If it is true
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that the only thing worse than
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nostalgia is amnesia,
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then it also must be true
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in a concomitant sense
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that one of the greatest gifts
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that God has been pleased
to give to the human family
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OTHER than salvation and Jesus
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is the gift of prophecy.
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In this word where so
much is hazy and murky
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and we don't know
what the next day holds
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it is comforting to know
that thought we don't know
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what tomorrow
holds, we certainly do know
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who holds tomorrow...
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for the person who holds
tomorrow is the same person
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who holds... or
held... yesterday
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and all of our yesterdays
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and yesterday and
yesterday and yesterday.
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The gift of prophecy
is a fantastic study,
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an interesting one.
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And Elder Cox has
been given a gift by God
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to make that which is
complex plain and simple.
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And I think he's going to
have to call upon that gift
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this night as we look at what is
an intriguing text of scripture,
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and intriguing
portion of the prophetic map
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as we look at the two witnesses.
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Under the
concept, and I love this,
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Was, Is Not, and Yet Is.
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We have traveled
through the Word of God
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for five sessions.
This is volume six.
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We are just half way through,
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and time has gone
by so very, very fast.
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And yet there is much ground
to be covered, much to learn.
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And our friend, our evangelist
Kenneth Cox, will lead us
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in that study this night.
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And I know that when we
shall have come to the end
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of our study this night, this...
two witnesses will be plain,
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very, very plain, to us all.
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My name is C.A. Murray,
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and it is my privilege
and pleasure to welcome you
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to this year-long trek
through the Word of God that
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we are calling
Give Me The Bible.
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We're getting into deep
water now, so we're asking you
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to roll up your spiritual
pant legs because we're in
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deep water as we look
at Was, Is Not, Yet Is:
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the two witnesses.
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But before we
hear from Elder Cox
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our good friend Larry
Blackwell is here to give us
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music ministry.
He's going to be singing
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The Hallelujah Chorus.
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Hallelujah! Home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last.
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All heaven is
filled with happiness
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for the age of sin is past.
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I see the gates
as they open wide,
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I see the saints
as they walk inside
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singing:
Hallelujah! Home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last.
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Hallelujah! All day long
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I can hear the angels sing.
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Then suddenly I hear Moses' song
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as the angels fold their wings.
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I see the Lamb as He beckons me;
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I hear Him say:
"Come and dine with Me. "
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Singing:
Hallelujah! Home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last.
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See the lame come a'runnin;
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hear the dumb sing
the song of praise.
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All the blind are outside seeing
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while the old
folk stand in place
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around the great white
throne near the King of Kings,
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they clap their hands
till the heavens ring.
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Singing:
Hallelujah! Home at last!
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The redeemed are home at last.
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See the lame come a'runnin;
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hear the dumb sing
the song of praise.
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All the blind are outside seeing
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while the old
folk stand in place
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around the great white
throne near the King of Kings,
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they clap their hands
till the heavens ring.
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Singing:
Hallelujah! Praising Jesus.
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Hallelujah! Troubles over!
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Hallelujah! Home at last!
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The redeemed are home
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at
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last.
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Amen!
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Thank you, Larry
Blackwell. You enjoy that?
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That's great.
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Well, we want to
welcome all of you back.
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Appreciate you
being here tonight.
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Those of you that are watching
by television or listening on
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the radio, glad to welcome you
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again to Give Me The Bible.
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This is a series in which we're
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going through different Bible
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subjects and we're taking
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five nights on a subject
so that when you're through
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you should understand
what the Bible has to say
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about that subject. So we
hope that it's helpful to you.
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Hope that you're enjoying it
and that you're getting an idea
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what the scripture
has to say about it.
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This presentation or this series
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is again on Bible prophecy.
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We spent last presentation,
or the last series,
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on Five Have Fallen.
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We talked about prophecy.
We're continuing that tonight
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so that you'll be able
to see what's happening.
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What says the
Bible, the blessed Bible?
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This should my only question be.
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Prophecy is fulfilling...
the end is nearing.
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What says the Book of God to me?
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That's what we want to find out
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as we take a look at God's Word.
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So we're glad you're here.
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Hope that it will
help you as you study
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particularly the books
of Daniel and Revelation.
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Now, tomorrow night.
Tomorrow night our subject is
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The Beast from
the Bottomless Pit.
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That will be our
next presentation.
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The Beast from
the Bottomless Pit.
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And as you have found
out as we studied prophecy,
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God uses beasts to
represent nations or powers.
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So this is the next one
we're going to be talking about.
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Actually, tonight's presentation
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and tomorrow night's
presentation both go together.
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They're both on the
11th chapter of Revelation.
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So we're putting that
all together, and we hope
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that it will help you see the
- how shall I say - the accuracy
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of God's Word.
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How that God tells us
things are going to happen
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and, folks, it takes
place just exactly as God says.
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So you want to be sure and
follow it as we go through it
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step by step. Tonight we're
talking about the two witnesses.
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In Revelation the 11th
chapter there are two witnesses.
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So what are you looking for?
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You want to find
out who are they.
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Who are these two witnesses?
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What do they do?
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What does the
Bible talk about them?
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When did they exist?
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What took place? That's
what we're going to look at
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when we talk
about the two witnesses.
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So be sure,
follow as we go along.
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Take a look at Bible prophecy.
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So again, we're
glad you're back with us.
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We hope that you'll be
blessed in a special way.
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We're very happy to
have Larry Blackwell with us.
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Larry helps us in our crusades
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that we hold
from place to place.
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Always an inspiration.
We enjoy having him with us.
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He's going to sing for
you the song "Who Am I. "
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When I think of how
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He left His home in glory.
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Came to dwell among
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the lowly such as I.
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To suffer shame
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and such disgrace...
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on Mount Calvary take my place.
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Then I ask
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myself the question:
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Who am I?
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Who am I that the King
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would bleed and die for?
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Who am I
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that He would pray
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"Not My will, Thine" for?
