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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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RIGHT HERE IN
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WHEREVER YOU ARE JOINING US FROM
ACROSS THE COUNTRY AND AROUND
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THE WORLD, A VERY BIG WELCOME.
SOME OF YOU ARE LISTENING ON THE
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RADIO, SOME LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE
AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND SOME ON
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THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS.
SO HOWEVER YOU ARE JOINING US,
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WELCOME. AND WE
ARE SO EXCITED THAT WE
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GET TO SING YOUR FAVORITE
SONGS LIKE WE DO EVERY WEEK.
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IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME
TUNING IN, YOU GET TO SING WITH
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US AND WE GET TO SING SONGS FROM
REQUESTS THAT HAVE COME IN FROM
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OUR VIEWERS ALL OVER THE PLACE
AND, OF COURSE, THAT'S WHAT
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WE'RE GOING TO DO RIGHT NOW.
#468 IS OUR FIRST REQUEST AND I
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WILL TELL YOU, WE HAVE
DEFINITELY SOME SONGS THAT ARE
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REALLY, REALLY POPULAR -
'AMAZING GRACE' BEING ONE OF
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THEM - BUT 'A CHILD OF THE
KING', I THINK, IS RIGHT UP
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THERE WITH #2 AND WE HAD
PROBABLY - I'M GOING TO SAY AT
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LEAST 60 REQUESTS FOR THIS SONG
- SO CLEARLY I'M NOT GOING TO BE
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READING ALL OF THOSE NAMES.
SO I JUST RANDOMLY PICKED SOME.
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ALEXI AND MARTINA IN ARGENTINA,
AARON, GLORIA, IRENE, LYNTON,
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REANNA, AND RICHARD IN
AUSTRALIA, DIEUWKE IN BELGIUM,
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HEZRON AND RENATA IN BRAZIL,
LUIS IN COSTA RICA, BETINA IN
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DENMARK, ERISNELY IN THE
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC, AUDREY,
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GEORGIA, HYACINTH, KAYLIA,
SHERACE, AND PAIGE IN ENGLAND,
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DAVID AND GUERRIER IN FRANCE,
DINAGAR AND RAMAY IN INDIA,
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DIANA IN NICARAGUA, JOHAN IN
NORWAY, ERNESTO IN PANAMA, PERLA
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IN SAUDI ARABIA, FRANCIS IN
SRI LANKA, AND JOHN AND PETER IN
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VANUATU. SO
THOSE ARE JUST A FEW.
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THANK YOU TO EVERYONE ELSE THAT
SENT IN YOUR FAVORITE SONG - YOU
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KNOW WHO YOU ARE - AND WE'RE
GOING TO SING THE FIRST, THIRD,
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AND FOURTH STANZAS.
#468 - 'A CHILD OF THE KING'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU
LIVE IN ON THIS EARTH OR YOUR
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CIRCUMSTANCES, BECAUSE IF YOU
KEEP IN YOUR MIND THAT YOU ARE
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A CHILD OF THE KING, YOU HAVE
SOMETHING TO LOOK FORWARD TO.
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SOMETHING - YOU ARE A CHILD
OF THE KING OF THE UNIVERSE.
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IT IS AN EXCITING THOUGHT.
OUR NEXT SONG IS #57 AS WE ARE
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WORKING OUR WAY THROUGH THE
HYMNAL, SINGING THE SONGS THAT
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WE DON'T KNOW. WE'RE
GETTING MESSAGES COMING IN
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FROM THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE
SINGING ALONG WITH US EVERY WEEK
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AND YOU ACTUALLY ARE ENJOYING
THIS WITH US SO WE'RE NOT HERE
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ON OUR OWN SINGING
SONGS THAT WE DON'T KNOW.
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SO WE'RE ALL LEARNING
THESE TOGETHER AND I THINK IT'S
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EXCITING BECAUSE, FOR SEVERAL
YEARS, I HAVE LOOKED THROUGH THE
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HYMNAL AND I HAVE SEEN THIS
SONG - 'NOW ALL THE WOODS ARE
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SLEEPING' - AND I THOUGHT TO
MYSELF, 'I WONDER WHAT THAT SONG
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SOUNDS LIKE.' BUT I DON'T KNOW
IT SO WE LEARNED IT THIS WEEK
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AND WE'RE ALL GOING TO
LEARN IT TOGETHER RIGHT NOW.
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YOU'LL NOTICE WE'RE ALMOST
DONE WITH 'EVENING WORSHIP'.
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NEXT WEEK IS THE LAST SONG AND
THEN WE'RE GOING TO BE SINGING
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MORE HAPPY SONGS OF
THE OPENING OF WORSHIP.
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SO WE'RE - WE'RE
GETTING ALONG HERE. # 57 -
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THIS IS A REQUEST FROM
IMMANUEL IN MALAYSIA AND I WILL
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GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORY ON
THIS SONG SO YOU CAN THINK ABOUT
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IT WHILE YOU SING. THE
MAN THAT WROTE THIS HAD A
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VERY INTERESTING - ACTUALLY,
I SHOULD SAY VERY SAD LIFE.
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HE WAS BORN IN THE 1600S AND HE
HAD FIVE CHILDREN - SIX CHILDREN
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AND FIVE OF THEM - FOUR OF HIS
FIVE CHILDREN DIED IN INFANCY
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AND HIS WIFE DIED FOLLOWING A
LONG ILLNESS AFTER ONLY 13 YEARS
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OF MARRIAGE. AND HE
WAS A PROLIFIC SONGWRITER
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AND THIS IS A VERY POPULAR SONG
IN GERMANY WHERE HE WAS FROM.
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AND HE WROTE THIS WITH,
ORIGINALLY, NINE STANZAS AND IT
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WOULD PROBABLY TAKE 20 MINUTES
TO SING ALL NINE STANZAS, BUT
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THE ADVENTIST HYMNAL PUT IN
THREE SO THAT'S WHAT WE'RE GOING
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TO DO THIS MORNING - WE'RE GOING
TO SING ALL THREE STANZAS OF #57
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- 'NOW ALL THE
WOODS ARE SLEEPING'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE
SONG THAT YOU WANT TO SING WITH
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US ON AN UPCOMING
PROGRAM, IT'S VERY SIMPLE.
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YOU JUST GO TO OUR WEBSITE AT
'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE
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'CONTACT US' LINK AND YOU
CAN SEND IN YOUR FAVORITE HYMN
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REQUEST AND WE WILL SING THAT
FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM.
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AT THIS TIME, THOUGH, LET'S
BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. FATHER
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IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH
THAT WE ARE A CHILD OF THE KING.
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YOU ARE THE
KING OF THE UNIVERSE.
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YOU LOVE US AND YOU EVEN KNOW
HOW MANY HAIRS ARE ON OUR HEADS.
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YOU KNOW IF A SPARROW FALLS FROM
THE TREE AND IF YOU KNOW THAT,
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YOU DEFINITELY LOVE US
AND KNOW WHAT WE'RE DOING.
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FATHER PLEASE COME AND LIVE
IN OUR HEARTS AS WE OPEN UP YOUR
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WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER
RIGHT NOW. BE WITH OUR SPEAKER.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED SABBATH
SCHOOL FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD.
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SOME ARE STRUGGLING, SOME
ARE REJOICING, SOME ARE IN PAIN.
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BUT FATHER, I JUST PRAY
THAT YOU WILL BE WITH EACH ONE.
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YOU KNOW INDIVIDUAL NEEDS.
YOU KNOW US HERE AT SACRAMENTO
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CENTRAL AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL
EACH BE READY FOR THAT DAY WHEN
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YOU COME IN THE
CLOUDS. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY
IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY
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PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR. HE
IS OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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>>THANK YOU
DEBBIE AND OUR SINGERS.
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APPRECIATE IT - MUSICIANS.
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THE BIBLE SAYS, 'SING A NEW
SONG UNTO THE LORD' AND I FOUND
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WHENEVER YOU SING A NEW SONG THE
FIRST TIME YOU SING A NEW SONG
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IT TAKES A WHILE TO CATCH AND
THEN YOU HEAR IT A COUPLE MORE
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TIMES AND YOU SAY, 'OH
YEAH, I LIKE THAT SONG NOW.'
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WHEN YOU SING SOME OF THOSE OLD
SONGS IN THE HYMNAL, IT ALMOST
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TRANSPORTS YOU TO ANOTHER
TIME WHEN THEY WERE USING THOSE
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WORDS. YOU KNOW, OUR
VOCABULARY'S CHANGED.
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WELL, WELCOME FRIENDS.
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WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'RE JOINING
US FOR SABBATH SCHOOL AT CENTRAL
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CHURCH AND WE'RE GOING TO BE
CONTINUING IN JUST A MOMENT WITH
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OUR STUDY FROM THE BIG LESSONS
FROM THE - 'MAJOR LESSONS', I
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SHOULD SAY, 'FROM
THE MINOR PROPHETS'.
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AND, AS ALWAYS, WE
HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER.
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OUR LESSON TODAY IS PRIMARILY
FROM THE BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH WHERE
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IT TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE DAY OF
THE LORD AND JUDGMENT COMING AND
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WE HAVE A BOOK TALKING ABOUT
THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY AND IT'S
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CALLED, 'PENDING:
YOUR CASE IN COURT'.
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THE BIBLE HAS A LOT TO
SAY ABOUT THE JUDGMENT.
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IF YOU'D LIKE A FREE COPY
OF THIS THEN YOU JUST CALL THE
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NUMBER ON THE SCREEN.
ASK FOR OFFER #192 AND THAT
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NUMBER IS
866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966.
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I HAVE TO REMEMBER THAT SOME
OF THE PEOPLE ARE HEARING THIS
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PROGRAM. THEY'RE
NOT WATCHING IT ON TV,
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BUT SOME CAPTURE THE AUDIO
AND THEY BROADCAST IT FOR FREE -
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DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE COUNTRY
- ON RADIO AND SO I HAVE TO SAY
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THE PHONE NUMBER. ONE
MORE TIME, ASK FOR OFFER
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#192 AND THE PHONE
NUMBER IS 866-STUDY-MORE,
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THAT'S 866-788-3966.
TODAY WE'RE ON LESSON #9 IN THE
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BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH AND NOT
ONLY REALLY ZEPHANIAH, BUT WE'RE
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ALSO, YOU KNOW, WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE MINOR PROPHETS.
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SOME OF THESE LESSONS YOU
TAKE TWO LESSONS FOR ONE MINOR
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PROPHET AND SOME OF THE MINOR
PROPHETS ARE SMALL AND SO YOU'RE
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TAKING TWO PROPHETS FOR ONE
LESSON AND TODAY'S A CASE OF
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THAT. AND SO I HOPE I CAN
ALSO GET TO THE BOOK OF NAHUM.
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AND SO WE'RE DOING ZEPHANIAH,
PRIMARILY, AND THEN THE LAST DAY
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WE'RE GOING TO TRY AND
COVER THE BOOK OF NAHUM.
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THERE'S BOTH - BOTH BOOKS HAVE
THREE CHAPTERS, BUT THE CHAPTERS
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ARE LONGER IN ZEPHANIAH.
AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE.
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MEMORY VERSE IS FROM ZEPHANIAH
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11 AND IT'S THE
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NEW KING JAMES
VERSION IF YOU HAVE THAT.
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I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF
YOU CAN SAY IT ALONG WITH ME.
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ARE YOU READY?
ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11.
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"THE LORD WILL BE AWESOME
TO THEM, FOR HE WILL REDUCE TO
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NOTHING ALL THE GODS OF THE
EARTH; PEOPLE SHALL WORSHIP HIM,
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EACH ONE FROM HIS PLACE, INDEED
ALL THE SHORES OF THE NATIONS.
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NOW ZEPHANIAH IS A
VERY IMPORTANT PROPHET.
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IF YOU WERE TO PUT THE BOOK OF
ZEPHANIAH CHRONOLOGICALLY WHERE
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IT WOULD GO, HE WOULD FALL
BETWEEN ISAIAH AND JEREMIAH.
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ZEPHANIAH WAS THE PROPHET WHO
REALLY PROPHESIED JUST BEFORE
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THE BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY AND
HE DEALT WITH WHAT HAD HAPPENED
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BECAUSE OF THE EVIL
REIGN OF KING MANASSEH.
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IF YOU - YOU LOOK IN YOUR
BIBLES, YOU CAN SEE THAT EVEN
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THOUGH MANASSEH REPENTED AND GOD
FORGAVE HIM, THE BIBLE TELLS US
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THAT HE KIND OF WENT A LITTLE
TOO FAR. LOOK IN 2 KINGS -
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YOU GOT YOUR BIBLES THERE?
JUST TO GET THE BACKGROUND.
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2 KINGS CHAPTER 24, VERSE 3 AND
THIS IS AFTER THE BOOK TELLS US
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THAT BABYLONIA - THE KING OF
BABYLON WAS COMING TO DESTROY
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JERUSALEM BECAUSE OF THEIR
SINS. IT SAYS, "SURELY AT THE
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COMMANDMENT OF THE LORD
THIS CAME UPON JUDAH," - WHEN
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME TO DESTROY
THE CITY - "TO REMOVE THEM FROM
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HIS SIGHT BECAUSE OF THE
SINS OF MANASSEH," - NOW, WHEN
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NEBUCHADNEZZAR COMES,
MANASSEH WAS LONG GONE.
