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>>WE ARE CONTINUING A
SERIES THAT WILL PROBABLY JUST
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HAVE ABOUT THREE PARTS TO
IT, DEALING WITH THE SUBJECT OF
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ISLAM AND CHRISTIANITY IN
PROPHECY. LAST WEEK WE TALKED
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ABOUT SIBLING RIVALRY AND TODAY
WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT
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FROM MECCA TO ROME AND WE THINK
THIS IS A VERY IMPORTANT STUDY
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FOR WHERE WE ARE IN THE WORLD
TODAY AND I DO SOLICIT YOUR
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PRAYERS AS I SHARE AND I JUST
WANT TO BE FAITHFUL TO HIS WORD.
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I DON'T CLAIM TO UNDERSTAND
EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON, BUT
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I DO FEEL IMPRESSED THAT WE ARE
ON THE - ON THE CUSP OF A LOT OF
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BIBLE PROPHECY BEING FULFILLED
AND I THINK GOD WANTS US TO
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UNDERSTAND AND, ALSO, TO
UNDERSTAND THAT IT DOES MATTER
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WHAT YOU BELIEVE. >>AMEN.
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>>I THINK MOST OF US KNOW
THAT THE MIDDLE EAST HAS BECOME
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SOMETHING OF A
TINDERBOX IN RECENT YEARS.
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SOME ARE DATING THE LATEST
IMPLOSION OF STABILITY TO EARLY
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IN 2011 WHEN THEY HAD WHAT
THEY CALLED THE 'ARAB SPRING'.
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A LOT OF THE COUNTRIES ACROSS
NORTH AFRICA AND THROUGH THE
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MIDDLE EAST THAT WERE DICTATOR
REGIMES, THEY WENT THROUGH A
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GREAT DEAL OF UPHEAVAL AND IT
LOOKED LIKE DEMOCRACY WAS GOING
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TO SETTLE IN AND A NUMBER OF
THESE COUNTRIES BEGAN TO PROTEST
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AND ASK FOR MORE RIGHTS AND
SOCIAL MEDIA, BEING AVAILABLE,
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MADE A LOT OF THE YOUNG PEOPLE
SAY, YOU KNOW, 'WHY DON'T WE
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HAVE FREEDOMS OF SOME
OF THESE OTHER COUNTRIES?'
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AND IT LOOKED LIKE IT WOULD BE
A FRESH AWAKENING LIKE, KIND OF,
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION
- LOOKING FOR FREEDOM AND
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DEMOCRACY - BUT WHAT STARTED OUT
AS AN ARAB SPRING QUICKLY TURNED
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TO WINTER AND IT DESCENDED
INTO VIOLENCE AND INSTABILITY.
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AND COUNTRIES LIKE TUNISIA AND
EGYPT, LIBYA, YEMEN, BAHRAIN,
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SYRIA, ALGERIA, IRAQ, JORDAN,
KUWAIT, MOROCCO, SUDAN, OMAN,
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AND OTHERS ALL, ALMOST
SIMULTANEOUSLY, BEGAN TO
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UNRAVEL. I THINK WE KNOW,
AT LEAST AT THE TIME OF THIS
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RECORDING, THAT THERE'S BEEN AN
ONGOING CIVIL WAR IN SYRIA AND
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AS MANY AS 300,000 PEOPLE
HAVE DIED IN THOSE STRUGGLES.
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PEOPLE ARE WONDERING AT WHAT
POINT IS THIS TENSION IN THE
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MIDDLE EAST GOING TO REACH
CRITICAL MASS AND WHAT WILL THAT
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MEAN? AT THE SAME
TIME, THERE'S THIS
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KIND OF INSTABILITY IN
THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
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WE ALSO SEE THAT THERE'S A GREAT
DEAL OR GROWING TERRORISM THAT
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IS, MORE TIMES THAN NOT,
ASSOCIATED WITH THE RELIGION OF
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ISLAM. NOW, I
WANT TO QUICKLY REPEAT
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THAT I DO NOT BELIEVE
THAT WE NEED TO BE AFRAID OF
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OUR MUSLIM NEIGHBORS. I
WAS PLAYING RACQUETBALL, WITH
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A MUSLIM FRIEND I'VE
KNOWN FOR YEARS, THIS WEEK.
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BUT WE ALSO NEED TO ADMIT AND BE
HONEST AND AWARE THAT THERE IS
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AT LEAST A VARIETY OF MUSLIMS
THAT HAVE BEEN RADICALIZED BY
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THEIR BELIEF AND SOME OF THEM
ARE VERY FUNDAMENTAL IN THEIR
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BELIEFS AND THEIR INTERPRETATION
OF THE QURAN AND WE'LL TALK MORE
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ABOUT THAT A LITTLE
LATER. YOU REMEMBER LAST WEEK WE
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EXPLAINED THESE TWO
GREAT RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD -
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LARGEST RELIGIONS IN THE WORLD:
CHRISTIANITY - NUMBER 1 - ABOUT
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2.2 BILLION - ISLAM - NUMBER
2 - ABOUT 1.7 BILLION - THERE'S
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VARYING NUMBERS THAT HAVE
BEEN REPORTED, BUT THAT'S - I'M
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PICKING A MEDIUM NUMBER.
IT'S ANYWHERE BETWEEN 1.5 AND
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1.8 BILLION
MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD.
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WHILE IT IS TRUE MOST ARABS, WHO
ARE THE PEOPLE THAT DESCENDED
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FROM ISHMAEL, ARE MUSLIMS,
NOT ALL ARABS ARE MUSLIMS.
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THERE ARE SOME ARABS THAT HAVE
BEEN CHRISTIANS FOR 2,000 YEARS
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BECAUSE CHRISTIANITY, WHEN IT
SPREAD THROUGH EGYPT - AND RIGHT
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NOW MANY OF THE CHRISTIANS
IN EGYPT ARE BEING PERSECUTED BY
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THE MUSLIMS THERE. AND
THERE ARE ARAB JEWS, BELIEVE
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IT OR NOT, AND I'VE MET THEM
BEFORE. AND SO, I JUST - AND
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THEN ALSO KEEP IN MIND THAT OF
THE 1.7 BILLION MUSLIMS IN THE
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WORLD, MOST ARE NOT ARAB.
MOST OF THEM ARE LIVING IN
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PAKISTAN AND NORTH
AFRICA AND MOSTLY INDONESIA.
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BUT IN THE SAME WAY, MOST
CHRISTIANS IN THE WORLD ARE NOT
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JEWS - THE EARLY
CHURCH WAS ALL JEWISH.
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THEY ALL SPRANG FROM ISAAC
AND JACOB, AND THE ARABS HAVE
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PRINCIPALLY - I'M SORRY, THE
MUSLIMS HAVE PRINCIPALLY SPRUNG
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FROM THE ARABS, BUT IT HAS
SPREAD WAY BEYOND THEIR COAST.
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THEY WERE VERY AGGRESSIVE
IN THEIR MISSION OUTREACH.
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NOW I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS
INTERESTING TO SHARE WITH YOU -
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IT'S BEEN NOW SUBSTANTIATED BY
SCIENCE THAT THERE IS A COMMON
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PARENTAGE BETWEEN
THE JEWS AND THE ARABS.
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AS THE FIGHTING CONTINUES IN THE
MIDDLE EAST THERE IS A NEW STUDY
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THAT REVEALS MORE THAN 70% OF
JEWISH MEN AND MORE THAN 50% OF
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ARAB MEN WHOSE DNA WAS STUDIED,
INHERITED THEIR Y CHROMOSOME
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FROM THE SAME PATERNAL ANCESTORS
DATING BACK ABOUT 3,000 YEARS
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AGO. DO YOU KNOW THAT IS EXACTLY
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WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS? >>AMEN.
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>>AND THAT'S BEEN CONFIRMED
- THAT THE JEWS AND THE ARABS,
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THEY DO GO BACK TO
THE SAME COMMON ANCESTOR.
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YOU KNOW, NOT ALL OF THEM
BECAUSE THERE'S - WITH CONQUESTS
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THERE'S A LITTLE INTERMARRIAGE
THAT HAPPENED WITH THE LOCAL
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PEOPLES, BUT THEY CAN
PRETTY WELL PROVE THAT.
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AND SO IT IS A LARGE SIBLING
RIVALRY THAT'S CARRIED ALL THE
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WAY FROM THE DAYS OF
ABRAHAM DOWN TO OUR PRESENT DAY.
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AND I WANT TO REMIND YOU AGAIN -
I KNOW SOME WERE NOT HERE - SOME
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MAY BE VISITING TODAY -
THE WAY YOU SEE THESE TWO GREAT
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RELIGIONS CAN BE TRACED BACK TO
THE BATTLE THAT HAPPENED IN THE
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FAMILY BETWEEN ABRAHAM AND THERE
WAS ISHMAEL AND THERE WAS ISAAC.
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ISHMAEL, GALATIANS TELLS
US, CAME INTO THE WORLD THROUGH
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NATURAL MEANS, WHEREAS ISAAC
WAS BORN OF FAITH - IT WAS A
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SUPERNATURAL EVENT.
ISHMAEL WAS CIRCUMCISED AT THE
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AGE OF 13, WHEN YOU
TECHNICALLY BECAME AN ADULT AND
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AGE OF RESPONSIBILITY.
ISAAC WAS CIRCUMCISED - 8 DAYS
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OLD - AS A BABY - AN AGE
OF DEPENDENCE. ISHMAEL - MOUNT
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SINAI IN ARABIA - DON'T MISS
THAT - THE NEW TESTAMENT SAYS
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'MOUNT SINAI IN ARABIA' AND WAS
BORN AFTER THE FLESH - ISAAC,
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BORN AFTER THE SPIRIT.
HE IS CALLED 'THE ONLY SON'.
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WHEN [GOD] TOLD HIM TO OFFER
ISAAC HE SAID, 'TAKE YOUR SON,
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YOUR ONLY SON' - BECAUSE HE WAS
THE ONLY SON HE WAS SUPPOSED TO
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HAVE. HE WAS THE SON OF PROMISE.
ISAAC - ISHMAEL REPRESENTS
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THE ONE WHO IS - OR ISHMAEL
PERSECUTES ISAAC, THE SON
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WHO IS BORN AFTER THE SPIRIT.
ISAAC REPRESENTS JERUSALEM - THE
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NEW JERUSALEM IS THE
PLACE OF THE FAITHFUL.
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ISAAC HAS A NEAR-DEATH
EXPERIENCE, HAGAR PRAYS, AN
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ANGEL SPEAKS TO HER, AND
HE IS DELIVERED - ISHMAEL
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HAS A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE -
RIGHT, ISHMAEL HAS A NEAR-DEATH
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EXPERIENCE, HAGAR PRAYS - ISAAC
HAS A NEAR-DEATH EXPERIENCE ON
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THE MOUNTAIN AND GOD - THE ANGEL
STOPS ABRAHAM FROM OFFERING HIM.
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BOTH THE NAMES ISHMAEL
AND ISAAC ARE GIVEN BY GOD.
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IT SHOULD ALSO BE MENTIONED THAT
- IT TELLS US THE ANGEL OF THE
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LORD THAT APPEARED TO MOSES,
MOST CHRISTIANS BELIEVE THAT WAS
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A CHRISTOPHANY -
JESUS APPEARED TO MOSES.
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DO YOU KNOW IT SAYS THE ANGEL
OF THE LORD APPEARED TO HAGAR?
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SO GOD WAS INVOLVED IN - IN
BOTH OF THESE NAMES BEING GIVEN.
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IT'S INTERESTING, NOW, THE
DISTINCTION - ISAAC ENDS UP
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GOING EAST FOR HIS WIFE -
ACTUALLY NORTHEAST - ISHMAEL
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GOES SOUTH - OR
SOUTHWEST - FOR HIS WIFE.
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THEY GO IN OPPOSITE DIRECTIONS.
ONE WIFE CHOSEN BY THE FATHER,
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THE WIFE OF ISHMAEL
CHOSEN BY THE MOTHER - ISAAC
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CHOSEN BY THE FATHER.
AND THEY ALMOST SEEM TO BE -
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IT'S THE JUXTAPOSITION OF THESE
TWO INDIVIDUALS AND THAT STILL
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TRANSLATES INTO WHAT'S
HAPPENING IN THE WORLD TODAY -
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WHAT YOU SEE BACK THEN.
I'LL GET TO THAT A LITTLE LATER.
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THERE WAS A PROMISE THAT
WAS GIVEN BOTH TO ISAAC AND TO
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ISHMAEL, THAT THEIR DESCENDANTS
WOULD BE INNUMERABLE, AND THE
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ANGEL OF THE LORD SAID TO HER,
'RETURN TO YOUR MISTRESS AND
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SUBMIT TO HER.' GOD SAID TO
HAGAR, 'I WILL MULTIPLY YOUR
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DESCENDANTS EXCEEDINGLY SO
THEY WILL NOT BE COUNTED FOR
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MULTITUDE.' NOW, WE HAD THIS
PICTURE UP ON THE SCREEN LAST
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WEEK AND I NEVER
ACTUALLY DID ADDRESS IT.
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THIS IS A COUPLE OF EGYPTIAN
PIECES OF ART OF CHARACTERS THAT
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LIVED - AND I ALWAYS SAY HER
NAME WRONG - QUEEN NEFERTIRI -
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OR NEFERTITI - YEAH, THAT'S WHO
SHE IS - IT'S ACTUALLY - IT'S AN
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EXQUISITE PIECE OF EGYPTIAN ART
BECAUSE IT'S ONE WHERE THE PAINT
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WAS PRESERVED AND YOU REALLY
GET AN IDEA OF WHAT THE PEOPLE
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LOOKED LIKE. AND
THERE'S A STATUE OF ONE
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OF THE RAMSES, I BELIEVE. IT
MIGHT HAVE BEEN THUTMOSE - IT
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TELLS YOU HOW MUCH I KNOW ABOUT
EGYPTOLOGY - BUT ANYWAY, THESE
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ARE SOME OF THE EGYPTIANS
THAT COULD READ HIEROGLYPHICS.
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THEY WERE NOT ARABS. NOW,
THE REASON I EMPHASIZE THAT
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IS BECAUSE YOU GO TO EGYPT TODAY
AND YOU GO - AND I'VE BEEN IN
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THE PYRAMIDS AND I'VE BEEN
TO THE SPHINX AND I'VE SEEN THIS
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AND THEY SAY, 'WE BUILT THIS'
AND IT'S GREAT PATRIOTISM BUT,
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IN REALITY, THEY DID
NOT. THEY COULD NOT READ THE
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HIEROGLYPHICS. THEY HAVE
DONE DNA STUDIES ON THOUSANDS OF
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MUMMIES - WELL, I DON'T KNOW IF
THEY DID IT ON THOUSANDS - THEY
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FOUND TENS OF THOUSANDS OF
MUMMIES - AND THEY WERE ACTUALLY
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A DIFFERENT PEOPLE. THE ARABS
MOVED IN. THE ARABS HAVE SPREAD
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AND BECOME INNUMERABLE.
