Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: AFP
Program Code: AFP000187A
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01:00 ">>THIS PRESENTATION IS BROUGHT TO YOU BY THE FRIENDS OF THE
01:03 AMAZING FACTS MINISTRY. 01:11 >>HISTORY DOESN'T CHALLENGE HIS EXISTENCE THAT HE LIVED. 01:15 AND SO YOU REALLY ONLY HAVE THREE CHOICES WITH JESUS. 01:18 HE WAS EITHER A LIAR, OR HE WAS A LUNATIC, OR HE'S LORD. 01:27 >>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 >>OUR PRESENTATION TONIGHT DEALING WITH THE HERO OF 01:50 REVELATION IS PART OF OUR PROPHECY ENCOUNTERS SERIES. 01:54 THIS IS REALLY A NEW SERIES WE CALL IT PROPHECY ENCOUNTER 01:59 BECAUSE WE'RE HOPING THAT THROUGH THE STUDY OF PROPHECY 02:02 THAT PEOPLE WILL ENCOUNTER THE HERO OF REVELATION. 02:06 AND I THINK WE ALL KNOW WHO THAT IS. 02:08 MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU READ THE FIRST WORDS IN REVELATION IT'S 02:12 NOT A REVELATION OF THE BEAST. 02:13 IT'S NOT A REVELATION OF THE ANTICHRIST. PEOPLE SAY 'I WANT 02:16 TO READ ABOUT THE ANTICHRIST IN REVELATION.' 02:19 ARE YOU AWARE THE WORD ANTICHRIST DOES NOT APPEAR IN 02:22 THE BOOK OF REVELATION? IT'S IN THE LETTERS OF JOHN. 02:25 THE BOOK OF REVELATION IS ABOUT JESUS. 02:29 HE IS THE CENTRAL FIGURE, BUT NOT JUST THE BOOK OF REVELATION. 02:32 THE WHOLE BIBLE IS ABOUT JESUS AS YOU'LL DISCOVER IN OUR STUDY 02:36 TONIGHT. FIRST VERSE REVELATION 1:1 "THE 02:39 REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST WHICH GOD GAVE TO HIM TO SHOW HIS 02:44 SERVANTS THINGS WHICH MUST SHORTLY COME TO PASS." 02:47 SO THE BOOK OF REVELATION AND THE THINGS WE'RE GOING TO STUDY 02:51 IN REVELATION - BIBLE TELLS US WAY BACK IN THE TIME OF CHRIST 02:54 THEY WERE ABOUT TO COME TO PASS SO THE PROPHECY AT LEAST BEGINS 02:58 DURING THE TIME OF CHRIST AND CARRIES ON UNTIL OF COURSE WE'RE 03:02 IN HEAVEN. YOU READ REVELATION 21 AND 22. 03:05 THERE ARE OVER 300 OLD TESTAMENT PROPHECIES THAT PROVIDE A NUMBER 03:09 OF PRECISE IDENTIFYING CHARACTERISTICS REGARDING THE 03:12 MESSIAH. A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD 03:15 THINK THAT JESUS WAS JUST ONE OF MANY RELIGIOUS LEADERS. 03:18 YOU CANNOT REALLY BELIEVE THAT AND BE A CHRISTIAN. BIBLE 03:22 SAYS THERE IS NO OTHER NAME GIVEN AMONG MEN WHEREBY WE MUST 03:25 BE SAVED. JESUS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER RELIGIOUS TEACHER. 03:29 GOD BECAME A MAN. IT'S CALLED THE INCARNATION IN 03:32 CHRIST TO SAVE US AND WE NEED TO KNOW WHO HE IS. 03:37 THE CHRISTIAN RELIGION IS ALL ABOUT JESUS AND YOU NEED TO KNOW 03:41 WHO HE IS. THE WHOLE BIBLE TELLS US ABOUT THAT. 03:43 WE'RE GOING TO DELVE INTO SOME OF THESE. 03:45 FIRST PROPHECY IS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS - GENESIS CHAPTER 3, 03:50 VERSE 15. THIS IS AFTER ADAM AND EVE SINNED AND GOD, THEN, 03:54 SPEAKING TO ADAM AND EVE, AND BECAUSE OF THE SERPENT WAS 03:59 THE MEDIUM THROUGH WHICH LUCIFER SPOKE, GOD SAID "AND I WILL PUT 04:04 ENMITY" - THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD ENEMY. 04:07 IT MEANS THERE'S ANIMOSITY THERE IS FRICTION. 04:09 THERE IS A POLAR RESISTANCE - "BETWEEN YOU AND THE WOMAN" - 04:14 BETWEEN THE SERPENT AND THE WOMAN. 04:16 THAT COMES UP IN REVELATION, SO I WANT YOU TO NOTE THAT - 04:19 "BETWEEN YOUR SEED" - THE SEED OF THE SERPENT - "AND HER SEED" 04:23 - THE SEED, OR THE OFFSPRING OF THE WOMAN - THE 04:26 SEED OF THE WOMAN IT'S TALKING ABOUT IS THE MESSIAH. 04:29 IT GOES ON TO SAY, "AND HE" - THE SEED OF THE WOMAN - "WILL 04:32 BRUISE YOUR HEAD." CHRIST WOULD BRUISE THE HEAD 04:35 OF THE SERPENT, AND YOU SHALL BRUISE HIS HEEL." 04:38 THE PROGRESS OR THE WALK OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH HAS BEEN 04:41 IMPEDED - SLOWED BY THE WORK OF THE DEVIL. 