I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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Now in Kiev, the
capital of Ukraine.
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I'm John Carter in Petra.
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Reporting from India.
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In Columbia.
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I'm John Carter.
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Today, on the Carter
Report, John Carter talks about
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Great Balls of Fire
and the signs of the times.
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I'm just so glad
to see you here today.
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The topic is an
amazing prophecy,
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Great Balls of Fire.
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I want to welcome
our wonderful audience
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here in Southern California,
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our audience around the world
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and specifically our
new audience on FOX TV
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in our nation's
capital Washington, DC.
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So the topic today
is apocalyptic prophecy,
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a tremendous thing,
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it's entitled
Great Balls of Fire,
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with all apologies
to Jerry Lee Lewis.
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I want to read to
you the words of a person
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whom is
considered by many Americans
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to be a prophet, a
modern day prophet.
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This person wrote
in 1906 right here
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in the golden
state of California.
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"In the night I
was, I thought in a room,
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not in my own house.
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I was in a city,
where I knew not,
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and I heard
expression after expression.
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I rose up quickly in
bed and saw from my window
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large balls of fire,
jetting out were sparks
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in the form of arrows,
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and buildings
were being consumed,
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and in a few minutes,
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the entire block of buildings
was falling and mournful groans
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came distinctly to my ears.
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I cried out to
learn what was happening,
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then I awoke.
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But I could not
tell where I was for
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I was in
another place than home.
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I said, "O Lord, where am I?
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What shall I do?"
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A voice spoke, "Be not
afraid, nothing shall harm you."
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Those words were
written by an amazing woman
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who had an impact upon the lives
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of tens of millions of people,
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an American by the
name of Ellen White.
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And she says that she had
a vision given to her by God
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and she saw these
large balls of fire
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that were
consuming American cities.
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Now what does it mean?
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And most
importantly, is it in harmony
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with last day events
as described in the Bible?
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Now we ask this
question, firstly,
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what is the climax of history?
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Because many people
besides Christians believe
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that we are
approaching the great climax
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in the history of the world.
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I want you to take your
Bible here in the studio
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to John 14:1-3.
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And this describes
the climax of history.
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Jesus said, "Let not
your heart be troubled.
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You believe in
God, believe also in Me.
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In My Father's
house are many mansions.
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If it were not so,
I would have told you.
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I go to prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again
and receive you to Myself
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that where I am,
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there you may be also."
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Jesus Christ said
He would come again,
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and this would be, He said,
the very climax of history.
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Now there is a pagan concept
of time that I don't believe.
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It is the idea
that time is circular,
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that everything
repeats itself, ad nauseam.
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This is the idea
of the ancient Greeks,
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the pagan world,
and the Hindus today
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that everything
goes around and around.
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That's why they have the
doctrine of reincarnation,
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but it leads to
despair and hopelessness
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because you can never really
make a difference in the world.
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Everything you're doing
has already taken place.
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But the Bible
concept is entirely different
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and it is entirely scientific.
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It teaches that
time had a beginning.
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Listen to this,
the Bible actually says
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there was a time
when there no was no time.
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It says, "Before time began..."
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We believe, from
science and scripture,
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that everything had a
beginning and everything starts
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with the divine Logos, the Word.
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There was a debate
that I watched between
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the great Professor Dawkins
and the great Professor Lennox
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from Oxford University.
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And Dawkins, being an
agnostic or an atheist, said,
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"Nothing,
everything came from nothing."
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And the great Professor Lennox,
who is a committed Christian,
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said, "No, everything
came from intelligence.
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It came from the Logos,
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and everything moves
towards a planned end.
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And that end will be
the return of Christ."
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And the good news is this,
my friends around the world,
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there is coming a new
heaven and a new earth
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and then there
will be the commencement
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of billions of
years of good times,
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good times, perfect
health, unlimited vitality
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and energy, with
family, friends, and loved ones,
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and the personal
presence of Christ,
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and complete satisfaction.
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This is why we have hope,
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and this is why
we are not suicidal.
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I want you turn in the
Bible to Book of Revelation,
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the last book,
Revelation 21:1-5.
