male announcer: This presentation is brought to you 00:00:02.23\00:00:03.63 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:00:03.67\00:00:06.90 Coming to you from New York City at the historic Manhattan Center 00:00:06.94\00:00:11.31 with your host Doug Batchelor. 00:00:11.34\00:00:13.81 Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth 00:00:13.84\00:00:17.61 about Bible prophecy. 00:00:17.65\00:00:19.65 Explore the timeless wisdom of God's Word and see how it 00:00:19.68\00:00:23.35 relates to our lives today. 00:00:23.39\00:00:25.72 Stay tuned, your Amazing Facts adventure begins now. 00:00:25.75\00:00:30.79 Doug Batchelor: My name is Pastor Doug Batchelor, and it's 00:00:30.83\00:00:33.60 been my privilege to be talking about my favorite theme, the 00:00:33.63\00:00:36.36 Word of God and Bible prophecy for about 45 years now. 00:00:36.40\00:00:41.54 And I'm just so thankful to be back in the town where I grew up 00:00:41.57\00:00:45.64 in New York City, and thank you so much, 00:00:45.67\00:00:48.01 each of you, for coming. 00:00:48.04\00:00:49.98 Tonight's presentation is among the most important, we're 00:00:50.01\00:00:53.78 dealing with "Signs of Christ's Return." 00:00:53.82\00:00:57.95 I use sort of a question-answer method, Jesus used that to 00:00:57.99\00:01:02.09 teach, and so we're going to go into question number one of our 00:01:02.12\00:01:05.73 study tonight on "Signs of Christ's Return." 00:01:05.76\00:01:09.53 And something happened in 1881 in Scotland, off the coast, in 00:01:09.56\00:01:17.91 the town of Eyemouth, they had endured a terrible storm and 00:01:17.94\00:01:22.71 because of that storm, nobody could go fishing for 00:01:22.74\00:01:25.55 several days. 00:01:25.58\00:01:27.15 Everybody was tied up in the shore and they were not able to 00:01:27.18\00:01:29.75 go out and to go fishing. 00:01:29.78\00:01:31.45 Well, that's their main livelihood, and so finally there 00:01:31.49\00:01:35.06 was a break in the storm October 14, and this whole harbor full 00:01:35.09\00:01:39.96 of fishing boats, all the fishermen went out and they 00:01:40.00\00:01:42.16 began to ready to go out to go catch and try to make some money 00:01:42.20\00:01:44.93 again and go out fishing. 00:01:44.97\00:01:46.50 But the harbor master, he used to watch the weather 00:01:46.53\00:01:49.20 instruments, he hoisted the storm flag and told people, "Do 00:01:49.24\00:01:53.71 not go out, the barometric pressure is dropping, it looks 00:01:53.74\00:01:58.28 like there's still a severe storm that's out there." 00:01:58.31\00:02:01.32 But the fishermen, they saw their buddies were all going, 00:02:01.35\00:02:03.55 and one of them said, "I'm going, clear day, calm weather, 00:02:03.59\00:02:06.62 I got to catch some fish." 00:02:06.65\00:02:08.42 And they said, "Well, if he's going, I'm going," and most of 00:02:08.46\00:02:12.19 the fishermen went out that day. 00:02:12.23\00:02:14.10 They ignored the warning signs of the instruments. 00:02:14.10\00:02:17.43 As a result of that, they didn't know that they were in 00:02:17.47\00:02:20.14 the eye of a hurricane and a terrible storm 00:02:20.17\00:02:25.71 swept through the North Sea at that time, and almost 190 00:02:25.74\00:02:30.51 fishermen were lost as a result of that. 00:02:30.55\00:02:33.92 They still call it Black Friday in Eyemouth, all these families, 00:02:33.95\00:02:38.62 they lost their fathers and their husbands and their 00:02:38.65\00:02:41.92 brothers because they did not listen to the warning signs. 00:02:41.96\00:02:46.70 In God's Word, the Lord gives us warning signs about what 00:02:46.73\00:02:50.30 is coming. 00:02:50.33\00:02:51.67 Jesus said that His coming would be something like as it was 00:02:51.70\00:02:55.17 in the days of Noah. 00:02:55.20\00:02:56.50 You know, God told Noah, 00:02:56.54\00:02:57.84 "There's a storm coming," and 00:02:57.87\00:02:59.54 Noah told the people, and Noah 00:02:59.57\00:03:01.44 prepared, and a lot of people 00:03:01.48\00:03:03.48 said, "You know, I think Noah's 00:03:03.51\00:03:04.81 right, the world's pretty wicked," 00:03:04.85\00:03:06.15 but they looked and they didn't 00:03:06.18\00:03:07.48 see any rain. 00:03:07.52\00:03:09.22 And even though they saw the signs, sky go black with all 00:03:09.25\00:03:13.05 these birds that came to the ark, and then the animals came, 00:03:13.09\00:03:16.42 the clean and the unclean, and they thought, "But there's 00:03:16.46\00:03:20.30 no rain." 00:03:20.33\00:03:21.96 And they waited until Noah and everybody had entered the ark, 00:03:22.00\00:03:25.80 and then the rain started after the door was shut and it was 00:03:25.83\00:03:29.10 too late. 00:03:29.14\00:03:30.54 Jesus said that's what it will be like in the day when the Son 00:03:30.57\00:03:33.04 of Man comes. 