>> COMING UP NEXT ON "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:08.26\00:00:11.06 >> THE DEVIL IS SETTING THE STAGE TO DECEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD 00:00:11.06\00:00:14.03 WITH THESE DECEPTIVE SPIRITS. 00:00:14.03\00:00:16.00 THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES OR 00:00:16.00\00:00:18.36 YOU WILL BE AMONG THE DECEIVED. 00:00:18.36\00:00:20.63 >> FOR OVER 40 YEARS, AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:00:24.93\00:00:27.46 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:27.46\00:00:30.86 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:30.86\00:00:33.93 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:33.93\00:00:36.20 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:36.20\00:00:39.36 "AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS." 00:00:39.36\00:00:43.66 TODAY'S PRESENTATION IS AN EXCERPT FROM "THE MILLENNIUM 00:00:43.66\00:00:46.16 OF PROPHECY" VIDEO SERIES. 00:00:46.16\00:00:48.36 >> WELL, FRIENDS, TONIGHT WE HAVE AN EXCITING STUDY. 00:00:52.63\00:00:55.70 WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT "THE WITCH OF ENDOR," 00:00:55.70\00:00:58.56 THE BIBLE SUBJECT ON, WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 00:00:58.56\00:01:03.10 YOU KNOW, ONE THING WE DO KNOW, WE'RE ONLY HERE FOR A LITTLE 00:01:03.10\00:01:05.33 WHILE AND WE PAY TAXES, RIGHT? 00:01:05.33\00:01:07.83 AND IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE, RIGHT? 00:01:07.83\00:01:13.03 BUT PEOPLE ARE SO CONFUSED ABOUT ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT 00:01:13.03\00:01:17.26 QUESTIONS IN LIFE AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS NEXT? 00:01:17.26\00:01:22.20 WE'RE GOING TO FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES ON THAT. 00:01:22.20\00:01:24.46 DO YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE? 00:01:24.46\00:01:25.96 LET'S GO TO OUR LESSON AND OUR STORACLE FOR TONIGHT DEALING 00:01:25.96\00:01:28.86 WITH THE WITCH OF ENDOR. 00:01:28.86\00:01:30.60 AND WE'LL SEE WHAT WE CAN LEARN. 00:01:30.60\00:01:32.30 LET'S GO TO OUR FIRST QUESTION AND FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE 00:01:32.30\00:01:35.30 TEACHES ABOUT THIS ISSUE OF WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 00:01:35.30\00:01:40.00 QUESTION NUMBER ONE, FIRST, LET'S LOOK AT OUR STORACLE: WAS 00:01:40.00\00:01:43.40 THE FORM THAT SAUL SAW ACTUALLY SAMUEL THE PROPHET? 00:01:43.40\00:01:47.73 OR WAS IT SOMETHING ELSE? 00:01:47.73\00:01:49.60 ANSWER: 1 KINGS 22:22, "AND HE SAID, I'LL GO FORTH, 00:01:49.60\00:01:54.00 AND I WILL BE A LYING SPIRIT." 00:01:54.00\00:01:57.90 YOU HERE IN MANHATTAN IF YOU'VE GOT YOUR LESSONS FILLED OUT, 00:01:57.90\00:02:00.36 SAY THE ANSWERS WITH ME. 00:02:00.36\00:02:02.06 AT HOME, CALL THEM OUT. 00:02:02.06\00:02:03.16 HELPS YOU REMEMBER BETTER. 00:02:03.16\00:02:04.06 "A LYING SPIRIT." 00:02:04.06\00:02:05.63 ARE THERE SPIRITS OUT THERE THAT LIE? 00:02:05.63\00:02:08.00 EVIDENTLY, YES. 00:02:08.00\00:02:09.20 REVELATION 16:14 TELLS US, "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS, 00:02:09.20\00:02:16.03 WORKING MIRACLES." 00:02:16.03\00:02:18.00 THESE FALLEN ANGELS CALLED "DEMONS" AND "DEVILS" 00:02:18.00\00:02:20.93 CAN CREATE ILLUSIONS. 00:02:20.93\00:02:22.56 REMEMBER, SATAN WAS AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. 00:02:22.56\00:02:24.50 HE UNDERSTOOD THE POWER OF A LIGHT, MANIPULATING LIGHT 00:02:24.50\00:02:26.70 AND CREATING THREE-DIMENSIONAL HOLOGRAMS AND ILLUSIONS. 00:02:26.70\00:02:29.63 THE DEVIL CAN DO THAT. 00:02:29.63\00:02:31.40 HE CAN PROJECT HIMSELF IN WAYS THAT WILL DECEIVE. 00:02:31.40\00:02:34.46 QUESTION NUMBER TWO: DO THE DEAD COME BACK TO CONVERSE WITH 00:02:34.46\00:02:38.60 OR TO HAUNT THE LIVING? 00:02:38.60\00:02:40.43 NOW, THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 00:02:40.43\00:02:42.33 WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:02:42.33\00:02:44.43 WILL YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE? 00:02:44.43\00:02:46.53 I HOPE THAT YOU'LL GO WITH WHAT THE SCRIPTURES SAY. 00:02:46.53\00:02:48.56 ALRIGHT, LISTEN TO WHAT JOB SAID. 00:02:48.56\00:02:50.33 A GODLY MAN, THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS PERFECT. 00:02:50.33\00:02:52.60 SPEAKING OF THE DEAD, JOB SAYS IN 14:21, "HIS SONS COME TO 00:02:52.60\00:02:56.90 HONOUR, AND HE KNOWETH IT NOT." 00:02:56.90\00:03:00.60 FURTHERMORE, IT TELLS US, ECCLESIASTES 9:5-6, 00:03:00.60\00:03:05.20 "THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING." 00:03:05.20\00:03:09.60 NOW, THAT'S SO IMPORTANT I WANT TO SAY IT AGAIN. 00:03:09.60\00:03:11.50 THIS IS SOLOMON SPEAKING, THE WISEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED. 00:03:11.50\00:03:13.96 HE SAID, "THE DEAD KNOW NOT," HOW MUCH? 00:03:13.96\00:03:17.60 THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 00:03:17.60\00:03:19.16 HOW MUCH DO THE DEAD KNOW? 00:03:19.16\00:03:20.50 THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, AND IT SHOULD BE VERY CLEAR TO YOU. 00:03:20.50\00:03:25.13 NOW, STAY WITH ME AND I'M GOING TO ANSWER EVERY ONE OF YOUR 00:03:25.13\00:03:27.56 QUESTIONS THAT YOU MIGHT HAVE FROM THE BIBLE. 