THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU 00:01:02.32\00:01:03.79 BY THE FRIENDS OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:01:03.79\00:01:06.49 ONE OF THE MOST FAMOUS ATTRACTIONS 00:01:08.90\00:01:10.73 IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA 00:01:10.73\00:01:12.70 IS THE ICONIC GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE. 00:01:12.70\00:01:15.44 DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION, THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE 00:01:15.44\00:01:18.17 HAD ONE OF THE BEST SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS 00:01:18.17\00:01:20.61 OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME. 00:01:20.61\00:01:23.14 BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME RISKS, 00:01:23.14\00:01:25.18 THE CHIEF ENGINEER WAS ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT 00:01:25.18\00:01:27.78 ABOUT THEIR USING THE MOST RIGOROUS SAFETY PRECAUTIONS 00:01:27.78\00:01:30.82 THAT HAD EVER BEEN USED IN BRIDGE BUILDING. 00:01:30.82\00:01:33.32 BUT THE MOST CONSPICUOUS SAFETY MEASURE 00:01:33.32\00:01:35.66 WAS A GIGANTIC NET SUSPENDED FROM END-TO-END 00:01:35.66\00:01:39.23 UNDER THE BRIDGE ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE BAY. 00:01:39.23\00:01:42.43 DURING CONSTRUCTION, 00:01:42.43\00:01:43.83 THIS NET SAVED THE LIVES OF 19 MEN 00:01:43.83\00:01:47.04 WHO WERE LATER KNOWN AS THE HALF WAY TO HELL CLUB. 00:01:47.04\00:01:49.80 WITH THE NET IN PLACE, 00:01:49.80\00:01:51.14 THESE MEN WERE MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS 00:01:51.14\00:01:52.81 AND BRAVE DURING CONSTRUCTION 00:01:52.81\00:01:54.51 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE WAS A MECHANISM TO PROTECT THEM 00:01:54.51\00:01:57.11 IF THEY SHOULD FALL. 00:01:57.11\00:01:58.81 FRIENDS, AS CHRISTIANS WE GET TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS 00:01:58.81\00:02:02.95 IN BUILDING A BRIDGE 00:02:02.95\00:02:04.12 THAT WILL CONNECT HEAVEN AND EARTH. 00:02:04.12\00:02:06.12 THERE ARE DANGERS ALONG THE WAY, 00:02:06.12\00:02:08.16 BUT JESUS HAS PROMISED TO PROTECT US, 00:02:08.16\00:02:10.43 AND WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID. 00:02:10.43\00:02:12.26 SO JOIN ME NOW AS WE DISCOVER THE FASCINATING BIBLE FACTS 00:02:12.26\00:02:16.23 ABOUT THE HERO OF REVELATION. 00:02:16.23\00:02:18.17 DURING THE CIVIL WAR, THERE WAS THIS ONE INDIVIDUAL 00:02:22.57\00:02:25.37 THAT REALLY SURPRISED EVERYBODY. 00:02:25.37\00:02:27.34 HIS NAME WAS JOSHUA LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN. 00:02:27.34\00:02:30.78 HE WAS ACTUALLY FROM MAINE. 00:02:30.78\00:02:32.61 HE WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER, ENGLISH MAJOR, 00:02:32.61\00:02:34.58 ACTUALLY MAJORED IN RHETORIC AND DIFFERENT LANGUAGES, 00:02:34.58\00:02:37.42 SEEMED LIKE SOMETHING OF A BOOKWORM. 00:02:37.42\00:02:39.85 BUT HE HAD VERY STRONG CONVICTIONS ABOUT SLAVERY. 00:02:39.85\00:02:43.89 AND WHEN, FINALLY, THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT, 00:02:43.89\00:02:47.40 EVEN THOUGH HIS FAMILY WAS VERY RELIGIOUS 00:02:47.40\00:02:49.46 AND HE, MAYBE, WAS A PACIFIST BY NATURE, 00:02:49.46\00:02:51.87 HE THOUGHT THE CAUSE DESERVES 00:02:51.87\00:02:54.20 THAT WE LAY OUR LIVES DOWN FOR THIS, 00:02:54.20\00:02:56.84 AND HE JOINED THE FORCES. 00:02:56.84\00:02:58.41 BECAUSE OF HIS EDUCATION THEY QUICKLY PROMOTED HIM. 00:02:58.41\00:03:01.54 AND THE NEXT THING HE KNEW, 00:03:01.54\00:03:03.11 HE WAS INVOLVED IN THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG. 00:03:03.11\00:03:05.95 SOME OF THE SOLDIERS UNDER HIM WERE A LITTLE WORRIED. 00:03:05.95\00:03:08.62 THEY SAID, "THIS GUY IS ALWAYS READING. 00:03:08.62\00:03:10.09 HE'S A BOOKWORM, HE'S A LAMB." 00:03:10.09\00:03:12.49 AND HE SEEMS SO POLITE AND HE SEEMS SO ARTICULATE, 00:03:12.49\00:03:14.79 THEY THOUGHT, "WHAT'S HE GOING TO DO ON THE BATTLEFIELD?" 00:03:14.79\00:03:17.63 WELL, IT TURNED OUT, IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST 00:03:17.63\00:03:19.56 AND THE BLOODIEST BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR, 00:03:19.56\00:03:21.73 THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG, 00:03:21.73\00:03:24.30 50,000 PEOPLE DIED IN ONE DAY. 00:03:24.30\00:03:28.40 IT'S BEEN THE BLOODIEST BATTLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY, 00:03:28.40\00:03:31.11 IN ANY OF OUR WARS. 00:03:31.11\00:03:33.78 THE SOUTH WAS TRYING TO TAKE THIS HILL, 00:03:33.78\00:03:36.51 AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FLANK AROUND THE TROOPS OF THE NORTH, 00:03:36.51\00:03:40.02 AND CHAMBERLAIN KNEW 00:03:40.02\00:03:41.82 THAT HE NEEDED TO HOLD THAT HILL AT ALL COST 00:03:41.82\00:03:44.95 AND THEY... 00:03:44.95\00:03:45.99 FOR THREE DAYS, THE BATTLE RAGED, 00:03:45.99\00:03:47.69 AND THE SOUTH CONTINUED TO THROW SOLDIERS AT THAT HILL 00:03:47.69\00:03:50.99 TRYING TO GET BEHIND THE TROOPS AND TO DEFEAT THEM. 00:03:50.99\00:03:55.40 AND THEY FOUGHT THE GROUP FROM MAINE THAT HE WAS OVER, 00:03:55.40\00:03:58.80 THEY FOUGHT UNTIL THEY RAN OUT OF AMMUNITION. 00:03:58.80\00:04:01.04 AND FINALLY, HE TOLD THEM, "FIX YOUR BAYONETS AND CHARGE." 00:04:01.04\00:04:05.04 WHEN THEY WERE COMING UP THE HILL AFTER THEM, 00:04:05.04\00:04:07.51 HE TOLD HIS MEN TO CHARGE BACK AT THEM 00:04:07.51\00:04:09.71 WITH JUST BAYONETS. 00:04:09.71\00:04:11.35 AND IT SO TERRIFIED THE SOUTHERNERS 00:04:11.35\00:04:14.68 THAT THEY TURNED AND THEY RAN. 00:04:14.68\00:04:16.79 THEY DIDN'T REALIZE THEY HAD RUN OUT OF BULLETS. 00:04:16.79\00:04:19.69 THEY LATER CALLED HIM, INSTEAD OF THE LAMB, 00:04:19.69\00:04:21.79 THEY CALLED HIM THE LION OF LITTLE ROUND TOP. 00:04:21.79\00:04:24.46 LITTLE ROUND TOP WAS THE HILL THAT THEY WERE DEFENDING. 