Participants: Pr. Doug Batchelor
Series Code: EG
Program Code: EG021606A
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00:05 >>AMAZING FACTS BEGAN IN 1965 WITH A GOD-INSPIRED 00:10 CONCEPT. >>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND 00:13 THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU. 00:16 >>EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM 00:20 SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY, FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT 00:24 TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE. 00:28 THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON 00:32 BEGAN EXPANDING TO INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS. 00:35 IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS 00:39 GROWING OUTREACH EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING 00:42 EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD. 00:46 IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE 00:50 MINISTRY, ADDING THE BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO 00:54 PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON 00:58 MULTIPLE NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD. 01:01 FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE 01:05 BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A 01:09 TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND 01:13 WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF 01:16 EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE - THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S CHURCH 01:20 SEE A RICH HARVEST OF SOULS. AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S 01:26 MESSAGE, OUR MISSION. >>FOR LIFE-CHANGING 01:33 CHRISTIAN RESOURCES, VISIT AFBOOKSTORE.COM . 01:39 (MUSIC) 01:54 >>THE MESSAGE TODAY IS WHERE IS THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD? 02:00 BUT I THINK IT'S A VERY IMPORTANT BIBLE STUDY THAT, ONCE 02:04 WE UNDERSTAND THESE THEMES, A LOT OF THE BIBLE BEGINS TO MAKE 02:09 MORE SENSE. YOU KNOW, I DO AMAZING FACTS 02:13 EVERY NOW AND THEN, AND ONE LOCATION IN THE WORLD I'D LIKE 02:16 TO SEE - I'VE NOT BEEN TO, IS IN THAILAND, AND THERE IS AN 02:21 ANCIENT CITY THERE CALLED ANGKOR WAT. I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF 02:27 YOU HAVE EVER BEEN THERE. IT'S IN CAMBODIA. 02:31 IT'S THE LARGEST RELIGIOUS SITE IN THE WORLD. 02:35 IT COMPOSES ABOUT 240 SQUARE MILES. 02:40 AT ONE TIME, IT WAS THE LARGEST CITY IN THE WORLD. 02:44 IN THE MIDDLE OF IT, THERE'S ABOUT 500 ACRES THAT ARE 02:48 DEDICATED TO A TEMPLE AND IT'S CONSIDERED ONE OF THE WONDERS - 02:54 YOU CAN'T SAY REALLY ANCIENT WORLD, BECAUSE IT WAS BUILT 02:56 ABOUT 900 YEARS AGO. FOR HUNDREDS OF YEARS IT WAS 03:01 PRETTY WELL UNKNOWN TO WESTERN CIVILIZATION, BUT THEN IN, OH, 03:06 ABOUT 1859 A GENTLEMAN BY THE NAME OF HENRI MOUHOT, A FRENCH 03:13 EXPLORER, WHILE TRAVELING UP THE TRIBUTARIES OF THE MEKONG RIVER 03:17 IN SIAM, THAILAND, CAMBODIA, HE CAME UPON THE RUINS. 03:20 NOW THEY WEREN'T LOST OR ANYTHING, THE PEOPLE THERE ALL 03:22 KNEW ABOUT IT, BUT IT WAS VIRTUALLY UNKNOWN TO THE WESTERN 03:26 WORLD. AND WHEN HE SAW THE CENTRAL 03:29 TEMPLE WITH A SPIRE OVER 200 FEET TALL NESTLED AMONG FOUR 03:35 OTHER SPIRES, HE USED THESE WORDS: HE SAID, "ONE OF THESE 03:42 TEMPLES, A RIVAL TO THAT OF SOLOMON'S, WAS ERECTED BY 03:46 SOME ANCIENT MICHELANGELO. IT MIGHT TAKE AN HONORABLE PLACE 03:50 BESIDES OUR MOST BEAUTIFUL BUILDINGS. 03:52 IT IS GRANDER THAN ANYTHING LEFT TO US BY GREECE OR ROME AND 03:56 PRESENTS A SAD CONTRAST TO THE STATE OF BARBARISM, WHICH THE 04:00 NATION IS NOW PLUNGED." - WHEN HE WAS THERE, THEY WERE 04:02 PLUNGED INTO WAR AND THINGS WERE LOOKING PRETTY PRIMITIVE. 04:06 BUT HE COULD SEE THAT A VERY SOPHISTICATED CIVILIZATION HAD 04:10 BUILT THIS GREAT CITY WITH A CENTRAL TEMPLE - HAD A MOAT 04:15 THREE MILES LONG, 600 FEET ACROSS THE MOAT, AND THEY, BY 04:21 HAND, DUG IT 13-FEET DEEP OUT THERE IN THE JUNGLE WHERE 04:25 THERE'S, YOU KNOW, A LOT OF RAIN, A LOT OF RIVERS TO HELP 04:28 STABILIZE EVERYTHING. MORE STONES WENT INTO BUILDING 04:32 ANGKOR WAT THAN WENT INTO BUILDING THE PYRAMIDS. 04:36 I THINK IT WAS 500 MILLION TONS OF STONE. 04:40 AND THEY HAD TO TRANSPORT THE STONE 25 MILES FROM ITS LOCATION 04:46 - NO, IT'S FIVE MILLION TONS - SORRY, FIVE MILLION TONS WORTH 04:48 OF STONE. THEY HAD TO TRANSPORT 04:50 IT 25 MILES. THAT'S AN INCREDIBLE THING. 04:54 ONE OF THE THINGS ON MY BUCKET LIST, SOMEDAY, IS TO GO TO 04:58 CAMBODIA THERE AND SEE THAT INCREDIBLE SIGHT. 05:02 THE WORD 'ANGKOR WAT' ACTUALLY MEANS 'CITY OF TEMPLES' - CITY 05:07 OF TEMPLES. AND, YOU KNOW, TECHNICALLY, THE 05:11 BIBLE IS A BOOK OF TEMPLES. ALL THE WAY THROUGH THE BIBLE 05:16 YOU'LL FIND REFERENCE TO THE TEMPLE OF GOD AND OTHER TEMPLES. 05:21 IT TALKS ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF DAGON AND THE DIFFERENT PAGAN 05:23 TEMPLES, BUT THE BIBLE TALKS A LOT ABOUT THE SUBJECT OF 05:28 THE TEMPLE. AND I REALIZED, WHEN I HAD - 05:32 WHEN I FELT IMPRESSED TO SHARE THIS WITH YOU - IT'S GOING TO 05:34 TAKE MORE THAN I'LL BE ABLE TO COVER IN ONE PRESENTATION. 05:38 YOU FIND THE WORD 'TEMPLE' - FOUND 455 TIMES IN THE BIBLE. 05:43 NOW, THAT'S NOT THE ONLY WORD USED FOR TEMPLE. 05:46 SOMETIMES IT'S USED AS THE WORD 'SANCTUARY'. 05:49 YOU FIND THE WORD 'SANCTUARY' AN ADDITIONAL 174 TIMES IN THE 05:54 BIBLE. 'HOUSE OF GOD' IS MENTIONED 92 05:59 TIMES IN THE BIBLE, 'THE LORD'S HOUSE' 24 TIMES, AND 06:02 'TABERNACLE' 357 TIMES. AND SO, THERE ARE OVER A THOUSAND 06:07 REFERENCES TO THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD IN THE BIBLE. 06:11 AND SO, I THOUGHT MAYBE THIS IS SOMETHING WE SHOULD TALK ABOUT. 06:13 JESUS TALKED ABOUT IT. 06:15 NOW THE FIRST TIME YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A REFERENCE TO THE 06:19 TEMPLE OF GOD IS IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 06:22 DOESN'T REALLY USE THE WORD 'TEMPLE' - CALLS IT THE 'HOUSE 06:24 OF GOD' - AND YOU CAN SEE HERE IN GENESIS 28, VERSE 16, THE 06:29 HOUSE OF GOD IS FIRST MENTIONED WHEN JACOB IS RUNNING FROM HIS 06:33 BROTHER'S WRATH - HE'S SLEEPING OUT ON THE FIELD BY HIMSELF - HE 06:38 DREAMS OF THIS LADDER - THIS ESCALATOR - A HEAVENLY BRIDGE 06:43 THAT CONNECTS THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH. 06:46 AND ON THIS ESCALATOR HE SEES ANGELS GOING UP AND DOWN, 06:51 BRINGING UP PRAYER REQUESTS AND BRINGING DOWN POWER AND ANSWERS. 06:55 AND WHEN HE WAKES UP AND REALIZES ABOUT THE DREAM THAT 06:59 HE'S HAD - IT SAYS IN GENESIS 28:16, "THEN JACOB AWOKE FROM 07:03 HIS SLEEP AND SAID, 'SURELY THE LORD IS IN THIS PLACE, AND I DID 07:06 NOT KNOW IT.' AND HE WAS AFRAID AND SAID, 'HOW AWESOME IS THIS 07:10 PLACE!'" - PEOPLE OVERUSE THE WORD 'AWESOME' TODAY, RIGHT? 07:14 EVERYTHING'S AWESOME - 'OH MAN, THAT SODA WAS AWESOME.' 07:16 I MEAN, EVERYTHING'S AWESOME WITH THE KIDS TODAY AND THE WORD 07:19 SORT OF LOSES ITS IMPACT. BUT AWESOME IS SOMETHING 07:23 THAT INSPIRES REVERENCE. AND HE SAID THIS IS A PLACE 07:27 THAT SHOULD INSPIRE REVERENCE - "'THIS IS NONE OTHER THAN THE 07:31 HOUSE OF GOD, AND THIS IS THE GATE OF HEAVEN!'" 07:36 MEN HAVE ALWAYS WONDERED 'ARE THERE PLACES HOLIER THAN OTHER 07:39 PLACES, WHERE YOU COULD SOMEHOW COMMUNICATE WITH HEAVEN? 07:42 AND PEOPLE HAVE GONE ON GREAT PILGRIMAGES TO WHAT THEY THINK 07:46 ARE HOLY PLACES WHERE YOU COULD GET CLOSER TO HEAVEN. 07:49 AND, OSTENSIBLY, THIS IS THE REASON SOME PEOPLE CLIMB 07:52 MOUNTAINS, SO THEY COULD GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO HEAVEN. 07:55 AND IT IS TRUE THAT ON THE TOP OF MOUNTAINS, SPECIAL THINGS 07:59 HAVE HAPPENED. GOD SPOKE TO MOSES FROM A 08:01 MOUNTAIN AND HE SPOKE TO JESUS ON A MOUNTAINTOP WHEN 08:05 THE DISCIPLES WENT UP. AND MANY TEMPLES ARE BUILT ON 08:08 MOUNTAINS, HOPEFULLY TO GET A LITTLE CLOSER TO THE GLORY. 