Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021324
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00:46 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH 00:49 HERE IN SUNNY SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:52 WE'RE SO EXCITED THAT YOU ARE JOINING US - WHETHER THIS IS 00:55 YOUR FIRST TIME OR YOU DO EVERY WEEK. 00:58 HAPPY SABBATH AND A BIG WELCOME FROM CENTRAL CHURCH. 01:02 WE KNOW THERE'S MANY OF YOU LISTENING ON THE RADIO OR YOU'RE 01:04 WATCHING LIVE RIGHT NOW AT OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR 01:09 THE VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS - IT DOESN'T MATTER HOWEVER 01:11 YOU'RE JOINING US - WELCOME. AND WE ARE SO EXCITED BECAUSE WE 01:14 HAVE A SPECIAL SURPRISE FOR YOU. JUST LIKE LAST WEEK WE HAD EXTRA 01:18 SPECIAL MUSIC, TODAY IS NO EXCEPTION. WE'RE JOINED 01:22 THIS MORNING BY WEIMAR ACADEMY - OH, NOT FAR FROM HERE. 01:27 THEY'RE JUST UP THE INTERSTATE 80 AND THEY'RE GOING TO BE 01:29 PROVIDING OUR MUSIC AND I WOULD LIKE TO INTRODUCE YOU TO 01:32 CHAD BERNARD. CHAD IS THE PRINCIPAL AT WEIMAR ACADEMY. 01:36 I HAVE A - GOOD MORNING! I HAVE A COUPLE QUESTIONS FOR YOU. 01:39 TELL ME ABOUT WEIMAR. IF SOMEONE HAS NEVER HEARD OF 01:42 YOU BEFORE, WHAT IS IT? >>OKAY, WEIMAR ACADEMY IS JUST 01:46 LIKE YOU SAID - IT'S JUST UP THE HILL ABOUT 40 MINUTES AND WE 01:51 HAVE AN - PRAISE GOD WE HAVE AN AMAZING PROGRAM. 01:54 I MEAN, YOU WOULD EXPECT THE PRINCIPAL TO BE PRO - 01:57 FOR THE ACADEMY. I'M 100 PERCENT BIASED. 01:59 WE HAVE AN AMAZING GROUP OF YOUNG PEOPLE - 57 STUDENTS THIS 02:03 YEAR - AND OUR FOCUS IS, QUITE SIMPLY, TRAIN OUR YOUNG PEOPLE 02:09 TO - WHATEVER THEY CHOOSE TO DO IN LIFE - TO DO IT FOR THE GLORY 02:12 OF GOD. AND OUR FOCUS IS CHRIST AND 02:16 LOVING EACH OTHER LIKE GOD HAS CALLED US TO DO. 02:21 OUR PROGRAM IS - COULD BE UNIQUE COMPARED TO OTHER SCHOOLS. 02:24 WE HAVE TIME EVERY DAY WHERE THE KIDS CAN GET INTO OUR GARDENS 02:28 THAT ARE CLOSE TO THE SCHOOL AND THEY'LL LEARN ABOUT AGRICULTURE. 02:33 WE HAVE AN AMAZING AGRICULTURE TEACHER THAT JUST CONNECTS 02:36 EVERYTHING TO CHRIST AND THAT'S A BLESSING. WE HAVE A WORK-ED 02:39 PROGRAM WHERE THE KIDS ARE WORKING DIFFERENT JOBS. 02:43 SOME ARE LAYING TILE, SOME ARE DOING MASON WORK, SOME ARE DOING 02:48 PLANT SERVICES - THEY'RE OPERATING HEAVY MACHINERY LIKE 02:52 WEED WHACKERS AND RAKES AND SHOVELS, SOME ARE IN THE 02:54 CAFETERIA. BUT THEY WORK EVERY DAY - TRYING TO INSTILL IN THEM 02:58 A SOLID WORK ETHIC. AND WE DO A LOT OF EVANGELISM. 03:02 WE LIKE TO TRAVEL INTO OUR COMMUNITY, THROUGHOUT THE WORLD. 03:04 WE VISITED THE PHILIPPINES, KOREA, BELIZE - WE ALSO WENT TO 03:08 A NATIVE AMERICAN RESERVATION IN UTAH THIS YEAR - SO OUR FOCUS IS 03:13 REALLY BEING PASSIONATE ABOUT CHRIST AND SERVING OUR FELLOW 03:16 MAN. >>THAT IS AWESOME. 03:18 I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED TO SEE KIDS AND I GUESS THAT MAKES ME SOUND 03:22 REALLY OLD - I'M TALKING ABOUT KIDS - DOING A WORK STUDY 03:25 PROGRAM AND LEARNING TO WORK AND BE - YOU KNOW, WHEN YOU GRADUATE 03:30 FROM HIGH SCHOOL YOU ALREADY KNOW WHAT TO DO OUT THERE. 03:33 >>ABSOLUTELY. OUR FOCUS IS ON CHARACTER 03:36 BECAUSE WE UNDERSTAND THAT THAT'S WHAT IT'S ALL ABOUT. 03:39 YOU - THIS IS A PRACTICAL WAY OF LIVING. 03:42 WHETHER YOU GET A JOB OR RETAIN A JOB IS BASED ON YOUR CHARACTER 03:46 - YOUR WORK ETHIC - IF PEOPLE CAN TRUST YOU. 03:49 THEY DON'T CARE IF YOU GOT AN 'A' IN HOME-EC OR NOT, THEY CARE 03:51 ABOUT IF YOU'LL REPRESENT THEIR COMPANY WELL. 03:55 AND WE HAVE A HIGHER AIM. WE WANT TO REPRESENT CHRIST WELL 03:59 BECAUSE NOT ONLY DO WE WANT TO LIVE IN SUCH A WAY THAT WE HAVE 04:03 FAVOR WITH MEN, WE WANT GOD TO BE PLEASED WITH ALL WE DO. 04:06 AND WE FIND THAT THAT IS A METHOD FOR SUCCESS AND OUR YOUNG 04:10 PEOPLE ARE HAPPY. WE HAVE A GOOD TIME. WE ENJOY LIFE AND GOD 04:14 IS RICHLY BLESSING OUR SCHOOL. >>GREAT. 04:16 SO IF YOU WANT - IF SOMEONE WOULD LIKE MORE INFORMATION 04:18 ABOUT WEIMAR ACADEMY, WHAT DO THEY NEED TO DO? 04:20 >>OH, THEY CAN JUST GO TO THE WEBSITE. IT'S 'WEIMAR.EDU' - 04:25 W-E-I-M-A-R - QUITE SIMPLE. AND CHECK US OUT ONLINE. 04:27 >>PERFECT. THANK YOU VERY MUCH CHAD. 04:29 AT THIS TIME WE'RE GOING TO LISTEN TO TWO BEAUTIFUL PIECES 04:31 BY THE WEIMAR ACADEMY CHOIR AND ORCHESTRA. 04:35 THE FIRST IS 'ANTHEM OF PRAISE' AND THEN 'O MY JESUS'. 04:49 (MUSIC) 11:39 >>BEAUTIFUL. I'VE NEVER HEARD 'A VOW TO THEE 11:42 MY COUNTRY' WITH OTHER WORDS BEFORE. THAT IS LOVELY. 11:46 THANK YOU SO MUCH WEIMAR ACADEMY AND ORCHESTRA. 11:49 IT'S WONDERFUL TO HAVE YOU HERE AND WE LOOK FORWARD TO MORE 11:52 MUSIC FOLLOWING IN MORE OF THE SERVICE TODAY. 11:57 AT THIS TIME I WOULD LIKE FOR YOU TO JOIN ME AS WE PRAY. 12:01 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR BRINGING US HERE TODAY 12:08 TO WORSHIP YOU. THANK YOU FOR BRINGING WEIMAR 12:11 ACADEMY TO BLESS US WITH HEAVENLY MUSIC. 12:15 I PRAY THAT YOU WILL COME AND LIVE IN OUR HEARTS. 12:17 BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. 12:20 BE WITH OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND THE WORLD. 12:23 YOU KNOW EACH AND EVERY ONE AND WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT ONE 12:26 DAY WE WILL GET TO JOIN TOGETHER ON THE STREETS OF GOLD AND SING 12:31 PRAISES TO YOU. BE WITH OUR SPEAKER AS HE BRINGS 12:35 US THE LESSON STUDY AND JUST MAY WE FEEL YOUR PRESENCE AS WE OPEN 12:42 UP YOUR WORD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 12:45 AT THIS TIME OUR LESSON STUDY IS GOING TO BE BROUGHT TO US BY - 12:50 YES - BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, OUR SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT 12:53 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 12:59 >>THANK YOU DEBBIE AND THANK YOU TO THE WEIMAR ACADEMY ORCHESTRA 13:04 AND CHOIR. I ENJOYED THAT VERY MUCH. 13:06 AND WELCOME FRIENDS. I'M GOING TO BE DOING SABBATH 13:12 SCHOOL FROM UP HERE TODAY BECAUSE WE HAVE SOME OF THE 13:14 MUSIC APPARATUS DOWN THERE AND I MIGHT HURT MYSELF AND I DON'T 13:19 KNOW IF OUR INSURANCE WOULD COVER THAT. 13:21 WE ARE CONTINUING WITH OUR STUDY GUIDE DEALING WITH 13:25 'MAJOR LESSONS FROM THE MINOR PROPHETS'. 13:27 AND IN A MOMENT WE'LL DELVE INTO THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH. 13:30 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER WE WANT TO MENTION TO YOU CALLED 'NO 13:33 TURNING BACK' AND IT TALKS ABOUT MAKING A COMMITMENT TO FOLLOW 13:37 THE LORD AND NOT BEING DISCOURAGED AND TURNING BACK 13:39 FROM THAT. AND IF YOU'D LIKE A COPY OF 13:41 THAT, ALL YOU HAVE TO DO IS CALL THE NUMBER - 866-STUDY-MORE 13:46 THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND WE'LL SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE AND - 13:53 UNDER THE CONDITION THAT YOU DO READ IT AND IT'D BE NICE IF YOU 13:56 SHARED IT WITH SOMEONE AFTERWARD. 14:00 I ALSO WANT TO WELCOME SOME OF THE EXTENDED MEMBERS OF CENTRAL 14:02 CHURCH THAT MAY BE WATCHING. WE KNOW THAT WE'VE GOT A LOT OF 14:05 FRIENDS FROM ALL DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD THAT STUDY THE 14:08 LESSON WITH US AND WE'RE GLAD THAT YOU'VE TUNED IN TODAY. 