THE BABYLONIANS THAT ONCE RULED
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THE WORLD, THEY WERE NOT
ARABS. THE PEOPLE WHO LIVE
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IN IRAQ NOW ARE ARABS.
THE PERSIANS, WHO RULED THE
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WORLD - IN IRAN, THERE IS
PERSIAN BLOOD, BUT WHEN YOU DO
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THE DNA TEST, THEY'RE
MORE ARAB THAN ANYTHING.
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SAME THING WITH THE
SYRIANS AND THE ASSYRIANS.
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THESE WERE OTHER EMPIRES
THAT WERE BASICALLY ECLIPSED AND
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DISPLACED BY THE ARABS
THAT SPREAD THROUGH THERE.
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AND SO THE PROMISE THAT GOD
MADE TO HAGAR - THAT THEY WOULD
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MULTIPLY EXCEEDINGLY -
QUITE LITERALLY DID COME TRUE -
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AND IT IS STILL HAPPENING.
IT'S INTERESTING THAT GOD SAID
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THAT ISHMAEL WOULD HAVE TWELVE
SONS AND WE KNOW HE HAD AT
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LEAST ONE DAUGHTER BECAUSE ESAU
MARRIED HER. AND THEN ISAAC'S
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SON JACOB HAD TWELVE SONS AND
AT LEAST ONE DAUGHTER, DINAH.
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AND SO, AGAIN, YOU SEE IT'S JUST
- IT'S ALMOST LIKE TWO RIVERS
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FLOW FROM ABRAHAM THAT
END UP IN CONFLICT AT THE END.
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IT SHOULDN'T SURPRISE US - CAIN
AND ABEL - YOU'VE GOT A CONFLICT
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AT THE BEGINNING, BUT -
TWO BROTHERS, BOTH CLAIMING TO
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WORSHIP THE SAME
GOD - YOU GOT THAT?
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CAIN AND ABEL BOTH CLAIMED TO
WORSHIP THE SAME GOD - ONE WAS
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RIGHT AND ONE WAS
WRONG - ONE KILLED THE OTHER.
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HISTORY'S GOING TO REPEAT
ITSELF AT THE END OF TIME.
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THEY'LL BE ALL CLAIMING
TO WORSHIP THE SAME GOD.
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AND, AS OF 2010, THE EUROPEAN
UNION WAS HOME TO 13 MILLION
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MUSLIM IMMIGRANTS. FROM
THAT TIME TO THE PRESENT IT
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HAS GROWN ALMOST EXPONENTIALLY,
WHICH IS INTERESTING BECAUSE ALL
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THROUGH THE DARK
AGES, ISLAM TRIED TO CONQUER
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EUROPE THROUGH WARS.
THEY'D MAKE PROGRESS AND
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THEN THEY'D BE DRIVEN
BACK. NOW, IT SEEMS, THROUGH
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IMMIGRATION, THEY'RE
ACHIEVING WHAT THEY COULD
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NOT DO THROUGH WAR. I'M
NOT TRYING TO BE DEROGATORY,
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I'M JUST SAYING IT'S A
FACT, IF YOU TRAVEL THERE.
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THE MOSQUES IN FRANCE,
MANY OF THEM WERE ONCE CHURCHES.
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AND, AS YOU GO THROUGH ENGLAND,
THE CHURCH OF ENGLAND, WHICH
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USED TO BE - THEY'D BE FILLED
EVERY SUNDAY - ARE VIRTUALLY
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EMPTY NOW AND MANY OF THEM
HAVE BEEN TURNED INTO MOSQUES.
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AND SO THERE IS A GREAT CHANGE
HAPPENING IN THE RELIGIOUS
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LANDSCAPE OF EUROPE, WHICH PLAYS
INTO WHY POPE FRANCIS AND HIS
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PREDECESSOR, POPE JOHN PAUL
II, HAVE BEEN SO INTERESTED IN
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DEVELOPING RELATIONSHIPS WITH
CHRISTIANS IN THE WEST - BECAUSE
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THEY ARE LOSING THEIR FOOTHOLD
IN THE HOMELAND OF EUROPE.
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AND ALL OF THIS IS FACTORING
INTO WHAT'S HAPPENING IN THE
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WORLD. ARABS ONLY
CONSTITUTE ABOUT 20
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PERCENT OF MUSLIMS WORLDWIDE,
AS I MENTIONED THAT, OVER 200
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MILLION IN PAKISTAN AND
INDIA - 350 MILLION COMBINED
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BETWEEN THOSE
COUNTRIES. SO WHO ARE THE ARABS?
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IF YOU GO BACK TO THE BIBLE HERE
- IF YOU LOOK, FOR INSTANCE, IN
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GENESIS 25, ABRAHAM GAVE ALL
THAT HE HAD TO ISAAC, THE SON OF
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PROMISE, BUT HE GAVE GIFTS TO
THE OTHER SONS OF THE CONCUBINES
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- MEANING HAGAR AND KETURAH -
THAT HE HAD WHILE HE WAS STILL
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LIVING. SO HE
SEPARATED HIS SUBSTANCE
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WHILE HE WAS ALIVE, LIKE THAT
STORY OF THE PRODIGAL SON, AND
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HE SENT THEM AWAY FROM ISAAC,
SO THERE'D BE NO CONFUSION ABOUT
00:13:50.69\00:13:54.60
WHAT HIS PLAN WAS, TO
THE COUNTRY OF THE EAST.
00:13:54.60\00:13:58.10
THEY WERE SENT TO AN AREA THAT
IS SOUTHEAST OF ISRAEL, BETTER
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KNOWN AS ARABIA. YOU
CAN READ IN GENESIS 25:18,
00:14:04.04\00:14:09.04
SPEAKING OF THE PEOPLE OF
ISHMAEL, "(THEY DWELT FROM
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HAVILAH AS FAR AS SHUR,
WHICH IS EAST OF EGYPT AS YOU GO
00:14:11.95\00:14:16.82
TOWARD ASSYRIA.)" I THINK
MOST OF YOU, IN YOUR MINDS, HAVE
00:14:16.82\00:14:19.62
A LITTLE BIT OF GEOGRAPHY.
CAN YOU SEE THE MIDDLE EAST?
00:14:19.62\00:14:22.52
YOU KNOW WHERE EGYPT IS THERE BY
THE NILE, ON THE SHORES IN THE
00:14:22.52\00:14:25.26
MEDITERRANEAN. YOU
GO EAST OF EGYPT, YOU
00:14:25.26\00:14:28.13
END UP IN SAUDI ARABIA. IF
YOU GO THROUGH SAUDI ARABIA
00:14:28.13\00:14:31.93
- ALMOST NO ONE WENT TO
ASSYRIA THAT WAY - YOU'D
00:14:31.93\00:14:33.97
END UP IN ASSYRIA.
THIS IS THE TERRITORY WHERE
00:14:33.97\00:14:37.41
THE ARABS, OFTEN CALLED
THE BEDOUINS, FOUND THEIR HOME.
00:14:37.41\00:14:45.15
WHERE DID MOSES GO WHEN
HE WAS LOOKING FOR REFUGE?
00:14:45.15\00:14:49.38
HE FLED TO THAT SAME TERRITORY.
YOU CAN READ IN EXODUS 2, VERSE
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15, "WHEN PHARAOH HEARD OF THIS
MATTER, HE SOUGHT TO KILL MOSES.
00:14:53.09\00:14:57.06
BUT MOSES FLED FROM THE FACE OF
PHARAOH AND DWELT IN THE LAND OF
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MIDIAN; AND HE
SAT DOWN BY A WELL."
00:15:01.26\00:15:04.63
THE PEOPLE OF MIDIAN WERE
- THEY'RE THE DESCENDANTS OF
00:15:04.63\00:15:09.37
KETURAH. THEY
INTERMARRIED, BECAUSE THEY
00:15:09.37\00:15:12.34
WERE ALL SENT TO THE SAME PLACE,
WITH THE CHILDREN OF ISHMAEL.
00:15:12.34\00:15:15.81
AND SO, WHEN WE'RE TALKING ABOUT
ARABS TODAY, YOU'RE TALKING
00:15:15.81\00:15:18.21
ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO WERE THE
DESCENDANTS OF ABRAHAM'S THIRD
00:15:18.21\00:15:23.28
WIFE - YOU'VE GOT SARAH, HAGAR,
KETURAH - MIDIAN WAS ONE OF
00:15:23.28\00:15:28.46
THOSE SONS. THEY ARE
CALLED THE MIDIANITES
00:15:28.46\00:15:30.56
AND SOMETIMES THEY'RE
ALSO CALLED THE ISHMAELITES
00:15:30.56\00:15:33.33
IN THE SAME PHRASE.
YOU REMEMBER LAST WEEK?
00:15:33.33\00:15:35.73
JOSEPH WAS SOLD TO THE
MIDIANITES AND IT ALSO CALLS
00:15:35.73\00:15:38.73
THEM THE ISHMAELITES - BECAUSE
THEY INTERMARRIED - AND ESAU
00:15:38.73\00:15:41.84
MARRIED ISHMAEL'S DAUGHTER.
SO THERE WAS A LOT OF, KIND OF,
00:15:41.84\00:15:46.91
FAMILY
RELATIONSHIPS HAPPENING THERE.
00:15:46.91\00:15:49.71
THOSE PEOPLE GREW INTO A GREAT
PEOPLE - ALL RELATED TO ABRAHAM
00:15:49.71\00:15:55.48
- BETTER KNOWN AS THE PEOPLE
OF THE EAST, AT THAT TIME.
00:15:55.48\00:15:59.29
SOMETIMES THEY CALLED THEM THE
MIDIANITES AND THE AMALEKITES
00:15:59.29\00:16:03.83
AND THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST.
MATTER OF FACT, TAKE YOUR BIBLE
00:16:03.83\00:16:06.80
- TURN TO THE BOOK OF JUDGES
CHAPTER 7. YOU KNOW THE STORY OF
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GIDEON? A LOT OF THE TIME ISRAEL
GOT ALONG WITH THOSE PEOPLE, BUT
00:16:09.60\00:16:16.77
WHEN THEY BECAME A NATION
AND THEY CAME OUT OF EGYPT, THEY
00:16:16.77\00:16:19.31
OFTEN HAD CONFLICT AND THERE WAS
WAR WITH THE PEOPLE OF MIDIAN
00:16:19.31\00:16:22.68
BECAUSE THEY WERE WORRIED ABOUT
RESOURCES SO THEY'D FIGHT OVER
00:16:22.68\00:16:26.05
TERRITORY. AND
THERE WERE TIMES - BRIEF
00:16:26.05\00:16:29.72
TIMES - OF PEACE BETWEEN
THE JEWS AND THE DESCENDANTS OF
00:16:29.72\00:16:33.36
ISHMAEL, BUT THERE
WERE ALSO TIMES OF WAR.
00:16:33.36\00:16:36.46
ONE TIME OF WAR WAS
DURING THE TIME OF GIDEON.
00:16:36.46\00:16:39.03
REMEMBER, IT SAYS
PEOPLE OF GOD WERE UNFAITHFUL?
00:16:39.03\00:16:41.73
AND SO THEY WERE OPPRESSED BY
THE MIDIANITES FOR SEVEN YEARS.
00:16:41.73\00:16:44.90
BUT YOU CAN READ HERE IN
VERSE 12 OF JUDGES 7, "NOW THE
00:16:44.90\00:16:48.74
MIDIANITES AND AMALEKITES,
ALL THE PEOPLE OF THE EAST," -
00:16:48.74\00:16:52.84
THAT'S WHAT WE WOULD
CALMLY SAY WERE THE ARABS.
00:16:52.84\00:16:56.14
ALSO, NOTICE SOMETHING IT SAYS
HERE IT DOESN'T SAY ABOUT OTHER
00:16:56.14\00:16:58.48
BATTLES - "WERE...AS NUMEROUS AS
LOCUSTS;" - NOW, WHEN YOU GET TO
00:16:58.48\00:17:03.22
REVELATION 9 WE'RE GOING TO
HOPEFULLY HAVE TIME TO LOOK AT
00:17:03.22\00:17:06.05
TODAY, IT TALKS ABOUT THIS
TRUMPET WHERE THERE'S LOCUSTS.
00:17:06.05\00:17:12.73
"AS NUMEROUS AS LOCUSTS;
AND THEIR CAMELS WERE WITHOUT
00:17:12.73\00:17:15.40
NUMBER," - SO YOU SEE, THE
MIDIANITES, AMALEKITES, PEOPLE
00:17:15.40\00:17:18.17
OF THE EAST - HAVE I MADE MY
CASE WHO THE ARAB PEOPLE ARE?
00:17:18.17\00:17:21.20
I TRIED TO, YOU KNOW, DO THE
DETECTIVE WORK HERE AND SHOW YOU
00:17:21.20\00:17:24.91
THAT. HERE YOU CAN LOOK IN 2
CHRONICLES 9:14, "BESIDES WHAT
00:17:24.91\00:17:30.78
THE TRAVELING
MERCHANTS AND TRADERS BROUGHT.
00:17:30.78\00:17:32.98
AND ALL THE KINGS OF ARABIA"
BROUGHT GIFTS TO SOLOMON -
00:17:32.98\00:17:37.39
SILVER AND GOLD - THEY WERE VERY
RICH. QUEEN OF SHEBA CAME DOWN
00:17:37.39\00:17:41.22
THROUGH THE ARABIAN PENINSULA -
BROUGHT TREASURES AND THERE WAS
00:17:41.22\00:17:47.03
- IT WAS A DIFFERENT CLIMATE
THEN AND THEY HAD A LOT OF
00:17:47.03\00:17:48.96
NATURAL RESOURCES. BUT
YOU COULD ALSO SEE THERE WAS
00:17:48.96\00:17:52.53
WAR - NOT ONLY IN THE TIME
OF GIDEON, LOOK AT NEHEMIAH.
