BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
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ONE OF THE MOST
FAMOUS ATTRACTIONS
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IN THE SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA
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IS THE ICONIC
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE.
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DURING ITS CONSTRUCTION,
THE GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
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HAD ONE OF THE BEST
SAFETY CONSTRUCTION RECORDS
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OF ANY PROJECT DURING THAT TIME.
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BECAUSE OF THE EXTREME RISKS,
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THE CHIEF ENGINEER
WAS ABSOLUTELY ADAMANT
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ABOUT THEIR USING THE MOST
RIGOROUS SAFETY PRECAUTIONS
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THAT HAD EVER BEEN
USED IN BRIDGE BUILDING.
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BUT THE MOST
CONSPICUOUS SAFETY MEASURE
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WAS A GIGANTIC NET
SUSPENDED FROM END-TO-END
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UNDER THE BRIDGE ABOUT HALFWAY
BETWEEN THE BRIDGE AND THE BAY.
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DURING CONSTRUCTION,
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THIS NET SAVED
THE LIVES OF 19 MEN
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WHO WERE LATER KNOWN AS
THE HALF WAY TO HELL CLUB.
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WITH THE NET IN PLACE,
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THESE MEN WERE
MUCH MORE COURAGEOUS
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AND BRAVE DURING CONSTRUCTION
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BECAUSE THEY KNEW THERE
WAS A MECHANISM TO PROTECT THEM
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IF THEY SHOULD FALL.
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FRIENDS, AS CHRISTIANS WE
GET TO PARTICIPATE WITH JESUS
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IN BUILDING A BRIDGE
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THAT WILL
CONNECT HEAVEN AND EARTH.
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THERE ARE DANGERS ALONG THE WAY,
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BUT JESUS HAS
PROMISED TO PROTECT US,
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AND WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
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SO JOIN ME NOW AS WE DISCOVER
THE FASCINATING BIBLE FACTS
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ABOUT THE HERO OF REVELATION.
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DURING THE CIVIL WAR,
THERE WAS THIS ONE INDIVIDUAL
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THAT REALLY SURPRISED EVERYBODY.
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HIS NAME WAS JOSHUA
LAWRENCE CHAMBERLAIN.
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HE WAS ACTUALLY FROM MAINE.
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HE WAS A
SCHOOLTEACHER, ENGLISH MAJOR,
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ACTUALLY MAJORED IN RHETORIC
AND DIFFERENT LANGUAGES,
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SEEMED LIKE
SOMETHING OF A BOOKWORM.
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BUT HE HAD VERY STRONG
CONVICTIONS ABOUT SLAVERY.
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AND WHEN, FINALLY,
THE CIVIL WAR BROKE OUT,
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EVEN THOUGH HIS
FAMILY WAS VERY RELIGIOUS
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AND HE, MAYBE, WAS
A PACIFIST BY NATURE,
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HE THOUGHT THE CAUSE DESERVES
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THAT WE LAY OUR
LIVES DOWN FOR THIS,
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AND HE JOINED THE FORCES.
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BECAUSE OF HIS EDUCATION
THEY QUICKLY PROMOTED HIM.
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AND THE NEXT THING HE KNEW,
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HE WAS INVOLVED IN
THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG.
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SOME OF THE SOLDIERS
UNDER HIM WERE A LITTLE WORRIED.
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THEY SAID, "THIS
GUY IS ALWAYS READING.
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HE'S A BOOKWORM, HE'S A LAMB."
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AND HE SEEMS SO POLITE
AND HE SEEMS SO ARTICULATE,
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THEY THOUGHT, "WHAT'S HE
GOING TO DO ON THE BATTLEFIELD?"
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WELL, IT TURNED OUT,
IN ONE OF THE BIGGEST
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AND THE BLOODIEST
BATTLES OF THE CIVIL WAR,
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THE BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG,
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50,000 PEOPLE DIED IN ONE DAY.
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IT'S BEEN THE BLOODIEST
BATTLE IN AMERICAN HISTORY,
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IN ANY OF OUR WARS.
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THE SOUTH WAS
TRYING TO TAKE THIS HILL,
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AND THEY WERE TRYING TO FLANK
AROUND THE TROOPS OF THE NORTH,
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AND CHAMBERLAIN KNEW
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THAT HE NEEDED TO
HOLD THAT HILL AT ALL COST
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AND THEY
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FOR THREE DAYS,
THE BATTLE RAGED,
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AND THE SOUTH CONTINUED TO
THROW SOLDIERS AT THAT HILL
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TRYING TO GET BEHIND THE
TROOPS AND TO DEFEAT THEM.
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AND THEY FOUGHT THE GROUP
FROM MAINE THAT HE WAS OVER,
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THEY FOUGHT UNTIL
THEY RAN OUT OF AMMUNITION.
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AND FINALLY, HE TOLD THEM,
"FIX YOUR BAYONETS AND CHARGE."
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WHEN THEY WERE COMING
UP THE HILL AFTER THEM,
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HE TOLD HIS MEN TO
CHARGE BACK AT THEM
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WITH JUST BAYONETS.
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AND IT SO
TERRIFIED THE SOUTHERNERS
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THAT THEY TURNED AND THEY RAN.
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THEY DIDN'T REALIZE
THEY HAD RUN OUT OF BULLETS.
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THEY LATER CALLED
HIM, INSTEAD OF THE LAMB,
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THEY CALLED HIM THE
LION OF LITTLE ROUND TOP.
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LITTLE ROUND TOP WAS THE
HILL THAT THEY WERE DEFENDING.
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WELL, YOU KNOW,
JESUS, WHEN HE COMES AGAIN,
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HE'S COMING LIKE A LION.
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WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST
TIME, HE CAME LIKE A LAMB.
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BUT HE IS THE CENTRAL
FOCUS OF THE ENTIRE BIBLE.
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AND OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT,
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DEALING WITH THE
HERO OF REVELATION,
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IS PART OF OUR
PROPHECY ENCOUNTER SERIES.
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I'VE GOT A LOT OF
MATERIAL TO COVER.
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YOU MAY WANT TO HAVE
A PEN OR PENCIL HANDY
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BECAUSE WE'RE GOING
TO GIVE YOU SOME NOTES.
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WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING
AT PROPHECIES IN REVELATION,
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IN DANIEL, AND
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE,
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THAT SHOW US WHO JESUS IS,
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SO WE CAN KNOW THAT
HE IS THE CENTRAL FOCUS.
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IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9.
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DANIEL IS PRAYING.
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GOD'S PEOPLE ARE
CAPTIVES IN BABYLON.
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HE'S SAYING, "WE'VE
BEEN HERE 70 YEARS."
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DANIEL IS READING
THE PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH
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THAT SAID AFTER 70
YEARS THEY WOULD GO HOME.
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SO EVEN DANIEL
READ THE PROPHETS.
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AND HE'S PRAYING SAYING,
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"LORD, WE'VE BEEN HERE 70 YEARS.
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HOW LONG?
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HOW LONG WILL YOU
TOLERATE YOUR PEOPLE?
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HOW LONG TILL THE
SAVIOR THE MESSIAH COMES?"