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YOU HAD HAD MANASSEH, AND THEN
AFTER YOU HAD MANASSEH YOU HAD
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AMMON, YOU HAD JOSIAH, AND THERE
WERE THREE DIFFERENT SONS OF
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JOSIAH AND THEN
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME.
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BUT IT'S LIKE GOD SAID, 'I
HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THE SINS OF
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MANASSEH BECAUSE HE
WAS KING FOR 52 YEARS.
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HE OFFERED HIS
CHILDREN IN THE FIRE.
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HE SET UP PAGAN
GODS IN THE TEMPLE.
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I MEAN, HE JUST FILLED JERUSALEM
WITH INNOCENT BLOOD, KILLED
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ISAIAH THE PROPHET - MANASSEH
DID A LOT OF WICKED THINGS.
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AND EVEN THOUGH HE REPENTED -
GOD SAID, 'I'LL FORGIVE YOU BUT
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YOU HAVE SHED SO MUCH INNOCENT
BLOOD THAT THERE IS A SWORD
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HANGING ABOVE THE CITY
AND JUDGMENT IS GOING TO COME.
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SOMETIMES GOD'S PATIENT AND
JUDGMENT WILL COME YEARS AFTER
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THE ACTUAL OFFENSE AND
SO THIS WAS A CASE OF THAT.
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AND OH, BY THE WAY, I DIDN'T
FINISH READING THAT VERSE.
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"SURELY AT THE COMMANDMENT OF
THE LORD THIS CAME UPON JUDAH,
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TO REMOVE THEM FROM HIS SIGHT
BECAUSE OF THE SINS OF MANASSEH,
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ACCORDING TO ALL THAT HE HAD
DONE, AND ALSO BECAUSE OF THE
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INNOCENT BLOOD THAT HE HAD SHED;
FOR HE HAD FILLED JERUSALEM WITH
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INNOCENT BLOOD, WHICH
THE LORD WOULD NOT PARDON."
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NOW HOW OFTEN DO YOU
FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE?
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NOT TOO OFTEN WHERE IT
SAYS, 'GOD WILL NOT PARDON.'
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THERE IS CERTAIN CAUSE AND
EFFECT AND THERE WAS A JUDGMENT
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THAT WAS COMING ON THE NATION.
NOW, THIS IS WHY THE BOOK OF
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ZEPHANIAH IS VERY IMPORTANT,
BECAUSE THE FIRST TWO CHAPTERS
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OF ZEPHANIAH TALK ABOUT THE DAY
OF THE LORD AND THE JUDGMENT IS
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PRONOUNCED ON THE VARIOUS
CITIES - PRIMARILY JERUSALEM.
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THE LAST CHAPTER TALKS ABOUT
GOD'S PROMISE AND PROTECTION AND
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IT'S VERY RELEVANT FOR US
BECAUSE - DO WE KNOW A DAY OF
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THE LORD IS COMING?
EVEN IF WE ALL REPENT AS A
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CHURCH, IS THE DAY
OF THE LORD COMING?
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SO WE WANT TO KNOW 'HOW
DO WE SURVIVE THAT DAY?'
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AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED
TO JERUSALEM WITH THE FALL OF
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JERUSALEM AND THE DESTRUCTION
THAT CAME AND BEING CARRIED OFF
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TO BABYLON. THE
HISTORY OF ISRAEL IS GOING
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TO BE REPEATED. NOT
ONLY IS IT REPEATED FROM THE
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TIME OF ZEPHANIAH WITH
THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM,
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JERUSALEM WAS DESTROYED AGAIN
DURING THE TIME - OR FOLLOWING
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THE TIME OF CHRIST IN AD 70 AND
JESUS SAID - JESUS IS SIMILAR TO
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ZEPHANIAH IN THAT HE MADE A
PARALLEL BETWEEN THE DESTRUCTION
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OF JERUSALEM AND WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN AT THE END OF THE WORLD.
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WHEN JESUS DESCRIBED THE END OF
THE WORLD IN MATTHEW 24, HE WAS
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TALKING ABOUT THE END OF THE
WORLD COMING FOR THE NATION OF
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ISRAEL AND WHAT WAS HAPPENING TO
THEM, AND THAT WAS GOING TO BE
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AN ECHO OR A PARALLEL OR A
SHADOW OF WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO
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THE WORLD AT THE END OF TIME.
ZEPHANIAH WAS SAYING THE SAME
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THING. HE WAS
SAYING THE DESTRUCTION
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THAT WAS GOING TO COME
ON JERUSALEM WAS SORT OF A
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HARBINGER OF WHAT WAS GOING TO
HAPPEN ON THE WHOLE WORLD AND SO
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THERE'S SOME
PARALLELS HERE AS WELL.
00:18:43.36\00:18:45.13
AND THAT'S WHY
HIS NAME IS IMPORTANT.
00:18:45.13\00:18:47.00
NOW IT'S IN YOUR LESSON - WHAT
DOES THE NAME ZEPHANIAH MEAN?
00:18:47.00\00:18:50.26
SOMEONE LOOK UP
FOR ME PSALM 27:5.
00:18:50.26\00:18:54.36
I GAVE THAT TO SOMEBODY OR OUR
ATTENDANTS - WHO HAD THAT ONE?
00:18:54.36\00:18:57.80
DID OUR SCRIPTURES GO OUT?
PSALM 27:5 - IF YOU'VE GOT THAT,
00:18:57.80\00:19:01.50
HOLD YOUR HAND UP. OKAY.
AND WE'LL GET READY FOR THAT.
00:19:01.50\00:19:06.80
NOW I'M GOING BACK TO MY
QUESTION, 'WHAT DOES THE NAME
00:19:06.80\00:19:08.90
ZEPHANIAH MEAN?'
ZEPHANIAH MEANS 'HIDDEN BY' -
00:19:08.90\00:19:13.73
YOU HEARD OF A ZEPHYR?
'HIDDEN BY YAH' - JEHOVAH.
00:19:13.73\00:19:20.06
ZEPHANIAH - 'HIDDEN
BY YAHWEH' OR JEHOVAH.
00:19:20.06\00:19:25.16
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE
THERE'S A JUDGMENT COMING BUT WE
00:19:25.16\00:19:29.86
CAN BE HIDDEN IN
THE DAY OF GOD'S WRATH.
00:19:29.86\00:19:33.63
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE LORD SAID
TO MOSES - HE SAID, 'NO MAN CAN
00:19:33.63\00:19:36.70
SEE MY FACE AND LIVE BUT I WILL
LET YOU SEE ME - I'LL LET YOU
00:19:36.70\00:19:40.13
SEE MY HIND PARTS. I'M
GOING TO PUT YOU IN THE
00:19:40.13\00:19:42.63
CLEFT OF THE ROCK AND THEN I'LL
COVER YOU WITH MY HAND SO YOU
00:19:42.63\00:19:45.33
ARE HIDDEN.' HOW MANY
OF YOU REMEMBER SINGING
00:19:45.33\00:19:47.56
THAT SONG, 'HIDING IN
THEE' - 'HIDING IN THEE'?
00:19:47.56\00:19:50.26
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD. READ
THIS - READ THAT VERSE FOR US.
00:19:50.26\00:19:54.46
>>"FOR IN THE TIME OF TROUBLE HE
SHALL HIDE ME IN HIS PAVILION;
00:19:54.46\00:19:58.13
IN THE SECRET PLACE OF HIS
TABERNACLE HE SHALL HIDE ME; HE
00:19:58.13\00:20:01.60
SHALL SET ME HIGH UPON A
ROCK." >>ALRIGHT, SO THIS IS THE
00:20:01.60\00:20:05.56
CENTRAL MESSAGE IN THE
BOOK OF ZEPHANIAH IS THERE IS AN
00:20:05.56\00:20:09.26
IMPENDING JUDGMENT - THE
DAY OF THE LORD IS COMING.
00:20:09.26\00:20:12.76
GOOD NEWS IS IF WE HUMBLE
OURSELVES, IF WE SUBMIT TO GOD,
00:20:12.76\00:20:16.56
WHEN THAT TIME
COMES WE CAN SURVIVE IT.
00:20:16.56\00:20:19.86
HAVE YOU READ PSALM 91? A
THOUSAND MAY FALL AT THY SIDE,
00:20:19.86\00:20:24.83
TEN THOUSAND AT THY RIGHT HAND,
BUT ONLY WITH YOUR EYES WILL YOU
00:20:24.83\00:20:27.46
SEE AND BEHOLD THE
DESTRUCTION OF THE WICKED.
00:20:27.46\00:20:29.76
NO PLAGUE WILL COME
NIGH YOUR DWELLING.'
00:20:29.76\00:20:32.23
AND SO THINGS COULD BE JUST
IMPLODING ALL AROUND YOU, LIKE
00:20:32.23\00:20:37.76
WHEN THE WALLS OF JERICHO FELL
AND SOMEHOW RAHAB SURVIVED AND
00:20:37.76\00:20:42.00
THAT'S WHAT IT'S GOING
TO BE LIKE IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:20:42.00\00:20:44.00
WE WANT TO BE HIDING IN THE LORD
AT THAT TIME AND SO ZEPHANIAH IS
00:20:44.00\00:20:49.33
TALKING ABOUT THAT.
FRIGHTENING JUDGMENT AT THE
00:20:49.33\00:20:51.90
BEGINNING BUT PROMISE
IN THE LAST CHAPTER THERE.
00:20:51.90\00:20:55.26
MATTER OF FACT, YOU
KNOW WHAT I'D LIKE TO DO?
00:20:55.26\00:20:59.20
LAST NIGHT I JUST READ THROUGH
- AND I'VE DONE IT MANY TIMES
00:20:59.20\00:21:02.50
BEFORE BUT I JUST WANTED TO READ
THROUGH IT AGAIN - THE BOOK OF
00:21:02.50\00:21:04.76
ZEPHANIAH AND I ALSO READ
THROUGH THE BOOK OF NAHUM AND -
00:21:04.76\00:21:08.30
WHY DON'T YOU TURN TO THE BOOK
OF ZEPHANIAH WITH ME AND LET'S
00:21:08.30\00:21:14.96
READ A FEW VERSES
AND TALK ABOUT IT.
00:21:14.96\00:21:17.36
I LIKE THIS KIND OF JUST
VERSE-BY-VERSE BIBLE STUDY.
00:21:17.36\00:21:21.53
"THE WORD OF THE LORD" - I'M IN
VERSE 1 OF ZEPHANIAH - "THE WORD
00:21:21.53\00:21:27.03
OF THE LORD WHICH CAME TO
ZEPHANIAH THE SON OF CUSHI, THE
00:21:27.03\00:21:30.46
SON OF GEDALIAH, THE SON OF
AMARIAH, THE SON OF HEZEKIAH," -
00:21:30.46\00:21:33.86
I'LL TELL YOU ONE THING
RIGHT THERE, HE HAS THE LONGEST
00:21:33.86\00:21:37.00
GENEALOGY OF ANY BIBLE PROPHET.
IT GIVES MORE GENEALOGY OF HIM.
00:21:37.00\00:21:42.26
AND ONE REASON THEY BELIEVE THAT
IS MANASSEH REIGNED LONGER AND
00:21:42.26\00:21:46.46
IT'S JUST TELLING YOU THAT
HE CAN TRACK ALL THE WAY BACK TO
00:21:46.46\00:21:50.33
THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH, WHO WAS
A GOOD KING AND THE FATHER OF
00:21:50.33\00:21:55.46
MANASSEH - ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
YOU REMEMBER WHEN KING HEZEKIAH
00:21:55.46\00:21:58.63
GOT SICK AND HE
WAS GOING TO DIE?
00:21:58.63\00:22:01.66
AND HE PRAYED AND GOD HEARD HIS
PRAYER AND HE HEALED HIM AND HE
00:22:01.66\00:22:04.43
SAID, 'I'M GIVING
YOU 15 MORE YEARS.'
00:22:04.43\00:22:06.73
ACTUALLY, YOU COULD SAY HEZEKIAH
WAS STILL TERMINAL BUT THE
00:22:06.73\00:22:09.26
DOCTOR SAID YOU'RE
GOING TO LAST 15 YEARS.
00:22:09.26\00:22:12.40
AND DURING THAT 15 YEARS YOU
KIND OF WONDER WHETHER HE SHOULD
00:22:12.40\00:22:15.23
HAVE LIVED BECAUSE HE HAD A
BOY - BECAUSE THE BIBLE SAYS
00:22:15.23\00:22:19.13
MANASSEH WAS 12 YEARS OLD WHEN
HE BEGAN TO REIGN, WHICH MEANS
00:22:19.13\00:22:22.50
THREE YEARS INTO - OR TWO AND A
HALF YEARS INTO HEZEKIAH'S LAST
00:22:22.50\00:22:27.33
15 YEARS HE HAD THE
SON THAT WOULD FOLLOW HIM.
00:22:27.33\00:22:30.46
AND HE DIDN'T TURN OUT
TO BE A VERY GOOD KING.
00:22:30.46\00:22:33.76
AND SO HE'S TRACKING ALL
THE WAY BACK TO THE GOOD TIME OF
00:22:33.76\00:22:38.30
HEZEKIAH AND ZEPHANIAH IS ALSO
PROPHESYING DURING THE TIME OF A
00:22:38.30\00:22:43.83
GOOD KING OR A BAD
KING? WHAT'S IT SAY HERE?
