The Carter Report
presents "Living Victoriously",
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Secrets of Success
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from Prime Minister
Daniel of Babylon City
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with your host John Carter.
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I'm going to
dedicate this program today
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to my atheist friends.
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The topic today is
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"Living
Victoriously" part seven.
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We're going to talk
about, antichrist is coming
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but there's victory ahead.
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I want you to
have a look at this.
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This was given
to me some years ago
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when I was
running meetings, lectures
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in the old Soviet Union
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or it was just on
the verge of collapsing.
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A colonel came to me.
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He came to this meeting,
lots of other meetings like it.
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This colonel was just
no ordinary Soviet colonel.
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He was actually in
charge of teaching atheism,
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aggressive atheism to the troops
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of the old Soviet Union.
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Can you believe that?
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The colonel in charge
of atheistic propaganda.
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And after coming to this meeting
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and lots of other meetings,
he gave me this crucifix
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that he had personally made.
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He gave it to me
to put on my tie.
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I think it goes on
something like this.
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I've kept it ever
since as a wonderful memento
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because the colonel said to me,
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"I was born and
bred in atheism."
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He said, "We were brought up
to believe there was no Jesus,
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there was no God.
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And everything about the Bible,
and God, and Christianity,
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it's all hocus pocus."
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He said this to me
through a Russian translator.
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But he said,
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"I've seen there's
another side to the story."
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He said, "I have
become totally convinced,
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not by faith but by the evidence
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that the Bible is true."
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And he said,
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"I've given my life
to God and to Christ."
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He said, "I want
you to take this."
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He said, "I had this fashioned,
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Christ on the cross.
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I want you to keep it as
a token of another atheist
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who came in out of the darkness,
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out of the cold and
came in to the light."
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Wonderful story.
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I want to say this to
all my atheist friends
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who might very much appreciate.
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I like atheists for
a number of reasons.
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But one of the
reasons I like atheists
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is because they're
talking about God all the time.
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So I like atheists.
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Atheists say to me,
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like Richard Dawkins
has said on many occasions.
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I could never
believe what you believe
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or what other
people, Christians believe
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because it's
simply, "You've got faith.
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We've got science.
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We have the evidence."
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I'd like to tell people this.
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"We do not
believe in faith in face.
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We don't believe
in faith in face,
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we believe in faith, in truth.
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And Jesus said,
remember this, Jesus said,
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"You will know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free."
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You see.
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Now I want you to take a
copy of the Old Testament.
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I want you to come
to the Jewish prophet,
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Daniel 7:1.
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And I want my atheist
friends, please, to indulge me.
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And simply sit back today
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and listen with a
little bit of patience, please.
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I want you to indulge me
and look at the evidence,
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not at the faith.
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"In the first year of
Belshazzar king of Babylon,
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Daniel had a dream,
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visions of his
head while on his bed.
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Then he wrote down the
dream, telling the main facts."
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History tells us
that this Daniel was
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a Jewish prophet from Jerusalem
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who was a captive of war.
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He was a refugee in
the city of Babylon.
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And the Bible says,
he had visions from God.
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Now my atheist friend will
say, "But that's absolute..."
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As my Irish friends
say, "That's a lot of hooey."
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But I'm simply asking you
to look at the evidence today,
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not to believe
unless you are convinced.
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Consider the
evidence like the colonel did,
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you be the judge
because the question is this.
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Who can tell the future?
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You can't.
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And I certainly
cannot tell the future.
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Who can tell the future?
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We're going to turn
to Isaiah 46:9 and 10.
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Book of Isaiah 46:9 and 10.
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Isaiah, the prophet says,
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"Remember the
former things of old,
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for I am God and
there is no other.
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I am God, there's none like me.
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Declaring the end
from the beginning,
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and from ancient times
things that are not yet done,
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saying,
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'My counsel shall stand,
and I will do all my pleasure."
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'The Bible is not like
any other book in the world,
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my atheist
friend, because the Bible,
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unlike any other
book in the world,
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claims to have the
ability to tell the future.
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Now today we're
going to notice a prophecy
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that goes back 2,500 years.
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If what I tell you is true,
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then atheism is wrong
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because there
is a God in heaven.
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But just hold on for a moment.
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The Bible teaches
that God made time.
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God is not in time.
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Time is in God.
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All scientists believe today,
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and I believe in
the point of creation
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that is called by
scientists The Big Bang.
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Some Christian
friends, and they're wrong,
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don't like the
term "The Big Bang".
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They say, "This is
some... No, no, no.
