When I was in the 6th grade
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I had one of
the best final exams
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I've ever taken in my life.
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I got the best grade that
I've ever gotten from that day
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to this... which was good
because it was the same year
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that I also had the worst
grade on a final exam that
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I ever had in my whole life.
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My history exam I got a 99,
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and I really wanted 100
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but when I took my
paper in to my history teacher
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it didn't have any checks, no
red marks, nothing red on it...
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And so I said: "It looks
like this is a perfect paper. "
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You don't have any
checks, no red marks,
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nothing
underlined, nothing circled.
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Shouldn't I get 100?
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Well he had me to know
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that there's no such
thing as a perfect paper.
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And though it didn't
have any checks, he said
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"I've never had perfect
paper and I don't give...
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I don't give 100's, so
you're going to have to just
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take your 99 and be satisfied. "
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Well I really wanted that 100
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because my math
score wasn't quite so good.
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In fact, it was
atrocious and I needed that 100
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to sort of balance off
that abysmal math score.
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But I went to my math teacher
and begged, and she didn't
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put it up either... so it
was not a good year for math
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but a great year for history.
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And I say that simply because
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last night as Elder Cox took us
to the intersection of history
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and prophecy I
sat in rapt attention
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because I love history.
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And we looked at the historical
underpinnings of prophecy
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on last night in a
very interesting message.
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And I know tonight's message is
going to be just as interesting.
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Someone once said that
prophecy is simply history
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that hasn't happened yet.
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But it's coming.
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And prophecy just predates
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history, and it's history
that hasn't happened yet.
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And we sort of get that idea
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in what's the text? Oh, it's
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II Timothy chapter 1 verse 19
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where Timothy says we have the
"more sure word of prophecy. "
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That prophecy is so
sure, and we know it is sure
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by looking at the past.
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Because every time God said that
something was going to happen
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you know what
happened? It happened!
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And so, in looking at God's
dealing with us in the past
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we can be certain of God's
dealing with us in the future.
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And I am sure that we're
going to have a fabulous study
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tonight as we look at The
Beast from the Bottomless Pit.
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What an intriguing title
for a message, and I know that
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Elder Cox is going to
have something wonderful to say
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to us this night.
My name is C.A. Murray,
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and it is my
privilege and my pleasure
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to welcome you once
again to Volume 6 Session 2 of
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Give Me The Bible.
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Was, Is Not, And Yet Is
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with our evangelist, our friend,
our preacher, our teacher:
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Elder Kenneth Cox.
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You'll hear from him
shortly, but before he comes
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Larry Blackwell will come
to us and sing a really great
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old song of Zion:
When We All Get To Heaven.
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When we all get to heaven,
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what a day of
rejoicing that will be!
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When we all see Jesus,
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we'll sing and
shout the victory!
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Sing the wondrous love of Jesus,
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sing His mercy and His grace.
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In the mansions
bright and blessed
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He'll prepare for us a place.
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When we all get to heaven,
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what a day of
rejoicing that will be!
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When we all see Jesus,
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we'll sing and
shout the victory.
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Onward to the prize before us,
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soon His beauty we'll behold.
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Soon the pearly gates will open,
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we shall tread
the streets of gold.
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When we all get to heaven,
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what a day of
rejoicing that will be!
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When we all see Jesus,
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we'll sing and
shout the victory.
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When we all get to heaven,
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what a day of
rejoicing that will be!
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When we all see Jesus,
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we'll sing and
shout the victory.
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We'll sing and shout
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the victory!
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Amen.
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Good evening to each of you.
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Very happy to
welcome all of you back.
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Hope that you
have had a great day.
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Been a great day here.
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Enjoyed it very much.
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And to all of you
that are joining us
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by television or listening
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over the radio, we welcome you
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tonight. Glad that
you're tuning in or listening.
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We hope that as we continue
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our study of these beasts
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that are mentioned in the
books of Daniel and Revelation,
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it will help you begin to
see how prophecy is fulfilling
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and taking place.
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So we hope that you
are able to follow along
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as we study God's
Word this evening.
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Our next
presentation is entitled...
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We're going to be
taking a look at a beast
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in Revelation the 13th chapter.
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Now you remember we're looking
at Revelation 17 where it says
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Five Have Fallen.
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We talked about those five.
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Then it says "One is, " and
that's what we're finishing up
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with tonight, and then it
says "One is yet to come. "
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And that's the one
we'll look at tomorrow night.
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That's the seventh one.
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So we have taken
them step by step
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and identifying those beasts
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so that you begin to see
that we're coming right on down
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to the very time in
which we are living.
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And so be sure and follow along
as we study God's Word together.
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Tonight: The Beast
from the Bottomless Pit.
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This has been a two-part
series, because last night we
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talked about the two witnesses
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that are very much
involved with this beast.
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And we're looking at
Revelation the 11th chapter.
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And tonight we'll
put that all together
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so you'll see what happened.
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Tonight is a... as
far as I'm concerned...
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is a marvelous study
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because it helps you
see so very, very clearly
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the inspiration of God's Word.
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The accuracy of scripture.
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And so we hope that
you'll be able to follow
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as we study God's Word together
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and that you'll see how
God has led and told exactly
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what's going to happen
before it ever takes place.
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Very happy to have
Larry Blackwell with us.
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I'm enjoying him being here...
I hope you are... his music.
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He's going to sing for us and
Dona's going to accompany him...
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a song entitled Until Then.
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My heart can sing
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when I pause to remember
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A heartache here
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is but a stepping stone
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Along the trail
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that's winding always upward -
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This troubled world
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is not my final home.
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But until then
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my heart will go on singing,
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Until then
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with joy I'll carry on -
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Until the day
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my eyes behold that city,
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Until the day
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God calls me home.
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And the things of earth
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that dim and lose their value
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If you recall
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they're borrowed for a while;
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And things of earth
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that cause the heart to tremble,
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Remembered there,
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will only bring a smile.
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But until then
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my heart will go on singing,
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Until then
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with joy I'll carry on -
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Until the day
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my eyes behold that city,
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Until the day
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God calls me home...
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Until that day
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God calls me
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home.
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Our Gracious
Heavenly Father, tonight
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we come to You
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asking that as we open Your Word
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that You will give us the
understanding that we need.
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May we, Lord, see Your hand.
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May we see how it has led,
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guided, directed in the affairs
of men down through time.
