Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
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Program Code: AFP000161A
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01:00 >>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. (MUSIC) 01:11 >>NOBODY IN THE BIBLE WHO IS RESURRECTED EVER MAKES A SINGLE 01:15 COMMENT ABOUT KNOWING OR EXPERIENCING ANYTHING WHILE 01:18 DEAD. SO THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE DIE AND 01:20 GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND GET IMMORTALITY BEFORE THE 01:22 RESURRECTION IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 01:26 >>FOR OVER 40 YEARS AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN DEDICATED TO 01:30 SHARING GOD'S WORD THROUGH MEDIA. 01:32 THIS PROGRAM FEATURES HIGHLIGHTS FROM SOME OF OUR BEST TELEVISION 01:36 BROADCASTS. WE INVITE YOU TO SIT BACK AND 01:39 ENJOY THIS EDITION OF AMAZING FACTS PRESENTS. 01:47 >>HOW MANY OF YOU WILL ADMIT THAT YOU'VE WALKED THROUGH A 01:49 GRAVEYARD BEFORE AND READ SOME OF THE TOMBSTONES? 01:54 MIGHT NOT HAVE EVEN BEEN A FUNERAL. 01:57 AND YOU CAN LEARN A LOT BY DOING THAT. 01:59 YOU KNOW EVEN SOLOMON SAID, 'BETTER TO GO TO THE HOUSE OF 02:03 MOURNING THAN THE HOUSE OF FEASTING, FOR THE LIVING WILL 02:05 TAKE IT TO HEART FOR THAT IS THE END OF ALL MAN.' ECCLESIASTES 7. 02:09 IN OTHER WORDS, WE ALL KNOW THAT OUR LIVES EVENTUALLY WILL BE 02:12 SUMMED UP BY A DASH BETWEEN TWO DATES AND IT'S IMPORTANT FOR US 02:16 TO REALIZE WHAT DO WE DO WITH OUR LIVES? 02:19 AND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THEY END? IS THAT IT? 02:22 IT'S SOMETHING THAT WE OUGHT TO UNDERSTAND AND THE BIBLE 02:26 ACTUALLY ADDRESSES IT. 02:28 AND SO, IN OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO BE 02:30 TALKING ABOUT BEWITCHING SPIRITS. 02:32 YOU'LL BE SURPRISED THAT PROPHECY DOES ADDRESS THIS 02:36 SUBJECT AND WE NEED TO BE AWARE OF WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. 02:40 AND IT TELLS A STORY ABOUT KING SAUL. 02:45 THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT THERE WAS A WAR BETWEEN THE 02:48 PHILISTINES AND THE ISRAELITES AND, IN DESPERATION BECAUSE THEY 02:54 WERE GREATLY OUTNUMBERED, KING SAUL TRIED TO GET THE PROPHETS 02:57 TO TALK TO HIM. THERE WAS NO GUIDANCE FROM GOD. 03:00 GOD WAS SILENT BECAUSE SAUL HAD CONTINUED TO REJECT GOD. 03:03 HE'D KILLED THE PRIESTS OF GOD. HE WAS TRYING TO KILL KING 03:06 DAVID, THE ANOINTED OF GOD, AND NOW IN A BATTLE HE THOUGHT, AT 03:10 THE LAST MINUTE, HE COULD PRAY. GOD WOULDN'T SPEAK TO HIM. 03:13 SO IN DESPERATION, SAUL SAID TO HIS ATTENDANTS, 03:17 'I NEED SOME ADVICE. 03:19 FIND ONE OF THE LOCAL WITCHES.' AND THEY SAID, 'WELL, KING, 03:24 THAT'S ILLEGAL ACCORDING TO THE WORD OF GOD, BUT WE DO HAPPEN TO 03:27 KNOW THERE'S A WITCH HERE IN ENDOR.' HE SAID, 'I NEED TO TALK 03:30 TO HER. I NEED SOME MESSAGE. MAYBE IF SHE COULD CONJURE UP 03:34 THE SPIRIT OF SAMUEL THE PROPHET AND TELL ME WHAT I'M SUPPOSED TO 03:37 DO.' SO HE DID THAT AND HE WENT TO THE WITCH AND SHE WENT 03:41 THROUGH HER INCANTATIONS AND THREW SOME GUNPOWDER ON THE FIRE 03:45 AND SMOKE CAME UP AND SHE CRIED OUT. 03:48 AND HE SAID, 'WHAT DO YOU SEE?' 'OH, I SEE AN OLD MAN.' AND ALL 03:54 OF A SUDDEN SHE GAVE THIS VERY DISCOURAGING MESSAGE THAT 03:57 OSTENSIBLY WAS FROM SAMUEL THE PROPHET, THAT SHE CLAIMED TO 04:01 HAVE POWER TO CALL UP FROM THE DEAD AND HE, THE PROPHET, 04:07 ACTUALLY THIS APPARITION OR THIS SPIRIT, GAVE SOME TRUTH AND HE 04:13 MIXED IT WITH SOME ERROR BUT GAVE AN UTTERLY DISCOURAGING 04:17 MESSAGE TO KING SAUL AND BASICALLY SAID, 'WHY DID YOU 04:19 CALL ME UP? TOMORROW YOU'RE GOING TO BE WITH 04:22 ME BECAUSE YOU'VE REJECTED GOD. AND YOU AND YOUR SONS ARE GOING 04:25 TO DIE IN THE BATTLE TOMORROW.' AND SAUL FAINTED FROM 04:29 DISCOURAGEMENT. SURE ENOUGH, THE NEXT DAY, WHEN 04:35 HE WENT INTO BATTLE, THEY LOST THE BATTLE. 