As we look around this
world, we see lots of problems
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and there are Christians
and Muslims alike who just know
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that we are
living in the final days
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of human history.
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Does God have a final
end time apocalyptic people?
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Yes, He does.
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And we'll talk about that
next on Good News for Muslims.
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Welcome to the grand
finale of a 13-part series
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dealing with Islam and
Christianity, the Bible,
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the Quran, Muhammad and Jesus.
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And this is it.
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And today we're
going to talk about
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identifying God's
apocalyptic end time people.
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So, Shahbaz, are you
ready for the last program?
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I am.
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And this is it.
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Okay.
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We look around the world
today, and there's fires,
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terrible fires,
recently in California,
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hurricanes, storms,
floods, earthquakes,
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violence, sexual confusion,
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and sexual
excess, gender confusion.
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You know, the list
just goes on and on,
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environmental
decay, emotional rage,
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divisions in society,
families are being torn apart.
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There's just so much going on.
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And there's so many of us,
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that is we look around
and we see all these things,
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we just, we have this sense,
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that time is running out.
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And these are the
final days of earth's history
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before the end of
the world, whatever,
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you know, that means
to different peoples.
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The Bible
certainly does talk about
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the end of the world.
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So why don't you give
us just a quick overview,
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a recap of how Muslims,
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you know, what they think of
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when they think
of the end times?
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What is the Islamic
view of the last days?
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Generally, the Quran
or the apocalyptic view
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of the last days is
not even in the Quran.
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The Quran doesn't
say anything about it.
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Nothing? It's
silent, completely silent.
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There is no prophecies about
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what's going to
happen in the last days.
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Only in the
Hadith you find these.
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And almost all the Hadith
agree on this one scenario
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of how the end
time apocalyptic events
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will shape and take place,
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and I'm just going to
go quickly through them
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and share that with the viewers.
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Okay.
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In the Hadith, it mentions
that in the last days...
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And when you say the Hadith,
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are you referring to
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just a general
body of literature?
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Are there individual Hadith?
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There are several Hadiths,
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even the Sunnis have their own
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and then the
Shias have their own
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and there are several Hadith
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within these bodies as well.
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And typically, they try
not to contradict each other.
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So there are Hadiths
written by several individuals,
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even about as far
as 1,200 years ago,
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and we have Hadith
that are more recent.
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And so, it all depends.
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But they agree
upon this one scenario
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that how the end time
events will take place.
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And they believe
that at the end, Mahdi,
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who is, Mahdi is actually
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the messianic figure in Islam.
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And how do you say it?
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Mahdi.
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Mahdi And Mahdi, he
disappeared at a very young age.
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And Muslims can't
tell you where he went,
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they believe that
he's with God in heaven,
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and that he will
come at the end as judge.
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He will come as
judge and when he appears,
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it's the end of the
world as we know it.
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And Jesus will come with him,
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but Jesus will
be second in rank.
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Jesus will serve
Mahdi and his purpose.
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So they believe that
Jesus will descend in Damascus
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when He comes.
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He will literally
actually land there
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in that location.
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Is that where
Mahdi comes, goes too?
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Yes, and they will come there,
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and it also says that
Mahdi will judge the world,
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he will be the one
that has the preeminence,
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he will judge the world.
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Jesus will serve
Mahdi and do his bidding,
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Jesus will, by a
breath killed dajjal.
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Dajjal is the
Islamic Antichrist.
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With a breath, He will kill him.
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And we do not know
exactly who Dajjal is,
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his identity is a mystery.
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Jesus will kill
70,000 Jews only.
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And I'm not
sure why that number,
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even the Islamic scholars
can't explain why the 70,000.
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Jesus will also
destroy all pigs,
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all swine on
earth will be killed,
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there won't be one left.
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For some reason,
Allah made the swine,
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but then I guess He
has changed His mind
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and then they will be wiped out.
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And Jesus will break
all the crosses on earth.
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And as a result
of all these actions,
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the people of the
world at that time
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will all accept Islam
as the only true religion.
