh day,
00:21:01.29\00:21:03.02
and there's only
seven days in the week,
00:21:03.02\00:21:04.46
after the Sabbath is past,
00:21:04.46\00:21:05.83
all you've got
left is the first day,
00:21:05.83\00:21:08.23
and so Jesus clearly
rose very early in the morning
00:21:08.23\00:21:13.13
in what you would call
the first day of the week.
00:21:13.13\00:21:15.04
Now, I don't think
that initiates Sunday
00:21:15.04\00:21:18.11
as a new day of worship.
00:21:18.11\00:21:19.44
There's no command
in the Bible anywhere
00:21:20.51\00:21:22.44
that we are to
remember the first day or Sunday
00:21:22.44\00:21:24.88
as the new
Sabbath or the Lord's day.
00:21:24.88\00:21:27.68
- Well, if you use that
argument, Pastor, again,
00:21:27.68\00:21:29.12
there are some folks
who say we got on a Sunday
00:21:29.12\00:21:32.02
because that's the
day of the resurrection.
00:21:32.02\00:21:33.52
Well, what is more important?
00:21:33.52\00:21:35.32
His death on Calvary,
00:21:35.32\00:21:36.69
which happened on a Friday,
or His resurrection on Sunday?
00:21:36.69\00:21:39.96
Both are equally important,
00:21:39.96\00:21:41.36
without His
substitutionary death
00:21:41.36\00:21:43.20
there'd be no
hope for resurrection,
00:21:43.20\00:21:44.93
so, just because
those are historical facts
00:21:44.93\00:21:47.77
and those are the days
that those things occurred,
00:21:47.77\00:21:49.80
it doesn't now somehow
make it a new day of worship.
00:21:49.80\00:21:53.21
- Yeah, yeah, there's no
reason to change the old day,
00:21:53.21\00:21:55.68
God didn't make a mistake-
00:21:55.68\00:21:56.98
- Right.
00:21:56.98\00:21:58.28
- Ten Commandments
are written in stone
00:21:58.28\00:22:00.32
and they're not multiple choice.
00:22:00.32\00:22:02.48
- You know, we did mention a
free offer a little while ago,
00:22:02.48\00:22:04.72
it's called "The
Lost Day of History,"
00:22:04.72\00:22:06.32
and again, we
wanna encourage those,
00:22:06.32\00:22:07.62
if you've never read
what the Bible has to say
00:22:07.62\00:22:09.82
about the Sabbath and
the blessings of the Sabbath,
00:22:09.82\00:22:12.89
call and ask for that, we'll
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00:22:12.89\00:22:14.73
The number to call is
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00:22:14.73\00:22:18.73
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00:22:18.73\00:22:20.34
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00:22:20.34\00:22:23.30
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00:22:25.71\00:22:29.91
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00:22:29.91\00:22:34.02
Next call that we have is Israel
listening from Washington.
00:22:34.02\00:22:37.95
Israel, welcome to the program.
00:22:37.95\00:22:39.55
- [Israel] How you doing?
00:22:40.92\00:22:41.79
How you doing, Doug?
00:22:41.79\00:22:42.82
- Doing good,
thanks for calling.
00:22:42.82\00:22:44.76
- [Israel] So my question is,
00:22:45.69\00:22:47.23
when God delivered the
Israelites from slavery in
00:22:47.23\00:22:52.17
Egypt, from my understanding, He
basically took 'em on a crusade,
00:22:53.94\00:22:57.57
wiping out every ungodly people
00:22:57.57\00:23:01.08
by killing every man, woman,
and child that was ungodly
00:23:01.08\00:23:04.75
until they got to
the promised land,
00:23:04.75\00:23:07.32
so if I choose to
fight for my country,
00:23:07.32\00:23:11.45
and let's say I go to war
and I'm gonna have to kill,
00:23:11.45\00:23:14.99
if these people are ungodly,
00:23:14.99\00:23:17.06
am I sinning by
choosing to take that route?
00:23:18.13\00:23:21.53
- Yeah, I think
it would be wrong,
00:23:24.30\00:23:27.04
Jesus talks about
Christians not killing,
00:23:27.04\00:23:32.11
He came, He said, "I did
not come to destroy men's lives,
00:23:33.51\00:23:34.58
but to save them,"
and just to be clear,
00:23:34.58\00:23:37.11
the children of Israel,
first of all, in the wilderness,
00:23:37.11\00:23:39.21
the only ones that they
fought against and annihilated
00:23:39.21\00:23:41.98
were the Amalekites
or they fought against,
00:23:41.98\00:23:44.12
they didn't
even annihilate them,
00:23:44.12\00:23:45.22
then there were
some pagan nations
00:23:45.22\00:23:47.52
that were bent on
destroying Israel,
00:23:47.52\00:23:51.03
and so they were told
to fight against them.
00:23:51.03\00:23:53.90
The interpersonal
laws of the Christian
00:23:55.46\00:23:58.17
are different from civil laws,
00:23:58.17\00:24:01.10
God's laws, or
even national laws,
00:24:01.10\00:24:03.67
God's laws
regarding civil things
00:24:03.67\00:24:06.64
was under what
they call a theocracy,
00:24:06.64\00:24:09.24
we are not under a
theocracy that is led by God,
00:24:10.51\00:24:13.58
we're under a democracy
that's led by faulty humans,
00:24:13.58\00:24:18.39
and so I think that a person
needs to think long and hard
00:24:18.39\00:24:22.12
about going to war and taking
up arms to shoot a person.
00:24:22.12\00:24:25.53
Now, don't misunderstand,
00:24:25.53\00:24:27.83
I have tremendous
respect for young men and women,
00:24:27.83\00:24:32.70
two of them being,
00:24:32.70\00:24:34.40
I've got a son and daughter
that were in the service,
00:24:34.40\00:24:37.04
I'm so thankful the
freedoms that they defend,
00:24:37.04\00:24:39.84
but I think as a Christian
you need to be very careful
00:24:39.84\00:24:42.44
about saying that
I'm gonna take up arms.
00:24:42.44\00:24:45.51
I think if you're
gonna defend your country,
00:24:45.51\00:24:47.02
try and find some
area where you can do it,
00:24:47.02\00:24:49.42
where maybe you
could help save a life
00:24:49.42\00:24:52.72
or do it in a
medical field or something.
00:24:52.72\00:24:55.12
- Well, pastor,
like, there are examples,
00:24:55.12\00:24:56.73
you mentioned that
Israel at the time,
00:24:56.73\00:24:58.83
they were being led by a cloud,
00:24:58.83\00:25:00.36
the cloud led them,
the pillar fire by night,
00:25:00.36\00:25:02.86
prior to them going into war,
00:25:02.86\00:25:04.40
God would communicate to Moses
and give them instructions.