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And Lord, may our
faith be increased.
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May we realize that as we
look back upon what has happened
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in the past that it
may increase our faith
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to stand firm with
You... prepared for Your coming.
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For this we ask in
Christ's name, Amen.
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Last night we took a look at
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two witnesses.
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And it says in Revelation 11:13:
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And we found out that those
two witnesses mentioned there
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were the Old and New
Testament, or God's Word.
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And we found out that it was
God's Word that gives us light.
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Because it says these two
witnesses are the two anointed
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ones is what the scripture says.
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And that word anointed
means one who produces light.
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That's the word. I gave
you the Hebrew word for that.
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And that Hebrew
word was hayitshaar...
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which means one
who produces light.
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And we found that
God's Word produces light.
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"Your Word is a
light unto my path. "
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And so we looked
at those two witnesses
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and we talked about
the part that they played.
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Now it goes on and says
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that they would
prophesy in sackcloth.
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And we found that
great persecution...
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I want to give you a date,
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and I'd like for you
to kind of remember it.
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It's... the date is
January the 21st, 1535.
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January the 21st, 1535.
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Very, very important
time because that is the date
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in which France
rejected the Reformation
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and turned her
back on the Reformation.
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That was the date that
we talked about last night
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when the king of France took...
walked down the streets of
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Paris and had them point
out the homes of the reformers.
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And they drug the people
out and they crucified them
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and they burned
them at the stake.
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And France at that
point turned her back
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and made a definite
effort to try to do away
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with the Reformation and
those that followed them.
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And we talked about
some of the great people
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that lived back then such as
Lefevre, and Farel, and Calvin
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and Lequin and these different
people who were great men
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of God that stood up
for the Word of God...
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and lost their lives in
defending the Word of God.
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It was under this
time of persecution -
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sackcloth, sorrow - that they
witnessed to the Word of God.
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And this took place... Now what
you've got to understand, folks,
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is they turned on the
Reformation, but through the
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preaching of John Calvin
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500,000 Frenchmen had
accepted the Reformation.
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I mean, this... this
was great numbers of people
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that turned to the Reformation.
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But they turned their
persecution against them,
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and things took place such as
the Massacre of St. Bartholomew
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and all that
happened. What took place
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and what France didn't realize
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is when they began to persecute
these people for their belief
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many of them left France
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and they went to Germany
and they went to Switzerland
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and they went
to other countries.
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And what was happening is
when those people were leaving
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France and going to
those other countries,
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those were the professors,
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the artisans, the businessmen.
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These were the people that
the Reformation had called to
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and had stepped out,
and they left France.
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And all of a sudden, France
found itself in a terrible
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position without leadership.
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Without people to
give the kind of leadership
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and the kind of guidance
that the country needed...
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it was gone, and
little did they realize it.
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Napoleon also is rising
at this particular time.
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Napoleon wants to rule Europe.
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That's his desire is to bring
Europe all under one power.
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He said Europe was
soon to become one nation.
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That was what Napoleon wanted.
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And so Napoleon understood
and knew that he could never
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accomplish this unless he broke
the back of the papal power.
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Because the papal
power held tremendous control
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over much of Europe.
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And so, as it says here:
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The persecution that
the papal power had put out
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against the Reformation
began to come to an end.
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Now this took place
before... even before 1798 AD.
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The persecution was dropping off
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because of stands that
many people were taking.
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But the problem that I mentioned
to you is the intelligencie
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of France had fled the country.
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And so France found itself
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in very, very
hard circumstances and
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it says in
Revelation 11 verse 7:
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Now, this beast that's
going to come up out of the
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bottomless pit it
says is going to make war
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against those two witnesses
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and will overcome
them and kill them.
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This is what was
going to take place.
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What happened, folks,
is rather a strange thing.
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I shouldn't say it's strange
because it happens every time
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if this is done.
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And that is, the persecution
against the Reformation
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against those people
put out at that time...
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France was left with
just - how should I put it? -
00:18:47.45\00:18:53.02
the people that
didn't have much education.
00:18:53.22\00:18:56.21
They were left without
the common, everyday people
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and they didn't have the
intelligencie that was needed
00:18:59.79\00:19:02.77
to run the country.
And we found that the
00:19:02.97\00:19:05.81
people turned...
00:19:06.01\00:19:09.47
they turned
against the papal power.
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They not only turned
against the papal power,
00:19:15.08\00:19:17.96
they turned against God
00:19:18.16\00:19:19.92
because the only
God that they knew
00:19:20.12\00:19:23.95
was what the papal
power had told them...
00:19:24.15\00:19:26.53
and so they rejected that also.
00:19:26.73\00:19:29.46
And at the same time
that all of this is happening
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there is a book
that has been written
00:19:32.84\00:19:36.70
called the Age of
Reason written by Thomas Paine.
00:19:36.90\00:19:42.29
That has
circulated all across Europe
00:19:42.49\00:19:45.90
and particularly in France
00:19:46.10\00:19:48.40
it has been picked up and read.
00:19:48.60\00:19:50.61
And this became the
motto... this became the cry
00:19:50.81\00:19:55.53
of the common people
that from this time on
00:19:55.73\00:19:58.52
all they would have
would be reason. They were not
00:19:58.72\00:20:01.80
going to have theology.
00:20:01.90\00:20:03.16
They were not
going to have the Bible.
00:20:03.36\00:20:05.00
They were not
going to go by this.
00:20:05.20\00:20:06.86
They were going to go totally
and completely by reason.
00:20:07.06\00:20:10.68
And so you have in
history what is called
00:20:10.88\00:20:14.70
the Age of Reason
00:20:14.91\00:20:17.41
in which they said from now on
all the decisions would be made
00:20:17.61\00:20:22.51
on the basis of reason.
00:20:22.71\00:20:24.57
Now... now let me
tell you something.
00:20:24.77\00:20:27.21
Conscience - or reason -
00:20:27.82\00:20:33.63
is a safe guide
00:20:33.93\00:20:36.40
providing the guide of
conscience or reason is safe.
00:20:38.57\00:20:43.09
Now did you follow me?
00:20:46.01\00:20:47.13
You see, people get
this idea that conscience is
00:20:48.41\00:20:52.00
a safe guide. No!
00:20:52.10\00:20:54.16
Conscience is a safe guide if
the guide of conscience is safe.
00:20:54.36\00:20:58.04
See? And they turned to this
and they didn't have a guide.