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And this is at
the end of the world,
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the wicked will be destroyed,
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and they will go
into everlasting fire,
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and everybody that is saved
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will have a chance at that time,
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many people will have a
second chance at that time,
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they will accept Islam,
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and they will live
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on this earth.
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And then it says that
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Jesus will live
for only 40 years,
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and He will get
married during that time,
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He will have children,
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and finally He will die
and be buried in Medina.
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That's the end of Christ.
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Now what happens
to Him after that,
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I don't know if He
goes to heaven or not,
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it's silent.
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But that is a
picture of the apocalypse
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according to the
Hadith in Islamic tradition.
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What percentage of
Muslims today do you think
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understand that basic scenario?
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Almost all of them. Really?
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It's pretty much
accepted in across as that.
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And that's in different branches
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and east, west, it's the same?
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Yeah.
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And in this view,
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is there a
final group of Muslims
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at the very end that are,
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you know, kind of like a remnant
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or faithful group?
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It will be the ones
that do the will of Allah,
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follow the will of Allah,
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and they fulfill
the five pillars,
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and they obey the Sharia law.
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Especially those who have
died in the cause of Allah,
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or killed themselves
in the cause of Allah,
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they will for sure
be part of the saved
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and they will have 70 virgins.
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Well, let's take a look
at the Book of Revelation.
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Okay.
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You've described the Hadith view
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of the end times.
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And let's take a
look at just briefly,
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I mean, there's
so much to cover.
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But let's just focus
on a few of the highlights
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of what the Book
of Revelation says,
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which is a very different view.
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Yes.
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Revelation, I
mean, I've never heard
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really what you've just shared.
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And I've been reading my
Bible for almost 40 years
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and I give seminars on
the Book of Revelation.
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I've written books on
the Book of Revelation.
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White Horse Media teaches
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all kinds of
programs on Revelation,
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and that scenario is something
I've never really heard
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and I haven't read it
here, that's for sure.
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Now, Revelation 12:17
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is definitely an
apocalyptic verse,
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which says that "The dragon,"
which represents the devil,
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"The dragon was
angry with the woman,"
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which the woman
represents God's people.
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"And he went to make
war with the remnant."
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The remnant is
the final little bit,
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the final group,
"Remnant of her seed,
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which," and then
their characteristics are,
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"they keep the
commandments of God,
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and they have the
testimony of Jesus Christ."
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So this verse describes
where the battle lines are,
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that the devil is making war
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on a final remnant
group of followers of Jesus,
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who are commandment keepers.
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And as we've gone
over the Ten Commandments
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in the last couple of programs,
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and we talked about
the seventh day Sabbath,
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Revelation
pinpoints a final remnant
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who are doing that.
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They're keeping God's law
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and they're
following Jesus Christ
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and the battle is on
concerning these people,
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the rage of the devil.
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And, you know, if any
of us were to take a stand,
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or if we do take
a stand for Jesus,
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and for all the
Ten Commandments,
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we want to put God first.
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No idols, don't
take His name in vain,
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keep the seventh
day Sabbath holy,
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honor our parents,
don't murder, don't hate,
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don't commit
adultery, we're sexually pure,
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we don't steal, we
don't lie, we don't covet,
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we love God with
all of our hearts,
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and we love our
neighbor as ourselves.
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I mean, that is a
declaration of war
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to the devil.
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The devil, he hates
those kind of people,
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because he's a
commandment breaker.
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He was the first
commandment breaker.
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And he hates Jesus.
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He hates Jesus.
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Now, let's go to Revelation
14, because Chapter 14.
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And we don't obviously have time
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to go into all these details,
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but we'll just
introduce this topic.
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Revelation 14:6-12
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describes three
angels flying in the sky.
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And these angels
are symbolic of people
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of this remnant people,
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who give these
messages to the world.
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The first angel in verse 6,
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"I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel,"
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which is the good news of Jesus,
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that Jesus was born of a virgin
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by the Holy Spirit,
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He grew up, He
lived a holy life,
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He never sinned, no violence,
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showed the infinite
love of God to all people,
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to Jews, and
Samaritans, and Romans,
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and tax
collectors, and the poor,
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and the rich, everybody.
