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Doug Batchelor: My name is
Pastor Doug Batchelor, and it's
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been my privilege to be talking
about my favorite theme, the
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Word of God and Bible
prophecy for about 45 years now.
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And I'm just so thankful to be
back in the town where I grew up
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in New York City,
and thank you so much,
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each of you, for coming.
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Tonight's presentation is
among the most important, we're
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dealing with "Signs
of Christ's Return."
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I use sort of a question-answer
method, Jesus used that to
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teach, and so we're going to go
into question number one of our
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study tonight on
"Signs of Christ's Return."
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And something happened in 1881
in Scotland, off the coast, in
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the town of Eyemouth, they
had endured a terrible storm and
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because of that storm,
nobody could go fishing for
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several days.
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Everybody was tied up in the
shore and they were not able to
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go out and to go fishing.
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Well, that's their main
livelihood, and so finally there
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was a break in the storm October
14, and this whole harbor full
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of fishing boats, all the
fishermen went out and they
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began to ready to go out to go
catch and try to make some money
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again and go out fishing.
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But the harbor master,
he used to watch the weather
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instruments, he hoisted the
storm flag and told people, "Do
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not go out, the barometric
pressure is dropping, it looks
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like there's still a
severe storm that's out there."
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But the fishermen, they saw
their buddies were all going,
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and one of them said, "I'm
going, clear day, calm weather,
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I got to catch some fish."
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And they said, "Well, if he's
going, I'm going," and most of
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the fishermen went out that day.
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They ignored the warning
signs of the instruments.
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As a result of that, they
didn't know that they were in
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the eye of a
hurricane and a terrible storm
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swept through the North Sea
at that time, and almost 190
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fishermen were lost
as a result of that.
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They still call it Black Friday
in Eyemouth, all these families,
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they lost their fathers
and their husbands and their
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brothers because they did
not listen to the warning signs.
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In God's Word, the Lord gives
us warning signs about what
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is coming.
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Jesus said that His coming would
be something like as it was
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in the days of Noah.
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You know, God told Noah,
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"There's a storm coming," and
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Noah told the people, and Noah
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prepared, and a lot of people
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said, "You know, I think Noah's
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right, the
world's pretty wicked,"
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but they looked and they didn't
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see any rain.
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And even though they saw
the signs, sky go black with all
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these birds that came to the
ark, and then the animals came,
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the clean and the unclean,
and they thought, "But there's
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no rain."
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And they waited until Noah and
everybody had entered the ark,
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and then the rain started after
the door was shut and it was
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too late.
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Jesus said that's what it will
be like in the day when the Son
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of Man comes.
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God gives us prophecy to save.
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Noah was a prophet,
and he wanted people
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to be saved by that.
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In the book of Amos, chapter
3, verse 7, it says, "Surely the
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Lord GOD will do nothing,
but he reveals His secret to His
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servants the prophets."
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Now, you look at Bible history,
whenever God is getting ready to
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do anything significant, like
the flood in the days of Noah,
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or when he was about to deliver
them from the slavery of Egypt,
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he sent a
prophet, what was his name?
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Moses, and before the Babylonian
captivity there was Isaiah
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and Jeremiah.
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Before Jesus's First Coming,
who was that great messenger
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that came?
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John the Baptist, so
you, whenever you've got these
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critical events in history, God
says, "Surely the Lord God will
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do nothing," meaning nothing of
great significance, but he will
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send a prophet to prepare,
to warn, to woo, to win people.
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Do you think that God would send
prophecies to help us get ready
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for the Second Coming
and the end of the world?
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Well, he certainly has,
we're going be talking about
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those tonight.
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But you know, we always think
it's interesting when we do a
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seminar like this to take a
little time and just go out on
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the street and get some input
from what we call the man on the
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street, what do people think out
there about will the world end
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and how might it end?
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So we're going to go to the
screen and and listen to some of
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these comments that came in.
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male: I believe the world will
end, I mean, it's a reality, if
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we look at science as a cause.
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I mean, eventually it will
run its course as a planet.
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When?
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Probably significant time from
now, I don't think the world is
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going to end tomorrow.
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female: I'm sure one day it
will, I don't know exactly when
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the earth will end.
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I mean, it is a really random
question, but I would say maybe
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a couple million years.
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male: Absolutely, it's coming
soon, Luke 21, verse 10 to 19.
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male: I don't think the world is
going to end, but, I mean, I'm a
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Christian, yeah, I think
the world is going to end one
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day, yeah.
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You know, it's either we're
going to go to hell or we're
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going to go to heaven.
