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00:02 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:05 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:09 >>ONCE CONSIDERED THE MOST WICKED CITY ON EARTH, PORT 00:12 ROYAL, IN JAMAICA HAD MORE BARS AND BROTHELS PER SQUARE FOOT 00:16 THAN ANY OTHER PLACE ON THE PLANET. 00:18 IT WAS A HAUNT OF THIEVES AND PIRATES. 00:20 WHEN LEWIS GALDY AND HIS BROTHER ARRIVED THERE AS MISSIONARIES IN 00:23 THE 17TH CENTURY, THEY WERE SHOCKED AT THE IMMORALITY, 00:27 VIOLENCE, AND EXTRAVAGANCE, BUT JUDGMENT DAY ARRIVED ON JUNE 7, 00:31 1692 WHEN A MASSIVE EARTHQUAKE SHOOK THE ISLAND. 00:35 TWO-THIRDS OF PORT ROYAL SLID INTO THE SEA AND THOUSANDS DIED 00:39 IN THE FOLLOWING TSUNAMI. LEWIS GALDY WAS BURIED ALIVE 00:43 AND, WHILE UNDERGROUND, EXPECTING TO DIE, HE PRAYED AND 00:47 THAT'S WHEN A VOLCANIC EXPLOSION BLEW HIM OUT OF THE EARTH FAR 00:50 OUT INTO THE SEA WHERE HE WAS EVENTUALLY PICKED UP BY A BOAT. 00:54 LEWIS GALDY DEDICATED THE REMAINING 47 YEARS OF HIS LIFE 00:58 TO SERVING JESUS ON THE ISLAND. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US, 01:03 JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, THAT CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD 01:06 WILL BE VERY MUCH LIKE THEY WERE IN PORT ROYAL. 01:09 THINGS ARE GOING TO BE ROUGH, BUT GOD'S PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO 01:12 BE AFRAID. THE SAME WAY THE LORD TOOK CARE 01:15 OF LEWIS GALDY, HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU. AND HE HAS 01:18 THE POWER TO PROTECT YOU AND, YES, EVEN RESURRECT YOU. 01:26 >>SOME OF YOU MAY REMEMBER THAT WE WERE INVOLVED IN A SERIES OF 01:30 MESSAGES ON THE SUBJECT OF ARMAGEDDON AND I TOLD YOU 01:34 THERE'D PROBABLY BE THREE PARTS. TODAY WOULD BE THE THIRD 01:37 INSTALLMENT ON THIS SUBJECT. THERE HAS BEEN A LOT 01:40 OF WAR IN THE WORLD. EVEN SOLOMON SAYS THERE'S A TIME 01:45 OF LOVE AND A TIME OF HATE, A TIME OF WAR AND A TIME OF PEACE. 01:50 ONE HISTORIAN ESTIMATED THAT SINCE 3,600 B.C. 01:55 THE WORLD HAS KNOWN ONLY FOUR HUNDRED - I'M SORRY, TWO HUNDRED 01:58 AND NINETY-TWO YEARS OF PEACE. 02:00 DURING THIS PERIOD THERE HAVE BEEN 14,531 WARS, LARGE AND 02:06 SMALL, IN WHICH 3 BILLION 640 MILLION PEOPLE HAVE BEEN KILLED. 02:13 THE VALUE OF DESTRUCTION WOULD PAY FOR A GOLDEN BELT AROUND THE 02:15 WORLD 97 MILES WIDE AND 33-FEET THICK. IN THE LAST 200 YEARS 02:22 WE'VE HAD 13 YEARS OF WAR FOR EVERY YEAR OF PEACE. 02:26 IN THE BIBLE THE WORD 'WAR' IS FOUND 251 TIMES, 'BATTLE' 192 02:31 TIMES, 'PEACE' IS FOUND 401 TIMES. 02:35 NOW, WHEN WE TALK ABOUT THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, SOME 02:37 PEOPLE THINK THAT THAT MEANS THAT IT'S JUST - IT ALL HAPPENS 02:41 AT ONE TIME AND THERE'S THIS BIG BATTLE. 02:43 IN REALITY, SOME BATTLES CAN TAKE SEVERAL DAYS. 02:47 YOU READ, IN 1862, THE LARGEST MILITARY CONFLICT IN NORTH 02:52 AMERICAN HISTORY BEGAN WHEN THE UNION AND CONFEDERATE FORCES 02:57 COLLIDED AT GETTYSBURG, PENNSYLVANIA. 03:00 THIS EPIC BATTLE LASTED THREE DAYS AND IT RESULTED IN THE 03:04 RETREAT OF THE SOUTH AND 50,000 WERE DEAD. 03:08 NOW THERE'S TWO PHASES TO THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON: PART OF IT 03:12 TAKES PLACE JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING AND PART OF IT 03:15 TAKES PLACE AT THE END OF THE SECOND COMING. 03:18 SO, YOU'VE GOT LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS BETWEEN THE BEGINNING OF 03:21 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON AND THE END OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 03:26 FIRST, YOU WOULD CALL IT THE PRE-MILLENNIAL BATTLE. 03:29 SO, LET'S BEGIN. YOU GO TO REVELATION 12 - WHAT 03:33 LAUNCHES THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 03:36 NOW THERE HAVE BEEN BATTLES BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL ALL 03:39 THROUGH HISTORY, BUT THIS ONE IS UNIQUE. 03:42 IT SAYS, "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE WOMAN, AND HE 03:45 WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, WHO KEEP THE 03:49 COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS CHRIST." 