The COVID-19 pandemic
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stopped the return
to Manila programs,
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but the teachings of
John Carter continue.
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From his Los Angeles studio,
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John Carter takes on
the important message
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of the Antichrist in action.
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What must we understand
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about the Antichrist
in today's new world?
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Here is John Carter.
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Hi, friend. I'm John
Carter, welcome today.
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One of the fastest
growing religious movements
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in the world today is atheism.
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It is a religious movement.
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It's represented
by the great professor
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from Oxford University,
Professor Richard Dawkins,
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who wrote the
book The God Delusion.
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I know a little
bit about atheism
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because I've been to Russia
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in the days of the Soviet Union.
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I've been to Russia
and Ukraine 50 times
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and while I was there,
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I spoke to tens of thousands
of communists and atheists.
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In Ukraine,
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I spoke to a famous professor
who came to my meetings,
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who used to indoctrinate
the young people in the army,
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in the tenants of atheism.
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Now today, I want to
say to my atheistic friends,
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would you please,
please give me a hearing?
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Because I want
to present you today
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some amazing facts.
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Now I believe in
science, absolutely.
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But I also believe
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in the facts of history
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that is also a type of science.
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I want to say thank you
so much for joining me today,
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especially our
viewers on Roku, Amazon Fire,
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and the other great
networks around the world.
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So thank you for
joining us today.
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Today, I'm going to talk
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about the great
prophecy of the Old Testament,
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written 2,500 years ago
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in the great city of Babylon.
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Listen very,
very carefully to me
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because this is really
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a truly remarkable statement.
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Here it is.
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I want you to think about this,
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and then you'll see
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where I'm going
in the talk today.
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If...
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And that's a big
if, I give it to you.
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"If genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main
issues of life are met."
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Now the Bible claims
to have genuine prophecy.
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And I put it to you, my friends,
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that if genuine
prophecy really does exist,
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then the main
issues of life are met.
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Because if there
is genuine prophecy,
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then really,
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there's got to
be the supernatural,
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there's got to be God.
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Let me make this plain.
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I believe in evidence.
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I don't believe
in faith in faith,
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I believe in
faith in the evidence.
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And today,
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I want you to
consider with me the evidence.
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Now please
remember the big questions
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we are going to
try to answer today
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if we're going to
have meaningful lives.
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Number one, who am I?
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I've had hundreds
of thousands Russians
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back in the days
of the Soviet Union.
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When it was
collapsing, asked me, "Who am I?
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Am I a cosmic accident?
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Am I an animal? Am I a machine?"
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I would tell
vast crowds of people
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and the professors
from Moscow University,
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you are not an animal,
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you are not a machine,
you are a child of God.
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"Where did I come from?
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Am I a son of the slime?
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Did I come through the apes?
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Or am I son of God?"
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Also, think about
this, "Why am I here?
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Am I here simply to
sack the orange dry?
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Where am I going?
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Is death the end of existence?
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Or is there
something after death?"
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But listen,
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but if there is genuine prophecy
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if there is, I
put it to you today.
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I put it to Richard Dawkins
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and all the rest
of the great atheists,
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if there is genuine prophecy,
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then the main issues of life,
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the main issues
of our age are met.
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And the Bible claims to
be a book of genuine prophecy
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but don't believe me today,
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I want you simply to
see with your own eyes
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and to hear with your own
ears and to get the evidence.
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Now I'm going to take
this very ancient book,
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and I'm going to turn
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to the Book of Isaiah 46:10.
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And this goes back
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over 2,500 years ago,
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even more than that.
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Isaiah 46:10.
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And I want you please to listen
if you don't mind to the words.
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It says, "Declaring the
end from the beginning, "
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that's a bit
astounding, isn't it?
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The Bible claims to
have the amazing ability
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to tell the end
from the beginning.
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In other words, it says
it can see into the future.
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That's a great answer
to atheism if it is so.
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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 claims
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that there is a
divine hand in history,
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and the Bible claims to
have the supernatural ability
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to tell the end of
from the beginning.
