>>WE'RE CONTINUING
WITH A SERIES OF MESSAGES.
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DOES ANYONE HERE REMEMBER THAT
WE WERE DOING A SERIES ON ELIJAH
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AND, YOU KNOW, THEN OUR
EVANGELISTIC MEETINGS CAME IN
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THE MIDST OF THAT, BUT I
HAVEN'T FORGOTTEN. AND SO,
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IF YOU'RE VISITING TODAY, I
JUST WANTED TO CATCH YOU UP.
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WE HAVE BEEN DOING A BRIEF
SERIES ON THIS BIBLE HERO -
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ONE OF THE GREAT
PROPHETS OF SCRIPTURE -
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BY THE NAME OF ELIJAH.
AND FIRST SECTION WE TALKED
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ABOUT ELIJAH'S
GOING IN BEFORE AHAB.
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THE PEOPLE IN THE KINGDOM HAD
GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO BAAL
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WORSHIP AND HE SAID THERE WOULD
BE NEITHER DEW NOR RAIN THESE
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YEARS EXCEPT AT MY WORD.
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AND THEN ELIJAH DISAPPEARS AND
THERE IS NO RAIN AND THERE IS NO
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DEW AND A GREAT
DEAL OF TIME GOES BY.
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GOD TELLS ELIJAH TO HIDE BY THE
BROOK CHERITH, WHICH IS ON THE
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EASTERN SIDE OF THE JORDAN
VALLEY AND RUNS DOWN INTO THE
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JORDAN AND GOD FEES
HIM THERE MIRACULOUSLY.
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RAVENS BRING HIM BREAD AND
THEY BRING HIM FOOD TWICE A DAY.
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THEN GOD TELLS - THE BROOK DRIES
UP AND GOD TELLS ELIJAH TO GO TO
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STAY WITH A WIDOW THAT HE HAD
CHOSEN UP IN ZEREPHATH, WHICH IS
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UP IN THE COUNTRY NOT FAR
FROM WHERE JEZEBEL'S FROM.
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IT'S, OH ABOUT FIFTY MILES NORTH
OF JEZREEL OR MOUNT CARMEL.
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AND HE STAYS THERE FOR AWHILE
AND GOD MIRACULOUSLY FEEDS THEM
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THROUGH THIS BIN OF FLOUR THAT
SEEMS TO JUST ALWAYS HAVE MORE
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IN IT WHENEVER THEY REACH IN.
KIND OF LIKE JESUS MULTIPLYING
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THE BREAD. AND
THERE'S A LITTLE OIL AND IT
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ALWAYS SEEMS TO HAVE A
LITTLE MORE OIL LEFT AND HE
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MIRACULOUSLY MULTIPLIES THE
FOOD, FEEDS ELIJAH AND THIS LADY
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AND HER FAMILY FOR MANY DAYS.
AND AFTER MANY DAYS IT SAYS THAT
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HER SON BECOMES
VERY ILL AND DIES.
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AND GOD PERFORMS AND INCREDIBLE
MIRACLE WHERE ELIJAH BRINGS THE
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CHILD UP TO HIS ROOM AND PRAYS
AND GOD PERFORMS A RESURRECTION.
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FIRST RESURRECTION IN
THE BIBLE THAT YOU FIND.
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AND THEN AT THE CONCLUSION
OF THIS IS WHERE WE TAKE UP OUR
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STORY. IF YOU'LL
TURN IN YOUR BIBLES
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WITH ME TO THE FIRST BOOK
OF KINGS - 1 KINGS CHAPTER 18.
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AFTER HE RESURRECTS THE BOY OF
THIS WIDOW SHE SAYS, IN VERSE 24
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OF CHAPTER 17, "'NOW BY THIS I
KNOW THAT YOU ARE A MAN OF GOD,
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AND THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD
IN YOUR MOUTH IS THE TRUTH.'"
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THROUGH THE MIRACULOUS
RESURRECTION OF THE SON WE KNOW
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THE WORD IN HIS MOUTH IS TRUTH
AND IT'S THROUGH THE MIRACULOUS
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RESURRECTION OF JESUS WE KNOW
THE WORD OF GOD IN HIS MOUTH WAS
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TRUTH - IT IS TRUTH.
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AND IN CHAPTER 18, VERSE 1, "AND
IT CAME TO PASS AFTER MANY DAYS
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THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME
TO ELIJAH, IN THE THIRD YEAR,
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SAYING, 'GO, PRESENT YOURSELF
TO AHAB, AND I WILL SEND RAIN ON
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THE EARTH.'" NOW, I WANT TO
TALK ABOUT THAT TIME PERIOD.
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WE JUST READ IN OUR SCRIPTURE
READING WHERE IT SAYS IN THE
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BOOK OF JAMES THAT ELIJAH PRAYED
AND IT RAINED NOT ON THE EARTH
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FOR THE SPACE OF
THREE YEARS AND SIX MONTHS.
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AND SO WHEN IT SAYS HERE 'AFTER
MANY DAYS AND IN THE THIRD YEAR'
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- THE WAY THIS IS WRITTEN IN THE
ORIGINAL HEBREW, WHEN IT SAYS
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'IN THE THIRD YEAR' IT DOESN'T
MEAN THAT BEFORE THREE YEARS
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WERE UP, IT MEANS SOME TIME
AFTER THE THREE YEARS ARE UP.
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WE READ FROM THE OTHER
SCRIPTURES THIS IS THREE AND A
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HALF YEARS. NOW
THAT'S A VERY IMPORTANT TIME
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PERIOD IN THE BIBLE -
WHEN IT SAYS 'AFTER MANY DAYS'.
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IT IS ONE OF THE MOST COMMONLY
REFERRED TO PROPHETIC PERIODS.
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SEE, A PERFECT CYCLE
IN THE BIBLE IS SEVEN.
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SEVEN IS THE
PERFECT NUMBER FOR GOD.
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IF YOU WANTED TO PERFECTLY
DISSECT OR INTERRUPT SEVEN, YOU
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CHOP IT IN HALF, YOU END
UP WITH THREE AND A HALF.
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THREE AND A HALF OFTEN
REPRESENTS A TIME OF TRIAL,
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PERSECUTION, HARDSHIP,
RESISTANCE, APOSTASY - AND YOU
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SEE SEVERAL TIMES IN THE BIBLE
PROPHECIES THIS TIME PERIOD OF
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THREE AND A HALF. NOW
YOU'LL SEE IT UP ON THE
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SCREEN HERE, IT
COMES OUT SEVERAL WAYS.
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SOMETIMES IT SAYS, 'A TIME, A
TIMES AND HALF A TIME' AND WHAT
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THAT MEANS IS A TIME IS ONE YEAR
- THAT MEANS A COMPLETE CYCLE OF
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THE SEASONS IS A CALLED A TIME.
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A TIMES - MEANING A PAIR
OR A COUPLE OF TIMES IS TWO.
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SO NOW YOU'VE GOT THREE AND A
DIVIDING OR A HALF OF A TIME -
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HALF OF A YEAR -
THREE AND A HALF.
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THAT'S ONE WAY
IT'S SAID IN THE BIBLE.
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ANOTHER WAY IT SIMPLY SAYS THREE
AND A HALF YEARS - AS WE JUST
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READ IN JAMES. IT
ALSO SAYS 42 MONTHS.
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SEE, THE JEWISH YEAR HAD 360
DAYS FOR CALCULATION AND THAT'S
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42 MONTHS AND THEN
IT ALSO SAYS 1,260 DAYS.
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SOME OF THE PLACES YOU'LL
FIND THAT IN THE BIBLE - I THINK
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THERE'S AT LEAST SEVEN
TIMES IT APPEARS IN PROPHECY.
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LET ME GIVE THOSE TO YOU
QUICKLY: DANIEL 7:25 - SPEAKING
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OF THE BEAST POWER - "FOR A
TIME AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME."
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DANIEL 7:12, "A TIME
AND TIMES AND HALF A TIME."
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REVELATION 11:2, "FORTY-TWO
MONTHS". REVELATION 11:3,
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"ONE THOUSAND TWO HUNDRED
AND SIXTY DAYS" - SAME PERIOD.
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REVELATION 12:6, "ONE THOUSAND
TWO HUNDRED AND SIXTY DAYS."
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REVELATION 13:5 - CONNECTED
WITH THE BEAST POWER, "FORTY-TWO
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MONTHS" - AND YOU KNOW ONE
OF THE PLACES MOST PEOPLE MISS -
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NOT ONLY THE STORY OF ELIJAH
WHERE THERE'S 1,260 DAYS OF
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FAMINE, IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER
- DID YOU KNOW IN THE BOOK OF
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ESTHER - VERY INTERESTING - IT
BEGINS - ESTHER CHAPTER 1, VERSE
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3, IN THE THIRD YEAR OF THE
REIGN OF AHASUERUS THE KING, HE
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MADE A FEAST FOR ALL OF HIS
OFFICIALS AND SERVANTS AND THE
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FEAST LASTED 180 DAYS. THE
THIRD YEAR OF HIS REIGN PLUS
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180 - YOU KNOW,
THAT'S EXACTLY 1260 DAYS.
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THAT'S THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
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AND WHAT HAPPENS AT
THE END OF THAT PERIOD?
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THE PAGAN QUEEN IS DETHRONED AND
A PROCESS IS BEGUN TO CHOOSE A
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JEWISH QUEEN
THAT SAVES THE PEOPLE.
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AND SO, YOU REMEMBER, THERE WAS
A DEATH DECREE, IN THE BOOK OF
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ESTHER, TO
ANNIHILATE ALL OF GOD'S PEOPLE.
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SO IT SORT OF IS AN ECHO OF
WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN IN THE
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LAST DAYS WHERE THERE'S A DEATH
DECREE TO EXTERMINATE GOD'S
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PEOPLE WHO DO NOT BOW
DOWN AND WORSHIP THE IMAGE.
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IN THE BOOK OF ESTHER THERE'S
A DECREE TO DESTROY GOD'S PEOPLE
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BECAUSE MORDECAI WILL NOT
BOW DOWN AND WORSHIP HAMAAN.
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SO A LOT OF PARALLELS THERE.
NOW, DON'T MISS THIS IMPORTANT
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POINT: IN THE BIBLE, A WOMAN IS
OFTEN THE SYMBOL OF A CHURCH -
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BEAUTIFUL BRIDE, PURE CHURCH
- PROSTITUTE HARLOT, IMPURE
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CHURCH. REVELATION
12 - BEAUTIFUL BRIDE,
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A SYMBOL OF GOD'S CHURCH -
THE DRAGON IS ANGRY WITH HER.
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REVELATION 17 YOU'VE GOT THIS
SCARLET WOMAN - SHE'S CALLED A
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HARLOT - SHE RIDING ON THE
DRAGON - THE BEAST - THEY'RE IN
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COOPERATION. TWO OPPOSITES.
THE TIME PERIOD IN WHICH THIS
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BABYLONIAN WOMAN PERSECUTES THE
PROPHETS OF GOD IS 1,260 DAYS.
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GOD'S PEOPLE HAD TO FLEE INTO
THE WILDERNESS WHERE THEY WERE
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MIRACULOUSLY FED FOR 1,260 DAYS.
YOU READ THIS IN REVELATION.
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HERE IN THE BOOK OF ELIJAH
YOU'VE GOT A PAGAN QUEEN NAMED
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JEZEBEL - LIKE THAT
WOMAN IN REVELATION 17 - WHO IS
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PERSECUTING THE PROPHETS
OF GOD. SHE'S KILLING THEM.
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AND ELIJAH HAS TO FLEE
INTO THE WILDERNESS WHERE GOD
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MIRACULOUSLY FEEDS HIM FOR
1,260 DAYS. AM I JUST DREAMING
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THESE THINGS UP OR DO YOU
SEE REAL PARALLELS HERE AND
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GOD IS TRYING TO TELL YOU
THAT HISTORY REPEATED ITSELF?
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NOW, I'M JUST GOING TO GO
OUT ON A LIMB A LITTLE WAYS.
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PEOPLE TALK ABOUT THE
SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION.
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HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE HEARD ABOUT
THE SEVEN YEARS OF TRIBULATION?
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IT'S NOT IN THE BIBLE
BUT WE'VE ALL HEARD ABOUT IT.
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PEOPLE TALK - IT
DOESN'T SAY SEVEN YEARS OF
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TRIBULATION
ANYWHERE IN THE BIBLE.
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IT'S TRUE THAT THERE WERE SEVEN
DAYS WHEN THE DOOR OF THE ARK
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WAS CLOSED WHILE NOAH
AND HIS FAMILY WERE INSIDE.
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MAYBE THEY DRAW OR EXTRAPOLATE
IT FROM THAT OR THEY TAKE THE
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LAST WEEK OF DANIEL CHAPTER 9
AND THEY PULL IT OFF AND PATCH
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IT SOMEWHERE AT THE END OF TIME,
BUT THE BIBLE DOESN'T TEACH THAT
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THERE'S SEVEN
YEARS OF TRIBULATION.
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THERE IS A SMALL TIME OF TROUBLE
BEFORE THE BIG TIME OF TROUBLE
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WHEN THE SEVEN
LAST PLAGUES FALL.
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SMALL TIME OF TROUBLE
YOU CAN'T BUY OR SELL.
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THERE'S GOING TO BE GREAT
OPPOSITION, PERSECUTION, GOD'S
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PEOPLE WILL BE BROUGHT BEFORE
KINGS AND RULERS TO PREACH, AND
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IT MAY BE, DURING THAT TIME, WE
NEED TO FLEE INTO REMOTE COUNTRY
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PLACES WHERE HE'LL SUSTAIN US.
COUNTRY LIVING WILL BE A GOOD
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IDEA DURING THAT TIME. HOW
LONG WILL THAT BE? I DON'T KNOW.
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IT MIGHT BE THREE AND A HALF
YEARS. IT WOULDN'T SURPRISE ME.
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I DON'T KNOW THAT, I'M JUST
SPECULATING SO DON'T SAY 'PASTOR
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DOUG SAID THIS IS
HOW IT'S GOING TO BE.'
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I'M JUST - CAN I DREAM LIKE
YOU? YEAH, SO I'M JUST SHARING -
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I'M NOT SAYING THIS BY
COMMANDMENT BUT BY PERMISSION.
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SOMEONE'S GOING TO RUN WITH
THAT AND PRINT IT SOMEWHERE.
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ANYWAY, BUT JUST IN MY PRIVATE
MUSINGS I THINK THAT MIGHT BE
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HOW LONG THE SMALL
TIME OF TROUBLE WILL BE.
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THE LAST PLAGUES I DON'T THINK
ARE GOING TO TAKE VERY LONG
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BECAUSE YOU LOOK AT THE NATURE
OF THEM AND THE WORLD WOULD NOT
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SURVIVE. SO IT TELLS US
THAT THERE'S A SEVERE FAMINE.