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The answer:
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I may never know
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why He ever
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loved me so.
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But to an old rugged cross
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He'd go
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for who am I.
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When I'm reminded
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of His words
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"I'll leave you never.
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Just be true;
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I'll give to you
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a life forever. "
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I wonder what
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I could have done
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to deserve
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God's Only Son.
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Fight my battles all
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till they're won.
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Who am I?
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Oh, who am I
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that a King
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would bleed and die for?
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Who am I
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that He would pray
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"Not My will, Thine" for?
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The answer:
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I may never know
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why He ever loved
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me so.
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But to an old rugged cross
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He'd go.
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Oh, His love
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He would bestow.
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But to an old rugged cross
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He'd go
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for who am I.
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Who am
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I?
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Our Heavenly Father,
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we come to You this evening
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opening our hearts.
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Inviting the
Holy Spirit to guide,
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to lead, to impress us.
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To give us understanding.
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We pray Lord that we
each may listen carefully.
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That we might comprehend
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and that we might
renew our dedication,
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our consecration to You.
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And Lord, if we
haven't known You,
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help us to see
what You have done
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and give our
hearts to You tonight.
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We pray in Christ's name, Amen.
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The last series that we did
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we were looking at
Revelation the 17th chapter
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if you remember.
And in this 17th chapter
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it said this:
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And you remember we
looked at those five.
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That's what the
last series was about.
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Five Have Fallen. We
took it step by step.
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and showed you those
five that have fallen.
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And then it says "One is. "
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That's where we are tonight.
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We are identifying the
"One is, " and that will take us
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tonight and tomorrow night.
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Both presentations to
cover that subject of "One Is. "
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So that's what
you want to look at.
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The other is not yet come, and
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we'll be going to that one.
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So what we're endeavoring to do
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is to explain Revelation
the 17th chapter because
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the 17th chapter of Revelation
is where it ends. As far as
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the nations are concerned
and beasts are concerned,
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that's the last chapter.
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It mentions those, so it's
important that we understand
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what is happening
right down at the end.
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That's the reason we're
looking at this tonight.
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We hope that it will help you.
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And as we studied
the Five Haven Fallen,
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you remember the first nation
that we looked at was Babylon.
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Babylon existed
from 609 BC to 539 BC.
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This was the power of Babylon,
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and you remember it was pictured
in Daniel 7 as the lion.
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And Babylon fell to Medo-Persia.
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And Medo-Persia is pictured
in Daniel the 7th chapter
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as the bear.
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And Medo-Persia went
from 539 BC to 331 BC.
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And this power
overthrew Babylon and ruled.
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And then we find that
Medo-Persia was overthrown by
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Greece. Yes, Greece overthrew
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Medo-Persia 331 BC
and went to 168 BC.
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And you remember it
was under the leadership of
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Alexander the Great.
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And he conquered everything
that he could lay his hands on
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by the age of 31 and wept
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because there was
nothing else to conquer.
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That's why that
beast had four wings.
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Represented the swiftness
with which Alexander the Great
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went across the
world. And the four heads
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represented his four generals
that the kingdom was given to
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when Alexander the Great died.
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But Greece came to an end,
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and Greece was
overthrown by pagan Rome.
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Pagan Rome went from 168 BC
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to 476 AD.
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Rome - pictured as the
iron monarchy of Rome -
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it talks about this dragon
that had great iron teeth.
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And it crushed
everything that was before it.
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Rome fell 476 AD
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and she fell to papal Rome.
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Papal Rome came up 538 AD
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and would go to 1798 AD.
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That was the period
of time of papal Rome.
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And so we have Five Have Fallen.
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Those are the five that
we've already looked at.
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And I'd encourage
you to go back and review
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what we have looked at if
some of it's not clear to you.
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OK. Tonight we're
taking a look at One Is.
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And as I told you, this one
will take tonight's presentation
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and tomorrow night's
presentation to cover it
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because it's got
lots of material in it.
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We have to put a lot of things
together to help you understand
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as we take a look at this beast
in Revelation the 11th chapter.
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One that not much is said about
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but a very, very important one.
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So let's go to the
11th chapter of Revelation.
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See what it has to say about
it. Revelation the 11th chapter
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verse 7. And it says:
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Now we'll come back to that
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and establish
who they are. OK...
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Now you find that this is
talking about the two witnesses.
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That's who it's talking about.
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And in verse 3 it describes
these two witnesses and says:
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So the scripture is telling us
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that this beast that
comes out of the bottomless pit
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is going to make war
with the two witnesses
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and it will
overcome them and kill them.
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And it says in the scripture
that they "will prophesy
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for 1,260 days
clothed in sackcloth. "
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So what we're going to do
tonight is we're going to go
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back to the 11th
chapter and start with verse 1
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and we're going to read
to verse 7 so you kind of get
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the picture of what's happening.
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So let's take a look and
see what it's telling us here.
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So the angel is told
to measure this place.
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So here you have
two time prophecies.
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You have 1,260 days
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and you have 42 months.
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Both those are mentioned
here as we are reading.
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So these two
witnesses are going to prophesy
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for 1,260 days
clothed in sackcloth...
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or - if you
please - for 42 months.
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Same period of time.
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Now, let's begin to
identify who they are.
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"These are two... "
Strange! Two witnesses...
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So it says these two
witnesses, two olive trees,
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two lampstands that are
standing there before God.
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So these two
witnesses have the power
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to turn water into blood.
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To strike the
earth with plagues.
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What it's saying.
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Goes on:
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OK, so we've looked at these...
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Now let's see if we can
begin to identify who they are:
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these two witnesses.
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Who are the two witnesses
it's talking about here?
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Now folks, if you're
going to understand the Bible,
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you've got to
go to the scripture
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and let it interpret itself.
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I want to say that again.
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If you're going to
understand scripture,
00:22:59.97\00:23:02.26
you're going to
have to go to the Bible
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and let it interpret itself.
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Like on this subject
we're studying tonight,
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you hear all kinds
of things said about it.