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And then at the end of His life,
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He made the big decision
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to take the sin of
humanity upon Himself
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in fulfillment of Isaiah 53,
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that prophecy that
the Lord would lay on Him
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the sin of us all.
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And then He suffered in
the Garden of Gethsemane,
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He went through a
whole series of trials,
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He was beaten, He was whipped,
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He was crowned
with a crown of thorns,
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and finally, He was
lifted up on a cross.
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And as we talked about this,
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the evidence from Scripture
is that He really did die.
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He said, "It is
finished," and He died.
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And He was buried
in that dark tomb.
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And all the evidence
on the eyewitness accounts
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is that He really
did rise from the dead,
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and went to heaven.
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And that's the good news,
the good news for all of us.
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Good news for Muslims,
good news for Christians,
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good news for atheists,
good news for agnostics,
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and everybody else.
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And anyway, "The
first angel has the gospel
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to preach to those
who dwell upon the earth,
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to every
nation, kindred, tongue,
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and people all
around the world."
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And then in
verse 7, he announces
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that we're living
in a judgment time.
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"Fear God give glory to Him,
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for the hour of
His judgment has come."
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And then He calls
upon us to worship Him
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that made heaven
and earth and the sea,
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and the fountains of waters,
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which is a call to
worship the Creator,
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which ultimately is a
call to keep the Sabbath.
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As we talked about
the fourth commandment,
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in six days, the Lord
made heaven and earth,
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the sea and everything in it,
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and He rested
on the seventh day.
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So there's a call
to accept the gospel,
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call to realize
when a judgement time,
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and a call to keep the Sabbath.
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And then the
second angel in verse 8
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warns about Babylon falling.
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"Babylon is fallen, is fallen,
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because she made all the nations
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drink the wine of the
wrath of her fornication."
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There's global
deception all around the world,
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this mysterious
apostate organization
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called Babylon.
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And then in verses 9 to 11,
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there's a
warning about the beast
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and his image
and getting his mark,
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the mark of the beast,
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which is the
final apocalyptic test
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at the end of time,
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where everybody
has to make a decision,
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whose side are we on?
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And then there's a
warning of judgment
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that comes upon those
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who get the mark
in verse 10, and 11.
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And then verse 12, says,
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"Here's the
patience of the saints,
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here are they that
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus,"
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which is the same people
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that are described
in Revelation 12:17.
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Amen. The remnant people.
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That's right.
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So the remnant is described
at the end of Chapter 12.
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And in Chapter 14,
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we have the same
people giving these messages
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all over the world.
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Amazing.
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And, Shahbaz, if you
really look at the landscape
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of the world's religions,
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how many movements
are there in this world
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that are keeping all
10 of the commandments,
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including the Sabbath,
00:14:22.36\00:14:23.83
and that are
teaching from the Bible,
00:14:23.86\00:14:28.06
from Revelation,
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these three angels'
messages to every nation,
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tribe, tongue and
people all over the world?
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How many are doing that?
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None, except the
Seventh-day Adventist.
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You're sure? I am positive.
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I am positive for
more than 30 years
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I've studied it.
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And all I know is the
Adventists are doing it.
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So you were part of Islam.
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You grew up in Iran.
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And God worked in your
life as you've told your story.
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And you made a
decision to try Jesus.
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That's right.
00:15:01.03\00:15:02.36
And He came in and
He changed your life,
00:15:02.40\00:15:03.87
and He gave you peace,
00:15:03.90\00:15:05.33
and He showed you
the power of His Word?
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Yes, He did.
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And then He gave you a dream
00:15:08.10\00:15:09.60
that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church...
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Did He give you a dream that
the Sabbath was the right day,
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or that the
Seventh-day Adventist Church
00:15:15.31\00:15:16.78
was the right movement or both?
00:15:16.81\00:15:18.88
Both.
00:15:18.91\00:15:20.25
I was shown the
Seventh-day Adventist Church,
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and also the importance of
the Sabbath was shown to me.
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Both are essential.
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And this came in a
dream or a vision or both?
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In a dream. This
was a dream, actually.
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One dream or
more than one dream?
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One dream that I had asked for.
