I'm John Carter in Moscow.
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In Havana, Cuba.
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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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Right here in Communist China.
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Reporting from India.
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Hi, I'm John Carter
in the Solomon Islands.
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I'm John Carter in Soweto.
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From El Salvador.
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I'm John Carter
in Sydney, Australia.
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John Carter gives us
all Reasons to Believe.
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A great welcome to
each of you here today
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in our California Studio,
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and a terrific welcome
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to our viewers around the world,
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especially our new
viewers on the CW Network,
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112 new stations
across the great land
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of the United States of America.
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Today, my
friends, I want you to do,
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if we did a couple of
weeks ago, last week too,
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I want you to try to
think outside the box.
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We all get
ourselves in little boxes.
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Sometimes there are boxes
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that belong to
political parties,
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and sometimes there're
boxes that belong to churches.
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And when you sit
inside those boxes,
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is really hard to think.
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And I want you today
to step outside the box.
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If you want to be happy,
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who doesn't want to be happy,
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but if you want to be happy,
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you've got to be able
to answer three questions,
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three big questions.
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Number one...
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Maybe four questions.
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Number one,
where did I come from?
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Where did I come from?
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Am I simply the
product of a creature
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that crawled out of the slime?
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Where did I come from?
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Number two, why am I here?
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Has been said that
the greatest sickness
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of our times is not
cancer, it is not heart disease,
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it is meaninglessness.
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Why am I here?
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Number three is,
where am I going,
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what is my future?
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And there's
another great question
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that I need to ask an answer.
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And that is this, who am I?
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Or what am I?
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I used to tell
the people in Russia,
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to these
tremendous crowds of atheists,
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you know, you're not an animal,
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and you're not a machine,
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you're special
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because you're a
child of God, you see.
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These are the great questions.
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We're gonna talk
about that a bit today.
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Richard Dawkins is the most
famous atheist in the world.
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Dr. Richard Dawkins,
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from possibly the greatest
university in the world,
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Oxford University.
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He's written a number of
books, let me mention too.
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One is "The God Delusion."
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If you believe in
God, then you are deluded,
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you are a crazy person.
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And the other book is
called "The Blind Watchmaker."
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Everything that
appears in this world
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only appears to be designed.
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It was not designed.
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It was made by
the blind watchmaker.
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That's his philosophy.
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The Blind Watchmaker is
the process of evolution.
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Millions believe in him.
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And I would suggest to you today
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they believe in Him
not because of evidence
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but because of blind faith.
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Dawkins says this,
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"Faith is based
on myths and lies."
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Sometimes it is.
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And he says,
"Science is based on facts."
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And sometimes it is,
and sometimes it isn't.
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My response is this,
Christianity and belief in God,
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when rightly
understood are based on facts,
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and I believe this.
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If I didn't have
reasons to believe,
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I wouldn't believe.
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And too often the
evolutionary theory
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is first propounded we believe,
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by Charles Darwin is
based on blind faith.
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Let me give you
one classical example,
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the geologic column.
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Now I want you...
Can't go into this.
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Here we have
the geologic column,
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it is a fact that it exists.
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And so, down the bottom
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in the evolutionary time frame
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and scheme of things, you
have very simple creatures,
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and on the top,
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you have very complex creatures,
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and at the very top of this,
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you have the apex, which is man.
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And the
evolutionary theory teaches
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that the simple
became more complex
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over vast periods of time,
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and therefore,
between each of the strata,
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between each of the species,
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you have intermediates.
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And so all of the
strata's actually blend
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from A to B to C to D.
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This is believed
by Richard Dawkins
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and believed by millions
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and the problem is, it is a lie.
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Who agrees with me?
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Two of the
greatest paleontologists
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in the history of paleontology,
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two fervent evolutionists,
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Stephen Jay Gould
and Niles Eldredge,
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they said, "It doesn't exist.
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There are no intermediates."