00:04:24.46\00:04:27.60 WELL, YOU KNOW, JESUS, WHEN HE COMES AGAIN, 00:04:27.60\00:04:29.96 HE'S COMING LIKE A LION. 00:04:29.96\00:04:31.13 WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST TIME, HE CAME LIKE A LAMB. 00:04:31.13\00:04:34.20 BUT HE IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE. 00:04:34.20\00:04:38.27 AND OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT, 00:04:38.27\00:04:39.94 DEALING WITH THE HERO OF REVELATION, 00:04:39.94\00:04:42.58 IS PART OF OUR PROPHECY ENCOUNTER SERIES. 00:04:42.58\00:04:45.78 I'VE GOT A LOT OF MATERIAL TO COVER. 00:04:45.78\00:04:47.65 YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE A PEN OR PENCIL HANDY 00:04:47.65\00:04:49.45 BECAUSE WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME NOTES. 00:04:49.45\00:04:51.09 WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING AT PROPHECIES IN REVELATION, 00:04:51.09\00:04:54.56 IN DANIEL, AND ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE, 00:04:54.56\00:04:57.89 THAT SHOW US WHO JESUS IS, 00:04:57.89\00:05:00.93 SO WE CAN KNOW THAT HE IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS. 00:05:00.93\00:05:04.33 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9. 00:05:04.33\00:05:07.10 DANIEL IS PRAYING. 00:05:07.10\00:05:09.30 GOD'S PEOPLE ARE CAPTIVES IN BABYLON. 00:05:09.30\00:05:11.77 HE'S SAYING, "WE'VE BEEN HERE 70 YEARS." 00:05:11.77\00:05:14.48 DANIEL IS READING THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH 00:05:14.48\00:05:17.15 THAT SAID AFTER 70 YEARS THEY WOULD GO HOME. 00:05:17.15\00:05:18.98 SO EVEN DANIEL READ THE PROPHETS. 00:05:18.98\00:05:20.98 AND HE'S PRAYING SAYING, 00:05:20.98\00:05:22.05 "LORD, WE'VE BEEN HERE 70 YEARS. 00:05:22.05\00:05:23.12 HOW LONG? 00:05:23.12\00:05:24.19 HOW LONG WILL YOU TOLERATE YOUR PEOPLE? 00:05:24.19\00:05:25.65 HOW LONG TILL THE SAVIOR THE MESSIAH COMES?" 00:05:25.65\00:05:28.26 WHILE DANIEL IS PRAYING, THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES, 00:05:28.26\00:05:31.46 SAME ONE THAT APPEARS TO MARY, 00:05:31.46\00:05:33.43 AND HE HASN'T AGED A BIT WHEN HE APPEARS TO MARY 00:05:33.43\00:05:35.26 AT 500 YEARS LATER. 00:05:35.26\00:05:37.90 AND HE GIVES THIS PROPHECY, 00:05:37.90\00:05:41.10 "70 WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR YOUR PEOPLE..." 00:05:41.10\00:05:43.51 I'M IN DANIEL 9:24, 00:05:43.51\00:05:46.51 "FOR THEIR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH TRANSGRESSION, 00:05:46.51\00:05:50.45 TO MAKE AN END OF SINS, 00:05:50.45\00:05:52.61 TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, 00:05:52.61\00:05:54.92 TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, 00:05:54.92\00:05:57.19 TO SEAL UP THE VISION AND THE PROPHECY..." 00:05:57.19\00:06:00.86 TALKING ABOUT THE VISIONS 00:06:00.86\00:06:01.99 ABOUT THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH. 00:06:01.99\00:06:03.19 "AND ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 00:06:03.19\00:06:06.29 VERY CLEAR THAT THIS IS A PROPHECY 00:06:06.29\00:06:08.00 THAT TALKED ABOUT THE MOST HOLY BEING ANOINTED, 00:06:08.00\00:06:11.30 70 WEEKS. 00:06:11.30\00:06:12.93 SO WHAT DOES THE 70 WEEKS REPRESENT? 00:06:12.93\00:06:18.07 NOW, IN THE BIBLE, A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. 00:06:18.07\00:06:21.41 FIRST LET'S TALK ABOUT THE STARTING POINT HERE. 00:06:21.41\00:06:23.68 IT TELLS US THAT IT SAYS, 00:06:23.68\00:06:24.88 "FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMANDMENT..." 00:06:24.88\00:06:26.75 IF YOU READ IN DANIEL 9:25, 00:06:26.75\00:06:28.92 WHAT'S THE STARTING POINT FOR THIS PROPHECY? 00:06:28.92\00:06:30.92 "FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMANDMENT 00:06:30.92\00:06:33.19 TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM." 00:06:33.19\00:06:35.82 JERUSALEM HAD BEEN DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 00:06:35.82\00:06:39.09 THE PERSIAN KING, ARTAXERXES, ISSUED A DECREE. 00:06:39.09\00:06:42.46 YOU CAN FIND THAT IN YOUR BIBLE IN EZRA CHAPTER 7. 00:06:42.46\00:06:46.50 THAT THEY COULD GO BACK 00:06:46.50\00:06:47.57 AND HE ALSO HELPED SUBSIDIZE THEIR MISSION 00:06:47.57\00:06:50.21 TO REBUILD THE CITY, TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE. 00:06:50.21\00:06:53.14 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WOULD BE 00:06:53.14\00:06:54.21 THE STARTING POINT OF THIS 70 WEEK PROPHECY. 00:06:54.21\00:06:58.11 "FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND 00:06:58.11\00:06:59.48 TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM 00:06:59.48\00:07:01.02 UNTO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE'LL BE SEVEN WEEKS..." 00:07:01.02\00:07:03.59 NOW HE BREAKS UP THAT 70 WEEKS INTO THREE PARTS: 00:07:03.59\00:07:06.62 THERE'LL BE SEVEN WEEKS, AND 62 WEEKS, 00:07:06.62\00:07:09.49 THEN YOU HAVE YOUR FINAL WEEK. 00:07:09.49\00:07:10.99 OKAY? 00:07:10.99\00:07:12.06 AND SO SEVEN WEEKS WAS THE TIME IT TOOK THEM 00:07:12.06\00:07:14.20 TO REBUILD THE WALLS AND THE STREETS 00:07:14.20\00:07:15.76 AND TROUBLOUS TIMES IN THE TEMPLE. 00:07:15.76\00:07:18.23 THEN THERE WERE 62 MORE WEEKS, 00:07:18.23\00:07:20.57 THE MOST HOLY WOULD BE ANOINTED. 00:07:20.57\00:07:22.20 THEN DURING THAT LAST WEEK, 00:07:22.20\00:07:24.14 HE WOULD CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE, 00:07:24.14\00:07:26.61 BUT IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST WEEK 00:07:26.61\00:07:28.71 HE'D MAKE THE SACRIFICE CEASE. 00:07:28.71\00:07:30.28 NOW I'VE SAID IT, I'M GOING TO SAY IT SEVERAL TIMES 00:07:30.28\00:07:32.41 BECAUSE I KNOW THIS IS A LOT OF INFORMATION, 00:07:32.41\00:07:35.02 AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE THIS CLEAR IN YOUR MIND. 00:07:35.02\00:07:37.12 FIRST OF ALL, WHEN YOU'RE DEALING 00:07:37.12\00:07:38.29 WITH A LARGE BIBLE TIME PROPHECY LIKE THIS, 00:07:38.29\00:07:41.69 THERE'S A PRETTY SAFE PRINCIPLE 00:07:41.69\00:07:44.19 THAT YOU APPLY A DAY FOR A YEAR. 00:07:44.19\00:07:46.90 AND THERE'S THREE REFERENCES THERE, 00:07:46.90\00:07:48.53 YOU CAN SEE THAT SUPPORT THAT PRINCIPLE. 00:07:48.53\00:07:51.30 NOW I'M GOING TO PUT A CHART UP ON THE SCREEN 00:07:51.30\00:07:52.83 AND EXPLAIN THIS TIME PROPHECY. 