00:20:58.34\00:21:02.92
They had thrown it out.
00:21:03.12\00:21:04.45
They said: "No, we're
not going to do this. "
00:21:04.65\00:21:06.53
And when they threw that out,
00:21:06.73\00:21:09.09
they threw out the basis for
what they believed, stood by.
00:21:09.12\00:21:13.51
And so January the 21st...
00:21:13.71\00:21:17.58
put it down...
00:21:17.78\00:21:19.66
January the 21st, 1793
00:21:19.86\00:21:24.64
the French assembly
00:21:24.84\00:21:28.75
voted to do away
with the Word of God.
00:21:28.95\00:21:34.26
They voted to
completely do away with it.
00:21:35.74\00:21:38.61
Here this whole French assembly
00:22:04.26\00:22:06.32
said we're going to have
nothing to do with religion.
00:22:06.52\00:22:08.85
From now on we
will worship reason.
00:22:09.05\00:22:12.24
This will be our guide.
00:22:12.54\00:22:14.74
This is what we will follow.
00:22:14.94\00:22:16.57
What they did is they took this
00:22:57.61\00:23:02.45
woman who was a dancer
00:23:02.65\00:23:05.19
and they took her
and dressed her up.
00:23:05.39\00:23:08.33
Put a crown on her
head, robes on her...
00:23:08.53\00:23:11.55
and set her on a cart
00:23:11.75\00:23:13.02
and pulled her
through the streets of Paris
00:23:13.22\00:23:16.72
to the cathedral
00:23:16.92\00:23:18.33
where they set her up
and they worshiped her
00:23:18.53\00:23:21.42
as the Goddess of Reason.
00:23:21.63\00:23:24.38
Said from that time on
that's who they would follow.
00:23:24.58\00:23:28.71
That's who they would worship.
00:23:28.91\00:23:30.88
Folks, I cannot describe to you
00:23:33.66\00:23:38.11
what happens to a
country and to a nation
00:23:38.31\00:23:42.99
when they do that kind of thing.
00:23:43.20\00:23:45.08
Because France... I
mean, from that point
00:23:45.28\00:23:49.72
went straight downhill.
00:23:49.93\00:23:52.05
And the Bible talks about
how this would take place.
00:23:52.35\00:23:55.74
What... what would
happen because she did this.
00:23:55.95\00:23:58.62
Listen to what its says here
in verse 8 of the 11th chapter:
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and I highlighted that word
spiritually because many people
00:24:07.41\00:24:10.38
miss that...
00:24:10.49\00:24:11.64
Now if you're
going to read that text
00:24:16.31\00:24:18.99
and you're going
to understand it,
00:24:19.19\00:24:20.25
you've got to take that
word spiritually into account.
00:24:20.45\00:24:23.40
Because this is not
talking about literal Egypt
00:24:23.60\00:24:27.80
and literal Sodom
00:24:28.00\00:24:29.14
and literally where
our Lord is crucified.
00:24:29.34\00:24:31.16
It's saying this is a
spiritual application of that.
00:24:31.26\00:24:34.90
That's what it's telling you, so
you've got to apply it that way.
00:24:35.10\00:24:38.22
So why would he say
this city, referring to Paris
00:24:38.42\00:24:42.98
and what was done there,
why would he say spiritually
00:24:43.19\00:24:45.92
this was Egypt?
00:24:46.12\00:24:47.39
Well if you go
back and you read it,
00:24:48.99\00:24:51.48
you remember the Pharaoh?
00:24:51.69\00:24:54.52
You remember
what he said to Moses?
00:24:54.72\00:24:57.05
Listen to his words:
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You see you have the
very basis of atheism.
00:25:11.04\00:25:15.61
And that's what
France was playing with.
00:25:15.64\00:25:18.63
She'd tossed out God.
She didn't believe in God.
00:25:18.83\00:25:21.17
She was strictly atheism... and
that's why the scripture said
00:25:21.37\00:25:25.47
spiritually this
is compared to Egypt
00:25:25.67\00:25:27.99
that didn't know God
or didn't believe in God.
00:25:28.19\00:25:30.96
So France refused
to believe in God.
00:25:31.16\00:25:34.38
Said: "No, we're not
going to believe in God. "
00:25:34.58\00:25:36.30
But any time you
00:25:37.59\00:25:40.95
throw out the Bible
00:25:41.15\00:25:44.47
you throw out all the standards
00:25:46.22\00:25:51.09
and everything by
which people live,
00:25:51.30\00:25:54.30
and all of a sudden there's
nothing to base your belief on.
00:25:54.60\00:26:00.50
And so when they
threw out the Bible
00:26:00.70\00:26:04.92
morality went straight down.
00:26:05.12\00:26:08.59
I mean, you can't even describe
00:26:08.79\00:26:13.15
the horribleness of what
went on there during that time
00:26:13.35\00:26:17.45
in which they just forsook it...
didn't believe in any kind of...
00:26:17.65\00:26:22.85
reason was the whole
thing that was governing them.
00:26:22.95\00:26:26.08
No standards;
nothing by which to go by.
00:26:26.28\00:26:28.91
And thus God
compared it to Sodom.
00:26:29.11\00:26:32.81
Spiritually Sodom...
was the same difference.
00:26:33.11\00:26:37.76
And you remember as those
two angels went there to Sodom
00:26:37.86\00:26:40.33
and Gomorrah and pulled
out Lot and his daughters,
00:26:40.53\00:26:44.00
so God said: "This
is like Sodom of old. "
00:26:44.20\00:26:50.10
Spiritually... same thing.
00:26:50.30\00:26:53.10
And then it says: "also
where our Lord was crucified. "
00:26:53.30\00:26:58.42
Folks, these years that
went on during that time
00:26:58.62\00:27:03.44
are described in
history as the Age of Terror.
00:27:03.64\00:27:08.82
There was ten years in there
which was beyond description.
00:27:09.32\00:27:15.30
For instance, if you believed
in God or you had a Bible,
00:27:15.50\00:27:20.32
you could be
arrested and taken downtown
00:27:20.52\00:27:23.57
and guillotined
00:27:23.77\00:27:26.46
because you believed in it.
00:27:26.66\00:27:28.24
In fact, for the smallest thing
they would haul somebody down
00:27:28.44\00:27:32.94
and guillotine them.
