(MUSIC) 00:00:00.33\00:00:45.70 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:00:45.70\00:00:48.90 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN, WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING US 00:00:48.90\00:00:51.90 LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE RIGHT NOW AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE 00:00:51.90\00:00:55.36 VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS OR LISTENING ON THE RADIO. 00:00:55.36\00:00:58.16 IT DOESN'T MATTER, WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING WITH 00:00:58.16\00:01:00.80 US FOR ANOTHER CENTRAL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM 00:01:00.80\00:01:03.86 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HERE IN SUNNY 00:01:03.86\00:01:07.60 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 00:01:07.60\00:01:09.56 WE'RE CONTINUING OUR CHRISTMAS SONGS AND OUR FIRST ONE TODAY IS 00:01:09.56\00:01:14.73 #119 - 'ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY' IS A REQUEST FROM ALEX 00:01:14.73\00:01:20.50 IN HUNGARY - WE DON'T GET MANY REQUESTS FROM HUNGARY SO GOOD 00:01:20.50\00:01:24.23 MORNING ALEX - CORRINE AND CHERYL IN INDIA, ABEL IN PUERTO 00:01:24.23\00:01:28.26 RICO, AND SHERMILA IN SAUDI ARABIA, AND MANY OTHER STATES IN 00:01:28.26\00:01:33.83 THE U.S. AND COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. #119 - WE'RE 00:01:33.83\00:01:37.60 GOING TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS. 00:01:37.60\00:01:40.63 (MUSIC) 00:01:40.63\00:01:41.33 >>I LOVE CHRISTMAS SONGS AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, IF 00:03:23.83\00:03:26.63 YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE ON A TELEVISION - IF YOU'RE WATCHING 00:03:26.63\00:03:30.23 ON TELEVISION - THAT TODAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 2013, YOU CAN 00:03:30.23\00:03:35.53 TUNE INTO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND WATCH OUR 00:03:35.53\00:03:40.73 CHRISTMAS CONCERT, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4:00 PM AND 7:00 00:03:40.73\00:03:44.00 PM PACIFIC TIME - DECEMBER THE 14TH. 00:03:44.00\00:03:47.46 AND WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN US. 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OUR NEXT SONG IS ANOTHER 00:04:05.03\00:04:09.43 FAVORITE - 'AWAY IN A MANGER' - #124. 00:04:09.43\00:04:14.43 THIS IS FROM JOSEPH IN AUSTRALIA, VERONICA, JASMINE AND 00:04:14.43\00:04:18.10 ANGEL IN THE BAHAMAS, MICHAEL IN CALIFORNIA - AND I THINK THAT'S 00:04:18.10\00:04:21.36 YOU, MICHAEL, CARLOS IN VENEZUELA, AND MASAMBO IN ZAMBIA 00:04:21.36\00:04:27.10 AND MANY MORE PLACES. 00:04:27.10\00:04:28.96 #124 - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE STANZAS. 00:04:28.96\00:04:31.93 (MUSIC) 00:04:31.93\00:04:32.53 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING THAT WONDERFUL SONG. 00:04:52.13\00:04:56.36 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN 00:04:56.36\00:04:58.70 UPCOMING PROGRAM, YOU JUST HAVE TO GO TO OUR 00:04:58.70\00:05:00.93 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK 00:05:00.93\00:05:04.60 AND ANY SONG IN THE HYMNAL YOU CAN REQUEST AND WE WILL SING 00:05:04.60\00:05:09.16 THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 00:05:09.16\00:05:11.36 AT THIS TIME LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 00:05:11.36\00:05:14.30 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TO THIS WORLD 00:05:14.30\00:05:19.60 AND YOU KNEW BEFORE YOU CAME WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO. 00:05:19.60\00:05:23.90 YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE BORN TO PEASANTS AND YOU WERE 00:05:23.90\00:05:31.73 GOING TO LIVE A VERY HARD LIFE, BUT YOU LOVED US ENOUGH TO 00:05:31.73\00:05:35.90 CHOOSE THAT AND WE THANK YOU. WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US, FOR 00:05:35.90\00:05:40.66 COMING DOWN HERE SO MANY YEARS AGO, AND GIVING US AN EXAMPLE 00:05:40.66\00:05:45.50 AND A HOPE THAT THIS ISN'T THE END FOR US. 00:05:45.50\00:05:49.26 WE HAVE A FUTURE WITH YOU AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH REMAIN 00:05:49.26\00:05:52.60 FAITHFUL SO THAT ONE DAY WE CAN SEE YOU COME WHEN YOU COME AGAIN 00:05:52.60\00:05:56.30 IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY. PLEASE BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP 00:05:56.30\00:06:00.33 YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AND 00:06:00.33\00:06:03.50 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT HE IS HERE TO BRING US OUR LESSON 00:06:03.50\00:06:06.23 STUDY TODAY, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 00:06:06.23\00:06:15.56 >>WARE VISITORS, WE'D LIKE TO 00:06:15.56\00:06:19.36 WELCOME OUR VISITORS AS WELL. 00:06:15.56\00:06:19.36 AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON 00:06:19.36\00:06:22.66 TODAY. THE LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT OUR 00:06:22.66\00:06:25.43 PARTICULAR PROPHETIC MESSAGE AND THE - WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING 00:06:25.43\00:06:29.36 ABOUT THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES AND SO OUR FREE OFFER TODAY IS 00:06:29.36\00:06:32.76 'ANGEL MESSAGES FROM SPACE' AND ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE A COPY OF 00:06:32.76\00:06:36.46 THIS, THIS IS - THESE OFFERS ARE REALLY GREAT. THEY'VE GOT 00:06:36.46\00:06:39.33 ILLUSTRATIONS AND THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF SCRIPTURES, QUESTIONS 00:06:39.33\00:06:42.43 AND ANSWERS, AND IT BRINGS THE WHOLE BIBLE STUDY TOGETHER. 00:06:42.43\00:06:45.83 IF YOU'D LIKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE THREE ANGELS' 00:06:45.83\00:06:47.93 MESSAGES THAT GO TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, 00:06:47.93\00:06:52.16 THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 14, THEN SEND FOR THIS - 'ANGEL 00:06:52.16\00:06:55.96 MESSAGES FROM SPACE' - ASK FOR OFFER #137 AND THE NUMBER TO 00:06:55.96\00:07:00.13 CALL IS 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966 AND WE WILL 00:07:00.13\00:07:08.33 SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. AND AS I MENTIONED, OUR STUDY 00:07:08.33\00:07:11.60 TODAY IS LESSON #11. WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE 00:07:11.60\00:07:14.26 STUDY ON THE SANCTUARY AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 00:07:14.26\00:07:19.46 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, JUST TO SAVE A LITTLE TIME, BEFORE WE 00:07:19.46\00:07:21.90 GET TO THE MEMORY VERSE, WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES - SOMEONE HERE 00:07:21.90\00:07:25.86 HAS REVELATION CHAPTER 10, VERSE 1 - WHO IS THAT? 00:07:25.86\00:07:30.93 OKAY, WE'LL JUST - WE'LL GET A CAMERA ON YOU SO THEY'RE - 00:07:30.93\00:07:33.13 YOU'RE READY BECAUSE YOU'RE FIRST IN LINE JOLYNE, OKAY? 00:07:33.13\00:07:37.90 AND OUR MEMORY VERSE IS REVELATION 14, VERSES 6 AND 7 00:07:37.90\00:07:45.20 MOST OF US SHOULD KNOW THIS BY WHEART. 00:07:45.20\00:07:47.23 REVELATION 14:6 AND 7 - YOU READY? 00:07:47.23\00:07:50.13 "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING 00:07:50.13\00:07:54.93 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH 00:07:54.93\00:07:58.93 - TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE - SAYING WITH 00:07:58.93\00:08:03.36 A LOUD VOICE, 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, FOR THE HOUR OF 00:08:03.36\00:08:08.23 HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME; AND WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE HEAVEN AND 00:08:08.23\00:08:13.56 EARTH, THE SEA AND SPRINGS OF WATER.'" 00:08:13.56\00:08:17.40 ALRIGHT, WELL I'D LOVE TO JUMP RIGHT IN AND START ELABORATING 00:08:17.40\00:08:19.93 ON THAT, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT YET. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES 00:08:19.93\00:08:23.03 TO REVELATION CHAPTER 10, AND WE'LL TELL YOU WHERE WE'RE 00:08:23.03\00:08:26.50 GOING AND WHY WE'RE GOING THERE FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 00:08:26.50\00:08:29.80 THIS IS ONE OF THE SHORTEST CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK OF 00:08:29.80\00:08:32.93 REVELATION - REVELATION CHAPTER 10 AND WE'RE GOING TO DO A QUICK 00:08:32.93\00:08:38.56 OVERVIEW OF THIS CHAPTER - MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO 00:08:38.56\00:08:42.13 HAVE YOU READ THE FIRST VERSE. JO, IF YOU'RE READY FOR THAT. 00:08:42.13\00:08:46.46 >>REVELATION 10:1, "I SAW STILL ANOTHER MIGHTY ANGEL COMING DOWN 00:08:46.46\00:08:52.03 FROM HEAVEN, CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD. 00:08:52.03\00:08:54.46 AND A RAINBOW WAS ON HIS HEAD, HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN, 00:08:54.46\00:08:57.93 AND HIS FEET LIKE PILLARS OF FIRE." 00:08:57.93\00:09:00.93 >>ALRIGHT, SO FIRST THING IS WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT 00:09:00.93\00:09:02.93 THIS TIME - WHAT'S KNOWN AS 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT'. 00:09:02.93\00:09:06.56 NOW, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHERE GOD'S 00:09:06.56\00:09:08.93 PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED GREAT DISAPPOINTMENTS - THINGS DID NOT 00:09:08.93\00:09:13.03 PLAY OUT THE WAY THEY ANTICIPATED. 00:09:13.03\00:09:18.43 THE PROMISED LAND, BUT BECAUSEY THE TEN SPIES BROUGHT BACK A 00:09:18.43\00:09:22.30 FAITHLESS REPORT, THEY WERE TOLD, 'NOPE, YOU'RE NOT READY 00:09:22.30\00:09:25.53 YET.' FORTY MORE YEARS - ACTUALLY IT WAS THIRTY-NINE MORE 00:09:25.53\00:09:28.90 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS AND THEY HAD TO WANDER DURING THAT TIME. 00:09:28.90\00:09:32.90 DURING THE TIME OF JESUS THE DISCIPLES WENT OUT PREACHING. 00:09:32.90\00:09:36.70 JESUS SENT THE DISCIPLES OUT PREACHING 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 00:09:36.70\00:09:39.43 IS AT HAND.' AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THE 00:09:39.43\00:09:42.26 APOSTLES THOUGHT JESUS MEANT BY THAT? 00:09:42.26\00:09:44.90 WHAT WAS THEIR PICTURE OF THE KINGDOM BEING AT HAND? 00:09:44.90\00:09:48.06 ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION THEY THOUGHT THAT MEANT THAT SOMETIME 00:09:48.06\00:09:51.60 IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, JESUS WAS GOING TO USE HIS MIRACULOUS 00:09:51.60\00:09:54.86 POWER AND THE ROMANS WOULD BE OVERTHROWN AS THE POWER AND THEY 00:09:54.86\00:09:59.36 WOULD SEE THE SON OF DAVID SITTING ON THE THRONE OF DAVID 00:09:59.36\00:10:03.46 THE MONARCH - REESTABLISHED AND BACK LIKE THE GLORIOUS DAYS OF 00:10:03.46\00:10:06.93 SOLOMON AND THEY WOULD BE A WORLD EMPIRE AGAIN. 