>>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 00:00:01.56\00:00:03.96 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:00:03.96\00:00:12.03 >>HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE DATE 00:00:12.03\00:00:15.00 DECEMBER 21, 2012? 00:00:15.00\00:00:18.60 A FULL TITHE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE ON THE PLANET ARE THINKING 00:00:18.60\00:00:23.06 SOMETHING CATACLYSMIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD - 00:00:23.06\00:00:26.76 NOT SOMEDAY - THIS YEAR! 00:00:26.76\00:00:31.90 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:00:31.90\00:00:34.06 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:00:34.06\00:00:37.73 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:00:37.73\00:00:40.73 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:00:40.73\00:00:42.60 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:00:42.60\00:00:45.56 AMAZINFACTS PRESENTS. 00:00:45.56\00:00:52.13 >>YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIVING IN SOME INTERESTING TIMES. 00:00:52.13\00:00:55.23 I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE LAST TIME WAS - I GUESS IT WAS JUST BEFORE 00:00:55.23\00:00:58.36 THE YEAR 2000 - WHEN I SAW THIS KIND OF A FRENZY ABOUT THE 00:00:58.36\00:01:04.43 POTENTIAL FOR THE WORLD ENDING. 00:01:04.43\00:01:07.20 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE DATE DECEMBER 21, 2012? 00:01:07.20\00:01:14.90 I MEAN, AS ABOVE AND BEYOND ON THE REGULAR CALENDAR? 00:01:14.90\00:01:18.70 WELL, THAT SORT OF IS GOING TO SPAWN THE MESSAGE THIS MORNING, 00:01:18.70\00:01:22.50 WHICH IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING OF A CONVERSATION WITH YOU. 00:01:22.50\00:01:25.90 THIS MUST BE THE LONGEST SERMON TITLE I'VE EVER PICKED. 00:01:25.90\00:01:28.80 '2012 DOOMSDAY MYTHS, PAGAN PROPHECIES, ARMAGEDDON, 00:01:28.80\00:01:33.16 AND THE BIBLE.' A LONG TITLE - IT'LL PROBABLY BE 00:01:33.16\00:01:36.33 A SHORT SERMON THOUGH. 00:01:36.33\00:01:38.26 BUT THERE IS AN AWFUL LOT OF INTEREST RIGHT NOW IN 00:01:38.26\00:01:44.93 FINAL EVENTS. 00:01:44.93\00:01:47.33 AND I'M TALKING ABOUT ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT YOU ALWAYS SEE AMONG 00:01:47.33\00:01:51.06 CHRISTIANS THAT ARE LOOKING AT THE PROPHECIES AND BIBLE 00:01:51.06\00:01:54.30 ESCHATOLOGY. 00:01:54.30\00:01:56.50 PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS UPCOMING DATE - 00:01:56.50\00:02:01.43 IT'S NOT VERY FAR AWAY - CONNECTED WITH, SOMEHOW, 00:02:01.43\00:02:04.60 THE END OF THE WORLD OR SOME KIND OF APOCALYPTIC EVENT OR 00:02:04.60\00:02:11.20 EPIC EARTH-CHANGING EXPERIENCE. 00:02:11.20\00:02:15.40 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MOVIES THAT HAVE COME OUT. 00:02:15.40\00:02:17.93 COLUMBIA PICTURES HAD A MOVIE BY THAT NAME - '2012' - IT TALKED 00:02:17.93\00:02:21.80 ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD AND HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THESE 00:02:21.80\00:02:24.60 CRYPTIC MAYAN PROPHECIES - THAT THEY HAD SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE 00:02:24.60\00:02:28.56 TO FORETELL THAT THE WORLD WOULD END. 00:02:28.56\00:02:31.10 NOW, YOU WONDER, 'PASTOR DOUG, WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THIS KIND OF 00:02:31.10\00:02:35.26 FABLES AND LEGENDS AND BRING IT INTO A CHURCH WHERE WE FOCUS ON 00:02:35.26\00:02:39.36 BIBLE PROPHECY?' WELL, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING 00:02:39.36\00:02:42.16 THAT THERE WAS A SURVEY AND THAT TEN PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE 00:02:42.16\00:02:46.83 WORLDWIDE - NOT JUST NORTH AMERICA - BELIEVE SOMETHING DIRE 00:02:46.83\00:02:51.66 IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE EARTH THIS YEAR. 00:02:51.66\00:02:56.76 DID YOU CATCH THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT? 00:02:56.76\00:02:59.36 A FULL TITHE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE ON THE PLANET ARE THINKING 00:02:59.36\00:03:04.20 SOMETHING CATACLYSMIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD - 00:03:04.20\00:03:07.63 NOT SOMEDAY - THIS YEAR! 00:03:07.63\00:03:11.10 THAT REALLY MAKES ME THINK. 00:03:11.10\00:03:13.56 PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 00:03:13.56\00:03:16.43 AND THEY'RE APPREHENSIVE. 00:03:16.43\00:03:19.23 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT HAS, IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, 00:03:19.23\00:03:24.00 MOVED FROM THE CITY TO THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY'RE 00:03:24.00\00:03:27.43 APPREHENSIVE ABOUT WHAT COULD BE HAPPENING IN THE CITIES? 00:03:27.43\00:03:31.93 I SEE SEVERAL HANDS GOING UP. 00:03:31.93\00:03:35.16 WELL, WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM? 00:03:35.16\00:03:40.00 PART OF IT, AS I SAID, I THINK IS JUST BECAUSE OF THE 00:03:40.00\00:03:42.76 UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC VOLATILITY IN THE WORLD. 