00:25:04.40\00:25:07.94
In some cases it was
a very decisive battle
00:25:07.94\00:25:13.01
where the purpose was to remove
an ungodly group of people,
00:25:14.34\00:25:16.78
but there were other times
where God would actually say,
00:25:16.78\00:25:18.71
"No, leave them alone," or,
"Save the woman and children,"
00:25:18.71\00:25:22.02
so God was actually
leading and directing Israel.
00:25:22.02\00:25:24.82
Part of the reason why
Israel went into captivity
00:25:24.82\00:25:27.06
for the 400 years,
00:25:27.06\00:25:28.72
God said to Abraham,
"Because the iniquity
00:25:28.72\00:25:30.66
is not yet full of the land,"
00:25:30.66\00:25:32.63
so God had given them a
400 years of probationary time
00:25:32.63\00:25:35.93
before Israel
returned to the promised land,
00:25:35.93\00:25:38.67
before the
judgements came upon them,
00:25:38.67\00:25:40.70
and they knew about
Abraham and they were witnesses
00:25:40.70\00:25:43.20
for the truth
during that time period,
00:25:43.20\00:25:45.17
but God was giving them
time to make a decision,
00:25:46.31\00:25:49.18
so it was unique situation.
00:25:49.18\00:25:50.55
- Yeah, yeah, it
was. - It was a judgment,
00:25:50.55\00:25:51.58
different from today.
00:25:51.58\00:25:53.38
All right, well, thank
you for your call, Israel.
00:25:53.38\00:25:54.78
You know, and Pastor
Doug, I'm looking at the clock,
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we've got about a minute
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00:31:21.01\00:31:23.41
Christine,
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00:31:23.41\00:31:25.81
- [Christine] Hi, pastors,
thank you for taking the call.
00:31:25.81\00:31:28.52
It's just one question, how
do we submit our will to God?
00:31:28.52\00:31:33.59
How do we know that
we are actually doing,
00:31:34.69\00:31:36.42
submitting our will to God?
00:31:37.33\00:31:38.86
- Well, that is
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00:31:39.96\00:31:41.90
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that Jesus fought was there
00:31:41.90\00:31:44.03
in the garden of Gethsemane,
00:31:44.03\00:31:45.37
where He said, you know,
00:31:45.37\00:31:46.90
"Father, if there's any way
for this cup to pass from Me,
00:31:46.90\00:31:50.24
but not in My
will, Thy will be done,"
00:31:50.24\00:31:53.24
and that battle was so intense,
00:31:53.24\00:31:55.01
He prayed that
prayer three times
00:31:55.01\00:31:56.38
and He was perspiring blood,
00:31:56.38\00:31:59.11
the Bible
describes it as an agony.
00:31:59.11\00:32:00.88
So the biggest
battle that any of us wage,
00:32:00.88\00:32:03.08
and it's on a day-to-day basis,
00:32:03.08\00:32:04.45
is saying, "Not what I
want Lord, but what You want."
00:32:04.45\00:32:08.02
So, how do you know
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00:32:08.02\00:32:10.76
Well, you, day
by day ask yourself,
00:32:10.76\00:32:13.70
"Am I doing my
will or God's will?"
00:32:13.70\00:32:15.43
God's will is
revealed in God's law
00:32:15.43\00:32:17.93
and in the teachings of Jesus,
00:32:17.93\00:32:20.00
and I think we do have
a book that talks about
00:32:20.00\00:32:22.40
how can we know the will of God,
00:32:22.40\00:32:23.94
and in there is a section on
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00:32:23.94\00:32:26.61
- Mm-hmm,
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We got Theresa
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00:32:51.13\00:32:53.40
Theresa, welcome to the program.
00:32:53.40\00:32:54.97
- [Theresa] Hi,
good evening, pastors.
00:32:56.17\00:32:58.04
- Evening!
00:32:58.04\00:32:58.84
- [Theresa]
Great, I have a question
00:33:00.14\00:33:01.91
regarding Revelation
16:1-2, where it says
00:33:01.91\00:33:06.98
that the first vial is
poured out upon the earth,
00:33:09.62\00:33:13.52
and the men which had
the mark of the beast,
00:33:13.52\00:33:16.73
and them which
worship his image,
00:33:16.73\00:33:20.16
is that the close of probation
00:33:21.63\00:33:26.07
and the people
that receive this mark,
00:33:26.07\00:33:30.87
the grievous sore, will
they have a chance to repent
00:33:33.94\00:33:37.95
at that time?
00:33:37.95\00:33:39.05
- No, when the seven
last plagues begin to fall
00:33:40.55\00:33:44.45
and they're in Revelation 16,
00:33:44.45\00:33:46.15
you have the first plagues
00:33:46.15\00:33:48.52
and you get first,
second, third plagues
00:33:48.52\00:33:50.16
in the first four verses there,
00:33:50.16\00:33:51.79
once the plagues begin to
fall, probation is closed,
00:33:53.19\00:33:55.83
and Pastor Ross, that
verse in Revelation 22,
00:33:55.83\00:33:58.17
where it says, "He that is
just, let him be just still,
00:33:58.17\00:34:01.80
and he that is filthy,
let him be filthy still."
00:34:01.80\00:34:03.91
It kind of indicates
00:34:03.91\00:34:05.14
that once you reach
the close of probation,
00:34:05.14\00:34:08.18
the saved are
saved, the lost are lost,
00:34:08.18\00:34:10.11
and the door of mercy closed.
00:34:10.11\00:34:12.21
- Yeah, you have
Revelation 22:11,
00:34:12.21\00:34:14.78
where you have Jesus
saying, "He that is unjust,
00:34:14.78\00:34:16.95
let him be unjust
still, he that he is filthy,
00:34:16.95\00:34:19.22
let him be filthy still,
00:34:19.22\00:34:20.59
he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still,
00:34:20.59\00:34:22.72
he that is holy,
let him be holy still,"
00:34:22.72\00:34:25.13
and in the very
next verse, Jesus says,
00:34:25.13\00:34:27.30
"Behold, I'm coming quickly,
and My reward is with Me
00:34:27.30\00:34:30.50
to give to every man
according to his work."
00:34:30.50\00:34:32.60
So, the close of probation
00:34:32.60\00:34:33.70
precedes the
second coming of Christ,
00:34:33.70\00:34:35.40
and once probation closes,
00:34:35.40\00:34:37.11
then you have what the
Bible calls the wrath of God,
00:34:37.11\00:34:39.24
which is the seven last
plagues that are poured out,
00:34:39.24\00:34:42.21
but God's people are protected
during that time of plagues.
00:34:42.21\00:34:46.41
Some people ask, "Well,
why does God send the plagues
00:34:46.41\00:34:48.85
if it's too late for
people to change sides?"
00:34:48.85\00:34:51.15
Well, the plagues help to reveal
the heart of every person.
