(MUSIC) 00:00:00.33\00:00:45.76 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:00:45.76\00:00:49.56 WE ARE THRILLED THAT YOU HAVE JOINED US TO STUDY GOD'S WORD 00:00:49.56\00:00:52.83 TOGETHER AS YOU ALWAYS DO EVERY WEEK FAITHFULLY FROM ACROSS THE 00:00:52.83\00:00:57.60 COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. WELCOME. 00:00:57.60\00:01:00.86 WE ARE GOING TO SING TOGETHER AS WE BEGIN OUR STUDY. 00:01:00.86\00:01:05.03 WE'RE GOING TO SING SOME CHRISTMAS HYMNS TODAY. 00:01:05.03\00:01:08.00 HYMN #125 WE'RE GOING TO START WITH - 'JOY TO THE WORLD'. 00:01:08.00\00:01:12.40 THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM JOSEPH IN AUSTRALIA, SELENA AND 00:01:12.40\00:01:16.03 JONATHAN IN THE NETHERLANDS, ANDREA, BIANCA, ALENA AND 00:01:16.03\00:01:19.90 DEMETAR IN BULGARIA, AND CARLOS IN VENEZUELA. 00:01:19.90\00:01:23.60 HYMN #125 - 'JOY TO THE WORLD'. 00:01:23.60\00:01:26.10 WE'RE GOING TO SING THE FIRST, THE SECOND AND THE LAST VERSES. 00:01:26.10\00:01:29.70 (MUSIC) 00:01:29.70\00:01:30.60 >>IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE CHRISTMAS HYMN THAT YOU WOULD 00:03:27.36\00:03:29.60 LIKE TO SING WITH US ON ONE OF THE COMING QUICK WEEKS THAT ARE 00:03:29.60\00:03:33.40 COMING UP, I INVITE YOU TO GO TO OUR WEBSITE. 00:03:33.40\00:03:35.66 IT'S VERY SIMPLE, 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND YOU CLICK 00:03:35.66\00:03:38.56 ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK AND JUST REQUEST ONE OF YOUR 00:03:38.56\00:03:41.56 FAVORITE CHRISTMAS HYMNS OUT OF OUR HYMNAL AND I ALSO HAVE A 00:03:41.56\00:03:45.93 SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENT FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT JOIN US ON 00:03:45.93\00:03:49.30 TELEVISION, I INVITE YOU TO OUR ANNUAL CHRISTMAS PROGRAM HERE AT 00:03:49.30\00:03:54.03 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL, NEXT SABBATH - DECEMBER 14. 00:03:54.03\00:03:58.50 IT IS GOING TO BE LIVE-STREAMED AT 4:00 AND AT 7:00 PM AND THOSE 00:03:58.50\00:04:04.03 OF YOU THAT WOULD LIKE TO JOIN US RIGHT - LIVE HERE AT CENTRAL 00:04:04.03\00:04:08.43 AND WATCH IT LIVE, IT'S VERY SIMPLE. 00:04:08.43\00:04:10.83 YOU CAN ORDER YOUR FREE TICKETS ONLINE AND THAT YOU JUST GO TO 00:04:10.83\00:04:17.40 OUR WEBSITE. IT'S VERY SIMPLE ALSO, 00:04:17.40\00:04:20.70 'CENTRALCHRISTMAS.COM' AND THERE YOU CAN - THE TICKETS ARE FREE - 00:04:20.70\00:04:26.26 YOU JUST HAVE TO RESERVE THEM TO COME TO THE 4:00 AND 7:00 00:04:26.26\00:04:30.53 CONCERTS DECEMBER 14 - PACIFIC STANDARD TIME. 00:04:30.53\00:04:34.90 OUR NEXT HYMN THAT WE'RE GOING TO SING IS 'O COME, O COME 00:04:34.90\00:04:38.80 IMMANUEL' - HYMN #115. THIS COMES AS A REQUEST FROM 00:04:38.80\00:04:43.43 ANDREA, BIANCA, ALENA AND DEMETAR IN BULGARIA, STEPHAN IN 00:04:43.43\00:04:48.16 GERMANY, CORRINE AND CHERYL IN INDIA, VICTOR IN THE UNITED 00:04:48.16\00:04:51.73 KINGDOM, AND MAGALIE AND MISCHA IN MAURITIUS. 00:04:51.73\00:04:55.63 HYMN #115 AND WE'LL SING ALL THREE VERSES. 00:04:55.63\00:04:58.93 (MUSIC) 00:04:58.93\00:04:59.76 >>LET'S PRAY. OUR HEAVENLY FATHER, 00:07:51.76\00:07:54.33 WE HUMBLY COME BEFORE YOU TO WORSHIP YOU AND TO THANK YOU 00:07:54.33\00:07:58.36 FOR THE INCREDIBLE PRICE THAT YOU PAID 00:07:58.36\00:08:01.13 BY SENDING YOUR SON THAT HE WOULD LIVE AMONG US, THAT HE 00:08:01.13\00:08:05.60 WOULD BE IMMANUEL, THAT HE WOULD DWELL AMONG US, SHOW US WHO YOU 00:08:05.60\00:08:09.20 ARE, AND SHOW US WHO WE CAN BE THROUGH YOU. 00:08:09.20\00:08:12.40 SO LORD, JUST FILL US WITH YOUR HOLY SPIRIT AS WE LISTEN TO 00:08:12.40\00:08:16.70 PASTOR DOUG AS WE STUDY TOGETHER YOUR SANCTUARY AND HELP US TO 00:08:16.70\00:08:21.40 TAKE IT TO HEART AND TAKE WHAT WE LEARN TODAY TO A COLD AND 00:08:21.40\00:08:25.96 DYING WORLD - TO THE PEOPLE THAT ARE WANTING AND LONGING FOR YOU. 00:08:25.96\00:08:30.36 PLEASE HELP US TO JUST SHINE FOR YOU. 00:08:30.36\00:08:32.50 I PRAY THESE THINGS IN YOUR NAME, AMEN. 00:08:32.50\00:08:35.80 OUR STUDY TODAY WILL BE BROUGHT TO US BY PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR, 00:08:35.80\00:08:39.40 SENIOR PASTOR HERE AT SACRAMENTO CENTRAL. 00:08:39.40\00:08:51.10 I CAN'T BELIEVE WE'VE ALREADY BEGUN SINGING THOSE TIMELESS 00:08:51.10\00:08:55.36 CHRISTMAS SONGS. THEY'RE BEAUTIFUL. 00:08:55.36\00:08:57.80 ALWAYS - THEY'VE BARELY PUT AWAY THE HALLOWEEN DECORATIONS 00:08:57.80\00:09:01.53 THOUGH, FOR THOSE OF US HERE IN SACRAMENTO. 00:09:01.53\00:09:06.30 GREETINGS FRIENDS, I WANT TO WELCOME THOSE OF YOU WHO ARE 00:09:06.30\00:09:09.20 PART OF OUR REGULAR CLASS HERE. WE HAVE SOME VISITORS HERE AND 00:09:09.20\00:09:14.96 ANYWAY, NOW TO OUR LESSON. WE'RE CONTINUING WITH OUR STUDY 00:09:14.96\00:09:18.30 ON THE SANCTUARY AND TODAY WE'RE IN LESSON #10 AND THIS LESSON 00:09:18.30\00:09:23.30 TODAY IS DEALING WITH THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DAY OF ATONEMENT. 00:09:23.30\00:09:28.53 NOW, ESCHATOLOGY IS THE STUDY, IN PARTICULAR, OF LAST-DAY 00:09:28.53\00:09:33.33 EVENTS AND AS WE TALK ABOUT THE DAY OF ATONEMENT THERE IS A 00:09:33.33\00:09:37.53 SPIRITUAL DAY OF ATONEMENT. WE KNOW JESUS IS OUR HIGH PRIEST 00:09:37.53\00:09:41.80 AND HE IS MINISTERING IN THAT HEAVENLY SANCTUARY ON OUR BEHALF 00:09:41.80\00:09:45.36 RIGHT NOW AND WE ARE ENTERING - WE'RE IN THE SYMBOLIC DAY OF 00:09:45.36\00:09:52.06 ATONEMENT OR THE SPIRITUAL DAY OF ATONEMENT WHERE CHRIST IS 00:09:52.06\00:09:54.63 DOING HIS FINAL WORK AS OUR HEAVENLY HIGH PRIEST. 00:09:54.63\00:09:58.33 NOW WE KNOW, ON EARTH - WELL, I'M GETTING INTO THE LESSON - WE 00:09:58.33\00:10:01.36 HAVE A MEMORY VERSE - BETTER DO THAT FIRST. 00:10:01.36\00:10:03.46 MEMORY VERSE COMES FROM DANIEL CHAPTER 8, VERSE 14. 00:10:03.46\00:10:07.56 I'LL BET A LOT OF YOU WHO ARE REGULAR LONG-TIME SEVENTH DAY 00:10:07.56\00:10:11.00 ADVENTISTS KNOW THAT VERSE, BUT LET'S SAY IT TOGETHER. 00:10:11.00\00:10:13.43 DANIEL 8, VERSE 14 - ARE YOU READY? 00:10:13.43\00:10:17.46 I THINK THIS IS COMING FROM THE KING JAMES VERSION. 00:10:17.46\00:10:19.46 "AND HE SAID UNTO ME, UNTO TWO THOUSAND AND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; 00:10:19.46\00:10:24.90 THEN SHALL THE SANCTUARY BE CLEANSED." 00:10:24.90\00:10:28.66 ALRIGHT, SO THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY - WE STUDIED EARLIER 00:10:28.66\00:10:32.90 IN OUR LESSON THAT PART OF THE REGULAR JEWISH ECONOMY, ON A 00:10:32.90\00:10:37.36 DAILY BASIS - THE PRIESTS WOULD GO IN AND THEY OFFERED 00:10:37.36\00:10:39.63 SACRIFICES AND THE DIFFERENT PEOPLE WOULD BRING THEIR 00:10:39.63\00:10:42.23 SACRIFICES, BUT ONCE A YEAR AT THE END OF THE YEAR, THEY HAD A 00:10:42.23\00:10:46.56 SPECIAL SERVICE CALLED 'THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY'. 00:10:46.56\00:10:49.83 IT HAPPENED ON A SPECIFIC DAY. THEY PREPARED FOR IT TEN DAYS IN 00:10:49.83\00:10:55.00 ADVANCE. THE TRUMPETS WOULD BLOW, THE PEOPLE WOULD HUMBLE 00:10:55.00\00:10:58.40 THEMSELVES, THEY WOULD CONFESS AND REPENT OF THEIR SINS BECAUSE 00:10:58.40\00:11:02.13 THIS WAS THE TIME WHEN GOD WOULD SYMBOLICALLY IN ANY EVENT, 00:11:02.13\00:11:07.00 SEPARATE THE PEOPLE FROM THEIR SINS THAT HAD BEEN STORED IN THE 00:11:07.00\00:11:11.10 SANCTUARY THROUGH THE SPRINKLING OF BLOOD. 00:11:11.10\00:11:13.40 NOW TURN IN YOUR BIBLES, IF YOU WILL, TO THE BOOK OF DANIEL. 00:11:13.40\00:11:18.76 LET'S JUST GO THERE. OH, YOU KNOW WHAT I FORGOT? 00:11:18.76\00:11:20.53 I KNEW I WAS FORGETTING SOMETHING. 00:11:20.53\00:11:22.30 WE HAVE A FREE OFFER AND OUR OFFER FOR THOSE WHO ARE STUDYING 00:11:22.30\00:11:27.13 WITH US TODAY - AND YOU JUST CALL AND ASK FOR IT, IT'S OFFER 00:11:27.13\00:11:29.93 #803 AND JUST CALL THAT NUMBER 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966. 00:11:29.93\00:11:37.80 WE'LL SEND YOU 'CLEANSING THE TEMPLE' AND THAT WILL - 00:11:37.80\00:11:41.10 ALSO, IT'S GOT A CHART WE'RE GOING TO BE SHOWING YOU IN OUR 00:11:41.10\00:11:43.90 STUDY TODAY. WE WANT YOU TO HAVE THAT IN YOUR 00:11:43.90\00:11:45.73 HANDS. YOU'LL HAVE THE CHART IN THIS 00:11:45.73\00:11:47.76 LESSON THAT EXPLAINS THE SPIRITUAL DAY OF ATONEMENT. 00:11:47.76\00:11:51.93 OKAY, DANIEL CHAPTER 8 IN YOUR BIBLES. THIS IS ONE OF THE 00:11:51.93\00:11:56.26 LONGEST TIME PROPHECIES IN THE BIBLE, DANIEL 8. 00:11:56.26\00:12:00.50 DANIEL CHAPTER 12 HAS THE MOST TIME PROPHECIES IN ONE CHAPTER. 00:12:00.50\00:12:05.73 THERE ARE THREE DIFFERENT TIME PROPHECIES IN DANIEL CHAPTER 12. 00:12:05.73\00:12:08.56 IN DANIEL 8 HERE YOU'VE GOT - SOME HAVE ARGUED WHETHER THIS IS 00:12:08.56\00:12:12.30 THE LONGEST, BUT I WON'T GET INTO THAT RIGHT NOW. 00:12:12.30\00:12:14.43 AND I WANT YOU TO BEGIN WITH - IT'S TALKING ABOUT - TO GET THE 00:12:14.43\00:12:18.16 CONTEXT FOR WHAT THIS PROPHECY IS DEALING WITH YOU'VE GOT TO 00:12:18.16\00:12:21.86 GET A LITTLE BACKGROUND. THE BOOK OF DANIEL IS TALKING 00:12:21.86\00:12:25.90 ABOUT THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE FROM THE TIME OF DANIEL 00:12:25.90\00:12:30.03 UNTIL GOD'S KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED IN THE WORLD JUST 00:12:30.03\00:12:33.23 LIKE REVELATION GOES FROM THE TIME OF JOHN UNTIL THE COMING OF 00:12:33.23\00:12:36.20 CHRIST AND GOD'S KINGDOM IS ESTABLISHED. 