00:07:52.83\00:07:55.77 YOU SEE THE DECREE IS GIVEN 457 B.C. 00:07:55.77\00:07:59.04 ARTAXERXES YOU CAN FIND IT IN EZRA 7. 00:07:59.04\00:08:01.01 IT'S A PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED DATE 00:08:01.01\00:08:03.68 IN ANCIENT HISTORY. 00:08:03.68\00:08:05.11 AND SO, 483 YEARS AFTER THE COMMAND 00:08:05.11\00:08:09.68 IS WHEN YOU WOULD EXPECT TO SEE THE MESSIAH ANOINTED. 00:08:09.68\00:08:11.89 HE BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. 00:08:11.89\00:08:13.46 HE THEN CONFIRMS THE COVENANT WITH GOD'S PEOPLE 00:08:13.46\00:08:15.76 FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS. 00:08:15.76\00:08:17.76 IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST SEVEN YEARS 00:08:17.76\00:08:19.46 HE MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE. 00:08:19.46\00:08:21.36 STAY WITH ME. 00:08:21.36\00:08:23.16 ALL RIGHT, JESUS WAS BAPTIZED WHEN? 00:08:23.16\00:08:26.30 YOU CAN READ IN THE GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:29. 00:08:26.30\00:08:28.57 HE CAME TO JOHN THE BAPTIST, AND IT SAYS, 00:08:28.57\00:08:31.71 "JOHN SAW JESUS COMING TO HIM AND SAID, 00:08:31.71\00:08:34.11 'BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD 00:08:34.11\00:08:35.74 THAT TAKES AWAY THE SIN OF THE WORLD!'" 00:08:35.74\00:08:38.05 YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ IN LUKE, 00:08:38.05\00:08:39.11 IT TELLS US THAT THE YEAR 00:08:39.11\00:08:40.12 THAT JOHN WAS PREACHING WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, 00:08:40.12\00:08:42.68 IT TALKS ABOUT PONTIUS PILATE BEING IN POWER. 00:08:42.68\00:08:45.19 YOU'VE GOT TIBERIUS CAESAR, YOU'VE GOT HEROD. 00:08:45.19\00:08:48.76 THERE IS ONLY ONE YEAR IN HISTORY 00:08:48.76\00:08:50.56 WHEN THESE THREE CHARACTERS, THEIR REIGNS OVERLAPPED 00:08:50.56\00:08:53.70 AND IT WAS 27 A.D. 00:08:53.70\00:08:55.93 27 A.D. 00:08:55.93\00:08:57.17 IS EXACTLY 483 YEARS AFTER 00:08:57.17\00:09:01.44 KING ARTAXERXES' DECREE IN 457. 00:09:01.44\00:09:04.44 THAT'S WHEN THE MESSIAH WAS BAPTIZED. 00:09:04.44\00:09:06.14 WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS? 00:09:06.14\00:09:08.11 YOU CAN READ IN ACTS 10:38 WHERE PETER SAID, 00:09:08.11\00:09:12.25 "GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH 00:09:12.25\00:09:14.45 WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT..." 00:09:14.45\00:09:15.88 HE WAS THE ANOINTED, THE CHRIST. 00:09:15.88\00:09:17.92 "AND WITH POWER, WHO WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD 00:09:17.92\00:09:20.92 AND HEALING ALL WHO WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL, 00:09:20.92\00:09:24.19 FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM." 00:09:24.19\00:09:26.59 AND SO JESUS WAS ANOINTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT 00:09:26.59\00:09:29.80 EXACTLY 483 YEARS, 00:09:29.80\00:09:32.53 BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK LEFT 00:09:32.53\00:09:34.07 STILL TO GET TO 490, RIGHT? 00:09:34.07\00:09:36.34 NOW WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED 00:09:36.34\00:09:37.77 DURING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS. 00:09:37.77\00:09:39.07 WE'RE PARKING THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL. 00:09:39.07\00:09:41.38 SO YOU ALL WITH ME? WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO IT. 00:09:41.38\00:09:44.01 IT SAID THAT HE WOULD CONFIRM THE COVENANT DURING THIS WEEK. 00:09:44.01\00:09:47.58 WHAT DID JESUS DO DURING THAT TIME? 00:09:47.58\00:09:50.55 LET'S LOOK AT THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST 00:09:50.55\00:09:52.12 AND ARE THERE PROPHECIES ABOUT THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST? 00:09:52.12\00:09:55.46 SO I'M PUTTING LAYERS IN HERE. PROPHECIES IN PROPHECIES. 00:09:55.46\00:09:58.73 ISAIAH 61:1, FIRST SERMON JESUS PREACHED 00:09:58.73\00:10:01.86 HE QUOTES FROM THIS IN NAZARETH, 00:10:01.86\00:10:03.10 HIS HOME CHURCH. 00:10:03.10\00:10:04.23 HE SAID, "THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS UPON ME 00:10:04.23\00:10:07.04 BECAUSE THE LORD HAS ANOINTED ME 00:10:07.04\00:10:09.70 TO PREACH THE GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR." 00:10:09.70\00:10:12.27 CHRIST IS THE ANOINTED. 00:10:12.27\00:10:13.34 HE'S TELLING PEOPLE, "I AM THE ANOINTED." 00:10:13.34\00:10:15.68 "HE HAS SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED..." 00:10:15.68\00:10:17.65 DID JESUS DO THAT? 00:10:17.65\00:10:20.82 "TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES..." 00:10:20.82\00:10:22.72 PEOPLE CAPTIVE BY THE DEVIL AND SIN. 00:10:22.72\00:10:24.89 "AND THE OPENING OF PRISON TO THOSE WHO ARE BOUND." 00:10:24.89\00:10:27.46 HE CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVE FREE 00:10:27.46\00:10:30.29 AND TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES 00:10:30.29\00:10:32.33 AND THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD. 00:10:32.33\00:10:34.10 AND PEOPLE THAT CAME TO HEAR JESUS PREACH, 00:10:34.10\00:10:36.77 YOU KNOW, SPIES WERE SENT TO ARREST HIM 00:10:36.77\00:10:38.37 AND THEY CAME BACK 00:10:38.37\00:10:39.87 AND THE LEADER SAID, "WHERE IS HE? 00:10:39.87\00:10:41.10 WE TOLD YOU TO ARREST HIM." YOU KNOW WHAT THEIR ANSWER WAS? 00:10:41.10\00:10:43.57 "NEVER MAN SPOKE LIKE THIS MAN." 00:10:43.57\00:10:48.04 AND I CAN TESTIFY TO YOU, THAT WAS MY IMPRESSION 00:10:48.04\00:10:51.38 BECAUSE I GREW UP BELIEVING THAT JESUS WAS... 00:10:51.38\00:10:54.68 IN OUR HOME, MY MOM DIDN'T SAY VERY NICE THINGS ABOUT JESUS. 00:10:54.68\00:10:59.15 CAME, LIKE I SAID, FROM A JEWISH BACKGROUND, 00:10:59.15\00:11:01.62 AND WE THOUGHT CHRISTIANS WERE THE PROBLEM. 00:11:01.62\00:11:03.83 MY JEWISH RELATIVES, 00:11:03.83\00:11:05.03 THEY'D TELL ME "OH, YEAH, JESUS WAS... 00:11:05.03\00:11:06.53 HE WAS A GOOD MAN. HE WAS A TEACHER." 00:11:06.53\00:11:08.73 AND I WOULD ASK MY GRANDFATHER, 00:11:08.73\00:11:09.76 I'D SAY, "NOW YOU REALIZE 00:11:09.76\00:11:10.97 THAT HE SAID HE WAS THE MESSIAH. 00:11:10.97\00:11:12.63 DO YOU THINK HE TOLD THE TRUTH?" 