Hello and welcome
to a Special Edition of
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Bible Alive
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I'm so glad you're here with
us today. You know today we're
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going to look at how Bible
prophecy is being fulfilled
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in the times that
we are living in and
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Pastor Hal Mayor
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a great friend of mine
with Keep the Faith Ministries
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has a special report on events
that are transpiring in our
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daily lives today, right around
the World, probably in our
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backyards and how they
relate to Bible prophecy.
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Let's go right now to our
new set for Prophecy Now with
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Pastor Hal Mayor
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Welcome to Prophecy Now.
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I'm Hal Mayor.
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Our first topic today is
the Worldwide Economic Crisis.
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The American economy is in deep
trouble and this affects most
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other parts of the World.
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Let's take a look at what some
Americans are saying about the
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state of the economy.
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"Because of the economy, our
company has done some cut backs"
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"It's rough with everything.
The gas prices going up. "
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"It's made things a struggle,
I have 5 kids at home uhm
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you know jobs
are harder to find. "
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"Oh, my Grandfather doesn't
have as much work because of the
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economy. "
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"I have several friends and-
and family that are without jobs
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here in Michigan. "
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"There's so much that just needs
to be changed with the way they-
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they're handling the economy. "
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"Uhm, there's plenty of blame
to share but the cold fact that
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we continue to want to win at
any cost is driving the market
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bus- the market is
being driven today. "
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"Not many people are buying
houses because they don't have
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very much money and jobs you
know, so my Dad had to uhm get
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a trucking job. So now he's away
from Home most of the week. Now
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I get to see him on weekends and
with his other job, he came home
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in the evenings. He could
be with us but with this job he
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doesn't get to be with us
very much. that's the way the
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economy has affected me. "
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"Work, we hit a pinnacle and we
kind of got blind-sided and no
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one thought to go out and
say, "Hey, you know what this is
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going to go down at some
point in time and guess what?
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It has. "
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Americans wealth shrank
between April and June 2010
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for the first time since
early 2009. The Federal Reserve,
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the US Central Bank says,
"Household net worth fell 2.7%
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or $1.5 trillion. The decline
left Americans net worth at
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$53.5 trillion. Net worth is the
value of assets such as Homes,
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checking accounts and
investments minus debts like
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mortgages and credit cards and
before last quarter's decline
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net worth had been growing
slowly for 4 straight quarters.
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Americans net worth would
have to rise an additional
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23% to return to its
pre-recession peak of $65.8
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trillion. Also from January
through June 2010, the majority
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of employee requests for
assistance in the United States
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has shifted from child care
to housing, for the first time
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in history. The requests
stem from moving related needs
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such as finding an apartment.
Two thirds of those seeking
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an apartment were foreclosure
related. There's a huge housing
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dislocation going on. Demand
for rental apartments for the
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first half of 2010 was stunning,
according to a recent report,
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at 215,000 units and the demand
is expected to increase to
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300,000 by the end of the year.
In August 42% of the unemployed
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had been without a job for more
than half a year and that is
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up from 33% last year. America
has changed dramatically in
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just 2 years and is quite
different than it was in 2008.
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If the job market continues
the way it is for a protracted
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period of time serious
consequences will develop.
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There is a growing sense of
uncertainty and even despair.
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Americans have nearly stopped
buying expensive cars, houses
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and durable goods. Homes
are for sale but few people
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are buying them. Hundreds
of thousands of households are
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in survival mode, buying
only that which they absolutely
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need. The decline is
probable in many areas.
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But America is not the only
place in the World with major
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problems. According to Dominique
Strauss-Kahn, the Head of the
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International
Monetary Fund or the IMF,
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"Global labor markets
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are in dire straits and the
great recession has left behind
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a wasteland of unemployment. "
Strauss-Kahn sees social unrest
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in the future, as people lose
faith in Public Institutions.
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At a Labor Summit in Oslo, he
said that he thinks, "A double-
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dip recession remains unlikely
but stressed that the World
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has not yet escaped a deeper
social crisis. He called it,
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"A grave error to think
that the West was safe again
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after teetering so close
to the abyss last year. "
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"We are not safe," he said.
