Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000034
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00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:11 >> THOSE WHO CHOSE TO WORSHIP JEHOVAH, THEY DIDN'T PICK THEIR 00:14 OWN NEW SABBATH DAY, THEY KEPT THE SABBATH DAY THAT GOD 00:16 PICKED, THE ONE HE GAVE ADAM AND EVE, THE ONE HE GAVE 00:19 IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, THE ONE THAT JESUS KEPT. 00:23 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME. 00:29 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED 00:32 TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:35 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:37 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK 00:42 AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:47 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:49 "THE MOST AMAZING PROPHECIES" VIDEO SERIES. 00:57 >> ALL OVER THE WORLD, WE HAVE A 7-DAY WEEK. 01:01 WHAT IN THE SUN OR MOON OR STARS, WHAT IN ASTRONOMY WOULD 01:06 GIVE US A 7-DAY WEEK? THERE IS NOTHING. 01:11 THE ONLY PLACE OUR WORLD THAT ALL RECOGNIZES THE 7-DAY WEEK 01:15 CAN TRACE IT TO IS GENESIS 1. AND YET, WHAT'S INTERESTING IS 01:23 EVEN WHEN MANY OF THE SETTLERS CAME ACROSS THE ATLANTIC AND 01:27 BEGAN TO MEET THE NATIVE GROUPS IN NORTH AMERICA HAD 01:30 A 7-DAY WEEK. WHERE DOES IT COME FROM? 01:34 NOW I THINK YOU'LL FIND IT VERY INTERESTING HOW THIS TIES 01:37 INTO PROPHECY. REVELATION 13, YOU ALL KNOW 01:41 THAT CHAPTER, THAT'S THE ONE THAT TALKS ABOUT THE MARK OF 01:44 THE BEAST, AND THE NUMBER 666. IT TELLS US THERE, 01:47 "HE WAS GRANTED POWER--" THIS IS THE BEAST POWER. 01:50 "TO GIVE BREATH TO THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST, THAT THE IMAGE OF 01:53 THE BEAST SHOULD BOTH CAUSE AS MANY AS WOULD NOT WORSHIP 01:57 THE IMAGE OF THE BEAST TO BE KILLED." 01:59 NOW THIS IS THE SECOND BEAST TELLING THOSE WHO DO NOT 02:02 WORSHIP THE FIRST BEAST THAT IF THEY DON'T WORSHIP 02:04 THE WAY THEY'RE TOLD, THEY'LL BE KILLED. 02:06 YOU CAN'T HARDLY READ REVELATION 13, IF YOU KNOW YOUR 02:09 BIBLE WITHOUT SEEING SHADOWS AND ECHOES, OF DANIEL 3. 02:16 NOW YOU REMEMBER WHEN WE STUDIED DANIEL 2. 02:19 KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD THAT DREAM OF THE METALLIC IMAGE 02:23 AND WHAT WAS HE TOLD ABOUT THE HEAD OF GOLD? 02:26 DANIEL SAID, "YOU," MEANING NEBUCHADNEZZAR IN BABYLON, 02:29 "YOU ARE THE HEAD OF GOLD." 02:31 AND THAT REALLY FLATTERED HIS EGO BUT IT TROUBLED HIM AS 02:35 THE PROPHECY CONTINUED BECAUSE DANIEL SAID, "BUT AFTER YOU 02:39 ANOTHER KINGDOM SHALL ARISE INFERIOR TO YOURS." 02:43 HE DIDN'T WANT THERE TO BE ANOTHER KINGDOM. 02:45 HE WANTED BABYLON TO LAST FOREVER. IT WAS INSCRIBED ON 02:47 VIRTUALLY EVERY BRICK IN ANCIENT BABYLON. HE'D WORKED SO HARD TO 02:52 BUILD IT UP, HE DIDN'T WANT TO SEE IT FALL INTO ONE ELSE'S 02:54 HANDS OR BE REPLACED AND THAT TROUBLED HIM. 02:59 SO MANY SCHOLARS SURMISE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR THOUGHT TO 03:03 HIMSELF, "IF THAT HEAD OF GOLD REPRESENTS BABYLON, WHAT IF I 03:08 MAKE AN IMAGE, A GREAT IMAGE LIKE THE ONE I SAW IN MY DREAM 03:12 EXCEPT MAKE IT ALL GOLD, MAYBE I CAN SOMEHOW CHANGE 03:16 THE PROPHECY OF THE GODS AND FRUSTRATE THAT PROPHECY SO THAT 03:20 BABYLON WILL LAST FOREVER." SO NEBUCHADNEZZAR DID THAT. 03:24 YOU CAN READ THIS IN THE PROPHECY THERE OF DANIEL 3:1, 03:28 "NEBUCHADNEZZAR THE KING MADE AN IMAGE OF GOLD, WHOSE HEIGHT 03:32 WAS SIXTY CUBITS AND ITS WIDTH WAS SIX CUBITS. 03:37 AND HE SET IT UP IN THE PLAIN OF DURA, IN THE PROVINCE OF 03:39 BABYLON." NOW BEFORE I GO ANY FARTHER, A 03:43 BIBLE TEACHER FROM THIS CAMPUS, YEARS AGO TAUGHT ME SOMETHING. 