Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000030
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00:11 >> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS":
00:14 >> I'LL SUBMIT TO YOU THAT I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WROTE 00:17 HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 00:22 IT'S THE BIBLE. 00:28 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:30 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:34 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 00:37 BROADCASTS. 00:39 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:43 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:46 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:49 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:56 >> OUR STUDY TONIGHT IS DEALING WITH THE MYSTERY OF THE MESSIAH, 01:01 "THE MESSIAH MYSTERY." 01:04 AND AS ALWAYS, I LIKE TO START WITH AN AMAZING FACT. 01:09 MANY OF US HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE, OF COURSE 01:12 A VERY PRESTIGIOUS AWARD THAT PEOPLE COVET IN THE FIELDS OF 01:17 PEACE AND SCIENCE AND PHYSICS, LITERATURE. 01:21 IT'S AN INTERESTING HISTORY HOW THAT AWARD DEVELOPED. 01:25 ALFRED NOBEL WAS ACTUALLY THE INVENTOR OF DYNAMITE. 01:28 NOW, HE DID NOT INVENT NITROGLYCERIN. 01:30 BUT NITROGLYCERIN WAS VERY UNSTABLE AND THERE WERE A LOT 01:36 OF ACCIDENTS WHERE PEOPLE WERE USING IT. 01:38 AS A MATTER OF FACT, ALFRED NOBEL'S BROTHER EVEN DIED 01:42 IN ONE OF THOSE ACCIDENTS. 01:44 AND HE DEVELOPED A WAY TO STABILIZE NITROGLYCERIN AND 01:50 BASICALLY INVENTED DYNAMITE. 01:52 THEY CALLED HIM "MR. DYNAMITE." 01:54 IT WAS "NOBEL'S BLASTING POWDER." 01:56 AND IT GREATLY CONTRIBUTED TO THE EXPANSION OF THE INDUSTRY 02:01 AND THE WORLD AT THE TIME. 02:02 HE BECAME VERY WEALTHY AS A RESULT, AND IT WAS HELPING 02:05 WITH THE MINING AND THE RAILROADS AND CONSTRUCTION. 02:08 BUT THEN, THEY DISCOVERED ITS USE FOR MILITARY PURPOSES. 02:13 AND DURING THE VARIOUS WARS AND CONFLICTS, THEY BEGAN TO 02:16 USE DYNAMITE FOR DEMOLITION, FOR DESTROYING ARMIES. 02:21 AND SOMETHING INTERESTING HAPPENED IN 1895; 02:27 ALFRED'S OLDER BROTHER DIED. 02:30 THE NEWSPAPER GOT THE REPORT MIXED UP AND THEY PRINTED HIS 02:33 OBITUARY WHILE HE WAS STILL ALIVE. 02:36 AND HE READ HOW HIS NAME WAS SMEARED AND HE WAS BLAMED FOR 02:42 ALL THE DEATH AND DESTRUCTION. 02:44 AND HE WAS A PACIFIST. 02:47 HE NEVER WANTED HIS INVENTION TO BE USED THAT WAY. 02:49 IT GREATLY DEVASTATED HIM. 02:51 SO, OF COURSE, IN HIS WILL, HE ESTABLISHED THE FOUNDATION 02:55 FOR THE NOBEL PEACE PRIZE. 02:58 AND SOMEONE WHO WAS AT ONE TIME KNOWN FOR DESTRUCTION TODAY IS 03:04 KNOWN FOR PEACE. 03:05 YOU KNOW, IT'S AN ODD THING TO HAVE YOUR OBITUARY IN THE PAPER 03:09 WHILE YOU'RE STILL ALIVE. 03:12 IT'S ODDER STILL TO HAVE SOMEONE WRITE YOUR OBITUARY BEFORE YOU 03:16 ARE BORN. 03:18 AND I'LL TAKE IT ONE STEP FURTHER. 03:20 I'LL SUBMIT TO YOU THAT I BELIEVE THAT JESUS WROTE 03:23 HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 03:28 IT'S THE BIBLE. 03:29 NOW, THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECY THAT WE'RE GOING TO DEAL WITH 03:32 TONIGHT IS ACTUALLY A SERIES OF PROPHECIES. 03:37 A LOT OF PEOPLE QUESTION WHETHER JESUS REALLY IS THE MESSIAH. 03:42 WAS HE THE MESSIAH? 03:44 MANY PEOPLE SAY HE WAS A HOLY MAN. 03:46 MY JEWISH FAMILY, THEY'RE STILL LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH TO COME. 03:49 THEY SAY JESUS WAS A GREAT TEACHER. 03:51 HE WAS A GREAT RABBI. 03:53 AND EVEN IN THE KORAN, THEY TALK ABOUT JESUS AS A PROPHET 03:56 BUT THEY DON'T SAY THAT HE WAS THE SAVIOR. 03:59 THEY CERTAINLY DON'T SAY HE IS DIVINE. 04:01 SO, WHO WAS JESUS? 04:04 CAN WE TRUST WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT HIM? 04:07 AND WHERE DO WE GO FOR THE ANSWERS? 