THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU 00:00:02.23\00:00:03.63 BY THE FRIENDS OF THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:03.63\00:00:06.43 KNOWN AS A BROOD PARASITE, 00:00:08.84\00:00:10.74 THE COMMON CUCKOO BIRD LAYS HER EGGS 00:00:10.74\00:00:12.87 IN THE NEST OF SMALLER BIRD SPECIES 00:00:12.87\00:00:14.98 LIKE A REED WARBLER. 00:00:14.98\00:00:16.95 ONCE A CUCKOO'S EGG HAS BEEN LAID 00:00:16.95\00:00:19.05 WHICH TENDS TO MATCH THE HOST EGG 00:00:19.05\00:00:20.75 IN PATTERN AND COLOR, 00:00:20.75\00:00:22.25 THE UNSUSPECTING LITTLE MOTHERS INCUBATE, 00:00:22.25\00:00:24.75 FEED, AND RAISE THE YOUNG IMPOSTER, 00:00:24.75\00:00:26.99 TYPICALLY AT THE EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN OFFSPRING. 00:00:26.99\00:00:29.69 ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES OF NATURE 00:00:29.69\00:00:31.53 IS TO WATCH A LITTLE REED WARBLER 00:00:31.53\00:00:33.26 AND ITS MATE NEARLY WORK THEMSELVES TO DEATH 00:00:33.26\00:00:36.03 TO SATISFY THE VORACIOUS HUNGER OF A FAT LITTLE CUCKOO CHICK. 00:00:36.03\00:00:40.10 WHILE THEIR OWN STARVING YOUNG ARE CROWDED OUT OF THE NEST. 00:00:40.10\00:00:43.84 MANY DON'T REALIZE 00:00:43.84\00:00:45.04 THAT THE DEVIL HAS LAID A DECEPTIVE EGG 00:00:45.04\00:00:47.34 IN THE CHURCH, THAT'S BEEN HATCHED, 00:00:47.34\00:00:49.44 ADOPTED AND FED 00:00:49.44\00:00:51.28 UNTIL IT'S GROWN BIGGER THAN LIFE. 00:00:51.28\00:00:53.65 JESUS WARNED US ABOUT THIS. 00:00:53.65\00:00:55.85 BUT WHAT EXACTLY IS THIS COUNTERFEIT 00:00:55.85\00:00:58.72 AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU? 00:00:58.72\00:01:00.92 SO JOIN ME NOW AS WE UNRAVEL THIS MYSTERY. 00:01:00.92\00:01:03.32 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING, TONIGHT, 00:01:07.86\00:01:09.06 ABOUT A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 00:01:09.06\00:01:10.93 THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION IS CALLED "THE WOMAN OF LIGHT," 00:01:10.93\00:01:15.54 AND IT'S BASED UPON A WOMAN 00:01:15.54\00:01:17.31 THAT APPEARS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 00:01:17.31\00:01:21.41 AND YOU'LL UNDERSTAND THE NATURE OF THE TITLE 00:01:21.41\00:01:23.55 A LITTLE BETTER AS WE PROCEED. 00:01:23.55\00:01:25.68 BUT I THOUGHT I'D TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY 00:01:25.68\00:01:27.85 THAT MAY SEGUE WELL WITH THIS STUDY TONIGHT. 00:01:27.85\00:01:31.32 I'VE MADE A FEW TRIPS TO INDIA, PASTOR ROSS HAS BEEN TO INDIA. 00:01:31.32\00:01:34.26 AMAZING FACTS HAS A SCHOOL, 00:01:34.26\00:01:35.62 AN EVANGELISM TRAINING SCHOOL IN INDIA. 00:01:35.62\00:01:37.99 AND I REMEMBER HEARING THE STORY ABOUT A WOMAN, 00:01:37.99\00:01:40.10 37 YEARS OLD, THAT WAS BATHING SOME CLOTHES, 00:01:40.10\00:01:45.63 WASHING SOME CLOTHES AND SOME DISHES THERE 00:01:45.63\00:01:47.77 BY THE RIVER... A LOT OF POOR PEOPLE... 00:01:47.77\00:01:49.77 INDIA HAS BECOME VERY MODERN, 00:01:49.77\00:01:51.17 BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT OF VERY POOR PEOPLE THERE 00:01:51.17\00:01:54.01 AND THEY'D NEVER KNOWN OF CROCODILES 00:01:54.01\00:01:57.55 ON THIS PARTICULAR RIVER, 00:01:57.55\00:01:58.71 BUT OUT OF NOWHERE 00:01:58.71\00:02:00.05 THIS HUGE SALTWATER CROCODILE LUNGED OUT OF THE RIVER AT HER, 00:02:00.05\00:02:04.72 AS SHE WAS DOING THE WASHING THERE, 00:02:04.72\00:02:07.59 AND GRABBED HER BY THE LEG 00:02:07.59\00:02:09.02 AND STARTED TO DRAG HER OFF INTO THE RIVER. 00:02:09.02\00:02:11.19 AND IT WAS BIG ENOUGH TO EASILY HAVE DEVOURED HER. 00:02:11.19\00:02:15.83 ALL KINDS OF THINGS WERE GOING THROUGH HER MIND 00:02:15.83\00:02:17.53 AND IT'S AMAZING HOW QUICKLY YOUR MIND WORKS 00:02:17.53\00:02:19.40 IN A TERRIFIED MOMENT LIKE THAT, 00:02:19.40\00:02:21.17 JUST FAMILY AND CHILDREN 00:02:21.17\00:02:22.77 AND SHE REALLY DIDN'T WANT TO BE SOME REPTILE'S LUNCH. 00:02:22.77\00:02:27.58 AND THEN, AS HE WAS PULLING HER OFF 00:02:27.58\00:02:29.51 THE BANK INTO THE RIVER, IT OCCURRED TO HER 00:02:29.51\00:02:31.21 SHE HAD NEVER LET GO OF THE ALUMINUM POT 00:02:31.21\00:02:33.65 THAT SHE HAD BEEN WASHING. 00:02:33.65\00:02:35.75 IN HER TERROR SHE JUST GRIPPED IT 00:02:35.75\00:02:37.29 AND SHE TOOK THE THING 00:02:37.29\00:02:38.32 AND BEGAN TO THUMP THE CROCODILE ON THE HEAD 00:02:38.32\00:02:41.32 AND ABOUT THE EYES, 00:02:41.32\00:02:43.46 AND I GUESS SHE WALLOPED HIM PRETTY GOOD, HE LET GO. 00:02:43.46\00:02:47.83 REVELATION CHAPTER 12 TALKS ABOUT A LARGE REPTILE 00:02:47.83\00:02:51.97 THAT IS A MAN-EATER. 00:02:51.97\00:02:54.07 AND IF YOU GO WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES, 00:02:54.07\00:02:55.77 WE'RE GOING TO BEGIN READING ABOUT THIS, 00:02:55.77\00:02:59.11 AND YOU FIND IT IN CHAPTER 12, VERSE 1. 00:02:59.11\00:03:02.94 AND THIS IS OUR FIRST QUESTION IN OUR STUDY. 00:03:02.94\00:03:04.98 HOW DOES REVELATION PICTURE GOD'S TRUE CHURCH? 00:03:04.98\00:03:08.45 WE TALKED ABOUT THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH 00:03:08.45\00:03:10.62 CALLED BABYLON IN CHAPTER 17. 00:03:10.62\00:03:13.32 I KNOW WE'RE DOING THINGS A LITTLE OUT OF ORDER. 00:03:13.32\00:03:14.79 NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT CHAPTER 12, 00:03:14.79\00:03:17.03 AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW IS THE TRUE CHURCH PICTURED? 00:03:17.03\00:03:20.46 YOU READ THERE IN VERSE 1, 00:03:20.46\00:03:22.73 "A WOMAN IS SEEN CLOTHED WITH THE SUN, 00:03:22.73\00:03:26.00 AND THE MOON UNDER HER FEET, 00:03:26.00\00:03:27.90 AND UPON HER HEAD A CROWN OF TWELVE STARS." 00:03:27.90\00:03:30.51 NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER, 00:03:30.51\00:03:32.54 THAT'S WHY SHE'S CALLED "CLOTHED WITH LIGHT." 00:03:32.54\00:03:35.14 THERE ARE THREE NATURAL FORMS OF LIGHT 00:03:35.14\00:03:37.55 THAT YOU FIND IN GENESIS. 00:03:37.55\00:03:38.85 GOD MADE THE SUN, AND HE MADE THE MOON, 00:03:38.85\00:03:40.75 AND HE MADE THE STARS, 00:03:40.75\00:03:42.65 AND THEY ILLUMINATE THE EARTH. 