03:48 HE SAID, IN HEBREW, IF IT TELLS YOU THE HEIGHT AND THE WIDTH, IF 03:52 IT DOESN'T TELL YOU THE DEPTH IT'S USUALLY THE SAME AS 03:54 THE WIDTH, MEANING THAT IMAGE THAT NEBUCHADNEZZAR BUILT WAS 03:59 60 BY 6 BY 6. THAT SOUND FAMILIAR? 04:05 AND THEY'RE ALL TOLD TO BOW DOWN TO THAT IMAGE OR BE KILLED. 04:09 DOES THAT SOUND LIKE REVELATION TO YOU? 04:12 HE'S SAYING, "WORSHIP THE WAY I TELL YOU TO WORSHIP OR DIE." 04:17 AND HE GOES ON, HE MADE A DECREE, DANIEL 3:6, "WHOEVER 04:22 DOESN'T FALL DOWN AND WORSHIP THE SAME HOUR SHALL BE CAST 04:25 INTO THE MIDST OF A BURNING, FIERY FURNACE." WELL, THERE WAS 04:29 ONE LITTLE PROBLEM, AMONG THE GREAT LEADERS OF HIS EMPIRE 04:33 THAT HE INVITED TO THE INAUGURATION OF THIS NEW IMAGE 04:36 AND THIS WORSHIP, WERE THREE VERY LOYAL HEBREWS. 04:41 DO YOU REMEMBER HANANIAH, MISHAEL, AZARIAH, SOMETIMES 04:43 KNOWN AS SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO? 04:45 THOSE WERE THEIR BABYLONIAN NAMES. 04:48 WHEN THE MUSIC PLAYED AND THEY WERE TOLD THEY WERE 04:50 SUPPOSED TO BOW DOWN, THEY DID NOT BOW DOWN. WHY? 04:54 BECAUSE ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS SAYS, 04:55 "YOU SHALL NOT MAKE UNTO YOU ANY GRAVEN IMAGES, YOU SHALL NOT 04:58 BOW DOWN YOURSELF TO THEM NOR SERVE THEM. 05:00 IT WAS ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS AND THEY SAID, NO. 05:03 OH, BUT THEIR FRIENDS PROBABLY ELBOWED THEM. 05:05 "WE KNOW THAT YOU'RE JEWS AND YOU NORMALLY WOULD NOT DO THIS 05:07 BUT JUST ONCE OR YOU'LL DIE. GOD'LL UNDERSTAND, JUST ONCE. 05:10 TIE YOUR SHOE. JUST WHEN THE MUSIC PLAYS AND 05:13 EVERYONE BOWS DOWN, OH, LOOK, MY SANDALS, AND JUST, YOU KNOW, 05:16 JUST DON'T CAUSE A FUSS." WHAT DID THEY DO? THEY SAID, 05:21 "WE'RE NOT EVEN GONNA LOOK LIKE WE'RE BOWING DOWN. 05:24 WE'RE NOT GONNA GIVE THE DEVIL THIS VICTORY. 05:26 WE'RE STANDING UP." DANIEL 3:18, THEY'RE BROUGHT 05:30 BEFORE NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND HE SAYS, "LOOK, MAYBE YOU DIDN'T 05:32 HEAR THE MUSIC." THEY SAID, "NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 05:34 WE'RE NOT GONNA WORSHIP YOUR IMAGE." 05:36 AND THEY WENT ON TO SAY, "BE IT KNOWN UNTO THEE, O KING, 05:40 THAT WE WILL NOT SERVE THY GODS. WE JUST OBEY OUR GOD." 05:45 "NOR WORSHIP THE GOLDEN IMAGE WHICH YOU HAVE SET UP." 05:47 "WE'RE JUST NOT GONNA DO IT. WE DON'T NEED A SECOND 05:49 AND A THIRD CHANCE." THEY WERE DECISIVE ABOUT WHAT 05:53 THEY BELIEVED. THEN IT SAYS, NEBUCHADNEZZAR 05:55 IN A RAGE, THEY RUINED HIS INAUGURAL PARTY. 06:00 "THESE MEN WERE CAST INTO THE MIDST OF THE BURNING FIERY 06:03 FURNACE." IT WAS SO HOT, THE SOLDIERS WHO 06:05 THREW THEM IN WERE SLAIN BY THE HEAT OF IT. 06:07 AND NEBUCHADNEZZAR SAID, "DIDN'T WE THROW THREE MEN 06:09 BOUND INTO THE MIDST OF THE FIRE? 06:13 I SEE FOUR MEN, NOT BOUND ANYMORE, LOOSE WALKING IN THE 06:18 MIDST OF THE FIRE, AND THEY HAVE NO HURT; AND THE FORM 06:21 OF THE FOURTH IS LIKE THE SON OF GOD." 06:24 WHEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE TRIAL FOR THEIR FAITH, 06:26 WHO WENT THROUGH IT WITH THEM? YOU WILL BE TRIED FOR YOUR 06:30 OBEDIENCE, BUT YOU WILL NOT BE ALONE. 06:33 WE WILL BE TESTED IF WE DECIDE TO FOLLOW CHRIST. 06:35 THIS STORY OUGHT TO GIVE US COURAGE IN THE LAST DAYS AND IF 06:37 THAT'S NOT ENOUGH FOR YOU, GO TO DANIEL 6, VERY SIMILAR. 06:41 KING DARIUS MAKES A LAW THAT EVERYBODY SHOULD WORSHIP 06:43 A CERTAIN WAY FOR 30 DAYS OR GO TO THE LION'S DEN. 06:47 AND DANIEL SAYS, "I'M NOT GONNA HIDE MY DEVOTIONS TO GOD." 06:50 HE OPENS HIS WINDOW, PRAYS OUT LOUD. 06:52 HE GOES TO THE LION'S DEN. HE SAYS, "I'M GONNA OBEY GOD 06:56 RATHER THAN MAN, I'M GONNA OBEY GOD RATHER THAN GOVERNMENT." 