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Now here's your host from
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Pastor Doug Batchelor.
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Doug Batchelor: Hello, friends.
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Would you like to
hear an Amazing Fact?
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Redwood trees in California hold
the records for both the tallest
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and the largest
trees in the world.
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One coastal
redwood is 380 feet tall.
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And the General Sherman
Sequoia near Yosemite contains
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an incredible 52,500 cubic feet.
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Because of heavy logging,
redwoods are now classified
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as endangered.
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Sadly, 95% of California's
original old growth redwoods
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are gone.
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Yet at the same time, they were
being cut down in California,
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they were taking
root in another land.
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Because they are naturally
resistant to rot and fire,
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Sequoia Redwoods were first
imported to the UK as seeds and
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seedlings in 1853.
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At the time, the trees became
a symbol of wealth and power in
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the Victoria era Britain.
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Redwoods were increasingly
used to line the roads and
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landscape parks.
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The trees seemed to thrive
in the rainy climate and the fad
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continued for 100 years.
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Now, the giant redwood
trees that are endangered in
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California are
thriving in the UK.
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A survey has recently shown
there are currently some 500,000
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redwoods across the
British countryside.
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By comparison, did you know
there's only about 80,000 mature
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giant redwoods in their
native range of California?
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You know, the Bible talks about
transplants that are flourishing
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in a foreign environment.
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Jean Ross: That's
right, Pastor Doug.
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You know, you spoke
about redwoods, Sequoias, giant
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Sequoias, I know you have and I
have, we've been there to close
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to Yosemite where they
have a grove of the giant
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Sequoia trees.
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It is humbling just standing
next to one of these giant trees
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and looking up.
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It's truly an amazing tree.
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It's one of my favorite
trees and, of course, you always
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associate these giant trees with
northern California, with the
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climate and the
history and all the rest of it.
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It is interesting though that
you have the same tree now that
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is flourishing far away from
northern California, all the way
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over in Great Britain.
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That's right.
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And, you know, folks might
wonder, "Well, Pastor Doug, you
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usually tie these Amazing
Facts to some biblical truth.
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Where are you
going to go with this?"
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You know, folks, you might
be surprised to know that for
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almost 2,000 years, Jehovah
revealed Himself and worked
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through and operated through
the Jewish nation, Israel.
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But after the time of Christ and
Jesus said this would happen,
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the gospel exploded from
Pentecost where all the Jews
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had gathered.
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They took the gospel back
to their respective countries.
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And in one century, the majority
of people now believing in
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Jehovah were no longer Jewish.
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The religion of the true God had
spread far beyond the borders
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of Israel.
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And so that, you know, today,
the amount of people reading
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the Bible, I think
there's 16 million Jews in
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the world, approximately.
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I think half of them are
in Israel approximately, and
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the other half are in the US.
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Well, I should say, you know,
45% in Israel, 45% in the US and
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the others are
scattered around the world.
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But there's 2 billion people
in the world that believe the
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Bible, that are Christians,
and it spread far beyond--
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the religion that began in
Israel has spread far beyond
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the borders.
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It's interesting that you
consider the Bible tells us that
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Christianity is really
an extension of Judaism.
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You know, Paul said
this was going to happen.
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You can read in Romans 9, verse
25: "As He says in Hosea," Paul
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is quoting the Old Testament,
"I will call them My people, who
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were not My people, and her
beloved, who was not beloved.
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And it will come to pass in the
place where it was said of them,
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'You are not My people,' there
they shall be called the sons of
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the living God."
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And so the gospel
then went to the Gentiles.
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And now you've got this whole
nation of spiritual Jews that
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are scattered around the world.
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Jean: And we have a free
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People often ask, "Well, what
about Israel in Bible prophecy?
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What does the Bible teach?"
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We've got a book.
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It's called "Spiritual
Israel" and it explores this
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very subject.
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Who is Israel, at
least spiritual Israel today?
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We'll be happy to
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The number to call
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Well, before we go to the phone
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start with prayer.
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Let's do that now.
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Dear Father, what a joy it is
to be able to spend time in Your
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Word once again and open up the
scriptures and we just pray for
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Your Spirit.
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We know the Bible
is Your book, Lord.
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Be with those who are listening
wherever they might be,
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if they're in the car, at home,
and just lead us into a clearer
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understanding of the Bible.
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We thank You in
Jesus's name, amen.
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Doug: Amen.
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Jean: All right, we are
ready for our first call.
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We got Gary in Illinois.
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Gary, welcome to
"Bible Answers Live."
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Gary: Thank you.
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In Exodus 19, verse 16, it says:
"On the morning of the third
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day, there were thunders,
lightnings, and a thick cloud on
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the mountain; and a very loud
trumpet blast so that all the
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people in the camp trembled."
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So my question is, is God
preparing us for a significant
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event as He did Israel
when He was giving them the
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ten commandments?
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Today, there are dozens of
videos with trumpets sounding
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in the sky.
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People are asking, "What
are those trumpets," you know?
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And so that's my question.
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Doug: All right.
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Hey, thank you.
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Well, it is true that there
are trumpets compared with the
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last days.
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Not only do you have seven
trumpets in Revelation that span
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the course of military history,
that of the Christian era, but
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you know, there may be some
trumpets that are going to be
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blowing right at the end of
time, sort of like when the--
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before Jericho fell, Joshua sent
the priests out ahead of the
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army blowing seven trumpets.
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So of course, the Lord's going
to descend from heaven with the
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voice of the
archangel and the trump of God.
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Now the trumpets that you're
hearing people talk about on
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YouTubes, I would have to say
I've not seen those, so there
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may be signs and things
happening in the heavens.
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It says that in Luke,
no question about that.
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Jean: Definitely seems our skies
are getting more noisy just with
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all of the travel taking place
and different types of aircraft
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and planes.
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I know we hear helicopters
fly over all the time and jets.
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Becomes pretty noisy, just
listening up to what's happening
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in the sky.
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Haven't heard a trumpet though.
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But you know,
there's a lot of noise.
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Doug: Just think about all of
the radio signals and cell phone
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signals and television signals
that are going through the air
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at this moment.
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It's amazing that we're not
all microwaved with all that.
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Jean: All
right, thank you, Gary.
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We've got Brittany
listening in California.
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Brittany,
welcome to the program.
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Brittany: Yeah, my question is
why did Peter cut off the ear of
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Malchus when he knew that
Jesus was able to heal people?
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Doug: Well, I think that
the apostles were thinking that
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Jesus was going to do something
to set Himself up as an
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earthly king.
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And that's why James and
John said, "When You're in Your
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kingdom, can we sit on the
right and left of Your throne?"
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They were picturing Jesus, not
as reigning from heaven, not as
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a spiritual kingdom.
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And in fact, even after the
resurrection, I think Philip
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said, "Lord, will You at this
time establish the kingdom?"
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And so when they came to arrest
Jesus, Peter maybe thought,
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well, this is going to be the
nuclear moment that's going to
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change everything and that they
were supposed to take up arms.
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So I don't think that they
thought Jesus was going to go
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through the
battlefield, healing everybody.
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I think they thought that this
was a pivotal moment when they
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would fight and Jesus
would assert His power to make
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Himself king.
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Jean: You know, there's several
times recorded in scripture
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where the mob and there was
times when the disciples thought
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that they needed to force
Christ, so to speak, to be king,
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to take on some
position when He fed the 5,000.
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And there was people felt, you
know, we need to make Him king
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and I'm sure the disciples
were part of that plot and Jesus
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finally sent them on a
ship to cross the lake.
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And here, maybe like you say,
the disciples might think, well,
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the time has come.
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You know, it's the Passover,
everyone's coming to Jerusalem.
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He already entered the city
riding on the back of a donkey
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and that was
connected with a king.
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And I don't know though if Peter
was really thinking right there;
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he just responded.
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He just reacted.
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Doug: Yeah, no one had ever
really laid hands on Jesus to
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arrest Him before.
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And so that's why before they
went to the dinner, they said,
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"Lord, we have two swords,"
and He said, "You don't get it."
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He's had enough of this.
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Anyway, all right.
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Well, thank you, Brittany.
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I appreciate your question.
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Jean: Yeah, we've got
Tahaih listening in New York.
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Tahaih, welcome to the program.
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Tahaih: Hello.
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My question is,
are dinosaurs real?
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Doug: Yes, dinosaurs are real.
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When I grew up--you
sound like a young man.
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I grew up across the street from
the Museum of Natural History in
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New York City and I used to go
over there and I wanted to be a
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paleontologist and I'd look
at all the dinosaur bones and,
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yeah, they were very real.
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The dinosaurs just lived
contemporaneous, that means at
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the same time, as people.
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And so, there's been a
lot of confusion about the
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dating methods.
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Recently, they found dinosaur
bones, the thigh bone of a
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tyrannosaurus rex
that still had soft tissue.
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It certainly could not
be 65 million years old.
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And the person who discovered
that was, you know, an
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atheist paleontologist.
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They admitted that he
had no religious agenda.
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So, yeah, the dinosaurs
did live on the Ark of Noah.
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They didn't take great
big, full-grown brontosauruses
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or triceratops or stegosauruses.
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They probably took small ones
and they could have taken eggs
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or babies.
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So, I think a lot of the animals
when they put them in the ark,
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they didn't need to
take full grown ones.
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Jean: And of course, after
the flood then, the environment
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changed to the point
where these animals couldn't
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flourish anymore.
