>>THE FOLLOWING IS A PAID PRESENTATION BROUGHT TO YOU BY 00:00:01.40\00:00:03.80 AMAZING FACTS, INCORPORATED. 00:00:03.83\00:00:12.07 >>A LOT OF PEOPLE ON OUR WORLD - EVEN IN OUR CHURCHES - THAT HAVE 00:00:12.11\00:00:13.98 BEEN SEDUCED BY SPIRITS - THEY'RE DECEIVED. 00:00:14.01\00:00:16.81 AND THEY SAY, 'WELL, I KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT I HAD THIS 00:00:16.85\00:00:19.71 SPIRIT TELL ME...". 00:00:19.75\00:00:23.92 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:00:23.95\00:00:26.22 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:26.25\00:00:29.89 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:29.92\00:00:32.69 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:32.73\00:00:34.66 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:34.73\00:00:37.47 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:00:37.50\00:00:44.71 >>I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN TO PARIS BEFORE - THEY'VE GOT 00:00:44.74\00:00:48.11 A TOURIST ATTRACTION THERE THAT IS A LITTLE BIT GRISLY. 00:00:48.14\00:00:52.18 IT'S THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS - UNLIKE THE CATACOMBS IN ROME 00:00:52.21\00:00:55.88 WHERE IT SHOWS WHERE THE CHRISTIANS LIVED AND SOME OF THE 00:00:55.92\00:00:59.19 BURIAL AREAS - BUT IN THE CATACOMBS OF PARIS THEY 00:00:59.22\00:01:03.22 BASICALLY HAD A PROBLEM WITH FINDING NEW GRAVES SHORTLY AFTER 00:01:03.26\00:01:07.40 THE FRENCH REVOLUTION BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THEY WERE JUST - 00:01:07.46\00:01:10.27 SO MANY PEOPLE WERE BUTCHERED WITH THE GUILLOTINE THEY 00:01:10.30\00:01:12.97 COULDN'T MANAGE ALL THE GRAVES AND IT BECAME UNSANITARY. 00:01:13.00\00:01:16.50 WELL, THERE WERE ALL THESE ANCIENT CATACOMBS UNDER PARIS 00:01:16.54\00:01:19.81 AND SO THEY BEGAN TO STACK UP THE BODIES - THE REMAINS - 00:01:19.84\00:01:23.98 OF SIX MILLION PARISIANS IN 190 MILES OF TUNNELS. 00:01:24.01\00:01:33.72 AND THERE ARE ABOUT 160,000 TOURISTS THAT VISIT PARIS EVERY 00:01:33.76\00:01:37.03 YEAR AND THEY GO DOWN INTO THESE CATACOMBS AND THEY WIND DOWN 00:01:37.06\00:01:39.79 THIS SPIRAL STAIRCASE AND THEY'VE GOT TOUR GUIDES AND - 00:01:39.83\00:01:42.76 MOST OF IT, OBVIOUSLY, IS BLOCKED OFF. 00:01:42.80\00:01:45.87 THEY'VE GOT THE ONE GUY THAT WORKS THERE AND HE - THEY SAID, 00:01:45.90\00:01:51.11 'DOESN'T THIS BOTHER YOU - ALL THESE SPIRITS SURROUNDED BY ALL 00:01:51.14\00:01:54.68 THE GHOSTS OF ALL THESE BONES?' AND HE SAID, 'WELL, IT MADE ME 00:01:54.71\00:01:57.98 FEEL A LITTLE BIT CREEPY AT FIRST, BUT' - HE SAYS - 00:01:58.01\00:02:00.38 'NOW THE BONES JUST KIND OF FALL OFF AND I PICK THEM UP 00:02:00.42\00:02:02.08 AND STICK THEM BACK IN.' HE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, YOU JUST GET 00:02:02.12\00:02:03.92 USED TO IT AFTER AWHILE.' HOW WOULD YOU LIKE TO HAVE 00:02:03.95\00:02:05.92 THAT JOB? 00:02:05.95\00:02:08.19 BUT DO YOU REALLY NEED TO WORRY ABOUT WALKING THROUGH A CEMETERY 00:02:08.22\00:02:12.29 AND PEOPLE SPOOKING YOU? 00:02:12.33\00:02:16.46 I HEARD ONE TIME THIS, YOU KNOW, PEOPLE PUT SOME INTERESTING 00:02:16.50\00:02:19.00 THINGS ON THEIR TOMBSTONES AND IT'S AN EDUCATION TO WALK 00:02:19.03\00:02:22.97 THROUGH A CEMETERY. 00:02:23.00\00:02:25.01 AND THIS ONE MAN HE PUT ON HIS TOMBSTONE, 'STOP MY FRIEND AS 00:02:25.04\00:02:30.01 YOU GO BY, AS YOU ARE NOW SO ONCE WAS I, AS I AM NOW 00:02:30.05\00:02:37.22 YOU SOON SHALL BE, SO PREPARE YOURSELF TO FOLLOW ME.' 00:02:37.25\00:02:43.43 WELL A SCHOOLBOY WAS WALKING THROUGH THE CEMETERY AND HE 00:02:43.46\00:02:45.73 STOPPED AND HE LOOKED AT THAT WRITING ON THE TOMBSTONE AND HE 00:02:45.76\00:02:48.80 SCRIBBLED WITH CRAYON, HE SAID, 'TO FOLLOW YOU I'M NOT CONTENT, 00:02:48.83\00:02:52.60 UNTIL I KNOW JUST WHERE YOU WENT.' 00:02:52.63\00:02:55.97 AND THAT'S REALLY THE BIG QUESTION. 00:02:56.00\00:02:57.57 WHERE DO THEY GO? 00:02:57.61\00:02:58.47 WHAT HAPPENS TO PEOPLE WHEN THEY DIE? 00:02:58.51\00:03:01.11 JESUS GIVES US SOME ENCOURAGING WORDS IN THE BOOK OF REVELATION 00:03:01.14\00:03:04.38 CHAPTER 1, VERSE 18. 00:03:04.41\00:03:06.88 HE SAYS, "I AM HE THAT LIVES. 00:03:06.92\00:03:09.48 I WAS DEAD AND BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOREVERMORE AND I HAVE 00:03:09.52\00:03:14.19 THE KEYS OF DEATH - OF HELL AND DEATH." 00:03:14.22\00:03:17.43 NOW THE WORD 'HELL' THERE IN THE BIBLE REPRESENTS THE GRAVE. 00:03:17.46\00:03:21.40 HE SAYS, 'I'VE GOT THE KEYS OF THE GRAVE AND DEATH.' 00:03:21.43\00:03:23.97 WE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH. 00:03:24.00\00:03:25.50 IF YOU UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT, YOU'LL COME TO FIND THAT 00:03:25.53\00:03:28.07 CHRISTIANS DO NOT REALLY DIE, THEY GO TO SLEEP. 00:03:28.10\00:03:33.91 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:03:33.94\00:03:35.18 LET'S GET INTO OUR STUDY. 00:03:35.21\00:03:36.41 QUESTION #1. 00:03:36.44\00:03:37.91 TO UNDERSTAND THE SUBJECT OF DEATH, WE'VE GOT TO GO BACK TO 00:03:37.95\00:03:39.88 THE BEGINNING AND LOOK AT WHAT HAPPENED WHEN GOD 00:03:39.91\00:03:42.92 FIRST MADE MAN. 00:03:42.95\00:03:45.09 HOW DID WE GET HERE IN THE FIRST PLACE? 