04:45 THERE IS A BATTLE IN THIS WORLD BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL - BETWEEN 04:47 THE WOMAN AND THE SERPENT - THAT CARRIES ALL THE WAY THROUGH. 04:51 YOU READ IN REVELATION 12 - WE DON'T HAVE TO GUESS WHO THE 04:54 SERPENT IS - 'SO THAT GREAT DRAGON WAS CAST OUT; THE SERPENT 04:58 OF OLD CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN WHO DECEIVES THE WHOLE 05:02 WORLD." HOW MUCH OF THE WORLD DOES HE DECEIVE? 05:06 THE WHOLE WORLD. SO WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM? 05:11 THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT QUESTION. 05:13 IT - IS HE JUST A MAN? WAS HE BORN LIKE OTHER MEN? 05:16 CHRIST MADE SOME PRETTY BOLD CLAIMS. 05:19 FOR ONE THING, HE SAID IN JOHN 6:38, "FOR I HAVE COME DOWN FROM 05:23 HEAVEN." WELL, NOT EVERYBODY SAYS THAT. 05:27 I MEAN, IF YOU MEET SOMEBODY THAT SAYS 'I'VE COME FROM 05:28 HEAVEN' AND, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE - WE TALKED A LITTLE LAST NIGHT 05:32 ABOUT PEOPLE WHO CLAIM TO BE CHRIST. 05:35 AND THERE'S SOME PROMINENT CHARACTERS THAT CLAIMED TO BE 05:39 JESUS BUT THERE'S ALSO SOME THAT ARE LOCKED UP HERE AND THERE. 05:44 AND I MET SOMEBODY ONCE THAT CLAIMED TO BE JESUS THAT I'LL 05:48 NEVER FORGET BECAUSE I WAS BY MYSELF UP IN THE MOUNTAINS. 05:50 I LIVED IN A CAVE BACK THEN. I WAS A HERMIT FOR ABOUT A YEAR 05:53 AND A HALF AND I WAS ALL BY MYSELF. 05:55 AND A HIKER CAME BY THE CAVE AND THAT WAS NOT THAT UNUSUAL I'D 05:58 SEE PEOPLE FROM TIME TO TIME. HE STAYED AND HE VISITED FOR 06:01 A LITTLE BIT THEN SAID HE WAS JESUS. 06:05 AND AT FIRST I THOUGHT 'I'VE GOT SOME SPANISH FRIENDS NAMED JESUS 06:09 MAYBE THAT'S' - (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) - HE DIDN'T LOOK 06:11 SPANISH. AND THEN HE SAID 'NO I AM 06:16 CHRIST.' HE SAID, 'MY NAME IS MICHAEL DAVID HARPER. 06:20 THEY SAID THAT'S MY EARTHLY NAME BUT I'VE COME FROM HEAVEN.' WELL 06:23 I'LL TELL YOU IT'S A LITTLE SPOOKY WHEN YOU'RE BY YOURSELF 06:24 UP THE HILLS AND YOU MEET SOMEBODY WHO SAYS 'I'M JESUS. 06:27 AND I HAVE COME' - AND I WASN'T QUITE SURE WHAT TO SAY BECAUSE I 06:33 JUST STARTED READING THE BIBLE. I THOUGHT 'WEL,L IF IT IS JESUS, 06:35 I'VE GOT A LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND IF IT IS JESUS I DON'T WANT 06:39 TO SHOW A LACK OF FAITH AND HURT HIS FEELINGS.' I MEAN, ALL 06:42 KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS ARE GOING THROUGH YOUR HEAD, YOU KNOW? 06:44 AND I DIDN'T WANT TO MAKE HIM MAD. 06:48 WHETHER HE WAS JESUS OR WASN'T JESUS. 06:52 AND SO I SAID, 'WELL, THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WHEN YOU COME THAT 06:57 EVERYBODY IS GOING TO SEE YOU IT WILL BE LIKE LIGHT -' HE SAYS 07:00 'THAT'S TRUE.' - HE SAYS, 'YOU DON'T BUT I'M COMING SPECIALLY 07:02 TO PREPARE SOME OTHER PEOPLE EARLY.' AND HE HAD LIKE AN 07:05 ANSWER FOR EVERYTHING HE KNEW THE BIBLE AND HE STAYED WITH ME 07:08 FOR TWO OR THREE DAYS AND ATE ALL MY FOOD SO I KNEW HE WASN'T 07:11 JESUS AND HE DIDN'T CLEAN UP AND - (RAUCOUS LAUGHTER) AND I SAW 07:15 HIM A WEEK OR SO LATER AND HE ACTUALLY HAD FOUND AN APOSTLE. 07:19 SOME GUY WAS FOLLOWING HIM AROUND SAYING THIS IS JESUS. 07:22 AND THEN I SAW HIM A FEW WEEKS LATER - WE LIVED ON THE STREETS 07:25 BACK THEN WHEN I WASN'T UP IN THE CAVE AND HE WAS MISSING A 07:28 TOOTH BECAUSE HE GOT INTO A FIGHT. 07:30 I FELT SO MUCH BETTER BECAUSE I KNOW JESUS HAS ALL HIS TEETH. 