Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000031
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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:11 >> THOSE SACRIFICES THAT HAVE BEEN GOING ON FROM THE TIME 00:14 OF ADAM AND EVE ALL THE WAY UP TO THAT PRESENT TIME, 00:18 ALL POINTED TO JESUS, WHO WAS THE LAMB OF GOD. 00:21 MUSIC 00:26 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 00:29 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:32 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:35 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:39 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:44 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:46 THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES VIDEO SERIES. 00:54 >> OUR STUDY TONIGHT IS DEALING WITH THE MYSTERY OF THE 00:58 MESSIAH; THE MESSIAH MYSTERY. YOU KNOW, THERE ARE PROPHECIES 01:02 IN THE BIBLE THAT TELL WHEN HE WOULD BEGIN HIS MINISTRY. 01:05 ONE OF THE GREAT MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE. 01:08 WHEN I FIRST READ THIS PROPHECY UP THERE IN THE CAVE, I WAS 01:11 RUNNING AROUND JUST A BIG ZERO, BUT I WAS READING THE BIBLE. 01:16 AND I WAS SO AMAZED THAT THE PROPHECIES FORETOLD WITH 01:19 SUCH ACCURACY AND PRECISION THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS, 01:23 THAT I'M NOT ASHAMED TO TELL YOU, I GOT UP, I COULD NOT STAND 01:26 STILL, AND I WAS JUMPING UP AND DOWN. 01:30 I'M SURE I LOOKED A LITTLE CHARISMATIC. I WAS JUMPING UP 01:32 AND DOWN SAYING, "PRAISE THE LORD, THE BIBLE'S TRUE. 01:35 JESUS CAME RIGHT ON TIME THE FIRST TIME AND HE'S PROBABLY 01:38 GONNA COME BACK JUST LIKE HE SAID TOO." 01:41 AND I WAS SO EXCITED, I WAS JUST LIKE THIS... 01:42 I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. DOES PROPHECY EXCITE YOU? 01:46 THE FACT THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL IS SO EXCITING, IT SHOULD BRING 01:49 PEACE TO OUR HEARTS. NOW, IF YOU READ IN DANIEL 9, 01:53 THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES TO DANIEL. 01:56 DANIEL IS PRAYING, ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL PRAYERS IN THAT 01:58 CHAPTER, AND HE'S WONDERING HOW MUCH LONGER UNTIL 02:03 THE MESSIAH COMES. SO, DANIEL'S PRAYIN' THIS 02:06 PRAYER, THE ANGEL GABRIEL COMES IN RESPONSE AND HE GIVES HIM ONE 02:10 OF THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE. 02:12 IT'S CALLED THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 02:15 DANIEL 9:24, GABRIEL SAYS, "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED 02:20 FOR THY PEOPLE AND FOR YOUR HOLY CITY TO FINISH THE 02:24 TRANSGRESSION, TO MAKE AN END OF SINS, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION 02:29 FOR INIQUITY." NOTICE ESPECIALLY THIS 02:32 PART HERE, "TO BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, 02:36 TO SEAL UP THE VISION," TO COMPLETE THIS VISION; "AND TO 02:40 ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." WHAT DOES THE WORD "MESSIAH" MEAN? 02:47 THE ANOINTED, THE MOST HOLY. 02:49 THIS IS A PROPHECY TELLING US THAT WITHIN THAT SEVENTY WEEK 02:54 PERIOD THE MESSIAH WOULD BE ANOINTED. 02:58 SO, SOMETHING WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND IS: WHAT'S THE 03:01 STARTING POINT FOR THIS PROPHECY? IF YOU'RE GONNA HAVE A 03:03 TIME PROPHECY, YOU NEED A START AND YOU NEED A FINISH. 03:06 IT TELLS YOU IN THE SAME CHAPTER, DANIEL 9:25, "FROM THE 03:10 GOING FORTH OF THE COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM 03:14 UNTIL THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE, THERE SHALL BE SEVEN WEEKS AND 03:19 SIXTY-TWO WEEKS OR THREE SCORE AND TWO WEEKS." 