Well it's my
pleasure to welcome you to
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this 3ABN Worship Center right
here in Thompsonville, Illinois,
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where we have the great pleasure
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of presenting the series
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by Pastor Kenneth Cox
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Give Me The Bible.
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And today the subject is
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The Signs of the
Coming of Jesus Christ.
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Now Pastor Cox
is a Bible scholar
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and on top of
that he's a historian.
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But he's also one who is
an observer of current events.
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And today I know that he
is going to be looking at
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some current events and telling
us how these things relate
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to Christ's return.
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We believe with
all of our hearts that
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Jesus Christ is coming soon.
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And I know that
sometimes people say:
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"Well, He's
delayed His coming. "
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But I want to tell
you, I'm so glad He has
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because there are so many more
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that are going to be in
the kingdom as a result of that
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delay. But one of
these days He's going to say
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"It's time, " and
He is going to come.
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And my friend we
want to be ready for that.
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And we are looking
today at signs that tell us
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that that is
going to be very soon.
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Before Pastor Cox comes,
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Walter Arties is
going to sing for us
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My Faith Looks Up to Thee.
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My faith looks up
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to Thee.
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Thou
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Lamb of
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Calvary,
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Savior
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divine!
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Now hear me while
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I pray,
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Take all my
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guilt away,
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O let me
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from this day
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Be wholly
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Thine.
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May Thy rich grace
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impart
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Strength to my
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fainting heart,
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My zeal
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inspire;
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As Thou
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hast died for me,
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O may my love
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to Thee
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Pure, warm,
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and changeless be,
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A living
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fire.
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Amen.
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Thank you very much, Walter.
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Enjoyed that.
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Faith in God is what counts
in our experience day by day.
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We're very happy to
welcome all of you again to
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Give Me The Bible.
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Take a look at what the
Bible has to say about the
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coming of Jesus Christ.
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That's what we're looking at...
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different aspects concerning
the coming of Jesus Christ.
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And this morning
we're looking at the signs
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of Christ's coming and
what we're talking about is
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current-day signs
that tell you and I
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that Jesus is coming soon.
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That's what we want to
know... what the Bible says.
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What says the
Bible, the blessed Bible?
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This my only question be.
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The signs of the
coming of Jesus Christ
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are now all around us.
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What says the Bible to me?
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That's what we want to find out.
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That's what we're looking at.
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Uh, our next presentation is
on the coming of Jesus Christ,
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and we're going to
take a look at the manner
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of the coming of Christ.
How Jesus Christ is coming back.
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What the scripture says
about the manner in which
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He will be coming.
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And so that's what our
next presentation will be on
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is the coming of Jesus Christ.
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But this morning...
what are you looking for?
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What do you want to find
in what we're talking about?
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Uh, we want to look, folks,
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at signs that as
far as I'm concerned
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are universal.
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They don't just affect us
here, they affect everybody.
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Going to take a look
at some of those signs.
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And then we're going to
look at some signs that the Lord
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has given that deal
with specific things.
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And so those are the
things that you want to look for
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and understand about
the time in which you and I
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are living today.
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Because without question,
you'd pretty much have to
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shut your eyes and not
be aware of what's going on
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to miss the signs that
we see taking place today.
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So I hope it
will be helpful to you
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as we take a look
at some of these signs.
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Look forward to the day
when Christ will come back.
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You know... Think! It says
He will come back with a shout
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and the voice of the
archangel, and it tells us
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that all the dead in the
grave will hear His voice
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and will come forth.
Look forward to that day.
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Walter is going to sing
for you Hear The Trumpet Sound.
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Father Gabriel in that day
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he'll take wings and fly away,
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for to hear the
trumpet sound in that morning.
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He will blow it in the east,
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he will blow it in the west,
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and we'll hear the trumpet sound
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in that mornin'.
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In that mornin', my
Lord, how I long to go
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for to hear the trumpet sound
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in that mornin'.
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Talk about me as you please,
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I'll talk about you on my knees,
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for I want to hear that trumpet
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in that mornin'.
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Just a while down here below
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then to glory I will go
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for to hear the trumpet sound
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in that mornin'.
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In that mornin', my Lord,
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how I long to go
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for to hear the trumpet sound
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in that mornin'.
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Oh I love to shout and sing
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praises to my Heavenly King,
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for He'll make the
trumpet sound in that mornin'.
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Then on the
wings of love I'll fly
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to the paradise on high
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when I hear the trumpet sound
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in that mornin'.
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In that mornin', my Lord,
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how I long to go
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for to hear the
trumpet sound in that mornin'.
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In that mornin', my Lord,
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how I long to go
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for to hear the trumpet
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sound
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in that
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mornin'.
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Amen.
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Father in Heaven, we
look forward to hearing
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that trumpet sound!
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We ask that each of us may
place our lives in Your hands
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that we might
anxiously, longingly,
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look forward to that
day when You're coming back.
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Bless us today. Give
us Your Spirit, Lord.
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Give us understanding
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that we might
prepare our hearts...
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that we might look forward
to that day when You return.
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For this we pray in
Christ's name, Amen.
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Christ had some very
clear and direct words
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concerning His coming.
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And He told us some things
that's rather interesting.
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Notice what He had to say here:
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Now we have a saying that
goes along with that, don't we?
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We say: "Red sky at
night, sailor's delight. "
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So we... we understand that.
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Red sky at
night, sailor's delight.
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Christ goes on,
and He says here:
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And we have a
saying that goes with that.
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Red sky in the
morning, sailor take warning.
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So we understand that.
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We've grown up with that.
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We understand that those
are signs that if the sun
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is setting, it's
bright red and clear,
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we know we're going to
have a nice day the next day.
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We understand that.
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Christ mentioned those.
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Now listen to what He says:
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He said: "You can look at
the sky and you know what's
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going to happen,
but you can't discern
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the signs of the times? "
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If anybody ever in
the history of this world
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should be able to
discern the signs,
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it's you and I today.
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I mean they're
there. They're clear.
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We're going to look
at them this morning.
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Signs that God has given
us concerning His coming.
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We need to understand that.
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We need to make sure
that our hearts are right
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and that we are
prepared for His coming.
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Now He says: "When you see
these things" - or when these
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things happen, or
begin to happen...