00:34:51.15\00:34:54.82
If you read a little
further in the plagues,
00:34:54.82\00:34:56.49
instead of the wicked repenting,
00:34:56.49\00:34:58.73
when they realize that
these plagues are coming
00:34:58.73\00:35:01.26
because of their sins,
00:35:01.26\00:35:02.30
they harden their
hearts and they curse God
00:35:02.30\00:35:05.33
for sending the plagues,
00:35:05.33\00:35:07.40
so it reveals to
the whole universe
00:35:07.40\00:35:10.21
that there's
nothing more God can do
00:35:10.21\00:35:12.04
to try and save these people,
00:35:12.04\00:35:13.11
their hearts are
fully set towards evil.
00:35:13.11\00:35:15.74
- Yeah, it says when you
come to the fourth plague
00:35:15.74\00:35:17.78
and men are scorched
with great heat in verse nine,
00:35:17.78\00:35:20.62
this is Revelation 16:9,
00:35:20.62\00:35:22.88
and it says, "They were
scorched with great heat
00:35:22.88\00:35:24.55
and they
blasphemed the name of God,
00:35:24.55\00:35:26.39
who has power over the plagues,
00:35:26.39\00:35:28.09
and they did not
repent and give Him glory."
00:35:28.09\00:35:31.09
They didn't humble
themselves, they blasphemed God,
00:35:31.09\00:35:33.76
they hardened
their hearts like Pharaoh
00:35:33.76\00:35:35.56
when the plagues fell, and yeah,
probation's closed for them
00:35:35.56\00:35:39.50
at this time.
00:35:39.50\00:35:40.87
- All right, well,
thanks for your call, Theresa.
00:35:40.87\00:35:42.17
We've got Bonita
listening from North Carolina.
00:35:42.17\00:35:44.94
Bonita, welcome to the program.
00:35:44.94\00:35:46.57
- [Bonita] Thank you
very much, good evening-
00:35:47.98\00:35:50.11
- Evening.
00:35:50.11\00:35:51.18
- Pastor Doug, and
evening, Pastor Jean.
00:35:51.18\00:35:54.22
My question, I've
been trying to determine
00:35:55.32\00:35:58.89
what is the chronological order
00:35:59.69\00:36:01.66
of when Lucifer got
kicked out of heaven?
00:36:01.66\00:36:04.79
Why was he
kicked out specifically,
00:36:05.93\00:36:08.76
and when was he cast to earth?
00:36:08.76\00:36:12.87
Was it before or after
the creation of the world?
00:36:12.87\00:36:17.14
- All right, well, I
think you're gonna find in,
00:36:18.47\00:36:21.18
I think it's in
Ezekiel 28 where it says,
00:36:21.18\00:36:23.45
"You have sinned and
therefore you were cast out,"
00:36:23.45\00:36:26.25
so he was cast out because
of his rebellion and his sin,
00:36:26.25\00:36:29.35
he wanted God's position.
00:36:29.35\00:36:31.85
So, if you read in Ezekiel
28 and read in Isaiah 14,
00:36:31.85\00:36:36.93
I think you'll
find there it describes
00:36:38.03\00:36:40.76
what Lucifer's goals
were and what his sins were,
00:36:40.76\00:36:43.53
why he was cast out.
00:36:43.53\00:36:44.77
- Yeah, and with
reference to the sequence
00:36:44.77\00:36:46.00
that you mentioned,
00:36:46.00\00:36:46.80
you find in Revelation 12,
00:36:46.80\00:36:48.14
it says there was war in
heaven, and the devil lost,
00:36:48.14\00:36:51.34
and he was cast
out, he and his angels.
00:36:51.34\00:36:53.74
Well, this
appears to have happened
00:36:53.74\00:36:55.08
before the creation of
the earth, this rebellion
00:36:55.08\00:36:57.25
or this war in heaven, once
the earth was created, then,
00:36:57.25\00:37:00.12
of course, Lucifer had
already been cast out of heaven,
00:37:00.12\00:37:02.68
he was able to
tempt Adam and Eve,
00:37:02.68\00:37:05.05
and then he
claimed the earth as his,
00:37:05.05\00:37:06.96
because the loyalty
that Adam was to give to God,
00:37:06.96\00:37:09.49
he now gave to the devil.
00:37:09.49\00:37:11.29
So the devil claimed to be
the representative of the earth,
00:37:11.29\00:37:13.70
but we do find another
verse in Revelation 12:12
00:37:13.70\00:37:17.87
it says,
"Therefore rejoice, O heavens,
00:37:17.87\00:37:19.53
and you that dwell in them,
00:37:19.53\00:37:20.54
woe to the
inhabitants of the earth,
00:37:20.54\00:37:22.20
for the devil
has come down to you,
00:37:22.20\00:37:23.57
having great wrath, because
he knows he has a short time,"
00:37:23.57\00:37:27.21
and verse 11 says,
"They overcame them
00:37:27.21\00:37:28.94
by the blood of the Lamb."
00:37:28.94\00:37:30.25
So at the cross, the
devil is cast down again,
00:37:30.25\00:37:33.55
so he's cast out of
heaven before creation,
00:37:33.55\00:37:36.22
but at the cross
he's cast down in a sense,
00:37:36.22\00:37:38.82
meaning that he is
isolated to the earth,
00:37:38.82\00:37:41.02
because now Jesus is
the rightful representative
00:37:41.02\00:37:44.39
of those who put their
faith and trust in Him,
00:37:44.39\00:37:47.00
so the devil is
cast out before creation,
00:37:47.00\00:37:49.30
he's cast down in
a sense at the cross,
00:37:49.30\00:37:52.23
and that's Revelation 12:10,
00:37:52.23\00:37:55.60
that talks about
salvation has come
00:37:55.60\00:37:57.31
and the devil
has been cast down.
00:37:57.31\00:37:59.64
- Yes, thank you, Bonita.
00:37:59.64\00:38:01.81
- Next call that we have is
Carol listening in New Jersey.
00:38:01.81\00:38:04.11
Carol, welcome to the program.
00:38:04.11\00:38:05.68
- [Carol] Hi, good evening,
00:38:06.68\00:38:07.78
thank you so much
for taking my call,
00:38:07.78\00:38:09.05
Pastor Ross and Pastor Jean.
00:38:09.05\00:38:10.89
So my quick
question is, in Hebrews 11:6,
00:38:10.89\00:38:15.96
"But without faith it's
impossible to please him,
00:38:17.33\00:38:19.26
for he that commeth to
God must believe that he is
00:38:19.26\00:38:23.30
and that he is
a rewarder of them
00:38:23.30\00:38:25.07
that diligently seek him."
00:38:25.07\00:38:26.47
So my question is, what is the
difference between this faith
00:38:26.47\00:38:31.04
and presumptuous faith?
