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>>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
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HERE IN SUNNY
SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA.
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WE'RE SO EXCITED THAT YOU
ARE JOINING US - WHETHER THIS IS
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YOUR FIRST TIME
OR YOU DO EVERY WEEK.
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HAPPY SABBATH AND A BIG
WELCOME FROM CENTRAL CHURCH.
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WE KNOW THERE'S MANY OF YOU
LISTENING ON THE RADIO OR YOU'RE
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WATCHING LIVE RIGHT NOW AT OUR
WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR
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THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS
- IT DOESN'T MATTER HOWEVER
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YOU'RE JOINING US - WELCOME.
AND WE ARE SO EXCITED BECAUSE WE
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HAVE A SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR YOU.
JUST LIKE LAST WEEK WE HAD EXTRA
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SPECIAL MUSIC, TODAY IS
NO EXCEPTION. WE'RE JOINED
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THIS MORNING BY WEIMAR
ACADEMY - OH, NOT FAR FROM HERE.
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THEY'RE JUST UP THE INTERSTATE
80 AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE
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PROVIDING OUR MUSIC AND I
WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO
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CHAD BERNARD. CHAD IS THE
PRINCIPAL AT WEIMAR ACADEMY.
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I HAVE A - GOOD MORNING! I
HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU.
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TELL ME ABOUT WEIMAR. IF
SOMEONE HAS NEVER HEARD OF
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YOU BEFORE, WHAT IS IT?
>>OKAY, WEIMAR ACADEMY IS JUST
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LIKE YOU SAID - IT'S JUST UP
THE HILL ABOUT 40 MINUTES AND WE
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HAVE AN - PRAISE GOD WE
HAVE AN AMAZING PROGRAM.
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I MEAN, YOU WOULD EXPECT
THE PRINCIPAL TO BE PRO -
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FOR THE ACADEMY.
I'M 100 PERCENT BIASED.
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WE HAVE AN AMAZING GROUP OF
YOUNG PEOPLE - 57 STUDENTS THIS
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YEAR - AND OUR FOCUS IS, QUITE
SIMPLY, TRAIN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE
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TO - WHATEVER THEY CHOOSE TO DO
IN LIFE - TO DO IT FOR THE GLORY
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OF GOD. AND OUR
FOCUS IS CHRIST AND
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LOVING EACH OTHER LIKE
GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO.
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OUR PROGRAM IS - COULD BE UNIQUE
COMPARED TO OTHER SCHOOLS.
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WE HAVE TIME EVERY DAY WHERE THE
KIDS CAN GET INTO OUR GARDENS
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THAT ARE CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL AND
THEY'LL LEARN ABOUT AGRICULTURE.
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WE HAVE AN AMAZING AGRICULTURE
TEACHER THAT JUST CONNECTS
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EVERYTHING TO CHRIST AND THAT'S
A BLESSING. WE HAVE A WORK-ED
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PROGRAM WHERE THE KIDS
ARE WORKING DIFFERENT JOBS.
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SOME ARE LAYING TILE, SOME ARE
DOING MASON WORK, SOME ARE DOING
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PLANT SERVICES - THEY'RE
OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY LIKE
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WEED WHACKERS AND RAKES
AND SHOVELS, SOME ARE IN THE
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CAFETERIA. BUT THEY WORK EVERY
DAY - TRYING TO INSTILL IN THEM
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A SOLID WORK ETHIC. AND
WE DO A LOT OF EVANGELISM.
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WE LIKE TO TRAVEL INTO OUR
COMMUNITY, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD.
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WE VISITED THE PHILIPPINES,
KOREA, BELIZE - WE ALSO WENT TO
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A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION IN
UTAH THIS YEAR - SO OUR FOCUS IS
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REALLY BEING PASSIONATE ABOUT
CHRIST AND SERVING OUR FELLOW
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MAN. >>THAT IS AWESOME.
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I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED TO SEE KIDS
AND I GUESS THAT MAKES ME SOUND
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REALLY OLD - I'M TALKING
ABOUT KIDS - DOING A WORK STUDY
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PROGRAM AND LEARNING TO WORK AND
BE - YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GRADUATE
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FROM HIGH SCHOOL YOU ALREADY
KNOW WHAT TO DO OUT THERE.
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>>ABSOLUTELY. OUR
FOCUS IS ON CHARACTER
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BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THAT
THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
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YOU - THIS IS A
PRACTICAL WAY OF LIVING.
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WHETHER YOU GET A JOB OR RETAIN
A JOB IS BASED ON YOUR CHARACTER
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- YOUR WORK ETHIC -
IF PEOPLE CAN TRUST YOU.
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THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU GOT AN
'A' IN HOME-EC OR NOT, THEY CARE
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ABOUT IF YOU'LL
REPRESENT THEIR COMPANY WELL.
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AND WE HAVE A HIGHER AIM. WE
WANT TO REPRESENT CHRIST WELL
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BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO WE WANT TO
LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HAVE
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FAVOR WITH MEN, WE WANT GOD
TO BE PLEASED WITH ALL WE DO.
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AND WE FIND THAT THAT IS A
METHOD FOR SUCCESS AND OUR YOUNG
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PEOPLE ARE HAPPY. WE HAVE A
GOOD TIME. WE ENJOY LIFE AND GOD
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IS RICHLY BLESSING
OUR SCHOOL. >>GREAT.
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SO IF YOU WANT - IF SOMEONE
WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION
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ABOUT WEIMAR ACADEMY,
WHAT DO THEY NEED TO DO?
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>>OH, THEY CAN JUST GO TO
THE WEBSITE. IT'S 'WEIMAR.EDU' -
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W-E-I-M-A-R - QUITE
SIMPLE. AND CHECK US OUT ONLINE.
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>>PERFECT. THANK
YOU VERY MUCH CHAD.
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AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO
LISTEN TO TWO BEAUTIFUL PIECES
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BY THE WEIMAR
ACADEMY CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA.
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THE FIRST IS 'ANTHEM OF
PRAISE' AND THEN 'O MY JESUS'.
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(MUSIC)
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>>BEAUTIFUL. I'VE
NEVER HEARD 'A VOW TO THEE
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MY COUNTRY' WITH OTHER
WORDS BEFORE. THAT IS LOVELY.
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THANK YOU SO MUCH
WEIMAR ACADEMY AND ORCHESTRA.
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IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU
HERE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MORE
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MUSIC FOLLOWING IN
MORE OF THE SERVICE TODAY.
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AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE
FOR YOU TO JOIN ME AS WE PRAY.
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FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO
MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TODAY
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TO WORSHIP YOU. THANK
YOU FOR BRINGING WEIMAR
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ACADEMY TO BLESS US
WITH HEAVENLY MUSIC.
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I PRAY THAT YOU WILL
COME AND LIVE IN OUR HEARTS.
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BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP
YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER.
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BE WITH OUR EXTENDED
FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD.
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YOU KNOW EACH AND EVERY ONE AND
WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT ONE
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DAY WE WILL GET TO JOIN TOGETHER
ON THE STREETS OF GOLD AND SING
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PRAISES TO YOU. BE WITH
OUR SPEAKER AS HE BRINGS
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US THE LESSON STUDY AND JUST MAY
WE FEEL YOUR PRESENCE AS WE OPEN
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UP YOUR WORD. 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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YES - BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR,
OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT
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SACRAMENTO CENTRAL
SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
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>>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND THANK YOU
TO THE WEIMAR ACADEMY ORCHESTRA
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AND CHOIR. I
ENJOYED THAT VERY MUCH.
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AND WELCOME FRIENDS. I'M
GOING TO BE DOING SABBATH
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SCHOOL FROM UP HERE TODAY
BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME OF THE
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MUSIC APPARATUS DOWN THERE AND
I MIGHT HURT MYSELF AND I DON'T
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KNOW IF OUR
INSURANCE WOULD COVER THAT.
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WE ARE CONTINUING WITH
OUR STUDY GUIDE DEALING WITH
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'MAJOR LESSONS FROM
THE MINOR PROPHETS'.
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AND IN A MOMENT WE'LL DELVE
INTO THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH.
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WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE WANT
TO MENTION TO YOU CALLED 'NO
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TURNING BACK' AND IT TALKS ABOUT
MAKING A COMMITMENT TO FOLLOW
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THE LORD AND NOT BEING
DISCOURAGED AND TURNING BACK
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FROM THAT. AND IF
YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF
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THAT, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS
CALL THE NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE
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THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL
SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE AND -
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UNDER THE CONDITION THAT YOU DO
READ IT AND IT'D BE NICE IF YOU
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SHARED IT WITH
SOMEONE AFTERWARD.
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I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME SOME OF
THE EXTENDED MEMBERS OF CENTRAL
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CHURCH THAT MAY BE WATCHING.
WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF
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FRIENDS FROM ALL DIFFERENT PARTS
OF THE WORLD THAT STUDY THE
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LESSON WITH US AND WE'RE
GLAD THAT YOU'VE TUNED IN TODAY.
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TODAY WE DELVE INTO A
BOOK THAT HAS 14 CHAPTERS.
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WE'RE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO
GET INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THAT.
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WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MINOR
PROPHETS, BUT ZECHARIAH IS
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PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE MAJOR
BOOKS OF THE MINOR PROPHETS.
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IT'S ALSO CONSIDERED TO BE ONE
OF THE APOCALYPTIC BOOKS OF THE
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BIBLE. PRINCIPALLY FOUR OF THESE
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APOCALYPTIC BOOKS THAT HAVE
A NUMBER OF VISIONS IN THEM AND
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THE OTHERS ARE - WELL,
REVELATION, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE
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EZEKIEL, YOU'VE GOT THE BOOK OF
ZECHARIAH AND THE BOOK OF ISAIAH
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HAS ALSO GOT SOME VISIONS IN IT.
BUT WE'RE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE
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TO GET THROUGH PROBABLY THE
FIRST SEVEN CHAPTERS AND WE'LL
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BE BLESSED IF WE
CAN DO THAT TODAY.
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WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE
THAT COMES TO US FROM CHAPTER 3,
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VERSE 10 IN YOUR LESSONS AND
I'LL BE DOING IT FROM THE NEW
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KING JAMES VERSION. I
ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN
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SAY THAT ALONG WITH ME.
OUR MEMORY VERSE IS ZECHARIAH
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CHAPTER 3, VERSE
10 AND ARE YOU READY?
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"'IN THAT DAY,' SAYS THE LORD OF
HOSTS, 'EVERYONE WILL INVITE HIS
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NEIGHBOR UNDER HIS VINE
AND UNDER HIS FIG TREE.'"
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NOW THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE
BOOK OF ZECHARIAH IS TO TRY TO
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ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE. HE
PROPHESIES ABOUT TWO MONTHS
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AFTER THE BOOK OF HAGGAI -
OR HAGGAI BEGINS HIS PROPHECIES.
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THEY'RE STILL IN THE SITUATION
WHERE THEY'RE WANTING TO REBUILD
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THE TEMPLE BUT IT'S BEEN
SUSPENDED FOR SOME TIME AND
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ZECHARIAH COMES ALONG TO
ENCOURAGE AND TO COMFORT THE
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PEOPLE. ONE OF THE
THINGS HE DOES IS HE
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REMINDS THE PEOPLE THAT THIS
TEMPLE, THOUGH SMALLER IN SCALE
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THAN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON, THIS
TEMPLE IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT
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IS THE TEMPLE THE MESSIAH IS
ACTUALLY GOING TO COME TO AND SO
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HE SPENDS QUITE A BIT OF
TIME IN HIS BOOK TALKING ABOUT -
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ENCOURAGING THE PEOPLE, SPEAKING
PEACE TO THE PEOPLE, ALSO GIVING
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SOME WARNINGS AND SOME
COUNSEL AND PROPHETIC ADVICE.
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THE NAME ZECHARIAH MEANS - AND
YOU ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE A GOOD
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LOOK AT THE NAMES OF
THESE PROPHETS - IT MEANS 'GOD
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REMEMBERS' OR
'GOD HAS REMEMBERED'.