14:12 TODAY WE DELVE INTO A BOOK THAT HAS 14 CHAPTERS. 14:17 WE'RE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE TO GET INTO THE FIRST HALF OF THAT. 14:21 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT MINOR PROPHETS, BUT ZECHARIAH IS 14:24 PROBABLY ONE OF THE MORE MAJOR BOOKS OF THE MINOR PROPHETS. 14:27 IT'S ALSO CONSIDERED TO BE ONE OF THE APOCALYPTIC BOOKS OF THE 14:31 BIBLE. PRINCIPALLY FOUR OF THESE 14:34 APOCALYPTIC BOOKS THAT HAVE A NUMBER OF VISIONS IN THEM AND 14:38 THE OTHERS ARE - WELL, REVELATION, OF COURSE, YOU HAVE 14:41 EZEKIEL, YOU'VE GOT THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH AND THE BOOK OF ISAIAH 14:50 HAS ALSO GOT SOME VISIONS IN IT. BUT WE'RE ONLY GOING TO BE ABLE 14:56 TO GET THROUGH PROBABLY THE FIRST SEVEN CHAPTERS AND WE'LL 14:58 BE BLESSED IF WE CAN DO THAT TODAY. 15:00 WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE THAT COMES TO US FROM CHAPTER 3, 15:06 VERSE 10 IN YOUR LESSONS AND I'LL BE DOING IT FROM THE NEW 15:10 KING JAMES VERSION. I ALWAYS APPRECIATE IF YOU CAN 15:13 SAY THAT ALONG WITH ME. OUR MEMORY VERSE IS ZECHARIAH 15:16 CHAPTER 3, VERSE 10 AND ARE YOU READY? 15:21 "'IN THAT DAY,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'EVERYONE WILL INVITE HIS 15:26 NEIGHBOR UNDER HIS VINE AND UNDER HIS FIG TREE.'" 15:31 NOW THE CENTRAL THEME OF THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH IS TO TRY TO 15:35 ENCOURAGE THE PEOPLE. HE PROPHESIES ABOUT TWO MONTHS 15:39 AFTER THE BOOK OF HAGGAI - OR HAGGAI BEGINS HIS PROPHECIES. 15:44 THEY'RE STILL IN THE SITUATION WHERE THEY'RE WANTING TO REBUILD 15:46 THE TEMPLE BUT IT'S BEEN SUSPENDED FOR SOME TIME AND 15:50 ZECHARIAH COMES ALONG TO ENCOURAGE AND TO COMFORT THE 15:53 PEOPLE. ONE OF THE THINGS HE DOES IS HE 15:56 REMINDS THE PEOPLE THAT THIS TEMPLE, THOUGH SMALLER IN SCALE 16:00 THAN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON, THIS TEMPLE IS SIGNIFICANT BECAUSE IT 16:04 IS THE TEMPLE THE MESSIAH IS ACTUALLY GOING TO COME TO AND SO 16:09 HE SPENDS QUITE A BIT OF TIME IN HIS BOOK TALKING ABOUT - 16:12 ENCOURAGING THE PEOPLE, SPEAKING PEACE TO THE PEOPLE, ALSO GIVING 16:16 SOME WARNINGS AND SOME COUNSEL AND PROPHETIC ADVICE. 16:21 THE NAME ZECHARIAH MEANS - AND YOU ALWAYS WANT TO TAKE A GOOD 16:25 LOOK AT THE NAMES OF THESE PROPHETS - IT MEANS 'GOD 16:28 REMEMBERS' OR 'GOD HAS REMEMBERED'. 16:31 AND THROUGH THE WHOLE PROPHECY OF ZECHARIAH, HE CONTINUES TO 16:34 REMIND THEM GOD HAS NOT FORGOTTEN THEM. 16:37 IT SEEMS, AT TIMES, LIKE THEY'RE GOING TO BE ENVELOPED BY THEIR 16:41 ENEMIES AND THEY'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO FULFILL THE BIG PURPOSE 16:43 THAT GOD HAD AND HE'S THERE TO ENCOURAGE THEM, 'IT IS GOING TO 16:46 HAPPEN.' NOW, YOU FIND THAT NAME 16:48 'ZECHARIAH' IN THE BIBLE ABOUT 29 TIMES. 16:52 WHEN YOU GET TO THE NEW TESTAMENT IT'S CALLED ZACHARIAS. 16:56 THAT'S JUST THE GREEK WAY OF SAYING 'ZECHARIAH'. 16:58 IT'S THE SAME NAME. SO IT WAS A VERY COMMON NAME AND 17:01 ESPECIALLY COMMON AMONG THE PRIESTS. 17:04 NOW, I DON'T EVEN KNOW IF I WANT TO SAY THIS BECAUSE IT COULD 17:09 JUST RAISE A QUESTION. ZECHARIAH IS KNOWN AS - IF YOU 17:15 LOOK IN VERSE 1, ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 1, VERSE 1 - "IN THE 17:20 EIGHTH MONTH OF THE SECOND YEAR OF DARIUS, THE WORD OF THE LORD 17:23 CAME TO ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH, THE SON OF IDDO THE 17:26 PROPHET," - ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH. 17:29 YOU KNOW, THERE WAS ANOTHER PRIEST BY THE NAME OF ZECHARIAH 17:32 WHO WAS THE SON OF JEHOIADA AND HE WAS KILLED IN THE TEMPLE 17:39 BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR. THEY STONED HIM TO DEATH BECAUSE 17:42 KING JOASH, WHO WAS GOOD WHEN HE WAS YOUNG - KING JOASH WENT BAD 17:47 UNDER THE ADVICE OF SOME BAD ADVISORS AND THEY TURNED FROM 17:50 LISTENING TO THE LORD AND SO THEY HAD ZECHARIAH THE SON OF 17:54 JEHOIADA SLAIN BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR. 17:57 JESUS, IN GIVING A PROPHECY, HE SAYS, 'ALL THE BLOOD' - SPEAKING 18:02 TO THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL IN HIS DAY - 'ALL THE BLOOD OF 18:04 RIGHTEOUS ABEL UNTO THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH THE SON OF 18:07 BERECHIAH, WHO WAS SLAIN BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR, WILL 18:11 COME UPON THIS GENERATION.' AND THAT CAN CAUSE A LOT OF 18:15 CONFUSION. THEY'RE WONDERING, 'DID THE 18:17 SCRIBE MAKE AN ERROR? DID THE SCRIBE MEAN ZECHARIAH 18:19 SON OF JEHOIADA?' BECAUSE THE BIBLE TELLS ABOUT 18:23 HIM BEING SLAIN BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR. 18:25 OR WAS IT SAYING THAT THIS PROPHET LATER ALSO DIED BETWEEN 18:29 THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR? ZECHARIAH THE SON OF BERECHIAH. 18:33 SO I'LL LET YOU LOOK AT THE COMMENTARIES AND FIGURE THAT OUT 18:37 FOR YOURSELF BUT, IF YOU'VE RUN INTO THAT - HOW MANY OF YOU 18:40 REMEMBER WHEN JESUS SAYS, 'ALL THE BLOOD OF RIGHTEOUS ABEL UNTO 18:44 THE BLOOD OF ZECHARIAH WILL COME UPON THIS GENERATION'? 18:48 SO ZECHARIAH, WHILE HE STARTED YOUNG AS A GOOD PROPHET, IT MAY 18:53 BE HE WAS ALSO KILLED IN THE TEMPLE BECAUSE IT DOES SAY THAT 18:55 HE WAS A PROPHET AND MAY HAVE BEEN IN THERE AND COULD HAVE 18:59 MADE PEOPLE MAD. BUT THAT MUST HAVE HAPPENED MUCH 19:01 LATER IN HIS LIFE IF IT HAPPENED. 19:04 AND HE SAYS, "THE LORD HAS BEEN VERY ANGRY WITH YOUR FATHERS" - 19:08 I'M IN CHAPTER 1 - "THEREFORE SAY TO THEM, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD 19:13 OF HOSTS: 'RETURN TO ME,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS, 'AND I WILL 19:16 RETURN TO YOU.'" ALRIGHT, WE'VE GIVEN OUT A FEW 19:19 VERSES - I DON'T KNOW WHO GOT THEM BUT SOMEBODY GOT JAMES 4:8. 19:23 IF YOU GOT THAT VERSE HOLD YOUR HAND UP AND WE'LL GET YOU A 19:25 MICROPHONE. THAT DIDN'T TAKE TOO LONG. 19:28 AND WE'LL HAVE YOU READ THAT IN JUST A MINUTE. 19:30 THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT PRINCIPLE. 19:33 GOD'S PEOPLE HAVE FREQUENTLY WANDERED FROM THE LORD AND WE 19:37 WANT TO KNOW 'WHAT'S THE FORMULA FOR COMING BACK?' 19:40 HAS THE LORD FOLDED HIS ARMS AND TURNED HIS BACK ON US? 19:43 CAN WE EVER RETURN TO THE LORD? THERE'S A PROMISE YOU FIND IN 19:46 JAMES 4:8. WE'RE GOING TO READ THAT. 19:48 GO AHEAD ELIZABETH. >>IT SAYS, "DRAW NEAR TO GOD AND 19:51 HE WILL DRAW NEAR TO YOU. CLEANSE YOUR HANDS, YOU SINNERS; 19:55 AND PURIFY YOUR HEARTS, YOU DOUBLE-MINDED." 19:59 >>WHAT DOES IT TAKE FOR GOD TO RECEIVE US? 20:04 HOW DID THE FATHER RESPOND - THE FATHER OF THE PRODIGAL SON WHEN 20:11 HIS BOY HAD WANDERED AWAY - WHAT DID THE BOY HAVE TO DO IN ORDER 20:15 FOR THE FATHER TO RECEIVE HIM? IT SAYS, 'WHEN HE SAW HIM COMING 20:20 A GREAT WAY OFF HE RAN TO MEET HIM.' 20:23 AND IN THE SAME WAY, WHEN GOD SEES US DRAWING NEAR TO HIM, 20:27 HE THEN DRAWS NEAR TO US. DOES GOD SAY, 20:30 'OH NO, HERE THEY COME AGAIN. I AM SO TIRED OF THEIR MESSING 20:33 UP AND THEN THEY SAY, 'I'M SORRY. 