00:10:06.93\00:10:10.26 AND SO, AS THEY WENT OUT SAYING, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. 00:10:10.26\00:10:12.50 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.' THEY WERE THINKING POLITICAL 00:10:12.50\00:10:15.30 KINGDOM, TO A LARGE EXTENT, AND WE KNOW NOW THAT'S NOT WHAT IT 00:10:15.30\00:10:19.06 WAS GOING TO BE. THAT'S WHY WHEN THE TWO DISCIPLES WERE WALKING 00:10:19.06\00:10:22.36 ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED. 00:10:22.36\00:10:27.56 NOT JUST THEM, BUT THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND ALL THE FOLLOWERS 00:10:27.56\00:10:30.73 AND DISCIPLES OF JESUS WERE DEVASTATED. 00:10:30.73\00:10:33.53 AND THOSE TWO - CLEOPAS AND HIS FRIEND, THEY SAID TO JESUS ON 00:10:33.53\00:10:36.63 THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, 'WE WERE HOPING THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE 00:10:36.63\00:10:40.60 HE THAT WOULD REDEEM ISRAEL.' AND EVEN AS JESUS WAS GETTING 00:10:40.60\00:10:44.26 READY TO GO TO HEAVEN AND HE MET WITH THE DISCIPLES JUST BEFORE 00:10:44.26\00:10:46.66 HE ASCENDED - I THINK IT WAS PHILLIP THAT SAID, 'WILL YOU AT 00:10:46.66\00:10:50.03 THIS TIME ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?' WELL, YOU KNOW, 00:10:50.03\00:10:53.60 THEY WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. 00:10:53.60\00:10:55.63 JESUS SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU.' 00:10:55.63\00:10:57.73 THEY KEPT THINKING ABOUT AN EXTERNAL KINGDOM. 00:10:57.73\00:11:00.20 AND YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY DID JESUS SEND THEM OUT PREACHING 00:11:00.20\00:11:03.53 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND' WHEN HE KNEW 00:11:03.53\00:11:06.93 THEY HAD THE WRONG IDEA OF WHAT THAT WAS? 00:11:06.93\00:11:10.06 WELL, WHAT THEY SAID WAS THE TRUTH, BUT STILL THEY WERE 00:11:10.06\00:11:13.23 PREACHING 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND'. 00:11:13.23\00:11:15.40 THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME OF GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, OH A LITTLE MORE 00:11:15.40\00:11:20.16 THAN 150 YEARS AGO, WHERE CHRISTIANS AROUND NORTH AMERICA 00:11:20.16\00:11:24.10 AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD STARTED TO STUDY THE PROPHECIES 00:11:24.10\00:11:28.10 OF DANIEL AND REVELATION AND ESPECIALLY THE PROPHECY ABOUT 00:11:28.10\00:11:31.70 THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY, AND THEY STUDIED THE TIMES GIVEN 00:11:31.70\00:11:35.90 IN THOSE PROPHECIES AND THEY ALL SEEMED TO POINT TO 1844. 00:11:35.90\00:11:40.56 THEY HAD THE TIME CORRECT. THEY HAD THE EVENT WRONG. 00:11:40.56\00:11:45.76 AND SO, THEY WENT OUT IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT AND SAID, 00:11:45.76\00:11:49.20 YOU KNOW, 'GET READY. 00:11:49.20\00:11:50.33 THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING.' WHICH IS A TRUE MESSAGE. 00:11:50.33\00:11:52.90 IT IS TRUE, THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING, RIGHT? 00:11:52.90\00:11:55.03 BUT THEY FORGOT THAT PART OF THE PARABLE THAT SAYS, 'WHILE THE 00:11:55.03\00:11:59.10 BRIDEGROOM TARRIED.' THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY JUST 00:11:59.10\00:12:04.63 BEFORE THE LORD COMES. AND SO, THEY WERE DEVASTATED. 00:12:04.63\00:12:06.96 IT WAS CALLED 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT' AND SOME PEOPLE 00:12:06.96\00:12:09.56 TAKE IT TO MEAN, 'WELL, BECAUSE THEY PREACHED THAT MESSAGE ABOUT 00:12:09.56\00:12:12.66 THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD AND THERE WAS THIS GREAT REVIVAL 00:12:12.66\00:12:15.03 BUT JESUS DIDN'T COME, THE MESSAGE MUST NOT HAVE 00:12:15.03\00:12:17.40 BEEN FROM GOD.' WRONG. 00:12:17.40\00:12:20.50 GOD GIVES MESSAGES AND THEN SOMETIMES, BECAUSE OF EVENTS OR 00:12:20.50\00:12:24.66 BECAUSE OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THEY DON'T HAPPEN EXACTLY AS 00:12:24.66\00:12:26.80 THEY EXPECT. DID JONAH GO THROUGH NINEVEH AND 00:12:26.80\00:12:30.73 SAY, 'FORTY DAYS AND NINEVEH WILL BE DESTROYED'? DID HE? 00:12:30.73\00:12:35.50 WAS GOD THE ONE TELLING HIM TO PREACH THAT MESSAGE? 00:12:35.50\00:12:39.23 WAS NINEVEH DESTROYED AFTER FORTY DAYS? 00:12:39.23\00:12:42.43 NO, BECAUSE THEY REPENTED. 00:12:42.43\00:12:44.23 AND SO, SOMETIMES CIRCUMSTANCES ARE DIFFERENT. 00:12:44.23\00:12:48.00 SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT MISUNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE. 00:12:48.00\00:12:50.36 THERE WAS A GREAT REVIVAL UNDER WHAT THEY CALLED 'THE ADVENT 00:12:50.36\00:12:53.76 AWAKENING' OR 'THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT' AND - JUST FOR THOSE 00:12:53.76\00:12:58.43 WHO ARE WATCHING, SO YOU DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, IT WAS NOT 00:12:58.43\00:13:01.50 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS THAT PREDICTED THE SECOND COMING OF 00:13:01.50\00:13:04.66 THE LORD IN 1844. THERE WERE NO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 00:13:04.66\00:13:09.40 THE CHURCH WAS NOT ORGANIZED UNTIL 1863. 00:13:09.40\00:13:13.03 IT WAS THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT. 00:13:13.03\00:13:14.70 THEY WERE WHAT YOU CALL 'ADVENTISTS' BECAUSE THEY 00:13:14.70\00:13:17.13 BELIEVED IN THE SOON RETURN OF JESUS. 00:13:17.13\00:13:19.36 YOU CAN SEE THE WORD 'ADVENT' OUTSIDE A CATHOLIC CHURCH. 00:13:19.36\00:13:23.26 I'VE SEEN CATHOLIC ADVENT CHURCHES. 00:13:23.26\00:13:25.56 THERE ARE ADVENTISTS FROM ALL DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 00:13:25.56\00:13:27.66 IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SOON COMING OF JESUS, YOU ARE 00:13:27.66\00:13:29.96 TECHNICALLY AN ADVENTIST. SO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DO NOT 00:13:29.96\00:13:34.36 BELIEVE IN SETTING DATES FOR THE SECOND COMING AND SO I'VE HEARD 00:13:34.36\00:13:37.83 PEOPLE SAY, 'AREN'T YOU THE ONES WHO SAID JESUS WAS COMING IN 00:13:37.83\00:13:40.46 1844?' NO. IT WAS THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT. 00:13:40.46\00:13:43.86 THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT THAT 00:13:43.86\00:13:47.23 THEN CAME INTO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEY 00:13:47.23\00:13:50.50 STUDIED AND THEY REALIZED THAT THEY HAD MADE SOME MISTAKES. 00:13:50.50\00:13:53.16 BUT, NO, WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN SETTING DATES. 00:13:53.16\00:13:56.86 THIS GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT WAS PROPHESIED IN HISTORY. 00:13:56.86\00:14:01.56 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL IN REVELATION, YOU ARE 00:14:01.56\00:14:04.96 LOOKING AT DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE WORK OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:14:04.96\00:14:09.93 IN DANIEL IT TALKS ABOUT A PHASE OF GOD'S PEOPLE BEING OPPRESSED 00:14:09.93\00:14:13.60 BY THE BABYLONIANS AND THERE WAS THE PHASE WHERE IT WAS THE 00:14:13.60\00:14:16.70 MEDO-PERSIANS. THE PERSIANS WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD TO THEM, 00:14:16.70\00:14:19.16 THEY LET THEM REBUILD THE TEMPLE. THEN THERE WAS - 00:14:19.16\00:14:21.20 BUT THEY DOMINATED THEM. THEY WERE THEIR RULERS. 00:14:21.20\00:14:23.53 THEN THERE WAS A PHASE OF THE GREEKS ALSO. 00:14:23.53\00:14:26.03 FOR THE MOST PART, ALEXANDER THE GREAT WASN'T THAT HARD ON THEM. 00:14:26.03\00:14:29.60 THEY HAD A GUY NAMED ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WHO WAS REALLY A PILL. 00:14:29.60\00:14:32.46 AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME OF THE ROMANS AND IT TALKS ABOUT 00:14:32.46\00:14:35.00 THE DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 00:14:35.00\00:14:36.26 AND SO THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE IS OUTLINED IN DANIEL. 00:14:36.26\00:14:39.20 YOU FIND THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE OUTLINED IN THE SEVEN 00:14:39.20\00:14:42.16 MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. YOU'VE GOT THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY 00:14:42.16\00:14:45.33 OF GOD'S PEOPLE. YOU HAVE THE SEVEN TRUMPETS - 00:14:45.33\00:14:47.90 SORT OF A MILITARY HISTORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH GOD'S PEOPLE. 00:14:47.90\00:14:50.83 YOU HAVE THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION WHICH INCLUDES THE 00:14:50.83\00:14:53.30 FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - IT KIND OF GIVES A POLITICAL 00:14:53.30\00:14:55.90 HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE. AND SO GOD IS SHOWING, 00:14:55.90\00:14:58.76 PROPHETICALLY, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO HIS PEOPLE OVER TIME 00:14:58.76\00:15:01.76 THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT VISIONS. IN CHAPTER 10, YOU FIND 00:15:01.76\00:15:07.46 PROPHESIED, WHAT WE WOULD CALL 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT'. 00:15:07.46\00:15:10.96 IT WAS THIS GREAT GLOBAL AWAKENING THAT WOULD HAPPEN 00:15:10.96\00:15:13.20 BEFORE THE SECOND COMING, BUT HE DOESN'T COME AS THEY EXPECT. 00:15:13.20\00:15:16.60 SO, YOU HEARD THE FIRST VERSE, THIS MIGHTY ANGEL COMES DOWN. 00:15:16.60\00:15:20.40 HE'S GIVING A MESSAGE THAT SAYS 'IN A CLOUD AND A RAINBOW WAS ON 00:15:20.40\00:15:24.66 HIS HEAD, HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN, HIS FEET WERE LIKE PILLARS 00:15:24.66\00:15:27.20 OF FIRE. YOU KNOW, THAT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT 00:15:27.20\00:15:29.36 YOU SEE IN DANIEL 10 - DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES? 00:15:29.36\00:15:32.66 DANIEL 10, VERSES 5 AND 6, "I LIFTED MY EYES AND LOOKED, 00:15:32.66\00:15:36.63 AND BEHOLD, A CERTAIN MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHOSE WAIST 00:15:36.63\00:15:40.46 WAS GIRDED WITH GOLD OF UPHAZ! 