It's been 2,000 years since
the glorious light of the cross
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illuminated a world veiled
in darkness and confusion about
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the character of God.
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And still today the greatest
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of God's love as
revealed in the life of Christ.
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Discover hidden
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Is there life on other world's?
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And I hope you'll find
this inspiring, and informative,
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and interesting, but
the Bible actually has
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a lot to say about it.
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And when I'm done I
hope you realize it does make
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a difference to you
where you are today.
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The answer to this question.
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I don't know if
you've ever heard of SETI.
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SETI is a real organization.
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It's not some secret conspiracy.
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It's a network of scientists.
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And SETI is an acronym for
Search for Extraterrestrial
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Intelligence. Extraterrestrial
means outside of the terrain
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of our world, other
worldly intelligence, SETI.
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And they've got these
radio telescopes stationed in
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different parts of the world
that are trying to get feedback
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from space, and the cosmos.
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The biggest of
them, it's called the,
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and I hope I say this right,
it's Arecibo Radio Telescope.
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It is the biggest parabolic dish
in the world, built right into
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the terrain of this sinkhole
not far, it's about nine miles
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from Arecibo, Puerto Rico.
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And it was built in 1963 at a
cost of $9,000,000.00 back then.
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It's basically a big parabolic
satellite dish that is aimed
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out into space, and they
can move the receiver horn
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to different locations
that change its direction,
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and they coordinate that along
with the rotation of the Earth.
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It's composed of about
40,000 aluminum panels,
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and it's 1,000 feet across.
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It covers the space of 18 acres.
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I mean you can't
tell from the photograph.
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You can see this from
Google Earth, from space.
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It's enormous! And the whole
purpose of it, for years now,
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what forty-five years
its been aimed at space?
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They just did a $25,000,000.00
upgrade on it in 1997;
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put a reflector upgrade on
it, a Gregorian reflector to try
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and capture more
specifically things that are
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happening out there.
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And it has been
helpful in science.
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It's helped them with receiving
signals from the Voyagers,
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and from different
rovers on different planets.
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But they've been listening for
radio frequencies, and patterns
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that would tell
them that there's
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intelligent life out there.
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And in forty-five
years of listening
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they've not
received any messages,
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or indication that there's
intelligence life out there.
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And I want to thank Jim Burris,
who is an astronomy expert.
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I told him what I was
preaching about this week,
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and he shared some
information with me.
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One thing he said that I thought
was thought provoking was
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if you took the information
that's on one strand of the
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helix of DNA, one DNA
helix band, from a human,
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and sent that signal
to these radio receivers,
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it would be front page
news all across the world that
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there is intelligent life.
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We're surrounded with
evidence in this world,
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and we've got... I mean
what makes them think the angels
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use the same
frequency that we use?
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And that's the assumption.
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And so some
astronomers are wondering, well,
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how much life is out there?
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Most astronomers
believe there is other
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intelligent life out there.
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But they also recognize
that our planet is very unique.
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Earth has perfect
conditions for life.
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There's a video
series that talks about
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the privileged planet.
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It's been out for
several years now.
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I recommend it. But it
talks about how Planet Earth...
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It is so obvious because of
its location in the composition,
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it's all perfect for life.
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If our planet was just a
little bit closer to the sun,
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nothing would survive.
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If it was a little further
away, if it was a little bigger,
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the gravitational pull
would crush everything.
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If it didn't, if it was further
away, the water would be ice.
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If it was too
close it would be steam.
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And just the combination
of gasses and the atmosphere,
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the rotation and the
orbit, just all of these things,
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even the moon all are perfect
and necessary to sustain life
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on this planet,
which makes people wonder,
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Is there anybody else out there?
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Is there other life out there?
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I'm intrigued by the
history of two very interesting
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space projects.
Well, they really are one.
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It's called Voyager 1 and 2.
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These are two space
craft that were sent in 1977.
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A lot of you
weren't even born then.
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And they're still going today.
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They're powered by nuclear
batteries that will be good
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until the year 2025.
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Now my question is, If
there's an energy crisis today,
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and if we could make a
battery back then in 1977
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that's still going today,
why don't we start making more
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stuff out of those batteries?
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I figured it's
probably dangerous.
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They're nuclear batteries,
and they may be very expensive,
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but that's pretty impressive
when you think about it.
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Going since 1977. They took
a lot of fascinating pictures
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swirling through space.
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And one of them whipped
back through by the sun again,
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picked up some gravitational
slingshot power, and shot off.
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And they've taken
pictures of Pluto, and Saturn,
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and the rings. They've got
a picture of the Earth looking
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back through
the rings of Saturn.
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It's a little bitty
dot, almost like a pixel.
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That's our planet.
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Now these space
craft, Voyager 1 and 2,
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have left the solar system; the
first man made object to ever
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leave our solar system.
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They are drifting off
through interstellar space.
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And they've got onboard a
gold plated audio visual disk
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that has pictures of
Earth, and sounds from Earth.
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They've got whales calling,
and they've got a baby crying.
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And I hope they put an
intelligible message on there
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besides just that.
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But in case aliens
should happen to retrieve them,
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if they're not intercepted,
in just, what is it?
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25 trillion miles from now,
they'll pass the star Sirius.
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Of course that will be in
296,000 years, so I don't know
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if anyone here will be aware
of that; maybe up in heaven.
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Wouldn't that be something
if you're going through space
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and all of a sudden
you go by and you say,
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Oh, there goes the Voyager.
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Ha, look like that!
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About 25 thousand
million years from now.
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And that's, of course, that
was one of the earlier missions.
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Very interesting. And then, of
course, we had the Mars Rovers
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wanting to know if maybe we
could transfer life to Mars,
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because we're worried
about global warming here.
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And so they've sent
up a number of Rovers.
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A couple have crashed and
burned, but they've got a couple
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that have been
successful: one called Spirit,
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and I've actually got a picture
there of Spirit that was taken
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this year. They're still sending
back pictures of what's going on
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on Mars. And they drive, they
eak along a few inches and they
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snap these
pictures and send them back.
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It takes a long time to
get the pictures to our planet.
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But when you look at
that picture up there,
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I don't know what you think,
but I almost expect a rabbit
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to go hopping across.
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It looks a lot
like Nevada, doesn't it?
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We spend millions and millions
of dollars to get those pictures
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that probably were
just taken in Nevada.
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They tell us that
it came from Mars.
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No, I believe it. I'm not
one of those conspiracy people.
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But I'm fascinated
by space exploration,
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and I've told people more
than one time on TV and radio,
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hoping somebody who works
with NASSA will hear me say it.
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I'd love to the
first passenger in space,
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if they haven't had one already.
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That would be a lot of fun.
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And you'd better do something
about it quick before I
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get too old to
pass the physical.
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So if you know anybody...
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But when we talk about
doing exploration in our space,
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in our solar system, what you've
really got is a person who wants
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to explore the world.
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Picture, if you will,
someone who, they're in bed,
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and they've decided
to explore the world.
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And so as they're preparing
for their first day of exploring
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the world, before
they get out of bed,
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they decide to
scratch their nose.
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They're scratching their nose
is going even farther than we go
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when we explore
our solar system.
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They haven't even
gotten out of bed!
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They're just scratching their
nose, and they've gone farther
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in exploring the world than
we go in exploring the cosmos.
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When we go to our solar system
we haven't gone anywhere yet.
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Our solar system is
very small when you consider
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the scope of space.
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We've got 8 or 9 planets,
depending on whether or not
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you're willing to
let Pluto go or not.
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And the jury is out
about whether Pluto qualifies.
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And around those planets you've
got approximately 170 moons.
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And they're swirling around
one star that we call our Sun.
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Well how many stars are there?
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CNN published something in their
science article, July 23, 2003.
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Here's what it says: Have you
ever wanted to wish upon a star?
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Well, you have 70 thousand,
million, million, million
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to choose from. I don't
know if you realize how big
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a number that is. That's
the total number of stars
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in the known
universe, according to a study
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by Australian astronomers.