00:03:42.76\00:03:48.20 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF THE EURO WHICH WILL 00:03:48.20\00:03:52.66 CREATE A DOMINO EFFECT WITH THE OTHER CURRENCIES OF THE WORLD - 00:03:52.66\00:03:56.56 INCLUDING AMERICA. 00:03:56.56\00:03:57.83 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ECONOMY HERE. 00:03:57.83\00:04:01.00 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT NATURAL DISASTERS AND 00:04:01.00\00:04:04.56 OVER-POPULATION AND THE POTENTIAL OF IRAN GETTING 00:04:04.56\00:04:07.93 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND YOU CAN PICK YOUR SCENARIO OF LAST-DAY 00:04:07.93\00:04:12.10 DISASTERS, BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT EVEN CHRISTIANS ARE 00:04:12.10\00:04:16.43 WONDERING, 'IS THIS THE END OF THE WORLD? 00:04:16.43\00:04:20.36 HAVE WE GONE BEYOND THE POINT OF NO RETURN?' 00:04:20.36\00:04:25.40 SOME OF THIS - THAT IS FOCUSING THE ATTENTION ON THIS YEAR, 00:04:25.40\00:04:28.73 INTERESTINGLY - SPRINGS FROM SOME MAYAN PROPHECIES. 00:04:28.73\00:04:32.63 THOSE WOULD BE SOME INTER-AMERICA INDIANS - 00:04:32.63\00:04:36.80 AND WE'VE BEEN DOWN THERE BEFORE AND WE'VE SEEN THEM. 00:04:36.80\00:04:39.36 AND THERE'S A CALENDAR THAT THEY UNCOVERED AND IT'S CALLED 00:04:39.36\00:04:42.86 THE '2012 PHENOMENON'. 00:04:42.86\00:04:44.90 IT COMPRISES A RANGE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL BELIEFS ACCORDING 00:04:44.90\00:04:49.20 TO WHICH THERE'LL BE A CATACLYSMIC OR SOME 00:04:49.20\00:04:51.83 TRANSFORMATIVE EVENTS THAT WILL OCCUR ON THE 21ST OF DECEMBER. 00:04:51.83\00:04:56.63 NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THE 21ST OF DECEMBER? 00:04:56.63\00:04:59.93 YOU'VE GOT THE WINTER SOLSTICE - IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 00:04:59.93\00:05:03.20 THE SUN REACHES ITS LOWEST POINT IN THE SKY. 00:05:03.20\00:05:06.63 WE JUST PASSED THE SUMMER SOLSTICE THERE IN JUNE AND - 00:05:06.63\00:05:09.93 WHEN THE DAYS NOW ARE GETTING SHORTER AGAIN - AND THEN WHEN 00:05:09.93\00:05:12.40 YOU GET TO THE 21ST THE SUN FLATTENS OUT AGAIN AND THEN 00:05:12.40\00:05:15.26 THE DAYS BECOME LONGER. 00:05:15.26\00:05:16.96 MANY CULTURES OF THE WORLD ACTUALLY CELEBRATED THE 25TH OF 00:05:16.96\00:05:20.30 DECEMBER AS A HOLIDAY BECAUSE THEY SAW THE DAYS WERE THEN 00:05:20.30\00:05:23.56 NOTABLY LONGER AGAIN. 00:05:23.56\00:05:25.40 SOME IT WAS THE 21ST BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THAT THEY STOPPED 00:05:25.40\00:05:27.93 GETTING SHORTER. 00:05:27.93\00:05:29.70 SO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE 21ST AND THE 25TH - THERE'S USUALLY 00:05:29.70\00:05:32.26 NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TIME - 00:05:32.26\00:05:35.73 SUNSET DURING THAT TIME. 00:05:32.26\00:05:35.73 ALL OVER THE WORLD PEOPLE W OBSERVED THE HEAVENS HAD 00:05:35.73\00:05:38.50 CALENDARS THAT THESE WERE VERY SIGNIFICANT DATES AND SO, FOR 00:05:38.50\00:05:42.50 THE MAYANS, WHO HAD A VERY ACCURATE CALENDAR, BY THE WAY, 00:05:42.50\00:05:46.53 AND MOST OF THEIR ARCHITECTURE AND THEIR BUILDINGS WERE FOCUSED 00:05:46.53\00:05:48.76 AROUND MAGNETIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL LINES AND THE SUN. 00:05:48.76\00:05:54.10 AND THEIR CALENDAR - WENT OVER A SPAN OF 5125 YEARS - IS GOING TO 00:05:54.10\00:05:59.13 COME TO AN END ON DECEMBER 21ST THIS YEAR. 00:05:59.13\00:06:05.93 AND SO, SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT'S GOING TO BE WHEN 00:06:05.93\00:06:10.86 THE FAT LADY SINGS - WHATEVER THAT MEANS. 00:06:10.86\00:06:14.90 THAT SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THERE IS GOING TO BE 00:06:14.90\00:06:18.93 A TURNING POINT - AND EVERYBODY MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT 00:06:18.93\00:06:22.76 BY THAT. 00:06:22.76\00:06:24.23 FEARS HAVE BEEN RUNNING RAMPANT AMONG SOME PEOPLE THAT THE WORLD 00:06:24.23\00:06:26.66 MAY END THIS YEAR DUE, IN PART, TO THESE PREDICTIONS. 00:06:26.66\00:06:29.80 SCENARIOS SUGGEST EVERYTHING FROM - THERE'LL BE A SOLAR 00:06:29.80\00:06:34.73 MAXIMUM - THE SUN'S GOING TO IMPLODE OR THE EARTH WILL 00:06:34.73\00:06:38.63 COLLIDE WITH AN OBJECT LIKE A BLACK HOLE OR A PASSING ASTEROID 00:06:38.63\00:06:42.90 IS GOING TO STRIKE THE EARTH. 00:06:42.90\00:06:44.43 YOU KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT A FLAMING MOUNTAIN THERE IN 00:06:44.43\00:06:46.33 REVELATION AND I'VE SEEN SOME PEOPLE TALK ABOUT 2012 AND THEN 00:06:46.33\00:06:49.93 THEY GO TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND THEY COMBINE THE 00:06:49.93\00:06:51.93 PROPHECIES AND THEY SAY THAT BURNING MOUNTAIN THAT'S GOING TO 00:06:51.93\00:06:55.20 STRIKE THE EARTH IS THE ASTEROID THAT'S GOING TO HIT IN 2012. 00:06:55.20\00:06:58.63 ANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE? 00:06:58.63\00:07:01.83 OR A SOLAR FLARE. 00:07:01.83\00:07:04.90 YOU KNOW, IT IS TRUE THAT SOLAR FLARES - WE HAD ONE JUST THIS 00:07:04.90\00:07:08.20 LAST YEAR THAT WAS A LITTLE BIGGER THAN NORMAL AND THEY HAD 00:07:08.20\00:07:10.80 TO REDIRECT AIRPLANES BECAUSE GOING OVER THE NORTHERN REGIONS 00:07:10.80\00:07:15.53 WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS THINNER, THEY WERE AFRAID THE RADIATION 00:07:15.53\00:07:18.96 WOULD AFFECT COMMUNICATIONS. 