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Doug Batchelor : From the
beginning of the Bible to the
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end of the Bible, it talks about
two destinations, two destinies:
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the saved and the lost.
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We talked about Christ and
the devil, good and evil, light
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and darkness.
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Jesus said, "If you're not
with me, you're against me."
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There are two roads,
there are two faiths.
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You want to be on the
winning team, am I right?
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Now I don't want you to hyper
focus on the losing team, but we
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need to understand because not
understanding this affects what
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you believe about the reward
and the rewarder, and that's why
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this subject is such an
important subject in our
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study tonight.
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You know, I always like to
begin with an amazing fact.
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A couple of years ago, Karen and
I, with some friends from the
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Amazing Facts board, we went
to Italy and we visited the city
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of Pompeii.
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It was my second time; first
time I went, I was 16 years old.
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I was living on a sailboat in
the Mediterranean, and they've
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done a lot more excavation,
I've found, since then.
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You probably have heard
the story about the cities of
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Pompeii and Herculaneum, that
they're at the base of Mount
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Vesuvius, a massive
volcano in the background.
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And even from 62 A.D.
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they started noticing that
the ground would occasionally
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rumble, and they'd have these
earthquakes, and they seemed to
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be having signs that there
was some growing activity and
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swelling on the mountain.
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For the next 17 years, the signs
continued to mount and increase,
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but the people in these cities,
they didn't seem to worry too
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much about it.
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Now, Pompeii and Herculaneum,
Pompeii in particular, they were
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something like the Las
Vegas of the Roman Empire.
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In fact, a lot of the soldiers
would go there after they served
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their term for R&R.
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It was something of a reward.
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And so during this 17 years
of time, the volcano tremors
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increased, some of
the--even springs dried up.
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They knew there was a lot of
seismic activity, but life went
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on day after day, people were
just pre-absorbed in their fun,
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their hedonism, pursuit of
pleasure, and then the whole
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thing blew.
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In 79 A.D.
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there was a massive eruption
that buried both of the cities
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in ash and pumice, and some that
were not killed right away, were
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killed by the pyroclastic cloud
of superheated gasses that came
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rolling down the mountain like a
tsunami, and they were scorched
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alive the first
time they inhaled it.
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Well, years later, about 1748,
1,600 years later, they did some
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excavations and they started to
find the ruins buried under all
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of this ash.
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And they noticed that they kept
running into these cavities in
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the ash, and someone said,
"You know, there was probably
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something there."
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And so they poured the "Plaster
of Paris" into these cavities
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and they found the grizzly
truth, that these were the
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hollowed out spaces
where people had been.
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Their bodies had decomposed
other than the bones, and they
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were able to see people all
around the city, thousands had
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died in the very positions,
in their final writhing deaths,
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that the disaster caught them.
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It makes us think about another
terrible destruction that came
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that the Bible speaks of.
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By the way, just a
little side note you may want to
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think about.
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Jerusalem had been destroyed by
the armies of Titus in 70 B.C.
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I heard one historian say that
hypothetically based on the time
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that they served, many of the
soldiers that were involved in
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the destruction of Jerusalem
could have been vacationing at
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Pompeii when the
city was destroyed.
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Well, Bible kind of compares
this to the destruction of
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the wicked.
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And we're going to go find
out what do the people on the
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streets have to say about
this subject of hell and the
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punishment of the law.
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So let's roll that right now.
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male: I think the purpose of
hell is just to let people know
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that there's negative
repercussions for things that
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you do in this world, whether
you get punished for it right
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away, like it
is coming later on.
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So, like, it's a belief system
within yourself to be like,
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"Okay, I'm
doing something wrong.
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Nobody could see me, but there's
a thing coming later on in the
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future that will punish me.
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So let me," you know, "watch
myself and know that God's
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watching me and," you
know, "live a good life."
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female: To scare people
away from doing bad things.
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male: The absence of God is
hell, and that can be here, that
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can be the
afterlife, it can be anywhere.
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female: In Christianity
specifically, I would say it's
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just, I think there's a lot of
fear mongering around it, but I
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think it's also just, I think
it's really supposed to be like
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a place without God.
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I don't think there's a--I think
a lot of the talk about it is
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not exactly what
the book says, you know?
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male: To ensure that you make
decisions that are going to be,
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that are not going to negatively
impact the people around you.
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female: Hell represents
a very hot place from my
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religious background.
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male: A place for non-believers
that, you know, you go after you
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die if you like, have not
done enough good deeds within
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your lifetime.
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male: I think it's a place where
like the most evil and wretched
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people go.