03:52 SO THE DEVIL IS MAKING A WAR AGAINST THE WOMAN. 03:56 AND WHAT DOES THAT WAR LOOK LIKE? 03:58 REVELATION 13:15: "HE WAS GRANTED POWER TO GIVE BREATH TO 04:04 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH 04:07 SPEAK AND CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP THE IMAGE OF THE 04:10 BEAST..." - SHOULD WHAT? - "...BE KILLED." 04:15 SO GOD'S PEOPLE ARE FORCED INTO THIS BATTLE, AND IT'S A BATTLE 04:18 WHERE THE DEVIL IS TRYING TO ANNIHILATE THE PEOPLE OF GOD. 04:22 NOW, AT THAT POINT IN HISTORY, WHERE THE LAWS ARE MADE AND 04:24 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO BE FORCED TO DO WHAT HAPPENED IN THE BOOK 04:28 OF DANIEL, WE'VE GOT TO CHOOSE: DO WE OBEY THE LAWS OF MAN OR 04:33 ARE WE GOING TO OBEY THE LAWS OF GOD? 04:35 AND IT'S GOING TO LOOK LIKE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE BEING 04:38 DESTROYED, BUT GOD WILL STEP IN AT THAT TIME. 04:41 NOW THIS IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE, YOU SEE, GOD HASN'T ALWAYS 04:44 STEPPED IN TO RESCUE WHEN HIS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PERSECUTED. 04:48 IF YOU READ EARLIER IN REVELATION 13, WHERE IT TALKS 04:50 ABOUT THE BEAST POWER, IT SAYS, "IT WAS GIVEN HIM POWER TO MAKE 04:55 WAR AGAINST THE SAINTS AND OVERCOME THEM." 04:58 DURING THE DARK AGES, PEOPLE OF GOD ARE BEING PERSECUTED - IT 05:03 LOOKS LIKE THEY'VE LOST. YOU KNOW, THEY SAY WHAT MAKES 05:08 KIND OF A GREAT STORY: WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE THE GOOD GUY KEEPS 05:12 BEING OVERCOME AND THEN IN THE END HE FINALLY TRIUMPHS. 05:15 AND ONE REASON THE TRIUMPH, DURING THIS BATTLE, WAS SO GREAT 05:19 IS BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE HAVEN'T ALWAYS WON IN THIS BATTLE. 05:23 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF TIMES WHERE IT LOOKED LIKE THE BEAST 05:25 WAS WINNING. BUT NOW THE TABLES ARE GOING 05:27 TO TURN AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS PICTURE HERE WHERE THERE'S A WAR 05:31 BEING LAUNCHED, IN A SPECIAL WAY, TO GET ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE 05:37 TO TURN FROM HIS COMMANDMENTS, OTHERWISE THEY'LL BE 05:40 ANNIHILATED. AND, AT THE KEY MOMENT, "I SAW 05:44 HEAVEN OPENED, AND BEHOLD A WHITE HORSE; AND HE THAT SAT 05:48 UPON HIM WAS CALLED FAITHFUL AND TRUE AND IN RIGHTEOUSNESS 05:51 HE DOTH JUDGE AND MAKE WAR. AND HE WAS CLOTHED WITH A ROBE 05:55 DIPPED IN BLOOD: AND HIS NAME IS CALLED THE WORD OF GOD. 05:58 AND THE ARMIES" - NOTICE THE CONTEXT IS ALL WAR - "THE ARMIES 06:02 WHICH WERE IN HEAVEN...ARE CLOTHED IN FINE LINEN, 06:04 WHITE AND CLEAN." WHAT DOES THAT WHITE AND CLEAN LINEN REPRESENT? 06:07 IT SAYS IT'S THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OF SAINTS. 06:10 "AND OUT OF HIS MOUTH GOES A SHARP SWORD." 06:13 WHAT IS THAT MOUTH? THAT SWORD, I SHOULD 06:16 SAY, IN HIS MOUTH? "THE WORD OF GOD IS QUICK AND 06:19 POWERFUL AND SHARPER THAN ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD." 06:21 EPHESIANS SAYS, "AND THE WORD OF GOD, WHICH IS THE SWORD OF THE 06:24 SPIRIT" - AND SO, THAT WORD, AGAIN, IS THIS A SYMBOL? 06:28 IS JESUS REALLY COMING WITH A BIG DAGGER COMING OUT OF HIS 06:31 MOUTH? OR IT'S A PICTURE OF THE 06:32 WORD IN HIS MOUTH, RIGHT? AND HE, HIMSELF, WILL RULE THEM 06:36 WITH A ROD OF IRON AND HE TREADS THE WINEPRESS OF THE FIERCENESS 06:40 OF THE WRATH OF ALMIGHTY GOD." YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG? 06:45 'MINE EYES HAVE SEEN THE GLORY OF THE COMING OF THE LORD, HE IS 06:49 TRAMPLING OUT THE VINTAGE WHERE THE GRAPES OF WRATH ARE STORED.' 06:53 WHERE DO YOU THINK THAT VERSE COMES FROM? 06:55 RIGHT HERE. WHEN THE LORD COMES AND IT'S 06:57 TALKING ABOUT THE WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD AND 06:59 TREADING THE WINEPRESS. "...AND ON HIS THIGH A NAME IS 07:02 WRITTEN: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS." 07:05 SO JESUS, IT'S LOOKING LIKE THE DEATH DECREE IS ABOUT TO HAPPEN 07:09 AND ALL THE SAINTS ARE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED. 07:11 AND IT'S ONE OF THE GREAT TURNING POINTS IN HISTORY, WHEN 07:15 YOU THINK THEY'RE OUTNUMBERED AND THE RIDER ON THE WHITE HORSE 07:18 COMES. NOTICE, REVELATION 19:19, 07:22 "AND...THE BEAST, THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, AND THEIR ARMIES, 07:26 GATHERED TOGETHER TO MAKE WAR AGAINST HIM WHO SAT ON THE 07:30 HORSE" - SO THEY SEE THE ONE ON THE HORSE. 