THIS
PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU
00:00:02.23\00:00:03.57
BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:00:03.60\00:00:06.43
KNOWN AS A BROOD PARASITE,
00:00:08.84\00:00:10.71
THE COMMON CUCKOO
BIRD LAYS HER EGGS
00:00:10.74\00:00:12.84
IN THE NEST OF
SMALLER BIRD SPECIES
00:00:12.87\00:00:14.94
LIKE A REED WARBLER.
00:00:14.98\00:00:16.91
ONCE A CUCKOO'S
EGG HAS BEEN LAID
00:00:16.95\00:00:19.01
WHICH TENDS TO
MATCH THE HOST EGG
00:00:19.05\00:00:20.72
IN PATTERN AND COLOR,
00:00:20.75\00:00:22.22
THE UNSUSPECTING
LITTLE MOTHERS INCUBATE, FEED,
00:00:22.25\00:00:25.05
AND RAISE THE YOUNG IMPOSTER,
00:00:25.09\00:00:26.96
TYPICALLY AT THE
EXPENSE OF THEIR OWN OFFSPRING.
00:00:26.99\00:00:29.66
ONE OF THE TRAGEDIES OF NATURE
00:00:29.69\00:00:31.49
IS TO WATCH A
LITTLE REED WARBLER
00:00:31.53\00:00:33.23
AND ITS MATE NEARLY
WORK THEMSELVES TO DEATH
00:00:33.26\00:00:36.00
TO SATISFY THE VORACIOUS HUNGER
OF A FAT LITTLE CUCKOO CHICK.
00:00:36.03\00:00:40.07
WHILE THEIR OWN STARVING YOUNG
ARE CROWDED OUT OF THE NEST.
00:00:40.10\00:00:43.71
MANY DON'T REALIZE
00:00:43.74\00:00:45.04
THAT THE DEVIL HAS
LAID A DECEPTIVE EGG
00:00:45.07\00:00:47.31
IN THE CHURCH,
THAT'S BEEN HATCHED,
00:00:47.34\00:00:49.41
ADOPTED AND FED
00:00:49.44\00:00:51.25
UNTIL IT'S GROWN
BIGGER THAN LIFE.
00:00:51.28\00:00:53.62
JESUS WARNED US ABOUT THIS.
00:00:53.65\00:00:55.82
BUT WHAT EXACTLY
IS THIS COUNTERFEIT
00:00:55.85\00:00:58.69
AND HOW DOES IT AFFECT YOU?
00:00:58.72\00:01:00.89
SO JOIN ME NOW AS WE
UNRAVEL THIS MYSTERY.
00:01:00.92\00:01:03.43
WE'RE GOING TO
BE TALKING, TONIGHT,
00:01:07.76\00:01:09.03
ABOUT A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT.
00:01:09.06\00:01:10.90
THE TITLE OF THE PRESENTATION
IS CALLED "THE WOMAN OF LIGHT,"
00:01:10.93\00:01:15.50
AND IT'S BASED UPON A WOMAN
00:01:15.54\00:01:17.27
THAT APPEARS IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 12.
00:01:17.31\00:01:21.38
AND YOU'LL UNDERSTAND
THE NATURE OF THE TITLE
00:01:21.41\00:01:23.51
A LITTLE BETTER AS WE PROCEED.
00:01:23.55\00:01:25.65
BUT I THOUGHT I'D
TELL YOU A LITTLE STORY
00:01:25.68\00:01:27.82
THAT MAY SEGUE WELL
WITH THIS STUDY TONIGHT.
00:01:27.85\00:01:31.29
I'VE MADE A FEW TRIPS TO INDIA,
PASTOR ROSS HAS BEEN TO INDIA.
00:01:31.32\00:01:34.22
AMAZING FACTS HAS A SCHOOL,
00:01:34.26\00:01:35.59
AN EVANGELISM
TRAINING SCHOOL IN INDIA.
00:01:35.62\00:01:37.96
AND I REMEMBER HEARING
THE STORY ABOUT A WOMAN,
00:01:37.99\00:01:40.06
37 YEARS OLD, THAT
WAS BATHING SOME CLOTHES,
00:01:40.10\00:01:45.60
WASHING SOME CLOTHES
AND SOME DISHES THERE
00:01:45.63\00:01:47.74
BY THE RIVER... A
LOT OF POOR PEOPLE...
00:01:47.77\00:01:49.74
INDIA HAS BECOME VERY MODERN,
00:01:49.77\00:01:51.14
BUT THERE'S STILL A LOT
OF VERY POOR PEOPLE THERE
00:01:51.17\00:01:53.98
AND THEY'D NEVER
KNOWN OF CROCODILES
00:01:54.01\00:01:57.51
ON THIS PARTICULAR
RIVER, BUT OUT OF NOWHERE
00:01:57.55\00:02:00.05
THIS HUGE SALTWATER CROCODILE
LUNGED OUT OF THE RIVER AT HER,
00:02:00.08\00:02:04.69
AS SHE WAS DOING
THE WASHING THERE,
00:02:04.72\00:02:07.56
AND GRABBED HER BY THE LEG
00:02:07.59\00:02:08.99
AND STARTED TO DRAG
HER OFF INTO THE RIVER.
00:02:09.02\00:02:11.16
AND IT WAS BIG ENOUGH TO
EASILY HAVE DEVOURED HER.
00:02:11.19\00:02:15.80
ALL KINDS OF THINGS
WERE GOING THROUGH HER MIND
00:02:15.83\00:02:17.50
AND IT'S AMAZING HOW
QUICKLY YOUR MIND WORKS
00:02:17.53\00:02:19.37
IN A TERRIFIED MOMENT LIKE THAT,
00:02:19.40\00:02:21.14
JUST FAMILY AND CHILDREN
00:02:21.17\00:02:22.74
AND SHE REALLY DIDN'T WANT
TO BE SOME REPTILE'S LUNCH.
00:02:22.77\00:02:27.54
AND THEN, AS HE
WAS PULLING HER OFF
00:02:27.58\00:02:29.48
THE BANK INTO THE
RIVER, IT OCCURRED TO HER
00:02:29.51\00:02:31.18
SHE HAD NEVER LET
GO OF THE ALUMINUM POT
00:02:31.21\00:02:33.62
THAT SHE HAD BEEN WASHING.
00:02:33.65\00:02:35.72
IN HER TERROR
SHE JUST GRIPPED IT
00:02:35.75\00:02:37.22
AND SHE TOOK THE THING
00:02:37.25\00:02:38.55
AND BEGAN TO THUMP
THE CROCODILE ON THE HEAD
00:02:38.59\00:02:41.29
AND ABOUT THE EYES,
00:02:41.32\00:02:43.43
AND I GUESS SHE WALLOPED
HIM PRETTY GOOD, HE LET GO.
00:02:43.46\00:02:47.76
REVELATION CHAPTER 12
TALKS ABOUT A LARGE REPTILE
00:02:47.83\00:02:51.93
THAT IS A MAN-EATER.
00:02:51.97\00:02:54.04
AND IF YOU GO
WITH ME IN YOUR BIBLES,
00:02:54.07\00:02:55.74
WE'RE GOING TO
BEGIN READING ABOUT THIS,
00:02:55.77\00:02:59.07
AND YOU FIND IT IN
CHAPTER 12, VERSE 1.
00:02:59.11\00:03:02.91
AND THIS IS OUR FIRST
QUESTION IN OUR STUDY.
00:03:02.94\00:03:04.95
HOW DOES REVELATION
PICTURE GOD'S TRUE CHURCH?
00:03:04.98\00:03:08.42
WE TALKED ABOUT
THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH
00:03:08.45\00:03:10.59
CALLED BABYLON IN CHAPTER 17.
00:03:10.62\00:03:13.29
I KNOW WE'RE DOING
THINGS A LITTLE OUT OF ORDER.
00:03:13.32\00:03:14.76
NOW WE'RE LOOKING AT CHAPTER 12,
00:03:14.79\00:03:16.99
AND WE'RE GOING TO SEE HOW
IS THE TRUE CHURCH PICTURED?
00:03:17.03\00:03:20.43
YOU READ THERE IN VERSE 1,
00:03:20.46\00:03:22.70
"A WOMAN IS SEEN
CLOTHED WITH THE SUN,
00:03:22.73\00:03:25.97
AND THE MOON UNDER HER FEET,
00:03:26.00\00:03:27.87
AND UPON HER HEAD A
CROWN OF TWELVE STARS."
00:03:27.90\00:03:30.47
NOW, BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER,
00:03:30.51\00:03:32.51
THAT'S WHY SHE'S
CALLED "CLOTHED WITH LIGHT."
00:03:32.54\00:03:35.11
THERE ARE THREE
NATURAL FORMS OF LIGHT
00:03:35.14\00:03:37.48
THAT YOU FIND IN GENESIS.
00:03:37.51\00:03:38.81
GOD MADE THE SUN,
AND HE MADE THE MOON,
00:03:38.85\00:03:40.72
AND HE MADE THE STARS,
00:03:40.75\00:03:42.62
AND THEY ILLUMINATE THE EARTH.
