Participants: Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000120
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00:01 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
00:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 00:12 >>HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE DATE 00:15 DECEMBER 21, 2012? 00:18 A FULL TITHE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE ON THE PLANET ARE THINKING 00:23 SOMETHING CATACLYSMIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD - 00:26 NOT SOMEDAY - THIS YEAR! 00:31 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN 00:34 DEDICATED TO SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 00:37 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST 00:40 TELEVISION BROADCASTS. 00:42 WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND ENJOY THIS EDITION OF 00:45 AMAZINFACTS PRESENTS. 00:52 >>YOU KNOW, WE'RE LIVING IN SOME INTERESTING TIMES. 00:55 I DON'T KNOW WHEN THE LAST TIME WAS - I GUESS IT WAS JUST BEFORE 00:58 THE YEAR 2000 - WHEN I SAW THIS KIND OF A FRENZY ABOUT THE 01:04 POTENTIAL FOR THE WORLD ENDING. 01:07 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT THE DATE DECEMBER 21, 2012? 01:14 I MEAN, AS ABOVE AND BEYOND ON THE REGULAR CALENDAR? 01:18 WELL, THAT SORT OF IS GOING TO SPAWN THE MESSAGE THIS MORNING, 01:22 WHICH IS GOING TO BE SOMETHING OF A CONVERSATION WITH YOU. 01:25 THIS MUST BE THE LONGEST SERMON TITLE I'VE EVER PICKED. 01:28 '2012 DOOMSDAY MYTHS, PAGAN PROPHECIES, ARMAGEDDON, 01:33 AND THE BIBLE.' A LONG TITLE - IT'LL PROBABLY BE 01:36 A SHORT SERMON THOUGH. 01:38 BUT THERE IS AN AWFUL LOT OF INTEREST RIGHT NOW IN 01:44 FINAL EVENTS. 01:47 AND I'M TALKING ABOUT ABOVE AND BEYOND WHAT YOU ALWAYS SEE AMONG 01:51 CHRISTIANS THAT ARE LOOKING AT THE PROPHECIES AND BIBLE 01:54 ESCHATOLOGY. 01:56 PEOPLE ARE REALLY CONCERNED ABOUT THIS UPCOMING DATE - 02:01 IT'S NOT VERY FAR AWAY - CONNECTED WITH, SOMEHOW, 02:04 THE END OF THE WORLD OR SOME KIND OF APOCALYPTIC EVENT OR 02:11 EPIC EARTH-CHANGING EXPERIENCE. 02:15 THERE HAVE BEEN A LOT OF MOVIES THAT HAVE COME OUT. 02:17 COLUMBIA PICTURES HAD A MOVIE BY THAT NAME - '2012' - IT TALKED 02:21 ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD AND HAD SOMETHING TO DO WITH THESE 02:24 CRYPTIC MAYAN PROPHECIES - THAT THEY HAD SOMEHOW BEEN ABLE 02:28 TO FORETELL THAT THE WORLD WOULD END. 02:31 NOW, YOU WONDER, 'PASTOR DOUG, WHY WOULD YOU TAKE THIS KIND OF 02:35 FABLES AND LEGENDS AND BRING IT INTO A CHURCH WHERE WE FOCUS ON 02:39 BIBLE PROPHECY?' WELL, I THINK IT'S INTERESTING 02:42 THAT THERE WAS A SURVEY AND THAT TEN PERCENT OF THE PEOPLE 02:46 WORLDWIDE - NOT JUST NORTH AMERICA - BELIEVE SOMETHING DIRE 02:51 IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE EARTH THIS YEAR. 02:56 DID YOU CATCH THE SIGNIFICANCE OF THAT? 02:59 A FULL TITHE OF THE PEOPLE THAT LIVE ON THE PLANET ARE THINKING 03:04 SOMETHING CATACLYSMIC IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO THE WORLD - 03:07 NOT SOMEDAY - THIS YEAR! 03:11 THAT REALLY MAKES ME THINK. 03:13 PEOPLE ARE LOOKING AT WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE WORLD 03:16 AND THEY'RE APPREHENSIVE. 03:19 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW SOMEBODY THAT HAS, IN THE LAST FEW YEARS, 03:24 MOVED FROM THE CITY TO THE COUNTRY BECAUSE THEY'RE 03:27 APPREHENSIVE ABOUT WHAT COULD BE HAPPENING IN THE CITIES? 03:31 I SEE SEVERAL HANDS GOING UP. 03:35 WELL, WHERE DOES THIS COME FROM? 03:40 PART OF IT, AS I SAID, I THINK IS JUST BECAUSE OF THE 03:42 UNPRECEDENTED ECONOMIC VOLATILITY IN THE WORLD. 