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It's about ten times as many
grains of sand, not as many,
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ten times as many, grains of
sand on all the world's beaches
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and deserts. That's the
figure 7 followed by 220's,
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or more accurately, 76 trillion.
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It was calculated by a
team of star gazers based at the
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Australian National University.
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It's interesting that they would
say that, because you can read
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in the Bible where
God spoke to Abraham,
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speaking about his
descendents. He said:
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So it's interesting
that God compares the number
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of the stars to the
number of the grains of sand.
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The astronomers in Australia
say, There are more stars
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than there are grains of sand.
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When you think
about how big space is,
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I've got a series of slides, I
think I showed them once before,
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that just give you a little
bit of scale so that you can
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comprehend how vast space is.
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Here's a picture of our
Earth as compared to some of the
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other planets. Most of
them are between us and the Sun.
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You've got Venus, and
Mars, and Mercury, and Pluto.
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But then to keep the
scale going, let's look at some
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of the other bigger planets.
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There you've got Jupiter,
and Saturn, and Uranus, Neptune,
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and you see our Earth
down there at the bottom?
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just a little bitty
ping pong ball, and Mars.
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But now we're going
to look at our Earth
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as compared to the Sun.
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So here you've got the Sun,
and I understand that you can
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fit approximately
one million Earth's...
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Right now the Earth on that
screen, if it wasn't for the
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arrow, you
wouldn't know where to look.
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It's just a little bitty speck.
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It takes about a million
Earth's to fit in our Sun.
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Now our Sun is
considered a white dwarf.
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It's a small Sun.
There are some smaller,
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but it's not
one of the big ones.
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You go out in space, and as we
look at some of the other Sun's
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that are out there, for
instance you've got Beetlegeuse,
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which is there on
your left, and Antares.
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And you can see,
Ah, no you can't.
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Our Sun doesn't appear.
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It's about the size of
one digital pixel on the video
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projector screen there.
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So just imagine one
pixel on that screen.
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That would be our
massive Sun compared to
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some of the other stars.
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Can you see these two?
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These are not the biggest.
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There's one that, and these are
just the ones that we observe,
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there's one even bigger
that they've discovered now,
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and it's called Canis Majoris.
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Is that what it is Stephen?
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And that means big dog star.
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You know, I
understand that there are...
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We live when we look at
the stars that we're observing,
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we're looking at
the stars in our galaxy,
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which is a spiral of
stars swirling through space.
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And we are in
the Milky Way galaxy.
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Now we can't take a
picture of the Milky Way galaxy
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because we're in it.
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But if we...This is a picture
of another galaxy you can see
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out there in space.
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It gives you some idea.
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The distance across a
galaxy like ours, or like this,
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if you traveled the speed of
light, 186,000 miles per second,
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it could take like 270,000
light years to get across that.
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I mean it's just
fabulous how big it is.
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Now this is a galaxy...
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They figure in a galaxy,
which is one of these spirals
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of stars, there are as
many as two billion stars
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just in the Milky Way galaxy.
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There's some galaxies out there
that have hundreds of billions
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of stars: one galaxy,
hundreds of billions of suns.
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I understand in the bowl of
the Big Dipper, when you look up
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at the sky at night, just
in the bowl of the Big Dipper,
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there are over a million
galaxies that we can see.
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Now this is the
observable universe.
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And you start thinking about
it and it just boggles your mind
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how big it all is.
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Isaiah 55:9, the prophet says,
As the heavens are higher than
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the earth, so are my
ways higher than your ways,
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and my thoughts
than your thoughts.
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And now you
begin to get some idea.
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The closest star to Earth
is probably Alpha Proxima,
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or Alpha Centauri.
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They're about four light years
away, 186,000 miles per second.
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You travel that
speed; think about how far
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you go in five seconds.
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It takes about 8 minutes
for the light from the Sun
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to get to Earth because
it's 93 million miles away.
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If you travel a 186,000
miles per second for four years,
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then you get to the first star.
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And think about there being more
stars out there than there are
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ten times more stars,
they said, in Australia.
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Out there than there are grains
of sand on all the beaches,
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and all the
deserts of the world.
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I don't know who did
the calculus on that,
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but they must have
been sitting there with a
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calculator for a long time.
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But let's assume that's true.
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Four years, four light
years to get to the first one.
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Think about how big space is.
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Think about the number of
galaxies, the number of stars.
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Now what we've been
talking about, keep in mind,
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we've been talking
about how many stars.
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Those are the things, the
shining things we see out there.
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Now we're talking about, Is
there life on other planets?
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There's no life on the stars.
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The stars, they're fantastically
hot radiation nuclear fission
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taking place all the time.
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It incinerates
anything that touches it.
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So there's no life on the stars.
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The question is, Are there other
planets that might sustain life?
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When we say there are ten
times as many stars as there are
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grains of sand on all
the beaches and deserts
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of the world, how many
planets are in our solar system?
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9 and 170 moons, and
some of the moons are bigger
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than some of the
planets, or close anyway.
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So you begin to
think about that.
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What are the odds that
there are other worlds out there
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that may have life on them?
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Pretty good odds! You mean
the Lord put all that up there
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just so we could
observe it with a telescope?
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It's just a park for us
to walk through for eternity,
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and there's no
other life out there?
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Now through the
ceaseless ages in the past,
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that God the Father, the
Son, and the Spirit just looked
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at each other and the angels.
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I don't think so! I believe that
there is life on other worlds.
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So let's start at
the beginning here.
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Who made everything?
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John 1:1, the gospel of John,
In the beginning was the Word,
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and the Word was with
God, and the Word was God.
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He, the Word, was in
the beginning with God.
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All things were
made through Him.
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By the way, some people think
that Jesus was created at some
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remote time in the past.
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If that's true
this verse is not true.
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If all things that were
made were made by the Word,
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Christ, then He couldn't
have made it Himself. Right?
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He's always existed
just like the Father.
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All things that were made were
made by him; and without him
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nothing was made that was made.
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Then you can go to Colossians 1:
16, For by him all things were
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created, that are in
heaven, and that are in earth,
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that are visible
and invisible,...
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Now there are things
in heaven He's created,
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and things on Earth.
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...whether
thrones, or dominions,...
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There are thrones in heaven
as there are thrones on Earth.
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...principalities, or powers:
all things were created by
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and for him: he's
before all things, and in him
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all things consist.
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So the ultimate Creator of
all things that are out there
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were created by Jesus.
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Now there are some who
believe that we've got a God,
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and our God is a
God of our galaxy.
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And there are other gods
that are gods of other galaxies.
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And you could eventually grow
and be a god of your own galaxy.
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But my problem with that
theory is God knows everything,
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and if you know everything
you can't learn anything.
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So the idea of a
growing God is a problem.
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Do you see what I'm saying?
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And if He's all powerful, if
there's some things He doesn't
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have control over,
He's not all powerful.
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So God knows all
things. He's all powerful.
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There is one God, the Father,
Son, and Spirit, that resides
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and reigns over
all of the cosmos.
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He's not
competing with other gods.
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We know that He made this world.
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Hebrews 1:2, God has in these
last days spoken to us by his
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Son, whom he's
appointed heir of all things,
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through whom he also
made the worlds. Plural.
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You can read that also
in Hebrews 11:3, By faith we
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understand that the worlds
were framed by the word of God.
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Worlds, not just this planet.
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Now here's a question,
and some of you may leave me
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at this point. I hope not.
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Genesis 1:1, In the
beginning God created the
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heavens and the earth.
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Now I want to park right here.
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When I was researching this,
finding out what other churches
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believe, a lot of churches
believe that according to Bible
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chronology, the world, if
you add up the ages of Adam
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and the patriarchs,
it's about 6,000 years old.
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And I believe that.
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I find there's no
written history before that.