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The problem is, it's most of
it or all of it is speculation.
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And the moment you
enter into speculation
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you can say
anything you want to.
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You've got to go to God's Word
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and say is there somewhere where
the scripture will identify this
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and tell me what
it's talking about.
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Can I find that? Yes, you can!
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Are these two olive
trees, these two lampstands
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mentioned other
places in God's Word?
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Well yes they are.
They're found in Zechariah.
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Zechariah the
4th chapter verse 1.
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So here you have them.
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You have the two olive trees;
you have the lampstands...
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just like is mentioned there in
the 11th chapter of Revelation.
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Watch as it continues:
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Asked him the question:
Who are these - if you please -
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two witnesses? Who
are these two olive trees?
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These two lampstands?
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Now he said: "Who are these? "
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Said: "Well this is the
Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel.
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Not my might, nor by power,
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but by My Spirit
saith the Lord. "
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All right. Let's see
what it's talking about here.
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What are they? What
are they supposed to do?
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We've got two olive trees;
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we've got two lampstands here.
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What's the purpose of these two?
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What are they supposed to do?
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Well the scripture tells us
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very clearly what they do...
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what they accomplish. Watch:
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Getting the picture?
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Here you've got
the two olive trees.
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From those two
olive trees drips oil
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into the pipes that
flow to the lampstands.
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OK? Why do you
think they're going there?
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Why is oil dripping off
of those two olive trees
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into the
receptacle onto the lampstand.
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Well...
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Now it says these
two are two anointed ones
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that stand before the
God of the whole earth.
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That word anointed in Hebrew
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is this word. In
Hebrew it is hayitshaar.
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You can read...
and in Hebrew that word
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hayitshaar means
one who produces light.
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That's what it
means. So it says:
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So those two witnesses there
are those who produce light.
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And so the oil comes from
the olive tree, runs through the
00:27:17.59\00:27:21.75
receptacles and
to the lampstands
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and there it produces light.
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OK? That is the
purpose is to produce light.
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You remember God had told Samuel
00:27:32.26\00:27:37.54
to anoint David to be
the next king of Israel.
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Remember he took oil
00:27:42.10\00:27:45.42
and went and anointed David
as the next king of Israel.
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And throughout scripture
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oil is used over and over
00:27:52.74\00:27:55.97
to represent that
of the Holy Spirit.
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You remember on
the Day of Pentecost...
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The Holy Spirit was poured
out on the Day of Pentecost
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and it appeared as
what? Tongues of fire
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on the heads of the
people that were gathered there
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in the upper room. OK.
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If you have oil like in
the seven golden lampstands
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in the sanctuary - you've got
oil - and you put fire with it,
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OK. What does that do?
00:28:28.80\00:28:32.60
It produces light.
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OK. That's what it
does. It produces light.
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So what do we see in
Psalms 119 verse 105?
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So when it talks
about these two witnesses
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and it says "This is the
Word of the Lord to Zerubbabel,
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this is what happens.
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You understand what that meant?
00:29:21.46\00:29:25.03
You see when it talks
about the two witnesses
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and how they produce light
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it's really talking about
the Old and the New Testament.
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Those are the two witnesses,
and they produce light.
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Didn't you, when you first
started studying the scripture,
00:29:40.08\00:29:45.69
didn't the light come on?
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Huh? Man, I see it so many times
00:29:47.83\00:29:50.84
working with
people... be studying with them
00:29:51.05\00:29:53.46
and all of a sudden it hits.
00:29:53.66\00:29:55.73
The light comes one. You
can see it in their eyes.
00:29:55.93\00:29:58.31
All of a sudden they see
it. It makes... it's plain.
00:29:58.51\00:30:01.30
The light came on. That's
what the Holy Spirit does.
00:30:01.50\00:30:04.38
Those are the two witnesses
00:30:04.58\00:30:06.26
that produce light is
the Old and New Testament.
00:30:06.46\00:30:10.38
And if you'll stay
with me and follow,
00:30:10.58\00:30:13.58
you'll see how
this all fits together
00:30:13.78\00:30:16.47
step by step as the
scripture presents it.
00:30:16.67\00:30:19.79
You'll understand how the
Holy Spirit works with people
00:30:19.99\00:30:22.88
and how it takes place in
the lives of men and women.
00:30:23.08\00:30:26.33
Now it says:
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Now there are some
people that read that
00:30:52.34\00:30:55.67
and say that is
talking about Moses and Elijah.
00:30:55.87\00:30:59.12
And they try to make that
apply to Moses and Elijah.
00:30:59.32\00:31:04.16
And they say that
since Moses prayed
00:31:04.36\00:31:08.72
and the water turned to blood
00:31:08.92\00:31:11.25
that's talking about Moses.
00:31:11.46\00:31:13.30
And since Elijah
prayed and it didn't rain,
00:31:13.50\00:31:16.06
that's talking about Elijah.
00:31:16.26\00:31:17.71
Well, if you
make that application,
00:31:17.91\00:31:22.40
you run into some
difficult things...
00:31:22.60\00:31:25.08
because again you
start speculating.
00:31:25.28\00:31:27.98
And they say: "Well,
since that's Moses and Elijah
00:31:28.18\00:31:31.60
that means that Moses and Elijah
are coming back to the earth
00:31:31.80\00:31:35.21
and this beast is
going to kill them. "
00:31:35.41\00:31:37.58
Now that's... You know, how
you do you put that together
00:31:37.78\00:31:42.94
that they both are up in heaven
00:31:43.14\00:31:45.79
and they're going to
come back to the earth
00:31:45.99\00:31:47.57
and they're going to be killed?
00:31:47.77\00:31:49.25
You see, you get into
things that are speculative.
00:31:49.45\00:31:53.96
The scripture doesn't
leave us in one bit of doubt
00:31:54.16\00:31:57.48
as to what those two
texts are talking about.