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And God gave me that dream.
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And you're sure that it was the
Seventh-day Adventist Church?
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Absolutely.
00:15:41.97\00:15:43.30
I even saw the
name of the church,
00:15:43.34\00:15:45.84
Seventh-day Adventist.
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And it was exactly the church
00:15:47.31\00:15:52.41
that I was baptized in my dream
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that I saw and it was amazing.
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And that day was brighter.
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It was the Sabbath,
00:16:01.82\00:16:03.16
and it was brighter than
any other day of the week.
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And the brightness was in
this just like the overwhelming
00:16:05.59\00:16:08.46
light of the sun.
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There was a hallowed
brightness upon the day
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that I understood
that this is a special day.
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And there are no
other days like it.
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Yeah, there was many
years ago, I was searching,
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I visited a Baptist Church,
I visited a Methodist Church,
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I went to some
churches in my area.
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And then as I began to search,
00:16:32.95\00:16:34.76
one day I turned
on the television set,
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and I saw a minister
whose name was George Vandeman,
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with a TV program
called It Is Written,
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and he was standing
there with an open Bible.
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And he smiled at me,
00:16:43.77\00:16:45.37
and he started talking
about the Seventh-day Sabbath.
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And I was gripped by his talk.
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And then he held up
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a little book
called The Day to Remember.
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And he looked
right at me and he said,
00:16:53.51\00:16:54.84
"Call me up
friend, and I'll send you
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a free copy of this book."
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And then there was an 800 number
00:16:57.61\00:16:58.95
that came on the screen,
and I felt this impression,
00:16:58.98\00:17:00.45
go to the phone, call that man.
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I called him or
called one of the people
00:17:02.15\00:17:04.82
that answered the phone.
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And within a short time,
00:17:06.22\00:17:07.56
that book came into our mailbox
in Studio City, California.
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I read that book, was convicted
about the Ten Commandments.
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And then at the end
of the book, it said,
00:17:13.76\00:17:15.10
"Come visit a Seventh-day
Adventist Church some time
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and say hello."
00:17:17.03\00:17:18.37
So I actually found an Adventist
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in a health food store,
and he brought me to church.
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And then, you know,
00:17:23.54\00:17:25.04
I've been going
there for almost 40 years.
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And the reason is
because I see it in the Bible.
00:17:27.68\00:17:30.11
And God led me
just like He led you.
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He didn't give me
a dream or vision,
00:17:31.85\00:17:33.88
but He showed me in His word,
00:17:33.92\00:17:36.18
that He does have an
apocalyptic end time people.
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They're not a perfect people,
00:17:39.85\00:17:41.19
you know, all of
us make mistakes.
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But there are people that
are fulfilling the prophecy.
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The prophecy of a commandment
keeping end time people
00:17:47.96\00:17:52.73
calling people out of Babylon,
00:17:52.77\00:17:54.60
warning about the
beast and the mark,
00:17:54.64\00:17:56.87
and calling people to
keep the commandments of God
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and the faith of Jesus.
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Amen.
00:18:01.34\00:18:02.68
And this happens
right before verse 14,
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which says,
"After the three angels,"
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it says, "I looked and behold,
00:18:06.55\00:18:08.15
a white cloud.
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And upon the cloud, one
sat like the Son of Man,
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having on its
head, a golden crown,
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and in His
hand, a sharp sickle."
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And this is a
picture of the glorious
00:18:16.36\00:18:19.06
Second Coming of Jesus Christ,
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the same one who
lived, who suffered, who died,
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who rose, who went up
and who's coming back.
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And He has the preeminence.
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In Islam, you know,
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they do believe
He's coming back.
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But as you said, He's
going to be a servant.
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That's right.
But not in this book.
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No. He's not a servant.
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He's coming back as the
judge, as the King of kings,
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as the Lord of lords,
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with the sharp sickle
to reap the final harvest
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and to separate the
world into two groups,
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those who are following
Him, and those who aren't.
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Amen.
00:18:49.69\00:18:51.03
Tell us about some of
your experiences in Turkey?