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LET'S GO BACK TO 1 KINGS CHAPTER
18:1-3. GOD TELLS ELIJAH,
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"GO PRESENT YOURSELF TO
AHAB," - THE KING OF ISRAEL.
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HE'S GOT A 50-MILE WALK -
"SO ELIJAH WENT TO PRESENT
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HIMSELF TO AHAB; AND THERE WAS
A SEVERE FAMINE IN SAMARIA." -
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YOU KNOW WHY IT SAYS THAT?
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WHAT DO YOU THINK HE SAW
DURING THAT 50-MILE WALK?
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THREE AND A HALF YEARS OF
NO DEW, NO RAIN, AND NOTHING.
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THERE IS DEATH AND SUFFERING
AND POVERTY AND FAMINE AND
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STARVATION ALL AROUND HIM
BECAUSE THE PEOPLE HAD BEEN
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WORSHIPING BAAL AND THANKING
BAAL FOR THE WEATHER AND TURNING
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TO THESE TERRIBLE SINFUL
RELIGIONS - NOT ONLY BAAL
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WORSHIP BUT ASHERAH WORSHIP
AND THEY HAD THESE TEMPLE
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PROSTITUTES AND THERE WAS
TERRIBLE IMMORALITY IN THE
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COUNTRY AND SO GOD
WITHDREW HIS BLESSING.
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AND AS ELIJAH WALKED THROUGH
THE COUNTRY - AND YOU JUST THINK
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ABOUT HIS BOLDNESS IN DOING THAT
BECAUSE AHAB HAD BEEN LOOKING
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EVERYWHERE FOR HIM. HE
WAS PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER 1.
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LITTLE SKETCHES WITH ELIJAH'S
PICTURE WERE ON EVERY TELEPHONE
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POLE ALL AROUND THE COUNTRY.
AND SO HE'S WALKING BY, YOU
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KNOW, IT SAID, 'WANTED: DEAD
OR ALIVE' AND MAYBE A BIG REWARD
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ALSO, LIKE THOSE OLD WESTERN
POSTERS, YOU KNOW, 'BOUNTY' -
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AND ELIJAH'S PICTURE IS
EVERYWHERE AND HE'S JUST WALKING
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THROUGH THE COUNTRY AND PEOPLE
ARE LOOKING AT HIM BUT THEY'RE
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TOO WEAK TO DO
ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
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AND FOR SOME
REASON HE LOOKED WELL FED.
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AND SO - SOMETHING ABOUT
THE PROPHET OF GOD, YOU KNOW, HE
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CARRIES AN AURA
OF POWER WITH HIM.
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AND HE WALKED THROUGH THE
COUNTRY AND AS HE NEARS - A
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50-MILE WALK - HE'S GOING
NEAR THE LAND OF ISRAEL - HE'S
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REACHED THE TERRITORY - AT THE
SAME TIME, NOW THE STORY TELLS
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US WHAT'S GOING ON
IN ISRAEL AT THIS TIME.
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"AND AHAB" - THE KING OF ISRAEL
- RIGHT ABOUT THE TIME GOD SENDS
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ELIJAH BACK DOWN - HE CALLS
OBADIAH, WHO'S THE CHIEF STEWARD
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OF HIS HOUSE. "OBADIAH
FEARED THE LORD GREATLY.
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FOR SO IT WAS, WHEN JEZEBEL
MASSACRED THE PROPHETS OF THE
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LORD, THAT OBADIAH HAD TAKEN
ONE HUNDRED PROPHETS AND HIDDEN
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THEM, FIFTY TO A CAVE, AND HAD
FED THEM WITH BREAD AND WATER.)"
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- AND SO, AGAIN, OBADIAH - EVEN
IN THE PALACE OF AHAB THERE WERE
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PEOPLE WHO STILL LOVED THE LORD,
BUT THEY WEREN'T COMING OUT OF
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THE CLOSET, SO TO SPEAK, BECAUSE
IT WAS NOT POLITICALLY CORRECT.
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BUT WHEN HE SAW THAT SHE WAS
GOING TO KILL ALL THE PROPHETS,
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OBADIAH SENT MESSAGES TO
WARN THE SONS OF THE PROPHETS.
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YOU SEE, IN THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM
THEY HAD THE PRIESTS AND THE
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LEVITES. THE
NORTHERN KINGDOM HAD
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SEPARATED - THEY HAD THE SONS OF
THE PROPHETS THAT WERE LOYAL TO
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GOD - THESE SCHOOLS
THAT HAD BEEN ESTABLISHED.
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ANOTHER WAY TO SAY 'SONS
OF THE PROPHETS' IS 'AFCOE' -
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SIMILAR TRANSLATION. AND
SO THEY GOT WORD 'YOU BETTER
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HIDE IN THE CAVE' AND THEY
ALL HID IN THESE TWO CAVES -
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A HUNDRED OF THEM - AND OBADIAH
TOOK SOME OF THE VERY SCANT
00:12:13.73\00:12:16.87
PROVISIONS THAT AHAB STILL HAD
IN THE PALACE AND HE'S GIVING IT
00:12:16.90\00:12:20.30
TO THE PROPHETS THAT
JEZEBEL'S WANTING TO KILL.
00:12:20.34\00:12:23.24
NOW THE WORD 'OBADIAH'
MEANS 'YAHWEH'S SERVANT'.
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THIS IS NOT THE SAME OBADIAH
THAT HAS A BOOK IN THE BIBLE BY
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THAT NAME. FIRST
OF ALL, BECAUSE THIS
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OBADIAH IS IN THE NORTHERN
KINGDOM; THE OBADIAH WHO WRITES
00:12:34.68\00:12:37.12
THE BIBLE BOOK IS IN
THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
00:12:37.15\00:12:39.22
OBADIAH WAS A FAIRLY COMMON
NAME SO IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE US
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THERE'S MORE
THAN ONE IN THE BIBLE.
00:12:42.36\00:12:44.43
SO AHAB TELLS HIM, 'LOOK,
WE'D BETTER GO OUT AND SCOUR THE
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COUNTRY AND SEE IF WE CAN FIND
IF THERE'S ANY GRASS LEFT' -
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VERSE 5, "'GO INTO THE LAND TO
ALL THE SPRINGS OF WATER AND TO
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ALL THE BROOKS; PERHAPS WE MAY
FIND GRASS TO KEEP THE HORSES
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AND MULES ALIVE,'" - AND IT
MIGHT BETTER BE TRANSLATED HERE,
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'TO KEEP THE REMAINING' -
THERE'S PROBABLY NOT MANY LEFT -
00:13:02.61\00:13:06.08
"'HORSES AND MULES ALIVE SO THAT
WE WILL NOT HAVE TO KILL ANY
00:13:06.11\00:13:09.22
LIVESTOCK.'" - THEY WERE ALL
DYING OFF - "SO THEY DIVIDED THE
00:13:09.25\00:13:13.46
LAND BETWEEN THEM" - THEY FOUND
THIS SECTION OF LAND THAT WAS
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STILL WILD IN THE TERRITORY
OF ISRAEL AND THEY'RE LOOKING -
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THERE MAY NOT BE MUCH LEFT
IN THE SPRINGS BUT, YOU KNOW, IF
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THERE'S ANY GREEN GRASS
IT'S GOING TO GROW IN THE SUMMER
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WHERE THERE USED TO BE WATER.
AND THEY THINK, 'WE MIGHT FIND
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SOMETHING LEFT FOR THE ANIMALS
TO LIVE - TO KEEP THEM ALIVE.
00:13:26.97\00:13:31.64
THAT'S KIND OF INTERESTING:
ELIJAH IS COMING TO MEET AHAB TO
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SAVE THE PEOPLE. AHAB
IS PREOCCUPIED WITH SAVING
00:13:35.98\00:13:39.98
THE ANIMALS. HE'S
NOT INTERESTED IN DOING
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SOMETHING THAT WILL TURN THE
THING AROUND, HE'S DEALING WITH
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THE PROBLEM, ELIJAH IS DEALING
WITH THE CAUSE OF THE PROBLEM.
00:13:47.42\00:13:51.99
AND THAT'S BECAUSE AHAB WAS
THE STATE AND THEY DEAL WITH
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POLITICAL ISSUES, WHERE ELIJAH
WAS WANTING TO DEAL WITH THE
00:13:57.73\00:14:00.17
HEART ISSUES. YOU
KNOW, WE WOULDN'T NEED
00:14:00.20\00:14:04.14
NEARLY SO MANY LAWS IN OUR
COUNTRY IF WE WOULD DEAL WITH
00:14:04.17\00:14:06.37
WHAT THE HEART
OF THE PROBLEM IS.
00:14:06.41\00:14:09.04
WE MAKE MORE AND MORE LAWS
BECAUSE PEOPLE'S HEARTS AREN'T
00:14:09.08\00:14:11.15
RIGHT. AND WHEN
PEOPLE WOULD FIND THE
00:14:11.18\00:14:13.11
LORD, YOU WOULDN'T
NEED QUITE AS MANY LAWS.
00:14:13.15\00:14:15.72
MAKING NEW LAWS EVERY YEAR
- WHAT WE NEED IS NEW PEOPLE.
00:14:15.75\00:14:21.36
"SO THEY DIVIDED THE LAND
BETWEEN THEM...AHAB WENT ONE WAY
00:14:21.39\00:14:24.09
BY HIMSELF, AND OBADIAH
WENT ANOTHER WAY BY HIMSELF."
00:14:24.13\00:14:26.93
- NOW, WHAT DOES IT SAY WHEN
THINGS ARE SO DESPERATE IN THE
00:14:26.96\00:14:30.23
KINGDOM THAT AHAB, THE KING, HAS
TO GO OUT BY HIMSELF LOOKING FOR
00:14:30.27\00:14:33.20
GRASS? MAYBE HE
DOESN'T HAVE TOO MANY
00:14:33.23\00:14:37.04
SERVANTS LEFT
THAT CAN HELP HIM OUT.
00:14:37.07\00:14:39.51
MAYBE HE DOESN'T WANT THE PEOPLE
TO KNOW HOW DESPERATE THINGS
00:14:39.54\00:14:41.71
ARE. NOW, AS
OBADIAH WAS ON HIS WAY,
00:14:41.74\00:14:46.92
SUDDENLY ELIJAH MET HIM; AND HE
RECOGNIZED HIM, AND FELL ON HIS
00:14:46.95\00:14:52.52
FACE, AND SAID, 'IS
THAT YOU, MY LORD ELIJAH?'" -
00:14:52.55\00:14:56.62
YOU KNOW, BY THE WAY, JESUS
IS COMING SUDDENLY, ISN'T HE? -
00:14:56.66\00:15:00.63
"AND HE ANSWERED HIM, 'IT
IS I. GO, TELL YOUR MASTER,
00:15:00.66\00:15:04.90
'ELIJAH IS HERE.''" - GO
TELL YOUR MASTER ELIJAH IS HERE.
00:15:04.93\00:15:09.77
NOW, THEY'VE BEEN LOOKING
EVERYWHERE FOR HIM FOR YEARS AND
00:15:09.80\00:15:13.44
AS SOON AS OBADIAH HEARS THAT HE
SAYS, "'HOW HAVE I SINNED THAT
00:15:13.48\00:15:18.05
YOU ARE DELIVERING YOUR
SERVANT INTO THE HAND OF AHAB,
00:15:18.08\00:15:20.35
TO KILL ME? AS THE
LORD YOUR GOD LIVES,
00:15:20.38\00:15:22.65
THERE IS NO NATION OR KINGDOM
WHERE MY MASTER HAS NOT SENT
00:15:22.68\00:15:25.72
SOMEONE TO HUNT FOR YOU;
AND WHEN THEY SAID, 'HE IS NOT
00:15:25.75\00:15:28.26
HERE,' HE TOOK AN OATH FROM
THE KINGDOM OR NATION THAT THEY
00:15:28.29\00:15:31.33
COULD NOT FIND YOU. AND
NOW YOU SAY, 'GO TELL YOUR
00:15:31.36\00:15:34.30
MASTER, 'ELIJAH IS
HERE,''!" CAN YOU UNDERSTAND?
00:15:34.36\00:15:38.17
HE'S THINKING - AND THEN ELIJAH,
YOU KNOW, HE HAD A REPUTATION
00:15:38.20\00:15:40.74
KIND OF FLITTING
IN AND OUT OF THINGS.
00:15:40.77\00:15:43.74
HE SUDDENLY APPEARS IN THE
PALACE AND SAYS, 'THERE'S NOT
00:15:43.77\00:15:45.77
GOING TO BE ANY
RAIN.' AND POOF! HE'S GONE.
00:15:45.81\00:15:48.38
THAT'S WHY, WHEN ELIJAH FINALLY
GOES TO HEAVEN, THE SONS OF THE
00:15:48.41\00:15:50.95
PROPHETS SAY TO ELISHA, 'WE'D
BETTER SEND OUT A SEARCH PARTY.
00:15:50.98\00:15:53.72
HE HAS A WAY OF DISAPPEARING.'
AND SO OBADIAH SAYS, 'I'M GOING
00:15:53.75\00:15:57.45
TO GO GET AHAB AND I'LL COME
BACK AND YOU'RE NOT THERE AND
00:15:57.49\00:15:59.69
HE'LL THINK I'M PLAYING A
PRACTICAL JOKE AND HE'LL CUT MY
00:15:59.72\00:16:01.79
HEAD OFF BECAUSE HE WONT' BE
LAUGHING.' - HE SAID, 'WHAT DID
00:16:01.82\00:16:04.69
I DO THAT YOU'RE
GOING TO DO THIS TO ME?
00:16:04.73\00:16:07.20
I'LL GO LOOKING FOR HIM AND
YOU'LL - THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD
00:16:07.23\00:16:09.43
WILL CALL YOU SOMEWHERE ELSE
AND" - AND ELIJAH SAYS, "'GO
00:16:09.46\00:16:15.60
TELL YOUR MASTER 'ELIJAH IS
HERE' AND IT SHALL COME TO PASS,
00:16:15.64\00:16:20.44
AS SOON AS I AM GONE FROM YOU,
THAT THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD WILL
00:16:20.48\00:16:22.58
CARRY YOU TO A PLACE I DO NOT
KNOW; SO WHEN I GO TELL AHAB,
00:16:22.61\00:16:25.21
AND HE CANNOT FIND
YOU, HE WILL KILL ME.
00:16:25.25\00:16:27.62
BUT I YOUR SERVANT HAVE
FEARED THE LORD FROM MY YOUTH.