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AND THROUGH THE WHOLE PROPHECY
OF ZECHARIAH, HE CONTINUES TO
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REMIND THEM GOD
HAS NOT FORGOTTEN THEM.
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IT SEEMS, AT TIMES, LIKE THEY'RE
GOING TO BE ENVELOPED BY THEIR
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ENEMIES AND THEY'LL NEVER BE
ABLE TO FULFILL THE BIG PURPOSE
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THAT GOD HAD AND HE'S THERE TO
ENCOURAGE THEM, 'IT IS GOING TO
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HAPPEN.' NOW, YOU FIND THAT NAME
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'ZECHARIAH' IN THE
BIBLE ABOUT 29 TIMES.
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WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW
TESTAMENT IT'S CALLED ZACHARIAS.
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THAT'S JUST THE GREEK
WAY OF SAYING 'ZECHARIAH'.
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IT'S THE SAME NAME. SO IT
WAS A VERY COMMON NAME AND
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ESPECIALLY COMMON
AMONG THE PRIESTS.
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NOW, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I WANT
TO SAY THIS BECAUSE IT COULD
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JUST RAISE A QUESTION.
ZECHARIAH IS KNOWN AS - IF YOU
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LOOK IN VERSE 1, ZECHARIAH
CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 - "IN THE
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EIGHTH MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR
OF DARIUS, THE WORD OF THE LORD
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CAME TO ZECHARIAH THE SON OF
BERECHIAH, THE SON OF IDDO THE
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PROPHET," -
ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH.
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YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ANOTHER
PRIEST BY THE NAME OF ZECHARIAH
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WHO WAS THE SON OF JEHOIADA
AND HE WAS KILLED IN THE TEMPLE
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BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR.
THEY STONED HIM TO DEATH BECAUSE
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KING JOASH, WHO WAS GOOD WHEN HE
WAS YOUNG - KING JOASH WENT BAD
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UNDER THE ADVICE OF SOME BAD
ADVISORS AND THEY TURNED FROM
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LISTENING TO THE LORD AND SO
THEY HAD ZECHARIAH THE SON OF
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JEHOIADA SLAIN BETWEEN
THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR.
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JESUS, IN GIVING A PROPHECY, HE
SAYS, 'ALL THE BLOOD' - SPEAKING
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TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN
HIS DAY - 'ALL THE BLOOD OF
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RIGHTEOUS ABEL UNTO THE
BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH THE SON OF
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BERECHIAH, WHO WAS SLAIN BETWEEN
THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR, WILL
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COME UPON THIS GENERATION.'
AND THAT CAN CAUSE A LOT OF
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CONFUSION. THEY'RE
WONDERING, 'DID THE
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SCRIBE MAKE AN ERROR?
DID THE SCRIBE MEAN ZECHARIAH
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SON OF JEHOIADA?'
BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ABOUT
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HIM BEING SLAIN BETWEEN
THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR.
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OR WAS IT SAYING THAT THIS
PROPHET LATER ALSO DIED BETWEEN
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THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR?
ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH.
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SO I'LL LET YOU LOOK AT THE
COMMENTARIES AND FIGURE THAT OUT
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FOR YOURSELF BUT, IF YOU'VE
RUN INTO THAT - HOW MANY OF YOU
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REMEMBER WHEN JESUS SAYS, 'ALL
THE BLOOD OF RIGHTEOUS ABEL UNTO
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THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH
WILL COME UPON THIS GENERATION'?
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SO ZECHARIAH, WHILE HE STARTED
YOUNG AS A GOOD PROPHET, IT MAY
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BE HE WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE
TEMPLE BECAUSE IT DOES SAY THAT
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HE WAS A PROPHET AND MAY HAVE
BEEN IN THERE AND COULD HAVE
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MADE PEOPLE MAD. BUT
THAT MUST HAVE HAPPENED MUCH
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LATER IN HIS
LIFE IF IT HAPPENED.
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AND HE SAYS, "THE LORD HAS BEEN
VERY ANGRY WITH YOUR FATHERS" -
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I'M IN CHAPTER 1 - "THEREFORE
SAY TO THEM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD
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OF HOSTS: 'RETURN TO ME,' SAYS
THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'AND I WILL
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RETURN TO YOU.'"
ALRIGHT, WE'VE GIVEN OUT A FEW
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VERSES - I DON'T KNOW WHO GOT
THEM BUT SOMEBODY GOT JAMES 4:8.
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IF YOU GOT THAT VERSE HOLD
YOUR HAND UP AND WE'LL GET YOU A
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MICROPHONE. THAT
DIDN'T TAKE TOO LONG.
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AND WE'LL HAVE YOU
READ THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
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THIS IS A VERY
IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE.
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GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE FREQUENTLY
WANDERED FROM THE LORD AND WE
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WANT TO KNOW 'WHAT'S THE
FORMULA FOR COMING BACK?'
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HAS THE LORD FOLDED HIS
ARMS AND TURNED HIS BACK ON US?
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CAN WE EVER RETURN TO THE LORD?
THERE'S A PROMISE YOU FIND IN
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JAMES 4:8. WE'RE
GOING TO READ THAT.
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GO AHEAD ELIZABETH. >>IT
SAYS, "DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND
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HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU.
CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU SINNERS;
00:19:51.76\00:19:55.43
AND PURIFY YOUR
HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED."
00:19:55.43\00:19:59.03
>>WHAT DOES IT TAKE
FOR GOD TO RECEIVE US?
00:19:59.03\00:20:04.93
HOW DID THE FATHER RESPOND - THE
FATHER OF THE PRODIGAL SON WHEN
00:20:04.93\00:20:11.60
HIS BOY HAD WANDERED AWAY - WHAT
DID THE BOY HAVE TO DO IN ORDER
00:20:11.60\00:20:15.90
FOR THE FATHER TO RECEIVE HIM?
IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE SAW HIM COMING
00:20:15.90\00:20:20.10
A GREAT WAY OFF
HE RAN TO MEET HIM.'
00:20:20.10\00:20:23.10
AND IN THE SAME WAY, WHEN
GOD SEES US DRAWING NEAR TO HIM,
00:20:23.10\00:20:27.43
HE THEN DRAWS NEAR
TO US. DOES GOD SAY,
00:20:27.43\00:20:30.73
'OH NO, HERE THEY COME AGAIN.
I AM SO TIRED OF THEIR MESSING
00:20:30.73\00:20:33.33
UP AND THEN THEY SAY,
'I'M SORRY. 'SURE YOU ARE.
00:20:33.33\00:20:37.30
WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN'?
OR DOES GOD REJOICE WHEN HE SEES
00:20:37.30\00:20:40.43
US MAKING THE FIRST
EFFORTS TO COME NEAR HIM?
00:20:40.43\00:20:44.20
AND THAT'S WHAT YOU
FIND RIGHT HERE IN ZECHARIAH.
00:20:44.20\00:20:46.23
'DRAW NEAR TO ME. RETURN
TO ME SAYS THE LORD AND I
00:20:46.23\00:20:49.13
WILL RETURN TO YOU.' AND
THAT'S CALLED REPENTANCE.
00:20:49.13\00:20:52.36
WHEN WE MAKE THE FIRST
STEPS OF JOURNEYING BACK TO GOD,
00:20:52.36\00:20:55.40
HE COMES BACK TO US.
00:20:55.40\00:20:57.60
AND THEN YOU FIND ANOTHER PHRASE
IN CHAPTER 1, ZECHARIAH 1, VERSE
00:20:57.60\00:21:01.63
12, "THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD
ANSWERED AND SAID, 'O LORD OF
00:21:01.63\00:21:05.66
HOSTS, HOW LONG WILL YOU NOT
HAVE MERCY ON JERUSALEM AND ON
00:21:05.66\00:21:09.83
THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AGAINST
WHICH YOU WERE ANGRY THESE
00:21:09.83\00:21:12.70
SEVENTY YEARS?'" YOU
KNOW, THERE ARE SPELLS
00:21:12.70\00:21:16.36
WHERE GOD HAS WITHDRAWN HIS
MERCY AND HIS PROTECTION BECAUSE
00:21:16.36\00:21:20.63
THE PEOPLE HAD REJECTED HIM.
HOW LONG DOES HE MAKE US WAIT?
00:21:20.63\00:21:24.33
DID GOD SAY THAT THEY WOULD
SUFFER SEVENTY YEARS BECAUSE HE
00:21:24.33\00:21:29.50
JUST FIGURED THIS IS HOW
MUCH PUNISHMENT THEY NEEDED?
00:21:29.50\00:21:32.53
OR DID HE SAY SEVENTY YEARS
BECAUSE GOD KNEW HOW LONG IT
00:21:32.53\00:21:34.73
WOULD BE UNTIL
THEY RETURNED TO HIM?
00:21:34.73\00:21:37.46
YOU KNOW, YOU READ IN DANIEL
CHAPTER 9 AND DANIEL BEGINS TO
00:21:37.46\00:21:41.10
PRAY, AFTER THEY'VE BEEN THERE
SEVENTY YEARS, AND A REVIVAL
00:21:41.10\00:21:45.80
BEGAN AND THAT'S WHEN THINGS
CHANGED IN BABYLON AND IT BECAME
00:21:45.80\00:21:50.30
POSSIBLE FOR THE
CHILDREN TO COME HOME.
00:21:50.30\00:21:52.16
GOD JUST KNEW IT WAS
GOING TO TAKE THAT LONG FOR THAT
00:21:52.16\00:21:54.60
GENERATION TO FINALLY
TURN TO HIM. HOW LONG?
00:21:54.60\00:21:58.96
YOU FIND THAT
SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE.
00:21:58.96\00:22:01.00
LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN PSALM
CHAPTER 74, VERSE 10, AND WE
00:22:01.00\00:22:05.86
READ THERE, "O GOD, HOW LONG
WITH THE ADVERSARY REPROACH?
00:22:05.86\00:22:11.83
WILL THE ENEMY
BLASPHEME YOUR NAME FOREVER?"
00:22:11.83\00:22:14.53
HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED -
YOU KNOW, AT THE TIME OF THIS
00:22:14.53\00:22:17.23
RECORDING - AND, OF COURSE,
THIS IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
00:22:17.23\00:22:20.70
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY. WE
HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT -
00:22:20.70\00:22:22.60
A LOT OF PEOPLE STUDY ALONG WITH
US FROM OTHER CHURCHES AND IN
00:22:22.60\00:22:29.33
THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST
CHURCH, THE VERY NAME EMBODIES
00:22:29.33\00:22:34.03
THE IDEA THAT WE BELIEVE IN
THE IMMINENT RETURN OF JESUS.
00:22:34.03\00:22:38.53
SEVENTH DAY MEANS WE BELIEVE
IN THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD
00:22:38.53\00:22:41.66
INCLUDING THE SEVENTH DAY
SABBATH AND ADVENTIST MEANS WE
00:22:41.66\00:22:45.03
BELIEVE IN THE RETURN - THAT'S
WHAT AN ADVENTIST - IT MEANS
00:22:45.03\00:22:48.00
'THE COMING OF'. IT'S
WHERE YOU GET THE WORD
00:22:48.00\00:22:49.53
'ADVENTURE' - THE COMING OF THE
LORD - THE RETURN OF THE LORD.
00:22:49.53\00:22:53.40
AND SO WE PUT IT RIGHT IN THE
NAME BECAUSE WE HAVE A MESSAGE
00:22:53.40\00:22:56.16
TO TELL THE WORLD JESUS IS
COMING BACK - WE NEED TO GET
00:22:56.16\00:22:59.66
READY. BUT AS OF
THIS WEEK IT'S 150
00:22:59.66\00:23:03.73
YEARS SINCE WE FORMALLY
ORGANIZED AS A CHURCH AND SO WE
00:23:03.73\00:23:09.50
BEGIN TO ASK 'HOW
LONG? HOW LONG, O LORD?'
00:23:09.50\00:23:16.36
WELL, YOU'RE NOT
ALONE. YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY.
