Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000065
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00:11 >> ARMAGEDDON IS THE FINAL MOBILIZATION OF THE POWERS 00:15 AND ARMIES OF THE WORLD TO EXTERMINATE GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:20 [MUSIC] >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, 00:25 AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD 00:28 THROUGH MEDIA. 00:30 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR 00:32 BEST TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:36 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:38 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:43 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM 00:44 "THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL" VIDEO SERIES. 00:52 >> TODAY WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE BATTLE OF 00:55 ARMAGEDDON, AND IT IS A TOPIC OF THEOLOGY THAT HAS BEEN 01:04 DEBATED EVER SINCE THE WORDS WERE FIRST PENNED BY THE 01:07 APOSTLE JOHN ABOUT 90 A.D. 01:11 A LOT OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS ABOUT THE WORD AND WHAT THE 01:14 BATTLE IS AND WHAT IT MEANS. 01:15 IS IT LITERAL? 01:16 IS IT SPIRITUAL? 01:17 WHAT IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON? 01:21 ARMAGEDDON IS IN THE CONTEXT OF PLAGUE NUMBER SIX. 01:25 VERY QUICKLY, I'M GOING TO OVERVIEW WHAT THE SEVEN LAST 01:28 PLAGUES ARE. 01:29 AGAIN THIS IS A WHOLE SERMON BY ITSELF, BUT TODAY WE'RE 01:32 FOCUSING ON ARMAGEDDON. 01:35 AND DON'T FORGET, THOSE PLAGUES CAME ON EGYPT JUST BEFORE 01:40 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE DELIVERED FROM THEIR BONDAGE 01:42 AND BEGAN THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 01:45 THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES COME ON OUR WORLD JUST BEFORE 01:47 WE ARE DELIVERED FROM THIS, THE BONDAGE OF SIN IN THE WORLD, 01:52 THIS WHOLE CREATION THAT GROANS AND TRAVAILS AND WE BEGIN OUR 01:54 JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 01:56 THE MANSIONS HE HAS PREPARED, AMEN? 01:59 "PLAGUE NUMBER ONE IS A NOISOME OR LOATHSOME SORE ON THOSE WHO 02:05 RECEIVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST." 02:07 YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IS AND WHO 02:09 THE BEAST IS. 02:10 "PLAGUE NUMBER TWO, THE SEA, THE SALTY WATERS BECOME 02:16 AS BLOOD OF A DEAD MAN, PUTRID BLOOD." 02:19 A LOT OF PEOPLE HAVE THEORIES ABOUT WHAT THAT IS. 02:21 "PLAGUE NUMBER THREE, THE RIVERS AND WATERS, THE FRESH 02:25 WATER SOURCES BECOME AS BLOOD." 02:28 YOU REMEMBER THE WATERS TURN TO BLOOD IN EGYPT. 02:30 "PLAGUE NUMBER FOUR, MEN ARE SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT." 02:36 THE ULTIMATE GLOBAL WARMING AT THAT POINT. 02:39 "PLAGUE NUMBER FIVE, THE BEAST KINGDOM IS FULL OF DARKNESS." 02:45 WAS DARKNESS ONE OF THE PLAGUES ON ANCIENT EGYPT? 02:49 "PLAGUE NUMBER SIX, THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON." 02:52 WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT IN THE MESSAGE. 02:54 PLAGUE NUMBER SEVEN, THIS IS GREAT EARTHQUAKE, 02:57 GREAT HAIL AND ULTIMATELY THE SECOND COMING OF CHRIST. 02:59 SO NOW IF WE'RE GONNA STUDY ARMAGEDDON, YOU'VE GOTTA OPEN 03:02 YOUR BIBLE TO REVELATION 16. 03:05 WE JUST HEARD THIS IN OUR MEMORY VERSE. 03:09 REVELATION 16:12, WE'RE GONNA TAKE THIS VERSE BY VERSE. 03:17 "AND THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL--" WE GOT ANOTHER 03:25 ANGEL HERE WITH A LOUD VOICE. 03:30 "AND THE SIXTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL ON THE GREAT RIVER 03:33 EUPHRATES AND THE WATER WAS DRIED UP." 03:36 THESE BOWLS, THESE VIALS ARE THE PLAGUES THAT FALL. 03:39 "AND THE WATER WAS DRIED UP SO THE WAY OF THE KINGS OF 03:42 THE EAST MIGHT BE PREPARED." 