00:16:27.65\00:16:30.99
WAS IT NOT REPORTED TO MY LORD
WHAT I DID WHEN JEZEBEL KILLED
00:16:31.02\00:16:33.42
THE PROPHETS OF THE LORD,
HOW I HID ONE HUNDRED MEN OF THE
00:16:33.46\00:16:36.79
LORD'S PROPHETS, FIFTY TO A
CAVE, AND FED THEM WITH BREAD
00:16:36.83\00:16:38.99
AND WATER? AND NOW YOU SAY,
'GO TELL YOUR MASTER, 'ELIJAH IS
00:16:39.03\00:16:41.63
HERE.'' HE WILL KILL ME!'
THEN ELIJAH SAID, 'AS THE LORD
00:16:41.66\00:16:45.67
OF HOSTS LIVES,'" - YOU NOTICE
THEY'RE ALL SAYING 'AS THE LORD
00:16:45.70\00:16:48.04
LIVES'? YOU KNOW
WHAT ELIJAH'S NAME IS?
00:16:48.07\00:16:51.44
'MY GOD IS JEHOVAH' AND EVERY
TIME YOU HEAR THEM SAY AN OATH
00:16:51.47\00:16:55.61
LIKE THIS, THEY'RE ACTUALLY -
THEY'RE INCORPORATING THE NAME
00:16:55.64\00:16:58.45
OF JEHOVAH IN THE OATH - "THEN
ELIJAH SAID, 'AS THE LORD OF
00:16:58.48\00:17:03.18
HOSTS LIVES, BEFORE WHOM I
STAND, I WILL SURELY PRESENT
00:17:03.22\00:17:07.89
MYSELF TO HIM TODAY.'" - DON'T
WORRY, I WILL PRESENT MYSELF -
00:17:07.92\00:17:10.36
I'M NOT GOING TO GET YOU
IN TROUBLE. SO, OBEDIENTLY,
00:17:10.39\00:17:13.83
"OBADIAH WENT TO
MEET AHAB, AND TOLD HIM;
00:17:13.86\00:17:18.40
AND AHAB WENT TO MEET ELIJAH."
- HE PROBABLY WENT AND HIS
00:17:18.43\00:17:21.80
KNOBBY KNEES WERE BOUNCING OFF
EACH OTHER BECAUSE HE DOESN'T
00:17:21.84\00:17:26.07
HAVE HIS ARMY TO
STAND BEHIND HIM NOW.
00:17:26.11\00:17:28.28
THIS IS THE MAN WHO SAID THAT
'IT'S NOT GOING TO RAIN EXCEPT
00:17:28.31\00:17:29.98
AT MY WORD' AND IT HASN'T RAINED
FOR THREE AND A HALF YEARS.
00:17:30.01\00:17:32.45
AND NOW HE MANAGES TO FIND YOU
WHEN YOU'RE OFF BY YOURSELF AND
00:17:32.48\00:17:35.38
SAYS, 'I WANT TO TALK TO YOU.'
HE WAS PROBABLY A LITTLE SCARED.
00:17:35.42\00:17:38.82
I NEED TO GIVE
YOU SOME BACKGROUND.
00:17:38.85\00:17:41.52
FOR YOU TO UNDERSTAND WHY AHAB
BEHAVES THE WAY HE DOES, YOU
00:17:41.56\00:17:45.16
NEED TO KNOW THE WHOLE STORY.
THE FIRST KING OF ISRAEL, WHAT
00:17:45.19\00:17:49.70
WAS HIS NAME? DO YOU REMEMBER?
NOT - I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT
00:17:49.73\00:17:53.00
JUDAH AND JERUSALEM, I'M TALKING
ABOUT THE NORTHERN KINGDOM.
00:17:53.03\00:17:55.44
WHO WAS THE FIRST KING OF
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM? JEROBOAM.
00:17:55.47\00:17:59.84
WHEN THE KINGDOM SPLIT
WITH SOLOMON, YOU HAD REHOBOAM,
00:17:59.87\00:18:02.91
SOLOMON'S SON, JEROBOAM - I
KNOW THEY SOUND THE SAME - WE'LL
00:18:02.94\00:18:05.78
WRITE A SONG ABOUT IT SOMEDAY -
JEROBOAM, HE WENT TO THE NORTH.
00:18:05.81\00:18:10.45
JEROBOAM STARTED
WORSHIPING PAGAN GOLDEN CALVES.
00:18:10.49\00:18:15.46
A PROPHET WAS SENT FROM ISRAEL -
FROM JERUSALEM TO DENOUNCE WHAT
00:18:15.49\00:18:20.10
HE WAS DOING WAS A SIN - AND
WHEN HE HAD THE AUDACITY - WHEN
00:18:20.13\00:18:22.63
THIS PROPHET OF GOD SAID, 'WHAT
YOU'RE DOING IS A SIN AND GOD IS
00:18:22.66\00:18:24.97
GOING TO DESTROY THESE ALTARS,'
JEROBOAM STUCK OUT HIS ARM - THE
00:18:25.00\00:18:27.67
KING - AND SAID, 'ARREST HIM'
AND HIS ARM FROZE AND SHRIVELED
00:18:27.70\00:18:31.64
JUST LIKE IT WAS SKIN ON BONE
- HE COULDN'T PULL HIS ARM IN.
00:18:31.67\00:18:34.48
AND HE REALIZED WHAT
HAD HAPPENED AND HE SAID,
00:18:34.51\00:18:35.88
'I WAS JUST KIDDING.
I'M SORRY. PRAY FOR ME.
00:18:35.91\00:18:38.75
GOD'LL HEAL MY ARM.' SO THE
PROPHET PRAYED FOR HIM AND HIS
00:18:38.78\00:18:41.45
ARM WAS HEALED AND THEN THE
ALTARS CRACKED AND ALL THE ASHES
00:18:41.48\00:18:44.22
WERE POURED OUT JUST
LIKE THE PROPHET HAD SAID.
00:18:44.25\00:18:46.72
SO THOSE KINGS OF ISRAEL WERE
VERY RELUCTANT TO BE ROUGH ON
00:18:46.76\00:18:49.59
THE PROPHETS. THEY
REMEMBERED WHAT HAD
00:18:49.62\00:18:51.79
HAPPENED TO OTHER KINGS THAT DID
NOT - I MEAN, EVEN IF THERE'S A
00:18:51.83\00:18:54.73
CHANCE THAT HE'S A TRUE PROPHET,
YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T WANT TO GET
00:18:54.76\00:18:57.97
PARALYZED AND SO, WHEN
AHAB RAN INTO ELIJAH HE WAS VERY
00:18:58.00\00:19:03.34
CAUTIOUS. I JUST
WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND
00:19:03.37\00:19:07.04
THE HISTORY OF WHY
THEY SEEMED SO FEARFUL.
00:19:07.08\00:19:14.45
AND IT SAYS AHAB WENT TO
MEET ELIJAH - VERSE 17, I'M IN
00:19:14.48\00:19:18.75
CHAPTER 18 - 1 KINGS - VERSE 17,
"WHEN AHAB SAW ELIJAH, THAT AHAB
00:19:18.79\00:19:23.93
SAID TO HIM, 'IS THAT
YOU, O TROUBLER OF ISRAEL?'"
00:19:23.96\00:19:28.80
- 'YOU'RE THE REASON
FOR ALL OUR PROBLEMS.
00:19:28.83\00:19:31.67
BECAUSE OF YOU - YOU MADE
THAT DECLARATION AND WE HAVE ALL
00:19:31.70\00:19:34.74
THESE PROBLEMS.' IS THE PROBLEM
THE WORD OF GOD OR IS THE
00:19:34.77\00:19:40.14
PROBLEM THAT WE
DON'T OBEY THE WORD OF GOD?
00:19:40.18\00:19:42.94
SOMETIMES WE THINK IT'S
RELIGION THAT'S THE PROBLEM.
00:19:42.98\00:19:45.65
MAYBE IT'S OUR DISOBEYING
THE LORD THAT IS THE PROBLEM.
00:19:45.68\00:19:48.68
AND LISTEN TO THE
BOLDNESS OF ELIJAH.
00:19:48.72\00:19:51.59
HE SAYS, "'I HAVE NOT TROUBLED
ISRAEL, BUT YOU AND YOUR
00:19:51.62\00:19:55.02
FATHER'S HOUSE HAVE, IN THAT YOU
HAVE FORSAKEN THE COMMANDMENTS
00:19:55.06\00:19:59.13
OF THE LORD AND HAVE FOLLOWED
THE BAALS.'" - WOW, THAT TAKES A
00:19:59.16\00:20:03.70
HOLY AUDACITY TO SAY TO A KING,
'I'M NOT THE TROUBLER OF ISRAEL,
00:20:03.73\00:20:07.30
YOU ARE AND YOUR FATHER'S HOUSE,
AND THAT WIFE THAT YOU MARRIED,
00:20:07.34\00:20:11.57
KILLING THE PROPHETS OF GOD.'
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TELLS US
00:20:11.61\00:20:15.51
THAT JOHN THE BAPTIST WOULD COME
IN THE SPIRIT AND THE POWER OF
00:20:15.54\00:20:17.58
ELIJAH. ONE OF THE
WAYS WHERE JOHN THE
00:20:17.61\00:20:20.55
BAPTIST WAS LIKE ELIJAH IS THAT
JOHN HAD THE AUDACITY TO TELL
00:20:20.58\00:20:24.65
KING HEROD, 'YOU SHOULD
NOT BE LIVING WITH THAT WOMAN.
00:20:24.69\00:20:28.29
YOU TOOK YOUR BROTHER'S WIFE.
SHE IS MARRIED TO ANOTHER MAN.
00:20:28.32\00:20:31.16
THAT'S ADULTERY.' YOU DON'T
SAY THINGS LIKE THAT TO A KING.
00:20:31.19\00:20:35.30
THAT CAN -
WON'T GET YOU A RAISE.
00:20:35.33\00:20:39.07
IT WON'T GET YOU PROMOTED.
IT WON'T GET YOU REELECTED.
00:20:39.10\00:20:43.54
BUT PROPHETS OF GOD, WHEN
THEY'RE SPEAKING FOR GOD, YOU'VE
00:20:43.57\00:20:46.31
GOT TO TELL THE TRUTH EVEN
THOUGH IT MAY NOT BE POPULAR.
00:20:46.34\00:20:50.48
HE SAID, 'NO, I'M NOT THE
TROUBLER, YOU ARE THE TROUBLER
00:20:50.51\00:20:53.11
OF ISRAEL.' AND THEN HE SAYS, IN
VERSE 19, "NOW THEREFORE, SEND
00:20:53.15\00:20:59.62
AND GATHER ALL ISRAEL TO ME ON
MOUNT CARMEL, THE FOUR HUNDRED
00:20:59.65\00:21:04.99
AND FIFTY PROPHETS OF BAAL,
AND THE FOUR HUNDRED PROPHETS OF
00:21:05.03\00:21:07.83
ASHERAH, WHO EAT AT JEZEBEL'S
TABLE.'" - SO YOU'VE GOT 400 AND
00:21:07.86\00:21:10.50
450 - HOW MANY IS THAT?
850 - NOW WHO'S GIVING THE
00:21:10.53\00:21:15.40
ORDERS, THE KING
OR THE PROPHET? WOW.
00:21:15.44\00:21:19.67
AND THERE MUST HAVE BEEN A
SPIRIT THAT JUST CAME ON ELIJAH.
00:21:19.71\00:21:24.08
YOU KNOW WHAT IT
MAKES ME THINK OF?
00:21:24.11\00:21:25.98
HOW COULD MOSES STAND BEFORE THE
PHARAOH AND SAY, 'LET MY PEOPLE
00:21:26.01\00:21:30.05
GO.' AND THE PHARAOH SAID, 'NO!'
AND HE SAID, 'OKAY, YOU'RE GOING
00:21:30.09\00:21:32.59
TO HEAR FROM GOD.' HE COMES BACK
THE NEXT DAY, 'LET MY PEOPLE
00:21:32.62\00:21:35.69
GO.' PLAGUE AFTER PLAGUE.
'PLEASE SEND MOSES.' AND YOU
00:21:35.72\00:21:37.89
THINK, 'WHY DIDN'T THE PHARAOH
JUST SAY 'OFF WITH HIS HEAD'?
00:21:37.93\00:21:41.50
THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT THE
PRESENCE OF GOD IN HIS PROPHETS
00:21:41.53\00:21:45.23
THAT THE DEVIL
CAN'T DO ANYTHING ABOUT.
00:21:45.27\00:21:47.94
IT'S LIKE THE BOLDNESS OF
PETER WHEN HE STOOD BEFORE THE
00:21:47.97\00:21:50.14
SANHEDRIN AND HE DECLARED TO
THEM, 'WHETHER IT IS RIGHT IN
00:21:50.17\00:21:53.64
THE SIGHT OF GOD TO OBEY
YOU MORE THAN GOD, YOU DECIDE.
00:21:53.68\00:21:58.08
GOD TOLD ME TO
PREACH ABOUT JESUS.
00:21:58.11\00:22:00.85
WE'RE GOING TO
PREACH ABOUT JESUS.
00:22:00.88\00:22:02.02
IF YOU THINK WE'RE GOING TO
OBEY YOU MORE THAN GOD' - AND SO
00:22:02.05\00:22:07.26
ELIJAH WAS FEARLESS BECAUSE
HE WAS USED TO LIVING IN THE
00:22:07.29\00:22:09.52
PRESENCE OF A
GREATER MONARCH THAN AHAB.
00:22:09.56\00:22:13.23
MOSES, IN THE WILDERNESS,
WAS FEARLESS BEFORE THE PHARAOH
00:22:13.26\00:22:15.86
BECAUSE HE HAD SPENT YEARS
LIVING IN THE PRESENCE OF A
00:22:15.90\00:22:17.90
GREATER MONARCH.
SOMEDAY YOU, FOR YOUR FAITH MAY
00:22:17.93\00:22:21.77
BE BROUGHT
BEFORE KINGS AND RULERS.
00:22:21.80\00:22:23.64
ISN'T THAT WHAT JESUS
SAID? ARE YOU COMFORTABLE AND
00:22:23.67\00:22:27.41
CONFIDENT THAT YOU'RE LIVING
IN THE SIGHT OF A GREAT GOD SO
00:22:27.44\00:22:30.78
YOU'RE NOT
INTIMIDATED BY MAN'S FACE?
00:22:30.81\00:22:34.42
'UNLESS IT IS A MAN THAT PUTS
NOT HIS TRUST IN PRINCES, IN
00:22:34.45\00:22:38.55
THAT DAY THAT HE DIES HIS BREATH
GOES FORTH AND HIS THOUGHTS
00:22:38.59\00:22:41.89
PERISH.' ALRIGHT, BACK TO OUR
STORY - SO AHAB, OBEDIENTLY, HE
00:22:41.92\00:22:49.33
SENDS MESSENGERS AND HERALDS
OUT AND HE GATHERS TOGETHER THE
00:22:49.36\00:22:53.44
PROPHETS AND THE PEOPLE OF
ISRAEL - ALL THE CHILDREN OF
00:22:53.47\00:22:55.50
ISRAEL AND HE GATHERS THE
PROPHETS TO MOUNT CARMEL - HE
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.07
OBEYS EXACTLY - I MEAN, HE KNOWS
THAT DOING IT HIS WAY HASN'T
00:22:58.11\00:23:01.21
WORKED. THEY'RE ALL
DYING. THEY'RE ALL STARVING.
