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 tells us how
to survive the end times.
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Glad to welcome you here
today, our worldwide audience.
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Wonderful audience
watching on television.
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We're glad that
you joined us today.
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The topic today
is a red hot topic,
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"How to Survive the End Times."
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Most likely the
greatest scientist
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that has ever
lived on this planet
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was Sir Isaac Newton.
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There are many
scientists say today
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that you can't be
an intellectual giant
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and believe in God.
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Sir Isaac Newton said,
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"You could not do science
unless you believed in God
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because if there is no God,
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there is no basis for
the laws of the universe."
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I've got here
today, an amazing book.
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It's not a book on science,
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but it's written by
the greatest scientists
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the world has ever seen.
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Yes, Sir Isaac Newton,
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and it's on the prophecies
of Daniel and the Revelation.
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Can you believe it?
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Now, this is not the original
one, but this is a copy.
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It's written in the Old English.
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And the original copy
was found in the library
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of Thomas Jefferson
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because virtually all scientists
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once upon a time said
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that there was no valid basis
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for doing science
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unless you had a great norm,
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unless you had a
great law in the universe.
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How could you do science
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if everything
happened by chance?
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This man, the greatest scientist
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in the history of the world,
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wrote about the prophecies
of Daniel and Revelation.
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Pretty much what I
teach in these meetings.
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Today, we're talking about
how to survive the end times.
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And I'm going to
start with two texts,
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Matthew 24:14-15
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and take a copy of the Bible,
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Matthew 24:14-15,
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dear heart and gentle people,
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you got it?
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Hey, have you got it?
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Hey, I just gonna make sure
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you folks haven't fallen
off your seats and gone asleep.
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"And this gospel of the kingdom
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will be
preached in all the world
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as a witness to all the nations,
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then the end will come."
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The Bible talks
about a beginning,
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it talks about the end.
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And a good verse 15,
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"Therefore, when you see
the abomination of desolation
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spoken out by Daniel a prophet,
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standing in the holy place,
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whoever reads,
let him understand.
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Now,
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Jesus spoke about the
abomination of desolation.
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He said he was spoken
of by Daniel the prophet.
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The term the
abomination of desolation
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is a biblical expression
from the lips of Daniel
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that refers to the Antichrist.
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This prophecy has
a double application.
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It was fulfilled in 70 AD,
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when the Romans came against
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the Jewish Temple 70 AD.
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Then it was fulfilled
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but will be filled
full in the last days
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with the coming of
the great Antichrist
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who comes against the church.
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Now look at Matthew
24:21-22 in this context,
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and remember, a text
without a context is a pretext,
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you get that?
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Matthew 24:21-22.
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Want to read this to you?
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Verse 21, 22,
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"For then there will
be great tribulation."
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This is famous topic,
the Great Tribulation,
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"Such as has not been
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since the beginning of
the world until this time,
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nor ever shall be
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and unless those
days were shortened,
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no flesh would be saved,
but for the," what does it say?
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"The elects
sake as God's people,
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those days will be shortened."
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Now,
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not everybody will
agree with me on this text.
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That's okay.
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We can love people even
when they disagree with us.
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But listen to this.
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The Bible says in the
context of the Antichrist
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who comes against
the people of God,
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the Bible says there's going
to be a tremendous tribulation.
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Most of my friends say
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that God's people have
been raptured home to glory,
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and therefore
the saints are spared
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the Great Tribulation.
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Please bear with
me, be tolerant with me.
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I didn't believe that.
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I don't believe it
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because I believe
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it is a theological fiction.
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Because the Bible
says, during this time
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when the great
Antichrist does his work,
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when the
abomination of desolation
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stands in the holy place,
and there's a tribulation,
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such as has never been, it says,
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If God did not
shorten those days,
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nobody would survive, but
for the sake of the elect,
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He's going to
shorten those days.
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Now the elect to God's people,
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why would you need
to shorten those days
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for the sake of the elect
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if the elect had already
been raptured home to glory?
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It doesn't make sense.
