Hello, friends,
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welcome to our
Wednesday night Bible study
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here at the 3ABN Worship Center.
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We are continuing on
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"The Formulation of
the Secret Rapture."
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Thank you for
taking the time to tune in.
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And all you need for
this program is a Bible,
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some time which
is about 57 minutes.
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You'll need a lesson
also and I'll tell you
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in just a moment how
to get a copy of that.
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But thank you for
just pausing in the evening
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to join us wherever
you are in the world,
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evening and maybe morning,
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we just appreciate all you do
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as you pray for us here at 3ABN.
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Before we go any further though,
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we're going to
have our theme song
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but first we're
going to have our prayer,
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and then I'll tell you
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how to get a copy of the lesson.
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Let's bow our heads together.
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Loving Father in heaven,
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we thank You so
much for Your goodness,
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Your mercy, and Your truth.
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We pray that You
will guide our hearts
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and minds tonight
as we study Your Word.
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Give us wisdom from above.
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Give us an
understanding from Your Word.
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And may all the
praise and glory go to you,
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in Jesus' name we pray, amen.
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Now, to get a
copy of the lesson,
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go to the following website,
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asf.3abn.org
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and download lesson number 42.
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What number did I say?
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Lesson number 42,
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"The Formulation of
the Secret Rapture."
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Very, very interesting lesson.
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It's based on the reality
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that hundreds of
years ago someone,
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and you'll find out tonight
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if you missed the first episode,
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someone formulated a teaching
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that's widely
embraced in Christianity today
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that has no Bible support,
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and millions of
Christians have embraced it.
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They're looking for
this event to take place.
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But without Bible support,
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it's nothing more than a theory.
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And so tonight
we're going to unfold
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what that theory is
and what the Bible teaches
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about the true
Second Coming of Jesus.
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But before we do that,
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let's sing our
theme song together.
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And that is "Victory in Jesus."
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I heard an old, old story
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How the Savior came from glory
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How He gave His life on Calvary
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To save a wretch like me
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I heard about His groaning
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Of His precious blood's atoning
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Then I repented of my sin
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And won the victory
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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I heard about a mansion
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He has built for me in glory
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And I heard about
the streets of gold
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Beyond the crystal sea
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About the angels singing
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And the old redemption story
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And some sweet day
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I'll sing up there
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The song of victory
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Key change.
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O victory in Jesus
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My Savior, forever
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He sought me and bought me
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With His redeeming blood
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He loved me ere I knew Him
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And all my love is due Him
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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He plunged me to victory
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Beneath the cleansing flood
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Amen.
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Our topic tonight is
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"The Truth about
the Secret Rapture,"
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or more specifically
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"The Formulation of
the Secret Rapture."
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The question is, does
God operate in secret?
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Now we know
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that He has made a
promise in His Word
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that whatever
is going to happen,
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His people are
going to know about it
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before it takes place.
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Go with me to the Book of Amos.
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Amos Chapter 3.
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If you can't find Amos,
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Daniel, Hosea, Joel, Amos.
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All right?
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Daniel, Hosea, Joel,
Amos, or go to Obadiah
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and go one book back.
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Depends on how well
you know your Bible.
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Amos 3:6.
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Let's see what the Bible says
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about how
secretive God really is.
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The very first word
in Amos 3:7 is what word?
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Surely.
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What is the word?
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Surely, 3:7.
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"Surely the Lord
God does," how much?
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"Nothing unless He reveals
His secret to His servants,
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the prophets."
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So are there secrets?
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Yes or no?
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Yes.
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Okay, I just went to...
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But does He reveal them?
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Yes or no? Yeah, okay.
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There are secrets,
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meaning the
Lord has a timetable,
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but what we are short of
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is if there's an event
that's going to happen,
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is He going to
reveal it before it happens?
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Yes.
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He says, surely, the
Lord God does how much?
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Nothing.
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Nothing is going to happen
unless He first reveals it
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to His servants the prophets.
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And what does the
servants, the prophets do?
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They reveal it.
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They warn individuals, as
was the case in Noah's day.
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Was the flood coming?
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Who did He tell?
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Noah. And who did Noah tell?
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Everyone else.
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For 120 years Noah
preached the flood was coming.
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Okay, when Sodom and Gomorrah
was about to be destroyed,
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did He tell anyone?
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Yes, he told Lot and his family,
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and they tried to
warn, but did anybody listen?
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No.
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When Nineveh
was up for judgment,
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who did the Lord tell?
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Jonah. Did Jonah tell anybody?
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He told the whole city
and 120,000 people repented.
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And you will find
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that continual cadence
throughout the scriptures.
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Just before any
event takes place,
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the Lord always warns
of the coming judgment.
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He never wants
to sneak up on us.
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He doesn't want
the most glorious event
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of the ages,
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the Second Coming
to be a secret event.
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Matter of fact, let's go
to the Book of Acts Chapter 1.
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Acts Chapter 1,
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because we're talking
about the Second Coming,
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the return of Jesus.
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Now, the world knows that
Jesus came the first time,
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that was not a secret,
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that was outlined in the Bible.
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Many of the minor prophets,
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major prophets talked
about the coming of Jesus,
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Isaiah predicted it
700 years before it came,
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some prophets 300
years, some 500 years.
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Some even
further back than that.
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You find in the writings
of Moses in Genesis 3:15-17,
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the Lord gave
Moses an understanding
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that the seed would come.
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And then Paul in
Galatians 4:4 says,
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"When the
fullness of time had come,
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God sent forth his Son."
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But look at Acts Chapter 1.
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And this in particular
is going to be referring
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to the Second Coming of Jesus.
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Jesus is with His disciples
on the Mount of Olives.
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And He is now going to depart.
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And let's look at verse 9.
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Acts 1:9.
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The Bible says,
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"Now when he had
spoken these things,"
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that is when he told them
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that they were
going to receive the power
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that the Holy Spirit's
going to come upon them.
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In verse 9, it says,
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"When he had
spoken these things,
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while they
watched, while they watched,
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he was taken up
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and a cloud received
him out of their sight."
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What received him?
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A cloud.
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Look at verse 10.
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"And while they look steadfastly
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or while their eyes
were fixed towards," where?
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"Towards heaven.
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As he went up,
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behold," how many men?
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"Two men stood by
them in white apparel,
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who said, Men of Galilee,
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why do you stand
gazing up into heaven?"
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And this is the key.
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"This same Jesus,
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who was taken up
from you into heaven,
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will come, will so come
in like man as you," what?
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"As you have seen
or as you saw Him go."
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Did they see Him go?
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And what does the Bible say?
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He's going to come
back the way He left.
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Yannick share your Bible.
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Put in the middle there.
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Yeah, share your Bible.
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Put your Bible in the middle.
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A little bit of housekeeping.
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So did they see Jesus leave?
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Did the angels say
that He was coming back
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the same way?
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Did they see Him go?
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And the
assurance was the same way
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you saw Him go,
He's coming back.
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Now let's look
at another passage
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in the Bible.
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Where do you think I'm going?
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Revelation Chapter
1, Revelation Chapter 1,
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and we're going to look together
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at a very powerful verse.
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Revelation 1:7.
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Remember He left with clouds,
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clouds received
Him out of their sight.
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Remember that?
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And those clouds were angels.
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You look at that
in Matthew Chapter 25.
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You find the angels,
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He will come with
the clouds of heaven.
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But look at Revelation 1:7.
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And this is the
fulfillment of Acts 1:9-11.
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"Behold together, He
is coming with," what?
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"Clouds and every
eye will see Him."
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How many eyes?
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Every eye.
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Is that going to
be a secret event?
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Can every eye see the
4th of July fireworks?
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No, only if you are there.
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If they had 4th
of July fireworks
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in New York and
you're in Thompsonville,
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you're not going to see it.
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If they have it in Thompsonville
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and you live in New York,
you're not going to see it.
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But when Jesus comes back,
how many eyes are gonna see it?
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Every eye will see Him,
not only every eye alive,
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but the Bible says, and
they also who pierced Him.
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That means when Jesus
died, they adjured Him.
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They said, "Are you the Christ?"
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They kept
pushing Him to announce
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whether or not He was divine.
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He says, "I am.
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And you will see Me
coming in the clouds of heaven
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with power and great glory."
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So those who persecuted
Him, that's what the Bible says.
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And they also which pierced Him.
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Those who were
involved in the persecution
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and the crucifixion of Jesus
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will see Him when He comes back.
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So it's not going to
even be a secret to them.
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They're going to be raised
for this special introduction,
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which I wouldn't
want to be a part of.
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I want to see Jesus
coming in peace, right?
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But it says, and then notice,
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"And all the tribes
of the earth will mourn
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because of him even
so," what's the next word?
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"Amen."
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So is it going to be secret?
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How many eyes
are going to see Him?
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Let's go to
Revelation Chapter 16.
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Let's see
what's going to happen.
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I'm just giving you
some precursor because
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for some reason,
somebody is teaching,
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it's going to be a secret.
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And so far, we haven't
found any scriptural support
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for the secret return.
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Let's go to Revelation 16.
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Remember, it says,
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"All the tribes of
the earth will mourn,"
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meaning those
that are going to mourn
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are going to mourn
for a particular reason.
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Let's see why
they're going to mourn.
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I said Revelation Chapter what?
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I meant Chapter 6.
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I heard myself say 16.
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And I just corrected myself.
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Revelation Chapter 6.
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And let's look at verse 14.
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All right?
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See who's going to be mourning.
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And the Bible says in verse 14,
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"Then the sky
receded as a scroll
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when it is rolled
up or rolled together.
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And every mountain and island
were moved out of its place,
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and the kings of the
earth, and the great men,
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the rich men, the
commanders, the mighty men,
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every slave and every free
man hid themselves in the caves
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and in the rocks
of the mountains."
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And look what they said.
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And said to the
mountains and the rocks,
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you know, you got to be nervous
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when you start
talking to inanimate objects.