00:03:45.12\00:03:47.69 IT SAYS IN GENESIS 2, VERSE 7 "THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN OF THE 00:03:47.72\00:03:51.59 DUST OF THE GROUND AND HE BREATHED INTO HIS NOSTRILS THE 00:03:51.63\00:03:56.26 BREATH OF LIFE AND MAN BECAME A LIVING SOUL." 00:03:56.30\00:04:01.50 YOU NOTICE IT DOES NOT SAY THAT GOD GAVE MAN OR INJECTED HIM 00:04:01.54\00:04:04.97 WITH A SOUL. 00:04:05.01\00:04:06.24 THE COMBINATION OF THE BREATH OF LIFE AND THE DUST OF THE EARTH 00:04:06.27\00:04:10.11 THAT THE LORD ASSEMBLED - MAN THEN BECAME A LIVING SOUL. 00:04:10.15\00:04:13.48 DON'T MISS THAT. 00:04:13.52\00:04:14.72 WHEN GOD FIRST MADE ADAM AND HE PUT ALL THE POSITIONS - THE 00:04:14.75\00:04:19.79 ORGANS IN THEIR PLACE AND THERE WAS BLOOD IN ADAM'S VEINS BUT 00:04:19.82\00:04:23.19 HIS HEART WAS NOT BEATING AND HE HAD A SET OF LUNGS BUT THEY WERE 00:04:23.22\00:04:25.79 NOT BREATHING, THEN IT SAYS, 'GOD BREATHED INTO HIM 00:04:25.83\00:04:29.40 THAT BREATH OF LIFE.' QUESTION #2. 00:04:29.43\00:04:33.77 WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON DIES? 00:04:33.80\00:04:36.47 BASICALLY, IT'S CREATION IN REVERSE. 00:04:36.50\00:04:39.97 YOU READ IN ECCLESIASTES 12, VERSE 7 "THEN THE DUST" - THE 00:04:40.01\00:04:44.01 BODY - "WILL RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS." 00:04:44.05\00:04:46.18 WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE - YOU DECOMPOSE. 00:04:46.21\00:04:49.78 AND IT SAYS, "AND THE SPIRIT WILL RETURN TO GOD WHO GAVE IT." 00:04:49.82\00:04:54.22 SO WHAT IS THIS SPIRIT THAT RETURNS TO GOD AT DEATH? 00:04:54.26\00:05:00.43 IS IT A GHOST THAT HOPS OUT OF YOU? 00:05:00.46\00:05:02.96 IT SAYS IN JOB, 'ALL THE WHILE MY BREATH IS IN ME AND 00:05:03.00\00:05:06.97 THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS.' 00:05:07.00\00:05:10.77 WELL, I BET YOU NEVER THOUGHT ABOUT IT THAT WAY BEFORE, 00:05:10.81\00:05:13.98 YOU'VE GOT A SOUL UP YOUR NOSE. 00:05:14.01\00:05:15.88 THE SPIRIT OF GOD IN YOUR NOSTRILS - WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? 00:05:15.91\00:05:19.28 IT'S THE WORD THERE 'SPIRIT' IS THE HEBREW WORD 'RUAH' AND IT 00:05:19.31\00:05:24.09 MEANS THE BREATH OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS. 00:05:24.12\00:05:27.99 THE WORD 'BREATH' AND 'SPIRIT' ARE INTERCHANGEABLE MANY TIMES 00:05:28.02\00:05:31.59 IN THE BIBLE. 00:05:31.63\00:05:32.59 IN HEBREW IT'S 'RUAH'. 00:05:32.63\00:05:34.66 THE WORD OFTEN TRANSLATED 'SPIRIT' IN GREEK IS 'PNEUMA'. 00:05:34.73\00:05:38.47 AND SO THE WORD PNEUMA MEANS BREATH AND SO A LOT OF PEOPLE 00:05:38.50\00:05:42.97 HAVE TRANSLATED SPIRIT - IT'S JUST THE WORD BREATH - 00:05:43.00\00:05:45.31 AND THEY THINK IT MEANS A GHOST JUMPS OUT OF YOU. 00:05:45.34\00:05:48.28 AGAIN, 'THE BODY WITHOUT THE SPIRIT IS DEAD.' 00:05:48.31\00:05:51.11 THAT WORD THERE 'SPIRIT' IN JAMES CHAPTER 2 IS 'BREATH' - 00:05:51.15\00:05:53.82 THE BODY WITHOUT THE BREATH IS DEAD. 00:05:53.85\00:05:55.58 EVERYTHING BREATHES IN OUR WORLD. 00:05:55.62\00:05:58.09 EVEN FISH BREATHE. 00:05:58.12\00:05:59.29 MUSHROOMS BREATHE. 00:05:59.32\00:06:01.02 THERE IS NO LIFE WITHOUT BREATH. 00:06:01.06\00:06:02.82 EVERY SINGLE CELL OF LIFE IN OUR WORLD USES THE GASES OF AIR 00:06:02.86\00:06:08.96 SOMEHOW - THEY BREATHE - OR THEY DIE. 00:06:09.00\00:06:12.47 SO WHAT IS A SOUL THEN? 00:06:12.50\00:06:14.37 THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE SOUL AND EVERYBODY THINKS IT'S A 00:06:14.40\00:06:16.57 LITTLE BUTTERFLY GHOST - SOME KIND OF PINK COTTON CANDY THAT 00:06:16.60\00:06:19.37 COMES OUT OF YOU - IT'S THIS, YOU KNOW, ETHEREAL CREATURE. 00:06:19.41\00:06:24.68 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 00:06:24.71\00:06:27.38 WHAT IS A SOUL? 00:06:27.42\00:06:29.28 GENESIS 2:7, "THE LORD GOD FORMED MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE 00:06:29.32\00:06:32.09 GROUND" - WE'RE GOING TO REVIEW THIS - "HE BREATHED INTO HIS 00:06:32.12\00:06:34.49 NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE AND MAN BECAME A SOUL." 00:06:34.52\00:06:38.99 THE COMBINATION OF THE TWO THINGS BECOMES A SOUL. 00:06:39.03\00:06:41.80 LET'S SUPPOSE FOR A MOMENT HERE I'VE GOT A BOX - 00:06:41.83\00:06:44.50 JUST A LITTLE WOODEN BOX. 00:06:44.53\00:06:45.87 IT'S A COMBINATION OF WOOD AND NAILS. 00:06:45.90\00:06:49.67 AND I PUT THE WOOD AND THE NAILS TOGETHER AND I MAKE A BOX. 00:06:49.70\00:06:52.47 TWO COMPONENTS - WOOD AND NAILS - BOX. 00:06:52.51\00:06:55.31 SO, I NOW TAKE MY HAMMER AND I PULL OUT THE NAILS AND I SET 00:06:55.34\00:06:58.88 THEM OVER HERE AND I TAKE THE LITTLE PIECES OF BOARD - THE 00:06:58.91\00:07:02.22 WOOD - AND I SET THEM OVER HERE. 00:07:02.25\00:07:04.12 I'VE STILL GOT THE NAILS. 00:07:04.15\00:07:05.09 I'VE STILL GOT THE WOOD. 00:07:05.12\00:07:06.59 WHERE'S THE BOX? 00:07:06.62\00:07:08.82 THE BOX STOPS BEING A BOX WHEN YOU SEPARATE THE TWO. 00:07:08.86\00:07:12.29 THAT'S THE WAY IT IS WITH YOU BEING A SOUL. 00:07:12.33\00:07:15.46 WHEN YOU SEPARATE THE BREATH OF LIFE FROM THE BODY, 00:07:15.50\00:07:20.40 IT STOPS BEING A SOUL. 00:07:20.44\00:07:22.37 YOUR SOUL EXPERIENCES EVERYTHING YOUR SOUL EXPERIENCES 00:07:22.40\00:07:24.97 IN YOUR BODY. 00:07:25.01\00:07:26.81 SO THE IDEA THAT YOU'VE GOT A LITTLE GHOST INSIDE YOU THAT 00:07:26.84\00:07:28.98 GOES FLITTING AROUND AFTER YOU DIE - YOU DON'T FIND THAT 00:07:29.01\00:07:31.48 IN THE BIBLE. 00:07:31.51\00:07:33.08 QUESTION - BIG QUESTION - DO SOULS DIE? 00:07:33.11\00:07:39.29 CAN A SOUL DIE? 00:07:39.32\00:07:41.39 SOME PEOPLE SAY, 'NO, YOUR SOUL'S IMMORTAL.' 