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The oldest tree rings, there's
just a lot of earthly evidence
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that just points back to about
4,000 years B.C., approximately.
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And that's the point when a lot
of Christians believe God also
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made all the other galaxies, all
of the other observable space
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was made 6,000 years ago.
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Because the Bible says that
the Lord made the sun, moon,
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and stars 6,000 years ago.
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I don't think they're
reading this correctly.
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If you understand how
Jews write, how Hebrew thinks,
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how the Bible writers write,
they usually give the headlines
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and then they come
back and give the details.
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That's how we do it
in newspapers today.
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Headline, back
up, give the details.
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The Bible begins with the
headline, everything that is
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made was made by God: the
heavens, everything out there,
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up there, and
everything down here.
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Then the narrative
goes on and describes how He
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made what's down here.
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And I believe that if you go
back 6,000 years, you're reading
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the account of how God
made, perhaps not just our solar
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system, but at least the
Milky Way galaxy, which is only
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one of billions of
galaxies. You got that?
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But that doesn't mean
that 6,000 years ago is when He
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made all these others.
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I think God has had
life on other worlds
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for an infinite amount of time.
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And how long
has God been around?
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Do you think He
just stared at the wall?
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No there were no walls.
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He couldn't stare at it.
00:22:38.19\00:22:39.22
For billions of
years doing nothing?
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God is love. When a
husband and wife get married,
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and through an act
of love they procreate.
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They want to share the love.
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They want to give the love.
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They want to be loved.
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And that's what God wants.
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And He started doing that
long before He made our planet.
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He was still God back then.
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I believe He has
other worlds out there,
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but they're unfallen.
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I'll get to that
in just a moment.
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Notice in Isaiah 45:12, God
says, I have made the earth,
00:23:04.67\00:23:12.10
and created man on it.
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This planet, it's environment,
and man, intelligent life on it.
00:23:14.08\00:23:18.06
My hands stretched
out the heavens,...
00:23:18.09\00:23:19.99
Those are other worlds.
00:23:20.02\00:23:21.12
...and all their hosts.
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Notice He makes a
separation: I made the world,
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and the
intelligent creatures here,
00:23:24.60\00:23:25.85
and I made the heavens, and
the intelligent creatures there.
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Do you see this simple, the
balance, the symmetry of what
00:23:29.43\00:23:33.60
He's saying here?
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When did He do it?
00:23:34.69\00:23:36.83
You read in the book Job 38:6,
7, To what were its foundations
00:23:36.86\00:23:44.02
fastened? Here God
is reasoning with Job.
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He's talking about
the creation of the earth.
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To what were it's
foundations fastened?
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or who laid its cornerstone?
00:23:50.24\00:23:52.34
When the morning stars
sang together, and all the sons
00:23:52.37\00:23:56.22
of God shouted for joy?
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Who are these sons of God that
are shouting for joy when the
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world is being created?
00:24:01.92\00:24:03.18
Well, a person
might instinctively say,
00:24:03.21\00:24:05.86
Oh, those are the angels.
00:24:05.89\00:24:07.39
Well, the word sons of God is
one of those words that is sort
00:24:07.42\00:24:11.10
of used many different ways
in the Bible, but it's usually
00:24:11.13\00:24:14.88
talking to those who have been
uniquely created, or recreated.
00:24:14.91\00:24:20.16
If you want to be a son of God
you must go through recreation;
00:24:20.19\00:24:24.68
new heart. Behold what manner
of love the Father has bestowed
00:24:24.71\00:24:27.94
on us that we should
be called sons of God.
00:24:27.97\00:24:30.15
And we'll talk more
about that in a moment as well.
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Genesis 1:14, When you get
to the fourth day of creation
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God says, Let there be lights
in the firmament of the heavens
00:24:39.44\00:24:42.89
to divide the day and the night.
00:24:42.92\00:24:44.48
Now what are the lights
to divide our day and night?
00:24:44.51\00:24:46.35
Are they the galaxies, or
is it the sun and the moon?
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Let there be lights in the
firmament that divide the day
00:24:49.56\00:24:53.70
and the night, and let them
be for signs and for seasons,
00:24:53.73\00:24:56.89
and for days and for years.
00:24:56.92\00:24:58.66
Now our days, and years, and our
months are divided by the moon.
00:24:58.69\00:25:01.68
Is anything in our seasons
governed by galaxies? No.
00:25:01.71\00:25:04.25
And let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens
00:25:05.60\00:25:09.40
to give light on the
earth: and it was so.
00:25:09.43\00:25:11.72
And God made two
great lights;.. How many?
00:25:11.75\00:25:14.46
It's talking
about the fourth day.
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He made two great lights; the
greater light to rule the day,
00:25:16.71\00:25:20.72
and the lesser light to rule the
night: he made the stars also.
00:25:20.75\00:25:24.47
Now when you find that
phrase, He made the stars also,
00:25:24.50\00:25:27.31
some scholars understand
this to be, it's an after fact,
00:25:27.34\00:25:32.64
He's saying He also is
the One who made the stars.
00:25:32.67\00:25:35.33
But on the fourth day He
made these two great lights.
00:25:35.36\00:25:37.29
You see how the
wording is working here?
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He also made the stars.
00:25:39.48\00:25:40.96
But on the fourth day He
made these special lights
00:25:40.99\00:25:43.01
to separate the
day and the night.
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You keep reading and it
starts to sound that way.
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God set them in the firmament
of the heavens to give light
00:25:46.41\00:25:49.51
on the earth, to rule
over the day and the night,
00:25:49.54\00:25:51.69
to divide the
light from the darkness:
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and God saw it was good.
00:25:53.53\00:25:54.59
So the principle subject of that
fourth day of creation is the
00:25:54.62\00:25:58.46
sun and the moon, and if
you want I'll also give you
00:25:58.49\00:26:01.09
the stars in our galaxy.
00:26:01.12\00:26:02.73
But He didn't make all
of the galaxies back then
00:26:02.76\00:26:06.28
on the fourth day.
00:26:06.31\00:26:07.34
He's talking about what
happened in our neighborhood;
00:26:07.37\00:26:09.88
the stars and
lights that actually have
00:26:09.91\00:26:12.01
an influence on Earth.
00:26:12.04\00:26:13.15
And even the stars that
are used for navigation.
00:26:13.18\00:26:17.52
I almost said
gavavation, but that would
00:26:17.55\00:26:19.88
have been embarrassing.
00:26:19.91\00:26:20.94
They are probably in our galaxy.
00:26:20.97\00:26:24.18
I remember when Karen
and I went to Australia,
00:26:24.21\00:26:27.13
and we went diving on this boat
that stayed a couple of nights
00:26:27.16\00:26:31.15
out there by the barrier reef.
00:26:31.18\00:26:32.58
And at night you're far away
from any city, and, you know,
00:26:32.61\00:26:36.42
you've got all of this, light
pollution is so hard for the
00:26:36.45\00:26:39.49
observatories like Mt. Palomar,
and Mt. Diablo, and even Hawaii.
00:26:39.52\00:26:44.32
They get so many city lights
that interfere, that we were out
00:26:44.35\00:26:47.32
there far away from shore,
far away from civilization,
00:26:47.35\00:26:50.13
and at night when the
sun and the moon were down,
00:26:50.16\00:26:53.75
and we looked up, it was
the strangest feeling because
00:26:53.78\00:26:56.51
as I was looking up at all these
stars I'd never seen before
00:26:56.54\00:26:58.95
in the Southern Hemisphere.
00:26:58.98\00:27:00.01
You just don't see those stars.
00:27:00.04\00:27:01.11
So its like you're going through
a whole new part of space that
00:27:01.14\00:27:04.62
friends in Australia are
used to, but I looked up there
00:27:04.65\00:27:07.12
and I went, This is alien!
00:27:07.15\00:27:09.54
This is really surreal,
because I'm looking at a sky
00:27:09.57\00:27:13.63
I've never seen before.