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"Fall on us," what did they say,
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"Fall on us and hide
us from the face of Him
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who sits on the throne."
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Will they see His face?
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Yes or no?
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Of course, they're saying,
we don't want to see His face.
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Hide us, this is
not an invisible event.
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"Hide us from the face of
Him who sits on the throne
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and from the wrath of the lamb,
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for the great day
of His wrath has come."
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And what is the question?
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Who shall be able to stand?
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So is it going to be secret?
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It's going to be so unsecret
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that the people
that are mourning
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or talking to rocks
and mountains saying,
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"Do something?"
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We don't want to see this lamb.
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You see to those who
are saved, He's a lamb.
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But to those,
he's the peaceful lamb,
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but to those who are not
saved, he's the lamb of wrath.
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It's amazing how
you can look at a lamb
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and think that he
is a wrathful lamb
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when you are not in right
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walk with God or
harmony with Him,
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you see Him quite differently.
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He means something
completely different.
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Now, so far we've read...
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We've read Amos 3:7.
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We've read Acts 1:9-11.
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We've read Revelation 1:7.
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And we've read
Revelation 6:14-17.
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And so far, the
Bible has not said
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that the coming of
Jesus is going to be a secret.
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Am I correct?
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Let's try to find
out what happened.
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Now, we're going
to do a quick review.
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But let's start
with question number 12.
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Question number 12,
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and it will be on your syllabus,
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and it will appear on the screen
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for those of
you who are at home.
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Here's the question.
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We were talking
about the unfolding
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of the secret rapture.
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And what I'm going to do today
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is I'm going to give
you a little timeline,
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just so if you
missed the last program,
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you'll get the
timeline of how it started,
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and how it
progressed through the ages.
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And these answers
are, matter of fact,
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they are on the prior
program, but here it is,
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talking about the contributors
to the secret rapture.
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"Who was the
largest modern Contributor
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to the Secret Rapture?"
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Let's look at the answer.
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And this by the
way is historical.
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His name is
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield
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or Ingerson Scofield.
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He was an American
theologian and by the way,
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look at the year he
introduced this theory,
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what year was it?
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If you know anything
about Adventist history,
00:16:08.10\00:16:09.63
1843 is a very significant year.
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It was around the
time that the preaching
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of the second advent of
Jesus was being broadcast
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throughout North America
and other parts of the world,
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the visible coming of Jesus.
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But at that time,
this American theologian,
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he was the one that
popularized futurism,
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dispensationalism,
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and fundamentalist Christianity,
00:16:32.19\00:16:34.39
meaning they had this belief
00:16:34.42\00:16:36.39
that there were
different dispensations,
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one of law, one of grace,
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one of the secret rapture,
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one of the
earthly reign of Jesus
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and then one of the
visible coming of Christ.
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They taught that
there were different ways
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that the Lord dealt with
people in different ages.
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But let me ask you the question.
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What does the
Bible say about the Lord,
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"He is the same," when?
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Yesterday, today, and forever.
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He's always the same.
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He doesn't change.
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But this is how
the secret rapture
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was inserted into America.
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Many of the
other contributors...
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And we'll see
that in just a moment.
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Many of the other contributors
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were in different
parts of the world,
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in South America, in
different parts of Europe,
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but it had not yet
made an inroad in America.
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But Cyrus I.
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Scofield, notice this,
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I'll give you some
further information
00:17:24.54\00:17:26.11
about the Secret Rapture,
00:17:26.14\00:17:27.48
Cyrus Ingerson
Scofield embraced Darby's
00:17:27.51\00:17:31.15
or Ribera's teaching
on the Secret Rapture,
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and created the annotated
Scofield Reference Bible.
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Have you heard of the
Scofield Reference Bible?
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Here are three representations
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of the Scofield
Reference Bibles.
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You have the
one to the far left,
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the purple one,
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that's the New
International Version.
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The one in the middle is
the New King James Version,
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and the black one is
the King James Version.
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And each of these Bibles now,
00:17:53.67\00:17:55.27
the Bible when it comes
from Genesis to Revelation,
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it's fine,
00:17:57.97\00:17:59.44
but he inserted column notes,
00:17:59.47\00:18:03.65
study notes.
00:18:03.68\00:18:05.38
And those study
notes led people to beliefs
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that were not
supported by Scripture.
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I'll give you an
example as to whether
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or not your Bible has
been affected by that.
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If you have a Bible at home,
go with me to Acts Chapter 20.
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Matter of fact, let me just
do this quick test, all right?
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And see if...
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And by the way,
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let me make a
point here as I go on.
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It is important
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to let the Bible
speak for itself.
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Can I get an amen?
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The Bible
doesn't need annotation.
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And you'll notice.
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Let me see if it
has it in here anywhere
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because sometimes these notes,
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okay, praise God from
whom all blessings flow.
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My Bible is not an annotated
Scofield Reference Bible.
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I'll say myself, hallelujah.
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That means, when you
look at certain Bible verses,
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in your Bible,
00:18:52.33\00:18:53.66
if you have a
Bible that was affected
00:18:53.70\00:18:55.03
by the annotation of Scofield,
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Revelation 1:10,
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look at what it
says in Revelation 1:10.
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Let's see that.
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Oh, I take that back.
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My Revelation 1:10 has
Scofield's annotation in it.
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Look at Revelation 1:10.
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I want you to see something.
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This is how you'll know
whether or not you have a Bible
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that has been affected
by Scofield's annotation.
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Revelation 1:10
reads as follows.
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"I was in the
spirit on the," what day?
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"The Lord's Day."
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Now next to the
word or the phrase,
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"The Lord's Day,"
do you see a little R?
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A reference.
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Any of your Bibles have that?
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No, no, no, no, no, no. Okay.
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If your Bible has
a little reference,
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if it has a little R,
00:19:42.24\00:19:43.78
and then and it
points you to Acts 20:7,
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like my Bible does.
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If you go to Acts
20:7, notice, Scofield,
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not only did he teach
about the secret rapture,
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but his annotations
will make people think
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that the first day of
the week is the Lord's Day.
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Notice, Revelation 1:10 says,
00:20:05.87\00:20:08.44
"I was in the
spirit on the Lord's Day."
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And the annotation says,
00:20:10.17\00:20:11.71
now go to Acts 20:7
to see what day that is.
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Yours has it, Marlena?
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Okay, yours has it. Okay.
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Notice it says,
Acts 20:7, right?
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You'll be amazed how many Bibles
00:20:22.68\00:20:24.82
that has been inserted in.
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Let's go to Acts 20:7.
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This is a sidebar, but
just to get you to understand,
00:20:29.19\00:20:31.89
how Bibles have been affected.
00:20:31.93\00:20:34.93
And people that
pick up a Bible and say,
00:20:34.96\00:20:37.13
I want to study it.
00:20:37.17\00:20:38.57
And I want to
study my annotated notes.
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They'll read their
Bibles and they say,
00:20:40.47\00:20:41.87
"Oh, the Lord's
Day is Acts 20:7.
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Let's see what that says.
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Acts 20:7,
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"Now on the
first day of the week,
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when the disciples came
together to break bread,
00:20:52.35\00:20:54.95
Paul ready to
depart the next day,
00:20:54.98\00:20:57.15
spoke to them and
continued his message
00:20:57.19\00:21:00.26
until midnight."
00:21:00.29\00:21:01.62
Now what day did he point out?
00:21:01.66\00:21:02.99
Acts 20:7, what? First day.
00:21:03.02\00:21:06.23
But does it say Lord's Day?
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No, but the trick
is to make you think
00:21:08.23\00:21:12.43
that because it's in
the Bible, that it's legit.
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Let me make a point right away.
00:21:16.24\00:21:17.57
Are you ready for it?
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Caution,
00:21:18.97\00:21:20.91
watch out for the annotation.
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When the verses
don't say Lord's Day
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in both places,
00:21:27.08\00:21:28.98
do not connect the
annotation to the Word of God
00:21:29.02\00:21:32.72
when the
annotation is done by man.
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If you follow the Bible,
00:21:36.19\00:21:38.19
you'll let the
Bible speak for itself.
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Now let's find out
what day is the Lord's Day.
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Now, this is
completely off topic,
00:21:42.66\00:21:44.10
but I want to make
this very, very clear, okay?
00:21:44.13\00:21:46.47
Let's go to Isaiah 58.
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Okay?
00:21:48.87\00:21:50.51
Isaiah 58.
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So and now what I'm going to do,
00:21:55.21\00:21:57.15
we just read Revelation 1:10.
00:21:57.18\00:21:59.38
Now, we're going to
look at Isaiah Chapter 58.
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And we're going to
see what the Bible says.
00:22:01.45\00:22:03.92
Not what the
annotated note says,
00:22:03.95\00:22:06.45
but what the Bible points out.
00:22:06.49\00:22:09.36
Isaiah 58.
00:22:09.39\00:22:11.39
Look at...
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Okay.
00:22:13.13\00:22:14.93
Isaiah 58:13.
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You ready? Look at it.
00:22:18.57\00:22:21.70
"If you turn away your foot
00:22:21.74\00:22:26.51
from the," what day?
00:22:26.54\00:22:28.24
"Sabbath, from doing
your pleasure on," what?
00:22:28.28\00:22:31.55
My what? "Holy day."
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What day did the Lord
identify as His holy day?
00:22:33.75\00:22:36.28
The Sabbath.
00:22:36.32\00:22:37.65
And he says,
00:22:37.69\00:22:39.92
"And call the Sabbath a delight,
00:22:39.95\00:22:42.26
the Holy Day of the Lord,"
00:22:42.29\00:22:44.83
what day did he say
was the Sabbath day?
00:22:44.86\00:22:47.16
It's the holy day,
twice in that verse.
00:22:47.20\00:22:50.83
He says, My holy day,
00:22:50.87\00:22:54.40
then he speaks
about Sabbath twice.
