>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:02.53\00:00:05.30 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:05.33\00:00:12.07 >>CONTRARY TO THE POPULAR BELIEF THAT LIGHTNING NEVER STRIKES 00:00:12.11\00:00:14.91 THE SAME SPOT TWICE, IT'S ACTUALLY BEEN KNOWN TO STRIKE 00:00:14.94\00:00:18.25 OBJECTS - EVEN PEOPLE - MULTIPLE TIMES DURING INTENSE 00:00:18.28\00:00:21.38 ELECTRICAL STORMS. DURING ONE STORM, FOR INSTANCE, THE EMPIRE 00:00:21.42\00:00:25.55 STATE BUILDING IN NEW YORK WAS STRUCK 15 TIMES WITHIN 15 00:00:25.59\00:00:29.59 MINUTES. SOMETIMES A SINGLE BOLT OF LIGHTNING WILL REALLY CONSIST 00:00:29.62\00:00:34.03 OF AS MANY AS 42 DISCHARGES STRIKING THE SAME SPOT IN SUCH 00:00:34.10\00:00:38.60 QUICK SUCCESSION THAT IT APPEARS LIKE A SINGLE FLASH, BUT IT ALL 00:00:38.63\00:00:42.34 HAPPENS IN LESS THAN ONE-QUARTER OF A SECOND. 00:00:42.37\00:00:44.91 LIGHTNING FROM ONE CLOUD TO ANOTHER IS ALSO VERY COMMON, AND 00:00:44.94\00:00:48.64 IT'S BEEN RECORDED TO JUMP AS FAR AS 20 MILES BETWEEN CLOUDS. 00:00:48.68\00:00:52.58 BUT WHETHER LIGHTNING IS MOVING FROM CLOUD TO CLOUD OR CLOUD TO 00:00:52.61\00:00:55.62 GROUND OR GROUND TO CLOUD, IT'S HARD TO MISS THE BRILLIANT, 00:00:55.65\00:00:58.92 BLINDING FLASH THAT ILLUMINATES THE SKY. 00:00:58.95\00:01:02.62 IN MATTHEW 24 JESUS SAID, 'FOR AS LIGHTNING COMES FROM THE EAST 00:01:02.66\00:01:06.66 AND FLASHES TO THE WEST, SO ALSO WILL THE COMING OF THE SON OF 00:01:06.70\00:01:10.70 MAN BE.' IN SPITE OF HIS WORDS, SOME STILL BELIEVE THAT HIS 00:01:10.73\00:01:14.70 RETURN IS GOING TO BE A SECRET. BUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH? 00:01:14.74\00:01:18.34 JOIN ME NOW, FRIENDS, AS WE TAKE A CLOSER LOOK AT WHAT THE BIBLE 00:01:18.37\00:01:21.71 REALLY SAYS ABOUT THE RETURN OF CHRIST. 00:01:21.74\00:01:28.82 >>WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE THEME OF CHRIST'S 00:01:28.85\00:01:30.72 RETURN IN OUR PRESENTATION THIS MORNING, AND WE'VE BEEN DOING 00:01:30.75\00:01:34.82 SOME OF THESE THINGS IN THE CONTEXT OF THE ANNIVERSARY FOR 00:01:34.86\00:01:38.46 THE REFORMATION. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'RE AWARE, 00:01:38.49\00:01:41.13 BUT MARTIN LUTHER, MELANCHTHON - THAT'S PHILIP MELANCHTHON - AND 00:01:41.16\00:01:46.23 MANY OF THE OTHER REFORMERS, THEY BELIEVED IN SOMETHING 00:01:46.27\00:01:49.44 CALLED 'THE GREAT WEEK OF TIME.' THEY BELIEVED THAT THE HISTORY 00:01:49.47\00:01:53.64 OF MAN WOULD LAST ABOUT SIX THOUSAND YEARS AND THEN WE SPEND 00:01:53.68\00:01:56.85 A THOUSAND YEARS WITH THE LORD IN HEAVEN AND THEN, AT THAT 00:01:56.88\00:02:00.82 