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male: In the Bible it describes
hell as, like, a place where
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non-followers of Christ go.
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female: I believe hell is a
place where all the bad people
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go in the end.
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male: I feel like
we're living in hell.
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I feel like this is hell right
here and heaven is like a place
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you'll be at peace.
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female: I don't believe in hell.
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male: According to the Word
of God, there's a lake of fire,
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it's eternal.
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male: I think that
hell doesn't exist.
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male: I think
hell is everlasting.
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Depends on how you
spend your life here.
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male: I don't think
hell is just straight fire.
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There might be some fire in
there, but I don't feel like
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it's like that.
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But there is some type
of torture there for sure.
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male: I think hell
is definitely a place.
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male: Oh yeah,
spiritually, yes, it's on fire.
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I wouldn't want to go there.
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male: Yes, this is a place
of fire where you suffer all
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for eternity.
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female: I feel like what
hell truly is, is your own
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perspective of your
own reality of life.
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Doug: Well, that's interesting.
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You know, I actually found that
in the answers from the people
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on the street, there's a little
more unity on this subject than
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some of the others.
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You know it's interesting, is
virtually every religion in the
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world believes that
there is some kind of reward.
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Even those that believe in
reincarnation think if you live
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a bad life, you're going to come
back as, you know, something
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else, a crocodile or who knows.
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But you live a good
life, there's a reward.
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And almost all religions
understand that there are
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consequences for the way that
you choose to live your life.
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But where do we get our answers?
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Interviewing people on the
street or is the Word of God the
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final arbiter?
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We're going to find out
what does the Bible say on
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this subject.
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There's a lot of
misunderstandings on the subject
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of hell.
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First of all, question number
one, we're going to go using our
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question answer method.
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You've got your lessons.
This is lesson number five.
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What two cities mentioned in the
Bible that are sort of infamous,
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are given as an example of
the destruction of the wicked?
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You can read in 2 Peter 2, verse
6, and don't forget, you can
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call out the answers there
in the light blue color with me.
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"And turning the cities of SODOM
and GOMORRAH into ashes, [God]
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condemned them to destruction,
making them an example to those
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who afterward
would live ungodly."
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So if we want to know what is
going to happen to the wicked,
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God said, "Well, what you saw
happen to Sodom and Gomorrah,
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they were burnt,
they were burnt up."
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And you can read here in Jude
chapter 1, verse 7, "Sodom and
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Gomorrah, are set forth as an
example, suffering the vengeance
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of eternal FIRE."
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Eternal fire meaning that the
results of the fire are eternal.
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You're looking at just a Google
Earth map there that shows an
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area where archaeologists
believe approximately that
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Sodom was.
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Now, in case you don't know, the
Bible describes this if you go
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to Genesis chapter 19, it
tells us that Lot and Abraham
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were related.
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Lot was the nephew of Abraham,
and they had so many cattle, the
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shepherds were fighting, and
they needed to separate to keep
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peace in the family.
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And Lot cast his eyes towards
Sodom because it was watered
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like the garden of God.
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It was like the Garden of Eden.
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It was lush, it was tropical.
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There was an abundance of
vegetation for the animals.
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And he thought, "You know, I
think my flocks will really grow
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down there and
things will really prosper."
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And his wife said, "You know,
they got really good malls in
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Sodom," and who knows?
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But anyway, they
moved down there.
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But the Bible goes on to
say that was not a wise decision
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because the men of
Sodom were sinners before the
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Lord exceedingly.
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Now some people are shocked
to find out that the Bible says,
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before God punished Sodom
and Gomorrah, God saved Sodom
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and Gomorrah.
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Did you know that before their
great judgment day came, five
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kings from the north, led by
an Assyrian named Chedorlaomer,
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they had a confederacy.
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They came down and they attacked
the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah,
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and four of the
other cities of the plain.
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And they conquered them and they
carried them all away captive,
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and Lot and his family were
carried away in the destruction.
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It was a judgment to get
their attention, to turn them to
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repentance because God
wants everyone to be saved.
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And Abraham came together
with some of the other mighty
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sheikhs, and they went
and they delivered them.
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They got their soldiers, you
know, Abraham had an army of 300
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men, over 300.
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And they delivered them, they
conquered these other kings, and
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they rescued all the
people from Sodom and Gomorrah.
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They had been saved.
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And God was hoping they'd change
their ways, but they didn't.
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They went back to the
old ways and got even worse.
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And it got so bad that even when
God sent angels to rescue Lot
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and his family from Sodom, that
the people in the city wanted to
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abuse the angels.
