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Doug Batchelor: "At that
time of the end," by the way,
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that's when we're living
now, "the king of the South
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will attack the
king of the North."
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Now, this may
not happen next year.
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It could happen in a month.
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I don't know when
it's gonna happen,
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but I don't think the
prophecy is gonna fail.
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I think it's gonna happen.
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Doug: Our presentation
today is gonna be the third and,
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God willing, the final part
in a three-part series dealing
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with the subject of
Islam, Christianity,
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and prophecy and today's message
is more specifically called,
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"Critical Mass."
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Join me in the book
of Daniel for a moment,
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and I'm not
gonna stay here long,
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but I just wanna
introduce where I'm going.
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Daniel 11, verse 40.
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"And at the time of the end the
king of the South shall attack
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him," the king of the North,
"and the king of the North
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will come against
him like a whirlwind,
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with many chariots,
horsemen, and with many ships;
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and he will enter the
countries, overwhelm them,
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and pass through.
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He'll also enter
the Glorious Land,
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and many countries will be
overthrown," he's talking about
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whole countries, "but these
will escape from his hand: Edom,
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Moab, and the
prominent people of Adam--Ammon.
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And they'll stretch out
his hand against the countries,
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and the land of
Egypt shall not escape.
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And they'll have power over the
treasures of gold and silver,
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and over the
precious things of Egypt;
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also the Libyans and Ethiopians
will follow at his steps."
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Those are some verses that
we're gonna delve into today.
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It's very mysterious.
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Says, "At the time of the end."
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What is this talking about?
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We know those verses
there, from 40 to 45,
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are very important, 'cause
if you read the next verse,
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"At that time
Michael will stand up,
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the great prince who stands
over the sons of your people;
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and there will be
a time of trouble,
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such as there never was
since there was a nation,
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even to that time."
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Jesus speaks about this
great time of trouble such as
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there never has been.
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"And at that time your
people will be delivered,"
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the ultimate deliverance,
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"every one who is found written
in the book," the book of life.
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"And many of those who
sleep in the dust of the earth
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will awake," a resurrection.
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So, it's pretty clear
that when Michael stands up
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that it's over.
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You get the resurrection.
You get this time of trouble.
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You get the great
deliverance, so what's happening
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just before that?
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Well, I think it's
gonna represent a showdown,
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where the tensions that
have simmered from the time
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of Abraham and
throughout the Christian era
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are gonna reach critical mass.
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But before we get there,
I'm gonna ask you to join me
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in the book of Revelation.
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We're gonna go back
where we left off last time.
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Go, please, to Revelation.
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It talks about the
last three trumpets,
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which are also
identified with three woes.
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Revelation 8:13, "I looked,
and I heard an angel flying
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through the midst of heaven,
saying with a loud voice,
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'Woe, woe, woe to the
inhabitants of the earth,
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because of the
remaining blasts of the trumpet
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of the three angels
that are about to sound!'"
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So, the last three
trumpets in the seven trumpets
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of revelation,
they're-- well, let me say this.
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You got several
sevens in Revelation.
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Got seven churches.
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Covers the history of the church
from the time of revelation,
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first coming of Jesus, to
the second coming of Jesus.
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It's a spiritual history.
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You got the seven
seals in Revelation.
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It covers the political history
that influences God's people
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from the First
Coming to the Second Coming,
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and then you've
got the seven trumpets.
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They cover a military
history from the First Coming
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to the Second
Coming: battles and forces
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and powers that
would be at odds.
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And it's not talking
about all the kingdoms
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and all the wars
of all the world.
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You wonder, "Does this
prophecy talk about China
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or the Inca Indians?
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Or does it talk
about the-- you know,
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some of the other nations?"
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No, it's dealing with the
nations that would have a direct
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impact on God's people and
the proclamation of the gospel,
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so it starts in Israel.
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It expands from
there, through Europe,
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where the gospel spread
and it became the foothold,
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makes its way to America.
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Are you aware that America
sends out more missionaries than
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any other country in the world?
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That more mission
dollars come from America than
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any other country in the world,
so it shouldn't surprise you
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that these places that have
been the guardian of the message
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are the ones that
are principally mentioned
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in prophecy.
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So then, these three prophecies,
if you look, for instance,
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we're gonna go next to the
rise of Islam, and if you read
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in Revelation 9--
go in your Bibles.
