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>>TODAY'S MESSAGE IS
GOING TO BE THE SECOND
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INSTALLMENT OF A MESSAGE
THAT I BEGAN FOUR WEEKS AGO.
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HENRY FORD WAS A VERY
INTERESTING AND, AT SOME TIMES,
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ECCENTRIC ENGINEER. HE
REVOLUTIONIZED THE ASSEMBLY
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LINE AND WAS - STARTED AS A FARM
BOY BUT JUST HAD A KNACK FOR
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ENGINEERING - OF COURSE, BECAME
ONE OF THE FOUNDERS AND FATHERS
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IN THE AUTOMOBILE INDUSTRY.
BUT HE HAD A LOT OF OTHER
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VERY UNIQUE INTERESTS. HE
WAS AN ORNITHOLOGIST AND HE
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WAS ALWAYS TRYING TO FIX THE
WORLD SOCIALLY, BUT ONE OF THE
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THINGS THAT WAS INTERESTING
IS THAT HE BUILT A HOME IN
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DEERBORN, MICHIGAN, ON THE
ROUGE RIVER, AND IT WAS QUITE
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AN ENGINEERING FEAT.
IT'S STILL THERE TODAY.
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IT WAS ELABORATELY CARVED WITH
WOODWORK AND TECHNICAL WONDERS.
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HE HAD, FOR EXAMPLE, HE CHOSE
1,300 ACRES OVERLOOKING THE
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RIVER, 56 ROOMS SPREAD OVER
THREE FLOORS, 31,000 SQUARE-FOOT
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HOME. HOW'D YOU LIKE TO CLEAN
THAT? EIGHT FIREPLACES - ONE
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WAS MARBLE, 13-FEET HIGH,
BEAUTIFUL PERFECTION IN ITS
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DESIGN - THE PRICE FOR BUILDING
IT BACK THEN WAS 2 MILLION
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DOLLARS. NOW THAT'S
BACK WHEN BREAD WAS A NICKEL.
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SO JUST TO GIVE YOU AN
IDEA, HE SPARED NO EXPENSE.
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IN ADDITION, THE RESIDENTS
ON THE ESTATE INCLUDED A SUMMER
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HOUSE, A MAN-MADE LAKE, A
BOATHOUSE, STAFF COTTAGES, A
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GATE HOUSE, PONY BARN,
SKATEHOUSE, GREENHOUSE, MAPLE
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SYRUP HOUSE, A ROOT CELLAR,
VEGETABLE GARDEN, THOUSANDS OF
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FLOWERS, 500 BIRD HOUSES - I
TOLD YOU HE HAD AN INTEREST IN
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BIRDS - AND HIS REAL INTEREST
WAS IN DEVELOPING AN INDEPENDENT
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POWER SUPPLY, SO HE BUILT A
POWER PLANT THAT CAPTURED THE
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RIVER WATER AND TURNED TURBINES
AND, NOT ONLY POWERED THE ENTIRE
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ESTATE, BUT HE HAD LEFTOVER
POWER THAT HE COULD SELL BACK TO
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THE CITY AND THIS WAS CONNECTED
BY A TUNNEL 300-FEET LONG TO THE
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HOUSE. 550
SWITCHES PROVIDED THE LIGHT
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AT THE FLICK OF A FINGER - AND
THIS WAS BUILT IN 1915 SO THAT'S
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PRETTY FAR AHEAD OF
YOUR TIMES TO HAVE THAT.
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THE INTERESTING THING WAS,
THE POWER PLANT WAS PERFECTLY
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DEPENDABLE - IT NEVER FAILED FOR
30 YEARS UNTIL 1947, THERE WAS A
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VERY HARD RAIN AND THE RIVER
ROUGE WENT RAMPAGING DOWN, IT
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FLOODED SOME OF THE BOILERS AND
SHORTED OUT THE POWER SYSTEM AND
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THE HOUSE WENT DARK.
STRANGELY ENOUGH, IT WAS THE
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SAME DAY THAT HENRY FORD LAY
DYING AND HE ENDED UP DYING IN A
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DARK, COLD HOUSE TWO MILES
FROM THE PLACE HE WAS BORN -
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THE ONLY DAY THE POWER FAILED.
YOU KNOW, I HEAR ABOUT THAT AND
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IT REMINDS ME OF
SOMETHING IN THE BIBLE.
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MATTHEW 27, VERSE 50, "AND JESUS
CRIED OUT AGAIN WITH A LOUD
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VOICE, AND
YIELDED UP HIS SPIRIT.
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THEN, BEHOLD, THE VEIL OF THE
TEMPLE WAS TORN IN TWO FROM TOP
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TO BOTTOM; AND THE EARTH QUAKED,
AND THE ROCKS WERE SPLIT," -
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JESUS DIED FOUR MILES FROM THE
PLACE OF HIS BIRTH IN THE CITY
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THAT HE HAD CHOSEN
TO BUILD THE TEMPLE.
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HE HAD TAUGHT IN THE TEMPLE.
AND YET, WHEN HE DIED, THE VEIL
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IN THE TEMPLE, FOR
THE FIRST TIME, WAS TORN
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FROM TOP TO BOTTOM.
THIS WAS NOT AN ACCIDENT.
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SOMETHING HAPPENED WHEN
JESUS DIED THAT CHANGED THE
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SIGNIFICANCE OF
THE EARTHLY TEMPLE.
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NOW, IN OUR LAST STUDY - QUICK
LITTLE REVIEW - WE'RE TALKING
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ABOUT THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD AND
THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE YOU
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FIND ONE OF THE PHRASES
REFERRING TO THE TEMPLE OF THE
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LORD - EITHER TEMPLE,
TABERNACLE, SANCTUARY, HOUSE OF
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THE LORD - ABOUT 700 - 800 TIMES
IN THE BIBLE, SO IT'S OBVIOUSLY
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SOMETHING THAT IS IMPORTANT
TO THE LORD AND THE BIBLE.
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WE LEARNED THERE WERE THREE
PHYSICAL TEMPLES IN THE OLD
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TESTAMENT: YOU HAD THE
WILDERNESS TEMPLE THAT WAS THE
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PORTABLE TABERNACLE. IT
EXISTED FROM ABOUT 1447 B.C.
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TO 1024 B.C. - AROUND THE
TIME OF KING DAVID AND SOLOMON.
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THEN SOLOMON BUILT HIS TEMPLE
AND IT LASTED FROM 931 TO 587.
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THEN YOU HAD THE TEMPLE BUILT
DURING THE TIME OF NEHEMIAH AND
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ZERUBBABEL - THE ONE LATER
RESTORED BY KING HEROD THAT
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JESUS TAUGHT IN, THAT WAS
IN EXISTENCE DURING THE TIME OF
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JESUS. YOU MAY
HAVE HEARD ME MENTION
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BEFORE, I THOUGHT IT WAS
INTERESTING THAT ON THE MOUNT OF
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TRANSFIGURATION YOU HAD
MOSES, JESUS, AND ELIJAH.
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ONE TEMPLE DURING THE TIME
OF MOSES, ONE TEMPLE DURING THE
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TIME OF ELIJAH - SOLOMON'S
TEMPLE, AND THEN THE THIRD
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TEMPLE DURING THE TIME OF
JESUS. PETER DIDN'T EVEN KNOW
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WHAT HE SAID WHEN HE SAID,
'LET'S BUILD THREE TABERNACLES'
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AND HE WAS REALLY TALKING ABOUT
THOSE THREE TABERNACLES IN THE
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OLD TESTAMENT. BUT
THEN, WHEN JESUS DIED, AND
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THE VEIL WAS RIPPED FROM TOP TO
BOTTOM - IT WAS VERY HIGH - NO
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MAN COULD REACH IT - SO IT WAS
THE HAND OF AN ANGEL THAT TORE
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THIS VEIL THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO
KEEP ANY HUMAN EYES FROM LOOKING
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INTO THE HOLY OF HOLIES
AND IT WAS SUDDENLY EXPOSED.
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IT SYMBOLIZED THAT THE
SIGNIFICANCE OF THE EARTHLY
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TABERNACLES, THOUGH IT WAS A
DIVINE PLAN, HAD COME TO AN END.
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NOW THE TEMPLE WAS
GOING THROUGH A CHANGE.
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YOU REMEMBER THAT WE READ - I
HOPE YOU REMEMBER - IN OUR LAST
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STUDY. JESUS SAID,
'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE
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MADE WITH HANDS AND IN THREE
DAYS I WILL MAKE ONE WITHOUT
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HANDS.' AND HE
SPOKE OF HIS BODY.
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MATTER OF FACT, THE ONLY TWO
WITNESSES THAT THEY COULD GET TO
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TESTIFY AGAINST JESUS, THAT WERE
EVEN IN HARMONY IN ANY WAY, WERE
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THE TWO THAT SAID, 'WE HEARD HIM
SAY, 'DESTROY THIS TEMPLE AND IN
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THREE DAYS I'LL MAKE ONE
WITHOUT HANDS.'' SO JESUS DID,
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EVIDENTLY, SAY
SOMETHING LIKE THAT.
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WHAT IS THIS
TEMPLE MADE WITHOUT HANDS?
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WELL, WE'RE GOING TO
GET TO THAT IN A MINUTE.
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THERE ARE MANY - FIRST, I'D LIKE
TO JUST KIND OF MARCH THROUGH
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SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF WHAT THE
MODERN TEMPLE IS AND WHY IT'S
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IMPORTANT TO US TODAY.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF REFERENCES
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TO THE TEMPLE IN THE
BIBLE AND EVEN IN PROPHECY.
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A COUPLE I MIGHT MENTION, ISAIAH
6 AND THAT VISION OF ISAIAH'S
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CONVERSION. IT SAYS,
"IN THE YEAR THAT KING
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UZZIAH DIED, I SAW THE LORD
SITTING ON A THRONE, HIGH AND
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LIFTED UP, AND THE TRAIN OF
HIS ROBE FILLED THE TEMPLE."
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NOW, IF THE LORD IS SITTING
ON A THRONE IN THIS TEMPLE, WHAT
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TEMPLE IS IT? NOT A
TEMPLE ON EARTH - "ABOVE
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IT STOOD SERAPHIM;" - THESE
CHERUBS ON THE RIGHT AND THE
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LEFT OF THE LORD - "EACH ONE HAD
SIX WINGS: WITH TWO HE COVERED
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HIS FACE, WITH TWO HE COVERED
HIS FEET, AND WITH TWO HE FLEW."
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- AND YOU REMEMBER THE
MERCY SEAT WAS THOUGHT OF AS THE
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PRESENCE OF GOD OR THE THRONE OF
GOD AND THERE WERE ANGELS ON THE
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RIGHT AND THE LEFT OF THIS
GOLDEN BOX THAT HELD THE TEN
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COMMANDMENTS. THERE
ARE TWELVE REFERENCES TO
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THE TEMPLE, JUST IN
THE BOOK OF REVELATION.
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EZEKIEL PROBABLY HAS
20 OR MORE REFERENCES.
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ONE, FOR INSTANCE - GO TO JUST
EZEKIEL 47, VERSE 1 - I'M GOING
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TO GIVE YOU A LOT OF SCRIPTURE
TODAY - EZEKIEL 47:1, "THEN HE
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BROUGHT ME BACK TO THE DOOR OF
THE TEMPLE; AND THERE WAS WATER,
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FLOWING FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD
OF THE TEMPLE TOWARD THE EAST,"
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- IS EZEKIEL TALKING
ABOUT THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
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WAS THERE WATER FLOWING
FROM THE EARTHLY TEMPLE?
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BUT DO YOU REMEMBER READING IN
REVELATION 'A RIVER FLOWS FROM
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THE THRONE OF GOD'? SO
WHAT TEMPLE IS EZEKIEL SEEING?
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- "AND THERE WAS WATER, FLOWING
FROM UNDER THE THRESHOLD OF THE
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TEMPLE TOWARD THE EAST, FOR THE
FRONT OF THE TEMPLE FACED EAST;
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THE WATER WAS FLOWING FROM
UNDER THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE
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TEMPLE, SOUTH OF THE ALTAR."
IT'S AN INTERESTING TEMPLE.
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DANIEL ALSO MENTIONS IT - DANIEL
5:3, "THEN THEY BROUGHT THE GOLD
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VESSELS THAT HAD BEEN TAKEN FROM
THE TEMPLE OF THE HOUSE OF GOD"
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- AND YOU COULD GO
THROUGH THE VARIOUS PROPHECIES.
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THE TEMPLE IS VERY IMPORTANT
- LOOKING BACK AND LOOKING
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FORWARD. NOW, WE MENTIONED
THAT THE EARTHLY TEMPLE, ITS
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FUNCTION CAME TO AN END.
EVEN THOUGH, AFTER JESUS DIED ON
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THE CROSS AND THE VEIL
WAS RENT, THEY SEWED IT UP.
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THEY CONTINUED OFFERING
SACRIFICES FOR A WHILE UNTIL THE
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TEMPLE WAS DESTROYED,
BUT IT WAS STILL THERE.
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CHRIST RESPECTED THE PURPOSE OF
THE EARTHLY TEMPLE UP UNTIL HE
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DIED ON THE CROSS. HE
WANTED IT TO BE REVERED.
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YOU CAN READ IN JOHN 2:14, "AND
FOUND IN THE TEMPLE THOSE THAT
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SOLD OXEN AND SHEEP AND
DOVES, AND THE CHANGERS OF MONEY
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SITTING: AND WHEN HE HAD MADE A
SCOURGE OF SMALL CORDS, HE DROVE
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THEM ALL OUT OF THE TEMPLE,
AND THE SHEEP, AND THE OXEN; AND
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POURED OUT THE CHANGERS' MONEY,
AND OVERTHREW THE TABLES; AND
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SAID UNTO THEM THAT SOLD DOVES,
'TAKE THESE THINGS HENCE; MAKE
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NOT MY FATHER'S HOUSE
AN HOUSE OF MERCHANDISE."
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NOW WHAT DOES HE
SAY? "MY FATHER'S HOUSE".
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I WANT YOU TO CATCH THAT.
WHAT DID HE CALL THE TEMPLE?
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"MY FATHER'S HOUSE". THAT
CHANGES. HOW MANY TIMES DID
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JESUS DRIVE PEOPLE OUT OF THE
TEMPLE? THERE'S TWO TIMES - THAT
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IT'S MENTIONED - ONCE - IT
MENTIONS HERE IN THE GOSPEL OF
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JOHN - IT SAYS IT'S THE SECOND
MIRACLE - OR THE SECOND THING
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THAT HAPPENS RIGHT AFTER THE
MIRACLE IN CANA - IT'S A - AT
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THE VERY
BEGINNING OF HIS MINISTRY.
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THE SECOND TIME IS AT THE END
OF HIS MINISTRY FOLLOWING, WHAT
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THEY CALLED 'THE TRIUMPHAL
ENTRY' - JUST BEFORE THE CROSS -
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HE DOES IT AGAIN.
THAT'S THE VERSE THAT WAS READ
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DURING OUR VERSE
READING - SCRIPTURE VERSE.