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Come with me now
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on an amazing search
for truth and reality.
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And I invite my
atheistic friends
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to come along with me.
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Remember the statement,
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"If genuine prophecy exists,
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then the main issues of the age
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and the main
issues of life are met."
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Because if there is,
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I say, if, if there
is genuine prophecy,
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then there must
be a supernatural.
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And if there is a God,
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I know where I came
from, you're with me?
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I know why I am here,
and I know why I am going.
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I am not then an
animal or a machine.
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Listen, one of the
greatest prophecies
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in the Bible comes
from about 2,500 years ago.
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It was written
by a Jewish prophet
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by the name of Daniel.
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And he was living and
serving as prime minister
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in the great kingdom of Babylon.
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It is a prophecy
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Daniel 7:2-3
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that describes the
history of the world in advance.
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You say, "I don't believe it."
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Well, I don't
expect you to believe it,
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until you hear the evidence.
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And this is the great
prophecy that describes
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not only the
history of the world,
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but it talks about
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the great
Antichrist of Bible prophecy
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that actually
was the main reason
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that atheism arose in the world
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because atheism arose
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as a reaction
against a terrible church,
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a persecuting
church, and a corrupt state.
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And so that is why
this prophecy talks
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about the great counterfeit.
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Now we're going to come
over in the Book of Daniel.
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This is an amazing book.
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There's nothing quite
like the Book of Daniel,
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and I'm going to turn
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in the Book of Daniel 7:2-3.
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And these words are
about 2,500 years old.
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"Daniel spoke, saying,
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'I saw in my vision by night,
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behold, the four winds of heaven
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were stirring up the Great Sea.
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And four great
beasts came up from the sea,
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each different from the other.'"
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What on earth does it mean?
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Is Daniel is having this vision,
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which he claimed came from God?
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He sees the sea
lashed into theory,
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and then he sees
four great beasts
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coming up from
the turbulent waters.
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And finally, there
arrives upon the scene,
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the great nefarious Antichrist.
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Listen,
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'cause we got to lay
down some ground rules,
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you listening to me?
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In the great
prophecies, my friend,
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God described the nations
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as animals and
as ravenous beasts.
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In Daniel 7,
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you have God's description
of the nations in cartoon form.
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We do the same today.
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We talk about
America as being the eagle,
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and Great Britain the lion.
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And so when you go to
the prophecies of the Bible,
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you find the God
the Almighty Creator,
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speaking through the prophet
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describes the
history of the world
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in cartoon form.
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I say now once again,
so you don't forget it.
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Who is this Daniel?
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A Hebrew prince from
Jerusalem, living in Babylon.
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When did he live?
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Lived about 2,500 years ago.
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Now the question is,
you've got these great beasts,
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but what do these great beasts,
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somebody tell me,
what do they represent?
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Daniel 7:17, gives
us the interpretation.
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Daniel 7:17,
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"Those great
beasts," have you got it?
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"Those great beasts,
which are four, are four kings,
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which arise out of the earth."
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The Bible is
its own interpreter.
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And the Bible says
that these four great beasts
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that we're going
to talk about today
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and that you can see
on this great screen,
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the lion, the bear,
and also the leopard,
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and then this terrible monster,
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and then the 10 horns,
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and finally, the
rise of the Antichrist.
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The Bible says
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that these are symbolic
of the powers of the world.
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So the four beats...
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This is history in
advance, but you be the judge.
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Don't believe it just
because I'm saying it.
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Daniel 7:4.
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Here we go.
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Beast number one.
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Daniel 7:4, it says,
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"The first was like a
lion, and had eagle's wings.
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I watched till its
wings were plucked off,
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it was lifted up from the earth
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and made to stand
on two feet like a man,
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and a man's
heart was given to it."
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The first beast in
this great Bible prophecy
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is the winged lion
that you can see here.
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And this great winged
lion, what a beauty he is!
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Goodness me.
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What a beauty this lion is!
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The Bible tells me
very, very plainly,
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this was the great
kingdom of Babylon.