00:15:40.46\00:15:43.06 HIS BODY WAS LIKE BERYL, HIS FACE LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF 00:15:43.06\00:15:46.63 LIGHTNING, HIS EYES LIKE TORCHES OF FIRE, HIS ARMS AND FEET LIKE 00:15:46.63\00:15:51.90 BURNISHED BRONZE IN COLOR, AND THE SOUND OF HIS WORDS LIKE THE 00:15:51.90\00:15:55.23 VOICE OF A MULTITUDE." HERE IN DANIEL YOU'VE ALSO GOT 00:15:55.23\00:15:57.96 THIS MIGHTY ANGEL GIVING A MESSAGE. 00:15:57.96\00:16:01.30 NOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME ANGEL EVEN THOUGH 500 YEARS GO 00:16:01.30\00:16:03.96 BY - ALMOST 600 YEARS - THEY DON'T AGE, DO THEY? 00:16:03.96\00:16:08.03 YOU KNOW GABRIEL SPEAKS TO DANIEL IN CHAPTER 9, THEN 00:16:08.03\00:16:11.60 GABRIEL SPEAKS TO MARY IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1. 00:16:11.60\00:16:14.86 GABRIEL HAS NO MORE GRAY HAIR - WELL, IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT HIS 00:16:14.86\00:16:17.03 HAIR COLOR WAS, BUT HE HASN'T AGED. ANGELS LIVE - 00:16:17.03\00:16:20.40 THEY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, DON'T THEY? THE GOOD ANGELS. 00:16:20.40\00:16:23.73 DANIEL 12, YOU'VE GOT MORE ANGELS - THESE MEN IN LINEN. 00:16:23.73\00:16:27.46 DANIEL 12:6 AND 7, "AND ONE SAID TO THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHO 00:16:27.46\00:16:31.60 WAS ABOVE THE WATERS OF THE RIVER," - JUST LIKE REVELATION 00:16:31.60\00:16:34.56 10 WHERE THEY STAND ABOVE THE RIVER - OR THE WATERS - "'HOW 00:16:34.56\00:16:38.26 LONG SHALL THE FULFILLMENT OF THESE WONDERS BE?' 00:16:38.26\00:16:41.26 THEN I HEARD THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHO WAS ABOVE THE WATERS 00:16:41.26\00:16:43.83 OF THE RIVER, WHEN HE HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND AND HIS LEFT HAND 00:16:43.83\00:16:47.30 TO HEAVEN, AND SWORE BY HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER," - AND SO HERE 00:16:47.30\00:16:51.36 YOU'VE GOT THESE ANGELS THAT ARE HELPING TO INTERPRET 00:16:51.36\00:16:54.26 AND TO EXPLAIN THESE PROPHECIES. 00:16:54.26\00:16:57.26 NOW SOME PROPHECIES ARE FOR A SPECIFIC TIME. 00:16:57.26\00:17:01.60 YOU UNDERSTAND PRESENT TRUTH PROPHECY? 00:17:01.60\00:17:05.43 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: A PRESENT-TRUTH PROPHECY WOULD BE 00:17:05.43\00:17:10.83 WHERE NOAH SAYS, 'GET INTO THE ARK A FLOOD IS COMING.' 00:17:10.83\00:17:15.66 NOW, IF I STARTED TELLING YOU 'GET INTO THE ARK A FLOOD IS 00:17:15.66\00:17:18.36 COMING' YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, THAT'S NOT A PRESENT-TRUTH 00:17:18.36\00:17:21.53 PROPHECY.' BUT I COULD SAY, 'IT'S IN THE 00:17:21.53\00:17:22.80 BIBLE.' WELL THAT WAS A MESSAGE FOR THAT PARTICULAR TIME. 00:17:22.80\00:17:27.26 IF I SAID, 'PACK YOUR STUFF, WE'RE LEAVING EGYPT.' 00:17:27.26\00:17:31.13 WELL, THAT IS IN THE BIBLE, BUT THAT WAS A SPECIFIC MESSAGE FOR 00:17:31.13\00:17:34.80 A SPECIFIC TIME FOR GOD'S PEOPLE. AND SO, DIFFERENT 00:17:34.80\00:17:38.63 PROPHETIC MESSAGES APPEAL TO DIFFERENT TIMES. 00:17:38.63\00:17:41.86 IF I WERE TO SAY TO YOU, 'LEAVE JERUSALEM AND SURRENDER TO THE 00:17:41.86\00:17:45.30 BABYLONIANS.' THAT WAS A PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH. 00:17:45.30\00:17:48.06 WELL, THAT WAS A SPECIFIC PROPHECY. 00:17:48.06\00:17:49.70 THAT WAS PRESENT TRUTH FOR THEM. IF THEY WANTED TO SURVIVE THE 00:17:49.70\00:17:52.46 SIEGE, THEY NEEDED TO SURRENDER. AND SO, THERE ARE DIFFERENT 00:17:52.46\00:17:56.23 MESSAGES THAT GO OUT AT DIFFERENT TIMES. 00:17:56.23\00:17:58.33 IN REVELATION 10 THERE WAS A MESSAGE TO GO TO THE WORLD - THE 00:17:58.33\00:18:01.30 BRIDEGROOM IS COMING, GO OUT TO MEET HIM. THERE WAS TO BE 00:18:01.30\00:18:03.70 A REVIVAL AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. IT WAS THE END OF THIS AGE OF 00:18:03.70\00:18:08.23 PHILADELPHIA AND THEY WERE ENTERING THE AGE OF LAODICEA. 00:18:08.23\00:18:11.76 AND ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING - SO LET ME READ SOME OF REVELATION 00:18:11.76\00:18:14.10 10 AND THEN WE'LL UNPACK IT. WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO COVER. 00:18:14.10\00:18:17.56 AND IT SAYS HE HAD A LITTLE BOOK OPEN IN HIS HAND - I'M IN 00:18:17.56\00:18:20.26 REVELATION 10, VERSE 2,"HE HAD A LITTLE BOOK OPEN IN HIS HAND. 00:18:20.26\00:18:24.16 AND HE SET HIS RIGHT FOOT ON THE SEA AND HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE 00:18:24.16\00:18:27.86 LAND, AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, AS WHEN A LION ROARS. 00:18:27.86\00:18:33.10 WHEN HE CRIED OUT, SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES. 00:18:33.10\00:18:37.16 NOW WHEN THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES, I WAS 00:18:37.16\00:18:39.36 ABOUT TO WRITE; BUT I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING TO ME, 00:18:39.36\00:18:43.16 'SEAL UP THE THINGS WHICH THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED, AND DO 00:18:43.16\00:18:47.03 NOT WRITE THEM.'" DOES IT TELL US IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 00:18:47.03\00:18:50.06 THAT SOME THINGS ARE TO BE SEALED UP UNTIL 00:18:50.06\00:18:51.46 THE TIME OF THE END IN DANIEL 12? 00:18:51.46\00:18:54.80 "THE ANGEL WHOM I SAW STANDING ON THE SEA AND ON THE LAND 00:18:54.80\00:18:58.00 RAISED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN AND SWORE BY HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER 00:18:58.00\00:19:01.70 AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, THE 00:19:01.70\00:19:05.50 EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS 00:19:05.50\00:19:07.86 THAT ARE IN IT, THAT THERE SHOULD BE DELAY NO LONGER," - 00:19:07.86\00:19:10.90 NOTICE IT SAYS THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, THE SEA. 00:19:10.90\00:19:14.56 WE ALSO FIND THAT IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14. 00:19:14.56\00:19:18.10 IT'S A MESSAGE CONNECTED WITH A MESSAGE TO RETURN TO THE 00:19:18.10\00:19:20.40 CREATOR. THAT'S LATER ON IN YOUR LESSON. 00:19:20.40\00:19:23.90 - "BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, 00:19:23.90\00:19:27.33 WHEN HE IS ABOUT TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD WOULD BE FINISHED 00:19:27.33\00:19:30.16 AS HE DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS." 00:19:30.16\00:19:32.80 OH, ONE MORE THING, 'THERE SHOULD BE DELAY NO LONGER' - 00:19:32.80\00:19:36.33 THAT'S RIGHT THERE IN VERSE 6. I THINK IF YOU'VE GOT KING JAMES 00:19:36.33\00:19:40.90 IT SAYS, 'TIME SHOULD BE NO MORE'. 00:19:40.90\00:19:43.10 THAT WORD IS ACTUALLY 'DELAY'. YEAH, IN THE ORIGINAL IT SAYS 00:19:43.10\00:19:46.53 'DELAY'. NOW WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? 00:19:46.53\00:19:48.66 HAVE PEOPLE IN THE PAST FORETOLD THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON? 00:19:48.66\00:19:53.80 HAVE PEOPLE PICKED DATES FOR IT BEFORE? 1844 WAS NOT THE FIRST 00:19:53.80\00:19:58.76 DATE AND HAROLD CAMPING DID NOT SET THE LAST DATE. 00:19:58.76\00:20:03.46 THERE WILL BE OTHERS THAT WILL BE PICKING DAYS AND HOURS IN 00:20:03.46\00:20:06.36 SPITE OF WHAT JESUS SAID THAT TELLS US THAT NO MAN KNOWS THE 00:20:06.36\00:20:11.06 DAY OR THE HOUR. SOME ARE THINKING, 'WELL, WHEN 00:20:11.06\00:20:15.06 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH STARTED, ONE OF OUR MESSAGES WAS THE 00:20:15.06\00:20:18.56 EMINENCE - THE SOON COMING OF JESUS. 00:20:18.56\00:20:21.23 THAT'S OVER 150 YEARS AGO - WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG? 00:20:21.23\00:20:26.60 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAID WOULD HAPPEN. 00:20:26.60\00:20:29.56 WHAT'S THE LAST THING JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 WHEN HE 00:20:29.56\00:20:34.50 TALKS ABOUT THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING? 00:20:34.50\00:20:36.93 'IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'MY LORD DELAYS HIS 00:20:36.93\00:20:43.00 COMING' AND BEGINS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKEN AND SMITE 00:20:43.00\00:20:46.73 HIS FELLOW SERVANTS, THE MASTER OF THAT SERVANT WILL COME IN A 00:20:46.73\00:20:49.13 DAY THAT HE'S NOT LOOKING FOR HIM AND AN HOUR HE'S NOT 00:20:49.13\00:20:51.10 PREPARED FOR.' WHEN MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT 00:20:51.10\00:20:55.06 SINAI TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 00:20:55.06\00:20:57.06 YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE HEARD THE VOICE IN CHAPTER 19 - 00:20:57.06\00:20:59.23 IN CHAPTER 20 HE GOES UP. 00:20:59.23\00:21:00.70 HE DOESN'T SAY WHEN HE'S COMING BACK, THEY JUST KNOW HE'S GOING 00:21:00.70\00:21:03.00 TO GET THE CODIFIED VERSION OF THAT LAW THEY AGREED TO. 00:21:03.00\00:21:06.56 FORTY DAYS GO BY AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT 00:21:06.56\00:21:12.36 MOSES' - EXODUS 32 - 'DELAYED COMING DOWN' - WHAT HAPPENED TO 00:21:12.36\00:21:18.33 THE CHURCH DURING THAT TIME WHEN THEY SAID, 'BOY, WE DIDN'T THINK 00:21:18.33\00:21:20.76 IT WAS GOING TO TAKE THIS LONG. WHAT IS TAKING HIM SO LONG? 00:21:20.76\00:21:24.63 MAYBE WE MISUNDERSTOOD WHEN HE SAID, 'I'M COMING BACK'. 00:21:24.63\00:21:27.73 MAYBE HE DIED UP ON THE MOUNTAIN AND HE'S NOT COMING BACK. 00:21:27.73\00:21:30.20 MAYBE IT WAS A SPIRITUAL COMING BACK.' AND ALL THESE THINGS 00:21:30.20\00:21:33.16 BEGAN GOING THROUGH THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES. 00:21:33.16\00:21:35.06 'WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO MOSES?' HE HADN'T COME BACK. 00:21:35.06\00:21:38.10 COULD THAT HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH AGAIN? WHEN THEY SAW MOSES 00:21:38.10\00:21:42.43 DELAYED, THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY. THAT'S WHY IT SAYS, 00:21:42.43\00:21:47.80 'WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED' - THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY. 00:21:47.80\00:21:52.36 SAMUEL THE PROPHET SAID TO KING SAUL, 'BEFORE YOU GO TO BATTLE 00:21:52.36\00:21:55.96 WITH THE PHILISTINES, WAIT FOR ME. 00:21:55.96\00:21:57.93 I WILL COME OFFER SACRIFICE FOR YOU.' 00:21:57.93\00:22:00.30 THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PRIEST'S JOB TO INTERCEDE AND SACRIFICE 00:22:00.30\00:22:02.30 BEFORE THE ARMY WENT INTO BATTLE. 00:22:02.30\00:22:04.30 THAT'S WHEN HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY, 'IF ANY OF YOU ARE SCARED, 00:22:04.30\00:22:06.26 LET HIM GO HOME.' AND HE WAS TO DECLARE THIS SPEECH. 