08:13 AND SO HERE HE HAS THIS DREAM, IN THE VERY BEGINNING, OF THIS 08:16 BRIDGE CONNECTING HEAVEN AND EARTH AND HE NAMES IT 'BETHEL'. 08:21 WHO KNOWS WHAT THE NAME BETHEL MEANS? HOUSE OF GOD. 08:26 SO THIS IS THE FIRST PLACE YOU'RE GOING TO FIND A REFERENCE 08:29 TO A HOUSE OF GOD - A HOLY PLACE, SO TO SPEAK - IN THE 08:34 BIBLE, THERE IN THE BOOK OF GENESIS. 08:35 LOTS OF REFERENCE IN THE BOOK OF EXODUS. 08:38 MATTER OF FACT, ONE OF THE FIRST THINGS THAT GOD DOES - AS HE 08:40 LEADS HIS PEOPLE OUT OF SLAVERY IN EGYPT, HE - TO MAKE THEM 08:46 ORGANIZE AS A NEW UNIQUE PEOPLE - YOU KNOW, UP UNTIL THE EXODUS 08:49 THEY WERE A TRIBE - A FAMILY - BY THE TIME THEY WENT TO EGYPT 08:54 THERE WAS A FAMILY WITH SEVENTY PEOPLE. 08:56 WHEN THEY LEFT EGYPT THERE WERE OVER A MILLION OF THEM AND THEY 09:00 ESTABLISHED - AS A NATION - GOD SAYS, 'I'M GIVING YOU A 09:03 CALENDAR. HERE'S HOW YOUR CALENDAR WORKS. 09:04 THIS IS THE FIRST OF MONTHS. HERE'S YOUR CEREMONIES IN YOUR 09:07 CALENDAR' - AND HE SAID, 'I WANT YOU TO BUILD A PLACE OF 09:11 WORSHIP.' NOW THIS WAS AN UNUSUAL CHALLENGE BECAUSE THEY 09:15 WERE A MOBILE NATION SO THEY HAD TO BUILD A MOBILE TEMPLE. 09:19 AND SO YOU FIND THAT - WHAT DID GOD ASK HIS PEOPLE TO BUILD? 09:23 YOU KNOW, I KIND OF DID THIS IN A QUESTION/ANSWER FORMAT BECAUSE 09:26 I LIKE TEACHING SEMINARS - EXODUS 25 - GOD SAID, 'LET THEM 09:30 MAKE ME A SANCTUARY THAT I MIGHT DWELL AMONG THEM. 09:35 NOW, IS THERE ANY BUILDING THAT HUMANS CAN BUILD THAT WOULD BE 09:38 ADEQUATE TO HOUSE GOD? I MEAN, HOW BIG WOULD THAT NEED TO BE? 09:44 AND SO, WHEN GOD SAYS, 'LET THEM MAKE ME A SANCTUARY THAT I MIGHT 09:47 DWELL AMONG THEM, WAS THE IDEA THAT HE WAS REALLY GOING TO - I 09:51 REMEMBER AS A KID I SAW AN UNUSUAL BUILDING. 09:54 I WAS DRIVING WITH MY GRANDMOTHER AND I SAID, 'WHAT'S 09:55 THAT?' SHE SAID, 'WELL, THAT'S A SYNAGOGUE.' - MY GRANDMOTHER WAS 09:58 JEWISH. I SAID, 'SYNAGOGUE?' 10:00 SHE SAID, 'THAT'S A HOUSE OF GOD.' I GO, 'WOW, A HOUSE OF 10:04 GOD.' I THOUGHT - EVEN AS A KID I THOUGHT, 'I DIDN'T KNOW HE 10:08 COULD FIT IN A HOUSE.' BUT I THOUGHT - THAT REALLY IMPRESSED 10:12 ME - I THOUGHT, 'THAT'S A HOUSE OF GOD.' HOLY PLACE - IT HAD 10:14 THESE UNUSUAL STAINED GLASS WINDOWS. SO HE SAID, 'I WANT TO 10:18 DWELL AMONG THEM.' HE WANTED A PLACE WHERE THEY COULD MEET WITH 10:21 HIM BECAUSE WE ARE GEOGRAPHIC CREATURES. DON'T YOU ALL LIKE TO 10:27 GO HOME AT THE END OF THE DAY? WE HAVE PLACES THAT WE WANT TO 10:30 BE. QUESTION #3 - IN CASE YOU'RE 10:34 COUNTING, THERE'LL BE TEN - BUT THE TENTH ONE IS REALLY 10:38 LONG, SO DON'T GET EXCITED. (LAUGHTER) WHERE DID MOSES 10:43 OBTAIN THE BLUEPRINTS FOR THIS FIRST TEMPLE? 10:46 DID - YOU KNOW, THEY HAD TEMPLE DESIGNS AMONG THE PHOENICIANS, 10:52 AND THERE WERE TEMPLES THEY SAW IN EGYPT AND SO WERE THEY JUST 10:55 TO COPY ONE OF THE PLANS FROM THE TEMPLES THEY SAW IN EGYPT OR 10:58 - WHERE DID THIS DESIGN COME FROM? 11:01 IT TELLS YOU HERE IN THE BIBLE THAT GOD GAVE HIM THE PLAN. 11:04 EXODUS 25:40, "AND SEE TO IT" - GOD TOLD MOSES - "THAT YOU MAKE 11:09 THEM ACCORDING TO THE PATTERN WHICH WAS SHOWN YOU ON THE 11:12 MOUNTAIN." WHEN HE WENT UP THE MOUNTAIN HE 11:15 RECEIVED THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ALONG WITH THE STATUTES AND 11:18 ORDINANCES, HE RECEIVED VERY SPECIFIC INSTRUCTIONS ABOUT 11:24 BUILDING AN EDIFICE THAT WOULD BE A PLACE WHERE HE MET WITH 11:27 HIS PEOPLE THAT WAS UNIQUE. NOTHING GOD DOES IS BY ACCIDENT. 11:31 THIS WAS A SUPERNATURALLY DESIGNED PIECE OF ARCHITECTURE 11:35 THAT GOD GAVE THE PLANS TO MOSES AS TRULY AS GOD GAVE THE BOAT 11:40 DESIGN TO NOAH. IT WAS TO BE A SUPERNATURAL 11:44 BUILDING AND SO IT'S WORTH OUR STUDY - IT'S VERY INTERESTING. 11:48 BY THE WAY, YOU FIND THAT REPEATED IN HEBREWS 5 - THE 11:51 THINGS ON EARTH THAT WERE BUILT WERE A COPY AND A SHADOW OF THE 11:55 HEAVENLY THINGS. SO THE PLANS THAT GOD GAVE TO 11:59 MOSES WAS A MINIATURE OF GOD'S DWELLING PLACE IN HEAVEN. 12:06 HOW MANY OF YOU - OSTENSIBLY, MEN, WHEN YOU WERE BOYS, HAD 12:14 MATCHBOX CARS OR YOU HAD A HOT WHEELS SET AND YOU WOULD ALL 12:18 COLLECT THE VARIOUS DESIGNS. AND IT WASN'T ALWAYS TRUE WITH 12:22 HOT WHEELS THAT THE JAGUAR OR THE FERRARI WOULD GO FASTER THAN 12:26 THE AMBULANCE. THAT JUST HAD TO DO WITH THE 12:29 ACTUAL WHEELS ON THE CAR, BUT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED TO 12:34 KNOW THAT WHEN THEY MAKE A NEW MATCHBOX CAR - EVERYONE HERE 12:37 KNOW WHAT A MATCHBOX CAR IS? IT USED TO BE EVERY TIME I WENT 12:40 FROM COVOLO TO UKIAH TO GO SHOPPING, I HAD TO KIND OF SPEND 12:45 TWO DOLLARS TO BUY TWO MATCHBOX CARS. 12:47 THEY COST A DOLLAR BACK THEN - THESE LITTLE DIE-CAST CARS FOR 12:51 THE BOYS TO PLAY WITH AND IT MADE THEM HAPPY FOR ABOUT TEN 12:54 MINUTES. BUT THE MATCHBOX CARS ARE 13:00 ACTUALLY VERY SOPHISTICATED MINIATURES OF REAL DESIGNS. 13:05 WHEN THEY MAKE A NEW MATCHBOX CAR, THEY HAVE A WAREHOUSE WHERE 13:10 THEY WOULD BRING IN THEIR NEXT MODEL AND THEY WOULD BUY A 13:12 FULL-SIZE LIMO, FERRARI, CORVETTE - WHATEVER IT WAS - 13:16 THEY WOULD SCAN IT WITH LASERS, MEASURE IT, AND REDUCE IT TO 13:19 ONE HUNDREDTH THE SIZE. AND SO THEY ARE EXACT MINIATURES 13:26 - AS FAR AS THE DIMENSIONS GO - OF THE MUCH BIGGER MODELS. 13:29 THEY REALLY WERE ACCURATE IN SCALE, BUT REALLY SMALL. 13:34 SO WHEN MOSES WAS TOLD TO BUILD THIS TEMPLE ON EARTH AND HE'S 13:38 GIVEN THE PLANS, HE'S GIVEN A MINIATURE OF SOMETHING THAT IS 13:42 MUCH MORE GLORIOUS. NOW, YOU KNOW, MATCHBOX CAR - 13:44 STEERING - YOU CAN'T REACH THE STEERING WHEEL, IT'S GO NO 13:47 ENGINE IN IT - I MEAN, IT IS REALLY SMALL - BUT IT GIVES YOU 13:49 AN IDEA OF WHAT A CORVETTE LOOKS LIKE, JUST MUCH BIGGER. 13:54 IT WAS DESIGNED TO GIVE AN IDEA ABOUT THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. 13:59 FOR EXAMPLE: ON THE WALLPAPER INSIDE THE HOLY PLACE, THEY WERE 14:04 TOLD TO ENGRAVE ANGELS. AND SO THERE WERE ENGRAVINGS OF 14:09 ANGELS ON THE WALLPAPER, THERE WERE ENGRAVINGS OF ANGELS ON THE 14:13 VEIL THAT HUNG BETWEEN THE HOLY PLACE AND THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 14:17 IS THAT BECAUSE GOD HAS ANGEL- COLORED WALLPAPER IN HEAVEN? 14:22 OR DOES HE HAVE REAL, LIVING, MOVING, WAVING, WALLS OF ANGELS? 14:29 ABOVE THE ARK THERE WERE TWO GOLDEN ANGELS. 14:33 IS THAT BECAUSE GOD SITS ON A THRONE WITH TWO GOLDEN ANGELS, 14:36 KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW, SOLOMON HAD GOLDEN LIONS BY HIS THRONE. 14:39 DO YOU REMEMBER READING THAT? 14:41 I THINK THERE WERE SIX GOLDEN LIONS ON EACH SIDE - ADDING UP 14:43 TO TWELVE LIONS ON THE RIGHT AND ON THE LEFT. 14:45 AND WHEN THE QUEEN OF SHEBA SAW THE THRONE OF SOLOMON AND HIS 14:48 GOLDEN LIONS, SHE WAS LEFT WITHOUT BREATH. 14:51 THE BIBLE SAYS IT WAS BREATHTAKING. 14:53 SO DOES GOD SIT BETWEEN TWO GOLDEN ANGELS? 14:57 YOU READ IN ISAIAH CHAPTER 6, IT SAYS, 'GOD, ON HIS THRONE, IS 15:01 FLANKED BY LIVING ANGELS THAT SAY, 'HOLY' - IT CALLS THEM 15:05 'CHERUBIM' - 'HOLY, HOLY, HOLY' THEY WERE CRYING. 15:08 SO IT'S REAL. AND SO WHEN I TALK ABOUT THE 15:11 BLUEPRINTS, JUST KEEP IN MIND THE SCALE IS REALLY SMALL, BUT 15:14 IT'S TO GIVE US AN IDEA THAT WE CAN COMPREHEND. 15:17 SO GOD GAVE HIM THE PLANS - NOT ONLY THE PLANS FOR THE BUILDING 15:23 AND ITS SERVICES, HE GAVE HIM THE PLANS FOR THE VESTMENTS OF 15:29 THE PRIESTS - WHAT THE PRIESTS WERE TO WEAR AND WHAT THE HIGH 15:32 PRIEST WAS TO WEAR, AND IT'S ALL HIGHLY SYMBOLIC, TO TEACH US 15:37 THINGS. FOR EXAMPLE, HIGH PRIEST WAS 15:39 TO WEAR, YOU KNOW, PURE WHITE GARMENTS - SYMBOL OF PURITY - 15:42 HAD A GOLD CROWN PLACARD ON THERE THAT SAID, 'HOLINESS TO 15:45 THE LORD' BECAUSE HE REPRESENTED GOD. HIGH PRIEST, ON HIS HEART 15:50 HE HAD THIS EPHOD THAT HAD TWELVE STONES - ALL BEAUTIFUL, 15:54 ALL DIFFERENT - JUST LIKE GOD'S PEOPLE ARE DIFFERENT - ON HIS 15:57 HEART, WHERE HE WAS INTERCEDING FOR THEM. 16:00 AND IT'S INTERESTING THAT, WHEN YOU LOOK AT THE TWELVE STONES ON 16:04 THE BREASTPLATE OF THE HIGH PRIEST, THEY MATCH UP WITH THE 16:08 TWELVE FOUNDATION STONES IN THE NEW JERUSALEM THAT YOU FIND IN 16:12 REVELATION CHAPTER 22, I BELIEVE IT IS. 16:15 AND SO, YOU FIND THERE'S A LOT OF PARALLELS THERE. 