00:23:01.24\00:23:03.31
'MAYBE IF WE LISTEN
TO ELIJAH IT MIGHT RAIN.
00:23:03.35\00:23:06.38
THINGS MIGHT TURN.' SOMETIMES
WE WAIT UNTIL WE'VE TRIED
00:23:06.41\00:23:09.62
EVERYTHING ELSE
BEFORE WE TRY GOD'S WAY.
00:23:09.65\00:23:14.02
"SO AHAB SENT FOR THE CHILDREN
OF ISRAEL, AND GATHERED THE
00:23:14.06\00:23:16.19
PROPHETS
TOGETHER ON MOUNT CARMEL."
00:23:16.22\00:23:17.83
- NOW, THERE'S A LOT OF PLACES
IN THE WORLD NAMED 'CARMEL' AND
00:23:17.86\00:23:20.43
WE'VE GOT ONE HERE IN CALIFORNIA
- CARMEL - AND IT'S ALL NAMED
00:23:20.46\00:23:23.73
AFTER THE BIBLE PLACE
AND IT MEANS 'FRUITFUL'.
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GOD PICKS MOUNT CARMEL FOR
A COUPLE OF REASONS: 1) BAAL -
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THEY HAD ALTARS UP THERE.
NOT FAR FROM THE ALTAR OF GOD
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WAS A NEW ALTAR OF BAAL.
THE ALTAR OF GOD WAS BROKEN DOWN
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BECAUSE NOW JEZEBEL
WAS WORSHIPING BAAL.
00:23:38.61\00:23:40.95
SO ON THE MOUNTAINTOPS
THEY HAD ALTARS TO BAAL.
00:23:40.98\00:23:43.79
ANOTHER REASON IS IF YOU'RE
GOING TO LOOK FOR RAIN, YOU WANT
00:23:43.82\00:23:46.32
A MOUNTAIN THAT'S GOING TO BE
SEEING WHERE THE RAIN COMES FROM
00:23:46.35\00:23:50.39
AND RAIN NEVER CAME FROM THE
EAST BECAUSE THERE WAS A DESERT
00:23:50.43\00:23:53.43
TO THE EAST OF ISRAEL.
RAIN ALWAYS CAME FROM OVER THE
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MEDITERRANEAN. SO THEY'RE UP ON
MOUNT CARMEL FOR A VANTAGE POINT
00:23:56.06\00:23:59.80
AND THERE'S A LOT CONNECTED
WITH THAT. THEY GATHERED ALL THE
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PEOPLE. VERSE 21, "AND ELIJAH
CAME TO ALL THE PEOPLE, AND
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SAID, 'HOW LONG WILL YOU
FALTER BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?
00:24:07.21\00:24:12.01
IF THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM;
BUT IF BAAL, FOLLOW HIM.' BUT
00:24:12.05\00:24:17.62
THE PEOPLE ANSWERED HIM NOT
A WORD." - YOU KNOW, YOU WOULD
00:24:17.65\00:24:20.36
HAVE THOUGHT YOU'D GET ONE
'AMEN' OUT OF THE CROWD WHEN HE
00:24:20.39\00:24:22.49
SAID, 'IF THE LORD IS GOD' -
SOMEONE WOULD HAVE SAID, 'AMEN!'
00:24:22.52\00:24:25.66
OR SOMEONE WOULD HAVE RESPONDED,
'OF COURSE JEHOVAH'S GOD.
00:24:25.69\00:24:28.10
HE'S THE ONE THAT LED US INTO
THIS LAND.' BUT GOD'S PEOPLE HAD
00:24:28.13\00:24:31.60
BECOME SO INTIMIDATED BY THE
OTHERS POWERS THAT NOT ONE OF
00:24:31.63\00:24:34.30
THOSE 7,000 KNEES THAT HAD NOT
BOWED TO BAAL WOULD SPEAK UP.
00:24:34.34\00:24:39.44
THEY ANSWERED HIM NOT A WORD.
NOW SOMETIMES I'M PREACHING AND
00:24:39.47\00:24:43.71
I WONDER WHY PEOPLE AREN'T
SAYING 'AMEN' AND I JUST TELL
00:24:43.75\00:24:45.75
MYSELF, 'MAYBE THEY'RE
THINKING IT.' SO THAT'S OKAY.
00:24:45.78\00:24:48.68
BUT, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES YOU GET
- YOU EVER BEEN IN A SITUATION
00:24:48.72\00:24:55.49
WHERE IT'S LIKE NOBODY WANTS
TO SPEAK UP FOR THE LORD AND YOU
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.06
KNOW PEOPLE ARE THERE? "IF
THE LORD IS GOD, SERVE HIM."
00:24:58.09\00:25:02.80
WHAT A SAD QUESTION FOR A
PROPHET OF GOD TO HAVE TO ASK
00:25:02.83\00:25:06.20
THE PEOPLE OF JEHOVAH:
'IF JEHOVAH'S GOD, SERVE HIM.
00:25:06.23\00:25:09.34
IF BAAL'S GOD, SERVE HIM.'
HAD BAAL BROUGHT THEM OUT OF THE
00:25:09.37\00:25:13.11
LAND OF EGYPT AND
SAVED THEM FROM SLAVERY?
00:25:13.14\00:25:16.01
HAD BAAL PARTED THE RED SEA?
00:25:16.04\00:25:17.45
HAD BAAL FED THEM
THROUGH THE WILDERNESS?
00:25:17.48\00:25:19.05
HAD BAAL DELIVERED THEM
FROM THEIR ENEMIES IN ALL THOSE
00:25:19.08\00:25:21.72
BATTLES WITH JOSHUA AND BROUGHT
DOWN THE WALLS OF JERICHO?
00:25:21.75\00:25:24.22
HAD BAAL DONE
ANY OF THOSE THINGS?
00:25:24.25\00:25:26.55
AND HERE
THEY'RE WORSHIPING BAAL.
00:25:26.59\00:25:28.62
IT'S AMAZING HOW QUICKLY
WE CAN FORGET OUR HISTORY.
00:25:28.66\00:25:32.19
YOU COULD FORGET
YOUR LITTLE HISTORY TOO.
00:25:32.23\00:25:34.03
HAS GOD DONE
MIRACLES IN YOUR LIFE?
00:25:34.10\00:25:36.63
DO WE SOMETIMES FORGET
WHAT THE LORD DOES FOR US?
00:25:36.67\00:25:39.03
YOU KNOW, WE GET DISCOURAGED
AND WE LISTEN TO OTHER PEOPLE'S
00:25:39.07\00:25:40.80
NEGATIVE TALK AND WITHIN FIVE
MINUTES WE CAN FORGET A WHOLE
00:25:40.84\00:25:44.01
LIFETIME OF GOD'S
PROVISION AND MIRACLES.
00:25:44.04\00:25:47.11
NOBODY ANSWERED HIM A
WORD. HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER?
00:25:47.14\00:25:51.98
AND THAT WORD THERE, 'FALTER',
IT MEANS HOW LONG WILL YOU LIMP?
00:25:52.01\00:25:55.55
HOW LONG WILL YOU
STAGGER BETWEEN TWO DECISIONS.
00:25:55.58\00:25:59.75
IT'S ALMOST A PICTURE OF
SOMEONE GOING, 'IS THE LORD GOD?
00:25:59.79\00:26:03.32
NO, MAYBE, MAYBE BAAL IS.
NO, MAYBE IT'S THE LORD. I'M NOT
00:26:03.36\00:26:07.73
SURE.' IT'S LIKE A STAGGERING
BETWEEN: 'I DON'T KNOW WHICH GOD
00:26:07.76\00:26:11.90
I'M GOING TO WORSHIP.'
IT'S A PITIFUL PICTURE.
00:26:11.93\00:26:14.67
IF THEY CAN'T MAKE UP THEIR MIND
AND SAY, 'THIS IS WHO I'M GOING
00:26:14.70\00:26:16.71
TO WORSHIP' AND BE PROUD OF
IT. THE PEOPLE WERE VACILLATING.
00:26:16.74\00:26:22.98
THIS WOULD NEVER HAPPEN TO
THE CHURCH IN OUR TIMES, I KNOW.
00:26:23.01\00:26:28.05
"HOW LONG WILL YOU FALTER" -
WILL YOU HALT, WILL YOU LIMP -
00:26:28.08\00:26:31.35
"BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS? IF
THE LORD IS GOD, FOLLOW HIM;"
00:26:31.39\00:26:36.66
- IF JESUS IS
SAVIOR, FOLLOW HIM.
00:26:36.69\00:26:39.36
IT MAKES ME THINK ABOUT WHEN
JOSHUA SAID, 'LOOK, IF YOU WANT
00:26:39.39\00:26:42.30
TO SERVE THE OTHER GODS THAT
YOUR ANCESTORS SERVED, IF YOU
00:26:42.33\00:26:45.50
WANT TO SERVE THE GODS OF
EGYPT - AS FOR ME AND MY HOUSE,
00:26:45.53\00:26:48.37
WE'RE GOING TO SERVE THE LORD.'
AND HE WAS VERY DEFINITIVE
00:26:48.40\00:26:51.17
ABOUT IT. IF
YOU'RE GOING TO BE A
00:26:51.21\00:26:52.81
CHRISTIAN THEN BE A CHRISTIAN.
JUST WAFFLING BACK AND FORTH
00:26:52.84\00:26:57.18
BETWEEN CHRIST AND THE
WORLD, THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH,
00:26:57.21\00:26:59.75
YOU'LL BE
MISERABLE. IT'LL MAKE YOU LIMP.
00:26:59.78\00:27:04.02
"THEN ELIJAH SAID TO THE PEOPLE,
'I ALONE AM LEFT A PROPHET OF
00:27:04.05\00:27:07.69
THE LORD;" - NOW, IT TURNS OUT
THERE WERE OTHER BELIEVERS, BUT
00:27:07.72\00:27:10.36
NOT MANY PROPHETS -
"BUT BAAL'S PROPHETS ARE
00:27:10.39\00:27:13.66
FOUR HUNDRED AND FIFTY MEN."
- THAT'S NOT COUNTING THE OTHER
00:27:13.70\00:27:16.20
400 - "THEREFORE LET" - THEY
WERE THE PROPHETS OF ASHERAH
00:27:16.23\00:27:19.73
THERE TOO - "THEREFORE LET
THEM GIVE US TWO BULLS" - TWO
00:27:19.77\00:27:23.24
SACRIFICES - "AND LET THEM CHOSE
ONE BULL FOR THEMSELVES, CUT IT
00:27:23.27\00:27:26.74
IN PIECES, AND LAY IT ON THE
WOOD, BUT NO FIRE UNDER IT;" -
00:27:26.78\00:27:32.28
THEY HAD ROCK ALTARS AND BAAL
ACTUALLY HAD A CARVED BEAUTIFUL
00:27:32.31\00:27:35.68
STONE ALTAR AND GOD'S ALTAR
WAS MADE OUT OF JUST ROUGH STONE
00:27:35.72\00:27:39.22
THAT WAS PILED UP - TWELVE OF
THEM - "AND I WILL PREPARE THE
00:27:39.25\00:27:43.26
OTHER BULL, AND LAY IT ON THE
WOOD, BUT PUT NO FIRE UNDER IT.
00:27:43.29\00:27:46.90
THEN YOU CALL ON THE NAME OF
YOUR GODS," - NOTICE, PLURAL -
00:27:46.93\00:27:51.53
"AND I WILL CALL ON THE NAME OF
THE LORD;" - JEHOVAH - "'AND THE
00:27:51.57\00:27:55.90
GOD WHO ANSWERS BY FIRE, HE IS
GOD.' SO ALL THE PEOPLE ANSWERED
00:27:55.94\00:28:00.84
AND SAID, 'IT IS WELL
SPOKEN.'" - 'SOUNDS GOOD.
00:28:00.88\00:28:04.38
LET'S JUST -
LET'S HAVE A SHOWDOWN.
00:28:04.41\00:28:05.98
LET'S FIGURE OUT WHICH GOD IS A
REAL GOD AND SETTLE THIS TODAY.'
00:28:06.01\00:28:09.42
NOW, IF YOU WERE ELIJAH, WHAT
PROSPECT FOR A FUTURE WOULD YOU
00:28:09.45\00:28:16.22
HAVE IF NO FIRE COMES
DOWN ON YOUR ALTAR THAT DAY?
00:28:16.26\00:28:21.40
CAN YOU IMAGINE THE CONFIDENCE,
THE FAITH, AND THE COURAGE HE
00:28:21.43\00:28:24.00
MUST HAVE HAD TO BE ABLE TO
ISSUE A CHALLENGE LIKE THAT?
00:28:24.03\00:28:28.70
I DON'T REMEMBER
ANYONE EVER DOING THAT BEFORE.
00:28:28.74\00:28:32.21
NOW, THERE ARE EXAMPLES IN THE
BIBLE WHERE GOD BRINGS FIRE DOWN
00:28:32.24\00:28:35.61
OUT OF HEAVEN, AND SO THIS
WAS NOT THE FIRST TIME THAT WAS
00:28:35.64\00:28:38.68
GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT NOT BECAUSE
SOMEONE HAD EVER THROWN DOWN THE
00:28:38.71\00:28:42.22
GAUNTLET, SO TO
SPEAK, LIKE THIS.
00:28:42.25\00:28:45.69
SO THE PEOPLE SAID,
"IT IS WELL SPOKEN."
00:28:45.72\00:28:49.82
"THE GOD WHO ANSWERS BY FIRE, HE
IS GOD...NOW ELIJAH SAID TO THE
00:28:49.86\00:28:54.46
PROPHETS OF BAAL, 'CHOOSE ONE
BULL FOR YOURSELVES AND PREPARE
00:28:54.50\00:28:57.10
IT FIRST,'" -
'YOU GUYS GO FIRST.
00:28:57.13\00:28:58.50
THERE'S MORE OF YOU' - "'FOR YOU
ARE MANY; AND CALL ON THE NAME
00:28:58.53\00:29:01.60
OF YOUR GOD, BUT PUT NO
FIRE UNDER IT.'" - NO MAGNIFYING
00:29:01.64\00:29:06.54
GLASSES, NO MATCHES, NO TRICKS,
NO RUBBING STICKS TOGETHER.' AND
00:29:06.57\00:29:14.05
ALL THE PEOPLE DREW NEAR AND
THEY WERE WATCHING VERY CLOSELY.