04:38 THEY WERE SOUNDLY DEFEATED AND - YOU EVER HEARD THE EXPRESSION 04:41 THAT A PERSON FALLS ON THEIR SWORD? 04:45 THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO KING SAUL. 04:48 NOW HERE'S A QUESTION: WAS IT GOD WHO GAVE HIM THAT MESSAGE? 04:52 WAS THAT COMING FROM SAMUEL THE PROPHET? 04:55 DOES A WITCH OF THE DEVIL HAVE THE POWER TO RESURRECT A PROPHET 04:59 OF GOD? WE NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE 05:02 SAYS ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF DEATH. QUESTION #1: WAS THIS FORM THAT 05:08 SAUL SAW, ACTUALLY SAMUEL THE PROPHET? 05:12 ARE ALL MESSAGES FROM THE SPIRIT WORLD TRUE OR DOES THE DEVIL 05:16 HAVE FALLEN ANGELS THAT CAN MASQUERADE AS THE DEAD IF HE 05:18 WANTS? I TOLD YOU IT'S ALSO A PROPHECY STUDY. 05:22 REVELATION 16:14, "FOR THEY ARE THE SPIRITS OF DEVILS" - DOING 05:28 WHAT? - "WORKING MIRACLES." 05:30 ALRIGHT, IF WE STOP RIGHT THERE YOU'VE GOT THE WHOLE POINT. 05:33 THE DEVIL HAS FALLEN ANGELS THAT CAN WORK MIRACLES AND IT SAYS 05:39 THE BEAST POWER WILL GO SO FAR IN THE LAST DAYS AS TO EVEN 05:42 BRING FIRE DOWN FROM HEAVEN TO DECEIVE PEOPLE. 05:45 SO WE NEED TO KNOW, ARE THESE DEAD PEOPLE OR ARE THEY FALLEN 05:51 ANGELS THAT ARE SUPPOSEDLY APPEARING TO EVERYBODY IN THE 05:54 LAST DAYS? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE SAY ABOUT DEATH? 05:58 QUESTION #2: DO DEAD PEOPLE COME BACK TO CONVERSE WITH OR TO 06:03 HAUNT THE LIVING? ALRIGHT, WE'VE GOT A NUMBER OF 06:06 SCRIPTURES FOR YOU. JOB 14:21, SPEAKING OF A PERSON 06:09 THAT DIES, JOB SAYS, "HIS SONS COME TO HONOR AND HE KNOWETH IT 06:15 NOT; THEY ARE BROUGHT LOW, BUT HE PERCEIVETH IT NOT OF THEM." 06:20 ECCLESIASTES 9, VERSES 5, 6, AND VERSE 10, THIS IS WRITTEN BY 06:24 SOLOMON, "...THE DEAD KNOW NOT ANY THING, NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY 06:30 MORE A REWARD; FOR THE MEMORY OF THEM IS FORGOTTEN. 06:34 ALSO THEIR LOVE, AND THEIR HATRED, AND THEIR ENVY, IS NOW 06:39 PERISHED;" - AND IT GOES ON TO SAY, "NEITHER HAVE THEY ANY MORE 06:44 A PORTION FOR EVER IN ANY THING THAT IS DONE UNDER THE SUN." 06:48 MEANING IN THIS LIFE. THE DEAD ARE NOT COMING BACK AND 06:51 FORTH FROM HEAVEN TO EARTH. IT SAYS, 'THERE IS NO WORK, NOR 06:56 DEVICE, NOR KNOWLEDGE, NOR WISDOM, IN THE GRAVE," - WHERE 07:02 YOU'RE GOING. THERE'S NO KNOWLEDGE, NO WISDOM 07:04 - NOTHING'S HAPPENING IN THE GRAVE. SEE DEATH, THE BIBLE 07:07 SAYS, IS A DREAMLESS SLEEP WITH NO CONSCIOUSNESS OF TIME. 07:10 NOW THE REASON THIS IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE SOME PEOPLE, THEY 07:14 WON'T BELIEVE THE BIBLE, BUT IF A SPIRIT OF THE DEAD COMES AND 07:18 TALKS TO THEM, OHHHH, THAT'D BE VERY IMPORTANT. 07:21 ACCORDING TO THE BOOK OF REVELATION, WHO HAS THE KEYS OF 07:25 DEATH AND THE GRAVE? WHO'S THE ONE WHO CAN ANSWER 07:28 THESE QUESTIONS THAT WE'RE WONDERING ABOUT? 07:31 REVELATION 1:18, IT SAYS, SPEAKING OF JESUS, "I AM HE THAT 07:36 LIVETH, AND WAS DEAD; AND, BEHOLD, I AM ALIVE FOR 07:41 EVERMORE...AND HAVE THE KEYS OF HELL" - NOW THAT WORD 'HELL' 07:43 THERE MEANS THE GRAVE AND DEATH. AND SO, JESUS IS THE ONE WHO CAN 07:49 ANSWER THESE QUESTIONS ABOUT DEATH FOR US. THERE'S A LOT, 07:52 NOT ONLY IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, THERE'S A LOT IN THE NEW 07:54 TESTAMENT THAT WILL MAKE THIS SUBJECT, I THINK, VERY CLEAR. 07:57 ALRIGHT, QUESTION #4: TO UNDERSTAND WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU 08:00 DIE, IT'S PROBABLY A GOOD IDEA TO UNDERSTAND HOW DID GOD MAKE 08:04 MAN IN THE BEGINNING? YOU GO TO GENESIS CHAPTER 2 AND 08:08 IT GIVES YOU THE ANSWER. 