Participants: Mark Fox
Series Code: AMP
Program Code: AMP000011A
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00:04 We are racing towards the global crises at the close.
00:09 God is going to set up His kingdom on earth. 00:13 Preparation for the tribulation and the translation 00:18 is to develop a character like Jesus Christ, 00:21 to reach every hamlet, every village, every man, 00:24 every child, every person in India, 00:27 every person in South America. 00:28 must hear these Three Angels' messages. 00:34 These are stories that illustrate 00:36 the kind of fabric of character 00:38 and perseverance that we need to go through the tribulation 00:42 just as certainly as they did. 00:44 The Bible makes it very clear, 00:45 we are living in an unusual hour. 00:48 The last grains of sand are trickling 00:50 through the hour glass of time and the door probation 00:53 is about the swing shut. 01:02 "Hope Beyond The Grave." 01:04 Come with me to the enchanted land of the Nile. 01:11 There at the enchanted land of the Nile, 01:13 you'll see the Nile River, 01:15 you see the massive imposing pyramids towering 01:19 above the shifting desert sands of Egypt. 01:23 The mighty Pharaohs prepared 01:25 for their journey beyond the grave. 01:28 Indeed the Pharaohs and the ancient Egyptians 01:31 had an incredible fascination with death 01:34 and an insatiable inquest for immortality. 01:38 And so they believed in this quest that when you die, 01:42 you live on immediately in the afterlife. 01:46 This is what the ancient Egyptians believed. 01:49 And so they believed that the person's soul 01:52 returned again and again to its body. 01:57 So therefore, they mastered 01:59 to perfection preserving a dead body. 02:02 I think the arid climate had a lot to do with it, 02:06 and so all the statues of slaves and soldiers became, 02:11 as they believed it, real people in the afterlife. 02:15 So that's why they were buried with many statues and so forth. 02:20 Thoughts of their afterlife compelled them 02:23 to build and build they did. 02:26 They would go to their bigger than life pyramid, 02:29 the house of their "Ka" that is to say the house 02:33 of their disembodied "soul" as they believed. 02:36 They believed their soul was immortal 02:39 and was released from the body at death. 02:42 And so 4000 years ago, 02:45 the Pyramids of Giza rose to the heavens. 02:49 And let me tell you, I've been there, 02:51 I can tell you they are bigger than life. 02:54 You are dwarf, as a little ant there in their presence. 02:59 And so it took 20 years and over 100,000 workers 03:03 to build the Great Pyramid of Cheops, 03:06 which is the most imposing of the pyramids of the trio. 03:10 The Sphinx guarded the pyramids of Giza. 03:14 But as we will learn, 03:15 that set no prove not too trust worthy 03:19 and so the giant colossal of stones were built 03:22 in the shape of the rays of the sun. 03:26 Therefore, they believe that the pharaoh 03:28 ascended to heaven on the rays of the sun 03:32 and on the staircase of the pyramid. 03:36 So deep within them all was the secret 03:39 burial chamber of a pharaoh. 03:42 And some of them mightier than others, 03:45 some of them more well known than others, 03:47 like how about Rameses the Great? 03:50 And so the massive pyramids that concealed 03:53 the tombs of the mighty pharaohs 03:55 were all exploited by robbers, unfortunately, 04:01 because the pyramids were so massive, 04:05 you just couldn't get your mind off of them, 04:07 they were a beacon reminder, there's treasures in here, 04:11 it's all for the taking and take it they did. 04:14 And so where would the pharaohs go next to be secretly buried? 04:20 And so they decided they had to try to outsmart the robbers. 04:25 Well, what did they do? 04:28 We travel now up the Nile River past many religious 04:33 buildings and temples and so forth. 04:36 We go up the Nile River, the Valley of the Kings. 04:42 After the pyramid age, the New Kingdom of pharaohs 04:45 were buried in tombs, cut into remote cliffs 04:49 in the desert valley, 04:50 some of them reminiscent of those pyramids. 04:53 And so here they tried to conceal 04:56 the tombs of the pharaohs. 04:58 I said, they tried. 05:01 They assumed all were plundered eventually, 05:04 those who were digging for the buried treasures, 05:10 well, guess what, eventually, 05:12 the archaeologists and the school of thought was, 05:17 that the prevailing opinion was that they assumed 05:20 all were plundered and robbed after time. 05:25 And so-- But there was one that Howard Carter 05:30 believed was still hidden deep in the sands, 05:35 we're talking now about around a year 1922. 05:39 He was the boy king who mysteriously 05:42 died prematurely by the age of 20. 05:47 And so the year was 1922 and something breathtaking 05:51 was about to unfold beneath the desert sands. 05:56 Howard Carter, on November 4, 05:59 and his diggers discovered a rock cut step 06:03 below the entrance to the tomb of Ramases VI. 06:07 The sunken steps led to a walled-up tomb entrance. 06:13 And on November 23, the work resumed, 06:16 an excitement grew as symbols containing 06:19 Tutankhamun's name were uncovered. 06:22 Well, on November 26, 06:28 Carter made a small opening 06:30 and prepared to enter the chamber. 06:33 And this is just fascinating in the extreme. 06:36 This is an actual photograph of Howard Carter 06:41 as he was actually now peering through the little window, 06:47 the little hole that he made there and inserted a candle, 06:50 the single most coveted prize in archaeology 06:54 is about to be discovered. 06:56 Finally Howard Carter lights a candle 06:59 and for the first time in 3,000 years, 07:02 how many years, everyone? 07:04 Three thousand years, 07:06 the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh 07:09 is found intact and untouched for over 3,000 years. 07:16 And so they discovered a very lavish burial beyond belief. 07:22 And inside, they discovered 07:25 four boxes one inside the other. 07:29 And in the fourth box was a sandstone sarcophagus 07:33 containing a nest of three coffins 07:36 and the inner coffin-- 07:38 Oh, and Tut's mummy had 150 pieces of jewelry 07:41 in the wrappings and on and on. 07:42 He had a chariot there and a bed there 07:45 and the couches there. 07:47 In the fourth box, solid gold coffin 07:51 and the golden mask that enclosed the pharaoh's body. 07:54 I mean, look at this breath taking picture here. 07:57 And so his solid gold inner coffin 08:00 weighs about 243 pounds. 08:06 We're talking about massive wealth, 08:09 massive wealth of the ancient kingdom of Egypt. 