00:22:54.44\00:22:56.50
And then he says,
the Holy Day of the Lord,
00:22:56.54\00:22:59.67
so what day is the Lord's day?
00:22:59.71\00:23:02.61
The Sabbath. One more reference.
00:23:02.64\00:23:04.25
Are you ready?
00:23:04.28\00:23:05.61
Let's see New Testament
00:23:05.65\00:23:06.98
because there's some
people that are so poisoned.
00:23:07.02\00:23:09.28
There's some people
that have been so tainted
00:23:09.32\00:23:11.65
by their church's teachings
00:23:11.69\00:23:13.59
that they say,
"Well, that's Old Testament,
00:23:13.62\00:23:14.96
it must have changed
in the New Testament."
00:23:14.99\00:23:16.59
Let's go to Mark Chapter 2.
00:23:16.62\00:23:18.69
Let's go to Mark Chapter 2.
00:23:18.73\00:23:20.10
It's amazing how
just to prove a point,
00:23:20.13\00:23:23.30
let's let the Bible
speak for itself one more time.
00:23:23.33\00:23:27.34
Mark Chapter 2.
00:23:27.37\00:23:29.67
And here I am.
00:23:29.70\00:23:32.74
I'm reading verse 27
00:23:32.77\00:23:35.18
and verse 28.
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Okay, Mark 2:27.
00:23:39.35\00:23:42.95
Here it is.
00:23:42.98\00:23:44.79
Verse 27.
00:23:44.82\00:23:46.15
He said to them,
00:23:46.19\00:23:48.02
"The Sabbath was made for," who?
00:23:48.06\00:23:50.76
"Man." And not
man for the Sabbath.
00:23:50.79\00:23:53.23
"Therefore, the Son
of Man is also," what?
00:23:53.26\00:23:57.63
"Lord of the Sabbath."
00:23:57.67\00:24:00.07
Who's Lord of the Sabbath?
00:24:00.10\00:24:03.61
Tell me.
00:24:03.64\00:24:04.97
Jesus is.
00:24:05.01\00:24:06.34
So is the Sabbath
belonging to the Lord?
00:24:06.37\00:24:09.58
Because He is
Lord of the Sabbath,
00:24:09.61\00:24:12.01
clear unequivocal definition.
00:24:12.05\00:24:16.05
It's very clear.
00:24:16.08\00:24:17.42
So instead of
reading the annotation,
00:24:17.45\00:24:19.65
let the Bible speak for itself.
00:24:19.69\00:24:21.79
What do we say?
00:24:21.82\00:24:23.16
Okay, now let's go
back to the screen.
00:24:23.19\00:24:25.09
I want you to see this.
00:24:25.13\00:24:26.46
So the Scofield
Chain Reference Bibles,
00:24:26.49\00:24:28.70
these are three
of the popular ones.
00:24:28.73\00:24:30.37
It goes on further on
the screen to point out
00:24:30.40\00:24:33.13
the Scofield
Bible and study notes.
00:24:33.17\00:24:36.27
Here are the things
that are taught in that,
00:24:36.30\00:24:38.81
non-biblical
teachings, the Gap Theory,
00:24:38.84\00:24:42.18
we talked about that,
the 70 weeks, it points,
00:24:42.21\00:24:45.21
pushes one week all
the way to the future.
00:24:45.25\00:24:47.45
The other one, Restoration
of the Nation of Israel,
00:24:47.48\00:24:50.65
today, right now,
00:24:50.69\00:24:52.02
what's affecting
evangelical America.
00:24:52.05\00:24:54.59
I'm going to be
clear, can I be clear?
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.62
What's affecting
evangelicals in America
00:24:56.66\00:24:59.13
is somehow they think
00:24:59.16\00:25:00.76
that we've got to have
00:25:00.80\00:25:03.93
the embassy in
Israel, in Jerusalem,
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.67
because that's where
Jesus is coming back.
00:25:07.70\00:25:10.37
No, He's not coming
back to the Old Jerusalem,
00:25:10.41\00:25:13.38
we are going to
the New Jerusalem.
00:25:13.41\00:25:16.08
Right?
00:25:16.11\00:25:17.55
But this is all the
dispensational teachings,
00:25:17.58\00:25:20.08
and the other one is
the conversion of the Jews.
00:25:20.12\00:25:23.18
They're thinking that
during the Secret Rapture,
00:25:23.22\00:25:25.12
the Jews are
going to be converted,
00:25:25.15\00:25:26.59
the world's
going to be converted,
00:25:26.62\00:25:28.12
everything is going to
be, it's not scriptural.
00:25:28.16\00:25:31.16
Conversion takes place now.
00:25:31.19\00:25:32.93
When the Lord comes back,
there will be no conversions.
00:25:32.96\00:25:36.63
Am I correct?
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.10
It also teaches in
the annotated Bible,
00:25:38.13\00:25:40.34
it teaches something else,
00:25:40.37\00:25:41.74
the pre-tribulation rapture,
00:25:41.77\00:25:45.21
and the millennial
earthly reign of Jesus.
00:25:45.24\00:25:48.08
I was recently at a music show,
00:25:48.11\00:25:51.58
when I say music, equipment,
00:25:51.61\00:25:53.55
sound equipment,
lighting, cameras,
00:25:53.58\00:25:56.15
video equipment, all that,
00:25:56.18\00:25:57.92
and I was
speaking to a Jewish man
00:25:57.95\00:26:00.09
who was checking me out.
00:26:00.12\00:26:01.62
I bought
something at a cash register
00:26:01.66\00:26:03.36
and he was checking me out.
00:26:03.39\00:26:04.93
And I said to
him, I said, "Hello,"
00:26:04.96\00:26:07.96
and his name was Daniel.
00:26:08.00\00:26:09.33
My name is John.
00:26:09.36\00:26:10.70
I said, "Hello, Daniel."
00:26:10.73\00:26:12.07
He said, "Hello, fella."
00:26:12.10\00:26:13.74
I'd say, maybe in his early 70s,
00:26:13.77\00:26:15.90
nice, rich gray beard.
00:26:15.94\00:26:18.04
And I said him, "I keep
the Sabbath like you do."
00:26:18.07\00:26:20.28
He said, "Really?"
00:26:20.31\00:26:22.28
And I said, "I
don't need unclean foods
00:26:22.31\00:26:23.91
just like you don't."
00:26:23.95\00:26:25.31
"Really?"
00:26:25.35\00:26:26.68
He said to me, "Why?"
00:26:26.72\00:26:28.42
I said, "Because the
Bible teaches against that."
00:26:28.45\00:26:31.35
I said, "But we do
differ on one thing."
00:26:31.39\00:26:33.42
He said, "What is that?"
00:26:33.46\00:26:35.52
I said, "We believe...
00:26:35.56\00:26:36.89
I believe in the Messiah,
00:26:36.93\00:26:38.26
and you're looking
forward to the Messiah."
00:26:38.29\00:26:40.40
And he said, "If the
Messiah had already come,
00:26:40.43\00:26:43.57
the whole world
would have been converted
00:26:43.60\00:26:45.77
and everything
would have been right."
00:26:45.80\00:26:47.90
I said, "That's what the
disciples also believed."
00:26:47.94\00:26:50.74
Will you at this
time restore Jerusalem?
00:26:50.77\00:26:53.41
Well, that's what Merlin,
00:26:53.44\00:26:54.94
that's what the
dispensationalists teach,
00:26:54.98\00:26:57.91
that when the rapture happens,
00:26:57.95\00:26:59.65
the Jews are
going to be converted,
00:26:59.68\00:27:01.32
and these 144,000 Jews
00:27:01.35\00:27:03.45
are going to preach to the world
00:27:03.49\00:27:05.15
and turn the world upside down.
00:27:05.19\00:27:06.52
But that's not in Scripture.
00:27:06.55\00:27:08.36
But you'll see that's
what's in the Scofield Bible
00:27:08.39\00:27:11.09
and study notes.
00:27:11.13\00:27:12.46
Now let's do a quick review.
00:27:12.49\00:27:13.83
Are you ready?
00:27:13.86\00:27:15.20
Let's look at this quick review,
00:27:15.23\00:27:16.56
what we pointed out
in the first program,
00:27:16.60\00:27:17.93
and I'm going to take
some time to walk through this.
00:27:17.97\00:27:19.67
Bring that up on
the screen for me.
00:27:19.70\00:27:21.80
We talked about the Formulation
00:27:21.84\00:27:23.57
of the Secret Rapture,
and where it came from.
00:27:23.61\00:27:26.01
Let's follow,
let's walk together.
00:27:26.04\00:27:27.38
Here it is.
00:27:27.41\00:27:28.94
To the far left, I
know it's kind of small.
00:27:28.98\00:27:30.91
You have futurism,
00:27:30.95\00:27:32.48
was first
formulated by Francisco Ribera,
00:27:32.51\00:27:35.72
in the year 1585.
00:27:35.75\00:27:37.85
He was commissioned by
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:27:37.89\00:27:39.92
In 1585,
00:27:39.95\00:27:41.46
he formulated this
theory called futurism.
00:27:41.49\00:27:44.89
But the very next one,
00:27:44.93\00:27:46.90
St. Robert Bellarmine,
00:27:46.93\00:27:49.43
he was made a saint
00:27:49.46\00:27:52.63
in 1930 years after he died,
00:27:52.67\00:27:55.94
he embraced futurism, right?
00:27:55.97\00:27:58.04
He embraced
futurism, he was born in 1542.
00:27:58.07\00:28:00.71
He embraced the
theory of Francisco Ribera
00:28:00.74\00:28:03.45
and began to propagate it.
00:28:03.48\00:28:05.28
Then the next one
is Dr. S. R. Maitland.
00:28:05.31\00:28:08.18
He was the one
00:28:08.22\00:28:09.68
that was the keeper of
the transcripts in England.