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IT WAS FORETOLD THAT
THIS EVENT WOULD HAPPEN.
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IF YOU LOOK IN MALACHI CHAPTER
3, VERSE 1, "BEHOLD, I WILL SEND
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MY MESSENGER, AND HE WILL
PREPARE THE WAY BEFORE ME.
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AND THE LORD, WHOM YE SEEK, WILL
SUDDENLY COME TO HIS TEMPLE,
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EVEN THE MESSENGER OF
THE COVENANT, IN WHOM YOU
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DELIGHT:" - THIS IS A PROPHECY
OF THE MESSIAH - "...BUT WHO CAN
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ENDURE THE DAY OF HIS COMING?
AND WHO CAN STAND WHEN HE
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APPEARS?" - FOR HE WOULD COME AS
A REFINER. JESUS WAS COMING TO
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PURGE - TO CLEANSE - THE TEMPLE.
WHAT TEMPLE IS HE CLEANSING?
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IT PROBABLY IS GOOD FOR US JUST
TO TAKE A MOMENT AND REMEMBER
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THAT GOD'S HOUSE IS TO
BE A PLACE OF REVERENCE.
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WE CALL THE CHURCH THE 'HOUSE OF
THE LORD' AND WE CALL THIS ROOM
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WHERE WE GATHER 'THE SANCTUARY'
BECAUSE IT'S A PLACE WHERE WE
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HAVE OUR FORMAL WORSHIP SERVICE.
I THINK MOST OF US KNOW IT'S A
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COMBINATION OF CONCRETE AND
THE IRON AND VINYL AND CARPET.
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IT'S NOT LIKE THE BIBLICAL
TEMPLE, BUT IT IS A PLACE WE'VE
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SET ASIDE FOR WORSHIP AND WE
SHOULD TREAT IT WITH RESPECT.
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WE OUGHT TO CONDUCT OURSELVES
REVERENTLY IN THIS PLACE BECAUSE
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IT'S A PLACE THAT IS DESIGNATED
AS A SPOT WHERE WE WORSHIP THE
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HOLY GOD OF THE UNIVERSE, AMEN?
YOU'VE HEARD THE VERSES - 'THE
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LORD IS IN HIS HOLY TEMPLE.
LET ALL THE EARTH KEEP SILENT.'
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AND THERE SHOULD BE
THIS AWE AND THIS REVERENCE.
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JESUS WANTED THAT RESPECTED.
WHEN SOLOMON BUILT THE FIRST
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PERMANENT TEMPLE, IT'S AMAZING,
IT SAYS THEY WOULDN'T EVEN
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LIFT A HAMMER - THAT ALL THE
CHISELING, ALL THE CARVING, ALL
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THE POLISHING OF THE STONES WAS
DONE BEFORE THEY GOT THERE AND
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THEN THEY WERE BROUGHT
AND SILENTLY MOVED INTO PLACE.
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CAN YOU IMAGINE A CONSTRUCTION
SITE WHERE ALL THESE STONES ARE
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AND ALL YOU HEAR IS THE MUFFLED
TONES OF THE MANAGERS TELLING
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THE WORKERS WHERE TO PUSH THE
STONES. THAT WAS PROBABLY PRETTY
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- PRETTY STRANGE. BUT IT'S A
PLACE THAT'S TO BE RESPECTED.
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NOW GOD'S CHURCH IS A TEMPLE
- WE'LL SAY MORE ABOUT THAT IN A
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MINUTE - SOMETIMES IT TURNS INTO
AN AUCTION BLOCK AND SOMETIMES
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IT SEEMS LIKE
SALVATION IS BEING SOLD.
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WHAT THEY - DID IN THE TIME OF
CHRIST IS, WHEN PEOPLE CAME TO
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THE TEMPLE THEY NEEDED TO BRING
THEIR SACRIFICES OR THEY NEEDED
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TO BRING THEIR ANNUAL TEMPLE
OFFERING AND THEY MIGHT BE
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COMING FROM DIFFERENT KINGDOMS
- THE PRIESTS SAID YOU CAN ONLY
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PAY THAT - YOU COULDN'T USE
ROMAN MONEY - YOU ONLY COULD PAY
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THAT IN THE TEMPLE SHEKELS,
SO THEY HAD AN EXCHANGE BOOTH
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OUTSIDE - THAT THEY HAD BROUGHT
INTO THE TEMPLE WHERE YOU
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WOULD EXCHANGE YOUR
MONEY - AND WHEN THEY THOUGHT
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THE EXCHANGE RATE WAS TOO
HIGH, THERE WERE COMPLAINTS
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AND ARGUMENTS AND - I KNOW, WHEN
I JUST WENT TO SOUTH AFRICA WE
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NEEDED TO USE THE SOUTH AFRICAN
RAND - THEIR MONEY - AND SO I
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EXCHANGED IT AND IT KIND OF HURT
TO SEE HOW BIG A BITE THEY TAKE
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OUT OF IT WHEN YOU EXCHANGE IT
WITH THEM. THE OTHER THING THEY
00:13:12.59\00:13:16.36
WERE DOING IS PEOPLE WERE
BRINGING SACRIFICES AND THEY
00:13:16.36\00:13:18.89
MIGHT NOT BE ABLE TO TRANSPORT
THEIR SACRIFICES SO THEY'D BUY
00:13:18.89\00:13:21.86
THEM. YOU COULD - THEY
SAID, 'YOU COULD GET THEM RIGHT
00:13:21.86\00:13:23.80
HERE.' BUT THEY WOULD CHARGE
EXORBITANT PRICES AND SOME
00:13:23.80\00:13:27.14
PEOPLE OFFERED SHEEP AND SOME
WERE POOR - THEY OFFERED DOVES.
00:13:27.14\00:13:30.04
WHEN JESUS WAS A BABY, IT SAYS,
JOSEPH AND MARY COULD ONLY PAY
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TWO TURTLE DOVES - THE POOR
PEOPLE OFFERED DOVES - IT WAS
00:13:33.91\00:13:36.88
THE SMALLEST, LEAST EXPENSIVE,
CLEAN OFFERING YOU COULD MAKE.
00:13:36.88\00:13:40.58
IF YOU WERE RICH - OXEN -
BIG, YOU KNOW, BIG CLEAN OXEN.
00:13:40.58\00:13:45.99
AND SO, HERE YOU WALK IN
THE TEMPLE AND IT SMELLS LIKE A
00:13:45.99\00:13:50.13
BARN. YOU CAN
HEAR THE COOING OF THE
00:13:50.13\00:13:53.23
DOVES AND THE BLEATING OF THE
SHEEP AND THE GOATS AND THE OXEN
00:13:53.23\00:13:56.60
AND PEOPLE ARE ARGUING SAYING,
'OH, I'LL GIVE YOU' - 'OKAY'
00:13:56.60\00:13:59.30
- 'NO, THAT'S TOO
MUCH. HOW ABOUT TODAY -
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SPECIAL DISCOUNT?' 'NO,
WE SELL CHEAPER THAN ACROSS
00:14:00.80\00:14:02.94
THE COURTYARD.'
'OURS ARE BETTER!' AND,
00:14:02.94\00:14:04.51
I MEAN, IT WAS LIKE A
CARNIVAL AND JESUS WENT INTO
00:14:04.51\00:14:08.78
THIS PLACE THAT WAS SUPPOSED TO
BE A PLACE OF WORSHIP AND HE SAW
00:14:08.78\00:14:11.81
THIS AND IT MADE HIM INDIGNANT.
IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A PLACE
00:14:11.81\00:14:15.08
OF PRAYER, BUT IT TURNED INTO A
PLACE OF MERCHANDISE AND PROFIT.
00:14:15.08\00:14:20.36
NOW, COULD THAT
HAPPEN TO A CHURCH?
00:14:20.36\00:14:23.86
YOU KNOW, I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE
EVER HEARD IT OR SEEN IT, BUT
00:14:23.86\00:14:28.73
YOU WOULD BE AMAZED HOW MANY
CHURCHES THERE ARE OUT THERE
00:14:28.73\00:14:32.43
THAT THINK SALVATION IS ALL
ABOUT WHAT GOD IS GOING TO DO
00:14:32.43\00:14:36.74
FOR YOU AND IF YOU'VE GOT ENOUGH
FAITH, YOU WILL HAVE MORE MONEY.
00:14:36.74\00:14:41.81
THEY CALL IT PROSPERITY
PREACHING - HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE
00:14:41.81\00:14:44.25
HEARD OF THAT? AND IF
YOU'RE SICK, IT'S BECAUSE
00:14:44.25\00:14:47.42
YOU DON'T HAVE ENOUGH FAITH.
AND IF YOU'RE POOR IT'S BECAUSE
00:14:47.42\00:14:49.32
YOU JUST DON'T
HAVE ENOUGH FAITH.
00:14:49.32\00:14:50.59
AND THE WAY THAT YOU GET RICH
IS YOU GIVE MORE MONEY TO THESE
00:14:50.59\00:14:53.46
TELEVANGELISTS AND THEIR
MINISTRIES AND THEY CALL IT
00:14:53.46\00:14:56.12
'PLANTING A SEED' INTO THIS
MINISTRY AND GOD IS GOING TO
00:14:56.12\00:14:58.39
BLESS YOU AND MULTIPLY - AND
THERE'S - YOU KNOW, THEY ALWAYS
00:14:58.39\00:15:01.23
MIX SOME TRUTH WITH
ERROR. BUT YOU FLIP THROUGH THE
00:15:01.23\00:15:05.47
CHRISTIAN CHANNELS AND IT'S JUST
SHOCKING HOW MUCH MERCHANDISING
00:15:05.47\00:15:09.70
IS GOING ON IN
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
00:15:09.70\00:15:12.31
THEY'RE AUCTIONING SALVATION AND
MAKING IT SOUND LIKE YOU CAN BUY
00:15:12.31\00:15:17.11
IT BY GIVING TO THEIR MINISTRY.
AND IT'S REALLY AN INSULT.
00:15:17.11\00:15:22.92
PEOPLE GET SO DISTRACTED
ABOUT 'WHAT'S IN IT FOR ME?'
00:15:22.92\00:15:25.62
BUT THAT'S NOT - THAT'S
NOT THE MESSAGE OF THE BIBLE.
00:15:25.62\00:15:31.43
"HO! EVERYONE WHO THIRSTS" -
ISAIAH 55 - "COME TO THE WATERS;
00:15:31.43\00:15:36.53
AND YOU WHO HAVE NO
MONEY, COME, BUY AND EAT."
00:15:36.53\00:15:40.74
GOD WILL FREELY GIVE. I
WANT TO READ A QUOTE FROM
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THE BOOK DESIRE OF AGES P.
161 - "THE COURTS OF THE TEMPLE
00:15:44.71\00:15:49.48
AT JERUSALEM, FILLED WITH
THE TUMULT OF UNHOLY TRAFFIC,
00:15:49.48\00:15:53.58
REPRESENTED ALL TOO TRULY THE
TEMPLE OF THE HEART, DEFILED BY
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THE PRESENCE OF SENSUAL
PASSION AND UNHOLY THOUGHTS.
00:15:57.55\00:16:00.79
IN CLEANSING THE TEMPLE FROM
THE WORLD'S BUYERS AND SELLERS,
00:16:00.79\00:16:04.79
JESUS ANNOUNCED HIS MISSION
TO CLEANSE THE HEART FROM THE
00:16:04.79\00:16:08.23
DEFILEMENT OF SIN,--FROM
THE EARTHLY DESIRES, THE SELFISH
00:16:08.23\00:16:12.17
LUSTS, THE EVIL HABITS, THAT
CORRUPT THE SOUL...NO MAN CAN OF
00:16:12.17\00:16:17.01
HIMSELF CAST OUT THE EVIL THRONG
THAT HAS TAKEN POSSESSION OF THE
00:16:17.01\00:16:20.78
HEART, ONLY CHRIST CAN
CLEANSE THE SOUL TEMPLE.
00:16:20.78\00:16:24.41
BUT HE WILL NOT
FORCE AN ENTRANCE."
00:16:24.41\00:16:27.15
- AS WHEN JESUS CAME INTO THE
TEMPLE THAT DAY AND HE CHASED
00:16:27.15\00:16:30.32
EVERYTHING OUT AND AFTER HE
CHASED THEM OUT THE CHILDREN
00:16:30.32\00:16:32.99
WERE SINGING PRAISES
TO GOD. GOD WANTS TO DO
00:16:32.99\00:16:36.32
THAT IN OUR TEMPLES. HE
WANTS TO CHASE OUT ALL OF THE
00:16:36.32\00:16:39.66
DISTRACTIONS OF THE WORLD
AND THE MATERIALISM AND THE
00:16:39.66\00:16:41.96
COVETOUSNESS AND THIS WAS A
SYMBOL OF THAT. WE CAN'T DO IT
00:16:41.96\00:16:46.07
IN OUR OWN STRENGTH, BUT THE
POWER AND THE PRESENCE OF GOD
00:16:46.07\00:16:48.77
CAN DISPLACE THE EVIL IN OUR
LIVES. NOW BACK TO THE TEMPLE -
00:16:48.77\00:16:53.78
I JUST WANTED TO TALK A MOMENT
ABOUT THE CLEANSING OF THE
00:16:53.78\00:16:55.91
TEMPLE. THE
EARTHLY TEMPLE, AFTER JESUS
00:16:55.91\00:16:59.65
DIED, THEY CONTINUED WITH
THEIR SERVICES, BUT IT WAS
00:16:59.65\00:17:02.52
ULTIMATELY
DESTROYED. AND THE LORD FORETOLD
00:17:02.52\00:17:04.52
THIS WOULD HAPPEN. HE
DID NOT WANT THE NATION TO
00:17:04.52\00:17:08.69
BE PUTTING THEIR STOCK IN A
BUILDING BECAUSE THAT BUILDING
00:17:08.69\00:17:12.69
WAS ALL POINTING TO
SOMETHING AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE
00:17:12.69\00:17:15.06
TALKING ABOUT IT TODAY.
MATTHEW 24, VERSE 1, "AND JESUS
00:17:15.06\00:17:20.14
WENT OUT, AND DEPARTED FROM THE
TEMPLE: AND HIS DISCIPLES CAME
00:17:20.14\00:17:23.04
UP TO SHOW HIM THE
BUILDINGS OF THE TEMPLE."
00:17:23.04\00:17:26.04
NOW IT WAS THEIR
NATIONAL TREASURE, THIS TEMPLE.
00:17:26.04\00:17:29.98
AND I MAY HAVE TOLD YOU A FEW
WEEKS AGO THAT THERE WERE SOME
00:17:29.98\00:17:34.18
STONES IN THE TEMPLE THAT WERE
JUST AMAZING THAT WERE - ONE
00:17:34.18\00:17:37.85
STONE THAT THEY'VE DISCOVERED -
STILL THERE TODAY - YOU CAN SEE
00:17:37.85\00:17:40.52
IN ISRAEL - I THINK IT WEIGHED
LIKE A 150,000 TONS OR SOMETHING
00:17:40.52\00:17:46.29
- IT'S ENORMOUS. ALL I
KNOW IS THAT IT IS HEAVIER
00:17:46.29\00:17:50.30
- ONE STONE IS HEAVIER
THAN A FULLY LOADED 747
00:17:50.30\00:17:55.00
WITH ALL THE BAGGAGE.