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WHILE DANIEL IS PRAYING,
THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES,
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SAME ONE THAT APPEARS TO MARY,
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AND HE HASN'T AGED A
BIT WHEN HE APPEARS TO MARY
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AT 500 YEARS LATER.
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AND HE GIVES THIS PROPHECY,
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"70 WEEKS ARE
DETERMINED FOR YOUR PEOPLE..."
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I'M IN DANIEL 9:24,
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"FOR THEIR HOLY CITY,
TO FINISH TRANSGRESSION,
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TO MAKE AN END OF SINS,
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TO MAKE
RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY,
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TO BRING IN
EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS,
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TO SEAL UP THE
VISION AND THE PROPHECY..."
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TALKING ABOUT THE VISIONS
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ABOUT THE COMING OF THE MESSIAH.
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"AND ANOINT THE MOST HOLY."
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VERY CLEAR THAT
THIS IS A PROPHECY
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THAT TALKED ABOUT THE
MOST HOLY BEING ANOINTED,
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70 WEEKS.
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SO WHAT DOES THE
70 WEEKS REPRESENT?
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NOW, IN THE BIBLE,
A DAY EQUALS A YEAR.
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FIRST LET'S TALK ABOUT
THE STARTING POINT HERE.
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IT TELLS US THAT IT SAYS,
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"FROM THE GOING FORTH
OF THE COMMANDMENT..."
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IF YOU READ IN DANIEL 9:25,
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WHAT'S THE STARTING
POINT FOR THIS PROPHECY?
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"FROM THE GOING
FORTH OF THE COMMANDMENT
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TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM."
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JERUSALEM HAD BEEN
DESTROYED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
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THE PERSIAN KING,
ARTAXERXES, ISSUED A DECREE.
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YOU CAN FIND THAT IN
YOUR BIBLE IN EZRA CHAPTER 7.
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THAT THEY COULD GO BACK
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AND HE ALSO HELPED
SUBSIDIZE THEIR MISSION
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TO REBUILD THE CITY,
TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE.
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AND THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WOULD BE
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THE STARTING POINT OF
THIS 70 WEEK PROPHECY.
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"FROM THE GOING
FORTH OF THE COMMAND
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TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM
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UNTO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE,
THERE'LL BE SEVEN WEEKS..."
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NOW HE BREAKS UP THAT
70 WEEKS INTO THREE PARTS:
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THERE'LL BE SEVEN
WEEKS, AND 62 WEEKS,
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THEN YOU HAVE YOUR FINAL WEEK.
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OKAY?
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AND SO SEVEN WEEKS
WAS THE TIME IT TOOK THEM
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TO REBUILD THE
WALLS AND THE STREETS
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AND TROUBLOUS
TIMES IN THE TEMPLE.
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THEN THERE WERE 62 MORE WEEKS,
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THE MOST HOLY WOULD BE ANOINTED.
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THEN DURING THAT LAST WEEK,
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HE WOULD CONFIRM THE
COVENANT WITH THE PEOPLE,
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BUT IN THE MIDST
OF THAT LAST WEEK
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HE'D MAKE THE SACRIFICE CEASE.
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NOW I'VE SAID IT, I'M
GOING TO SAY IT SEVERAL TIMES
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BECAUSE I KNOW THIS
IS A LOT OF INFORMATION,
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AND I WANT YOU TO HAVE
THIS CLEAR IN YOUR MIND.
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FIRST OF ALL,
WHEN YOU'RE DEALING
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WITH A LARGE BIBLE
TIME PROPHECY LIKE THIS,
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THERE'S A PRETTY SAFE PRINCIPLE
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THAT YOU APPLY A DAY FOR A YEAR.
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AND THERE'S
THREE REFERENCES THERE,
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YOU CAN SEE THAT
SUPPORT THAT PRINCIPLE.
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NOW I'M GOING TO PUT
A CHART UP ON THE SCREEN
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AND EXPLAIN THIS TIME PROPHECY.
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YOU SEE THE
DECREE IS GIVEN 457 B.C.
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ARTAXERXES YOU
CAN FIND IT IN EZRA 7.
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IT'S A PRETTY WELL ACCEPTED DATE
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IN ANCIENT HISTORY.
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AND SO, 483
YEARS AFTER THE COMMAND
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IS WHEN YOU WOULD EXPECT
TO SEE THE MESSIAH ANOINTED.
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HE BEGINS HIS MINISTRY.
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HE THEN CONFIRMS THE
COVENANT WITH GOD'S PEOPLE
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FOR THE LAST SEVEN YEARS.
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IN THE MIDST OF
THAT LAST SEVEN YEARS
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HE MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE.
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STAY WITH ME.
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ALL RIGHT, JESUS
WAS BAPTIZED WHEN?
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YOU CAN READ IN THE
GOSPEL OF JOHN 1:29.
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HE CAME TO JOHN THE
BAPTIST, AND IT SAYS,
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"JOHN SAW JESUS
COMING TO HIM AND SAID,
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'BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD
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THAT TAKES AWAY
THE SIN OF THE WORLD!'"
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YOU KNOW, IF YOU READ IN LUKE,
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IT TELLS US THAT THE YEAR
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THAT JOHN WAS PREACHING
WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED,
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IT TALKS ABOUT
PONTIUS PILATE BEING IN POWER.
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YOU'VE GOT TIBERIUS
CAESAR, YOU'VE GOT HEROD.
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THERE IS ONLY
ONE YEAR IN HISTORY
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WHEN THESE THREE CHARACTERS,
THEIR REIGNS OVERLAPPED
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AND IT WAS 27 A.D.
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27 A.D.
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IS EXACTLY 483 YEARS AFTER
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KING ARTAXERXES' DECREE IN 457.
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THAT'S WHEN THE
MESSIAH WAS BAPTIZED.
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WHAT HAPPENED AT
THE BAPTISM OF JESUS?
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YOU CAN READ IN ACTS
10:38 WHERE PETER SAID,
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"GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF NAZARETH
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WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT..."
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HE WAS THE ANOINTED, THE CHRIST.
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"AND WITH POWER, WHO
WENT ABOUT DOING GOOD
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AND HEALING ALL WHO
WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL,
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FOR GOD WAS WITH HIM."
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AND SO JESUS WAS
ANOINTED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT
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EXACTLY 483 YEARS,
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BUT NOW YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK LEFT
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STILL TO GET TO 490, RIGHT?
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NOW WE'RE GOING TO
TALK ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED
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DURING THE MINISTRY OF JESUS.
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WE'RE PARKING THE
PROPHECY OF DANIEL.
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SO YOU ALL WITH ME?
WE'RE GOING TO COME BACK TO IT.
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IT SAID THAT HE WOULD CONFIRM
THE COVENANT DURING THIS WEEK.
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WHAT DID JESUS
DO DURING THAT TIME?
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LET'S LOOK AT THE
MINISTRY OF CHRIST
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AND ARE THERE PROPHECIES
ABOUT THE MINISTRY OF CHRIST?
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SO I'M PUTTING LAYERS IN
HERE. PROPHECIES IN PROPHECIES.