16:18 ANYWAY, SO THE WHOLE DESIGN, THE BUILDING, ITS SERVICES, THE 16:22 VESTMENTS OF THE PRIESTS WERE NOT DESIGNED BY MOSES. 16:25 MOSES WAS NOT DREAMING THOSE THINGS UP. IT CAME FROM GOD. 16:29 AND SO THERE'S A LOT WE CAN LEARN ABOUT THESE THINGS. 16:31 SO LET'S TAKE A LOOK INSIDE FOR A MOMENT AND, FIRST LET'S START 16:34 WITH THE MAIN LAYOUT. YOU HAD - IT'S A BIG RECTANGLE 16:41 AND IN THE BIG RECTANGLE YOU'VE GOT A SMALLER RECTANGLE. 16:47 WITHIN THE BIG RECTANGLE IT'S CALLED THE COURTYARD. 16:50 THEN YOU HAD A RECTANGULAR BUILDING THAT WAS COVERED - THE 16:53 COURTYARD WAS OPEN. THE FIRST COVERED BUILDING YOU 16:56 GO IN IS CALLED THE HOLY PLACE. 16:58 THERE WAS A VEIL SEPARATING THE HOLY PLACE FROM THE LAST ROOM - 17:02 THE INNER SANCTUM, WHICH WAS THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 17:07 NOBODY COULD GO IN THERE EXCEPT THE HIGH PRIEST ONCE A YEAR 17:10 AND THERE WAS ONE THING IN THERE. 17:12 SO IN THE BIG COURTYARD, WHEN YOU FIRST CAME THROUGH THE DOOR 17:16 - AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU, THE FIRST TABERNACLE HAD TO BE 17:19 PORTABLE SO IT HAD CLOTH WALLS AND IT HAD A CLOTH ROOF AND THEY 17:25 COULD TAKE IT DOWN AND HAUL IT AROUND THROUGH THE DESERT AND 17:27 SET IT BACK UP AGAIN. SO THAT'S WHY IT WAS OFTEN 17:30 CALLED 'TABERNACLE' BECAUSE IT WAS IN A TENT FORM. 17:34 IT WAS A MOBILE SANCTUARY. AND WHAT WAS THE FIRST - WHAT 17:38 WAS THE FURNITURE THAT YOU WOULD HAVE FOUND IN THE COURTYARD? 17:41 WHEN YOU FIRST WALK IN, THE FIRST THING YOU DO IS YOU WALK 17:43 THROUGH THE DOOR. HOW MANY DOORS WERE THERE? 17:46 ONE ENTRANCE - ONE DOOR - DIDN'T HAVE A BACK DOOR, DIDN'T HAVE 17:49 EMERGENCY FIRE EXITS. THIS WOULD NEVER HAVE 17:52 PASSED FIRE CODE. IT HAD ONE ENTRANCE. 17:56 THE FIRST THING YOU SAW WHEN YOU CAME IN WAS AN ALTAR - AN ALTAR 18:02 WHERE A VICTIM WAS SACRIFICED AND BURNED. 18:07 BEYOND THE ALTAR THEY HAD A LARGE BRONZE OR BRASS LAVER. 18:13 IT HAD TWO SECTIONS, A TOP SECTION OF WATER FOR WASHING 18:16 HANDS, A LOWER SECTION OF WATER FOR WASHING FEET. 18:20 AND SO THESE WERE THE MAIN THINGS THAT WERE IN THE FIRST 18:23 COMPARTMENT. YOU'VE GOT SOME PICTURES 18:25 OF THEM UP ON THE SCREEN. THESE ARE JUST SOME - SOME BASIC 18:28 COMPUTERIZED IDEAS TO HELP YOU VISUALIZE WHAT WAS THERE. 18:32 THEN #5 - WHAT WAS THE FURNITURE IN THE HOLY PLACE? 18:36 IF - ONCE YOU WENT FROM THE COURTYARD INTO THE FIRST ROOM OF 18:39 THE TENT - THE BUILDING THAT WAS COVERED - YOU WOULD FIND THREE 18:44 ARTICLES OF FURNITURE IN THERE. WHAT WERE THEY? 18:47 THE CANDLESTICK, YOU'VE GOT THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD, AND YOU'VE 18:50 GOT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE. YOU GO TO THE NEXT SET OF 18:52 PICTURES - IN THE NEXT SLIDE - AND YOU'LL SEE THE 18:56 THREE THINGS AGAIN. SO, WHEN YOU WALKED IN YOU HAD 18:59 CANDLESTICK ON YOUR LEFT, YOU HAD THE TABLE OF SHOWBREAD ON 19:01 YOUR RIGHT AND JUST BEFORE THE VEIL WAS THIS ALTAR OF INCENSE. 19:07 NOW THAT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW BECAUSE ON THE DAY OF ATONEMENT, 19:10 THE ALTAR OF INCENSE WAS ALSO MOVED WITHIN THE VEIL FOR THAT 19:13 FINAL SERVICE. SO IT WAS A LITTLE BIT PORTABLE. 19:16 IF YOU DON'T KNOW THAT, YOU'LL GET CONFUSED WHEN YOU READ 19:20 HEBREWS AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE BEING IN THE 19:23 HOLY OF HOLIES. WELL, IT WAS ON THE DAY OF 19:25 ATONEMENT - FOR THAT FINAL SERVICE. 19:28 AND THESE ARTICLES ALL REPRESENT SOMETHING - I'LL GET TO IT - 19:31 I JUST WANT YOU TO HAVE ALL THIS IN YOUR HEAD. 19:33 SIX THINGS: YOU'VE GOT ALTAR, LAVER, SHOWBREAD, ALTAR OF 19:41 INCENSE, YOU'VE GOT THE CANDLESTICK, AND THEN YOU'VE GOT 19:46 THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. NOW I'M GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF. 19:49 WHAT FURNITURE - #6 - WAS IN THE MOST HOLY PLACE? 19:51 I JUST GAVE IT AWAY. YOU HAD THE ARK - CALLED THE ARK 19:57 OF THE COVENANT OR THE ARK OF THE TESTAMENT BECAUSE IT WAS 20:00 THIS BEAUTIFUL GOLDEN BOX WITH THE TWO ANGELS ON TOP AND 20:03 DIFFERENT ARTISTS SORT OF RENDER THOSE ANGELS DIFFERENTLY. 20:06 THEIR WINGS CAME TOGETHER AND THEY WERE IN A PRAYING FORMATION 20:10 - IT'S LIKE THEY WERE LOOKING DOWN AT WHAT WAS UNDER THE LID. 20:14 AND WHAT WAS IN THE BOX? >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 20:16 >>WHAT WAS THE TREASURE - AND THAT'S #7 - WHAT WAS INSIDE THE 20:20 ARK? THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. 20:23 NOW THIS IS REALLY IMPORTANT BECAUSE, YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY 20:26 THIS BEFORE, IF I WERE TO ASK YOU 'WHERE DO PEOPLE IN THE 20:32 WORLD THINK THE HOLY LAND IS? WHAT WOULD YOU ANSWER? 20:36 >>JERUSALEM. >>ISRAEL, OKAY. 20:39 AND ISRAEL'S THE HOLY LAND, WHAT'S THE HOLY CITY? 20:42 >>JERUSALEM. >>JERUSALEM. AND IN THE HOLY 20:45 CITY THEY'VE GOT A PLACE CALLED 'THE HOLY MOUNT' 20:49 WHAT WAS THAT CALLED? 20:50 IT'S CALLED 'MOUNT MORIAH', 'TEMPLE MOUNT', 'MOUNT ZION', 20:55 THAT'S BECAUSE THE TEMPLE WAS UP THERE. 20:58 AND ON THE HOLY MOUNT THEY HAD THE HOLY PLACE - THE TEMPLE - 21:03 HOLY TEMPLE AND IN THE HOLY TEMPLE YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY 21:04 PLACE, THEN BEYOND THE HOLY PLACE YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY OF 21:08 HOLIES AND WHAT WAS IN THERE? THE HOLY ARK, RIGHT? 21:14 AND IN THE HOLY ARK WHAT DID YOU HAVE? 21:17 >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. >>TEN COMMANDMENTS. 21:19 SO THIS WHOLE TEMPLE - THE VERY NUCLEUS OF THE TEMPLE - ARE 21:24 THESE TWO STONES. WHY IS IT SO IMPORTANT? 21:27 THE WHOLE TEMPLE IS THERE TO HONOR THE STONES. 21:30 WHAT'S UNUSUAL ABOUT THESE STONES? 21:32 >>GOD'S WORD. >>WRITING ON THERE 21:35 - WHO WROTE IT? >>GOD. 21:37 >>THE WORD OF GOD. LITERALLY THE WORD OF GOD 21:40 BECAUSE HE WROTE IT WITH HIS FINGER. 21:42 HE SPOKE IT WITH HIS MOUTH. 21:43 AND SO, HERE IT'S THE WHOLE TEMPLE - YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE 21:46 MOST WELL-FORTIFIED MUSEUMS IN THE WORLD IS IN ISRAEL. 21:51 IT'S CALLED 'THE SHRINE OF THE BOOK'. 21:54 IT IS A MUSEUM THAT HOLDS THEIR GREATEST NATIONAL TREASURE, 21:58 WHICH IS - I KNOW BONNIE AND ED HAVE BEEN THERE. 22:01 ANY OF YOU BEEN THERE - TO ISRAEL? 22:02 YOU'VE BEEN THERE - I SEE SOME OF YOU HAVE BEEN TO THE SHRINE 22:03 OF THE BOOK. THE CEILING IS LIKE THREE-FEET 22:06 REINFORCED CONCRETE AND IT JUST - EVERYTHING IS SUPER HIGH 22:11 SECURITY BECAUSE THE GREATEST NATIONAL TREASURE OF THE 22:15 HEBREW PEOPLE IS THERE. AND YOU KNOW WHAT IT IS? 22:19 THE WORD - THE DEAD SEA SCROLLS - WHICH ARE THE OLDEST COPIES 22:23 THAT THEY'VE GOT OF THEIR SCRIPTURES. 22:27 AND IT IS THE NATIONAL TREASURE. WELL, THE TEMPLE WAS ALL BUILT 22:31 AROUND THE TEN COMMANDMENTS - THE LAW OF GOD. 22:34 AND SO IT REPRESENTED THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 22:38 JESUS IS THE WORD, RIGHT? 22:40 SO LET'S GET BACK TO OUR STUDY HERE. 22:42 AND SO WE TALKED ABOUT THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE INSIDE - BY THE 22:46 WAY, YOU READ THAT - DEUTERONOMY 10, VERSE 5, "THEN I TURNED AND 22:50 CAME DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAIN, AND PUT THE TABLETS IN THE ARK WHICH 22:54 I HAD MADE; AND THERE THEY ARE, JUST AS THE LORD COMMANDED ME." 22:59 SO THE TEN COMMANDMENTS ARE PLACED IN THE ARK OF THE 23:01 COVENANT. NOW QUESTION #8 - WHAT IS MEANT 23:06 - WHAT WAS THE PURPOSE FOR THE SANCTUARY AND ITS SERVICES? 