A report of the Joint Summit of
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the International
Labor Organization and the
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International Monetary
Fund, said that,"30 million jobs
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had been lost since the crisis
began. Three quarters of them
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in wealthier economies. "
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"The great recession
has left gaping wounds.
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High and long-lasting
unemployment represents a
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risk to the stability of
existing democracies," the
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reports said.
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Spain has 20% unemployment.
The US has between 9 and 10%
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of unemployment. 2.8 million
people are without jobs in the
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United Kingdom alone. Other
Western nations are in similar
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condition. The study presented
at the Labor Summit in Oslo,
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cited evidence that victims
of recession in their early 20s
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suffer lifetime damage and lose
faith in Public Institutions.
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"Historians say the last
time that the wealth gap reached
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such skewed extremes was in
1928 and 1929," said Ambrose
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Evans-Pritchard of the UK
Telegraph which was at the time
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of the Great Depression.
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Financial insecurity and
despair could well lead to
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considerable civil unrest in
Western Countries. People who
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feel cheated out of their
reasonable expectations can
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become violent, particularly
against those whom they think
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should have saved them
from catastrophe or whom they
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perceive as the
cause of the problem.
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Jesus said that at the end of
time that on Earth there would
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be distressive Nations
with perplexity, the sea and the
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waves roaring. In other words,
Jesus was predicting various
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types of distress including
economic distress of many
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Nations. Seas in Bible prophecy
involve multitudes of people.
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Jesus was also
predicting social unrest.
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Today many are perplexed and
restless. They don't know what
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to do and are increasingly
frustrated. As the Holy Spirit
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gradually is withdrawn, expect
to see increasing violence,
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especially in the large cities.
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Could the global economic
problem eventually he blamed on
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the lack of attention to
religious and spiritual matters
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and directed against
those who resist or disobey laws
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designed to bring
the Nations back to God?
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The signs of the times reveal
that what the Bible prophesied
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for the last days
is absolutely true.
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Do you think
Jesus is coming soon?
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Hi. I'm Larry and I want
to share something with you
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that comes straight
from Remnant Publications
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and I am excited about it
because it helped strengthened
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my walk with God in a huge
way and I know it will help you
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too and it's
this new Apple iPod.
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It comes preloaded
with a huge selection of
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Remnants Audio Books.
Books like "Desire of Ages,"
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"Great Controversy"
and "Steps To Christ"
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and it comes with the entire
Testimonies for the Church Set
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preloaded, right on
there. Let's take a closer look.
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For 25 years, I've had such
a burden to get people to get
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truth filled Books in
their Homes and I'm excited that
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Remnant Publications now
has Books on Audio and you
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know what? You can listen
to them in an airplane, you can
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listen to them when you're
driving to work and in fact
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I was just talking to a good
friend of mine, that told me
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this, "Dwight, I just take
my truck and I listen as I go
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to work and when I shut off
the truck, it's the first time
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in years that I can remember,
that I'd like to stay in the
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truck and just keep listening
to them. " Now as never before
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people don't have to put it
off, they can get the message,
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the Word of God from
their head to their heart.
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As small as these iPods are,
you'll be amazed at the quality
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of sound that comes from
them. We've taken extreme care
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in making these audio files as
true to their original quality
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as possible. From the
voices that you hear reading
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everything, to the music and the
sounds that you hear are just
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as beautiful as
they should sound.
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Not only is the iPod easy
to use but you can also do so
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much more than a
regular MP3 Player.
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You can load it with iPod Apps,
Calendars, Calculators, text
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versions of Bibles and
you can put all sorts of Apps.
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The sky's the limit. I
have to admit that I thought
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that there would be many who
are intimidated by Technology
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that would be afraid to try
this new tool but when people
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see how easy it is to use, they
typically end up a happy user.
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Usually they take it
out of the box, plug in your
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headphones, go into the
book you want to read and you're
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listening.