07:33 (LAUGHTER) SO - BUT YOU KNOW YOU MEET ALL KINDS OF STRANGE PEOPLE 07:35 OUT THERE. WELL SO WHEN JESUS SAID 'I'VE 07:37 COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN' AND THEN HE TOLD PILATE IN JOHN 18:36 "MY 07:42 KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD." - 'I AM FROM OUT OF THIS 07:45 WORLD.' WELL, WHAT IS HE AN EXTRATERRESTRIAL? 07:49 WHERE DID JESUS COME FROM? HE'S MAKING SOME BOLD CLAIMS. 07:52 AND SO WE NEED TO EVALUATE THAT. DID JESUS CLAIM DIVINITY? 07:57 DID HE CLAIM TO BE GOD? IN A WORD, YES. 08:02 AND HERE'S SOME VERSES THAT ILLUSTRATE THAT. 08:04 JOHN 8:58 - "JESUS SAID TO THEM, 'MOST ASSUREDLY I SAY TO YOU 08:08 BEFORE ABRAHAM WAS, I AM.'" NOW, YOU MIGHT BE THINKING 'WELL THAT 08:15 DOESN'T MEAN HE WAS CLAIMING TO BE GOD.' 08:16 THE JEWS WHO WERE LISTENING TO HIM THAT DAY BELIEVED HE WAS 08:19 CLAIMING TO BE GOD BECAUSE GOD SAID TO MOSES, 'I AM THAT I AM.' 08:24 THAT WAS A TITLE FOR GOD - THE SELF-EXISTENCE ONE. 08:26 THEY TOOK UP STONES TO STONE HIM FOR BLASPHEMY CLAIMING TO BE GOD 08:30 AND JESUS DID NOT RETRACT THAT. AND HE SAID, YOU KNOW, 'BEFORE 08:34 ABRAHAM WAS' - HE SAYS - 'I PREEXISTED.' AND THEN YOU CAN 08:38 READ AGAIN IN JOHN 17:18. "THEREFORE MY FATHER LOVES ME 08:42 BECAUSE I LAID DOWN MY LIFE THAT I MIGHT TAKE IT AGAIN." 08:46 AND NOT TOO MANY PEOPLE LAY DOWN THEIR LIVES AND TAKE IT AGAIN. 08:48 HE SAYS, 'NO ONE TAKES IT FROM ME. 08:50 I AM LAYING IT DOWN AND I'M TAKING IT UP.' AND THEN HE GOES 08:54 ON AND HE SAYS IN MARK 2:10, "THE SON OF MAN HAS POWER ON 08:59 EARTH TO FORGIVE SINS" - AND YOU CAN READ WHERE IT SAYS 'GOD AND 09:03 GOD ONLY CAN FORGIVE SINS.' AND SO THERE'S A LOT OF WAYS THAT 09:07 JESUS EXPLAINED HE HAD DIVINE PREROGATIVES. 09:11 AND SO YES JESUS IS NOT JUST ANOTHER MAN. 09:14 HE SAID HE PREEXISTED BEFORE HE CAME TO THIS WORLD - HAD POWER 09:17 TO FORGIVE SIN. HOW CAN WE EVALUATE HIS CLAIMS? 09:23 HOW DO WE TEST TO SEE IF THIS IS TRUE? 09:25 C.S. LEWIS THE CHRISTIAN PHILOSOPHER SAID YOU REALLY ONLY 09:29 HAVE THREE CHOICES WITH JESUS NO QUESTION THAT HE LIVED. 09:33 WHAT YEAR IS IT RIGHT NOW? I KNOW I'M JUST TESTING - 09:38 2017 - 2017 WHAT? THE WHOLE DATING METHOD THAT THE 09:43 WORLD USES IS BASED ON THE BIRTH OF CHRIST. 09:45 I TOLD YOU THEY GOT THAT OFF LITTLE BIT BUT IT WAS, 09:48 OSTENSIBLY, DATED FROM CHRIST. SO YOU CAN'T DENY THAT HE LIVED. 09:53 HISTORY DOESN'T CHALLENGE HIS EXISTENCE THAT HE LIVED. 09:57 SO IT'S LIKE C.S. LEWIS SAID: HE WAS EITHER A LIAR OR HE WAS A 10:03 LUNATIC. OR HE'S LORD. THOSE ARE REALLY THE ONLY 10:07 THREE OPTIONS THAT WE HAVE. >>THIS MYSTERIOUS INDIVIDUAL 10:11 APPEARS ALL THE WAY FROM GENESIS TO REVELATION. 10:14 IT'S MICHAEL THE ARCHANGEL. WHO IS MICHAEL? 10:18 IS HE A CHERUBIM? A SERAPHIM? 10:20 THIS ANGEL GENERAL OF THE LORD'S ARMY. 10:23 WOULD YOU LIKE TO UNDERSTAND THIS SUBJECT, FRIENDS? 10:25 THEN WE'VE GOT A BOOK THAT ANSWERS IT VERY CLEARLY USING 10:28 THE SCRIPTURES AND WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU FOR FREE. 10:31 TO GET YOUR FREE COPY, GO TO AMAZINGFACTS.ORG OR CALL THE 10:36 NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER NUMBER 170. 10:40 AND WHEN YOU GET THIS FREE RESOURCE, MAKE SURE AND READ IT 10:43 AND THEN SHARE IT WITH SOMEONE ELSE. 10:45 BECAUSE GOD'S MESSAGE IS OUR MISSION. 10:49 >>SO HOW DO WE DETERMINE - WHERE DO WE GO TO FIND OUT? 10:52 THE BIBLE TELLS US - AND JESUS HIMSELF SAID IN JOHN CHAPTER 5, 10:56 VERSE 39, "SEARCH THE SCRIPTURES IN THEM YOU THINK YOU HAVE 10:59 ETERNAL LIFE" - HE SAID - "THESE ARE THEY THAT TESTIFY OF ME." 11:04 NOW WHEN JESUS SAID THAT, HOW MUCH NEW TESTAMENT WAS WRITTEN? 