'SURE YOU ARE. 20:37 WE KNOW WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN'? OR DOES GOD REJOICE WHEN HE SEES 20:40 US MAKING THE FIRST EFFORTS TO COME NEAR HIM? 20:44 AND THAT'S WHAT YOU FIND RIGHT HERE IN ZECHARIAH. 20:46 'DRAW NEAR TO ME. RETURN TO ME SAYS THE LORD AND I 20:49 WILL RETURN TO YOU.' AND THAT'S CALLED REPENTANCE. 20:52 WHEN WE MAKE THE FIRST STEPS OF JOURNEYING BACK TO GOD, 20:55 HE COMES BACK TO US. 20:57 AND THEN YOU FIND ANOTHER PHRASE IN CHAPTER 1, ZECHARIAH 1, VERSE 21:01 12, "THEN THE ANGEL OF THE LORD ANSWERED AND SAID, 'O LORD OF 21:05 HOSTS, HOW LONG WILL YOU NOT HAVE MERCY ON JERUSALEM AND ON 21:09 THE CITIES OF JUDAH, AGAINST WHICH YOU WERE ANGRY THESE 21:12 SEVENTY YEARS?'" YOU KNOW, THERE ARE SPELLS 21:16 WHERE GOD HAS WITHDRAWN HIS MERCY AND HIS PROTECTION BECAUSE 21:20 THE PEOPLE HAD REJECTED HIM. HOW LONG DOES HE MAKE US WAIT? 21:24 DID GOD SAY THAT THEY WOULD SUFFER SEVENTY YEARS BECAUSE HE 21:29 JUST FIGURED THIS IS HOW MUCH PUNISHMENT THEY NEEDED? 21:32 OR DID HE SAY SEVENTY YEARS BECAUSE GOD KNEW HOW LONG IT 21:34 WOULD BE UNTIL THEY RETURNED TO HIM? 21:37 YOU KNOW, YOU READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 AND DANIEL BEGINS TO 21:41 PRAY, AFTER THEY'VE BEEN THERE SEVENTY YEARS, AND A REVIVAL 21:45 BEGAN AND THAT'S WHEN THINGS CHANGED IN BABYLON AND IT BECAME 21:50 POSSIBLE FOR THE CHILDREN TO COME HOME. 21:52 GOD JUST KNEW IT WAS GOING TO TAKE THAT LONG FOR THAT 21:54 GENERATION TO FINALLY TURN TO HIM. HOW LONG? 21:58 YOU FIND THAT SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 22:01 LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN PSALM CHAPTER 74, VERSE 10, AND WE 22:05 READ THERE, "O GOD, HOW LONG WITH THE ADVERSARY REPROACH? 22:11 WILL THE ENEMY BLASPHEME YOUR NAME FOREVER?" 22:14 HAVE YOU EVER WONDERED - YOU KNOW, AT THE TIME OF THIS 22:17 RECORDING - AND, OF COURSE, THIS IS A SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST 22:20 SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY. WE HAVE A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT - 22:22 A LOT OF PEOPLE STUDY ALONG WITH US FROM OTHER CHURCHES AND IN 22:29 THE SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH, THE VERY NAME EMBODIES 22:34 THE IDEA THAT WE BELIEVE IN THE IMMINENT RETURN OF JESUS. 22:38 SEVENTH DAY MEANS WE BELIEVE IN THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD 22:41 INCLUDING THE SEVENTH DAY SABBATH AND ADVENTIST MEANS WE 22:45 BELIEVE IN THE RETURN - THAT'S WHAT AN ADVENTIST - IT MEANS 22:48 'THE COMING OF'. IT'S WHERE YOU GET THE WORD 22:49 'ADVENTURE' - THE COMING OF THE LORD - THE RETURN OF THE LORD. 22:53 AND SO WE PUT IT RIGHT IN THE NAME BECAUSE WE HAVE A MESSAGE 22:56 TO TELL THE WORLD JESUS IS COMING BACK - WE NEED TO GET 22:59 READY. BUT AS OF THIS WEEK IT'S 150 23:03 YEARS SINCE WE FORMALLY ORGANIZED AS A CHURCH AND SO WE 23:09 BEGIN TO ASK 'HOW LONG? HOW LONG, O LORD?' 23:16 WELL, YOU'RE NOT ALONE. YOU'RE IN GOOD COMPANY. 23:19 WHEN GOD TOLD ADAM AND EVE, 'LOOK, THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS, 23:23 YOUR SEED - THE MESSIAH - WILL COME.' 23:26 THEY DIDN'T LIVE TO SEE IT, DID THEY? 23:29 AND A HUNDRED YEARS WENT BY AND A THOUSAND YEARS WENT BY AND 23:32 FINALLY TWO THOUSAND YEARS GO BY AND GOD SPEAKS TO ABRAHAM AND 23:36 SAID, 'DON'T GET DISCOURAGED, THE MESSIAH IS COMING. 23:38 MATTER OF FACT, HE'S COMING THROUGH YOUR DESCENDANTS. 23:41 HE'S GOING TO COME THROUGH THE HEBREWS.' 23:43 AND A HUNDRED YEARS GO BY AND A THOUSAND YEARS GO BY. 23:49 TWO THOUSAND YEARS GO BY AND THEN THE WISE MEN RIDE INTO 23:53 JERUSALEM AND THEY SAY, 'WHERE IS HE THAT IS BORN KING OF THE 23:56 JEWS?' AND AT THAT POINT THEY HAD SORT 23:59 OF THOUGHT IT WAS JUST A LEGEND. THEY DIDN'T REALLY BELIEVE 24:01 HE WAS EVER COMING BACK. AND SO, ZECHARIAH, WHO LIVED 24:06 ABOUT 500 YEARS BEFORE CHRIST, THEY WERE ASKING THAT QUESTION 24:09 AGAIN, 'HOW LONG LORD BEFORE THE MESSIAH COMES?' 24:13 DID HE COME THE FIRST TIME? NOT EXACTLY WHEN THEY EXPECTED. 24:18 IT WAS LATER THAN THEY EXPECTED. WILL HE COME THE SECOND TIME? 24:22 I DON'T THINK WE HAVE TO WAIT TWO THOUSAND YEARS. 24:24 BY THE WAY, IT'S BEEN ABOUT TWO THOUSAND YEARS SINCE HIS FIRST 24:26 COMING AND SO I THINK WE ARE ON SCHEDULE. SO - ISAIAH 6:11 - 24:33 "THEN I SAID, 'LORD, HOW LONG?' AND HE SAID, 'UNTIL THE CITIES 24:38 ARE LAID WASTE AND WITHOUT INHABITANT, THE HOUSES ARE 24:41 WITHOUT A MAN, THE LAND IS UTTERLY DESOLATE." 24:44 AND, YOU KNOW, FOR ISAIAH, THAT DID HAPPEN. 24:46 THE PEOPLE WERE ALL CARRIED AWAY AND THE LAND WAS DESOLATED. 24:50 AND, YOU KNOW, THEN YOU SEE ALSO IN CHAPTER 1 - SOMETHING YOU'RE 24:54 GOING TO FIND REAPPEARING IN THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH IS HORSES. 24:59 HE'S GOT SEVERAL VISIONS OF HORSES AND THESE MESSENGERS RIDE 25:02 AROUND AND THEY BRING COMFORT TO THE PEOPLE. 25:06 NOW, YOU'VE GOT - SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT HORSES OF JUDGMENT 25:09 BUT HORSES IN THE BIBLE OFTEN - HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE - 25:13 YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE ENEMY SURROUNDED ELISHA? 25:17 THE SYRIAN KING SENT A LARGE ARMY TO SURROUND THIS LITTLE 25:21 TOWN OF DOTHAN AND HE WAS GOING TO ARREST ELISHA BECAUSE HE 25:25 FIGURED ELISHA WAS GOD'S SECRET WEAPON AND 'IF WE COULD CAPTURE 25:28 THEIR SECRET WEAPON, WE CAN CONQUER THE ISRAELITES.' 25:32 FIGHT FIRE WITH FIRE. AND SO, THIS ARMY SURROUNDS THE LITTLE 25:35 TOWN OF DOTHAN. DOTHAN MEANS 'TWO WELLS'. BY THE WAY, DOTHAN 25:39 IS THE LITTLE CITY WHERE JOSEPH WENT LOOKING FOR HIS BROTHERS. 25:43 AND THE SERVANT OF ELISHA WAKES UP IN THE MORNING AND THE SUN IS 25:47 JUST BEGINNING TO LIGHTEN THE SKY A LITTLE BIT AND HE SEES THE 25:50 GLITTERING ARMOR OF THIS ARMY SURROUNDING THE LITTLE TOWN AND 25:55 HE RUNS BACK AND WAKES UP ELISHA. 25:57 HE SAYS, 'ALAS MASTER, WHAT WILL WE DO?' 25:59 AND ELISHA STEPS OUT AND HE LOOKS AROUND. 26:01 HE SEES THE ARMY AND HE - HE'S NOT WORRIED ABOUT THE ARMY. 26:06 ELISHA'S WORRIED ABOUT HIS SERVANT. 26:07 HE'S WORRIED ABOUT HIS LACK OF FAITH. HE SAID, 26:09 'LOOK, IF YOU'RE GOING TO BE AN APPRENTICE PROPHET,' - LIKE 26:12 ELISHA WAS FOR ELIJAH - HE SAID 'YOU'VE GOT TO LEARN FAITH.' 26:15 HE SAID, 'THERE'S AN ARMY, I KNOW. 26:17 WE'VE GOT A PROBLEM HERE, BUT DON'T WORRY ABOUT IT BECAUSE GOD 26:20 HAS A BIGGER ARMY.' AND HE PRAYS. 26:23 HE SAYS, 'LORD, OPEN HIS EYES.' AND SUDDENLY THE EYES OF THE 26:27 YOUNG APPRENTICE WERE OPENED AND HE SAW THE MOUNTAINS SURROUNDING 26:31 THE SYRIAN ARMY THAT WAS SURROUNDING DOTHAN - THOSE 26:35 MOUNTAINS WERE FILLED WITH HORSES AND CHARIOTS OF FIRE. 26:40 DO YOU FIND HORSES IN REVELATION? WE'VE HEARD ABOUT 26:43 THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. MATTER OF FACT, SOME 26:46 OF THE HORSES - THERE ARE FOUR HORSES AND CHARIOTS MENTIONED 26:49 LATER IN THE BOOK AND THEY PARALLEL - NOT COMPLETELY - BUT 26:53 THEY PARALLEL IN A SIMILAR WAY TO THE HORSEMEN THAT YOU FIND 26:57 IN THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION STARTING WITH CHAPTER 6. 