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Doug Batchelor: We've
all heard of atomic clocks.
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Invented about 75 years ago,
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these time pieces
are incredibly accurate.
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For example, the
celsium fountain clock
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located in Boulder, Colorado,
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which is responsible for
official timekeeping in the USA,
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will only lose or
gain less than a second
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in over a 100 million year span.
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You can even buy a real
atomic clock of your own
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if you've got a few
thousand dollars lying around.
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I don't know why, but now
engineers have even developed
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a more accurate
timekeeping apparatus,
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the optical lattice clock.
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It involves trapping cooled
atoms within an optical lattice,
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resulting in such precision,
it takes 15 billion years
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to lose a single second.
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Did you know we can
find amazing time accuracy
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in the spiritual realm, as well?
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For example, the
Bible's longest time prophecy
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predicted the exact time
the Messiah would appear,
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and when He would die for
our sins and ascend to heaven,
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where He now
intercedes as our high priest.
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So join me now as we
explore this fascinating topic.
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Doug: There is a
prophecy that you'll find,
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there's actually a
couple of prophecies,
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in Daniel chapter eight
and Daniel chapter nine.
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We're going to be looking
at the longest time prophecy
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in the Bible tonight.
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And I wanna remind
you, this is so important
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because it tells us
the antichrist power
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is gonna be sitting
in the temple of God,
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showing Himself He is
God, and much of the world
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has been confused
about what is that temple
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that the
antichrist power sits over.
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A magician uses something called
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slight of hand and diversion.
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And what he'll do is they
direct your attention over here,
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and they're just so good
at getting people to focus
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on something here that
nobody's paying attention
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to what's happening in their
other hand or in another spot.
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They always get you
to focus on something
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they want you to focus on.
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The devil's got
a lot of the world
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focusing on a distraction,
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and they're missing
what's really going on
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right under their noses.
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And we'll be
unveiling more of that
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in this seminar as we proceed.
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And this leads us
into our study for tonight,
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which is called
Cleansing the Sanctuary.
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Here you go.
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All right, everyone awake?
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One of the most important
prophecies in the Bible.
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When I first understood this,
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I literally jumped up and down.
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I'll try not to do that tonight.
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"70 weeks are
determined for your people."
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Who are Daniel's people?
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congregant: The Jews.
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Doug: The Jews.
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And for the holy
city, about 70 weeks,
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how many days in a week?
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Seven days in a week.
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70 weeks is how many days?
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congregation: 490.
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Doug: 70 times seven, 490.
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Did Peter once say,
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"Jesus, how often
shall I forgive my brother,
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seven times?"
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And Jesus said, "Not seven
times, but 70 times seven."
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How much longer was God gonna
bear with the Jewish nation
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to fulfill their destiny?
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Their destiny was to introduce
the Messiah to the world.
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That's what
happens in this book.
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"For the people,
for your holy city,
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"to finish the transgression,
to make an end of sins,
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"to make
reconciliation for iniquity."
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Lots happening here.
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"To bring in
everlasting righteousness."
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This is the mission of Jesus.
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"To seal up the vision."
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To complete the
vision that we study.
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"To anoint the Most Holy."
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Who is the Most
Holy that was anointed?
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Jesus.
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This prophecy's telling us
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when Christ would begin
His ministry and be anointed
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with the Holy Spirit.
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The word Christ, Christos,
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you've heard of christening
a ship, it's anointing.
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The word in Hebrew is Messiah,
they both mean anointing.
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It means He was
filled and flooded
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and saturated
with the Holy Spirit.
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God in man is
what you have in Jesus.
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It says 70 weeks.
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So the overall
prophecy is 70 weeks.
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A day in prophecy equals what?
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A year, we'll give
you the verses on that
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in just a moment.
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"Know therefore and understand."
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I'm in verse 25.
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"That from the going
forth of the command,"
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here's the starting
point for the vision,
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"from the going
forth of the command
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"to restore and build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince,
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"there will be
seven weeks and 62 weeks."