THAT WAS ONE STONE IN THE
00:17:55.00\00:17:59.14
TEMPLE, SO YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND THE NATIONAL PRIDE.
00:17:59.14\00:18:02.58
YOU CAN ALSO UNDERSTAND THE
DISMAY AND DISBELIEF WHEN JESUS
00:18:02.58\00:18:05.98
SAID, 'SEE, NOT
ALL THESE THINGS?
00:18:05.98\00:18:07.75
I SAY UNTO YOU THERE WILL NOT BE
LEFT HERE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER
00:18:07.75\00:18:11.82
THAT WILL NOT BE THROWN DOWN.'
THEY THOUGHT, 'THAT MUST BE THE
00:18:11.82\00:18:14.92
END OF THE WORLD.' ANYTHING
THAT'S GOING TO MOVE THESE
00:18:14.92\00:18:16.76
STONES MUST BE THE END OF THE
WORLD. IT WASN'T THE END OF THE
00:18:16.76\00:18:21.56
WORLD YET, BUT IT WAS FOR THE
NATION - IT SEEMED LIKE THE END.
00:18:21.56\00:18:25.13
AND THAT WAS, BY THE WAY,
MATTHEW 24, 'THERE WILL NOT BE
00:18:25.13\00:18:28.34
LEFT ONE UPON ANOTHER, THAT WILL
NOT BE THROWN DOWN.' LUKE 19 -
00:18:28.34\00:18:31.97
HE SAID SOMETHING SIMILAR, 'FOR
THE DAYS WILL COME UPON YOU THAT
00:18:31.97\00:18:36.31
YOUR ENEMIES WILL CAST A TRENCH
ABOUT YOU AND COMPASS THEE
00:18:36.31\00:18:40.32
ROUNDABOUT ON EVERY SIDE AND
THEY'LL LAY YOU EVEN WITH THE
00:18:40.32\00:18:44.09
GROUND. EVEN THY CHILDREN WITHIN
THEE' - AND - 'THEY WILL NOT
00:18:44.09\00:18:47.79
LEAVE IN THEE ONE STONE UPON
ANOTHER BECAUSE YOU KNEW NOT THE
00:18:47.79\00:18:51.43
TIME OF YOUR VISITATION.'
HERE, JESUS IS MORE SPECIFICALLY
00:18:51.43\00:18:55.13
TALKING ABOUT WHAT THE ROMANS
WERE GOING TO DO TO THE NATION
00:18:55.13\00:18:57.87
OF ISRAEL AND THEY DID - THE
TEMPLE MOUNT - THEY LEVELED IT.
00:18:57.87\00:19:02.64
AND A LOT OF THE CITY HAD BEEN
VIRTUALLY LEVELED BY THE ROMANS
00:19:02.64\00:19:05.77
BECAUSE THEY WERE SO OUTRAGED
BY THE JEWISH REBELLION.
00:19:05.77\00:19:09.14
BUT DO YOU NOTICE - YOU GO
TO MATTHEW 23 AND JESUS, WEEPING
00:19:09.14\00:19:13.42
OVER JERUSALEM - VERSE 37 - HE
SAYS, "O JERUSALEM, JERUSALEM,
00:19:13.42\00:19:17.75
THE ONE WHO KILLS THE PROPHETS
AND STONES THOSE WHO ARE SENT TO
00:19:17.75\00:19:21.36
HER! HOW OFTEN
I WANTED TO GATHER
00:19:21.36\00:19:23.56
YOUR CHILDREN TOGETHER, AS A
HEN GATHERS HER CHICKS UNDER HER
00:19:23.56\00:19:27.13
WINGS, BUT YOU
WERE NOT WILLING! SEE!
00:19:27.13\00:19:31.10
YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU
DESOLATE;" - NOW, DO YOU NOTICE,
00:19:31.10\00:19:34.17
EARLIER JESUS SAID,
'MY FATHER'S HOUSE'?
00:19:34.17\00:19:37.24
NOW HE'S CHANGED HIS WORDING
- 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO YOU
00:19:37.24\00:19:41.91
DESOLATE.' THIS WAS
THE LAST TIME THAT HE LEFT.
00:19:41.91\00:19:46.41
YOU KNOW, MATTHEW 23, 24
IS ALL, SORT OF, ONE EVENT.
00:19:46.41\00:19:50.19
HE LEAVES THE TEMPLE. HE
SAYS THERE'S NOT GOING TO
00:19:50.19\00:19:51.79
BE ONE STONE UPON ANOTHER.
HE DECLARES TO THE RELIGIOUS
00:19:51.79\00:19:54.66
LEADERS, 'YOUR HOUSE IS LEFT TO
YOU DESOLATE.' HE'S NOT CALLING
00:19:54.66\00:19:58.23
IT 'MY (FATHER'S) HOUSE'
ANYMORE - SOMETHING'S CHANGED.
00:19:58.23\00:20:00.76
WHEN HE LEFT THE TEMPLE FOR THE
LAST TIME, THE WEEKEND BEFORE
00:20:00.76\00:20:04.13
THE CRUCIFIXION, HE SAID, 'YOUR
HOUSE.' HE HAD CLEANSED IT TWICE
00:20:04.13\00:20:11.21
- EVERY TIME HE CLEANSED IT
THEY JUST BROUGHT BACK ALL OF
00:20:11.21\00:20:13.01
THE BUSINESS AND THE DEFILEMENT
- "FOR I SAY TO YOU, YOU SHALL
00:20:13.01\00:20:17.91
SEE ME NO MORE TILL YOU SAY,
'BLESSED IS HE WHO COMES IN THE
00:20:17.91\00:20:22.68
NAME OF THE LORD!'" SO
LET'S TALK A LITTLE BIT
00:20:22.68\00:20:26.05
ABOUT 'WHAT IS THE TEMPLE NOW?'
- AND IS THERE MORE THAN ONE?
00:20:26.05\00:20:30.76
BEFORE IT'S OVER, I'M GOING
TO SUGGEST TOTAL THERE'S SEVEN
00:20:30.76\00:20:32.43
TEMPLES. WE
TALKED ABOUT THREE IN THE
00:20:32.43\00:20:34.66
OLD TESTAMENT - DO
YOU REMEMBER STILL?
00:20:34.66\00:20:37.30
MOSES' TEMPLE - TABERNACLE,
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE - THE ONE OF
00:20:37.30\00:20:40.47
NEHEMIAH AND ZERUBBABEL - THE
THIRD TEMPLE THAT WAS REBUILT
00:20:40.47\00:20:43.34
THAT JESUS TAUGHT IN.
OUR BODIES ARE A TEMPLE -
00:20:43.34\00:20:48.61
1 CORINTHIANS 3:16, "DO YOU NOT
KNOW THAT YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF
00:20:48.61\00:20:52.78
GOD AND THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD
DWELLS IN YOU? IF ANYONE DEFILES
00:20:52.78\00:20:57.29
THE TEMPLE OF GOD, GOD WILL
DESTROY HIM. FOR THE TEMPLE OF
00:20:57.29\00:21:01.49
GOD IS HOLY, WHICH TEMPLE YOU
ARE." NOW, THAT'S IMPORTANT TO
00:21:01.49\00:21:05.66
UNDERSTAND: THE HOLY
SPIRIT WANTS TO LIVE IN US.
00:21:05.66\00:21:09.53
GOD WANTS TO DWELL IN US - AS
THE TEMPLE WAS A DWELLING PLACE,
00:21:09.53\00:21:13.97
OUR BODIES ARE A
DWELLING PLACE FOR GOD.
00:21:13.97\00:21:16.71
IT'S GOT TO BE EVEN INTERESTING
WHEN YOU THINK ABOUT IT.
00:21:16.71\00:21:18.67
YOU LOOK AT THE FURNITURE IN
THE TEMPLE AND THE TEMPLE HAD AN
00:21:18.67\00:21:22.18
ALTAR WHERE THERE
WAS A FIRE BURNING.
00:21:22.18\00:21:26.05
WELL, YOUR BODY IS CONSTANTLY
CONSUMING CALORIES - THERE'S A
00:21:26.05\00:21:28.95
FIRE BURNING INSIDE.
THE TEMPLE HAD A CIRCULATORY
00:21:28.95\00:21:33.15
SYSTEM - THERE WAS WATER
FOR CLEANSING AND YOU'VE GOT A
00:21:33.15\00:21:36.22
CLEANSING SYSTEM IN YOUR BODY.
THERE WAS A LIGHT - JESUS SAYS
00:21:36.22\00:21:40.36
'THE LIGHT' - 'THE EYE
IS THE LIGHT OF THE BODY'.
00:21:40.36\00:21:43.20
AND THERE WAS THE SPIRIT - THE
ALTAR OF INCENSE AND YOU'VE GOT
00:21:43.20\00:21:47.24
THE MIND OR THE SPIRIT OF MAN.
AND THE EARTHLY TEMPLE HAD BREAD
00:21:47.24\00:21:51.41
THAT WAS STORED THERE
AND OUR BODIES STORE, RIGHT?
00:21:51.41\00:21:54.68
SOME STORE MORE THAN OTHERS, BUT
THERE'S STORAGE AND SO YOU CAN
00:21:54.68\00:21:57.08
EVEN FIND SOME ANALOGIES HERE
BETWEEN THE BODY AND THE TEMPLE
00:21:57.08\00:22:01.58
- VERY BASIC, BUT - CAN
WE DEFILE THESE TEMPLES?
00:22:01.58\00:22:05.65
HOW DO YOU DEFILE? I
MEAN, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT
00:22:05.65\00:22:07.59
IT MEANS TO DEFILE THE
TEMPLE BECAUSE IT SAYS, 'HE THAT
00:22:07.59\00:22:09.62
DEFILES THE TEMPLE,
HIM WILL GOD DESTROY.
00:22:09.62\00:22:12.79
THAT'S GOT TO BE BAD,
RIGHT? SO HOW DO YOU DEFILE IT?
00:22:12.79\00:22:17.47
DANIEL WOULD NOT EAT THE KINGS
FOOD - DANIEL CHAPTER 1 - HE
00:22:17.47\00:22:21.27
WOULDN'T DEFILE HIMSELF WITH THE
PORTION OF MEAT THAT THE KING
00:22:21.27\00:22:25.04
HAD ALLOTTED FOR THE OTHER
STUDENTS BECAUSE IT WAS UNCLEAN
00:22:25.04\00:22:28.54
FOOD, AND SO, HE
WOULDN'T DEFILE HIMSELF WITH IT.
00:22:28.54\00:22:32.21
SOME WOULD ARGUE THAT
IT'S BECAUSE IT WAS OFFERED TO
00:22:32.21\00:22:35.12
BABYLONIAN GODS.
WELL, IT WAS PROBABLY
00:22:35.12\00:22:37.49
A LITTLE OF BOTH.
EITHER WAY, IT WAS WHAT HE ATE.
00:22:37.49\00:22:41.69
THE BIBLE SAYS, 'WHATEVER YOU
EAT, WHATEVER YOU DRINK, DO ALL
00:22:41.69\00:22:44.16
TO THE GLORY OF GOD.' SO YOU CAN
EAT AND DRINK TO GOD'S GLORY,
00:22:44.16\00:22:48.00
BECAUSE YOUR BODY IS HIS TEMPLE,
AND YOU CAN EAT AND DRINK IN A
00:22:48.00\00:22:50.83
WAY THAT DEFILES YOUR BODY
TEMPLE. 'YOU ARE NOT YOUR OWN;
00:22:50.83\00:22:54.64
YOU ARE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.'
GOD WANTS US TO TAKE CARE OF OUR
00:22:54.64\00:22:56.84
BODIES, THEREFORE
GLORIFY GOD IN YOUR BODY.
00:22:56.84\00:23:01.08
AND SO, CHRISTIANS, YOU KNOW,
YOU ALMOST NEVER HEAR THIS.
00:23:01.08\00:23:03.78
IT'S STARTING TO - YOU'RE
STARTING TO HEAR IT A LITTLE BIT
00:23:03.78\00:23:06.28
- IN SOME CHURCHES NOW THEY'RE
DISCOVERING THAT THERE IS A
00:23:06.28\00:23:09.45
CONNECTION BETWEEN THE CHRISTIAN
LIFE AND THE PHYSICAL BODY.
00:23:09.45\00:23:14.42
AND THEY'RE REALIZING THAT.
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.49
I HEARD THAT PASTOR RICK WARREN,
HE HAD THIS WHOLE 'DANIEL'
00:23:16.49\00:23:19.09
PROGRAM BECAUSE HE REALIZED THAT
SO MANY OF THE MEMBERS WERE SICK
00:23:19.09\00:23:22.36
AND DYING FROM
THEIR LIVING HABITS.
00:23:22.36\00:23:24.87
HE SAID, 'THERE'S GOT TO BE
SOMETHING IN THE WORD OF GOD
00:23:24.87\00:23:26.53
ABOUT TAKING CARE OF YOUR BODY.'
AND OTHERS ARE DISCOVERING THIS,
00:23:26.53\00:23:30.84
BUT IT'S A VERY
CLEAR BIBLE TEACHING.
00:23:30.84\00:23:34.44
YOU CAN DEFILE THE
BODY BY EATING AND DRINKING
00:23:34.44\00:23:38.31
IRRESPONSIBLY AND THINGS THAT
ARE DESCRIBED IN THE BIBLE AS
00:23:38.31\00:23:42.22
UNCLEAN. BUT, EVEN
MORE THAN THAT, YOU
00:23:42.22\00:23:44.02
KNOW WHAT PAUL'S TALKING ABOUT
HERE IN 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 3?
00:23:44.02\00:23:49.12
HE'S TALKING ABOUT IDOLATRY
AND HE'S TALKING ABOUT ADULTERY.
00:23:49.12\00:23:55.10
WHEN PEOPLE GET INVOLVED,
IN THEIR THINKING OR WITH THEIR
00:23:55.10\00:23:59.17
ACTIONS, IN IMMORAL BEHAVIOR,
PAUL SAYS YOU ARE DEFILING YOUR
00:23:59.17\00:24:05.44
BODY TEMPLE AND WE'RE TO
KEEP THE BODY TEMPLE HOLY.
00:24:05.44\00:24:10.55
YOUR BODY IS HOLY.
YOU'RE BOUGHT WITH A PRICE.
00:24:10.55\00:24:13.75
YOU BELONG TO GOD. AND
SO, IT'S NOT JUST WHAT GOES
00:24:13.75\00:24:15.98
IN YOUR MOUTH, IT'S
WHAT GOES IN YOUR MIND.
00:24:15.98\00:24:18.95
YOU CAN DEFILE YOUR
BODY TEMPLE IN THAT WAY.
