Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000045
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00:08 >> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS."
00:11 >> THE BIBLE TEACHES, "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS 00:14 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON," WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM CAN HAVE 00:17 IMMORTALITY, EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:20 OTHERWISE YOU PERISH. 00:23 TWO CHOICES, PERISH OR EVERLASTING LIFE. 00:29 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS "AMAZING FACTS" HAS BEEN 00:32 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:36 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:38 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:40 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:44 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:48 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:50 "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" VIDEO SERIES. 00:57 >> YOU MAY THINK THIS IS A STRANGE STATEMENT. 01:00 ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT SUBJECTS IN LIFE TO UNDERSTAND 01:04 IS DEATH. 01:06 BECAUSE, WELL, IT'S JUST AS CERTAIN AS TAXES. 01:13 I DON'T WANT TO BE MACABRE OR SOBERING OR DEPRESSING TODAY. 01:18 I WOULD LIKE TO EMPHASIZE THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT THIS SUBJECT 01:23 BEFORE WE CONCLUDE THE MESSAGE, BUT THERE IS A LOT OF CONFUSION 01:26 AND IT IS VERY IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT, 01:30 BECAUSE IT'S SOMETHING THAT APPLIES, DEATH APPLIES TO EVERY 01:33 LIFE. 01:34 THERE'S ANOTHER QUOTE FOR YOU, "DEATH APPLIES TO EVERY LIFE." 01:38 AND WE NEED TO THINK ABOUT IT. 01:40 ALL OF US HERE HAVE BEEN TOUCHED BY THIS SUBJECT, AND SO I DON'T 01:43 WANT TO BE UNKIND OR DISRESPECTFUL, BUT THERE IS SO 01:48 MUCH CONFUSION IN THE CEMETERY, EVEN IF YOU GO TO 01:52 A CHURCHYARD CEMETERY. 01:55 IT COULD BE A BAPTIST OR A METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY AND 01:59 YOU READ THE TOMBSTONES, ANY OF YOU EVER DO THAT? 02:01 YOU VISIT THE CEMETERY AND MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN THERE BECAUSE OF 02:04 A SERVICE AND YOU WALKED AROUND A LITTLE BIT ON YOUR OWN 02:07 AFTERWARDS, AND YOU READ SOME OF THE TOUCHING INSCRIPTIONS. 02:10 AND YOU CAN QUICKLY SEE THERE'S NOT A CONSENSUS EVEN IN THE SAME 02:15 DENOMINATIONAL CEMETERY ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 02:18 FOR INSTANCE, ONE CEMETERY MIGHT READ, "OUR DEAR FATHER IS NOW 02:21 SLEEPING QUIETLY IN THE ARMS OF JESUS WAITING FOR THE 02:24 RESURRECTION TRUMPET." 02:26 AND THE SAME CEMETERY YOU WALK A FEW MORE TOMBSTONES AND IT 02:29 WILL SAY, "OUR MOTHER IS NOW SINGING ON THE GOLDEN STREETS 02:33 WITH THE ANGELS." 02:35 AND YOU'RE WONDERING, "WELL, ARE THEY AWAKE, ARE THEY SINGING? 02:38 WHAT ARE THEY DOING? 02:38 WHERE ARE THEY?" 02:40 AND THERE'S JUST NO AGREEMENT. 02:42 WHEN WE WENT TO THE PHILIPPINES A FEW YEARS AGO, SOME OF OUR 02:45 CREW THAT'S HERE REMEMBER WE WENT TO VISIT A CHINESE CEMETERY 02:48 IN MANILA. 02:50 AND I DIDN'T SEE ONE IN CHINA, SO I WANTED TO TELL YOU ABOUT 02:53 THE ONE IN MANILA. 02:54 AND THIS CEMETERY IS FAMOUS AROUND THE WORLD, BECAUSE THEY 02:56 HAVE BUILT VERY ELABORATE APARTMENTS FOR THE DEAD. 03:01 AND IN THE APARTMENTS SOME OF THEM WILL HAVE HOT AND COLD 03:04 RUNNING WATER. 03:05 THEY'VE GOT ROOMS; THEY'VE GOT FURNITURE. 03:09 I EVEN SAW ONE, THEY GOT ELECTRICITY AND 03:10 AIR CONDITIONING. 03:13 AND IT'S AMAZING, BECAUSE IT'S, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE ANCIENT 03:16 PHARAOHS, I GUESS PART OF THEIR RELIGION IS YOU WANT TO HAVE ALL 03:18 OF THE AMENITIES FOR THE AFTERLIFE. 