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ISAIAH 61:1, FIRST
SERMON JESUS PREACHED
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HE QUOTES FROM THIS IN NAZARETH,
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HIS HOME CHURCH.
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HE SAID, "THE
SPIRIT OF GOD IS UPON ME
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BECAUSE THE LORD HAS ANOINTED ME
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TO PREACH THE
GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR."
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CHRIST IS THE ANOINTED.
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HE'S TELLING
PEOPLE, "I AM THE ANOINTED."
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"HE HAS SENT ME TO
HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED..."
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DID JESUS DO THAT?
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"TO PROCLAIM
LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES",
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PEOPLE CAPTIVE BY
THE DEVIL AND SIN.
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"AND THE OPENING OF
PRISON TO THOSE WHO ARE BOUND."
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HE CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVE FREE
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AND TO PROCLAIM
LIBERTY TO THE CAPTIVES
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AND THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD.
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AND PEOPLE THAT CAME
TO HEAR JESUS PREACH,
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YOU KNOW, SPIES
WERE SENT TO ARREST HIM
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AND THEY CAME BACK
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AND THE LEADER
SAID, "WHERE IS HE?
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WE TOLD YOU TO ARREST HIM."
YOU KNOW WHAT THEIR ANSWER WAS?
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"NEVER MAN SPOKE LIKE THIS MAN."
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AND I CAN TESTIFY TO
YOU, THAT WAS MY IMPRESSION
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BECAUSE I GREW UP
BELIEVING THAT JESUS WAS...
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IN OUR HOME, MY MOM DIDN'T SAY
VERY NICE THINGS ABOUT JESUS.
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CAME, LIKE I SAID,
FROM A JEWISH BACKGROUND,
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AND WE THOUGHT
CHRISTIANS WERE THE PROBLEM.
00:10:00.90\00:10:03.03
MY JEWISH RELATIVES,
00:10:03.06\00:10:04.23
THEY'D TELL ME
"OH, YEAH, JESUS WAS...
00:10:04.27\00:10:05.73
HE WAS A GOOD
MAN. HE WAS A TEACHER."
00:10:05.77\00:10:07.97
AND I WOULD ASK MY GRANDFATHER,
00:10:08.00\00:10:09.00
I'D SAY, "NOW YOU REALIZE
00:10:09.04\00:10:10.21
THAT HE SAID HE WAS THE MESSIAH.
00:10:10.24\00:10:11.87
DO YOU THINK HE TOLD THE TRUTH?"
00:10:11.91\00:10:15.64
THEY SAID, "OH,
YEAH, HE WAS A GOOD MAN.
00:10:15.68\00:10:16.95
HE WAS A
TEACHER. HE'S A PROPHET."
00:10:16.98\00:10:18.51
"WELL, HE SAID HE
WAS THE SON OF GOD.
00:10:18.55\00:10:21.02
HE SAID HE WAS THE ONLY
ONE. HE'S THE ONLY DOOR."
00:10:21.05\00:10:24.49
AND SO THEY USED TO
KIND OF STUMBLE OVER THAT.
00:10:24.52\00:10:26.49
SO I WAS VERY
ANTAGONISTIC ABOUT JESUS.
00:10:26.52\00:10:28.46
WHEN I FINALLY
STARTED READING THE BIBLE,
00:10:28.49\00:10:30.99
SO I COULD
ARGUE WITH CHRISTIANS.
00:10:31.03\00:10:33.03
AND I'D READ WHERE IT SAYS,
00:10:33.06\00:10:35.03
"HE THAT IS WITHOUT
SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE."
00:10:35.06\00:10:36.80
I HAD HEARD THAT
EXPRESSION ALL MY LIFE.
00:10:36.83\00:10:38.30
I SAID, "OH, JESUS SAID THAT."
00:10:38.33\00:10:41.87
"TURN THE OTHER
CHEEK." OH, JESUS SAID THAT.
00:10:41.90\00:10:45.44
"GO THE SECOND MILE."
00:10:45.47\00:10:47.41
AND ALL OF THESE THINGS
00:10:47.44\00:10:48.68
I WAS READING IN
THE SERMON ON THE MOUNT,
00:10:48.71\00:10:50.11
I'M GOING, "I'VE BEEN HEARING
THESE THINGS ALL MY LIFE.
00:10:50.15\00:10:51.75
I HAD NO IDEA
THAT JESUS SAID THEM."
00:10:51.78\00:10:54.38
I SAID, "WOW, HE
WAS REALLY SMART."
00:10:54.42\00:10:57.05
I MEAN, HE JUST SAID,
00:10:57.09\00:10:58.12
HE'S THE MOST
QUOTED PERSON IN HISTORY.
00:10:58.15\00:11:00.06
NOBODY EVER SPOKE
LIKE THIS MAN SPOKE.
00:11:00.09\00:11:03.76
NOW YOU LOOK AT THE PROPHECIES
00:11:03.79\00:11:05.06
AND THE EVENTS
SURROUNDING THE CROSS.
00:11:05.09\00:11:08.00
ARE THERE SOME OF
THOSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:11:08.03\00:11:10.37
FOR ONE THING, JUST THE
WEEK BEFORE HE WAS CRUCIFIED,
00:11:10.40\00:11:13.17
THEY CALL IT
THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY.
00:11:13.20\00:11:15.27
"REJOICE GREATLY, O DAUGHTER..."
00:11:15.30\00:11:16.87
BY THE WAY, THIS
IS ZECHARIAH 9:9,
00:11:16.91\00:11:19.01
"REJOICE GREATLY,
O DAUGHTER OF ZION!
00:11:19.04\00:11:21.14
SHOUT, DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM!
00:11:21.18\00:11:22.94
BEHOLD, YOUR
KING IS COMING TO YOU.
00:11:22.98\00:11:25.31
HE IS JUST AND
HAVING SALVATION, LOWLY
00:11:25.35\00:11:28.32
AND RIDING ON A DONKEY, A
COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY."
00:11:28.35\00:11:32.32
AND THEN YOU GO
TO THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:11:32.35\00:11:33.72
AND THEN YOU SEE THE STORY
WHERE JESUS RODE INTO JERUSALEM
00:11:33.76\00:11:36.42
THROUGH THE
GOLDEN GATE ON A DONKEY.
00:11:36.46\00:11:39.23
JUSTICE HAD BEEN FORETOLD
WITH ALL THE PEOPLE REJOICING.
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AND MOST IMPORTANT,
TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.
00:12:13.29\00:12:15.76
ARE THERE PROPHECIES
ABOUT THE BETRAYAL OF JESUS?
00:12:17.73\00:12:20.54
YES, QUITE A FEW.
00:12:20.57\00:12:22.27
MATTER OF FACT,
YOU CAN READ IN PSALMS,
00:12:22.30\00:12:23.74
A THOUSAND YEARS
BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN,
00:12:23.77\00:12:26.78
KING DAVID WROTE,
"EVEN MY OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND
00:12:26.81\00:12:29.61
IN WHOM I
TRUSTED, WHO ATE MY BREAD,
00:12:29.64\00:12:32.55
HE HAS LIFTED UP
HIS HEEL AGAINST ME."