'AND THE LORD, GOD,' - WHAT? 08:11 - 'HE FORMED MAN FROM THE DUST OF THE GROUND AND HE BREATHED IN 08:16 HIM THE BREATH OF LIFE AND MAN' - DID WHAT? 08:18 - 'HE BECAME A LIVING SOUL.' AND THERE'S SOMETHING SPECIAL ABOUT 08:22 THE BREATH OF GOD'S LIFE BECAUSE IT TOOK WHAT WAS NOTHING MORE 08:25 THAN CLAY AND REVIVED IT AND GAVE IT VITALITY. 08:32 YOU'VE PROBABLY BEEN TO A FUNERAL BEFORE AND MOST OF YOU, 08:34 AT SOME TIME, HAVE DONE A VIEWING - YOU'VE SEEN A DEAD 08:37 BODY IN THE CASKET. I KNOW IT'S NOT PLEASANT - AND 08:40 YOU KNOW THAT THERE'S SOMETHING VERY IMPORTANT MISSING. 08:43 THEY MAY BE ALL INTACT THERE, BUT THERE'S NO LIFE. 08:47 THERE'S NO CONSCIOUSNESS. THEY'RE DEAD. 08:49 THEY DON'T HAVE THAT BREATH OF LIFE. 08:51 YOU NOTICE IT DOESN'T SAY GOD GAVE MAN A SOUL? 08:54 WHEN YOU COMBINE THE SPIRIT OF LIFE WITH THE ELEMENTS OF EARTH, 08:58 HE BECAME A SOUL. THE TWO TOGETHER CREATE A SOUL. 09:02 A SOUL - IT DOESN'T SAY GOD PUT A LITTLE SOUL IN MAN; HE PUT THE 09:05 BREATH OF LIFE IN MAN. WHEN YOU HAVE THE ELEMENTS OF 09:09 EARTH THAT ARE IN THE HUMAN BODY AND YOU HAVE THE BREATH OF LIFE, 09:13 YOU PUT THEM TOGETHER - HE BECAME A SOUL. 09:15 WHEN YOU DIE WHAT HAPPENS? IT'S SORT OF LIKE CREATION IN 09:19 REVERSE - AND THAT'S QUESTION #5: AT DEATH, WHAT IS IT THAT 09:23 HAPPENS THEN? ECCLESIASTES 12, VERSE 7, "THEN 09:28 SHALL THE DUST RETURN TO THE EARTH AS IT WAS: AND" - IT GOES 09:32 ON TO SAY - "THE SPIRIT SHALL RETURN UNTO GOD WHO GAVE IT." 09:35 'NOW THERE YOU HAVE IT, PASTOR DOUG, THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO 09:37 GOD.' WELL, THAT WORD 'SPIRIT' THERE IS THE WORD - IN HEBREW 09:41 IT'S RUACH - AND IT SIMPLY MEANS 'THE BREATH' RETURNS TO GOD. 09:46 IT DOESN'T MEAN THERE'S THIS LITTLE ETHEREAL GHOST THAT JUMPS 09:49 OUT OF A PERSON WHEN HE DIES AND FLIES OFF CONSCIOUSLY TO GOD. 09:53 IT'S SIMPLY SAYING THE POWER OF LIFE RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. 09:59 BECAUSE IN THE BIBLE IT ALSO SAYS THAT ANY CREATURE THAT 10:02 DIES, THE SPIRIT RETURNS TO GOD WHO GAVE IT. 10:05 IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF LIFE IN ALL OF GOD'S CREATURES. 10:08 YOU KNOW, EVERYTHING BREATHES. WORMS BREATHE. 10:11 FISH BREATHE. PLANTS BREATHE. 10:13 IT'S THIS BREATH OF LIFE THAT GOD GIVES HIS CREATURES. 10:17 LET ME GIVE YOU SOME MORE PROOF FOR THAT. 10:19 YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN JOB 27, VERSE 3, "ALL THE WHILE MY 10:24 BREATH IS IN ME, AND THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS IN MY NOSTRILS"? 10:30 WHAT'S JOB TALKING ABOUT THE SPIRIT HERE? 10:32 IT'S THE SAME WORD. IT'S BREATH. 10:34 ALL THE WHILE THE BREATH IS IN ME AND THE WIND OF GOD - IS WHAT 10:36 HE'S SAYING - IS IN MY NOSTRILS. THAT'S ALL THAT MEANS. 10:40 'NOW, WHAT ABOUT PEOPLE, PASTOR DOUG, THEY DIE ON AN OPERATING 10:45 TABLE? MAYBE THEY, DURING HEART SURGERY - THERE'S A CAR 10:48 ACCIDENT OR SOMETHING - AND THEY SAID, 'I CAME BACK AND I WAS 10:53 BEING CAUGHT UP AND I HOVERED AROUND. I COULD HEAR THE DOCTORS 10:55 TALKING AND' - OR 'I HAD THIS EXPERIENCE 10:58 WHERE ANGELS SPOKE TO ME AND GOD SPOKE TO ME' OR 'I WENT TO 11:01 HEAVEN AND I GOT A GLIMPSE OF HEAVEN.'' OR SOME HAVE DIED AND 11:04 THEY'VE HAD THESE "O.B.E.S" - THEY'RE CALLED 'OUT OF BODY 11:07 EXPERIENCES' - AND THEY SAY, 'I WAS DOWN IN THE GRAVE AND I WAS 11:12 IN HELL AND I HEARD PEOPLE SHRIEKING AND I SAW MY OLD BOSS 11:15 THERE' - AND THEY HAVE ALL THESE EXPERIENCES AND THEY WRITE BOOKS 11:19 AND THEY SELL LIKE CRAZY. AND THERE ARE PEOPLE WHO ARE 11:23 BASING THEIR THEOLOGY ABOUT DEATH ON THESE VISIONS THAT 11:27 PEOPLE HAVE WHEN THEY'RE IN THE OPERATING ROOM AND THEY 'DIE'. 