male announcer: This
presentation is brought to you
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by the friends of the
Amazing Facts Ministry.
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Doug Batchelor:
During the Pacific battles in
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World War II, the Japanese
eavesdropped on the U.S.
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Marine communications,
deciphering every U.S. code.
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But Philip Johnson,
an engineer and veteran,
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made a suggestion.
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He had been raised on
the Navajo reservation,
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and he knew it was virtually an
unwritten language at the time.
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Convinced that very few people
of the world understood the
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complex syntax and
tonal qualities of Navajo,
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the Marines authorized an
official program to develop
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and use the code.
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Young Navajo men fluent in
their native tongue and English,
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some only 15 years old,
constructed in master the Navajo
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code which they
use to transmit crucial
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information during battles.
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Historians believe the Navajo
code talkers played a crucial
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role in the U.S.
victory in the Pacific and the
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Japanese were never
able to break the code.
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Did you know the Scriptures
teach that there's a simple
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little known code
that, once understood,
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will unlock the
mysteries of Bible prophecy?
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Being able to decipher this
code will make God's prophetic
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messages come
alive in your life,
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bringing you peace
and hope for the future.
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Join me today as we
examine this fascinating code.
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Doug: Well, we are very
excited to be with you here in
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Charlotte, and we've been
looking forward to this series.
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We put together a set of
new presentations based on Bible
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prophecy, and especially
in light of everything that is
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going on in the world
today, the last day of prophecy.
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And our presentation tonight
is dealing with The Secret Code
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in Prophecy.
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You know, I remember
years ago hearing about
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the enigma machine.
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You've probably
heard of that as well.
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This machine is actually
built back during World War I.
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They used it for business.
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But when World War II broke out,
the Nazis found out that it was
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such an incredibly sophisticated
machine with the wheels,
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and gears, and
buttons, and wires,
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so that they would transfer a
message through this machine and
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only those with a code book
in the machine at the other end
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could understand that message.
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They figured it was
an unbreakable code.
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But what they didn't count on is
there was a group of brilliant
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Polish mathematicians
who, working with some British
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agents, they were able
to crack the enigma code.
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And that, along with their
capturing a code book from a
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Russian ewe boat that they
ended up sinking so the Germans
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wouldn't know that the
code book was captured.
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They were able to understand
the correspondence between the
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German military for the
last half of World War II.
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The U.S. even built a computer.
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See once they got the message,
then they had to decipher
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it very quickly.
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It was one of the
first supercomputers,
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as big as a truck, now
it would fit in your watch.
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And all that computer did
was decipher enigma messages.
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The U.S. built
that machine for them.
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So, through the
combined work of the allies,
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they figure they took two years
off of World War II because they
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understood the
code of that machine.
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Well, you know, in
nature and in the Bible,
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we see that there are cycles.
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Even in the book
of Ezekiel chapter 1,
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it talks about a
wheel within a wheel.
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And you can see these wheels
within wheels that are taking
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place in Bible prophecy.
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We're gonna talk a little
bit about some of those unusual
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cycles in our
presentation tonight.
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Now, first question, we're gonna
do this in a series of questions
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and the first
question I'm gonna ask,
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I like using this
kind of question and answer
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teaching method.
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"Did Jesus give us some signs
so we could know that they would
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indicate that
his coming was near?"
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I'm not talking about
the day and the hour, near.
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What did he say?
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"There'll be signs,"
Jesus said, "in the sun,
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and in the moon,
and in the stars,
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and on the earth,
distress of nations."
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Things above,
things in humanity,
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things in nature, there'll
be signs that will intensify in
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frequency and their
occurrence, and this
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will indicate
his coming is near.
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Jesus said, "When
you see these things,
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lift up your heads."
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I could stop right here and go
into a presentation of about 50
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different things that I think
are signs that tell us that we
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are living in, what I
believe, is the last generation.
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But I'm just gonna list a few
that really stand out for me.
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One is found in the
book of Daniel chapter 12,
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verse 4 where he
says, "But you, oh, Daniel,
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shut up the words, and seal the
book until the time of the end;
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many will run to and fro,
and knowledge is increased."