27:02 ALRIGHT - AND, FOR INSTANCE, YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 6:4, "AND 27:08 THERE WENT OUT ANOTHER HORSE THAT WAS RED: AND POWER" - IT 27:11 TALKS ABOUT A WHITE HORSE AND A RED HORSE - "POWER WAS GIVEN TO 27:14 HIM THAT SAT THEREON TO TAKE PEACE FROM THE EARTH, AND THAT 27:17 THEY SHOULD KILL ONE ANOTHER: AND THERE WAS GIVEN UNTO HIM A 27:19 GREAT SWORD." THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A BLACK 27:22 HORSE AND THEN IT TALKS ABOUT A PALE HORSE AND THESE HORSES 27:25 REPRESENT THE DIFFERENT POLITICAL AGES THAT THE CHURCH 27:30 WAS GOING TO GO THROUGH BETWEEN THE FIRST AND THE SECOND COMING. 27:33 SO THEY'RE NOT EXACTLY IDENTICAL TO THE HORSES, BUT IN ZECHARIAH, 27:37 HE'S ALSO TALKING ABOUT GOD SENDING HIS HORSEMEN OUT TO 27:42 PROTECT THE PEOPLE. THEY WERE AFRAID THEY WERE GOING 27:44 TO BE ATTACKED AGAIN BY ANOTHER NATION BEFORE THEY GOT THE 27:46 TEMPLE BUILT. AND HE SAID, 'THERE'S QUIET IN 27:49 ALL THE EARTH. WE'RE GOING TO LET YOU FINISH. 27:52 GOD IS GOING TO PROTECT YOU AND LET YOU FINISH THIS PROJECT 27:54 BUILDING THE TEMPLE.' ALRIGHT, LET'S JUMP OVER TO CHAPTER 2. 27:58 AT THIS RATE WE'LL NEVER GET THROUGH ALL SEVEN SO I'VE GOT TO 28:00 HURRY ALONG. AND ONE THING I WANT YOU TO 28:03 NOTICE IN CHAPTER 2, IF YOU GO, FOR INSTANCE, TO VERSES 6 AND 7 28:07 - MATTER OF FACT, SOMEBODY IS GOING TO READ THAT FOR ME. 28:10 WE'VE GOT A HAND RIGHT OVER HERE - MIKE - LET'S GET YOU A 28:12 MICROPHONE. WHERE'S THE MICROPHONE? OKAY. 28:14 YOU CAN PASS IT DOWN TO HIM. AND I'LL READ CHAPTER 2 FOR YOU, 28:20 VERSE 1, "THEN I RAISED MY EYES AND LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A MAN 28:24 WITH A MEASURING LINE IN HIS HAND. 28:26 SO I SAID, 'WHERE ARE YOU GOING?' 28:28 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TO MEASURE JERUSALEM, TO SEE WHAT IS ITS 28:30 WIDTH AND WHAT IS ITS LENGTH.' AND THERE WAS" - BY THE WAY, IN 28:35 REVELATION DO YOU FIND AN ANGEL WITH A MEASURING ROD? 28:38 YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD IT SAID BEFORE THAT REVELATION IS REALLY 28:43 A KALEIDOSCOPE OF EVERY PROPHETIC BOOK IN THE BIBLE. 28:46 THEY ALL SORT OF FIND TERMINATION IN REVELATION AND A 28:50 LOT OF THESE VISIONS ARE ECHOED IN REVELATION. 28:54 HERE IT'S TALKING ABOUT THEY THOUGHT THE TEMPLE WAS NOT GOING 28:57 TO BE BUILT AGAIN. THE FACT THAT THERE'S SOMEONE 28:59 WHO'S NOW SURVEYING - AN ANGEL THAT IS SURVEYING IN JERUSALEM 29:04 MEANS SOMEONE IS GETTING READY TO BUILD AGAIN. 29:07 "AND THERE WAS THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH ME, GOING OUT; AND 29:10 ANOTHER ANGEL WAS COMING OUT TO MEET HIM, WHO SAID TO HIM, 'RUN, 29:13 SPEAK TO THIS YOUNG MAN, SAYING: 'JERUSALEM SHALL BE INHABITED AS 29:17 TOWNS WITHOUT WALLS, BECAUSE OF THE MULTITUDE OF MEN AND 29:20 LIVESTOCK IN IT. FOR I,' SAYS THE LORD, 'WILL BE 29:23 A WALL OF FIRE ALL AROUND HER, AND I WILL BE THE GLORY IN HER 29:27 MIDST.''" AND SO HE'S SAYING, 'GOD IS 29:30 GOING TO BLESS JERUSALEM AGAIN. NOW, HE DID THIS TWO WAYS. 29:33 DID GOD BRING BACK THE PEOPLE FROM BABYLON? 29:36 DID HE BLESS JERUSALEM? DID THEY REBUILD THE TEMPLE? 29:39 DID THEY HAVE SOME YEARS OF PEACE? YES THEY DID. 29:42 BUT WHAT'S THIS A FULLER PROPHECY OF? 29:45 DOES REVELATION ALSO TALK ABOUT A JERUSALEM WHERE THERE'S PEACE 29:49 AND YOU DON'T NEED WALLS BECAUSE YOU WON'T HAVE AN ENEMY. I MEAN, 29:53 THERE ARE WALLS BUT IT'S TALKING ABOUT A TIME WHEN GOD'S IN THE 29:55 CITY AND THERE'S PEACE AND THEY GO OUT AND THEY COME IN. 30:00 NOW, READ FOR US - I THINK YOU WERE GOING TO READ VERSE 6, IF 30:03 I'M NOT MISTAKEN. READ VERSES 6 AND 7 OF ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 2. 30:07 >>ZECHARIAH 2, VERSES 6 AND 7, "'UP, UP! FLEE FROM THE LAND 30:11 OF THE NORTH,' SAYS THE LORD; 'FOR I HAVE SPREAD YOU ABROAD 30:14 LIKE THE FOUR WINDS OF HEAVEN,' SAYS THE LORD. 'UP ZION! 30:18 ESCAPE, YOU WHO DWELL WITH THE DAUGHTER OF BABYLON.'" 30:22 >>REMEMBER THIS AND IT WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR BIBLE STUDY. 30:26 VERY RARELY DID THEY TALK ABOUT THE NATION THAT WAS TO THE EAST. 30:33 THEY OFTEN TALKED ABOUT THE KING - THEY DO TALK ABOUT THE KINGS 30:36 OF THE EAST - BUT THEY TALK ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH, THE 30:38 KING OF THE SOUTH. 30:39 AND THE REASON FOR THAT IS TO THE EAST OF JERUSALEM THEY HAD A 30:42 LOT OF THE ARABS AND A BIG DESERT. 30:45 THEY HAD THE CHILDREN OF ISHMAEL AND A BIG DESERT. 30:48 PRINCIPALLY, WHEN AN INVASION CAME, IT CAME FROM THE SOUTH 30:52 MEANING, THE PEOPLE WOULD COME FROM SHEBA OR ETHIOPIA OR EGYPT 30:57 OR THE NORTH AND THEY WOULD COME FROM BABYLON OR ASSYRIA, 31:01 NINEVEH, THE SYRIANS - AND SO YOU'LL HEAR ABOUT THESE BATTLES 31:06 BETWEEN THE KING OF THE NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH. 31:09 PICTURE ISRAEL FOR A MOMENT. ISRAEL IS LIKE A LAND BRIDGE 31:12 BETWEEN THREE CONTINENTS. YOU COULD NOT REALLY GET THROUGH 31:16 THE COUNTRY TO THE EAST OF ISRAEL BECAUSE IT WAS A 31:19 TREMENDOUS FORBIDDING DEADLY DESERT. 31:23 VERY FEW PEOPLE TRAVELED ACROSS THAT DESERT. THEY NEEDED TO 31:26 TRAVEL WHERE THE STATIONS WERE - WHERE THE TRUCK STOPS WERE FOR 31:30 THE CARAVANS - WHERE THE WATER AND THE RIVERS WERE. 31:33 SO WHEN BABYLON CAME TO ATTACK, EVEN THOUGH BABYLON WAS 31:36 PRINCIPALLY TO THE EAST, THEY HAD TO COME IN FROM THE NORTH. 31:40 AND SO WHEN HE SAYS, 'FLEE FROM THE LANDS OF THE NORTH' THEY 31:43 WERE THINKING ABOUT ASSYRIA AND BABYLON. 31:46 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WERE STILL THERE. 31:48 NOW GOD HAD CREATED PEACE IN ISRAEL. HE SAID, 'LOOK, 31:50 I'VE MADE IT POSSIBLE FOR YOU TO COME BACK TO THE PROMISED LAND. 31:53 WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN EGYPT?' SOME OF THEM WENT TO EGYPT WHEN 31:56 NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME. 'WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN ASSYRIA?' 32:00 THE TEN TRIBES WERE CARRIED OFF TO ASSYRIA. 32:02 'WHY WOULD YOU STAY IN BABYLON?' AND HE'S SAYING 'UP' - 'FLEE THE 32:06 LANDS OF THE NORTH.' WHY DO YOU HAVE TO FLEE? 32:08 REVELATION 18:1 - ANOTHER PARALLEL BETWEEN ZECHARIAH - YOU 32:13 SHOULD READ - YOU SHOULD READ REVELATION IN PARTNERSHIP WITH 32:16 DANIEL AND EZEKIEL AND ZECHARIAH TO UNDERSTAND IT. 32:20 REVELATION 18:1, "AFTER THESE THINGS I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL 32:23 COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, HAVING GREAT AUTHORITY, AND THE EARTH 32:27 WAS ILLUMINATED WITH HIS GLORY. AND HE CRIED MIGHTILY WITH A 32:31 LOUD VOICE, SAYING," - YOU KNOW WHAT HE SAYS? - 32:35 "'BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A 32:39 DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT," - 32:42 WHY DOES HE SAY 'FALLEN, FALLEN'? 