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And therefore,
Stephen Jay Gould said this,
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"The evolutionary theory
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in all reality is dead,
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because it is not true."
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This is one of the biggest lies,
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and most people don't know it.
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Most people don't know it.
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They have a faith in a
theory which is based on lies.
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My topic today is
Reasons to Believe.
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Some of the reasons
that Dawkins espouses
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are less than convincing.
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Example, Christians
have done bad things.
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Yes.
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The Inquisition in
the Dark Ages. Yes.
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But the people
who did these things,
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Richard Dawkins,
were not Christians,
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but also atheists,
like Richard Dawkins,
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have done dreadful things.
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In Russia, militant strong,
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hardcore atheist,
murdered 70 million people.
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Richard Dawkins, in Cambodia,
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a little country
3 million people.
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Nobody has been held account,
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nobody has been
held accountable.
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In China, 14
million innocent people,
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they were killed
by militant atheists.
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Therefore, if
Christians have done bad things,
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and if that makes
Christianity wrong,
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then atheism is doubly wrong.
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Because they
have butchered people
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by the tens and
hundreds of millions.
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Let me answer the
claims of the atheists
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in a completely different way,
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one which is
verifiable from history.
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I'm not a scientist,
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but I know a
little bit about it.
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I know enough to know
that one and one equals two.
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I refuse to be put into a
box and told you can't think,
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I refuse to have this.
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I want you to take your Bible
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and come with me
to Isaiah 46:9-10,
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and I want the atheist
who is watching the program
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to please give me the courtesy
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and listen to the arguments,
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because you'll hear arguments
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that led hundreds of
thousands of atheists
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in Communist Russia to Christ.
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I know I was
there, I ran the meetings.
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Isaiah 46:9-10.
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The Bible says, "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, and
there is none like Me,
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declaring the end
from the beginning,
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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, 'My counsel shall stand,
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and I will do all My pleasure.'"
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The Bible, listen
to me, look at me.
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The Bible claims to
have the unique capacity
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to see into the future.
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If this is true, if it is true,
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and all the
arguments have to cease.
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One great friend of mine said,
"If genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main
issues of life are met."
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What was he talking about?
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If there is genuine
prophecy, genuine, verifiable,
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please give me a hearing.
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Don't be bigoted.
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Get out of the box.
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If there is genuine
prophecy, then there is God.
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And if there is God, I
know where I came from,
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I know why I'm here,
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I know where I'm
going, I have hope.
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I'm not like
poor Richard Dawkins.
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Now, let me say this,
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there's no such thing as
total proof for anything.
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Oh, you say, "Yes. Oh, yes."
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No, no, no.
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Philosophically,
there's no such thing
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as total proof.
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You can't even prove,
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you're sitting
here in the studio.
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Philosophically,
you're trusting your brain.
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Is your brain infallible?
No, of course, it's not.
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So we don't go by total
proof, we go by evidence.
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Evidence!
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What is the relationship
between faith and evidence?
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There was a big gathering
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of Christian youth leaders here
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in the United States of America.
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And the leading young person,
the young people's leader,
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was asked the question,
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"Why do you believe in
the resurrection of Christ?"
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And he gave a classical response
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to monstrous applause.
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Why do you believe in
the resurrection of Christ?
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He said, very
piously, "Because of my faith."
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I can't think
of a dumber answer.
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I want you to know,
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I do not believe in
the resurrection of Christ
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because of my faith.
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I believe in the resurrection
of Christ, listen to me,
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because it happened.
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Because it happened.
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I believe in the resurrection
because of the facts.
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I know, there're no facts.
Well, you just don't know.
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He was seen by
hundreds of witnesses.
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They wrote it down in books.
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The books have come down
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to our day and
age in a fair court,
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the jury would come out and say,
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"Yes, he rose
because of the facts."
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Now, one of the great debates
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between Dr. Dawkins
and Dr. John Lennox,
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the great mathematician
from Oxford University,
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Dawkins was phooeying
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the great mathematical professor
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because he said, "You got faith.