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Doug: Yeah, that or people
like Nimrod, the hunter, killed
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them off.
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But we still
have great reptiles.
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You know, there's Komodo dragons
and there's some big crocodiles
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in the Nile and a dinosaur is
just a very large reptile that's
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extinct, but we
still have big reptiles.
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Jean: Okay, we got
Manuel listening in Illinois.
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Manuel, welcome to the program.
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Manuel: Hello.
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My question is, what's the
best explanation or the clearest
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interpretation
of Colossians 2:16?
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Doug: All right, well, let me
read this for our friends that
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are listening.
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Colossians chapter 2, verse 16:
"So let no one judge you in food
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or in drink, or regarding
a festival or new moon or
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Sabbaths, which are a shadow
of things to come, but the
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substance is of Christ."
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Now some people have read
Colossians 2:16 and they're
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saying, "Oh, you don't
need to worry about the Sabbath.
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It says right there: 'Don't let
anyone judge you regarding the
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new moon or Sabbaths.'"
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Well, the key is, it says,
"Sabbaths which are a shadow."
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There were Sabbaths
that were created after sin.
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There were annual Sabbaths that
were shadows pointing to Christ.
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It's not talking here about
the Sabbath day is singular.
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It's not plural.
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It's a day that goes
back before there was sin.
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Right there at the beginning on
the seventh day of creation, God
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made the Sabbath day and Jesus
said He made it for man, not for
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Jews, but for humanity.
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Christ said the
Sabbath is made for man.
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That's anthropos like
anthropology, the human race.
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Everyone needs a Sabbath,
everyone needs a day of rest.
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The Jewish annual Sabbaths were
nailed to the cross and this is
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what Colossians
2:16 is talking about.
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Has nothing to do with the
weekly day of worship or rest.
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Jean: You know, we do have a
study guide called "The Last Day
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of History," and it talks about
the Sabbath and what the Bible
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has to say about it.
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We'll be able to send it
to anyone who calls and asks.
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The number to call
for that is 800-835-6747.
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You can ask for the study guide.
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It's called "The
Last Day of History."
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You can also dial #250
and ask for it by name.
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You can also ask to sign up for
free to the Amazing Facts Bible
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School and you actually go
through all of these lessons,
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dealing with a number of
very important Bible topics.
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So you can also ask when you
call to be enrolled in the free
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Amazing Facts Bible School.
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Next caller that we
have is Isaiah in Texas.
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Isaiah, welcome to the program.
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Isaiah: Good evening, Pastors.
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Thank you both for what you do.
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My question tonight is how can
we trust denominational writings
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and, as an
example, of Ellen White?
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Doug: Well, if you read in
1 Corinthians chapter 12 and
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chapter 14, Paul makes it very
clear that the gift of prophecy
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is still
something that God uses.
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When you look in Revelation
chapter 12, it says in verse 17,
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that the dragon, the devil,
is wroth with the remnant of her
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seed, the church.
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He goes, he's
wroth with a woman.
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He goes to make war with the
remnant of her seed that has--
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that keeps the commandments
of God and has the testimony
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of Jesus.
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If you look in Revelation 19:10,
it says the testimony of Jesus
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is the spirit of prophecy.
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And so, the law and the
prophets, God, you know, it goes
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all the way through history.
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You read in Joel chapter 2,
"It'll come to pass in the last
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days, I'll pour out
My spirit on all flesh.
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Your sons and your
daughters will dream dreams,
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they'll prophesy."
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And that's also quoted in Acts
chapter 2--so does God still
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inspire people and speak
through people in the last days?
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And I think, you know,
unequivocally, the Bible
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says, Yes.
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Now, does that mean that that is
to be added to the scripture or
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put on the same
level as the scripture?
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No, categorically no.
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The scriptures are complete.
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But there's a distinction.
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To say that God does not inspire
or that God does not speak
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through people is
a different issue.
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And so, I believe Ellen White
fits in that category of someone
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who is inspired and for those
out there who don't know who
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that is and would question
that, I'd say taste and see
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for yourself.
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You know, read a book like
"Steps to Christ" and see if it
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doesn't support biblical truth.
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And there's a biblical test.
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I think we got a
lesson that talks about that.
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There's a series of biblical
tests that you can apply to find
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out if a person meets
the criteria of what is the
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definition of prophecy.
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Jean: And I think the point you
make is important when it comes
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to anyone who claims to be a
prophet or have a message from
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God, it needs to be
tested by the Bible.
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The Bible says to the law and to
the testimony, if they speak not
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according to this,
there is no light in them.
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So the Bible
needs to be the test.
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But having said that, we need
to recognize that God does still
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speak through people,
especially tp guide in
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certain circumstances.
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We do have a study guide.
00:16:25.88\00:16:27.18
It's called, "Does God
Inspire Psychics--Astrologists
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and Psychics?"
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That is one of our study guides
and deals with the subject.
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We'll be happy to send it
to anyone who calls and asks.
00:16:34.62\00:16:36.46
The number is 800-835-6747.
00:16:36.49\00:16:40.40
You can also dial
#250 on your phone.
00:16:40.43\00:16:43.03
Ask for the study guide,
"Does God Inspire Psychics?"
00:16:43.06\00:16:45.93
That's probably the--that's all
they'll need to be able to find
00:16:45.97\00:16:48.60
that lesson.
00:16:48.64\00:16:49.97
We'll be happy
to send it to you.
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And read it and share
it with somebody else.
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Next caller that we have is
Shannon, listening in Georgia.
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Shannon, welcome to the program.
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Shannon: Hi, my question is
on Acts 23, verse 6, and it says
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that Paul's parents were both
Jews, but then it says that he
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was born of Pharisees.
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Could you please explain that?
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Doug: Yeah, well, the
Pharisees were all Jewish.
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So there's no conflict there.
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Matter of fact, I can't
think of a Pharisee that wasn't
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also Jewish.
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By the way, the Hebrews
are different from Jews.
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You could be Hebrew and maybe
from the tribe of Issachar.
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The Jews were typically from the
tribe of Judah, Benjamin, and
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Levites could be called Jews.
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But it's a derivative
from the word "Judah."
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The ten tribes were
carried away captive.
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Paul was from the tribe
of Benjamin, but--so he was
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also a Jew.
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But, yeah, the Pharisees were
a sect within Judaism that was
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extremely rigorous and
fastidious about keeping the law
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of Moses.
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Jean: Okay, very good.
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We've got Aiden,
listening in Arizona.
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Aiden, welcome to the program.
00:18:03.55\00:18:05.08
Aiden: Hello, Pastors.
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Doug: Hi.
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Aiden: Yeah, real quick.
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You two are going
to stand out in heaven.
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Your crowns are going to be
so heavy that the prophets are
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going to say,
"Who are these guys?"
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Doug: Oh, I hope I'm just there.
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That would be--happy for that.
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Aiden: I believe you're
going to make it, brother.
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Anyway, my question is, it's in
Revelations 13, verse 8, and it
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says: "All who dwell on the
earth will worship Him, whose
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names have not been
written in the book of life."
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And so there
is--have not been written.
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And so my question is, if our
names are written in the book of
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life, are we protected
somehow from worshiping?
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Doug: Well, you know, of course,
if you are a follower of Christ,
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the Bible says that,
you know, you can be sealed.
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And God said, if it were
possible, even the very elect
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would be deceived.
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But you know God's people that
are surrendered to them--Him,
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He will keep them.
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Of all that the Father
gives me, I will lose nothing.
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Jesus will keep us.
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And so if we're living lives
of consecration to God, and we
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are--our names are in the book
of life, I believe we will be
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sealed and kept.
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There are people that,
sometimes, their names are in
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the book of life.
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And where is it in Revelation
he says, "I will not blot their
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names out."
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Both in Revelation and even
Moses said, you know, you can
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blot a name out
of the book of life.
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So, some may have
their names removed.
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Jean: That's Revelation chapter
3, verse 5. It says: "He who
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overcomes shall be clothed
in white garment, and I will not
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blot his name out
of the book of life."
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Doug: Yeah, so I think everybody
that is kept during the final
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plagues, their names are in
the book and they're kept by God
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during that time.
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Jean: So your names get entered
into the book when you receive
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Jesus as your personal Savior.
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But if you turn away from Him,
it does appear from this passage
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that your name can be
blotted out of the book.
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And if your name is out of the
book, well, then you're subject
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to worshiping the beast power
as we read about in Revelation
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chapter 13.
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So we want our names to remain
in the lamb's book of life.
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All right, next caller that
we have is Chandler, listening
00:20:07.37\00:20:09.04
in California.
00:20:09.07\00:20:10.41
Chandler,
welcome to the program.
00:20:10.44\00:20:11.97
Chandler: Hi, my question
is when Moses went up to the
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burning bush and he had to take
off his shoes, did they have to
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take off their shoes in the holy
place, in the most holy place?
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Doug: Yeah, good question.
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I don't know that
there's a comment.
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The priests would wash
their feet and their hands in
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the laver.
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And it may be that, you know,
it's not mentioned, I doubt it
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had a dirt floor.
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My guess is there were
some carpets because they used
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carpets in the tents.
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My guess is there were some
carpets in there and it may be
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that as the priests
entered the holy place that they
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were barefoot.
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Jean: It would make sense
if they had to wash their feet
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before going in, that they
probably wouldn't put on their
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dirty sandals afterwards.
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It would appear that they would
probably go barefoot with their
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feet washed into the holy place.