TIME, THE EARTH WOULD BE PURIFIED AND ALL 00:02:00.85\00:02:04.45 THINGS MADE NEW. HIS DATING WAS OFF A LITTLE BIT 00:02:04.49\00:02:08.32 ABOUT HOW OLD HE THOUGHT THE WORLD WAS, ADDING UP THE - THE 00:02:08.36\00:02:12.29 BIBLE AGES, BUT MANY OF THEM BELIEVED IN THIS. 00:02:12.33\00:02:14.93 ONE OF THE FOUNDERS IN OUR MOVEMENT, J.N. 00:02:14.93\00:02:16.87 ANDREWS, HE WROTE A BOOK ON 'THE GREAT MILLENNIAL WEEK' OR 'THE 00:02:16.90\00:02:20.00 WEEK OF TIME.' AND, BASICALLY, WHAT IT SAYS IS, BECAUSE OF THAT 00:02:20.04\00:02:23.61 VERSE THERE IN 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 8 - PETER IS ALSO 00:02:23.64\00:02:27.58 QUOTING PSALMS WHERE IT SAYS, 'A THOUSAND YEARS IN HIS SIGHT ARE 00:02:27.61\00:02:31.51 AS A DAY WHEN IT IS GONE.' PETER SAYS, "WITH THE LORD ONE DAY IS 00:02:31.55\00:02:34.68 AS A THOUSAND YEARS, AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS ONE DAY." 00:02:34.72\00:02:38.05 AND WHEN YOU ADD UP THE AGES IN THE BIBLE - AND WE DON'T KNOW 00:02:38.09\00:02:41.46 EXACTLY, SO DON'T USE THIS TO TRY AND SET A DATE - BUT, YOU 00:02:41.49\00:02:44.96 KNOW, APPROXIMATELY 4,000 B.C. ADAM WAS CREATED AND THIS STARTS 00:02:44.99\00:02:52.27 GIVING THE AGES - HOW LONG ADAM LIVED AND HOW LONG SETH LIVED 00:02:52.30\00:02:55.64 AND HOW LONG ENOS LIVED AND ON UP TO NOAH. 00:02:55.67\00:02:58.77 AND THEN THERE'S SOME AMBIGUITY. 00:02:58.81\00:03:00.28 THAT'S WHY WE DON'T KNOW THE EXACT DATE, BECAUSE IT SAYS NOAH 00:03:00.31\00:03:02.48 HAD SHEM, HAM, AND JAPHETH AND, UNLESS THEY WERE TRIPLETS, WE 00:03:02.51\00:03:05.35 DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHEN THAT HAPPENED. 00:03:05.38\00:03:07.18 AND THEN YOU GO ON DOWN THROUGH ABRAHAM AND WE CAN PRETTY 00:03:07.22\00:03:10.19 ACCURATELY TRACK HISTORY FROM ABRAHAM AND THE EXODUS TO THE 00:03:10.22\00:03:13.92 PRESENT DAY. THE JEWS WERE VERY GOOD AT 00:03:13.96\00:03:17.63 KEEPING A CAREFUL CHRONOLOGY. JESUS WAS BORN ABOUT 4 B.C. 00:03:17.66\00:03:23.43 IT'S INTERESTING, [ADAM] WAS CREATED APPROXIMATELY 4004 B.C. 00:03:23.47\00:03:28.67 - THAT'S BISHOP USHER'S CHRONOLOGY. 00:03:28.70\00:03:30.74 ABRAHAM WAS BORN 2004 [B.C.]. JESUS WAS BORN 4 B.C. 00:03:30.77\00:03:36.64 WE'RE NOW LIVING ABOUT 2,000 YEARS AFTER CHRIST, AND THEN 00:03:36.68\00:03:40.18 JESUS COMES AND WE LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM FOR A THOUSAND 00:03:40.22\00:03:42.28 YEARS. >>AMEN. 00:03:42.32\00:03:43.55 >>YOU'VE GOT THREE GREAT AGES: YOU'VE GOT THE AGE OF THE FIRST 00:03:43.59\00:03:46.79 TWO THOUSAND YEARS FROM THE CREATION TO ABRAHAM, THAT'S 00:03:46.82\00:03:50.73 KNOWN AS THE AGE OF THE PATRIARCHS - THESE ARE THREE 00:03:50.76\00:03:53.06 EPOCHS THAT YOU SEE IN THE BIBLE - GOD PREACHED THE GOSPEL 00:03:53.09\00:03:56.23 THROUGH THE PATRIARCHS - THEY WEREN'T JEWS BACK THEN - THAT'S 00:03:56.26\00:03:59.03 NOAH, ENOCH, METHUSELAH, SO FORTH. 