03:21 SO THEY WOULD PUT THE SERVANTS IN THERE WITH THE PHARAOHS AND 03:24 ALL THESE DIFFERENT BELIEFS ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 03:28 NOW, TO UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'VE GOT TO GO BACK TO THE BASICS. 03:31 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT WHEN GOD MADE ADAM AND EVE IN THE GARDEN 03:35 OF EDEN HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 03:37 WHAT IS A SOUL? 03:40 SECOND CHAPTER OF GENESIS, 2:7, WE READ THERE THAT THE LORD GOD 03:45 FORMED THE MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND BREATHED INTO HIS 03:50 NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE. 03:52 AND NOTICE WHAT IT SAYS, IT DOESN'T SAY GOD GAVE HIM A SOUL, 03:55 IT SAYS MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 03:59 THE COMBINATION OF THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER, 04:02 HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 04:04 NOW, WHEN SOMEONE DIES, THE OPPOSITE OF THOSE TWO THINGS 04:08 HAPPENS. 04:10 IN OTHER WORDS, BEFORE MAN BECOMES A SOUL IT'S THE ELEMENTS 04:13 OF THE EARTH THAT GOD COMBINES WITH THE BREATH OF LIFE AND HE 04:16 BECOMES, THOSE TWO THINGS TOGETHER EQUAL A LIVING SOUL. 04:20 WHEN YOU DIE, THOSE TWO THINGS ARE BASICALLY SEPARATED. 04:23 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT IN ECCLESIASTES 12:7, "THEN THE 04:27 DUST SHALL RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS, AND THE SPIRIT WILL 04:31 RETURN TO GOD WHO GAVE IT." 04:33 SO WHEN A PERSON DIES, WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS TO THE BODY, 04:37 ASHES TO ASHES. 04:38 I'VE SAT OVER MANY GRAVES AT A GRAVESITE SERVICE. 04:41 IT, THE BODY, WILL TURN BACK INTO DUST. 04:44 AND SOMEONE MIGHT ASK, "WELL, WHAT ABOUT CREMATION?" 04:46 WELL, THAT'S JUST REALLY ACCELERATING THE SAME PROCESS. 04:50 THERE ARE A COUPLE OF EXAMPLES OF SAVED PEOPLE IN THE BIBLE WHO 04:53 WERE CREMATED, LIKE JONATHAN FOR INSTANCE, THE SON OF SAUL. 04:57 AND WE EXPECT HE'LL BE IN THE KINGDOM. 05:00 CREMATION DOES NOT DISQUALIFY YOU FROM THE RESURRECTION. 05:04 SOME PEOPLE THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE BURIED GOD CAN 05:06 FIND ALL OF THE PARTS AND PUT YOU BACK TOGETHER AGAIN. 05:09 BUT IF YOU'RE CREMATED, IF THEY SCATTER THE ASHES, HE'LL NEVER 05:11 BE ABLE TO REASSEMBLE YOU. 05:13 THERE ARE ACTUALLY PEOPLE WHO WORRY ABOUT THIS. 05:15 IT DOESN'T REALLY MATTER, BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 05:18 EVERYTHING IS NEW. 05:19 HE'S NOT USING THE OLD PARTS TO REASSEMBLE YOU. 05:22 GOD KNOWS WHO YOU ARE, RIGHT? 05:24 SO WHAT ABOUT THE SPIRIT? 05:26 SO IF THE SOUL IS THE COMBINATION OF THE BODY AND 05:28 THE ELEMENTS, BUT YOU'VE GOT THIS INNER SPIRIT AND 05:32 THE BREATH, THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT, 05:35 WHAT IS THIS SPIRIT THAT RETURNS TO GOD IN DEATH? 05:39 WE'RE GONNA LET THE BIBLE ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS. 05:41 YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, RIGHT FRIENDS? 05:44 JOB 27:3, "ALL THE WHILE MY BREATH IS IN ME, AND THE SPIRIT 05:49 OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS." 05:52 NOW, I'VE NEVER HEARD ANYBODY SING A SONG SAYING, "I'M SO 05:55 THANKFUL FOR THE SPIRIT IN MY NOSE." 05:58 I MEAN PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE SPIRIT IN THEIR HEARTS AND THE 06:00 SPIRIT IN THEIR MIND, BUT THEY DON'T TALK ABOUT THE SPIRIT IN 06:02 THEIR NOSE. 06:03 WHY DOES IT SAY, "AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS?" 06:05 THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE BREATH. 