03:22 NOW, THE WHOLE PROPHECY HAS SEVENTY WEEKS. 03:26 AND HOW MANY DAYS IN A WEEK? SEVEN TIMES SEVENTY IS 490, 03:34 'KAY? SO, ALL OF THIS IS GONNA BE 03:35 CULMINATED, THE PURPOSE OF THE JEWISH PEOPLE THAT ARE CUTOFF 03:38 FOR THE JEWISH NATION WITHIN THAT PERIOD OF TIME. 03:42 AND HE SAYS, "BUT THERE'S A DIVISION WITHIN THAT." 03:45 HE SAID THERE WOULD BE 7 WEEKS AND 3 SCORE AND 2 WEEKS, 03:49 THAT ADDS UP TO 69 WEEKS; ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 03:53 SO, SOMETHING'S GONNA HAPPEN AT THE END OF THE 69 WEEKS. 03:57 IT SAYS, "THE MOST HOLY'S GONNA BE ANOINTED." 04:00 NOW, WHEN YOU'RE STUDYING PROPHECY, NOT EVERY TIME YOU 04:05 FIND THE WORD "DAY" IN THE BIBLE DOES IT MEAN YEAR. 04:08 BUT IN BIBLE PROPHECIES, THESE TIME PROPHECIES IT IS 04:10 FREQUENTLY TRUE THAT A DAY EQUALS A YEAR, 04:13 EVEN MANY JEWISH SCHOLARS ACCEPT THAT. 04:15 I CAN GIVE YOU A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES HERE, IN EZEKIEL IT 04:17 SAYS, "I HAVE APPOINTED YOU EACH DAY FOR A YEAR," EZEKIEL 4:6. 04:21 YOU CAN LOOK AT NUMBERS 14:34, WHERE IT SAYS, "FOR THE 40 DAYS 04:25 YOU SPIED BECAUSE YOU LOST FAITH WHEN YOU WERE SPYING OUT 04:28 THE PROMISED LAND, YOU'RE GONNA WANDER 40 YEARS." 04:31 AND THEN JESUS, ONE TIME, SOMEONE CAME AND WARNED HIM 04:34 AND THIS IS IN LUKE 13. 04:36 HE SAID, THEY WARNED HIM AND SAID, HEROD'S GONNA ARREST 04:39 YOU LIKE HE DID--I'M PARAPHRASING--JOHN THE BAPTIST. 04:43 JESUS SAID, "GO TELL THAT FOX THAT I PERFORM MIRACLES, I DO 04:46 CURES, I CAST OUT DEVILS, TODAY, TOMORROW, AND THE THIRD DAY I 04:51 SHALL BE PERFECTED OR BE COMPLETED." 04:53 JESUS DID NOT PREACH 3 MORE DAYS FROM THAT STATEMENT, 04:56 HE PREACHED 3 MORE YEARS. SO, EVEN CHRIST UNDERSTOOD IN 04:59 THAT PROPHECY, THE PRINCIPLE OF A DAY EQUALING A YEAR. 05:03 SO, YOU'VE GOT 483 DAYS IN 69 WEEKS. 05:08 AND IF A DAY IS A YEAR, 483 WHAT? 483 YEARS. 05:13 I GOT A CHART I CAN PUT UP HERE ON THE SCREEN THAT MIGHT MAKE 05:15 THIS A LITTLE EASIER. THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND 05:18 TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. NOW, THAT COMMAND CAN BE FOUND 05:21 IN EZRA 7. AND THAT COMMAND WAS GIVEN BY ARTAXERXES, 05:26 IT'S RIGHT THERE IN YOUR BIBLE. THAT DATE IS A VERY FIRMLY 05:29 ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY. IT'S 457 B.C. 05:34 IT'S TELLING US THAT 483 YEARS AFTER THAT, WHICH REACHES, WHEN 05:39 YOU FACTOR IN WHAT THEY CALL, THE YEAR ZERO. 05:41 THERE REALLY IS NO YEAR ZERO, BUT THE A.D., B.C. 05:44 DATING METHOD, THAT REACHES TO 27 A.D. 05:48 NOW, WE KNOW EXACTLY WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED BECAUSE IT TELLS 05:52 US THAT IT WAS IN THE 15TH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF TIBERIUS CAESAR 05:55 IN THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, 27 A.D. CHRIST BEGAN HIS MINISTRY. 06:03 MATTER OF FACT, HE CAME TO THE JORDAN RIVER, 30 YEARS OF AGE. 06:07 WHY DID HE WAIT 'TILL HE WAS 30? A PRIEST COULD NOT BEGIN TO 06:09 MINISTER UNTIL HE WAS 30 YEARS OF AGE. 06:12 JOSEPH WENT OUT OVER EGYPT WHEN HE WAS 30 YEARS OF AGE. 06:16 DAVID BEGAN TO REIGN AS KING WHEN HE WAS 30 YEARS OF AGE. 06:18 THEY WERE TYPES OF CHRIST WHO BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, 06:21 30 YEARS OF AGE. YOU WOULD NOT BE RESPECTED AS 06:23 A RABBI IF YOU WERE YOUNGER THAN 30. 06:25 RIGHT AROUND HIS 30TH BIRTHDAY HE WENT TO THE JORDAN RIVER 06:29 WHERE HIS COUSIN, JOHN THE BAPTIST, WAS BAPTIZING. 