00:22:06.26\00:22:10.23 WELL, SAUL SAW THAT HIS SOLDIERS WERE STARTING TO GET SCARED AND 00:22:10.23\00:22:13.66 THE PRIEST HAD NOT COME. SIX DAYS WENT BY. 00:22:13.66\00:22:16.13 SAMUEL SAID 'AFTER SEVEN DAYS I'LL COME.' 00:22:16.13\00:22:18.06 THE SEVENTH DAY ARRIVED AND HE WAITED A LITTLE BIT - MAYBE IT 00:22:18.06\00:22:20.30 WAS TEN IN THE MORNING AND HE SAID, 'HE'S NOT HERE.' 00:22:20.30\00:22:22.20 HE'S MISSED THE EARLY MORNING SACRIFICE. 00:22:22.20\00:22:25.20 I BETTER DO IT MYSELF.' BY THE WAY, I DON'T WANT TO MISS 00:22:25.20\00:22:29.60 THE CHANCE TO REMIND YOU THAT ONLY CERTAIN PEOPLE WERE TO ACT 00:22:29.60\00:22:32.90 THE PART OF PRIESTS. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU 00:22:32.90\00:22:36.70 WERE THE KING, GOD HAD SPECIFIED WHO WAS TO DO IT AND HIS WORD 00:22:36.70\00:22:42.66 WAS VERY CLEAR THAT HE PICKS WHO HE PICKS. 00:22:42.66\00:22:46.76 WELL, THE KING SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER - WHETHER IT'S THE 00:22:46.76\00:22:49.43 PRIEST, WHETHER IT'S ME - I CAN DO IT.' 00:22:49.43\00:22:52.23 SO SAUL OFFERED THE SACRIFICE AND THEN SAMUEL CAME. 00:22:52.23\00:22:55.26 IT SAYS BECAUSE SAMUEL WAS DELAYED - SAUL WAS BEING TESTED 00:22:55.26\00:23:00.36 DURING THAT DELAY. WOULD HIS FAITH HANG ON? 00:23:00.36\00:23:03.36 WOULD HE WAIT ON GOD? HERE'S THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS. 00:23:03.36\00:23:07.26 HE LOST FAITH. HE LOST PATIENCE. 00:23:07.26\00:23:09.83 HE OFFERED THE SACRIFICE HIMSELF. 00:23:09.83\00:23:11.33 HE ALTERED THE WORSHIP THE WAY GOD SAID IT SHOULD BE DONE. 00:23:11.33\00:23:15.13 THE KING WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT ANY MORE THAN KING UZZIAH WAS 00:23:15.13\00:23:18.26 SUPPOSED TO BURN INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE - AND HE GOT LEPROSY FOR 00:23:18.26\00:23:20.70 DOING THAT. SAUL LOST THE KINGDOM. SAMUEL FINALLY CAME. 00:23:20.70\00:23:24.56 MOSES CAME. WHAT WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DOING WHILE 00:23:24.56\00:23:27.70 THEY GOT IMPATIENT WAITING FOR MOSES TO COME? 00:23:27.70\00:23:31.43 THEY SAID, 'LOOK, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 00:23:31.43\00:23:34.73 WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT THAT GOD LOOKS LIKE. 00:23:34.73\00:23:36.13 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADJUST THINGS A LITTLE BIT. 00:23:36.13\00:23:38.13 LET'S MODIFY OUR WORSHIP A LITTLE BIT.' 00:23:38.13\00:23:40.00 SO THEY MADE A GOLDEN CALF AND THEY BEGAN TO WORSHIP. 00:23:40.00\00:23:44.03 AND THEY SORT OF CO-MINGLED THE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH WITH THE 00:23:44.03\00:23:46.23 WORSHIP OF THE PAGANS AROUND THEM. 00:23:46.23\00:23:49.13 AND THEY WORSHIPED AND THEN THEY HAD A POTLUCK - IT SAYS THEY ATE 00:23:49.13\00:23:51.93 AND DRANK AND THE POTLUCK GOT CARRIED AWAY BECAUSE BY THE TIME 00:23:51.93\00:23:55.90 IT WAS OVER THEY WEREN'T WEARING THEIR CLOTHES ANYMORE. 00:23:55.90\00:23:59.03 THERE WAS A LITTLE IMMODESTY IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD, YOU MIGHT 00:23:59.03\00:24:02.50 SAY. AND THEN MOSES CAME. 00:24:02.50\00:24:07.43 IS THE LORD TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING? 00:24:07.43\00:24:10.06 THAT MAYBE THERE'LL BE AN APPARENT DELAY JUST BEFORE JESUS 00:24:10.06\00:24:14.16 COMES BACK AND GOD'S PEOPLE WILL BE TESTED? 00:24:14.16\00:24:17.63 AND WILL THERE BE A MOVEMENT TO ALTER WORSHIP JUST BEFORE JESUS 00:24:17.63\00:24:21.80 COMES BACK? BE MORE LIKE THOSE AROUND US. 00:24:21.80\00:24:26.73 WELL, IT DIDN'T END WELL FOR THOSE THAT LOST FAITH DURING THE 00:24:26.73\00:24:31.00 TIME OF DELAY. HE SAYS, 'DELAY WILL BE NO LONGER. 00:24:31.00\00:24:34.63 SO THIS MESSAGE WAS TO BE PREACHED - I'M BACK IN 00:24:34.63\00:24:37.00 REVELATION CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 9 - REVELATION 10, VERSE 9, "SO 00:24:37.00\00:24:45.73 I WENT TO THE ANGEL AND SAID TO HIM, 'GIVE ME THE LITTLE BOOK.' 00:24:45.73\00:24:50.90 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TAKE AND EAT IT; AND IT WILL MAKE YOUR 00:24:50.90\00:24:54.56 STOMACH BITTER, BUT IT WILL BE AS SWEET AS HONEY IN YOUR 00:24:54.56\00:24:56.90 MOUTH.' THEN I TOOK THE LITTLE BOOK OUT 00:24:56.90\00:24:59.33 OF THE ANGEL'S HAND AND ATE IT, AND IT WAS AS SWEET AS HONEY IN 00:24:59.33\00:25:02.30 MY MOUTH. BUT WHEN I HAD EATEN IT," - A LITTLE LATER, 00:25:02.30\00:25:05.70 IN OTHER WORDS - DIGESTION SET IN - 'MY STOMACH BECAME BITTER. 00:25:05.70\00:25:10.23 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN ABOUT MANY 00:25:10.23\00:25:14.16 PEOPLES, NATIONS, TONGUES, AND KINGS.'" 00:25:14.16\00:25:16.96 NOW THIS IS SORT OF A REPEAT OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ADVENT 00:25:16.96\00:25:20.03 PEOPLE - THIS GREAT REVIVAL THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE BEGINNING OF 00:25:20.03\00:25:24.26 THE TIME - THE CONCLUSION OF PHILADELPHIA, THE BEGINNING OF 00:25:24.26\00:25:27.30 THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - AND IT TALKS ABOUT EATING THE LITTLE 00:25:27.30\00:25:30.80 BOOK. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 119:103. WHO HAS THAT? 00:25:30.80\00:25:35.66 MIKE, LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. OKAY. 00:25:35.66\00:25:38.83 IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING TO READ EZEKIEL 2, VERSE 9. 00:25:38.83\00:25:42.66 THIS MAY SOUND FAMILIAR. EZEKIEL 2, VERSE 9 - I'M GOING 00:25:42.66\00:25:45.63 TO READ ON TO CHAPTER 3, VERSE 3 OF EZEKIEL. 00:25:45.63\00:25:48.90 "NOW WHEN I LOOKED, THERE WAS A HAND STRETCHED OUT TO ME; AND 00:25:48.90\00:25:52.80 BEHOLD, A SCROLL" - THAT'S A BOOK - "A SCROLL OF A BOOK WAS 00:25:52.80\00:25:56.06 IN IT. THEN HE SPREAD IT BEFORE ME; AND 00:25:56.06\00:25:58.63 THERE WAS WRITING ON THE INSIDE AND ON THE OUTSIDE," - A BOOK 00:25:58.63\00:26:02.03 WRITTEN ON BOTH SIDES - "AND WRITTEN ON IT WERE LAMENTATIONS 00:26:02.03\00:26:05.06 AND MOURNING AND WOE. MOREOVER HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF 00:26:05.06\00:26:07.63 MAN, EAT WHAT YOU FIND; EAT THIS SCROLL," - EAT THE BOOK - "AND 00:26:07.63\00:26:11.90 GO, SPEAK TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' 00:26:11.90\00:26:13.56 SO I OPENED MY MOUTH, AND HE CAUSED ME TO EAT THAT SCROLL. 00:26:13.56\00:26:15.76 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, FEED YOUR BELLY, AND FILL YOUR 00:26:15.76\00:26:19.66 STOMACH WITH THIS SCROLL THAT I GIVE YOU.' 00:26:19.66\00:26:21.63 SO I ATE, AND IT WAS IN MY MOUTH LIKE HONEY IN SWEETNESS." 00:26:21.63\00:26:26.36 THAT SOUND LIKE REVELATION? LIKE WHAT WE JUST READ? 00:26:26.36\00:26:29.00 OKAY, MIKE, YOU'VE GOT PSALM 119:103. 00:26:29.00\00:26:33.86 >>PSALM 119:103, "HOW SWEET ARE YOUR WORDS TO MY TASTE, 00:26:33.86\00:26:38.36 SWEETER THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH!" 00:26:38.36\00:26:41.06 >>SO BACK WHEN THEY STUDIED THE PROPHECIES IN THE EARLY 1800S 00:26:41.06\00:26:45.06 AND THEY DISCOVERED HOW TO UNFOLD - THESE WORDS THAT THE 00:26:45.06\00:26:49.00 ANGEL HAD UTTERED THAT WERE SEALED, THE WORDS OF DANIEL THAT 00:26:49.00\00:26:52.03 WERE SEALED - IT SAID, 'SEALED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END.' 00:26:52.03\00:26:54.86 THE TIME OF THE END BEGINS WITH THE LAST STAGE AND PHASE OF THE 00:26:54.86\00:26:59.33 CHURCH THAT WE ENTERED IN THE PHASE OF LAODICEA - 00:26:59.33\00:27:02.93 THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PROPHECIES AND 00:27:02.93\00:27:07.16 HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES WAS ALL UNFOLDED. 00:27:07.16\00:27:10.60 AND PEOPLE BECAME SO EXCITED AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOSPEL WAS 00:27:10.60\00:27:15.16 SO EXCITING IT WAS HONEY IN THEIR MOUTHS. 00:27:15.16\00:27:17.56 IF YOU LOVE JESUS AND YOU HEAR HE'S COMING, I MEAN, WHAT DOES A 00:27:17.56\00:27:20.90 BELIEVER LONG FOR MORE THAN THAT? AND THEY TOOK THAT 00:27:20.90\00:27:23.76 MESSAGE, 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMES' TO THE WORLD. 00:27:23.76\00:27:26.66 BUT THEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT HE TARRIED. 00:27:26.66\00:27:30.06 IT WAS SWEET IN THEIR MOUTHS BUT THEN IT BECAME BITTER. 00:27:30.06\00:27:33.00 AND THE FINAL MESSAGE THAT THEY'RE GIVEN IS, 'YOU MUST 00:27:33.00\00:27:35.93 PROPHESY AGAIN.' IT'S NOT OVER. 00:27:35.93\00:27:38.46 THE DISCIPLES THOUGHT WHEN JESUS CAME AND HE MARCHED INTO 00:27:38.46\00:27:41.23 JERUSALEM AND THEY SAID, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID' 00:27:41.23\00:27:43.76 AND HE CAST ALL THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE THEY 00:27:43.76\00:27:46.16 SAID, 'THIS IS IT! THIS IS IT!' 00:27:46.16\00:27:48.16 AND WITHIN A FEW DAYS HE WAS DEAD. 00:27:48.16\00:27:51.36 AND JESUS CAME TO HIM AND HE SAID, 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN. 00:27:51.36\00:27:54.86 IT'S NOT OVER YET. 00:27:54.86\00:27:56.96 YOU THOUGHT YOUR WORK WAS DONE AFTER I SENT YOU OUT - THE 00:27:56.96\00:27:59.43 TWELVE - AND I SENT OUT THE SEVENTY AND YOU PROCLAIMED ME 00:27:59.43\00:28:03.10 KING SAYING 'HOSANNA' AS I MARCHED INTO JERUSALEM ON A 00:28:03.10\00:28:06.26 DONKEY.' HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'VE ONLY BEGUN. 00:28:06.26\00:28:08.73 YOU'VE GOT A BIG WORK TO DO.' THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE DONE. 00:28:08.73\00:28:11.50 THEY THOUGHT 'ALL OF ISRAEL IS HERE. 00:28:11.50\00:28:13.80 EVERYONE KNOWS.' HE SAID, 'NO, NO. 00:28:13.80\00:28:15.10 THE MESSAGE HAS TO GO MUCH FARTHER THAN THAT. 00:28:15.10\00:28:17.16 THE MESSAGE HAS TO GO TO THE WORLD JESUS SAID. 00:28:17.16\00:28:19.30 YOU'VE GOT TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND THE 00:28:19.30\00:28:21.70 OUTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' AND SO THEY REALIZED, 'WOW, 00:28:21.70\00:28:25.50 WE'VE GOT A LOT LEFT TO DO.' THERE WAS A GREAT 00:28:25.50\00:28:27.30 DISAPPOINTMENT. SWEET IN THEIR MOUTHS ONE DAY. 00:28:27.30\00:28:31.40 BITTER IN THEIR BELLY A FEW DAYS LATER. THAT'S WHAT - YOU KNOW, 00:28:31.40\00:28:35.03 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT HAPPEN? 00:28:35.03\00:28:37.03 WITH ANCIENT ISRAEL - IT HAPPENED WITH THE CHURCH. 