03:44 IT SAYS, "TO MAKE THE WAY FOR THE KINGS OF THE EAST." 03:46 WHENEVER I READ THAT AUTOMATICALLY MY MIND GOES BACK 03:49 TO WHEN CHRIST WAS BORN. 03:51 WHEN HE CAME THE FIRST TIME, IT'S INTERESTING THAT 03:55 THESE MAGI, THESE KINGS, THESE LEADERS, PATRIARCHS 04:00 FROM THE EAST CAME. 04:02 "NOW AFTER JESUS WAS BORN IN BETHLEHEM OF JUDEA IN THE DAYS 04:05 OF HEROD THE KING, BEHOLD WISE MEN FROM THE EAST CAME 04:09 TO JERUSALEM." 04:10 YOU'VE HEARD THE SONG BEFORE "WE THREE KINGS OF ORIENT ARE." 04:14 THAT'S BECAUSE IN THE ORIGINAL WORD, THEY WERE SOME SORT 04:17 OF PATRIARCHS MAGI LEADERS, CHIEFTAINS. 04:20 THESE WERE MEN OF HONOR THAT CAME FROM THE EAST, 04:23 AND THEY COULD HAVE BEEN. 04:26 SOME OF THE HEBREWS THAT HAD BEEN LEFT IN BABYLON, THEY 04:30 COULD HAVE BEEN READING THE PROPHECIES OF BALAAM THAT SAID 04:33 A STAR WOULD ARISE OUT OF JACOB, WE DON'T KNOW. 04:35 BUT THAT'S ONE THING I WANT IN YOUR MIND WHEN IT SAYS, 04:37 "KINGS OF THE EAST." 04:38 THE OTHER THING IS FROM THE EAST REPRESENTS WHERE THE GLORY 04:41 OF GOD, THE POWER OF GOD COMES FROM. 04:44 IT DOESN'T HAVE ANYTHING TO THIS DO WITH THE SUN 04:47 RISING IN THE EAST. 04:48 EZEKIEL 43:1, "AFTERWARD HE BROUGHT ME TO THE GATE THAT 04:53 FACES TOWARDS THE EAST AND BEHOLD, THE GLORY OF THE GOD 04:57 OF ISRAEL CAME FROM THE WAY OF THE EAST. 05:00 AND HIS VOICE WAS LIKE THE SOUND OF MANY WATERS AND THE 05:02 EARTH SHONE WITH HIS GLORY." 05:06 WHEN KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE HAD TO CROSS THE EUPHRATES 05:10 AND HE CAME FROM THE EAST AND HE DID ONE OF TWO THINGS 05:13 WITH THE ISRAELITES. 05:15 THEY WERE EITHER DESTROYED OR THEY WERE SPARED, FAVORED AND 05:19 TAKEN BACK TO A GOLDEN KINGDOM. 05:20 ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 05:22 WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME, HE WAS THE KING OF THAT 05:25 GOLDEN EMPIRE. 05:26 ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH WHEN HE CAME. 05:29 THEY WERE EITHER JUDGED AND PUNISHED OR SPARED LIKE DANIEL, 05:32 SHADRACH, MESHACH AND ABEDNEGO, TAKEN BACK TO A GOLDEN KINGDOM. 05:36 THAT'S EVEN A FIGURE OF WHAT CHRIST IS GONNA DO WHEN 05:38 HE COMES TO THIS WORLD, BUT HE CROSSED THE EUPHRATES. 05:41 THE KINGS OF THE EAST WERE THE MEDES THE PERSIANS THAT CAME. 05:45 THE EUPHRATES RIVER DRIED UP. 05:46 WHAT HAPPENED WHEN THE PERSIANS TOOK CONTROL? 05:49 THEY ISSUED A DECREE, THE 70 YEARS OF CAPTIVITY WAS OVER, 05:52 THE PEOPLE COULD GO BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND. 05:54 WHEN THE EUPHRATES DRIED UP, BABYLON FELL, THE PEOPLE COULD 05:58 GO BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND. 06:00 IN THE LAST DAYS, DO WE HAVE A MODERN BABYLON? 06:04 IT'S A SPIRITUAL BABYLON, RIGHT? 06:06 DO WE HAVE A SPIRITUAL ISRAEL? 06:08 WHAT DON'T YOU KNOW IF YOUR CHRIST, YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED. 06:12 SO MANY WILL COME FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST AND SIT DOWN 06:15 WITH ABRAHAM, ISAAC AND JACOB. 06:17 IF YOU BELONG TO JESUS, YOU ARE ABRAHAM'S SEED. 06:20 SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. 06:21 SPIRITUAL BABYLON, SPIRITUAL ISRAEL, SPIRITUAL EUPHRATES, 06:24 FRIENDS. 06:25 NOW THIS SOMETIMES CAUSES PEOPLE TO STUMBLE BECAUSE 06:28 WHEN YOU'RE GOING THROUGH THE PLAGUES, IS IT GONNA 06:32 LITERALLY BE A SORE? 06:34 YEAH. 06:35 LITERAL BLOOD? 06:37 WAS IT LITERAL BLOOD IN EGYPT, THE RIVER? 06:39 WELL, AT LEAST LITERALLY RED. 06:42 I DON'T KNOW IF IT WAS LITERALLY BLOOD. 06:45 OCEAN'S BLOOD LITERALLY SCOURGED WITH GREAT HEAT, 06:48 LITERAL DARKNESS. 