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It really is that easy.
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We realize there is some people
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who already have their own
iPods or MP3 Players and that's
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also why we have also
made these Books available on
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Flash Drives, like this
one. People can easily copy the
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files from this small
drive to their own MP3 Player.
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I am so excited about this
new technology but it's not the
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technology that makes it so
special, like Mom used to say,
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"It's what's on the inside that
matters most" and this iPod is
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no exception. check this out.
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The new fully loaded iPod has
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been such a blessing to me
and many others and Remnant
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wants it to be a
blessing to you too.
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You can have all this in your
daily devotions to prepare you
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and your Family
for the Second Coming.
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Be equipped to face the future
with God's powerful message
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of faith and hope for today.
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Man! what a great
day to share some Books.
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One of the biggest problems that
people make when they go out
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to share books, that they
try to share who many, too soon.
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What we need to do is
set some goals for ourselves.
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Now for some, setting the goal
of sharing a book a day is a
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great way to start and we think
that's a tremendous idea. One
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book a day. Now you can
work your way up from there but
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start simple, don't overwhelm
yourself and make it a point
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not to let one day go
by without sharing a book.
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So now that we have a goal of
a book a day, let's talk about
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the type of book we share.
We want to make sure that we are
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armed with the most effective
books, so that people will take
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the books we leave with them
and read them. Now, some people
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have the mentality that because
we're giving these books away,
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let's use the cheapest
old book we have lying around.
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Well, that may be true to a
point. We don't want to spend
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too much on books that we're
giving away, so we can give
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more away but our goal isn't
just to get books in people's
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hands. we want them to actually
read the books we leave and
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some people take books that are
so torn up and chewed up that
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when people receive them, they
may receive them with a smile
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but the next thing you know,
they are throwing them in the
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trash can and they never
do read your book. Thankfully
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Remnant Publications provide
books that will address both
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your wallet and still provide
excellent quality books that
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will entice people to open them
and read the truth contained
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within. Now the first thing you
want to look for in a good book
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is a nice cover. You
take the cover on this book,
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"American Prophesy" by
Remnant. Now, there's a
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couple things about
this. First, it's eye-catching.
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Now I know you've heard ahh
that you shouldn't judge a book
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by its cover but the reality
is most people do and if the
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entices them, they want to
look inside. The next thing
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you want to do is take a
look inside the book. Make sure
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your paper is a nice
bright white, it makes a clear
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contrast in the book and
it makes the reading easier on
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the eyes. Notice also the font
type, ahh some people try to
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save money by printing in a
smaller font, that we you can
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print a book in fewer pages
but it makes it harder to read.
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You take a book like this one
here and it's printed on what's
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commonly called newsprint.
It's a yellowish paper and the
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writing doesn't stick out well
and you notice the font size,
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is very small. It's just not a
book that people will typically
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want to read. Another thing is
you want to make sure the book
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opens easily. Some books like
this one, spring back, you try
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to open it, it shuts on you.
It won't stay open as you read
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it but if you take a book with
a good binding, it will open up
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easier. All of these things make
a book easier to read and more
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likely that
somebody will read them.
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Now, most importantly, whatever
book you're sharing, whatever
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person you're sharing with,
you want to ask the guide to
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the Holy Spirit to direct you
in selecting the right book for
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the right person
at the right time.
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And now that year equipped with
the right tools, you can join us
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to reach the
World, one Book at a time.
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The cities are a special target
in the last days. According to
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the Bible there will be an
increase in natural disasters
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in tandem with exceeding
wickedness of the cities.
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Jesus said that the cities
of Sodom and Gomorrah were
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examples for our times and
of the future destruction that
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will come upon the
Cities of the World.
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On December 26, 2004,
the city of Aceh Banda,
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Indonesia was destroyed
by an earthquake, but the
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Tsunami that follow it
destroyed small cities and
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towns in a dramatic
sweep around the Indian Ocean.
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Killing over 200,000 people.
