Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: CSH
Program Code: CSH021350
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00:45 >>WELCOME TO SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH. 00:48 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU'RE TUNING IN, WHETHER YOU'RE WATCHING US 00:51 LIVE ON OUR WEBSITE RIGHT NOW AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' OR ON THE 00:55 VARIOUS TELEVISION NETWORKS OR LISTENING ON THE RADIO. 00:58 IT DOESN'T MATTER, WE'RE JUST GLAD THAT YOU ARE JOINING WITH 01:00 US FOR ANOTHER CENTRAL STUDY HOUR COMING TO YOU FROM 01:03 SACRAMENTO CENTRAL SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH HERE IN SUNNY 01:07 SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA. 01:09 WE'RE CONTINUING OUR CHRISTMAS SONGS AND OUR FIRST ONE TODAY IS 01:14 #119 - 'ANGELS FROM THE REALMS OF GLORY' IS A REQUEST FROM ALEX 01:20 IN HUNGARY - WE DON'T GET MANY REQUESTS FROM HUNGARY SO GOOD 01:24 MORNING ALEX - CORRINE AND CHERYL IN INDIA, ABEL IN PUERTO 01:28 RICO, AND SHERMILA IN SAUDI ARABIA, AND MANY OTHER STATES IN 01:33 THE U.S. AND COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD. #119 - WE'RE 01:37 GOING TO SING THE FIRST, SECOND, AND FOURTH STANZAS. 01:40 (MUSIC) 03:23 >>I LOVE CHRISTMAS SONGS AND I WANT TO TELL YOU, IF 03:26 YOU'RE WATCHING LIVE ON A TELEVISION - IF YOU'RE WATCHING 03:30 ON TELEVISION - THAT TODAY, DECEMBER 14TH, 2013, YOU CAN 03:35 TUNE INTO OUR WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG' AND WATCH OUR 03:40 CHRISTMAS CONCERT, WHICH WILL TAKE PLACE AT 4:00 PM AND 7:00 03:44 PM PACIFIC TIME - DECEMBER THE 14TH. 03:47 AND WE WOULD LOVE FOR YOU TO JOIN US. TELL YOUR FRIENDS. 03:49 TELL YOUR FAMILY. IT WILL BE A WONDERFUL PROGRAM. 03:53 WE HAVE AN ORCHESTRA AND A CHOIR AND SOLOISTS AND GROUPS AND IT'S 03:56 GOING TO BE A WONDERFUL TIME SO I ENCOURAGE YOU TO TUNE IN AND 04:00 JOIN US DECEMBER THE 14TH 4:00 PM AND 7:00 PM AT 04:05 'SACCENTRAL.ORG'. OUR NEXT SONG IS ANOTHER 04:09 FAVORITE - 'AWAY IN A MANGER' - #124. 04:14 THIS IS FROM JOSEPH IN AUSTRALIA, VERONICA, JASMINE AND 04:18 ANGEL IN THE BAHAMAS, MICHAEL IN CALIFORNIA - AND I THINK THAT'S 04:21 YOU, MICHAEL, CARLOS IN VENEZUELA, AND MASAMBO IN ZAMBIA 04:27 AND MANY MORE PLACES. 04:28 #124 - WE'RE GOING TO SING ALL THREE STANZAS. 04:31 (MUSIC) 04:52 >>THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR REQUESTING THAT WONDERFUL SONG. 04:56 IF YOU HAVE A FAVORITE YOU WOULD LIKE TO SING WITH US ON AN 04:58 UPCOMING PROGRAM, YOU JUST HAVE TO GO TO OUR 05:00 WEBSITE AT 'SACCENTRAL.ORG', CLICK ON THE 'CONTACT US' LINK 05:04 AND ANY SONG IN THE HYMNAL YOU CAN REQUEST AND WE WILL SING 05:09 THAT FOR YOU ON AN UPCOMING PROGRAM. 05:11 AT THIS TIME LET'S BOW OUR HEADS FOR PRAYER. 05:14 FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR COMING TO THIS WORLD 05:19 AND YOU KNEW BEFORE YOU CAME WHAT YOU WERE GETTING INTO. 05:23 YOU KNEW THAT YOU WERE GOING TO BE BORN TO PEASANTS AND YOU WERE 05:31 GOING TO LIVE A VERY HARD LIFE, BUT YOU LOVED US ENOUGH TO 05:35 CHOOSE THAT AND WE THANK YOU. WE THANK YOU FOR LOVING US, FOR 05:40 COMING DOWN HERE SO MANY YEARS AGO, AND GIVING US AN EXAMPLE 05:45 AND A HOPE THAT THIS ISN'T THE END FOR US. 05:49 WE HAVE A FUTURE WITH YOU AND I PRAY THAT WE WILL EACH REMAIN 05:52 FAITHFUL SO THAT ONE DAY WE CAN SEE YOU COME WHEN YOU COME AGAIN 05:56 IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY. PLEASE BE WITH US AS WE OPEN UP 06:00 YOUR WORD AND WE STUDY TOGETHER. PLEASE BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AND 06:03 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT HE IS HERE TO BRING US OUR LESSON 06:06 STUDY TODAY, IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 06:15 >>WARE VISITORS, WE'D LIKE TO 06:19 WELCOME OUR VISITORS AS WELL. 06:20 AND WE HAVE A SPECIAL OFFER THAT GOES ALONG WITH OUR LESSON 06:22 TODAY. THE LESSON IS TALKING ABOUT OUR 06:25 PARTICULAR PROPHETIC MESSAGE AND THE - WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING 06:29 ABOUT THE THREE ANGELS' MESSAGES AND SO OUR FREE OFFER TODAY IS 06:32 'ANGEL MESSAGES FROM SPACE' AND ANYBODY WHO WOULD LIKE A COPY OF 06:36 THIS, THIS IS - THESE OFFERS ARE REALLY GREAT. THEY'VE GOT 06:39 ILLUSTRATIONS AND THEY'VE GOT A LOT OF SCRIPTURES, QUESTIONS 06:42 AND ANSWERS, AND IT BRINGS THE WHOLE BIBLE STUDY TOGETHER. 06:45 IF YOU'D LIKE TO BETTER UNDERSTAND THE THREE ANGELS' 06:47 MESSAGES THAT GO TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK, 06:52 THAT YOU FIND IN REVELATION 14, THEN SEND FOR THIS - 'ANGEL 06:55 MESSAGES FROM SPACE' - ASK FOR OFFER #137 AND THE NUMBER TO 07:00 CALL IS 866-STUDY-MORE - 866-788-3966 AND WE WILL 07:08 SEND THAT TO YOU FOR FREE. AND AS I MENTIONED, OUR STUDY 07:11 TODAY IS LESSON #11. WE'VE BEEN GOING THROUGH THE 07:14 STUDY ON THE SANCTUARY AND WE HAVE A MEMORY VERSE. 07:19 BUT I TELL YOU WHAT, JUST TO SAVE A LITTLE TIME, BEFORE WE 07:21 GET TO THE MEMORY VERSE, WE GAVE OUT SOME VERSES - SOMEONE HERE 07:25 HAS REVELATION CHAPTER 10, VERSE 1 - WHO IS THAT? 07:30 OKAY, WE'LL JUST - WE'LL GET A CAMERA ON YOU SO THEY'RE - 07:33 YOU'RE READY BECAUSE YOU'RE FIRST IN LINE JOLYNE, OKAY? 07:37 AND OUR MEMORY VERSE IS REVELATION 14, VERSES 6 AND 7 07:45 MOST OF US SHOULD KNOW THIS BY WHEART. 07:47 REVELATION 14:6 AND 7 - YOU READY? 07:50 "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING 07:54 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH 07:58 - TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, AND PEOPLE - SAYING WITH 08:03 A LOUD VOICE, 'FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, FOR THE HOUR OF 08:08 HIS JUDGMENT HAS COME; AND WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE HEAVEN AND 08:13 EARTH, THE SEA AND SPRINGS OF WATER.'" 08:17 ALRIGHT, WELL I'D LOVE TO JUMP RIGHT IN AND START ELABORATING 08:19 ON THAT, BUT I'M NOT GOING TO DO THAT YET. TURN IN YOUR BIBLES 08:23 TO REVELATION CHAPTER 10, AND WE'LL TELL YOU WHERE WE'RE 08:26 GOING AND WHY WE'RE GOING THERE FOR OUR STUDY TODAY. 08:29 THIS IS ONE OF THE SHORTEST CHAPTERS IN THE BOOK OF 08:32 REVELATION - REVELATION CHAPTER 10 AND WE'RE GOING TO DO A QUICK 08:38 OVERVIEW OF THIS CHAPTER - MATTER OF FACT, I'M GOING TO 08:42 HAVE YOU READ THE FIRST VERSE. JO, IF YOU'RE READY FOR THAT. 08:46 >>REVELATION 10:1, "I SAW STILL ANOTHER MIGHTY ANGEL COMING DOWN 08:52 FROM HEAVEN, CLOTHED WITH A CLOUD. 08:54 AND A RAINBOW WAS ON HIS HEAD, HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN, 08:57 AND HIS FEET LIKE PILLARS OF FIRE." 09:00 >>ALRIGHT, SO FIRST THING IS WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT 09:02 THIS TIME - WHAT'S KNOWN AS 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT'. 09:06 NOW, THERE HAVE BEEN SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE WHERE GOD'S 09:08 PEOPLE HAVE EXPERIENCED GREAT DISAPPOINTMENTS - THINGS DID NOT 09:13 PLAY OUT THE WAY THEY ANTICIPATED. 09:18 THE PROMISED LAND, BUT BECAUSEY THE TEN SPIES BROUGHT BACK A 09:22 FAITHLESS REPORT, THEY WERE TOLD, 'NOPE, YOU'RE NOT READY 09:25 YET.' FORTY MORE YEARS - ACTUALLY IT WAS THIRTY-NINE MORE 09:28 YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS AND THEY HAD TO WANDER DURING THAT TIME. 09:32 DURING THE TIME OF JESUS THE DISCIPLES WENT OUT PREACHING. 