07:00 DANIEL GOES TO THE LION'S DEN. DOES GOD PROTECT HIM? 07:03 YES, HE DOES. WILL WE BE FACED WITH A SIMILAR 07:05 TEST IN THE LAST DAYS, CHOOSING WHETHER TO OBEY 07:08 THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD OR THE COMMANDMENTS OF THE BEAST? 07:11 AND IT HAD TO DO WITH WORSHIP. IT ALL HAD TO DO WITH WORSHIP. 07:16 LOOK WITH ME, PROPHECY OF REVELATION 14, ONE OF THE GREAT 07:19 PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE. "I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN 07:22 THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH 07:26 UNTO THEM," THIS IS VERSE 6, "THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH AND TO 07:29 EVERY NATION AND KINDRED, AND TONGUE, AND PEOPLE, SAYING WITH 07:33 A LOUD VOICE, FEAR GOD, AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM; FOR THE HOUR 07:36 OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME: AND--" SAY THAT WORD WITH ME. 07:40 "WORSHIP HIM THAT MADE THE HEAVEN, AND THE EARTH 07:46 AND THE SEA, AND THE FOUNTAINS OF WATER." 07:49 HERE IT IS CALLING US TO WORSHIP THE CREATOR. 07:53 WHY DOES GOD DESERVE OUR WORSHIP? 07:55 'CAUSE HE IS THE MAKER AND WE ARE THE MAKEE. 07:59 HE IS THE CREATOR, WE ARE THE CREATION. 08:03 NOW GOD HAS SOMETHING IN HIS LAW THAT TALKS TO US ABOUT 08:07 WORSHIP, ARE YOU AWARE OF THAT? IT'S ONE OF HIS COMMANDMENTS. 08:11 IT'S THE LONGEST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 08:14 IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF HIS LAW AND THE AMAZING THING ABOUT THIS 08:16 PRESENTATION IS THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS SUBJECT IS SO CLEAR 08:21 AND IRREFUTABLE THAT IT IS ABSOLUTELY ASTONISHING THAT 08:26 THIS HOAX HAS BEEN PERPETRATED ON SO MANY DEAR PEOPLE. 08:30 IT'S THE SUBJECT OF THE SABBATH TRUTH BECAUSE THE WHOLE SABBATH 08:34 COMMANDMENT REVOLVES AROUND WORSHIP. 08:37 YOU NOTICE THERE IN REVELATION 14 IT SAID, "WORSHIP 08:38 HIM THAT MADE THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA." 08:41 THAT'S DRAWN FROM EXODUS 20, THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT 08:44 ABOUT THE SABBATH. HAVEN'T WE BEEN LEARNING THAT 08:47 REVELATION, THERE ARE SHADOWS IN REVELATION. 08:50 IT'S A KALEIDOSCOPE OF ALL THESE OTHER PASSAGES 08:52 IN THE BIBLE. IT'S ALL ABOUT WORSHIP. 08:57 THE VERY BEGINNING OF THE BIBLE, ADAM AND EVE HAVE 08:58 TWO BOYS, CAIN AND ABEL. 09:01 THEY BOTH BUILD ALTARS, OSTENSIBLY TO THE SAME GOD. 09:05 ONE WORSHIPS THE WAY GOD SAID, ABEL, CAIN DOES IT HIS OWN WAY. 09:09 HE GETS UPSET BECAUSE GOD ACCEPTS ABEL, BUT HE DOESN'T 09:12 ACCEPT CAIN'S MANMADE WORSHIP. CAIN KILLS ABEL. 09:16 FAST FORWARD TO THE END OF THE BIBLE. 09:18 TWO GROUPS AGAIN, BOTH WORSHIPING, CLAIMING TO WORSHIP 09:23 THE SAME GOD. ONE IS REALLY WORSHIPING THE BEAST. 09:26 THE ONE WHO WORSHIPS THE BEAST IS TRYING TO KILL THE ONE WHO 09:29 WORSHIPS GOD. THE DEVIL WANTS OUR WORSHIP, 09:32 GOD WANTS OUR WORSHIP. WE MUST CHOOSE. 09:36 THAT'S ONE THING THE DEVIL CANNOT FORCE YOU TO DO 09:39 AND GOD WILL NOT FORCE YOU. NOW AS WE TALK ABOUT THIS 09:42 SUBJECT OF THE SABBATH, THE REASON WE'RE PRESENTING THIS IS 09:45 BECAUSE IN THE LAST DAYS THERE IS A MOVEMENT TO GET BACK TO 09:48 THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE. AMEN? 09:50 AND SO WHAT IS A CHRISTIAN? FOLLOWER OF CHRIST. 09:54 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT JESUS DID. QUESTION NUMBER ONE, "ON WHAT 09:57 DAY DID JESUS CUSTOMARILY WORSHIP?" 