(MUSIC)
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>>EVERY NOW AND THEN, IN
THE PANORAMA OF HISTORY, WE HEAR
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ABOUT INDIVIDUALS THAT GO FROM
THE LOWEST DEPTHS TO THE HIGHEST
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PINNACLES. THEY
EMERGE FROM THE SHACKLES
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OF PRISON TO LEAD
AND INSPIRE A NATION.
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TAKE JOSEPH, FOR INSTANCE: HE'S
SOLD BY HIS BROTHERS AS A SLAVE,
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THEN FALSELY ACCUSED
AND THRUST INTO PRISON.
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YET, THROUGH A SERIES OF DIVINE
CIRCUMSTANCES, HE MIRACULOUSLY
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GOES FROM THE PRISON TO THE
PALACE, RULING THE ONES WHO ONCE
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IMPRISONED HIM.
SOUND FAR-FETCHED?
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IT'S HAPPENED IN
HISTORY MORE THAN YOU THINK.
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SOUTH AFRICA IS THE
HOME OF JUST SUCH A LEADER.
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NELSON MANDELA WORKED TIRELESSLY
TO ESTABLISH PEACE AND FREEDOM
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IN HIS COUNTRY AND HIS INFLUENCE
WAS FELT AROUND THE WORLD.
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BEFORE FREEDOM,
THERE MUST BE FORGIVENESS.
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LIKE JOSEPH, WHO WAS UNJUSTLY
ACCUSED OF A CRIME HE DID NOT
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COMMIT, NELSON MANDELA
WAS ACCUSED OF TERRORISM AND
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SENTENCED TO LIFE IN
PRISON ON ROBIN ISLAND.
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HE WAS OFTEN EXPOSED TO
CRUEL PUNISHMENT AND ABUSE.
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BUT EVEN IN THE MIDST
OF APPARENT FAILURE AND
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DISCOURAGEMENT, HE NEVER
LOST HEART AND HE NEVER GAVE UP.
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AFTER YEARS IN PRISON, A GROWING
NUMBER OF SUPPORTERS RALLIED FOR
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HIS RELEASE AND
EVENTUALLY IT TOOK PLACE.
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AND GOD USED HIM SO THAT HE
WAS INSTRUMENTAL IN HELPING TO
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ABOLISH RACIAL SEGREGATION
IN THE COUNTRY OF SOUTH AFRICA.
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INCREDIBLY, HE NOW WAS,
VIRTUALLY, THE ABSOLUTE LEADER
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IN THE COUNTRY
THAT HAD IMPRISONED HIM.
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HE HAD ALL THE TOOLS AND
THE POWER AT HIS DISPOSAL TO GET
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EVEN WITH THE PRISON GUARDS AND
OTHERS THAT HAD MISTREATED HIM.
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INSTEAD, MANDELA
CHOSE FORGIVENESS.
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IT REMINDS ME OF THAT VERSE IN
THE BIBLE IN EPHESIANS CHAPTER
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4, VERSE 31, "LET ALL
BITTERNESS, WRATH, ANGER,
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CLAMOR, AND EVIL SPEAKING BE PUT
AWAY FROM YOU, WITH ALL MALICE.
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AND BE KIND TO ONE ANOTHER,
TENDERHEARTED, FORGIVING ONE
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ANOTHER, EVEN AS GOD
IN CHRIST FORGAVE YOU."
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I'M SO THANKFUL THAT NELSON
MANDELA, LIKE JOSEPH, CHOSE TO
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FORGIVE THOSE WHO WERE ONCE HIS
ENEMIES, AND TO SERVE HIS NATION
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WITH LOVE AND COURAGE.
YOU CAN FIND A NUMBER OF
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EXAMPLES OF THIS
HAPPENING IN THE BIBLE.
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YOU HAVE DANIEL, WHO WAS A
CAPTIVE FROM THE LAND OF JUDAH,
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AND YET GOD ARRANGED THINGS
WHERE HE BECOMES THE PRIME
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MINISTER IN THE
KINGDOM OF BABYLON.
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YOU HAVE ESTHER, WHO WAS A POOR
ORPHAN GIRL IN PERSIA, AND YET
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GOD WORKED THINGS OUT WHERE
SHE BECOMES THE QUEEN OF THAT
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COUNTRY. THE BOOK
OF JEREMIAH ENDS WITH
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AN INCREDIBLE STORY OF A YOUNG
KING NAMED JEHOIACHIN, WHO WAS
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IN A BABYLONIAN DUNGEON
FOR 37 YEARS AND THEN KING
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EVIL-MERODACH HAS MERCY ON HIM
AND HE HAD A NEW STATUS, GOING
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FROM THE PRISON TO THE PALACE.
THIS IS WHAT THE LORD WANTS TO
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DO FOR YOU AND ME, FRIENDS.
HE GIVES YOU THE BREAD OF LIFE.
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HE GIVES YOU THE ROBE
OF JESUS' RIGHTEOUSNESS.
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HE GIVES YOU A
SEAT AT HIS TABLE.
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IF YOU ACCEPT HIS FORGIVENESS
AND YOU'RE WILLING TO PASS IT
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ON, YOU AND I CAN
LIVE AND REIGN WITH CHRIST.
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WOULDN'T YOU LIKE
THAT EXPERIENCE? (MUSIC)
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>>AMAZING FACTS
BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A
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GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
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THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
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>>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
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SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
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TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
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THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
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BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
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IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
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GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
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EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
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IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
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PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
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MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
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FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
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BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
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TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
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WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
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EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
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SEE A RICH HARVEST OF
SOULS. AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
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MESSAGE, OUR MISSION. (MUSIC)
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VIRTUALLY EVERYONE ON THE
EARTH, REGARDLESS OF RELIGION OR
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NATIONALITY, RECOGNIZE THAT
THERE IS SOME FORM OF BATTLE
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RAGING IN THE WORLD AROUND US
BETWEEN THE FORCES OF GOOD AND
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EVIL. A COLOSSAL STRUGGLE
BETWEEN LIGHT AND DARKNESS,
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TRUTH AND ERROR, OPPRESSION AND
FREEDOM, RIGHT AND WRONG AND,
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ULTIMATELY, LIFE AND
DEATH. WHAT IS THE STORY BEHIND
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THIS GLARING PARADOX?
MANY RELIGIONS, INCLUDING THE
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BIBLE, TEACH THAT BEYOND THE
THREE-DIMENSIONAL VEIL OF OUR
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PHYSICAL WORLD WE SEE, THERE'S
ANOTHER VERY REAL SPIRITUAL
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WORLD WE CANNOT SEE. IN
THIS UNSEEN REALM EVER ABOUT
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US, WE SEE A TITANIC BATTLE
RAGING BETWEEN THE SUPREME
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RIGHTEOUS HERO AND
THE ULTIMATE EVIL VILLAIN.
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THE BIG QUESTION IS: WHO ARE
THESE PRIMARY PLAYERS AND HOW,
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WHERE, AND WHEN DID
THIS COSMIC CRISIS BEGIN?
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THIS IS THE GREATEST MYSTERY
OF THE AGES AND THE MOST AMAZING
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TRUE STORY THAT
HAS EVER BEEN TOLD.
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THIS CRISIS NOW
INVOLVES EVERY PERSON ON EARTH.
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YES, EVERY
PERSON. (DRAMATIC MUSIC)
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>>HUMAN HISTORY HAS BEEN RIDDLED
WITH SCENES OF WAR AND EVERY
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PERSON HAS EXPERIENCED CONFLICT,
BUT TO UNDERSTAND THE ORIGIN OF
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EVIL, WE MUST TRAVEL BACK IN
TIME TO THE VERY FIRST WAR OF
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THE UNIVERSE BECAUSE THIS
BATTLE DID NOT OCCUR ON EARTH.
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BEFORE OUR WORLD EVEN EXISTED,
THERE WAS A WAR IN HEAVEN.
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EVEN THE WORDS 'WAR IN HEAVEN'
SOUND LIKE THE ULTIMATE PARADOX.
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IT'S ALMOST UNIMAGINABLE TO US
THAT THERE COULD BE A BATTLE AND
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STRIFE AMONG GOD'S
PERFECT BEINGS IN PARADISE.
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WHAT COULD HAVE CAUSED
THIS CELESTIAL CONFLICT?
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THANKFULLY, AN ANCIENT BOOK
CALLED THE BIBLE GIVES US ENOUGH
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DETAILS SO THAT WE CAN
PIECE TOGETHER THE ASTONISHING
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ACCOUNT. ALTHOUGH
TRAGIC, IT'S ALSO AN
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INCREDIBLY TENDER LOVE STORY
THAT REACHES DOWN THROUGH THE
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AGES, PERSONALLY
TOUCHING YOU AND ME AND EVERY
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INDIVIDUAL ON EARTH. OUR
STORY BEGINS LONG AGO IN THE
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VERY CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE IN
A PLACE CALLED HEAVEN THAT WAS
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FILLED WITH ANGELIC BEINGS WHO
DELIGHTED TO DO THE WILL OF GOD.
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UNDER THE CREATOR'S JUST AND
LOVING GOVERNMENT, ALL OF HEAVEN
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ENJOYED AN EXISTENCE OF
HAPPINESS AND PERFECT BLISS.
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THE SUPREME PRINCE OF HEAVEN AND
COMMANDER OF THE ANGELS WAS THE
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ALL-POWERFUL AND LOVING SON OF
GOD. MOST KNOW HIM BY THE NAME
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HE TOOK WHEN HE
CAME TO EARTH - JESUS.
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HE WAS ONE IN PURPOSE
AND MIND WITH GOD THE FATHER.
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HEAVEN, UNDER THE COMPASSIONATE
RULE OF FATHER, SON, AND SPIRIT,
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PROVED TO BE A PLACE
OF WONDER, PEACE, AND JOY.
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TO CARRY OUT THE COMMANDS OF
GOD, THE TRINITY WAS SURROUNDED
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BY A VIRTUAL OCEAN OF COUNTLESS
MINISTERING SPIRITS CALLED
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SERAPHIM AND CHERUBIM OR, MORE
COMMONLY, JUST KNOWN AS ANGELS.
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THESE POWERFUL AND INTELLIGENT
CREATURES FOUND THEIR GREATEST
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JOY IN DOING THE
BIDDING OF THE ALMIGHTY.
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BUT GOD CREATED ONE
EXTRAORDINARY ANGEL TO SERVE AS
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LEADER OF THE
ENTIRE HEAVENLY THRONG.
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THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT HIS NAME
WAS LUCIFER, WHICH MEANS 'LIGHT
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BEARER'. THIS
CHERUB WAS THE GREATEST OF
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GOD'S CREATED BEINGS AND HELD
THE POSITION CLOSEST TO GOD'S
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THRONE AND DIRECTLY UNDER
JESUS IN HEAVENLY AUTHORITY.
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LUCIFER'S JOB WAS TO COMMUNICATE
THE LIGHT AND KNOWLEDGE OF
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GOD'S WILL TO
ALL THE OTHER ANGELS.
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LUCIFER WAS GOD'S MOST
SPLENDID CREATED BEING.
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HE WAS CAPTIVATINGLY HANDSOME
AND ENDOWED WITH ASTONISHING
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POWERS OF
LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATION.
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AMONG THE ANGELS HE WAS GREATLY
ADMIRED, RESPECTED, AND LOVED AS
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A FRIEND, YET GOD FORESAW
THE MISERY LUCIFER WAS ABOUT TO
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INTRODUCE INTO
THE KINGDOM OF LIGHT.
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>>"FULL OF WISDOM AND PERFECT
IN BEAUTY...EVERY PRECIOUS STONE
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WAS YOUR COVERING...YOU WERE THE
ANOINTED CHERUB WHO COVERS; I
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ESTABLISHED YOU; YOU WERE ON THE
HOLY MOUNTAIN OF GOD; YOU WALKED
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BACK AND FORTH IN THE
MIDST OF FIERY STONES.
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YOU WERE PERFECT IN YOUR WAYS
FROM THE DAY YOU WERE CREATED,
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TILL INIQUITY WAS FOUND IN YOU."
>>AS LUCIFER BEGAN TO PONDER HIS
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OWN BEAUTY AND POWER, HIS HEART
GRADUALLY STARTED TO CHANGE.