00:12:36.20\00:12:38.56 GOD TEACHES THE EVENTS OF WHAT HIS PEOPLE WILL GO THROUGH, 00:12:38.56\00:12:43.26 THROUGH A VARIETY OF PROPHECIES. REVELATION HAS SEVERAL 00:12:43.26\00:12:47.00 PROPHECIES THAT SAY THE SAME THING FROM DIFFERENT 00:12:47.00\00:12:49.93 PERSPECTIVES. DANIEL HAS SEVERAL PROPHECIES 00:12:49.93\00:12:52.53 THAT TEACH THE SAME TRUTH FROM DIFFERENT PERSPECTIVES. 00:12:52.53\00:12:55.76 IT'S LIKE YOU COULD GET THIS PROFILE OF ME AND YOU COULD GET 00:12:55.76\00:12:58.80 THAT PROFILE OF ME AND YOU COULD GET THAT PROFILE OF ME - 00:12:58.80\00:13:02.03 IT'S ALL ME FROM DIFFERENT ANGLES. 00:13:02.03\00:13:05.30 THEY ALL LOOK A LITTLE DIFFERENT. 00:13:05.30\00:13:07.30 AND SO, FOR INSTANCE, IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2 IT'S TEACHING THE 00:13:07.30\00:13:12.23 HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE AND THE COMING KINGDOM OF JESUS THROUGH 00:13:12.23\00:13:15.66 THIS GREAT IDOL THAT IS DESTROYED BY A ROCK. 00:13:15.66\00:13:19.43 AND THE DIFFERENT METALS OR MATERIALS IN THE IDOL REPRESENT 00:13:19.43\00:13:22.76 THE DIFFERENT KINGDOMS. AND YOU'VE GOT THE HEAD OF GOLD, 00:13:22.76\00:13:25.06 WHICH IS WHAT KINGDOM? IT'S BABYLON. 00:13:25.06\00:13:28.16 AND YOU'VE GOT THE CHEST OF SILVER, WHICH IS - TWO ARMS - 00:13:28.16\00:13:32.03 MEDO PERSIA. AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE BELLY 00:13:32.03\00:13:34.86 AND THE THIGHS OF BRONZE OR BRASS, WHICH REPRESENTS GREECE 00:13:34.86\00:13:38.40 AND THE LEGS ARE IRON AND THEY REPRESENT ROME. 00:13:38.40\00:13:41.83 FEET - IRON MIXED WITH CLAY - REPRESENTING THE TRANSITION OF 00:13:41.83\00:13:45.40 THE ROMAN EMPIRE WHERE IT WAS SPLIT INTO TEN PARTS - THE TEN 00:13:45.40\00:13:48.66 TOES - AND THE MIXTURE OF RELIGION AND GOVERNMENT 00:13:48.66\00:13:51.90 THAT YOU HAD IN THE FINAL KINGDOM. 00:13:51.90\00:13:53.60 THEN YOU GO AND YOU'VE GOT THE LION, YOU KNOW, IN DANIEL 00:13:53.60\00:13:56.46 CHAPTER 7 YOU'VE GOT THE LION AND YOU'VE GOT THE BEAR AND 00:13:56.46\00:14:01.40 YOU'VE GOT THE LEOPARD WITH FOUR HEADS, OKAY, AND THE BEAR'S 00:14:01.40\00:14:04.33 RAISED UP ON ONE SIDE - MEDO PERSIA - LION, BABYLON - AND 00:14:04.33\00:14:08.00 THEN YOU'VE GOT THE LEOPARD - FOUR HEADS - GREECE, OKAY? 00:14:08.00\00:14:11.50 AND THEN YOU'VE GOT THE STRANGE BEAST WITH IRON TEETH - AGAIN 00:14:11.50\00:14:13.83 IT'S ROME AND YOU'VE GOT THE TEN HORNS THERE. 00:14:13.83\00:14:17.03 THAT ALSO PLAYS IN WHEN YOU GET A BEAST WITH SEVEN HEADS AND TEN 00:14:17.03\00:14:19.83 HORNS IN REVELATION. NOW WHEN YOU GO TO DANIEL 00:14:19.83\00:14:22.13 CHAPTER 8 YOU'VE GOT A RAM AND A GOAT. ONE IS A MALE GOAT AND 00:14:22.13\00:14:30.23 ONE IS A MALE SHEEP AND THEY GET INTO A BATTLE. 00:14:30.23\00:14:33.93 AND THE RAM HAS GOT TWO HORNS - ONE LARGER THAN THE OTHER AND 00:14:33.93\00:14:37.40 THE SECOND ONE COMES UP AND IT'S BIGGER THAN THE OTHER AND THAT 00:14:37.40\00:14:40.26 REPRESENTS AGAIN THE MEDO-PERSIAN KINGDOM. 00:14:40.26\00:14:42.50 NOW WHY IS HE LEAVING OUT BABYLON IN THIS VISION? 00:14:42.50\00:14:45.40 DANIEL CHAPTER 8? BECAUSE BABYLON'S PASSED OFF THE SCENE. 00:14:45.40\00:14:49.70 NEBUCHADNEZZAR HAD DIED AND BELSHAZAR HAD BEEN DESTROYED AND 00:14:49.70\00:14:54.30 NOW DARIUS THE MEDE WAS IN POWER AND SO HE BEGINS WHERE HE IS AND 00:14:54.30\00:15:00.73 SO HE'S STARTING OUT WITH THE PERSIAN KINGDOM AND HE'S GIVING 00:15:00.73\00:15:02.86 THE KINGDOMS. AND IT SAYS THAT THE GOAT THAT 00:15:02.86\00:15:04.90 HAS ONE NOTABLE POWERFUL HORN BETWEEN HIS EYES, HE FIGHTS WITH 00:15:04.90\00:15:07.90 THE RAM AND HE BREAKS THE HORNS OF THE RAM AND HE KILLS IT AND 00:15:07.90\00:15:11.93 HE WAS IN GREAT POWER AND MIGHT - THE NOTABLE ONE SINGLE HORN 00:15:11.93\00:15:17.33 BREAKS OFF AND IN ITS PLACE FOUR HORNS COME UP. 00:15:17.33\00:15:19.80 VIRTUALLY ALL BIBLE COMMENTATORS AGREE UP TO THIS POINT. 00:15:19.80\00:15:23.33 THE FOUR HEADS OF THE LEOPARD? ALEXANDER THE GREAT DIES, HIS 00:15:23.33\00:15:26.26 KINGDOM IS DIVIDED AMONG HIS FOUR GENERALS - SPLIT INTO FOUR 00:15:26.26\00:15:28.66 PARTS. THE ONE NOTABLE HORN? ALEXANDER THE GREAT. 00:15:28.66\00:15:31.86 THE HORN IS BROKEN, HE DIES AFTER HAVING CONQUERED MUCH OF 00:15:31.86\00:15:34.70 THE WORLD - FOUR HORNS COME UP IN ITS PLACE. 00:15:34.70\00:15:37.76 NOW HERE'S WHERE OUR VISION COMES IN. 00:15:37.76\00:15:40.86 IT SAYS ONE OF THOSE FOUR HORNS - ONE OF THOSE DIVISIONS OF THE 00:15:40.86\00:15:45.93 REGIONS OF ALEXANDER'S KINGDOM - OR THE JEWS OFTEN THOUGHT OF 00:15:45.93\00:15:50.16 FOUR AS REPRESENTING THE FOUR DIRECTIONS OF THE POLES - NORTH, 00:15:50.16\00:15:54.33 SOUTH, EAST AND WEST. 'HE WILL SEND HIS ANGELS TO THE 00:15:54.33\00:15:57.56 FOUR CORNERS OF THE EARTH.' SO FOUR ALSO REPRESENTS 00:15:57.56\00:16:01.13 SOMETHING THAT YOU'VE GOT THESE DIFFERENT QUADRANTS - TALKING 00:16:01.13\00:16:05.03 ABOUT THE DIFFERENT AREAS OF THE KINGDOM. 00:16:05.03\00:16:08.50 THE AREA OF THE GREEK KINGDOM THAT WOULD BE IN THE NORTHWEST 00:16:08.50\00:16:13.93 QUADRANT, THAT WAS THE ONE HORN, IT SAYS FROM THAT HORN A LITTLE 00:16:13.93\00:16:20.10 HORN COMES UP. AND THAT'S WHERE WE TAKE UP HERE 00:16:20.10\00:16:24.00 WHEN WE READ IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8. 00:16:24.00\00:16:26.03 SO IF YOU GO IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 AND VERSE 9, "AND OUT OF ONE OF 00:16:26.03\00:16:30.66 THEM" - ONE OF THOSE FOUR HORNS - "CAME A LITTLE HORN, WHICH 00:16:30.66\00:16:34.80 GREW EXCEEDINGLY GREAT" - I'M IN DANIEL 8, VERSE 9 - "GREW 00:16:34.80\00:16:38.63 EXCEEDINGLY GREAT TOWARD THE SOUTH, TOWARD THE EAST," - IT 00:16:38.63\00:16:42.90 DID, GOING INTO MACEDONIA - THIS IS THE ROMAN POWER - "AND TOWARD 00:16:42.90\00:16:46.26 THE GLORIOUS LAND." - THE PROMISED LAND - "AND IT 00:16:46.26\00:16:49.03 GREW UP TO THE HOST OF HEAVEN; AND IT CAST DOWN SOME OF THE 00:16:49.03\00:16:53.00 HOST AND SOME OF THE STARS TO THE GROUND," - THE WORD 'HOST' 00:16:53.00\00:16:56.23 THERE MEANS THE ARMY - "AND TRAMPLED THEM. 00:16:56.23\00:16:59.46 HE EVEN EXALTED HIMSELF AS HIGH AS THE PRINCE OF THE HOST;" - 00:16:59.46\00:17:03.13 NOW LET'S IDENTIFY SOME CHARACTERS HERE. 00:17:03.13\00:17:05.06 WHO IS THE LITTLE HORN THAT COMES OUT OF ONE OF THOSE 00:17:05.06\00:17:09.03 QUADRANTS OF THE FORMER GREEK EMPIRE? ROME. 00:17:09.03\00:17:12.90 MATTER OF FACT, ALL OVER THE WORLD WE SAY GRECO-ROMAN BECAUSE 00:17:12.90\00:17:17.10 ROME WAS SO HEAVILY INFLUENCED BY GREECE. 00:17:17.10\00:17:20.06 YOU HAVE THE GRECO-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE - AMERICA'S GOT, IN 00:17:20.06\00:17:23.30 WASHINGTON, GRECO-ROMAN ARCHITECTURE. 00:17:23.30\00:17:25.60 THE GRECO-ROMAN LAWS - MANY OF THE ROMAN LAWS THEY DREW FROM 00:17:25.60\00:17:29.26 THE GREEK LAWS WITH THE SENATE AND SO FORTH. 00:17:29.26\00:17:31.60 AND YOU'VE GOT THE GRECO-ROMAN GODS - THEY ACTUALLY CO-MINGLED 00:17:31.60\00:17:37.56 AND AMALGAMATED SEVERAL OF THEIR GODS. 00:17:37.56\00:17:40.10 WHEN THE ROMANS WERE CONQUERING THE FORMER GREEK TERRITORIES 00:17:40.10\00:17:42.60 THEY THOUGHT, 'WE WON'T MAKE THEM MAD IF WE SORT OF ADOPT 00:17:42.60\00:17:44.73 AND, YOU KNOW, CHRISTEN SOME OF THEIR GODS, SO TO SPEAK. 00:17:44.73\00:17:47.70 CHRISTEN'S THE WRONG WORD. 00:17:47.70\00:17:49.40 AND SO FROM THIS GREEK QUADRANT - ONE OF THOSE HORNS OF THE 00:17:49.40\00:17:54.66 FORMER GREEK EMPIRE, THE ROMAN POWER CAME UP. 00:17:54.66\00:17:57.63 BEGINNING AS A POLITICAL POWER RULED BY CAESARS, LATER TURNING 00:17:57.63\00:18:04.10 INTO A RELIGIOUS POWER RULED BY THE CHURCH AND IT BECAME A VERY 00:18:04.10\00:18:10.40 POWERFUL POWER. AND IT SAYS THIS LITTLE HORN, IT 00:18:10.40\00:18:15.60 WOULD BEGIN TO PERSECUTE GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:18:15.60\00:18:17.90 NOW UNDER THE POLITICAL POWER OF ROME, WERE GOD'S PEOPLE - THE 00:18:17.90\00:18:22.96 JEWS - PERSECUTED? THEY WERE. AND THEN LATER EVEN THE 00:18:22.96\00:18:27.66 CHRISTIANS WERE PERSECUTED. THEY THREW THEM TO THE LIONS. 00:18:27.66\00:18:30.33 GRADUALLY, CHRISTIANITY WENT THROUGH A CORRUPTION AND A 00:18:30.33\00:18:36.23 COUNTERFEIT FORM OF CHRISTIANITY MINGLED WITH THE ROMAN EMPIRE, 00:18:36.23\00:18:40.53 CAME INTO POWER, AND BEGAN TO PERSECUTE GENUINE CHRISTIANS, 00:18:40.53\00:18:44.46 AND TO DISTORT THE TRUTH. 