And they had people there
00:27:33.14\00:27:35.69
in carts every morning rolling
down through the streets of
00:27:35.89\00:27:38.82
Paris headed there to
guillotine them to death,
00:27:38.92\00:27:42.26
and they did so much of it
00:27:42.46\00:27:44.03
that blood ran down the
gutters of the streets of Paris.
00:27:44.23\00:27:47.86
This was an Age of
Terror - horrible! -
00:27:48.06\00:27:52.88
that went on there because
they didn't have anything
00:27:53.08\00:27:57.04
on which to base their
belief in what they stood for.
00:27:57.24\00:28:00.75
Horrible period of time.
00:28:00.95\00:28:03.49
Remember it says "where
our Lord was crucified? "
00:28:03.69\00:28:09.51
It's interesting. Do you know
what the Lord says about that?
00:28:09.71\00:28:14.97
Listen to this:
00:28:15.00\00:28:16.03
Now we're talking
about spiritually.
00:28:27.47\00:28:29.39
Says if you take
one of God's people
00:28:29.60\00:28:33.40
and you do something to them,
00:28:33.60\00:28:36.48
that's the same as
doing it to Christ.
00:28:36.68\00:28:39.10
Did you realize that?
00:28:39.30\00:28:41.92
The next time you think of
00:28:43.26\00:28:47.44
saying
something against somebody
00:28:47.64\00:28:52.02
might ought to
think that through twice.
00:28:53.82\00:28:56.31
Do you remember Paul?
00:28:56.51\00:28:58.60
You remember when
there on the road to Damascus
00:28:58.80\00:29:01.07
when he was struck
down with that bright light?
00:29:01.27\00:29:03.18
Huh?
00:29:03.38\00:29:04.43
Do you remember
what He said to Paul?
00:29:04.63\00:29:06.30
But... you remember
what He said to him?
00:29:06.70\00:29:09.55
Said: "Saul, Saul,
why persecutist... " Who?
00:29:09.75\00:29:14.89
"thou Me? " What
did He mean "thou Me? "
00:29:15.09\00:29:17.58
Was he persecuting Christ?
00:29:17.79\00:29:20.28
No, he was
persecuting Christ's people.
00:29:20.48\00:29:23.24
Same difference in it.
00:29:23.44\00:29:25.81
That's what this text means.
00:29:26.01\00:29:27.52
"Where our Lord was crucified, "
00:29:27.72\00:29:29.74
applying it to what they
were doing to God's people.
00:29:29.94\00:29:33.32
They were persecuting them.
00:29:33.42\00:29:34.54
This was what was
happening to them.
00:29:34.74\00:29:36.66
This was the Age of Terror.
00:29:36.86\00:29:41.07
Interesting. I told you
remember a date, didn't I?
00:29:56.98\00:30:00.78
Huh?
00:30:00.98\00:30:02.57
Told you remember
January the 21st, 1535.
00:30:02.77\00:30:08.08
Exactly 258 years
00:30:09.14\00:30:14.09
when France
rejected the Reformation
00:30:14.29\00:30:18.42
that now they have
thrown out the Word of God.
00:30:18.62\00:30:22.18
Now folks, the one
she is referring to here
00:30:37.30\00:30:39.91
was when the king and
this procession walked through
00:30:40.11\00:30:42.93
the streets of Paris and pointed
out the homes of the reformers
00:30:43.03\00:30:46.40
and they arrested
them and crucified them
00:30:46.60\00:30:48.37
and burned them at the stake.
00:30:48.48\00:30:49.88
That's what she's
talking... She said now
00:30:50.08\00:30:51.77
it's 258 years to the very
day. Here is another procession
00:30:51.97\00:30:56.44
that is walking
through the streets of Paris.
00:30:56.64\00:30:59.36
OK? Watch:
00:30:59.56\00:31:01.93
258 years before the king walked
through the streets of Paris
00:31:09.52\00:31:13.69
and pointed out the homes.
00:31:13.79\00:31:15.30
Now the king is
also the chief figure...
00:31:15.50\00:31:19.06
They took the king himself.
00:31:47.21\00:31:49.79
Beheaded him right there.
00:31:49.99\00:31:53.22
You see, all
these people could see
00:31:53.42\00:31:56.09
was how they had been treated.
00:31:56.29\00:31:58.49
Let me try to
give you a little idea.
00:31:58.70\00:32:01.62
At this time, folks,
00:32:01.82\00:32:03.30
there are 200,000
00:32:03.50\00:32:08.93
people in Paris
00:32:09.79\00:32:12.12
that live by begging.
00:32:12.33\00:32:17.56
That... that's the monks.
00:32:18.92\00:32:21.82
That's the way they lived.
00:32:22.95\00:32:24.27
At this time, there is 150,000
00:32:24.47\00:32:30.11
people in Paris
that are the wealthy.
00:32:30.31\00:32:36.38
And they're
exempt from all taxes.
00:32:36.58\00:32:41.91
They're exempt
from all these things.
00:32:42.11\00:32:44.03
And so all these people can see
00:32:44.23\00:32:46.29
is what's there...
and so they have rebelled.
00:32:46.49\00:32:49.24
A revolution has taken place,
00:32:49.44\00:32:50.82
and they've gotten rid of God
00:32:51.02\00:32:52.94
and they're getting
rid of the government.
00:32:53.14\00:32:54.87
Interesting.
00:33:08.96\00:33:10.85
The two witnesses
are going to lie there
00:33:11.05\00:33:16.00
in the streets of Paris
00:33:16.20\00:33:17.47
for 3-1/2 days.
00:33:17.68\00:33:20.16
They will not be
allowed to put in the grave.
00:33:20.36\00:33:22.95
Now to be put in the
grave meant they'd be
00:33:23.16\00:33:24.87
totally,
completely done away with.
00:33:25.07\00:33:26.63
It is always amazing to me
00:33:38.78\00:33:42.50
how that if
somebody makes enough noise
00:33:42.70\00:33:48.58
and shouts and carries on
00:33:48.78\00:33:51.96
that the people will come
00:33:52.16\00:33:54.58
and quite a large
number will follow.
00:33:54.78\00:33:57.63
Just... all you've got to do
00:33:57.83\00:34:00.73
is shout loud
enough, make enough noise,
00:34:00.93\00:34:02.87
and there's some
people that will follow.
00:34:03.14\00:34:04.64
And that's what France did.