00:31:57.69\00:31:59.81
And the reason it doesn't is
because it turns right around
00:32:00.01\00:32:03.07
and tells us exactly
what it's talking about.
00:32:03.27\00:32:05.31
Watch what is says
here in Revelation 22:
00:32:05.52\00:32:07.88
Isn't that what the other said?
00:32:24.09\00:32:25.29
Said they had the power
to put plagues on people.
00:32:25.49\00:32:29.60
So it says that it
would take those away.
00:32:42.05\00:32:45.31
So it's talking
specifically about God's Word.
00:32:45.51\00:32:48.85
Yes, Moses prayed.
00:32:48.95\00:32:51.67
And he prayed, and
the water turned to blood.
00:32:51.88\00:32:55.11
He did it on the
basis of God's Word.
00:32:55.31\00:33:00.56
He did it because
God told him to...
00:33:00.59\00:33:04.07
not because Moses
possessed any power.
00:33:04.27\00:33:07.67
Elijah prayed,
and it didn't rain.
00:33:07.87\00:33:11.06
And it didn't because God
told him that it wouldn't.
00:33:11.26\00:33:16.09
And so God's
Word is His authority
00:33:16.30\00:33:20.29
and these are the two witnesses
mentioned there in God's Word.
00:33:20.49\00:33:24.76
Let's take a look
at that word sackcloth.
00:33:36.55\00:33:38.82
Sackcloth means what?
00:33:39.02\00:33:41.90
Well it means persecution.
00:33:42.10\00:33:45.59
It means hard times.
00:33:45.79\00:33:47.64
It means sorrow.
00:33:47.84\00:33:49.30
It means distress.
00:33:49.50\00:33:51.01
So it says that these
two witnesses are prophesying
00:33:51.21\00:33:54.88
under very,
very difficult times.
00:33:55.08\00:33:58.59
Prophesying...
but it's hard times.
00:33:58.80\00:34:02.40
It not only says that they'll
be prophesying in sackcloth
00:34:02.60\00:34:06.91
but it tells you how long
00:34:07.11\00:34:09.22
they're going to
prophesy in sackcloth.
00:34:09.43\00:34:11.68
Now this 1,260 days
00:34:23.49\00:34:26.93
is not a number
that you don't see.
00:34:27.13\00:34:30.96
I mean, it's used
throughout prophecy.
00:34:31.16\00:34:33.63
And if you take a look at
it, you'll find that time,
00:34:33.83\00:34:37.57
times, and a half a time
00:34:37.77\00:34:40.06
is mentioned in Daniel 7:25.
00:34:40.26\00:34:43.37
It's also mentioned
in Daniel 12 verse 7.
00:34:43.57\00:34:46.60
1,260 days is mentioned
in Revelation 12 verse 6.
00:34:46.80\00:34:50.60
Time, times, and a half
a time is mentioned again
00:34:50.80\00:34:53.58
in Revelation 12:14.
00:34:53.78\00:34:55.66
And forty-two months is
mentioned in Revelation 13:5.
00:34:55.86\00:34:59.98
So those are used, and
when they're used throughout
00:35:00.18\00:35:02.96
the scripture they refer
to the same period of time.
00:35:03.16\00:35:07.74
Very clearly.
Ezekiel 4:6 tells us:
00:35:07.94\00:35:12.32
Number 14:34 says:
00:35:16.58\00:35:18.64
So in Bible prophecy,
a day simply represents
00:35:22.45\00:35:27.45
one year.
00:35:27.65\00:35:29.77
That's what it
represents in Bible prophecy.
00:35:29.97\00:35:31.83
OK. In Bible prophecy, a
time represents one year.
00:35:32.03\00:35:37.57
And in Biblical
reckoning of time,
00:35:37.77\00:35:40.97
there are 360 days
in a Biblical year.
00:35:41.17\00:35:44.42
If you need proof of that,
00:35:44.62\00:35:46.43
you need to go back and
read the story of the flood.
00:35:46.63\00:35:48.60
And you'll find that
it makes it very clear...
00:35:48.81\00:35:50.79
there's 360 days
in the Biblical year.
00:35:51.00\00:35:54.06
OK. So if I've got time,
that's one year... 360 days.
00:35:54.26\00:35:58.64
Times is two years or 720,
00:35:58.85\00:36:03.44
and a half a time is
a half a year... 180.
00:36:03.64\00:36:06.45
Add them up.
That gives you 1,260.
00:36:06.65\00:36:10.50
If I've got 42 months and there
are 30 days in a Biblical month,
00:36:10.70\00:36:14.25
30 times 42
gives me 1,260 again.
00:36:14.45\00:36:18.56
OK. So that's the same period
of time all the way through
00:36:18.77\00:36:22.12
and it
represents a period of time
00:36:22.15\00:36:25.19
from 538 AD to 1798 AD
00:36:25.39\00:36:31.28
which is known in history
00:36:31.48\00:36:33.98
as the time of papal supremacy.
00:36:34.18\00:36:37.63
This was the time when it
says that they would prophesy
00:36:37.83\00:36:43.60
but under great distress.
00:36:43.80\00:36:46.52
In sackcloth they
would be prophesying.
00:36:46.72\00:36:50.25
This is a time that
was indeed difficult.
00:36:50.45\00:36:54.86
Hard for you and
I even to imagine
00:36:55.06\00:36:59.82
what those people went through.
00:37:00.02\00:37:02.80
The Bible was
taken away from them.
00:37:03.00\00:37:07.22
Chained to library walls.
00:37:07.52\00:37:10.72
They were told that they
were too ignorant to read it.
00:37:11.63\00:37:17.17
They were told that they
had to accept what it said
00:37:18.23\00:37:22.21
at the
interpretation of the priest.
00:37:22.41\00:37:25.73
That they had no right.
00:37:27.27\00:37:29.32
And not only was it
taken away from them
00:37:29.52\00:37:31.94
but they were
forbidden to read it.
00:37:32.14\00:37:35.23
Weren't allowed to.