00:03:42.65\00:03:44.42
GOD SAID TO THE CHURCH,
00:03:44.45\00:03:46.32
"YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
00:03:46.35\00:03:47.82
LET YOUR LIGHT
SO SHINE BEFORE MEN
00:03:47.86\00:03:49.92
THAT THEY MAY
SEE YOUR GOOD WORKS
00:03:49.96\00:03:51.73
AND GLORIFY YOUR
FATHER IN HEAVEN."
00:03:51.76\00:03:53.43
THAT'S MATTHEW
CHAPTER 5, OF COURSE.
00:03:53.46\00:03:55.36
SO THIS IS A WOMAN
WHO IS CLOTHED WITH LIGHT
00:03:55.40\00:03:57.73
FROM THE STARS, TO
THE SUN, TO THE MOON.
00:03:57.77\00:04:01.10
WHAT DO THEY REPRESENT?
00:04:01.14\00:04:02.67
THE MOON HAS NO
LIGHT OF ITS OWN,
00:04:02.70\00:04:05.14
IT REFLECTS THE LIGHT OF THE SUN
00:04:05.17\00:04:06.81
THAT IS GOING TO RISE.
00:04:06.84\00:04:09.11
THE MOON IS LIKE
THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:04:09.14\00:04:11.11
FULL OF LIGHT
00:04:11.15\00:04:13.15
BUT IT'S THE FOUNDATION
ON WHICH THE WOMAN STANDS,
00:04:13.18\00:04:16.02
BUT SHE'S
ACTUALLY WEARING THE SUN.
00:04:16.05\00:04:19.72
BIBLE TELLS US IN
MALACHI CHAPTER 4,
00:04:19.75\00:04:22.69
TALKING ABOUT CHRIST,
"THE SON OF RIGHTEOUSNESS
00:04:22.72\00:04:25.03
WHO WILL ARISE WITH
HEALING IN HIS WINGS."
00:04:25.06\00:04:27.56
IT'S ONE OF THE
PLACES WHERE CHRIST
00:04:27.60\00:04:28.86
IS SORT OF COMPARED TO THE SUN,
00:04:28.90\00:04:30.40
THE BRIGHTNESS OF THE SUN.
00:04:30.43\00:04:32.00
WHEN JESUS WAS TRANSFIGURED
ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION
00:04:32.03\00:04:36.47
IN MARK CHAPTER 9,
00:04:36.50\00:04:38.61
IT SAYS HE WAS
SHINING LIKE THE SUN,
00:04:38.64\00:04:40.61
BRIGHTER THAN ANY
LAUNDRY SOAP CAN MAKE YOU,
00:04:40.64\00:04:43.61
STARS ABOVE THE HEAD, IT
REPRESENTS THE LEADERSHIP,
00:04:43.65\00:04:47.88
THERE'S 12 STARS.
00:04:47.92\00:04:49.92
AND JESUS, OF COURSE,
THERE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT,
00:04:49.95\00:04:51.89
YOU'VE GOT THE 12
PATRIARCHS, INCLUDING SAMUEL.
00:04:51.92\00:04:54.99
MOST PEOPLE COUNT 12 JUDGES.
00:04:55.02\00:04:57.06
MOSES HAD 12 PRINCES,
00:04:57.09\00:04:59.06
AND NEW TESTAMENT
YOU'VE GOT 12 WHAT?
00:04:59.09\00:05:01.76
TWELVE APOSTLES
THAT JESUS PICKS.
00:05:01.80\00:05:04.10
I TOLD YOU, THAT NUMBER
MUST HAVE BEEN IMPORTANT
00:05:04.13\00:05:05.77
BECAUSE THEY REPLACED JUDAS
00:05:05.80\00:05:07.34
AND THE HOLY
SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT.
00:05:07.37\00:05:09.34
AND ABOVE THE HEAD
IS SYMBOL OF LEADERSHIP,
00:05:09.37\00:05:11.67
IT'S WHERE THE
HEAD IS, IT'S GUIDANCE,
00:05:11.71\00:05:13.68
SO IT'S TALKING
ABOUT THE FOUNDATION
00:05:13.71\00:05:15.78
OF THE OLD TESTAMENT SHINING
WITH THE REALITY OF CHRIST,
00:05:15.81\00:05:18.38
THE NEW TESTAMENT,
00:05:18.41\00:05:19.71
THE LEADERSHIP OF THE
CHURCH AND THROUGH THIS,
00:05:19.75\00:05:23.08
GOD LETS HIS LIGHT
SHINE INTO THE WORLD.
00:05:23.12\00:05:26.05
BUT SOMETHING ELSE
THAT PEOPLE OFTEN MISS.
00:05:26.09\00:05:29.46
"SHE BEING WITH CHILD CRIED,
00:05:29.49\00:05:31.83
TRAVAILING IN BIRTH,
00:05:31.86\00:05:33.53
AND PAINED TO BE DELIVERED."
00:05:33.56\00:05:35.80
SHE IS PREGNANT AND
ABOUT TO HAVE A BABY
00:05:35.83\00:05:40.10
AND GOING
THROUGH THE LABOR PAINS,
00:05:40.14\00:05:42.60
AND THIS IS WHEN THE DRAGON
IS TRYING TO TAKE ADVANTAGE.
00:05:42.64\00:05:45.27
NOW, AS WE READ ON
00:05:45.31\00:05:47.14
AND THEN I'M GOING TO
BACK UP TO THIS VERSE.
00:05:47.18\00:05:48.98
WHAT ABOUT HER
CHILD THAT WE LEARN?
00:05:49.01\00:05:50.45
I JUST WANT YOU TO
KNOW WHO THIS CHILD IS.
00:05:50.48\00:05:53.08
"SHE BROUGHT FORTH A MAN CHILD,
00:05:53.11\00:05:55.35
WHO WAS TO RULE ALL
NATIONS WITH A ROD OF IRON."
00:05:55.38\00:05:58.95
WHO IS THE MAN CHILD?
00:05:58.99\00:06:01.49
WELL, IT TELLS US HER CHILD
00:06:01.52\00:06:03.02
IS CAUGHT UP UNTO
GOD AND HIS THRONE.
00:06:03.06\00:06:05.19
CHRIST ASCENDED UP TO
HEAVEN TO GOD ON THE THRONE.
00:06:05.23\00:06:07.60
SO THE MAN CHILD IS GOD.
00:06:07.60\00:06:09.30
SO WHAT DOES A WOMAN REPRESENT?
00:06:09.33\00:06:11.97
CHURCH.
00:06:12.00\00:06:13.64
IT SAYS, "I HAVE
LIKENED THE DAUGHTER OF ZION
00:06:13.67\00:06:15.87
TO A DELICATE
AND A COMELY WOMAN."
00:06:15.90\00:06:17.77
PAUL SAYS,
"HUSBANDS LOVE YOUR WIVES
00:06:17.81\00:06:19.67
AS CHRIST LOVES THE CHURCH."
00:06:19.71\00:06:21.51
A WOMAN IS OFTEN
COMPARED TO A CHURCH.
00:06:21.54\00:06:23.48
THIS WOMAN IN
CHAPTER 12, SUN, MOON, STARS,
00:06:23.51\00:06:26.68
THE DRAGON HATES HER,
SHE MUST BE A GOOD CHURCH.
00:06:26.72\00:06:30.02
THE VERY FACT
THAT DRAGON HATES HER
00:06:30.05\00:06:32.02
IS A GOOD SIGN, RIGHT?
00:06:32.05\00:06:34.22
THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17,
00:06:34.26\00:06:36.32
SHE'S RIDING
ALONG WITH THE DRAGON,
00:06:36.36\00:06:38.93
THEY'RE IN COOPERATION.
00:06:38.96\00:06:41.16
AGAIN, ISAIAH
51:16, "SAY UNTO ZION,
00:06:41.20\00:06:44.57
'THOU ART MY PEOPLE.'"
00:06:44.60\00:06:46.37
OFTEN, IN THE BIBLE,
00:06:46.40\00:06:47.70
GOD CALLS HIS CHURCH
HIS PEOPLE, HIS BRIDE.
00:06:47.74\00:06:50.21
NOW, JUST SO YOU'LL KNOW,
IN CASE YOU EVER SEE THIS,
00:06:50.24\00:06:53.07
SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL,
THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 12
00:06:53.11\00:06:55.34
WHO BRINGS FORTH THE MAN CHILD,
00:06:55.38\00:06:57.08
WELL, THAT MUST BE MARY, RIGHT?"
00:06:57.11\00:06:59.25
AND YOU'LL OFTEN SEE,
IN A NUMBER OF CHURCHES,
00:06:59.28\00:07:02.02
YOU'LL SEE PICTURES OF MARY.
00:07:02.05\00:07:03.42
I'VE GOT A SAMPLE
OF ONE RIGHT HERE,
00:07:03.45\00:07:05.39
WHERE SHE'S GOT 12
STARS ABOVE HER HEAD
00:07:05.42\00:07:07.59
AND SHE'S STANDING ON THE MOON.
00:07:07.62\00:07:09.26
HAVE YOU SEEN THAT BEFORE?