00:11:12.63\00:11:16.40 THEY SAID, "OH, YEAH, HE WAS A GOOD MAN. 00:11:16.40\00:11:17.71 HE WAS A TEACHER. HE'S A PROPHET." 00:11:17.71\00:11:19.27 "WELL, HE SAID HE WAS THE SON OF GOD. 00:11:19.27\00:11:21.78 HE SAID HE WAS THE ONLY ONE. HE'S THE ONLY DOOR." 00:11:21.78\00:11:25.25 AND SO THEY USED TO KIND OF STUMBLE OVER THAT. 00:11:25.25\00:11:27.25 SO I WAS VERY ANTAGONISTIC ABOUT JESUS. 00:11:27.25\00:11:29.22 WHEN I FINALLY STARTED READING THE BIBLE, 00:11:29.22\00:11:31.75 SO I COULD ARGUE WITH CHRISTIANS. 00:11:31.75\00:11:33.79 AND I'D READ WHERE IT SAYS, 00:11:33.79\00:11:35.82 "HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE." 00:11:35.82\00:11:37.59 I HAD HEARD THAT EXPRESSION ALL MY LIFE. 00:11:37.59\00:11:39.09 I SAID, "OH, JESUS SAID THAT." 00:11:39.09\00:11:42.63 "TURN THE OTHER CHEEK." OH, JESUS SAID THAT. 00:11:42.63\00:11:46.20 "GO THE SECOND MILE." 00:11:46.20\00:11:48.17 AND ALL OF THESE THINGS 00:11:48.17\00:11:49.44 I WAS READING IN THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT, 00:11:49.44\00:11:50.87 I'M GOING, "I'VE BEEN HEARING THESE THINGS ALL MY LIFE. 00:11:50.87\00:11:52.51 I HAD NO IDEA THAT JESUS SAID THEM." 00:11:52.51\00:11:55.14 I SAID, "WOW, HE WAS REALLY SMART." 00:11:55.14\00:11:57.81 I MEAN, HE JUST SAID, 00:11:57.81\00:11:58.88 HE'S THE MOST QUOTED PERSON IN HISTORY. 00:11:58.88\00:12:00.82 NOBODY EVER SPOKE LIKE THIS MAN SPOKE. 00:12:00.82\00:12:04.59 NOW YOU LOOK AT THE PROPHECIES 00:12:04.59\00:12:05.89 AND THE EVENTS SURROUNDING THE CROSS. 00:12:05.89\00:12:08.86 ARE THERE SOME OF THOSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:12:08.86\00:12:11.23 FOR ONE THING, JUST THE WEEK BEFORE HE WAS CRUCIFIED, 00:12:11.23\00:12:14.00 THEY CALL IT THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. 00:12:14.00\00:12:16.10 "REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER..." 00:12:16.10\00:12:17.70 BY THE WAY, THIS IS ZECHARIAH 9:9, 00:12:17.70\00:12:19.83 "REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER OF ZION! 00:12:19.83\00:12:21.97 SHOUT, DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM! 00:12:21.97\00:12:23.77 BEHOLD, YOUR KING IS COMING TO YOU. 00:12:23.77\00:12:26.14 HE IS JUST AND HAVING SALVATION, LOWLY 00:12:26.14\00:12:29.14 AND RIDING ON A DONKEY, A COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY." 00:12:29.14\00:12:33.15 AND THEN YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT 00:12:33.15\00:12:34.55 AND THEN YOU SEE THE STORY WHERE JESUS RODE INTO JERUSALEM 00:12:34.55\00:12:37.25 THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE ON A DONKEY. 00:12:37.25\00:12:40.12 JUSTICE HAD BEEN FORETOLD WITH ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICING. 00:12:40.12\00:12:43.19 BY THE WAY, A LITTLE AMAZING FACT I'LL THROW IN. 00:12:43.19\00:12:45.63 IF YOU GO TO JERUSALEM TODAY, YOU'LL SEE THIS PICTURE 00:12:45.63\00:12:47.76 OF WHAT THEY CALL THE GOLDEN GATE. 00:12:47.76\00:12:49.50 THERE'S SOMETHING ODD ABOUT THAT. 00:12:49.50\00:12:51.17 IT'S ALL BRICKED UP. 00:12:51.17\00:12:52.87 THAT IS THE GATE THAT JESUS RODE THROUGH. 00:12:52.87\00:12:56.20 YOU KNOW WHY IT'S BRICKED UP? 00:12:56.20\00:12:57.87 BECAUSE WHEN THE MUSLIMS TOOK JERUSALEM, 00:12:57.87\00:13:01.68 THEY KNEW THE JEWISH PROPHECIES SAID, 00:13:01.68\00:13:03.35 IN ZECHARIAH, 00:13:03.35\00:13:04.41 "THE MESSIAH WOULD RIDE THROUGH THIS GATE." 00:13:04.41\00:13:06.38 THEY WANTED TO PREVENT THAT FROM HAPPENING. 00:13:06.38\00:13:08.28 SO I THINK IT WAS SULEIMAN THE MAGNIFICENT, 00:13:08.28\00:13:10.25 HE HAD IT ALL BLOCKED OFF 00:13:10.25\00:13:11.99 AND THEY PUT A CEMETERY IN FRONT OF IT 00:13:11.99\00:13:14.36 TO DESECRATE THE GROUND 00:13:14.36\00:13:15.86 TO PREVENT THE JEWISH MESSIAH FROM COMING. 00:13:15.86\00:13:17.96 BUT THEY WERE ABOUT 700 YEARS TOO LATE. 00:13:17.96\00:13:19.93 DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. 00:13:21.73\00:13:23.03 WE WILL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 00:13:23.03\00:13:24.57 TO COMPLETE TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:13:24.57\00:13:27.10 CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT IT WOULD BE LIKE 00:13:27.10\00:13:28.57 TO BE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF A DARK OCEAN 00:13:28.57\00:13:31.07 BY YOURSELF FLOATING AROUND AND THEN DISCOVER 00:13:31.07\00:13:33.71 YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY HUNGRY SHARKS? 00:13:33.71\00:13:36.01 YOU WOULD BE SO THANKFUL 00:13:36.01\00:13:37.28 IF A HELICOPTER CAME BY TO RESCUE YOU. 00:13:37.28\00:13:39.88 WELL, YOU KNOW, WE HAVE A STUDY GUIDE 00:13:39.88\00:13:41.28 THAT TALKS ABOUT SALVATION 00:13:41.28\00:13:43.02 AND IT'S CALLED "SAVED FROM CERTAIN DEATH." 00:13:43.02\00:13:45.49 IN THIS BEAUTIFULLY ILLUSTRATED SCRIPTURE-FILLED RESOURCE, 00:13:45.49\00:13:48.72 WE WILL ANSWER THE BIG QUESTIONS 00:13:48.72\00:13:50.56 ABOUT SALVATION. 00:13:50.56\00:13:52.09 WHAT MUST I DO TO BE SAVED? 00:13:52.09\00:13:54.00 HOW CAN I HAVE PEACE IN MY HEART? 00:13:54.00\00:13:55.76 HOW DO I LIVE A VICTORIOUS LIFE, 00:13:55.76\00:13:57.77 AND SHARE MY FAITH WITH OTHERS? 00:13:57.77\00:13:59.50 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, 00:13:59.50\00:14:00.74 CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN 00:14:00.74\00:14:02.64 OR VISIT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG, AND ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 109. 