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And of course, when you get
to Solomon's Temple, then it had
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a floor that was, you
know, with gold everywhere.
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So they'd walk on that special
floor when they walked in and
00:21:04.39\00:21:07.86
they probably
wouldn't wear shoes.
00:21:07.86\00:21:09.76
And of course, we've been to the
Middle East and we've been over
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in that part of the world and
still today, the custom exists
00:21:12.90\00:21:15.54
that when you go into a place
of worship, a church, you remove
00:21:15.57\00:21:19.57
your shoes when you go
in, you know, with your socks
00:21:19.61\00:21:22.24
or barefoot.
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It's a sign of reverence.
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Doug: Yeah, even today, if you
go to the Dome of the Rock, the
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site where the temple used to
be, you take your shoes off and
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when we go to church in India,
a lot of--several places, take
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your shoes off.
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So, absolutely.
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Jean: Okay, thank you.
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We've got Virginia
listening in California.
00:21:37.59\00:21:40.03
Virginia,
welcome to the program.
00:21:40.06\00:21:41.73
Virginia: Hi, good evening.
00:21:41.76\00:21:43.10
Doug: Evening.
00:21:43.13\00:21:44.43
Virginia: My question is what
does pure or what does surrender
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or total surrender mean?
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Like, should I not be watching
movies or certain music or I can
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watch some that are like, you
know, more like cooking shows
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or some--but what
is the total surrender?
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Doug: Well, total surrender
would mean you're willing to do
00:22:05.82\00:22:08.96
whatever God wants you to do.
00:22:08.99\00:22:11.56
And so in every situation, you
would say not my will, Thy will
00:22:11.59\00:22:14.66
be done.
00:22:14.73\00:22:16.03
Now, that would mean that
you apply a biblical test to
00:22:16.06\00:22:19.00
your life.
00:22:19.03\00:22:20.34
Paul says, "Whatever
things are noble, just, pure."
00:22:20.37\00:22:23.34
That was at Philippians 4? He
says, "Think on these things."
00:22:23.37\00:22:26.71
So if it's a TV program,
you want to ask, "Is it noble,
00:22:26.74\00:22:30.05
just, pure?"
00:22:30.08\00:22:31.38
Not too many
programs pass that criteria.
00:22:31.41\00:22:34.42
And you can always
ask, "What would Jesus do?"
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A Christian's a
follower of Christ.
00:22:37.62\00:22:40.52
There's a prayer in the Bible.
00:22:40.56\00:22:42.42
I--the fellow who first uttered
the prayer, I don't have much
00:22:42.46\00:22:49.33
confidence in Ahab, but actually
he made a statement, he said,
00:22:49.36\00:22:51.90
"All that I am and all
that I have are Yours."
00:22:51.93\00:22:55.04
And that is actually
a very good statement.
00:22:55.07\00:22:58.91
All that I am and
all that I have is Yours.
00:22:58.94\00:23:02.01
That would be total surrender.
00:23:02.04\00:23:03.38
That's why Jesus said we deny
ourselves, take up our cross
00:23:03.41\00:23:06.98
and follow Him.
00:23:07.02\00:23:08.32
And sometimes that might
mean deny something that we're
00:23:08.35\00:23:10.85
listening to or watching or
eating or spending money on or
00:23:10.89\00:23:14.69
whatever it is.
00:23:14.72\00:23:16.06
Jean: You know, the verse you're
referring to, Pastor Doug,
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Philippians 4, verse 8, it says:
"Finally, brethren, whatever
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.23
things are true, whatever things
are noble, whatever things are
00:23:20.26\00:23:23.40
just, whatever things are pure,
whatever things are lovely,
00:23:23.43\00:23:27.10
whatsoever things are of good
report, if there be any virtue,
00:23:27.14\00:23:29.64
if there be any praise,
meditate on these things."
00:23:29.67\00:23:32.84
So that's good counsel.
00:23:32.87\00:23:34.24
You know, we do have a book.
00:23:34.28\00:23:35.51
It's called "Life In the Spirit"
and it talks a little bit about
00:23:35.54\00:23:38.51
living that victorious
Spirit-filled life, and we'll be
00:23:38.55\00:23:41.82
happy to send that to
anyone who calls and asks.
00:23:41.85\00:23:44.05
The number is 800-835-6747.
00:23:44.09\00:23:47.26
You can also dial
#250 and ask for the book.
00:23:47.29\00:23:49.99
It's called
"Life in the Spirit."
00:23:50.03\00:23:52.33
We'll send it to you.
00:23:52.36\00:23:53.70
You can get a digital download.
00:23:53.73\00:23:55.00
If you're outside of North
America, just go to the website,
00:23:55.03\00:23:57.20
AmazingFacts.org, and you'll be
able to read the book there at
00:23:57.23\00:24:00.67
the media library.
00:24:00.70\00:24:02.10
Next caller that we
have is Jerry in Georgia.
00:24:02.14\00:24:04.81
Jerry, welcome to the program.
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Jerry: Hello.
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Doug: Hi, Jerry.
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You're on.
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Jerry: I was just wondering what
the world would be like after
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probation closes.
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Doug: Well, you can read in
Matthew chapter 12, it says at
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that time, this is verse 1,
Michael will stand up, the great
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prince that stands for
the children of thy people.
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And there will be a time of
trouble such as there never has
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been, ever since there was a
nation even unto the same time.
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So there is a great time of
trouble when Michael stands up.
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That's when Christ ceases His
intercession and He stands as
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though He's preparing to come.
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He stands as though judgment
has been completed and there's
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a great time of trouble.
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So, He also--Jesus
mentions that in Matthew 24.
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Time of trouble such
as there never has been.
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So this is the time of
Revelation 15 and 16 when
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the seven last
plagues are poured out.
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Now, that hasn't started yet.
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You know, because it says
the oceans and the rivers turn
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to blood.
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But it's coming and, you know,
that's why we want to have our
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names written in that book now.
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Jean: All right, very good.
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We've got Christopher
listening in California.
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Christopher,
welcome to the program.
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You're on the air.
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Christopher:
Hello, good evening.
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Doug: Evening.
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Christopher: My question is,
would it be wrong to do boxing
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as self-defense, not to do it
professionally, just to train?
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Doug: Well, I don't know if
I can give a unbiased answer
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because when I was a kid, my
mother dated a boxer for a while
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and he gave my brother and I
gloves and a few lessons and I
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always enjoyed it.
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But you have to ask yourself,
you know, what would Jesus do,
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as we just said a minute ago.
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It's hard for me.
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You know, sometimes
I'll see a boxing match.
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You know, you're surfing through
the channels, you see it and I
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want to watch and if I watch
for a minute I notice I get all
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excited, just violent.
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You know, you really--you get
two guys trying to bludgeon each
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other and knock the
other one senseless.
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But you hope you never be in a
situation where you need to use
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boxing or any kind of
martial arts to defend yourself.
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I think there's probably good
things you can do for exercise.
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And I know I used to
wrestle with my kids.
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So that's a little more--a
little different than trying to
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knock someone out.
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You ever wrestle
with your boy, Jean?
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Jean: All the time.
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Not anymore.
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Doug: They're too big?
00:26:31.25\00:26:32.55
Jean: They're too big.
00:26:32.59\00:26:33.92
Doug: Don't go away, friends.
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We're coming back.
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Dee: My parents got divorced
when I was three or four and
00:26:59.08\00:27:01.55
then I was basically
unchurched most of my life.
00:27:01.58\00:27:04.75
I had a girlfriend in high
school tell me that she had to
00:27:04.79\00:27:06.86
break up with me
because I wasn't a Christian.
00:27:06.89\00:27:08.59
I thought, "That's weird.
00:27:08.62\00:27:09.92
I believe in God.
00:27:09.96\00:27:11.26
Why would she say that?"
00:27:11.29\00:27:12.63
Not realizing I was
living a horrible life with foul
00:27:12.66\00:27:13.96
language, was
mean, and other stuff.
00:27:14.00\00:27:15.80
And that kind of
challenged me initially.
00:27:15.83\00:27:18.93
And then my dad, 911 woke him
up, that he wasn't ready to meet
00:27:18.97\00:27:22.30
his Lord, though he was a man
that I valued and knew loved me,
00:27:22.34\00:27:25.67
didn't doubt that.
00:27:25.71\00:27:27.04
But he just knew he needed more.
00:27:27.08\00:27:28.38
So he started watching
TV ministries first, Baptist
00:27:28.41\00:27:31.81
preachers and others.
00:27:31.85\00:27:33.15
And he was kind of intrigued
by what he was learning.
00:27:33.18\00:27:36.52
And so when he turned me on to
this, this television station,
00:27:36.55\00:27:39.25
the first thing that I got
access to was Doug Batchelor's
00:27:39.29\00:27:42.86
"Most Amazing Prophecies"
series that he did in
00:27:42.89\00:27:44.93
Berrien Springs, Michigan.
00:27:44.96\00:27:46.53
And I remember when I first
watched this, my background was
00:27:46.56\00:27:48.93
Baptist-ish, of sorts.
00:27:48.96\00:27:51.37
But I remember when I first
watched this series, I remember
00:27:51.40\00:27:54.84
thinking, I've never heard that
before about the state of the
00:27:54.87\00:27:57.37
dead or about the Sabbath or the
Commandments or the Rapture or
00:27:57.41\00:28:00.54
other things.