09:36 JESUS SENT THE DISCIPLES OUT PREACHING 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN 09:39 IS AT HAND.' AND WHAT DO YOU THINK THE 09:42 APOSTLES THOUGHT JESUS MEANT BY THAT? 09:44 WHAT WAS THEIR PICTURE OF THE KINGDOM BEING AT HAND? 09:48 ALMOST WITHOUT EXCEPTION THEY THOUGHT THAT MEANT THAT SOMETIME 09:51 IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, JESUS WAS GOING TO USE HIS MIRACULOUS 09:54 POWER AND THE ROMANS WOULD BE OVERTHROWN AS THE POWER AND THEY 09:59 WOULD SEE THE SON OF DAVID SITTING ON THE THRONE OF DAVID 10:03 THE MONARCH - REESTABLISHED AND BACK LIKE THE GLORIOUS DAYS OF 10:06 SOLOMON AND THEY WOULD BE A WORLD EMPIRE AGAIN. 10:10 AND SO, AS THEY WENT OUT SAYING, 'THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND. 10:12 THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS AT HAND.' THEY WERE THINKING POLITICAL 10:15 KINGDOM, TO A LARGE EXTENT, AND WE KNOW NOW THAT'S NOT WHAT IT 10:19 WAS GOING TO BE. THAT'S WHY WHEN THE TWO DISCIPLES WERE WALKING 10:22 ON THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, THEY WERE SO DISAPPOINTED. 10:27 NOT JUST THEM, BUT THE TWELVE APOSTLES AND ALL THE FOLLOWERS 10:30 AND DISCIPLES OF JESUS WERE DEVASTATED. 10:33 AND THOSE TWO - CLEOPAS AND HIS FRIEND, THEY SAID TO JESUS ON 10:36 THE ROAD TO EMMAUS, 'WE WERE HOPING THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE 10:40 HE THAT WOULD REDEEM ISRAEL.' AND EVEN AS JESUS WAS GETTING 10:44 READY TO GO TO HEAVEN AND HE MET WITH THE DISCIPLES JUST BEFORE 10:46 HE ASCENDED - I THINK IT WAS PHILLIP THAT SAID, 'WILL YOU AT 10:50 THIS TIME ESTABLISH THE KINGDOM?' WELL, YOU KNOW, 10:53 THEY WEREN'T THINKING ABOUT THE SPIRITUAL KINGDOM. 10:55 JESUS SAID, 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS WITHIN YOU.' 10:57 THEY KEPT THINKING ABOUT AN EXTERNAL KINGDOM. 11:00 AND YOU MIGHT WONDER, 'WHY DID JESUS SEND THEM OUT PREACHING 11:03 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND' WHEN HE KNEW 11:06 THEY HAD THE WRONG IDEA OF WHAT THAT WAS? 11:10 WELL, WHAT THEY SAID WAS THE TRUTH, BUT STILL THEY WERE 11:13 PREACHING 'THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND'. 11:15 THERE WAS ANOTHER TIME OF GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT, OH A LITTLE MORE 11:20 THAN 150 YEARS AGO, WHERE CHRISTIANS AROUND NORTH AMERICA 11:24 AND DIFFERENT PARTS OF THE WORLD STARTED TO STUDY THE PROPHECIES 11:28 OF DANIEL AND REVELATION AND ESPECIALLY THE PROPHECY ABOUT 11:31 THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY, AND THEY STUDIED THE TIMES GIVEN 11:35 IN THOSE PROPHECIES AND THEY ALL SEEMED TO POINT TO 1844. 11:40 THEY HAD THE TIME CORRECT. THEY HAD THE EVENT WRONG. 11:45 AND SO, THEY WENT OUT IN THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT AND SAID, 11:49 YOU KNOW, 'GET READY. 11:50 THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING.' WHICH IS A TRUE MESSAGE. 11:52 IT IS TRUE, THE BRIDEGROOM IS COMING, RIGHT? 11:55 BUT THEY FORGOT THAT PART OF THE PARABLE THAT SAYS, 'WHILE THE 11:59 BRIDEGROOM TARRIED.' THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY JUST 12:04 BEFORE THE LORD COMES. AND SO, THEY WERE DEVASTATED. 12:06 IT WAS CALLED 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT' AND SOME PEOPLE 12:09 TAKE IT TO MEAN, 'WELL, BECAUSE THEY PREACHED THAT MESSAGE ABOUT 12:12 THE SECOND COMING OF THE LORD AND THERE WAS THIS GREAT REVIVAL 12:15 BUT JESUS DIDN'T COME, THE MESSAGE MUST NOT HAVE 12:17 BEEN FROM GOD.' WRONG. 12:20 GOD GIVES MESSAGES AND THEN SOMETIMES, BECAUSE OF EVENTS OR 12:24 BECAUSE OF MISUNDERSTANDINGS, THEY DON'T HAPPEN EXACTLY AS 12:26 THEY EXPECT. DID JONAH GO THROUGH NINEVEH AND 12:30 SAY, 'FORTY DAYS AND NINEVEH WILL BE DESTROYED'? DID HE? 12:35 WAS GOD THE ONE TELLING HIM TO PREACH THAT MESSAGE? 12:39 WAS NINEVEH DESTROYED AFTER FORTY DAYS? 12:42 NO, BECAUSE THEY REPENTED. 12:44 AND SO, SOMETIMES CIRCUMSTANCES ARE DIFFERENT. 12:48 SOMETIMES THEY MIGHT MISUNDERSTAND THE MESSAGE. 12:50 THERE WAS A GREAT REVIVAL UNDER WHAT THEY CALLED 'THE ADVENT 12:53 AWAKENING' OR 'THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT' AND - JUST FOR THOSE 12:58 WHO ARE WATCHING, SO YOU DON'T MISUNDERSTAND, IT WAS NOT 13:01 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS THAT PREDICTED THE SECOND COMING OF 13:04 THE LORD IN 1844. THERE WERE NO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS. 13:09 THE CHURCH WAS NOT ORGANIZED UNTIL 1863. 13:13 IT WAS THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT. 13:14 THEY WERE WHAT YOU CALL 'ADVENTISTS' BECAUSE THEY 13:17 BELIEVED IN THE SOON RETURN OF JESUS. 13:19 YOU CAN SEE THE WORD 'ADVENT' OUTSIDE A CATHOLIC CHURCH. 13:23 I'VE SEEN CATHOLIC ADVENT CHURCHES. 13:25 THERE ARE ADVENTISTS FROM ALL DIFFERENT BACKGROUNDS. 13:27 IF YOU BELIEVE IN THE SOON COMING OF JESUS, YOU ARE 13:29 TECHNICALLY AN ADVENTIST. SO SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS DO NOT 13:34 BELIEVE IN SETTING DATES FOR THE SECOND COMING AND SO I'VE HEARD 13:37 PEOPLE SAY, 'AREN'T YOU THE ONES WHO SAID JESUS WAS COMING IN 13:40 1844?' NO. IT WAS THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT. 13:43 THERE WERE PEOPLE WHO WERE PART OF THE MILLERITE MOVEMENT THAT 13:47 THEN CAME INTO THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THEY 13:50 STUDIED AND THEY REALIZED THAT THEY HAD MADE SOME MISTAKES. 13:53 BUT, NO, WE DO NOT BELIEVE IN SETTING DATES. 13:56 THIS GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT WAS PROPHESIED IN HISTORY. 14:01 WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE PROPHECIES OF DANIEL IN REVELATION, YOU ARE 14:04 LOOKING AT DIFFERENT PHASES OF THE WORK OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 14:09 IN DANIEL IT TALKS ABOUT A PHASE OF GOD'S PEOPLE BEING OPPRESSED 14:13 BY THE BABYLONIANS AND THERE WAS THE PHASE WHERE IT WAS THE 14:16 MEDO-PERSIANS. THE PERSIANS WERE ACTUALLY PRETTY GOOD TO THEM, 14:19 THEY LET THEM REBUILD THE TEMPLE. THEN THERE WAS - 14:21 BUT THEY DOMINATED THEM. THEY WERE THEIR RULERS. 14:23 THEN THERE WAS A PHASE OF THE GREEKS ALSO. 14:26 FOR THE MOST PART, ALEXANDER THE GREAT WASN'T THAT HARD ON THEM. 14:29 THEY HAD A GUY NAMED ANTIOCHUS EPIPHANES WHO WAS REALLY A PILL. 14:32 AND THEN THERE WAS THE TIME OF THE ROMANS AND IT TALKS ABOUT 14:35 THE DIVISION OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE. 14:36 AND SO THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE IS OUTLINED IN DANIEL. 14:39 YOU FIND THE HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE OUTLINED IN THE SEVEN 14:42 MESSAGES TO THE SEVEN CHURCHES. YOU'VE GOT THE RELIGIOUS HISTORY 14:45 OF GOD'S PEOPLE. YOU HAVE THE SEVEN TRUMPETS - 14:47 SORT OF A MILITARY HISTORY OF WHAT HAPPENS WITH GOD'S PEOPLE. 14:50 YOU HAVE THE SEVEN SEALS OF REVELATION WHICH INCLUDES THE 14:53 FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE - IT KIND OF GIVES A POLITICAL 14:55 HISTORY OF GOD'S PEOPLE. AND SO GOD IS SHOWING, 14:58 PROPHETICALLY, WHAT IS GOING TO HAPPEN TO HIS PEOPLE OVER TIME 15:01 THROUGH THESE DIFFERENT VISIONS. IN CHAPTER 10, YOU FIND 15:07 PROPHESIED, WHAT WE WOULD CALL 'THE GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT'. 15:10 IT WAS THIS GREAT GLOBAL AWAKENING THAT WOULD HAPPEN 15:13 BEFORE THE SECOND COMING, BUT HE DOESN'T COME AS THEY EXPECT. 15:16 SO, YOU HEARD THE FIRST VERSE, THIS MIGHTY ANGEL COMES DOWN. 15:20 HE'S GIVING A MESSAGE THAT SAYS 'IN A CLOUD AND A RAINBOW WAS ON 15:24 HIS HEAD, HIS FACE WAS LIKE THE SUN, HIS FEET WERE LIKE PILLARS 15:27 OF FIRE. YOU KNOW, THAT'S SIMILAR TO WHAT 15:29 YOU SEE IN DANIEL 10 - DO YOU HAVE YOUR BIBLES? 