00:28:37.03\00:28:38.66 IT'S HAPPENING WITH THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS. 00:28:38.66\00:28:41.00 THERE'S A TIME OF GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT AND GOD SAID, 00:28:41.00\00:28:43.93 'YOU STILL HAVE A MESSAGE TO PREACH TO THE WORLD.' 00:28:43.93\00:28:45.96 ARE WE DOING THAT NOW? 00:28:45.96\00:28:48.13 IS THE MESSAGE GOING INTO ALL THE WORLD? 00:28:48.13\00:28:51.63 IS THERE AN EFFORT TO COMPROMISE WORSHIP DURING THAT SAME TIME? 00:28:51.63\00:28:56.00 THERE'S A BATTLE ABOUT MESSAGES TOO. 00:28:56.00\00:28:58.93 IN THE DAYS OF JESUS WAS THERE A BATTLE BETWEEN THE MESSAGE OF 00:28:58.93\00:29:03.03 JESUS - THE WORD OF GOD - AND THE APOSTLES AND WHAT THE 00:29:03.03\00:29:06.50 ESTABLISHED CHURCH WAS SAYING IN JERUSALEM? 00:29:06.50\00:29:09.70 WAS THERE A STRUGGLE BACK IN THE BIBLE? 00:29:09.70\00:29:13.76 CAN YOU SEE EVEN A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD WHEN 00:29:13.76\00:29:17.03 ELI WAS THE HIGH PRIEST AND WHAT THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH WAS DOING 00:29:17.03\00:29:21.36 AND PEOPLE WHO WERE FAITHFUL, LIKE HANNAH? 00:29:21.36\00:29:23.90 YOU CAN OFTEN SEE THAT THERE'S A STRUGGLE SOMETIMES. 00:29:23.90\00:29:26.50 ARE WE GOING TO SEE A SIMILAR STRUGGLE, POSSIBLY, IN THE LAST 00:29:26.50\00:29:29.70 DAYS HAPPENING? GOD WANTS US TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE WORD. 00:29:29.70\00:29:34.43 HE SAID, 'YOU MAY PROPHESY AGAIN.' 00:29:34.43\00:29:35.86 AND YOU NOTICE WHEN YOU SEE REVELATION 14 - PART OF 00:29:35.86\00:29:41.06 REVELATION 14, VERSE 6, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN 00:29:41.06\00:29:45.93 THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO 00:29:45.93\00:29:49.26 THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH - TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, 00:29:49.26\00:29:52.56 AND PEOPLE" - THAT'S WHAT WE READ THERE IN REVELATION 10. 00:29:52.56\00:29:56.70 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN.' WHY WOULD HE SAY 'AGAIN'? 00:29:56.70\00:29:59.86 DO YOU SAY AGAIN IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT THE FIRST TIME? 00:29:59.86\00:30:02.53 THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE THIS MESSAGE AGAIN, EXCEPT IT 00:30:02.53\00:30:05.26 WAS GOING TO GO EVERYWHERE. AND WE SEE THIS THROUGHOUT THE 00:30:05.26\00:30:10.86 STUDY HERE. I'M GOING TO JUST TRY AND PACE 00:30:10.86\00:30:12.30 MYSELF A LITTLE BIT. SO LET'S GO AHEAD TO REVELATION 00:30:12.30\00:30:15.03 - WE'RE GOING TO BREAK DOWN REVELATION 14 IN ITS COMPONENTS. 00:30:15.03\00:30:20.80 NOW JUST TO GIVE YOU THE CONTEXT OF REVELATION 14, GO TO 00:30:20.80\00:30:24.96 REVELATION 14 AND, LET ME SEE HERE, LOOK IN VERSE 14 - 00:30:24.96\00:30:33.26 REVELATION 14:14, "THEN I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A WHITE 00:30:33.26\00:30:39.63 CLOUD, AND ON THE CLOUD SAT ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, HAVING ON 00:30:39.63\00:30:44.36 HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A SHARP SICKLE. 00:30:44.36\00:30:47.86 AND ANOTHER ANGEL...CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE TO HIM WHO SAT 00:30:47.86\00:30:50.96 ON THE CLOUD, 'THRUST IN YOUR SICKLE AND REAP, FOR THE TIME 00:30:50.96\00:30:53.33 HAS COME FOR YOU TO REAP, FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS 00:30:53.33\00:30:56.40 RIPE.'" ALRIGHT, WHO IS IT THAT'S 00:30:56.40\00:30:58.83 SITTING ON THE CLOUD? JESUS. 00:30:58.83\00:31:01.56 WHAT'S HAPPENING WHEN THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE CLOUD IS 00:31:01.56\00:31:04.56 COMING TO REAP? ISN'T THAT THE SECOND COMING? 00:31:04.56\00:31:07.83 ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S REVELATION 14:14. 00:31:07.83\00:31:10.76 SO WHAT MESSAGE GOES TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS IS SEEN 00:31:10.76\00:31:15.53 COMING IN THE CLOUDS TO HARVEST THE EARTH? 00:31:15.53\00:31:18.33 IT'S REVELATION 14 VERSE 6 ON. AND PART OF THAT MESSAGE - LET 00:31:18.33\00:31:23.10 ME ASK YOU HERE - WHEN YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 14, FOR INSTANCE, 00:31:23.10\00:31:27.03 VERSE 9, "THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A 00:31:27.03\00:31:31.06 LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 00:31:31.06\00:31:33.53 RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND,'" - 00:31:33.53\00:31:35.66 IS THAT PAST OR FUTURE? THAT'S FUTURE. 00:31:35.66\00:31:40.23 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE MARK HASN'T BEEN ESTABLISHED YET. 00:31:40.23\00:31:44.40 NOBODY HAS THE MARK OF THE BEAST YET, BUT WE'RE TO GIVE A WARNING 00:31:44.40\00:31:47.23 ABOUT THAT JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES. ARE WE ALL STILL 00:31:47.23\00:31:50.13 TOGETHER, RIGHT? YOU READ ABOUT THAT ALSO IN 00:31:50.13\00:31:52.63 REVELATION 13, IT TALKS ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND IT 00:31:52.63\00:31:55.16 IDENTIFIES THE BEAST. ALL OF THESE CHAPTERS IN 00:31:55.16\00:31:58.10 REVELATION SORT OF BACK UP AND OVERLAP SO WE WON'T MISS IT. 00:31:58.10\00:32:01.93 AND HERE, NOW, IT'S BRINGING US RIGHT UP TO THE MESSAGE THAT 00:32:01.93\00:32:04.13 GOES TO THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS COMES. 00:32:04.13\00:32:06.23 IT TALKS ABOUT THE 144,000 IN THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER 14, 00:32:06.23\00:32:11.00 THAT HAVE THEIR FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN IN THE FOREHEAD. 00:32:11.00\00:32:13.40 THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE IN REVELATION 13 IT TALKS 00:32:13.40\00:32:15.93 ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN THE FOREHEAD. 00:32:15.93\00:32:18.03 EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING IN THE FOREHEAD HERE IN REVELATION - 00:32:18.03\00:32:22.13 'MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT' WRITTEN IN THE FOREHEAD OF THE 00:32:22.13\00:32:24.06 FALSE CHURCH; THE SEAL OF GOD AND THE NAME OF GOD WRITTEN IN 00:32:24.06\00:32:27.46 THE FOREHEAD OF THE TRUE CHURCH. AND WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO STUDY 00:32:27.46\00:32:31.20 WHAT ALL OF THOSE THINGS MEAN RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE'S A MESSAGE 00:32:31.20\00:32:35.10 THAT WE'RE TO TAKE TO THE WORLD, BEGINNING ESPECIALLY WITH VERSE 00:32:35.10\00:32:37.66 6, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN," 00:32:37.66\00:32:42.13 - NOW WHAT DOES THE WORD 'ANGEL' MEAN? MESSENGER. 00:32:42.13\00:32:45.96 AND CAN ONE ANGEL GIVE A LOUD VOICE? LIKE A MEGAPHONE. 00:32:45.96\00:32:52.30 POLICE HELICOPTERS NOW HAVE VERY POWERFUL MEGAPHONES. 00:32:52.30\00:32:58.66 FIRST OF ALL, TRYING TO HEAR SOMEBODY TALK WHEN YOU'RE 00:32:58.66\00:33:01.20 IN A HELICOPTER IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. 00:33:01.20\00:33:04.00 YOU HAVE HEADPHONES ON - I'VE FLOWN IN - I'VE ACTUALLY FLOWN 00:33:04.00\00:33:07.53 HELICOPTERS AND YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEADPHONES ON - IT'S VERY LOUD, 00:33:07.53\00:33:10.36 ESPECIALLY IF THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN. 00:33:10.36\00:33:12.50 WHEN YOU HAVE A HELICOPTER FLYING OVER AND SOMEONE'S 00:33:12.50\00:33:14.30 SHOUTING AT YOU, IT'S REALLY HARD. 00:33:14.30\00:33:15.83 SO THE POLICE HAVE DEVELOPED THESE VERY POWERFUL - WE HAVE 00:33:15.83\00:33:18.76 THEM IN SACRAMENTO - YOU EVER HEARD IT BEFORE? 00:33:18.76\00:33:21.06 IT'S KIND OF UNNERVING WHEN THEY FLY OVER YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND 00:33:21.06\00:33:24.16 THEY SAY, 'PLEASE GO IN YOUR HOUSE. 00:33:24.16\00:33:26.06 THERE IS A CRIMINAL ON THE LOOSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 00:33:26.06\00:33:29.03 DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOORS.' THEY'RE TRYING TO TRACK SOMEONE 00:33:29.03\00:33:31.36 DOWN THAT'S RUNNING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY'RE AFRAID 00:33:31.36\00:33:33.00 HE'S GOING TO ENTER ONE OF THESE HOUSES. 00:33:33.00\00:33:34.60 THERE ARE THESE POWERFUL MEGAPHONES. 00:33:34.60\00:33:36.86 I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. MESSAGE COMING FROM THE MIDST OF 00:33:36.86\00:33:40.06 HEAVEN - WELL, ANGELS CAN DO BETTER THAN HELICOPTERS, RIGHT? 00:33:40.06\00:33:44.63 AND SO THESE ANGELS ARE GIVING THIS MEGALOPHONIA - AND THAT'S 00:33:44.63\00:33:49.13 WHERE YOU GET THE WORD MEGAPHONE, IT'S FROM A LATIN 00:33:49.13\00:33:51.66 WORD AND IT TALKS ABOUT POWERFUL. 00:33:51.66\00:33:54.03 WHEN WE SAY 'MEGA' YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, RIGHT? 00:33:54.03\00:33:56.80 MEGA CHIPS, MEGA DRINK - EVERYONE KNOWS - YEAH, MEGA 00:33:56.80\00:34:00.83 SODAS AND - SO IT MEANS 'BIG, POWERFUL'. 00:34:00.83\00:34:04.60 AND SO THIS MEGA MESSAGE IS GOING TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE 00:34:04.60\00:34:10.53 JESUS COMES. FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN - 00:34:10.53\00:34:12.50 UP - POSITION OF VISIBILITY - PEOPLE CAN HEAR BETTER. 00:34:12.50\00:34:15.33 WHEN SOMEONE SPOKE THEY OFTEN SPOKE FROM MOUNTAINS SO THE 00:34:15.33\00:34:17.53 PEOPLE BELOW COULD HEAR WITHOUT OBSTRUCTION. 00:34:17.53\00:34:20.56 AND IT SAYS THIS ANGEL IS GIVING A MESSAGE TO GO EVERYWHERE AND 00:34:20.56\00:34:24.66 IT'S THE MESSAGE OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 00:34:24.66\00:34:27.40 WHY IS IT CALLED THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL? 00:34:27.40\00:34:29.86 YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT WE CALL OUR CHURCH-SERVICE PROGRAM HERE IN 00:34:29.86\00:34:32.73 SACRAMENTO - THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 00:34:32.73\00:34:36.10 IT'S ONLY FOUND ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE, THAT PHRASE - HERE - 00:34:36.10\00:34:39.53 YOU JUST READ IT IN REVELATION 14. 00:34:39.53\00:34:41.53 WHY DOES IT CALL THE GOSPEL THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL HERE? 00:34:41.53\00:34:46.30 DID THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL START WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS OR DID 00:34:46.30\00:34:51.86 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 00:34:51.86\00:34:53.70 GARDEN OF EDEN? FROM THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE 00:34:53.70\00:34:56.86 FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. WAS ABRAHAM SAVED BY A DIFFERENT 00:34:56.86\00:34:59.90 GOSPEL THAN PETER AND JOHN WERE SAVED BY OR WAS IT THE SAME 00:34:59.90\00:35:03.16 EVERLASTING GOSPEL? HAVE THERE BEEN EFFORTS FOR 00:35:03.16\00:35:06.20 PEOPLE TO PREACH ANOTHER GOSPEL, A DIFFERENT GOSPEL? 