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So He said: "When you see all
these signs that are happening
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and taking place today,
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then you ought to rejoice.
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You ought to be happy
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because your
redemption is drawing near. "
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And I hope by the time
we're through at the end
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of this presentation
that you will understand
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that the signs that are
taking place are definite
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indications that you
and I need to be prepared
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for the Lord's coming.
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That needs to
happen. So we're going to go
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to a sign that I believe
definitely affects us today
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in a very, very real
way. And it says here
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in Revelation 11 verse 18:
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Said: "That time's come. "
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That's the sign I
want to look at here.
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"Shall destroy those
who destroy the earth. "
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We need to take a
close look at that.
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These are signs, folks,
that I'm sharing with you
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that are, as far as
I'm concerned, universal.
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They affect everyone.
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They affect you; they
affect people on the other side
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of the world. Throughout
our listening audience
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by television or by
radio no matter where you are
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any place in the
world, these signs affect you.
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Now, I know we live in a time
when there's a lot being said
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about global warming
and what's going on there.
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And I find people on both
sides of the fence concerning
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global warming. These
signs have nothing to do
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in a sense with global warming.
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These are signs that affect
us today and will continue
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to affect you and me.
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1. World population.
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That definitely
affects all of us.
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What's happened there?
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If you take the
chart we've got here...
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If you start way
back in the beginning
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and you just come down,
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that bottom line is talking
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about years, OK?
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And the line that goes up,
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that's talking about the number
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of people - billions.
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And so if you take a look at it,
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it works like this:
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it took us 1800 years
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to reach 1 billion people.
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OK?
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1800 years
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to reach 1 billion people.
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OK?
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Watch.
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This is what's happening, folks.
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This is what's happening now,
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today.
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That's what the
population is doing.
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I mean, when we hit 1 billion
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and made that curve,
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it's gone
straight up since then.
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Right on up till today
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we stand at 6,750,000,000 people
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and it keeps going all the time.
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Growing every, every day.
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What does that mean?
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That means that the population
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is exponentially
growing like you and I
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don't even understand.
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Give you an idea.
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By the year 2050 -
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that's basically 41 years away -
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the earth's population will be
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9.5 billion people.
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You understand what that means?
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That means in basically 40 years
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you have a 50% increase
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in population.
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A 50% increase.
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Now that may... You
say, "Well, so... so what? "
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Well, if you have
more people, folks,
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you have more mouths to feed.
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That's just a
simple fact of life.
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And this is what we're doing.
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This is what
we're affected with.
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This reminds me of what Jesus
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said in Matthew 24 verse 22.
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He said: "Except
those days be shortened,
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no flesh would be saved. "
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And we're coming to that.
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I want to show you
what that's doing to us.
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Land.
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Now, any way you
want to look at it, folks,
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there's just only so much land.
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That's not
something that we can grow.
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You can't... can't grow
land. It's there and that's it.
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So what has
happened to our land?
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Watch what's happening.
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I showed you the population.
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The population here.
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I showed you how it
went just like that.
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The top line there
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has to do with
pasture and farmland.
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That's where we get our food.
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That's what grows food for us.
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OK? As you can look there,
00:19:01.97\00:19:04.07
it was fine...
went along just fine.
00:19:04.27\00:19:08.72
Nothing changed;
everything worked fine
00:19:08.75\00:19:11.83
until we hit 1900.
00:19:12.03\00:19:16.59
And then all of a
sudden it starts dropping.
00:19:16.79\00:19:20.56
So by the time we hit 2009,
00:19:20.77\00:19:24.77
those two lines cross.
00:19:24.97\00:19:27.35
You understand what that means?
00:19:27.55\00:19:31.95
When those lines cross, folks,
00:19:32.15\00:19:35.48
that means there are places now
00:19:35.68\00:19:39.30
that can't... we cannot produce
00:19:39.50\00:19:41.96
enough food for the population.
00:19:42.06\00:19:44.67
That means famine.
00:19:46.05\00:19:48.33
And that's where we are today!
00:19:49.83\00:19:52.41
We're... we're
faced with that today
00:19:52.61\00:19:55.07
because those
lines have crossed.
00:19:55.27\00:19:57.40
It makes a
tremendous amount of difference.
00:19:58.66\00:20:02.10
OK?
00:20:10.24\00:20:11.27
To feed an American
00:20:12.09\00:20:14.89
it takes 3 acres of land.
00:20:15.09\00:20:17.02
To each one of you
00:20:17.95\00:20:19.90
it takes 3 acres of land
00:20:20.11\00:20:23.26
to feed you.
00:20:23.36\00:20:25.12
For a Chinese it takes 1 acre.
00:20:26.04\00:20:28.69
And by the way,
China has used up
00:20:30.59\00:20:35.13
almost all of their
land... farmland and all...
00:20:35.33\00:20:41.06
it's all being used today.
00:20:41.26\00:20:44.50
America? Yes,
we still have land,
00:20:45.54\00:20:48.13
but just remember...
the ole population is rising
00:20:48.33\00:20:52.43
and it takes 3
acres to feed you.
00:20:52.63\00:20:57.05
Also, not only
takes 3 acres to feed you
00:20:57.25\00:21:00.35
but it takes another acre of
land just to take care of you
00:21:00.56\00:21:05.49
as far as urban
and highways and all.
00:21:05.69\00:21:10.21
Do you realize that every year -
00:21:10.41\00:21:14.31
listen to me - every year
00:21:15.68\00:21:17.99
a piece of land the
size of the state of Maine
00:21:18.19\00:21:22.75
turns to concrete.
00:21:22.95\00:21:25.39
Every year that
happens in this country.
00:21:27.10\00:21:30.53
And so our land,
little by little by little,
00:21:30.73\00:21:34.96
is being used up. This
is true all over the world.
00:21:35.06\00:21:40.11
Now face that. However
you want to look at it,
00:21:41.54\00:21:44.68
something has to happen.
00:21:44.88\00:21:46.98
Something happens to take place.
00:21:47.19\00:21:48.89
Water? You've got more people,
00:21:49.09\00:21:54.07
you have to have
water for them to drink.
00:21:54.27\00:21:57.51
You have to have
water to sustain life.
00:21:57.71\00:21:59.89
That's necessary.
00:22:00.09\00:22:01.48
So where are we in that respect?