32:45 WELL, BECAUSE BABYLON REALLY FALLS TWICE. 32:46 BABYLON FELL BACK IN THE DAYS OF BELSHAZZAR AND BABYLON FALLS 32:52 AGAIN, SPIRITUALLY, - WHEN BABYLON FELL IN THE DAYS OF 32:55 BELSHAZZAR IT MEANT GOD'S PEOPLE WERE FREE TO COME BACK TO THE 32:58 PROMISED LAND. WHEN BABYLON FALLS AGAIN IN 33:01 REVELATION IT MEANS GOD'S PEOPLE ARE ABOUT TO GO TO THE OTHER 33:04 PROMISED LAND. SO THERE ARE PARALLELS HERE. 33:06 "BABYLON THE GREAT IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, AND HAS BECOME A 33:10 DWELLING PLACE OF DEMONS, A PRISON FOR EVERY FOUL SPIRIT, 33:13 AND A CAGE FOR EVERY UNCLEAN AND HATED BIRD! 33:16 FOR ALL THE NATIONS" - NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A UNIVERSAL 33:18 BABYLON - "ALL NATIONS HAVE DRUNK OF THE WINE OF THE WRATH 33:21 OF HER FORNICATION, THE KINGS OF THE EARTH HAVE COMMITTED 33:23 FORNICATION WITH HER, AND THE MERCHANTS OF THE EARTH HAVE 33:26 BECOME RICH THROUGH THE ABUNDANCE OF HER LUXURY." - 33:28 NOTICE - "AND I HEARD ANOTHER VOICE FROM HEAVEN" - VOICE FROM 33:32 HEAVEN - GOOD VOICE. YOU WANT TO LISTEN TO THE VOICES 33:33 FROM HEAVEN - "SAYING, 'COME OUT OF HER, MY PEOPLE," - SO WHEN 33:38 YOU READ IN ZECHARIAH AND IT SAYS, 'FLEE FROM THE LAND OF THE 33:41 NORTH. LEAVE BABYLON. COME TO THE PROMISED LAND.' 33:45 AND THE CHURCH IS ALSO A SYMBOL FOR THAT - "COME OUT OF HER MY 33:49 PEOPLE LEST YOU SHARE IN HER SINS," - SO STAYING IN BABYLON 33:52 IS DANGEROUS - "AND LEST YOU RECEIVE OF HER PLAGUES." 33:57 WHO DO THE SEVEN LAST PLAGUES FALL ON? 33:59 BABYLON AND GOD'S PEOPLE WHO STAY IN BABYLON. 34:04 NOTICE GOD HAS PEOPLE IN BABYLON. THEY'RE HIS PEOPLE 34:06 BUT THEY'RE IN THE WRONG PLACE. HOW MANY CHURCHES WILL THERE BE 34:11 WHEN JESUS COMES BACK? TRUE OR FALSE - ONE OF EACH - 34:17 ONE TRUE CHURCH ONE FALSE, RIGHT? 34:20 ONE IS GOING TO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, ONE IS 34:22 GOING TO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD. SO THERE'S TWO. 34:25 HOW MANY DIFFERENT CHURCHES IN THE WORLD TODAY? THOUSANDS. 34:31 BUT JESUS SAID, 'OTHER SHEEP I HAVE THAT ARE NOT OF THIS FOLD' 34:36 - JOHN CHAPTER 10 - 'THEM I ALSO WILL CALL. 34:39 THEY WILL HEAR MY VOICE AND THERE WILL BE ONE FOLD AND ONE 34:42 SHEPHERD.' THEY'RE GOING TO HEAR HIS VOICE 34:44 AND HIS VOICE IS GOING TO SAY, 'BABYLON IS FALLEN COME OUT OF 34:46 HER MY PEOPLE.' AND SO THERE'S A MESSAGE - AND, 34:49 BY THE WAY, THAT'S THE SECOND ANGEL'S MESSAGE - BABYLON IS 34:52 FALLEN, COME OUT OF HER. AND SO GOD'S PEOPLE ARE TO COME 34:55 OUT OF BABYLON AND INTO THIS FOLD THAT IS BASED UPON THE 35:00 TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. SO HE'S SAYING, 'BABYLON'S 35:04 FALLEN, COME OUT.' EVEN HERE IN ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 2. 35:08 AND HAVE YOU NOTICED THE TIMES IN THE BIBLE - THE THREE GREAT 35:14 PATRIARCHS - ABRAHAM - WHO'S NEXT? 35:19 ISAAC AND JACOB - SOMETHING INTERESTING ABOUT THE THREE 35:23 GREAT PATRIARCHS - VERY INTERESTING. 35:25 ALL THREE OF THEM MARRIED WIVES THAT WERE, AT FIRST, BARREN. 35:29 ISN'T THAT RIGHT? SARAH WAS BARREN AND THEN A 35:33 MIRACLE - SHE HAD A BABY. WAS REBECCA BARREN? SHE WAS. 35:37 ISAAC HAD TO PRAY FOR HER AND SHE HAD TWO BABIES. 35:40 WAS RACHEL BARREN? YES. 35:43 JACOB PRAYED FOR HER AND SHE ENDED UP HAVING TWO - 35:45 JOSEPH AND BENJAMIN. WHERE'D THEY GET THEIR WIVES? 35:51 ABRAHAM BROUGHT HIS WIFE FROM MESOPOTAMIA - UR, RIGHT? 35:55 OUT OF BABYLON AND WHERE'D HE BRING HER? TO CANAAN, 35:58 THE PROMISED LAND. WHERE DID ISAAC GET HIS WIFE? ABRAHAM SAID 36:03 TO ELIEZER, 'DON'T LET HIM MARRY ONE OF THE LOCAL GIRLS. 36:07 HE'S GOT TO GET A GIRL THAT BELIEVES IN JEHOVAH. 36:09 GO BACK TO MESOPOTAMIA WHERE MY PEOPLE ARE. 36:12 BRING A WIFE OUT OF BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND.' 36:16 WHERE'D JACOB GO TO GET HIS WIFE? 36:18 REMEMBER REBECCA AND ISAAC WERE DISAPPOINTED BECAUSE ESAU HAD 36:21 MARRIED THE LOCAL GIRLS AND SENT HIM BACK TO HARAN, WHICH WAS 36:29 ACROSS THE EUPHRATES, TO GET A GIRL - THEY ALL CALLED THAT 36:33 MESOPOTAMIA BACK THEN - BROUGHT HER TO THE PROMISED LAND. 36:37 THEN GOD'S PEOPLE - HIS BRIDE - GOD'S BRIDE - IS CARRIED OFF TO 36:40 BABYLON BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR. GOD CALLS HIS BRIDE OUT OF 36:44 BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND. THEN YOU GET TO OUR AGE - DOES 36:49 GOD HAVE A SPIRITUAL BABYLON IN REVELATION? 36:52 AND HE'S CALLING HIS PEOPLE OUT OF BABYLON - HIS BRIDE - BACK TO 36:57 THE PROMISED LAND. SO YOU SEE THIS THEME GOING ON 37:00 ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE HERE. YOU CAN READ IN ZECHARIAH 2:10, 37:07 "'SING AND REJOICE, O DAUGHTER OF ZION! FOR BEHOLD, I AM COMING 37:10 AND I WILL DWELL IN YOUR MIDST,' SAYS THE LORD." 37:13 NOW, YOU WANT TO UNDERLINE THAT THERE - 'BEHOLD I'M COMING' - 37:18 THAT'S THE MAIN PURPOSE OF THIS SECTION ON THIS DAY. 37:22 DOES ZECHARIAH TALK ABOUT THE COMING OF THE LORD? 37:25 WHICH COMING IS HE TALKING ABOUT? 37:28 WELL, YOU KNOW, THESE PROPHETS, THEY WERE SORT OF TRICKY. 37:31 SOMETIMES THEY TALKED ABOUT BOTH IN ONE SENTENCE. 37:35 DID JESUS - DID THE MESSIAH COME AFTER ZECHARIAH? 37:39 YEAH, HE CAME THE FIRST TIME. DID HE COME TO THE TEMPLE THAT 37:42 ZECHARIAH HELPED THEM BUILD? DID JESUS TEACH IN THAT TEMPLE? 37:46 DID HE DRIVE THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THAT TEMPLE AND THEY - 37:49 THE CHILDREN WERE SINGING HIS PRAISES IN THAT TEMPLE? 37:51 FINALLY HE WALKED OUT OF THAT TEMPLE, HE SAID, 'YOUR HOUSE IS 37:54 LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE AND THERE WON'T BE LEFT ONE STONE UPON 37:56 ANOTHER THAT WON'T BE THROWN DOWN.' 37:58 HE SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, IN THREE DAYS 38:00 I'LL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS' - SPEAKING OF HIS BODY, RIGHT? 38:04 WHEN CHRIST DIED HE ROSE AGAIN AND HE BUILT A DIFFERENT TEMPLE. 38:08 'WHAT, KNOW YOU NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' THAT YOU ARE 38:12 LIVING STONES AND ARE PART OF A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD AND CHRIST IS 38:15 THE CORNERSTONE. AND SO DOES GOD STILL HAVE A TEMPLE? 38:18 SO ZECHARIAH IS THINKING ABOUT THE LORD COMING TO TWO TEMPLES - 38:22 ONE HE'S COMING TO - THE FIRST COMING WHEN HE CAME TO THAT 38:26 TEMPLE AND HE TAUGHT, AND THEN HE'S COMING AGAIN TO INHABIT HIS 38:32 PEOPLE. AND HE'S COMING, LITERALLY, 38:36 AGAIN WHEN HE COMES IN THE CLOUDS OF HEAVEN. 38:39 ROMANS 15, VERSE 9, AND WHY DON'T I GET SOMEONE TO LOOK UP 38:46 FOR ME HOSEA 1:7? WHO'S GOT THAT VERSE? 38:49 OVER HERE - WE'LL GET YOU A MICROPHONE - NOT FAR AWAY. 38:52 OKAY, WE'LL GET YOU - IT'LL TAKE A MOMENT BUT LET ME READ ROMANS 38:57 15, VERSE 9, "AND THAT THE GENTILES MIGHT GLORIFY GOD FOR 39:03 HIS MERCY, AS IT IS WRITTEN, 'FOR THIS REASON I WILL CONFESS 39:06 TO YOU AMONG THE GENTILES, AND SING TO YOUR NAME.' 39:08 AND AGAIN HE SAYS: 'REJOICE, O GENTILES, WITH HIS PEOPLE!' 39:12 AND AGAIN: 'PRAISE THE LORD, ALL YOU GENTILES! 