00:23:16.36\00:23:19.06
WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE,
'LOOK, THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS,
00:23:19.06\00:23:23.03
YOUR SEED - THE
MESSIAH - WILL COME.'
00:23:23.03\00:23:26.30
THEY DIDN'T LIVE
TO SEE IT, DID THEY?
00:23:26.30\00:23:29.23
AND A HUNDRED YEARS WENT BY
AND A THOUSAND YEARS WENT BY AND
00:23:29.23\00:23:32.60
FINALLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS GO
BY AND GOD SPEAKS TO ABRAHAM AND
00:23:32.60\00:23:36.20
SAID, 'DON'T GET DISCOURAGED,
THE MESSIAH IS COMING.
00:23:36.20\00:23:38.96
MATTER OF FACT, HE'S
COMING THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS.
00:23:38.96\00:23:41.53
HE'S GOING TO COME
THROUGH THE HEBREWS.'
00:23:41.53\00:23:43.23
AND A HUNDRED YEARS GO BY
AND A THOUSAND YEARS GO BY.
00:23:43.23\00:23:49.63
TWO THOUSAND YEARS GO BY
AND THEN THE WISE MEN RIDE INTO
00:23:49.63\00:23:53.83
JERUSALEM AND THEY SAY, 'WHERE
IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE
00:23:53.83\00:23:56.63
JEWS?' AND AT THAT
POINT THEY HAD SORT
00:23:56.63\00:23:59.23
OF THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A LEGEND.
THEY DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE
00:23:59.23\00:24:01.90
HE WAS EVER COMING BACK.
AND SO, ZECHARIAH, WHO LIVED
00:24:01.90\00:24:06.20
ABOUT 500 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST,
THEY WERE ASKING THAT QUESTION
00:24:06.20\00:24:09.36
AGAIN, 'HOW LONG LORD
BEFORE THE MESSIAH COMES?'
00:24:09.36\00:24:13.86
DID HE COME THE FIRST TIME?
NOT EXACTLY WHEN THEY EXPECTED.
00:24:13.86\00:24:18.03
IT WAS LATER THAN THEY EXPECTED.
WILL HE COME THE SECOND TIME?
00:24:18.03\00:24:22.73
I DON'T THINK WE HAVE
TO WAIT TWO THOUSAND YEARS.
00:24:22.73\00:24:24.40
BY THE WAY, IT'S BEEN ABOUT TWO
THOUSAND YEARS SINCE HIS FIRST
00:24:24.40\00:24:26.80
COMING AND SO I THINK WE ARE
ON SCHEDULE. SO - ISAIAH 6:11 -
00:24:26.80\00:24:33.56
"THEN I SAID, 'LORD, HOW LONG?'
AND HE SAID, 'UNTIL THE CITIES
00:24:33.56\00:24:38.66
ARE LAID WASTE AND WITHOUT
INHABITANT, THE HOUSES ARE
00:24:38.66\00:24:41.43
WITHOUT A MAN, THE
LAND IS UTTERLY DESOLATE."
00:24:41.43\00:24:44.50
AND, YOU KNOW, FOR
ISAIAH, THAT DID HAPPEN.
00:24:44.50\00:24:46.73
THE PEOPLE WERE ALL CARRIED
AWAY AND THE LAND WAS DESOLATED.
00:24:46.73\00:24:50.03
AND, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU SEE ALSO
IN CHAPTER 1 - SOMETHING YOU'RE
00:24:50.03\00:24:54.00
GOING TO FIND REAPPEARING IN
THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH IS HORSES.
00:24:54.00\00:24:59.63
HE'S GOT SEVERAL VISIONS OF
HORSES AND THESE MESSENGERS RIDE
00:24:59.63\00:25:02.70
AROUND AND THEY BRING
COMFORT TO THE PEOPLE.
00:25:02.70\00:25:06.00
NOW, YOU'VE GOT - SOMETIMES
YOU'VE GOT HORSES OF JUDGMENT
00:25:06.00\00:25:09.53
BUT HORSES IN THE BIBLE OFTEN
- HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE -
00:25:09.53\00:25:13.43
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE
ENEMY SURROUNDED ELISHA?
00:25:13.43\00:25:17.36
THE SYRIAN KING SENT A LARGE
ARMY TO SURROUND THIS LITTLE
00:25:17.36\00:25:21.10
TOWN OF DOTHAN AND HE WAS GOING
TO ARREST ELISHA BECAUSE HE
00:25:21.10\00:25:25.96
FIGURED ELISHA WAS GOD'S SECRET
WEAPON AND 'IF WE COULD CAPTURE
00:25:25.96\00:25:28.40
THEIR SECRET WEAPON, WE
CAN CONQUER THE ISRAELITES.'
00:25:28.40\00:25:32.20
FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. AND SO,
THIS ARMY SURROUNDS THE LITTLE
00:25:32.20\00:25:35.53
TOWN OF DOTHAN. DOTHAN MEANS
'TWO WELLS'. BY THE WAY, DOTHAN
00:25:35.53\00:25:39.53
IS THE LITTLE CITY WHERE JOSEPH
WENT LOOKING FOR HIS BROTHERS.
00:25:39.53\00:25:43.26
AND THE SERVANT OF ELISHA WAKES
UP IN THE MORNING AND THE SUN IS
00:25:43.26\00:25:47.33
JUST BEGINNING TO LIGHTEN THE
SKY A LITTLE BIT AND HE SEES THE
00:25:47.33\00:25:50.80
GLITTERING ARMOR OF THIS ARMY
SURROUNDING THE LITTLE TOWN AND
00:25:50.80\00:25:55.83
HE RUNS BACK
AND WAKES UP ELISHA.
00:25:55.83\00:25:57.56
HE SAYS, 'ALAS
MASTER, WHAT WILL WE DO?'
00:25:57.56\00:25:59.26
AND ELISHA STEPS
OUT AND HE LOOKS AROUND.
00:25:59.26\00:26:01.50
HE SEES THE ARMY AND HE -
HE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE ARMY.
00:26:01.50\00:26:06.03
ELISHA'S WORRIED
ABOUT HIS SERVANT.
00:26:06.03\00:26:07.80
HE'S WORRIED ABOUT HIS
LACK OF FAITH. HE SAID,
00:26:07.80\00:26:09.80
'LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE
AN APPRENTICE PROPHET,' - LIKE
00:26:09.80\00:26:12.26
ELISHA WAS FOR ELIJAH - HE SAID
'YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN FAITH.'
00:26:12.26\00:26:15.36
HE SAID,
'THERE'S AN ARMY, I KNOW.
00:26:15.36\00:26:17.90
WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM HERE, BUT
DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT BECAUSE GOD
00:26:17.90\00:26:20.50
HAS A BIGGER
ARMY.' AND HE PRAYS.
00:26:20.50\00:26:23.23
HE SAYS, 'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES.'
AND SUDDENLY THE EYES OF THE
00:26:23.23\00:26:27.60
YOUNG APPRENTICE WERE OPENED AND
HE SAW THE MOUNTAINS SURROUNDING
00:26:27.60\00:26:31.83
THE SYRIAN ARMY THAT WAS
SURROUNDING DOTHAN - THOSE
00:26:31.83\00:26:35.20
MOUNTAINS WERE FILLED WITH
HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE.
00:26:35.20\00:26:40.53
DO YOU FIND HORSES IN
REVELATION? WE'VE HEARD ABOUT
00:26:40.53\00:26:43.70
THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE
APOCALYPSE. MATTER OF FACT, SOME
00:26:43.70\00:26:46.80
OF THE HORSES - THERE ARE FOUR
HORSES AND CHARIOTS MENTIONED
00:26:46.80\00:26:49.86
LATER IN THE BOOK AND THEY
PARALLEL - NOT COMPLETELY - BUT
00:26:49.86\00:26:53.83
THEY PARALLEL IN A SIMILAR WAY
TO THE HORSEMEN THAT YOU FIND
00:26:53.83\00:26:57.16
IN THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION
STARTING WITH CHAPTER 6.
00:26:57.16\00:27:02.33
ALRIGHT - AND, FOR INSTANCE,
YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 6:4, "AND
00:27:02.33\00:27:08.96
THERE WENT OUT ANOTHER HORSE
THAT WAS RED: AND POWER" - IT
00:27:08.96\00:27:11.66
TALKS ABOUT A WHITE HORSE AND A
RED HORSE - "POWER WAS GIVEN TO
00:27:11.66\00:27:14.33
HIM THAT SAT THEREON TO TAKE
PEACE FROM THE EARTH, AND THAT
00:27:14.33\00:27:17.36
THEY SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER:
AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A
00:27:17.36\00:27:19.06
GREAT SWORD." THEN
IT TALKS ABOUT A BLACK
00:27:19.06\00:27:22.10
HORSE AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT
A PALE HORSE AND THESE HORSES
00:27:22.10\00:27:25.96
REPRESENT THE DIFFERENT
POLITICAL AGES THAT THE CHURCH
00:27:25.96\00:27:30.33
WAS GOING TO GO THROUGH BETWEEN
THE FIRST AND THE SECOND COMING.
00:27:30.33\00:27:33.20
SO THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY IDENTICAL
TO THE HORSES, BUT IN ZECHARIAH,
00:27:33.20\00:27:37.70
HE'S ALSO TALKING ABOUT
GOD SENDING HIS HORSEMEN OUT TO
00:27:37.70\00:27:42.60
PROTECT THE PEOPLE. THEY
WERE AFRAID THEY WERE GOING
00:27:42.60\00:27:44.80
TO BE ATTACKED AGAIN BY ANOTHER
NATION BEFORE THEY GOT THE
00:27:44.80\00:27:46.86
TEMPLE BUILT. AND HE
SAID, 'THERE'S QUIET IN
00:27:46.86\00:27:49.70
ALL THE EARTH. WE'RE
GOING TO LET YOU FINISH.
00:27:49.70\00:27:52.06
GOD IS GOING TO PROTECT YOU
AND LET YOU FINISH THIS PROJECT
00:27:52.06\00:27:54.50
BUILDING THE TEMPLE.' ALRIGHT,
LET'S JUMP OVER TO CHAPTER 2.
00:27:54.50\00:27:58.33
AT THIS RATE WE'LL NEVER GET
THROUGH ALL SEVEN SO I'VE GOT TO
00:27:58.33\00:28:00.76
HURRY ALONG. AND
ONE THING I WANT YOU TO
00:28:00.76\00:28:03.76
NOTICE IN CHAPTER 2, IF YOU GO,
FOR INSTANCE, TO VERSES 6 AND 7
00:28:03.76\00:28:07.93
- MATTER OF FACT, SOMEBODY
IS GOING TO READ THAT FOR ME.
00:28:07.93\00:28:10.10
WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT OVER
HERE - MIKE - LET'S GET YOU A
00:28:10.10\00:28:12.46
MICROPHONE. WHERE'S
THE MICROPHONE? OKAY.
00:28:12.46\00:28:14.93
YOU CAN PASS IT DOWN TO HIM.
AND I'LL READ CHAPTER 2 FOR YOU,
00:28:14.93\00:28:20.26
VERSE 1, "THEN I RAISED MY EYES
AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A MAN
00:28:20.26\00:28:24.20
WITH A MEASURING
LINE IN HIS HAND.
00:28:24.20\00:28:26.46
SO I SAID,
'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?'
00:28:26.46\00:28:28.20
AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TO MEASURE
JERUSALEM, TO SEE WHAT IS ITS
00:28:28.20\00:28:30.63
WIDTH AND WHAT IS ITS LENGTH.'
AND THERE WAS" - BY THE WAY, IN
00:28:30.63\00:28:35.26
REVELATION DO YOU FIND AN
ANGEL WITH A MEASURING ROD?
00:28:35.26\00:28:38.76
YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT SAID
BEFORE THAT REVELATION IS REALLY
00:28:38.76\00:28:43.43
A KALEIDOSCOPE OF EVERY
PROPHETIC BOOK IN THE BIBLE.