11:32 IS THAT SAFE? YOU KNOW WHAT'S INTERESTING? 11:35 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT COUNTRY YOU GO TO. 11:38 IF YOU GO TO INDIA WHERE YOU HAVE PRINCIPALLY HINDU PEOPLE, 11:41 THEY HAVE NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES WHEN THEY DIE - OR ALMOST DIE. 11:45 YOU KNOW, THEY DON'T USUALLY DIE, THEIR HEART STOPS BEATING, 11:47 THE OXYGEN IS ROBBED FROM THEIR BRAIN, AND THEY HALLUCINATE. 11:52 APRIL 7, 2010: NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES, SOMETIMES KNOWN AS 11:55 "N.D.E.S", ARE REPORTED BETWEEN 11 AND 23 PERCENT OF SURVIVORS 12:00 OF HEART ATTACKS, ACCORDING TO PREVIOUS RESEARCH. 12:04 RESEARCHES IN SLOVENIA, REPORTING ON THURSDAY IN A 12:07 PEER-REVIEW JOURNAL - THIS IS A MEDICAL EVALUATION THEY DID 12:10 CALLED CRITICAL CARE - INVESTIGATED 52 CONSECUTIVE 12:13 CASES OF HEART ATTACK IN THREE LARGE HOSPITALS. 12:16 THE PATIENTS' AVERAGE AGE WAS 53. 42 OF THEM WERE MEN. 12:21 11 PATIENTS OUT OF THAT GROUP HAD NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCES BUT 12:25 THERE WAS NO COMMON LINK BETWEEN THESE, IN TERMS OF WHAT THEIR 12:28 AGE WAS, THEIR SEX, EDUCATION, RELIGIOUS BELIEFS, 12:30 FEAR OF DEATH. 12:32 WHAT THEY FOUND WAS - THE COMMON ASSOCIATION WAS HIGH LEVELS OF 12:36 CO2 IN THE BLOOD AND A LESSER DEGREE OF POTASSIUM. 12:41 WHEN YOUR BLOOD IS ROBBED OF OXYGEN, YOU WILL HALLUCINATE. 12:45 NOW, THE THING IS THAT, IN INDIA, WHEN THEY HAVE A 12:47 NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE, THEY DON'T GO TO HEAVEN. 12:50 THEY ARE REINCARNATED. WHEN YOU GO TO OTHER RELIGIONS 12:54 OF THE WORLD, THEY DON'T HAVE CHRISTIAN HALLUCINATIONS. 12:56 YOUR HALLUCINATIONS THAT YOU HAVE IN A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE 12:58 ARE GOING TO BE BASED UPON YOUR EXPERIENCE. 13:01 AND SO - 'OH, BUT PASTOR DOUG, IT WAS SO REAL.' I'M NOT DENYING 13:06 THAT GOD MAY HAVE SPOKEN TO YOU IN A DREAM. 13:10 GOD MIGHT SPEAK TO YOU IN A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE. 13:13 THE QUESTION IS: DO WE BUILD OUR THEOLOGY ABOUT WHAT TRUTH IS, 13:17 BASED ON A PERSON'S EXPERIENCE OR DREAM WHEN THEIR HEART STOPS 13:22 BEATING ON AN OPERATING TABLE? 13:25 >>PERHAPS YOU'VE HEARD IT SAID THAT IF YOU LIVE LONG ENOUGH, 13:28 YOU'LL DIE. BUT NO ONE REALLY WANTS TO TALK ABOUT DEATH. 13:32 DEATH IS THAT PROVERBIAL ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM. 13:36 SOME PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU DIE, WELL, YOU TAKE ON SOME 13:39 NEW ESSENCE OR YOU ENTER A NEW FORM - PERHAPS YOU'RE 13:41 REINCARNATED AS ANOTHER PERSON. OTHERS BELIEVE THAT WHEN YOU 13:45 DIE, YOU TURN INTO FERTILIZER AND YOU'RE DEAD. 13:48 WHAT'S THE TRUTH ABOUT THIS IMPORTANT SUBJECT THAT EVERYBODY 13:51 WILL FACE SOMEDAY? WHAT DOES THE BIBLE TEACH? 13:55 WOULD YOU LIKE TO KNOW? AMAZING FACTS HAS A FREE OFFER 13:58 THAT WILL GIVE YOU WHAT THE SCRIPTURES REALLY TEACH 14:00 ON THE SUBJECT OF DEATH. WE WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU TO SEND 14:02 FOR THIS BECAUSE WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 14:05 JUST SIMPLY GO TO OUR WEBSITE - AMAZINGFACTS.ORG - OR CALL THE 14:10 NUMBER ON THE SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #839. 14:14 I CAN PROMISE YOU, YOU'LL NEVER BE THE SAME AND YOU WILL BE 14:16 ENCOURAGED AND COMFORTED BY THIS STUDY. 14:19 AND THAT'S WHY WE DO WHAT WE DO HERE AT AMAZING FACTS, BECAUSE 14:22 GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 14:26 QUESTION #6: WHERE DO THE DEAD GO WHEN THEY DIE, ACCORDING TO 14:30 THE BIBLE? YOU READ IN JOB 21, VERSE 32, 14:34 "YET SHALL HE BE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE, AND SHALL REMAIN IN THE 14:41 TOMB." WHERE DO THEY GO? 14:44 THEY'RE BROUGHT TO THE GRAVE - WE KNEW THAT - AND THEY REMAIN. 