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I can give you so much evidence
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because this prophecy
comes to us from Babylon.
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The great kingdom of
Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar
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was the great power of its day.
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It was like the
United States of America,
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feeling completely
invincible, unchallenged,
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and it ruled the world.
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History tells me,
now this is not theology.
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People say,
"You're talking religion."
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I'm not talking
religion. I'm talking history.
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I'm talking the
science of history.
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And Babylon ruled the
world from 605 to 538 BC.
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Was it really a great kingdom?
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Yes, it was.
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How do I know?
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I know from the
science of history,
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and I know
because I have been there.
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You've been there? Yeah.
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How many times
you've been there?
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I've been there
many, many times.
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I've been to the
famous Ishtar Gate,
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which was named
after the moon goddess.
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I've been there.
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I've taken a
television crew to Babylon.
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I went there in
the days of Saddam,
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got myself arrested by Saddam,
placed under house arrest.
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I've had some
amazing experiences.
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I've been to the
old ruins of Babylon.
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And I've seen
the cuneiform writing
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with my own eyes.
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We're not talking
here about theology.
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We are not talking
here about churchiness.
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We are not talking
here about religion.
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We're talking
here about history.
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You hear what I'm saying?
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This was the great city
that was placed on review.
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Hey, I want you to see this.
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This is the
Nabonidus inscription.
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Oh, I don't have too much
time to tell you about it.
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But you see Skeptics said
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that Belshazzar didn't exist
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because all of
the chronicles said
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that Nabonidus was
the last king of Babylon.
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And then they discovered
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this beautiful
cuneiform inscription.
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And it says Nabonidus,
the father of Belshazzar.
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I've been to these places
over and over and over again,
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and I can testify
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concerning the
historical accuracy
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of the ancient scriptures.
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So the Bible tells me
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there was a great
power by the name of Babylon
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ruled the world
from 605 to 538 BC,
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and was likened
in the Bible prophecy
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to the winged lion.
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That's the first
beast of Daniel 7.
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The second one, Daniel 7:5.
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Are you folks listening to me?
00:15:46.78\00:15:48.84
Are you listening to this today?
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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 of its sides.
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It had three ribs in
his mouth between its teeth.
00:16:02.59\00:16:07.16
And they said thus to it,
'Arise, devour much flesh.'"
00:16:07.20\00:16:13.03
After the lion
came the rapacious bear.
00:16:13.07\00:16:19.67
History tells, and remember,
00:16:19.71\00:16:22.04
these beasts represent
the kingdoms of the world,
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and this is history in advance.
00:16:27.28\00:16:30.15
Because Babylon
who thought themselves,
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the Babylonians
thought themselves
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in indestructible.
00:16:34.76\00:16:36.19
They thought
they were invincible.
00:16:36.22\00:16:38.46
Babylon was
going to be overthrown
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by the rapacious bear,
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the three ribs,
Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.
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And Medo-Persia
came upon the world scene
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led firstly by the
great Cyrus the Great
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and Babylon was overthrown,
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look at this 538, and
rule the world to 330 BC.
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You say this is
Theo. No, please!
00:17:04.12\00:17:07.89
This is not theology.
00:17:07.92\00:17:10.76
Talking now to
people like Richard Dawkins.
00:17:10.79\00:17:14.06
I'm talking to
our great audience
00:17:14.10\00:17:15.90
around the world.
00:17:15.93\00:17:17.33
How do I know it's true?
00:17:17.37\00:17:18.70
'Cause I've been there.
00:17:18.73\00:17:20.20
I'm not asking you to believe
on the basis of blind faith.
00:17:20.24\00:17:24.94
Richard Dawkins says
00:17:24.97\00:17:26.61
that we people just
don't have any evidence
00:17:26.64\00:17:29.51
that we simply have this
thing that's called faith.
00:17:29.54\00:17:32.71
But he's got faith too
00:17:32.75\00:17:34.08
because he believes in
what he thinks, you see.