00:07:18.96\00:07:21.56 SO THEY SAID IF THEY HAVE A PHENOMENAL SOLAR FLARE IT COULD 00:07:21.56\00:07:24.03 TOTALLY SHUT DOWN OUR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ON THE GLOBE. 00:07:24.03\00:07:27.66 MAYBE THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 00:07:27.66\00:07:31.60 AND SO, THEN THEY TURN TO THE PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT 00:07:31.60\00:07:35.96 TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH BEING SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT AND 00:07:35.96\00:07:39.33 PEOPLE WILL TRY TO WEAVE TOGETHER THE MAYAN PROPHECIES 00:07:39.33\00:07:43.60 WITH THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 00:07:43.60\00:07:46.26 I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN SOMEBODY QUOTE ISAIAH 30, VERSE 26 - 00:07:46.26\00:07:50.03 SPEAKING ABOUT THE EARTH BEING SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT. 00:07:50.03\00:07:53.83 "MOREOVER THE LIGHT OF THE MOON WILL BE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE 00:07:53.83\00:07:55.96 SUN AND THE LIGHT OF THE SUN WILL BE SEVEN-FOLD." 00:07:55.96\00:07:59.00 SEVEN TIMES THE INTENSITY THAT WE HAVE NOW - 00:07:59.00\00:08:02.13 THAT'D BE PRETTY HOT. 00:08:02.13\00:08:04.16 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT PROPHECY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH HEAT. 00:08:04.16\00:08:06.53 I THINK THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE NEW EARTH - IT'S TALKING ABOUT 00:08:06.53\00:08:09.13 LIGHT AND BRIGHTNESS. 00:08:09.13\00:08:10.83 THE MOON WILL BE BRIGHTER AND THE SUN WILL BE BRIGHTER AND 00:08:10.83\00:08:13.30 EVERYTHING WILL BE BRIGHTER. 00:08:13.30\00:08:15.00 OR THEY'LL LOOK IN REVELATION 16, VERSE 8. 00:08:15.00\00:08:18.16 "THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL" - THESE ARE WHEN 00:08:18.16\00:08:20.26 THE SEVEN PLAGUES ARE POURED OUT ON THE EARTH. 00:08:20.26\00:08:23.10 THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL ON THE SUN AND POWER WAS 00:08:23.10\00:08:26.46 GIVEN TO HIM" - THE SUN - "TO SCORCH MEN WITH FIRE AND MEN 00:08:26.46\00:08:30.13 WERE SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT." 00:08:30.13\00:08:32.10 AHHH, GLOBAL WARMING. 00:08:32.10\00:08:37.60 IF YOU THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD NOW, WAIT UNTIL 00:08:37.60\00:08:41.10 DECEMBER 21ST. 00:08:41.10\00:08:43.30 BUT PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHEN THE APOCALYPSE IS GOING TO 00:08:43.30\00:08:45.86 HAPPEN AND WHEN IS GOING TO BE THE END OF THE WORLD. 00:08:45.86\00:08:49.40 YOU READ IN LUKE 21, VERSE 25, "AND THERE WILL BE SIGNS IN THE 00:08:49.40\00:08:55.40 SUN AND IN THE MOON AND IN THE STARS" - YEAH, ONE OF THESE 00:08:55.40\00:08:58.13 NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECIES SAID THAT THERE'LL BE A BLUE STAR AND 00:08:58.13\00:09:02.40 THAT WILL BE THE SIGN THAT THIS MESSIAH-LIKE, GOD-LIKE MAN 00:09:02.40\00:09:07.00 IS GOING TO COME. 00:09:07.00\00:09:08.73 NOW, I NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL AND NOT - LISTEN PLEASE, 00:09:08.73\00:09:13.40 UNDERSTAND ME - I THINK WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO 00:09:13.40\00:09:17.03 DISCOUNT AND DISCREDIT THAT GOD COULD HAVE SPOKEN IN HIS OWN WAY 00:09:17.03\00:09:24.03 TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES IN DIFFERENT 00:09:24.03\00:09:26.33 PARTS OF THE WORLD AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF HISTORY. 00:09:26.33\00:09:29.03 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? 00:09:29.03\00:09:30.66 THE LORD HAS HIS CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD AND AT DIFFERENT 00:09:30.66\00:09:33.23 POINTS IN THEIR HISTORY GOD COULD HAVE REVEALED TRUTH TO 00:09:33.23\00:09:37.30 THEM FOR THEM SPECIFICALLY - IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE 00:09:37.30\00:09:41.00 PART OF SCRIPTURE - SO THAT WHEN THINGS HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW. 00:09:41.00\00:09:45.80 DID GOD SPEAK THROUGH A PROPHET NAMED BALAAM? 00:09:45.80\00:09:49.30 HE DID. 00:09:49.30\00:09:50.13 WAS BALAAM A JEW? 00:09:50.13\00:09:52.73 NO, HE WAS NOT. 00:09:52.73\00:09:54.50 HE WAS FROM MESOPOTAMIA - YEAH, ACTUALLY HE WAS AN IRAQI IF YOU 00:09:54.50\00:09:58.80 - BY TODAY'S STANDARDS - AND HE DID BELIEVE IN THE TRUE GOD. 00:09:58.80\00:10:02.90 AND SO, GOD HAS COMMUNICATED, IN HIS OWN WAY - GOD'S NOT LIMITED, 00:10:02.90\00:10:06.73 WE CAN'T LIMIT HIM THAT WAY - TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AROUND THE 00:10:06.73\00:10:09.23 WORLD AND I THINK AS CHRISTIANS WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO 00:10:09.23\00:10:13.23 GET ALL TWITTERPATED ABOUT SOME OF THESE PAGAN PROPHECIES 00:10:13.23\00:10:17.60 BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSING THINGS OUT THERE. 