00:28:00.58\00:28:01.88
And I remember thinking to
myself, I've never heard that
00:28:01.91\00:28:03.31
before, but that's what the text
says and that kept happening.
00:28:03.35\00:28:07.22
And I had this experience of
just wondering like, well, what
00:28:07.25\00:28:10.02
else have I believed
that isn't as it is, you know?
00:28:10.05\00:28:12.79
And the more I watched,
the more helpful it became.
00:28:12.82\00:28:16.06
But again, he kind of took
a different perspective on the
00:28:16.09\00:28:18.26
messages so it was fresh to me.
00:28:18.29\00:28:20.26
But I just--these things I had
never heard before and I just
00:28:20.30\00:28:23.73
realized, like, there's so much
stuff in the Bible that no one's
00:28:23.77\00:28:27.94
talking about and
that people need to know.
00:28:27.97\00:28:30.64
And so, I ended up in this
awkward situation that some of
00:28:30.67\00:28:33.24
my friends who didn't believe
what I was coming to believe, I
00:28:33.27\00:28:36.68
didn't know how to
communicate with them.
00:28:36.71\00:28:38.58
And so one of the things
that helped me initially was the
00:28:38.61\00:28:41.98
SabbathTruth.com website,
TheTruthAboutHell.com and The
00:28:42.02\00:28:46.29
Truth About Death and some
of those resource websites that
00:28:46.32\00:28:49.12
Amazing Facts had put
together that were just full
00:28:49.16\00:28:51.89
of resources.
00:28:51.93\00:28:53.23
If I needed an answer to
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00:28:53.26\00:28:55.13
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00:28:55.16\00:28:59.63
something that I could use.
00:28:59.67\00:29:01.07
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00:29:01.10\00:29:03.74
The Amazing Facts Prophecy Study
Bible was my first real Bible
00:29:03.77\00:29:07.61
that I had of a
more trusted translation.
00:29:07.64\00:29:10.55
The Bible study guides
were in the back of it.
00:29:10.58\00:29:12.35
They had a lot of other
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00:29:12.38\00:29:14.55
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00:29:14.58\00:29:17.39
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00:29:17.42\00:29:19.52
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00:29:19.55\00:29:21.96
you know, like here's what I'm
coming to realize this is true.
00:29:21.99\00:29:24.76
It's in the Bible.
00:29:24.79\00:29:26.13
And was a huge blessing to me
and a real help just to kind of
00:29:26.16\00:29:30.20
help me to better understand
what the message was and
00:29:30.23\00:29:33.74
understand it for myself
and have resources to put in the
00:29:33.77\00:29:35.94
hands of other people.
00:29:35.97\00:29:37.31
It was invaluable.
00:29:37.34\00:29:38.64
Some time went by, I eventually
went to a school of evangelism
00:29:38.67\00:29:41.01
and was baptized.
00:29:41.04\00:29:42.38
And then I had this amazing
opportunity that after being in
00:29:42.41\00:29:45.35
ministry for about 5 or 6 years,
Doug Batchelor was going to be
00:29:45.38\00:29:48.35
the main speaker at a youth
event and I was actually doing a
00:29:48.38\00:29:51.29
seminar at this youth event.
00:29:51.32\00:29:53.22
And it was just this amazing
kind of full circle experience
00:29:53.25\00:29:55.76
that the first person
that I came in contact with in
00:29:55.79\00:29:58.26
adventism to hear the message,
to have it make sense, to be
00:29:58.29\00:30:01.06
able to do ministry together
with him, in whatever role
00:30:01.10\00:30:04.30
possible, just meant the world
to me and to be able to tell him
00:30:04.33\00:30:07.24
my story and tell him
thank you was invaluable.
00:30:07.27\00:30:10.11
And so God just gave me a
precious gift in affording
00:30:10.14\00:30:13.74
that opportunity.
00:30:13.78\00:30:15.08
And I'll never forget that.
00:30:15.11\00:30:16.44
My name is Dee.
00:30:16.48\00:30:17.78
Thank you for changing my life.
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By the way, my
name's Doug Batchelor.
00:31:51.94\00:31:53.24
Jean: My name is Jean Ross
and we've got Russell listening
00:31:53.27\00:31:56.81
in California.
00:31:56.85\00:31:58.15
And he has a question
about the Pool of Bethesda.
00:31:58.18\00:31:59.95
Russell, welcome to the program.
00:32:00.05\00:32:02.48
Russell: Hi, Pastors.
00:32:02.52\00:32:03.82
Thank you for
taking my question.
00:32:03.85\00:32:05.19
My question is, did the angel
of the Lord really stir the Pool
00:32:05.22\00:32:09.56
of Bethesda?
00:32:09.59\00:32:11.59
Doug: All right, well, the--
some of you know the story here.
00:32:11.63\00:32:14.46
It's in the Gospel of John.
00:32:14.46\00:32:16.03
I think it's chapter 5, and
it says that the people would
00:32:16.06\00:32:19.73
gather around this pool, sitting
on the porch, and they were all
00:32:19.77\00:32:23.61
manner of sick people and they'd
see the water bubble or stir
00:32:23.64\00:32:27.78
somehow and they had a belief
that an angel had troubled the
00:32:27.81\00:32:31.55
water and whoever
got in first was healed.
00:32:31.58\00:32:35.18
Well, I think that John is
relating what the legend was.
00:32:35.22\00:32:39.09
I can't imagine that an angel
of God would find any joy in
00:32:39.12\00:32:43.96
stirring the water and watching
people clamber over each other
00:32:43.99\00:32:47.20
to be the first one in.
00:32:47.23\00:32:48.93
That would seem kind
of like a cool pastime.
00:32:48.96\00:32:52.33
So, I don't believe the angel
of the Lord was doing that.
00:32:52.37\00:32:55.20
I think it's just
saying that they had a belief.
00:32:55.24\00:32:57.81
It was a legend.
00:32:57.84\00:32:59.17
It was a local myth, kind
of like they got the waters of
00:32:59.21\00:33:02.51
Lourdes where people go and they
think if they can just be there
00:33:02.54\00:33:05.91
or a number of holy sites, it
has become a tradition and--but
00:33:05.95\00:33:11.45
it wasn't actually God's
angel that was doing that.
00:33:11.49\00:33:13.96
Jean: Yeah, some have
even suggested with the
00:33:13.99\00:33:15.46
archaeological, you know, they
found the Pool of Bethesda and
00:33:15.49\00:33:18.83
they actually did archaeological
digs and they found the arches
00:33:18.86\00:33:21.63
around there and some think that
there were springs close by or
00:33:21.66\00:33:25.57
under the pool, that fed the
pool, and maybe every now and
00:33:25.60\00:33:28.67
again, there would be some sort
of a ripple or a bubble that
00:33:28.70\00:33:31.24
would arise or something.
00:33:31.27\00:33:32.57
Doug: I've got springs and every
now and then, you see bubbles
00:33:32.61\00:33:35.81
come up, so could have been.
00:33:35.84\00:33:38.48
Jean: All right, thank you.
00:33:38.51\00:33:39.85
Next caller that we
have is Bruce, listening in
00:33:39.88\00:33:41.75
North Carolina.
00:33:41.78\00:33:43.08
And he's got a question about
not being under the law, but
00:33:43.12\00:33:45.15
under grace.
00:33:45.19\00:33:46.52
Bruce, welcome to the program.
00:33:46.55\00:33:48.36
Bruce: Thank you, Pastors.
00:33:48.39\00:33:49.79
I just wanted to ask, I
did AFCOE online and under the
00:33:49.82\00:33:54.60
section for answering
objections, how does one respond
00:33:54.63\00:33:59.43
to: "We're not under
the law anymore, that we're
00:33:59.47\00:34:02.44
under grace?"
00:34:02.47\00:34:04.34
Doug: Well, we are under grace.
00:34:04.37\00:34:06.31
But what does that mean?
00:34:06.34\00:34:07.64
Does being under grace
mean you no longer need to obey
00:34:07.68\00:34:11.35
God's law?
00:34:11.38\00:34:12.68
Well, Paul actually asks that
question in Romans and he says--
00:34:12.71\00:34:16.69
I think it's chapter 6, he says,
"God forbid, how shall we who
00:34:16.72\00:34:20.69
are dead to sin
live any longer?"
00:34:20.72\00:34:22.92
So when it says under the law,
Paul is talking about those who
00:34:22.96\00:34:26.73
because they've broken the
law and that's all of us, the
00:34:26.76\00:34:29.30
penalty is death.
00:34:29.33\00:34:30.67
We are under the
death penalty of the law.
00:34:30.70\00:34:34.64
But through Jesus's
mercy, He washes us from our
00:34:34.67\00:34:40.01
We are no longer living under a
death penalty of the law because
00:34:40.04\00:34:45.35
we are now living under grace.
00:34:45.38\00:34:47.68
But being under grace does
not mean you no longer have an
00:34:47.72\00:34:50.79
obligation to obey the law.
00:34:50.82\00:34:52.65
Indeed, those who are under
grace are the most eager to do
00:34:52.69\00:34:57.23
God's will and obey the law.
00:34:57.26\00:34:59.09
So we have a free book actually
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00:34:59.13\00:35:02.16
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Next caller that we have
is Lee, listening in Texas.
00:35:29.99\00:35:32.69
And he has a question about the
Garden of Gethsemane and what
00:35:32.73\00:35:37.83
Jesus prayed.