00:07:09.29\00:07:10.83
THEY GET THAT IDEA
FROM REVELATION 12,
00:07:10.86\00:07:13.09
BUT THE WOMAN IN
REVELATION 12 IS NOT MARY.
00:07:13.13\00:07:15.53
IT IS TRUE THAT MARY
IS THE MOTHER OF JESUS,
00:07:15.56\00:07:20.60
BUT YOU READ ON IN THE CHAPTER
AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE DRAGON
00:07:20.64\00:07:23.07
CHASING THE WOMAN
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS.
00:07:23.10\00:07:25.74
WELL, AS FAR AS WE
KNOW, THE APOSTLE JOHN
00:07:25.77\00:07:28.54
TOOK MARY IN AND
SHE STAYED WITH HIM
00:07:28.58\00:07:30.21
AND SHE DIED IN ANTIOCH,
00:07:30.25\00:07:31.55
THAT'S WHAT CHURCH HISTORY SAID.
00:07:31.58\00:07:32.88
THERE WAS JUST NO
EFFORT OF THE DEVIL
00:07:32.91\00:07:34.42
CHASING HER
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS
00:07:34.45\00:07:35.88
AND THE EARTH
OPENING ITS GROUND,
00:07:35.92\00:07:37.79
AND ALL THESE THINGS
THAT HAPPEN IN THE VISION,
00:07:37.82\00:07:39.49
IT'S OBVIOUSLY A
SYMBOL OF A WOMAN,
00:07:39.52\00:07:42.29
THE CHURCH, JUST LIKE
REVELATION 17 IS SYMBOLIC.
00:07:42.32\00:07:46.39
WHO IS THE GREAT RED DRAGON
00:07:46.43\00:07:48.63
THAT WANTS TO DESTROY
HER AND HER MAN CHILD?
00:07:48.66\00:07:51.80
AND WHAT DOES HE TRY TO DO?
00:07:51.83\00:07:53.54
YOU LOOK IN VERSE 9,
00:07:53.57\00:07:54.87
"AND THE GREAT
DRAGON WAS CAST OUT,"
00:07:54.90\00:07:56.44
CALLED "THAT OLD
SERPENT, THE DEVIL AND SATAN."
00:07:56.47\00:07:59.91
NOW, CAN A FIVE YEAR
OLD UNDERSTAND THAT VERSE?
00:07:59.94\00:08:04.21
THAT IS SO SIMPLE.
00:08:04.25\00:08:05.55
I MEAN, THERE IS NO QUESTION
ABOUT WHO THE DRAGON IS, DEVIL,
00:08:05.58\00:08:09.42
SATAN, SERPENT ALL IN ONE VERSE.
00:08:09.45\00:08:11.89
THE BAD GUY, THE ARCHFIEND,
THE VILLAIN, THE DEVIL,
00:08:11.92\00:08:15.16
CONSUMMATE EVIL, THE DARK SIDE.
00:08:15.19\00:08:18.73
I MEAN, THERE'S
ALL KINDS OF TERMS
00:08:18.76\00:08:20.06
THAT YOU CAN FIND FOR HIM.
00:08:20.10\00:08:21.40
HE IS THE EMBODIMENT
OF EVIL, THE FIRST REBEL.
00:08:21.43\00:08:25.60
"AND THE DRAGON
STOOD BEFORE THE WOMAN,
00:08:25.63\00:08:27.40
WHICH WAS READY TO BE DELIVERED
00:08:27.44\00:08:29.27
TO DEVOUR HER CHILD
AS SOON AS IT WAS BORN."
00:08:29.30\00:08:31.77
I THINK I TOLD YOU EARLIER,
00:08:31.81\00:08:33.34
THREE TIMES IN THE BIBLE
00:08:33.38\00:08:34.98
THE DEVIL HAS MADE AN EFFORT
00:08:35.01\00:08:36.41
TO ANNIHILATE
ALL OF THESE CHILDREN
00:08:36.44\00:08:42.42
THAT HE WAS SUSPICIOUS
00:08:42.45\00:08:44.19
THE MESSIAH WAS
GOING TO COME THROUGH.
00:08:44.22\00:08:45.95
HE HAD ALL THE BABY BOYS
IN ISRAEL THROWN IN THE RIVER,
00:08:45.99\00:08:49.26
NOT THE GIRLS, THE BOYS,
00:08:49.29\00:08:50.73
BECAUSE THEY KNEW THE MESSIAH
00:08:50.76\00:08:52.06
WAS GOING TO BE
THE PROMISED SEED.
00:08:52.09\00:08:54.36
THEN, ATHALIAH TRIED TO KILL
ALL THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID,
00:08:54.40\00:08:57.43
BECAUSE THE DEVIL
HEARD THE PROPHECY
00:08:57.47\00:08:59.13
THAT THE MESSIAH
WOULD COME THROUGH DAVID.
00:08:59.17\00:09:01.34
AND THEN WHEN JESUS WAS A BABY,
00:09:01.37\00:09:03.61
THE DEVIL TRIED TO
USE THE ROMAN POWER
00:09:03.64\00:09:05.31
AND KING HEROD KILLED
ALL THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM
00:09:05.34\00:09:08.78
RIGHT AFTER
JOSEPH AND MARY FLED.
00:09:08.81\00:09:12.05
THEY JUST ESCAPED INTO EGYPT.
00:09:12.08\00:09:14.95
ALL RIGHT, WHAT
HAPPENS, THIRD QUESTION,
00:09:14.98\00:09:18.02
AFTER SATAN FALLS,
00:09:18.05\00:09:19.95
FAILS RATHER TO
DESTROY JESUS AS A BABY?
00:09:19.99\00:09:22.69
CHRIST ESCAPES.
00:09:22.72\00:09:24.39
IT SAYS, "HER
CHILD WAS CAUGHT UP
00:09:24.43\00:09:25.79
TO GOD AND HIS THRONE."
00:09:25.83\00:09:27.40
THE DEVIL COULD NO
LONGER REACH CHRIST
00:09:27.40\00:09:29.06
AFTER JESUS
COMPLETED HIS MISSION,
00:09:29.10\00:09:31.93
HE LIVED THIRTY
THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:09:31.97\00:09:33.27
OF PERFECT LIFE.
00:09:33.30\00:09:34.67
HE TAUGHT PUBLICLY
FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS
00:09:34.70\00:09:37.57
FROM HIS BAPTISM
AT 30 YEARS OF AGE,
00:09:37.61\00:09:40.11
PERFORMED
MIRACLES, TAUGHT THE GOSPEL,
00:09:40.14\00:09:41.78
ULTIMATELY DIED FOR
THE SINS OF THE WORLD,
00:09:41.81\00:09:44.11
ROSE THE THIRD
DAY, ASCENDED TO HEAVEN,
00:09:44.15\00:09:46.78
AND HE HAS BEEN OUT
OF THE DEVIL'S REACH
00:09:46.82\00:09:48.78
BECAUSE JESUS IS
IN HEAVEN, RIGHT?
00:09:48.82\00:09:51.59
SATAN WAS CAST OUT OF
HEAVEN, HE CAN'T REACH HIM.
00:09:51.62\00:09:54.89
OF COURSE, HE'S GOT
HIS DIVINE BODY NOW.
00:09:54.92\00:09:56.79
HE'S NOT VULNERABLE ANYMORE,
AS HE WAS WHEN HE WAS A MAN.
00:09:56.83\00:10:01.16
SO, WHEN THE
DEVIL CAN'T REACH CHRIST
00:10:01.20\00:10:03.10
AND HE WANTS TO HURT
CHRIST, WHAT DOES HE DO?
00:10:03.13\00:10:06.27
GO AFTER WHAT JESUS LOVES.
00:10:06.30\00:10:07.84
Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
00:10:09.50\00:10:11.24
We'll be back in just
a moment with the rest
00:10:11.27\00:10:12.97
of today's presentation.
00:10:13.01\00:10:14.84
No, the Bible never says that
Eve ate an apple, nor does it
00:10:14.88\00:10:18.95
say that three wise men
came to see Jesus in the manger.
00:10:18.98\00:10:23.18
Neither does the Bible
say that God made a devil.
00:10:23.22\00:10:26.72
So, how well do
you know your Bible?
00:10:26.76\00:10:29.19
And what does it really
say about heaven and hell,
00:10:29.22\00:10:32.19
the origin of the devil,
and the Second Coming of Jesus?"
00:10:32.23\00:10:35.53
There are so many
common misunderstandings
00:10:35.56\00:10:37.70
about the Word of God.
00:10:37.73\00:10:39.60
That's why Amazing Facts
wants to send you a special
00:10:39.63\00:10:42.77
free resource called
"The Hidden Truth Magazine."
00:10:42.80\00:10:46.64
It'll expose some of the
most common misconceptions
00:10:46.68\00:10:48.98
about the Bible.
00:10:49.01\00:10:50.55
It's packed with colorful
graphics, fascinating facts,
00:10:50.58\00:10:53.65
and compelling Bible truths
that present seven of the most
00:10:53.68\00:10:56.85
misunderstood Bible subjects
in a direct and captivating way.
00:10:56.89\00:11:01.02
I guarantee it'll become one of
your favorite witnessing tools.