08:14 If the treasure of this boy king 08:16 was so magnificent and so luxurious, 08:20 can you imagine what the robbers must have taken. 08:24 The treasure trove that they must 08:27 have discovered and taken, they taken in comparison, 08:32 I'm sure that King Tut's treasures seem very little. 08:36 So why were the pharaohs and King Tut mummified? 08:40 Why were they mummified? 08:42 Because they believed in the immortality 08:44 of a disembodied soul. 08:47 Are the pharaohs of ancient Egypt 08:49 alive enjoying their treasures in afterlife? 08:54 Did you know that the Bible 08:58 never uses the term immortal soul 09:02 or immortality of the soul? 09:07 So what does that translate into? 09:10 This is the secret buried with them all. 09:14 The secret is, after all, 09:17 could it be that all the hard work 09:21 was for nothing that they really are still dead. 09:25 Could that be a secret that's been buried with all of them, 09:28 that they didn't go on to an afterlife immediately? 09:33 Well, to most, death is the troubling mystery 09:37 around the world. 09:39 But God's word solves death's mystery. 09:43 So we must take the magnifying glass to Scripture 09:46 and find out what the Bible says, amen. 09:49 And so man makes complicated what God makes clear. 09:54 We cannot afford guessing about this one. 09:58 Indeed, death is a fact of life that we must all face. 10:03 Therefore, it is wise to know the facts 10:05 and to be prepared when death comes, 10:08 because most of the time death comes unexpectedly. 10:13 And so, God wants little children to understand 10:17 this important subject. 10:20 And so when a man dies, what next? 10:24 What happens when a man dies? 10:28 Is death the end or just the beginning, 10:31 as the Egyptians believe? 10:34 Does man have an immortal soul, like the pharaohs believed? 10:39 Where do we go when we die? 10:42 Well, 86 percent of Americans believe in the afterlife, 10:45 according to a Harris Poll and if you would ask 10:49 the average person on the street 10:50 these questions about death, 10:51 you would get a lot of different answers. 10:54 Why don't you do that bring back a report to me, 10:56 would you do that? 10:57 All right, some say, "Well, when you die 10:59 if you're not right, you go to Limbo." 11:01 Some say, "If you die and you're not right, 11:03 you go to purgatory." 11:04 Some say, "If you're not right, you go to hell fire." 11:06 That's tomorrow night's message. 11:08 And some say, "If you are right with God, 11:09 immediately, you go right to heaven." 11:12 Well, some say, "No, you will be reincarnated." 11:17 Shirley MacLaine would tell you that 11:19 and a host of other celebrities would tell you, 11:21 that they believe that reincarnation is the truth. 11:25 A matter of fact they are not alone, 11:27 the whole religion revolves around the incarnation. 11:31 Are Americans becoming more Hindu? 11:34 Over a million Hindus live in the United States 11:36 and one billion who live on earth. 11:39 Twenty four percent of Americans 11:42 believe in reincarnation. 11:44 Now that is astounding. And should I add disturbing. 11:48 2008, Harris Poll. 11:50 Hinduism, teaches that selves come back 11:53 to earth again and again in different bodies. 11:58 So therefore, beware where you step, 12:01 that you might be running into, "Joe, is that you?" 12:05 All right, anyway. 12:07 Where are our beloved dead? Where are our beloved dead? 12:11 Can we find a hope beyond the grave? 12:15 Well, are the dead, dead? 12:20 Or really living more than they ever were? 12:22 There are many grave errors about death popular today. 12:28 So what is now being portrayed and taught in popular movies, 12:32 popular talk shows, popular music, 12:34 popular books, and magazines? 12:36 What's being taught? 12:37 Well, here is the complete first season, 12:41 a television season entitled "Medium" a while back. 12:46 She sees what others can't. 12:49 Here is a blockbuster movie by starring Bruce Willis 12:55 entitled "The Sixth Sense" 12:57 the number one thriller of all time. 12:59 And it showcased a little boy that was troubled. 13:03 And he went to visit his psychiatrist, 13:06 Bruce Willis and he had a problem. 13:09 He was disturbed because he said, 13:11 "I see dead people." 13:15 What does the Bible say about this? 13:18 That's what Hollywood is telling you. 13:20 Can the dead communicate with the living? 13:23 Did you know this is Spiritualism? 13:27 "A belief that spirits of the dead 13:29 communicate with the living." 13:31 That is Spiritualism. 13:32 And that's what Webster's dictionary says. 13:36 Well, here's another series. 13:39 "Ghost Whisperer" maybe you've heard about that. 13:42 She claims to see and talk to dead people. 13:45 C.B.S. recently aired this daring series. 13:48 In 2005, NBC aired "Revelations," 13:52 in which the spirit of a dead girl is able to mouth messages 13:55 through the lips of another 13:57 comatose girl about the end time. 14:01 Well, guess what? 14:02 Now it's really mainstream because popular talk shows 14:06 have psychics like John Edwards and others, 14:10 on their shows claiming to contact the dead 14:13 and they will actually claim to do that 14:16 and actually there are some really incredible 14:19 eerie stuff that unfolds on these talk shows, 14:22 that seem to confirm that indeed, 14:26 they are contacting the dead right then and there. 14:30 That is a little scary. 14:31 I say, pass on to another channel. 14:35 Almost half of Americans believe 14:37 they've had contact with someone who died. 14:41 One widower in Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada 14:44 declared to me with certainty that her husband 14:48 who had died continues to come 14:50 and get in bed with her at night. 14:54 You see on the campaign trail 14:56 I hear a lot of stories I'd learned new things. 14:58 I don't believe everything but I'm-- 15:01 One woman in Longview, Texas told me a long story. 15:04 She told me she married her husband 15:06 after he died and she proudly showed me the ring 15:09 which she said her husband gave her to prove that indeed, 15:14 she is married to her dead husband. 15:17 So what does the Bible teach 15:19 about what happens when a man dies? 15:24 The Book of Job 16:22, "When a few years are come, 15:29 then I shall go the way whence," 15:31 everyone together "I shall not return." 15:34 Can you say that with me again? I still not return. 15:39 So "as a cloud vanishes and is gone, 15:41 so he who," what? 15:42 "Goes down to the grave does not return. 15:47 He will never come to his house again." 