00:29:14.08\00:29:16.92
EVEN THOUGH THERE WERE HUNDREDS
OF PROPHETS, ELIJAH STOOD RIGHT
00:29:16.95\00:29:19.39
UP CLOSE SO HE COULD SEE IF
THERE WAS ANY HANKY PANKY WITH
00:29:19.42\00:29:22.26
THE FIRE. - "SO
THEY TOOK THE BULL WHICH
00:29:22.29\00:29:25.73
WAS GIVEN THEM, AND
THEY PREPARED IT," -
00:29:25.76\00:29:27.23
AND THAT BULL
PROBABLY DIDN'T LOOK TOO GOOD
00:29:27.23\00:29:28.93
BECAUSE THERE WEREN'T VERY
MANY HEALTHY ANIMALS LEFT IN THE
00:29:28.96\00:29:31.37
KINGDOM - "AND CALLED ON THE
NAME OF BAAL FROM MORNING EVEN
00:29:31.40\00:29:36.20
TILL NOON, SAYING,
'O BAAL, HEAR US!'" -
00:29:36.24\00:29:41.71
NOW, DO YOU
KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS?
00:29:41.74\00:29:45.01
YOU WOULD HAVE
HEARD 'O BAAL, HEAR US!'
00:29:45.05\00:29:46.35
AN AWFUL LOT. YOU
WOULD HAVE HEARD THEM SAYING
00:29:46.38\00:29:49.48
THAT OVER AND OVER AGAIN, BUT
THERE WAS MORE TO IT THAN THAT.
00:29:49.52\00:29:54.76
YOU'VE GOT 400 PRIESTS THAT
ARE DANCING AROUND THE ALTAR AND
00:29:54.79\00:29:57.39
THEY'RE SAYING,
'O BAAL, HEAR US!'
00:29:57.43\00:29:58.66
AND YOU READ ON AND FIND
OUT IT GETS PRETTY EXCITING.
00:29:58.69\00:30:00.93
THEY PROBABLY HAD THEIR
DRUMS GOING. THEY WERE DANCING.
00:30:00.96\00:30:06.60
THEY WERE LEAPING -
THAT'S WHAT IT SAYS LATER,
00:30:06.63\00:30:08.40
YOU KEEP READING -
THEY WERE CARRYING ON.
00:30:08.44\00:30:11.01
AND WHAT THEY COULDN'T PRODUCE
IN GENUINE POWER THEY TRIED TO
00:30:11.04\00:30:15.41
AT LEAST PRODUCE
THROUGH ENTERTAINMENT VALUE.
00:30:15.44\00:30:19.71
IF THEY COULDN'T HAVE - YOU
KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT A
00:30:19.75\00:30:21.75
FORM OF RELIGION
WITH NO POWER THEREOF.
00:30:21.78\00:30:24.52
SO THEY HAD ALL THE OUTWARD
FORMS AND CEREMONY AND THEY HAD
00:30:24.55\00:30:27.12
THE SACRIFICE.
THEY WENT THROUGH THEIR
00:30:27.16\00:30:29.22
INCANTATIONS AND THEY JUMPED
AND THEY YELPED AND THEY KEPT -
00:30:29.26\00:30:33.76
TALK ABOUT JESUS SAID 'PRAY
NOT IN VAIN REPETITION LIKE THE
00:30:33.80\00:30:36.26
HEATHEN DO.' CAN YOU IMAGINE
VAIN REPETITION ALL DAY LONG,
00:30:36.30\00:30:40.57
'O BAAL, HEAR
US! O BAAL HEAR US!'?
00:30:40.60\00:30:43.77
OH, I LEFT OUT THE
DRUMS, IT WAS 'O BAAL, HEAR US!
00:30:43.81\00:30:46.07
KACHUNK,
KACHUNK. O BAAL, HEAR US!
00:30:46.11\00:30:47.68
KACHUNK, KACHUNK.' ALL DAY LONG
AND THEY WERE HOPING TO PUT THE
00:30:47.71\00:30:52.35
PEOPLE IN A TRANCE SO THEY
WOULDN'T PAY ATTENTION TO THE
00:30:52.38\00:30:57.65
MAGNIFYING GLASS OR
THE MATCHES OR SOMETHING.
00:30:57.69\00:31:01.66
FINALLY, "BUT THERE WAS
NO VOICE; NO ONE ANSWERED.
00:31:01.69\00:31:06.36
THEN THEY LEAPED ABOUT
THE ALTAR WHICH THEY HAD MADE.
00:31:06.39\00:31:11.30
AND SO IT WAS, AT NOON, THAT
ELIJAH MOCKED THEM AND SAID,
00:31:11.33\00:31:14.70
'CRY ALOUD, FOR HE IS A GOD;
EITHER HE IS MEDITATING, OR HE
00:31:14.74\00:31:19.51
IS BUSY,'" - HE'S DOING SOME
CONTEMPLATIVE PRAYING - "'OR HE
00:31:19.54\00:31:23.11
IS ON A JOURNEY, OR PERHAPS
HE IS SLEEPING AND MUST BE
00:31:23.14\00:31:26.92
AWAKENED.'" - NOW THIS IS
IMPORTANT - YOU MIGHT WANT TO
00:31:26.95\00:31:29.55
NOTE THIS IN YOUR BIBLE.
THIS IS ONE OF THE VERY CLEAR
00:31:29.58\00:31:33.19
BUT NOT FREQUENT TIMES IN THE
BIBLE THAT THE PROPHETS OF GOD
00:31:33.22\00:31:35.59
INCORPORATE HUMOR AND,
YOU COULD EVEN SAY, SARCASM.
00:31:35.62\00:31:39.23
ELIJAH, UNDER THE INSPIRATION,
IS TRYING TO SHOW HOW ABSURD IT
00:31:39.26\00:31:43.60
IS THAT YOU WOULD
HAVE TO WAKE YOUR GOD UP.
00:31:43.63\00:31:47.00
IF HE'S A REAL GOD, HOW LONG ARE
YOU GOING TO HAVE TO DO THIS?
00:31:47.04\00:31:48.94
THEY'D BEEN GOING ALL
DAY. PEOPLE WERE GETTING TIRED.
00:31:48.97\00:31:52.04
AND SO, BOY,
THEY'RE GETTING PROVOKED.
00:31:52.07\00:31:53.98
YOU KNOW, ELIJAH BETTER COME
THROUGH, BECAUSE IF HE DOESN'T,
00:31:54.01\00:31:56.34
THEY'RE REALLY GOING TO BE MAD.
I MEAN, IT'S ONE THING IF YOU
00:31:56.38\00:31:58.51
ISSUE A CHALLENGE LIKE THIS,
BUT THEN IF YOU HUMILIATE THE
00:31:58.55\00:32:01.15
PROPHETS IN FRONT OF EVERYBODY
- NO VOICE, NO ONE ANSWERED -
00:32:01.18\00:32:06.82
'MAYBE HE NEEDS TO BE AWAKENED,
CALL A LITTLE LOUDER.' SOME OF
00:32:06.86\00:32:09.96
GOD'S PEOPLE ARE STARTING
TO SNICKER NOW AND THEY'RE
00:32:09.99\00:32:11.73
REALIZING HOW ABSURD THIS LOOKS.
THEY'RE STARTING TO QUESTION,
00:32:11.76\00:32:15.30
'WHO HAVE WE BEEN
WORSHIPING ALL THESE YEARS?
00:32:15.33\00:32:17.20
WE WERE TOLD THAT BAAL IS
THE ONE WHO'S GOING TO BRING THE
00:32:17.23\00:32:19.53
RAIN.' YOU SEE, WHAT THE
PROPHETS OF BAAL HAD BEEN
00:32:19.57\00:32:22.87
TELLING THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL,
'IF WE KILL ALL THE PROPHETS OF
00:32:22.90\00:32:26.34
GOD THEN BAAL
WILL SEND THE RAIN.
00:32:26.37\00:32:29.21
IT'S BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT THESE
FALSE PROPHETS OF JEHOVAH IN THE
00:32:29.24\00:32:31.31
LAND' - THAT'S WHAT
JEZEBEL HAD BEEN SAYING.
00:32:31.35\00:32:33.42
SHE'D BEEN TURNING
THINGS AROUND 180 DEGREES.
00:32:33.45\00:32:36.12
BOY I'LL TELL YOU, YOU CAN
FIND THIS IN GOVERNMENT TOO.
00:32:36.15\00:32:38.32
JUST COMPLETELY - PEOPLE
SPIN THE STORY COMPLETELY THE
00:32:38.35\00:32:41.32
OPPOSITE SO THEY TRY TO MAKE
IT SEEM LIKE THEY'RE NOT THE
00:32:41.36\00:32:45.49
PROBLEM, YOU'RE THE PROBLEM.
AND SO IF WE CAN KILL ALL THE
00:32:45.53\00:32:49.20
PROPHETS OF GOD, AND THEY'D BEEN
SAYING THAT THAT'S THE REASON
00:32:49.23\00:32:55.20
GOD'S NOT SENDING THE RAIN.
WILL THE DAY COME WHERE GOD'S
00:32:55.24\00:32:58.31
PEOPLE WILL BE BLAMED
FOR THE PROBLEMS IN THE LAND?
00:32:58.34\00:33:02.18
IT'LL ACTUALLY BE THE
DISOBEDIENCE OF THE PEOPLE OF
00:33:02.21\00:33:04.38
THE WORLD THAT BRINGS THE
CALAMITIES, BUT THE LEADERS -
00:33:04.41\00:33:08.95
RELIGIOUS LEADERS AND OTHERS
WILL SO TWIST, DISTORT, AND SPIN
00:33:08.98\00:33:12.39
THE STORY, THAT SOMEHOW GOD'S
PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE THE ENEMY
00:33:12.42\00:33:15.99
AND THERE'LL BE A DEATH DECREE
TO EXTERMINATE ALL OF THEM.
00:33:16.02\00:33:18.96
ISN'T THAT RIGHT?
FIRST THEY CAN'T BUY OR SELL
00:33:18.99\00:33:20.83
BECAUSE THEY WON'T COOPERATE.
THEY'RE NOT GOING TO CAPITULATE
00:33:20.86\00:33:23.87
THEIR CONVICTIONS AND,
ULTIMATELY, THERE'LL BE A DEATH
00:33:23.90\00:33:26.43
DECREE BECAUSE ALL OF THE
PROBLEMS AND PLAGUES IN THE
00:33:26.47\00:33:30.04
WORLD ARE GOING TO BE BECAUSE OF
THE JEWS, BECAUSE OF THE CHURCH
00:33:30.07\00:33:35.14
- HASN'T THE DEVIL
DONE THAT IN THE PAST?
00:33:35.18\00:33:37.48
AND SO, BOY, IT TAKES A LOT
OF COURAGE, BUT ELIJAH'S MAKING
00:33:37.51\00:33:42.28
EVERYBODY THINK.
NOTHING'S HAPPENING. SO FINALLY,
00:33:42.32\00:33:48.52
"THEY CRIED ALOUD, AND CUT
THEMSELVES, AS WAS THEIR CUSTOM,
00:33:48.56\00:33:52.66
WITH KNIVES AND LANCES, UNTIL
THE BLOOD GUSHED OUT ON THEM."
00:33:52.69\00:33:57.83
- AND THEIR BLOOD WAS MINGLING
WITH THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND
00:33:57.87\00:34:00.04
GOATS - AS THOUGH GOD WANTS
HUMAN BLOOD. THE ONLY BLOOD THAT
00:34:00.07\00:34:04.97
WASHES AWAY SIN IS THE BLOOD OF
HIS SON - NOT GOATS OR PEOPLE.
00:34:05.01\00:34:13.21
THEY "...CUT THEMSELVES, AS
WAS THEIR CUSTOM" - SO IT WAS -
00:34:13.25\00:34:17.79
"WHEN MIDDAY WAS PAST, THEY
PROPHESIED UNTIL THE TIME OF THE
00:34:17.82\00:34:20.72
OFFERING OF THE
EVENING SACRIFICE."
00:34:20.76\00:34:22.66
- EVEN THOUGH THEY HAD NO FIRE,
THERE'S BEEN NO RESULTS, THERE'S
00:34:22.69\00:34:26.06
BEEN NO EVIDENCE OF
ANY POWER OR ANY GOD.
00:34:26.09\00:34:28.36
THEN THEY STARTED TO PROPHECY -
THEY BEGAN TO MUTTER AND MUMBLE
00:34:28.40\00:34:31.30
AND THEY BEGAN TO PROPHECY, 'O,
THUS SAYS BAAL, 'IT'S BECAUSE
00:34:31.33\00:34:34.87
ELIJAH IS STILL ALIVE. IF
YOU GET RID OF HIM THEN HE
00:34:34.90\00:34:37.31
WILL SEND THE RAIN.' AND 'IF IT
WASN'T FOR THESE FALSE PROPHETS
00:34:37.34\00:34:40.41
THAT STILL WORSHIP JEHOVAH,
THEN' - AND SO THEN THEY'D BEGIN
00:34:40.44\00:34:42.88
TO PROPHESY - 400
OF THEM JUST BABBLING.
00:34:42.91\00:34:45.11
OH, ALL YOU HEARD WAS NOISE AND
PROPHESYING - THEY COULDN'T EVEN
00:34:45.15\00:34:48.28
TELL YOU WHAT THEY SAID.
ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EVENING
00:34:48.32\00:34:52.32
SACRIFICE - CLOSE TO SUNDOWN -
WHAT TIME OF DAY DID JESUS DIE?
00:34:52.35\00:35:01.43
"BUT THERE WAS NO VOICE; NO ONE
ANSWERED," - AND NOTICE THIS -
00:35:01.46\00:35:05.63
"NO ONE PAID ATTENTION." I
MEAN, LET'S FACE IT, AFTER ALL
00:35:05.67\00:35:09.94
DAY LONG, 'O BAAL,
HEAR US! O BAAL, HEAR US!
00:35:09.97\00:35:12.54
O BAAL' - THE PEOPLE
STARTED DRIFTING AWAY.
00:35:12.57\00:35:14.34
AND THEY SAID,
'WAIT, WAIT, WE'VE GOT MORE.
00:35:14.38\00:35:15.38
WE'RE GOING TO CUT OURSELVES
NOW.' SO THEY'RE CUTTING
00:35:15.41\00:35:17.35
THEMSELVES AND PEOPLE SAY, 'OH'
- AND THEY SAY, 'WAIT, WAIT,
00:35:17.38\00:35:19.71
WATCH US LEAP ON THE ALTAR.' AND
PRETTY SOON THERE'S NOTHING THEY
00:35:19.75\00:35:23.18
COULD DO TO KEEP
THE PEOPLE'S ATTENTION.