00:03:59.07\00:04:01.94 THEN ABRAHAM IS BORN. FOR THE NEXT TWO THOUSAND YEARS 00:04:01.97\00:04:04.84 GOD PREACHES THE GOSPEL THROUGH THE JEWS - THE ISRAELITES - 00:04:04.87\00:04:09.61 HIS PEOPLE. AND GOD HAD COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF 00:04:09.64\00:04:13.55 TRUTH TO THEM AND THE MESSIAH CAME THROUGH THEM. 00:04:13.58\00:04:16.95 AND THEN YOU HAVE, FOR THE LAST 2,000 YEARS, GOD IS SHARING THE 00:04:16.99\00:04:20.52 GOSPEL WITH THE WORLD THROUGH THE CHURCH OR SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, 00:04:20.56\00:04:23.93 AND THEN CHRIST IS GOING TO COME. 00:04:23.96\00:04:27.13 AND WE WILL LIVE AND REIGN WITH HIM FOR ONE THOUSAND YEARS. 00:04:27.20\00:04:30.23 IT'S ALMOST LIKE A THOUSAND-YEAR SABBATH. 00:04:30.27\00:04:32.57 AND THEN HE CREATES A NEW HEAVEN AND A NEW EARTH. 00:04:32.60\00:04:36.60 AND YOU JUST SEE THIS PATTERN ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. 00:04:36.64\00:04:38.87 YOU KNOW, THE NEW JERUSALEM COMES DOWN AS A BRIDE. 00:04:38.91\00:04:43.21 WELL, JACOB HAD THE WEDDING AFTER SEVEN YEARS OF WORKING FOR 00:04:43.24\00:04:48.42 LABAN TO GET RACHEL. YOU SEE WHERE JOSHUA - 00:04:48.45\00:04:52.69 HOW MANY TIMES DID JOSHUA MARCH AROUND JERICHO? 00:04:52.72\00:04:54.66 >>SEVEN. >>SEVEN TIMES - YOU'RE 00:04:54.69\00:04:56.49 WRONG - THIRTEEN TIMES. (LAUGHTER) EVERYONE SAYS THAT - 00:04:56.52\00:05:00.86 ONE TIME FOR SIX DAYS AND THEN, AFTER THE SIX DAYS, ON THE 00:05:00.90\00:05:06.94 SEVENTH DAY, THEY MARCHED AROUND IT SEVEN TIMES, BLEW THE 00:05:06.97\00:05:09.24 TRUMPETS, AND TOOK THE CITY. AFTER SIX DAYS 00:05:09.27\00:05:12.07 THEY TOOK THE CITY. YOU COULD HAVE A HEBREW SERVANT 00:05:12.11\00:05:15.61 FOR SIX YEARS - SEVENTH YEAR HE WENT FREE. 00:05:15.64\00:05:19.51 THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS PROMISED HIS DISCIPLES, 'HEREAFTER SOME 00:05:19.55\00:05:23.32 OF YOU WILL NOT TASTE OF DEATH BEFORE YOU SEE THE KINGDOM OF 00:05:23.35\00:05:25.89 GOD COME WITH POWER.' THIS IS MARK CHAPTER 9. 