15:32 DANIEL 10, VERSES 5 AND 6, "I LIFTED MY EYES AND LOOKED, 15:36 AND BEHOLD, A CERTAIN MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHOSE WAIST 15:40 WAS GIRDED WITH GOLD OF UPHAZ! 15:43 HIS BODY WAS LIKE BERYL, HIS FACE LIKE THE APPEARANCE OF 15:46 LIGHTNING, HIS EYES LIKE TORCHES OF FIRE, HIS ARMS AND FEET LIKE 15:51 BURNISHED BRONZE IN COLOR, AND THE SOUND OF HIS WORDS LIKE THE 15:55 VOICE OF A MULTITUDE." HERE IN DANIEL YOU'VE ALSO GOT 15:57 THIS MIGHTY ANGEL GIVING A MESSAGE. 16:01 NOW, IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE SAME ANGEL EVEN THOUGH 500 YEARS GO 16:03 BY - ALMOST 600 YEARS - THEY DON'T AGE, DO THEY? 16:08 YOU KNOW GABRIEL SPEAKS TO DANIEL IN CHAPTER 9, THEN 16:11 GABRIEL SPEAKS TO MARY IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 1. 16:14 GABRIEL HAS NO MORE GRAY HAIR - WELL, IT DOESN'T SAY WHAT HIS 16:17 HAIR COLOR WAS, BUT HE HASN'T AGED. ANGELS LIVE - 16:20 THEY HAVE ETERNAL LIFE, DON'T THEY? THE GOOD ANGELS. 16:23 DANIEL 12, YOU'VE GOT MORE ANGELS - THESE MEN IN LINEN. 16:27 DANIEL 12:6 AND 7, "AND ONE SAID TO THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHO 16:31 WAS ABOVE THE WATERS OF THE RIVER," - JUST LIKE REVELATION 16:34 10 WHERE THEY STAND ABOVE THE RIVER - OR THE WATERS - "'HOW 16:38 LONG SHALL THE FULFILLMENT OF THESE WONDERS BE?' 16:41 THEN I HEARD THE MAN CLOTHED IN LINEN, WHO WAS ABOVE THE WATERS 16:43 OF THE RIVER, WHEN HE HELD UP HIS RIGHT HAND AND HIS LEFT HAND 16:47 TO HEAVEN, AND SWORE BY HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER," - AND SO HERE 16:51 YOU'VE GOT THESE ANGELS THAT ARE HELPING TO INTERPRET 16:54 AND TO EXPLAIN THESE PROPHECIES. 16:57 NOW SOME PROPHECIES ARE FOR A SPECIFIC TIME. 17:01 YOU UNDERSTAND PRESENT TRUTH PROPHECY? 17:05 LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE: A PRESENT-TRUTH PROPHECY WOULD BE 17:10 WHERE NOAH SAYS, 'GET INTO THE ARK A FLOOD IS COMING.' 17:15 NOW, IF I STARTED TELLING YOU 'GET INTO THE ARK A FLOOD IS 17:18 COMING' YOU MIGHT SAY, 'PASTOR DOUG, THAT'S NOT A PRESENT-TRUTH 17:21 PROPHECY.' BUT I COULD SAY, 'IT'S IN THE 17:22 BIBLE.' WELL THAT WAS A MESSAGE FOR THAT PARTICULAR TIME. 17:27 IF I SAID, 'PACK YOUR STUFF, WE'RE LEAVING EGYPT.' 17:31 WELL, THAT IS IN THE BIBLE, BUT THAT WAS A SPECIFIC MESSAGE FOR 17:34 A SPECIFIC TIME FOR GOD'S PEOPLE. AND SO, DIFFERENT 17:38 PROPHETIC MESSAGES APPEAL TO DIFFERENT TIMES. 17:41 IF I WERE TO SAY TO YOU, 'LEAVE JERUSALEM AND SURRENDER TO THE 17:45 BABYLONIANS.' THAT WAS A PROPHECY OF JEREMIAH. 17:48 WELL, THAT WAS A SPECIFIC PROPHECY. 17:49 THAT WAS PRESENT TRUTH FOR THEM. IF THEY WANTED TO SURVIVE THE 17:52 SIEGE, THEY NEEDED TO SURRENDER. AND SO, THERE ARE DIFFERENT 17:56 MESSAGES THAT GO OUT AT DIFFERENT TIMES. 17:58 IN REVELATION 10 THERE WAS A MESSAGE TO GO TO THE WORLD - THE 18:01 BRIDEGROOM IS COMING, GO OUT TO MEET HIM. THERE WAS TO BE 18:03 A REVIVAL AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE. IT WAS THE END OF THIS AGE OF 18:08 PHILADELPHIA AND THEY WERE ENTERING THE AGE OF LAODICEA. 18:11 AND ALL THAT WAS HAPPENING - SO LET ME READ SOME OF REVELATION 18:14 10 AND THEN WE'LL UNPACK IT. WE'VE GOT A LOT MORE TO COVER. 18:17 AND IT SAYS HE HAD A LITTLE BOOK OPEN IN HIS HAND - I'M IN 18:20 REVELATION 10, VERSE 2,"HE HAD A LITTLE BOOK OPEN IN HIS HAND. 18:24 AND HE SET HIS RIGHT FOOT ON THE SEA AND HIS LEFT FOOT ON THE 18:27 LAND, AND HE CRIED WITH A LOUD VOICE, AS WHEN A LION ROARS. 18:33 WHEN HE CRIED OUT, SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES. 18:37 NOW WHEN THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED THEIR VOICES, I WAS 18:39 ABOUT TO WRITE; BUT I HEARD A VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING TO ME, 18:43 'SEAL UP THE THINGS WHICH THE SEVEN THUNDERS UTTERED, AND DO 18:47 NOT WRITE THEM.'" DOES IT TELL US IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8 18:50 THAT SOME THINGS ARE TO BE SEALED UP UNTIL 18:51 THE TIME OF THE END IN DANIEL 12? 18:54 "THE ANGEL WHOM I SAW STANDING ON THE SEA AND ON THE LAND 18:58 RAISED UP HIS HAND TO HEAVEN AND SWORE BY HIM WHO LIVES FOREVER 19:01 AND EVER, WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, THE 19:05 EARTH AND THE THINGS THAT ARE IN IT, AND THE SEA AND THE THINGS 19:07 THAT ARE IN IT, THAT THERE SHOULD BE DELAY NO LONGER," - 19:10 NOTICE IT SAYS THE CREATOR OF THE HEAVENS, THE EARTH, THE SEA. 19:14 WE ALSO FIND THAT IN REVELATION CHAPTER 14. 19:18 IT'S A MESSAGE CONNECTED WITH A MESSAGE TO RETURN TO THE 19:20 CREATOR. THAT'S LATER ON IN YOUR LESSON. 19:23 - "BUT IN THE DAYS OF THE SOUNDING OF THE SEVENTH ANGEL, 19:27 WHEN HE IS ABOUT TO SOUND, THE MYSTERY OF GOD WOULD BE FINISHED 19:30 AS HE DECLARED TO HIS SERVANTS THE PROPHETS." 19:32 OH, ONE MORE THING, 'THERE SHOULD BE DELAY NO LONGER' - 19:36 THAT'S RIGHT THERE IN VERSE 6. I THINK IF YOU'VE GOT KING JAMES 19:40 IT SAYS, 'TIME SHOULD BE NO MORE'. 19:43 THAT WORD IS ACTUALLY 'DELAY'. YEAH, IN THE ORIGINAL IT SAYS 19:46 'DELAY'. NOW WHY IS THAT IMPORTANT? 19:48 HAVE PEOPLE IN THE PAST FORETOLD THAT JESUS IS COMING SOON? 19:53 HAVE PEOPLE PICKED DATES FOR IT BEFORE? 1844 WAS NOT THE FIRST 19:58 DATE AND HAROLD CAMPING DID NOT SET THE LAST DATE. 20:03 THERE WILL BE OTHERS THAT WILL BE PICKING DAYS AND HOURS IN 20:06 SPITE OF WHAT JESUS SAID THAT TELLS US THAT NO MAN KNOWS THE 20:11 DAY OR THE HOUR. SOME ARE THINKING, 'WELL, WHEN 20:15 THE ADVENTIST CHURCH STARTED, ONE OF OUR MESSAGES WAS THE 20:18 EMINENCE - THE SOON COMING OF JESUS. 20:21 THAT'S OVER 150 YEARS AGO - WHAT'S TAKING SO LONG? 20:26 THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT THE BIBLE SAID WOULD HAPPEN. 20:29 WHAT'S THE LAST THING JESUS SAYS IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24 WHEN HE 20:34 TALKS ABOUT THE SIGNS OF HIS COMING? 20:36 'IF THAT EVIL SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART, 'MY LORD DELAYS HIS 20:43 COMING' AND BEGINS TO EAT AND DRINK WITH THE DRUNKEN AND SMITE 20:46 HIS FELLOW SERVANTS, THE MASTER OF THAT SERVANT WILL COME IN A 20:49 DAY THAT HE'S NOT LOOKING FOR HIM AND AN HOUR HE'S NOT 20:51 PREPARED FOR.' WHEN MOSES WENT UP TO MOUNT 20:55 SINAI TO GET THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - 20:57 YOU KNOW THE PEOPLE HEARD THE VOICE IN CHAPTER 19 - 20:59 IN CHAPTER 20 HE GOES UP. 21:00 HE DOESN'T SAY WHEN HE'S COMING BACK, THEY JUST KNOW HE'S GOING 21:03 TO GET THE CODIFIED VERSION OF THAT LAW THEY AGREED TO. 21:06 FORTY DAYS GO BY AND THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHEN THE PEOPLE SAW THAT 21:12 MOSES' - EXODUS 32 - 'DELAYED COMING DOWN' - WHAT HAPPENED TO 21:18 THE CHURCH DURING THAT TIME WHEN THEY SAID, 'BOY, WE DIDN'T THINK 21:20 IT WAS GOING TO TAKE THIS LONG. WHAT IS TAKING HIM SO LONG? 21:24 MAYBE WE MISUNDERSTOOD WHEN HE SAID, 'I'M COMING BACK'. 21:27 MAYBE HE DIED UP ON THE MOUNTAIN AND HE'S NOT COMING BACK. 21:30 MAYBE IT WAS A SPIRITUAL COMING BACK.' AND ALL THESE THINGS 21:33 BEGAN GOING THROUGH THE MINDS OF THE ISRAELITES. 21:35 'WHAT HAD HAPPENED TO MOSES?' HE HADN'T COME BACK. 21:38 COULD THAT HAPPEN TO THE CHURCH AGAIN? WHEN THEY SAW MOSES 21:42 DELAYED, THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY. THAT'S WHY IT SAYS, 21:47 'WHEN THE BRIDEGROOM TARRIED' - THERE IS AN APPARENT DELAY. 21:52 SAMUEL THE PROPHET SAID TO KING SAUL, 'BEFORE YOU GO TO BATTLE 21:55 WITH THE PHILISTINES, WAIT FOR ME. 21:57 I WILL COME OFFER SACRIFICE FOR YOU.' 22:00 THAT WAS ALWAYS THE PRIEST'S JOB TO INTERCEDE AND SACRIFICE 22:02 BEFORE THE ARMY WENT INTO BATTLE. 