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You turn a little bit over,
and it's talking about that
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next trumpet.
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"And the fifth angel
sounded: and I saw--"
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This fifth angel is the
first of the three woes.
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"I saw a star fall
from heaven to the earth.
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To him was given the
key to the bottomless pit.
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He opened the bottomless pit,
and smoke arose out of the pit
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like the smoke
of a great furnace.
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So the sun and the
air were darkened because
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of the smoke of the pit.
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Then out of the smoke
locusts came upon the earth."
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Now, I read to you last week--
if you read in Judges chapter 6,
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it talked about when the
Amalekites and the Midianites
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and the people of the East
covered the land like locusts,
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with their camels.
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These are the people
that comprise the Arabs,
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and it
describes them as locusts,
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and they ate
everything in the land.
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That's why Gideon was
threshing wheat secretly,
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'cause there was no food.
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The locusts ate it all,
the Arab enemies at that time,
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and so this would not be the
first time there was a battle
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between these two peoples.
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So, here this smoke coming
out of the pit is describing
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the birth and the spread
of the religion of Mohammed,
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and this is the first
trumpet or the first woe
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of the fifth trumpet.
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Most Christian
expositors, Martin Luther,
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Sir Isaac Newton,
historian Edward Gibbon,
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and many others all saw the
fifth and the sixth trumpet in
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Revelation 9 as the rise and the
spread of Islam and its battles
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with the eastern and western
Christian world that was growing
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there through Europe.
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So, Revelation 9:1-12 is the
fifth trumpet and the first woe.
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It's the rise of Islam, and
it says they would torment--
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there's a number
associated with it.
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They would be
tormenting Christianity.
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They didn't kill 'em.
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They tormented them like
the sting of a scorpion--
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it's not a deadly
serpent-- for five months.
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Now, when we look at
these Bible prophecies
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and there's a time period,
what's the principle we use?
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A day is a year.
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A biblical month had 30 days.
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That's why the 42
months comes to 1,260 days,
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because they're 30-day months.
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It's the only way those
two could be reconciled.
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That's 150 days
in 5 months, right?
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A hundred and fifty days.
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A day is a year, 150
years, and it started in 1299
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at the Battle of Béthune.
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The Turkish Muslims
began a persistent assault
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on the Eastern Roman
Empire in Constantinople.
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In 1449,
exactly 150 years later,
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the conflict of the
Eastern Roman Empire,
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or Byzantine Empire.
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It became a vassal state.
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It submitted to
the Ottoman Empire,
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which was a Muslim
power, exactly what the prophecy
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said would happen.
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Now, you go to Revelation 9:12.
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It says--the angel
doesn't want us to lose track,
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so he says, "One woe is past.
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Behold, two more
woes," to make up those three,
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"are coming."
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These woes, the first
two woes, are a battle
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between Christianity and Islam.
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Could it be the third
woe is more of the same?
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That's what I'm putting forth.
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Now, if you read
in Revelation 9:14,
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it talks about four angels,
and it says these four angels--
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and I'll read this to you.
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"Saying to the sixth angel
who has the trumpet," so this is
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the sixth trumpet, he
says, "'Release the four angels
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who are bound at the
great river Euphrates.'
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So the four angels,
who had been prepared,"
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and you got
another time period here,
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"for the hour and
day and month and year,
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were released to
kill a third of mankind."
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This
represented a different woe,
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a different phase of battles
that lasted over 300 years
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between Islam and Christianity,
where now they started attacking
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the Western Roman Empire,
and they basically had already
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swallowed up and conquered
the Eastern Roman Empire.
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This is the sixth
trumpet, or the second woe.
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Let's look at the time period
here, and I'll have the numbers
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up on the screen for
you in just a moment.
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You got a day and an hour.
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You got an hour, a
day, a month, and a year.
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Well, an hour, even in the Bible
there were 24 hours in a day.
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You can read where Jesus said,
"Are there not twelve hours
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in a day?"
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And so, you got 1/24 of a day,
or 1/24 of a year is exactly
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360 days to the Jewish year.
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That's gonna be 15 days.
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Then you've got a
day, which is one day.
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Then you got a
month, which is 30 days.
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And then you have a
year, which is 360 days.