00:24:18.95\00:24:21.72
AND HE WANTS US TO BE - JESUS
WANTS TO CLEANSE THE TEMPLE,
00:24:21.72\00:24:25.36
RIGHT? >>AMEN.
00:24:25.36\00:24:26.90
>>AND SO, WE SHOULD
ABSTAIN FROM THOSE THINGS.
00:24:26.90\00:24:28.96
1 CORINTHIANS 6:19, "OR DO YOU
NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS THE"
00:24:28.96\00:24:33.77
- THIS IS ANOTHER VERSE - "DO
YOU NOT KNOW THAT YOUR BODY IS
00:24:33.77\00:24:36.27
THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT
WHO IS IN YOU, WHOM YOU HAVE
00:24:36.27\00:24:39.11
FROM GOD, AND YOU ARE NOT YOUR
OWN? FOR YOU WERE BOUGHT AT A
00:24:39.11\00:24:42.14
PRICE; THEREFORE GLORIFY GOD IN
YOUR BODY AND IN YOUR SPIRIT," -
00:24:42.14\00:24:46.25
A LOT OF CHURCHES JUST
FOCUS ON THE SPIRITUAL PART.
00:24:46.25\00:24:48.78
HE SAYS, 'DO IT IN YOUR
BODY TOO.' - "WHICH ARE GOD'S."
00:24:48.78\00:24:52.05
IT BELONGS - NOW, I DON'T KNOW,
SOME PEOPLE ARE FRIGHTENED WHEN
00:24:52.05\00:24:55.12
YOU SAY YOUR BODY'S A TEMPLE OF
THE HOLY SPIRIT, BECAUSE THEY'RE
00:24:55.12\00:24:57.86
THINKING, 'I DON'T KNOW, YOU
KNOW, I THOUGHT IT WAS MINE AND
00:24:57.86\00:25:01.66
I'M NOT SURE THAT I WANT TO
BE ACCOUNTABLE TO GOD FOR WHAT'S
00:25:01.66\00:25:03.97
HAPPENING WITH MY BODY' BUT,
REALLY, IT'S A VERY EXCITING
00:25:03.97\00:25:07.64
THOUGHT TO THINK THAT GOD SAYS,
'I'M WILLING TO LIVE IN YOU.'
00:25:07.64\00:25:11.41
>>AMEN. >>'THAT
YOUR BODY CAN BE MY
00:25:11.41\00:25:13.74
DWELLING PLACE THAT I
WANT TO ABIDE IN YOU.'
00:25:13.74\00:25:16.58
IT'S LIKE JESUS SAID
TO ZACCHEUS, 'LET ME ABIDE
00:25:16.58\00:25:18.75
IN YOUR HOUSE.' HE
WANTS TO LIVE WITHIN US.
00:25:18.75\00:25:22.52
HE STANDS AT
THE DOOR AND KNOCKS.
00:25:22.52\00:25:23.75
HE WANTS TO HAVE THAT LIGHT OF
HIS SPIRIT ILLUMINATING FROM OUR
00:25:23.75\00:25:27.26
WINDOWS, SO TO
SPEAK, GOD IN YOU.
00:25:27.26\00:25:31.16
THIS IS WHAT IT SAYS IN
COLOSSIANS 1:27, "...CHRIST IN
00:25:31.16\00:25:34.23
YOU, THE HOPE OF GLORY."
THAT JESUS WOULD BE IN US.
00:25:34.23\00:25:40.14
HE SAID, 'I'M GOING TO THE
FATHER SO I CAN SEND THE HOLY
00:25:40.14\00:25:42.70
SPIRIT. I CAN BE
WITH YOU BUT, THROUGH
00:25:42.70\00:25:44.11
THE HOLY SPIRIT, I CAN BE IN
YOU.' AND YOUR BODY BECOMES A
00:25:44.11\00:25:47.48
TEMPLE - A DWELLING
PLACE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:25:47.48\00:25:52.45
2 PETER 1:13, "YEAH, I THINK
IT MEET, AS LONG AS I AM IN THIS
00:25:52.45\00:25:57.42
TABERNACLE," - PETER REFERS TO
HIS BODY AS A TABERNACLE - TENT
00:25:57.42\00:26:01.96
- "TO STIR YOU UP BY PUTTING
YOU IN REMEMBRANCE; KNOW THAT
00:26:01.96\00:26:04.79
SHORTLY I MUST PUT OFF THIS
MY TABERNACLE, EVEN AS OUR LORD
00:26:04.79\00:26:08.03
JESUS CHRIST HATH SHEWED
ME." PAUL, PETER - THEY ALL
00:26:08.03\00:26:11.10
UNDERSTOOD OUR BODIES ARE A
TEMPLE - A DWELLING PLACE OF
00:26:11.10\00:26:13.74
GOD. THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE.
NOT ONLY DOES THE BIBLE SAY YOU
00:26:13.74\00:26:21.04
ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD - OR YOUR
BODY'S THE TEMPLE OF GOD, IT
00:26:21.04\00:26:23.55
SAYS, 'YE' COLLECTIVELY
ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:26:23.55\00:26:27.45
JOHN 2:19, "JESUS ANSWERED AND
SAID UNTO THEM, 'DESTROY THIS
00:26:27.45\00:26:31.49
TEMPLE, AND IN THREE DAYS I
WILL RAISE IT UP." THE JEWS SAID
00:26:31.49\00:26:34.46
'IT'S TAKEN 46 YEARS TO BUILD
THIS TEMPLE. WILL YOU RAISE IT
00:26:34.46\00:26:37.19
UP IN THREE DAYS?' HE WAS
SPEAKING OF THE TEMPLE OF HIS
00:26:37.19\00:26:40.03
BODY. AND WHAT IS A CHURCH
CALLED? THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:26:40.03\00:26:45.13
1 CHRONICLES 17, IT SAYS THAT
NATHAN THE PROPHET TOLD KING
00:26:45.13\00:26:50.17
DAVID, 'IT WILL BE, WHEN YOUR
DAYS ARE FULFILLED, AND YOU MUST
00:26:50.17\00:26:54.44
BE WITH YOUR FATHERS THAT I WILL
SET UP YOUR SEED AFTER YOU, WHO
00:26:54.44\00:26:59.08
WILL BE OF YOUR SONS; AND
I WILL ESTABLISH HIS KINGDOM.
00:26:59.08\00:27:02.98
HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE
AND I WILL ESTABLISH HIS THRONE
00:27:02.98\00:27:06.09
FOREVER.' SO WHO IS THIS SON
OF DAVID THAT WAS TO BUILD THE
00:27:06.09\00:27:11.06
TEMPLE AND ESTABLISH - GOD WOULD
ESTABLISH HIS THRONE FOREVER?
00:27:11.06\00:27:15.63
THIS IS AN EXAMPLE, IN THE
BIBLE, OF WHAT YOU CALL A DUEL
00:27:15.63\00:27:18.30
PROPHECY. DID
DAVID HAVE A SON NAMED
00:27:18.30\00:27:21.54
SOLOMON, SOMEONE NATHAN KNEW
- MATTER OF FACT, NATHAN WAS
00:27:21.54\00:27:24.67
INVOLVED IN HIS CORONATION -
THAT WOULD BUILD THE TEMPLE OF
00:27:24.67\00:27:27.64
THE LORD? YES, BUT
IN ITS FULLEST SENSE,
00:27:27.64\00:27:31.15
IS THIS A PROPHECY ABOUT SOLOMON
BUILDING THE EARTHLY TEMPLE OR
00:27:31.15\00:27:34.38
ABOUT JESUS, THE SON OF
DAVID? NATHAN SAID, 'ONE OF
00:27:34.38\00:27:38.29
YOUR SONS OF YOUR SEED.
HE WILL BUILD ME A HOUSE THAT
00:27:38.29\00:27:41.16
WILL LAST FOREVER.' SOLOMON'S
TEMPLE DIDN'T LAST FOREVER.
00:27:41.16\00:27:45.89
JESUS IS THE ONE WHO IS GOING TO
BUILD THE HOUSE OF THE LORD - A
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.46
TEMPLE FOR GOD.
ZECHARIAH 6 - HERE'S ANOTHER ONE
00:27:48.46\00:27:51.60
- ZECHARIAH 6:12, "THEN SPEAK TO
HIM, SAYING, 'THUS SAYS THE LORD
00:27:51.60\00:27:56.17
OF HOSTS, SAYING: 'BEHOLD, THE
MAN WHOSE NAME IS THE BRANCH!''"
00:27:56.17\00:28:01.01
- THAT'S ONE OF THE NAMES FOR
THE MESSIAH, THE BRANCH - THE
00:28:01.01\00:28:04.01
ROOT OF THE OFFSPRING OF DAVID
- THE ROOT OF JESSE - "''THE
00:28:04.01\00:28:07.88
BRANCH FROM HIS PLACE HE SHALL
BRANCH OUT, AND HE SHALL BUILD
00:28:07.88\00:28:11.99
THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD; YES,
HE SHALL BUILD THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:28:11.99\00:28:15.36
LORD. HE SHALL
BEAR THE GLORY, AND
00:28:15.36\00:28:17.36
SHALL SIT AND RULE ON HIS
THRONE; SO HE SHALL BE A PRIEST
00:28:17.36\00:28:20.26
ON HIS THRONE, AND THE COUNSEL
OF PEACE SHALL BE BETWEEN THEM
00:28:20.26\00:28:23.06
BOTH.''" GOD THE FATHER
AND THE SON JESUS BUILT THE
00:28:23.06\00:28:27.10
TEMPLE OF THE
LORD. HE IS A PRIEST.
00:28:27.10\00:28:29.40
HE IS THE MESSIAH THAT
ZECHARIAH IS TALKING ABOUT.
00:28:29.40\00:28:31.94
ZECHARIAH WROTE THIS LONG AFTER
SOLOMON WAS DEAD AND GONE, SO
00:28:31.94\00:28:35.08
HE'S NOT TALKING ABOUT SOLOMON,
HE'S TALKING ABOUT JESUS, WHO
00:28:35.08\00:28:38.25
WOULD BUILD THE TEMPLE.
AND THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE.
00:28:38.25\00:28:42.18
NOT ONLY IS IT, YOUR BODY IS
THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT.
00:28:42.18\00:28:46.22
'WHAT? DON'T YOU KNOW THAT
YE ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD?' THE
00:28:46.22\00:28:50.73
BIBLE SAYS THAT YOU'RE LIVING
STONES - A ROYAL PRIESTHOOD.
00:28:50.73\00:28:54.10
NOW, I'M GOING TO SAY MORE
ABOUT THAT IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:28:54.10\00:28:55.96
NOW, WITH THIS IN MIND - THAT
THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE - I WANT
00:28:55.96\00:28:59.63
TO READ YOU A PROPHECY -
NEW TESTAMENT PROPHECY. SO MANY
00:28:59.63\00:29:04.37
PEOPLE MISUNDERSTAND THIS.
THERE'S ONLY ONE PROPHECY LIKE
00:29:04.37\00:29:06.37
THIS, ABOUT THE TEMPLE, BUT IT
CONFUSES A LOT OF THE CHRISTIAN
00:29:06.37\00:29:09.44
WORLD. 2 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER
2, VERSES 3 AND 4 - SPEAKING OF
00:29:09.44\00:29:14.72
THE ANTICHRIST - "LET NO ONE
DECEIVE YOU BY ANY MEANS; FOR
00:29:14.72\00:29:19.39
THAT DAY WILL NOT COME" -
SPEAKING OF THE SECOND COMING -
00:29:19.39\00:29:22.22
"THAT DAY WILL NOT COME UNLESS
THE FALLING AWAY COMES FIRST,
00:29:22.22\00:29:26.53
AND THE MAN OF SIN IS REVEALED,
THE SON OF PERDITION, WHO
00:29:26.53\00:29:30.23
OPPOSES AND EXALTS
HIMSELF ABOVE ALL THAT IS
00:29:30.23\00:29:33.20
CALLED GOD OR THAT IS WORSHIPED,
SO THAT HE SITS AS GOD IN THE
00:29:33.20\00:29:36.97
TEMPLE OF GOD, SHOWING
HIMSELF THAT HE IS GOD."
00:29:36.97\00:29:39.54
NOW, I'VE GOT A PICTURE THERE
ON THE SCREEN - I DON'T KNOW HOW
00:29:39.54\00:29:42.11
WELL YOU CAN SEE IT, BUT YOU CAN
GET PICTURES OF SEVERAL POPES -
00:29:42.11\00:29:45.01
THEY SIT ON A THRONE FLANKED BY
TWO ANGELS THAT ARE THE CHERUBS.
00:29:45.01\00:29:48.85
WHAT'S NORMALLY BETWEEN
THE TWO ANGELS IN THE EARTHLY
00:29:48.85\00:29:50.65
TABERNACLE? IT WAS THE SHEKINAH
GLORY, THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
00:29:50.65\00:29:54.92
I JUST THOUGHT THAT'S AN
INTERESTING PICTURE. NOW, I'LL
00:29:54.92\00:29:57.76
TELL YOU WHY THIS IS IMPORTANT.
MOST OF THE CHRISTIAN WORLD,
00:29:57.76\00:30:01.36
I THINK,
MISUNDERSTANDS THIS VERSE.
00:30:01.36\00:30:03.80
WHEN IT TALKS ABOUT THE
ANTICHRIST POWER SITTING IN THE
00:30:03.80\00:30:06.47
TEMPLE OF GOD, IMMEDIATELY THEY
THINK, 'WELL, THEY'LL HAVE TO
00:30:06.47\00:30:11.47
REBUILD THE TEMPLE FOR THIS
ANTICHRIST TO SIT IN THE TEMPLE
00:30:11.47\00:30:16.18
AND DECLARE HIMSELF TO BE
GOD.' AND THEY ARE WAITING FOR
00:30:16.18\00:30:19.71
SOMETHING THAT I'M GOING TO TELL
YOU I DON'T BELIEVE WILL EVER
00:30:19.71\00:30:21.68
HAPPEN. THEY'RE WAITING FOR THE
00:30:21.68\00:30:24.72
JEWISH TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT.
NOW, YOU KNOW A FEW REASONS
00:30:24.72\00:30:28.22
WHY I DON'T THINK
THAT'LL EVER HAPPEN?
00:30:28.22\00:30:30.03
FIRST OF ALL, I DON'T THINK
THE PROPHECY TALKS ABOUT THAT
00:30:30.03\00:30:31.66
BECAUSE I DON'T THINK IT'S
TALKING ABOUT A PHYSICAL TEMPLE.
00:30:31.66\00:30:34.36
FOR ONE THING, WHEN WAS THE LAST
TIME YOU MET A JEW SACRIFICING A
00:30:34.36\00:30:38.20
LAMB? MY - THERE MAY SOME THAT
DO THAT, AND I KNOW THE MUSLIMS
00:30:38.20\00:30:45.34
WILL DO IT, BUT I DON'T KNOW ANY
JEWS THAT SACRIFICE LAMBS THAT
00:30:45.34\00:30:50.41
CUT THE THROAT OF
A LAMB FOR PASSOVER.