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HE ALLOWED HIS FOCUS TO TURN
AWAY FROM GOD AND HE DIRECTED
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HIS LOVE UPON HIMSELF.
HOW AND WHY THESE SEEDS OF
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REBELLION GERMINATED
IN HIS HEART, WE MAY NEVER
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FULLY UNDERSTAND. BUT
THE PROPHET ISAIAH PROVIDES
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THIS INSIGHT INTO
LUCIFER'S THINKING.
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>>"HOW YOU ARE FALLEN FROM
HEAVEN, O LUCIFER, SON OF THE
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MORNING! HOW YOU
ARE CUT DOWN TO THE
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GROUND, YOU WHO
WEAKENED THE NATIONS!
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FOR YOU HAVE SAID IN YOUR HEART:
'I WILL ASCEND INTO HEAVEN, I
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WILL EXALT MY THRONE ABOVE
THE STARS OF GOD...I WILL ASCEND
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ABOVE THE HEIGHTS OF THE CLOUDS,
I WILL BE LIKE THE MOST HIGH.'"
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>>LUCIFER GRADUALLY BEGAN TO
COVET THE POWER OF GOD, BUT NOT
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HIS CHARACTER. AS HE
THOUGHT ABOUT HIS OWN
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EXTRAORDINARY ABILITIES AND
BEAUTY, THE CANCEROUS TENTACLES
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OF PRIDE AND SELF-EXALTATION
GRIPPED HIS MIND.
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THIS RESENTMENT AND JEALOUSY
ULTIMATELY DROVE HIM TO VIOLATE
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GOD'S HOLY LAW AND
REBEL AGAINST HIS GOVERNMENT.
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WE NEED TO PAUSE HERE
AND MAKE SOMETHING CLEAR.
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FROM THE BEGINNING GOD ORDAINED
THE LAWS OF PHYSICS TO GOVERN
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THE MATERIAL WORLD WE LIVE
IN. WITHOUT THESE NATURAL LAWS,
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THE UNIVERSE WOULD BE CHAOS.
IN THE SAME WAY, GOD'S MORAL LAW
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HAS ALWAYS PROVIDED SECURITY
AND STABILITY TO THE COSMOS.
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SOME BELIEVE THAT THE TEN
COMMANDMENTS DID NOT EXIST UNTIL
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THE LORD DELIVERED THEM
TO MOSES ON MOUNT SINAI.
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BUT SCRIPTURE TEACHES US THAT
THE PRINCIPLES OF GOD'S LAW HAVE
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EXISTED THROUGHOUT ETERNITY, FOR
THEY'RE THE VERY FOUNDATION OF
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HIS HEAVENLY KINGDOM OF LOVE.
>>"...ALL HIS COMMANDMENTS ARE
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SURE. THEY STAND FAST FOREVER
AND EVER, AND ARE DONE IN TRUTH
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AND UPRIGHTNESS"
>>THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE A
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SUMMARY OF GOD'S CHARACTER
OF LOVE. THE FIRST FOUR
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COMMANDMENTS DESCRIBE WHO GOD
IS, HIS POWER, HIS TERRITORY,
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AND AUTHORITY. THE LAST
SIX DESCRIBE WHAT GOD IS LIKE -
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HIS HONESTY, HIS PURITY -
HIS FAITHFULNESS - ALL OF THESE
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THINGS HAVE ALWAYS BEEN
TRUE AND WILL ALWAYS BE TRUE.
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NOW, FOR THE FIRST TIME IN
THE HISTORY OF ETERNITY, LUCIFER
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BEGAN VIOLATING
THESE PERFECT PRINCIPLES.
00:13:29.64\00:13:34.01
LUCIFER KNEW IF HE WAS TO EVER
SHARE THE POWER AND STATUS OF
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GOD, HE WOULD NEED
SUPPORT, SO HE WENT TO WORK.
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HE BEGAN TO DEVIOUSLY CIRCULATE
AMONG THE OTHER ANGELS, PLANTING
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SEEDS OF DOUBT AND DISCONTENT
REGARDING GOD'S LEADERSHIP.
00:13:46.39\00:13:50.46
AT THE SAME TIME, HE
WOULD SUBTLY HIGHLIGHT HIS OWN
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VIRTUES. HE
INSINUATED THAT GOD WAS
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ABUSING HIS DIVINE POWER AND
HIS LAW WAS RESTRICTING THE TRUE
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FREEDOM AND
HAPPINESS OF HIS CREATURES.
00:13:59.60\00:14:02.57
WITH HIS CLEVER REASONING AND
UNRIVALED POWERS OF INFLUENCE,
00:14:02.57\00:14:06.44
LUCIFER MANAGED TO PERSUADE
A GREAT NUMBER OF THE ANGELS TO
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JOIN HIM IN HIS MUTINY.
PERHAPS YOU'RE WONDERING: HOW
00:14:10.25\00:14:17.39
COULD SO MANY INTELLIGENT
ANGELS BE DUPED INTO FOLLOWING
00:14:17.39\00:14:20.62
THIS DECEIVER? WELL,
KEEP IN MIND, UP 'TIL THIS
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POINT, NO ANGEL
HAD EVER HEARD A LIE.
00:14:23.56\00:14:27.23
AND AT THIS EARLY STAGE OF THE
REBELLION, THE ANGELS DID NOT
00:14:27.23\00:14:30.57
REALIZE HOW OBSESSED LUCIFER
WOULD BECOME WITH ACQUIRING THE
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POSITION OF GOD.
THEY DID NOT KNOW HE WOULD
00:14:34.14\00:14:37.17
EVENTUALLY STOOP TO TORTURE
AND MURDER GOD'S OWN SON ON THE
00:14:37.17\00:14:40.68
CROSS IN AN ATTEMPT
TO SEIZE HIS THRONE.
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STRANGELY, LUCIFER THOUGHT HE
COULD CONCEAL HIS TRUE PURPOSE
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FROM GOD. >>WOE TO
THOSE WHO SEEK DEEP TO
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HIDE THEIR COUNSEL FAR FROM THE
LORD, AND THEIR WORKS ARE IN THE
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DARK; THEY SAY, 'WHO SEES
US?' AND, 'WHO KNOWS US?'"
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>>DON'T THINK FOR A
MOMENT THAT LUCIFER'S REBELLION
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SURPRISED GOD OR
CAUGHT HIM UNAWARE.
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THE LORD KNOWS ALL THINGS
INCLUDING THE THOUGHTS OF HIS
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CREATURES. HE
UNDERSTOOD EXACTLY WHAT WAS
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GOING THROUGH LUCIFER'S MIND,
AND IN LOVING MERCY GOD WARNED
00:15:22.18\00:15:26.55
THE WAYWARD ANGEL OF HIS DANGER.
BUT IN THE END, PRIDE AND
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SELF-LOVE WOULD NOT
PERMIT LUCIFER TO REPENT.
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SO HE CHOSE OPEN REBELLION
AGAINST GOD, RATHER THAN HUMBLE
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OBEDIENCE. SOME
HAVE WONDERED: DOES
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THIS MEAN THAT GOD
CREATED A DEFECTIVE ANGEL?
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NO, BUT HE DID CREATE LUCIFER
WITH THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE.
00:15:47.31\00:15:51.71
YOU SEE, THE FREEDOM OF CHOICE
IS A WONDERFUL THING, BUT IT
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CARRIES WITH IT INCREDIBLE RISK,
INCLUDING THE RISK OF REBELLION
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AND THE POSSIBILITY THAT
GOD'S LOVE MIGHT BE REJECTED.
00:16:00.42\00:16:04.49
YOU SEE, REAL LOVE CANNOT COME
FROM A PRE-PROGRAMMED CREATURE
00:16:04.49\00:16:09.36
AND IT CAN'T BE FORCED.
IT MUST BE VOLUNTARILY GIVEN.
00:16:09.36\00:16:14.34
FOR EXAMPLE, AS CUTE AS
THIS LITTLE ROBOT DOG IS, IT CAN
00:16:14.34\00:16:20.54
NEVER REALLY LOVE ME. I
CAN MAKE IT APPEAR TO LOVE
00:16:20.54\00:16:23.21
ME, BUT IT'S ONLY CARRYING
OUT PRE-PROGRAMMED INSTRUCTIONS.
00:16:23.21\00:16:28.12
IT HAS NO CHOICE. ON
THE OTHER HAND, THIS LITTLE
00:16:28.12\00:16:34.76
GUY IS TRULY HAPPY TO
SEE ME. HE'S CHOSEN TO GIVE
00:16:34.76\00:16:39.66
ME HIS AFFECTION.
AND, GIVEN TIME, OUR
00:16:39.66\00:16:42.56
RELATIONSHIP WOULD GROW AND
STRENGTHEN AS I LOVE AND CARE
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FOR HIM. IN THE SAME WAY, A GOD
OF LOVE ONLY WANTS THE GENUINE
00:16:45.50\00:16:50.54
LOVE OF HIS
INTELLIGENT CREATURES AND, FOR
00:16:50.54\00:16:53.54
THAT TO HAPPEN, THEY
MUST HAVE FREE CHOICE.
00:16:53.54\00:16:57.31
LUCIFER'S REBELLION IS THE
GREATEST EVIDENCE THAT HE TRULY
00:16:57.31\00:17:01.22
HAD THAT FREEDOM. SO
NOW, THE BIG QUESTION WAS:
00:17:01.22\00:17:07.06
HOW WOULD GOD
RESPOND TO THIS CRISIS?
00:17:07.06\00:17:10.03
HOW WOULD HE DEAL WITH LUCIFER
AND THE MILLIONS OF ANGELS WHO
00:17:10.03\00:17:13.50
JOINED HIM IN HIS REBELLION?
MANY WONDER WHY GOD DID NOT
00:17:13.50\00:17:20.17
IMMEDIATELY DESTROY THE REBEL.
AFTER ALL, HE COULD HAVE EASILY
00:17:20.17\00:17:24.37
VAPORIZED LUCIFER
WITH A BOLT OF LIGHTNING.
00:17:24.37\00:17:30.68
BUT WOULD THAT HAVE
REALLY SOLVED THE PROBLEM?
00:17:30.68\00:17:33.85
NO, ON THE CONTRARY, THAT WOULD
HAVE JUST INTENSIFIED THE DOUBTS
00:17:33.85\00:17:37.59
AND SUSPICIONS THAT LUCIFER HAD
BEEN PLANTING IN THE MINDS OF
00:17:37.59\00:17:40.99
THE ANGELS. REMEMBER, LUCIFER
KNEW, AS NO ONE ELSE COULD HAVE,
00:17:40.99\00:17:45.79
THE INNER WORKINGS OF
THE GOVERNMENT OF GOD.
00:17:45.79\00:17:48.83
HIS DESTRUCTION WOULD HAVE
BEEN VIEWED AS PART OF A MASSIVE
00:17:48.83\00:17:51.93
COVER-UP AND FEAR OF REPRISAL,
RATHER THAN LOVE, WOULD HAVE
00:17:51.93\00:17:55.97
BECOME THE MOTIVATING REASON TO
SERVE GOD. NO, THE LORD KNEW, IN
00:17:55.97\00:18:01.14
HIS WISDOM, THE BEST WAY TO MEET
THE CRISIS WAS TO ALLOW IT TO
00:18:01.14\00:18:05.11
RUN ITS COURSE. THIS
WOULD BE THE ONLY WAY TO
00:18:05.11\00:18:09.05
ENSURE THAT EVIL
WOULD NEVER RISE AGAIN.
00:18:09.05\00:18:15.09
>>"LET BOTH [WHEAT AND TARES]
GROW TOGETHER UNTIL THE HARVEST,
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AND AT THE TIME OF HARVEST I
WILL SAY TO THE REAPERS, 'FIRST
00:18:18.06\00:18:21.53
GATHER TOGETHER THE TARES
AND BIND THEM IN BUNDLES TO BURN
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THEM, BUT GATHER THE
WHEAT INTO MY BARN.'"
00:18:24.57\00:18:32.44
>>IN THE PARABLE OF THE
WHEAT AND THE TARES, JESUS
00:18:32.44\00:18:35.24
ILLUSTRATES THAT A GROWING
TIME IS NEEDED FOR A PLANT TO
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REVEAL ITS TRUE NATURE.
