Participants: Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000152A
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>SEE, THERE'S TWO TEMPLES: THERE'S ONE IN HEAVEN AND ONE ON 01:17 EARTH. THE CHURCH IS CALLED THE BODY OF 01:20 CHRIST. THERE IS STILL A TEMPLE ON 01:23 EARTH. YOU AND I ARE THE PRIESTS. 01:25 YOU AND I ARE THE LIVING STONES IN THAT TEMPLE AND THAT'S WHY 01:29 THIS IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT SUBJECT. 01:33 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:36 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:38 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:42 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:45 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 01:53 >>WELCOME ONCE AGAIN, FRIENDS, TO ANOTHER PRESENTATION IN THE 01:57 LANDMARK OF PROPHECY SERIES. WE'RE VERY THANKFUL THAT EACH OF 02:01 YOU ARE HERE. I WANT TO THANK YOU PERSONALLY 02:02 FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS. YOU KNOW, WE'VE TITLED THIS 02:05 SERIES LANDMARKS OF PROPHECY AND ONE OF THE FAMOUS LANDMARKS IN 02:09 THE WORLD, OF COURSE, IS THE TAJ MAHAL. 02:12 THE EMPEROR'S WIFE DIED GIVING BIRTH TO THEIR 14TH CHILD AND HE 02:18 LOVED HER SO MUCH THAT HE WANTED TO BUILD SOMETHING THAT WOULD 02:23 JUST COMMEMORATE HIS LOVE FOR HER AND SO HE HAD JUST THE BEST 02:28 ARCHITECTS IN THE KINGDOM THAT BUILT THIS BEAUTIFUL BUILDING. 02:32 WHAT MANY PEOPLE ARE NOT AWARE OF IS THAT HE ALSO SAW IT AS A 02:38 PLACE WHERE PEOPLE COULD FIND REDEMPTION. 02:41 WHEN THE EMPEROR DEDICATED THE BUILDING, IT WAS EMPEROR SHAH 02:46 JAHAN, HE DECLARED IN THESE WORDS, "SHOULD THE GUILTY SEEK 02:50 ASYLUM HERE, LIKE ONE PARDONED, HE BECOMES FREE FROM SIN. 02:55 SHOULD A SINNER MAKE HIS WAY TO THIS MANSION, 02:57 ALL HIS PAST SINS ARE TO BE WASHED AWAY. 03:00 THE SIGHT OF THIS MANSION CREATES SORROWING SIGHS AND THE 03:03 SUN AND THE MOON SHED TEARS FROM THEIR EYES. 03:06 IN THIS WORLD, THIS EDIFICE HAS BEEN MADE; TO DISPLAY THEREBY 03:10 THE CREATOR'S GLORY." VERY INTERESTING. 03:13 HE SPEAKS OF A MONOTHEISTIC CREATOR AND THAT THIS BUILDING 03:17 WAS TO BE A PLACE WHERE A PERSON COULD FIND ASYLUM - LIKE A CITY 03:20 OF REFUGE. AND SO, IT'S NOT JUST BEAUTIFUL, 03:23 IT ALSO HAD SOME REPRESENTATION OF A PLACE OF WORSHIP AS WELL. 03:29 YOU KNOW, THERE IS A BUILDING THAT THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT - 03:33 IT'S CALLED SOMETIMES THE TABERNACLE, THE TEMPLE, THE 03:38 SANCTUARY - THAT IS FOUND ALL THE WAY FROM EXODUS THROUGH 03:41 REVELATION AND IS MENTIONED BY MOST OF THE MAJOR BIBLE 03:45 PROPHETS. IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS BUILDING 03:49 WE'RE GOING TO LEARN A LOT ABOUT SALVATION TONIGHT, AND SOME OF 03:52 THE MOST INTERESTING BIBLE PROPHECIES THAT EVEN RELATE TO 03:56 OUR DAY. THE LESSON TODAY IS LESSON #11 03:59 DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY. 04:02 NOW, WHEN THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL CAME OUT OF EGYPT AND MOSES WENT 04:06 UP MOUNT SINAI, WHAT DID HE GET UP THERE ON TOP OF MOUNT SINAI? 04:10 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 04:12 BUT, YOU KNOW, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY THING HE GOT UP THERE. 04:14 THE BIBLE TELLS US THE LORD GAVE HIM BLUEPRINTS. 04:18 JUST LIKE THE LORD GAVE BLUEPRINTS TO NOAH TO BUILD THE 04:20 ARK, HE GAVE BLUEPRINTS TO MOSES TO BUILD A TABERNACLE. 04:25 THIS WAS TO BE THE CENTRAL PLACE OF WORSHIP IN THE HEBREW 04:29 ECONOMY. IT WAS A VERY SPECIFICALLY 04:32 DESIGNED BUILDING THAT WAS TO TEACH THEM ABOUT HOW GOD SAVES 04:36 PEOPLE. AND HERE'S A PICTURE. 04:38 AT FIRST, WHEN THEY WERE GOING THROUGH THE WILDERNESS, THEY 04:41 NEEDED A PORTABLE TABERNACLE BECAUSE THEY WOULD STRIKE THEIR 04:44 CAMP, MOVE TO ANOTHER SPOT, PITCH IT AGAIN, STRIKE IT, MOVE 04:47 TO ANOTHER SPOT - THEY HAD ALL THESE LEVITES THAT WERE 04:50 DESIGNATED TO CARRY IT ON THEIR SHOULDERS FROM PLACE TO PLACE. 