07:32 SO, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT JESUS COMING ON A HORSE AND HIS 07:36 SOLDIERS ON HORSES AND THE DEVIL IS MAKING WAR AGAINST THOSE THAT 07:39 ARE ON THE HORSE, IT'S REALLY A DESCRIPTION OF THE FINAL BATTLE 07:43 JUST BEFORE CHRIST COMES AND IT CULMINATES WITH THE SKY 07:48 SPLITTING. WHAT IS OUR WEAPON IN THAT BATTLE? IT'S THE SWORD 07:52 COMING OUT OF HIS MOUTH - IT'S THE WORD OF GOD IS OUR WEAPON. 07:57 IT'S THE WORD - THE SWORD THAT WOUNDED THE BEAST. 08:00 AND AT THIS TIME, WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS FROM HEAVEN HE SAID, 08:05 'BEHOLD I COME AS A THIEF.' 2 PETER CHAPTER 3. 08:08 FINALLY, THE LORD BREAKS OUT OF THE HEAVENS, IT SAYS, 'THE DAY 08:12 OF THE LORD WILL COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT IN WHICH THE 08:14 HEAVENS PASS AWAY WITH A GREAT NOISE AND THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH 08:17 FERVENT HEAT AND THE EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT WILL 08:20 BE BURNT UP. SINCE ALL THESE THINGS WILL BE 08:24 DISSOLVED, WHAT MANNER OF PEOPLE OUGHT WE BE IN ALL HOLY 08:27 CONVERSATION AND GODLINESS, LOOKING FOR AND HASTENING THE 08:29 DAY OF GOD.' ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE IT TALKS ABOUT 08:32 THE DAY OF GOD. THIS IS IT. 08:34 AT THAT CRUCIAL MOMENT WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE 08:36 DESTROYED, JESUS COMES THROUGH THE CLOUDS. 08:39 THE BIBLE SAYS, "...AND THE DEAD IN CHRIST SHALL RISE FIRST:" - 08:43 THERE ARE TWO RESURRECTIONS. I REMEMBER IT SURPRISED 08:46 ME WHEN I HEARD THAT. I THOUGHT WHEN THE LORD 08:48 COMES, EVERYBODY'S RAISED. NO, NO. 08:51 JESUS SAID, "FOR THE HOUR IS COMING IN WHICH ALL WHO ARE IN 08:54 THE GRAVES WILL HEAR HIS VOICE - THEY THAT HAVE 08:56 DONE GOOD, TO THE RESURRECTION OF LIFE, AND THEY THAT HAVE DONE 09:00 EVIL, THE RESURRECTION OF CONDEMNATION." 09:03 TWO DIFFERENT RESURRECTIONS. 09:04 EVEN IF YOU READ IN DANIEL 12, IT SEPARATES THE TWO. 09:08 IT SAYS, 'MANY THAT SLEEP IN THE DUST OF THE EARTH SHALL AWAKE. 09:11 SOME TO EVERLASTING LIFE, SOME TO SHAME AND EVERLASTING 09:14 CONDEMNATION.' AND SO, THE VERY FACT IT SAYS, IN 1 THESSALONIANS 09:18 4, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST, WHAT DOES THAT IMPLY? 09:22 WHEREVER YOU'VE GOT THE FIRST OF SOMETHING, WHY BOTHER SAYING 09:26 FIRST UNLESS THERE'S GOING TO BE A WHAT? 09:27 >>SECOND. >>A SECOND. 09:30 >>DON'T GO ANYWHERE, FRIENDS, WE'LL BE BACK IN JUST A MOMENT 09:32 WITH THE REST OF TODAY'S PRESENTATION. 09:35 >>HAVE YOU READ WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY SAYS ABOUT THE LAST-DAY 09:38 EVENTS? ARE YOU FAMILIAR WITH THE SIGNS 09:40 OF THE SECOND COMING, LAST PLAGUES, AND FINAL JUDGMENT? 09:44 ANYONE WHO'S EVEN GLANCING AT THE HEADLINES TODAY PROBABLY 09:48 WONDERS IF OUR WORLD IS PLUNGING TOWARD ARMAGEDDON. 09:52 BUT I WANT TO LET YOU KNOW THAT EVEN IN THE FACE OF ALL THAT'S 09:55 HAPPENING, YOU CAN STILL LIVE WITH PEACE AND ASSURANCE FOR 09:58 YOUR FUTURE. WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW HOW? 10:01 AMAZING FACTS WANTS TO SHARE WITH YOU THE FINAL EVENTS OF 10:04 PROPHECY MAGAZINE. IT FEATURES 32 PAGES OF 10:08 CAPTIVATING, COLORFUL, AND BIBLICALLY ACCURATE INFORMATION. 10:12 THIS ONE-OF-A-KIND SHARING RESOURCE COVERS THE SEVEN KEY 10:16 EVENTS OF THE LAST DAYS AND IT UNVEILS THE ASTONISHING 10:19 PREDICTIONS ABOUT OUR PLANET'S FINAL DAYS AND HOW YOU CAN BE 10:23 READY FOR THEM. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, CALL THE 10:26 PHONE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #856 OR 10:30 VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS. AND AFTER YOU READ THIS 10:32 INCREDIBLE RESOURCE, BE SURE AND SHARE IT WITH A FRIEND. 