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Revelation 21:1-5,
"Now I saw a new heaven
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and a new earth,
for the first heaven
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and the first
earth had passed away.
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Also there was no more sea.
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Then I, John, saw the holy city,
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New Jerusalem,
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coming down out
of heaven from God,
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prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
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And I heard a loud
voice from heaven saying,
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'Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
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and He will dwell with them,
and they shall be His people.
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God Himself will be
with them and be their God.
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And God will wipe away
every tear from their eyes,
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there shall be no more
death, nor sorrow, nor crying.
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There shall be no more pain,
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for the former
things have passed away.'
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Then He who sat
on the throne said,
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'Behold, I make all things new.'
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And He said to me,
'Write, for these words
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are true and faithful.'"
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So the Bible teaches
there is a brand new,
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beautiful,
wonderful world coming.
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It is so good,
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it's going to be
better than we can anticipate.
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Twenty-five years
ago, I brought a family
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of Jewish refugees to
the United States of America
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and I brought them
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to my hometown of Thousand Oaks.
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I took them down to Albertsons
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and took them
through the supermarket.
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This was a time when Russia,
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the Russian economy
had totally collapsed.
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The atheistic system
had absolutely fallen apart.
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And I took them
through, they said to me,
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"It's so good, it's
better than we expected."
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They had come from a
place of darkness and starvation
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and now here they were
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walking around
America and they had freedom.
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And they said,
"It's better than anything
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we had expected."
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Heaven is going to
be better than anything
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that we can expect.
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Everything moves
towards this. This is the end.
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But, now here's the
but, before Christ returns,
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there will be balls of
fire and other great events.
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Now I want you
to take your Bible
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and turn to Matthew 16:1-3.
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Matthew 16:1-3,
"Then the Pharisees
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and Sadducees came,
and testing Him asked
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that He would show
them a sign from heaven.
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He answered and said to them,
'When it is evening you say,
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'It will be fair
weather, for the sky is red',
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and in the morning, 'it
will be foul weather today,
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for the sky is
red and threatening.''
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Hypocrites!
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You know how to
discern the face of the sky,
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but you cannot discern
the signs of the times."
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The signs of the
times are written
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in the prophecies of the Bible.
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And one of those great signs
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will be we're going
to see balls of fire.
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Jesus said, "You
can predict the weather
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by the face of the sky,
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but you cannot discern
the signs of the times."
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And this
expression could be used
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concerning the
religious world of today,
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the signs of the times.
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Our information will
come largely from Matthew 24,
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book on prophecy, Luke
21, chapter on prophecy,
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Revelation 11,
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and the Old
Testament Book of Joel
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which describes the last days.
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Now turn with me, please,
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to Matthew 24:1-3,
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Matthew 24:1-3.
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And this describes a
conversation Jesus had
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with His disciples.
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"Then Jesus went out and
departed from the temple.
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His disciples
came up to show Him
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the buildings of the temple.
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And Jesus said to them,
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'Do you not see
all these things?
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Assuredly, I say to you,
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not one stone shall be
left here upon another,
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that shall not be thrown down.'"
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And then you notice verse 3,
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"Now as He sat on
the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came to
Him privately, saying,
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'Tell us, when
will these things be?
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And what will be
the sign of Your coming
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and of the end of the age?'"
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Or the end of the world.
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And so listen carefully,
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the Jewish temple was destroyed
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by the Romans in 70 AD, AD 70.
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It was symbolic of
the end of the world
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preceded by
signs in the same way
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the second coming of Christ
will be preceded by signs.
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And so the collapse of
the Jewish city of Jerusalem
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was a type of
the end of the world.
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And the disciples
said, "What will be the sign
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of Your coming and of
the end of the world?"
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Therefore the return of Christ
will be the end of the age
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and the end of the world.
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And the Bible tells
us it will be preceded
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by the signs of the times.
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The return of Christ
equals the end of the world.
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Notice now with
me sign number one,
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sign number one, here it is.
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Signs, miracles, wonders,
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lies, and deceptions.
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Matthew 24:3-5,
Jesus starts to preach.
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Matthew 24:3-5,
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"Now as He sat on
the Mount of Olives,
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the disciples came to
Him privately, saying,
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'Tell us, when
will these things be?