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That's a total of 69.
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"And the street
will be built again,
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"and the wall, even
in troublesome times."
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He's foretelling
what happened in the days
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of Ezra and Nehemiah when
they were rebuilding the temple
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and the streets and the walls.
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"And after the 62 weeks,"
and after this time period,
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it says, "the Messiah is
cut off, but not for himself."
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Messiah was cut off for who?
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For you and me.
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"And the people of
the prince who will come
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"shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary."
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He's talking about
when the Romans came.
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This next power was the Romans,
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and they would destroy
Jerusalem and the temple.
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This broke Daniel's heart.
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And the end
will be with a flood,
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meaning a lot of people
or armies would sweep over.
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"Until the end of the war
desolations are determined."
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Going back to
Messiah in verse 27,
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"He will confirm the
covenant with many for one week,
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"but in the middle of the week,
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"He will bring an end to
sacrifice and offerings."
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Who caused the sacrifice
and the offering to cease?
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When Jesus died on the cross
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and the veil was
rent in the temple,
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do we sacrifice lambs anymore?
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The Jews don't even
sacrifice lambs anymore.
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"And on the wing of abomination
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"shall one who makes desolate,
even until the consummation,
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"which is determined, shall
be poured out on the desolate."
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So you got the abomination
of desolation identified here,
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you've got the
coming of the Messiah.
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I'm gonna give it to
you again, if that was fast.
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"At the beginning
of your supplications
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"the command went out,
and I've come to tell you."
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So the angel comes
to explain this vision
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in Daniel chapter nine,
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and it's going on with the
vision of Daniel chapter eight.
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What was the starting
point for the 2,300-day
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and the 70-week time prophecies?
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We've got two prophecies
that overlay each other,
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they got one starting
period given in both chapters.
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It says, "Know
therefore and understand."
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This is Daniel 9:25.
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"From the going
forth of the commandment
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"to restore and build Jerusalem.
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"Until the Messiah the Prince,
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"there will be
seven weeks and 62 weeks."
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So, you got a starting point.
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How in the world are
we gonna find in history
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the starting
point for this command
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to restore and build Jerusalem?
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In Ezra chapter seven,
the decree of King Artaxerxes,
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the Persian king, is given,
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and it's a very easily
established date in history,
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it is 457 BC.
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So here's our starting point,
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but we've got to just reiterate,
when it says 490 days,
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in prophecy a day is a year.
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You can look
here in Ezekiel 4:6,
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"I have laid on you
a day for each year."
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Numbers 14:34,
"Each day for a year."
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Another prophecy
in Luke chapter 13.
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The enemies of
Jesus came and said,
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"King Herod, he's
killed John the Baptist,
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"you better be
careful, you might be next."
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Jesus said, "Go tell
that fox, I teach, do cures.
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"cast out
devils today, tomorrow,
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"and the third day I will
be completed or perfected."
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Jesus made that statement
about six months in His ministry
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when John the
Baptist was killed,
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he did not preach
for three more days,
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he preached for
three more years.
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Even Jesus used the
day for the year principle
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in His prophecy.
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So don't be
thinking literal days
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because nothing
significant happened 2,300 days
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after Daniel got this prophecy.
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The angel said that if
you were to count 69 weeks
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from 457 BC, you would
come to the Messiah the Prince.
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Does it happen?
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Look at this, you
can read in Acts 10:37,
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"That the word you
know, after the baptism,
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"how God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Spirit
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"and with power."
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Who went about
doing good and healing,
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all who were oppressed of
the devil, Jesus was anointed.
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You remember
when He was baptized
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and He came up out of the
water and the heavens were open.
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The Holy Spirit
came down like a dove.
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Christ does no miracle before
His baptism, nothing recorded.
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And He begins His public
ministry, from that point on.
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Meets with the devil in
the wilderness and defeats him
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and Jesus then taught
for three and a half years.