00:17:52.53\00:17:56.67
NEHEMIAH 4:7 - THIS IS
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SAN BALLAT,
00:17:56.67\00:18:00.88
TOBIAH, THE ARABS, THE
AMMONITES, AND THE ASHDODITES
00:18:00.88\00:18:05.31
HEARD THAT THE WALLS OF
JERUSALEM WERE BEING RESTORED
00:18:05.31\00:18:07.62
AND THE GAPS WERE BEGINNING TO
BE CLOSED, THAT THEY BECAME VERY
00:18:07.62\00:18:09.98
ANGRY," - BECAUSE TO THE SOUTH
OF JERUSALEM, THE ARABS HAD SORT
00:18:09.98\00:18:14.39
OF ANNEXED SOME OF THAT
TERRITORY AND NOW, IF JERUSALEM
00:18:14.39\00:18:16.76
WAS REESTABLISHED, THEY WERE
GOING TO LOSE IT. AND SO THERE
00:18:16.76\00:18:20.60
WAS A CONFEDERACY OF THE
ARABS THAT WERE FIGHTING AGAINST
00:18:20.60\00:18:23.80
ISRAEL. NOW WHAT WAS HAPPENING
WITH THE ARABS RELIGIOUSLY?
00:18:23.80\00:18:29.07
WHAT I'M GOING TO SAY, I DON'T
WANT IT TO SEEM UNKIND, BUT A
00:18:29.07\00:18:32.51
LOT OF THE EARLY ARABS
WERE DEEP INTO MOON WORSHIP.
00:18:32.51\00:18:39.71
IT'S THE SAME THING THAT
HAPPENED TO THE JEWS - THE JEWS
00:18:39.71\00:18:41.78
OFTEN SLIPPED FROM THE WORSHIP
OF JEHOVAH INTO PAGAN FORMS OF
00:18:41.78\00:18:45.55
WORSHIP. AND SO
I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING
00:18:45.55\00:18:48.26
ABOUT THE ARABS I'M NOT ALSO
SAYING ABOUT THE JEWS AND EVEN
00:18:48.26\00:18:50.79
THE CHRISTIANS THAT SLIPPED INTO
SUN WORSHIP WHEN THEY STARTED
00:18:50.79\00:18:55.10
TO MERGE WITH THE
ROMANS. WE ALL KNOW THAT, RIGHT?
00:18:55.10\00:18:58.37
THEY SORT OF CO-MINGLED SOME
OF THE THINGS FROM SUN WORSHIP;
00:18:58.37\00:19:02.10
INDEED, THAT'S
WHERE SUNDAY COMES FROM.
00:19:02.10\00:19:04.24
WELL, THE ARABS WERE INTO
MOON WORSHIP - I WAS READING
00:19:04.24\00:19:07.04
SOMETHING FROM HISTORY HERE -
AND THIS IS A BOOK SHORT HISTORY
00:19:07.04\00:19:09.94
OF THE ARABS BY PHILIP HITTI -
HE SAID, "THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE
00:19:09.94\00:19:14.45
PENINSULA, THE ANTIQUATED
PAGANISM OF THE ARABIANS, WHICH,
00:19:14.45\00:19:18.75
FOR THE BEDOUINS, CENTERED
CHIEFLY ON THE WORSHIP OF A MOON
00:19:18.75\00:19:22.26
GOD, AS IS LIKELY TO BE THE CASE
WITH A PASTORAL PEOPLE IN HOT
00:19:22.26\00:19:25.83
CLIMATES WHO FIND THE COOLNESS
OF THE NIGHT THEIR FRIEND AND
00:19:25.83\00:19:29.23
THE SUN THEIR ENEMY." SO IT WAS
NATURAL FOR THEM TO WORSHIP THE
00:19:29.23\00:19:31.77
MOON BECAUSE THE SUN WAS -
THEY DIDN'T WORSHIP THE SUN FOR
00:19:31.77\00:19:34.64
CROPS, IT WAS AN ENEMY. BUT
THEY'D FINALLY REACHED A POINT
00:19:34.64\00:19:38.27
IN THEIR RELIGION WHERE IT
FAILED ANY LONGER TO MEET THE
00:19:38.27\00:19:41.04
SPIRITUAL DEMANDS OF THE PEOPLE.
THIS WAS PREPARING THE WAY FOR A
00:19:41.04\00:19:45.11
NEW RELIGION. THEY HAD BECOME
DISSATISFIED WITH MOON WORSHIP.
00:19:45.11\00:19:48.88
NOW, WHILE THEY'RE WORSHIPING
THE MOON, THEY STILL PRACTICED
00:19:48.88\00:19:51.85
CIRCUMCISION BECAUSE THEY'VE
COME FROM ABRAHAM, THEY DON'T
00:19:51.85\00:19:55.92
EAT PORK BUT THEY
HAVE STARTED EATING CAMEL.
00:19:55.92\00:20:01.83
NOW, YOU KNOW, THE UNCLEAN - THE
LAWS SAY YOU'RE NOT SUPPOSED TO
00:20:01.83\00:20:04.93
EAT CAMEL. YOU GO TO
ARABIA TODAY, THEY'LL
00:20:04.93\00:20:06.74
MAKE A BIG DEAL AND
SAY, 'OH, WE DON'T EAT PORK.
00:20:06.74\00:20:08.70
PIGS ARE UNCLEAN.' BUT
THEN THEY'LL SACRIFICE A CAMEL.
00:20:08.70\00:20:11.34
YEAH, SO YOU KNOW, JESUS SAID,
'THEY STRAIN A GNAT AND THEY
00:20:11.34\00:20:15.68
SWALLOW A CAMEL.' NOW HE WAS
TALKING ABOUT THE PHARISEES, WHO
00:20:15.68\00:20:19.51
WERE VERY FASTIDIOUS TO MAKE
SURE THEY DIDN'T GET ANY BUGS IN
00:20:19.51\00:20:22.15
THE WATER BECAUSE BUGS ARE
UNCLEAN, BUT THEN THEY'D EAT A
00:20:22.15\00:20:24.79
CAMEL STEAK, WHICH WAS JUST AS
FORBIDDEN AS EATING PORK, IN THE
00:20:24.79\00:20:30.09
BIBLE. SO THEY DRIFTED INTO MOON
00:20:30.09\00:20:33.06
WORSHIP AND JUST AS, YOU KNOW,
GOD'S PEOPLE NORTH OF THEM HAD
00:20:33.06\00:20:37.87
DRIFTED IN THEIR WORSHIP
TOO. THE PRE-ISLAM PAGAN ARABS
00:20:37.87\00:20:42.60
WORSHIPED THE MOON
GOD THEY CALLED 'ALLAH'.
00:20:42.60\00:20:44.84
NOW ALLAH'S A GENERIC TERM FOR
GOD SO THAT SHOULDN'T SHAKE YOU.
00:20:44.84\00:20:48.44
BY PRAYING TOWARDS MECCA - MECCA
WAS A HOLY SITE EVEN BEFORE
00:20:48.44\00:20:52.25
MOHAMMED - SEVERAL TIMES A DAY,
MAKING A PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA,
00:20:52.25\00:20:56.69
RUNNING AROUND THE TEMPLE OF
THE MOON GOD CALLED THE KABA,
00:20:56.69\00:21:00.06
KISSING THE BLACK STONE THAT
SUPPOSEDLY FELL FROM HEAVEN -
00:21:00.06\00:21:03.63
LATER, MUSLIMS SAID IT WAS GIVEN
TO ADAM AND LATER ABRAHAM BUILT
00:21:03.63\00:21:07.73
A TEMPLE - KILLING AN ANIMAL
IN SACRIFICE TO THE MOON GOD,
00:21:07.73\00:21:11.27
THROWING STONES AT THE DEVIL,
FASTING FOR THE MONTH, WHICH
00:21:11.27\00:21:14.44
BEGINS AND ENDS WITH THE
CRESCENT MOON - RAMADAN IS ALL
00:21:14.44\00:21:18.44
BUILT AROUND THE MOON - GIVING
ALMS TO THE POOR, ETC. AND IF
00:21:18.44\00:21:22.41
YOU'VE READ THE NEWS RECENTLY,
YOU KNOW THAT MODERN-DAY MUSLIMS
00:21:22.41\00:21:25.15
PRACTICE MANY OF THESE VERY SAME
RITUALS STILL TODAY, BUT THEY
00:21:25.15\00:21:29.15
CAN BE TRACED ALL THE WAY BACK
TO THE TIME WHEN IT WAS INVOLVED
00:21:29.15\00:21:32.39
IN LUNAR WORSHIP. SO
THIS WAS THE STATE OF
00:21:32.39\00:21:35.86
THINGS OF WHAT HAD HAPPENED
TO ISHMAEL'S DESCENDANTS.
00:21:35.86\00:21:39.89
SOME OF THEM CONVERTED TO
CHRISTIANITY DURING THE TIME OF
00:21:39.89\00:21:42.60
CHRIST. THEY HAD
CHURCHES IN EGYPT.
00:21:42.60\00:21:45.03
SOME OF THEM CONVERTED TO
JUDAISM IN ALEXANDRIA - THERE
00:21:45.03\00:21:49.14
WERE ARABS THAT ACCEPTED
THE SCRIPTURES OF THE JEWS.
00:21:49.14\00:21:51.74
THERE WAS A GREAT DEAL OF
CHRISTIAN AND JEWISH INFLUENCE
00:21:51.74\00:21:55.04
AMONG THE ARABS BECAUSE THEY
LIVED IN - THEY WERE NEIGHBORS -
00:21:55.04\00:21:58.65
IN PROXIMITY. BUT THEN, AFTER
538, WHEN THE POPE BEGAN TO BE A
00:21:58.65\00:22:10.69
RULER - A POLITICAL FORCE -
AS WELL AS A RELIGION, AND IT
00:22:10.69\00:22:16.53
SEEMED LIKE IDOLATRY HAD
BECOME INSTITUTIONALIZED AND THE
00:22:16.53\00:22:22.17
MUSLIMS HAD NO RESPECT FOR THAT
- THAT - THEY WEREN'T MUSLIMS
00:22:22.17\00:22:24.91
YET, SORRY - THE ARABS HAD NO
RESPECT FOR THAT BECAUSE MANY OF
00:22:24.91\00:22:27.78
THEM DID NOT BELIEVE IN
IDOLATRY. THEY BECAME VERY
00:22:27.78\00:22:31.55
DISSATISFIED. IT WAS IN THIS
ENVIRONMENT THAT A MAN WAS BORN,
00:22:31.55\00:22:38.45
THAT WE KNOW TODAY AS MOHAMMED.
570 - IT'S INTERESTING THAT FROM
00:22:38.45\00:22:43.49
ROME YOU'VE GOT ONE RELIGION
ARISING 538 - AND ANOTHER
00:22:43.49\00:22:49.46
ARISING - WELL, HE WAS BORN
570 - THE RELIGION DIDN'T REALLY
00:22:49.46\00:22:53.74
RISE UNTIL ABOUT
50 YEARS AFTER THAT.
00:22:53.74\00:22:59.01
AND I DON'T WANT TO MAKE
TOO MUCH OF THIS BUT, YOU
00:22:59.01\00:23:00.44
REALIZE, EVEN THOUGH ISHMAEL WAS
BORN FIRST, ISAAC OUTLIVED HIM.
00:23:00.44\00:23:06.68
HE LIVED TO 180 - ISHMAEL 137 -
AND BECAUSE ISHMAEL WAS 13 YEARS
00:23:06.68\00:23:12.95
OLDER - ABOUT 12 YEARS OLDER
- HE - YOU'VE GOT THIS SPAN OF
00:23:12.95\00:23:19.59
LIKE 50 YEARS. THIS
IS ABOUT THE DISTANCE OF
00:23:19.59\00:23:21.53
TIME BETWEEN THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF 538 AND THE ESTABLISHMENT OF
00:23:21.53\00:23:27.20
ISLAM. YOU GETTING ME?
00:23:27.20\00:23:29.60
THERE'S ACTUALLY A GAP BETWEEN
THE BROTHERS - YOU CAN SEE - YOU
00:23:29.60\00:23:32.87
CAN MATCH UP WITH THE GAP
BETWEEN THE RELIGIONS LATER -
00:23:32.87\00:23:36.78
THAT HAD BECOME THE TWO
GREAT RELIGIONS OF THE WORLD.
00:23:36.78\00:23:40.05
HE WAS BORN IN 570 - DIED JUNE
8, 632 IN MEDINA - HE WAS BORN
00:23:40.05\00:23:47.99
IN MECCA. HE'S
ACCEPTED BY MUSLIMS AS THE
00:23:47.99\00:23:52.73
LAST OF THE PROPHETS OF GOD.
NOW MOHAMMED WAS ORPHANED AT
00:23:52.73\00:23:56.97
AN EARLY AGE AND HE WAS
RAISED UNDER THE CARE OF
00:23:56.97\00:23:59.00
HIS PATERNAL UNCLE.
PERIODICALLY HE WOULD SECLUDE
00:23:59.00\00:24:02.07
HIMSELF IN A MOUNTAIN CAVE
FOR SEVERAL NIGHTS OF PRAYER.
00:24:02.07\00:24:05.94
AT AGE 25, MOHAMMED WED HIS
WEALTHY EMPLOYER, WHO WAS 15
00:24:05.94\00:24:10.85
YEARS OLDER THAN HIM - SHE
WAS 40 - A MERCHANT, KADALIA.
00:24:10.85\00:24:15.65
THIS MARRIAGE WAS,
FOR THE MOST PART, HAPPY.
00:24:15.65\00:24:17.82
AND IT WAS A MONOGAMOUS MARRIAGE
AND SHE HELPED HIM IN MANY WAYS
00:24:17.82\00:24:23.76
BECAUSE SHE HAD SOME WEALTH.
AND 25 YEARS LATER, WHEN SHE
00:24:23.76\00:24:28.46
DIED, HE ENDED UP TAKING
SEVERAL WIVES, ONE OF THEM AS
00:24:28.46\00:24:31.27
YOUNG AS 9 YEARS OLD. AND
IT WAS DURING THIS TIME THAT
00:24:31.27\00:24:35.30
HE KIND OF WENT FROM A PROPHET
TO A LITTLE BIT OF A POLITICIAN.
00:24:35.30\00:24:39.11
MOST OF HIS EARLY VISIONS WERE
VERY PEACEFUL; LATER VISIONS,
00:24:39.11\00:24:42.04
WHEN HE WAS FIGHTING FOR POWER,
THERE WAS A LITTLE MORE VIOLENCE
00:24:42.04\00:24:45.81
INVOLVED. SOMETHING - AND
THIS IS FROM THE BOOK WRITTEN BY
00:24:45.81\00:24:48.75
RAMON BENNET - I'M READING A LOT
IN PREPARING FOR THIS - ISLAM
00:24:48.75\00:24:52.32
REVEALED PAGE 48, "AS A YOUNG
CHILD, MOHAMMED WAS NURSED BY A
00:24:52.32\00:24:57.49
BEDOUIN WOMAN BY THE NAME
OF HALIMA AND, IN HIS THIRD AND
00:24:57.49\00:25:01.86
FOURTH YEARS, THE CHILD HAD
NUMEROUS FITS, WHICH MADE HALIMA
00:25:01.86\00:25:04.73
THINK HE WAS DEMON-POSSESSED.