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And finally God said, "Flee lest
you be consumed, flee from the
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wrath to come."
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And he said,
"Don't even look back."
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And the angels took Lot and his
daughters and his wife by the
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hand, and basically had
to pull them out of the city.
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And then God reigned upon Sodom
and Gomorrah fire and brimstone
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out of heaven.
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Abraham could look from the
mountains of Hebron towards the
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plain of Sodom, by the way, it's
the lowest place on the planet,
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did you know that?
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1,300 feet below sea
level, the Jordan Valley.
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And it says the smoke of the
place went up like a furnace.
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Karen and I, you probably just
heard in the news a few weeks
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ago, we had a fire up
near Orville, California.
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And Karen and I were coming down
the road and we could see it
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from a distance and it
looked like a nuclear explosion.
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This campfire was so
big, big mushroom cloud.
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And God destroyed these cities
of the plain with fire from
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before the Lord.
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And the Bible tells us that God
is going to ultimately make a
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new heaven and new earth, but
I want to show you something.
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I'm going to
bring Karen out here.
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I want something a little unique
that I want to demonstrate.
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People think that you got the
story of Sodom and Gomorrah and
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that it's just, it's a myth
or it's a fairy tale to try and
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teach a lesson.
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So I've got, we were just down
in Masada, or maybe three years
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ago, down in the Jordan Valley.
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And in the area where Sodom and
Gomorrah are believed to be, the
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hills are full of ash, and in
the ash they've got these sulfur
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balls that are embedded.
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It's the only place in the world
that they know of where you can
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find this.
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The mountains are embedded
with these sulfur balls.
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I'm going to get over
here, maybe we'll get this on
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the camera.
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You let me know if
you get this focused in.
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Oh, see, look at that.
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It took off already.
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I just touched it for
a second with a lighter.
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I don't know if you can
see that bubbling and smoking.
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These are sulfur balls
that are embedded in, y'all see
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the smoke?
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I just snapped it for a
second and it took right off.
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You don't want to be
in sulfur and brimstone.
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I'll let you go put that out
dear, before the fire department
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shows up, don't
put it on the phone.
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The reason I go through that is
to tell you, this is not a myth.
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It really happened,
this was real destruction.
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There are consequences for
sin according to the Bible.
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Can you say amen?
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Question number two--people
on the front row probably smell
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rotten eggs right now.
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When will the wicked
be destroyed in hellfire?
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Answer, it says, "The Lord knows
how to deliver the godly out of
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temptation and how to reserve
the unjust under punishment for
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the day of JUDGMENT."
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Now, when we talk about the
subject of hellfire, there are a
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couple of extremes.
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One group is going to say
there's really no such thing.
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That it's just there to scare.
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Matter of fact, one of the
people on the street said, "Oh
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yeah, hell it's just there
to scare people, and it doesn't
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exist at all."
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Some people say then, that
it burns forever and ever and
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they've got this picture
of people burning in hell.
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And they say they're in molten
fire and brimstone, and they're
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burning and it never stops and
they have no relief, how long?
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Forever and ever.
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Now, I don't know friends if
you can comprehend that, what it
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would be like.
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I don't know how many of you
remember a few years ago when
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the US was battling with ISIS.
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A Jordanian fighter was
shot down, a young pilot.
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He was actually the son of
someone else I believe that was
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in the military.
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And he thought he was being
involved in the negotiation for
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a prisoner swap, but in reality,
they brought him out, they
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videotaped him, and they took
him out in the desert and they
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put him in a cage, a
metal cage, no way to escape.
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They doused him with gasoline or
some incendiary fluid, and with
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their video rolling, they threw
a match in and set them on fire.
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And then they broadcast this.
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They put it up on the internet
and showed what they were doing
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to this pilot, and it
took several minutes for him in
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tremendous agony to die.
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And his father was shown that.
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Now you and I, we hear
that and it just, I can see the
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expressions on your
face, it's horrific.
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Here's a question, do you
believe that our Heavenly Father
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would take the objects of His
creation that were made in His
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image, that are born with some
natural propensity to sin, and
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if we do not manage to overcome,
He says, "If you don't love me,
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I'm going to burn you.
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But I'm not just going to
burn you, I'm going to burn
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you forever."
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You know, the
Bible doesn't teach that.
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The Bible does teach there's a
hell, just like there was Sodom
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and Gomorrah,
they were punished.
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The Bible teaches the
wicked are burnt in hell.
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Now here's the
question, when does that happen?
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What did we just read?
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It says, "The Lord knows
how to deliver the godly out of
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temptation and to reserve,"
you ever reserve a table at
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a restaurant?