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And what will be
the sign of Your coming
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and of the end of the age?'
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And Jesus
answered and said to them,
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'Take heed that
no one deceives you.
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For many will come in My
name, saying, 'I am the Christ,'
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and will deceive many.'"
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Jesus said there'd be signs,
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miracles, wonders, lies,
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deceptions, false Christs.
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In recent times,
we have witnessed
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millions and
millions of people deceived
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by preachers, politicians,
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and gurus.
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Almost all of
Germany, about 95% of them,
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the most educated
people in the world,
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Roman Catholics and Lutherans,
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people who called
themselves Christians,
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95% of them
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deceived by the Fuhrer.
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Amazing, isn't it?
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Amazing.
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Yet people say today,
we would not be deceived
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like those foolish Germans
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by the coming of
a super personality.
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Almost all Russia, I've
been to Russia 48 times,
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tens of millions,
more than 100 million,
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probably 200 million,
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completely deceived
by Lenin and Stalin.
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Even though
Stalin was killing people
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by the millions,
they were calling him,
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our father.
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Our father, what's wrong?
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What is wrong?
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Jesus said deception
is one of the last signs.
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In India, right now,
60 million are deceived
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by Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh,
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a convicted rapist,
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convicted by the
Indian Government
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that did the right thing.
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A convicted rapist,
most likely a murderer
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who pretends to
be the voice of God
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and 60 million people
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fall down and worship.
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Have mercy.
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We may get it a little closer
to us soon, so just hold on.
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It is predicted that a
person with great power
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will counterfeit
the return of Christ.
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Please turn to II Thessalonians,
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those of you who are watching,
we quote from the Bible
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because the Bible
is the source of truth,
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not the voice of the church,
not the voice of the priest
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or the pastor, anybody
else, the voice of God's word.
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II
Thessalonians 2:7 and onwards,
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"For the mystery of
lawlessness is already at work.
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Only He who now
restrains will do so
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until He is
taken out of the way.
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And then the
lawless one will be revealed
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whom the Lord will consume
with the breath of His mouth
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and destroy with the
brightness of His coming.
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The coming of the
lawless one," the Antichrist,
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"is according to the working
of Satan, with all power,
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signs, and lying wonders,
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and with all unrighteous
deception among those
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who perish, because
they did not receive
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the love of the truth,
that they might be saved.
00:16:59.18\00:17:03.85
And for this
reason God will send them
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strong delusion,
00:17:08.39\00:17:10.66
that they
should believe the lie,
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that they all may be condemned
who did not believe the truth
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but had pleasure
in unrighteousness."
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It's almost incomprehensible
to the human mind to believe
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that this great
personality is going to come
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and he's going to
pretend to be Christ
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and the whole world is
going to bow down to him,
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signs, miracles, wonders,
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lies, and deceptions.
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And I can show you in scripture
where the Bible teaches
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that the vast majority of people
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who call themselves Christians
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will worship the Antichrist.
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Why? Why?
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One primary reason is ignorance
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that breeds gullibility.
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Don't confuse me with the facts.
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I believe what I believe.
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I don't want anybody to
disturb my thought processes.
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Let me tell you folks something,
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your safeguard and defense,
00:18:30.67\00:18:33.07
the knowledge and understanding
of the Word of God,
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that is why we encourage people
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to personally read
the Holy Scriptures.
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That's why I say to people,
"Read your Bible every day.
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Read the bible."
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Jesus said these words.
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Jesus said that this
is the very truth itself.
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He said, "You
shall know the truth
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and the truth
shall make you free."
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I can tell you
today that the world,
00:19:09.38\00:19:12.81
including the United
States, is being prepared
00:19:12.85\00:19:17.39
for the coming
00:19:17.42\00:19:18.89
of the Antichrist.
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Sign number two,
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wars, famines, pestilences,
00:19:27.80\00:19:30.57
and earthquakes on
an increasing intensity.
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Matthew 24:6-8,
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"You will hear of
wars and rumors of wars.
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See that you are not
troubled for all these things
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must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
00:19:43.28\00:19:45.68
For nation will
rise against nation,
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kingdom against kingdom.