23:09 ANSWER - IT WAS TO TEACH ABOUT THE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM. 23:14 LEVITICUS - I'M GOING TO GO TO LEVITICUS 1, VERSE 4, AND VERSE 23:18 11, "THEN HE SHALL PUT HIS HAND ON THE HEAD OF THE BURNT 23:23 OFFERING, AND IT WILL BE ACCEPTED ON HIS BEHALF TO MAKE 23:27 ATONEMENT FOR HIM... HE SHALL KILL IT ON THE SIDE 23:31 OF THE ALTAR NORTHWARD." SACRIFICES WERE HAPPENING THERE. 23:36 THAT'S WHY THEY HAD THE BURNT OFFERING. 23:37 BLOOD WAS BROUGHT INTO THE HOLY PLACE. 23:39 THE WHOLE SANCTUARY WAS ABOUT ATONEMENT. 23:42 NOW, I'M GOING TO READ 9 AND THEN I'M GOING TO START TALKING. 23:46 SEE, I ALREADY GOT TO QUESTION #9 - WHAT DID GOT EXPECT THEM TO 23:49 LEARN FROM THE SANCTUARY? ANSWER: PSALM 77:13 - AND IT 23:54 SAYS, "THY WAY O GOD IS IN THE SANCTUARY." 23:59 ALRIGHT, I WANT YOU TO NOTICE THAT, 'THY WAY O GOD IS IN' - 24:04 THE WAY THAT GOD SAVES PEOPLE IS IN THE SANCTUARY. 24:09 THE WILL OF GOD, THE WAY OF GOD. NOW, I NEED TO DRAMATIZE THIS AS 24:13 WELL AS I CAN BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE - TO ME - THIS IS WHERE I 24:16 THINK IT GETS REALLY INTERESTING - UNDERSTANDING THE SUBJECT OF 24:19 THE TEMPLE, BECAUSE IT'S TELLING US ABOUT GOD. 24:22 FIRST THING YOU NOTICE IS THAT THE PRESENCE OF GOD - IF YOU 24:26 WERE TO SAY GOD WAS ANYWHERE IN THE SANCTUARY, WHERE WOULD HE 24:28 BE? HOLY OF HOLIES - BECAUSE GOD IS HOLY. 24:32 BY THE WAY, SOMETHING I NEVER MENTIONED IS, IN THE TEN 24:35 COMMANDMENTS, WHICH ARE IN THE HOLIEST PLACE IN THE WORLD, WHEN 24:38 THE TEMPLE WAS ON EARTH - YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY LAW - DO YOU KNOW 24:43 HOW MANY TIMES THE WORD 'HOLY' APPEARS IN THE TEN COMMANDMENTS? 24:46 ONCE. WHO KNOWS WHAT COMMANDMENT? 24:49 >>SABBATH. >>SABBATH COMMANDMENT. 24:52 SABBATH - HOLY - KEEP IT HOLY - GOD IS A HOLY GOD. 24:55 IT'S THE ONLY PLACE IT APPEARS - IN THE MIDDLE OF THE LAW YOU 24:57 FIND THE WORD HOLY. IT'S THE FOURTH COMMANDMENT - 25:00 LONGEST OF THE COMMANDMENTS - SO I THOUGHT THAT WAS INTERESTING. 25:02 BUT YOU'VE GOT GOD'S PRESENCE - MAN IS ON THE OUTSIDE. 25:06 MAN IS SEPARATED FROM GOD. THE WAY TO GOD IS A STRAIGHT LINE. 25:12 WHEN YOU FIRST WALK THROUGH THE DOOR YOU'D GO BY THE ALTAR, BY 25:16 THE LAVER, THROUGH THE VEIL, THEN YOU'D WALK INTO THE HOLY 25:20 PLACE, WHERE YOU'RE SURROUNDED BY THESE THREE PIECES OF 25:23 FURNITURE, YOU'D WALK STRAIGHT AHEAD AND THERE YOU'D HAVE GOD. 25:25 IT'S A STRAIGHT LINE FROM THE DOOR TO THE PRESENCE OF GOD. 25:29 EVERYBODY CAN APPROACH GOD. 25:31 WHAT'S THE SHORTEST DISTANCE BETWEEN TWO POINTS? 25:33 >>A STRAIGHT LINE. >>A STRAIGHT LINE. 25:35 AND GOD IS CREATING A STRAIGHT LINE WHERE HE WANTS US TO COME 25:38 TO HIM. BUT THERE'S SEPARATION. 25:40 YOU'VE GOT THE DOOR OF THE SANCTUARY SEPARATING, YOU'VE GOT 25:44 THE DOOR OF THE HOLY PLACE THAT SEPARATES, AND THEN THE VEIL OF 25:47 THE HOLY OF HOLIES. WE ARE SEPARATED FROM GOD, 25:50 WHY? BECAUSE OF SIN. 25:52 YOU'VE GOT ONE DOOR AND THE FIRST THING YOU SEE WHEN YOU 25:55 COME IN IS THE ALTAR, THEN THE LAVER, THEN YOU GO INTO THE HOLY 25:57 PLACE AND WE'LL TALK MORE ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MOMENT. 26:01 HOW MANY DISTRICTS WERE THERE? THERE'S THREE. 26:06 THREE AREAS - YOU'VE GOT THE COURTYARD, YOU'VE GOT THE HOLY 26:10 PLACE, AND YOU'VE GOT THE MOST HOLY PLACE. 26:12 ARE YOU WITH ME? ARE WE RIGHT? HOW MANY PHASES OF SALVATION ARE 26:16 THERE? THREE. JUSTIFICATION, SANCTIFICATION, 26:24 GLORIFICATION. FIRST WE ARE JUSTIFIED - WE COME 26:28 JUST LIKE WE ARE, THEN WE LEARN TO FOLLOW THE LORD - 26:31 SANCTIFICATION, THEN WE'RE GLORIFIED WHEN WE'RE 26:34 ULTIMATELY IN THE PRESENCE OF GOD - WE'RE NO LONGER SEPARATED 26:37 - THAT'S GLORIFICATION. WE HAVE OUR GLORIFIED NEW BODIES. 26:39 YOU'RE JUSTIFIED IN THE COURTYARD, SANCTIFIED IN THE 26:43 HOLY PLACE, GLORIFIED IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES. 26:48 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH THOSE THREE PHASES. 26:52 EGYPT - LIKE THE COURTYARD - THEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE RED 26:56 SEA - FIRST THEY WERE BAPTIZED BY A PILLAR OF FIRE - DO YOU 26:59 REMEMBER THAT? WHEN THE EGYPTIANS CAME AFTER THEM? 27:02 THAT'S THE ALTAR. THEN THEY WENT THROUGH THE SEA - 27:04 THAT'S THE WATER - BAPTISM, THEN THEY WENT INTO THE WILDERNESS 27:08 - DID GOD GIVE THEM BREAD FROM HEAVEN IN THE WILDERNESS? 27:11 AND HE GAVE THEM LIGHT AT NIGHT FROM THE PILLAR OF FIRE AND 27:15 MOSES WAS THERE TO INTERCEDE AND SO YOU'VE GOT THE THREE THINGS 27:18 THAT ARE IN THE HOLY PLACE AND SOMEDAY THEY ENTERED THE 27:21 PROMISED LAND - THAT WAS GLORIFICATION. 27:24 AND SO YOU'VE GOT EGYPT, WILDERNESS, PROMISED LAND - 27:27 THERE'S THREE PHASES IN SALVATION, THERE WERE THREE 27:30 PHASES IN THE EXPERIENCE OF ISRAEL. 27:32 SO THEY - THEY REALLY IDENTIFIED WITH THIS. 27:34 BUT LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT THE BUILDING ITSELF. 27:38 WHEN YOU WALK IN, HOW MANY ENTRANCES ARE THERE? 27:41 >>ONE. >>ONE. 27:42 JESUS SAID HOW MANY WAYS ARE THERE? 27:44 >>ONE. >>THERE'S ONE WAY. THERE'S ONE 27:46 DOOR. WHO IS THE DOOR? >>JESUS. 27:49 >>CHRIST SAYS, 'I AM THE DOOR.' AND THE FIRST THING YOU WOULD DO 27:52 WHEN YOU WALKED INTO THE SANCTUARY IS YOU WOULD WALK UP - 27:55 YOU WOULD NOT COME ALONE, YOU WOULD BRING YOUR SACRIFICE. 27:58 AND YOU NEED TO ENTER HIS PRESENCE FOR THE SACRIFICE. 28:02 IF YOU WERE A HEBREW MAN AND YOU SINNED, YOU HAD TO EITHER TAKE A 28:07 LAMB OR A GOAT FROM YOUR FLOCK OR BUY ONE. 28:11 YOU'D BRING IT TO THE PRIEST, THE PRIEST AT THE DOOR WOULD 28:13 INSPECT IT TO MAKE SURE IT WAS PERFECT. WHY? 28:15 BECAUSE WHO DOES THAT LAMB REPRESENT? 28:17 JESUS. JESUS IS THE DOOR. JESUS IS THE LAMB. YOU WITH ME? 28:22 HE WALKS IN, THE NEXT THING THAT HAPPENS IS, ASSUMING IT'S OKAY, 28:26 YOU TAKE YOUR HANDS, YOU CONFESS WHATEVER YOUR SIN OR SINS ARE ON 28:30 THE HEAD OF THAT INNOCENT VICTIM AND THEN YOU WOULD TAKE A SHARP 28:33 KNIFE YOU RECEIVED FROM THE PRIEST, AND YOU WOULD HAVE TO 28:36 SLAY IT. THEY DID IT VERY QUICKLY, BUT 28:38 THEY WOULD THEN CATCH SOME OF THE BLOOD AND THAT BLOOD THEN 28:42 WAS BROUGHT IN AND SPRINKLED BEFORE THE LORD. 28:45 AND YOU KNOW, IT WAS AMAZING HOW THEY DID THIS. 28:47 JOSEPHUS, THE HISTORIAN SAID THAT DURING THE PASSOVER, AS 28:50 MANY AS 250,000 ANIMALS COULD BE SACRIFICED IN THE TEMPLE, BUT 28:55 THERE WASN'T A SINGLE FLY TO BE FOUND ANYWHERE BECAUSE THE 28:58 PRIESTS WERE SO SANITARY IN THE WAY THAT THEY DID EVERYTHING. 29:02 THAT'S ALMOST INCOMPREHENSIBLE IF YOU THINK ABOUT IT, IF YOU 29:04 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BARN ANIMALS AND WHAT WAS INVOLVED IN THAT. 29:08 I MEAN, WE CAN'T EVEN KEEP THE FLIES OUT OF MODERN 29:11 SLAUGHTERHOUSES NOW, BUT SOMEHOW, HE SAYS THEY DID BACK 29:14 THEN. SO THEY WERE VERY CAREFUL AND 29:16 VERY CLEAN AND VERY METHODICAL ABOUT THE WAY THEY DID IT. 29:18 YOU'D CONFESS YOUR SINS, YOU'D SACRIFICE THE LAMB - THAT WOULD 29:22 MAKE YOU THINK TWICE ABOUT SINNING, IF YOU KNEW TO BE 29:24 FORGIVEN, SOMETHING HAD TO DIE. BUT IS THAT STILL TRUE TODAY? 29:29 I WONDER IF WE'D BE ANY HOLIER TODAY IF EVERY TIME YOU WANTED 29:32 FORGIVENESS FOR SIN, YOU HAD TO BRING A LAMB OR A GOAT OR, IF 29:37 YOU WERE REAL POOR, THEY WOULD BRING A TURTLE DOVE - A PIGEON - 29:40 YOU HAD TO BRING A DOVE AND EVERY TIME YOU WANTED 29:43 FORGIVENESS YOU HAD TO KILL SOMETHING. 29:46 WOULDN'T THAT MAKE YOU THINK TWICE? 29:51 SHOULDN'T THAT BE HARDER WHEN YOU THINK THAT WHENEVER YOU 29:55 CONFESS YOUR SINS AND YOU REPENT, IT COSTS THE LIFE OF 29:57 GOD'S SON? SOME OF US, IT SAYS THEY CRUCIFY 30:02 THE SON OF GOD AFRESH, IN THE BOOK OF HEBREWS. 30:05 SO AFTER THE SACRIFICE, AS YOU'RE APPROACHING GOD, THE NEXT 30:10 THING YOU WOULD COME TO IS THE LAVER. 30:12 THE LAVER HAD WHAT IN IT? >>WATER. 30:14 >>WATER. SO IN THE COURT YOU'VE GOT TWO 30:16 THINGS: YOU'VE GOT FIRE AND YOU'VE GOT RAIN. 30:21 YOU KNOW THE STORY OF ELIJAH? HE PRAYS, FIRE COMES 30:24 DOWN FROM HEAVEN. HE PRAYS, RAIN COMES DOWN 30:28 - BOTH IN THE SAME DAY. WE NEED TO BE BORN OF THE WATER. 