04:52 FOR 40 YEARS THEY CARRIED THEIR TEMPLE WITH THEM. 04:54 FINALLY, WHEN THEY GOT INTO THE PROMISED LAND, THEY BUILT A 04:57 PERMANENT ONE. BUT THERE WERE SOME THINGS THAT 05:00 HAPPENED HERE THAT ALL ILLUSTRATED THE PLAN OF 05:03 SALVATION. THERE WAS ONE DOOR - HOW MANY 05:06 WAYS OF SALVATION DOES JESUS TELL US THERE ARE? 05:09 ONE - HE IS THE WAY, THE TRUTH, THE LIFE. HE SAID 'I AM THE 05:12 DOOR.' HE'S THE LAMB OF GOD. PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR LAMB 05:15 THROUGH THAT DOOR AND THE FIRST THING THAT HAPPENED ON THE 05:18 ENTRANCE TO THE SANCTUARY WAS THERE WAS A SACRIFICE. 05:21 THERE WERE TWO PIECES OF FURNITURE THAT YOU PRINCIPALLY 05:24 SAW WHEN YOU WENT IN: AFTER YOU WENT IN THE DOOR, THE FIRST 05:27 THING WAS WHAT THEY CALLED THE ALTAR. 05:29 THIS IS WHERE THE SACRIFICE TOOK PLACE AND WHERE IT WAS BURNT AND 05:32 PRESENTED TO GOD - THAT REPRESENTS THE CROSS. 05:35 THE NEXT PIECE OF FURNITURE YOU SAW WAS THE LAVER. 05:38 IT WAS WHERE THIS WATER WAS AND THEY WOULD WASH, THEN, BEFORE 05:43 THEY ENTERED THE HOLY PLACE. SO, IN EGYPT, THE CHILDREN OF 05:48 ISRAEL, BEFORE THEY WERE SAVED FROM SLAVERY, THEY SACRIFICED A 05:50 LAMB. THEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE RED 05:53 SEA. THAT WATER IS A SYMBOL OF, LIKE, 05:56 BAPTISM. PAUL SAYS THAT IN 1 CORINTHIANS 05:59 CHAPTER 10. THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN THE SEA. WHEN THEY WENT DOWN 06:02 THROUGH THE RED SEA AND CAME UP IT WAS SORT OF A SYMBOLIC 06:04 BAPTISM. THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT JESUS IS THE LAMB. 06:07 JESUS IS THE ROCK. JESUS IS THE LIVING WATER. 06:11 EVERYTHING YOU LOOK AT IN THE TABERNACLE TELLS US ABOUT JESUS. 06:13 THEN YOU WENT INTO WHAT THEY CALL THE HOLY PLACE - THE FIRST 06:17 ROOM OF THE TABERNACLE - AND THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU 06:21 WENT INTO THE HOLY PLACE WAS THIS TABLE OF SHOWBREAD. 06:24 JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE.' RIGHT? THE OTHER THING 06:29 YOU SAW WAS A LAMPSTAND WITH SEVEN LAMPS ON IT. 06:33 THAT'S BECAUSE JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.' AND 06:36 THEN THE THIRD THING YOU SAW WAS THIS ALTAR OF INCENSE AND THAT'S 06:41 WHERE THEY WOULD SPRINKLE INCENSE AND THE PLEASANT AROMA 06:45 WOULD WAFT OVER THE CURTAIN INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES OR THE MOST 06:49 HOLY PLACE. THIS REPRESENTS THE PRAYERS - 06:53 THE INTERCESSION - OF JESUS. WE PRAY IN HIS NAME. 06:56 SO, BEFORE WE GO ANY FARTHER, WE SAW THREE THINGS IN THE HOLY 06:59 PLACE: THOSE ARE THE THREE SECRET WEAPONS FOR YOUR BEING 07:03 SUCCESSFUL AS A CHRISTIAN. DID YOU CATCH IT? 07:07 BREAD, LIGHT, THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. 07:12 THAT'S READING YOUR BIBLE - THAT'S THE BREAD OF LIFE - MAN 07:14 DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY WORD - RIGHT? 07:17 GOD SAID LET YOUR LIGHT SHINE - BE A WITNESS - AND YOU NEED TO 07:21 PRAY. THAT'S THAT ALTAR OF INCENSE. 07:24 THOSE THREE THINGS ARE THE KEYS TO HAVING A CLOSE RELATIONSHIP 07:27 WITH GOD. NOW YOU WENT THROUGH THE VEIL 07:30 INTO WHAT THEY CALLED THE HOLY OF HOLIES AND THERE WAS ONLY ONE 07:33 THING IN THERE. WHAT WAS THAT? (INAUDIBLE) THAT WAS THE ARK - 07:39 THE GOLDEN ARK OF THE COVENANT - AND THERE - WHAT WAS INSIDE? 07:44 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 07:47 WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE PROPHECY BOOKS OF ISAIAH, "IN THE YEAR" - 07:52 CHAPTER 6 - "IN THE YEAR THAT KING UZZIAH DIED, I SAW THE LORD 07:55 SITTING ON A THRONE, HIGH AND LIFTED UP, AND THE TRAIN OF HIS 07:57 ROBE FILLED THE TEMPLE." THE VISION IS IN THE TEMPLE. 07:59 EZEKIEL - I READ IT TODAY IN MY PERSONAL DEVOTIONS - CHAPTER 40 08:02 - HE'S MEASURING THE TEMPLE - THE VISION'S IN THE TEMPLE. 