00:27:13.66\00:27:14.79
And I forgot what
led me to say that.
00:27:14.82\00:27:19.18
But it was very interesting.
00:27:19.21\00:27:20.24
Well I believe there is.
00:27:25.81\00:27:28.36
I think the
Bible teaches there is.
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Psalm 8:4, 5, First of all, What
is man, that you are mindful of
00:27:31.23\00:27:35.65
him? and the son of
man, that you visit him?
00:27:35.68\00:27:38.07
for you have made him a
little lower than the angels.
00:27:38.10\00:27:41.22
Now what was made first,
angels of people? angels.
00:27:41.25\00:27:44.49
Or at least the angels were
the sons of God shouting for joy
00:27:44.52\00:27:47.47
when the world was made. Right?
00:27:47.50\00:27:48.95
Man was made a little
lower than the angels,
00:27:48.98\00:27:51.70
and you've crowned
him with glory and honor.
00:27:51.73\00:27:53.47
So, let's begin here.
00:27:53.50\00:27:55.15
Are there extraterrestrials?
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Does God have angels?
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So you answered
the question already.
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We know there's life out
there other than life on earth.
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And you've got angels, seraphim,
cherubim, and there's probably
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all kinds of different types,
and varieties, and species,
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of ministering
spirits that God has.
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And different words are
used we don't understand.
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On our Earth He has no two
snowflakes that are the same.
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So if you've got a cookie cutter
in your head when you think
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about angels, and they're all
exactly the same, think again.
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They're unique. If
He's named all of the stars,
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He calls up the host by their
name, then, you know, probably
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He knows all the angels names.
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He knows who they are.
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Psalm 80:1, Give ear, O Shepherd
of Israel, you who lead Joseph
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like a flock; you who
dwell between the cherubim,
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shine forth. God is dwelling
between two principle angels.
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One of them used to be Lucifer.
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Then there's Gabriel who is
one of those covering cherubs
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by the throne of God now.
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We don't know
the names of others.
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Psalm 19:1, The heavens
declare the glory of God;
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and the firmament
shows his handiwork.
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Not only do the stars
declare the glory of God,
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but I believe there are beings
that declare the glory of God.
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And then listen to
what Jesus says in John 17.
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Just before the cross He
says, Now, O Father, glorify me
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together with yourself with
the glory that I had with you
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before the world was.
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Now if I were to ask
you to bring up your son
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and glorify him, bring up
your child and glorify him,
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you might bring up your
child and say wonderful things
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about them, and praise
them, and give them glory,
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and extol their
virtues, but that only has value
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if others were listening.
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Did you get that? So if Jesus
said, I shared glory with you
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before the world was, there
have to be other intelligent
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beings to recognize,
and appreciate that glory
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for it to be glory.
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Christ is about to be
glorified before the world
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and that's why He's
praying this prayer.
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There had to be others there.
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It does make a
difference for you and I now.
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One of the most striking
examples is where it talks about
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the sons of God. I told
you we'd come back to this.
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Read in your Bibles.
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Go to the book of Job, Job
1:6, 7, and this, actually this
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little scenario
happens a couple of times
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in the beginning of Job, where
it talks about the sons of God.
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Now there was a day when
the sons of God came to present
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themselves before the Lord,...
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Just some heavenly convention.
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...and Satan
also came among them.
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And the Lord said to Satan,...
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He's obviously standing out.
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From where do you come?
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Now does God ever ask a question
because He doesn't know?
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God knows everything, right?
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God often asks questions
for the benefit of others there
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that may not be all knowing.
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The sons of God
are not all knowing.
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And God asks Satan,
Where do you come from?
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And Satan says, I have
come from going to and fro
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on the earth, and
walking up and down in it.
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So here's a meeting.
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Is the meeting on earth?
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When I tell you that
I've come from my house,
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do I say that
when I'm in my house?
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So when Satan says,
I've come from the earth.
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And it says the sons of God
have gathered for this meeting.
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Who are these sons of God?
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Again, many Bible commentators
believe, and I agree,
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that in the same way Adam
was called the son of God...
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You know when it goes
through the genealogy in Luke 3
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it says, And Enos, or
Seth was the son of Enos,
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who was the son of
Adam, who was the son of God.
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Now they're all the sons of
humans until you get to Adam.
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The son of, the son of, the
son of, and it names all of the
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different
ancestors, human ancestors.
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But when you get to Adam
it says, who was the sons,
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Seth who was the son of
Adam, who was the son of God.
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Adam was given
dominion of this world.
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Adam should have been the
one who went to that heavenly
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meeting to represent
Earth and its creatures. Right?
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But Adam and Eve
surrendered dominion to Lucifer.
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So when Lucifer gets there they
say, What are you doing here?
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He says, I've come
to represent the Earth.
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They've
surrendered dominion to me.
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Those sons of God were the
leaders of other worlds that
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were gathering probably in some
other heavenly place, maybe.
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That was before Satan was
barred from the gates of heaven.
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When Christ came to
Earth, Satan was evicted
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permanently from heaven.
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As a matter of fact
you read about that.
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Revelation 12:9, So that
great dragon was cast out,
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that serpent of old, called the
Devil, and Satan, who deceives
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the whole world: he was cast
to the earth, and his angels
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were cast out with him.
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Now why? They were
cast out for sinning, right?
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It says, because you sinned
you were cast out, in Ezekiel.
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Why does it say in Revelation
12:12, Therefore rejoice,
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O heavens, and
you who dwell in them.
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Somebody dwells in the heavens.
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Who is up there
dwelling in the heavens?
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Why are they rejoicing?
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Because Satan was going through
the universe trying to recruit
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other intelligent creatures,
and worlds, to follow him
00:33:28.90\00:33:33.33
in his rebellion.
How many angels did
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Lucifer take with him?
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One third, the Bible
tells us in Revelation 12.
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And in the same way he came
to our world trying to recruit
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support, he was campaigning
through the universe.
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Finally God
said, Enough is enough!
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They've said no, and
you've got to understand that
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no means no.
And he was cast out.
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But down here the Devil
found someone who said yes.
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So this planet became a
beach head for him to continue
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his rebellion against God.
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That's why the heavens, the
unfallen angels, the good angels
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and the unfallen beings...
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I don't know
what they look like.
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You know when you see these
pictures and they look like ET,
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and, or you know, there's
a lot of people who have...
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They've got all these Star Trek
creatures, which are typically
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people with makeup and
rubber masks on, right?
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I mean God's got creatures
out there you and I probably
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can't even imagine.
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I know that
they're probably beautiful.
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None of them,
maybe some are comical.
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I mean do we have some
comical creatures in this world
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that make you smile?
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None of them are scary.
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I don't think that, you know,
these typical aliens with all
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the teeth and trying
to scare everybody...
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No, these are
unfallen, intelligent beings.
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It says that they are
going to be beautiful.
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They're made to
glorify their Creator.
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The Bible speaks
about the numberless angels.
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Now the angels are
ministering spirits.
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They were not all created
just to take care of Earth.
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Daniel, and these are the
armies of God it speaks of.
00:35:10.57\00:35:14.54
Daniel 7:10, A fiery stream came
and issued forth from before
00:35:14.57\00:35:20.28
him, and thousands of
thousands ministered to him.
00:35:20.31\00:35:23.88
Ten thousand times ten
thousand stood before him.
00:35:23.91\00:35:27.70
The court was seated,
and the books were opened.
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This is not talking about
the judgment day where the lost
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and saved are
standing before the Lord.
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These are the witnesses to
the judgment that is happening.
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Because think
about it for a second,
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before sin the people in heaven
and earth were not quarantined.
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They could
communicate with each other.
00:35:46.27\00:35:47.68
This planet has rebelled.
00:35:47.71\00:35:49.82
There's a lot of wickedness,
and filth, and crime, and evil
00:35:49.85\00:35:52.83
in this world because Lucifer,
the Devil, Lucifer spread it all
00:35:52.86\00:35:57.91
through this planet.