00:30:50.41\00:30:52.05
THEY GO TO THE SUPERMARKET
AND THEY BUY SOME LAMB.
00:30:52.05\00:30:56.22
THE WHOLE SACRIFICIAL SYSTEM
HAS BEEN MODIFIED SO THEY'VE NOT
00:30:56.22\00:31:00.12
BEEN SACRIFICING
LAMBS FOR 1900 YEARS NOW.
00:31:00.12\00:31:04.49
CAN YOU IMAGINE, AS VOLATILE AS
THE MIDDLE EAST IS RIGHT NOW, DO
00:31:04.49\00:31:08.13
YOU KNOW WHERE THE JEWS
WOULD HAVE TO BUILD THE TEMPLE?
00:31:08.13\00:31:09.96
THEY ALL AGREE.
THEY'VE GOT TO PUT IT WHERE THE
00:31:09.96\00:31:11.20
OLD LOCATION WAS. YOU KNOW
WHAT'S THERE NOW IS A MUSLIM
00:31:11.20\00:31:16.00
SHRINE CALLED THE DOME OF
THE ROCK. I'VE BEEN IN THERE.
00:31:16.00\00:31:19.41
CAN YOU IMAGINE WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN IF THE LEADERS OF ISRAEL
00:31:19.41\00:31:23.98
BROUGHT A D-9 UP TO THE TEMPLE
MOUNT AND STARTED TO BULLDOZE
00:31:23.98\00:31:29.62
THE MOSQUE OF OMAR -
THE DOME OF THE ROCK?
00:31:29.62\00:31:33.05
IT'S THE THIRD
HOLIEST SITE IN ISLAM.
00:31:33.05\00:31:36.59
AND SAY, 'WE'RE GOING
TO PUT A NEW TEMPLE HERE.
00:31:36.59\00:31:38.33
YOU GUYS DON'T MIND IF WE JUST
BULLDOZE THIS OR BLOW IT UP?'
00:31:38.33\00:31:42.43
THAT WOULD CAUSE SUCH AN
INTERNATIONAL OUTCRY AND - AND
00:31:42.43\00:31:49.44
YET I HEAR ALL THE TIME PASTORS
ON THE RADIO SAY, 'SOON THEY'RE
00:31:49.44\00:31:56.28
GOING TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE.'
AND THERE'S EVEN GROUPS THAT ARE
00:31:56.28\00:31:59.65
SAYING, 'WELL, YOU KNOW, THEY'RE
ACTUALLY MAKING NEW GARMENTS FOR
00:31:59.65\00:32:02.22
THE PRIESTS AND - AND THEY'RE,
YOU KNOW, BUILDING SOME OF THE
00:32:02.22\00:32:05.12
FURNITURE. OF
COURSE, I DON'T THINK THEY'VE
00:32:05.12\00:32:06.45
GOT ALL THE GOLD THAT SOLOMON
HAD AND MOSES HAD WHEN THEY
00:32:06.45\00:32:10.09
BUILT THE ARK AND
BUILT THEIR TEMPLE.
00:32:10.09\00:32:12.43
THAT'D BE PRETTY EXPENSIVE
TO DUPLICATE THE AMOUNT OF GOLD
00:32:12.43\00:32:14.93
THAT THEY HAD. BUT
THE CHRISTIAN WORLD IS
00:32:14.93\00:32:18.23
WAITING FOR SOMETHING
THAT IS NEVER GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:32:18.23\00:32:20.44
AND WHILE THEY'RE LOOKING IN
THIS DIRECTION FOR THE JEWISH
00:32:20.44\00:32:22.57
TEMPLE TO BE REBUILT, THEY DON'T
REALIZE THAT THE ANTICHRIST IS
00:32:22.57\00:32:26.07
ALREADY SITTING IN THE TEMPLE OF
GOD SHOWING HIMSELF HE IS GOD,
00:32:26.07\00:32:30.38
BECAUSE THE CHURCH IS THE TEMPLE
OF GOD AND WHEN A MAN SITS AND
00:32:30.38\00:32:34.48
SAYS, 'I AM THE REPRESENTATIVE
BETWEEN THE CHURCH AND GOD.
00:32:34.48\00:32:40.32
I AM THE LEADER.' AND HE'S
PUTTING HIMSELF IN THE POSITION
00:32:40.32\00:32:43.39
OF GOD, SHOWING
HIMSELF HE IS GOD.
00:32:43.39\00:32:44.96
THAT'S THE FULFILLMENT OF THAT.
IT'S NOT SOMETHING GOING TO
00:32:44.96\00:32:47.50
HAPPEN IN THE FUTURE WITH
THE REBUILDING OF A TEMPLE.
00:32:47.50\00:32:50.03
CAN YOU SEE WHY IT'S
IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND THAT?
00:32:50.03\00:32:52.77
BECAUSE THE WHOLE WORLD IS
LOOKING IN THE WRONG DIRECTION
00:32:52.77\00:32:54.97
FOR SOMETHING THAT IS NOT
GOING TO HAPPEN WHILE THE END IS
00:32:54.97\00:32:56.91
CREEPING UP BEHIND THEM.
SO, SITS IN THE TEMPLE OF GOD
00:32:56.91\00:33:03.48
SHOWING HIMSELF THAT HE IS
GOD. NO, YOU KNOW, POPE FRANCIS
00:33:03.48\00:33:06.78
SEEMS LIKE A VERY NICE GUY.
I DON'T THINK THAT IF YOU ASKED
00:33:06.78\00:33:09.12
HIM, 'DO YOU THINK
YOU'RE GOD?' - HE WOULD SAY,
00:33:09.12\00:33:10.65
'NO, OF COURSE NOT.
EVEN THOUGH I AM SITTING ON A
00:33:10.65\00:33:13.46
GOLDEN THRONE
BETWEEN TWO GOLDEN ANGELS.
00:33:13.46\00:33:16.26
THAT DOESN'T MEAN ANYTHING.' THE
CHURCH IS THE BODY OF CHRIST.
00:33:16.26\00:33:22.26
EPHESIANS 1:22, "AND HE PUT ALL
THINGS UNDER HIS FEET, AND GAVE
00:33:22.26\00:33:26.17
HIM TO BE HEAD OVER ALL THINGS
TO THE CHURCH, WHICH IS HIS
00:33:26.17\00:33:28.60
BODY, THE FULLNESS OF
HIM WHO FILLS ALL IN ALL."
00:33:28.60\00:33:33.38
EPHESIANS 5:30, "FOR WE
ARE MEMBERS OF HIS BODY, OF HIS
00:33:33.38\00:33:37.05
FLESH AND OF HIS BONES."
WE'RE ALL DIFFERENT PARTS.
00:33:37.05\00:33:40.58
SOME ARE THE EYES AND THE
EARS AND THE FEET OF THE BODY OF
00:33:40.58\00:33:43.25
CHRIST. EPHESIANS 4:12, "FOR THE
00:33:43.25\00:33:49.26
EQUIPPING OF THE SAINTS FOR
THE WORK OF MINISTRY, FOR THE
00:33:49.26\00:33:51.53
EDIFYING OF THE BODY OF CHRIST,"
- YOU ARE THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:33:51.53\00:33:56.13
COLOSSIANS 1:24, "I NOW REJOICE
IN MY SUFFERINGS FOR YOU, AND
00:33:56.13\00:33:59.80
FILL UP IN MY FLESH WHAT IS
LACKING IN THE AFFLICTIONS OF
00:33:59.80\00:34:02.47
CHRIST, FOR THE SAKE OF
HIS BODY, WHICH IS THE CHURCH."
00:34:02.47\00:34:06.11
NOW, WHY IS THIS - WHY IS
THIS IMPORTANT TO UNDERSTAND?
00:34:06.11\00:34:09.54
WHAT IS JESUS DOING
RIGHT NOW? WHERE IS JESUS?
00:34:09.54\00:34:14.48
HE'S IN THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE AND
HE'S CLEANSING THE SANCTUARY.
00:34:14.48\00:34:18.32
WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT
THE HEAVENLY IN JUST A MOMENT.
00:34:18.32\00:34:20.72
AND WHEN HE'S DONE CLEANSING
THE SANCTUARY HE WILL COME.
00:34:20.72\00:34:25.59
HE'S GOING THROUGH THE LAST
PHASE OF THE HEAVENLY EQUIVALENT
00:34:25.59\00:34:30.77
OF WHAT THE PRIESTS DID ON
EARTH, CALLED THE INVESTIGATIVE
00:34:30.77\00:34:33.70
JUDGMENT - THE
CLEANSING OF THE SANCTUARY.
00:34:33.70\00:34:35.94
WHAT IS IT BEING CLEANSED FROM?
WELL, IF YOU READ THE PROPHECY
00:34:35.94\00:34:39.94
IN DANIEL CHAPTER 8, IT SAYS THE
BEAST POWER WOULD CAST THE TRUTH
00:34:39.94\00:34:44.18
TO THE GROUND AND
PRACTICE AND PROSPER.
00:34:44.18\00:34:48.28
AND THEN DANIEL HEARS
THESE ANGELS SAYING, 'HOW LONG?'
00:34:48.28\00:34:54.99
'UNTO TWO THOUSAND THREE HUNDRED
DAYS, THEN THE SANCTUARY WILL BE
00:34:54.99\00:34:57.49
CLEANSED.' WHAT
SANCTUARY WOULD BE CLEANSED
00:34:57.49\00:35:00.26
AFTER 2,300 DAYS?
HEAVENLY OR THE EARTHLY?
00:35:00.26\00:35:04.43
>>EARTHLY. >>BOTH.
00:35:04.43\00:35:06.57
LISTEN, IN 1844, AT THE END OF
THAT TIME PERIOD, CHRIST ENTERED
00:35:06.57\00:35:15.48
INTO THE FINAL PHASE OF HIS
HEAVENLY MINISTRY IN THE HOLY OF
00:35:15.48\00:35:19.38
HOLIES BEFORE GOD, BETTER KNOWN
AS THE INVESTIGATIVE JUDGMENT.
00:35:19.38\00:35:22.12
VERY SIMPLY, WHEN JESUS COMES,
IS HE DISTRIBUTING REWARDS?
00:35:22.12\00:35:27.99
DOES SOME JUDGMENT
TAKE PLACE BEFORE HE COMES?
00:35:27.99\00:35:31.29
IT'S CALLED THE
PRE-ADVENT JUDGMENT.
00:35:31.29\00:35:32.66
IS IT OBVIOUS TO YOU THAT SOME
KIND OF JUDGMENT TAKES PLACE
00:35:32.66\00:35:35.00
BEFORE HE COMES, IF HE'S
REWARDING PEOPLE WHEN HE DOES
00:35:35.00\00:35:37.67
COME? OKAY, BUT
DID HE ALSO START
00:35:37.67\00:35:43.47
DOING SOMETHING
ON EARTH IN 1844?
00:35:43.47\00:35:46.34
HE'S GOT A SANCTUARY ON EARTH.
DO YOU REALIZE THAT A GROUP
00:35:46.34\00:35:49.98
CAME TOGETHER FOLLOWING
A GREAT DISAPPOINTMENT?
00:35:49.98\00:35:52.75
THEY HAD MISUNDERSTOOD THE
PROPHECIES AND HE ROSE UP A NEW
00:35:52.75\00:35:56.75
MOVEMENT. JUST
LIKE THE DISCIPLES - THE
00:35:56.75\00:36:00.32
APOSTLES MISUNDERSTOOD THE
PROPHECIES OF CHRIST'S FIRST
00:36:00.32\00:36:03.09
COMING, BUT OUT OF THAT GREAT
DISAPPOINTMENT, THE CHURCH GREW.
00:36:03.09\00:36:08.06
THERE WAS A GREAT
MISUNDERSTANDING OF THE
00:36:08.06\00:36:10.00
PROPHECIES ABOUT
THE SECOND COMING.
00:36:10.00\00:36:11.67
MANY CHRISTIANS AROUND THE
WORLD THOUGHT JESUS WAS COMING.
00:36:11.67\00:36:14.34
WHEN HE DIDN'T COME, THEY
STARTED STUDYING THE BIBLE AND
00:36:14.34\00:36:17.11
IN ONE YEAR THAT GROUP ON EARTH,
THEY LEARNED THE TRUTH ABOUT THE
00:36:17.11\00:36:21.58
SABBATH, BAPTISM BY IMMERSION,
SALVATION BY GRACE, THE BODY
00:36:21.58\00:36:26.25
BEING THE TEMPLE OF THE HOLY
SPIRIT, THE STATE OF THE DEAD -
00:36:26.25\00:36:29.45
ALL OF THE PILLARS OF THE
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST MOVEMENT
00:36:29.45\00:36:34.69
WERE IN PLACE, THOUGH NOT
UNIVERSALLY ACCEPTED, THEY WERE
00:36:34.69\00:36:37.69
ALL IN PLACE IN 1844 HE
BEGAN CLEANSING HIS SANCTUARY ON
00:36:37.69\00:36:43.30
EARTH. NOW, IS HE DONE CLEANSING
THE SANCTUARY IN HEAVEN YET? NO.
00:36:43.30\00:36:47.44
IS HE DONE CLEANSING DOWN HERE?
IS THE LORD GOING TO PREPARE
00:36:47.44\00:36:50.61
A PEOPLE DOWN
HERE BEFORE HE COMES?
00:36:50.61\00:36:53.24
JUST AS CHRIST CLEANSED
THAT EARTHLY SANCTUARY AND HE'S
00:36:53.24\00:36:56.44
CLEANSING THE HEAVENLY
SANCTUARY, HE'S GOING TO CLEANSE
00:36:56.44\00:36:58.95
THE CHURCH. THERE
IS GOING TO BE TRIALS -
00:36:58.95\00:37:02.12
FIERY TRIALS - AND THERE'S GOING
TO BE A PURIFYING AND A SHAKING
00:37:02.12\00:37:05.22
AND HE'S GOING TO PURGE AND
REFINE GOD'S PEOPLE SO CHRIST IS
00:37:05.22\00:37:08.76
GOING TO COME FOR A BRIDE
THAT IS WITHOUT SPOT OR WRINKLE.
00:37:08.76\00:37:12.43
NOW, WHEN WE ARGUE AND TALK
ABOUT WHAT HAPPENED IN 1844, IT
00:37:12.43\00:37:16.77
IS REALLY DIFFICULT TO POINT
TO WHAT IS HAPPENING IN HEAVEN.
00:37:16.77\00:37:20.10
I DON'T KNOW IF ANY OF YOU HAVE
ANY PHOTOGRAPHS OF WHAT CHRIST
00:37:20.10\00:37:23.54
IS DOING IN THE HEAVENLY -
IT'S REALLY HARD TO PROVE THAT
00:37:23.54\00:37:26.84
UNLESS YOU'VE GOT
VIDEO OR SOMETHING.
00:37:26.84\00:37:28.51
THERE'S CAMERAS ALMOST
EVERYWHERE TODAY, BUT I HAVEN'T
00:37:28.51\00:37:30.35
SEEN ANY FOOTAGE OF WHAT
JESUS IS DOING, BUT CAN WE PROVE
00:37:30.35\00:37:33.95
SOMETHING
HAPPENED ON EARTH IN 1844?