00:28:43.43\00:28:46.93
THEY ALL SORT OF FIND
TERMINATION IN REVELATION AND A
00:28:46.93\00:28:50.53
LOT OF THESE VISIONS
ARE ECHOED IN REVELATION.
00:28:50.53\00:28:54.06
HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THEY
THOUGHT THE TEMPLE WAS NOT GOING
00:28:54.06\00:28:57.56
TO BE BUILT AGAIN. THE
FACT THAT THERE'S SOMEONE
00:28:57.56\00:28:59.93
WHO'S NOW SURVEYING - AN ANGEL
THAT IS SURVEYING IN JERUSALEM
00:28:59.93\00:29:04.20
MEANS SOMEONE IS
GETTING READY TO BUILD AGAIN.
00:29:04.20\00:29:07.93
"AND THERE WAS THE ANGEL WHO
TALKED WITH ME, GOING OUT; AND
00:29:07.93\00:29:10.93
ANOTHER ANGEL WAS COMING OUT TO
MEET HIM, WHO SAID TO HIM, 'RUN,
00:29:10.93\00:29:13.40
SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN, SAYING:
'JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED AS
00:29:13.40\00:29:17.23
TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS, BECAUSE
OF THE MULTITUDE OF MEN AND
00:29:17.23\00:29:20.23
LIVESTOCK IN IT. FOR
I,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WILL BE
00:29:20.23\00:29:23.36
A WALL OF FIRE ALL AROUND HER,
AND I WILL BE THE GLORY IN HER
00:29:23.36\00:29:27.30
MIDST.''" AND SO
HE'S SAYING, 'GOD IS
00:29:27.30\00:29:30.30
GOING TO BLESS JERUSALEM AGAIN.
NOW, HE DID THIS TWO WAYS.
00:29:30.30\00:29:33.43
DID GOD BRING BACK
THE PEOPLE FROM BABYLON?
00:29:33.43\00:29:36.46
DID HE BLESS JERUSALEM?
DID THEY REBUILD THE TEMPLE?
00:29:36.46\00:29:39.10
DID THEY HAVE SOME
YEARS OF PEACE? YES THEY DID.
00:29:39.10\00:29:42.36
BUT WHAT'S THIS A
FULLER PROPHECY OF?
00:29:42.36\00:29:45.33
DOES REVELATION ALSO TALK ABOUT
A JERUSALEM WHERE THERE'S PEACE
00:29:45.33\00:29:49.00
AND YOU DON'T NEED WALLS BECAUSE
YOU WON'T HAVE AN ENEMY. I MEAN,
00:29:49.00\00:29:53.23
THERE ARE WALLS BUT IT'S TALKING
ABOUT A TIME WHEN GOD'S IN THE
00:29:53.23\00:29:55.83
CITY AND THERE'S PEACE AND
THEY GO OUT AND THEY COME IN.
00:29:55.83\00:30:00.00
NOW, READ FOR US - I THINK YOU
WERE GOING TO READ VERSE 6, IF
00:30:00.00\00:30:03.30
I'M NOT MISTAKEN. READ VERSES
6 AND 7 OF ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 2.
00:30:03.30\00:30:07.30
>>ZECHARIAH 2, VERSES 6 AND
7, "'UP, UP! FLEE FROM THE LAND
00:30:07.30\00:30:11.20
OF THE NORTH,' SAYS THE LORD;
'FOR I HAVE SPREAD YOU ABROAD
00:30:11.20\00:30:14.70
LIKE THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN,'
SAYS THE LORD. 'UP ZION!
00:30:14.70\00:30:18.43
ESCAPE, YOU WHO DWELL
WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON.'"
00:30:18.43\00:30:22.56
>>REMEMBER THIS AND IT WILL
HELP YOU IN YOUR BIBLE STUDY.
00:30:22.56\00:30:26.70
VERY RARELY DID THEY TALK ABOUT
THE NATION THAT WAS TO THE EAST.
00:30:26.70\00:30:33.10
THEY OFTEN TALKED ABOUT THE KING
- THEY DO TALK ABOUT THE KINGS
00:30:33.10\00:30:36.16
OF THE EAST - BUT THEY TALK
ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH, THE
00:30:36.16\00:30:38.00
KING OF THE SOUTH.
00:30:38.00\00:30:39.33
AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS TO
THE EAST OF JERUSALEM THEY HAD A
00:30:39.33\00:30:42.63
LOT OF THE ARABS
AND A BIG DESERT.
00:30:42.63\00:30:45.26
THEY HAD THE CHILDREN OF
ISHMAEL AND A BIG DESERT.
00:30:45.26\00:30:48.33
PRINCIPALLY, WHEN AN INVASION
CAME, IT CAME FROM THE SOUTH
00:30:48.33\00:30:52.36
MEANING, THE PEOPLE WOULD COME
FROM SHEBA OR ETHIOPIA OR EGYPT
00:30:52.36\00:30:57.06
OR THE NORTH AND THEY WOULD
COME FROM BABYLON OR ASSYRIA,
00:30:57.06\00:31:01.70
NINEVEH, THE SYRIANS - AND SO
YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THESE BATTLES
00:31:01.70\00:31:06.60
BETWEEN THE KING OF THE
NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH.
00:31:06.60\00:31:09.06
PICTURE ISRAEL FOR A MOMENT.
ISRAEL IS LIKE A LAND BRIDGE
00:31:09.06\00:31:12.56
BETWEEN THREE CONTINENTS.
YOU COULD NOT REALLY GET THROUGH
00:31:12.56\00:31:16.90
THE COUNTRY TO THE EAST
OF ISRAEL BECAUSE IT WAS A
00:31:16.90\00:31:19.90
TREMENDOUS
FORBIDDING DEADLY DESERT.
00:31:19.90\00:31:23.96
VERY FEW PEOPLE TRAVELED ACROSS
THAT DESERT. THEY NEEDED TO
00:31:23.96\00:31:26.80
TRAVEL WHERE THE STATIONS WERE
- WHERE THE TRUCK STOPS WERE FOR
00:31:26.80\00:31:30.40
THE CARAVANS - WHERE THE
WATER AND THE RIVERS WERE.
00:31:30.40\00:31:33.16
SO WHEN BABYLON CAME TO
ATTACK, EVEN THOUGH BABYLON WAS
00:31:33.16\00:31:36.60
PRINCIPALLY TO THE EAST, THEY
HAD TO COME IN FROM THE NORTH.
00:31:36.60\00:31:40.80
AND SO WHEN HE SAYS, 'FLEE FROM
THE LANDS OF THE NORTH' THEY
00:31:40.80\00:31:43.20
WERE THINKING ABOUT
ASSYRIA AND BABYLON.
00:31:43.20\00:31:46.40
THE CHILDREN OF
ISRAEL WERE STILL THERE.
00:31:46.40\00:31:48.56
NOW GOD HAD CREATED PEACE
IN ISRAEL. HE SAID, 'LOOK,
00:31:48.56\00:31:50.66
I'VE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO
COME BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:31:50.66\00:31:53.53
WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN EGYPT?'
SOME OF THEM WENT TO EGYPT WHEN
00:31:53.53\00:31:56.06
NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME. 'WHY
WOULD YOU STAY IN ASSYRIA?'
00:31:56.06\00:32:00.43
THE TEN TRIBES WERE
CARRIED OFF TO ASSYRIA.
00:32:00.43\00:32:02.00
'WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN BABYLON?'
AND HE'S SAYING 'UP' - 'FLEE THE
00:32:02.00\00:32:06.66
LANDS OF THE NORTH.'
WHY DO YOU HAVE TO FLEE?
00:32:06.66\00:32:08.86
REVELATION 18:1 - ANOTHER
PARALLEL BETWEEN ZECHARIAH - YOU
00:32:08.86\00:32:13.16
SHOULD READ - YOU SHOULD READ
REVELATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH
00:32:13.16\00:32:16.16
DANIEL AND EZEKIEL AND
ZECHARIAH TO UNDERSTAND IT.
00:32:16.16\00:32:20.76
REVELATION 18:1, "AFTER
THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL
00:32:20.76\00:32:23.86
COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING
GREAT AUTHORITY, AND THE EARTH
00:32:23.86\00:32:27.83
WAS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY.
AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A
00:32:27.83\00:32:31.33
LOUD VOICE, SAYING," -
YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS? -
00:32:31.33\00:32:35.03
"'BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN,
IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A
00:32:35.03\00:32:39.40
DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A
PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT," -
00:32:39.40\00:32:42.96
WHY DOES HE SAY
'FALLEN, FALLEN'?
00:32:42.96\00:32:45.23
WELL, BECAUSE
BABYLON REALLY FALLS TWICE.
00:32:45.23\00:32:46.86
BABYLON FELL BACK IN THE DAYS
OF BELSHAZZAR AND BABYLON FALLS
00:32:46.86\00:32:52.66
AGAIN, SPIRITUALLY, - WHEN
BABYLON FELL IN THE DAYS OF
00:32:52.66\00:32:55.80
BELSHAZZAR IT MEANT GOD'S PEOPLE
WERE FREE TO COME BACK TO THE
00:32:55.80\00:32:58.63
PROMISED LAND. WHEN
BABYLON FALLS AGAIN IN
00:32:58.63\00:33:01.06
REVELATION IT MEANS GOD'S PEOPLE
ARE ABOUT TO GO TO THE OTHER
00:33:01.06\00:33:04.13
PROMISED LAND. SO
THERE ARE PARALLELS HERE.
00:33:04.13\00:33:06.76
"BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN,
IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A
00:33:06.76\00:33:10.16
DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A
PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT,
00:33:10.16\00:33:13.86
AND A CAGE FOR EVERY
UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD!
00:33:13.86\00:33:16.00
FOR ALL THE NATIONS" - NOW
WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A UNIVERSAL
00:33:16.00\00:33:18.33
BABYLON - "ALL NATIONS HAVE
DRUNK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH
00:33:18.33\00:33:21.30
OF HER FORNICATION, THE KINGS
OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED
00:33:21.30\00:33:23.76
FORNICATION WITH HER, AND
THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH HAVE
00:33:23.76\00:33:26.60
BECOME RICH THROUGH THE
ABUNDANCE OF HER LUXURY." -
00:33:26.60\00:33:28.70
NOTICE - "AND I HEARD ANOTHER
VOICE FROM HEAVEN" - VOICE FROM
00:33:28.70\00:33:32.00
HEAVEN - GOOD VOICE. YOU
WANT TO LISTEN TO THE VOICES
00:33:32.00\00:33:33.46
FROM HEAVEN - "SAYING, 'COME OUT
OF HER, MY PEOPLE," - SO WHEN
00:33:33.46\00:33:38.36
YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH AND IT
SAYS, 'FLEE FROM THE LAND OF THE
00:33:38.36\00:33:41.33
NORTH. LEAVE BABYLON.
COME TO THE PROMISED LAND.'
00:33:41.33\00:33:45.00
AND THE CHURCH IS ALSO A SYMBOL
FOR THAT - "COME OUT OF HER MY
00:33:45.00\00:33:49.06
PEOPLE LEST YOU SHARE IN HER
SINS," - SO STAYING IN BABYLON
00:33:49.06\00:33:52.80
IS DANGEROUS - "AND LEST
YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES."
00:33:52.80\00:33:57.16
WHO DO THE SEVEN
LAST PLAGUES FALL ON?
00:33:57.16\00:33:59.73
BABYLON AND GOD'S
PEOPLE WHO STAY IN BABYLON.
00:33:59.73\00:34:04.03
NOTICE GOD HAS PEOPLE IN
BABYLON. THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE
00:34:04.03\00:34:06.06
BUT THEY'RE IN THE WRONG PLACE.
HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL THERE BE
00:34:06.06\00:34:11.00
WHEN JESUS COMES BACK?
TRUE OR FALSE - ONE OF EACH -
00:34:11.00\00:34:17.83
ONE TRUE CHURCH
ONE FALSE, RIGHT?
00:34:17.83\00:34:20.10
ONE IS GOING TO WORSHIP
THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, ONE IS
00:34:20.10\00:34:22.56
GOING TO HAVE THE SEAL
OF GOD. SO THERE'S TWO.