39:14 LAUD HIM, ALL YOU PEOPLES!' AND AGAIN, ISAIAH SAYS, 'THERE 39:17 SHALL BE A ROOT OF JESSE; AND HE WHO SHALL RISE TO REIGN OVER THE 39:21 GENTILES, IN HIM THE GENTILES SHALL HOPE.'" NOW, YOU KNOW 39:25 THE OPERATIVE WORD IN THIS PASSAGE I JUST READ? 39:27 LET ME - LET'S SEE HERE - ONE, TWO, THREE, FOUR, FIVE - MAYBE 39:32 SIX TIMES - SIX TIMES GENTILES ARE MENTIONED. 39:37 GENTILES WERE NON-JEWS - THEY WERE THE OTHER NATIONS. 39:40 PAUL, WHEN HE WRITES THIS - HAS THE NEW TESTAMENT BEEN WRITTEN 39:44 YET? PAUL WRITES THIS IN ROMANS. 39:47 SO PAUL IS TALKING ABOUT ALL THE PROPHECIES THAT SAY THAT THE 39:50 GENTILES WERE SUPPOSED TO RECEIVE THE MESSIAH. 39:53 DOES THE OLD TESTAMENT SAY THAT SALVATION WAS JUST FOR THE JEWS 39:58 OR IS PAUL QUOTING THAT THE GENTILES WOULD COME TO CHRIST? 40:02 THAT THE MESSIAH WAS NOT JUST FOR THE JEWS? 40:06 AND THIS IS PART OF THE MESSAGE OF ZECHARIAH - THAT HIS HOUSE IS 40:09 GOING TO BE A PLACE WHERE ALL NATIONS ARE GOING TO COME AND 40:12 WORSHIP. MEANING NOT JUST THE TEMPLE BUT 40:16 CHRIST'S NEW TEMPLE. ALRIGHT, GOING UNDER SECTION 40:19 THREE - 'GOD'S READINESS TO FORGIVE' - AND WE LEARN HERE 40:24 ABOUT GOD BEING A GOD WHO'S WILLING TO FORGIVE. TURN WITH ME 40:27 TO ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 3 AND THERE'S A PROPHECY. 40:30 BY THE WAY, THE BOOK OF ZECHARIAH HAS EIGHT VISIONS. 40:34 THERE ARE EIGHT VISIONS - MOST OF THEM ARE IN OUR SECTION. 40:36 FIRST YOU'VE GOT THE HORSES AMONG THE MYRTLE TREES, THEN 40:39 YOU'VE GOT THE FOUR HORNS AND THE FOUR CRAFTSMEN, THEN YOU'VE 40:42 GOT THE MAN WITH THE MEASURING LINE, THEN YOU'VE GOT THE 40:45 CLEANSING OF JOSHUA - WE'RE ABOUT TO TALK ABOUT - THE HIGH 40:48 PRIEST, YOU'VE GOT THE GOLDEN LAMP STANDS AND THE OLIVE TREES, 40:51 THE FLYING SCROLL, THE WOMAN IN THE BASKET - THAT IS A REALLY 40:53 WEIRD PROPHECY - AND THEN THE FOUR CHARIOTS - LIKE YOU'VE GOT 40:58 THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE. 40:59 NOW WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE VISION OF JOSHUA. 41:02 WHO IS JOSHUA DURING THE TIME OF HAGGAI AND ZECHARIAH? 41:08 HE WAS THE HIGH PRIEST WHO HAD COME BACK FROM BABYLON AND I - 41:14 MOST OF YOU KNOW BUT THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEONE IN THE CROWD THAT 41:16 DIDN'T KNOW THAT THE WAY YOU SAY JOSHUA - YESHUA IN HEBREW - 41:21 THE GREEK WAY IS JESUS. IT'S THE SAME NAME AND SO IT'S 41:25 VERY INTERESTING THAT IN THE OLD TESTAMENT THERE ARE TWO 41:27 PRINCIPLE JOSHUAS - YOU'VE GOT ONE JOSHUA WHO IS A HIGH PRIEST 41:32 WHO LEADS THEM FROM BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND AND THEN 41:35 YOU'VE GOT A JOSHUA IN THE BOOK OF JOSHUA, WHO IS A GENERAL, WHO 41:40 LEADS THEM FROM THE WILDERNESS INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 41:43 JESUS IS OUR JOSHUA. HE'S THE ONE WHO LEADS US FROM 41:47 THE WILDERNESS AND FROM BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED LAND. 41:51 HE IS OUR HIGH PRIEST AND HE IS OUR COMMANDER - OUR LORD, RIGHT? 41:55 AND JOSHUA IS ALSO A PROPHET AND CHRIST IS OUR PROPHET. 42:00 ALRIGHT, SO IT SAYS, "THEN HE SHOWED ME" - HE'S IN THIS VISION 42:03 - "JOSHUA THE HIGH PRIEST STANDING BEFORE AN ANGEL OF THE 42:07 LORD, AND SATAN STANDING AT HIS RIGHT HAND TO OPPOSE HIM." 42:11 - BY THE WAY, THE WORD 'SATAN' IT MEANS ADVERSARY, 42:15 SOMEONE WHO OPPOSES. IT'S INTERESTING, THE OPPOSER IS 42:19 STANDING THERE TO OPPOSE HIM - "AND THE LORD SAID TO SATAN, 42:23 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU, SATAN! THE LORD WHO HAS CHOSEN 42:26 JERUSALEM REBUKE YOU! IS THIS NOT A BRAND PLUCKED FROM 42:29 THE FIRE?'" NOW, CAN YOU THINK OF ANOTHER 42:32 TIME IN THE NEW TESTAMENT WHERE GOD SAID TO THE DEVIL, 42:35 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU'? BOOK OF JUDE - I HEARD SOMEONE 42:38 SAY IT - THE BOOK OF JUDE VERSE 9 - THERE'S ONLY ONE CHAPTER. 42:43 WHEN MICHAEL - SO WHEN IT SAYS THE ANGEL OF THE LORD STOOD 42:47 THERE AND THEY'RE HAVING THIS CONTEST OVER JOSHUA, JOSHUA 42:51 REPRESENTS THE NATION BECAUSE HE'S THE HIGH PRIEST. THE HIGH 42:54 PRIEST USED TO BEAR THE SINS FOR THE WHOLE NATION AND SO HERE THE 42:57 DEVIL IS SAYING, 'THEY'RE MINE. 42:59 THEY TURN FROM YOU.' AND THIS ANGEL OF THE LORD MAY 43:03 VERY WELL BE MICHAEL AGAIN, HE SAYS, 'THE LORD REBUKE YOU.' 43:06 SAME EXACT THING THAT YOU FIND ALSO IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 43:10 HE IS A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING. 43:13 HAVE YOU EVER SEEN A STICK THAT ONE END OF IT BEGINS TO SMOKE 43:15 AND YOU PULL IT OUT AND YOU CAN PUT IT OUT AND SAVE IT? 43:20 IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY ONCE - I WAS AT A CAMPOUT ONE TIME AND THE 43:23 KIDS WERE ALL THROWING THINGS IN THE FIRE AND ONE OF THE OLDER 43:26 MEMBERS OF THE CHURCH THAT CAME TO THE CAMPOUT HAD A WOODEN 43:28 WALKING CANE AND HE'D SET IT DOWN TOO CLOSE TO THE FIRE AND 43:32 ONE OF THE KIDS STUCK IT IN THE FIRE BECAUSE HE WAS GOING TO USE 43:34 IT FOR ROASTING MARSHMALLOWS AND WE PLUCKED IT FROM THE FIRE AS A 43:38 BRAND FROM THE BURNING AND MANAGED TO SALVAGE IT, THOUGH 43:41 THE END WAS A LITTLE SCORCHED. WELL, IN OTHER WORDS, IT WAS 43:45 ABOUT TO BE COMPLETELY CONSUMED BUT IT WAS RESCUED. 43:49 YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU HEAR ABOUT THESE HOUSES THAT CATCH ON 43:53 FIRE AND THE DOG OR THE CAT MANAGE TO GET OUT A LITTLE 43:59 SINGED BUT THEY SURVIVE LIKE A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING. 44:04 AND SO, HERE IT'S GOT THIS PICTURE OF GOD - GOD'S PEOPLE 44:08 WERE ABOUT TO BE DESTROYED IN BABYLON BUT HE HAS DECIDED TO 44:11 RESCUE THEM. SO THE DEVIL'S SAYING, 'THEY'RE 44:14 MINE' AND GOD SAYS, 'NO, THEY RETURNED TO ME SO I RETURNED TO 44:17 THEM. I'M PULLING THEM FROM THIS JUDGMENT AS A BRAND 44:20 FROM THE BURNING.' BUT THEN, THERE'S A PROBLEM. 44:23 THEY'RE GUILTY. YOU MIGHT HAVE CHOSEN TO SAVE 44:26 THEM, BUT THEY'VE SINNED. THEY MUST BE JUDGED. 44:29 "NOW JOSHUA" - VERSE 3 - "WAS CLOTHED WITH FILTHY GARMENTS, 44:32 AND WAS STANDING BEFORE THE ANGEL. 44:35 THEN HE ANSWERED AND HE SPOKE TO THOSE WHO STOOD BEFORE HIM, 44:38 SAYING," - THE ANGEL - "'TAKE AWAY THE FILTHY GARMENTS FROM 44:41 HIM.' AND TO HIM HE SAID, 'SEE, I HAVE 44:44 REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY FROM YOU, AND I WILL CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH 44:47 ROBES.'" AND WHAT DO THE FILTHY GARMENTS REPRESENT? 44:52 ALL OF OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS IS LIKE WHAT? FILTHY RAGS. 44:56 WE ARE ALL - OUR SINS - ARE FILTHY. BUT WHAT DOES GOD DO? 45:00 WHEN GOD'S PEOPLE RETURN AND THROUGH THE INTERCESSION AND 45:03 PRAYER - THE HIGH PRIEST REPRESENTS THAT - HE SAYS, 'I'M 45:06 TAKING AWAY YOUR FILTHY GARMENTS AND I'M REPLACING THEM.' 45:08 WHAT DOES THE FATHER DO FOR THE PRODIGAL SON WHEN HE RETURNS TO 45:12 HIS FATHER? HE COVERS HIS UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. YOU KNOW, 45:17 THERE'S A LOT OF STORIES IN THE BIBLE THAT DEPICT THIS TRUTH. 