04:09 THERE ARE OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES THAT PROVIDE A NUMBER 04:13 OF PRECISE IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS REGARDING 04:16 THE MESSIAH. 04:17 AND SO IF WE LOOK AT SOME OF THOSE TONIGHT, IT'LL HELP US 04:20 KNOW IF JESUS FITS THE BILL. 04:22 THE FIRST PROPHECY THAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE, THE VERY FIRST 04:25 PROPHECY, IS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 04:28 YOU FIND IT IN GENESIS 3:15 AFTER ADAM AND EVE HAD SINNED. 04:32 THE LORD SPOKE TO THEM AND HE SAID, "I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN 04:37 YOU AND THE WOMAN" AND HE'S TALKING TO THE SERPENT. 04:41 "I WILL PUT ENMITY BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN, BETWEEN YOUR 04:43 SEED," YOUR DESCENDANTS, "AND HER SEED," THE SEED OF 04:47 THE WOMAN. 04:48 AND IT SAID, "HE," THE SEED OF THE WOMAN, THIS IS A PROPHECY 04:52 REGARDING THE MESSIAH, "WILL BRUISE YOUR HEAD." 04:56 THE SEED OF THE WOMAN WILL BRUISE THE HEAD OF THE SERPENT, 04:58 BUT THE SERPENT WOULD "BRUISE THE HEEL," OR IMPEDE 05:01 THE PROGRESS OF THE CHURCH AND THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 05:05 YOU KNOW, RIGHT THERE IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN, THIS PROPHECY IS 05:08 VERY PROFOUND BECAUSE AFTER ADAM AND EVE SINNED, WHAT HAPPENED? 05:11 THESE ROBES OF GLORY THEY WORE WENT OUT. 05:13 THEY DISCOVERED THEIR NAKEDNESS. 05:15 THEY TRIED TO COVER IT WITH FIG LEAVES. 05:16 GOD SAID, "THAT WILL NOT DO." 05:18 THE BIBLE SAYS THEY MADE APRON OF FIG LEAVES. 05:21 NOT ONLY WAS IT THE WRONG MATERIAL, IT WASN'T ENOUGH 05:24 MATERIAL BECAUSE GOD THEN GAVE THEM TUNICS, ROBES, OF SKIN. 05:29 WELL, SOMETHING HAD TO DIE TO COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS. 05:32 AND IT WAS AT THIS TIME GOD ESTABLISHED THE SACRIFICIAL 05:35 SYSTEM. 05:36 SO THERE IN THE GARDEN AS THEY WERE WEARING THESE SKINS TO 05:39 COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS, GOD EXPLAINED THAT SOMEDAY HIS 05:41 SON WOULD COME, THAT HE WOULD DIE FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD 05:46 AND THEIR SINS. 05:47 BUT THEY WOULD HAVE ANOTHER CHANCE OF LIFE. 05:51 AND THEN, THIS CRYPTIC PROPHECY WAS GIVEN ABOUT THE WOMAN, 05:54 THE SERPENT, THE LAMB, THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. 05:56 IT'S INTERESTING THEN WHEN YOU GO TO THE LAST BOOK OF THE BIBLE 05:58 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12. 06:01 AGAIN, IT TALKS ABOUT "THE GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT, 06:05 THAT SERPENT OF OLD, THE DEVIL AND SATAN, WHO DECEIVES 06:09 THE WHOLE WORLD." 06:10 AND THERE HE IS, HE'S INFURIATED WITH THE WOMAN. 06:12 IN REVELATION CHAPTER 5, YOU GOT THE SLAIN LAMB. 06:15 SO, YOU'VE GOT THE SAME CHARACTERS THERE IN--I'M SORRY, 06:17 IN REVELATION THAT YOU FIND IN THE PROPHECY OF GENESIS. 06:20 THERE IS A WAR THAT IS RAGING BETWEEN THE SERPENT AND THE SEED 06:25 OF THE WOMAN AND THAT IS THE MESSIAH. 06:27 WELL AS WE BEGIN TO STUDY THE AUTHENTICITY OF JESUS, IT MIGHT 06:31 BE GOOD TO BEGIN CONSIDERING WHERE DID HE COME FROM? 06:34 NOW, LET'S TAKE IT FROM HIS OWN LIPS. 06:36 IN JOHN 6:38, HE SAID, "FOR I HAVE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 06:42 WELL, THE LORD JESUS IS EITHER DIVINE OR DERANGED. 06:47 WHEN SOMEONE TELLS YOU, "I'VE COME FROM HEAVEN," YOU'VE GOT TO 06:49 FIND OUT IF THEY'RE TELLING THE TRUTH. 06:51 I ACTUALLY MET SOMEBODY ONE TIME THAT TOLD ME THEY WERE JESUS. 06:54 AND I WAS UP BY MYSELF LIVING IN A CAVE IN THE MOUNTAINS. 06:57 THIS FELLOW WALKED INTO MY CAVE YARD. 06:59 I HAD MY OWN YARD. 07:00 AND AFTER SOME CASUAL CHITCHAT, AND I SAID, YOU KNOW, 07:05 "SO, WHO ARE YOU?" 07:06 HE SAID, "MY NAME IS DAVID HARPER," SOMETHING, I 07:08 CAN'T REMEMBER THE THIRD NAME. 07:09 AND HE SAID, "I'M ACTUALLY JESUS." 