00:03:42.65\00:03:44.45 GOD SAID TO THE CHURCH, 00:03:44.45\00:03:46.35 "YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 00:03:46.35\00:03:47.86 LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN 00:03:47.86\00:03:49.96 THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS 00:03:49.96\00:03:51.76 AND GLORIFY YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN." 00:03:51.76\00:03:53.46 THAT'S MATTHEW CHAPTER 5, OF COURSE. 00:03:53.46\00:03:55.40 SO THIS IS A WOMAN WHO IS CLOTHED WITH LIGHT 00:03:55.40\00:03:57.77 FROM THE STARS, TO THE SUN, TO THE MOON. 00:03:57.77\00:04:01.14 WHAT DO THEY REPRESENT? 00:04:01.14\00:04:02.70 THE MOON HAS NO LIGHT OF ITS OWN, 00:04:02.70\00:04:05.17 IT REFLECTS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN 00:04:05.17\00:04:06.84 THAT IS GOING TO RISE. 00:04:06.84\00:04:09.14 THE MOON IS LIKE THE OLD TESTAMENT, 00:04:09.14\00:04:11.15 FULL OF LIGHT 00:04:11.15\00:04:13.18 BUT IT'S THE FOUNDATION ON WHICH THE WOMAN STANDS, 00:04:13.18\00:04:16.05 BUT SHE'S ACTUALLY WEARING THE SUN. 00:04:16.05\00:04:19.75 BIBLE TELLS US IN MALACHI CHAPTER 4, 00:04:19.75\00:04:22.72 TALKING ABOUT CHRIST, "THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS 00:04:22.72\00:04:25.06 WHO WILL ARISE WITH HEALING IN HIS WINGS." 00:04:25.06\00:04:27.66 IT'S ONE OF THE PLACES WHERE CHRIST 00:04:27.66\00:04:28.66 IS SORT OF COMPARED TO THE SUN, 00:04:28.66\00:04:30.43 THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN. 00:04:30.43\00:04:32.03 WHEN JESUS WAS TRANSFIGURED ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION 00:04:32.03\00:04:36.50 IN MARK CHAPTER 9, 00:04:36.50\00:04:38.64 IT SAYS HE WAS SHINING LIKE THE SUN, 00:04:38.64\00:04:40.64 BRIGHTER THAN ANY LAUNDRY SOAP CAN MAKE YOU, 00:04:40.64\00:04:43.65 STARS ABOVE THE HEAD, IT REPRESENTS THE LEADERSHIP, 00:04:43.65\00:04:47.92 THERE'S 12 STARS. 00:04:47.92\00:04:49.95 AND JESUS, OF COURSE, THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, 00:04:49.95\00:04:51.92 YOU'VE GOT THE 12 PATRIARCHS, INCLUDING SAMUEL. 00:04:51.92\00:04:55.02 MOST PEOPLE COUNT 12 JUDGES. 00:04:55.02\00:04:57.09 MOSES HAD 12 PRINCES, 00:04:57.09\00:04:59.09 AND NEW TESTAMENT YOU'VE GOT 12 WHAT? 00:04:59.09\00:05:01.80 TWELVE APOSTLES THAT JESUS PICKS. 00:05:01.80\00:05:04.13 I TOLD YOU, THAT NUMBER MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT 00:05:04.13\00:05:05.80 BECAUSE THEY REPLACED JUDAS 00:05:05.80\00:05:07.37 AND THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT. 00:05:07.37\00:05:09.37 AND ABOVE THE HEAD IS SYMBOL OF LEADERSHIP, 00:05:09.37\00:05:11.71 IT'S WHERE THE HEAD IS, IT'S GUIDANCE, 00:05:11.71\00:05:13.71 SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE FOUNDATION 00:05:13.71\00:05:15.81 OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SHINING WITH THE REALITY OF CHRIST, 00:05:15.81\00:05:18.41 THE NEW TESTAMENT, 00:05:18.41\00:05:19.58 THE LEADERSHIP OF THE CHURCH AND THROUGH THIS, 00:05:19.58\00:05:23.12 GOD LETS HIS LIGHT SHINE INTO THE WORLD. 00:05:23.12\00:05:26.09 BUT SOMETHING ELSE THAT PEOPLE OFTEN MISS. 00:05:26.09\00:05:29.49 "SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED, 00:05:29.49\00:05:31.86 TRAVAILING IN BIRTH, 00:05:31.86\00:05:33.56 AND PAINED TO BE DELIVERED." 00:05:33.56\00:05:35.83 SHE IS PREGNANT AND ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY 00:05:35.83\00:05:40.14 AND GOING THROUGH THE LABOR PAINS, 00:05:40.14\00:05:42.64 AND THIS IS WHEN THE DRAGON IS TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE. 00:05:42.64\00:05:45.31 NOW, AS WE READ ON 00:05:45.31\00:05:47.18 AND THEN I'M GOING TO BACK UP TO THIS VERSE. 00:05:47.18\00:05:49.01 WHAT ABOUT HER CHILD THAT WE LEARN? 00:05:49.01\00:05:50.48 I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW WHO THIS CHILD IS. 00:05:50.48\00:05:53.11 "SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD, 00:05:53.11\00:05:55.38 WHO WAS TO RULE ALL NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON." 00:05:55.38\00:05:58.99 WHO IS THE MAN CHILD? 00:05:58.99\00:06:01.52 WELL, IT TELLS US HER CHILD 00:06:01.52\00:06:03.06 IS CAUGHT UP UNTO GOD AND HIS THRONE. 00:06:03.06\00:06:05.23 CHRIST ASCENDED UP TO HEAVEN TO GOD ON THE THRONE. 00:06:05.23\00:06:07.60 SO THE MAN CHILD IS GOD. 00:06:07.60\00:06:09.33 SO WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT? 00:06:09.33\00:06:12.00 CHURCH. 00:06:12.00\00:06:13.67 IT SAYS, "I HAVE LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION 00:06:13.67\00:06:15.90 TO A DELICATE AND A COMELY WOMAN." 00:06:15.90\00:06:17.81 PAUL SAYS, "HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES 00:06:17.81\00:06:19.71 AS CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH." 00:06:19.71\00:06:21.54 A WOMAN IS OFTEN COMPARED TO A CHURCH. 00:06:21.54\00:06:23.51 THIS WOMAN IN CHAPTER 12, SUN, MOON, STARS, 00:06:23.51\00:06:26.72 THE DRAGON HATES HER, SHE MUST BE A GOOD CHURCH. 00:06:26.72\00:06:30.05 THE VERY FACT THAT DRAGON HATES HER 00:06:30.05\00:06:32.05 IS A GOOD SIGN, RIGHT? 00:06:32.05\00:06:34.26 THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, 00:06:34.26\00:06:36.36 SHE'S RIDING ALONG WITH THE DRAGON, 00:06:36.36\00:06:38.96 THEY'RE IN COOPERATION. 00:06:38.96\00:06:41.20 AGAIN, ISAIAH 51:16, "SAY UNTO ZION, 00:06:41.20\00:06:44.60 'THOU ART MY PEOPLE.'" 00:06:44.60\00:06:46.50 OFTEN, IN THE BIBLE, 00:06:46.50\00:06:47.54 GOD CALLS HIS CHURCH HIS PEOPLE, HIS BRIDE. 00:06:47.54\00:06:50.24 NOW, JUST SO YOU'LL KNOW, IN CASE YOU EVER SEE THIS, 00:06:50.24\00:06:53.11 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 12 00:06:53.11\00:06:55.38 WHO BRINGS FORTH THE MAN CHILD, 00:06:55.38\00:06:57.11 WELL, THAT MUST BE MARY, RIGHT?" 00:06:57.11\00:06:59.28 AND YOU'LL OFTEN SEE, IN A NUMBER OF CHURCHES, 00:06:59.28\00:07:02.05 YOU'LL SEE PICTURES OF MARY. 00:07:02.05\00:07:03.45 I'VE GOT A SAMPLE OF ONE RIGHT HERE, 00:07:03.45\00:07:05.42 WHERE SHE'S GOT 12 STARS ABOVE HER HEAD 00:07:05.42\00:07:07.62 AND SHE'S STANDING ON THE MOON. 00:07:07.62\00:07:09.29 HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEFORE? 