00:34:04.84\00:34:06.94
They just shouted
out to the whole world
00:34:07.14\00:34:09.06
how wonderful they were.
00:34:09.26\00:34:11.16
How brilliant that
they were now that they had
00:34:11.37\00:34:14.51
the Age of Reason. They had
tossed off all the shackles.
00:34:14.61\00:34:18.17
They were no
longer bound by this.
00:34:18.38\00:34:20.12
And other nations, if
you please, sent them gifts
00:34:20.33\00:34:24.00
and told them
how wise they were.
00:34:24.20\00:34:26.45
Literally what happened.
00:34:26.65\00:34:29.93
Believed that they could
do this and get by with it.
00:34:30.93\00:34:36.83
After 3-1/2 days
00:34:48.19\00:34:51.51
those two
witnesses came back to life.
00:34:51.71\00:34:54.65
You see, France
00:34:56.59\00:35:01.06
all of a sudden realized
00:35:01.26\00:35:03.70
that she had crossed the mark.
00:35:03.90\00:35:06.54
That if she continued
on the way she was going
00:35:06.75\00:35:11.64
the nation would
be forever ruined.
00:35:11.84\00:35:15.05
That there was no hope in
the steps they were taking.
00:35:15.25\00:35:19.18
And so they decided
to put the Bible back.
00:35:19.38\00:35:25.28
You see, this book has
been around a long time
00:35:27.56\00:35:33.22
and it hasn't missed yet, folks.
00:35:35.46\00:35:38.81
It hasn't missed yet.
00:35:39.01\00:35:41.32
What says the Bible,
00:35:41.52\00:35:44.19
the blessed Bible?
00:35:44.40\00:35:46.71
This should my only question be.
00:35:46.91\00:35:50.83
Prophecy is fulfilling;
00:35:50.86\00:35:53.57
the time of the end is nearing.
00:35:53.77\00:35:57.78
What says the Word of God to me?
00:35:57.98\00:36:01.90
That's what
we've got to find out.
00:36:02.10\00:36:03.61
And as you get into the
Word of God and you see it,
00:36:03.81\00:36:06.26
you can see it
fulfilled so accurately.
00:36:06.47\00:36:09.27
Watch what happens here:
00:36:09.48\00:36:12.14
Prophetic word
made absolutely sure.
00:36:26.88\00:36:31.82
January the 21st, 1793,
00:36:32.02\00:36:37.54
France voted to do
away with the Word of God
00:36:37.74\00:36:42.50
and it was gathered up
and burned and thrown out
00:36:42.70\00:36:46.88
and people did away with it.
00:36:47.08\00:36:48.58
That 3-1/2 years that ensued
00:36:48.78\00:36:52.79
was so horrible
00:36:54.10\00:36:56.13
that at the end of three years
00:36:56.33\00:36:59.68
the legislature decided
they'd better put it back.
00:36:59.88\00:37:05.19
And so they voted to
put the Word of God back.
00:37:05.39\00:37:10.66
Strange... that was voted
00:37:10.86\00:37:16.00
and then for some
unexplainable reason
00:37:16.20\00:37:20.20
it was tabled.
00:37:20.40\00:37:22.75
I mean they voted to
do it and then tabled it.
00:37:24.10\00:37:27.08
And it lay there on the
table, nothing was done with it,
00:37:27.28\00:37:32.63
for six months.
00:37:32.83\00:37:35.57
Don't know if you're
catching what's happening here.
00:37:35.77\00:37:38.93
But on June the 10th, 1796,
00:37:39.13\00:37:43.88
the French assembly
acted on it and put it back in
00:37:44.08\00:37:48.46
as they had taken it
out. Exactly 3-1/2 years.
00:37:48.66\00:37:54.56
Exactly 3-1/2 years...
00:37:54.76\00:37:57.38
just exactly as the Word
of God said, it took place.
00:37:57.58\00:38:02.31
I can tell you...
you can depend on it.
00:38:05.90\00:38:11.87
You know,
prophecy after prophecy
00:38:12.97\00:38:18.94
has fulfilled.
00:38:19.14\00:38:21.84
Without
question, they've happened
00:38:22.04\00:38:25.70
just as God said they would.
00:38:25.81\00:38:27.86
Dear friend, I recommend to you
00:38:28.06\00:38:31.45
the Word of God as something
you can build your faith on.
00:38:31.65\00:38:36.35
You can believe in it.
00:38:36.55\00:38:38.40
Now it says:
00:38:38.60\00:38:40.82
Now here it says that
this loud voice is speaking
00:38:49.24\00:38:52.51
and tells these two witnesses
00:38:52.71\00:38:55.38
"Come up here. "
00:38:55.59\00:38:56.78
And they ascended
to heaven in a cloud
00:38:56.98\00:38:59.92
and their enemies saw them.
00:39:00.02\00:39:02.46
Strange.
00:39:02.66\00:39:04.63
This book, folks,
all during this time
00:39:04.83\00:39:08.30
that I've been talking to you
very, very few people had this.
00:39:08.45\00:39:13.46
I mean if you had a
Bible you were a very, very
00:39:13.66\00:39:18.73
fortunate person.
00:39:18.93\00:39:20.69
In fact, until
you hit the 1500's,
00:39:20.89\00:39:24.16
the Bible was
only written by hand.
00:39:24.36\00:39:27.71
Copies made... hand copies.
00:39:27.91\00:39:29.81
That's the only
way you could get it.
00:39:30.01\00:39:31.57
When we hit the 1500's,
you have the Gutenberg press.
00:39:31.77\00:39:35.62
And then they began
to make copies of it, but
00:39:35.82\00:39:39.37
that was very
tedious and a long process.
00:39:39.40\00:39:43.11
So very few people had a
Bible. They just didn't have it.
00:39:43.31\00:39:46.43
When? When did they
vote to put it back?
00:39:49.41\00:39:51.87
June 10... right?
00:39:52.08\00:39:55.04
OK. 1796?
00:39:55.24\00:39:59.09
Look at this:
00:39:59.29\00:40:00.91
I mean, just a
matter, folks, of eight years
00:40:09.48\00:40:13.09
from the time
that they voted it back
00:40:13.29\00:40:15.92
you have the British Bible
Society come into existence,
00:40:16.12\00:40:19.18
and all of a sudden the Bible
is made available to people
00:40:19.38\00:40:22.19
all over Europe.