00:10:17.60\00:10:20.76 LET ME FINISH THIS VERSE. 00:10:20.76\00:10:23.00 "SIGNS IN THE SUN AND IN THE MOON AND IN THE STARS. 00:10:23.00\00:10:26.60 AND ON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS WITH PERPLEXITY" - WELL 00:10:26.60\00:10:29.23 THAT'S HAPPENING - "THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING" - QUITE 00:10:29.23\00:10:33.10 LITERALLY THE WAVES WERE ROARING WITH THE VARIOUS TSUNAMIS. 00:10:33.10\00:10:36.86 AND WATER ALSO REPRESENTS PEOPLE - WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE WAVES 00:10:36.86\00:10:41.20 ROARING IT'S TALKING ABOUT UNREST AMONG THE NATIONS. 00:10:41.20\00:10:46.20 "MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR AND THE EXPECTATION OF 00:10:46.20\00:10:50.36 THOSE THINGS THAT ARE COMING ON THE EARTH FOR THE POWERS OF 00:10:50.36\00:10:53.73 HEAVEN WILL BE SHAKEN." 00:10:53.73\00:10:56.23 WELL, THERE'S GOING TO BE 'SIGNS IN THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE 00:10:56.23\00:10:59.70 STARS AND THE POWERS OF HEAVEN WILL BE SHAKEN.' 00:10:59.70\00:11:02.60 AND EVEN HISTORICALLY WE'VE HAD DAYS WHERE THERE WERE FALLING 00:11:02.60\00:11:05.36 STARS AND SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS. 00:11:05.36\00:11:08.73 "THEN FOLLOWING ALL THESE THINGS THEN THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF 00:11:08.73\00:11:12.30 MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. 00:11:12.30\00:11:16.60 WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN, LOOK UP AND LIFT UP 00:11:16.60\00:11:19.13 YOUR HEADS FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NEAR." 00:11:19.13\00:11:22.73 NOW, WHEN JESUS COMES IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE LIGHTNING 00:11:22.73\00:11:25.70 SHINING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SKY TO THE OTHER. 00:11:25.70\00:11:28.40 BUT BEFORE JESUS COMES IS SATAN GOING TO DO HIS BEST TO 00:11:28.40\00:11:32.56 IMPERSONATE CHRIST? 00:11:32.56\00:11:35.80 WILL HE WANT TO - IF YOU WERE THE DEVIL YOU'D WANT TO BE A 00:11:35.80\00:11:38.76 GOOD DEVIL, I KNOW - I MEAN, EVERYTHING YOU DO DO IT WITH ALL 00:11:38.76\00:11:41.63 YOUR MIGHT - AND IF YOU COULD PREPARE PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM 00:11:41.63\00:11:45.90 FALSE PROPHECIES FOR YOUR APPEARANCE, YOU WOULD 00:11:45.90\00:11:50.70 PREPARE THEM. 00:11:50.70\00:11:52.43 AND I THINK THE DEVIL HAS PRIMED MUCH OF THE WORLD FOR SATAN'S 00:11:52.43\00:11:55.63 MASTERPIECE OF DECEPTION WHERE HE IS GOING TO MASQUERADE AS THE 00:11:55.63\00:11:59.66 MESSIAH AS THE RETURN OF JESUS FOR CHRISTIANS, AS THE 00:11:59.66\00:12:05.96 FULFILLMENT OF ALL OF THESE NEEDS AND THESE SILHOUETTES OF 00:12:05.96\00:12:10.46 DIFFERENT WORLD MESSIAHS - OR RELIGION'S MESSIAHS - HE'S GOING 00:12:10.46\00:12:15.16 TO FULFILL ALL THAT WHEN HE COMES AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS 00:12:15.16\00:12:18.50 GOING TO BE READY - ESPECIALLY IF THAT FALSE CHRIST COMES ON 00:12:18.50\00:12:23.06 THE HEELS OF SOME KIND OF CATACLYSMIC DISASTERS. 00:12:23.06\00:12:27.93 WE'VE ALREADY HAD A FEW. 00:12:27.93\00:12:29.63 BUT THE WORLD IS REALLY ANXIOUS. 00:12:29.63\00:12:32.46 SO, WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT SOME OF THESE PROPHECIES? 00:12:32.46\00:12:38.53 MY CONFIDENCE IS IN WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:12:38.53\00:12:45.60 YOU PROBABLY HEARD US SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO - WELL 00:12:45.60\00:12:49.13 WE'VE BEEN - OUR FAMILY HAS BEEN TO BELIZE TWICE, WHICH WAS RIGHT 00:12:49.13\00:12:52.56 THERE IN THE HEART - THE LAST TIME WE WENT TO BELIZE WE ALSO 00:12:52.56\00:12:55.16 WENT TO SOUTHERN MEXICO AND THAT'S RIGHT IN THE HEART OF 00:12:55.16\00:12:59.00 WHERE THE MAYAN EMPIRE WAS. 00:12:59.00\00:13:02.60 AND IT IS FASCINATING HOW SPRAWLING AND HOW SOPHISTICATED 00:13:02.60\00:13:08.16 THOSE PEOPLE WERE. 00:13:08.16\00:13:09.40 THERE'S A PICTURE - I THINK THAT'S FROM OUR FIRST TRIP WHICH 00:13:09.40\00:13:12.16 WAS 2008 OR 9 I THINK - AND WE WENT AND EXPLORED SOME OF THE 00:13:12.16\00:13:17.83 MAYAN RUINS AND IF YOU FLY A HELICOPTER OVER CENTRAL AMERICA 00:13:17.83\00:13:24.00 -SOUTHERN MEXICO AND EL SALVADOR AND SOME OF THE COUNTRIES THERE 00:13:24.00\00:13:28.80 - GUATEMALA - THEY'RE NOW USING THE INFRARED TECHNOLOGY AND 00:13:28.80\00:13:34.66 THESE SATELLITES AND THEY'RE MAPPING - THEY ARE FINDING 00:13:34.66\00:13:37.60 HUNDREDS OF UNKNOWN RUINS BECAUSE NOW THEY CAN SEE WHERE 00:13:37.60\00:13:42.13 THERE USED TO BE STREETS AND THERE'S SQUARE OUTLINES OF THE 00:13:42.13\00:13:44.66 RUINS OF BUILDINGS AND WHOLE CIVILIZATIONS - THE JUNGLES 00:13:44.66\00:13:47.56 HAVE JUST GROWN OVER. 00:13:47.56\00:13:48.76 THEY HAVEN'T EVEN BEGUN TO EXPLORE EVEN A FRACTION OF THE 00:13:48.76\00:13:52.53 SPRAWLING CIVILIZATIONS THAT LIVED THERE. 00:13:52.53\00:13:56.63 THESE PEOPLE WERE VERY SOPHISTICATED - THEY DID A LOT 00:13:56.63\00:13:59.53 OF WORK BUILDING THESE TEMPLES. 