00:03:33.07\00:03:34.54 God gives us prophecy to save. 00:03:34.58\00:03:37.65 Noah was a prophet, and he wanted people 00:03:37.68\00:03:39.88 to be saved by that. 00:03:39.91\00:03:41.72 In the book of Amos, chapter 3, verse 7, it says, "Surely the 00:03:41.75\00:03:46.82 Lord GOD will do nothing, but he reveals His secret to His 00:03:46.86\00:03:51.23 servants the prophets." 00:03:51.26\00:03:53.80 Now, you look at Bible history, whenever God is getting ready to 00:03:53.83\00:03:56.33 do anything significant, like the flood in the days of Noah, 00:03:56.36\00:04:00.90 or when he was about to deliver them from the slavery of Egypt, 00:04:00.94\00:04:04.87 he sent a prophet, what was his name? 00:04:04.91\00:04:07.41 Moses, and before the Babylonian captivity there was Isaiah 00:04:07.44\00:04:12.38 and Jeremiah. 00:04:12.41\00:04:13.72 Before Jesus's First Coming, who was that great messenger 00:04:13.75\00:04:16.42 that came? 00:04:16.45\00:04:17.82 John the Baptist, so you, whenever you've got these 00:04:17.85\00:04:20.52 critical events in history, God says, "Surely the Lord God will 00:04:20.56\00:04:24.06 do nothing," meaning nothing of great significance, but he will 00:04:24.09\00:04:26.53 send a prophet to prepare, to warn, to woo, to win people. 00:04:26.56\00:04:31.73 Do you think that God would send prophecies to help us get ready 00:04:31.77\00:04:34.54 for the Second Coming and the end of the world? 00:04:34.57\00:04:37.47 Well, he certainly has, we're going be talking about 00:04:37.51\00:04:39.84 those tonight. 00:04:39.87\00:04:41.21 But you know, we always think it's interesting when we do a 00:04:41.24\00:04:43.18 seminar like this to take a little time and just go out on 00:04:43.21\00:04:46.95 the street and get some input from what we call the man on the 00:04:46.98\00:04:50.75 street, what do people think out there about will the world end 00:04:50.79\00:04:55.06 and how might it end? 00:04:55.09\00:04:56.49 So we're going to go to the screen and and listen to some of 00:04:56.52\00:04:58.89 these comments that came in. 00:04:58.93\00:05:01.70 male: I believe the world will end, I mean, it's a reality, if 00:05:01.73\00:05:05.07 we look at science as a cause. 00:05:05.10\00:05:07.80 I mean, eventually it will run its course as a planet. 00:05:07.84\00:05:11.27 When? 00:05:11.31\00:05:13.01 Probably significant time from now, I don't think the world is 00:05:13.04\00:05:15.64 going to end tomorrow. 00:05:15.68\00:05:17.08 female: I'm sure one day it will, I don't know exactly when 00:05:17.11\00:05:19.31 the earth will end. 00:05:19.35\00:05:21.12 I mean, it is a really random question, but I would say maybe 00:05:21.15\00:05:25.52 a couple million years. 00:05:25.55\00:05:27.49 male: Absolutely, it's coming soon, Luke 21, verse 10 to 19. 00:05:27.52\00:05:31.46 male: I don't think the world is going to end, but, I mean, I'm a 00:05:31.49\00:05:36.46 Christian, yeah, I think the world is going to end one 00:05:36.50\00:05:38.33 day, yeah. 00:05:38.37\00:05:39.93 You know, it's either we're going to go to hell or we're 00:05:39.97\00:05:41.54 going to go to heaven. 00:05:41.57\00:05:42.90 I know I'm going to heaven, so. 00:05:42.94\00:05:44.87 female: What would bring this world to an end? 00:05:44.91\00:05:49.41 The hatred. 00:05:49.44\00:05:51.48 female: Nuclear. 00:05:51.51\00:05:52.81 female: Pollution. 00:05:52.85\00:05:54.18 male: Maybe Satan, I don't know. 00:05:54.22\00:05:59.29 male: I'm going to go with climate change. 00:05:59.32\00:06:00.92 male: Probably just war, politics, something like that, 00:06:00.96\00:06:03.22 people arguing and causing like nuclear destruction. 00:06:03.26\00:06:08.46 male: He's coming back, yes, of course, ask every Christian. 00:06:08.50\00:06:12.10 male: No. 00:06:12.13\00:06:13.60 female: No. 00:06:13.64\00:06:14.94 female: Yeah, I think so, yeah. 00:06:14.97\00:06:16.30 male: No. 00:06:16.34\00:06:17.57 male: Because I believe Jesus is coming back and all that stuff, 00:06:17.61\00:06:20.24 but then there's different people with different thoughts, 00:06:20.28\00:06:23.55 you know, like there's some people that said the Rapture 00:06:23.58\00:06:25.48 already happened already. 00:06:25.51\00:06:26.82 And there's people that say there's no Rapture in the Bible, 00:06:26.85\00:06:29.32 but it's a lot. 00:06:29.35\00:06:31.22 Doug: I think you'll agree with me that the answers are sort of 00:06:31.25\00:06:33.72 all over the map, amen? 00:06:33.76\00:06:36.36 So, how do we know the truth? 00:06:36.39\00:06:40.00 Do we just take a camera on the street to learn the truth or do 00:06:40.03\00:06:42.50 we go to the Word of God? 00:06:42.53\00:06:44.83 "Heaven and earth will pass away," Jesus said, "but My Word 00:06:44.87\00:06:47.37 will not pass away." 00:06:47.40\00:06:48.70 I want to make you promise, in this seminar, what I'm going to 00:06:48.74\00:06:51.77 share with you is from the Bible. 