'FIGHTING AGAINST THE HOST OF 00:18:44.46\00:18:48.76 GOD - THE ARMY OF GOD - AND THE TRUTH OF GOD.' 00:18:48.76\00:18:51.50 WELL, IT BECOMES CLEAR AS YOU READ THIS. 00:18:51.50\00:18:54.20 "HE EVEN EXALTED HIMSELF AS HIGH AS THE PRINCE OF THE HOST." 00:18:54.20\00:18:57.13 - NOW WHO IS THE PRINCE OF THE HOST? IF YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE - 00:18:57.13\00:19:02.10 GO TO JOSHUA CHAPTER 5 - AND THIS IS IN YOUR LESSON - 00:19:02.10\00:19:05.33 YOU WILL NOT HEAR ME GOING THROUGH THE DAYS AND BREAKING UP 00:19:05.33\00:19:08.03 THE LESSON THE WAY IT IS BECAUSE I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO COVER I'M 00:19:08.03\00:19:10.20 JUST GOING TO TRY AND BLEND IT ALL TOGETHER HERE. 00:19:10.20\00:19:13.03 JOSHUA 5:13, "AND IT CAME TO PASS, WHEN JOSHUA" - THE GENERAL 00:19:13.03\00:19:18.40 THERE - "WAS BY JERICHO, THAT HE LIFTED UP HIS EYES AND LOOKED 00:19:18.40\00:19:21.90 AND BEHOLD, THERE STOOD A MAN OVER AGAINST HIM WITH HIS SWORD 00:19:21.90\00:19:25.96 DRAWN IN HIS HAND: AND JOSHUA WENT UNTO HIM AND SAID UNTO HIM, 00:19:25.96\00:19:29.46 'ART THOU FOR US, OR FOR OUR ADVERSARIES?'" - 00:19:29.46\00:19:31.33 THERE'S THIS MAJESTIC-LOOKING PERSONAGE THERE 00:19:31.33\00:19:35.36 - "AND HE SAID, 'NAY; BUT AS CAPTAIN OF THE HOST OF THE LORD 00:19:35.36\00:19:38.43 AM I NOW COME.'" JESUS IS CALLED THE PRINCE OF 00:19:38.43\00:19:41.80 PRINCES. JESUS IS OUR GENERAL. 00:19:41.80\00:19:45.03 HE IS THE CAPTAIN OF THE LORD'S ARMY. AND SO, 00:19:45.03\00:19:47.86 THE CAPTAIN OF THE HOST IS THE LEADER OF THE LORD'S ARMY. 00:19:47.86\00:19:50.60 WHEN IT SAYS, IN DANIEL, THIS LITTLE HORN POWER WOULD EXALT 00:19:50.60\00:19:54.93 HIMSELF EVEN AGAINST THE PRINCE OF THE HOST - THE CAPTAIN OF THE 00:19:54.93\00:19:58.63 LORD'S ARMY - WHO IS THAT? 00:19:58.63\00:20:01.20 EVEN AGAINST CHRIST, THE PRINCE OF PRINCES. 00:20:01.20\00:20:04.06 AND I JUST WANTED TO READ THIS BUT I'M GETTING DRAWN INTO IT 00:20:04.06\00:20:08.36 HERE, AND "HE EVEN EXALTED HIMSELF AS HIGH AS THE PRINCE OF 00:20:08.36\00:20:11.70 THE HOST; AND BY HIM THE DAILY SACRIFICES WERE TAKEN AWAY, AND 00:20:11.70\00:20:16.70 THE PLACE OF HIS SANCTUARY WAS CAST DOWN." 00:20:16.70\00:20:20.00 - NOW I'M JUST GOING TO READ THIS AND WE'LL BACK UP AND 00:20:20.00\00:20:21.66 EXPLAIN IT - "BECAUSE OF TRANSGRESSION, AN ARMY WAS GIVEN 00:20:21.66\00:20:25.33 OVER TO THE HORN TO OPPOSE THE DAILY SACRIFICES; AND HE CAST 00:20:25.33\00:20:35.46 NOW, FOR ME, THE OPERATIVE VERSE OR PHRASE IN THIS BATTLE OF THE 00:20:35.46\00:20:41.63 LITTLE HORN AGAINST THE LORD IS 'HE CAST THE TRUTH TO THE 00:20:41.63\00:20:47.63 GROUND'. 'THY WORD IS TRUTH.' JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE TRUTH'. 00:20:47.63\00:20:54.43 'THE TRUTH WILL MAKE YOU FREE.' IF YOU DON'T HAVE TRUTH, 00:20:54.43\00:20:56.63 WHAT DO YOU HAVE? YOU'VE GOT AIR - YOU'VE GOT NOTHING. 00:20:56.63\00:20:59.16 AND SO, THIS WAS A BATTLE AGAINST THE TRUTH OF GOD THAT 00:20:59.16\00:21:03.36 WOULD BE ECLIPSED FOR A LONG PERIOD OF TIME. 00:21:03.36\00:21:07.20 THE TRUTH PROPHESIED UNDER SACKCLOTH. 00:21:07.20\00:21:11.66 THE TRUTH FLED INTO THE WILDERNESS. 00:21:11.66\00:21:14.20 THE TRUTH THAT GOD'S PEOPLE HAD ENJOYED IN FREEDOM AT ONE POINT 00:21:14.20\00:21:18.00 WHEN THEY WERE THEIR OWN POWER, WOULD NOW BE OPPRESSED AND 00:21:18.00\00:21:20.63 HIDDEN AND FOUGHT AGAINST IN AN ORGANIZED, ORCHESTRATED WAY. 00:21:20.63\00:21:24.73 THIS IS WHAT THIS LITTLE HORN POWER DID - AND PERSECUTED. 00:21:24.73\00:21:27.80 BIBLES WERE LOCKED UP IN MONASTERIES - PERSECUTED GOD'S 00:21:27.80\00:21:31.13 PEOPLE - THEY WERE BURNT AT THE STAKE. 00:21:31.13\00:21:33.93 AND HE DOES THIS AND HE PRACTICED AND HE PROSPERED. 00:21:33.93\00:21:36.56 AND IT'S THROUGH AN ORGANIZATION IT'S DONE. 00:21:36.56\00:21:39.03 "THEN I HEARD A HOLY ONE" - ONE OF THESE ANGELIC BEINGS THAT'S 00:21:39.03\00:21:41.93 TOURING JOHN - DANIEL RATHER - IN VISION - "SPEAKING; AND 00:21:41.93\00:21:45.96 ANOTHER HOLY ONE SAID TO THAT CERTAIN ONE WHO WAS SPEAKING, 00:21:45.96\00:21:49.46 'HOW LONG WILL THE VISION BE, CONCERNING THE DAILY SACRIFICES 00:21:49.46\00:21:54.00 AND THE TRANSGRESSION OF DESOLATION, THE GIVING OF BOTH 00:21:54.00\00:21:57.20 THE SANCTUARY AND THE HOST TO BE TRAMPLED UNDERFOOT?' 00:21:57.20\00:22:00.16 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'FOR TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS; 00:22:00.16\00:22:04.60 THEN THE SANCTUARY SHALL BE CLEANSED.'" 00:22:04.60\00:22:07.63 ALRIGHT, BOY WE'VE GOT A LOT TO TALK ABOUT HERE. 00:22:07.63\00:22:09.53 LET ME SEE, WHERE SHALL I BEGIN? I'M GOING TO JUMP AROUND 00:22:09.53\00:22:11.93 A LITTLE BIT. HOW MANY SANCTUARIES WERE THERE 00:22:11.93\00:22:17.26 IN BIBLE TIMES - LIKE IN THE DAYS OF MOSES? 00:22:17.26\00:22:20.86 WHEN MOSES BUILT THE TABERNACLE ON EARTH, WAS IT THE ONLY 00:22:20.86\00:22:23.23 SANCTUARY OR WAS IT MODELED AFTER A SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN? 00:22:23.23\00:22:29.80 HOW MANY SANCTUARIES ARE THERE IN THE WORLD TODAY? 00:22:29.80\00:22:36.10 WELL, THERE ARE TWO SANCTUARIES THAT EXIST: ONE ON EARTH AND ONE 00:22:36.10\00:22:40.46 IN HEAVEN. 'BUT PASTOR DOUG, THE JEWISH TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED BACK 00:22:40.46\00:22:45.00 IN THE TIMES OF THE APOSTLES - ABOUT 70 A.D. - 00:22:45.00\00:22:50.70 THERE'S NO SANCTUARY ON EARTH NOW.' OH REALLY? 00:22:50.70\00:22:54.33 ALRIGHT, SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 PETER 2, VERSE 5. 00:22:54.33\00:22:58.43 TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS TO CLEANSE THE SANCTUARY WE'VE GOT TO KNOW 00:22:58.43\00:23:00.63 WHERE THE SANCTUARY OR SANCTUARIES ARE. 00:23:00.63\00:23:04.26 1 PETER 2:5 - DID WE GIVE THAT TO SOMEBODY? 00:23:04.26\00:23:07.20 YOU GOT SOMEONE THERE? ALRIGHT, WE'RE GOING TO GIVE YOU 00:23:07.20\00:23:09.40 A SECOND TO - THEY'RE GOING TO GET YOU ON CAMERA HERE. 00:23:09.40\00:23:12.33 WHILE HE'S GETTING FOCUSED, I'M GOING TO READ EPHESIANS 2, VERSE 00:23:12.33\00:23:16.13 19, "NOW, THEREFORE, YOU ARE NO LONGER STRANGERS AND FOREIGNERS, 00:23:16.13\00:23:20.66 BUT FELLOW CITIZENS WITH THE SAINTS AND MEMBERS OF THE 00:23:20.66\00:23:23.60 HOUSEHOLD OF GOD, HAVING BEEN BUILT ON THE FOUNDATION OF THE 00:23:23.60\00:23:27.10 APOSTLES AND PROPHETS, JESUS CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF 00:23:27.10\00:23:30.53 CORNERSTONE, IN WHOM THE WHOLE BUILDING, BEING FITTED TOGETHER, 00:23:30.53\00:23:35.70 GROWS INTO A HOLY TEMPLE IN THE LORD, IN WHOM YOU ALSO ARE BEING 00:23:35.70\00:23:40.03 BUILT TOGETHER FOR A DWELLING PLACE OF GOD IN THE SPIRIT." 00:23:40.03\00:23:44.40 'WHAT, KNOW YE NOT THAT YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' 00:23:44.40\00:23:47.86 THERE'S A TEMPLE STILL ON EARTH, RIGHT? 00:23:47.86\00:23:49.96 ARE WE READY FOR THAT? YEAH, GO AHEAD. 00:23:49.96\00:23:51.93 YOU'RE GOING TO READ FOR US 1 PETER 2:5. 00:23:51.93\00:23:54.00 >>"YOU ALSO, AS LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT UP A SPIRITUAL 00:23:54.00\00:23:59.00 HOUSE, A HOLY PRIESTHOOD, TO OFFER UP SPIRITUAL SACRIFICES 00:23:59.00\00:24:04.66 ACCEPTABLE TO GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST." 00:24:04.66\00:24:07.96 >>ALRIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU ANOTHER ONE: MARK 14, VERSE 58. 00:24:07.96\00:24:12.53 YOU KNOW, THE ONLY TWO WITNESSES THEY COULD GET TO AGREE AT THE 00:24:12.53\00:24:14.63 TRIAL OF CHRIST ARE THESE TWO AND HERE'S WHAT THEY SAID, "WE 00:24:14.63\00:24:18.33 HEARD HIM SAY, 'I WILL DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS, AND 00:24:18.33\00:24:21.76 WITHIN THREE DAYS I WILL BUILD ANOTHER MADE WITHOUT HANDS.'" 00:24:21.76\00:24:25.23 THAT WAS PRETTY CLOSE TO WHAT JESUS SAID - NOT EXACTLY - 00:24:25.23\00:24:29.63 CHRIST SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN THREE DAYS I'LL 00:24:29.63\00:24:31.96 RAISE IT UP.' AND HE WAS SPEAKING OF HIS BODY, 00:24:31.96\00:24:33.80 RIGHT? WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? 00:24:33.80\00:24:35.80 THE BODY OF CHRIST. JESUS CALLED IT A TEMPLE. 00:24:35.80\00:24:40.23 HEBREWS 9, VERSE 11, "BUT CHRIST BEING COME AN HIGH PRIEST OF 00:24:40.23\00:24:44.43 GOOD THINGS TO COME, BY A GREATER AND MORE PERFECT 00:24:44.43\00:24:47.23 TABERNACLE, NOT MADE WITH HANDS, THAT IS TO SAY, NOT OF THIS 00:24:47.23\00:24:52.23 BUILDING." SO WE'VE GOT TWO TABERNACLES THE 00:24:52.23\00:24:55.23 BIBLE IS SPEAKING OF. LET ME GIVE YOU ONE MORE VERSE. 00:24:55.23\00:24:57.96 OH, I THINK IT'S IN - IS IT 1 CHRONICLES 17? 00:24:57.96\00:25:01.96 WHERE DAVID IS IN HIS HOUSE AND HE'S PRAYING - HE'S THINKING 00:25:01.96\00:25:04.50 ABOUT BUILDING THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND NATHAN THE PROPHET 00:25:04.50\00:25:06.60 COMES AND HE SAYS, 'YOU WILL NOT BUILD ME A TEMPLE BECAUSE YOU'RE 00:25:06.60\00:25:10.10 A BLOODY MAN, BUT YOUR SON WHO WILL COME AFTER YOU, HE WILL 00:25:10.10\00:25:12.63 BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.' 00:25:12.63\00:25:15.56 WHAT WAS THE TEMPLE THAT THE SON OF DAVID WAS GOING TO BUILD? 00:25:15.56\00:25:19.00 WELL, DAVID'S SON SOLOMON DID BUILD AN EARTHLY TEMPLE. 00:25:19.00\00:25:22.63 DAVID'S SON JESUS BUILT A HEAVENLY TEMPLE - A SPIRITUAL 00:25:22.63\00:25:26.96 TEMPLE I SHOULD SAY - ON EARTH. AND HE ALSO BUILD THE ONE IN 00:25:26.96\00:25:29.20 HEAVEN NOT MADE WITH MAN'S HANDS, RIGHT? 00:25:29.20\00:25:31.36 SO YOU'VE KIND OF GOT A DUAL FULFILLMENT OF THAT PROPHECY. 00:25:31.36\00:25:34.93 SO, I SAID ALL THAT TO SAY THIS: WHEN WE READ ABOUT TWO THOUSAND 00:25:34.93\00:25:39.50 THREE HUNDRED DAYS THEN THE SANCTUARY WILL BE CLEANSED, WHAT 00:25:39.50\00:25:43.50 SANCTUARIES ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? 