45:20 WHEN BLIND BARTEMEUS COMES TO JESUS IT SAYS, 'HE CAST ASIDE 45:26 HIS GARMENT' - PROBABLY FILTHY RAGS - 'AND HE CAME TO CHRIST.' 45:29 WE COME TO CHRIST THAT WAY. WHEN ELISHA GETS A DOUBLE 45:31 PORTION OF ELIJAH'S SPIRIT - YOU REMEMBER ELIJAH GOES TO HEAVEN, 45:35 HE TOSSES DOWN HIS MANTLE AS HE'S CAUGHT UP BY THE FIERY 45:37 CHARIOT? ELISHA TEARS HIS OWN GARMENTS AND HE TAKES UP THE 45:41 MANTLE OF ELIJAH. THIS IS KIND OF WHAT WE DO. 45:44 JESUS ASCENDED TO HEAVEN - HE LEFT A ROBE BEHIND, DIDN'T HE? 45:47 THAT ROBE REPRESENTS THE RIGHTEOUSNESS THAT HE OFFERS YOU 45:49 AND ME. IT'S A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE. BUT WHEN GOD LOOKS AT 45:52 THAT, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF CHRIST, WE'RE DECLARED CLEAN. 45:55 WHAT DID JACOB'S - SORRY - YEAH, WHAT DID JACOB'S SONS - JOSEPH'S 45:59 BROTHERS - PRESENT TO JACOB TO COVER THEIR SIN OF SELLING THEIR 46:04 BROTHER? THEY PRESENTED A BLOOD-STAINED ROBE, DIDN'T THEY? 46:08 AND IT'S THROUGH THE ROBE OF CHRIST THAT OUR SINS ARE COVERED 46:11 AND GOD SAYS WE ARE A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING. 46:13 DON'T YOU WANT TO BE A BRAND PLUCKED FROM THE BURNING? 46:15 IS THERE A LAKE OF FIRE OUT THERE IN THE FUTURE? 46:19 WE WANT TO BE SPARED FROM THAT FATE. 46:22 SO JOSHUA REPRESENTS WHAT GOD HAS DONE FOR THE WHOLE CHURCH. 46:25 IT SAYS - OH, I LOVE THIS PART - 'I HAVE REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY.' 46:29 YOU REMEMBER WHEN ISAIAH IS FORGIVEN IN CHAPTER 6? 46:33 IT SAYS, 'YOUR SIN IS PURGED, YOUR INIQUITY IS FORGIVEN.' 46:38 AND SO GOD PROMISES TO DO THAT. 'I HAVE REMOVED - WOULDN'T YOU 46:41 LIKE TO HEAR THOSE WORDS? 'I HAVE REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY.' 46:45 DON'T WE ALL NEED TO HEAR THOSE WORDS? 46:48 HE SAID, 'TAKE AWAY HIS GARMENTS. 46:51 SEE, I HAVE REMOVED YOUR INIQUITY FROM YOU AND I WILL 46:54 CLOTHE YOU WITH RICH ROBES.' IN HEAVEN, WHAT DOES IT SAY 46:58 ABOUT THE 144,000 AND THE GREAT MULTITUDE? 47:01 THEY ARE ARRAYED IN WHITE ROBES. SO - OH, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES I 47:08 JUST LIKE READING THROUGH AND I FEEL LIKE I'VE GOT TO KEEP GOING 47:11 BACK TO THE LESSON. I LIKE JUST READING THE BIBLE. 47:14 ONE MORE THING, I WANT TO READ VERSE 7, "THUS SAYS THE LORD OF 47:16 HOSTS: 'IF YOU WILL WALK IN MY WAYS, AND IF YOU WILL KEEP MY 47:20 COMMAND, THEN YOU SHALL ALSO JUDGE MY HOUSE, AND LIKEWISE 47:23 HAVE CHARGE OF MY COURTS; I WILL GIVE YOU PLACES TO WALK AMONG 47:26 THESE WHO STAND HERE.'" SO GOD IS PROMISING, 'TRUST ME. 47:30 OBEY ME. WALK IN MY WAYS AND I WILL GIVE 47:33 YOU A PLACE AMONG THOSE.' HERE HE'S IN HEAVENLY PLACES AND 47:36 HE SAYS HE WILL GIVE US THAT PLACE. 47:39 OH, ONE MORE THING, - I HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN THAT YOU'VE GOT A 47:45 VERSE ALL QUEUED UP - BEYOND FASTING - THIS IS UNDER THIS 47:48 SECTION - YOU KNOW, WHEN THE TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED, IT WAS 47:55 DESTROYED IN THE FIFTH MONTH. AND TO COMMEMORATE, IT'S LIKE - 47:59 DO WE SOMETIMES DO SPECIAL THINGS ON 9/11 NOW? 48:03 USED TO BE DECEMBER 7TH WHICH WAS PEARL HARBOR DAY. 48:06 THERE ARE CERTAIN DAYS THAT ARE OMINOUS FOR A COUNTRY THAT ARE 48:09 SORT OF A MEMORIAL. AND HERE WE'VE GOT A MEMORIAL 48:11 WEEKEND COMING UP. WELL, A MEMORIAL FOR THEM WAS 48:14 WHEN THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON WAS LEVELED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR AND 48:17 THEY USED TO FAST, AS A REMEMBRANCE OF THAT, 48:20 EVERY FIFTH MONTH. BUT NOW THEY'VE COME BACK FROM 48:22 BABYLON AND THEY'RE REBUILDING THE TEMPLE. 48:25 AND SO THEY COME SCRATCHING THEIR HEADS AND THEY ASKED THE 48:27 PROPHET, ZECHARIAH, 'ARE WE SUPPOSED TO KEEP FASTING IN THE 48:30 FIFTH MONTH?' THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM 48:33 - ZECHARIAH CHAPTER 7, VERSE 8, "THEN THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME 48:36 TO ZECHARIAH, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'EXECUTE TRUE 48:40 JUSTICE, SHOW MERCY AND COMPASSION EVERYONE TO HIS 48:42 BROTHER. DO NOT OPPRESS THE WIDOW OR THE FATHERLESS, 48:45 THE ALIEN OR THE POOR. LET NONE OF YOU PLAN EVIL IN HIS 48:48 HEART AGAINST HIS BROTHER.''" IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU WANT 48:50 TO PLEASE ME, DON'T FEEL LIKE YOU NEED TO WRING YOUR HANDS AND 48:52 FAST BECAUSE THE OLD TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED, IF YOU WANT TO PLEASE 48:55 ME HERE'S THE FAST THAT I WANT: LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. 48:58 WALK IN MY WAYS. BEHAVE RIGHTEOUSLY. 49:01 DOES THAT SOUND A LOT LIKE ISAIAH 58? 49:04 ISAIAH 58, VERSE 6, "IS NOT THIS THE FAST THAT I HAVE CHOSEN: TO 49:09 LOOSE THE BONDS OF WICKEDNESS, TO UNDO THE HEAVY BURDENS, TO 49:14 LET THE OPPRESSED GO FREE, AND THAT YOU BREAK EVERY YOKE? 49:17 IS IT NOT TO SHARE YOUR BREAD WITH THE HUNGRY, AND THAT YOU 49:19 BRING TO YOUR HOUSE THE POOR WHO ARE CAST OUT; WHEN YOU SEE THE 49:23 NAKED, THAT YOU COVER HIM, AND NOT HIDE YOURSELF FROM YOUR OWN 49:28 FLESH?" AND SO, HE SAID, WE'RE GOING TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE. 49:32 YOU DON'T NEED TO BE IN PERPETUAL MOURNING. 49:35 NOW I HAD JUMPED OVER A PART HERE ABOUT 'NOT BY HUMAN POWER' 49:38 AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 49:39 I'M KIND OF HOPING WE CAN SPEND SOME TIME HERE. 49:42 ZECHARIAH 4 - ZECHARIAH 4, VERSE 6, "...AND SAID TO ME: THIS IS 49:49 THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ZERUBBABEL: 'NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY 49:54 POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 49:58 HOW IS GOD - DOES HE ACCOMPLISH THINGS? 50:02 HOW - THEY DIDN'T SAY, 'HOW IS HE EVER GOING TO REBUILD THE 50:04 TEMPLE WITH ALL THIS OPPOSITION WE'RE GETTING, WITH NOT HAVING 50:08 ENOUGH FUNDS?' HOW ARE YOU GOING TO BRING ABOUT REVIVAL 50:12 AND BRING THE PEOPLE HOME? IS IT BY HUMAN POWER THAT THINGS 50:16 ARE ACCOMPLISHED? HOW IS GOD'S WORK DONE? 50:19 YOU KNOW, IN THE CHURCH, WE'RE REALLY GOOD AT HAVING - 'LET'S 50:23 HAVE ANOTHER SEMINAR ON THIS. LET'S HAVE A SYLLABUS. 50:27 WE'LL HAVE A PROGRAM. WE'LL TEACH A TECHNIQUE. 50:30 WE'LL PUBLISH A MANUAL WITH A NEW METHOD. 50:33 WE'LL RAISE MONEY. GET MORE MONEY. MORE FUNDS.' 50:37 WE CAN DO ANYTHING WITH MONEY, RIGHT? 50:39 AND WHAT IS IT THAT GOD NEEDS? ANOTHER PROGRAM? A SLOGAN? 50:45 A THEME? A LOGO? WE NEED A VISION STATEMENT. 50:50 WE'VE GOT A LOT OF THINGS THAT ARE SUBSTITUTES FOR WHAT REALLY 50:53 GETS IT DONE. DO YOU KNOW WHAT REALLY GETS IT DONE? 50:55 NOW, ALL THOSE THINGS HAVE THEIR PLACE, BUT ULTIMATELY IT SAYS, 51:00 'IT'S NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER BUT BY MY SPIRIT' SAYS THE LORD. 51:03 ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, FOR US, READ HOSEA 1:7. 51:08 >>"YET I WILL HAVE MERCY ON THE HOUSE OF JUDAH, WILL SAVE THEM 51:11 BY THE LORD THEIR GOD, AND WILL NOT SAVE THEM BY BOW, NOR BY 51:15 SWORD OR BATTLE, BY HORSES OR HORSEMEN." 