06:49 THE OTHER PLAGUES ARE VERY REAL PLAGUES AND NOW WHEN WE TALK 06:52 ABOUT SPIRITUAL EUPHRATES, HERE'S THE KEY TO UNDERSTAND 06:56 THE DISTINCTION, ALL OF THE TERMS AND THE NUMBERS IN 07:00 REVELATION ARE QUITE LITERAL UNLESS YOU GET TO A NAME. 07:05 WHENEVER YOU HEAR A NAME IN REVELATION, YOU HAVE TO APPLY 07:08 THE SPIRITUAL EQUIVALENT FROM THE OLD TESTAMENT STORY, 07:11 YOU GET THAT? 07:12 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE. 07:14 IN THE MESSAGE TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES, OUT OF THE BLUE 07:17 IT TALKS ABOUT BALAAM. 07:19 WAS THERE SOME GUY NAMED BALAAM IN THOSE SEVEN CHURCHES 07:21 OF ASIA? 07:22 NO, IT IS A JEWISH NAME OR A MESOPOTAMIAN NAME. 07:26 THERE'S NOBODY THERE, BUT THE REVELATOR, THE LORD WANTED US 07:30 TO LOOK BACK AT THE STORY OF BALAAM TO UNDERSTAND WHAT WAS 07:34 HAPPENING IN THAT CHURCH. 07:36 THEN THEY'RE TALKING ON AND THEY TALK ABOUT JEZEBEL. 07:39 WELL, THAT WAS AN ANCIENT JEWISH QUEEN. 07:41 SHE WASN'T EVEN JEWISH, SHE WAS A PAGAN QUEEN OVER ISRAEL. 07:44 DO YOU THINK THERE WAS A LITERAL MEMBER OF ONE OF THE 07:47 SEVEN CHURCHES NAMED JEZEBEL? 07:49 NO. 07:50 IT'S A NAME. 07:52 REVELATION WHEN IT SAYS MICHAEL, WE KNOW THAT'S A SPIRITUAL NAME. 07:56 WHEN IT SAYS DRAGON, THAT'S A SPIRITUAL NAME FOR THE DEVIL. 07:59 IS THE DEVIL REALLY A REPTILE? 08:02 ALL RIGHT, SO WHENEVER YOU HEAR A NAME IN REVELATION, THERE'S A 08:04 KEY AND THAT'S TRUE ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BOOK, FRIENDS. 08:09 THESE NAMES, WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT SPIRITUALLY CALLED SODOM 08:11 AND EGYPT. 08:12 THOSE WERE SPIRITUAL NAMES FOR THE NATION OF FRANCE. 08:15 YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING? 08:16 SO WHEN IT MENTIONS EUPHRATES, IT MEANS THE SPIRITUAL 08:18 EQUIVALENT. 08:19 ITS LIFELINE IS GONNA BE DRIED UP. 08:21 AND YOU READ IN REVELATION 18 ABOUT BABYLON FALLING, OKAY? 08:24 SO I HOPE--THAT MAKES SENSE TO ME, I HOPE IT MAKES SENSE 08:27 TO YOU. 08:28 LET'S GO ON AND READ REVELATION 16:13 NOW. 08:34 "AND I SAW THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS COME 08:38 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON, OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST 08:42 AND OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET." 08:46 WELL, BEFORE I GET TO WHO THOSE THREE CHARACTERS ARE, 08:48 LET'S TALK ABOUT FROGS. 08:51 HOW MANY FROGS? 08:53 THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS LIKE FROGS. 08:56 NOW, DO WE FIND FROGS IN EGYPT AMONG THE PLAGUES? 09:01 A LOT OF PARALLELS THAT YOU'RE GONNA SEE. 09:03 WHEN YOU THINK OF FROGS, WHAT COMES TO YOUR MIND? 09:08 FIRST OF ALL, HAS ANYONE HERE EVER BEEN BITTEN BY A FROG? 09:12 OH COME ON, NOW. 09:14 THEY MAY HAVE NAPPED DOWN ON YOU, 09:17 BUT FROGS HAVE NO TEETH. 09:19 BUT FROGS, THEIR REAL DANGER IS THEIR TONGUE. 09:24 THE OTHER THING WE NOTICE IS JUST WHEN YOU THINK YOU'RE 09:27 GONNA GRAB THEM, THEY LEAP, THEY JUMP FROM PLACE TO PLACE 09:30 AND THEY'RE SLIPPERY. 09:36 THESE FROGS IT REPRESENTS, AND IT COMES OUT OF WHAT? 09:39 IT DOESN'T COME OUT OF THE EYE OR THE EAR, IT COMES OUT 09:41 OF THE MOUTH. 09:42 IT MEANS IT'S A MESSAGE. 09:43 GOD'S MESSAGES ARE SYMBOLIZED BY ANGELS FLYING IN THE MIDST 09:46 OF HEAVEN. 09:47 THE DEVIL'S MESSAGE IS FROGS BECAUSE THEY'RE REPTILES. 09:52 THEY'RE LIKE TADPOLES AND THEY'RE SLIPPERY AND IT'S 09:55 A MESSAGE WHERE THEY GET YOU WITH THEIR WORDS. 09:59 HOW DID THE DEVIL GET EVE? 10:00 HE STUCK OUT THAT STICKY TONGUE OF HIS AND HE--HE TRAPPED HER. 10:05 AND SO IT'S SYMBOLIC WITH THESE FROGS. 