06:08 THAT WORD THERE IN HEBREWS IS TALKING ABOUT THE BREATH OF GOD. 06:10 ADAM, GOD BREATHED INTO ADAM THE BREATH OF LIFE. 06:14 IT'S THE SPIRIT, SAME WORD. 06:16 AND AGAIN, JAMES 2:26 IN THE NEW TESTAMENT, 06:19 MANY VERSES BEAR THIS OUT, "THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT," 06:24 AND THAT WORD THERE, "SPIRIT," IS THE GREEK WORD, "PNEUMA," 06:26 IT MEANS "THE WIND OR BREATH," "THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT 06:29 IS," WHAT? 06:30 "IS DEAD." 06:32 YOU DON'T HAVE A LITTLE GHOST INSIDE OF YOU. 06:35 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 06:37 THE BREATH THAT RETURNS TO GOD IS THE BREATH OF LIFE. 06:41 MATTER OF FACT, IN ECCLESIASTES WHEN IT SAYS, "WHEN YOU DIE 06:43 THE BODY RETURNS TO THE EARTH, THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO 06:47 GAVE IT," IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF THE GOOD AND THE BAD, 06:49 AND THE ANIMALS," THE SPIRIT OF LIFE OF ALL CREATURES 06:52 RETURNS THE GOD WHO GAVE IT. 06:54 LIKE IF YOU WERE TO UNPLUG SOME ELECTRIC APPLIANCE AND YOU SAY, 06:57 "WHERE DID THE ELECTRICITY GO?" 06:59 WELL, IT'S BACK AT THE POWER PLANT, WHERE IT CAME FROM. 07:01 WHEN SOMEONE DIES, THE ESSENCE, THE POWER OF LIFE RETURNS TO 07:06 GOD. 07:07 NOW, THAT BRINGS UP THE NEXT QUESTION, WHAT IS A SOUL AND CAN 07:11 A SOUL DIE? 07:12 YOU'VE ALL HEARD THE EXPRESSION ABOUT THE IMMORTAL SOUL? 07:17 THE BIBLE SAYS THE SOUL IS NOT IMMORTAL. 07:19 EZEKIEL 18:4, "THE SOUL THAT SINS SHALL," WHAT? 07:24 "THE SOUL THAT SINS WILL DIE." 07:26 NOW, I WILL ASK YOU, AND YOU CAN ANSWER ME, NAME ONE VERSE IN 07:33 THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT MAN HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL? 07:38 WE'VE GOT SEVERAL HUNDRED PEOPLE HERE, AND I'M ALWAYS VERY SECURE 07:43 WHEN I ASK THIS QUESTION. 07:45 SOMEONE MIGHT MISQUOTE SOMETHING, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA 07:47 FIND A VERSE THAT I KNOW OF IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS THAT MAN 07:50 POSSESSES AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 07:52 FOLKS ARE SHOCKED TO HEAR THAT, BECAUSE SO MANY PREACHERS PREACH 07:55 ABOUT IT AND SO MANY PEOPLE SING ABOUT IT, AND YET THE BIBLE 07:58 DOESN'T SAY ONE TIME THAT MAN HAS AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 08:01 MATTER OF FACT, IT SAYS THE OPPOSITE, IT SAYS WE ARE 08:04 MORTALS, AND WHEN JESUS COMES, THEN THIS MORTAL PUTS 08:08 ON IMMORTALITY. 08:10 BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE MORTAL AND MORTAL MEANS YOU CAN DIE. 08:12 A LOT OF CONFUSION IN THE CEMETERY. 08:15 AND SO OFTEN PEOPLE SAY, "YOU'VE GOT AN IMMORTAL SOUL TO SAVE." 08:18 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 08:20 THE BIBLE TEACHES IF YOU WANT IMMORTALITY, YOU GET THAT 08:23 FROM GOD. 08:24 MATTER OF FACT, IN JOB 4:17, "SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE 08:29 JUST THAN GOD?" 08:30 NOW, NOTICE, DOES IT SAY "MORTAL," OR, "IMMORTAL?" 08:32 MORTAL, THAT MEANS YOU DIE. 08:34 IMMORTAL MEANS YOU CAN'T DIE. 08:37 WHO IS IT THAT HAS IMMORTALITY, MAN OR GOD? 08:40 1 TIMOTHY 6:15-16, "THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF LORDS 08:46 WHO ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY." 08:51 WHO IS IT THAT ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY? 08:54 GOD. 08:55 SO THIS COMMON TEACHING THAT IS SO PERVASIVE ALL THROUGH EVEN 09:00 THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH THAT WE ARE ALL IMMORTAL AND YOU'RE EITHER 09:03 GONNA LIVE FOREVER IN HELL OR YOU'RE GONNA LIVE FOREVER 09:05 IN HEAVEN, THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 09:08 THE BIBLE TEACHES, "FOR GOD SO LOVED THE WORLD, HE GAVE HIS 09:10 ONLY BEGOTTEN SON," WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM CAN HAVE 09:14 IMMORTALITY, EVERLASTING LIFE." 09:16 OTHERWISE YOU PERISH. 