15:50 Aren't you glad about that? 15:52 So whatever hauntedhouses are, 15:54 it's not on Uncle Tom actually coming back to the house. 15:58 Job 7: 9 and 10. 16:00 Did you know that Spiritualism was really 16:06 was really jumpstarted in a very powerful way. 16:11 What event marks the rise of modern spiritualism 16:14 that was really jumpstarted there in the 19th century, 16:19 mid 19th century, this event brought a sudden change 16:23 in views about death there in Hydesville, New York. 16:28 This was the birthplace of modern spirituaism. 16:32 And there's a cottage in a home there of the Fox Sisters 16:35 through whose mediumship communication 16:37 with the spirit world was established 16:39 there around the year 1848. 16:42 Now the two young girls, 16:43 Margetha and Katie Fox and their parents, 16:45 Mr. and Mrs. John D. Fox, by the way disclaimer, 16:48 I don't think I'm related to them. 16:51 They heard rumors that the house was haunted. 16:55 So what did they do? 16:57 They call the phantom "Mr. Split-foot" 16:59 because what they would do is they hear the wrappings. 17:02 They would wrap back and they would establish communication 17:06 and so this was the two girls became this buttress, 17:12 the idea that that we could have spiritualistic mediums. 17:16 And the two girls became spirit mediums. 17:20 And so this was no laughing matter. 17:25 Well, here today what do you have? 17:27 Casper, the Friendly Ghost, harmless entertainment? 17:33 Question mark. 17:35 A matter of fact, did you know about 17:36 25 percent or so of Americans 17:38 claim that they have seen a ghost? 17:41 So there's a lot of strange things 17:43 going on here in America. 17:45 So what was Satan's first big lie? 17:51 Five words, big lie. 17:54 He told Eve at the first bully pulpit that he had, 17:58 the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. 18:01 And the serpent was the first spiritualistic medium. 18:05 The serpent was not the devil. 18:07 The serpent was used as a puppet by the devil. 18:12 And so it became like a medium, didn't it? 18:14 And so "You shall not surely die." 18:18 So that's the first big lie that was hatched 18:23 there in the Garden of Eden. 18:26 This is a bold twist of the truth, isn't it? 18:29 But aren't you glad you shall know the truth, right. 18:32 "You shall know the truth. 18:34 And the truth shall set you free." Amen. John 8: 32. 18:38 Now spiritism claims the dead are not dead. 18:41 Now there's two main tenets of belief, 18:44 two main principles or beliefs that kind of go together. 18:48 They are really inseparable. 18:50 Number one, spiritism claims the dead are not dead. 18:56 "The fundamental principle of spiritism 18:59 is that human beings survive bodily death, 19:01 and that occasionally not yet fully understood, 19:03 we can communicate with those who have gone before." 19:07 J. Arthur Hill, Spiritism: History, 19:08 Phenomena, and Doctrine, page 25. 19:10 Number two, spiritism claims 19:13 the dead communicate with the living. 19:15 No wonder, Sir Oliver Lodge said this. 19:18 "There is no death in the graveyard. 19:21 I have frequent talks with the dead. 19:24 I cannot doubt the people live after death 19:26 for I frequently talk with them." 19:28 So maybe they should have pay phones 19:30 there at the tombstones, you know, all right. 19:32 So anyway, "And when they shall say unto you, 19:35 seek unto them that have familiar spirits, 19:37 and unto wizards that peep, and that mutter: 19:40 should not a people seek under their God? 19:42 For the living to the dead." 19:44 "To the law and the testimony." 19:46 What is the law on the testimony? 19:48 What is the law on the testimony? 19:50 It's the Word of God. It's the inspired Word of God. 19:53 And so "if they speak not according to this word," 19:56 it is what? 19:57 "It is because there is no light in them." 20:00 Avoid them, take a detour around them, don't listen. 20:03 And so that's Isaiah 8:19 and 20. 20:06 So can we expect, I ask your thinking mind here. 20:10 Can we expect incredible deceptive miracles 20:14 in the last days? 20:16 It's in the movies. 20:18 It's at the box office, it's on your television, 20:20 it's in the music, it's in the cartoons, 20:22 it's everywhere, that the dead are not dead, 20:27 and many believe, "Well, I think I've seen my uncle," 20:29 or "I think I've seen my child," or "I think." 20:32 What is going on? 20:34 Well, The Beatles say, 20:35 "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds." 20:37 All right, let's move on. 20:39 How about when Michael Jackson passed away? 20:43 You remember that they had that very large gathering, 20:47 that memorial and his friend Brooke Shields was there. 20:53 And she said, "Although our hearts are aching, 20:56 we need to look up where he's undoubtedly perched 21:00 in a crescent moon and we need to smile." 21:04 Very interesting. 21:06 You know there are two certainties of life, 21:09 death and taxation. 21:13 Wouldn't it be nice if it happened in that order? 21:15 All right, anyway. 21:17 So what is beyond the grave? What is beyond the grave? 21:23 Remember Socrates, the great philosopher, 21:26 prepared as the-- they were preparing the hemlock poison, 21:32 then he would commit suicide, 21:33 you remember here's what he said, 21:35 "Farewell I go the way of all flesh, 21:37 but whether to life or oblivion, I know not." 21:40 Would you agree that's pretty sad? 21:42 It kind of reminds me of a little boy that was 21:46 meandering through the cemetery 21:50 in Richmond, Virginia during the day, 21:52 and this young boy stumbled across an epitaph that read, 21:56 Paul Adams, who died and on Paul Adams' tombstone 22:02 the epitaph read, "Stop my friend, as you go by. 22:06 As you are now, so once was I. 22:08 As I am now, you soon shall be. 22:10 So, prepare yourself to follow me." 22:12 So he was reading this epitaph, there in the cemetery, 22:16 well, he pulled out a crayon and he responded. 22:19 "To follow you I'm not content 22:20 until I know just where you went." 22:24 So that's a question, "If a man dies, 22:26 will he live again?" Job 14: 14. 22:29 Now if we're gonna understand this subject, 22:32 we must understand that God did not create us to die. 22:36 Is that true? Yes or no. 22:37 We were not created to die, we were created to live, what? 22:41 Forever. 22:42 But if we are going to understand death, 22:44 we must understand how God created us, 22:47 which is the reverse of death, would you agree? 22:48 Creation is the reverse of death. 22:51 And so how did God create man in the first place? 22:55 Go with me to the Book of Genesis. 22:56 The word Genesis means beginnings. 