00:38:31.04\00:38:33.41
Because if you're
moving according to believing,
00:38:33.41\00:38:38.41
how can it reach to the point
where it becomes presumptuous?
00:38:40.68\00:38:45.29
- Well, that is
really a good question.
00:38:45.29\00:38:47.09
There is a
difference between having faith,
00:38:47.09\00:38:50.43
moving forward in faith,
and having a presumptuous faith,
00:38:50.43\00:38:53.40
I'll give you
just a quick example.
00:38:54.60\00:38:56.43
Some pastors, when
they feel impressed
00:38:57.53\00:38:59.50
they're supposed to
build a church, some will say,
00:38:59.50\00:39:02.07
"Let's start building
before we have the money,"
00:39:02.07\00:39:05.01
and other pastors will
say, "That's presumption,
00:39:05.01\00:39:08.38
you should be
raising some of the money,
00:39:08.38\00:39:11.31
and so that you're
not starting a tower
00:39:11.31\00:39:13.75
and you don't finish," and
then there are other pastors
00:39:13.75\00:39:15.52
who say, "You
ought have all the money
00:39:15.52\00:39:17.95
before you start building,"
and so it's interesting to see
00:39:17.95\00:39:21.79
these different perspectives.
00:39:21.79\00:39:23.32
I think sometimes, if you
find yourself in dire straits,
00:39:24.66\00:39:27.00
you can believe
that God will save you,
00:39:27.00\00:39:28.90
but you don't
wanna jump off a cliff
00:39:28.90\00:39:30.50
or cast yourself from the
temple and say, "I've got faith
00:39:30.50\00:39:32.87
that angels are gonna catch
me," that's called presumption,
00:39:32.87\00:39:35.90
so that's where you
start tempting the Lord
00:39:35.90\00:39:37.87
and saying that it's
faith, so, I don't know,
00:39:37.87\00:39:41.94
does that make sense, Carol?
00:39:41.94\00:39:44.21
- [Carol] So if
you move, is it that,
00:39:45.31\00:39:47.52
I'm understanding that if
you put yourself in a position
00:39:47.52\00:39:51.35
out of the reach
of the expectation
00:39:51.35\00:39:54.92
of what you might do in
opposing to what God will do
00:39:54.92\00:39:59.13
according to His will,
I'm a little bit confused
00:39:59.13\00:40:03.26
at that?" -
Well, you know, yeah,
00:40:03.26\00:40:04.83
if you're spirit-led,
let me just say this,
00:40:04.83\00:40:07.17
when you're
baptized in the Holy Spirit,
00:40:07.17\00:40:08.84
sometimes the Holy
Spirit's gonna ask you
00:40:08.84\00:40:10.67
to do really strange things,
00:40:10.67\00:40:13.11
like He's gonna ask
you to march around a city
00:40:13.11\00:40:15.71
and blow a trumpet and
expect the walls to fall,
00:40:15.71\00:40:18.31
or He is gonna ask you to
step off in the Jordan river
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.58
when it's flooding
and the river will stop.
00:40:20.58\00:40:23.35
So, I think I wanna be clear
that if you look in the Bible,
00:40:23.35\00:40:26.55
you're gonna see
that people of faith
00:40:26.55\00:40:27.92
are led by the
Holy Spirit to do things
00:40:27.92\00:40:29.86
that may not make any
sense at all, and God bless us.
00:40:29.86\00:40:34.73
When Elijah prays
and fire comes down,
00:40:34.73\00:40:36.63
that took faith, and he
prayed again, it didn't rain,
00:40:36.63\00:40:39.77
then he prayed it did rain, so,
00:40:39.77\00:40:42.97
but I think living day to day,
00:40:42.97\00:40:45.01
we may not always feel the
Holy Spirit urging or guiding.
00:40:45.01\00:40:48.64
If you see something in the
Word of God, step out in faith
00:40:48.64\00:40:51.71
on what the Word says,
00:40:51.71\00:40:52.98
regardless of what
you might see or feel,
00:40:52.98\00:40:55.42
and God will bless your faith
when it's based on the Word.
00:40:55.42\00:40:58.69
- I've heard one person
put it this way, they said,
00:40:58.69\00:41:00.66
"Do what you know
God wants you to do,
00:41:00.66\00:41:03.06
and then leave
the results with Him."
00:41:03.06\00:41:05.13
So every day, try and do
everything we can in our power
00:41:05.13\00:41:09.33
to accomplish what we
believe God is wanting us to do,
00:41:09.33\00:41:12.43
and then leave
the results with Him.
00:41:12.43\00:41:13.74
For example, when Jesus
fed the 5,000, He asked,
00:41:13.74\00:41:16.71
"Well, how much
food do you have?"
00:41:16.71\00:41:18.04
Well, they had few loaves
and fish, and Jesus took that
00:41:18.04\00:41:20.98
and then He multiplied it and
He fed more than 5,000 people.
00:41:20.98\00:41:23.38
So we are to do what we
can from a human perspective
00:41:23.38\00:41:27.05
and trust God, have faith in God
00:41:27.05\00:41:29.55
that He will bring about
to pass what He has promised.
00:41:29.55\00:41:32.09
- That's right, good
point. - In other words,
00:41:32.09\00:41:33.42
somebody says, "Oh, I
want God to gimme a job."
00:41:33.42\00:41:36.46
Well, if they're just
gonna be sitting at home,
00:41:36.46\00:41:38.09
waiting for somebody
to knock on their door
00:41:38.09\00:41:40.13
and offer them a job,
that's maybe presumption,
00:41:40.13\00:41:42.73
but if they're out
there doing the best they can
00:41:42.73\00:41:45.30
and they're looking for a job,
00:41:45.30\00:41:46.53
well, then they can
trust that God will open
00:41:46.53\00:41:48.10
and direct them
to the right place.
00:41:48.10\00:41:49.77
- Yeah, it's not in the Bible,
00:41:49.77\00:41:51.31
but it is true that God helps
those that help themselves.
00:41:51.31\00:41:53.04
- Yeah, that's true,
yeah, it's practical, yeah.
00:41:53.04\00:41:55.64
Well, thanks for
your call, Carol.
00:41:55.64\00:41:57.01
Rachel is listening in Kansas.
00:41:57.01\00:41:59.05
Rachel, welcome to the program.
00:42:00.08\00:42:02.15
- [Rachel] I am reading
the Bible from front to back,
00:42:02.15\00:42:05.99
and so I'm only
in the Old Testament,
00:42:05.99\00:42:08.99
and God speaks words to
Moses and Joshua, and He says,
00:42:08.99\00:42:14.03
"Fear not, do not be afraid-
00:42:14.83\00:42:16.43
- I'm with you,
00:42:17.87\00:42:18.63
be courageous." - And yes,
00:42:18.63\00:42:20.90
and in today's time, people
like to share scripture with you
00:42:20.90\00:42:25.14
whenever you're
having hardship or something.