00:03:27.56\00:03:29.80 FURTHERMORE, IT GOES ON TO SAY, "THE MEMORY OF THEM IS 00:03:29.80\00:03:32.76 FORGOTTEN. 00:03:32.76\00:03:33.76 ALSO THEIR LOVE," SAY IT WITH ME, "AND THEIR HATRED, 00:03:33.76\00:03:37.76 AND THEIR ENVY, IS NOW PERISHED; NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE 00:03:37.76\00:03:44.16 A PORTION FOR EVER IN ANY THING THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN." 00:03:44.16\00:03:47.96 NOW WHEN IT SAYS, "THEY DON'T HAVE A PORTION FOR EVER," SOME 00:03:47.96\00:03:50.50 PEOPLE THINK, "DOES THAT MEAN THAT THEY NEVER LIVE AGAIN?" 00:03:50.50\00:03:52.63 NO, IT SAYS, "UNDER THE SUN." 00:03:52.63\00:03:54.36 THAT MEANS THEY NEVER COME BACK IN THIS LIFE OR UNDER THIS SUN. 00:03:54.36\00:03:59.36 SO, IT'S TELLING US WHEN THE DEAD DIE, THEY DON'T COME 00:03:59.36\00:04:01.86 BACK AND HAUNT ANYBODY. 00:04:01.86\00:04:04.10 YOU CAN READ ECCLESIASTES 5:5-6 AND 10, 00:04:04.10\00:04:10.43 "FOR THERE IS NO WORK, NOR DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, 00:04:10.43\00:04:14.43 NOR WISDOM, IN THE GRAVE," WHERE YOU'RE GOING. 00:04:14.43\00:04:18.00 HERE'S SOME ADDITIONAL SCRIPTURES THAT ARE NOT 00:04:18.00\00:04:20.06 IN YOUR LESSON. 00:04:20.06\00:04:20.80 YOU MIGHT WRITE THEM DOWN. 00:04:20.80\00:04:21.66 THERE'S HUNDREDS OF SCRIPTURES IN THE BIBLE ON THIS SUBJECT. 00:04:21.66\00:04:24.23 WE DON'T HAVE ROOM FOR THEM ALL. 00:04:24.23\00:04:25.16 PSALM 115, KING DAVID SAID, "THE DEAD PRAISE NOT THE LORD." 00:04:25.16\00:04:30.33 NOW IF YOU DIE, YOU GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN. 00:04:30.33\00:04:32.93 LIKE ONE OF OUR INTERVIEWERS SAID, "EVERYBODY GOES 00:04:32.93\00:04:35.83 TO HEAVEN." 00:04:35.83\00:04:36.83 YOU THINK THE FIRST THING YOU'D DO IF YOU GOT THERE, ESPECIALLY 00:04:36.83\00:04:39.56 IF YOU DIDN'T DESERVE IT, YOU'D BE PRAISING THE LORD, RIGHT? 00:04:39.56\00:04:41.80 IT'S TELLING US HERE THE DEAD DON'T PRAISE THE LORD. 00:04:41.80\00:04:44.93 PSALM 6:5, "IN DEATH THERE IS NO REMEMBRANCE OF THEE." 00:04:44.93\00:04:49.00 THEN, YOU CAN ALSO GO ON TO JOB 7:10 AND THERE'S ANOTHER 00:04:49.00\00:04:54.66 ONE, "HE SHALL RETURN NO MORE TO HIS HOUSE." 00:04:54.66\00:05:00.23 DO THEY COME BACK AND HAUNT THEIR HOUSES? 00:05:00.23\00:05:02.56 NO. 00:05:02.56\00:05:03.70 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT THEY DO NOT RETURN. 00:05:03.70\00:05:06.36 FURTHERMORE, "DEATH CAN NOT CELEBRATE THEE," ISAIAH 38:18. 00:05:06.36\00:05:11.76 IT SAYS IN PSALM 146:4, "HIS THOUGHTS PERISH." 00:05:11.76\00:05:17.10 NOW, THIS IS A SMALL SAMPLING OF WHAT YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE AND 00:05:17.10\00:05:20.53 WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU SOME MORE FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT. 00:05:20.53\00:05:23.26 NUMBER THREE: ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION, 00:05:23.26\00:05:26.53 WHO HAS THE KEYS OF DEATH? 00:05:26.53\00:05:28.93 REVELATION 118, JESUS SAID, "I AM HE THAT LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; 00:05:28.93\00:05:36.23 AND, BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR EVERMORE; AND HAVE THE KEYS 00:05:36.23\00:05:40.23 OF HELL AND OF DEATH." 00:05:40.23\00:05:41.86 WHO IS IT THAT HAS THE KEYS TO UNLOCK THE GRAVE? 00:05:41.86\00:05:44.53 JESUS DOES. 00:05:44.53\00:05:45.63 JESUS IS THE RESURRECTION. 00:05:45.63\00:05:46.73 HE'S THE LIFE. 00:05:46.73\00:05:47.43 HE'S THE ONE THAT WILL BRING PEOPLE BACK. 00:05:47.43\00:05:49.16 WHEN DOES HE DO IT, AS SOON AS THEY DIE OR AT THE RESURRECTION? 00:05:49.16\00:05:53.46 THERE'S BEEN SO MUCH CONFUSION. 00:05:53.46\00:05:54.53 EVERYBODY KNOWS THE JUDGMENT IS THE LAST DAY, AND THERE'S 00:05:54.53\00:05:57.90 LOTS OF SCRIPTURES ON THAT. 00:05:57.90\00:05:59.56 AND THE RESURRECTION'S THE LAST DAY. 00:05:59.56\00:06:01.53 AND YET SOME PEOPLE THINK AS SOON AS YOU DIE, 00:06:01.53\00:06:03.20 YOU GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN. 00:06:03.20\00:06:04.33 AND PEOPLE SAY, "NOW, WHY ARE WE GOING RIGHT TO HEAVEN? 00:06:04.33\00:06:06.23 THEN, WHY DOES JESUS COME BACK TO RESURRECT THE DEAD IN CHRIST 00:06:06.23\00:06:08.60 IF THEY'RE ALREADY RESURRECTED AND--" A LOT OF CONFUSION 00:06:08.60\00:06:11.73 ON THIS. 00:06:11.73\00:06:12.83 LET'S KEEP GOING HERE. 00:06:12.83\00:06:14.36 NUMBER FOUR: HOW DID GOD MAKE MAN IN THE BEGINNING? 