11:08 NONE. AND SO LET ME SEE IF I CAN 11:11 ILLUSTRATE SOMETHING AND I AM GLAD TO SEE SOME OF YOU 11:13 BROUGHT YOUR BIBLES HERE. I'M GOING TO QUICKLY - OH GOOD 11:15 I'VE FOUND IT RIGHT AWAY. THIS IS YOUR BIBLE I'VE DIVIDED 11:19 IT JUST VISUALLY SO YOU GET A ROUGH IDEA. 11:21 YOU KNOW, THERE'S SOME CONTENTS AND CONCORDANCE AND STUFF IN THE 11:24 FRONT THE BACK BUT APPROXIMATELY THREE-QUARTERS OF THE BIBLE OLD 11:28 TESTAMENT THIS IS WRITTEN BEFORE JESUS. 11:31 MATTER OF FACT, THE LAST BOOK - MALACHI - IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 11:34 WAS WRITTEN ABOUT 400 YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN. 11:37 SO THERE'S A NICE SPREAD BETWEEN THE TWO. 11:39 AND THEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT TALKS ABOUT THE BIRTH 11:42 OF JESUS CHRIST. FIRST WORDS IN REVELATION ARE 11:45 THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST. FIRST WORDS IN THE NEW TESTAMENT 11:47 - THE GENEALOGY OF JESUS CHRIST. SO IT TELLS ABOUT THE 11:51 COMING OF THE MESSIAH. THE OLD TESTAMENT FORETELLS WHEN 11:55 THE SAVIOR WOULD COME - WHEN GOD WOULD BECOME A MAN. 11:58 AND A LOT OF THE OLD TESTAMENT IS TALKING ABOUT CHRIST. 12:01 THERE ARE HUNDREDS OF PROPHECIES. 12:03 SO WE'RE GOING TO BE LOOKING NOW AT A LOT OF PROPHECIES HERE THAT 12:07 WERE WRITTEN HUNDREDS, IN SOME CASES, MORE THAN A THOUSAND 12:09 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST WAS BORN AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO SEE HERE 12:13 THAT EXACTLY WHAT WAS FORETOLD HAPPENED. 12:17 AND THIS IS ONE REASON I THINK THIS IS NOT JUST WHITE PAGES AND 12:20 BLACK INK. I BELIEVE THE BIBLE IS A 12:22 SUPERNATURAL CORRESPONDENCE WITH HUMANITY AND GOD HAS DONE 12:27 SOMETHING MIRACULOUSLY TO PROTECT THIS BOOK. 12:30 SO WE'RE GOING TO LOOK IN THE BIBLE. 12:31 FURTHERMORE LUKE 24, VERSE 27, JESUS, WHEN HE WAS TALKING TO 12:37 THE TWO DISCIPLES ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, HE SAID, "HE EXPOUNDED 12:42 UNTO THEM BEGINNING AT MOSES AND ALL THE PROPHETS HE EXPOUNDED TO 12:46 THEM IN ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES THE THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF." 12:50 SO JESUS GAVE A BIBLE STUDY TO THESE TWO DISCIPLES AND HE 12:53 SHOWED THEM THROUGH ALL OF THE SCRIPTURES, PRIOR TO THE NEW 12:56 TESTAMENT, THINGS CONCERNING HIMSELF. AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 12:59 THAT JESUS IS ALL THE WAY THROUGH THERE. 13:01 A LOT OF - I'VE BEEN TO CHURCHES BEFORE WHERE THEY SUPPLY A BIBLE 13:05 AND ALL THEY HAVE IS A NEW TESTAMENT. 13:06 THEY SAY, 'WELL, WE'RE A NEW TESTAMENT CHURCH WE DON'T - 13:08 THAT'S THE OLD COVENANT.' YOU CAN'T UNDERSTAND THE NEW 13:12 TESTAMENT WITHOUT THE OLD TESTAMENT. 13:14 IT'S THE MOON THAT THE WOMAN STANDS ON THOUGH SHE IS CLOTHED 13:19 WITH THE SUN OF THE NEW TESTAMENT. 13:21 IT'S THE FOUNDATION. THE OLD TESTAMENT IS SO 13:23 IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THE NEW. AND AGAIN, HEBREWS 10:7, 13:28 HE SAID, "BEHOLD I COME. IN THE VOLUME OF THE BOOK IT IS 13:32 WRITTEN OF ME TO DO YOUR WILL, O GOD." 13:34 SO THE WHOLE BIBLE IS TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. 13:38 DOES PROPHECY FORETELL THE MESSIAH'S FAMILY TREE? 13:42 AND THE ANSWER IS, ABSOLUTELY, YES. 13:46 FOR ONE THING, GOD TOLD ABRAHAM HE WAS CALLING HIM FROM 13:50 MESOPOTAMIA. HE SAID, 'THROUGH YOUR 13:53 DESCENDANTS THE MESSIAH WOULD COME.' AND YOU FIND THAT IN 13:55 GENESIS 12, VERSE 3, "IN YOU SHALL ALL THE FAMILIES 13:59 OF THE EARTH BE BLESSED." - THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS - 14:03 THAT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH THE HEBREW LINE. 14:06 NOW YOU REALIZE A JEW AND A HEBREW IS DIFFERENT. 