00:25:43.50\00:25:46.06 SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN AND THE SANCTUARY ON EARTH. 00:25:46.06\00:25:50.10 LET ME SHARE SOMETHING WITH YOU. ALRIGHT, THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT 00:25:50.10\00:25:54.30 THERE IS A JUDGMENT THAT HAPPENS BEFORE JESUS COMES. 00:25:54.30\00:25:57.50 WE ALL BELIEVE IN THE GREAT JUDGMENT DAY? 00:25:57.50\00:26:00.80 NOW JUDGMENT IS SORT OF BROKEN UP INTO TWO OR THREE DIFFERENT 00:26:00.80\00:26:04.30 PHASES. THERE'S A JUDGMENT THAT HAPPENS 00:26:04.30\00:26:06.00 BEFORE JESUS COMES. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 00:26:06.00\00:26:09.16 1 PETER 4:17. DOES SOMEBODY HAVE THAT? 00:26:09.16\00:26:14.20 OKAY, RIGHT UP FRONT HERE. HOLD YOUR HAND UP. 00:26:14.20\00:26:17.13 AND WHILE YOU'RE DOING THAT, I WANT TO READ THIS - REVELATION 00:26:17.13\00:26:19.73 14:7 - IN THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES THIS ANGEL - THE FIRST 00:26:19.73\00:26:25.66 ANGEL SAYS, "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS 00:26:25.66\00:26:29.33 JUDGMENT IS COME." IT HAS COME. 00:26:29.33\00:26:32.53 SO HERE IN THE LAST DAYS IT'S TELLING US A JUDGMENT HAS BEGUN 00:26:32.53\00:26:37.33 - A JUDGMENT HAS COME. NOW WHERE DOES THIS FIRST PHASE 00:26:37.33\00:26:42.13 OF THE JUDGMENT BEGIN? ALRIGHT, ARE WE READY FOR YOU? 00:26:42.13\00:26:45.03 WE ARE. GO AHEAD MIKE. 00:26:45.03\00:26:46.66 >>OKAY, 1 PETER 4:17, "FOR THE TIME HAS COME FOR JUDGMENT TO 00:26:46.66\00:26:50.90 BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD; AND IF IT BEGINS WITH US FIRST, WHAT 00:26:50.90\00:26:56.23 WILL BE THE END OF THOSE WHO DO NOT OBEY THE GOSPEL OF GOD?" 00:26:56.23\00:27:01.13 >>SO THE FIRST PHASE OF THE JUDGMENT, DOES IT BEGIN WITH THE 00:27:01.13\00:27:03.86 LOST OR DOES IT BEGIN WITH THOSE WHO PROFESS TO KNOW THE LORD? 00:27:03.86\00:27:08.33 IT'S THOSE WHO PROFESS TO KNOW THE LORD. 00:27:08.33\00:27:10.43 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER READING IN EZEKIEL 9:6 - EZEKIEL HAD A 00:27:10.43\00:27:14.33 VISION ABOUT A JUDGMENT WHERE EVERYBODY GETS A MARK? 00:27:14.33\00:27:18.16 NOW IN EZEKIEL'S JUDGMENT - EZEKIEL 9 - THOSE THAT GET THE 00:27:18.16\00:27:23.00 MARK ARE SAVED - LIKE THOSE WHO GET THE SEAL OF GOD IN 00:27:23.00\00:27:25.76 REVELATION. IT'S NOT A BAD MARK IT'S A GOOD MARK. 00:27:25.76\00:27:28.53 AND YOU CAN READ THIS, IT SAYS, 'UTTERLY SLAY OLD AND YOUNG MEN, 00:27:28.53\00:27:33.36 MAIDENS AND LITTLE CHILDREN, AND WOMEN, BUT DO NOT COME NEAR 00:27:33.36\00:27:36.53 ANYONE ON WHOM IS THE MARK AND BEGIN AT MY SANCTUARY.' 00:27:36.53\00:27:41.00 BEGIN AT MY HOUSE. THIS IS WHAT PETER IS REFERRING 00:27:41.00\00:27:43.33 TO WHEN HE SAYS, 'JUDGMENT MUST BEGIN AT THE HOUSE OF GOD.' 00:27:43.33\00:27:46.66 SO THEY BEGAN WITH THE ELDERS WHO WERE BEFORE THE TEMPLE. 00:27:46.66\00:27:50.00 NOT ONLY DO THEY BEGIN WITH THE PEOPLE OF GOD, BUT THEY BEGIN 00:27:50.00\00:27:51.83 WITH THE OLDEST WHO SHOULD KNOW THE BEST. 00:27:51.83\00:27:54.13 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER ANOTHER JUDGMENT THAT TOOK PLACE IN THE 00:27:54.13\00:27:57.06 HOUSE OF GOD WHEN, IN JOHN CHAPTER 8, THIS WOMAN, WHO MAY 00:27:57.06\00:28:01.56 HAVE BEEN MARY MAGDALENE, IS BROUGHT IN - CAUGHT IN THE ACT 00:28:01.56\00:28:03.83 OF ADULTERY? YOU REMEMBER THAT? 00:28:03.83\00:28:05.93 THEY SAID, 'THE LAW SAYS SHE'S GUILTY. SHE WAS CAUGHT IN 00:28:05.93\00:28:08.53 THE ACT. SHE SHOULD BE DESTROYED.' THERE'S A JUDGMENT 00:28:08.53\00:28:10.60 THAT'S HAPPENING IN THE TEMPLE. IT SAYS JESUS IS TEACHING IN THE 00:28:10.60\00:28:13.30 TEMPLE WHEN THEY BRING THIS WOMAN, RIGHT? 00:28:13.30\00:28:16.83 THROW HER AT THE FEET - THEY'RE READY TO STONE HER AND JESUS 00:28:16.83\00:28:20.16 WRITES IN THE DUST ON THE TEMPLE FLOOR - HE'S PROBABLY WRITING 00:28:20.16\00:28:23.36 OUT THE SINS OF HER ACCUSERS OR THE LAWS THAT THEY HAVE BROKEN, 00:28:23.36\00:28:26.90 AND THEN HE STANDS UP AND HE SAYS, 'HE THAT IS WITHOUT SIN 00:28:26.90\00:28:30.20 AMONG YOU, LET HIM CAST THE FIRST STONE AT HER.' 00:28:30.20\00:28:32.80 THEN HE STOOPS DOWN AND KEEPS WRITING OUT THEIR SINS. 00:28:32.80\00:28:35.43 WELL, THEY'RE OVERWHELMED WITH GUILT AND IT SAYS, 'BEGINNING AT 00:28:35.43\00:28:38.33 THE ELDEST, EVEN UNTO THE LEAST, THEY WENT OUT ONE BY ONE.' 00:28:38.33\00:28:43.26 A JUDGMENT IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. AND HERE YOU'VE GOT A WOMAN - 00:28:43.26\00:28:47.33 A TYPE OF THE CHURCH IN THIS JUDGMENT AS WELL. 00:28:47.33\00:28:51.60 SO THERE MAY BE SOME SPIRITUAL CONNECTION THERE. 00:28:51.60\00:28:55.46 SO JUST TO MAKE THIS CLEAR, I STILL BELIEVE THAT 00:28:55.46\00:28:59.96 A JUDGMENT TAKES PLACE BEFORE JESUS COMES. 00:28:59.96\00:29:02.70 IT'S CALLED THE PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT. 00:29:02.70\00:29:04.43 I'VE NEVER HAD A PROBLEM WITH THAT. 00:29:04.43\00:29:05.83 IT'S ALWAYS MADE SENSE TO ME. SEE IF YOU DON'T AGREE. 00:29:05.83\00:29:09.16 DOES THE BIBLE SAY, 'BEHOLD I COME AND MY REWARD IS WITH ME TO 00:29:09.16\00:29:13.50 GIVE TO EVERY MAN ACCORDING TO HIS WORKS'? 00:29:13.50\00:29:15.33 IS JESUS DISPENSING HIS REWARDS WHEN HE COMES? 00:29:15.33\00:29:19.53 DOES IT STAND TO REASON TO YOU THEN THAT SOME JUDGMENT TAKES 00:29:19.53\00:29:22.83 PLACE BEFORE HE COMES? OR IS HE GOING TO REWARD 00:29:22.83\00:29:26.70 EVERYBODY AND THEN HE SAYS, 'NOW LET'S HAVE A JUDGMENT'? 00:29:26.70\00:29:29.16 IT'S LIKE HAVING THE EXECUTION AND THEN HAVING THE TRIAL. 00:29:29.16\00:29:32.33 THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY - OR GIVING A PERSON, YOU KNOW, THEIR 00:29:32.33\00:29:34.50 HEAVENLY REWARD AND SAYING, 'NOW LET'S JUDGE THEM.' 00:29:34.50\00:29:36.80 SO SOME JUDGMENT HAS TO HAPPEN BEFORE JESUS COMES. 00:29:36.80\00:29:39.30 DON'T ANYONE EVER - LET ANYONE INTIMIDATE YOU ABOUT THE 00:29:39.30\00:29:42.53 PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT. IT'S COMMON SENSE IN THE BIBLE. 00:29:42.53\00:29:45.93 IT'S ALL THROUGH THE BIBLE. AND SO, BACK TO THIS SANCTUARY - 00:29:45.93\00:29:51.43 EXCUSE ME - IT TELLS US THAT THERE'S - THERE'S AN ATTACK ON 00:29:51.43\00:29:56.26 THE DAILY SACRIFICE. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? WHAT IS THIS DAILY? 00:29:56.26\00:30:01.06 IF YOU LOOK IN THE BIBLE, YOU CAN SEE THAT, FOR INSTANCE, 00:30:01.06\00:30:05.43 SOMEBODY LOOK UP FOR ME EXODUS 29:38 - DID SOMEBODY GET THAT 00:30:05.43\00:30:10.13 VERSE? HOLD UP YOUR HAND IF YOU DID. 00:30:10.13\00:30:12.03 RIGHT OVER HERE. WE'LL HAVE YOU LOOK THAT UP. 00:30:12.03\00:30:15.00 AND WHEN WE STUDY PROPHECY - WHILE YOU'RE LOOKING THAT UP - 00:30:15.00\00:30:23.33 I WANT TO RE-CAP SOMETHING I THINK MOST OF US KNOW. 00:30:23.33\00:30:25.90 WHEN WE STUDY PROPHECY, IS THERE A PRINCIPLE THAT WE APPLY? 00:30:25.90\00:30:29.70 IT SAYS 'UNTO TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS, THEN THE SANCTUARY 00:30:29.70\00:30:32.33 WILL BE CLEANSED.' SOME OF YOUR BIBLES SAY 00:30:32.33\00:30:35.73 'TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS'. 00:30:35.73\00:30:37.13 IF YOU HAVE A NEW KING JAMES VERSION OR IF YOU HAVE A KING 00:30:37.13\00:30:39.60 JAMES VERSION, YOUR BIBLE PROBABLY SAYS 00:30:39.60\00:30:41.46 'TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS'. 00:30:41.46\00:30:43.16 IF YOU HAVE A NEW AMERICAN STANDARD VERSION OR AN NIV BIBLE 00:30:43.16\00:30:46.83 YOUR BIBLE SAYS 'TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED EVENINGS AND 00:30:46.83\00:30:49.53 MORNINGS' IS THAT RIGHT? 00:30:49.53\00:30:51.80 SO, DO WE APPLY THE DAY-FOR-THE-YEAR PRINCIPLE HERE? 00:30:51.80\00:30:58.23 I SAY YES AND THE REASON IS HOW MANY DAYS - HOW MANY TIMES OF 00:30:58.23\00:31:06.80 THE YEAR DID THEY HAVE A CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY? 00:31:06.80\00:31:10.93 ONCE ANNUALLY, IS THAT RIGHT? 00:31:10.93\00:31:14.23 YOM KIPPUR - COMES ONCE A YEAR - DAY OF ATONEMENT. 00:31:14.23\00:31:17.80 THE CONTEXT OF DANIEL CHAPTER 8 IS TALKING ABOUT THE CLEANSING 00:31:17.80\00:31:21.86 OF THE SANCTUARY. THIS WAS A ONCE-A-YEAR EVENT. 00:31:21.86\00:31:25.56 ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT THEY HAD 00:31:25.56\00:31:27.06 A MORNING AND AN EVENING SACRIFICE. 00:31:27.06\00:31:30.10 SO IF THEY'RE SAYING TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS, A 00:31:30.10\00:31:33.10 DAY AND A YEAR - IN A PROPHECY A DAY REPRESENTS A YEAR, RIGHT? 