00:37:35.43\00:37:38.10
And the only way you
could read it was to hide.
00:37:38.30\00:37:42.03
And then it was
diffcult to have because...
00:37:42.23\00:37:46.57
You've got it there in print.
00:37:46.60\00:37:48.71
They didn't have
it in print then.
00:37:48.91\00:37:51.45
Was taken away from them.
00:37:51.65\00:37:53.65
Nobody had it.
00:37:53.85\00:37:56.29
Let me just tell you
one little thing here.
00:37:56.39\00:37:58.24
When you get to 500 AD...
00:37:59.52\00:38:05.28
listen to me. 500 AD
00:38:05.48\00:38:08.48
the Bible had been translated
00:38:08.69\00:38:12.09
into 500 different languages.
00:38:13.19\00:38:19.18
Let me say that again.
00:38:19.38\00:38:21.86
When you get to 500 AD,
00:38:22.06\00:38:25.60
the scripture
had been translated
00:38:25.70\00:38:27.77
into 500 other languages.
00:38:27.97\00:38:31.75
By the time you reach 600 AD,
00:38:32.83\00:38:38.80
there was only one language.
00:38:39.00\00:38:42.06
It had been confiscated.
00:38:42.26\00:38:45.67
Taken away from the people.
00:38:45.87\00:38:47.37
And the only language
you could get the Bible in
00:38:47.57\00:38:50.45
was Latin.
00:38:50.65\00:38:51.77
And if you couldn't read
Latin, you were out of luck.
00:38:51.97\00:38:55.58
And... and I'm not talking,
folks, about a short time.
00:38:55.78\00:39:00.85
I'm talking about this
going on for hundreds of years
00:39:01.05\00:39:04.52
that the people
didn't have access to it.
00:39:04.72\00:39:07.34
All they had was
what the priest told them.
00:39:07.54\00:39:10.17
And they were told that
they couldn't understand it...
00:39:10.20\00:39:12.23
they were too ignorant.
00:39:12.33\00:39:13.67
And so you find that many people
00:39:13.87\00:39:17.52
hid it. And some
people like the Waldensians...
00:39:17.72\00:39:22.60
Listen to what history says:
00:39:22.70\00:39:23.78
Paganism came into the church...
00:39:39.81\00:39:43.04
all kinds of pagan
ceremonies and everything.
00:39:43.24\00:39:46.31
And you find the
church going away from God.
00:39:46.51\00:39:49.70
And they
departed so much from God
00:39:49.91\00:39:53.92
that people like
the Waldensian people
00:39:54.12\00:39:57.06
fled up into the
mountains, into the Alps.
00:39:57.26\00:40:02.06
And there they lived
so they could worship
00:40:02.26\00:40:07.41
as they pleased...
like they wanted to.
00:40:07.61\00:40:10.37
And they could read God's Word.
00:40:10.57\00:40:12.57
Can't go too far into
history here tonight, but
00:40:12.77\00:40:15.94
there was a man in
Antioch by the name Lucerne.
00:40:16.14\00:40:19.81
He had translated the Bible.
00:40:20.01\00:40:23.24
The Waldensian
people got it from him.
00:40:23.44\00:40:25.56
And so the Waldensian
people were the ones who brought
00:40:25.76\00:40:29.01
the Word of God right
on through to us today.
00:40:29.21\00:40:33.95
in your Bible. And this
came to... but they were hunted.
00:40:34.15\00:40:38.44
They were hunted
by the papal power.
00:40:38.64\00:40:41.96
They were killed by the
hundreds upon hundreds...
00:40:42.16\00:40:44.78
thousands who lost their life
00:40:44.98\00:40:47.01
because they
believed in God's Word.
00:40:47.21\00:40:49.61
Now folks, if you're not getting
what I'm trying to tell you
00:40:49.71\00:40:52.05
I'm trying to
describe to you sackcloth.
00:40:52.25\00:40:54.87
They would prophesy
clothed in sackcloth.
00:40:55.07\00:40:59.29
Hard times; persecution.
00:40:59.49\00:41:01.29
It's rough; not an easy time.
00:41:01.49\00:41:04.22
Among these Waldensian people
00:41:04.42\00:41:07.92
they had God's Word,
and a man by the name of
00:41:08.12\00:41:13.25
Wyclif... John
Wyclif of England,
00:41:13.45\00:41:17.35
known as the Morning
Star of the Reformation,
00:41:17.56\00:41:21.80
he began to read God's Word
00:41:22.00\00:41:25.78
and you'll find that
Wycif began to teach the people
00:41:25.98\00:41:29.47
the Word of God and they
began to follow the Word of God.
00:41:29.67\00:41:34.16
And he translated
the Bible into English.
00:41:34.36\00:41:38.49
For this, the papal power
00:41:39.85\00:41:43.72
sent a delgation, arrested him,
00:41:43.92\00:41:47.53
and were going to
burn him at the stake.
00:41:47.73\00:41:50.86
But he died before they were
able to get him to the stake
00:41:51.06\00:41:57.00
and burn him.
00:41:57.10\00:41:58.25
But John Wyclif
wrote marvelous things
00:41:58.45\00:42:04.05
about God's Word that as
these people who hadn't known
00:42:04.25\00:42:08.16
anything - and you can see
the date for that, 1380 AD -
00:42:08.26\00:42:11.99
And if you're having trouble
putting dates together, folks,
00:42:12.19\00:42:15.76
that's 200 years before Luther
00:42:15.96\00:42:18.17
if that helps you to
understand the time period.
00:42:18.37\00:42:21.89
And these people who
have been in darkness
00:42:22.09\00:42:24.73
for years and years and years
00:42:24.93\00:42:26.93
all of a sudden as they
picked up Wyclif's writings
00:42:27.13\00:42:29.87
they began to see.
00:42:29.90\00:42:30.96
The light came on.
00:42:31.16\00:42:33.25
See? They saw.
00:42:33.45\00:42:34.92
It was a witness to them
00:42:35.02\00:42:36.10
and they saw things
they had never seen before.