00:06:14.36\00:06:17.70 PERHAPS IF WE TAKE A LOOK TO START WITH AT WHAT THE ORIGINAL 00:06:17.70\00:06:22.06 PLAN WAS, WE WILL BETTER UNDERSTAND THE PROCESS OF 00:06:22.06\00:06:25.40 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 00:06:25.40\00:06:26.93 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN GENESIS 2:7, 00:06:26.93\00:06:29.66 "AND THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF THE GROUND, 00:06:29.66\00:06:34.36 AND HE BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE; 00:06:34.36\00:06:39.46 AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL." 00:06:39.46\00:06:42.13 YOU NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY MAN WAS GIVEN THE SOUL. 00:06:42.13\00:06:44.66 IT SAYS, "MAN BECAME A SOUL." 00:06:44.66\00:06:46.96 THE COMBINATION OF THE BREATH OF LIFE WITH THE ELEMENTS 00:06:46.96\00:06:50.13 OF EARTH MAKES A SOUL. 00:06:50.13\00:06:52.46 JESUS, NOW THE BIBLE SAYS ALL THINGS THAT WERE MADE WERE 00:06:52.46\00:06:55.40 MADE BY HIM, RIGHT? 00:06:55.40\00:06:57.06 WITHOUT HIM WAS NOT ANYTHING MADE. 00:06:57.06\00:06:58.56 SO, WHO CREATED ADAM AND EVE? 00:06:58.56\00:07:00.26 HE IS OUR CREATOR AND OUR REDEEMER AND AFTER HE FORMED 00:07:00.26\00:07:03.46 ADAM FROM THE DUST OF THE EARTH, 'ERE ALL THE ORGANS WERE IN 00:07:03.46\00:07:07.40 PLACE AND EVERYTHING WAS PERFECT EXCEPT THERE WAS NO LIFE, 00:07:07.40\00:07:10.03 HE BREATHED THIS POWER OF LIFE, THE BREATH OF LIFE, INTO HIM AND 00:07:10.03\00:07:16.80 THEN HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 00:07:16.80\00:07:19.13 IT DOESN'T SAY HE GAVE HIM A SOUL, OKAY? 00:07:19.13\00:07:22.53 LET'S READ ON HERE. 00:07:22.53\00:07:23.70 QUESTION NUMBER FIVE: WHAT HAPPENS THEN AT DEATH? 00:07:23.70\00:07:29.96 IT'S THE REVERSE PROCESS. 00:07:29.96\00:07:31.46 ECCLESIASTES 12:7 TELLS US, "THEN THE DUST SHALL RETURN TO 00:07:31.46\00:07:37.10 THE EARTH AS IT WAS: AND THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE 00:07:37.10\00:07:41.30 IT." 00:07:41.30\00:07:41.86 NOW, SOMEBODY'S THINKING, "THERE YOU HAVE IT, DOUG. 00:07:41.86\00:07:43.66 WHEN A PERSON DIES, THEN THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE 00:07:43.66\00:07:46.93 IT AND THE SPIRIT IS THIS CONSCIOUS, LITTLE GHOST, 00:07:46.93\00:07:51.36 BUTTERFLY THAT COMES OUT OF YOU. 00:07:51.36\00:07:53.46 IT FLUTTERS OFF TO BE WITH GOD AND WAITS UNTIL JESUS COMES 00:07:53.46\00:07:56.00 BACK FOR THE RESURRECTION." 00:07:56.00\00:07:57.80 YOU DON'T FIND THAT TAUGHT IN THE BIBLE ANYWHERE THAT THERE'S 00:07:57.80\00:08:01.00 THIS CONSCIOUS GHOST. 00:08:01.00\00:08:02.23 AS A MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ IN THE BIBLE, IT TELLS US 00:08:02.23\00:08:04.63 THAT NOT ONLY THE RIGHTEOUS, ECCLESIASTES 12 ALSO TELLS US 00:08:04.63\00:08:09.10 THE WICKED, INDEED THE ANIMALS, IT SAYS THE BREATH OF LIFE OF 00:08:09.10\00:08:12.83 ALL CREATURES GOES BACK TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. 00:08:12.83\00:08:16.40 YOU SEE, THE BREATH OF LIFE IS THAT WORD THAT'S USED IN JOB 00:08:16.40\00:08:19.20 WHERE HE SAYS, "ALL THE WHILE MY BREATH IS IN ME AND THE SPIRIT 00:08:19.20\00:08:23.90 OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS." 00:08:23.90\00:08:27.23 WHAT DO YOU HAVE IN YOUR NOSTRILS? 00:08:27.23\00:08:28.86 WELL, THAT'S THE WRONG QUESTION. 00:08:28.86\00:08:30.23 YOU BREATHE WITH YOUR NOSE, RIGHT? 00:08:30.23\00:08:33.06 IT'S TELLING US YOU DON'T HAVE A GHOST UP YOUR NOSE. 00:08:33.06\00:08:35.80 SOME PEOPLE THINK THE SPIRIT THAT IT'S SPEAKING OF HERE THAT 00:08:35.80\00:08:38.30 RETURNS TO GOD IS THIS GHOST THAT JUMPS OUT OF THE BODY 00:08:38.30\00:08:41.00 AND FLIES OFF TO HEAVEN. 00:08:41.00\00:08:42.50 NOW SOME ARE SAYING, "WAIT DOUG, THE BIBLE TEACHES TO BE ABSENT 00:08:42.50\00:08:46.16 FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD." 00:08:46.16\00:08:48.50 AND I BELIEVE THAT. 00:08:48.50\00:08:49.40 THAT'S PERFECTLY TRUE. 00:08:49.40\00:08:50.53 YOU KNOW WHAT CONFUSES PEOPLE, WHEN A PERSON DIES, 00:08:50.53\00:08:55.03 DO THEY HAVE ANY CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME PASSING? 00:08:55.03\00:08:58.46 HAVE ANY OF YOU HAD A HARD DAY'S WORK AND YOU GET YOUR 6 HOURS OF 00:08:58.46\00:09:03.13 SLEEP BUT THE ALARM RINGS AND IT SEEMS LIKE JUST MOMENTS AFTER 00:09:03.13\00:09:06.03 YOU CLOSED YOUR EYES? 00:09:06.03\00:09:07.16 YOU EVER HAVE A DAY LIKE THAT? 00:09:07.16\00:09:08.83 AND THAT'S WHEN YOU'RE STILL ALIVE, RIGHT? 00:09:08.83\00:09:12.83 HOW MUCH LESS AWARENESS OF TIME DO YOU THINK YOU HAVE 00:09:12.83\00:09:15.70 WHEN YOU'RE DEAD? 00:09:15.70\00:09:17.66 NOW FOR SOMEBODY WHO DIED IN A SAVED CONDITION 1,000 YEARS AGO, 00:09:17.66\00:09:22.06 THEIR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS FROM 00:09:22.06\00:09:25.53 HEAVEN. 00:09:25.53\00:09:26.16 FOR THEM, TO BE ABSENT FROM THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH 00:09:26.16\00:09:28.30 THE LORD, THEIR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT. 00:09:28.30\00:09:30.33 THEY'RE CALLED OUT OF THE GRAVES. 00:09:30.33\00:09:31.83 THEY'RE RAPTURED UP TO MEET THE LORD IN THE AIR AND SO SHALL 00:09:31.83\00:09:33.63 THEY EVER BE WITH THE LORD. 00:09:33.63\00:09:34.76 THAT'S WHY PAUL SAID THAT. 00:09:34.76\00:09:35.73 BUT FOR THOSE OF US WHO LIVE IN THIS DIMENSION OF TIME, 00:09:35.73\00:09:38.93 IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 00:09:38.93\00:09:40.53 THIS IS WHAT CONFUSES PEOPLE. 