00:31:33.10\00:31:39.23 IF THEY'RE SAYING TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF ATONEMENT, 00:31:39.23\00:31:43.46 HOW MANY TIMES DID THAT COME? ONCE A YEAR. 00:31:43.46\00:31:46.10 IT'S STILL TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED YEARS EITHER WAY. 00:31:46.10\00:31:48.80 YOU'RE SAYING TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED PROPHETIC DAYS OR TWO 00:31:48.80\00:31:51.13 THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS OF ATONEMENT - THEY'RE BOTH A YEAR. 00:31:51.13\00:31:54.60 AND SO YOU HAVE TO APPLY A YEAR FOR 00:31:54.60\00:31:56.90 THE TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS. 00:31:56.90\00:31:58.26 IT'S NOT TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED LITERAL DAYS. 00:31:58.26\00:32:00.30 ANOTHER REASON YOU KNOW THAT IS NOTHING SIGNIFICANT HAPPENED 00:32:00.30\00:32:03.40 TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS - LITERAL DAYS - 00:32:03.40\00:32:06.06 AFTER THE PROPHECY AND SO YOU'VE GOT TO APPLY THE YEAR PRINCIPLE 00:32:06.06\00:32:10.70 TO UNDERSTAND. ALRIGHT, GO AHEAD, READ FOR US 00:32:10.70\00:32:15.56 >>EXODUS 29, VERSES 38 AND 39, "NOW THIS IS WHAT YOU SHALL 00:32:15.56\00:32:20.90 OFFER ON THE ALTAR: TWO LAMBS OF THE FIRST YEAR, DAY BY DAY 00:32:20.90\00:32:25.80 CONTINUALLY. ONE LAMB YOU SHALL OFFER IN THE 00:32:25.80\00:32:28.50 MORNING, AND THE OTHER LAMB YOU SHALL OFFER AT TWILIGHT." 00:32:28.50\00:32:32.60 >>ALRIGHT, THANK YOU. 00:32:32.60\00:32:34.66 ON A DAILY BASIS WERE THERE OFFERINGS MADE FOR SIN? 00:32:34.66\00:32:39.36 AT ITS VERY RUDIMENTARY FOUNDATIONAL LEVEL, THE DAILY 00:32:39.36\00:32:44.00 THAT IS UNDER ATTACK IS THE OFFERING OF THE LAMB FOR THE 00:32:44.00\00:32:47.63 SINS OF THE PEOPLE. IT IS THE GOSPEL. 00:32:47.63\00:32:50.13 IT IS THE TRUTH OF THE GOSPEL. IT IS SALVATION BY FAITH IN THE 00:32:50.13\00:32:53.53 BLOOD OF THE LAMB THAT IS UNDER ATTACK. 00:32:53.53\00:32:55.90 AND ALL COUNTERFEIT RELIGIONS, INCLUDING THIS LITTLE HORN 00:32:55.90\00:32:59.33 POWER, THEY LAUNCHED AN ATTACK ON SALVATION BY FAITH AND 00:32:59.33\00:33:05.73 RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS WHEN IT 00:33:05.73\00:33:08.40 SAYS THEY'RE ATTACKING THE DAILY - IT'S THE DAILY SACRIFICE. 00:33:08.40\00:33:11.00 LIKE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL OFFERED THAT LAMB AND THEN THEY 00:33:11.00\00:33:13.20 STARTED THEIR JOURNEY TO THE PROMISED LAND. 00:33:13.20\00:33:14.96 IT BEGAN WITH THE SACRIFICE OF A LAMB. 00:33:14.96\00:33:17.26 THE SANCTUARY WAS ALL BUILT AROUND A SACRIFICE. 00:33:17.26\00:33:20.26 THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU WENT THROUGH THE DOOR WAS AN 00:33:20.26\00:33:22.40 ALTAR. FOR WHAT? FOR A SACRIFICE. 00:33:22.40\00:33:25.16 BECAUSE 'WITHOUT THE SHEDDING OF BLOOD THERE'S NO FORGIVENESS.' 00:33:25.16\00:33:27.66 THIS LITTLE HORN POWER - THIS ROMAN POWER LAUNCHED ITSELF 00:33:27.66\00:33:32.00 AGAINST THE FREEDOM OF THE GOSPEL. 00:33:32.00\00:33:34.93 FOR ONE THING, THE COMMUNION SERVICE, INSTEAD OF IT BEING A 00:33:34.93\00:33:40.70 SIMPLE REPRESENTATION TO REMIND THEM OF THE SACRIFICE OF JESUS 00:33:40.70\00:33:44.70 GIVING HIS BODY AND HIS BLOOD - SYMBOLIZED BY UNLEAVENED BREAD 00:33:44.70\00:33:49.16 AND UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE - IT WAS UNFERMENTED GRAPE JUICE. 00:33:49.16\00:33:52.70 JESUS SAID RIGHT THERE AT THE LAST SUPPER, 'I WILL NOT DRINK 00:33:52.70\00:33:55.33 IT AGAIN UNTIL I DO IT WITH YOU NEW IN THE FATHER'S KINGDOM.' 00:33:55.33\00:33:58.36 NEW WINE, OKAY? THEY BEGAN TO USE OTHER KINDS OF 00:33:58.36\00:34:02.90 BREAD AND FERMENTED GRAPE JUICE AND INSTEAD OF THE PEOPLE 00:34:02.90\00:34:05.86 PARTICIPATING, ONLY THE PRIESTS PARTICIPATED IN DRINKING IT. 00:34:05.86\00:34:09.36 SOMETIMES SEVERAL TIMES A DAY - FERMENTED - SO IT'S CORRUPTING 00:34:09.36\00:34:13.26 THE VERY SYMBOL OF THE PURE BLOOD OF CHRIST. 00:34:13.26\00:34:16.13 AND THEN THEY BROUGHT IN SOMETHING CALLED 00:34:16.13\00:34:18.03 TRANSUBSTANTIATION, MEANING THAT THE PRIEST DECLARED THROUGH - 00:34:18.03\00:34:22.06 YOU KNOW WHERE YOU GET THE WORDS 'HOCUS POCUS'? 00:34:22.06\00:34:25.90 IT COMES FROM THE RITUAL THAT THE PRIESTS WOULD DECLARE THESE 00:34:25.90\00:34:28.43 LATIN WORDS OVER THE EMBLEMS AND HE SAID HE HAD TRANSFORMED THAT 00:34:28.43\00:34:32.33 BREAD AND THAT GRAPE JUICE INTO THE LITERAL BODY OF JESUS AND 00:34:32.33\00:34:37.66 JESUS' LITERAL BLOOD. AND THIS WAS A BIG BATTLE DURING 00:34:37.66\00:34:42.33 THE WHOLE PROTESTANT REFORMATION. 00:34:42.33\00:34:43.63 THEY SAID, 'NO, MAN CANNOT CREATE GOD.' IT IS A SYMBOL. 00:34:43.63\00:34:48.10 JESUS OBVIOUSLY TAUGHT IT WAS A SYMBOL BECAUSE THE FIRST LORD'S 00:34:48.10\00:34:51.26 SUPPER JESUS IS SITTING THERE - THEY'RE LOOKING AT HIM WITH HIS 00:34:51.26\00:34:54.06 BODY INTACT AND HIS BLOOD STILL IN HIS VEINS. 00:34:54.06\00:34:56.06 HE SAID, 'THIS IS MY BLOOD AND THIS IS MY BODY.' 00:34:56.06\00:34:58.23 THEY KNEW IT WAS A SYMBOL, RIGHT? 00:34:58.23\00:35:01.73 AND - BUT THEY BEGAN TO SAY - THE PRIESTS NOW - 'IF YOU WANT 00:35:01.73\00:35:04.53 FORGIVENESS YOU'VE GOT TO DO IT THROUGH THE PRIESTHOOD. 00:35:04.53\00:35:06.03 YOU WANT FORGIVENESS YOU HAVE TO ASK THE PRIEST. 00:35:06.03\00:35:07.70 CONFESS YOUR SINS TO THE PRIESTS. 00:35:07.70\00:35:09.53 AND YOU'VE GOT TO DO THESE PRAYERS AND DO THESE WORKS. 00:35:09.53\00:35:12.23 AND THE WHOLE GOSPEL - THE WHOLE TRUTH WAS CORRUPTED. 00:35:12.23\00:35:17.66 'HE WILL CAST THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND AND PRACTICE AND 00:35:17.66\00:35:21.36 PROSPER.' BEGAN TO SAY, 'YOU DON'T DIE AND 00:35:21.36\00:35:23.80 SLEEP IN THE GRAVE UNTIL THE RESURRECTION, YOU GO RIGHT TO 00:35:23.80\00:35:26.76 HEAVEN OR HELL OR PURGATORY WHERE YOU BURN FOREVER AND EVER 00:35:26.76\00:35:30.90 BEFORE THE JUDGMENT - BEFORE THE RESURRECTION. 00:35:30.90\00:35:34.46 AND THE PRIESTS HAVE THE POWER, THROUGH YOUR PRAYERS AND YOUR 00:35:34.46\00:35:37.73 OFFERINGS - 'WE CAN TAKE A PERSON OUT OF PURGATORY AND WE 00:35:37.73\00:35:41.73 CAN BYPASS EVERYTHING AND JUST SEND THEM TO HEAVEN.' 00:35:41.73\00:35:44.70 AND 'YOU CAN PRAY FOR PEOPLE AFTER THEY'RE DEAD.' 00:35:44.70\00:35:46.36 AND 'YOU CAN, BY YOUR WORKS, DETERMINE THEIR SALVATION.' 00:35:46.36\00:35:50.86 'IT IS APPOINTED UNTO MAN ONCE TO DIE. 00:35:50.86\00:35:52.40 AFTER THAT, THE JUDGMENT.' AND BAPTISM, INSTEAD OF IT BEING 00:35:52.40\00:35:55.83 IMMERSION, IT TURNED INTO SPRINKLING. 00:35:55.83\00:35:58.33 AND I COULD JUST GO DOWN A LITANY OF THINGS THAT CHANGED. 00:35:58.33\00:36:04.13 INSTEAD OF GOD'S TEN COMMANDMENTS, 00:36:04.13\00:36:05.76 THEY WERE ADJUSTED. THE COMMANDMENT ABOUT IDOLATRY 00:36:05.76\00:36:08.63 WAS TAKEN OUT AND IT WAS SUBSTITUTED - THEY SPLIT THE 00:36:08.63\00:36:12.63 TENTH COMMANDMENT ABOUT COVETOUSNESS AND THEY MADE IT 00:36:12.63\00:36:14.83 TWO DIFFERENT COMMANDMENTS: DON'T COVET YOUR NEIGHBOR'S WIFE 00:36:14.83\00:36:17.90 AND YOUR NEIGHBOR'S HOUSE AND THEN HIS THINGS. 00:36:17.90\00:36:20.50 SO THEY SPLIT THAT AND YOU CAN GO LOOK AT - I CAN THINK OF TWO 00:36:20.50\00:36:26.00 OR THREE CATHOLIC CHURCHES RIGHT HERE IN TOWN - I TOOK PICTURES 00:36:26.00\00:36:28.46 OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THEY'VE GOT OUTSIDE AND THEY CHANGED 00:36:28.46\00:36:30.53 THEM. 'HE WILL THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS.' 00:36:30.53\00:36:33.40 DANIEL SAYS, IN CHAPTER 7, VERSE 25, ABOUT THE LITTLE HORN POWER, 00:36:33.40\00:36:37.76 THIS IS A POWER THAT WILL THINK TO CHANGE TIMES AND LAWS. 00:36:37.76\00:36:40.73 THERE'S ONLY ONE OF THE TEN COMMANDMENTS THAT IS BOTH A TIME 00:36:40.73\00:36:43.60 AND A LAW. WHICH ONE? SABBATH COMMANDMENT. 00:36:43.60\00:36:47.76 'HE CASTS THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND AND HE PRACTICED AND 00:36:47.76\00:36:49.93 PROSPERED.' AND DANIEL'S GOING, 'HOW LONG, LORD? 00:36:49.93\00:36:52.30 HOW LONG IS YOUR TRUTH GOING TO BE OBSCURED? 00:36:52.30\00:36:55.76 HOW LONG UNTIL YOUR PEOPLE ARE ABLE TO PROCLAIM IT IN FREEDOM 00:36:55.76\00:36:59.46 AGAIN?' MATTER OF FACT YOU'VE GOT - 00:36:59.46\00:37:01.86 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME 1 KINGS 18:21. DID I GIVE THAT OUT? 00:37:01.86\00:37:07.70 RIGHT HERE? LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. 00:37:07.70\00:37:10.06 1 KINGS 18:21 AND WHILE WE'RE SETTING UP FOR THAT I'M GOING TO 00:37:10.06\00:37:15.93 READ PSALM 94. WHERE DOES DANIEL'S QUESTION 00:37:15.93\00:37:19.03 COME FROM WHEN HE SAYS TO THE ANGEL, 'HOW LONG?' 00:37:19.03\00:37:21.83 YOU CAN READ IN PSALM 94, VERSE 3, "LORD, HOW LONG WILL THE 00:37:21.83\00:37:27.86 WICKED, HOW LONG WILL THE WICKED TRIUMPH? 00:37:27.86\00:37:31.56 THEY UTTER SPEECH, AND SPEAK INSOLENT THINGS; ALL THE WORKERS 00:37:31.56\00:37:35.10 OF INIQUITY BOAST IN THEMSELVES." 00:37:35.10\00:37:37.86 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT'S DESCRIBED THERE THAT THE LITTLE HORN POWER 00:37:37.86\00:37:41.03 WOULD BE DOING. AND SO WHEN HE SAYS, 'HOW LONG?' IT MEANS 00:37:41.03\00:37:43.80 HOW LONG WILL IT APPEAR THAT GOD'S TRUTH IS SUPPRESSED. 00:37:43.80\00:37:48.10 I THINK WE'RE READY. GO AHEAD. 00:37:48.10\00:37:50.26 YOU'RE GOING TO READ 1 KINGS FOR US - 18:21? 00:37:50.26\00:37:53.13 >>RIGHT. 1 KINGS 18:21, "AND ELIJAH CAME TO ALL THE PEOPLE, 00:37:53.13\00:37:57.10 AND SAID, 'HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? 00:37:57.10\00:38:01.66 IF THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM; BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.' 