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You just heard
Pastor Ross and I allude to,
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we were on the other
side of the planet couple
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of weeks ago in South Africa.
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And Karen and I this year,
or within the last year anyway,
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were in Fiji, and New
Zealand, and just people
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going around the globe.
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They never did that
back in Christ's day.
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He never went more than
100 miles from the place
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of his birth.
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How many of you knew somebody
that grew up and spent their
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whole life and they
never traveled 100 miles?
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I knew a guy that was
70 miles from the ocean,
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at 80 years old, he
had never seen the ocean.
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Someone finally took
him and he was amazed.
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Said, "Wow,
that's a lot of water."
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But people will run to and fro
and knowledge will be increased.
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How many of you
have a smartphone?
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You can access all of the wisdom
of the ages now by just talking
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to it and ask it a question.
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I've just discovered
this feature on my phone.
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It's been on
phones for a long time.
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And it's amazing, my smartphone
makes me feel dumb, actually.
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But if you had showed something
like that to the apostle Paul,
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he would have
thought you were possessed.
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So, knowledge has increased more
in the last 50 years than all of
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the history of man combined.
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So, that's one of the signs.
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Here's another one, Jesus said,
"This gospel of the kingdom will
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be preached in all the world
as a witness to the nation's and
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then the end will come."
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He didn't say, might come.
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He says, "Then
the end will come."
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And, you know, even now this
broadcast through the medium
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of television, it is bouncing
in about half a second off
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satellites 23,000
miles up in space,
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and ricocheting through the
internet all over the world.
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And this is just
one presentation,
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one ministry, or
actually a group of ministries,
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that are preaching the
gospel and there's hundreds.
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I had the privilege of
conducting one of the first
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public evangelistic programs
in mainland China about a
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year-and-a-half ago preaching
to a group like this full
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auditorium,
free, 15 presentations.
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They told me it was the
first time that had been
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allowed in 59 years.
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And so, we've seen it happening.
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And the DVDs and the
Internet, the gospel is going
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everywhere now.
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Jesus didn't say
everybody would believe.
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He said, "But it
would go to all the nations,
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then the end will come."
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I think we're living in that
generation that will see this.
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Now, this is a part I need to
emphasize right at the front end
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of our study tonight.
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Next question, "Can
anyone know the exact
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date of Jesus's return?"
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I'm gonna be
talking about some signs,
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but we've gotta be careful.
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Jesus was very clear, "But
of that day and that hour no one
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knows, not even the
angels of heaven nor the Son,
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but only the Father."
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Some people thought
Jesus is coming 2,000
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years after his birth.
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I actually am on
record in 1999 telling people
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I don't think that's true.
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You know why?
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Because everybody thought so.
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You remember the
big fury in 1999?
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Any of you alive back then?
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Any of you, if you remember Y2K,
and the world was gonna end,
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and all the planes were
gonna fall out of the sky.
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And I said, No, I
don't think Jesus is coming
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December 31, 1999.
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"Really, why not?"
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Because all of you think so.
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And Jesus said,
"In such an hour,
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you think not, the
Son of Man is coming."
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Now the church has
pretty much gone to sleep,
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it could be any time.
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Some people are then
setting dates and saying,
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"Well, Jesus is
gonna come 2,000 years,
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not from his birth,
but from his ministry,
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his baptism, his anointing.
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Others say, "No, it's
2,000 years from his death."
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Don't even go there, friends.
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I'll tell you why, it could
be sooner than you think 'cause
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Jesus said, "Except
those days be shortened,
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no flesh would be saved."
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It could be later than you
think because the Lord is long
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suffering to us.
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We're not willing
that any should perish.
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He's waiting till the
last minute to save as
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many as he can.
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So, we gotta be very careful to
start trying to pinpoint dates.
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And some of you,
if you knew the date,
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it'd be like filing your taxes.
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You'd wait to the
last minute to get ready.
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So, the Lord wants
you to just be ready.
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Jesus was very clear, but
we can know when it's near.
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And that's what we're
gonna be talking about.