22:59 Genesis, we did not evolve, 23:02 we came from the Creator's hand. Amen. 23:05 We came from His-- His hands. 23:08 The Bible makes it very clear how we were created, 23:11 verse 7, okay. 23:12 Genesis 2:7, if you have it say, amen. 23:14 All right, very good. 23:15 Verse seven, let's read it together, can we do that? 23:18 "And the Lord God formed man of the dust of the ground," 23:22 everybody, "and breathed into his nostrils, 23:25 the breath of life and man became a living soul." 23:28 Now is there anything complicated about that? 23:31 Would you agree, that's very crystal clear? 23:33 A schoolboy can understand that. 23:35 So how did God create man? We can sum it up this way. 23:41 Dust plus breath equals a living soul. 23:44 Body plus breath equals a living soul. 23:47 He formed man of the dust of the ground 23:49 and breathed into his nostrils, 23:51 the breath of life and man became a living soul. 23:56 So what is another word for this "Breath of Life?" 23:59 He breathed into our nostrils, the breath of life. 24:02 What's another name for that breath of life? 24:04 Job 27: 3. 24:06 Notice the way that we arrive at truth, 24:09 is by comparing Scripture with Scripture, 24:12 line upon line, precept upon precept. Amen. 24:16 "All the while my breath is in me, 24:18 and the Spirit of God is in my nostrils." 24:21 So what do you have in your nostrils? 24:23 We read in Genesis 2:7, that the Lord breathed 24:25 into Adam's nostrils, the breath of life. 24:29 Job says that that breath of life is the Spirit of God. 24:34 So it's synonymous. 24:37 Breath equals Spirit. Amen. 24:41 So death is creation in reverse. 24:46 So what happens when a man dies? 24:47 We're building, we're putting the puzzle together. 24:50 Let's go to Ecclesiastes. 24:52 This is found after the Book of Proverbs, 24:55 we're going to, and before the Book of Isaiah. 24:58 We're going to Ecclesiastes, Chapter 12, 25:00 the last Chapter in that book. 25:02 Are we learning something tonight? 25:04 Ecclesiastes 12, looking there at verse 7. 25:08 "Then the dust will return to the earth 25:11 as it was and the spirit will return to God who gave it." 25:15 So let's consider this verse. What happens when a man dies? 25:19 What returns to God at death according to the scripture? 25:24 The spirit. That's right. 25:25 The spirit, everybody say, the spirit. 25:28 The spirit returns to God, the spirit returns the God. 25:34 So wait a minute. 25:36 It doesn't say the soul goes back to God, 25:38 it says the spirit or the breath goes back to God. 25:42 Isn't the soul immortal? Well, the Greeks believe that. 25:47 The Bible says, "Only God is immortal." 25:50 1Timothy 6:16. 25:53 The Bible says, Man is mortal. 25:55 Job 4:17, "Subject to death." 25:57 "We seek for immortality." Romans 6:7. 26:01 We receive immortality not when we die, 26:05 but when, what? 26:06 When Jesus comes again. Notice here. 26:09 And not everyone will receive immortality, 26:12 only those who believe in Jesus. Amen. 26:16 Sudden changes are about to catch 26:18 the world by surprise. 26:20 Amazing Bible prophecies are fast fulfilling. 26:23 Do ancient prophecies predict the sudden economic collapse? 26:26 Will the Middle East crisis erupt into World War III? 26:30 Are we living on the eve of Armageddon? 26:33 How will the final moves of the antichrist affect you? 26:36 What is the future of the United States 26:38 of America? 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"We shall all be changed." 27:44 "In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet. 27:48 For their trumpet will sound 27:50 and the dead will be raised incorruptible. 27:53 And we shall be changed for this corruptible 27:57 must put on incorruption. 27:59 And this," what? 28:00 Everyone, read it together with me, all right. 28:02 "This mortal must put on immortality." Amen. 28:07 So I want you to notice here. 28:09 So when this corruptible has put on incorruption, 28:12 and this mortal has put on immortality, 28:15 then shall be brought to pass the saying that it is written, 28:18 "Death is swallowed up in victory." 28:21 "Oh, Death where is your sting? 28:23 Oh. Hades," that is the grave, "where is your victory?" 28:27 Is this good news or what? 28:28 You should highlight it memorize it. 28:31 This is resounding good news that we receive immortality, 28:34 not when we die, but when Jesus comes again. 28:38 Are you looking forward to that? 28:40 The arrow of prophecy points ot the coming of Jesus Christ. 28:44 And so, "In a moment, 28:46 in the twinkling of an eye at the last trumpet, 28:50 this corruptible must put on incorruption 28:53 and this mortal must put on immortality." 28:56 When? I repeat, not a death, but when Jesus comes. 29:00 Therefore, there is no such thing 29:04 as an immortal soul. Poor King Tut. 29:10 Can a soul die? Obviously it can. 29:16 Ezekiel 18:4 and 20, 29:17 "The soul that sinneth, it shall die." 29:23 Now what part of that don't we understand? 29:26 The soul shall die. Amen. So what is the soul? 29:30 We know the spirit is in our nostrils, the breath, 29:34 and when we die, nothing the thinks, 29:36 but that which enables us to think, 29:38 the breath, goes back to God that spirit. 29:41 And that's why Jesus said, "Father, 29:43 into Thy hands I commit my spirit or my," 29:46 what? My breath. 29:47 And He breathed this last. And He died. 29:50 So what is a soul? 29:51 1 Peter 3:20 makes it clear 29:54 that there were eight souls saved 29:56 from the flood in the days of Noah. 29:59 Those are real people. 30:00 Acts 27:37, 276 souls or real people 30:04 were shipwrecked. 30:06 You remember there in that Chapter of Acts. 30:09 And Acts 2:41, makes it clear on the day of Pentecost, 30:13 that there were 3,000 souls 30:15 or people that joined the church. 30:18 That's why what do you call your grandkids? 30:20 What do I call my children? 30:22 Precious, you call them precious souls, right. 30:24 What does that mean? Real precious people. 30:27 By the way do you want to see what a living soul looks like? 30:30 Look in the mirror. All right, here we go. 30:33 The Bible uses the term "soul" 1,600 times 30:39 but never once as an immortal soul, 30:43 an undying soul or an everlasting soul. 30:46 I mean, look at your trusty, Strong's Concordance. 30:49 If you want a good concordance 30:50 get one that Strong's Concordance 30:52 and you've got to be strong, David, 30:54 pick it up because it is very, very big. 30:56 And you look it out up, you look up the word soul. 30:58 And you will discover that it is never 31:01 used to describe, as it says here. 31:05 Never once as an immortal soul 31:08 or something that exists apart from the body. 31:11 You won't find that in the Bible. 