00:28:09.72\00:28:13.59
And in reading
these transcripts,
00:28:13.62\00:28:16.22
he republished in 1593,
00:28:16.26\00:28:18.53
the teachings
of Francisco Ribera
00:28:18.56\00:28:22.06
about 40 years earlier.
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.90
But now the bigger
jump, the very next person,
00:28:23.93\00:28:26.74
Manuel Lacunza,
00:28:26.77\00:28:28.57
Manuel Lacunza, he
was a South American,
00:28:28.60\00:28:33.51
a Chilean Jesuit.
00:28:33.54\00:28:36.14
And in that year,
00:28:36.18\00:28:38.11
he published his beliefs
on futurism in a manuscript,
00:28:38.15\00:28:42.02
and he believed
00:28:42.05\00:28:43.52
same as the other
three prior to him,
00:28:43.55\00:28:45.69
but notice
about 200 years later,
00:28:45.72\00:28:48.42
but he published
his under a Jewish name
00:28:48.46\00:28:52.59
that covered
his actual identity.
00:28:52.63\00:28:57.73
Let's go to the next one.
00:28:57.77\00:28:59.10
Then in 1830,
00:28:59.13\00:29:00.47
a lady by the name
of Margaret McDonald.
00:29:00.50\00:29:02.40
She said she received a vision
00:29:02.44\00:29:04.24
claiming that
the rapture was true,
00:29:04.27\00:29:06.04
the secret rapture
would really occur.
00:29:06.07\00:29:08.24
But examining what she,
what she believed by the Bible,
00:29:08.28\00:29:12.08
they found no biblical support.
00:29:12.11\00:29:14.02
Then, the
pre-tribulation rapture in 1832
00:29:14.05\00:29:17.39
was taught by
Reverend Edward Irving.
00:29:17.42\00:29:19.19
It had not made
its way to America yet.
00:29:19.22\00:29:21.46
That's in 1832,
00:29:21.49\00:29:23.19
then to the
1830s, John and Darby,
00:29:23.22\00:29:25.69
Darbyism very popular in Europe.
00:29:25.73\00:29:28.36
Well, he popularized the
dispensationalism theory,
00:29:28.40\00:29:31.13
which included
the secret rapture.
00:29:31.17\00:29:33.40
But then we get down to
the person I just mentioned,
00:29:33.44\00:29:35.70
Cyrus Ingerson Scofield,
00:29:35.74\00:29:37.97
which made it to
America in the 1843.
00:29:38.01\00:29:43.48
So that's the trek right now,
00:29:43.51\00:29:45.11
we are at that point,
00:29:45.15\00:29:46.48
but now let's look at something.
00:29:46.51\00:29:48.52
Let's look at the next question.
00:29:48.55\00:29:49.88
Did you get that?
00:29:49.92\00:29:51.39
It was covered in our lesson.
00:29:51.42\00:29:52.75
We walk through that
on the prior lessons,
00:29:52.79\00:29:54.49
and if you didn't get that,
00:29:54.52\00:29:55.89
you'll be able to get that back.
00:29:55.92\00:29:57.73
This will be
uploaded and you'll see it.
00:29:57.76\00:29:59.83
But now, this is a
very powerful question.
00:29:59.86\00:30:03.33
"What popular author
00:30:03.37\00:30:05.93
impacted the 1980s
00:30:05.97\00:30:08.40
with his secret
rapture predictions?"
00:30:08.44\00:30:12.34
Okay, I heard somebody say it.
00:30:12.37\00:30:14.44
Here's the answer.
00:30:14.48\00:30:16.24
Harold Lee,
00:30:16.28\00:30:18.31
known as Hal Lindsey.
00:30:18.35\00:30:21.35
He popularized Christian Zionism
00:30:21.38\00:30:24.05
and also dispensationalism.
00:30:24.09\00:30:26.99
You may remember
the book that he wrote.
00:30:27.02\00:30:29.32
Here's a copy of it.
00:30:29.36\00:30:30.79
There's a
picture of it actually,
00:30:30.83\00:30:32.16
"The Late Great Planet Earth,"
00:30:32.19\00:30:33.70
remember that,
anybody old enough?
00:30:33.73\00:30:36.73
That book was, that
book flew off the shelf.
00:30:36.77\00:30:38.30
Fifteen million
copies at that time
00:30:38.33\00:30:41.14
was a huge circulation,
00:30:41.17\00:30:43.81
15 million copies.
00:30:43.84\00:30:45.47
And I remember hearing him on TV
00:30:45.51\00:30:47.61
and on the radio,
00:30:47.64\00:30:48.98
back then television
was not like it is now.
00:30:49.01\00:30:51.78
And he was talking about
00:30:51.81\00:30:53.15
how the rapture
would take place.
00:30:53.18\00:30:54.78
And what he kept on doing
every time the date passed,
00:30:54.82\00:30:57.65
he'd pick another
date, and another date,
00:30:57.69\00:31:00.12
and another
date, and another date.
00:31:00.16\00:31:02.26
And Time Magazine did an article
00:31:02.29\00:31:04.46
observing the
continual setting of dates
00:31:04.49\00:31:07.30
by Hal Lindsey.
00:31:07.33\00:31:08.66
Here's that
article, Time Magazine,
00:31:08.70\00:31:11.00
May 20, 2011.
00:31:11.03\00:31:14.14
What's amazing about this
00:31:14.17\00:31:15.50
is they put this
out around the time
00:31:15.54\00:31:18.37
that another prediction failed.
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.28
This is amazing.
00:31:20.31\00:31:22.24
"If you follow Hal Lindsey,
00:31:22.28\00:31:24.61
you've probably changed
the "end of the world" date
00:31:24.65\00:31:27.82
in your calendar several times.
00:31:27.85\00:31:30.79
His Late Great Planet Earth,
00:31:30.82\00:31:32.55
which was the best selling
nonfiction book of the 1970's
00:31:32.59\00:31:37.16
predicted that the
world would end sometime
00:31:37.19\00:31:40.16
before December 31.
00:31:40.20\00:31:41.66
What year? 1988.
00:31:41.70\00:31:44.90
His later books
though less specific,
00:31:44.93\00:31:47.84
suggested that
believers not plan
00:31:47.87\00:31:49.90
on being on earth past the what?
00:31:49.94\00:31:52.17
1980s and then the 1990s
00:31:52.21\00:31:55.64
and, of course, the 2000s.
00:31:55.68\00:31:58.38
But Lindsey did more than just
00:31:58.41\00:32:00.15
wrongly predict the end of days,
00:32:00.18\00:32:03.22
he popularized a
genre of prophecy books.
00:32:03.25\00:32:08.46
So what he did was instead of...
00:32:08.49\00:32:11.69
We were living in California,
I remember at that time,
00:32:11.73\00:32:14.56
we were in the Bay
Area in the North Bay,
00:32:14.60\00:32:17.10
and we were in the 1990s.
00:32:17.13\00:32:21.40
When we heard
somebody had picked the date,
00:32:21.44\00:32:25.47
Hal Lindsey had
picked the date again.
00:32:25.51\00:32:26.84
And then when it passed,
00:32:26.88\00:32:28.51
the article that
came out says 99,
00:32:28.54\00:32:31.25
2000, again it faded off.
00:32:31.28\00:32:33.05
In other words, pick a date.
00:32:33.08\00:32:34.75
It'll happen eventually,
but it never happened.
00:32:34.78\00:32:38.52
But now,
00:32:38.55\00:32:40.29
this is one more
point in history.
00:32:40.32\00:32:43.89
So did you write that down?
00:32:43.93\00:32:46.83
What was his name?
00:32:46.86\00:32:48.23
Hal Lindsey.
00:32:48.26\00:32:49.60
Okay, now we're
going to the next question.
00:32:49.63\00:32:52.67
Question number
14. Question number 14.
00:32:52.70\00:32:58.57
And by the way,
much of this is history
00:32:58.61\00:33:00.18
that I'm walking you through.
00:33:00.21\00:33:01.84
"Who made the
greatest modern impact
00:33:01.88\00:33:05.55
teaching the secret rapture?"
00:33:05.58\00:33:08.48
Who made the
greatest modern impact
00:33:08.52\00:33:11.62
teaching the secret rapture?
00:33:11.65\00:33:14.72
Here's the answer.
00:33:14.76\00:33:16.83
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
00:33:16.86\00:33:20.80
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
00:33:20.83\00:33:25.00
One is a theologian,
the other one is a writer.
00:33:25.03\00:33:28.17
They dramatized
the secret rapture
00:33:28.20\00:33:30.44
through books and movies.
00:33:30.47\00:33:32.61
And by the way,
00:33:32.64\00:33:34.01
I have a little typo
there, but that's okay.
00:33:34.04\00:33:35.88
We understand the reality of it.
00:33:35.91\00:33:37.71
These are two of the books.
00:33:37.75\00:33:40.15
We were living then
in Fairfield, California
00:33:40.18\00:33:43.89
when these books came out.
00:33:43.92\00:33:46.02
My wife and I
remember that very well.
00:33:46.05\00:33:48.22
There were Christians standing
on the side of the highway.
00:33:48.26\00:33:51.16
Look at that next slide.
00:33:51.19\00:33:52.53
There were Christians standing
on the side of the highway.
00:33:52.56\00:33:55.46
And these books
that were made popular
00:33:55.50\00:33:58.57
based on what Tim LaHaye taught,
00:33:58.60\00:34:00.54
what, Hal Lindsey
taught, notice what it says,
00:34:00.57\00:34:04.37
"Tribulation
Force and Left Behind."
00:34:04.41\00:34:07.78
Tim LaHaye, Jerry Jenkins,
00:34:07.81\00:34:09.58
and they sold an
estimated 75 million.
00:34:09.61\00:34:14.55
Now, was it not
only in books for adults,
00:34:14.58\00:34:17.92
but if any of you
has a copy of that book,
00:34:17.95\00:34:19.85
if anyone has a copy
of that book at home,
00:34:19.89\00:34:21.36
do me a favor.