00:11:01.06\00:11:04.73
To get your free copy, call
the phone number on the screen
00:11:04.76\00:11:07.83
and ask for offer number
832, or visit the web address.
00:11:07.86\00:11:12.07
And after you read
this incredible resource,
00:11:12.10\00:11:14.44
be sure and
share it with a friend.
00:11:14.47\00:11:16.54
Let's return now to
today's presentation and learn
00:11:16.57\00:11:19.37
some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
00:11:19.41\00:11:22.08
FOURTH QUESTION.
00:11:23.21\00:11:24.85
AFTER JESUS WAS
CAUGHT UP TO HEAVEN,
00:11:24.88\00:11:27.38
WHAT DID SATAN DO TO THE CHURCH?
00:11:27.42\00:11:30.12
IT SAYS, "WHEN THE DRAGON SAW
THAT HE WAS CAST TO THE EARTH,
00:11:30.15\00:11:32.72
HE PERSECUTED THE WOMAN
00:11:32.75\00:11:34.79
THAT BROUGHT
FORTH THE MAN CHILD."
00:11:34.82\00:11:36.73
AGAIN, CAN THAT
BE MISUNDERSTOOD?
00:11:36.76\00:11:38.76
THE DEVIL PERSECUTED THE WOMAN.
00:11:38.79\00:11:41.06
AND HAVE WE SEEN
THAT THROUGH HISTORY?
00:11:41.10\00:11:43.53
NOT ONLY DO WE KNOW THAT IT
HAPPENED IN THE ROMAN EMPIRE
00:11:43.57\00:11:46.10
IN A VERY STRONG SENSE.
00:11:46.13\00:11:47.44
FIRST OF ALL, IT
STARTED WITH THE JEWISH CHURCH,
00:11:47.47\00:11:51.74
NOT ALL THE JEWS
BECAUSE, OBVIOUSLY,
00:11:51.77\00:11:54.08
THE EARLY CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH.
00:11:54.11\00:11:55.94
THE APOSTLES WERE JEWISH,
00:11:55.98\00:11:57.28
THE NEW TESTAMENT WAS
WRITTEN LARGELY BY JEWS,
00:11:57.31\00:11:59.45
BUT THERE WERE
SOME RELIGIOUS LEADERS
00:11:59.48\00:12:01.18
THAT HATED JESUS.
00:12:01.22\00:12:02.52
SOME LOVED HIM LIKE
NICODEMUS, LIKE JOSEPH.
00:12:02.55\00:12:04.65
THERE WERE SOME
GOOD RELIGIOUS LEADERS
00:12:04.69\00:12:06.32
AND THERE WERE SOME
BAD RELIGIOUS LEADERS.
00:12:06.35\00:12:08.96
UNFORTUNATELY, THOSE IN
POWER BEGAN TO REALLY PERSECUTE.
00:12:08.99\00:12:12.56
READ IN ACTS CHAPTER 7,
IT SAYS, STEPHEN WAS STONED,
00:12:12.59\00:12:17.17
THE SUPREME COURT
OF THE JEWISH NATION
00:12:17.20\00:12:19.00
BASICALLY PLUGGED THEIR EARS
00:12:19.03\00:12:20.34
WHEN STEPHEN
PREACHED THE GOSPEL.
00:12:20.37\00:12:22.44
PAUL WAS AN ACCESSORY
TO THE MURDER OF STEPHEN.
00:12:22.47\00:12:25.47
PAUL, THEN, WENT BREATHING
THREATENINGS AND SLAUGHTER,
00:12:25.51\00:12:28.48
AND HE WENT FROM CHURCH TO
CHURCH TAKING MEN AND WOMEN,
00:12:28.51\00:12:31.51
PUTTING THEM IN
JAIL AND THEN KILLING.
00:12:31.55\00:12:34.85
SO IT STARTED THERE,
00:12:34.88\00:12:36.18
BUT THEN THE JEWS
ENCOURAGED THE ROMANS TO DO IT.
00:12:36.22\00:12:39.25
SAME THING THEY DID WITH JESUS.
00:12:39.29\00:12:40.96
THE JEWS WENT TO
PILATE, THE ROMAN GOVERNOR,
00:12:40.99\00:12:43.86
TO GET THE DEATH DECREE.
00:12:43.89\00:12:45.29
AND DO YOU REALIZE
00:12:45.33\00:12:46.63
THAT THERE WERE SOME
JEWISH ENEMIES OF PAUL
00:12:46.66\00:12:49.60
THAT WENT ALL THE WAY TO
ROME TO ACCUSE PAUL BEFORE NERO.
00:12:49.63\00:12:53.64
I MEAN, THEY WERE REALLY
UPSET BECAUSE, YOU KNOW WHY?
00:12:53.67\00:12:57.77
ALL AROUND THE ROMAN EMPIRE
00:12:57.81\00:12:59.14
WHERE THE JEWS HAD
CHURCHES AND SYNAGOGUES,
00:12:59.17\00:13:01.84
CHRISTIANS WERE LEARNING
00:13:01.88\00:13:03.18
WHAT THE
SCRIPTURES REALLY TAUGHT,
00:13:03.21\00:13:04.51
AND MANY IN THE SYNAGOGUES,
00:13:04.55\00:13:05.85
SOMETIMES WHOLE SYNAGOGUES
WERE TURNING TO CHRIST.
00:13:05.88\00:13:08.65
YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT
ALL THROUGH THE BOOK OF ACTS.
00:13:08.68\00:13:10.85
AND SO, SOME OF THE ONES
00:13:10.89\00:13:12.19
WHO DID NOT
WANT TO ACCEPT JESUS,
00:13:12.22\00:13:13.62
THEY BECAME VICIOUS.
00:13:13.66\00:13:16.19
AND SO, WHEN I
TALK ABOUT THE JEWS,
00:13:16.22\00:13:17.53
THERE WERE GOOD BELIEVING JEWS,
00:13:17.56\00:13:19.19
AND THERE WERE SOME
THAT WERE AMBIVALENT,
00:13:19.23\00:13:20.53
AND SOME THAT WERE VERY UNKIND.
00:13:20.56\00:13:23.43
AND SO, THEN IT WENT,
00:13:23.47\00:13:25.73
IT TRANSFERRED
OVER TO THE ROMANS.
00:13:25.77\00:13:28.04
NOW, YOU HAVE TO
KNOW A LITTLE HISTORY.
00:13:28.07\00:13:31.01
AT THE SAME TIME THE JEWS
00:13:31.04\00:13:32.34
WERE VERY
THREATENED WITH THE CHRISTIANS,
00:13:32.37\00:13:33.68
THEY ALSO WERE VERY
ANGRY WITH THE ROMANS
00:13:33.71\00:13:35.51
FOR OCCUPYING THEIR COUNTRY.
00:13:35.54\00:13:37.81
AT ABOUT 68-69 AD,
00:13:37.85\00:13:40.02
THEY REBELLED
AGAINST THE ROMANS.
00:13:40.05\00:13:42.08
THERE WAS A BIG
REVOLT AND A WAR BROKE OUT
00:13:42.12\00:13:45.49
BETWEEN THE ROMANS AND THE JEWS.
00:13:45.52\00:13:47.69
FINALLY WHEN THEY
COULDN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE,
00:13:47.72\00:13:49.46
THE ROMANS ATTACKED JERUSALEM,
THEY SLAUGHTERED THE CITY,
00:13:49.49\00:13:52.43
THE JEWISH
RELIGION WAS FORBIDDEN.
00:13:52.46\00:13:55.20
AND, BECAUSE THERE WERE SO MANY
SIMILARITIES BETWEEN THE JEWS
00:13:55.23\00:13:58.63
AND THE CHRISTIANS,
THEY READ THE SAME BIBLE,
00:13:58.67\00:14:00.84
THEY HAD A LOT OF
THE SAME PRACTICES
00:14:00.87\00:14:02.34
AND TEACHINGS, THEY
BELIEVED IN ONE GOD.
00:14:02.37\00:14:05.27
CHRISTIANITY WAS
OUTLAWED AT THE SAME TIME.
00:14:05.31\00:14:08.84
SO THE JEWS AND CHRISTIANS
00:14:08.88\00:14:10.18
WERE ALL SORT
OF LUMPED TOGETHER.
00:14:10.21\00:14:12.58
AND THEN THE ROMANS
BEGAN TO PERSECUTE JEWS
00:14:12.61\00:14:15.15
AND CHRISTIANS
TOGETHER THROUGHOUT THE KINGDOM.
00:14:15.18\00:14:17.05
AND YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE STORIES
00:14:17.09\00:14:18.39
ABOUT CHRISTIANS THAT WERE TOLD,
00:14:18.42\00:14:19.92
"YOU EITHER PRAY TO THESE
IDOLS OR YOU'LL BE KILLED."
00:14:19.95\00:14:23.79
"YOU EITHER SAY
THAT CAESAR'S A GOD
00:14:23.83\00:14:26.43
OR YOU'RE GOING TO
BE FED TO THE LIONS."
00:14:26.46\00:14:27.76
AND THERE WERE SOME
EMPERORS, IN PARTICULAR,
00:14:27.76\00:14:30.27
THAT WERE EXTREMELY VICIOUS.