00:12:32.58\00:12:35.68
AFTER THEY ATE BREAD TOGETHER,
00:12:35.72\00:12:36.99
JUDAS WENT OUT
AND HE BETRAYED HIM.
00:12:37.02\00:12:40.36
AND THEN, AGAIN,
YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH,
00:12:40.39\00:12:41.82
IT SAYS, AND
THIS IS 11, VERSE 12,
00:12:41.86\00:12:44.13
"THEN I SAID TO THEM,
'IF IT IS AGREEABLE TO YOU,
00:12:44.16\00:12:46.90
GIVE ME MY WAGES,
AND, IF NOT, REFRAIN.'
00:12:46.93\00:12:50.63
SO THEY WEIGHED OUT FOR MY WAGES
00:12:50.67\00:12:52.53
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER.'"
00:12:52.57\00:12:55.07
HOW MUCH WAS JESUS SOLD FOR?
00:12:55.10\00:12:57.61
THIRTY PIECES
OF SILVER, EXACTLY.
00:12:57.64\00:12:59.87
AND THEN IT GOES ON TO
SAY, "AND THE LORD SAID TO ME,
00:12:59.91\00:13:02.58
'THROW IT TO THE POTTER,'
00:13:02.61\00:13:04.21
THAT PRINCELY PRICE
THAT THEY SET UPON ME.
00:13:04.25\00:13:06.92
SO THEY TOOK THE
THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER
00:13:06.95\00:13:08.85
AND THEY THREW THEM
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD,
00:13:08.88\00:13:11.02
TO THE POTTER."
00:13:11.05\00:13:12.15
YOU KNOW WHAT
JUDAS DID WITH THE MONEY
00:13:12.19\00:13:13.36
WHEN HE WAS OVERCOME WITH GUILT?
00:13:13.39\00:13:14.69
HE WENT INTO THE
HOUSE OF THE LORD,
00:13:14.72\00:13:16.12
HE THREW THE SILVER DOWN.
00:13:16.16\00:13:17.66
THEY DID NOT KNOW
WHAT TO DO WITH THE MONEY
00:13:17.69\00:13:19.19
BECAUSE IT WAS BLOOD MONEY.
00:13:19.23\00:13:20.33
THEY USED IT TO
BUY A POTTER'S FIELD
00:13:20.36\00:13:22.16
TO BURY STRANGERS IN.
00:13:22.20\00:13:24.53
WHAT PRECISE
DETAILS WERE FORETOLD
00:13:24.57\00:13:27.10
HUNDREDS OF YEARS
EARLIER, THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER.
00:13:27.14\00:13:30.67
NO, THIS ONE
HUNDREDS OF YEARS EARLIER
00:13:30.71\00:13:32.94
REGARDING THE
BETRAYAL OF CHRIST.
00:13:32.97\00:13:34.54
AMEN.
00:13:34.58\00:13:35.81
WHAT ABOUT THE
MANNER OF HIS DEATH?
00:13:35.84\00:13:37.15
WAS THAT FORETOLD?
00:13:37.18\00:13:39.51
YOU REALIZE WHEN SOME OF
THESE PROPHECIES WERE WRITTEN,
00:13:39.55\00:13:41.75
THEY DIDN'T
PRACTICE CRUCIFIXION.
00:13:41.78\00:13:43.22
BUT YOU LOOK IN PSALM 22.
00:13:43.25\00:13:45.72
NOW, DO YOU KNOW
WHAT THE FIRST WORDS ARE
00:13:45.75\00:13:46.82
IN PSALM 22?
00:13:46.86\00:13:48.59
"MY GOD, MY GOD, WHY
HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
00:13:48.62\00:13:51.63
DOES THAT SOUND FAMILIAR?
00:13:51.66\00:13:53.40
THAT'S WHAT JESUS
UTTERED FROM THE CROSS.
00:13:53.43\00:13:54.86
PEOPLE THINK, "DID HE SAY THAT
BECAUSE HE WAS DISCOURAGED?"
00:13:54.93\00:13:57.57
NO, JESUS SAID THAT
BECAUSE LATER IN THAT PSALM
00:13:57.60\00:14:00.87
YOU FIND THESE
OTHER PREDICTIONS.
00:14:00.90\00:14:02.80
READ IN PSALM 22:16,
00:14:02.84\00:14:05.41
"FOR DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME,
00:14:05.44\00:14:07.14
THE CONGREGATION OF
THE WICKED HAS ENCLOSED ME.
00:14:07.18\00:14:09.88
THEY PIERCED MY
HANDS AND MY FEET..."
00:14:09.91\00:14:13.05
DESCRIBING CRUCIFIXION.
00:14:13.08\00:14:14.88
IT'S IN THAT SAME PSALM,
THAT MESSIANIC PASSOVER PSALM
00:14:14.92\00:14:19.15
WHERE HE SAYS, "MY GOD, MY
GOD, WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?"
00:14:19.19\00:14:22.59
CHRIST HAD NOT LOST COURAGE,
00:14:22.62\00:14:23.83
HE WAS DIRECTING
THEM TO THE PSALM
00:14:23.86\00:14:25.69
THAT SHOWED THE VERY THING
THAT WAS HAPPENING THAT DAY
00:14:25.73\00:14:27.96
AS HE HUNG UP ON THE CROSS.
00:14:27.96\00:14:29.50
IT SAYS, "THEY DIVIDED
MY GARMENTS AMONG THEM,
00:14:29.53\00:14:32.13
AND THEY CAST
LOTS FOR MY CLOTHING."
00:14:32.17\00:14:34.20
WHAT A PRECISE DETAIL.
00:14:34.24\00:14:36.34
AND THEN YOU READ, OF
COURSE, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
00:14:36.37\00:14:38.17
THERE, MARK 15:24 AT
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS,
00:14:38.21\00:14:41.98
"WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM,
THEY DIVIDED HIS GARMENTS,
00:14:42.01\00:14:44.71
CASTING LOTS FOR THEM
00:14:44.75\00:14:46.31
TO DETERMINE WHAT
EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE."
00:14:46.35\00:14:49.62
GAMBLING THERE AT
THE FOOT OF THE CROSS.
00:14:49.65\00:14:52.95
BUT WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS,
00:14:52.99\00:14:54.66
IT ALSO SAYS NONE OF
HIS BONES WOULD BE BROKEN
00:14:54.69\00:14:56.52
IN THAT PROPHECY IN PSALM 22.
00:14:56.56\00:14:58.86
IT SAYS, "WHEN
THEY CAME TO JESUS
00:14:58.89\00:15:00.16
AFTER BREAKING
THE BONES OF THE THIEF
00:15:00.20\00:15:01.66
ON THE RIGHT AND THE LEFT,
00:15:01.70\00:15:03.10
THEY SAW HE WAS ALREADY DEAD
00:15:03.13\00:15:04.37
AND THEY DID
NOT BREAK HIS LEGS."
00:15:04.40\00:15:05.97
NOTICE JOHN GOES ON.