14:09 ABRAHAM HAD MORE CHILDREN THAN JUST ISAAC AND ISAAC HAD MORE 14:12 CHILDREN THAN JUST JACOB. AND JACOB HAD MORE CHILDREN THAN 14:15 JUST JUDAH THE WORD 'JEW' KIND OF COMES FROM THE DESCENDANTS 14:19 OF JUDAH, PRINCIPALLY. BUT WE OFTEN USE IT TO TALK 14:21 ABOUT HEBREWS, IN GENERAL. BUT THE MESSIAH WOULD COME 14:26 THROUGH THE DESCENDANTS OF, NOT ONLY ABRAHAM, BUT ISAAC. 14:29 YOU READ IN GENESIS 26, VERSE 4, SAYS "I WILL GIVE YOUR 14:32 DESCENDANTS THESE LANDS AND IN YOUR SEED ALL THE NATIONS OF THE 14:36 WORLD WILL BE BLESSED." BECAUSE JESUS DID NOT JUST 14:38 COME FOR JEWS, DID HE? HE CAME TO SAVE EVERYBODY. 14:42 'WHOSOEVER WILL' THE PROMISE IS. HE TOLD THE DISCIPLES GO 14:45 TO THE ENDS OF THE EARTH. AND THEN, NOT ONLY DID IT COME 14:49 FROM ABRAHAM THROUGH ISAAC - SEE ABRAHAM ALSO HAD ISHMAEL AND 14:53 SEVERAL OTHER CHILDREN THROUGH KETURAH. ISAAC ALSO HAD ESAU. 14:58 BUT HE SAID THE BLESSING WOULD COME THROUGH JACOB AND JACOB 15:01 PROPHESIED. YOU SEE THE PROPHECY IN NUMBERS 24:17. 15:05 "A STAR WILL COME OUT OF JACOB, A SCEPTER" - A SCEPTOR'S WHAT A 15:09 KING HOLDS - "WILL RISE OUT OF ISRAEL." 15:12 THERE WOULD BE THIS KING - THE KING OF KINGS - THAT WOULD COME. 15:14 BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE PROPHECY, PROBABLY, THAT THE WISE MEN IN 15:17 THE EAST WERE READING WHEN THEY CAME AND FOLLOWED THE STAR - 15:21 THIS STAR THAT SAID THERE WAS A NEW KING THAT WOULD COME AND 15:24 THEN WHEN HE WAS DYING THERE IN GENESIS 49, JACOB, LATER CALLED 15:29 ISRAEL, HE PROPHESIED THAT OF HIS SONS - AND HE HAD TWELVE 15:33 SONS AND ONE DAUGHTER - THE MESSIAH WOULD THEN BE COMING 15:35 SPECIFICALLY THROUGH WHICH ONE? JUDAH. 15:39 RIGHT? YOU ALL WITH ME? YOU ALL KNEW THAT DIDN'T YOU? 15:43 THE MESSIAH WOULD COME THROUGH - OF THE TWELVE SONS OF JACOB, HE 15:46 WOULD COME THROUGH JUDAH. AND HE SAYS THERE IN GENESIS 49, 15:50 'THE SCEPTER WILL NOT DEPART FROM JUDAH NOR A LAW GIVER FROM 15:53 BETWEEN HIS FEET UNTIL SHILOH COME' - THAT MEANS THE KING OF 15:57 PEACE - AND UNTO HIM SHALL THE GATHERING OF THE PEOPLE BE.' SO 16:01 IT WOULD COME THROUGH THE TRIBE OF JUDAH. 16:03 'THERE WILL COME FORTH A ROD FROM THE STEM OF JESSE' - JESSE 16:06 WAS THE FATHER OF DAVID - 'AND A BRANCH WILL GROW FROM HIS ROOTS' 16:10 - IT SAID THE MESSIAH WOULD COME FROM THE HOUSEHOLD OF DAVID - 16:13 'AND THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL REST UPON HIM.' WELL WHY DOES IT 16:17 SAY 'THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD'? 16:19 THE VERY WORD 'MESSIAH,' IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, MEANS 'ANOINTED' 16:24 THE WORD CHRIST - CHRISTOS - IT'S GREEK FOR THE ANOINTED. 16:29 YOU KNOW, WHEN THEY CHRISTEN A SHIP, THEY SPLASH THE BOTTLE OF 16:32 CHAMPAGNE OR WINE ON IT AND IT'S CALLED A CHRISTENING. 16:35 AN ANOINTING MEANS TO SHOWER SOMETHING. JESUS WAS TO BE 16:40 SHOWERED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT OF GOD AND THEY CALLED HIM THE 16:44 ANOINTED THAT CAME THROUGH THE DESCENDANTS OF DAVID. 16:48 NOW YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT AND YOU SEE WAS IT FULFILLED? 16:52 AND YOU CAN READ IN LUKE CHAPTER 1, VERSE 26, NOW IN THE SIXTH 16:56 MONTH THE ANGEL GABRIEL WAS SENT BY GOD TO A CITY IN GALILEE 17:02 NAMED NAZARETH. WHERE'D THE ANGEL GO? 17:04 I WANT YOU TO CATCH THAT BECAUSE THERE'S GOING TO BE A PROBLEM 17:07 HERE IN THE MOMENT. TO A VIRGIN THAT WAS BETROTHED 17:10 TO A MAN WHOSE NAME WAS JOSEPH OF THE HOUSE OF WHERE? 17:14 HOUSE OF DAVID - THE VIRGIN'S NAME WAS MARY - AND THIS ALL 17:17 SOUNDS LIKE A CHRISTMAS SERMON. YOU ALL KNOW THIS STORY RIGHT? 17:19 BUT BOTH MARY AND JOSEPH WERE DESCENDANTS FROM DAVID. 