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There will be
famines, pestilences,
00:19:49.95\00:19:52.95
and earthquakes
in various places.
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All these are the
beginning of sorrows."
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Look at me, the
word sorrows means,
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in the Greek, birth pains.
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The birth pains become stronger,
00:20:08.24\00:20:13.81
more intense,
00:20:13.84\00:20:16.81
of greater intensity
quicker and quicker and quicker
00:20:16.85\00:20:20.68
because there have
always been wars and earthquakes
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but they will increase.
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I want you to come now,
please, to Luke 21:25-27.
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Luke 21:25-27, Jesus said,
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"There will be signs
in the sun, in the moon,
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and in the stars,
00:20:41.24\00:20:42.57
and on the earth
distress of nations,
00:20:42.60\00:20:45.31
with perplexity, the
sea and the waves roaring,
00:20:45.34\00:20:50.55
men's hearts
failing them from fear
00:20:50.58\00:20:53.58
and the
expectation of those things
00:20:53.62\00:20:56.15
which are coming on the earth,
00:20:56.18\00:20:58.39
for the powers of the
heavens will be shaken.
00:20:58.42\00:21:02.32
Then they will
see the Son of Man
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coming in a cloud with
power and great glory."
00:21:03.86\00:21:08.20
Jesus said on the earth,
00:21:08.23\00:21:13.00
the nations will be
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in distress and perplexity.
00:21:14.77\00:21:20.28
The sea and the waves
roaring, it seems, my friend,
00:21:20.31\00:21:26.78
to point to great hurricanes
00:21:26.82\00:21:29.85
as the sea heats up.
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Something like
we've never seen before.
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Did you know this?
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Remember this.
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It is almost impossible
to get someone to see a truth
00:21:43.90\00:21:46.70
when his salary
depends upon his not seeing it.
00:21:46.74\00:21:52.37
It's almost impossible
to get somebody to see
00:21:52.41\00:21:56.01
what's happening in the world
00:21:56.04\00:21:57.95
if it somehow
tied to his paycheck.
00:21:57.98\00:22:01.42
These are the birth pains
00:22:07.29\00:22:08.62
that'll give
birth to a new creation.
00:22:08.66\00:22:12.09
It's going to happen
more and more and more.
00:22:12.13\00:22:15.66
And people who
are atheists saying,
00:22:15.70\00:22:17.93
"What on earth is
happening to the planet?"
00:22:17.97\00:22:21.10
The planet is groaning
00:22:21.14\00:22:23.00
and the planet is
sending us a message,
00:22:23.04\00:22:26.01
and the message
is Christ is coming,
00:22:26.04\00:22:29.11
Christ is coming.
00:22:29.14\00:22:30.75
Sign number three,
00:22:30.78\00:22:33.15
the great persecution
00:22:33.18\00:22:34.52
of the
followers of Jesus Christ.
00:22:34.55\00:22:37.19
Please notice
Matthew 24:9 and onwards,
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"Then they will deliver you
up to tribulation and kill you,
00:22:42.39\00:22:47.03
and you will be
hated by all nations
00:22:47.06\00:22:48.86
for My name's sake.
00:22:48.90\00:22:50.73
And then many will be offended,
will betray one another,
00:22:50.77\00:22:54.90
and will hate one another."
00:22:54.94\00:22:57.84
And then He says,
"Then many false prophets
00:22:57.87\00:23:00.58
will rise up and deceive many."
00:23:00.61\00:23:06.82
The great persecution
of the followers of Christ.
00:23:06.85\00:23:10.32
I have some facts for
you that you won't hear
00:23:10.35\00:23:13.96
on too many television stations.
00:23:13.99\00:23:17.43
In our times,
millions of Christians
00:23:17.46\00:23:20.16
in Russia have been killed
by the communist atheists.
00:23:20.20\00:23:24.67
Millions have
been killed in China
00:23:24.70\00:23:27.37
by the communist atheists
in the times of Mao Zedong.
00:23:27.40\00:23:32.01
Today, today, tens of
thousand of Christians
00:23:32.04\00:23:38.18
have been murdered
00:23:38.21\00:23:39.55
and are being
murdered by Islamic terrorists.