00:15:06.00\00:15:07.37
JOHN QUOTES FROM THE PROPHECY,
00:15:07.40\00:15:09.27
"BUT ONE OF THE SOLDIERS
PIERCED HIS SIDE WITH A SPEAR,
00:15:09.30\00:15:12.27
AND IMMEDIATELY
BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT."
00:15:12.31\00:15:14.84
TALKS ABOUT CHRIST,
THE MESSIAH BEING PIERCED.
00:15:14.88\00:15:17.45
BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT
00:15:17.48\00:15:18.51
BUT THEY DID
NOT BREAK HIS BONES.
00:15:18.55\00:15:20.55
IT SAYS, "FOR
THESE THINGS WERE DONE
00:15:20.58\00:15:21.85
THAT THE SCRIPTURE
SHOULD BE FULFILLED,
00:15:21.88\00:15:23.99
'NOT ONE OF HIS
BONES WOULD BE BROKEN.'"
00:15:24.02\00:15:26.52
AND AGAIN
ANOTHER SCRIPTURE SAYS,
00:15:26.55\00:15:27.86
"THEY LOOK ON HIM
WHOM THEY HAD PIERCED."
00:15:27.89\00:15:30.63
QUOTING AGAIN THAT
SCRIPTURE, JESUS WAS PIERCED,
00:15:30.66\00:15:32.66
HIS BONES WERE NOT
BROKEN, HE WAS CRUCIFIED,
00:15:32.69\00:15:34.56
THEY GAMBLED FOR HIS CLOTHING.
00:15:34.56\00:15:36.56
WAS HE THE ONE?
00:15:36.60\00:15:38.50
DO THE PROPHECIES
ALL TALK ABOUT JESUS?
00:15:38.53\00:15:40.60
NOW I TOLD YOU,
DON'T FORGET ABOUT DANIEL.
00:15:40.64\00:15:43.27
WE'RE GOING BACK
NOW TO DANIEL CHAPTER 9.
00:15:43.30\00:15:46.11
WE GOT ONE WEEK TO GO.
00:15:46.14\00:15:48.14
AND IT SAYS,
"AFTER THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS
00:15:48.18\00:15:51.01
MESSIAH WILL BE CUT
OFF, BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF."
00:15:51.05\00:15:55.08
WAS JESUS CUT OFF? YES.
00:15:55.12\00:15:57.22
AND WHEN A
PERSON DIES OF OLD AGE,
00:15:57.25\00:15:59.35
THAT'S NOT BEING CUT OFF.
00:15:59.39\00:16:00.42
BUT WHEN THEY'RE 30 YEARS OLD,
00:16:00.46\00:16:03.66
33 AND A HALF, HE
DIED IN HIS PRIME.
00:16:03.69\00:16:08.26
HE WAS CUT OFF FROM
THE LAND OF THE LIVING.
00:16:08.30\00:16:09.83
BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF, FOR WHO?
00:16:09.86\00:16:12.47
FOR US. FOR ME, FOR YOU.
00:16:12.50\00:16:14.90
HE DIED FOR YOU AS
THOUGH YOU WERE THE ONLY ONE
00:16:14.94\00:16:16.81
WHO HAD EVER SINNED.
00:16:16.84\00:16:17.87
HE LOVES YOU THAT MUCH.
00:16:17.91\00:16:19.77
AND THEN IT SAID, "HE
WOULD CONFIRM THE COVENANT
00:16:19.81\00:16:21.54
WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK."
00:16:21.58\00:16:22.98
SO THAT LAST SEVEN
YEARS, FROM HIS BAPTISM
00:16:23.01\00:16:26.21
UNTIL SEVEN YEARS LATER,
00:16:26.25\00:16:29.25
HE IS CONFIRMING THE
COVENANT WITH THE JEWISH PEOPLE.
00:16:29.28\00:16:32.22
THREE AND A
HALF YEARS IN PERSON,
00:16:32.25\00:16:35.39
THREE AND A HALF
YEARS THROUGH THE APOSTLES,
00:16:35.42\00:16:38.13
UNTIL, FINALLY THE
FIRST CHRISTIAN MARTYR,
00:16:38.16\00:16:41.23
WHICH IS STEPHEN,
00:16:41.26\00:16:42.96
HE IS TRIED BY THE
JEWISH SUPREME COURT
00:16:43.00\00:16:44.93
FOR HIS FAITH.
00:16:44.97\00:16:46.00
THEY DO THE SAME THING
TO HIM THEY DID TO JESUS.
00:16:46.03\00:16:47.87
THEY BRING HIM OUT OF THE CITY.
00:16:47.90\00:16:49.40
HE'S FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THEN HE IS EXECUTED
00:16:49.44\00:16:53.34
AND HE PRAYS FOR THE FORGIVENESS
00:16:53.38\00:16:54.71
OF THOSE WHO KILL HIM,
THE SAME THING JESUS DID.
00:16:54.74\00:16:57.55
IN THE MIDDLE OF
THE WEEK HE CAUSES,
00:16:57.58\00:16:59.45
HE MAKES THE OFFERING
AND THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE.
00:16:59.48\00:17:02.92
THREE AND A HALF YEARS
AFTER JESUS WAS BAPTIZED,
00:17:02.95\00:17:05.45
WHEN HE DIES ON THE CROSS,
WHAT HAPPENED IN THE TEMPLE?
00:17:05.49\00:17:08.76
YOU READ IN MATTHEW 27:51,
00:17:08.79\00:17:11.06
"BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF
THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO
00:17:11.09\00:17:14.00
FROM TOP TO BOTTOM,
AND THE EARTH QUAKED,
00:17:14.00\00:17:16.43
AND THE ROCKS WERE SPLIT..."
00:17:16.46\00:17:18.80
AND THE VEIL OF
THE TEMPLE IS TORN,
00:17:18.83\00:17:21.50
SHOWING THAT THE PURPOSE
00:17:21.54\00:17:22.60
FOR THAT SANCTUARY WAS COMPLETE.
00:17:22.64\00:17:26.81
JESUS SAID, "DESTROY
THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS
00:17:26.84\00:17:28.74
AND IN THREE DAYS I
WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS."
00:17:28.78\00:17:30.55
HE SPOKE OF HIS
BODY, THE CHURCH.
00:17:30.58\00:17:33.52
TWO THINGS WERE
TORN, THE TEMPLE WAS TORN
00:17:33.55\00:17:35.85
AND THE HIGH
PRIEST TORE HIS GARMENTS.
00:17:35.88\00:17:37.59
WE NOW HAVE A NEW PRIESTHOOD.
00:17:37.62\00:17:39.59
IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST,
00:17:39.62\00:17:41.32
THEN YOU ARE PART OF
THAT ROYAL PRIESTHOOD. AMEN?
00:17:41.36\00:17:44.06
AND WE ALSO HAVE A NEW TEMPLE.
00:17:44.09\00:17:45.33
IF YOU ARE A BELIEVER IN CHRIST,
00:17:45.36\00:17:46.86
YOU ARE A LIVING
STONE IN THAT BUILDING.
00:17:46.90\00:17:48.76
THAT'S WHAT PAUL AND PETER SAY.