00:06:51.81\00:06:53.14 We're going to be giving you scripture. 00:06:53.17\00:06:54.74 I don't want you to believe what I say, 00:06:54.78\00:06:56.81 I want you to believe what the Bible says, 00:06:56.85\00:06:58.51 and I'll be sharing with you what the Bible says on these 00:06:58.55\00:07:01.78 very important issues. 00:07:01.82\00:07:03.15 So you check it out, by the way, it's the best selling book in 00:07:03.18\00:07:05.35 the world, and it stood the test of time and began to be written 00:07:05.39\00:07:09.62 about 3,500 years ago by 40 authors on three continents. 00:07:09.66\00:07:13.96 Some were shepherds, kings, scribes, fishermen, all 00:07:14.00\00:07:18.70 different backgrounds, and yet it has stood the test of time. 00:07:18.73\00:07:22.30 There's a reason: it is an inspired book. 00:07:22.34\00:07:25.37 So all right, question number one in our study, how positive 00:07:25.41\00:07:29.44 was Jesus that He was going to come again? 00:07:29.48\00:07:33.11 What does the Bible say? 00:07:33.15\00:07:34.62 Christ said in John 14, I hope you've memorized this promise. 00:07:34.65\00:07:38.62 He said, "I go and prepare a place for you and I will," 00:07:38.65\00:07:42.86 what's it say? 00:07:42.89\00:07:44.13 "I will come again," He didn't say I might, He said, "I will 00:07:44.16\00:07:49.30 come again." 00:07:49.33\00:07:50.63 Now keep in mind, God told Adam and Eve, "A Savior's going to 00:07:50.67\00:07:54.40 come," and all the patriarchs knew the Messiah would come the 00:07:54.44\00:07:57.77 first time as a Lamb, He'd come the next time as a Lion. 00:07:57.81\00:08:03.18 And it took a while for Him to come as a Lamb, but He came. 00:08:03.21\00:08:07.88 And Jesus said, "I'm coming back now as a King. 00:08:07.92\00:08:11.95 I'm going to come as a conquering King, as a Lion 00:08:11.99\00:08:14.26 next time." 00:08:14.29\00:08:15.52 There are 1,800 passages in the Bible that talk about the Second 00:08:15.56\00:08:19.53 Coming of Jesus. 00:08:19.56\00:08:20.96 Some people say, "Why do you focus on prophecy?" 00:08:20.96\00:08:22.90 Well, Jesus did, the Bible does, and you can find 318 of those 00:08:22.93\00:08:28.60 passages in the New Testament. 00:08:28.64\00:08:30.94 And all the way from the time of Enoch before the flood, Enoch 00:08:30.97\00:08:33.94 said, "Behold, the Lord comes with 10,000 of His saints," and 00:08:33.98\00:08:37.38 who knows what are the last words in the Bible? 00:08:37.41\00:08:40.62 "Even so come Lord Jesus," so is the coming of Christ a 00:08:40.65\00:08:45.45 biblical theme? 00:08:45.49\00:08:47.26 Then we need to talk about what the Lord talks about, right? 00:08:47.29\00:08:51.26 All right, another verse, Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of 00:08:51.29\00:08:56.56 Man," what's it say? 00:08:56.60\00:08:58.43 "WILL COME in the glory of His Father with His angels, and He 00:08:58.47\00:09:03.64 will reward each one according to his works." 00:09:03.67\00:09:06.84 The Lord made it very clear He will come. 00:09:06.88\00:09:10.21 Next question, what can we know about the time of 00:09:10.25\00:09:14.48 Christ's return? 00:09:14.52\00:09:15.82 Now here's where a lot of people have gotten in trouble. 00:09:15.85\00:09:18.19 What does the Bible say about this? 00:09:18.22\00:09:20.42 Jesus said Matthew chapter 24, it says, "But of that day and 00:09:20.46\00:09:24.06 hour," what? 00:09:24.09\00:09:25.83 "NO ONE knows, not even the angels of heaven, but My 00:09:25.86\00:09:30.37 Father only." 00:09:30.40\00:09:32.70 Now some are saying, you mean Jesus didn't know? 00:09:32.73\00:09:35.07 Well, no, when He was on the earth, He didn't have all 00:09:35.10\00:09:37.54 knowledge swimming around in His head as a little baby and 00:09:37.57\00:09:40.41 through His earthly life, but He certainly knows now. 00:09:40.44\00:09:44.75 I can't imagine that God the Father and the Son are sitting 00:09:44.78\00:09:47.22 up there in heaven and Jesus is saying, "So when am I supposed 00:09:47.25\00:09:50.52 to come back?" 00:09:50.55\00:09:53.05 "I got the envelope here, but I can't show it to you yet." 00:09:53.09\00:09:55.86 Of course he knows now. 00:09:55.89\00:09:57.73 On earth, Christ laid aside a lot of His knowledge. 00:09:57.76\00:10:02.06 Furthermore, Matthew 24, verse 44, "Therefore, be ready, for 00:10:02.10\00:10:07.57 the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not expect." 00:10:07.60\00:10:11.61 Did you notice what He said? 00:10:11.64\00:10:12.97 He's coming, but it's going to surprise a lot of people. 