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You add all that up and that
comes to 391 years and 15 days.
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This is incredible because
if you start at that earlier
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starting point of
1449, it extends to 1840,
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and at that point
the Ottoman Empire lost
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its independence and authority.
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It requested help from other
European nations to continue
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existing, and what's incredible
this is one of the rare times
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in history.
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Most of the time we understand
prophecy clearly, looking back.
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Jesus said, "When this comes
to pass, then you will know."
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And so, we're always
trying to use prophecy to say
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what's gonna happen.
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More times than
not we say, "Oh."
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After it happens we go, "Oh,"
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but this is one of
the rare times in history
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where somebody studied
the prophecies and predicted
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in advance what was
gonna happen, and it happened.
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How many of you have
read about Josiah Litch?
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And when he studied
this prophecy back during
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that great Millerite movement
when they were anticipating
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the Lord's coming, he predicted,
using the day-for-year
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principle, the Ottoman
Empire was going to fall
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and even predicted
the date it would fall
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based on the date it
started, and it happened.
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Well, that really inspired
everybody else that 1844
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was a good date, which it was.
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They just had the wrong event.
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Doug: Don't go
anywhere, friends.
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In just a moment
we'll return for the rest
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of today's presentation.
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today's presentation and learn
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some more amazing
facts from the Word of God.
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Doug: Go to Revelation 9,
and we're gonna be reading
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the verses from 13 on.
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"Then the sixth angel sounded:
and I heard a voice from
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the four horns of the golden
altar which is before God,
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saying to the sixth
angel who had the trumpet,
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'Release the four
angels who are bound
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at the great river Euphrates.'
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So the four angels,
who had been prepared
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for an hour, a day,
a month, and a year,
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were released to
kill a third of mankind."
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Now some are
wondering, "What does that mean,
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a third of all humanity?"
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Well, it was maybe as
many as a third of the soldiers
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involved in the battles
over this 300-year period,
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or 391-year period.
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That would have been more
accurate 'cause the armies
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of Christianity was
decimated during this time.
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"So the number of
the army of the horsemen
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was two hundred million."
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Now, every commentator
I've read on that said,
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"We're making a mistake here."
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Now, I don't know--
what does your Bible say?
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King James is--yeah, and here
I'm reading the New King James
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that says "200 million," and
many other versions put that.
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The reason is that number is
actually two myriads of myriads.
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The problem is the
word "myriad" is an end--
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it's unprecise number.
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Matter of fact,
in the book of Acts,
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I think it's
chapter 20, it said,
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"Myriads of people came
to hear the word of God."
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Well, it wasn't
a hundred thousand,
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so you'll see that
word is sometimes used
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as an indefinite number.
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It may sometimes mean 10,000 and
sometimes it can mean 100,000.
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William Miller, who
I agree with on this,
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he believes that that number
was saying 2 times 200,000.
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That would be 400,000.
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Well, it is interesting that
in the siege of Constantinople
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the--Mehmed had an army
that numbered at least 350,000,
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and so it's talking about this
incredible army on horseback,
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but it's not necessarily
giving you a specific number.
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And it says, "And thus I saw the
horses in the vision," he used,
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principally, cavalry, "and those
who sat on them had breastplates
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of fiery red, and hyacinth
blue, and sulfur yellow."
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They did wear iron breastplates,
and they did have blue garments.
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"And the heads of the horses
were like the heads of lions;
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and out of their
mouths came fire, and smoke,
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and brimstone."
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Now, many of the--
many historians believe
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this is describing the
introduction of gunpowder.
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The Muslims were some of
the first who began to take
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from the East the knowledge of
gunpowder and use it in warfare
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for cannons and arms.
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They were primitive rifles, but
they saw the smoke and the fire
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and the brimstone firing out
of the front of these horses,
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and they'd turn
around and fire behind them,
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like a good Cheyenne soldier,
and they'd see 'em coming
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from the front and the
back, and they'd hear the roar
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of a lion they
couldn't describe.
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Arrows don't make that
noise when you shoot them,
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and so it's talking
about it's like a roar coming,
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and you can read this.
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"Out of their mouths
fire, smoke, and brimstone."
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And I think that
this is describing some
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of the early firearms.