00:13:59.53\00:14:01.53 THERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE WHERE I'M JUST STANDING ON ONE TEMPLE 00:14:01.53\00:14:04.53 AND - I DON'T KNOW HOW CLEAR IT IS BUT BEHIND ME - I'M ON ONE 00:14:04.53\00:14:07.10 TEMPLE - THERE'S TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE 00:14:07.10\00:14:10.50 - AND I'LL ASK THE GUIDE AND SAY, 'WHAT ABOUT ALL THESE?' 00:14:10.50\00:14:13.80 'OH THAT'S MORE BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO THE 00:14:13.80\00:14:17.96 ARCHAEOLOGY AND TO EXPLORE THEM - TO INVESTIGATE WHAT'S UNDER 00:14:17.96\00:14:21.73 THE RUINS.' THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. 00:14:21.73\00:14:25.00 AND SO, WHEN THEY FIND THESE STONE CALENDARS THAT TALK ABOUT 00:14:25.00\00:14:29.60 THE DATE, IT WASN'T AS THOUGH THEY THOUGHT WHEN THAT CALENDAR 00:14:29.60\00:14:32.76 RAN OUT THE WHOLE WORLD WAS GOING TO IMPLODE. 00:14:32.76\00:14:35.80 ACTUALLY, THEY KIND OF FELT ABOUT THEIR CALENDAR THE WAY WE 00:14:35.80\00:14:38.86 FEEL ABOUT OURS. 00:14:38.86\00:14:40.06 WHEN WE REACH THE 31ST OF DECEMBER - OH - IT MEANS - OH - 00:14:40.06\00:14:45.86 ANOTHER YEAR STARTS. 00:14:45.86\00:14:48.23 THEY JUST HAD A MUCH LONGER YEAR. 00:14:48.23\00:14:50.23 IT WAS LIKE 5000 - THEY'RE CALENDAR WENT THROUGH THIS RANGE 00:14:50.23\00:14:53.73 OF 5000 BUT THEY ALWAYS ASSUMED - YOU ASK ANY EXPERT IN 00:14:53.73\00:14:58.30 MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY - THEY ALL SAY WELL, THEY JUST THOUGHT 00:14:58.30\00:15:03.66 THAT WAS THE END OF THE CALENDAR - A NEW CALENDAR WOULD START. 00:15:03.66\00:15:05.66 THEY NEVER SAID THERE WAS ANY KIND OF CATACLYSMIC EVENT. 00:15:05.66\00:15:08.46 BUT THE DEVIL HAS USED THIS SOMEHOW TO GET PEOPLE PRIMED. 00:15:08.46\00:15:13.76 ONE EXPERT - ONE SCHOLAR - DR. CANUTO - HE SAID, 'WHILE 00:15:13.76\00:15:20.30 IT IS TRUE THAT THE MAYAN LONG-COUNT CALENDAR ENDS IN 00:15:20.30\00:15:23.03 DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR, NOTHING INDICATES THE MAYANS THOUGHT THE 00:15:23.03\00:15:27.10 WORLD WAS GOING TO END ALONG WITH IT. 00:15:27.10\00:15:29.16 AFTER ALL, OUR CALENDAR CYCLES EVERY 365 DAYS. 00:15:29.16\00:15:33.13 WHILE SOME MIGHT PARTY LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW EVERY NEW 00:15:33.13\00:15:35.36 YEAR'S EVE, TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES AND THEY BELIEVED 00:15:35.36\00:15:38.53 IT WAS TOMORROW ALSO.' WHAT HE ALSO SAYS, DR. CANUTO, 00:15:38.53\00:15:41.50 HE SAYS, 'WHAT I'VE ALWAYS FOUND CURIOUS IS THAT EVERYONE WORRIES 00:15:41.50\00:15:46.66 ABOUT THE MAYA PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2012 BUT NO 00:15:46.66\00:15:50.80 ONE WORRIES ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO 00:15:50.80\00:15:53.86 PREDICT THEIR OWN COLLAPSE AS A CIVILIZATION.' 00:15:53.86\00:15:58.36 I REMEMBER WHILE WE WERE IN BELIZE ON THE LAST TRIP, ONE OF 00:15:58.36\00:16:02.20 THE THINGS WE DID THAT WAS REALLY NEAT IS WE TOOK A KAYAK 00:16:02.20\00:16:06.00 RIDE IN A RIVER IN A CAVE UNDER A MOUNTAIN AND WE HAD A GUIDE 00:16:06.00\00:16:12.56 THERE AND THERE'S ALL THESE STALACTITES - I FORGET - 00:16:12.56\00:16:15.06 STALACTITES ARE THE ONES THAT HANG DOWN, RIGHT? 00:16:15.06\00:16:16.70 STALAGMITES GO UP - IS THAT RIGHT? 00:16:16.70\00:16:19.13 ALL THESE STALACTITES ARE HANGING EVERYWHERE AND THEY 00:16:19.13\00:16:21.16 SAID, 'YES, THE MAYANS TAUGHT THAT THESE WERE THE ROOTS 00:16:21.16\00:16:25.00 OF THE TREES UP ABOVE.' AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL IF THESE 00:16:25.00\00:16:28.33 FOLKS ARE THINKING THAT THE STALACTITES ARE ACTUALLY THE 00:16:28.33\00:16:30.56 ROOTS OF TREES AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE TELLING YOU WHAT'S 00:16:30.56\00:16:33.00 HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT WAS 00:16:33.00\00:16:36.86 REAL DEPENDABLE.' IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WAS JUST 00:16:36.86\00:16:39.73 A LOT OF PAGAN SPECULATION THAT WAS MIXED IN THERE. 00:16:39.73\00:16:45.63 A LOT OF FASCINATING THINGS, BUT I WOULDN'T BASE MY - I WOULDN'T 00:16:45.63\00:16:49.40 BASE MY FUTURE ON THAT. 00:16:49.40\00:16:52.63 SO, WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THIS INFORMATION? 00:16:52.63\00:16:56.46 IS THE WORLD GOING TO END SOMEDAY? YES IT IS. 00:16:56.46\00:17:01.26 WILL THERE BE AN APOCALYPSE - AN ARMAGEDDON? 00:17:01.26\00:17:03.46 IS THERE GOING TO BE A GREAT BATTLE? 00:17:03.46\00:17:05.53 YES THERE WILL. 00:17:05.53\00:17:07.26 I DON'T BELIEVE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS A BATTLE BETWEEN 00:17:07.26\00:17:09.53 IRAN AND ISRAEL OR THE U.S. 00:17:09.53\00:17:12.60 AND CHINA AND RUSSIA. 