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Here's a chart, and
then there's a ton of stuff
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that you're gonna see
on the screen up here.
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So if you go from 457 BC,
go 483 years, it comes to AD 27
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the very time
when Jesus was baptized
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and anointed
with the Holy Spirit
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and He began His ministry,
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but we haven't
gotten the whole 490 yet,
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we just get the
beginning of that 483 years.
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There's still one week left.
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It says in the
midst of that last week,
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He causes the
sacrifice to cease.
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Jesus preaches for
three and a half years,
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He dies on the cross, the
veil in the temple is rent,
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He causes the sacrificial
system to be fulfilled in Him.
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That's all nailed to the cross.
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Well, why is there
another three and a half years?
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All right, go
with me in your Bibles
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to the book of Acts chapter
seven, Acts chapter seven.
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Not only did Jesus
preach three and a half years,
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Jesus then exclusively
preached three and a half years
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to the Jewish nation.
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And here we're gonna find the
story where Stephen is stoned.
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Go to verse 57.
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After Stephen
presents the gospel
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to the Jewish
Supreme court, the Sanhedrin,
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he says that we've
crucified our savior.
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They plug their ears,
they don't wanna hear it.
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They gnash their
teeth, they run upon him.
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What does it mean?
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If a Supreme Court of a
nation plugs their ears?
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It's not good for the nation.
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They cried out with a loud
voice, they stopped their ears,
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they ranted him with one accord,
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they cast him out of the
city and they stoned him.
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Jesus was
brought out of the city,
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He prayed for the forgiveness
of those that executed Him,
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just like Stephen.
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It says that they
laid their clothes
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at the feet of a
young man named Saul,
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tells us that they
divided Jesus' clothing.
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The same thing
that happened to Jesus,
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happens to the first
Christian martyr, Stephen,
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three and a half
years later, Stephen dies.
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And Paul is there at the
execution, Paul is converted,
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he becomes the
apostle to the Gentiles.
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Now the gospel
goes to everybody.
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You realize until
the stoning of Stephen,
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the apostles were
only preaching to Jews.
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This is in the lesson here.
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I'm gonna give you
some revision of that again,
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to help remember it.
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483 years, plus 457 goes
to AD 26, but keep in mind,
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there's still
one more year you add
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between the year 1 BC and 1 AD,
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there is no year
zero, that adds up to 27 AD.
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This is when Jesus was baptized.
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What was to take
place next in the prophecy?
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After the 62 weeks,
you got the seven weeks
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and the 62 weeks, that's
69, Messiah would be cut off.
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Can that be misunderstood?
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Messiah is who?
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Jesus.
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In His prime, the
average person lives
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three score and 10
years, Jesus died 33 and a half.
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In His prime, He
lays down His life
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in His best for you and me.
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"He'll confirm the
covenant with many for one week;
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"but in the middle of the week,
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"he'll bring to end the
sacrifice and the offering."
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Now friends, this is a
verse that we can't get wrong.
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Let me just tell you, I've got
a lot of evangelical friends,
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they say the one who
confirms the covenant
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is the anti-Christ.
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I'm telling you, and a lot
of other Protestant scholars
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are saying, it's not the
anti-Christ, it is Jesus.
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Where in the Bible do you find
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that the anti-Christ
makes a covenant with anybody?
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There's no salvation covenant.
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Does God have a
covenant with His people?
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congregation: Yes.
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Doug: Did Jesus come
to confirm that covenant?
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congregation: Yes.
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Doug: He is the
fulfillment of the covenant
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God made with Abraham
that through His seed,
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all the nations
would be blessed.
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The covenant of
salvation by faith is confirmed
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through Jesus for
three and a half years,
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half of a week in the midst
of that last seven, He dies.
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Well, but how does He
continue to confirm the covenant
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after He's died?
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Good question,
it's in the Bible.