00:42:36.31\00:42:38.51
And it made a
difference in their life.
00:42:38.71\00:42:40.64
Now the writings of Wycif...
00:42:40.84\00:42:46.80
some men... a couple
preachers from England
00:42:47.00\00:42:52.22
where Wycif was
from... came down to Bohemia
00:42:52.42\00:42:56.08
and they
started preaching there.
00:42:56.28\00:42:59.75
And they started preaching
the things that Wyclif had
00:42:59.95\00:43:03.20
told them and had taught them.
00:43:03.40\00:43:04.82
And they were
forbidden to preach.
00:43:05.02\00:43:08.06
Told that they could not preach.
00:43:08.26\00:43:10.51
And since they were
forbidden to preach,
00:43:10.71\00:43:13.50
both of them were good artists.
00:43:13.70\00:43:16.70
And so they would just go
into a town and on a barn or
00:43:16.90\00:43:20.58
a vacant building or
anything they could find
00:43:20.79\00:43:22.98
they'd paint pictures.
00:43:23.18\00:43:24.70
And one of them would
paint a picture of the Pope
00:43:24.90\00:43:28.12
dressed in all his regalia,
00:43:28.32\00:43:30.96
accompanied with all the
cardinals and all the trumpet
00:43:31.16\00:43:35.89
and all the fanfare and dressed
in all his pontifical robes.
00:43:36.09\00:43:40.10
All of this they
would picture him as.
00:43:40.30\00:43:43.04
And then the other artist
would paint a picture of Jesus
00:43:43.24\00:43:47.52
riding on a donkey
and in His lowliness.
00:43:47.72\00:43:51.76
And the people could see
the vast difference there was.
00:43:51.96\00:43:56.01
No different today, is it?
00:43:56.21\00:44:00.16
But they could see it
00:44:00.36\00:44:03.96
and they understood
what the message was.
00:44:04.16\00:44:06.77
And one of those individuals
who began to look at that
00:44:06.97\00:44:10.23
and he began to read
the writings of Wycif
00:44:10.43\00:44:13.77
was a man by the
name of John Hus.
00:44:13.97\00:44:17.42
And John Hus began to
stand up and preach...
00:44:17.62\00:44:23.53
preach the Word of
God. And as he preached it,
00:44:23.73\00:44:28.32
those people began to follow.
They became known as Husites.
00:44:28.53\00:44:32.12
And they accepted the
Word of God and followed Him.
00:44:32.32\00:44:35.32
And a young man joined him in
preaching by the name of Jerome.
00:44:35.52\00:44:39.37
The papal power heard about it.
00:44:41.24\00:44:45.46
They sent down a delegation.
00:44:45.66\00:44:48.71
Arrested John Hus and
burned him at the stake.
00:44:49.22\00:44:55.21
A little while later
they arrested Jerome.
00:44:55.41\00:45:00.22
They put him in jail and
kept him there for over 2 years.
00:45:01.53\00:45:07.46
Such horrible
conditions that they chained him
00:45:07.66\00:45:12.42
on his legs and on his hands
and the flesh would rot away.
00:45:12.62\00:45:15.98
Horrible. And finally
they burned him at the stake.
00:45:16.19\00:45:20.82
Talking about a time
of great persecution.
00:45:21.02\00:45:25.12
Hard, hard times.
00:45:25.15\00:45:27.66
But these were men, women of
God that stood up and they said
00:45:27.86\00:45:31.79
"Yes, this is what
the Word of God teaches.
00:45:31.99\00:45:34.81
This is what we will follow. "
00:45:35.01\00:45:36.86
What says the
Bible, the blessed Bible?
00:45:37.06\00:45:39.84
This my only question be.
00:45:40.04\00:45:43.16
The teachings of
men so often mislead us.
00:45:43.36\00:45:47.11
What says the Word of God to me?
00:45:47.31\00:45:51.00
That's what you and I have
to know and have to understand.
00:45:51.20\00:45:53.90
Out of that...
arresting Jerome...
00:45:58.35\00:46:01.88
burning him at the stake...
00:46:02.08\00:46:05.14
But the light of the
Reformation had been lit
00:46:05.34\00:46:11.10
and it began to
spread across the country.
00:46:11.30\00:46:13.82
And people were
willing to lay down their life
00:46:14.02\00:46:17.80
just for the Word of God.
00:46:18.00\00:46:20.07
Until finally you
move into the 1500's
00:46:20.27\00:46:25.17
and on the scene of action
00:46:25.37\00:46:27.41
comes people willing to
stand up for the Word of God.
00:46:29.40\00:46:32.87
Let me... let me just
throw something out here, folks.
00:46:33.07\00:46:35.56
Sometimes
00:46:37.30\00:46:40.12
people in their zeal
00:46:40.32\00:46:44.52
don't use good sense.
00:46:44.72\00:46:48.65
They don't use good judgment.
00:46:50.10\00:46:51.94
And they're
zealous for something
00:46:52.14\00:46:53.99
and they create more
problems than they help.
00:46:54.19\00:46:58.34
Because as the
Reformation gained... you see,
00:46:58.54\00:47:02.51
one of the first countries
that really opened its doors
00:47:02.72\00:47:07.15
to the Reformation was France.
00:47:07.26\00:47:09.39
France opened her doors and
people like Lefevre and Farel.
00:47:09.69\00:47:15.69
These men preached the
Word of God and the king...
00:47:15.89\00:47:19.68
he kind of straddled the fence.
00:47:19.88\00:47:21.92
He wasn't... he
didn't particularly stand up
00:47:22.13\00:47:24.84
for the Reformation
but at the same time
00:47:25.04\00:47:26.83
he didn't really tell
the papacy to get lost.
00:47:27.03\00:47:30.32
He just kind of
straddled the fence.
00:47:30.52\00:47:32.79
But his wife, Margaret...
she was very much in favor
00:47:32.99\00:47:36.49
of the
Reformation, and she favored it.