00:37:33.95\00:37:37.12
ABSOLUTELY. HISTORY CHANGED.
QUICKEST GROWING PROTESTANT
00:37:37.12\00:37:40.29
DENOMINATION IN THE WORLD TODAY.
THE LARGEST PUBLISHING WORK -
00:37:40.29\00:37:44.39
SECOND LARGEST MEDICAL
WORK - TO THE CATHOLICS.
00:37:44.39\00:37:47.13
BUT, I MEAN, SOMETHING HAPPENED
ON EARTH YOU CAN'T DENY.
00:37:47.13\00:37:50.43
HE BEGAN A MOVEMENT ON
EARTH BECAUSE THERE'S NOT ONLY A
00:37:50.43\00:37:54.60
CHURCH IN HEAVEN,
THERE'S A CHURCH ON EARTH.
00:37:54.60\00:37:56.94
THAT'S WHY I WANT
TO EMPHASIZE THAT.
00:37:56.94\00:37:58.17
A LOT OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
CHRISTIANS, THEY GET ALL TIED UP
00:37:58.17\00:38:02.18
IN KNOTS TRYING TO PROVE WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN HEAVEN - IT'S
00:38:02.18\00:38:05.18
IMPORTANT TO STATE AND
UNDERSTAND, BUT DON'T FORGET
00:38:05.18\00:38:07.75
SOMETHING HAPPENING ON EARTH TOO
THAT YOU CAN PROVE AND YOU CAN
00:38:07.75\00:38:10.85
POINT TO AND WE
KNOW WHEN IT STARTED.
00:38:10.85\00:38:14.99
SO THE CHURCH IS A TEMPLE.
00:38:14.99\00:38:21.86
ALRIGHT, WHO IS THE CORNERSTONE
IN THIS EARTHLY TEMPLE?
00:38:21.86\00:38:26.70
YOU KNOW, THERE'S AN INTERESTING
STATEMENT THAT YOU FIND READ ALL
00:38:26.70\00:38:29.84
THROUGH THE BIBLE, PSALM 118:22,
"THE STONE WHICH THE BUILDERS
00:38:29.84\00:38:35.01
REJECTED HAS BECOME
THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE.
00:38:35.01\00:38:38.31
THIS WAS THE LORD'S DOING;
IT IS MARVELOUS IN OUR EYES."
00:38:38.31\00:38:42.02
JESUS QUOTES KING DAVID - IT'S
ACTUALLY NOT ONE OF THE DAVIDIC
00:38:42.02\00:38:46.22
PSALMS, IT MIGHT BE A PSALM OF
ASAPH BECAUSE IT HAPPENS AFTER
00:38:46.22\00:38:48.96
DAVID. JESUS
QUOTES IT IN MARK 12:10,
00:38:48.96\00:38:52.63
"HAVE YOU NOT EVEN READ THIS
SCRIPTURE: 'THE STONE WHICH THE
00:38:52.63\00:38:55.00
BUILDERS REJECTED HAS
BECOME THE CHIEF CORNERSTONE'?"
00:38:55.00\00:38:58.40
WHAT IS HE TALKING ABOUT?
WHAT IS THE STONE THAT THE
00:38:58.40\00:39:01.70
BUILDERS REJECTED THAT IT'S
BEING TALKED ABOUT IN PSALMS?
00:39:01.70\00:39:05.47
THIS IS A STORY THAT IS NOT
FOUND IN THE BIBLE, BUT IT IS
00:39:05.47\00:39:09.78
VERY CLEAR IN HEBREW
HISTORY AND TRADITION.
00:39:09.78\00:39:14.85
DURING THE TIME THEY WERE
BUILDING SOLOMON'S TEMPLE,
00:39:14.85\00:39:17.99
BECAUSE THE STONES WERE
CUT AT THE QUARRY - AND THEY'VE
00:39:17.99\00:39:20.36
DISCOVERED THE QUARRY - THEY CAN
FIND - I THINK IT'S LIKE FIVE OR
00:39:20.36\00:39:22.82
EIGHT MILES AWAY - WHERE THEY
CUT THE STONES FOR SOLOMON'S
00:39:22.82\00:39:24.96
TEMPLE. THEY'VE
MATCHED THE STONES WITH
00:39:24.96\00:39:27.03
THIS QUARRY THAT THEY
FOUND. AND THEY MOVED THE STONES
00:39:27.03\00:39:30.37
SILENTLY TO THE TEMPLE.
YOU'VE GOT ONE GROUP OF PEOPLE -
00:39:30.37\00:39:33.57
THEY HAD NO WALKIE-TALKIES, NO
CELL PHONES, THEY COULDN'T TEXT
00:39:33.57\00:39:35.84
EACH OTHER - AND THEY WOULD MAKE
MARKINGS ON THE STONE - THIS
00:39:35.84\00:39:39.27
STONE GOES HERE; THIS
STONE GOES THERE - WITH CHALK.
00:39:39.27\00:39:41.98
AND THEY MOVED THEM ALL TO THE
PLACE, BUT SOMEHOW, IN MOVING
00:39:41.98\00:39:44.61
THIS STONE, THE
MARKING GOT BRUSHED OFF IT.
00:39:44.61\00:39:48.08
THIS CORNERSTONE WAS THE
MOST IMPORTANT STONE BEFORE THEY
00:39:48.08\00:39:52.05
STARTED BUILDING THE TEMPLE
ITSELF, BECAUSE MOUNT MORIAH IS
00:39:52.05\00:39:55.92
A ROCK ON THE TOP. THAT'S
WHY YOU'VE GOT THE TEMPLE THERE
00:39:55.92\00:39:58.99
CALLED THE DOME OF THE ROCK.
THERE'S A BIG ROCK THERE TODAY.
00:39:58.99\00:40:03.16
AND THE STONE WAS - IT WAS AN
UNEVEN SURFACE, BUT PART OF THE
00:40:03.16\00:40:06.67
STONE HAD TO BE CUT TO PERFECTLY
FIT THAT ROCK AND YET BE SQUARE.
00:40:06.67\00:40:11.71
ANY OF YOU MEN, MAYBE LADIES
- YOU'VE DONE MASONRY BEFORE?
00:40:11.71\00:40:15.08
IF YOU'RE GOING TO BUILD A WALL,
ESPECIALLY AT THE CORNER, IF YOU
00:40:15.08\00:40:18.98
DON'T GET YOUR COURSE STRAIGHT
WITH YOUR CORNERSTONE - THAT
00:40:18.98\00:40:22.58
FIRST STONE, IF IT'S NOT
STRAIGHT AND SQUARE, THE WALL
00:40:22.58\00:40:25.52
GETS CROOKED GOING THIS WAY,
THE WALL GETS CROOKED GOING THIS
00:40:25.52\00:40:28.42
WAY, AND THE WALL WILL
BE CROOKED GOING THAT WAY.
00:40:28.42\00:40:31.53
YOU'VE GOT ALL THOSE SIDES THAT
WILL BE GOVERNED - YOU KNOW, YOU
00:40:31.53\00:40:34.73
GET A RAILROAD TRACK THAT'S NOT
PERFECTLY PARALLEL BY A QUARTER
00:40:34.73\00:40:38.43
OF AN INCH, IT'LL BE A MILE -
THOSE TRACKS'LL BE A MILE APART
00:40:38.43\00:40:42.07
WHEN YOU GET A
MILE DOWN THE ROAD.
00:40:42.07\00:40:44.91
AND SO, YOU'VE
GOT TO HAVE IT SQUARE.
00:40:44.91\00:40:47.18
IT HAD TO BE A PERFECT STONE.
WELL, THEY BROUGHT THE STONE
00:40:47.18\00:40:49.84
THERE BUT IT WAS A LITTLE
ODD SHAPED AND, AS THE WORKERS
00:40:49.84\00:40:52.91
AT THE ACTUAL WORK SITE WERE
BUILDING, THEY KEPT GRABBING THE
00:40:52.91\00:40:56.92
WRONG STONE AND
PUTTING IT IN POSITION.
00:40:56.92\00:40:59.39
AND THEY'D START BUILDING AND
SAY, 'THIS IS ALL CROOKED.' AND
00:40:59.39\00:41:01.39
THEY'D HAVE TO BREAK IT DOWN -
AND THEY KEPT TRIPPING OVER THIS
00:41:01.39\00:41:03.79
BIG STONE IN THE MIDDLE SAYING,
'WHY DID THE GUYS AT THE QUARRY
00:41:03.79\00:41:06.96
LEAVE THIS ODD, BROKEN STONE
HERE?' BECAUSE IT SEEMED SO
00:41:06.96\00:41:10.80
STRANGE TO THEM.
IT WAS ODD LOOKING.
00:41:10.80\00:41:13.03
THEY KEPT BUMPING INTO IT AND
TRIPPING OVER IT AND THEY'RE -
00:41:13.03\00:41:15.14
THEY KEPT BUILDING WITH THE
WRONG CORNERSTONE AND THINGS
00:41:15.14\00:41:17.84
WERE CROOKED OR THEY HAD
CRACKED UNDER THE WEIGHT.
00:41:17.84\00:41:20.91
IN THE MEANTIME, SOME OF THEM
SAID, 'GET THIS THING OUT OF THE
00:41:20.91\00:41:22.84
WAY.' THEY TOOK THIS BIG STONE,
MADE OUT OF THE BEST QUALITY
00:41:22.84\00:41:26.48
ROCK, THEY ROLLED IT OFF THE
WORK SITE DOWN INTO THE KIDRON
00:41:26.48\00:41:29.78
VALLEY. AND,
BELIEVE IT OR NOT, FINALLY
00:41:29.78\00:41:33.12
THEY DECIDED TO COMMUNICATE
WITH THE QUARRY AND SAID, 'WHICH
00:41:33.12\00:41:36.36
STONE IS IT THAT'S
SUPPOSED TO BE THE CORNERSTONE?'
00:41:36.36\00:41:38.49
THEY SAID, 'WE SENT THAT TO YOU
FIRST THING.' THEY DESCRIBED IT;
00:41:38.49\00:41:41.16
THEY SAID, 'THAT WAS THE STONE?'
AND IT WAS JUST - IT BECAME A
00:41:41.16\00:41:46.13
BIG PROVERB IN ISRAEL - THE
STONE THAT WAS REJECTED BECAME
00:41:46.13\00:41:51.27
THE CORNERSTONE BECAUSE IT WAS
- FINALLY THEY BROUGHT THE STONE
00:41:51.27\00:41:56.01
OUT OF THE KIDRON -
IT HAD BEEN UNHARMED.
00:41:56.01\00:41:58.08
THEY SET IT DOWN, IT WAS A
PERFECT FIT, IT STOOD THE TEST
00:41:58.08\00:42:03.95
OF ALL THE WEATHER, THE
PRESSURE, AND THE WHOLE TEMPLE
00:42:03.95\00:42:08.12
ROSE FROM THAT ONE
STONE. IT WAS THE CORNERSTONE.
00:42:08.12\00:42:12.16
YOU EVER SEE WHEN THEY BEGIN
A BUILDING AND THEY'LL LAY THE
00:42:12.16\00:42:14.13
FIRST STONE? AND SO
CHRIST SAID, 'THE STONE
00:42:14.13\00:42:18.00
THAT THE BUILDERS REJECTED HAS
BECOME THE CHIEF OF THE CORNER.
00:42:18.00\00:42:21.07
CHRIST IS THE CORNERSTONE.
DOES EVERYONE UNDERSTAND THAT?
00:42:21.07\00:42:25.27
AND YET, HERE HE CAME TO HIS OWN
PEOPLE AND THEY REJECTED HIM.
00:42:25.27\00:42:30.51
AND HE WAS THE FOUNDATION
FOR EVERYTHING THEY STOOD FOR.
00:42:30.51\00:42:34.98
HERE HE DIES OUTSIDE THE TEMPLE
AND HE'S THE ONE WHO REPRESENTED
00:42:34.98\00:42:38.82
THE TEMPLE. WHAT WAS IT THAT
BROUGHT DOWN GOLIATH? STONE.
00:42:38.82\00:42:47.03
AND WHAT IS IT THAT BRINGS DOWN
THE IDOL IN DANIEL CHAPTER 2?
00:42:47.03\00:42:51.37
A STONE CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS.
WHAT ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS
00:42:51.37\00:42:54.40
WRITTEN ON? A STONE
CUT WITHOUT MAN'S HANDS
00:42:54.40\00:42:57.91
- AT LEAST THE FIRST SET
- CUT BY THE HANDS OF GOD.
00:42:57.91\00:43:00.98
AND THIS ALL REPRESENTS CHRIST
WHO IS THE - THE ROCK OF AGES,
00:43:00.98\00:43:06.61
AS THEY SAY.
HE'S THE CORNERSTONE.
00:43:06.61\00:43:08.28
LET ME READ YOU - FROM PETER -
1 PETER CHAPTER 2, "YOU ALSO, AS
00:43:08.28\00:43:12.89
LIVING STONES, ARE BEING BUILT
UP A SPIRITUAL HOUSE" - SEE,
00:43:12.89\00:43:18.86
THERE'S NOT ONLY THE TEMPLE
IN HEAVEN, THERE'S THE TEMPLE ON
00:43:18.86\00:43:20.93
EARTH AND WE'RE LIVING
STONES - "...TO OFFER SPIRITUAL
00:43:20.93\00:43:24.13
SACRIFICES ACCEPTABLE TO
GOD THROUGH JESUS CHRIST."
00:43:24.13\00:43:27.27
DO WE NEED THE OLD SACRIFICIAL
SYSTEM OR IS IT A SPIRITUAL
00:43:27.27\00:43:29.97
HOUSE? DO WE NEED
THE OLD PRIEST SYSTEM
00:43:29.97\00:43:32.37
OR IS IT A SPIRITUAL PRIESTHOOD?
YOU SEE WHAT I'M SAYING?
00:43:32.37\00:43:37.28
'WHEREFORE IT IS CONTAINED IN
SCRIPTURE, BEHOLD, I LAY IN ZION
00:43:37.28\00:43:41.62
A CHIEF CORNER STONE,
ELECT, PRECIOUS: AND HE THAT
00:43:41.62\00:43:44.69
BELIEVES ON HIM
WILL NOT BE CONFOUNDED.
00:43:44.69\00:43:46.82
UNTO YOU THAT BELIEVE HE IS
PRECIOUS: BUT UNTO THEM THAT ARE
00:43:46.82\00:43:49.66
DISOBEDIENT, THE STONE THAT THE
BUILDERS DISALLOWED, THE SAME IS
00:43:49.66\00:43:53.23
MADE THE HEAD OF THE CORNER, AND
A STONE OF STUMBLING, AND A ROCK
00:43:53.23\00:43:56.97
OF OFFENSE, EVEN TO THOSE THAT
STUMBLE AT THE WORD,' - JESUS IS
00:43:56.97\00:44:00.67
THE WORD - 'BEING DISOBEDIENT:
WHEREUNTO ALSO THEY WERE
00:44:00.67\00:44:04.64
APPOINTED.' I REMEMBER HEARING
A STORY ABOUT A BOY NAMED CONRAD
00:44:04.64\00:44:09.18
REED. YOU KNOW, WE
HEAR ABOUT THE GOLD
00:44:09.18\00:44:12.31
RUSH HERE IN SACRAMENTO
IN 1849, BUT THAT WAS NOT THE
00:44:12.31\00:44:15.98
FIRST AMERICAN GOLD RUSH.