00:22:43.83\00:22:48.90
JOSIAH. GOOD KING?
BAD KING? GOOD KING.
00:22:48.90\00:22:54.36
HE'S TRACKING FROM HEZEKIAH
- GOOD KING - TO THE LAST GOOD
00:22:54.36\00:22:57.60
KING OF JUDAH. MATTER
OF FACT, JOSIAH WAS AMONG
00:22:57.60\00:23:02.40
THE VERY BEST OF THE KINGS,
RIGHT UP THERE WITH DAVID.
00:23:02.40\00:23:06.20
GOOD KING. GODLY KING.
00:23:06.20\00:23:08.63
BUT EVEN DURING THE TIMES OF
A GOOD KING, THE PEOPLE MIGHT GO
00:23:08.63\00:23:12.10
THROUGH A COUNTERFEIT
REVIVAL AND HE TALKS ABOUT THAT.
00:23:12.10\00:23:14.80
HE SAYS, 'YOU'RE PRAYING TO THE
LORD BUT YOU'RE ALSO GOING UP ON
00:23:14.80\00:23:18.26
YOUR ROOF AT NIGHT AND PRAYING
TO THE MOON AND THE SUN AND THE
00:23:18.26\00:23:20.70
STARS.' HE SAYS,
'THERE'S HYPOCRISY.'
00:23:20.70\00:23:23.83
AND SO EVEN DURING THE TIME
OF A GOOD KING IT DIDN'T ALWAYS
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.43
GUARANTEE THAT HE COULD
TURN EVERYBODY'S HEARTS AROUND.
00:23:27.43\00:23:31.76
"HEZEKIAH, IN THE DAYS
OF JOSIAH, THE SON OF AMMON,
00:23:31.76\00:23:36.00
KING OF JUDAH. 'I
WILL UTTERLY CONSUME
00:23:36.00\00:23:38.90
EVERYTHING FROM THE FACE OF THE
LAND,' SAYS THE LORD, 'I WILL
00:23:38.90\00:23:42.66
CONSUME MAN AND BEAST; I
WILL CONSUME THE BIRDS OF THE
00:23:42.66\00:23:45.80
HEAVENS, THE
FISH OF THE SEA,'" -
00:23:45.80\00:23:48.60
NOW WAIT A SECOND, IS HE TALKING
ABOUT WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR IS
00:23:48.60\00:23:51.26
ABOUT TO COME AND DESTROY JUDEA
OR IS HE GOING BEYOND THAT?
00:23:51.26\00:23:55.80
WHEN ALL THE FISH OF THE SEA ARE
GONE - YEAH, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:23:55.80\00:23:59.26
THE ULTIMATE DAY OF THE LORD
HERE, ISN'T HE? "I WILL CONSUME
00:23:59.26\00:24:04.16
ALL THINGS" - WHERE DOES IT
SAY ALL THINGS ARE CONSUMED?
00:24:04.16\00:24:07.70
2 PETER CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10,
"BUT THE DAY OF THE LORD WILL
00:24:07.70\00:24:12.30
COME AS A THIEF IN THE NIGHT, IN
WHICH THE HEAVENS WILL PASS AWAY
00:24:12.30\00:24:15.13
WITH A GREAT NOISE, AND THE
ELEMENTS WILL MELT WITH FERVENT
00:24:15.13\00:24:18.23
HEAT; BOTH THE EARTH AND
THE WORKS THAT ARE IN IT WILL BE
00:24:18.23\00:24:21.50
BURNED UP." MALACHI CHAPTER 4,
'BEHOLD THE DAY COMES THAT WILL
00:24:21.50\00:24:25.26
BURN AS AN OVEN AND ALL THE
PROUD AND ALL THAT DO WICKEDLY
00:24:25.26\00:24:27.83
WILL BE STUBBLE. THE
DAY THAT COMES WILL BURN
00:24:27.83\00:24:29.46
THEM UP.' IS THERE
FIRE COMING WHEN THE
00:24:29.46\00:24:32.93
LORD COMES? SOME
OF YOU - ANY OF YOU MY
00:24:32.93\00:24:36.70
FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK? I
WROTE A - YOU'RE NOT MY
00:24:36.70\00:24:40.16
FRIENDS ON FACEBOOK?
WELL, YOU'RE ALL EXCOMMUNICATED.
00:24:40.16\00:24:43.96
NOW WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO?
WE'RE GOING TO HAVE A BUSINESS
00:24:43.96\00:24:49.13
MEETING. BUT I
POSTED SOMETHING ON
00:24:49.13\00:24:52.73
FACEBOOK AND I PUT OUT A
SCENARIO - I DID A LITTLE SURVEY
00:24:52.73\00:24:57.96
AND I SAID, 'ALRIGHT, YOU'RE AT
WORK AND YOU HEAR OVER THE RADIO
00:24:57.96\00:25:02.40
THAT A FIRE'S COMING - NOW WE'VE
ENTERED FIRE SEASON HERE NOW IN
00:25:02.40\00:25:07.66
CALIFORNIA, WHICH IS ALWAYS A
LITTLE UNNERVING, AND A FIRE IS
00:25:07.66\00:25:11.90
COMING AND IT'S HEADING TOWARDS
YOUR SUBURBAN NEIGHBORHOOD
00:25:11.90\00:25:14.80
THAT'S ON THE OUTSKIRTS OF
TOWN AND YOU GET PERMISSION, YOU
00:25:14.80\00:25:19.16
LEAVE WORK, YOU RACE
HOME, AND BEFORE YOU GET TO YOUR
00:25:19.16\00:25:21.66
NEIGHBORHOOD YOU RUN INTO A
BLOCKADE OF EMERGENCY VEHICLES
00:25:21.66\00:25:25.30
AND YOU TALK TO ONE OF THE
POLICEMEN AND HE SAID, 'LOOK,
00:25:25.30\00:25:28.70
ALRIGHT IF YOU LIVE HERE
THE FIRE'S GOING TO BE IN THIS
00:25:28.70\00:25:32.13
NEIGHBORHOOD IN A
HALF HOUR - 45 MINUTES.
00:25:32.13\00:25:33.86
YOU HAVE 20 MINUTES TO GO TO
YOUR HOUSE AND GET WHATEVER YOU
00:25:33.86\00:25:36.70
WANT, BUT YOU'VE GOT TO GET
OUT IN 20 MINUTES - THAT'S IT.'
00:25:36.70\00:25:41.23
SO YOU PULL UP TO YOUR HOUSE
AND YOU CAN SEE THE SKY IS BLACK
00:25:41.23\00:25:43.66
WITH CLOUDS AND YOU CAN HEAR THE
WAIL OF THE SIRENS EVERYWHERE
00:25:43.66\00:25:46.90
AROUND AND ALL YOUR OTHER
NEIGHBORS ARE SCURRYING IN AND
00:25:46.90\00:25:49.70
OUT OF THEIR HOUSES AND
EVERYTHING'S FRANTIC AND YOU'VE
00:25:49.70\00:25:53.40
GOT TO THINK WHAT DO I GET
OUT OF MY HOUSE IN 20 MINUTES?
00:25:53.40\00:25:55.60
YOUR WHOLE LIFE'S IN
THE HOUSE, WHAT DO YOU GET?
00:25:55.60\00:25:58.86
WELL, I'M HAPPY TO SAY THAT SOME
OF YOU SAID FAMILY FIRST BECAUSE
00:25:58.86\00:26:02.40
I NEVER DID SAY WHETHER YOU HAD
ANY FAMILY - BUT I'M GLAD YOU
00:26:02.40\00:26:04.23
THOUGHT ABOUT THAT BECAUSE
I WOULD HOPE THAT YOU WOULDN'T
00:26:04.23\00:26:06.90
PULL OUT OF YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD
AND THEN THINK, 'HOW COME THE
00:26:06.90\00:26:10.23
CAR SEAT'S EMPTY?'
THAT'D BE PRETTY SAD.
00:26:10.23\00:26:15.36
SO LET'S ASSUME YOU GET YOUR
FAMILY. THEN WHAT DO YOU GET?
00:26:15.36\00:26:20.00
I WAS SURPRISED HOW MANY
PEOPLE SAID THEIR BIBLES.
00:26:20.00\00:26:23.10
YOU KNOW, I DID THIS SURVEY AND
WE HAD LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, 400
00:26:23.10\00:26:25.46
PEOPLE RESPONDED AND A
LOT OF THEM SAID, 'MY BIBLE.'
00:26:25.46\00:26:28.63
AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH
YOU, I DIDN'T THINK THAT.
00:26:28.63\00:26:31.83
AND IT'S NOT BECAUSE I DON'T
LOVE MY BIBLE, IT'S BECAUSE I'VE
00:26:31.83\00:26:34.16
GOT A LOT OF BIBLES AND MOST OF
MY BIBLE STUDY INFORMATION IS ON
00:26:34.16\00:26:37.66
MY HARD DRIVE. AND THIS IS A
PRECIOUS BIBLE. I'VE HAD THIS
00:26:37.66\00:26:41.43
SINCE I CAME - 20 YEARS NOW
AT CENTRAL CHURCH I'VE USED THIS
00:26:41.43\00:26:44.83
BIBLE, BUT I JUST WENT TO
THE PHILIPPINES AND USED A
00:26:44.83\00:26:47.00
DIFFERENT BIBLE. IT WAS
A LITTLE AWKWARD BECAUSE
00:26:47.00\00:26:48.43
IT'S HARD TO FIND YOUR WAY
AROUND - AND I'VE GOT A LOT OF
00:26:48.43\00:26:50.56
PRECIOUS NOTES IN HERE THAT
ARE VERY IMPORTANT, BUT A LOT OF
00:26:50.56\00:26:54.00
THEM ARE ON MY COMPUTER. SO
I THOUGHT HARD DRIVE - I'D BE
00:26:54.00\00:26:59.90
IN TROUBLE IF I DIDN'T HAVE -
BOY, I'VE GOT A LOT OF STUDIES
00:26:59.90\00:27:03.33
AND MATERIAL - YEARS OF
WORK - ON THE HARD DRIVE.
00:27:03.33\00:27:06.86
AND OTHERS SAID
IMPORTANT DOCUMENTS.
00:27:06.86\00:27:09.30
SOME PEOPLE SAID
MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS.
00:27:09.30\00:27:12.66
A LOT OF PEOPLE - YOU KNOW WHAT
WAS #2 ON THE LIST? PETS. PETS.
00:27:12.66\00:27:18.46
YEAH, AMERICANS SPEND MORE ON
DOG FOOD THAN A LOT OF NATIONS
00:27:18.46\00:27:22.90
SPEND ON THEIR
PEOPLE - AND THEIR CAT FOOD.
00:27:22.90\00:27:26.40
AND SO - OH, YOU KNOW, SOME
PEOPLE SAID CLOTHES AND OTHER
00:27:26.40\00:27:32.60
PEOPLE SAID, YOU
KNOW, VALUABLE PAINTINGS.
00:27:32.60\00:27:34.63
BASICALLY, IT WAS THOSE THINGS
THAT ARE IRREPLACEABLE, RIGHT?
00:27:34.63\00:27:38.26
YOU GET THE THINGS - I MEAN,
WHO'S GOING TO SAY, 'I GOT MY
00:27:38.26\00:27:42.56
LAUNDRY DETERGENT?' YOU
JUST GET MORE, YOU KNOW.
00:27:42.56\00:27:47.73
YOU GO TO THE STORE - YOU DON'T
NEED THOSE THINGS, YOU CAN JUST
00:27:47.73\00:27:49.96
BUY MORE, RIGHT?
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAUL YOUR
00:27:49.96\00:27:51.93
BED OUT OF THE
HOUSE OR THINGS LIKE THAT.
00:27:51.93\00:27:54.20
YOU'RE GOING TO GET THE
STUFF THAT'S PRECIOUS AND
00:27:54.20\00:27:55.80
IRREPLACEABLE. WELL, THE
WHOLE MORAL OF THE STORY IS,
00:27:55.80\00:27:59.30
'IS THERE A FIRE COMING?'
YOU KNOW, THERE'S A PICTURE OF
00:27:59.30\00:28:04.10
A FIRE THAT WAS APPROACHING THE
SAN DIEGO NEIGHBORHOOD WHERE YOU
00:28:04.10\00:28:09.60
CAN SEE THIS TERRIBLE BRUSH FIRE
AND YOU REMEMBER ALL THOSE HOMES
00:28:09.60\00:28:12.06
BURNED DOWN IN SAN DIEGO?
I FORGET HOW MANY, BUT IT WAS
00:28:12.06\00:28:14.93
ONE OF THE WORST FIRES
AS FAR AS THE LOSS OF HOMES.
00:28:14.93\00:28:19.30
AND THEN THERE WAS THE ONE IN
SAN FRANCISCO - MARIN COUNTY -
00:28:19.30\00:28:21.76
IN OAKLAND. THAT FIRE
SWEPT THROUGH AND TOOK
00:28:21.76\00:28:23.93
OUT A HILLSIDE OF
HOMES AND IT DOES HAPPEN.
00:28:23.93\00:28:28.93
AND IT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN TO EVERYBODY.
00:28:28.93\00:28:32.16
THE DAY IS GOING TO COME
THAT WILL BURN AS AN OVEN.