LATER, AT AGE 40, HE REPORTED
00:25:04.73\00:25:09.34
BEING VISITED BY GABRIEL IN A
CAVE WHERE HE STARTED TO RECEIVE
00:25:09.34\00:25:12.24
HIS FIRST REVELATIONS FROM
GOD. THREE YEARS LATER MOHAMMED
00:25:12.24\00:25:16.58
STARTED PREACHING THESE
REVELATIONS PUBLICLY PROCLAIMING
00:25:16.58\00:25:19.11
THAT GOD IS ONE AND THAT
COMPLETE SURRENDER" - BY THE
00:25:19.11\00:25:22.65
WAY, THAT'S WHAT THE WORD
'ISLAM' MEANS - CONNECTED WITH
00:25:22.65\00:25:24.82
THE WORD SALOM OR SHALOM - SALAM
IS HOW YOU SAY IT IN ARABIC
00:25:24.82\00:25:30.36
- "THAT HE IS THE ONLY WAY
ACCEPTABLE TO GOD AND THAT HE
00:25:30.36\00:25:33.63
WAS THE PROPHET OF GOD,
SIMILAR TO OTHER BIBLE PROPHETS.
00:25:33.63\00:25:38.10
EARLY MUSLIM TRADITION RECORDS
THAT WHEN MOHAMMED WAS ABOUT TO
00:25:38.10\00:25:41.04
RECEIVE A REVELATION FROM ALLAH,
HE'D OFTEN FALL DOWN ON THE
00:25:41.04\00:25:44.84
GROUND, HIS BODY WOULD BEGIN
TO JERK, HIS EYES WOULD ROLL
00:25:44.84\00:25:47.68
BACKWARD, HE WOULD PERSPIRE
PROFUSELY, AND THEY'D COVER HIM
00:25:47.68\00:25:51.38
WITH A BLANKET
DURING SUCH EPISODES."
00:25:51.38\00:25:53.62
HE'D COME OUT OF THESE VISIONS
AND HE'D SAY HE HAD A MESSAGE.
00:25:53.62\00:25:57.62
AND THIS IS FROM THE BOOK THE
ISLAMIC INVASION PAGE 71, "AND
00:25:57.62\00:26:02.79
DURING THE TIME THAT HE WAS
IN THIS TRANCE-LIKE STATE HE
00:26:02.79\00:26:05.79
RECEIVED THESE
DIVINE REVELATIONS."
00:26:05.79\00:26:10.37
THAT'S FROM THE BOOK
THE GREAT DECEPTION .
00:26:10.37\00:26:13.07
"MOHAMMED GAINED A FEW FOLLOWERS
EARLY AND HE MET WITH HOSTILITY
00:26:13.07\00:26:16.77
FROM THE OTHER MECCAN
TRIBES. TO ESCAPE PERSECUTION
00:26:16.77\00:26:20.04
HE LEFT MECCA.
GRADUALLY HE BUILT AN ARMY AND
00:26:20.04\00:26:24.18
HE GAINED CONVERTS IN MEDINA.
HE RETURNED TO MECCA WITH 10,000
00:26:24.18\00:26:28.38
SOLDIERS AND WAS MET WITH
LITTLE RESISTANCE" - VERY LITTLE
00:26:28.38\00:26:32.19
BLOODSHED - HE
BASICALLY TOOK THE CITY.
00:26:32.19\00:26:34.09
IT LATER BECAME THE
CENTER FOR THE RELIGION.
00:26:34.09\00:26:37.46
AND THAT THE BEDOUINS WERE
SPREAD ALL OVER SAUDI ARABIA AND
00:26:37.46\00:26:41.90
THE MIDDLE EAST, THEY REALLY
DIDN'T HAVE A NATIONAL RELIGION.
00:26:41.90\00:26:45.73
MOHAMMED BECAME THE NATURAL ONE
TO SORT OF COALESCE THEM ALL.
00:26:45.73\00:26:50.74
SOME OF THEM LEANED TOWARDS THE
JEWS AND SO HE SAID, YOU KNOW,
00:26:50.74\00:26:55.14
'I AGREE WITH THE OLD
TESTAMENT.' SOME OF THEM LEANED
00:26:55.14\00:26:57.91
TOWARDS THE RELIGION OF THE
CHRISTIANS, HE SAID, 'I AGREE
00:26:57.91\00:27:00.82
WITH THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.'
BUT THE PROBLEM WAS, HE SAID,
00:27:00.82\00:27:04.95
'YOU CANNOT TRUST THEIR
SCRIPTURES.' THE ORIGINAL
00:27:04.95\00:27:07.82
SCRIPTURES OF THE CHRISTIANS
AND THE JEWS WERE TRUE, BUT THEY
00:27:07.82\00:27:11.33
HAVE BEEN TAMPERED WITH AND YOU
CAN'T BELIEVE THEM ANYMORE.' AND
00:27:11.33\00:27:14.93
SO, ISLAM TEACHES, NOT JUST WHAT
MOHAMMED SAID, THEY STILL TEACH
00:27:14.93\00:27:18.77
TODAY, 'YES, WE
AGREE WITH THE BIBLE.
00:27:18.77\00:27:22.37
WE AGREE WITH THE TEACHINGS OF
JESUS, BUT THE BIBLES YOU HAVE
00:27:22.37\00:27:26.78
TODAY CANNOT BE TRUSTED.
THERE IS NO COPY LEFT OF THE
00:27:26.78\00:27:30.48
BIBLE AND THE NEW TESTAMENT THAT
REALLY CONTAINS THE ORIGINAL.
00:27:30.48\00:27:34.62
IT'S ALL BEEN CORRUPTED. SO
THE ONLY SCRIPTURES THAT CAN
00:27:34.62\00:27:37.52
BE TRUSTED TODAY ARE THE QURAN.'
SO THEY KIND OF SAY, 'OH YES, WE
00:27:37.52\00:27:41.59
AGREE' BUT THEY SAY, 'WE DON'T
AGREE WITH YOUR SCRIPTURES.
00:27:41.59\00:27:45.53
IF THERE'S ANY CONFLICT BETWEEN
YOUR SCRIPTURES AND WHAT WE
00:27:45.53\00:27:48.46
SAY.' AND SO, IT SORT OF -
HE WAS TRYING TO FIND A RELIGION
00:27:48.46\00:27:53.44
THAT WOULD BRING THEM ALL
TOGETHER, BUT NOT HAVE THEM GO
00:27:53.44\00:27:55.80
TO THE
SCRIPTURES FOR THEIR TRUTH.
00:27:55.80\00:27:59.14
AND SO YOU'LL FIND A LOT OF
REFERENCE TO THE OTHER RELIGIONS
00:27:59.14\00:28:02.24
IN THE QURAN. MOST -
OH, BY THE WAY, ONE MORE
00:28:02.24\00:28:06.68
THING ON MOHAMMED, YOU KNOW THAT
THERE ARE MORE MEN IN THE WORLD
00:28:06.68\00:28:09.65
TODAY NAMED MOHAMMED THAN
ANY OTHER NAME? IT IS THE MOST
00:28:09.65\00:28:13.56
POPULAR NAME IN THE
WORLD. SO WHO WROTE THE QURAN?
00:28:13.56\00:28:18.76
MOST MUSLIMS FREELY AGREE
THAT MOHAMMED WAS PROBABLY
00:28:18.76\00:28:21.70
ILLITERATE.
THERE WAS NO INDICATION
00:28:21.70\00:28:23.70
IN HISTORY THAT HE WROTE.
ABOUT 19 YEARS AFTER HE DIED -
00:28:23.70\00:28:29.30
HE DIED SUDDENLY
AFTER A TRIP TO MECCA.
00:28:29.30\00:28:32.47
HE CAME BACK TO
MEDINA AND GOT SICK.
00:28:32.47\00:28:34.01
SOME SAID THAT HE HAD A JEWISH
SERVANT WHO POISONED HIM -
00:28:34.01\00:28:37.51
THERE'S BEEN ALL KINDS OF
SPECULATION BUT HISTORY REALLY
00:28:37.51\00:28:39.58
DOESN'T SAY WHAT HAPPENED.
AND SO ABOUT 19 YEARS AFTER HE
00:28:39.58\00:28:44.99
DIED, THE
RELIGION CONTINUED TO GROW.
00:28:44.99\00:28:49.42
THERE WAS SOME FIGHT ABOUT
WHO WAS TO BE HIS SUCCESSOR AND
00:28:49.42\00:28:54.73
THAT'S WHERE YOU GET THE
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THE SUNNI AND
00:28:54.73\00:28:57.07
THE SHIA. NOW,
SUNNI MUSLIMS REPRESENT
00:28:57.07\00:28:59.07
ABOUT 80% OR 85% OF
THE MUSLIMS IN THE WORLD.
00:28:59.07\00:29:03.54
THE SHIA CONTEST THE - THE
LINEAGE AND THE POWER AND THE
00:29:03.54\00:29:07.64
AUTHORITY. AND
THERE ARE SOME DIFFERENCES
00:29:07.64\00:29:10.11
IN THEIR BELIEFS, BUT THEY
ALL CLAIM TO BELIEVE THE QURAN
00:29:10.11\00:29:12.38
AND HAVE MOST BELIEFS IN COMMON.
THEY SAY THE QURAN IS THE WORD
00:29:12.38\00:29:17.52
OF GOD AROUND WHICH
THEIR RELIGION IS BASED.
00:29:17.52\00:29:21.86
THE QURAN IS 20% SMALLER THAN
THE NEW TESTAMENT - AS FAR AS
00:29:21.86\00:29:25.23
THE NUMBER OF WORDS.
THERE ARE A NUMBER OF PARALLEL
00:29:25.23\00:29:28.00
PASSAGES BETWEEN THE
OLD TESTAMENT AND THE QURAN.
00:29:28.00\00:29:31.17
THERE ARE SOME PLACES WHERE THE
QURAN ACTUALLY QUOTES SOME OF
00:29:31.17\00:29:34.54
THE TEACHINGS OF JESUS.
YOU'LL FIND REFERENCES TO
00:29:34.54\00:29:38.11
ABRAHAM 70 TIMES IN THE
QURAN. MOSES' NAME OCCURS
00:29:38.11\00:29:42.21
40 - IN 34 CHAPTERS.
YOU'VE GOT REFERENCES TO DAVID,
00:29:42.21\00:29:47.02
SOLOMON, SAUL, ELIJAH, JOB -
JONAH, THOUGH IT'S A SMALL BOOK
00:29:47.02\00:29:51.82
IN THE OLD TESTAMENT, FIGURES
PROMINENTLY IN THE QURAN AND
00:29:51.82\00:29:56.99
THE FALL OF ADAM
IS CITED FIVE TIMES.
00:29:56.99\00:29:59.39
NOW, THERE'S A BIG DIFFERENCE:
IN THE QURAN THEY SAY THE FALL
00:29:59.39\00:30:02.43
HAPPENED IN A PLACE CALLED
PARADISE THAT WAS NOT ON EARTH.
00:30:02.43\00:30:05.63
AND ADAM AND EVE WERE LATER
CONSIGNED TO EARTH AFTER THE
00:30:05.63\00:30:09.17
FALL. SO THEIR
CREATION ACCOUNT IS DIFFERENT.
00:30:09.17\00:30:12.24
YOU'LL FIND SOME OF THE
TEACHINGS - LIKE AN EYE FOR AN
00:30:12.24\00:30:14.58
EYE - IT TALKS ABOUT WHERE JESUS
SAID, 'A HOUSE BUILT UPON THE
00:30:14.58\00:30:17.11
SAND' - SO IT'S EASY TO SEE THAT
MOHAMMED WAS AT LEAST ACQUAINTED
00:30:17.11\00:30:23.32
WITH SOME OF THE TEACHINGS OF
THE OLD AND NEW TESTAMENTS, FROM
00:30:23.32\00:30:26.22
LISTENING, BECAUSE A LOT
OF IT IS INCORPORATED THERE.
00:30:26.22\00:30:29.82
YOU'VE PROBABLY ALL HEARD
ABOUT THE BOOK OF MORMON AND, OF
00:30:29.82\00:30:35.40
COURSE, MANY PEOPLE BELIEVE
THE BOOK OF MORMON IS INSPIRED.
00:30:35.40\00:30:38.60
AND THERE ARE A LOT OF JUST
LOVELY MORMON PEOPLE OUT THERE.
00:30:38.60\00:30:41.57
I, FRANKLY, DO NOT BELIEVE THE
BOOK OF MORMON IS INSPIRED AND,
00:30:41.57\00:30:45.07
IF YOU STUDY INTO THE HISTORY OF
THE BOOK OF MORMON , THERE WAS A
00:30:45.07\00:30:48.61
PASTOR IN A PLACE - I THINK IT'S
CALLED BELLFLOWER, NEW YORK - IT
00:30:48.61\00:30:53.25
MIGHT BE MAYFLOWER, NEW YORK - I
THINK IT'S BELLFLOWER - HIS NAME
00:30:53.25\00:30:57.29
WAS SPALDING - AND HE WAS A
PASTOR - WELL ACQUAINTED WITH
00:30:57.29\00:31:00.46
THE BIBLE - NEW AND OLD
TESTAMENTS - AND THEY HAD A
00:31:00.46\00:31:02.82
BUNCH OF INDIAN MOUNDS AND RUINS
AROUND THIS TOWN AND HE BEGAN TO
00:31:02.82\00:31:08.36
WRITE A STORY CALLED MANUSCRIPT
FOUND , ABOUT JESUS COMING TO
00:31:08.36\00:31:12.23
THE NEW WORLD. IT
WAS VERY FANCIFUL - HE'D
00:31:12.23\00:31:13.67
WRITE A CHAPTER EVERY WEEK AND
SUNDAY NIGHT, AFTER CHURCH, THE
00:31:13.67\00:31:16.81
CHURCH WOULD GET TOGETHER
AND HE'D READ THEM THIS STORY.