10:09 THEN IT SAYS COMES OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE BEAST, 10:14 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON AND HERE WE GOT A PICTURE 10:17 OF THE FROG THAT'S COMING OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE DRAGON 10:21 AND THEN OUT OF THE MOUTH OF THE FALSE PROPHET. 10:25 WELL, I WANT TO READ VERSE 14-- SORRY, REVELATION 16:14, 10:28 "THEY'RE THE SPIRITS OF DEMONS PERFORMING SIGNS," WONDERS, 10:35 "WHICH GO OUT TO THE KINGS OF THE EARTH, THE GOVERNMENTS, 10:37 THE WORLD LEADERS AND THE WHOLE WORLD TO GATHER THEM TO 10:41 THE BATTLE OF THE GREAT DAY OF GOD ALMIGHTY." 10:44 NOW THESE ARE SOME VERY IMPORTANT VERSES TO CONSIDER. 10:47 REVELATION 13:13-14 SPEAKING OF THE BEAST POWER, "HE PERFORMS 10:55 GREAT SIGNS SO THAT HE EVEN MAKES FIRE COME DOWN FROM 10:58 HEAVEN ON THE EARTH IN THE SIGHT OF MEN AND DECEIVES THOSE 11:01 WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH BY THE MEANS OF THOSE SIGNS 11:04 THAT HE'S GRANTED TO DO IN THE SIGHT OF THE BEAST." 11:08 THERE'S LYING WONDERS, IT TELLS US ABOUT. 11:14 THERE'S GONNA BE COUNTERFEIT MIRACLES, THAT'S WHY OUR 11:16 FAITH NEEDS TO BE ROOTED, AND WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 11:19 NOT WHAT GREAT MIRACLE HAS HAPPENED THAT'S ON THE NEWS ALL 11:21 OVER THE WORLD OR SOME COUNTERFEIT CHRIST THAT MAY 11:26 APPEAR DOING WONDERS, MAYBE EVEN BRINGING FIRE DOWN FROM 11:30 HEAVEN LIKE ELIJAH PRAYED AND FIRE CAME DOWN AND OBVIOUSLY IF 11:33 MOSES PRAYS AND FIRE COMES DOWN ON THE ALTAR, AND HERE 11:38 THIS FALSE CHRIST, HE PRAYS AND FIRE SEEMS TO COME DOWN, 11:44 IT MUST BE TRUE. 11:45 SIGNS AND WONDERS, THAT'S WHY WE'VE GOTTA GO BY 11:49 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY? 11:51 AND IT SAYS TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER FOR THE GREAT DAY 11:54 OF GOD ALMIGHTY. 11:55 THIS IS OFTEN REFERRED TO IN THE BIBLE AS THE DAY 11:58 OF THE LORD. 12:00 THAT IS THE DAY OF DAYS, THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY THAT IT 12:03 SPEAKS OF OR THE FIRST PART OF THAT JUDGMENT, JOEL 3:2, 12:09 "I WILL GATHER ALL NATIONS AND BRING THEM DOWN TO THE VALLEY 12:13 OF JEHOSHAPHAT, AND I'LL ENTER INTO JUDGMENT THERE WITH THEM 12:16 ON ACCOUNT OF MY PEOPLE, MY HERITAGE ISRAEL WHOM THEY HAVE 12:20 SCATTERED AMONG THE NATIONS. 12:22 THEY'VE ALSO DIVIDED UP MY LAND." 12:24 NOW YOU GOTTA KNOW YOUR BIBLE. 12:27 THERE WAS A GREAT BATTLE IN THE DAYS OF JEHOSHAPHAT WHERE 12:31 ALL OF THE NATIONS AROUND HIM TOOK HIM ON, THE EDOMITES, 12:35 THE MOABITES, THE AMMONITES. 12:37 IT LOOKED HOPELESS. 12:38 HE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 12:39 HE PRAYED AND GOD SENT HIM A PROPHET. 12:41 GOD SENT PROPHETS TO HIS PEOPLE JUST BEFORE THE END, AND HIS 12:44 PROPHET SAID, "DON'T BE AFRAID, TRUST THE LORD." 12:49 AND THEY SENT THE LEVITES OUT BEFORE THEM SINGING. 12:51 THEY WERE ALSO TOLD TO DIG DITCHES AND THE ENEMY, WHEN THE 12:54 SUN CAME UP, SAW THESE DITCHES AND THEY THOUGHT IT WAS BLOOD. 12:58 AND THEY GOT SCARED AND SOMEHOW THEY WENT INTO BATTLE AND BEGAN 13:00 TO FIGHT AMONG THEMSELVES, AND THE ENEMY SELF-DESTRUCTED. 13:03 YOU LISTENING? 13:04 THE ENEMY DESTROYED THEMSELVES. 13:07 THEY TURNED ON ONE ANOTHER. 13:08 JEHOSHAPHAT DIDN'T HAVE TO FIRE AN ARROW. 13:11 GOD DELIVERED HIM. 13:12 SO WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, DON'T 13:15 START LOOKING ON YOUR MAP TO FIND OUT WHERE THAT BATTLE 13:17 OF ARMAGEDDON'S GONNA BE. 13:18 IT'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN THE DAYS OF 13:20 JEHOSHAPHAT IS HOW IT'S GONNA HAPPEN AGAIN. 13:23 IT'S NOT A PLACE ON A MAP. 13:26 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS NOT A BATTLE THAT'S GONNA TAKE 13:28 PLACE IN A LITTLE, BITTY VALLEY OVER THERE IN ISRAEL. 