00:17:12.60\00:17:14.93 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12, 'THE DRAGON 00:17:14.93\00:17:18.46 WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN AND WENT TO MAKE WAR.' 00:17:18.46\00:17:22.63 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE ULTIMATE WAR BETWEEN THE DRAGON, 00:17:22.63\00:17:26.83 THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE DRAGON, THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST, 00:17:26.83\00:17:29.46 THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND THOSE WHO ARE PART OF 00:17:29.46\00:17:32.36 THE CHURCH - THE BRIDE OF CHRIST - WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD. 00:17:32.36\00:17:35.33 IT IS NOT BETWEEN EARTHLY NATIONS. 00:17:35.33\00:17:37.66 IT IS NOT BETWEEN VARYING CULTURES. 00:17:37.66\00:17:41.36 IT IS THE ULTIMATE BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE THAT BELONG TO 00:17:41.36\00:17:43.66 CHRIST AND THOSE OF THE DEVIL - THAT BELONG TO THE DEVIL. 00:17:43.66\00:17:48.43 AND SO, HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN JESUS COMES BACK? 00:17:48.43\00:17:51.70 IF WE SUDDENLY GET A REPORT THAT SOME MESSIAH-LIKE APPARITION IS 00:17:51.70\00:17:57.30 GOING TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD WE 00:17:57.30\00:18:00.46 TURN ON OUR TVS AND WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS 00:18:00.46\00:18:03.00 GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADER IS GOING TO SAY? 00:18:03.00\00:18:06.30 JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 24:11 - FIRST THING THE LORD SAYS WHEN 00:18:06.30\00:18:10.46 HE TALKS ABOUT SIGNS OF HIS COMING - MANY FALSE PROPHETS 00:18:10.46\00:18:14.36 WILL ARISE AND DECEIVE MANY. 00:18:14.36\00:18:17.03 FIRST THING HE SAYS IS 'BE CAREFUL, THERE'S GOING TO BE 00:18:17.03\00:18:18.76 A LOT OF DECEPTION. 00:18:18.76\00:18:20.03 YOU JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 23 - MATTHEW 24:23, "THEN IF ANY MAN 00:18:20.03\00:18:24.63 SHALL SAY TO YOU, 'LO, HERE IS CHRIST' OR 'THERE' 00:18:24.63\00:18:27.20 BELIEVE IT NOT. 00:18:27.20\00:18:28.86 FOR THERE WILL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS AND 00:18:28.86\00:18:32.03 THEY'LL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS INSOMUCH THAT IF IT WERE 00:18:32.03\00:18:35.46 POSSIBLE, THEY WOULD DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. 00:18:35.46\00:18:39.10 SO WILL THERE EVEN BE SIGNS AND WONDERS? 00:18:39.10\00:18:42.16 THERE'S A UNIFORM EXPECTATION AROUND THE WORLD FOR SOMEBODY 00:18:42.16\00:18:46.63 TO COME. 00:18:46.63\00:18:49.90 AND EVEN AMONG THE HINDUS. 00:18:49.90\00:18:52.70 I WAS READING THIS MORNING THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THIS 00:18:52.70\00:18:55.13 REAPPEARANCE OF KRISHNA - THIS AVATAR - IS ACTUALLY WHAT THEY 00:18:55.13\00:18:58.76 USE - OF GOD IN THE FORM OF MAN - SOMETHING ON THE SCALE 00:18:58.76\00:19:03.86 OF JESUS. 00:19:03.86\00:19:05.13 THEY SAY JESUS WAS JUST ONE OF THESE INCARNATIONS OF GOD BUT 00:19:05.13\00:19:08.33 'THE GREAT ONE IS SOON TO COME.' AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE MAJOR 00:19:08.33\00:19:12.16 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD - THE CHRISTIANS ARE LOOKING FOR 00:19:12.16\00:19:14.60 CHRIST TO COME AND THE BUDDHISTS ARE LOOKING FOR THE SECOND 00:19:14.60\00:19:17.96 BUDDHA, THE JEWS ARE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH, THE REAPPEARANCE OF 00:19:17.96\00:19:21.46 KRISHNA, THE TWELFTH IMAM AMONG THE MUSLIMS - ALL THE MAJOR 00:19:21.46\00:19:25.26 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD ARE PRIMED RIGHT NOW FOR SOMETHING 00:19:25.26\00:19:28.63 TO HAPPEN AND TEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD THINKS SOMETHING IS GOING 00:19:28.63\00:19:32.10 TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR BESIDES SELLING TICKETS TO MOVIES. 00:19:32.10\00:19:39.80 HISTORY CHANNEL DID A SPECIAL ON THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS 00:19:39.80\00:19:43.23 AND THEY SAID, 'DOES HE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 2012?' 00:19:43.23\00:19:47.40 THERE WAS LIKE THREE MILLION PEOPLE JUST ON YOUTUBE 00:19:47.40\00:19:49.40 WENT TO SEE THAT. 00:19:49.40\00:19:52.30 SO WILL THERE EVEN BE SIGNS AND WONDERS? 00:19:52.30\00:19:55.70 CAN THE DEVIL PERFORM MIRACLES? 00:19:55.70\00:19:58.20 NOW SOME OF YOU HERE DON'T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. 00:19:58.20\00:20:00.83 YOU SAY, 'OH, I'VE NEVER SEEN A MIRACLE.' 00:20:00.83\00:20:03.63 IF YOU SAW A MIRACLE EVERY DAY YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T THINK 00:20:03.63\00:20:05.26 IT'S A MIRACLE. 00:20:05.26\00:20:06.56 WHAT MAKES A MIRACLE A MIRACLE IS THEY'RE ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE. 00:20:06.56\00:20:09.53 I MEAN, THE REASON THAT IT'S A MIRACLE THAT JESUS WALKED ON 00:20:09.53\00:20:11.56 WATER IS BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE WALK ON WATER. 00:20:11.56\00:20:15.60 NOT WITHOUT SOME SPECIAL EFFECTS OR SOMETHING. 00:20:15.60\00:20:20.46 SO WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID IT, THEY WERE JUST AS AMAZED 00:20:20.46\00:20:22.46 BACK THEN AS YOU WOULD BE TODAY. 00:20:22.46\00:20:24.80 THE QUESTION IS DO YOU BELIEVE MIRACLES EVER HAPPEN? 