00:22:01.68\00:22:04.21
Every individual uses
about 4 quarts of water a day.
00:22:04.51\00:22:10.38
That's drinking water and
that's water that's in your food
00:22:10.58\00:22:14.91
and so forth. That'
what we use: about 4 quarts.
00:22:15.11\00:22:18.63
Notice... 2000 quarts.
00:22:18.93\00:22:23.16
It takes 2000 quarts of water
00:22:23.37\00:22:27.80
every day just to care for you.
00:22:27.83\00:22:32.56
I'm talking about it
takes 2000 quarts of water
00:22:34.20\00:22:37.11
to grow the food and that
type of thing that you eat.
00:22:37.32\00:22:40.63
Each one of you use
about 2000 quarts of water
00:22:40.83\00:22:45.67
every day.
00:22:45.87\00:22:48.30
All over the world.
00:22:49.20\00:22:51.04
So when we're looking at water,
00:22:53.02\00:22:54.74
this is basically what happens.
00:22:54.95\00:22:57.42
Of the water that's
used throughout the world,
00:22:57.72\00:23:01.22
about 70% of it is
used in irrigation.
00:23:01.42\00:23:05.37
That's the greatest use of
water there is is irrigation.
00:23:05.58\00:23:09.48
Industry uses about 20%.
00:23:09.69\00:23:12.66
Residences use about 10%.
00:23:12.86\00:23:16.36
That is how the water's used.
00:23:16.56\00:23:18.11
Now, what does that mean?
00:23:18.31\00:23:20.99
Every American... every American
00:23:21.19\00:23:24.40
uses 500,00 gallons of water
00:23:24.60\00:23:29.82
a year.
00:23:30.02\00:23:31.18
Every American uses
00:23:31.58\00:23:34.34
500,000 gallons of water a year.
00:23:34.54\00:23:39.59
So what... what
is that doing to us
00:23:39.79\00:23:43.55
when we talk about
it? What's happening?
00:23:43.75\00:23:46.53
I... I hope you can see this,
00:23:46.73\00:23:48.29
and I hope you can visualize it.
00:23:48.39\00:23:50.33
I'll try to help you understand
00:23:50.53\00:23:52.45
what's happening here.
00:23:52.66\00:23:53.83
It's taken the world and just
divided it up into 4 groups.
00:23:54.03\00:23:57.46
And this
represents how much land...
00:23:57.66\00:24:00.97
excuse me, how
much water is being used
00:24:01.17\00:24:04.19
in each one. And the dark blue,
00:24:04.39\00:24:07.95
the very dark blue,
00:24:08.15\00:24:09.46
is where the least
amount of water is being used.
00:24:09.66\00:24:14.86
The light blue...
People living there are
00:24:15.06\00:24:18.38
using about 20%
00:24:18.58\00:24:21.31
of the water that's available.
00:24:21.51\00:24:24.12
OK?
00:24:24.32\00:24:25.65
The tan... they use about 40%
00:24:25.85\00:24:30.47
of the water that's available.
00:24:30.67\00:24:32.93
And the dark uses above that.
00:24:33.13\00:24:36.21
Now, what I want you to look at,
00:24:36.41\00:24:38.44
look at North America up there.
00:24:38.64\00:24:41.17
Kind of the light blue.
00:24:41.37\00:24:43.04
You can look at
different countries of the world
00:24:43.24\00:24:45.51
that are in light blue.
00:24:45.71\00:24:46.77
This is 1995.
00:24:46.97\00:24:49.92
Let me show you what it's
going to look like in 2025.
00:24:50.12\00:24:55.19
That's the way it'll look.
00:24:58.73\00:25:00.13
United States will have
gone from light blue to tan.
00:25:00.16\00:25:04.35
Many countries will have used up
00:25:04.55\00:25:08.32
much more water
than they are receiving.
00:25:08.52\00:25:12.17
That's what we face.
00:25:12.37\00:25:14.08
That affects every
human being, folks.
00:25:14.28\00:25:17.51
I can tell you. They
talk about shortage of oil,
00:25:17.71\00:25:21.01
that doesn't start to compare
with the problem that we have
00:25:21.21\00:25:24.93
with water.
00:25:25.03\00:25:26.07
And so we need to
understand what's happening,
00:25:26.27\00:25:29.97
what's taking place in this old
world as far as the water supply
00:25:30.17\00:25:33.42
is concerned. It's not
until the well runs dry
00:25:33.62\00:25:36.55
that we know the worth of water.
00:25:36.75\00:25:39.14
That's what
Benjamin Franklin had to say.
00:25:39.34\00:25:41.48
Well, let's talk a
little bit about the rainforest.
00:25:46.34\00:25:50.07
You don't hear much about it.
00:25:51.13\00:25:52.87
At one time, the
rainforest covered 14%
00:25:54.21\00:25:59.90
of the world.
00:26:00.10\00:26:02.03
Today it covers 6%.
00:26:03.10\00:26:07.16
That much of it's been used.
00:26:09.46\00:26:11.38
Now, you say: "Well, so what?
00:26:12.31\00:26:14.54
Cuttin' down trees
and using them? So what? "
00:26:14.74\00:26:17.80
Well folks, the
rainforests are referred to
00:26:18.00\00:26:23.14
as the lungs of the planet.
00:26:23.35\00:26:25.72
See, that's the
greatest source that we have
00:26:26.82\00:26:31.30
of turning carbon
dioxide into oxygen.
00:26:31.50\00:26:34.86
What's happening to it?
00:26:36.94\00:26:38.60
Look at this:
00:26:38.70\00:26:39.74
That... that's doing away
with the greatest source that we
00:27:07.84\00:27:12.36
have of oxygen.
00:27:12.56\00:27:14.19
That's what we're
doing to the planet.
00:27:14.49\00:27:16.65
That's why the Bible says:
00:27:19.20\00:27:20.43
The
perplexity... what do you do?
00:27:33.79\00:27:37.58
How do you handle when
the land is being used up?
00:27:37.78\00:27:42.65
Disappearing? How do
you handle when the water
00:27:42.86\00:27:45.87
is being used up?
00:27:46.07\00:27:47.96
The oxygen
supply is disappearing.
00:27:48.26\00:27:51.46
What are you
going to do with that?