00:07:09.29\00:07:10.86 THEY GET THAT IDEA FROM REVELATION 12, 00:07:10.86\00:07:13.13 BUT THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 12 IS NOT MARY. 00:07:13.13\00:07:15.56 IT IS TRUE THAT MARY IS THE MOTHER OF JESUS, 00:07:15.56\00:07:20.64 BUT YOU READ ON IN THE CHAPTER AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON 00:07:20.64\00:07:23.10 CHASING THE WOMAN THROUGH THE WILDERNESS. 00:07:23.10\00:07:25.77 WELL, AS FAR AS WE KNOW, THE APOSTLE JOHN 00:07:25.77\00:07:28.58 TOOK MARY IN AND SHE STAYED WITH HIM 00:07:28.58\00:07:30.38 AND SHE DIED IN ANTIOCH, 00:07:30.38\00:07:31.58 THAT'S WHAT CHURCH HISTORY SAID. 00:07:31.58\00:07:32.88 THERE WAS JUST NO EFFORT OF THE DEVIL 00:07:32.88\00:07:34.45 CHASING HER THROUGH THE WILDERNESS 00:07:34.45\00:07:35.92 AND THE EARTH OPENING ITS GROUND, 00:07:35.92\00:07:37.82 AND ALL THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN IN THE VISION, 00:07:37.82\00:07:39.52 IT'S OBVIOUSLY A SYMBOL OF A WOMAN, 00:07:39.52\00:07:42.32 THE CHURCH, JUST LIKE REVELATION 17 IS SYMBOLIC. 00:07:42.32\00:07:46.43 WHO IS THE GREAT RED DRAGON 00:07:46.43\00:07:48.66 THAT WANTS TO DESTROY HER AND HER MAN CHILD? 00:07:48.66\00:07:51.83 AND WHAT DOES HE TRY TO DO? 00:07:51.83\00:07:53.57 YOU LOOK IN VERSE 9, 00:07:53.57\00:07:54.60 "AND THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT," 00:07:54.60\00:07:56.47 CALLED "THAT OLD SERPENT, THE DEVIL AND SATAN." 00:07:56.47\00:07:59.94 NOW, CAN A FIVE YEAR OLD UNDERSTAND THAT VERSE? 00:07:59.94\00:08:04.31 THAT IS SO SIMPLE. 00:08:04.31\00:08:05.55 I MEAN, THERE IS NO QUESTION ABOUT WHO THE DRAGON IS, DEVIL, 00:08:05.55\00:08:09.45 SATAN, SERPENT ALL IN ONE VERSE. 00:08:09.45\00:08:11.92 THE BAD GUY, THE ARCHFIEND, THE VILLAIN, THE DEVIL, 00:08:11.92\00:08:15.19 CONSUMMATE EVIL, THE DARK SIDE. 00:08:15.19\00:08:18.83 I MEAN, THERE'S ALL KINDS OF TERMS 00:08:18.83\00:08:20.10 THAT YOU CAN FIND FOR HIM. 00:08:20.10\00:08:21.43 HE IS THE EMBODIMENT OF EVIL, THE FIRST REBEL. 00:08:21.43\00:08:25.63 "AND THE DRAGON STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN, 00:08:25.63\00:08:27.44 WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED 00:08:27.44\00:08:29.30 TO DEVOUR HER CHILD AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN." 00:08:29.30\00:08:31.81 I THINK I TOLD YOU EARLIER, 00:08:31.81\00:08:33.38 THREE TIMES IN THE BIBLE 00:08:33.38\00:08:35.01 THE DEVIL HAS MADE AN EFFORT 00:08:35.01\00:08:36.44 TO ANNIHILATE ALL OF THESE CHILDREN 00:08:36.44\00:08:42.45 THAT HE WAS SUSPICIOUS 00:08:42.45\00:08:44.22 THE MESSIAH WAS GOING TO COME THROUGH. 00:08:44.22\00:08:45.99 HE HAD ALL THE BABY BOYS IN ISRAEL THROWN IN THE RIVER, 00:08:45.99\00:08:49.29 NOT THE GIRLS, THE BOYS, 00:08:49.29\00:08:50.89 BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH 00:08:50.89\00:08:52.09 WAS GOING TO BE THE PROMISED SEED. 00:08:52.09\00:08:54.40 THEN, ATHALIAH TRIED TO KILL ALL THE DESCENDENTS OF DAVID, 00:08:54.40\00:08:57.47 BECAUSE THE DEVIL HEARD THE PROPHECY 00:08:57.47\00:08:59.17 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH DAVID. 00:08:59.17\00:09:01.37 AND THEN WHEN JESUS WAS A BABY, 00:09:01.37\00:09:03.64 THE DEVIL TRIED TO USE THE ROMAN POWER 00:09:03.64\00:09:05.34 AND KING HEROD KILLED ALL THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM 00:09:05.34\00:09:08.81 RIGHT AFTER JOSEPH AND MARY FLED. 00:09:08.81\00:09:12.08 THEY JUST ESCAPED INTO EGYPT. 00:09:12.08\00:09:14.98 ALL RIGHT, WHAT HAPPENS, THIRD QUESTION, 00:09:14.98\00:09:18.05 AFTER SATAN FALLS, 00:09:18.05\00:09:19.99 FAILS RATHER TO DESTROY JESUS AS A BABY? 00:09:19.99\00:09:22.72 CHRIST ESCAPES. 00:09:22.72\00:09:24.43 IT SAYS, "HER CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP 00:09:24.43\00:09:25.83 TO GOD AND HIS THRONE." 00:09:25.83\00:09:27.40 THE DEVIL COULD NO LONGER REACH CHRIST 00:09:27.40\00:09:29.10 AFTER JESUS COMPLETED HIS MISSION, 00:09:29.10\00:09:32.00 HE LIVED THIRTY THREE AND A HALF YEARS 00:09:32.00\00:09:33.23 OF PERFECT LIFE. 00:09:33.23\00:09:34.70 HE TAUGHT PUBLICLY FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS 00:09:34.70\00:09:37.61 FROM HIS BAPTISM AT 30 YEARS OF AGE, 00:09:37.61\00:09:40.14 PERFORMED MIRACLES, TAUGHT THE GOSPEL, 00:09:40.14\00:09:41.81 ULTIMATELY DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD, 00:09:41.81\00:09:44.15 ROSE THE THIRD DAY, ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, 00:09:44.15\00:09:46.82 AND HE HAS BEEN OUT OF THE DEVIL'S REACH 00:09:46.82\00:09:48.82 BECAUSE JESUS IS IN HEAVEN, RIGHT? 00:09:48.82\00:09:51.62 SATAN WAS CAST OUT OF HEAVEN, 00:09:51.62\00:09:53.62 HE CAN'T REACH HIM. 00:09:53.62\00:09:54.92 OF COURSE, HE'S GOT HIS DIVINE BODY NOW. 00:09:54.92\00:09:56.83 HE'S NOT VULNERABLE ANYMORE, AS HE WAS WHEN HE WAS A MAN. 00:09:56.83\00:10:01.20 SO, WHEN THE DEVIL CAN'T REACH CHRIST 00:10:01.20\00:10:03.13 AND HE WANTS TO HURT CHRIST, WHAT DOES HE DO? 00:10:03.13\00:10:06.30 GO AFTER WHAT JESUS LOVES. 00:10:06.30\00:10:09.50 DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS. 00:10:09.50\00:10:10.71 WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 00:10:10.71\00:10:12.11 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 00:10:12.11\00:10:14.48 NO, THE BIBLE NEVER SAYS THAT EVE ATE AN APPLE, 00:10:14.48\00:10:18.58 NOR DOES IT SAY THAT THREE WISE MEN 00:10:18.58\00:10:20.78 CAME TO SEE JESUS IN THE MANGER. 00:10:20.78\00:10:23.45 NEITHER DOES THE BIBLE SAY THAT GOD MADE A DEVIL. 00:10:23.45\00:10:26.96 SO HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE, 00:10:26.96\00:10:29.46 AND WHAT DOES IT REALLY SAY ABOUT HEAVEN AND HELL, 00:10:29.46\00:10:32.36 THE ORIGIN OF THE DEVIL AND THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:10:32.36\00:10:35.76 THERE ARE SO MANY COMMON MISUNDERSTANDINGS 00:10:35.76\00:10:38.27 ABOUT THE WORD OF GOD. 00:10:38.27\00:10:39.83 THAT'S WHY AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SEND YOU 00:10:39.83\00:10:42.27 A SPECIAL FREE RESOURCE CALLED THE HIDDEN TRUTH MAGAZINE. 