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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And this is our
series Living Victoriously.
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How you can be 10 times better,
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and today we're dealing
with Daniel 11 in the series.
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I want you to notice
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Daniel 11:3, I believe.
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Daniel 11:3-4,
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"Then a mighty king shall arise,
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who shall rule
with great dominion,
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and do according to his will.
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And when he has arisen,
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his kingdom shall be
broken up and divided
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toward the four winds of heaven,
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but not among his
posterity or family
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nor according to his
dominion with which he ruled,
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for his kingdom
shall be uprooted,
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even for others besides these."
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Here you have an
astounding proof of God.
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This is describing the
great emperor Alexander
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the Great who is
actually mentioned here
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in Bible prophecy
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hundreds of years
before he is born.
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This is quite astounding.
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The Bible says
that after Persia,
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it would come this
mighty king of Greece
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and the Bible says,
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when he was at the
height of his power,
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after he had
conquered the world,
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his kingdom would be divided.
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And his kingdom was divided,
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the historian tells me
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among his four
warring generals Cassander,
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Lysimachus, Seleucus,
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and Ptolemy and the
prophecy came to pass.
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It is quite astounding, really.
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I want to say
something to the skeptic
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who is watching the
television program today.
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I've had the privilege
of talking to thousands,
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maybe millions of
skeptics, and cynics,
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and atheists in the lands
of the former Soviet Union.
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I've had literally millions
of these type of people,
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communist, atheist,
come to the meetings.
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And I've seen tens of
thousands of them come to Christ
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because of the
word of Bible prophecy.
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I've had members
of the KGB say to me,
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"We can't believe
because of blind faith,
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but we do believe
because prophecy speaks."
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And we've seen tens
of thousands of atheists
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and skeptics come to Christ
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because of the
evidence of Bible prophecy,
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such as the prophecy
of Alexander the Great,
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where he was
described by the prophet
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hundreds of years
before he was born.
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Now Daniel 11 is
a complex chapter,
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it talks about
the kings of the north
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and the kings of the south
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and we really don't
have too much time to go
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into the details.
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But we're going to come
over now to the description
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of the last great antichrist
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in Daniel 11:36 and onwards.
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This is a prophetic picture
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of the last great antichrist.
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"Then the king
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shall do according
to his own will..."
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This is talking
about the last days.
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"He shall exalt
and magnify himself
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above every god,
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shall speak blasphemies
against the God of gods,
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and shall prosper till the wrath
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there's been accomplished,
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for what has been
determined shall be done.
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He shall neither
regard the God of his fathers
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nor the desire of
women, nor regard any god,
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for he shall exalt
himself above them all.
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But in their place
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he shall honor a
god of fortresses,
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and a god which
his father did not know
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he shall honor
with gold and silver,
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with precious
stones and pleasant things.
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Thus he shall act
against the strongest fortresses
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with a foreign God..."
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This is the antichrist.
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"Which he shall acknowledge
and advance its glory,
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and he shall cause
them to rule over many,
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and divide the land for gain."
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Now the chapter
goes on and describes
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more of these
nefarious activities,
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but this power
to a certain extent
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has already come in history.
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There arose a great religious
king in the history of Europe
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that did all of these
things, but the Bible says,
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in the last days
they'll be manifested,
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the last great antichrist
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who will combine
in his personage,
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the affairs of religion,
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and the affairs
of the civil power.
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And many believe
that the antichrist
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is even now
coming into the world.
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He is a person who
deceives the world,
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and the millions fall
down, and they worship him.
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Listen to this.
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You can think about this,
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the coming
antichrist who rules the world
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is a great
religious and political leader
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whose power is mighty.
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Millions will be deceived
including millions of Americans
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because they follow lies
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instead of the
truths of the Bible.
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Don't you remember Hitler?
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And the German people
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were some of the
most sophisticated people
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who would ever drawn
in God's pure breast,
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and about 95% of
the German people
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hailed Hitler and accepted him
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as the spokesman for God.