IN HIS INFINITE UNDERSTANDING
00:18:38.95\00:18:42.95
GOD KNEW, GIVEN TIME, LUCIFER'S
REAL CHARACTER WOULD BE EXPOSED
00:18:42.95\00:18:47.66
AND THE BITTER FRUIT OF
HIS REBELLION WOULD BECOME
00:18:47.66\00:18:49.89
APPARENT TO ALL. UP TIL NOW, THE
CITIZENS OF THE UNIVERSE WERE
00:18:49.89\00:18:54.46
UNFAMILIAR WITH SIN
AND WHERE IT WOULD LEAD.
00:18:54.46\00:18:58.07
BUT THAT WOULD CHANGE AS THEY
CAME TO SEE FOR THEMSELVES ITS
00:18:58.07\00:19:01.64
TERRIBLE,
SELF-DESTRUCTIVE NATURE.
00:19:01.64\00:19:04.31
IN THE END, THE WISDOM AND LOVE
OF GOD'S GOVERNMENT WOULD STAND
00:19:04.31\00:19:08.41
FOREVER VINDICATED AND
THE UNIVERSE WOULD BE SECURE.
00:19:08.41\00:19:13.18
AS LUCIFER AND HIS SUPPORTERS
BROUGHT THE REBELLION TO THE
00:19:13.18\00:19:16.28
FOREFRONT, THE LORD KNEW THAT
THERE WOULD BE NO PEACE IF THEY
00:19:16.28\00:19:20.09
WERE ALLOWED TO
REMAIN IN HEAVEN.
00:19:20.09\00:19:22.46
A LINE MUST BE DRAWN - ACTION
TAKEN - AND THE REBELS EVICTED.
00:19:22.46\00:19:28.00
BUT LUCIFER AND HIS SUPPORTERS
WOULD NEVER GO WILLINGLY OR
00:19:28.00\00:19:31.63
PEACEFULLY. THE
NEXT STEP WAS WAR.
00:19:31.63\00:19:40.01
>>"AND WAR BROKE OUT IN HEAVEN:
MICHAEL AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT
00:19:40.01\00:19:43.48
WITH THE DRAGON; AND THE DRAGON
AND HIS ANGELS FOUGHT, BUT THEY
00:19:43.48\00:19:47.35
DID NOT PREVAIL, NOR WAS A PLACE
FOUND FOR THEM IN HEAVEN ANY
00:19:47.35\00:19:51.09
LONGER. SO THE GREAT DRAGON WAS
CAST OUT, THAT SERPENT OF OLD,
00:19:51.09\00:19:55.96
CALLED THE DEVIL AND SATAN, WHO
DECEIVES THE WHOLE WORLD; HE WAS
00:19:55.96\00:20:00.26
CAST TO THE EARTH, AND HIS
ANGELS WERE CAST OUT WITH HIM."
00:20:00.26\00:20:06.90
>>THE BIBLE DOESN'T REVEAL
EXACTLY WHAT WEAPONS WERE USED
00:20:06.90\00:20:10.97
OR HOW LONG THIS COSMIC CONFLICT
LASTED, BUT THIS WAS A WAR THE
00:20:10.97\00:20:15.84
LIKES OF WHICH NO MORTAL EYE HAS
EVER SEEN. REVELATION 12, VERSE
00:20:15.84\00:20:20.92
4 TELLS US THAT, ULTIMATELY,
LUCIFER AND ONE-THIRD OF GOD'S
00:20:20.92\00:20:25.52
ANGELS WERE PHYSICALLY EXPELLED
FROM HEAVEN. BUT WHAT NEXT?
00:20:25.52\00:20:44.17
LUCIFER NOW HAD MILLIONS OF
ANGELS ON HIS SIDE BUT HE NEEDED
00:20:44.17\00:20:48.11
A STAGING GROUND FROM
WHICH TO CONTINUE HIS REVOLT.
00:20:48.11\00:20:51.81
SOON, ALL TOO SOON, THE UNIVERSE
WOULD BEGIN TO UNDERSTAND HOW
00:20:51.81\00:20:56.48
PAINFUL AND COSTLY
THE WAGES OF SIN COULD BE.
00:20:56.48\00:20:59.89
FOR THE WAR WAS NOT
OVER, IT HAD ONLY JUST BEGUN.
00:20:59.89\00:21:04.09
LUCIFER, THE LIGHT BEARER, HAD
NOW BECOME SATAN, THE ADVERSARY.
00:21:04.09\00:21:15.10
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) >>AFTER THE WAR
IN HEAVEN, SATAN AND HIS FALLEN
00:21:15.10\00:21:26.11
ANGELS WERE BANISHED
FROM THE COURTS OF GLORY.
00:21:26.11\00:21:29.35
FOR A TIME, THE DEVIL AND
HIS DEMONS ROAMED THROUGH THE
00:21:29.35\00:21:32.45
UNIVERSE, UNSUCCESSFULLY
SEARCHING FOR WORLDS TO
00:21:32.45\00:21:35.36
SYMPATHIZE WITH
THEM IN THE REBELLION.
00:21:35.36\00:21:38.06
IN THE MEANTIME, THE HEART
OF GOD KEENLY FELT THE VACUUM
00:21:38.06\00:21:42.30
CREATED BY THE LOSS OF LUCIFER
AND HIS ANGELS, SO THE FATHER,
00:21:42.30\00:21:47.00
SON, AND HOLY SPIRIT, RETURNED
TO THEIR FAVORITE WORK - THE
00:21:47.00\00:21:50.97
MARVELOUS WORK OF CREATION.
THEY DECIDED TO MAKE A NEW WORLD
00:21:50.97\00:21:55.81
FILLED WITH A MYRIAD OF AMAZING
AND DIVERSE CREATURES TO LOVE.
00:21:55.81\00:21:59.85
THIS NEW WORLD WOULD BE UNIQUE
BECAUSE THE PRINCIPLE CREATURES
00:21:59.85\00:22:03.65
WOULD BE MADE
IN GOD'S OWN IMAGE.
00:22:03.65\00:22:06.05
TO THEM THE LORD WOULD ALSO GIVE
DOMINION OF THIS NEW PLANET WE
00:22:06.05\00:22:10.66
NOW KNOW AS EARTH. >>"IN
THE BEGINNING GOD CREATED
00:22:10.66\00:22:15.80
THE...EARTH...THEN GOD SAW
EVERYTHING THAT HE HAD MADE,
00:22:15.80\00:22:19.83
AND INDEED IT WAS VERY GOOD."
>>WHAT AN AWESOME SIGHT TO
00:22:19.83\00:22:26.88
BEHOLD - GOD FORMING A BRAND-NEW
WORLD, OUR PLANET - EARTH.
00:22:26.88\00:22:32.08
AND WITH EVERY WONDERFUL DAY OF
THE CREATION, SOMETHING NEW AND
00:22:32.08\00:22:35.92
SPECTACULAR BURST ON THE SCENE.
ON THE THIRD DAY GOD SPOKE AND
00:22:35.92\00:22:40.82
BEAUTIFUL, LUSH VEGETATION
SPRANG INTO EXISTENCE - PLANTS
00:22:40.82\00:22:44.99
OF ALL COLORS,
SHAPES, AND SIZES.
00:22:44.99\00:22:49.60
ON THE FIFTH DAY THE WORLD
WAS FILLED WITH STUNNING, EXOTIC
00:22:49.60\00:22:53.20
CREATURES THAT COULD EITHER SOAR
THROUGH THE HEAVENS OR GLIDE
00:22:53.20\00:22:56.44
FREELY THROUGH THE BLUE
WATERS - AND SOME COULD DO BOTH.
00:22:56.44\00:23:02.31
THE SIXTH DAY SAW THE
INTRODUCTION OF A VAST AND
00:23:02.31\00:23:05.75
DIVERSE MULTITUDE OF
LAND ANIMALS - FROM THE GIANT
00:23:05.75\00:23:09.48
ELEPHANT TO THE TINY CHIPMUNK,
EACH FOUND A HOME IN THE NEW
00:23:09.48\00:23:13.59
PLANET AND A PLACE TO LIVE
IN HARMONY WITH THE REST OF
00:23:13.59\00:23:16.73
CREATION. AND ALSO ON THE
SIXTH DAY, GOD CREATED MAN.
00:23:16.73\00:23:26.07
>>"THEN GOD SAID, 'LET US MAKE
MAN IN OUR IMAGE, ACCORDING TO
00:23:26.07\00:23:29.84
OUR LIKENESS...' AND THE LORD
GOD FORMED MAN OF THE DUST OF
00:23:29.84\00:23:33.61
THE GROUND, AND BREATHED INTO
HIS NOSTRILS THE BREATH OF LIFE;
00:23:33.61\00:23:37.61
AND MAN BECAME A LIVING BEING.
THE LORD GOD PLANTED A GARDEN
00:23:37.61\00:23:41.75
EASTWARD IN EDEN, AND THERE HE
PUT THE MAN WHOM HE HAD FORMED."
00:23:41.75\00:23:47.09
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) >>WHAT
A TREMENDOUS HONOR TO BE
00:23:47.09\00:24:47.05
MADE IN THE LIKENESS OF
GOD - TO BE A FREE-THINKING,
00:24:47.05\00:24:51.05
SELF-GOVERNING INDIVIDUAL.
00:24:51.05\00:24:53.29
IN THE BEGINNING, MAN WAS
NOT AWARE OF HIS NAKEDNESS.
00:24:53.29\00:24:57.03
THIS WAS LIKELY BECAUSE, PRIOR
TO SIN, HE WAS CLOTHED WITH
00:24:57.03\00:25:00.73
GLORY AND LIGHT. GOD
ALSO CREATED THE IDEAL
00:25:00.73\00:25:11.71
COMPANION FOR ADAM,
HIS BEAUTIFUL WIFE, EVE.
00:25:11.71\00:25:28.66
THE JOYFUL PAIR WERE PLACED IN
A MAGNIFICENT GARDEN, FLAWLESSLY
00:25:28.66\00:25:32.59
DESIGNED TO
ENHANCE THEIR HAPPINESS.
00:25:32.59\00:25:35.40
TO ADAM AND EVE AND THE OTHER
CREATURES OF THE EARTH WAS ALSO
00:25:35.40\00:25:39.23
GIVEN THE DIVINE PRIVILEGE OF
PROCREATING IN THEIR OWN IMAGE.
00:25:39.23\00:25:45.44
IT WAS THE INTENTION OF GOD
THAT THE HUMAN RACE WOULD RETAIN
00:25:45.44\00:25:48.91
DOMINION OVER THIS
PERFECT PARADISE FOREVER.
00:25:48.91\00:25:52.25
ETERNALLY HAPPY AND HEALTHY,
THEY'D WORK WITH THE FLORA OF
00:25:52.25\00:25:55.45
GOD'S GARDEN WHILE ENJOYING THE
AFFECTION AND COMPANIONSHIP OF
00:25:55.45\00:25:59.22
ALL THE
CREATURES UNDER THEIR CARE.
00:25:59.22\00:26:05.16
THE ENVIRONMENT OUR FIRST
PARENTS EXPERIENCED WAS VASTLY
00:26:05.16\00:26:08.33
DIFFERENT FROM THE WORLD
TODAY. ROSES HAD NO THORNS.
00:26:08.33\00:26:12.83
INSECTS DID NOT BITE OR STING,
AND LIONS AND LAMBS WOULD GENTLY
00:26:12.83\00:26:17.27
FROLIC TOGETHER. BUT
THE GREATEST BLESSING WAS
00:26:17.27\00:26:21.21
THAT HUMANS LIVED IN PERFECT
HARMONY WITH THEIR MAKER.
00:26:21.21\00:26:25.11
EVERY SEVENTH DAY, ADAM AND EVE
WOULD REST FROM THEIR PLEASANT
00:26:25.11\00:26:28.15
LABOR AND HOLD OPEN BLISSFUL
COMMUNION WITH THEIR VISITING
00:26:28.15\00:26:31.99
CREATOR. IT WAS A
SPLENDID, WONDERFUL
00:26:31.99\00:26:36.52
WORLD AND THIS HAPPY STATE WOULD
HAVE CONTINUED THROUGH ETERNITY
00:26:36.52\00:26:41.00
IF ONLY OUR FIRST
PARENTS HAD PROVED FAITHFUL IN
00:26:41.00\00:26:44.27
ONE SIMPLE TEST.