00:10:42.27\00:10:46.98 IT WILL EXPOSE SOME OF THE MOST COMMON MISCONCEPTIONS 00:10:46.98\00:10:49.51 ABOUT THE BIBLE. 00:10:49.51\00:10:50.55 IT'S PACKED WITH COLORFUL GRAPHICS, 00:10:50.55\00:10:52.75 FASCINATING FACTS AND COMPELLING BIBLE TRUTHS 00:10:52.75\00:10:55.58 THAT PRESENT SEVEN 00:10:55.58\00:10:56.62 OF THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD BIBLE SUBJECTS 00:10:56.62\00:10:59.12 IN A DIRECT AND CAPTIVATING WAY. 00:10:59.12\00:11:01.42 I GUARANTEE IT WILL BECOME 00:11:01.42\00:11:02.62 ONE OF YOUR FAVORITE WITNESSING TOOLS. 00:11:02.62\00:11:04.93 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, 00:11:04.93\00:11:06.39 CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN 00:11:06.39\00:11:08.16 AND ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 832, OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. 00:11:08.16\00:11:12.03 AND AFTER YOU READ THIS INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, 00:11:12.03\00:11:14.54 BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 00:11:14.54\00:11:16.50 LET'S RETURN NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION 00:11:16.50\00:11:18.94 AND LEARN SOME MORE AMAZING FACTS 00:11:18.94\00:11:21.04 FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 00:11:21.04\00:11:23.24 FOURTH QUESTION. 00:11:23.24\00:11:24.91 AFTER JESUS WAS CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN, 00:11:24.91\00:11:27.45 WHAT DID SATAN DO TO THE CHURCH? 00:11:27.45\00:11:30.19 IT SAYS, "WHEN THE DRAGON SAW THAT HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH, 00:11:30.19\00:11:32.79 HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN 00:11:32.79\00:11:34.86 THAT BROUGHT FORTH THE MAN CHILD." 00:11:34.86\00:11:36.79 AGAIN, CAN THAT BE MISUNDERSTOOD? 00:11:36.79\00:11:38.83 THE DEVIL PERSECUTED THE WOMAN. 00:11:38.83\00:11:41.13 AND HAVE WE SEEN THAT THROUGH HISTORY? 00:11:41.13\00:11:43.60 NOT ONLY DO WE KNOW THAT IT HAPPENED IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE 00:11:43.60\00:11:46.27 IN A VERY STRONG SENSE. 00:11:46.27\00:11:47.37 FIRST OF ALL, IT STARTED WITH THE JEWISH CHURCH, 00:11:47.37\00:11:51.81 NOT ALL THE JEWS BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY, 00:11:51.81\00:11:54.14 THE EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH. 00:11:54.14\00:11:56.04 THE APOSTLES WERE JEWISH, 00:11:56.04\00:11:57.35 THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN LARGELY BY JEWS, 00:11:57.35\00:11:59.51 BUT THERE WERE SOME RELIGIOUS LEADERS 00:11:59.51\00:12:01.25 THAT HATED JESUS. 00:12:01.25\00:12:02.28 SOME LOVED HIM LIKE NICODEMUS, LIKE JOSEPH. 00:12:02.28\00:12:04.72 THERE WERE SOME GOOD RELIGIOUS LEADERS 00:12:04.72\00:12:06.39 AND THERE WERE SOME BAD RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 00:12:06.39\00:12:09.02 UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE IN POWER BEGAN TO REALLY PERSECUTE. 00:12:09.02\00:12:12.63 READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 7, IT SAYS, STEPHEN WAS STONED, 00:12:12.63\00:12:17.23 THE SUPREME COURT OF THE JEWISH NATION 00:12:17.23\00:12:19.10 BASICALLY PLUGGED THEIR EARS 00:12:19.10\00:12:20.34 WHEN STEPHEN PREACHED THE GOSPEL. 00:12:20.34\00:12:22.50 PAUL WAS AN ACCESSORY TO THE MURDER OF STEPHEN. 00:12:22.50\00:12:25.54 PAUL, THEN, WENT BREATHING THREATENINGS AND SLAUGHTER, 00:12:25.54\00:12:28.54 AND HE WENT FROM CHURCH TO CHURCH TAKING MEN AND WOMEN, 00:12:28.54\00:12:31.58 PUTTING THEM IN JAIL AND THEN KILLING. 00:12:31.58\00:12:35.12 SO IT STARTED THERE, 00:12:35.12\00:12:36.15 BUT THEN THE JEWS ENCOURAGED THE ROMANS TO DO IT. 00:12:36.15\00:12:39.32 SAME THING THEY DID WITH JESUS. 00:12:39.32\00:12:41.02 THE JEWS WENT TO PILATE, THE ROMAN GOVERNOR, 00:12:41.02\00:12:43.93 TO GET THE DEATH DECREE. 00:12:43.93\00:12:45.43 AND DO YOU REALIZE 00:12:45.43\00:12:46.39 THAT THERE WERE SOME JEWISH ENEMIES OF PAUL 00:12:46.39\00:12:49.66 THAT WENT ALL THE WAY TO ROME TO ACCUSE PAUL BEFORE NERO. 00:12:49.66\00:12:53.70 I MEAN, THEY WERE REALLY UPSET BECAUSE, YOU KNOW WHY? 00:12:53.70\00:12:57.91 ALL AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE 00:12:57.91\00:12:59.21 WHERE THE JEWS HAD CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES, 00:12:59.21\00:13:01.91 CHRISTIANS WERE LEARNING 00:13:01.91\00:13:03.08 WHAT THE SCRIPTURES REALLY TAUGHT, 00:13:03.08\00:13:04.35 AND MANY IN THE SYNAGOGUES, 00:13:04.35\00:13:05.75 SOMETIMES WHOLE SYNAGOGUES WERE TURNING TO CHRIST. 00:13:05.75\00:13:08.72 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS. 00:13:08.72\00:13:10.92 AND SO, SOME OF THE ONES 00:13:10.92\00:13:12.25 WHO DID NOT WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS, 00:13:12.25\00:13:13.69 THEY BECAME VICIOUS. 00:13:13.69\00:13:16.32 AND SO, WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE JEWS, 00:13:16.32\00:13:17.59 THERE WERE GOOD BELIEVING JEWS, 00:13:17.59\00:13:19.26 AND THERE WERE SOME THAT WERE AMBIVALENT, 00:13:19.26\00:13:20.43 AND SOME THAT WERE VERY UNKIND. 00:13:20.43\00:13:23.50 AND SO, THEN IT WENT, 00:13:23.50\00:13:25.80 IT TRANSFERRED OVER TO THE ROMANS. 00:13:25.80\00:13:28.10 NOW, YOU HAVE TO KNOW A LITTLE HISTORY. 00:13:28.10\00:13:31.17 AT THE SAME TIME THE JEWS 00:13:31.17\00:13:32.24 WERE VERY THREATENED WITH THE CHRISTIANS, 00:13:32.24\00:13:33.58 THEY ALSO WERE VERY ANGRY WITH THE ROMANS 00:13:33.58\00:13:35.58 FOR OCCUPYING THEIR COUNTRY. 00:13:35.58\00:13:37.88 AT ABOUT 68-69 AD, 00:13:37.88\00:13:40.08 THEY REBELLED AGAINST THE ROMANS. 00:13:40.08\00:13:42.15 THERE WAS A BIG REVOLT AND A WAR BROKE OUT 00:13:42.15\00:13:45.55 BETWEEN THE ROMANS AND THE JEWS. 00:13:45.55\00:13:47.76 FINALLY WHEN THEY COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE, 00:13:47.76\00:13:49.52 THE ROMANS ATTACKED JERUSALEM, THEY SLAUGHTERED THE CITY, 00:13:49.52\00:13:52.49 THE JEWISH RELIGION WAS FORBIDDEN. 