08:05 ZECHARIAH, DANIEL, THE CONTEXT OF SO MANY OF THESE GREAT 08:09 PROPHECIES - REVELATION - ARE IN THE CONTEXT OF THIS BUILDING. 08:15 THERE ARE SOME SECRET LESSONS THAT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT GOD AND 08:19 HOW HE SAVES - AND EVEN PROPHECY - FROM STUDYING THIS. 08:23 SO, ONE OF THE IMPORTANT THINGS THAT HAPPENED WITH JESUS' 08:26 MINISTRY - LET'S GO TO THE LESSON - THE STORY AT THE 08:29 BEGINNING OF YOUR LESSON. IS - THE CENTER OF WORSHIP FOR 08:34 THE JEWISH NATION AT THE TIME OF CHRIST WAS THE JEWISH TEMPLE. 08:37 NOW THE TEMPLE, DURING THE TIME OF JESUS, WAS THE ONE THAT HAD 08:40 BEEN REBUILT. NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD DESTROYED THE ONE OF SOLOMON. 08:45 IT LASTED ABOUT 400 YEARS AND THEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED IT 08:47 AND THEN YEARS LATER - 70 YEARS LATER - THEY CAME BACK AND, 08:51 DURING THE TIME OF EZRA AND NEHEMIAH, THEY REBUILT IT BUT IT 08:53 DIDN'T HAVE QUITE THE FORMER GLORY. 08:55 BUT THEN, ALONG CAME A ROMAN-JEWISH KING - HASMONEAN 09:00 KING - NAMED HEROD THE GREAT WHO WAS QUITE A BUILDER. 09:04 HE LOVED TO BUILD - PASSIONATE BUILDER. 09:05 HE BUILT MASADA. HE BUILT CAESAREA. 09:08 HE BUILT EVERYWHERE. HE ALSO WAS PRETTY HEARTLESS. 09:11 HE'S THE ONE WHO KILLED THE BABIES IN BETHLEHEM. 09:13 BUT TO SHOW, FOR POLITICAL REASONS, THE JEWS THAT HE WOULD 09:16 BE A GOOD KING, HE REFURBISHED THEIR TEMPLE AND IT WAS A 09:19 BEAUTIFUL PLACE AND IT STILL WAS THE PLACE WHERE THEY WORSHIPED. 09:22 SO WHEN JESUS CAME IN TO TEACH IN THE TEMPLE, YOU KNOW, THE 09:26 PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR SACRIFICES, WELL THE RELIGIOUS 09:29 LEADERS HAD TURNED IT INTO A BAZAAR WHERE THEY WERE SELLING 09:33 LAMBS, SELLING DOVES, SELLING SACRIFICES - THE COURTYARD OF 09:37 THE TEMPLE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE OF PRAYER, AND 09:40 PRAISE, AND WORSHIP - IT SOUNDED LIKE A FLEA MARKET AND A - IT 09:43 WAS LIKE A STOCKADE AUCTION HOUSE. 09:46 EVERYBODY WAS FIGHTING OVER THE PRICE OF SACRIFICES AND IT 09:48 SMELLED AND JESUS WALKED IN THERE ONE DAY AND HE SAID, 'MY 09:53 FATHER'S HOUSE IS A HOUSE OF PRAYER FOR ALL NATIONS.' BY THE 09:57 WAY, HE'S QUOTING THE OLD TESTAMENT. 09:58 HE SAID, 'YOU'VE TURNED IT INTO A DEN OF THIEVES.' FIRE FLASHED 10:03 FROM HIS EYES. HE OVERTURNED THE MONEYCHANGERS' TABLES. 10:06 YOU REMEMBER READING ABOUT THIS? HE MADE A CORD - A WHIP OUT OF 10:10 CORDS IT DOESN'T SAY HE WHIPPED ANYBODY BUT HIS HOLDING IT WAS 10:12 PROBABLY ENOUGH. AND THEN HE SAID, IN JOHN 10:15 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 16, "TAKE THESE THINGS HENCE! 10:18 MAKE NOT MY FATHER'S HOUSE A HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE!" 10:22 NOTICE, JESUS SAID, 'MY FATHER'S HOUSE.' AT THE END OF CHRIST'S 10:26 MINISTRY WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS REJECTED HIS TEACHING, 10:30 HE SAID, 'BEHOLD, YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE.' THAT'S 10:36 INTERESTING TO CONSIDER. THERE'S A CHANGE. 10:39 NOW, QUESTION #1: WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR THE 2300-DAY 10:45 AND 70-WEEK TIME PROPHECIES? NOW GET YOUR BIBLES, TURN WITH 10:50 ME TO DANIEL 9:23, "AT THE BEGINNING OF YOUR SUPPLICATIONS 10:56 THE COMMANDMENT WENT OUT, AND I HAVE COME TO TELL YOU, FOR YOU 10:58 ARE GREATLY BELOVED; THEREFORE CONSIDER THE MATTER, AND 11:00 UNDERSTAND THE VISION:" NOW THERE'S NO VISION IN CHAPTER 9 11:03 SO WHAT VISION IS THE ANGEL TALKING ABOUT? 11:05 THE ONE IN CHAPTER 8 HE DIDN'T GET TO FINISH EXPLAINING BECAUSE 11:09 DANIEL FAINTED, RIGHT? "SEVENTY WEEKS" - HERE WE GO, 11:13 VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9:24 - "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED 11:17 FOR YOUR PEOPLE" - WHO WERE DANIEL'S PEOPLE? 