10:01 THE BIBLE TELLS US RIGHT THERE IN LUKE 4:16, "AND HE, JESUS, 10:05 CAME TO NAZARETH, WHERE HE HAD BEEN BROUGHT UP: AND, AS HIS 10:08 CUSTOM WAS, HE WENT INTO THE SYNAGOGUE ON THE SABBATH DAY 10:12 AND HE STOOD UP TO READ." WHAT'S A CUSTOM, SOMETHING YOU 10:15 DO ONCE OR TWICE OR IT'S A HABIT, IT'S A PATTERN? 10:17 HIS CUSTOM WAS TO GO TO CHURCH, THE SYNAGOGUE IS THE CHURCH, 10:21 ON THE SABBATH, WORSHIP GOD, READ THE BIBLE. 10:24 IT WAS A CUSTOM FOR HIM. 10:27 YOU SAY, "WELL, I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT, PASTOR DOUG, 10:29 BUT WHAT DAY IS THE BIBLE SABBATH? 10:32 WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE SABBATH?" 10:34 GO TO GENESIS 2:2, "AND ON THE SEVENTH DAY GOD ENDED HIS WORK 10:41 WHICH HE HAD MADE; AND HE RESTED ON THE SEVENTH DAY FROM 10:45 ALL HIS WORK WHICH HE HAD MADE. AND GOD BLESSED 10:47 THE SEVENTH DAY, AND SANCTIFIED IT." 10:50 NOW IT JUMPS OUT AT ME THAT THE FIRST TIME ANYTHING IS 10:54 MENTIONED THREE TIMES IN THE BIBLE, IT'S THE SABBATH. 10:57 GOD IS THE FATHER, THE SON, THE HOLY SPIRIT AND THAT'S WHY 11:01 THE ANGELS SAY, "HOLY, HOLY, HOLY." 11:04 AND HERE IN GENESIS IT SAYS, THE SEVENTH DAY, 11:06 THE SEVENTH DAY, THE SEVENTH DAY. 11:08 NOW WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE SABBATH DAY? 11:12 IF YOU GO TO ANY NORMAL DICTIONARY, YOU'LL FIND 11:14 THAT IT SAYS SATURDAY IS THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK. 11:18 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA WILL TELL YOU THAT. 11:20 MATTER OF FACT, IN OVER 105 LANGUAGES OF THE WORLD, 11:25 THE WORD, NO MATTER WHAT THE RELIGION OF THE COUNTRY IS, 11:28 THE WORD FOR SATURDAY IS SABBATH DAY. 11:32 SOME FRIENDS HERE SPEAK SPANISH, I KNOW, THIS IS BEING 11:34 TRANSLATED INTO SPANISH. THE WORD FOR SATURDAY IS SABADO. 11:38 WE HAVE ANY RUSSIAN FRIENDS HERE? 11:40 SPEAK RUSSIAN? SEVENTH DAY IS SUBOTA. 11:43 EVEN IN ARABIC, WHERE THEY KEEP FRIDAY AS THEIR SABBATH 11:47 THE WORD FOR SATURDAY IS SABBATH DAY, 105 LANGUAGES OF 11:51 THE WORLD. IT'S GOT AN INTERESTING HISTORY. 11:56 "BUT PASTOR DOUG, HASN'T THE CALENDAR BEEN CHANGED SO WE 11:58 DON'T REALLY KNOW?" CALENDAR'S BEEN CHANGED MANY TIMES. 12:01 THAT'S ONE OF THE FAMOUS MYTHS THAT YOU HEAR. 12:04 "OH, CAN'T TELL WHAT DAY'S THE SABBATH." 12:05 PEOPLE NEVER HAVE A PROBLEM WITH WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IT IS 12:09 UNTIL THEY HEAR THE SABBATH TRUTH. 12:10 FACT IS IF YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT DAY THE SABBATH IS, YOU DON'T 12:12 KNOW WHAT DAY SUNDAY IS EITHER, RIGHT? 12:15 BUT YOU CAN KNOW, NO CHANGE TO THE CALENDAR EVER AFFECTS THAT. 12:21 THE SABBATH IN THE CALENDAR, THE WEEKLY CYCLE, EVEN THOUGH 12:25 YOU SEE THEM ON THE SAME CALENDAR ON THE WALL, THEY'RE 12:27 TWO COMPLETELY INDEPENDENT MEASUREMENTS OF TIME. 12:29 NO MATTER WHAT YOU DO TO THE CALENDAR, IT DOESN'T CHANGE 12:32 THE ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN. 12:34 ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE, SIX, SEVEN. THAT'S WHY YOUR 12:35 BIRTHDAY IS A DIFFERENT DAY OF THE WEEK EVERY YEAR, RIGHT? 12:41 SOMEBODY WROTE THE U.S. NAVEL OBSERVATORY ABOUT 12:43 THIS QUESTION AND THIS IS A COPY OF THE LETTER THAT CAME BACK. 12:47 AND THEY SAID, "WE'VE HAD OCCASION TO INVESTIGATE THE 12:50 RESULTS OF THE WORKS OF SPECIALISTS IN CHRONOLOGY AND 12:53 WE HAVE NEVER FOUND ONE OF THEM THAT EVER HAS THE SLIGHTEST 12:56 DOUBT ABOUT THE CONTINUITY OF THE WEEKLY CYCLE SINCE LONG 12:59 BEFORE THE CHRISTIAN ERA." THERE HAS BEEN NO CHANGE IN THE 13:02 CALENDAR THAT HAS EVER AFFECTED THE CONTINUITY OF THE WEEKLY 13:05 CYCLE. POPE GREGORY MADE A CHANGE BACK 13:09 IN, I THINK, 1582, THURSDAY OCTOBER 4TH WAS FOLLOWED BY 13:16 FRIDAY OCTOBER 15TH. THEY ADDED 10 DAYS, 13:18 IT CHANGED THE CALENDAR. DID IT CHANGE THE WEEK? 13:21 NO, IT DOESN'T AFFECT THE WEEK. SO THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT 13:24 WHAT DAY OF THE WEEK IS THE SEVENTH DAY. 13:26 AND YOU KNOW FOR ME, WHAT THE SLAM DUNK IS FOR ME ON THIS, 13:30 YOU GOT A WHOLE JEWISH NATION ALL OVER THE WORLD. 