00:34:22.56\00:34:25.36
HOW MANY DIFFERENT CHURCHES
IN THE WORLD TODAY? THOUSANDS.
00:34:25.36\00:34:31.43
BUT JESUS SAID, 'OTHER SHEEP I
HAVE THAT ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD'
00:34:31.43\00:34:36.16
- JOHN CHAPTER 10 -
'THEM I ALSO WILL CALL.
00:34:36.16\00:34:39.73
THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE AND
THERE WILL BE ONE FOLD AND ONE
00:34:39.73\00:34:42.30
SHEPHERD.' THEY'RE
GOING TO HEAR HIS VOICE
00:34:42.30\00:34:44.56
AND HIS VOICE IS GOING TO SAY,
'BABYLON IS FALLEN COME OUT OF
00:34:44.56\00:34:46.53
HER MY PEOPLE.' AND SO
THERE'S A MESSAGE - AND,
00:34:46.53\00:34:49.93
BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SECOND
ANGEL'S MESSAGE - BABYLON IS
00:34:49.93\00:34:52.10
FALLEN, COME OUT OF HER.
AND SO GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TO COME
00:34:52.10\00:34:55.46
OUT OF BABYLON AND INTO
THIS FOLD THAT IS BASED UPON THE
00:34:55.46\00:35:00.80
TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD.
SO HE'S SAYING, 'BABYLON'S
00:35:00.80\00:35:04.90
FALLEN, COME OUT.' EVEN
HERE IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 2.
00:35:04.90\00:35:08.43
AND HAVE YOU NOTICED THE TIMES
IN THE BIBLE - THE THREE GREAT
00:35:08.43\00:35:14.16
PATRIARCHS -
ABRAHAM - WHO'S NEXT?
00:35:14.16\00:35:19.80
ISAAC AND JACOB - SOMETHING
INTERESTING ABOUT THE THREE
00:35:19.80\00:35:23.26
GREAT PATRIARCHS
- VERY INTERESTING.
00:35:23.26\00:35:25.83
ALL THREE OF THEM MARRIED WIVES
THAT WERE, AT FIRST, BARREN.
00:35:25.83\00:35:29.70
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
SARAH WAS BARREN AND THEN A
00:35:29.70\00:35:33.10
MIRACLE - SHE HAD A BABY.
WAS REBECCA BARREN? SHE WAS.
00:35:33.10\00:35:37.63
ISAAC HAD TO PRAY FOR
HER AND SHE HAD TWO BABIES.
00:35:37.63\00:35:40.13
WAS RACHEL BARREN? YES.
00:35:40.13\00:35:43.23
JACOB PRAYED FOR HER AND
SHE ENDED UP HAVING TWO -
00:35:43.23\00:35:45.96
JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN.
WHERE'D THEY GET THEIR WIVES?
00:35:45.96\00:35:51.00
ABRAHAM BROUGHT HIS WIFE
FROM MESOPOTAMIA - UR, RIGHT?
00:35:51.00\00:35:55.43
OUT OF BABYLON AND
WHERE'D HE BRING HER? TO CANAAN,
00:35:55.43\00:35:58.83
THE PROMISED LAND. WHERE DID
ISAAC GET HIS WIFE? ABRAHAM SAID
00:35:58.83\00:36:03.63
TO ELIEZER, 'DON'T LET HIM
MARRY ONE OF THE LOCAL GIRLS.
00:36:03.63\00:36:07.16
HE'S GOT TO GET A GIRL
THAT BELIEVES IN JEHOVAH.
00:36:07.16\00:36:09.53
GO BACK TO
MESOPOTAMIA WHERE MY PEOPLE ARE.
00:36:09.53\00:36:12.36
BRING A WIFE OUT OF
BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND.'
00:36:12.36\00:36:16.36
WHERE'D JACOB
GO TO GET HIS WIFE?
00:36:16.36\00:36:18.93
REMEMBER REBECCA AND ISAAC WERE
DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE ESAU HAD
00:36:18.93\00:36:21.66
MARRIED THE LOCAL GIRLS AND SENT
HIM BACK TO HARAN, WHICH WAS
00:36:21.66\00:36:29.30
ACROSS THE EUPHRATES, TO GET
A GIRL - THEY ALL CALLED THAT
00:36:29.30\00:36:33.50
MESOPOTAMIA BACK THEN - BROUGHT
HER TO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:36:33.50\00:36:37.56
THEN GOD'S PEOPLE - HIS BRIDE -
GOD'S BRIDE - IS CARRIED OFF TO
00:36:37.56\00:36:40.63
BABYLON BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
GOD CALLS HIS BRIDE OUT OF
00:36:40.63\00:36:44.40
BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
THEN YOU GET TO OUR AGE - DOES
00:36:44.40\00:36:49.33
GOD HAVE A SPIRITUAL
BABYLON IN REVELATION?
00:36:49.33\00:36:52.36
AND HE'S CALLING HIS PEOPLE OUT
OF BABYLON - HIS BRIDE - BACK TO
00:36:52.36\00:36:57.00
THE PROMISED LAND. SO
YOU SEE THIS THEME GOING ON
00:36:57.00\00:37:00.36
ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE HERE.
YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH 2:10,
00:37:00.36\00:37:07.56
"'SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER
OF ZION! FOR BEHOLD, I AM COMING
00:37:07.56\00:37:10.46
AND I WILL DWELL IN
YOUR MIDST,' SAYS THE LORD."
00:37:10.46\00:37:13.26
NOW, YOU WANT TO UNDERLINE THAT
THERE - 'BEHOLD I'M COMING' -
00:37:13.26\00:37:18.20
THAT'S THE MAIN PURPOSE
OF THIS SECTION ON THIS DAY.
00:37:18.20\00:37:22.43
DOES ZECHARIAH TALK
ABOUT THE COMING OF THE LORD?
00:37:22.43\00:37:25.66
WHICH COMING IS
HE TALKING ABOUT?
00:37:25.66\00:37:28.20
WELL, YOU KNOW, THESE PROPHETS,
THEY WERE SORT OF TRICKY.
00:37:28.20\00:37:31.80
SOMETIMES THEY TALKED
ABOUT BOTH IN ONE SENTENCE.
00:37:31.80\00:37:35.60
DID JESUS - DID THE
MESSIAH COME AFTER ZECHARIAH?
00:37:35.60\00:37:39.53
YEAH, HE CAME THE FIRST TIME.
DID HE COME TO THE TEMPLE THAT
00:37:39.53\00:37:42.60
ZECHARIAH HELPED THEM BUILD?
DID JESUS TEACH IN THAT TEMPLE?
00:37:42.60\00:37:46.63
DID HE DRIVE THE MONEY CHANGERS
OUT OF THAT TEMPLE AND THEY -
00:37:46.63\00:37:49.60
THE CHILDREN WERE SINGING
HIS PRAISES IN THAT TEMPLE?
00:37:49.60\00:37:51.96
FINALLY HE WALKED OUT OF THAT
TEMPLE, HE SAID, 'YOUR HOUSE IS
00:37:51.96\00:37:54.16
LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE AND THERE
WON'T BE LEFT ONE STONE UPON
00:37:54.16\00:37:56.30
ANOTHER THAT
WON'T BE THROWN DOWN.'
00:37:56.30\00:37:58.36
HE SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE DAYS
00:37:58.36\00:38:00.70
I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS'
- SPEAKING OF HIS BODY, RIGHT?
00:38:00.70\00:38:04.23
WHEN CHRIST DIED HE ROSE AGAIN
AND HE BUILT A DIFFERENT TEMPLE.
00:38:04.23\00:38:08.73
'WHAT, KNOW YOU NOT THAT YE ARE
THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' THAT YOU ARE
00:38:08.73\00:38:12.16
LIVING STONES AND ARE PART OF
A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND CHRIST IS
00:38:12.16\00:38:15.00
THE CORNERSTONE. AND SO
DOES GOD STILL HAVE A TEMPLE?
00:38:15.00\00:38:18.00
SO ZECHARIAH IS THINKING ABOUT
THE LORD COMING TO TWO TEMPLES -
00:38:18.00\00:38:22.66
ONE HE'S COMING TO - THE FIRST
COMING WHEN HE CAME TO THAT
00:38:22.66\00:38:26.93
TEMPLE AND HE TAUGHT, AND THEN
HE'S COMING AGAIN TO INHABIT HIS
00:38:26.93\00:38:32.76
PEOPLE. AND HE'S
COMING, LITERALLY,
00:38:32.76\00:38:36.60
AGAIN WHEN HE COMES
IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN.
00:38:36.60\00:38:39.36
ROMANS 15, VERSE 9, AND WHY
DON'T I GET SOMEONE TO LOOK UP
00:38:39.36\00:38:46.40
FOR ME HOSEA 1:7?
WHO'S GOT THAT VERSE?
00:38:46.40\00:38:49.90
OVER HERE - WE'LL GET YOU
A MICROPHONE - NOT FAR AWAY.
00:38:49.90\00:38:52.56
OKAY, WE'LL GET YOU - IT'LL TAKE
A MOMENT BUT LET ME READ ROMANS
00:38:52.56\00:38:57.63
15, VERSE 9, "AND THAT THE
GENTILES MIGHT GLORIFY GOD FOR
00:38:57.63\00:39:03.00
HIS MERCY, AS IT IS WRITTEN,
'FOR THIS REASON I WILL CONFESS
00:39:03.00\00:39:06.36
TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES,
AND SING TO YOUR NAME.'
00:39:06.36\00:39:08.33
AND AGAIN HE SAYS: 'REJOICE,
O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE!'
00:39:08.33\00:39:12.30
AND AGAIN: 'PRAISE THE
LORD, ALL YOU GENTILES!
00:39:12.30\00:39:14.93
LAUD HIM, ALL YOU PEOPLES!'
AND AGAIN, ISAIAH SAYS, 'THERE
00:39:14.93\00:39:17.90
SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE; AND HE
WHO SHALL RISE TO REIGN OVER THE
00:39:17.90\00:39:21.96
GENTILES, IN HIM THE GENTILES
SHALL HOPE.'" NOW, YOU KNOW
00:39:21.96\00:39:25.06
THE OPERATIVE WORD IN
THIS PASSAGE I JUST READ?
00:39:25.06\00:39:27.76
LET ME - LET'S SEE HERE - ONE,
TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE - MAYBE
00:39:27.76\00:39:32.46
SIX TIMES - SIX TIMES
GENTILES ARE MENTIONED.
00:39:32.46\00:39:37.23
GENTILES WERE NON-JEWS -
THEY WERE THE OTHER NATIONS.
00:39:37.23\00:39:40.93
PAUL, WHEN HE WRITES THIS - HAS
THE NEW TESTAMENT BEEN WRITTEN
00:39:40.93\00:39:44.56
YET? PAUL WRITES THIS IN ROMANS.
00:39:44.56\00:39:47.23
SO PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT ALL
THE PROPHECIES THAT SAY THAT THE
00:39:47.23\00:39:50.40
GENTILES WERE SUPPOSED
TO RECEIVE THE MESSIAH.
00:39:50.40\00:39:53.60
DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT SAY THAT
SALVATION WAS JUST FOR THE JEWS
00:39:53.60\00:39:58.40
OR IS PAUL QUOTING THAT THE
GENTILES WOULD COME TO CHRIST?
00:39:58.40\00:40:02.43
THAT THE MESSIAH WAS
NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS?
00:40:02.43\00:40:06.70
AND THIS IS PART OF THE MESSAGE
OF ZECHARIAH - THAT HIS HOUSE IS
00:40:06.70\00:40:09.80
GOING TO BE A PLACE WHERE ALL
NATIONS ARE GOING TO COME AND
00:40:09.80\00:40:12.76
WORSHIP. MEANING
NOT JUST THE TEMPLE BUT
00:40:12.76\00:40:16.03
CHRIST'S NEW TEMPLE.