07:11 AND AT FIRST, I WANTED TO SAY, "YOU'RE CRAZY. 07:13 GET OUT OF HERE." 07:14 BUT THEN, I THOUGHT, "BUT WHAT IF HE IS?" 07:17 YOU KNOW, I WAS A BABY CHRISTIAN BACK THEN. 07:19 YOU BETTER TAKE IT SLOW. 07:20 I FINALLY FOUND OUT HE WASN'T. 07:22 HE STAYED WITH ME 3 DAYS, ATE ALL MY FOOD AND MADE A MESS. 07:25 AND I KNEW JESUS WOULDN'T DO THAT. 07:27 BUT I'LL TELL YOU MORE ABOUT THAT ANOTHER TIME MAYBE. 07:31 BUT WHEN SOMEONE SAYS, "I'VE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN," WELL YOU 07:33 BETTER SIT UP AND PAY ATTENTION. 07:36 WHAT ELSE DOES JESUS SAY? 07:37 JOHN 18:36, ABOUT HIMSELF, "JESUS ANSWERED, 'MY KINGDOM 07:41 IS NOT OF THIS WORLD.'" HE SAID HE WAS A KING BUT OF 07:44 ANOTHER KINGDOM. 07:46 DID JESUS REALLY CLAIM DIVINITY OR IS IT SOMETHING THAT OTHERS 07:51 HAVE ATTRIBUTED TO HIM, TRYING TO DEIFY CHRIST? 07:55 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN JOHN 8:58, "JESUS SAID TO THEM, 08:00 'MOST ASSUREDLY, I SAY TO YOU, BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'" 08:06 WHAT DID GOD SAY TO IDENTIFY HIMSELF TO MOSES THERE AT 08:10 THE BURNING BUSH? 08:12 "I AM THAT I AM." 08:13 "I AM THE SELF-EXISTING ONE." 08:15 AND IF YOU'VE GOT DOUBTS ABOUT WHETHER OR NOT JESUS WAS 08:18 CLAIMING DIVINITY THERE, THE JEWS LISTENING TO HIM HAD NO 08:21 DOUBTS BECAUSE THEY IMMEDIATELY TOOK UP STONES TO KILL HIM FOR 08:24 HIS CLAIM OF EQUALITY WITH JEHOVAH. 08:29 SO, JESUS MADE SOME VERY BOLD CLAIMS. 08:31 YOU KNOW, THAT USED TO ALWAYS TROUBLE ME. 08:33 I TALKED TO MY RELATIVES IN THE JEWISH SIDE OF MY FAMILY 08:35 AND THEY'D SAY, "OH, WE BELIEVE JESUS WAS A GOOD MAN. 08:37 HE'S A GREAT PROPHET, A GOOD RABBI." 08:39 I'D SAY, "REALLY?" 08:40 I SAID, "SO, YOU THINK HE TOLD THE TRUTH?" 08:41 "YES." 08:42 SO, I SAID, "WELL, HE SAID HE WAS THE MESSIAH. 08:44 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT?" 08:45 "UH, WELL, YOU KNOW." 08:48 SO, YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT. 08:50 IT'S ONE WAY OR THE OTHER. 08:53 AGAIN, JOHN 10:17, HIS DIVINITY, "THEREFORE MY FATHER LOVES ME 09:01 BECAUSE I LAY DOWN MY LIFE THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT UP AGAIN. 09:04 'NO ONE TAKES IT FROM ME, BUT I LAY IT DOWN OF MYSELF. 09:08 I HAVE POWER TO LAY IT DOWN, AND I HAVE POWER TO TAKE IT AGAIN.'" 09:13 ANYONE HERE SAY THAT THEY CAN DIE AND THEN RESURRECT 09:15 THEMSELVES? 09:17 JESUS CLAIMED DIVINITY. 09:19 FURTHERMORE, IN MARK 2:10, HE ALSO SAID HE HAD THE POWER TO 09:23 FORGIVE SIN, "THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS." 09:27 AND EVEN THE JEWS LISTENING SAID, "GOD AND GOD ONLY CAN 09:31 FORGIVE SIN," BECAUSE ULTIMATELY ALL SIN IS AGAINST GOD. 09:36 DAVID SAID, "AGAINST THEE AND THEE ONLY HAVE I SINNED." 09:38 AND SO TO CLAIM THAT POWER, JESUS WAS CLAIMING 09:41 THE ATTRIBUTES OF DIVINITY. 09:43 WAS HE MAD OR WAS HE TELLING THE TRUTH? 09:49 I THINK THAT THERE'S EVIDENCE IN THE BIBLE THAT WILL HELP US FIND 09:51 THE ANSWERS. 09:52 HOW DO WE EVALUATE HIS CLAIMS? 09:54 WHAT SOURCE DO WE GO TO? 09:56 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK A LITTLE BIT AT HISTORY, BUT MOSTLY WE'RE 09:58 GOING TO GO TO THE BIBLE ITSELF. 10:00 JOHN 5:39, JESUS SAID, "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES, THESE ARE THEY 10:06 WHICH TESTIFY OF ME." 10:08 THE SCRIPTURES TESTIFY OF WHO JESUS IS. 10:12 AND AGAIN, LUKE 24:27, AFTER HE ROSE FROM THE DEAD, HE'S WALKING 10:16 FROM JERUSALEM DOWN TO THE LITTLE TOWN OF EMMAUS AND HE'S 10:20 TALKING TO TWO DISCIPLES AND HE SAID, "OH FOOLS AND SLOW OF 10:23 HEART TO BELIEVE, ALL THE PROPHETS HAVE SPOKEN. 10:26 OUGHT NOT CHRIST THE MESSIAH TO HAVE SUFFERED THESE THINGS 10:29 AND ENTERED INTO HIS GLORY?" 