00:47:36.59\00:47:38.36
So the Reformation in
France was given freedom
00:47:38.56\00:47:42.50
to do some things. And these
men went out and they preached
00:47:42.60\00:47:45.31
and many, many people...
00:47:45.51\00:47:46.97
In fact, the king even let them
have a chapel right there in the
00:47:47.17\00:47:50.91
palace where people
were invited in and they...
00:47:51.11\00:47:53.57
they preached to them.
And the Word of God grew
00:47:53.77\00:47:56.02
with great rapidity and all.
00:47:56.12\00:47:58.22
But some people in their zealous
00:47:59.84\00:48:04.28
do things they shouldn't do.
00:48:04.48\00:48:06.53
And one of the men who
stood up for the Word of God
00:48:06.83\00:48:12.08
was a great, great man.
00:48:12.28\00:48:14.06
Was a man by the name of Lequin.
00:48:14.26\00:48:16.83
Lequin was of noble birth.
00:48:17.03\00:48:20.60
A tremendous scholar.
00:48:20.80\00:48:23.18
Great orator; great power.
00:48:23.38\00:48:26.20
In fact, Rome feared Lequin
more than they feared Luther
00:48:26.40\00:48:31.22
because he was so strong.
00:48:31.32\00:48:34.53
And they said:
"He'll do more damage to us
00:48:34.73\00:48:37.91
than Luther
would have ever done. "
00:48:38.11\00:48:39.44
They arrested him three
times and threw him in jail,
00:48:39.65\00:48:43.57
and three times
the king released him.
00:48:43.77\00:48:46.07
But the king who just
straddled the fence all the time
00:48:47.05\00:48:52.95
felt the pressure
of the papal power.
00:48:53.15\00:48:57.39
And so conveniently
he left town one day
00:48:57.59\00:49:02.10
and the delegates or
the leaders of the church
00:49:02.30\00:49:07.79
arrested Lequin. They
arrested him that day,
00:49:07.99\00:49:12.56
they tried him that day,
00:49:12.76\00:49:15.00
and they killed him that day.
00:49:15.20\00:49:17.08
Brought an end to him.
00:49:17.28\00:49:21.20
And out of all this zeal
00:49:21.40\00:49:24.17
some dear souls in
their zeal went and tore down
00:49:24.38\00:49:30.31
one of the
statues of the virgin.
00:49:30.52\00:49:33.78
Well, this brought great
indignation on the part of many
00:49:33.98\00:49:37.40
people and on
the part of the king.
00:49:37.50\00:49:39.06
And then another one
not having enough sense to
00:49:39.26\00:49:43.55
know how to relate went
and they printed up a plaquard
00:49:43.76\00:49:49.51
against the mass.
00:49:49.71\00:49:52.26
They went and they
nailed it on the king's door.
00:49:52.46\00:49:54.92
Made him so mad that he
turned against the Reformation.
00:49:55.12\00:49:59.35
And he went out, and
they got one of the reformers
00:50:00.67\00:50:06.67
to turn informant.
00:50:06.87\00:50:09.52
And they walked down
the streets of Paris,
00:50:09.72\00:50:12.49
and that man pointed to
the homes of the people that
00:50:12.69\00:50:16.97
were for the Reformation.
00:50:17.17\00:50:18.20
And they gathered them
and they brought them out.
00:50:18.41\00:50:23.19
And they crucified them,
and burned them at the stake,
00:50:23.39\00:50:26.34
and killed them.
00:50:26.54\00:50:27.80
By the hundreds, thousands died.
00:50:28.00\00:50:31.70
Whole thing began
to change. France...
00:50:34.86\00:50:37.53
who had opened her
doors to the Reformation...
00:50:37.63\00:50:40.48
all of a sudden
slammed them shut.
00:50:40.68\00:50:44.02
Now there was one young
man that was still very much
00:50:44.22\00:50:48.21
trying to help France.
00:50:48.31\00:50:50.46
At this time, Luther now has
appeared on the scene of action
00:50:50.66\00:50:54.87
and has nailed the 95
Theses to the door of the church
00:50:55.07\00:50:57.95
at Wittenberg and
is beginning to preach.
00:50:58.05\00:51:00.49
And fortunately, Luther found a
00:51:00.67\00:51:05.85
friend in Frederick,
00:51:05.95\00:51:08.38
and he was able to hold
back some of the papal power
00:51:08.66\00:51:14.60
to keep them
from taking his life.
00:51:14.80\00:51:16.84
Luther preached. His
word began to circulate
00:51:18.37\00:51:21.70
and people began to accept it.
00:51:21.80\00:51:23.42
Then along came a man
by the name of John Calvin.
00:51:23.62\00:51:27.68
Calvin: a very shy young man...
00:51:27.88\00:51:32.70
but he began to work in France.
00:51:32.90\00:51:34.83
Was literally
finally driven from France.
00:51:35.03\00:51:38.52
Went out and preached; brought
about a great Reformation.
00:51:38.55\00:51:43.38
Thousands of people
accepted the message because of
00:51:43.58\00:51:47.57
John Calvin.
00:51:47.77\00:51:49.72
Then the princes
of Europe stood up
00:51:49.92\00:51:52.87
and they, the princes of
Germany stood up and said
00:51:53.07\00:51:56.61
"We will no longer be dictated
to. Our conscience will be free.
00:51:56.81\00:52:00.29
We will read the Word of God and
follow it as we understand it. "
00:52:00.49\00:52:03.82
And what I'm trying to
tell you is the persecution
00:52:04.02\00:52:07.69
began to fall off.
00:52:07.89\00:52:10.03
Began to come to an end.
00:52:10.23\00:52:12.01
In France,
Napoleon has come to power.
00:52:13.53\00:52:18.79
Napoleon wants to rule Europe,
00:52:18.99\00:52:23.28
but he knows that he cannot
do it unless he breaks the back
00:52:23.48\00:52:28.77
of the papal power.