WE ARE THE HOUSEHOLD OF GOD.
00:17:48.80\00:17:51.73
CHURCH IS NOT A
BUILDING, CHURCH IS THE PEOPLE.
00:17:51.77\00:17:54.47
NOW, GO BACK, I WANT
YOU TO SEE THE CHART AGAIN.
00:17:54.50\00:17:57.37
AND YOU NOTICE HERE,
WE GOT FROM THE DECREE
00:17:57.41\00:18:00.94
UNTIL THE 69 WEEKS ARE COMPLETE,
00:18:00.98\00:18:04.51
YOU'VE GOT 483
YEARS AND 69 WEEKS.
00:18:04.55\00:18:08.12
FOUR HUNDRED AND
EIGHTY THREE DAYS
00:18:08.15\00:18:09.38
AND A DAY IS A YEAR.
00:18:09.42\00:18:10.79
CHRIST IS BAPTIZED 27 A.D.
00:18:10.82\00:18:13.79
HE CONFIRMS A
COVENANT WITH GOD'S PEOPLE
00:18:13.82\00:18:15.59
FOR ANOTHER WEEK
00:18:15.62\00:18:16.69
BEFORE THE GOSPEL
GOES TO THE GENTILES.
00:18:16.73\00:18:19.46
THREE AND A
HALF YEARS IN PERSON,
00:18:19.49\00:18:21.63
THEN HE DIES AND HE
CAUSES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE.
00:18:21.66\00:18:24.97
THEN HE DOES ANOTHER
THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:18:25.00\00:18:26.74
THROUGH THOSE THAT HEARD HIM.
00:18:26.77\00:18:28.10
AND YOU'LL FIND
THIS IS IN HEBREWS 2:3
00:18:28.14\00:18:33.17
WHERE IT SAYS THAT,
00:18:33.21\00:18:34.71
"HOW SHALL WE
ESCAPE..." NOTICE THIS.
00:18:34.74\00:18:36.68
"HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE
00:18:36.71\00:18:37.91
IF WE NEGLECT SO
GREAT A SALVATION,
00:18:37.95\00:18:40.18
WHICH AT THE FIRST BEGAN
TO BE SPOKEN BY THE LORD..."
00:18:40.22\00:18:44.02
27 A.D.
00:18:44.05\00:18:45.19
FROM HIS BAPTISM BEGAN TO PREACH
00:18:45.22\00:18:47.12
FOR THREE AND A HALF
YEARS UNTIL HE WAS EXECUTED.
00:18:47.16\00:18:50.76
"AND WAS CONFIRMED TO US
BY THOSE THAT HEARD HIM,"
00:18:50.79\00:18:54.20
FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:18:54.20\00:18:55.50
DO YOU KNOW THE JEWS
DID NOT GO WHEN CHRIST ROSE?
00:18:55.53\00:18:57.93
THEY DID NOT GO
TO THE WORLD YET.
00:18:57.97\00:19:00.10
HE SAID, "FIRST BEGIN
IN JERUSALEM AND JUDEA."
00:19:00.14\00:19:04.37
HE SAYS, "DO NOT GO,
00:19:04.41\00:19:05.71
BUT FIRST TO THE LOST
SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL."
00:19:05.74\00:19:08.31
THE APOSTLES' MINISTRY
00:19:08.34\00:19:09.71
FOR THE FIRST
THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:19:09.74\00:19:11.15
WAS EXCLUSIVELY
TO THE JEWISH NATION.
00:19:11.18\00:19:13.82
AT PENTECOST, WHEN THE
HOLY SPIRIT IS POURED OUT,
00:19:13.85\00:19:16.12
IT SAYS THERE WERE DEVOUT JEWS
00:19:16.15\00:19:17.62
DWELLING IN
JERUSALEM FROM EVERY NATION.
00:19:17.65\00:19:19.55
THEY PREACHED TO JEWS.
00:19:19.59\00:19:21.36
IN ACTS CHAPTER
3, ACTS CHAPTER 5,
00:19:21.39\00:19:23.09
THEY'RE ALL JEWS BEING BAPTIZED.
00:19:23.12\00:19:24.73
IT WASN'T UNTIL
STEPHEN WAS STONED,
00:19:24.76\00:19:26.90
IT SAYS, "A
GREAT PERSECUTION AROSE
00:19:26.93\00:19:29.00
AND THE GOSPEL WENT EVERYWHERE."
00:19:29.03\00:19:30.97
THEN PAUL IS
CONVERTED, FOLLOWING THAT,
00:19:31.00\00:19:34.27
IN THE NEXT CHAPTER.
00:19:34.30\00:19:35.37
PETER THEN GOES TO CORNELIUS
00:19:35.40\00:19:36.87
AND STARTS TO
PREACH TO THE GENTILES
00:19:36.91\00:19:39.34
WHO HE HAD BEEN CALLING UNCLEAN.
00:19:39.37\00:19:40.81
FINALLY THE GOSPEL
BEGAN TO GO TO EVERYONE.
00:19:40.84\00:19:43.51
THAT WAS EXACTLY 490 YEARS
00:19:43.55\00:19:46.58
AFTER, AS DANIEL
HAD SAID THAT PROPHECY.
00:19:46.61\00:19:50.35
YOU'VE GOT THE DECREE, 457,
00:19:50.39\00:19:52.62
THE BAPTISM OF
JESUS MARKS THE LAST WEEK
00:19:52.65\00:19:55.26
OF THAT PROPHECY,
00:19:55.29\00:19:56.76
FIRST THREE AND A HALF
YEARS HE CONFIRMS THE COVENANT.
00:19:56.79\00:19:59.86
HE THEN CAUSES THE SACRIFICE
00:19:59.89\00:20:01.23
TO CEASE BY HIS
DEATH ON THE CROSS.
00:20:01.26\00:20:03.06
THEN HE SAYS TO THE DISCIPLES,
"AS THE FATHER SENT ME,
00:20:03.10\00:20:06.07
NOW YOU GO CONFIRM THE
COVENANT WITH THE LOST SHEEP
00:20:06.10\00:20:08.60
FOR ANOTHER
THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:20:08.64\00:20:10.37
STEPHEN IS STONED.
00:20:10.41\00:20:11.64
AND HE SAYS,
"NOW THE GOSPEL GOES
00:20:11.67\00:20:13.41
TO THE GENTILES AND
EVERYBODY, WHOSOEVER WILL.
00:20:13.44\00:20:16.11
THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
GOD SAID WOULD HAPPEN.
00:20:16.14\00:20:18.98
THERE'S NO QUESTION
THAT JESUS WAS THE MESSIAH
00:20:19.01\00:20:21.22
THAT DANIEL FORETOLD.
00:20:21.25\00:20:22.75
AND I'VE EVEN GOT A
QUOTE HERE FROM JOSEPHUS,
00:20:22.78\00:20:25.05
THE JEWISH HISTORIAN,
00:20:25.09\00:20:26.12
THAT TO ME IT
JUST BLOWS ME AWAY.