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Look in Hebrews chapter two,
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you go to Hebrews chapter two.
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"How shall we escape if we
neglect so great a salvation,
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"which at the first began
to be spoken by the Lord,"
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first three and a
half, "and was confirmed."
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The covenant was
confirmed through Jesus.
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"And was confirmed to
us by those who heard Him."
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For another
three and a half years,
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He confirmed the
covenant just to the Jews,
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through the apostles.
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Christ said to the apostles,
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"As the father has
sent me, so I send you,
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"you need to complete
the work that I've started.
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"And even though
the Jewish nation
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"has officially rejected me,
I am long suffering, merciful,
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"I want you to continue to
preach the gospel to the Jews."
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And many were converted.
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When 3,000 were
converted at Pentecost,
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what was their religion?
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Jewish, they were devout Jews
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out of every
nation under heaven.
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5,000 converted a few
days later, what were they?
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Jews, the Bible tells us
in Acts, many of the priests,
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even Pharisees and Sadducees,
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people like Nicodemus
and Joseph were converted.
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He said, "I'm gonna
give you first chance."
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The gospel comes, it
says to the Jew first
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and also to the Gentile.
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And so He confirmed the covenant
for that last seven years
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of the 490 years
with the Jewish nation.
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Doug: Don't go anywhere
friends, in just a moment
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while also providing
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Well, let's get
back to today's program
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and learn more amazing
facts from the word of God.
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Doug: In the middle
of that last seven years,
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Christ dies on the cross,
He causes a sacrifice to cease.
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You remember where it says,
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the veil in the temple
was ripped from top to bottom?
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On the Passover, no less.
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The real Passover lamb
was dying on the cross,
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outside the city.
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Now, even after Jesus
died and ascended to heaven,
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the Jews tried to
revamp the sacrificial system,
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but I'll tell you, after
that event there in AD 31,
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nothing was ever the same.
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And people who are
looking for the Jews
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to rebuild the temple today,
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I hear Christians and
evangelicals talking about it,
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but you talk to Jews, I
don't meet Jews anywhere.
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Like I said, I come
from a Jewish family.
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They're not talking
about rebuilding the temple.
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I don't know any Jews
anywhere that are saying,
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I wish we could start
sacrificing lambs again.
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I wish we could build the temple
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to house the 10 commandments
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and we don't
know where they are.
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There might be a
few ultra-orthodox Jews
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that are saying that,
but that's not the temple
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that needed
cleansing, it's us now.
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Jesus already took
care of that a long time ago
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in the other temple,
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"Because the veil is
taken away in Christ."
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That veil that
separated the holy place
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from the most holy
place, now through faith,
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you and I can boldly go
before the father through Jesus.
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We have a high priest
in His presence, Amen.
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Jesus told His
disciples to preach first
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to which group of people?
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This is review
of what I just read.
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"Do not go in the
way of the Gentiles,
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"but go rather," where?
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To the lost sheep
of the house of Israel.
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I mean, I thought Jesus wanted
them to go everywhere to...
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No, no, He said,
don't go everywhere yet.
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The Jews have
the first opportunity
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'cause they've got the whole
foundation in the scriptures.
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And if you can convert the Jews
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and then send them
out as evangelists,
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then you'll really reach
people, but first reach them.
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What warning did Jesus
give to His chosen people?
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"The kingdom of God
will be taken from you
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"and given to a nation
bearing the fruits of it."
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Remember Jesus cursed a fig tree
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because it didn't bear fruit.
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It was kind of like the
Jewish nation at that time
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where they had all
the trappings of religion,
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but they didn't have
the fruits of the spirit.
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And Jesus cursed
that fig tree and said,
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"No man will ever eat
fruit from you again."
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So now the blessings
were to go to whosoever will.
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Everyone really
becomes a spiritual Jew
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when we accept Christ.
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So what is this other
nation spoken of by Jesus,
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which would
become His chosen people?