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I've got science."
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The great professor
whom I love very much
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said to Professor Dawkins,
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"Do you trust your wife?"
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Dawkins said, "Yes, of course,
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I trust my," the old professor,
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the mathematician said to
him, "Do you trust your wife?
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Why do you trust your wife?"
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Oh, he said, "Because of...
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I know her, how she
acts, what she does."
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He said, "You trust her
because of the evidence,"
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is that Sir Richard?"
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He said, "Yes.
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I trust her
because of the evidence."
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Dr. Lennox said, "Thank
you, Richard, very much."
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That's what we're talking about.
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We are not talking
about a blind faith.
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Listen to me.
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A blind faith is closely related
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to stupidity.
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I must have a faith
that rests upon evidence.
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Now I'm going to show you
something that I've shared
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with thousands of
atheists around the world.
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I think I can say, truthfully,
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that I've probably
spoken to more atheists
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in meetings than
any other person alive.
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I spoke to
millions of them in Russia.
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Daniel 7 was written
2500 years ago in Babylon,
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by a Jewish prophet.
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Babylon is what we call
today, Mesopotamia or Iraq.
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This chapter
refutes all Richard Dawkins'
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criticisms of
Christ and His followers
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because Richard is
confused concerning
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the nature of the church.
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I now challenge
skeptics, infidels and atheists
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to look at the facts of history
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and to think outside of the box.
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I presented these
truths to millions of atheists
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and unbelievers in
Russia and Ukraine.
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I've seen thousands,
tens of thousands say,
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I now believe.
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I want you to
come to Daniel 7:1-3,
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and to think
outside of the box please.
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Daniel 7, "In the
first year of Belshazzar,"
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an historical
character, "king of Babylon,
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Daniel had a dream and 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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Daniel spoke, saying, 'I
saw in my vision by night,
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and behold,
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the four winds of heaven
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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The atheist
will say, "How silly!
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How silly!"
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But the most effective
way to communicate truth
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is through pictures,
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and stories, and parables.
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And that's what the
Bible does in the prophecies.
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So hive sea, the Mediterranean,
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lashed into fury
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and full great beast
come up out of the sea.
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Now in Bible prophecy,
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dear hearts and gentle people,
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in Bible Prophecy, a
beast represents a nation.
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Daniel 7:17, and then 7:23,
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the Bible says,
this is not ambiguous,
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a child of four or
five can understand this.
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"Those great beasts
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which are four, are four kings,
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which arise out of the earth."
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And then the
next verse says, 23,
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"The fourth beast shall
be a fourth kingdom on earth,
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which shall be different
from all the other kingdoms,
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and shall
devour the whole earth,
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trample it down and
break it in pieces."
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Now, in the Bible prophecies,
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the sea represents
the peoples of the earth,
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Revelation 17, we're
not gonna go into that.
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And a beast
coming up out of the sea
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represents a
great nation that arises
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from the turmoil
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of all the nations in the world.
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So a beast represents
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a king or a kingdom,
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and Richard Dawkins
could understand this.
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This is plain, it is logical.
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Now, if you look at Daniel 7:4,
00:16:40.70\00:16:44.40
you have the four beasts.
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Look at this because
you just may discover
00:16:47.60\00:16:51.37
something you never knew before.
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Daniel 7:4, says,
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"The first was like a lion,
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and had eagle's wings.
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I watched till its
wings were plucked off
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and 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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Listen carefully.
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When this prophecy was given,
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Daniel was living in Babylon.
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And Babylon had a symbol
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because I had been to
Babylon on many occasions.
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I've walked around the ruins,
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many, many occasions.
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These pictures on the
screen of the ruins of Babylon,
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I took myself.
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In the ruins of Babylon,
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you will see the winged lion
00:17:45.33\00:17:48.43
because as the lion
is the king of beast.
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So Babylon was
the king of kingdoms.
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And people, "I
know all that." No not.