00:40:22.39\00:40:23.92
I mean, they accepted the
Word of God and it was printed
00:40:24.12\00:40:27.23
and put out so people
could get it like it had never
00:40:27.43\00:40:29.91
been done before.
00:40:30.01\00:40:31.68
Told those two
witnesses, the Word of God,
00:40:31.88\00:40:34.35
"Come up here. "
00:40:34.55\00:40:35.58
They came up and they saw it.
00:40:35.78\00:40:38.17
Look:
00:40:38.37\00:40:40.91
All of a sudden the Word
of God had been given impetus
00:40:46.15\00:40:50.80
like it had never had before.
00:40:51.00\00:40:52.99
And men and women could
get the Word of God and read it
00:40:53.19\00:40:56.28
and see it. Find out for their
own self what the Word of God
00:40:56.48\00:41:00.08
said to them.
00:41:00.19\00:41:01.19
Up until this time,
00:41:01.98\00:41:03.17
nothing was done,
folks, about foreign missions.
00:41:06.08\00:41:09.83
I mean, they just didn't send
00:41:10.03\00:41:12.75
missionaries anywhere.
00:41:12.85\00:41:14.00
That just wasn't something
00:41:15.28\00:41:16.30
that happened.
00:41:16.40\00:41:17.40
Watch. This is what happens
00:41:17.50\00:41:19.94
at this same time. I'm
talking about exact same time:
00:41:20.15\00:41:23.05
Foreign missions begin to move
out, and the gospel is taken
00:41:37.18\00:41:41.12
to people all over the
world who never heard of it,
00:41:41.33\00:41:44.33
never had an opportunity
to hear the Word of God.
00:41:44.53\00:41:46.99
And so those two witnesses
00:41:47.19\00:41:50.54
were caught up...
"Come up here... "
00:41:50.75\00:41:53.60
and they saw them.
00:41:53.80\00:41:56.91
What a change had taken place!
00:41:57.11\00:41:59.84
And with that
act, the persecution
00:42:11.88\00:42:16.08
that had been put
out by the papal power
00:42:16.29\00:42:20.31
came to an end.
00:42:20.51\00:42:22.81
And it says:
00:42:23.01\00:42:25.12
Now let me tell
you something, folks.
00:42:34.74\00:42:37.17
Even with something small
00:42:38.85\00:42:42.41
in the way of doing
something wrong... a sin...
00:42:42.61\00:42:46.14
or on a large scale -
which this would have been
00:42:46.34\00:42:50.03
on a large scale - any
time you have an action
00:42:50.23\00:42:54.69
like that, it sets into motion
00:42:54.89\00:42:58.97
events that will
affect things for centuries.
00:42:59.78\00:43:05.69
In other words,
certain things that happens...
00:43:08.06\00:43:10.49
So it says when this beast
00:43:10.69\00:43:12.40
rose up out of
the bottomless pit
00:43:12.60\00:43:14.23
and killed those two witnesses,
00:43:14.43\00:43:16.78
it set into action certain
events that have come down
00:43:16.98\00:43:21.96
through time that
affect you and me tonight.
00:43:22.17\00:43:25.54
That affect our lives...
00:43:25.84\00:43:28.12
and probably will until the
coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:43:28.43\00:43:32.59
Because with the
writings of Thomas Paine,
00:43:34.14\00:43:38.93
Age of Reason,
00:43:38.96\00:43:41.76
you find that people
begin to have real doubts
00:43:41.96\00:43:46.40
about the Word of God.
00:43:46.60\00:43:48.17
They begin to wonder if
it was right, if it was true.
00:43:48.37\00:43:51.52
And you find that
certain things begin to happen.
00:43:51.72\00:43:55.86
His writings for the first
time attacked the Word of God
00:43:56.06\00:44:01.93
and said: "Ah,
you can't believe it.
00:44:02.13\00:44:04.97
Probably a lot
of it is fables. "
00:44:05.17\00:44:08.32
And because he
attacked the Word of God
00:44:08.52\00:44:13.26
something began to happen.
00:44:13.47\00:44:15.68
Because he had a student
by the name of George Hegel.
00:44:16.54\00:44:21.79
Look at the dates:
00:44:21.99\00:44:23.05
George Hegel, folks,
00:44:27.48\00:44:29.45
is the Father of modern atheism
in philosophy and theology.
00:44:29.65\00:44:34.83
He's the one
that started all this.
00:44:35.03\00:44:38.48
If you've ever heard of
new theology and all that,
00:44:38.68\00:44:42.02
if you can trace
it all the way back,
00:44:42.22\00:44:43.87
it goes to George Hegel.
00:44:44.07\00:44:46.00
He's the one that sat down
and wrote and put things there
00:44:46.20\00:44:50.82
saying: "You really
can't be sure about this.
00:44:51.02\00:44:54.49
It probably isn't true. "
00:44:54.69\00:44:56.68
Or... "All the writings in
this book aren't inspired. "
00:44:58.19\00:45:04.14
And you find that
these doubts were put there
00:45:04.34\00:45:08.56
and he taught them.
00:45:08.76\00:45:10.24
Now, he just didn't teach them.
00:45:11.84\00:45:15.47
He had a student that
studied under George Hegel,
00:45:16.51\00:45:21.55
and this student's
name was Charles Darwin.
00:45:22.66\00:45:28.61
I'm trying to get across to you
00:45:28.91\00:45:32.37
when this beast rose up
out of the bottomless pit,
00:45:32.57\00:45:35.00
killed those two witnesses,
00:45:35.20\00:45:36.90
it set in motion
actions that take place
00:45:37.10\00:45:40.54
that are coming clear
on down. And Charles Darwin
00:45:40.74\00:45:44.02
said: "Oh, there's no God. "
00:45:44.22\00:45:46.75
Said: "Strictly the
origin of the species. "
00:45:46.95\00:45:51.63
Evolution.
00:45:51.83\00:45:53.25
This is how man came about.
00:45:53.45\00:45:55.74
He's the result of evolution.
00:45:55.85\00:45:58.82
It... it really,
really concerns me, folks,
00:46:00.88\00:46:04.81
what we do here in this country
00:46:09.69\00:46:12.67
and what we believe...
00:46:12.87\00:46:15.39
particularly in
the area of education.
00:46:15.59\00:46:18.88
It bothers me greatly...
00:46:19.08\00:46:21.51
because I have never in my life
00:46:21.71\00:46:25.97
found people
that were more bigoted
00:46:26.17\00:46:29.91
than those that deal
in the area of science.