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I don't want you to believe that
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because I'm teaching it today,
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I want you to believe
it because it's the truth
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and because it's
taught in the Bible,
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the elect too are the elect.
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Those people who have
been elected by Almighty God
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for salvation.
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You know, what's the
definition of God's election is,
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don't you?
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The elects are the
product of God's election.
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Somebody said, when
God has an election,
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you can always be
certain of two votes
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in God's election.
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God will always vote for you,
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number one,
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the devil will always
vote for you number two,
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and you've got the casting vote.
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So the elector
made up of those people
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who choose God,
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the Lord Jesus
Christ, and it says,
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"For the sake of the elect,
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those days are
going to be shortened."
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Therefore I'm
here to tell you today,
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the elect are not home in glory
during the Great Tribulation,
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the elect are upon this earth.
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Who says so?
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Jesus.
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Now in our study
today, and that's what it is,
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it is a study of Scripture.
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In our study,
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we're going to
divide this presentation
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up into three parts.
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Number one,
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the End Times Described.
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Number two, the
End Times Prophesied.
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And number three,
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the End Times Survived
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by the Elect.
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I was watching a
tremendous program on,
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I think it is PBS,
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the men who made built America.
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And it told the story,
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I mean it's just
a fantastic series.
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The Johnstown flood.
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I'd heard about it
but not in this detail.
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The wealthy people
lived up on top of the hill
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behind the dam
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and the poor working
classes were down in the valley.
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And the people on the
top actually weakened the dam
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for their personal enjoyment.
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Then there came tremendous rain,
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May 31, 1889.
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The message
went out, Morse code,
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the dam is becoming dangerous
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and may possibly go,
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get the people out.
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But the man who
received the message,
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tap, tap, tap, tap, tap
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said we've heard
that pretty story before.
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We've heard it over
and over and over again
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that the dam is going to go.
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So nobody was told, and
thousands of men, women,
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children, and little babies
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were inundated.
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And so you may have
heard over and over again
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that the end is coming
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and the great
Antichrist is going to come,
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and there's going to be
this great time of tribulation
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and you're going to say like,
many of, some of my friends,
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you'll say, oh,
I've heard it all before.
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But remember the words of Christ
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and the flood came
and took them all away.
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It's going to happen
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and you may live to see the day.
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Okay, let's get
back to how we broke up
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this
presentation into three parts.
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The End Times Described.
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I'm going to give you stories
from the persecuted church.
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Stories that
illustrate the Great Tribulation
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when the Antichrist comes.
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And these are not
stories I got out of the book.
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These are people
I personally knew.
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Like Paul the prisoner.
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Somebody said to me,
why isn't he smiling?
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Why isn't he laughing?
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Because he's got no teeth.
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They were kicked out
by the communist guards.
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He was a Christian in Moscow.
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One of my best friends now,
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betrayed by a pastor.
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Placed in a refrigerator,
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refrigerator
cell for three years.
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Freeze him, then take
him up and warm him up,
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put him back in.
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His teeth lost by brutality.
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All you gotta do,
he said is tell us
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who helped you
with the printing press,
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he said nyet, nyet.
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These people I met over
there who'd gone through hell
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with the finest
people I'd ever met.
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Then there was a
young Russian Desmond Doss.
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I hope you've seen
the movie Hacksaw Ridge.
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I'm proud to have as my
friends Gabe and Judy Videla.
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Judy's here today.
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Gabe was one of the producers
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on Hacksaw Ridge.
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Let me tell you about a
young Russian Desmond Doss.
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His name is Mikhail.
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He was a non combatant.
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Oh, you say crazy? No, no.
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A man with some conviction.
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Oh, no, no, no a
man with conviction,
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a non-conformist.
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He told me that in the
dead of winter in Siberia,
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he was sent out in
just a light uniform
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of the Russian army
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to load logs all night long,
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because he was also a
believer in the Sabbath.
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You say, I don't
believe that, but that's fine,
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but he believed it, you see.
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Now, Mikhail was not
raptured home to glory,
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but he was preserved
in the midst of trouble.
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He was one of God's elect.