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And Hitler said
something very significant,
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he said, "You don't need
to only just tell a lie."
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He said,
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"You tell the lie and
make it the biggest lie."
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He said, "You
keep repeating lies
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and you make them big,
big, big, powerful lies."
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And the German people,
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95% of them accepted Hitler
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and murdered 6 million Jews
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and the world was
plunged into a time of trouble
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and tens of
millions of people died
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because they followed a man
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who was so charming
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and told their itching ears
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exactly what
they wanted to hear.
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They believed the lies.
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The Bible says the antichrist
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is going to have
worldwide dominion.
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Once upon a time,
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I wondered how this
could ever happen again.
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I thought to myself,
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how could people
after what we saw in Europe,
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how could people ever
in the last days worship
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such a person?
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And I think I understand why.
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As people drift from God
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and as they
stopped reading the Bible
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which is the Word of God,
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and this word is
the truth of God.
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Jesus said, "You
will know the truth
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and the truth
will make you free."
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But if you don't read the Bible,
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you will be so easily deceived
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by the coming antichrist.
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He's not here
yet, but he's coming.
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Now verse 44-45 after
his worldwide dominion,
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you read these words.
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"But news from the east
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and the north
should trouble him,
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therefore he shall go out
with great fury to destroy
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and annihilate many."
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The Bible says, there
comes a reign of terror.
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"And he shall plant the tents
of his palace between the seas
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and the glorious holy mountain,
yet he shall come to his end,
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and no one will help him."
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After brainwashing the billions,
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he comes to his end.
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Now it is true to
say, listen carefully.
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Every dictator is doomed.
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I don't care who he is,
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Nebuchadnezzar, Belshazzar,
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Pharaoh, Alexander the Great,
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Caesar, Hitler,
Mussolini, Stalin.
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If you talk to
young people today,
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they don't even know
what you're talking about.
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Never heard of these people.
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Stalin, who is he?
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Pol Pot. Pol Pot?
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Who is he? Is he
a cartoon character?
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No, he murdered
millions of people,
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Pol Pot communist.
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Mao Zedong, murdered
tens of millions of Chinese.
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They all came to their ends.
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One wise man said,
"Man may have his hour,
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but God will have His day."
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You hear this?
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And God's day is still coming,
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but the kingdom of
God is going to come.
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Look at Revelation 19:11-16.
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Revelation 19,
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"I saw heaven standing open
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and there before
me was a white horse,
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this is a symbolic,
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whose rider is
called Faithful and True.
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With justice he
judges and wages war.
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His eyes are like blazing fire,
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and on his head are many crowns.
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He has a name written on him
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that no one
knows but he himself.
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He is dressed in a
robe dipped in blood,
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and his name is the Word of God.
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The armies of
heaven were following him,
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riding on white horses
and dressed in fine linen,
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white and clean.
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Coming out of his
mouth is a sharp sword
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with which to
strike down the nations.
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He will rule them
with an iron scepter.
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He treads the
winepress of the fury
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of the wrath of God Almighty.
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On his robe and on his thigh
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he has this name written:
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"King of kings
and Lord of lords."
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' Listen, whatever
happens in this world,
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Jesus is going to return,
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and Jesus is going
to set up His kingdom.
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That is why we
need to take Christ,
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Christ into our hearts.
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And we need to do it today
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because the times
are filled with trouble,
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and filled with
deception, and filled with lies.
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You need to know the truth.
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Now look at Daniel 12:1,
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"At that time
Michael shall stand up,
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that's Christ.
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The great prince who stands
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watch over the
sons of your people,
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and there shall
be a time of trouble,
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such as never was
since there was a nation..."
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This is the great tribulation,
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and the church of
God is on the earth
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during the great tribulation.
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"Even at that same time.
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And at that time your
people shall be delivered.
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Every one who is found
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written in the book."
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Now it says, Michael stands up.