14:47 'TIL WHEN? 'TIL THE RESURRECTION. 14:49 LISTEN TO WHAT JESUS SAID - JOHN 5:28 AND 29 - "...ALL THAT ARE 14:56 IN THE GRAVES SHALL HEAR HIS VOICE, AND SHALL COME FORTH." 15:00 NOW THAT, TO ME, IS WHAT THEY USED TO CALL A SLAM-DUNK 15:04 SCRIPTURE. THAT MEANS THAT'S REALLY HARD TO ARGUE WITH. 15:08 JESUS SAID WHEN HE COMES THERE'LL BE A TRUMP, THERE'LL BE 15:12 A SHOUT OF THE ARCHANGEL, THE VOICE OF THE LORD, AND ALL THAT 15:16 ARE - WHERE? - IN THEIR GRAVES, THEY HEAR - 15:18 FROM THEIR GRAVES - THEY HEAR AND THEY'LL COME FORTH. 15:22 SO WHERE ARE THEY WHEN HE COMES? ARE THEY FLOATING AROUND IN 15:25 HEAVEN OR ARE THEY IN PURGATORY? ARE THEY IN LIMBO? 15:28 ARE THEY IN ABRAHAM'S BOSOM? I'VE GOT ALL THESE IDEAS. 15:30 ARE THEY IN SOME TRANSCENDENTAL STATE WAITING TO BE 15:33 REINCARNATED? NO, JESUS SAID THEY'RE IN THEIR GRAVES. 15:37 THE BIBLE MAKES IT PLAIN THAT KING DAVID WILL BE SAVED. 15:40 WE ALL AGREE? THIS IS A GOOD KING DAVID, 15:42 KILLED GOLIATH, MAN AFTER GOD'S OWN HEART. 15:44 IS HE IN HEAVEN NOW? >>NO. 15:47 >>NO. THIS IS FROM THE NEW TESTAMENT. 15:50 PETER SAYS, ACTS CHAPTER 2 - KEEP IN MIND, THIS IS AFTER THE 15:53 RESURRECTION OF JESUS. DAVID'S STILL NOT IN HEAVEN YET. 15:56 'MEN AND BRETHREN, LET ME FREELY SPEAK UNTO YOU REGARDING THE 16:00 PATRIARCH DAVID, THAT HE IS BOTH DEAD AND BURIED AND HIS 16:07 SEPULCHER IS WITH US EVEN TO THIS DAY.' HIS TOMB - KEEP 16:12 READING, HE SAYS "FOR DAVID - VERSE 34 - 16:15 "FOR DAVID IS NOT ASCENDED INTO THE HEAVENS". 16:19 NOW SOMEBODY SAY 'AMEN' IF THAT'S CLEAR. 16:21 >>AMEN. >>DAVID'S GOING TO BE SAVED. 16:25 IS HE THERE YET? >>NO. 16:27 >>NOW IS ANYBODY IN HEAVEN NOW? >>YES. 16:30 >>YEAH, THERE ARE SOME. MARK CHAPTER 9, VERSES 1 THROUGH 16:34 8 - TWO INDIVIDUALS APPEAR TO JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF 16:39 TRANSFIGURATION. WHO WERE THEY? 16:41 (INAUDIBLE) MOSES AND ELIJAH. ARE THEY IN HEAVEN? 16:45 THE BIBLE TELLS US HOW THEY GOT THERE. THERE ARE EXCEPTIONS. 16:48 ELIJAH WENT TO HEAVEN IN A FIERY CHARIOT. IN 2 KINGS CHAPTER 2 16:52 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THAT. THEN YOU CAN READ, REGARDING 16:55 MOSES, IN THE BOOK OF JUDE, VERSE 9. 16:58 IT SAYS, "YET MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL, WHEN CONTENDING WITH 17:02 THE DEVIL HE DISPUTED ABOUT THE BODY OF MOSES." 17:05 MICHAEL CAME TO RESURRECT MOSES AND THE DEVIL SAID, 'YOU CAN'T 17:09 HAVE HIM.' AND MICHAEL SAID, 'THE LORD REBUKE THEE.' AND 17:12 MOSES RECEIVED A SPECIAL RESURRECTION. 17:15 IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE, BUT JEWISH TRADITION SAYS IT WAS 17:17 THREE DAYS LATER. THEN THERE WERE SOME OTHERS 17:20 AROUND THE TIME OF CHRIST'S CRUCIFIXION. 17:23 YOU CAN READ ABOUT THIS IN MATTHEW 27, VERSE 52. 17:26 WHEN JESUS DIED, IT SAYS THERE WAS A GREAT EARTHQUAKE AND THE 17:31 GRAVES WERE OPENED, AND MANY - NOT ALL - MANY BODIES OF THE 17:36 SAINTS WHO HAD FALLEN ASLEEP - THIS IS A LOCAL RESURRECTION 17:39 AROUND JERUSALEM - WERE RAISED AND COMING OUT OF THE GRAVES 17:42 AFTER HIS RESURRECTION. THEY WENT INTO THE HOLY CITY - 17:45 JERUSALEM - AND APPEARED TO MANY. 17:48 SO A NUMBER OF THE PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS AND SAINTS THAT HAD 17:52 LIVED AND WORKED AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE THAT WERE BURIED AROUND 17:54 THERE. AS A TROPHY - THE FIRST FRUITS - 17:57 THE LORD RAISED SOME OF THEM - MAYBE LIKE ISAIAH THE PROPHET - 18:00 I THINK HE WAS IN THAT GROUP - WHO HAD FORETOLD THE COMING OF 18:03 THE MESSIAH - WHO DIED AT THE HANDS OF KING MANASSEH. 