00:07:41.42\00:07:43.59 LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:07:43.63\00:07:45.69 EZEKIEL 18, VERSE 4, "THE SOUL THAT SINS" - 00:07:45.73\00:07:49.36 CAN YOU SEE WHAT THAT SAYS? 00:07:49.40\00:07:51.17 IT SHALL WHAT? 00:07:51.20\00:07:52.77 "THE SOUL THAT SINS IT SHALL DIE." 00:07:52.80\00:07:54.27 THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH. 00:07:54.30\00:07:56.10 ONLY THE LORD HAS IMMORTALITY SO YOU DON'T HAVE AN IMMORTAL SOUL. 00:07:56.14\00:08:00.18 MATTER OF FACT, YOU CAN READ IN REVELATION 16 - SPEAKING ABOUT 00:08:00.21\00:08:02.88 ONE OF THE PLAGUES IT SAYS, 'AND EVERY SOUL IN THE SEA DIED.' 00:08:02.91\00:08:06.48 THERE THE WORD SOUL IS SPEAKING ABOUT EVERY LIVING CREATURE. 00:08:06.51\00:08:11.29 AND SO, WHEN - IT SAYS IN ECCLESIASTES 'THE BODY RETURNS 00:08:11.32\00:08:14.52 TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS AND THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE 00:08:14.56\00:08:17.83 IT' - WHAT IS THAT SPIRIT THAT RETURNS TO GOD? 00:08:17.86\00:08:21.10 EVERY CREATURE IN THE WORLD GETS ITS LIFE FROM GOD AND WHEN ANY 00:08:21.13\00:08:26.07 CREATURE DIES, THE LIFE RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. 00:08:26.10\00:08:29.80 IT DOESN'T MEAN IT'S UP THERE HAVING A CONVERSATION - THE 00:08:29.84\00:08:32.41 BUTTERFLIES AND THE FISH ARE ALL TALKING TO EACH OTHER - THEY'VE 00:08:32.44\00:08:34.38 ALL GOT THESE LITTLE GHOSTS. 00:08:34.41\00:08:35.58 IT'S JUST TALKING ABOUT THE POWER OF LIFE RETURNS TO GOD 00:08:35.61\00:08:37.58 WHO GAVE IT. 00:08:37.61\00:08:39.18 AND WE READ A LOT OF THINGS AND SUPERSTITIONS INTO THE BIBLE - 00:08:39.21\00:08:41.78 IT'S NOT THERE. 00:08:41.82\00:08:43.02 DO GOOD PEOPLE GO TO HEAVEN RIGHT WHEN THEY DIE? 00:08:43.05\00:08:45.79 HERE'S WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS: JOB 17:3 "IF I WAIT THE GRAVE 00:08:45.82\00:08:50.09 IS MY HOUSE. 00:08:50.13\00:08:51.83 THEY SLEEP A DREAMLESS SLEEP IN THE GRAVE." 00:08:51.86\00:08:54.73 AND AGAIN, 'MEN AND BRETHREN' - PETER SPEAKING - 'LET ME FREELY 00:08:54.73\00:08:58.37 SPEAK UNTO YOU OF THE PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND 00:08:58.40\00:09:02.60 BURIED AND THAT HIS TOMB IS WITH US TO THIS DAY.' 00:09:02.64\00:09:07.58 NOW, I'M SPEAKING ABOUT GOOD KING DAVID - YOU KNOW, 00:09:07.61\00:09:11.28 THE ONE WHO KILLED GOLIATH? 00:09:11.31\00:09:12.78 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE - IF YOU KNOW YOUR BIBLE AT ALL - 00:09:12.81\00:09:14.82 THAT DAVID WILL BE SAVED? 00:09:14.85\00:09:17.32 DAVID'S GOING TO BE SAVED. 00:09:17.35\00:09:19.12 DAVID DIED 3,000 YEARS AGO - 1,000 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST - 00:09:19.15\00:09:23.43 GOOD MAN. GOOD KING. 00:09:23.46\00:09:26.59 HERE PETER IS PREACHING RIGHT NOW AT PENTECOST 00:09:26.63\00:09:29.36 1,000 YEARS LATER. 00:09:29.40\00:09:31.40 AFTER THE CROSS, AFTER JESUS HAS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN, AND HE SAID, 00:09:31.43\00:09:35.47 'LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT KING DAVID, THAT HE IS DEAD AND 00:09:35.50\00:09:38.41 BURIED AND HIS GRAVE IS STILL WITH US TO THIS DAY.' 00:09:38.44\00:09:40.61 THEY COULD LOOK AND SEE WHERE HIS GRAVE WAS - RIGHT THERE 00:09:40.64\00:09:42.18 OUTSIDE JERUSALEM. 00:09:42.21\00:09:42.98 IT'S STILL THERE TODAY. 00:09:43.01\00:09:43.88 I'VE BEEN THERE. 00:09:43.91\00:09:46.51 READING ON, PETER SAYS, 'FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED 00:09:46.55\00:09:49.48 INTO THE HEAVENS.' NOW, I DON'T KNOW HOW MORE CLEAR 00:09:49.52\00:09:52.19 THE APOSTLE CAN BE WHEN HE SAYS, 'HE'S DEAD, HE'S BURIED, 00:09:52.22\00:09:55.32 HIS GRAVE IS WITH US, AND HE'S NOT IN HEAVEN.' 00:09:55.36\00:09:58.69 SO, IF GOOD KING DAVID IS NOT IN HEAVEN YET, AND JESUS HAS HAD 00:09:58.73\00:10:02.00 3,000 YEARS TO GET HIM THERE, THEN MAYBE WE DON'T GO THERE 00:10:02.03\00:10:05.37 UNTIL A FUTURE TIME. 00:10:05.40\00:10:07.60 LET'S KEEP READING. 00:10:07.64\00:10:09.77 WHEN IS THAT TIME? 00:10:09.80\00:10:11.67 JOHN CHAPTER 5 - THESE ARE THE WORDS OF JESUS - VERSE 28, "WHEN 00:10:11.71\00:10:15.31 THE LORD COMES BACK" - IT SAYS - "ALL THAT ARE IN THE GRAVES WILL 00:10:15.34\00:10:18.58 HEAR HIS VOICE AND COME FORTH." 00:10:18.61\00:10:21.58 THERE'S A RESURRECTION. 00:10:21.62\00:10:22.98 HOW MANY OF YOU KNEW THERE WAS A RESURRECTION? 00:10:23.02\00:10:25.32 PEOPLE DON'T COME OUT OF THEIR GRAVES UNTIL THE RESURRECTION. 00:10:25.35\00:10:27.82 THAT'S THE PURPOSE OF THE RESURRECTION. 00:10:27.86\00:10:30.79 HOW MUCH DOES ONE COMPREHEND AFTER DEATH? 00:10:30.83\00:10:35.50 I MEAN, DON'T YOU DIE AND THEN AT LEAST - YOU'RE IN LIMBO - OR 00:10:35.53\00:10:38.47 PURGATORY - OR ABRAHAM'S BOSOM. 00:10:38.50\00:10:41.10 WE'VE GOT ALL THESE PLACES WE'VE CONCOCTED WHERE PEOPLE KIND OF - 00:10:41.14\00:10:43.37 IT'S A WAITING ROOM FOR HEAVEN OR HELL. 00:10:43.41\00:10:46.01 AND THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 00:10:46.04\00:10:48.88 SHOW ME THE WORD 'LIMBO' IN THE BIBLE. 00:10:48.91\00:10:50.78 PURGATORY - WHERE'S THAT IN THE BIBLE? 00:10:50.81\00:10:53.78 IT'S NOT THERE IS IT? 00:10:53.82\00:10:57.12 THESE ARE JUST MAN-MADE THINGS. 00:10:57.15\00:10:59.89 ECCLESIASTES 9:5, 6, 10 - SEVERAL PLACES YOU CAN LOOK. 00:10:59.92\00:11:05.43 DO YOU BELIEVE THE BIBLE, FRIENDS? 