00:28:32.16\00:28:34.36
SO WHAT CAN YOU ESCAPE WITH?
WHAT CAN WE TAKE OUT OF THIS
00:28:34.36\00:28:37.50
WORLD? WHAT DO YOU GET TO KEEP?
00:28:37.50\00:28:41.53
THERE ARE JUST TWO THINGS: YOUR
CHARACTER AND OTHER PEOPLE THAT
00:28:41.53\00:28:45.33
ARE INFLUENCED BY
YOUR LIFE TO COME TO JESUS.
00:28:45.33\00:28:48.76
THAT'S YOUR TREASURE
IN HEAVEN. NOTHING ELSE.
00:28:48.76\00:28:51.43
YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR PAINTINGS,
YOU CAN'T TAKE YOUR HARD DRIVE.
00:28:51.43\00:28:54.70
THIS IS THE ONLY HARD DRIVE
YOU CAN TAKE. THAT'S RIGHT.
00:28:54.70\00:28:58.46
IT'S CHARACTERS AND
SO THAT DAY IS COMING.
00:28:58.46\00:29:00.86
AND SO ZEPHANIAH IS REALLY
TALKING ABOUT GETTING THEIR
00:29:00.86\00:29:03.06
PRIORITIES STRAIGHT.'
I'LL CONSUME ALL THINGS FROM
00:29:03.06\00:29:06.33
THE LAND, MAN AND BEAST, BIRDS
OF THE HEAVENS, FISH OF THE
00:29:06.33\00:29:09.73
SEA.' NOW, YOU
NOTICE, HE'S TALKING ABOUT
00:29:09.73\00:29:12.20
CREATION IN REVERSE.
HAVE YOU READ THE DAYS OF
00:29:12.20\00:29:14.63
CREATION? HE MADE
THE BIRDS, HE MADE THE
00:29:14.63\00:29:16.53
FISH, HE MADE THE MAN - AND
HERE HE'S TALKING ABOUT UNDOING
00:29:16.53\00:29:19.73
CREATION. YOU SEE THAT?
"'I WILL CUT OFF MAN FROM THE
00:29:19.73\00:29:23.10
FACE OF THE
LAND,' SAYS THE LORD.
00:29:23.10\00:29:25.33
'I WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND
AGAINST JUDAH, AND AGAINST ALL
00:29:25.33\00:29:29.00
THE INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM.'"
- THE CAPITAL OF JUDAH.
00:29:29.00\00:29:31.80
THIS IS THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
NOW, WHEN HE'S PROPHESYING, WHAT
00:29:31.80\00:29:35.83
HAD HAPPENED TO THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM? THEY WERE CARRIED OFF -
00:29:35.83\00:29:38.90
THE TEN TRIBES HAD BEEN CARRIED
OFF BY THE ASSYRIANS AND THE
00:29:38.90\00:29:42.70
ASSYRIANS - THEIR
CAPITAL WAS WHAT CITY? NINEVEH.
00:29:42.70\00:29:47.06
AND SO WHEN YOU GET TO THE END
OF ZEPHANIAH AND WHEN YOU GET TO
00:29:47.06\00:29:50.10
THE PROPHECIES OF NAHUM HE'S
TALKING ABOUT THE JUDGMENTS ON
00:29:50.10\00:29:53.43
ASSYRIA - THE ONES WHO CARRIED
AWAY THE OTHER TRIBES - THEIR
00:29:53.43\00:29:56.83
BRETHREN, SO TO SPEAK. "'I
WILL STRETCH OUT MY HAND AGAINST
00:29:56.83\00:30:00.90
JUDAH, AND AGAINST ALL THE
INHABITANTS OF JERUSALEM. I WILL
00:30:00.90\00:30:03.83
CUT OFF EVERY TRACE OF BAAL FROM
THIS PLACE,'" - MOST OF BAAL HAD
00:30:03.83\00:30:07.53
BEEN ELIMINATED, BUT NOT EVERY
TRACE. MOST OF BAAL HAD BEEN
00:30:07.53\00:30:10.80
ELIMINATED DURING THE TIME OF
KING JEHU, BUT NOT COMPLETELY. -
00:30:10.80\00:30:16.20
"'THE NAMES OF THE IDOLATROUS
PRIESTS WITH THE PAGAN PRIESTS -
00:30:16.20\00:30:19.63
THOSE WHO WORSHIP THE HOST OF
HEAVEN ON THE HOUSETOPS; THOSE
00:30:19.63\00:30:22.73
WHO WORSHIP AND SWEAR OATHS BY
THE LORD, BUT WHO ALSO SWEAR BY
00:30:22.73\00:30:26.26
MILCOM;'' - NOW NOTICE, IT TALKS
ABOUT THEM - THEY'RE WORSHIPING
00:30:26.26\00:30:28.96
THE STARS AND THE SUN
AND MOON ON THEIR HOUSETOPS.
00:30:28.96\00:30:31.96
THEY'RE ALSO VOWING BY THE
LORD - THE WORD 'LORD' THERE IS
00:30:31.96\00:30:34.46
TALKING ABOUT OUR LORD - BUT
THEN IT GOES ON, IT SAYS, "'WHO
00:30:34.46\00:30:37.80
ALSO SWEAR BY MILCOM;'" - MILCOM
WAS THE GOD OF THE AMMONITES.
00:30:37.80\00:30:41.06
BY THE WAY, YOU REMEMBER
WHEN SOLOMON MARRIED ONE OF THE
00:30:41.06\00:30:43.43
DAUGHTERS OF AMMON?
SHE TALKED HIM INTO,
00:30:43.43\00:30:46.66
'I MISS MY GOD FROM MY HOME.'
00:30:46.66\00:30:48.70
AND HE BROUGHT AN IDOL OF
MILCOM INTO THE TEMPLE AND SO HE
00:30:48.70\00:30:55.06
INTRODUCED - SOLOMON IN HIS OLD
AGE, WHEN HIS SCRUPLES LOWERED
00:30:55.06\00:31:00.60
BECAUSE OF HIS STRANGE WIVES -
INTRODUCED THE WORSHIP OF MILCOM
00:31:00.60\00:31:03.63
AND IT NEVER COMPLETELY LEFT
BECAUSE HERE YOU ARE, HUNDREDS
00:31:03.63\00:31:06.83
OF YEARS LATER AND
THEY'RE STILL DOING IT.
00:31:06.83\00:31:09.53
"'AND HAVE NOT SOUGHT THE
LORD, NOR INQUIRED OF HIM.'
00:31:09.53\00:31:12.56
BE SILENT IN THE PRESENCE OF
THE LORD GOD; FOR THE DAY OF THE
00:31:12.56\00:31:15.60
LORD IS AT HAND, FOR THE LORD
HAS PREPARED A SACRIFICE; HE HAS
00:31:15.60\00:31:18.93
INVITED HIS GUESTS. 'AND
IT SHALL BE, IN THE DAY OF
00:31:18.93\00:31:21.36
THE LORD'S SACRIFICE, THAT I
WILL PUNISH THE PRINCES AND THE
00:31:21.36\00:31:24.06
KING'S CHILDREN,'" - WHO ARE THE
GUESTS AT THE LORD'S SACRIFICE?
00:31:24.06\00:31:29.70
HAVE YOU READ ABOUT THE FEAST
IN REVELATION OF THE BIRDS?
00:31:29.70\00:31:34.13
I KNOW THAT SOUNDS PRETTY
OMINOUS, BUT IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:31:34.13\00:31:36.13
ANIMALS OF CARRION THAT
COME TO THE FEAST OF THE LORD.
00:31:36.13\00:31:39.56
SO WHEN GOD TALKS ABOUT, 'I'VE
PREPARED A SACRIFICE AND THERE'S
00:31:39.56\00:31:41.96
GREAT JUDGMENT
COMING ON THE LAND.'
00:31:41.96\00:31:44.36
WELL, THEY USED TO HAVE A
SACRIFICE FOR THE PEOPLE AND
00:31:44.36\00:31:47.06
WERE EATING THE ANIMALS.
THIS IS A SACRIFICE WHERE THE
00:31:47.06\00:31:51.76
ANIMALS ARE EATING THE PEOPLE.
IT'S A TERRIBLE JUDGMENT.
00:31:51.76\00:31:56.13
AND WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR GOT DONE
WITH JERUSALEM - HAVE YOU READ
00:31:56.13\00:32:01.93
WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT 'THE SLAIN
OF THE LORD IN THAT DAY WILL BE
00:32:01.93\00:32:03.86
FROM ONE END OF THE EARTH TO THE
OTHER AND THERE WILL BE NO ONE
00:32:03.86\00:32:07.16
TO MOURN OR TO BURY
OR LAMENT FOR THEM'?
00:32:07.16\00:32:09.53
THAT'S TALKING ABOUT WHAT
HAPPENED AROUND JERUSALEM AFTER
00:32:09.53\00:32:12.23
NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND IT'S TALKING
ABOUT THE CONDITION OF THE WORLD
00:32:12.23\00:32:14.73
IN THE LAST DAYS. IT WAS
A PARALLEL FOR THAT WHERE
00:32:14.73\00:32:17.50
THERE WILL BE NOBODY TO MOURN.
SO THIS IS A PRETTY FIERCE
00:32:17.50\00:32:20.66
PROPHECY OF JUDGMENT.
YOU PROBABLY WANT ME TO SKIP
00:32:20.66\00:32:24.40
THIS AND JUST GO TO TALKING
ABOUT HEAVEN AND THINGS LIKE
00:32:24.40\00:32:28.23
THAT, BUT BEFORE YOU GET
TO HEAVEN THERE'S A TIME OF
00:32:28.23\00:32:31.13
JUDGMENT COMING AND IT'S
IN THE PROPHECIES, FRIENDS.
00:32:31.13\00:32:34.96
"'AND IT WILL BE SAYS THE LORD,
'I'LL PUNISH THE PRINCES AND THE
00:32:34.96\00:32:39.83
KING'S CHILDREN, AND ALL
SUCH AS ARE CLOTHED WITH FOREIGN
00:32:39.83\00:32:43.46
APPAREL.'" - THOSE
THAT HAD THE DESIGNER
00:32:43.46\00:32:46.30
CLOTHES FROM OTHER COUNTRIES -
"'IN THE SAME DAY I WILL PUNISH
00:32:46.30\00:32:49.70
ALL THOSE WHO LEAP OVER
THE THRESHOLD, WHO FILL THEIR
00:32:49.70\00:32:52.86
MASTERS' HOUSES WITH
VIOLENCE AND DECEIT.'"
00:32:52.86\00:32:55.53
YOU REMEMBER IN THE
STORY OF - WHAT WAS IT?
00:32:55.53\00:32:59.26
1 SAMUEL, YES - WHEN THEY
CAPTURED THE ARK OF GOD AND IT
00:32:59.26\00:33:03.06
TALKED ABOUT HOW THE GOD DAGON
FELL DOWN AND HIS HANDS AND HIS
00:33:03.06\00:33:06.86
HEAD BROKE OFF.
INTERESTING, MARK IN THE HEAD
00:33:06.86\00:33:09.80
AND IN THE HANDS. THE
HANDS AND THE HEAD OF DAGON
00:33:09.80\00:33:12.10
FELL DOWN - THEY BROKE OFF THERE
BY THE THRESHOLD OF DAGON IN THE
00:33:12.10\00:33:17.16
TEMPLE OF DAGON AND FROM THAT
DAY ON THE PRIESTS NEVER STEPPED
00:33:17.16\00:33:20.40
ON THE THRESHOLD WHEN
THEY ENTERED THE TEMPLE.
00:33:20.40\00:33:22.33
IT BECAME A CUSTOM THEN TO LEAP
OVER THE THRESHOLD WHEN YOU WENT
00:33:22.33\00:33:26.73
TO WORSHIP DAGON.
00:33:26.73\00:33:28.53
NOW YOU'LL NOTICE IN ZEPHANIAH
IT TALKS ABOUT JUDGMENT AGAINST
00:33:28.53\00:33:30.96
THE PHILISTINES AND THE
CITIES OF THE PHILISTINES.
00:33:30.96\00:33:33.23
THEY WERE WORSHIPING
THE GOD OF THE PHILISTINES.
00:33:33.23\00:33:35.76
THAT'S WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT
LEAPING OVER THE THRESHOLD AND -
00:33:35.76\00:33:39.66
YOU KNOW, EVEN IN CHRISTIAN
CHURCHES SOMETIMES YOU FIND
00:33:39.66\00:33:43.86
THEY MIX UP GOOD - YOU EVER SEE
A CHRISTIAN THROWING A PINCH OF
00:33:43.86\00:33:48.76
SALT OVER THEIR SHOULDER
WHEN THEY KNOCK OVER THE SALT?
00:33:48.76\00:33:52.73
OR STEPPING OUT OF THE WAY WHEN
THEY SEE A BLACK CAT AND YOU
00:33:52.73\00:33:55.56
WONDER, 'WHAT'S WRONG WITH
THEM?' WE'VE GOT THESE PAGAN
00:33:55.56\00:33:57.66
SUPERSTITIONS. WE
DON'T WANT TO HAVE A CHURCH
00:33:57.66\00:34:01.36
FUNCTION ON FRIDAY
THE 13TH. IT'S PAGANISM.
00:34:01.36\00:34:07.20
WE DON'T NEED TO WORRY
ABOUT THAT STUFF, RIGHT?