00:09:40.53\00:09:42.16 GOD IS NOT RESTRICTED TO TIME. 00:09:42.16\00:09:44.20 QUESTION NUMBER SIX: WHERE DO THE DEAD GO WHEN THEY DIE? 00:09:44.20\00:09:49.26 ANSWER: JOB 21:32, "YET SHALL HE BE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE, 00:09:49.26\00:09:56.13 AND SHALL REMAIN IN THE TOMB." 00:09:56.13\00:09:59.20 JOHN 5:28-29, "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, 00:09:59.20\00:10:07.63 AND COME FORTH." 00:10:07.63\00:10:08.56 WHERE ARE THE DEAD NOW? 00:10:08.56\00:10:10.63 IT SAYS HE REMAINS IN THE TOMB AND WHEN JESUS COMES, 00:10:10.63\00:10:13.33 THEY'RE IN THE GRAVES. 00:10:13.33\00:10:15.00 IF THAT'S CLEAR, LET ME HEAR YOU SAY AMEN. 00:10:15.00\00:10:18.20 OKAY, I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT I'M MAKING THE SUBJECT 00:10:18.20\00:10:20.73 CLEAR. 00:10:20.73\00:10:21.50 I REMEMBER WHEN I ANSWERED VERY MUCH LIKE SOME OF 00:10:21.50\00:10:24.43 THE PEOPLE ON THE SCREEN. 00:10:24.43\00:10:25.56 AS A MATTER OF FACT, I PROBABLY PICKED ON ALL OF THOSE ANSWERS 00:10:25.56\00:10:27.40 AT ONE TIME IN MY SEARCHING. 00:10:27.40\00:10:29.63 I BELIEVED THAT WE CAME BACK AS DIFFERENT THINGS. 00:10:29.63\00:10:32.06 AND THEN FOR A WHILE, I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WAS GOING. 00:10:32.06\00:10:33.46 AND I WAS JUST KIND OF GRASPING AT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE. 00:10:33.46\00:10:37.46 I WAS SO RELIEVED TO FIND OUT WHAT REALLY IS TAUGHT 00:10:37.46\00:10:40.46 BY THE BIBLE. 00:10:40.46\00:10:41.36 IT MAKES SO MUCH SENSE. 00:10:41.36\00:10:43.03 OKAY, NUMBER--WHERE AM I? 00:10:43.03\00:10:46.10 NUMBER SEVEN--OH WAIT, DID I MISS A QUESTION? 00:10:46.10\00:10:50.60 OH YEAH, THE MAGAZINE UP THERE, LOOK AT THIS, "LIFE AFTER DEATH, 00:10:50.60\00:10:53.16 SCIENCE'S SEARCH FOR MEANING IN NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES." 00:10:53.16\00:10:57.53 NOW, THIS IS WHERE A LOT OF PEOPLE GET CONFUSED. 00:10:57.53\00:11:00.73 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE? 00:11:00.73\00:11:01.96 THEY SAY, "WELL, I READ A BOOK. 00:11:01.96\00:11:02.86 I READ IN A MAGAZINE THAT I BOUGHT AT THE SUPERMARKET 00:11:02.86\00:11:07.36 CHECKOUT STAND." 00:11:07.36\00:11:09.16 GOTTA WATCH OUT FOR THOSE MAGAZINES, RIGHT? 00:11:09.16\00:11:11.36 "I READ ABOUT SOMEONE WHO DIED ON THE OPERATING TABLE, 00:11:11.36\00:11:14.03 AND THEY WERE HOVERING ABOVE THE OPERATING TABLE AND THEY COULD 00:11:14.03\00:11:16.66 SEE THEIR BODY AND THEY DIED. 00:11:16.66\00:11:18.60 THEIR HEART STOPPED AND THEY DIED. 00:11:18.60\00:11:20.40 AND THEY WERE GOING TO GO TO HEAVEN. 00:11:20.40\00:11:22.00 AND THEY ASKED THE LORD FOR ONE MORE CHANCE AND THEY 00:11:22.00\00:11:23.96 CAME BACK INTO THEIR BODY." 00:11:23.96\00:11:25.93 HAVE YOU HEARD THESE STORIES? 00:11:25.93\00:11:27.40 NUMBER SEVEN: THE BIBLE MAKES IT PLAIN THAT KING DAVID IS SAVED. 00:11:27.40\00:11:30.86 NOW, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT DAVID WHO KILLED GOLIATH, GOOD KING DAVID. 00:11:30.86\00:11:34.33 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE HE'S GOING TO BE SAVED? 00:11:34.33\00:11:37.86 THE BIBLE CALLS HIM "A MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART." 00:11:37.86\00:11:40.00 JESUS IS CALLED "THE SON OF DAVID." 00:11:40.00\00:11:41.60 IF YOU'VE GOT ANY ASSURANCE THAT SOMEONE'S GOING TO MAKE IT, 00:11:41.60\00:11:44.40 DAVID'S GOING TO MAKE IT. 00:11:44.40\00:11:45.90 WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TELL US ABOUT WHERE HE IS NOW? 00:11:45.90\00:11:48.93 ACTS 2:29, PETER IS PREACHING. 00:11:48.93\00:11:52.06 THIS IS THE NEW TESTAMENT DISPENSATION, NEW TESTAMENT 00:11:52.06\00:11:54.83 THEOLOGY, "MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK UNTO YOU OF 00:11:54.83\00:11:58.90 THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH," WHAT DOES IT SAY? 00:11:58.90\00:12:02.46 "DEAD AND BURIED, AND HIS SEPULCHRE," HIS TOMB, 00:12:02.46\00:12:06.93 "IS WITH US UNTO THIS DAY." 00:12:06.93\00:12:09.00 ACTS 2:34 TELLS US THAT "DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO HEAVEN." 00:12:09.00\00:12:14.90 NOW FRIENDS, I DON'T KNOW IF WE COULD BE MORE SPECIFIC 00:12:14.90\00:12:17.60 THAN THAT. 00:12:17.60\00:12:18.63 DAVID IS DEAD, HE'S BURIED, HE'S NOT IN HEAVEN. 00:12:18.63\00:12:23.26 IS THAT CLEAR TO YOU? 00:12:23.26\00:12:24.60 IS THERE ANYONE IN HEAVEN NOW? 00:12:24.60\00:12:25.66 WHAT'S THE BIBLE TEACH? 00:12:25.66\00:12:27.96 YEAH, HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER WHEN JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF 00:12:27.96\00:12:30.50 TRANSFIGURATION, MARK CHAPTER 9, WHAT TWO OLD TESTAMENT 00:12:30.50\00:12:34.33 CHARACTERS APPEARED TO HIM? 00:12:34.33\00:12:36.16 MOSES AND ELIJAH. 