22:04 THAT'S WHEN HE WAS SUPPOSED TO SAY, 'IF ANY OF YOU ARE SCARED, 22:06 LET HIM GO HOME.' AND HE WAS TO DECLARE THIS SPEECH. 22:10 WELL, SAUL SAW THAT HIS SOLDIERS WERE STARTING TO GET SCARED AND 22:13 THE PRIEST HAD NOT COME. SIX DAYS WENT BY. 22:16 SAMUEL SAID 'AFTER SEVEN DAYS I'LL COME.' 22:18 THE SEVENTH DAY ARRIVED AND HE WAITED A LITTLE BIT - MAYBE IT 22:20 WAS TEN IN THE MORNING AND HE SAID, 'HE'S NOT HERE.' 22:22 HE'S MISSED THE EARLY MORNING SACRIFICE. 22:25 I BETTER DO IT MYSELF.' BY THE WAY, I DON'T WANT TO MISS 22:29 THE CHANCE TO REMIND YOU THAT ONLY CERTAIN PEOPLE WERE TO ACT 22:32 THE PART OF PRIESTS. IT DIDN'T MATTER WHETHER YOU 22:36 WERE THE KING, GOD HAD SPECIFIED WHO WAS TO DO IT AND HIS WORD 22:42 WAS VERY CLEAR THAT HE PICKS WHO HE PICKS. 22:46 WELL, THE KING SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER - WHETHER IT'S THE 22:49 PRIEST, WHETHER IT'S ME - I CAN DO IT.' 22:52 SO SAUL OFFERED THE SACRIFICE AND THEN SAMUEL CAME. 22:55 IT SAYS BECAUSE SAMUEL WAS DELAYED - SAUL WAS BEING TESTED 23:00 DURING THAT DELAY. WOULD HIS FAITH HANG ON? 23:03 WOULD HE WAIT ON GOD? HERE'S THE PATIENCE OF THE SAINTS. 23:07 HE LOST FAITH. HE LOST PATIENCE. 23:09 HE OFFERED THE SACRIFICE HIMSELF. 23:11 HE ALTERED THE WORSHIP THE WAY GOD SAID IT SHOULD BE DONE. 23:15 THE KING WAS NOT SUPPOSED TO DO IT ANY MORE THAN KING UZZIAH WAS 23:18 SUPPOSED TO BURN INCENSE IN THE TEMPLE - AND HE GOT LEPROSY FOR 23:20 DOING THAT. SAUL LOST THE KINGDOM. SAMUEL FINALLY CAME. 23:24 MOSES CAME. WHAT WERE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL DOING WHILE 23:27 THEY GOT IMPATIENT WAITING FOR MOSES TO COME? 23:31 THEY SAID, 'LOOK, WE DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED. 23:34 WE'RE NOT SURE WHAT THAT GOD LOOKS LIKE. 23:36 WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO ADJUST THINGS A LITTLE BIT. 23:38 LET'S MODIFY OUR WORSHIP A LITTLE BIT.' 23:40 SO THEY MADE A GOLDEN CALF AND THEY BEGAN TO WORSHIP. 23:44 AND THEY SORT OF CO-MINGLED THE WORSHIP OF JEHOVAH WITH THE 23:46 WORSHIP OF THE PAGANS AROUND THEM. 23:49 AND THEY WORSHIPED AND THEN THEY HAD A POTLUCK - IT SAYS THEY ATE 23:51 AND DRANK AND THE POTLUCK GOT CARRIED AWAY BECAUSE BY THE TIME 23:55 IT WAS OVER THEY WEREN'T WEARING THEIR CLOTHES ANYMORE. 23:59 THERE WAS A LITTLE IMMODESTY IN THE WORSHIP OF GOD, YOU MIGHT 24:02 SAY. AND THEN MOSES CAME. 24:07 IS THE LORD TRYING TO TELL US SOMETHING? 24:10 THAT MAYBE THERE'LL BE AN APPARENT DELAY JUST BEFORE JESUS 24:14 COMES BACK AND GOD'S PEOPLE WILL BE TESTED? 24:17 AND WILL THERE BE A MOVEMENT TO ALTER WORSHIP JUST BEFORE JESUS 24:21 COMES BACK? BE MORE LIKE THOSE AROUND US. 24:26 WELL, IT DIDN'T END WELL FOR THOSE THAT LOST FAITH DURING THE 24:31 TIME OF DELAY. HE SAYS, 'DELAY WILL BE NO LONGER. 24:34 SO THIS MESSAGE WAS TO BE PREACHED - I'M BACK IN 24:37 REVELATION CHAPTER 10 AND VERSE 9 - REVELATION 10, VERSE 9, "SO 24:45 I WENT TO THE ANGEL AND SAID TO HIM, 'GIVE ME THE LITTLE BOOK.' 24:50 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TAKE AND EAT IT; AND IT WILL MAKE YOUR 24:54 STOMACH BITTER, BUT IT WILL BE AS SWEET AS HONEY IN YOUR 24:56 MOUTH.' THEN I TOOK THE LITTLE BOOK OUT 24:59 OF THE ANGEL'S HAND AND ATE IT, AND IT WAS AS SWEET AS HONEY IN 25:02 MY MOUTH. BUT WHEN I HAD EATEN IT," - A LITTLE LATER, 25:05 IN OTHER WORDS - DIGESTION SET IN - 'MY STOMACH BECAME BITTER. 25:10 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN ABOUT MANY 25:14 PEOPLES, NATIONS, TONGUES, AND KINGS.'" 25:16 NOW THIS IS SORT OF A REPEAT OF WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ADVENT 25:20 PEOPLE - THIS GREAT REVIVAL THAT TOOK PLACE AT THE BEGINNING OF 25:24 THE TIME - THE CONCLUSION OF PHILADELPHIA, THE BEGINNING OF 25:27 THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - AND IT TALKS ABOUT EATING THE LITTLE 25:30 BOOK. SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME PSALM 119:103. WHO HAS THAT? 25:35 MIKE, LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. OKAY. 25:38 IN THE MEANTIME I'M GOING TO READ EZEKIEL 2, VERSE 9. 25:42 THIS MAY SOUND FAMILIAR. EZEKIEL 2, VERSE 9 - I'M GOING 25:45 TO READ ON TO CHAPTER 3, VERSE 3 OF EZEKIEL. 25:48 "NOW WHEN I LOOKED, THERE WAS A HAND STRETCHED OUT TO ME; AND 25:52 BEHOLD, A SCROLL" - THAT'S A BOOK - "A SCROLL OF A BOOK WAS 25:56 IN IT. THEN HE SPREAD IT BEFORE ME; AND 25:58 THERE WAS WRITING ON THE INSIDE AND ON THE OUTSIDE," - A BOOK 26:02 WRITTEN ON BOTH SIDES - "AND WRITTEN ON IT WERE LAMENTATIONS 26:05 AND MOURNING AND WOE. MOREOVER HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF 26:07 MAN, EAT WHAT YOU FIND; EAT THIS SCROLL," - EAT THE BOOK - "AND 26:11 GO, SPEAK TO THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL.' 26:13 SO I OPENED MY MOUTH, AND HE CAUSED ME TO EAT THAT SCROLL. 26:15 AND HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, FEED YOUR BELLY, AND FILL YOUR 26:19 STOMACH WITH THIS SCROLL THAT I GIVE YOU.' 26:21 SO I ATE, AND IT WAS IN MY MOUTH LIKE HONEY IN SWEETNESS." 26:26 THAT SOUND LIKE REVELATION? LIKE WHAT WE JUST READ? 26:29 OKAY, MIKE, YOU'VE GOT PSALM 119:103. 26:33 >>PSALM 119:103, "HOW SWEET ARE YOUR WORDS TO MY TASTE, 26:38 SWEETER THAN HONEY TO MY MOUTH!" 26:41 >>SO BACK WHEN THEY STUDIED THE PROPHECIES IN THE EARLY 1800S 26:45 AND THEY DISCOVERED HOW TO UNFOLD - THESE WORDS THAT THE 26:49 ANGEL HAD UTTERED THAT WERE SEALED, THE WORDS OF DANIEL THAT 26:52 WERE SEALED - IT SAID, 'SEALED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE END.' 26:54 THE TIME OF THE END BEGINS WITH THE LAST STAGE AND PHASE OF THE 26:59 CHURCH THAT WE ENTERED IN THE PHASE OF LAODICEA - 27:02 THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA - AND ALL OF A SUDDEN THE PROPHECIES AND 27:07 HOW TO UNDERSTAND THE PROPHECIES WAS ALL UNFOLDED. 27:10 AND PEOPLE BECAME SO EXCITED AND THE TRUTH ABOUT THE GOSPEL WAS 27:15 SO EXCITING IT WAS HONEY IN THEIR MOUTHS. 27:17 IF YOU LOVE JESUS AND YOU HEAR HE'S COMING, I MEAN, WHAT DOES A 27:20 BELIEVER LONG FOR MORE THAN THAT? AND THEY TOOK THAT 27:23 MESSAGE, 'BEHOLD, THE BRIDEGROOM COMES' TO THE WORLD. 27:26 BUT THEN THEY FOUND OUT THAT HE TARRIED. 27:30 IT WAS SWEET IN THEIR MOUTHS BUT THEN IT BECAME BITTER. 27:33 AND THE FINAL MESSAGE THAT THEY'RE GIVEN IS, 'YOU MUST 27:35 PROPHESY AGAIN.' IT'S NOT OVER. 27:38 THE DISCIPLES THOUGHT WHEN JESUS CAME AND HE MARCHED INTO 27:41 JERUSALEM AND THEY SAID, 'HOSANNA TO THE SON OF DAVID' 27:43 AND HE CAST ALL THE MONEY CHANGERS OUT OF THE TEMPLE THEY 27:46 SAID, 'THIS IS IT! THIS IS IT!' 27:48 AND WITHIN A FEW DAYS HE WAS DEAD. 27:51 AND JESUS CAME TO HIM AND HE SAID, 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN. 27:54 IT'S NOT OVER YET. 27:56 YOU THOUGHT YOUR WORK WAS DONE AFTER I SENT YOU OUT - THE 27:59 TWELVE - AND I SENT OUT THE SEVENTY AND YOU PROCLAIMED ME 28:03 KING SAYING 'HOSANNA' AS I MARCHED INTO JERUSALEM ON A 28:06 DONKEY.' HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'VE ONLY BEGUN. 28:08 YOU'VE GOT A BIG WORK TO DO.' THEY THOUGHT THEY WERE DONE. 28:11 THEY THOUGHT 'ALL OF ISRAEL IS HERE. 28:13 EVERYONE KNOWS.' HE SAID, 'NO, NO. 28:15 THE MESSAGE HAS TO GO MUCH FARTHER THAN THAT. 28:17 THE MESSAGE HAS TO GO TO THE WORLD JESUS SAID. 28:19 YOU'VE GOT TO GO TO JERUSALEM AND JUDEA AND SAMARIA AND THE 28:21 OUTERMOST PARTS OF THE EARTH.' AND SO THEY REALIZED, 'WOW, 28:25 WE'VE GOT A LOT LEFT TO DO.' THERE WAS A GREAT 28:27 DISAPPOINTMENT. SWEET IN THEIR MOUTHS ONE DAY. 28:31 BITTER IN THEIR BELLY A FEW DAYS LATER. THAT'S WHAT - YOU KNOW, 28:35 HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF. HAVE YOU SEEN THAT HAPPEN? 