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I know I'm going to heaven, so.
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female: What would
bring this world to an end?
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The hatred.
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female: Nuclear.
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female: Pollution.
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male: Maybe Satan, I don't know.
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male: I'm going to
go with climate change.
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male: Probably just war,
politics, something like that,
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people arguing and causing
like nuclear destruction.
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male: He's coming back, yes,
of course, ask every Christian.
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male: No.
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female: No.
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female: Yeah, I think so, yeah.
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male: No.
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male: Because I believe Jesus is
coming back and all that stuff,
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but then there's different
people with different thoughts,
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you know, like there's some
people that said the Rapture
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already happened already.
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And there's people that say
there's no Rapture in the Bible,
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but it's a lot.
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Doug: I think you'll agree with
me that the answers are sort of
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all over the map, amen?
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So, how do we know the truth?
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Do we just take a camera on the
street to learn the truth or do
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we go to the Word of God?
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"Heaven and earth will pass
away," Jesus said, "but My Word
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will not pass away."
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I want to make you promise, in
this seminar, what I'm going to
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share with you
is from the Bible.
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We're going to be
giving you scripture.
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I don't want you
to believe what I say,
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I want you to
believe what the Bible says,
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and I'll be sharing with
you what the Bible says on these
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very important issues.
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So you check it out, by the way,
it's the best selling book in
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the world, and it stood the test
of time and began to be written
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about 3,500 years ago by 40
authors on three continents.
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Some were shepherds,
kings, scribes, fishermen, all
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different backgrounds, and yet
it has stood the test of time.
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There's a reason:
it is an inspired book.
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So all right, question number
one in our study, how positive
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was Jesus that He
was going to come again?
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What does the Bible say?
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Christ said in John 14, I hope
you've memorized this promise.
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He said, "I go and prepare
a place for you and I will,"
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what's it say?
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"I will come again," He didn't
say I might, He said, "I will
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come again."
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Now keep in mind, God told Adam
and Eve, "A Savior's going to
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come," and all the patriarchs
knew the Messiah would come the
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first time as a Lamb, He'd
come the next time as a Lion.
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And it took a while for Him
to come as a Lamb, but He came.
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And Jesus said, "I'm
coming back now as a King.
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I'm going to come as a
conquering King, as a Lion
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next time."
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There are 1,800 passages in the
Bible that talk about the Second
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Coming of Jesus.
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Some people say, "Why
do you focus on prophecy?"
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Well, Jesus did, the Bible does,
and you can find 318 of those
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passages in the New Testament.
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And all the way from the time
of Enoch before the flood, Enoch
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said, "Behold, the Lord comes
with 10,000 of His saints," and
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who knows what are the
last words in the Bible?
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"Even so come Lord Jesus,"
so is the coming of Christ a
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biblical theme?
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Then we need to talk about what
the Lord talks about, right?
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All right, another verse,
Matthew 16:27, "For the Son of
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Man," what's it say?
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"WILL COME in the glory of His
Father with His angels, and He
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will reward each one
according to his works."
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The Lord made it
very clear He will come.
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Next question, what can
we know about the time of
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Christ's return?
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Now here's where a lot of
people have gotten in trouble.
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What does the
Bible say about this?
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Jesus said Matthew chapter 24,
it says, "But of that day and
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hour," what?
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"NO ONE knows, not even
the angels of heaven, but My
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Father only."
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Now some are saying,
you mean Jesus didn't know?
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Well, no, when He was on
the earth, He didn't have all
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knowledge swimming around in
His head as a little baby and
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through His earthly life,
but He certainly knows now.
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I can't imagine that God the
Father and the Son are sitting
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up there in heaven and Jesus is
saying, "So when am I supposed
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to come back?"
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"I got the envelope here,
but I can't show it to you yet."
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Of course he knows now.
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On earth, Christ laid
aside a lot of His knowledge.
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Furthermore, Matthew 24, verse
44, "Therefore, be ready, for
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the Son of Man is coming at
an hour that you do not expect."
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Did you notice what He said?
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He's coming, but it's going
to surprise a lot of people.
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So when someone said, I've
calculated the date, how many of
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you have heard of a pastor or
ministry that picked a date for
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the Second
Coming or the Rapture?
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Do you realize so far
they've all been wrong?
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You know why
the devil does that?
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Do you all know the story
about the boy that called wolf?
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The devil wants a lot of
ministries and people out there
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setting dates so when they
get all excited and then Jesus
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doesn't come, they
jettison their faith completely.