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Well, who's Michael?
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Well, Michael is Christ.
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This is another name for
the Son of God, the Logos.
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When things are as
bad as they can be,
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Michael stands up.
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We are never alone.
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There comes a
great time of trouble,
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the great tribulation.
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I know that so
many of my colleagues
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in some circles teach
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that the church is
raptured home to glory.
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People say to me,
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"Don't you believe in the church
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being raptured home to glory?"
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And I say, "Forgive me,
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I don't believe it
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because it's not
taught in the Bible."
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The Bible says,
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there is this
tremendous time of trouble
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and the church is in the
midst of this time of trouble,
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but Christ comes
and He saves His people.
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The Bible says,
"Christ stands up."
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So we are never for saken,
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never, never, never alone.
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And then it says,
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"Everyone who has
found written in the book."
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What on earth is
this talking about?
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The Bible says, I want
you to think about this.
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The Bible says,
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there is a record
kept of every life.
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There is a record
kept of the people
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who belong to
Christ, who belong to God,
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who've been washed in
the blood of the Lamb.
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And the Bible says,
God knows all about them.
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And when Michael stands up,
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those people are delivered
and taken home to glory.
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So there's a big question,
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how do I get my
name in this book?
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I get my name in this book
by coming as a penitent sinner
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to Christ and
confessing my sins.
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I've heard of
some people who say,
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"I never confessed my sins.
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I've got no sins to confess."
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How pitiful those
poor deluded souls are.
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The Bible tells me,
if I come to Christ,
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and repent of my sins,
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and ask Christ to
come into my life,
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and if I determine
by the grace of God
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that I'm going to keep His Word,
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the Bible tells me,
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John Carter's
name is written down
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in the book of life.
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And I am going to be delivered.
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You can have your
name written down today.
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Don't you want your name
written down today, you see?
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You can have your name
written down there today.
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Look at verse 2,
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"Many of those
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who sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake."
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So the Bible tells me
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that the dead are not in heaven,
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or the Bible teaches
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they're sleeping in
the dust of the earth
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awaiting the resurrection.
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"And many of those
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who sleep in the dust
of the earth shall awake,
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some to everlasting life,
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and some to shame and
everlasting contempt,"
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the Bible says.
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The Bible teaches
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that there are
two resurrections.
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The resurrection
of the righteous,
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Jesus said in John 5:28-29
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that there are
two resurrections.
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If you don't
come up in the first,
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you're going to
come up in the second.
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The Bible
teaches that every person
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who has ever lived
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is going to be
raised from the dead.
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Did you know this?
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I met a man once
he said, "When I die,
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I go six feet under
and that's the end of me."
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Oh, it's not. That's
just the start of you.
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The Bible teaches every person.
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Stalin is going
to be resurrected,
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Alexander the Great is
going to be resurrected.
00:16:36.86\00:16:39.86
Every person who's ever
lived on the face of this earth,
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you and me are
going to be resurrected.
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"Do not be amazed at this,
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for a time is coming
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when all who are in their graves
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will hear his
voice and come out..."
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They're in the graves.
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"Those who have done
good, those who have done good,
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what is good will rise to live,
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and those who have done
00:17:04.02\00:17:05.35
what is evil will
rise to be condemned."
00:17:05.39\00:17:10.69
I took a funeral yesterday
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on the other
side of Los Angeles,
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one of the suburbs
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of the great
city of Los Angeles.
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Wonderful group of people there,
00:17:20.87\00:17:22.47
I said right at the open grave,
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what a day it's going
to be here in this place.
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So many people are
going to be waking up.
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And the Bible tells me,
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some are going to
wake up to everlasting life
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and the Bible says,
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others are going to wake up
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to everlasting contempt
or everlasting damnation.
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This is the Word of the Lord.
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You can believe
the words of Christ,
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you can believe
the words of the Bible.
00:17:50.40\00:17:53.57
And the Bible
tells us why Jesus came?