11:19 JEWISH NATION - SEVENTY WEEKS - THE WORD DETERMINED THERE MEANS 11:24 'CUT OFF' OR 'ALLOTTED' OR 'REMAIN' FOR YOUR PEOPLE. 11:27 FOR WHAT? TO INTRODUCE THE MESSIAH TO THE WORLD. 11:30 "AND FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, TO 11:35 MAKE AN END OF SINS," - THE FINAL SACRIFICE FOR SIN WOULD BE 11:38 OFFERED - "TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, TO 11:42 BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS," - THAT'S CHRIST 11:45 WHO BRINGS THAT EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS - "TO SEAL UP THE 11:47 VISION AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 11:54 SO HE SAID SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR ALL THESE THINGS 11:56 TO BE ACCOMPLISHED. "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND," 11:59 - NOW HERE IS THE STARTING POINT FOR ALL THESE PROPHECIES - "KNOW 12:02 THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND, THAT FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE 12:05 COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM UNTIL MESSIAH THE 12:10 PRINCE," - FROM THIS POINT TO THIS POINT - "THERE SHALL BE 12:13 SEVEN WEEKS AND THREE-SCORE AND TWO WEEKS;" ALRIGHT, THREE-SCORE 12:17 AND TWO IS SIXTY-TWO, RIGHT? A SCORE IS TWENTY. 12:20 SIXTY-TWO PLUS SEVEN IS HOW MUCH? SIXTY-NINE. 12:24 SO YOU'VE GOT ONE WEEK MISSING. HE TELLS US WHAT HAPPENS IN THE 12:28 MIDST OF THAT LAST WEEK, HE MAKES THE SACRIFICE CEASE. 12:31 SO HE BREAKS IT UP LIKE THAT BECAUSE THERE'S THE FIRST SEVEN 12:34 WEEKS THEY'RE BUILDING THE WALL AND THE STREET. 12:36 THEN YOU'VE GOT ANOTHER SIXTY-NINE WEEKS AND AT THE END 12:39 OF THAT SIXTY-NINE WEEK PERIOD IT SAYS THAT THE MESSIAH IS 12:43 GOING TO BE ANOINTED AND BEGIN HIS MINISTRY. 12:48 SO UNTO THE MESSIAH THE PRINCE - SEVEN WEEKS; THREE-SCORE AND TWO 12:52 WEEKS. THE STARTING POINT IS FROM THE 12:54 GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM. 12:57 CAN WE KNOW FROM ALL THE DUSTY, MUSTY RECORDS OF HISTORY WHEN 13:01 DID THAT HAPPEN? GOOD NEWS. IT'S GIVEN IN YOUR BIBLE. 13:05 IT'S IN EZRA 7:7. THE DECREE OF KING ARTAXERXES - 13:09 THAT KING GAVE A DECREE THAT ALLOWED THEM TO GO BACK. 13:14 IT WAS THE MOST PROMINENT VARIETY OF DECREES THAT CAME 13:18 SAYING THAT THEY COULD REBUILD THE CITY AND THE WALLS 13:21 AND THE TEMPLE AND THAT IS 457 B.C. 13:25 IT IS A VERY CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATE IN HISTORY. 13:28 SO YOU'VE GOT THE STARTING POINT - 457 - AND HE SAYS NOW IT'LL BE 13:32 SIXTY-NINE WEEKS UNTIL THE MESSIAH BEGINS HIS MINISTRY. 13:36 FIRST THERE'D BE THE SEVEN WEEKS - FORTY-NINE YEARS WHILE THEY'RE 13:39 BUILDING THE STREET AND THE WALL IN TROUBLOUS TIMES, THEN THERE'D 13:42 BE ANOTHER SIXTY-TWO WEEKS - A TOTAL OF SIXTY-NINE, RIGHT? 13:46 NOW WHEN YOU'RE INTERPRETING BIBLE PROPHECY, WHAT IS THE 13:49 PRINCIPLE THAT YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO USE? 13:51 A DAY EQUALS A YEAR. >>A YEAR. 13:55 >>YOU CAN READ THIS - THERE'S SEVERAL VERSES IN EZEKIEL 4:6, 13:58 "I HAVE APPOINTED THEE EACH DAY FOR A YEAR." 14:01 YOU CAN READ NUMBERS 14:34 "EACH DAY FOR A YEAR" THE ANGEL SAID 14:08 THAT IF YOU'RE TO COUNT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS FROM 457 B.C. 14:13 YOU'D COME TO MESSIAH THE PRINCE. SO NOW, DID IT HAPPEN? 14:17 IF YOU GO - A DAY EQUALS A YEAR IN PROPHECY - 14:21 IF YOU GO 483 YEARS FROM 457 B.C. 14:26 IT COMES TO THE BAPTISM OF JESUS IN 27 A.D. 14:30 MATTHEW 1:22 AND 23, "NOW THIS WAS ALL DONE, THAT IT MIGHT BE 14:34 FULFILLED WHICH WAS SPOKEN OF THE LORD BY THE PROPHET, SAYING, 14:40 'BEHOLD, A VIRGIN WILL BE WITH CHILD, AND SHALL BRING FORTH A 14:44 SON, AND THEY SHALL CALL HIS NAME EMMANUEL, WHICH BEING 14:48 INTERPRETED IS, GOD WITH US.'" IT SAYS SPECIFICALLY IN DANIEL 14:52 9:24, PART OF THE PURPOSE WOULD BE TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY. 14:57 WAS JESUS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WHEN HE WAS BAPTIZED? 