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God has so much
faith in His people
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that He allows them to
endure Great Tribulation.
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He said it was a privilege.
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When I went to
Russia 30 years ago,
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I met Olga and Igor,
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Christians who
were persecuted so much
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as all the
Christians were by the atheists.
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In America, people
say, well, look, you know,
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we've discovered that
atheism is such a great thing.
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It's so full of freedom.
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And it's so sunny
and it's so upbeat.
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Listen to me.
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Get informed.
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When the atheists
were in charge of the USSR,
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the Union of
Soviet Socialist Republic.
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When they were in
charge of Russia, and Ukraine
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during the 70 years
of the reign of atheism,
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they murdered 70 million people.
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You say no, no!
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Hey, just get informed.
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I've been there 49 times,
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I've spoken to the survivors.
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This young couple
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when they wanted to get baptized
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could not be baptized
in the daylight hours.
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They had to be baptized
in the night at midnight.
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They went down to the river
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with their pastor
and their friends,
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and they took a saw
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and they sawed
a hole in the ice.
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These are heroes.
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Not wimps, not
cowards, not flakes,
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never went to church today.
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Why not? Oh, I
slept in the room.
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Come on.
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Come on.
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What's wrong?
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People who talk like
that are not the elect of God
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because the elect of God
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have got intestinal fortitude.
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Courageous in God,
courageous in Christ.
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After they were baptized,
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their baptismal
gowns froze solid on them.
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So they had to take knives
00:16:10.90\00:16:13.30
and cut the
baptismal robes off them.
00:16:13.34\00:16:17.61
That was standard
operating procedure.
00:16:17.64\00:16:22.18
Some of us by the grace of God,
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we ever get to heaven
are going to be embarrassed
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when we meet the elect.
00:16:29.55\00:16:31.55
Petelli's mother, Petelli
worked for me for 20 years.
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Mrs. Bactrum, only
believer in her village
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in the north of
Russia, one of God's elect,
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the people in the village were
communists or Russian Orthodox.
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She was persecuted,
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especially when her only cow
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got struck by lightning.
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Well, where was God?
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God was there.
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But God doesn't always
take away the lighting.
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So they said,
even if there is a God,
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He doesn't care about you.
00:17:08.76\00:17:11.43
She received news
about the death of her son
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who died in Afghanistan.
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Does this ring any
bells here in America?
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They've been
fighting in Afghanistan
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since Alexander the
Great and nobody's won.
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The father, an old
communist was cursing.
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When they received the
news, he said, "I hate I hate,"
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full of hate.
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The mother was praising God.
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You know how she got to church.
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She would leave
home on Friday afternoon
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and start walking
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and in the winter,
wading through the snow.
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You're gonna be embarrassed,
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I may be embarrassed too
when we meet her in glory.
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She may say, "What
did you do for Jesus?"
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A different breed.
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Saints of God.
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People say no, no
all the saints of God.
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God's not gonna let them go
through the Great Tribulation
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maybe 'cause they
think they're weak like us.
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But the saints of God are
made tough to endure peril,
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and insult, and persecution.
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So she'd walk all night wading
through the snow on occasions.
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Then on Saturday morning,
she'd get out on the road
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and hitchhike hundred miles.
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She get to the
little church at 9 o'clock.
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There would be in worship
until 6 o'clock that evening.
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Why? Because it wasn't boring.
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It wasn't boring.
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Oh, and they loved God
and they loved each other
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and then on Saturday night,
walking home through the snow,
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through the cold,
getting home on Sunday morning.
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Why?
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Back in the
village she was cursed,
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derided, mocked,
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she was one of God's elect.
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Don't forget it.
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During the 70 years of atheism,
00:19:20.96\00:19:23.59
upwards of 70
million were starved,
00:19:23.63\00:19:25.63
beaten to death in the
gulags, the concentration camps.
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I've been to some of
them I've been there.
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No, you haven't. Yes, I have.
00:19:33.47\00:19:37.11
But this time of
travel was a prelude
00:19:37.14\00:19:39.84
to a greater
worldwide time of trouble.