31:13 And so the idea that you never die, 31:17 that when you die, you're really not dead, 31:19 you just you never die. 31:20 Well, that is a smooth pleasing false teaching. 31:24 2 Timothy 2:2-4. 31:27 Paul said that in the last days people would turn away 31:30 from the truth and end up believing fables. 31:33 Did you know that mythology is 31:36 very, very strong in influencing whole civilizations 31:42 or whole groups of people? 31:44 Mythologies, false fables or false teachings 31:49 are very, very rampant in our world today. 31:53 So how did this false doctrine become popular 31:56 in the Christian churches of today? 31:59 It slipped through the back door of the church. 32:02 When the church apostatized, you know, that early church. 32:06 God has always had His faithful, 32:08 but the church ultimately apostatized. 32:12 And up came the papal power. 32:15 The papal power has popularized false teachings about death. 32:20 Hence, that's why they say pray to Mary, 32:25 pray to the saints, and they have statutes and so forth. 32:28 Why do they have these statues? 32:30 Why do they have them? 32:32 So you can know, these people have lived on, they are alive. 32:37 And you can actually pray to some of them. 32:40 And so this is all based on the false 32:43 teaching of the immortality of the soul. 32:47 And so what happens when a man dies? 32:50 All right, let's see if we can turn on the light in our mind. 32:52 All right. 32:53 We could use this simple illustration that the body 32:57 could be represented by a light bulb. 33:00 The breath could rep-- represent 33:02 or it be epresented by electricity. 33:05 And the combination of the bulb 33:06 and the electricity is illumination, its light. 33:10 Now if I ask one of the deacons here tonight, 33:13 could you please, one of the ushers, 33:15 please turn off the lights? 33:16 And I wish to take up a vote. 33:18 Sometimes I do, do this as we crisscross North America. 33:21 If I was to ask, okay, 33:22 how many think the light went down somewhere? 33:26 All right, how many think the light went up somewhere? 33:29 All right, how many think the light just cease 33:31 to exist because there was a disconnect? 33:34 And see that's what happens. 33:36 When a person dies, well, let's put it this way, 33:38 the lights go out until it's reconnected. 33:42 And would you agree that electricityis his breath, 33:44 can you say, amen? 33:45 "'Cause from dust thou art to dust thou shalt return." 33:47 When the lights go out the bulb 33:48 still there but it needs that electricity again. 33:51 So that will happen when Jesus comes. 33:54 So the Bible never says the soul 33:55 returns to God at death. 33:57 You will not find that in the Scriptures. 33:59 So where are the dead? Bible makes it clear. 34:03 They are in the grave. 34:05 That's what Jesus taught as well. 34:06 Let's go to John Chapter five, John 5:28, 29. 34:11 Turn there very quickly with me here. 34:13 Keep our foot on the accelerator. 34:15 Are we learning something tonight? I hope so. 34:17 All right. Please say, yes. 34:19 We're working hard at this, all right. 34:21 John 5:28, 29. All right. 34:24 "Do not marvel at this 34:25 for the hour is coming in the which 34:27 all who are in the graves will," what? 34:29 "Will hear His voice," and notice what the Bible says, 34:32 "and come forth those who have done good 34:36 to the resurrection of life and those who have done evil 34:39 to the resurrection of condemnation." 34:41 So where are the dead? 34:42 They go into the graves, both the righteous, 34:45 and the unrighteous, the saved, 34:47 and the unsaved go to the graves, 34:50 and will come forth, 34:51 either in the resurrection of life when Jesus comes again, 34:54 or later on in a resurrection of condemnation. 34:57 And that is after the millennium, 35:00 as we will explore in the future night. 35:03 So where is King David? 35:04 In light of this, go to Acts Chapter 2. 35:08 Acts Chapter two. Turn there with me. Acts 2:29. 35:12 All right, verse 29. "Men and brethren." 35:14 Peter speaking on the day of Pentecost. 35:16 "Let me speak freely to you of the patriarch David, 35:19 that he is both dead and buried 35:20 and his tomb is with us to this day." 35:22 So he says David, the Psalmist, 35:25 I mean, when you think about praising the Lord, 35:28 you think about David. 35:29 And if anybody heaven, praising the Lord, 35:32 if when you die the righteous go to heaven, 35:35 if the righteous, it would be King David. 35:37 But Peter declared, David is dead and buried. 35:42 Oh, but that's just his body. 35:43 He actually, he had a soul that goes up to heaven. 35:46 Well, let's read verse 34. 35:48 "For David did not ascend into the heavens." 35:53 What part of that don't we understand? 35:55 He did not ascend to the heavens, 35:57 but said, but he says himself, 35:59 The Lord said to my Lord, 'sit at my right hand 36:02 till I make your enemies your footstool.'" 36:04 You say, "Mark, this is so new. 36:06 I didn't understand this before." 36:08 Well, you know, praise God that 36:10 in the last days the truth goes marching on. 36:13 Amen. And so where is King David? 36:16 Dead, buried, not ascended into the heavens. 36:19 So what does the Bible call death then? 36:22 Death is called a sleep numerous times in Scripture. 36:28 Sixty six times in the Bible, some have counted. 36:31 Psalms 13: 3, "Consider and hear me, 36:33 oh Lord my God: lighten my eyes, 36:35 lest I sleep the sleep of death." 36:38 So how did Jesus view death? 36:40 Take your Bible and turn with me to John Chapter 11. 36:44 John Chapter 11. Let's look at this very quickly here. 36:47 John Chapter 11, as we do this Bible investigation. 36:53 John Chapter 11, we must understand what the Bible 36:58 teaches about hope beyond the grave. 37:01 John Chapter 11, looking there at verse 11. 37:06 "These things He said, and after that He said to them, 37:08 'Our friend Lazarus sleeps, 37:10 but I go that I may wake him up.' 37:11 Then His disciples said, 'Lord, 37:13 if he sleeps he will get well.' 37:15 However, Jesus spoke of his death, 37:17 but they thought that He was speaking 37:19 about taking rest in sleep." 37:20 So they misunderstood. So Jesus clarified. 37:24 Now I don't believe they want to hear this. 37:27 As I do not believe many people want to hear 37:29 this about their loved either. 37:31 But it's the truth. 37:32 How many agree, truth is not always 37:34 what you want to hear initially, 37:36 until you further understand why it's so important to know 37:40 and how the truth does set you free. 37:43 Look at verse 14. 