03:48 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE COLLAPSE OF THE EURO WHICH WILL 03:52 CREATE A DOMINO EFFECT WITH THE OTHER CURRENCIES OF THE WORLD - 03:56 INCLUDING AMERICA. 03:57 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT THE ECONOMY HERE. 04:01 PEOPLE ARE CONCERNED ABOUT NATURAL DISASTERS AND 04:04 OVER-POPULATION AND THE POTENTIAL OF IRAN GETTING 04:07 NUCLEAR WEAPONS AND YOU CAN PICK YOUR SCENARIO OF LAST-DAY 04:12 DISASTERS, BUT PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT EVEN CHRISTIANS ARE 04:16 WONDERING, 'IS THIS THE END OF THE WORLD? 04:20 HAVE WE GONE BEYOND THE POINT OF NO RETURN?' 04:25 SOME OF THIS - THAT IS FOCUSING THE ATTENTION ON THIS YEAR, 04:28 INTERESTINGLY - SPRINGS FROM SOME MAYAN PROPHECIES. 04:32 THOSE WOULD BE SOME INTER-AMERICA INDIANS - 04:36 AND WE'VE BEEN DOWN THERE BEFORE AND WE'VE SEEN THEM. 04:39 AND THERE'S A CALENDAR THAT THEY UNCOVERED AND IT'S CALLED 04:42 THE '2012 PHENOMENON'. 04:44 IT COMPRISES A RANGE OF ESCHATOLOGICAL BELIEFS ACCORDING 04:49 TO WHICH THERE'LL BE A CATACLYSMIC OR SOME 04:51 TRANSFORMATIVE EVENTS THAT WILL OCCUR ON THE 21ST OF DECEMBER. 04:56 NOW YOU UNDERSTAND WHY THE 21ST OF DECEMBER? 04:59 YOU'VE GOT THE WINTER SOLSTICE - IN THE NORTHERN HEMISPHERE 05:03 THE SUN REACHES ITS LOWEST POINT IN THE SKY. 05:06 WE JUST PASSED THE SUMMER SOLSTICE THERE IN JUNE AND - 05:09 WHEN THE DAYS NOW ARE GETTING SHORTER AGAIN - AND THEN WHEN 05:12 YOU GET TO THE 21ST THE SUN FLATTENS OUT AGAIN AND THEN 05:15 THE DAYS BECOME LONGER. 05:16 MANY CULTURES OF THE WORLD ACTUALLY CELEBRATED THE 25TH OF 05:20 DECEMBER AS A HOLIDAY BECAUSE THEY SAW THE DAYS WERE THEN 05:23 NOTABLY LONGER AGAIN. 05:25 SOME IT WAS THE 21ST BECAUSE THEY REALIZED THAT THEY STOPPED 05:27 GETTING SHORTER. 05:29 SO SOMEWHERE BETWEEN THE 21ST AND THE 25TH - THERE'S USUALLY 05:32 NO DIFFERENCE IN THE TIME - 05:32 SUNSET DURING THAT TIME. 05:35 ALL OVER THE WORLD PEOPLE W OBSERVED THE HEAVENS HAD 05:38 CALENDARS THAT THESE WERE VERY SIGNIFICANT DATES AND SO, FOR 05:42 THE MAYANS, WHO HAD A VERY ACCURATE CALENDAR, BY THE WAY, 05:46 AND MOST OF THEIR ARCHITECTURE AND THEIR BUILDINGS WERE FOCUSED 05:48 AROUND MAGNETIC AND GEOGRAPHICAL LINES AND THE SUN. 05:54 AND THEIR CALENDAR - WENT OVER A SPAN OF 5125 YEARS - IS GOING TO 05:59 COME TO AN END ON DECEMBER 21ST THIS YEAR. 06:05 AND SO, SOME PEOPLE HAVE SAID THAT'S GOING TO BE WHEN 06:10 THE FAT LADY SINGS - WHATEVER THAT MEANS. 06:14 THAT SOMETHING BIG IS GOING TO HAPPEN AND THERE IS GOING TO BE 06:18 A TURNING POINT - AND EVERYBODY MEANS SOMETHING DIFFERENT 06:22 BY THAT. 06:24 FEARS HAVE BEEN RUNNING RAMPANT AMONG SOME PEOPLE THAT THE WORLD 06:26 MAY END THIS YEAR DUE, IN PART, TO THESE PREDICTIONS. 06:29 SCENARIOS SUGGEST EVERYTHING FROM - THERE'LL BE A SOLAR 06:34 MAXIMUM - THE SUN'S GOING TO IMPLODE OR THE EARTH WILL 06:38 COLLIDE WITH AN OBJECT LIKE A BLACK HOLE OR A PASSING ASTEROID 06:42 IS GOING TO STRIKE THE EARTH. 06:44 YOU KNOW, IT TALKS ABOUT A FLAMING MOUNTAIN THERE IN 06:46 REVELATION AND I'VE SEEN SOME PEOPLE TALK ABOUT 2012 AND THEN 06:49 THEY GO TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND THEY COMBINE THE 06:51 PROPHECIES AND THEY SAY THAT BURNING MOUNTAIN THAT'S GOING TO 06:55 STRIKE THE EARTH IS THE ASTEROID THAT'S GOING TO HIT IN 2012. 06:58 ANY OF YOU HEARD THAT ONE? 07:01 OR A SOLAR FLARE. 