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Pastor Carter, welcome to
our Fresh Hot Potatoes program.
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Thank you.
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What do you mean
by Fresh Hot Potatoes,
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is that an oxymoron?
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Can you have fresh
and hot at the same time?
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Well, I have to think
about it for a second.
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I guess you could
have hot old potatoes.
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Hot old potatoes.
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Well, you could
have potatoes that are,
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are old that you
had on the cupboard
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for a week or two.
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You know, they
are starting to sprout
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and I guess you
could cook them up.
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We're really answering
the big questions today,
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but now we--
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But these ones--you know
these are being sent to us
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and they are fresh.
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Yes, and we're being,
we are being facetious
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because we are fresh
because these are new question.
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And some of the
questions are hot.
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And they are hot
and they are coming in
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from our internet
audience, through Facebook
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and things like that
which is very exciting.
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We are gonna get
straight to the questions
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and see what you have to say
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and what God's word has
to say about these questions.
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Now, few years ago probably
around three or four years ago,
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Dan Brown wrote a
book, Angels and Demons
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and he raise the
question of the illuminati
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and secret societies,
some conspiracy stuff.
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Are angels and demons
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just the stuff of
conspiracy or are they real?
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The illuminati may be
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but I don't think
angels and demons.
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The Bible talks about angels
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and the Bible
talks about demons.
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Jesus had an experience with,
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with the devil
himself with Satan.
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I think that's found
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in Matthew Chapter 4
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and I take this book as it is
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as the word of the Lord.
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And the Bible says, Matthew 4,
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"Jesus said to him"
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Matthew 4:10
"Away from me, Satan!
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For it is written,
'Worship the Lord your God,
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and serve him only.'
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" So he is the
head of the demons.
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And verse 11 says,
"Then the devil left him,
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and angels came
and attended him."
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Now, Pastor Venegas,
the Bible talks about
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a tremendous battle that
took place eons ago. Yes.
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And the forces of God were
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right against the
forces of Lucifer.
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And the Bible talks about
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the good angels
and the evil angels.
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And the Bible says that
the evil angels were Satan
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were cast out and
thrown down to this earth.
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Now, it sounds like fantasy.
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Do you see it
actually playing out
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in the world around? Absolutely.
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Battle of good
evil? Yeah, absolutely.
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I believe in
the concept of evil.
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Now, many
philosophers before 09/11
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didn't believe in
the concept of evil.
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After 09/11 they said yes
there is evil in the world.
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And if there is
evil in the world
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we believe it comes
from a vast evil source.
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And the Bible
says that evil source
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is a person by
the name of Lucifer
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who was also
called Satan. Yes, yes.
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Now, that is a theological
question about good and evil.
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There is another
very interesting question
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and this comes from Desmond,
and he asks do you believe in
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the rapture an idea
believed by millions?
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Now, I would understand
the rapture by being--
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being a pre-tribulation rapture
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that is believed
by dispensationalists.
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Can you tell us
first what they are saying,
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what word it is?
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Many Christians
in the United States,
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well, around the
world but particularly here
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believe that
Jesus is going to come
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some what in secret
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and the signs of
God are going to be
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ruptured home to glory
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and the wicked are going to
be left to populate this earth.
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They are going to
stay in this earth. Yes.
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But doesn't the
Bible conform that?
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Matthew 24 says, "Two men
will be working in the field.
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One will be taken, and
the other one will be left."
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Luke 17 says, "Two will be
in a bed, one taken one left."
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Yeah, there will
be, there will be. Yes.
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One is taken home to glory
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and the other is left
here upon this earth. Okay.
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There is a time
of separation. Yes.
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But the Bible
doesn't teach the idea
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of a secret coming of Christ.
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This is simply fantasy.
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I don't think there
is any real theologian
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who believes in the,
in the secret rapture.
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And yet it's a
prevalent Christian view.
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I heard someone
say-- a great scholar say,
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that the any people who
believe in the secret rapture
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are people who are employed
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by organizations
that teach it. Okay.
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But people who are not
employed by those organizations
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but who are free to
think for themselves
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and to study the
Bible for themselves
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do not believe in this idea.
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So what does the
Bible actually teach?
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Let me read you a text
on, on the coming of Christ
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or as I would
call it the rapture.
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1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17
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"For the Lord himself
will come down from heaven,
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with a loud command, with
the voice of the archangel"
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very noisy
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"and with the
trumpet call of God,
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and the dead in
Christ will rise first.
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After that, we
who are still alive
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and are left will
be caught up together
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with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
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And so we will be
with the Lord forever."