10:30 AND THEN, IT SAYS, "AND BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL 10:33 THE PROPHETS, HE EXPOUNDED UNTO THEM IN," HOW MANY? 10:37 "ALL THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 10:43 HOW MANY OF THE SCRIPTURES CONCERNING HIMSELF? 10:46 NOW, I REMEMBER, SOMEONE TOOK THE TIME TO EXPLAIN THIS TO ME 10:49 WHEN I WAS A BABY CHRISTIAN. 10:50 I WAS VERY THANKFUL. 10:51 WHEN YOU THINK OF THE BIBLE, YOU'VE GOT THE NEW AND 10:52 THE OLD TESTAMENT. 10:54 AND YOU CAN--I'M PRETTY CLOSE TO THE--THERE YOU GO. 10:56 YOU'VE GOT THE OLD TESTAMENT, WHICH IS ABOUT 3/4 OF THE BIBLE. 10:59 THIS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS. 11:01 THIS SECTION OF THE BIBLE IS FILLED WITH PREDICTIONS OF 11:06 THE MESSIAH AND PROPHECIES SO THEY WOULD BE ABLE TO IDENTIFY 11:09 HIM WHEN HE DID COME. 11:10 HERE IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, YOU'VE GOT WHEN HE WAS BORN. 11:13 MATTHEW TELLS ABOUT HIS BIRTH AND SO DOES LUKE AND SO FORTH. 11:16 AND SO, YOU'VE GOT BOTH THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. 11:20 BUT IT IS PRINCIPALLY IN THESE OLD TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, YOU 11:23 FIND THE PROPHECIES WE'RE GOING TO BE CONSIDERING TONIGHT. 11:26 BUT ALL THE SCRIPTURES, NEW AND OLD TESTAMENT, ARE INSPIRED 11:30 AND THEY ALL TALK ABOUT JESUS. 11:33 ONE OF MY FAVORITE FORMS OF STUDY IS LOOKING FOR CHRIST 11:37 IN ALL THE DIFFERENT STORIES AND PASSAGES OF THE BIBLE. 11:40 AND I SEE HIM EVERYWHERE. 11:42 YOU'LL MAYBE SEE MORE OF JESUS TONIGHT TOO. 11:45 THAT'S MY PRAYER. 11:46 HEBREWS 10:7, HERE PAUL TALKING ABOUT CHRIST BEING THE MESSIAH 11:50 SAYS, "THEN I SAID," HE'S ACTUALLY QUOTING FROM THE 11:53 PSALMS, "BEHOLD, I HAVE COME; IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS 11:57 WRITTEN OF ME; TO DO THY WILL, O GOD," THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK. 12:02 IT'S WRITTEN OF CHRIST. 12:03 THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF THE BOOK, ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO 12:06 REVELATION, IS ABOUT JESUS. 12:07 A MATTER OF FACT, THE FIRST WORDS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION 12:10 ARE, IF WE'RE GOING TO STUDY PROPHECY, "THE REVELATION OF 12:14 JESUS CHRIST." 12:15 WHAT DID I TELL YOU LAST NIGHT? 12:16 THE PURPOSE OF PROPHECY IS TO REVEAL CHRIST. 12:20 IT'S REDEMPTIVE, AND HE IS THE SAVIOR. 12:22 NOW, LET'S GET MORE SPECIFIC. 12:23 WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT A NUMBER OF CHARACTERISTICS THAT WILL 12:27 HELP US CONTINUALLY NARROW THE FOCUS TO IDENTIFY JESUS. 12:30 WHAT PEOPLE, TRIBE AND FAMILY, WOULD THE MESSIAH COME FROM? 12:36 WHERE DO WE LOOK IN THE WORLD TO KNOW WHAT PEOPLE HE WOULD COME 12:38 THROUGH? 12:40 WELL, BEGINNING, IT TELLS US IN GENESIS 12, GOD SAID TO ABRAHAM, 12:44 "IN YOU ALL THE FAMILIES OF THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED," THROUGH 12:50 ABRAHAM, THE ORIGINAL HEBREW. 12:53 IT WOULD COME THROUGH HIS DESCENDANTS. 12:54 GOD CALLED ABRAHAM AND THEN THROUGH HIS DESCENDANTS, 12:57 THE MESSIAH WOULD COME. 12:58 THE FOCUS CONTINUES TO NARROW FURTHERMORE, SAYING TO ABRAHAM'S 13:02 SON, ISAAC, "I WILL GIVE TO YOUR DESCENDANTS ALL THESE LANDS; AND 13:07 IN YOUR SEED," MEANING IN YOUR DESCENDANTS, "ALL THE NATIONS OF 13:11 THE EARTH WILL BE BLESSED." 13:15 SO, YOU'VE GOT ABRAHAM, ISAAC, WHO NEXT? 13:17 JACOB. 13:19 THEY USUALLY COME IN A LITTLE TRINITY OF NAMES, "A STAR SHALL 13:22 COME OUT OF JACOB; A SCEPTER SHALL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL." 13:26 A SCEPTER IS SOMETHING THAT A KING HOLDS, OF COURSE. 13:29 SO, IT TELLS US ABOUT JACOB. 13:31 JACOB THEN, WHEN HE'S BLESSING HIS SONS IN GENESIS CHAPTER 50, 13:34 HE TELLS WHAT TRIBE AMONG THE 12 SONS THE MESSIAH WOULD COME 13:38 THROUGH. 