THE FIRST AMERICAN GOLD RUSH
00:44:15.98\00:44:18.72
HAPPENED IN ABOUT 17 - OR,
SORRY, 1803 AND IT WAS BECAUSE
00:44:18.72\00:44:23.73
A BOY NAMED CONRAD REED
WAS PLAYING HOOKY ONE DAY.
00:44:23.73\00:44:27.76
HE WAS SUPPOSED TO GO TO SUNDAY
SCHOOL BUT, INSTEAD OF GOING, HE
00:44:27.76\00:44:30.60
WENT FISHING ON A
CREEK ON THEIR FARM.
00:44:30.60\00:44:34.57
AND WHILE FISHING, HE SAW A VERY
ODD, LARGE ROCK IN THE CREEK - A
00:44:34.57\00:44:39.27
BLACK ROCK - AND WHEN HE PICKED
IT UP, IT WAS SO HEAVY - HE KNEW
00:44:39.27\00:44:43.41
HE HAD NEVER PICKED A ROCK THAT
WAS SO HEAVY FOR ITS SIZE - HE
00:44:43.41\00:44:46.35
BROUGHT IT HOME AND
SHOWED IT TO HIS FATHER.
00:44:46.35\00:44:47.78
HE SAID, 'I'M NOT SURE WHAT
THAT IS, BUT IT'LL BE GREAT FOR
00:44:47.78\00:44:49.78
HOLDING THE DOOR OPEN.' 17
POUNDS AND THEY USED IT TO HOLD
00:44:49.78\00:44:55.22
OPEN THE DOOR. THREE
YEARS LATER, SOMEONE CAME BY THE
00:44:55.22\00:44:59.39
REED'S AND HE SAW THE ROCK -
HE WAS A JEWELER. HE SAID, 'HOW
00:44:59.39\00:45:01.90
MUCH WOULD YOU TAKE FOR THAT
ROCK?' AND THEY FINALLY SETTLED
00:45:01.90\00:45:04.07
FOR $3.50, WHICH WAS WORTH MORE
BACK THEN, BUT IT WASN'T WORTH
00:45:04.07\00:45:08.90
NEARLY WHAT THE ROCK WAS WORTH.
IT TURNS OUT IT WAS ONE OF THE
00:45:08.90\00:45:11.84
LARGEST GOLD NUGGETS - IT WAS
FOUND IN NORTH CAROLINA - EVER
00:45:11.84\00:45:16.41
DISCOVERED ON THE EAST COAST.
AND HERE, THEY HAD BEEN TRIPPING
00:45:16.41\00:45:19.75
OVER THAT STONE, USING IT AS
A DOOR STOP, FOR FOUR YEARS. IT
00:45:19.75\00:45:26.89
WAS A GOLD NUGGET. YOU KNOW, NOT
ALL GOLD LOOKS LIKE GOLD WHEN
00:45:26.89\00:45:29.69
IT'S BEEN IN A
CREEK OR SOMETHING.
00:45:29.69\00:45:31.59
IT SOMETIMES TAKES ON SOME
OTHER MATERIAL OXIDIZING IT.
00:45:31.59\00:45:35.96
EPHESIANS 2:19, "NOW THEREFORE
YE ARE NO MORE STRANGERS AND
00:45:35.96\00:45:40.44
FOREIGNERS, BUT FELLOW CITIZENS
WITH THE SAINTS, AND OF THE
00:45:40.44\00:45:43.87
HOUSEHOLD OF GOD; AND ARE
BUILT UPON THE FOUNDATION OF THE
00:45:43.87\00:45:47.84
APOSTLES AND THE PROPHETS, JESUS
CHRIST HIMSELF BEING THE CHIEF
00:45:47.84\00:45:51.98
CORNER STONE; IN WHOM ALL THE
BUILDING FITLY FRAMED TOGETHER
00:45:51.98\00:45:56.52
GROWETH UNTO AN HOLY TEMPLE
IN THE LORD: IN WHOM YE ALSO ARE
00:45:56.52\00:46:00.39
BUILDED TOGETHER FOR AN
HABITATION OF GOD THROUGH THE
00:46:00.39\00:46:03.93
SPIRIT." GOD DWELLS
IN YOU INDIVIDUALLY -
00:46:03.93\00:46:07.50
YOUR BODY IS A TEMPLE - AND
HE DWELLS IN US COLLECTIVELY -
00:46:07.50\00:46:11.90
BECAUSE WE ARE
THE TEMPLE OF GOD.
00:46:11.90\00:46:14.14
THE WORLD IS TO SEE
THE PRESENCE OF GOD.
00:46:14.14\00:46:16.37
YOU KNOW HOW IT SAYS ALL NATIONS
WOULD FLOW TO THE TEMPLE OF GOD?
00:46:16.37\00:46:19.37
THAT WAS HIS PLAN IN THE OLD
TESTAMENT - THAT THE UNBELIEVERS
00:46:19.37\00:46:21.84
WOULD COME. IT'S
LIKE THE QUEEN OF SHEBA -
00:46:21.84\00:46:24.65
AND YOU AND I ARE TO REPRESENT
GOD - THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD,
00:46:24.65\00:46:27.65
IN THE COMMUNITY
AND IN THE WORLD.
00:46:27.65\00:46:30.59
WE'RE LIVING STONES -
WE'RE CALLED TO BE HOLY.
00:46:30.59\00:46:33.39
JESUS IS THE CORNER STONE.
ONE MORE - 1 CORINTHIANS 3:9 -
00:46:33.39\00:46:37.96
THERE ARE SO MANY VERSES I COULD
SHARE ON THIS - "FOR WE ARE
00:46:37.96\00:46:40.76
GOD'S FELLOW WORKERS;
YOU ARE GOD'S FIELD, YOU
00:46:40.76\00:46:43.30
ARE GOD'S BUILDING.
ACCORDING TO THE GRACE OF GOD
00:46:43.30\00:46:46.53
WHICH WAS GIVEN TO ME, AS A WISE
MASTER BUILDER I HAVE LAID THE
00:46:46.53\00:46:50.47
FOUNDATION, AND
ANOTHER BUILDS ON IT.
00:46:50.47\00:46:52.17
BUT LET EACH ONE TAKE
HEED HOW HE BUILDS ON IT.
00:46:52.17\00:46:55.04
FOR NO OTHER FOUNDATION CAN
ANYONE LAY THAN THAT WHICH IS
00:46:55.04\00:46:58.58
LAID, WHICH IS JESUS CHRIST."
SO THERE IS A TEMPLE ON EARTH.
00:46:58.58\00:47:04.29
YOU ARE THE TEMPLE - THE CHURCH.
NOW THERE'S A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN.
00:47:04.29\00:47:09.96
I TOUCHED ON IT, BUT LET ME GIVE
YOU SOME VERSES: HEBREWS 1 - I'M
00:47:09.96\00:47:14.30
SORRY, HEBREWS 8:1, "NOW THIS IS
THE MAIN POINT OF THE THINGS WE
00:47:14.30\00:47:18.83
ARE SAYING: WE HAVE SUCH A HIGH
PRIEST, WHO IS SEATED AT THE
00:47:18.83\00:47:22.17
RIGHT HAND OF THE THRONE OF
THE MAJESTY IN THE HEAVENS, A
00:47:22.17\00:47:25.61
MINISTER OF THE SANCTUARY AND
OF THE TRUE TABERNACLE WHICH THE
00:47:25.61\00:47:30.01
LORD ERECTED, AND NOT
MAN." NOW, IF IT'S THE TRUE
00:47:30.01\00:47:32.38
TABERNACLE, WHAT DOES THAT
MAKE EVERY OTHER TABERNACLE?
00:47:32.38\00:47:35.75
IT DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE IT
FALSE, BUT IT MAKES IT AT LEAST
00:47:35.75\00:47:37.99
A MODEL OR A FACSIMILE, BUT THE
ORIGINAL - THE TRUE TABERNACLE -
00:47:37.99\00:47:42.26
IS THE DWELLING PLACE OF GOD.
YOU SEE, THE EARTHLY TEMPLES
00:47:42.26\00:47:46.03
WERE ALL MAN-MADE FACSIMILES
THAT HELPED US PICTURE THE
00:47:46.03\00:47:52.77
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD - OF
A VERY REAL DWELLING PLACE.
00:47:52.77\00:47:56.20
FOR EXAMPLE, IN THE EARTHLY
TEMPLE THEY WERE INSTRUCTED TO
00:47:56.20\00:48:00.28
WEAVE ANGELS INTO THE VEIL AND
TO CARVE GOLDEN ANGELS INTO THE
00:48:00.28\00:48:04.28
WALLPAPER OF THE HOLY OF
HOLIES. DO YOU THINK THAT IN THE
00:48:04.28\00:48:07.78
HEAVENLY SANCTUARY GOD HAS
GOLDEN WALLPAPER WITH ANGELS, OR
00:48:07.78\00:48:12.62
COULD IT BE THAT GOD HAS REAL
ANGELS? JUST LIKE THERE WAS A
00:48:12.62\00:48:17.86
GOLDEN BOX THAT REPRESENTED THE
THRONE OR DWELLING PLACE OF GOD
00:48:17.86\00:48:20.86
WITH TWO LITTLE - COMPARATIVELY
LITTLE - GOLDEN ANGELS ON THIS
00:48:20.86\00:48:24.07
BOX. DO YOU THINK GOD
SITS BY GOLDEN STATUES OF
00:48:24.07\00:48:27.07
ANGELS, OR ARE THOSE GOLDEN
ANGELS REPRESENTING REAL ANGELS?
00:48:27.07\00:48:31.17
AND THE SCALE - DON'T THINK FOR
A MINUTE THAT GOD IS LIVING IN A
00:48:31.17\00:48:35.18
BUILDING THAT IS, YOU
KNOW, 75 FEET BY 50 FEET.
00:48:35.18\00:48:39.01
IN HEAVEN, YOU'VE GOT TO
THINK IN LIGHT YEARS ABOUT THE
00:48:39.01\00:48:43.55
DWELLING PLACE OF GOD. IF YOU'VE
DONE ANY ASTRONOMY, YOU KNOW HOW
00:48:43.55\00:48:46.92
BIG THE COSMOS IS. I MEAN, WE
DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW BIG BUT, I
00:48:46.92\00:48:49.96
MEAN, EVERY TELESCOPE THEY BUILD
THEY THINK THESE PINPOINTS OF
00:48:49.96\00:48:53.73
LIGHT ARE STARS - THEY
FIND OUT THEY'RE GALAXIES
00:48:53.73\00:48:55.43
WITH A MILLION STARS APIECE.
I MEAN, THE UNIVERSE IS SO VAST,
00:48:55.43\00:48:59.27
IF YOU COULD GO INTO THE TEMPLE
OF GOD IN HEAVEN YOU WOULD SEE
00:48:59.27\00:49:03.54
THIS LIVING, SHIMMERING
WALL OF ANGELS AROUND GOD.
00:49:03.54\00:49:07.78
I DON'T THINK HE'S GOT
TWO-BY-FOURS. I THINK HE'S GOT A
00:49:07.78\00:49:11.38
WALL OF ANGELS. HE'S
SURROUNDED BY TEN THOUSAND
00:49:11.38\00:49:13.58
TIMES TEN THOUSAND AND THOUSANDS
OF THOUSANDS - THAT'S WHAT THE
00:49:13.58\00:49:16.45
BIBLE SAYS - AND
THEY'RE ALL SINGING.
00:49:16.45\00:49:19.12
CAN YOU IMAGINE A WALL OF
SINGING ANGELS AS A CHOIR?
00:49:19.12\00:49:22.92
HE'S SURROUNDED BY THESE ANGELS
AND HE'S ON A THRONE OF GLORY
00:49:22.92\00:49:25.93
AND IT'S JUST SOMETHING WE CAN'T
EVEN IMAGINE, BUT HE TRIED TO
00:49:25.93\00:49:29.30
GIVE US SOMETHING PRACTICAL THAT
WE COULD RELATE TO, TO TEACH US
00:49:29.30\00:49:32.47
WHO HE IS. THERE'S
A TEMPLE IN HEAVEN.
00:49:32.47\00:49:36.60
HEBREWS 8:5 - THESE EARTHLY
THINGS ARE COPIES AND SHADOWS OF
00:49:36.60\00:49:41.14
HEAVENLY THINGS.
THAT'S PRETTY CLEAR.
00:49:41.14\00:49:44.38
AND EVEN WHEN YOU READ
REVELATION CHAPTER 1 - SEVEN
00:49:44.38\00:49:47.88
GOLDEN LAMPSTANDS.
REVELATION 8 IT TALKS ABOUT A
00:49:47.88\00:49:52.62
GOLDEN ALTAR BEFORE THE THRONE
- THAT'S THE ALTAR OF INCENSE.
00:49:52.62\00:49:57.03
REVELATION 11, 'AND I SAW HEAVEN
OPEN AND THE ARK OF HIS COVENANT
00:49:57.03\00:50:01.50
WAS SEEN IN HIS TEMPLE AND THERE
WERE LIGHTNINGS AND NOISES AND
00:50:01.50\00:50:05.73
THUNDERINGS AND AN EARTHQUAKE
AND A GREAT HAIL.' AND, BY THE
00:50:05.73\00:50:09.47
WAY, REVELATION 11 SAYS THE ARK
OF HIS COVENANT - WHAT WAS IN
00:50:09.47\00:50:13.88
THE ARK? >>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
00:50:13.88\00:50:16.04
>>TEN COMMANDMENTS.
HE'S GOT A COPY IN HEAVEN.
00:50:16.04\00:50:20.25
COULD IT BE THAT'S WHY JESUS
SAID, 'HEAVEN AND EARTH WILL
00:50:20.25\00:50:22.85
PASS AWAY BEFORE ONE JOT OR
TITTLE PASSES FROM MY LAW.' IN
00:50:22.85\00:50:27.36
OTHER WORDS, YOU COULD DESTROY
ALL THE EARTH, YOU'RE STILL NOT
00:50:27.36\00:50:29.99
GOING TO DESTROY HIS LAW BECAUSE
HE'S GOT A COPY UP THERE.
00:50:29.99\00:50:32.99
YOU'VE GOT TO
DESTROY HEAVEN AND EARTH.
00:50:32.99\00:50:35.60
ARE ALL TEN COMMANDMENTS
STILL INSIDE THE ARK?
00:50:35.60\00:50:38.73
>>YES. >>EVEN THE
SABBATH COMMANDMENT?