06:31 JOHN WAS INTRODUCING THE MESSIAH, HE KNEW THAT HE WAS 06:34 TO BE A VOICE THAT WAS PREPARING THE WORLD FOR THE COMING 06:37 OF THE MESSIAH. AND WHEN HE SAW JESUS, 06:40 THE HOLY SPIRIT REVEALED TO HIM, THIS IS THE ONE. 06:42 AND HE SAID, "BEHOLD! THE LAMB OF GOD THAT TAKES AWAY 06:47 THE SIN OF THE WORLD!" JOHN 1:29 POINTING TO JESUS. 06:50 MATTER OF FACT, JOHN SAID THAT SEVERAL TIMES. 06:53 THOSE SACRIFICES THAT HAD BEEN GOING ON FROM THE TIME OF ADAM 06:56 AND EVE, ALL THE WAY UP TO THAT PRESENT TIME, ALL POINTED TO 07:00 JESUS WHO WAS THE LAMB OF GOD. HE WAS THE PURPOSE, 07:04 THE FULFILLMENT OF ALL OF THOSE SHADOWS AND TYPES. 07:07 WHEN CHRIST WAS BAPTIZED THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN 07:09 AND FILLED HIM IN A SPECIAL WAY. HE THEN WENT INTO HAND TO HAND 07:13 BATTLE WITH THE DEVIL THERE IN THE WILDERNESS. 07:16 THE BIBLE TELLS IN ACTS 10:38, GOD--WHAT'S THAT WORD? 07:22 HE ANOINTED. WHAT DOES THE WORD "MESSIAH" MEAN? ANOINTED. 07:27 WHAT DOES THE WORD "CHRIST" OR "CHRISTOS" MEAN? ANOINTED. 07:30 AT THE BAPTISM OF JESUS, WHAT HAPPENED? "GOD ANOINTED JESUS OF 07:33 NAZARETH WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT," THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN. 07:36 HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY EXACTLY 483 YEARS AFTER THE GOING FORTH 07:41 OF THE COMMANDMENT TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 07:44 HE WENT AROUND DOING GOOD AND HEALING--I'LL FINISH MY VERSE 07:46 HERE--"ALL THAT WERE OPPRESSED BY THE DEVIL FOR GOD WAS WITH 07:50 HIM." WHAT WOULD JESUS DO? 07:54 ONCE HE BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, WHAT WAS IT GOING TO LOOK LIKE? 07:56 WELL, YOU KNOW, WHEN CHRIST BEGAN HIS MINISTRY, HE STOOD UP 07:58 IN HIS HOMETOWN CHURCH THERE IN NAZARETH AND HE OPENED UP HIS 08:01 BIBLE TO ISAIAH 61, HE READ A PROPHECY IN ISAIAH 61 ABOUT 08:07 THE MESSIAH, AND THEN HE SAID, "TODAY THIS IS FULFILLED 08:10 IN YOUR EARS." THEY KNEW HE WAS CLAIMING TO BE 08:13 THE MESSIAH 'CAUSE THEY TOOK HIM OUT OF HIS OWN HOMETOWN CHURCH 08:16 AND WERE GONNA THROW HIM OFF A CLIFF TO KILL HIM. 08:19 WHAT DID HE READ FROM? IT SAYS IN ISAIAH 61:1, 08:23 "THE LORD HAS ANOINTED ME TO PREACH THE GOOD TIDINGS TO 08:25 THE POOR; HE'S SENT ME TO HEAL THE BROKENHEARTED." 08:29 ANYONE HERE NEED JESUS? "TO PROCLAIM LIBERTY TO CAPTIVES." 08:34 ANYONE NEED DELIVERANCE? 08:35 YOU NEED CHAINS BROKEN, HABITS RESOLVED? 08:39 "AND THE OPENING OF PRISON TO THOSE THAT ARE BOUND." 08:41 CHRIST CAME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE, CAPTIVES TO SIN. 08:46 THE WHOLE EXODUS EXPERIENCE IS TALKIN' ABOUT HOW JESUS SAVED A 08:49 NATION OF SLAVES TO DEMONSTRATE HE CAN SAVE YOU FROM WHATEVER 08:52 YOUR SLAVERY IS. THE SLAVERY OF SIN. 08:54 JESUS SAID, "WHOEVER SINS IS A SLAVE TO SIN." 08:56 WE'RE ALL SLAVES AND JESUS CAME TO SET US FREE. 09:00 CAN YOU SAY, "AMEN?" 09:03 WHEN THEY SENT ENEMIES TO SPY ON JESUS, THEY CAME BACK AND YOU 09:06 KNOW WHAT THEY SAID? EVEN HIS ENEMIES HAD TO ADMIT, 09:09 THEY SAID, "NO MAN EVER SPOKE LIKE THIS MAN." 09:13 FINALLY WHEN IT CAME TIME TO CONDEMN HIM, EVEN THE HIGH 09:15 PRIEST COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING WRONG WITH HIM. 09:17 HE SAID, "WELL, HE MUST PERISH TO SAVE THE NATION." 09:21 HE DIDN'T KNOW HOW PROPHETIC HIS WORDS WERE AT THE TIME. 09:24 NOW, WE'RE GOING TO LOOK AT SOME OF THE EVENTS THAT SURROUND 09:27 THE SCENES OF THE CROSS. 09:28 YOU KNOW, THE PROPHECIES ABOUT JESUS AND THE MESSIAH, THEY'RE 09:31 SCATTERED THROUGH HISTORY, BUT THE CLOSER YOU GET TO THE EVENT 09:34 OF THE CROSS, IT'S LIKE A TRAIN COMING, IT GETS LOUDER 09:37 AND LOUDER AND THERE ARE MORE AND MORE PROPHECIES THAT FOCUS 09:40 ON THAT ACCESS OF THE PLAN OF SALVATION. 