00:17:34.12\00:17:36.58
That's what you call faith.
00:17:36.62\00:17:38.22
But I believe in a faith
00:17:38.25\00:17:40.22
that is based
not upon my feelings
00:17:40.26\00:17:43.12
and not upon the
teachings of some church.
00:17:43.16\00:17:45.79
I believe in a faith
that is based upon evidence.
00:17:45.83\00:17:48.66
I've been to Persia.
00:17:48.70\00:17:50.03
We call it today Iran.
00:17:50.07\00:17:52.90
Been to Persepolis,
00:17:52.93\00:17:55.67
studied the
ancient Persian kings.
00:17:55.70\00:17:58.74
This was one of
the greatest empires
00:17:58.77\00:18:02.41
in the history of the world.
00:18:02.44\00:18:04.45
Firstly, it was
Babylon that was the lion.
00:18:04.48\00:18:07.35
And after Babylon kingdom,
00:18:07.38\00:18:08.72
the kingdom of Medo-Persia
likened in the scriptures
00:18:08.75\00:18:13.15
to the rapacious bear
00:18:13.19\00:18:15.26
that had three
bleeding ribs in its mouth,
00:18:15.29\00:18:18.33
Babylon, Lydia, and Egypt.
00:18:18.36\00:18:21.00
I have seen these
things with my own eyes.
00:18:21.03\00:18:25.90
I know it is the truth
because seeing is believing.
00:18:25.93\00:18:32.07
I'm telling you today.
00:18:32.11\00:18:34.38
Now we come to Daniel 7:6.
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Now we come to the next beast,
00:18:37.41\00:18:39.41
which would be the
next Empire in the world.
00:18:39.45\00:18:43.65
"After this, I
looked, and there was another,
00:18:43.69\00:18:48.19
like a leopard,
00:18:48.22\00:18:50.66
which had on its
back four wings of a bird.
00:18:50.69\00:18:54.36
The beast also had four heads
and dominion was given to it."
00:18:54.40\00:18:59.20
This is the next great kingdom
00:18:59.23\00:19:01.64
that comes upon the world scene.
00:19:01.67\00:19:04.31
Firstly, there
was Babylon, the lion,
00:19:04.34\00:19:07.21
then there was
Medo-Persia, the bear,
00:19:07.24\00:19:10.05
and then there came the
next great world empire,
00:19:10.08\00:19:14.02
which was Greece
00:19:14.05\00:19:15.62
that initially was
led by that mighty conquer
00:19:15.65\00:19:19.62
Alexander the Great.
00:19:19.65\00:19:21.69
And Greece ruled the world.
00:19:21.72\00:19:23.86
Now, are sure about this?
00:19:23.89\00:19:26.59
Of course, I'm sure about it.
00:19:26.63\00:19:28.63
How do I know
'cause I've been there,
00:19:28.66\00:19:30.73
'cause I've seen it.
00:19:30.77\00:19:33.30
This is not theology.
00:19:33.34\00:19:34.97
This is not what
some church teaches.
00:19:35.00\00:19:36.81
No, no, no.
00:19:36.84\00:19:38.17
This is history.
00:19:38.21\00:19:39.54
And this was the power
of Alexander the Great,
00:19:39.57\00:19:42.78
the power of Greece,
00:19:42.81\00:19:44.58
and the kings that came
after Alexander the Great
00:19:44.61\00:19:48.35
that ruled the world
00:19:48.38\00:19:49.72
from about 330
00:19:49.75\00:19:52.02
until about 160 BC.
00:19:52.05\00:19:57.16
And if you go there
today, if you go to Greece,
00:19:57.19\00:19:59.79
you will see the
remnants of Alexander's kingdom.
00:19:59.83\00:20:04.80
It is true.
00:20:04.83\00:20:06.90
It is a fact.
00:20:06.94\00:20:08.40
If you go to Greece,
00:20:08.44\00:20:09.77
you'll see the remnants
of the mighty Grecian Empire.
