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Doug Batchelor: Contrary to the
popular belief that lightning
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never strikes the same spot
twice, it's actually been known
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to strike objects, even people,
multiple times during intense
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electrical storms.
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During one storm for instance,
the Empire State Building in New
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York was struck 15
times within 15 minutes.
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Sometimes a single bolt of
lightning will really consists
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of as many as 42 discharges
striking the same spot in such
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quick succession that it appears
like a single flash, but it all
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happens in less than
one quarter of a second.
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Lightning from one cloud to
another is also very common, and
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it's been recorded to jump as
far as 20 miles between clouds.
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But whether lightning is moving
from cloud to cloud, or cloud to
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ground, or ground to cloud,
it's hard to miss the brilliant,
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blinding flash that
illuminates the sky.
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In Matthew 24, Jesus said, "For
as lightning comes from the east
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and flashes to the west, so also
will the coming of the Son of
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Man be."
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In spite of His words, some
still believe that His return is
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going to be a secret,
but what is the truth?
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Join me now, friends, as we take
a closer look at what the Bible
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really says about
the return of Christ.
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Doug: I hope you've got
your seatbelts on, because we're
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going to be diving into some
industrial-strength Bible study
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now, talkin' about some of the
high points of Christ's coming.
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Our lesson tonight is
dealing with the subject of the
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"Coronation Of the King."
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Now, I like history,
it's amazing to me that Hernán
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Cortés, Hernán Cortés and his
conquistadors, when they landed
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in Veracruz, Mexico, that with
just 800 men, he went into the
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capital of the city that had
two-and-a-half, three million
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people, there were at least
145,000 people living in Mexico
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City at that time, and
he was able to conquer it.
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You know why?
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In part because Montezuma and
many of the other Aztecs had a
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prophecy about these
light-skinned gods that would
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come from the east.
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And when the Spanish came with
their ships and the billowing
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sails from east,
they said, "Is that them?"
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And then they're wearing their
armor, they're riding on horses
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they'd never seen before,
and they thought they were gods.
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And they marched right into the
middle of the city and they took
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the king because
of false prophecy.
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They fell, so we've gotta know
what prophecy really says, or we
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can be deceived.
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And they were deceived by false
prophecies, and that's a lot of
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people in the last days, it's
going to happen, false Christ.
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Matthew 24:24, our Lord
said, "False christs and false
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prophets will rise and
show signs and wonders."
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Even if they do signs and
wonders, if it does not go with
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the Bible, do not believe it.
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"To deceive, if it was
possible, even the very elect."
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I remember meeting
my first false Christ.
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I had just become a Christian,
I was living in the mountains.
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For a year-and-a-half, I
lived in a cave in Southern
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California, all by myself,
way back in these mountains.
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And this hiker came down
the canyon and came by my cave,
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which was right by the water,
and I remember he stepped into
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the cave yard, I had a yard.
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He was about six feet tall,
he had brown hair down to his
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shoulders, had a beard,
hazel eyes, good looking guy.
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And he sat down and talked
to me, he's going up in the
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mountains, he's hiking along,
and talked to me a little bit.
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He said I am Jesus Christ.
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Well, first he said I am
Jesus, and I wasn't sure what
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he thought.
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He was acting a little odd.
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I've got some Spanish friends,
and their name is Jesus, maybe
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that's his name.
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I said, "You mean
your name is Jesus?"
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He said, "No, I am Jesus."
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Well, I gotta
really creepy feeling.
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I was up in the mountains all
by myself, and there's this guy
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looking straight at me, and he's
saying he's Jesus, and I just
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read enough of the Bible to know
that the Bible says he's coming
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in the clouds and
we're caught up to meet him.
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And he said, "Don't you know
there'll be many false Christs?"
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I said, "Well, you know, doesn't
the Bible say"--I didn't want to
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hurt his feelings,
'cause what if he is Jesus?
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I'd have a lot of
questions for him, you know?
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If he's Jesus, you don't want to
offend him, that's really risky.
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And so, I said, "You know,
doesn't it say that, like, you
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know, you're
coming in the clouds?"
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He said, "Yeah, that's right,
but I'm meeting with a few
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selected individuals first."
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Make me feel special, you know.