00:35:37.87\00:35:39.20
Lee, welcome to the program.
00:35:39.23\00:35:40.94
Lee: Yes, my question is
when Jesus prayed among--in the
00:35:40.97\00:35:43.94
Garden of Gethsemane, asking God
to take this--take the cup from
00:35:43.97\00:35:47.94
Him, why was He afraid to
die if He knew He was going to
00:35:47.98\00:35:51.71
come back?
00:35:51.75\00:35:53.42
Doug: Well, I don't think
Jesus was afraid of death.
00:35:53.45\00:35:55.72
The thing that terrified Him, if
that's the right word, that He
00:35:55.75\00:35:59.75
was most anxious about is this
would be the first time He had
00:35:59.79\00:36:03.19
been separated from the Father.
00:36:03.22\00:36:05.49
Now keep in mind
that Christ is love.
00:36:05.53\00:36:07.86
God is love.
00:36:07.86\00:36:09.10
God the Father, God the Son, the
very essence of Their nature is
00:36:09.13\00:36:12.10
love which They had expressed
together from eternity past.
00:36:12.13\00:36:18.47
And now if--it's probably
incomprehensible for us that for
00:36:18.51\00:36:22.11
the first time in eternity,
God the Father and the Son would
00:36:22.14\00:36:26.98
be separated.
00:36:27.02\00:36:28.35
And I think looking at that, and
knowing that He would be bearing
00:36:28.38\00:36:31.75
sin, and Christ was going to
be facing death the way a lost
00:36:31.79\00:36:36.46
person faces the second death.
00:36:36.49\00:36:38.93
He felt the
hopelessness that the lost feel.
00:36:38.96\00:36:42.43
And so that's why He said, "If
there's any other way that this
00:36:42.46\00:36:44.83
cup might pass from Me," I
think compared to the mental
00:36:44.87\00:36:49.34
suffering, the
physical suffering was small.
00:36:49.37\00:36:52.87
The anguish that He felt about
being separated from the Father,
00:36:52.91\00:36:55.68
not death, is what I think was--
weighed heavily on--the most
00:36:55.71\00:36:59.88
heavily on His heart.
00:36:59.91\00:37:01.32
Jean: Absolutely.
00:37:01.35\00:37:02.65
All right, thank you, Lee.
00:37:02.68\00:37:04.02
We've got Alan, listening in
North Carolina, and he's got a
00:37:04.05\00:37:06.52
question about the first miracle
that Jesus performed, turning
00:37:06.55\00:37:09.82
water into wine.
00:37:09.86\00:37:11.53
Alan: Hello, thanks for
taking my call, Pastors.
00:37:11.56\00:37:13.43
Good evening to you.
00:37:13.46\00:37:15.00
I was just wondering
about that first miracle.
00:37:15.03\00:37:18.53
Jesus seemed a bit reluctant and
also it seems less significant
00:37:18.57\00:37:23.34
and profound than the other
miracles of raising the dead and
00:37:23.37\00:37:26.51
healing the blind
and other things He did.
00:37:26.54\00:37:29.11
I just wonder if there's
some more significance to that
00:37:29.14\00:37:32.41
turning water into
wine that I don't get.
00:37:32.45\00:37:35.62
Doug: Yeah, I--well, I think so.
00:37:35.65\00:37:37.95
I'll give you a
couple of things quickly.
00:37:37.99\00:37:39.79
First of all, the wine, Jesus
tells us at the end of His life,
00:37:39.82\00:37:44.13
is a symbol of the
blood of the covenant.
00:37:44.16\00:37:46.49
And turning the water
into the wine, the first plague
00:37:46.53\00:37:52.17
that Moses enacted upon the
Pharaoh was turning the water
00:37:52.20\00:37:58.04
into blood of the river.
00:37:58.07\00:37:59.41
Christ--and that was the
beginning of their deliverance.
00:37:59.44\00:38:02.28
That was the first plague
that ultimately ended with their
00:38:02.31\00:38:04.95
freedom from Egypt.
00:38:04.98\00:38:06.82
Christ's first miracle is
turning water into wine, which
00:38:06.85\00:38:10.92
he says is a
symbol of his blood.
00:38:10.95\00:38:13.32
The last thing that Jesus does
on the cross is the people give
00:38:13.36\00:38:16.83
Him sour wine after He said,
"I thirst," that it was sour, it
00:38:16.86\00:38:21.53
was not good.
00:38:21.56\00:38:22.90
He saved good
wine at the wedding.
00:38:22.93\00:38:24.97
He takes sour wine on the cross.
00:38:25.00\00:38:27.47
It's almost as though He
gives us His and takes ours.
00:38:27.50\00:38:30.97
It's like a blood transfusion.
00:38:31.01\00:38:33.17
And so there's great
significance here when He didn't
00:38:33.21\00:38:37.38
downplay it, but when His mother
told Him they're out of wine, He
00:38:37.41\00:38:40.08
said, "Woman, My
hour is not yet come."
00:38:40.12\00:38:42.02
She thought that this miracle
could be the context of somehow
00:38:42.05\00:38:45.35
announcing His Messiahship
and He was letting her know no.
00:38:45.39\00:38:49.52
One more thing, I think it's
significant that creation began
00:38:49.56\00:38:53.93
with a marriage in the garden.
00:38:53.96\00:38:55.66
And the first miracle of Christ
was to condone or to bless
00:38:55.70\00:39:00.47
a wedding.
00:39:00.50\00:39:01.90
And Jesus still wants
to bless marriages today.
00:39:01.94\00:39:05.27
Jean: And of course, if you look
at the broader context, you have
00:39:05.31\00:39:07.61
a marriage, you have Christ and
then the church being His bride.
00:39:07.64\00:39:11.05
Doug: That's right.
00:39:11.08\00:39:12.38
Jean: And in order for
that to take place, you had to
00:39:12.41\00:39:14.02
have the crucifixion symbolized
by the juice or the wine.
00:39:14.05\00:39:17.29
And then it says the governor
of the feast had to give
00:39:17.32\00:39:19.79
his approval.
00:39:19.82\00:39:21.12
And so after Christ rose from
the dead, and when He met Mary,
00:39:21.16\00:39:24.16
He said, "Do not cling to Me.
00:39:24.19\00:39:25.53
I have not yet appeared
to My Father in heaven."
00:39:25.56\00:39:27.50
So that first miracle, I think,
there's lots of profound, you
00:39:27.50\00:39:33.10
know, significance in revealing
Christ's mission and what He was
00:39:33.13\00:39:36.64
here on earth to do.
00:39:36.67\00:39:38.01
It's a great--
00:39:38.04\00:39:39.34
Doug: I feel a sermon coming on.
00:39:39.37\00:39:40.71
Jean: There's a lot there.
00:39:40.74\00:39:42.04
That's a great study.
00:39:42.08\00:39:43.38
All right, thank you, Alan.
00:39:43.41\00:39:44.75
We got Joann in Arizona.
00:39:44.78\00:39:46.55
Joann, welcome to the program.
00:39:46.58\00:39:48.22
Joann: Thank you.
00:39:48.25\00:39:49.48
What does it mean by, "Very few
will make it through the eye of
00:39:49.52\00:39:52.55
the needle"?
00:39:52.59\00:39:53.82
Doug: Yeah, Jesus said, "It's
harder for a rich man to go to
00:39:53.86\00:39:56.86
heaven than it is for a camel to
go through the eye of a needle."
00:39:56.89\00:40:00.03
And, well, first of all, Jesus
can save rich people because
00:40:00.06\00:40:03.30
right after He makes that
statement in Luke, it tells
00:40:03.33\00:40:05.57
about  Zacchaeus who
was very rich, being saved.
00:40:05.60\00:40:08.60
And of course, you
know, there'll be people,
00:40:08.64\00:40:10.41
there's exceptions.
00:40:10.44\00:40:11.97
It's harder for rich people
to be saved because they start
00:40:12.01\00:40:14.94
trusting in their riches.
00:40:14.98\00:40:17.25
But you do have people like
David and Solomon and Abraham
00:40:17.28\00:40:20.92
and Jacob that had great
substance and they'll be in
00:40:20.95\00:40:23.39
the kingdom.
00:40:23.42\00:40:25.35
There's a warning God said to
the children of Israel when you
00:40:25.39\00:40:28.59
are blessed and you're living
in houses you didn't build and
00:40:28.62\00:40:32.59
eating from vineyards and
drinking from wells and you
00:40:32.63\00:40:36.00
become fat.
00:40:36.03\00:40:37.33
Don't forget about the Lord.
00:40:37.37\00:40:38.70
And there's a danger that we
start trusting in ourselves and
00:40:38.73\00:40:41.54
our stuff and
security and we stop praying.
00:40:41.57\00:40:44.94
So the eye of a needle, though,
that was, well, there's a couple
00:40:44.97\00:40:49.98
of theories.
00:40:50.01\00:40:51.35
There was a place in Ancient
Hebrew when the shepherds were
00:40:51.38\00:40:55.85
counting the sheep, they had a
narrow gate that only one sheep
00:40:55.88\00:41:00.56
at a time could go through, so
they could count a large flock.
00:41:00.59\00:41:03.56
And they called it threading
them through the eye of
00:41:03.59\00:41:05.69
the needle.
00:41:05.73\00:41:07.03
So they're saying, well, for a
camel to go through the eye of a
00:41:07.10\00:41:09.00
needle, it could do it, but it'd
have to get on its knees and be
00:41:09.03\00:41:11.47
totally unloaded.