00:34:21.39\00:34:22.72
Here's what I'd like you to do.
00:34:22.76\00:34:24.09
Go get that book off the shelf,
and turn it around to the back
00:34:24.13\00:34:27.20
and look to the bottom left
close to the spine of the book.
00:34:27.23\00:34:30.47
And you see these two words.
00:34:30.50\00:34:32.50
You see this word, fiction.
00:34:32.53\00:34:36.04
Fiction.
00:34:36.07\00:34:37.41
I did that when I went
to a Christian bookstore,
00:34:37.44\00:34:39.27
I was standing in a
Christian bookstore,
00:34:39.31\00:34:40.98
and they had the
entire set of the Left Behind,
00:34:41.01\00:34:44.61
The Tribulation Force.
00:34:44.65\00:34:47.02
And this was also
popularized in movie form.
00:34:47.05\00:34:51.15
It's still, you can
still download it on Netflix
00:34:51.19\00:34:53.76
or whatever new movie service.
00:34:53.79\00:34:55.96
Every now and
then they do an update.
00:34:55.99\00:34:58.99
The most recent one I
think about maybe 10 years ago,
00:34:59.03\00:35:02.53
a person by the
name of Nicolas Cage,
00:35:02.56\00:35:04.27
he starred in that and a
number of other popular actors.
00:35:04.30\00:35:07.17
I never saw it
because I know it's a theory.
00:35:07.20\00:35:09.37
And the problem
with watching movies
00:35:09.40\00:35:10.87
that are based on the Bible
is it's not based on the Bible,
00:35:10.91\00:35:15.21
like Noah's Ark.
00:35:15.24\00:35:16.58
Somebody told me
watch Noah's Ark.
00:35:16.61\00:35:17.95
It's not based on the
Bible. I didn't watch it.
00:35:17.98\00:35:20.18
Even the Ten
Commandments, it's all as it is,
00:35:20.22\00:35:22.78
it's not based on the Bible.
00:35:22.82\00:35:24.55
They always fictionalize it.
00:35:24.59\00:35:25.92
However, this
theory doesn't even exist.
00:35:25.95\00:35:28.82
On the back of these books,
00:35:28.86\00:35:30.19
I should have
done a copy of that.
00:35:30.23\00:35:31.99
It says fiction
on the bottom right.
00:35:32.03\00:35:34.43
And there were Christian
00:35:34.46\00:35:35.80
standing up on the
side of the highway
00:35:35.83\00:35:37.90
in our community,
with banners and flags,
00:35:37.93\00:35:40.70
giving out tickets to
come to their churches
00:35:40.74\00:35:43.30
to watch the movie Left Behind.
00:35:43.34\00:35:46.47
But you know
what's been left behind
00:35:46.51\00:35:47.84
in this whole teaching?
00:35:47.88\00:35:49.34
The truth.
00:35:49.38\00:35:51.01
The only thing
that was left behind
00:35:51.05\00:35:52.78
in the Left
Behind theory is what?
00:35:52.81\00:35:55.28
The truth.
00:35:55.32\00:35:59.09
But somehow people believe it,
00:35:59.12\00:36:02.89
they embrace it.
00:36:02.92\00:36:04.26
So did you write
that down for number 14?
00:36:04.29\00:36:07.03
Who made the
greatest modern impact
00:36:07.06\00:36:09.16
teaching the secret rapture?
00:36:09.20\00:36:10.90
Did you write the names down.
00:36:10.93\00:36:12.40
Tim LaHaye and Jerry Jenkins.
00:36:12.43\00:36:14.77
And they got their inspiration
from Hal Lindsey's books,
00:36:14.80\00:36:18.27
The Late Great Planet Earth.
00:36:18.31\00:36:21.01
National Geographics
00:36:21.04\00:36:23.45
did an article
on this and did a...
00:36:23.48\00:36:25.25
They actually did
a one hour special.
00:36:25.28\00:36:27.25
You might want to look that up
00:36:27.28\00:36:29.35
on the secret rapture,
00:36:29.38\00:36:31.99
a theory that is
not based on the Bible.
00:36:32.02\00:36:35.56
And they said
millions of Christians
00:36:35.59\00:36:37.06
have embraced the teaching
00:36:37.09\00:36:38.43
that has no
scriptural foundation.
00:36:38.46\00:36:39.96
And we're going
to go to the Bible
00:36:40.00\00:36:41.33
in just a moment to see
what the Bible says about it.
00:36:41.36\00:36:43.06
We began by
laying some text down,
00:36:43.10\00:36:45.53
but the danger in believing
00:36:45.57\00:36:49.50
what the Bible
doesn't teach is this.
00:36:49.54\00:36:52.71
It is not going to happen.
00:36:52.74\00:36:55.31
What did I just say?
00:36:55.34\00:36:56.71
It's not going to happen.
00:36:56.75\00:36:59.01
It's a theory.
00:36:59.05\00:37:00.38
There are Christians today.
00:37:00.42\00:37:01.75
That's where you
get this phrase from.
00:37:01.78\00:37:03.22
It could happen any day now.
00:37:03.25\00:37:06.45
Any day now.
00:37:06.49\00:37:08.36
They don't
follow Bible prophecy.
00:37:08.39\00:37:10.09
They don't
follow Bible timeline.
00:37:10.13\00:37:11.79
So to them, it
could happen any moment.
00:37:11.83\00:37:15.73
You see popularized pictures.
00:37:15.76\00:37:17.50
I've seen pictures
in Christian bookstores
00:37:17.53\00:37:19.13
where the plane is crashing,
cars are running into building,
00:37:19.17\00:37:22.57
people disappear at
the breakfast table.
00:37:22.60\00:37:24.77
The postman, all of a
sudden he's delivering letters
00:37:24.81\00:37:26.68
and the letters
drop because he's gone.
00:37:26.71\00:37:28.84
Cars run into your house,
00:37:28.88\00:37:30.45
and there's just
sand on the ground.
00:37:30.48\00:37:32.41
These are not
taught by the Bible,
00:37:32.45\00:37:34.32
Can I get an amen somewhere?
00:37:34.35\00:37:36.08
It's not taught in the Bible,
00:37:36.12\00:37:37.49
but Satan...
00:37:37.52\00:37:40.92
He does such a good job
00:37:40.96\00:37:43.96
of taking certain
scriptures and twisting them
00:37:43.99\00:37:47.60
to make them appear to teach
00:37:47.63\00:37:51.37
what these
theories claim to support,
00:37:51.40\00:37:53.87
but they do not support that.
00:37:53.90\00:37:55.67
Let's look at the next question.
00:37:55.70\00:37:57.37
Let's look at the next question.
00:37:57.41\00:37:59.17
Number 15.
00:37:59.21\00:38:00.54
And then we're going
to dive into the Bible
00:38:00.58\00:38:01.91
right after this one.
00:38:01.94\00:38:03.28
All right, number 15.
00:38:03.31\00:38:05.48
Who failed...?
00:38:05.51\00:38:07.65
"Who failed in the
most recent predicted date
00:38:07.68\00:38:12.12
for the secret rapture?"
00:38:12.15\00:38:15.22
Okay, does
anybody know his name?
00:38:15.26\00:38:17.79
Harold Camping,
00:38:17.83\00:38:20.36
preacher and radio host.
00:38:20.40\00:38:22.16
He's deceased now.
00:38:22.20\00:38:23.97
He predicted the date
00:38:24.00\00:38:25.70
he says of the secret rapture.
00:38:25.73\00:38:30.27
My wife and I just
so happened to be...
00:38:30.31\00:38:33.34
Look at this next slide.
00:38:33.38\00:38:34.74
We just so happened to be
in California during that time,
00:38:34.78\00:38:38.18
and Judgment Day,
00:38:38.21\00:38:40.48
May 21, 2011.
00:38:40.52\00:38:42.78
We were driving
on to the Bay Bridge.
00:38:42.82\00:38:46.86
And we saw to the
left on these big posters,
00:38:46.89\00:38:49.29
"The world is ending."
00:38:49.32\00:38:50.99
The world is coming to an
end, and they picked the date,
00:38:51.03\00:38:53.76
May 21, 2011.
00:38:53.80\00:38:56.23
So we drove over
to the radio station
00:38:56.26\00:38:59.07
Family Radio in Oakland,
00:38:59.10\00:39:01.70
and we drove
into the parking lot,
00:39:01.74\00:39:03.77
it was obviously closed,
00:39:03.81\00:39:05.77
because they were waiting
for the rapture to take place.
00:39:05.81\00:39:08.74
And we just heard the
radio in the background.
00:39:08.78\00:39:10.91
We saw a truck
in the parking lot.
00:39:10.95\00:39:12.81
And on the side
of the truck it had,
00:39:12.85\00:39:14.72
"World ending May 21, 2011."
00:39:14.75\00:39:17.85
Well, what they didn't know
is our anniversary is May 22,
00:39:17.89\00:39:22.02
the day after that,
00:39:22.06\00:39:24.26
and not that the world
00:39:24.29\00:39:26.19
is not going to end
before somebody's anniversary,
00:39:26.23\00:39:28.63
but I knew it was
not based on the Bible.
00:39:28.66\00:39:30.63
And I said, "Honey,
00:39:30.67\00:39:32.00
we'll be able to celebrate
our anniversary tomorrow,
00:39:32.03\00:39:34.80
because the world
is not ending today."
00:39:34.84\00:39:37.31
And how do I know that?
00:39:37.34\00:39:38.67
Because it's not
based on God's Word.
00:39:38.71\00:39:40.91
And the sad reality...
00:39:40.94\00:39:42.28
Did you write that down?
00:39:42.31\00:39:43.65
Who made the last public
push for the secret rapture?