00:31:16.81\00:31:19.71
AND IT WAS A STORY ABOUT WHAT
JESUS WOULD HAVE SAID TO THE
00:31:19.71\00:31:21.71
INDIANS AND THAT THE PEOPLE OF
NORTH AMERICA WERE FROM THE TEN
00:31:21.71\00:31:24.55
LOST TRIBES AND - AND EVERYONE
GOT TOGETHER AND THEY'D LISTEN
00:31:24.55\00:31:28.58
TO THIS AND HE GOT THIS WHOLE
STORY - HAD A LOT OF BIBLICAL
00:31:28.58\00:31:31.55
LANGUAGE IN IT BECAUSE,
AFTER ALL, HE WAS A PASTOR.
00:31:31.55\00:31:34.46
WELL, A YOUNG MAN NAMED JOSEPH
SMITH HEARD THE STORY AND HE
00:31:34.46\00:31:37.36
SAID, 'I'VE GOT TO GET THAT
MANUSCRIPT.' AND, AFTER PASTOR
00:31:37.36\00:31:40.86
SPALDING DIED, JOSEPH SMITH
TALKED HIS WIDOW OUT OF THE
00:31:40.86\00:31:44.63
MANUSCRIPT. HE SAID,
'YOU KNOW, I JUST WANT
00:31:44.63\00:31:46.20
TO MAKE A COPY OF IT AND
WE'LL GET IT BACK TO YOU.'
00:31:46.20\00:31:47.77
IT NEVER CAME BACK TO HER.
WELL, THE NEXT THING THEY KNEW
00:31:47.77\00:31:51.04
THERE WAS THIS PEOPLE CALLED THE
MORMONS WHO SAID THEY HAD THIS
00:31:51.04\00:31:53.84
BOOK FROM GOLDEN PLATES
THAT HAD BEEN DELIVERED.
00:31:53.84\00:31:57.55
WELL, IT WAS A NOVEL THAT HAD
BEEN STOLEN, FULL OF BIBLICAL
00:31:57.55\00:32:01.18
LANGUAGE BECAUSE IT WAS WRITTEN
BY A PASTOR, AND THAT'S WHAT I
00:32:01.18\00:32:04.62
BELIEVE IS THE ORIGIN
OF THE BOOK OF MORMON.
00:32:04.62\00:32:08.06
THAT'S WHY IT MAKES ALL THESE
BIBLE REFERENCES, IT WAS WRITTEN
00:32:08.06\00:32:10.69
BY A PASTOR, HE'S TALKING
- TELLING WHAT MEANT TO BE A
00:32:10.69\00:32:13.66
NOVEL. ALL THE
PEOPLE IN THIS TOWN
00:32:13.66\00:32:15.66
WITNESSED
PASTOR SPALDING'S BOOK.
00:32:15.66\00:32:18.90
WELL, THEY HAD
NO COPY TO PROVE IT.
00:32:18.90\00:32:21.10
WELL, I THINK THAT THE WRITINGS
OF THE QURAN ARE - MANY OF THEM
00:32:21.10\00:32:27.31
WERE SAYINGS THAT MOHAMMED
SHARED, WHERE HE'S QUOTING
00:32:27.31\00:32:30.98
DIFFERENT PRINCIPLES OF TRUTH
- IT DOESN'T GO THROUGH STORIES
00:32:30.98\00:32:35.25
LIKE WE DO, THEY'RE
JUST LITTLE SOUND BITES.
00:32:35.25\00:32:37.09
SOME ARE SHORTER, SOME
ARE LONGER AND I DON'T KNOW IF
00:32:37.09\00:32:40.59
YOU'VE READ THE QURAN - I
HAVEN'T READ IT ALL, BUT I'VE
00:32:40.59\00:32:42.79
READ A LOT OF IT.
THERE'S A LOT OF CONFLICT
00:32:42.79\00:32:46.83
BETWEEN THE QURAN AND THE
BIBLE. YOU CANNOT RECONCILE THE
00:32:46.83\00:32:49.96
RELIGION OF THE
QURAN WITH SCRIPTURE.
00:32:49.96\00:32:53.00
AND I SAY THIS VERY GENTLY
BECAUSE I KNOW THERE'S A LOT OF
00:32:53.00\00:32:55.57
MY FRIENDS IN MINISTRY AND
OTHER CHRISTIANS THAT ARE SAYING
00:32:55.57\00:32:58.97
THERE'S REALLY NO DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN CHRISTIANS AND MUSLIMS -
00:32:58.97\00:33:02.51
THAT WE ALL COME FROM ABRAHAM
AND WE ALL WORSHIP THE SAME GOD.
00:33:02.51\00:33:06.48
I RESPECTFULLY DISAGREE. >>AMEN.
00:33:06.48\00:33:08.75
>>I THINK THAT, YOU KNOW, YOU
DON'T - YOU CAN BELIEVE THERE
00:33:08.75\00:33:11.82
ARE GOOD PEOPLE IN MANY
DIFFERENT CHURCHES, BUT YOU
00:33:11.82\00:33:14.66
DON'T COMPROMISE YOUR
CONVICTIONS ABOUT 'IS IT TRUE?'.
00:33:14.66\00:33:17.16
>>THAT'S RIGHT. >>AND
SO, I - LET ME JUST GIVE
00:33:17.16\00:33:22.03
YOU A LITTLE LIST HERE OF WHAT
SOME OF THE DIFFERENCES ARE:
00:33:22.03\00:33:24.80
YOU'VE GOT - THE QURAN AND THE
BIBLE PORTRAY DIFFERENT GODS.
00:33:24.80\00:33:29.00
THE BIBLE SAYS SALVATION COMES
ONLY THROUGH JESUS CHRIST - JOHN
00:33:29.00\00:33:32.84
14:6 - WHILE THE QURAN SAYS
THAT 'ONLY THROUGH ISLAM AND
00:33:32.84\00:33:36.78
OBEDIENCE TO ALLAH AND TO
HIS PROPHET MOHAMMED CAN ONE BE
00:33:36.78\00:33:40.08
AVOIDING THE BLAZING FIRE'
- THAT'S FROM THE QURAN 3:85.
00:33:40.08\00:33:44.95
THE QURAN DENIES
JESUS' DEATH AND RESURRECTION.
00:33:44.95\00:33:48.76
THAT'S PRETTY
FUNDAMENTAL TO CHRISTIAN FAITH.
00:33:48.76\00:33:51.26
>>YES. >>THEY SAY
THAT OUR BIBLE'S BEEN
00:33:51.26\00:33:53.66
CORRUPTED - IT NEVER
HAPPENED - IT WAS CHANGED.
00:33:53.66\00:33:56.13
THE JEWS DIDN'T
REALLY CRUCIFY HIM.
00:33:56.13\00:33:58.27
AND YOU FIND THAT IN
THE QURAN 4:155 THROUGH 159.
00:33:58.27\00:34:04.21
THEY SAY ALLAH JUST MADE IT
APPEAR TO THE JEWS AS IF JESUS
00:34:04.21\00:34:06.81
WAS CRUCIFIED. THE
QURAN DENIES THE TRIUNE GOD
00:34:06.81\00:34:10.65
- FATHER, SON, AND HOLY
SPIRIT. AND, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN
00:34:10.65\00:34:12.61
UNDERSTAND THEIR
CONFUSION ON THAT.
00:34:12.61\00:34:14.12
I'VE TALKED TO SOME OF MY MUSLIM
FRIENDS ABOUT THIS; THEY SAY,
00:34:14.12\00:34:17.45
'YOU GUYS BELIEVE IN MANY
GODS.' I SAY, 'NO, WE BELIEVE IN
00:34:17.45\00:34:19.19
ONE GOD. 'HEAR, O ISRAEL, THE
LORD OUR GOD IS ONE.'' THERE'S
00:34:19.19\00:34:21.82
ONE GOD. NO QUESTION ABOUT THAT.
BUT THE WORD 'ONE', BIBLICALLY
00:34:21.82\00:34:26.23
MEANS 'UNITED' - IT'S
NOT NUMERICAL QUANTITY.
00:34:26.23\00:34:28.96
OUR GOD - FATHER, SON, AND
SPIRIT - IS UNITED - HE'S ONE.
00:34:28.96\00:34:33.10
NOT LIKE ALL THESE - THIS
PANTHEON OF GODS THE GREEKS HAD
00:34:33.10\00:34:36.07
ALWAYS FIGHTING WITH EACH OTHER.
00:34:36.07\00:34:37.74
THE BIBLE SAYS WE ARE SAVED
BY GRACE - THAT WE CAN BE SAVED
00:34:37.74\00:34:40.38
THROUGH FAITH ALONE, NOT BY
WORKS LEST ANY MAN SHOULD BOAST
00:34:40.38\00:34:43.78
- OF COURSE, IN EPHESIANS 2:8
AND 9 - THE QURAN STATES - AND
00:34:43.78\00:34:47.88
THAT'S IN 23:102 THAT IN
THE JUDGMENT GOD WILL, KIND OF
00:34:47.88\00:34:52.62
BALANCE - HE'LL PUT YOUR
GOOD DEEDS ON ONE SIDE OF THE
00:34:52.62\00:34:55.26
BALANCE, YOUR BAD DEEDS ON THE
OTHER AND YOU NEED TO HAVE MORE
00:34:55.26\00:34:57.49
GOOD DEEDS THAN BAD
DEEDS AND YOU'LL MAKE IT.
00:34:57.49\00:34:59.76
MY DAD SORT OF BELIEVED THAT
- THE QURAN VERSION - GOD WAS
00:34:59.76\00:35:04.30
GOING TO ADD
EVERYTHING UP LIKE THAT.
00:35:04.30\00:35:06.10
IT'S NOT BASED ON HOW MANY GOOD
WORKS WE DO THAT WE'RE SAVED,
00:35:06.10\00:35:08.84
AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:35:08.84\00:35:10.01
>>THIS IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S
IN CONTRADICTION TO THE BIBLE.
00:35:10.01\00:35:12.91
IT SAYS IN THE
BIBLE, 'GOD IS LOVE'.
00:35:12.91\00:35:14.81
QURAN NOWHERE SAYS GOD IS LOVE.
THE BIBLE SAYS TO MAKE DISCIPLES
00:35:14.81\00:35:20.05
OF ALL NATIONS AND DO IT
WITH GENTLENESS AND RESPECT.
00:35:20.05\00:35:24.12
BUT, FOR MUSLIMS, THERE'S A VERY
DIFFERENT APPROACH PROSCRIBED IN
00:35:24.12\00:35:27.59
THE QURAN: IT SAYS, "FIGHT
AND SLAY THE PAGANS WHEREVER YOU
00:35:27.59\00:35:32.19
FIND THEM. SEIZE THEM, BELEAGUER
THEM, LIE IN WAIT FOR THEM IN
00:35:32.19\00:35:35.80
EVERY STRATAGEM OF WAR, BUT
IF THEY REPENT AND ESTABLISH
00:35:35.80\00:35:39.20
REGULAR PRAYERS AND PRACTICE AND
REGULAR CHARITY, THEN OPEN THE
00:35:39.20\00:35:43.14
WAY FOR THEM AND I WILL INSTILL
TERROR INTO THE HEARTS OF THE
00:35:43.14\00:35:47.38
UNBELIEVERS.
SMITE YE ABOVE THE NECK.
00:35:47.38\00:35:51.28
SMITE THEIR
FINGERTIPS OFF OF THEM."
00:35:51.28\00:35:54.28
IT'S INTERESTING THAT A FEW
YEARS AGO WE WOULD HAVE THOUGHT,
00:35:54.28\00:35:58.95
WHEN YOU READ IN THE BIBLE ABOUT
THOSE WHO ARE BEHEADED FOR THEIR
00:35:58.95\00:36:02.16
FAITH IN JESUS,
THAT WAS JUST A METAPHOR.
00:36:02.16\00:36:06.29
WE THOUGHT THAT WITH THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION AND THE GUILLOTINE,
00:36:06.29\00:36:09.26
BEHEADING WAS PRETTY MUCH GONE
AS A MEANS OF EXECUTION, AND
00:36:09.26\00:36:13.30
WE'VE ALL SEEN THAT'S BEEN
REVIVED IN PRETTY GRISLY WAYS IN
00:36:13.30\00:36:16.94
SOME OF THESE
TERRORIST ACTIVITIES.
00:36:16.94\00:36:19.67
IT MAKES YOU WONDER AGAIN.
AND I CAN GO ON - THERE'S JUST -
00:36:19.67\00:36:23.08
THERE'S SO MANY DIFFERENCES THAT
THERE'S JUST REALLY NOT TIME
00:36:23.08\00:36:25.81
TO CITE THEM
BETWEEN THE TWO RELIGIONS.
00:36:25.81\00:36:28.92
AND SO, THE BIBLE AND THE QURAN
ARE VERY DIFFERENT BOOKS AND THE
00:36:28.92\00:36:33.92
RELIGIONS ARE VERY DIFFERENT.
SOMETIMES YOU'LL SEE A QURAN
00:36:33.92\00:36:37.19
AND PEOPLE OR MUSLIMS WILL BE
PRAYING AND THEY'VE GOT BEADS.
00:36:37.19\00:36:41.66
IT'S SIMILAR TO ROSARY BEADS
EXCEPT THE PURPOSE OF IT THEY'RE
00:36:41.66\00:36:44.40
NOT WORSHIPING THE BEADS, SOME
STRINGS OF BEADS WILL HAVE A
00:36:44.40\00:36:47.00
HUNDRED BEADS BECAUSE YOU'RE
SUPPOSED TO RECITE THE HUNDRED
00:36:47.00\00:36:50.84
NAMES OF ALLAH - THEIR NAMES -
OR THEY CALL THEM 'ATTRIBUTES OF
00:36:50.84\00:36:55.34
ALLAH' AND IF YOU GO THROUGH
THAT, IT SAYS ALL YOUR SINS WILL
00:36:55.34\00:36:58.18
BE FORGIVEN. THAT'S
KIND OF LIKE, YOU KNOW,
00:36:58.18\00:37:01.12
IN THE CATHOLIC CHURCH IT SAYS,
'SAY THIS MANY 'OUR FATHERS' AND
00:37:01.12\00:37:03.95
THIS MANY 'HAIL MARYS' AND THEN
YOU'RE FORGIVEN.' IT'S ALMOST
00:37:03.95\00:37:07.09
LIKE YOU'RE PRAYING IN VAIN
REPETITION TO GAIN FORGIVENESS,
00:37:07.09\00:37:10.93
AND I THOUGHT THAT WAS
AN INTERESTING CONNECTION.
00:37:10.93\00:37:15.56
IS ALLAH AND JEHOVAH
- ARE THEY THE SAME GOD?
00:37:15.56\00:37:19.93
>>NO. >>NOW,
YOU'VE GOT TO BE CAREFUL.