00:20:26.15\00:20:28.49
JOSEPHUS, FLAVIUS JOSEPHUS
00:20:28.52\00:20:29.92
WAS A
CONTEMPORARY OF THE APOSTLES
00:20:29.96\00:20:33.60
AND HE WROTE THIS
FROM THE TIME OF CHRIST.
00:20:33.63\00:20:37.40
"NOW THERE WAS ABOUT
THIS TIME, A WISE MAN,
00:20:37.43\00:20:40.97
IF IT BE LAWFUL
TO CALL HIM A MAN,
00:20:41.00\00:20:43.07
FOR HE WAS A DOER
OF WONDERFUL WORKS,
00:20:43.10\00:20:46.04
AND A TEACHER OF SUCH MEN
00:20:46.07\00:20:47.31
AS RECEIVE THE
TRUTH WITH PLEASURE.
00:20:47.34\00:20:49.64
HE DREW OVER TO HIM
BOTH MANY OF THE JEWS
00:20:49.68\00:20:52.15
AND MANY OF THE
GENTILES, HE WAS THE CHRIST."
00:20:52.18\00:20:55.18
THIS IS COMING
FROM A JEWISH SCHOLAR
00:20:55.22\00:20:56.62
WHO IS NOT WRITING IN THE BIBLE.
00:20:56.65\00:20:59.92
IT SAYS, "AND WHEN PILATE,
00:20:59.95\00:21:02.39
AT THE SUGGESTION OF
PRINCIPAL PEOPLE AMONG US,
00:21:02.42\00:21:05.63
HAD CONDEMNED HIM TO THE CROSS,
00:21:05.66\00:21:07.66
THOSE THAT LOVED HIM
00:21:07.73\00:21:08.93
AT THE FIRST
DID NOT FORSAKE HIM,
00:21:08.96\00:21:11.27
FOR HE APPEARED
TO THEM ALIVE AGAIN
00:21:11.30\00:21:14.10
AFTER THE THIRD DAY."
00:21:14.14\00:21:16.04
SO THIS IS NOT JUST THE
BIBLE, FRIENDS, THIS IS HISTORY.
00:21:16.07\00:21:18.94
AND EVEN THIS
JEWISH HISTORIAN SAYS,
00:21:18.97\00:21:20.54
"YEAH, HE WAS THE MESSIAH,
00:21:20.58\00:21:22.81
HE APPEARED, HE
ROSE FROM THE DEAD."
00:21:22.84\00:21:25.01
"AS THE DIVINE PROPHETS
HAD FORETOLD THESE THINGS
00:21:26.18\00:21:28.42
AND TEN THOUSAND
OTHER WONDERFUL THINGS
00:21:28.45\00:21:30.85
CONCERNING HIM.
00:21:30.89\00:21:32.15
AND THE TRIBE OF
CHRISTIAN CONTINUES WITH US
00:21:32.19\00:21:34.72
AND THEY ARE NOT
EXTINCT EVEN TO THIS DAY."
00:21:34.76\00:21:36.99
SO I WANT YOU TO CONSIDER
WHAT WE'VE LOOKED AT HERE.
00:21:37.03\00:21:39.43
THERE ARE PROPHECIES THAT TELL
ABOUT THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH,
00:21:39.46\00:21:42.46
THAT HE'D BE BORN OF A
VIRGIN, THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM,
00:21:42.50\00:21:46.57
THE TYPE OF MINISTRY,
THE EVENTS OF HIS BETRAYAL,
00:21:46.60\00:21:49.34
THE MANNER OF HIS EXECUTION,
00:21:49.37\00:21:51.14
HIS RESURRECTION, HIS ASCENSION.
00:21:51.17\00:21:52.74
THIS IS ALL FORETOLD
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:21:52.77\00:21:55.91
AND THEN PEOPLE SAY,
"PASTOR DOUG, WE HAD A QUESTION
00:21:55.94\00:21:58.01
I DIDN'T READ TONIGHT.
00:21:58.05\00:21:59.48
HOW DO YOU KNOW
THE BIBLE IS TRUE?"
00:21:59.51\00:22:00.58
I'M GOING, PFF!
00:22:00.62\00:22:02.18
WHAT EVIDENCE WILL YOU ACCEPT?
00:22:02.22\00:22:05.19
WHAT EVIDENCE WILL YOU ACCEPT?
00:22:05.22\00:22:06.99
THE BOOK HAS BEEN
SUPERNATURALLY PRESERVED.
00:22:07.02\00:22:08.99
EVERYTHING IT
SAYS HAS COME TRUE.
00:22:09.02\00:22:11.06
AND JESUS IS THE
BEST EVIDENCE OF ALL.
00:22:11.09\00:22:13.03
AMEN.
00:22:13.06\00:22:14.20
YOU START TO PUT THE
PIECES TOGETHER, FRIENDS,
00:22:14.20\00:22:16.10
AND YOU CAN SEE JESUS
00:22:16.13\00:22:17.27
IS WHAT THE WHOLE
BIBLE IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:22:17.30\00:22:20.07
AMEN?
00:22:20.10\00:22:21.17
AMEN.
00:22:21.20\00:22:22.34
SO WHY DID HE COME?
00:22:22.37\00:22:24.37
THREE QUICK REASONS
WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW.
00:22:24.41\00:22:26.64
ONE HE CAME AS OUR EXAMPLE.
00:22:26.68\00:22:29.31
JESUS, HE SAID,
00:22:29.34\00:22:31.05
"I'VE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE
00:22:31.08\00:22:32.31
THAT YOU SHOULD
WALK AS I'VE WALKED."
00:22:32.35\00:22:34.85
JESUS CHRIST CAME AND
THAT, BY THE WAY, IS JOHN 13:15.
00:22:34.88\00:22:39.65
"I WANT YOU TO
LIVE AS I HAVE LIVED."
00:22:39.69\00:22:41.79
A CHRISTIAN IS A
FOLLOWER OF CHRIST.
00:22:41.82\00:22:43.99
HE CAME TO SHOW US THE FATHER,
IS THE SECOND REASON HE CAME.
00:22:44.03\00:22:47.36
HE SAID, "HE WHO HAS
SEEN ME HAS SEEN THE FATHER."
00:22:47.40\00:22:51.60
AND THEN, FINALLY, HE SAID,
00:22:51.63\00:22:53.70
"I'VE COME BECAUSE I
WANT TO TAKE YOUR PLACE."
00:22:53.74\00:22:56.57
HE IS OUR SUBSTITUTE.
00:22:56.60\00:22:58.74
HE DIED AS A
SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS
00:22:58.77\00:23:00.71
BECAUSE HE LOVES US.
00:23:00.74\00:23:02.58
BUT THERE'S
SOMETHING THAT WE NEED TO DO.
00:23:02.61\00:23:04.91
WE NEED TO ACCEPT THAT
SACRIFICE IN OUR BEHALF.
00:23:04.95\00:23:08.28
AMEN.
00:23:08.32\00:23:09.45
YOU KNOW, WHEN
JESUS WAS BEING TRIED,
00:23:09.48\00:23:12.55
PILATE SAID TO HIM,
00:23:12.59\00:23:13.99
"WHAT AM I
SUPPOSED TO DO WITH JESUS
00:23:14.02\00:23:16.02
WHO IS CALLED THE CHRIST?"