00:27:51.66\00:27:53.54
Perplexities.
00:27:54.61\00:27:56.13
That's where we stand today.
00:28:09.26\00:28:11.53
Those are universal signs
00:28:11.73\00:28:14.46
that affect every
man, woman, and child
00:28:14.66\00:28:17.64
on the face of the earth.
00:28:17.85\00:28:19.71
Natural disasters.
00:28:22.27\00:28:24.04
Have you? Have you noticed?
00:28:24.24\00:28:27.96
Has it? I mean, has it
come to your attention any?
00:28:28.16\00:28:32.12
Have you
noticed what's happening
00:28:32.32\00:28:33.96
as far as natural
disasters are concerned?
00:28:34.16\00:28:36.74
That's what's happening in
your lifetime, my lifetime,
00:28:48.51\00:28:52.05
right now. Natural
disasters that are taking place.
00:28:52.25\00:28:55.14
Tornadoes. I was raised, folks,
00:28:58.13\00:29:02.97
in Oklahoma.
00:29:03.17\00:29:04.52
Oklahoma is tornado alley.
00:29:05.60\00:29:08.11
OK? Let me tell you something.
00:29:08.31\00:29:10.57
You do not
have... listen to me...
00:29:10.78\00:29:14.51
you do not have
tornadoes in Oklahoma
00:29:14.54\00:29:19.71
in the first part of February.
00:29:19.91\00:29:22.14
You don't have those.
00:29:25.18\00:29:27.06
And we just did.
00:29:29.24\00:29:30.60
Tore up cities
and killed people.
00:29:31.98\00:29:34.32
That's totally out of order.
00:29:35.12\00:29:39.32
Just doesn't
happen; doesn't take place.
00:29:39.52\00:29:42.70
But it did.
00:29:42.90\00:29:44.31
Something is out of order.
00:29:45.75\00:29:49.35
Natural disasters are
taking place like we have never
00:29:49.55\00:29:53.31
experienced. I have people say:
00:29:53.51\00:29:55.14
"Oh, we've had these for years.
We've had all those things. "
00:29:55.34\00:29:58.17
Not in my lifetime!
00:29:58.37\00:30:00.82
Tell you for sure.
00:30:01.12\00:30:03.84
No! The natural
disasters we are seeing today
00:30:04.72\00:30:07.98
are totally different
00:30:08.18\00:30:10.02
than they were 30, 40 years ago.
00:30:10.22\00:30:12.67
We are to the place
today where we kind of...
00:30:22.93\00:30:25.65
we stand and wait and wonder
00:30:25.85\00:30:28.99
what the season's going to bring
00:30:29.20\00:30:31.32
when it comes to hurricanes.
00:30:31.52\00:30:33.32
They've increased so much.
00:30:34.23\00:30:36.88
Earthquakes.
00:30:38.05\00:30:39.93
And by the way, the
old King James version
00:30:59.28\00:31:02.76
says in devious places...
or in diverse places...
00:31:02.97\00:31:08.61
it speaks of. Which
it means places where
00:31:08.81\00:31:12.01
you normally don't have 'em.
00:31:12.21\00:31:14.17
And today we have earthquakes
in places that we didn't think
00:31:15.87\00:31:19.92
would have earthquakes.
00:31:20.12\00:31:21.59
Someone was just telling
me that we even have an, uh,
00:31:21.79\00:31:25.20
something that gives
us indication on the moon
00:31:25.40\00:31:28.07
that are taking place.
Earthquakes that are happening,
00:31:29.69\00:31:33.64
indications of where we are.
00:31:33.84\00:31:36.33
Quarter of a
million people perished
00:31:44.26\00:31:47.24
in a matter of a
few minutes. Gone.
00:31:47.48\00:31:52.91
I'm talking about natural
disasters that are happening
00:31:53.05\00:31:56.58
today, folks.
00:31:56.78\00:31:57.86
I'm not talking about something
that happened 100 years ago.
00:31:58.07\00:32:01.18
I'm talking about what you've
seen in the last couple years.
00:32:01.38\00:32:04.69
Whoever thought?
00:32:05.99\00:32:07.97
Whoever thought of
fires as a natural disaster?
00:32:10.49\00:32:16.37
You know?
00:32:16.61\00:32:17.89
We didn't think that way.
00:32:19.04\00:32:20.79
We didn't think of fires...
00:32:20.99\00:32:23.38
You never heard about
a fire being, you know...
00:32:24.36\00:32:28.89
such as we had in California
00:32:29.09\00:32:31.24
when they had to
evacuate 1,000,000 people.
00:32:31.44\00:32:34.59
I mean... Yes, they've
always had fires in California.
00:32:35.64\00:32:38.58
That's kind of a natural thing,
00:32:38.78\00:32:40.68
but NOT LIKE THIS!
00:32:40.78\00:32:42.08
Folks, I've walked
through where those fires were.
00:32:42.91\00:32:47.17
Those fires were so hot
00:32:48.59\00:32:51.43
that they took refrigerators
and just melted 'em down.
00:32:51.64\00:32:54.86
There were balls of fire in
those fires that would just...
00:32:57.59\00:33:03.09
the heat was beyond anything
that anybody has described
00:33:03.29\00:33:07.02
or known about.
00:33:07.12\00:33:09.00
Australia? Worst fires ever.
00:33:10.00\00:33:14.95
Over 200 people
have lost their lives.
00:33:15.25\00:33:18.78
This has... this
has just happened.
00:33:18.99\00:33:21.20
These are signs.
You and I must wake up.
00:33:21.40\00:33:25.53
We mustn't continue on and say:
00:33:25.73\00:33:27.41
"Well, this has
just been there. "
00:33:27.61\00:33:29.06
NO IT HASN'T JUST BEEN THERE!
00:33:29.26\00:33:31.51
Those are signs of the
times in which we are living.
00:33:32.50\00:33:35.02
Famines.
00:33:36.21\00:33:37.97
I'm talking about right now.
00:33:38.17\00:33:41.17
I'm not talking
about a year ago.
00:33:41.37\00:33:44.22
I'm not talking
about two years ago.
00:33:44.42\00:33:45.89
I'm talking about
right now 13,000,000 people
00:33:46.09\00:33:51.54
face starvation.