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I've actually got
pictures, I think,
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that you can see
here on the screen,
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one artist's rendition
of an early Ottoman cannon.
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Yeah, there you have it, and
then some of the smaller arms
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of the--even the early
paintings you can see that
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the Ottoman soldiers,
they did have primitive guns
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that they used back
then, and I thought,
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"Well, maybe he was
describing this in vision."
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Now, we get to
the seventh trumpet,
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the third woe, and
right now, friends,
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just in case you're
wondering, up until this moment
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I've been talking
about what's behind us.
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Now I'm getting ready to
talk about what's ahead of us,
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or we're on the
threshold of right now.
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"The seventh angel sounded:
and there were loud voices in
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heaven, 'The kingdoms of this
world have become the kingdoms
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of our Lord and of his
Christ, and he will reign
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forever and ever!'"
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"And the nations were
angry, and your wrath has come."
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It's talking about a
time of unprecipitated
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international turmoil.
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Not a nation, the nations.
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"And your wrath has
come," a time of judgment,
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"a time that the dead,
that they should be judged,"
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a time of judgment,
"and that you should reward
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your servants,"
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it's a time of reward, "and
the prophets and the saints,"
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and that would
be a resurrection.
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This is similar with
what's happening in Daniel 12
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and the end of Daniel 11,
"Those who fear your name,
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small and great."
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And so, with
that introduction now,
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I'm gonna jump to Daniel 11.
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Now, I should tell
you, as we go there,
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I don't have time to read all
45 verses and expound on them,
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but I'm gonna just show you--I'm
gonna cherry pick a few verses,
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I'll just be honest with
you, that are pretty easy to
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understand so that we can get
to the verses we're considering.
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For instance, if you
look in Daniel 11, verse 2,
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"And now I will tell
you the truth: behold,
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three more kings
will arise in Persia,
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and the fourth will be
far richer than them all;
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by his strength,
and through his riches,
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he will stir up
against the realm of Greece."
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You've heard of Artaxerxes
and history calls him Xerxes I,
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and this king--any of you ever
heard the story about the 300
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Spartan soldiers that were able
to resist the Persian advance?
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This is the Xerxes who had
an army that they say numbered
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somewhere between
600,000 and 1 million.
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That is a massive, massive army.
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He invaded Greece, but he
didn't succeed in taking it,
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and he was very
rich, and this is what is
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being described here
in Daniel 11, verse 2.
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And jump over now to
verse 3, Daniel 11:3,
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"Then a mighty king will
arise, who will rule with great
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dominion, and he will
do according to his will.
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And when he has arisen,
his kingdom will be broken
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and divided
towards the four winds."
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Who do you think
this is talking about?
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That's right.
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It's Alexander the
Great, who was a mighty king,
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incredible general,
very young, considering what
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he accomplished, and
he came from the North.
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Matter of fact,
several of these kings,
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you're gonna find out, are
coming down from the North.
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All right, talked a little
about Alexander the Great.
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Go in Daniel 11 to verse 20.
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It says, "There will arise one
in his place who imposes taxes
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on the glorious kingdom."
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Well, this is
really easy to figure out,
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because you find the answer
to who this is right there
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in Luke 2:1,
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"Came to pass in those
days there went out a decree
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from Caesar Augustus that
all the world should be taxed,"
00:20:10.51\00:20:15.54
and that's exactly
what Augustus Caesar did.
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Matter of fact, it's
mentioned twice in the Bible.
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Look in Acts
5:37, "After this man,
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rose up Judas of Galilee
in the days of the taxing."
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It was so big.
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The taxing he did was, sort of,
a universal taxing that it had
00:20:28.32\00:20:30.59
a high point in history,
so the Jews referred to it,
00:20:30.63\00:20:33.13
"Oh yeah, the
days of the taxing."
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And Augustus Caesar,
he basically took a census
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of the whole kingdom so that
he could accurately impose taxes
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on everybody and talks
about him in Daniel 11,
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so now we've
transitioned, you can see,
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to where the Romans
have replaced the Greeks
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in the North.
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Then you get to Daniel 11:25,
"He will stir up his power and
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his courage against the king
of the South with a great army.
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And the king of the South
will be stirred up to battle
00:21:03.12\00:21:06.19
with a very great and mighty
army; and it shall not stand,
00:21:06.23\00:21:09.36
for they will
devise plans against him."