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And then when someone else says
there are signs of His coming,
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they say "Oh, I used to believe
that," and it makes people lose
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faith in the Word of God.
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Jesus said, "Don't set dates.
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No man knows the
day or the hour."
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Only God knows that, but
what can we know about the
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Second Coming?
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Jesus said in Matthew 24, verse
33, "So you also, when you see
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these things,
know that it is," what?
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IT'S NEAR--even at the door!"
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So can we know when it's at
the door and when it's near,
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according to Jesus?
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Yes, well, friends, I tell you
it is at the door, it is near.
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We're going to go through some
of the reasons from the Bible
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that we believe that now.
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Only God knows the exact timing
and date, I'd stay away from
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anybody that says that they
have found the date or they can
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calculate it.
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Question three, what signs does
Jesus give us to indicate that
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His coming is near?
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Now first we're going to talk in
this lesson--we've divided this
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lesson in two parts.
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We're talking about signs of the
nearness of Jesus's coming, and
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then we're going to be talking
about how He's coming, so we're
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not deceived because Satan's
going to impersonate that.
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What are some of the signs?
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For one thing, tell you
what, let's go to the Bible.
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I want to just read a passage to
you from the Bible, and you can
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look this up, make
a note if you want.
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I'm going to Matthew chapter
24, where Jesus talks about the
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Second Coming, and just to
give you the background, the
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disciples are showing Jesus
the beautiful stones in the
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renovated temple
of Herod the Great.
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He's renovated their national
treasure, the sanctuary, and
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Karen and I and so many of our
team have been there, and we've
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been down below the level and
we've seen some of the stones.
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They got one stone there that
weighs more than a fully loaded
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747, and you think,
"How did they perfectly cut?"
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And even back then the disciples
are saying, "They marveled at
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the stones," and you know Jesus
shocked them, He said, "Do you
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not see all these things?
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I say unto you, there will
not be left here one stone upon
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another that will not be thrown
down," and the disciples were
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thunder struck.
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And they said, "Lord,
when will these things be?
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What will be the
sign of your coming
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and the end of the world?"
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So they asked Him several
questions, all of them were
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asking Him questions.
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He then coalesced His
answer into one discourse.
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You'll find that discourse
in Matthew 24, Mark 13,
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Luke 17, and Luke 21,
the signs that Jesus gives
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so we can know
when His coming is near.
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So Christ told His disciples,
first thing, verse 4, Matthew
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24, verse 4, "Take heed
that nobody deceives you."
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What did Jesus warn
about His Second Coming?
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First thing, there'll be a
lot of deception, "For many will
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come in My name, saying, 'I
am Christ,' and deceive many.
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And you'll hear of
wars and rumors of wars."
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We have that today, "See that
you're not troubled; for all
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these things must come to
pass, but the end is not yet.
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For nation will rise
against nation, and kingdom
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against kingdom.
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And there will be FAMINES, and
pestilences," that's plagues,
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"and EARTHQUAKES
in various places.
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All these are the
beginning of labor pains.
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Then they'll deliver you up
to tribulation and kill you, and
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you'll be hated of all
nations for My name's sake.
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And many will be offended, and
betray one another, many will
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hate one another.
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Many false prophets
will rise and deceive many."
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That's why we do these seminars
so people can read the Bible for
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themselves and not be deceived.
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'Cause let's face it, there's
a lot of religious voices out
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there, they're not
all telling the truth.
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"And because lawlessness will
abound, the love of many will
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grow cold, but he that endures
to the end, the same will be
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saved," is the promise.
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So that's just the beginning of
what Jesus said, and we're going
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to go into that
in some detail now.
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Nation will rise against
nation, famines, pestilences,
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earthquakes, well, let's talk
a little bit about earthquakes.
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National Geophysics Data Center,
the earthquakes between 1940 and
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2020 have gone up 4.9 times.
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And that's even accounting for
better equipment, it's not just
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cause they've got
better seismic equipment.
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There are more problems,
more earthquakes that are taking
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place, greater magnitude.
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You realize the tsunami that
they had that affected Indonesia
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was an earthquake.
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The earthquake in Haiti,
thousands have died in the last
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few years, it seems
like they're mounting.
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Natural disasters, He tells
us that, that will increase.
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Here's actually a report
according to BBC, the number of
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weather-related disasters has
increased by a factor of five
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over 50 years.
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Now this is not a religious
report, this is a report of an
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insurance company based in
Munich, and they want to know
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how to insure, and they look
at the natural disasters because
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the more disasters, the more
money they lose and they see a
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trend, it's not a
religious organization.