00:12:36.16\00:12:38.70 OKAY, MOSES DIED. 00:12:38.70\00:12:41.00 YOU READ THE BOOK OF JUDE, IT SAYS MICHAEL CAME 00:12:41.00\00:12:43.30 AND RESURRECTED HIM. 00:12:43.30\00:12:45.06 AND JEWISH TRADITION TELLS US, IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE, 00:12:45.06\00:12:47.53 BUT JEWISH TRADITION TELLS US 3 DAYS AFTER HIS DEATH, 00:12:47.53\00:12:50.43 THE LORD RESURRECTED HIM. 00:12:50.43\00:12:51.90 THERE'S NO GRAVE FOR MOSES. 00:12:51.90\00:12:53.03 WE'VE GOT EVERY REASON TO BELIEVE THAT HE'S ALIVE. 00:12:53.03\00:12:54.90 HE APPEARED TO JESUS. 00:12:54.90\00:12:56.06 SECONDARILY, HOW DID ELIJAH GET TO HEAVEN? 00:12:56.06\00:12:59.20 HE WENT IN A FIERY CHARIOT. 00:12:59.20\00:13:01.30 WHO ELSE WAS TRANSLATED IN THE OLD TESTAMENT WITHOUT DYING? 00:13:01.30\00:13:05.13 ENOCH, THE BIBLE SAYS HE WALKED WITH GOD AND GOD TOOK HIM AFTER 00:13:05.13\00:13:08.96 HE HAD METHUSELAH, HIS SON. 00:13:08.96\00:13:11.33 YOU KNOW, I LIKE TO ASK THIS TRICK QUESTION SOMETIMES: WHO'S 00:13:11.33\00:13:14.60 THE OLDEST MAN THAT EVER LIVED? 00:13:14.60\00:13:16.36 PEOPLE SAY METHUSELAH. 00:13:16.36\00:13:17.96 METHUSELAH'S THE OLDEST MAN WHO EVER DIED. 00:13:17.96\00:13:20.60 ENOCH'S THE OLDEST MAN WHO EVER LIVED BECAUSE 00:13:20.60\00:13:23.40 HE'S NEVER DIED YET, RIGHT? 00:13:23.40\00:13:27.00 NOW, I THINK WE'RE READY FOR QUESTION NUMBER EIGHT: BUT 00:13:27.00\00:13:29.90 ISN'T IT TRUE THAT THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND THAT ONLY 00:13:29.90\00:13:34.10 THE BODY DIES? 00:13:34.10\00:13:36.13 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE IMMORTAL SOUL? 00:13:36.13\00:13:40.36 WE ALL HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 00:13:40.36\00:13:41.56 YOU MAY BE HEARD SONGS AND SERMONS AND BOOKS AND POEMS 00:13:41.56\00:13:43.96 ABOUT THE IMMORTAL SOUL. 00:13:43.96\00:13:45.33 ALRIGHT, I'M WILLING TO TURN A CAMERA AROUND, THAT'S RISKY IN 00:13:45.33\00:13:49.50 NEW YORK CITY, AND ASK ANYBODY TO SHOW ME A SCRIPTURE 00:13:49.50\00:13:54.10 IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS WE HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 00:13:54.10\00:13:57.96 THERE IS NO SCRIPTURE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS--"NOW DOUG, 00:13:57.96\00:14:01.66 THE CHURCH HAS THOUGHT THIS FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS, 00:14:01.66\00:14:04.13 IT MUST BE TRUE!" 00:14:04.13\00:14:05.10 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE DOES SAY ABOUT OUR IMMORTALITY, 00:14:05.10\00:14:07.83 OKAY? 00:14:07.83\00:14:08.93 DOES THAT SOUND FAIR? 00:14:08.93\00:14:10.36 ALRIGHT, EZEKIEL 18:4, "THE SOUL THAT SINNETH, IT SHALL DIE." 00:14:10.36\00:14:17.40 NOW IF A SOUL DIES, IT'S NOT IMMORTAL. 00:14:17.40\00:14:19.70 IMMORTAL MEANS YOU CAN'T DIE. 00:14:19.70\00:14:21.86 IF EZEKIEL SAYS, "THE SOUL THAT SINS WILL DIE," THAT SETTLES IT. 00:14:21.86\00:14:24.93 IT'S NOT IMMORTAL. 00:14:24.93\00:14:26.33 YOU GO ON. 00:14:26.33\00:14:27.60 JOB 4:17, "SHALL MORTAL MAN BE MORE JUST THAN GOD?" 00:14:27.60\00:14:34.76 NO, OBVIOUSLY NOT. 00:14:34.76\00:14:36.33 WHAT KIND OF MAN? 00:14:36.33\00:14:37.36 WE'RE MORTAL. 00:14:37.36\00:14:38.30 WE DON'T HAVE IMMORTALITY YET. 00:14:38.30\00:14:40.40 1 TIMOTHY 6:15 AND 16, "THE KING OF KINGS, THE LORD OF LORDS; 00:14:40.40\00:14:46.86 WHO ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY." 00:14:46.86\00:14:50.53 WHO IS IT IN THIS LIFE THAT ONLY HAS IMMORTALITY? 00:14:50.53\00:14:53.66 GOD, THE LORD IS THE ONLY ONE. 00:14:53.66\00:14:56.53 THEN THE FIRST LIE IN THE BIBLE IS WHEN THE DEVIL SAID TO EVE, 00:14:56.53\00:15:00.73 "YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE." 00:15:00.73\00:15:02.76 GOD SAID, "IF YOU EAT THE FRUIT, YOU'RE GOING TO DIE." 00:15:02.76\00:15:04.76 AND FRIENDS, YOU KNOW WHAT? 00:15:04.76\00:15:05.60 EVE IS DEAD TODAY. 00:15:05.60\00:15:06.90 AM I RIGHT? 00:15:06.90\00:15:08.03 SHE DIED. 00:15:08.03\00:15:09.26 INCIDENTALLY, SOME PEOPLE SAY, "NOW WAIT, DOUG, GOD SAID, 00:15:09.26\00:15:11.86 'IN THE DAY THAT YOU EAT IT YOU'LL DIE.' 00:15:11.86\00:15:13.93 SHE DIDN'T DIE THAT DAY." 00:15:13.93\00:15:14.96 YES, SHE DID. 00:15:14.96\00:15:16.53 SHE DIED SPIRITUALLY THAT DAY. 00:15:16.53\00:15:18.73 FURTHERMORE, YOU REMEMBER READING WHERE THE BIBLE SAYS, 00:15:18.73\00:15:21.16 2 PETER CHAPTER 3, "A DAY WITH THE LORD IS AS A THOUSAND YEARS 00:15:21.16\00:15:25.33 AND A THOUSAND YEARS AS A DAY." 00:15:25.33\00:15:27.53 WHAT'S THE LONGEST THAT ANY MAN LIVED? 00:15:27.53\00:15:30.26 METHUSELAH, HOW LONG DID HE LIVE? 00:15:30.26\00:15:31.73 NINE-HUNDRED SIXTY-NINE YEARS. 00:15:31.73\00:15:34.30 NOBODY LIVED 1,000 YEARS. 00:15:34.30\00:15:36.20 THEY ALL DIED IN THE DAY. 00:15:36.20\00:15:38.00 SPIRITUALLY, THE DAY THEY ATE THE FRUIT; PHYSICALLY, WITHIN 00:15:38.00\00:15:40.66 THE FIRST MILLENNIUM, OKAY? 00:15:40.66\00:15:42.43 THEY WERE LIVING BY VIRTUE OF PROBATION THAT JESUS 00:15:42.43\00:15:44.63 PURCHASED THEM. 00:15:44.63\00:15:45.96 SO, THE DEVIL SAID, "YOU'LL NOT REALLY DIE." 00:15:45.96\00:15:48.16 ISN'T IT SAD NOW THAT PASTORS ARE TELLING CONGREGATIONS WHAT 00:15:48.16\00:15:54.23 THE DEVIL FIRST TOLD EVE? 00:15:54.23\00:15:56.70 THEY SAY, "YOU DON'T REALLY DIE. 00:15:56.70\00:15:57.66 YOU'RE IMMORTAL!" 