00:13:52.49\00:13:55.26 AND, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE JEWS 00:13:55.26\00:13:58.70 AND THE CHRISTIANS, THEY READ THE SAME BIBLE, 00:13:58.70\00:14:00.90 THEY HAD A LOT OF THE SAME PRACTICES 00:14:00.90\00:14:02.40 AND TEACHINGS, 00:14:02.40\00:14:03.44 THEY BELIEVED IN ONE GOD. 00:14:03.44\00:14:05.34 CHRISTIANITY WAS OUTLAWED AT THE SAME TIME. 00:14:05.34\00:14:09.01 SO THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS 00:14:09.01\00:14:10.05 WERE ALL SORT OF LUMPED TOGETHER. 00:14:10.05\00:14:12.65 AND THEN THE ROMANS BEGAN TO PERSECUTE JEWS 00:14:12.65\00:14:15.22 AND CHRISTIANS TOGETHER THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM. 00:14:15.22\00:14:17.22 AND YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE STORIES 00:14:17.22\00:14:18.45 ABOUT CHRISTIANS THAT WERE TOLD, 00:14:18.45\00:14:19.99 "YOU EITHER PRAY TO THESE IDOLS OR YOU'LL BE KILLED." 00:14:19.99\00:14:23.86 "YOU EITHER SAY THAT CAESAR'S A GOD 00:14:23.86\00:14:26.49 OR YOU'RE GOING TO BE FED TO THE LIONS." 00:14:26.49\00:14:27.83 AND THERE WERE SOME EMPERORS, IN PARTICULAR, 00:14:27.83\00:14:30.33 THAT WERE EXTREMELY VICIOUS. 00:14:30.33\00:14:31.80 YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT NERO FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNED 00:14:31.80\00:14:35.04 AND THEN HE BLAMED THE CHRISTIANS. 00:14:35.04\00:14:37.47 HE SAID THE CHRISTIANS EAT FLESH AND DRINK BLOOD, 00:14:37.47\00:14:41.98 TALKING ABOUT THE COMMUNION SERVICE. 00:14:41.98\00:14:43.85 THEY'RE CANNIBALS, THEY GO INTO THE CATACOMBS 00:14:43.85\00:14:45.95 AND THEY'RE CANNIBALS. 00:14:45.95\00:14:46.98 AND ALL TERRIBLE RUMORS 00:14:46.98\00:14:48.38 THAT WERE NOT TRUE WERE SPREAD AROUND 00:14:48.38\00:14:49.88 AND THERE'S GREAT WRATH. 00:14:49.88\00:14:51.72 FOR THEIR ENTERTAINMENT THEY WOULD SAY, 00:14:51.72\00:14:53.36 "WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO? 00:14:53.36\00:14:54.42 THIS WEEKEND, LET'S GO TO THE COLISEUM 00:14:54.42\00:14:56.12 AND WATCH THE CHRISTIANS GET SLAUGHTERED 00:14:56.12\00:14:58.09 BY THE GLADIATORS AND THE LIONS AND BURNT ALIVE." 00:14:58.09\00:15:01.06 AND THERE WERE YEARS 00:15:01.06\00:15:02.43 AND YEARS OF TERRIBLE PERSECUTION. 00:15:02.43\00:15:04.67 DIOCLETIAN WAS ONE EMPEROR THAT WAS EXTREMELY VICIOUS 00:15:04.67\00:15:08.10 AND FOR 10 YEARS, 00:15:08.10\00:15:09.14 IT TALKS ABOUT THIS IN REVELATION, 00:15:09.14\00:15:11.07 GREAT TRIBULATION, FROM 303 TO 313, 00:15:11.07\00:15:15.21 WHERE THEY TRIED TO ANNIHILATE CHRISTIANS. 00:15:15.21\00:15:17.78 BUT TERTULLIAN, THE EARLY CHURCH FATHER, 00:15:17.78\00:15:20.42 HE SAID, "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH 00:15:20.42\00:15:23.52 THE BLOOD OF THE MARTYRS IS SEED." 00:15:23.52\00:15:26.62 THE MORE THEY MOWED DOWN THE CHRISTIANS, 00:15:26.62\00:15:28.72 IT'S LIKE TRYING TO GET RID OF WEEDS BY MOWING THEM, 00:15:28.72\00:15:30.93 JUST SPREADS THE SEED AND THEY GREW. 00:15:30.93\00:15:35.36 WHAT ARE TWO OTHER IDENTIFYING CHARACTERIZING MARKS 00:15:35.36\00:15:37.97 OF GOD'S TRUE CHURCH? 00:15:37.97\00:15:40.04 REVELATION 12:17, "THE DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN, 00:15:40.04\00:15:43.61 AND WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REMNANT" 00:15:43.61\00:15:46.61 THAT MEANS THE REMAINDER "OF HER SEED." 00:15:46.61\00:15:48.71 HER DESCENDANTS. 00:15:48.71\00:15:49.81 AND ONE OF THE TWO MOST OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS, 00:15:49.81\00:15:52.28 "WHICH KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD, 00:15:52.28\00:15:54.62 AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS." 00:15:54.62\00:15:56.92 I BELIEVE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, GOD HAD A PEOPLE. 00:15:56.92\00:15:59.02 DID HE HAVE A SPECIFIC PEOPLE? 00:15:59.02\00:16:01.19 WHO WERE THEY? 00:16:01.19\00:16:02.92 ISRAELITES, JEWS. 00:16:02.92\00:16:04.13 WERE THEY ALWAYS FAITHFUL? 00:16:04.13\00:16:06.03 WHAT MADE THEM GOD'S PEOPLE? 00:16:06.03\00:16:08.23 PAUL TELLS US GOD HAS COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF TRUTH 00:16:08.23\00:16:13.07 TO THE JEWS, THE BIBLE, THE SCRIPTURES, 00:16:13.07\00:16:15.64 THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES. 00:16:15.64\00:16:16.94 JESUS IS TALKING TO THE WOMAN AT THE WELL, SHE'S SAYING, 00:16:16.94\00:16:19.27 "SHOULD WE WORSHIP IN GERIZIM OR SHOULD WE BE IN JERUSALEM? 00:16:19.27\00:16:23.01 IS IT THE SAMARITANS? IS IT THE JEWS?' 00:16:23.01\00:16:25.08 JESUS SAID, "LET ME SETTLE THIS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. 00:16:25.08\00:16:27.65 "SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS." 00:16:27.65\00:16:31.35 IT IS THE JEWISH BOOK GOD GAVE THEM THE TRUTH. 00:16:31.35\00:16:34.42 IT IS THE BIBLE, THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY, 00:16:34.42\00:16:35.86 IT'S THROUGH THE WORD, IT'S THROUGH CHRIST. 00:16:35.86\00:16:38.16 THERE ARE... 00:16:38.16\00:16:39.43 NOW, GOD'S PEOPLE WERE THE JEWS, 00:16:39.43\00:16:41.13 BUT WERE ONLY JEWS SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT? 00:16:41.13\00:16:44.57 DID GOD HAVE NAAMAN THE LEPER? 00:16:44.57\00:16:46.70 DID GOD HAVE... 00:16:46.70\00:16:47.74 WAS ELIJAH SENT TO A CANAANITE WOMAN? 00:16:47.74\00:16:50.17 GOD HAS PEOPLE ALL OVER THE WORLD, 00:16:50.17\00:16:51.61 BUT HE HAD A SPECIAL GROUP 00:16:51.61\00:16:53.48 THAT HE CHOSE TO BE THE GUARDIANS OF TRUTH. 00:16:53.48\00:16:57.18 IT DOESN'T MEAN EVERYONE IN THE GROUP, 00:16:57.18\00:16:58.48 BECAUSE A LOT OF ISRAELITES WERE UNFAITHFUL, 00:16:58.48\00:17:00.58 A LOT WERE FAITHFUL, 00:17:00.58\00:17:02.25 BUT THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES. 00:17:02.25\00:17:04.89 HOW ABOUT NEW TESTAMENT TIMES? 