ALRIGHT, GOING UNDER SECTION
00:40:16.03\00:40:19.23
THREE - 'GOD'S READINESS TO
FORGIVE' - AND WE LEARN HERE
00:40:19.23\00:40:24.43
ABOUT GOD BEING A GOD WHO'S
WILLING TO FORGIVE. TURN WITH ME
00:40:24.43\00:40:27.80
TO ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 3
AND THERE'S A PROPHECY.
00:40:27.80\00:40:30.96
BY THE WAY, THE BOOK OF
ZECHARIAH HAS EIGHT VISIONS.
00:40:30.96\00:40:34.20
THERE ARE EIGHT VISIONS -
MOST OF THEM ARE IN OUR SECTION.
00:40:34.20\00:40:36.70
FIRST YOU'VE GOT THE HORSES
AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES, THEN
00:40:36.70\00:40:39.40
YOU'VE GOT THE FOUR HORNS AND
THE FOUR CRAFTSMEN, THEN YOU'VE
00:40:39.40\00:40:42.63
GOT THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING
LINE, THEN YOU'VE GOT THE
00:40:42.63\00:40:45.33
CLEANSING OF JOSHUA - WE'RE
ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT - THE HIGH
00:40:45.33\00:40:48.00
PRIEST, YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN
LAMP STANDS AND THE OLIVE TREES,
00:40:48.00\00:40:51.13
THE FLYING SCROLL, THE WOMAN
IN THE BASKET - THAT IS A REALLY
00:40:51.13\00:40:53.50
WEIRD PROPHECY - AND THEN THE
FOUR CHARIOTS - LIKE YOU'VE GOT
00:40:53.50\00:40:58.00
THE FOUR HORSEMEN
OF THE APOCALYPSE.
00:40:58.00\00:40:59.80
NOW WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT THE VISION OF JOSHUA.
00:40:59.80\00:41:02.93
WHO IS JOSHUA DURING THE
TIME OF HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH?
00:41:02.93\00:41:08.93
HE WAS THE HIGH PRIEST WHO HAD
COME BACK FROM BABYLON AND I -
00:41:08.93\00:41:14.26
MOST OF YOU KNOW BUT THERE'S
ALWAYS SOMEONE IN THE CROWD THAT
00:41:14.26\00:41:16.86
DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE WAY YOU
SAY JOSHUA - YESHUA IN HEBREW -
00:41:16.86\00:41:21.86
THE GREEK WAY IS JESUS.
IT'S THE SAME NAME AND SO IT'S
00:41:21.86\00:41:25.33
VERY INTERESTING THAT IN
THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE ARE TWO
00:41:25.33\00:41:27.86
PRINCIPLE JOSHUAS - YOU'VE GOT
ONE JOSHUA WHO IS A HIGH PRIEST
00:41:27.86\00:41:32.70
WHO LEADS THEM FROM BABYLON
INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND THEN
00:41:32.70\00:41:35.96
YOU'VE GOT A JOSHUA IN THE BOOK
OF JOSHUA, WHO IS A GENERAL, WHO
00:41:35.96\00:41:40.23
LEADS THEM FROM THE WILDERNESS
INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:41:40.23\00:41:43.43
JESUS IS OUR JOSHUA.
HE'S THE ONE WHO LEADS US FROM
00:41:43.43\00:41:47.06
THE WILDERNESS AND FROM
BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND.
00:41:47.06\00:41:51.06
HE IS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND HE IS
OUR COMMANDER - OUR LORD, RIGHT?
00:41:51.06\00:41:55.03
AND JOSHUA IS ALSO A PROPHET
AND CHRIST IS OUR PROPHET.
00:41:55.03\00:42:00.30
ALRIGHT, SO IT SAYS, "THEN HE
SHOWED ME" - HE'S IN THIS VISION
00:42:00.30\00:42:03.76
- "JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST
STANDING BEFORE AN ANGEL OF THE
00:42:03.76\00:42:07.50
LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT
HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPPOSE HIM."
00:42:07.50\00:42:11.36
- BY THE WAY, THE WORD
'SATAN' IT MEANS ADVERSARY,
00:42:11.36\00:42:15.90
SOMEONE WHO OPPOSES. IT'S
INTERESTING, THE OPPOSER IS
00:42:15.90\00:42:19.90
STANDING THERE TO OPPOSE HIM
- "AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN,
00:42:19.90\00:42:23.43
'THE LORD REBUKE YOU,
SATAN! THE LORD WHO HAS CHOSEN
00:42:23.43\00:42:26.36
JERUSALEM REBUKE YOU! IS
THIS NOT A BRAND PLUCKED FROM
00:42:26.36\00:42:29.36
THE FIRE?'" NOW,
CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER
00:42:29.36\00:42:32.40
TIME IN THE NEW TESTAMENT
WHERE GOD SAID TO THE DEVIL,
00:42:32.40\00:42:35.00
'THE LORD REBUKE YOU'?
BOOK OF JUDE - I HEARD SOMEONE
00:42:35.00\00:42:38.90
SAY IT - THE BOOK OF JUDE VERSE
9 - THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER.
00:42:38.90\00:42:43.76
WHEN MICHAEL - SO WHEN IT
SAYS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD
00:42:43.76\00:42:47.40
THERE AND THEY'RE HAVING
THIS CONTEST OVER JOSHUA, JOSHUA
00:42:47.40\00:42:51.50
REPRESENTS THE NATION BECAUSE
HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST. THE HIGH
00:42:51.50\00:42:54.60
PRIEST USED TO BEAR THE SINS FOR
THE WHOLE NATION AND SO HERE THE
00:42:54.60\00:42:57.20
DEVIL IS SAYING, 'THEY'RE MINE.
00:42:57.20\00:42:59.70
THEY TURN FROM YOU.' AND
THIS ANGEL OF THE LORD MAY
00:42:59.70\00:43:03.76
VERY WELL BE MICHAEL AGAIN,
HE SAYS, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU.'
00:43:03.76\00:43:06.80
SAME EXACT THING THAT YOU
FIND ALSO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT.
00:43:06.80\00:43:10.56
HE IS A BRAND
PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING.
00:43:10.56\00:43:13.13
HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A STICK THAT
ONE END OF IT BEGINS TO SMOKE
00:43:13.13\00:43:15.96
AND YOU PULL IT OUT AND
YOU CAN PUT IT OUT AND SAVE IT?
00:43:15.96\00:43:20.00
IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY ONCE - I WAS
AT A CAMPOUT ONE TIME AND THE
00:43:20.00\00:43:23.70
KIDS WERE ALL THROWING THINGS
IN THE FIRE AND ONE OF THE OLDER
00:43:23.70\00:43:26.06
MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH THAT
CAME TO THE CAMPOUT HAD A WOODEN
00:43:26.06\00:43:28.40
WALKING CANE AND HE'D SET IT
DOWN TOO CLOSE TO THE FIRE AND
00:43:28.40\00:43:32.10
ONE OF THE KIDS STUCK IT IN THE
FIRE BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO USE
00:43:32.10\00:43:34.16
IT FOR ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS AND
WE PLUCKED IT FROM THE FIRE AS A
00:43:34.16\00:43:38.50
BRAND FROM THE BURNING AND
MANAGED TO SALVAGE IT, THOUGH
00:43:38.50\00:43:41.50
THE END WAS A LITTLE SCORCHED.
WELL, IN OTHER WORDS, IT WAS
00:43:41.50\00:43:45.46
ABOUT TO BE COMPLETELY
CONSUMED BUT IT WAS RESCUED.
00:43:45.46\00:43:49.60
YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HEAR
ABOUT THESE HOUSES THAT CATCH ON
00:43:49.60\00:43:53.93
FIRE AND THE DOG OR THE
CAT MANAGE TO GET OUT A LITTLE
00:43:53.93\00:43:59.00
SINGED BUT THEY SURVIVE LIKE A
BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING.
00:43:59.00\00:44:04.80
AND SO, HERE IT'S GOT THIS
PICTURE OF GOD - GOD'S PEOPLE
00:44:04.80\00:44:08.13
WERE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED
IN BABYLON BUT HE HAS DECIDED TO
00:44:08.13\00:44:11.70
RESCUE THEM. SO THE
DEVIL'S SAYING, 'THEY'RE
00:44:11.70\00:44:14.06
MINE' AND GOD SAYS, 'NO, THEY
RETURNED TO ME SO I RETURNED TO
00:44:14.06\00:44:17.26
THEM. I'M PULLING THEM
FROM THIS JUDGMENT AS A BRAND
00:44:17.26\00:44:20.36
FROM THE BURNING.' BUT
THEN, THERE'S A PROBLEM.
00:44:20.36\00:44:23.90
THEY'RE GUILTY. YOU
MIGHT HAVE CHOSEN TO SAVE
00:44:23.90\00:44:26.40
THEM, BUT THEY'VE
SINNED. THEY MUST BE JUDGED.
00:44:26.40\00:44:29.43
"NOW JOSHUA" - VERSE 3 - "WAS
CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS,
00:44:29.43\00:44:32.90
AND WAS STANDING
BEFORE THE ANGEL.
00:44:32.90\00:44:35.03
THEN HE ANSWERED AND HE SPOKE
TO THOSE WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM,
00:44:35.03\00:44:38.93
SAYING," - THE ANGEL - "'TAKE
AWAY THE FILTHY GARMENTS FROM
00:44:38.93\00:44:41.80
HIM.' AND TO HIM
HE SAID, 'SEE, I HAVE
00:44:41.80\00:44:44.10
REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY FROM YOU,
AND I WILL CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH
00:44:44.10\00:44:47.23
ROBES.'" AND WHAT DO THE
FILTHY GARMENTS REPRESENT?
00:44:47.23\00:44:52.70
ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS
IS LIKE WHAT? FILTHY RAGS.
00:44:52.70\00:44:56.63
WE ARE ALL - OUR SINS - ARE
FILTHY. BUT WHAT DOES GOD DO?
00:44:56.63\00:45:00.90
WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE RETURN
AND THROUGH THE INTERCESSION AND
00:45:00.90\00:45:03.40
PRAYER - THE HIGH PRIEST
REPRESENTS THAT - HE SAYS, 'I'M
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.26
TAKING AWAY YOUR FILTHY GARMENTS
AND I'M REPLACING THEM.'
00:45:06.26\00:45:08.90
WHAT DOES THE FATHER DO FOR THE
PRODIGAL SON WHEN HE RETURNS TO
00:45:08.90\00:45:12.06
HIS FATHER? HE COVERS HIS
UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. YOU KNOW,
00:45:12.06\00:45:17.46
THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES IN THE
BIBLE THAT DEPICT THIS TRUTH.
00:45:17.46\00:45:20.70
WHEN BLIND BARTEMEUS COMES
TO JESUS IT SAYS, 'HE CAST ASIDE
00:45:20.70\00:45:26.43
HIS GARMENT' - PROBABLY FILTHY
RAGS - 'AND HE CAME TO CHRIST.'
00:45:26.43\00:45:29.00
WE COME TO CHRIST THAT
WAY. WHEN ELISHA GETS A DOUBLE
00:45:29.00\00:45:31.96
PORTION OF ELIJAH'S SPIRIT - YOU
REMEMBER ELIJAH GOES TO HEAVEN,
00:45:31.96\00:45:35.06
HE TOSSES DOWN HIS MANTLE
AS HE'S CAUGHT UP BY THE FIERY
00:45:35.06\00:45:37.66
CHARIOT? ELISHA TEARS HIS
OWN GARMENTS AND HE TAKES UP THE
00:45:37.66\00:45:41.40
MANTLE OF ELIJAH.
THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE DO.
00:45:41.40\00:45:44.20
JESUS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN - HE
LEFT A ROBE BEHIND, DIDN'T HE?
00:45:44.20\00:45:47.00
THAT ROBE REPRESENTS THE
RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE OFFERS YOU
00:45:47.00\00:45:49.66
AND ME. IT'S A BLOOD-STAINED
ROBE. BUT WHEN GOD LOOKS AT
00:45:49.66\00:45:52.53
THAT, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD
OF CHRIST, WE'RE DECLARED CLEAN.