00:11:05.46\00:11:07.66 HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS, "THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANYTHING." 00:11:07.73\00:11:11.30 IT COULDN'T BE MORE CLEAR THAN THAT. 00:11:11.33\00:11:12.97 IT'S LIKE A DICTIONARY DEFINITION. 00:11:13.00\00:11:15.20 "NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A REWARD FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM 00:11:15.24\00:11:17.71 IS FORGOTTEN. 00:11:17.74\00:11:19.01 ALSO THEIR LOVE, THEIR HATRED AND THEIR ENVY IS NOW PERISHED. 00:11:19.04\00:11:22.08 NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE A PORTION FOREVER IN ANYTHING 00:11:22.11\00:11:26.08 THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN." 00:11:26.11\00:11:27.58 UNDER THE SUN MEANS IN THIS LIFE. 00:11:27.62\00:11:29.42 ONCE A PERSON DIES THEY DON'T COME BACK TO HAUNT ANYBODY. 00:11:29.45\00:11:32.22 THEY DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 00:11:32.25\00:11:33.79 THEY HAVE NOTHING TO DO AT ALL WITH ANYTHING THAT'S GOING ON 00:11:33.82\00:11:35.92 IN THIS WORLD. 00:11:35.96\00:11:38.33 AGAIN, SPEAKING OF THE DEAD IT SAYS, "HIS SONS WILL COME 00:11:38.36\00:11:41.36 TO HONOR AND HE KNOWS IT NOT. 00:11:41.40\00:11:44.17 THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW AND HE PERCEIVES IT NOT OF THEM." 00:11:44.20\00:11:47.17 IN OTHER WORDS, WHEN A PERSON DIES, THEY'RE NOT UP IN HEAVEN 00:11:47.20\00:11:49.50 LOOKING DOWN ON THEIR FAMILY - FIRST OF ALL, WOULD YOU BE VERY 00:11:49.54\00:11:51.97 HAPPY UP IN HEAVEN IF YOU COULD LOOK DOWN AND SEE ALL THE 00:11:52.01\00:11:57.28 TROUBLE THAT YOUR FAMILY IS HAVING AND YOUR - MAYBE 00:11:57.31\00:12:00.22 YOUR KIDS ARE GOING THROUGH? 00:12:00.25\00:12:01.48 I MEAN, WOULD YOU BE ENJOYING THE BLISS OF HEAVEN WHEN YOU SEE 00:12:01.52\00:12:03.49 ALL THE TRAGEDY AND MISERY ON THIS WORLD? 00:12:03.52\00:12:05.59 IT SAYS THE PEOPLE IN HEAVEN HAVE NO MORE PAIN AND 00:12:05.62\00:12:07.89 NO MORE SORROW. 00:12:07.92\00:12:09.99 THEY'RE NOT GOING THROUGH ALL THAT AGONY OF WATCHING 00:12:10.03\00:12:12.49 WHAT'S HAPPENING DOWN HERE. 00:12:12.53\00:12:15.16 THEY ARE SLEEPING A PEACEFUL, DREAMLESS SLEEP. 00:12:15.20\00:12:17.77 NOW, SOME OF US ARE THINKING RIGHT NOW, 'PASTOR DOUG, WHAT 00:12:17.80\00:12:20.30 ABOUT THAT VERSE THERE IN 1 CORINTHIANS 'TO BE ABSENT FROM 00:12:20.34\00:12:22.97 THE BODY IS TO BE PRESENT WITH THE LORD.' 00:12:23.00\00:12:25.87 WELL, THAT'S ABSOLUTELY TRUE. 00:12:25.91\00:12:27.58 IF YOU'RE SAVED AND YOU DIE, YOUR NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS 00:12:27.61\00:12:33.58 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. 00:12:33.62\00:12:35.52 JESUS CALLED UNCONSCIOUSNESS - THE UNCONSCIOUS STATE 00:12:35.55\00:12:38.39 OF THE DEAD - SLEEP IN JOHN 11, VERSES 11 TO 14. 00:12:38.42\00:12:42.72 HOW LONG WILL THEY SLEEP? 00:12:42.76\00:12:45.69 IT SAYS, "SO MAN LIES DOWN AND HE RISES NOT UNTIL THE HEAVENS 00:12:45.73\00:12:48.66 BE NO MORE." 00:12:48.70\00:12:49.80 NOW, WE READ THIS ONE TO YOU A MOMENT AGO. 00:12:49.83\00:12:51.47 WHEN IS IT WHEN THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE? 00:12:51.50\00:12:53.67 "THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL COME IN WHICH THE HEAVENS PASS AWAY." 00:12:53.70\00:12:57.31 SO THEY SLEEP UNTIL THE HEAVENS ARE NO MORE - THEY SLEEP 00:12:57.34\00:12:59.77 UNTIL THE HEAVENS PASS AWAY. 00:12:59.81\00:13:01.38 THAT'S WHEN THE DAY OF THE LORD COMES AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT. 00:13:01.41\00:13:03.81 SO IT'S AT THE COMING OF THE LORD THE DEAD WILL RISE. 00:13:03.85\00:13:07.12 THEY'RE NOT RISEN YET. 00:13:07.15\00:13:09.48 AS FAR AS THEY'RE CONCERNED - THEY HAVE NO CONSCIOUSNESS OF 00:13:09.52\00:13:12.32 TIME - THE RESURRECTION HAPPENS AS SOON AS THEY DIE BECAUSE 00:13:12.35\00:13:15.59 IT'S THE NEXT THING THEY KNOW. 00:13:15.62\00:13:17.99 BUT WE LIVE IN TIME - IT HASN'T HAPPENED YET. 00:13:18.03\00:13:20.90 "FOR AS IN ADAM, ALL DIE. 00:13:20.93\00:13:24.07 EVEN SO, IN CHRIST SHALL ALL BE MADE ALIVE." 00:13:24.10\00:13:27.60 SO EVERYONE DIES IN ADAM. 00:13:27.64\00:13:29.07 WE'VE ALL GOT THESE PHYSICAL BODIES - ADAM DIED - GOD SAID, 00:13:29.10\00:13:31.81 'IN THE DAY YOU EAT THEREOF YOU WILL DIE.' 00:13:31.84\00:13:33.71 ADAM BEGAN DYING SPIRITUALLY AND EVEN BEGAN DYING PHYSICALLY, 00:13:33.74\00:13:38.18 THE DAY THAT HE SINNED. 00:13:38.21\00:13:40.58 "BUT EVERY MAN IN HIS OWN ORDER; CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS" - 00:13:40.62\00:13:45.39 HERE'S THE ORDER. 00:13:45.42\00:13:46.29 THIS IS NEW TESTAMENT. 00:13:46.32\00:13:47.52 WHEN DO THEY RAISE? 00:13:47.56\00:13:48.79 "CHRIST THE FIRST FRUITS, AFTERWARD THEY THAT ARE 00:13:48.82\00:13:51.79 CHRIST'S" - WHAT DOES IT SAY? 00:13:51.83\00:13:53.53 "AT HIS COMING." 00:13:53.56\00:13:55.56 WHEN DO THEY RISE? 00:13:55.60\00:13:56.90 WE ALL DIE. 00:13:56.93\00:13:58.17 "BUT AFTERWARD, THEY THAT ARE CHRIST'S AT HIS COMING" - THAT'S 00:13:58.20\00:14:01.07 WHEN THEY COME BACK TO LIFE. 00:14:01.10\00:14:02.77 IF THAT'S CLEAR, SAY 'AMEN'. 00:14:02.80\00:14:04.47 THAT'S SO CLEAR TO ME. 00:14:04.51\00:14:05.81 JESUS MADE IT SO CLEAR HE SAID, 'OUR FRIEND LAZARUS IS ASLEEP.' 