10:36 LET'S RETURN NOW TO TODAY'S PRESENTATION AND LEARN SOME MORE 10:39 AMAZING FACTS FROM THE WORD OF GOD. 10:43 >>THE REST OF THE DEAD DO NOT LIVE UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS 10:48 ARE FINISHED. SO THERE'S A SEPARATION BETWEEN 10:51 THESE TWO RESURRECTIONS OF THE JUST AND OF THE DEAD. 10:54 AND SO, WHEN THE LORD COMES, WHAT HAPPENS TO THE RIGHTEOUS 10:57 WHO ARE DEAD? THEY'RE RESURRECTED AND GIVEN 11:01 GLORIFIED BODIES. WHAT IF YOU'RE ALIVE WHEN THE LORD COMES? 11:04 THOSE OF US THAT ARE ALIVE AND REMAIN WILL BE CHANGED OR 11:09 TRANSFORMED IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE. 11:11 WE ARE GIVEN GLORIFIED BODIES AND THEN WE ARE CAUGHT UP TO 11:13 MEET THEM IN THE AIR. AND SO, ALL OF THE GOOD LEAVE 11:17 THE PLANET. WHAT HAPPENS TO THE WICKED? IT SAYS THE WICKED ARE 11:20 DESTROYED BY THE BRIGHTNESS OF HIS COMING. THIS IS THE FIRST 11:23 PART OF THE BATTLE, BUT THAT'S NOT THE END OF IT. 11:26 AND THEN, AT THAT POINT, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 20, VERSE 1, 11:31 "I SAW AN ANGEL COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING THE KEY TO THE 11:35 BOTTOMLESS PIT AND A GREAT CHAIN IN HIS HAND. 11:38 HE LAID HOLD OF THE DRAGON, THAT SERPENT OF OLD, WHO IS THE DEVIL 11:42 AND SATAN, AND BOUND HIM FOR A THOUSAND YEARS;" - AND IT SAYS, 11:47 "AND HE CAST HIM INTO THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, AND SHUT HIM UP, 11:51 AND SET A SEAL ON HIM" - YOU KNOW, THE DEVIL USUALLY PUT 11:54 JESUS IN THE TOMB AND SEALED HIM. 11:55 WELL, NOW THE DEVIL'S GOING TO FEEL - FIND OUT HOW THAT FEELS. 11:58 HE'S PUT IN THE PIT AND HE'S SEALED - "SO THAT HE SHOULD 12:01 DECEIVE THE NATIONS NO MORE TILL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE 12:03 FINISHED. BUT AFTER THESE THINGS HE MUST 12:05 BE RELEASED FOR A LITTLE WHILE." NOW, DOES THAT BOTHER YOU? 12:09 YOU THINK THAT WOULD BE GOOD ENOUGH TO THROW HIM IN THE PIT 12:11 AND LEAVE HIM THERE, BUT IT SAYS HE'S GOING TO BE RELEASED FROM 12:14 HIS PIT. NOW, THIS IDEA OF THE BOTTOMLESS PIT WHERE SATAN IS 12:19 BOUND AT THE BEGINNING OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON, IS - IT 12:25 CONFUSES PEOPLE. THAT IS A WORD - THE WORD IS ABUSSOS - IT'S A 12:29 GREEK WORD YOU FIND OTHER PLACES - YOU FIND IT IN LUKE CHAPTER 8 12:33 WHEN THE DEVIL SAID TO JESUS, 'DO NOT CAST US OUT INTO THE 12:35 DEEP. THAT VERY WORD THERE IS 'BOTTOMLESS PIT'. 12:39 IT MEANS, 'DON'T CAST US INTO THE NOTHINGNESS WHERE WE HAVE 12:41 NOBODY TO POSSESS AND MANIPULATE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO 12:45 CAST US OUT OF THE MAN, THEN LET US POSSESS THE PIGS. 12:49 CAST US INTO THIS HERD OF SWINE, BUT DON'T CAST US INTO THE 12:51 ABUSSOS.' THAT WORD IS THE SAME WORD YOU FIND IN REVELATION 20. 12:56 WHY THE TRANSLATORS PICKED 'BOTTOMLESS PIT' THERE - I JUST 13:00 FIGURED THE KING JAMES TRANSLATORS WERE GETTING TO THE 13:02 END OF THE BIBLE AND THEY WANTED TO LEAVE THEIR MARK AND 13:05 SAY SOMETHING COLORFUL AND SO THEY CAME UP WITH BOTTOMLESS 13:08 PIT. BUT HE'S CAST INTO THE 13:10 EMPTINESS, THE VOID, THE NOTHINGNESS. 13:13 NOW WHY ARE - WHAT IS THAT BOTTOMLESS PIT AND WHERE IS 13:16 SATAN BOUND DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS? 13:20 WELL, YOU CAN READ A FEW VERSES ABOUT THAT. 13:22 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN JEREMIAH CHAPTER 25, "...THE SLAIN OF THE 13:27 LORD SHALL BE IN THAT DAY FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH EVEN UNTO 13:31 THE OTHER. THEY SHALL NOT BE LAMENTED 13:34 NOR GATHERED, NOR BURIED." WHY NOT? 13:36 THE RIGHTEOUS ARE ALL GONE. THE WICKED ARE DESTROYED. 13:40 WHO'S THERE TO BURY THEM? WHO'S THERE TO MOURN THEM? 13:44 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 24, "BEHOLD, THE LORD MAKES THE 13:47 EARTH EMPTY." WHAT DOES HE MAKE EMPTY? 13:49 >>THE EARTH. >>"AND MAKES IT WASTE, HE TURNS 13:51 IT UPSIDE DOWN. THE EARTH IS UTTERLY BROKEN DOWN." 13:56 JEREMIAH 4, VERSE 23, "I BEHELD THE EARTH, AND, LO, IT WAS 13:59 WITHOUT FROM, AND VOID;" - NOW IF I STOP RIGHT THERE - WITHOUT 14:03 FORM AND VOID - WHAT PICTURE DO YOU SEE? 14:04 >>CREATION. >>GENESIS, RIGHT? 