00:33:51.75\00:33:54.14
13,000,000 face starvation.
00:33:55.25\00:34:00.47
Not enough food to eat.
00:34:01.77\00:34:05.23
Hard to comprehend.
00:34:05.43\00:34:09.97
I remember when I went
over to the country of Haiti.
00:34:11.14\00:34:15.83
Stood there and watched
00:34:20.28\00:34:22.23
two little girls running
their hands through the sewer
00:34:23.50\00:34:28.38
trying to find something to eat.
00:34:28.58\00:34:31.50
Depressed me so bad
I went back to the room
00:34:33.33\00:34:36.32
and wouldn't even
come out for a couple days.
00:34:36.52\00:34:38.64
Just couldn't stand the thought.
00:34:39.80\00:34:42.17
13,000,000 people
00:34:42.37\00:34:46.46
that are dying
00:34:46.76\00:34:49.24
because they don't
have enough to eat.
00:34:49.27\00:34:52.53
I'm talking about the
condition today that we live in.
00:34:54.13\00:34:59.31
What's happening
in our old world.
00:34:59.41\00:35:01.84
Paul wrote to Timothy and
he told him certain things
00:35:03.35\00:35:07.06
that were going to
happen describing the last days.
00:35:07.26\00:35:10.42
I want you to listen to them.
00:35:10.56\00:35:12.06
Now he's talking about the time
in which you and I are living.
00:35:19.45\00:35:23.36
Perilous times shall come here,
II Timothy the third chapter.
00:35:23.56\00:35:26.78
Very true today... but
listen to the next one.
00:35:32.47\00:35:34.87
Does that strike
any chord with you?
00:35:38.94\00:35:40.94
I mean... I stand
there in amazement
00:35:41.15\00:35:46.07
that Wall Street and
what is taking place there
00:35:46.27\00:35:51.90
totally from the love of money.
00:35:52.10\00:35:54.19
And even... even after Congress
00:35:55.31\00:36:01.12
was hard enough
on them to tell them
00:36:01.32\00:36:03.69
"Leave, you don't need anything"
00:36:03.89\00:36:05.82
and had them come back
00:36:06.02\00:36:07.59
in which they were supposed
to have done some housekeeping,
00:36:07.89\00:36:12.71
you know, and
straighten things up,
00:36:12.91\00:36:15.28
got rid of some
things that they had
00:36:15.48\00:36:18.42
and their bonuses and all that
00:36:18.62\00:36:20.99
and sat there and listened
to them go down the line
00:36:21.19\00:36:24.78
after the
housekeeping's been done.
00:36:24.98\00:36:28.47
And they say: "Oh well, my
salary's not been $1,000,000. "
00:36:28.67\00:36:32.94
Time in which we are
living... the love of money.
00:36:35.42\00:36:38.57
I don't think
there's ever been a time
00:36:38.87\00:36:42.02
in which it's
more true than today.
00:36:42.22\00:36:44.92
Try to convince
you, try to convince me
00:36:45.12\00:36:49.61
that the problem we're
having with oil is shortage.
00:36:49.81\00:36:53.26
Try to convince me of that!
00:36:55.72\00:36:57.45
Wish somebody would.
00:36:57.65\00:36:59.09
Because, I mean, when
you're talking about it and here
00:37:00.16\00:37:05.35
the price of oil per
barrel drops in January
00:37:05.55\00:37:10.95
and the price at
the pump goes up.
00:37:11.19\00:37:13.67
And they tell
me that's shortage?
00:37:13.87\00:37:15.72
Just doesn't fit.
00:37:16.73\00:37:19.13
It does fit one
thing: the love of money.
00:37:19.33\00:37:23.78
That it fits.
00:37:23.98\00:37:25.04
Describes the condition.
00:37:35.19\00:37:37.47
Do you understand, folks,
the moral condition of today?
00:37:37.67\00:37:42.08
That one... listen to me...
00:37:42.28\00:37:45.38
one out of every 100
Americans is in prison.
00:37:45.58\00:37:50.27
Think that!
00:37:53.47\00:37:55.35
One out of every
100 are in prison.
00:37:55.55\00:37:58.96
Right down the list
you could spend a whole
00:38:13.55\00:38:16.62
morning just on
one of those things.
00:38:16.83\00:38:20.70
That's what's happening.
00:38:20.90\00:38:22.89
Certainly the time
we are living today.
00:38:32.35\00:38:35.26
"Lovers of pleasure more
than the lovers of God... "
00:38:36.43\00:38:40.37
That is the condition we're in.
00:38:47.80\00:38:49.84
What has it done to us?
00:38:50.04\00:38:51.63
Well, at the present time...
00:38:53.23\00:38:56.84
or I shouldn't say
at the present time...
00:38:57.04\00:38:58.41
the latest statistics
I could get was 2007...
00:38:58.61\00:39:02.45
2007: 36.1 million people
00:39:03.48\00:39:09.01
in this world have AIDS.
00:39:09.04\00:39:11.90
36.1 million people.
00:39:12.91\00:39:16.44
And, you know, I appreciate
very much all that's being done
00:39:16.64\00:39:22.08
to try to meet that problem.
00:39:22.28\00:39:26.00
Trying to find out
a cure of some kind.
00:39:26.21\00:39:30.99
And then to have them
come on the television and say
00:39:31.19\00:39:34.85
that the cure they were trying
to do wasn't helping anybody...
00:39:35.05\00:39:39.61
it was probably hurting them.
00:39:39.81\00:39:41.00
And so we face that
kind of a situation.
00:39:41.88\00:39:45.10
What is that doing to the world?
00:39:45.30\00:39:47.98
When you have 36.1
million people affected
00:39:48.18\00:39:53.37
with AIDS, what
does that do to us?
00:39:53.57\00:39:56.74
I'm going to
explain this graph to you.
00:39:56.94\00:39:59.47
The light blue -
or green - is women.
00:40:00.50\00:40:05.45
Excuse me... get
it right: are males.
00:40:05.65\00:40:08.66
And the dark blue are women.
00:40:08.86\00:40:10.97
These represent deaths.
00:40:11.17\00:40:14.99
Dying... people that
are dying, listen to me,
00:40:15.49\00:40:21.43
people that are dying
between the ages of 15 and 49.