07:04 YOU KNOW, IT IS TRUE THAT SOLAR FLARES - WE HAD ONE JUST THIS 07:08 LAST YEAR THAT WAS A LITTLE BIGGER THAN NORMAL AND THEY HAD 07:10 TO REDIRECT AIRPLANES BECAUSE GOING OVER THE NORTHERN REGIONS 07:15 WHERE THE ATMOSPHERE IS THINNER, THEY WERE AFRAID THE RADIATION 07:18 WOULD AFFECT COMMUNICATIONS. 07:21 SO THEY SAID IF THEY HAVE A PHENOMENAL SOLAR FLARE IT COULD 07:24 TOTALLY SHUT DOWN OUR ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS ON THE GLOBE. 07:27 MAYBE THAT'S WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN. 07:31 AND SO, THEN THEY TURN TO THE PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE WHERE IT 07:35 TALKS ABOUT THE EARTH BEING SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT AND 07:39 PEOPLE WILL TRY TO WEAVE TOGETHER THE MAYAN PROPHECIES 07:43 WITH THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 07:46 I'VE ACTUALLY SEEN SOMEBODY QUOTE ISAIAH 30, VERSE 26 - 07:50 SPEAKING ABOUT THE EARTH BEING SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT. 07:53 "MOREOVER THE LIGHT OF THE MOON WILL BE LIKE THE LIGHT OF THE 07:55 SUN AND THE LIGHT OF THE SUN WILL BE SEVEN-FOLD." 07:59 SEVEN TIMES THE INTENSITY THAT WE HAVE NOW - 08:02 THAT'D BE PRETTY HOT. 08:04 BUT I DON'T THINK THAT PROPHECY HAS ANYTHING TO DO WITH HEAT. 08:06 I THINK THAT'S TALKING ABOUT THE NEW EARTH - IT'S TALKING ABOUT 08:09 LIGHT AND BRIGHTNESS. 08:10 THE MOON WILL BE BRIGHTER AND THE SUN WILL BE BRIGHTER AND 08:13 EVERYTHING WILL BE BRIGHTER. 08:15 OR THEY'LL LOOK IN REVELATION 16, VERSE 8. 08:18 "THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL" - THESE ARE WHEN 08:20 THE SEVEN PLAGUES ARE POURED OUT ON THE EARTH. 08:23 THE FOURTH ANGEL POURED OUT HIS VIAL ON THE SUN AND POWER WAS 08:26 GIVEN TO HIM" - THE SUN - "TO SCORCH MEN WITH FIRE AND MEN 08:30 WERE SCORCHED WITH GREAT HEAT." 08:32 AHHH, GLOBAL WARMING. 08:37 IF YOU THINK GLOBAL WARMING IS BAD NOW, WAIT UNTIL 08:41 DECEMBER 21ST. 08:43 BUT PEOPLE ARE WONDERING WHEN THE APOCALYPSE IS GOING TO 08:45 HAPPEN AND WHEN IS GOING TO BE THE END OF THE WORLD. 08:49 YOU READ IN LUKE 21, VERSE 25, "AND THERE WILL BE SIGNS IN THE 08:55 SUN AND IN THE MOON AND IN THE STARS" - YEAH, ONE OF THESE 08:58 NATIVE AMERICAN PROPHECIES SAID THAT THERE'LL BE A BLUE STAR AND 09:02 THAT WILL BE THE SIGN THAT THIS MESSIAH-LIKE, GOD-LIKE MAN 09:07 IS GOING TO COME. 09:08 NOW, I NEED TO BE VERY CAREFUL AND NOT - LISTEN PLEASE, 09:13 UNDERSTAND ME - I THINK WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO 09:17 DISCOUNT AND DISCREDIT THAT GOD COULD HAVE SPOKEN IN HIS OWN WAY 09:24 TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE FROM DIFFERENT CULTURES IN DIFFERENT 09:26 PARTS OF THE WORLD AT DIFFERENT TIMES OF HISTORY. 09:29 DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? 09:30 THE LORD HAS HIS CHILDREN ALL OVER THE WORLD AND AT DIFFERENT 09:33 POINTS IN THEIR HISTORY GOD COULD HAVE REVEALED TRUTH TO 09:37 THEM FOR THEM SPECIFICALLY - IT DIDN'T NECESSARILY NEED TO BE 09:41 PART OF SCRIPTURE - SO THAT WHEN THINGS HAPPENED THEY WOULD KNOW. 09:45 DID GOD SPEAK THROUGH A PROPHET NAMED BALAAM? 09:49 HE DID. 09:50 WAS BALAAM A JEW? 09:52 NO, HE WAS NOT. 09:54 HE WAS FROM MESOPOTAMIA - YEAH, ACTUALLY HE WAS AN IRAQI IF YOU 09:58 - BY TODAY'S STANDARDS - AND HE DID BELIEVE IN THE TRUE GOD. 10:02 AND SO, GOD HAS COMMUNICATED, IN HIS OWN WAY - GOD'S NOT LIMITED, 10:06 WE CAN'T LIMIT HIM THAT WAY - TO DIFFERENT PEOPLE AROUND THE 10:09 WORLD AND I THINK AS CHRISTIANS WE'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL NOT TO 10:13 GET ALL TWITTERPATED ABOUT SOME OF THESE PAGAN PROPHECIES 10:17 BECAUSE THERE'S A LOT OF CONFUSING THINGS OUT THERE. 