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It's got nothing
to do with atheism.
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It's talking about the
time when there was a big bang."
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We now know for certainty
that before the Big Bang,
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there was no such thing as time.
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Time came into being
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when the
universe came into being,
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when we believe the
universe was created.
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I want you to come over
here to an interesting passage
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in Exodus 3:1 to 3.
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This goes back to a book
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that's about 3,500
years old, Exodus 3.
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"Now, Moses was
tending the flock of Jethro
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his father-in-law,
the priest of Midian.
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He led the flock to
the back of the desert,
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came to Horeb,
the mountain of God.
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And the Angel of
the Lord appeared to him
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in a flame of fire
from the midst of a bush.
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So he looked, and behold,
the bush was burning with fire,
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but the bush was not consumed.
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Then Moses said,
'I will now turn aside
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and see this great sight,
why the bush does not burn."
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'So here is Moses,
the prince from Egypt,
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one of the most
sophisticated people
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in the history of the world.
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And he sees a bush.
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And the bush is
blazing and it's not consumed.
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And then he hears a voice.
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The voice says, "Moses!
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Moses!"
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He's like, "It's God."
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The voice said, "Take
the shoes off your feet
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because the place
on which you stand
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is holy ground."
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And then he talks to the
being in the flaming bush
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because the
being claims to be God.
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And then the
being reveals himself
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and actually tells his name.
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As you notice in
verse 13 and 14, 13 and 14,
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"Then Moses said to God,
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'Indeed when I come
to the children of Israel
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and say to them,
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'The God of your
fathers has sent me to you,'
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and they say to
me, 'What is his name?'
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What shall I say to them?'
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God said to
Moses, 'I AM WHO I AM.'
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And He said, 'Thus you shall
say to the children of Israel,
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'I AM has sent me to you."'
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What does it mean?
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It means
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that God has had no beginning
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and no ending.
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And as far as God is concerned,
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the future is as today.
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And that is why the
Bible is the book of God
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claims to have the
ability to see into the future.
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Don't turn off
the television set,
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please indulge me now
and look at the evidence
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that the Bible tells of future.
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Daniel 7:2 and 3,
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"Daniel spoke saying, 'I
saw in my vision by night,
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behold, the four winds of heaven
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were stirring up the great sea.
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And four great
beasts came up from the sea,
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each different from the other.'"
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As Daniel is
dreaming in the vision,
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he sees the sea lashed into fury
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and then he sees four beasts
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that come up out
of the foaming waters.
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Listen.
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This vision
given 2,500 years ago
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claims to tell the
history of the world.
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Don't turn me off, indulge me.
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Simply, look at the evidence.
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The future fate of nations
are likened by these beasts.
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Because in the Bible prophecy,
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a beast is symbolic
of a great world power.
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Look at verse 17
of the same chapter.
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It says, "Those great
beasts, which are four,
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are four kings which
arise out of the earth."
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Verse 23, "Thus he said:
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'The fourth beast shall
be a fourth kingdom on earth,
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which shall be different
from all other kingdoms,
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and shall
devour the whole earth,
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trample it,
break it in pieces.'"
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Now, this is not
strange. We have cartoons today.
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America is
symbolized by the eagle.
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Russia by the
bear, and so forth.
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God in the
scriptures, in the prophecies
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is the great cartoonist
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who sees the end
from the beginning.
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And He portrays the
nations of the world
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as ravenous beasts which
is exactly what they are.
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Now look at Daniel 7:4 to 7.
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Here it gets interesting.
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"The first was like a
lion, and had eagle's wings.
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I watched till its
wings were plucked off,
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it was lifted up from the earth
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and made to stand
on two feet like a man,
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and a man's
heart was given to it.
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And suddenly another
beast, a second, like a bear.
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It was raised up on one side,
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and had three ribs in
its mouth between its teeth.
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And they said thus to it:
'Arise, devour much flesh!'
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After this I looked,
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and there was
another, like a leopard,
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which had on his back
four wings like a bird.
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The beast also had four heads,
and dominion was given to it.
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After this I saw
in the night vision,
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and behold, a fourth
beast, dreadful and terrible,
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exceedingly strong.
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It had huge iron teeth,
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it was devouring,
breaking in pieces,
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and trampling the
residue with its feet.
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It was different
from all the beasts
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that were before it,
and it had ten horns."
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Now listen very carefully.
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This prophecy is given
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hundreds of years before Christ.
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And here you have
these four great animals
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that represent,
indeed, the kingdoms
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and the powers of the
world, starting with the lion.