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And the guy, he knew some
Scripture, he stayed in my cave
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for, like, two-and-a-half days,
and he ate all my food, and he
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was a slob.
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I had to clean up after him, I
finally had to evict Jesus from
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my cave.
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And a few days later, I was down
in Palm Springs, and I saw him
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again, and he was walking down
the street with this other tall
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hippie, and tall
hippie said, "This is Jesus."
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So, he found his first apostle.
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This is Jesus.
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And then a few days later, I saw
him and he was missing one of
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his eye teeth.
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He had offended somebody, which
is not hard to do, I guess if
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you're telling
everyone you're God.
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And I felt so much better.
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I feel bad about his tooth, but
I mean, I know Jesus has all his
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teeth, and so that settled
any doubts in my mind up to
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that point.
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So of course, there are people
that are not clear out there,
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and they say that they're
Napoleon, and Cleopatra, or
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Jesus, but what I'm worried
about is the ones that are
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smooth-talking
wolves in sheep's clothing.
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They claim, they say,
that oh, I believe in Jesus.
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"Therefore if they say, 'Look,
he's in the desert,' do not
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go out.
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'Look, he is in inner
rooms,' do not believe it."
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We're supposed to stay away
from and avoid, don't even look.
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If someone says, "Look, Jesus
is appearing on TV," I wouldn't
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even change the channel.
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Don't look, the
devil's got hypnotic ability.
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What will prevent the
righteous from being deceived?
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Answer, Isaiah 8 verse 20.
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"To the law and the testimony."
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Now, when it says the law and
the testimony, that's the Bible
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way of saying the law and
the prophets, the Word of God.
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The last Scripture in the Old
Testament says, "Remember the
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law of Moses, my servant.
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Behold, I send you
Elijah the prophet."
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And in Revelation 19 verse 10,
it says that the testimony of
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Jesus is the Spirit of prophecy.
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It's talking
about the Word of God.
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The word of God is a two-edged
sword, you got the New and the
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Old Testament.
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And so, if they do not speak
according to the Bible, how are
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you going to
tell the difference?
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How many miracles they can do?
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Can the devil do miracles?
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You remember during the exodus,
Moses threw down his rod, it
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became a serpent.
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Well, the Pharaoh's magicians
threw down their rods, they
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became serpents.
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New Testament talks about
a sorcerer named Simon who
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deceived the
people with his miracles.
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So, you can't go by miracles,
you can't go by feeling, can't
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go by signs and wonders,
the only thing is thus saith the
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Lord, Jesus said.
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We'll be judged by His word,
so you've gotta read your Bible
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for yourself.
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So, what can we know about
the time of Jesus's return?
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We're going to go quickly
through some what I think are
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astounding evidences that give
us some indication that Jesus's
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coming is soon,
and let me explain.
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First of all, nobody
knows the day and the hour.
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Matthew 24:36,
Jesus is really clear.
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He settled that.
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Someone comes to you and says
I did the calculation and I know
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the day He's coming, or even if
they start telling you they know
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the year He's coming,
everyone's been wrong so far.
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Lot of the world has lost faith
in Christ coming because there
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have been so many false
shepherds that starts setting
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dates on it.
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God doesn't say He wants us
to know the date, He wants us to
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be ready.
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How many of you wait until April
15 before you file your taxes?
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Some people wait until
the last week, don't you?
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Wait 'til the end.
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If you knew the day of Jesus's
coming, you'd probably live
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recklessly until a week before.
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He wants us to be ready.
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Now, we may not know the day or
the hour, but did Jesus say we
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can know when it is near?
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You read in Matthew 24:33, "You
also, when you see all these
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things, know that it is
near, even at the doors."
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And friends, I think
we're seeing those signs now.
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Let's look at some.
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For one thing, there's been just
incredible increase of natural
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disasters, and the planet, I
think we all know that resources
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are being consumed.
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This is a graph, you can't see
it very well, but the insurance
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companies, they're not
religious, they're just looking
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at the exposure from natural
disasters, whether it's water,
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hydrological damage, or
geological damage, or from
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hurricanes or something,
and it continues to accelerate.
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And this is from, like, 1980 on.
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There's a growth.