10:20 LET ME FINISH THIS VERSE. 10:23 "SIGNS IN THE SUN AND IN THE MOON AND IN THE STARS. 10:26 AND ON THE EARTH DISTRESS OF NATIONS WITH PERPLEXITY" - WELL 10:29 THAT'S HAPPENING - "THE SEA AND THE WAVES ROARING" - QUITE 10:33 LITERALLY THE WAVES WERE ROARING WITH THE VARIOUS TSUNAMIS. 10:36 AND WATER ALSO REPRESENTS PEOPLE - WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE WAVES 10:41 ROARING IT'S TALKING ABOUT UNREST AMONG THE NATIONS. 10:46 "MEN'S HEARTS FAILING THEM FOR FEAR AND THE EXPECTATION OF 10:50 THOSE THINGS THAT ARE COMING ON THE EARTH FOR THE POWERS OF 10:53 HEAVEN WILL BE SHAKEN." 10:56 WELL, THERE'S GOING TO BE 'SIGNS IN THE SUN AND THE MOON AND THE 10:59 STARS AND THE POWERS OF HEAVEN WILL BE SHAKEN.' 11:02 AND EVEN HISTORICALLY WE'VE HAD DAYS WHERE THERE WERE FALLING 11:05 STARS AND SIGNS IN THE HEAVENS. 11:08 "THEN FOLLOWING ALL THESE THINGS THEN THEY WILL SEE THE SON OF 11:12 MAN COMING IN A CLOUD WITH POWER AND GREAT GLORY. 11:16 WHEN THESE THINGS BEGIN TO HAPPEN, LOOK UP AND LIFT UP 11:19 YOUR HEADS FOR YOUR REDEMPTION DRAWS NEAR." 11:22 NOW, WHEN JESUS COMES IT SAYS IT'S GOING TO BE LIKE LIGHTNING 11:25 SHINING FROM ONE SIDE OF THE SKY TO THE OTHER. 11:28 BUT BEFORE JESUS COMES IS SATAN GOING TO DO HIS BEST TO 11:32 IMPERSONATE CHRIST? 11:35 WILL HE WANT TO - IF YOU WERE THE DEVIL YOU'D WANT TO BE A 11:38 GOOD DEVIL, I KNOW - I MEAN, EVERYTHING YOU DO DO IT WITH ALL 11:41 YOUR MIGHT - AND IF YOU COULD PREPARE PEOPLE BY GIVING THEM 11:45 FALSE PROPHECIES FOR YOUR APPEARANCE, YOU WOULD 11:50 PREPARE THEM. 11:52 AND I THINK THE DEVIL HAS PRIMED MUCH OF THE WORLD FOR SATAN'S 11:55 MASTERPIECE OF DECEPTION WHERE HE IS GOING TO MASQUERADE AS THE 11:59 MESSIAH AS THE RETURN OF JESUS FOR CHRISTIANS, AS THE 12:05 FULFILLMENT OF ALL OF THESE NEEDS AND THESE SILHOUETTES OF 12:10 DIFFERENT WORLD MESSIAHS - OR RELIGION'S MESSIAHS - HE'S GOING 12:15 TO FULFILL ALL THAT WHEN HE COMES AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS 12:18 GOING TO BE READY - ESPECIALLY IF THAT FALSE CHRIST COMES ON 12:23 THE HEELS OF SOME KIND OF CATACLYSMIC DISASTERS. 12:27 WE'VE ALREADY HAD A FEW. 12:29 BUT THE WORLD IS REALLY ANXIOUS. 12:32 SO, WHAT DO I THINK ABOUT SOME OF THESE PROPHECIES? 12:38 MY CONFIDENCE IS IN WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 12:45 YOU PROBABLY HEARD US SHARE WITH YOU A COUPLE OF YEARS AGO - WELL 12:49 WE'VE BEEN - OUR FAMILY HAS BEEN TO BELIZE TWICE, WHICH WAS RIGHT 12:52 THERE IN THE HEART - THE LAST TIME WE WENT TO BELIZE WE ALSO 12:55 WENT TO SOUTHERN MEXICO AND THAT'S RIGHT IN THE HEART OF 12:59 WHERE THE MAYAN EMPIRE WAS. 13:02 AND IT IS FASCINATING HOW SPRAWLING AND HOW SOPHISTICATED 13:08 THOSE PEOPLE WERE. 13:09 THERE'S A PICTURE - I THINK THAT'S FROM OUR FIRST TRIP WHICH 13:12 WAS 2008 OR 9 I THINK - AND WE WENT AND EXPLORED SOME OF THE 13:17 MAYAN RUINS AND IF YOU FLY A HELICOPTER OVER CENTRAL AMERICA 13:24 -SOUTHERN MEXICO AND EL SALVADOR AND SOME OF THE COUNTRIES THERE 13:28 - GUATEMALA - THEY'RE NOW USING THE INFRARED TECHNOLOGY AND 13:34 THESE SATELLITES AND THEY'RE MAPPING - THEY ARE FINDING 13:37 HUNDREDS OF UNKNOWN RUINS BECAUSE NOW THEY CAN SEE WHERE 13:42 THERE USED TO BE STREETS AND THERE'S SQUARE OUTLINES OF THE 13:44 RUINS OF BUILDINGS AND WHOLE CIVILIZATIONS - THE JUNGLES 13:47 HAVE JUST GROWN OVER. 13:48 THEY HAVEN'T EVEN BEGUN TO EXPLORE EVEN A FRACTION OF THE 13:52 SPRAWLING CIVILIZATIONS THAT LIVED THERE. 13:56 THESE PEOPLE WERE VERY SOPHISTICATED - THEY DID A LOT 13:59 OF WORK BUILDING THESE TEMPLES. 