14:07 AND YOU THINK, GOING BACK, HE'S HAVING A FLASHBACK OF GENESIS - 14:10 NO, HE'S HAVING A FLASH FORWARD. KEEP WATCHING. 14:13 "AND THE HEAVENS, AND THEY HAD NO LIGHT. 14:16 I BEHELD THE MOUNTAINS AND, INDEED, THEY TREMBLED AND THE 14:20 HILLS MOVED BACK AND FORTH. I BEHELD, AND, INDEED, THERE WAS 14:23 NO MAN, AND ALL THE BIRDS OF THE HEAVENS HAD FLED." 14:27 - THAT MEANS THEY WERE THERE BUT THEY'RE GONE - "I BEHELD...THE 14:29 FRUITFUL PLACE" - WHAT WAS ONCE FRUITFUL - "IS A WILDERNESS AND 14:32 ALL THE CITIES ARE BROKEN DOWN." 14:35 WELL, WHAT CAUSED THIS CONDITION WHERE THERE IS NO MAN AND THE 14:37 BIRDS ARE GONE AND THE CITIES ARE BROKEN DOWN? 14:39 "AT THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND BY HIS FIERCE ANGER." 14:43 SO, FROM THE DAY OF THE LORD, AND WHEN THE LORD COMES AND HIS 14:47 WRATH IS POURED OUT ON THE WICKED, THE EARTH IS EMPTY. 14:50 IT IS CALLED A VOID. NOW, YOU KNOW WHAT THAT WORD IS THERE? 14:53 THERE'S A GREEK VERSION OF THE OLD TESTAMENT - IT'S VERY 14:55 ANCIENT - AND IT GOES BACK BEFORE CHRIST. 14:58 IT'S CALLED THE SEPTUAGINT AND IN THE GREEK IT SAYS, "I BEHELD 15:03 THE EARTH AND INDEED IT WAS WITHOUT FORM AND IT WAS 15:05 ABUSSOS." SO, SATAN HAS BEEN CONFINED TO THIS WORLD. 15:10 HE CALLS HIMSELF THE PRINCE OF THIS WORLD. 15:11 AFTER THE RIGHTEOUS ARE CAUGHT UP AND THE DEAD ARE RAISED AND 15:16 WE TO GO THE PLACES CHRIST HAS PREPARED, SATAN IS BOUND ON THIS 15:21 PLANET WITH HIS FALLEN ANGELS. FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS THEY MUST 15:26 WANDER IN THE DARKNESS TO BEHOLD THE RESULTS OF THEIR REBELLION. 15:31 SATAN SAID, 'I COULD MAKE A BETTER GOD THAN GOD. 15:34 IF I WAS IN CHARGE OF THIS WORLD I COULD DO A BETTER JOB.' HE'S 15:37 GOING TO LOOK AT THE RESULT OF HIS PHILOSOPHY FOR A THOUSAND 15:39 YEARS. AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT WHAT'S 15:42 HAPPENING DURING THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, BUT IT SAID HE 15:46 WAS CAST IN THE BOTTOMLESS PIT, BUT HE WILL BE 15:50 LOOSED FOR A SEASON. SO WHEN DOES THAT HAPPEN? 15:54 GO TO REVELATION 20, VERSE 5 - WE JUST READ - "BUT THE REST OF 15:58 THE DEAD DID NOT LIVE AGAIN UNTIL THE THOUSAND YEARS WERE 16:01 FINISHED." NOW, IF ALL THE RIGHTEOUS OF THE 16:03 DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST, WHO ARE THE REST OF THE DEAD? 16:05 IT SAYS THEY'RE LIKE THE SAND OF THE SEA. 16:08 HOW MANY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD NOW? 16:10 7.8 BILLION - AND YOU WONDER HOW MANY PEOPLE LIVED IN THE DAYS OF 16:15 NOAH BEFORE FLOOD - IT COULD HAVE BEEN A BILLION. 16:17 IF YOU DO THE MATH, THEY LIVED HUNDREDS OF YEARS - HOW MANY 16:21 PEOPLE HAVE EVER LIVED? IT SAYS THEY COVERED THE EARTH. 16:25 IF THEY WERE ALL ALIVE AT ONE TIME, THAT'S A PRETTY 16:28 SUBSTANTIAL GROUP. NOW SATAN, THOUGH DIMINISHED, HE 16:32 STILL LOOKS LIKE A GREAT ANGEL. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS? 16:36 'YOU SEE THIS CITY? THAT'S MINE.' I'VE LEFT OUT AN 16:40 IMPORTANT POINT: AT THE END OF THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS, NOT ONLY 16:44 IS THERE A RESURRECTION OF THE WICKED, IT SAYS AT THE END OF 16:47 THE ONE THOUSAND YEARS THE NEW JERUSALEM DESCENDS 16:50 FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN. AND, IF YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH 16:53 CHAPTER 14, IT SAYS IT WILL COME TO PASS IN THAT DAY THAT THE 16:57 LORD'S FEET WILL TOUCH THE MOUNT OF OLIVES AND THERE'LL BE A 17:01 GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND IT WILL FORM A GREAT VALLEY. 17:04 NOW THAT GREAT VALLEY IS LIKE 375 MILES SQUARE AND THE NEW 17:09 JERUSALEM ENDS UP SITTING DOWN IN THAT VALLEY. 17:12 I DON'T WANT TO BELABOR THIS, BUT THIS IS AN IMPORTANT POINT 17:15 I DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS. GOD MADE A PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. 17:19 WHAT DID GOD PROMISE ABRAHAM? THAT YOU WOULD GET 17:22 A CERTAIN TERRITORY. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT ABRAHAM 17:25 LIVED IN A TENT, BECAUSE HE LOOKED FOR A CITY THAT HAD 17:28 FOUNDATIONS, WHOSE BUILDER AND MAKER IS GOD. WHEN DOES ABRAHAM 17:32 FINALLY INHERIT EVERYTHING GOD PROMISED? DO YOU KNOW THE 17:36 BORDERS OF THE NEW JERUSALEM WILL BE SO BIG THEY WILL 17:39 COMPLETELY ENCOMPASS THE TERRITORY THAT GOD PROMISED 17:42 ABRAHAM? EVERYTHING THAT GOD PROMISED ABRAHAM WILL BE WITHIN 17:45 THE BORDERS OF THAT CITY, BECAUSE IT SAYS THE NEW 17:48 JERUSALEM SETS DOWN - YOU FIGURE ITS EPICENTER IS 17:51 NEAR THE MOUNT OF OLIVES - IT SETS DOWN IN THIS GREAT VALLEY 17:55 THAT'S BEEN FORMED BY THE LORD'S FEET TOUCHING THE MOUNTAIN. 17:59 SO, WHEN THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN, WHO'S IN THE NEW 18:02 JERUSALEM? YOU READ ABOUT THIS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 21. 18:07 ALL THE SAVED WHO EVER LIVED ARE IN THE NEW JERUSALEM. 18:11 ALL THE LOST WHO EVER LIVED ARE OUTSIDE. 18:14 ALL OF THE GOOD ANGELS ARE ON THE INSIDE. 18:17 ALL OF THE BAD ANGELS ARE ON THE OUTSIDE. 18:21 CHRIST IS ON THE INSIDE. SATAN IS ON THE OUTSIDE. 18:25 HERE YOU HAVE A PICTURE WHERE EVERYBODY'S WHO'S EVER LIVED IN 18:28 THIS WORLD IS GOING TO BE ALIVE ON EARTH AT THE SAME TIME, WHICH 18:32 MEANS - I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE VISITING TODAY, BUT WE WILL ALL 18:37 MEET AGAIN SOMEDAY. WE ALL HOPE WE'RE ON THE 18:40 INSIDE OF THE CITY, RIGHT? >>RIGHT. 18:43 >>THAT'S WHAT REVELATION IS TELLING US IS GOING TO HAPPEN. 18:46 SO, SATAN SEES THE CITY AND HE SEES ALL THE RIGHTEOUS IN THE 18:50 CITY, HE REALIZES WHAT HE'S LOST, AND NOW HE SEES HIS ARMY 18:53 AND SATAN TRIES TO INSPIRE AND INFUSE HIM WITH HIS OWN SPIRIT 18:57 AND HE SAYS, 'THAT'S OUR CITY! I AM THE PRINCE! 19:00 I'M THE KING! HE TOOK IT FROM ME WRONGFULLY! 19:01 WE CAN TAKE IT! LOOK HOW MANY OF US THERE ARE. 19:05 WE'VE GOT THEM OUTNUMBERED A HUNDRED TO ONE.' I MADE THAT UP. 19:08 I DON'T KNOW IF IT'S A HUNDRED TO ONE, BUT IT'S GOING TO BE - 19:11 WE FIGURE THERE'S MORE OUTSIDE THE CITY THAN INSIDE, RIGHT? 19:14 >>RIGHT. >>NARROW IS THE WAY THAT LEADS 19:16 TO LIFE AND FEW THERE BE THAT FIND IT, UNFORTUNATELY. 19:19 BUT THERE'S A PERIOD OF TIME WHERE SATAN GATHERS ALL THE 19:22 WICKED AND THEY FORM WEAPONS OF DESTRUCTION. 19:26 THERE MUST BE ENOUGH HAPPENING ON THE EARTH WHERE THEY CAN USE 19:28 SOME RESOURCES AND THEY TRY TO LAUNCH THIS BATTLE WITH - 19:33 THEY'RE USING NUCLEAR WEAPONS - NOTHING'LL WORK ON GOD SO IT 19:35 DOESN'T MATTER - BUT THEY TRY TO LAUNCH THIS BATTLE AND TAKE IT 19:39 BY FORCE, SHOWING THAT THEY HAVEN'T CHANGED. 19:43 AND JUST WHEN THEY'RE READY TO SAY, 'READY, AIM, FIRE!' 19:48 'CHARGE!' - IT TELLS US THAT SOMETHING 19:52 INTERRUPTS THEIR PLAN. SUDDENLY, ABOVE THE CITY, A 19:55 LIGHT BEGINS TO SHINE AND THE GLORY OF GOD APPEARS. 19:59 "AND I SAW A GREAT WHITE THRONE, AND HIM THAT SAT ON IT, FROM 20:04 WHOSE FACE THE EARTH AND THE HEAVEN FLED AWAY;" - YOU KNOW, 20:08 THE WICKED CANNOT ENDURE THE FACE OF GOD - 20:11 "AND THERE WAS FOUND NO PLACE FOR THEM. 20:13 AND I SAW THE DEAD, SMALL AND GREAT, STAND BEFORE GOD; AND THE 20:17 BOOKS WERE OPENED: AND ANOTHER BOOK WAS OPENED, WHICH IS THE 20:20 BOOK OF LIFE: AND THE DEAD WERE JUDGED...ACCORDING TO THEIR 20:23 WORKS." - BY THE THINGS THAT WERE 20:26 WRITTEN IN THE BOOKS - "AND THE SEA GAVE UP THE DEAD THAT WERE 20:30 IN IT; AND DEATH AND THE GRAVE GAVE UP THE DEAD WHICH WERE IN 20:32 THEM: AND THEY WERE JUDGED EACH ONE ACCORDING TO THEIR WORKS." 20:36 SO THERE IS THIS GREAT WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT. 20:40 WHEN CHRIST STANDS ABOVE THE CITY, HE WILL MAKE EVERY 20:42 PERSON'S LIFE PASS BEFORE THEM. HOW LONG THIS WILL TAKE, I DON'T 20:47 KNOW, BUT I THINK THERE'S GOING TO BE A LOT OF INTERACTION 20:50 THAT GOES ON DURING THAT TIME. FIRST OF ALL, THERE'S GOING TO 20:52 BE FAMILY MEMBERS THAT SEE EACH OTHER. 