00:46:30.11\00:46:34.17
They don't seem to be
able to open their mind
00:46:36.72\00:46:40.97
and to look and to
reason concerning things,
00:46:41.17\00:46:44.65
and they believe things
that are absolutely contrary
00:46:44.85\00:46:48.79
to all kinds of evidence.
00:46:48.99\00:46:50.60
Let me take you a step farther.
00:46:50.90\00:46:53.18
Not only do you have
Charles Darwin teaching this,
00:46:53.21\00:46:56.23
Charles Darwin had a
friend that studied with him.
00:46:56.43\00:47:00.87
His name was Karl Marx.
00:47:02.32\00:47:04.58
Karl Marx said:
"There's no God. "
00:47:04.78\00:47:09.74
Are you looking at the dates?
00:47:09.94\00:47:11.53
Yeah. He said:
"There's no God. "
00:47:11.73\00:47:15.39
And so through the
writings of Karl Marx
00:47:15.59\00:47:19.14
you have a whole government
set up that is godless.
00:47:19.34\00:47:23.54
And Communism came into
effect and began to take hold
00:47:23.74\00:47:29.62
and began to
influence the whole world.
00:47:29.83\00:47:32.08
You know, 70 years...
00:47:37.20\00:47:39.38
70 years they tried Communism.
00:47:39.58\00:47:43.58
And it failed...
fell flat on its face.
00:47:43.78\00:47:46.96
And what disturbs me
00:47:47.26\00:47:50.10
is you can go
over to Russia today
00:47:50.30\00:47:53.22
and they will invite
you into their universities
00:47:53.42\00:47:58.61
to talk about God.
00:47:58.81\00:48:00.82
But I come back
here to my own country
00:48:02.00\00:48:04.93
and they won't let you in the
university to talk about God.
00:48:05.13\00:48:08.00
You know, we
need to stop and think
00:48:10.31\00:48:13.38
through what's
happening and where we are.
00:48:13.58\00:48:16.09
But these men
influenced, and these two men -
00:48:16.19\00:48:19.93
Charles Darwin, Karl Marx -
00:48:20.13\00:48:22.60
they had a student
that studied under them.
00:48:22.80\00:48:26.57
His name was Sigmund Freud.
00:48:26.87\00:48:31.35
Sigmund Freud... No God.
00:48:31.75\00:48:36.30
Can't go by this book.
00:48:36.60\00:48:39.08
You really need to
go by how you feel.
00:48:39.28\00:48:42.28
You know? New morality.
00:48:43.96\00:48:46.75
And all that comes in, and
we find that type of teaching
00:48:46.95\00:48:50.98
being taught today.
00:48:51.18\00:48:52.62
It's come down to the
place that it affects our lives
00:48:52.82\00:48:56.40
in a very, very
definite and real way.
00:48:56.60\00:49:00.42
Well, we find
that the sixth beast -
00:49:01.54\00:49:06.06
Atheistic Communism -
00:49:06.26\00:49:08.67
went from 1798 AD
00:49:08.88\00:49:11.48
to 1991 AD.
00:49:11.68\00:49:15.32
That was the time that
Atheistic Communism ruled.
00:49:15.52\00:49:20.12
OK? That's the sixth beast.
00:49:21.13\00:49:25.31
The one that we talked about
00:49:25.51\00:49:27.16
the night The One Is.
00:49:27.36\00:49:28.97
And by the way, folks, let me
00:49:29.17\00:49:30.36
tell you, when you're looking at
00:49:30.46\00:49:31.88
those beasts: Five have fallen,
00:49:31.98\00:49:33.51
one is, one is yet to come,
00:49:33.62\00:49:34.96
you've got to remember
you've got to look at it from
00:49:34.99\00:49:37.38
John's viewpoint... not yours.
00:49:37.58\00:49:40.14
That's very, very important.
00:49:41.19\00:49:43.43
You have to look at it from
John's viewpoint, not yours.
00:49:43.64\00:49:47.46
And he's saying:
"Five have fallen,
00:49:47.66\00:49:50.55
one is, one is yet to come. "
00:49:50.75\00:49:54.71
Well, we've looked at them.
00:50:06.19\00:50:08.09
Babylon... which was the lion.
00:50:08.29\00:50:11.57
Medo-Persia: the bear.
00:50:11.60\00:50:14.64
Greece: the leopard.
00:50:14.84\00:50:17.96
Pagan Rome: the dragon.
00:50:18.16\00:50:20.40
Papal Rome: the
beast of Revelation 13.
00:50:20.60\00:50:24.77
And tonight the
beast of Revelation 11...
00:50:24.97\00:50:28.12
Atheistic Communism.
00:50:28.32\00:50:30.38
Those are the six.
00:50:30.58\00:50:32.45
We have one more to look at,
00:50:32.65\00:50:35.90
because it's the seventh one.
00:50:36.10\00:50:38.59
And it said this about it:
00:50:38.79\00:50:40.59
And in our next presentation
00:50:44.99\00:50:46.44
we will be looking at that two
00:50:46.64\00:50:48.41
horned beast of Revelation 13
00:50:48.61\00:50:51.15
that you can see what
the scripture says about it.
00:50:51.36\00:50:53.48
Because it says:
00:50:53.68\00:50:55.15
the two horned beast...
00:50:57.00\00:50:58.26
I told you when we started
00:51:02.66\00:51:05.29
I was going to
take you step by step
00:51:05.49\00:51:09.41
right on down to our day.
00:51:09.61\00:51:12.24
And that's where we are.
00:51:12.44\00:51:14.27
See? Our day... the
time that are living in.
00:51:14.48\00:51:17.89
And it says that "when
this two horned beast comes
00:51:18.09\00:51:20.64
he will continue a short time. "
00:51:20.84\00:51:23.72
You and I can take God's Word.
00:51:23.93\00:51:26.29
We can stand on it.
00:51:26.49\00:51:28.16
We can believe
it. It won't fail.
00:51:28.36\00:51:30.53
Give me the Bible,
00:51:32.69\00:51:37.33
star of gladness gleaming,
00:51:37.53\00:51:41.54
to cheer the wanderer
00:51:41.85\00:51:46.38
lone and tempest tossed,
00:51:46.58\00:51:50.99
No storm can hide that
00:51:51.19\00:51:55.85
peaceful radiance beaming,
00:51:55.95\00:52:00.20
Since Jesus came
00:52:00.40\00:52:04.23
to seek and save the lost.