14:01 THERE'S ANOTHER PICTURE WHERE I'M JUST STANDING ON ONE TEMPLE 14:04 AND - I DON'T KNOW HOW CLEAR IT IS BUT BEHIND ME - I'M ON ONE 14:07 TEMPLE - THERE'S TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE AFTER TEMPLE 14:10 - AND I'LL ASK THE GUIDE AND SAY, 'WHAT ABOUT ALL THESE?' 14:13 'OH THAT'S MORE BUT WE JUST DON'T HAVE THE MONEY TO DO THE 14:17 ARCHAEOLOGY AND TO EXPLORE THEM - TO INVESTIGATE WHAT'S UNDER 14:21 THE RUINS.' THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. 14:25 AND SO, WHEN THEY FIND THESE STONE CALENDARS THAT TALK ABOUT 14:29 THE DATE, IT WASN'T AS THOUGH THEY THOUGHT WHEN THAT CALENDAR 14:32 RAN OUT THE WHOLE WORLD WAS GOING TO IMPLODE. 14:35 ACTUALLY, THEY KIND OF FELT ABOUT THEIR CALENDAR THE WAY WE 14:38 FEEL ABOUT OURS. 14:40 WHEN WE REACH THE 31ST OF DECEMBER - OH - IT MEANS - OH - 14:45 ANOTHER YEAR STARTS. 14:48 THEY JUST HAD A MUCH LONGER YEAR. 14:50 IT WAS LIKE 5000 - THEY'RE CALENDAR WENT THROUGH THIS RANGE 14:53 OF 5000 BUT THEY ALWAYS ASSUMED - YOU ASK ANY EXPERT IN 14:58 MESOAMERICAN ARCHAEOLOGY - THEY ALL SAY WELL, THEY JUST THOUGHT 15:03 THAT WAS THE END OF THE CALENDAR - A NEW CALENDAR WOULD START. 15:05 THEY NEVER SAID THERE WAS ANY KIND OF CATACLYSMIC EVENT. 15:08 BUT THE DEVIL HAS USED THIS SOMEHOW TO GET PEOPLE PRIMED. 15:13 ONE EXPERT - ONE SCHOLAR - DR. CANUTO - HE SAID, 'WHILE 15:20 IT IS TRUE THAT THE MAYAN LONG-COUNT CALENDAR ENDS IN 15:23 DECEMBER OF THAT YEAR, NOTHING INDICATES THE MAYANS THOUGHT THE 15:27 WORLD WAS GOING TO END ALONG WITH IT. 15:29 AFTER ALL, OUR CALENDAR CYCLES EVERY 365 DAYS. 15:33 WHILE SOME MIGHT PARTY LIKE THERE'S NO TOMORROW EVERY NEW 15:35 YEAR'S EVE, TOMORROW ALWAYS COMES AND THEY BELIEVED 15:38 IT WAS TOMORROW ALSO.' WHAT HE ALSO SAYS, DR. CANUTO, 15:41 HE SAYS, 'WHAT I'VE ALWAYS FOUND CURIOUS IS THAT EVERYONE WORRIES 15:46 ABOUT THE MAYA PREDICTING THE END OF THE WORLD IN 2012 BUT NO 15:50 ONE WORRIES ABOUT THE FACT THAT THEY DIDN'T SEEM TO BE ABLE TO 15:53 PREDICT THEIR OWN COLLAPSE AS A CIVILIZATION.' 15:58 I REMEMBER WHILE WE WERE IN BELIZE ON THE LAST TRIP, ONE OF 16:02 THE THINGS WE DID THAT WAS REALLY NEAT IS WE TOOK A KAYAK 16:06 RIDE IN A RIVER IN A CAVE UNDER A MOUNTAIN AND WE HAD A GUIDE 16:12 THERE AND THERE'S ALL THESE STALACTITES - I FORGET - 16:15 STALACTITES ARE THE ONES THAT HANG DOWN, RIGHT? 16:16 STALAGMITES GO UP - IS THAT RIGHT? 16:19 ALL THESE STALACTITES ARE HANGING EVERYWHERE AND THEY 16:21 SAID, 'YES, THE MAYANS TAUGHT THAT THESE WERE THE ROOTS 16:25 OF THE TREES UP ABOVE.' AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL IF THESE 16:28 FOLKS ARE THINKING THAT THE STALACTITES ARE ACTUALLY THE 16:30 ROOTS OF TREES AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE TELLING YOU WHAT'S 16:33 HAPPENING IN THE FUTURE, IT DOESN'T SOUND LIKE IT WAS 16:36 REAL DEPENDABLE.' IT SOUNDS LIKE THERE WAS JUST 16:39 A LOT OF PAGAN SPECULATION THAT WAS MIXED IN THERE. 16:45 A LOT OF FASCINATING THINGS, BUT I WOULDN'T BASE MY - I WOULDN'T 16:49 BASE MY FUTURE ON THAT. 16:52 SO, WHAT DO WE DO WITH ALL THIS INFORMATION? 16:56 IS THE WORLD GOING TO END SOMEDAY? YES IT IS. 17:01 WILL THERE BE AN APOCALYPSE - AN ARMAGEDDON? 17:03 IS THERE GOING TO BE A GREAT BATTLE? 17:05 YES THERE WILL. 17:07 I DON'T BELIEVE THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS A BATTLE BETWEEN 17:09 IRAN AND ISRAEL OR THE U.S. 17:12 AND CHINA AND RUSSIA. 