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Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
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And so the prophecy
starts with Babylon,
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which is the lion.
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Now we read on the
next verse, verse 5,
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Daniel 7:5,
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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,
00:18:21.36\00:18:23.23
'Arise, devour much flesh.'"
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History tells me
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that Babylon was overthrown.
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Every nation in the world
has a certain amount of time.
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No nation goes forever.
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Nations have got a
probationary period.
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And after Babylon
came the great power
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of the bear,
00:18:53.26\00:18:54.76
which was after
Babylon came the great power
00:18:54.80\00:18:58.13
of the bear
which was Medo-Persia,
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a Jew monarchy.
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Babylon was
overthrown by Cyrus the Great.
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I've been to Babylon.
00:19:07.81\00:19:09.31
I've been to the places
00:19:09.34\00:19:11.08
where the prophecy came to pass.
00:19:11.11\00:19:16.08
I've made a life study of this,
00:19:16.12\00:19:19.55
travelling
through the Middle East
00:19:19.59\00:19:21.66
with an open Bible
00:19:21.69\00:19:23.86
and hopefully with an open mind.
00:19:23.89\00:19:27.80
Did you know the worst thing
00:19:27.83\00:19:29.53
that a person can
have is a closed mind?
00:19:29.56\00:19:33.13
Somebody said,
00:19:33.17\00:19:34.50
it's almost impossible
to get someone see a truth
00:19:34.54\00:19:38.67
when his salary depends
upon he is not seeing it.
00:19:38.71\00:19:43.78
Did you hear this?
00:19:43.81\00:19:45.35
It's almost
impossible to get somebody
00:19:45.38\00:19:48.02
to see a truth when his salary
00:19:48.05\00:19:50.49
depends upon he
is not seeing it.
00:19:50.52\00:19:55.06
Whether he be a
Republican or a Democrat
00:19:55.09\00:19:59.73
or an Independent
or a Calathumpian.
00:19:59.76\00:20:05.43
The human mind is
a very strange thing
00:20:05.47\00:20:08.37
and doesn't like new thoughts.
00:20:08.40\00:20:11.47
But the bear is
Medo-Persia, that's a fact.
00:20:11.51\00:20:16.01
Daniel 7:6.
00:20:16.04\00:20:19.81
When I gave these
lectures before the KGB
00:20:19.85\00:20:23.82
and before vast audiences
of the university professors,
00:20:23.85\00:20:28.52
nobody ever came to me
00:20:28.56\00:20:29.89
and said, "No,
you got it wrong."
00:20:29.92\00:20:32.23
They said, "No, it's true."
00:20:32.26\00:20:34.46
Why we've been
told all these lies?
00:20:34.50\00:20:37.30
And so they said to me,
00:20:37.33\00:20:38.67
"Why we've been
told all these lies?"
00:20:38.70\00:20:42.74
Verse 6, "After
this," after Medo-Persia,
00:20:42.77\00:20:45.37
"I looked and there was another,
00:20:45.41\00:20:46.74
like a leopard,
00:20:46.78\00:20:48.14
which had on its
back four wings of a bird.
00:20:48.18\00:20:51.71
The beast also had four heads,
and dominion was given to it."
00:20:51.75\00:20:56.58
After Babylon came Medo-Persia,
00:20:56.62\00:21:00.16
and after
Medo-Persia came Greece,
00:21:00.19\00:21:05.09
likened to the leopard.
00:21:05.13\00:21:09.70
The leopard
represented the armies
00:21:09.73\00:21:13.20
of Alexander the Great,
00:21:13.23\00:21:16.07
and the four wings
on its back represented
00:21:16.10\00:21:19.64
the division that came
after the death of Alexander.
00:21:19.67\00:21:25.78
His empire, his
authority was divided
00:21:25.81\00:21:29.72
among his four warring generals
00:21:29.75\00:21:32.15
that you all
know about Cassander,
00:21:32.19\00:21:33.86
Lysimachus,
Seleucus, and Ptolemy.