17:23 YOU FIND THE GENEALOGY OF MARY GOING THROUGH HER FATHER BACK TO 17:28 JESUS IN LUKE, AND THE GENEALOGY FOLLOWS JOSEPH IN MATTHEW. 17:32 SO EITHER WAY THEY WERE BOTH DESCENDANTS OF DAVID AND, 17:37 FURTHERMORE, IT SAYS THAT JESUS WOULD COME THROUGH NOT JUST THE 17:40 HOUSE OF DAVID, BUT THE MOTHER WOULD BE A VIRGIN. 17:43 NOW THAT CERTAINLY IS UNIQUE, RIGHT? 17:45 YOU READ THAT PROPHECY IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 7, VERSE 14, "BEHOLD A 17:50 VIRGIN WILL CONCEIVE AND BEAR A SON AND THEY'LL CALL HIS NAME 17:54 EMMANUEL, WHICH MEANS GOD WITH US." 17:58 JUMP TO THE NEW TESTAMENT. BY THE WAY, THAT'S WRITTEN 700 18:01 YEARS BEFORE JESUS WAS BORN - FORETOLD THAT THE MESSIAH 18:04 WOULD BE BORN OF A VIRGIN. NOW YOU GO TO THE NEW TESTAMENT 18:07 AND YOU READ IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1:18. 18:10 IT SAYS THAT, 'NOW THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS AS FOLLOWS: AFTER HIS 18:14 MOTHER MARY WAS BETROTHED' - OR ENGAGED - 'TO JOSEPH, BEFORE 18:18 THEY CAME TOGETHER, SHE WAS FOUND TO BE WITH CHILD.' AND, OF 18:23 COURSE, WE ALL KNOW ABOUT THE VIRGIN BIRTH OF MARY - JESUS - 18:28 VIRGIN BIRTH OF JESUS - BUT MARY WAS THE VIRGIN. YEAH. 18:33 WHAT ABOUT WHERE HE WOULD BE BORN? 18:35 DOES THE BIBLE TALK SO WE WOULDN'T HAVE ANY DOUBTS ABOUT 18:37 WHO THE SAVIOR OF MAN WOULD BE? NO DOUBTS ABOUT WHEN 18:40 GOD BECAME A MAN. WHO IS IT? 18:42 IT WASN'T JUST ONE OF MANY WISE MEN OR PROPHETS THROUGH TIME. 18:46 IT WAS JESUS THE PLACE OF HIS BIRTH IS FORETOLD IN THE BOOK OF 18:50 MICAH ABOUT 600 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST. 18:53 HE SPECIFICALLY SAID, "BUT YOU, BETHLEHEM EPHRATHAH, THOUGH YOU 18:57 ARE LITTLE AMONG THE THOUSANDS OF JUDAH, UNTO YOU - YET OUT OF 19:01 YOU SHALL COME FORTH TO ME THE ONE WHO IS TO BE THE RULER IN 19:04 ISRAEL, WHOSE GOINGS FORTH ARE FROM OLD, EVEN FROM 19:08 EVERLASTING." SO ANOTHER PROPHECY HERE. 19:11 WHAT DOES THAT TELL US ABOUT JESUS? 19:13 HE'S FROM EVERLASTING. SEE, CHRIST DIDN'T JUST APPEAR 19:16 WHEN HE WAS BORN - FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING - YOU 19:19 KNOW, REVELATION - HE'S REFERRED TO AS THE ETERNAL ONE. 19:24 HE'S THE 'I AM' THERE. HE - HE'S THE ONE WHO IS THE 19:28 FIRST AND THE LAST, THE ALPHA AND THE OMEGA. 19:31 SO CHRIST IS FROM EVERLASTING TO EVERLASTING. 19:34 HE WAS ETERNAL. AND IT SAYS THAT HE'D BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. 19:38 DID THAT HAPPEN? NOW, WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM. 19:41 WHEN THE ANGEL CAME TO MARY - YOU HEARD ME SAY A MINUTE AGO? 19:44 WHERE WAS SHE? GALILEE. AND WHAT CITY. NAZARETH. 19:49 I'VE GOT A MAP UP HERE ON THE SCREEN NOW YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 19:51 NAZARETH AS THE CROW FLIES ABOUT 70 MILES AWAY. 19:55 SHE'S GREAT WITH CHILD. SHE'S A LONG WAY FROM HOME. 19:57 HOW ARE WE GOING TO GET THE MESSIAH BORN, AS HE'S SUPPOSED 20:00 TO BE BORN, IN THE CITY OF DAVID - BETHLEHEM? 20:03 WELL THIS IS ONE OF THE ONLY TIMES IN HISTORY WE NEED TO 20:06 THANK A POLITICIAN FOR DOING A TAX INCREASE. (LAUGHTER) 20:11 CAESAR AUGUSTUS - LUKE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1, ISSUED A DECREE, 20:17 "AND IT CAME TO PASS IN THOSE DAYS THAT THERE WENT OUT A 20:19 DECREE FROM CAESAR AUGUSTUS THAT ALL THE WORLD SHOULD BE TAXED 20:24 AND THEY HAD TO GO REGISTER FOR THE TAX IN THEIR OWN CITY. 20:28 AND JOSEPH ALSO WENT UP FROM GALILEE OUT OF THE CITY OF 20:32 NAZARETH INTO JUDEA THERE TO BE REGISTERED - TO BE TAXED AND 20:37 REGISTERED WITH HIS WIFE, MARY" - OR HIS ESPOUSED WIFE - "BEING 20:41 GREAT WITH CHILD." AND, OF COURSE, WHILE THEY ARE 20:44 THERE WE KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. "AND SO IT WAS, WHILE THEY 20:47 WERE THERE, THE DAYS WERE ACCOMPLISHED THAT SHE SHOULD BE 20:50 DELIVERED, AND SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRSTBORN SON." 20:54 AND THIS IS, OF COURSE, FULFILLING THAT THE MESSIAH 20:56 WOULD BE BORN IN BETHLEHEM. WHEN THE SHEPHERDS SAW THE 20:59 ANGELS WHERE WERE THEY? "THERE WERE DWELLING IN THOSE 21:01 DAYS OUTSIDE BETHLEHEM SHEPHERDS WATCHING THEIR FLOCKS." 