28:37 WITH ANCIENT ISRAEL - IT HAPPENED WITH THE CHURCH. 28:38 IT'S HAPPENING WITH THE CHURCH IN THE LAST DAYS. 28:41 THERE'S A TIME OF GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT AND GOD SAID, 28:43 'YOU STILL HAVE A MESSAGE TO PREACH TO THE WORLD.' 28:45 ARE WE DOING THAT NOW? 28:48 IS THE MESSAGE GOING INTO ALL THE WORLD? 28:51 IS THERE AN EFFORT TO COMPROMISE WORSHIP DURING THAT SAME TIME? 28:56 THERE'S A BATTLE ABOUT MESSAGES TOO. 28:58 IN THE DAYS OF JESUS WAS THERE A BATTLE BETWEEN THE MESSAGE OF 29:03 JESUS - THE WORD OF GOD - AND THE APOSTLES AND WHAT THE 29:06 ESTABLISHED CHURCH WAS SAYING IN JERUSALEM? 29:09 WAS THERE A STRUGGLE BACK IN THE BIBLE? 29:13 CAN YOU SEE EVEN A STRUGGLE BETWEEN THE PEOPLE OF GOD WHEN 29:17 ELI WAS THE HIGH PRIEST AND WHAT THE ESTABLISHED CHURCH WAS DOING 29:21 AND PEOPLE WHO WERE FAITHFUL, LIKE HANNAH? 29:23 YOU CAN OFTEN SEE THAT THERE'S A STRUGGLE SOMETIMES. 29:26 ARE WE GOING TO SEE A SIMILAR STRUGGLE, POSSIBLY, IN THE LAST 29:29 DAYS HAPPENING? GOD WANTS US TO BE FAITHFUL TO THE WORD. 29:34 HE SAID, 'YOU MAY PROPHESY AGAIN.' 29:35 AND YOU NOTICE WHEN YOU SEE REVELATION 14 - PART OF 29:41 REVELATION 14, VERSE 6, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN 29:45 THE MIDST OF HEAVEN, HAVING THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL TO PREACH TO 29:49 THOSE WHO DWELL ON THE EARTH - TO EVERY NATION, TRIBE, TONGUE, 29:52 AND PEOPLE" - THAT'S WHAT WE READ THERE IN REVELATION 10. 29:56 'YOU MUST PROPHESY AGAIN.' WHY WOULD HE SAY 'AGAIN'? 29:59 DO YOU SAY AGAIN IF YOU HAVEN'T DONE IT THE FIRST TIME? 30:02 THEY WERE GOING TO HAVE TO GIVE THIS MESSAGE AGAIN, EXCEPT IT 30:05 WAS GOING TO GO EVERYWHERE. AND WE SEE THIS THROUGHOUT THE 30:10 STUDY HERE. I'M GOING TO JUST TRY AND PACE 30:12 MYSELF A LITTLE BIT. SO LET'S GO AHEAD TO REVELATION 30:15 - WE'RE GOING TO BREAK DOWN REVELATION 14 IN ITS COMPONENTS. 30:20 NOW JUST TO GIVE YOU THE CONTEXT OF REVELATION 14, GO TO 30:24 REVELATION 14 AND, LET ME SEE HERE, LOOK IN VERSE 14 - 30:33 REVELATION 14:14, "THEN I LOOKED, AND BEHOLD, A WHITE 30:39 CLOUD, AND ON THE CLOUD SAT ONE LIKE THE SON OF MAN, HAVING ON 30:44 HIS HEAD A GOLDEN CROWN, AND IN HIS HAND A SHARP SICKLE. 30:47 AND ANOTHER ANGEL...CRYING OUT WITH A LOUD VOICE TO HIM WHO SAT 30:50 ON THE CLOUD, 'THRUST IN YOUR SICKLE AND REAP, FOR THE TIME 30:53 HAS COME FOR YOU TO REAP, FOR THE HARVEST OF THE EARTH IS 30:56 RIPE.'" ALRIGHT, WHO IS IT THAT'S 30:58 SITTING ON THE CLOUD? JESUS. 31:01 WHAT'S HAPPENING WHEN THE SON OF MAN SITTING ON THE CLOUD IS 31:04 COMING TO REAP? ISN'T THAT THE SECOND COMING? 31:07 ALRIGHT, SO THAT'S REVELATION 14:14. 31:10 SO WHAT MESSAGE GOES TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE JESUS IS SEEN 31:15 COMING IN THE CLOUDS TO HARVEST THE EARTH? 31:18 IT'S REVELATION 14 VERSE 6 ON. AND PART OF THAT MESSAGE - LET 31:23 ME ASK YOU HERE - WHEN YOU LOOK IN REVELATION 14, FOR INSTANCE, 31:27 VERSE 9, "THEN A THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A 31:31 LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND 31:33 RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS FOREHEAD OR ON HIS HAND,'" - 31:35 IS THAT PAST OR FUTURE? THAT'S FUTURE. 31:40 AND SO, HERE YOU'VE GOT THE MARK HASN'T BEEN ESTABLISHED YET. 31:44 NOBODY HAS THE MARK OF THE BEAST YET, BUT WE'RE TO GIVE A WARNING 31:47 ABOUT THAT JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES. ARE WE ALL STILL 31:50 TOGETHER, RIGHT? YOU READ ABOUT THAT ALSO IN 31:52 REVELATION 13, IT TALKS ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST AND IT 31:55 IDENTIFIES THE BEAST. ALL OF THESE CHAPTERS IN 31:58 REVELATION SORT OF BACK UP AND OVERLAP SO WE WON'T MISS IT. 32:01 AND HERE, NOW, IT'S BRINGING US RIGHT UP TO THE MESSAGE THAT 32:04 GOES TO THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS COMES. 32:06 IT TALKS ABOUT THE 144,000 IN THE BEGINNING OF CHAPTER 14, 32:11 THAT HAVE THEIR FATHER'S NAME WRITTEN IN THE FOREHEAD. 32:13 THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN YOU'RE IN REVELATION 13 IT TALKS 32:15 ABOUT THE MARK OF THE BEAST IN THE FOREHEAD. 32:18 EVERYBODY'S GOT SOMETHING IN THE FOREHEAD HERE IN REVELATION - 32:22 'MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT' WRITTEN IN THE FOREHEAD OF THE 32:24 FALSE CHURCH; THE SEAL OF GOD AND THE NAME OF GOD WRITTEN IN 32:27 THE FOREHEAD OF THE TRUE CHURCH. AND WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO STUDY 32:31 WHAT ALL OF THOSE THINGS MEAN RIGHT NOW, BUT THERE'S A MESSAGE 32:35 THAT WE'RE TO TAKE TO THE WORLD, BEGINNING ESPECIALLY WITH VERSE 32:37 6, "THEN I SAW ANOTHER ANGEL FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN," 32:42 - NOW WHAT DOES THE WORD 'ANGEL' MEAN? MESSENGER. 32:45 AND CAN ONE ANGEL GIVE A LOUD VOICE? LIKE A MEGAPHONE. 32:52 POLICE HELICOPTERS NOW HAVE VERY POWERFUL MEGAPHONES. 32:58 FIRST OF ALL, TRYING TO HEAR SOMEBODY TALK WHEN YOU'RE 33:01 IN A HELICOPTER IS ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE. 33:04 YOU HAVE HEADPHONES ON - I'VE FLOWN IN - I'VE ACTUALLY FLOWN 33:07 HELICOPTERS AND YOU'VE GOT YOUR HEADPHONES ON - IT'S VERY LOUD, 33:10 ESPECIALLY IF THE WINDOWS ARE OPEN. 33:12 WHEN YOU HAVE A HELICOPTER FLYING OVER AND SOMEONE'S 33:14 SHOUTING AT YOU, IT'S REALLY HARD. 33:15 SO THE POLICE HAVE DEVELOPED THESE VERY POWERFUL - WE HAVE 33:18 THEM IN SACRAMENTO - YOU EVER HEARD IT BEFORE? 33:21 IT'S KIND OF UNNERVING WHEN THEY FLY OVER YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD AND 33:24 THEY SAY, 'PLEASE GO IN YOUR HOUSE. 33:26 THERE IS A CRIMINAL ON THE LOOSE IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. 33:29 DO NOT OPEN YOUR DOORS.' THEY'RE TRYING TO TRACK SOMEONE 33:31 DOWN THAT'S RUNNING THROUGH THE NEIGHBORHOOD AND THEY'RE AFRAID 33:33 HE'S GOING TO ENTER ONE OF THESE HOUSES. 33:34 THERE ARE THESE POWERFUL MEGAPHONES. 33:36 I COULDN'T BELIEVE IT. MESSAGE COMING FROM THE MIDST OF 33:40 HEAVEN - WELL, ANGELS CAN DO BETTER THAN HELICOPTERS, RIGHT? 33:44 AND SO THESE ANGELS ARE GIVING THIS MEGALOPHONIA - AND THAT'S 33:49 WHERE YOU GET THE WORD MEGAPHONE, IT'S FROM A LATIN 33:51 WORD AND IT TALKS ABOUT POWERFUL. 33:54 WHEN WE SAY 'MEGA' YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS, RIGHT? 33:56 MEGA CHIPS, MEGA DRINK - EVERYONE KNOWS - YEAH, MEGA 34:00 SODAS AND - SO IT MEANS 'BIG, POWERFUL'. 34:04 AND SO THIS MEGA MESSAGE IS GOING TO THE WORLD JUST BEFORE 34:10 JESUS COMES. FLYING IN THE MIDST OF HEAVEN - 34:12 UP - POSITION OF VISIBILITY - PEOPLE CAN HEAR BETTER. 34:15 WHEN SOMEONE SPOKE THEY OFTEN SPOKE FROM MOUNTAINS SO THE 34:17 PEOPLE BELOW COULD HEAR WITHOUT OBSTRUCTION. 34:20 AND IT SAYS THIS ANGEL IS GIVING A MESSAGE TO GO EVERYWHERE AND 34:24 IT'S THE MESSAGE OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 34:27 WHY IS IT CALLED THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL? 34:29 YOU KNOW THAT'S WHAT WE CALL OUR CHURCH-SERVICE PROGRAM HERE IN 34:32 SACRAMENTO - THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 34:36 IT'S ONLY FOUND ONE TIME IN THE BIBLE, THAT PHRASE - HERE - 34:39 YOU JUST READ IT IN REVELATION 14. 