00:10:13.01\00:10:16.41 So when someone said, I've calculated the date, how many of 00:10:16.44\00:10:19.95 you have heard of a pastor or ministry that picked a date for 00:10:19.98\00:10:22.98 the Second Coming or the Rapture? 00:10:23.02\00:10:25.35 Do you realize so far they've all been wrong? 00:10:25.39\00:10:28.26 You know why the devil does that? 00:10:28.29\00:10:30.56 Do you all know the story about the boy that called wolf? 00:10:30.59\00:10:34.10 The devil wants a lot of ministries and people out there 00:10:34.13\00:10:37.50 setting dates so when they get all excited and then Jesus 00:10:37.53\00:10:40.27 doesn't come, they jettison their faith completely. 00:10:40.30\00:10:45.04 And then when someone else says there are signs of His coming, 00:10:45.07\00:10:47.64 they say "Oh, I used to believe that," and it makes people lose 00:10:47.68\00:10:50.88 faith in the Word of God. 00:10:50.91\00:10:52.25 Jesus said, "Don't set dates. 00:10:52.28\00:10:54.05 No man knows the day or the hour." 00:10:54.08\00:10:56.79 Only God knows that, but what can we know about the 00:10:56.82\00:11:01.79 Second Coming? 00:11:01.82\00:11:03.16 Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse 33, "So you also, when you see 00:11:03.19\00:11:08.13 these things, know that it is," what? 00:11:08.16\00:11:11.97 IT'S NEAR--even at the door!" 00:11:12.00\00:11:14.34 So can we know when it's at the door and when it's near, 00:11:14.37\00:11:17.21 according to Jesus? 00:11:17.24\00:11:18.74 Yes, well, friends, I tell you it is at the door, it is near. 00:11:18.77\00:11:22.74 We're going to go through some of the reasons from the Bible 00:11:22.78\00:11:24.95 that we believe that now. 00:11:24.98\00:11:27.08 Only God knows the exact timing and date, I'd stay away from 00:11:27.12\00:11:30.89 anybody that says that they have found the date or they can 00:11:30.92\00:11:33.66 calculate it. 00:11:33.69\00:11:35.36 Question three, what signs does Jesus give us to indicate that 00:11:35.39\00:11:40.03 His coming is near? 00:11:40.06\00:11:41.43 Now first we're going to talk in this lesson--we've divided this 00:11:41.46\00:11:43.97 lesson in two parts. 00:11:44.00\00:11:45.83 We're talking about signs of the nearness of Jesus's coming, and 00:11:45.87\00:11:50.44 then we're going to be talking about how He's coming, so we're 00:11:50.47\00:11:53.78 not deceived because Satan's going to impersonate that. 00:11:53.81\00:11:58.01 What are some of the signs? 00:11:58.05\00:11:59.78 For one thing, tell you what, let's go to the Bible. 00:11:59.81\00:12:02.22 I want to just read a passage to you from the Bible, and you can 00:12:02.25\00:12:05.39 look this up, make a note if you want. 00:12:05.42\00:12:07.52 I'm going to Matthew chapter 24, where Jesus talks about the 00:12:07.56\00:12:10.59 Second Coming, and just to give you the background, the 00:12:10.63\00:12:15.80 disciples are showing Jesus the beautiful stones in the 00:12:15.83\00:12:18.70 renovated temple of Herod the Great. 00:12:18.73\00:12:21.30 He's renovated their national treasure, the sanctuary, and 00:12:21.34\00:12:25.47 Karen and I and so many of our team have been there, and we've 00:12:25.51\00:12:28.18 been down below the level and we've seen some of the stones. 00:12:28.21\00:12:31.11 They got one stone there that weighs more than a fully loaded 00:12:31.15\00:12:35.22 747, and you think, "How did they perfectly cut?" 00:12:35.25\00:12:40.56 And even back then the disciples are saying, "They marveled at 00:12:40.59\00:12:43.16 the stones," and you know Jesus shocked them, He said, "Do you 00:12:43.19\00:12:45.93 not see all these things? 00:12:45.96\00:12:47.56 I say unto you, there will not be left here one stone upon 00:12:47.60\00:12:50.43 another that will not be thrown down," and the disciples were 00:12:50.47\00:12:53.67 thunder struck. 00:12:53.70\00:12:55.57 And they said, "Lord, when will these things be? 00:12:55.60\00:12:59.44 What will be the sign of your coming 00:12:59.47\00:13:01.04 and the end of the world?" 00:13:01.08\00:13:02.38 So they asked Him several questions, all of them were 00:13:02.41\00:13:04.75 asking Him questions. 00:13:04.78\00:13:06.11 He then coalesced His answer into one discourse. 00:13:06.15\00:13:09.62 You'll find that discourse in Matthew 24, Mark 13, 00:13:09.65\00:13:15.49 Luke 17, and Luke 21, the signs that Jesus gives 00:13:15.52\00:13:20.83 so we can know when His coming is near. 00:13:20.86\00:13:23.03 So Christ told His disciples, first thing, verse 4, Matthew 00:13:23.06\00:13:26.10 24, verse 4, "Take heed that nobody deceives you." 00:13:26.13\00:13:32.61 What did Jesus warn about His Second Coming? 