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"National Geographic" published
an article a few years ago where
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they said half of the
wildlife in the world, 52%, has
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disappeared between 1970
and 2010, 40-year period.
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There are other
signs, moral signs.
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Bible says evil men and seducers
will wax worse and worse.
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Jesus said as it was in the days
of Noah, what does it say about
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the days of Noah?
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Violence filled the land.
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Every day, more American
youth die in gang violence than
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fighting in foreign wars.
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Isn't that kinda tragic?
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It happens almost
every day just in Chicago.
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Then, more people die in Chicago
in gang fights than in the U.S.
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military around the world.
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Overpopulation, here's just--I
get my notes here real quick,
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'cause some of these graphs are
a little small for me to read.
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Look at how things have
changed with the population of
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the world.
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It took 5,000 years to get the
first one billion people in the
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world, 5,000 years
to get one billion.
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Then it took 123 years
to get the second billion.
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Then it took 33 years to get the
third billion, that was 1960, I
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remember that.
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Then it took 14 years to get the
fourth billion, 13 years to get
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the fifth billion, 12 years to
get the sixth billion, 12 years
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to get the seventh billion, now
we're at 7.8 billion people, and
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we're losing farmable land.
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There's just been a
lot of natural disasters.
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This can't go on forever.
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And then you heard one of our
people on the street, they said
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we think the world is going
to end with a nuclear bomb.
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Even since they began the
disarmament talks 40 years ago,
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there's still thousands and
thousands of nuclear warheads,
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some of them from
the fall of the U.S.S.R.
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We're afraid they're
going to end up in rogue hands.
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And North Korea is still
rattling their sabers, talking
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about getting nuclear weapons.
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Iran is talking about
getting nuclear weapons.
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And history has shown us that
man has never made a weapon he
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did not use.
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That if enough time goes
by, either through accident,
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madness, or folly,
there will be an incident.
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It's a sort of a law of life.
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I hope Jesus comes before that
point, but Jesus said except
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those days be shortened,
speaking of the second coming,
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except those days be shortened,
no flesh would be saved.
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But for the elect's sake,
those days will be shortened.
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For me, some of the most
powerful prophecies are these
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you find in Daniel 12.
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"But you, Daniel shut up the
words and seal the book until
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the time of the end.
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Many will run to and fro, and
knowledge will be increased."
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Friends, there has been
no history, there's been no
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generation in history like
our generation that has seen an
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explosion of knowledge.
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My grandfather was born in
Harlem, New York City, when they
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rode horses yet at home, in
New York City by candlelight.
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In one generation, look at all
the incredible transformations
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we've seen.
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Automobile, airplanes,
penicillin, radio, television.
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Knowledge is exploding.
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Can you imagine trying to
explain your smartphone to the
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Apostle Peter?
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"Say, hey, I just, I can Google
it, what verse do you want?"
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We have the whole Bible here.
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Yeah, you want to talk
to someone the other side of
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the planet?
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Here, I'll call them right now.
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You can look at 'em
and you can talk to 'em.
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Can you imagine
trying to explain the marvel?
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We take it for granted.
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You probably would be stoned
as a witch if you went back 200
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years and showed
that to somebody.
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Look at how the
world has changed.
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Knowledge will increase, Daniel
said, and people will run to
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and fro.
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People are traveling more
now than any other time in the
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history of man, far from
the place of their birth.
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Here for me is
one of the greatest.
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"This gospel of the kingdom will
be preached in all the world for
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a witness unto all nations,
and then the end will come."
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What's happening right here is
exhibit A? While I'm talking to
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you here in the Granite Bay
area, this message is bouncing
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off satellites up in the sky,
and it is going around the world
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via 3ABN, Hope Channel, Amazing
Facts Television, as well as
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other earthbound stations
and the internet all over
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the planet.
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We've got people from all over
the world said we're going to be
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tuning into
"Panorama of Prophecy."
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And I've been in India several
times where people are living
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under blue tarps, but they've
got a satellite dish pointing
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out, seriously.
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I've been in Africa where people
are barefoot, but they got a
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cell phone.
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And just all over the world,
Karen and I were in New Guinea,
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quick story, and we wanted to
go out in the jungle, our crew
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that's in the
back remembers this.