>>"BUT OF THE TREE OF THE
00:26:44.27\00:26:50.41
KNOWLEDGE OF GOOD AND EVIL YOU
SHALL NOT EAT, FOR IN THE DAY
00:26:50.41\00:26:53.94
THAT YOU EAT OF IT
YOU SHALL SURELY DIE."
00:26:53.94\00:26:59.35
>>BECAUSE THE ADVERSARY HAD
CONTAMINATED THE UNIVERSE WITH
00:26:59.35\00:27:02.75
HIS REBELLION, THE LORD SAW THE
NEED OF A SIMPLE TEST OF LOVE
00:27:02.75\00:27:07.16
AND LOYALTY.
REMEMBER, THE GOOD ANGELS HAD
00:27:07.16\00:27:10.23
JUST SEEN A THIRD OF
THEIR FRIENDS CAST OUT OF
00:27:10.23\00:27:12.66
HEAVEN DURING THE WAR. HOW
COULD THEY BE ASSURED THESE
00:27:12.66\00:27:16.20
NEW HUMANS WOULD NOT SIDE WITH
LUCIFER AND CAUSE MORE TROUBLE?
00:27:16.20\00:27:20.77
SO THE LORD PLACED A UNIQUE TREE
IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN - A TREE
00:27:20.77\00:27:24.67
WHOSE FRUIT WAS NOT TO
BE EATEN ON PAIN OF DEATH.
00:27:24.67\00:27:28.94
PASSING THIS SIMPLE TEST OF
OBEDIENCE WOULD DEMONSTRATE ADAM
00:27:28.94\00:27:32.38
AND EVE'S ALLEGIANCE TO
GOD AND FAITH IN HIS WORD.
00:27:32.38\00:27:35.98
EVEN MORE, IT
WAS A TEST OF LOVE.
00:27:35.98\00:27:38.72
THIS IS WHY JESUS SAID, IN JOHN
14, 'IF YOU LOVE ME, KEEP MY
00:27:38.72\00:27:42.96
COMMANDMENTS.' BUT SOMEONE ELSE
LEARNED OF THIS TEST OF FAITH
00:27:42.96\00:27:48.13
AND HE DETERMINED TO
USE IT TO HIS ADVANTAGE.
00:27:48.13\00:27:52.33
SATAN WAS VERY JEALOUS OF
THE HAPPY HUMANS WHO WERE NOW
00:27:52.33\00:27:55.60
ENJOYING THE BLESSED
LIFE THAT HE HAD LOST.
00:27:55.60\00:27:59.17
THEIR HAPPY EXISTENCE STOOD IN
STARK CONTRAST TO HIS OWN, WHICH
00:27:59.17\00:28:03.28
WAS NOW FULL OF
GUILT, SIN, AND MISERY.
00:28:03.28\00:28:06.48
IN HIS BROODING RESENTMENT
AND ANGER HE WAS NOT CONTENT TO
00:28:06.48\00:28:10.05
LEAVE THE INNOCENT PAIR ALONE,
FOR SIN ALWAYS SEEKS TO DRAG
00:28:10.05\00:28:14.29
OTHERS DOWN WITH IT.
AND SO, ONE DAY, AS EVE WAS
00:28:14.29\00:28:22.96
ENGAGED IN HER PLEASANT WORK,
SHE FOUND HERSELF ALONE AND
00:28:22.96\00:28:26.67
PERILOUSLY CLOSE
TO THE FORBIDDEN TREE.
00:28:26.67\00:28:29.90
IT WAS THEN THAT
SATAN SAW HIS OPPORTUNITY.
00:28:29.90\00:28:33.94
USING A MESMERIZING SERPENT
AS HIS MEDIUM, THE FALLEN ANGEL
00:28:33.94\00:28:37.78
CALLED TO EVE FROM THE TREE
AND THOUGHT TO ENGAGE HER IN
00:28:37.78\00:28:41.38
CONVERSATION. HIS
CHARMING WORDS WERE
00:28:41.38\00:28:49.76
CAREFULLY CALCULATED TO
INSTILL A DISTRUST OF GOD.
00:28:49.76\00:29:01.97
>>"THEN THE SERPENT SAID TO THE
WOMAN, 'YOU WILL NOT SURELY DIE.
00:29:01.97\00:29:05.94
FOR GOD KNOWS THAT IN THE DAY
YOU EAT OF IT YOUR EYES WILL BE
00:29:05.94\00:29:08.58
OPENED, AND YOU WILL BE LIKE
GOD, KNOWING GOOD AND EVIL.' SO
00:29:08.58\00:29:13.65
WHEN THE WOMAN SAW THAT THE TREE
WAS GOOD FOR FOOD, THAT IT WAS
00:29:13.65\00:29:16.85
PLEASANT TO THE EYES, AND A TREE
DESIRABLE TO MAKE ONE WISE, SHE
00:29:16.85\00:29:21.39
TOOK OF ITS FRUIT AND ATE.
SHE ALSO GAVE TO HER HUSBAND
00:29:21.39\00:29:24.73
WITH HER, AND HE ATE."
>>TRAGICALLY, AS EVE LISTENED TO
00:29:24.73\00:29:31.50
THE SMOOTH, SILKY VOICE OF THE
TEMPTER, SHE BEGAN TO ENTERTAIN
00:29:31.50\00:29:35.57
DOUBTS ABOUT GOD'S WORD.
THE SERPENT ENTICED HER WITH THE
00:29:35.57\00:29:39.74
PROMISE OF
ENHANCED POWER AND WISDOM.
00:29:39.74\00:29:43.01
SHE FOUND THIS APPEALING.
AFTER ALL, THE FRUIT HAD,
00:29:43.01\00:29:46.75
APPARENTLY, GIVEN THE
SNAKE THE ABILITY TO SPEAK.
00:29:46.75\00:29:49.95
WHAT OTHER POWERS
MIGHT IT GIVE HER?
00:29:49.95\00:29:53.05
AND SO EVEN THOUGH SHE HAD JUST
MET THE SERPENT, SHE TRUSTED HIS
00:29:53.05\00:29:56.66
WORD ABOVE GOD, WHO HAD CREATED
HER AND PROVIDED HER PARADISE
00:29:56.66\00:30:01.10
HOME. SO EVE ATE
THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT
00:30:01.10\00:30:05.70
AND SOON AFTER PERSUADED
HER HUSBAND TO DO THE SAME.
00:30:05.70\00:30:10.37
ADAM COULD HAVE CHOSEN TO REMAIN
LOYAL TO GOD, BUT HE PUT HIS
00:30:10.37\00:30:13.64
LOVE FOR HIS WIFE
ABOVE HIS LOVE FOR GOD.
00:30:13.64\00:30:17.51
AS OUR FIRST PARENTS GAVE THEIR
ALLEGIANCE TO THE ENEMY, THE
00:30:17.51\00:30:22.28
DOMINION OF THE
EARTH WAS CLAIMED BY SATAN.
00:30:22.28\00:30:29.02
>>"DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT TO WHOM
YOU PRESENT YOURSELVES SLAVES TO
00:30:29.02\00:30:32.03
OBEY, YOU ARE THAT
ONE'S SLAVES WHOM YOU OBEY..."
00:30:32.03\00:30:35.93
"NO ONE CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS."
00:30:35.93\00:30:40.80
>>THIS WORLD WOULD NOW BECOME
THE ULTIMATE BATTLEFIELD BETWEEN
00:30:40.80\00:30:44.71
GOOD AND EVIL AND THE HEARTS OF
EVERY MAN AND WOMAN THE PRIZE.
00:30:44.71\00:30:49.51
LITTLE DID ADAM AND EVE REALIZE
IT AT THE TIME, BUT THEIR ONE
00:30:49.51\00:30:52.65
MOMENT OF DISTRUST AND DEFIANCE
WOULD OPEN THE FLOODGATES OF
00:30:52.65\00:30:56.45
SUFFERING ON MILLIONS OF
PEOPLE FOR THOUSANDS OF YEARS.
00:30:56.45\00:31:06.96
>>"THEREFORE, JUST AS THROUGH
ONE MAN SIN ENTERED THE WORLD,
00:31:06.96\00:31:10.80
AND DEATH THROUGH SIN, AND THUS
DEATH SPREAD TO ALL MEN, BECAUSE
00:31:10.80\00:31:15.14
ALL SINNED." >>OUR
FIRST PARENTS SOON BEGAN
00:31:15.14\00:31:20.11
TO FACE THE TERRIBLE
RESULTS OF THEIR SIN.
00:31:20.11\00:31:23.45
IN THEIR HOLY STATE, ADAM AND
EVE GLOWED WITH ROBES OF GLORY.
00:31:23.45\00:31:28.32
AFTER THEY SINNED, THESE NATURAL
ROBES OF LIGHT FADED AND THEY
00:31:28.32\00:31:32.09
BECAME MORTIFIED BY A
SENSE OF THEIR NAKEDNESS.
00:31:32.09\00:31:36.29
SHAME AND FEAR REPLACED THEIR
JOY AND PEACE AND THEY SOUGHT TO
00:31:36.29\00:31:39.96
COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS WITH
LEAVES. THEY, NOW, ALSO FOUND
00:31:39.96\00:31:43.70
THEMSELVES UNDER THE
CONSTANT INFLUENCE OF THE DEVIL.
00:31:43.70\00:31:47.64
GIVING IN TO TEMPTATION HAD
WEAKENED THEIR VERY NATURES AND
00:31:47.64\00:31:51.31
SATAN HAD GAINED A
NEW POWER OVER HUMANITY.
00:31:51.31\00:31:54.51
PEOPLE COULD NO LONGER RESIST
THE TEMPTATIONS OF THE DEVIL IN
00:31:54.51\00:31:57.78
THEIR OWN STRENGTH.
LASTLY, AND MOST TERRIFYING,
00:31:57.78\00:32:02.42
THEY FOUND THEMSELVES LIVING
UNDER A LOOMING DEATH SENTENCE.
00:32:02.42\00:32:07.06
GOD HAD WARNED THEM THAT
DISOBEDIENCE WOULD BRING DEATH.
00:32:07.06\00:32:10.93
THEY HAD ALREADY EXPERIENCED THE
SPIRITUAL DEATH, HOW LONG UNTIL
00:32:10.93\00:32:14.83
THEY SUFFERED PHYSICAL DEATH
AS WELL? AT THIS POINT, THEIR
00:32:14.83\00:32:18.63
FUTURE HELD NOTHING
BUT DARKNESS AND DESPAIR.
00:32:18.63\00:32:24.04
>>"SO HE DROVE OUT THE MAN; AND
HE PLACED CHERUBIM AT THE EAST
00:32:24.04\00:32:27.18
OF THE GARDEN OF EDEN, AND A
FLAMING SWORD WHICH TURNED EVERY
00:32:27.18\00:32:30.85
WAY, TO GUARD THE
WAY TO THE TREE OF LIFE."
00:32:30.85\00:32:36.48
>>JUST AS SIN CAUSED THE FALLEN
ANGELS TO BE EXPELLED FROM THEIR
00:32:36.48\00:32:39.85
HEAVENLY HOME, SO NOW, BECAUSE
OF DISOBEDIENCE, ADAM AND EVE
00:32:39.85\00:32:44.46
WERE DRIVEN FROM THEIR
GARDEN HOME IN PARADISE.
00:32:44.46\00:32:48.10
EVERYTHING AROUND THEM WAS
QUICKLY CHANGING AND HUMANKIND
00:32:48.10\00:32:51.37
FOUND ITSELF SUSCEPTIBLE TO
HEARTACHE, DISEASE, AND FINALLY,
00:32:51.37\00:32:55.14
DEATH. EVEN THE
ANIMALS AND PLANTS WERE
00:32:55.14\00:32:58.61
INFECTED BY THE TERRIBLE CURSE.