09:43 THE CROSS IS AN AXLE ON WHICH THE GOSPEL REVOLVES. 09:48 AND AS YOU GET CLOSER AND CLOSER TO THE CENTER, THE PROPHECIES 09:51 BEGIN TO MULTIPLY AND INTENSIFY. YOU KNOW, THE FINAL WEEK OF HIS 09:55 LIFE, WE'VE HEARD ABOUT THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY. 09:58 AND HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES TO GO FIND HIS DONKEY THAT HAD NEVER 10:01 BEEN RIDDEN ON BEFORE. THEY BROUGHT IT TO HIM AND HE 10:04 RODE THIS DONKEY INTO TOWN, IT'S CALLED 'THE TRIUMPHAL ENTRY'. 10:08 AND HE WAS FULFILLING THE PROPHECY. 10:10 ZECHARIAH 9:9, IT'S ALSO REPEATED IN MATTHEW, "REJOICE 10:15 GREATLY, OH, DAUGHTER OF ZION." SIX-HUNDRED YEARS BEFORE 10:18 JESUS WAS BORN. AND WE KNOW FROM THE DEAD SEA 10:20 SCROLLS THAT THIS WAS WRITTEN BEFORE IT HAPPENED. 10:23 "REJOICE GREATLY, OH, DAUGHTER OF ZION. SHOUT, OH, 10:25 DAUGHTER OF JERUSALEM. BEHOLD YOUR KING IS COMING TO 10:27 YOU; HE IS JUST AND HAVING SALVATION, LOWLY AND RIDING ON 10:32 A DONKEY, THE COLT, THE FOAL OF A DONKEY." 10:36 IT HAPPENED EXACTLY AS THE PROPHECIES HAD FORETOLD. 10:39 "HE IS JUST IN HAVING SALVATION." 10:42 THAT WAS A PROPHECY ABOUT JESUS THAT WAS LITERALLY FULFILLED 10:44 WHEN HE RODE INTO JERUSALEM THROUGH THE GOLDEN GATE. 10:47 IT FORETOLD HOW THE MESSIAH WOULD BE BETRAYED IN 10:51 THE PROPHECIES. YOU CAN READ IN PSALMS 41:9, 10:55 WRITTEN 1,000 YEARS BEFORE JESUS' TIME. 10:59 DAVID SAID THERE, "EVEN MINE OWN FAMILIAR FRIEND IN WHOM I 11:03 TRUSTED, WHO ATE MY BREAD, HAS LIFTED UP HIS HEEL AGAINST ME." 11:07 AND AGAIN, ZECHARIAH 11:12, "THEN I SAID TO THEM, 'IF IT IS 11:13 AGREEABLE TO YOU, GIVE ME MY WAGES; AND IF NOT, REFRAIN.' 11:17 SO THEY WEIGHED OUT FOR MY WAGES THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER." 11:22 JESUS WAS BETRAYED BY A FRIEND FOR WHAT AMOUNT? 11:25 WAS IT GOLD OR COPPER OR SILVER? 11:29 I MEAN, HOW COULD YOU FORETELL THAT? 11:30 KEEP READING THE PROPHECY, WE'RE NOT DONE YET. 11:32 "AND THE LORD SAID TO ME, 'THROW IT TO THE POTTER' 11:36 THAT PRINCELY PRICE THEY SET ON ME. 11:38 SO I TOOK THE THIRTY PIECES OF SILVER AND I THREW THEM INTO 11:42 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD TO THE POTTER." 11:44 THEN YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND YOU READ WHERE JUDAS, AFTER 11:47 HE BETRAYED JESUS, OVERWHELMED WITH GUILT AND SHAME, HE WENT TO 11:50 THE TEMPLE, HE THREW THE MONEY DOWN IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 11:53 AND HE SAID, "I BETRAYED INNOCENT BLOOD." 11:54 THEY SAID, "THAT'S YOUR PROBLEM, IT'S TOO LATE NOW." 11:56 HE WENT OUT AND HUNG HIMSELF. THEY SAID, "WHAT DO WE DO WITH 11:58 THIS MONEY, WE CAN'T PUT IT IN THE TREASURY, IT'S BLOOD 12:00 MONEY." THEY SAID, "WELL, LET'S USE IT 12:02 TO BUY A POTTER'S FIELD TO BURY STRANGERS IN." 12:06 THERE'S NO QUESTION, HOW COULD JESUS HAVE FABRICATED THAT? 12:11 HOW COULD HE HAVE CONTRIVED THAT TO MAKE IT HAPPEN? 12:13 BETRAYED BY A FRIEND WITH A KISS. ONLY TWO PEOPLE RECORDED 12:17 THAT I CAN THINK OF IN THE BIBLE THAT KISSED JESUS. 12:20 JUDAS KISSED HIS FACE AND BETRAYED HIM. 12:22 MARY KISSED HIS FEET AND WORSHIPPED HIM AND SERVED HIM. 12:26 THE MANNER OF HIS DEATH; PSALMS 22:16, DAVID FORETOLD 12:31 THAT HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET WOULD BE PIERCED. 12:33 "FOR DOGS HAVE SURROUNDED ME; THE CONGREGATION OF THE WICKED 12:36 HAS ENCLOSED ME. THEY PIERCED MY HANDS AND MY FEET." 12:41 THOUSAND YEARS BEFORE HE WAS BORN, CRUCIFIXION WAS NOT EVEN 12:43 BEING USED FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS WHEN DAVID WROTE THAT. 12:47 HOW COULD THEY HAVE KNOWN? 