00:34:07.20\00:34:13.16
"THEY LEAP OVER THE THRESHOLD,
WHO FILL THEIR MASTERS' HOUSES
00:34:13.16\00:34:15.73
WITH VIOLENCE AND DECEIT.
'AND'" - YOU KNOW, IT TALKS
00:34:15.73\00:34:19.36
ABOUT THE JUDGMENT
COMING ON THE PRINCES?
00:34:19.36\00:34:21.26
THEY COULDN'T HIRE THE BEST
ATTORNEYS TO GET THEM OUT OF
00:34:21.26\00:34:23.03
THIS ONE.
SOMETIMES IT SEEMS THE RICH
00:34:23.03\00:34:24.90
ESCAPE BECAUSE THEY ARE
ABLE TO PAY THEIR WAY OUT.
00:34:24.90\00:34:29.13
GOD SAYS, 'THIS JUDGMENT IS
GOING TO BE INDISCRIMINATE.'
00:34:29.13\00:34:32.30
BY THE WAY, IT WENT ALL THE WAY
FROM THE KING, ZEDEKIAH, ALL THE
00:34:32.30\00:34:38.06
WAY DOWN TO THE POOREST OF
THE PEOPLE. MATTER OF FACT,
00:34:38.06\00:34:40.13
THE POOREST OF THE PEOPLE DID
BETTER WHEN THIS JUDGMENT CAME.
00:34:40.13\00:34:43.60
NEBUCHADNEZZAR LEFT MANY OF THE
POOREST AND THE UNEDUCATED OF
00:34:43.60\00:34:48.80
THE LAND - HE TOOK THE EDUCATED
WITH HIM IN HIS FIRST ATTACK
00:34:48.80\00:34:51.63
- THAT'S WHEN DANIEL
WENT BACK TO BABYLON.
00:34:51.63\00:34:53.83
HE CAME BACK THE SECOND TIME, HE
LEFT SOME OF THE POOREST AND THE
00:34:53.83\00:34:56.80
ILLITERATE IN THE LAND TO MAKE
SURE SOMEONE WAS THERE TO TAKE
00:34:56.80\00:34:59.80
CARE OF THE VINEYARDS AND THE
OLIVE GROVES AND STUFF - TO JUST
00:34:59.80\00:35:02.90
KEEP THE WILD BEASTS
OUT. THE POOR WERE SPARED.
00:35:02.90\00:35:06.63
IT WAS JESUS WHO SAID, 'IT'S THE
POOR AND THE MEEK WHO ARE GOING
00:35:06.63\00:35:10.36
TO SURVIVE IN THE LAST DAYS.
"AND THERE SHALL BE" - VERSE 10
00:35:10.36\00:35:15.93
- "AND THERE SHALL BE ON THAT
DAY" - I'M STILL IN ZEPHANIAH
00:35:15.93\00:35:18.20
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 10 - "SAYS THE
LORD, 'THE SOUND OF A MOURNFUL
00:35:18.20\00:35:21.86
CRY FROM THE FISH GATE, A
WAILING FROM THE SECOND QUARTER,
00:35:21.86\00:35:25.83
AND A LOUD CRASHING FROM THE
HILLS.'" HE'S SAYING, 'IN THE
00:35:25.83\00:35:28.13
BEST PART OF THE CITY, IN THE
POOR PART OF THE CITY, AND IN
00:35:28.13\00:35:30.43
THE SUBURBS' - "'WAIL
YOU INHABITANTS OF MAKTESH!
00:35:30.43\00:35:34.00
FOR ALL THE MERCHANT PEOPLE ARE
CUT DOWN'" - THE ECONOMIC OR THE
00:35:34.00\00:35:38.13
BUSINESS PEOPLE - "'ALL THOSE
WHO HANDLE MONEY ARE CUT OFF.
00:35:38.13\00:35:42.06
AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS
AT THAT TIME THAT I WILL SEARCH
00:35:42.06\00:35:44.43
JERUSALEM WITH LAMPS, AND PUNISH
THE MEN WHO ARE SETTLED IN
00:35:44.43\00:35:48.16
COMPLACENCY, WHO SAY IN THEIR
HEART, 'THE LORD WILL NOT DO
00:35:48.16\00:35:51.56
GOOD, NOR WILL HE DO EVIL.''"
- 'ALL THINGS CONTINUE AS
00:35:51.56\00:35:54.30
THEY WERE FROM THE BEGINNING.
00:35:54.30\00:35:55.73
WE HAVE NOTHING TO WORRY ABOUT,
GOD'S NOT GOING TO DO ANYTHING'
00:35:55.73\00:35:58.30
- "'THEREFORE THEIR GOODS
SHALL BECOME BOOTY,'" THEY'LL BE
00:35:58.30\00:36:00.96
CARRIED OFF BY THE ENEMY - "'AND
THEIR HOUSES A DESOLATION; THEY
00:36:00.96\00:36:05.33
SHALL BUILD HOUSES, BUT NOT
INHABIT THEM; THEY SHALL PLANT
00:36:05.33\00:36:08.40
VINEYARDS, BUT NOT DRINK
THEIR WINE.'" - DEUTERONOMY 28,
00:36:08.40\00:36:12.53
VERSE 29, "AND YOU SHALL
GROPE AT NOONDAY, AS A BLIND MAN
00:36:12.53\00:36:16.16
GROPES IN DARKNESS; YOU
SHALL NOT PROSPER IN YOUR WAYS;
00:36:16.16\00:36:19.93
YOU SHALL BE ONLY OPPRESSED
AND PLUNDERED CONTINUALLY, AND
00:36:19.93\00:36:23.70
NO ONE SHALL SAVE YOU."
YOU KNOW, ALL THESE BLESSINGS
00:36:23.70\00:36:26.80
WERE PROMISED IF THEY FOLLOWED
GOD. HE SAID, 'YOU'LL BE BLESSED
00:36:26.80\00:36:29.16
WHEN YOU GO OUT, YOU'LL
BE BLESSED WHEN YOU COME IN.
00:36:29.16\00:36:31.16
YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN THE FIELD,
YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN THE CITY.
00:36:31.16\00:36:33.53
YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR HOUSE,
YOU'LL BE BLESSED IN YOUR WOMB.
00:36:33.53\00:36:36.10
YOU'LL BE - EVERYTHING'LL BE
BLESSED BUT, IF YOU TURN FROM ME
00:36:36.10\00:36:39.93
AND YOU REFUSE TO OBEY, THESE
CURSES WILL CATCH UP WITH YOU.
00:36:39.93\00:36:44.50
AND SO NOW ZEPHANIAH IS SAYING,
'THE CURSE HAS CAUGHT UP WITH
00:36:44.50\00:36:47.73
THE TEN TRIBES IN THE NORTH, NOW
THESE CURSES ARE GOING TO CATCH
00:36:47.73\00:36:50.93
UP WITH JERUSALEM AND JUDEA.'
AND HE BEGINS TO QUOTE FROM
00:36:50.93\00:36:55.23
MOSES. YOU SEE
WHAT HE'S DOING HERE?
00:36:55.23\00:36:57.33
EXACTLY WHAT
MOSES SAID WOULD HAPPEN.
00:36:57.33\00:36:59.36
AND WE JUST READ -
MOSES TALKED ABOUT DARKNESS.
00:36:59.36\00:37:02.50
YOU CAN LOOK IN ZEPHANIAH 1:14,
"THE GREAT DAY OF THE LORD IS
00:37:02.50\00:37:06.96
NEAR;" - TELL YOU WHAT, SOMEONE
LOOK UP FOR ME - JUST GET YOU
00:37:06.96\00:37:09.26
READY - AMOS
5:18. WHO'S GOT THAT?
00:37:09.26\00:37:12.53
WE GAVE - YEAH, I THINK
WE GAVE THAT OUT TO SOMEONE.
00:37:12.53\00:37:14.03
AMOS - YOU GOT IT OVER HERE?
HOLD YOUR HAND UP SO WE CAN GET
00:37:14.03\00:37:17.16
YOU A MICROPHONE.
AMOS 5:18 AND LET ME READ
00:37:17.16\00:37:19.46
ZEPHANIAH 1:14, "THE GREAT DAY
OF THE LORD IS NEAR; IT IS NEAR
00:37:19.46\00:37:24.43
AND HASTENS QUICKLY. THE
NOISE OF THE DAY OF THE LORD
00:37:24.43\00:37:27.76
IS BITTER; THERE THE
MIGHTY MEN SHALL CRY OUT.
00:37:27.76\00:37:31.13
THAT DAY IS A DAY OF WRATH, A
DAY OF TROUBLE AND DISTRESS, A
00:37:31.13\00:37:34.30
DAY OF DEVASTATION AND
DESOLATION," - HAVE YOU HEARD
00:37:34.30\00:37:37.26
ABOUT THE
ABOMINATION OF WHAT? DESOLATION.
00:37:37.26\00:37:41.56
"A DAY OF DARKNESS AND
GLOOMINESS" - MOSES JUST TALKED
00:37:41.56\00:37:45.20
ABOUT YOU'D BE
GROPING LIKE IN THE DARK.
00:37:45.20\00:37:48.26
WHAT WAS ONE OF THE PLAGUES THAT
CAME ON THE EGYPTIANS BECAUSE OF
00:37:48.26\00:37:50.23
THEIR SIN? DARKNESS.
00:37:50.23\00:37:53.86
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
READ FOR US AMOS 5;18.
00:37:53.86\00:37:57.13
>>"WOE TO YOU WHO
DESIRE THE DAY OF THE LORD!
00:37:57.13\00:37:59.63
FOR WHAT GOOD IS THE
DAY OF THE LORD TO YOU?
00:37:59.63\00:38:03.53
IT WILL BE
DARKNESS, AND NOT LIGHT."
00:38:03.53\00:38:06.83
>>YOU KNOW, WE'RE IN - WE'RE
LIVING IN A TIME RIGHT NOW WHEN
00:38:06.83\00:38:11.36
THERE IS MORE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT
THAN ANY OTHER TIME IN HISTORY.
00:38:11.36\00:38:16.20
YOU KNOW WHEN THOMAS EDISON
FINALLY INVENTED - WELL, HE
00:38:16.20\00:38:19.96
DIDN'T TOTALLY INVENT THE
LIGHT BULB, BUT HE INVENTED THE
00:38:19.96\00:38:21.93
VACUUM BULB WITH THE CARBON
ELEMENT THAT MADE IT BURN A LONG
00:38:21.93\00:38:28.60
TIME AND MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR
PEOPLE - PEOPLE USED TO GO TO
00:38:28.60\00:38:31.23
BED WITH THE CHICKENS.
AND WITH ARTIFICIAL LIGHT, YOU
00:38:31.23\00:38:34.63
KNOW, AND THEN THEY'D BURN WHALE
OIL, WHICH WAS REALLY EXPENSIVE,
00:38:34.63\00:38:37.66
AND CANDLES AND IT WAS DANGEROUS
AND THEY HAD A LOT OF FIRES BACK
00:38:37.66\00:38:41.40
THEN. THE LIGHT
BULB CHANGED EVERYTHING.
00:38:41.40\00:38:45.00
PEOPLE WERE ABLE TO STAY UP AND
IT KIND OF CREATED ARTIFICIAL
00:38:45.00\00:38:48.56
LIGHT. WE HAVE
MORE ARTIFICIAL LIGHT -
00:38:48.56\00:38:50.53
HERE IT IS DAYTIME AND
WE'VE GOT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT.
00:38:50.53\00:38:52.70
THAT WAS UNHEARD OF
A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.
00:38:52.70\00:38:53.96
WHY WOULD YOU HAVE
LIGHT ON DURING THE DAY?
00:38:53.96\00:38:56.43
THEY JUST HAD BIG
WINDOWS. BUT WE'RE USED TO IT.
00:38:56.43\00:39:01.20
WE HAVE MORE ARTIFICIAL
LIGHT AND WE HAVE MORE DARKNESS,
00:39:01.20\00:39:04.06
SPIRITUALLY, NOW.
PEOPLE SOMEHOW THINK THAT IF
00:39:04.06\00:39:07.53
YOU'VE GOT ARTIFICIAL LIGHT IT
COMPENSATES AND YOU DON'T NEED
00:39:07.53\00:39:10.33
SPIRITUAL LIGHT.
THE TIME OF THE GREATEST
00:39:10.33\00:39:12.53
SPIRITUAL DARKNESS.
JOEL - ANOTHER MINOR PROPHET.
00:39:12.53\00:39:15.96
WE'VE ALREADY HAD A LESSON
ON JOEL, BUT LET ME JUST REVIEW
00:39:15.96\00:39:18.80
THIS: JOEL 2, VERSE 1, "BLOW THE
TRUMPET IN ZION, AND SOUND AN
00:39:18.80\00:39:22.80
ALARM IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN!
LET ALL THE INHABITANTS OF THE
00:39:22.80\00:39:25.76
LAND TREMBLE; FOR THE DAY OF
THE LORD IS COMING, FOR IT IS AT
00:39:25.76\00:39:28.96
HAND: A DAY OF DARKNESS AND
GLOOMINESS," - THAT'S WHAT WE
00:39:28.96\00:39:33.16
JUST READ IN AMOS - "A DAY
OF CLOUDS AND THICK DARKNESS."