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Now God still has a heart for
the Jews, don't misunderstand,
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but the Bible is
clear, in Christ now,
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Galatians tells us there
is neither Jew or Gentile,
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slave or free, male or female,
we are all one in Christ.
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Christ is not restricting it,
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He's expanding the promises
that He gave Abraham and Isaac
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and Jacob to everybody.
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That's why Jesus said
many will come from the east
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and the west and sit down
in the kingdom with Abraham,
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Isaac and Jacob, and
some of the natural kingdom,
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children of the kingdom
will be in outer darkness.
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We can't be trusting
our DNA for salvation,
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it's based on faith.
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"And if you are Christ's,
then you are Abraham's seed."
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Now how many of you
would say, I am Christ's?
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Have you accepted Jesus?
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Shalom, you
become a spiritual Jew.
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The Gentiles are grafted
into the stalk of Israel.
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There is no new
covenant made with Gentiles,
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it is made with
the house of Israel.
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We become at least spiritual
Jews, when we accept Jesus.
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"For He is not a Jew
who is one outwardly,"
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Romans 2:28, "but He is
a Jew who is one inwardly."
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It's not physical circumcision,
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it's
circumcision of the heart now.
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So let's review the 490
year prophecy very quickly.
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You go from 457 to
27 AD, Jesus is baptized
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and that's the first
483 years that we saw.
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Then you go three and a half
years from Christ's ministry,
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He dies on the cross.
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He tells the disciples,
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"Wait for the
outpouring of the spirit,
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"and when you're
filled with the spirit,
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"do not go to the Gentiles,
begin in Jerusalem and Judea,
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"then go to Samaria and the
uttermost parts of the earth."
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And that's
exactly what they did.
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They preach first to the
lost of the house of Israel.
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He confirmed the
covenant in person
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for three and a half years,
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then He did the
last three and a half
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through those
who walked with Him.
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And even the
enemies of the apostle said,
00:19:04.97\00:19:06.78
"We can tell they
had been with Jesus."
00:19:06.81\00:19:09.41
They'd spent so
much time with Jesus,
00:19:09.44\00:19:10.75
they sounded and
acted like Christ.
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This is the full
490 year prophecy.
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You know what this means?
00:19:15.82\00:19:17.75
Christ came right on
time, as Daniel foretold,
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He did exactly what he said,
00:19:21.29\00:19:23.16
that what happened with
the nations happened exactly.
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This is what made me jump up
and down years ago in the cave
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when I read this in my
Bible, I thought that means,
00:19:29.60\00:19:31.77
He said, "I'm coming again."
00:19:31.80\00:19:33.40
He's gonna come again just
like he promised too, Amen.
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The time prophecies
in the Bible never fail.
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This has stumped the critics.
00:19:38.44\00:19:40.08
At the end, 34
AD, Stephen is stoned,
00:19:40.11\00:19:43.65
Paul is converted.
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The gospel, it says, "A
persecution arose in Jerusalem,
00:19:45.01\00:19:47.65
"scattering the
disciples everywhere,
00:19:47.68\00:19:49.65
"preaching the
gospel to Jew and Gentile."
00:19:49.68\00:19:52.45
And that happens in
chapter nine Paul is converted,
00:19:52.49\00:19:55.79
in chapter 10 Peter
preaches to the first Gentiles
00:19:55.82\00:19:59.43
at the house of
Cornelius in Caesarea.
00:19:59.46\00:20:02.56
And so all of
it happened exactly
00:20:02.60\00:20:05.17
as Daniel said in his prophecy.
00:20:05.20\00:20:07.60
According to the
angel who spoke with Daniel,
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what would happen at
the end of the 2,300 years?
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Oh, that's right, Doug,
we started out in Daniel 8,
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said the sanctuary would
not be cleansed for 2,300 years.
00:20:16.75\00:20:21.08
What's talking about there?
00:20:21.12\00:20:23.02
"For 2,300 days,"
and a day is what?