00:17:04.89\00:17:06.99 DOES GOD HAVE A GROUP OR IS IT KIND OF JUST, 00:17:06.99\00:17:08.96 YOU KNOW, EENEY, MEENEY, MINEY, MOE? 00:17:08.96\00:17:11.39 DOES HE HAVE A MOVEMENT THAT HE'S WORKING THROUGH? 00:17:11.39\00:17:13.70 HAS HE COMMITTED TRUTH TO ANYBODY 00:17:13.70\00:17:15.43 OR DO WE ALL JUST KIND OF FLIP THROUGH THE YELLOW PAGES? 00:17:15.43\00:17:18.53 ONE OF THE LAST THINGS IT SAYS IN MALACHI, 00:17:18.53\00:17:21.10 "REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES... 00:17:21.10\00:17:23.14 BEHOLD, I WILL SEND YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET." 00:17:23.14\00:17:24.61 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 00:17:24.61\00:17:28.14 AND WHEN YOU READ IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12, IT SAYS, 00:17:28.14\00:17:30.55 "THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS." 00:17:30.55\00:17:33.42 WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS? 00:17:33.42\00:17:35.32 I'VE JUST GIVEN YOU THIS FREE. 00:17:35.32\00:17:37.05 GO TO REVELATION 19:10, THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN, 00:17:37.05\00:17:40.06 THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY, 00:17:40.06\00:17:43.99 THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS. 00:17:43.99\00:17:46.19 "BIND UP THE TESTIMONY, 00:17:46.19\00:17:47.66 SEAL THE LAW AMONG MY DISCIPLES." 00:17:47.66\00:17:50.07 JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD 00:17:50.07\00:17:51.60 AND HE DECLARED UNTO THEM FROM THE LAW 00:17:51.60\00:17:53.47 AND THE PROPHETS THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH." 00:17:53.47\00:17:55.14 THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD. 00:17:55.14\00:17:56.74 SO ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS 00:17:56.74\00:17:58.07 IS GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS 00:17:58.07\00:17:59.71 ARE GOING TO BE A BIBLE-BASED PEOPLE. 00:17:59.71\00:18:01.91 THEY'RE GOING TO BE ROOTED IN THE WORD. 00:18:01.91\00:18:03.68 AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE GOING TO FIND WHERE TO GO. 00:18:03.68\00:18:06.28 SO, NOW, TO ALSO BETTER UNDERSTAND 00:18:06.28\00:18:08.78 WHO THIS GROUP IS, 00:18:08.78\00:18:10.02 IF YOU JUMP TO REVELATION 14, THERE ARE THREE MESSAGES 00:18:10.02\00:18:14.19 THAT GO TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES, 00:18:14.19\00:18:16.52 BETTER KNOWN AS THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES. 00:18:16.52\00:18:18.19 AND THAT'S OUR NEXT QUESTION. 00:18:18.19\00:18:20.23 IT SAYS, WHAT THREE ANGELIC MESSAGES 00:18:20.23\00:18:23.06 WILL GOD'S END-TIME CHURCH BE PREACHING? 00:18:23.06\00:18:25.97 NOW, WHEN YOU READ IN REVELATION 14, 00:18:25.97\00:18:27.54 IT SAYS THERE'S ANGEL ONE, ANGEL TWO, ANGEL THREE, 00:18:27.54\00:18:29.97 "THEN I LOOKED ON A WHITE CLOUD, 00:18:29.97\00:18:31.51 ONE COMING LIKE THE SON OF MAN." 00:18:31.51\00:18:33.27 THAT'S THE COMING OF JESUS. 00:18:33.27\00:18:35.08 ANGELS, THE WORD 'ANGEL' MEANS MESSENGER. 00:18:35.08\00:18:37.18 THREE POWERFUL MESSAGES GO TO THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY 00:18:37.18\00:18:40.65 PRIOR TO THE LORD'S COMING, 00:18:40.65\00:18:42.32 PRESENTED BY THAT REMNANT OF THE WOMAN 00:18:42.32\00:18:45.19 AT THE END OF TIME. 00:18:45.19\00:18:46.89 LOOK AT THE MESSAGES, 00:18:46.89\00:18:47.99 IT'LL HELP YOU, KIND OF NARROW DOWN, 00:18:47.99\00:18:50.26 WHAT IS THE TRUTH IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:18:50.26\00:18:52.39 FIRST MESSAGE, REVELATION 14:7, 00:18:52.39\00:18:55.06 "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, 00:18:55.06\00:18:57.60 FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME." 00:18:57.60\00:19:00.44 GREAT JUDGMENT DAY IS COME. 00:19:00.44\00:19:02.44 DO YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S A JUDGMENT 00:19:02.44\00:19:03.51 THAT TAKES PLACE BEFORE JESUS COMES? 00:19:03.51\00:19:05.91 YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNEW THAT 00:19:05.91\00:19:07.14 BECAUSE, DOES THE LORD KNOW WHO IS SAVED 00:19:07.14\00:19:09.94 AND WHO IS LOST WHEN HE COMES? 00:19:09.94\00:19:12.71 ARE SOME GOING TO BE CAUGHT UP AND SOME ARE NOT? 00:19:12.71\00:19:15.62 DOES THAT MEAN 00:19:15.62\00:19:16.69 SOME INVESTIGATION TAKES PLACE BEFORE HE COMES? 00:19:16.69\00:19:20.02 AND SO THERE IS A TIME OF INVESTIGATION 00:19:20.02\00:19:22.42 PRIOR TO THE SECOND COMING THAT TAKES PLACE. 00:19:22.42\00:19:25.29 IT'S A WARNING, GET READY, CHRIST IS COMING. 00:19:25.29\00:19:27.73 THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME. 00:19:27.73\00:19:29.10 THIS IS THE IMMINENT RETURN OF THE LORD. 00:19:29.10\00:19:31.70 AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY, "FEAR GOD, GIVE GLORY TO HIM, 00:19:31.70\00:19:34.37 THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME. 00:19:34.37\00:19:35.64 AND WORSHIP HIM" 00:19:35.64\00:19:37.47 THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO WORSHIP "WHO MADE" 00:19:37.47\00:19:39.84 HE IS THE CREATOR 00:19:39.84\00:19:41.21 "THE HEAVEN, AND THE EARTH, AND THE SEA," 00:19:41.21\00:19:43.28 THAT IS AN EXTRACT THERE FROM THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT 00:19:43.28\00:19:47.05 THAT YOU FIND IN EXODUS 20:8 THROUGH 11. 00:19:47.05\00:19:52.49 REMEMBERING TO WORSHIP THE CREATOR, 00:19:52.49\00:19:54.89 AND THIS IS ALMOST WORD FOR WORD 00:19:54.89\00:19:55.92 OUT OF THAT COMMANDMENT. 00:19:55.92\00:19:56.99 THEY'RE PEOPLE WHO HAVE RETURNED TO THIS LAW 00:19:56.99\00:19:59.39 THAT'S BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN. 00:19:59.39\00:20:00.53 THEY'VE RESTORED THE BREACH. 00:20:00.53\00:20:03.13 AND THEN YOU READ IN REVELATION 14:8, 00:20:03.13\00:20:05.67 NOW YOU GET TO ANOTHER ANGEL, SECOND ANGEL THAT SAYS, 00:20:05.67\00:20:09.77 "BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY, 00:20:09.77\00:20:15.78 BECAUSE SHE" THAT'S THAT OTHER WOMAN 00:20:15.78\00:20:18.21 "HAS MADE ALL NATIONS 00:20:18.21\00:20:19.78 DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION." 00:20:19.78\00:20:22.48 IS BABYLON TALKING ABOUT ANCIENT BABYLON BEING REBUILT? 