00:40:21.63\00:40:26.63
15 and 49.
00:40:27.66\00:40:29.36
Do you
understand what that means?
00:40:29.56\00:40:30.99
Those are the people that work!
00:40:31.19\00:40:35.93
Those are the people that
are those that bring bread
00:40:36.13\00:40:41.23
to the house.
00:40:41.43\00:40:42.66
OK.
00:40:42.86\00:40:45.61
Look at 'em.
00:40:45.81\00:40:47.17
1900 up to 2000. Folks,
00:40:47.37\00:40:53.04
80... a little better than 80%
00:40:53.24\00:40:57.55
of those that are dying of men
00:40:57.75\00:41:01.68
are between the ages
of 15 and 49 years of age.
00:41:01.88\00:41:06.06
So that means that the
working force is dying off.
00:41:06.26\00:41:11.03
The working force is dying off.
00:41:11.33\00:41:14.41
See if I can go back to this.
I want you to look at something.
00:41:14.61\00:41:18.11
Look here at the
Southern Hemisphere.
00:41:19.16\00:41:21.45
Latin America you have
1.4 million people with...
00:41:21.66\00:41:26.51
with AIDS.
00:41:26.71\00:41:28.69
You come here to
Africa. You have 25.3 million
00:41:28.89\00:41:32.98
and you go into... basically,
00:41:33.18\00:41:37.10
into South and Southeast Asia
00:41:37.30\00:41:41.91
you have 5.8 million.
00:41:42.11\00:41:44.24
Now what I'm
trying to tell you, folks,
00:41:44.44\00:41:46.68
is those
countries are in problems
00:41:46.88\00:41:50.49
because their
working people are dying off.
00:41:50.69\00:41:54.88
They're dying, and there's
not anybody left to sustain life
00:41:56.43\00:41:59.73
for them.
00:41:59.84\00:42:01.12
Facing a
tremendous problem here.
00:42:02.12\00:42:06.13
Look at it just
a little bit here.
00:42:08.37\00:42:10.31
Now like I said, I appreciate
00:42:22.49\00:42:24.51
them doing everything they can
to help these people physically
00:42:24.71\00:42:29.56
with medicine or
whatever they can provide.
00:42:29.76\00:42:31.95
What bothers me is you don't
hear anything being said about
00:42:32.15\00:42:37.74
changing lifestyle.
00:42:37.94\00:42:39.80
They want to bring
the epidemic to a stop?
00:42:40.00\00:42:43.02
Then change a lifestyle.
00:42:43.22\00:42:45.15
But
nevertheless it continues on.
00:42:45.45\00:42:47.83
The number of people
living with AIDS, as I told you,
00:42:47.93\00:42:50.92
are 36,000,000. Deaths...
00:42:51.02\00:42:54.27
those that died in
2007 were 3.1 million.
00:42:54.47\00:42:59.14
We've had 21,000,000 people...
00:42:59.34\00:43:03.94
21.8 million people...
00:43:04.14\00:43:06.18
that have died from AIDS.
00:43:06.38\00:43:10.01
It talks about pestilence?
00:43:11.37\00:43:13.31
That's what it's talking about.
00:43:13.51\00:43:15.33
All that is going to happen.
00:43:24.03\00:43:25.33
Now listen to me carefully
00:43:25.53\00:43:27.75
because Revelation
the 18th chapter...
00:43:27.96\00:43:30.83
the other evening I told you...
00:43:31.04\00:43:32.19
that's where we're living today
is in the 17th and 18th chapter.
00:43:32.39\00:43:35.79
OK. Where do we stand today?
00:44:19.10\00:44:23.77
Well, at the present time
00:44:24.67\00:44:26.79
the U.S. national debt
00:44:26.99\00:44:29.54
is 10.6 trillion dollars.
00:44:29.74\00:44:35.49
I haven't been
able to figure it out.
00:44:40.48\00:44:42.41
Maybe some of you in the
television or radio audience
00:44:42.61\00:44:46.51
can help me
sometime figure it out.
00:44:46.71\00:44:49.19
But I haven't figured out
00:44:49.39\00:44:51.71
how you pass a stimulus package
00:44:51.91\00:44:56.90
of almost 900 billion dollars.
00:44:57.10\00:45:02.50
Where do you get the money?
00:45:04.61\00:45:07.02
I mean, as best I can tell,
00:45:09.65\00:45:12.60
folks, you only have 2 choices.
00:45:12.80\00:45:14.47
You either have to print it
00:45:15.24\00:45:16.74
or you have to borrow it.
00:45:16.94\00:45:19.19
Maybe there's a
way I don't know,
00:45:21.04\00:45:23.05
but that's the only
two ways I know to get it.
00:45:23.25\00:45:25.62
You've either got to print
it or you've got to borrow it.
00:45:25.82\00:45:27.66
If you print it,
00:45:28.73\00:45:30.57
then you fire inflation
like you can't believe.
00:45:32.21\00:45:36.08
And if you borrow it,
00:45:38.26\00:45:39.87
you just put us deeper in debt.
00:45:40.07\00:45:42.36
And we're already at $10.6.
00:45:44.32\00:45:48.01
Do you know what
that means to you?
00:45:48.21\00:45:49.71
Huh? Do you know
what that means to you?
00:45:50.57\00:45:52.78
Let me show you what that means.
00:45:52.98\00:45:54.92
Back in 1900 we had a debt...
00:45:56.06\00:46:00.08
national
debt... of $1.2 billion.
00:46:00.28\00:46:02.42
That cost every one of you $16.
00:46:02.62\00:46:07.43
Now you probably
could handle that.
00:46:07.63\00:46:10.05
Well, by the time we hit 1950,
00:46:10.26\00:46:15.22
our national debt
had risen to $256 billion
00:46:15.42\00:46:20.70
that meant it
cost each of you $1700.
00:46:20.90\00:46:25.63
By the time we reached
2009, the national debt
00:46:28.56\00:46:31.41
is $10.6 trillion.
00:46:31.51\00:46:34.06
That means that it
costs each one of you
00:46:34.26\00:46:37.33
$34,795.
00:46:37.36\00:46:41.92
That's the national debt.
00:46:44.04\00:46:45.61
Now that really
doesn't worry me too much.
00:46:46.85\00:46:50.39
I believe that we
probably could handle that.