13:32 DO THEY KNOW WHAT DAY THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK IS? 13:34 IT'S ALWAYS BEEN WHAT WE COMMONLY CALL SATURDAY TODAY, 13:39 THERE'S MORE EVIDENCE FOR THIS LATER. 13:41 WHO MADE THE SABBATH DAY AND WHEN? 13:44 GENESIS 2:1-3, "THUS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH WERE 13:48 FINISHED, AND ALL THE HOSTS OF THEM. 13:50 AND GOD BLESSED THE SEVENTH DAY." 13:52 GOD DID IT, WAY BACK IN THE BEGINNING, IN CREATION. 13:56 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID THE SABBATH WAS MADE FOR MAN BACK 13:59 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN. THE LORD CAME WALKING IN 14:02 THE COOL OF THE DAY LOOKING FOR ADAM AND EVE. 14:04 THIS DAY WAS A SPECIAL DAY FOR THEIR COMMUNION TOGETHER, 14:08 HE CREATED AS A BLESSING TO MAN. 14:10 WAS THERE SIN IN THE WORLD WHEN GOD CREATED THE SABBATH? 14:12 WAS IT PART OF HIS PERFECT PLAN? 14:15 THEN IT'S NOTHING THAT HE NEEDED TO CHANGE. 14:17 GOD, IN THE VERY BEGINNING, MADE THE INSTITUTIONS OF 14:20 MARRIAGE. DO WE STILL HAVE MARRIAGE? 14:22 IS THAT STILL PART OF GOD'S PLAN? 14:24 BY THE WAY, WHAT DID GOD MAKE FOR MAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 14:31 HE MADE WOMAN AND HE MADE THE SABBATH DAY. 14:35 DO WE STILL NEED WOMEN? DO WE STILL NEED 14:40 THE SABBATH DAY? PART OF HIS PERFECT PLAN. 14:43 "WHAT DOES GOD SAY ABOUT SABBATH KEEPING IN THE 14:47 TEN COMMANDMENTS, WHICH HE WROTE WITH HIS OWN FINGER?" 14:50 I MIGHT ADD. EXODUS 20:8, THIS IS PART-- OH, BY THE WAY, IT'S 14:54 NOT THE TEN RECOMMENDATIONS, IT'S NOT THE TEN GOOD IDEAS, 14:58 IT'S THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. "REMEMBER THE SABBATH DAY 15:03 TO KEEP IT HOLY. THE LORD BLESSED THE SABBATH 15:06 DAY, AND HALLOWED IT." NOW NOTICE, GOD ON THE SABBATH 15:10 DAY, HE RESTED, HE BLESSED AND HE SANCTIFIED THE SEVENTH DAY. 15:17 ONE TIME THE WORD, "HOLY" APPEARS 15:20 IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. IT'S IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAW. 15:23 IT'S THE LONGEST OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 15:25 IT'S THE ONE THAT BEGINS WITH THE WORD, "REMEMBER" AND IT'S 15:28 THE SABBATH COMMANDMENT AND YET IT IS ONE THAT IS LARGELY BEING 15:31 NEGLECTED BY PROFESSED CHRISTIANS THE WORLD OVER. 15:34 DOES GOD CARE? 15:36 HE CARED ENOUGH TO SPEAK IT WITH HIS VOICE AND WRITE IT 15:38 WITH HIS FINGER IN THE PRESENCE OF A WHOLE NATION. 15:41 AND JESUS SAID, "IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS." 15:44 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THEY WEREN'T REALLY EXPECTED TO KEEP 15:48 THE SABBATH AS A SABBATH DAY UNTIL THEY GOT TO MOUNT SINAI." 15:51 WRONG, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 15:53 FOR INSTANCE, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL FIRST CAME OUT OF 15:55 EGYPT BEFORE THEY GET TO MOUNT SINAI, GOD RAINS MANNA 15:59 DOWN FROM HEAVEN. YOU REMEMBER THAT EXPERIENCE? 16:02 AND MOSES SAID, "EAT THAT TODAY FOR TODAY IS A SABBATH." 16:06 THEY GATHERED TWICE AS MUCH ON FRIDAY. "FOR TODAY IS A SABBATH 16:10 UNTO THE LORD: TODAY YE SHALL NOT FIND IT IN THE FIELD." 16:13 GOD WORKED A MIRACLE THE WHOLE TIME THEY WERE IN THE 16:15 WILDERNESS WHEN HE RAINED MANNA DOWN FROM HEAVEN 6 DAYS A WEEK. 16:18 THEY'D GET TWICE AS MUCH ON FRIDAY AND HE WOULD NOT RAIN 16:21 MANNA ON THE SABBATH. NOW THAT'S IN EXODUS 16 16:26 AND HE'S TELLING THEM THAT THE SABBATH IS HIS COMMANDMENT. 