00:41:11.50\00:41:13.00
And it's basically Jesus's way
of saying, "Yeah, a rich man can
00:41:13.03\00:41:15.84
get to the kingdom, but he has--
he has to be willing to put all
00:41:15.87\00:41:19.77
things in God's hands."
00:41:19.81\00:41:22.58
And he could also
just be using a metaphor.
00:41:22.61\00:41:25.05
You know, Jesus said, "If you
got a plank in your eye and you
00:41:25.08\00:41:28.95
say to your friend, 'Help
me get the piece of dust out of
00:41:28.98\00:41:31.29
your eye.'"
00:41:31.32\00:41:32.65
Well, that's called
irony, pardon the pun.
00:41:32.69\00:41:34.89
So, He may have just been using
the irony of trying to picture a
00:41:34.92\00:41:39.33
camel going through
the eye of a needle.
00:41:39.36\00:41:42.86
Jean: Okay, thank you.
00:41:42.90\00:41:44.40
We've got Marvins listening
in Canada and he has a question
00:41:44.43\00:41:48.04
about the Antichrist's
power of Revelation 13.
00:41:48.07\00:41:50.77
Marvins, welcome to the program.
00:41:50.81\00:41:52.74
Marvins: Yes, hello, Pastor.
00:41:52.77\00:41:54.31
Is the Papacy the only
Antichrist according to
00:41:54.34\00:41:58.81
Revelation 13, or can there be
several Antichrists according to
00:41:58.85\00:42:03.82
1 John 2, verse 18 through 22?
00:42:03.85\00:42:09.49
Doug: Yeah, the--in 1 John,
matter of fact, you don't find
00:42:09.52\00:42:13.43
the word "Antichrist" in the
book of Revelation; you find the
00:42:13.46\00:42:16.40
person or the power of
the Antichrist in Revelation.
00:42:16.43\00:42:20.27
The word "Antichrist"
is mentioned in 1 John.
00:42:20.30\00:42:22.70
He said, "Yeah, there
are many Antichrists."
00:42:22.74\00:42:24.77
So in a broader sense, you know,
a power that is working against
00:42:24.81\00:42:30.11
Christ is anti-Christ.
00:42:30.15\00:42:32.48
You're just--you're opposing
the work and the Spirit of
00:42:32.51\00:42:34.82
Christ, that means
you're against Christ.
00:42:34.85\00:42:36.95
But then there was a big
prophetic Antichrist that's
00:42:36.99\00:42:39.52
mentioned in prophecy.
00:42:39.55\00:42:41.02
And for 500 years, Protestants
have identified the Papacy as
00:42:41.06\00:42:45.89
that Antichrist.
00:42:45.93\00:42:47.23
When the Christian church lost
its simplicity and purity and
00:42:47.30\00:42:49.80
became a political power,
and you know, a lot of money and
00:42:49.83\00:42:54.10
kind of adopted idolatry from
the Romans, they felt like the
00:42:54.14\00:42:57.97
church went through a great
compromise and it fulfilled that
00:42:58.01\00:43:03.31
many of the prophecies that
talk about what the Antichrist
00:43:03.35\00:43:06.98
would become.
00:43:07.02\00:43:08.35
Jean: You know, it's
interesting, Pastor Doug, there
00:43:08.38\00:43:09.68
was a time period during
the early days of the Protestant
00:43:09.72\00:43:11.79
reformation where there were two
rival Popes and they were both
00:43:11.82\00:43:16.19
accusing each other
of being Antichrist.
00:43:16.22\00:43:18.86
So you have one Pope accusing
another Pope of being the
00:43:18.89\00:43:22.10
Antichrist and the other
Pope accusing that one of being
00:43:22.13\00:43:24.53
the Antichrist.
00:43:24.57\00:43:25.87
So it is interesting when
you study the history of what
00:43:25.90\00:43:29.10
transpired there.
00:43:29.14\00:43:30.44
We do have a study
guide and it's called, "Who is
00:43:30.47\00:43:32.37
the Antichrist?"
00:43:32.41\00:43:33.64
And we'll be happy to send that
to anyone who wants to study the
00:43:33.68\00:43:35.74
subject further.
00:43:35.78\00:43:37.08
The number to
call is 800-835-6747.
00:43:37.11\00:43:40.52
Or you can dial #250 on your
phone, say "Bible Answers Live"
00:43:40.55\00:43:44.29
and then ask for that
study guide by name, "Who is
00:43:44.32\00:43:46.65
the Antichrist?"
00:43:46.69\00:43:48.02
And you'll be able to learn a
lot about what this topic is all
00:43:48.06\00:43:51.06
about in the Bible.
00:43:51.09\00:43:52.49
Next caller that we have
is Carlos and he's calling
00:43:52.53\00:43:54.76
from Texas.
00:43:54.83\00:43:56.03
He's got a question about Luke
17, talking about the days of
00:43:56.06\00:43:59.27
Lot and Noah.
00:43:59.30\00:44:00.70
Carlos, welcome to the program.
00:44:00.74\00:44:02.44
Carlos: Good evening,
Pastors, and thanks for
00:44:02.47\00:44:04.27
your ministry.
00:44:04.31\00:44:05.64
God bless.
00:44:05.67\00:44:06.98
Doug: Yeah.
00:44:07.01\00:44:08.34
Thank you.
00:44:08.38\00:44:09.68
Carlos: My question is of
Luke 17, Jesus mentions both the
00:44:09.71\00:44:12.85
days of Lot and the days
of Noah in speaking of His
00:44:12.88\00:44:15.62
coming kingdom.
00:44:15.65\00:44:17.02
And I wanted to ask you about
the scenario after Noah leaves
00:44:17.05\00:44:23.99
the ark, right?
00:44:24.03\00:44:25.33
And is saved essentially,
and Lot is pulled out of Sodom.
00:44:25.36\00:44:31.47
Both of them have
an encounter with wine.
00:44:31.50\00:44:34.64
I wondered if that has any
significance prophetically for
00:44:34.67\00:44:40.78
today or for the future.
00:44:40.81\00:44:43.58
Doug: You know,
that's interesting.
00:44:43.61\00:44:44.95
I did a study
comparing Lot and Noah.
00:44:44.98\00:44:48.52
And in many ways, there's many
similarities and many paradoxes.
00:44:48.55\00:44:52.95
Noah has just sons,
Lot has just daughters.
00:44:52.99\00:44:56.62
Noah saves his entire
family, Lot loses his family.
00:44:56.66\00:45:00.90
Noah, you know, he separated
from the cities; Lot moves to
00:45:00.93\00:45:04.60
the city.
00:45:04.63\00:45:06.00
And you just--you can see a lot
of parallels that are happening
00:45:06.03\00:45:08.94
there, but it is true, that Lot
drinks wine, he sleeps with his
00:45:08.97\00:45:14.11
daughters and has Moab and
Ammon, and Noah drinks wine and
00:45:14.14\00:45:18.25
he stumbles around naked and
curses his grandson and son, so
00:45:18.28\00:45:25.79
yeah, I've got a whole study
on that and what it all means is
00:45:25.82\00:45:29.69
I'm not sure yet, but there are
a lot of interesting parallels.
00:45:29.72\00:45:32.36
They're almost like opposites.
00:45:32.39\00:45:34.00
Jean: And of course, when Jesus
mentions that, He's talking
00:45:34.00\00:45:36.00
about what was happening in
society at that time, what was
00:45:36.03\00:45:38.83
happening in the days of Noah.
00:45:38.87\00:45:40.20
You had violence
filling the earth.
00:45:40.24\00:45:41.97
It says, "Every imagination of
the heart was evil continually."
00:45:42.00\00:45:44.84
You have the time of Lot there
in the city of Sodom and the
00:45:44.87\00:45:48.01
other cities surrounding the
area where they had plenty to
00:45:48.04\00:45:50.68
eat, they were lazy, they were
involved in, you know, all kinds
00:45:50.71\00:45:55.15
of sexual
misconduct and morality issues.
00:45:55.18\00:45:59.49
And, you know, that's sort of a
description of what's happening
00:45:59.52\00:46:01.86
in our world today.
00:46:01.89\00:46:03.19
Things are falling
apart all around us.
00:46:03.22\00:46:04.56
So I think that's an important
lesson connected there.
00:46:04.59\00:46:07.76
Next caller that we have
is Dana listening in Nevada.
00:46:07.83\00:46:11.73
And Dana has a question
about the chronological order of
00:46:11.77\00:46:15.20
the scriptures.
00:46:15.24\00:46:16.54
Dana, welcome to the program.
00:46:16.57\00:46:17.91
Dana: Hi.
00:46:17.94\00:46:19.24
My question is regarding
Revelation chapter 13, verses 3
00:46:19.27\00:46:22.41
and 5: "And power was given
unto him to continue forty and
00:46:22.44\00:46:26.61
two months."
00:46:26.65\00:46:28.22
But in verse 3, says that, "And
I saw one of his heads as it
00:46:28.25\00:46:34.26
were wounded to death."
00:46:34.29\00:46:35.62
Why the order is that way?
00:46:35.66\00:46:37.19
My son understood that the
42 months are followed after
00:46:37.23\00:46:44.87
the wound.