00:05:25.92\00:05:30.46 IT SAYS AFTER SIX DAYS HE TOOK THEM UP AND THEY HAD A MINIATURE 00:05:30.49\00:05:34.20 PICTURE OF THE SECOND COMING. YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS, 00:05:34.23\00:05:37.90 'MOSES AND THE ELDERS WAITED AT THE BASE OF THE MOUNTAIN FOR 00:05:37.93\00:05:41.07 SIX DAYS WHILE THE GLORY OF GOD COVERED THE MOUNTAIN AND AFTER 00:05:41.10\00:05:43.67 SIX DAYS HE CALLED MOSES UP.' YOU COULD SOW YOUR LAND FOR SIX 00:05:43.71\00:05:48.31 YEARS - THE SEVENTH YEAR YOU WOULD LET IT REST. 00:05:48.34\00:05:51.81 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS IS THE SOWER, THE WORD OF GOD IS 00:05:51.85\00:05:54.35 THE SEED. FOR 6,000 YEARS GOD HAS BEEN 00:05:54.38\00:05:56.89 SOWING THE GOSPEL SEED AND THEN JESUS IS GOING TO COME AND THE 00:05:56.92\00:06:00.99 CONDITION OF THE WORLD IS GOING TO BE DESOLATE. 00:06:01.02\00:06:03.46 WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON, THE 00:06:03.49\00:06:05.86 BIBLE SAYS THAT 70 YEARS THEY WERE IN BABYLON, THE LAND KEPT 00:06:05.89\00:06:09.30 SABBATH - IT WAS RESTING WHILE IT WAS DESOLATE. 00:06:09.33\00:06:13.57 DURING THE 1,000 YEARS OF THE MILLENNIUM THE EARTH IS DESOLATE 00:06:13.60\00:06:16.84 - IT'S KEEPING SABBATH - AND SO, I COULD GO ON AND ON. 00:06:16.87\00:06:19.17 KING JOASH WAS HIDDEN IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD - THE SON OF 00:06:19.21\00:06:22.88 DAVID - FROM THIS WICKED QUEEN WHILE SHE RULED OVER THE LAND 00:06:22.91\00:06:25.95 SIX YEARS. AT THE END OF SIX YEARS THE SON 00:06:25.98\00:06:31.85 OF DAVID - THE KING - CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE. 00:06:31.89\00:06:33.82 WHERE'S OUR KING RIGHT NOW? WHERE'S JESUS, THE SON OF DAVID? 00:06:33.86\00:06:37.99 IS HE IN THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AS OUR HIGH PRIEST? 00:06:38.03\00:06:40.33 IS HE GOING TO COME OUT OF THAT TEMPLE? 00:06:40.36\00:06:41.76 IS MICHAEL GOING TO STAND UP? >>YES. 00:06:41.80\00:06:43.60 >>JOASH CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE, THEY BLEW THE TRUMPET - WILL THE 00:06:43.63\00:06:47.27 TRUMPETS BLOW WHEN JESUS COMES? >>AMEN. 00:06:47.30\00:06:49.40 >>THE PEOPLE REJOICED - WILL THERE BE REJOICING WHEN JESUS 00:06:49.44\00:06:51.64 COMES? >>AMEN. 00:06:51.67\00:06:53.11 >>THE WICKED WERE SLAIN - I'M TALKING ABOUT THE STORY OF JOASH 00:06:53.14\00:06:56.48 - WILL THERE BE WICKED SLAIN WHEN JESUS COMES? 00:06:56.51\00:06:59.41 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THEN THERE WAS PEACE - WILL THERE BE A 00:06:59.45\00:07:02.52 KINGDOM OF PEACE AFTER JESUS COMES? 00:07:02.55\00:07:04.29 ALL THESE STORIES IN THE BIBLE ARE ALLEGORIES TELLING US 00:07:04.32\00:07:07.46 SOMETHING ABOUT JESUS' COMING. IT'S NOT GOING TO LAST FOREVER. 00:07:07.49\00:07:11.43 THE GREAT CLIMAX OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY IS GOING TO BE WHEN 00:07:11.46\00:07:14.46 CHRIST COMES AND HE SETS EVERYTHING RIGHT. 