00:46:51.50\00:46:54.17
One fellow said if you
just... if all the women
00:46:54.37\00:46:58.20
took the change out of their
purses we'd probably cover that.
00:46:58.40\00:47:02.33
But nevertheless,
that doesn't worry.
00:47:02.53\00:47:06.65
Do you want me to
tell you what worries me
00:47:06.85\00:47:09.10
when we talk about national
debt and what we're faced with?
00:47:09.98\00:47:13.90
Well I'll tell
you what worries me.
00:47:14.00\00:47:15.27
This is what worries me.
00:47:15.47\00:47:16.50
It's not public
debt that worries me,
00:47:16.70\00:47:18.86
it's private.
00:47:19.07\00:47:20.42
This is the private debt:
00:47:20.62\00:47:22.98
$53 trillion.
00:47:23.18\00:47:27.63
We are a nation of debt.
00:47:27.83\00:47:32.40
That's what we are...
00:47:33.77\00:47:35.38
a nation that operates by debt.
00:47:35.58\00:47:40.07
That's the reason it
says that in one hour
00:47:40.27\00:47:43.43
all gone.
00:47:43.64\00:47:45.10
Over.
00:47:46.31\00:47:47.58
Dear friend, maybe you
can say what you want to,
00:47:47.78\00:47:53.13
but I can tell you right now
00:47:53.33\00:47:54.70
it's not like being
in debt as we once were.
00:47:55.73\00:48:01.47
Today it is totally different.
00:48:01.67\00:48:04.82
Let me mention just a
couple things further.
00:48:08.08\00:48:10.56
Bird flu.
00:48:10.76\00:48:12.94
I'm talking about something
that affects the whole country,
00:48:14.09\00:48:16.72
the world.
00:48:16.92\00:48:18.04
You can see the spread of it.
00:48:18.24\00:48:19.91
That in red is where bird flu...
00:48:20.12\00:48:24.15
Last week we found out that now
00:48:24.35\00:48:27.56
India has become
affected with bird flu.
00:48:27.77\00:48:31.06
And then of course other
countries like the United States
00:48:31.26\00:48:35.46
and Australia and others
will eventually have that.
00:48:35.66\00:48:40.94
And I can tell you, if
that isn't handled some way
00:48:41.14\00:48:45.64
we can have a
pandemic that will be unreal
00:48:45.84\00:48:50.27
as far as the
world is concerned.
00:48:50.47\00:48:52.85
I think of all the
scriptures in the Bible
00:49:21.30\00:49:25.20
that bother me most
is the one where it says
00:49:26.72\00:49:29.82
"Did not know. "
00:49:29.92\00:49:31.82
That they had
just gone about life...
00:49:34.12\00:49:35.91
weren't concerned, didn't know.
00:49:37.80\00:49:40.26
And here, Christ
has given all the signs
00:49:40.46\00:49:43.38
that you and I should know.
00:49:45.15\00:49:47.36
There shouldn't be any question.
00:49:47.56\00:49:49.14
We should know.
00:49:49.34\00:49:50.43
And yet it says: "As it
was in the days of Noah,
00:49:50.63\00:49:54.05
so will it be the
coming of Jesus Christ. "
00:49:54.25\00:49:57.82
Years ago, there was a city
00:49:58.80\00:50:04.11
in Italy called Pompeii.
00:50:04.31\00:50:07.94
Pompeii
00:50:09.80\00:50:11.15
is a very, very nice area.
00:50:12.23\00:50:16.68
The climate is just wonderful.
00:50:16.88\00:50:19.16
And this city in Italy
00:50:19.36\00:50:22.31
was known as a
very, very special place
00:50:22.51\00:50:26.62
and people came there,
and it was kind of a resort
00:50:26.65\00:50:30.62
because just outside
the city a little ways
00:50:31.59\00:50:35.72
was a huge
volcano called Vesuvius.
00:50:35.92\00:50:40.31
Now that volcano was there,
00:50:40.51\00:50:45.34
and, oh sure, it spewed
out a little bit of lava
00:50:45.54\00:50:50.60
you know, every so often
00:50:50.80\00:50:53.35
but nothing that really
frightened the people too much.
00:50:53.55\00:50:56.68
But that volcano provided
some very nice things for them
00:50:56.88\00:51:01.32
because all around Pompeii
they had hot mineral springs.
00:51:01.52\00:51:07.12
And people would
come in from everywhere
00:51:08.05\00:51:10.65
to bathe in the spas in Pompeii.
00:51:10.86\00:51:13.78
It was wonderful.
00:51:13.98\00:51:15.28
Marvelous.
00:51:15.48\00:51:16.50
They enjoyed it immensely.
00:51:16.70\00:51:18.67
Oh, yes. There had been
some people that had told them
00:51:18.87\00:51:22.02
"You've got to get out of here.
00:51:22.22\00:51:23.66
This volcano's going to erupt
00:51:23.86\00:51:25.42
and you need to get out
of here before it erupts. "
00:51:25.62\00:51:27.64
But... it was nice!
00:51:27.84\00:51:30.94
It was nice living in Pompeii.
00:51:31.90\00:51:33.89
I mean the climate was ideal.
00:51:34.76\00:51:36.41
The spas... all
the things there.
00:51:36.61\00:51:39.81
In fact, even back then
00:51:40.01\00:51:42.32
they had hot running
water in their homes.
00:51:42.52\00:51:46.51
Everything was there.
00:51:46.71\00:51:48.63
And then one day Vesuvius
00:51:50.97\00:51:55.57
erupted
00:51:55.77\00:51:57.93
and the city of
Pompeii disappeared.
00:51:59.15\00:52:04.78
I mean in a matter of minutes
00:52:04.98\00:52:07.98
the whole city disappeared.
00:52:08.18\00:52:11.42
In fact, it so
thoroughly wiped out Pompeii
00:52:13.55\00:52:19.08
that it was forgotten
00:52:19.28\00:52:21.87
and for 1700 years
00:52:22.07\00:52:25.81
it was not known of.
00:52:26.01\00:52:28.19
And a German archaeologist
00:52:29.72\00:52:31.71
was reading in the
library and came across
00:52:31.91\00:52:35.13
where it mentioned Pompeii.