00:14:02.64\00:14:07.48 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, 00:14:07.48\00:14:09.48 MAKE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:14:09.48\00:14:11.61 WELL, LET'S GET BACK NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION 00:14:11.61\00:14:13.98 AND LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS 00:14:13.98\00:14:15.55 FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:14:15.55\00:14:16.72 ARE THERE PROPHECIES ABOUT THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS? 00:14:18.35\00:14:21.19 YES, QUITE A FEW. 00:14:21.19\00:14:22.92 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ IN PSALMS, 00:14:22.92\00:14:24.39 A THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN, 00:14:24.39\00:14:27.40 KING DAVID WROTE, "EVEN MY OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND 00:14:27.40\00:14:30.23 IN WHOM I TRUSTED, WHO ATE MY BREAD, 00:14:30.23\00:14:33.17 HE HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME." 00:14:33.17\00:14:36.30 AFTER THEY ATE BREAD TOGETHER, 00:14:36.30\00:14:37.61 JUDAS WENT OUT AND HE BETRAYED HIM. 00:14:37.61\00:14:40.98 AND THEN, AGAIN, YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH, 00:14:40.98\00:14:42.44 IT SAYS, AND THIS IS 11, VERSE 12, 00:14:42.44\00:14:44.75 "THEN I SAID TO THEM, 'IF IT IS AGREEABLE TO YOU, 00:14:44.75\00:14:47.52 GIVE ME MY WAGES, AND, IF NOT, REFRAIN.' 00:14:47.52\00:14:51.29 SO THEY WEIGHED OUT FOR MY WAGES 00:14:51.29\00:14:53.19 THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.'" 00:14:53.19\00:14:55.72 HOW MUCH WAS JESUS SOLD FOR? 00:14:55.72\00:14:58.26 THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER, EXACTLY. 00:14:58.26\00:15:00.60 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, "AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, 00:15:00.60\00:15:03.26 'THROW IT TO THE POTTER,' 00:15:03.26\00:15:04.90 THAT PRINCELY PRICE THAT THEY SET UPON ME. 00:15:04.90\00:15:07.60 SO THEY TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER 00:15:07.60\00:15:09.54 AND THEY THREW THEM INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, 00:15:09.54\00:15:11.71 TO THE POTTER." 00:15:11.71\00:15:12.84 YOU KNOW WHAT JUDAS DID WITH THE MONEY 00:15:12.84\00:15:14.04 WHEN HE WAS OVERCOME WITH GUILT? 00:15:14.04\00:15:15.38 HE WENT INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, 00:15:15.38\00:15:16.81 HE THREW THE SILVER DOWN. 00:15:16.81\00:15:18.35 THEY DID NOT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY 00:15:18.35\00:15:19.88 BECAUSE IT WAS BLOOD MONEY. 00:15:19.88\00:15:21.02 THEY USED IT TO BUY A POTTER'S FIELD 00:15:21.02\00:15:22.88 TO BURY STRANGERS IN. 00:15:22.88\00:15:25.25 WHAT PRECISE DETAILS WERE FORETOLD 00:15:25.25\00:15:27.82 HUNDREDS OF YEARS EARLIER, THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER. 00:15:27.82\00:15:31.39 NO, THIS ONE HUNDREDS OF YEARS EARLIER 00:15:31.39\00:15:33.66 REGARDING THE BETRAYAL OF CHRIST. 00:15:33.66\00:15:35.23 AMEN. 00:15:35.23\00:15:36.50 WHAT ABOUT THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH? 00:15:36.50\00:15:37.83 WAS THAT FORETOLD? 00:15:37.83\00:15:40.20 YOU REALIZE WHEN SOME OF THESE PROPHECIES WERE WRITTEN, 00:15:40.20\00:15:42.44 THEY DIDN'T PRACTICE CRUCIFIXION. 00:15:42.44\00:15:43.91 BUT YOU LOOK IN PSALM 22. 00:15:43.91\00:15:46.41 NOW, DO YOU KNOW WHAT THE FIRST WORDS ARE 00:15:46.41\00:15:47.51 IN PSALM 22? 00:15:47.51\00:15:49.28 "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 00:15:49.28\00:15:52.31 DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? 00:15:52.31\00:15:54.08 THAT'S WHAT JESUS UTTERED FROM THE CROSS. 00:15:54.08\00:15:55.58 PEOPLE THINK, "DID HE SAY THAT BECAUSE HE WAS DISCOURAGED?" 00:15:55.58\00:15:58.29 NO, JESUS SAID THAT BECAUSE LATER IN THAT PSALM 00:15:58.29\00:16:01.59 YOU FIND THESE OTHER PREDICTIONS. 00:16:01.59\00:16:03.59 READ IN PSALM 22:16, 00:16:03.59\00:16:06.19 "FOR DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME, 00:16:06.19\00:16:07.93 THE CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME. 00:16:07.93\00:16:10.63 THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET..." 00:16:10.63\00:16:13.80 DESCRIBING CRUCIFIXION. 00:16:13.80\00:16:15.64 IT'S IN THAT SAME PSALM, THAT MESSIANIC PASSOVER PSALM 00:16:15.64\00:16:19.91 WHERE HE SAYS, "MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?" 00:16:19.91\00:16:23.35 CHRIST HAD NOT LOST COURAGE, 00:16:23.35\00:16:24.58 HE WAS DIRECTING THEM TO THE PSALM 00:16:24.58\00:16:26.45 THAT SHOWED THE VERY THING THAT WAS HAPPENING THAT DAY 00:16:26.45\00:16:28.72 AS HE HUNG UP ON THE CROSS. 00:16:28.72\00:16:30.29 IT SAYS, "THEY DIVIDED MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM, 00:16:30.29\00:16:32.92 AND THEY CAST LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING." 00:16:32.92\00:16:34.99 WHAT A PRECISE DETAIL. 00:16:34.99\00:16:37.13 AND THEN YOU READ, OF COURSE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 00:16:37.13\00:16:38.96 THERE, MARK 15:24 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS, 00:16:38.96\00:16:42.73 "WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, THEY DIVIDED HIS GARMENTS, 00:16:42.73\00:16:45.47 CASTING LOTS FOR THEM 00:16:45.47\00:16:47.07 TO DETERMINE WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE." 00:16:47.07\00:16:50.37 GAMBLING THERE AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS. 00:16:50.37\00:16:53.71 BUT WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS, 00:16:53.71\00:16:55.41 IT ALSO SAYS NONE OF HIS BONES WOULD BE BROKEN 00:16:55.41\00:16:57.28 IN THAT PROPHECY IN PSALM 22. 00:16:57.28\00:16:59.61 IT SAYS, "WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS 00:16:59.61\00:17:00.92 AFTER BREAKING THE BONES OF THE THIEF 00:17:00.92\00:17:02.52 ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT, 00:17:02.52\00:17:03.95 THEY SAW HE WAS ALREADY DEAD 00:17:03.95\00:17:05.22 AND THEY DID NOT BREAK HIS LEGS." 00:17:05.22\00:17:06.82 NOTICE JOHN GOES ON. 00:17:06.82\00:17:08.22 JOHN QUOTES FROM THE PROPHECY, 00:17:08.22\00:17:10.13 "BUT ONE OF THE SOLDIERS PIERCED HIS SIDE WITH A SPEAR, 00:17:10.13\00:17:13.13 AND IMMEDIATELY BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT." 00:17:13.13\00:17:15.66 TALKS ABOUT CHRIST, THE MESSIAH BEING PIERCED. 00:17:15.66\00:17:18.27 BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT 00:17:18.27\00:17:19.33 BUT THEY DID NOT BREAK HIS BONES. 00:17:19.33\00:17:21.37 IT SAYS, "FOR THESE THINGS WERE DONE 00:17:21.37\00:17:22.67 THAT THE SCRIPTURE SHOULD BE FULFILLED, 00:17:22.67\00:17:24.81 'NOT ONE OF HIS BONES WOULD BE BROKEN.'" 