00:38:01.66\00:38:07.43 BUT THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD." 00:38:07.43\00:38:10.63 >>THAT SHOWDOWN OF THE FIRST ELIJAH, WHEN THEY STARTING 00:38:10.63\00:38:13.03 GETTING INTO BAAL WORSHIP IS AN ALLEGORY OF WHAT HAPPENED DURING 00:38:13.03\00:38:17.06 THE DARK AGES - WHEN PEOPLE GOT INTO BABYLONIAN WORSHIP - IT WAS 00:38:17.06\00:38:20.66 THE SAME THING. THE CHURCH WAS CORRUPTED DURING 00:38:20.66\00:38:24.20 THE DAYS OF ELIJAH. THE KING, AHAB, MARRIED A PAGAN 00:38:24.20\00:38:29.26 QUEEN, JEZEBEL. WHAT'S A WOMAN REPRESENT? 00:38:29.26\00:38:32.36 YOU'VE GOT A PAGAN QUEEN AND SHE PERSECUTED THE PROPHETS AND 00:38:32.36\00:38:36.36 THERE WAS A FAMINE FOR ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY 00:38:36.36\00:38:39.46 DAYS WHEN JEZEBEL WAS QUEEN. DURING THE DARK AGES YOU'VE GOT 00:38:39.46\00:38:43.56 THIS WOMAN IN REVELATION 17, DRUNK WITH THE BLOOD OF THE 00:38:43.56\00:38:46.66 PROPHETS FOR ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS. 00:38:46.66\00:38:50.16 THE CHURCH HAS TO RUN INTO THE WILDERNESS WHERE GOD FEEDS HER. 00:38:50.16\00:38:52.76 ELIJAH HAD TO GO INTO THE WILDERNESS WHERE GOD FED HIM, 00:38:52.76\00:38:54.80 RIGHT? IT'S AN ALLEGORY FOR WHAT 00:38:54.80\00:38:56.76 HAPPENED HISTORICALLY. IT'S A PERFECT ALLEGORY. 00:38:56.76\00:39:00.40 AND SO, DANIEL'S SAYING, 'HOW LONG WILL THIS PERSECUTION GO ON 00:39:00.40\00:39:05.36 UNTIL YOUR PEOPLE ARE ONCE AGAIN FREE, WITH THE TRUTH IN HAND, TO 00:39:05.36\00:39:10.16 BE SPIRITUAL ISRAEL AND SHARE IT WITH THE WORLD?' 00:39:10.16\00:39:13.06 'UNTO TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED DAYS, THEN THE SANCTUARY WILL BE 00:39:13.06\00:39:16.36 CLEANSED.' ALRIGHT, SO WE NEED TO LOOK AT 00:39:16.36\00:39:18.43 WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT FOR THIS PROPHECY? 00:39:18.43\00:39:20.80 IF YOU GO TO THE END OF DANIEL CHAPTER 8, YOU'LL NOTICE THAT 00:39:20.80\00:39:25.06 DANIEL, VERSE 27, HE HEARS THIS TERRIBLE PERSECUTION THAT THE 00:39:25.06\00:39:30.76 LITTLE HORN POWER BRINGS TO GOD'S PEOPLE AND IT BREAKS HIS 00:39:30.76\00:39:33.06 HEART. HE'S ALREADY SEEN WHAT THEY WENT 00:39:33.06\00:39:34.60 THROUGH IN BABYLON FOR 70 YEARS AND HE'S AN OLD MAN WHEN HE HAS 00:39:34.60\00:39:38.50 THIS PROPHECY. IT'S MORE THAN HE CAN HANDLE. 00:39:38.50\00:39:41.26 "AND I, DANIEL, FAINTED AND WAS SICK FOR DAYS; AFTERWARD I AROSE 00:39:41.26\00:39:46.46 AND WENT ABOUT THE KING'S BUSINESS. 00:39:46.46\00:39:48.53 I WAS ASTONISHED BY THE VISION, BUT NO ONE UNDERSTOOD IT." 00:39:48.53\00:39:52.90 HE MAY HAVE SHARED IT WITH, WHO KNOWS, SHADRACH, MESHACH OR 00:39:52.90\00:39:55.10 ABEDNEGO COULD HAVE STILL BEEN ALIVE AND HE RELATED IT TO THEM 00:39:55.10\00:39:57.93 OR OTHERS THAT HE TRUSTED AND THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT MEANT. 00:39:57.93\00:40:01.23 IF YOU WANT TO KNOW WHAT IT MEANS YOU TURN THE PAGE. 00:40:01.23\00:40:04.10 DANIEL CHAPTER 9 - DANIEL IS PRAYING, THE ANGEL COMES BACK TO 00:40:04.10\00:40:08.03 HIM AND HE RETURNS TO COMPLETE THE VISION HE STARTED IN CHAPTER 00:40:08.03\00:40:12.83 8 BUT HE COULDN'T COMPLETE BECAUSE DANIEL PHYSICALLY PASSED 00:40:12.83\00:40:16.13 OUT. HE COULDN'T TAKE IT. 00:40:16.13\00:40:18.33 ANGEL GABRIEL COMES - GO TO VERSE 24 - DANIEL 9, VERSE 24. 00:40:18.33\00:40:24.23 BY THE WAY, THE ANGEL COMES AND HE SAYS, 'I HAVE COME TO GIVE 00:40:24.23\00:40:28.16 YOU UNDERSTANDING BECAUSE YOU'RE GREATLY BELOVED. 00:40:28.16\00:40:31.66 VERSE 24, "SEVENTY WEEKS ARE DETERMINED FOR YOUR PEOPLE AND 00:40:31.66\00:40:35.40 FOR YOUR HOLY CITY, TO FINISH THE TRANSGRESSION, TO MAKE AN 00:40:35.40\00:40:38.73 END OF SINS, TO MAKE RECONCILIATION FOR INIQUITY, TO 00:40:38.73\00:40:42.10 BRING IN EVERLASTING RIGHTEOUSNESS, TO SEAL UP VISION 00:40:42.10\00:40:44.60 AND PROPHECY, AND TO ANOINT THE MOST HOLY." 00:40:44.60\00:40:47.50 THAT WAS THE CHERRY ON THE SCRIPTURE FOR DANIEL. 00:40:47.50\00:40:51.33 THEY'D ALL BEEN WAITING FOR THE MESSIAH. 00:40:51.33\00:40:53.30 THE BIG CRY OF THEIR HEART WAS 'WHEN WILL THE SON OF DAVID' - 00:40:53.30\00:40:55.56 THE MESSIAH - 'COME AND SAVE US FROM OUR ENEMIES?' 00:40:55.56\00:41:03.53 SO HE'S TSEVENTY WEEKS. IF A DAY IS A YEAR IN PROPHECY, 00:41:03.53\00:41:06.50 HOW LONG IS 70 WEEKS? THERE'S 490 DAYS IN SEVENTY 00:41:06.50\00:41:12.90 WEEKS - 490 YEARS. SO WHY DON'T YOU PUT THE CHART 00:41:12.90\00:41:16.70 UP ON THE SCREEN? SO YOU SEE IN THE MIDDLE OF 00:41:16.70\00:41:19.46 THAT GRAPH THERE'S A 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 00:41:19.46\00:41:23.46 THE WHOLE GRAPH COVERS THE TWENTY THREE HUNDRED YEARS. 00:41:23.46\00:41:25.80 WHAT IS THE STARTING POINT OF THIS? 00:41:25.80\00:41:28.26 VERSE 25 - DANIEL 9:25, "KNOW THEREFORE AND UNDERSTAND," - 00:41:28.26\00:41:33.43 MAKE IT CLEAR, SIT UP, PAY ATTENTION DANIEL - "THAT FROM 00:41:33.43\00:41:36.96 THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM 00:41:36.96\00:41:40.66 UNTIL MESSIAH THE PRINCE," - SO HE'S TELLING US THE STARTING 00:41:40.66\00:41:44.76 POINT FOR THIS FIRST PART OF THE PROPHECY - 490 YEARS - "GOING 00:41:44.76\00:41:49.93 FORTH OF THE COMMAND TO RESTORE AND BUILD JERUSALEM." 00:41:49.93\00:41:52.13 YOU KNOW, THAT CAN GET A LITTLE MESSY SOMETIMES BECAUSE YOU LOOK 00:41:52.13\00:41:54.76 AT HISTORY AND SEVERAL KINGS GAVE DIFFERENT COMMANDS ALLOWING 00:41:54.76\00:41:58.43 THE JEWS TO REBUILD AND DIFFERENT DECREES AND YOU SAY, 00:41:58.43\00:42:01.23 'WELL, WHICH COMMAND IS IT?' GOD MADE IT EASY FOR US. 00:42:01.23\00:42:04.46 HE PUT THE COMMAND IN THE BIBLE. IT'S IN EZRA CHAPTER 7 - 00:42:04.46\00:42:07.76 IT'S THE COMMAND OF ARTEXERXES THAT WAS GIVEN IN 457 B.C. 00:42:07.76\00:42:12.23 SO THE VERY FACT THAT EZRA SAID, 'THIS IS THE COMMAND.' 00:42:12.23\00:42:15.16 ARTEXERXES - WE KNOW WHICH COMMAND IT IS AND IT WAS THE 00:42:15.16\00:42:19.20 FINAL OR THE FULLEST AND MOST COMPLETE OF THE COMMANDS. 00:42:19.20\00:42:22.46 VERY CLEAR DATE IN HISTORY - 457 B.C. 00:42:22.46\00:42:26.66 SO YOU'VE GOT THAT ON THE CHART THAT JUST DISAPPEARED. 00:42:26.66\00:42:29.16 THERE YOU GO. SO THAT'S THE STARTING POINT FOR 00:42:29.16\00:42:32.33 BOTH THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY - THE 70-WEEK PROPHECY, SAME THING - 00:42:32.33\00:42:36.93 AND THE 2300-DAY OR YEAR PROPHECY. 00:42:36.93\00:42:40.83 THERE'S ONLY ONE STARTING POINT AND IT'S GOT TO BE THE SAME. 00:42:40.83\00:42:43.36 AND THAT WOULD MAKE SENSE. IF YOU'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT A 00:42:43.36\00:42:46.26 PROPHECY FOR CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY, AND YOU'RE A JEW, 00:42:46.26\00:42:50.06 YOU'RE GOING, 'HOW COULD YOU START THAT PROPHECY BEFORE WE 00:42:50.06\00:42:53.16 EVEN HAVE A SANCTUARY?' THEY HAD NO SANCTUARY. 00:42:53.16\00:42:55.80 SO THEY NEEDED TO HAVE IT REBUILT AND THAT WOULD GIVE THEM 00:42:55.80\00:42:57.96 A LAUNCHING POINT. BUT PARTWAY THROUGH THIS 00:42:57.96\00:43:01.13 PROPHECY IT WENT FROM THEIR PHYSICAL SANCTUARY TO THE 00:43:01.13\00:43:05.93 HEAVENLY SANCTUARY AND THE SPIRITUAL SANCTUARY ON EARTH. 00:43:05.93\00:43:10.50 THEY WERE DOING DAYS OF ATONEMENT FROM THE TIME THEY 00:43:10.50\00:43:13.23 REBUILT THE TEMPLE WHEN THEY CAME BACK FROM THEIR CAPTIVITY. 00:43:13.23\00:43:16.43 BUT WHEN JESUS CAME, HE WALKED OUT OF THE SANCTUARY THE LAST 00:43:16.43\00:43:20.56 TIME, WHEN THE RELIGIOUS LEADERS REJECTED THE TRUTH - HE SAID, 00:43:20.56\00:43:23.56 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT UNTO YOU DESOLATE.' 00:43:23.56\00:43:26.96 AND WHEN HE DIED ON THE CROSS WHAT HAPPENED? 00:43:26.96\00:43:31.03 A VEIL WAS RENT IN THE SANCTUARY, SYMBOLIZING SOMETHING 00:43:31.03\00:43:34.90 WAS GOING TO BE TRANSITIONING. 00:43:34.90\00:43:37.20 GOD WAS GOING TO GIVE THEM A FEW MORE YEARS BUT JESUS PREACHED IN 00:43:37.20\00:43:41.33 PERSON TO THE JEWISH PEOPLE THREE AND A HALF YEARS, RIGHT? 00:43:41.33\00:43:45.60 SO THAT REPRESENTS - IT TELLS US - WELL, I BETTER BACK UP HERE. 00:43:45.60\00:43:50.10 FROM THE GOING FORTH OF THE COMMAND, UNTO MESSIAH THE 00:43:50.10\00:43:53.26 PRINCE' IT BEGINS TELLING US ABOUT 483 WEEKS - YEARS - 00:43:53.26\00:43:58.43 69 WEEKS - 483 YEARS. THERE'S A LAST WEEK THAT GOD 00:43:58.43\00:44:03.20 KIND OF BREAKS UP AND EXPLAINS. LET ME READ THIS TO YOU. 00:44:03.20\00:44:06.23 "AND AFTER THE SIXTY-TWO WEEKS MESSIAH SHALL BE CUT OFF, BUT 00:44:06.23\00:44:09.13 NOT FOR HIMSELF;" - WHO WAS THE MESSIAH CUT OFF FOR? FOR US. - 00:44:09.13\00:44:15.06 "AND THE PEOPLE OF THE PRINCE WHO IS TO COME SHALL DESTROY THE 00:44:15.06\00:44:18.33 CITY AND THE SANCTUARY." THE PRINCE WHO WAS TO COME - 00:44:18.33\00:44:21.10 YOU'VE GOT A BATTLE OF TWO PRINCES. 00:44:21.10\00:44:22.26 YOU'VE GOT THE LITTLE HORN PRINCE - THE ROMAN POWER. 00:44:22.26\00:44:24.23 YOU'VE GOT JESUS THE PRINCE OF THE HOST - THE SON OF DAVID. 00:44:24.23\00:44:27.96 THE ROMAN POWER CAME LATER AND DESTROYED THE SANCTUARY. 00:44:27.96\00:44:31.33 NOW IT'S GOING BACK TO THE MESSIAH - VERSE 27, "THEN HE 00:44:31.33\00:44:35.16 SHALL CONFIRM THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK;" - 00:44:35.16\00:44:39.36 WHAT IS A DAY IN PROPHECY? IT'S A YEAR. 00:44:39.36\00:44:42.56 IN THE MIDDLE OF THE WEEK HE'LL BRING AN END TO THE SACRIFICE." 