16:29 HE USES THAT PHRASE IN HIS LAW BEFORE THEY GET TO MOUNT SINAI. 16:33 YEAH, THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD FORGOTTEN ABOUT IT OR HAD 16:35 BEEN NEGLECTED. "PASTOR DOUG, THAT'S THE OLD TESTAMENT. 16:39 HAVEN'T THE TEN COMMANDMENTS BEEN CHANGED OR ALTERED 16:41 IN SOME WAY?" YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT PROPHECY 16:44 TELLS US THE BEAST WOULD THINK TO DO. 16:46 YOU REMEMBER WE STUDIED THE ANTICHRIST. 16:48 DANIEL 7:25, ONE OF HIS CHARACTERISTICS WAS HE WOULD 16:52 THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. WHEN I LOOK AT THE 16:55 TEN COMMANDMENTS, I CAN ONLY FIND ONE COMMANDMENT THAT IS 16:57 BOTH A LAW AND A TIME. IT'S THE SABBATH. 17:01 PROVERBS 30:5-6, "EVERY WORD OF GOD IS PURE: ADD THOU NOT UNTO 17:07 HIS WORDS, LEST HE REPROVE THEE, AND THOU BE FOUND A LIAR." 17:11 WE ARE NOT TO ADD TO OR TAKE AWAY FROM HIS WORDS. 17:14 AND THEN YOU CAN ALSO READ IN HEBREWS 4:9, 17:16 THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT. "THERE REMAINS THEREFORE A REST 17:19 TO THE PEOPLE OF GOD." AND THAT WORD, "REST" THERE IF 17:22 YOU TAKE IT FROM ITS GREEK TRANSLATION, IT'S SABBITISMOS 17:25 AND IT MEANS THE KEEPING OF A SABBATH, THERE REMAINS. 17:29 THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT, ONE OF THE FINAL BOOKS IN 17:30 THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS, "THERE REMAINS A KEEPING OF THE SABBATH 17:33 FOR THE PEOPLE OF GOD." OH, WELL SOMEBODY'S GONNA SAY, 17:36 "WELL, PASTOR DOUG, NOW THAT WE'RE CHRISTIANS WE KEEP THE 17:39 SPIRIT OF THE LAW, NOT THE LETTER. 17:40 YOU'RE BEING LEGALISTIC TO TELL PEOPLE THEY GOTTA KEEP 17:43 THE LETTER OF THE LAW." REMEMBER WE TALKED ABOUT THAT 17:45 A LITTLE BIT? HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU'RE GONNA 17:48 KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW AND IGNORE THE LETTER? 17:51 THE LETTER IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SPIRIT. 17:54 IF YOU SAY, "I'M GONNA KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW THAT SAYS 17:56 THOU SHALT NOT COMMIT ADULTERY," WHICH MEANS YOU 17:58 DON'T LOOK UPON THE OPPOSITE SEX TO THINK IT IN YOUR HEART, 18:01 THAT'S RIGHT THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF IT. 18:03 BUT HOW DO YOU KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW AND SAY, "I'M GONNA 18:04 COMMIT THE ACT OF ADULTERY, BUT I'M NOT GONNA BREAK THE SPIRIT? 18:08 OR I'M NOT GONNA BREAK THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, THOU SHALT 18:11 NOT KILL." JESUS SAID, "THE LAW SAYS DON'T KILL, BUT I SAY UNTO 18:14 YOU, WHOEVER IS ANGRY WITH HIS BROTHER WITHOUT CAUSE IS GUILTY 18:17 OF MURDER." THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW. 18:19 BUT IF YOU'RE NOT GONNA BREAK THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, DON'T BE 18:21 ANGRY WITH YOUR BROTHER WITHOUT CAUSE, HOW DO YOU KEEP THAT 18:25 AND STILL BREAK THE LETTER? 18:27 SO IF YOU'RE GONNA KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW, JESUS SAID, 18:30 "COME UNTO ME AND I'LL GIVE YOU REST." 18:31 THAT'S THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW. I BELIEVE IT, AMEN. 18:34 BUT THE SABBATH IS THE VERY STARTING POINT FOR THAT 18:37 EXPERIENCE OF REST. AND DO WE STILL NEED A DAY 18:41 OF REST? DO WE NEED A DAY OF WORSHIP. 18:44 CORPORATE WORSHIP SOME PEOPLE SAY, "OH, PASTOR DOUG, 18:47 I'M A NEW TESTAMENT CHRISTIAN, I WORSHIP GOD 7 DAYS A WEEK. 18:51 YOU ONLY WORSHIP HIM 1 DAY A WEEK." AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE 18:54 TELLS US THAT WE SHOULD, I BELIEVE, WORSHIP GOD ALWAYS. 