00:13:32.64\00:13:34.51 First thing, there'll be a lot of deception, "For many will 00:13:34.54\00:13:38.61 come in My name, saying, 'I am Christ,' and deceive many. 00:13:38.65\00:13:42.38 And you'll hear of wars and rumors of wars." 00:13:42.42\00:13:44.92 We have that today, "See that you're not troubled; for all 00:13:44.95\00:13:48.52 these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 00:13:48.56\00:13:51.76 For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom 00:13:51.79\00:13:54.46 against kingdom. 00:13:54.46\00:13:55.70 And there will be FAMINES, and pestilences," that's plagues, 00:13:55.73\00:14:00.57 "and EARTHQUAKES in various places. 00:14:00.60\00:14:02.97 All these are the beginning of labor pains. 00:14:03.00\00:14:06.37 Then they'll deliver you up to tribulation and kill you, and 00:14:06.41\00:14:09.48 you'll be hated of all nations for My name's sake. 00:14:09.51\00:14:12.75 And many will be offended, and betray one another, many will 00:14:12.78\00:14:15.88 hate one another. 00:14:15.92\00:14:17.22 Many false prophets will rise and deceive many." 00:14:17.25\00:14:20.36 That's why we do these seminars so people can read the Bible for 00:14:20.39\00:14:22.99 themselves and not be deceived. 00:14:23.02\00:14:25.16 'Cause let's face it, there's a lot of religious voices out 00:14:25.19\00:14:27.76 there, they're not all telling the truth. 00:14:27.76\00:14:30.70 "And because lawlessness will abound, the love of many will 00:14:30.73\00:14:33.54 grow cold, but he that endures to the end, the same will be 00:14:33.57\00:14:38.04 saved," is the promise. 00:14:38.07\00:14:39.57 So that's just the beginning of what Jesus said, and we're going 00:14:39.61\00:14:41.78 to go into that in some detail now. 00:14:41.81\00:14:44.15 Nation will rise against nation, famines, pestilences, 00:14:44.18\00:14:46.65 earthquakes, well, let's talk a little bit about earthquakes. 00:14:46.68\00:14:51.29 National Geophysics Data Center, the earthquakes between 1940 and 00:14:51.32\00:14:57.13 2020 have gone up 4.9 times. 00:14:57.16\00:15:01.63 And that's even accounting for better equipment, it's not just 00:15:01.66\00:15:04.33 cause they've got better seismic equipment. 00:15:04.37\00:15:06.70 There are more problems, more earthquakes that are taking 00:15:06.74\00:15:09.47 place, greater magnitude. 00:15:09.50\00:15:11.81 You realize the tsunami that they had that affected Indonesia 00:15:11.84\00:15:16.31 was an earthquake. 00:15:16.34\00:15:17.85 The earthquake in Haiti, thousands have died in the last 00:15:17.88\00:15:22.28 few years, it seems like they're mounting. 00:15:22.32\00:15:24.79 Natural disasters, He tells us that, that will increase. 00:15:24.82\00:15:30.09 Here's actually a report according to BBC, the number of 00:15:30.13\00:15:33.03 weather-related disasters has increased by a factor of five 00:15:33.06\00:15:37.47 over 50 years. 00:15:37.50\00:15:39.13 Now this is not a religious report, this is a report of an 00:15:39.17\00:15:42.70 insurance company based in Munich, and they want to know 00:15:42.74\00:15:46.27 how to insure, and they look at the natural disasters because 00:15:46.31\00:15:49.18 the more disasters, the more money they lose and they see a 00:15:49.21\00:15:52.18 trend, it's not a religious organization. 00:15:52.21\00:15:55.25 Have you noticed the trend is going up for both geophysical, 00:15:55.28\00:15:59.25 meteorological, hydrological, and climatological catastrophes 00:15:59.29\00:16:05.16 are increasing. 00:16:05.19\00:16:06.49 And with more people, more people in the world are affected 00:16:06.53\00:16:09.06 by those. 00:16:09.10\00:16:10.43 Jesus said, "there'll be plagues, pestilence," same word. 00:16:10.47\00:16:13.80 Does anyone remember something that happened between like 2019 00:16:13.84\00:16:17.27 and 2023? 00:16:17.31\00:16:20.48 A global plague, and it wasn't the most deadly, you go back to 00:16:20.51\00:16:24.11 1918, somewhere between 30 and 50 million people died from the 00:16:24.15\00:16:29.35 Spanish flu. 00:16:29.38\00:16:31.22 And so, you know, of course, the leaders in that field are saying 00:16:31.25\00:16:36.59 there could be something worse on the horizon. 00:16:36.62\00:16:39.09 Jesus said these things will accelerate in the last days. 00:16:39.13\00:16:43.73 And thousands of people died from the Ebola outbreak in 2011, 00:16:43.77\00:16:48.40 and we know COVID kind of paralyzed the world for a while. 00:16:48.44\00:16:52.17 Jesus gives us another sign of the last days, he said it will 00:16:52.21\00:16:55.58 be as it was in the days of Noah, that because of the 00:16:55.61\00:16:59.18 hardness of people's hearts, their love will grow cold and 00:16:59.21\00:17:03.28 there's more violence. 00:17:03.32\00:17:05.52 Now, I know you are good people, but not everybody in New York 00:17:05.55\00:17:09.82 City is as good as you are. 00:17:09.86\00:17:12.23 And Karen and I were just watching the news last night and 00:17:12.26\00:17:14.66 some of you saw, where just some random man went up and clobbered 00:17:14.73\00:17:19.37 an old woman that he didn't know knocked her to the street and 00:17:19.40\00:17:22.54 walked away. 00:17:22.57\00:17:23.91 That's called crazy violence. 