15:02 DID THE SPIRIT COME DOWN LIKE A DOVE? 15:04 WHAT MARKED THE BEGINNING OF JESUS' MINISTRY? 15:07 HIS BAPTISM. YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE MOST 15:10 CLEARLY ESTABLISHED DATES IN THE NEW TESTAMENT IS LUKE CHAPTER 3, 15:15 VERSE 1. YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLE? 15:17 AND THE REASON IS THEY GIVE SO MANY DATES - HE GIVES SO MANY 15:22 CORRESPONDING LEADERS DURING THIS TIME, THERE'S VERY LITTLE 15:25 DOUBT ABOUT WHEN IT WAS, HISTORICALLY. 15:28 SOME OF THESE ANCIENT DATES IT'S HARD TO PIN DOWN, BUT LET ME 15:30 TELL YOU WHAT DR. LUKE DID FOR US. 15:32 LUKE 3, VERSE 1, "NOW IN THE FIFTEENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF 15:37 TIBERIUS CAESAR," - THAT'S NOT THAT HARD TO ESTABLISH - 15:39 "PONTIUS PILATE BEING GOVERNOR OF JUDEA," - THAT'S ONE MORE 15:44 BENCHMARK - "AND HEROD BEING TETRARCH OF GALILEE, HIS BROTHER 15:48 PHILIP TETRARCH OF ITURAEA AND OF THE REGION OF TRACHONITIS, 15:51 AND LYSANIAS THE TETRARCH OF ABILENE, ANNAS AND CAIAPHAS 15:57 BEING THE HIGH PRIESTS, THE WORD OF GOD CAME UNTO JOHN..." 16:00 LOOK AT ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT LEADERS. 16:02 YOU CAN TRIANGULATE ALL OF THOSE DIFFERENT POINTS - WELL, 16:06 TRIANGULATE WOULD BE ONLY THREE - HE GIVES ABOUT FIVE DIFFERENT 16:08 LEADERS. THERE'S ONLY ONE DATE IN HISTORY WHEN WE KNOW THAT 16:11 THEY ALL CORRESPONDED: 27 A.D. IT IS SUCH A WELL-ESTABLISHED 16:17 DATE THIS IS THE YEAR THAT JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. 16:20 THAT IS EXACTLY THE RIGHT TIME PERIOD AFTER 457 B.C. 16:26 MARK 1:15 - WHEN JESUS BEGAN PREACHING YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAID? 16:31 "THE TIME IS FULFILLED" - RIGHT AFTER HIS BAPTISM JESUS SAID, 16:34 "THE TIME IS FULFILLED" - WHAT TIME IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 16:37 HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE TIME FROM DANIEL'S PROPHECY. 16:40 HE WAS ANOINTED. HE BEGAN TO PREACH. 16:43 THIS IS WHAT THEY WERE ALL WAITING FOR. 16:45 EVERY JEW READ THE PROPHECY OF DANIEL 9, WONDERING WHEN THE 16:47 MESSIAH WOULD COME. WHICH ALSO MEANS, IF THEY HAD 16:51 BEEN STUDYING THEIR BIBLES BACK THEN THE WAY THEY SHOULD HAVE, 16:54 THEY COULD HAVE KNOWN THE TIME OF HIS BIRTH BECAUSE A HIGH 16:57 PRIEST COULD NOT REIGN UNTIL HE WAS THIRTY YEARS OF AGE. 17:02 A PRIEST COULDN'T SERVE UNTIL HE WAS THIRTY. 17:04 JOSEPH BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. DAVID BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. 17:07 PRIESTS BEGAN TO RULE AT THIRTY. THEY COULD HAVE GUESSED THE 17:10 MESSIAH WOULD BEGIN HIS MINISTRY AT HIS THIRTIETH BIRTHDAY AND 17:13 THAT'S WHEN JESUS WAS BAPTIZED. DID YOU KNOW THAT? 17:15 IT SAYS, 'AS JESUS BEGAN TO BE THIRTY YEARS OF AGE' - ALSO IN 17:19 LUKE. ALL THEY HAD TO DO WAS COUNT 17:21 BACK THIRTY YEARS FROM THE ANOINTING POINT AND THEY COULD 17:23 HAVE GUESSED WHEN HE WOULD HAVE BEEN BORN. 17:24 SO WE'VE GOT A COUPLE OF CHARTS HERE THAT WE'RE GOING TO PUT UP 17:28 JUST TO REVIEW WHAT WE'RE LOOKING AT. 17:30 FIRST WE KNOW, FROM 457 YOU'VE GOT SIXTY-NINE WEEKS. 17:35 THAT WOULD GO 483 YEARS TO THE POINT OF HIS BAPTISM, THAT WOULD 17:40 BE 27 A.D. WHAT WAS TO TAKE PLACE NEXT IN 17:43 THIS PROPHECY? AND YOU CAN READ THE ANSWER TO 17:46 THAT IS DANIEL CHAPTER 9, VERSES 26 AND 27. 17:51 IT SAYS, "AND AFTER THREESCORE AND TWO WEEKS SHALL MESSIAH BE" 17:55 - WHAT? >>CUT OFF. 17:57 >>"CUT OFF, BUT NOT FOR HIMSELF." 18:00 AFTER THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD BE CUT OFF. 18:03 YOU KNOW, THIS WAS SOMETHING THAT A LOT OF THE RELIGIOUS 18:06 LEADERS DIDN'T UNDERSTAND AND THEY STRUGGLED WITH BECAUSE THEY 18:09 WANTED THE MESSIAH TO COME AND FLEX HIS MUSCLES AND BE A 18:14 COMBINATION OF KING DAVID AND SAMSON AND OVERTHROW THE 18:17 ROMANS AND MAKE THEM A WORLD EMPIRE. 