00:20:24.80\00:20:28.76 CAN THE DEVIL EVER PERFORM MIRACLES? 00:20:28.76\00:20:32.26 DID HE IN THE BIBLE? 00:20:32.26\00:20:34.06 WHEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD DOWN AND IT BECAME A SERPENT, PHARAOH 00:20:34.06\00:20:37.80 CLAPPED HIS HANDS AND IN CAME HIS MAGICIANS AND 00:20:37.80\00:20:39.86 WHAT DID THEY DO? 00:20:39.86\00:20:41.90 THEY WERE ABLE TO AT LEAST DUPLICATE THAT MIRACLE. 00:20:41.90\00:20:45.50 DID THE DEVIL BRING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN THE STORY OF JOB? 00:20:45.50\00:20:50.16 IT WAS POWER. 00:20:50.16\00:20:52.53 DOES REVELATION TELL US THAT SATAN IS GOING TO HAVE POWER, 00:20:52.53\00:20:55.33 EVEN GOING AS FAR AS BRINGING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN THE 00:20:55.33\00:20:57.50 LAST DAYS? 00:20:57.50\00:20:58.90 I KNOW THESE THINGS ARE EXTRAORDINARY. 00:20:58.90\00:21:00.86 THAT'S NOT WHAT WE SEE IN OUR WORLD EVERYDAY TODAY. 00:21:00.86\00:21:03.30 WELL, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 00:21:03.30\00:21:04.86 SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE 00:21:04.86\00:21:09.03 THAT ARE GOING TO EVEN CHALLENGE SKEPTICS WITH THE POWER OF GOD. 00:21:09.03\00:21:13.20 AND ESPECIALLY IN OUR CULTURE TODAY WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO 00:21:13.20\00:21:15.76 SOPHISTICATED AND SKEPTICAL - IF THEY SAW A MIRACLE - 00:21:15.76\00:21:20.83 A BONA FIDE MIRACLE - THEY'D PROBABLY BELIEVE THAT WHOEVER 00:21:20.83\00:21:23.96 DID IT MUST BE TRUE EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT BE THE DEVIL. 00:21:23.96\00:21:29.70 SO WE'VE GOT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUE AND 00:21:29.70\00:21:32.06 THE FALSE PROPHECIES. 00:21:32.06\00:21:35.00 THEY'LL 'SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS INSOMUCH THAT IF IT WERE 00:21:35.00\00:21:37.96 POSSIBLE IT WOULD EVEN DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT.' 00:21:37.96\00:21:41.13 WHAT'S GOING TO DIFFERENTIATE THE VERY ELECT FROM THE ONES WHO 00:21:41.13\00:21:43.56 ARE DECEIVED? 00:21:43.56\00:21:45.50 THE ELECT KNOW THE LORD. 00:21:45.50\00:21:46.40 THEY KNOW THE WORD. 00:21:46.40\00:21:48.43 'BEHOLD, JESUS SAID, I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE' - WHAT'S GOING TO 00:21:48.43\00:21:51.70 PREVENT THE ELECT FROM BEING DECEIVED? 00:21:51.70\00:21:54.06 WE KNOW WHAT JESUS TOLD US. 00:21:54.06\00:21:57.36 SO ARE YOU READING WHAT JESUS TOLD US? 00:21:57.36\00:21:59.96 'WHEREFORE IF THEY SAY TO YOU 'BEHOLD HE'S IN THE DESERT'' - 00:21:59.96\00:22:02.53 OFF THERE IN ISRAEL SOME BEING HAS JUST APPEARED AND HE'S GOING 00:22:02.53\00:22:07.40 TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST - 'GO NOT FORTH. 00:22:07.40\00:22:11.86 BEHOLD, HE'S IN SECRET CHAMBERS' - FLAT SCREEN TELEVISION - 00:22:11.86\00:22:16.70 'BELIEVE IT NOT. 00:22:16.70\00:22:18.70 FOR AS LIGHTNING COMES OUT OF THE EAST AND SHINES EVEN UNTO 00:22:18.70\00:22:21.20 THE WEST, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.' 00:22:21.20\00:22:25.30 WILL WE KNOW WHEN JESUS COMES? 00:22:25.30\00:22:28.26 ABSOLUTELY. 00:22:28.26\00:22:29.13 IT'S GOING TO BE SPANNING THE HEAVENS. 00:22:29.13\00:22:30.96 DO WE HAVE PROPHECIES THAT TELL US WHEN THE END OF THE WORLD 00:22:30.96\00:22:33.46 IS COMING? 00:22:33.46\00:22:35.63 YOU KNOW, FOR ME, WHAT I THINK THE MOST COMPELLING PROPHECY IS? 00:22:35.63\00:22:38.83 IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY PAGAN PROPHECIES OR THE MAYAN 00:22:38.83\00:22:43.53 PROPHECY OR RADIO PREACHERS. 00:22:43.53\00:22:48.16 MATTHEW 24:14, "WHEN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM IS PREACHED IN 00:22:48.16\00:22:52.93 ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS, THEN SHALL 00:22:52.93\00:22:56.40 THE END COME." 00:22:56.40\00:22:58.70 BUT I THINK WE'RE LIVING IN THE GENERATION THAT'S GOING TO SEE 00:22:58.70\00:23:00.86 CHRIST COME BECAUSE HE SAID - NOT THAT THE WHOLE WORLD'S GOING 00:23:00.86\00:23:03.56 TO BELIEVE - BUT THE WHOLE WORLD WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR 00:23:03.56\00:23:07.73 - AS A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS. 00:23:07.73\00:23:09.63 SO NOW, THROUGH SATELLITE TELEVISION, THROUGH THE INTERNET 00:23:09.63\00:23:13.66 - YOU KNOW THERE'S MORE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET NOW IN CHINA 00:23:13.66\00:23:15.96 THAN THERE ARE IN NORTH AMERICA. 00:23:15.96\00:23:18.50 THROUGH THE INTERNET, THROUGH THE PRINTED PAGE AND THROUGH CDS 00:23:18.50\00:23:25.00 - WE SENT OVER OUR 'COSMIC CONFLICT' TRANSLATED IN MANDARIN 00:23:25.00\00:23:28.93 A WHILE AGO AND IT'S JUST GONE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AS HAS THE 00:23:28.93\00:23:31.33 'FINAL EVENTS' DVD. 00:23:31.33\00:23:33.50 AND THAT'S JUST THE LITTLE BIT THAT WE'RE DOING. 00:23:33.50\00:23:36.33 THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO ALL THE WORLD. 