00:52:28.97\00:52:30.93
And so, 1798 AD,
00:52:31.14\00:52:35.25
just exactly as
it was prophesied,
00:52:35.45\00:52:37.87
Berthier made his
entrance into Rome
00:52:38.07\00:52:41.76
abolished the papal government,
00:52:41.97\00:52:43.53
established a secular one.
00:52:43.73\00:52:45.48
And thus the years, 1,260 years
00:52:45.68\00:52:49.32
of persecution - of
sackcloth - came to an end.
00:52:49.52\00:52:54.67
What did the scripture say?
00:52:54.87\00:52:58.77
When that 1,260
years came to an end,
00:52:58.97\00:53:03.62
these that had been
prophesying in sackcloth
00:53:03.82\00:53:07.98
something would happen to them.
00:53:08.18\00:53:10.74
And that's what our
next presentation's about.
00:53:26.07\00:53:29.20
This beast
that's going to rise up,
00:53:29.40\00:53:34.61
kill these two witnesses
and put an end to them.
00:53:34.82\00:53:39.01
That's what we
want to take a look at
00:53:39.21\00:53:41.20
as we talk about the two
witnesses that will lie dead
00:53:41.40\00:53:45.90
in the street for 3-1/2 years,
00:53:46.10\00:53:50.25
will not be buried,
00:53:50.46\00:53:53.10
and will come back to life.
00:53:53.30\00:53:55.25
So we hope that each of
you will be back with us
00:53:55.45\00:53:57.89
as we talk about The
Beast from the Bottomless Pit.
00:53:58.09\00:54:00.89
Let us pray.
00:54:01.09\00:54:02.14
Heavenly Father, we thank you.
00:54:02.34\00:54:05.32
Thank you for Your Word
00:54:05.52\00:54:08.44
that's a light
to each one of us.
00:54:08.64\00:54:12.14
May we follow it.
00:54:12.44\00:54:15.86
May our hearts be open to it.
00:54:16.07\00:54:19.11
May we be willing
day by day to spend time
00:54:19.31\00:54:26.02
in Your Word
that we might each one
00:54:26.15\00:54:29.16
prepare our lives for
the coming of the Lord
00:54:29.36\00:54:32.97
as we realize how
quickly time is passing.
00:54:33.07\00:54:37.18
Thank you for Jesus; for
His goodness to each of us.
00:54:37.38\00:54:41.32
This we ask in His name, Amen.
00:54:41.52\00:54:44.25
May God bless
you. Have a good night.
00:54:44.45\00:54:47.52
Stay close to Jesus Christ.
00:54:47.72\00:54:50.68
He's coming very, very soon.
00:54:50.71\00:54:54.38
A coal miner of old
00:54:57.05\00:54:58.33
would leave his family every day
00:54:58.53\00:55:00.39
and descend into
the depths of the earth
00:55:00.59\00:55:02.52
with the certain knowledge
that the smallest mistake
00:55:02.72\00:55:06.19
could keep him and others
from ever seeing daylight again.
00:55:06.39\00:55:09.57
Walking along in the dark,
00:55:09.77\00:55:11.50
he could only rely
upon his feeble oil lamp
00:55:11.70\00:55:15.39
to keep him alive.
00:55:15.59\00:55:17.00
He faced many
dangers down there.
00:55:17.20\00:55:18.88
Rockfalls, flooding, fires.
00:55:19.08\00:55:22.32
But perhaps the
danger he feared the most
00:55:22.52\00:55:25.43
was the one that
he could not see.
00:55:25.63\00:55:27.76
They called it
chokedamp or blackdamp:
00:55:27.96\00:55:31.13
an unbreathable mixture of gases
00:55:31.33\00:55:33.86
that could quickly
snuff out his life.
00:55:34.06\00:55:36.38
Imagine for a moment the
terror he felt when he realized
00:55:36.58\00:55:40.28
he had hit a
pocket of blackdamp.
00:55:40.48\00:55:42.57
The sudden drop in
oxygen would put out his lamp
00:55:42.77\00:55:46.03
leaving him in terrifying
darkness, fumbling in vain
00:55:46.23\00:55:50.29
to relight it before
he lost consciousness.
00:55:50.49\00:55:53.40
Then in the late 1800's,
00:55:53.70\00:55:56.82
a bright new light began
to shine in the dark world.
00:55:57.02\00:56:00.84
Using marble-sized
pellets of calcium carbide
00:56:01.04\00:56:05.05
and a few drops of water,
00:56:05.18\00:56:06.71
this new lamp produced a gas
which burned six times brighter.
00:56:06.95\00:56:11.43
Not only did it make
his job a whole lot easier
00:56:11.63\00:56:14.41
but it also saved lives.
00:56:14.61\00:56:16.72
You can see this tiny reflector
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could focus that beam of light
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on the roof of a mine so that he
could detect dangerous cracks.
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The lamp was
also easy to re-light.
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And since it
required far less oxygen,
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it could illuminate the way out
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should they
encounter the chokedamp.
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What an incredible
illustration this is
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of the condition of fallen man.
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After struggling to
survive the pitfalls of life,
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he suddenly realizes
the danger he could not see
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had left him without hope
and gasping for his last breath
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in utter spiritual darkness.
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For him there is no
eternal life through Jesus.
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In fact, he may not
have ever heard about Him.
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But friends, just
as that bright light
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of the carbide lamp saved lives,
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so does the light of the Bible.
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We need the light of God's Word
to illuminate the dark corners
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of our hearts. It focuses
our attention on Jesus Christ...
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our only hope for salvation.
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And all who read and study it
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are warned about
the rockfalls of life.
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That's why we call this
series Give Me The Bible.
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We're trying our best to
bring the light of God's truth
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to those who are
living and dying in despair.
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It's our
mission. It's our passion.
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Won't you join us?
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Please consider what you can do
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for those who still
don't know about Jesus.
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As the Holy Spirit impresses,
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you may send your
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Thank you for helping us
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to millions all
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