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Why did Jesus come?
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Well, it's very
plain, why did Jesus come?
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Jesus came to pay
the price for my sins.
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I'm a sinner but Jesus
came, died on the cross,
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bore the sin of the world.
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Bore your sin, bore my sin,
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and don't say you
don't have any sins,
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we're all sinners,
00:18:16.12\00:18:17.63
and we need to
repent of our sins.
00:18:17.66\00:18:19.96
A person who says,
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"I don't need to
repent of my sins
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is so far from God."
00:18:22.90\00:18:25.63
At that point, he
is beyond redemption,
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but when you and
I come to the place
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and we repent of our sins
00:18:30.54\00:18:32.67
and we accept the
gift of everlasting life,
00:18:32.71\00:18:36.38
God puts our names in His book.
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And we're going to come up
00:18:41.22\00:18:42.92
in the
resurrection of the righteous.
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Look at verse 3,
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"Those who are wise shall shine
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like the
brightness of the firmament.
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And those who turn
many to righteousness
00:18:56.80\00:19:00.00
like the stars
forever and ever."
00:19:00.04\00:19:04.87
How long are those
stars been shining?
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Billions of years.
00:19:08.24\00:19:10.75
The Bible says, the
righteous are going to shine
00:19:10.78\00:19:15.05
for billions and
billions of years.
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Recently, during
the past few years
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I've lost a number
of my dear friends.
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As you get older,
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you start to find
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that you are
losing lots of friends.
00:19:31.63\00:19:35.57
Tom Ludowici lead me to Christ.
00:19:35.60\00:19:39.21
Warren Judd, dear
friend, Graeme Bradford,
00:19:39.24\00:19:42.81
very close
friend, Eddie Totenhofer,
00:19:42.84\00:19:45.61
taught me just about everything.
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I learned in this area.
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Athal Tolhurst, a great friend.
00:19:50.05\00:19:52.29
My brother-in-law,
John Stackelroth,
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all of these magnificent people
00:19:54.82\00:19:58.43
who died
trusting fully in Christ,
00:19:58.46\00:20:01.10
they're going to come
forth out of the grave
00:20:01.13\00:20:03.97
and they're going to shine
on, and shine on, and shine on.
00:20:04.00\00:20:08.54
I want to shine with
them, what about you, friend?
00:20:08.57\00:20:11.84
God's people will live
again, want you to know that.
00:20:11.87\00:20:15.64
And look at Chapter 12:8-10,
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"Although I heard,
I did not understand."
00:20:19.25\00:20:21.35
A lot of things
I don't understand.
00:20:21.38\00:20:23.22
You're saved because
you understand everything.
00:20:23.25\00:20:26.25
You're saved because
you repent of your sins.
00:20:26.29\00:20:30.03
"Although I heard,
I did not understand."
00:20:30.06\00:20:32.59
Before I go any further,
let me tell you something.
00:20:32.63\00:20:35.60
I don't want to offend you.
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I seem to think
00:20:37.80\00:20:39.13
there's far too much
religion in the world.
00:20:39.17\00:20:42.74
Too much religion,
not enough about God.
00:20:42.77\00:20:46.94
You know,
00:20:46.98\00:20:48.31
religion for many, many,
people is simply as my old
00:20:48.34\00:20:52.31
Irish father or partly Irish,
00:20:52.35\00:20:55.58
he said to me,
00:20:55.62\00:20:57.49
"It's just a
money making racket."
00:20:57.52\00:21:01.82
Some churches are a
money making racket.
00:21:01.86\00:21:06.56
When the preacher
gets up on television,
00:21:06.59\00:21:08.86
what does he talk about?
00:21:08.90\00:21:10.23
"Hey, give me,
give me, give me."
00:21:10.27\00:21:12.43
You see.
00:21:12.47\00:21:13.80
So a lot of people say,
00:21:13.84\00:21:15.17
"I don't want to
have anything to do
00:21:15.20\00:21:16.54
with that sort of religion."