00:19:39.87\00:19:42.21
And we who had it so easy
in this land of prosperity
00:19:45.41\00:19:51.25
are going to have
00:19:51.29\00:19:54.89
an awakening
00:19:54.92\00:19:57.86
and we're going to discover
00:19:57.89\00:19:59.86
what Christianity really is.
00:19:59.89\00:20:03.93
But for the sake of
the elect, Jesus said,
00:20:03.97\00:20:06.60
"Those days will be shortened
for the sake of the elect."
00:20:06.63\00:20:11.11
If the elect were,
please stop, think it through.
00:20:11.14\00:20:17.11
What are you going
to do with this text?
00:20:17.15\00:20:18.71
You just gotta
say, "Well, my pastor."
00:20:18.75\00:20:20.55
I don't care
what your pastor says.
00:20:20.58\00:20:23.35
He probably doesn't
care what I say either.
00:20:23.39\00:20:26.65
Jesus said, "But for
the sake of the elect,
00:20:26.69\00:20:29.49
those days are
going to be shortened.
00:20:29.52\00:20:31.69
Why would God
shorten the Great Tribulation
00:20:31.73\00:20:35.26
if the elect were home in glory?
00:20:35.30\00:20:40.10
It's really absurd, doesn't it?
00:20:40.14\00:20:43.20
But God has got
confidence in His people,
00:20:43.24\00:20:46.11
and He knows they're
made of the right stuff.
00:20:46.14\00:20:51.28
And for their sake, He
will shorten those days.
00:20:51.31\00:20:55.15
Now a word of
certainty and hope.
00:20:55.18\00:20:58.99
There's a great
message and its Daniel 12:1.
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Turn in your
Bible, Daniel Chapter 12.
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Have you got it?
00:21:07.63\00:21:08.96
Look at it in the Holy
Scriptures, Daniel 12:1,
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"At that time,
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Michael shall stand up.
00:21:17.47\00:21:20.58
The great prince who stands
00:21:20.61\00:21:22.34
watch over the
sons of your people,
00:21:22.38\00:21:26.21
and they shall be
a time of trouble,
00:21:26.25\00:21:29.72
such as never was
since there was a nation.
00:21:29.75\00:21:33.49
Jesus quoted
this, even to that time
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and at that time
00:21:36.83\00:21:38.73
your people shall be delivered,
00:21:38.76\00:21:43.40
everyone who is
found written in the book.
00:21:43.43\00:21:47.07
God doesn't deliver His people
00:21:51.21\00:21:53.68
by taking them
away from trouble.
00:21:53.71\00:21:55.71
It's a very popular religion.
00:21:59.68\00:22:03.75
God delivers His people
in the midst of trouble,
00:22:03.79\00:22:08.16
because God is God and
the elect are the elect.
00:22:08.19\00:22:12.26
And as the Anglican say
here in this the first lesson.
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Now we come to the
end times prophesied.
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Many believe we have reached
the borders of the end times.
00:22:27.24\00:22:32.81
I believe in the apocalypse.
00:22:32.85\00:22:35.18
Now, Scientists are saying
00:22:38.89\00:22:40.36
that we've reached the end times
00:22:40.39\00:22:42.36
because of climate change
00:22:42.39\00:22:46.13
and global warming.
00:22:46.16\00:22:49.26
The Amazon on fire,
the Amazon Valley on fire.
00:22:49.30\00:22:53.00
If one had taught
this 50 years ago,
00:22:53.03\00:22:55.67
the audience would have laughed.
00:22:55.70\00:22:58.11
Don't believe this.
00:22:58.14\00:23:00.61
I've been asked to
recommend and preview a book
00:23:00.64\00:23:03.45
by the world famous
scientist, Dr. Hugh Ross,
00:23:03.48\00:23:08.78
on the great, great catastrophe
00:23:08.82\00:23:13.39
facing the human race.
00:23:13.42\00:23:18.09
Now, first and foremost,
00:23:18.13\00:23:19.46
my authority is the Word of God.
00:23:19.49\00:23:22.53
But I believe in
legitimate science.