00:42:25.14\00:42:28.11
Is there a scripture in
the Bible that allows us
00:42:28.11\00:42:31.45
to take those words that God
said to either Moses or Joshua
00:42:31.45\00:42:35.55
or whoever,
00:42:35.55\00:42:36.65
and actually use
them in our time for us?
00:42:36.65\00:42:39.45
Because they were spoken to
someone for a certain situation
00:42:39.45\00:42:44.26
in the Bible.
00:42:45.19\00:42:46.19
- Good question.
00:42:46.19\00:42:47.10
Where is it, Pastor
Ross, where Peter says,
00:42:48.13\00:42:50.50
"For given unto us are exceeding
great and precious promises
00:42:50.50\00:42:54.14
that by these we
might become partakers
00:42:54.14\00:42:56.64
of the divine nature,
00:42:56.64\00:42:58.14
having escaped the corruption
00:42:58.14\00:42:59.54
that is in the
world through lust"?
00:42:59.54\00:43:01.28
- 2 Peter 1:4.
00:43:02.18\00:43:03.45
- See, friends, I'm
dyslexic, I remember the verse,
00:43:03.45\00:43:05.25
I don't remember the
verse, but I remember the words.
00:43:05.25\00:43:09.05
So he says there are promises
given to us in scripture
00:43:09.05\00:43:12.95
"That by these we
might become partakers
00:43:12.95\00:43:14.89
of the divine nature."
00:43:14.89\00:43:15.99
So when I read God and
Moses saying to Joshua,
00:43:15.99\00:43:20.30
"Be courageous, be
courageous, be very courageous,"
00:43:20.30\00:43:22.63
and that's in, I
think, chapter one of Joshua,
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.37
I think I can apply that to me,
00:43:25.37\00:43:26.90
and that God is saying that
if I'm willing to do His will,
00:43:26.90\00:43:29.74
I can be courageous
and know that He's with me.
00:43:29.74\00:43:32.24
So, God hasn't changed,
00:43:32.24\00:43:33.74
and so the same
promises and assurances
00:43:33.74\00:43:36.21
that God gives His
prophets through history,
00:43:36.21\00:43:38.95
they apply to me.
00:43:38.95\00:43:39.91
He also gave them conditions,
00:43:39.91\00:43:41.62
so if we're following the
conditions that He gives them,
00:43:41.62\00:43:44.85
we can claim the same
promises that He gives them.
00:43:44.85\00:43:47.22
- And of course, not
only do we have the examples
00:43:47.22\00:43:48.82
in the Old
Testament where God says,
00:43:48.82\00:43:50.23
"Do not be afraid, do not fear,"
00:43:50.23\00:43:52.43
but we find that repeated
by Jesus in the New Testament,
00:43:52.43\00:43:55.43
where He says, "Don't be afraid,
00:43:55.43\00:43:57.30
don't worry about
what you're gonna eat
00:43:57.30\00:43:58.83
and what you're gonna
wear, God will take care of you.
00:43:58.83\00:44:00.80
If you seek first the kingdom,
00:44:00.80\00:44:02.80
all these
things shall be added."
00:44:02.80\00:44:04.17
So those principles that
we see in the Old Testament,
00:44:04.17\00:44:06.44
they re repeated
in the New Testament.
00:44:06.44\00:44:08.14
- That's right, yeah.
00:44:08.14\00:44:08.98
- Without a doubt.
00:44:08.98\00:44:10.15
- Very good. - All right.
00:44:10.15\00:44:11.55
Next caller that we have is
Rob listening from Michigan.
00:44:11.55\00:44:13.92
Rob, welcome to the program.
00:44:13.92\00:44:15.68
- [Rob] Hi, thank you.
00:44:15.68\00:44:17.25
Yes, I need you to
elaborate on Daniel's vision
00:44:17.25\00:44:20.59
where he saw this image that
symbolized several kingdoms,
00:44:20.59\00:44:25.39
starting with
Persia, Medo-Persia,
00:44:26.43\00:44:30.70
and it had brass, it had
tin, it had iron, and it gold,
00:44:30.70\00:44:35.77
and it symbolizes the
different civilizations
00:44:37.37\00:44:41.01
up to modern day.
00:44:41.01\00:44:42.58
So, can you speak to
that a little bit more?
00:44:42.58\00:44:45.51
- Sure, and before
I even get into it,
00:44:45.51\00:44:48.32
I won't be able to cover
it all in just a few minutes,
00:44:48.32\00:44:50.92
but we'll give
you a free lesson,
00:44:50.92\00:44:53.96
and it's called
"The Millennial Man,"
00:44:55.02\00:44:56.79
it's one of our
historical lessons,
00:44:56.79\00:44:58.33
it's the first one, it's
called "The Millennial Man,"
00:44:58.33\00:45:00.13
it covers the
prophecy of Daniel 2,
00:45:00.13\00:45:03.20
where Nebuchadnezzar,
here's my quick answer,
00:45:03.20\00:45:05.90
has a dream of this large idol,
00:45:05.90\00:45:08.60
and this huge image image
is made with a head of gold,
00:45:08.60\00:45:12.11
the chest and
arms are of silver,
00:45:12.11\00:45:14.24
the belly is of
bronze, and the thighs,
00:45:14.24\00:45:16.61
the legs are of iron,
the feet are iron and clay,
00:45:16.61\00:45:19.45
and then he sees a
stone cut without hands
00:45:19.45\00:45:21.62
come from the heavens,
strike the image on the feet,
00:45:21.62\00:45:24.39
and it basically pulverizes it,
00:45:24.39\00:45:26.49
and it all blows away.
00:45:26.49\00:45:28.42
That idol, idolatry was
forbidden by the Jewish people
00:45:28.42\00:45:31.76
in the Ten Commandments,
it's forbidden for everybody,
00:45:31.76\00:45:35.00
represents the
religions of the world,
00:45:35.00\00:45:37.40
and the head of gold,
Daniel tells Nebuchadnezzar
00:45:37.40\00:45:40.37
that's the kingdom of Babylon,
00:45:40.37\00:45:42.44
the arms of silver were
the kingdoms of Medo-Persia,
00:45:42.44\00:45:46.17
the bronze was
the kingdom of Greece,
00:45:46.17\00:45:48.91
the iron was
the kingdom of Rome,
00:45:48.91\00:45:51.38
the feet of iron and
clay were the division
00:45:51.38\00:45:53.62
of the Roman empire
00:45:53.62\00:45:55.02
that went with a combination
of religion and government,
00:45:55.02\00:45:58.15
and that's where
you've got the papacy, really,
00:45:58.15\00:46:00.96
ruling the European civilization
for over a thousand years,
00:46:00.96\00:46:05.26
and it says in the
days of these kings,
00:46:05.26\00:46:07.40
that God is gonna
establish His kingdom,
00:46:07.40\00:46:09.50
we're living in the toenails,
00:46:09.50\00:46:10.83
the very toes of
that image today.