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Jesus said, "You know
how to tell the weather."
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I mean, the weatherman can try
and predict the weather was some
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accuracy by satellites,
and they have a perspective.
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And Jesus said, "How
come you can't see the
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signs of the times?"
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So, the Lord has
given us signs of the times,
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but no man knows the day
and the hour of his coming.
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And I want you to make--I want
to make that very clear in this
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presentation 'cause I'm gonna
talk about some of the signs,
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and we're gonna
talk about some times,
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but not dates,
for the Lord's coming.
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All right,
question number three,
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"What number appears
most frequently in prophecy?"
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You knew it, the number seven.
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And here's this one verse in the
Bible in the book of Revelation.
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Revelation chapter 1, verse 20
talks about the mystery of the
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seven stars, "Which
he saw in my right hand,
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and the seven golden lampstands,
and the seven stars of the
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angels of the seven churches,
and the seven lampstands which
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you saw are seven churches."
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It's pretty clear
about the number seven.
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I've just got a small list here
in my Bible that I assembled of
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some of the sevens
that you find in Scripture.
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Six things the Lord
hates, yes, seven are
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an abomination to them.
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You've heard about
the seven deadly sins.
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Judgment, that's kind of
frightening but because it's
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connected with judgment, seven's
also connected with forgiveness.
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For instance, Peter
said, "Lord, how often shall I
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forgive my brother?"
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Matthew 18. "Seven times?"
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And Jesus said,
"Seventy times seven.
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He said not seven
times, but seventy times seven.
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Again, forgiveness.
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When the priest
went before the Lord,
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he took the blood of the
sacrifice and the sprinkled it
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seven times before the Lord.
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And so seven
connected with forgiveness.
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You may remember the story in
2 Kings chapter 5 about Naaman
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the general who was a leper.
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He was told to
wash in the Jordan.
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Jordan is a symbol of
where Jesus was baptized,
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death, burial, resurrection,
baptism; seven times,
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and he was
cleansed from his leprosy.
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Miriam spent seven days outside
of the tabernacle with her
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leprosy and then she was healed.
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And so, seven is sometimes like
a cycle of time that talks about
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a judgment.
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So, "What are some of the other
Bible stories that reference
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this cycle of seven?"
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How long was Moses
on Mount Sinai getting
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the Ten Commandments?
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Forty days and forty nights.
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But you remember, there
was another time period before
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he went up.
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"Now the glory of the
Lord rested on Mount Sinai,
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and the cloud
covered it," for how long?
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"Six days and
on the seventh day,
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the Lord called to
Moses out of the cloud,
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and Moses went up."
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Another law they had,
just some of the other stories,
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"If you buy a Hebrew
servant," Exodus chapter 21:2,
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"He will serve six
years, and in the seventh year,
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he'll go free."
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Now, is Jesus gonna set the
captives free when he comes?
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So, six years, people
in the world have been
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enslaved to the devil.
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He's a hard taskmaster.
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But the Lord's gonna to come
and he's gonna set the captives
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free, and those who've trusted
in Christ will be liberated
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at that time.
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Jericho, you know when
the children of Israel,
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the first battle to take
the Promised Land was a city
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called Jericho.
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How many times did they march
around the city of Jericho?
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Thirteen times.
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Everyone gets that wrong.
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You all remember how many times
they marched around the city the
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last day, but it
says they march around
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the city once for six days.
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Then on the seventh
day, they march around
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the city seven times.
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That's a total of 13.
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How many were
at the Last Supper?
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Thirteen, what does that mean?
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I don't know, but I
just think, I always
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think about these numbers.
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Just stir up your pure minds.
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You might give me your ideas.
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Anyway but notice six
days and march around the city.
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Then the seventh day,
they took the Promised Land.
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"What are some of the other
patterns of seven in Scripture?"
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We got a lot, friends.
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Enoch, you can read
in the book of Jude,
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Enoch is the seventh from Adam.
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He prophesied
about these men saying,
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"Behold, the Lord
comes with 10,000 saints."