13:31 IT IS THE GREAT BATTLE IN THE LAST DAYS BETWEEN--THE BATTLES 13:34 OF REVELATION ARE TALKING ABOUT THE CHRIST AND SATAN. 13:38 IT'S NOT A BATTLE TALKING ABOUT IRAN, PAKISTAN, INDIA THESE 13:42 LITTLE, THEY'RE NATIONS. 13:44 IT'S DEALING WITH THOSE WHO FOLLOW GOD, THE GREAT 13:46 CONTROVERSY, AND THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE DEVIL. 13:49 ARMAGEDDON IS THE FINAL MOBILIZATION OF THE POWERS AND 13:53 ARMIES OF WORLD TO EXTERMINATE GOD'S PEOPLE LIKE THEY DID 13:58 WITH JEHOSHAPHAT. 14:00 BUT WHEN THAT TIME COMES, THE TABLES ARE TURNED. 14:03 IT LOOKS HOPELESS, BUT GOD FIGHTS FOR HIS PEOPLE. 14:07 NOW I'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 14:10 WE HAVEN'T EVEN GOTTEN TO THE WORD ARMAGEDDON YET. 14:12 REVELATION 16:16, "AND THEY GATHERED THEM TOGETHER TO 14:17 A PLACE CALLED IN THE HEBREW TONGUE ARMAGEDDON. 14:22 NOW HERE IS THE REAL CONUNDRUM, YOU CAN'T COMPARE THIS WORD 14:26 REALLY WITH ANOTHER USE OF THE WORD IN THE BIBLE 'CAUSE IT'S 14:29 THE ONLY TIME THE WORD APPEARS IN GREEK LITERATURE ANYWHERE. 14:32 AT LEAST THEY HAVEN'T FOUND ANYTHING YET, AND IT DOESN'T 14:35 REALLY APPEAR AS THIS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT. 14:38 HERE YOU'VE GOT A JEWISH WRITER, JOHN, HE'S AN OLD MAN. 14:43 HE MOSTLY SPEAKS ARAMAIC. 14:45 HE'S IN PRISON BY THE ROMANS, A LATIN COUNTRY ON A ROMAN 14:49 ISLAND. 14:50 AND WHEN HE WROTE IT OUT, THE BEST THEY CAN FIGURE IT HAS 14:53 SOMETHING TO DO WITH THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO-- 14:55 HAR MEANS HILL--OF MEGIDDO AND SO BUT THAT WAS REALLY 15:00 EITHER MOUNT TABOR. 15:02 IT'S A CONFUSING PHRASE AND EVERYONE TRIES TO POINT 15:05 ON A MAP WHERE IS THIS BATTLE. 15:07 THEY'RE GATHERED TO THIS PLACE CALLED ARMAGEDDON. 15:09 NOW WHAT DID I TELL YOU ABOUT NAMES IN THE BIBLE? 15:12 ARE THE NAMES LITERAL OR SPIRITUAL? 15:15 THEY'RE SPIRITUAL AND SYMBOLIC SO WHEN YOU READ ARMAGEDDON, 15:19 YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHERE IN THE BIBLE DOES THIS POINT? 15:22 IF IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, THAT'S FINE. 15:26 THERE ARE THREE STORIES IN THE BIBLE THAT HELP US UNDERSTAND 15:29 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 15:33 JUDGES 4, GIVE IT TO YOU QUICKLY, YOU CAN READ IT 15:36 WHEN YOU GO HOME AND 5. 15:38 CHILDREN OF ISRAEL HAD WANDERED FROM GOD, THEY WERE OPPRESSED 15:40 FOR 20 YEARS BY PAGAN COUNTRY. 15:44 THE CANAANITES AND FINALLY GOD ROSE UP A PROPHETESS 15:48 BY THE NAME OF DEBORAH. 15:50 DEBORAH CALLED FOR BARAK. 15:52 HE SAID GATHER ALL THE PEOPLE TOGETHER AT MOUNT TABOR AND 15:55 THEY FOUGHT WITH THE GENERAL NAMED SISERA. 15:59 THEY HAD 900 IRON CHARIOTS. 16:02 IT'S LIKE 900 ABRAM TANKS TODAY. 16:05 THEY HAD A MASSIVE ARMY. 16:06 THERE WAS NO WAY THAT THEY COULD DEFEAT 'EM. 16:08 THEY HAD BEEN OPPRESSED FOR YEARS. 16:10 ALL OF THE ISRAELITES HAVE IS, YOU KNOW, GARDEN SHOVELS 16:13 AND THINGS TO FIGHT WITH, PRUNING HOOKS. 16:17 AND SHE SAYS, "GOD'S GONNA BE WITH YOU." 16:18 HE SAID, "IF YOU GO WITH ME, I'LL GO." 16:20 SHE SAID, "I'LL GO WITH YOU, BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA 16:22 GET THE CREDIT. 16:23 THE CREDIT'S GONNA GO TO A WOMAN." 16:25 NOT ONLY DID THE CREDIT GO TO A WOMAN, DEBORAH, BUT THE CREDIT 16:27 WENT TO ANOTHER WOMAN NAMED JAEL BECAUSE WHEN 16:30 THE ISRAELITES TOOK ON THE CANAANITES IN THE VALLEY OF 16:35 MEGIDDO, THEY WERE CONQUERED. 16:37 THEY WERE ROUTED. 16:38 AND AS THEY FLED, THEIR CHARIOTS GOT STUCK IN THE MIRE. 16:41 IT HAD RAINED EVIDENTLY AND SISERA GOT OFF AND HE FLED 16:44 AND HE FOUND A TENT OF THE KENANITES WHICH WERE SORT 16:49 OF A NEUTRAL PEOPLE. 