34:41 WHY DOES IT CALL THE GOSPEL THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL HERE? 34:46 DID THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL START WITH THE BIRTH OF JESUS OR DID 34:51 THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL GO ALL THE WAY BACK TO THE 34:53 GARDEN OF EDEN? FROM THE LAMB SLAIN FROM THE 34:56 FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD. WAS ABRAHAM SAVED BY A DIFFERENT 34:59 GOSPEL THAN PETER AND JOHN WERE SAVED BY OR WAS IT THE SAME 35:03 EVERLASTING GOSPEL? HAVE THERE BEEN EFFORTS FOR 35:06 PEOPLE TO PREACH ANOTHER GOSPEL, A DIFFERENT GOSPEL? 35:10 YEAH, THERE'S A COUNTERFEIT GOSPEL ISN'T THERE - OUT THERE? 35:13 BUT THE GOSPEL - THE TRUE GOSPEL HAS NOT CHANGED. IT IS THE SAME 35:16 - JESUS IS THE SAME YESTERDAY, TODAY AND FOREVER. 35:19 SO TO EMPHASIZE THAT THE GOSPEL IN THE LAST DAYS IS STILL 35:23 PREACHING THE MESSAGE THAT WAS ONCE DELIVERED TO THE SAINTS, IT 35:26 IS CALLED THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL. 35:28 THE TRUTH OF SALVATION HAS NOT CHANGED AND SO THAT'S THE 35:31 MESSAGE THAT'S TO GO TO THE WORLD BEFORE JESUS COMES. 35:34 IT'S NOT A MODIFIED GOSPEL. 35:36 IT'S NOT A CULTURALLY CORRECT GOSPEL. 35:39 IT IS THE SAME GOSPEL THAT SAVED PEOPLE ALL THROUGH HISTORY, 35:43 RIGHT? SO THAT ANGEL HAS THAT EVERLASTING GOSPEL THAT HE IS 35:47 PREACHING TO THE WORLD - TO ALL THE WORLD - EVERY TRIBE, TONGUE 35:51 AND PEOPLE. BY THE WAY, IS THE ADVENTIST MESSAGE GOING INTO ALL 35:56 THE WORLD? IT IS - FASTER THAN EVER BEFORE. 36:01 NOT ONLY BECAUSE OF PRINT - FOR YEARS IT WAS PRINT - AND THEN 36:04 THEY STARTED USING REEL-TO-REEL TAPES AND CASSETTE TAPES AND 36:08 THEN RADIO AND THEN TELEVISION AND NOW THE INTERNET AND DVDS 36:12 AND JUST EVERY - AND MISSIONARIES AND TRAINING AND 36:15 EVERY POSSIBLE WAY. THERE ARE SO MANY CREATIVE WAYS 36:18 THE GOSPEL IS GOING TO THE WORLD THAT EVEN THE BARRIERS OF 36:21 GOVERNMENTS CAN'T BLOCK IT ANYMORE. 36:24 IT'S COMING UP ON PEOPLE'S SMART PHONES IN COUNTRIES WHERE YOU'RE 36:27 NOT ALLOWED TO PREACH ABOUT JESUS AND SO THE GOSPEL IS GOING 36:30 INTO ALL THE WORLD. THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID - I'M 36:32 EXCITED - NO, JESUS DIDN'T SAY 'I'M EXCITED', I SAID THAT. 36:36 THAT'S WHY JESUS SAID, IN MATTHEW 24:14, "AND THIS GOSPEL 36:41 OF THE KINGDOM WILL BE PREACHED IN ALL THE WORLD AS A WITNESS TO 36:44 ALL THE NATIONS, AND THEN THE END WILL COME." 36:46 EVEN THOUGH IT APPEARS THAT THERE'S A DELAY, JESUS SAID, 'IN 36:51 SUCH AN HOUR YOU THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN COMES.' 36:55 YOU KNOW, I HEAR PEOPLE SAY, 'YOU KNOW, JESUS IS GOING TO 36:57 COME AND THE WHOLE WORLD IS GOING TO BE FALLING APART.' 37:00 AND THERE ARE GOING TO BE PROBLEMS. 37:03 YOU'RE GOING TO SEE FINANCIAL PROBLEMS AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE 37:05 FINANCIAL RECOVERY. DON'T BE MISTAKEN INTO THINKING 37:09 THAT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO SEE ALL THE POLAR CAPS MELT BEFORE 37:12 JESUS COMES AND EVERY - ALL THE PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE SWIMMING 37:15 FOR THE SURFACE AND ALL THE MOUNTAINS ARE GOING TO BE - AND 37:17 THEN JESUS - YOU KNOW HOW PROBATION'S GOING TO CLOSE? 37:22 JESUS SAID, AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH'. 37:24 WHAT WAS THE WEATHER LIKE BEFORE THE DOOR WAS CLOSED ON THE ARK? 37:28 BEAUTIFUL WEATHER. 'AS IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF LOT.' 37:33 WHAT WAS THE WEATHER LIKE IN SODOM THE MORNING THAT FIRE 37:35 RAINED DOWN? PROBABLY BEAUTIFUL. THEY KNEW NOT UNTIL THE FLOOD 37:41 CAME AND TOOK THEM ALL AWAY. THEY WERE EATING AND DRINKING 37:45 AND BUILDING AND PLANTING. YOU HEARING THAT? 37:48 IT SEEMS LIKE THE ECONOMY'S BOOMING, TO ME. 37:50 A LOT OF PEOPLE OUT THERE ARE GIVING A MESSAGE THAT, YOU KNOW, 37:54 EVERY TIME THERE'S SOME OTHER NEW DISASTER - YES, THERE'S 37:57 GOING TO BE AN INCREASE IN NATURAL DISASTERS. 37:59 JESUS SAID THERE WILL BE WARS. 38:01 HE SAID THERE'LL BE RUMORS OF WARS, BUT THE END IS NOT YET. 38:03 IN OTHER WORDS, DON'T MAKE THE NEXT NATURAL DISASTER OR THE 38:05 NEXT WAR MAKE YOU THINK THE END IS HERE. 38:09 YOU WILL SEE THOSE THINGS INCREASE IN INTENSITY - ARE WE 38:14 SEEING THAT WITH STORMS AND EARTHQUAKES AND TSUNAMIS? 38:16 YOU'LL SEE THEM INCREASE WITH FREQUENCY. 38:20 BUT THEN THE SUN'LL COME BACK UP AGAIN. 38:22 THOSE THINGS ARE TO WARN US TO GET READY, BUT LIFE WILL 38:25 CONTINUE TO GO ON UNTIL JESUS COMES. 38:28 DOES THAT MAKE SENSE? IS THAT BIBLICAL? 38:31 SO - I KNOW, I HEAR PEOPLE THAT JUST THEY THINK THAT IT'S GOING 38:38 TO BE JUMEAN GET READY.G T 38:40 WHEN YOU SEE THE SEVEN LAST 38:41 PLAGUES, PROBATION'S CLOSED AT THAT POINT. 38:43 WE NEED TO GET READY WHILE THE SUN IS STILL SHINING. 38:45 'SUCH AN HOUR AS YOU THINK NOT, THE SON OF MAN IS COMING.' 38:49 ALRIGHT, SO FEAR GOD - LET'S GO BACK TO REVELATION. 38:52 NOW WHAT DOES THAT ANGEL SAY? "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, 38:55 FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT" - WILL COME? 38:59 IT EITHER SAYS IN YOUR BIBLE, 'IS' OR 'HAS COME'. 39:03 SO WHEN THIS MESSAGE BEGINS, YOU'VE ENTERED THE LAST AGE OF 39:06 THE CHURCH - LAODICEA MEANS A JUDGING OF THE PEOPLE. 39:09 CHRIST HAS ENTERED HIS LAST PHASE OF HIS HEAVENLY MINISTRY 39:13 AND THE JUDGMENT OF THE PEOPLE ON EARTH - THE DAY OF ATONEMENT 39:16 ON EARTH IS HAPPENING. THE CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY 39:19 ON EARTH FROM THE TRUTH THAT HAS BEEN CAST TO THE GROUND IS 39:22 HAPPENING. THERE IS A REVIVAL THAT IS 39:24 HAPPENING AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE HERE AS WELL AS WHAT JESUS IS 39:27 DOING IN HEAVEN. THAT WORK HAS SHIFTED. 39:31 "FEAR GOD AND GIVE GLORY TO HIM, FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT HAS 39:34 COME; AND" - THERE IS A MESSAGE - A CALL - "WORSHIP HIM" - THERE 39:39 IS A CALL TO WORSHIP THE TRUE GOD. 39:41 WORSHIP HIM AS OPPOSED TO WHAT? ALL THE COUNTERFEIT WORSHIP, 39:45 ALL THE CORRUPTED WORSHIP, ALL THE BABYLONIAN 39:47 WORSHIP THAT'S OUT THERE RIGHT NOW. 39:50 WORSHIP HIM - AND IT IDENTIFIES HIM - IT SEPARATES HIM FROM 39:53 EVERY OTHER GOD - IT SAYS, "WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE" - 39:56 WORSHIP THE CREATOR. "WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE HEAVEN AND 40:03 EARTH, THE SEA AND SPRINGS OF WATER." 40:05 NOW WHERE DO YOU FIND A REFERENCE AGAIN TO THE HEAVEN 40:09 AND THE EARTH AND THE SEA AND THE SPRINGS OF WATER? 40:12 SOMEBODY - YEAH, LOOK UP FOR ME - IS IT EXODUS CHAPTER 20, 40:19 VERSE 11? WHO HAS THAT? GOT A HAND OVER HERE. 40:22 LET'S GET YOU A MICROPHONE. THERE'S A CALL TO WORSHIP THE 40:27 CREATOR THAT COMES. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT 40:35 WHAT THEY CALL 'THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY'? 40:39 IF YOU KNOW WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT WHEN I SAY THE ALPHA OF 40:42 APOSTASY - I'M JUST CURIOUS - HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 40:44 IF YOU DON'T KNOW, DON'T HOLD UP YOUR HAND. 40:46 WOW, IT WORRIES ME THAT YOU DON'T KNOW. 40:50 YOU KNOW, ELLEN WHITE, SHE TALKED ABOUT THE ALPHA OF 40:54 APOSTASY AND SHE TALKED ABOUT THE OMEGA OF APOSTASY. 