00:17:23.94\00:17:27.01 Jesus said that would be one of the signs 00:17:27.04\00:17:28.54 as it was in the days of Noah. 00:17:28.58\00:17:29.88 What does it say about the days of Noah? 00:17:29.91\00:17:32.25 You can read there in Genesis, "The earth was corrupt before 00:17:32.28\00:17:35.22 God and violence. 00:17:35.25\00:17:38.09 Now, let me tell you something, just it's kind of a personal pet 00:17:38.12\00:17:41.12 peeve of mine. 00:17:41.16\00:17:43.69 Everybody's trying to figure out, why is there so 00:17:43.73\00:17:45.56 much violence? 00:17:45.59\00:17:47.50 And I'm not saying that the multiplication of guns and more 00:17:47.50\00:17:51.00 deadly guns is not a factor, but I think it's something 00:17:51.03\00:17:53.60 even bigger. 00:17:53.64\00:17:54.97 If you have a society that is entertained by violence, if you 00:17:55.00\00:17:59.44 have a generation of young people that grow up playing 00:17:59.47\00:18:01.84 games that involve shooting digital characters, they soon 00:18:01.88\00:18:05.51 lose the separation between fiction and reality. 00:18:05.55\00:18:09.58 The value of human life is diminished if we're all being 00:18:09.62\00:18:13.72 entertained by watching bloodshed that gets worse and 00:18:13.76\00:18:16.49 worse with every new program in order to keep the audience, and 00:18:16.52\00:18:19.73 we wonder, why is violence increasing? 00:18:19.76\00:18:23.30 Well, maybe it's because people are feeding on it and it's 00:18:23.33\00:18:26.53 affecting our natures. 00:18:26.57\00:18:28.60 I appreciate more than one amen on that because I just told you 00:18:28.64\00:18:30.94 the truth. 00:18:30.97\00:18:32.27 If we spend all of our times--you become like what 00:18:32.31\00:18:34.01 you behold. 00:18:34.04\00:18:35.34 If you have a culture around the world--and whatever we produce 00:18:35.38\00:18:37.75 in America is imported internationally, and if we are 00:18:37.78\00:18:41.35 importing violence internationally, wonder why is 00:18:41.38\00:18:44.79 violence increasing? 00:18:44.82\00:18:46.89 Men's hearts are growing cold. 00:18:46.92\00:18:49.09 We need the gospel, friends. 00:18:49.12\00:18:51.86 Immorality increasing, not only in the breakdown of marriage, 00:18:51.89\00:18:57.57 but even the definition of marriage, friends, I told you 00:18:57.60\00:18:59.70 I'm going to tell you what the Bible says. 00:18:59.73\00:19:01.54 You want me to do that? 00:19:01.57\00:19:03.47 I'm going to tell you what the Bible says, 00:19:03.51\00:19:05.37 Jesus said, "Likewise as it was also 00:19:05.41\00:19:07.58 in the days of Lot... Even so will 00:19:07.61\00:19:09.14 it be in the day when the Son of Man 00:19:09.18\00:19:12.08 has appeared." 00:19:12.11\00:19:13.72 Do you know that there are about 200,000 Americans that are 00:19:13.75\00:19:17.92 classified as porn addicts. 00:19:17.95\00:19:21.09 Here, I've got some statistics here, I can't 00:19:21.12\00:19:22.96 remember them all, but I have some notes I jotted down in the 00:19:22.99\00:19:26.70 front of my Bible to share with you on these statistics. 00:19:26.73\00:19:32.43 Forty million American people-- there's only 340 million total-- 00:19:32.47\00:19:36.71 40 million American people regularly visit porn sites. 00:19:36.74\00:19:40.61 The pornography industry earns $97 billion worldwide every 00:19:40.64\00:19:45.01 year, that's more than Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and 00:19:45.05\00:19:47.98 the top ten tech companies combined. 00:19:48.02\00:19:52.32 Thirty-five percent of all internet downloads, when you 00:19:52.35\00:19:54.66 wonder why your internet is slow, 35% of all internet 00:19:54.69\00:19:59.73 downloads are related to pornography, think about the 00:19:59.76\00:20:02.56 bandwidth that would increase. 00:20:02.60\00:20:05.47 Thirty-four percent of internet users have experienced unwanted 00:20:05.50\00:20:08.90 exposure, and the earliest happens at 8 years of age, so 00:20:08.94\00:20:14.68 8 to 11 is when it's first exposed. 00:20:14.71\00:20:18.15 One third of porn viewers are women, and it plays a 00:20:18.18\00:20:22.48 significant role in all divorces. 00:20:22.52\00:20:25.39 I'm a pastor and unfortunately we have to do marriage 00:20:25.42\00:20:27.82 counseling and I can testify that that's true. 00:20:27.86\00:20:30.59 It is an epidemic and Jesus said, you know, the problems in 00:20:30.63\00:20:34.73 Sodom and Gomorrah were sexual immorality on all scales. 00:20:34.76\00:20:40.27 But I think that we agree, Jesus said, "From the beginning, God 00:20:40.30\00:20:44.21 'made them male and female.'" 