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A year, "Then the
sanctuary will be cleansed."
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So if you go from 457
and you go 2,300 years,
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that comes to when?
00:20:36.80\00:20:39.17
1844, that was a very
interesting year in history.
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I had a whole list of
things that happened in 1844.
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I do remember the
first electronic message,
00:20:45.47\00:20:47.91
the first text was in 1844.
00:20:47.94\00:20:51.35
You've heard of Samuel Morris,
00:20:51.38\00:20:53.55
he sent the first
Morse code message.
00:20:53.58\00:20:54.92
You know what it was?
00:20:54.95\00:20:56.25
Scripture, "What
hath God wrought?"
00:20:56.28\00:20:59.62
Very interesting, that changed
communications of the world.
00:20:59.65\00:21:03.39
Whose cases are being considered
00:21:03.43\00:21:05.23
in this pre-advent judgment?
00:21:05.26\00:21:07.23
You realize that
some judgment takes place
00:21:07.30\00:21:09.23
before Jesus comes.
00:21:09.26\00:21:11.43
Follow me.
00:21:11.47\00:21:13.44
When Jesus comes,
is He giving rewards?
00:21:13.47\00:21:15.07
Does He know
who's saved and lost?
00:21:15.10\00:21:16.97
The Bible says he'll
come and reward every man,
00:21:18.24\00:21:20.11
according to his works.
00:21:20.14\00:21:22.04
Does it make sense to you that
some judgment must take place
00:21:22.08\00:21:24.38
before He comes?
00:21:24.41\00:21:26.25
"Judgment must begin
at the house of God."
00:21:26.28\00:21:29.12
And if it begin at us,
00:21:29.15\00:21:30.75
what is the end of those
that obey not the gospel?
00:21:30.79\00:21:33.42
What will be examined in this
first phase of the judgment?
00:21:33.46\00:21:37.06
"The dead were judged
according to their works,
00:21:37.09\00:21:39.06
"by the things that
are written in the books."
00:21:39.09\00:21:42.20
Goes on and says,
in Ecclesiastes 12:14,
00:21:42.23\00:21:45.10
"God will bring
every work into judgment,
00:21:45.13\00:21:47.24
"including every secret thing."
00:21:47.27\00:21:49.30
And then finally, what's
the criteria in that judgment?
00:21:49.34\00:21:53.44
"Who will be judged
by the law of Liberty."
00:21:53.48\00:21:56.88
So before the Lord comes,
00:21:56.91\00:22:00.32
there's gonna be
a revival of truth.
00:22:00.35\00:22:03.62
God is gonna be
cleansing His sanctuary.
00:22:03.65\00:22:06.05
There's a cleansing of
the sanctuary in heaven.
00:22:06.09\00:22:08.66
All through the ages, people
have said they're Christians,
00:22:08.69\00:22:11.26
but the books are gonna
be opened before Christ comes
00:22:11.29\00:22:14.13
and evaluate who were
truly genuinely converted.
00:22:14.20\00:22:18.97
Talks about this judgment
in Daniel chapter seven,
00:22:19.00\00:22:22.04
when the books are open,
the ancient of days is there,
00:22:22.07\00:22:24.61
it's all portrayed in the Bible.
00:22:24.64\00:22:26.78
There's also a cleansing
of the sanctuary on earth.
00:22:26.81\00:22:29.04
How many sanctuaries are there?
00:22:29.08\00:22:31.21
Two, what's a
sanctuary on earth?
00:22:31.25\00:22:33.98
You are the temple of God.
00:22:34.02\00:22:35.48
What did the sanctuary on
earth need cleansing from?
00:22:35.52\00:22:39.05
The truth was
tasked to the ground.
00:22:39.09\00:22:41.79
In 1844, God began a
movement where the Bible truths
00:22:41.82\00:22:45.66
that had been lost
on a number of subjects,
00:22:45.69\00:22:47.40
salvation by faith, that
you're not supposed to pray
00:22:47.46\00:22:49.80
to idols, the Sabbath
truth, and many other things,
00:22:49.83\00:22:53.10
a restoration
began to take place.