30:32 WE NEED TO BE BORN OF THE SPIRIT. IF YOU WERE HERE FOR THE 30:35 SABBATH SCHOOL CLASS, YOU HEARD MY TALK ABOUT BAPTIZED IN THE 30:39 SPIRIT AND BAPTIZED IN THE WATER BY JOHN THE BAPTIST. 30:43 JESUS SAID, 'I WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT WITH FIRE.' 30:46 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, BEFORE THEY ENTERED INTO THE PROMISED 30:48 LAND, THEY HAD THE PILLAR OF FIRE BAPTISM AND THEN THEY WENT 30:53 THROUGH THE RED SEA. AND PAUL SAYS, IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 30:56 10 - I KNOW, THERE'S A LOT OF VERSES I'M GIVING YOU - 30:58 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 10, HE SAYS THEY WERE BAPTIZED IN 31:01 CHRIST IN THE SEA. THE RED SEA WAS A SYMBOL OF BAPTISM. 31:05 I'M NOT MAKING IT UP, THAT'S WHAT THE APOSTLES SAID. 31:08 YOU KNOW, OUR WORLD IS GOING TO BE MADE NEW SOMEDAY, BUT BEFORE 31:12 OUR WORLD CAN BE RECREATED, IT IS GOING TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE 31:16 WATER AND BAPTIZED IN THE FIRE. IN THE DAYS OF NOAH - 2 PETER 31:22 CHAPTER 3 - SAYS OUR WORLD WENT THROUGH A BAPTISM. 31:25 AND, BEFORE JESUS COMES, IT WON'T BE WATER NEXT TIME, WHAT 31:29 WILL IT BE? THE HEAVENS AND THE EARTH THAT 31:31 ARE NOW KEPT IN STORE ARE RESERVED FOR FIRE. 31:34 AND THEN GOD'LL MAKE A NEW HEAVENS AND A NEW EARTH. 31:36 YOU AND I NEED TO GO THROUGH SOME BAPTISMS AND WE NEED TO BE 31:40 CLEANSED AND SOMETIMES WE GO THROUGH A FIRE BAPTISM. 31:44 SO YOU'VE GOT THAT IN THE TEMPLE THERE - YOU'VE GOT THE FIRE, 31:47 YOU'VE GOT THE WATER - AND THEN YOU WOULD ENTER INTO THE HOLY 31:51 PLACE. AND IN THE HOLY PLACE THERE'S 31:54 THREE ARTICLES OF FURNITURE. WHAT ARE THEY AGAIN? 31:56 >>CANDLESTICK. >>CANDLESTICK. 31:59 (INAUDIBLE) THE BUTCHER THE BAKER THE CANDLESTICK MAKER - 32:04 NO, IT'S THE CANDLESTICK, YOU'VE GOT THE BAKER - YOU'VE GOT THE 32:08 BREAD - AND THEN YOU HAD AN ALTAR OF INCENSE. 32:11 THOSE THREE THINGS REPRESENT THE THREE DISCIPLINES OF THE 32:15 CHRISTIAN LIFE. THE BREAD REPRESENTS WHAT? 32:18 >>THE WORD OF GOD. >>TO - SAY JUSTIFICATION IN THE 32:22 COURTYARD, YOU COME JUST LIKE YOU ARE, YOU BRING YOUR LAMB. 32:25 YOU'RE BAPTIZED AND THEN YOU ENTER INTO SANCTIFICATION. 32:28 THERE ARE SOMETIMES TRIALS AFTER BAPTISM. 32:30 THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL WENT THROUGH THE RED SEA AND THEN 32:32 THERE WERE SOME TRIALS IN THE WILDERNESS. 32:34 JESUS WENT THROUGH BAPTISM AND THE SPIRIT LED HIM WHERE? 32:38 INTO THE WILDERNESS WHERE HE WAS TEMPTED OF THE DEVIL. 32:41 AND SO YOU'RE SEEING THE WHOLE PLAN OF SALVATION IN THE 32:43 SANCTUARY IS ACTED OUT. THE WHOLE STORY OF THE LIFE 32:47 OF JESUS IS THERE AS WELL. SO MAN DOESN'T LIVE BY BREAD 32:51 ALONE BUT BY EVERY WORD THAT PROCEEDS FROM GOD. 32:55 JESUS IS THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN. 32:57 AND SO, WE NEED TO READ OUR BIBLES. 33:00 AND THEN IT SAYS THERE'S A CANDLESTICK. 33:02 WHAT DOES THE LIGHT REPRESENT? THE LIGHT REPRESENTS CHRIST AND 33:07 JESUS ALSO SAID YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD AND WE'RE 33:11 TO LET OUR LIGHT SHINE. WE ARE TO BE WITNESSES. 33:13 SO, READ OUR BIBLE, SHARE OUR FAITH, AND WHAT DOES THE ALTAR 33:16 OF INCENSE REPRESENT? THE BIBLE SAYS, IN REVELATION, 33:20 THAT IT REPRESENTS THE PRAYERS OF GOD'S PEOPLE. 33:23 YOU KNOW, LET'S ADMIT IT, SMOKE IS SORT OF ETHEREAL AND THEY 33:26 WOULD PUT THIS FRAGRANT MYRRH OR FRANKINCENSE WHICH, BY THE WAY, 33:31 THEY GAVE TO JESUS WHEN - IT CAME FROM THE WISE MEN WHEN HE 33:34 WAS A BABY. THEY WOULD PUT THAT ON THE ALTAR 33:37 AND THE PLEASANT FRAGRANCE WOULD VAPORIZE AND SMOKE WOULD RISE 33:42 AND GO ACROSS THE VEIL AND SO, FROM THE HOLY PLACE TO THE MOST 33:47 HOLY PLACE, IT'S LIKE IT WAS CARRYING THE FRAGRANT PRAYERS OF 33:51 GOD'S PEOPLE BEING MADE SWEET THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. 33:54 AND THE BIBLE SAYS THE SPIRIT TAKES OUR PRAYERS - GROANINGS 33:57 THAT CANNOT BE UTTERED - AND BRINGS IT INTO THE PRESENCE OF 33:59 GOD AND WE PRAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 34:02 SO YOU'VE GOT THE ALTAR OF INCENSE REPRESENTED - PRAYER. 34:06 THE CANDLESTICK REPRESENTED LETTING YOUR LIGHT SHINE AND THE 34:10 BREAD REPRESENTED THE WORD OF GOD. 34:11 BUT THOSE THINGS ALL REPRESENT JESUS AS WELL. 34:16 WHO IS THE BREAD THAT CAME DOWN FROM HEAVEN? 34:19 CHRIST SAID, 'I AM THE BREAD.' MOSES ISN'T THE ONE WHO REALLY 34:22 GAVE YOUR FATHER BREAD, I AM THE BREAD OF LIFE. 34:25 WHO IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD? IT'S TRUE, JESUS SAID 'YOU ARE 34:29 THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD, LET YOUR LIGHT SO SHINE BEFORE MEN', BUT 34:33 HE ALSO SAID, 'I AM THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD'. 34:35 SO IF WE HAVE ANY LIGHT, WE'RE JUST REFLECTING HIS LIGHT. 34:38 SEE? AND IF WE'VE GOT BREAD OF LIFE, 34:40 IT'S BECAUSE IT COMES FROM HIS BREAD. AND THE PRAYER - 34:46 CHRIST IS OUR HIGH PRIEST. WE PRAY IN HIS NAME. 34:50 AND SO, I HOPE YOU'RE GETTING THIS, BUT AS YOU LOOK AT THE 34:53 WAYS THAT JESUS IDENTIFIED HIMSELF WHEN HE CAME TO EARTH, 34:56 HE SAID, 'I AM THE DOOR.' HE IS THE LAMB. 35:05 HE IS THE HIGH PRIEST. HE IS THE LIVING WATER. 35:09 WHAT COMES AFTER THE ALTAR? THE LAVER - HE'S 35:12 THE LIVING WATER. HE IS THE LIGHT. HE IS THE BREAD. HE IS 35:17 THE ONE WHO INTERCEDES WITH OUR PRAYERS. NOW YOU GET INTO THE 35:20 HOLY OF HOLIES AND YOU'VE GOT THE ARK, WHICH IS A GOLDEN BOX, 35:24 BUT THE BOX IS THE CONTAINER TO HOLD WHAT? THE ROCKS. 35:28 JESUS IS THE WORD AND JESUS SAID, 'I AM THE ROCK.' HE SAID 35:32 'ANYONE WHO HEARS THESE SAYINGS OF MINE AND DOES THEM, HE IS 35:35 LIKE A WISE MAN WHO'S BUILDING HIS HOUSE ON A ROCK.' 35:38 AND SO, ARE YOU GETTING THAT JUST EVERYTHING ABOUT THIS 35:41 JOURNEY THROUGH THE SANCTUARY IS TALKING ABOUT BAPTISM. 35:44 IT'S TALKING ABOUT SURRENDER - THE CROSS WAS WHERE CHRIST 35:47 SUFFERED - THE ALTAR - THE SACRIFICE - BAPTISM - THE HOLY 35:51 PLACE - THE CHRISTIAN DISCIPLINES: READING YOUR BIBLE, 35:54 PRAYING, GETTING READY FOR GLORIFICATION - THE PRESENCE OF 35:57 GOD. AND SO THE WHOLE THING IS A JOURNEY TOWARDS GOD. 36:01 NOW THIS WAS THE FIRST TABERNACLE THAT WAS BUILT IN THE 36:04 WILDERNESS. IT WAS PORTABLE. 36:08 IT LASTED FOR SEVERAL HUNDRED YEARS. 36:10 MATTER OF FACT, IT WAS PRETTY PITIFUL. 36:12 BY THE TIME IT WENT THROUGH THE AGE OF THE JUDGES AND SAMUEL, 36:17 AND KING SAUL - AND EVEN DURING THE TIME OF KING DAVID, DAVID 36:22 SAID ONE TIME - HE'S PRAYING IN 1 CHRONICLES AND HE SAID, 'I'M 36:27 DWELLING IN A HOUSE MADE OF CEDAR' - KING HIRAM UP FROM TYRE 36:31 GAVE HIM ALL THIS BEAUTIFUL CEDAR WOOD TO BUILD HIM A PALACE 36:34 FOR HIS OWN PERSONAL HOUSE AND HE'S GOT THIS BEAUTIFUL HOUSE 36:37 AND HE LOOKS OUT AND THE ARK OF GOD IS IN A FLAPPING RAGGED TENT 36:41 THAT'S PROBABLY BEEN PATCHED AND REPLACED OVER SEVERAL HUNDRED 36:44 YEARS. AND SO HE SAID, 'THIS JUST ISN'T RIGHT. 36:47 I MEAN ALL THESE OTHER KINGDOMS, THEY'VE GOT THESE BEAUTIFUL 36:49 TEMPLES FOR THEIR GODS.' I MEAN, EVEN BEFORE DAVID, DURING THE 36:53 TIME OF RUTH, SAMSON LIVED AND IT TALKS ABOUT SAMSON, REMEMBER, 36:57 BRINGING DOWN THE TEMPLE OF DAGON. 36:59 SO WE KNOW THE PHILISTINES HAD TEMPLES. 37:01 AND THEY HAD THE TEMPLE OF MOLOCH, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT. 37:05 AND SO ALL THESE DIFFERENT GODS HAD TEMPLES BUT THE ARK OF GOD 37:09 IS IN A TENT. AND DAVID, THAT REALLY BOTHERED HIM. 37:11 AND THE BURDEN OF DAVID'S LIFE WAS TO BUILD A PERMANENT TEMPLE. 