THORNS AND THISTLES NOW APPEARED
00:32:58.61\00:33:02.74
ON TREES AND FLOWERS, AND
ANIMALS THAT HAD FORMERLY BEEN
00:33:02.74\00:33:06.21
GENTLE, BEGAN TO KILL
AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER.
00:33:06.21\00:33:10.95
THE WORST RESULT WAS SIN
HAD SEPARATED HUMANITY FROM GOD.
00:33:10.95\00:33:20.80
>>"BUT YOUR INIQUITIES HAVE
SEPARATED YOU FROM YOUR GOD; AND
00:33:20.80\00:33:24.17
YOUR SINS HAVE HIDDEN HIS FACE
FROM YOU, SO THAT HE WILL NOT
00:33:24.17\00:33:28.10
HEAR." >>AT
CREATION, ADAM AND EVE WERE
00:33:28.10\00:33:33.21
GIVEN THE HONOR OF SPEAKING
WITH THE ANGELS AND EVEN GOD,
00:33:33.21\00:33:36.68
THE SON, FACE TO FACE. BUT
GOD IS SO PERFECTLY PURE AND
00:33:36.68\00:33:40.72
HOLY THAT NO EVIL CAN
EXIST IN HIS PRESENCE.
00:33:40.72\00:33:44.32
NOW THAT THE FIRST HUMANS HAD
SINNED, GOD WITHDREW HIS HOLY
00:33:44.32\00:33:48.36
PRESENCE FROM THEM
FOR THEIR OWN PROTECTION.
00:33:48.36\00:33:51.29
SIN HAD BURNED A CATARACT ON
THE SOUL OF MAN SO HE COULD NO
00:33:51.29\00:33:54.46
LONGER SEE THE SPIRITUAL
DIMENSION. FROM THIS TIME ON,
00:33:54.46\00:33:58.47
DIRECT COMMUNICATION WITH HEAVEN
WOULD BE LIMITED. AS ALL OF
00:33:58.47\00:34:05.11
THESE CURSES FELL UPON ADAM AND
EVE, THE LORD'S HEART WAS DEEPLY
00:34:05.11\00:34:09.24
MOVED WITH TENDER COMPASSION.
THE LAW THAT THEY HAD BROKEN
00:34:09.24\00:34:12.88
COULD NOT BE ALTERED TO SAVE
THEM, FOR IT'S AS SACRED AND
00:34:12.88\00:34:16.69
UNCHANGING AS GOD HIMSELF.
THE LORD KNEW THERE WAS ONLY ONE
00:34:16.69\00:34:20.72
WAY THAT MAN COULD BE REDEEMED,
SO A PLAN WAS REVEALED - BORN
00:34:20.72\00:34:25.26
FROM THE VERY HEART OF GOD
- A PLAN TO SAVE MAN FROM HIS
00:34:25.26\00:34:29.43
APPOINTMENT WITH ETERNAL DEATH
AND TO RESTORE EVERYTHING THAT
00:34:29.43\00:34:32.77
HAD BEEN LOST THROUGH SIN.
IT WOULD BE AN AMAZING ENDEAVOR
00:34:32.77\00:34:36.84
IN ITS DEPTH, SCOPE, AND POWER,
BUT IT WAS A PLAN THAT WOULD
00:34:36.84\00:34:40.11
ALSO INVOLVE AN
ENORMOUS SACRIFICE.
00:34:40.11\00:34:49.05
>>"GOD'S LOVE WAS REVEALED AMONG
US IN THIS WAY: GOD SENT HIS
00:34:49.05\00:34:52.99
ONLY SON INTO THE WORLD SO
THAT WE MIGHT LIVE THROUGH HIM.
00:34:52.99\00:34:57.33
IN THIS IS LOVE, NOT THAT WE
LOVED GOD BUT THAT HE LOVED US
00:34:57.33\00:35:02.23
AND SENT HIS SON TO BE THE
ATONING SACRIFICE FOR OUR SINS."
00:35:02.23\00:35:08.90
>>THE SCRIPTURES CLEARLY TEACH,
IN ROMANS 6:23, THAT THE WAGES
00:35:08.90\00:35:13.48
FOR SIN ARE DEATH. THE
BROKEN LAW DEMANDED THE LIFE
00:35:13.48\00:35:17.61
OF THE SINNER AND THERE WAS
ONLY ONE IN ALL THE UNIVERSE WHO
00:35:17.61\00:35:21.55
COULD QUALIFY AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR HUMANITY.
00:35:21.55\00:35:25.19
THE CREATOR ALONE COULD PAY
THE DEBT OF HIS CREATURES BY
00:35:25.19\00:35:28.82
STANDING IN THEIR PLACE. SO
JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GOD,
00:35:28.82\00:35:33.73
WILLINGLY AGREED TO
LEAVE THE PURITY, GLORY, AND
00:35:33.73\00:35:37.43
SAFETY OF HEAVEN. HE
WOULD COME TO DIE IN MAN'S
00:35:37.43\00:35:41.77
BEHALF, ON THIS
WICKED, RENEGADE PLANET.
00:35:41.77\00:35:45.31
HE WOULD BE BORN AS AN INNOCENT,
HELPLESS BABY, ENDURE A LIFE OF
00:35:45.31\00:35:49.41
SORROW AND SHAME, AND YET LIVE
A PERFECT AND VICTORIOUS LIFE.
00:35:49.41\00:35:54.95
FINALLY, HE WOULD DIE A
HUMILIATING DEATH IN ORDER TO
00:35:54.95\00:35:58.65
STAND AS A
SUBSTITUTE FOR FALLEN HUMANITY.
00:35:58.65\00:36:02.72
THROUGH HIS SACRIFICE, MANKIND
MIGHT, AMAZINGLY, BE OFFERED ONE
00:36:02.72\00:36:07.10
MORE CHANCE AT ETERNAL LIFE.
HIS BLOOD WOULD PROVIDE THE
00:36:07.10\00:36:10.80
RANSOM FOR THE WORLD THAT
HAD BEEN KIDNAPPED BY SATAN.
00:36:10.80\00:36:16.10
THIS WONDERFUL PLAN OF
REDEMPTION WAS GRAPHICALLY
00:36:16.10\00:36:19.07
ILLUSTRATED IN THE SYSTEM OF
ANIMAL SACRIFICES ORDAINED BY
00:36:19.07\00:36:23.01
GOD AFTER THE FALL OF MAN.
THE LORD HAD WARNED ADAM AND EVE
00:36:23.01\00:36:27.45
THEY WOULD DIE THE DAY
THEY ATE THE FORBIDDEN FRUIT.
00:36:27.45\00:36:30.65
SO HOW WAS IT THAT
THEY REMAINED ALIVE?
00:36:30.65\00:36:33.56
THE BIBLE TELLS US THAT SOON
AFTER THEIR SIN, GOD PROVIDED
00:36:33.56\00:36:37.39
CLOTHING FOR THEM IN
THE FORM OF ANIMAL SKINS.
00:36:37.39\00:36:41.10
IT'S WORTHY OF NOTING
THAT REVELATION REFERS TO JESUS
00:36:41.10\00:36:43.93
CHRIST AS THE LAMB SLAIN FROM
THE FOUNDATION OF THE WORLD.
00:36:43.93\00:36:48.10
THIS INDICATES THAT A LAMB WAS
SLAIN THAT VERY DAY, TO PREVENT
00:36:48.10\00:36:52.91
THEIR IMMEDIATE DEATH.
BY FAITH IN THIS SACRIFICE,
00:36:52.91\00:36:57.31
THEIR DEATH SENTENCE WAS
SYMBOLICALLY TRANSFERRED FROM
00:36:57.31\00:36:59.85
THEMSELVES TO THE INNOCENT
CREATURE - THE LAMB, OF COURSE,
00:36:59.85\00:37:03.55
BEING A REPRESENTATION OF
JESUS. AND SO, A RAY OF HOPE WAS
00:37:03.55\00:37:08.86
PROVIDED IN A SEEMINGLY DARK
AND HOPELESS SITUATION. THROUGH
00:37:08.86\00:37:13.29
REPENTANCE AND FAITH IN THE
BLOOD OF THE COMING MESSIAH,
00:37:13.29\00:37:16.23
ANY HUMAN COULD ONCE AGAIN
BECOME A CHILD OF GOD. BUT IN
00:37:16.23\00:37:21.20
SPITE OF THIS WONDERFUL
PLAN, FOR THE TIME BEING,
00:37:21.20\00:37:24.14
SATAN WOULD STILL HAVE
DOMINION OF THE EARTH AND
00:37:24.14\00:37:27.24
LIFE IN THIS
WORLD WOULD NOT BE EASY.
00:37:27.24\00:37:33.68
>>"...IN THE WORLD YOU WILL
HAVE TRIBULATION; BUT BE OF GOOD
00:37:33.68\00:37:36.75
CHEER, I HAVE
OVERCOME THE WORLD."
00:37:36.75\00:37:42.16
>>MANY NATURALLY WONDER WHY
A LOVING AND ALL-POWERFUL GOD
00:37:42.16\00:37:46.66
PERMITS SORROW AND
SUFFERING IN OUR WORLD TODAY.
00:37:46.66\00:37:49.76
BUT IT'S CLEAR FROM GENESIS THAT
GOD NEVER INTENDED FOR US TO
00:37:49.76\00:37:53.70
KNOW THE PAIN AND
TRIALS OF THIS LIFE.
00:37:53.70\00:37:57.31
AS IT CAME FROM GOD'S HAND, THE
EARTH WAS A WONDERFUL PARADISE.
00:37:57.31\00:38:01.48
IT WAS THE SIN OF ADAM AND
EVE THAT GAVE SATAN THE RIGHT TO
00:38:01.48\00:38:05.21
CLAIM CONTROL OF THIS PLANET.
BECAUSE OF THEIR TRAGIC CHOICE,
00:38:05.21\00:38:09.42
THE DEVIL AND HIS MINIONS GAINED
THE POWER TO TEMPT AND TORMENT
00:38:09.42\00:38:13.15
HUMANS, INFLICTING
SICKNESS, PAIN, AND SUFFERING.
00:38:13.15\00:38:16.59
PERHAPS A BETTER QUESTION WOULD
BE: WHY DOESN'T SATAN HAVE FULL
00:38:16.59\00:38:20.96
CONTROL OF HUMANITY?
THE ANSWER IS JESUS CHRIST.
00:38:20.96\00:38:27.80
YOU MAY ALREADY REALIZE
THAT JESUS' DEATH ON THE CROSS
00:38:27.80\00:38:30.97
PROVIDED EACH OF US THE
OPPORTUNITY TO BE SAVED.
00:38:30.97\00:38:34.51
BUT IN REALITY, IT DID MUCH
MORE THAN THAT. WHEN THE SAVIOR
00:38:34.51\00:38:38.65
OFFERED HIS LIFE TO REDEEM
THE EARTH, THAT ACT PLACED
00:38:38.65\00:38:42.82
RESTRICTIONS ON SATAN'S CONTROL
OVER HUMANITY. SATAN COULD NOT
00:38:42.82\00:38:47.09
FORCE OUR WILL AND HIS POWER
TO HARM US WOULD BE LIMITED.
00:38:47.09\00:38:51.09
CHRIST'S SACRIFICE ALSO BROUGHT
US A TIME OF PROBATION WHERE WE
00:38:51.09\00:38:55.36
CAN SEE FOR OURSELVES
THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN GOD'S
00:38:55.36\00:38:58.37
GOVERNMENT AND SATAN'S AND
THEN DECIDE WHO WE WOULD SERVE.
00:38:58.37\00:39:03.44
ULTIMATELY, BECAUSE OF JESUS'
SELFLESS SACRIFICE, SATAN'S
00:39:03.44\00:39:08.01
KINGDOM WILL COME TO AN END
AND THE EARTH WILL ONE DAY BE
00:39:08.01\00:39:12.01
RETURNED TO MAN MORE WONDERFUL
THAN IT WAS AT THE BEGINNING.