00:14:30.30\00:14:31.73
YOU'VE HEARD ABOUT NERO
FIDDLING WHILE ROME BURNED
00:14:31.77\00:14:34.97
AND THEN HE
BLAMED THE CHRISTIANS.
00:14:35.00\00:14:37.41
HE SAID THE CHRISTIANS
EAT FLESH AND DRINK BLOOD,
00:14:37.44\00:14:41.91
TALKING ABOUT THE
COMMUNION SERVICE.
00:14:41.94\00:14:43.78
THEY'RE CANNIBALS,
THEY GO INTO THE CATACOMBS
00:14:43.81\00:14:45.78
AND THEY'RE CANNIBALS.
00:14:45.81\00:14:47.12
AND ALL TERRIBLE RUMORS
00:14:47.15\00:14:48.45
THAT WERE NOT
TRUE WERE SPREAD AROUND
00:14:48.48\00:14:49.82
AND THERE'S GREAT WRATH.
00:14:49.85\00:14:51.65
FOR THEIR
ENTERTAINMENT THEY WOULD SAY,
00:14:51.69\00:14:53.29
"WHAT DO YOU WANT TO DO?
00:14:53.32\00:14:54.62
THIS WEEKEND,
LET'S GO TO THE COLISEUM
00:14:54.66\00:14:56.06
AND WATCH THE
CHRISTIANS GET SLAUGHTERED
00:14:56.09\00:14:58.03
BY THE GLADIATORS AND
THE LIONS AND BURNT ALIVE."
00:14:58.06\00:15:01.00
AND THERE WERE YEARS
00:15:01.03\00:15:02.36
AND YEARS OF
TERRIBLE PERSECUTION.
00:15:02.40\00:15:04.60
DIOCLETIAN WAS ONE EMPEROR
THAT WAS EXTREMELY VICIOUS
00:15:04.63\00:15:08.00
AND FOR 10 YEARS,
00:15:08.04\00:15:09.34
IT TALKS ABOUT
THIS IN REVELATION,
00:15:09.37\00:15:11.01
GREAT
TRIBULATION, FROM 303 TO 313,
00:15:11.04\00:15:15.14
WHERE THEY TRIED TO
ANNIHILATE CHRISTIANS.
00:15:15.18\00:15:17.71
BUT TERTULLIAN, THE
EARLY CHURCH FATHER,
00:15:17.75\00:15:20.35
HE SAID, "IT SEEMS AS THOUGH
00:15:20.38\00:15:23.45
THE BLOOD OF THE
MARTYRS IS SEED."
00:15:23.49\00:15:26.55
THE MORE THEY MOWED
DOWN THE CHRISTIANS,
00:15:26.59\00:15:28.66
IT'S LIKE TRYING TO GET
RID OF WEEDS BY MOWING THEM,
00:15:28.69\00:15:30.86
JUST SPREADS THE
SEED AND THEY GREW.
00:15:30.89\00:15:35.30
WHAT ARE TWO OTHER
IDENTIFYING CHARACTERIZING MARKS
00:15:35.33\00:15:37.90
OF GOD'S TRUE CHURCH?
00:15:37.93\00:15:39.97
REVELATION 12:17, "THE
DRAGON WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN,
00:15:40.00\00:15:43.54
AND WENT TO MAKE
WAR WITH THE REMNANT"
00:15:43.57\00:15:46.54
THAT MEANS THE
REMAINDER "OF HER SEED."
00:15:46.57\00:15:48.44
HER DESCENDANTS.
00:15:48.48\00:15:49.78
AND ONE OF THE TWO MOST
OUTSTANDING CHARACTERISTICS,
00:15:49.81\00:15:52.21
"WHICH KEEP THE
COMMANDMENTS OF GOD,
00:15:52.25\00:15:54.55
AND HAVE THE
TESTIMONY OF JESUS."
00:15:54.58\00:15:56.85
I BELIEVE IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, GOD HAD A PEOPLE.
00:15:56.89\00:15:58.95
DID HE HAVE A SPECIFIC PEOPLE?
00:15:58.99\00:16:01.12
WHO WERE THEY?
00:16:01.16\00:16:02.86
ISRAELITES, JEWS.
00:16:02.89\00:16:04.19
WERE THEY ALWAYS FAITHFUL?
00:16:04.23\00:16:05.96
WHAT MADE THEM GOD'S PEOPLE?
00:16:05.99\00:16:08.16
PAUL TELLS US GOD HAS
COMMITTED THE ORACLES OF TRUTH
00:16:08.20\00:16:13.00
TO THE JEWS, THE
BIBLE, THE SCRIPTURES,
00:16:13.03\00:16:15.50
THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES.
00:16:15.54\00:16:16.87
JESUS IS TALKING TO THE
WOMAN AT THE WELL, SHE'S SAYING,
00:16:16.91\00:16:19.21
"SHOULD WE WORSHIP IN GERIZIM
OR SHOULD WE BE IN JERUSALEM?
00:16:19.24\00:16:22.94
IS IT THE
SAMARITANS? IS IT THE JEWS?'
00:16:22.98\00:16:25.01
JESUS SAID, "LET ME
SETTLE THIS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW.
00:16:25.05\00:16:27.58
"SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS."
00:16:27.62\00:16:31.29
IT IS THE JEWISH BOOK
GOD GAVE THEM THE TRUTH.
00:16:31.32\00:16:34.36
IT IS THE BIBLE,
THERE IS ONLY ONE WAY,
00:16:34.39\00:16:35.79
IT'S THROUGH THE
WORD, IT'S THROUGH CHRIST.
00:16:35.82\00:16:38.03
THERE ARE...
00:16:38.06\00:16:39.36
NOW, GOD'S PEOPLE WERE THE JEWS,
00:16:39.39\00:16:41.06
BUT WERE ONLY JEWS
SAVED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT?
00:16:41.10\00:16:44.50
DID GOD HAVE NAAMAN THE LEPER?
00:16:44.53\00:16:46.60
DID GOD HAVE...
00:16:46.63\00:16:47.94
WAS ELIJAH SENT
TO A CANAANITE WOMAN?
00:16:47.97\00:16:50.11
GOD HAS PEOPLE
ALL OVER THE WORLD,
00:16:50.14\00:16:51.54
BUT HE HAD A SPECIAL GROUP
00:16:51.57\00:16:53.41
THAT HE CHOSE TO BE
THE GUARDIANS OF TRUTH.
00:16:53.44\00:16:57.11
IT DOESN'T MEAN
EVERYONE IN THE GROUP,
00:16:57.15\00:16:58.45
BECAUSE A LOT OF
ISRAELITES WERE UNFAITHFUL,
00:16:58.48\00:17:00.52
A LOT WERE FAITHFUL,
00:17:00.55\00:17:02.18
BUT THEY HAD THE SCRIPTURES.
00:17:02.22\00:17:04.82
HOW ABOUT NEW TESTAMENT TIMES?
00:17:04.85\00:17:06.92
DOES GOD HAVE A GROUP
OR IS IT KIND OF JUST,
00:17:06.96\00:17:08.89
YOU KNOW, EENEY,
MEENEY, MINEY, MOE?
00:17:08.92\00:17:11.33
DOES HE HAVE A MOVEMENT
THAT HE'S WORKING THROUGH?
00:17:11.36\00:17:13.63
HAS HE
COMMITTED TRUTH TO ANYBODY
00:17:13.66\00:17:15.36
OR DO WE ALL JUST KIND OF
FLIP THROUGH THE YELLOW PAGES?
00:17:15.40\00:17:18.47
ONE OF THE LAST
THINGS IT SAYS IN MALACHI,
00:17:18.50\00:17:21.04
"REMEMBER THE LAW OF MOSES...
00:17:21.07\00:17:23.07
BEHOLD, I WILL SEND
YOU ELIJAH THE PROPHET."
00:17:23.10\00:17:24.54
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:17:24.57\00:17:28.08
AND WHEN YOU READ IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 12, IT SAYS,
00:17:28.11\00:17:30.48
"THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
AND THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS."
00:17:30.51\00:17:33.35
WHAT IS THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS?
00:17:33.38\00:17:35.25
I'VE JUST GIVEN YOU THIS FREE.
00:17:35.28\00:17:36.99
GO TO REVELATION
19:10, THE ANGEL TELLS JOHN,
00:17:37.02\00:17:39.99
THE TESTIMONY OF JESUS
IS THE SPIRIT OF PROPHECY,
00:17:40.02\00:17:43.93
THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS.
00:17:43.96\00:17:46.13
"BIND UP THE TESTIMONY,
00:17:46.16\00:17:47.60
SEAL THE LAW
AMONG MY DISCIPLES."
00:17:47.60\00:17:50.00
JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD
00:17:50.03\00:17:51.53
AND HE DECLARED
UNTO THEM FROM THE LAW
00:17:51.57\00:17:53.40
AND THE PROPHETS
THAT HE WAS THE MESSIAH."
00:17:53.44\00:17:55.07
THAT'S THE WORD OF GOD.