00:39:43.68\00:39:47.35
Harold Camping, and you know,
00:39:47.38\00:39:50.39
that was not the first time
but this one was so devastating
00:39:50.42\00:39:54.06
that he never really recovered
his reputation after that.
00:39:54.09\00:39:57.49
He was never formed.
00:39:57.53\00:39:59.49
He was never fully restored
in the eyes of credibility
00:39:59.53\00:40:02.53
because you know what happened.
00:40:02.56\00:40:03.90
People so believed him
00:40:03.93\00:40:05.27
that some of them
sold their houses,
00:40:05.30\00:40:07.07
sold their businesses,
00:40:07.10\00:40:08.50
they pumped money
into the radio station
00:40:08.54\00:40:11.57
to get this news
out, and the day came,
00:40:11.61\00:40:14.78
and the day went, and
the world kept on going on.
00:40:14.81\00:40:18.15
And that was how many years ago?
00:40:18.18\00:40:20.05
That was about eight years ago.
00:40:20.08\00:40:22.32
But as we said earlier,
00:40:22.35\00:40:24.02
the Lord before
He does anything,
00:40:24.05\00:40:25.72
He's going to reveal it to
His servants, the prophets.
00:40:25.75\00:40:28.92
Now let's look at
what the Bible says.
00:40:28.96\00:40:30.29
Let's look at
this very brief chart
00:40:30.33\00:40:31.66
that I put together
about the most recent ones.
00:40:31.69\00:40:34.83
We have 1970, Late
Great Planet Earth,
00:40:34.86\00:40:38.00
Hal Lindsey, 1995,
00:40:38.03\00:40:40.20
Tim LaHaye and
Jerry Jenkins, and 2011,
00:40:40.24\00:40:43.64
The Secret Rapture
with Harold Camping.
00:40:43.67\00:40:46.11
But the next question is,
00:40:46.14\00:40:47.48
bring in the
next slide up for me.
00:40:47.51\00:40:48.84
The next question is,
00:40:48.88\00:40:50.21
does the Bible
teach the secret rapture?
00:40:50.25\00:40:52.15
And how many of
you know the answer?
00:40:52.18\00:40:53.52
What's the answer?
00:40:53.55\00:40:55.08
The answer is absolutely not.
00:40:55.12\00:40:57.89
Absolutely not.
00:40:57.92\00:40:59.25
So now what we're going
to do is go to the Bible
00:40:59.29\00:41:02.42
and find out what
the Bible teaches.
00:41:02.46\00:41:05.43
All right, let's go to the first
00:41:05.46\00:41:07.73
of these three questions.
00:41:07.76\00:41:10.90
Question number
16. Question number 16.
00:41:10.93\00:41:15.37
And the question is,
00:41:15.40\00:41:17.17
what warning did Jesus give
concerning His second coming?
00:41:17.21\00:41:22.58
What warning did He give?
00:41:22.61\00:41:24.11
Let's go to Matthew Chapter 24.
00:41:24.15\00:41:27.72
Matthew Chapter 24.
00:41:27.75\00:41:29.32
Okay.
00:41:37.09\00:41:38.43
Matthew Chapter 24,
00:41:42.83\00:41:44.17
and we're gonna
look at verse 4 together.
00:41:44.20\00:41:45.53
Okay, notice what He said.
00:41:49.77\00:41:52.87
Perfect words of Jesus,
can we read that together?
00:41:52.91\00:41:56.71
Here we are, or let
us read that together
00:41:56.75\00:41:59.51
"And Jesus answered
and said to them," what?
00:41:59.55\00:42:02.18
"Take heed that
no one deceives you."
00:42:02.22\00:42:06.79
If you look at the
context of Matthew Chapter 24,
00:42:06.82\00:42:11.53
if you go back to verse 1 to 3,
00:42:11.56\00:42:14.70
actually, verse 3 is
the most significant.
00:42:14.73\00:42:17.40
Now as he sat on
the Mount of Olives,
00:42:17.43\00:42:20.74
the disciples came
to him privately saying,
00:42:20.77\00:42:24.54
tell us when
will these things be?
00:42:24.57\00:42:27.84
And what will be
the sign of your coming
00:42:27.88\00:42:30.65
in at the end of the age?
00:42:30.68\00:42:32.01
What sign did they
ask for the sign of what?
00:42:32.05\00:42:35.68
What sign did they
ask for, the sign of what?
00:42:35.72\00:42:38.19
The Sign of the
coming of the Lord.
00:42:38.22\00:42:39.85
They said, tell us what
is the sign of your coming
00:42:39.89\00:42:43.53
and of the end of the age,
00:42:43.56\00:42:45.43
or the end of the world as
the King James Version says.
00:42:45.46\00:42:48.90
So notice, Jesus use words
00:42:48.93\00:42:52.80
that are indicative of
what's happening today.
00:42:52.83\00:42:55.17
He said, take heed
that no one does, what?
00:42:55.20\00:42:58.37
And when we look at that
chart from 1585 to the present,
00:42:58.41\00:43:04.21
over and over and over and over
00:43:04.25\00:43:06.35
again a theory has been taught
00:43:06.38\00:43:09.12
that people are
being deceived by.
00:43:09.15\00:43:10.82
There are millions
of Christians today,
00:43:10.85\00:43:12.79
that for some
reason or the other.
00:43:12.82\00:43:16.46
They'll see what the Bible says,
00:43:16.49\00:43:18.69
and they will prefer
the theory over the Bible.
00:43:18.73\00:43:23.16
Look at Matthew 24:27.
00:43:23.20\00:43:25.20
The Lord made it clear
00:43:28.80\00:43:30.51
how His second
coming is going to be.
00:43:30.54\00:43:33.31
Notice this, Matthew 24:27.
00:43:33.34\00:43:38.01
We read,
00:43:38.05\00:43:39.61
"For as the lightning
00:43:39.65\00:43:43.28
comes from the east
00:43:43.32\00:43:45.75
and flashes to the west,
00:43:45.79\00:43:48.39
so also will the
coming of the Son of man be."
00:43:48.42\00:43:52.69
You ever saw lightning before?
00:43:52.73\00:43:55.10
Is lightning secret?
00:43:55.13\00:43:57.47
Matter of fact, lightning
appears at the darkest night.
00:43:57.50\00:44:01.50
Sometimes we're
sleeping at night
00:44:01.54\00:44:02.87
and our curtains are closed.
00:44:02.90\00:44:04.51
And we see that lightning.
00:44:04.54\00:44:06.37
What do you wait for
after lightning flashes?
00:44:06.41\00:44:09.31
What do you wait for next?
00:44:09.34\00:44:11.18
Thunder.
00:44:11.21\00:44:12.55
And depending on
how bright it was,
00:44:12.58\00:44:14.55
you wait for the
intensity of the thunder.
00:44:14.58\00:44:18.95
The Lord is saying,
"My return is going to be
00:44:18.99\00:44:21.99
as visible as the
lightning flashing
00:44:22.02\00:44:24.59
from the east,
00:44:24.63\00:44:26.80
all the way to the west."
00:44:26.83\00:44:30.00
But not only that
00:44:30.03\00:44:32.47
He says in verse 24.
00:44:32.50\00:44:34.40
Look at that in the Bible.
00:44:34.44\00:44:37.51
Once again, He's
continually warning
00:44:37.54\00:44:39.74
about the
possibility of deception.
00:44:39.77\00:44:41.68
He says, "For false christs
00:44:41.71\00:44:44.95
and false prophets will rise
00:44:44.98\00:44:48.62
and show great signs and wonders
00:44:48.65\00:44:51.92
as to deceive,"
00:44:51.95\00:44:54.62
what's the next two words?
00:44:54.66\00:44:56.39
"If possible,"
Yannick, share your Bible.
00:44:56.42\00:44:59.79
In the middle.
00:44:59.83\00:45:01.86
Yeah, yeah, share it again.
00:45:01.90\00:45:04.43
If possible, what
are the next two words?
00:45:04.47\00:45:07.54
"If possible, the very elect."
00:45:07.57\00:45:10.77
So will the elect
be deceived, yes or no?
00:45:10.81\00:45:14.18
Because it's not possible, why?
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.64
Because the elect are informed
about the coming of the Lord.
00:45:15.68\00:45:20.12
They're not in the dark
about the coming of the Lord.
00:45:20.15\00:45:22.72
Let's look at verse 11.
00:45:27.36\00:45:29.76
Once again, He makes it clear,
00:45:29.79\00:45:32.39
"Then many false
prophets will rise up
00:45:32.43\00:45:35.50
and," do what?
00:45:35.53\00:45:37.03
"Deceive many."
00:45:37.07\00:45:39.30
Now the question is,
why will they be deceived,
00:45:39.33\00:45:41.87
is a big question.
00:45:41.90\00:45:43.37
Let's go now in the Bible.
00:45:43.41\00:45:44.74
I want to see these
00:45:44.77\00:45:46.11
before I show you the
last few verses I have.
00:45:46.14\00:45:47.91
The question is why
will they be deceived?
00:45:47.94\00:45:50.51
Go with me now to 2 Timothy.
00:45:50.55\00:45:54.25
Second book of Timothy.
00:45:54.28\00:45:56.79
I am so amazed.
00:46:01.52\00:46:03.73
Because today
Christianity is very popular,
00:46:03.76\00:46:06.59
but what's not popular?
00:46:06.63\00:46:08.86
What's not popular?
00:46:08.90\00:46:10.23
Truth is...
00:46:10.27\00:46:11.60
Going to churches is popular,
00:46:11.63\00:46:13.70
Christian
entertainment is popular,
00:46:13.74\00:46:15.57
Christian music is popular,
Christian movies are popular,
00:46:15.60\00:46:18.94
Christian songs are popular.
00:46:18.97\00:46:21.34
But the truth
for whatever reason
00:46:21.38\00:46:25.51
is not popular.
00:46:25.55\00:46:28.32
And we know why.