00:39:12.01\00:39:16.05
SO WHEN ADAM AND EVE BEGAN THEIR
LIVES AS EXILES FROM PARADISE,
00:39:16.05\00:39:20.79
THEY STILL HAD HOPE. GOD
HAD PROVIDED THE SKINS OF
00:39:20.79\00:39:25.36
SACRIFICED ANIMALS TO
COVER THEIR NAKEDNESS, BUT MORE
00:39:25.36\00:39:28.93
IMPORTANTLY, HE HAD PROMISED
THE BLOOD OF THE LAMB OF GOD TO
00:39:28.93\00:39:33.47
COVER THEIR SIN IF THEY ACCEPTED
CHRIST AND REPENTED. ONE BIG
00:39:33.47\00:39:38.31
QUESTION REMAINED: WOULD PEOPLE
ACCEPT GOD'S GENEROUS GIFT?
00:39:38.31\00:39:47.48
>>"HOW SHALL WE ESCAPE IF WE
NEGLECT SO GREAT A SALVATION?"
00:39:47.48\00:39:53.86
>>THE AMAZING STORY THAT
YOU'VE JUST HEARD IS TRUE AND IT
00:39:53.86\00:39:57.86
AFFECTS YOU. BECAUSE
OF SATAN'S DESIRE TO BE
00:39:57.86\00:40:01.20
GOD, AND ADAM AND EVE'S DISTRUST
AND DISOBEDIENCE TO GOD, WE ALL
00:40:01.20\00:40:06.53
FIND OURSELVES IN A PERILOUS
SITUATION. ON ONE HAND, MANKIND
00:40:06.53\00:40:11.34
HAS BEEN GREATLY FAVORED BY GOD
WITH A SECOND CHANCE TO REGAIN
00:40:11.34\00:40:15.38
OUR EDEN HOME. ON THE
OTHER, IF WE FAIL TO TAKE
00:40:15.38\00:40:19.55
ADVANTAGE OF THIS WONDERFUL
OPPORTUNITY, WE BECOME SLAVES
00:40:19.55\00:40:23.25
TO SATAN AND WILL ULTIMATELY
BE DESTROYED WHEN GOD CLEANSES
00:40:23.25\00:40:27.09
THE UNIVERSE OF SIN.
FRIENDS, THERE IS NO BETTER TIME
00:40:27.09\00:40:31.99
TO MAKE YOUR DECISION
FOR JESUS THAN RIGHT NOW.
00:40:31.99\00:40:35.93
NONE OF US KNOW HOW LONG
WE MIGHT HAVE TO LIVE ON THIS
00:40:35.93\00:40:38.33
EARTH. OUR LIVES
CAN END INSTANTLY.
00:40:38.33\00:40:42.44
JESUS HAS SHOWN GREAT INTEREST
IN YOUR WELL-BEING AND HIS LOVE
00:40:42.44\00:40:45.91
FOR YOU MOVED HIM TO PROVIDE
A WAY TO ESCAPE FROM THE COMING
00:40:45.91\00:40:49.84
DESTRUCTION. HE
JUST ASKS YOU TO ACCEPT
00:40:49.84\00:40:53.28
HIM - TO REPENT OF YOUR SINS.
THROUGH CHRIST YOU CAN FIND
00:40:53.28\00:40:57.65
PARDON AND RECEIVE A NEW HEART
TO BECOME LIKE HIM IN CHARACTER.
00:40:57.65\00:41:02.56
THE SOBERING NEWS IS THAT SATAN
IS MOVING IN EVERY POSSIBLE WAY
00:41:02.56\00:41:07.40
TO KEEP YOU FROM ACCEPTING
GOD'S GIFT OF SALVATION.
00:41:07.40\00:41:11.63
THROUGH THE BUSYNESS OF LIFE,
THE LOVE OF MONEY, OR SOME OTHER
00:41:11.63\00:41:14.84
FASCINATING DISTRACTION, HE
WORKS TO KEEP YOU OCCUPIED WITH
00:41:14.84\00:41:18.91
ANYTHING BUT WHAT REALLY MATTERS
MOST: YOUR ETERNAL SALVATION.
00:41:18.91\00:41:24.51
FOR YOU SEE, THE REALITY OF THE
SITUATION IS THAT IF YOU DON'T
00:41:24.51\00:41:28.28
CHOOSE JESUS, YOU WILL
HAVE, BY DEFAULT, CHOSEN SATAN.
00:41:28.28\00:41:34.06
ALTHOUGH ADAM AND EVE'S TERRIBLE
CHOICE BROUGHT UNTOLD DEATH AND
00:41:34.06\00:41:37.76
MISERY, YOU NOW HAVE A CHANCE
TO MAKE A BETTER DECISION.
00:41:37.76\00:41:42.03
GOD IS OFFERING YOU A PEACE THAT
SATISFIES THE DEEPEST LONGING IN
00:41:42.03\00:41:46.00
YOUR SOUL AND A JOY THAT WILL
LIFT YOU ABOVE THE TRIALS OF
00:41:46.00\00:41:50.01
THIS WORLD. THE
YEARNING DESIRE OF GOD'S
00:41:50.01\00:41:52.87
HEART IS FOR YOU TO BE SAVED
AND TO BE WITH HIM IN PARADISE.
00:41:52.87\00:41:57.45
BUT THE ONLY ONE WHO CAN
KEEP YOU OUT OF HEAVEN IS YOU.
00:41:57.45\00:42:02.15
IMAGINE HOW TRAGIC IT WOULD BE
IF YOU WERE NEEDLESSLY TO REJECT
00:42:02.15\00:42:06.12
THIS PRECIOUS GIFT. YOU
CAN CHOOSE TODAY TO ACCEPT
00:42:06.12\00:42:10.53
THE SALVATION
THAT GOD HAS PROMISED.
00:42:10.53\00:42:12.79
IN FACT, THIS VERY MOMENT,
YOU CAN ACCEPT EVERLASTING LIFE
00:42:12.79\00:42:16.97
THROUGH JESUS CHRIST.
CAN I INVITE YOU TO JOIN ME,
00:42:16.97\00:42:21.37
RIGHT NOW, IN A SIMPLE PRAYER
ACCEPTING HIS WONDERFUL OFFER?
00:42:21.37\00:42:26.81
PLEASE REPEAT AFTER ME: DEAR
HEAVENLY FATHER, I COME TO YOU
00:42:26.81\00:42:33.25
NOW AND HUMBLY ASK FOR YOUR
FORGIVENESS. LORD, I CONFESS
00:42:33.25\00:42:38.19
THAT I'M A SINNER AND
I'VE BROKEN YOUR HOLY LAW.
00:42:38.19\00:42:42.39
I REALIZE THAT THE
PENALTY FOR SIN IS DEATH.
00:42:42.39\00:42:47.00
I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST
SUFFERED AND DIED ON THE CROSS
00:42:47.00\00:42:51.37
TO TAKE THE
PUNISHMENT FOR ALL OF MY SINS.
00:42:51.37\00:42:54.47
I BELIEVE JESUS ROSE FROM
THE DEAD AND I ACCEPT HIM AS MY
00:42:54.47\00:42:58.77
PERSONAL SAVIOR. FROM
THIS MOMENT FORWARD I GIVE
00:42:58.77\00:43:03.48
YOU MY HEART AND TRUST
YOU TO BE THE LORD OF MY LIFE.
00:43:03.48\00:43:07.85
PLEASE FORGIVE ALL OF MY SINS
AND SEND YOUR SPIRIT TO HELP ME
00:43:07.85\00:43:12.75
DO YOUR WILL. I THANK
YOU FOR YOUR GREAT LOVE
00:43:12.75\00:43:17.43
AND ACCEPT YOUR GIFT OF
ETERNAL LIFE AND I PRAY THESE
00:43:17.43\00:43:21.63
THINGS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
00:43:21.63\00:43:33.01
>>AMAZING FACTS. CHANGED LIVES.
>>EARLY 1980S ALL THE BABY
00:43:33.01\00:43:42.12
BOOMERS WERE TURNING 21 AND THE
NIGHTCLUB SCENES WERE EXPLODING
00:43:42.12\00:43:45.85
AND I STARTED AN
ENTERTAINMENT LIGHTING COMPANY.
00:43:45.85\00:43:48.76
>>I WAS THE PRESIDENT
AND THERE WERE SIX DIVISIONS.
00:43:48.76\00:43:50.99
DOING THE RAVES IN THE
'80S AND '90S, YOU KNOW, IN SOME
00:43:50.99\00:43:54.00
WAREHOUSE WHERE YOU'RE SETTING
UP LIGHTING AND FOG AND, YOU
00:43:54.00\00:43:56.46
KNOW, WHO KNOWS WHAT'S GOING
ON IN THERE AND - NIGHTCLUB -
00:43:56.46\00:44:00.50
NIGHTCLUB INSTALLATIONS. I
LOVED IT AND IT WAS WHO I WAS.
00:44:00.50\00:44:05.24
>>BOUGHT A NEW HOUSE OUT OF TOWN
AND MOVED ABOUT TWO OR THREE
00:44:05.24\00:44:07.81
TIMES, BUT WE WERE ALWAYS
GOING TO DIFFERENT CHURCHES.
00:44:07.81\00:44:11.38
WE WERE IN A LUTHERAN CHURCH
AND THEN WE WERE IN A METHODIST
00:44:11.38\00:44:13.58
CHURCH. WE WERE IN THREE
DIFFERENT BAPTIST CHURCHES.
00:44:13.58\00:44:16.69
MY WIFE WAS RAISED CATHOLIC;
I WAS RAISED METHODIST.
00:44:16.69\00:44:19.69
CURRENTLY I'D BEEN OUT READING
ALL THE HAL LINDSEY BOOKS AND
00:44:19.69\00:44:22.22
WATCHING ALL THE LEFT BEHIND
MOVIES AND SO I REALLY WANTED TO
00:44:22.22\00:44:25.26
UNDERSTAND WHAT THE BOOK OF
REVELATION WAS ALL ABOUT, BUT
00:44:25.26\00:44:27.66
NOTHING EVER
REALLY MADE SENSE TO ME.
00:44:27.66\00:44:29.70
>>ONE DAY, PASTOR LLOYD LOGAN
CAME KNOCKING AND HE HAD THAT
00:44:29.70\00:44:33.60
NET 99 FLIER. >>WE
WERE PREPARING FOR AN
00:44:33.60\00:44:36.81
EVANGELISTIC SERIES AND
DIFFERENT PEOPLE WERE GOING
00:44:36.81\00:44:41.41
DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS
WITH HANDBILLS TO INVITE
00:44:41.41\00:44:44.45
PEOPLE TO THE MEETINGS.
>>I SAW THAT COMING AT ME, YOU
00:44:44.45\00:44:47.98
KNOW, ALL THE COLORS, AND
I THOUGHT, 'OH NO, THIS IS
00:44:47.98\00:44:50.45
SOME KIND OF CULT
THING. >>SHE SAID, 'THANK
00:44:50.45\00:44:52.62
YOU VERY MUCH. I'M NOT
MUCH INTERESTED MYSELF,
00:44:52.62\00:44:55.86
BUT MY HUSBAND
LIKES THAT KIND OF THING.
00:44:55.86\00:44:58.69
>>THEN LLOYD SAID, 'WOULD
YOU GIVE IT TO HIM, PLEASE?'
00:44:58.69\00:45:01.53
AND I SAID, 'OKAY, I WILL.' SO
I TOOK THE PAMPHLET AND I PUT IT
00:45:01.53\00:45:06.13
ON THE COUNTER. GARY
CAME HOME AND HE WALKED BY IT.
00:45:06.13\00:45:09.34
>>RAN THROUGH THE KITCHEN TO
QUICKLY EAT AND TAKE A SHOWER
00:45:09.34\00:45:12.14
AND GO BACK OUT AND WORK A SHOW.
>>TWO OR THREE DAYS WENT BY
00:45:12.14\00:45:15.28
LIKE THIS AND I HAD MOVED THAT
BROCHURE FROM THE COUNTER - PUT
00:45:15.28\00:45:19.31
IT ON THE DINING ROOM TABLE
- PUT IT BACK ON THE COUNTER.
00:45:19.31\00:45:23.52
I ACTUALLY THREW
IT IN THE GARBAGE.
00:45:23.52\00:45:24.89
AS I THREW IT IN THAT GARBAGE
CAN I COULD HEAR HIM AND SEE HIS
00:45:24.89\00:45:28.99
FACE SAYING, 'WOULD YOU
GIVE IT TO HIM, PLEASE?'