00:17:55.10\00:17:56.67
SO ONE OF THE CHARACTERISTICS
00:17:56.71\00:17:58.01
IS GOD'S PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS
00:17:58.04\00:17:59.64
ARE GOING TO BE A
BIBLE-BASED PEOPLE.
00:17:59.67\00:18:01.84
THEY'RE GOING TO
BE ROOTED IN THE WORD.
00:18:01.88\00:18:03.61
AND THAT'S HOW WE'RE
GOING TO FIND WHERE TO GO.
00:18:03.65\00:18:06.21
SO, NOW, TO ALSO
BETTER UNDERSTAND
00:18:06.25\00:18:08.68
WHO THIS GROUP IS,
00:18:08.72\00:18:10.02
IF YOU JUMP TO REVELATION
14, THERE ARE THREE MESSAGES
00:18:10.05\00:18:14.12
THAT GO TO THE WORLD
JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES,
00:18:14.16\00:18:16.46
BETTER KNOWN AS THE
THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES.
00:18:16.49\00:18:18.13
AND THAT'S OUR NEXT QUESTION.
00:18:18.16\00:18:20.16
IT SAYS, WHAT
THREE ANGELIC MESSAGES
00:18:20.20\00:18:23.00
WILL GOD'S END-TIME
CHURCH BE PREACHING?
00:18:23.03\00:18:25.90
NOW, WHEN YOU
READ IN REVELATION 14,
00:18:25.93\00:18:27.47
IT SAYS THERE'S ANGEL
ONE, ANGEL TWO, ANGEL THREE,
00:18:27.50\00:18:29.90
"THEN I LOOKED ON A WHITE CLOUD,
00:18:29.94\00:18:31.44
ONE COMING LIKE THE SON OF MAN."
00:18:31.47\00:18:33.21
THAT'S THE COMING OF JESUS.
00:18:33.24\00:18:35.01
ANGELS, THE WORD
'ANGEL' MEANS MESSENGER.
00:18:35.04\00:18:37.11
THREE POWERFUL MESSAGES
GO TO THE WORLD IMMEDIATELY
00:18:37.15\00:18:40.58
PRIOR TO THE LORD'S COMING,
00:18:40.62\00:18:42.25
PRESENTED BY THAT
REMNANT OF THE WOMAN
00:18:42.28\00:18:45.12
AT THE END OF TIME.
00:18:45.15\00:18:46.79
LOOK AT THE MESSAGES,
00:18:46.82\00:18:48.12
IT'LL HELP YOU,
KIND OF NARROW DOWN,
00:18:48.16\00:18:50.19
WHAT IS THE
TRUTH IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:18:50.23\00:18:52.33
FIRST MESSAGE, REVELATION 14:7,
00:18:52.36\00:18:55.00
"FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM,
00:18:55.03\00:18:57.53
FOR THE HOUR OF
HIS JUDGMENT IS COME."
00:18:57.57\00:19:00.37
GREAT JUDGMENT DAY IS COME.
00:19:00.40\00:19:02.34
DO YOU KNOW THAT
THERE'S A JUDGMENT
00:19:02.37\00:19:03.67
THAT TAKES PLACE
BEFORE JESUS COMES?
00:19:03.71\00:19:05.84
YOU PROBABLY ALREADY KNEW THAT
00:19:05.87\00:19:07.18
BECAUSE, DOES THE
LORD KNOW WHO IS SAVED
00:19:07.21\00:19:09.88
AND WHO IS LOST WHEN HE COMES?
00:19:09.91\00:19:12.65
ARE SOME GOING TO BE
CAUGHT UP AND SOME ARE NOT?
00:19:12.68\00:19:15.52
DOES THAT MEAN
00:19:15.55\00:19:16.85
SOME INVESTIGATION
TAKES PLACE BEFORE HE COMES?
00:19:16.89\00:19:19.95
AND SO THERE IS A
TIME OF INVESTIGATION
00:19:19.99\00:19:22.36
PRIOR TO THE SECOND
COMING THAT TAKES PLACE.
00:19:22.39\00:19:25.23
IT'S A WARNING, GET
READY, CHRIST IS COMING.
00:19:25.26\00:19:27.66
THE HOUR OF HIS
JUDGMENT IS COME.
00:19:27.66\00:19:29.03
THIS IS THE
IMMINENT RETURN OF THE LORD.
00:19:29.06\00:19:31.63
AND THEN IT GOES ON TO SAY,
"FEAR GOD, GIVE GLORY TO HIM,
00:19:31.67\00:19:34.20
THE HOUR OF HIS
JUDGMENT IS COME.
00:19:34.24\00:19:35.57
AND WORSHIP HIM"
00:19:35.60\00:19:37.41
THERE ARE PEOPLE
WHO WORSHIP "WHO MADE"
00:19:37.44\00:19:39.77
HE IS THE CREATOR
00:19:39.81\00:19:41.14
"THE HEAVEN, AND
THE EARTH, AND THE SEA,"
00:19:41.18\00:19:43.21
THAT IS AN EXTRACT THERE
FROM THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT
00:19:43.24\00:19:46.98
THAT YOU FIND IN
EXODUS 20:8 THROUGH 11.
00:19:47.02\00:19:52.42
REMEMBERING TO
WORSHIP THE CREATOR,
00:19:52.45\00:19:54.69
AND THIS IS ALMOST WORD FOR WORD
00:19:54.72\00:19:56.02
OUT OF THAT COMMANDMENT.
00:19:56.06\00:19:57.36
THEY'RE PEOPLE WHO
HAVE RETURNED TO THIS LAW
00:19:57.39\00:19:59.19
THAT'S BEEN LARGELY FORGOTTEN.
00:19:59.23\00:20:00.53
THEY'VE RESTORED THE BREACH.
00:20:00.56\00:20:03.06
AND THEN YOU READ
IN REVELATION 14:8,
00:20:03.10\00:20:05.60
NOW YOU GET TO ANOTHER
ANGEL, SECOND ANGEL THAT SAYS,
00:20:05.63\00:20:09.70
"BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS
FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY,
00:20:09.74\00:20:15.71
BECAUSE SHE"
THAT'S THAT OTHER WOMAN
00:20:15.74\00:20:18.15
"HAS MADE ALL NATIONS
00:20:18.18\00:20:19.71
DRINK THE WINE OF THE
WRATH OF HER FORNICATION."
00:20:19.75\00:20:22.42
IS BABYLON TALKING ABOUT
ANCIENT BABYLON BEING REBUILT?
00:20:22.45\00:20:25.85
YOU KNOW, NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
NOT NEBUCHADNEZZAR,
00:20:25.89\00:20:27.19
WHAT'S HIS NAME?
00:20:27.22\00:20:28.52
SADDAM HUSSEIN WANTED
TO REBUILD ANCIENT BABYLON,
00:20:28.56\00:20:30.39
AND HE FANCIED HIMSELF
00:20:30.43\00:20:31.73
AS THE
REINCARNATION OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
00:20:31.76\00:20:34.30
BUT THE PROPHECY IN
ISAIAH 13 SAYS BABYLON
00:20:34.30\00:20:36.97
WOULD NEVER BE
REBUILT, ANCIENT BABYLON.
00:20:37.00\00:20:39.27
YOU CAN READ IT THERE, "BABYLON,
00:20:39.30\00:20:40.60
THE GLORY OF THE KINGDOMS,
00:20:40.64\00:20:41.94
THE BEAUTY OF
THE CHALDEANS' PRIDE,
00:20:41.97\00:20:43.74
WILL BE AS WHEN GOD
OVERTHREW SODOM AND GOMORRAH.
00:20:43.77\00:20:47.04
IT WILL NEVER BE INHABITED,
00:20:47.08\00:20:49.04
NOR WILL IT BE SETTLED
FROM GENERATION TO GENERATION."
00:20:49.08\00:20:52.71
AND IT NEVER HAS BEEN.
00:20:52.75\00:20:54.22
SADDAM TRIED TO REBUILD
THE ANCIENT RUINS OF BABYLON
00:20:54.25\00:20:57.62
AND THEN THE TWO
IRAQ WARS BROKE OUT
00:20:57.65\00:21:00.12
AND THAT WAS ABANDONED.
00:21:00.16\00:21:02.19
SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT BABYLON,
00:21:02.22\00:21:03.59
IT'S NOT TALKING
ABOUT THE MIDDLE EAST,
00:21:03.63\00:21:05.16
IT'S TALKING
ABOUT SPIRITUAL BABYLON.
00:21:05.19\00:21:07.93
AND EVEN PETER TALKED
ABOUT THAT WHEN HE SAID,
00:21:07.96\00:21:11.17
THAT YOUR BRETHREN
IN BABYLON GREET YOU.
00:21:11.20\00:21:13.34
HE WASN'T TALKING
ABOUT MESOPOTAMIA,
00:21:13.37\00:21:14.67
HE MEANT THE CHRISTIANS IN ROME.
00:21:14.70\00:21:17.24
THEY CALLED ROME BABYLON
EVEN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:21:17.27\00:21:20.04
SO WE SHOULDN'T MISS THAT.