18:19 HAVING A MESSIAH COME THAT WOULD DIE AS A LAMB DIDN'T FIT IN VERY 18:23 WELL WITH WHAT THEIR HOPES AND DREAMS WERE. 18:25 THEN IT GOES ON AND IT SAYS, "AND HE SHALL CONFIRM THE 18:29 COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK: AND IN THE MIDST OF THAT WEEK HE 18:34 SHALL CAUSE THE SACRIFICE AND THE OBLATION TO CEASE." 18:38 THE MESSIAH IS ANOINTED BUT JESUS DOESN'T PREACH SEVEN 18:41 YEARS, HE ONLY PREACHES HALF OF THAT. 18:43 HE PREACHES THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON AND THEN HE IS 18:46 CUT OFF IN THE MIDDLE OF THAT LAST WEEK THAT REACHES TO 34 18:51 A.D. CHRIST DIES IN 31 A.D. HE SAYS, 'I WILL PREACH. 18:56 I'M GOING TO TRAIN MY TWELVE APOSTLES. 18:59 I WILL PREACH' AND HE SAYS - WHEN HE LEAVES AND GOES TO 19:02 HEAVEN HE TELLS THE APOSTLES, 'AS THE FATHER SENT ME, SO SEND 19:05 I YOU.' BUT, CATCH THIS, JESUS DID NOT SAY 'GO TO THE WORLD 19:10 FIRST.' MATTER OF FACT, HE SAID, 'DON'T GO ANYWHERE. 19:13 WAIT IN JERUSALEM UNTIL YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT. 19:16 AND WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE HOLY SPIRIT YOU'LL BE MY WITNESSES. 19:19 FIRST JERUSALEM, THEN JUDEA' - I'M IN ACTS CHAPTER 1 - 'THEN 19:25 SAMARIA AND THE UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' WHEN CHRIST SENT 19:28 THEM OUT PREACHING AFTER HE ROSE, HE SAID, 'GO NOT IN THE 19:31 WAY OF THE GENTILES, BUT GO RATHER TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE 19:36 HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' HE WANTED TO FINISH CONFIRMING 19:39 THE COVENANT TO HIS OWN PEOPLE FIRST. 19:42 AND SO THE LORD SPECIFICALLY KEPT HIS PROMISE TO ABRAHAM. 19:46 HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO CONFIRM THE COVENANT TO YOUR PEOPLE FOR 19:48 A FULL SEVEN YEARS.' THREE AND A HALF YEARS THROUGH THE MESSIAH, 19:52 HE WILL BE CUT OFF. IN ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF 19:55 YEARS THROUGH THOSE WHO HEARD HIM - THE APOSTLES. 19:58 YOU LOOK AT THE BOTTOM PART OF THIS CHART HERE, YOU'VE GOT THE 20:00 FIRST SIXTY-NINE WEEKS CHRIST IS BAPTIZED. 20:03 THREE AND A HALF YEARS HE PREACHES IN PERSON. 20:07 THREE AND A HALF YEARS HE PREACHES THROUGH THE APOSTLES. 20:10 AT THE END OF THAT, IN 34 A.D., SOMETHING HAPPENS. 20:14 ALRIGHT, GO TO YOUR BIBLES REAL QUICK. 20:16 TURN TO ACTS CHAPTER 7. IN ACTS CHAPTER 7 STEPHEN IS THE 20:23 FIRST MARTYR OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH. 20:26 AFTER HE WAS FALSELY TRIED BY THE SAME PEOPLE WHO TRIED JESUS, 20:31 HE TOLD THEM THE WONDERFUL GOSPEL THAT PETER HAD PREACHED 20:36 AT PENTECOST THREE AND A HALF YEARS EARLIER, BUT INSTEAD OF 20:41 REPENTING AND SAYING, 'WHAT MUST WE DO TO BE SAVED?' 20:43 THE SUPREME COURT, THE LEADERS, THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE 20:46 NATION PLUGGED THEIR EARS. THEY GNASHED THEIR TEETH. 20:50 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO HEAR IT. THEY CRIED OUT - VERSE 57 - ACTS 20:54 7:57 - "THEN THEY CRIED OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE, AND STOPPED THEIR 20:58 EARS, AND RAN UPON HIM WITH ONE ACCORD, AND CAST HIM OUT OF THE 21:00 CITY, AND STONED HIM: AND THE WITNESSES LAID DOWN THEIR 21:04 CLOTHES AT A YOUNG MAN'S FEET, WHOSE NAME WAS SAUL." 21:08 WHOSE NAME WAS LATER CHANGED TO: >>PAUL. 21:10 >>WOW, ISN'T THIS A PIVOTAL POINT IN HISTORY? 34 A.D. 21:14 THE NATION OFFICIALLY PLUGS THEIR EARS - SAYS WE DON'T WANT 21:18 TO HEAR ABOUT JESUS ANYMORE. THEY KILL HIS REPRESENTATIVE THE 21:21 SAME WAY THEY KILLED JESUS - FALSELY TRIED, TAKEN OUT OF THE 21:24 CITY BY A MOB, EXECUTED, CLOTHES ARE LAID DOWN - THE CLOTHES OF 21:30 CHRIST WERE TAKEN AWAY. AND IT SAYS, IF YOU READ CHAPTER 21:33 8, VERSE 1, "AND SAUL WAS CONSENTING UNTO HIS DEATH. 21:38 AND AT THAT TIME THERE WAS A GREAT PERSECUTION AGAINST THE 21:41 CHURCH WHICH WAS AT JERUSALEM; AND THEY WERE ALL SCATTERED 21:45 ABROAD THROUGHOUT THE REGIONS OF JUDEA AND SAMARIA, EXCEPT THE 21:47 APOSTLES." THEY WENT EVERYWHERE PREACHING. 