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Hello and welcome to the
3ABN Australia Homecoming 2019
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at Wahroonga Church
in Sydney Australia.
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We're so glad
that you could all come
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and listen to these programs,
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they are a big
blessing, I know, for me
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because we live in
a very uncertain world
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and we need to know
the truth for this hour
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wouldn't you say that? Amen.
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We had our homecoming
at Avondale Memorial Church
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last year at Cooranbong.
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We didn't know we were
going to have another one
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so, welcome to the second one.
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This is really exciting.
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So, Rosemary, we have an
item now from "Redeemed. "
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It's a group of
people who will be singing,
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"Ye Shall Feed His Flock"
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and straight after that
will be Pastor Geoff Youlden
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and he will be speaking:
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"The Year that
Changed the Modern World. "
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You may have a
question about that
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but sit and listen
to what he has to say.
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He also has a key text
and it's Revelation 14:6-7.
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"And I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven,
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having the everlasting gospel
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to preach unto them
that dwell on the earth,
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and to every
nation, and kindred,
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and tongue, and people,
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saying with a loud voice,
'Fear God and give glory to Him
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for the hour of
His judgment is come:
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and worship Him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea,
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and the fountains of waters. '"
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And I am just going to
say a short dedicatory prayer
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for those who will be
presenting to us today.
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"Father in heaven,
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I pray that you
will bless 'Redeemed'
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as they sing a
song of praise to You.
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Be with them and give them
clarity of mind and of voice
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and please be with
Pastor Geoff, Father,
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as he preaches
your Word to us today.
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May it have
enlargement in our hearts.
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May the Holy
Spirit please inspire us
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and those who listen to
his voice with Your truth,
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I pray in Jesus' name, amen. "
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Audience: Amen.
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Pause.
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Music...
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more music...
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He shall feed His flock
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like a shepherd;
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and He shall gather
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the lambs with His arm...
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with His arm,
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music...
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He shall feed His flock
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like a shepherd;
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and He shall gather
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the lambs with His arm...
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with His arm,
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music...
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and carry them
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in His bosom,
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and gently lead those
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that are with young...
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and gently lead those
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and gently lead
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those that are with young.
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Music...
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Come unto Him,
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all ye that labour,
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come unto Him
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ye that are heavy laden,
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and He will give you rest.
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Take His yoke upon you,
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and learn of Him,
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for He is meek
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and lowly of heart,
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and ye shall find rest...
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and ye shall find rest
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unto your souls...
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come unto...
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unto...
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come unto...
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come unto Him
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and ye shall bring
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you rest.
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Audience: Amen.
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Pause...
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Well, thank you
very much, Redeemed,
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I'm sure you enjoyed
that as much as I did.
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The Year that
Changed the Modern World...
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that's got to be 1989
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because that's the
year, you'll remember,
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the Tiananmen Square took place
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where the Communist Government
ordered their troops to go in
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and with a million
people demonstrating,
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they mowed down
1,000s of young people
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in Shanghai.
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1989...
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that's the year that the
Catholic Solidarity in Poland
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overthrew the
Communistic Government
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for the last 44 years
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and then that spread
through Eastern Europe
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so that all the Communistic
Governments were overthrown.
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Mostly, peacefully but one
was overthrown with great war
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and so forth and
that was in Romania
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and you will
remember that Romania...
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the head of the
Romanian Government
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was finally executed
on December 25, 1989.
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1989 was when the
Berlin Wall fell down.
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1989 is when John Paul believed
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that it was the Virgin Mary that
gave the Catholic Church victory
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over Communism in Europe
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but 1989 is not the year
that changed the modern world.
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Even though significant
events happened in that year.
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Well, you say,
what about September 11?
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That changed the modern world.
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Yes, it did to some extent
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but the world
before September 11
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was not a lot different to
what it was after September 11.
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I'm going to
suggest to you this morning
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that the year that
changed the modern world
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is the year 1844.