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We wanted to go out in the
jungle and get some what looked
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like, you know,
typical cultural footage.
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We found a plant shack and a
typical yard and garden, and our
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translator said to the host
people, "Would it be alright if
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our guests get out and do
a little videotaping here?
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You've got a beautiful place."
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She said sure.
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We got out, we are way out in
the jungle of New Guinea in the
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center highlands.
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I get out of the car, walk over
and meet the lady, she looks
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like she saw a ghost.
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I thought she was
going to have a heart attack.
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She starts to jab and in Pidgin
English tells our translator, "I
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watch your
programs all the time.
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I never dreamed I'd
see you in my yard."
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And we gave her a hug.
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That was so incredible.
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They crank up a generator and
they watch with satellite, or
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they can do it on their phones.
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We were in China, Amazing Facts
was one of the few groups that
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was allowed to go into Wuxi,
China, and we did a meeting like
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this on television,
and it was broadcast.
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And then they restricted things
again, but we were able to get
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in there and do
15 presentations.
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We've seen the gospel.
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Now we've got people all over
the world, including China, that
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email us, that are
studying the gospel.
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What did Jesus say will happen?
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The end will come.
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Well friends, this
is happening right now.
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The gospel is going into all the
world, and I'm one, or Amazing
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Facts is one of thousands of
Christian ministries that are
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preaching the gospel.
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What will the angels
do at the second coming?
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"His angels will gather
together, His elect from the
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four winds of heaven," that
means north, south, east, west,
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"To the other."
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Since we're living just before
Jesus's second coming, how
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should we relate to this
solemn and this glorious event?
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"Therefore be ye also ready, for
the Son of Man is coming at an
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hour that you do not expect."
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Friends, we don't want to wait
till the last minute before we
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get ready for
Jesus's coming, amen?
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We want to be ready.
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How can we be ready?
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Jesus tells us, "Come to me."
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Jesus is
desperate to save everybody.
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He loves everybody.
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"For God so loved the world,
he gave hHs Son that whoever
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believes in Him
might not perish, but have
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everlasting life."
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And no matter where you are in
your life, if you'll just tell
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the Lord, "Forgive me for
my sins, give me a new heart."
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Repent of your sins, tell
Him what they are, He knows.
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He wants to give you
a purpose for living.
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God does not want you to die.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment,
we'll return for the rest of
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today's presentation.
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Are you familiar with the
prophetic signs of Christ's
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return and just how
close we really are to the most
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extraordinary
cosmic event in history?
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Will we be suddenly and secretly
raptured as millions are left
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behind, or will Jesus's
return be as loud and bright as
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lightening from sky to sky?
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Well, there might be a million
different theories out there,
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but there's only one Bible
truth, and Jesus promises if we
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seek, we will fine.
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Let's return to today's
presentation and learn some more
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amazing facts
from the Word of God.
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Doug: How will people
be rewarded at Jesus's
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second coming?
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As I mentioned,
there's only two groups.
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He says, "Behold, I am coming
quickly, and My reward is with
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Me to give to everyone
according to his work."
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You know, friends, if our sins
are not confessed and under the
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blood of the Lamb, then
everybody is going to pay for
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their sins, and the Bible tells
us that the penalty for sin is
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death, but the gift of
God is everlasting life.
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He wants to give
that to everybody.
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He says I'm coming quickly,
and My reward is with Me.
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Isn't that interesting?
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I am coming quickly.
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You might be thinking, "Well,
Pastor Doug, why is it taking so
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long for Jesus to get here?"
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A day with the Lord is like a
thousand years, and a thousand
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years as a day.
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Jesus was here 2,000 years
ago, that's two days for God.
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That's pretty quick.
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And by the way, what's
the average lifespan now?
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Seventy-five, eighty, depends on
what country you're in and what
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you eat.
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What does that
compared to eternity?
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You know, right now it's
hard for me to believe that I'm
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my age.
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It went by so quick.
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Someone asked Billy Graham,
"What's the most amazing thing
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that you've learned about life?"
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He said it's brevity.
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He says I can't believe I'm
95 years old when they asked him
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this question,
and he lived to 99.
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He said the brevity of life.
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It went by so quick.
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So when Jesus does come,
everybody's going to agree,
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well, that was quick.