00:35:23.22\00:35:26.22
YOU KNOW, THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS
IN THE WORSHIP OF THE WORLD.
00:35:26.25\00:35:28.42
THEY KEEP HAVING TO GO TO MORE
EXTRAORDINARY AND OUTRAGEOUS
00:35:28.46\00:35:33.76
LINKS TO KEEP THE ATTENTION
OF THE PEOPLE BECAUSE THEY DON'T
00:35:33.80\00:35:37.10
HAVE THE GENUINE POWER.
BUT THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS SAT
00:35:37.13\00:35:41.10
DOWN AND HE TAUGHT THEM AND
THEY STAYED ALL DAY LONG WITHOUT
00:35:41.14\00:35:43.71
THINKING OF DINNER BECAUSE THERE
WAS SOMETHING PROFOUND IN WHAT
00:35:43.74\00:35:47.31
HE WAS SAYING.
"NOBODY EVEN PAID ATTENTION."
00:35:47.34\00:35:52.01
THINGS GOT QUIET.
ONLY THING ON THE ALTAR?
00:35:52.05\00:35:55.18
FLIES - CLOUD OF
BUZZARDS CIRCLING OVERHEAD.
00:35:55.22\00:36:01.09
"THEN ELIJAH SAID TO ALL THE
PEOPLE, 'COME NEAR TO ME.' - I
00:36:01.12\00:36:04.66
THINK IT'S INTERESTING,
ABOUT THE TIME OF THE EVENING
00:36:04.69\00:36:06.86
SACRIFICE HE SAYS, 'COME NEAR TO
ME.' YOU KNOW WHAT ELIJAH'S NAME
00:36:06.90\00:36:09.76
MEANS? 'MY GOD IS JEHOVAH'.
00:36:09.80\00:36:12.47
JESUS' NAME IS
'MY GOD IS SAVIOR'.
00:36:12.50\00:36:15.47
AROUND THE TIME OF THE EVENING
SACRIFICE HE SAYS, 'COME NEAR TO
00:36:15.50\00:36:17.91
ME.' THAT WAS REALLY GOD
SPEAKING TO THE NATION SAYING,
00:36:17.94\00:36:22.24
'COME BACK TO ME.' IT'S LIKE
JESUS SAID, 'COME UNTO ME ALL
00:36:22.28\00:36:26.38
YOU WHO ARE WEARY AND HEAVY
LADEN AND I'LL GIVE YOU REST.'
00:36:26.41\00:36:29.95
SO NOW THE PEOPLE
ARE - THEY'RE COMING.
00:36:29.98\00:36:33.12
AS TIRED AS THEY ARE, ELIJAH
SAYS, 'COME TO ME.' AND THERE'S
00:36:33.15\00:36:36.09
SOMETHING ABOUT
HIM THAT THEY COME.
00:36:36.12\00:36:38.26
AND WHILE THEY WATCH, WITH
A TENDER HEART, HE REVERENTLY
00:36:38.29\00:36:44.27
REPAIRS THE ALTAR OF THE
LORD THAT WAS BROKEN DOWN.
00:36:44.30\00:36:47.44
YOU KNOW, IT JUST
MAKES YOU WANT TO CRY.
00:36:47.47\00:36:49.77
THE PEOPLE HAD TURNED TO THE
WORSHIP OF BAAL AND NOBODY THERE
00:36:49.80\00:36:54.84
HAD FIXED THE ALTAR
OF THE LORD ALL DAY LONG.
00:36:54.88\00:36:57.15
ELIJAH HIMSELF IS WRESTLING
THESE BIG STONES, TWELVE OF
00:36:57.18\00:37:00.08
THEM, INTO PLACE SO THAT HE
COULD BUILD UP THE WORSHIP OF
00:37:00.12\00:37:04.85
GOD. DO YOU
HAVE AN ALTAR IN YOUR
00:37:04.89\00:37:06.82
HOUSE THAT MIGHT
NEED A LITTLE REPAIR?
00:37:06.86\00:37:10.26
SOME PEOPLE USED TO HAVE AN
ALTAR IN THEIR HOME BUT IT GETS
00:37:10.29\00:37:13.19
REPLACED BY THE TELEVISION AND
INSTEAD OF THE WORSHIP OF GOD
00:37:13.23\00:37:18.87
THERE'S 'AMERICAN IDOL' -
A DIFFERENT KIND OF WORSHIP
00:37:18.90\00:37:23.94
HAPPENING. THE
ALTAR OF THE LORD KIND OF
00:37:23.97\00:37:26.34
GETS BROKEN DOWN OVER TIME.
IT MIGHT NEED TO BE RESTORED.
00:37:26.37\00:37:30.98
TALK ABOUT BABYLON.
"THEN WITH THE STONES HE BUILT
00:37:31.01\00:37:35.75
AN ALTAR IN THE NAME OF
THE LORD; AND HE MADE A TRENCH
00:37:35.78\00:37:38.95
AROUND THE ALTAR LARGE ENOUGH
TO HOLD TWO SEAHS OF SEED." -
00:37:38.99\00:37:44.63
TWO BIG DITCHES WERE DUG
AROUND THE ALTAR AND HE PUT THE
00:37:44.66\00:37:48.16
WOOD IN ORDER, CUT THE BULL IN
PIECES, AND LAID IT ON THE WOOD,
00:37:48.20\00:37:54.10
AND SAID, 'FILL FOUR WATER POTS
WITH WATER, AND POUR IT ON THE
00:37:54.14\00:37:58.27
BURNT SACRIFICE AND ON THE
WOOD.'" - AND I KNOW THERE'S
00:37:58.31\00:38:00.84
BEEN A FAMINE BUT THEY'RE
NOT FAR FROM THE OCEAN SO THEY
00:38:00.88\00:38:02.78
BROUGHT UP THESE BARRELS OF
WATER - "THEN HE SAID, 'DO IT A
00:38:02.81\00:38:06.41
SECOND TIME,' AND THEY DID IT A
SECOND TIME; AND HE SAID, 'DO IT
00:38:06.45\00:38:10.69
A THIRD TIME,'" -
WHEN DID JESUS RISE?
00:38:10.72\00:38:14.89
WASN'T IT AFTER THE THIRD DAY?
- "AND THEY DID IT A THIRD TIME.
00:38:14.92\00:38:18.86
SO THE WATER RAN ALL AROUND THE
ALTAR; AND HE ALSO FILLED THE
00:38:18.89\00:38:22.20
TRENCH WITH WATER." - HE
DIDN'T WANT ANYBODY SAYING
00:38:22.23\00:38:25.57
THAT HE, YOU KNOW, 'SINCE I
BUILT IT UP AND I PUT THE WOOD
00:38:25.60\00:38:28.30
THERE, MAYBE I STUCK SOME COALS
IN THERE OR SMOLDERING CIGAR OR
00:38:28.34\00:38:32.84
SOMETHING THAT WAS REALLY GOING
TO IGNITE IT ALL AND' - HE SAID
00:38:32.87\00:38:35.88
- 'I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT IF
THIS THING CATCHES ON FIRE IT IS
00:38:35.91\00:38:38.65
A MIRACLE.' ANY OF YOU EVER GONE
CAMPING BEFORE AND YOU KNEW IT
00:38:38.68\00:38:41.92
WAS GOING TO TAKE A MIRACLE TO
START A FIRE EVEN WITH MATCHES?
00:38:41.95\00:38:46.69
I'VE TRIED TO START SOME BURN
PILES OUT IN THE WOODS WHEN IT'S
00:38:46.72\00:38:49.02
POURING RAIN AND IT'S
PRETTY TOUGH STARTING A FIRE
00:38:49.06\00:38:51.16
UNDERWATER. AND HE
JUST ABSOLUTELY DRENCHED
00:38:51.19\00:38:55.13
AND SATURATED IT SO THAT IT
WOULD MULTIPLY THE POWER OF GOD
00:38:55.16\00:38:59.63
WHEN IT - BOY, CAN
YOU IMAGINE BEING ELIJAH?
00:38:59.67\00:39:03.67
WAS HE THINKING IN HIS HEART,
'BOY, I SURE HOPE THIS WORKS'?
00:39:03.71\00:39:11.51
AND DO IT AGAIN - "SO THE WATER
RANK ALL AROUND THE ALTAR; AND
00:39:11.55\00:39:14.42
HE ALSO FILLED
THE TRENCH WITH WATER.
00:39:14.45\00:39:16.28
AND IT CAME TO PASS, AT THE TIME
OF THE OFFERING OF THE EVENING
00:39:16.32\00:39:19.92
SACRIFICE, THAT ELIJAH THE
PROPHET CAME NEAR AND SAID,
00:39:19.95\00:39:24.96
'LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND
ISRAEL, LET IT BE KNOWN THIS DAY
00:39:24.99\00:39:30.03
THAT YOU ARE GOD IN ISRAEL
AND I AM YOUR SERVANT," - WAIT A
00:39:30.07\00:39:33.57
SECOND, HOW MANY OF YOU
HAVE A WATCH WITH A TIMER ON IT?
00:39:33.60\00:39:37.34
STOPWATCH. COME
ON, ANYONE HAVE A WATCH
00:39:37.37\00:39:39.24
WITH A STOPWATCH ON IT? ALRIGHT,
WHEN I SAY 'GO', TIME ME.
00:39:39.27\00:39:43.45
OKAY? ANYONE. YOU - I'LL ASK
YOU AND THEN I'LL TELL YOU STOP,
00:39:43.48\00:39:46.55
OKAY? I WANT YOU TO TIME
ME. YOU ALL READY? ANYONE READY?
00:39:46.58\00:39:50.92
WHO'S READY TO TIME
THIS? A COUPLE? OKAY.
00:39:50.95\00:39:56.96
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THIS - GO -
"LORD GOD OF ABRAHAM, ISAAC, AND
00:39:56.99\00:40:05.90
ISRAEL, LET IT BE KNOWN THIS DAY
THAT YOU ARE GOD IN ISRAEL AND I
00:40:05.93\00:40:10.47
AM YOUR SERVANT, AND THAT I HAVE
DONE ALL THESE THINGS AT YOUR
00:40:10.51\00:40:13.51
WORD. HEAR ME, O
LORD, HEAR ME, THAT
00:40:13.54\00:40:17.11
THIS PEOPLE MAY KNOW THAT YOU
ARE THE LORD GOD, AND THAT YOU
00:40:17.15\00:40:20.32
HAVE TURNED THEIR HEARTS BACK
TO YOU AGAIN.' - STOP. HOW LONG?
00:40:20.35\00:40:27.26
HOW MUCH? 20 SECONDS? 20.3
SECONDS. NOT EVEN 30 SECONDS.
00:40:27.29\00:40:35.16
THE PROPHETS OF BAAL HAD ALL
DAY LONG - HOURS AND HOURS OF
00:40:35.20\00:40:39.90
PRAYING WITH NO POWER.
ELIJAH PRAYS A 20-SECOND PRAYER.
00:40:39.93\00:40:46.91
OF COURSE, THAT 20-SECOND PRAYER
IS COMING AFTER YEARS AND YEARS
00:40:46.94\00:40:49.88
OF SERVING GOD. SOME
OF US WANT GOD TO HEAR OUR
00:40:49.91\00:40:53.05
20-SECOND PRAYER BUT WE HAVE
NOTHING ELSE TO GO BEHIND IT.
00:40:53.08\00:40:57.15
BUT BECAUSE HE KNEW GOD AND HE
HAD A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD, HE
00:40:57.19\00:41:00.09
DIDN'T NEED A LONG PRAYER.
AS SOON AS HE SAYS - NOTICE THIS
00:41:00.12\00:41:06.96
- "TURNED THEIR
HEARTS BACK TO YOU AGAIN."
00:41:07.00\00:41:11.77
YOU KNOW WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT
FELL AT PENTECOST - THAT FIRE -
00:41:11.80\00:41:14.97
THOSE TONGUES OF FIRE?
AFTER GOD HAD TURNED THEIR
00:41:15.00\00:41:17.41
HEARTS BACK. IF YOU
WANT THE FIRE TO FALL ON
00:41:17.44\00:41:21.74
YOUR LIFE AND YOUR FAMILY - THE
FIRE OF GOD'S SPIRIT - IT'S WHEN
00:41:21.78\00:41:25.81
OUR HEARTS ARE TURNED BACK
THAT THE FIRE'S GOING TO FALL.
00:41:25.85\00:41:29.38
"THEN THE FIRE OF THE LORD
FELL AND CONSUMED THE BURNT
00:41:29.42\00:41:33.52
SACRIFICE, AND THE WOOD AND
THE STONES AND THE DUST, AND IT
00:41:33.56\00:41:38.39
LICKED UP THE WATER
THAT WAS IN THE TRENCH."
00:41:38.43\00:41:43.16
SUDDENLY FROM A CLOUDLESS SKY -
THERE'S NO CLOUDS - IT HAD JUST
00:41:43.20\00:41:46.57
BEEN BURNING CLEAR AS
IT HAD BEEN FOR YEARS.
00:41:46.60\00:41:50.01
FROM A CLOUDLESS SKY THIS BOLT
OF LIGHTNING COMES DOWN LIKE A
00:41:50.04\00:41:53.27
HOLY ARC WELDER FROM THE HEAVENS
AND JUST BEGINS TO BURN AND IT
00:41:53.31\00:41:57.08
BURNS THROUGH THE SACRIFICE AND
IT KEEPS BURNING AND THE PEOPLE
00:41:57.11\00:41:59.88
ARE JUMPING BACK FROM THE LIGHT
- BURNS THROUGH THE WOOD, BURNS
00:41:59.91\00:42:02.68
THROUGH - THE ROCKS ARE POPPING
EVERYWHERE AND THEN YOU HEAR THE
00:42:02.72\00:42:04.82
SIZZLE OF IT BURNING AND
STEAMING ALL THE WATER OUT OF
00:42:04.85\00:42:07.72
THE DITCH AND THEN IT GOES AWAY
AND THERE'S NOTHING BUT A CRATER
00:42:07.76\00:42:10.66
WHERE THE ALTAR USED TO BE.
NOW, YOU'RE IN THE CROWD THAT
00:42:10.69\00:42:14.96
DAY; WHICH GOD ARE
YOU GOING TO SERVE?
00:42:15.00\00:42:19.10
WAS THERE ANY QUESTION
WHICH GOD WAS THE REAL GOD?
00:42:19.13\00:42:23.41
"NOW WHEN ALL THE PEOPLE SAW
IT, THEY FELL ON THEIR FACES;
00:42:23.44\00:42:27.21
AND THEY SAID,
'THE LORD, HE IS GOD!
00:42:27.24\00:42:30.41
THE LORD, HE IS GOD!'" -
AND THAT'S WHAT I WOULD DO
00:42:30.45\00:42:33.98
TOO - "AND ELIJAH SAID TO THEM,"
- WHAT DO YOU THINK THE PROPHETS
00:42:34.02\00:42:37.65
OF BAAL ARE DOING AT THIS TIME?