37:44 "Then Jesus said to them plainly, 'Lazarus is dead.'" 37:50 And they understood what he meant. He's dead. 37:53 He's really dead. He's not in heaven. 37:56 Would you agree, Lazarus was a righteous person, 37:59 and if the righteous, when they die, 38:01 they go to be with the Lord, Lazarus would've been up there. 38:05 David would have been up there. 38:06 But He said "Lazarus sleeps" "Lazarus is dead" 38:09 and he was "dead for four days." 38:11 His body was decomposing. 38:14 And so how much does a dead person know therefore? 38:17 "The living know that they shall die, 38:19 but the dead know not," what? "Anything." 38:22 Ecclesiastes 9: 5. You need to highlight that scripture. 38:25 That is one of the most paramount scriptures 38:28 and reference to the state of the dead. 38:30 I mean, this makes it crystal clear. 38:33 You know, many believe that when you die suddenly 38:36 you know more than you ever have before. 38:40 And so what happens when you die? 38:44 "His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth, 38:48 in that very day his thoughts perish." 38:53 Bible doesn't say just the body, 38:54 it says he goes to the earth. 38:58 The Bible makes that clear. Psalms 146: 4. 39:01 In James 2:26, we read, 39:04 "The body without the spirit is dead." 39:07 And in the Greek the word "spirit" is pneuma, 39:10 from which we get pneumonia, 39:12 that has to do with breathing complications right. 39:15 So therefore, the body without the breath is dead, 39:21 pneuma, breath, okay. 39:23 So the Hebrew word ruach in Ecclesiastes 12: 7, 39:29 it talks about the spirit goes back 39:33 to God when a person dies. 39:35 And that word spirit is breath. 39:38 That's what ruach means, spirit or breath. 39:42 And so "The dead praise not the Lord, 39:46 neither any that go down into silence." Psalms 115:17. 39:51 You know, Lazarus was dead four days. 39:55 So nobody could doubt. Well, he wasn't really dead. 39:58 I mean, he was dead. 40:00 And he was placed in a tomb 40:02 and the stone was put in front of it. 40:04 I mean, the man was dead. 40:06 And he was dead for four days but to him, 40:09 he didn't have any glowing testimony 40:11 about the bliss and glories of heaven, 40:13 because he didn't know anything. 40:15 The Bible says the dead know not anything. 40:17 There was no glowing testimony. 40:20 So if the CNN cameras were there, you know, 40:22 he would just say, "Look, I don't remember anything." 40:25 "Come on, give us a testimony." 40:29 But to him it was just for a moment. 40:32 So what did those who were resurrected 40:34 from death have to say about 40:35 what they experienced after they died? 40:39 They were a number of people 40:40 that have been resurrected in the Bible. 40:43 Eutychus, 40:45 Moses, all right, 40:50 Jairus' daughter, Lazarus and the number of others. 40:55 But guess what they had in common. 40:57 Guess how much they knew after they died. 41:01 Nothing, absolutely nothing. The dead know not anything. 41:07 And would you agree if any of these individuals 41:10 had died and gone to heaven, 41:12 they would tell you, they would share that? 41:14 Would you agree if you had died 41:15 and actually gone to heaven, 41:17 you would share that? 41:18 So are you ready now to hear the key point 41:21 we have learned thus far. The dead are dead. 41:26 Now just stay with me. 41:29 Death is the best good night's sleep you will ever receive. 41:35 "Oh, I slept like a baby." What does a baby do? 41:39 Well, baby sleeps soundly, uh, 41:42 when they are a couple years old 41:45 and then when you get and you know, 41:48 towards retirement age, 41:49 then you start being like you were 41:50 when you first came from the hospital, 41:52 you Keep waking up... 41:53 All right, anyway, let me move on. 41:55 'Oh, I slept like a log, I slept so good." 41:59 Well, the log is dead wood. 42:00 So all right, anyway, let's move on. 42:02 So what about the thief on the cross, Mark? 42:05 The thief on the cross, he was told that he would be 42:09 with the Lord in paradise when he died there on Friday. 42:13 Well, let's go, take a look at this. 42:15 This is the case of the misplacedcomma. 42:17 All right, let's go to Luke Chapter 23, Luke Chapter 23, 42:22 we know that when a person dies, 42:23 they go to the grave. 42:25 We know they do not know anything. 42:27 We know that when they die that they don't go anywhere, 42:31 they're just there in the grave until their resurrection, 42:34 either resurrection of life or damnation. 42:36 Luke Chapter 23, the Bible says here in verse 42, 42:41 "Then he said to Jesus, 42:43 'Lord, remember me when you come into your kingdom.'" 42:45 So the question is, when would Jesus go into his kingdom? 42:49 Did He go Friday? Or did He go some time later? 42:53 "And Jesus said to him, 'Assuredly, I say to you,'" 42:56 comma, "today you will be with Me in Paradise." 43:01 Now are you ready to see something? 43:05 Did Jesus go to paradise that day? 43:09 On Sunday morning he said to Mary, 43:11 "I have not yet ascended to My Father." 43:14 I haven't gone to My Kingdom. I have not gone to My Father. 43:19 He was resurrected but He hadn't gone back to Father. 43:22 John Chapter 20:17. 43:25 So would you agree that with the way that comma, 43:29 where that comma is inserted, 43:31 that doesn't make that harmonize with that? 43:33 You say, Mark, you've got me confused, punctuation, 43:35 are we to be suspicious of all punctuation?" 43:38 No, I don't know of any other case in all of the Bible 43:42 where it's a significant factor other than this scripture here. 43:47 You say, "Well, what happened?" 43:49 You see, long after the apostles and others died, 43:53 long time after that hundreds of years later, 43:57 finally when the Bible was put together, 44:00 they begin to insert punctuation. 44:03 And by then, the church believed that when you die, 44:07 you really don't die, 44:09 that the righteous go right to be with the Lord right away. 44:12 And so that's when they inserted 44:13 the comma in the wrong place. 44:15 Let me tell you where the comma should go. 44:17 Verse 43. 44:19 "Assuredly, I say to you today," comma, 44:22 "you will be with me in paradise." 44:24 That's what Jesus was saying. He was saying, here I am dying. 44:29 But I'm telling you, even though I'm dying today, 44:32 you will be with me in paradise. Amen. 44:36 That's what He was saying there. 44:38 You say, but Mark, the Bible says, 44:40 "absent from the body, present with the Lord." Exactly. 