00:44:42.56\00:44:46.46 ALRIGHT, FROM 457 UNTO THE MESSIAH BEING ANOINTED, IT TELLS 00:44:46.46\00:44:50.66 US THERE WOULD BE 483 YEARS. JESUS WAS BAPTIZED IN A.D. 27. 00:44:50.66\00:44:56.36 THE BIBLE SAYS HE WAS ANOINTED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT AND HE WENT 00:44:56.36\00:44:59.40 ABOUT DOING GOOD. THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME DOWN LIKE A 00:44:59.40\00:45:01.93 DOVE, HE BEGAN HIS EARTHLY MINISTRY, HE THEN TAUGHT FOR 00:45:01.93\00:45:05.30 THREE AND A HALF YEARS. AFTER THREE AND A HALF YEARS - 00:45:05.30\00:45:08.56 WHAT'S HALF OF SEVEN? THREE AND A HALF. 00:45:08.56\00:45:11.63 'IN THE MIDST OF THE WEEK' - IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST SEVEN 00:45:11.63\00:45:14.30 YEARS 'HE WILL CAUSE THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE.' 00:45:14.30\00:45:18.23 JESUS DIED ON THE CROSS IN THE MIDST OF THAT LAST SEVEN YEARS. 00:45:18.23\00:45:22.83 THE TEMPLE VEIL WAS RIPPED. NO LONGER A NEED FOR LAMB 00:45:22.83\00:45:28.06 SACRIFICES AND GOATS AND BLOOD OF OXEN - IT WAS NOW THE BLOOD 00:45:28.06\00:45:32.76 OF JESUS. HE MADE THAT WHOLE SACRIFICIAL 00:45:32.76\00:45:35.06 SYSTEM NO LONGER NECESSARY. JESUS IS NOW OUR PASSOVER, AMEN? 00:45:35.06\00:45:40.50 SO HE CAUSED IT TO CEASE RIGHT ON SCHEDULE - BAPTIZED 27 A.D., 00:45:40.50\00:45:44.23 THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER - 31 A.D. 00:45:44.23\00:45:46.13 HE DIES ON THE CROSS, SAYS 'IT IS FINISHED' - AMONG THE THINGS 00:45:46.13\00:45:49.16 THAT WERE FINISHED WAS THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM. 00:45:49.16\00:45:51.46 BUT THERE'S STILL ANOTHER THREE AND A HALF YEARS. 00:45:51.46\00:45:54.26 IT SAYS HE'LL CONFIRM THE COVENANT FOR ONE WEEK. 00:45:54.26\00:45:57.63 HOW DO WE EXPLAIN THAT? IF YOU LOOK IN YOUR BIBLE IN THE 00:45:57.63\00:46:01.83 BOOK OF HEBREWS CHAPTER 2, VERSE 3 - THIS IS A POWERFUL VERSE. 00:46:01.83\00:46:11.90 HEBREWS 2, VERSE 3, "HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE NEGLECT SO GREAT 00:46:11.90\00:46:16.43 A SALVATION, WHICH AT THE FIRST" - FIRST THREE AND A HALF YEARS - 00:46:16.43\00:46:20.83 "BEGAN TO BE SPOKEN BY THE LORD, AND WAS CONFIRMED" - HE WILL 00:46:20.83\00:46:26.43 CONFIRM THE COVENANT - PARDON ME - HE WILL CONFIRM THE COVENANT 00:46:26.43\00:46:31.86 WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK. IT WAS CONFIRMED BY THEM THAT 00:46:31.86\00:46:36.63 HEARD HIM. WHO? THE APOSTLES. 00:46:36.63\00:46:39.43 SO THREE AND A HALF YEARS IN PERSON JESUS CONFIRMED THE 00:46:39.43\00:46:42.40 COVENANT THEN LATER IT WAS CONFIRMED FOR ANOTHER THREE AND 00:46:42.40\00:46:45.10 A HALF YEARS THROUGH THE APOSTLES - THOSE THAT HEARD HIM. 00:46:45.10\00:46:48.80 JESUS SAID, 'AS THE FATHER SENT ME, NOW SO I SEND YOU.' 00:46:48.80\00:46:52.63 WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS POURED OUT AT PENTECOST, JESUS TOLD THE 00:46:52.63\00:46:54.90 APOSTLES, 'DO NOT GO IN THE WAY OF THE GENTILES' - NOT YET - 00:46:54.90\00:46:58.80 'GO, RATHER, TO THE LOST SHEEP OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL. 00:46:58.80\00:47:01.50 BEGIN IN JERUSALEM THEN GO TO JUDEA, THEN SAMARIA, THEN THE 00:47:01.50\00:47:06.33 UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' WHEN DID THEY START GOING TO THE 00:47:06.33\00:47:09.00 UTTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH? WHEN STEPHEN WAS STONED IN 34 00:47:09.00\00:47:13.10 A.D., THE JEWISH LEADERS, CALLED THE SANHEDRIN - THE SUPREME 00:47:13.10\00:47:17.40 COURT - REPRESENTING THE NATION - THEY HEARD THE MOST POWERFUL 00:47:17.40\00:47:21.40 SPIRIT-FILLED PRESENTATION OF THE GOSPEL AND THEIR WHOLE 00:47:21.40\00:47:23.70 HISTORY WAS TRACED BY STEPHEN, BRINGING THEM TO JESUS. 00:47:23.70\00:47:26.90 HE DID A MASTERFUL, INCREDIBLE JOB OF TRACING THEM RIGHT DOWN 00:47:26.90\00:47:30.83 AND SAYING, 'YOU KILLED YOUR MESSIAH BUT THERE'S STILL HOPE. 00:47:30.83\00:47:33.40 YOU CAN ACCEPT HIM.' AND YOU KNOW WHAT THEY DID? 00:47:33.40\00:47:37.36 THEY PUT THEIR FINGERS IN THEIR EARS. 00:47:37.36\00:47:39.40 WHAT DOES IT, SORT OF, DEMONSTRATE WHEN YOU TALK TO THE 00:47:39.40\00:47:41.63 JUDGES AND THEY PUT THEIR FINGERS IN THEIR EARS? 00:47:41.63\00:47:44.70 AND IF THAT'S NOT ENOUGH, THEY TOOK HIM OUT AND THEY DID 00:47:44.70\00:47:46.90 EXACTLY WITH HIM WHAT THEY DID TO JESUS. THEY LAID DOWN THEIR 00:47:46.90\00:47:51.06 CLOTHES AT THE FEET OF SOMEONE NAMED SAUL - WERE THERE CLOTHES 00:47:51.06\00:47:54.40 AT THE CROSS OF CHRIST THAT WERE TAKEN AND LAYED DOWN? 00:47:54.40\00:47:58.30 THEY EXECUTED HIM OUTSIDE THE CITY - KANGAROO COURT - HE ASKED 00:47:58.30\00:48:04.10 FOR THE FORGIVENESS OF THOSE THAT WERE KILLING HIM - AS JESUS 00:48:04.10\00:48:07.00 SAID, 'FATHER FORGIVE THEM' STEPHEN PARALLELS THE SAME THING 00:48:07.00\00:48:10.46 JESUS DID THREE AND A HALF YEARS EARLIER. 00:48:10.46\00:48:12.76 THAT REPRESENTED THE END OF THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY. 00:48:12.76\00:48:16.40 SEE THAT THERE? 34 A.D. YOU CAN CHECK IT - MANY BIBLES 00:48:16.40\00:48:18.86 EVEN HAVE THAT DATE IF YOU'VE GOT DATES IN YOUR BIBLES. 00:48:18.86\00:48:21.86 BUT WAIT, WE'VE EXPLAINED THE 490-YEAR PROPHECY - JESUS IS THE 00:48:21.86\00:48:26.06 ONE WHO CONFIRMED THE COVENANT WITH MANY FOR ONE WEEK - 00:48:26.06\00:48:29.00 BOY I'VE GOT SO MUCH TO SAY. 00:48:29.00\00:48:31.63 YOU KNOW, THIS IS IMPORTANT YOU UNDERSTAND THIS BECAUSE A LOT OF 00:48:31.63\00:48:34.80 MY EVANGELICAL FRIENDS, THEY THINK THE ONE WHO CONFIRMS THE 00:48:34.80\00:48:39.83 COVENANT FOR ONE WEEK IS THE ANTICHRIST. 00:48:39.83\00:48:43.16 NOW PEOPLE SOMETIMES MAKE MISTAKES IN THE BIBLE, BUT IF 00:48:43.16\00:48:45.23 YOU GET JESUS AND THE ANTICHRIST MIXED UP, THAT'S PRETTY SERIOUS. 00:48:45.23\00:48:49.30 YOU CANNOT SHOW ME ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE WHERE THE ANTICHRIST 00:48:49.30\00:48:51.80 MAKES A COVENANT WITH ANYBODY THAT NEEDS CONFIRMATION. 00:48:51.80\00:48:55.86 JESUS MADE A COVENANT TO SAVE HIS PEOPLE - YOU'VE GOT THE NEW 00:48:55.86\00:48:59.33 COVENANT AND THE OLD COVENANT. THE NEW TESTAMENT, 00:48:59.33\00:49:01.10 THE OLD TESTAMENT. ANTICHRIST DOESN'T MAKE 00:49:01.10\00:49:02.73 A COVENANT. AND SO, THEY SAY THE 'HE' IN 00:49:02.73\00:49:06.66 DANIEL CHAPTER 9, THAT CONFIRMS THE COVENANT, THEY CONTINUE 00:49:06.66\00:49:09.60 TALKING ABOUT THE ONE WHO DESTROYED THE TEMPLE. 00:49:09.60\00:49:11.56 THEY GET THEM MIXED UP. IT'S RETURNING TO THE SUBJECT OF 00:49:11.56\00:49:14.43 THE CHAPTER, WHICH IS THE MESSIAH - CONFIRMS THE COVENANT. 00:49:14.43\00:49:17.73 ANTICHRIST DOESN'T MAKE THE COVENANT CEASE IN THE MIDST OF 00:49:17.73\00:49:20.93 THE WEEK, JESUS DID. THREE AND A HALF YEARS LATER HE 00:49:20.93\00:49:23.46 CAUSED THE SACRIFICE TO CEASE. IT'S A TERRIBLE 00:49:23.46\00:49:26.13 MISUNDERSTANDING. THE DEVIL LOVES SPINNING THINGS 00:49:26.13\00:49:28.63 AROUND, RIGHT? HE JUST GETS PEOPLE - THE DEVIL 00:49:28.63\00:49:31.93 MIXED UP THE FIRST COMING AND THE SECOND COMING. 00:49:31.93\00:49:35.00 BACK WHEN JESUS CAME THE FIRST TIME GOD'S PEOPLE THOUGHT, 'HE'S 00:49:35.00\00:49:38.26 COMING WITH A TRUMPET AND HE'S GOING TO DESTROY OUR ENEMIES'. 00:49:38.26\00:49:41.93 ONE OF THE COMINGS OF JESUS WAS GOING TO BE LIKE A LION AND ONE 00:49:41.93\00:49:45.20 WAS GOING TO BE LIKE A LAMB AND THE DEVIL GOT THE CHURCH WHERE 00:49:45.20\00:49:48.13 THEY GOT THE LION AND THE LAMB MIXED UP. 00:49:48.13\00:49:50.46 THEY THOUGHT HE WAS COMING LIKE A LION THE FIRST TIME AND HE'S 00:49:50.46\00:49:52.73 COMING SECRETLY THE SECOND TIME. IT'S THE OPPOSITE. 00:49:52.73\00:49:56.43 HE'S COMING THE SECOND TIME LIKE A LION. 00:49:56.43\00:49:58.33 HE CAME THE FIRST TIME MEEKLY - LIKE A LAMB. BUT THE DEVIL, 00:49:58.33\00:50:01.53 HE REVERSES IT AND HE DID IT HERE. HE'S GETTING THE MESSIAH 00:50:01.53\00:50:05.10 AND THE ANTICHRIST MIXED UP. IT'S TERRIBLE. 00:50:05.10\00:50:08.16 THAT'S WHY IT SAYS - THIS ANTICHRIST POWER - 00:50:08.16\00:50:10.76 CASTS THE TRUTH TO THE GROUND. NOW, HOW WAS THE SANCTUARY 00:50:10.76\00:50:16.80 CLEANSED? YOU GO FROM 457 B.C. 00:50:16.80\00:50:19.90 TO 1844 - THAT'S WHERE IT ENDS. WHAT HAPPENED - 1844? 00:50:19.90\00:50:25.80 WHAT HAPPENED IN 1844? I WOULD THINK THAT GOD WOULD 00:50:25.80\00:50:28.43 PICK A DATE LIKE 1800 - 1850 - OR AT LEAST PICK AN EVEN DECADE. 00:50:28.43\00:50:34.56 GET SOMETHING CLEAR IN YOUR MIND: GOD DOES NOT USE ROMAN 00:50:34.56\00:50:37.43 NUMBERS. JESUS WAS NOT BORN IN THE YEAR 00:50:37.43\00:50:39.73 ZERO, HE WAS BORN ABOUT 4 B.C. - SO THE WHOLE DATING - EVERYONE 00:50:39.73\00:50:43.26 THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, THE WORLD WAS GOING TO END IN THE YEAR 2000. 00:50:43.26\00:50:46.03 DON'T USE YOUR CALENDAR, THAT HAS REALLY BEEN ESTABLISHED BY 00:50:46.03\00:50:50.60 THE ROMANS, TO TRY AND DATE THINGS. 00:50:50.60\00:50:54.46 1844 WAS A VERY INTERESTING, PIVOTAL TIME IN HISTORY. 