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Now, we just
talked about, Enoch,
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the father of Methuselah,
what direction did Enoch go?
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He went up.
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What generation was he?
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He was the seventh.
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So, if you
count from Adam, Seth,
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Emus, you make
your way up to Enoch,
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you got six before
him, the seventh goes up.
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And the seventh, Jude says,
talks about the Lord is coming.
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Very interesting, I don't know,
maybe I'm seeing stuff that
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isn't really there but
to me, I just see a pattern.
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You can read in Job, "In six
troubles he will deliver you.
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Yes, in seven no
evil will touch you."
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Why does no evil
touch us in seven?
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'Cause we're caught up.
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You remember there was a
famine in the land and Elijah
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prayed for rain.
00:14:12.61\00:14:13.92
And he sent his
servant to the ocean he said,
00:14:13.95\00:14:15.78
"Any rain yet?"
00:14:15.82\00:14:17.19
He said, "It hasn't rained
for three-and-a-half years.
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There's nothing."
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He prayed
again, he prayed again,
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he prayed again.
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Came to pass, after six times
the servant came back said,
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"Nothing, nothing, nothing."
00:14:25.19\00:14:27.13
Seventh time he
prayed he said, "You know,
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there's a cloud
coming up out of the sea,
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and that cloud grew and it
filled the sky and it poured,
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and there was a storm."
00:14:36.47\00:14:38.81
And by the way,
there's gonna be a storm,
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friends, in the future
just before Jesus comes.
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Christ said there's gonna be
a time of trouble such as there
00:14:43.48\00:14:45.31
never has been
since there was a nation,
00:14:45.35\00:14:47.75
even under that same time.
00:14:47.78\00:14:49.35
You've heard of the tribulation,
this is why Jesus said,
00:14:49.38\00:14:52.22
"He that endures to
the end will be saved."
00:14:52.25\00:14:54.76
We've gotta have a faith
now where we believe his Word
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and we love the Lord.
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Doug: "Did Jesus foretell
there might be an appearance
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of delay
connected with his return?"
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I mean here 6,000
years have gone by.
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It's been 2,000 years
since Christ was born,
00:15:42.94\00:15:45.14
how come he
hasn't come back yet?
00:15:45.17\00:15:46.74
Don't forget when
Jesus came the first time,
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was the church ready
for his first coming?
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Did his own
people, with the Bible,
00:15:51.65\00:15:54.45
grow tired of
waiting for the Messiah?
00:15:54.48\00:15:57.25
Why would we think the
devil's gonna be any different?
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It's gonna be the same
way, the Second Coming,
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as it was the first.
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And they weren't
reading the Bible.
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There was a few
wise men in the East,
00:16:06.23\00:16:07.50
couple of people in the
temple, Hannah and Simeon,
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some shepherds in the field, but
most people were not ready for
00:16:09.83\00:16:12.97
the first coming.
00:16:13.00\00:16:14.57
The devil hasn't changed.
00:16:14.60\00:16:17.01
So, what are some examples Jesus
gave us so we can know that he
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told us, "Prepare for a time
of delay that will test your
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faith," or at least
the appearance of delay.
00:16:24.48\00:16:26.55
After Jesus gives the signs
in Matthew 24 talking about the
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Second Coming.
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He tells the disciples, "If that
evil servant says in his heart,
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'My Lord is delaying
his coming,'" and he begins
00:16:35.99\00:16:40.20
to eat and drink
with the drunken.
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Why would he
mentioned if that sermon says,
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"My Lord delays."?
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You know, it sounds like Christ
is quoting what happened when
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the children of Israel
got tired of waiting for
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Moses to come back.
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Moses went up the mountain
to get the Ten Commandments,
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but he was, you
know, over 80 years old,
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and he went up there, and
there's thunder and smoke coming
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out of the mountain, and the
mountain's shaking and after a
00:17:00.88\00:17:03.95
few weeks, you'd start to worry.
00:17:03.99\00:17:05.92
You know, an old guy up
there, he could have tripped,
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he's by himself.
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He's probably not coming back.
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After three weeks,
four weeks, after 40 days
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they said, "Oh, this is it.