00:46:28.35\00:46:30.39
Okay,
00:46:30.42\00:46:32.52
2 Timothy Chapter 4.
00:46:32.55\00:46:37.09
Here I am.
00:46:37.13\00:46:40.90
Okay, I'm gonna read
through a number of verses.
00:46:40.93\00:46:42.66
I'll start with 2, verse 2.
00:46:42.70\00:46:45.90
What are the first three
words, so say it together?
00:46:45.93\00:46:48.74
"Preach the word!
00:46:48.77\00:46:50.71
Be ready or be
instant in season and" what?
00:46:50.74\00:46:54.14
"Out of season.
00:46:54.18\00:46:55.88
Convince, rebuke, exhort
00:46:55.91\00:46:58.78
with all
longsuffering and" what else?
00:46:58.81\00:47:01.22
"Teaching or doctrine."
00:47:01.25\00:47:02.95
And look at this, verse 3.
00:47:02.98\00:47:07.36
"For the time will come,"
00:47:07.39\00:47:08.92
can we modify
that just a little bit,
00:47:08.96\00:47:10.93
for the time has come.
00:47:10.96\00:47:13.16
We're living in
that time friends.
00:47:13.19\00:47:15.03
"For the time will come
00:47:15.06\00:47:16.77
when they will
not endure," what?
00:47:16.80\00:47:19.43
"Sound," do you know
the word sound means.
00:47:19.47\00:47:22.07
The word sound means
whole, that means complete.
00:47:22.10\00:47:25.87
That means words of integrity,
that means the whole story.
00:47:25.91\00:47:29.88
They won't
endure the whole story,
00:47:29.91\00:47:32.41
but look what
they're going to do.
00:47:32.45\00:47:34.98
But according to
their own desires,
00:47:35.02\00:47:37.09
because they have itching ears,
00:47:37.12\00:47:40.02
they will heap up
for themselves, teachers,
00:47:40.06\00:47:43.73
and they will turn
their ears away from the truth
00:47:43.76\00:47:47.40
and be turned aside to what?
00:47:47.43\00:47:49.46
To fables.
00:47:49.50\00:47:50.83
Now, I want to
just bring this text out
00:47:50.87\00:47:52.80
very quickly here because,
00:47:52.83\00:47:54.60
you know, when I
looked at this the other day,
00:47:54.64\00:47:56.54
I'm gonna go ahead
and show in context
00:47:56.57\00:47:59.04
and I'm going to change my
translation here to the NIV
00:47:59.07\00:48:01.98
because when I looked
at this the other day,
00:48:02.01\00:48:03.95
it was amazing to me.
00:48:03.98\00:48:05.75
I was showing a lady
by the name of Ramona,
00:48:05.78\00:48:09.28
this text in the NIV.
00:48:09.32\00:48:11.99
And she may remember that.
00:48:12.02\00:48:15.49
And it was amazing how
the Bible brings this out.
00:48:15.52\00:48:18.63
I've gotta look it up here.
00:48:18.66\00:48:20.00
2 Timothy Chapter 4,
00:48:20.03\00:48:23.16
and I'm gonna read it to you.
00:48:23.20\00:48:24.67
And it's amazing how
it is put in the NIV.
00:48:24.70\00:48:28.37
All right,
00:48:28.40\00:48:29.74
I'm gonna read verse 3
and verse 4 in the NIV.
00:48:29.77\00:48:33.38
"For the time will come
00:48:33.41\00:48:35.94
when men will not put
up with sound doctrine."
00:48:35.98\00:48:40.65
Is that amazing?
00:48:40.68\00:48:42.02
"Instead to suit
their own desires
00:48:42.05\00:48:45.62
they will gather around them
00:48:45.65\00:48:48.19
a great number of teachers,
00:48:48.22\00:48:51.19
to say what their
itching ears want to hear."
00:48:51.23\00:48:54.80
Isn't that amazing?
00:48:54.83\00:48:56.50
And this is in verse 4,
00:48:56.53\00:48:57.87
"They will turn their
ears away from the truth
00:48:57.90\00:49:00.94
and turn aside to myths."
00:49:00.97\00:49:03.57
Are we living in
that day and age?
00:49:03.61\00:49:05.64
It's hard to tell people
the truth in Christianity.
00:49:05.67\00:49:10.15
I mean, if you go to the
bank and the teller says,
00:49:10.18\00:49:14.45
you have $40 in your account,
00:49:14.48\00:49:16.99
and you say, what
happened to my money?
00:49:17.02\00:49:20.02
They say you have
$40 in your account.
00:49:20.06\00:49:22.19
You said, that's not true.
00:49:22.22\00:49:23.69
They say, well,
according to me is true.
00:49:23.73\00:49:25.73
What would you say?
00:49:25.76\00:49:27.80
I'm just telling you
what I think you need to hear.
00:49:27.83\00:49:30.53
Well, it may be more than 40.
00:49:30.57\00:49:31.90
But I'm telling you
there's $40 in your account,
00:49:31.93\00:49:33.64
would you be satisfied?
00:49:33.67\00:49:35.00
Come on, what would you say?
00:49:35.04\00:49:37.17
Get another teller.
00:49:37.21\00:49:38.97
Get the manager.
00:49:39.01\00:49:40.34
I have a
receipt from the machine
00:49:40.38\00:49:41.71
that says I have
X amount of dollars,
00:49:41.74\00:49:43.21
but she's telling
me I have 40 bucks.
00:49:43.24\00:49:45.21
You wouldn't tolerate that.
00:49:45.25\00:49:46.98
But let's go to the next step.
00:49:47.02\00:49:48.75
You pause and I remember
being in Oakland, California
00:49:48.78\00:49:50.99
number of years ago,
00:49:51.02\00:49:52.45
my wife and I were looking
for the Oakland bus station.
00:49:52.49\00:49:56.12
We didn't know where it was.
00:49:56.16\00:49:58.06
And a police officer, we said,
well, surely he should know.
00:49:58.09\00:50:01.56
We waved him down and I said,
00:50:01.60\00:50:04.37
"Officer where's
the bus station?"
00:50:04.40\00:50:06.10
He said and he pointed that way.
00:50:06.13\00:50:07.94
And when he walked away,
we were about to drive away.
00:50:07.97\00:50:10.21
And transients, a
guy that looked like
00:50:10.24\00:50:12.74
he hadn't been
home for a long time,
00:50:12.77\00:50:15.74
trying to be respectful.
00:50:15.78\00:50:17.15
You can see he
lived on the streets.
00:50:17.18\00:50:18.75
He said, wait a minute,
wait a minute, wait a minute,
00:50:18.78\00:50:20.88
and we thought he was
going to ask for food or money.
00:50:20.92\00:50:23.05
He said, "Ain't that the way."
00:50:23.08\00:50:26.52
I said, "What do you mean?"
00:50:26.55\00:50:28.02
He, ain't the away, is that way.
00:50:28.06\00:50:31.06
And he said it with
pretty broken language.
00:50:31.09\00:50:33.19
I said, well, "How do you know?"
00:50:33.23\00:50:34.56
He said, "I go every day."
00:50:34.60\00:50:38.03
He know where it was.
00:50:38.07\00:50:39.83
So here's my point,
00:50:39.87\00:50:42.47
because they look like they know
00:50:42.50\00:50:44.91
don't take their word for it,
00:50:44.94\00:50:48.34
because preachers are hired.
00:50:48.38\00:50:51.25
Let's go to 2 Corinthians.
00:50:51.28\00:50:54.32
The devil's got
him some ministers.
00:50:54.35\00:50:57.85
It's a sad
reality, but we are...
00:50:57.89\00:51:02.76
2 Corinthians Chapter 11,
00:51:02.79\00:51:05.16
and then we're gonna dive
to the last three scriptures.
00:51:05.19\00:51:07.40
2 Corinthians Chapter 11.
00:51:07.43\00:51:09.30
Look at this, verse 13.
00:51:09.33\00:51:11.67
So because they
look the part do not mean
00:51:11.70\00:51:14.87
that they are
telling you the truth.
00:51:14.90\00:51:18.14
You got to know it for you,
the Word of God is your guide.
00:51:18.17\00:51:21.41
Look at verse 13,
00:51:21.44\00:51:23.35
"For such a false apostles,
00:51:23.38\00:51:26.25
deceitful workers,
00:51:26.28\00:51:28.62
transforming themselves
into apostles of Christ."
00:51:28.65\00:51:33.46
I was shaken a few weeks ago
00:51:33.49\00:51:34.89
when I was listening
to a Sunday morning show.
00:51:34.92\00:51:37.99
We were at on the road for
3ABN in the hotel in Michigan,
00:51:38.03\00:51:42.50
and I turned on Sunday
morning and there on television
00:51:42.53\00:51:44.90
a preacher that I had
listened to many times,
00:51:44.93\00:51:47.34
and he was saying,
00:51:47.37\00:51:48.70
how would you
like it when the world,
00:51:48.74\00:51:50.07
what would you
think if the world was
00:51:50.11\00:51:52.37
all of a sudden taken
over by 144,000 evangelists?
00:51:52.41\00:51:55.94
And I thought that'd be great.
00:51:55.98\00:51:58.71
He said that's
what's going to happen
00:51:58.75\00:52:00.08
when the secret
rapture takes place.
00:52:00.12\00:52:01.45
And I said, no, you
didn't just say that.
00:52:01.48\00:52:04.55
And my estimation of
him just went like this...
00:52:04.59\00:52:08.56
Reputable preacher,
00:52:08.59\00:52:10.76
wonderful man, had
beautiful teachings.
00:52:10.79\00:52:13.40
And I thought
either he doesn't know
00:52:13.43\00:52:16.77
or he knows and
just doesn't embrace it.
00:52:16.80\00:52:19.33
But look what it goes
on and say in verse 14,
00:52:19.37\00:52:22.87
"And no wonder!