00:14:05.84\00:14:10.58 AND THEN HE LATER EXPLAINED WHEN THE DISCIPLES SAID, 'WELL GOOD, 00:14:10.61\00:14:12.68 HE'S SICK - SLEEP - THAT'LL BE GOOD FOR HIM.' 00:14:12.71\00:14:14.32 HE SAID, 'N0, NO. 00:14:14.35\00:14:15.58 LAZARUS IS DEAD.' JESUS SAID, 'I'M SPEAKING IN SYMBOLIC TERMS. 00:14:15.62\00:14:17.82 LAZARUS IS DEAD.' LATER HE GOES TO THE TOMB 00:14:17.85\00:14:21.69 TO RAISE LAZARUS. 00:14:21.72\00:14:23.12 HE'D BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 00:14:23.16\00:14:24.93 AND MARTHA WANTED TO - SHE SAID, 'LORD, IT'S NOT 00:14:24.96\00:14:29.00 GOING TO BE PLEASANT.' HE SAID, 'ROLL AWAY THE STONE.' 00:14:29.03\00:14:31.17 AND SHE SAID, 'BY THIS TIME THERE'S A BAD SMELL BECAUSE 00:14:31.20\00:14:33.17 HE'S BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 00:14:33.20\00:14:34.27 YOU KNOW, IT'S SO - DEATH IS NOT A PRETTY THING.' 00:14:34.30\00:14:37.07 AND SHE SAID, 'HE'S GOING TO SMELL. 00:14:37.11\00:14:39.97 IT'S GOING TO BE AWFUL LORD.' HE SAID, 'ROLL AWAY THE STONE. 00:14:40.01\00:14:41.71 TRUST ME.' AND THEY ROLLED AWAY THE STONE - 00:14:41.74\00:14:43.31 IT PROBABLY STUNK WHEN THEY DID. 00:14:43.35\00:14:45.48 BUT THEN JESUS SAID, 'WHEN HE SAID THESE THINGS HE CRIED 00:14:45.51\00:14:48.78 WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'LAZARUS, COME FORTH.' 00:14:48.82\00:14:52.59 ALL OF A SUDDEN, IN THE DARK OPENING OF THAT TOMB, THIS 00:14:52.62\00:14:56.22 FIGURE CAME WADDLING OUT BOUND UP WITH THESE MUMMY-LIKE CLOTHS 00:14:56.26\00:15:00.40 AND JESUS SAID, 'LOOSE HIM.' LAZARUS WAS ALIVE. 00:15:00.43\00:15:03.90 NOW HERE'S A QUESTION. 00:15:03.93\00:15:06.10 A LOT OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD TEACHES TODAY THAT WHEN YOU DIE 00:15:06.13\00:15:08.57 YOU GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN OR HELL - BEFORE THE JUDGMENT, 00:15:08.60\00:15:11.07 BEFORE THE RESURRECTION. 00:15:11.11\00:15:12.11 HAVE YOU HEARD THAT? 00:15:12.14\00:15:13.98 THAT IS A FALSE TEACHING. 00:15:14.01\00:15:15.78 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW POPULAR IT IS, IT IS UNBIBLICAL. 00:15:15.81\00:15:18.61 AND, IF NOTHING ELSE, USE YOUR HEAD. THINK. 00:15:18.65\00:15:21.78 THERE ARE ABOUT TWELVE RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. 00:15:21.82\00:15:24.82 IF ONE PERSON WAS RESURRECTED IN THE WORLD TODAY - A BONA FIDE 00:15:24.85\00:15:29.82 RESURRECTION - DEAD AND BURIED FOUR DAYS - DOCTORS DECLARED 00:15:29.86\00:15:32.39 THEM DEAD, DEAD, DEAD, DEAD - COLD, LIFELESS, DEAD - NO BRAIN 00:15:32.43\00:15:36.40 WAVES, BURIED THEM, FOUR DAYS LATER THEY OPEN THE GRAVE, 00:15:36.43\00:15:39.67 THEY STINK, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THEY COME BACK TO LIFE. 00:15:39.70\00:15:42.97 WOULD YOU HAVE EVERY NEWS AGENCY IN THE WORLD SENDING REPORTERS - 00:15:43.00\00:15:48.11 AND THEY WOULD BE SHOVING MICROPHONES IN THEIR FACE AND 00:15:48.14\00:15:50.98 SAYING, 'WHAT WAS IT LIKE ON THE OTHER SIDE? 00:15:51.01\00:15:54.12 WHAT DID YOU SEE? 00:15:54.15\00:15:54.98 WHAT DID YOU EXPERIENCE?' RIGHT? 00:15:55.02\00:15:58.12 HOW COME OUT OF THE TWELVE RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE, 00:15:58.15\00:16:01.22 NOT ONE OF THEM EVER COMMENTS ON WHAT THEY EXPERIENCED IN DEATH? 00:16:01.26\00:16:06.70 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T EXPERIENCE ANYTHING. 00:16:06.73\00:16:09.66 I MEAN, CAN YOU IMAGINE? 00:16:09.70\00:16:10.47 WHAT A DIRTY TRICK THAT WOULD BE. 00:16:10.50\00:16:12.27 HERE LAZARUS DIES, HE'S UP IN HEAVEN, HE'S WITH THE ANGELS, 00:16:12.30\00:16:15.27 HE'S GETTING - REACHING OUT FOR THE TREE OF LIFE AND 00:16:15.30\00:16:17.31 ALL OF A SUDDEN POOF! HE'S BACK IN GRAVE CLOTHES. 00:16:17.34\00:16:20.38 'THANKS JESUS, I REALLY APPRECIATE THAT.' 00:16:20.41\00:16:23.21 'YEAH, I THOUGHT I'D RAISE YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE MY FRIEND. 00:16:23.24\00:16:25.81 BRING YOU BACK, GIVE YOU YOUR OLD BODY AGAIN.' 00:16:25.85\00:16:28.62 WOULD THAT HAVE BEEN? 00:16:28.65\00:16:29.85 OR, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, IF HE WAS BURNING IN HELL AND JESUS 00:16:29.88\00:16:32.19 BROUGHT HIM BACK HE'D SAY, 'OH BOY IT WAS HOT! 00:16:32.22\00:16:34.49 THANKS A LOT.' BUT HE MAKES NO COMMENT AT ALL 00:16:34.52\00:16:37.33 ABOUT ANYTHING. WHY? 00:16:37.36\00:16:38.56 BECAUSE THEY KNEW BACK THEN THE DEAD DON'T KNOW ANYTHING. 00:16:38.59\00:16:40.80 THEY'RE ASLEEP. 00:16:40.83\00:16:42.00 IT'S A DREAMLESS UNCONSCIOUS SLEEP. 00:16:42.03\00:16:43.97 IT DOESN'T MATTER HOW POPULAR THE OTHER TEACHINGS ARE, 00:16:44.00\00:16:47.37 THEY'RE NOT BIBLICAL, FRIENDS. 00:16:47.40\00:16:49.87 WHAT HAPPENS TO THE RIGHTEOUS DEAD AT THE SECOND COMING 00:16:49.90\00:16:52.27 OF JESUS? 00:16:52.31\00:16:53.51 IT SAYS IN 1 CORINTHIANS 15, "WE'LL BE CHANGED IN A MOMENT, 00:16:53.54\00:16:57.28 IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMPET." 00:16:57.31\00:16:59.78 SPEAKING OF THE TRUMP WHEN THE LORD DESCENDS. 00:16:59.81\00:17:02.18 'FOR THE TRUMPET WILL SOUND AND THE DEAD WILL BE RAISED 00:17:02.22\00:17:04.79 INCORRUPTIBLE.' SPEAKING OF THE SAVED DEAD. 00:17:04.82\00:17:08.32 THEY'RE THE ONES IN THE FIRST RESURRECTION. 00:17:08.36\00:17:10.99 'FOR THIS CORRUPTIBLE' - THIS OLD BODY IT'S NOT GOING TO BE 00:17:11.03\00:17:13.03 THERE - 'IT MUST PUT ON INCORRUPTION' - THE GLORIFIED 00:17:13.06\00:17:15.86 BODY - 'AND THIS MORTAL' - WE'RE MORTAL NOW, 00:17:15.90\00:17:18.80 WILL PUT ON IMMORTALITY. 