00:37:19.93\00:37:22.44
THIS IS A LOADED QUESTION.
LET ME - LET ME SEE IF I
00:37:22.44\00:37:25.71
CAN ANSWER THIS CAREFULLY.
YOU CANNOT DENY THAT THE ARABS
00:37:25.71\00:37:31.68
AND THE JEWS SPRING FROM THE
SAME ANCESTOR OF ABRAHAM, THAT
00:37:31.68\00:37:36.58
THERE ARE TRAPPINGS AND
TRAITS THAT ARE SIMILAR.
00:37:36.58\00:37:40.02
I MENTIONED, YOU KNOW, THEY
PRACTICE CIRCUMCISION, THEY SAY
00:37:40.02\00:37:42.56
THERE'S ONE GOD - YOU CAN FIND
SIMILAR ROOTS - BUT YOU CANNOT
00:37:42.56\00:37:47.03
RECONCILE THE PICTURE OF GOD
THAT IS WORSHIPED BY THE MUSLIMS
00:37:47.03\00:37:51.77
WITH THE PICTURE OF GOD THAT IS
WORSHIPED BY BIBLE CHRISTIANS.
00:37:51.77\00:37:55.67
>>AMEN. >>FOR
EXAMPLE, 1 JOHN 2:22, "WHO
00:37:55.67\00:37:59.87
IS A LIAR BUT HE WHO DENIES
THAT JESUS IS THE CHRIST?"
00:37:59.87\00:38:04.68
- WELL THEY DENY THAT JESUS IS
THE CHRIST - "HE IS ANTICHRIST
00:38:04.68\00:38:08.82
WHO DENIES THE
FATHER AND THE SON.
00:38:08.82\00:38:11.82
WHOEVER DENIES THE SON DOES NOT
HAVE THE FATHER EITHER; HE WHO
00:38:11.82\00:38:15.19
ACKNOWLEDGES THE SON
HAS THE FATHER ALSO."
00:38:15.19\00:38:17.86
I'LL ALSO READ 1 JOHN 4 -
THERE'S MANY SCRIPTURES I COULD
00:38:17.86\00:38:20.66
READ - 1 JOHN 4, VERSE 1,
"BELOVED, DO NOT BELIEVE EVERY
00:38:20.66\00:38:24.57
SPIRIT, BUT TEST THE SPIRITS,
WHETHER THEY ARE OF GOD; BECAUSE
00:38:24.57\00:38:28.80
MANY FALSE PROPHETS
HAVE GONE OUT INTO THE WORLD.
00:38:28.80\00:38:32.64
BY THIS YOU KNOW THE SPIRIT OF
GOD: EVERY SPIRIT THAT CONFESSES
00:38:32.64\00:38:36.38
THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN
THE FLESH IS OF GOD, AND EVERY
00:38:36.38\00:38:40.25
SPIRIT THAT DOES NOT CONFESS
THAT JESUS CHRIST HAS COME IN
00:38:40.25\00:38:43.75
THE FLESH IS NOT OF GOD,
AND THIS IS THE SPIRIT OF THE
00:38:43.75\00:38:47.02
ANTICHRIST, WHICH YOU HAVE HEARD
WAS COMING, AND IS NOW ALREADY
00:38:47.02\00:38:50.43
IN THE WORLD."
AND IT SAYS MANY FALSE
00:38:50.43\00:38:53.26
PROPHETS ARE IN THE WORLD.
WELL, I JUST PERSONALLY BELIEVE
00:38:53.26\00:38:57.67
THAT MOHAMMED IS NOT A TRUE
PROPHET, BASED ON THE BIBLE,
00:38:57.67\00:39:01.87
WHICH ONLY
LEAVES ONE ALTERNATIVE.
00:39:01.87\00:39:05.27
AND YOU MIGHT SAY, 'BUT THERE'S
MANY THINGS THAT HE SAID THAT
00:39:05.27\00:39:07.44
ARE GOOD AND TRUE.'
THAT'S TRUE OF EVERY RELIGION.
00:39:07.44\00:39:11.08
I FIND WONDERFUL THINGS IN
HINDUISM - I LOVE IT WHEN I GO
00:39:11.08\00:39:13.55
TO INDIA BECAUSE I CAN
FIND GOOD VEGETARIAN FOOD.
00:39:13.55\00:39:17.99
THERE'S WONDERFUL
THINGS IN EVERY RELIGION.
00:39:17.99\00:39:19.65
THERE'S WONDERFUL THINGS IN
BUDDHISM - THERE ARE TRUTHS IN
00:39:19.65\00:39:22.76
BUDDHISM ABOUT PEACE.
THERE ARE TRUTHS IN ALL KINDS OF
00:39:22.76\00:39:26.59
DIFFERENT RELIGIONS. THAT
DOESN'T MEAN THAT THEY ARE
00:39:26.59\00:39:28.43
THE TRUTH. MATTER
OF FACT, IF YOU'RE THE
00:39:28.43\00:39:30.60
DEVIL, THE WAY THAT YOU DECEIVE
PEOPLE IS BY MINGLING ELEMENTS
00:39:30.60\00:39:34.80
OF TRUTH THAT RESONATE WITH
PEOPLE AND THEN YOU BRING IN
00:39:34.80\00:39:37.91
THE DECEPTION THAT'S
DEADLY. AND THIS IS WHAT I
00:39:37.91\00:39:42.11
BELIEVE IS THE CASE.
DOES THAT MEAN THERE'LL
00:39:42.11\00:39:44.35
BE NO BUDDHISTS IN
HEAVEN? OR MUSLIMS IN HEAVEN?
00:39:44.35\00:39:47.32
OR PEOPLE - NO, I THINK GOD IS
REACHING OUT TO HEARTS ALL OVER
00:39:47.32\00:39:51.59
THE WORLD. >>AMEN.
00:39:51.59\00:39:52.79
>>AND THERE ARE GOOD PEOPLE
IN MANY RELIGIONS AND WE'VE GOT
00:39:52.79\00:39:54.62
SOME NASTY PEOPLE IN OUR
RELIGION. (LAUGHTER) SO WE'RE
00:39:54.62\00:39:57.53
NOT TALKING ABOUT
PEOPLE, RIGHT? >>RIGHT.
00:39:57.53\00:39:59.63
>>WE'RE TALKING
ABOUT WHAT IS THE TRUTH.
00:39:59.63\00:40:01.80
REVELATION IS DEALING WITH THE
BATTLE IN THE LAST DAYS ABOUT
00:40:01.80\00:40:05.70
WHAT IS THE TRUTH.
AMEN? ARE WE TOGETHER ON THAT?
00:40:05.70\00:40:08.97
>>YES. >>ALRIGHT,
BEFORE I GET INTO THE
00:40:08.97\00:40:12.11
PROPHECY PART OF THIS, AND I'VE
GOT A LOT TO SAY, I WANT TO JUST
00:40:12.11\00:40:15.48
REVIEW FOR YOU SO YOU CAN BETTER
UNDERSTAND WHAT SOME OF THE
00:40:15.48\00:40:18.61
TEACHINGS OF ISLAM ARE.
I'VE TALKED ABOUT THE QURAN A
00:40:18.61\00:40:22.52
LITTLE BIT, BUT I WANT TO
JUST GIVE YOU AN OVERVIEW.
00:40:22.52\00:40:25.39
AND THIS IS NOT AN EXHAUSTIVE
LIST - I TOOK A LIST THAT WAS
00:40:25.39\00:40:28.42
MUCH LONGER AND SHORTENED
IT. THE WORD 'ISLAM' MEANS
00:40:28.42\00:40:30.73
'SURRENDER' OR 'SUBMISSION'
- AGAIN, IT COMES FROM THE WORD
00:40:30.73\00:40:34.23
'SALOM' - SALAM,
WHICH IS SIMILAR TO 'PEACE'.
00:40:34.23\00:40:38.53
I'VE BEEN IN SOME COUNTRIES
WHERE THE WAY YOU SAY HELLO IS
00:40:38.53\00:40:40.37
THAT. AND BY THE WAY, THE WAY
YOU SAY 'GOD' - A CHRISTIAN IN
00:40:40.37\00:40:46.04
INDONESIA, IN
CHURCH, CALLS GOD 'ALLAH'.
00:40:46.04\00:40:50.58
SO THAT'S WHY I SAID IT'S A
TRICK QUESTION: THE WORD 'ALLAH'
00:40:50.58\00:40:52.88
JUST MEANS GOD. SO
IF YOU'RE IN A CHRISTIAN
00:40:52.88\00:40:55.55
CHURCH IN INDONESIA, YOU WILL BE
PRAISING AND SINGING TO ALLAH.
00:40:55.55\00:41:01.56
NOW THAT MIGHT MAKE YOU SQUIRM
A LITTLE BIT, BUT THAT IS THEIR
00:41:01.56\00:41:04.16
WORD FOR GOD. THERE'S
NOTHING WRONG WITH THAT.
00:41:04.16\00:41:06.70
THE WORD 'MUSLIM' - YOU MIGHT
WONDER WHAT'S THE DIFFERENCE
00:41:06.70\00:41:09.10
BETWEEN ISLAM AND MUSLIM?
MUSLIM, TECHNICALLY, MEANS
00:41:09.10\00:41:12.00
ANYONE OR ANYTHING THAT
SURRENDERS ITSELF TO GOD, WHICH
00:41:12.00\00:41:15.27
MEANS, BY DEFINITION, EVEN
A TREE OR AN ANIMAL CAN BE A
00:41:15.27\00:41:18.57
MUSLIM IN THAT IT
SURRENDERS TO THE WILL OF GOD.
00:41:18.57\00:41:21.58
THAT'S FROM THEIR
WRITINGS, NOT FROM MINE.
00:41:21.58\00:41:24.38
STUDIES SHOW - I ALREADY
MENTIONED THAT - ABOUT 1.7
00:41:24.38\00:41:26.72
BILLION PEOPLE IN THE
WORLD IDENTIFY WITH ISLAM.
00:41:26.72\00:41:31.35
THERE ARE FIVE PILLARS OF
PRACTICE IN ISLAM AND HERE THEY
00:41:31.35\00:41:35.42
ARE: A) DECLARATION OF FAITH IN
ONE GOD AND THAT MOHAMMED IS THE
00:41:35.42\00:41:40.03
PROPHET OF GOD. 2) FORMAL PRAYER
FIVE TIMES A DAY. C) THERE'S A
00:41:40.03\00:41:46.80
PORT TAX THAT IS DUE -
2.5 PERCENT - THEY'RE GETTING
00:41:46.80\00:41:50.24
DISCOUNTED ON OUR TITHE,
ACTUALLY - (LAUGHTER) 2.5
00:41:50.24\00:41:53.24
PERCENT OF ONE'S EXCESS WEALTH
IS GIVEN TO THE NEEDY ONCE A
00:41:53.24\00:41:56.54
YEAR. FASTING
DURING THE DAYLIGHT
00:41:56.54\00:41:59.88
HOURS IN THE MONTH OF RAMADAN -
THEY FAST ALL DAY AND THEN THEY
00:41:59.88\00:42:02.85
EAT QUITE A BIT AFTER
DARK, WHICH ISN'T THAT
00:42:02.85\00:42:05.12
HEALTHY, I THINK.
PILGRIMAGE TO MECCA AT LEAST
00:42:05.12\00:42:08.56
ONCE, IF YOU'RE PHYSICALLY
AND FINANCIALLY ABLE TO.
00:42:08.56\00:42:13.36
AND I DON'T KNOW IF YOU'VE EVER
HEARD ABOUT IF YOU GO TO MECCA
00:42:13.36\00:42:17.13
THERE'S A GRAND MOSQUE
THERE - THEY JUST DID A BUNCH OF
00:42:17.13\00:42:19.43
RENOVATION WORK, I DON'T KNOW IF
YOU'VE HEARD, BUT THEY MADE TWO
00:42:19.43\00:42:22.40
LAYERS. SO MANY PEOPLE WERE
THERE, THEY'RE GETTING KILLED IN
00:42:22.40\00:42:24.94
THE CRUSH BECAUSE
THERE'S SO MANY MUSLIMS.
00:42:24.94\00:42:26.81
IT USED TO BE A SMALLER GROUP
WOULD COME, THEY'D WALK SEVEN
00:42:26.81\00:42:29.74
TIMES AROUND THIS - THIS SIMPLE
CUBE - ITS ABOUT 45-FEET BY
00:42:29.74\00:42:33.38
45-FEET BY 50-FFET - IN THE
EASTERN CORNER OF THIS CUBE -
00:42:33.38\00:42:37.29
THIS CUBE HAS FOUR SIDES
GOING TO THE FOUR CORNERS OF THE
00:42:37.29\00:42:41.02
GLOBE. THE EASTERN CORNER HAS
A BIG SILVER PLAQUE AND IN THE
00:42:41.02\00:42:46.19
PLAQUE IS THE BLACK STONE AND
EVERY MUSLIM WANTS TO KISS THAT
00:42:46.19\00:42:49.43
STONE AFTER YOU WALK AROUND IT
SEVEN TIMES COUNTER CLOCKWISE.
00:42:49.43\00:42:53.13
THEY KISS THE STONE AND THAT
WILL HELP ABSOLVE YOU OF YOUR
00:42:53.13\00:42:55.84
SINS. SOUNDS A
LITTLE BIT LIKE, YOU
00:42:55.84\00:42:59.51
KNOW, IDOLATRY, AND YOU
CAN KIND OF - SALVATION BY
00:42:59.51\00:43:04.08
WORKS, IN ANY EVENT.
BUT THEY HAD AN ACCIDENT A
00:43:04.08\00:43:08.55
FEW YEARS AGO WHILE THEY
WERE BUILDING TWO LAYERS - THEY
00:43:08.55\00:43:10.85
COULDN'T GET ALL THE PEOPLE
AROUND - THEY'VE HAD SEVERAL
00:43:10.85\00:43:13.09
CRUSHES WHERE PEOPLE HAVE BEEN
CRUSHED TRYING TO GET TO KISS
00:43:13.09\00:43:15.19
THE STONE - BECAUSE MILLIONS
OF PEOPLE HAVE GONE THOUSANDS OF
00:43:15.19\00:43:18.09
MILES AND THOUGHT, 'AM I
GOING TO GET CLOSE ENOUGH?'
00:43:18.09\00:43:19.89
THEY'RE ALL
FIGHTING THEIR WAY IN.
00:43:19.89\00:43:22.10
AND I DON'T KNOW IF I'D WANT TO
KISS THE STONE AFTER THOUSANDS
00:43:22.10\00:43:23.83
OF OTHER PEOPLE HAVE KISSED IT.