00:23:36.33\00:23:37.93 THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW BUT 00:23:37.93\00:23:40.23 WITH ELECTRONICS AND WITH SATELLITE AND WITH THE INTERNET 00:23:40.23\00:23:43.33 IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. 00:23:43.33\00:23:44.63 LOOK AT THE VOLATILITY IN WHAT YOU'VE SEEN HAPPEN IN WHAT THEY 00:23:44.63\00:23:48.96 CALL THE ARAB SPRING. 00:23:48.96\00:23:50.66 WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BIG TURNOVER OF GOVERNMENTS AND THE 00:23:50.66\00:23:53.63 POLITICAL SITUATION OF THESE ARAB COUNTRIES? 00:23:53.63\00:23:55.46 YOU KNOW WHY? 00:23:55.46\00:23:56.76 BECAUSE THE GENERATION NOW THAT IS GROWING UP THERE - THEY'RE 00:23:56.76\00:24:00.13 GETTING THEIR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND 00:24:00.13\00:24:03.60 THEY'RE THINKING FOR THEMSELVES. 00:24:03.60\00:24:05.83 THIS IS THE GENERATION THAT IS REALLY SEARCHING BECAUSE THEY 00:24:05.83\00:24:08.70 CAN - THEY CAN USE ALL THESE OTHER SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGIES 00:24:08.70\00:24:12.20 ON THEIR CELL PHONES. 00:24:12.20\00:24:13.46 THEY CAN LISTEN TO THE WORLD NOW AND THEY'RE PAYING ATTENTION. 00:24:13.46\00:24:18.10 SO I THINK JESUS IS COMING SOON AND THERE WILL BE SOME NATURAL 00:24:18.10\00:24:22.00 DISASTERS, POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, FINANCIAL DISASTERS. 00:24:22.00\00:24:25.00 THERE MAY BE PLAGUES AND WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. 00:24:25.00\00:24:27.30 ALL THESE THINGS NEED TO COME TO PASS. 00:24:27.30\00:24:30.20 BUT WHEN THE GOSPEL GOES INTO ALL THE WORLD AND EVERYONE'S HAD 00:24:30.20\00:24:32.46 A CHANCE - THE LORD'S NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 00:24:32.46\00:24:35.56 HE WANTS ALL TO COME TO REPENTANCE - THEN, JESUS SAID - 00:24:35.56\00:24:39.63 JESUS SAID, 'THEN THE END' - NOT MIGHT - 'THEN THE END WILL COME. 00:24:39.63\00:24:45.90 THEN THE END SHALL COME.' SO I DO THINK THAT WE OUGHT TO 00:24:45.90\00:24:50.66 REALLY BE EXCITED. 00:24:50.66\00:24:52.13 AND, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THIS INTEREST IN 2012 - FOR ME I SAY, 00:24:52.13\00:24:55.33 'GREAT EVANGELISTIC OPPORTUNITY!' 00:24:55.33\00:24:58.63 AND, MATTER OF FACT, I'LL PROBABLY TAKE THIS SERMON AND 00:24:58.63\00:25:01.20 PUT IT ON YOUTUBE AND GIVE IT SOME KIND OF OMINOUS TITLE AND 00:25:01.20\00:25:05.06 GET THEM TO READ THE BIBLE AND GO TO THE WEBSITE AND 00:25:05.06\00:25:07.83 STUDY THE TRUTH. 00:25:07.83\00:25:09.83 BECAUSE LIKE Y2K AND LIKE 1999 AND ALL THAT STUFF. 00:25:09.83\00:25:15.00 SOME OF THESE DAYS - LIKE MAY 21 LAST YEAR - THESE DAYS WILL COME 00:25:15.00\00:25:18.53 AND GO BUT JESUS DOESN'T CHANGE AND THE TRUTH DOESN'T CHANGE AND 00:25:18.53\00:25:23.03 WE NEED TO LET THE WORLD KNOW, AMEN? 00:25:23.03\00:25:26.73 >>STAY TUNED. 00:25:26.73\00:25:27.86 PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL 00:25:27.86\00:25:29.93 FREE OFFER. 00:25:29.93\00:25:38.10 >>HOW MUCH SIN CAN WE STILL CLING TO AND BE SAVED? 00:25:38.10\00:25:44.60 THE DEVIL HAS TOLD A BIG LIE AND MOST - EVEN CHRISTIANS - HAVE 00:25:44.60\00:25:49.03 TAKEN IT HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER - THAT GOD DOESN'T REALLY EXPECT 00:25:49.03\00:25:52.20 US TO BE GODLY. 00:25:52.20\00:25:56.43 IF WE DON'T HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD THEN THE ONLY OTHER MOTIVE LEFT 00:25:56.43\00:25:59.23 IS SELFISHNESS AND WE WILL SIN. 00:25:59.23\00:26:04.33 >>YOU'RE MOVING AHEAD - MAKING IMPORTANT LIFE DECISIONS - BUT 00:26:04.33\00:26:07.66 ARE YOU ON THE ROAD YOU PLANNED? 00:26:07.66\00:26:09.76 'DARE TO FOLLOW' - A NEW BOOK BY PASTORS DOUG BATCHELOR, IVOR 00:26:09.76\00:26:13.23 MYERS, JONATHAN HENDERSON AND DAVID STEWARD REVEALS HOW 00:26:13.23\00:26:16.16 THESE MEN MADE GOD THEIR ULTIMATE PURPOSE. 00:26:16.16\00:26:19.60 THROUGH PERSONAL TESTIMONY, 'DARE TO FOLLOW' 00:26:19.60\00:26:21.56 ANSWERS QUESTIONS TOO. 00:26:21.56\00:26:23.40 WHAT IS TRUTH? 00:26:23.40\00:26:24.40 WHAT IS GOD'S WILL IN MY LIFE? 00:26:24.40\00:26:26.13 AND WHY WE FALL. 00:26:26.13\00:26:28.10 'DARE TO FOLLOW' - AVAILABLE AT THESE LEADING OUTLETS OR AS AN 00:26:28.10\00:26:31.16 E-BOOK AT 'AFBOOKSTORE.COM'. 00:26:31.16\00:26:34.16 >>EXPERIENCE BIBLE PROPHECY LIKE NEVER BEFORE WITH 'PROPHECY 00:26:34.16\00:26:37.73 FOUNDATIONS' THE NEW MULTI-MEDIA PLATFORM WITH 27 UNIQUE BIBLE 00:26:37.73\00:26:43.66 STUDIES FOR ADULTS AND KIDS, OVER 32 HOURS OF BIBLE TEACHING 00:26:43.66\00:26:47.06 VIDEO SERMONS BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, THE ELECTRONIC 00:26:47.06\00:26:50.16 AMAZING HEALTH MAGAZINE FILLED WITH LIFE-TRANSFORMING HEALTH 00:26:50.16\00:26:53.96 TIPS, OVER 160 AUDIO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND OVER 57 BOOKS 00:26:53.96\00:26:59.23 ALL ON ONE DVD. 00:26:59.23\00:27:01.03 GO TO 'STORE.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'. 00:27:01.03\00:27:07.86 >>PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE WONDERING 'IS SOMETHING 00:27:07.86\00:27:10.10 CATACLYSMIC ABOUT TO HAPPEN?' 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