00:20:09.80\00:20:14.98
You will see the Parthenon
00:20:15.01\00:20:17.38
'cause the word Parthenon
comes from the Greek word
00:20:17.41\00:20:20.98
Parthenónas
00:20:21.02\00:20:22.35
that refers to the
virgin, the female,
00:20:22.38\00:20:26.92
and they worship
the Queen of Heaven.
00:20:26.96\00:20:29.66
And the cult of
the Queen of Heaven
00:20:29.69\00:20:31.59
later on,
00:20:31.63\00:20:32.96
was to come into
the Christian Church.
00:20:32.99\00:20:35.63
It was not taught in the Bible,
00:20:35.66\00:20:37.83
but it came to us
00:20:37.87\00:20:39.20
from the Greeks and the Persians
00:20:39.23\00:20:41.50
and the
Babylonians and the Egyptians.
00:20:41.54\00:20:44.37
But if you go to
this part of the world,
00:20:44.41\00:20:47.44
you will see the remnants
of one of the greatest empires
00:20:47.48\00:20:51.18
that has ever ruled the world.
00:20:51.21\00:20:53.15
And that is the empire
00:20:53.18\00:20:55.12
that is likened to the
leopard with the four wings.
00:20:55.15\00:20:59.69
And people say to me,
"What about these four wings?"
00:20:59.72\00:21:02.86
Well, the wings
represent rapidity.
00:21:02.89\00:21:06.26
Alexander
conquered the whole world
00:21:06.29\00:21:08.23
with great speed.
00:21:08.26\00:21:10.27
Nobody was quite like Alexander,
00:21:10.30\00:21:12.87
conquered the world
in just a few years.
00:21:12.90\00:21:16.44
But everybody thinks
00:21:16.47\00:21:17.81
their kingdom is going
to last, you know that.
00:21:17.84\00:21:21.31
And when Alexander was dying
00:21:21.34\00:21:23.04
and he died as just a young man.
00:21:23.08\00:21:25.31
His generals crowded
around his bed and they said,
00:21:25.35\00:21:28.32
"Alexander,
00:21:28.35\00:21:30.42
who shall have the
kingdom after you?"
00:21:30.45\00:21:34.16
Alexander said, "It
shall go to the strongest."
00:21:34.19\00:21:40.16
And after a number of years,
00:21:40.20\00:21:43.77
his kingdom is divided
00:21:43.80\00:21:45.80
among his four warring generals.
00:21:45.83\00:21:49.44
Would you like
to know their names?
00:21:49.47\00:21:51.11
Well, I can
tell you their names.
00:21:51.14\00:21:53.04
Cassander, Lysimachus,
Seleucus, and Ptolemy.
00:21:53.07\00:21:58.25
The question is, of
course, I say to the skeptic,
00:21:58.28\00:22:01.48
"How did Daniel
know all of this?"
00:22:01.52\00:22:03.18
You say it's just a
case of interpretation.
00:22:03.22\00:22:06.02
Please, please, please.
00:22:06.05\00:22:07.59
It's not a case
of interpretation.
00:22:07.62\00:22:09.26
It is a case of
simply looking at the facts.
00:22:09.29\00:22:13.13
You have Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece.
00:22:13.16\00:22:18.40
But Greece also came to an end.
00:22:18.43\00:22:23.81
You see, God sees the
end from the beginning.
00:22:23.84\00:22:27.01
Now it starts to
get rather interesting.
00:22:27.04\00:22:31.71
Daniel 7:7,
00:22:31.75\00:22:37.29
written 2,500 years ago.
00:22:37.32\00:22:39.52
Listen to this, so
your life depended on it,
00:22:39.55\00:22:42.19
brother, sister.
00:22:42.22\00:22:45.09
Daniel 7:7, "After this,
I saw in the night visions,
00:22:45.13\00:22:50.93
and behold, a fourth beast,
00:22:50.97\00:22:53.80
dreadful and
terrible, exceedingly strong.
00:22:53.84\00:22:56.74
It had huge iron teeth.