00:17:18.83\00:17:20.57 WHEN DO WE GET IMMORTALITY? 00:17:20.60\00:17:21.80 WHEN THE LORD COMES. 00:17:21.84\00:17:23.97 OUR BODIES AREN'T IMMORTAL YET. 00:17:24.01\00:17:25.67 WHAT WAS THE DEVIL'S FIRST LIE? 00:17:25.71\00:17:28.88 THE FIRST LIE THAT THE DEVIL TOLD IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN? 00:17:28.91\00:17:30.81 HE SAID TO EVE, 'YOU SHALL NOT SURELY DIE.' 00:17:30.85\00:17:35.52 GOD SAID, 'YOU EAT THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT AND YOU'LL DIE.' 00:17:35.55\00:17:37.92 THERE'S TWO CHOICES THAT GOD HAS GIVEN PEOPLE. 00:17:37.95\00:17:40.49 'HE SO LOVED THE WORLD HE GAVE HIS ONLY BEGOTTEN SON THAT 00:17:40.52\00:17:43.09 WHOEVER BELIEVES IN HIM MIGHT NOT PERISH'? - 00:17:43.12\00:17:45.83 DIE - 'BUT HAVE EVERLASTING LIFE.' 00:17:45.86\00:17:48.26 IT'S LIFE OR DEATH. 00:17:48.30\00:17:49.33 THAT'S WHAT SALVATION IS ALL ABOUT - LIFE OR DEATH. 00:17:49.36\00:17:51.30 'HE THAT HAS THE SON HAS LIFE. 00:17:51.33\00:17:52.50 HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS NOT LIFE.' 00:17:52.53\00:17:55.77 SEE, THE DEVIL SAYS YOU EITHER LIVE FOREVER IN HELL OR 00:17:55.80\00:17:58.17 YOU LIVE FOREVER IN HEAVEN BECAUSE YOU'RE IMMORTAL. 00:17:58.21\00:18:01.18 THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT. 00:18:01.21\00:18:02.98 WE'VE GOT LIFE OR DEATH THAT WE GET TO CHOOSE. 00:18:03.01\00:18:05.68 THE DRAGON SAID, 'YOU'LL NOT REALLY DIE. 00:18:05.71\00:18:08.68 YOU'LL BE TRANSFORMED INTO A GHOST OR YOU'LL BE REINCARNATED' 00:18:08.72\00:18:11.99 - HE'S GOT ALL THESE OTHER THEORIES - 'THAT OLD SERPENT 00:18:12.02\00:18:14.82 CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD.' 00:18:14.86\00:18:18.69 HE'S A SERPENT - THAT'S WHAT THE DRAGON SAID TO EVE. 00:18:18.73\00:18:21.20 'YOU DON'T REALLY DIE.' DOES THE DEVIL STILL 00:18:21.23\00:18:23.26 SAY THAT TODAY? 00:18:23.30\00:18:25.27 YOU KNOW WHAT'S SAD? 00:18:25.30\00:18:26.53 THE DEVIL IS SAYING IT TODAY THROUGH MANY PULPITS AROUND THE 00:18:26.57\00:18:28.47 WORLD - THAT PEOPLE DON'T REALLY DIE - THEY TURN INTO GHOSTS OR 00:18:28.50\00:18:33.21 SPIRITS OR ANGELS OR THEY'RE REINCARNATED OR THEY CHANNELED 00:18:33.24\00:18:36.41 SOMEWHERE ELSE IN SOME OTHER UNIVERSE AND THERE'S NO LIMIT 00:18:36.44\00:18:39.98 TO THE THEORIES. 00:18:40.02\00:18:41.78 NUMBER 8. 00:18:41.82\00:18:43.49 WHY DID THE DEVIL LIE TO EVE ABOUT DEATH? 00:18:43.52\00:18:47.52 COULD THIS SUBJECT BE MORE IMPORTANT THAN 00:18:47.56\00:18:49.09 MANY PEOPLE THINK? 00:18:49.12\00:18:51.19 'AND WHEN THEY SAY UNTO YOU, 'SEEK THOSE THAT HAVE MEDIUMS 00:18:51.23\00:18:54.66 AND WIZARDS WHO WHISPER AND MUTTER' - PEOPLE GO TO GET A 00:18:54.73\00:18:59.07 SOOTHSAYER OR THEY GO TO GET SOMEONE WHO WILL CHANNEL - AN 00:18:59.10\00:19:02.37 OCCULTIST - A MEDIUM - TO CALL BACK THE DEAD - TO COMMUNICATE. 00:19:02.40\00:19:06.91 GOD SAYS, 'SHOULD NOT A PEOPLE SEEK THEIR GOD? 00:19:06.94\00:19:10.11 SHOULD THEY SEEK THE DEAD ON BEHALF OF THE LIVING?' 00:19:10.15\00:19:12.61 GOD IS SAYING, 'WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TALK TO THE DEAD? 00:19:12.65\00:19:15.98 AND YET, OUR CULTURE IS JUST FULL OF THIS. 00:19:16.02\00:19:19.19 "SOME DEPART FROM THE FAITH" PAUL SAID, 1 TIMOTHY 4:1, 00:19:19.22\00:19:23.89 "GIVING HEED TO SEDUCING SPIRITS AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS." 00:19:23.93\00:19:28.46 LOT OF PEOPLE ON OUR WORLD - EVEN IN OUR CHURCHES - THAT HAVE 00:19:28.50\00:19:30.40 BEEN SEDUCED BY SPIRITS - THEY'RE DECEIVED AND THEY SAY, 00:19:30.43\00:19:34.17 'WELL I KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS, BUT I HAD THIS SPIRIT 00:19:34.20\00:19:36.47 TELL ME...'. 00:19:36.50\00:19:38.01 AND A LOT OF FOLKS - SOME WHO DON'T EVEN BELIEVE IN GOD - 00:19:38.04\00:19:40.98 SOMEHOW BELIEVE IN GHOSTS. 00:19:41.01\00:19:41.88 YOU HELP ME FIGURE THAT OUT. 00:19:41.91\00:19:43.81 THEY DON'T BELIEVE IN GOD BUT THEY BELIEVE THE DEAD CAN 00:19:43.85\00:19:45.38 SOMEHOW COMMUNICATE. 00:19:45.41\00:19:47.78 THEY BELIEVE IN SPIRITISM IS WHAT IT IS. 00:19:47.82\00:19:50.49 LIFE AFTER DEATH. 00:19:50.52\00:19:53.82 SCIENTISTS SEARCH FOR THE MEANING OF NEAR-DEATH 00:19:53.86\00:19:56.49 EXPERIENCES. 00:19:56.52\00:19:57.43 YOU'VE HEARD OF 'NEAR DEATH EXPERIENCES'? 00:19:57.46\00:19:58.89 SOMETIMES THEY'RE CALLED 'NDES'. 00:19:58.93\00:20:02.06 THE PERSON DIES ON THE OPERATING TABLE - OSTENSIBLY DIES - 00:20:02.10\00:20:06.47 SUPPOSEDLY THEY DIE - THEIR HEART STOPS BEATING AND SO THE 00:20:06.50\00:20:09.70 BRAIN IS NOT GETTING OXYGEN. 00:20:09.74\00:20:11.57 AND THEN THEY HAVE THIS EXPERIENCE WHERE THEY COME OUT 00:20:11.61\00:20:13.78 OF THEIR BODY AND THEY THEN BEGIN TO HOVER ABOVE THE 00:20:13.81\00:20:16.51 OPERATING TABLE AND THEY CAN KIND OF HEAR WHAT'S GOING ON AND 00:20:16.54\00:20:19.38 THEY'RE HAVING ALL KINDS OF WEIRD EXPERIENCES. 00:20:19.41\00:20:23.89 SOME DOCTORS DID SOME RESEARCH ON THIS REGARDING CARBON DIOXIDE 00:20:23.92\00:20:29.99 AND OUT OF BODY EXPERIENCES - OBES HERE - IN ONE EXPERIMENT 00:20:30.03\00:20:34.30 DR. LADISLAS MEDUNA ADMINISTERED THIRTY PERCENT CARBON DIOXIDE 00:20:34.30\00:20:40.17 AND SEVENTY PERCENT OXYGEN TO A SUBJECT. 00:20:40.20\00:20:42.87 AFTERWARD THE SUBJECT STATED, 'I FELT AS THOUGH I WAS LOOKING 00:20:42.90\00:20:45.87 DOWN AT MYSELF - AS THOUGH I WAS WAY OUT HERE IN SPACE. 