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That means you'll hold it
until you get there, right?
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So if God is reserving the
wicked for the day of judgment,
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how many people are
burning in hell right now?
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Is the judgment day
passed or is it future?
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It's pretty clear.
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Jesus said the judgment day,
the last day He calls it, the
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judgment day is in the future.
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People are not burning in
hell before the judgment day.
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And does everybody burn forever?
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Doesn't the Bible say there
are varying degrees of rewards?
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If there are varying degrees of
rewards, how fair would it be if
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some teenager that, you know,
they misbehaved, they live the
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wrong kind of life, and they die
lost, and they're going to burn
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as long as Stalin and Hitler?
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That one didn't seem very just.
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I wanted to just stir up your
pure minds and have you think,
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and we're going to give you a
scripture for everything we say.
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Now I know there's some
difficult verses, we're going to
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answer them all.
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We're not afraid of
any scriptures, amen?
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When are they judged?
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"The word that I have
spoken will judge him," in when?
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"The LAST DAY."
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Let's talk about the day
of the Lord, the judgment day.
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And again, Jesus tells a parable
in Matthew 13, talking about the
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separating the wheat and the
tares, and it says, in the end
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of the world, the angels will
go forth, they will gather the
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weed, the tares in
bundles and burn them.
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When does it happen?
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"At the END of this AGE.
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The Son of Man will
send out His angels.
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They will gather together those
who practice lawlessness, and
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cast them into a
furnace of fire."
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Now, is it pretty clear from the
teachings of Jesus that there is
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a punishment?
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What do you think, yes?
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Is it pretty clear from the
teaching of Jesus that there is
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going to be fire
involved in that?
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Yes, absolutely.
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Number three, if the wicked who
have died are not in hell yet,
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where are they?
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Are they in limbo?
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Are they in purgatory?
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Are they in, you
know, some medium place?
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Abraham's bosom, some
say, what does the Bible say?
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Jesus said, John 5, 28
and 29, "The hour is coming."
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When he says he's coming,
does that mean past or future?
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"The hour is coming in which
all that are," where are they?
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"IN the GRAVES will hear
His voice and come forth...those
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that have done evil, to the
resurrection of condemnation."
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Do you know the Bible teaches
there are two resurrections.
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The Bible tells us there is
a resurrection of the just, the
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dead in Christ
rise first, that's up.
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If you've got a first
resurrection, what does
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that mean?
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Somewhere you got a, what?
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A second, first
is a sequential word.
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No sense saying first
if there's nothing else.
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Says there's a first
resurrection, and the rest of
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the dead live not again until
the thousand years are finished.
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This is Revelation chapter 20.
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So if the dead in Christ
are first, who are the rest of
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the dead?
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Those out of Christ, the lost.
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Jesus said they are where?
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In their graves.
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Now that is so important,
because there are some people
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that believe they have loved
ones that have died lost, they
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believe that they are down right
now burning in, you know, people
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believe that hell's got a
torture chamber down there
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somewhere, and there
are people who are burning.
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I remember going through the
line in a supermarket and I saw
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one of these tabloid magazines.
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They got pretty
outrageous coverage.
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You have to laugh sometimes.
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And it said, "Well
drillers in Siberia go too deep,
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demons escape."
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And they say they've actually
drilled into hell and the demons
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are escaping.
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And I suppose there's
some people who believe that.
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But that's not
what the Bible teaches.
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They're in their graves,
again, another verse for you.
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Job 21, verse 30 and 32.
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"The wicked are reserved for the
day of doom...he will be brought
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to the," where?
00:21:03.26\00:21:04.79
"The GRAVE, and a
vigil kept over the TOMB."
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It says they're in their graves,
they're in the tomb, they're
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brought to their graves, they're
waiting for the judgment day.
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You know, I believe there are
folks that have been driven to
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the point of insanity thinking
that someone they love died and
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while they walk the earth,
these people are writhing and
00:21:22.41\00:21:24.91
screaming and
shrieking in the flames.
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I was listening years ago
to a Christian radio station.
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And the people would
call in Bible questions.
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And the Bible questions
were all across the board.
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I mean, the station had some
good music and they'd read the
00:21:41.83\00:21:44.13
Bible, the good things, but when
this guy came on and started
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answering questions, I
had real issues with him.
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And I remember hearing one time
a mother called, and you could
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tell from the cracking in her
voice that she was obviously in
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a lot of grief.
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And she said, "Brother so and
so," talking to the pastor, the
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host of the program.
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She said, "My son died a
few days ago instantly in a
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car accident.