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The Bible teaches
us, Pastor Venegas,
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that when Jesus comes back
there is a tremendous noise.
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There is the
voice of the archangel,
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there is the
trumpet call of God.
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It doesn't seem to be something
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you know, subdued
and quiet and secret.
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And the Bible says, the
dead in Christ to rise first
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and then it says,
that the saints of God
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living on the earth
are taken home to glory.
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And so the rapture of the saints
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or the taking home
of the saints to glory
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takes place when
the resurrection--
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the literal resurrection
of the dead takes place.
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So, really the rapture is
to be caught up. Yes, it is.
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So we do believe in the rapture?
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In our biblical
sense. In our biblical sense.
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But not in the
theological sense.
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Is it that harmful of you
or what's the negative really?
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These are good questions
and in fact, in fact these are
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some of your
questions but that's okay.
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How about the fact
that biblical truth here?
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Let me, let me talk about this.
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There are things that are,
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are told in the
rapture that are correct.
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That the rapture is
going to happen soon.
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Christians believe that
they living in the last days.
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Those who believe
in the rapture believe
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that we are living
in the Day of Judgment.
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Yes, which is good?
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But there is a great heresy
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because it has
the saints of God,
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God's people being saved
from the great tribulation.
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In Russia, during the last
century this idea was taught
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and they were told, no,
you won't get persecuted
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because you are
going to be ruptured home
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before the persecution comes.
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But tens of
million of Christians died.
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But in this part of the world
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and some other
parts of the world
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the Christians are
ruptured from the trouble
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and they are
taken home to glory.
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So, it's a wonderful doctrine
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if you don't want persecution
and nobody does want it.
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But, the problem is it says
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that the rest of the
people are left on this earth
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and during this
time the antichrist rules
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for three and half years.
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And then in Jerusalem
after three and half years
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he puts an end to the
sacrifice and the offering.
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And so, the antichrist
actually comes after. After.
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After the second coming,
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but the Bible teaches
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that the great test
for the people of God
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and the great time
of persecution happens
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before the second coming.
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And so again to-- Oh,
it's a world of difference.
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It's the Bible, and
what the Bible teaches
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not the Darby with
the Scofield Bible,
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Hal Lindsey with his
Late, Great Planet Earth.
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It's the teachings of the Bible.
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On that same thing,
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we have another question
here from a lady called Ellen.
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Should
believers leave the cities
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that are centers of crime,
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sexual
perversion and lawlessness?
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Does the Bible teach
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that we should remove ourselves
from the cities in these days?
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A very good question
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and one that is being asked
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by Christians over and over.
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I have had, I have
had people come to me
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after a church
service and they have said.
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Do you think the city
is going to be destroyed,
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should we get out of the cities?
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Well, you know, that's a
pretty sever thought isn't that?
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But the Bible does
say in Jude in verse 7,
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"In a similar
way, Sodom and Gomorrah
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and the surrounding
towns gave themselves up
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to sexual
immorality and perversion.
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They serve as
an example of those
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who suffer the
punishment of eternal fire."
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Now, I think I
have been to the area
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of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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I have been there on
a number of occasions
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with television crews.
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That's on the south
eastern side of the Dead Sea.
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There are some little cities
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that had been
discovered there by the name
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one city is New Midrash.
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And you actually see ash
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that is two
meters six feet thick
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and in the ash actual
little pieces of human bone.
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I let the ash run
through my fingers
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and I have
actually felt the human bone
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of people who most
likely died in that catastrophe
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that destroyed the
cities of Sodom and Gomorrah
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about 4,000 years ago.
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James, it's just as will
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that luck got out
of Sodom and Gomorrah.
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It's just too bad
that Mrs. Lot looked back,
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but as just it was a bad thing
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when Lot decided to live
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in those cities
of great perversion.
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I believe that
the time is coming
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when the people of
God are going to say
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because of the
tremendous scene in the cities
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because of the tremendous crime
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they need to get
away from those places.
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May be get out on the country.
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I'm not talking about a
mass exodus with hysteria
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where people run
up into the hills
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and they starve
to death up there.
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I'm not suggesting that
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but I think
people are to consider,
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slowly, methodically,
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leaving these great
centers of sin and evil
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because judgment
is coming upon them.
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So, in your opinion the
Bible, it does teach that
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we need to
consider these things.
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I think we should consider, yes.
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Now, Pastor Carter, there is
some other interesting questions
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that I'm going to
ask you in just a moment.