18:07 HE WAS MARTYRED FOR HIS FAITH. I THINK THE LORD BROUGHT HIM 18:09 FORTH AND MAYBE MANY OTHERS - MAYBE JEREMIAH THE PROPHET - 18:12 AND HE TOOK THEM ON TO HEAVEN WITH HIM. SO SOME WERE THERE. 18:17 BUT THE GENERAL RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD HAS NOT HAPPENED YET. 18:21 THAT'S STILL IN THE FUTURE. QUESTION #8: BUT ISN'T IT TRUE 18:26 THAT THE SOUL IS IMMORTAL AND THAT ONLY THE BODY DIES? 18:31 CAN YOU SHOW ME A VERSE IN THE BIBLE THAT SAYS WE HAVE AN 18:34 IMMORTAL SOUL? HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD 18:40 PEOPLE TALK ABOUT OUR IMMORTAL SOULS? 18:44 IN SPITE OF THE FACT THERE IS NO VERSE, WE ALWAYS HEAR ABOUT 18:47 PEOPLE - THEY SING ABOUT IT, PREACH ABOUT IT - BUT YOU KNOW 18:50 WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS ABOUT IMMORTALITY? 18:53 YOU READ IN EZEKIEL 18, VERSE 4 - YOU KNOW WHAT IMMORTAL MEANS. 18:57 IT MEANS YOU CAN'T DIE. 'THE SOUL THAT SINS IT SHALL' - 19:03 WHAT? >>DIE. 19:04 >>IT'LL DIE. THIS IS LIKE A DICTIONARY DEFINITION. 19:08 WHAT IS THE PENALTY FOR SIN? >>DEATH. 19:10 >>YOU SEE, THIS IS THE FIRST LIE THAT THE DEVIL TOLD ADAM AND 19:14 EVE. GOD SAID, 'IF YOU DISOBEY YOU'LL DIE.' AND THE DEVIL SAID, 19:17 'DON'T LISTEN TO HIM. YOU DON'T REALLY DIE. 19:19 YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE?' SAD THING IS, THERE ARE EVEN 19:23 SOME CHRISTIAN PASTORS THAT ARE PREACHING WHAT THE DEVIL SAID IN 19:26 THE GARDEN. GOD SAID, 'YOU SIN, YOU DIE.' 19:30 1 TIMOTHY 6:15 - HERE'S ONE FROM 19:32 THE NEW TESTAMENT - AND THERE'S MANY MORE - "...THE KING OF 19:35 KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS; WHO ONLY HATH IMMORTALITY." 19:40 WE DON'T HAVE IMMORTALITY, IT'S A GIFT FOR THE RIGHTEOUS. 19:43 SO THE IDEA THAT PEOPLE DIE AND GO RIGHT TO HEAVEN AND GET 19:46 IMMORTALITY BEFORE THE RESURRECTION IS NOT WHAT THE 19:48 BIBLE TEACHES. 1 CORINTHIANS 15:51, "...WE 19:53 SHALL ALL BE CHANGED." WHEN DOES THIS HAPPEN? 19:57 "IN A MOMENT, IN THE TWINKLING OF AN EYE, AT THE LAST TRUMP: 20:02 FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND, AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED 20:06 INCORRUPTIBLE...AND THIS MORTAL MUST PUT ON IMMORTALITY." 20:11 THAT'S WHEN IT HAPPENS, WHEN THE LORD COMES. AMEN? 20:13 >>AMEN. >>THAT'S WHAT THE BIBLE TEACHES. 20:15 IF WE ARE GOING TO BE BIBLE CHRISTIANS, LET'S JUST MAKE SURE 20:17 WE'RE STRAIGHT ON THAT. QUESTION #10: HOW DOES THE BIBLE 20:20 REPEATEDLY REFER TO DEATH? JESUS, SPEAKING OF HIS FRIEND 20:25 LAZARUS, THAT DIED, HE SAID, 'OUR FRIEND LAZARUS' - WHAT? 20:30 >>SLEEPS. >>HE SLEEPS. 20:32 AND THEY SAID, 'OH GOOD, LORD, HE WAS SICK. 20:34 IF HE SLEEPS HE'LL START GETTING BETTER.' JESUS SAYS, 'NO, HE 20:37 SLEEEEPS' - HE SAID, 'LAZARUS IS DEAD.' THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID. 20:42 WHAT WORD DID JESUS USE TO DESCRIBE DEATH? 20:45 >>SLEEP. >>SLEEP. AND THEY SAID, 'OH 20:47 LORD, HE'LL GET BETTER.' HE SAID, 'HE'S DEAD.' AND THEN 20:50 JESUS COMES TO RAISE LAZARUS. HE'S BEEN DEAD FOUR DAYS. 20:53 WHEN HE FINALLY GETS DOWN TO BETHANY, WHERE HE HAD DIED - 20:56 JESUS GOT THE NEWS - HE WAS UP IN GALILEE - AND IT SAYS, 'WHEN 20:59 JESUS SAID THESE THINGS, HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, 21:02 'LAZARUS COME FORTH.' AND HE WHO HAD DIED CAME OUT, BOUND HAND 21:09 AND FOOT WITH THE GRAVE CLOTHES.' 21:10 HE CAME BACK TO LIFE BY THE WORD OF GOD. 21:13 NOW, THIS IS ONE OF THE THINGS I JUST DON'T WANT YOU TO MISS. 21:18 THERE ARE APPROXIMATELY - I'M JUST DOING THIS FROM THE TOP OF 21:21 MY HEAD - A DOZEN RESURRECTIONS IN THE BIBLE. NOBODY IN THE 21:26 BIBLE WHO WAS RESURRECTED EVER MAKES A SINGLE COMMENT ABOUT 21:30 KNOWING OR EXPERIENCING ANYTHING WHILE DEAD. 21:33 SHOULDN'T THAT TELL US SOMETHING? 