00:15:57.66\00:15:59.06 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT, DOES IT? 00:15:59.06\00:16:02.16 NUMBER NINE: WHEN WILL THE RIGHTEOUS BE GIVEN IMMORTALITY? 00:16:02.16\00:16:06.30 NOW, WILL WE GET IMMORTALITY? 00:16:06.30\00:16:08.10 YES, BUT WHEN IS THE QUESTION. 00:16:08.10\00:16:09.90 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51-53, "WE SHALL ALL BE CHANGED, IN 00:16:09.90\00:16:16.80 A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: 00:16:16.80\00:16:20.93 FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED 00:16:20.93\00:16:25.66 INCORRUPTIBLE, AND THIS," THIS WHAT? 00:16:25.66\00:16:29.56 "THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON," WHAT? 00:16:29.56\00:16:31.56 "THIS MORTAL WILL PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 00:16:31.56\00:16:33.73 WHEN DOES THE MORTAL BECOME IMMORTAL? 00:16:33.73\00:16:36.36 WHEN THE DEAD ARE RAISED, WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS, ISN'T THAT 00:16:36.36\00:16:38.70 WHAT THE BIBLE'S TEACHING US? 00:16:38.70\00:16:40.30 VERY, VERY CLEAR, FRIENDS. 00:16:40.30\00:16:42.06 NUMBER TEN: HOW DOES THE BIBLE REPEATEDLY REFER TO DEATH? 00:16:42.06\00:16:46.73 JOHN 11:11, JESUS SAID, "OUR FRIEND LAZARUS SLEEPETH." 00:16:46.73\00:16:53.30 AND THEN, HE WENT ON TO EXPLAIN, "LAZARUS IS DEAD." 00:16:53.30\00:16:58.03 SO, HOW DID JESUS CALL DEATH? 00:16:58.03\00:16:59.36 SLEEP. 00:16:59.36\00:17:01.63 MATTHEW 27:52, "AND THE GRAVES WERE OPENED; AND MANY BODIES OF 00:17:01.63\00:17:07.20 THE SAINTS WHICH SLEPT AROSE." 00:17:07.20\00:17:11.33 I THREW IN PSALMS 13:3, "CONSIDER, HEAR ME, O LORD 00:17:11.33\00:17:17.06 MY GOD; ENLIGHTEN MY EYES, LEST I SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH." 00:17:17.06\00:17:22.16 SO, HERE YOU CAN SEE, I WANTED TO PUT THAT ADDITIONAL PASSAGE 00:17:22.16\00:17:25.13 IN THERE, THAT THEY DO SLEEP, THEY DO DIE. 00:17:25.13\00:17:28.80 THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 00:17:28.80\00:17:33.43 THE BIG QUESTION EVERYBODY WANTS TO KNOW IS: WHAT HAPPENS 00:17:33.43\00:17:37.10 WHEN YOU DIE? 00:17:37.10\00:17:38.26 HOW LONG WAS LAZARUS DEAD? 00:17:38.26\00:17:40.23 FOUR DAYS, AND JESUS ROSE HIM FROM THE GRAVE. 00:17:40.23\00:17:45.80 NOW, DID LAZARUS AFTER BEING DEAD 4 DAYS, LET'S SUPPOSE YOU 00:17:45.80\00:17:49.10 GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AS SO MANY PEOPLE THINK WHEN YOU DIE. 00:17:49.10\00:17:52.96 LAZARUS DIED. 00:17:52.96\00:17:54.46 HE'S UP IN HEAVEN. 00:17:54.46\00:17:55.53 HE'S CHECKING OUT HIS NEW MANSION, 00:17:55.53\00:17:57.63 SINGING WITH THE ANGELS, WALKING ON GOLDEN STREETS, 00:17:57.63\00:17:59.93 CHECKING OUT HIS NEW WINGS. 00:17:59.93\00:18:01.06 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN AFTER 4 DAYS, POOF, HE'S BACK IN A GRAVE 00:18:01.06\00:18:06.03 WRAPPED UP LIKE A MUMMY IN GRAVE CLOTHES. 00:18:06.03\00:18:08.73 AND HE SAYS, "THANK YOU, LORD." 00:18:08.73\00:18:10.60 WOULD YOU BE GRATEFUL FOR THAT? 00:18:10.60\00:18:14.16 OR DID YOU HEAR LAZARUS MAKE A COMMENT AND SAY, "LORD, 00:18:14.16\00:18:16.86 I WAS DOWN BURNING IN THE FIRES OF HELL, THANK YOU SO MUCH 00:18:16.86\00:18:19.63 FOR RESCUING ME"? 00:18:19.63\00:18:21.66 DON'T YOU THINK THAT IF YOU WENT RIGHT TO REWARD AT DEATH BEFORE 00:18:21.66\00:18:26.70 THE JUDGMENT OR THE RESURRECTION, THERE'D BE SOME 00:18:26.70\00:18:28.73 COMMENT FROM 1 OF THE 12 PEOPLE WHO ARE RAISED FROM THE DEAD 00:18:28.73\00:18:32.30 IN THE BIBLE? 00:18:32.30\00:18:33.43 YOU KNOW WHAT THEY ALL SAY ABOUT IT? 00:18:33.43\00:18:35.26 ZERO. 00:18:35.26\00:18:36.96 SILENCE. 00:18:36.96\00:18:37.66 NOTHING. 00:18:37.66\00:18:38.43 NO COMMENTARY ON THE BIGGEST QUESTION. 00:18:38.43\00:18:40.83 IF ANYBODY IN THE WORLD TODAY HAD BEEN DEAD FOR 4 DAYS 00:18:40.83\00:18:44.53 AND CAME BACK TO LIFE, EVERY NEWS ANCHOR IN THE WORLD, 00:18:44.53\00:18:47.10 THEY'D FLY WITH HELICOPTERS. 00:18:47.10\00:18:48.53 THEY'D GET THERE ANYWAY THEY COULD. 00:18:48.53\00:18:50.63 THE LIGHTS WOULD BE BLAZING. 00:18:50.63\00:18:51.60 THEY'LL SAY--THEY'D PUT THE MICROPHONES IN THEIR FACE 00:18:51.60\00:18:53.66 AND SAY, "WHAT HAPPENED?" 00:18:53.66\00:18:54.80 RIGHT? 00:18:54.80\00:18:55.43 AM I RIGHT? 00:18:55.43\00:18:56.10 THE BIBLE ON THIS SUBJECT, THEY SAID NOTHING. 00:18:56.10\00:18:58.93 YOU KNOW WHY? 00:18:58.93\00:18:59.63 WHAT DID WE LEARN? 00:18:59.63\00:19:00.53 "THE LIVING KNOW THEY'LL DIE, BUT THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING." 00:19:00.53\00:19:04.83 NUMBER 11: SINCE WIZARDS, WITCHES, AND PSYCHICS CANNOT 00:19:04.83\00:19:08.63 CONTACT THE DEAD, WHO ARE THEY CONTACTING? 00:19:08.63\00:19:12.63 ANSWER: "THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS, WORKING MIRACLES." 00:19:12.63\00:19:18.53 AND I WANT TO JUMP RIGHT TO QUESTION 12, AND THEN I'M GOING 00:19:18.53\00:19:20.76 TO TALK ABOUT SOME DIFFICULT ISSUES HERE: WHY DOES SATAN WANT 00:19:20.76\00:19:24.23 US TO BELIEVE THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ARE REALLY ALIVE? 