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And in Bible prophecy,
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every
commentator agrees with me,
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the lion is symbolic
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of the kingdom
of the Babylonians
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that ruled the world
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from around 605 to 538 B.C.
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I have been to
Babylon on more occasions
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than I can remember.
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On one occasion, I was placed
under arrest by Saddam Hussein.
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I know that part of the world.
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And when you go to
ancient Babylon as I have done,
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you will see
that the great symbol
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of the Babylonians was the lion.
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And so we start,
here is a starting point.
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We've got to nail that down.
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The starting point of
the prophecy is the lion
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which is the
kingdom of the Babylonians.
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This is not theology.
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Babylon is followed by the bear.
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Because we're not
talking about the modern bear
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which is Russia,
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we're talking about the bear
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that goes back
thousands of years.
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And the rapacious bear
symbolizes the great power
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that came after Babylon
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and that is the
power of Medo-Persia.
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This is not
speculation, this is history.
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And after the
bear came the leopard.
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And after
Medo-Persia came Greece
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led by the soldiers
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of Alexander the Great.
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And this leopard
which is tremendously fast,
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this leopard has four
wings, and he has four heads
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that are symbolic of the breakup
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of the empire of
Alexander the Great,
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into the kingdoms of Cassander,
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Lysimachus,
Seleucus and Ptolemy.
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And this was written down
long before Alexander was born.
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But then after
Greece came another power
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and that was the
great monster or the dragon.
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So you have in
history, my dear atheist friend,
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you have Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece under Alexander,
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the break up of
the Grecian empire
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into the four
states or the four parts
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of the old empire.
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And then you have after Greece,
the iron monarchy of Rome,
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the Rome of the Caesars.
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This is the power
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that destroyed
the city of Jerusalem,
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and that crushed the world,
00:17:12.19\00:17:14.93
and that put Jesus
Christ on the cross.
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This is not speculation.
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A person who knows
little of prophecy or history
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will say, "You are
simply making it up."
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You cannot make up Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, and Rome.
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And you may see in a few moments
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why the colonel
became a Christian.
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Now look at Daniel 7:7 again.
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Verse 7,
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"After this, I saw
in the night visions,
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and behold, a fourth beast,"
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Rome, "Dreadful and
terrible, exceedingly strong.
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It had huge iron teeth.
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It was devouring,
breaking in pieces,
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and trampling the
residue with its feet.
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It was different
from all the beasts
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that were before it
and it had ten horns."
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And notice this, this beast,
the Roman beast is different.
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He has ten horns.
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And notice verse 24
of the same chapter.
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"The ten horns are ten kings
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who shall arise
from this kingdom.
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And another
shall rise after them.
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He shall be
different from the first ones,
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and shall subdue three kings."
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The Bible says
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the ten horns are ten kings.
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Now, the Roman
Empire, my friend,
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was not followed by
another great world empire
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as we would have expected.
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But the Roman Empire
broke up into the kingdoms
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and the states of Europe.
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My atheist friend, if
you are still listening,
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indulge me.
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Let me ask you the question.
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How did a Jew in Babylon
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about 500 years B.C.
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predict Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Alexander,
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the break up of
the Grecian empire,
00:19:35.84\00:19:38.27
the coming of the
great iron monarchy of Rome,
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and the break up
of the Roman Empire
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into the kingdoms
and the states of Europe?
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How did he know?
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That's why the
Soviet colonel said to me,
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"I have come to believe
not because of blind faith
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but because of
the overwhelming facts
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of history."
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You see, Jesus said,
"You'll know the truth."
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Now let me say a
few words about atheism
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and I say it in
Christian charity.
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Atheism is not science.
00:20:16.28\00:20:19.25
Whatever you're told,
atheism is not science.
00:20:19.28\00:20:22.08
Some of the best people
I've known are atheists.
00:20:22.12\00:20:25.89
But atheism is not science.
00:20:25.92\00:20:28.62
Science cannot
prove there is no God.
00:20:28.66\00:20:34.33
No scientist who is
worth his salt will say
00:20:34.36\00:20:39.23
that he can
prove there is no God.
00:20:39.27\00:20:42.80
Atheism is
intellectually barren.
00:20:42.84\00:20:49.04
Atheism is a
philosophy of naturalism.
00:20:49.08\00:20:54.55
It is a religion of faith.
00:20:54.58\00:20:57.75
Atheism is not based on proof.
00:20:57.79\00:21:03.19
How can you
prove there is no God?
00:21:03.22\00:21:06.09
Have you been
everywhere on the universe?