13:39 WHEN HE BLESSES JUDAH, HE SAYS IN GENESIS 49:10, "THE SCEPTER 13:43 SHALL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH, NOR A LAWGIVER FROM BETWEEN HIS 13:47 FEET, UNTIL SHILOH COME," THE WORD "SHILOH" MEANS TRANQUIL 13:51 OR PEACE, AND THIS IS SAYING THE PRINCE OF PEACE WILL COME. 13:55 "AND UNTO HIM, THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE WILL BE." 13:58 THEN WITHIN THE TRIBE OF JUDAH, THERE WAS A SPECIFIC FAMILY THAT 14:03 THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH. 14:05 IT WAS THE FAMILY OF JESSE. 14:07 JESSE WAS THE FATHER OF DAVID, AND FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID, 14:10 "THERE SHALL COME FORTH A ROD FROM THE STEM OF JESSE, 14:14 AND A BRANCH SHALL GROW OUT OF HIS ROOTS. 14:17 AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD SHALL REST UPON HIM." 14:20 BY THE WAY, I USED TO THINK THAT CHRIST WAS JESUS' LAST NAME, 14:25 LIKE JOHN SMITH, JESUS CHRIST. 14:27 THE WORD "CHRIST" ACTUALLY MEANS ANOINTED. 14:30 SO WHEN YOU SAY "JESUS CHRIST," YOU'RE SAYING "JESUS" OR 14:33 "YESHUA" IS HOW THEY'D SAY IT IN HEBREW. 14:35 "CHRIST" IS A GREEK WORD. 14:36 "CRISTOS" MEANS THE ANOINTED. 14:38 THE WORD "MESSIAH" IS THE HEBREW WAY OF SAYING THE ANOINTED. 14:41 JESUS IS THE ANOINTED. 14:42 THAT WILL COME UP AGAIN LATER TONIGHT. 14:45 NOW, IT TELLS US THAT HE WOULD COME FROM THE HOUSE OF DAVID. 14:48 WE'RE GOING TO JUMP INTO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND SEE IF JESUS 14:51 MET THE CRITERIA OF COMING THROUGH THESE TRIBES AND PEOPLE 14:55 THAT WERE IDENTIFIED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES. 14:58 START BY GOING TO LUKE 1:26, 27, "NOW IN THE SIXTH MONTH THE 15:03 ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT BY GOD TO A CITY OF GALILEE NAMED 15:07 NAZARETH," DON'T FORGET, WHAT CITY? 15:10 NAZARETH. 15:11 "TO A VIRGIN BETROTHED TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH, 15:15 OF THE HOUSE OF DAVID. 15:19 AND THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY." 15:20 INDEED, BOTH JOSEPH AND MARY WERE OF THE HOUSE 15:24 AND THE LINEAGE OF DAVID. 15:25 FURTHERMORE, YOU KNOW, THERE'S EVEN A PROPHECY IN THE 15:28 OLD TESTAMENT THAT SAID JESUS WOULD BE BORN OF A VIRGIN. 15:31 NOW, THERE HAVE BEEN SOME THROUGH HISTORY THAT HAVE 15:33 CLAIMED THAT BUT THAT'S A VERY RARE CLAIM. 15:35 AND THE PROPHECY SAID THIS ABOUT THE MESSIAH AND YET IT 15:39 WAS FULFILLED IN CHRIST. 15:40 HERE'S THE PROPHECY, 500 YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN OR CLOSER TO 15:45 700 ACTUALLY, "BEHOLD, A VIRGIN SHALL CONCEIVE, AND BEAR A SON, 15:49 AND SHALL CALL HIS NAME IMMANUEL." 15:52 AND THE WORD "IMMANUEL" MEANS GOD WITH US. 15:55 A MATTER OF FACT, MATTHEW IN THE NEW TESTAMENT QUOTES THIS AND HE 15:57 SAYS, "JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THIS BECAUSE MARY WAS 16:00 A VIRGIN." 16:01 YOU GO THEN TO MATTHEW 1:18. 16:03 WE READ THE PROPHECY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 16:06 LET'S GO TO WHAT HAPPENED HISTORICALLY IN 16:07 THE NEW TESTAMENT AND SEE IF IT WAS FULFILLED IN CHRIST. 16:11 "NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS CHRIST WAS AS FOLLOWED: AFTER HIS 16:14 MOTHER MARY WAS BETROTHED TO JOSEPH, BEFORE THEY CAME 16:18 TOGETHER, SHE WAS FOUND WITH CHILD OF THE HOLY SPIRIT." 16:24 AND I'M SURE AS THERE ARE SKEPTICS AND CYNICS TODAY 16:27 WHO DOUBT THAT, THERE WERE BACK THEN. 16:31 BUT ALL YOU CAN DO IS BELIEVE WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 16:33 AN ANGEL VISITED HER AND THAT HE WAS CONCEIVED 16:37 BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 16:39 I BELIEVE IT BECAUSE HE'S THE ONLY PERSON WHO'S LIVED 16:41 A HOLY LIFE. 16:43 FURTHERMORE, IT EVEN TELLS US THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH. 16:46 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECY, YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF MICAH 5:2 AND IT 16:51 TELLS US THAT HE WAS GOING TO BE BORN IN A LITTLE TOWN OF WHAT? 16:55 BETHLEHEM. 