00:17:24.81\00:17:27.34 AND AGAIN ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAYS, 00:17:27.34\00:17:28.68 "THEY LOOK ON HIM WHOM THEY HAD PIERCED." 00:17:28.68\00:17:31.45 QUOTING AGAIN THAT SCRIPTURE, JESUS WAS PIERCED, 00:17:31.45\00:17:33.48 HIS BONES WERE NOT BROKEN, HE WAS CRUCIFIED, 00:17:33.48\00:17:35.38 THEY GAMBLED FOR HIS CLOTHING. 00:17:35.38\00:17:37.42 WAS HE THE ONE? 00:17:37.42\00:17:39.35 DO THE PROPHECIES ALL TALK ABOUT JESUS? 00:17:39.35\00:17:41.46 NOW I TOLD YOU, DON'T FORGET ABOUT DANIEL. 00:17:41.46\00:17:44.13 WE'RE GOING BACK NOW TO DANIEL CHAPTER 9. 00:17:44.13\00:17:46.96 WE GOT ONE WEEK TO GO. 00:17:46.96\00:17:48.96 AND IT SAYS, "AFTER THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS 00:17:48.96\00:17:51.83 MESSIAH WILL BE CUT OFF, BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF." 00:17:51.83\00:17:55.90 WAS JESUS CUT OFF? YES. 00:17:55.90\00:17:58.04 AND WHEN A PERSON DIES OF OLD AGE, 00:17:58.04\00:18:00.24 THAT'S NOT BEING CUT OFF. 00:18:00.24\00:18:01.24 BUT WHEN THEY'RE 30 YEARS OLD, 00:18:01.24\00:18:04.55 33 AND A HALF, HE DIED IN HIS PRIME. 00:18:04.55\00:18:09.18 HE WAS CUT OFF FROM THE LAND OF THE LIVING. 00:18:09.18\00:18:10.75 BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF, FOR WHO? 00:18:10.75\00:18:13.39 FOR US. FOR ME, FOR YOU. 00:18:13.39\00:18:15.82 HE DIED FOR YOU AS THOUGH YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE 00:18:15.82\00:18:17.73 WHO HAD EVER SINNED. 00:18:17.73\00:18:18.79 HE LOVES YOU THAT MUCH. 00:18:18.79\00:18:20.70 AND THEN IT SAID, "HE WOULD CONFIRM THE COVENANT 00:18:20.70\00:18:22.43 WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK." 00:18:22.43\00:18:23.87 SO THAT LAST SEVEN YEARS, FROM HIS BAPTISM 00:18:23.87\00:18:27.10 UNTIL SEVEN YEARS LATER, 00:18:27.10\00:18:30.14 HE IS CONFIRMING THE COVENANT WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE. 00:18:30.14\00:18:33.11 THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON, 00:18:33.11\00:18:36.28 THREE AND A HALF YEARS THROUGH THE APOSTLES, 00:18:36.28\00:18:39.01 UNTIL, FINALLY THE FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR, 00:18:39.01\00:18:42.15 WHICH IS STEPHEN, 00:18:42.15\00:18:43.89 HE IS TRIED BY THE JEWISH SUPREME COURT 00:18:43.89\00:18:45.85 FOR HIS FAITH. 00:18:45.85\00:18:46.89 THEY DO THE SAME THING TO HIM THEY DID TO JESUS. 00:18:46.89\00:18:48.79 THEY BRING HIM OUT OF THE CITY. 00:18:48.79\00:18:50.33 HE'S FALSELY ACCUSED AND THEN HE IS EXECUTED 00:18:50.33\00:18:54.23 AND HE PRAYS FOR THE FORGIVENESS 00:18:54.23\00:18:55.60 OF THOSE WHO KILL HIM, THE SAME THING JESUS DID. 00:18:55.60\00:18:58.43 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK HE CAUSES, 00:18:58.43\00:19:00.40 HE MAKES THE OFFERING AND THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. 00:19:00.40\00:19:03.87 THREE AND A HALF YEARS AFTER JESUS WAS BAPTIZED, 00:19:03.87\00:19:06.41 WHEN HE DIES ON THE CROSS, WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TEMPLE? 00:19:06.41\00:19:09.71 YOU READ IN MATTHEW 27:51, 00:19:09.71\00:19:12.01 "BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO 00:19:12.01\00:19:14.95 FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, AND THE EARTH QUAKED, 00:19:14.95\00:19:17.42 AND THE ROCKS WERE SPLIT..." 00:19:17.42\00:19:19.79 AND THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE IS TORN, 00:19:19.79\00:19:22.49 SHOWING THAT THE PURPOSE 00:19:22.49\00:19:23.59 FOR THAT SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETE. 00:19:23.59\00:19:27.76 JESUS SAID, "DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS 00:19:27.76\00:19:29.70 AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS." 00:19:29.70\00:19:31.50 HE SPOKE OF HIS BODY, THE CHURCH. 00:19:31.50\00:19:34.47 TWO THINGS WERE TORN, THE TEMPLE WAS TORN 00:19:34.47\00:19:36.81 AND THE HIGH PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS. 00:19:36.81\00:19:38.54 WE NOW HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD. 00:19:38.54\00:19:40.54 IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST, 00:19:40.54\00:19:42.28 THEN YOU ARE PART OF THAT ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. AMEN? 00:19:42.28\00:19:45.01 AND WE ALSO HAVE A NEW TEMPLE. 00:19:45.01\00:19:46.28 IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST, 00:19:46.28\00:19:47.82 YOU ARE A LIVING STONE IN THAT BUILDING. 00:19:47.82\00:19:49.75 THAT'S WHAT PAUL AND PETER SAY. WE ARE THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD. 00:19:49.75\00:19:52.72 CHURCH IS NOT A BUILDING, CHURCH IS THE PEOPLE. 00:19:52.72\00:19:55.46 NOW, GO BACK, I WANT YOU TO SEE THE CHART AGAIN. 00:19:55.46\00:19:58.36 AND YOU NOTICE HERE, WE GOT FROM THE DECREE 00:19:58.36\00:20:01.83 UNTIL THE 69 WEEKS ARE COMPLETE, 00:20:01.83\00:20:05.40 YOU'VE GOT 483 YEARS AND 69 WEEKS. 00:20:05.40\00:20:09.00 FOUR HUNDRED AND EIGHTY THREE DAYS 00:20:09.00\00:20:10.27 AND A DAY IS A YEAR. 00:20:10.27\00:20:11.67 CHRIST IS BAPTIZED 27 A.D. 00:20:11.67\00:20:14.68 HE CONFIRMS A COVENANT WITH GOD'S PEOPLE 00:20:14.68\00:20:16.48 FOR ANOTHER WEEK 00:20:16.48\00:20:17.58 BEFORE THE GOSPEL GOES TO THE GENTILES. 00:20:17.58\00:20:20.35 THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON, 00:20:20.35\00:20:22.55 THEN HE DIES AND HE CAUSES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. 00:20:22.55\00:20:25.89 THEN HE DOES ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF YEARS 00:20:25.89\00:20:27.66 THROUGH THOSE THAT HEARD HIM. 00:20:27.66\00:20:29.02 AND YOU'LL FIND THIS IS IN HEBREWS 2:3 00:20:29.02\00:20:34.10 WHERE IT SAYS THAT, 00:20:34.10\00:20:35.60 "HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE..." NOTICE THIS. 00:20:35.60\00:20:37.57 "HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE 00:20:37.57\00:20:38.80 IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION, 00:20:38.80\00:20:41.07 WHICH AT THE FIRST BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN BY THE LORD..." 00:20:41.07\00:20:44.91 27 A.D. 00:20:44.91\00:20:46.07 FROM HIS BAPTISM BEGAN TO PREACH 00:20:46.07\00:20:48.01 FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS UNTIL HE WAS EXECUTED. 