00:35:06.20\00:35:10.33 YEAH, THERE'S A COUNTERFEIT GOSPEL ISN'T THERE - OUT THERE? 00:35:10.33\00:35:13.53 BUT THE GOSPEL - THE TRUE GOSPEL HAS NOT CHANGED. IT IS THE SAME 00:35:13.53\00:35:16.90 - JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER. 00:35:16.90\00:35:19.30 SO TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE GOSPEL IN THE LAST DAYS IS STILL 00:35:19.30\00:35:23.63 PREACHING THE MESSAGE THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS, IT 00:35:23.63\00:35:26.93 IS CALLED THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 00:35:26.93\00:35:28.60 THE TRUTH OF SALVATION HAS NOT CHANGED AND SO THAT'S THE 00:35:28.60\00:35:31.96 MESSAGE THAT'S TO GO TO THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS COMES. 00:35:31.96\00:35:34.33 IT'S NOT A MODIFIED GOSPEL. 00:35:34.33\00:35:36.43 IT'S NOT A CULTURALLY CORRECT GOSPEL. 00:35:36.43\00:35:39.33 IT IS THE SAME GOSPEL THAT SAVED PEOPLE ALL THROUGH HISTORY, 00:35:39.33\00:35:43.00 RIGHT? SO THAT ANGEL HAS THAT EVERLASTING GOSPEL THAT HE IS 00:35:43.00\00:35:47.53 PREACHING TO THE WORLD - TO ALL THE WORLD - EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE 00:35:47.53\00:35:51.60 AND PEOPLE. BY THE WAY, IS THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE GOING INTO ALL 00:35:51.60\00:35:56.80 THE WORLD? IT IS - FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE. 00:35:56.80\00:36:01.10 NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF PRINT - FOR YEARS IT WAS PRINT - AND THEN 00:36:01.10\00:36:04.60 THEY STARTED USING REEL-TO-REEL TAPES AND CASSETTE TAPES AND 00:36:04.60\00:36:08.26 THEN RADIO AND THEN TELEVISION AND NOW THE INTERNET AND DVDS 00:36:08.26\00:36:12.56 AND JUST EVERY - AND MISSIONARIES AND TRAINING AND 00:36:12.56\00:36:15.80 EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. THERE ARE SO MANY CREATIVE WAYS 00:36:15.80\00:36:18.33 THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO THE WORLD THAT EVEN THE BARRIERS OF 00:36:18.33\00:36:21.13 GOVERNMENTS CAN'T BLOCK IT ANYMORE. 00:36:21.13\00:36:24.13 IT'S COMING UP ON PEOPLE'S SMART PHONES IN COUNTRIES WHERE YOU'RE 00:36:24.13\00:36:27.06 NOT ALLOWED TO PREACH ABOUT JESUS AND SO THE GOSPEL IS GOING 00:36:27.06\00:36:30.86 INTO ALL THE WORLD. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID - I'M 00:36:30.86\00:36:32.70 EXCITED - NO, JESUS DIDN'T SAY 'I'M EXCITED', I SAID THAT. 00:36:32.70\00:36:36.13 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW 24:14, "AND THIS GOSPEL 00:36:36.13\00:36:41.53 OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO 00:36:41.53\00:36:44.23 ALL THE NATIONS, AND THEN THE END WILL COME." 00:36:44.23\00:36:46.40 EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS THAT THERE'S A DELAY, JESUS SAID, 'IN 00:36:46.40\00:36:51.13 SUCH AN HOUR YOU THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMES.' 00:36:51.13\00:36:55.30 YOU KNOW, I HEAR PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS IS GOING TO 00:36:55.30\00:36:57.80 COME AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO BE FALLING APART.' 00:36:57.80\00:37:00.76 AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE PROBLEMS. 00:37:00.76\00:37:03.83 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 00:37:03.83\00:37:05.30 FINANCIAL RECOVERY. DON'T BE MISTAKEN INTO THINKING 00:37:05.30\00:37:09.70 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE ALL THE POLAR CAPS MELT BEFORE 00:37:09.70\00:37:12.50 JESUS COMES AND EVERY - ALL THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE SWIMMING 00:37:12.50\00:37:15.13 FOR THE SURFACE AND ALL THE MOUNTAINS ARE GOING TO BE - AND 00:37:15.13\00:37:17.70 THEN JESUS - YOU KNOW HOW PROBATION'S GOING TO CLOSE? 00:37:17.70\00:37:22.16 JESUS SAID, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH'. 00:37:22.16\00:37:24.66 WHAT WAS THE WEATHER LIKE BEFORE THE DOOR WAS CLOSED ON THE ARK? 00:37:24.66\00:37:28.43 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT.' 00:37:28.43\00:37:33.06 WHAT WAS THE WEATHER LIKE IN SODOM THE MORNING THAT FIRE 00:37:33.06\00:37:35.53 RAINED DOWN? PROBABLY BEAUTIFUL. THEY KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD 00:37:35.53\00:37:41.96 CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY. THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING 00:37:41.96\00:37:45.56 AND BUILDING AND PLANTING. YOU HEARING THAT? 00:37:45.56\00:37:48.46 IT SEEMS LIKE THE ECONOMY'S BOOMING, TO ME. 00:37:48.46\00:37:50.86 A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE GIVING A MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, 00:37:50.86\00:37:54.96 EVERY TIME THERE'S SOME OTHER NEW DISASTER - YES, THERE'S 00:37:54.96\00:37:57.16 GOING TO BE AN INCREASE IN NATURAL DISASTERS. 00:37:57.16\00:37:59.33 JESUS SAID THERE WILL BE WARS. 00:37:59.33\00:38:01.33 HE SAID THERE'LL BE RUMORS OF WARS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET. 00:38:01.33\00:38:03.60 IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T MAKE THE NEXT NATURAL DISASTER OR THE 00:38:03.60\00:38:05.50 NEXT WAR MAKE YOU THINK THE END IS HERE. 00:38:05.50\00:38:09.86 YOU WILL SEE THOSE THINGS INCREASE IN INTENSITY - ARE WE 00:38:09.86\00:38:14.16 SEEING THAT WITH STORMS AND EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS? 00:38:14.16\00:38:16.93 YOU'LL SEE THEM INCREASE WITH FREQUENCY. 00:38:16.93\00:38:20.53 BUT THEN THE SUN'LL COME BACK UP AGAIN. 00:38:20.53\00:38:22.56 THOSE THINGS ARE TO WARN US TO GET READY, BUT LIFE WILL 00:38:22.56\00:38:25.73 CONTINUE TO GO ON UNTIL JESUS COMES. 00:38:25.73\00:38:28.90 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IS THAT BIBLICAL? 00:38:28.90\00:38:31.63 SO - I KNOW, I HEAR PEOPLE THAT JUST THEY THINK THAT IT'S GOING 00:38:31.63\00:38:38.86 TO BE JUMEAN GET READY.G T 00:38:38.86\00:38:40.40 WHEN YOU SEE THE SEVEN LAST 00:38:38.86\00:38:40.40 PLAGUES, PROBATION'S CLOSED AT THAT POINT. 00:38:40.40\00:38:43.46 WE NEED TO GET READY WHILE THE SUN IS STILL SHINING. 00:38:43.46\00:38:45.86 'SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN IS COMING.' 00:38:45.86\00:38:49.93 ALRIGHT, SO FEAR GOD - LET'S GO BACK TO REVELATION. 00:38:49.93\00:38:52.70 NOW WHAT DOES THAT ANGEL SAY? "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, 00:38:52.70\00:38:55.63 FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT" - WILL COME? 00:38:55.63\00:38:59.80 IT EITHER SAYS IN YOUR BIBLE, 'IS' OR 'HAS COME'. 00:38:59.80\00:39:03.00 SO WHEN THIS MESSAGE BEGINS, YOU'VE ENTERED THE LAST AGE OF 00:39:03.00\00:39:06.30 THE CHURCH - LAODICEA MEANS A JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 00:39:06.30\00:39:09.50 CHRIST HAS ENTERED HIS LAST PHASE OF HIS HEAVENLY MINISTRY 00:39:09.50\00:39:13.70 AND THE JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE ON EARTH - THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 00:39:13.70\00:39:16.56 ON EARTH IS HAPPENING. THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY 00:39:16.56\00:39:19.36 ON EARTH FROM THE TRUTH THAT HAS BEEN CAST TO THE GROUND IS 00:39:19.36\00:39:22.36 HAPPENING. THERE IS A REVIVAL THAT IS 00:39:22.36\00:39:24.80 HAPPENING AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE HERE AS WELL AS WHAT JESUS IS 00:39:24.80\00:39:27.83 DOING IN HEAVEN. THAT WORK HAS SHIFTED. 00:39:27.83\00:39:31.46 "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS 00:39:31.46\00:39:34.23 COME; AND" - THERE IS A MESSAGE - A CALL - "WORSHIP HIM" - THERE 00:39:34.23\00:39:39.33 IS A CALL TO WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD. 00:39:39.33\00:39:41.50 WORSHIP HIM AS OPPOSED TO WHAT? ALL THE COUNTERFEIT WORSHIP, 00:39:41.50\00:39:45.43 ALL THE CORRUPTED WORSHIP, ALL THE BABYLONIAN 00:39:45.43\00:39:47.40 WORSHIP THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. 00:39:47.40\00:39:50.06 WORSHIP HIM - AND IT IDENTIFIES HIM - IT SEPARATES HIM FROM 00:39:50.06\00:39:53.03 EVERY OTHER GOD - IT SAYS, "WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE" - 00:39:53.03\00:39:56.50 WORSHIP THE CREATOR. "WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE HEAVEN AND 00:39:56.50\00:40:03.20 EARTH, THE SEA AND SPRINGS OF WATER." 00:40:03.20\00:40:05.90 NOW WHERE DO YOU FIND A REFERENCE AGAIN TO THE HEAVEN 00:40:05.90\00:40:09.70 AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND THE SPRINGS OF WATER? 00:40:09.70\00:40:12.80 SOMEBODY - YEAH, LOOK UP FOR ME - IS IT EXODUS CHAPTER 20, 00:40:12.80\00:40:19.23 VERSE 11? WHO HAS THAT? GOT A HAND OVER HERE. 00:40:19.23\00:40:22.93 LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. THERE'S A CALL TO WORSHIP THE 00:40:22.93\00:40:27.70 CREATOR THAT COMES. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT 00:40:27.70\00:40:35.46 WHAT THEY CALL 'THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY'? 00:40:35.46\00:40:39.33 IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN I SAY THE ALPHA OF 00:40:39.33\00:40:42.30 APOSTASY - I'M JUST CURIOUS - HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 00:40:42.30\00:40:44.03 IF YOU DON'T KNOW, DON'T HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 00:40:44.03\00:40:46.16 WOW, IT WORRIES ME THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 00:40:46.16\00:40:50.10 YOU KNOW, ELLEN WHITE, SHE TALKED ABOUT THE ALPHA OF 00:40:50.10\00:40:54.86 APOSTASY AND SHE TALKED ABOUT THE OMEGA OF APOSTASY. 