00:39:33.16\00:39:37.40
'DARKNESS COVERS THE LAND AND
GROSS DARKNESS THE PEOPLE' AND
00:39:37.40\00:39:41.66
THIS IS ONE OF THE SIGNS. I
- LET ME SEE HERE, 2 PETER 2 -
00:39:41.66\00:39:50.10
JUST GOING TO TALK ABOUT
DARKNESS FOR A SECOND - 2 PETER
00:39:50.10\00:39:52.93
CHAPTER 2, VERSE 17, SPEAKING
OF THE LOST IT SAYS, "THESE ARE
00:39:52.93\00:39:56.70
WELLS WITHOUT WATER, CLOUDS
CARRIED BY A TEMPEST, FOR WHOM
00:39:56.70\00:40:00.76
IS RESERVED THE
BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOREVER."
00:40:00.76\00:40:04.96
JUDE 1:13 - JUDE IS QUOTING
PETER - "RAGING WAVES OF THE
00:40:04.96\00:40:09.73
SEA, FOAMING UP THEIR OWN SHAME;
WANDERING STARS FOR WHO IS
00:40:09.73\00:40:13.56
RESERVED THE
BLACKNESS OF DARKNESS FOREVER."
00:40:13.56\00:40:17.63
AND WHERE ARE THE
FALLEN ANGELS KEPT?
00:40:17.63\00:40:20.80
EVERLASTING CHAINS OF DARKNESS.
AND SO DARKNESS - YOU KNOW JESUS
00:40:20.80\00:40:26.43
SAID WE'RE THE
LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
00:40:26.43\00:40:29.13
IT'S THE OPPOSITE OF
SPIRITUAL LIGHT. YOU KNOW, I -
00:40:29.13\00:40:33.06
I THINK I SHARED THIS WITH
YOU BEFORE - THAT THE LONGEST
00:40:33.06\00:40:36.16
BURNING BULB IN THE WORLD
IS IN CALIFORNIA HANGING IN A
00:40:36.16\00:40:40.13
FIREHOUSE IN LIVERMORE AND
IT'S STILL THERE TODAY AS FAR AS
00:40:40.13\00:40:43.83
I KNOW. FROM A SINGLE
ELECTRICAL WIRE IS A LIGHT BULB.
00:40:43.83\00:40:48.53
IT'S SUPPLIED BY 120 VOLTS.
IT ONLY PUTS OUT FOUR WATTS OF
00:40:48.53\00:40:53.83
KIND OF AMBER LIGHT AND IT WAS
BURNING WHEN THE WRIGHT BROTHERS
00:40:53.83\00:40:58.73
MADE THEIR
HISTORIC FLIGHT IN 1903.
00:40:58.73\00:41:02.43
THIS LIGHT BULB HAS CONTINUED TO
CONSISTENTLY BURN THROUGH WORLD
00:41:02.43\00:41:05.63
WAR I, THE CRASH OF THE STOCK
MARKET IN 1929, IT'S BURNED ALL
00:41:05.63\00:41:09.60
THE WAY THROUGH WORLD WAR II,
AND IT'S STILL HANGING IN THE
00:41:09.60\00:41:12.73
LIVERMORE
FIREHOUSE, BURNING TODAY.
00:41:12.73\00:41:16.56
IT WAS MADE, ORIGINALLY, BY
THE SHELBY ELECTRIC COMPANY IN
00:41:16.56\00:41:19.90
OHIO. IT HAD A
LEGENDARY REPUTATION
00:41:19.90\00:41:22.66
FOR MAKING LONG-LASTING BULBS
BUT THEY EVENTUALLY WENT OUT OF
00:41:22.66\00:41:25.96
BUSINESS BECAUSE THEY
JUST WEREN'T VERY BRIGHT.
00:41:25.96\00:41:28.50
BUT BOY DID THEIR BULBS
LAST! ISN'T THAT SOMETHING?
00:41:28.50\00:41:33.96
IT'S BEEN DECLARED BY THE
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
00:41:33.96\00:41:36.73
AS THE OLDEST KNOWN
WORKING LIGHT BULB IN THE WORLD.
00:41:36.73\00:41:41.40
BUT GOD'S GOT A LIGHT THAT'S
NEVER SUPPOSED TO - YOU KNOW
00:41:41.40\00:41:44.96
THEY KEPT A LIGHT
BURNING IN THE TEMPLE HOW OFTEN?
00:41:44.96\00:41:48.60
THEY WERE NEVER SUPPOSED TO LET
THAT - ONE OF THE JOBS OF THE
00:41:48.60\00:41:51.00
PRIEST WAS - YOU KNOW, WE SORT
OF - WE MOCK - I SHOULDN'T SAY
00:41:51.00\00:41:55.60
'MOCK' - WE IMITATE THAT BY
HAVING ETERNAL FLAMES AT VARIOUS
00:41:55.60\00:42:00.20
CEMETERIES. THEY'RE
USUALLY GAS SUPPLIED AND
00:42:00.20\00:42:04.63
WE CALL IT THE ETERNAL FLAME.
THE WHOLE IDEA OF AN ETERNAL
00:42:04.63\00:42:07.50
FLAME DATES BACK ORIGINALLY
TO THE TEMPLE OF GOD WHERE THEY
00:42:07.50\00:42:10.30
WERE TO CONTINUALLY KEEP THE OIL
IN THOSE LAMPS AND NEVER LET IT
00:42:10.30\00:42:14.66
GO OUT AND FROM - IT'S BELIEVED
THAT FROM THE TIME OF SOLOMON,
00:42:14.66\00:42:18.50
WHEN THE GLORY OF THE LORD
FILLED THAT TEMPLE, UNTIL THE
00:42:18.50\00:42:21.10
TIME OF NEBUCHADNEZZAR THEY
HAD NEVER LET THAT LAMP GO OUT.
00:42:21.10\00:42:24.46
FOR ABOUT 300 YEARS
THAT LIGHT KEPT BURNING.
00:42:24.46\00:42:27.10
THIS LITTLE LIGHT OF
MINE. YOU KNOW, THE DANGER WITH
00:42:27.10\00:42:32.83
DARKNESS IS YOU CAN GET USED
TO IT. YOU CAN GET ADJUSTED TO
00:42:32.83\00:42:41.13
THE DARK. IN FACT, YOU
EVER BEEN ASLEEP IN A DARK
00:42:41.13\00:42:48.40
ROOM AND SOMEONE COMES IN AND
TURNS ON THE LIGHT AND IT HURTS?
00:42:48.40\00:42:51.93
YOU CAN GET SO USED TO THE DARK
THAT WHEN SOMEONE FINALLY DOES
00:42:51.93\00:42:54.53
TURN ON A LIGHT IT'S PAINFUL.
TRUTH CAN BE PAINFUL WHEN IT'S
00:42:54.53\00:42:59.56
FIRST REVEALED TO YOU.
AND ONE OF TWO THINGS HAPPEN
00:42:59.56\00:43:03.96
WHEN PEOPLE LEARN TRUTH.
THEY EITHER ADJUST TO THE LIGHT
00:43:03.96\00:43:09.20
AND START TO WALK IN THE LIGHT
OR THEY TURN AWAY AND GO BACK
00:43:09.20\00:43:11.80
TO DARKNESS. WHEN
YOU TURN ON A LIGHT
00:43:11.80\00:43:16.10
COCKROACHES WILL
RUN, MOTHS WILL COME.
00:43:16.10\00:43:19.83
AND THAT'S HOW IT
WILL BE WHEN JESUS COMES.
00:43:19.83\00:43:23.00
THOSE THAT LOVE THE LORD ARE
GOING TO TURN TOWARDS HIM AND
00:43:23.00\00:43:26.33
THE LOST, LIKE COCKROACHES, ARE
GOING TO SCURRY AND CALL FOR THE
00:43:26.33\00:43:29.20
ROCKS AND THE MOUNTAINS TO FALL
ON THEM AND HIDE THEM FROM THE
00:43:29.20\00:43:31.83
FACE. ALEXANDER POPE
WROTE A POEM YEARS AGO -
00:43:31.83\00:43:39.00
HE'S NO RELATION TO THE
POPE THAT I KNOW OF - "VICE IS A
00:43:39.00\00:43:42.23
MONSTER OF SO FRIGHTFUL MIEN,
AS TO BE HATED NEEDS BUT TO BE
00:43:42.23\00:43:46.83
SEEN; YET SEEN TOO OFT, FAMILIAR
00:43:46.83\00:43:49.83
WITH HER FACE, WE FIRST ENDURE,
THEN PITY, THEN EMBRACE."
00:43:49.83\00:43:55.63
VICE - FIRST ENDURED,
THEN PITIED, THEN EMBRACED.
00:43:55.63\00:44:00.13
COULD I SUGGEST TO YOU THAT
THE THINGS THAT USED TO MAKE
00:44:00.13\00:44:04.36
CHRISTIANS BLUSH 50 YEARS
AGO DON'T MAKE US BLUSH ANYMORE.
00:44:04.36\00:44:10.40
THE DARKNESS OF THE WORLD THAT
USED TO - PEOPLE WOULD CHANGE
00:44:10.40\00:44:14.06
THE CHANNELS WHEN THEY SAW
THINGS - DOESN'T EVEN GET A
00:44:14.06\00:44:18.00
RIPPLE OF CONSCIENCE ANYMORE
BECAUSE IT WAS TOLERATED AND
00:44:18.00\00:44:21.83
THEN ENDURED AND THEN EMBRACED.
00:44:21.83\00:44:24.90
AND YOU'VE MAYBE HEARD ME TELL
THE STORY ABOUT WHEN I FIRST WAS
00:44:24.90\00:44:29.26
LIVING ON THE STREETS AND I
WOULD EAT - I HAD FRIENDS THAT
00:44:29.26\00:44:32.10
WERE EATING OUT OF THE DUMPSTER
AND WHEN I FIRST SAW MY FRIENDS
00:44:32.10\00:44:35.43
DOING THAT I JUST THOUGHT THAT
THAT WAS THE GROSSEST THING THAT
00:44:35.43\00:44:38.10
I HAD EVER SEEN - THAT PEOPLE
WOULD CLIMB INTO THESE - NOW,
00:44:38.10\00:44:41.36
YOU KNOW, THEY PROTECT THEM AND
THEY CLOSE THEM AND THEY LOCK
00:44:41.36\00:44:43.73
THEM, BUT BACK THEN THEY
WERE OPEN AND YOU - WE CALLED IT
00:44:43.73\00:44:46.73
DUMPSTER DIVING AND PEOPLE WOULD
GO FIND DAY-OLD FOOD AND STUFF
00:44:46.73\00:44:50.43
OUT OF THE SUPERMARKET IN THE
DUMPSTER - AND WHEN I FIRST SAW
00:44:50.43\00:44:56.70
IT - I GREW UP, YOU KNOW, MY
MOM WAS AT LEAST MIDDLE CLASS,
00:44:56.70\00:44:59.66
MY DAD WAS ABOVE THAT. I
WENT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN
00:44:59.66\00:45:01.83
THE TWO, BUT I NEVER
ATE OUT OF THE GARBAGE CAN.
00:45:01.83\00:45:04.63
AND, YOU KNOW, THAT WAS VILE -
AND ESPECIALLY IN NEW YORK CITY.
00:45:04.63\00:45:08.70
IN NEW YORK CITY IN THE
APARTMENT BUILDINGS, WHEN YOU
00:45:08.70\00:45:11.00
DEALT WITH YOUR TRASH, YOU
WALKED TO YOUR LANDING - YOUR
00:45:11.00\00:45:13.23
BACK DOOR THAT WENT DOWN THE
EMERGENCY STAIRS AND THERE WAS A
00:45:13.23\00:45:15.83
CHUTE AND YOU'D OPEN UP THIS
CHUTE AND YOU JUST DUMPED YOUR
00:45:15.83\00:45:19.16
GARBAGE DOWN AND IT WENT TO
AN INCINERATOR IN THE BASEMENT.
00:45:19.16\00:45:22.26
AND THAT WAS BACK WHEN WE
HAD INCINERATORS AND ALL OF THE
00:45:22.26\00:45:24.56
APARTMENT BUILDINGS
HAD BLACK SMOKE COMING OUT.
00:45:24.56\00:45:27.50
OF COURSE THEY'VE OUTLAWED THAT
NOW, BUT THAT'S - ANY OF YOU
00:45:27.50\00:45:29.76
REMEMBER THOSE
DAYS IN NEW YORK CITY?
00:45:29.76\00:45:32.13
YOU JUST DUMPED IT
IN THE INCINERATOR.
00:45:32.13\00:45:34.00
I'M SURE WE DUMPED STUFF
IN THERE WE SHOULD NEVER HAVE
00:45:34.00\00:45:36.10
DUMPED IN THERE. BUT
THEY - YOU OPEN UP THAT
00:45:36.10\00:45:39.13
THING AND OH, IT
WAS AN AWFUL STENCH.
00:45:39.13\00:45:41.93
IT WAS LIKE THE LAKE OF
FIRE COMING UP THAT CHIMNEY.
00:45:41.93\00:45:45.10
SO I DIDN'T HAVE A GOOD IDEA
ABOUT GARBAGE AND WHEN I SAW
00:45:45.10\00:45:47.33
THESE PEOPLE CLIMBING OVER THE
EDGE OF THE DUMPSTER AND GETTING
00:45:47.33\00:45:50.36
FOOD OUT I
THOUGHT, 'OH, THAT'S GROSS.'