00:52:04.43\00:52:10.13
Give me the Bible -
00:52:10.44\00:52:15.05
holy message shining,
00:52:15.25\00:52:19.51
Thy light shall guide me
00:52:19.71\00:52:24.52
in the narrow way.
00:52:24.72\00:52:29.21
Precept and promise,
00:52:29.84\00:52:33.97
law and love combining,
00:52:34.17\00:52:38.65
'Till night shall vanish
00:52:38.95\00:52:44.37
in eternal
00:52:44.67\00:52:48.47
day.
00:52:48.57\00:52:52.56
Let us pray.
00:52:53.57\00:52:54.88
Father in Heaven,
00:52:55.72\00:52:58.17
as we have seen in history
00:52:58.37\00:53:00.79
what happens when
man forsakes Your Word,
00:53:00.99\00:53:06.75
forsakes Your law,
00:53:06.95\00:53:09.22
decides that he
no longer needs You.
00:53:09.42\00:53:12.32
Pray Lord that
each of us here tonight
00:53:12.53\00:53:16.76
and those that are
watching by television
00:53:16.96\00:53:19.34
or listening on the radio
00:53:19.54\00:53:21.06
that tonight they may decide
that above all things else
00:53:21.26\00:53:26.71
they will stay with You...
commit their lives to You,
00:53:26.92\00:53:31.54
follow You.
00:53:31.57\00:53:33.70
Lord help us to realize
00:53:33.90\00:53:37.05
the importance of
standing on the Word of God,
00:53:37.25\00:53:42.11
following You in all that we do.
00:53:42.31\00:53:44.51
Bless each one. Give them wisdom
00:53:44.71\00:53:48.19
as they read Your Word, Lord,
that they may understand it.
00:53:48.39\00:53:51.65
That they may
examine their own hearts.
00:53:51.85\00:53:55.00
That they may be willing to
walk in the light of Your Word,
00:53:55.20\00:53:59.26
and all of us,
each one, may day by day
00:53:59.46\00:54:04.32
look to You and be
ready at Your soon return.
00:54:04.52\00:54:08.76
For this we ask in
Christ's name, Amen.
00:54:09.06\00:54:12.91
Well, we're continuing
00:54:14.79\00:54:17.06
down through the prophecy there
00:54:17.26\00:54:20.57
in Revelation 17.
00:54:20.77\00:54:22.35
And so we've talked about
00:54:22.55\00:54:24.36
six of them.
00:54:24.57\00:54:26.34
Our next
presentation is the seventh one,
00:54:26.54\00:54:28.60
and there is an eighth, folks.
00:54:28.80\00:54:31.20
And there's and eighth one also.
00:54:31.51\00:54:34.10
So we're going to take a look
at all those in Revelation 17.
00:54:34.30\00:54:37.10
And when we're
through with this series,
00:54:37.30\00:54:39.96
you should
understand exactly where we are
00:54:40.16\00:54:42.72
in the stream of
time... what's taking place.
00:54:42.92\00:54:45.18
So we appreciate you being here.
00:54:45.38\00:54:47.60
We hope that it's
opening up God's Word for you,
00:54:47.80\00:54:51.08
you're understanding it.
00:54:51.28\00:54:52.48
Stay close to the
Lord Jesus Christ.
00:54:52.68\00:54:55.21
A coal miner of old
00:54:57.04\00:54:58.44
would leave his family every day
00:54:58.64\00:55:00.38
and descend into
the depths of the earth
00:55:00.58\00:55:02.63
with the certain knowledge
that the smallest mistake
00:55:02.83\00:55:06.14
could keep him and others
from ever seeing daylight again.
00:55:06.34\00:55:09.71
Walking along in the dark,
00:55:09.91\00:55:11.54
he could only rely
upon his feeble oil lamp
00:55:11.74\00:55:15.49
to keep him alive.
00:55:15.69\00:55:16.99
He faced many
dangers down there.
00:55:17.19\00:55:18.90
Rockfalls, flooding, fires.
00:55:19.10\00:55:22.54
But perhaps the
danger he feared the most
00:55:22.74\00:55:25.56
was the one that
he could not see.
00:55:25.76\00:55:28.02
They called it
chokedamp or blackdamp:
00:55:28.22\00:55:31.10
an unbreathable mixture of gases
00:55:31.30\00:55:33.81
that could quickly
snuff out his life.
00:55:34.01\00:55:36.51
Imagine for a moment the
terror he felt when he realized
00:55:36.71\00:55:40.30
he had hit a
pocket of blackdamp.
00:55:40.50\00:55:42.62
The sudden drop in
oxygen would put out his lamp
00:55:42.82\00:55:46.05
leaving him in terrifying
darkness, fumbling in vain
00:55:46.25\00:55:50.29
to relight it before
he lost consciousness.
00:55:50.49\00:55:53.45
Then in the late 1800's,
00:55:54.40\00:55:56.79
a bright new light began
to shine in the dark world.
00:55:56.99\00:56:00.87
Using marble-sized
pellets of calcium carbide
00:56:01.07\00:56:05.03
and a few drops of water,
00:56:05.18\00:56:06.56
this new lamp produced a gas
which burned six times brighter.
00:56:06.76\00:56:11.56
Not only did it make
his job a whole lot easier
00:56:11.76\00:56:14.64
but it also saved lives.
00:56:14.84\00:56:16.92
You can see this tiny reflector
00:56:17.12\00:56:19.42
could focus that beam of light
00:56:19.62\00:56:21.54
on the roof of a mine so that he
could detect dangerous cracks.
00:56:21.74\00:56:25.62
The lamp was
also easy to re-light.
00:56:25.82\00:56:28.37
And since it
required far less oxygen,
00:56:28.57\00:56:31.24
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
00:56:45.00\00:56:48.42
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
00:57:12.62\00:57:16.36
of our hearts. It focuses
our attention on Jesus Christ...
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our only hope for salvation.
00:57:20.25\00:57:22.34
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.
00:57:34.75\00:57:37.94
It's our
mission. It's our passion.
00:57:38.14\00:57:40.38
Won't you join us?
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Please consider what you can do
00:57:43.71\00:57:45.57
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
to bring the Blessed Hope
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to millions all
around the world.
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