00:40:54.86\00:40:58.36 THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY WAS WHEN OUR PREMIER INSTITUTION OF 00:40:58.36\00:41:02.76 EDUCATION AND MEDICAL WORK IN BATTLE CREEK UNDER DR. KELLOGG, 00:41:02.76\00:41:07.76 WHO HAD DONE A WONDERFUL WORK BUT HE SLOWLY BEGAN TO CHANGE 00:41:07.76\00:41:10.90 HIS THEOLOGY AND CHANGE HIS WORLD VIEW. 00:41:10.90\00:41:14.06 HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED 'THE LIVING TEMPLE' AND IN IT HE 00:41:14.06\00:41:20.33 BASICALLY TAUGHT PANTHEISM. HE CO-MINGLED SORT OF NEW-AGE 00:41:20.33\00:41:26.90 PHILOSOPHY ABOUT GOD IS SORT OF IN EVERYTHING AND IS TO BE 00:41:26.90\00:41:31.00 WORSHIPED IN EVERYTHING, AS OPPOSED TO THE BIBLE MODEL OF 00:41:31.00\00:41:34.53 GOD IS A UNIQUE CREATOR AND INDEPENDENT OF THAT. 00:41:34.53\00:41:38.16 AND THAT WAS CALLED THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY. I THINK THE OMEGA OF 00:41:38.16\00:41:46.86 APOSTASY IS GOING TO BE WHEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS THAT 00:41:46.86\00:41:51.90 BELIEVE - OUR WHOLE CHURCH IS FOUNDED ON THE BELIEF THAT IN 00:41:51.90\00:41:55.40 SIX DAYS - LITERAL DAYS - THE LORD MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE 00:41:55.40\00:41:59.80 EARTH - WHEN A CHURCH THAT BELIEVES IN THE LITERAL COMING 00:41:59.80\00:42:03.20 OF THE LORD AND THAT HE IS A LITERAL CREATOR - WHEN THEY 00:42:03.20\00:42:06.93 BEGIN TO TEACH THAT GOD REALLY CREATED THROUGH A PROCESS WHERE 00:42:06.93\00:42:11.56 THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN DEATH AND DINOSAURS WERE KILLING EACH 00:42:11.56\00:42:14.10 OTHER AND SLOWLY MAN EVOLVED FROM LOWER FORMS OF LIFE AND 00:42:14.10\00:42:18.50 THEN ONE DAY GOD SAID, 'I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE HIM THE SPARK OF A 00:42:18.50\00:42:21.03 SOUL'. YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THE POPE 00:42:21.03\00:42:24.03 SAID IS AN ACCEPTED VIEW OF CREATION NOW. 00:42:24.03\00:42:27.83 HE SAID, 'YES MAN WAS, MAYBE, A LOWER FORM OF LIFE, BUT AT SOME 00:42:27.83\00:42:30.13 POINT GOD SAID, 'I'M GOING TO DECLARE YOU UNIQUE.' 00:42:30.13\00:42:32.76 BUT, YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM WITH THAT VIEW, IF YOU BELIEVE IN 00:42:32.76\00:42:36.06 THESE LONG TIME PERIODS, THEN THE SIN IN THE WORLD IS NOT 00:42:36.06\00:42:39.60 THE RESULT OF MAN'S FALL. 00:42:39.60\00:42:40.96 THERE WAS DEATH AND THERE WAS KILLING AND THERE WERE ANIMALS 00:42:40.96\00:42:44.00 EATING EACH OTHER BEFORE MAN EVER SINNED, ACCORDING TO THAT. 00:42:44.00\00:42:47.73 I MEAN, PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'WELL, I BELIEVE IN CREATION BUT GOD 00:42:47.73\00:42:50.56 USED EVOLUTION TO DO IT.' THAT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE BIBLE 00:42:50.56\00:42:53.76 BECAUSE JESUS SAID IT'S SIX DAYS. JESUS SAYS NOAH'S REAL. 00:42:53.76\00:42:58.36 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE - JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE MOSES YOU 00:42:58.36\00:43:00.26 DON'T BELIEVE ME.' AND SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY - 00:43:00.26\00:43:04.16 A GOOD DEFINITION FOR THE OMEGA OF APOSTASY IS WHEN CHRISTIAN 00:43:04.16\00:43:08.80 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST INSTITUTIONS START TO TEACH THAT 00:43:08.80\00:43:12.06 THE PREFERRED VIEW OF ORIGINS IS EVOLUTION AND THEY'RE PUTTING 00:43:12.06\00:43:18.90 THE REASONING OF MAN AHEAD OF THE DECLARATION OF GOD'S WORD 00:43:18.90\00:43:22.76 BECAUSE THERE'S SOME THINGS THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT. 00:43:22.76\00:43:25.56 I ALSO DON'T THINK IT'S SCIENTIFIC. 00:43:25.56\00:43:27.80 BUT WHAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE WORLD? 00:43:27.80\00:43:31.03 THE MESSAGE OF EVOLUTION OR THE MESSAGE OF CREATION? 00:43:31.03\00:43:33.83 ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ A VERSE FOR US. 00:43:33.83\00:43:36.73 >>EXODUS 20:11, "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND 00:43:36.73\00:43:41.46 THE EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, AND RESTED THE 00:43:41.46\00:43:44.83 SEVENTH DAY. THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE 00:43:44.83\00:43:47.16 SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT." >>AMEN. DO WE BELIEVE THAT? 00:43:47.16\00:43:52.63 DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN SIX DAYS? IT WASN'T IN SIX MILLION YEARS. 00:43:52.63\00:43:56.40 WE'RE NOT CELEBRATING EVERY SABBATH DAY THE MEMORIAL OF GOD 00:43:56.40\00:44:00.43 DOING THINGS SLOWLY OVER MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS. 00:44:00.43\00:44:03.13 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS US. IT'S - WE'RE WORSHIPING 00:44:03.13\00:44:06.06 A GOD THAT IS ABLE TO CREATE INSTANTLY AND HE IS ABLE TO 00:44:06.06\00:44:10.33 RECREATE. HE IS ABLE TO SANCTIFY AND 00:44:10.33\00:44:14.33 JUSTIFY YOU JUST LIKE THAT. GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE YOU A NEW 00:44:14.33\00:44:18.60 CREATURE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT IS 00:44:18.60\00:44:21.10 INVOLVED IN THAT MESSAGE. AND THEN, MOVING ON IN OUR STUDY 00:44:21.10\00:44:26.93 HERE, IT SAYS THAT ANGEL SAYS WITH A LOUD VOICE, "FEAR GOD AND 00:44:26.93\00:44:31.36 GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME. 00:44:31.36\00:44:33.50 WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, THE SEA 00:44:33.50\00:44:36.40 AND THE SPRINGS OF WATERS." 00:44:36.40\00:44:37.70 AND THEN THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWS SAYING, "BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS 00:44:37.70\00:44:41.56 FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY" - WE'VE GOT TO STOP HERE. 00:44:41.56\00:44:46.83 YOU NOTICE THERE'S A CONTRAST BEING MADE BETWEEN THE WORSHIP 00:44:46.83\00:44:50.16 OF THE TRUE GOD AND THE WORSHIP OF THE FALSE GOD. 00:44:50.16\00:44:55.96 IT'S SAYING THE TRUE GOD - SEAL OF GOD - WORSHIP HIM THAT 00:44:55.96\00:44:59.46 CREATED AS OPPOSED TO BABYLONIAN WORSHIP. 00:44:59.46\00:45:04.13 AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS ONE OF DANIEL'S PROBLEMS? 00:45:04.13\00:45:08.76 AS SOON AS HE WENT TO BABYLON THEY TRIED TO FEED HIM WITH THE 00:45:08.76\00:45:10.56 FOOD OF BABYLON AND HE SAID, 'NO, I CAN'T - I WILL NOT DEFILE 00:45:10.56\00:45:14.56 MYSELF WITH THE BABYLONIAN DIET.' 00:45:14.56\00:45:17.36 IN REVELATION WE JUST READ THAT EATING THE BOOK REPRESENTED THE 00:45:17.36\00:45:21.63 TRUTH OF GOD. SOME PEOPLE ARE EATING FROM THE 00:45:21.63\00:45:25.13 WRONG BOOK - THEY'RE EATING FROM THE WRONG TRUTH AND THEY'RE 00:45:25.13\00:45:29.43 BEING DEFILED BY BABYLONIAN FOOD, YOU MIGHT SAY. 00:45:29.43\00:45:33.13 AND SO THEN, IN THAT CONTEXT, IT SAYS THERE'S A GREAT STRUGGLE 00:45:33.13\00:45:37.83 THAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD AND 00:45:37.83\00:45:41.50 THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 00:45:41.50\00:45:42.96 NOW HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS? 00:45:42.96\00:45:47.33 YOU KNOW I - VERY COMMON QUESTION PASTOR ROSS AND I GET 00:45:47.33\00:45:50.70 ON OUR LIVE BIBLE ANSWER PROGRAM WHERE PEOPLE CALL IN BIBLE 00:45:50.70\00:45:54.50 QUESTIONS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF 00:45:54.50\00:45:56.63 PEOPLE - AND THEY SAY, 'WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE THE GOD IN THE NEW 00:45:56.63\00:46:01.10 TESTAMENT AND JESUS ARE SO LOVING AND MERCIFUL AND KIND AND 00:46:01.10\00:46:04.40 IN THE BIBLE YOU'VE GOT THESE PLAGUES AND WRATH AND IT SEEMS 00:46:04.40\00:46:06.46 LIKE GOD IS SO JUDGMENTAL AND HARSH. 00:46:06.46\00:46:08.93 WHY SUCH DIFFERENT GODS?' AND I SAY, 'I DON'T THINK YOU'RE 00:46:08.93\00:46:13.26 READING THE WHOLE OLD TESTAMENT AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE READING 00:46:13.26\00:46:15.73 THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT. BECAUSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 00:46:15.73\00:46:22.20 YOTESTAMENT YOU'LL FIND SOMEND JUDGMENT AND WRATH AND PLAGUES. 00:46:22.20\00:46:25.93 AND THE MOST FEARFUL DECLARATION AND CURSE THAT YOU SEE IN 00:46:25.93\00:46:29.50 SCRIPTURE IS ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 00:46:29.50\00:46:32.30 I THINK IT'S RIGHT HERE IN THE THIRD ANGELS' MESSAGE. 00:46:32.30\00:46:35.46 "ANOTHER ANGEL FOLLOWED, SAYING, 'BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, 00:46:35.46\00:46:38.26 THAT GREAT CITY, BECAUSE SHE HAS MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK THE WINE 00:46:38.26\00:46:41.73 OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.'" - 00:46:41.73\00:46:43.30 TALKING ABOUT BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS - "THEN A THIRD 00:46:43.30\00:46:46.86 ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE 00:46:46.86\00:46:50.13 WORSHIPS THE BEAST'" - I ACTUALLY MEANT EARLIER TO SAY 00:46:50.13\00:46:52.43 THE SECOND ANGELS' MESSAGE, I'M SORRY - "THEN A THIRD ANGEL 00:46:52.43\00:46:55.80 FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS 00:46:55.80\00:46:58.33 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS 00:46:58.33\00:47:01.70 FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND, HE HIMSELF SHALL ALSO DRINK OF THE WINE OF 00:47:01.70\00:47:05.93 THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO 00:47:05.93\00:47:09.73 THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION. 00:47:09.73\00:47:11.40 HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF 00:47:11.40\00:47:14.93 THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB. 00:47:14.93\00:47:17.53 AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND EVER; AND 00:47:17.53\00:47:20.80 THEY HAVE NO REST DAY OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS 00:47:20.80\00:47:23.60 IMAGE, AND WHOEVER RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME.'" SO HERE 00:47:23.60\00:47:28.03 YOU'VE GOT - DOES THAT SOUND A LITTLE TOUGH RIGHT THERE? 00:47:28.03\00:47:31.30 THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT, DON'T YOU THINK? 00:47:31.30\00:47:34.00 AND LOOK AT HOW IT IMMEDIATELY CONTRASTS THOSE WHO HAVE COME 00:47:34.00\00:47:37.13 OUT OF BABYLON WITH THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING THE PENALTY FOR 00:47:37.13\00:47:40.70 BEING IN BABYLON. "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE 00:47:40.70\00:47:43.50 SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE 00:47:43.50\00:47:47.36 FAITH OF JESUS." SO YOU'VE GOT TWO GROUPS THAT 00:47:47.36\00:47:52.13 ARE CONTRASTED AND ONE GROUP HAS THE SEAL OF GOD AND ONE GROUP 00:47:52.13\00:47:56.60 HAS THE MARK OF THE BEAST. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN - 00:47:56.60\00:48:01.93 IT TALKS ABOUT THE RAGE OF NATIONS. 