44:45 But what does that scripture say it has to harmonize 44:48 with all the other Scriptures that we've looked at. 44:50 When are we going to be present with the Lord? 44:53 The Bible tells us not when we die, 44:56 but when the Lord comes for us, 44:58 then we go to be with the Lord. 45:00 And then we receive an immortal body, 45:02 and that's how we are absent from this body 45:06 and present with the Lord with an immortal body. 45:09 You see that's 1 Corinthians, 45:11 Chapter 15 and this is 2 Corinthians, Chapter 5, 45:14 the two agree that when we're absent from this body 45:18 and we're present to be with the Lord, 45:20 it's not a death, but it's when Jesus comes 45:22 again and raises the dead. Amen. 45:25 That's why the Scriptures say, 45:27 "Let not your heart be troubled. 45:28 You believe in God, believe also in Me. 45:31 In My Father's house are many mansions, 45:33 if it were not so, I would have told you. 45:34 I go to prepare a place for you. 45:36 And if I go and prepare a place for you, 45:38 I will come again and receive you unto myself." 45:42 Not at death, but when I come. 45:44 "And receive you unto myself that where I am, 45:47 there ye may be also." 45:49 Does this makes sense? Yes or no. That's John 14: 1-3. 45:53 And so in what condition 45:54 will we be present with the Lord? 45:57 "Who will transform our lowly body that it 45:59 will be conformed to His glorious body." 46:02 That's Philippians 3:21. 46:04 "We shall be like Him." 1 John 3:2. 46:09 You say, "But, Mark, what about near death visions 46:11 and out-of-the- body experiences?" 46:13 Approximately ten percent of Americans 46:15 had an out-of-body experience. 46:17 Out-of-body experiences, 46:18 episodes in which a person's conscious 46:20 self seems to leave their body, 46:22 they report that they can look down 46:25 or back at their body, 46:26 they seem to be released from their body temporarily. 46:29 And what about these near-death experiences? 46:32 Patients are usually critically ill, 46:34 the heart stops beating for a few moments. 46:37 And these near-death experiences, 46:39 the personal accounts, 46:40 they feel that they are floating 46:41 over their bodies and I believe exactly 46:44 that what they are saying they are telling the truth. 46:47 That that's what they saw in their mind. 46:51 I don't doubt it one bit that 46:52 that's what they saw in their minds. 46:54 But it was in their mind and not in the Scriptures. 46:57 They seem to be drawn down a tunnel toward a bright light. 47:01 And so they travel down a tunnel 47:04 and encountered deceased friends 47:05 and relatives who comfort them. 47:08 So what can cause these out-of-body experiences? 47:11 Mind altering drugs, trauma or a close brush with death, 47:16 brain disorders like epilepsy and schizophrenia, 47:19 and so electrical stimulation can also create 47:22 the sensation of being outside the body. 47:25 But the Bible must come first. Amen. 47:29 So think about it this way. 47:31 What about our dreams 47:32 and sensory perception versus reality? 47:34 Have you had a deja vu experience? 47:37 It can be dramatic in which, you say, 47:41 "I'm meeting somebody for the first time 47:43 but I felt like I met him before 47:45 or I'm in a circumstance 47:47 or a place where I know I'm going there 47:50 for the first time but I feel like I've been there before." 47:53 And so did you know that 63 percent 47:56 of the adult American population 47:58 have had a deja vu experience. 48:00 How many of you here tonight have had a deja vu experience? 48:03 Raise your hand if you have, raise your hand. 48:05 And that's about the probably, 60 percent. 48:07 And so, just because millions experience deja vu, 48:11 would you agree, it's all in the mind? 48:15 It's in the mind. 48:17 So what should we do and when we have 48:18 those really powerful deja vu experiences? 48:21 Should we write books you can get on the talk show circuit 48:25 or should we just say you know what, 48:27 that's not reality, 48:28 even though millions and millions and millions 48:30 have "the experience." 48:32 Okay. 48:33 So have you ever had a dream 48:35 that you were being chased by a pit bull 48:36 or were being chased by a bear 48:38 or a lion or some other kind of animal, 48:40 were you being chased by an alien 48:41 or being chased by some mad angry person or persons? 48:44 How many of you had a dream 48:46 in which you were being chased, 48:47 and just about the time they caught up as the bullets 48:50 are whizzing past you and the teeth are getting 48:52 more powerful and closer, 48:54 all of a sudden, boom, you wake up. 48:55 How many of you had that kind of dream? 48:57 Raise your hand. 48:58 Raise your hand if you have that kind of dream. 48:59 Okay, good percentage. 49:01 What does that mean? Sorry, nothing. Okay. 49:04 Have you ever had a dream that you were falling off 49:06 a cliff or falling out of an airplane, 49:07 falling off a building, falling off a rooftop, 49:10 falling off a tree branch or falling off a bridge, 49:13 all I know is you were falling, 49:14 and then all of a sudden, you woke up. 49:16 If you have that kind of dream, raise your hand? 49:18 That's a good percentage of us. 49:20 What does that mean? 49:21 It was in your mind, 49:23 but it was not equating with reality. 49:26 So what is our only hope beyond the grave? 49:29 Only hope is that when Jesus comes, 49:32 this mortal must put on immortality. 49:34 1 Thessalonians 4:16-18. Let's go there very quickly. 49:38 1 Thessalonians, Chapter 4, 49:40 let's go there very quickly here. 49:42 1 Thessalonians, and I'll quote it. 49:46 "For the Lord Himself shall descend 49:47 from heaven with a shout, 49:49 with the voice of the archangel, 49:51 and with the trumpet call of God 49:53 and the dead in Christ shall rise first. 49:55 Then we, which are alive and remain, 49:57 shall be caught up together with them 49:59 to meet the Lord in the air. 50:01 And so shall we ever be with the Lord. 50:03 Wherefore, comfort one another with these words." 50:07 1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17, 18. 50:10 It says the dead in Christ. 50:14 So death shall not separate us from the Lord, 50:16 because we are in Christ, oh, yes, 50:19 we're actually in the grave but would you agree He says 50:21 "I will not forget you." 50:23 "The very hairs of your head are all numbered." 50:25 In Revelation 14:13, it says. 50:28 "Blessed are the dead, who die in the Lord. 50:33 'Yes,' says the Spirit, 50:34 'that they may rest from their labors, 50:35 and their works to follow them." 50:37 '" Revelation 14:13. 