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Many commentators believe
this is describing when now the
00:21:11.97\00:21:15.47
Roman power has transitioned
into the Roman church
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after Augustus Caesar,
about the time of Justinian.
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That Christianity was legalized
during the time of Constantine
00:21:22.88\00:21:26.15
and now it's transitioning
more into a spiritual kingdom in
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the North that's fighting with a
spiritual kingdom in the South,
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Islam, that had
taken the Holy Land,
00:21:33.66\00:21:35.86
namely, the Crusades
are being described here.
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Mighty armies
crossing the ocean.
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The king of the North
against the king of the South,
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but don't miss that it starts
out talking about political
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battles and kingdoms, but when
you get into the time of Jesus,
00:21:47.87\00:21:53.27
it starts turning
into spiritual kingdom,
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'cause the nation of
Israel-- Christ said, you know,
00:21:57.18\00:22:00.68
"My kingdom is
not of this world."
00:22:00.72\00:22:03.22
He said, "The kingdom of heaven
is at hand," and now it became
00:22:03.25\00:22:05.95
a battle for who has the truth.
00:22:05.99\00:22:09.02
The whole purpose of the beast
power--have you read Daniel 8?
00:22:09.06\00:22:11.59
Cast the truth to the
ground and practice and prosper.
00:22:11.63\00:22:16.00
Cleansing of the sanctuary
is restoring of truth about God,
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as well as many other things, so
it's--this is all dealing with
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the big battle for the truth,
'cause the truth is what saves.
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It's the gospel
that sets people free.
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Now we're getting to the
main passage that we can--
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we considered earlier.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.12
"Now at that time," this
is a prophecy of the end time,
00:22:36.15\00:22:40.62
"at that time of
the end," by the way,
00:22:40.66\00:22:44.19
that's when we're living
now, "the king of the South
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will attack the
king of the North."
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All right, I think the
king of the South is Islam.
00:22:51.10\00:22:56.47
I just look at what's
happened through history.
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The first woe.
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The second woe, it
was the spread of Islam.
00:23:00.81\00:23:02.68
The third woe.
00:23:02.71\00:23:04.01
Why did the prophet
separate out those three woes?
00:23:04.05\00:23:08.95
Is the battle between the sons
of Ishmael and the descendants
00:23:08.98\00:23:12.59
of Isaac, that are now
the two great religions
00:23:12.62\00:23:15.96
of the world today,
and it is a very powerful,
00:23:15.99\00:23:18.23
wealthy,
growing religious power,
00:23:18.26\00:23:21.53
but it's not the truth.
00:23:21.56\00:23:24.10
And something is gonna happen.
00:23:24.13\00:23:25.43
Now, if you say, "Pastor Doug,
00:23:25.47\00:23:26.77
what's the
attack gonna look like?"
00:23:26.80\00:23:28.10
I don't know.
00:23:28.14\00:23:31.04
Some might have
thought it was the twin towers,
00:23:31.07\00:23:33.38
but I think it's
gonna be bigger than that.
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Something is gonna happen.
00:23:34.88\00:23:36.18
You know, right now the
leaders of the Western world are
00:23:36.21\00:23:38.15
very conciliatory towards
Islam because they know that if
00:23:38.18\00:23:43.08
there's an incident--that
the feelings between the people
00:23:43.12\00:23:48.69
of these varying religions,
these two principle religions,
00:23:48.72\00:23:52.53
are growing threadbare,
and if there is some major
00:23:52.56\00:23:56.93
assault--what would it take?
00:23:56.97\00:24:00.14
I don't know, but I'm saying
that there could be some event
00:24:00.17\00:24:04.11
that would trigger--you know,
if the flow of oil is somehow
00:24:04.14\00:24:09.68
cut off, people will put up
all kinds of things on the news.
00:24:09.71\00:24:14.15
People will watch about
different terrorist things that
00:24:14.18\00:24:16.45
are out there
happening to other people.
00:24:16.48\00:24:19.02
I heard someone say
once, "When you're out of a job
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.39
it's a recession.
00:24:22.42\00:24:23.73
When I'm out of a
job it's a depression."