21:35 THERE'S TOTAL SILENCE. WHY? BECAUSE THEY WERE DEAD AND 21:38 UNCONSCIOUS. WHY DOES SATAN WANT US TO 21:41 BELIEVE THAT THE SPIRITS OF THE DEAD ARE REALLY ALIVE? 21:46 ANSWER: IT SAYS IN MATTHEW 24, VERSES 24 AND 25 JESUS SAID, 21:53 "FOR THERE SHALL ARISE FALSE CHRISTS, AND FALSE PROPHETS, AND 21:59 SHALL SHEW" - NOT JUST ANY KIND OF SIGN, BUT "GREAT SIGNS AND 22:05 WONDERS;" HOW CONVINCING ARE THEY? "INSOMUCH THAT, IF IT 22:09 WERE POSSIBLE, THEY SHALL DECEIVE THE VERY ELECT." 22:14 THAT'S WHY WE'RE DOING THIS STUDY, FRIENDS. 22:17 WHAT'S GOING TO PREVENT US FROM BEING DECEIVED? 22:20 ACCORDING TO THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS - ACCORDING TO THE WORD 22:22 OF GOD - IF THEY DON'T SPEAK ACCORDING TO THIS WORD, THERE'S 22:25 NO LIGHT IN THEM. IF YOU SEE APPARITIONS, IF YOU 22:28 GET FEELINGS, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT THIS IS A MESSAGE FROM GOD. 22:32 BY THE WAY, WHAT I'M TELLING YOU RIGHT NOW, THIS IS NOT SOME NEW, 22:36 UNIQUE THEOLOGY. IF YOU'RE A PROTESTANT, THIS IS 22:40 WHAT MARTIN LUTHER BELIEVED. IF YOU LIKE THE ENGLISH 22:43 TRANSLATION OF THE BIBLE, THE GUY WHO TRANSLATED IT, WILLIAM 22:45 TYNDALE, THIS IS WHAT HE BELIEVED. 22:48 THIS USED TO BE WHAT ALL CHRISTIANS BELIEVED. 22:50 THAT'S WHY THE OLD CEMETERIES SAID 'R.I.P.' - REST IN PEACE. 22:54 BUT THE MORE POPULAR VERSION OF PEOPLE GOING RIGHT TO THEIR 22:57 REWARDS BEFORE THE JUDGMENT AND BEFORE THE RESURRECTION HAS SORT 23:02 OF ECLIPSED WHAT THE BIBLE ACTUALLY TEACHES ABOUT DEATH. 23:07 AND, YOU KNOW WHAT? THE DEVIL IS EXPLOITING THAT 23:11 TODAY AND THE MEDIA IS FILLED WITH IT. AND HE'S GOT ALL OF 23:14 HIS ANGELS - HIS FALLEN ANGELS - AND THEY'RE - THE BIBLE SAYS 23:18 MAN IS MADE LOWER THAN THE ANGELS. THEY'RE VERY CLEVER. 23:20 THEY KNOW WHAT YOUR GRANDMA SOUNDED LIKE. 23:23 THEY KNOW WHAT SHE LOOKED LIKE. THEY KNOW WHAT SHE SMELLED LIKE. 23:26 THEY KNOW ALL THEIR LITTLE NUANCES. THEY KNOW LITTLE 23:28 SECRETS IN THE FAMILY NOBODY ELSE WOULD KNOW, BECAUSE WE 23:33 DON'T WRESTLE AGAINST FLESH AND BLOOD, BUT THERE ARE SPIRITUAL 23:35 FORCES THAT ARE AROUND US. THERE'S A WHOLE SPIRIT WORLD 23:37 THAT WE DON'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT. 23:40 REVELATION 18, VERSE 23 - THIS IS KIND OF FRIGHTENING - "...BY 23:43 THY SORCERIES WERE ALL NATIONS DECEIVED." HOW MANY NATIONS? 23:51 >>ALL. >>ALL. 23:52 WHEN SAUL DECIDED TO SEE A WITCH, DID THAT END WELL FOR 23:55 HIM? WE'VE GOT TO STAY AWAY FROM 23:58 THESE THINGS THAT GOD CONDEMNS. REVELATION 18, VERSE 2, 24:03 "...BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN...AND IS BECOME THE 24:06 HABITATION OF DEVILS, AND THE HOLD OF EVERY FOUL SPIRIT." 24:12 SO IS IT CLEAR IN REVELATION THAT THERE ARE SPIRITUAL POWERS, 24:16 THAT THEY WORK MIRACLES, THAT THEY DECEIVE THE NATIONS? 24:19 AND WE DON'T WANT TO BE AMONG THAT GROUP. 24:21 AND GOD BROUGHT YOU - YOU'VE TUNED IN - BECAUSE HE WANTS YOU 24:24 TO BE AWARE OF WHAT THE BIBLE REALLY TEACHES. 24:27 THE REASON THIS IS IMPORTANT IS BECAUSE THERE ARE MANY 24:29 CHRISTIANS THAT DON'T UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS. 24:33 AND IT DOES MATTER. ALRIGHT, 1 TIMOTHY 4 - THE 24:37 APOSTLE PAUL TELLS US HERE IN VERSE 1, IN THE LAST DAYS, HE 24:39 SAID, "SOME SHALL DEPART FROM THE FAITH," - AND WHAT HAPPENS 24:44 WHEN THEY DEPART? - "GIVING HEED - LISTENING TO - 24:48 "SEDUCING SPIRITS, AND DOCTRINES OF DEVILS." 24:54 THERE ARE DIABOLICAL DOCTRINES OUT THERE, THAT HAVE FOUND THEIR 24:56 WAY INTO THE CHURCH, CONNECTED WITH WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A PERSON 25:00 DIES? IN EPHESIANS 5, VERSE 11, THERE HE SAYS, "HAVE" - WHAT? 25:08 - "NO FELLOWSHIP WITH THE UNFRUITFUL WORKS OF DARKNESS." 