16:56 "UNTO THEE, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, THOUGH YOU ARE LITTLE AMONG THE 17:00 THOUSANDS OF ISRAEL, OUT OF THEE SHALL HE COME FORTH UNTO ME THAT 17:04 WILL BE RULER IN ISRAEL." 17:06 SO, IT'S FORETOLD. 17:07 YOU LOOK IT UP, MICAH 5:2. 17:10 NOW, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM. 17:12 WHERE IS THE MESSIAH SUPPOSED TO BE BORN? 17:14 I JUST READ IT TO YOU. 17:16 BETHLEHEM. 17:18 WHERE WAS MARY WHEN THE ANGEL CAME AND SHE DISCOVERED SHE'S 17:20 PREGNANT? 17:21 NAZARETH. 17:22 SOMEHOW, GOD NEEDS TO GET HER 70 MILES SOUTH. 17:27 IT'S 70 MILES AS THE CROW FLIES FROM NAZARETH AND THEY WEREN'T 17:31 FLYING WITH A CROW. 17:32 IT WAS EVEN FARTHER THAN THAT. 17:33 AND SHE WAS GREAT WITH CHILD WHEN THEY MADE THE TRIP. 17:36 HOW IS GOD GOING TO ACCOMPLISH THAT? 17:38 IT TELLS YOU--GOD USED THE RULER OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE TO DO IT 17:41 FOR HIM. 17:43 LUKE 2:1, "IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS, THAT THERE WENT OUT 17:46 A DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS, THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE 17:50 TAXED AND ALL WENT TO BE TAXED, EVERY ONE INTO HIS OWN CITY." 17:56 THIS CENSUS WAS TAKEN SO HE COULD TAX THE PEOPLE. 17:59 AND IT GOES ON TO TELL US, "AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM 18:01 GALILEE, OUT OF THE CITY OF NAZARETH, INTO JUDAEA, 18:05 UNTO THE CITY OF DAVID." 18:07 BETHLEHEM IS SORT OF A SUBURB OF JERUSALEM, AND IT WAS OFTEN 18:10 CALLED "THE CITY OF DAVID." 18:12 SO, GOD FULFILLED THE PROMISE THAT THE MESSIAH, 18:15 WHILE BEING CALLED A NAZARENE, WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM. 18:20 "TO BE TAXED WITH MARY HIS WIFE ESPOUSED," AND IT GOES ON TO SAY 18:24 THAT SHE WAS "GREAT WITH CHILD" AT THAT TIME. 18:27 AND THEN YOU KNOW THIS PART, LUKE 2:6, IT SAYS, "SO IT WAS, 18:30 THAT, WHILE THEY WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT 18:34 SHE SHOULD BE DELIVERED. 18:36 AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON, AND SHE WRAPPED 18:40 HIM IN SWADDLING CLOTH, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER; BECAUSE THERE 18:44 WAS NO ROOM FOR HIM IN THE INN." 18:46 THIS ALWAYS AMAZES ME, FRIENDS, WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT. 18:49 JESUS IS CALLED "THE BREAD OF LIFE." 18:52 HE SAID, "I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 18:54 THE WORD "BETHLEHEM" MEANS HOUSE OF BREAD. 18:58 HERE, YOU'VE GOT THE BREAD OF LIFE THAT IS BORN IN THE HOUSE 19:01 OF BREAD, AND THEY PLACE HIM IN A MANGER. 19:04 A MANGER IS A PLACE WHERE GRAIN, BREAD, IS PUT TO FEED 19:07 THE ANIMALS. 19:08 HERE YOU'VE GOT THE BREAD OF LIFE WHOSE PLACED IN 19:10 A BREADBASKET, BORN IN THE HOUSE OF BREAD. 19:14 JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. 19:16 YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING ABOUT SOMETHING LAST WEEK. 19:20 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU GO TO THE POOREST FAIR IN THE 19:25 POOREST COUNTRY; THERE'S USUALLY BREAD ON THE TABLE. 19:28 YOU COULD GO TO THE FANCIEST RESTAURANT THAT YOU COULD FIND, 19:31 BUT THEY DON'T FEEL THE MEAL WAS COMPLETE UNLESS THERE'S BREAD 19:33 THERE. 19:34 I MEAN EVEN IF YOU GO OUT FOR FAST FOOD, THE HAMBURGER 19:38 IS BETWEEN WHAT? 19:39 THE BUN. 19:41 THE BEANS AND THE CHEESE ARE WRAPPED UP IN BREAD. 19:45 KENTUCKY FRIED CHICKEN, YOU'VE GOT YOUR ROLLS. 19:47 PIZZA, BREAD. 19:48 YOU'VE GOT BREAD EVERYWHERE. 19:49 I MEAN BREAD IS THE ESSENCE. 19:50 IT'S LIKE EVERY MEAL IS BUILT AROUND THE BREAD. 19:53 AND JESUS, WHEN HE SAID "I'M THE BREAD OF LIFE," HE SAID, 19:55 "I AM THE BEAR ESSENTIALS. 