21:04 NOW YOU KNOW IT'S ALWAYS BEEN AMAZING TO ME, YOU KNOW WHAT 21:08 BETHLEHEM MEANS? BETH MEANS HOUSE. 21:12 BETHLEHEM MEANS HOUSE OF BREAD. AND JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. 21:18 AND AFTER HE WAS BORN, HE WAS PLACED IN A MANGER. 21:21 A MANGER IS A TROUGH FOR PUTTING GRAIN FOR THE ANIMALS. 21:25 SO HERE YOU'VE GOT THE BREAD OF LIFE BORN IN THE HOUSE OF BREAD 21:27 PLACED IN A TROUGH FOR BREAD. JESUS IS THE BREAD OF LIFE. 21:32 "AND SO SHE BROUGHT FORTH HER FIRST BORN SON, WRAPPED HIM IN 21:36 SWADDLING CLOTHES, AND LAID HIM IN A MANGER BECAUSE THERE WAS NO 21:39 ROOM FOR HIM IN THE INN." AND AGAIN THE ANGELS SAID "FOR 21:44 UNTO YOU IS BORN" - THEY TOLD THE SHEPHERDS - "IN THE CITY 21:47 OF DAVID," - JESUS WOULD BE A DESCENDANT OF DAVID BORN IN THE 21:50 TOWN OF DAVID AND IT WAS ALL FORETOLD BY THE PROPHETS - 21:54 THE SAVIOR WHO IS CHRIST THE ANOINTED, THE LORD. 21:57 AND WHEN CHRIST WAS A BABY, EIGHT DAYS OLD THEY BRING HIM TO 22:02 THE TEMPLE TO BE NAMED AND CIRCUMCISED, WHICH WAS 22:05 TECHNICALLY THE FIRST TIME HE SHED BLOOD. 22:08 WHEN THEY CALLED HIS NAME 'JESUS' - HE WILL SAVE HIS 22:11 PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS - THE PRIEST THERE IN THE TEMPLE, 22:13 SIMON, TOOK HIM UP IN HIS ARMS AND BLESSED HIM. 22:16 AND THEY SAID TO HIS MOTHER, "BEHOLD, THIS CHILD IS DESTINED 22:19 FOR THE FALL AND THE RISING OF MANY IN ISRAEL AND FOR A SIGN 22:22 THAT WILL BE SPOKEN AGAINST. YES, A SWORD WILL EVEN PIERCE 22:26 THROUGH YOUR OWN SOUL." FORETELLING, OF COURSE, THE 22:29 SUFFERINGS THAT JESUS WOULD BE GOING THROUGH - "THAT THE 22:32 THOUGHTS OF MANY HEARTS MIGHT BE REVEALED." SO EVEN AT THE VERY 22:35 BEGINNING MARY WAS GIVEN A PROPHECY TO LET HER KNOW THAT 22:39 JESUS WAS COMING, NOT JUST AS A LION, BUT HE WOULD FIRST HAVE TO 22:44 COME AS A LAMB AND SUFFER FOR THE SINS OF THE WORLD. 22:48 WELL, THEN, WHEN CHRIST WAS STILL A CHILD, THEY'RE LIVING IN 22:53 BETHLEHEM - HEROD THE KING WANTED TO EXTERMINATE JESUS AS A 22:56 BABY. YOU KNOW THERE'S THREE TIMES IN 22:58 THE BIBLE WHEN THE DEVIL MADE AN EFFORT TO TRY TO KEEP 23:02 THE SAVIOR FROM COMING. YOU CAN READ ABOUT THE DEVIL 23:05 THOUGHT MAYBE THAT A SAVIOR WAS COMING WHEN THE CHILDREN 23:07 OF ISRAEL WERE IN EGYPT. SO HE WANTED ALL THE BABY 23:11 BOYS TO BE EXTERMINATED. AND YET MOSES WAS MIRACULOUSLY 23:16 SPARED - THE SAVIOR WAS SPARED. AND THEN DURING THE TIME OF 23:20 QUEEN JEZEBEL'S DAUGHTER ATHELIAH - SHE KILLED ALL OF THE 23:25 SEED OF DAVID - AGAIN, THE DEVIL TRYING TO KEEP THE 23:28 MESSIAH FROM COMING. BUT, MIRACULOUSLY, 23:31 JOASH WAS SPARED. AND THEN, OF COURSE, DURING THE 23:35 TIME WHEN CHRIST WAS A BABY, HEROD SENT HIS SOLDIERS TO 23:37 BETHLEHEM TO KILL ALL THE BABY BOYS, ONCE AGAIN, TO TRY TO 23:40 KEEP THE SAVIOR FROM COMING. AND JOSEPH WAS WARNED IN A DREAM 23:44 TO GO DOWN TO EGYPT AND YOU READ IN THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT AFTER 23:48 HE RECEIVED THAT WARNING HE SAID 'HE AROSE AND HE TOOK THE YOUNG 23:51 CHILD AND HIS MOTHER BY NIGHT AND HE DEPARTED FOR EGYPT.' - 23:54 NOTICE WHAT MATTHEW SAYS - 'THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED WHICH WAS 23:58 SPOKEN BY THE LORD THROUGH THE PROPHET SAYING, 'OUT OF EGYPT I 24:02 HAVE CALLED MY SON.' AND, HERE, HE'S QUOTING HOSEA. 