00:52:22.90\00:52:24.24
For Satan himself
transformed himself
00:52:24.27\00:52:27.24
into an angel of light."
00:52:27.28\00:52:28.74
Verse 15,
"Therefore, it is no great thing
00:52:28.78\00:52:32.18
if his ministers also do," what?
00:52:32.21\00:52:35.68
"Transform themselves
00:52:35.72\00:52:37.62
into ministers of righteousness,
00:52:37.65\00:52:40.49
whose end will be
according to their work?
00:52:40.52\00:52:44.66
So the Bible is
in essence saying,
00:52:44.69\00:52:46.09
according to their
works false apostles,
00:52:46.13\00:52:48.76
but they looked apart.
00:52:48.80\00:52:50.13
Ministers but Satan himself
looks like an angel of light.
00:52:50.17\00:52:53.34
Always check it out by the word.
00:52:53.37\00:52:55.37
Together, always
check it out by God's Word
00:52:55.40\00:52:59.14
and not one
scripture, but upon...
00:52:59.17\00:53:01.48
Notice what we did
earlier one, two, three.
00:53:01.51\00:53:03.48
Just follow them all.
00:53:03.51\00:53:05.48
Let's go to the
very next question.
00:53:05.51\00:53:09.28
Question number 17.
00:53:09.32\00:53:11.09
"How does the
Bible describe the nature
00:53:11.12\00:53:14.72
of the return of Jesus?"
00:53:14.76\00:53:16.32
Let's go to Psalm 15:3.
00:53:16.36\00:53:19.16
How does the Bible
describe the nature
00:53:19.19\00:53:21.36
of the return of Jesus?
00:53:21.40\00:53:22.73
Here's what it says
together, "Our God shall come,
00:53:22.76\00:53:26.27
and shall not," what?
00:53:26.30\00:53:28.20
"Keep silent,
00:53:28.24\00:53:30.17
a fire shall devour before Him,
00:53:30.21\00:53:33.98
and it shall be very," what?
00:53:34.01\00:53:35.94
"Tempestuous all around Him."
00:53:35.98\00:53:38.85
Is it going to be
silent? Yes or no?
00:53:38.88\00:53:41.58
It's gonna be the
loudest event of the ages.
00:53:41.62\00:53:44.02
It's gonna be earth shaking.
00:53:44.05\00:53:45.39
Islands and mountains are going
to move out of their places.
00:53:45.42\00:53:48.72
The heavens are going
to depart as a scroll.
00:53:48.76\00:53:50.33
We read that earlier.
00:53:50.36\00:53:51.69
It's not gonna
be a silent event.
00:53:51.73\00:53:54.73
Look at number 18.
00:53:54.76\00:53:57.47
"How does the return of
Jesus affect the earth?"
00:53:57.50\00:54:02.64
2 Peter 3:10.
00:54:02.67\00:54:05.04
Let's go there.
00:54:05.07\00:54:06.51
2 Peter 3:10, the Bible says,
00:54:06.54\00:54:10.21
"But the day of the
Lord will come as a" what?
00:54:10.25\00:54:13.25
"Thief in the night."
00:54:13.28\00:54:14.68
You don't know the date.
00:54:14.72\00:54:16.05
It's gonna come
upon men unaware.
00:54:16.08\00:54:17.92
"In which the heavens
will pass away with a," what?
00:54:17.95\00:54:20.86
"Great noise."
00:54:20.89\00:54:22.22
But it's not gonna be silent,
00:54:22.26\00:54:24.19
"And the elements
will melt with," what?
00:54:24.23\00:54:26.43
"Fervent heat, both the earth
00:54:26.46\00:54:30.03
and the works that
are in it will be," what?
00:54:30.07\00:54:33.50
"Burned up."
00:54:33.54\00:54:34.87
Notice, heavens passing
away with a great noise,
00:54:34.90\00:54:38.37
elements melting
with fervent heat,
00:54:38.41\00:54:41.08
the earth is on fire, the
works are being burned up.
00:54:41.11\00:54:43.78
Is that secret?
Come on, yes or no?
00:54:43.81\00:54:45.78
Absolutely not.
00:54:45.81\00:54:47.18
So, friends, let the
Bible be the only guide.
00:54:47.22\00:54:49.72
Let's look at another one.
00:54:49.75\00:54:52.72
Question number 19.
00:54:52.75\00:54:54.82
Let's look at question number...
00:54:54.86\00:54:56.19
"What is the
method that Jesus will use
00:54:56.22\00:54:58.53
to gather the saints to heaven?"
00:54:58.56\00:55:02.03
Matthew 24:31.
00:55:02.06\00:55:05.07
Here's what the Bible says.
00:55:05.10\00:55:07.04
It says clearly, "And
he will send His," what?
00:55:07.07\00:55:11.04
"Angels with a
great sound of a trumpet,
00:55:11.07\00:55:14.84
and they will gather together
His elect from the four winds,
00:55:14.88\00:55:20.02
from one end of
heaven to the," what?
00:55:20.05\00:55:23.18
"To the other."
00:55:23.22\00:55:24.55
Is that going to
be an invisible event?
00:55:24.59\00:55:26.65
No.
00:55:26.69\00:55:28.02
He's gonna send His
angels, they're gonna go...
00:55:28.06\00:55:29.96
In the Bible, when it says,
00:55:29.99\00:55:31.33
from one end of
the earth to the other,
00:55:31.36\00:55:32.96
or from one end of
heaven to the other.
00:55:32.99\00:55:34.66
It means everywhere
where the people of God are.
00:55:34.70\00:55:38.73
They're gonna be
gathered together.
00:55:38.77\00:55:40.97
But now the most
beautiful passage
00:55:41.00\00:55:43.04
of them all, culminating this.
00:55:43.07\00:55:44.94
Question number 20.
00:55:44.97\00:55:46.44
Let's go ahead and hit this one.
00:55:46.47\00:55:47.81
Question number 20.
00:55:47.84\00:55:49.18
Praise God for His Word.
00:55:49.21\00:55:52.91
The Bible says, "How do we know
00:55:52.95\00:55:55.15
that the return of
Jesus will not be a secret?"
00:55:55.18\00:55:58.05
Oh, I tell you,
what a powerful passage.
00:55:58.09\00:56:00.16
Here it is,
00:56:00.19\00:56:01.52
1 Thessalonians 4:16-18.
00:56:01.56\00:56:06.09
How do we know that
it will not be secret?
00:56:06.13\00:56:08.00
Here it is,
00:56:08.03\00:56:09.83
beautiful, "For the Lord Himself
00:56:09.86\00:56:11.80
will descend from
heaven with a," what?
00:56:11.83\00:56:13.84
"Shout," that's audible,
00:56:13.87\00:56:15.50
"with a voice of an archangel,
and with the trumpet of God.
00:56:15.54\00:56:19.24
And the dead in
Christ will do," what?
00:56:19.27\00:56:21.24
"Rise first."
00:56:21.28\00:56:22.61
A resurrection is
going to take place,
00:56:22.64\00:56:24.11
is going to be audible.
00:56:24.15\00:56:25.48
It's gonna be a voice,
it's gonna be a trumpet.
00:56:25.51\00:56:27.92
Then verse 17,
00:56:27.95\00:56:29.58
"Then we who
are alive and remain
00:56:29.62\00:56:32.35
shall be caught up
together with them in the clouds
00:56:32.39\00:56:36.02
to meet the Lord," where?
00:56:36.06\00:56:38.43
In the air."
00:56:38.46\00:56:39.79
There's gonna be a resurrection.
00:56:39.83\00:56:41.16
People are gonna be
ascending not souls, but people,
00:56:41.20\00:56:44.50
"And thus we
shall always," what?
00:56:44.53\00:56:47.04
"Be with the Lord."
00:56:47.07\00:56:49.10
And then verse 18, it
winds it up by saying this,
00:56:49.14\00:56:52.34
"Therefore comfort one
another with these words."
00:56:52.37\00:56:57.15
Can we say amen?
00:56:57.18\00:56:59.05
Is the coming of
Jesus going to be a secret?
00:56:59.08\00:57:01.38
Yes or no?
00:57:01.42\00:57:02.88
Is it gonna be audible?
00:57:02.92\00:57:04.65
Is it gonna shake the earth?
00:57:04.69\00:57:06.25
Is there gonna be fire?
00:57:06.29\00:57:07.79
Is there gonna
be a resurrection?
00:57:07.82\00:57:09.46
Will the islands move?
00:57:09.49\00:57:11.09
Will people be running to
the rocks and the mountains?
00:57:11.13\00:57:14.33
Is it gonna be
an invisible event?
00:57:14.36\00:57:16.56
Will they see Him coming back?
00:57:16.60\00:57:18.33
Will He come back with angels?
00:57:18.37\00:57:19.97
Will there be a resurrection?
00:57:20.00\00:57:21.67
Will there be an earthquake?
00:57:21.70\00:57:23.14
Will the kings
and the mighty men
00:57:23.17\00:57:24.51
and the rich
men, the captains be
00:57:24.54\00:57:25.87
running from Him?
00:57:25.91\00:57:27.81
How my friends can you
believe it's going to be secret?
00:57:27.84\00:57:32.28
How can somebody convince you
00:57:32.31\00:57:34.72
that Jesus is gonna
come back and say, let's go.
00:57:34.75\00:57:38.82
Shh, let's go.
00:57:38.85\00:57:42.12
No!
00:57:42.16\00:57:44.09
The only thing
that's going to be secret
00:57:44.13\00:57:46.36
is people that ignore the signs
00:57:46.39\00:57:49.20
like the flood will
not know He's coming back.
00:57:49.23\00:57:52.67
Friends, let me tell you,
00:57:52.70\00:57:54.30
if it doesn't make
sense, keep studying,
00:57:54.34\00:57:56.71
one day it will come
into A Sharper Focus.
00:57:56.74\00:58:00.08
God bless you.
00:58:00.11\00:58:01.44