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He's not coming back.
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We can't go up the
mountain, we're forbidden.
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We gotta get someone else."
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It says, "While Moses delayed.
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When the people saw
that Moses delayed coming
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down the mountain."
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They were being tested.
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What did they do?
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Many of them failed the test.
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They made a golden calf.
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They compromised their worship.
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Could the church be faced with
the same kind of test today?
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We're in a time
of waiting right now.
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When our faith
should be going stronger,
00:17:41.59\00:17:43.32
and some are compromising
trying to be like the world.
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Another example in the Bible.
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You've heard of
Samuel the prophet,
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Samuel anointed king to be--Saul
to the king and he said,
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"You're gonna have an epic
battle with the Philistines.
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Don't go into battle till
I offer sacrifice for you."
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Samuel was the
prophet, he was the priest.
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He was the judge of Israel.
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Well, he said,
notice what he says,
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"You shall go down before me to
Gilgal and surely I will come."
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Did Jesus tell you
that, "I will come again"?
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Does he lie?
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"Surely, I will come down to
you to offer burnt offering and
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sacrifices of peace offerings.
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Seven days you'll
wait, wait till I come.
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Wait till I come to you."
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Very clear instructions.
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But then the Bible says Saul,
the Philistines were gathering,
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his men were getting
afraid, many were deserting.
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Six days went by,
Samuel was not even there.
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And the Bible says
he waited seven days,
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but Samuel didn't come.
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And Saul finally said, "Look,
we've got to offer sacrifice."
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When the seventh day
came, he was being tested.
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He did something that
he was forbidden to do.
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The king was not the priest.
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He was not supposed
to offer the sacrifice.
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And he went and he did it 'cause
the other nations did it so he
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thought, "It
doesn't matter if I do it."
00:19:02.10\00:19:03.57
He offered sacrifice
and as soon as he was done,
00:19:03.61\00:19:05.94
guess what happened.
00:19:05.97\00:19:07.51
Samuel came.
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Same thing that happened as soon
as they made the golden calf.
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Moses came, there's gonna
be a big test in the last days
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of God's people.
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That's why Jesus
said, "Many will come to me
00:19:16.22\00:19:18.59
in that day, 'Lord, Lord.'"
00:19:18.62\00:19:19.92
He'll say, "I don't know you.
00:19:19.95\00:19:21.26
Depart from me,
you who work iniquity."
00:19:21.29\00:19:22.59
They lost patients
waiting, time of testing.
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Why do you think
Jesus said in Matthew 25,
00:19:26.16\00:19:28.73
Matthew 24 signs
of the Second Coming.
00:19:28.76\00:19:30.97
Matthew 25, "While
the bridegroom delayed--"
00:19:31.00\00:19:34.20
Who's the
bridegroom in that parable?
00:19:34.24\00:19:36.04
He's a symbol for
Jesus, we all agree?
00:19:36.07\00:19:38.87
Did Christ--is he
trying to tell us something?
00:19:38.91\00:19:41.24
That there was a period of
testing where those--there is
00:19:41.28\00:19:45.65
10 virgins, 5
wise, 5 foolish, right?
00:19:45.68\00:19:50.05
You know the parable?
00:19:50.09\00:19:51.52
There's a time of testing, half
of them failed the test 'cause
00:19:51.55\00:19:55.92
they thought, "Well,
he's not coming back."
00:19:55.96\00:19:57.86
The Lord
sometimes tests our faith.
00:19:57.89\00:20:00.56
"Will Jesus actually
be late for his return?"
00:20:00.60\00:20:04.07
What do you think?
00:20:04.10\00:20:05.47
Let's read some
prophecies on this.
00:20:05.50\00:20:06.90
It says in Habakkuk, "The vision
is yet for an appointed time,
00:20:06.94\00:20:10.97
but at the end, it
will speak and not lie."
00:20:11.01\00:20:14.54
Notice, it says,
"Though it tarries,
00:20:14.58\00:20:18.31
wait for it because
it will surely come.
00:20:18.35\00:20:21.48
It will not tarry."