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Especially about men in
our society and young men,
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I'm interested to
hear your opinion on it
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but first we must
take a few moments
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to listen to this
very important message.
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Hello, friend, I am
John Carter in Colombia.
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Behind me is the
great city of Bogota
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the capital of
this amazing country.
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This city is a city of
more then eight million souls.
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It's up more then
8,000 feet in the Andes.
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And we've come here
today with one purpose in mind
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to preach the everlasting
gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ.
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We are here because we
have a commission from God.
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Jesus said, "Go
into all the world
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and preach the
Everlasting Gospel
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baptizing them in
the name of the Father,
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and of the Son and
or the Holy Spirit."
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The people here need
the gospel of Christ.
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And I am asking
you today come with us,
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if not in body but
come with us in spirit.
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This is been a
very, very dangerous city.
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A very dangerous
part of the world
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but we believe that we are safe
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when we are in the hands of God.
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Therefore I am beseeching
you in the name of Christ
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and in the name of these
eight million plus inhabitants
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in the city of Bogota
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to come and help us to
preach the word of God.
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Please, support the preaching
of the word of God in Columbia.
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Please write to me John Carter,
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PO Box 1900,
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Thousand Oaks,
California, 91358.
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In Australia write
to me at the address,
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Terrigal, New
South Wales, Australia.
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Jesus said,
"Work while it is day
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the night is coming
when no man can work."
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Please write to me today.
Thank you, and God bless you.
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And welcome back
to Fresh Hot Potatoes
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with Pastor John Carter.
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These potatoes are very
fresh and hot at the same time.
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We have just been speaking about
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the crimes and the city--
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the crimes in our
cities and the perversion.
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The importance of considering
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not being stuck in
these cities and moving away.
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But we have some
other question here
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one from Silvia that
talks about not just the cities
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but how about the gender roles
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and the men in these
cities and in our society?
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She says, this is Silvia,
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What is happening to our
men especially our young men?
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I would imagine
across the board,
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across the world,
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what's happening
to our young men?
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A friend of mine Trevor
Fisher in Australia, in Sydney
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wrote an article
on this very subject.
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I read it the other night.
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What's happening
to our young men?
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It says, the article says,
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these young men seem to
have lost their identity.
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They don't seem to
have masculine attribute.
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There is something
going on with young men.
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Of course the men are into
the crime more than the women.
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That live, they will have
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a shorter
duration of their lives
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they commit suicide more
and so there is a crisis.
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Many people tell us
among the males in our society.
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Pastor Venegas,
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I think the womans
lib moment did some good
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and it did some bad.
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It taught men and women
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that they were exactly the same.
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I read an article in one
of the American publications,
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I think it was yesterday
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or the day before
about men sexting.
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You know, they send
these messages to females.
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But the article said
the women are sending them--
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the sexting, they are
sexting the same as the men
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because there is
something happened to the women.
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The women have
become like the men,
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and the men have
become like the women.
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So, give me some other
examples. I mean I'm intrigued.
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I'm a young man, in
what way is this playing out
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that we are not as masculine
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as what would
have seen in the past?
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I don't know what
Silvia had in mind,
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she had this question. Yeah.
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But it's not
just what I'm saying
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but across these
countries pastors,
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you will notice this as pastor,
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phycologists,
sociologists are saying,
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there is a crises of
identity among males.
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That is why some of
them get together on weekends
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and beet drums and they try
to do things that are masculine.
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And of course, beating a drum
is not necessarily masculine.
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So may be you are taking
about headship in the family
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or headship in the whole--
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I think many would include this.
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Now there was a time
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when men knew
their role in society
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but many men today don't
know their role in society.
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I believe--I'm
pretty old fashion of course
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because I'm an old guy,
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but I believe
that the Bible teaches
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that a man or it be
the spiritual not ruler
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but the spiritual
leader of his family.
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He ought to be the person,
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who say, well you know,
lets study the Bible together
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and the wife
ought to the co-head
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and I don't want to do this.
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But, so often today James,
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it seems to me in my experience
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there is a
blending of the sexes.
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Now this why for
reason we have same sex.
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Same sex marriage, oh
what's the difference?
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Women, women, men, men,
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I mean it it's--
there is a great area
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the Bible teaches
that God men to be
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men and women to be women
and there is a difference.
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And again we are
talking about the watering down
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the perversion
of the God's ideals
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that is really
indicative of times.
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Totally different question,
Pastor Carter, from Jimmy.
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He asks, does God
heal the sick always,
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sometimes or never?
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I guess the Bible
talks a lot about healing
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and Jesus healing
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because that stuff
still happen today.