12:48 IT GOES ON TO SAY IN THE SAME PSALM, THEY DIVIDED MY GARMENTS 12:51 AMONG THEM, AND FOR MY CLOTHING THEY CAST LOTS. 12:53 AND IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE EVEN ELEMENTARY, YOU KNOW THAT THERE 12:56 AT THE FOOT OF THE CROSS, THE SOLDIERS GAMBLED FOR HIS 12:58 CLOTHING, EXACTLY AS IT WAS FORETOLD. 13:02 IT SAYS HERE IN MARK 15:24, "AND WHEN THEY CRUCIFIED HIM, 13:06 THEY DIVIDED HIS GARMENTS, CASTING LOTS FOR THEM TO 13:09 DETERMINE WHAT EVERY MAN SHOULD TAKE." 13:12 ANOTHER PROPHECY ALSO TELLS THAT HE WOULD BE PIERCED. 13:14 WE JUST READ THAT. "WHEN THEY CAME TO JESUS THEY 13:16 SAW THAT HE WAS ALREADY DEAD, THEY DID NOT BREAK HIS LEGS. 13:20 BUT ONE OF THE SOLDIERS PIERCED HIS SIDE WITH A SPEAR, 13:24 AND IMMEDIATELY BLOOD AND WATER CAME OUT." 13:26 IT SAID, HIS HANDS AND HIS FEET WOULD BE PIERCED. 13:29 IT SAYS, "I'LL LOOK UPON THE ONE WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED," 13:32 JUST AS THE SCRIPTURES HAD FORETOLD. 13:34 "FOR THESE THINGS WERE DONE," JOHN 19:33, "THAT THE SCRIPTURE 13:39 SHOULD BE FULFILLED, NOT ONE OF HIS BONES SHALL BE BROKEN." 13:43 AND AGAIN, ANOTHER SCRIPTURE THAT SAYS, "THEY WILL LOOK ON 13:46 THE ONE WHOM THEY HAVE PIERCED." 13:48 EVEN JOHN, THE APOSTLE, IS LOOKING AT THESE OLD TESTAMENT 13:51 PROPHECIES ABOUT THE MESSIAH AND HE'S SAYING, "LOOK HOW VIVIDLY 13:53 IT'S FULFILLED IN JESUS." HERE ARE THE SOLDIERS, THEY GO 13:56 TO THE THIEF ON THE RIGHT, THEY BREAK HIS LEGS. 13:58 THEY GO TO THE THIEF ON THE LEFT, THEY BREAK HIS LEGS, 14:00 BUT THEY DON'T BREAK JESUS' LEGS. 14:02 BECAUSE THE PROPHECY SAID, THEY WILL NOT BE BROKEN. 14:04 HE IS THE LAMB OF GOD, THE PASSOVER LAMB, THEY WERE NOT 14:06 TO BREAK THE BONES AS A TYPE OF CHRIST. 14:10 NOW, WE'RE GOING BACK TO DANIEL. 14:11 WE'VE TALKED ABOUT HIS MINISTRY, HE'LL CONFIRM THE COVENANT, 14:14 THE BIBLE SAYS. THE COVENANT OF SALVATION THAT 14:17 GOD HAS MADE WITH HIS PEOPLE. BY THE WAY, THERE IS NO EXAMPLE 14:21 IN THE BIBLE OF THE MESSIAH MAKING A COVENANT WITH ANYTHING 14:25 BUT THE JEWISH PEOPLE, DID YOU KNOW THAT? THERE'S NO COVENANT. 14:28 IT DOESN'T SAY, I'LL MAKE A COVENANT WITH THE GENTILES 14:30 AND SAVE THEM FROM THEIR SINS. 14:31 THE COVENANT OF THE GENTILES IS THAT THEY WOULD BECOME 14:33 SPIRITUAL JEWS; THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 14:37 IF YOU ARE CHRIST THEN YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED. 14:39 BACK IN DANIEL 9:27, IT SAID THAT AFTER HIS BAPTISM, "HE 14:44 WOULD CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK." 14:47 THE COVENANT THAT HE HAD MADE WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC, JACOB, 14:49 JOSEPH, MOSES, HE'D CONFIRMED THAT COVENANT HE HAD MADE WITH 14:54 THEM OF SALVATION. FOR ONE WEEK, IF A DAY IS 14:57 A YEAR IN PROPHECY, HOW LONG IS ONE WEEK? SEVEN YEARS. 15:01 AND NOTICE WHAT HAPPENS DURING THAT LAST 7 YEARS WHEN HE 15:04 BEGINS HIS MINISTRY AT HIS BAPTISM, 27 A.D., HE'S GONNA 15:08 CONFIRM THE COVENANT FOR 7 YEARS. BUT IN THE MIDST OF 15:11 THAT 7 YEARS, IT TELLS US IN 9:27 OF DANIEL, "HE WILL CAUSE 15:16 THE SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION TO CEASE." 15:19 THE WHOLE PURPOSE FOR THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM WILL HAVE 15:22 MET ITS FULFILLMENT IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT TIME. 15:25 HOW LONG DID JESUS MINISTER FROM THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM? 15:28 MATTHEW 27:50, "WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS, HE CRIED OUT 15:33 AGAIN WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND HE YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT. 15:37 THEN BEHOLD THE VEIL IN THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO." 15:43 EXPOSING THE MOST HOLY PLACE IN THE JEWISH NATION, WHERE 15:45 THE COVENANT WAS, THE ARK OF THE COVENANT HAD BEEN THERE. 