00:20:48.01\00:20:51.65 "AND WAS CONFIRMED TO US BY THOSE THAT HEARD HIM," 00:20:51.65\00:20:55.08 FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 00:20:55.08\00:20:56.42 DO YOU KNOW THE JEWS DID NOT GO WHEN CHRIST ROSE? 00:20:56.42\00:20:58.85 THEY DID NOT GO TO THE WORLD YET. 00:20:58.85\00:21:01.02 HE SAID, "FIRST BEGIN IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA." 00:21:01.02\00:21:05.36 HE SAYS, "DO NOT GO, 00:21:05.36\00:21:06.70 BUT FIRST TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL." 00:21:06.70\00:21:09.26 THE APOSTLES' MINISTRY 00:21:09.26\00:21:10.67 FOR THE FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS 00:21:10.67\00:21:12.10 WAS EXCLUSIVELY TO THE JEWISH NATION. 00:21:12.10\00:21:14.77 AT PENTECOST, WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT, 00:21:14.77\00:21:17.07 IT SAYS THERE WERE DEVOUT JEWS 00:21:17.07\00:21:18.57 DWELLING IN JERUSALEM FROM EVERY NATION. 00:21:18.57\00:21:20.51 THEY PREACHED TO JEWS. 00:21:20.51\00:21:22.31 IN ACTS CHAPTER 3, ACTS CHAPTER 5, 00:21:22.31\00:21:24.05 THEY'RE ALL JEWS BEING BAPTIZED. 00:21:24.05\00:21:25.68 IT WASN'T UNTIL STEPHEN WAS STONED, 00:21:25.68\00:21:27.85 IT SAYS, "A GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE 00:21:27.85\00:21:29.98 AND THE GOSPEL WENT EVERYWHERE." 00:21:29.98\00:21:31.95 THEN PAUL IS CONVERTED, FOLLOWING THAT, 00:21:31.95\00:21:35.26 IN THE NEXT CHAPTER. 00:21:35.26\00:21:36.36 PETER THEN GOES TO CORNELIUS 00:21:36.36\00:21:37.86 AND STARTS TO PREACH TO THE GENTILES 00:21:37.86\00:21:40.33 WHO HE HAD BEEN CALLING UNCLEAN. 00:21:40.33\00:21:41.76 FINALLY THE GOSPEL BEGAN TO GO TO EVERYONE. 00:21:41.76\00:21:44.47 THAT WAS EXACTLY 490 YEARS 00:21:44.47\00:21:47.54 AFTER, AS DANIEL HAD SAID THAT PROPHECY. 00:21:47.54\00:21:51.31 YOU'VE GOT THE DECREE, 457, 00:21:51.31\00:21:53.58 THE BAPTISM OF JESUS MARKS THE LAST WEEK 00:21:53.58\00:21:56.21 OF THAT PROPHECY, 00:21:56.21\00:21:57.71 FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS HE CONFIRMS THE COVENANT. 00:21:57.71\00:22:00.88 HE THEN CAUSES THE SACRIFICE 00:22:00.88\00:22:02.35 TO CEASE BY HIS DEATH ON THE CROSS. 00:22:02.35\00:22:04.19 THEN HE SAYS TO THE DISCIPLES, "AS THE FATHER SENT ME, 00:22:04.19\00:22:07.19 NOW YOU GO CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH THE LOST SHEEP 00:22:07.19\00:22:09.72 FOR ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 00:22:09.72\00:22:11.49 STEPHEN IS STONED. 00:22:11.49\00:22:12.76 AND HE SAYS, "NOW THE GOSPEL GOES 00:22:12.76\00:22:14.50 TO THE GENTILES AND EVERYBODY, WHOSOEVER WILL. 00:22:14.50\00:22:17.20 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT GOD SAID WOULD HAPPEN. 00:22:17.20\00:22:20.07 THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH 00:22:20.07\00:22:22.30 THAT DANIEL FORETOLD. 00:22:22.30\00:22:23.84 AND I'VE EVEN GOT A QUOTE HERE FROM JOSEPHUS, 00:22:23.84\00:22:26.14 THE JEWISH HISTORIAN, 00:22:26.14\00:22:27.21 THAT TO ME IT JUST BLOWS ME AWAY. 00:22:27.21\00:22:29.58 JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS 00:22:29.58\00:22:31.01 WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF THE APOSTLES 00:22:31.01\00:22:34.68 AND HE WROTE THIS FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST. 00:22:34.68\00:22:38.52 "NOW THERE WAS ABOUT THIS TIME, A WISE MAN, 00:22:38.52\00:22:42.09 IF IT BE LAWFUL TO CALL HIM A MAN, 00:22:42.09\00:22:44.19 FOR HE WAS A DOER OF WONDERFUL WORKS, 00:22:44.19\00:22:47.13 AND A TEACHER OF SUCH MEN 00:22:47.13\00:22:48.40 AS RECEIVE THE TRUTH WITH PLEASURE. 00:22:48.40\00:22:50.73 HE DREW OVER TO HIM BOTH MANY OF THE JEWS 00:22:50.73\00:22:53.23 AND MANY OF THE GENTILES, HE WAS THE CHRIST." 00:22:53.23\00:22:56.27 THIS IS COMING FROM A JEWISH SCHOLAR 00:22:56.27\00:22:57.71 WHO IS NOT WRITING IN THE BIBLE. 00:22:57.71\00:23:01.08 IT SAYS, "AND WHEN PILATE, 00:23:01.08\00:23:03.55 AT THE SUGGESTION OF PRINCIPAL PEOPLE AMONG US, 00:23:03.55\00:23:06.78 HAD CONDEMNED HIM TO THE CROSS, 00:23:06.78\00:23:08.85 THOSE THAT LOVED HIM 00:23:08.85\00:23:10.12 AT THE FIRST DID NOT FORSAKE HIM, 00:23:10.12\00:23:12.45 FOR HE APPEARED TO THEM ALIVE AGAIN 00:23:12.45\00:23:15.29 AFTER THE THIRD DAY." 00:23:15.29\00:23:17.23 SO THIS IS NOT JUST THE BIBLE, FRIENDS, THIS IS HISTORY. 00:23:17.23\00:23:20.13 AND EVEN THIS JEWISH HISTORIAN SAYS, 00:23:20.13\00:23:21.70 "YEAH, HE WAS THE MESSIAH, 00:23:21.70\00:23:23.97 HE APPEARED, HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD." 00:23:23.97\00:23:27.30 "AS THE DIVINE PROPHETS HAD FORETOLD THESE THINGS 00:23:27.30\00:23:29.57 AND TEN THOUSAND OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS 00:23:29.57\00:23:32.01 CONCERNING HIM. 00:23:32.01\00:23:33.31 AND THE TRIBE OF CHRISTIAN CONTINUES WITH US 00:23:33.31\00:23:35.88 AND THEY ARE NOT EXTINCT EVEN TO THIS DAY." 00:23:35.88\00:23:38.15 SO I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT HERE. 00:23:38.15\00:23:40.58 THERE ARE PROPHECIES THAT TELL ABOUT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH, 00:23:40.58\00:23:43.65 THAT HE'D BE BORN OF A VIRGIN, THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, 00:23:43.65\00:23:47.76 THE TYPE OF MINISTRY, THE EVENTS OF HIS BETRAYAL, 00:23:47.76\00:23:50.53 THE MANNER OF HIS EXECUTION, 00:23:50.53\00:23:52.33 HIS RESURRECTION, HIS ASCENSION. 00:23:52.33\00:23:53.93 THIS IS ALL FORETOLD IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 00:23:53.93\00:23:57.07 AND THEN PEOPLE SAY, "PASTOR DOUG, WE HAD A QUESTION 00:23:57.07\00:23:59.17 I DIDN'T READ TONIGHT. 00:23:59.17\00:24:00.70 HOW DO YOU KNOW THE BIBLE IS TRUE?" 00:24:00.70\00:24:01.74 I'M GOING, PFF! 00:24:01.74\00:24:03.41 WHAT EVIDENCE WILL YOU ACCEPT? 00:24:03.41\00:24:06.41 WHAT EVIDENCE WILL YOU ACCEPT? 00:24:06.41\00:24:08.21 THE BOOK HAS BEEN SUPERNATURALLY PRESERVED. 