20:54 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE DISCERNMENT WHERE WE'RE GOING TO SEE PEOPLE 20:56 THAT MAYBE ARE IN THE CITY THAT ARE SAVED THAT TRIED TO TELL US 21:00 AND WE DIDN'T LISTEN. WE'RE GOING TO SEE PEOPLE THAT 21:04 ARE MAYBE OUTSIDE THE CITY AND THEY THINK, 'YOU 21:08 KNEW THESE THINGS! WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME?' 21:10 I'M JUST TELLING YOU I WANT TO BE IN THE CITY. 21:12 I'M JUST SAYING THAT PEOPLE ALL AROUND, DURING THE JUDGMENT, ARE 21:15 GOING TO BE HAVING SOME TERRIBLE EMOTIONS. 21:17 THEIR LIVES WILL BE MADE TO PASS BEFORE THEM. 21:20 THEY'LL SEE ALL THE TIMES OVER THE COURSE OF THEIR LIVES THAT 21:23 THE LORD PLEADED WITH THEM TO TURN FROM THEIR SINS - TO DO IT 21:28 NOW - THEY KEPT PUTTING IT OFF. THAT'S THE MOST FAMOUS THING - 21:31 PROCRASTINATION - DON'T DO IT NOW - EVENTUALLY. 21:34 DON'T FULLY SURRENDER AND REPENT AND TURN NOW. 21:37 AND THEY'RE GOING TO SEE THE SACRIFICE OF CHRIST. 21:40 THEY'RE GOING TO SEE THE BATTLE BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. 21:42 THEY'RE GOING TO SEE JESUS SUFFERING FOR THEM AND REALIZE 21:45 THAT GOD, HIMSELF, SUFFERED TO SAVE THEM AND THEY COUNTED IT AS 21:49 AN UNCLEAN THING. AND EVERY PERSON IS GOING TO 21:52 HAVE A PANORAMA PASS BEFORE THEM AND THIS JUDGMENT WILL TRANSPIRE 21:56 AND IT IS GOING TO BE A VERY SOBERING TIME. 22:00 HAVE YOU HEARD THE PARABLE WHERE JESUS TALKS ABOUT SEPARATING THE 22:03 SHEEP AND THE GOATS? THIS IS THAT MOMENT WHEN YOU'VE 22:07 GOT ALL THE SAVED ARE THERE AND ALL THE WICKED ARE LOST. 22:12 AND SO, AFTER THIS WHITE THRONE JUDGMENT EVENTUALLY EVERY KNEE 22:18 WILL BOW. HAVE YOU READ WHERE PAUL SAYS 22:20 THAT EVERY TONGUE WILL CONFESS AND EVERY KNEE WILL BOW 22:23 DECLARING THAT JESUS IS LORD. EVEN SATAN, AT SOME POINT, IS 22:27 GOING TO GET DOWN ON HIS KNEES BEFORE GOD. 22:30 THE DEVIL WHO SAID, 'CHRIST, IF YOU WORSHIP ME I'LL GIVE YOU THE 22:32 WORLD - IF YOU WOULD JUST BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP ME.' AND SATAN 22:35 IS NOW GOING TO HAVE TO BOW DOWN TO GOD. 22:37 >>AMEN. >>AND, FINALLY, YOU'VE GOT 22:41 THE GREAT WHITE THRONE. I REMEMBER GOING TO GERMANY 22:44 ONE YEAR AND THEY TOOK US TO NUREMBERG. 22:47 AND NUREMBERG IS FAMOUS FOR THE NUREMBERG TRIALS. 22:50 AFTER WORLD WAR II, ALL OF THE CULPRITS INVOLVED IN THAT HAD TO 22:53 BE TRIED AND THEY WERE JUDGED AND MANY WERE HANGED FOR THEIR 22:56 WAR CRIMES. SATAN IS GOING TO PAY FOR HIS WAR CRIMES. 23:01 THERE'S GOING TO BE A FINAL JUDGMENT AT THAT TIME. 23:05 IT SAYS THAT HE IS CAST OUT. LET ME LOOK HERE - JOEL CHAPTER 23:11 3, VERSE 2, "I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS, AND BRING THEM DOWN TO 23:16 THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, AND I WILL ENTER INTO JUDGMENT WITH 23:19 THEM THERE ON ACCOUNT OF MY PEOPLE AND MY HERITAGE ISRAEL, 23:23 WHOM THEY HAVE SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS." 23:26 AND THEN, FINALLY, AFTER GOD RAINS HAIL AND FIRE DOWN UPON 23:30 THE WICKED - YOU KNOW, FIRE PURIFIES. I HEARD - SOMEONE SENT 23:34 ME AN AMAZING FACT THIS WEEK THAT THERE WAS A TERRIBLE 23:38 BUBONIC PLAGUE THAT HAD SEVERAL PLAGUES THAT HAD BROKE OUT IN 23:40 ENGLAND AND THEY HAD TROUBLE CONTROLLING IT. 23:44 BUT ENGLAND WAS FULL - LONDON WAS FULL OF TENEMENTS AT THAT 23:48 TIME AND THEY HAD SOMETHING CALLED THE GREAT LONDON FIRE. 23:52 I HADN'T HEARD ABOUT THAT, BUT IT WAS LIKE A QUARTER OF LONDON 23:54 BURNED - IT'S LIKE YOU'VE HEARD OF ROME BURNING? 23:56 BUT LONDON BURNING DESTROYED THE BUBONIC PLAGUE BECAUSE IT KILLED 24:00 ALL THE RATS. SO GOD IS HAILING THIS FIRE DOWN 24:04 TO PURIFY THE PLANET BECAUSE THEN, ON THE ASHES OF THIS 24:09 PURIFIED WORLD, IT SAYS HE WILL CREATE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW 24:12 EARTH AND THERE'LL BE NO SIGN OF THE FORMER ANYMORE. 24:17 YOU CAN READ IN ISAIAH 2, VERSE 4 - I LOVE THIS VERSE - "HE WILL 24:22 JUDGE BETWEEN THE NATIONS, AND REBUKE MANY PEOPLE; THEY WILL 24:25 BEAT THEIR SWORDS INTO PLOWSHARES AND THEIR SPEARS INTO 24:30 PRUNING HOOKS; NATION SHALL NOT LIFT UP SWORD AGAINST NATION, 24:35 NEITHER SHALL THEY LEARN WAR ANYMORE." 24:39 HAVE YOU EVER SUNG THAT SONG DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE, AIN'T 24:42 GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE, AIN'T GONNA STUDY WAR NO MORE ? 