00:21:06.13\00:21:10.73
It's not based
on proof or facts.
00:21:10.77\00:21:13.40
Atheism is not
scientific, young people.
00:21:13.44\00:21:18.04
And remember, many
scientists believe in God.
00:21:18.07\00:21:21.94
The man who wrote
the language of God,
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one of the greatest scientists
of our age is a believer.
00:21:24.98\00:21:30.92
Atheism is a religion
that people choose to believe
00:21:30.95\00:21:34.39
often for very
emotional reasons.
00:21:34.42\00:21:39.53
But true belief in God is
based on evidence and facts.
00:21:39.56\00:21:45.57
I do not believe in blind faith,
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I want you to hear this.
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When I was running
lectures in St. Petersburg,
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and Moscow, and Gorky,
we had tremendous crowds,
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millions of people.
00:21:59.95\00:22:01.48
On one occasion,
00:22:01.52\00:22:03.39
I had the KGB
leaders come to the meetings.
00:22:03.42\00:22:06.96
I remember saying
00:22:06.99\00:22:08.72
that the KGB chief
wanted to talk to me.
00:22:08.76\00:22:11.83
They don't usually want
to talk to a person like me
00:22:11.86\00:22:15.10
to pass the time of day,
00:22:15.13\00:22:17.57
usually to pull out your
fingernails or something.
00:22:17.60\00:22:21.34
But they brought the KGB
general round to the back.
00:22:21.37\00:22:25.01
I met with him and his colonels.
00:22:25.04\00:22:27.58
Later on, I
spoke on two occasions
00:22:27.61\00:22:30.35
to all of the people in
training to be KGB officers.
00:22:30.38\00:22:35.85
And he said to
me, "Don't forget us
00:22:35.88\00:22:38.52
because we
atheists too have souls."
00:22:38.55\00:22:44.59
He said, "We're
empty in here also."
00:22:44.63\00:22:48.20
But he said we are
coming to your meetings
00:22:48.23\00:22:50.30
because they're not
like religious meetings.
00:22:50.33\00:22:54.24
He said, "We're
coming to your meetings
00:22:54.27\00:22:56.84
because you show us
evidence why we should believe."
00:22:56.87\00:23:03.48
And if we cannot
give you evidence
00:23:03.51\00:23:05.98
why you should believe,
you know what you ought to do,
00:23:06.01\00:23:09.32
don't you?
00:23:09.35\00:23:10.69
Don't believe.
00:23:10.72\00:23:13.49
But Jesus said
you'll know the truth.
00:23:13.52\00:23:15.82
The truth will make you free.
00:23:15.86\00:23:17.99
I believe in truth.
00:23:18.03\00:23:21.46
And look at Daniel 7:8.
00:23:21.50\00:23:24.97
"I was considering the
horns," or the kings of Europe,
00:23:25.00\00:23:28.37
"and there was
another horn, a little one,
00:23:28.40\00:23:30.34
coming up among them,
00:23:30.37\00:23:31.71
before whom three
of the first horns
00:23:31.74\00:23:33.51
were plucked out by the roots.
00:23:33.54\00:23:35.28
And there, in this horn,
00:23:35.31\00:23:36.75
were eyes like
the eyes of a man,
00:23:36.78\00:23:39.78
and a mouth
speaking pompous words."
00:23:39.81\00:23:45.15
And this is the famous king
00:23:45.19\00:23:46.86
who arises on the
ruins of the Roman Empire.
00:23:46.89\00:23:52.29
And remember this,
00:23:52.33\00:23:53.66
the Roman Empire
is still here today.
00:23:53.70\00:23:56.16
The Roman Empire
became a divided empire.
00:23:56.20\00:24:00.04
And the old Roman
Empire is still here today.
00:24:00.07\00:24:02.70
We've even got
buildings in America
00:24:02.74\00:24:05.34
that are exact copies
of the Roman buildings.
00:24:05.37\00:24:08.24
The Roman Empire is still here.
00:24:08.28\00:24:10.88
Look at verse 24, "The
ten horns are ten kings
00:24:10.91\00:24:14.82
who shall arise
from this kingdom.
00:24:14.85\00:24:17.22
And another
shall rise after them.
00:24:17.25\00:24:20.09
He shall be
different from the first ones,
00:24:20.12\00:24:22.22
and shall subdue three kings."
00:24:22.26\00:24:25.43
Now, here is the question.
00:24:25.46\00:24:28.96
This is very honest question,
from my heart to yours.