16:50 AND HE SAID, "LOOK, YOU KNOW YOU'RE NOT AN ISRAELITE. 16:52 YOU'RE NOT ONE OF US, BUT WILL YOU SHOW ME SANCTUARY, 16:54 HIDE ME." 16:55 SO THE GENERAL HIDES UNDERNEATH THIS RUG AND SHE ENDS UP 16:59 PIERCING HIS EAR WHILE HE SLEPT EXCEPT SHE WENT A LITTLE 17:03 TOO FAR AND KILLED HIM. 17:06 AND HE--SO SHE GOT CREDIT FOR DESTROYING THE ARMY. 17:12 AND THEN THEY SING THIS SONG, DEBORAH SINGS THIS PROPHETIC 17:14 SONG ABOUT THE VICTORY THEY RECEIVED. 17:17 JUDGES 5:19, "THE KINGS CAME AND FOUGHT, THEN FOUGHT THE 17:24 KINGS OF CANAAN AND TAANACH BY THE WATER OF MEGIDDO. 17:28 THEY TOOK NO GAIN OF MONEY. 17:30 THEY FOUGHT FROM HEAVEN, THE STARS IN THEIR COURSES 17:33 FOUGHT AGAINST SISERA." 17:34 SHE'S SAYING, "THE HEAVENS FOUGHT FOR US. 17:37 WE DIDN'T HAVE TO FIGHT, THE HEAVENS FOUGHT FOR US," 17:40 AND THEY WERE DELIVERED. 17:41 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE STORY OF GIDEON. 17:46 NOW THIS IS ESPECIALLY INTERESTING WHEN YOU STUDY 17:49 THE WORD OF ARMAGEDDON BECAUSE GIDEON'S NAME IS VERY SIMILAR. 17:58 MATTER OF FACT I THINK I'VE GOT--YOU'VE GOT A PICTURE OF 18:01 GIDEON UP THERE ON THE SCREEN. 18:04 THEY WERE COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED, ANOTHER BATTLE IN 18:06 THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO. 18:10 WHEN YOU READ IN THE STORY OF GIDEON AND YOU GO TO JUDGES 7 18:14 IN THE ORIGINAL HEBREW-- AND GO TO THE NEXT SLIDE HERE. 18:16 YOU'LL SEE THIS, I WANT YOU TO SEE IT FOR YOURSELF. 18:19 IN JUDGES 7:2, SEVERAL TIMES IT SAYS GOD SPOKE TO GIDEON 18:25 AND IT'S YEHOVAH AMAR GIDOEN. 18:29 YOU GOT THAT? 18:31 SPOKE TO GIDEON, AND THAT'S VERY SIMILAR TO THE WORD 18:36 "ARMAGEDDON." 18:37 NOW IN THE STORY OF GIDEON, YOU'VE GOT THE SAME THING YOU 18:40 HAVE IN REVELATION. 18:41 THERE WAS A THREE-FOLD POWER, THE MIDIANITES, THE AMALEKITES, 18:46 THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST GATHERED AGAINST GOD'S PEOPLE 18:48 AND OPPRESSED THEM. 18:50 ALL GIDEON HAD WAS 300 MEN, AGAIN, 3. 18:53 HE DIVIDED THEM INTO THREE COMPANIES. 18:56 THEY WERE ALL GIVEN THREE THINGS, GIVEN A TRUMPET, GIVEN 18:59 A PITCHER AND THEY HAD A SWORD. 19:01 ALL SYMBOLS OF THE WORD. 19:03 LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE, LIFT UP YOUR VOICE LIKE A TRUMPET, 19:06 THE WORD OF GOD IS SHARPER THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD. 19:08 AND AT THE RIGHT MOMENT, THEY BROKE THE PITCHERS, 19:10 THE LIGHT SHINED, THEY BLEW THE TRUMPET, 19:12 THEY WAVED THEIR SWORDS AND THEY SHOUTED. 19:14 NOW WHAT DID THE ENEMY DO? 19:16 THEY WOKE UP IN DISARRAY AND CONFUSION CONFOUNDED BY THE 19:20 NOISE, THE BLARING TRUMPETS. 19:21 THEY SAW THE LIGHTS AROUND THE HILL. 19:23 THEY THOUGHT THERE WAS THIS VAST ARMY, AND THEY ALL TURNED 19:26 ON EACH OTHER AND SELF-DESTRUCTED. 19:32 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS IN THE END. 19:34 GOD FIGHTS FOR US FROM HEAVEN IN THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 19:39 THE BIBLE TELLS US CHRIST COMES. 19:41 MATTER OF FACT, THAT'S THE SEVENTH PLAGUE IS JESUS COMING. 19:51 FINAL THING, FRIENDS, I JUST WANT TO GO BACK TO REVELATION. 19:56 I'M JUST GONNA READ IT TO YOU SO I CAN TIE OFF THIS, 19:58 THIS SEVENTH BULL. 20:01 I READ ABOUT WHAT ARMAGEDDON MEANS. 20:02 ARMAGEDDON IS TALKING ABOUT--OH, YOU KNOW I KNEW 20:05 I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING. 20:06 THERE'S A THIRD STORY ABOUT ARMAGEDDON. 20:09 THE FAVORITE YOUNG KING, HE WAS IN HIS THIRTIES RIGHT ABOUT 20:12 THE AGE OF CHRIST NAMED JOSIAH. 20:16 HE DIES IN THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO DEFENDING GOD'S PEOPLE. 