00:52:35.33\00:52:37.73
And taking a group of
scientists they went over
00:52:37.93\00:52:40.82
and they began to excavate.
00:52:41.03\00:52:42.81
And today they
have excavated Pompeii.
00:52:43.01\00:52:47.30
You can go there today and
you can walk down the streets.
00:52:47.50\00:52:52.38
And you can look into
the houses and the shops
00:52:52.59\00:52:54.79
and everything that's there.
00:52:54.99\00:52:56.18
It's interesting...
00:52:56.38\00:52:58.55
because you see the lava
came in so quick and so fast
00:52:59.80\00:53:05.09
and covered that city that
it caught the people exactly
00:53:05.29\00:53:08.82
where they were.
00:53:09.02\00:53:10.52
And they found out
that as they were excavating
00:53:10.62\00:53:14.35
they would come to places
where there was a hollow spot.
00:53:14.55\00:53:18.88
And they found out that
they could tap into that
00:53:19.08\00:53:22.47
and pour plaster
of Paris in there
00:53:22.67\00:53:25.42
and they could break it
open and they would get a mold
00:53:25.62\00:53:28.65
of the people just
exactly like they were.
00:53:28.86\00:53:31.79
Because when the
lava caught them,
00:53:31.99\00:53:34.19
it covered them and
their body cooled the lava down
00:53:34.39\00:53:38.33
and it made that cavity.
00:53:38.53\00:53:40.69
And so as you walk
down the street, you can see
00:53:40.89\00:53:44.49
a whole family sitting
around the supper table eating.
00:53:44.62\00:53:48.57
You can see this man
pushing this little cart
00:53:49.66\00:53:54.32
running down the street
00:53:54.53\00:53:55.78
just exactly where
the lava caught him.
00:53:55.98\00:53:58.78
You can see this woman
with her jewels in her hand
00:53:59.97\00:54:02.94
running down the street
trying to outrun the lava.
00:54:03.14\00:54:05.80
Were not ready. Did not know...
00:54:07.70\00:54:11.39
when all of a
sudden it came to an end.
00:54:11.59\00:54:15.73
Dear friend, for you and for me
00:54:15.93\00:54:19.16
let's not miss God's final call.
00:54:19.36\00:54:23.82
Someday you'll hear
00:54:26.55\00:54:29.85
God's final call to you.
00:54:30.05\00:54:35.99
Someday you'll hear
00:54:37.63\00:54:41.71
God's final call to you.
00:54:41.91\00:54:47.89
This could be it, my friend,
00:54:49.55\00:54:55.46
if you but knew.
00:54:56.36\00:55:02.31
God's final call,
00:55:03.29\00:55:08.45
God's final call.
00:55:08.75\00:55:14.67
If you reject
00:55:16.32\00:55:19.46
God's final call of grace,
00:55:19.66\00:55:25.66
you'll have no chance
00:55:26.90\00:55:29.90
your footsteps to retrace.
00:55:30.10\00:55:36.04
All hope will then be gone
00:55:37.07\00:55:43.04
and doom you'll face.
00:55:43.24\00:55:49.24
More than 2,000
years have passed
00:55:53.51\00:55:55.71
since Jesus promised to return.
00:55:55.98\00:55:58.59
And through the centuries,
the hearts of His faithful ones
00:55:58.70\00:56:02.04
have clung to
those precious words.
00:56:02.18\00:56:04.11
But His promise has
not yet been fulfilled.
00:56:04.34\00:56:07.48
The Lifegiver's voice has not
yet called the sleeping saints
00:56:07.72\00:56:10.78
from their graves.
00:56:11.01\00:56:12.51
Each day many more
Christians fall asleep in Jesus
00:56:12.74\00:56:17.07
clinging to the Blessed Hope
00:56:17.30\00:56:18.94
and believing that
the next thing they'll see
00:56:19.17\00:56:21.63
is their Savior
coming as He promised
00:56:21.87\00:56:24.67
in the clouds of glory.
00:56:24.90\00:56:26.74
But my friends, there
are so many who do not have
00:56:26.97\00:56:30.84
this Blessed Hope.
And many of them would
00:56:30.98\00:56:33.84
if they just had the
opportunity to hear about Jesus.
00:56:34.08\00:56:38.32
That is why we are
producing these programs.
00:56:39.96\00:56:42.73
We want to tell them
about God's amazing love.
00:56:42.96\00:56:46.11
About our Savior, Jesus Christ.
00:56:46.24\00:56:48.50
About His second coming.
00:56:48.64\00:56:49.99
We want to give each one
of them that Blessed Hope.
00:56:50.22\00:56:53.08
Think of it. Even
now all of heaven's astir
00:56:53.21\00:56:56.55
preparing for that great day.
00:56:56.71\00:56:58.56
The Lord is waiting for us
00:56:58.76\00:57:01.01
to join Him in
spreading the good news.
00:57:01.15\00:57:03.70
Praise God! The time
of waiting is almost over.
00:57:03.84\00:57:07.57
Light is gleaming upon the
clouds above the mountaintops.
00:57:07.80\00:57:11.19
Soon there will be a
revealing of His glory.
00:57:11.43\00:57:14.30
The Son of Righteousness
is about to shine forth.
00:57:14.54\00:57:17.07
NOW is the time to prepare
for the coming of the Lord.
00:57:17.30\00:57:21.38
Readiness to meet
Him cannot be attained
00:57:21.52\00:57:24.66
in a moment's time.
00:57:24.69\00:57:25.66
Each member of our ministry team
has focused on doing all we can
00:57:25.83\00:57:30.88
to spread the good news,
00:57:31.02\00:57:31.99
but we cannot do it alone.
00:57:32.18\00:57:34.06
We need your help.
00:57:34.24\00:57:35.64
Each of us must
prepare, watch, and wait.
00:57:35.88\00:57:39.15
But we also must work earnestly
00:57:39.32\00:57:42.11
for the salvation of souls.
00:57:42.28\00:57:44.09
Please consider what you can do
00:57:44.33\00:57:45.99
for those who still
don't know about Jesus.
00:57:46.23\00:57:48.62
As the Holy Spirit impresses,
00:57:48.85\00:57:50.59
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Thank you for helping us
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00:58:05.45\00:58:07.84
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00:58:08.03\00:58:10.62