21:49 THERE'S A GREAT PERSECUTION AND THAT JUST TOTALLY SEALS WHAT 21:54 HAPPENED HERE IN THAT TIME PERIOD. 21:57 ACCORDING TO THE ANGEL WHO SPOKE WITH DANIEL, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN 22:00 AT THE END OF THE 2,300-YEAR PERIOD OF TIME? 22:04 ANSWER: IT SAYS IN DANIEL 8:14, "AND HE SAID UNTO ME, 'UNTO TWO 22:09 THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE 22:14 CLEANSED." NOW GO - GO BACK TO YOUR BIBLES FOR A SECOND. 22:17 IF YOU LOOK IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND IF WE READ DOWN HERE - VERSE 22:23 12 - "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, AN ARMY WAS GIVEN OVER TO THE 22:28 HORN TO OPPOSE THE DAILY SACRIFICES; AND HE CAST TRUTH 22:31 DOWN TO THE GROUND. HE DID ALL THIS AND PROSPERED." 22:37 SO WHAT'S HAPPENING IS THE TRUTH OF GOD AND THE TRUTH OF THE 22:42 BIBLE AND THE TRUTH OF JESUS, DURING THIS TIME, 22:44 BECOMES COMPROMISED AND YET IT PROSPERS. 22:48 WELL, I'M GOING TO GIVE YOU A LITTLE QUICK HISTORY. 22:50 I WON'T DIVERGE ON THIS, BUT I THINK MOST OF US KNOW THAT 22:56 DURING THIS PERIOD OF TIME YOU KNOW, ABOUT THREE OR FOUR 22:59 HUNDRED YEARS AFTER CHRIST, ORIGINALLY CHRISTIANS WERE 23:03 PERSECUTED IN ROME. THEY FED THEM TO THE LIONS, RIGHT? 23:06 WHAT WAS ONCE CONSIDERED RELIGIO-ILLICITA - FORBIDDEN 23:10 RELIGION - WAS PERSECUTED, OUTLAWED - THEY WERE KILLED. 23:13 THEY BUILT CATACOMBS. 23:14 THEY WENT UNDERGROUND - IT SUDDENLY BECAME THE STATE 23:16 RELIGION AND IT ALMOST OVERNIGHT BECAME FASHIONABLE, WITH THE 23:20 CONVERSION OF CONSTANTINE, TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. 23:23 BUT WHAT HAPPENED IS A LOT OF PEOPLE STARTED COMING INTO THE 23:26 CHURCH FROM THE DIFFERENT GRECO-ROMAN RELIGIONS THAT 23:29 WEREN'T TOTALLY CONVERTED - DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THE TEACHINGS 23:32 OF JESUS - AND THEY TRIED TO BRING SOME OF THEIR PAGAN IDEAS 23:34 WITH THEM. WE STUDIED THE OTHER NIGHT ABOUT 23:38 THE TRUTH ABOUT HELL - THAT PEOPLE DO NOT GO RIGHT AT DEATH 23:43 TO - BEFORE JUDGMENT OR RESURRECTION - A PLACE OF 23:45 BURNING WHERE THEY BURN THROUGH ALL ETERNITY. 23:48 DID WE - WE LEARNED THERE IS A LAKE OF FIRE, THERE IS A 23:50 PUNISHMENT, BUT THERE'S MISUNDERSTANDING THAT CAME IN 23:52 FROM GREEK MYTHOLOGY, RIGHT? CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND IN 23:56 PRACTICE. THE IDEA OF PURGATORY, THIS 23:58 HALFWAY BURNING PLACE, WE FOUND OUT THAT THAT'S BEEN NOW 24:01 RENOUNCED. IT'S NOT BIBLICAL. 24:03 THERE'S NOTHING IN THE BIBLE ABOUT THAT. 24:05 THE IDEA THAT THE DEAD GO IMMEDIATELY TO HEAVEN AS SOON AS 24:08 THEY DIE AND THEN THEY COME BACK FOR THEIR BODIES OR THEY'RE IN 24:11 ABRAHAM'S BOSOM WAITING. WE FOUND OUT THAT'S NOT IN THE 24:14 BIBLE AND A LOT OF OTHER THINGS - THE TRUTH WAS CAST TO THE 24:18 GROUND. THE IDEA THAT YOU DON'T NEED TO 24:21 KEEP THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ANYMORE BECAUSE ONCE YOU BELIEVE 24:24 IN JESUS YOU CAN SOMEHOW NOW IGNORE HIS LAW, THAT'S ANOTHER 24:27 ONE OF THE TRUTHS THAT WAS CAST TO THE GROUND. 24:30 ALL KINDS OF THINGS BEGAN TO GET CORRUPTED DURING THIS TIME. 24:33 SO, WHEN WOULD THERE BE A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY? 24:38 ALRIGHT, SO NOW, STARTING AT 457, YOU GO 2,300 AND YOU KNOW 24:44 WHEN THAT COMES? TWO THOUSAND - THAT'S THE 24:47 LONGEST TIME PERIOD IN THE BIBLE. 24:49 THAT REACHES TO 1844. I'LL PUT A CHART UP HERE. 24:53 THE MOVEMENT THAT IS BRINGING YOU THIS SERIES OF STUDIES, 24:58 REALLY FOUND ITS BEGINNING BACK THEN BECAUSE IN 1844 CHRISTIANS 25:03 ALL OVER THE WORLD THOUGHT THAT JESUS WAS COMING. 25:06 THEY CALLED IT THE GREAT ADVENT MOVEMENT . 