00:20:22.48\00:20:26.02 YOU KNOW, NEBUCHADNEZZAR, NOT NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 00:20:26.02\00:20:27.06 WHAT'S HIS NAME? 00:20:27.06\00:20:28.12 SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED TO REBUILD ANCIENT BABYLON, 00:20:28.12\00:20:30.46 AND HE FANCIED HIMSELF 00:20:30.46\00:20:31.79 AS THE REINCARNATION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 00:20:31.79\00:20:34.36 BUT THE PROPHECY IN ISAIAH 13 SAYS BABYLON 00:20:34.36\00:20:37.03 WOULD NEVER BE REBUILT, ANCIENT BABYLON. 00:20:37.03\00:20:39.33 YOU CAN READ IT THERE, "BABYLON, 00:20:39.33\00:20:40.70 THE GLORY OF THE KINGDOMS, 00:20:40.70\00:20:41.77 THE BEAUTY OF THE CHALDEANS' PRIDE, 00:20:41.77\00:20:43.81 WILL BE AS WHEN GOD OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH. 00:20:43.81\00:20:47.11 IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED, 00:20:47.11\00:20:49.11 NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION." 00:20:49.11\00:20:52.78 AND IT NEVER HAS BEEN. 00:20:52.78\00:20:54.28 SADDAM TRIED TO REBUILD THE ANCIENT RUINS OF BABYLON 00:20:54.28\00:20:57.69 AND THEN THE TWO IRAQ WARS BROKE OUT 00:20:57.69\00:21:00.19 AND THAT WAS ABANDONED. 00:21:00.19\00:21:02.26 SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT BABYLON, 00:21:02.26\00:21:03.66 IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST, 00:21:03.66\00:21:05.23 IT'S TALKING ABOUT SPIRITUAL BABYLON. 00:21:05.23\00:21:07.96 AND EVEN PETER TALKED ABOUT THAT WHEN HE SAID, 00:21:07.96\00:21:11.23 THAT YOUR BRETHREN IN BABYLON GREET YOU. 00:21:11.23\00:21:13.40 HE WASN'T TALKING ABOUT MESOPOTAMIA, 00:21:13.40\00:21:14.74 HE MEANT THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME. 00:21:14.74\00:21:17.31 THEY CALLED ROME BABYLON EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 00:21:17.31\00:21:20.11 SO WE SHOULDN'T MISS THAT. 00:21:20.11\00:21:22.04 "THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, 00:21:22.04\00:21:24.21 'IF ANY MAN WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, 00:21:24.21\00:21:27.25 AND RECEIVES OF HIS MARK IN HIS FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND, 00:21:27.25\00:21:31.92 THE SAME WILL DRINK THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD, 00:21:31.92\00:21:35.19 WHICH IS POURED OUT WITHOUT MIXTURE 00:21:35.19\00:21:37.03 INTO THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION." 00:21:37.03\00:21:39.59 AND SO, THIS IS A PRETTY FEARFUL WARNING. 00:21:39.59\00:21:41.73 THE THIRD ANGEL IS A WARNING 00:21:41.73\00:21:43.53 NOT TO BE RECEIVING THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:21:43.53\00:21:47.44 TO WHOM WILL GOD'S CHURCH PREACH THESE MESSAGES 00:21:47.44\00:21:49.54 IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:21:49.54\00:21:50.61 HOW FAR DOES IT GO? 00:21:50.61\00:21:52.57 IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT, 00:21:52.57\00:21:54.08 "HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH UNTO THEM 00:21:54.08\00:21:56.71 THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH, 00:21:56.71\00:21:58.21 TO EVERY TRIBE, NATION, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE." 00:21:58.21\00:22:01.38 THIS MESSAGE IS NOT TO JUST GO TO ISRAEL, 00:22:01.38\00:22:03.65 IT'S TO GO GLOBALLY. 00:22:03.65\00:22:04.99 CHRIST SAID, "GO YE INTO ALL THE WORLD 00:22:04.99\00:22:07.49 AND PREACH THE GOSPEL TO EVERY CREATURE," RIGHT? 00:22:07.49\00:22:10.06 SO THIS IS GOING TO BE AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT. 00:22:10.06\00:22:13.09 NOW MANY DENOMINATIONS CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIAN. 00:22:13.09\00:22:15.83 DOES THAT MAKE THEM GOD'S TRUE CHURCH? 00:22:15.83\00:22:18.33 THERE ARE A LOT OF GOOD CHRISTIANS 00:22:18.33\00:22:19.70 IN DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS. 00:22:19.70\00:22:21.50 BUT I BELIEVE THAT GOD HAS COMMITTED 00:22:21.50\00:22:23.10 THE ORACLES OF TRUTH TO A GROUP THAT IS ORGANIZED, 00:22:23.10\00:22:28.18 THAT GOD IS CALLING PEOPLE INTO AS WE NEAR THE END OF TIME. 00:22:28.18\00:22:31.78 AND YOU MIGHT SAY, "OH, BUT PASTOR DOUG, 00:22:31.78\00:22:33.15 I KNEW SOMEBODY THAT WAS PART OF YOUR CHURCH 00:22:33.15\00:22:34.68 AND THEY WERE KIND OF KOOKY." 00:22:34.68\00:22:37.29 YOU'VE GOT THAT IN EVERY CHURCH, RIGHT? 00:22:37.29\00:22:39.82 SO YOU DON'T LOOK AT THE PEOPLE, 00:22:39.82\00:22:42.09 YOU LOOK AT THE INGREDIENTS. 00:22:42.09\00:22:44.19 I HEARD ABOUT A RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT 00:22:44.19\00:22:45.93 THAT CAME TO NORTH AMERICA AND HE ASKED HIS FRIEND, 00:22:45.93\00:22:49.90 "WHAT DO YOU AMERICANS EAT FOR BREAKFAST?" 00:22:49.90\00:22:51.97 HE SAID, "OH, WE EAT CEREAL." 00:22:51.97\00:22:54.57 "I WANT TO BE LIKE AMERICAN." 00:22:54.57\00:22:55.74 SO HE GOES TO THE LOCAL MEGA SUPERMARKET 00:22:55.74\00:22:57.81 AND THERE HE GOES TO THE CEREAL AISLE. 00:22:57.81\00:23:00.61 YOU EVER BEEN TO THE WALMART CEREAL AISLE? 00:23:00.61\00:23:03.95 IT'S LIKE AN AIRPORT TERMINAL AND, ON BOTH SIDES, 00:23:03.95\00:23:07.55 YOU'VE GOT JUST EVERY STRIPE AND TYPE OF CEREAL. 00:23:07.55\00:23:10.35 THEY'VE GOT CEREAL WITH CARTOONS ON IT 00:23:10.35\00:23:12.09 AND THEY'VE GOT CEREAL WITH ATHLETES ON IT, 00:23:12.09\00:23:14.96 JUST ALL KINDS OF... OH, JUST. 00:23:14.96\00:23:16.69 WHY DO THEY HAVE SO MANY DIFFERENT KINDS? 00:23:16.69\00:23:19.19 MARKETING FOR EVERYBODY. 00:23:19.19\00:23:22.16 CHURCHES DO THAT. 00:23:22.16\00:23:24.17 THEY SAY, "WHAT KIND OF PEOPLE SHALL WE REACH? 00:23:24.17\00:23:25.73 WHAT ARE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR? 00:23:25.73\00:23:27.54 PEOPLE WANT ENTERTAINMENT, WE'LL MAKE A CHURCH FOR THEM. 00:23:27.54\00:23:30.44 PEOPLE WANT SOCIAL LIFE, WE'LL MAKE A CHURCH FOR THEM." 00:23:30.44\00:23:32.74 YOU KNOW HOW PEOPLE PICK CHURCHES? 00:23:32.74\00:23:34.58 LET ME TELL YOU THE MAIN WAYS MOST PEOPLE PICK A CHURCH. 