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You've shared
some of that with me,
00:18:53.73\00:18:55.06
and I think it's
worth sharing now.
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Yes, I would love to do that.
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Then I would love for my
friends, whoever they are,
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that are watching
this program right now
00:19:01.14\00:19:02.67
or listening, that
they will take courage
00:19:02.70\00:19:07.14
with the stories
I'm about to share,
00:19:07.18\00:19:08.61
because when I served in Turkey,
00:19:08.64\00:19:14.38
I had the privilege of
working there for a while
00:19:14.42\00:19:18.85
and the day that I arrived
there when I was serving,
00:19:18.89\00:19:23.96
several Muslim families
had requested to meet with me
00:19:23.99\00:19:27.13
because they had
heard that I'm coming.
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And so we went to
this location that we met.
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There were at least four people.
00:19:33.44\00:19:36.27
There were
three men and one lady
00:19:36.30\00:19:38.54
that came to meet with me
00:19:38.57\00:19:40.18
and they basically looked
at me in the eye and they said,
00:19:40.21\00:19:42.34
"Look, we represent
00:19:42.38\00:19:46.35
several Afghan clans,"
00:19:46.38\00:19:49.65
basically an Afghan
system works on clan system
00:19:49.68\00:19:52.35
and families or
clans and all that.
00:19:52.39\00:19:54.72
And he said that,
00:19:54.76\00:19:56.19
"We have been
searching scriptures
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and talk to Christians.
00:20:00.86\00:20:02.53
But we want to
know, you, Adventists,
00:20:02.56\00:20:06.27
if you drink
alcohol, if you eat pork,
00:20:06.30\00:20:10.24
if you're not faithful to
the things you are teaching,
00:20:10.27\00:20:13.81
we're not going
to even look back.
00:20:13.84\00:20:16.01
We're just leaving.
00:20:16.04\00:20:17.91
You have to promise us
00:20:17.95\00:20:19.28
that it's not
going to be like that."
00:20:19.31\00:20:21.32
And I said, "Look,
you're in the right place.
00:20:21.35\00:20:24.09
We do not drink
alcohol, we are against it,
00:20:24.12\00:20:26.35
we teach against
that, we do not even smoke,
00:20:26.39\00:20:30.43
in our church, we
are against smoking."
00:20:30.46\00:20:32.63
No pork, no drinking?
No pork, none of that.
00:20:32.66\00:20:35.13
And after that,
00:20:35.16\00:20:37.20
these beautiful people
were in church every Sabbath.
00:20:37.23\00:20:41.40
And we had Bible
studies with them.
00:20:41.44\00:20:43.91
And I studied with all of them
in their homes and in church,
00:20:43.94\00:20:47.11
and they came faithfully.
00:20:47.14\00:20:49.21
And I had the privilege
of baptizing 17 of them
00:20:49.24\00:20:52.15
in my bathtub.
00:20:52.18\00:20:54.95
In your house? In my home.
00:20:54.98\00:20:56.32
In Turkey? That I was renting.
00:20:56.35\00:20:57.82
How did they get in the bathtub?
00:21:00.89\00:21:02.52
Not all at the same time.
00:21:02.56\00:21:03.89
One by one. One by one.
00:21:03.93\00:21:05.26
It was a long process.
How many people were there?
00:21:05.29\00:21:07.53
Well, we had maybe
30 people in there.
00:21:07.56\00:21:09.63
They were crowded
into the bathroom?
00:21:09.66\00:21:11.90
As much as they could.
00:21:11.93\00:21:14.47
And one by one, I baptized them
00:21:14.50\00:21:16.87
and it was the most
blessed top moment of my life.
00:21:16.91\00:21:22.11
And these people pay the price.
00:21:22.14\00:21:28.05
Three of these men
that were the patriarchs
00:21:28.08\00:21:30.89
of these families,
00:21:30.92\00:21:32.32
they went to a
gathering of 600 Muslim Afghans.
00:21:32.35\00:21:37.66
And there, they
accused them that,
00:21:37.69\00:21:40.70
"You are going
to Christian church,
00:21:40.73\00:21:42.40
you are
apostates," and all that.