00:35:57.94\00:35:58.97
Now God is telling the unfallen
angels, and the unfallen
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intelligences out
there, I'm going to save them.
00:36:02.08\00:36:05.52
Yes, those people down there
that are behaving so terribly,
00:36:05.55\00:36:08.58
I'm going to transform
them and let them come back into
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heaven, and reintroduce
them to the universe.
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And they're all going, Lord, are
you sure this is a good idea?
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I've seen some of what
they've been doing down there.
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And if they haven't seen,
they've heard from the angels.
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I've not been to Afghanistan,
but I've heard about the war
00:36:22.25\00:36:26.21
there. You know what I'm saying?
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There's reports that come back.
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The soldiers, the
angels, tell us what's going on.
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And so these unfallen
beings are saying to the Lord,
00:36:33.52\00:36:36.66
You're going to
let them back in?
00:36:36.69\00:36:38.70
God has this judgment.
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He says, I want to demonstrate
they've been transformed.
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They've been renewed.
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They've been cleansed.
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They're holy. And so
that's why when the Lord comes
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He's giving out rewards.
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A judgment happens before
Jesus comes. Is that right?
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If the Bible says, Behold I
come and my reward is with me,
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that means if He's giving out
saved and lost when He comes,
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some investigation
happens before He comes.
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There's a judgment that
happens and they're witnesses;
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unfallen beings that
are very interested in these
00:37:06.74\00:37:11.58
rehabilitated creatures being
allowed back into the communion
00:37:11.61\00:37:18.30
of the unfallen universe.
00:37:18.33\00:37:20.09
The numbers that Daniel is
looking for you can't find.
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There's another
interesting verse in 1 Kings 22.
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Maybe I'll post my
notes, if you're interested,
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at the Sac. Central website.
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Micaiah the
prophet describes a vision.
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He says, Therefore hear the
word of the Lord: I saw the Lord
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sitting on his throne, and
all the host of heaven standing
00:37:39.54\00:37:42.61
by on his right
hand and on his left.
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And he's talking about Earth
from heaven in that vision.
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He's surrounded by His armies.
00:37:47.89\00:37:50.74
Now do you ever have an army
that fights to defend a kingdom
00:37:50.77\00:37:56.25
with no citizens?
Did you catch that?
00:37:56.28\00:37:59.54
You might have drifted
away for just a second,
00:37:59.57\00:38:01.89
and what I'm saying won't
make sense unless you heard it.
00:38:01.92\00:38:04.45
Would it make sense to have
an army that fights to defend
00:38:04.48\00:38:07.59
a country with no citizens?
00:38:07.62\00:38:09.26
Who are the
soldiers in God's army?
00:38:09.29\00:38:13.34
They're the angels.
00:38:13.37\00:38:15.21
Are the only citizens what He
has here on Earth, or are they
00:38:15.24\00:38:19.84
also fighting in the defense,
and representing unfallen
00:38:19.87\00:38:23.62
worlds? Unfallen angels
represent unfallen galaxies.
00:38:23.65\00:38:27.21
They are the armies of God.
00:38:27.24\00:38:29.93
They are the
ministering spirits.
00:38:29.96\00:38:32.70
They don't just
minister to humans.
00:38:32.73\00:38:34.54
If you've got a hos... Well,
I'll get to that in a minute.
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UFO's. Do you want to
talk about that for a moment?
00:38:40.35\00:38:43.37
Are there UFO's? Have
you heard my UFO story?
00:38:43.40\00:38:49.56
I've got a few of them.
00:38:49.59\00:38:51.50
I remember one
time... I'm embarrassed!
00:38:51.53\00:38:53.62
I was up in the hills in
Covolo where you can see the sky
00:38:53.65\00:38:57.83
pretty well. And
the family was up there.
00:38:57.86\00:38:59.43
And I called all the
family out and I saw a UFO.
00:38:59.46\00:39:02.96
And I called all the family
out and I said, Look at that!
00:39:02.99\00:39:06.00
I said this is a UFO!
00:39:06.03\00:39:07.40
I saw this thing, this
circular thing that was flying,
00:39:07.43\00:39:10.31
and then it was kind of
moving around the heavens,
00:39:10.34\00:39:11.76
and it was getting closer to us.
00:39:11.79\00:39:12.83
So I said, Kids,
grab the telescope!
00:39:12.86\00:39:14.35
And we all came down in front,
and we're looking at this thing,
00:39:14.38\00:39:16.28
and it gets closer,
and closer, and closer.
00:39:16.31\00:39:17.86
Pretty soon we heard ummmmm.
00:39:17.89\00:39:20.55
It was an airplane that was
flying with its landing lights,
00:39:20.58\00:39:23.46
it's running lights,
it's beacon, everything on.
00:39:23.49\00:39:24.95
He'd forgot to turn it off.
00:39:24.98\00:39:26.27
And here I'm a pilot,
and I ought to know better,
00:39:26.30\00:39:28.84
but from a distance, I don't
know what was happening with
00:39:28.87\00:39:31.45
the atmosphere, and inversion
layers, and horizon, and ions,
00:39:31.48\00:39:34.77
and I don't know what was going
on, but it looked really weird.
00:39:34.80\00:39:37.41
And the kids, at first
we all thought, What is it?
00:39:37.44\00:39:42.30
And another time I
was up flying with Karen.
00:39:42.33\00:39:45.33
And I think she was resting.
00:39:45.36\00:39:47.21
I said, Look here!
What is that up there?
00:39:47.24\00:39:51.07
As a matter of fact, I was
flying between here and like
00:39:51.10\00:39:53.04
South Lake Tahoe, and
there was this great big
00:39:53.07\00:39:56.61
red flying saucer.
00:39:56.64\00:39:58.12
And as we got closer
and closer, I was scared.
00:39:58.15\00:40:01.27
I thought I ought to
run in the other direction.
00:40:01.30\00:40:03.32
But I was really
curious so I flew towards it.
00:40:03.35\00:40:06.45
And I said, Look
at it, look at it!
00:40:06.48\00:40:07.67
What is it? What is it?
00:40:07.70\00:40:08.73
And we're getting closer
and it's shining in the sun.
00:40:08.76\00:40:09.89
And I said, I know
it's not an airplane.
00:40:09.92\00:40:12.04
And I was right.
It wasn't an airplane.
00:40:12.07\00:40:13.88
It was an
unidentified flying object.
00:40:13.91\00:40:16.25
Someone had a party and
they had one of these great big
00:40:16.28\00:40:22.02
metallically colored Mylar
balloons that they had let go.
00:40:22.05\00:40:29.68
And it had found its place up in
the sky where it wasn't going to
00:40:29.71\00:40:32.87
go any higher, and
it wasn't going to sink.
00:40:32.90\00:40:34.33
It was just
sitting there hovering.
00:40:34.36\00:40:36.07
And from a
distance, with the sunlight...
00:40:36.10\00:40:38.35
You know the metallic
ones, they shine really bright
00:40:38.38\00:40:40.61
with the sun hitting them.
00:40:40.64\00:40:41.67
It looked like a UFO!
00:40:41.70\00:40:43.54
And as I got closer I
thought, Oh, I felt so dumb!
00:40:43.57\00:40:48.99
Now what about all
these UFO sightings?
00:40:49.02\00:40:54.49
I think it's safe to tell
you this. This is the truth.
00:40:54.52\00:40:58.19
You know my father was
in the aviation business,
00:40:58.22\00:41:00.64
as were two of his brothers.
00:41:00.67\00:41:03.53
One of my father's brothers...
00:41:03.56\00:41:07.88
I won't say his name.
00:41:07.91\00:41:09.23
He's still alive today.
00:41:09.26\00:41:10.29
...worked his whole
working career for Lockheed
00:41:10.32\00:41:14.78
out of Burbank. I
was born in Burbank.
00:41:14.81\00:41:16.56
His job was every
Monday to get on an airplane.