But in recent times there
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have been a series of
rolling disasters, especially
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earthquakes that have
focused World attention on
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the cities once again. The
catastrophic earthquake that
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rocked Haiti on January
12, 2010 was unprecedented in
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its destruction and the
misery that it caused. More
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than 220,000 men, women
and children lost their lives
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in the afternoon quake. At
least 300,000 were injured,
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and millions were left
homeless. The shallowness of
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the quake, only 8 miles
deep, and the poor construction
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methods used in
buildings, made Haiti's massive
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casualties inevitable.
Haiti was a disaster waiting to
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happen.
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Haiti's fragile and poorly
designed infrastructure was
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virtually destroyed.
Water, sewer, some roads,
00:15:45.63\00:15:49.19
electricity, telephone
and other communication
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systems were essentially
knocked out or severely
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damaged and unusable
bringing the Nation to a
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standstill.
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Then on February 27, 2010
an 8.8 magnitude earthquake
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struck off the coast of
Chile followed by a deadly
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Tsunami. This quake was
almost 22 miles deep, but still
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1.5 million homes were
damaged or destroyed, and
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between $15 billion and
$30 billion in damage was done.
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The city of Talcahuano was
hit hard by a triple tsunami
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generating massive waves
18 feet or larger. Close to 80
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percent of Talcahuano's
180,000 people are homeless,
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with 10,000 homes
uninhabitable and hundreds
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more destroyed, the Mayor
said, "The port is destroyed.
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The streets, collapsed.
City buildings, destroyed"
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Then on April 14, the
Icelandic Volcano erupted
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spewing an ash cloud all
over most of Europe, shutting
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down air travel for a six
day period between April 15 and
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20. The main focus of the
news was on the distress of
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Nations as business
people and holiday makers were
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stranded all over the World.
But the hidden story is that
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of other essential
services and supplies.
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The Icelandic volcano
and its aftermath provide a
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revealing insight into
the fragility of advanced
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interconnected societies
and their utter dependence on
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nature's good
will. Manufactured goods,
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pharmaceuticals and other
critical freight stacked up in
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warehouses around the
World waiting for flights to
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take them to their intended
destinations. Fresh produce
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for European markets
rotted in the packing houses in
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Africa.
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The problem for modern
advanced societies is that
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they are utterly dependent
on airfreight for "just-in-
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time" supply chain logistics.
These supply chains enable
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the delivery of
perishable consumer goods or
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components critical to
manufacturing processes
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very close to when they
are actually going to be used.
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The more globalization there
is, the more vulnerable cities
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are to the disruptions,
and the more difficult it is to
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manage them and
recover from them. Huge cities,
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dependent on outside goods
for survival of millions of
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residents, can become
crippled very quickly when
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there is a major disaster,
fuel shortages, or other
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breakdowns. When these
supply chains are unhinged,
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dependent businesses, and
hundreds of thousands, even
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millions of people are affected.
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Imagine what would have
happened if Europe's air
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traffic would have been
grounded for another week
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or two because of
a persistent volcano.
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As we near the close of
probation, and as natural
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disasters become more
powerful and destructive as
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predicted in prophecy, the
human toll, and the stress on
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these societies is likely to
be substantial. As populations
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have concentrated in
large cities and become globally
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interdependent, it is
not difficult to imagine the
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catastrophic consequences
of globalization should a
00:19:05.54\00:19:09.43
natural disaster disrupt
supply chains to these large
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societies. A well-placed
disaster can very quickly
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disintegrate even a
highly developed social
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infrastructure because these
social ecosystems are actually
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quite fragile.
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While the earthquake that
devastated most of Port-au-
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Prince, Haiti was an example
of this effect on a single large
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City, the Icelandic volcano
suggest a similar potential
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impact on a very large
interdependent society.
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On Saturday September
4, a 7.0 earthquake hit
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Christchurch New
Zealand destroying about 500
00:19:48.77\00:19:52.26
buildings and causing
between $2 and $4 billion in
00:19:52.29\00:19:56.20
damage. The earth moved 11
feet sideways. Buildings had
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been built to minimize
casualties in such a quake,
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which yielded no casualties.