00:20:44.24\00:20:46.64 He didn't give us 20 options. 00:20:46.68\00:20:49.44 I still believe Jesus, I'm sorry. 00:20:49.48\00:20:51.05 You have to take that up with him, don't get mad at me. 00:20:51.08\00:20:55.05 Mushrooming population around the world, by the year 2050, the 00:20:55.08\00:21:00.49 Earth's population is going to be 9.5 billion. 00:21:00.52\00:21:04.33 I've got another note that I want to read you, this is just 00:21:04.36\00:21:06.63 fantastic when you think about it, because this is another 00:21:06.66\00:21:09.26 reason I think it just cannot go on forever. 00:21:09.30\00:21:11.90 Listen to this, it took all of human history, until about 1800, 00:21:11.93\00:21:18.87 to get the first billion people. 00:21:18.91\00:21:22.18 That's, you know, roughly 5,000 years of Bible history to get 00:21:22.21\00:21:25.38 the first billion people. 00:21:25.41\00:21:27.52 Then it only took 130 years, back in 1930, to get the 00:21:27.55\00:21:32.49 second billion. 00:21:32.52\00:21:33.76 The third billion took 30 years, the forth billion took 15 years, 00:21:33.79\00:21:39.03 the fifth billion, 13 years. 00:21:39.06\00:21:41.93 Now there are over eight billion people in the world, and during 00:21:41.96\00:21:48.14 that same time that humanity is developing and sprawling across 00:21:48.17\00:21:52.71 the world and using incredible amounts of resources, and I want 00:21:52.74\00:21:57.05 to remind you, friends, I've traveled all over the world. 00:21:57.08\00:21:59.41 Just this year, Karen and I've been India, Pakistan, Dubai, 00:21:59.45\00:22:04.95 Indonesia, China is, I 00:22:04.99\00:22:09.19 actually had the privilege of preaching in China. 00:22:09.22\00:22:10.46 We were in Panama, Guatemala, Russia, just, Australia, we've 00:22:10.49\00:22:15.73 been in Fiji, New Guinea, we've been all over the world and I 00:22:15.76\00:22:19.00 see what's happening. 00:22:19.03\00:22:20.37 I'm also a pilot, so I fly over the country and I see places I 00:22:20.40\00:22:23.84 used to fly that were forests, it's sprawl now, and you wonder 00:22:23.87\00:22:28.24 how long can that go on? 00:22:28.28\00:22:31.21 During this same time, humanity has wiped out, since 1970, 60% 00:22:31.25\00:22:37.22 of the animal population in the world. 00:22:37.25\00:22:42.02 Now there's more cows than there ever have been and there's 00:22:42.06\00:22:46.13 probably more pigs and chickens than there ever have been, 00:22:46.16\00:22:48.30 because what would we do without McDonald's and Kentucky Fried 00:22:48.33\00:22:52.17 Chicken, right? 00:22:52.20\00:22:54.84 But the other wildlife, you know, I read history books when 00:22:54.87\00:22:59.11 Lewis and Clark crossed North America, took a day and a half. 00:22:59.14\00:23:02.28 They had to wait for a buffalo herd to cross a river, they had 00:23:02.31\00:23:04.95 to wait a day and a half, millions of them. 00:23:04.98\00:23:07.68 Now if you see a buffalo, you go, "Oh look, a buffalo." 00:23:07.72\00:23:13.72 The sky used to be black with carrier pigeons, they're 00:23:13.76\00:23:16.19 all gone. 00:23:16.22\00:23:18.76 The world cannot go on. You know what Jesus said? 00:23:18.79\00:23:21.63 Except those days be shortened, speaking of the last days, no 00:23:21.66\00:23:25.33 flesh would be saved. 00:23:25.37\00:23:26.70 The word flesh there means that nothing's going to survive 00:23:26.74\00:23:28.34 unless he comes, 'cause there'll be nothing to come for. 00:23:28.37\00:23:32.14 Eventually man will self destruct, so we've got the 00:23:32.17\00:23:36.64 diminishing resources. 00:23:36.68\00:23:38.78 The UN released its global resource 00:23:38.81\00:23:40.45 outlook for 2024, "We are consuming 00:23:40.48\00:23:44.09 resources much faster than the Earth can 00:23:44.12\00:23:46.45 sustainably provide them." 00:23:46.49\00:23:47.82 Some things can't be re-provided, 00:23:47.86\00:23:49.92 we're not making new oil. 00:23:49.96\00:23:51.99 "By 2050, it will require 3 Earths 00:23:52.03\00:23:55.66 to meet the world's demand." 00:23:55.70\00:23:58.83 Political instability and nuclear weapons is something 00:23:58.87\00:24:02.50 just to think about. 00:24:02.54\00:24:04.34 You realize that man has never made a weapon he did not use. 00:24:04.37\00:24:08.98 And instead of decommissioning all the nuclear weapons, the US 00:24:09.01\00:24:14.15 and Russia principally have the largest number, but of course, 00:24:14.18\00:24:16.95 India, Pakistan, Israel, Europe, they're all over the world. 