00:45:50.36\00:45:55.36
BUT THEY WERE MY FRIENDS AND SO
I WOULD STAND AT A DISTANCE AT
00:45:55.36\00:46:00.13
FIRST, BUT I GOT WHERE I GOT
CLOSER AND CLOSER. I THOUGHT,
00:46:00.13\00:46:05.50
'WELL, THEY'RE SURVIVING.
SOMEHOW IT'S NOT KILLING THEM.'
00:46:05.50\00:46:08.50
SO I GOT CLOSER AND CLOSER
AND THEN WHEN THEY'D GO DUMPSTER
00:46:08.50\00:46:10.36
DIVING I STARTED TO LOOK OVER
THE EDGE AND THEN ULTIMATELY I'D
00:46:10.36\00:46:13.70
GET RIGHT UP TO THE
EDGE AND I'D POINT AND SAY
00:46:13.70\00:46:15.43
'GRAB THAT CAN FOR ME.
IT'S JUST GOT A DENT IN IT.'
00:46:15.43\00:46:18.36
OR SOMETHING - OR 'OH IT LOOKS
LIKE THAT BREAD'S STILL GOT A
00:46:18.36\00:46:21.83
GOOD WRAPPER ON IT - THOSE
OUTSIDE SLICES HAVE A LITTLE
00:46:21.83\00:46:24.86
MOLD BUT THE INSIDE
LOOKS GOOD.' COME ON. YOU EVER
00:46:24.86\00:46:27.86
DONE THAT BEFORE? 'JUST THE
OUTSIDE SLICE HAS MOLD ON IT.'
00:46:27.86\00:46:32.56
AND THEN I GOT WHERE I WAS
REACHING OVER THE EDGE AND, YOU
00:46:32.56\00:46:36.63
KNOW, I STARTED IN AN ADVISORY
CAPACITY AND THEN PRETTY SOON I
00:46:36.63\00:46:40.16
WAS IN THERE WITH THE REST OF
THEM AND IT HAPPENED IN DEGREES.
00:46:40.16\00:46:43.86
THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WITH SIN
AND YOU CAN GET WHERE IT JUST
00:46:43.86\00:46:46.96
DOESN'T BOTHER YOU ANYMORE.
AND SOMEONE ON THE OUTSIDE OF
00:46:46.96\00:46:50.06
THE DUMPSTER WILL SAY, 'WHAT
IN THE WORLD ARE YOU DOING?'
00:46:50.06\00:46:52.10
AND YOU'LL GO 'WHAT? WHO ME?
I'M NOT DOING ANYTHING WRONG.'
00:46:52.10\00:46:54.86
AND YOU'RE IN THE GARBAGE.
AND THAT'S HOW IT IS WITH
00:46:54.86\00:46:57.50
DARKNESS. PEOPLE CAN GET SO USED
TO THE DARKNESS THAT THEY DON'T
00:46:57.50\00:47:04.46
THINK THERE'S ANYTHING
WRONG WITH IT. ALRIGHT, BACK TO
00:47:04.46\00:47:06.16
ZEPHANIAH - I'VE SORT
OF TAKEN A SIDE ROAD HERE.
00:47:06.16\00:47:09.73
IT TALKS ABOUT THE HUMBLE OF
THE LORD IN CHAPTER 2, "GATHER
00:47:09.73\00:47:13.80
YOURSELVES TOGETHER, YES,"
- THIS IS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1 -
00:47:13.80\00:47:17.70
"YES, GATHER TOGETHER, O
UNDESIRABLE NATION, BEFORE THE
00:47:17.70\00:47:20.70
DEGREE IS ISSUED, OR THE DAY
PASSES LIKE CHAFF, BEFORE THE
00:47:20.70\00:47:24.50
LORD'S FIERCE ANGER COMES
UPON YOU, BEFORE THE DAY OF THE
00:47:24.50\00:47:27.90
LORD'S ANGER COMES UPON YOU!
SEEK THE LORD, ALL YOU MEEK OF
00:47:27.90\00:47:30.90
THE EARTH, WHO
HAVE UPHELD HIS JUSTICE.
00:47:30.90\00:47:33.36
SEEK
RIGHTEOUSNESS, SEEK HUMILITY.
00:47:33.36\00:47:35.50
IT MAY BE THAT
YOU WILL BE HIDDEN." -
00:47:35.50\00:47:38.13
WHAT DOES ZEPHANIAH
MEAN? HIDDEN BY YAHWEH.
00:47:38.13\00:47:42.00
AND SO HERE YOU FIND, IN THE
MIDDLE OF THE BOOK, A PLAY ON
00:47:42.00\00:47:44.56
HIS OWN NAME WHERE HE'S SAYING,
'I'M TELLING YOU ABOUT THE
00:47:44.56\00:47:48.20
TERRIBLE DAY OF JUDGMENT."
AND IT'S LIKE, WHEN PETER GOT
00:47:48.20\00:47:50.96
DONE PREACHING, AT PENTECOST, HE
PREACHED A PRETTY HEAVY SERMON.
00:47:50.96\00:47:54.76
HE SAID, 'YOU'VE
CRUCIFIED THE MESSIAH.'
00:47:54.76\00:47:57.03
AND HE PUT THE FEAR IN THEM.
AND AFTER HE PUT THE FEAR IN
00:47:57.03\00:47:59.96
THEM THEY SAID, 'MEN AND
BRETHREN, WHAT SHALL WE DO?'
00:47:59.96\00:48:02.50
HE SAID, 'I'M GLAD
YOU ASKED. THERE IS HOPE.'
00:48:02.50\00:48:04.50
SO ZEPHANIAH NOW, DO YOU SEE
HE'S OFFERING HOPE? HE'S SAYING,
00:48:04.50\00:48:07.90
'SEEK THE LORD. YOU MAY BE
HIDDEN.' THE JUDGMENT'S COMING.
00:48:07.90\00:48:11.70
NO ESCAPE. THE DAY
OF THE LORD WILL COME.
00:48:11.70\00:48:15.26
BABYLON WAS GOING TO COME AND
DESTROY JERUSALEM BECAUSE THEY
00:48:15.26\00:48:17.56
HAD LOST - EVEN DURING THE
TIME OF JEREMIAH, THE KING HAD
00:48:17.56\00:48:21.23
SEVERAL CHANCES TO GO OUT AND
TO SURRENDER AND THEY WOULD HAVE
00:48:21.23\00:48:24.66
BEEN SPARED. BUT FINALLY THEY
REACHED A POINT OF NO RETURN
00:48:24.66\00:48:28.56
AND LIKE THE UNPARDONABLE
SIN, IS PROBATION GOING TO CLOSE
00:48:28.56\00:48:31.70
FOR PEOPLE IN THE LAST DAYS?
00:48:31.70\00:48:33.96
THERE WAS A CLOSE OF
PROBATION FOR THE CITY.
00:48:33.96\00:48:37.16
PROBATION HAD CLOSED AND HE
SAID, 'BUT, THERE'S HOPE FOR YOU
00:48:37.16\00:48:43.16
IF YOU'LL REPENT.'
PROBATION HAD CLOSED FOR THE
00:48:43.16\00:48:45.40
CITY - FOR THE NATION -
BUT THERE WAS HOPE FOR YOU.
00:48:45.40\00:48:48.63
WELL, EVEN THE NATION STILL
HAD HOPE BEYOND THAT, BUT THE
00:48:48.63\00:48:50.83
JUDGMENT OF
NEBUCHADNEZZAR WAS COMING.
00:48:50.83\00:48:53.73
AND WHO DOES HE
SAY WILL HAVE HOPE?
00:48:53.73\00:48:56.03
IT SAYS, 'THE
MEEK, THE HUMBLE.' YEAH.
00:48:56.03\00:49:02.86
SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME
PSALM 37:11 - WHO HAS THAT?
00:49:02.86\00:49:06.16
YOU MIGHT HAVE TO CHECK.
OKAY, BACK HERE - WE'LL GET TO
00:49:06.16\00:49:10.20
YOU IN JUST A SECOND. OF
COURSE, DO WE KNOW MATTHEW 5:5?
00:49:10.20\00:49:15.16
WHAT DOES THAT
SAY? IN THE BEATITUDES?
00:49:15.16\00:49:17.43
"BLESSED ARE THE MEEK, FOR
THEY SHALL INHERIT THE EARTH."
00:49:17.43\00:49:22.16
HAVE YOU NOTICED THAT THERE'S
A LOT OF SCRIPTURES IN THE BIBLE
00:49:22.16\00:49:25.16
THAT TELL US THAT IF WE HUMBLE
OURSELVES - THE HUMBLE FIND
00:49:25.16\00:49:28.63
MERCY. GOD IS
PATIENT WITH THE HUMBLE.
00:49:28.63\00:49:31.56
HE'S FORGIVING WITH THE HUMBLE.
EVEN WICKED KINGS - WHEN AHAB
00:49:31.56\00:49:35.86
HUMBLED HIMSELF
GOD SHOWED HIM MERCY.
00:49:35.86\00:49:38.46
AND SO, WHEN WE'RE MEEK AND WHEN
WE'RE HUMBLE GOD IS OFTEN VERY
00:49:38.46\00:49:41.86
PATIENT AND HE LIGHTENS THE
JUDGEMENT AND HE'LL PROTECT.
00:49:41.86\00:49:44.86
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD AND
READ FOR US PSALM 37:11.
00:49:44.86\00:49:49.03
>>"BUT THE MEEK SHALL INHERIT
THE EARTH, AND SHALL DELIGHT
00:49:49.03\00:49:51.56
THEMSELVES IN THE
ABUNDANCE OF PEACE."
00:49:51.56\00:49:54.30
>>SO WAS THERE HOPE FOR THOSE
WHO WOULD HUMBLE THEMSELVES AND
00:49:54.30\00:49:57.83
BE MEEK? WHAT'S
THE OPPOSITE OF MEEK?
00:49:57.83\00:50:04.23
DO YOU KNOW WHAT ONE OF THE
BIG SINS WAS DURING THE TIME OF
00:50:04.23\00:50:07.36
ZEDEKIAH, BEFORE THE
CITY WAS DESTROYED? HE SAID,
00:50:07.36\00:50:13.33
'NEBUCHADNEZZAR -
HE WON'T COME HERE.
00:50:13.33\00:50:16.16
WE CAN TAKE CARE OF OURSELVES.
WE DON'T NEED THE LORD.'
00:50:16.16\00:50:19.93
AND THEY WERE JUST TRUSTING
IN THEMSELVES AND GOD SAID,
00:50:19.93\00:50:22.13
'ALRIGHT, LET'S SEE HOW YOU
DO.' AND BECAUSE OF THEIR PRIDE
00:50:22.13\00:50:25.80
THEY WERE JUDGED AMONG
OTHER THINGS. MATTHEW 11:28,
00:50:25.80\00:50:30.73
CHRIST SAID - YOU KNOW
THIS ONE - THIS IS CALLED
00:50:30.73\00:50:33.66
'THE GREAT INVITATION'.
THERE'S TWO GREAT GREATS -
00:50:33.66\00:50:37.03
TWO GREAT GREATS IN MATTHEW.
ONE IS THE GREAT INVITATION -
00:50:37.03\00:50:40.26
YOU COME TO JESUS AND THE
OTHER IS THE GREAT COMMISSION -
00:50:40.26\00:50:43.00
YOU GO FOR JESUS. ONE IS MATTHEW
18 - OR MATTHEW 28:18 AND 19
00:50:43.00\00:50:48.40
AND THE OTHER IS MATTHEW 11:28
AND 29. SO IT MAKES IT EASY FOR
00:50:48.40\00:50:51.73
- ONE IS YOU COME TO GOD
THE OTHER IS YOU GO FOR GOD.
00:50:51.73\00:50:54.86
IT'S LIKE THE CROSS. YOU
COME TO GOD AND YOU GO FOR GOD.
00:50:54.86\00:50:58.66
LOVE THE LORD.
LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:50:58.66\00:51:00.83
SO YOU'VE GOT THE GREAT
INVITATION AND THE GREAT
00:51:00.83\00:51:02.96
COMMISSION IN MATTHEW. SO
THIS IS THE GREAT INVITATION.
00:51:02.96\00:51:06.26
"COME UNTO ME, ALL YE THAT
LABOR AND ARE HEAVY LADEN, AND
00:51:06.26\00:51:08.90
I WILL GIVE YOU REST.
00:51:08.90\00:51:10.23
TAKE MY YOKE UPON YOU, AND LEARN
OF ME; FOR I AM MEEK AND LOWLY
00:51:10.23\00:51:15.76
IN HEART: AND YE SHALL
FIND REST UNTO YOUR SOULS."
00:51:15.76\00:51:18.16
SO BEING CHRIST-LIKE - BEING
MEEK IS ONE OF THE WAYS TO FIND
00:51:18.16\00:51:22.03
PROTECTION IN THAT DAY
OF JUDGMENT THAT'S COMING.