00:46:10.83\00:46:13.97
So take a look at that lesson,
00:46:13.97\00:46:15.44
anyone could ask for that
lesson on "The Millennial Man,"
00:46:15.44\00:46:18.64
and it covers that prophecy.
00:46:18.64\00:46:20.08
- The number to
call is 800-835-6747,
00:46:20.08\00:46:23.55
and again, you can ask
for the study guide, actually,
00:46:23.55\00:46:25.41
one of the lessons
called "Millennial Man,"
00:46:25.41\00:46:28.12
it's part of the
historical set of lessons,
00:46:28.12\00:46:30.85
and we'll be happy
to send that to you,
00:46:30.85\00:46:32.79
thanks for your call.
00:46:32.79\00:46:34.19
Next caller that we have is
AJ, listening from Nebraska.
00:46:34.19\00:46:36.79
AJ, welcome to the program.
00:46:36.79\00:46:38.19
- [AJ] Thanks for having me.
00:46:39.36\00:46:40.83
My question is why
was Michal punished
00:46:42.83\00:46:46.80
for watching David dance
00:46:46.80\00:46:48.87
when he brought
the ark into Jerusalem?
00:46:48.87\00:46:52.71
- All right, now,
Michal, I know it sounds
00:46:52.71\00:46:54.28
like a man's name, but Michal
was the wife of King David,
00:46:54.28\00:46:58.45
she was the
daughter of King Saul.
00:46:58.45\00:47:00.12
David actually
had several wives,
00:47:00.12\00:47:02.38
she wasn't punished
for watching him dance,
00:47:02.38\00:47:04.29
she was
punished for mocking him,
00:47:04.29\00:47:06.45
and it doesn't say
David punished her,
00:47:06.45\00:47:08.72
it basically says that
she never had children,
00:47:08.72\00:47:12.13
she was never
blessed with children,
00:47:12.13\00:47:13.83
and I think another reason
that Michal never had children
00:47:13.83\00:47:16.60
is because
there were some people
00:47:16.60\00:47:18.60
that wanted to see the
Benjamites, the descendants of
00:47:18.60\00:47:21.47
Saul, back on the throne, and if
God had given children to David
00:47:21.47\00:47:25.07
through Michal, a
lot of people would say,
00:47:25.07\00:47:26.98
"Well, naturally, it
should be the children
00:47:26.98\00:47:29.51
of David and Saul,
00:47:29.51\00:47:31.21
as opposed to the children
of David and Bathsheba,"
00:47:31.21\00:47:33.82
and it ended up being Solomon,
00:47:33.82\00:47:35.42
the daughter, or
rather the son of Bathsheba.
00:47:35.42\00:47:38.45
So there were a
couple of reasons,
00:47:38.45\00:47:39.72
she shouldn't have
been mocking her husband
00:47:39.72\00:47:41.19
for worshiping the
Lord, and she did not like
00:47:41.19\00:47:44.66
that he humbled
himself, took off his robes,
00:47:44.66\00:47:46.39
and he was wearing the simple
linen ephod like a priest.
00:47:46.39\00:47:50.30
Good question,
thanks so much, AJ.
00:47:51.33\00:47:53.30
- We've got Patrick
listening also from Nebraska.
00:47:53.30\00:47:56.20
Patrick, welcome to the program.
00:47:56.20\00:47:58.61
- [Patrick] Yes, good evening,
Pastor Doug and Pastor Ross.
00:47:58.61\00:48:02.84
My question is concerning
the identity of Melchizedek,
00:48:02.84\00:48:06.21
he was both a king and a priest.
00:48:07.18\00:48:09.22
I thought about this question
00:48:10.02\00:48:11.29
when someone asked the
question concerning Noah
00:48:11.29\00:48:13.79
and the Tower of Babel.
00:48:13.79\00:48:15.36
The identity of Melchizedek,
00:48:16.99\00:48:19.19
Pastor Bachelor, if you
could elaborate on that some,
00:48:19.19\00:48:22.80
I'd appreciate it, thank you.
00:48:22.80\00:48:24.63
- Yeah, well, we know that
Melchizedek is a type of Christ
00:48:24.63\00:48:28.00
because here Abraham,
coming back from the battle
00:48:28.00\00:48:30.97
with the kings of
the north, Melchizedek,
00:48:30.97\00:48:33.91
who is the king
and priest of Salem,
00:48:33.91\00:48:37.45
later known as
Jerusalem, same place,
00:48:37.45\00:48:39.91
Abraham pays tithes to him,
00:48:41.42\00:48:43.69
so he's someone who seems to
be a worshiper of the true God,
00:48:43.69\00:48:47.06
it says he's a
priest of the Most High God,
00:48:47.06\00:48:49.46
and you think,
"What's he doing in Canaan?"
00:48:49.46\00:48:51.23
Somebody that
worships the true God,
00:48:51.23\00:48:53.36
some have speculated, and
you can't really prove it,
00:48:54.73\00:48:56.13
but it is a workable theory,
00:48:56.13\00:48:58.17
that one of the sons of
Noah who was still alive, Shem,
00:48:58.17\00:49:02.04
lived over 600 years,
00:49:02.04\00:49:03.97
his life overlapped
with the life of Abraham
00:49:03.97\00:49:06.41
over 100 years,
I think 170 years,
00:49:06.41\00:49:11.15
and so some have said,
well, after Abraham moved,
00:49:11.15\00:49:15.18
because of the
idolatry that was in Ur,
00:49:15.18\00:49:18.05
that Shem may have also
heard that God had led Abraham
00:49:18.05\00:49:21.22
to this promised land,
and he had come with his clan
00:49:21.22\00:49:24.53
and settled there,
we don't know that,
00:49:24.53\00:49:26.43
and it's just one theory,
00:49:26.43\00:49:28.23
and he appears
mysteriously out of nowhere,
00:49:28.23\00:49:32.07
the Bible doesn't
say who his people are,
00:49:32.07\00:49:34.27
where he came
from, where he went to,
00:49:34.27\00:49:35.64
so he's sort of a type of Christ
00:49:35.64\00:49:36.87
in that he's without
beginning or end, biblically,
00:49:36.87\00:49:39.81
he just appears and disappears.
00:49:39.81\00:49:41.51
- Now, if you read
from the Book of Hebrews,
00:49:41.51\00:49:43.28
Paul does spend
quite a bit of time talking
00:49:43.28\00:49:45.35
about Melchizedek
as a type of Christ,
00:49:45.35\00:49:47.98
he was both a priest and a king,
00:49:47.98\00:49:50.19
and apparently Abraham
recognized this because Abraham,
00:49:50.19\00:49:53.19
the great patriarch, he
gave a tithe to Melchizedek,
00:49:53.19\00:49:56.62
and that's a little different.