00:45:28.99\00:45:32.33
AND I ACTUALLY TOOK THE GARBAGE
OUT AND THAT NIGHT, LYING IN BED
00:45:32.33\00:45:35.73
I KEPT SEEING HIS FACE AND
HEARING HIS VOICE AND THINKING,
00:45:35.73\00:45:38.37
'OH BOY, I'VE GOT TO GET THAT
BROCHURE OUT OF THE GARBAGE.'
00:45:38.37\00:45:42.57
AND I TOOK THAT AND PUT IT RIGHT
UNDERNEATH THE REMOTE CONTROL -
00:45:42.57\00:45:47.38
BRIGHT COLORS, HE'LL SEE IT.
>>FINALLY SAT DOWN IN MY LIVING
00:45:47.38\00:45:50.48
AND I PICKED UP THE REMOTE
AND I SAW THAT ANGEL HOLDING
00:45:50.48\00:45:53.15
OUT THAT SCROLL.
>>'WHOA, COOL! WHAT IS THIS?'
00:45:53.15\00:45:57.19
AND I WAS IN THE KITCHEN
COOKING AND I THOUGHT, 'OH NO.'
00:45:57.19\00:46:00.32
>>AND I LOOKED AT IT AND I
TURNED IT OVER AND THEN I SAW A
00:46:00.32\00:46:03.83
LITTLE BUILDING - A LITTLE
CHURCH BUILDING - AND IT WASN'T
00:46:03.83\00:46:06.43
TOO FAR AWAY - IT WAS ABOUT SIX
HOUSES DOWN AND IT SAID, 'FRIDAY
00:46:06.43\00:46:09.93
NIGHT.' >>AND I
CERTAINLY WASN'T GOING.
00:46:09.93\00:46:12.50
I MEAN, IT WASN'T
MY INTENTION TO GO.
00:46:12.50\00:46:14.77
>>I DIDN'T HAVE ANY SHOWS GOING
ON THAT NIGHT AND SO I THOUGHT
00:46:14.77\00:46:17.54
IT WAS A ONE-NIGHT DEAL. I
WENT AND AS I HEARD ABOUT THE
00:46:17.54\00:46:20.71
MILLENNIUM MAN I WAS JUST BLOWN
AWAY. I DIDN'T WANT IT TO END.
00:46:20.71\00:46:25.01
I KNEW THAT WHAT I WAS HEARING
WAS ALL FROM THE SCRIPTURES AND
00:46:25.01\00:46:27.82
IT WASN'T BASED ON HOLLYWOOD
MOVIES OR OTHER BOOKS THAT WERE
00:46:27.82\00:46:30.52
WRITTEN. THEY SAID,
'COME AGAIN TOMORROW
00:46:30.52\00:46:32.25
NIGHT' AND I
THOUGHT 'WOW, GREAT!
00:46:32.25\00:46:34.82
TWO NIGHTS.' SO I TRIED TO TELL
MY WIFE ABOUT IT AND SHE STILL
00:46:34.82\00:46:38.23
WASN'T INTERESTED AND
THEN SHE DECIDED TO COME.
00:46:38.23\00:46:40.70
>>I STARTED TO HEAR THE TRUTH,
YOU KNOW, I STARTED TO GET FED.
00:46:40.70\00:46:44.20
>>EVERY NIGHT AFTER THE SEMINAR
THEY WOULD HAND US AN AMAZING
00:46:44.20\00:46:47.10
FACTS STUDY GUIDE.
I COULDN'T DO THOSE
00:46:47.10\00:46:49.34
THINGS FAST ENOUGH.
>>THE BUSINESS KEPT US GOING
00:46:49.34\00:46:52.21
SEVEN DAYS A WEEK
AND IT WAS NIGHT AND DAY.
00:46:52.21\00:46:55.04
>>CREWS WORKING ALL AROUND
THE CLOCK AND SO WHEN WE FINALLY
00:46:55.04\00:46:58.05
HEARD THE SABBATH MESSAGE, YOU
KNOW, SO FAR EVERYTHING'S BEEN
00:46:58.05\00:47:01.08
TRUE - RIGHT FROM THE
BIBLE. >>CHURCH ON SATURDAY - NO
00:47:01.08\00:47:04.02
WORK - ANYWAY, IT ALL CLICKED.
>>BOTH OUR HEADS TURNED AT EACH
00:47:04.02\00:47:07.66
OTHER. OUR JAWS DROPPED OPEN.
>>I SAID, 'WE CAN'T DO THAT.'
00:47:07.66\00:47:13.23
>>AND THE FIRST THING THAT CAME
OUT OF MY MOUTH WAS 'WE HAVE
00:47:13.23\00:47:15.33
TO.' >>I KNEW THAT IT WOULD BE A
00:47:15.33\00:47:17.33
SACRIFICE AND I
WAS IN FEAR ABOUT IT.
00:47:17.33\00:47:21.34
>>WE DIDN'T KNOW HOW WE WERE
GOING TO DO IT, BUT WE TALKED TO
00:47:21.34\00:47:25.17
THE PASTOR ABOUT IT AND THE
PASTOR SAID, 'WE'LL JUST PRAY
00:47:25.17\00:47:27.38
ABOUT IT AND
GOD WILL OPEN DOORS.
00:47:27.38\00:47:29.58
>>I DIDN'T WANT TO GIVE UP ALL
THE CONNECTIONS I'D MADE - ALL
00:47:29.58\00:47:32.48
THE NETWORKING - ALL THE
MONEY - ALL THE INVESTMENT.
00:47:32.48\00:47:35.55
>>WE WENT TO THE BOARD AND ASKED
THEM IF THEY WOULD CONSIDER
00:47:35.55\00:47:38.22
CLOSING ON SATURDAY AND
THEY AGREED TO. SO WE CLOSED THE
00:47:38.22\00:47:41.66
STOREFRONT ON SATURDAYS, BUT WE
WERE STILL DOING PRODUCTIONS AND
00:47:41.66\00:47:44.96
THAT KIND OF BOTHERED US.
SO A COUPLE MONTHS LATER GOD
00:47:44.96\00:47:48.80
OPENED A DOOR FOR MY
WIFE - SHE EXITED THE COMPANY.
00:47:48.80\00:47:51.37
I PRAYED ABOUT IT AND GOD
OPENED THE DOOR FOR ME TOO.
00:47:51.37\00:47:54.10
>>GARY, SHORTLY AFTER, WAS
OFFERED A JOB BEING PAID MORE
00:47:54.10\00:47:58.54
MONEY THAN HE MADE AS
AN OWNER OF THE COMPANY.
00:47:58.54\00:48:01.94
HE SAID, 'I'LL GIVE YOU A
THOUSAND DOLLAR RAISE AND YOU
00:48:01.94\00:48:04.95
WILL NEVER WORK
ANOTHER WEEKEND.'
00:48:04.95\00:48:07.08
>>AND WE WERE ABLE TO
KEEP THE SABBATH AND ENJOY THE
00:48:07.08\00:48:11.29
WONDERFUL BLESSINGS THAT GOD
HAD FOR US ON THE SABBATH DAY.
00:48:11.29\00:48:14.96
>>MY KIDS NEVER AGAIN HAD TO
SAY, 'QUIT TALKING ABOUT WORK.'
00:48:14.96\00:48:18.23
AFTER THE SEMINAR WAS OVER MY
WIFE AND I AND MY CHILDREN WERE
00:48:18.23\00:48:20.90
ALL BAPTIZED INTO THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH.
00:48:20.90\00:48:23.97
EVEN IF I GAVE UP EVERYTHING,
I KNEW THAT GOD WOULD HAVE
00:48:23.97\00:48:26.53
SOMETHING BETTER. >>I
HAVE MUCH MORE UNDERSTANDING
00:48:26.53\00:48:30.67
AND THERE'S MUCH MORE DEPTH IN
MY CHRISTIAN WALK WITH THE LORD.
00:48:30.67\00:48:34.91
>>WE STARTED AN AMAZING FACTS
BIBLE SCHOOL AT OUR CHURCH.
00:48:34.91\00:48:37.75
IT ALLOWS ANYBODY TO UNDERSTAND
THE SCRIPTURES AND TO UNDERSTAND
00:48:37.75\00:48:41.05
THE END-TIMES. THE CHURCH
CHANGED MY LIFE DRAMATICALLY AND
00:48:41.05\00:48:44.19
I'M VERY HAPPY AND EXCITED
TO BE A PART OF IT. (MUSIC)
00:48:44.19\00:48:53.16
>>(CRICKETS) (SPRINKLERS)
(OMINOUS MUSIC) (DOG BARKING)
00:48:53.16\00:49:26.23
(FIRE ALARM)
>>MOMMY, DADDY, HELP ME.
00:49:26.23\00:49:41.64
>>NO, I DON'T THINK SO.
YOU DIDN'T DO VERY WELL ON YOUR
00:49:41.64\00:49:44.48
REPORT CARD THIS
LAST QUARTER SO, NO.
00:49:44.48\00:49:47.75
>>YOU HAVEN'T BEEN PULLING
YOUR WEIGHT AROUND HERE LATELY.
00:49:47.75\00:49:50.52
YOU WANT HELP? WELL, I WANTED
HELP WITH THE DISHES LAST NIGHT.
00:49:50.52\00:49:54.16
HELP YOURSELF. >>HUH?
00:49:54.16\00:49:56.99
>>HONEY, DID YOU BRING THE
MARSHMALLOWS? (SIRENS) (MUSIC)
00:49:56.99\00:50:23.08
>>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS
BIBLE STUDY? YOU DON'T HAVE TO
00:50:23.08\00:50:26.52
WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY
MORE TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING,
00:50:26.52\00:50:30.06
VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS
MEDIA LIBRARY AT 'AFTV.ORG'.
00:50:30.06\00:50:35.53
AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY
VIDEO AND AUDIO PRESENTATIONS AS
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WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL
FREE OF CHARGE, 24 HOURS A DAY 7
00:50:40.47\00:50:45.04
DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM
YOUR COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE.
00:50:45.04\00:50:48.44
VISIT 'AFTV.ORG'. >>IN
THREE, TWO, ONE - ACTION!
00:50:48.44\00:50:56.95
(DRAMATIC MUSIC) >>THIS
DOCUMENTARY COVERS A SPAN
00:50:56.95\00:51:07.36
FROM THE FIRST COMING OF JESUS
AND WHAT WAS GOING ON IN THE
00:51:07.36\00:51:11.83
CHURCH, UP UNTIL JUST BEFORE
THE SECOND COMING OF JESUS.
00:51:11.83\00:51:16.07
IT SHOWS THE GREAT APOSTASY THAT
CREPT INTO THE CHURCH AND THEN,
00:51:16.07\00:51:22.31
ULTIMATELY, THE GREAT REVIVAL
THROUGH THE GREAT REFORMATION.
00:51:22.31\00:51:27.78
THIS IS A LIFE AND DEATH BATTLE.
IT'S NOT JUST SOMETHING THAT
00:51:27.78\00:51:31.45
IS HAPPENING IN
HALLUCINATIONS OF A PROPHET.
00:51:31.45\00:51:35.92
THOSE THINGS ARE
PLAYED OUT IN REAL HISTORY.
00:51:35.92\00:51:49.90
>>THE SCARLET HARLOT WOMAN
IN REVELATION 17, WHO REPRESENTS
00:51:49.90\00:51:52.97
THE CHURCH THAT HAS FALLEN INTO
APOSTASY - AND WE THOUGHT, IN
00:51:52.97\00:51:57.81
THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO POLAR
OPPOSITE VISIONS IN REVELATION,
00:51:57.81\00:52:03.02
WE COULD TELL THE STORY OF WHAT
THE DEVIL WANTED TO DO TO THE
00:52:03.02\00:52:06.02
CHURCH - THIS COUNTERFEIT CHURCH
AND THIS PERSECUTING POWER - AND
00:52:06.02\00:52:10.89
THE REAL PURITY THAT GOD WANTED
FOR HIS PEOPLE - THE PURE TRUTH
00:52:10.89\00:52:14.20
- THE PURE WORD. AND JUST
SEE THE BATTLE - THE CONFLICT -
00:52:14.20\00:52:17.67
BETWEEN THESE TWO AND THE
DRAGON APPEARS IN BOTH STORIES.