00:07:14.46\00:07:17.77 AND SO THEN, OF COURSE, THEY LIVE AND REIGN WITH JESUS 1,000 00:07:17.80\00:07:21.17 YEARS. YOU READ IN REVELATION 20 - OH, 00:07:21.20\00:07:23.24 ONE MORE THING I JUST THOUGHT ABOUT - WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ADAM 00:07:23.27\00:07:26.34 AND EVE, IF THEY DISOBEYED IN THE GARDEN, IF THEY ATE 00:07:26.37\00:07:29.54 THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT? HE SAID, "FOR IN THE DAY THAT 00:07:29.58\00:07:33.42 YOU EAT OF IT YOU SHALL SURELY DIE." 00:07:33.45\00:07:36.35 DID ADAM AND EVE DROP DEAD AS SOON AS THEY ATE THE FORBIDDEN 00:07:36.38\00:07:39.05 FRUIT? >>NO. 00:07:39.09\00:07:40.49 >>NO? THEY PROBABLY DIED, SPIRITUALLY, RIGHT AWAY. 00:07:40.52\00:07:43.73 SOMETHING HAPPENED. THEIR LIGHT WENT OUT BECAUSE 00:07:43.76\00:07:45.36 THEY SAW THEIR NAKEDNESS. BUT IF A DAY WITH THE LORD IS 00:07:45.39\00:07:50.10 LIKE A THOUSAND YEARS, HOW LONG DID ADAM LIVE? 930. 00:07:50.13\00:07:56.10 'IN THE DAY YOU EAT YOU WILL DIE.' I MEAN, IF GOD MAKES YOU 00:07:56.14\00:07:59.11 AND YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO LIVE FOREVER, AND YOU DIE WITHIN THE 00:07:59.14\00:08:00.78 FIRST THOUSAND YEARS, YOU'RE DEVASTATED. 00:08:00.81\00:08:03.88 YOU AND I LIVE THREE SCORE AND TEN OR A FEW MORE, BUT BACK THEN 00:08:03.91\00:08:08.25 THEY LIVED ALMOST A MILLENNIA BUT NOBODY MADE IT OVER 00:08:08.28\00:08:11.32 A THOUSAND EXCEPT ONE PERSON. ENOCH. EVERYONE ELSE, EVEN 00:08:11.35\00:08:17.86 METHUSELAH, 969 YEARS. 'IN THE DAY YOU EAT THEREOF YOU WILL 00:08:17.89\00:08:20.80 DIE.' SO OUR STUDY TODAY IS TALKING 00:08:20.83\00:08:24.47 ABOUT WHEN THE KING RETURNS. AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT 00:08:24.50\00:08:28.90 SOME OF THE SIGNS OF CHRIST COMING. 00:08:28.94\00:08:30.37 WE'RE NOT GOING TO GIVE YOU A DATE FOR THE LORD'S RETURN, BUT 00:08:30.41\00:08:35.08 WE ARE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THE MISUNDERSTANDINGS IN THE 00:08:35.11\00:08:38.28 CHRISTIAN WORLD REGARDING HOW JESUS IS COMING BACK, BECAUSE 00:08:38.31\00:08:41.45 THAT IS GOING TO SET MANY PEOPLE UP FOR A MAJOR DECEPTION. 00:08:41.48\00:08:45.72 AND SO, WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT. 00:08:45.75\00:08:47.52 FIRST QUESTION: WHO IS THE KING THAT WILL SOON EMERGE FROM THE 00:08:47.56\00:08:52.16 TEMPLE IN HEAVEN? TALKED ABOUT WHEN JOASH CAME OUT 00:08:52.19\00:08:55.30 OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND THEY BLEW THE TRUMPET. 