00:24:23.76\00:24:26.46
And as long as it's out
there somewhere--but if all
00:24:26.49\00:24:29.53
of a sudden you can't
buy stuff at the store,
00:24:29.56\00:24:32.13
and you can't get
your gas at the pump,
00:24:32.17\00:24:33.80
you're gonna--and
someone in politics says,
00:24:33.84\00:24:35.74
"You know, we need
to get a force together.
00:24:35.77\00:24:37.54
We need to get a
coalition from Europe,
00:24:37.57\00:24:40.28
and we need to put an end
to this," folks are gonna go,
00:24:40.31\00:24:43.45
"Yeah, if it's gonna put
gas in my tank let's do it."
00:24:43.48\00:24:48.48
And if we're outraged because
we feel like Christianity
00:24:48.52\00:24:52.22
is being attacked or our
way of life is being attacked,
00:24:52.25\00:24:55.52
but something is gonna where
it says the king of the South
00:24:55.56\00:24:58.06
will do something to
provoke, some major incident,
00:24:58.09\00:25:00.96
the king of the North.
00:25:01.00\00:25:02.46
Don't know
exactly what that will be,
00:25:02.50\00:25:04.57
but the king of the North
is not gonna sit by anymore
00:25:04.60\00:25:07.00
and talk about peace.
00:25:07.04\00:25:08.54
You read here it says,
"The king of the North will come
00:25:08.57\00:25:11.51
against him like a whirlwind."
00:25:11.54\00:25:13.48
You know, my guess is that
when this coalition of powers
00:25:13.51\00:25:19.21
from the North, Christian
coalition different from
00:25:19.25\00:25:22.85
the other Christian
coalition, that a confederacy.
00:25:22.88\00:25:29.12
They're gonna say,
"Israel is our friend."
00:25:29.16\00:25:32.59
And because, you know, if
there's this great Islamic
00:25:32.63\00:25:36.33
struggle against the West,
there will probably be an attack
00:25:36.36\00:25:40.44
on Israel at the same time, and
they will use that as an excuse
00:25:40.47\00:25:43.91
to protect our Jewish friends.
00:25:43.94\00:25:45.97
They will enter the
Promised Land literally.
00:25:46.01\00:25:48.61
I really think that
may literally happen.
00:25:48.64\00:25:51.18
I tell you there is
nothing more--that a lot of
00:25:51.21\00:25:54.42
Arab countries--not all,
but many of these Arab people
00:25:54.45\00:25:57.72
and countries would
love to see Israel displaced.
00:25:57.75\00:26:01.29
They won't even
acknowledge them as a nation.
00:26:01.32\00:26:04.59
That would be a good excuse
for this military to come in and
00:26:04.63\00:26:08.50
create a beachhead there.
00:26:08.53\00:26:10.67
"The North will
come against him,"
00:26:10.70\00:26:12.20
I'm in Daniel chapter 11, still
verse 40, "like a whirlwind,
00:26:12.23\00:26:17.04
with chariots, and
horsemen, and many ships."
00:26:17.07\00:26:19.54
This can't be understood.
00:26:19.57\00:26:20.88
Now, I doubt, you know,
we're gonna have chariots.
00:26:20.91\00:26:22.71
There'll probably be
Humvees and tanks and,
00:26:22.74\00:26:24.48
you know, they're trying
to describe moving massive
00:26:24.51\00:26:28.32
military, but a great
confederacy of military.
00:26:28.35\00:26:32.65
Many ships and a navy
will enter the countries.
00:26:32.69\00:26:36.12
Not country, countries.
00:26:36.16\00:26:38.86
This might be some of
the Islamic countries,
00:26:38.89\00:26:41.86
but you realize it's not
just terrorism that's happening
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in Europe and America.
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It's in Africa. It's in India.
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It's in Indonesia.
It's in the Philippines.
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Everywhere I've
gone in the world,
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they are having friction
with their Muslim neighbors.
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Now, this may
not happen next year.
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It could happen in a month.
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I don't know when
it's gonna happen,
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but I don't think the
prophecy is gonna fail.
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I think it's gonna happen.
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but he was alive and
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Doug: The heavens
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The Holy Spirit came down.
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This is what God
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If you come to Christ,
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you become a new creature.
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It's a land of beginning
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you could get a new start?
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In as much as you do it
to one of the least of these,
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my brethren, you did it to me."
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