25:14 GOD DOESN'T WANT US TO BE INVOLVED IN THESE THINGS. 25:16 DON'T EVEN GO TO THOSE PLACES. QUESTION #15 - AND THIS IS OUR 25:20 LAST QUESTION - WHAT GLORIOUS POWER DOES GOD OFFER HIS PEOPLE? 25:26 I DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH. 25:29 THE BIBLE SAYS IN PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10, "THAT I MAY 25:33 KNOW HIM, AND THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION." 25:38 NOW I THINK WE ALL KNOW THAT FROM THE CRADLE WE ARE ON A 25:43 CONVEYOR BELT THAT WE CANNOT STOP. 25:47 WE AGE. I'M REMINDED EVERY YEAR. 25:50 I DO ALL I CAN TO PROLONG MY LIFE, BUT I KNOW, EVEN WITH MY 25:53 BEST EFFORTS, THAT ULTIMATELY IT'LL CATCH UP WITH US. 25:57 WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO IS DIE LIKE MOSES. 25:59 HE WAS 120, HE CLIMBED A MOUNTAIN, HE FELT GREAT AND THEN 26:01 HE DIED. THAT'S THE WAY TO DO IT. 26:04 BUT DO WE NEED TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH? 26:07 >>NO. >>THE BIBLE SAYS, 'HE THAT HAS 26:10 THE SON HAS LIFE. HE THAT HAS NOT THE SON HAS NOT 26:14 LIFE.' YOU CAN HAVE ETERNAL LIFE. 26:16 DO YOU - I'VE GOT GOOD NEWS FOR YOU. 26:18 LISTEN CAREFULLY. CHRISTIANS DO NOT DIE. 26:25 YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, WAIT A SECOND. 26:27 CHRISTIANS DON'T DIE?' WHEN STEPHEN THE FIRST MARTYR 26:31 WAS STONED, IT SAYS HE WENT TO SLEEP. CHRISTIANS GO TO SLEEP. 26:35 WE DON'T HAVE TO BE AFRAID OF DEATH ANYMORE THAN WE HAVE TO BE 26:37 AFRAID OF GOING TO SLEEP. 26:38 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU'RE A BELIEVER, YOU CAN ACTUALLY BE 26:40 EXCITED ABOUT IT BECAUSE, IF YOU SLEEP THE SLEEP OF DEATH, YOUR 26:44 NEXT CONSCIOUS THOUGHT IS A GLORIFIED BODY AND THE PRESENCE 26:47 OF THE LORD, AMEN? >>AMEN. 26:49 >>BUT THAT'LL HAPPEN BECAUSE YOU HAVE A TRUSTING RELATIONSHIP 26:51 WITH JESUS. DO YOU KNOW HIM? 26:54 AND HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW THE POWER OF HIS RESURRECTION. 26:58 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 27:01 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE TRUTH- 27:03 FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY AT 27:08 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO 27:14 PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 27:18 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR COMPUTER OR 27:22 MOBILE DEVICE. VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. 27:28 (DRAMATIC MUSIC) (DOOR CREAKING) >>THROUGHOUT RECORDED HISTORY 27:41 TALES OF GHOSTS AND SPIRITS CAN BE FOUND IN FOLKLORE IN NEARLY 27:45 EVERY COUNTRY AND CULTURE. EGYPTIANS BUILT PYRAMIDS TO HELP 27:50 GUIDE THE SPIRITS OF THEIR LEADERS. 27:53 ROME SANCTIONED HOLIDAYS TO HONOR AND APPEASE THE SPIRITS OF 27:57 THEIR DEAD. EVEN THE BIBLE TELLS OF A KING 28:01 THAT USED A WITCH TO CONTACT THE SPIRIT OF A DECEASED PROPHET. 28:05 TODAY, ANCIENT FOLKLORE OF SPIRITS AND APPARITIONS HAVE 28:09 GONE FROM MERE SUPERSTITIONS TO MAINSTREAM ENTERTAINMENT AND 28:13 REALITY. SCIENTIFIC ORGANIZATIONS 28:16 INVESTIGATE STORIES OF HAUNTINGS AND SIGHTINGS TRYING TO PROVE, 28:20 ONCE AND FOR ALL, THE EXISTENCE OF GHOSTS. 28:27 EVEN WITH ALL THE NEW-FOUND TECHNOLOGY AND CENTURIES OF 28:31 STORIES ALL OVER THE WORLD, THERE IS STILL NO CLEAR-CUT 28:36 ANSWER. SO HOW DO WE KNOW WHAT'S TRUE? 28:42 WHY DO THESE STORIES PERSIST? DOES IT EVEN MATTER? 28:50 WE INVITE YOU TO LOOK INSIDE AND FIND OUT FOR YOURSELF. 28:57 VISIT DEATHTRUTH.COM . 29:03 (MUSIC) 29:25 >>THIS PRESENTATION WAS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE 29:28 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. |
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