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For most people,
it will be too soon.
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There's going to
be another group.
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What will the wicked
say when Jesus returns?
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"And all the kings,"
this is Revelation 6:15.
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"And the kings of the earth, and
the great men, and the rich men,
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and the commanders, and the
mighty men, and every slave, and
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every free man hid themselves in
the caves and the rocks and the
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mountains, and they said unto
the rocks and the mountains,
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'Fall on us and hide us from the
face of Him who sits upon the
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throne and from
the wrath of the Lamb.
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For the great day of His
wrath is come, and who is able
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to stand?'"
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That's a big question, friends.
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Jesus has given us these
prophecies so that we can know
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that He is coming back.
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He came on time the first time.
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You know, there are hundreds
of prophecies in the Bible that
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talk about the first coming
of Jesus, and one reason that we
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know that Jesus was the
Messiah is because of all of
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these prophecies.
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We're going to look at
some of them another night.
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We're told what town He'd
be born in, we're told all the
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events about His betrayal
the amount, where the money was
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going to be thrown,
how He would be crucified.
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You read Psalm 22 where it
begins, "My God, My God, why
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have you forsaken Me?
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They cast lots for My garments,
they pierced My hands and
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My feet."
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All this was part of the
prophecies in the Old Testament
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to help us recognize when He did
come, His word can be trusted.
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Well, now He's given us hundreds
of prophecies about His second
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coming, why?
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He wants us to be ready
when it happens, friends.
00:20:18.18\00:20:21.48
What will the righteous
say when Jesus appears?
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"Behold, this is our God.
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We've waited for
Him, and He will save us.
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We will be glad and
rejoice in His salvation."
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Friends, we don't have to
be afraid of Christ coming.
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The Bible calls
it the blessed hope.
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If you've got a love
relationship with Jesus, you are
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yearning for Him to come.
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You know, if you're wondering
how important a seminar like
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this is, one of the last words
in the Bible, "Even so, come
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Lord Jesus."
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The last words of the Bible
bejeweled with His name are
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saying Lord, come.
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It was a priority to Jesus,
it should be a priority to the
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people here.
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Now, some of us
have been distracted.
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You know, Christ warned us.
00:21:05.09\00:21:07.03
He said if that evil servant
says in his heart my Lord delays
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His coming, the Lord of that
master will come in a day that
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he's not looking for him.
00:21:12.73\00:21:14.40
Jesus warned us that before His
coming, He shares a parable of
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the ten virgins,
they were all asleep.
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Before Jesus went to the
cross, the apostles fell asleep.
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And much of the church is
sleeping right now when the most
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stupendous event in history is
about to transpire, the coming
00:21:26.95\00:21:30.85
of the Lord.
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The whole world's
going to be shaken by this.
00:21:32.39\00:21:34.76
It's going to be as real as it
gets, friends, and He wants us
00:21:34.79\00:21:37.46
to be ready, because it's like
that sign out in front of the
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Baptist Church.
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It said, "Repent
now and avoid the rush."
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If we wait until we see
Him coming, it'll be too late.
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We need to get ready
and stay ready, amen?
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You know, I like history.
00:21:54.34\00:21:56.31
I think there's some important
lessons that we can learn
00:21:56.34\00:21:58.28
from history.
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I got done, I think it was last
year, I read a book called "The
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Endurance," and it's about the
adventures of Ernest Shackleton,
00:22:04.69\00:22:09.12
this great Antarctic explorer,
and he was sent on this special
00:22:09.16\00:22:14.96
transarctic expedition.
00:22:15.00\00:22:16.73
He picked out, he handpicked
some of the finest men, look at
00:22:16.77\00:22:19.33
the
advertisement that he put out.
00:22:19.37\00:22:21.04
"Men wanted for
hazardous journey.
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Low wages, bitter cold,
long hours of complete darkness.
00:22:23.07\00:22:27.31
Safe return doubtful.
00:22:27.34\00:22:28.94
Honor and recognition
in event of success."
00:22:28.98\00:22:31.71
Everybody signed up.
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All the men wanted
to be part of that.