09:19 TWO CHOICES, PERISH OR EVERLASTING LIFE. 09:22 WHAT WAS THE FIRST LIE THE DEVIL EVER TOLD? 09:25 IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN WHAT DID HE SAYS TO EVE? 09:29 "YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE." 09:31 WHAT DID GOD SAY TO ADAM AND EVE? 09:33 "IF YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT, YOU WILL SURELY DIE." 09:35 THE DEVIL SAID, "YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE." 09:37 AND THE BIGGEST JOKE THE DEVIL HAS EVER PLAYED ON THE CHRISTIAN 09:39 CHURCH IS HE NO HAS PASTORS ECHOING THE LIE OF THE DEVIL. 09:43 THE DEVIL SAID, "YOU WON'T REALLY DIE, YOU'RE IMMORTAL." 09:48 GOD SAID, "YOU WILL DIE, AND IF YOU WANT TO LIVE, 09:50 IT'S ON MY TERMS." 09:52 AND YET, THE MAJORITY OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH, CATHOLICS AND 09:56 PROTESTANTS AROUND THE WORLD, ARE TEACHING THE FIRST LIE. 10:01 IF YOU WANT EVERLASTING LIFE, IT'S A GIFT OF GOD; OTHERWISE 10:05 IT'S PERISH. 10:08 NOW, I WANT TO TRY TO DO THESE THINGS IN SOME LOGICAL SEQUENCE. 10:12 AND I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THERE IS 10:15 A RESURRECTION; THERE IS IMMORTALITY, THERE IS PUNISHMENT 10:20 AND RESURRECTION FOR THE WICKED. 10:21 THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE. 10:22 WHY IT DOES NOT BURN THROUGH ENDLESS AGES, THE WICKED ARE 10:26 PUNISHED IN THE LAKE OF FIRE, SOMETIMES CALLED "HELLFIRE." 10:29 BUT NOBODY IS IN HELLFIRE NOW AND THE VAST MAJORITY OF PEOPLE 10:35 WHO DIE, THEY'RE NOT IN HEAVEN YET. 10:39 NOW, THAT SHOCKS A LOT OF PEOPLE WHEN THEY FIRST HEAR THAT. 10:41 WHEN DO PEOPLE GET THEIR REWARDS? 10:46 WE'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THAT. 10:47 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 10:49 REVELATION 22:12, "JESUS SAID, BEHOLD I COME QUICKLY AND MY 10:55 REWARD IS WITH ME TO GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING AS HIS WORKS 11:00 SHALL BE." 11:01 WHEN DO THEY GET THE REWARDS? 11:03 WHEN JESUS COMES. 11:07 ONE REASON THAT'S IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND IS BECAUSE, HAS THE 11:11 JUDGMENT DAY HAPPENED YET? 11:13 ARE YOU WITH ME? 11:15 HAS THE GENERAL JUDGMENT HAPPENED YET? 11:19 DON'T PEOPLE GET REWARDED AFTER THE JUDGMENT? 11:22 WOULD IT MAKE SENSE TO PULL PEOPLE OUT OF HEAVEN AND SAY, 11:25 "WE HOPE YOU'VE ENJOYED THIS PREVIEW, NOW WE'RE GONNA FIND 11:29 OUT IF YOU REALLY DESERVE IT?" 11:31 OR TO TAKE PEOPLE OUT OF HELL AFTER THOUSANDS OF YEARS OF 11:35 BURNING, AND TO YANK THEM UP AND SAY, "WELL, WE THOUGHT IT'D BE 11:38 TIME TO TRY YOU AND SEE IF YOU'RE REALLY GUILTY." 11:41 DOES GOD OPERATE THAT WAY? 11:43 NO, THE REWARD COMES AFTER THE INVESTIGATION, AFTER THE TRIAL. 11:47 JOB 14:12, "SO MAN LIES DOWN AND RISETH NOT TILL THE HEAVENS BE 11:54 NO MORE." 11:55 PEOPLE LAY IN THE GRAVE, THEY REST, THEY SLEEP UNTIL THE 11:59 HEAVENS BE NO MORE. 12:00 WHEN WILL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE? 12:02 2 PETER 3:10 GIVES US THAT TIME, "THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME, 12:07 IN WHICH THE HEAVENS SHALL PASS AWAY AND THE ELEMENTS MELT WITH 12:11 FERVENT HEAT." 12:12 WHEN IS IT THAT THE HEAVENS PASS AWAY THAT THE HEAVENS ARE 12:15 NO MORE? 12:16 THE DAY OF THE LORD, THE COMING OF JESUS, WHEN HE COMES LIKE 12:19 A THIEF. 12:20 THAT'S WHEN, IT SAYS, "THE WICKED--THE DEAD LAY DOWN 12:23 UNTIL THE HEAVENS BE NO MORE." 12:24 THEY'RE STILL THERE RESTING. 12:26 NOW, SOME OF YOU ARE CONFUSED, YOU'RE SAYING, "BUT DOESN'T 12:29 THE BIBLE TELL US THAT PART OF US GOES? 12:32 IS THERE ABRAHAM'S BOSOM?" 12:33 LET'S KEEP READING, STAY WITH ME. 12:36 1 CORINTHIANS 15, THIS TO ME IS A SLAM-DUNK, FRIENDS. 12:39 IF YOU HAVE ANY DOUBT ABOUT WHEN THE REWARDS HAPPEN, 12:41 1 CORINTHIANS 15:22-23, "FOR AS IN ADAM ALL DIE, EVEN SO IN 12:48 CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE, BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER." 12:52 THERE'S A SEQUENCE, THERE'S AN ORDER. 12:54 WHAT'S THAT ORDER? 