00:46:44.90\00:46:47.44
Doug: Yeah, or do you want to--
00:46:47.47\00:46:49.50
Jean: Yeah, when you--when you
look at some of these passages,
00:46:49.54\00:46:51.44
especially in Revelation 13, not
everything, as you mentioned, is
00:46:51.47\00:46:55.24
given in chronological order.
00:46:55.28\00:46:56.64
Rather, clues are given.
00:46:56.68\00:46:58.65
And these clues are very
important to help identify who
00:46:58.68\00:47:01.72
the power is.
00:47:01.75\00:47:02.98
Now in Bible prophecy a beast
represents a political power.
00:47:03.02\00:47:06.32
This first beast of Revelation
13 is both got a political
00:47:06.35\00:47:10.63
component, but also
a religious component.
00:47:10.66\00:47:13.43
And it says that he
would rule for 42 months.
00:47:13.46\00:47:15.93
There were 30 days in a Hebrew
month and you times that out, 30
00:47:15.96\00:47:21.67
times 42, comes to 1260.
00:47:21.70\00:47:24.74
One prophetic day is
equal to one literal year.
00:47:24.77\00:47:26.98
So one of the clues given in the
verse is that this power would
00:47:27.01\00:47:29.71
rule for 1260 years, and then
it would receive a deadly wound.
00:47:29.74\00:47:34.08
Now, it's not always written in
strict chronological order, but
00:47:34.12\00:47:37.12
it's giving us clues.
00:47:37.15\00:47:38.45
And when we put the
clues together, we can identify
00:47:38.49\00:47:40.99
who this power is.
00:47:41.02\00:47:42.26
Not only this power, but also
the other beast that you read
00:47:42.29\00:47:44.46
about in Revelation 13
that comes from the earth.
00:47:44.49\00:47:47.66
Again, you put the clues
together and that is identified.
00:47:47.66\00:47:49.96
It's the US in Bible prophecy.
00:47:50.00\00:47:53.64
Thank you.
00:47:53.67\00:47:54.97
All right, next caller
that we have is Leo in Arizona.
00:47:55.00\00:47:57.47
Leo, welcome to the program.
00:47:57.51\00:47:59.54
Leo: My question is on
Matthew 4:1 through 11,
00:47:59.57\00:48:04.58
especially the 3: Did Satan not
know who Jesus was when he was
00:48:04.61\00:48:10.75
trying to tempt Him?
00:48:10.79\00:48:12.12
Doug: Well, I think Satan
definitely knew that this was
00:48:12.15\00:48:15.39
the Son of God.
00:48:15.42\00:48:16.76
In fact, at the beginning of
Jesus's ministry, often when He
00:48:16.79\00:48:20.36
encountered demon-possessed
people, they said, "We know who
00:48:20.40\00:48:23.00
You are."
00:48:23.03\00:48:24.27
So if the demons knew, then you
can count on the devil knowing.
00:48:24.30\00:48:27.60
The bigger
question is, did Jesus know?
00:48:27.64\00:48:29.74
Maybe not at first, when the
devil appeared as an angel of
00:48:29.77\00:48:33.21
light, you can read in 2
Corinthians 11, Satan himself
00:48:33.24\00:48:37.15
can be transformed
into an angel of light.
00:48:37.18\00:48:39.81
And--but when he began to say,
"If You're the Son of God," that
00:48:39.85\00:48:43.52
sort of betrayed that this was
not an angel sent from heaven.
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Of course, when he finally said,
"Fall down and worship me," then
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all doubt was
removed who this was.
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Jean: And when the devil said,
"If You are the Son of God," he
00:48:52.86\00:48:55.36
wasn't asking
because he didn't know.
00:48:55.40\00:48:57.07
He was wanting to cause Christ
to question the promise that He
00:48:57.10\00:49:01.70
knew He was the Son of God and
to exercise His power on His own
00:49:01.74\00:49:05.44
behalf, contrary to
the will of the Father.
00:49:05.47\00:49:07.84
So it was not a genuine
question there by any means.
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It was a plot, it
was part of a temptation.
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All right, next caller
that we have is Dana listening
00:49:14.12\00:49:17.02
from California.
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You're on the air.
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Dana: Yes, okay, my question
is from the Bible, how can I
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pray more effectively?
00:49:23.63\00:49:25.53
I know about the Lord's Prayer.
00:49:25.56\00:49:27.40
But is there other--something--
another part of the Bible that
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can help me pray
more effectively?
00:49:30.10\00:49:31.77
Doug: Yeah, I think there's
a number of passages you can
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look at.
00:49:34.34\00:49:36.30
You know, the Bible says that we
pray without ceasing, Paul tells
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us, and that doesn't mean that
you go around on your knees all
00:49:41.04\00:49:44.51
the time praying.
00:49:44.55\00:49:45.88
It means being in an attitude
of knowing that God is always a
00:49:45.91\00:49:49.22
prayer away.
00:49:49.25\00:49:50.55
Many times during the day, I'm
just lifting prayers to the Lord
00:49:50.59\00:49:53.39
and talking to the Lord and
saying, "Help me with this" or
00:49:53.42\00:49:55.36
"Pray for that person."
00:49:55.39\00:49:56.89
And so, prayer is also being
in continual communion with God,
00:49:56.93\00:50:00.73
it's not just one prayer.
00:50:00.76\00:50:02.23
But there should also be regular
official prayer time where you
00:50:02.26\00:50:07.10
kneel if you're able and you
have your personal devotions and
00:50:07.14\00:50:10.27
you commit your
life to the Lord.
00:50:10.31\00:50:12.07
At the end of the day, you may
be asking for mercy and wisdom
00:50:12.11\00:50:15.24
for the next day.
00:50:15.28\00:50:16.51
Looking at some of the prayers
in the Bible that you see, you
00:50:16.54\00:50:20.92
can see, you know, Jacob is
wrestling with God in prayer.
00:50:20.95\00:50:26.89
You can read the prayers of
Solomon, the prayers of Daniel,
00:50:26.92\00:50:29.66
the prayers of Hannah.
00:50:29.69\00:50:31.86
There's a lot of beautiful
prayers recorded in the Bible.
00:50:31.89\00:50:34.20
Nehemiah.
00:50:34.23\00:50:35.53
And that I think also gives
you a context about prayer.
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Prayers don't have to be long.
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You look at the prayer of
Elijah, fire comes down from
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heaven, but the prayer is less
than, oh, 18 seconds, I think.
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Jean: You know, Pastor Doug, I'm
just looking at our books here.
00:50:47.88\00:50:49.94
Doug: "Teach Us to Pray."
00:50:49.98\00:50:51.31
Jean: Yeah, that's right.
00:50:51.35\00:50:52.65
I wanted to check
on the name there.
00:50:52.68\00:50:53.98
We have a book that talks
about prayer and you might find
00:50:54.02\00:50:55.68
that helpful.
00:50:55.72\00:50:57.05
It's just called "Teach Us
to Pray," and the number to call
00:50:57.09\00:50:59.35
for that is 800-835-6747.
00:50:59.39\00:51:02.79
You can ask for the book, "Teach
Us to Pray," or dial #250 and
00:51:02.82\00:51:06.80
say, "Bible Answers
Live," ask for the book by name.
00:51:06.83\00:51:09.16
If you're outside of North
America, just visit our website,
00:51:09.20\00:51:12.13
just AmazingFacts.org and
you'll be able to get a lot more
00:51:12.17\00:51:15.44
information over there.
00:51:15.47\00:51:16.81
Doug: Thank you, Dana.
00:51:16.84\00:51:18.14
Jean: Next caller that we
have is Nel in California asking
00:51:18.17\00:51:21.08
about what does the Bible
say about competitive sports?
00:51:21.11\00:51:23.78
Nel, welcome to the program.
00:51:23.81\00:51:26.18
Nel: Hi, thank you, Pastors.
00:51:26.21\00:51:28.38
I was wondering what does
the Bible say about competitive
00:51:28.42\00:51:31.55
sports, because some Christians
seem to feel that you should not
00:51:31.59\00:51:35.99
participate in any types of
competitive sports, you know,
00:51:36.02\00:51:39.16
even tennis,
basketball, or watch them.
00:51:39.19\00:51:42.43
I mean, some Christian writers
also would say the same things
00:51:42.46\00:51:46.40
according to what they say.
00:51:46.43\00:51:47.80
So what does the
Bible say about it?
00:51:47.84\00:51:50.41
And what can we as
Christians participate in?
00:51:50.44\00:51:54.08
Doug: All right, well, if you're
talking about, what does the
00:51:54.11\00:51:56.51
Bible say, there are principles
in the Bible that I think you
00:51:56.54\00:52:01.68
can apply to sports.
00:52:01.72\00:52:04.15
Paul, you know, Paul
freely uses sports references.
00:52:04.19\00:52:09.66
He talks about, "I
do not box the air."
00:52:09.69\00:52:12.03
He says, "I do not run as though
I'm not trying," and he says,
00:52:12.06\00:52:17.43
"If you're going to
run the race, run to win."
00:52:17.47\00:52:20.47
And so, you know, Paul
incorporates and you got to keep
00:52:20.50\00:52:22.67
in mind the Greek culture had
greatly influenced the Hebrews
00:52:22.70\00:52:26.37
and the Romans and
sports were a big part of that.
00:52:26.41\00:52:29.48
It's where you get the word
"gymnasium" comes all the way
00:52:29.51\00:52:31.85
back from them.
00:52:31.88\00:52:33.21
So, Paul uses
sport analogies a lot.