1 John 5:11,12, John said, 50:42 "I write this that you may know 50:44 that you have eternal life. 50:46 And this life is in His Son." 50:48 Revelation 21:4 says that 50:50 "There's gonna be no more tears or sorrow 50:53 and no more death." 50:55 In Revelation 1:18, Jesus said, 50:58 "I have the keys of the grave." 51:01 Amen. He says, "I live forevermore." 51:07 If you are going through a personal crisis in your life, 51:09 if you are facing financial challenges, 51:12 if you are suffering from a health problem, 51:14 if your marriage is needing a miracle, 51:16 if you have a special concern for your children, 51:19 whatever your need maybe, 51:20 give us a call and we will pray with you. 51:22 For your prayer request, 51:24 call us at 1-855-336-FREE. 51:28 "If the Son set you free, you are free indeed." John 8:36. 51:34 I want to read something in closing. 51:38 And closing by a man, actually, Clint and Sandy. 51:42 They live in Arkansas. I stayed in their home. 51:46 And they shared with me this sad challenging experience 51:51 of out of their three children. 51:55 Their one and only son was killed in a car accident. 52:01 And he shared with me the story, 52:04 a little bit of the funeral 52:07 and I asked if he could put this on paper. 52:12 And so I read this. 52:15 A father's thoughts from the grave. 52:18 The comforting words of "joy comes in the morning," 52:22 had scarcely disappeared into the hot August afternoon air, 52:26 as the father stood on the cool damp earth beside his son. 52:30 The gathering was all in honor of the son, 52:32 yet he slept through it entirely. 52:35 Jay wasn't in his usual bed 52:37 and all of this seems so very strange and different. 52:41 Hardly a week before Jake Cameron 52:44 had left his Iowa home, 52:47 to pursue his dreams of a PhD 52:50 at the University of Southern Mississippi. 52:53 It had been a time of pride and excitement 52:55 for Jay's close knit family and his fiance. 52:58 Prayers, waffles and hugs from his sisters, 53:01 Kimberly and Tammy were followed by tears 53:04 as they as a watch the white Monte Carlo 53:06 disappear over the hill. 53:09 God was now his only traveling companion 53:11 and an eventful trip seemed to await him. 53:15 Unexpectedly, there was the sickening sound 53:18 of metal being ripped apart, as a loaded log truck 53:22 struck Jay's car at a high rate of speed. 53:26 Impact was followed by the eerie sound 53:28 of dreams dying in the crumpled rubble, 53:30 partially hidden by a cloud of red Mississippi dust, 53:34 the unforgettable mixed odors 53:37 of hot diesel, gasoline and oil. 53:39 Much, much too late came the sound of sirens. 53:43 Now, in this place of great sadness, 53:46 the family found comfort 53:48 in remembering Jay's midnight phone call, 53:51 just two months earlier to his mother. 53:54 He had been overwhelmed and battered 53:56 by studying the writings of Kierkegaard, Nietzsche, 54:00 Plato, Aristotle, and Socrates, etcetera, 54:03 and he had doubted that God existed. 54:05 That night, he had asked God for some small show 54:08 of His power that would settle the doubt in his mind. 54:11 Instantly, a slow wave of total paralysis has swept, 54:16 paralysis that swept over his entire body, 54:18 from his toes to his head and lingered just a moment. 54:24 There in Prescott hall, Jay left the camp 54:26 of the doubters and never returned. 54:30 Such a remarkable experience 54:32 warranted an immediate call to mom. 54:34 Jay had slept through the grave, 54:36 side service surrounded by his union college family, 54:39 dear relatives and many friends. 54:42 The time had arrived for him to be lowered into the ground 54:46 by the kindly Pioneer Cemetery crew. 54:49 His father told the crew to come and finish their tasks 54:53 because the family was not leaving until it was done. 54:58 As the casket came to rest, at the bottom of the grave one 55:02 of the lowering ropes became tangled. 55:05 And someone needed to free the rope, 55:08 because of the father's great love for the son, 55:11 he was compelled to jump down into the hole 55:14 and tenderly freed the rope. 55:17 Now the father was alone with his only son. 55:22 One last time he edged up by the head of the casket, 55:29 placed his hand on the cold metal as he whispered, 55:35 "We love you, Jay. 55:37 We will see you in the morning." 55:41 As he softly spoke to his son, 55:44 became abundantly certain that only 55:46 one of them could hear and understand. 55:49 The father paused to ponder 55:51 what Jay would hear, see and think next. 55:55 Standing by his son in the bottom of the grave, 55:57 he turned his face upward and looked intently out 56:01 through the rectangular hole to the blue sky 56:04 and imagined the great resurrection morning. 56:07 His thoughts struggled to materialize that dark cloud 56:11 in the eastern sky in the brilliant 56:13 appearance of the Son of God. 56:14 He tried vainly to hear the blast of the great trumpet 56:18 that will accompany the appearing 56:21 of millions of glorious angels. 56:23 However, the sky remained blue 56:25 and the silence of the grave lingered. 56:28 But this father knew that one great day, 56:32 Jay and his family of believers would indeed 56:35 hear and see the long awaited event. 56:38 Although the mechanics, 56:40 the physiology of the sleep of the living 56:42 and the sleep of the dead are different, 56:45 both are free of pain, suffering, stress, 56:47 and anguish and both are awaiting for the morning, 56:51 to be sure loneliness and separation are sad 56:53 but as months are turned into years, 56:55 the sight of Jay's grave has transformed 56:59 from the place of great past sorrow 57:01 to a place of anticipating great future joy. 57:06 One day not long from now the power of heaven 57:09 will come streaking from the throne of heaven. 57:11 And do for Jay and all of God's people 57:14 who are sleeping in the grave, 57:15 just what it did for Jesus on the great 57:19 resurrection morning so long ago. 57:24 Although sudden and alarming changes 57:26 are sweeping across the globe, 57:28 you and your family can be prepared 57:30 to face the future with confidence. 57:33 The complete set of Amazing Prophecies on DVD 57:36 are available for a gift of $60 or more. 57:39 Call us at 1-855-336-FREE. 57:44 Or send your check or money order 57:46 to Forever Free Ministries, 57:48 2001 Munro Park, Corinth, Texas, 76208. 57:55 If you would like to have Mark Fox hold an 57:57 Amazing Prophecies seminar, 57:58 or a marriage seminar weekend in your church, 58:01 contact us today, 58:03 markfox @foreverfreeministries.org. |
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