00:21:20.08\00:21:21.98
"THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED
SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE,
00:21:22.01\00:21:24.15
'IF ANY MAN WORSHIPS
THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE,
00:21:24.18\00:21:27.18
AND RECEIVES OF HIS MARK
IN HIS FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND,
00:21:27.22\00:21:31.85
THE SAME WILL DRINK THE
WINE OF THE WRATH OF GOD,
00:21:31.89\00:21:35.12
WHICH IS POURED
OUT WITHOUT MIXTURE
00:21:35.16\00:21:36.96
INTO THE CUP OF
HIS INDIGNATION."
00:21:36.99\00:21:39.53
AND SO, THIS IS A
PRETTY FEARFUL WARNING.
00:21:39.56\00:21:41.66
THE THIRD ANGEL IS A WARNING
00:21:41.70\00:21:43.47
NOT TO BE RECEIVING
THE MARK OF THE BEAST.
00:21:43.50\00:21:47.37
TO WHOM WILL GOD'S
CHURCH PREACH THESE MESSAGES
00:21:47.40\00:21:49.44
IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:21:49.47\00:21:50.77
HOW FAR DOES IT GO?
00:21:50.81\00:21:52.51
IT'S AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT,
00:21:52.54\00:21:54.01
"HAVING THE EVERLASTING
GOSPEL TO PREACH UNTO THEM
00:21:54.04\00:21:56.64
THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH,
00:21:56.68\00:21:58.15
TO EVERY TRIBE,
NATION, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE."
00:21:58.18\00:22:01.32
THIS MESSAGE IS NOT
TO JUST GO TO ISRAEL,
00:22:01.35\00:22:03.59
IT'S TO GO GLOBALLY.
00:22:03.62\00:22:04.92
CHRIST SAID, "GO
YE INTO ALL THE WORLD
00:22:04.95\00:22:07.42
AND PREACH THE GOSPEL
TO EVERY CREATURE," RIGHT?
00:22:07.46\00:22:09.99
SO THIS IS GOING TO BE
AN INTERNATIONAL MOVEMENT.
00:22:10.03\00:22:13.03
NOW MANY DENOMINATIONS
CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIAN.
00:22:13.06\00:22:15.76
DOES THAT MAKE
THEM GOD'S TRUE CHURCH?
00:22:15.80\00:22:18.27
THERE ARE A LOT
OF GOOD CHRISTIANS
00:22:18.30\00:22:19.63
IN DIFFERENT ORGANIZATIONS.
00:22:19.67\00:22:21.44
BUT I BELIEVE
THAT GOD HAS COMMITTED
00:22:21.47\00:22:23.04
THE ORACLES OF TRUTH TO
A GROUP THAT IS ORGANIZED,
00:22:23.07\00:22:28.11
THAT GOD IS CALLING PEOPLE
INTO AS WE NEAR THE END OF TIME.
00:22:28.14\00:22:31.71
AND YOU MIGHT SAY,
"OH, BUT PASTOR DOUG,
00:22:31.75\00:22:33.08
I KNEW SOMEBODY THAT
WAS PART OF YOUR CHURCH
00:22:33.11\00:22:34.62
AND THEY WERE KIND OF KOOKY."
00:22:34.65\00:22:37.22
YOU'VE GOT THAT IN
EVERY CHURCH, RIGHT?
00:22:37.25\00:22:39.75
SO YOU DON'T LOOK AT THE PEOPLE,
00:22:39.79\00:22:42.02
YOU LOOK AT THE INGREDIENTS.
00:22:42.06\00:22:44.13
I HEARD ABOUT A
RUSSIAN IMMIGRANT
00:22:44.16\00:22:45.86
THAT CAME TO NORTH
AMERICA AND HE ASKED HIS FRIEND,
00:22:45.89\00:22:49.83
"WHAT DO YOU
AMERICANS EAT FOR BREAKFAST?"
00:22:49.86\00:22:51.90
HE SAID, "OH, WE EAT CEREAL."
00:22:51.93\00:22:54.44
"I WANT TO BE LIKE AMERICAN."
00:22:54.47\00:22:55.77
SO HE GOES TO THE
LOCAL MEGA SUPERMARKET
00:22:55.80\00:22:57.74
AND THERE HE GOES
TO THE CEREAL AISLE.
00:22:57.77\00:23:00.54
YOU EVER BEEN TO THE
WALMART CEREAL AISLE?
00:23:00.58\00:23:03.88
IT'S LIKE AN AIRPORT
TERMINAL AND, ON BOTH SIDES,
00:23:03.91\00:23:07.48
YOU'VE GOT JUST EVERY
STRIPE AND TYPE OF CEREAL.
00:23:07.52\00:23:10.29
THEY'VE GOT CEREAL
WITH CARTOONS ON IT
00:23:10.32\00:23:12.02
AND THEY'VE GOT
CEREAL WITH ATHLETES ON IT,
00:23:12.05\00:23:14.89
JUST ALL KINDS OF... OH, JUST.
00:23:14.92\00:23:16.62
WHY DO THEY HAVE SO
MANY DIFFERENT KINDS?
00:23:16.66\00:23:19.13
MARKETING FOR EVERYBODY.
00:23:19.16\00:23:22.10
CHURCHES DO THAT.
00:23:22.13\00:23:24.10
THEY SAY, "WHAT KIND
OF PEOPLE SHALL WE REACH?
00:23:24.13\00:23:25.67
WHAT ARE PEOPLE LOOKING FOR?
00:23:25.70\00:23:27.47
PEOPLE WANT ENTERTAINMENT,
WE'LL MAKE A CHURCH FOR THEM.
00:23:27.50\00:23:30.37
PEOPLE WANT SOCIAL LIFE,
WE'LL MAKE A CHURCH FOR THEM."
00:23:30.41\00:23:32.67
YOU KNOW HOW
PEOPLE PICK CHURCHES?
00:23:32.71\00:23:34.51
LET ME TELL YOU THE MAIN
WAYS MOST PEOPLE PICK A CHURCH.
00:23:34.54\00:23:38.01
IS IT CLOSE TO MY HOUSE?
00:23:38.05\00:23:41.32
WHERE DID MY PARENTS GO?
00:23:41.35\00:23:43.05
I WANT TO BE LIKE THEM.
00:23:43.08\00:23:45.45
IS IT A NICE BUILDING?
00:23:45.49\00:23:48.06
DO THEY HAVE A
GOOD CHILDREN'S PROGRAM?
00:23:48.09\00:23:51.09
HOW IS THE MUSIC?
00:23:51.13\00:23:53.90
IS THE PASTOR CHARISMATIC,
00:23:53.93\00:23:55.40
AND INTERESTING,
AND GOOD LOOKING?'
00:23:55.43\00:23:56.87
I KNOW THAT'S WHY YOU COME.
00:23:56.90\00:23:59.63
SOME PEOPLE, THAT'S
HOW THEY PICK THEIR CHURCH.
00:23:59.67\00:24:03.47
DO INFLUENTIAL PEOPLE GO THERE?
00:24:03.51\00:24:05.71
THEY WANT TO GO WHERE
THE UPPITY-UP PEOPLE GO,
00:24:05.74\00:24:08.98
YOU KNOW, PRESTIGIOUS CHURCH.
00:24:09.01\00:24:11.28
DO THEY HAVE A
GOOD SINGLES PROGRAM?
00:24:14.28\00:24:18.32
AND I CAN'T EVEN NAME
ALL THE DIFFERENT REASONS
00:24:18.35\00:24:19.92
PEOPLE PICK A CHURCH.
00:24:19.95\00:24:21.72
THOSE ARE ALL NICE
THINGS TO HAVE IN A CHURCH.
00:24:21.76\00:24:23.19
WOULDN'T YOU
LIKE TO HAVE A CHURCH
00:24:23.22\00:24:24.53
THAT'S CLOSE TO THE HOUSE,
00:24:24.56\00:24:25.86
THAT'S WHERE YOUR FAMILY WENT,
00:24:25.89\00:24:27.20
IT'S GOT A GOOD
CHILDREN'S PROGRAM,
00:24:27.23\00:24:28.50
THE PASTOR KEEPS YOU
AWAKE, THEY'VE GOT GREAT MUSIC,
00:24:28.53\00:24:30.43
NICE BUILDING, GOOD FACILITY,
00:24:30.47\00:24:32.00
WE ALL WANT THOSE THINGS
AND THEY'RE ALL GOOD THINGS,
00:24:32.03\00:24:34.34
BUT NONE OF THOSE ARE THE REASON
00:24:34.37\00:24:36.14
TO PICK A CHURCH.
00:24:36.17\00:24:37.94
YOU KNOW HOW I BUY CEREAL?
00:24:37.97\00:24:39.67
I IGNORE THE PICTURES.
00:24:39.71\00:24:42.48
I TURN THE BOX ON ITS
SIDE AND I SAY, "WHAT'S IN IT?"
00:24:42.51\00:24:46.58
WHAT'S IN IT?
WHAT DO THEY BELIEVE?
00:24:46.61\00:24:49.15
WHAT ARE THEIR
FOUNDATIONAL DOCTRINES?
00:24:49.18\00:24:51.42
JESUS WANTS US
TO GO BY THE WORD.