00:24:16.99\00:24:20.76 North Korea has got them, China's got them, they haven't 00:24:20.79\00:24:23.76 stopped making them because they say it's a deterrent, but 00:24:23.79\00:24:26.56 knowing human nature, and some people get extreme, and some 00:24:26.59\00:24:30.93 people out of vengeance, eventually through accident, 00:24:30.97\00:24:33.87 folly, or madness, somebody is going to set something off if 00:24:33.90\00:24:39.31 Jesus doesn't come. 00:24:39.34\00:24:41.61 Now, I'm not trying to fright--yeah, I am a little bit, 00:24:41.64\00:24:43.31 I guess, just because I want you to know Jesus has to come or 00:24:43.35\00:24:46.82 we're going to destroy ourselves eventually. 00:24:46.85\00:24:49.28 The other thing I think is very interesting, is thinking 00:24:49.32\00:24:53.56 successful people around the world, how do they view 00:24:53.59\00:24:56.66 the future? 00:24:56.69\00:24:58.06 I just read this, this year, 00:24:58.09\00:25:00.53 Mark Zuckerberg, of course, 00:25:00.56\00:25:02.40 who's the founder and principal 00:25:02.43\00:25:04.40 owner of Facebook and Meta, he's 00:25:04.43\00:25:07.17 bought a huge ranch in Kauai, a 00:25:07.20\00:25:09.27 beautiful island in Hawaii and 00:25:09.30\00:25:11.41 he's building a 5,000 square 00:25:11.44\00:25:13.17 foot bunker under his ranch on 00:25:13.21\00:25:15.54 an island. 00:25:15.58\00:25:16.88 Why would you build a bunker under a ranch on a volcano? 00:25:16.91\00:25:22.15 But they're, and they're, you know, of course they're 00:25:22.18\00:25:24.09 supplying it with everything, so it's self-sufficient, it's 00:25:24.12\00:25:27.52 independent, off the grid. 00:25:27.56\00:25:29.06 But he's not alone, you can go down the line and look at 00:25:29.09\00:25:32.43 millionaires like Jeff Bezos and Peter Thiel and the others, they 00:25:32.46\00:25:35.30 are buying property in New Zealand and remote places, and 00:25:35.33\00:25:38.57 they're building Doomsday bunkers. 00:25:38.60\00:25:42.50 Now, this is not something Pastor Doug is making up, here's 00:25:42.54\00:25:45.21 a headline we just captured the screen from CNN. 00:25:45.24\00:25:48.14 "Super-rich Building Doomsday Bunkers," and this is a picture 00:25:48.18\00:25:51.41 of decommissioned missile silos, I think it's North Dakota. 00:25:51.45\00:25:55.48 And they've got, you know, the bedrooms and all the food and 00:25:55.52\00:25:57.59 generators, and it's amazing the money, now why would 00:25:57.62\00:26:01.12 billionaires do that? 00:26:01.16\00:26:02.89 Doug: You know, Jesus came into our world for three reasons. 00:26:02.92\00:26:06.26 First of all, He came as our example, to live a life that we 00:26:06.29\00:26:09.70 might follow His steps. 00:26:09.73\00:26:11.37 He came to show us the Father. 00:26:11.40\00:26:13.20 He said, "If you've seen Me, you've seen the Father." 00:26:13.23\00:26:16.24 And then He came as our sacrifice, He died on the cross 00:26:16.27\00:26:19.74 as a substitute for all our sins, but we must come to Him. 00:26:19.77\00:26:23.45 We repent of our sins, we confess, He'll receive us with 00:26:23.48\00:26:26.75 loving arms, why don't you ask Him now? 00:26:26.78\00:26:30.32 Doug: Hi friends, I trust you're being blessed by what 00:26:30.35\00:26:32.45 you're watching. 00:26:32.49\00:26:33.79 If you want to be doubly blessed, then you're going to 00:26:33.82\00:26:35.66 want to get the "Prophecy Odyssey" study guides that go 00:26:35.69\00:26:38.73 along with these presentations. 00:26:38.76\00:26:40.43 There's 15 study guides, they're beautifully illustrated, and 00:26:40.46\00:26:43.93 they will greatly enhance your Bible comprehension. 00:26:43.97\00:26:47.04 So if you'd like to get them, simply follow the instructions 00:26:47.07\00:26:49.54 that you see on the screen, you will be glad you did. 00:26:49.57\00:26:52.11 Doug: Hi friends, if you'd like to learn more about the signs of 00:27:00.52\00:27:03.52 the end times, then you're going to want to get "The Day of the 00:27:03.55\00:27:06.62 Lord," Amazing Facts' 52 page full-color magazine that'll give 00:27:06.65\00:27:11.36 you an in-depth look at what the Bible really says about Christ's 00:27:11.39\00:27:15.70 soon return. 00:27:15.73\00:27:17.03 To get your copy, simply follow 00:27:17.07\00:27:18.77 the instructions on your screen, 00:27:18.80\00:27:20.90 and we're going to send it to you 00:27:20.94\00:27:22.27 absolutely free of charge, 00:27:22.30\00:27:24.71 no cost. 00:27:24.74\00:27:26.04 ¤¤¤ 00:27:26.07\00:27:36.05 ¤¤¤ 00:27:36.08\00:27:46.06 ¤¤¤ 00:27:46.09\00:27:56.04 ¤¤¤ 00:27:56.07\00:28:01.74 Doug: What you've seen just now is only part one in 00:28:02.88\00:28:05.98 this presentation. 00:28:06.01\00:28:07.65 Make sure and join us for part two in our next broadcast for 00:28:07.68\00:28:11.39 some of the most important points on this topic and to 00:28:11.42\00:28:14.62 complete the corresponding study guides. 00:28:14.66\00:28:17.06 Until then, God bless. 00:28:17.09\00:28:18.83 male announcer: This presentation was brought to you 00:28:22.10\00:28:23.57 by the friends of the Amazing Facts ministry. 00:28:23.60\00:28:26.27