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He made no
profession of believing in God.
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He was living an ungodly life,
and I've just got to know, is he
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burning in hell right now?"
00:22:14.40\00:22:16.77
Well first he tried
to skirt the question.
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She said, "No, no, I'm just
telling you that if there's any
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evidence at all that a person
was lost, he just cursed God and
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lived a wicked life, and he ran
into a tree and died instantly.
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Is he burning in hell?"
00:22:30.65\00:22:33.11
And finally, after trying to
evade a direct answer, he said,
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"Well, you know, according
to the Bible, if he died without
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Christ, then next stop without
passing go is he's in hell,
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in hellfire."
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And how long will he be there?
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Forever, now, have you ever
thought about how forever, how
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long that is?
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That means that if a person
dies and they are burning in
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hell--you ever burn
yourself for a minute?
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A person dies and they're in
hell, that means a million years
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from now, you try to swim to the
surface and call out for help,
00:23:07.22\00:23:11.82
and God says, "You
still haven't begun."
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You never reach the beginning.
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You never stop feeling the
agony and the misery and the
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shrieking, intense, burning pain
forever, and ever, and ever for
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the sins of one lifetime.
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How long is 80, 90
years compared to eternity?
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It's nonexistent.
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To burn a person forever, and
ever, and ever, and ever, for
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this minuscule life,
please explain the justice.
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And when you ask some pastors
that say, "Well, you know, who
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are we, we don't understand
how bad sin is, and He's God and
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that's the punishment."
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Now, let me get you to
think about something, friends,
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be honest.
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How many of you would admit
that as humans, all sin and fall
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short of the glory of God?
00:24:03.30\00:24:05.11
Bible says all,
we've all sinned.
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We all kind of have a natural
bent to sin, and to then torture
00:24:07.24\00:24:12.68
a person through eternity that
you've created, you ostensibly
00:24:12.71\00:24:17.02
love, and you are a just God,
forever and ever, for the sins
00:24:17.05\00:24:22.92
of a very brief
life, does that make sense?
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It's not biblical, I'm going to
show you from the Bible, amen?
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First of all,
nobody's burning yet.
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Number 4, what are the
only two choices for all people?
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That's why this is
an important subject.
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The Bible says, Jesus said, "For
God so loved the world, he gave
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his only begotten Son, that
whoever believes in Him should
00:24:45.38\00:24:49.38
not," do what?
00:24:49.42\00:24:50.89
"PERISH but have
everlasting"--what are the
00:24:50.92\00:24:53.82
two choices?
00:24:53.86\00:24:55.29
Life or perish?
00:24:55.32\00:24:58.69
Perish means you cease to exist.
00:24:58.73\00:25:01.83
When you go to the market
and you buy things that are
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.10
perishable, that means
you better get them in the
00:25:04.13\00:25:06.67
refrigerator or eat
them quickly, because they're
00:25:06.70\00:25:09.24
going to perish.
00:25:09.27\00:25:10.97
They do not last.
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What did God
say to Adam and Eve?
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If you eat the forbidden
fruit, you will surely die.
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There are two choices, friends,
you've got life or death.
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Death is the absence of life.
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God did not say you've
got eternal life in heaven or
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eternal life
burning, isn't that right?
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Moses, before he died, he stood
before the children of Israel.
00:25:30.33\00:25:33.09
He said, I set before you this
day two options: life, good,
00:25:33.13\00:25:37.83
blessing; death, evil, cursing.
00:25:37.87\00:25:40.97
Choose life,
everybody can choose life.
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But the devil, who--remember
what we learned about the devil?
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He wants to misrepresent God.
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Doug: Friends, I hope you've
been blessed by today's message,
00:25:52.98\00:25:55.72
but really the reason we do
this is so that people might
00:25:55.75\00:25:58.55
know Christ.
00:25:58.59\00:25:59.92
You know, information is
not going to save us, it's a
00:25:59.95\00:26:02.52
relationship with Jesus, the
one who died on the cross for
00:26:02.56\00:26:05.23
your sins.
00:26:05.26\00:26:06.56
You must personally accept him,
and that's the most important
00:26:06.59\00:26:09.40
thing and why we
do these programs.
00:26:09.43\00:26:11.50
If you've not asked him
into your heart before, then I'd
00:26:11.53\00:26:14.17
encourage you
to do it right now.
00:26:14.20\00:26:15.90
His arms are open wide.
00:26:15.94\00:26:17.71
Just come to him as
you are and ask him.
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Doug: Hi friends, I trust
you're being blessed by what
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you're watching.
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They're beautifully illustrated,
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