00:08:55.33\00:08:57.53 BY THE WAY, THAT WAS JUST BEFORE THE SABBATH BEGAN, AT THE 00:08:57.57\00:09:00.97 CHANGING OF THE GUARD. JUST BEFORE THE MILLENNIAL 00:09:01.00\00:09:03.47 SABBATH JESUS IS GOING TO COME OUT OF THE TEMPLE - 00:09:03.51\00:09:06.07 >>AMEN. >>AND THERE'LL BE A GREAT TIME 00:09:06.11\00:09:08.58 OF TROUBLE WHEN MICHAEL STANDS UP. IT SAYS, "I LOOKED, AND 00:09:08.61\00:09:12.41 BEHOLD, A WHITE CLOUD, AND ON THE CLOUD SAT ONE LIKE THE SON 00:09:12.45\00:09:15.68 OF MAN, HAVING ON HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN," - JESUS IS THAT 00:09:15.72\00:09:20.99 SON OF MAN WHO IS GOING TO COME. SECOND QUESTION: WILL JESUS 00:09:21.02\00:09:25.16 COME QUIETLY WHEN HE COMES? NOW THIS IS WHERE A LOT 00:09:25.19\00:09:28.86 OF PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND. THEY THINK THAT IT'S GOING TO BE 00:09:28.90\00:09:32.03 A SECRET AND THE BIBLE TELLS US THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS IS 00:09:32.07\00:09:37.54 PROBABLY THE NOISIEST EVENT IN THE BIBLE. 00:09:37.57\00:09:41.21 JUST LOOK AT SOME OF THE VERSES THAT TALK ABOUT THIS: "THE LORD 00:09:41.24\00:09:44.25 HIMSELF" - 1 THESSALONIANS 4:16 - "SHALL DESCEND FROM HEAVEN 00:09:44.28\00:09:48.15 WITH A" - WHAT? - "A SHOUT," - AND THEN IT GOES ON - "WITH THE 00:09:48.18\00:09:52.95 VOICE OF THE ARCHANGEL," - AND THE TRUMP, ANOTHER AUDIBLE 00:09:52.99\00:09:55.82 THING. JEREMIAH 25:30, SPEAKING OF THE 00:09:55.86\00:09:58.93 LORD COMING, IT SAYS, "THE LORD WILL ROAR FROM ON HIGH, AND 00:09:58.96\00:10:03.77 UTTER HIS VOICE FROM HIS HOLY HABITATION." - THERE'S GOING TO 00:10:03.80\00:10:06.57 BE A ROAR WHEN THE LORD COMES - "HE WILL MIGHTILY ROAR UPON HIS 00:10:06.60\00:10:10.07 HABITATION. HE WILL GIVE A SHOUT." 00:10:10.11\00:10:13.04 AGAIN YOU READ - PSALM 50, VERSE 3 - IS THE LORD COMING QUIETLY? 00:10:13.07\00:10:16.91 "OUR GOD SHALL COME, AND SHALL NOT KEEP SILENT; ...AND IT SHALL 00:10:16.95\00:10:21.98 BE VERY TEMPESTUOUS ROUND ABOUT HIM." 00:10:22.02\00:10:24.55 THERE'S GOING TO BE GLORY AND THE HEAVENS ARE GOING TO BE 00:10:24.59\00:10:26.25 CRASHING - THE BIBLE SAYS THE HEAVENS ARE GOING TO DEPART AS A 00:10:26.29\00:10:29.06 SCROLL, THE SUN'LL GO DARK, THE MOON'LL TURN TO BLOOD, THE 00:10:29.09\00:10:31.93 STARS'LL FALL FROM HEAVEN, THE EARTH IS GOING TO REEL TO AND 00:10:31.96\00:10:35.53 FRO LIKE A DRUNKEN MAN, THE ISLANDS WILL BE SWALLOWED UP, 00:10:35.56\00:10:39.50 HAILSTONES ARE GOING TO BE FALLING. YOU'RE NOT GOING TO 00:10:39.53\00:10:42.37 HAVE TO TEXT SOMEBODY AND SAY, 'DID YOU CATCH THAT? 00:10:42.40\00:10:44.41 I THINK JESUS CAME YESTERDAY.' (LAUGHTER) AND YET, SOME PEOPLE 00:10:44.44\00:10:48.78 BELIEVE A RELATIVELY NEW SCENARIO ABOUT T