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Well, he handpicked just the
best of the best, and he took
00:22:35.28\00:22:38.52
those 26, I think there are 27
in all, including him, and they
00:22:38.55\00:22:42.89
went to go to Antarctica
with the purpose of completely
00:22:42.92\00:22:46.46
crossing the continent.
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They would be the first to
do it, but it was an unusually
00:22:47.86\00:22:50.03
cold winter.
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Their ship, The Endurance,
was trapped in the ice, and they
00:22:51.43\00:22:56.20
basically lived on this boat
frozen in the ice for months.
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But the ice continued, the
pressure continue to crush and
00:23:00.08\00:23:02.64
crack the ship.
00:23:02.68\00:23:04.38
Water started coming in, they
had to transfer anything that
00:23:04.41\00:23:07.38
was of value outside onto
the ice, and then they lived on
00:23:07.42\00:23:09.82
the ice.
00:23:09.85\00:23:11.15
The ship fell apart and
swallowed by the ice, their sled
00:23:11.19\00:23:15.22
dogs that they planned to use to
take them across eventually had
00:23:15.26\00:23:18.89
to become food, and the men
realized they were starving,
00:23:18.93\00:23:22.23
they're eating seal.
00:23:22.26\00:23:23.63
Shackleton was an
incredible leader of men.
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He said our only hope is to
drag our two lifeboats to where
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there's water that is
not frozen, try to get to the
00:23:30.34\00:23:33.54
nearest island,
which was Elephant Island.
00:23:33.58\00:23:36.54
Incredibly difficult trip with
these men dragging these boats
00:23:36.58\00:23:39.88
filled with their gear across
this bumpy, ice-broken surface,
00:23:39.91\00:23:43.92
but they did it.
00:23:43.95\00:23:45.29
They put them in the water, then
they had a harrowing adventure
00:23:45.32\00:23:47.19
getting over to Elephant Island.
00:23:47.22\00:23:48.89
They were so disappointed, they
just had 20 feet of rocky beach,
00:23:48.92\00:23:52.49
everything else was ice.
00:23:52.53\00:23:54.46
Shackleton said
we're going to die here.
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So, he and five other men, he
said we're going to go 700 miles
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over the worst
ocean in the world.
00:24:00.24\00:24:03.20
He said we're going to go to a
whaling station on South Georgia
00:24:03.24\00:24:05.61
Island, we'll get help
there, we'll come back for you.
00:24:05.64\00:24:08.74
He said, men, I will come back.
00:24:08.78\00:24:10.48
Be ready, 'cause the ice will
open briefly, you've gotta be
00:24:10.51\00:24:14.58
ready to load up and get out.
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He made an 800-mile voyage.
00:24:17.75\00:24:21.56
They actually survived a
hurricane that took down a
00:24:21.59\00:24:24.89
500-ton ship, and they're in a
20-foot boat, five men, 20-foot
00:24:24.93\00:24:29.26
little sailboat
with canvas over the top.
00:24:29.30\00:24:32.17
Their fur coats began to
rot because they were laying in
00:24:32.20\00:24:35.34
water for days on their body,
and they had hair all over them
00:24:35.37\00:24:38.34
from the fur coats,
and they were starving.
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They had just enough
food to try to get them there.
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The navigator, there should
be a book about him, Frank
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Whirley, incredible.
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He with a sextant looking at the
sun was able to take that little
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ship across an Antarctic Ocean
in a hurricane, and he found
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South Georgia Island.
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It's a little spit of land.
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There's a whaling station
there, but they landed on the
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wrong side.
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They had to cross
these alpine mountains.
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Only one other person has
done it since then, and they had
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almost no gear.
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And he was so dedicated to
saving his men that when he got
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to the wailing station,
starving, cold, frostbit, he
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said, I need a
boat to go get my men.
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"I've left my men,
I'm going back for them."
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Three times he took ships and
they got stuck in the ice and he
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had to turn back.
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Finally, in the
fourth try he got there.
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Now in the meantime, his men,
they knew Shackleton would not
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leave them, and the leader
in the group said every morning
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they would wake up, and
they would pack their gear, and
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they'd say we don't know, today
might be the day when the boss
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shows up.
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up, and that was on his fourth
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months waiting for
him to return, he came.
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And he said you gotta get in,
we've got to get out right now,
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the ice is going
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