00:23:22.56\00:23:27.44
And when I see
the Amazon burning,
00:23:27.47\00:23:30.17
I'm not going to
say, things are the same.
00:23:30.21\00:23:35.64
Secular scientists who
don't believe in God say
00:23:35.68\00:23:39.85
that we are facing
the end of the world
00:23:39.88\00:23:44.89
and preachers today
have gone soft on it.
00:23:44.92\00:23:48.76
Amazing, isn't it?
00:23:48.79\00:23:52.16
Sociologists and
politicians another group.
00:23:52.19\00:23:57.07
They talk about the
rise of totalitarianism,
00:23:57.10\00:24:00.57
the collapse of civilization,
00:24:00.60\00:24:02.90
they say, right
around the world.
00:24:02.94\00:24:07.14
Twenty years ago, we
were talking about a new era,
00:24:07.18\00:24:12.55
an era which would usher
00:24:12.58\00:24:14.82
in peace and prosperity.
00:24:14.85\00:24:19.09
But everywhere we look today,
00:24:19.12\00:24:21.62
there are dictators popping up.
00:24:21.66\00:24:26.09
The rule of totalitarianism
00:24:26.13\00:24:30.27
in the most unlikely places.
00:24:30.30\00:24:34.40
That's what sociologists say,
00:24:34.44\00:24:36.30
and theologians who
sometimes get it right,
00:24:36.34\00:24:39.37
talk about the signs
of the Second Coming.
00:24:39.41\00:24:43.61
So we have scientists,
sociologists, politicians
00:24:43.65\00:24:46.31
and theologians,
00:24:46.35\00:24:47.78
all uniting with one
voice and they are saying,
00:24:47.82\00:24:51.69
we are living in the
era of the apocalypse.
00:24:51.72\00:24:55.06
And remember Johnstown,
00:24:55.09\00:24:58.39
we've heard it all before.
00:24:58.43\00:25:01.90
We've heard it all before.
00:25:01.93\00:25:04.87
And Jesus said the flood came
00:25:04.90\00:25:07.90
and took them all away.
00:25:07.94\00:25:13.14
Even TV programs
I watch on occasions
00:25:13.17\00:25:16.21
on the end of the world,
00:25:16.24\00:25:17.71
I don't watch them too much
00:25:17.75\00:25:19.08
because they're so pessimistic
because they got it wrong.
00:25:19.11\00:25:22.18
The History
Channel, National Geographic.
00:25:22.22\00:25:28.12
We're talking today
about the end times,
00:25:28.16\00:25:32.13
we're talking about
the Great Tribulation.
00:25:32.16\00:25:34.66
We're talking about the
abomination of desolation.
00:25:34.70\00:25:37.73
We're talking about the church
00:25:37.77\00:25:41.07
going through the
Great Tribulation.
00:25:41.10\00:25:45.91
And we've got lots
more to share with you.
00:25:45.94\00:25:48.64
So stay with us.
00:25:48.68\00:25:50.78
We'll be back in just a
moment after this break.
00:25:50.81\00:25:54.72
Hello, friend.
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I'm John Carter.
00:26:16.91\00:26:18.24
Behind me is the
great city of Manila,
00:26:18.27\00:26:22.01
the capital of the Philippines.
00:26:22.04\00:26:24.31
Did you know,
this is quite amazing.
00:26:24.35\00:26:26.08
There are more
people living in this area
00:26:26.11\00:26:28.42
than in New York City.
00:26:28.45\00:26:30.35
And Christ died
for these people.
00:26:30.39\00:26:33.29
We came here, oh,
long time ago back in 1984.
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What's that, 34, 35 years ago,
00:26:39.33\00:26:42.20
and we came here with
a team of young people
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and we came to the PICC.
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It is our intent to come here,
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hire the biggest
hall that's available,
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the greatest outdoor
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You've got more than
20 million souls out here.
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And I say it again.
00:27:01.52\00:27:02.85
These are people
for whom Christ died.
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I'm asking you to pray
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for the people
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Please pray for the
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