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Audience: Amen.
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And I'm going to prove that
to you in just a few moments
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as we go through our
discussion this morning
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but would you take your Bibles
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and we will get a
Biblical perspective
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of Daniel
chapter 8 and verse 13,
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Daniel, the 8th chapter,
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and we'll pick it
up in verse 12 and 13.
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Daniel the 8th chapter...
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Pastor is turning
the pages of the Bible...
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and this is what it says...
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Verse 12...
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"Because of transgression,
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an army was
given over to the horn
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to oppose the daily sacrifices;
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and he cast truth to the ground.
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He did all this and prospered. "
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So, here Daniel is being told
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that truth is
going to be cast down
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and wonder of wonders
that power is going to prosper.
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Verse 13, "Then I
heard a holy one speaking;
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and another holy one
said to that certain one
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who was speaking,
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'How long will the vision be,
concerning the daily sacrifices
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and the
transgression of desolation,
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the giving of both
the sanctuary and the host
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to be trodden underfoot?'"
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So, here we have a picture
of truth and the sanctuary
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being trodden underfoot
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and that would suggest to
me that the sanctuary and truth
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is in for a very, very hard time
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as it's trodden down
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and then the period
is enunciated in verse 14
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when it says,
"And he said to me,
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'For two thousand
three hundred days;
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then the sanctuary
will be cleansed. '"
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So, for this 2,300
prophetic-day period of years,
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and this morning I haven't
got time to prove all that,
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that's a
subject of another time,
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but for 2,300
prophetic days or years,
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the truth of God
and the sanctuary
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were going to be
trodden underfoot
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which means that for
that long period of time,
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people would not
understand the truth of God
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and furthermore,
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they would not
understand about the sanctuary.
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You see, the way the devil has
worked down through the years,
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is by
counterfeiting the truth of God.
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He has done that
as a masterful act.
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Every period of time
when God has a truth,
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the devil has
always counterfeited
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what the... what
God was about to do
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and there is no exception here
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and he has worked by diversion
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as he has taken
people's attention
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when God had a message
ready to go to the world,
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the devil raised up
all sorts of diversions
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to take people's attention
away from the truth of God
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and we're going to go
through that this morning.
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You will
remember that Christians
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from many, many denominations
like the Baptists...
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and the Methodists...
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and the Presbyterians...
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and the Catholics...
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and the Lutherans...
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all believed that
Christ was going to return
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on October 22, 1844.
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Pause...
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Now, I'd like to remind you
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there were no Seventh-day
Adventists in existence
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at that time.
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Seventh-day
Adventists have never set a date
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for the coming of Jesus.
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It was the Baptists
and the Methodists...
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and the Presbyterians...
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and the Lutherans
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and the Catholics...
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they were the
ones that set the date
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for the coming of Jesus.
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Pause...
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They were sincere
people... very good people...
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and they sincerely believed
that Jesus was going to return
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on October 22, 1844
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and when He didn't return,
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you can understand
the disappointment...
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because many of these
people sold their businesses...
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they... they sold their farms
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and they put all
the money they got
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into spreading the
message about Jesus returning
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and so, you can understand
the bitter disappointment
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in those people when
October 22 went past,
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and Jesus never returned
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and so, as a result of that,
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there was a
tremendous falling away.
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People felt that they
had been disillusioned.
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They had been deceived
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and as a result of that,
many left Christ and the Bible
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and Christianity
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never to embrace it again
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but there was a
groups of those people
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who said, "No, the
Bible is not wrong,
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it must be our
misunderstanding of some things
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and so, in 1848,
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they called together
what has been known today now
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as the Sabbath Conferences
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in which they studied the Bible.
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All these
people came together...
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these Baptists
and these Methodists
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and Catholics
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and Lutherans...
they came together
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and they said, "We
need to study God's Word
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because something is amiss,
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we have
misunderstood some things
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and as a result of
the Sabbath Conferences,
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that started in 1848, a
theology was worked out.