00:24:29.00\00:24:31.70
How did this Jew,
living 2,500 years ago
00:24:31.73\00:24:36.54
know there would be
Babylon, Medo-Persia, Greece?
00:24:36.57\00:24:40.58
The fourth one would be
the most dreadful power,
00:24:40.61\00:24:44.61
and then it would break up
into the kingdoms of Europe.
00:24:44.65\00:24:48.62
And then a king
would arise in Europe
00:24:48.65\00:24:51.85
and he would rule the world.
00:24:51.89\00:24:54.49
How did he know
00:24:54.52\00:24:58.29
if there is no God?
00:24:58.33\00:25:01.56
Now, I want to tell
you that most atheists,
00:25:01.60\00:25:06.40
God bless them, have
never heard this evidence.
00:25:06.43\00:25:10.31
So don't be hard on them.
00:25:10.34\00:25:12.47
And Daniel 7:9 and 10,
00:25:12.51\00:25:15.94
"I watched till
thrones were put in place,
00:25:15.98\00:25:18.05
and the Ancient
of Days was seated,
00:25:18.08\00:25:20.12
His garment was white as snow,
00:25:20.15\00:25:22.25
and the hair of his
head like the pure wool.
00:25:22.28\00:25:24.59
His thrown was a fiery flame,
its wheels a burning fire.
00:25:24.62\00:25:28.59
A fiery stream issued and
came forth from before Him.
00:25:28.62\00:25:33.03
A thousand
thousands ministered to Him,
00:25:33.06\00:25:36.23
ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before Him.
00:25:36.26\00:25:41.47
The court was seated,
and the books were opened."
00:25:41.50\00:25:47.64
I believe in God
because of evidence.
00:25:51.11\00:25:56.99
And this book says
00:25:57.02\00:26:00.86
that God is still on His throne,
00:26:00.89\00:26:05.73
and we'll be back
with more amazing facts
00:26:05.76\00:26:09.70
in a moment.
00:26:09.73\00:26:11.30
Hello, friend. I'm John Carter.
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.48
By the grace of God,
I'm going back to Russia.
00:26:24.51\00:26:27.62
I've been to the lands
of the old Soviet Union
00:26:27.65\00:26:30.02
47 times.
00:26:30.05\00:26:33.09
That's in the last 25, 26 years.
00:26:33.12\00:26:36.16
We're planning to go to
the city of Nizhny Novgorod,
00:26:36.19\00:26:40.56
or the old
Russian city of Gorky,
00:26:40.60\00:26:43.57
made famous by the poet Gorky.
00:26:43.60\00:26:47.07
We're going there
because 25 years ago,
00:26:47.10\00:26:50.04
we ran a great
campaign in Nizhny Novgorod
00:26:50.07\00:26:53.98
and we saw 2,530 souls,
00:26:54.01\00:26:58.91
2,530 Russians,
communists, atheists,
00:26:58.95\00:27:03.05
all sorts of unbelief baptized
into Christ in the Volga River.
00:27:03.08\00:27:08.82
We're going back
because the need is enormous.
00:27:08.86\00:27:12.46
And because the
Russians are saying,
00:27:12.49\00:27:14.06
"Please come and help us."
00:27:14.10\00:27:16.73
Freedom is
disappearing in Putin's Russia.
00:27:16.77\00:27:21.50
It's almost impossible
now to hire an auditorium,
00:27:21.54\00:27:24.47
almost impossible
to preach the gospel.
00:27:24.51\00:27:27.64
And so by the grace of God,
00:27:27.68\00:27:29.58
we are applying for
special missionary visas.
00:27:29.61\00:27:33.21
Are we going to get them?
00:27:33.25\00:27:34.58
We think so by the grace of God.
00:27:34.62\00:27:36.89
And we're going to
advertise, by the grace of God,
00:27:36.92\00:27:39.72
on television and on radio.
00:27:39.75\00:27:41.72
Please write to me.
00:27:41.76\00:27:43.09
I've got to raise $250,000 now.
00:27:43.12\00:27:48.93
Please write to me,
John Carter, PO Box 1900,
00:27:48.96\00:27:52.90
Thousand Oaks, California 91358.
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00:27:55.90\00:27:58.27
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00:27:58.31\00:28:00.28
This could be
Russia's last opportunity.
00:28:00.31\00:28:04.15
Please write to me.
00:28:04.18\00:28:05.51
I ask you in the name of God,
00:28:05.55\00:28:08.02
write to me today
and pray for Russia.
00:28:08.05\00:28:11.72
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