00:49:56.62\00:49:58.13
The Levites came
through the seed of Abraham,
00:49:58.13\00:50:00.46
but here is Melchizedek of a
different type of priesthood,
00:50:00.46\00:50:03.43
and Paul says that's the
type of priesthood of Jesus.
00:50:03.43\00:50:06.77
All right, great
question, thank you.
00:50:06.77\00:50:08.54
Carol is
listening in California.
00:50:08.54\00:50:09.57
Carol, welcome to the program.
00:50:09.57\00:50:11.14
- [Carol] Hi, thank
you for taking my call.
00:50:12.47\00:50:14.51
- Yes.
00:50:14.51\00:50:15.41
- [Carol] In Revelation
some things are literal
00:50:16.95\00:50:20.05
and some things are symbolic,
00:50:20.05\00:50:22.42
and in regards to
the 144,000 people
00:50:22.42\00:50:26.55
that will be
alive when Jesus comes,
00:50:26.55\00:50:31.03
how is that interpreted?
00:50:32.29\00:50:34.10
- Well, the 144,000,
you find them mentioned
00:50:35.16\00:50:38.10
in Revelation 7,
and then double that,
00:50:38.10\00:50:40.30
you find them
mentioned in Revelation 14.
00:50:40.30\00:50:43.20
The 144,000, they are
not the only one saved,
00:50:43.20\00:50:47.14
I do believe the
number is literal,
00:50:47.14\00:50:48.98
but I think this is a number
that is basically describing
00:50:48.98\00:50:52.51
the last-day
apostles around the world.
00:50:52.51\00:50:56.38
Jesus had 12 apostles that
prepared the people of Israel
00:50:56.38\00:51:00.66
for His first coming and
introduced Him at Pentecost,
00:51:00.66\00:51:04.79
and then before
His second coming,
00:51:04.79\00:51:06.53
he'll have 12 times 12,000,
both literal and spiritual Jews,
00:51:06.53\00:51:11.57
and so I think that
calling them children of Israel,
00:51:12.90\00:51:16.91
that's symbolic,
because those that are Christ's
00:51:16.91\00:51:19.11
are Abraham seed, God is
not gonna be raising up 12,000
00:51:19.11\00:51:23.21
from the tribe of Gad or
Manasseh, they don't exist
00:51:23.21\00:51:26.98
anymore, they intermarried
before Jesus was born, and
00:51:26.98\00:51:30.49
disappeared. So it's basically
saying that God's gonna have
00:51:30.49\00:51:33.22
these last-day people
filled with the Spirit,
00:51:33.22\00:51:35.32
doing a work similar to
the work of the apostles,
00:51:35.32\00:51:38.53
preparing a great
multitude for Jesus' coming.
00:51:38.53\00:51:41.40
Now, we have a book on this,
00:51:41.40\00:51:42.50
we'll be happy to send
you a free copy, Carol.
00:51:42.50\00:51:45.00
- Yes, the book is
called, "Who Will Sing The Song?
00:51:45.00\00:51:47.24
Understanding the 144,000,"
a book written by Pastor Doug,
00:51:47.24\00:51:50.21
and we'll be happy to
send this to you, Carol,
00:51:50.21\00:51:52.11
anyone who calls and asks.
00:51:52.11\00:51:54.01
The number is 800-835-6747,
just ask for the book
00:51:54.01\00:51:58.61
on the 144,000, it's called,
"Who Will Sing the Song?"
00:51:58.61\00:52:02.18
And we'll get that in
the mail and send it to you.
00:52:02.18\00:52:04.82
Next caller that
we have, let's see,
00:52:04.82\00:52:06.32
we've got Elisa
listening from Michigan.
00:52:06.32\00:52:10.89
Lisa, welcome to the program.
00:52:10.89\00:52:12.79
- [Lisa] Hi, thank
you for taking my call.
00:52:12.79\00:52:16.46
My question, well,
00:52:16.46\00:52:18.73
I know that it's best with
prophecy unfolding like it is,
00:52:18.73\00:52:23.20
to be out of the
cities and into the country,
00:52:23.20\00:52:26.61
and my family, I have
two severe autistic boys,
00:52:26.61\00:52:31.35
and we do plan on
moving to the country,
00:52:31.35\00:52:33.52
but my question is, in
the time of where we can't buy
00:52:33.52\00:52:38.35
or sell, and the
blue laws are there,
00:52:38.35\00:52:41.19
how are we going to live?
00:52:41.19\00:52:44.79
Because we may have a
mortgage and probably land taxes
00:52:44.79\00:52:48.76
if we don't have a mortgage,
so I was just wondering
00:52:48.76\00:52:51.30
how that would work,
00:52:51.30\00:52:52.57
'cause we'll have
that home in the country,
00:52:52.57\00:52:54.34
but still we won't
be able to buy or sell.
00:52:54.34\00:52:58.47
- Yeah.
00:52:58.47\00:52:59.71
- [Lisa] So that is
what I'm wondering about.
00:52:59.71\00:53:00.31
- Good question.
00:53:00.31\00:53:01.34
I think the last
thing to happen would be
00:53:02.41\00:53:05.58
that banks will
not take your money.
00:53:05.58\00:53:07.45
When you can't buy
something, that's different,
00:53:08.68\00:53:09.95
but if you're trying to pay,
00:53:09.95\00:53:11.59
pay someone back for a property
00:53:12.52\00:53:15.96
or a mortgage, they'll
probably accept payment,
00:53:15.96\00:53:18.76
but it's gonna be
hard for people to buy.
00:53:19.83\00:53:22.60
Now, when it says
they can't buy or sell,
00:53:22.60\00:53:24.13
not only will that be
happening on a personal level,
00:53:24.13\00:53:26.97
that's already happening,
00:53:26.97\00:53:28.34
it's in the news today
on an international level,
00:53:28.34\00:53:30.64
they call it economic sanctions,
00:53:30.64\00:53:32.47
when one nation
tells another nation,
00:53:32.47\00:53:34.14
"We are not gonna
allow you to buy."
00:53:34.14\00:53:36.88
It's been in the news
a lot lately with Russia
00:53:36.88\00:53:39.31
and some of those sanctions.
00:53:39.31\00:53:40.98
So I think
that's the bigger part
00:53:40.98\00:53:44.82
of what's
happening in Revelation,
00:53:44.82\00:53:46.22
is that the United
States and other nations
00:53:46.22\00:53:48.36
are gonna punish
parts of the world
00:53:48.36\00:53:51.13
that don't go along
with the religious laws,
00:53:51.13\00:53:52.79
but it's also gonna
happen on an individual basis,
00:53:52.79\00:53:56.46
and it'll be
very easy to control.