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Have you noticed the trend is
going up for both geophysical,
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meteorological, hydrological,
and climatological catastrophes
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are increasing.
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And with more people, more
people in the world are affected
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by those.
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Jesus said, "there'll be
plagues, pestilence," same word.
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Does anyone remember something
that happened between like 2019
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and 2023?
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A global plague, and it wasn't
the most deadly, you go back to
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1918, somewhere between 30 and
50 million people died from the
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Spanish flu.
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And so, you know, of course, the
leaders in that field are saying
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there could be
something worse on the horizon.
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Jesus said these things will
accelerate in the last days.
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And thousands of people died
from the Ebola outbreak in 2011,
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and we know COVID kind of
paralyzed the world for a while.
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Jesus gives us another sign of
the last days, he said it will
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be as it was in the days
of Noah, that because of the
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hardness of people's hearts,
their love will grow cold and
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there's more violence.
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Now, I know you are good people,
but not everybody in New York
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City is as good as you are.
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And Karen and I were just
watching the news last night and
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some of you saw, where just some
random man went up and clobbered
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an old woman that he didn't know
knocked her to the street and
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walked away.
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That's called crazy violence.
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Jesus said that
would be one of the signs
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as it was in the days of Noah.
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What does it say
about the days of Noah?
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You can read there in Genesis,
"The earth was corrupt before
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God and violence.
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Now, let me tell you something,
just it's kind of a personal pet
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peeve of mine.
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Everybody's trying to
figure out, why is there so
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much violence?
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And I'm not saying that the
multiplication of guns and more
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deadly guns is not a factor,
but I think it's something
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even bigger.
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If you have a society that is
entertained by violence, if you
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have a generation of young
people that grow up playing
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games that involve shooting
digital characters, they soon
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lose the separation
between fiction and reality.
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The value of human life is
diminished if we're all being
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entertained by watching
bloodshed that gets worse and
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worse with every new program in
order to keep the audience, and
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we wonder, why is
violence increasing?
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Well, maybe it's because people
are feeding on it and it's
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affecting our natures.
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I appreciate more than one amen
on that because I just told you
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the truth.
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If we spend all of our
times--you become like what
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you behold.
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If you have a culture around the
world--and whatever we produce
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in America is imported
internationally, and if we are
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importing violence
internationally, wonder why is
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violence increasing?
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Men's hearts are growing cold.
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We need the gospel, friends.
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Immorality increasing, not only
in the breakdown of marriage,
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but even the definition of
marriage, friends, I told you
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I'm going to tell
you what the Bible says.
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You want me to do that?
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I'm going to tell
you what the Bible says,
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Jesus said,
"Likewise as it was also
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in the days of
Lot... Even so will
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it be in the day
when the Son of Man
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has appeared."
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Do you know that there are
about 200,000 Americans that are
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classified as porn addicts.
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Here, I've got some
statistics here, I can't
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remember them all, but I have
some notes I jotted down in the
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front of my Bible to share
with you on these statistics.
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Forty million American people--
there's only 340 million total--
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40 million American people
regularly visit porn sites.
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The pornography industry earns
$97 billion worldwide every
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year, that's more than
Microsoft, Google, Oracle, and
00:19:45.05\00:19:47.98
the top ten tech
companies combined.
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Thirty-five percent of all
internet downloads, when you
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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
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8 to 11 is when
it's first exposed.
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One third of porn viewers
are women, and it plays a
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significant
role in all divorces.
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I'm a pastor and unfortunately
we have to do marriage
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counseling and I can
testify that that's true.
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It is an epidemic and Jesus
said, you know, the problems in
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Sodom and Gomorrah were
sexual immorality on all scales.
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But I think that we agree, Jesus
said, "From the beginning, God
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'made them male and female.'"
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He didn't give us 20 options.
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I still believe
Jesus, I'm sorry.
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You have to take that up
with him, don't get mad at me.
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Mushrooming population around
the world, by the year 2050, the
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Earth's population is
going to be 9.5 billion.
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I've got another note that I
want to read you, this is just
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fantastic when you think about
it, because this is another
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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
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the first billion people.
00:21:25.41\00:21:27.52
Then it only took 130
years, back in 1930, to get the
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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.
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Now there are over eight billion
people in the world, and during
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that same time that humanity is
developing and sprawling across
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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.
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Just this year, Karen and I've
been India, Pakistan, Dubai,
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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
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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?
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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?
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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.
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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
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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?
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Doug: Hi friends, I trust
you're being blessed by what
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