00:21:42.43\00:21:45.67
And they stood
firmly for their faith
00:21:45.70\00:21:48.57
and they boldly witnessed
for Christ to these people.
00:21:48.60\00:21:52.57
Not one person approached them,
00:21:52.61\00:21:54.68
not one person
laid hands on them.
00:21:54.71\00:21:57.45
And they said after
we finished talking,
00:21:57.48\00:21:59.61
we walked away
as we walked away,
00:21:59.65\00:22:01.12
the crowd was around us.
00:22:01.15\00:22:02.68
And as we walked away,
the crowd just pushed back.
00:22:02.72\00:22:05.32
And there was this
opening, like the Red Sea,
00:22:05.35\00:22:09.32
when God opened the Red Sea,
00:22:09.36\00:22:11.03
they could just walk
right through these people,
00:22:11.06\00:22:12.66
not a single person
was able to touch them.
00:22:12.69\00:22:15.30
One of their men,
their wife, later on,
00:22:15.33\00:22:18.13
some weeks later was
attacked in the street.
00:22:18.17\00:22:21.10
But she came faithfully
to church with swollen eye,
00:22:21.14\00:22:23.61
and blue and purple,
and she just praised God.
00:22:23.64\00:22:27.34
She said, "See,
brother, we are in danger.
00:22:27.38\00:22:30.41
But that's okay, we're
going to keep pushing forward,
00:22:30.45\00:22:32.45
we're going to keep coming."
00:22:32.48\00:22:34.25
And I want to, if it's okay,
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.99
make a plea with the viewers.
00:22:37.02\00:22:38.55
And I want to say, brother,
sister, whoever you are,
00:22:38.59\00:22:41.72
wherever you are, I don't know
00:22:41.76\00:22:43.09
where you are watching
this program right now.
00:22:43.12\00:22:45.83
I didn't become a Christian
00:22:45.86\00:22:48.26
simply because there
was something in it for me,
00:22:48.30\00:22:52.00
I became a
Christian because God told me
00:22:52.03\00:22:54.80
this is the way of life.
00:22:54.84\00:22:56.60
And I was seeking to find life,
00:22:56.64\00:22:59.27
and I was seeking to find truth.
00:22:59.31\00:23:02.21
And I found it in
Christ Jesus, my Lord.
00:23:02.24\00:23:04.61
He is my Lord. He's my Savior.
00:23:04.65\00:23:06.82
He has given me salvation,
I have salvation in Him.
00:23:06.85\00:23:11.05
Now, I want to plead with you.
00:23:11.09\00:23:12.45
I know some of you
are probably where I was,
00:23:12.49\00:23:15.22
when I was first
searching and seeking.
00:23:15.26\00:23:17.69
Some of you may
have never even thought
00:23:17.73\00:23:19.13
about what we have
told you in these programs.
00:23:19.16\00:23:22.46
And this may be a
spark in your life.
00:23:22.50\00:23:24.77
And some of you may right now
00:23:24.80\00:23:27.60
be experiencing persecution.
00:23:27.64\00:23:31.11
But I want to
encourage you wherever you are,
00:23:31.14\00:23:33.14
no matter what
your experience is,
00:23:33.17\00:23:34.88
Christ is your shield.
00:23:34.91\00:23:36.78
Jesus is your salvation.
00:23:36.81\00:23:38.65
He has promised that
He will never leave you,
00:23:38.68\00:23:40.72
He will never forsake you.
00:23:40.75\00:23:42.35
He has promised
that He will guide you,
00:23:42.38\00:23:44.52
that He will lead
you with His own eyes,
00:23:44.55\00:23:46.52
He will lead you.
00:23:46.55\00:23:47.89
And He will give you life,
He will give you life eternal.
00:23:47.92\00:23:50.16
One day you will see
Him, you will see His face
00:23:50.19\00:23:53.03
and all your sufferings
would have been worth it all.
00:23:53.06\00:23:56.73
And you will say,
"Heaven is cheap enough
00:23:56.77\00:23:58.83
that I could be in heaven
00:23:58.87\00:24:00.74
because of what
Jesus has done for me."