24:05 AND SO, EVEN THE NEW TESTAMENT WRITERS, LIKE MATTHEW, COULD 24:10 OFTEN SEE HOW JESUS WAS A FULFILLMENT OF ALL THESE 24:12 PROPHECIES. THEY ALL COMBINED AND 24:15 CONCENTRATED AND FOCUSED IN HIS LIFE. 24:18 YOU KNOW, I GET EXCITED WHEN I TALK ABOUT THIS BECAUSE THERE'S 24:20 JUST NO QUESTION THAT JESUS IS WHO HE SAYS HE WAS. 24:24 ALRIGHT, AND THEN YOU CAN SAY HE CAME WHEN HE WAS A CHILD. 24:27 HE MOVED BACK THEN, AFTER EGYPT, TO NAZARETH AND HE WAS SUBJECT 24:31 TO HIS PARENTS "THAT IT MIGHT BE FULFILLED THAT WAS SPOKEN OF BY 24:35 THE PROPHETS" - ANOTHER PROPHECY - "HE WILL BE CALLED A 24:38 NAZARENE." NOW THEY'RE TALKING ABOUT WHEN SAMSON'S PARENTS WERE 24:44 TOLD THAT THIS PROMISED CHILD WOULD BE A NAZARENE. 24:47 SEVERAL OF THE TYPES IN THE BIBLE, LIKE SAMUEL AND SAMSON, 24:51 HAD THE VOW OF A NAZARITE. TYPICALLY, JESUS IS 24:54 PAINTED WITH LONG HAIR. AND YET THERE'S A SCRIPTURE SAYS 24:58 'IT'S A SHAME FOR A MAN TO HAVE LONG HAIR.' BUT THE NAZARITES 25:01 WERE NOT SUPPOSED TO CUT THEIR HAIR. 25:03 AND SO SOME HAVE WONDERED, 'DID JESUS' PARENTS HAVE THE VOW OF A 25:06 NAZARITE ON HIM UP UNTIL HE WAS BAPTIZED?' 25:10 BECAUSE A PERSON COULD HAVE A NAZARITE VOW FOR A VARYING 25:13 LENGTH OF TIME. IT WASN'T NECESSARILY A LIFELONG VOW. 25:17 NAZARITES COULD NOT EAT OR DRINK ANYTHING FROM THE VINE. 25:20 JESUS OBVIOUSLY DRANK GRAPE JUICE. 25:23 AND SO, HE MAY HAVE JUST BEEN A NAZERITE UP UNTIL HIS 25:26 BAPTISM OR FOLLOW THAT VOW. WE'RE NOT SURE BUT HE'S 25:29 TYPICALLY PAINTED WITH LONG HAIR AND THAT'S ONE OF 25:31 THE REASONS FOR THAT. BUT THAT WAS FORETOLD. 25:35 "AND THEN HE WENT DOWN WITH HIS PARENTS AND HE CAME TO NAZARETH 25:38 AND HE WAS SUBJECT TO THEM." AND THERE'S ALL THESE THEORIES THAT 25:42 SAY, YOU KNOW, THE REASON JESUS WAS SO BRILLIANT IS BECAUSE, 25:46 FROM THE TIME HE WAS BORN, HIS PARENTS THEN TOOK HIM AND HE 25:49 STUDIED UNDER THESE WISE GURUS IN INDIA, OR HE WENT TO EGYPT 25:54 AND HE STUDIED THERE. AND THEY'VE GOT ALL THESE 25:56 THEORIES ABOUT WHERE JESUS GOT HIS GREAT KNOWLEDGE BECAUSE IT 25:58 SAYS THAT HE WAS NOT EDUCATED IN JERUSALEM. 26:01 IT TELLS US THAT HE LEARNED THE SCRIPTURES RIGHT THERE FROM HIS 26:05 PARENTS IN HOME. HE DIDN'T GO OFF AND WASN'T 26:08 SECRETLY TAUGHT BY ANY, YOU KNOW, KUNG FU EXPERTS 26:12 OFF THERE SOMEWHERE. AND THEN COME BACK AND HAVE 26:15 THIS GREAT ENLIGHTENMENT. HE WENT TO HIS PARENTS. 26:18 HE LIVED A NORMAL LIFE FOR 33 - FOR THE FIRST 30 YEARS UNTIL HIS 26:22 BAPTISM. BUT THE MAIN REASON WE DO THESE 26:24 SEMINARS IS BECAUSE WE WANT PEOPLE TO KNOW THAT THE 26:27 BIBLE IS ALL ABOUT JESUS. WHEN ABRAHAM WENT UP THE 26:31 MOUNTAIN WITH ISAAC GOD SAID, 'ARE YOU WILLING TO 26:34 GIVE ME YOUR SON?' HE PUT THE WOOD ON ISAAC'S BACK. 26:40 THE CROSS WAS PLACED ON JESUS' BACK. 26:43 THE FATHER AND THE SON WENT TO THE MOUNTAIN TOP TOGETHER. 26:46 ISAAC WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. JESUS WAS A WILLING SACRIFICE. 26:52 ABRAHAM WAS WILLING TO GIVE HIS SON AND THAT'S A TYPE OF GOD WHO 26:56 DID GIVE HIS SON. BUT WHEN YOU READ THE BIBLE 26:58 YOU'RE READING IN THE STORY OF JOSEPH AND IN THE STORY OF DAVID 27:02 AND THE STORY OF SAMUEL AND GIDEON. 27:05 IT'S ALL TELLING US ABOUT JESUS. YOU'RE SEEING SHADOWS IN A 27:09 TAPESTRY OF CHRIST ALL THROUGH THIS BOOK BECAUSE GOD WANTS YOU 27:12 TO KNOW THEM AND KNOW HIM AND HAVE A PERSONAL 27:15 RELATIONSHIP WITH HIS SON. >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH 27:18 AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 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