We have seen a series of
00:20:03.95\00:20:08.46
natural disasters in
quick succession roll across the
00:20:08.49\00:20:12.18
World in recent times
affecting large cities and
00:20:12.21\00:20:15.86
whole societies.
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The Cities at the end of
time are death traps. Imagine if
00:20:16.87\00:20:21.38
multiple natural disasters
simultaneously disrupted the
00:20:21.41\00:20:25.02
social fabric of a large
number of mega-cities. If
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there are prolonged fuel
shortages or food shortages,
00:20:29.15\00:20:32.29
people living in them
could panic. Soon food would be
00:20:32.32\00:20:36.50
stripped from the
shelves of shopping centers and
00:20:36.53\00:20:38.93
supermarkets. The human
suffering, violence and other
00:20:38.96\00:20:42.18
socially destabilizing
difficulties would be very
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dramatic.
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As the book says that in
the last days there will be wars
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and rumors of wars.
00:20:50.62\00:20:51.71
So in order for the Bible's
writings to come true, uhm
00:20:51.74\00:20:55.73
these things have to take place.
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Definitely some, serious
warnings signs with all the
00:20:56.91\00:21:00.29
natural disasters and uhm
it's kind of going right along
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with the- the timeline that
they give you in the book of
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Revelations if you
start comparing stuff so
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Definitely uhm definitely
scary but at the same point
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You know
00:21:13.30\00:21:14.27
if you truly are a Christian
uhm it's not quite so scary.
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Jesus told Lot when he
was put out of Sodom, "Escape
00:21:19.61\00:21:23.30
for thy life. " "Flee to
the mountain. " That counsel is
00:21:23.33\00:21:26.94
certainly applicable today.
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That's it, for this
Edition of Prophecy Now.
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I'm Hal Mayer reminding you to
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Keep the Faith!
00:21:35.07\00:21:36.04
Hey I'm Larry, and today we
want to give you an inside look
00:21:50.17\00:21:53.02
at what happens at Remnant
Publications. We're going to
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start with Steve in the Shipping
Department. You ready? Let's
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go!
00:21:57.82\00:21:58.79
Steve has been working in
the Remnant Shipping Department
00:21:58.80\00:22:00.79
for about four years now.
There's are a lot of books at
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Remnant and whenever an
order comes in Steve carefully
00:22:04.36\00:22:07.15
gathers them all together.
He keeps the books very
00:22:07.18\00:22:10.49
organized so he can find them
quickly and he really enjoys
00:22:10.52\00:22:13.94
what he does. For him it's
not just a job it's a Ministry.
00:22:13.97\00:22:18.21
After the books have been
weighed they are boxed up and
00:22:18.24\00:22:20.76
shipped out right away.
00:22:20.79\00:22:21.76
Now this is really exciting!
You're looking at over 500
00:22:22.83\00:22:26.31
boxes filled with Spirit
of Prophecy books. Steve is
00:22:26.34\00:22:29.49
taking them to the mail truck
where they will be shipped out
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to places all around the World.
00:22:32.15\00:22:33.82
Some days, the Remnant
staff spends time stuffing
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envelopes. Today they are
stuffing over 8,000 of them
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Most of the employees of
Remnant say they feel like
00:22:41.37\00:22:44.26
they are working with a family
and not just another Company.
00:22:44.29\00:22:47.37
I guess not everyone
likes to be on camera.
00:22:49.44\00:22:51.49
Well there you have it! That's
an inside look at what happens
00:22:52.36\00:22:55.05
in the Shipping Department
at Remnant Publications.
00:22:55.08\00:22:57.54
Let's take a trip through
Remnant Publications and see
00:22:57.57\00:23:02.60
how a book is made. We
begin in the Prepress room.
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Computer Technician Tim Jaeger
begins by loading a large sheet
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of emulsion coated aluminum
into the developing machine.
00:23:08.93\00:23:11.72
Suction cups pull the
aluminum sheet into the machine.