00:48:01.93\00:48:03.73 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME REVELATION 12:17 - WHO HAS THAT? 00:48:03.73\00:48:07.73 GET YOU A MICROPHONE OVER HERE. YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 00:48:07.73\00:48:15.70 REVELATION 11:18, "THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND YOUR WRATH HAS 00:48:15.70\00:48:19.93 COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND 00:48:19.93\00:48:23.70 THAT YOU SHOULD REWARD YOUR SERVANTS THE PROPHETS AND THE 00:48:23.70\00:48:26.36 SAINTS, AND THOSE WHO FEAR YOUR NAME, SMALL AND GREAT, AND 00:48:26.36\00:48:29.93 SHOULD DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH." 00:48:29.93\00:48:31.96 YOU KNOW, JUST EVEN AS TAKING THAT ON ITS SURFACE VALUE, THIS 00:48:31.96\00:48:35.50 IS A SIGN - IT TALKS ABOUT GOD'S PEOPLE BEING JUDGED. 00:48:35.50\00:48:38.33 DID YOU CATCH THAT? 00:48:38.33\00:48:39.90 WE'RE LIVING IN THE ONLY TIME OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY WHEN MAN HAS 00:48:39.90\00:48:43.43 THE ABILITY TO DESTROY THE EARTH. EVERYWHERE I TURN 00:48:43.43\00:48:47.16 SOMEONE SAYS, 'GLOBAL WARMING. WE ARE DOING IT TO THE PLANET.' 00:48:47.16\00:48:51.16 WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH THAT, I'M A PILOT. 00:48:51.16\00:48:54.33 I FLY OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE AND I JUST SEE WHAT USED TO BE FORESTS 00:48:54.33\00:48:56.83 ARE NOW DEVELOPMENTS. I MEAN, THINGS ARE CHANGING. 00:48:56.83\00:48:59.53 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT THAT THE PLANET IS GOING UNDER A 00:48:59.53\00:49:02.53 CHANGE THAT MAN IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. 00:49:02.53\00:49:07.10 YOU CAN'T EVEN SAIL ACROSS THE PACIFIC RIGHT NOW WITHOUT 00:49:07.10\00:49:10.00 RUNNING INTO WHAT THEY CALL 'THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH'. 00:49:10.00\00:49:12.70 IT'S A SWIRLING CONFETTI OF GARBAGE BIGGER THAN THE STATE OF 00:49:12.70\00:49:15.93 TEXAS - ABSOLUTELY - OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC. 00:49:15.93\00:49:20.06 SO WE ARE DOING SOMETHING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH. 00:49:20.06\00:49:24.30 IT ALSO SETS A TIME - IT SAYS THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY. 00:49:24.30\00:49:27.13 WHAT ARE THEY ANGRY ABOUT? LET'S READ THAT VERSE. GO AHEAD. 00:49:27.13\00:49:31.70 >>REVELATION 12:17, "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE 00:49:31.70\00:49:35.50 WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, 00:49:35.50\00:49:39.53 WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF 00:49:39.53\00:49:42.90 JESUS CHRIST." 00:49:42.90\00:49:44.93 >>SO WHAT IS THIS ANGER ABOUT? THE DRAGON IS WROTH - WHY? 00:49:44.93\00:49:49.33 BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS. 00:49:49.33\00:49:52.70 THE DRAGON WANTS TO DESTROY HER. THIS IS THE BATTLE BETWEEN 00:49:52.70\00:49:55.30 BABYLON AND THE BRIDE. GOD'S CHURCH AND THE ENEMY. 00:49:55.30\00:49:59.93 ANYWAY, THERE'S MUCH MORE I HAVE TO SHARE IN THIS LESSON. 00:49:59.93\00:50:01.86 I DON'T HAVE TIME - NOT TODAY - MAYBE I'LL GET SOME MORE NEXT 00:50:01.86\00:50:04.33 WEEK. BUT DO SEND FOR THE FREE OFFER. 00:50:04.33\00:50:06.90 IT'S OFFER #137 - IT'S CALLED 'ANGEL MESSAGES FROM SPACE'. 00:50:06.90\00:50:10.63 AND CALL THAT NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN IT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - 00:50:10.63\00:50:13.66 866-788-3966. 00:50:13.66\00:50:17.13 THANK YOU, GOD WILLING WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 00:50:17.13\00:50:21.33 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 00:50:21.33\00:50:34.36 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 00:50:34.36\00:50:38.13 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 00:50:38.13\00:50:42.13 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 00:50:42.13\00:50:44.86 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 00:50:44.86\00:50:51.23 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 00:50:51.23\00:50:56.56 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 00:50:56.56\00:50:59.26 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 00:50:59.26\00:51:03.53 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 00:51:03.53\00:51:07.76 (MUSIC) 00:51:07.76\00:51:17.70 >>TODAY WE ARE SHOOTING MULTIPLE SCENES. 00:51:17.70\00:51:19.90 A LOT OF PROPS ARE GOING TO BE IN PLAY. 00:51:19.90\00:51:22.40 NOW RIGHT OVER HERE WE HAVE A DOOR THAT LUTHER WILL BE NAILING 00:51:22.40\00:51:26.90 HIS 95 THESES INTO. AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S NOT THE 00:51:26.90\00:51:29.53 WHOLE DOOR. IN FILM YOU JUST CUT DOWN TO 00:51:29.53\00:51:31.66 WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE. 00:51:31.66\00:51:35.13 AND THEN OVER HERE WE'VE GOT THESE SHIELDS COMING TOGETHER. 00:51:35.13\00:51:38.33 WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN SOME TEXTURE AND PAINTING THESE 00:51:38.33\00:51:40.90 RED. WE'RE LIGHTING, RIGHT NOW, THE 00:51:40.90\00:51:42.66 EUCHARIST AND SO WE'RE GOING TO GO SCENE BY SCENE - A LITTLE 00:51:42.66\00:51:45.43 PIECE BY PIECE OF WHAT THE ACTUAL CHALICE, THE BREAD, THE 00:51:45.43\00:51:49.73 WINE - AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO FLY IN THE GOBLET THAT 00:51:49.73\00:51:52.60 THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS HOLDING. 00:51:52.60\00:51:54.90 SHE'S DRINKING BLOOD AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BLOOD DRIPPING 00:51:54.90\00:51:56.53 DOWN. WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER A FILM YOU 00:51:56.53\00:51:59.53 HAVE TONS OF PRACTICALS AND PROPS THAT ARE ON YOUR SET AND 00:51:59.53\00:52:02.90 YOU'VE GOT TO DO THE RESEARCH. YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS 00:52:02.90\00:52:06.30 USED DURING THAT TIME. JOHN WAS WRITING ON PATMOS AND 00:52:06.30\00:52:08.73 EVERYBODY THINKS THAT HE'S USING A SCROLL WITH INK, BUT HE WAS 00:52:08.73\00:52:11.53 ACTUALLY - HE WOULD HAVE BEEN USING LIKE A LEAD STENCIL. 00:52:11.53\00:52:14.80 WE TRY TO PUT THOSE REAL ELEMENTS IN THERE WITHOUT 00:52:14.80\00:52:18.00 CAUSING ANY DISTRACTION TO THE AUDIENCE WHERE THEY'LL BE LIKE, 00:52:18.00\00:52:20.20 'NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT WAS USED.' THEN YOU HAVE, LIKE THE 00:52:20.20\00:52:23.26 REFORMATION PERIODS, THE RENAISSANCE ERA AND THE DARK 00:52:23.26\00:52:26.23 AGES - ALL THOSE DETAILS FROM THE TYPES OF CANDLES THAT THEY 00:52:26.23\00:52:30.60 WERE USING OR POSSIBLY THE TYPES OF PARCHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT 00:52:30.60\00:52:34.80 HAVE BEEN WRITING ON, WE HAD TO RECREATE THAT KIND OF STUFF. 00:52:34.80\00:52:38.60 >>WE LEARNED, AS WE INTERVIEWED THE HISTORIANS, BECAUSE THEY'VE 00:52:38.60\00:52:42.43 REALLY RESEARCHED A LOT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY AND MOST OF US 00:52:42.43\00:52:45.63 HAVE LAYMAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THESE THINGS. 00:52:45.63\00:52:48.56 IT REALLY ADDED A LOT OF VALUABLE INSIGHTS TO THE PICTURE 00:52:48.56\00:52:52.40 THAT KIND OF GAVE IT DETAIL AND COLOR AND BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. 00:52:52.40\00:52:56.80 (MUSIC) 00:52:56.80\00:53:11.13 >>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES. BY THE TIME I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL 00:53:11.13\00:53:23.20 ABUSE WAS JUST A WAY OF LIFE FOR ME. 00:53:23.20\00:53:25.13 I JUST THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE WAY IT WAS AND THAT MANY PEOPLE 00:53:25.13\00:53:27.80 WERE GOING THROUGH THAT AND I FOUND OUT THAT A LOT OF THE 00:53:27.80\00:53:30.96 GIRLS WERE NOT GOING THROUGH THE ABUSE THAT I WAS GOING THROUGH. 00:53:30.96\00:53:35.36 I STARTED ACTING OUT AND PLAYING UP AND MISBEHAVING IN SCHOOL. 00:53:35.36\00:53:42.30 I FELT WHEN I SPOKE TO MOM SHE WAS TOO BUSY WORRYING ABOUT 00:53:42.30\00:53:46.73 WHERE DAD WAS - WHAT DAD WAS DOING. 00:53:46.73\00:53:48.83 WHEN I SPOKE TO THE OLDER SIBLINGS THEY COULDN'T BE 00:53:48.83\00:53:50.96 BOTHERED - I HAD STUPID QUESTIONS. 00:53:50.96\00:53:54.03 I SEEMED TO FEEL VERY LONELY ALL THE TIME AND I JUST FORGOT, AT 00:53:54.03\00:53:58.50 THAT POINT, WHERE GOD WAS AND FELT THAT I DIDN'T NEED HIM 00:53:58.50\00:54:03.40 BECAUSE, ANYWAY, WHEN I DID NEED HIM HE WAS NEVER AROUND FOR ME. 00:54:03.40\00:54:09.00 I WAS LIVING A VERY, VERY BUSY LIFE WORKING 'TIL 2 OR 3 O'CLOCK 00:54:09.00\00:54:15.73 IN THE MORNING AND THEN DRINKING ALCOHOL 'TIL 5 O'CLOCK SO THAT I 00:54:15.73\00:54:19.16 COULD GET TO SLEEP FOR A FEW HOURS, WAKE UP, AND THEN GET 00:54:19.16\00:54:22.10 BACK TO WORK AT 8 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. 00:54:22.10\00:54:24.70 SO MY LIFE CONTINUED AND SPIRALED UNTIL I DECIDED I 00:54:24.70\00:54:27.80 NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 00:54:27.80\00:54:29.50 SO I PACKED MY BAGS AND SPENT 11 MONTHS CROSSING AFRICA FROM 00:54:29.50\00:54:33.86 ZIMBABWE ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO SWITZERLAND. 00:54:33.86\00:54:36.60 MET A LADY IN - A MISSIONARY WHO SPOKE TO ME ABOUT GOD AND GAVE 00:54:36.60\00:54:39.93 ME A BIBLE AND THAT WAS WHEN I STARTED THINKING, AGAIN, THAT 00:54:39.93\00:54:46.00 'GOD, MAYBE YOU LED ME ON THIS TRIP.' 00:54:46.00\00:54:49.26 AND THAT WAS THE START OF ME REALLY RETHINKING, 'WHAT AM I 00:54:49.26\00:54:52.66 DOING WITH MY LIFE?' I'D MADE A DECISION THAT 'GOD, THIS TIME 00:54:52.66\00:54:57.80 I'M NEVER GOING TO LET YOU GO. I KNOW YOU'VE NEVER LET ME GO. 00:54:57.80\00:55:01.86 IT WAS ALWAYS ME WHO LET GO.' MY RETURN TO JESUS WAS THE MOST 00:55:01.86\00:55:08.43 AMAZING FEELING THAT I'D EVER EXPERIENCED. 00:55:08.43\00:55:12.06 I FELT AS IF THIS TIME I'D MADE A CONNECTION WITH GOD. 00:55:12.06\00:55:29.03 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 00:55:29.03\00:55:32.60 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 00:55:32.60\00:55:41.16 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 00:55:41.16\00:55:45.63 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 00:55:45.63\00:55:49.10 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 00:55:49.10\00:55:52.13 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 00:55:52.13\00:55:55.96 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 00:55:55.96\00:55:58.40 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 00:55:58.40\00:56:01.06 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? 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