BUT, YOU KNOW, IN THE CATHOLIC
00:43:23.83\00:43:26.00
CHURCH THEY LAUGH AT US BECAUSE
- NOT THAT I'M A CATHOLIC - THEY
00:43:26.00\00:43:29.54
LAUGH AT CHRISTIANS, I SHOULD
SAY, BECAUSE THEY GO TO ST.
00:43:29.54\00:43:31.64
PETER'S ON PILGRIMAGE AND
THEY KISS - THEY'VE LITERALLY
00:43:31.64\00:43:34.04
KISSED THE FOOT OFF ST.
PETER'S STATUE - IT'S BEEN
00:43:34.04\00:43:37.18
REPLACED SEVERAL
TIMES. AND IF YOU GO THERE,
00:43:37.18\00:43:38.81
IT'S ALL WORN SMOOTH. IT
LOOKS LIKE HE'S GOT A POINTY
00:43:38.81\00:43:40.55
FOOT BECAUSE IT'S
JUST BEEN WORN SMOOTH.
00:43:40.55\00:43:43.99
AND SO, A CRANE FELL A COUPLE
YEARS AGO - THEY WERE BUILDING
00:43:43.99\00:43:47.09
TWO OR THREE LAYERS SO PEOPLE
COULD GO AROUND THE CUBE LIKE A
00:43:47.09\00:43:51.29
CAKE IN MANY LAYERS, AND A CRANE
FELL ON THEM - OVER A HUNDRED
00:43:51.29\00:43:55.03
PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN MECCA FROM
THAT TERRIBLE ACCIDENT A FEW
00:43:55.03\00:43:58.20
YEARS AGO. BUT IT'S
THE HOLY CITY THERE.
00:43:58.20\00:44:02.34
SIX ARTICLES OF FAITH AND THIS
IS THE ONE GOD - I'VE MENTIONED
00:44:02.34\00:44:06.21
THIS ALREADY. OH,
THE SIX ARTICLES OF FAITH
00:44:06.21\00:44:10.71
ARE DIFFERENT
FROM THE FIVE BELIEFS.
00:44:10.71\00:44:12.75
ONE GOD, ALL OF THE PROPHETS
OF GOD ARE TRUE, THE ORIGINAL
00:44:12.75\00:44:17.05
SCRIPTURES REVEALED TO MOSES,
DAVID, AND JEREMIAH - YOU KNOW
00:44:17.05\00:44:20.89
WHAT THEY ARE - TO JESUS - THE
ORIGINAL SCRIPTURE - SINCE WE
00:44:20.89\00:44:23.56
DON'T HAVE ANY ORIGINAL
SCRIPTURES, YOU CAN'T TRUST YOUR
00:44:23.56\00:44:25.46
BIBLES, SO THAT'S
SORT OF A MOOT POINT.
00:44:25.46\00:44:28.93
THEY BELIEVE IN ANGELS, THE DAY
OF JUDGMENT, THE HEREAFTER AND
00:44:28.93\00:44:31.37
DESTINY. THEY
BELIEVE IN THE CONCEPT OF
00:44:31.37\00:44:34.67
VICARIOUS ATONEMENT - THAT JESUS
DIED FOR THE SINS OF HUMANITY,
00:44:34.67\00:44:39.47
BUT THEY BELIEVE YOU'RE
RESPONSIBLE, REALLY, FOR YOUR
00:44:39.47\00:44:42.04
WORKS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT -
BUT THEY DON'T LOOK TO JESUS FOR
00:44:42.04\00:44:46.28
THE FORGIVENESS OF THEIR SINS.
SO THEY DON'T REALLY HAVE A
00:44:46.28\00:44:50.39
REDEEMER IN THAT RELIGION.
NOW WITH THAT, I'M NOT GOING TO
00:44:50.39\00:44:55.46
GO LONG ON THIS BECAUSE I'LL
HAVE TO TAKE IT UP NEXT WEEK.
00:44:55.46\00:44:57.79
I WANT TO AT LEAST INTRODUCE
- I TOLD YOU THE SERMON TITLE IS
00:44:57.79\00:45:00.26
FROM MECCA TO ROME - GAVE YOU
THE BACKGROUND ABOUT THE BIRTH -
00:45:00.26\00:45:03.70
OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN 538 IN
ROME, WHEN THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH
00:45:03.70\00:45:07.47
FELL INTO APOSTASY -
INFLUENCED BY SUN WORSHIP.
00:45:07.47\00:45:12.11
ABOUT 50 YEARS LATER YOU'VE GOT
THE BIRTH OF ISLAM, THE OTHER
00:45:12.11\00:45:16.08
MAJOR WORLD RELIGION, WITH
TRAPPINGS OF MOON WORSHIP - AND
00:45:16.08\00:45:23.79
THEY SAID YOU COULD ONLY READ
THE SCRIPTURES IN ARABIC, WHERE
00:45:23.79\00:45:27.89
IN ROME THEY SAID YOU
COULD ONLY READ THEM IN LATIN.
00:45:27.89\00:45:31.13
AND IT - JUST VERY INTERESTING
PARALLELS THAT WERE HAPPENING
00:45:31.13\00:45:33.93
THERE. NOW, IF
YOU LOOK IN REVELATION
00:45:33.93\00:45:36.16
CHAPTER 9, VERSE 1, "THEN THE
FIFTH ANGEL SOUNDED: AND I SAW A
00:45:36.16\00:45:42.40
STAR FALLEN FROM
HEAVEN TO THE EARTH."
00:45:42.40\00:45:44.87
- FALLING STAR - A
STAR WAS LIKE AN ANGEL.
00:45:44.87\00:45:47.08
THIS IS A FALLEN ANGEL -
"TO HIM WAS GIVEN THE KEY TO THE
00:45:47.08\00:45:50.41
BOTTOMLESS PIT." - THE ABUSSOS.
YOU REMEMBER WHEN THE DEVILS
00:45:50.41\00:45:54.08
WERE CAST OUT OF THAT
MAN IN MARK CHAPTER 5?
00:45:54.08\00:45:56.38
THEY SAID, 'DON'T CAST US
INTO THE DEEP.' THE WORD THERE?
00:45:56.38\00:46:00.06
SAME EXACT WORD IN
GREEK, IT'S ABUSSOS.
00:46:00.06\00:46:02.82
'DON'T SEND US WHERE DEVILS
GO WHERE THERE'S NOTHING TO
00:46:02.82\00:46:05.56
POSSESS.' AND SO IT'S LIKE THIS
PORTAL - THIS ABUSSOS IS LIKE A
00:46:05.56\00:46:10.13
PORTAL OF DEVILS - IT'S THE
WORLD IN ITS CHAOTIC STATE WHERE
00:46:10.13\00:46:15.84
THE - SATAN IS BOUND AT THE END.
AND IT SAID, "SMOKE AROSE OUT
00:46:15.84\00:46:21.14
OF THE PIT LIKE THE
SMOKE OF A GREAT FURNACE.
00:46:21.14\00:46:23.81
SO THE SUN AND THE AIR WERE
DARKENED BECAUSE OF THE SMOKE OF
00:46:23.81\00:46:26.61
THE PIT." - THAT'S OFTEN
CONNECTED WITH WARS THAT WILL
00:46:26.61\00:46:29.68
HAPPEN - "THEN OUT
OF THE SMOKE LOCUSTS
00:46:29.68\00:46:32.65
CAME UPON THE EARTH." -
YOU REMEMBER I JUST READ TO
00:46:32.65\00:46:34.69
YOU IN JUDGES 7:12, IT
SAYS THAT THE MIDIANITES AND THE
00:46:34.69\00:46:39.79
AMALEKITES AND THE PEOPLE OF
THE EAST COVERED THE EARTH LIKE
00:46:39.79\00:46:43.00
LOCUSTS' - THEY CAME UPON THE
EARTH - "AND TO THEM WAS GIVEN
00:46:43.00\00:46:47.37
POWER, AS THE
SCORPIONS...HAVE POWER."
00:46:47.37\00:46:50.21
SCORPIONS, UNLIKE SOME SNAKES,
IT'LL STING YOU BUT IT WON'T
00:46:50.21\00:46:52.61
TYPICALLY KILL YOU; BUT IT'S
PAINFUL - AND THEY HAD POWER ON
00:46:52.61\00:46:57.08
THE EARTH AND "THEY WERE
COMMANDED NOT TO HARM THE GRASS
00:46:57.08\00:46:59.38
OF THE EARTH, OR ANY GREEN
THING, OR ANY TREE, BUT ONLY
00:46:59.38\00:47:01.85
THOSE MEN WHO DO NOT HAVE THE
SEAL OF GOD ON THEIR FOREHEADS."
00:47:01.85\00:47:06.42
- GENUINE CHRISTIANS WERE
PRESERVED DURING THIS TIME OF
00:47:06.42\00:47:10.63
GREAT BATTLE AND PERSECUTION
BECAUSE IT WAS FOCUSING ON THE
00:47:10.63\00:47:14.73
EASTERN ROMAN EMPIRE - "AND THEY
WERE NOT GIVEN AUTHORITY TO KILL
00:47:14.73\00:47:19.87
THEM, BUT TO TORMENT
THEM FOR FIVE MONTHS."
00:47:19.87\00:47:23.04
NOW, IF A DAY IS A YEAR IN
PROPHECY, AND THE HEBREW MONTH
00:47:23.04\00:47:28.01
HAS 30 DAYS - YOU KNOW THE BIBLE
TALKS ABOUT THE WOMAN FLED FOR
00:47:28.01\00:47:30.75
42 MONTHS? THOSE
HAVE TO BE - FOR THAT TO
00:47:30.75\00:47:33.98
REACH 1,260 DAYS YOU
HAVE TO USE 30-DAY MONTHS.
00:47:33.98\00:47:38.89
AND SO, IF YOU HAVE 30 DAYS IN A
MONTH AND IT SAYS FIVE MONTHS -
00:47:38.89\00:47:43.26
THAT'S 150 DAYS, RIGHT?
FIVE TIMES TEN - 150 - OKAY.
00:47:43.26\00:47:49.36
THIS WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN
ISLAM HAD GROWN AND SPREAD, IN
00:47:49.36\00:47:55.97
ALMOST ONE GENERATION, ACROSS
NORTH AFRICA AND MADE ITS WAY UP
00:47:55.97\00:48:00.78
INTO THE EUROPEAN CONTINENT, BUT
THEY HAD TO CONQUER ASIA MINOR.
00:48:00.78\00:48:06.61
AND IT REALLY BEGAN WITH OTHMAN,
WHO ATTACKED CONSTANTINOPLE.
00:48:06.61\00:48:12.32
I DON'T KNOW IF YOU REMEMBER
CONSTANTINE - THEY TRANSFERRED
00:48:12.32\00:48:15.32
THE CAPITAL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE,
LATER KNOWN AS THE BYZANTINE
00:48:15.32\00:48:19.09
EMPIRE, TO CONSTANTINOPLE AND IT
STILL WAS CHRISTIAN BACK THEN.
00:48:19.09\00:48:25.30
AND SO THEY THOUGHT, 'IF WE CAN
CONQUER CHRISTIANITY, WE'VE GOT
00:48:25.30\00:48:28.27
TO CONQUER CONSTANTINOPLE.' HE
BEGAN THAT ATTACK, OTHMAN, LATER
00:48:28.27\00:48:31.84
KNOWN AS THE OTTOMAN EMPIRE,
WHICH BECAME A VERY PROMINENT
00:48:31.84\00:48:37.28
FORCE. THAT HAPPENED IN 1299.
00:48:37.28\00:48:42.45
IT WENT ON FOR NOT
150 DAYS BUT 150 YEARS.
00:48:42.45\00:48:46.92
WHEN CONSTANTINOPLE FINALLY
RECOGNIZED THE TURKISH POWER,
00:48:46.92\00:48:50.73
THEY SURRENDERED IN
1449 - 150 YEARS LATER.
00:48:50.73\00:48:58.17
AND SO IT HAPPENED EXACTLY
AS THE PROPHECIES FORETOLD.
00:48:58.17\00:49:01.97
I WANT YOU TO NOTICE SOMETHING:
ITALY IS IN A GREAT PENINSULA -
00:49:01.97\00:49:06.98
IT IS NORTH OF ISRAEL - BECAUSE
LATER WE'RE GOING TO BE TALKING
00:49:06.98\00:49:10.68
ABOUT THE KING OF THE
NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH.
00:49:10.68\00:49:13.95
SAUDI ARABIA IS THE
GREATEST PENINSULA IN THE WORLD,
00:49:13.95\00:49:17.09
ACTUALLY, AND IT IS SOUTH.
ON THE WEST SIDE OF ITALY YOU'VE
00:49:17.09\00:49:21.92
GOT A CAPITAL THAT
IS THE RELIGIOUS CENTER
00:49:21.92\00:49:24.53
OF CHRISTENDOM. ON
THE WEST SIDE OF THE
00:49:24.53\00:49:27.96
PENINSULA OF SAUDI ARABIA
YOU HAVE THE CAPITAL THAT IS THE
00:49:27.96\00:49:31.47
RELIGIOUS CENTER OF
ISLAM. PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
00:49:31.47\00:49:36.77
GO TO ROME ON PILGRIMAGE.
PEOPLE AROUND THE WORLD
00:49:36.77\00:49:41.61
GO TO MECCA ON PILGRIMAGE.
AND IT'S JUST INTERESTING THAT
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ONE NOW - AND YOU GO TO
THAT OTHER MAP THAT YOU SHOWED,
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SHERLE, A MINUTE AGO
ABOUT THE NORTH AND THE SOUTH.
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ALRIGHT, STAY RIGHT
THERE FOR JUST A SECOND.
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I WANT YOU TO NOTICE
SOMETHING ON THIS MAP.
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AND WHILE YOU NOTICE THAT, I
WANT YOU TO - I'M GOING TO READ
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DANIEL CHAPTER 11 AND WE'RE
GOING TO BE TALKING ABOUT THE
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LAST DAYS HERE A LITTLE BIT
AND I WANT TO JUST GIVE YOU A
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BACKGROUND. IF YOU
GO IN DANIEL 11 YOU'RE
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GOING TO NOTICE, ALL THROUGH
DANIEL 11, TALKS ABOUT A BATTLE
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BETWEEN THE KING OF THE
NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH.
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GO TO VERSE 40, FOR INSTANCE,
"AT THE TIME OF THE END" - WHEN
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DO YOU THINK WE'RE LIVING NOW?