12:55 "CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS, AFTERWARD THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S 13:00 AT HIS COMING." 13:01 THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE FIRST; LATER IT'S EVEN THE POWER OF 13:05 CHRIST AFTER THE MILLENNIUM THAT RAISES THE WICKED. 13:08 BUT IT'S THE COMING OF CHRIST THAT RAISES BOTH, DID YOU CATCH 13:11 THAT? 13:12 THE NEXT TIME CHRIST COMES, THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE 13:14 AND AT THE END OF THE 1,000 YEARS THE WICKED RISE, 13:18 BUT THEY'RE NOT RISEN YET. 13:20 FURTHERMORE, IN THE SAME CHAPTER, 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51 ON 13:26 TO 53, "WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF 13:31 AN EYE AT THE LAST TRUMPET." 13:33 HAS THAT LAST TRUMPET SOUNDED YET? 13:35 WHEN DOES THE TRANSFORMATION TAKE PLACE? 13:37 "FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED, 13:40 INCORRUPTIBLE. 13:41 FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE--" "CORRUPTIBLE" MEANS A BODY 13:44 THAT DECOMPOSES, IT GETS OLD. 13:45 "FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION," NOW CATCH 13:49 THIS, "THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 13:52 DO WE HAVE IMMORTALITY NOW? 13:54 IT'S AT THE COMING OF THE LORD. 13:56 JOHN 5:28-29, JESUS IS SPEAKING. 13:59 IF THIS WAS A BIBLE WITH RED LETTER, THIS WOULD BE RED. 14:03 "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVE SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE AND SHALL COME 14:05 FORTH." 14:06 NOW, I KNOW SOME OF YOU, YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLES AND YOUR MINDS 14:09 ARE SPINNING, YOU SAY, "WAIT, BUT PASTOR DOUG, AREN'T THERE 14:13 SOME PEOPLE IN HEAVEN NOW? 14:15 DOESN'T THE BIBLE SEEM TO TEACH THROUGH SOME PARABLES AND OTHERS 14:17 THAT THERE ARE SOME IN HEAVEN NOW?" 14:19 IS ANYONE IN HEAVEN NOW? 14:22 YES. 14:23 ARE THERE ANY HUMANS IN HEAVEN NOW? 14:25 NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT ANGELS AND JESUS. 14:26 YEAH, THERE ARE SOME EXCEPTIONS AND THE BIBLE EXPLAINS ALL OF 14:29 THOSE EXCEPTIONS. 14:31 FIRST OF ALL, YOU CAN READ IN MARK 9 AND LUKE AND IN MATTHEW, 14:36 THE STORY OF THE TRANSFIGURATION. 14:39 WHO APPEARS TO JESUS ON THAT MOUNTAINTOP? 14:41 MOSES AND ELIJAH. 14:44 THEY'RE REAL, HE'S TALKING TO THEM. 14:47 THE APOSTLES SAW THEM. 14:48 THEY'RE BOTH FROM PRIOR HISTORY. 14:51 HOW'D THEY GET TO HEAVEN? 14:52 WELL, WE KNOW ABOUT HOW ELIJAH GOT THERE. 14:55 YOU READ ABOUT THAT IN 2 KINGS 2:11. 14:57 WHAT HAPPENED? 14:59 HE TOOK A CHARIOT OF ANGELS, SO TO SPEAK, OR THEY CALLED IT 15:04 CHARIOTS AND HORSES OF FIRE, CAME DOWN AND SWOOPED HIM 15:07 UP AND TOOK HIM UP TO HEAVEN. 15:09 SO WE KNOW HOW HE GOT THERE WITHOUT DYING. 15:11 HOW DID MOSES GET THERE? 15:13 WELL, THE LORD BURIED MOSES. 15:15 YOU CAN READ, AND BY THE WAY, JEWISH TRADITION SAYS 3 DAYS 15:18 LATER THE LORD RAISED MOSES SO THAT HE COULD WITNESS THEM 15:22 CROSSING OVER INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 15:24 THAT'S ACTUALLY TRUE; YOU READ ABOUT IT IN THE BOOK OF JUDE. 15:26 THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER, VERSE 9, MICHAEL COMES DISPUTING 15:30 WITH THE DEVIL OVER THE BODY OF MOSES. 15:33 WHY WOULD MICHAEL DISPUTE WITH THE DEVIL? 15:34 HE'S COMING TO RAISE HIM. 15:36 AND BECAUSE MOSES APPEARS, YOU KNOW HE'S THERE. 15:38 WHO ELSE IS THERE? 15:40 "ENOCH WALKED WITH GOD; AND HE WAS NOT, FOR GOD TOOK HIM." 15:44 YOU CAN FIND THAT IN GENESIS, YOU CAN FIND THAT IN HEBREWS, 15:46 NO QUESTION, ENOCH'S THERE. 15:49 BUT THERE'S MORE. 15:50 REMEMBER OUR SCRIPTURE READING AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS 15:52 MESSAGE? 15:53 IN MATTHEW 27, DURING THE TIME WHEN CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS 15:57 THERE WAS THIS EARTHQUAKE, ALL THE GRAVES IN THE WORLD OPENED 16:01 UP, IS THAT WHAT IT SAYS? 16:03 NO, NOT ALL, IT'S NOT UNIVERSAL. 