'BOY, IT'S BEEN A LONG DAY.
00:42:37.69\00:42:40.79
YOU KNOW, WE'VE
ENJOYED BEING HERE, FOLKS.
00:42:40.82\00:42:41.99
WE'LL SEE YOU LATER.' AND HE SAW
THAT THEY WERE ALL STARTING TO
00:42:42.02\00:42:46.46
EXCUSE THEMSELVES FROM
THE PROGRAM AND ELIJAH SAYS,
00:42:46.49\00:42:50.87
'GRAB THEM. DON'T
LET THEM GO ANYWHERE.'
00:42:50.90\00:42:53.27
YOU KNOW, NOT ONLY WAS
IT IMPORTANT THAT THE PEOPLE
00:42:53.30\00:42:55.60
REALIZE WHO THE REAL GOD
WAS, THEY HAD TO DO SOMETHING
00:42:55.64\00:42:57.91
ABOUT THE PROBLEM. YOU
KNOW, IT'S NOT ENOUGH THAT
00:42:57.94\00:43:01.21
YOU SAY, 'LORD, THANK YOU
FOR FORGIVING MY SINS.' ARE YOU
00:43:01.24\00:43:04.48
STILL GOING TO LET THE PRIESTS
OF BAAL TALK TO YOU EVERYDAY?
00:43:04.51\00:43:08.55
SOMETIMES YOU'VE GOT TO
ELIMINATE THOSE THINGS THAT ARE
00:43:08.58\00:43:11.49
BRINGING THE BAD
TEACHINGS INTO YOUR LIFE.
00:43:11.52\00:43:15.76
IF YOUR RIGHT HAND
OFFENDS YOU, CUT IT OFF.
00:43:15.79\00:43:18.36
IF YOUR EYE
OFFENDS YOU, PLUCK IT OUT.
00:43:18.39\00:43:20.70
IS THERE SOMETHING IN YOUR
LIFE LEADING YOU AWAY FROM THE
00:43:20.73\00:43:22.83
WORSHIP OF GOD? HE
SAID, "'DO NOT LET ONE OF
00:43:22.86\00:43:27.07
THEM ESCAPE!' SO THEY
SEIZED THEM; AND ELIJAH
00:43:27.10\00:43:31.24
BROUGHT THEM DOWN TO THE BROOK
KISHON" - THAT WAS RIGHT AT THE
00:43:31.27\00:43:33.84
BASE OF MOUNT CARMEL -
"AND EXECUTED THEM THERE."
00:43:33.88\00:43:38.65
THIS BROUGHT
ABOUT A GREAT REFORM.
00:43:38.68\00:43:41.55
NOW, I SEE OUR TIME'S UP.
I'M NOT DONE WITH ELIJAH SO THIS
00:43:41.58\00:43:46.59
IS PROBABLY AS GOOD A PLACE TO
STOP AS ANYTHING - AS ANYWHERE.
00:43:46.62\00:43:50.99
YOU KNOW WHAT THE LORD DID THAT
DAY WITH ELIJAH WAS ONE OF THE
00:43:51.03\00:43:55.70
HIGH POINTS OF HISTORY -
BIBLICALLY AND OTHERWISE.
00:43:55.73\00:43:59.33
WHEN ONE MAN STOOD
UP AGAINST THE DEVIL
00:43:59.37\00:44:02.90
IS REALLY WHAT YOU
HAVE HAPPENING THERE.
00:44:02.94\00:44:04.44
ONE MAN WITH GOD - DO YOU
KNOW YOU AND GOD ARE A MAJORITY?
00:44:04.47\00:44:08.34
WHAT HE DID THERE THAT DAY
IS LIKE WHAT DANIEL DID WHEN HE
00:44:08.38\00:44:11.48
SAID, 'I'M GOING TO OPEN MY
WINDOWS EVEN IF IT MEANS I GO TO
00:44:11.51\00:44:14.92
THE LION'S DEN.' AND
GOD STOOD UP FOR DANIEL.
00:44:14.95\00:44:18.39
IT'S LIKE WHAT HAPPENED WHEN
SHADRACH, MESCHACH AND ABEDNEGO
00:44:18.42\00:44:20.92
SAID, 'WE ARE NOT GOING TO BOW
DOWN AND WORSHIP YOUR GODS.' OR
00:44:20.96\00:44:24.69
WHEN MORDECAI SAID TO HAMAN, 'WE
ARE NOT GOING TO BOW DOWN AND
00:44:24.73\00:44:28.90
WORSHIP YOU.' AND ELIJAH BOLDLY
SURROUNDED BY - THE BIBLE SAYS
00:44:28.93\00:44:34.64
'FOLLOW NOT A MULTITUDE TO
DO EVIL.' EVEN THOUGH HE WAS
00:44:34.67\00:44:37.47
COMPLETELY OUTNUMBERED - TALK
ABOUT A SHOWDOWN - THIS IS THE
00:44:37.51\00:44:41.64
ULTIMATE SHOWDOWN.
HE STANDS UP FOR GOD.
00:44:41.68\00:44:45.41
YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, 'THOSE
THAT HONOR ME I WILL HONOR.' AND
00:44:45.45\00:44:49.32
BECAUSE ELIJAH WAS PASSIONATE
AND FAITHFUL ABOUT STANDING UP
00:44:49.35\00:44:52.92
FOR GOD ON THAT MOUNTAIN ON THAT
DAY, HIS LIFE DID NOT END LIKE
00:44:52.95\00:44:56.19
THE LIFE OF MOST MEN, DID IT?
00:44:56.22\00:44:58.83
AND WHEN HE PRAYED THE FIRE
CAME DOWN. YOU KNOW, I THINK
00:44:58.86\00:45:03.30
WE NEED TO HAVE A SIMILAR
REVIVAL AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE.
00:45:03.33\00:45:07.10
THERE'S A LOT OF BAAL -
BABYLONIAN WORSHIP THAT HAS
00:45:07.14\00:45:11.54
DRIFTED INTO OUR
LIVES - A LOT OF COMPROMISE.
00:45:11.57\00:45:14.88
THE TRUE RELIGION OF JESUS -
GODLY LIVING, LOVE FOR THE LORD
00:45:14.91\00:45:19.01
- NEEDS TO BE RESTORED.
WHEN WE LIVE LIVES THAT HONOR
00:45:19.05\00:45:21.32
GOD - THAT NEEDS TO BE RESTORED
AMONG GOD'S PEOPLE AND I THINK
00:45:21.35\00:45:25.59
WE NEED TO - WE NEED TO BUILD UP
THE ALTAR OF THE LORD THAT HAS
00:45:25.62\00:45:29.06
BEEN BROKEN DOWN IN
OUR HEARTS - IN OUR HOMES.
00:45:29.09\00:45:33.50
THE BIBLE SAYS THE LORD
WANTED THE PEOPLE TO COME BACK.
00:45:33.53\00:45:37.43
HE WANTED TO TURN THEIR
HEARTS BACK TO HIM AGAIN.
00:45:37.47\00:45:41.74
WOULD YOU LIKE TO
HAVE THAT KIND OF REVIVAL?
00:45:41.77\00:45:43.17
WOULD YOU LIKE TO SEE THE SPIRIT
OF GOD COME DOWN IN YOUR LIFE?
00:45:43.20\00:45:46.98
THIS ISN'T A STORY ABOUT ANCIENT
HISTORY, IT'S A STORY ABOUT
00:45:47.01\00:45:49.44
TODAY BECAUSE THE SAME THINGS
THAT HAPPENED IN GOD'S CHURCH IN
00:45:49.48\00:45:52.78
THE OLD TESTAMENT, THEY HAPPENED
IN GOD'S CHURCH IN JESUS' DAY,
00:45:52.81\00:45:56.05
THEY'RE HAPPENING TO GOD'S
CHURCH AGAIN TODAY AND WE NEED A
00:45:56.08\00:45:59.59
REVIVAL. SO HOW LONG WILL
YOU HALT BETWEEN TWO OPINIONS?
00:45:59.62\00:46:08.36
>>AMAZING FACTS, CHANGED LIVES.
00:46:08.40\00:46:16.57
>>YOU KNOW, WE GREW UP IN A
NEIGHBORHOOD UP IN THE MIDWEST
00:46:16.60\00:46:19.84
THAT WAS A PRETTY BAD
NEIGHBORHOOD AND WHEN I BECAME A
00:46:19.87\00:46:22.61
TEENAGER I STARTED USING DRUGS.
I WAS ON - I STARTED USING METH
00:46:22.64\00:46:27.38
WHEN I WAS LIKE, I THINK,
16 - 15 - SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
00:46:27.42\00:46:31.25
I WAS HAVING SOME PROBLEMS IN MY
LIFE I REALLY DIDN'T KNOW HOW TO
00:46:31.29\00:46:34.19
DEAL WITH. THE ONLY
THING I REALLY KNEW WAS
00:46:34.22\00:46:38.03
VIOLENCE SO THIS NIGHT
HERE I WAS GOING TO INFLICT
00:46:38.06\00:46:42.16
VIOLENCE ON MYSELF. I
WAS REALLY HIG AND REALLY
00:46:42.20\00:46:46.20
DEPRESSED SO I TOOK, YOU
KNOW, I HAD THIS .40 CALIBER.
00:46:46.23\00:46:48.50
SO I REMEMBER I PUT ONE IN THE
CHAMBER AND I STUCK IT TO THE
00:46:48.54\00:46:51.14
SIDE OF MY HEAD LIKE THIS
AND THAT GUN HAD A HAIR TRIGGER,
00:46:51.17\00:46:57.85
YOU KNOW? I
REMEMBER I WAS TAPPING IT
00:46:57.88\00:47:01.05
'CAUSE A PART OF ME SAID
'NO, I DON'T WANT TO DO THIS.
00:47:01.08\00:47:05.29
'BUT THERE WAS SOMETHING VERY
EVIL PRESENT THERE SAYING 'DO
00:47:05.32\00:47:08.62
IT.' I JUST SAID TO MYSELF, I
SAID, 'GOD, IF YOU'RE REAL SHOW
00:47:08.66\00:47:15.63
YOURSELF TO ME.' MY MOTHER TOOK
ME TO CHURCH WHEN I WAS A LITTLE
00:47:15.66\00:47:19.27
KID AND WE USED TO SING 'JESUS
LOVES ME' AND I REMEMBERED THAT
00:47:19.30\00:47:24.34
SONG. IT STARTED
PLAYING IN MY MIND.
00:47:24.37\00:47:29.04
I ALMOST HAD, LIKE, A VISION
OF ME AS A LITTLE KID, YOU KNOW?
00:47:29.08\00:47:35.22
IN SABBATH SCHOOL WE USED TO
BANG THOSE STICKS TOGETHER AND
00:47:35.25\00:47:42.62
SING 'JESUS LOVES ME'
AND I HEARD THAT IN MY MIND.
00:47:42.66\00:47:50.13
SO I SAID, 'WOW.' SO I JUST,
KIND OF LIKE, PUT THE GUN DOWN
00:47:50.17\00:47:56.24
AND I KIND OF FELL ON MY BEDSIDE
THERE AND I SAID, 'LORD,' -
00:47:56.27\00:48:01.34
I JUST BASICALLY JUST
PRAYED THIS CRAZY PRAYER.
00:48:01.38\00:48:03.68
I SAYS - I TOLD HIM EVERYTHING
THAT WAS WRONG WITH ME.
00:48:03.71\00:48:07.18
AND I REMEMBER, ONE DAY, I
WAS DRIVING AROUND AND I KIND OF
00:48:07.22\00:48:09.05
FELT LOST, AND I DROVE BY THIS
CHURCH AND I SEEN TOM OUT THERE.
00:48:09.08\00:48:13.42
TOM WAS JUST OUT THERE
WATERING THE FLOWERS, YOU KNOW?
00:48:13.46\00:48:17.09
>>SO I CAUGHT A VISION OUT OF
THE SIDE OF MY EYE OF THIS BIG
00:48:17.13\00:48:21.23
HUSKY GUY WITH TATTOOS
WALKING UP AND SAYING HELLO.
00:48:21.26\00:48:27.24
AND I - SO I ASKED HIM IF I
COULD HELP HIM AND HE TOLD ME
00:48:27.27\00:48:32.01
THAT HE DRIVES BY THE CHURCH ON
OCCASION AND EVERY TIME HE GOES
00:48:32.04\00:48:38.15
BY HE'S THINKING
THAT HE SHOULD STOP IN.
00:48:38.18\00:48:40.75
>>AFTER HE SHOWED ME AROUND THE
CHURCH, YOU KNOW, I WAS LIKE,
00:48:40.78\00:48:45.65
'OKAY, MAN, IT'S NICE MEETING
YOU.' AND THIS AND THAT - SO I
00:48:45.69\00:48:49.59
JUMPED IN MY CAR AND I STARTED
HEADING DOWN THE DRIVEWAY AND
00:48:49.62\00:48:54.20
THE NEXT THING YOU KNOW IN,
LIKE, MY PERIPHERAL VISION, I
00:48:54.20\00:48:57.57
SEE HIM COMING AROUND THE
CORNER LIKE JERRY RICE RUNNING A
00:48:57.60\00:49:01.77
FOOTBALL - NO, NOT THAT FAST,
BUT, YOU KNOW, HE WAS TAKING OFF
00:49:01.80\00:49:07.04
AFTER ME AND HE SAYS,
'HEY, HEY, HOLD ON, HOLD ON.'
00:49:07.08\00:49:10.05
>>I ASKED HIM IF HE WOULD LIKE
TO HAVE SOME BIBLE STUDIES AND
00:49:10.08\00:49:12.75
HE SAID, 'YEAH.' >>HE
WOULD COME BY THE HOUSE.
00:49:12.78\00:49:15.55
WE'D ALL START - WE'D START
HIDING THE BEER CANS AND TRYING
00:49:15.58\00:49:19.55
TO AIR OUT THE WEED SMELL.
THERE WAS A PRESENCE THAT CAME
00:49:19.59\00:49:22.79
WITH TOM THAT WAS COMFORTING,
YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN?
00:49:22.82\00:49:28.23
EVEN THOUGH I WASN'T TAKING THE
BIBLE STUDIES AS SERIOUS AS I
00:49:28.26\00:49:31.00
SHOULD HAVE, LOOKING BACK, THERE
WAS JUST A PRESENCE ABOUT HIM
00:49:31.03\00:49:35.44
BEING THERE IN THE
HOUSE THAT WAS COMFORTING.
00:49:35.47\00:49:39.07
I TOLD TOM, I SAID, 'TOM, YOU
KNOW, YOU CAN'T WIN EVERYBODY.'