00:50:54.46\00:50:59.76 A LOT WAS HAPPENING. I'VE GOT A LITTLE - I'VE GOT TO 00:50:59.76\00:51:02.66 POST THIS WITH MY NOTES, IF YOU WANT IT - I JUST ASSEMBLED A 00:51:02.66\00:51:05.70 LITTLE LIST OF SOME OF THE THINGS HAPPENING IN 1844. 00:51:05.70\00:51:09.30 FIRST ELECTRONIC MESSAGE EVER SENT - BEGINNING OF COMPUTER 00:51:09.30\00:51:14.60 E-MAIL, 1844 - SAMUEL MORSE SENT AN ELECTRONIC MESSAGE CALLED 00:51:14.60\00:51:20.13 MORSE CODE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HIS MESSAGE WAS? 00:51:20.13\00:51:23.33 HE SENT THE MESSAGE FROM WASHINGTON D.C. TO BALTIMORE - 00:51:23.33\00:51:26.33 THAT'S INTERESTING TOO - AND IT SAID, 'WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT?' 00:51:26.33\00:51:31.33 TEXAS BECOMES A U.S. TERRITORY. 00:51:31.33\00:51:34.16 SPAIN GRANTS THE DOMINICAN REPUBLIC INDEPENDENCE. 00:51:34.16\00:51:37.33 ANTONIO LOPEZ DE SANTA ANA - REMEMBER THE ALAMO? - HE RESIGNS 00:51:37.33\00:51:41.86 AS PRESIDENT OF MEXICO. THE FIRST DIPLOMATIC AGREEMENT 00:51:41.86\00:51:45.26 BETWEEN CHINA AND THE UNITED STATES IN HISTORY IS SIGNED. 00:51:45.26\00:51:49.10 FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE IS BORN - FAMOUS GERMAN 00:51:49.10\00:51:51.10 PHILOSOPHER WHO TAUGHT THE DEATH OF GOD. 00:51:51.10\00:51:52.96 SO YOU'VE GOT BIRTH OF SOMEONE WHO TEACHES ATHEISM. 00:51:52.96\00:51:57.00 NOW THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT MATTER - A LOT OF WHAT I SHARED 00:51:57.00\00:51:58.60 WAS TRIVIA - CHARLES DARWIN BEGINS HIS MANUSCRIPT ON NATURAL 00:51:58.60\00:52:04.26 SELECTION IN 1844 WHILE SAILING AROUND THE WORLD ON THE 00:52:04.26\00:52:07.26 HMS BEAGLE. IT'S THE BIRTH OF EVOLUTION. 00:52:07.26\00:52:10.73 KARL MARX WRITES HIS ECONOMIC AND PHILOSOPHICAL MANUSCRIPTS 00:52:10.73\00:52:14.13 THAT FORM THE FOUNDATION FOR HIS COMMUNIST MANIFESTO AND 00:52:14.13\00:52:17.46 COMMUNISM. ATHEISM, COMMUNISM AND EVOLUTION 00:52:17.46\00:52:25.00 - AND IT WAS A LEAP YEAR, IF THAT MEANS ANYTHING. 00:52:25.00\00:52:29.20 IT WAS THE END OF THE LAST - OF THE SIXTH AGE OF THE CHURCH AND 00:52:29.20\00:52:34.10 THE BEGINNING OF THE AGE OF LAODICEA - JUDGING OF GOD'S 00:52:34.10\00:52:37.03 PEOPLE. AND I'LL TELL YOU WHAT HAPPENED 00:52:37.03\00:52:38.60 IN 1844: CHRISTIANS ALL AROUND THE WORLD THOUGHT JESUS WAS 00:52:38.60\00:52:44.46 ABOUT WHAT THE SANCTUARY MEANT. DID GOD'S PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND 00:52:44.46\00:52:49.70 THE PROPHECIES ABOUT HIS FIRST COMING? THEY DID. 00:52:49.70\00:52:54.36 AND THEY WERE SEVERELY DISAPPOINTED. GOD'S PEOPLE, 00:52:54.36\00:52:57.76 NEARING THE END, MISUNDERSTOOD THE PROPHECIES ABOUT HIS SECOND 00:52:57.76\00:53:00.63 COMING AND THE MESSAGE - IT WAS CALLED THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT. 00:53:00.63\00:53:04.00 NO, THEY WERE NOT SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS - THERE WERE NO 00:53:04.00\00:53:05.70 SEVENTH DAY ADVENTISTS UNTIL 1863, FORMALLY - ORGANIZED AS A 00:53:05.70\00:53:09.60 CHURCH - THEY WERE LARGELY BAPTISTS AND METHODISTS, BUT 00:53:09.60\00:53:13.23 THEY WERE CALLED 'MILLERITES'. THEY CALLED THEMSELVES 00:53:13.23\00:53:15.16 ADVENTISTS BECAUSE THEY BELIEVED IN THE IMMINENT ADVENT OF JESUS. 00:53:15.16\00:53:18.73 ANYONE WHO BELIEVES IN THE SECOND COMING IS AN ADVENTIST, 00:53:18.73\00:53:21.00 TECHNICALLY, IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE LITERAL ADVENT OF JESUS. 00:53:21.00\00:53:24.83 ALL AROUND THE WORLD THEY STUDIED THE PROPHECIES OF 00:53:24.83\00:53:28.16 DANIEL. THEY THOUGHT THE SANCTUARY WAS 00:53:28.16\00:53:29.73 THE EARTH THAT WOULD BE CLEANSED FROM FIRE. 00:53:29.73\00:53:32.60 THEY HADN'T STUDIED THE SANCTUARY. 00:53:32.60\00:53:34.10 THEY JUST ASSUMED JESUS WAS COMING IN 1844 AND JESUS DIDN'T 00:53:34.10\00:53:37.43 COME. IT WAS CALLED 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT' AND THEY WERE 00:53:37.43\00:53:40.20 DEEPLY DISAPPOINTED - HEARTBROKEN. 00:53:40.20\00:53:42.76 THEY WERE LIVING HOLY, GODLY LIVES - THEY REALLY BELIEVED 00:53:42.76\00:53:45.16 JESUS WAS COMING. WHAT HAPPENED THEN? 00:53:45.16\00:53:49.30 IN THAT YEAR, 1844, FROM THE FRAGMENTS OF PEOPLE WHO WERE 00:53:49.30\00:53:54.06 BROKENHEARTED BY MISUNDERSTANDING - WERE THE 00:53:54.06\00:53:56.86 DISCIPLES BROKENHEARTED? JESUS SAID, 'WHAT IS THIS SAD 00:53:56.86\00:54:00.70 COMMUNICATION YOU HAVE WITH ONE ANOTHER?' FROM THEIR DEVASTATION 00:54:00.70\00:54:06.20 THEY SUDDENLY DISCOVERED, IN STUDYING THE BIBLE, THEY'D BEEN 00:54:06.20\00:54:09.26 WRONG NOT ONLY ABOUT THE SANCTUARY, THEY'D 00:54:09.26\00:54:10.93 BEEN WRONG ABOUT A LOT OF THINGS. 00:54:10.93\00:54:12.70 IN THE YEAR 1844 THIS GROUP OF PEOPLE FROM ALL DIFFERENT 00:54:12.70\00:54:16.36 CHRISTIAN BACKGROUNDS CAME TOGETHER AND THEY LEARNED THE 00:54:16.36\00:54:19.33 TRUTH ABOUT THE SABBATH. THEY LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE 00:54:19.33\00:54:22.40 SANCTUARY. THEY LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT 00:54:22.40\00:54:24.40 YOUR BODY BEING THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 00:54:24.40\00:54:26.73 THEY LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE STATE OF THE DEAD. 00:54:26.73\00:54:29.03 NOW THEY DIDN'T ALL EMBRACE IT ALL AT ONCE, BUT THESE THINGS 00:54:29.03\00:54:31.13 ALL CAME TOGETHER AT ONE TIME. THEY LEARNED ABOUT BAPTISM BY 00:54:31.13\00:54:35.66 IMMERSION AND SALVATION BY FAITH AND RIGHTEOUSNESS BY FAITH. 00:54:35.66\00:54:39.20 ALL THESE COMPONENTS OF THE TRUTH THAT HAD BEEN CAST TO THE 00:54:39.20\00:54:42.80 GROUND WERE RESTORED. IN 1844 GOD NOT ONLY ENTERED HIS 00:54:42.80\00:54:48.23 - JESUS ENTERED HIS FINAL WORK AS OUR HIGH PRIEST IN HEAVEN. 00:54:48.23\00:54:51.43 IT'S HARD TO TAKE PICTURES OF THAT AND SHOW PEOPLE, BUT YOU 00:54:51.43\00:54:54.73 CAN SHOW WHAT HAPPENED HERE ON EARTH. 00:54:54.73\00:54:57.50 A MOVEMENT BEGAN THAT TURNED INTO ONE OF THE FASTEST GROWING 00:54:57.50\00:55:01.10 PROTESTANT GROUPS IN THE WORLD IN 1844, WITH HOSPITALS AND 00:55:01.10\00:55:06.03 PUBLISHING HOUSES AND PEOPLE SPREADING AND GROWING ALL AROUND 00:55:06.03\00:55:10.30 THE WORLD. GOD BEGAN TO CLEANSE HIS 00:55:10.30\00:55:12.76 SANCTUARY ON EARTH FROM THE DEFILING DOCTRINES OF THE DARK 00:55:12.76\00:55:16.53 AGES AND HE IS CLEANSING HIS SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN. 00:55:16.53\00:55:19.93 HE IS NOT DONE DOWN HERE CLEANSING. 00:55:19.93\00:55:21.53 HE IS NOT DONE UP THERE CLEANSING. 00:55:21.53\00:55:23.10 WHEN HE IS DONE, HE'S COMING BACK. HE'LL STAND UP. 00:55:23.10\00:55:26.03 THE QUESTION IS: ARE YOU LETTING HIM CLEANSE YOU? 00:55:26.03\00:55:29.03 SO, WE'VE RUN OUT OF TIME. I HOPE I COVERED THE BIG PIECES 00:55:29.03\00:55:34.40 OF THE ESCHATOLOGICAL DAY OF ATONEMENT AND DON'T FORGET, WE 00:55:34.40\00:55:39.63 DO HAVE A FREE OFFER AND THE OFFER IS CALLED 00:55:39.63\00:55:42.23 'CLEANSING THE TEMPLE'. A LOT OF THE MATERIAL I SHARED 00:55:42.23\00:55:44.46 WITH YOU IS IN HERE AND JUST ASK FOR OFFER #803 - 00:55:44.46\00:55:48.20 WE'LL SEND IT TO YOU. PLEASE STUDY IT IF YOU DO. 00:55:48.20\00:55:50.13 CALL 866-STUDY-MORE. THAT'S 866-788-3966 AND I LOOK 00:55:50.13\00:55:57.96 FORWARD TO STUDYING GOD'S WORD WITH YOU AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 00:55:57.96\00:56:02.23 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 00:56:02.23\00:56:15.00 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 00:56:15.00\00:56:18.66 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 00:56:18.66\00:56:22.50 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:56:22.50\00:56:25.43 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 00:56:25.43\00:56:31.60 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 00:56:31.60\00:56:37.03 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 00:56:37.03\00:56:39.93 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 00:56:39.93\00:56:44.16 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. (MUSIC) 00:56:44.16\00:56:58.43 >>THIS SCENE THAT WE'RE ABOUT TO SHOOT IS 'THE MASSACRE 00:56:58.43\00:57:01.13 OF THE INNOCENTS'. IT IS A BETHLEHEM LOCATION AND, 00:57:01.13\00:57:05.33 AS YOU CAN SEE BEHIND ME, WE HAVE THE FAUX WALLS THAT ARE UP. 00:57:05.33\00:57:09.40 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE SOME GREEN SCREEN THAT GIVES THE EXTENSION 00:57:09.40\00:57:12.33 OR THE ILLUSION THAT BETHLEHEM GOES ON FOR A GOOD DISTANCE, SO 00:57:12.33\00:57:16.43 IT'S A BIGGER CITY THAN WHAT YOU SEE BEHIND ME. 00:57:16.43\00:57:18.20 THE HISTORIC EVENT IS CALLED 'THE MASSACRE OF THE INNOCENTS' 00:57:18.20\00:57:20.73 AND THAT'S WHAT WE'RE SHOOTING TONIGHT SO WE'RE HOPING THAT 00:57:20.73\00:57:22.80 WE'RE ABLE TO PULL IT OFF IN A WAY THAT BRINGS TO LIFE THE 00:57:22.80\00:57:26.23 EVENT BUT ALSO DOES IT IN A TASTEFUL WAY BECAUSE THAT EVENT, 00:57:26.23\00:57:29.63 OBVIOUSLY WAS - IT WAS PRETTY GRUESOME AND WE'RE HOPING TO 00:57:29.63\00:57:32.66 KEEP THAT OUT OF THE SHOT BUT AT THE SAME TIME GIVE THE ILLUSION 00:57:32.66\00:57:37.46 THAT WE'RE HERE IN BETHLEHEM AND WE ARE AT THIS HORRIFIC EVENT. 00:57:37.46\00:57:42.43 (MUSIC) 00:57:42.43\00:57:43.43