51:20 >>IT'S REALLY EASY FOR US TO THINK THAT WE CAN USE HUMAN 51:23 DEVISINGS TO BRING ABOUT OUR SALVATION BUT, ULTIMATELY, IT'S 51:27 FROM THE LORD. JEREMIAH 9:23, "THUS SAYS THE 51:31 LORD: 'LET NOT THE WISE MAN GLORY IN HIS WISDOM, LET NOT THE 51:35 MIGHTY MAN GLORY IN HIS MIGHT, NOR LET THE RICH MAN GLORY IN 51:39 HIS RICHES;'" - NOW, WOULD WE ALL LIKE TO BE A LITTLE WISER? 51:44 I WOULD. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A LITTLE MIGHTIER? 51:51 JUST ADD A FEW MORE WEIGHTS WITHOUT ANY TROUBLE TO YOUR 51:56 LIFTING REGIMEN. WOULD YOU LIKE TO BE A LITTLE RICHER? 52:01 YOU DON'T HAVE TO RAISE YOUR HANDS, I KNOW YOU WOULD. 52:07 ALL THOSE THINGS MIGHT BE FINE IN THEMSELVES, BUT HE SAYS, 'IF 52:10 YOU'RE GOING TO GLORY, "'GLORY IN THIS, THAT HE UNDERSTANDS AND 52:13 KNOWS ME, THAT I AM THE LORD.'" ARE THERE GOING TO BE WISE MEN 52:19 THAT WILL BE LOST? ARE THERE GOING TO BE STRONG MEN 52:21 THAT WILL BE LOST? ARE THERE GOING TO BE RICH MEN 52:24 THAT WILL BE LOST? MATTER OF FACT, JESUS SAYS VERY 52:26 FEW OF THEM WILL BE SAVED. THAT'S WHAT HE SAYS, RIGHT? 52:31 BUT IF YOU KNOW THE LORD, ISN'T THAT WHAT REALLY MAKES THE 52:34 DIFFERENCE? THOSE THAT KNOW ME. 52:37 LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE ALONG THAT SAME THEME. 52:40 IT SAYS IN PHILIPPIANS 2, VERSE 13, "FOR IT IS GOD WHO WORKS IN 52:43 YOU BOTH TO WILL AND TO DO FOR HIS GOOD PLEASURE." 52:48 GOD DOES IT IN US. IT'S BY HIS SPIRIT. 52:52 ALRIGHT, IN CHAPTER 4 THERE'S ONE MORE THING THAT I WANT TO 52:55 TALK ABOUT. HE HAS THIS VISION IN THE 52:57 BEGINNING. LOOK IN CHAPTER 4, VERSE, 1 - 53:00 I REALIZE SOME OF THIS IS OUT OF ORDER, BUT JUST FORGIVE ME AND 53:02 I THINK YOU'LL BE ABLE TO PIECE IT TOGETHER. 53:06 "NOW THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH ME CAME BACK AND WAKENED ME, AS 53:10 A MAN WHO IS WAKENED OUT OF HIS SLEEP. 53:12 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'WHAT DO YOU SEE?' 53:14 SO I SAID, 'I AM LOOKING, AND THERE IS A LAMP STAND OF SOLID 53:18 GOLD WITH A BOWL ON TOP OF IT, AND ON THE STAND SEVEN LAMPS 53:22 WITH SEVEN PIPES TO THE SEVEN LAMPS.'" 53:25 NOW WHERE DOES THAT COME FROM? DOESN'T IT TALK ABOUT THAT IN 53:27 EXODUS WHEN THEY BUILT THE TEMPLE AND WASN'T THERE SEVEN - 53:30 THE MENORAH - THE SEVEN-CANDLED LAMP STAND IN THE TEMPLE? 53:36 AND HE SAID ALSO HE SAW "'TWO OLIVE TREES ARE BY IT, ONE AT 53:41 THE RIGHT OF THE BOWL AND THE OTHER AT ITS LEFT.' 53:45 SO I ANSWERED AND SPOKE TO THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH ME, 53:47 SAYING, 'WHAT ARE THESE, MY LORD?' 53:50 THEN THE ANGEL WHO TALKED WITH ME ANSWERED AND SAID TO ME, 'DO 53:53 YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THESE ARE?' AND I SAID, 'NO, MY LORD.' 53:56 SO HE ANSWERED AND SAID TO ME:" - WAIT FOR IT. 54:00 GO TO REVELATION CHAPTER 11. DOES REVELATION 11 TALK ABOUT AN 54:05 OLIVE TREE AND A LAMP STAND? HUH? 54:13 VERSE 3 - REVELATION 11, VERSE 3 AND IT SAYS, "'I WILL GIVE POWER 54:20 TO MY TWO WITNESSES, AND THEY WILL PROPHESY ONE THOUSAND TWO 54:24 HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS, CLOTHED IN SACKCLOTH.' 54:28 THESE ARE THE TWO OLIVE TREES OF GOD AND THE TWO LAMP STANDS AND 54:32 THE TWO OLIVE TREES STANDING BEFORE THE GOD OF THE EARTH. - 54:37 HE'S DRAWING DIRECTLY OUT OF ZECHARIAH, ISN'T HE? 54:41 WELL WHO ARE THESE TWO WITNESSES? - 54:43 "AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO HARM THEM, FIRE PROCEEDS FROM THEIR 54:46 MOUTH AND DEVOURS THEIR ENEMIES. AND IF ANYONE WANTS TO HARM 54:49 THEM, HE MUST BE KILLED IN THIS MANNER. 54:52 THESE HAVE THE POWER TO SHUT HEAVEN, SO THAT NO RAIN FALLS IN 54:54 THE DAYS OF THEIR PROPHECY; AND THEY HAVE POWER OVER WATERS TO 54:57 TURN THEM TO BLOOD, AND TO STRIKE THE EARTH WITH ALL 54:59 PLAGUES, AS OFTEN AS THEY DESIRE." 55:01 WHO ARE THESE TWO WITNESSES? NOW, MY FRIENDS IN A LOT OF THE 55:04 CHARISMATIC CHURCHES THEY SAY, 'THIS IS MOSES AND ELIJAH.' 55:09 AND I UNDERSTAND WHY THEY SAY THAT - BECAUSE MOSES AND ELIJAH 55:13 APPEAR TO JESUS ON THE MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION. 55:17 DOES MOSES - DO YOU FIND PLAGUES IN THE BOOKS THAT MOSES WROTE? 55:21 DO YOU FIND ELIJAH HAVING FIRE COME DOWN FROM HEAVEN? 55:24 A LOT OF THE SAME CHARACTERISTICS ARE FOUND IN THE 55:25 LIVES OF MOSES AND ELIJAH. THEY'RE RIGHT CONCEPTUALLY. 55:29 THEY'RE WRONG TECHNICALLY. IT REPRESENTS THE LAW AND THE 55:34 PROPHETS - THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT - THE WORD OF GOD. 55:37 GO BACK TO ZECHARIAH REAL QUICK. 55:40 IN ZECHARIAH 4 HE SAID, 'LORD, WHAT ARE THESE?' 55:44 HE'S ASKING 'WHAT DO THEY REPRESENT?' 55:46 HE SAID, "'THIS IS THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ZERUBBABEL:'" AND 55:51 THEN HE GOES ON TO SAY "'NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER'" SO THESE 55:54 OLIVE TREES AND THESE - THIS CANDLESTICK, THEY REPRESENT THE 55:59 WORD OF GOD. DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY, 'THY WORD 56:01 IS A LAMP UNTO MY FEET AND A LIGHT UNTO MY PATH'? 56:04 AND WHAT KEEPS THE LAMP BURNING? IT'S THE OIL FROM THE OLIVE OIL 56:08 - THE OLIVE TREES. IT'S THE SPIRIT AND SO IT'S THE 56:11 SPIRIT AND THE WORD THAT IT'S TALKING ABOUT. 56:14 THEY'RE REALLY REPRESENTED BY THE WORD OF GOD. 56:17 IN THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT DO YOU HAVE FIRE COMING DOWN 56:21 FROM HEAVEN? DOES REVELATION TALK ABOUT FIRE 56:24 COMING DOWN IN THE NEW TESTAMENT? 56:25 IN THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT DO YOU HAVE PLAGUES? 56:29 YOU HAVE TEN PLAGUES IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, SEVEN PLAGUES IN THE 56:31 NEW TESTAMENT AND SO IT'S TALKING ABOUT THE LAW AND THE 56:34 PROPHETS, THE WORD OF GOD, THE NEW AND THE OLD TESTAMENT. 56:37 THESE ARE THE TWO WITNESSES THAT WITNESS FOR THE LORD AND WHAT 56:41 WORD ARE WE GOING TO BE JUDGED BY? ISN'T IT THE WORD OF GOD? 56:45 DOESN'T THE BIBLE SAY, 'IN THE MOUTH OF TWO OR THREE 56:48 WITNESSES.' JESUS, WHEN HE ROSE FROM THE 56:50 DEAD, HE TAUGHT THEM FROM THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND THEN 56:54 ONE TIME IT SAYS, 'THE LAW AND THE PROPHETS AND THE PSALMS' - 56:57 THAT WOULD BE THE THIRD WITNESS. SO ZECHARIAH IS ENCOMPASSING ALL 57:02 THESE THINGS. OH, THERE IS SO MUCH MORE HERE 57:04 I WASN'T ABLE TO GET TO. THE EYES OF THE LORD - AND IT 57:08 TELLS US ABOUT THE EYES OF THE LORD THAT SEE ALL THINGS. 57:11 YOU'VE GOT THE SEVEN EYES - IF YOU LOOK IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 11, 57:15 VERSE 2 IT TALKS ABOUT THE SEVEN SPIRITS OR CHARACTERISTICS OF 57:18 GOD'S SPIRIT AND THAT GOD'S EYES SEE EVERYWHERE - IT'S A SYMBOL 57:23 FOR THAT AND - OH, OUT OF TIME. ALRIGHT FRIENDS, I JUST WANT TO 57:30 REMIND YOU BEFORE WE GO OFF THE AIR, WE DO HAVE A FREE OFFER 57:32 I WANTED TO MENTION TO YOU. ASK FOR OFFER #146 AND WE'LL 57:36 SEND IT TO YOU. 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