00:41:16.59\00:41:20.48
He would fly to
the desert in Nevada
00:41:20.51\00:41:24.40
to a place called
Area 51. True Story.
00:41:24.43\00:41:28.83
And he was part of
the team that worked on...
00:41:28.86\00:41:32.11
And they'd fly
them back on Friday.
00:41:32.14\00:41:33.33
...worked on... they worked
for Skunk works, they worked on
00:41:33.36\00:41:35.63
the SR41 Blackbird.
00:41:35.66\00:41:37.42
They worked on
the Stealth Fighter.
00:41:37.45\00:41:38.70
And they worked on a whole
plethora of different projects,
00:41:38.73\00:41:41.17
and many of them
probably never got released.
00:41:41.20\00:41:42.67
Some were very successful.
00:41:42.70\00:41:44.14
But he had to
hide that for years.
00:41:44.17\00:41:46.65
Never got married to this day.
00:41:46.68\00:41:47.85
His last name's
Batchelor, obviously.
00:41:47.88\00:41:50.47
Never did get married because
it's hard to have a family
00:41:50.50\00:41:54.31
where you take off Monday,
and don't come home till Friday.
00:41:54.34\00:41:56.78
And you've got to be top
secret about what you're doing.
00:41:56.81\00:41:59.82
But pretty much everyone knows
now what was going on there.
00:41:59.85\00:42:01.96
But you hear about them
having hidden, you know...
00:42:01.99\00:42:05.80
A UFO went down out
there in the desert somewhere,
00:42:05.83\00:42:08.78
and it had bodies in it.
00:42:08.81\00:42:10.63
If you want to have fun...
00:42:10.66\00:42:12.07
Oh, I don't even want to
encourage you to do this.
00:42:12.10\00:42:13.69
Get on the Internet and
just start looking at all the
00:42:13.72\00:42:17.01
conspiracy nonsense
about them capturing aliens.
00:42:17.04\00:42:19.77
And they've got even little
alien babies they'll show you.
00:42:19.80\00:42:21.70
And some people have done some
primitive photography to try
00:42:21.73\00:42:24.76
to fool people. And
just to illustrate...
00:42:24.79\00:42:28.57
I don't want to get
too far from my point,
00:42:28.60\00:42:29.98
but just to illustrate.
00:42:30.01\00:42:31.04
I've got a friend up in the
hills who's got one of these
00:42:31.07\00:42:36.14
cameras that takes
pictures of nature.
00:42:36.17\00:42:39.06
And he sets it up by a watering
hole on his property that's got
00:42:39.09\00:42:43.68
this very
beautiful nature background.
00:42:43.71\00:42:45.53
There's trees, and there's
rocks, and there's a watering
00:42:45.56\00:42:47.25
hole. And it's
got a motion detector.
00:42:47.28\00:42:50.43
And whenever an animal
goes by it takes a picture.
00:42:50.46\00:42:52.94
And so he's posted something on
the web for his Sabbath School
00:42:52.97\00:42:58.34
class, and his friends.
00:42:58.37\00:42:59.40
And he says, These
are my nature pictures.
00:42:59.43\00:43:00.46
You ought to take a look.
00:43:00.49\00:43:01.52
Well, he sent me... He knows
I do a little bit of photo shop.
00:43:01.55\00:43:06.14
He sent me a picture
from some movie of a Bigfoot.
00:43:06.17\00:43:11.23
Yeddie, abomable snowman.
00:43:11.26\00:43:14.18
You all know what I'm
talking about? Bigfoot!
00:43:14.21\00:43:16.12
He said, Doug, can you put
that Bigfoot in my nature yard?
00:43:16.15\00:43:22.60
I said, Let me try.
00:43:22.63\00:43:25.50
And it was actually...
The lighting was perfect.
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.90
I mean this, they
took this picture of this,
00:43:27.93\00:43:30.06
Bigfoot's like this!
00:43:30.09\00:43:31.12
And he's looking like, Oh, no!
00:43:31.15\00:43:33.19
And it looks like a
camera shutter just went off,
00:43:33.22\00:43:35.07
and he got caught!
00:43:35.10\00:43:36.13
Big old hairy,
ugly, made up monster!
00:43:36.16\00:43:38.72
And I took it and
I put it in there.
00:43:38.75\00:43:41.89
I took all the edges out,
and I made it, and I lit it,
00:43:41.92\00:43:43.84
and I did it just perfectly.
00:43:43.87\00:43:45.81
And so, I mean it looks real.
00:43:45.84\00:43:47.70
I'm tempted to share
the website with you.
00:43:47.73\00:43:49.80
So he's got all the kids
in his Sabbath School class.
00:43:49.83\00:43:52.80
He probably shouldn't be
a Sabbath School teacher,
00:43:52.83\00:43:54.23
should he? He says, You know you
guys, you ought to take a look
00:43:54.26\00:43:58.22
at my website. I've got these
really neat nature pictures.
00:43:58.25\00:44:00.53
The kids are going through
and they see the squirrel,
00:44:00.56\00:44:02.31
and they said, There's
a deer, there's a bear,
00:44:02.34\00:44:04.15
there's another
deer. Look a raccoon!
00:44:04.18\00:44:05.76
Bigfoot, Big...What!
00:44:05.79\00:44:07.98
And it looks
real! It looks so real!
00:44:08.01\00:44:13.38
Well, you know what, they're
going to send that all over
00:44:13.41\00:44:15.25
the internet now.
They're going to say,
00:44:15.28\00:44:17.45
Another Bigfoot Sighting!
00:44:17.48\00:44:19.06
And maybe I'll get on the
Discover channel after that.
00:44:19.09\00:44:24.88
But some people have taken
these things, and they create
00:44:24.91\00:44:28.98
these aliens, and they
put it on the Internet.
00:44:29.01\00:44:30.70
And they've
created all these stories.
00:44:30.73\00:44:32.04
Friends, let me tell you
what, UFO's are a combination
00:44:32.07\00:44:36.08
of one of two or three things.
00:44:36.11\00:44:38.53
Most of the time, 98% of the
time, it is probably an optical
00:44:38.56\00:44:46.17
illusion like the
ones I've just described.
00:44:46.20\00:44:48.61
There may be the rare occasion
where the military really was
00:44:48.64\00:44:54.27
testing an aircraft and someone
got a picture that looked weird.
00:44:54.30\00:44:58.92
They've got a couple of cases
where they said, Yes, it did
00:44:58.95\00:45:02.68
look like a UFO.
That was our first trials
00:45:02.71\00:45:04.63
of the Stealth Bomber.
00:45:04.66\00:45:05.69
Then there's the possibility
the Devil can create illusions,
00:45:05.72\00:45:12.82
can't he? And I believe
there are probably some people
00:45:12.85\00:45:16.52
out there that say, I saw this
UFO, and I saw these aliens,
00:45:16.55\00:45:20.88
and they spoke to me, and...
00:45:20.91\00:45:22.79
Does the Devil
have the power of light?
00:45:22.82\00:45:25.49
Can he create illusions?
00:45:25.52\00:45:26.72
Can he deceive? Can
he give them messages?
00:45:26.75\00:45:28.92
And you know what happens?
00:45:28.95\00:45:29.98
Usually those messages are
dealing with, Yes, you have
00:45:30.01\00:45:33.79
been evolved and you'll be
reincarnated, and you're going
00:45:33.82\00:45:37.78
to keep progressing,
and eventually you'll be as
00:45:37.81\00:45:39.70
sophisticated as we are.
00:45:39.73\00:45:40.99
It is a very unbiblical
message that these aliens
00:45:41.02\00:45:44.52
ostensibly give. So yeah,
I think devils can sometimes
00:45:44.55\00:45:48.75
create these illusions.
00:45:48.78\00:45:50.72
Revelation 13:13, He performs
great signs, so that he even
00:45:50.75\00:45:56.04
makes fire come down
from heaven on the earth
00:45:56.07\00:45:58.92
in the sight of man.