00:19:24.23\00:19:29.06 HOW DOES THIS PLAY INTO PROPHECY? 00:19:29.06\00:19:31.06 MATTHEW 24:24 AND 25, "FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS, AND 00:19:31.06\00:19:36.46 FALSE PROPHETS, AND THEY WILL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS," 00:19:36.46\00:19:41.60 SO EFFECTIVE IT SAYS, "INASMUCH THAT, IF IT WERE POSSIBLE, THEY 00:19:41.60\00:19:45.13 WOULD DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. 00:19:45.13\00:19:48.00 BEHOLD, I HAVE TOLD YOU IN ADVANCE." 00:19:48.00\00:19:50.33 THE DEVIL AND HIS DEMONS ARE GOING TO PERFORM SIGNS AND 00:19:50.33\00:19:53.03 WONDERS TO DECEIVE THE WORLD JUST LIKE THEY DECEIVED SAUL. 00:19:53.03\00:19:56.76 REMEMBER, SAUL WAS A LEADER AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:19:56.76\00:20:01.26 NOW IN THE LAST DAYS, JESUS HAS WARNED US IN PROPHECY THERE'S 00:20:01.26\00:20:06.10 GOING TO BE MAJOR DECEPTIONS IN THE WORLD. 00:20:06.10\00:20:08.23 I THINK IT'S INTERESTING THAT IT SAYS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 16 00:20:08.23\00:20:12.46 THAT THREE UNCLEAN SPIRITS, LIKE FROGS, COME OUT OF THE MOUTH OF 00:20:12.46\00:20:17.86 THE BEAST, THE DRAGON AND THE FALSE PROPHET. 00:20:17.86\00:20:21.50 AND THEY MAKE THEIR WAY UNTO THE KINGS, THE LEADERS OF THE EARTH, 00:20:21.50\00:20:24.26 TO DECEIVE THEM, TO GATHER THEM TOGETHER TO THE BATTLE OF 00:20:24.26\00:20:27.33 ARMAGEDDON. 00:20:27.33\00:20:28.63 THE LEADERS OF THE WORLD'S KINGDOMS ARE BEING DECEIVED 00:20:28.63\00:20:32.23 BY THESE SPIRITS. 00:20:32.23\00:20:34.20 I THINK IT WAS REALLY INTERESTING A FEW YEARS AGO, 00:20:34.20\00:20:36.66 NANCY REAGAN ACTUALLY HAD AN ASTROLOGICAL CALENDAR. 00:20:36.66\00:20:40.16 IT'S NOT A RUMOR. 00:20:40.16\00:20:40.93 IT'S TRUE. 00:20:40.93\00:20:41.53 SHE ADMITS IT. 00:20:41.53\00:20:42.63 SHE WOULD USE IN GOVERNING RONALD REAGAN'S APPOINTMENTS. 00:20:42.63\00:20:46.56 SHE WAS A LOT MORE INTO IT THAN HE WAS. 00:20:46.56\00:20:48.83 ESPECIALLY AFTER THE ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT, SHE BEGAN 00:20:48.83\00:20:51.30 TO CONSULT HIS ZODIAC SIGN AND SCHEDULE THINGS ACCORDING 00:20:51.30\00:20:54.76 TO THAT. 00:20:54.76\00:20:55.50 THAT SHOULD UNNERVE YOU TO THINK WORLD LEADERS ARE MAKING 00:20:55.50\00:20:57.93 DECISIONS BASED ON WHAT THE LUCKY STARS ARE SAYING. 00:20:57.93\00:21:01.70 AND HILARY CLINTON KIND OF PLAYED IT OFF WHEN SHE WAS 00:21:01.70\00:21:04.80 TRYING TO CONSULT WITH A FRIEND WHO IS A MEDIUM WITH 00:21:04.80\00:21:07.96 ELEANOR ROOSEVELT. 00:21:07.96\00:21:09.26 DO YOU REMEMBER THAT? 00:21:09.26\00:21:10.43 PLAYED IT DOWN WHEN PEOPLE BEGAN TO QUESTION THAT. 00:21:10.43\00:21:12.60 BUT YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MANY OF THESE PEOPLE IN HIGH PLACES 00:21:12.60\00:21:15.53 ARE SPIRITUALISTIC. 00:21:15.53\00:21:17.73 AND THE DEVIL IS GOING TO USE DEMONS IMPERSONATING DEPARTED 00:21:17.73\00:21:21.20 WORLD LEADERS, IMPERSONATING DEPARTED LOVED ONES, 00:21:21.20\00:21:25.20 TO GUIDE THEM. 00:21:25.20\00:21:26.70 OH WAIT, I GOT MORE I WANT TO SHOW YOU. 00:21:26.70\00:21:30.20 YEAH, I GRABBED THIS ONE, "HOW TO CONTACT YOUR LOVED ONES 00:21:30.20\00:21:35.03 IN HEAVEN!" 00:21:35.03\00:21:35.83 NOW, THEY'RE MAKING IT LOOK LIKE BILLY GRAHAM IS GIVING 00:21:35.83\00:21:37.66 INFORMATION ON HOW TO CONTACT YOUR LOVED ONES. 00:21:37.66\00:21:39.93 HE'S NOT. 00:21:39.93\00:21:41.06 HE'S NOT INTO THAT. 00:21:41.06\00:21:42.16 THEY TWIST THINGS. 00:21:42.16\00:21:43.36 THIS IS FROM THIS MONTH'S "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE. 00:21:43.36\00:21:47.13 "PEOPLE" MAGAZINE WAS QUOTING A POLL FROM "USA TODAY" THAT SAYS, 00:21:47.13\00:21:51.53 "ALMOST 70 MILLION AMERICANS SAY THEY THINK IT'S POSSIBLE TO 00:21:51.53\00:21:55.53 COMMUNICATE WITH THE DEAD." 00:21:55.53\00:21:57.60 ARE YOU AWARE THAT CHURCHES 50 YEARS AGO DID NOT BELIEVE 00:21:57.60\00:22:00.73 THIS THE WAY THEY DO TODAY? 00:22:00.73\00:22:02.16 CHURCHES ARE BEING INFLUENCED BY THE MOVIE INDUSTRY THAT IS 00:22:02.16\00:22:05.86 SO INTO THE GHOSTS AND TALKING TO THE DEAD. 00:22:05.86\00:22:07.96 HAVE YOU NOTICED HOW MUCH THERE IS ON THAT IN THE MEDIA? 00:22:07.96\00:22:11.50 THE WORLD IS BEING BOMBARDED AND MEMORIZED AND BAMBOOZLED 00:22:11.50\00:22:16.16 WITH THIS FALSE TEACHING. 00:22:16.16\00:22:17.66 NOW, YOU'VE GOT 70 MILLION AMERICANS THINKING, "YEAH, 00:22:17.66\00:22:20.33 THE DEAD PEOPLE CAN TALK TO US." 00:22:20.33\00:22:21.66 THE DEVIL IS SETTING THE STAGE TO DECEIVE THE WHOLE WORLD 00:22:21.66\00:22:24.96 WITH THESE DECEPTIVE SPIRITS. 00:22:24.96\00:22:27.03 THAT'S WHY YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES OR 00:22:27.03\00:22:29.36 YOU WILL BE AMONG THE DECEIVED. 00:22:29.36\00:22:31.60 WHERE ARE THE DEAD NOW? 00:22:31.60\00:22:33.80 THEY'RE SLEEPING. 00:22:33.80\00:22:35.13 GOOD AND EVIL BOTH, THEY'RE SLEEPING. 