00:20:45.91\00:20:50.11 I FELT SORT OF SEPARATED.' WELL, THE GUY DIDN'T DIE. 00:20:50.15\00:20:53.58 YOU SHOW ME SOMEONE WHO GETS THEIR HEAD CUT OFF 00:20:53.62\00:20:54.98 AND COMES BACK. 00:20:55.02\00:20:56.32 I'LL BE IMPRESSED. 00:20:56.35\00:20:57.89 THAT'S NOT WHAT HAPPENS. 00:20:57.92\00:20:58.99 THEIR HEART STOPS BEATING IS TYPICALLY WHAT HAPPENS. 00:20:59.02\00:21:01.79 DO DEVILS REALLY WORK MIRACLES? 00:21:01.82\00:21:05.09 IT SAYS, 'FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS 00:21:05.13\00:21:07.96 WORKING MIRACLES.' AND AGAIN, HE SAYS, 'I WILL GO 00:21:08.00\00:21:11.20 FORTH AND I'LL BE A LYING SPIRIT IN THE MOUTH OF HIS PROPHETS.' 00:21:11.23\00:21:17.07 CAN DEVILS PERFORM SIGNS AND WONDERS AND MIRACLES? 00:21:17.11\00:21:19.91 CAN THEY DECEIVE? 00:21:19.94\00:21:21.98 'IT SAYS THERE WILL ARISE IN THE LAST DAYS FALSE CHRISTS AND 00:21:22.01\00:21:26.41 FALSE PROPHETS AND THEY' DO WHAT? 00:21:26.45\00:21:28.98 'THEY SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS INASMUCH THAT IF IT WERE 00:21:29.02\00:21:32.89 POSSIBLE THEY WOULD DECEIVE EVEN THE VERY ELECT.' 00:21:32.92\00:21:34.82 GOD'S SAYING, 'LOOK, I'VE TOLD YOU BEFOREHAND.' 00:21:34.86\00:21:38.03 SO WHY DO WE NEED TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT IN THE LAST DAYS? 00:21:38.06\00:21:41.36 BECAUSE THE DEVIL IS GOING TO USE THE MISUNDERSTANDING ABOUT 00:21:41.40\00:21:44.30 DEATH TO DECEIVE MANY PEOPLE. 00:21:44.33\00:21:47.27 "BY THY SORCERIES" - REVELATION 18:23 - 00:21:47.30\00:21:50.57 "WERE ALL NATIONS DECEIVED." 00:21:50.61\00:21:54.31 I HEARD A STORY ABOUT A WOMAN WHO WAS, I THINK, LIVING IN 00:21:54.34\00:21:58.88 SAN FRANCISCO AT THE TIME, DURING THE VIETNAM WAR. 00:21:58.91\00:22:03.22 SHE HAD A SON OVER THERE. 00:22:03.25\00:22:04.52 THE SON WAS NOT A CHRISTIAN - ANYTHING BUT - AND THEN ONE DAY 00:22:04.55\00:22:09.32 SHE GOT A VERY TRAGIC NOTE IN THE MAIL IT SAID - WHEN SHE 00:22:09.36\00:22:14.30 OPENED IT UP SHE STARTED TO SHAKE BECAUSE SHE KNEW IT WAS 00:22:14.30\00:22:16.40 FROM THE STATE DEPARTMENT - IT SAID 'WE REGRET TO INFORM YOU 00:22:16.43\00:22:19.80 THAT YOUR SON IS MISSING IN ACTION AND PRESUMED DEAD.' 00:22:19.83\00:22:23.67 OH, SHE WAS JUST TOTALLY DEVASTATED. 00:22:23.71\00:22:25.27 HER ONLY SON AND IT REALLY HURT HER BECAUSE SHE WAS A GOOD 00:22:25.31\00:22:27.31 CHRISTIAN AND BY ALL OUTWARD EXPERIENCE IT SEEMED LIKE 00:22:27.34\00:22:32.11 HE HAD DIED LOST. 00:22:32.15\00:22:34.78 AND THEN ONE DAY WHILE SHE WAS IN HER BEDROOM WEEPING, ALL OF 00:22:34.82\00:22:38.42 A SUDDEN HER SON APPEARED. 00:22:38.45\00:22:42.69 AND HE WAS THERE AND HE SAID, 'MOM' AND HE WAS IN THIS GLOWING 00:22:42.72\00:22:44.73 ROBE - HE SAID, 'I'VE SEEN YOU. 00:22:44.76\00:22:47.00 I'VE BEEN WATCHING YOU. 00:22:47.03\00:22:48.16 YOU'RE CRYING OVER ME AND YOU DON'T NEED TO CRY ANYMORE.' 00:22:48.20\00:22:49.56 HE SAID, 'I'M OKAY.' AND SO SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT 00:22:49.60\00:22:52.87 TO THINK - SHE SAID, 'SON!' SHE WANTED TO LUNGE FOR HIM 00:22:52.90\00:22:55.67 AND HUG HIM. 00:22:55.70\00:22:56.91 HE SAID, 'YOU CAN'T TOUCH ME.' HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO KNOW 00:22:56.94\00:22:59.21 THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO WORRY.' 'BUT YOU WEREN'T A CHRISTIAN.' 00:22:59.24\00:23:01.48 HE SAID, 'GOD IS MERCIFUL. 00:23:01.51\00:23:03.28 HE SAVES EVERYBODY.' AND SHE SAID, 'WELL, THAT'S NOT 00:23:03.31\00:23:06.48 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS.' 'WELL, THESE WARNINGS ARE IN 00:23:06.51\00:23:08.22 THE BIBLE TO ENCOURAGE PEOPLE TO LIVE RIGHT, BUT GOD IS MERCIFUL, 00:23:08.25\00:23:11.82 NOBODY'S GOING TO HELL, NO ONE WILL BE LOST.' 00:23:11.85\00:23:13.89 AND HE BEGAN TO TELL HER ALL THESE THINGS THAT WERE 00:23:13.92\00:23:16.29 CONTRADICTING THE BIBLE AND SHE WAS SO CONFUSED AND HE APPEARED 00:23:16.32\00:23:20.30 TO HER SEVERAL TIMES. 00:23:20.33\00:23:21.96 AND IT MADE HER FEEL GOOD TO SEE HIM - IT GAVE HER COMFORT TO SEE 00:23:22.00\00:23:24.27 THIS APPARITION. 00:23:24.30\00:23:25.33 IT WAS SO - AND SHE WAS A LEADER IN HER CHURCH. 00:23:25.37\00:23:29.27 SHE DIDN'T KNOW WHAT TO DO. 00:23:29.30\00:23:30.44 AND THEN ONE DAY SHE HEARD A KNOCK AT THE DOOR AND SHE 00:23:30.47\00:23:31.77 OPENED THE DOOR AND THERE'S HER SON AGAIN. 00:23:31.81\00:23:33.91 EXCEPT NOW HE'S IN A UNIFORM AND HIS ARM IS IN A SLING. 00:23:33.94\00:23:36.88 AND SHE SAID, 'WHY ARE YOU APPEARING AT THE DOOR AND WHY 00:23:36.91\00:23:39.88 ARE YOU WEARING THIS UNIFORM?' HE SAID, 'MOM, WHAT ARE YOU 00:23:39.91\00:23:41.72 TALKING ABOUT? 00:23:41.75\00:23:42.75 AREN'T YOU GLAD TO SEE ME?' IT WAS HER REAL SON. 00:23:42.78\00:23:45.82 HE WASN'T REALLY DEAD. 00:23:45.85\00:23:49.09 EVIDENTLY THE DEVILS GOT - THEIR COMPUTER SOFTWARE 00:23:49.12\00:23:51.13 CRASHED OR SOMETHING. 00:23:51.16\00:23:52.36 THEY MESSED UP AND THEY STARTED IMPERSONATING HER SON THAT 00:23:52.39\00:23:53.80 WASN'T REALLY DEAD. 00:23:53.83\00:23:56.36 SHE SAW SOMETHING, BUT IT WASN'T HER SON. 00:23:56.40\00:23:59.67 AND HE HAD BEEN WORKING ON HER TO DECEIVE HER ABOUT WHAT THE 00:23:59.70\00:24:02.77 BIBLE REALLY SAID, ERODING THE TEACHINGS OF THE BIBLE. 00:24:02.80\00:24:06.47 ARE YOU THANKFUL FOR THE BIBLE TRUTH THAT TEACHES US THE TRUTH 00:24:06.51\00:24:11.28 ON THIS SENSITIVE SUBJECT OF DEATH? 