00:20:21.52\00:20:23.92
In other words, he
says though it tarries,
00:20:23.95\00:20:25.89
but it will not tarry.
00:20:25.92\00:20:27.82
Though it appears and
many of the world are saying,
00:20:27.86\00:20:29.66
"I guess the
Lord's not coming back."
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.76
You can read
here in Hebrews 10:37,
00:20:31.79\00:20:34.20
"For yet a little while,
and he who is coming will come
00:20:34.20\00:20:37.30
and will not tarry.
00:20:37.33\00:20:39.60
And the just
shall live by faith."
00:20:39.63\00:20:43.37
Friends, is your
faith hanging on?
00:20:43.41\00:20:45.11
Jesus said, "I'm coming again."
00:20:45.14\00:20:46.44
This ought to be the great hope,
the blessed hope of believers
00:20:46.47\00:20:50.91
that will mobilize us.
00:20:50.95\00:20:52.45
And if, how would you live
if you thought the Lord was
00:20:52.48\00:20:55.48
coming in a week?
00:20:55.52\00:20:56.99
We ought to be
living that way every day.
00:20:57.02\00:20:59.22
He said, "I will come again,"
and he will reward everybody.
00:20:59.25\00:21:03.73
You can read in
Hebrews chapter 10,
00:21:03.76\00:21:05.76
verse 37, "If anyone draws back,
my soul has no pleasure in him."
00:21:05.79\00:21:10.67
That's the rest of that verse.
00:21:10.70\00:21:12.13
Here's one from 2
Peter 3, verse 3 and 4,
00:21:12.17\00:21:15.17
"Knowing this first, that
scoffers will come in the last
00:21:15.20\00:21:18.44
days," that's in
the words of our song,
00:21:18.47\00:21:22.44
mockers and scoffers.
00:21:22.48\00:21:24.08
"Walking according to
their own lusts saying,
00:21:24.11\00:21:27.38
'Where is the
promise of his coming?
00:21:27.42\00:21:29.85
Forever since the
fathers fell asleep,
00:21:29.88\00:21:31.92
all things continue as they
were from the beginning of the
00:21:31.95\00:21:34.42
creation until now."
00:21:34.46\00:21:35.96
What is Peter talking
about scoffers in the world?
00:21:35.99\00:21:38.49
There's always been
scoffers in the world.
00:21:38.53\00:21:40.06
Maybe he's talking about
scoffers in the church in the
00:21:40.10\00:21:44.13
last days, walking
after their own lust.
00:21:44.17\00:21:46.97
And I'm walking
godly lives saying,
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.67
Ah, he's never gonna come.
00:21:48.70\00:21:50.07
Yeah, we've heard
it, Jesus is coming,
00:21:50.11\00:21:51.57
Jesus is coming.
00:21:51.61\00:21:52.91
You preachers been
saying that for years.
00:21:52.94\00:21:54.34
That's right, and one of
these days we're gonna be right.
00:21:54.38\00:21:56.64
He is gonna come.
00:21:56.68\00:21:59.75
He told us to let people know.
00:21:59.78\00:22:01.22
How does the Bible end?
00:22:01.25\00:22:02.55
Even so come, Lord Jesus.
00:22:02.58\00:22:04.72
We can't lose
faith in that, friends.
00:22:04.75\00:22:07.62
It says, Peter says, "But the
day of the Lord will come as a
00:22:07.66\00:22:12.06
thief in the night in which the
heavens will pass away with a
00:22:12.09\00:22:14.83
great noise, and the elements
will melt with fervent heat and
00:22:14.83\00:22:18.00
the earth also and
the things that are in it
00:22:18.03\00:22:20.20
will be burned up."
00:22:20.24\00:22:21.74
He's gonna come.
00:22:21.77\00:22:23.07
Romans chapter 13, verse
11, "And knowing the time,
00:22:23.10\00:22:28.21
that now it is high
time to awake out asleep.
00:22:28.24\00:22:31.91
For now is our salvation nearer
then when we first believed."
00:22:31.95\00:22:36.38
What were those--how many
of the ten virgins were wise?