00:45:58.95\00:46:00.23
Acts 2:19. It's interesting.
00:46:00.26\00:46:03.44
Peter says, I'll show in the
last days wonders in the heaven
00:46:03.47\00:46:07.57
above, and signs in the
earth beneath; blood, and fire,
00:46:07.60\00:46:10.92
and vapor of smoke:...
00:46:10.95\00:46:13.71
You know, I don't even
have time to read this to you.
00:46:13.74\00:46:16.01
You might look
at Ezekiel's vision.
00:46:16.04\00:46:18.01
If you read in Ezekiel
1:13, He talks about this wheel
00:46:18.04\00:46:22.31
within the wheel, and
I've heard a lot of people say,
00:46:22.34\00:46:24.83
That's a UFO,
Doug, that's a UFO.
00:46:24.86\00:46:27.10
It is interesting, but No,
I don't think it was a UFO.
00:46:27.13\00:46:30.61
I think he was taken
and shown something unique,
00:46:30.64\00:46:33.11
and I'm looking forward to
the day when that's described.
00:46:33.14\00:46:35.55
It talks about their
wings, and their army.
00:46:35.58\00:46:38.37
It's like the noise
of an army as it flies.
00:46:38.40\00:46:40.72
And it is kind of a fascinating
enigma, a conundrum about this
00:46:40.75\00:46:45.96
wheel within a wheel.
00:46:45.99\00:46:47.02
Are aliens watching us?
00:46:47.05\00:46:49.11
Well some of them. The
angels are watching us.
00:46:49.14\00:46:54.08
You see, our planet is sick.
00:46:54.11\00:46:58.90
Luke 5, there are
other unfallen worlds.
00:46:58.93\00:47:05.77
Luke 5:31, Jesus answered and
said, Those who are well have
00:47:05.80\00:47:09.74
no need of a physician;
but those who are sick.
00:47:09.77\00:47:12.89
I have not come to
call the righteous,
00:47:12.93\00:47:14.84
but sinners to repentance.
00:47:14.87\00:47:16.08
Now think about the
implications of what Jesus said.
00:47:16.11\00:47:18.46
How many people in this
world have been infected by sin?
00:47:18.50\00:47:20.81
What percent? 100%
00:47:20.84\00:47:23.78
So when the Lord said, It's not
those who are well that need a
00:47:23.82\00:47:26.28
physician, but
those who are sick.
00:47:26.31\00:47:27.57
I have come not to
call the righteous,...
00:47:27.60\00:47:31.36
He left the righteous.
00:47:31.39\00:47:32.42
...but I've come
to call the sick.
00:47:32.45\00:47:35.05
The well are still there.
00:47:35.08\00:47:36.51
You see, this planet,
right now, has a disease that is
00:47:36.54\00:47:42.06
contagious, and the only ones
that can go to a hospital where
00:47:42.10\00:47:46.15
there is a very contagious
disease, are the ones who are
00:47:46.19\00:47:49.58
infected in the hospital staff.
00:47:49.61\00:47:51.91
You got that? Our
planet now has been quarantined
00:47:51.95\00:47:57.22
from the other unfallen
galaxies because we're sick.
00:47:57.25\00:48:01.21
Jesus, the great Physician,
came into our infected
00:48:01.24\00:48:05.19
environment to heal us
00:48:05.22\00:48:08.22
But He left the
uncontaminated, unfallen worlds
00:48:08.25\00:48:11.29
safely where they were.
00:48:11.32\00:48:14.84
Why does it matter?
00:48:14.87\00:48:18.39
Why does it matter that
there's life on other planets?
00:48:18.42\00:48:21.66
Because the Devil has
maligned the character of God
00:48:21.70\00:48:24.93
before the universe.
00:48:24.96\00:48:25.99
It's not just what's
happening on earth here.
00:48:26.02\00:48:28.61
It's accusations that have
been made against God and His
00:48:28.64\00:48:31.43
very government, and His law.
00:48:31.46\00:48:32.75
That's why He tells us in
Revelation 19:1, 2, After these
00:48:32.78\00:48:40.11
things I heard a loud voice
of a great multitude in heaven,
00:48:40.14\00:48:44.02
saying, Halleluiah,...
00:48:44.06\00:48:46.92
By the way, Revelation
19 is before Revelation 20.
00:48:46.96\00:48:49.39
You knew that. Revelation 19 is
before the millennium chapter.
00:48:49.43\00:48:54.77
Halleluiah, salvation, and
glory, and honor, and power,
00:48:54.80\00:48:58.20
belong to the Lord our
God: For true and righteous
00:48:58.23\00:49:01.80
are His judgments.
00:49:01.85\00:49:03.06
His judgment, His
justice was under attack.
00:49:03.10\00:49:07.06
And Christ has demonstrated
here, and who was the
00:49:07.09\00:49:10.63
principle attacker?
00:49:10.66\00:49:11.69
Lucifer used to roam
freely among the other angels,
00:49:11.72\00:49:14.74
and the unfallen worlds.
00:49:14.78\00:49:15.81
He maligned, He
accused, He slandered God.
00:49:15.84\00:49:19.29
And here this world is a stage,
it's a theatre of God's love.
00:49:19.32\00:49:25.13
And at the cross was
demonstrated Satan's love for
00:49:25.17\00:49:28.69
power, and
Christ's power of love.
00:49:28.72\00:49:30.40
And all of the universe is
aware of what's happening here.
00:49:30.44\00:49:34.28
And they're going to declare
that He is true and righteous
00:49:34.32\00:49:38.12
in His justice
and His judgments.
00:49:38.16\00:49:40.33
You know, it's
wonderful; soon Jesus will come.
00:49:40.36\00:49:46.39
Is He coming alone?
00:49:46.42\00:49:48.11
Does the Bible say that there is
silence in heaven when He comes?
00:49:48.14\00:49:52.54
When we have been purified
there's a parade coming of not
00:49:52.58\00:49:57.33
only all of the angels...
00:49:57.36\00:49:58.83
He says He will come
with all of the angels.
00:49:58.86\00:50:02.02
Well, who's going to take
care of the unfallen worlds
00:50:02.05\00:50:04.38
if all of the angels are here?
00:50:04.41\00:50:05.58
You know, every now and then...
00:50:05.61\00:50:07.84
We haven't done it in awhile.
00:50:07.87\00:50:08.90
Sacramento will have an
area church convocation.
00:50:08.93\00:50:11.50
And we want as many as possible
to go to this convocation.
00:50:11.53\00:50:15.81
And so, you know, most
churches close their doors.
00:50:15.84\00:50:17.74
And they say, Well, if we're
going to have everybody there,
00:50:17.77\00:50:20.53
there'll be no pastors
left, because they're all
00:50:20.57\00:50:21.90
participating
at the convocation.
00:50:21.93\00:50:23.59
If all of the angels are
coming with Jesus, and if God
00:50:23.62\00:50:26.70
the Father is there, would
you, if you're an unfallen alien
00:50:26.73\00:50:31.34
from another world and you've
heard about this, and finally
00:50:31.37\00:50:33.39
the great victory parade is
going to collect the trophies.
00:50:33.43\00:50:36.77
Wouldn't you want to go?
00:50:36.80\00:50:38.08
I think there's going to be in
that procession not only angels,
00:50:38.11\00:50:41.67
but I think that He's bringing
the unfallen worlds with Him.
00:50:41.70\00:50:44.80
Wow! Think about
how big space is,
00:50:44.84\00:50:47.29
and how glorious that will be!
00:50:47.32\00:50:48.50
And then we'll be caught up
to meet the Lord in the air.
00:50:48.53\00:50:51.34
Will we need space
suits made from NASA?
00:50:51.38\00:50:53.77
They'd better get busy,
right? if that's the case.