00:51:22.03\00:51:25.60
WHAT ARE THE FRUITS OF
THE SPIRIT? 'LOVE, JOY, PEACE,
00:51:25.60\00:51:30.20
LONGSUFFERING, GENTLENESS,
GOODNESS, FAITH, MEEKNESS' - WE
00:51:30.20\00:51:35.46
TALKED ABOUT THIS 'DO JUSTLY,
LOVE MERCY, WALK HUMBLY WITH
00:51:35.46\00:51:40.50
YOUR GOD' WHEN WE TALKED ABOUT
MICAH. 'MEEKNESS, TEMPERANCE,
00:51:40.50\00:51:44.10
AGAINST SUCH THERE IS NO LAW.
BUT THE UNGODLY ARE NOT SO, BUT
00:51:44.10\00:51:48.26
LIKE THE CHAFF OF THE WIND THAT
DRIVES THEM AWAY.' ZEPHANIAH
00:51:48.26\00:51:51.73
WAS TALKING ABOUT THE CHAFF
THAT WOULD DRIVE THEM AWAY.
00:51:51.73\00:51:54.73
AND IF YOU LOOK IN CHAPTER 3 -
CHAPTER 3 OF ZEPHANIAH, VERSE 1.
00:51:54.73\00:52:02.53
IT SAYS, "WOE TO HER WHO IS
REBELLIOUS AND POLLUTED, TO THE
00:52:02.53\00:52:07.63
OPPRESSING CITY! SHE
HAS NOT OBEYED HIS VOICE,
00:52:07.63\00:52:11.43
SHE HAS NOT RECEIVED CORRECTION;
SHE HAS NOT TRUSTED IN THE LORD,
00:52:11.43\00:52:15.40
SHE HAS NOT
DRAWN NEAR TO HER GOD."
00:52:15.40\00:52:19.66
BECAUSE SHE'S NOT DOING THESE
THINGS - NOW, IN THE PREVIOUS
00:52:19.66\00:52:21.73
VERSE IT SAYS,
'SEEK, SEEK, SEEK.'
00:52:21.73\00:52:25.46
IN ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 1
THROUGH 3 - THREE TIMES IT SAYS
00:52:25.46\00:52:29.23
'SEEK, SEEK, SEEK.' WHAT
DOES JESUS SAY ABOUT THOSE
00:52:29.23\00:52:31.03
WHO SEEK? THEY WILL FIND.
00:52:31.03\00:52:34.16
THE LORD SAYS IN JEREMIAH 29:13,
"YOU WILL SEARCH FOR ME AND
00:52:34.16\00:52:37.46
YOU'LL FIND ME WHEN YOU SEARCH
FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART."
00:52:37.46\00:52:40.33
HERE IN ZEPHANIAH CHAPTER 3 IT
SAYS, JUDGMENT IS COMING BECAUSE
00:52:40.33\00:52:43.86
THEY DID NOT RECEIVE CORRECTION.
THEY WOULD NOT SEARCH WHEN THEY
00:52:43.86\00:52:49.83
HAD AN OPPORTUNITY TO
SEARCH. SHE'S NOT DRAWN NEAR.
00:52:49.83\00:52:52.93
BUT THEN, FINALLY, IT
TELLS US THAT THERE'S HOPE.
00:52:52.93\00:52:56.83
AND GOING BACK TO ZEPHANIAH, IF
WE LOOK IN CHAPTER 3 THERE'S A
00:52:56.83\00:53:02.00
LOT OF PROMISES THERE.
"SING O DAUGHTER" - O LET ME SEE
00:53:02.00\00:53:06.40
HERE - YOU CAN GO TO
CHAPTER 3, VERSE - OH, VERSE 9.
00:53:06.40\00:53:10.43
I'M GOING TO END UP
READING THE WHOLE CHAPTER.
00:53:10.43\00:53:12.10
VERSE 9, "FOR THEN I WILL
RESTORE TO THE PEOPLES A PURE
00:53:12.10\00:53:14.90
LANGUAGE, THAT THEY ALL MAY
CALL ON THE NAME OF THE LORD, TO
00:53:14.90\00:53:19.40
SERVE HIM WITH ONE ACCORD.
FROM BEYOND THE RIVERS OF
00:53:19.40\00:53:21.56
ETHIOPIA MY WORSHIPERS, THE
DAUGHTER OF MY DISPERSED ONES,"
00:53:21.56\00:53:26.06
- SO IT SAYS THEY'D BE DISPERSED
- "SHALL BRING MY OFFERING.
00:53:26.06\00:53:29.10
IN THAT DAY YOU SHALL NOT BE
SHAMED FOR ANY OF YOUR DEEDS" -
00:53:29.10\00:53:32.86
WON'T THAT BE NICE TO NOT
FEEL GUILTY AND NOT TO BE SHAMED
00:53:32.86\00:53:35.13
BECAUSE THEY'RE FORGIVEN?
00:53:35.13\00:53:36.40
- "IN WHICH YOU TRANSGRESS
AGAINST ME; FOR THEN I WILL TAKE
00:53:36.40\00:53:38.96
AWAY FROM YOUR MIDST THOSE WHO
REJOICE IN YOUR PRIDE, AND YOU
00:53:38.96\00:53:46.20
SHALL NO LONGER BE
HAUGHTY IN MY HOLY MOUNTAIN."
00:53:46.20\00:53:49.13
- HOLY MOUNTAIN IS TALKING
ABOUT, ULTIMATELY, THE KINGDOM -
00:53:49.13\00:53:51.56
"I WILL LEAVE IN YOUR MIDST A
MEEK AND HUMBLE PEOPLE, AND THEY
00:53:51.56\00:53:56.60
SHALL TRUST IN THE NAME
OF THE LORD. THE REMNANT"
00:53:56.60\00:53:59.60
- THERE YOU'VE GOT THE REMNANT
AGAIN - "THE REMNANT OF ISRAEL
00:53:59.60\00:54:02.80
SHALL DO NO UNRIGHTEOUSNESS
AND SPEAK" - VERY FEW LIES? -
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"NO LIES, NOR SHALL A
DECEITFUL TONGUE BE FOUND IN
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THEIR MOUTH; FOR THEY SHALL FEED
THEIR FLOCKS AND LIE DOWN, AND
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NO ONE SHALL MAKE THEM AFRAID."
ULTIMATELY, WHAT IS HE TALKING
00:54:15.40\00:54:18.06
ABOUT? WHEN HE
SAYS, 'THEY'LL LIE DOWN,
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THEY'LL FEED THEIR FLOCK,
NO ONE WILL MAKE THEM AFRAID'?
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HE'S TALKING ABOUT SOME OF THE
SAME PROPHECIES IN ISAIAH WHERE
00:54:22.96\00:54:26.26
HE SAYS, 'WE HAVE NOTHING
TO FEAR WHEN WE'RE IN HEAVEN.'
00:54:26.26\00:54:30.36
HE'S TALKING ABOUT THE ULTIMATE
PROMISED LAND AFTER THAT DAY OF
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JUDGMENT THAT'S
COMING IN THE FUTURE FOR US.
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ALRIGHT, GOT TO THE BOOK
OF NAHUM. I'VE GOT A MINUTE.
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IN NAHUM CHAPTER 1 IT SAYS,
"THE BURDEN AGAINST NINEVEH.
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THE BOOK OF THE VISION OF NAHUM
THE ELKOSHITE." NOW, THIS VISION
00:54:45.43\00:54:51.53
AGAINST NINEVEH WAS ALSO GREATLY
JUDGED AND THEY WERE DESTROYED.
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YOU CAN READ IN OH, VERSE 5 FOR
INSTANCE, "THE MOUNTAINS QUAKE
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BEFORE HIM, THE HILLS MELT,
AND THE EARTH HEAVES AT HIS
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PRESENCE, YES, THE WORLD
AND ALL WHO DWELL IN IT."
00:55:06.93\00:55:10.00
OH, WE'VE GOT TIME.
SOMEBODY LOOK UP PSALM 97,
00:55:10.00\00:55:12.90
VERSES 3 TO 5. DID
SOMEBODY GET THAT VERSE?
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RIGHT UP FRONT
HERE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP.
00:55:15.53\00:55:17.26
WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE.
WHERE'S THE MICROPHONE? OKAY.
00:55:17.26\00:55:24.16
IT TALKS ABOUT THE
JUDGMENT THAT WAS GOING TO COME.
00:55:24.16\00:55:28.30
YOU KNOW THERE'S AN INTERESTING
VERSE IN NAHUM - HAVE YOU READ
00:55:28.30\00:55:31.63
THAT ONE? IT SAYS
THAT 'THEIR CHARIOTS
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RAGE IN THE
STREET LIKE LIGHTNING.
00:55:33.06\00:55:35.03
THEIR TORCHES BLAZING.'
AND I REMEMBER WHEN SOMEONE
00:55:35.03\00:55:37.00
FIRST SHOWED ME THAT THEY
SAID, 'THAT'S A PROPHECY OF
00:55:37.00\00:55:39.66
AUTOMOBILES.' HAVE
YOU EVER SEEN THAT?
00:55:39.66\00:55:43.40
IT KIND OF SOUNDS LIKE THAT WHEN
YOU FIRST READ IT. IT'S NOT.
00:55:43.40\00:55:46.10
IT'S JUST TALKING ABOUT WHEN
THERE WAS A WAR RAGING THAT WENT
00:55:46.10\00:55:49.70
ON INTO THE NIGHT WHEN NINEVEH
WAS DESTROYED AND - ALRIGHT, I
00:55:49.70\00:55:54.70
THINK WE'RE READY FOR THAT.
LET'S GO AHEAD AND LET'S READ
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PSALM 97, VERSE 3. >>"A
FIRE GOES BEFORE HIM, AND
00:55:56.56\00:56:01.30
BURNS UP HIS
ENEMIES ROUND ABOUT.
00:56:01.30\00:56:04.56
HIS LIGHTNINGS LIGHT THE WORLD;
THE EARTH SEES AND TREMBLES.
00:56:04.56\00:56:09.66
THE MOUNTAINS MELT LIKE WAX AT
THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD, AT THE
00:56:09.66\00:56:14.13
PRESENCE OF THE LORD OF
THE WHOLE EARTH." >>THANK YOU.
00:56:14.13\00:56:19.13
YOU KNOW, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT
A COUPLE OF PROPHECIES AND MINOR
00:56:19.13\00:56:21.83
PROPHETS THAT TALK
ABOUT DAYS OF JUDGMENT COMING.
00:56:21.83\00:56:24.93
NOW, ONE WAS JUDAH AND JERUSALEM
THROUGH NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND THE
00:56:24.93\00:56:28.53
BABYLONIANS, THE OTHER ONE
WAS ON ASSYRIA BECAUSE THEY HAD
00:56:28.53\00:56:31.76
CARRIED AWAY - THEY HAD EXECUTED
JUDGMENT ON THE TEN TRIBES.
00:56:31.76\00:56:36.03
THE THING THAT I LIKE IN BOTH
BOOKS IS THAT YOU FIND HOPE.
00:56:36.03\00:56:40.23
IT SAYS THERE'S A JUDGMENT
COMING BUT GOD IS GOING TO HAVE
00:56:40.23\00:56:42.13
A PEOPLE THAT WILL TRUST HIM.
THEY'LL DO NO LIES, THEY'RE MEEK
00:56:42.13\00:56:45.36
AND HUMBLE IN THEIR HEARTS, THEY
FOLLOW THE LORD AND HE CAN HIDE
00:56:45.36\00:56:48.76
THEM IN THE CLEFT OF THE ROCK,
IF YOU WILL, DURING THAT TIME OF
00:56:48.76\00:56:53.13
JUDGMENT SO WE
DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
00:56:53.13\00:56:55.36
BUT WE NEED TO BE
AWARE OF WHAT'S COMING.
00:56:55.36\00:56:58.03
DID THOSE
JUDGMENTS COME UPON ASSYRIA?
00:56:58.03\00:57:00.53
DID THEY COME
ON JERUSALEM? YEAH.
00:57:00.53\00:57:03.50
IS THE JUDGMENT COMING ON
THE WORLD THAT JESUS SPOKE OF?
00:57:03.50\00:57:07.93
WE NEED TO BE HIDDEN IN CHRIST.
THAT'S THE ONLY PLACE TO HIDE.
00:57:07.93\00:57:10.40
HE'S OUR ZEPHANIAH, AMEN?
ALRIGHT, WE'RE OUT OF TIME BUT I
00:57:10.40\00:57:13.86
WANT TO REMIND YOU WE DO
HAVE A FREE OFFER AND IT'S
00:57:13.86\00:57:16.36
'PENDING: YOUR CASE IN COURT'.
JUST CALL THE NUMBER ON YOUR
00:57:16.36\00:57:19.50
SCREEN AND ASK FOR OFFER #192.
WE'LL BE HAPPY TO SEND IT TO
00:57:19.50\00:57:22.80
YOU. AND, GOD WILLING, WE LOOK
00:57:22.80\00:57:24.83
FORWARD TO STUDYING
TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK.
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>>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED
THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH.
00:57:28.73\00:57:32.83
FOR THOUSANDS OF
YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD
00:57:32.83\00:57:35.33
ON THE SEVENTH DAY OF THE WEEK.
NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF
00:57:35.33\00:57:39.06
PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE
FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED?
00:57:39.06\00:57:43.16
WHY DID GOD
CREATE A DAY OF REST?
00:57:43.16\00:57:45.53
DOES IT REALLY
MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP?
00:57:45.53\00:57:48.16
WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT?
DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S
00:57:48.16\00:57:51.63
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