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- "THE KING OF THE SOUTH SHALL
ATTACK HIM; AND THE KING OF THE
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NORTH SHALL COME AGAINST HIM
LIKE A WHIRLWIND, WITH CHARIOTS,
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HORSEMEN, AND WITH MANY SHIPS;"
- THAT'S ONE THING YOU NOTICE,
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THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE WATER
NEARBY BECAUSE THERE'S SHIPS -
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YOU'VE GOT WATER ON BOTH THOSE
TWO PENINSULAS THAT I MENTIONED.
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IN ISRAEL, WHEN THEY TALKED
ABOUT THE KING OF THE NORTH AND
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THE KING OF THE SOUTH, YOU'VE
GOT TO UNDERSTAND SOMETHING
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ABOUT THE
GEOGRAPHY. ISRAEL WAS LIVING
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IN A LAND BRIDGE. YOU'VE
GOT AN OCEAN TO THE WEST,
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YOU'VE GOT A VAST, VIRTUALLY
UNCROSSABLE DESERT TO THE EAST.
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WHENEVER AN ARMY CAME TO INVADE
ISRAEL - IF YOU'RE LIVING IN
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ISRAEL - THEY
CAME FROM THE NORTH.
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AND SO YOU SEE - YOU SEE
IRAQ - THAT'S WHERE BABYLON WAS.
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YOU SEE IRAQ THERE ON THE EAST,
BUT WHEN IRAQ CAME IN, THEY HAD
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TO FOLLOW THE VALLEY AND
THEY CAME IN FROM THE NORTH.
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THEY DIDN'T GO
ACROSS THE DESERT.
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WHEN SYRIA ATTACKED,
THEY CAME FROM THE NORTH.
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WHEN THE HITTITES ATTACKED, UP
AROUND TURKEY THERE, THEY CAME
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IN FROM THE NORTH.
WHEN EGYPT ATTACKED, OR WHEN
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THESE OTHER KINGDOMS ATTACKED,
THEY CAME IN FROM THE SOUTH.
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AND SO, YOU'RE GOING TO ALWAYS
HEAR ISRAEL TALKING ABOUT AN
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ATTACK - THE KING OF THE
NORTH AND THE KING OF THE SOUTH.
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A LOT OF TIMES THEY WEREN'T
ATTACKING ISRAEL; THE NORTH AND
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THE SOUTH WERE ATTACKING EACH
OTHER, BUT IN ORDER TO GET TO
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THE ENEMY, THEY HAD TO GO
THROUGH ISRAEL AND ISRAEL WAS
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OFTEN A CASUALTY OF THESE
BATTLES BETWEEN THE NORTH AND
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THE SOUTH. WHO WAS
ONE OF THE BEST KINGS
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THAT EVER LIVED
IN ISRAEL? >>DAVID.
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>>YOU'VE GOT
DAVID. HOW ABOUT JOSIAH?
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JOSIAH WAS ONE OF THE GREATEST
KINGS - GODLY KING - IT SAYS
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NOTHING BAD ABOUT HIM.
PHARAOH NECO, IN THE SOUTH, WENT
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TO WAR WITH BABYLON IN THE NORTH
- OR IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN ASSYRIA
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DURING THIS BATTLE,
ACTUALLY - IN THE NORTH.
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AND ON HIS WAY THROUGH JOSIAH
WENT OUT TO MEET HIM AND PHARAOH
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NECO SENT HIM A LETTER. HE
SAID, 'KING JOSIAH, KING OF
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ISRAEL, WHY DO YOU
COME OUT AGAINST ME?'
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IT SAYS, 'I DON'T HAVE A QUARREL
WITH YOU, BUT MY GOD HAS SENT ME
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TO FIGHT WITH THE
GODS OF THE ASSYRIANS.
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DON'T MEDDLE, IT
WON'T BE GOOD FOR YOU.
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I JUST HAVE TO GO THROUGH YOUR
LAND TO FIGHT THE KING OF THE
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NORTH.' AND JOSIAH WENT OUT TO
BATTLE AGAINST PHARAOH NECO AND
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HE WAS HIT BY THE ARCHERS AND HE
ULTIMATELY DIED IN THAT BATTLE.
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SO ISRAEL IS OFTEN A CASUALTY OF
THE BATTLE BETWEEN THE KINGS OF
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THE NORTH AND THE
KINGS OF THE SOUTH.
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I COULD GIVE YOU CASE
AFTER CASE WHERE THIS HAPPENED.
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WHEN NEBUCHADNEZZAR FIRST WENT
TO ATTACK EGYPT, HE HAD TO GO
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THROUGH ISRAEL. ALONG THE WAY,
ISRAEL GOT INVOLVED IN A WAR.
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AND WHEN THE PHARAOH GOES NORTH
AND WHEN THE OTHER KINGDOMS WENT
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NORTH - AND SO YOU'VE GOT THIS
GOING ON - YOU'VE GOT IT GOING
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ON FROM THE TIME OF ALEXANDER
THE GREAT THROUGH THE ROMAN
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CONQUEST. WHEN YOU
GET TO THE END OF THE
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TIME AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE KING
OF THE NORTH AND THE KING OF THE
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SOUTH, WELL, YOU'VE GOT
TO KEEP COMING, FRIENDS.
00:53:16.62\00:53:21.80
YOU'RE GOING TO FIND IT REALLY
INTERESTING (LAUGHTER) BECAUSE I
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DON'T WANT TO TIP MY HAND, AS
THEY SAY, TOO MUCH ON THAT RIGHT
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NOW. I JUST WANT
TO TELL YOU THAT I
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THINK THAT EVERYTHING IS
ABOUT TO REACH CRITICAL MASS.
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THE WORLD OF ISLAM, RIGHT NOW,
IS VERY UNSTABLE AND IT IS PRIME
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TIME FOR ANOTHER STRONG LEADER
TO SOLIDIFY THAT RELIGION.
00:53:49.12\00:53:55.56
AT THE SAME TIME, WE KNOW
THAT POPE FRANCIS IS MAKING VERY
00:53:55.56\00:54:00.37
STRONG CLEAR OVERTURES TO REACH
OUT TO THE CHRISTIANS OF THE
00:54:00.37\00:54:05.61
WORLD BECAUSE THEY REALIZE
THEY'RE LOSING THEIR BEACHHEAD
00:54:05.61\00:54:09.54
IN EUROPE AND THAT THE
REAL BATTLE IN THE WORLD TODAY -
00:54:09.54\00:54:13.62
IT'S GOING TO END UP BEING
A RELIGIOUS BATTLE - IT'S NOT
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GOING TO BE A POLITICAL BATTLE,
IT'S GOING TO BE SOMETHING MORE
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PHILOSOPHICAL THAN THAT.
YOU KNOW, WHEN I DRIVE THROUGH A
00:54:18.32\00:54:23.63
NATIONAL FOREST, EVERY NOW AND
THEN IN THE SUMMERTIME YOU'LL
00:54:23.63\00:54:27.40
RUN INTO ONE OF THESE FORESTRY
SIGNS THAT WILL TELL YOU
00:54:27.40\00:54:29.90
ABOUT THE FIRE DANGER. YOU
EVER SEE ONE OF THESE SIGNS?
00:54:29.90\00:54:34.07
I THINK WE'VE GOT ONE WE'LL PUT
UP THERE ON THE SCREEN FOR YOU.
00:54:34.07\00:54:36.57
IT'LL SAY, 'FIRE DANGER: LOW' -
YOU KNOW, IN WINTER IT OUGHT TO
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BE ON LOW - AND THEN, YOU KNOW,
SOMETIMES WHEN IT STARTS TO DRY
00:54:41.04\00:54:44.61
OUT IN THE SPRING/SUMMER IT
MIGHT BE UP THERE IN MODERATE.
00:54:44.61\00:54:48.32
WHEN IT STARTS TO GET DRY OR
THERE'S DANGER IT'LL SAY HIGH.
00:54:48.32\00:54:51.82
SOMETIMES YOU'LL ACTUALLY SEE
A STATUE OF SMOKEY THE BEAR NEXT
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TO ONE OF THESE SIGNS.
THEN YOU'VE GOT VERY HIGH AND
00:54:53.96\00:54:59.33
THEN BY AUGUST, IF YOU HAVEN'T
HAD ANY RAIN AND EVERYTHING'S
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DRY, IT'LL SAY EXTREME. I
ACTUALLY SAW ONE SIGN IT ADDED
00:55:01.96\00:55:07.67
ONE MORE AND IT WAS
BLACK AND IT SAID CATASTROPHIC.
00:55:07.67\00:55:13.48
I THOUGHT YOU'D GET THE MESSAGE
IF I JUST PUT UP THE SIGN THAT
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SAID EXTREME. IF I
WAS TO TELL YOU WHERE WE
00:55:15.44\00:55:19.35
ARE RIGHT NOW IN PROPHECY AND
THE VOLATILITY, IF IT WAS NOT
00:55:19.35\00:55:24.75
FOR THE ANGELS OF GOD THE BIBLE
SAYS 'ARE HOLDING BACK THE WINDS
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OF STRIFE' RIGHT NOW, I THINK
WE WOULD SEE THE FIRES OF WAR
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JUST BLAZE UPON THE WORLD.
THE CIRCUMSTANCES OF WHAT'S
00:55:32.19\00:55:36.73
GOING ON RIGHT NOW - THE
INSTABILITY, NOT ONLY AMONG THE
00:55:36.73\00:55:39.63
NATIONS OF EUROPE, IN OUR
OWN NATION, AND WHAT'S HAPPENING
00:55:39.63\00:55:44.21
WITH THE ECONOMIES OF THE WORLD,
IT IS SO DELICATE RIGHT NOW.
00:55:44.21\00:55:49.74
SO MANY THINGS COULD
JUST - COULD YOU IMAGINE
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WHAT WOULD
HAPPEN IN NORTH AMERICA?
00:55:52.65\00:55:54.38
I'M NOT TRYING TO
FRIGHTEN YOU, BUT IT'S A FACT.
00:55:54.38\00:55:56.72
IF THERE WAS NOT A SUFFICIENT
QUANTITY OF FUEL FOR THE
00:55:56.72\00:56:01.76
TRUCKERS AND THE TRAINS TO BRING
THE GROCERIES AND THE SUPPLIES -
00:56:01.76\00:56:05.53
MOST PEOPLE NOW LIVE IN CITIES;
USED TO BE, IF YOU DIDN'T HAVE
00:56:05.53\00:56:08.16
FOOD, WELL YOU'D
JUST GO TO YOUR GARDEN.
00:56:08.16\00:56:10.60
BUT TODAY, AS OF ABOUT FIVE
YEARS AGO, THE MAJORITY OF THE
00:56:10.60\00:56:14.24
WORLD LIVES IN URBAN AREAS - IN
CITIES - THEY DON'T GROW THEIR
00:56:14.24\00:56:18.41
FOOD, THEY GET IT FROM THE
MARKET, WHICH IS BROUGHT BY THE
00:56:18.41\00:56:20.48
TRUCKERS THAT RUN ON GAS.
AND OIL IS GOING TO BECOME AN
00:56:20.48\00:56:25.91
ISSUE, I THINK,
IN THE LAST DAYS.
00:56:25.91\00:56:28.38
WE'RE LIVING IN A VERY VOLATILE
TIME IN THE WORLD AND I THINK WE
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NEED TO UNDERSTAND THESE
PROPHECIES - NOT THAT - I WANT
00:56:32.95\00:56:35.69
TO EMPHASIZE - NOBODY IS
SAVED BY UNDERSTANDING THE SEVEN
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TRUMPETS OR THE KING
OF THE NORTH OR DANIEL 11.
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IT'S NOT GOING TO SAVE ANYBODY.
WHAT'S GOING TO SAVE PEOPLE
00:56:42.16\00:56:45.63
IS A RELATIONSHIP
WITH JESUS. >>AMEN.
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>>AND JUST KNOWING
THAT HE'S YOUR GOD.
00:56:48.57\00:56:51.47
AND, NO MATTER WHAT YOU
BELIEVE, IT'S NOT GOING TO STOP.
00:56:51.47\00:56:54.41
HOW YOU VOTE IS NOT GOING TO
STOP PROPHECY FROM HAPPENING.
00:56:54.41\00:56:58.35
I'VE ACTUALLY HEARD PEOPLE
SAY, 'WELL, I'M VOTING THIS WAY
00:56:58.35\00:57:00.28
BECAUSE OF THE PROPHECIES.'
YOU'RE NOT GOING TO VOTE
00:57:00.28\00:57:03.05
PROPHECY.
(LAUGHTER) WHAT'S GOING TO
00:57:03.05\00:57:07.62
HAPPEN IS GOING TO HAPPEN
WHEN IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN.
00:57:07.62\00:57:09.22
I THINK CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO
DO EVERYTHING WE CAN TO PRESERVE
00:57:09.22\00:57:13.56
THE FREEDOM TO PRACTICE
OUR RELIGION AND PROCLAIM OUR
00:57:13.56\00:57:16.67
RELIGION AND DO
GOOD AS LONG AS WE CAN.
00:57:16.67\00:57:19.70
YOU UNDERSTAND THAT - BUT I DO
THINK THAT, AT SOME POINT, THOSE
00:57:19.70\00:57:24.71
ANGELS ARE GOING TO LOOSEN THEIR
GRIP AND YOU'RE GOING TO SEE
00:57:24.71\00:57:27.74
THESE THINGS UNFOLD, AND WE'LL
BE TALKING A LITTLE MORE IN OUR
00:57:27.74\00:57:31.18
LAST PRESENTATION. I'VE
GOT ONE MORE IN THIS SERIES
00:57:31.18\00:57:33.45
ABOUT HOW I THINK IT'S GOING
TO PLAY OUT - AND SOME MORE
00:57:33.45\00:57:36.89
ABOUT DANIEL AND REVELATION.
I HOPE YOU'LL BE PRAYING.
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BUT WE'RE LIVING DURING
EXTREME CONDITIONS RIGHT NOW.
00:57:40.26\00:57:43.86
THAT'S WHY I HOPE YOU'RE CLOSE
TO THE LORD AND WHY ALL THESE
00:57:43.86\00:57:47.50
DIFFERENT VOICES ARE SAYING
'WE'VE GOT THE TRUTH' AND 'WE'VE
00:57:47.50\00:57:49.43
GOT THE SCRIPTURES' - YOU'VE GOT
TO KNOW WHO ONLY HAS THE TRUTH.
00:57:49.43\00:57:53.13
JESUS SAID, 'THY WORD IS TRUTH.'
00:57:53.13\00:57:54.60
>>AMEN. >>AND WE
NEED TO TRUST HIM.
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IS THAT YOUR DESIRE? >>YEAH.
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