37:16 HE SAID, 'YEAH, THE TABERNACLE WAS GOOD WHEN YOU'RE GOING 37:18 THROUGH THE WILDERNESS' - BECAUSE THEY HAD TO PACK IT AND 37:20 TAKE IT DOWN AND SET IT UP AND TAKE IT DOWN - HE SAYS, 'BUT 37:23 WE'RE SETTLED NOW.' SEE, GOD TOLD DAVID - I TAKE THAT BACK - 37:27 GOD TOLD MOSES - HE SAID 'WHEN THEY ENTER INTO THE PROMISED 37:31 LAND, THERE WILL BE A PLACE THAT I WILL CHOOSE FOR MY NAME TO 37:36 DWELL.' THEY DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THAT WAS GOING TO BE. 37:39 WELL, DAVID MADE A MISTAKE ONE DAY AND HE NUMBERED ISRAEL AND A 37:43 PLAGUE CAME - HE WAS BRAGGING ABOUT HOW BIG THE KINGDOM HAD 37:47 BECOME UNDERNEATH HIM AND A PLAGUE CAME AND THOUSANDS OF 37:51 PEOPLE WERE DYING FROM THIS PLAGUE THAT WAS GOING THROUGH 37:54 THE LAND OF ISRAEL AND DAVID LOOKED UP, WHILE HE WAS IN 37:56 JERUSALEM, AND HE SEES A MIGHTY ANGEL OF GOD WITH A SWORD 38:00 DRAWN AND HE KNEW THE PLAGUE WAS NOW SWEEPING DOWN AND GETTING 38:04 READY TO DECIMATE PEOPLE LIVING IN JERUSALEM. 38:08 AND DAVID SAW THE ANGEL UP ABOVE MOUNT MORIAH. 38:12 NOW, YOU KNOW WHY MOUNT MORIAH IS SIGNIFICANT? 38:15 WHERE DID ABRAHAM BRING ISAAC? MOUNT MORIAH. 38:20 WHERE DID MELCHIZEDEK LIVE? 38:23 MELCHIZEDEK WAS THE KING OF A PLACE KNOWN AS SALEM, LATER 38:27 KNOWN AS JERU - JERU MEANS CITY - SALEM - SHALOM MEANS PEACE - 38:32 MELCHIZEDEK WAS THE KING OF SALEM AND THERE IN THE PROMINENT 38:36 MOUNTAIN WAS THE TEMPLE MOUNT - MOUNT ZION, MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND 38:42 YOU KNOW WHO OWNED THE REAL ESTATE UP THERE? 38:44 FIRST THE JEBUSITES OWNED JERUSALEM AND DAVID CHASED THEM 38:47 OUT - DAVID AND JOAB CHASED THEM OUT AND HE SAID, 'I'M MAKING 38:50 JERUSALEM MY CAPITAL CITY.' BUT THE BEST SPOT IN THE CITY OF 38:54 JERUSALEM WAS OWNED BY A MAN NAMED ORNAN. 38:58 HE HAD A THRESHING FLOOR UP THERE ON THE HILL BECAUSE THE 39:02 BREEZE WOULD COME AND WHEN THEY WERE THRESHING WHEAT UP ON THE 39:04 HILL YOU'D GET THE BEST BREEZE. THE ANGEL WAS RIGHT ABOVE THERE. 39:08 IT'S WHERE ISAAC HAD BEEN OFFERED. 39:10 AND DAVID WENT TO ORNAN, HE SAW THE ANGEL - I DON'T KNOW IF 39:13 ORNAN SAW IT. ACTUALLY, I THINK LATER IT SAYS HE DID. 39:17 HE SAID, 'I NEED TO BUY THIS THRESHING FLOOR FROM YOU BECAUSE 39:19 I'M GOING TO OFFER SACRIFICE.' ORNAN SAID, 'I'LL GIVE IT TO 39:22 YOU.' DAVID SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING 39:23 TO OFFER ANYTHING TO GOD THAT DOESN'T COST ME SOMETHING. 39:27 AND SO HE BOUGHT THE THRESHING FLOOR, HE MADE AN OFFERING TO 39:30 GOD, THE PLAGUE STOPPED AND THE LORD SAID TO DAVID, 'THIS IS THE 39:34 PLACE WHERE I MET WITH YOU WITH THE ANGEL. 39:36 THIS WAS THE PLACE WHERE YOU INTERCEDED, THIS WAS THE PLACE 39:38 WHERE ISAAC WAS OFFERED AND GOD' - ISAAC WASN'T OFFERED, HE WAS - 39:43 ISAAC WAS OFFERED, BUT HE WASN'T KILLED THOUGH. 39:45 THE ANGEL STOPPED HIM. HE SAID, 'THIS IS THE PLACE 39:47 WHERE I WANT MY HOUSE.' DAVID WAS SO EXCITED. 39:50 HE WANTED TO BUILD A HOUSE FOR GOD, BUT GOD SAID, 'NO, DAVID, 39:53 YOU'RE NOT THE ONE TO DO IT. YOU'VE BEEN A MAN OF WAR. 39:58 NOT ONLY THAT, YOU'VE GOT INNOCENT BLOOD ON YOUR HANDS. 40:01 NOT JUST THE SOLDIER, BUT YOU'VE GOT INNOCENT BLOOD FROM KILLING 40:05 URIAH, AND ADULTERY' HE SAID, 'NO, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO BUILD 40:08 MY HOUSE.' GOD SAID - AND THIS IS 1 CHRONICLES 17 - WHAT 40:12 BUILDING REPLACED THE WILDERNESS TABERNACLE? 40:15 THAT'S THE QUESTION WE'RE DEALING WITH. 40:17 THE ANSWER IS 1 CHRONICLES 17:11 - NATHAN THE PROPHET SAID TO 40:22 DAVID, "AND IT SHALL BE, WHEN YOUR DAYS ARE FULFILLED, WHEN 40:26 YOU MUST GO TO BE WITH YOUR FATHERS, THAT I WILL SET UP YOUR 40:29 SEED AFTER YOU, WHO WILL BE OF YOUR SONS; AND I WILL ESTABLISH 40:34 HIS KINGDOM. HE SHALL BUILD ME A HOUSE, AND 40:37 I WILL ESTABLISH HIS THRONE FOREVER." 40:39 NOW, IF YOU CIRCLE IN YOUR BIBLE, I WOULD CIRCLE 1 40:43 CHRONICLES 17, VERSES 11 AND 12, BECAUSE THAT IS WHAT YOU CALL A 40:47 DUAL PROPHECY. YOU KNOW WHAT I MEAN BY DUAL PROPHECY? 40:51 THERE ARE SOME DUAL PROPHECIES - MATTHEW 24 - JESUS IS TALKING 40:54 ABOUT THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM; HE'S ALSO TALKING 40:56 ABOUT THE END OF THE WORLD. THIS PROPHECY, NATHAN IS TALKING 40:59 ABOUT THE SON OF DAVID, NAMED SOLOMON, THAT WOULD BUILD THE 41:03 TEMPLE, WHICH WAS WHAT WAS ON DAVID'S HEART. 41:06 BUT DON'T YOU THINK IT'S TALKING ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE? 41:09 'I WILL RAISE UP YOUR SON WHO WILL COME AFTER YOU; HE WILL 41:11 BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT WILL LAST FOREVER.' WHO IS THE SON OF 41:15 DAVID THAT WAS GOING TO BUILD A HOUSE THAT WOULD LAST FOREVER? 41:18 >>JESUS. >>JESUS - DIFFERENT 41:20 KIND OF TEMPLE. WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT NEXT WEEK. 41:23 NOW, TODAY WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE THREE PHYSICAL TEMPLES THAT 41:26 YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. TABERNACLE, TEMPLE #2 NOW IS 41:30 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, AND IT WAS THE APEX OF GLORIOUS TEMPLES. 41:37 THIS GUY, HENRI MOUHOT, FOUND THE ANGKOR WAT TEMPLE, HE SAID 41:42 IT WAS MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE - I THOUGHT, 41:44 WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? 41:45 YOU HAVE NO PHOTOGRAPHS OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. 41:47 SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WAS ONE OF THE WONDERS OF THE ANCIENT WORLD. 41:51 YOU LOOK AT HOW MUCH GOLD - LITERALLY BILLIONS OF DOLLARS OF 41:55 GOLD - DAVID HAD CONQUERED ALL THESE OTHER NATIONS - HE 41:57 CONQUERED THEM, HE TOOK THEIR MONEY, THEY WERE ALL PAYING 41:59 TAXES. DAVID HAD MOUNTAINS OF GOLD AND 42:02 SILVER AND JEWELS WHEN HE CEDED THE THRONE TO SOLOMON. 42:08 SOLOMON CAME INTO POWER AND IT SAYS SILVER WAS LIKE STONES. 42:12 SO WHEN THEY BUILT THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, HE WANTED IT TO BE THE 42:15 MOST GLORIOUS TEMPLE IN THE WORLD BECAUSE IT WAS FOR 42:17 JEHOVAH. IT NEEDED TO OUTSHINE THE TEMPLES OF ASHORETH, AND 42:21 BAAL, AND MOLOCH AND ALL THE OTHER PAGAN GODS. 42:24 IT WAS TO BE MORE BEAUTIFUL THAN ANYTHING IN EGYPT - MAYBE NOT 42:27 BIGGER, BUT MORE BEAUTIFUL. AND IT WAS SO BEAUTIFUL. 42:31 DO YOU REMEMBER THE DISCIPLES, THEY'RE WALKING ALONG WITH 42:33 JESUS, THEY SAID, 'OH' - THEY LIVED THERE! 42:36 - THEY SAID, 'LET'S GO LOOK AT THE STONES OF THE TEMPLE.' I 42:39 MEAN, YOU KNOW, WHEN I GREW UP IN NEW YORK CITY, PEOPLE COME 42:42 FROM AROUND THE COUNTRY, THEY LOOK AT THE STATUE OF LIBERTY, 42:44 BUT I SAW IT EVERY DAY AND I SAID, 'EH, NO BIG DEAL.' YOU 42:48 THINK THEY WOULD BE, YOU KNOW, BORED WITH IT. 42:51 THEY WERE STILL IMPRESSED WITH THE GLORY OF THEIR OWN BUILDING, 42:54 IT WAS THAT IMPRESSIVE. AND SO - AND THAT WAS THE 42:57 REBUILT VERSION OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. 43:01 AND SO THIS WAS A BEAUTIFUL, GLORIOUS BUILDING, AND THERE WAS 43:04 SUCH REVERENCE WHEN IT WAS BEING BUILT - 1 KINGS 6, VERSE 7, "AND 43:11 THE TEMPLE, WHEN IT WAS BEING BUILT, WAS BUILT WITH STONE 43:13 FINISHED AT THE QUARRY, SO THAT NO HAMMER OR CHISEL OR ANY IRON 43:17 TOOL WAS HEARD IN THE TEMPLE WHILE IT WAS BEING BUILT." 43:20 THERE'S SUCH RE - THEY DO THE CARVING AND THE - THEY FOUND THE 43:24 PLACE WHERE THEY GOT THE STONES FOR SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. 43:26 IT WAS PROBABLY AROUND FIVE MILES AWAY AND THEY HAD GREAT - 43:31 SOLOMON HAD A MASSIVE WORKFORCE - THOUSANDS AND THOUSANDS OF 43:34 PEOPLE THAT WERE INVOLVED IN BUILDING BOTH HIS TEMPLE - 43:37 HIS HOUSE, RATHER - AND THE TEMPLE. 43:39 AND THEY'D BRING ALL THE STONES AND THEY PUT THEM QUIETLY INTO 43:42 PLACE AND THIS REVERENT TEMPLE GREW UP. 43:46 AND WHEN SOLOMON PRAYS AND HE DEDICATES THE TEMPLE - THIS 43:49 DOESN'T HAPPEN VERY OFTEN, BUT AFTER HIS DEDICATION PRAYER - IT 43:54 WASN'T JUST A BUILDING - FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN 43:58 - ON A CLEAR SKY - IT WASN'T LIGHTNING - AND DEVOURED THE 44:01 SACRIFICE, SHOWING GOD'S APPROVAL THAT HE HAD ACCEPTED 44:04 THEIR SACRIFICE, THAT HE HAD HEARD SOLOMON'S PRAYER, AND THE 44:07 BIBLE SAYS THE GLORY OF THE LORD SO FILLED THE TEMPLE THAT THE 44:11 PRIESTS COULD NOT GO IN. THEY TRIED TO VEIL THEMSELVES 44:14 LIKE FIREMEN WITH REFLECTIVE GEAR - AND THEY TRIED TO GO IN 44:17 TO DO WHAT THEY WERE SUPPOSED TO DO AND THEY SAID, 'WE CAN'T DO 44:19 IT. THERE'S TOO MUCH GLORY IN THERE.' REMEMBER WHEN MOSES CAME 44:21 OFF THE MOUNTAIN, HIS FACE WAS SHINING AND THEY SAID, 'CAN YOU 44:23 PLEASE COVER YOUR FACE?' BECAUSE OF THE GLORY. 