00:24:51.45\00:24:53.15
THE TRUTH WILL
SET YOU FREE, AMEN?
00:24:53.19\00:24:54.62
AMEN.
00:24:54.66\00:24:55.96
AND SO THAT'S HOW
WE MAKE A DECISION
00:24:55.99\00:24:57.29
OF WHERE WE BELONG,
00:24:57.33\00:24:58.63
BECAUSE YOU ARE
ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD
00:24:58.66\00:25:00.43
EVERY TIME YOU GIVE
YOUR OFFERINGS TO A CHURCH,
00:25:00.46\00:25:02.16
YOU'RE SUPPORTING A MESSAGE.
00:25:02.20\00:25:04.67
WHAT MESSAGE ARE YOU SUPPORTING?
00:25:04.70\00:25:06.07
ARE YOU SUPPORTING A
MESSAGE OF OBEDIENCE?
00:25:06.10\00:25:08.27
OF THE SALVATION BY JESUS?
00:25:08.30\00:25:10.11
ARE YOU SUPPORTING
A MESSAGE OF LEGALISM?
00:25:10.14\00:25:12.34
ARE YOU SUPPORTING A
MESSAGE OF DISOBEDIENCE?
00:25:12.37\00:25:14.34
WHAT ARE YOU SUPPORTING?
00:25:14.38\00:25:15.68
YOU'RE ENDORSING
IT BY YOUR ATTENDANCE.
00:25:15.71\00:25:18.21
ISAIAH CHAPTER 4,
THERE'S A PROPHECY, IT SAYS,
00:25:18.25\00:25:21.02
"AND IN THAT DAY SEVEN
WOMEN WILL TAKE HOLD OF ONE MAN,
00:25:21.05\00:25:24.95
SAYING, 'WE WILL
EAT OUR OWN BREAD
00:25:24.99\00:25:27.22
AND WILL WEAR OUR OWN APPAREL,
00:25:27.26\00:25:28.82
BUT LET US BE
CALLED BY YOUR NAME,
00:25:28.86\00:25:30.53
TO TAKE AWAY OUR REPROACH.'"
00:25:30.56\00:25:32.13
ALL THESE DIFFERENT CHURCHES
LIKE SEVEN WOMEN OUT THERE.
00:25:32.16\00:25:34.73
THEY TAKE HOLD IN
THE NAME OF JESUS,
00:25:34.73\00:25:36.87
BUT THEY EAT THEIR OWN
BREAD, THEIR OWN BIBLE,
00:25:36.90\00:25:39.33
THEY'VE GOT THEIR OWN
IDEA OF RIGHTEOUSNESS.
00:25:39.37\00:25:40.94
BUT THEY WANT HIS NAME.
00:25:40.97\00:25:42.60
THEY CALL THEMSELVES CHRISTIANS
TO TAKE AWAY THEIR REPROACH.
00:25:42.64\00:25:45.57
IT'S DESCRIBING THE LAST DAYS
AND THE DAUGHTERS OF BABYLON.
00:25:45.61\00:25:48.18
BUT THE BIBLE
SAYS, "BABYLON IS FALLEN.
00:25:48.21\00:25:50.81
COME OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE."
00:25:50.85\00:25:54.12
YOU KNOW, GOD'S PEOPLE FOR YEARS
00:25:54.15\00:25:55.45
WERE CAPTURED IN BABYLON.
00:25:55.48\00:25:58.12
AND, FINALLY, WHEN BABYLON FELL
00:25:58.15\00:26:01.19
THEY WERE TOLD,
"YOU CAN GO HOME."
00:26:01.22\00:26:02.52
BUT THEY BECAME SO
COMFORTABLE IN BABYLON,
00:26:02.56\00:26:05.26
THEY SAID, "I'VE
BEEN HERE FOR 70 YEARS,
00:26:05.29\00:26:06.93
I CAN'T LEAVE NOW,
ALL MY FRIENDS ARE HERE.
00:26:06.96\00:26:08.56
I'M USED TO IT."
THEY SPEAK BABYLONIAN.
00:26:08.60\00:26:12.40
AND IT WAS QUITE
A STRUGGLE FOR THEM
00:26:12.43\00:26:14.60
TO COME OUT OF BABYLON.
00:26:14.64\00:26:16.40
BUT THOSE THAT CAME OUT
OF BABYLON WERE BLESSED.
00:26:16.44\00:26:18.91
YOU READ THE BOOKS
OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH,
00:26:18.94\00:26:21.34
THE PROPHECIES
OF HAGGAI AND MICAH,
00:26:21.38\00:26:24.18
THEY CAME OUT OF
BABYLON, GOD BLESSED THEM.
00:26:24.21\00:26:27.28
THOSE WHO STAYED
IN BABYLON SUFFERED.
00:26:27.32\00:26:30.05
IT SAYS IN
REVELATION CHAPTER 18,
00:26:30.09\00:26:31.85
"THOSE THAT DON'T
COME OUT OF BABYLON"
00:26:31.89\00:26:34.26
IT SAYS, "COME
OUT OF HER MY PEOPLE
00:26:34.29\00:26:35.76
OR THE PLAGUES
WILL FALL ON YOU."
00:26:35.79\00:26:39.03
AND SO, IN THE LAST
DAYS, THERE'S A MESSAGE
00:26:39.06\00:26:40.63
THAT'S TO CALL ALL THE PEOPLE
00:26:40.66\00:26:42.30
THAT GOD HAS MIXED UP IN
THESE COUNTERFEIT CONCEPTS,
00:26:42.33\00:26:46.17
BACK TO THE BIBLE,
BACK TO THE MOVEMENT.
00:26:46.20\00:26:49.47
THERE'S ONLY GOING TO BE
TWO GROUPS IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:26:49.50\00:26:51.17
JESUS SAID,
"MANY SHEEP I HAVE THAT
00:26:51.21\00:26:52.77
ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD.
THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE,
00:26:52.81\00:26:54.91
THERE WILL BE ONE
FOLD AND ONE SHEPHERD.
00:26:54.94\00:26:56.61
AMEN? AMEN.
00:26:56.64\00:26:57.95
AND GOD WANTS US TO
BE ONE BASED ON HIS WORD.
00:26:57.98\00:27:00.05
DON'T FORGET TO REQUEST TODAY'S
LIFE CHANGING FREE RESOURCE.
00:27:04.69\00:27:08.29
NOT ONLY CAN YOU RECEIVE
THIS FREE GIFT IN THE MAIL,
00:27:08.32\00:27:10.46
YOU CAN DOWNLOAD A DIGITAL COPY
00:27:10.49\00:27:11.79
STRAIGHT TO YOUR
COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE.
00:27:11.83\00:27:14.23
TO GET YOUR DIGITAL
COPY OF TODAY'S FREE GIFT,
00:27:14.30\00:27:17.07
SIMPLY TEXT THE KEY
WORD ON YOUR SCREEN TO 40544.
00:27:17.10\00:27:21.07
OR VISIT THE WEB
ADDRESS SHOWN ON YOUR SCREEN
00:27:21.10\00:27:23.87
AND BE SURE TO SELECT
THE DIGITAL DOWNLOAD OPTION
00:27:23.91\00:27:26.34
ON THE REQUEST PAGE.
00:27:26.37\00:27:27.68
IT'S NOW EASIER THAN EVER
00:27:27.71\00:27:29.11
FOR YOU TO STUDY GOD'S
WORD WITH AMAZING FACTS,
00:27:29.14\00:27:31.98
WHEREVER AND WHENEVER
YOU WANT AND MOST IMPORTANT,
00:27:32.01\00:27:35.18
TO SHARE IT WITH OTHERS.
00:27:35.22\00:27:36.72
female announcer: Did you
know Amazing Facts has a free
00:27:38.29\00:27:40.19
Bible school that
you can do from the
00:27:40.22\00:27:41.89
comfort of your own home?
00:27:41.92\00:27:43.53
It includes 27 beautifully
illustrated study lessons to aid
00:27:43.56\00:27:47.10
in your study of God's Word.
00:27:47.13\00:27:49.03
Sign up today for this free
Bible study course by calling
00:27:49.06\00:27:51.90
1-844-215-7000.
00:27:51.93\00:27:54.97
That's 1-844-215-7000.
00:27:55.00\00:27:58.31
DON'T FORGET TO
REQUEST TODAY'S FREE OFFER.
00:28:04.45\00:28:06.38
IT'S SURE TO BE A BLESSING.
00:28:06.41\00:28:08.08
AND THANK YOU FOR
YOUR CONTINUED SUPPORT
00:28:08.12\00:28:10.19
AS WE TAKE THE GOSPEL OF
JESUS CHRIST TO THE WORLD.
00:28:10.22\00:28:13.49
WE HOPE YOU'LL JOIN US NEXT WEEK
00:28:13.52\00:28:15.16
AS WE DELVE DEEP
INTO THE WORD OF GOD
00:28:15.19\00:28:17.56
TO EXPLORE MORE AMAZING FACTS.
00:28:17.59\00:28:19.93
THIS PRESENTATION
WAS BROUGHT TO YOU
00:28:24.80\00:28:26.33
BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY.
00:28:26.37\00:28:29.04