00:24:11.31\00:24:13.78 YOU KNOW, I'M SO GLAD YOU CAN SAY WITH APOSTLE PAUL, 'THAT 00:24:13.82\00:24:17.79 I MIGHT KNOW HIM AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION.' 00:24:17.82\00:24:21.39 JESUS SAID, 'I AM HE THAT LIVES. 00:24:21.42\00:24:23.29 I WAS DEAD AND BEHOLD, I'M ALIVE FOREVER MORE.' 00:24:23.32\00:24:26.70 AND HE'S GOT THE KEYS OF DEATH AND HELL. 00:24:26.73\00:24:28.86 WE'RE FINISHING WHERE WE STARTED. 00:24:28.90\00:24:30.17 HE'S GOT THOSE KEYS OF LIFE AND HE'S OFFERING THEM 00:24:30.20\00:24:32.17 TO YOU AND ME. 00:24:32.20\00:24:33.57 THAT'S GOOD NEWS, FRIENDS. 00:24:33.60\00:24:36.40 NOBODY'S UP THERE HAUNTING YOU. 00:24:36.44\00:24:37.61 PEOPLE DON'T GET THEIR REWARDS UNTIL THE LORD COMES BACK. 00:24:37.64\00:24:41.91 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT BECAUSE JESUS ROSE AGAIN, 00:24:41.94\00:24:44.48 WE CAN RISE AGAIN. 00:24:44.51\00:24:45.88 HE IS THE RESURRECTION AND THE LIFE. 00:24:45.91\00:24:47.78 IF YOU'VE GOT JESUS, YOU'VE GOT LIFE. 00:24:47.82\00:24:51.49 >>STAY TUNED. 00:24:51.52\00:24:52.55 WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL OFFER. 00:24:52.59\00:25:02.80 >>WHAT WAS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? 00:25:02.83\00:25:05.57 DEATH. 00:25:05.60\00:25:06.97 HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE JESUS TOOK OUR PENALTY? 00:25:07.00\00:25:11.97 IF THE PENALTY FOR SIN IS BURNING FOREVER AND EVER 00:25:12.01\00:25:15.08 IN A LAKE OF FIRE THEN DID JESUS BURN FOREVER AND EVER? 00:25:15.11\00:25:22.68 PEOPLE ARE PUNISHED. 00:25:22.72\00:25:23.89 THERE IS HELLFIRE. 00:25:23.92\00:25:24.92 DO YOU ALL HEAR ME? 00:25:24.95\00:25:26.62 THE BIBLE DOES NOT TEACH THAT IT BURNS THROUGH ENDLESS AGES. 00:25:26.65\00:25:32.59 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 00:25:32.63\00:25:36.20 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:25:36.23\00:25:40.17 OF THE WEEK. 00:25:40.20\00:25:41.40 NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. 00:25:41.44\00:25:45.87 WHAT HAPPENED? 00:25:45.91\00:25:46.98 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 00:25:47.01\00:25:49.31 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 00:25:49.34\00:25:52.01 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 00:25:52.05\00:25:54.28 DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 00:25:54.32\00:25:57.72 VISIT SABBATHTRUTH.COM. 00:25:57.75\00:26:07.00 >>THIRTY-THREE MINERS TRAPPED BENEATH THE CHILEAN DESERT. 00:26:07.03\00:26:10.97 IT WAS THE GREATEST MINE RESCUE OF ALL TIME. 00:26:11.00\00:26:16.77 WHAT DROVE THESE PEOPLE TO DEFY FAILURE AND PERSEVERE 00:26:16.81\00:26:19.41 AGAINST ALL ODDS? 00:26:19.44\00:26:22.68 WHAT IMPELLED THE MINERS TO FIND THE COURAGE TO FIGHT AGAINST 00:26:22.71\00:26:27.28 ALMOST CERTAIN DEATH? 00:26:27.32\00:26:31.69 PASTOR CARLOS PARRA, KNOWN AS 'THE CHAPLAIN OF CAMP HOPE', 00:26:31.72\00:26:35.82 ANSWERS THESE QUESTIONS WITH A PERSONAL ACCOUNT IN HIS BOOK 00:26:35.86\00:26:39.29 'HOPE UNDERGROUND'. 00:26:39.33\00:26:42.26 'HOPE UNDERGROUND' IS A VIVID DESCRIPTION OF HOW FAITH AND 00:26:42.30\00:26:46.97 HOPE PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN THE MINERS' SUCCESSFUL RESCUE. 00:26:47.00\00:26:51.27 'HOPE UNDERGROUND' - A TRUE STORY THAT HAS TOUCHED MILLIONS 00:26:51.31\00:26:55.81 AND THAT WILL INSPIRE YOU TO SEE LIFE'S CRISES 00:26:55.84\00:26:58.28 THROUGH DIFFERENT EYES. 00:26:58.31\00:27:06.32 >>THE BIBLE TEACHING ABOUT WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU DIE IS ONE OF 00:27:06.35\00:27:08.79 THE MOST MISUNDERSTOOD DOCTRINES OUT THERE TODAY. 00:27:08.82\00:27:12.19 IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW WHAT GOD HAS REVEALED 00:27:12.23\00:27:14.86 IN HIS WORD SO THAT WE DON'T GET CAUGHT UNAWARE. 00:27:14.93\00:27:18.07 FOR EXAMPLE, EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE FORBIDS 00:27:18.10\00:27:19.90 ATTEMPTING COMMUNICATION WITH THE DEAD, YOU'LL STILL FIND 00:27:19.93\00:27:22.27 CHRISTIANS TODAY WHO SEEK OUT MEDIUMS OR PLAY 00:27:22.30\00:27:24.97 WITH TAROT CARDS. 00:27:25.01\00:27:26.47 WE'D LIKE TO SHARE MORE ABOUT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS REGARDING 00:27:26.51\00:27:28.81 THIS IMPORTANT TOPIC, SO THE OFFER TODAY IS A STUDY GUIDE 00:27:28.84\00:27:32.58 ENTITLED 'ARE THE DEAD REALLY DEAD?' 00:27:32.61\00:27:35.78 IN IT YOU'LL DISCOVER HOW MUCH THE BIBLE HAS TO SAY ABOUT 00:27:35.82\00:27:38.09 THIS CRITICAL TOPIC. 00:27:38.12\00:27:40.12 CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER 00:27:40.16\00:27:42.69 #117 OR YOU CAN VISIT OUR WEBSITE AT 'AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'. 00:27:42.72\00:27:49.66 WELL, THAT'S ALL THE TIME WE HAVE FOR THIS EDITION OF 00:27:49.70\00:27:51.47 AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 00:27:51.50\00:27:53.17 SEE YOU NEXT TIME. 00:27:53.20\00:27:55.97 >>THIS IS YOUR LAST CHANCE TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THIS WEEK'S 00:27:56.00\00:27:58.07 SPECIAL FREE OFFER. 00:27:58.11\00:27:59.51 THERE IS NO COST OR OBLIGATION. 00:27:59.54\00:28:01.68 JUST CALL THE TOLL-FREE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND BE SURE TO 00:28:01.71\00:28:04.81 NOTE THE OFFER NUMBER WHEN YOU 00:28:04.85\00:28:05.91