00:50:38.73\00:50:40.97
STILL WRITTEN THERE? THAT'S WHY
HEAVEN AND EARTH WOULD HAVE TO
00:50:40.97\00:50:43.71
PASS AWAY BEFORE THE SMALLEST
LAW CHANGED. THAT'S WHY JESUS
00:50:43.71\00:50:47.78
SAID, 'THINK NOT THAT
I'VE COME TO DESTROY THE LAW.
00:50:47.78\00:50:51.28
WHOEVER, THEREFORE, SHALL BREAK
THE LEAST OF THESE COMMANDMENTS
00:50:51.28\00:50:53.72
AND TEACH MEN SO, HE'LL BE
CALLED LEAST IN THE KINGDOM.
00:50:53.72\00:50:57.09
BUT WHOEVER DOES THEM AND
TEACHES THEM WILL BE CALLED
00:50:57.09\00:50:59.12
GREAT IN THE KINGDOM.
WELL, WE'VE GOT TO WRAP THIS UP.
00:50:59.12\00:51:02.56
THIS IS A BIG SUBJECT.
THERE WON'T BE A PART THREE.
00:51:02.56\00:51:06.29
I TOLD YOU THERE'S SEVEN TEMPLES
- I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE BEEN
00:51:06.29\00:51:10.03
COUNTING - GOD IS OUR TEMPLE.
00:51:10.03\00:51:14.34
THAT'S RIGHT, REVELATION
21, VERSE 3, "AND I HEARD A LOUD
00:51:14.34\00:51:19.57
VOICE FROM HEAVEN SAYING,
'BEHOLD, THE TABERNACLE OF GOD
00:51:19.57\00:51:23.58
IS WITH MEN," - THE DWELLING
PLACE OF GOD IS WITH MEN - "AND
00:51:23.58\00:51:26.35
HE WILL DWELL WITH THEM,
AND THEY SHALL BE HIS PEOPLE.
00:51:26.35\00:51:28.68
GOD HIMSELF WILL BE
WITH THEM AND BE THEIR GOD."
00:51:28.68\00:51:31.19
AND THEN YOU GO TO VERSE 22
- SECOND TO THE LAST CHAPTER IN
00:51:31.19\00:51:34.69
THE BIBLE - "BUT I SAW NO TEMPLE
IN IT, FOR THE LORD GOD ALMIGHTY
00:51:34.69\00:51:40.60
AND THE LAMB ARE ITS TEMPLE."
IN HEAVEN, IF YOU TAKE GOD OUT
00:51:40.60\00:51:46.80
OF THE TEMPLE,
WHAT DO YOU HAVE LEFT?
00:51:46.80\00:51:48.64
THERE'S NO TEMPLE - BECAUSE
GOD WAS AT THE VERY HEART OF THE
00:51:48.64\00:51:52.21
EARTHLY TEMPLE,
HIS DWELLING PLACE.
00:51:52.21\00:51:54.31
IT'S LIKE WHEN THE PHILISTINE'S
GOT THE ARK THEY SAID, 'ICHABOD,
00:51:54.31\00:51:57.71
THE GLORY HAS
DEPARTED.' GOD IS A TEMPLE.
00:51:57.71\00:52:01.68
WE DWELL IN HIM. IT'S NOT
ONLY HE'S IN US, WE'RE IN HIM.
00:52:01.68\00:52:06.45
SO LET'S COUNT THEM: YOU'VE
GOT MOSES' TEMPLE, YOU'VE GOT
00:52:06.45\00:52:11.86
SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, YOU'VE GOT
NEHEMIAH/ZERUBBABEL'S TEMPLE,
00:52:11.86\00:52:16.53
YOU'VE GOT YOUR BODY TEMPLE,
YOU'VE GOT THE CHURCH TEMPLE,
00:52:16.53\00:52:23.17
YOU'VE GOT THE HEAVENLY TEMPLE,
AND NUMBER SEVEN WOULD BE GOD
00:52:23.17\00:52:26.44
HIMSELF IS A TEMPLE.
WHEN WE GO TO HEAVEN, GOD
00:52:26.44\00:52:31.08
HIMSELF WILL DWELL WITH US.
THERE'S NO TEMPLE - WE'RE NOT
00:52:31.08\00:52:33.62
GOING TO GO TO CHURCH,
WE'RE GOING TO GO INTO THE
00:52:33.62\00:52:36.28
PRESENCE OF JESUS. AND
IT'S NOT JUST ONE - YOU
00:52:36.28\00:52:38.75
NOTICE IT SAYS, 'THE LORD GOD
AND THE LAMB' - BOTH - GOD THE
00:52:38.75\00:52:42.22
FATHER, SON, AND THE SPIRIT,
OBVIOUSLY, ARE IN THAT TEMPLE.
00:52:42.22\00:52:47.36
SO WHERE IS THE
TEMPLE OF THE LORD?
00:52:47.36\00:52:51.03
WELL, HE WANTS TO BE IN
YOU. HE WANTS TO BE IN THE WORLD
00:52:51.03\00:52:55.34
THROUGH THE CHURCH, AND HE WANTS
US TO BE IN HIM IN THE TEMPLE.
00:52:55.34\00:53:00.61
AND CHRIST IS THAT CORNERSTONE.
HE IS THAT ROCK OF AGES, AMEN? -
00:53:00.61\00:53:05.15
>>AMEN. >>THAT IT'S ALL ABOUT.
00:53:05.15\00:53:06.41
IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TEMPLE IT
WAS ALL BUILT AROUND TWO STONES
00:53:06.41\00:53:09.35
- IN THE HOLY OF HOLIES.
THAT ROCK REPRESENTED CHRIST.
00:53:09.35\00:53:12.65
THE BREAD REPRESENTED CHRIST,
THE LIGHT REPRESENTED CHRIST,
00:53:12.65\00:53:15.49
THE ALTAR OF PRAYER REPRESENTED
CHRIST. IT WAS ALL TRYING TO
00:53:15.49\00:53:18.63
TEACH US SOMETHING
ABOUT JESUS. (MUSIC)
00:53:18.63\00:53:31.27
>>I'M HERE IN THE
BEAUTIFUL ISLAND NATION OF FIJI
00:53:31.27\00:53:34.44
THAT'S FILLED WITH EXOTIC
ANIMALS, BEAUTIFUL VEGETATION,
00:53:34.44\00:53:37.85
AND SPECTACULAR SCENERY.
THE PEOPLE HERE ARE SOME OF THE
00:53:37.85\00:53:41.12
NICEST IN THE WORLD, BUT IT
HASN'T ALWAYS BEEN THAT WAY.
00:53:41.12\00:53:44.42
THIS WAS ONCE KNOWN AS THE
CANNIBAL ISLANDS. THE FIJIAN
00:53:44.42\00:53:49.36
WARRIORS WERE SOME OF THE
FIERCEST IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC
00:53:49.36\00:53:52.03
AND GREATLY FEARED - YOU
CAN UNDERSTAND WHY - THIS IS ONE
00:53:52.03\00:53:54.83
OF THE WEAPONS THEY USED
FOR BREAKING THE NECK OF THEIR
00:53:54.83\00:53:58.17
ADVERSARIES. AND, LONG BEFORE
THEY WERE KILLING AND EATING
00:53:58.17\00:54:01.17
MISSIONARIES, THEY WERE FIGHTING
WITH AND KILLING AND EATING EACH
00:54:01.17\00:54:04.37
OTHER. IN FACT, AS YOU GO TO THE
DIFFERENT TOURIST LOCATIONS ON
00:54:04.37\00:54:07.38
THE ISLAND, THEY'LL SELL
YOU REMAKES OF SOME OF THE FORKS
00:54:07.38\00:54:11.18
THEY USED FOR
EATING HUMAN BRAINS.
00:54:11.18\00:54:15.58
IN FACT, THERE WAS ONE CANNIBAL
CHIEF, RATU UDRE UDRE, DURING
00:54:15.58\00:54:19.45
THE 1800S THAT IS IN THE
GUINNESS BOOK OF WORLD RECORDS
00:54:19.45\00:54:22.49
FOR HAVING KILLED AND
EATEN THE MOST VICTIMS.
00:54:22.49\00:54:25.49
HE BRAGGED THAT EVERY TIME
HE KILLED SOMEONE HE SET A STONE
00:54:25.49\00:54:27.86
ASIDE AND BY THE END OF HIS
LIFE HE HAD A PRETTY BIG PILE OF
00:54:27.86\00:54:31.00
STONES. IT'S
ESTIMATED HE ATE SOMEWHERE
00:54:31.00\00:54:33.23
IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD
OF 900 PEOPLE - OH MY.
00:54:33.23\00:54:39.24
YOU KNOW, THE FIJIANS WERE NOT
THE ONLY ONES WHO HAD A MONOPOLY
00:54:39.24\00:54:41.41
ON CANNIBALISM, IN FACT,
THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE ARE ALL
00:54:41.41\00:54:44.88
CAPABLE OF BEING CANNIBALS.
GALATIANS 5:15 SAYS IF WE BITE
00:54:44.88\00:54:49.35
AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER, WE MAY
END UP CONSUMING ONE ANOTHER.
00:54:49.35\00:54:53.05
THAT'S TALKING ABOUT DESTROYING
PEOPLE'S REPUTATION BY MEAN
00:54:53.05\00:54:55.96
GOSSIP. ONE
FAMOUS MISSIONARY NAMED
00:54:55.96\00:54:58.43
PATTON, WHEN HE WAS PREPARING
TO GO TO THE CANNIBAL ISLES, HIS
00:54:58.43\00:55:01.86
FRIENDS AND FAMILY
BEGGED HIM NOT TO GO.
00:55:01.86\00:55:03.97
THEY SAID, 'YOU'LL BE EATEN.' HE
SAID, 'IT DOESN'T MATTER TO ME
00:55:03.97\00:55:06.77
IF I DIE AND AM EATEN BY WORMS
OR IF GOD WILLS THAT I'M EATEN
00:55:06.77\00:55:10.11
BY CANNIBALS, AS LONG AS
I'M DOING THE WILL OF GOD.
00:55:10.11\00:55:13.21
WELL, HE WENT TO THE CANNIBAL
ISLES AND BROUGHT MANY TO CHRIST
00:55:13.21\00:55:16.48
AND DIED
PEACEFULLY IN HIS OLD AGE.
00:55:16.48\00:55:18.91
SOME OF THE ANCIENT CANNIBAL
CULTURES BELIEVED THAT WHEN YOU
00:55:18.91\00:55:21.32
KILLED AND WHEN YOU DEVOURED
YOUR ENEMY, YOU WOULD SOMEHOW
00:55:21.32\00:55:24.02
TAKE WITHIN YOU THEIR
SPIRITUAL STRENGTHS OR POWERS.
00:55:24.02\00:55:27.09
BUT THAT'S REALLY ABSURD - BUT
THERE IS A KIND OF CANNIBALISM
00:55:27.09\00:55:30.93
ENDORSED IN SCRIPTURE.
THAT'S RIGHT, JESUS SAID, 'IN
00:55:30.93\00:55:34.20
JOHN CHAPTER 6, VERSE 53,
"EXCEPT YOU EAT MY FLESH AND
00:55:34.20\00:55:38.07
DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE NO
LIFE IN YOU." AND YOU DON'T NEED
00:55:38.07\00:55:41.24
THESE TOOLS TO DO IT. WHAT
YOU NEED IS TO READ HIS WORD AND
00:55:41.24\00:55:44.94
LEARN ABOUT HIS LIFE. ACCEPT
BY FAITH HIS SACRIFICE IN YOUR
00:55:44.94\00:55:47.91
PLACE AND YOU CAN HAVE A
NEW HEART AND BE A NEW CREATURE.
00:55:47.91\00:55:51.31
YOU CAN EVEN DO
IT RIGHT NOW. (MUSIC)
00:55:51.31\00:56:00.39
(MUSIC) >>AMAZING
FACTS BEGAN IN 1965
00:56:00.39\00:56:09.06
WITH A GOD-INSPIRED CONCEPT.
>>HELLO, THIS IS JOE CREWS AND
00:56:09.06\00:56:13.30
THE AMAZING FACTS BROADCAST,
FACTS WHICH AFFECT YOU.
00:56:13.30\00:56:16.60
EACH RADIO BROADCAST WOULD
BEGIN WITH AN AMAZING FACT FROM
00:56:16.60\00:56:20.48
SCIENCE, NATURE, OR HISTORY,
FOLLOWED BY A BIBLE MESSAGE THAT
00:56:20.48\00:56:24.41
TOUCHED THE HEARTS OF LISTENERS
FROM EVERY WALK OF LIFE.
00:56:24.41\00:56:28.25
THE PROGRAM WAS AN INSTANT
SUCCESS AND THE MINISTRY SOON
00:56:28.25\00:56:32.09
BEGAN EXPANDING TO
INCLUDE BIBLE LESSONS.
00:56:32.09\00:56:35.09
IN 1986 AMAZING FACTS ADDED
THE MEDIUM OF TELEVISION TO ITS
00:56:35.09\00:56:39.56
GROWING OUTREACH
EFFORTS, OFFERING SOUL-WINNING
00:56:39.56\00:56:42.56
EVANGELISTIC MESSAGES
FOR VIEWERS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:42.56\00:56:46.70
IN 1994, PASTOR DOUG BATCHELOR
ASSUMED LEADERSHIP OF THE
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MINISTRY, ADDING THE
BIBLE ANSWERS LIVE CALL-IN RADIO
00:56:50.71\00:56:54.18
PROGRAM AND NEW MINISTRY
TV PROGRAMS BEGAN AIRING ON
00:56:54.18\00:56:58.11
MULTIPLE
NETWORKS AROUND THE WORLD.
00:56:58.11\00:57:01.25
FOR 50 YEARS, THE DRIVING VISION
OF AMAZING FACTS HAS BEEN THE
00:57:01.25\00:57:05.72
BOLD PROCLAMATION OF THE
EVERLASTING GOSPEL AND, WITH A
00:57:05.72\00:57:09.76
TEAM OF EVANGELISTS CIRCLING THE
GLOBE, AND THOUSANDS OF MEN AND
00:57:09.76\00:57:13.29
WOMEN BEING TRAINED THROUGH
THE AMAZING FACTS CENTER OF
00:57:13.29\00:57:16.10
EVANGELISM PROGRAM - AFCOE -
THE MINISTRY IS HELPING GOD'S
00:57:16.10\00:57:20.30
CHURCH SEE A
RICH HARVEST OF SOULS.
00:57:20.30\00:57:24.27
AMAZING FACTS: GOD'S
MESSAGE, OUR MISSION.
00:57:24.27\00:57:33.35
>>DID YOU KNOW THAT NOAH WAS
PRESENT AT THE BIRTH OF ABRAHAM?
00:57:33.35\00:57:36.65
OKAY, MAYBE HE WASN'T IN
THE ROOM, BUT HE WAS ALIVE AND
00:57:36.65\00:57:40.62
PROBABLY TELLING
STORIES ABOUT HIS FLOATING ZOO.
00:57:40.62\00:57:43.99
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