18:57 BUT IN THE COMMANDMENT, IT SAYS WE ARE NOT TO WORK. 19:00 AND IF A PERSON SAYS THAT THEY'RE KEEPING THE SABBATH 19:02 7 DAYS A WEEK, THEY'RE NOT HOLY, THEY'RE LAZY. 19:06 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO ONLY KEEP THAT DAY ONE DAY A WEEK, 19:08 NOT SECULAR WORK BUT RESERVE THAT DAY ONLY FOR HOLY TIME 19:12 WITH GOD. SOME ARE SAYING, "NOW THAT 19:14 WE'RE UNDER GRACE, GRACE BLOTS OUT THE LAW. 19:17 WE'RE NOT UNDER THE LAW ANYMORE, WE'RE NOW UNDER GRACE." 19:20 YOU KNOW, I DON'T GET THAT EITHER. 19:22 THAT'S SORT OF LIKE YOU GET PULLED OVER BY A POLICEMAN 19:24 BECAUSE YOU'RE DRIVING TOO FAST AND YOU START TO CRY, IT WORKS, 19:30 I'VE DONE IT, AND SHE DIDN'T GIVE ME A TICKET. 19:38 BUT SUPPOSE THEY DO SHOW YOU MERCY, WHAT DO YOU DO? SAY, 19:42 "PRAISE THE LORD, I'M NOT UNDER THE LAW NOW BECAUSE THEY'VE 19:43 HAD MERCY ON ME SO I CAN DRIVE AS FAST AS I WANT"? NO. 19:47 WHEN YOU'RE FORGIVEN BECAUSE OF BEING UNDER THE LAW AND THE 19:50 CURSE OF THE LAW FOR OUR SINS, WHEN YOU'RE FORGIVEN FOR YOUR 19:52 SINS, CHRISTIANS ARE THE MOST CAREFUL TO OBEY THE LAW. 19:55 WE'RE NOT GIVEN A LICENSE TO DISOBEY. 19:58 DID THE APOSTLES KEEP THE SABBATH? YES. 20:01 PAUL, AS HIS MANNER WAS, HE WENT UNTO THEM, THREE SABBATH 20:05 DAYS AND HE REASONED WITH THEM OUT OF THE SCRIPTURES." 20:09 THIS IS ACTS 17:2, YOU CAN JUMP TO ACTS 18:4. 20:13 "HE REASONED IN THE SYNAGOGUE EVERY SABBATH, AND PERSUADED 20:16 BOTH JEWS AND GREEKS." GREEKS MEANING GENTILES, NON-JEWS. 20:20 WHY WOULD YOU THINK THAT JESUS WOULD SAY, SPEAKING OF THE LAST 20:23 DAYS, "PRAY THAT YOUR FLIGHT BE NOT IN THE WINTER, NEITHER 20:27 ON THE SABBATH DAY"? CHRIST, LOOKING DOWN THE COURSE 20:30 OF TIME SEEING HIS PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS, TOLD THEM, WE 20:33 SHOULD PRAY THAT WE WOULDN'T HAVE TO FLEE 20:34 ON THE SABBATH DAY. IF THEY'RE NOT KEEPING 20:36 THE SABBATH ANYMORE, WHY WOULD JESUS SAY THAT? 20:39 DID THE GENTILES ALSO WORSHIP ON THE SABBATH DAY? 20:44 NEW TESTAMENT, YES, ACTS 13:42. 20:47 BY THE WAY, THIS IS WRITTEN BY A GENTILE. 20:49 "AND WHEN THE JEWS WERE GONE OUT OF THE SYNAGOGUE, 20:52 THE GENTILES BESOUGHT THESE WORDS MIGHT BE PREACHED TO 20:55 THEM THE NEXT SABBATH DAY." THAT'S STILL THE SEVENTH DAY 20:58 OF THE WEEK, NOT SUNDAY. AND IT GOES ON TO SAY 21:03 IN MARK 2:27, "AND HE SAID UNTO THEM, THE SABBATH WAS 21:08 MADE FOR MAN, AND NOT MAN FOR THE SABBATH." 21:12 THE SABBATH IS MEANT TO BE A BLESSING FOR MANKIND. 21:15 NOW ONE OF THE BIG STRUGGLES JESUS HAD DURING HIS EARTHLY 21:17 MINISTRY IS THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS AT HIS TIME HAD BECOME 21:21 VERY LEGALISTIC ABOUT THE SABBATH. 21:24 DISCIPLES ARE WALKING THROUGH THE FIELD. 21:25 THEY'RE HUNGRY, THEY PICK ON SOME GRAIN OUT OF THE FIELD 21:27 AND THEY'RE EATING IT AND THE PHARISEES SAID, "YOU'RE 21:30 HARVESTING ON THE SABBATH DAY, YOU'RE CARRYING A BURDEN." 21:33 I MEAN THEY HAD ALL THESE MANMADE LAWS AND CHRIST DID 21:35 HAVE TO CONTEND WITH THAT, BUT NEVER EVER DOES JESUS SAY, 21:38 "SABBATH DOESN'T MATTER ANYMORE." MATTER OF FACT, 21:42 IT WAS SO IMPORTANT TO CHRIST AND HIS DISCIPLES UNDERSTOOD 21:46 THIS THAT AFTER HE HAD DIED ON THE CROSS, THEY DID NOT EVEN 21:51 FINISH EMBALMING HIS BODY BECAUSE THE SABBATH HAD COME, 21:55 THEY WAITED UNTIL AFTER THE SABBATH AND CAME BACK. 21:59 MATTER OF FACT, CHRIST SAID, "THINK NOT THAT I HAVE COME 22:01 TO DESTROY THE LAW, DON'T THINK THAT." 22:04 ISAIAH 56, IS IT ALSO FOR THE GENTILES? 