00:45:52.53\00:45:55.26
WHAT DID JACOB'S - SORRY - YEAH,
WHAT DID JACOB'S SONS - JOSEPH'S
00:45:55.26\00:45:59.83
BROTHERS - PRESENT TO JACOB TO
COVER THEIR SIN OF SELLING THEIR
00:45:59.83\00:46:04.33
BROTHER? THEY PRESENTED A
BLOOD-STAINED ROBE, DIDN'T THEY?
00:46:04.33\00:46:08.00
AND IT'S THROUGH THE ROBE OF
CHRIST THAT OUR SINS ARE COVERED
00:46:08.00\00:46:11.36
AND GOD SAYS WE ARE A
BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING.
00:46:11.36\00:46:13.73
DON'T YOU WANT TO BE A
BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING?
00:46:13.73\00:46:15.90
IS THERE A LAKE OF FIRE
OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE?
00:46:15.90\00:46:19.53
WE WANT TO BE
SPARED FROM THAT FATE.
00:46:19.53\00:46:22.46
SO JOSHUA REPRESENTS WHAT GOD
HAS DONE FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH.
00:46:22.46\00:46:25.23
IT SAYS - OH, I LOVE THIS PART -
'I HAVE REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY.'
00:46:25.23\00:46:29.10
YOU REMEMBER WHEN ISAIAH
IS FORGIVEN IN CHAPTER 6?
00:46:29.10\00:46:33.80
IT SAYS, 'YOUR SIN IS PURGED,
YOUR INIQUITY IS FORGIVEN.'
00:46:33.80\00:46:38.90
AND SO GOD PROMISES TO DO THAT.
'I HAVE REMOVED - WOULDN'T YOU
00:46:38.90\00:46:41.56
LIKE TO HEAR THOSE WORDS?
'I HAVE REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY.'
00:46:41.56\00:46:45.50
DON'T WE ALL NEED
TO HEAR THOSE WORDS?
00:46:45.50\00:46:48.56
HE SAID, 'TAKE
AWAY HIS GARMENTS.
00:46:48.56\00:46:51.50
SEE, I HAVE REMOVED YOUR
INIQUITY FROM YOU AND I WILL
00:46:51.50\00:46:54.36
CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH ROBES.'
IN HEAVEN, WHAT DOES IT SAY
00:46:54.36\00:46:58.56
ABOUT THE 144,000
AND THE GREAT MULTITUDE?
00:46:58.56\00:47:01.23
THEY ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES.
SO - OH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I
00:47:01.23\00:47:08.90
JUST LIKE READING THROUGH AND I
FEEL LIKE I'VE GOT TO KEEP GOING
00:47:08.90\00:47:11.06
BACK TO THE LESSON. I
LIKE JUST READING THE BIBLE.
00:47:11.06\00:47:14.06
ONE MORE THING, I WANT TO READ
VERSE 7, "THUS SAYS THE LORD OF
00:47:14.06\00:47:16.90
HOSTS: 'IF YOU WILL WALK IN
MY WAYS, AND IF YOU WILL KEEP MY
00:47:16.90\00:47:20.13
COMMAND, THEN YOU SHALL ALSO
JUDGE MY HOUSE, AND LIKEWISE
00:47:20.13\00:47:23.30
HAVE CHARGE OF MY COURTS; I WILL
GIVE YOU PLACES TO WALK AMONG
00:47:23.30\00:47:26.90
THESE WHO STAND HERE.'" SO
GOD IS PROMISING, 'TRUST ME.
00:47:26.90\00:47:30.76
OBEY ME. WALK IN MY
WAYS AND I WILL GIVE
00:47:30.76\00:47:33.06
YOU A PLACE AMONG THOSE.'
HERE HE'S IN HEAVENLY PLACES AND
00:47:33.06\00:47:36.73
HE SAYS HE WILL
GIVE US THAT PLACE.
00:47:36.73\00:47:39.96
OH, ONE MORE THING, - I HAVEN'T
FORGOTTEN THAT YOU'VE GOT A
00:47:39.96\00:47:45.03
VERSE ALL QUEUED UP - BEYOND
FASTING - THIS IS UNDER THIS
00:47:45.03\00:47:48.70
SECTION - YOU KNOW, WHEN
THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED, IT WAS
00:47:48.70\00:47:55.20
DESTROYED IN THE FIFTH MONTH.
AND TO COMMEMORATE, IT'S LIKE -
00:47:55.20\00:47:59.56
DO WE SOMETIMES DO
SPECIAL THINGS ON 9/11 NOW?
00:47:59.56\00:48:03.86
USED TO BE DECEMBER 7TH
WHICH WAS PEARL HARBOR DAY.
00:48:03.86\00:48:06.73
THERE ARE CERTAIN DAYS THAT ARE
OMINOUS FOR A COUNTRY THAT ARE
00:48:06.73\00:48:09.40
SORT OF A MEMORIAL. AND
HERE WE'VE GOT A MEMORIAL
00:48:09.40\00:48:11.60
WEEKEND COMING UP.
WELL, A MEMORIAL FOR THEM WAS
00:48:11.60\00:48:14.56
WHEN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS
LEVELED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND
00:48:14.56\00:48:17.73
THEY USED TO FAST, AS
A REMEMBRANCE OF THAT,
00:48:17.73\00:48:20.30
EVERY FIFTH MONTH. BUT
NOW THEY'VE COME BACK FROM
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.23
BABYLON AND THEY'RE
REBUILDING THE TEMPLE.
00:48:22.23\00:48:25.10
AND SO THEY COME SCRATCHING
THEIR HEADS AND THEY ASKED THE
00:48:25.10\00:48:27.20
PROPHET, ZECHARIAH, 'ARE WE
SUPPOSED TO KEEP FASTING IN THE
00:48:27.20\00:48:30.80
FIFTH MONTH?' THE WORD
OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM
00:48:30.80\00:48:33.96
- ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 7, VERSE 8,
"THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
00:48:33.96\00:48:36.86
TO ZECHARIAH, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS
THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'EXECUTE TRUE
00:48:36.86\00:48:40.03
JUSTICE, SHOW MERCY AND
COMPASSION EVERYONE TO HIS
00:48:40.03\00:48:42.46
BROTHER. DO NOT OPPRESS
THE WIDOW OR THE FATHERLESS,
00:48:42.46\00:48:45.23
THE ALIEN OR THE POOR. LET
NONE OF YOU PLAN EVIL IN HIS
00:48:45.23\00:48:48.50
HEART AGAINST HIS BROTHER.''"
IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT
00:48:48.50\00:48:50.53
TO PLEASE ME, DON'T FEEL LIKE
YOU NEED TO WRING YOUR HANDS AND
00:48:50.53\00:48:52.96
FAST BECAUSE THE OLD TEMPLE WAS
DESTROYED, IF YOU WANT TO PLEASE
00:48:52.96\00:48:55.93
ME HERE'S THE FAST THAT
I WANT: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR.
00:48:55.93\00:48:58.56
WALK IN MY WAYS.
BEHAVE RIGHTEOUSLY.
00:48:58.56\00:49:01.46
DOES THAT SOUND A
LOT LIKE ISAIAH 58?
00:49:01.46\00:49:04.90
ISAIAH 58, VERSE 6, "IS NOT THIS
THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN: TO
00:49:04.90\00:49:09.50
LOOSE THE BONDS OF WICKEDNESS,
TO UNDO THE HEAVY BURDENS, TO
00:49:09.50\00:49:14.03
LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE,
AND THAT YOU BREAK EVERY YOKE?
00:49:14.03\00:49:17.60
IS IT NOT TO SHARE YOUR BREAD
WITH THE HUNGRY, AND THAT YOU
00:49:17.60\00:49:19.86
BRING TO YOUR HOUSE THE POOR WHO
ARE CAST OUT; WHEN YOU SEE THE
00:49:19.86\00:49:23.03
NAKED, THAT YOU COVER HIM, AND
NOT HIDE YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN
00:49:23.03\00:49:28.76
FLESH?" AND SO, HE SAID, WE'RE
GOING TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE.
00:49:28.76\00:49:32.90
YOU DON'T NEED TO BE
IN PERPETUAL MOURNING.
00:49:32.90\00:49:35.36
NOW I HAD JUMPED OVER A PART
HERE ABOUT 'NOT BY HUMAN POWER'
00:49:35.36\00:49:38.56
AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:49:38.56\00:49:39.70
I'M KIND OF HOPING WE
CAN SPEND SOME TIME HERE.
00:49:39.70\00:49:42.23
ZECHARIAH 4 - ZECHARIAH 4, VERSE
6, "...AND SAID TO ME: THIS IS
00:49:42.23\00:49:49.73
THE WORD OF THE LORD TO
ZERUBBABEL: 'NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY
00:49:49.73\00:49:54.20
POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT,'
SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS."
00:49:54.20\00:49:58.06
HOW IS GOD - DOES
HE ACCOMPLISH THINGS?
00:49:58.06\00:50:02.23
HOW - THEY DIDN'T SAY, 'HOW
IS HE EVER GOING TO REBUILD THE
00:50:02.23\00:50:04.36
TEMPLE WITH ALL THIS OPPOSITION
WE'RE GETTING, WITH NOT HAVING
00:50:04.36\00:50:08.96
ENOUGH FUNDS?' HOW ARE YOU
GOING TO BRING ABOUT REVIVAL
00:50:08.96\00:50:12.50
AND BRING THE PEOPLE HOME?
IS IT BY HUMAN POWER THAT THINGS
00:50:12.50\00:50:16.26
ARE ACCOMPLISHED?
HOW IS GOD'S WORK DONE?
00:50:16.26\00:50:19.00
YOU KNOW, IN THE CHURCH, WE'RE
REALLY GOOD AT HAVING - 'LET'S
00:50:19.00\00:50:23.36
HAVE ANOTHER SEMINAR ON
THIS. LET'S HAVE A SYLLABUS.
00:50:23.36\00:50:27.20
WE'LL HAVE A PROGRAM.
WE'LL TEACH A TECHNIQUE.
00:50:27.20\00:50:30.93
WE'LL PUBLISH A
MANUAL WITH A NEW METHOD.
00:50:30.93\00:50:33.20
WE'LL RAISE MONEY. GET
MORE MONEY. MORE FUNDS.'
00:50:33.20\00:50:37.13
WE CAN DO
ANYTHING WITH MONEY, RIGHT?
00:50:37.13\00:50:39.36
AND WHAT IS IT THAT GOD NEEDS?
ANOTHER PROGRAM? A SLOGAN?
00:50:39.36\00:50:45.00
A THEME? A LOGO? WE
NEED A VISION STATEMENT.
00:50:45.00\00:50:50.43
WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS THAT
ARE SUBSTITUTES FOR WHAT REALLY
00:50:50.43\00:50:53.73
GETS IT DONE. DO YOU
KNOW WHAT REALLY GETS IT DONE?
00:50:53.73\00:50:55.93
NOW, ALL THOSE THINGS HAVE THEIR
PLACE, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS,
00:50:55.93\00:51:00.20
'IT'S NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER
BUT BY MY SPIRIT' SAYS THE LORD.
00:51:00.20\00:51:03.66
ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD,
FOR US, READ HOSEA 1:7.
00:51:03.66\00:51:08.43
>>"YET I WILL HAVE MERCY ON THE
HOUSE OF JUDAH, WILL SAVE THEM
00:51:08.43\00:51:11.56
BY THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND WILL
NOT SAVE THEM BY BOW, NOR BY
00:51:11.56\00:51:15.93
SWORD OR BATTLE, BY
HORSES OR HORSEMEN."
00:51:15.93\00:51:20.46
>>IT'S REALLY EASY FOR US
TO THINK THAT WE CAN USE HUMAN
00:51:20.46\00:51:23.90
DEVISINGS TO BRING ABOUT OUR
SALVATION BUT, ULTIMATELY, IT'S
00:51:23.90\00:51:27.43
FROM THE LORD.