40:58 THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY WAS WHEN OUR PREMIER INSTITUTION OF 41:02 EDUCATION AND MEDICAL WORK IN BATTLE CREEK UNDER DR. KELLOGG, 41:07 WHO HAD DONE A WONDERFUL WORK BUT HE SLOWLY BEGAN TO CHANGE 41:10 HIS THEOLOGY AND CHANGE HIS WORLD VIEW. 41:14 HE WROTE A BOOK CALLED 'THE LIVING TEMPLE' AND IN IT HE 41:20 BASICALLY TAUGHT PANTHEISM. HE CO-MINGLED SORT OF NEW-AGE 41:26 PHILOSOPHY ABOUT GOD IS SORT OF IN EVERYTHING AND IS TO BE 41:31 WORSHIPED IN EVERYTHING, AS OPPOSED TO THE BIBLE MODEL OF 41:34 GOD IS A UNIQUE CREATOR AND INDEPENDENT OF THAT. 41:38 AND THAT WAS CALLED THE ALPHA OF APOSTASY. I THINK THE OMEGA OF 41:46 APOSTASY IS GOING TO BE WHEN SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS THAT 41:51 BELIEVE - OUR WHOLE CHURCH IS FOUNDED ON THE BELIEF THAT IN 41:55 SIX DAYS - LITERAL DAYS - THE LORD MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE 41:59 EARTH - WHEN A CHURCH THAT BELIEVES IN THE LITERAL COMING 42:03 OF THE LORD AND THAT HE IS A LITERAL CREATOR - WHEN THEY 42:06 BEGIN TO TEACH THAT GOD REALLY CREATED THROUGH A PROCESS WHERE 42:11 THERE ALWAYS HAS BEEN DEATH AND DINOSAURS WERE KILLING EACH 42:14 OTHER AND SLOWLY MAN EVOLVED FROM LOWER FORMS OF LIFE AND 42:18 THEN ONE DAY GOD SAID, 'I'M JUST GOING TO GIVE HIM THE SPARK OF A 42:21 SOUL'. YOU KNOW, THIS IS WHAT THE POPE 42:24 SAID IS AN ACCEPTED VIEW OF CREATION NOW. 42:27 HE SAID, 'YES MAN WAS, MAYBE, A LOWER FORM OF LIFE, BUT AT SOME 42:30 POINT GOD SAID, 'I'M GOING TO DECLARE YOU UNIQUE.' 42:32 BUT, YOU SEE, THE PROBLEM WITH THAT VIEW, IF YOU BELIEVE IN 42:36 THESE LONG TIME PERIODS, THEN THE SIN IN THE WORLD IS NOT 42:39 THE RESULT OF MAN'S FALL. 42:40 THERE WAS DEATH AND THERE WAS KILLING AND THERE WERE ANIMALS 42:44 EATING EACH OTHER BEFORE MAN EVER SINNED, ACCORDING TO THAT. 42:47 I MEAN, PEOPLE HAVE SAID, 'WELL, I BELIEVE IN CREATION BUT GOD 42:50 USED EVOLUTION TO DO IT.' THAT DOESN'T WORK WITH THE BIBLE 42:53 BECAUSE JESUS SAID IT'S SIX DAYS. JESUS SAYS NOAH'S REAL. 42:58 YOU CAN'T BELIEVE - JESUS SAID, 'IF YOU DON'T BELIEVE MOSES YOU 43:00 DON'T BELIEVE ME.' AND SO I THINK THAT'S PROBABLY - 43:04 A GOOD DEFINITION FOR THE OMEGA OF APOSTASY IS WHEN CHRISTIAN 43:08 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST INSTITUTIONS START TO TEACH THAT 43:12 THE PREFERRED VIEW OF ORIGINS IS EVOLUTION AND THEY'RE PUTTING 43:18 THE REASONING OF MAN AHEAD OF THE DECLARATION OF GOD'S WORD 43:22 BECAUSE THERE'S SOME THINGS THEY CAN'T FIGURE OUT. 43:25 I ALSO DON'T THINK IT'S SCIENTIFIC. 43:27 BUT WHAT IS THE MESSAGE THAT'S SUPPOSED TO GO TO THE WORLD? 43:31 THE MESSAGE OF EVOLUTION OR THE MESSAGE OF CREATION? 43:33 ALRIGHT, YOU'RE GOING TO READ A VERSE FOR US. 43:36 >>EXODUS 20:11, "FOR IN SIX DAYS THE LORD MADE THE HEAVENS AND 43:41 THE EARTH, THE SEA, AND ALL THAT IS IN THEM, AND RESTED THE 43:44 SEVENTH DAY. THEREFORE THE LORD BLESSED THE 43:47 SABBATH DAY AND HALLOWED IT." >>AMEN. DO WE BELIEVE THAT? 43:52 DO WE STILL BELIEVE IN SIX DAYS? IT WASN'T IN SIX MILLION YEARS. 43:56 WE'RE NOT CELEBRATING EVERY SABBATH DAY THE MEMORIAL OF GOD 44:00 DOING THINGS SLOWLY OVER MILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF YEARS. 44:03 THAT'S NOT WHAT THE BIBLE TELLS US. IT'S - WE'RE WORSHIPING 44:06 A GOD THAT IS ABLE TO CREATE INSTANTLY AND HE IS ABLE TO 44:10 RECREATE. HE IS ABLE TO SANCTIFY AND 44:14 JUSTIFY YOU JUST LIKE THAT. GOD IS ABLE TO MAKE YOU A NEW 44:18 CREATURE. AND SO, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THAT IS 44:21 INVOLVED IN THAT MESSAGE. AND THEN, MOVING ON IN OUR STUDY 44:26 HERE, IT SAYS THAT ANGEL SAYS WITH A LOUD VOICE, "FEAR GOD AND 44:31 GIVE GLORY TO HIM FOR THE HOUR OF HIS JUDGMENT IS COME. 44:33 WORSHIP HIM WHO MADE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, THE SEA 44:36 AND THE SPRINGS OF WATERS." 44:37 AND THEN THE THIRD ANGEL FOLLOWS SAYING, "BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS 44:41 FALLEN, THAT GREAT CITY" - WE'VE GOT TO STOP HERE. 44:46 YOU NOTICE THERE'S A CONTRAST BEING MADE BETWEEN THE WORSHIP 44:50 OF THE TRUE GOD AND THE WORSHIP OF THE FALSE GOD. 44:55 IT'S SAYING THE TRUE GOD - SEAL OF GOD - WORSHIP HIM THAT 44:59 CREATED AS OPPOSED TO BABYLONIAN WORSHIP. 45:04 AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT WAS ONE OF DANIEL'S PROBLEMS? 45:08 AS SOON AS HE WENT TO BABYLON THEY TRIED TO FEED HIM WITH THE 45:10 FOOD OF BABYLON AND HE SAID, 'NO, I CAN'T - I WILL NOT DEFILE 45:14 MYSELF WITH THE BABYLONIAN DIET.' 45:17 IN REVELATION WE JUST READ THAT EATING THE BOOK REPRESENTED THE 45:21 TRUTH OF GOD. SOME PEOPLE ARE EATING FROM THE 45:25 WRONG BOOK - THEY'RE EATING FROM THE WRONG TRUTH AND THEY'RE 45:29 BEING DEFILED BY BABYLONIAN FOOD, YOU MIGHT SAY. 45:33 AND SO THEN, IN THAT CONTEXT, IT SAYS THERE'S A GREAT STRUGGLE 45:37 THAT TAKES PLACE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE THE SEAL OF GOD AND 45:41 THOSE WHO HAVE THE MARK OF THE BEAST. 45:42 NOW HOW IMPORTANT IS IT FOR US TO UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS? 45:47 YOU KNOW I - VERY COMMON QUESTION PASTOR ROSS AND I GET 45:50 ON OUR LIVE BIBLE ANSWER PROGRAM WHERE PEOPLE CALL IN BIBLE 45:54 QUESTIONS FROM ALL OVER THE COUNTRY - ALL DIFFERENT KINDS OF 45:56 PEOPLE - AND THEY SAY, 'WHY DOES IT SEEM LIKE THE GOD IN THE NEW 46:01 TESTAMENT AND JESUS ARE SO LOVING AND MERCIFUL AND KIND AND 46:04 IN THE BIBLE YOU'VE GOT THESE PLAGUES AND WRATH AND IT SEEMS 46:06 LIKE GOD IS SO JUDGMENTAL AND HARSH. 46:08 WHY SUCH DIFFERENT GODS?' AND I SAY, 'I DON'T THINK YOU'RE 46:13 READING THE WHOLE OLD TESTAMENT AND I DON'T THINK YOU'RE READING 46:15 THE WHOLE NEW TESTAMENT. BECAUSE IN THE OLD TESTAMENT 46:22 YOTESTAMENT YOU'LL FIND SOMEND JUDGMENT AND WRATH AND PLAGUES. 46:25 AND THE MOST FEARFUL DECLARATION AND CURSE THAT YOU SEE IN 46:29 SCRIPTURE IS ACTUALLY FOUND IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. 46:32 I THINK IT'S RIGHT HERE IN THE THIRD ANGELS' MESSAGE. 46:35 "ANOTHER ANGEL FOLLOWED, SAYING, 'BABYLON IS FALLEN, IS FALLEN, 46:38 THAT GREAT CITY, BECAUSE SHE HAS MADE ALL NATIONS DRINK THE WINE 46:41 OF THE WRATH OF HER FORNICATION.'" - 46:43 TALKING ABOUT BABYLON AND HER DAUGHTERS - "THEN A THIRD 46:46 ANGEL FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE 46:50 WORSHIPS THE BEAST'" - I ACTUALLY MEANT EARLIER TO SAY 46:52 THE SECOND ANGELS' MESSAGE, I'M SORRY - "THEN A THIRD ANGEL 46:55 FOLLOWED THEM, SAYING WITH A LOUD VOICE, 'IF ANYONE WORSHIPS 46:58 THE BEAST AND HIS IMAGE, AND RECEIVES HIS MARK ON HIS 47:01 FOREHEAD OR HIS HAND, HE HIMSELF SHALL ALSO DRINK OF THE WINE OF 47:05 THE WRATH OF GOD, WHICH IS POURED OUT FULL STRENGTH INTO 47:09 THE CUP OF HIS INDIGNATION. 47:11 HE SHALL BE TORMENTED WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE IN THE PRESENCE OF 47:14 THE HOLY ANGELS AND IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LAMB. 47:17 AND THE SMOKE OF THEIR TORMENT ASCENDS FOREVER AND EVER; AND 47:20 THEY HAVE NO REST DAY OR NIGHT, WHO WORSHIP THE BEAST AND HIS 47:23 IMAGE, AND WHOEVER RECEIVES THE MARK OF HIS NAME.'" SO HERE 47:28 YOU'VE GOT - DOES THAT SOUND A LITTLE TOUGH RIGHT THERE? 47:31 THAT SOUNDS LIKE A PRETTY STRONG STATEMENT, DON'T YOU THINK? 47:34 AND LOOK AT HOW IT IMMEDIATELY CONTRASTS THOSE WHO HAVE COME 47:37 OUT OF BABYLON WITH THOSE WHO ARE SUFFERING THE PENALTY FOR 47:40 BEING IN BABYLON. "HERE IS THE PATIENCE OF THE 47:43 SAINTS; HERE ARE THOSE WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND THE 47:47 FAITH OF JESUS." SO YOU'VE GOT TWO GROUPS THAT 47:52 ARE CONTRASTED AND ONE GROUP HAS THE SEAL OF GOD AND ONE GROUP 47:56 HAS THE MARK OF THE BEAST. IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN - 48:01 IT TALKS ABOUT THE RAGE OF NATIONS. 