25:08 IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BECAUSE 25:10 THERE WERE NO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS BACK THEN. 25:12 THE WORD ADVENT MEANS 'COMING'. THEY THOUGHT JESUS WAS COMING. 25:16 HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD THIS BEFORE? THEY CALLED IT THE 25:18 MILLERITE MOVEMENT. THEY WERE BAPTISTS AND 25:20 METHODISTS AND PRESBYTERIANS AND CONGREGATIONALISTS AND WHEN 25:22 JESUS DIDN'T COME THEY SAID, 'LOOK, IT'S NOT GOD'S WILL WE 25:27 HAVE ALL THESE DIFFERENT DENOMINATIONS. 25:29 WE'VE GOT TO PUT ASIDE OUR DIFFERENCES AND STUDY THE BIBLE 25:32 TOGETHER AND FIND OUT 'WHERE HAVE WE DRIFTED?' 25:35 AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE LORD BEGAN A MOVEMENT THAT BROUGHT 25:38 THEM ALL BACK TO THE WORD OF GOD AND THAT TRANSLATED INTO A 25:43 MOVEMENT THAT IS NOW 17 MILLION STRONG AND GOING AROUND THE 25:46 WORLD AND THEY'RE HELPING SPONSOR THESE MEETINGS THAT 25:49 YOU'RE RECEIVING RIGHT NOW. PEOPLE WHO ARE SAYING THAT 25:52 CHRISTIANS, IN THE LAST DAYS, NEED TO RETURN TO THE BIBLE. 25:54 REVELATION TELLS US THERE ARE SEVEN CHURCHES. 25:57 THE LAST AGE OF THE CHURCH IS CALLED WHAT? 26:00 >>LAODICEA. >>LAODICEA. 26:02 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? A JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 26:04 AND WE ENTERED THE LAST PHASE OF THE HISTORY OF THE CHURCH IN 26:10 1844. (MUSIC) 26:15 >>YOU KNOW, WE ALL BELIEVE THAT WE'RE SAVED UNDER THE PROMISE OF 26:18 THE NEW COVENANT. 26:19 BUT DID YOU KNOW THAT GOD ONLY MAKES THAT COVENANT WITH THE 26:22 HOUSE OF ISRAEL? SO WHAT DOES THAT MEAN - ONLY 26:25 JEWS CAN BE SAVED? OR IS THERE A WAY THAT EVERY 26:28 PERSON CAN BECOME A SPIRITUAL JEW AND ENJOY THE PROMISES THAT 26:32 GOD MADE TO ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND JACOB. 26:34 WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THAT SUBJECT AND WHERE ISRAEL 26:37 FITS IN FINAL DAY PROPHECY? WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER FOR YOU 26:41 AND IT'S CALLED SPIRITUAL ISRAEL. 26:43 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL STUDY ANSWERING THESE QUESTIONS AND WE'LL SEND 26:46 IT TO YOU FOR FREE. TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO 26:49 AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE PHONE NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND 26:53 ASK FOR OFFER #174. 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I FELT - 27:44 >>I BEGAN READING THE BIBLE AND - 27:46 >>I GOT BAPTIZED INTO A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - 27:48 >>I REALIZED THAT THERE HAD TO BE MORE TO LIFE. 27:50 >>GOD IS REALLY DOING THIS. >>THE LIFE THAT HE'S GIVEN ME. 27:53 >>THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL. >>I'LL FOLLOW CHRIST WHEREVER HE 27:55 GOES. >>AMAZING FACTS. MORE THAN 45 28:00 YEARS OF PROCLAIMING GOD'S MESSAGE AROUND THE WORLD. 28:03 >>AND THEN THE LOGO POPS ACROSS AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS . 28:07 I'VE LISTENED TO A LOT OF DIFFERENT MINISTERS, BUT THIS 28:10 WAS THE FIRST TIME THAT HE'S ACTUALLY SAYING SOMETHING WHERE 28:13 I HAD TO GRAB MY BIBLE AND ACTUALLY PICK IT UP AND I'VE 28:17 NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. LET ME - LET ME LOOK 28:19 THROUGH AND FIND THIS. THEN I JUST COULDN'T GET 28:20 ENOUGH. >>AND SO I STARTED DOING 28:22 BIBLE STUDIES. EVERY SINGLE ONE OF THESE GUYS 28:25 STARTED BEING CHANGED, INCLUDING MYSELF. 28:28 >>MY QUESTION WAS, 'WHY DID THAT HAPPEN TO ME, GOD?' 28:32 THE LORD WAS ABLE TO REACH OUT AND - AND I ACTUALLY SAW HIM AS 28:35 A FATHER. >>I LOST EVERYTHING AND THAT WAS 28:38 WHEN I REALIZED THAT IT WAS GOD MISSING IN MY LIFE. 28:42 >>I WENT TO A PROPHECY SEMINAR, WHICH KNOCKED ME OUT. 28:45 THIS MESSAGE WAS SO POWERFUL AND SO IRREFUTABLE, I JUST WENT, 28:49 'THIS IS REAL. THIS IS - THIS IS AMAZING.' 28:55 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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