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Yes, healing does happen today
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but this will
surprise many of people
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who are watching the telecast.
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You don't have that
many miracles in the Bible.
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You have them in Genesis
1 when God makes the world,
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that's a big miracle
doesn't it? Yeah, absolutely.
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Then you go for
thousands of years
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and then you have the flood.
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That's a big miracle
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and this is seems
to be much in between.
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No, no, no this all.
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And then you come, you
know vast period of time
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then you come to
the days of the Exodus
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when God brings the
people of got out of Israel.
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Then you got a
surge of miracles. Yes.
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They don't last for too long.
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You don't read
about too many miracles
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in the 40 years
in the wilderness
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and then you go for a long--
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I am just trying to remember
you got for long period of time
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and you come to Elijah
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and then you got little
period of time of miracles.
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But then you go
for a hundreds of year
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and you come to
the days of Daniel.
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He saves the people
who are in the fire.
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And we say Daniel
died in the lion's den.
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But you know, just a
little period of time
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Daniel is probably, he
lived 80 years or so or 90 years
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and you only got
one or two miracles.
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And then you go for
hundreds and hundreds of years
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and you come to
the days of Jesus.
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And then for
three and half years
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you have a tremendous surge
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like the after burn has come on
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and the churches
lifted up into space.
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And you have
miracles in the Book of Acts.
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But then Paul
writes a few years later
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he says, I have
left so and so sick.
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He said, I have
been sick myself.
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What happen to the miracles?
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The miracles seem
to get less and less.
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The miracles are
the after burners
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to lift the
church rocket into orbit.
00:22:15.11\00:22:21.01
But once the church is in orbit
00:22:21.04\00:22:23.65
God doesn't use
the after burners.
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So what you are saying is that,
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by default God doesn't
intervene all the time?
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No, He doesn't.
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But there are
occasions, special occasions--
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And in the very last stage
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during the lot of
rain the Bible says,
00:22:35.69\00:22:38.01
you are gonna
have the afterburners
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turned on again.
00:22:39.56\00:22:42.07
But the Bible is not
written as a book to teach us
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to trust in some burst
of super natural energy.
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I don't believe
in those churches
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where the preacher says,
you know we are gonna heal
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everybody here tonight.
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I don't believe in this stuff.
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I don't believe--
I have studied it.
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I have seen the
after effects of it.
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Those people get
the same diseases,
00:23:04.61\00:23:06.85
they have the same funerals,
they go to the same hospitals.
00:23:06.88\00:23:10.44
And somebody said about
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one of the most world's
most famous faith healers
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why doesn't he
go to a big hospital
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and cure the people with cancer?
00:23:16.29\00:23:18.12
Why doesn't he make
the blind people to see?
00:23:18.15\00:23:22.47
Have you ever
heard of a blind person
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actually being healed?
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And a doctor comes
on later and he says,
00:23:26.16\00:23:28.72
I read about it in the Bible,
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but I don't read about
it by the faith preachers.
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So should we still
pray for healing now?
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Yes, we do,
because God sometimes says,
00:23:34.78\00:23:37.97
yes, I have seen this in Russia
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where a person
was dying of cancer
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he was miraculously healed.
00:23:42.51\00:23:44.65
I came back to
perform the funeral
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and the person was
there to welcome me,
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completely healed,
that was in Russia.
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I haven't seen that too often
I saw a man coming this near--
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not God who could hardly breathe
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and he came to the meeting
00:23:58.67\00:24:00.38
his name was
Vadom, as a hung back.
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And as I was
preaching he was healed.
00:24:03.05\00:24:06.08
Whenever I go to Russia
I have been there 42 times,
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he runs to me and he
hugs me and he shares.
00:24:08.43\00:24:12.52
He's been healed.
God sometimes says yes.
00:24:12.55\00:24:17.40
Often He says, now wait a while.
00:24:17.43\00:24:21.27
Some times he says no,
00:24:21.30\00:24:24.23
but James, Pastor
Venegas, and listen to me--
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we can guarantee every
person watching the telecast
00:24:28.58\00:24:32.51
that every person
is going to be healed
00:24:32.54\00:24:35.08
who trust in Jesus.
That's when Jesus comes.
00:24:35.11\00:24:39.01
So, really what
we are saying is that
00:24:39.04\00:24:40.68
healings do happen. Yes.
00:24:40.71\00:24:42.30
But, its up to God
when they to happen.
00:24:42.33\00:24:43.60
Yes, yes, it's the
sovereignty of God.