48:03 SOMEONE LOOK UP FOR ME REVELATION 12:17 - WHO HAS THAT? 48:07 GET YOU A MICROPHONE OVER HERE. YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN 48:15 REVELATION 11:18, "THE NATIONS WERE ANGRY, AND YOUR WRATH HAS 48:19 COME, AND THE TIME OF THE DEAD, THAT THEY SHOULD BE JUDGED, AND 48:23 THAT YOU SHOULD REWARD YOUR SERVANTS THE PROPHETS AND THE 48:26 SAINTS, AND THOSE WHO FEAR YOUR NAME, SMALL AND GREAT, AND 48:29 SHOULD DESTROY THOSE WHO DESTROY THE EARTH." 48:31 YOU KNOW, JUST EVEN AS TAKING THAT ON ITS SURFACE VALUE, THIS 48:35 IS A SIGN - IT TALKS ABOUT GOD'S PEOPLE BEING JUDGED. 48:38 DID YOU CATCH THAT? 48:39 WE'RE LIVING IN THE ONLY TIME OF THE WORLD'S HISTORY WHEN MAN HAS 48:43 THE ABILITY TO DESTROY THE EARTH. EVERYWHERE I TURN 48:47 SOMEONE SAYS, 'GLOBAL WARMING. WE ARE DOING IT TO THE PLANET.' 48:51 WHETHER OR NOT YOU AGREE WITH THAT, I'M A PILOT. 48:54 I FLY OVER THE COUNTRYSIDE AND I JUST SEE WHAT USED TO BE FORESTS 48:56 ARE NOW DEVELOPMENTS. I MEAN, THINGS ARE CHANGING. 48:59 THERE'S NO QUESTION ABOUT IT THAT THE PLANET IS GOING UNDER A 49:02 CHANGE THAT MAN IS HAVING AN IMPACT ON THE ENVIRONMENT. 49:07 YOU CAN'T EVEN SAIL ACROSS THE PACIFIC RIGHT NOW WITHOUT 49:10 RUNNING INTO WHAT THEY CALL 'THE GREAT PACIFIC GARBAGE PATCH'. 49:12 IT'S A SWIRLING CONFETTI OF GARBAGE BIGGER THAN THE STATE OF 49:15 TEXAS - ABSOLUTELY - OUT THERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE PACIFIC. 49:20 SO WE ARE DOING SOMETHING. WE ARE DESTROYING THE EARTH. 49:24 IT ALSO SETS A TIME - IT SAYS THE NATIONS ARE ANGRY. 49:27 WHAT ARE THEY ANGRY ABOUT? LET'S READ THAT VERSE. GO AHEAD. 49:31 >>REVELATION 12:17, "AND THE DRAGON WAS ENRAGED WITH THE 49:35 WOMAN, AND HE WENT TO MAKE WAR WITH THE REST OF HER OFFSPRING, 49:39 WHO KEEP THE COMMANDMENTS OF GOD AND HAVE THE TESTIMONY OF 49:42 JESUS CHRIST." 49:44 >>SO WHAT IS THIS ANGER ABOUT? THE DRAGON IS WROTH - WHY? 49:49 BECAUSE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE KEEPING HIS COMMANDMENTS. 49:52 THE DRAGON WANTS TO DESTROY HER. THIS IS THE BATTLE BETWEEN 49:55 BABYLON AND THE BRIDE. GOD'S CHURCH AND THE ENEMY. 49:59 ANYWAY, THERE'S MUCH MORE I HAVE TO SHARE IN THIS LESSON. 50:01 I DON'T HAVE TIME - NOT TODAY - MAYBE I'LL GET SOME MORE NEXT 50:04 WEEK. BUT DO SEND FOR THE FREE OFFER. 50:06 IT'S OFFER #137 - IT'S CALLED 'ANGEL MESSAGES FROM SPACE'. 50:10 AND CALL THAT NUMBER ON YOUR SCREEN IT'S 866-STUDY-MORE - 50:13 866-788-3966. 50:17 THANK YOU, GOD WILLING WE'LL STUDY TOGETHER AGAIN NEXT WEEK. 50:21 >>IN 3 - 2 - 1 - ACTION. (MUSIC) 50:34 >>THIS DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN FROM THE FIRST 50:38 COMING OF JESUS AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE CHURCH UP UNTIL 50:42 JUST BEFORE THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS. 50:44 IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN, 50:51 ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION. 50:56 THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE. 50:59 IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT'S HAPPENING IN HALLUCINATIONS OF A 51:03 PROPHET, THOSE THINGS ARE PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY. 51:07 (MUSIC) 51:17 >>TODAY WE ARE SHOOTING MULTIPLE SCENES. 51:19 A LOT OF PROPS ARE GOING TO BE IN PLAY. 51:22 NOW RIGHT OVER HERE WE HAVE A DOOR THAT LUTHER WILL BE NAILING 51:26 HIS 95 THESES INTO. AS YOU CAN TELL, IT'S NOT THE 51:29 WHOLE DOOR. IN FILM YOU JUST CUT DOWN TO 51:31 WHAT YOU'RE GOING TO SEE AND SO THIS IS WHAT WE'RE GOING TO SEE. 51:35 AND THEN OVER HERE WE'VE GOT THESE SHIELDS COMING TOGETHER. 51:38 WE'RE GOING TO BE PUTTING IN SOME TEXTURE AND PAINTING THESE 51:40 RED. WE'RE LIGHTING, RIGHT NOW, THE 51:42 EUCHARIST AND SO WE'RE GOING TO GO SCENE BY SCENE - A LITTLE 51:45 PIECE BY PIECE OF WHAT THE ACTUAL CHALICE, THE BREAD, THE 51:49 WINE - AND THEN AFTER THAT WE'RE GOING TO FLY IN THE GOBLET THAT 51:52 THE WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 IS HOLDING. 51:54 SHE'S DRINKING BLOOD AND WE'RE GOING TO HAVE THE BLOOD DRIPPING 51:56 DOWN. WHEN PUTTING TOGETHER A FILM YOU 51:59 HAVE TONS OF PRACTICALS AND PROPS THAT ARE ON YOUR SET AND 52:02 YOU'VE GOT TO DO THE RESEARCH. YOU'VE GOT TO FIND OUT WHAT WAS 52:06 USED DURING THAT TIME. JOHN WAS WRITING ON PATMOS AND 52:08 EVERYBODY THINKS THAT HE'S USING A SCROLL WITH INK, BUT HE WAS 52:11 ACTUALLY - HE WOULD HAVE BEEN USING LIKE A LEAD STENCIL. 52:14 WE TRY TO PUT THOSE REAL ELEMENTS IN THERE WITHOUT 52:18 CAUSING ANY DISTRACTION TO THE AUDIENCE WHERE THEY'LL BE LIKE, 52:20 'NO, THAT'S NOT WHAT WAS USED.' THEN YOU HAVE, LIKE THE 52:23 REFORMATION PERIODS, THE RENAISSANCE ERA AND THE DARK 52:26 AGES - ALL THOSE DETAILS FROM THE TYPES OF CANDLES THAT THEY 52:30 WERE USING OR POSSIBLY THE TYPES OF PARCHMENT THAT THEY MIGHT 52:34 HAVE BEEN WRITING ON, WE HAD TO RECREATE THAT KIND OF STUFF. 52:38 >>WE LEARNED, AS WE INTERVIEWED THE HISTORIANS, BECAUSE THEY'VE 52:42 REALLY RESEARCHED A LOT OF THE ANCIENT HISTORY AND MOST OF US 52:45 HAVE LAYMAN'S KNOWLEDGE OF THESE THINGS. 52:48 IT REALLY ADDED A LOT OF VALUABLE INSIGHTS TO THE PICTURE 52:52 THAT KIND OF GAVE IT DETAIL AND COLOR AND BROUGHT IT TO LIFE. 52:56 (MUSIC) 53:11 >>AMAZING FACTS CHANGED LIVES. BY THE TIME I GOT TO HIGH SCHOOL 53:23 ABUSE WAS JUST A WAY OF LIFE FOR ME. 53:25 I JUST THOUGHT THAT THAT WAS THE WAY IT WAS AND THAT MANY PEOPLE 53:27 WERE GOING THROUGH THAT AND I FOUND OUT THAT A LOT OF THE 53:30 GIRLS WERE NOT GOING THROUGH THE ABUSE THAT I WAS GOING THROUGH. 53:35 I STARTED ACTING OUT AND PLAYING UP AND MISBEHAVING IN SCHOOL. 53:42 I FELT WHEN I SPOKE TO MOM SHE WAS TOO BUSY WORRYING ABOUT 53:46 WHERE DAD WAS - WHAT DAD WAS DOING. 53:48 WHEN I SPOKE TO THE OLDER SIBLINGS THEY COULDN'T BE 53:50 BOTHERED - I HAD STUPID QUESTIONS. 53:54 I SEEMED TO FEEL VERY LONELY ALL THE TIME AND I JUST FORGOT, AT 53:58 THAT POINT, WHERE GOD WAS AND FELT THAT I DIDN'T NEED HIM 54:03 BECAUSE, ANYWAY, WHEN I DID NEED HIM HE WAS NEVER AROUND FOR ME. 54:09 I WAS LIVING A VERY, VERY BUSY LIFE WORKING 'TIL 2 OR 3 O'CLOCK 54:15 IN THE MORNING AND THEN DRINKING ALCOHOL 'TIL 5 O'CLOCK SO THAT I 54:19 COULD GET TO SLEEP FOR A FEW HOURS, WAKE UP, AND THEN GET 54:22 BACK TO WORK AT 8 O'CLOCK AT NIGHT. 54:24 SO MY LIFE CONTINUED AND SPIRALED UNTIL I DECIDED I 54:27 NEEDED TO DO SOMETHING DIFFERENT. 54:29 SO I PACKED MY BAGS AND SPENT 11 MONTHS CROSSING AFRICA FROM 54:33 ZIMBABWE ALL THE WAY THROUGH TO SWITZERLAND. 54:36 MET A LADY IN - A MISSIONARY WHO SPOKE TO ME ABOUT GOD AND GAVE 54:39 ME A BIBLE AND THAT WAS WHEN I STARTED THINKING, AGAIN, THAT 54:46 'GOD, MAYBE YOU LED ME ON THIS TRIP.' 54:49 AND THAT WAS THE START OF ME REALLY RETHINKING, 'WHAT AM I 54:52 DOING WITH MY LIFE?' I'D MADE A DECISION THAT 'GOD, THIS TIME 54:57 I'M NEVER GOING TO LET YOU GO. I KNOW YOU'VE NEVER LET ME GO. 55:01 IT WAS ALWAYS ME WHO LET GO.' MY RETURN TO JESUS WAS THE MOST 55:08 AMAZING FEELING THAT I'D EVER EXPERIENCED. 55:12 I FELT AS IF THIS TIME I'D MADE A CONNECTION WITH GOD. 55:29 >>TOGETHER WE HAVE SPREAD THE GOSPEL MUCH FARTHER THAN EVER 55:32 BEFORE. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT. 55:41 >>IN SIX DAYS GOD CREATED THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 55:45 FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS MAN HAS WORSHIPED GOD ON THE SEVENTH DAY 55:49 OF THE WEEK. NOW, EACH WEEK, MILLIONS OF 55:52 PEOPLE WORSHIP ON THE FIRST DAY. WHAT HAPPENED? 55:55 WHY DID GOD CREATE A DAY OF REST? 55:58 DOES IT REALLY MATTER WHAT DAY WE WORSHIP? 56:01 WHO WAS BEHIND THIS GREAT SHIFT? DISCOVER THE TRUTH BEHIND GOD'S 56:04 LAW AND HOW IT WAS CHANGED. 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