00:21:33.89\00:21:38.13
And so Babylon,
Medo-Persia and Greece.
00:21:38.16\00:21:43.90
No atheist has ever
come to me and said,
00:21:43.93\00:21:46.40
"This is wrong."
00:21:46.43\00:21:48.70
And I've spoken to
millions of atheists,
00:21:48.74\00:21:51.14
probably more
than any person living.
00:21:51.17\00:21:54.41
Daniel 7:7.
00:21:54.44\00:21:57.58
"After this," after Greece,
00:21:57.61\00:22:00.95
"I saw in the
night visions and behold,
00:22:00.98\00:22:04.75
a fourth beast,
dreadful and terrible,
00:22:04.79\00:22:08.89
exceedingly strong.
00:22:08.92\00:22:10.63
It had huge iron teeth,
00:22:10.66\00:22:12.36
it was devouring,
breaking in pieces,
00:22:12.39\00:22:15.16
and trampling the
residue with its feet.
00:22:15.20\00:22:17.67
It was different
from all the beasts
00:22:17.70\00:22:20.04
that were before it,
00:22:20.07\00:22:21.40
and it had ten horns."
00:22:21.44\00:22:24.87
Now listen to me,
00:22:24.91\00:22:26.61
history tells me
what this power was.
00:22:26.64\00:22:29.91
After Babylon came Medo-Persia,
00:22:29.94\00:22:34.42
after Medo-Persia came Greece,
00:22:34.45\00:22:37.92
and after Greece
came the great dragon,
00:22:37.95\00:22:43.49
the iron monarchy of Rome.
00:22:43.53\00:22:46.83
This is the Rome of the Caesars.
00:22:46.86\00:22:49.56
The atheist cannot deny this.
00:22:49.60\00:22:53.00
You may phooey it,
but you can't deny it.
00:22:53.03\00:22:57.41
Therefore, you need
to put aside prejudice,
00:22:57.44\00:23:00.48
and think outside the box.
00:23:00.51\00:23:02.58
This is the Roman Empire.
00:23:02.61\00:23:05.31
How did Daniel
know is the question.
00:23:05.35\00:23:09.78
And the Bible tells us
00:23:09.82\00:23:11.42
this is the great power of Rome
00:23:11.45\00:23:14.26
that ruled the world,
00:23:14.29\00:23:16.62
conquered the then known-world,
00:23:16.66\00:23:18.76
destroyed the city of Jerusalem
00:23:18.79\00:23:22.43
that crucified the
Christ that carried away
00:23:22.46\00:23:26.50
the seven golden candlesticks.
00:23:26.53\00:23:30.14
In fact, in one of the great
prophecies concerning Rome,
00:23:30.17\00:23:34.54
it was said,
listen to me, in Daniel 9,
00:23:34.58\00:23:36.85
"The people of the prince
00:23:36.88\00:23:39.01
who shall come
shall destroy the city
00:23:39.05\00:23:41.42
and the sanctuary."
00:23:41.45\00:23:42.78
It's Daniel 9.
00:23:42.82\00:23:44.15
It doesn't say the prince
would destroy the sanctuary.
00:23:44.19\00:23:47.59
The people of the
prince, the Roman soldiers,
00:23:47.62\00:23:50.29
the prince was Titus.
00:23:50.33\00:23:53.29
And surely some of you
00:23:53.33\00:23:54.73
have been to the
arch of Titus in Rome,
00:23:54.76\00:23:57.97
where you see the
seven golden candlesticks
00:23:58.00\00:24:01.64
that were taken
out of the temple.
00:24:01.67\00:24:04.77
Every word of it was predicted.
00:24:04.81\00:24:07.91
Really? Yes.
00:24:07.94\00:24:09.44
The people of the prince,
00:24:09.48\00:24:11.85
Titus said to his soldiers,
00:24:11.88\00:24:13.75
spare, spare, in the
name of everything holy,
00:24:13.78\00:24:17.95
spare the Jewish temple.