00:53:56.46\00:53:58.63
I mean, even now
we've seen that with COVID,
00:53:58.63\00:54:02.37
there's been a lot of
government involvement
00:54:02.37\00:54:04.94
in personal things,
travel, and purchases,
00:54:04.94\00:54:07.41
can't go to certain stores.
00:54:07.41\00:54:09.01
So it's very easy to
see, with electronic money,
00:54:09.01\00:54:11.98
how quickly this could happen.
00:54:11.98\00:54:13.78
Hope that helps, Elisa.
00:54:13.78\00:54:15.45
Pastor Ross, if
someone wants to send us,
00:54:15.45\00:54:17.15
not everyone can call in
or not everyone wants to get
00:54:17.15\00:54:19.55
on the radio and call
in with their question,
00:54:19.55\00:54:21.82
if they wanna email us
questions for the Rapid Fire,
00:54:21.82\00:54:24.56
what's the address for that?
00:54:24.56\00:54:25.93
- The address is just simply
balquestions@amazingfacts.org.
00:54:25.93\00:54:30.27
Again, that's
B-A-L, Bible Answers Live,
00:54:30.27\00:54:33.10
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00:54:33.10\00:54:35.47
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00:54:37.27\00:54:38.97
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00:54:38.97\00:54:41.84
those questions
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00:54:41.84\00:54:44.78
and try and answer as
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00:54:44.78\00:54:46.98
during our
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00:54:46.98\00:54:49.08
that's gonna be coming up
00:54:49.08\00:54:50.15
in like 10 seconds
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00:54:50.15\00:54:52.79
- That's right,
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- Hello friends, welcome back.
00:55:24.22\00:55:25.49
We have about two
minutes, Pastor Doug,
00:55:25.49\00:55:27.16
to answer some of the
questions that have been sent
00:55:27.16\00:55:29.76
into the program,
00:55:29.76\00:55:30.83
we've got some great
questions this evening,
00:55:30.83\00:55:32.36
I'm curious about the answer.
00:55:32.36\00:55:34.10
So let's get started, the
first question that we have is,
00:55:34.10\00:55:36.56
"Is there a biblical example
00:55:36.56\00:55:38.30
of when you have
to love your enemy?"
00:55:38.30\00:55:41.20
- Yeah, I think there's
probably several examples,
00:55:41.20\00:55:43.10
you've got the
example in the Bible
00:55:43.10\00:55:44.44
where King David
had an opportunity
00:55:44.44\00:55:46.64
to get vengeance on King Saul,
00:55:46.64\00:55:48.71
Saul was actually
hunting David to kill him,
00:55:48.71\00:55:51.45
and on two occasions
David, just providentially,
00:55:51.45\00:55:56.05
basically had an opportunity
to pin Saul to the ground
00:55:56.05\00:55:59.19
or to kill him, and
he said, "I won't do it,"
00:55:59.19\00:56:01.22
and he let him go free,
and he even told Saul, he said,
00:56:01.22\00:56:03.26
"Look, I can kill you right now,
00:56:03.26\00:56:05.29
but I'm gonna let you go
free," and he loved his enemy.
00:56:05.29\00:56:08.06
Elisha forgave a whole army
that was trying to capture him
00:56:08.06\00:56:11.67
and said, "Feed
them and send them home."
00:56:11.67\00:56:14.17
- All right, very good.
00:56:14.17\00:56:14.97
Another question that we have,
00:56:14.97\00:56:16.34
"What does it mean to love
the Lord with all of your heart
00:56:16.34\00:56:18.34
and all of your soul?"
00:56:18.34\00:56:19.81
- Well, Jesus said, "If you
love me, keep my commandments,"
00:56:21.14\00:56:23.91
and when we love the
Lord with all of our heart
00:56:23.91\00:56:26.18
and all our soul, makes me
think of that statement you find
00:56:26.18\00:56:30.42
in Deuteronomy 5, I
think it's verse 29,
00:56:30.42\00:56:33.29
where you said, "Oh, that
all of My people would love Me
00:56:33.29\00:56:36.42
and keep all of My
commandments always,
00:56:36.42\00:56:38.86
that it might be well
with them and their children,"
00:56:38.86\00:56:41.43
and so we show that we love
the Lord with all of our heart
00:56:41.43\00:56:44.60
by doing all that we
know He wants us to do.
00:56:44.60\00:56:47.54
- Okay, another
question that we have.
00:56:47.54\00:56:48.84
"Can our dead family
members hear us speak to them?
00:56:48.84\00:56:52.51
Do they know what's happening
with us here on earth?"
00:56:52.51\00:56:55.54
- Bible tells us
in the Book of Isaiah
00:56:55.54\00:56:57.78
that we are not to
consult wizards that mutter
00:56:57.78\00:57:00.58
and peep in the dark,
and that's in Isaiah 8,
00:57:00.58\00:57:04.02
"Should the living go
to the dead for knowledge?"
00:57:04.02\00:57:06.59
The Bible tells us
that in the last days,
00:57:06.59\00:57:08.72
the wicked will be, there
are devils working miracles.
00:57:08.72\00:57:12.03
You read in Revelation 16,
00:57:12.03\00:57:13.80
Satan can be transformed
into an angel of light,
00:57:13.80\00:57:16.06
he can impersonate
the spirits of the dead
00:57:16.06\00:57:18.33
as happened with
the witch of Endor.
00:57:18.33\00:57:20.67
"The living know they will die,
00:57:20.67\00:57:21.97
the dead don't know anything,
00:57:21.97\00:57:23.07
they do not
return to their house,"
00:57:23.07\00:57:25.01
Job 14 tells us,
and haunt the house.
00:57:25.01\00:57:28.21
- Okay, another
question that we have is,
00:57:28.21\00:57:29.51
"How long does it
take to be right with God
00:57:29.51\00:57:32.38
after repenting of sin?"
00:57:32.38\00:57:34.12
- Now that's good news,
00:57:34.12\00:57:35.58
the Bible says that
as soon as we repent,
00:57:35.58\00:57:38.52
He immediately forgives.
00:57:38.52\00:57:40.32
You see this where the
thief on the cross said,
00:57:40.32\00:57:42.19
"Lord, remember me,"
right away Jesus promised,
00:57:42.19\00:57:44.99
"You will be
with Me in paradise."
00:57:44.99\00:57:47.73
When Zaccheus came to
Christ, Jesus declared,
00:57:47.73\00:57:50.57
"This is a son of Abraham."
00:57:50.57\00:57:52.90
When Isaiah said,
"I am a sinful man,"
00:57:52.90\00:57:55.20
God cleansed him and
said, "Your sin is purged,"
00:57:55.20\00:57:58.47
so as soon as we repent, He
forgives, that's the good news.
00:57:58.47\00:58:01.98
- That is, absolutely.
00:58:01.98\00:58:03.38
Again, thank you, friends,
for your Bible questions,
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