16:04 MANY OF THE GRAVES AROUND JERUSALEM OPENED UP AND MANY OF 16:09 THE SAINTS WHO SLEPT. 16:10 SOME OF THE PATRIARCHS, PROPHETS AND KINGS WHO LIVED PRIOR TO 16:13 THE TIME OF CHRIST, A SPECIAL RESURRECTION TOOK PLACE. 16:17 IT DOESN'T TELL US WHO THEY ARE. 16:19 IT COULD HAVE BEEN ISAIAH, JEREMIAH; IT COULD HAVE BEEN 16:22 ABRAHAM, WE DON'T KNOW, THAT WAS RAISED IN THAT RESURRECTION. 16:26 AND THAT PROBABLY EXPLAINS--AND IT SAYS, "THEY CAME OUT OF THE 16:30 GRAVES AFTER HIS RESURRECTION, THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY, 16:32 THEY APPEARED UNTO MANY, AND THEN AT THE ASCENSION OF 16:35 CHRIST THEY ASCENDED WITH HIM." 16:37 SORT OF A TROPHY, THE FIRST FRUITS OF WHAT WAS GONNA HAPPEN. 16:41 THE LORD OFTEN DOES THINGS THAT WAY. 16:44 NOW, IN CONNECTION WITH THE SUBJECT OF DEATH AND 16:47 THE CEMETERY, I PROBABLY NEED TO TALK BRIEFLY ABOUT 16:51 REINCARNATION. 16:54 I EVEN MEET CHRISTIANS THAT BELIEVE IN REINCARNATION, AND I 16:58 ADMIT, I'M NOT PROUD OF IT, THAT WHEN I FIRST BECAME A CHRISTIAN, 17:01 I CAME OUT OF THE NEW AGE MOVEMENT AND EASTERN RELIGIONS, 17:03 I BELIEVED IN REINCARNATION. 17:04 I TRIED TO COMMINGLE THE BIBLE TEACHING WITH REINCARNATION; 17:08 I TRIED TO MAKE THE TWO OF THEM FIT. 17:11 AND I SAID, "WELL, AFTER ALL, THERE'S AT LEAST ONE 17:13 REINCARNATION, WHEN THE DEAD IN CHRIST RISE, 17:15 MAYBE THERE WERE OTHERS. 17:17 AND I TRIED TO ARGUE FOR THAT. 17:18 PRETTY SOON, AS I STUDIED THE BIBLE, I REALIZED YOU CAN'T 17:20 DEFEND REINCARNATION WITH THE BIBLE. 17:22 YEAH, THERE'S THAT ONE TIME WHEN WE'RE REASSEMBLED, EITHER YOU'RE 17:27 RESURRECTED WITH THE JUST OR YOU'RE RESURRECTED WITH 17:29 THE LOST, AND THAT'S IT. 17:32 BUT YOU'RE YOU. 17:34 REINCARNATION TEACHES YOU COME BACK AS SOMEBODY ELSE. 17:37 THERE IS NO REINCARNATION. 17:38 THE BIBLE TELLS US, THIS IS VERY CLEAR, HEBREWS 9:27, 17:42 "AND AS IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MEN ONCE TO DIE." 17:46 HOW MANY TIMES? 17:47 NOW, WE KNOW THERE'S A FEW EXCEPTIONS, LIKE JESUS 17:49 RESURRECTED LAZARUS AND HE DIED AGAIN, RIGHT? 17:52 AND THERE ARE A COUPLE OF RARE EXCEPTIONS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE 17:56 RESURRECTED AND THEY HAD TO DIE AGAIN, BUT IT'S SPEAKING IN 17:59 TERMS OF GENERAL HUMANITY, "IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE 18:02 TO DIE AND AFTER THAT THE JUDGMENT." 18:05 YOU DON'T JUST KEEP ON COMING BACK AND YOU START OUT AS 18:07 A SQUIRREL OR AN ALLIGATOR AND WORK YOURSELF UP TO A SQUIRREL, 18:10 AND THEN YOU COME BACK AS A MAN. 18:12 NO, I GUESS THEY SAY YOU COME BACK AS A WOMAN, THEN A MAN 18:14 AND THEN A COW. 18:16 THAT'S THE SEQUENCE THAT THEY TEACH, DID YOU KNOW THAT? 18:20 YEAH, YOU'VE HEARD THE EXPRESSION, "HOLY COW?" 18:23 THAT'S WHERE THAT COMES FROM; IT'S TRUE, I'M SERIOUS. 18:27 SO WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES? 18:29 WHEN YOU GO TO THE CEMETERY, DOES IT GIVE YOU THE CREEPS? 18:33 IF YOU HAD TO WALK THROUGH A CEMETERY, MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT, 18:36 FULL MOON, WOULD YOU BE AFRAID THAT SOME SPOOK'S GONNA REACH 18:40 OUT OF THE GRAVE AND GRAB YOUR ANKLE? 18:43 WE'VE BEEN TRAINED TO THINK THAT WAY. 18:45 COME ON, ADMIT IT, HAVEN'T WE? 18:47 WE'RE TRAINED TO THINK ALL OF THIS MACABRE GHOULISH THINGS 18:50 THAT THE DEAD AREN'T REALLY DEAD. 18:52 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF DEATH? 18:56 WHAT IS MAN'S STATE? 18:58 BOY, IF ANYTHING IS CLEAR, IF YOU'RE A BIBLE CHRISTIAN, THIS 19:01 IS CLEAR, THE BIBLE REFERS TO IT AS A DREAMLESS SLEEP. 19:06 FROM THE TIME OF DEATH UNTIL THE RESURRECTION, 19:09 THERE IS NO CONSCIOUSNESS. 19:12 SOME OF YOU HAVE RESTLESS SLEEP, AND IT SEEMS LIKE THE NIGHT GOES 19:16 ON FOREVER. 