17:14 THE BIBLE TELLS US IN REVELATION CHAPTER 12, 'THE DRAGON 17:18 WAS WROTH WITH THE WOMAN AND WENT TO MAKE WAR.' 17:22 THE BATTLE OF ARMAGEDDON IS THE ULTIMATE WAR BETWEEN THE DRAGON, 17:26 THOSE WHO FOLLOW THE DRAGON, THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST, 17:29 THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND THOSE WHO ARE PART OF 17:32 THE CHURCH - THE BRIDE OF CHRIST - WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD. 17:35 IT IS NOT BETWEEN EARTHLY NATIONS. 17:37 IT IS NOT BETWEEN VARYING CULTURES. 17:41 IT IS THE ULTIMATE BATTLE BETWEEN THOSE THAT BELONG TO 17:43 CHRIST AND THOSE OF THE DEVIL - THAT BELONG TO THE DEVIL. 17:48 AND SO, HOW DO WE KNOW WHEN JESUS COMES BACK? 17:51 IF WE SUDDENLY GET A REPORT THAT SOME MESSIAH-LIKE APPARITION IS 17:57 GOING TO MAKE AN APPEARANCE AT THE UNITED NATIONS SHOULD WE 18:00 TURN ON OUR TVS AND WATCH TO FIND OUT WHAT THIS 18:03 GREAT RELIGIOUS LEADER IS GOING TO SAY? 18:06 JESUS SAID - MATTHEW 24:11 - FIRST THING THE LORD SAYS WHEN 18:10 HE TALKS ABOUT SIGNS OF HIS COMING - MANY FALSE PROPHETS 18:14 WILL ARISE AND DECEIVE MANY. 18:17 FIRST THING HE SAYS IS 'BE CAREFUL, THERE'S GOING TO BE 18:18 A LOT OF DECEPTION. 18:20 YOU JUMP DOWN TO VERSE 23 - MATTHEW 24:23, "THEN IF ANY MAN 18:24 SHALL SAY TO YOU, 'LO, HERE IS CHRIST' OR 'THERE' 18:27 BELIEVE IT NOT. 18:28 FOR THERE WILL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS AND FALSE PROPHETS AND 18:32 THEY'LL SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS INSOMUCH THAT IF IT WERE 18:35 POSSIBLE, THEY WOULD DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT. 18:39 SO WILL THERE EVEN BE SIGNS AND WONDERS? 18:42 THERE'S A UNIFORM EXPECTATION AROUND THE WORLD FOR SOMEBODY 18:46 TO COME. 18:49 AND EVEN AMONG THE HINDUS. 18:52 I WAS READING THIS MORNING THAT THEY'RE LOOKING FOR THIS 18:55 REAPPEARANCE OF KRISHNA - THIS AVATAR - IS ACTUALLY WHAT THEY 18:58 USE - OF GOD IN THE FORM OF MAN - SOMETHING ON THE SCALE 19:03 OF JESUS. 19:05 THEY SAY JESUS WAS JUST ONE OF THESE INCARNATIONS OF GOD BUT 19:08 'THE GREAT ONE IS SOON TO COME.' AND SO HERE YOU HAVE THE MAJOR 19:12 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD - THE CHRISTIANS ARE LOOKING FOR 19:14 CHRIST TO COME AND THE BUDDHISTS ARE LOOKING FOR THE SECOND 19:17 BUDDHA, THE JEWS ARE LOOKING FOR THE MESSIAH, THE REAPPEARANCE OF 19:21 KRISHNA, THE TWELFTH IMAM AMONG THE MUSLIMS - ALL THE MAJOR 19:25 RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD ARE PRIMED RIGHT NOW FOR SOMETHING 19:28 TO HAPPEN AND TEN PERCENT OF THE WORLD THINKS SOMETHING IS GOING 19:32 TO HAPPEN THIS YEAR BESIDES SELLING TICKETS TO MOVIES. 19:39 HISTORY CHANNEL DID A SPECIAL ON THE PROPHECIES OF NOSTRADAMUS 19:43 AND THEY SAID, 'DOES HE SAY ANYTHING ABOUT 2012?' 19:47 THERE WAS LIKE THREE MILLION PEOPLE JUST ON YOUTUBE 19:49 WENT TO SEE THAT. 19:52 SO WILL THERE EVEN BE SIGNS AND WONDERS? 19:55 CAN THE DEVIL PERFORM MIRACLES? 19:58 NOW SOME OF YOU HERE DON'T BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. 20:00 YOU SAY, 'OH, I'VE NEVER SEEN A MIRACLE.' 20:03 IF YOU SAW A MIRACLE EVERY DAY YOU PROBABLY WOULDN'T THINK 20:05 IT'S A MIRACLE. 20:06 WHAT MAKES A MIRACLE A MIRACLE IS THEY'RE ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE. 20:09 I MEAN, THE REASON THAT IT'S A MIRACLE THAT JESUS WALKED ON 20:11 WATER IS BECAUSE I HAVE NEVER SEEN ANYONE WALK ON WATER. 20:15 NOT WITHOUT SOME SPECIAL EFFECTS OR SOMETHING. 20:20 SO WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS HE DID IT, THEY WERE JUST AS AMAZED 20:22 BACK THEN AS YOU WOULD BE TODAY. 20:24 THE QUESTION IS DO YOU BELIEVE MIRACLES EVER HAPPEN? 20:28 CAN THE DEVIL EVER PERFORM MIRACLES? 20:32 DID HE IN THE BIBLE? 