00:24:17.99\00:24:21.69
But they were so infuriated
00:24:21.72\00:24:23.76
of the
obstinacy of these people.
00:24:23.79\00:24:28.90
That one Roman soldier
00:24:28.93\00:24:30.73
took a flaming torch and
he threw it right in there.
00:24:30.77\00:24:35.24
And in a moment, the
whole temple was on fire,
00:24:35.27\00:24:38.04
and the Jews stood on
the hills and they cried out,
00:24:38.07\00:24:40.48
Ichabod, Ichabod,
Ichabod, the glorious departed.
00:24:40.51\00:24:44.21
The people of the prince,
00:24:44.25\00:24:46.28
the prince tried
to save the temple,
00:24:46.31\00:24:51.25
the Roman soldiers destroyed it,
00:24:51.29\00:24:52.62
according to Bible prophecy.
00:24:52.65\00:24:57.63
Now you can
understand why General Vladimir,
00:24:57.66\00:25:00.70
one of the leaders of the KGB,
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.13
came to all my meetings,
00:25:03.16\00:25:05.20
entertained me and my team.
00:25:05.23\00:25:08.04
Listen to all of this.
00:25:08.07\00:25:09.40
And he said, here are
some young men from the KGB
00:25:09.44\00:25:13.74
that I spoke to.
00:25:13.78\00:25:17.55
In training, he said,
00:25:17.58\00:25:20.12
"What I like
about your meetings,
00:25:20.15\00:25:22.52
they are not just about
faith, they're about facts."
00:25:22.55\00:25:27.52
And I said to General
Vladimir, "I would have you,"
00:25:27.56\00:25:31.63
these are KGB officers.
00:25:31.66\00:25:33.90
How would you like to be
in the room with this guy
00:25:33.93\00:25:36.93
by yourself?
00:25:36.97\00:25:39.93
These same men had
come down to our church
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.50
before I'd gotten there,
00:25:42.54\00:25:44.01
and had destroyed it
00:25:44.04\00:25:46.68
and thrown our
members into prison.
00:25:46.71\00:25:48.81
But there's one thing
they could not lock up,
00:25:48.84\00:25:52.31
they could not
lock up the Word of God.
00:25:52.35\00:25:55.35
And so I'm going to
tell you, very, very soon,
00:25:55.38\00:26:00.42
more amazing
truths to come soon.
00:26:00.46\00:26:03.63
Stay with us, as we talk
about reasons to believe.
00:26:03.66\00:26:08.93
Hello, friend.
00:26:25.08\00:26:26.48
I'm John Carter.
00:26:26.51\00:26:27.85
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:27.88\00:26:31.65
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:31.69\00:26:34.02
Did you know,
this is quite amazing.
00:26:34.06\00:26:35.89
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:35.92\00:26:38.13
than in New York City.
00:26:38.16\00:26:40.13
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:40.16\00:26:42.90
We came here, oh,
long time ago back in 1984.
00:26:42.93\00:26:48.87
What's that, 34, 35 years ago,
00:26:48.90\00:26:51.84
and we came here with
a team of young people
00:26:51.87\00:26:54.08
and we came to the PICC.
00:26:54.11\00:26:57.28
It is our intent to come here,
00:26:57.31\00:26:59.61
hire the biggest
hall that's available,
00:26:59.65\00:27:01.88
the greatest outdoor
stadium, whatever it takes.
00:27:01.92\00:27:06.19
You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
00:27:06.22\00:27:11.16
And I say it again.
00:27:11.19\00:27:12.53
These are people
for whom Christ died.
00:27:12.56\00:27:15.23
I'm asking you to pray
00:27:15.26\00:27:16.60
for the people
of the Philippines.
00:27:16.63\00:27:18.70
Please pray for the
people here in Metro Manila.
00:27:18.73\00:27:22.60
And please write
to me John Carter,
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