00:21:16.57\00:21:17.91
But I want to
tell you something,
00:21:17.94\00:21:19.44
I don't want to
have anything to do
00:21:19.47\00:21:20.81
with that sort of religion,
00:21:20.84\00:21:22.18
but I want to have a lot
to do with Jesus, you see.
00:21:22.21\00:21:25.85
And if you and I come to
Jesus and believe in Him,
00:21:25.88\00:21:28.85
it's going to be okay.
00:21:28.88\00:21:31.29
Look at verse 8.
00:21:31.32\00:21:35.76
"Although I heard,
I did not understand.
00:21:35.79\00:21:37.36
Then I said,
00:21:37.39\00:21:38.73
' My lord, what will be
the end of these things?'
00:21:38.76\00:21:40.73
He said, 'Go your way, Daniel,
00:21:40.76\00:21:43.23
for the words are closed up
00:21:43.26\00:21:44.60
and sealed till
the time of the end..."
00:21:44.63\00:21:46.30
That's about now.
00:21:46.33\00:21:48.24
"Many shall be purified,
made white, and refined,
00:21:48.27\00:21:52.27
but the wicked
shall do wickedly."
00:21:52.31\00:21:54.28
Don't be worried
about wicked people
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doing wicked things.
00:21:56.98\00:21:58.71
God is going to take
care of them, you see.
00:21:58.75\00:22:01.95
They're going to come up
in the second resurrection.
00:22:01.98\00:22:04.62
The wicked shall do wickedly
00:22:04.65\00:22:06.86
and none of the
wicked shall understand,
00:22:06.89\00:22:09.86
but the wise shall understand."
00:22:09.89\00:22:13.50
' Now there are
some things we understand
00:22:13.53\00:22:15.20
and there are some
things we don't understand.
00:22:15.23\00:22:18.23
Read this little poem
00:22:18.27\00:22:19.60
many years ago,
it stuck with me.
00:22:19.63\00:22:21.57
"Not now, but in
the coming years,
00:22:21.60\00:22:23.30
it may be in the better land,
00:22:23.34\00:22:26.27
we'll read the
meaning of our tears,
00:22:26.31\00:22:28.34
and there,
sometime, we'll understand.
00:22:28.38\00:22:31.41
Then trust in God
through all thy light days,
00:22:31.45\00:22:34.02
Fear not, for he
death hold thy hand.
00:22:34.05\00:22:36.45
Though dark thy way,
still sing and praise.
00:22:36.48\00:22:39.89
Sometime,
sometime, we'll understand."
00:22:39.92\00:22:43.39
We're gonna understand one day.
00:22:43.43\00:22:45.96
"We'll catch the
broken thread again,
00:22:45.99\00:22:48.53
and finish what we here began.
00:22:48.56\00:22:51.67
God will the mysteries explain,
00:22:51.70\00:22:53.74
and then, ah,
then, we'll understand.
00:22:53.77\00:22:57.51
We'll know why
clouds instead of sun
00:22:57.54\00:22:59.77
were over many a cherished plan,
00:22:59.81\00:23:02.44
why song has
ceased when scarce begun.
00:23:02.48\00:23:06.82
'Tis then,
sometime, we'll understand.
00:23:06.85\00:23:10.45
What we long for most of all,
eludes so oft our eager hand.
00:23:10.49\00:23:16.62
Why hopes are
crushed and castles fall.
00:23:16.66\00:23:20.96
Till then,
sometime, we'll understand."
00:23:21.00\00:23:24.83
Now listen to these words,
00:23:24.87\00:23:26.20
they stuck with me
down through the years
00:23:26.23\00:23:27.70
that's been a blessing to
me as they will be to you.
00:23:27.74\00:23:30.41
"God knows the
way, He holds the key,
00:23:30.44\00:23:35.24
He guides us with unerring hand.