20:34 WHEN MOSES THREW HIS ROD DOWN AND IT BECAME A SERPENT, PHARAOH 20:37 CLAPPED HIS HANDS AND IN CAME HIS MAGICIANS AND 20:39 WHAT DID THEY DO? 20:41 THEY WERE ABLE TO AT LEAST DUPLICATE THAT MIRACLE. 20:45 DID THE DEVIL BRING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN THE STORY OF JOB? 20:50 IT WAS POWER. 20:52 DOES REVELATION TELL US THAT SATAN IS GOING TO HAVE POWER, 20:55 EVEN GOING AS FAR AS BRINGING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN IN THE 20:57 LAST DAYS? 20:58 I KNOW THESE THINGS ARE EXTRAORDINARY. 21:00 THAT'S NOT WHAT WE SEE IN OUR WORLD EVERYDAY TODAY. 21:03 WELL, THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 21:04 SOME THINGS ARE GOING TO HAPPEN THAT YOU HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE 21:09 THAT ARE GOING TO EVEN CHALLENGE SKEPTICS WITH THE POWER OF GOD. 21:13 AND ESPECIALLY IN OUR CULTURE TODAY WHERE PEOPLE ARE SO 21:15 SOPHISTICATED AND SKEPTICAL - IF THEY SAW A MIRACLE - 21:20 A BONA FIDE MIRACLE - THEY'D PROBABLY BELIEVE THAT WHOEVER 21:23 DID IT MUST BE TRUE EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT BE THE DEVIL. 21:29 SO WE'VE GOT TO KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE TRUE AND 21:32 THE FALSE PROPHECIES. 21:35 THEY'LL 'SHOW GREAT SIGNS AND WONDERS INSOMUCH THAT IF IT WERE 21:37 POSSIBLE IT WOULD EVEN DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT.' 21:41 WHAT'S GOING TO DIFFERENTIATE THE VERY ELECT FROM THE ONES WHO 21:43 ARE DECEIVED? 21:45 THE ELECT KNOW THE LORD. 21:46 THEY KNOW THE WORD. 21:48 'BEHOLD, JESUS SAID, I'VE TOLD YOU BEFORE' - WHAT'S GOING TO 21:51 PREVENT THE ELECT FROM BEING DECEIVED? 21:54 WE KNOW WHAT JESUS TOLD US. 21:57 SO ARE YOU READING WHAT JESUS TOLD US? 21:59 'WHEREFORE IF THEY SAY TO YOU 'BEHOLD HE'S IN THE DESERT'' - 22:02 OFF THERE IN ISRAEL SOME BEING HAS JUST APPEARED AND HE'S GOING 22:07 TO BRING PEACE TO THE MIDDLE EAST - 'GO NOT FORTH. 22:11 BEHOLD, HE'S IN SECRET CHAMBERS' - FLAT SCREEN TELEVISION - 22:16 'BELIEVE IT NOT. 22:18 FOR AS LIGHTNING COMES OUT OF THE EAST AND SHINES EVEN UNTO 22:21 THE WEST, SO SHALL ALSO THE COMING OF THE SON OF MAN BE.' 22:25 WILL WE KNOW WHEN JESUS COMES? 22:28 ABSOLUTELY. 22:29 IT'S GOING TO BE SPANNING THE HEAVENS. 22:30 DO WE HAVE PROPHECIES THAT TELL US WHEN THE END OF THE WORLD 22:33 IS COMING? 22:35 YOU KNOW, FOR ME, WHAT I THINK THE MOST COMPELLING PROPHECY IS? 22:38 IT HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH ANY PAGAN PROPHECIES OR THE MAYAN 22:43 PROPHECY OR RADIO PREACHERS. 22:48 MATTHEW 24:14, "WHEN THE GOSPEL OF THE KINGDOM IS PREACHED IN 22:52 ALL THE WORLD FOR A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS, THEN SHALL 22:56 THE END COME." 22:58 BUT I THINK WE'RE LIVING IN THE GENERATION THAT'S GOING TO SEE 23:00 CHRIST COME BECAUSE HE SAID - NOT THAT THE WHOLE WORLD'S GOING 23:03 TO BELIEVE - BUT THE WHOLE WORLD WILL HAVE AN OPPORTUNITY TO HEAR 23:07 - AS A WITNESS UNTO ALL NATIONS. 23:09 SO NOW, THROUGH SATELLITE TELEVISION, THROUGH THE INTERNET 23:13 - YOU KNOW THERE'S MORE PEOPLE ON THE INTERNET NOW IN CHINA 23:15 THAN THERE ARE IN NORTH AMERICA. 23:18 THROUGH THE INTERNET, THROUGH THE PRINTED PAGE AND THROUGH CDS 23:25 - WE SENT OVER OUR 'COSMIC CONFLICT' TRANSLATED IN MANDARIN 23:28 A WHILE AGO AND IT'S JUST GONE ALL OVER THE COUNTRY AS HAS THE 23:31 'FINAL EVENTS' DVD. 23:33 AND THAT'S JUST THE LITTLE BIT THAT WE'RE DOING. 23:36 THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO ALL THE WORLD. 