00:22:35.13\00:22:36.76 AND I'LL EXPLAIN MORE TOMORROW WHY THAT IS GOOD NEWS. 00:22:36.76\00:22:40.00 ALRIGHT NOW, LET'S GO TO OUR ANSWER FOR QUESTION NUMBER 13: 00:22:40.00\00:22:42.73 HOW EFFECTIVE WILL SATAN'S STRATEGIES BE? 00:22:42.73\00:22:45.10 REVELATION 18:23, "BY THY SORCERIES 00:22:45.10\00:22:48.33 WERE ALL NATIONS DECEIVED." 00:22:48.33\00:22:52.33 AND THE MOVIE INDUSTRY AND TV ARE SETTING THE STAGE. 00:22:52.33\00:22:55.56 HOW DOES GOD REGARD THESE MIRACLES BY EVIL ANGELS? 00:22:55.56\00:22:59.93 SHOULD WE GET INVOLVED? 00:22:59.93\00:23:01.70 LEVITICUS 20:27, "A MAN ALSO OR A WOMAN, THAT IS A WIZARD, 00:23:01.70\00:23:09.03 SHALL SURELY BE PUT TO DEATH." 00:23:09.03\00:23:11.76 NOW, I'M NOT TELLING YOU TO GO OUT THERE AND MURDER THESE 00:23:11.76\00:23:13.76 PSYCHICS. 00:23:13.76\00:23:14.90 I'M JUST SAYING IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THEOCRACY, 00:23:14.90\00:23:16.76 THAT'S HOW THEY TREATED PEOPLE THAT DID THAT. 00:23:16.76\00:23:19.60 FURTHERMORE, 1 TIMOTHY 4:1, "SOME SHALL DEPART 00:23:19.60\00:23:24.26 FROM THE FAITH, GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS, 00:23:24.26\00:23:29.40 AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS." 00:23:29.40\00:23:30.70 PAUL IS PROPHESYING IN THE LAST DAYS, PEOPLE WOULD 00:23:30.70\00:23:32.96 "GIVE HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS." 00:23:32.96\00:23:34.80 CAN YOU SEE WHY WE'VE GOT TO UNDERSTAND THIS IN THE LIGHT 00:23:34.80\00:23:36.83 OF PROPHECY? 00:23:36.83\00:23:37.80 OR WE CAN BE DECEIVED. 00:23:37.80\00:23:39.20 GALATIANS 5:19, 21--NO, I'M SORRY, EPHESIANS 5:11, 00:23:39.20\00:23:43.60 THANK YOU, "HAVE NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS 00:23:43.60\00:23:48.53 OF DARKNESS." 00:23:48.53\00:23:51.23 "SORCERERS, THEY SHALL HAVE THEIR PART IN THE LAKE THAT 00:23:51.23\00:23:56.40 BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE: WHICH IS THE SECOND DEATH." 00:23:56.40\00:24:01.03 NOW FRIENDS, THE BIBLE IS TELLING US THAT CHRISTIANS 00:24:01.03\00:24:03.90 SHOULD NOT IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM BE INVOLVED IN THE OCCULT, 00:24:03.90\00:24:09.26 SPIRIT MEDIUMS. 00:24:09.26\00:24:10.83 WHEN I GREW UP IN THIS CITY, MY MOTHER WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS. 00:24:10.83\00:24:14.03 ANY OF YOU REMEMBER A SERIES THEY HAD ON TV YEARS AGO CALLED 00:24:14.03\00:24:18.70 "DARK SHADOWS"? 00:24:18.70\00:24:21.13 THAT FAMILY THAT ACTED IN THAT WERE GOOD FRIENDS OF OURS. 00:24:21.13\00:24:24.46 I TOLD YOU MY MOTHER WAS IN SHOW BUSINESS. 00:24:24.46\00:24:28.00 AND THEY'D COME TO OUR HOUSE, AND WE'D GO TO THEIRS. 00:24:28.00\00:24:29.63 WE USED TO HAVE--THE PEOPLE WHO ACTUALLY ACTED IN THOSE WERE 00:24:29.63\00:24:31.93 VERY MUCH INTO THE SPIRIT WORLD. 00:24:31.93\00:24:34.60 WE HAD OUR OUIJA BOARDS AND OUR SEANCES AND WE TRIED TO TALK TO 00:24:34.60\00:24:37.83 ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND KENNEDY AND ALL THESE DIFFERENT PEOPLE. 00:24:37.83\00:24:40.30 AND YOU KNOW WHAT? 00:24:40.30\00:24:41.50 THINGS HAPPENED. 00:24:41.50\00:24:43.13 SUPERNATURAL THINGS HAPPENED. 00:24:43.13\00:24:44.63 EERIE THINGS USED TO HAPPEN. 00:24:44.63\00:24:46.00 IT WAS REAL, BUT IT WASN'T FROM ABE LINCOLN AND JOHN KENNEDY. 00:24:46.00\00:24:49.60 IT WAS FROM DEVILS. 00:24:49.60\00:24:51.56 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE STILL THINK THAT THEY CAN PLAY WITH THE 00:24:51.56\00:24:55.53 DEVIL LIKE THAT, AND IT'S VERY, VERY DANGEROUS. 00:24:55.53\00:24:58.16 I'M THANKFUL THE LORD SAVED ME FROM THAT. 00:24:58.16\00:25:00.46 NUMBER 15: WHAT GLORIOUS POWER DOES GOD OFFER HIS PEOPLE? 00:25:00.46\00:25:04.70 PHILIPPIANS 3:10, "THAT I MIGHT KNOW HIM, AND THE POWER 00:25:04.70\00:25:10.46 OF HIS RESURRECTION." 00:25:10.46\00:25:13.70 FRIENDS, THE BIBLE IS VERY CLEAR THAT JESUS IS THE ONE 00:25:13.70\00:25:18.30 WHO CAN GIVE US LIFE. 00:25:18.30\00:25:19.60 YOU KNOW, THE MOST IMPORTANT THING IS THE BIBLE TELLS US, 00:25:19.60\00:25:22.80 "HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE; HE THAT HAS NOT 00:25:22.80\00:25:26.76 THE SON HAS NOT LIFE." 00:25:26.76\00:25:29.06 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH, FRIENDS, BECAUSE JESUS 00:25:29.06\00:25:32.83 MAKES IT POSSIBLE FOR EACH ONE OF US TO LIVE ETERNALLY. 00:25:32.83\00:25:37.46 WE FOUND OUT ABOUT THAT PLACE, AND YOU CAN BE THERE. 00:25:37.46\00:25:40.90 >> STAY TUNED, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER 00:25:40.90\00:25:42.43 THESE IMPORTANT MESSAGES. 00:25:42.43\00:25:44.90 >> WHEN I LEARNED THE BIBLE TRUTH ON THIS SUBJECT, 00:25:46.70\00:25:48.66 FRIENDS, YOU HAVE NO IDEA. 00:25:48.66\00:25:50.60 IT WAS AS THOUGH A BURDEN HAD ROLLED FROM MY SHOULDERS 00:25:50.60\00:25:54.36 THAT HAD BEEN CRUSHING ME MY WHOLE LIFE. 00:25:54.36\00:25:57.00 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE THOUGHT HELL IS THIS CAVERN DOWN 00:25:57.00\00:25:59.83 YONDER SOMEWHERE? 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