22:08 A PROPHECY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, "ALSO THE SONS 22:10 OF THE STRANGER, THAT JOIN THEMSELVES TO THE LORD, TO 22:14 SERVE HIM, AND TO LOVE THE NAME OF THE LORD, AND TO BE HIS 22:17 SERVANTS, EVERY ONE THAT KEEPS THE SABBATH FROM POLLUTING IT, 22:21 AND TAKING HOLD OF MY COVENANT." 22:24 HE WILL MAKE THEM JOYFUL IN HIS HOUSE OF PRAYER. 22:26 THE SONS OF THE STRANGER, THOSE WHO CHOSE TO WORSHIP JEHOVAH, 22:30 THEY DIDN'T PICK THEIR OWN NEW SABBATH DAY, THEY KEPT 22:33 THE SABBATH DAY THAT GOD PICKED, THE ONE HE GAVE ADAM AND EVE, 22:36 THE ONE HE GAVE IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, 22:38 THE ONE THAT JESUS KEPT, IT'S ALWAYS BEEN THE SAME. 22:44 DO WE STILL NEED PHYSICAL REST? 22:46 OH, MAN, I TELL YOU, WE'RE LIVING IN A SOCIETY TODAY. 22:49 THERE IS A WHOLE LITANY OF DISEASES NOW THAT HAVE BEEN 22:53 CONNECTED WITH STRESS AND FATIGUE RANGING FROM HEART 22:58 DISEASE, HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE, ULCERS, ONE OF THE TOP-SELLING 23:01 MEDICATIONS IN NORTH AMERICA DEALS WITH ULCERS, SLEEP AIDS, 23:06 PEOPLE ARE STRESSED AND THEY DON'T SLEEP. 23:09 A LOT OF IT IS BECAUSE PEOPLE HAVE FORGOTTEN ABOUT GOD'S TIME 23:12 OF REST. AND HE BLESSED THE DAY. 23:16 YOU KNOW, IT SAID RIGHT THERE IN THE COMMANDMENT, 23:17 "I'VE SANCTIFIED IT. I'VE BLESSED IT. 23:19 I'VE MADE IT HOLY." GOD EVEN RESTED THAT DAY 23:22 AND WE'RE MADE IN HIS IMAGE. IF GOD RESTED THAT DAY, 23:25 ARE WE BETTER THAN HIM? AND SO, IT IS IMPORTANT 23:28 TO THE LORD. IT'S IMPORTANT FOR OUR HEALTH. 23:32 "WAS THE SABBATH CHANGED TO SUNDAY AT CHRIST'S 23:35 RESURRECTION?" HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE? 23:38 YOU DON'T FIND THAT ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE. 23:40 MATTER OF FACT IF WE READ IN THE BIBLE, LUKE 23:54. 23:44 I'LL READ ALL THE WAY THROUGH LUKE 24:1, "AND THAT DAY WAS 23:48 THE PREPARATION, FRIDAY AND THE SABBATH DREW ON." 23:51 THE DAY JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS IS COMMONLY CALLED GOOD FRIDAY, 23:55 OKAY? NOW BEFORE I GET TO THE REST 23:57 OF LUKE, I WANTED TO INTERJECT A COUPLE OF SLIDES HERE. 24:00 WHEN DOES THE SABBATH BEGIN? JUST SO YOU KNOW, JESUS DIED 24:03 RIGHT ABOUT SUNDOWN. IT SAYS IN LEVITICUS 23:32, 24:06 "FROM EVEN UNTO EVEN," EVEN MEANING EVENING, SUNDOWN, 24:11 "YOU SHALL CELEBRATE YOUR SABBATH." IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, 24:13 READ MARK 1:32, "AND AT EVEN, WHEN THE SUN DID SET." 24:18 SO THE SABBATH BEGINS AND ENDS AT SUNSET, THE SABBATH TIME, 24:21 SACRED HOURS, NOT JUST FOR JEWS BUT FOR ALL THAT FOLLOW 24:26 THE GOD OF THE BIBLE. YOU KEEP GOING BACK TO--ALL 24:29 RIGHT, LET'S RETURN BACK TO LUKE 23, SO FRIDAY SUNDOWN. 24:34 IT SAYS, "THEY RETURNED, AND PREPARED SPICES AND OINTMENTS; 24:37 AND THEY RESTED THE SABBATH DAY ACCORDING TO THE COMMANDMENT." 24:42 NOW THIS IS THE GOSPEL OF LUKE, IS LUKE A JEW OR A GENTILE? 24:46 WHAT A GOOD OPPORTUNITY LUKE MISSED TO SAY THEY RESTED 24:50 ACCORDING TO THE JEWISH SABBATH, THE JEWISH LAW. 24:53 HE DOESN'T, HE SAYS, "THE COMMANDMENT." 24:56 SO THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT. 24:59 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 25:02 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 25:06 >> GOD HAS SOMETHING IN HIS LAW THAT TALKS TO US ABOUT WORSHIP. 25:12 >> DO WE NEED A DAY OF WORSHIP? 25:17 >> HOW CAN YOU SAY YOU'RE GONNA KEEP THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW 25:21 AND IGNORE THE LETTER? 25:22 THE LETTER IS THE FOUNDATION FOR THE SPIRIT. 25:26 >> THE DEVIL WANTS OUR WORSHIP, GOD WANTS OUR WORSHIP. 25:31 WE MUST CHOOSE. 25:37 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 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