00:22:53.13\00:22:55.44
And that movement right now
is spreading around the world,
00:22:55.47\00:22:58.37
it's one of the fastest
growing Protestant groups
00:22:58.41\00:23:00.11
in the world today.
00:23:00.14\00:23:02.04
And in this cleansing,
00:23:02.08\00:23:04.21
is God done
cleansing His church on earth?
00:23:04.25\00:23:07.95
No, He'd be here if He was.
00:23:07.98\00:23:09.32
When Michael stands
up, when a judge stands up,
00:23:09.35\00:23:11.15
it means case is
closed, he issues decree.
00:23:11.19\00:23:14.32
When Michael stands up
00:23:14.36\00:23:15.92
and this great time of
trouble comes, it's over.
00:23:15.96\00:23:19.13
He's still cleansing
the sanctuary in heaven,
00:23:19.16\00:23:21.23
He's still cleansing
the sanctuary on earth.
00:23:21.26\00:23:23.37
You wanna be part of that group,
00:23:23.40\00:23:25.93
you wanna be part of
that sanctuary, His people,
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those living
stones in the last days.
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Who is my accuser
in this final judgment?
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"That serpent of
old, called the devil
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"was cast down to the earth."
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The Bible says, "He is
the accuser of the brethren
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"who accused them
before our God day and night."
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The devil is there
perpetually accusing.
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He tries to point out our sins.
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You can see him in the
book of Job, he's accusing Job.
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And you can see in
the book of Zachariah,
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he's accusing Zachariah
or Joshua, the high priest.
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And you think the
devil, he's got all the goods.
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The devil will tempt you to sin,
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and then he'll
turn you in for sinning.
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So how can we
survive this judgment
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when the devil's got all
this evidence against us?
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He's the prosecuting attorney.
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Good thing is you've got
a great defense attorney,
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that's Jesus.
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Must I stand alone in
this pre-advent judgment?
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No, the Bible promises John 2:1,
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"And if anyone sins, we have
an advocate with the father,
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"Jesus Christ the righteous."
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First on two verse
one, "My little children,
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"these things are right to
you so that you may not sin.
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"And if anyone sins, we have
an advocate with the father,
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"Jesus Christ the righteous."
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In the Jewish
year, all year long,
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the high priest went
through the daily sacrifices.
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Now when Christ
first ascended to heaven,
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He went into the Holy of
Holies, he was enthroned,
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He activated the
heavenly sanctuary.
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He was coronated, you
might say, received His kingdom,
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at least in heavenly
His ministry was approved,
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then He began His
work as our high priest.
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But in the Jewish
economy at the end of the year,
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the high priest went
into the Holy of Holies
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to do a cleansing process,
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to cleanse the people
from their sins permanently.
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When Christ comes
again, the Bible says,
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"He is coming
without sin unto salvation."
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Is Jesus gonna be
burying our sins forever?
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At some point, is sin gonna
be eradicated from the universe?
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Revelation's very
clear, there'll be no more sin,
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no more death, no
more sorrow, no more pain
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and Christ says, the
books are being evaluated.
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You read in
Ezekiel chapter nine,
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it talks about this in judgment.
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And it says, "Begin
with the ancient men
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"before the sanctuary."
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A judgment in the house of God.
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There's gonna be a
cleansing of God's people.
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When Jesus went
into that sanctuary
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with His cord and said,
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"Take these things hence;
00:25:55.65\00:25:56.95
"my father's house is
to be a house of prayer."
00:25:56.99\00:25:58.42
He not only wants
that for His church,
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He's cleansing the
sanctuary from the sins
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that have been stored in heaven.
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There's a judgment going on,
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but He wants to
cleanse your temple.
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Would you like Him to
come in and do His work?
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