00:22:56.77\00:22:59.74
It was devouring,
breaking in pieces,
00:22:59.77\00:23:02.31
and trampling the
residue with its feet.
00:23:02.34\00:23:05.61
It was different
from all the beasts
00:23:05.65\00:23:07.92
that were before it,
and it had 10 horns."
00:23:07.95\00:23:13.02
Now the question is,
00:23:13.05\00:23:15.22
and I simply go
to the historian,
00:23:15.26\00:23:19.49
after Babylon came Medo-Persia,
then you have Greece,
00:23:19.53\00:23:23.77
and now we have
this awful dragon beast.
00:23:23.80\00:23:27.90
And I've asked
audiences around the world,
00:23:27.94\00:23:30.67
including hundreds of
thousands of communists,
00:23:30.71\00:23:35.08
and atheists in Russia,
00:23:35.11\00:23:38.15
"What was the power
that came after Greece
00:23:38.18\00:23:41.38
that conquered
the whole wide world,
00:23:41.42\00:23:43.95
and that was likened to
this great form of monster?"
00:23:43.99\00:23:48.26
And audiences around the world,
00:23:48.29\00:23:51.46
Atheists,
Buddhists, Hindus, Muslims,
00:23:51.49\00:23:58.33
and every other
faith or no faith,
00:23:58.37\00:24:01.30
every audiences thundered back,
and they've said to me, "Rome!"
00:24:01.34\00:24:08.01
The iron monarchy of Rome.
00:24:08.04\00:24:11.55
And of course, they right.
00:24:11.58\00:24:14.72
This was the
great power of Caesar's
00:24:14.75\00:24:17.95
that came upon the
world scene around 160
00:24:17.99\00:24:21.12
and ruled for about 300 AD.
00:24:21.16\00:24:26.56
Been there so many times.
00:24:26.59\00:24:27.93
I guess you've been there too.
00:24:27.96\00:24:29.30
So many of us have gone to Rome.
00:24:29.33\00:24:32.57
We have seen the remains
of the mighty Roman Empire.
00:24:32.60\00:24:39.01
We've seen the works,
00:24:39.04\00:24:41.18
the tremendous works
of the ancient Romans.
00:24:41.21\00:24:46.25
We have seen
when we've gone there,
00:24:46.28\00:24:48.98
how this was the power
00:24:49.02\00:24:51.25
that actually
destroyed the City of Jerusalem.
00:24:51.29\00:24:56.89
Did you know the
destruction of Jerusalem
00:24:56.93\00:25:00.10
by the Romans
00:25:00.13\00:25:01.50
was actually predicted in
the prophecies of the Bible?
00:25:01.53\00:25:05.67
You say, "I don't believe it."
00:25:05.70\00:25:07.04
Well, if I have
time to show it to you,
00:25:07.07\00:25:10.17
I think you will believe it.
00:25:10.21\00:25:13.11
You see, I'm talking today
00:25:13.14\00:25:15.64
to atheists and
believers and whoever,
00:25:15.68\00:25:20.22
I want you to know today
00:25:20.25\00:25:22.28
that we have
reason to believe in God
00:25:22.32\00:25:26.39
because of the
evidence that we find
00:25:26.42\00:25:29.92
in the prophecies of the Bible.
00:25:29.96\00:25:34.50
Now very soon...
00:25:34.53\00:25:36.63
We're going to
have a little break
00:25:36.67\00:25:38.23
in a few moments,
00:25:38.27\00:25:40.57
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going to come back,
00:25:40.60\00:25:43.07
and I'm going to
talk a little bit more
00:25:43.10\00:25:44.57
about the Great Roman Empire.
00:25:44.61\00:25:46.57
And I'm going to
talk about the power
00:25:46.61\00:25:48.58
that came after
the Roman Empire,
00:25:48.61\00:25:51.15
which became the Antichrist.
00:25:51.18\00:25:53.58
And then I'm going to tell you
00:25:53.62\00:25:55.05
what Bible prophecy teaches
about the next world ruler.
00:25:55.08\00:25:59.99
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