19:56 YOU CAN'T LIVE WITHOUT ME." 19:58 AND HERE, YOU'VE GOT THE BREAD OF LIFE BORN IN THE HOUSE OF 20:01 BREAD. 20:02 THAT ALWAYS AMAZES ME. 20:05 "FOR UNTO YOU THERE IS BORN," I'LL FINISH OUT THIS VERSE, 20:08 "THIS DAY IN THE CITY OF DAVID," THAT'S BETHLEHEM, "A SAVIOUR, 20:13 WHO IS CHRIST THE LORD." 20:14 NOW, WHAT'S AMAZING IS NOT ONLY IS THERE TESTIMONY IN HEAVEN. 20:18 THE ANGELS DECLARE THIS IS THE MESSIAH. 20:22 THEN, THEY APPEAR TO THE SHEPHERDS. 20:24 YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF THE WISE MEN, TESTIMONY ON EARTH. 20:27 IF YOU READ IN MARK CHAPTER 9, YOU'VE GOT THE TESTIMONY OF 20:30 MOSES AND ELIJAH. 20:31 THEY APPEAR ON THIS MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 20:33 THEY ARE FLANKING LIKE STEREO SPEAKERS, "JESUS." 20:36 THEY'RE BOTH POINTING TO HIM AND SAYING, "HE'S THE ONE THAT 20:39 WE TALKED ABOUT. 20:40 HE'S THE ONE THAT WE FORETOLD." 20:41 MOSES, THE LAW, ELIJAH, THE PROPHETS, POINTING TO 20:44 JESUS SAYING, "HE'S THE ONE." 20:45 YOU KNOW, IT'S AMAZING THAT ANYONE COULD READ THE BIBLE 20:48 AND QUESTION THAT JESUS WAS THE CENTRAL FOCUS OF ALL OF 20:51 THE PROPHECIES REGARDING THE MESSIAH. 20:54 THE DEVIL KNEW HE WAS THE ONE. 20:56 THAT'S WHY HE INSPIRED HEROD, THAT DERANGED KING, TO SEND HIS 21:02 SOLDIERS INTO BETHLEHEM AND TO MASSACRE ALL OF THE BABIES, 21:07 2 YEARS OLD AND UNDER, BECAUSE HIS THRONE WAS THREATENED. 21:10 HE WAS INSPIRED BY THE DEVIL TO DO THAT BECAUSE THE DEVIL WANTED 21:12 TO ELIMINATE JESUS BEFORE HE COULD COMPLETE HIS WORK OF 21:16 SAVING YOU AND ME. 21:18 BUT GOD SAVED HIM. 21:19 AN ANGEL WARNED JOSEPH AND HE TOOK MARY, FLED INTO EGYPT. 21:24 AND AFTER THEY HEARD THAT HEROD THE GREAT HAD DIED ABOUT 4 YEARS 21:28 LATER, THEY CAME BACK AGAIN. 21:30 DIDN'T WANT TO LIVE IN BETHLEHEM ANYMORE BECAUSE HIS SON, 21:33 WHO WAS JUST AS MUCH A TYRANT, WAS REIGNING THERE. 21:35 SO, THEY WENT BACK TO NAZARETH. 21:37 NOW, A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE SPECULATED AND THEY SAID, 21:40 "WHERE? 21:41 WHERE WAS JESUS DURING THE MISSING YEARS?" 21:43 YOU KNOW, FROM THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH UNTIL HE BEGINS HIS 21:45 MINISTRY AT THE AGE OF 30, HE JUST--YOU KNOW, ALL THE 21:49 BRILLIANCE OF WHAT JESUS SAID--I REMEMBER WHEN I FIRST READ 21:53 THE BIBLE, I WAS, EVEN THOUGH I HAD A JEWISH BACKGROUND, I WENT 21:56 TO CATHOLIC SCHOOLS, I WAS BASICALLY BIBLICALLY ILLITERATE. 22:00 AND WHEN I FIRST STARTED READING THE BIBLE, I COULDN'T BELIEVE 22:03 HOW MUCH I HAD BEEN MISSING. 22:06 I JUST READ IT SO I COULD ARGUE WITH CHRISTIANS, HAD NO 22:09 INTENTION TO BELIEVE IT. 22:10 AND ONE OF THE THINGS THAT ASTOUNDED ME WAS THE BRILLIANCE 22:13 OF JESUS. 22:16 I KNOW THAT SOUNDS LIKE A STRANGE THING TO SAY TO PEOPLE 22:18 IN THE CHURCH. 22:19 BUT I WAS AMAZED HOW MANY TIMES I HAD HEARD HIM QUOTED THROUGH 22:24 MY LIFE AND I NEVER KNEW IT CAME FROM HIM. 22:27 I'M READING THROUGH THE SAYINGS OF CHRIST, HE TALKS ABOUT 22:30 "TURNING THE OTHER CHEEK" AND I LOOK UP AND I GO, "OH, 22:32 SO HE SAID THAT." 22:34 "GOING THE SECOND MILE," "NOT CASTING THE FIRST STONE," I'M 22:37 GOING, "WOW, ALL THESE BRILLIANT THINGS THAT PEOPLE QUOTE ALL 22:40 THE TIME, JESUS SAID THEM." 22:43 SO, WHEN HE MAKES THIS CLAIM TO BE THE MESSIAH, WE'VE ONLY GOT 22:47 A FEW ALTERNATIVES. 22:49 HE WAS EITHER INSANE OR HE WAS DELUDED, A DECEIVER, 22:56 OR HE WAS TELLING THE TRUTH. 22:58 AND I DON'T KNOW ANYBODY WHO COULD BE SO CONCISE 23:02 AND BRILLIANT IN WHAT HE SAYS BE INSANE. 23:06 HE WAS SO HONEST THAT HE LAID DOWN HIS LIFE RATHER THAN 23:10 DECEIVE. 23:12 THE ONLY ALTERNATIVE I WAS LEFT WITH WAS THAT HE WAS TELLING 23:15 THE TRUTH. 