00:24:43.63\00:24:45.25
But we should still ask
because He does intervene
00:24:45.28\00:24:48.35
there is plenty
of evidence for that.
00:24:48.38\00:24:49.70
I'm looking forward
for a big healing one day.
00:24:49.73\00:24:51.29
Yeah, absolutely, absolutely.
00:24:51.32\00:24:53.26
Now, moving
along I have a question
00:24:53.29\00:24:55.41
we are running out
of time here right now.
00:24:55.44\00:24:58.25
What is the big
difference-- Graham asks,
00:24:58.28\00:25:00.39
what is the big
difference between
00:25:00.42\00:25:02.32
Protestantism and
Roman Catholicism?
00:25:02.35\00:25:05.71
Now it might
seem obvious to some
00:25:05.74\00:25:07.08
but may be not to
others in our day and age.
00:25:07.11\00:25:10.88
What is the
difference between the two?
00:25:10.91\00:25:12.40
Let me give you a quick answer,
00:25:12.43\00:25:13.92
if you want to
we can talk about it
00:25:13.95\00:25:15.41
in the next
program. Yes, we will.
00:25:15.44\00:25:17.43
Protestants believe in the
principle of Sola Scriptura
00:25:17.46\00:25:20.58
that means only scripture.
00:25:20.61\00:25:22.56
We don't get our doctrines
from some other writers.
00:25:22.59\00:25:25.46
We believe in
Sola Scriptura. Yes.
00:25:25.49\00:25:28.51
We don't
believe in the teachings
00:25:28.54\00:25:29.90
of the church fathers.
00:25:29.93\00:25:30.96
The church or Rome believes
00:25:30.99\00:25:32.04
in the teaching
of the church father.
00:25:32.07\00:25:33.87
Purgatory all of those doctrines
00:25:33.90\00:25:35.80
papal
infallibility not on the Bible.
00:25:35.83\00:25:38.20
Number two, Sola
Christus, only Christ.
00:25:38.23\00:25:41.85
We are saved only by
Christ not saved by the church
00:25:41.88\00:25:44.85
not saved by the priest,
00:25:44.88\00:25:46.56
not saved by the
pastor, not saved by the pope.
00:25:46.59\00:25:49.66
Cry sola christus,
sola gratia on grace,
00:25:49.69\00:25:53.77
sola fide only faith.
And do we have a priest?
00:25:53.80\00:25:59.36
Do I believe in confessing
my sins to the priest?
00:25:59.39\00:26:02.10
Yes, I do.
00:26:02.13\00:26:03.96
Jesus, Jesus is my
priest not a priest in Rome
00:26:03.99\00:26:10.27
or a priest in the church.
00:26:10.30\00:26:12.50
I confess my sins not
to you, but to Christ.
00:26:12.53\00:26:16.22
Therefore first in foremost
00:26:16.25\00:26:19.74
I'm a Christian,
secondly I'm a Protestant.
00:26:19.77\00:26:24.17
Yes, so really what,
what we are saying here is
00:26:24.20\00:26:28.17
where is the authority?
Where is the authority?
00:26:28.20\00:26:31.41
Is it in manmade rules
and vows or in the Bible?
00:26:31.44\00:26:36.02
That's what it means to be
a Protestant, is that correct?
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Now, some Protestant of course
have a church with a hierarchy
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and they have committees
that act like little popes.
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And they give stipends
which sort of ex-cathedra
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but we do not discover
truth by going to a committee.
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We do not discover truth
by going to a group of men.
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We go according to Sola Christus
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and so you are a Bible preacher
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thanks be the God
and I'm a Bible preacher.
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So when I preach I
preach from the Bible
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because I'm a
Protestant Christian
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who believes in
the coming of the Lord
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that makes me an Adventist
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and so I'm a Christian
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protestant Adventist.
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So, in all of the matters
that we have been discussing
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we are talking about
angels and demons, the rapture,
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we are talking about the
role of men, the healing.
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It really all boils down to that
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where is our authority,
where do we get our answers,
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how do we know
how to live our lives.
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And so Pastor Carter,
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we want to thank you. Thank you.
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Once again for your time
for answering these questions.
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Again we want to
remind our viewers
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that website cartereport.org,
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cartereport.org is the website
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where you can
leave your questions
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and you can also seek answers
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we have video,
we have audio there,
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where Pastor Carter has
answered previous question,
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but we would like to hear
more Fresh Hot Potato questions
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from our viewers out there.
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We thank you Pastor
Carter, for your time.
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We thank you, for watching,
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God bless you and we
will see you next time.
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