19:17 SOME OF YOU SLEEP WELL, YOU CLOSE YOUR EYES AND THE NEXT 19:20 THING YOU KNOW, YOU MAY HAVE BEEN THERE FOR 7 HOURS. 19:22 YOU HEAR THE ALARM AND YOU THINK, "WHAT HAPPENED? 19:25 IT SEEMS LIKE I JUST CLOSED MY EYES." 19:28 NO AWARENESS OF TIME. 19:29 THAT'S HOW THE BIBLE DESCRIBES THE SLEEP OF DEATH. 19:33 FOR THE SAVED AND THE LOST IT'S THE SAME. 19:36 PSALM 13:3, "CONSIDER AND HEAR ME, O LORD MY GOD, LIGHTEN MINE 19:41 EYES LEST I SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH." 19:45 DEATH IS REFERRED TO OVER AND OVER AGAIN IN THE BIBLE. 19:47 OLD TESTAMENT, NEW TESTAMENT, WORDS OF JESUS. 19:49 WHEN HIS FRIENDS CAME AND TOLD HIM, "YOUR FRIEND LAZARUS 19:54 IS SICK," AND JESUS WAITED AND HE DIDN'T DO ANYTHING. 20:00 AND HE SAID TO THE DISCIPLES, "YOU KNOW, OUR FRIEND LAZARUS 20:04 SLEEPS, BUT I'M GOING THAT I MIGHT WAKE HIM." 20:07 AND THE APOSTLES DIDN'T UNDERSTAND. 20:09 THEY SAID, "WELL, IF HE HAD A FEVER, IF HE'S SLEEPING, 20:11 THAT'S GOOD, HE'LL GET BETTER." 20:12 HE SAID, "NO, YOU DON'T UNDERSTAND, LAZARUS IS," 20:14 WHAT? "DEAD." 20:16 HOW DID JESUS REFER TO LAZARUS' DEATH? 20:19 AS WHAT? 20:20 SLEEP. 20:21 THE STORY OF LAZARUS IS A GREAT STORY AND I'M SURPRISED THAT 20:24 IT'S NOT MORE CLEAR TO PEOPLE. 20:26 WHEN JESUS WENT TO THE TOMB AND HE SAID, "ROLL AWAY THE STONE," 20:29 HE WAS GETTING READY TO RAISE HIM, HE HAD BEEN DEAD FOR 20:32 FOUR DAYS. 20:33 AND MARTHA SAID, "LORD, BY THIS TIME HE STINKS, FOR HE'S BEEN 20:37 DEAD FOR FOUR DAYS. 20:38 THE BODY IS TURNING BACK INTO DUST AND THAT'S NOT A HAPPY 20:41 PROCESS AND YOU DON'T WANT TO ROLL AWAY THE STONE NOW." 20:45 AND JESUS SAID, "TRUST ME." 20:47 THEY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE, AND WHEN HE HAD SAID THIS, 20:51 HE CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, "LAZARUS, COME FORTH." 20:54 LAZARUS THEN CAME FORTH, HE HAD BEEN BOUND BY GRAVE CLOTHES, 20:57 AND JESUS SAID, "LOOSE HIM." 20:59 HOW LONG HAD HE BEEN DEAD? 21:02 FOUR DAYS. 21:04 YOU KNOW ONE REASON I THINK JESUS ALLOWED LAZARUS TO BE 21:05 IN THE GRAVE FOUR DAYS? 21:06 LAZARUS WAS IN THE GRAVE LONGER THAN JESUS. 21:09 YOU KNOW, SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, THESE OTHER RESURRECTIONS 21:12 IN THE BIBLE, THEY WERE PROBABLY IN SOME KIND OF INDUCED COMA 21:15 THAT WAS--THEY WEREN'T REALLY DEAD YET." 21:19 BUT WITH LAZARUS, HE HAD BEEN EMBALMED; THEY HAD WRAPPED 21:23 HIM UP. 21:24 HE WOULD HAVE SUFFOCATED OTHERWISE. 21:26 THEY WRAPPED HIM HEAD AND FOOT. 21:28 REMEMBER EVEN WITH JESUS, THEY HAD A NAPKIN AROUND THE HEAD AND 21:31 ALL OF THIS OINTMENT AND STUFF. 21:33 LAZARUS HAD BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS IN THE TOMB, ALREADY BEGUN TO 21:38 SMELL. 21:39 AND I EXPECT WHEN THEY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE, I DON'T WANT TO 21:41 BE UNPLEASANT, BUT THE STENCH PROBABLY WAFFED IT OUT AND 21:43 GAGGED THEM. 21:45 BUT WHEN HE CAME OUT OF THE GRAVE, IF THAT HAPPENED TODAY, 21:50 LARRY KING WOULD HAVE CALLED LAZARUS AND SAID, "LOOK, 21:54 I WANT AN INTERVIEW." 21:55 AM I RIGHT? 21:57 WHAT WOULD HAVE BEEN THE FIRST QUESTION? 21:59 "WHAT HAPPENED? 22:01 WHAT'D YOU SEE? 22:02 WHERE'D YOU GO? 22:03 WHAT'D YOU DO? 22:04 WHO'D YOU MEET? 22:04 WHAT WAS IT LIKE TO BE DEAD?" 22:06 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? 22:08 IN SPITE OF THE FACT THAT THIS IS ONE OF THE MOST PUBLIC 22:11 MIRACLES OF JESUS, AND ALL OF THE DISCIPLES KNEW ABOUT IT, 22:16 WHAT COMMENT DO WE FIND IN THE BIBLE REGARDING LAZARUS' 22:20 EXPERIENCE WHILE HE WAS DEAD? 22:22 ZERO, NADA, NOTHING, ZIP, ZILCH, PICK YOUR FAVORITE TERM. 22:30 THE BIGGEST QUESTION IN HISTORY IS WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? 22:34 LAZARUS HAS GOT THE ANSWER, HE COMES BACK AND WHAT'S HIS 22:37 COMMENT? 22:38 NO COMMENT. 22:39 WHY? 22:40 JESUS TELLS US WHY, HE'S ASLEEP. 