15:49 EXPOSING--IT'S EMPTY NOW, 'CAUSE IT HAD BEEN CAPTURED. 15:52 OR IT--WHEN THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED, THEY'D HIDDEN THE ARK 15:55 OF THE COVENANT AND NO ONE KNOWS WHERE IT WAS. SO, WHEN THE 15:58 TEMPLE VEIL WAS RIPPED IN TWO, IT OPENED UP AND THERE'S NO 16:02 COVENANT THERE ANYMORE. WHEN DID THAT HAPPEN? WHEN JESUS SAID, 16:05 "IT IS FINISHED" AND HE DIED ON THE CROSS. 16:07 IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK, THAT LAST 7 YEARS WHEN HE CONFIRMED 16:10 THE COVENANT, HE CAUSED THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. 16:13 IT'S VERY IMPORTANT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS, BECAUSE, 16:15 YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SOME DEAR CHRISTIANS IN OTHER CHURCHES 16:17 THAT THINK, THE ONE WHO CONFIRMS THE COVENANT IS 16:19 THE DEVIL, THE ANTI-CHRIST. 16:22 BOY, YOU GOTTA GET THIS RIGHT, FRIENDS. I MEAN, YOU CAN MAKE 16:24 SOME MISTAKES IN THE BIBLE, BUT DON'T CONFUSE THE ANTI-CHRIST 16:27 FOR JESUS, THAT'S A BIG MISTAKE. NOW, LET'S GO BACK TO OUR 16:31 PROPHECY AGAIN, THIS 70 WEEK PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9. 16:35 THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 16:38 SIXTY-NINE WEEKS, MESSIAH IS ANOINTED, 27 A.D. IN THE MIDST 16:44 OF THE WEEK, 31 A.D., JESUS CAUSES THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. 16:50 BUT YOU'RE SAYING, "DOUG, THERE'S ANOTHER 3 1/2 YEARS, 16:52 HOW COULD HE CONTINUE TO CONFIRM THE COVENANT FOR 16:54 3 1/2 MORE YEARS AFTER HE'S GONE TO HEAVEN?" 16:58 STAY WITH ME, WE'LL GIVE YOU THE ANSWER TO THAT. 17:00 ALSO, ANOTHER POINT, PROPHECIES ABOUT HIS RESURRECTION 17:03 AND ASCENSION ARE REPLETE IN THE BIBLE. 17:06 FOR INSTANCE, YOU JUST READ ISAIAH 53 WHEN YOU GO HOME. 17:09 THERE'S NO QUESTION THAT JESUS IS THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT. 17:12 HE IS THE SUFFERING SERVANT THERE. "HE MADE HIS GRAVE WITH 17:15 THE WICKED, AND WITH THE RICH IN HIS DEATH." 17:18 HERE, JESUS IS CRUCIFIED BETWEEN TWO CONDEMNED CRIMINALS, 17:22 THIEVES, MURDERERS, MAKES HIS GRAVE WITH THEM, 17:25 AND YET HE'S BURIED IN A RICH MAN'S TOMB. 17:27 HOW COULD YOU EVER PREDICT THAT SOMEBODY IS GOING TO MAKE THEIR 17:29 GRAVE WITH THE WICKED AND YET BE BURIED WITH THE RICH? 17:32 UNLESS IT'S A MAFIA CEMETERY, I DON'T KNOW HOW ELSE THAT 17:35 WOULD APPLY. PSALMS 16:10, "YOU WILL NOT 17:41 LEAVE MY SOUL IN SHEOL, THE GRAVE, NOR WILL YOU ALLOW YOUR 17:45 HOLY ONE--" THAT'S THE MESSIAH, "TO SUFFER CORRUPTION." 17:48 THE JEWS USED TO BELIEVE AFTER 4 DAYS, OR AFTER 3 DAYS, I 17:52 SHOULD SAY, CORRUPTION SET IN. THAT'S WHY WHEN JESUS 17:54 RESURRECTED LAZARUS AFTER 4 DAYS, THEY WENT, "WOW, HE 17:57 REASSEMBLED HIM, HE WAS ALREADY DECOMPOSING." 18:00 BUT THE MESSIAH WOULD NOT DECOMPOSE; HE WOULD BE RAISED 18:04 BEFORE THAT HAPPENED. AND THEN WHEN HE APPEARS TO 18:07 THEM IN THE UPPER ROOM, AND HE'S GOT THE SCARS ON HIS HANDS 18:11 AND HIS FEET, THEY KNOW THAT HE IS THE ONE. 18:14 HE OPENS TO THEM THE SCRIPTURES, HE SAID, "NOW, I'M NOT DONE YET. 18:17 WE STILL MUST CONFIRM THE COVENANT FOR ANOTHER 18:20 3 1/2 YEARS--" I'M PARAPHRASING. HE SAYS, 18:22 "AS THE FATHER SENT ME, SO SEND I YOU." SO, HOW DOES THE LORD 18:26 CONFIRM THE COVENANT FOR THAT LAST 3 1/2 YEARS? 