20:23 AND SO WHENEVER YOU SAY THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO TO THE 20:26 ISRAELITES, IT TALKS ABOUT A KING THEY LOVED WHO SACRIFICED 20:29 HIMSELF. 20:31 YOU WITH ME? 20:32 IT TALKS ABOUT BATTLES THAT ARE WON WHEN GOD FOUGHT FOR THEM IN 20:36 A MIRACULOUS WAY. 20:38 AND SO WHEN IT SAYS THEY'RE GATHERED TOGETHER LIKE 20:41 THE VALLEY OF JEHOSHAPHAT, THE VALLEY OF MEGIDDO, 20:43 IT LOOKS HOPELESS, IT LOOKS LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BE DESTROYED 20:46 BUT AT THE LAST MINUTE, GOD FIGHTS FOR US, AMEN? 20:49 ALL THE FORCES OF THE WORLD ARE GONNA BE GATHERED AGAINST THOSE 20:53 WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY 20:55 OF JESUS IN THE LAST DAYS. 20:56 THAT IS THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON. 20:59 AND JUST WHEN THEY'RE GETTING READY TO LAUNCH THE BATTLE 21:01 AGAINST US, THE REAL FORCES COME FROM OVER THE HILL. 21:04 YOU EVER SEEN THESE STORIES BEFORE WHERE, YOU KNOW, IT 21:07 LOOKS LIKE THIS LITTLE TROOP IS COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED 21:10 AND THEY'RE SURROUNDED AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S ALL OVER. 21:13 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU HEAR IN THE DISTANCE, A TRUMPET... 21:19 AND THE CALVARY COMES RIDING OVER THE HILL JUST LIKE A WAVE, 21:22 AND THEY COME TO THE RESCUE AND THAT'S WHAT IT'S GONNA BE LIKE. 21:25 IT'S GONNA BE THE GREAT RESCUE. 21:27 AND YOU KNOW WHO'S GONNA BE LEADING THAT CALVARY FROM 21:29 HEAVEN, JESUS IS GONNA COME RIDING. 21:33 THAT'S WHEN HE COMES RIDING ON THE WHITE HORSE WEARING HIS RED 21:35 GARMENT SAYING THE WORD OF GOD WITH A SWORD COMING OUT OF HIS 21:38 MOUTH AND HE COMES TO DELIVER HIS PEOPLE. 21:41 AND THAT'S WHEN THE WICKED FLEE FROM HIS PRESENCE AND RUN 21:43 AND CALL FOR THE ROCKS AND MOUNTAINS TO FALL ON THEM. 21:46 SO I SAID I WAS GONNA READ TO YOU THE SEVENTH PLAGUE. 21:50 VERSE 17, "THE SEVENTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS BOWL INTO THE 21:55 AIR AND A LOUD VOICE CAME OUT OF THE TEMPLE OF HEAVEN 21:58 FROM THE THRONE SAYING, 'IT IS DONE.'" 22:00 THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID ON THE CROSS. 22:03 "AND THERE WERE NOISES AND THUNDERINGS AND LIGHTNINGS AND 22:06 THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE, SUCH A MIGHTY EARTHQUAKE 22:10 AND SO GREAT" THAT NO RICHTER SCALE COULD MEASURE IT, 22:14 I THREW THAT IN. 22:15 AND IT SAYS, "NEVER OCCURRED SINCE MEN WERE ON THE EARTH." 22:19 THAT GREAT CITY WAS DIVIDED IN THREE PARTS JUST LIKE THE 22:21 FORCES IN THE STORY OF GIDEON. 22:25 "AND GREAT BABYLON WAS REMEMBERED BEFORE GOD." 22:27 IS THAT LITERAL OR SPIRITUAL BABYLON THERE? 22:30 SPIRITUAL BABYLON, YEAH. 22:33 "TO GIVE UP THE CUP OF THE WINE OF THE FIERCENESS OF HIS WRATH. 22:35 THEN EVERY ISLAND FED AWAY AND THE MOUNTAINS WERE NOT FOUND." 22:39 SO IF YOU'RE PART OF THE COUNTRY LIVING CLASS, 22:41 DON'T MOVE TO KAUAI. 22:45 "AND GREAT HAIL FROM HEAVEN FELL UPON MEN, EVERY HAILSTONE 22:49 ABOUT THE WEIGHT OF A TALENT, 75 POUNDS." 22:52 AND THEN BLASPHEME GOD BECAUSE THE PLAGUE OF HAIL WAS VERY 22:55 GREAT. 22:56 THIS IS THE FINAL HAIL IT TALKS ABOUT, THE COMING OF CHRIST 22:58 WHERE JESUS COMES AND RAPTURES UP. 23:00 I DON'T MEAN TO USE THAT WORD "RAPTURE" LIKE IN SECRET 23:03 RAPTURE, BUT THEY'RE CAUGHT UP CAN MEET HIM IN THE AIR AND 23:06 THIS IS THE SECOND COMING. 23:09 SO THIS IS WHAT WE'VE GOT BEFORE US, I BELIEVE, FRIENDS. 23:11 WE NEED TO CONTINUE STUDYING THESE THINGS. 23:14 BELIEVE ME, I'M NOT THE LAST WORD. 23:15 I KNOW I DON'T UNDERSTAND IT ALL, BUT I WANT YOU TO 23:17 UNDERSTAND WHAT I THINK I DO UNDERSTAND AND TO BE PREPARED. 