00:24:08.21\00:24:10.21 EVERYTHING IT SAYS HAS COME TRUE. 00:24:10.21\00:24:12.28 AND JESUS IS THE BEST EVIDENCE OF ALL. 00:24:12.28\00:24:14.25 AMEN. 00:24:14.25\00:24:15.42 YOU START TO PUT THE PIECES TOGETHER, FRIENDS, 00:24:15.42\00:24:17.35 AND YOU CAN SEE JESUS 00:24:17.35\00:24:18.52 IS WHAT THE WHOLE BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT. 00:24:18.52\00:24:21.32 AMEN? 00:24:21.32\00:24:22.42 AMEN. 00:24:22.42\00:24:23.59 SO WHY DID HE COME? 00:24:23.59\00:24:25.63 THREE QUICK REASONS WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW. 00:24:25.63\00:24:27.86 ONE HE CAME AS OUR EXAMPLE. 00:24:27.86\00:24:30.53 JESUS, HE SAID, 00:24:30.53\00:24:32.27 "I'VE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE 00:24:32.27\00:24:33.54 THAT YOU SHOULD WALK AS I'VE WALKED." 00:24:33.54\00:24:36.07 JESUS CHRIST CAME AND THAT, BY THE WAY, IS JOHN 13:15. 00:24:36.07\00:24:40.88 "I WANT YOU TO LIVE AS I HAVE LIVED." 00:24:40.88\00:24:43.01 A CHRISTIAN IS A FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 00:24:43.01\00:24:45.21 HE CAME TO SHOW US THE FATHER, IS THE SECOND REASON HE CAME. 00:24:45.21\00:24:48.58 HE SAID, "HE WHO HAS SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER." 00:24:48.58\00:24:52.85 AND THEN, FINALLY, HE SAID, 00:24:52.85\00:24:54.96 "I'VE COME BECAUSE I WANT TO TAKE YOUR PLACE." 00:24:54.96\00:24:57.83 HE IS OUR SUBSTITUTE. 00:24:57.83\00:25:00.06 HE DIED AS A SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS 00:25:00.06\00:25:01.93 BECAUSE HE LOVES US. 00:25:01.93\00:25:03.87 BUT THERE'S SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO. 00:25:03.87\00:25:06.20 WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT SACRIFICE IN OUR BEHALF. 00:25:06.20\00:25:09.57 AMEN. 00:25:09.57\00:25:10.74 YOU KNOW, WHEN JESUS WAS BEING TRIED, 00:25:10.74\00:25:13.84 PILATE SAID TO HIM, 00:25:13.84\00:25:15.28 "WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO WITH JESUS 00:25:15.28\00:25:17.31 WHO IS CALLED THE CHRIST?" 00:25:17.31\00:25:18.68 EVERYONE REALLY NEEDS TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION. 00:25:18.68\00:25:20.72 HE IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE OF HUMAN HISTORY. 00:25:20.72\00:25:24.25 ALL OF HISTORY DATED FROM HIS BIRTH. 00:25:24.25\00:25:26.42 YOU CANNOT JUST IGNORE JESUS. 00:25:26.42\00:25:28.66 GOD HAS GIVEN AN INCREDIBLE GIFT 00:25:28.66\00:25:31.16 THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN. 00:25:31.16\00:25:32.73 AMEN. 00:25:32.73\00:25:33.76 I REMEMBER READING A STORY YEARS AGO ABOUT THIS, 00:25:33.76\00:25:36.77 A RAILWAY SWITCH KEEPER IN PRUSSIA OVER IN EUROPE 00:25:36.77\00:25:41.64 WHERE THEY HAD THIS SPAN THAT CROSSED THE BRIDGE, 00:25:41.64\00:25:44.81 A RAILROAD TRACK CROSSED THE RIVER 00:25:44.81\00:25:46.54 AND THERE WAS A DRAWBRIDGE. 00:25:46.54\00:25:48.08 AND WHENEVER THE TRAIN WAS APPROACHING 00:25:48.08\00:25:49.88 IT WOULD TOOT ITS WHISTLE 00:25:49.88\00:25:52.28 AND HE WOULD RAISE THIS FLAG AND SAID, 00:25:52.28\00:25:54.02 "ALL CLEAR, KEEP GOING." 00:25:54.02\00:25:55.95 AND ONE DAY, WHILE HE WAS AT HIS STATION 00:25:55.95\00:25:57.59 WAITING FOR THE TRAIN, IT TOOTED THE WHISTLE 00:25:57.59\00:26:00.49 AND HE GAVE THE ALL CLEAR SIGN. 00:26:00.49\00:26:02.92 BUT THAT WAS ALSO A DAY THAT HE HAD BROUGHT 00:26:02.92\00:26:04.33 HIS 4-YEAR-OLD SON WITH HIM TO WORK 00:26:04.33\00:26:05.93 AND HE HAD TAKEN HIS EYES OFF HIS SON 00:26:05.93\00:26:08.56 WHO HAD WANDERED OUT ON THE TRESTLE 00:26:08.56\00:26:10.57 AND HE SAW THE TRAIN COMING. 00:26:10.57\00:26:12.63 KNOWING THE SPEED OF THE TRAIN, 00:26:12.63\00:26:13.97 SEEING HOW FAR OUT ON THE TRACK HIS SON WAS, 00:26:13.97\00:26:17.64 HE THOUGHT, "WHAT DO I DO? 00:26:17.64\00:26:19.07 IF I LEAVE THE BRIDGE UP, 00:26:19.07\00:26:21.21 THE TRAIN WILL GO OFF AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE 00:26:21.21\00:26:22.58 WILL PERISH IN THE RIVER. 00:26:22.58\00:26:24.98 IF I DON'T SWITCH THE TRAIN OFF THE TRACK, 00:26:24.98\00:26:27.92 MY SON IS GOING TO PERISH." 00:26:27.92\00:26:30.39 AND SO HE SHOUTED OUT TO HIS SON, 00:26:30.39\00:26:32.65 "LAY DOWN NOW. 00:26:32.65\00:26:34.09 LAY DOWN AND DO NOT MOVE." 00:26:34.09\00:26:36.62 AND HE KNEW THE BOY COULDN'T OUTRUN THE TRAIN 00:26:36.62\00:26:39.53 AND THE BOY JUST LAY DOWN. 00:26:39.53\00:26:41.46 THE BRIDGE WENT DOWN, 00:26:41.46\00:26:42.93 THE TRAIN WENT ACROSS THE RIVER 00:26:42.93\00:26:45.83 AND THE MAN NEVER KNEW, AND THE PEOPLE WENT BY, 00:26:45.83\00:26:47.64 THEY ARE WAVING AT THE MAN IN THE BOOTH. 00:26:47.64\00:26:50.51 THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT 00:26:50.51\00:26:52.11 WHAT THE DECISION HE HAD JUST MADE. 00:26:52.11\00:26:54.44 AFTER THE TRAIN PASSED, HE RAN OUT THERE EXPECTING 00:26:54.44\00:26:56.68 MAYBE TO FIND THE MANGLED REMAINS OF HIS CHILDREN. 00:26:56.68\00:26:59.11 HIS BOY HAD OBEYED AND HE WAS ALIVE. 00:26:59.11\00:27:01.82 THE WHOLE TRAIN WENT OVER HIM. 00:27:01.82\00:27:04.45 NEXT DAY THE KING OF PRUSSIA GAVE THAT MAN A REWARD 00:27:04.45\00:27:07.49 FOR BEING WILLING TO SACRIFICE HIS SON 00:27:07.49\00:27:10.13 TO SAVE ALL THOSE PEOPLE. 00:27:10.13\00:27:13.16 HIS SON DID NOT DIE. 00:27:13.16\00:27:15.76 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD VARIATIONS OF THAT STORY. 00:27:15.76\00:27:19.10 BUT IT IS TRUE THAT OUR FATHER GAVE HIS SON 00:27:19.10\00:27:21.50 AND HE DID DIE. 00:27:21.50\00:27:23.14 AND A LOT OF THE WORLD DOESN'T EVEN KNOW, 00:27:23.14\00:27:24.87 AS THEY GO ON THEIR MERRY WAY, 00:27:24.87\00:27:26.04 THEY'RE ALIVE TODAY BECAUSE OF THE GRACE OF GOD, 00:27:26.04\00:27:28.68 BECAUSE THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 00:27:28.68\00:27:30.18 AND WHY AREN'T THESE PEOPLE ALL DEAD? 00:27:30.18\00:27:32.45 BECAUSE JESUS, BY HIS SACRIFICE, 00:27:32.45\00:27:34.55 BOUGHT THE HUMAN RACE TIME, 00:27:34.55\00:27:37.15 PROBATION TO MAKE A DECISION. 00:27:37.15\00:27:39.69 WE'VE GOT JUST THIS LIFE. 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