22:42 LAZARUS HAD A FEVER, HE WAS SICK; ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE LOST 22:45 CONSCIOUSNESS, EVENTUALLY HE DIED. 22:47 HE DIDN'T KNOW ANYTHING UNTIL ALL OF THE SUDDEN HE WOKE UP 22:49 FEELING GREAT, BUT HE'S ALL WRAPPED UP WITH THIS ANCIENT 22:51 TOILET PAPER. 22:52 HE DOESN'T KNOW WHAT'S GOING ON AND HE'S HEARING JESUS CALL HIM. 22:56 THAT'S ALL HE KNEW. 22:58 HE WAS LIKE ASLEEP; THIS IS WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 23:01 IN 1 THESSALONIANS 4 THE APOSTLE PAUL SAYS, "BRETHREN, I DO NOT 23:06 WANT YOU TO BE IGNORANT REGARDING THEM THAT ARE ASLEEP." 23:12 AND THEN WHAT DOES HE COMMENCE TO TALK ABOUT? 23:14 DEATH. 23:15 PAUL CALLS IT "ASLEEP." 23:17 HE SAID, "I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS." 23:18 WHY? 23:20 BECAUSE NOT UNDERSTANDING THIS COULD LEAD TO MAJOR 23:23 DECEPTION IN THE LAST DAYS. 23:24 THAT'S WHY I'VE CHOSEN THIS SUBJECT. 23:26 MATTHEW 27, "WHEN CHRIST COMES AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED, AND 23:31 MANY BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT," THIS IS ACTUALLY 23:35 WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS. 23:36 "MANY OF THE BODIES OF THE SAINTS WHICH," DID WHAT? 23:38 "SLEPT," THE BIBLE REFERS TO IT AS SLEEP. 23:41 AGAIN, JOB 17:13, "IF I WAIT, THE GRAVE IS MY HOUSE." 23:48 YOU WAIT IN THE GRAVE UNTIL THE RESURRECTION. 23:51 ANOTHER ONE, JOB 21:32, "YET HE SHALL BE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE 23:55 AND SHALL REMAIN IN THE TOMB." 23:58 AND FINALLY, IF THIS IS NOT ENOUGH SCRIPTURE FOR YOU, 24:01 ACTS 2. 24:02 SOME PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEY SLEPT, 24:05 BUT IN THE NEW TESTAMENT EVERYBODY WHO HAD BEEN DEAD 24:07 NOW GOES TO HEAVEN." 24:09 PETER AT PENTECOST, HE'S PREACHING ABOUT THIS AND HE 24:12 STARTS TALKING ABOUT KING DAVID. 24:13 THIS IS GOOD KING DAVID, WHO WE KNOW WILL BE SAVED, A MAN AFTER 24:16 GOD'S OWN HEART. 24:18 WHAT DOES PETER SAY ABOUT DAVID? 24:19 DOES HE GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN? 24:21 "MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH 24:24 DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH," WHAT? 24:26 "DEAD AND BURIED AND HIS SEPULCHER IS WITH US UNTO THIS 24:31 DAY, FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS." 24:36 DEAD, BURIED, NOT IN HEAVEN, AND WHEN DAVID DIED, IT SAYS 24:40 HE SLEPT WITH HIS FATHERS. 24:42 IF THAT'S CLEAR, SAY, "AMEN." 24:45 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 24:48 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 24:52 >> WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? 24:56 >> IS ANYONE IN HEAVEN NOW? 25:02 >> WHAT IS A SOUL? 25:07 >> IS THERE ANYTHING WRONG WITH CREMATION? 25:13 >> WHAT WAS THE FIRST LIE THE DEVIL EVER TOLD? 25:18 >> "YOU WON'T REALLY DIE, YOU'RE IMMORTAL." 25:22 >> THANK YOU FOR JOINING US FOR THIS BROADCAST. 25:24 IF YOU'VE MISSED ANY OF OUR AMAZING FACTS PROGRAMS, 25:26 VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 25:29 THERE YOU'LL FIND AN ARCHIVE OF ALL OUR TELEVISION AND RADIO 25:31 PROGRAMS, INCLUDING "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS," 25:34 "CENTRAL STUDY HOUR," "EVERLASTING GOSPEL," 25:36 "BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE," AND "WONDERS IN THE WORD." 25:39 YOU'LL ALSO FIND A STOREHOUSE OF BIBLICAL RESOURCES GEARED 25:42 TOWARDS ANSWERING SOME OF YOUR MOST DIFFICULT QUESTIONS. 25:45 AND OUR ONLINE BIBLE SCHOOL IS JUST A CLICK AWAY. 25:47 ONE LOCATION, SO MANY POSSIBILITIES. 25:50 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG. 25:53 >> WORLD EVENTS HAVE NEVER BEEN MORE UNSTABLE THAN TODAY, 25:56 TERRORISM, DISASTERS, BIZARRE WEATHER. 25:59 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE REVEAL ABOUT FUTURE EVENTS? 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