00:22:36.42\00:22:41.16
How many of them were foolish.
00:22:41.19\00:22:44.19
How many were sleeping?
00:22:44.23\00:22:45.99
I wonder if the Lord's telling
us something about the condition
00:22:46.03\00:22:49.96
before the bridegroom comes.
00:22:50.00\00:22:51.93
We need to wake up.
00:22:51.97\00:22:53.34
The Bible says,
"The night is far spent,
00:22:53.37\00:22:55.44
the day is at hand.
00:22:55.47\00:22:57.17
Let us therefore cast off the
works of darkness and let us put
00:22:57.21\00:23:00.88
on the armor of light."
00:23:00.91\00:23:02.91
Friends, I believe we're
living in the most exciting time
00:23:02.94\00:23:05.41
in the Earth's history.
00:23:05.45\00:23:07.18
I believe the Lord has told us
in his Word in through the signs
00:23:07.22\00:23:10.95
of the times, through
the stories of the Bible,
00:23:10.99\00:23:13.62
through the cycles
that we see in prophecy.
00:23:13.66\00:23:16.36
And we'll be sharing a lot more.
00:23:16.39\00:23:17.76
You need to stick with this
program because we're gonna be
00:23:17.79\00:23:19.86
sharing things that you
maybe never heard before,
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.90
but I promise you it will be
from the Word of God and it's
00:23:21.93\00:23:24.57
all gonna tell you
that Christ is coming soon.
00:23:24.60\00:23:27.04
What's happening behind the
scenes in prophecy right now,
00:23:27.07\00:23:29.64
much of the world is confused
about and how we can be ready.
00:23:29.67\00:23:34.38
The Lord has not forgotten us.
00:23:34.41\00:23:36.48
He is gonna come again.
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I remember back in 1995 when all
this unfolded during the Bosnian
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War, one of our fighter
pilots, Captain Scott O'Grady,
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was flying over war-torn Bosnia
when his F16 when a SAM missile
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tore through his aircraft.
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And as he pummeled
towards the ground,
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he pulled the ejection lever and
he exploded out of what was left
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of the cockpit, burned his face,
injured eye it a little bit,
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and he parachuted down.
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And they saw, the
enemy on the ground,
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saw that they hit him.
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They saw him parachute down.
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They couldn't get to the spot
quick enough and he dropped his
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chute, went and hid like
a scared animal in the brush
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in the woods.
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And for six days, he was trying
to evade the enemy in strange
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territory, and he
was hiding under bushes.
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Says, sometimes he saw the boots
going just right near him of the
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enemy looking for him.
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They knew if they could
get that American pilot,
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it would be quite a trophy.
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He had a radio and he
kept calling for help.
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He saw the battery was
slowly fading on his radio,
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and he wondered if
anybody was hearing him.
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And he said, the only thing that
sustained him during that time
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was his love for God,
his love for his family,
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and his love for his country.
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For six days,
Captain O'Grady hid,
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drank dirty water, and he
ate bugs and did all he could to
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survive, kept calling for help.
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And finally, he heard
somebody call back on his radio.
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They were afraid to call him for
fear that others would pick up
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the transmission, and he
was given some instructions.
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And after six days,
there was a clearing.
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He set off a flare, and a
helicopter descended with twenty
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Marines jumping out
to create a perimeter.
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He ran to that chopper and
jumped in as fast as he could,
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and the whole
thing took seven minutes.
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And he got back and
you know, it was amazing.
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Whenever I hear
this story, I don't know,
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I'm getting old and
emotional or something.
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Just it was amazing to me that
while he was going through that
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ordeal, he wondered, "Has
my country forgotten about me?
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Is anybody
doing anything for me?
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Are they gonna come back?
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Maybe I'm just one
soldier and they don't care."
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And if he could only know what
was going on behind the scenes,
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the whole United States Military
plus the military of allies had
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been mobilized
to save one soldier.
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Now, if faulty men can do
that for their fellow man,
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will God forget about us?
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Is he gonna come again?
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Friends, you can count on
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is coming soon.
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