24:45 IT ALL COMES FROM THIS VERSE. THEY WILL LEARN THIS VERSE - 24:48 THEY'LL LEARN WAR NO MORE. AND IT TELLS US THAT "THE EYES 24:53 OF THE BLIND" - ISAIAH 35 - "WILL BE OPENED AND THE EARS 24:56 OF THE DEAF WILL BE UNSTOPPED. THE LAME MAN WILL LEAP AS A 25:00 DEER, AND THE TONGUE OF THE DUMB WILL SING. FOR WATERS SHALL 25:02 BURST FORTH IN THE WILDERNESS, AND STREAMS IN THE DESERT. 25:06 THE PARCHED GROUND WILL BECOME A POOL, AND THE THIRSTY LAND 25:09 SPRINGS OF WATER; IN THE HABITATION OF JACKALS, WHERE 25:14 EACH LAY, THERE SHALL BE GRASS WITH REEDS AND RUSHES." 25:17 INSTEAD OF THE DESERT. REVELATION 21:1 - A NEW HEAVEN 25:21 AND A NEW EARTH, FOR THE FIRST HEAVEN AND EARTH 25:24 ARE PASSED AWAY. "AND I HEARD A LOUD VOICE FROM 25:27 HEAVEN SAYING, 'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD IS WITH MEN, 25:31 AND...GOD HIMSELF WILL BE WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD. 25:34 AND GOD WILL WIPE AWAY EVERY TEAR FROM THEIR EYES; THERE 25:37 SHALL BE NO MORE DEATH, NOR SORROW, NOR CRYING. 25:40 THERE SHALL BE NO MORE PAIN," - NO MORE WAR - "FOR THE FORMER 25:43 THINGS HAVE PASSED AWAY." THEY SAID THAT WORLD WAR I WAS 25:47 GOING TO BE THE WAR TO END ALL WARS. YOU KNOW WHAT THE WAR IS? 25:51 ARMAGEDDON IS THE WAR THAT ENDS ALL WARS. 25:54 THERE'LL BE WAR NO MORE, AMEN? FOR THESE WORDS ARE FAITHFUL AND 25:59 TRUE. SO, PASTOR DOUG, ARE WE JUST 26:01 TALKING ABOUT A BATTLE OFF IN THE FUTURE? 26:03 NO, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS REALLY GOING ON IN OUR LIVES 26:06 EVERY DAY. THERE'S A WAR. I'LL CLOSE WITH THESE WORDS. 26:12 1 PETER 2, "BELOVED, I BEG YOU AS SOJOURNERS AND PILGRIMS, 26:17 ABSTAIN FROM FLESHLY LUSTS WHICH WAR AGAINST THE SOUL," - HAVE 26:21 YOU EVER FELT THAT WAR? JAMES 4:1, "WHERE DO WARS AND 26:25 FIGHTINGS COME FROM AMONG YOU? DO THEY NOT COME FROM YOUR 26:28 DESIRES FOR PLEASURE THAT WAR IN YOUR MEMBERS?" YOU'VE GOT THE 26:33 SPIRIT AND THE FLESH THAT ARE AT WAR. 26:35 YOU'VE GOT CHRIST AND SATAN AT WAR IN OUR HEARTS. 26:37 ROMANS 7:23, "BUT I SEE ANOTHER LAW IN MY MEMBERS, WARRING" - 26:41 THERE'S A BATTLE - "AGAINST THE LAW OF MY MIND, AND BRINGING ME 26:44 INTO CAPTIVITY TO THE LAW OF SIN WHICH IS IN MY MEMBERS. 26:47 O WRETCHED MAN THAT I AM! WHO WILL DELIVER ME 26:50 FROM THIS BODY OF DEATH? I THANK GOD - THROUGH 26:53 JESUS CHRIST OUR LORD!" SO YOU AND I ARE ALL 26:56 EXPERIENCING LITTLE FORETASTES OF THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON 27:01 EVERY DAY, BECAUSE THERE ARE TWO MASTERS WHO ARE AT WAR, CHRIST 27:05 AND SATAN, AND THEY'RE FIGHTING FOR OUR LOVE AND OUR ALLEGIANCE. 27:09 AND JESUS, OF COURSE, HE'S GIVEN HIS LIFE. 27:12 HE'S SHOWN US HIS LOVE. YOU KNOW, I WANT TO BE ON 27:15 THE WINNING TEAM, DON'T YOU? >>DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST 27:22 TODAY'S LIFE-CHANGING FREE RESOURCE. 27:24 NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL, YOU CAN 27:27 DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY STRAIGHT TO YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE 27:29 DEVICE. TO GET YOUR DIGITAL COPY OF 27:32 TODAY'S FREE GIFT, SIMPLY TEXT THE KEY WORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 27:35 40544 OR VISIT THE WEB ADDRESS SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN AND BE SURE 27:41 TO SELECT A DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION ON THE REQUEST PAGE. 27:44 IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S WORD WITH 27:47 AMAZING FACTS WHEREVER AND WHENEVER YOU WANT. 27:50 AND, MOST IMPORTANT, TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS. 27:58 >>AND THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT AS WE TAKE THE 28:01 GOSPEL OF JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD. 28:04 WE HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US NEXT WEEK AS WE DELVE DEEP INTO THE WORD 28:07 OF GOD TO EXPLORE MORE AMAZING FACTS. (MUSIC) 28:27 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF 28:29 THE AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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