00:23:14.96\00:23:17.99
Then a special laser head
etches the emulsion side of the
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aluminum leaving behind
only what's needed for printing.
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It comes off the roller and a
lifting rack brings the exposed
00:23:27.09\00:23:30.59
sheet onto the other side where
special rollers guide it into
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the developing stage.
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Chemicals wash away what
the laser exposes. Out comes the
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plate ready to be
used on the printing press.
00:23:40.38\00:23:42.05
Nate Reed, the Pressman, load's
the plate into the two color
00:23:45.33\00:23:48.26
press.
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Ink is then applied
to the print rollers.
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A thin coating of water helps
the ink not to stick to the
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printing plate where it's
not supposed to. Several suction
00:23:55.86\00:23:58.96
cups and the folding mechanism
keep the paper flowing into the
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press.
00:24:01.51\00:24:02.54
This press can print
out 7,000 sheets per hour.
00:24:07.12\00:24:10.06
This press is called a Two Color
Offset Press and the printed
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sheets are called Signatures.
00:24:13.97\00:24:15.16
From the press the Signatures
are placed on the folding
00:24:15.19\00:24:17.96
machine where they go
through a series of slots.
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Then they get
folded in several ways
00:24:19.47\00:24:21.54
Watching this
machine is really cool!
00:24:21.57\00:24:23.50
The next stop takes us
to the Saddle Stitcher.
00:24:30.61\00:24:33.24
This machine starts by placing
the folded Signatures together
00:24:33.27\00:24:36.71
on top of each other.
00:24:36.74\00:24:37.71
As they continue down the line
the book covers are dropped on
00:24:40.78\00:24:43.69
and the next step is where the
high speed stapler stitches the
00:24:43.72\00:24:46.82
cover and the pages all
together. After being stapled,
00:24:46.85\00:24:51.93
they continue down the feeder
belt where they go through the
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chopper.
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There the excess paper
gets trimmed and cut off.
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Another process for bigger books
is the Binder but before we get
00:24:57.06\00:25:00.89
there we need to cut
some covers down to size.
00:25:00.92\00:25:02.83
Now that's sharp!
00:25:05.77\00:25:07.27
The first stage of the Binder
trims the pages and puts hot
00:25:10.43\00:25:14.16
melted glue on the spine.
00:25:14.19\00:25:15.16
Rollers help the
glue go on evenly.
00:25:17.91\00:25:20.14
The cover gets
stuck to the back.
00:25:21.91\00:25:23.23
Then they are folded
and pressed into the spine.
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This whole process is done
in less than 10 seconds to book.
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Now that's impressive!
00:25:31.85\00:25:33.09
After a short trip on the
conveyer belt, they come to
00:25:33.12\00:25:36.37
the last stage. This machine
is my favorite! It's called the
00:25:36.40\00:25:40.45
Three Knife Cutter. It's
similar to the Chopper at the
00:25:40.48\00:25:43.09
Saddle Stitcher but you
can really see what this one is
00:25:43.12\00:25:45.16
doing.
00:25:45.19\00:25:46.16
After getting cut and
trimmed, the books are done
00:25:51.75\00:25:54.15
and ready to be shipped.
00:25:54.18\00:25:55.15
Now you have an inside look
at how books are made at Remnant
00:25:56.23\00:25:58.88
Publications.
00:25:58.91\00:25:59.88
If you'd like to contact Hal,
which I'm sure that you will,
00:27:10.42\00:27:12.90
you can get a hold
of him on the website at
00:27:12.93\00:27:14.93
that's for Keep
the Faith Ministry
00:27:18.74\00:27:20.50
or give us a call at
Remnant Publications at
00:27:22.96\00:27:25.77
Well that's all the
time we have for today on
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Bible Alive
00:27:31.72\00:27:32.69
And remember, you too
can have a better way of
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life and what? Don't put it off.
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By working together,
1.7 million copies of
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"The Passion of Love"
were distributed around
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the Country
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a thousand Bible Studies.
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almost a million Bibles to
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Working together, is what allows
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Remnant Publications
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