18:29 I'M SO THANKFUL FOR HEBREWS 2:3, LISTEN TO WHAT PAUL SAYS HERE, 18:34 "HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT--" SOME PEOPLE DON'T 18:39 DELIBERATELY SAY NO TO JESUS, THEY JUST NEGLECT JESUS. 18:42 THIS IS A QUESTION THAT NOBODY CAN REALLY ANSWER. 18:45 "HOW SHALL YOU ESCAPE IF YOU NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION, 18:49 WHICH AT THE FIRST BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN OF BY THE LORD," 18:52 CATCH THIS, "AND WAS--" WHAT'S THAT WORD? "CONFIRMED." 18:57 THE SALVATION COVENANT WAS FIRST SPOKEN 3 1/2 YEARS 19:00 BY THE LORD, ANOTHER 3 1/2 YEARS CONFIRMED BY THOSE WHO 19:05 HEARD HIM; THE APOSTLES. HE SAID, "I HAVE TRAINED YOU TO 19:08 FILL MY SHOES, I'VE CONFIRMED IT FOR 3 1/2 YEARS. I'VE MADE THE 19:11 SACRIFICE CEASE, AS THE FATHER SENT ME, SO SEND I YOU. 19:14 I'M GONNA GIVE YOU MY SPIRIT SO YOU CAN DO MY WORK." 19:17 AND WHAT HAPPENS 3 1/2 YEARS LATER? 19:20 STEPHEN PREACHES TO THE JEWISH SUPREME COURT, ONE OF THE 19:22 MIGHTIEST SERMONS IN THE BIBLE. YOU CAN READ IT THERE IN ACTS 7. 19:25 HIS FACE IS SHINING, HE SEES HEAVEN OPEN, HE PREACHES WITH 19:28 ALL THE POWER THAT CHRIST PREACHED WITH. HE COULD SEE 19:31 JESUS' FACE EMPOWERING HIM. AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? 19:36 THE LEADERS OF THE JEWISH NATION, THEY PLUGGED THEIR EARS, 19:39 THEY TOOK HIM OUT OF THE CITY, THEY EXECUTED HIM. 19:43 STEPHEN DIES VERY MUCH AFTER 3 1/2 YEARS OF THE APOSTLES 19:47 PREACHING, HE DIES VERY MUCH LIKE JESUS DIED. 19:49 MOCK TRIAL TAKEN OUTSIDE OF THE CITY, QUICKLY EXECUTED, 19:55 AND AS HE'S DYING HE PRAYS FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF HIS KILLERS, 20:01 JUST LIKE JESUS DID. CHRIST CONFIRMED THE COVENANT 20:05 FOR 3 1/2 YEARS, CAUSED THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. 20:08 FOR THE LAST 3 1/2 YEARS, HE DID IT THROUGH THE DISCIPLES. 20:11 YOU KNOW, UP TO THAT TIME THEY WERE NOT PREACHING TO ANY 20:13 GENTILES. THEY WERE JUST GOING TO 20:16 THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 20:17 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT'S POURED OUT OF PENTECOST, WERE THOSE 20:20 PEOPLE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD OR WERE THEY JEWS? 20:22 THERE WERE DWELLING IN JERUSALEM, JEWS, DEVOUT MEN OUT 20:24 OF EVERY NATION. FIVE THOUSAND BAPTIZED LATER, ALL JEWS. 20:28 THEY WERE JUST PREACHING IN THE SYNAGOGUES. 20:30 RIGHT AFTER THIS HAPPENS, GUESS WHO WAS A WITNESS AT 20:33 THE STONING OF STEVEN? SOMEONE NAMED SAUL WHO'S NAME 20:36 WAS CHANGED TO PAUL WHO THEN BECAME THE APOSTLE TO 20:38 THE GENTILES. YOU GOT THE DECREE 457, BAPTISM 20:43 OF CHRIST 483 YEARS LATER, THE CROSS 31 A.D., HE CAUSES 20:49 THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE, 3 1/2 YEARS MORE, HE CONFIRMS 20:53 THE COVENANT JUST WITH THE JEWISH NATION. 20:55 SEVENTY YEARS, 70 WEEKS RATHER, WERE SET ASIDE FOR THE JEWISH 20:58 NATION TO PRESENT THE MESSIAH TO THE WORLD. 21:01 ALL THE EARLY CHURCH THEY WERE JEWS AND THEY PRESENTED THE 21:03 MESSIAH TO THE WORLD. THEN THE GENTILES TOOK IT LIKE WILD FIRE. 21:06 "AND IT'S STILL AVAILABLE TO JEW AND GENTILE," PAUL SAYS. 21:10 IT'S AMAZING, YOU READ THE PROPHECIES AND YOU CAN FIND 21:13 CLEARLY THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH IS FORETOLD, THAT HE'D BE BORN 21:16 OF A VIRGIN, THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH, THE TIME OF HIS BAPTISM, 21:20 THE TYPE AND THE LENGTH OF HIS MINISTRY, THE EVENTS OF HIS 21:22 BETRAYAL, THE MANNER OF HIS EXECUTION, THE RESURRECTION AND 21:24 ASCENSION, AND IT ALL HAPPENED RIGHT ON SCHEDULE. 