23:37 THERE'S STILL A LOT OF WORK TO BE DONE IN THE 10/40 WINDOW BUT 23:40 WITH ELECTRONICS AND WITH SATELLITE AND WITH THE INTERNET 23:43 IT'S HAPPENING RIGHT NOW. 23:44 LOOK AT THE VOLATILITY IN WHAT YOU'VE SEEN HAPPEN IN WHAT THEY 23:48 CALL THE ARAB SPRING. 23:50 WHAT'S GOING ON WITH THE BIG TURNOVER OF GOVERNMENTS AND THE 23:53 POLITICAL SITUATION OF THESE ARAB COUNTRIES? 23:55 YOU KNOW WHY? 23:56 BECAUSE THE GENERATION NOW THAT IS GROWING UP THERE - THEY'RE 24:00 GETTING THEIR INFORMATION OUTSIDE OF THEIR COUNTRY AND 24:03 THEY'RE THINKING FOR THEMSELVES. 24:05 THIS IS THE GENERATION THAT IS REALLY SEARCHING BECAUSE THEY 24:08 CAN - THEY CAN USE ALL THESE OTHER SOPHISTICATED TECHNOLOGIES 24:12 ON THEIR CELL PHONES. 24:13 THEY CAN LISTEN TO THE WORLD NOW AND THEY'RE PAYING ATTENTION. 24:18 SO I THINK JESUS IS COMING SOON AND THERE WILL BE SOME NATURAL 24:22 DISASTERS, POLITICAL UPHEAVAL, FINANCIAL DISASTERS. 24:25 THERE MAY BE PLAGUES AND WARS AND RUMORS OF WARS. 24:27 ALL THESE THINGS NEED TO COME TO PASS. 24:30 BUT WHEN THE GOSPEL GOES INTO ALL THE WORLD AND EVERYONE'S HAD 24:32 A CHANCE - THE LORD'S NOT WILLING THAT ANY SHOULD PERISH. 24:35 HE WANTS ALL TO COME TO REPENTANCE - THEN, JESUS SAID - 24:39 JESUS SAID, 'THEN THE END' - NOT MIGHT - 'THEN THE END WILL COME. 24:45 THEN THE END SHALL COME.' SO I DO THINK THAT WE OUGHT TO 24:50 REALLY BE EXCITED. 24:52 AND, YOU KNOW, WITH ALL THIS INTEREST IN 2012 - FOR ME I SAY, 24:55 'GREAT EVANGELISTIC OPPORTUNITY!' 24:58 AND, MATTER OF FACT, I'LL PROBABLY TAKE THIS SERMON AND 25:01 PUT IT ON YOUTUBE AND GIVE IT SOME KIND OF OMINOUS TITLE AND 25:05 GET THEM TO READ THE BIBLE AND GO TO THE WEBSITE AND 25:07 STUDY THE TRUTH. 25:09 BECAUSE LIKE Y2K AND LIKE 1999 AND ALL THAT STUFF. 25:15 SOME OF THESE DAYS - LIKE MAY 21 LAST YEAR - THESE DAYS WILL COME 25:18 AND GO BUT JESUS DOESN'T CHANGE AND THE TRUTH DOESN'T CHANGE AND 25:23 WE NEED TO LET THE WORLD KNOW, AMEN? 25:26 >>STAY TUNED. 25:27 PASTOR DOUG WILL BE RIGHT BACK WITH THIS WEEK'S SPECIAL 25:29 FREE OFFER. 25:38 >>HOW MUCH SIN CAN WE STILL CLING TO AND BE SAVED? 25:44 THE DEVIL HAS TOLD A BIG LIE AND MOST - EVEN CHRISTIANS - HAVE 25:49 TAKEN IT HOOK, LINE, AND SINKER - THAT GOD DOESN'T REALLY EXPECT 25:52 US TO BE GODLY. 25:56 IF WE DON'T HAVE THE LOVE OF GOD THEN THE ONLY OTHER MOTIVE LEFT 25:59 IS SELFISHNESS AND WE WILL SIN. 26:04 >>YOU'RE MOVING AHEAD - MAKING IMPORTANT LIFE DECISIONS - BUT 26:07 ARE YOU ON THE ROAD YOU PLANNED? 26:09 'DARE TO FOLLOW' - A NEW BOOK BY PASTORS DOUG BATCHELOR, IVOR 26:13 MYERS, JONATHAN HENDERSON AND DAVID STEWARD REVEALS HOW 26:16 THESE MEN MADE GOD THEIR ULTIMATE PURPOSE. 26:19 THROUGH PERSONAL TESTIMONY, 'DARE TO FOLLOW' 26:21 ANSWERS QUESTIONS TOO. 26:23 WHAT IS TRUTH? 26:24 WHAT IS GOD'S WILL IN MY LIFE? 26:26 AND WHY WE FALL. 26:28 'DARE TO FOLLOW' - AVAILABLE AT THESE LEADING OUTLETS OR AS AN 26:31 E-BOOK AT 'AFBOOKSTORE.COM'. 26:34 >>EXPERIENCE BIBLE PROPHECY LIKE NEVER BEFORE WITH 'PROPHECY 26:37 FOUNDATIONS' THE NEW MULTI-MEDIA PLATFORM WITH 27 UNIQUE BIBLE 26:43 STUDIES FOR ADULTS AND KIDS, OVER 32 HOURS OF BIBLE TEACHING 26:47 VIDEO SERMONS BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, THE ELECTRONIC 26:50 AMAZING HEALTH MAGAZINE FILLED WITH LIFE-TRANSFORMING HEALTH 26:53 TIPS, OVER 160 AUDIO QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS AND OVER 57 BOOKS 26:59 ALL ON ONE DVD. 27:01 GO TO 'STORE.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG'. 27:07 >>PEOPLE EVERYWHERE ARE WONDERING 'IS SOMETHING 27:10 CATACLYSMIC ABOUT TO HAPPEN?' 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