00:52:17.67\00:52:22.54
YOU'VE GOT THE SAME DRAGON -
THAT SEVEN-HEADED DRAGON - IS
00:52:22.54\00:52:25.51
PERSECUTING THIS ONE WOMAN AND
YET, THE OTHER WOMAN IS RIDING
00:52:25.51\00:52:29.78
UPON IT - THEY'RE WORKING IN
COOPERATION - THEY'RE A TEAM.
00:52:29.78\00:52:33.31
THE CONTEXT OF THESE TWO VISIONS
CREATES A VERY CLEAN WAY TO
00:52:33.31\00:52:37.79
ILLUSTRATE THE BATTLE
BETWEEN TRUTH AND ERROR - TRUE
00:52:37.79\00:52:40.69
CHURCH/FALSE CHURCH -
GOOD CHURCH/BAD CHURCH - PURE
00:52:40.69\00:52:44.63
CHURCH/DEFILED CHURCH - AND
THAT'S THE GREAT CONTROVERSY
00:52:44.63\00:52:48.13
GOING ON IN THE
RELIGIOUS WORLD TODAY.
00:52:48.13\00:52:51.53
>>WE DON'T WANT HER TO GO TO THE
POINT WHERE IT LOOKS LIKE, 'OH
00:52:51.53\00:52:53.27
MAN, SHE'S KIND OF SCARY.
>>NO, THE - THE FACE IS GOING
00:52:53.27\00:52:56.00
TO BE LIKE FLAWLESS
BEAUTY. JUST INTENSE EYES.
00:52:56.00\00:53:01.08
I'VE GOT CRAZY LASHES.
I'VE GOT LIKE THREE DIFFERENT
00:53:01.08\00:53:03.71
OPTIONS FOR LASHES. >>OKAY.
00:53:03.71\00:53:05.78
>>LIKE A REALLY VIBRANT LIP,
YOU KNOW, SO JUST REALLY, REALLY
00:53:05.78\00:53:10.49
INTENSE IN THE
FACE AND FLAWLESS.
00:53:10.49\00:53:12.69
BUT WE CAN ALSO DO, YOU KNOW,
DECORATIVE STUFF TOO, LIKE WE
00:53:12.69\00:53:15.82
WERE TALKING ABOUT ON THE HAND.
>>AND WE'RE GOING TO ADD A PIECE
00:53:15.82\00:53:21.63
THAT'S A FALL AND IT'S GOING
TO HAVE BRAIDS AND IT'S GOING TO
00:53:21.63\00:53:25.03
ADD MORE HAIR AND MORE WAVE.
AND THEN WE'RE GOING TO ADD A
00:53:25.03\00:53:28.37
BUNCH OF JEWELS AND
CROWNS AND GEMS AND JEWELRY.
00:53:28.37\00:53:34.38
>>SHE IS GOING TO
BE HIGHLY DECORATED.
00:53:34.38\00:53:36.14
>>YEAH, DECORATIONS.
>>THE WOMAN ON THE DRAGON ALSO
00:53:36.14\00:53:39.88
HAS WRITING ON HER FOREHEAD:
MYSTERY BABYLON THE GREAT THE
00:53:39.88\00:53:44.49
MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND
THE ABOMINATION OF THE EARTH.
00:53:44.49\00:53:47.22
WE HAD NICOLE, OUR MAKE-UP
ARTIST, WRITE ALL THE ACTUAL
00:53:47.22\00:53:50.63
SCRIPTURE VERSE THERE,
ON HER FOREHEAD, IN HEBREW.
00:53:50.63\00:53:54.96
ALL RIGHT, TAKE
HER AROUND. VERY NICE.
00:53:54.96\00:53:59.43
DIP THE HEAD A LITTLE BIT.
>>AS AN EVANGELIST - WE HAVE
00:53:59.43\00:54:03.81
PREACHED - FOR YEARS I'VE TALKED
ABOUT REVELATION 17 - THIS
00:54:03.81\00:54:06.98
INFAMOUS WOMAN - AND I'VE NEVER
REALLY SEEN AN ARTIST'S CONCEPT
00:54:06.98\00:54:11.08
THAT RIGHTLY PORTRAYS WHAT I
THOUGHT IN MY MIND JOHN SAW IN
00:54:11.08\00:54:15.45
VISION AND IT JUST - SOMETHING
ABOUT THE VIVID BRIGHT COLORS.
00:54:15.45\00:54:21.72
EVERYBODY THAT WALKED IN AND SAW
THAT BEING SHOT, THEIR MOUTHS
00:54:21.72\00:54:25.03
FELL OPEN. I EXPECT
THIS IS GOING TO BE - A
00:54:25.03\00:54:27.60
MIXTURE OF RESPONSES AND
THAT'S ALWAYS THE CASE WHEN YOU
00:54:27.60\00:54:31.17
SHARE TRUTH WITH PEOPLE.
BUT THE TRUTH IS THE TRUTH AND
00:54:31.17\00:54:35.47
SO WHEN PEOPLE SEE WHAT HAS
HAPPENED TO THE CHURCH AND THE
00:54:35.47\00:54:39.27
- THE GREAT COMPROMISE AND THE
PERSECUTION THAT GOD'S PEOPLE
00:54:39.27\00:54:44.95
HAVE GONE THROUGH, EVEN AT THE
HANDS OF PROFESSED CHRISTIANS.
00:54:44.95\00:54:48.38
I THINK SOME PEOPLE ARE GOING TO
SAY, 'WOW, HOW COME I NEVER SAW
00:54:48.38\00:54:52.92
THIS BEFORE? I'M GOING TO
TAKE A STAND FOR THE TRUTH.
00:54:52.92\00:54:56.19
I BELIEVE THIS IS
GOING TO AFFECT MY LIFE.
00:54:56.19\00:54:58.33
THIS IS GOING TO LIBERATE
ME. THIS IS GOING TO MAKE ME A
00:54:58.33\00:55:00.23
BETTER PERSON. THIS IS
A BETTER PICTURE OF GOD.'
00:55:00.23\00:55:03.13
ANYTHING WE DO TO DISTORT THE
TRUTH OR TO COVER THE TRUTH, IT
00:55:03.13\00:55:07.67
HIDES OR VEILS
JESUS IN SOME WAY.
00:55:07.67\00:55:10.04
AND SO, THIS FILM - WE'RE
WANTING TO TEAR THE VEIL AWAY
00:55:10.04\00:55:12.44
AND REALLY SHOW WHO JESUS
IS THROUGH A PURE VIEW OF THE
00:55:12.44\00:55:16.85
TRUTH. AND EVERYBODY IS
AFFECTED BY THAT. (MUSIC)
00:55:16.85\00:55:46.34
>>PORT ROYAL, HERE IN
JAMAICA, WAS ONCE CONSIDERED THE
00:55:46.34\00:55:49.68
MOST WICKED CITY IN THE WORLD.
THEY HAD MORE BARS AND BROTHELS
00:55:49.68\00:55:53.28
PER SQUARE FOOT THAN ANY
OTHER PLACE ON THE PLANET.
00:55:53.28\00:55:56.02
IT WAS SAID TO BE JUST FULL
OF CUTTHROATS AND PIRATES BUT,
00:55:56.02\00:55:59.19
DURING THIS TIME, THE KING OF
FRANCE, LOUIS XIV, HE BEGAN TO
00:55:59.19\00:56:03.66
PERSECUTE THE PROTESTANTS AND
THE HUGUENOTS IN THE KINGDOM AND
00:56:03.66\00:56:06.86
MANY FLED. THAT'S
WHEN LOUIS GALDY AND HIS
00:56:06.86\00:56:09.33
BROTHER LAURENT
CAME TO PORT ROYAL.
00:56:09.33\00:56:13.74
WHEN LOUIS GALDY ARRIVED, HE WAS
ABSOLUTELY DUMBFOUNDED AT THE
00:56:13.74\00:56:17.31
UNRESTRAINED IMMORALITY,
VIOLENCE, AND EXTRAVAGANCE THAT
00:56:17.31\00:56:20.68
FILLED PORT ROYAL.
THAT'S WHY NOBODY WAS SURPRISED
00:56:20.68\00:56:23.61
WHEN THE JUDGMENT OF
GOD FINALLY HAPPENED.
00:56:23.61\00:56:26.51
JUST BEFORE NOON ON JUNE
7, 1692, THERE WAS A MASSIVE
00:56:26.51\00:56:30.15
EARTHQUAKE THAT AFFECTED
THE WHOLE ISLAND, PORT ROYAL, IN
00:56:30.15\00:56:33.59
PARTICULAR. TWO THIRDS
OF IT SLID INTO THE SEA.
00:56:33.59\00:56:37.03
THEN CAME A
TSUNAMI. THOUSANDS PERISHED.
00:56:37.03\00:56:39.59
UNFORTUNATELY, EVEN LOUIS
GALDY WAS SWALLOWED UP IN THE
00:56:39.59\00:56:42.80
EARTHQUAKE. YOU
KNOW, MUCH OF JAMAICA IS A
00:56:42.80\00:56:48.54
ROCK, BUT PORT ROYAL
WAS BUILT ON THE SAND.
00:56:48.54\00:56:51.74
AND SO, WHEN THE EARTHQUAKE
STRUCK, THE SAND VIRTUALLY
00:56:51.74\00:56:54.44
LIQUEFIED, SWALLOWING MUCH
OF THE CITY AND THOUSANDS OF
00:56:54.44\00:56:56.95
PEOPLE. LOUIS
GALDY WAS BURIED ALIVE,
00:56:56.95\00:57:00.55
BUT WHILE UNDERGROUND HE WAS
STILL CONSCIOUS AND HE PRAYED.
00:57:00.55\00:57:04.92
HE RESIGNED HIMSELF TO HIS FATE,
PRAYED TO THE LORD, AND THEN
00:57:04.92\00:57:08.16
ANOTHER MIRACLE HAPPENED.
THERE WAS AN AFTERSHOCK,
00:57:08.16\00:57:10.93
WITH VOLCANIC ACTIVITY, THAT
EXPLODED, BLOWING LOUIS GALDY
00:57:10.93\00:57:14.63
OUT OF THE EARTH HUNDREDS OF
YARDS OFF INTO THE SEA WHERE HE
00:57:14.63\00:57:18.07
HAD A PRETTY HARD
LANDING, BUT HE WAS ABLE TO SWIM
00:57:18.07\00:57:20.67
UNTIL HE WAS RESCUED.
LOUIS GALDY DEDICATED THE
00:57:20.67\00:57:23.77
REMAINING 47 YEARS OF HIS LIFE
TO SERVING JESUS IN THIS ISLAND
00:57:23.77\00:57:27.94
AND HE'S EVEN
BURIED HERE STILL TODAY.
00:57:27.94\00:57:34.62
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US,
JUST BEFORE JESUS COMES BACK THE
00:57:34.62\00:57:37.49
CONDITIONS IN THE WORLD WILL
BE VERY MUCH LIKE THEY WERE IN
00:57:37.49\00:57:39.75
SODOM AND IN PORT ROYAL.
THERE'S GOING TO BE A TREMENDOUS
00:57:39.75\00:57:43.29
EARTHQUAKE AND EVEN ISLANDS
WILL BE SWALLOWED UP. BUT GOD'S
00:57:43.29\00:57:46.26
PEOPLE DON'T NEED TO BE AFRAID.
THE SAME WAY THAT THE LORD TOOK
00:57:46.26\00:57:49.20
CARE OF LOUIS GALDY,
HE WILL TAKE CARE OF YOU.
00:57:49.20\00:57:51.80
IT SAYS IN PSALM 91 THAT
YOU MIGHT SEE A THOUSAND FALL AT
00:57:51.80\00:57:54.70
YOUR SIDE OR TEN THOUSAND AT
YOUR RIGHT HAND, BUT ONLY WITH
00:57:54.70\00:57:57.87
YOUR EYES WILL YOU SEE AND
BEHOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF THE
00:57:57.87\00:58:00.14
WICKED. HE CAN
PROTECT YOU AND RESURRECT YOU.
00:58:00.14\00:58:03.65
(MUSIC)
00:58:03.65\00:58:18.66