00:24:00.77\00:24:02.84
I want to encourage you
that you can take courage,
00:24:02.87\00:24:05.67
and God will save you,
God will give you grace,
00:24:05.71\00:24:08.71
and He will, through
you, save your family,
00:24:08.74\00:24:11.88
save your
friends, your loved ones.
00:24:11.91\00:24:14.25
And He will do
mighty work with you.
00:24:14.28\00:24:16.48
He loves you.
00:24:16.52\00:24:17.85
You're more precious to
Him than the entire universe.
00:24:17.89\00:24:22.42
He knows you by name
00:24:22.46\00:24:23.79
and He has etched your
name on the palm of His hand.
00:24:23.83\00:24:26.86
And today, He wants to
bring you into a nearer
00:24:26.90\00:24:30.63
and deeper
relationship with Himself,
00:24:30.67\00:24:32.33
and He will give you peace.
00:24:32.37\00:24:34.04
No man can take
that peace from you.
00:24:34.07\00:24:36.07
God bless you, whoever you are.
00:24:36.10\00:24:37.91
And I will be praying for you.
00:24:37.94\00:24:39.57
I don't know you,
myself and Pastor Steve,
00:24:39.61\00:24:42.74
we will be praying for you
throughout the coming days.
00:24:42.78\00:24:46.15
And we also
want you to know that
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there are resources available
if you want to learn more,
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Shahbaz's book, Two Sacrifices,
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one Destiny, tells his story.
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You can get this
from White Horse Media.
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And we also are
preparing a list of resources
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of Bible guides,
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Bible studies that have
been prepared just for you.
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These are available for Muslims.
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And they're in English
and different languages,
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Arabic, Farsi and Turkish.
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So if you just
contact White Horse Media
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and ask for a list of resources,
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we'll give this to you for free
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and point you in
different directions
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of where to find this material.
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And so this will be
a step in a journey,
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and we haven't arrived yet.
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We're not at the
end of the journey,
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but we're on the road.
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And we've
learned, you've learned,
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and I've
learned, your background
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is very different than mine.
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But we come together,
and we've learned the power,
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the power of this book.
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Amen.
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The power of the
Book of Revelation,
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the power of the Word of
God and the power of Jesus.
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That Jesus Christ is powerful,
and the power of God's love.
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We've learned about love,
and as we read our Bibles,
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Revelation talks
about a final people
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who keep the commandments of God
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and have the faith of Jesus.
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And as we've looked
at in past programs,
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God's Ten Commandment
law is summarized in love.
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Love to God and love to
our neighbor as ourselves.
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And it's really, you know,
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what God is looking
for is for final people,
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to reveal His love through.
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The love of God
that is expressed
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in the most
incomprehensible event
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where Jesus came
down from heaven,
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and was willing to
be lifted up on a cross.
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On a cruel, wicked,
Roman, splintery cross,
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for you and for me,
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and there's
really nothing like it.
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There's no other religion.
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There's no other
story that compares.
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The Bible's the
world's bestselling book,
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Jesus is the
world's most famous person,
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the resurrection is the
most well documented event
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of all of
history, and Jesus appeals,
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He appeals to you,
and He appeals to me.
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In Revelation 3:20, Jesus said,
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"Behold, I stand
at the door and knock.
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If any man hear My
voice, and open the door,
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I will come into him,
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and I will sup with
him and he with Me."
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Jesus invites us to
open the door of our hearts
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and let Him come in.
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And Shahbaz and I can testify
that if you give Him a try,
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if you open your
heart and say, "Jesus,
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I need You to
come into my life,"
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you will never be sorry.
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He will come and
He'll give you power
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and love and forgiveness
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and strength and grace
and everything you need,
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and you will live forever
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and ever and ever with
Him in a brand new world.
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You'll never be sorry
if you make that choice.
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We hope you enjoyed
watching Good News for Muslims
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with Steve Wohlberg and Shahbaz.
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This entire 13-part
series is now available on DVD.
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To order from within the US,
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call White Horse
Media at 1-800-782-4253.
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To watch the series
online or for more information,
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visit the website
www.goodnewsformuslims.com
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