00:49:39.11\00:49:42.54
>>I LOOKED AT HIM AND I KNEW -
I SAID TO HIM, 'RUEBEN, I NEVER
00:49:42.58\00:49:47.52
GET ANYBODY.' I SAYS, 'THE HOLY
SPIRIT WILL DO THAT.' AND I,
00:49:47.55\00:49:53.62
KIND OF, IN MY HEART, KNEW THAT
THE HOLY SPIRIT WAS GOING TO
00:49:53.66\00:49:56.93
WORK ON RUEBEN. >>SO
THEN TOM KIND OF LEFT THE
00:49:56.96\00:49:59.76
PICTURE FOR AWHILE AND I THINK
ONE DAY, AT MY MOTHER'S HOUSE,
00:49:59.79\00:50:03.97
THEY WERE WATCHING THE
FINAL EVENTS OF BIBLE PROPHECY .
00:50:04.00\00:50:07.04
SO I WATCHED THAT AND I REMEMBER
THE SCENE WHERE THEY HAD THE
00:50:07.07\00:50:14.11
HELLFIRE AND STUFF, YOU KNOW,
THEY'RE OUTSIDE THE CITY AND IT
00:50:14.14\00:50:18.75
SHOWED THE HELLFIRE COMING DOWN
AND BURNING PEOPLE AND STUFF.
00:50:18.78\00:50:24.95
I REMEMBER SAYING TO MYSELF,
'THAT'S WHERE I WOULD BE RIGHT
00:50:24.99\00:50:28.69
THERE.' AFTER THE HELLFIRE SCENE
I SAW THE SAINTS IN THE CITY -
00:50:28.72\00:50:35.90
IN THE NEW JERUSALEM - AND JESUS
RECREATING THE EARTH AND I SAID,
00:50:35.93\00:50:45.44
'I WANT THAT TO BE MY - ME AND
MY FAMILY.' THERE WAS SOMETHING
00:50:45.47\00:50:48.91
ABOUT THE WAY DOUG PREACHED AND
THINGS THAT I FELT THAT TOUCHED
00:50:48.94\00:50:52.05
ME BECAUSE HE'S KIND OF
LIKE MYSELF, YOU KNOW, HE'S - HE
00:50:52.08\00:50:58.22
DIDN'T GROW UP
LIKE THAT, YOU KNOW?
00:50:58.25\00:51:00.79
HE - HE DONE DRUGS AND THINGS
SO I KIND OF FOUND THESE COMMON
00:51:00.82\00:51:04.89
GROUNDS THAT I HAD WITH HIM AND
I LIKED HOW HE JUST, KIND OF,
00:51:04.93\00:51:08.76
LIKE, KEPT IT REAL
WITH HIS PREACHING.
00:51:08.80\00:51:10.37
AND THEN PASTOR RODLEY CAME TO
THE CHURCH AND I GOT TO KNOW HIM
00:51:10.40\00:51:15.90
VERY WELL AND WE STARTED
DOING SOME FINISHING STUDIES.
00:51:15.94\00:51:20.34
HE WANTED TO MAKE SURE I
UNDERSTAND WHAT I WAS DOING AND
00:51:20.38\00:51:23.91
THINGS. HE BAPTIZED
ME, MY WIFE, MY BROTHER.
00:51:23.95\00:51:28.75
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE
DONE, WHERE YOU COME FROM, WHERE
00:51:28.78\00:51:33.62
YOU'VE BEEN, NO MATTER HOW BAD
OF A SINNER YOU THINK YOU ARE,
00:51:33.66\00:51:38.73
THE LORD JESUS LOVES YOU
NO MATTER WHAT YOU'VE DONE.
00:51:38.76\00:51:42.43
>>FRIENDS, IT'S BECAUSE OF
GOD'S BLESSING AND YOUR SUPPORT
00:51:42.46\00:51:46.20
THOUSANDS OF OTHERS, JUST LILKE
RUEBEN, HAVE FOUND JESUS AND
00:51:46.23\00:51:49.80
ETERNAL LIFE. (MUSIC)
00:51:49.84\00:52:01.82
>>LET'S FACE IT, IT'S NOT ALWAYS
EASY TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING
00:52:01.85\00:52:04.92
YOU READ IN THE BIBLE.
WITH OVER 700,000 WORDS
00:52:04.95\00:52:08.62
CONTAINED IN 66 BOOKS, THE BIBLE
CAN GENERATE A LOT OF QUESTIONS.
00:52:08.66\00:52:12.89
TO GET BIBLICAL STRAIGHTFORWARD
ANSWERS CALL IN TO BIBLE ANSWERS
00:52:12.93\00:52:16.26
LIVE - A LIVE NATIONWIDE CALL-IN
RADIO PROGRAM WHERE YOU CAN TALK
00:52:16.30\00:52:20.47
TO PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR AND ASK
HIM YOUR MOST DIFFICULT BIBLE
00:52:20.50\00:52:23.74
QUESTIONS. FOR TIMES AND
STATIONS IN YOUR AREA, OR TO
00:52:23.77\00:52:26.98
LISTEN TO ANSWERS ONLINE, VISIT
BAL.AMAZINGFACTS.ORG . (MUSIC)
00:52:27.01\00:52:42.02
>>YOU'VE PROBABLY HEARD THE
EXPRESSION BEFORE, 'IF YOU DON'T
00:52:42.06\00:52:44.36
LIKE THE WEATHER IN TEXAS, JUST
WAIT; IT'LL CHANGE.' AND YOU'VE
00:52:44.39\00:52:48.10
ALSO HEARD, 'EVERYTHING IS
BIGGER IN TEXAS - THE RANCHES,
00:52:48.13\00:52:51.17
THE BELT BUCKLES, THE COWBOY
HATS...' BUT THE MOST FAMOUS
00:52:51.20\00:52:55.04
SLOGAN ABOUT TEXAS
IS 'REMEMBER THE ALAMO!'
00:52:55.07\00:53:02.58
THE VIOLENT BATTLES AND BRAVERY
OF ICONIC HEROES, HAVE BEEN THE
00:53:02.61\00:53:05.85
STUFF OF LEGENDS, THROUGHOUT
WHICH ENTIRE CULTURES OFTEN DRAW
00:53:05.88\00:53:09.02
THEIR IDENITY AND PRIDE, EVEN
LONG AFTER CENTURIES ARE PAST.
00:53:09.05\00:53:12.85
AND IN TEXAS, THE STORY OF THE
ALAMO HAS BEEN A RALLYING CRY OF
00:53:12.89\00:53:16.39
TEXAS
INDEPENDENCE FOR 200 YEARS.
00:53:16.42\00:53:19.63
ONE REASON THAT TEXANS LOVE TO
BRAG THAT EVERYTHING IS BIGGER
00:53:19.66\00:53:22.50
IN TEXAS IS, OF COURSE, BECAUSE
TEXAS IS THE LARGEST OF THE
00:53:22.53\00:53:26.07
LOWER 48 U.S. STATES.
IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE THAT THIS
00:53:26.10\00:53:29.80
MASSIVE STATE GOT ITS BEGINNING
IN A VERY SMALL CHRISTIAN
00:53:29.84\00:53:33.44
MISSION DURING THE
BATTLE OF THE ALAMO.
00:53:33.48\00:53:36.81
EVERY YEAR THIS FAMOUS MISSION
MUSEUM RECEIVES OVER TWO AND A
00:53:36.85\00:53:40.08
HALF MILLION VISITORS FROM ALL
PARTS OF THE PLANET, THAT ARE
00:53:40.12\00:53:43.22
EAGER TO GET A GOOD
LOOK AT THIS LEGENDARY SITE.
00:53:43.25\00:53:46.69
THE ALAMO PLAYED A CRITICAL
ROLE IN THE TEXAS REVOLUTION.
00:53:46.72\00:53:50.49
IN DECEMBER 1835, TEXANS
AND TEJANO VOLUNTEERS BATTLED
00:53:50.53\00:53:54.93
MEXICAN TROOPS QUARTERED IN
THE CITY, FORCING GENERAL MARTIN
00:53:54.96\00:53:58.00
PERFECTO DE COS TO SURRENDER.
THE VICTORIOUS VOLUNTEERS
00:53:58.03\00:54:01.54
THEN OCCUPIED THE ALAMO
AND STRENGTHENED ITS DEFENSES.
00:54:01.57\00:54:05.97
FAMOUS AMERICANS LIKE DAVY
CROCKETT, JIM BOWIE, AND COLONEL
00:54:06.01\00:54:09.08
WILLIAM TRAVIS MADE THIS
LOCATION - THIS ANCIENT MISSION
00:54:09.11\00:54:12.75
- THE BEACHHEAD - THE LAST
STAND IN AN EPIC BATTLE TO WIN
00:54:12.78\00:54:16.52
INDEPENDENCE OF
TEXAS FROM MEXICO.
00:54:16.55\00:54:19.95
ON FEBRUARY 23, 1836, THE
ARRIVAL OF GENERAL ANTONIO LOPEZ
00:54:19.99\00:54:24.86
SANTA ANA NEARLY
CAUGHT THEM BY SURPRISE.
00:54:24.89\00:54:27.96
UNDAUNTED, THE TEXANS AND
TEJANOS PREPARED TO DEFEND THE
00:54:27.96\00:54:31.13
ALAMO. FOR THIS
SMALL RAG-TAG GROUP OF
00:54:31.17\00:54:33.47
REBELS, THE YOUNGEST OF WHOM
WAS ABOUT SIXTEEN AND THE OLDEST
00:54:33.50\00:54:36.54
SEVENTY-FIVE, WAS AGAINST
THE WELL-TRAINED AND ORGANIZED
00:54:36.57\00:54:39.71
MEXICAN ARMY OF SIX
THOUSAND-PLUS SOLDIERS.
00:54:39.74\00:54:42.91
IT WAS A FIERCE AND LOPSIDED
BATTLE, YET THE SMALL FORCE OF
00:54:42.94\00:54:46.15
REBELS WAS ABLE TO REPEL
THE TROOPS FOR THIRTEEN DAYS.
00:54:46.18\00:54:50.59
LEGEND HOLDS THAT WITH THE
POSSIBILITY OF ADDITIONAL HELP
00:54:50.62\00:54:54.22
FADING, COLONEL TRAVIS DREW A
LINE IN THE GROUND WITH A SWORD
00:54:54.26\00:54:57.93
AND ASKED ANY MAN WILLING TO
STAY AND FIGHT TO STEP OVER THE
00:54:57.96\00:55:01.46
LINE. ALL EXCEPT
ONE CROSSED OVER.
00:55:01.50\00:55:05.73
THE FINAL ASSAULT
CAME BEFORE DAYBREAK.
00:55:05.77\00:55:08.04
ON THE MORNING OF MARCH 6, 1836,
THE THIRTEENTH DAY OF THE SIEGE,
00:55:08.07\00:55:12.81
CANON AND SMALL ARMS FIRE
FROM INSIDE THE ALAMO BEAT BACK
00:55:12.84\00:55:16.34
SEVERAL MEXICAN ATTACKS.
REGROUPING, SANTA ANA'S SOLDIERS
00:55:16.38\00:55:20.55
SCALED THE WALLS AND
RUSHED INTO THE COMPOUND.
00:55:20.58\00:55:23.89
THE DESPERATE STRUGGLE CONTINUED
UNTIL THE DEFENDERS WERE
00:55:23.92\00:55:26.42
OVERWHELMED. BY
SUNRISE, THE BATTLE HAD ENDED
00:55:26.45\00:55:30.09
AND THE GARRISON WAS SLAIN.
YOU KNOW, HISTORIANS MAY DEBATE
00:55:30.13\00:55:33.40
SOME OF THE DETAILS REGARDING
THE BATTLE OF THE ALAMO, BUT
00:55:33.43\00:55:36.36
NONE OF THEM QUESTION THE
INCREDIBLE SACRIFICE THAT WAS
00:55:36.40\00:55:38.87
MADE AND THE COURAGE
THAT WAS DISPLAYED DURING THAT
00:55:38.90\00:55:40.97
INTENSE CONFLICT. THEY
MADE THE ULTIMATE SACRIFICE
00:55:41.00\00:55:45.14
- GIVING THEIR LIVES - AND THIS
IS WHY THE STORY OF THE ALAMO IS
00:55:45.17\00:55:47.98
SO INSPIRING AND SO
ENCOURAGING, YOU KNOW?
00:55:48.01\00:55:51.41
AND THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE IS
SO INSPIRING, FRIENDS, BECAUSE
00:55:51.45\00:55:53.65
SOMEONE WAS WILLING TO MAKE THE
ULTIMATE SACRIFICE AND GIVE HIS
00:55:53.68\00:55:56.35
LIFE SO YOU COULD HAVE
FREEDOM AND ETERNAL LIFE.
00:55:56.38\00:56:00.12
DON'T YOU THINK YOU COULD TRUST
YOUR LIFE TO A FRIEND LIKE THAT,
00:56:00.16\00:56:03.16
THAT WOULD GIVE EVERYTHING?
THE STORY OF THE GOSPEL IS A
00:56:03.19\00:56:05.79
STORY OF COURAGE AND HOPE.
IT'S THE STORY OF GOD WHO WILL
00:56:05.83\00:56:08.63
NEVER LEAVE YOU
WITHOUT DEFENSE AND SUPPORT.
00:56:08.66\00:56:11.47
JESUS IS THE GOOD NEWS AND
THE GOSPEL IS A STORY WORTH
00:56:11.50\00:56:15.10
REMEMBERING. (MUSIC)
00:56:15.14\00:56:37.16
>>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
00:56:37.19\00:56:42.96
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS
AND THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST
00:56:43.00\00:56:46.50
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
00:56:46.53\00:56:49.87
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
00:56:49.90\00:56:54.41
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
00:56:54.44\00:56:57.71
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
00:56:57.75\00:57:01.62
SUCCESS AND THE
MINISTRY SOON BEGAN EXPANDING TO
00:57:01.65\00:57:04.82
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. IN
1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE
00:57:04.85\00:57:09.72
MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO
ITS GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS,
00:57:09.76\00:57:12.86
OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR
00:57:12.89\00:57:16.03
VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
00:57:16.06\00:57:21.20
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE
00:57:21.24\00:57:23.81
ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV
00:57:23.84\00:57:28.14
PROGRAMS BEGAN
AIRING ON MULTIPLE NETWORKS
00:57:28.18\00:57:30.65
AROUND THE WORLD. FOR 50
YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
00:57:30.68\00:57:35.32
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN
THE BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
00:57:35.35\00:57:38.89
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
00:57:38.92\00:57:42.76
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN
AND WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
00:57:42.79\00:57:46.09
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE
00:57:46.13\00:57:50.10
MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH
SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:57:50.13\00:57:54.87
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
00:57:54.90\00:58:02.01
(MUSIC)
00:58:02.04\00:58:17.06