00:50:53.80\00:50:56.83
I think that once we
get our glorified bodies,
00:50:56.86\00:50:59.81
our spiritual bodies that you'll
be able to travel the speed of
00:50:59.85\00:51:02.95
thought. There'll be
an atmosphere around you
00:51:02.99\00:51:05.24
that you can breathe.
00:51:05.27\00:51:06.54
That you'll have your own light.
00:51:06.58\00:51:09.82
You won't have to worry
about being killed by the vacuum
00:51:09.85\00:51:12.46
of space, or the cold of space.
00:51:12.50\00:51:14.08
I don't know how God does it,
but angels do it, don't they?
00:51:14.11\00:51:16.98
Whatever it is
they're wearing, we'll have.
00:51:17.02\00:51:19.13
Those robes of
light that He gives us.
00:51:19.17\00:51:21.90
And then He'll take us on
this incredible procession.
00:51:21.94\00:51:25.33
I love this picture
by my friend Alfred Lee.
00:51:25.37\00:51:28.21
He said that I could share that
of Jesus bringing this parade
00:51:28.24\00:51:31.58
of the ransomed back
from Earth to heaven.
00:51:31.61\00:51:33.87
It's got the picture of the
cross there in the background
00:51:33.91\00:51:36.86
that I always
thought was a moving picture.
00:51:36.90\00:51:39.81
Now if you said to
me, Doug, what's your job?
00:51:39.85\00:51:42.73
And I said, I'm a king.
00:51:42.76\00:51:43.79
You say, king, king,
king of what country?
00:51:43.82\00:51:46.96
Of the country of Nebulous.
00:51:47.00\00:51:49.02
I just made that up.
00:51:49.05\00:51:50.43
Who lives in that country?
00:51:50.47\00:51:52.19
Nobody, but I reign there.
00:51:52.22\00:51:54.89
That doesn't make any sense.
00:51:54.92\00:51:57.51
That's like saying
you're a politician,
00:51:57.55\00:51:58.95
but you've got no constituents.
00:51:58.99\00:52:00.83
Or an author:
Yeah, I'm an author.
00:52:00.87\00:52:02.68
How many books? I
haven't written any yet.
00:52:02.71\00:52:04.81
Any readers? No, I
haven't gotten any books,
00:52:04.85\00:52:06.94
but I'm an author.
00:52:06.98\00:52:09.36
So when a persons says,
We're going to live and reign
00:52:09.39\00:52:12.46
with Christ, you
reign over something.
00:52:12.49\00:52:15.03
Just think of what
a privilege that is.
00:52:15.07\00:52:17.60
He's going to take us,
the objects of His grace,
00:52:17.63\00:52:20.90
not only is He
going to save us,...
00:52:20.93\00:52:22.41
Reigning in heaven is
not going to be the despotic,
00:52:22.44\00:52:26.02
mean kind of rule.
00:52:26.05\00:52:27.21
We are going to be going through
the cosmos glorifying God
00:52:27.24\00:52:30.72
as ambassadors of His
love, telling of His goodness,
00:52:30.75\00:52:33.07
because we've
experienced it firsthand.
00:52:33.10\00:52:35.09
So we live and reign with Him.
00:52:35.13\00:52:36.72
And there's
these unfallen worlds.
00:52:36.76\00:52:38.32
Let me read you a quote.
00:52:38.35\00:52:40.36
And this is from the book,
The Great Controversy, page 677.
00:52:40.39\00:52:44.89
All the treasures
of the universe,...
00:52:44.92\00:52:47.48
Speaking of the redeemed.
00:52:47.51\00:52:48.54
...will be open to
the study of God's saved.
00:52:48.57\00:52:51.82
Unfettered by mortality,
they'll wing their tireless
00:52:51.85\00:52:56.95
flight to worlds afar.
00:52:56.98\00:52:58.94
Worlds that thrilled with sorrow
at the spectacle of human woe,
00:52:58.97\00:53:03.18
and rang with songs of
gladness at the tidings
00:53:03.21\00:53:06.37
of a ransomed soul.
00:53:06.40\00:53:07.43
So when we read in the Bible
that there's singing in heaven,
00:53:07.46\00:53:10.09
over a soul that's
saved, is it just angels?
00:53:10.12\00:53:12.77
Or are there unfallen
worlds that are singing?
00:53:12.80\00:53:15.41
They sang with joy at the
tidings of a redeemed soul.
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With unutterable delight,
the children of earth enter into
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the joy and wisdom
of unfallen beings.
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They share the treasures
of knowledge and understanding
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gained through ages
upon ages in contemplation
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of God's handiwork.
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Can you imagine
talking to an unfallen
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being that's
lived a million years?
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With undimmed vision they gaze
upon the glory of creation's
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suns, and stars, and systems,
all in their appointed order
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circling the throne of deity.
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So I'm not
making up this theology.
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It's foundational
to what we believe.
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If you read in Manuscript 155
in 1902, Christ came to reveal
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to world's unfallen, to
angels, and to the human race,
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that God's law, there's no
restriction that we cannot obey,
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that He came to
represent God in humanity.
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He met every requirement
that we are asked to meet.
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You know, there's one
more parable I'll close with
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that I think
helps illustrate this.
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You remember when Jesus said, in
the parable of the lost sheep,
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Luke 15:4, What man of
you, having an hundred sheep,
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if he loses one of them, he does
not leave the ninety-nine in the
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wilderness, and go after the one
that was lost, till he finds it.
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And when he has found it,
he lays it on his shoulders,
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rejoicing. And when he comes
home, he calls together his
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friends and says, Rejoice with
me, for I have found my sheep
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that was lost. I say to
you, likewise, there's more joy
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in heaven over one sinner who
repents, than over ninety-nine
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just persons who
need no repentance.
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You know, a place you can
easily apply that parable?
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All of the infinite
universe that we just described,
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none of those sheep fell.
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The Lord laid aside His
divinity as the Chief Shepherd.
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He came. He left
them safe in their fold.
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He came across the
cosmos to this galaxy,
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to this solar system, to
this planet in rebellion,
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where Lucifer
kidnapped the inhabitants.
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Jesus came into this world and
He paid an incredible sacrifice
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as the Lamb of God...
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And not only is He our
Shepherd, He's our Lamb.
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...to rescue this
world, this lost sheep.
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Now when you think
about how big space is...
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Do you remember how
small our planet is?
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Why does it matter?
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It tells us
about the love of God.
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How easy would it have been
for God, in the scope of how big
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the universe is, and how small;
our planet is so microscopic
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it's not even like an
atom compared to the universe.
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And when this planet rebelled,
God could have looked around
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and said... they're gone!
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If He loved something that
small, and He would lay aside
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His glory, and become a human
to live on this little speck
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to save us, if you could
find yourself on that speck,
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how much does He
care about the individual?
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Boy that's a big sacrifice!
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He left all that to
save this wandering world,
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and all of we like
sheep have gone astray.
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And He left the
Father's throne to save us.
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How dare we, when such a
mighty God that made so much...
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He's so awesome!... would
come to save these little specks
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on a speck. For us to tell
Him, No, or we're too busy.
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It does matter. It gives us the
scope of how valuable you are
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to God. He's our Chief Shepherd.
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I'd like to end
where we started.
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Then I looked and I
heard the voice of many angels
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around the throne.
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The living
creatures, and the elders.
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The number of them was ten
thousand times ten thousand,
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and thousands of thousands,
saying with a loud voice,
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Worthy is the Lamb who
was slain to receive power,
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and riches, and wisdom, and
strength, and honor, and glory,
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and blessing. And every
creature which is in heaven,
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and on the earth, and under the
earth, and such as are in the
00:57:32.46\00:57:36.59
sea,... That means
every creature everywhere.
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I heard them saying, Blessing
and honor, and glory, and power
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be to Him who sits on
the throne, and the Lamb
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forever and ever. This
world is that lost sheep,
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and all of us have
been wandering sheep.
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The question is, Are you willing
to come home with the Shepherd?
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