21:28 SOMEBODY DID SOME STATISTICAL RESEARCH TO FIND OUT, WHAT IS 21:31 THE PROBABILITY OF ONE PERSON FULFILLING ALL THOSE PROPHECIES 21:34 AND NOT BEING THE CHRIST. PROFESSOR PETER W. STONER, 21:39 WHO AUTHORED THE BOOK, "SCIENCE SPEAKS," HE STATED 21:41 THE PROBABILITY--HE DID A BUNCH OF STATISTICAL CALCULATIONS, 21:44 I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT. THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY THAT 21:47 JUST 8 OF THESE PROPHECIES, OUT OF 300, 8 OF THESE PROPHECIES 21:52 BEING FULFILLED IN 1 PERSON, IS 1 IN 10 TO THE 17TH POWER. 21:58 THAT'S A 1 WITH 17 ZEROS BEHIND IT. 22:03 PICTURE THE STATE OF TEXAS. YOU EVER BEEN THERE? 22:06 YOU CAN DRIVE A LONG TIME AND NOT GET ACROSS TEXAS. 22:09 COVER TEXAS WITH QUARTERS, EVERY INCH OF TEXAS IS COVERED WITH 22:15 QUARTERS SO THEY'RE ALL TOUCHING 2 FEET DEEP. 22:20 THEN ASK A BLIND MAN TO WALK ACROSS TEXAS AND FIND ONE 22:24 SPECIFIC QUARTER. THAT'S THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY 22:29 OF IT BEING AN ACCIDENT THAT JESUS IS THE MESSIAH. 22:33 I WANT TO QUICKLY COVER THIS POINT HERE, THIS FINAL POINT. 22:36 WHY DID CHRIST COME? THE BIBLE TELLS US A: 22:38 HE CAME FOR 3 PRIMARY REASONS, TO BE OUR EXAMPLE. 22:42 HE SAID, "THAT I HAVE GIVEN YOU AN EXAMPLE THAT YOU SHOULD DO AS 22:46 I HAVE DONE TO YOU." CHRIST IS AN EXAMPLE FOR YOU AND ME. 22:50 B: HE WANTS TO SHOW US HOW TO LOVE EACH OTHER. 22:53 IT SAYS, "HE'S COME TO SHOW US THE FATHER." 22:56 THERE'S A LOT OF MISCONCEPTIONS, PEOPLE THINK THAT GOD IS THIS 22:58 GREAT DESPOT UP IN THE SKY THAT'S JUST WAITING FOR US TO 23:01 DO SOMETHING WRONG. GOD LOVES US. 23:04 JESUS SAID, "IF YOU'VE SEEN ME, YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER. 23:07 I'VE COME TO SHOW YOU THE FATHER." 23:09 HE WAS AN--THE REFLECTION OF THE FATHER. 23:12 AND WHEN YOU LOOK AT JESUS, HIS LOVE, HIS MERCY, HIS KINDNESS, 23:15 HIS MEEKNESS, HIS TENDERNESS, HIS PATIENCE. YOU'RE GETTING 23:18 THE PICTURE OF GOD, THAT GOD THAT LOVES YOU. HE ALSO CAME, 23:23 OF COURSE, TO BE OUR SUBSTITUTE, TO TAKE OUR PLACE. 23:27 SOMEBODY WROTE THIS IN A WAY I CAN'T IMPROVE ON. 23:30 "HE DESCENDED THAT WE MIGHT ASCEND. 23:32 HE BECAME POOR THAT WE MIGHT BE RICH. 23:35 HE WAS BORN THAT WE MIGHT BE BORN AGAIN. 23:38 HE BECAME A SERVANT THAT WE MIGHT BECOME SONS. 23:41 HE HAD NO HOME THAT WE MIGHT HAVE A HOME IN HEAVEN. 23:44 HE WAS HUNGRY THAT WE MIGHT BE FED. 23:45 HE WAS THIRSTY THAT WE MIGHT BE SATISFIED. 23:48 HE WAS STRIPPED THAT WE MIGHT BE CLOTHED. 23:50 HE WAS FORSAKEN THAT WE MIGHT NOT BE FORSAKEN. 23:52 HE WAS A MAN OF SORROWS THAT WE MIGHT HAVE JOY. 23:55 HE WAS BOUND THAT WE MIGHT GO FREE. 23:57 HE WAS MADE SIN THAT WE MIGHT BE MADE RIGHTEOUS. 24:00 HE DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE. 24:03 HE CAME DOWN THAT WE MIGHT GO UP. 24:05 HE WAS BORN IN A BARN THAT WE CAN LIVE IN A MANSION." 24:09 JESUS CAME FOR THAT PURPOSE AND HE'S COME TO YOU TONIGHT. 24:15 BECAUSE HE WANTS TO NOT ONLY BE THE CHRIST, 24:17 HE WANTS TO BE YOUR SAVIOR. EVEN THE CENTURION WHO GUARDED 24:22 THE CRUCIFIXION, WHEN HE SAW THE EVENTS AROUND THE CROSS 24:25 AND HE SAW THE DEVIL'S LOVE FOR POWER IN THE MOB AND HE SAW 24:29 JESUS' POWER OF LOVE. JUST STANDING ON THE SIDELINES 24:33 HE SAID, "TRULY THIS WAS THE SON OF GOD!" 24:38 IF YOU READ THE BIBLE YOU'LL FIND THAT TOO. 24:40 JESUS IS THE ONE, HE'S THE MESSIAH, HE'S THE SAVIOR. 24:44 AND HE'S COMING TO THIS WORLD, NOT JUST TO SAVE THE WHOLE 24:46 WORLD, BUT EVERY INDIVIDUAL. 24:49 HE NOT ONLY DIED FOR THE SINS OF THE WHOLE WORLD, BUT HE DIED 24:52 FOR YOUR SINS. 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