JEREMIAH 9:23, "THUS SAYS THE
00:51:27.43\00:51:31.50
LORD: 'LET NOT THE WISE MAN
GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, LET NOT THE
00:51:31.50\00:51:35.93
MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT,
NOR LET THE RICH MAN GLORY IN
00:51:35.93\00:51:39.66
HIS RICHES;'" - NOW, WOULD WE
ALL LIKE TO BE A LITTLE WISER?
00:51:39.66\00:51:44.70
I WOULD. WOULD YOU LIKE
TO BE A LITTLE MIGHTIER?
00:51:44.70\00:51:51.56
JUST ADD A FEW MORE WEIGHTS
WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE TO YOUR
00:51:51.56\00:51:56.23
LIFTING REGIMEN. WOULD YOU
LIKE TO BE A LITTLE RICHER?
00:51:56.23\00:52:01.66
YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAISE
YOUR HANDS, I KNOW YOU WOULD.
00:52:01.66\00:52:07.60
ALL THOSE THINGS MIGHT BE FINE
IN THEMSELVES, BUT HE SAYS, 'IF
00:52:07.60\00:52:10.60
YOU'RE GOING TO GLORY, "'GLORY
IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS AND
00:52:10.60\00:52:13.90
KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE LORD.'"
ARE THERE GOING TO BE WISE MEN
00:52:13.90\00:52:19.23
THAT WILL BE LOST? ARE
THERE GOING TO BE STRONG MEN
00:52:19.23\00:52:21.80
THAT WILL BE LOST? ARE
THERE GOING TO BE RICH MEN
00:52:21.80\00:52:24.36
THAT WILL BE LOST?
MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAYS VERY
00:52:24.36\00:52:26.66
FEW OF THEM WILL BE SAVED.
THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS, RIGHT?
00:52:26.66\00:52:31.30
BUT IF YOU KNOW THE LORD,
ISN'T THAT WHAT REALLY MAKES THE
00:52:31.30\00:52:34.86
DIFFERENCE? THOSE THAT KNOW ME.
00:52:34.86\00:52:37.50
LET ME GIVE YOU ONE
MORE ALONG THAT SAME THEME.
00:52:37.50\00:52:40.03
IT SAYS IN PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSE
13, "FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN
00:52:40.03\00:52:43.90
YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO
DO FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE."
00:52:43.90\00:52:48.60
GOD DOES IT IN US.
IT'S BY HIS SPIRIT.
00:52:48.60\00:52:52.66
ALRIGHT, IN CHAPTER 4 THERE'S
ONE MORE THING THAT I WANT TO
00:52:52.66\00:52:55.23
TALK ABOUT. HE
HAS THIS VISION IN THE
00:52:55.23\00:52:57.70
BEGINNING. LOOK IN
CHAPTER 4, VERSE, 1 -
00:52:57.70\00:53:00.26
I REALIZE SOME OF THIS IS OUT OF
ORDER, BUT JUST FORGIVE ME AND
00:53:00.26\00:53:02.63
I THINK YOU'LL BE
ABLE TO PIECE IT TOGETHER.
00:53:02.63\00:53:06.03
"NOW THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH
ME CAME BACK AND WAKENED ME, AS
00:53:06.03\00:53:10.60
A MAN WHO IS
WAKENED OUT OF HIS SLEEP.
00:53:10.60\00:53:12.86
AND HE SAID TO
ME, 'WHAT DO YOU SEE?'
00:53:12.86\00:53:14.90
SO I SAID, 'I AM LOOKING, AND
THERE IS A LAMP STAND OF SOLID
00:53:14.90\00:53:18.26
GOLD WITH A BOWL ON TOP OF
IT, AND ON THE STAND SEVEN LAMPS
00:53:18.26\00:53:22.70
WITH SEVEN PIPES
TO THE SEVEN LAMPS.'"
00:53:22.70\00:53:25.16
NOW WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM?
DOESN'T IT TALK ABOUT THAT IN
00:53:25.16\00:53:27.93
EXODUS WHEN THEY BUILT THE
TEMPLE AND WASN'T THERE SEVEN -
00:53:27.93\00:53:30.83
THE MENORAH - THE SEVEN-CANDLED
LAMP STAND IN THE TEMPLE?
00:53:30.83\00:53:36.73
AND HE SAID ALSO HE SAW "'TWO
OLIVE TREES ARE BY IT, ONE AT
00:53:36.73\00:53:41.83
THE RIGHT OF THE BOWL
AND THE OTHER AT ITS LEFT.'
00:53:41.83\00:53:45.23
SO I ANSWERED AND SPOKE TO
THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH ME,
00:53:45.23\00:53:47.16
SAYING, 'WHAT
ARE THESE, MY LORD?'
00:53:47.16\00:53:50.26
THEN THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH
ME ANSWERED AND SAID TO ME, 'DO
00:53:50.26\00:53:53.43
YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THESE
ARE?' AND I SAID, 'NO, MY LORD.'
00:53:53.43\00:53:56.10
SO HE ANSWERED AND
SAID TO ME:" - WAIT FOR IT.
00:53:56.10\00:54:00.16
GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 11.
DOES REVELATION 11 TALK ABOUT AN
00:54:00.16\00:54:05.66
OLIVE TREE AND
A LAMP STAND? HUH?
00:54:05.66\00:54:13.80
VERSE 3 - REVELATION 11, VERSE 3
AND IT SAYS, "'I WILL GIVE POWER
00:54:13.80\00:54:20.40
TO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY
WILL PROPHESY ONE THOUSAND TWO
00:54:20.40\00:54:24.20
HUNDRED AND SIXTY
DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH.'
00:54:24.20\00:54:28.20
THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES OF
GOD AND THE TWO LAMP STANDS AND
00:54:28.20\00:54:32.63
THE TWO OLIVE TREES STANDING
BEFORE THE GOD OF THE EARTH. -
00:54:32.63\00:54:37.13
HE'S DRAWING DIRECTLY
OUT OF ZECHARIAH, ISN'T HE?
00:54:37.13\00:54:41.03
WELL WHO ARE
THESE TWO WITNESSES? -
00:54:41.03\00:54:43.60
"AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO HARM
THEM, FIRE PROCEEDS FROM THEIR
00:54:43.60\00:54:46.00
MOUTH AND DEVOURS THEIR ENEMIES.
AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO HARM
00:54:46.00\00:54:49.43
THEM, HE MUST BE
KILLED IN THIS MANNER.
00:54:49.43\00:54:52.26
THESE HAVE THE POWER TO SHUT
HEAVEN, SO THAT NO RAIN FALLS IN
00:54:52.26\00:54:54.50
THE DAYS OF THEIR PROPHECY; AND
THEY HAVE POWER OVER WATERS TO
00:54:54.50\00:54:57.56
TURN THEM TO BLOOD, AND
TO STRIKE THE EARTH WITH ALL
00:54:57.56\00:54:59.63
PLAGUES, AS
OFTEN AS THEY DESIRE."
00:54:59.63\00:55:01.56
WHO ARE THESE TWO WITNESSES?
NOW, MY FRIENDS IN A LOT OF THE
00:55:01.56\00:55:04.93
CHARISMATIC CHURCHES THEY
SAY, 'THIS IS MOSES AND ELIJAH.'
00:55:04.93\00:55:09.30
AND I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY SAY
THAT - BECAUSE MOSES AND ELIJAH
00:55:09.30\00:55:13.80
APPEAR TO JESUS ON THE
MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION.
00:55:13.80\00:55:17.20
DOES MOSES - DO YOU FIND PLAGUES
IN THE BOOKS THAT MOSES WROTE?
00:55:17.20\00:55:21.33
DO YOU FIND ELIJAH HAVING
FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN?
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A LOT OF THE SAME
CHARACTERISTICS ARE FOUND IN THE
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LIVES OF MOSES AND ELIJAH.
THEY'RE RIGHT CONCEPTUALLY.
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THEY'RE WRONG TECHNICALLY.
IT REPRESENTS THE LAW AND THE
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PROPHETS - THE NEW AND THE
OLD TESTAMENT - THE WORD OF GOD.
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GO BACK TO ZECHARIAH REAL QUICK.
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IN ZECHARIAH 4 HE
SAID, 'LORD, WHAT ARE THESE?'
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HE'S ASKING 'WHAT
DO THEY REPRESENT?'
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HE SAID, "'THIS IS THE WORD
OF THE LORD TO ZERUBBABEL:'" AND
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THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY "'NOT
BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER'" SO THESE
00:55:51.30\00:55:54.50
OLIVE TREES AND THESE - THIS
CANDLESTICK, THEY REPRESENT THE
00:55:54.50\00:55:59.33
WORD OF GOD. DOESN'T
THE BIBLE SAY, 'THY WORD
00:55:59.33\00:56:01.80
IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET
AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH'?
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AND WHAT KEEPS THE LAMP BURNING?
IT'S THE OIL FROM THE OLIVE OIL
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- THE OLIVE TREES. IT'S
THE SPIRIT AND SO IT'S THE
00:56:08.43\00:56:11.10
SPIRIT AND THE WORD
THAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT.
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THEY'RE REALLY
REPRESENTED BY THE WORD OF GOD.
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IN THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT
DO YOU HAVE FIRE COMING DOWN
00:56:17.80\00:56:21.30
FROM HEAVEN? DOES
REVELATION TALK ABOUT FIRE
00:56:21.30\00:56:24.03
COMING DOWN IN
THE NEW TESTAMENT?
00:56:24.03\00:56:25.93
IN THE NEW AND THE OLD
TESTAMENT DO YOU HAVE PLAGUES?
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YOU HAVE TEN PLAGUES IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT, SEVEN PLAGUES IN THE
00:56:29.03\00:56:31.03
NEW TESTAMENT AND SO IT'S
TALKING ABOUT THE LAW AND THE
00:56:31.03\00:56:34.30
PROPHETS, THE WORD OF GOD,
THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT.
00:56:34.30\00:56:37.06
THESE ARE THE TWO WITNESSES THAT
WITNESS FOR THE LORD AND WHAT
00:56:37.06\00:56:41.80
WORD ARE WE GOING TO BE JUDGED
BY? ISN'T IT THE WORD OF GOD?
00:56:41.80\00:56:45.76
DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY,
'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE
00:56:45.76\00:56:48.43
WITNESSES.' JESUS,
WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE
00:56:48.43\00:56:50.93
DEAD, HE TAUGHT THEM FROM THE
LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND THEN
00:56:50.93\00:56:54.90
ONE TIME IT SAYS, 'THE LAW AND
THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS' -
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THAT WOULD BE THE THIRD WITNESS.
SO ZECHARIAH IS ENCOMPASSING ALL
00:56:57.96\00:57:02.13
THESE THINGS. OH,
THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HERE
00:57:02.13\00:57:04.40
I WASN'T ABLE TO GET TO.
THE EYES OF THE LORD - AND IT
00:57:04.40\00:57:08.23
TELLS US ABOUT THE EYES OF
THE LORD THAT SEE ALL THINGS.
00:57:08.23\00:57:11.66
YOU'VE GOT THE SEVEN EYES - IF
YOU LOOK IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11,
00:57:11.66\00:57:15.43
VERSE 2 IT TALKS ABOUT THE SEVEN
SPIRITS OR CHARACTERISTICS OF
00:57:15.43\00:57:18.86
GOD'S SPIRIT AND THAT GOD'S EYES
SEE EVERYWHERE - IT'S A SYMBOL
00:57:18.86\00:57:23.06
FOR THAT AND - OH, OUT OF TIME.
ALRIGHT FRIENDS, I JUST WANT TO
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REMIND YOU BEFORE WE GO OFF
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ASK FOR OFFER #146 AND WE'LL
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ASK FOR IT - CALL 866-STUDY-MORE
THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND IF WE
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CAN INVITE OUR USHERS TO COME
FORWARD, WE ARE GOING TO HAVE
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OUR CLOSING PRAYER HERE. I
WANT TO THANK YOU FOR STUDYING
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WITH US - THOSE WHO HAVE BEEN
WATCHING VIA TELEVISION - AND
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GOD BLESS YOU UNTIL WE
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