23:21 ONE THING I WANT YOU TO KNOW IS IN SPITE OF WHAT'S COMING, 23:25 YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID. 23:26 DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF THE PLAGUES. 23:28 GOD MAKES A PROMISE IN HIS WORD. 23:31 YOU'VE READ THIS BEFORE. 23:32 WE'VE READ IT TO YOU IN RECENT WEEKS. 23:36 PSALM 91:9-10, "BECAUSE YOU'VE MADE THE LORD WHO IS MY REFUGE 23:46 EVEN THE MOST HIGHER DWELLING PLACE, NO EVIL WILL BEFALL YOU, 23:50 NEITHER SHALL ANY PLAGUE COME NEAR YOUR DWELLING." 23:53 NOTICE VERSE 2 CHAPTER 15 REVELATION, "AND I SAW 23:59 SOMETHING LIKE A SEA OF GLASS MINGLED WITH FIRE. 24:02 AND THOSE WHO HAVE THE VICTORY OVER THE BEAST, OVER HIS IMAGE 24:07 AND OVER THE MARK AND NUMBER OF HIS NAME STANDING ON THE SEA 24:10 OF GLASS HAVING HARPS." 24:12 SOMEONE'S GONNA BE ON THAT SEA OF GLASS WHO ESCAPES THE 24:15 PLAGUES, THAT CAN BE YOU. 24:20 I WANT TO BE ONE OF THOSE PEOPLE, DON'T YOU? 24:22 >> STAY TUNED, PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S 24:25 SPECIAL OFFER. 24:31 >> IT IS VERY DANGEROUS TO SAY, "I'LL EXPERIMENT WITH THE WORLD 24:35 TO FIND OUT WHAT'S GOING ON." 24:37 WHAT'S THE BEST THING FOR THE SONS OF MAN TO DO? 24:41 >> DON'T LIVE FOR THE FLESH. 24:43 IF YOU LIVE FOR THE FLESH, YOU CANNOT BE ALIVE IN THE SPIRIT. 24:49 >> AND IF GOD SAYS DON'T DO IT, DON'T GET MARRIED AT ALL. 24:52 IF YOU DON'T THINK YOU CAN PICK A GOOD CHRISTIAN, 24:54 THEN DON'T PICK ANYBODY. 25:04 >> VIRTUALLY EVERYONE ON THE EARTH, REGARDLESS OF RELIGION 25:06 OR NATIONALITY, RECOGNIZE THAT THERE IS SOME FORM OF BATTLE 25:11 RAGING IN THE WORLD AROUND US BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD 25:14 AND EVIL, A COLOSSAL STRUGGLE BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS, 25:19 TRUTH AND ERROR, OPPRESSION AND FREEDOM, RIGHT AND WRONG 25:24 AND ULTIMATELY LIFE AND DEATH. 25:27 [MUSIC] >> JOURNEY BACK THROUGH TIME TO 25:34 THE CENTER OF THE UNIVERSE. 25:37 DISCOVER HOW A PERFECT ANGEL TRANSFORMED INTO SATAN, 25:42 THE ARCH VILLAIN, THE BIRTH OF EVIL, 25:45 A REBELLION IN HEAVEN, A MUTINY THAT MOVED TO EARTH. 25:52 BEHOLD THE CREATION OF A BEAUTIFUL, NEW PLANET 25:55 AND THE FIRST HUMANS. 25:57 WITNESS THE TEMPTATION IN EDEN. 26:01 DISCOVER GOD'S AMAZING PLAN TO SAVE HIS CHILDREN. 26:04 THIS IS A STORY THAT INVOLVES EVERY LIFE ON EARTH, 26:09 EVERY LIFE. 26:12 THE COSMIC CONFLICT. 26:14 IF GOD IS GOOD, IF GOD IS ALL POWERFUL, 26:17 IF GOD IS LOVE, THEN WHAT WENT WRONG? 26:30 [MUSIC] >> ECONOMIC COLLAPSE, WARS 26:37 AND RUMORS OF WARS, EARTHQUAKES, FEAR OF PANDEMIC PLAGUES. 26:42 ARE WE ON THE VERGE OF ARMAGEDDON? 26:45 MANY WORLD RELIGIONS TEACH ABOUT A TIME WHEN A GREAT FINAL 26:49 BATTLE WILL TRANSPIRE BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND EVIL. 26:53 SOME BELIEVE THIS WILL BE A NUCLEAR CONFLICT BETWEEN 26:56 NATIONS. 26:57 OTHERS BELIEVE THIS IS A BATTLE FOR SPIRITUAL DOMINION OF THE 27:00 EARTH THAT WILL OCCUR JUST BEFORE JESUS RETURNS. 27:04 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT THIS COLOSSAL CONFLICT, AND 27:08 WHAT DOES IT MEAN FOR US TODAY? 27:10 WE PRAY THIS PROGRAM HAS HELPED YOU UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT. 27:14 WE NEED YOU TO HELP US SHARE THIS MESSAGE WITH MORE VIEWERS. 27:17 SO TODAY FOR A DONATION OF $20 OR MORE, WE'RE GOING TO SEND 27:20 YOU AN OUTSTANDING BOOK ON THIS SUBJECT CALLED 27:23 "BATTLE OF THE SPIRITS" FOR A GIFT OR DONATION. 27:27 CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER 27:30 1014 OR IF YOU PREFER, YOU CAN SIMPLY WRITE US AT 27:34 AMAZING FACTS, OFFER 1014, P.O. 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