23:17 AND SOME OF THE SKEPTICS, THEY LOOKED AT THE BRILLIANCE OF WHAT 23:19 JESUS SAID AND THEY SAID, "WELL DURING THOSE MISSING YEARS, 23:21 SINCE HE DIDN'T HAVE A FORMAL EDUCATION, HE MUST'VE GONE AND 23:24 LEARNED FROM THE GREAT TEACHERS IN PERSIA OR INDIA OR HAVE 23:28 GONE--HE MUST HAVE STUDIED THERE IN ALEXANDRIA AT THE UNIVERSITY. 23:31 HOW COULD HE BE SO BRILLIANT AND BE A CARPENTER'S SON?" 23:35 AND THEY TRY AND PUT HIM SOMEWHERE ELSE, AND THERE'S 23:36 A LOT OF BOOKS THAT ARE WRITTEN ON THAT. 23:38 BUT THE BIBLE TELLS US WHERE HE WAS. 23:39 HE WASN'T MISSING. 23:40 THAT'S A MYTH. 23:41 IT TELLS US EXACTLY WHERE HE WAS. 23:43 YOU CAN READ HERE IN MATTHEW 2:23, 23:47 "AND THEY CAME AND THEY DWELT IN A CITY CALLED NAZARETH: 23:49 THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN BY THE PROPHETS, HE 23:52 SHALL BE CALLED A NAZARENE." 23:54 NOW, SOME HAVE WONDERED, DID JESUS TAKE THE VOW OF A NAZARITE 23:58 WHERE YOU DON'T CUT YOUR HAIR? 23:59 WELL, YOU KNOW, THE JURY'S STILL OUT. 24:01 IT IS POSSIBLE. 24:02 SOME PEOPLE COULD TAKE THAT VOW FOR A LIMITED PERIOD OF TIME. 24:05 JESUS MAY HAVE TAKEN THAT VOW UP 'TIL THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, 24:09 AND THERE'S JUST NO WAY TO PROVE THAT. 24:11 BUT THAT'S WHY YOU SEE MOST OF THE PICTURES PORTRAYING JESUS 24:13 WITH LONG HAIR 'CAUSE THEY FIGURE, "WELL, HE TOOK THE VOW 24:15 OF A NAZARITE. 24:16 HE PROBABLY DIDN'T CUT HIS HAIR." 24:18 IT GOES ON AND TELLS US IN LUKE 2:51 WHERE WAS JESUS DURING 24:22 THAT TIME, "HE WENT DOWN WITH THEM AND CAME TO NAZARETH, 24:25 AND HE WAS SUBJECT UNTO THEM." 24:28 HE WAS SUBJECT TO HIS PARENTS. 24:29 HE GREW UP IN NAZARETH. 24:30 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 24:32 AND WHEN HE WENT BACK TO HIS HOMETOWN TO PREACH, THEY ALL 24:34 KNEW WHO HE WAS. 24:35 YOU CAN READ IN MATTHEW 13:55, "IS THIS NOT THE CARPENTER'S 24:39 SON? 24:40 IS NOT HIS MOTHER CALLED MARY?" 24:41 "HIS BROTHERS AND SISTERS ARE HERE AMONG US," THERE WAS NO 24:44 QUESTION ABOUT WHERE JESUS WAS. 24:46 SO, DON'T ENTERTAIN SOME OF THOSE FABLES AND MYTHS THAT YOU 24:48 HEAR THAT HE WENT AND HE STUDIED WITH GURUS OFF IN INDIA AND 24:52 THAT'S WHERE HE GOT THIS BRILLIANCE. 24:54 NO, HE WAS INSPIRED BY THE HOLY SPIRIT. 24:57 HE STUDIED THE SCRIPTURES AT THE KNEE OF HIS MOTHER. 25:01 >> STAY TUNED. 25:02 PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:04 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 25:11 >> JESUS IS CALLED "THE BREAD OF LIFE." 25:13 HE SAID, "I AM THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN." 25:19 JESUS WAS CLAIMING THE ATTRIBUTES OF DIVINITY. 25:26 DON'T CONFUSE THE ANTICHRIST FOR JESUS. 25:27 THAT'S A BIG MISTAKE. 25:32 JESUS WROTE HIS AUTOBIOGRAPHY BEFORE HE WAS BORN. 25:38 >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THIS BROADCAST. 25:39 IF YOU'VE MISSED ANY OF OUR "AMAZING FACTS" PROGRAMS, VISIT 25:42 OUR WEBSITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 25:44 THERE, YOU'LL FIND AN ARCHIVE OF ALL OUR TELEVISION AND RADIO 25:47 PROGRAMS, INCLUDING "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS," 25:49 "CENTRAL STUDY HOUR," "EVERLASTING GOSPEL," 25:52 "BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE" AND "WONDERS IN THE WORD." 25:55 YOU'LL ALSO FIND A STOREHOUSE OF BIBLICAL RESOURCES, GEARED 25:57 TOWARDS ANSWERING SOME OF YOUR MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS. 26:00 AND OUR ONLINE BIBLE SCHOOL IS JUST A CLICK AWAY. 26:03 ONE LOCATION, SO MANY POSSIBILITIES, AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 26:08 >> WORLD EVENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE UNSTABLE THAN TODAY, 26:11 TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BIZARRE WEATHER. 26:14 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REVEAL ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS? 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