44:26 AND SO GOD HAD REALLY DEMONSTRATED HIS APPROVAL. 44:30 BY THE WAY, THAT ALSO HAPPENED WITH THE WILDERNESS TABERNACLE. 44:33 ONCE IT WAS INAUGURATED - IT WAS ALL BUILT - WHEN THEY DEDICATED 44:37 IT, FIRE CAME DOWN FROM GOD OUT OF HEAVEN ON THE SACRIFICE. 44:42 THAT'S IMPORTANT BECAUSE WHEN THEY REBUILT SOLOMON'S TEMPLE - 44:47 THE THIRD TEMPLE - THAT DIDN'T HAPPEN. 44:50 BUT I'LL GET TO THAT IN JUST A SECOND. 44:51 SO SOLOMON'S TEMPLE LASTED A LITTLE MORE THAN 400 YEARS AND 44:56 IT WAS THE ICON OF THE NATION. 44:59 IN FACT, WHEN THE KINGDOM OF ISRAEL SPLIT, KING JEROBOAM, THE 45:06 SON OF NEBAT, WAS AFRAID - HE WAS THE KING OF THE NORTHERN 45:09 KINGDOMS - HE SAID, 'WE'RE GOING TO HAVE TO MAKE OUR OWN TEMPLE 45:11 AND OUR OWN IDOLS - OUR OWN ALTARS,' HE SAID, 'OR THE PEOPLE 45:14 ARE GOING TO GO DOWN AND SACRIFICE AT SOLOMON'S TEMPLE.' 45:17 AND SO HE CHANGED THE RELIGION TO KEEP THEM FROM GOING DOWN TO 45:21 JERUSALEM BECAUSE THAT WAS THE PLACE GOD HAD DEDICATED - HE HAD 45:24 SET ASIDE FOR THEM TO GO. AND HE HAD MET WITH THEM - 45:27 THEY'D SEEN HIS PRESENCE THERE BEFORE. 45:30 SO, BECAUSE OF THEIR UNFAITHFULNESS - IT'S JUST 45:36 ALWAYS SAD TO THINK ABOUT SOLOMON'S TEMPLE BEING 45:39 DESTROYED, BUT THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 45:42 KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME ALONG IN ABOUT 587 AND HE DESTROYED 45:48 THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON - AND YOU CAN READ THIS - IT WAS BECAUSE 45:53 OF YEARS OF THEIR SIN AND THE SINS OF MANESSEH. 45:56 HE DEALT WITH THEIR BACKSLIDING AND FINALLY SAID, 'ENOUGH IS 46:00 ENOUGH' AND HE WITHDREW HIS PRESENCE - IT'S LIKE ICHABOD - 46:04 THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED. 2 CHRONICLES 36:18, "AND ALL OF 46:09 THE ARTICLES FROM THE HOUSE OF GOD, GREAT AND SMALL, THE 46:12 TREASURES OF THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND THE TREASURES OF THE 46:15 KING AND OF HIS LEADERS, ALL THESE HE TOOK TO BABYLON. 46:18 THEN THEY BURNED THE HOUSE OF GOD, BROKE DOWN THE WALL OF 46:22 JERUSALEM, BURNED ALL ITS PALACES" - DID YOU GET THAT? 46:24 - THEY BURNT THE HOUSE OF GOD - THEY "BROKE DOWN THE WALL OF 46:28 JERUSALEM, BURNED ALL ITS PALACES WITH FIRE, AND DESTROYED 46:31 ALL ITS PRECIOUS POSSESSIONS" NOW, IT LISTS THE ARTICLES THAT 46:35 WERE CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON AND IT NEVER MENTIONS THE ARK. 46:40 IT IS BELIEVED - AND, BY THE WAY, YOU'LL FIND THIS IN THE 46:42 BOOK PATRIARCHS AND PROPHETS - NO, PROPHETS AND KINGS - THAT 46:47 JEREMIAH, WHO FORETOLD THE DESTRUCTION OF JERUSALEM - 46:50 JEREMIAH WHO FORETOLD THE BURNING OF THE TEMPLE - HE AND 46:54 SOME PRIESTS, ONE NIGHT, QUIETLY PUT THE ARK ON THEIR SHOULDERS - 46:58 THEY COVERED IT - THEY CARRIED IT TO A CAVE - IF YOU'VE EVER 47:03 BEEN TO ISRAEL, UNDERNEATH JERUSALEM IT IS A HONEYCOMB OF 47:07 CAVES AND TOMBS AND SO IT'S EASY TO BELIEVE - THEY PUT IT IN A 47:12 TOMB, THEY SEALED AND HID THE ENTRANCE SOMEHOW, AND IT HAS 47:15 NEVER BEEN SEEN SINCE. IT WOULD BE WONDERFUL IF 47:17 SOMEONE WOULD FIND THAT. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF RUMORS I'VE 47:20 HEARD, 'OH, THEY FOUND THE ARK.' BUT THERE'S NO EVIDENCE THAT 47:23 THEY FOUND THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. AND, YOU KNOW, THEY'VE 47:25 EVEN MADE MOVIES ABOUT IT BECAUSE THEY KNOW THAT IT IS 47:27 MISSING. SOME SAY, 'OH, IT WENT OFF TO ETHIOPIA' BECAUSE SOLOMON 47:31 GAVE IT TO HIS GIRLFRIEND, THE QUEEN OF SHEBA. 47:33 (LAUGHTER) HAVE YOU HEARD THAT ONE? 47:36 THAT'S - NOW, PEOPLE, I DON'T WANT TO OFFEND YOU IF YOU'RE 47:39 FROM ETHIOPIA, BUT THAT'S NOT TRUE. BECAUSE IN THE BIBLE, 47:41 AFTER QUEEN OF SHEBA - YEARS AFTER - IT'S STILL MENTIONS THE 47:45 ARK SPECIFICALLY BEING IN THE TEMPLE. YOU HEAR OF IT BEING 47:48 MENTIONED UP PAST THE TIME OF HEZEKIAH, SO WE HAVE REASON TO 47:52 BELIEVE IT WAS STILL THERE DURING THE TIME OF JEREMIAH. 47:57 BUT IT WAS DESTROYED. SEVENTY YEARS THEY HAVE NO 47:59 TEMPLE, THEN FINALLY, WHEN THEY'RE ALLOWED TO GO BACK TO 48:04 THE PROMISED LAND, WHAT'S THE FIRST THING THEY WANT TO DO? 48:07 IF YOU GO TO THE BOOK OF EZRA - EZRA CHAPTER 1 - WE'RE ALMOST 48:11 DONE - I TOLD YOU QUESTION #10 WOULD BE A LONG ONE. 48:14 EZRA 1, I'M GOING TO READ VERSES 1 THROUGH 3, "NOW IN THE FIRST 48:18 YEAR OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD BY THE 48:23 MOUTH OF JEREMIAH MIGHT BE FULFILLED, THE LORD STIRRED UP 48:26 THE SPIRIT OF CYRUS KING OF PERSIA, SO THAT HE MADE A 48:29 PROCLAMATION THROUGHOUT ALL HIS KINGDOM, AND ALSO PUT IT IN 48:32 WRITING, SAYING," - NOW CYRUS WAS INFLUENCED BY, YOU KNOW, THE 48:37 GODLY IMPACT MADE BY SHADRACH, MESHACH, ABEDNEGO, AND DANIEL. 48:42 CYRUS LIVED DURING THE TIME OF DANIEL AND HE SAID THIS IN HIS 48:46 DECREE: "'THUS SAYS CYRUS KING OF PERSIA:'" - YOU'RE ACTUALLY 48:51 READING PART OF THE BIBLE COMING FROM PERSIA NOW - "' THUS SAYS 48:54 CYRUS KING OF PERSIA: 'ALL THE KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH THE LORD 48:58 GOD OF HEAVEN HAS GIVEN ME. AND HE HAS COMMANDED ME TO BUILD 49:01 HIM A HOUSE AT JERUSALEM''" - ISN'T THAT INTERESTING? 49:04 CYRUS BELIEVED IN THE LORD GOD JEHOVAH. 49:07 HE RECOGNIZED THE LORD GOD JEHOVAH GAVE HIM ALL THE 49:11 KINGDOMS OF THE EARTH - HE WANTS "''ME TO BUILD HIM A HOUSE AT 49:13 JERUSALEM WHICH IS IN JUDAH. WHO IS AMONG YOU OF ALL HIS PEOPLE? 49:18 MAY HIS GOD BE WITH HIM, AND LET HIM GO UP TO JERUSALEM WHICH IS 49:21 IN JUDAH, AND BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD GOD OF ISRAEL (HE IS 49:26 GOD), WHICH IS IN JERUSALEM.''" WOW, WHAT A DECLARATION FROM THE 49:31 KING OF PERSIA, THAT JEHOVAH IS THE TRUE GOD. 49:35 SO MANY OF THEM WENT, DURING THIS SECOND EXODUS, THEY WENT 49:38 FROM BABYLON - HIS PEOPLE CAME OUT OF BABYLON INTO THE PROMISED 49:42 LAND AND, YOU KNOW, FIRST NEHEMIAH TRIED TO HELP THEM GET 49:45 THE WALLS BUILT AND THE STREET; IT SAYS IN DANIEL CHAPTER 9 IT 49:49 WOULD BE DONE DURING TROUBLOUS TIMES. AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED. 49:52 THEY HAD A LOT OF TROUBLE DURING THAT BUILDING AND IT - IT TOOK 49:59 PLACE OVER A PERIOD OF ABOUT 25 YEARS BECAUSE IT KEPT GETTING 50:02 INTERRUPTED AND THEN THE SAMARITANS WOULD FIGHT AGAINST 50:04 THEM AND THEY'D GET A DECREE TO STOP THE BUILDING. 50:07 AND THEN THEY GOT ANOTHER DECREE TO START THE BUILDING AGAIN AND 50:11 FINALLY, UNDER THE PREACHING OF HAGGAI, AND YOU CAN READ THIS IN 50:15 HAGGAI 2, VERSE 6, HE SAID, 'GOD'S NOT GOING TO BLESS YOUR 50:18 HOUSE IF YOU NEGLECT HIS HOUSE. THEY'D STARTED THE BUILDING AND 50:22 THEN STOPPED AND THEY HAD THIS HALFWAY BUILT BUILDING. 50:25 DO YOU KNOW THAT THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT TOOK LIKE 40 YEARS TO 50:29 BUILD? THE WASHINGTON MONUMENT WENT UP 50:33 - MAYBE IT WAS 20 YEARS - IT WENT UP THE FIRST, I DON'T KNOW, 50:38 200 FEET OR SO AND THEN THEY RAN OUT OF MONEY AND THEY STOPPED. 50:43 AND EVERYBODY IN WASHINGTON HAD TO LOOK AT THIS HALF-BUILT 50:46 MONUMENT FOR DECADES. AND THEN AFTER THE CIVIL WAR, 50:52 THEY GOT A GROUP TOGETHER AND THEY SAID, 'LET'S FINISH IT.' 50:54 AND SO THEN THEY FINISHED BUILDING THE 50:55 WASHINGTON MONUMENT. BUT IT WAS A LONG PROJECT. 50:58 AND IF YOU GO TO WASHINGTON, YOU LOOK AT THE MONUMENT. 51:00 YOU CAN EASILY SEE THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE FIRST 150 51:05 OR 200 FEET AND THE REMAINDER. THE COLOR OF THE STONE IS 51:08 DIFFERENT. THEY HAD TO GO TO A DIFFERENT 51:09 QUARRY SO THE STONE DOESN'T MATCH. 