00:52:33.25\00:52:36.79
He doesn't necessarily say
anything negative about sports,
00:52:36.82\00:52:40.42
but he does talk about the
spirit in the mind of Christ.
00:52:40.46\00:52:44.09
A lot of sports in the
competition, it's not the idea
00:52:44.13\00:52:47.86
of just getting exercise,
but it's almost like, you know,
00:52:47.86\00:52:50.43
there's violence and I think
Christians ought to avoid any
00:52:50.47\00:52:53.87
kind of violent sports.
00:52:53.90\00:52:55.34
I think that when an emphasis is
made on winning and the trophies
00:52:55.37\00:53:00.54
and the pride, that's
not, the spirit of Christ.
00:53:00.58\00:53:04.68
Pastor Ross and I, maybe
confession is good for the soul
00:53:04.71\00:53:08.45
but bad for the reputation.
00:53:08.48\00:53:09.78
We play racquetball together.
00:53:09.82\00:53:11.39
We don't make a big
deal about who wins.
00:53:11.42\00:53:13.99
I get over it
in about 5 minutes.
00:53:14.02\00:53:16.06
But we try to, you know, to
keep score so you can know when
00:53:16.09\00:53:19.19
the game ends.
00:53:19.23\00:53:20.53
So it's a great exercise.
00:53:20.56\00:53:21.86
There's nothing inherently wrong
with getting exercise where
00:53:21.90\00:53:24.23
there's a sport connected, but
there's some principles that you
00:53:24.27\00:53:26.94
can apply to different
sports that may be a guide.
00:53:26.97\00:53:29.94
Jean: You know, I think
some sports are just geared to
00:53:29.97\00:53:33.24
hurting people.
00:53:33.27\00:53:34.58
I mean, these, sort of these
combative sports, where it's
00:53:34.61\00:53:38.45
just--they're just hitting
each other trying to knock each
00:53:38.48\00:53:41.32
other out.
00:53:41.35\00:53:42.68
It's even one step more you
might say than boxing where it's
00:53:42.72\00:53:46.09
just violent and its
goal is to hurt people.
00:53:46.12\00:53:49.76
I don't think Christians
should be involved in anything
00:53:49.79\00:53:51.53
like that.
00:53:51.56\00:53:52.89
It just feeds that
mindset of anger and violence.
00:53:52.93\00:53:56.80
And, you know,
we don't want that.
00:53:56.83\00:53:58.83
Doug: Exercise is great and Paul
says bodily exercise profits,
00:53:58.87\00:54:02.54
but godliness profits more.
00:54:02.57\00:54:05.47
Unfortunately, you know,
some of the sports, if--like
00:54:05.51\00:54:09.01
professional football and I'm
probably going to get letters on
00:54:09.04\00:54:11.28
this, a lot of those guys suffer
injuries that carry--they carry
00:54:11.31\00:54:15.45
with them through their lives.
00:54:15.48\00:54:16.82
So it doesn't
build their bodies up.
00:54:16.85\00:54:18.15
It often breaks
their bodies down.
00:54:18.19\00:54:20.09
So, you know, that clearly,
I think, is not a healthy thing
00:54:20.12\00:54:23.22
for a Christian to engage in.
00:54:23.26\00:54:25.23
Jean: All right, very good.
00:54:25.26\00:54:26.56
Thank you.
00:54:26.59\00:54:27.93
Do we have time for
one more, Pastor Doug?
00:54:27.96\00:54:29.23
Doug: We do if it's quick.
00:54:29.26\00:54:30.57
Jean: All right, let's see.
00:54:30.60\00:54:31.93
We've got Matthew in Tennessee.
00:54:31.97\00:54:33.54
Matthew, we've got about
a minute and your question
00:54:33.57\00:54:36.07
this evening?
00:54:36.10\00:54:37.41
Matthew: Hi, Pastors.
00:54:37.44\00:54:38.77
In Mark 7:19, in the New
American Standard Bible, it says
00:54:38.81\00:54:43.14
parenthetically that thus he
made all foods clean and then in
00:54:43.18\00:54:49.22
the King James
Version, it doesn't say that.
00:54:49.25\00:54:51.99
It kind of makes me not
trust the other translations.
00:54:52.02\00:54:56.69
I don't know if, what--did
the translator just add that, I
00:54:56.73\00:55:00.26
guess, is my question.
00:55:00.30\00:55:01.66
Doug: Yeah, there's a manuscript
where they've added that.
00:55:01.70\00:55:05.23
And Jesus said that what goes in
your mouth doesn't defile you.
00:55:05.27\00:55:09.30
It goes in and it comes out,
thus "purging all meats" in King
00:55:09.34\00:55:13.21
James, it just means your body,
you know, basically purges the
00:55:13.24\00:55:16.61
food that you eat.
00:55:16.64\00:55:17.95
That's not how you get defiled.
00:55:17.98\00:55:19.31
And then someone took the
liberty of saying, "In saying
00:55:19.35\00:55:22.52
this, Jesus
declared all foods clean."
00:55:22.55\00:55:24.19
That is not in the original
manuscripts in the Greek.
00:55:24.22\00:55:26.86
Most manuscripts I should say.
00:55:26.89\00:55:28.89
But friends, we're out of time
for this segment of the program.
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I always like to remind people
we sign off in two stages.
00:55:32.29\00:55:35.53
Stay tuned.
00:55:35.56\00:55:36.87
Stand by.
00:55:36.90\00:55:38.23
We're going to go
through some rapid fire internet
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Bible questions.
00:55:39.60\00:55:40.94
God bless.
00:55:40.97\00:55:42.27
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Pastor Doug, first question: In
Deuteronomy 14:26 God seems to
00:56:17.74\00:56:21.84
endorse drinking alcohol.
00:56:21.88\00:56:23.81
Is this understanding accurate?
00:56:23.85\00:56:25.71
Doug: When he talks about strong
drink there, he's not talking
00:56:25.75\00:56:28.32
about alcohol.
00:56:28.35\00:56:29.65
They used to
condense their grape juice.
00:56:29.68\00:56:32.62
Dehydrate it, if you will.
00:56:32.65\00:56:34.66
And then they'd reconstitute
it when they got to their
00:56:34.69\00:56:37.23
destination because
liquid's very heavy.
00:56:37.26\00:56:40.00
They would take this grape juice
and sort of dehydrate it into
00:56:40.03\00:56:43.23
a syrup.
00:56:43.26\00:56:44.60
And then as they traveled,
they'd get to the place where
00:56:44.63\00:56:46.80
the feast is,
they'd reconstitute it.
00:56:46.84\00:56:48.50
And that's why He said you
could drink the strong drink.
00:56:48.54\00:56:50.41
Don't think strong alcohol,
think strong concentrated.
00:56:50.44\00:56:53.54
Jean: Okay, Sherman is asking:
Can you please explain the
00:56:53.58\00:56:56.38
sequence of events?
00:56:56.41\00:56:57.75
You have the wicked bowing the
knee and confessing that God is
00:56:57.78\00:57:00.58
righteous and then suddenly
surrounding the New Jerusalem
00:57:00.62\00:57:03.49
trying to attack it.
00:57:03.52\00:57:04.85
Doug: They're going to be
overwhelmed with a sense of
00:57:04.89\00:57:06.76
their guilt and His power
and the wicked will bow before
00:57:06.79\00:57:10.73
God's throne.
00:57:10.76\00:57:12.09
Jesus said, and Paul says, "The
time is coming when every knee
00:57:12.13\00:57:15.33
will bow and every tongue will
confess to God," and this is
00:57:15.36\00:57:18.33
that moment.
00:57:18.37\00:57:19.70
But then when they realize
that this, it's hopeless, in
00:57:19.73\00:57:24.04
desperation, Satan will try to
rally them to attack the city.
00:57:24.07\00:57:27.81
When they realize they've
been condemned in the judgment,
00:57:27.84\00:57:29.98
they'll think what
have we got to lose?
00:57:30.01\00:57:31.85
And this demonstrates their
hearts are still not changed and
00:57:31.88\00:57:34.65
God has no option but
to judge and destroy them.
00:57:34.68\00:57:38.39
And that's when the
fire and brimstone rain down.
00:57:38.42\00:57:42.02
It forms a lake of fire and
they're all cast into this lake
00:57:42.06\00:57:44.46
of fire.
00:57:44.49\00:57:45.83
Jean: Okay, next
question that we have.
00:57:45.86\00:57:47.13
Bradley's asking: How many
prophecies still need to be
00:57:47.20\00:57:49.23
fulfilled before the
seven last plagues can start?
00:57:49.26\00:57:52.23
Doug: Jesus said, "The gospel of
the kingdom will be preached in
00:57:52.27\00:57:55.04
all the world for a witness,
then the end will come."
00:57:55.07\00:57:58.11
The beast power is going to
make a law compelling people to
00:57:58.14\00:58:01.21
worship a certain way.
00:58:01.24\00:58:02.61
That has not happened.
00:58:02.64\00:58:03.98
And so I--you know,
there's probably several other
00:58:04.01\00:58:05.91
prophecies I'm not
thinking of offhand.
00:58:05.95\00:58:08.32
We're seeing them
being fulfilled right now.
00:58:08.35\00:58:11.65
And I'd say, stay tuned.
00:58:11.69\00:58:13.52
We're going to see things happen
very quickly in the near future.
00:58:13.56\00:58:16.32
Till next week,
we'll study God's Word.
00:58:16.36\00:58:18.69
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