00:23:35.28\00:23:37.75
Sometime with
tearless eyes we'll see
00:23:37.78\00:23:41.78
and, then, 'tis
then, we'll understand.
00:23:41.82\00:23:46.62
Lot of things
can't understand now,
00:23:46.65\00:23:49.62
can't understand why
good people get cancer,
00:23:49.66\00:23:53.03
can't understand
why evil seems to reign,
00:23:53.06\00:23:56.36
can't understand
lot of those things,
00:23:56.40\00:23:58.47
but one day in
glory we'll understand.
00:23:58.50\00:24:02.50
But we don't have to understand,
00:24:02.54\00:24:05.44
you don't have to understand,
00:24:05.47\00:24:07.08
you don't have to
understand everything,
00:24:07.11\00:24:08.94
all you need to do is know
00:24:08.98\00:24:10.55
that the God whom you
serve is worthy of your trust.
00:24:10.58\00:24:15.82
You can trust in Him
that one day we'll be home.
00:24:15.85\00:24:20.46
Look at verse 13,
00:24:20.49\00:24:23.06
this is the last
verse in our series,
00:24:23.09\00:24:27.66
"But you, go your way,
go your way till the end,
00:24:27.70\00:24:32.23
for you shall rest,
00:24:32.27\00:24:34.80
and will arise
to your inheritance
00:24:34.84\00:24:37.87
at the end of the days."
00:24:37.91\00:24:42.18
So God says to him, Daniel,
00:24:42.21\00:24:43.88
a lot of things
you don't understand.
00:24:43.91\00:24:46.18
The old person now,
00:24:46.21\00:24:48.12
wonder why politics
seem to be working too well.
00:24:48.15\00:24:51.62
You don't understand
00:24:51.65\00:24:52.99
why the politicians
are making things worse
00:24:53.02\00:24:55.36
than they should
be making it good.
00:24:55.39\00:24:57.16
But he says, "I
want you to know,
00:24:57.19\00:25:00.40
I'm going to give you some rest.
00:25:00.43\00:25:02.16
You're going to rest in peace
00:25:02.20\00:25:06.13
and you're going
to rise in glory."
00:25:06.17\00:25:09.80
One day Daniel is
going to walk out of his tomb
00:25:09.84\00:25:13.54
like all of these people
here who trusted in Christ.
00:25:13.58\00:25:17.81
Gonna walk out of that tombs,
00:25:17.85\00:25:20.62
they're going to
be given brand new,
00:25:20.65\00:25:25.02
beautiful, youthful,
00:25:25.05\00:25:27.06
wonderful, eternal bodies.
00:25:27.09\00:25:32.16
They will live forever
and shine like the stars,
00:25:32.19\00:25:38.30
and a billion years
will just be the start.
00:25:38.33\00:25:42.64
And if you believe these things,
00:25:42.67\00:25:45.17
if you believe in the
God who believes in you,
00:25:45.21\00:25:49.58
if you follow His Word,
00:25:49.61\00:25:53.45
if you trust in Christ,
and I'll tell you something?
00:25:53.48\00:25:59.05
If you have the
hope of eternity,
00:25:59.09\00:26:02.89
you will be
00:26:02.92\00:26:05.99
10 times better
00:26:06.03\00:26:11.17
and you will live victoriously.
00:26:11.20\00:26:14.67
Amen.
00:26:17.77\00:26:19.57
God has got a time and
a place for everything,
00:27:25.64\00:27:28.68
nothing happens by chance.
00:27:28.71\00:27:32.91
In spite of the
powers of darkness,
00:27:32.95\00:27:36.28
nothing can
destroy the church of God.
00:27:36.32\00:27:40.96
And I'm not
ashamed of the gospel
00:27:40.99\00:27:44.46
of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:44.49\00:27:48.60
That the gospel is
not about you and me,
00:27:48.63\00:27:51.20
it is the good news
about the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:27:51.23\00:27:54.30
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