00:23:16.06\00:23:17.39
EVERYONE REALLY NEEDS
TO ANSWER THAT QUESTION.
00:23:17.43\00:23:19.43
HE IS THE CENTRAL
FIGURE OF HUMAN HISTORY.
00:23:19.46\00:23:22.93
ALL OF HISTORY
DATED FROM HIS BIRTH.
00:23:22.96\00:23:25.10
YOU CANNOT JUST IGNORE JESUS.
00:23:25.13\00:23:27.34
GOD HAS GIVEN AN INCREDIBLE GIFT
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.84
THAT WE MIGHT BE FORGIVEN.
00:23:29.87\00:23:31.41
AMEN.
00:23:31.44\00:23:32.47
I REMEMBER READING A
STORY YEARS AGO ABOUT THIS,
00:23:32.51\00:23:35.48
A RAILWAY SWITCH KEEPER
IN PRUSSIA OVER IN EUROPE
00:23:35.51\00:23:40.35
WHERE THEY HAD THIS
SPAN THAT CROSSED THE BRIDGE,
00:23:40.38\00:23:43.52
A RAILROAD TRACK
CROSSED THE RIVER
00:23:43.55\00:23:45.25
AND THERE WAS A DRAWBRIDGE.
00:23:45.29\00:23:46.79
AND WHENEVER THE
TRAIN WAS APPROACHING
00:23:46.82\00:23:48.59
IT WOULD TOOT ITS WHISTLE
00:23:48.62\00:23:50.99
AND HE WOULD RAISE
THIS FLAG AND SAID,
00:23:51.03\00:23:52.73
"ALL CLEAR, KEEP GOING."
00:23:52.76\00:23:54.63
AND ONE DAY, WHILE
HE WAS AT HIS STATION
00:23:54.66\00:23:56.26
WAITING FOR THE
TRAIN, IT TOOTED THE WHISTLE
00:23:56.30\00:23:59.10
AND HE GAVE THE ALL CLEAR SIGN.
00:23:59.13\00:24:01.54
BUT THAT WAS ALSO A
DAY THAT HE HAD BROUGHT
00:24:01.57\00:24:02.94
HIS 4-YEAR-OLD
SON WITH HIM TO WORK
00:24:02.97\00:24:04.54
AND HE HAD TAKEN
HIS EYES OFF HIS SON
00:24:04.57\00:24:07.21
WHO HAD WANDERED
OUT ON THE TRESTLE
00:24:07.24\00:24:09.21
AND HE SAW THE TRAIN COMING.
00:24:09.24\00:24:11.28
KNOWING THE SPEED OF THE TRAIN,
00:24:11.31\00:24:12.61
SEEING HOW FAR OUT ON
THE TRACK HIS SON WAS,
00:24:12.65\00:24:16.28
HE THOUGHT, "WHAT DO I DO?
00:24:16.32\00:24:17.72
IF I LEAVE THE BRIDGE UP,
00:24:17.75\00:24:19.85
THE TRAIN WILL GO
OFF AND ALL THOSE PEOPLE
00:24:19.89\00:24:21.22
WILL PERISH IN THE RIVER.
00:24:21.26\00:24:23.63
IF I DON'T SWITCH
THE TRAIN OFF THE TRACK,
00:24:23.66\00:24:26.56
MY SON IS GOING TO PERISH."
00:24:26.59\00:24:29.00
AND SO HE
SHOUTED OUT TO HIS SON,
00:24:29.03\00:24:31.27
"LAY DOWN NOW.
00:24:31.30\00:24:32.70
LAY DOWN AND DO NOT MOVE."
00:24:32.73\00:24:35.24
AND HE KNEW THE BOY
COULDN'T OUTRUN THE TRAIN
00:24:35.27\00:24:38.14
AND THE BOY JUST LAY DOWN.
00:24:38.17\00:24:40.11
THE BRIDGE WENT DOWN,
00:24:40.14\00:24:41.58
THE TRAIN WENT ACROSS THE RIVER
00:24:41.61\00:24:44.48
AND THE MAN NEVER
KNEW, AND THE PEOPLE WENT BY,
00:24:44.51\00:24:46.28
THEY ARE WAVING AT
THE MAN IN THE BOOTH.
00:24:46.31\00:24:49.15
THEY HAD NO IDEA THAT
00:24:49.18\00:24:50.75
WHAT THE
DECISION HE HAD JUST MADE.
00:24:50.79\00:24:53.09
AFTER THE TRAIN PASSED,
HE RAN OUT THERE EXPECTING
00:24:53.12\00:24:55.32
MAYBE TO FIND THE
MANGLED REMAINS OF HIS CHILDREN.
00:24:55.36\00:24:57.76
HIS BOY HAD
OBEYED AND HE WAS ALIVE.
00:24:57.79\00:25:00.46
THE WHOLE TRAIN WENT OVER HIM.
00:25:00.50\00:25:03.00
NEXT DAY THE KING OF
PRUSSIA GAVE THAT MAN A REWARD
00:25:03.03\00:25:06.03
FOR BEING WILLING
TO SACRIFICE HIS SON
00:25:06.07\00:25:08.67
TO SAVE ALL THOSE PEOPLE.
00:25:08.70\00:25:11.71
HIS SON DID NOT DIE.
00:25:11.74\00:25:14.34
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD
VARIATIONS OF THAT STORY.
00:25:14.38\00:25:17.68
BUT IT IS TRUE THAT
OUR FATHER GAVE HIS SON
00:25:17.71\00:25:20.08
AND HE DID DIE.
00:25:20.12\00:25:21.72
AND A LOT OF THE
WORLD DOESN'T EVEN KNOW,
00:25:21.75\00:25:23.45
AS THEY GO ON THEIR MERRY WAY,
00:25:23.49\00:25:24.62
THEY'RE ALIVE TODAY
BECAUSE OF THE GRACE OF GOD,
00:25:24.65\00:25:27.26
BECAUSE THE
PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.
00:25:27.29\00:25:28.76
AND WHY AREN'T
THESE PEOPLE ALL DEAD?
00:25:28.79\00:25:31.03
BECAUSE JESUS, BY HIS SACRIFICE,
00:25:31.06\00:25:33.13
BOUGHT THE HUMAN RACE TIME,
00:25:33.16\00:25:35.70
PROBATION TO MAKE A DECISION.
00:25:35.73\00:25:38.23
WE'VE GOT JUST THIS LIFE.
ONE LIFE TO MAKE A DECISION.
00:25:38.27\00:25:42.20
THAT'S WHY ALL THE
PROPHECIES ARE THERE
00:25:42.24\00:25:44.57
THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE
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00:25:44.61\00:25:46.81
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00:26:29.22\00:26:31.69
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00:26:31.72\00:26:33.22
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00:26:33.25\00:26:36.42
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00:26:36.46\00:26:38.93
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00:26:38.96\00:26:42.26
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00:26:44.60\00:26:47.34
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00:26:47.37\00:26:50.01
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00:26:50.04\00:26:52.44
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