00:23:39.58\00:23:45.92
Some people are
afraid to use the term,
00:23:45.95\00:23:49.46
it is a fact.
00:23:49.49\00:23:53.50
Johan Candelin, the director
00:23:53.53\00:23:56.03
of Religious Liberty
Commission wrote this,
00:23:56.06\00:24:00.24
"Hundreds of
thousands of people today
00:24:00.27\00:24:02.90
are being killed, brutalized,
sold as slaves, imprisoned,
00:24:02.94\00:24:08.84
tortured, threatened,
discriminated against,
00:24:08.88\00:24:11.88
and arrested solely
because they are Christians."
00:24:11.91\00:24:16.79
Today, there is a war
against Christ and the Church.
00:24:16.82\00:24:22.39
"They are being subjected
to persecution and sufferings,
00:24:22.42\00:24:25.63
the extent of which we can
hardly begin to comprehend,
00:24:25.66\00:24:28.66
because of their faith...
00:24:28.70\00:24:31.63
more than 200 millions
people in over 60 nations
00:24:31.67\00:24:36.34
are being denied
their basic human rights
00:24:36.37\00:24:39.31
for one reason only,
they are Christians."
00:24:39.34\00:24:44.91
You may not hear this
on American television,
00:24:44.95\00:24:47.62
much of this
suffering is happening in Africa
00:24:47.65\00:24:50.92
where churches are
burning even as I speak,
00:24:50.95\00:24:54.76
it's happening
in the Middle-East.
00:24:54.79\00:24:56.89
In Saudi Arabia, Christians
are not allowed even to exist.
00:24:56.93\00:25:03.70
Didn't know that?
00:25:03.73\00:25:05.07
In Saudi Arabia, In
China, and in India,
00:25:05.10\00:25:09.04
and in
Indonesia, where the leader,
00:25:09.07\00:25:12.47
one of the
leaders of the country
00:25:12.51\00:25:14.08
has just been thrown into prison
00:25:14.11\00:25:15.84
for one reason,
he is a Christian.
00:25:15.88\00:25:21.82
But you know, God's church
is no stranger to persecution,
00:25:21.85\00:25:26.09
and the church will survive,
and the church will triumph.
00:25:26.12\00:25:32.33
I want you to notice this,
Matthew 16:17-18, Jesus said,
00:25:32.36\00:25:39.20
He said to them,
"Blessed are you,
00:25:39.23\00:25:41.20
Simon Bar-Jonah,
for flesh and blood
00:25:41.24\00:25:43.81
has not revealed this to you,
but My Father who is in heaven.
00:25:43.84\00:25:47.84
And I also say to
you that you are Peter,
00:25:47.88\00:25:51.18
and on this rock I
will build My church,
00:25:51.21\00:25:55.22
and the gates of hell, Hades,
shall not prevail against it."
00:25:55.25\00:25:59.65
Let me tell you why
you can't kill the church.
00:25:59.69\00:26:03.63
Now the church in
Iraq has been decimated,
00:26:03.66\00:26:08.80
but I want you to know this,
00:26:08.83\00:26:11.00
you can't kill
the church of Christ
00:26:11.03\00:26:14.50
because it is
founded upon the rock
00:26:14.54\00:26:18.57
and the rock is Christ himself.
00:26:18.61\00:26:21.28
Now we'll be back
in just a few moments
00:26:21.31\00:26:26.01
and I'm going to talk then about
00:26:26.05\00:26:28.48
the Great Balls of Fire
00:26:28.52\00:26:30.75
that have
prophetically been seen
00:26:30.79\00:26:34.56
falling over American cities,
back with some amazing truths.
00:26:34.59\00:26:41.16
Do you sometimes
get lost in the crowd?
00:26:52.54\00:26:55.08
Do you feel there's
just no love in the room,
00:26:55.11\00:26:57.21
like everybody is against you,
00:26:57.25\00:26:58.91
you're all alone
with no one to lean on?
00:26:58.95\00:27:00.88
Do you need a
word of encouragement?
00:27:00.92\00:27:02.85
Do you know God?
00:27:02.88\00:27:04.22
Have you tried prayer?
00:27:04.25\00:27:05.89
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