00:23:34.58\00:23:38.08 IS IT CLOSE TO MY HOUSE? 00:23:38.08\00:23:41.38 WHERE DID MY PARENTS GO? 00:23:41.38\00:23:43.12 I WANT TO BE LIKE THEM. 00:23:43.12\00:23:45.52 IS IT A NICE BUILDING? 00:23:45.52\00:23:48.12 DO THEY HAVE A GOOD CHILDREN'S PROGRAM? 00:23:48.12\00:23:51.16 HOW IS THE MUSIC? 00:23:51.16\00:23:53.96 IS THE PASTOR CHARISMATIC, 00:23:53.96\00:23:55.46 AND INTERESTING, AND GOOD LOOKING?' 00:23:55.46\00:23:56.93 I KNOW THAT'S WHY YOU COME. 00:23:56.93\00:23:59.70 SOME PEOPLE, THAT'S HOW THEY PICK THEIR CHURCH. 00:23:59.70\00:24:03.54 DO INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE GO THERE? 00:24:03.54\00:24:05.77 THEY WANT TO GO WHERE THE UPPITY-UP PEOPLE GO, 00:24:05.77\00:24:09.04 YOU KNOW, PRESTIGIOUS CHURCH. 00:24:09.04\00:24:11.31 DO THEY HAVE A GOOD SINGLES PROGRAM? 00:24:14.32\00:24:18.39 AND I CAN'T EVEN NAME ALL THE DIFFERENT REASONS 00:24:18.39\00:24:19.99 PEOPLE PICK A CHURCH. 00:24:19.99\00:24:21.79 THOSE ARE ALL NICE THINGS TO HAVE IN A CHURCH. 00:24:21.79\00:24:23.29 WOULDN'T YOU LIKE TO HAVE A CHURCH 00:24:23.29\00:24:24.66 THAT'S CLOSE TO THE HOUSE, 00:24:24.66\00:24:25.73 THAT'S WHERE YOUR FAMILY WENT, 00:24:25.73\00:24:26.80 IT'S GOT A GOOD CHILDREN'S PROGRAM, 00:24:26.80\00:24:28.40 THE PASTOR KEEPS YOU AWAKE, THEY'VE GOT GREAT MUSIC, 00:24:28.40\00:24:30.50 NICE BUILDING, GOOD FACILITY, 00:24:30.50\00:24:32.07 WE ALL WANT THOSE THINGS AND THEY'RE ALL GOOD THINGS, 00:24:32.07\00:24:34.40 BUT NONE OF THOSE ARE THE REASON 00:24:34.40\00:24:36.20 TO PICK A CHURCH. 00:24:36.20\00:24:38.01 YOU KNOW HOW I BUY CEREAL? 00:24:38.01\00:24:39.74 I IGNORE THE PICTURES. 00:24:39.74\00:24:42.54 I TURN THE BOX ON ITS SIDE AND I SAY, "WHAT'S IN IT?" 00:24:42.54\00:24:46.65 WHAT'S IN IT? 00:24:46.65\00:24:47.68 WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE? 00:24:47.68\00:24:49.22 WHAT ARE THEIR FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES? 00:24:49.22\00:24:51.49 JESUS WANTS US TO GO BY THE WORD. 00:24:51.49\00:24:53.22 THE TRUTH WILL SET YOU FREE, AMEN? 00:24:53.22\00:24:54.82 AMEN. 00:24:54.82\00:24:55.89 AND SO THAT'S HOW WE MAKE A DECISION 00:24:55.89\00:24:57.26 OF WHERE WE BELONG, 00:24:57.26\00:24:58.29 BECAUSE YOU ARE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD 00:24:58.29\00:25:00.50 EVERY TIME YOU GIVE YOUR OFFERINGS TO A CHURCH, 00:25:00.50\00:25:02.23 YOU'RE SUPPORTING A MESSAGE. 00:25:02.23\00:25:04.73 WHAT MESSAGE ARE YOU SUPPORTING? 00:25:04.73\00:25:06.13 ARE YOU SUPPORTING A MESSAGE OF OBEDIENCE? 00:25:06.13\00:25:08.34 OF THE SALVATION BY JESUS? 00:25:08.34\00:25:10.17 ARE YOU SUPPORTING A MESSAGE OF LEGALISM? 00:25:10.17\00:25:12.41 ARE YOU SUPPORTING A MESSAGE OF DISOBEDIENCE? 00:25:12.41\00:25:14.54 WHAT ARE YOU SUPPORTING? 00:25:14.54\00:25:15.58 YOU'RE ENDORSING IT BY YOUR ATTENDANCE. 00:25:15.58\00:25:18.28 ISAIAH CHAPTER 4, THERE'S A PROPHECY, IT SAYS, 00:25:18.28\00:25:21.08 "AND IN THAT DAY SEVEN WOMEN WILL TAKE HOLD OF ONE MAN, 00:25:21.08\00:25:25.02 SAYING, 'WE WILL EAT OUR OWN BREAD 00:25:25.02\00:25:27.29 AND WILL WEAR OUR OWN APPAREL, 00:25:27.29\00:25:28.89 BUT LET US BE CALLED BY YOUR NAME, 00:25:28.89\00:25:30.59 TO TAKE AWAY OUR REPROACH.'" 00:25:30.59\00:25:32.19 ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHURCHES LIKE SEVEN WOMEN OUT THERE. 00:25:32.19\00:25:34.76 THEY TAKE HOLD IN THE NAME OF JESUS, 00:25:34.76\00:25:36.93 BUT THEY EAT THEIR OWN BREAD, THEIR OWN BIBLE, 00:25:36.93\00:25:39.40 THEY'VE GOT THEIR OWN IDEA OF RIGHTEOUSNESS. 00:25:39.40\00:25:41.00 BUT THEY WANT HIS NAME. 00:25:41.00\00:25:42.67 THEY CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS TO TAKE AWAY THEIR REPROACH. 00:25:42.67\00:25:45.64 IT'S DESCRIBING THE LAST DAYS AND THE DAUGHTERS OF BABYLON. 00:25:45.64\00:25:48.24 BUT THE BIBLE SAYS, "BABYLON IS FALLEN. 00:25:48.24\00:25:50.88 COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE." 00:25:50.88\00:25:54.18 YOU KNOW, GOD'S PEOPLE FOR YEARS 00:25:54.18\00:25:55.48 WERE CAPTURED IN BABYLON. 00:25:55.48\00:25:58.29 AND, FINALLY, WHEN BABYLON FELL 00:25:58.29\00:26:01.42 THEY WERE TOLD, "YOU CAN GO HOME." 00:26:01.42\00:26:02.56 BUT THEY BECAME SO COMFORTABLE IN BABYLON, 00:26:02.56\00:26:05.33 THEY SAID, "I'VE BEEN HERE FOR 70 YEARS, 00:26:05.33\00:26:07.00 I CAN'T LEAVE NOW, ALL MY FRIENDS ARE HERE. 00:26:07.00\00:26:08.63 I'M USED TO IT." THEY SPEAK BABYLONIAN. 00:26:08.63\00:26:12.47 AND IT WAS QUITE A STRUGGLE FOR THEM 00:26:12.47\00:26:14.67 TO COME OUT OF BABYLON. 00:26:14.67\00:26:16.47 BUT THOSE THAT CAME OUT OF BABYLON WERE BLESSED. 00:26:16.47\00:26:18.97 YOU READ THE BOOKS OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, 00:26:18.97\00:26:21.41 THE PROPHECIES OF HAGGAI AND MICAH, 00:26:21.41\00:26:24.25 THEY CAME OUT OF BABYLON, GOD BLESSED THEM. 00:26:24.25\00:26:27.35 THOSE WHO STAYED IN BABYLON SUFFERED. 00:26:27.35\00:26:30.12 IT SAYS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 18, 00:26:30.12\00:26:31.92 "THOSE THAT DON'T COME OUT OF BABYLON" 00:26:31.92\00:26:34.32 IT SAYS, "COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE 00:26:34.32\00:26:35.82 OR THE PLAGUES WILL FALL ON YOU." 00:26:35.82\00:26:39.09 AND SO, IN THE LAST DAYS, THERE'S A MESSAGE 00:26:39.09\00:26:40.70 THAT'S TO CALL ALL THE PEOPLE 00:26:40.70\00:26:42.36 THAT GOD HAS MIXED UP IN THESE COUNTERFEIT CONCEPTS, 00:26:42.36\00:26:46.23 BACK TO THE BIBLE, BACK TO THE MOVEMENT. 00:26:46.23\00:26:49.54 THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE TWO GROUPS IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:26:49.54\00:26:51.24 JESUS SAID, "MANY SHEEP I HAVE THAT 00:26:51.24\00:26:52.91 ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD. 00:26:52.91\00:26:53.94 THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE, 00:26:53.94\00:26:54.98 THERE WILL BE ONE FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD. 00:26:54.98\00:26:56.81 AMEN? 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