51:12 YOU CAN EVEN SEE IT IN SOME OF THE PHOTOGRAPHS. 51:14 WELL THAT'S WHAT WAS HAPPENING. THEY'D LAID THE FOUNDATION FOR 51:17 THE TEMPLE AND THEY STARTED BUILDING - AND THEY STOPPED. 51:20 AND EVEN AFTER THEY HAD PERMISSION TO FINISH - HAGGAI 51:23 STARTED PREACHING. HE SAID, 'YOU NEED TO FINISH BUILDING. 51:25 GOD'LL BLESS YOU.' THEY SAID, 'BUT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T HAVE 51:27 THE SAME EVIDENCE OF HIS SPIRIT.' - LISTEN TO WHAT HAGGAI 51:29 SAID, "FOR THUS SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS: 'ONCE MORE, IT IS A 51:34 LITTLE WHILE, I WILL SHAKE THE HEAVEN AND THE EARTH, THE SEA 51:37 AND THE DRY LAND. I WILL SHAKE ALL NATIONS AND 51:40 THEY SHALL COME TO THE DESIRE OF NATIONS AND I WILL FILL THIS 51:45 TEMPLE WITH GLORY SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS.' HE SAID, 'I'M GOING 51:49 TO FILL THIS TEMPLE - THIS HUMBLE TEMPLE.' YOU KNOW, WHEN 51:52 THEY LAID THE FOUNDATION OF EZRA'S TEMPLE, THE OLD MEN 51:55 WHO HAD SEEN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE STARTED CRYING. 51:59 THE PEOPLE WERE REJOICING, THE OLD MEN WERE CRYING. 52:01 IT SAYS YOU COULDN'T TELL THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE CRYING 52:03 AND THE REJOICING. THE REASON THE OLD PEOPLE WERE 52:05 CRYING IS THE TEMPLE BUILT BY CYRUS AND EZRA WAS SO MUCH 52:11 SMALLER IN SCALE AND GLORY THAN THE ONE THAT SOLOMON HAD BUILT 52:16 THAT THEY SAID, 'OH, WHAT'S HAPPENED TO US? 52:18 THIS IS SO PITIFUL - COMPARED' - AND SO THEY WERE CRYING - THE 52:21 OLD MEN, THEY REMEMBERED THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF THE BIG 52:24 GLORIOUS TEMPLE. SO IT WAS A LITTLE MORE HUMBLE. IT DIDN'T 52:28 HAVE ALL THE GOLD AND MATERIALS, BUT GOD SAID, 52:31 'DON'T BE DISCOURAGED. 52:33 THE GLORY OF THIS SECOND TEMPLE IS GOING TO BE GREATER.' 52:36 WHAT WAS GOING TO MAKE THE GLORY OF THE THIRD - SECOND TEMPLE - 52:40 PHYSICALLY, THIRD TABERNACLE - WHAT WAS TO MAKE IT GREATER? 52:44 CHRIST WOULD ACTUALLY ENTER THAT BUILDING AND TEACH THERE. 52:49 AND WE'VE GOT SOME PROPHECIES THAT TALK ABOUT THAT: MALACHI 52:55 3:1, "'BEHOLD, I SEND MY MESSENGER, AND HE WILL PREPARE 52:58 THE WAY BEFORE ME. AND THE LORD, WHOM YOU SEEK, 53:01 WILL SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE, EVEN THE MESSENGER 53:04 OF THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU DELIGHT. 53:05 BEHOLD, HE IS COMING,' SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS." 53:08 SO THIS TEMPLE IS THE ONE THAT JESUS WOULD ACTUALLY PREACH IN, 53:12 BUT CHRIST SAID IT WAS NOT THE FINAL TEMPLE. 53:16 JESUS SAID, 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU DESOLATE. 53:20 HE SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE' - AND THIS IS WHERE WE STARTED 53:23 TODAY - HE SAID, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE WITH HANDS' - JOHN 53:25 CHAPTER 2, VERSE 18 - 'AND IN THREE DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE 53:28 WITHOUT HANDS.' MATTER OF FACT, WHEN CHRIST HUNG ON THE CROSS 53:33 THEY TALKED ABOUT THAT STATEMENT. 53:36 WHEN THEY TRIED TO FIND WITNESSES TO AGREE TO DESTROY 53:39 JESUS, THE ONLY TWO WITNESSES THEY COULD GET TO AGREE WERE THE 53:43 ONES WHO SAID, 'WE HEARD HIM SAY, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE MADE 53:46 WITH HANDS AND I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT HANDS.' WHICH CHRIST 53:50 PROBABLY DID SAY SOMETHING VERY CLOSE TO THAT. 53:53 WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? NOW WE'RE TRANSITIONING FROM THE 53:56 PHYSICAL TEMPLE TO THE SPIRITUAL TEMPLE. WHEN JESUS DIED ON THE 53:59 CROSS, WHAT HAPPENED? HE SAID, 'ELOI, ELOI, LAMA 54:05 SABACHTHANI' - 'WHY HAVE YOU FORSAKEN ME?' 54:07 HE CRIED OUT, 'GOD, RECEIVE MY SPIRIT.' HE GAVE UP THE GHOST, 54:10 THERE WAS AN EARTHQUAKE, AND YOU READ IN MATTHEW 27:51, "THEN, 54:14 BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO FROM TOP TO 54:19 BOTTOM;" - AFTER JESUS SPENT YEARS TEACHING IN THAT TEMPLE 54:22 AND THEY REJECTED HIS TRUTH, HE DIED ON THE CROSS, THE VEIL WAS 54:26 TORN FROM TOP TO BOTTOM, THE PURPOSE OF THE EARTHLY TEMPLE 54:29 WAS GONE. NOW HE WAS TRANSFERRING TO THE SPIRITUAL 54:34 TEMPLES. AND WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THAT IN OUR NEXT 54:36 PRESENTATION. THE PURPOSE FOR THE EARTHLY TEMPLE - IT WOULD 54:39 LATER BE DESTROYED BY THE ROMANS. 54:43 NOW IT'S INTERESTING; CHRIST DIED ON THE CROSS AND THEY WENT 54:47 BY AND THEY SHOOK THEIR HEADS AND THEY SAID TO HIM - THIS IS 54:49 MARK 15:29, "AND THOSE WHO PASSED BY BLASPHEMED HIM, 54:54 WAGGING THEIR HEADS AND SAYING, 'AHA! 54:55 YOU WHO DESTROY THE TEMPLE AND BUILD IT IN THREE DAYS, SAVE 54:58 YOURSELF, AND COME DOWN FROM THE CROSS!'" 55:01 BUT WHEN HE SAID HE WAS GOING TO DESTROY THE TEMPLE AND RAISE 55:03 IT UP, WHAT WAS HE TALKING ABOUT? 55:04 >>HIS BODY. >>THE TEMPLE OF HIS BODY. 55:06 AND WHAT IS THE CHURCH CALLED? >>THE BODY OF CHRIST. 55:09 >>HE WAS GOING TO BUILD A DIFFERENT KIND OF TEMPLE. 55:12 NOW CHRIST, WHEN HE HUNG ON THE CROSS, HE WAS THE HOUSE OF GOD, 55:18 BECAUSE HE WAS THE BRIDGE THAT JACOB DREAMED ABOUT THAT 55:23 CONNECTED EARTH TO HEAVEN. YOU KNOW SOMETHING, YEARS AGO, 55:29 I REMEMBER FIRST READING ABOUT THIS WHERE, I THINK IT WAS, 55:32 ROBERT MCCULLOUGH, HE WAS THE TYCOON WHO BUILT THE MCCULLOUGH 55:36 CHAINSAWS - THEY'RE NOT EVEN AROUND ANYMORE. 55:38 ANYONE REMEMBER THE MCCULLOUGH CHAINSAWS? 55:41 MCCULLOUGH MOTORS? A VERY WEALTHY MAN - HE GOT AN IDEA. 55:44 HE HEARD LONDON BRIDGE WAS FALLING DOWN, YOU KNOW, LIKE THE 55:46 SONG? AND THEY WERE GOING TO DISMANTLE IT AND THROW IT AWAY. 55:50 HE SAID, 'THAT ICONIC BRIDGE? YOU'RE GOING TO THROW IT AWAY?' 55:52 HE SAID, 'I'LL BUY IT.' HE BOUGHT IT FOR A SONG. 55:55 THE EXPENSIVE THING WAS HE DISASSEMBLED IT PIECE BY PIECE 55:59 AND SHIPPED IT TO AMERICA, THEN HE TRUCKED IT ACROSS THE COUNTRY 56:05 BECAUSE HE HAD BOUGHT THE LARGEST SINGLE PRIVATE PIECE OF 56:08 LAND IN ARIZONA - 26 ACRES - NEAR WHAT WE CALL LAKE HAVASU 56:14 AND HE SET UP THE LONDON BRIDGE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DESERT 56:18 AND PEOPLE SAID, 'YOU'RE A MANIAC.' HE SAID, 'NO, IF I 56:20 BUILD THE BRIDGE PEOPLE WILL COME. 56:22 AND HE DID. HE PUT THE BRIDGE THERE AND THE 56:25 WHOLE TOURIST ATTRACTION GREW UP AROUND THE BRIDGE AND LAKE 56:28 HAVASU NOW HAS ABOUT 55,000 PEOPLE. 56:31 BECAUSE HE PUT A BRIDGE THERE, PEOPLE CAME. 56:34 PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO BRIDGES. WELL, JESUS IS A BRIDGE. 56:38 MAN IS SEPARATED FROM GOD. THE WHOLE TEMPLE WAS ABOUT 56:41 RECONNECTING HEAVEN AND EARTH AND JESUS IS THAT CONDUIT. 56:46 CHRIST SAID TO NATHANIEL, 'HEREAFTER YOU WILL SEE ANGELS 56:50 OF GOD ASCENDING AND DESCENDING ON THE SON OF MAN.' EVERYTHING 56:54 THAT YOU LOOKED AT IN THE TEMPLE WAS ALL ABOUT JESUS. 56:57 BECAUSE CHRIST IS THE LAMB, HE IS THE PRIEST, HE IS THE BREAD, 57:00 HE'S THE LIVING WATER, HE IS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. 57:03 HE IS EVERYTHING WE NEED TO RE-ACCESS GOD. 57:06 AND SO I HAVE A LOT OF IMPORTANT THINGS TO SHARE WITH YOU STILL 57:10 ON THE SUBJECT OF THE TEMPLE AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT IT NEXT TIME, 57:13 BUT I JUST WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT JESUS - IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM AND 57:16 IT POINTS US TO GOD. THY WAY, O GOD, IS IN THE SANCTUARY. AMEN? 57:21 >>CAN'T GET ENOUGH AMAZING FACTS BIBLE STUDY? 57:23 YOU DON'T HAVE TO WAIT UNTIL NEXT WEEK TO ENJOY MORE 57:26 TRUTH-FILLED PROGRAMMING, VISIT THE AMAZING FACTS MEDIA LIBRARY 57:31 AT 'AFTV.ORG'. AT 'AFTV.ORG' YOU CAN ENJOY VIDEO AND AUDIO 57:37 PRESENTATIONS AS WELL AS PRINTED MATERIAL ALL FREE OF CHARGE, 57:41 24 HOURS A DAY 7 DAYS A WEEK, RIGHT FROM YOUR 57:44 COMPUTER OR MOBILE DEVICE. 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