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It was not new but it was
a resurrection of theology
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that had been lost
over the ensuing years...
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during the Dark Ages.
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Remember the Bible said...
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the truth was going
to be trodden down...
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and during that
long period of time,
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these truths that they began to
find as they studied the Bible
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were being
resurrected and restored
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and as a result of that
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they made some
amazing discoveries.
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I want to share with you five
of those amazing discoveries.
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The first was, the
sanctuary doctrine.
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They...
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as they began to study
the truth of the sanctuary,
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they began to
understand the depth
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of Jesus' death on the cross.
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Up until that time,
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they had a very wonderful
understanding of the cross,
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but not in its fullness
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but as they studied the
type that the sanctuary gave,
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they began to understand
the work in its entirely
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that Jesus was doing
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and the work that He was doing
in the heavenly sanctuary today.
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That was the first great
discovery that they made.
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The second came out
of the disappointment.
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As a result of
them being misled...
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being disappointed in 1844,
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they developed a doctrine
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regarding the
2nd Coming of Jesus.
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The third great
doctrine that they found
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was the Sabbath
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and they
discovered the Sabbath because
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all of these people were Sunday
Keepers up until this stage
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and then they
discovered the state of the dead
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they had never
understood that before
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and finally they discovered
the Spirit of Prophecy
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and it is these
five great pillars
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that are the foundation
of Seventh-day Adventism.
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Audience: Amen.
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The sanctuary message...
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The Second Coming of Christ...
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The Sabbath...
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The State of the Dead...
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and the Spirit of Prophecy.
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These are the pillars.
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This is what makes
Seventh-day Adventism unique.
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Now, I have come
across some of God's people
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who are a little embarrassed
by some of these doctrines.
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Pause...
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Some are embarrassed
that we would have a prophet.
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Pause...
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Others are embarrassed
by the sanctuary truths.
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Pause...
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On the other hand, I mix
with young people today...
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a growing
number of young people,
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who understand the messages
of God in these last days,
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these five pillars...
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and today, they have taken
hold of these five messages
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and they are convicted
that this is God's message.
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Pause...
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And today, God is
doing an amazing work
00:18:40.52\00:18:42.45
among many of our youth
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and this message has
it's context in the sanctuary
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and in the final judgment.
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"The hour of God's
judgment has come... "
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the Bible says.
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Those three messages
that we often refer to
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as the three angels' messages.
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They are the
foundation of this last message
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that is to go to the world.
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Now, truth is
never allowed to surface
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but there's always conflict
with that message of truth
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and the devil is a great
student of Bible prophecy.
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By-the-way, the
devil is no modernist...
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he is no liberal...
00:19:30.97\00:19:33.94
he is no revisionist...
00:19:33.97\00:19:36.84
when it comes to theology,
00:19:36.87\00:19:39.34
the devil is
very, very conservative.
00:19:39.37\00:19:43.31
In fact, he is so conservative
that the Bible says,
00:19:43.35\00:19:48.92
that when he
reads it, he trembles
00:19:48.95\00:19:51.49
because he knows that it's true.
00:19:51.55\00:19:54.16
He doesn't try
to re-interpret it
00:19:54.19\00:19:56.73
because he knows
exactly what God is about.
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That's why in 1844,
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when God had a message that was
to go to every nation, kindred,
00:20:03.83\00:20:07.70
tongue and people,
00:20:07.74\00:20:09.17
the devil got to work
00:20:09.20\00:20:12.67
and he's brought in
every conceivable "ism"
00:20:12.71\00:20:16.78
at that very time
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in that very year
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and this morning, I'm
going to go through it with you
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and show you that 1844
is the year that has changed
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the modern world
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pause...
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and the message
is just so clear.
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In fact, come over to Revelation
chapter 12, if you don't mind,
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Revelation the 12th chapter
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and we'll read here how the
devil feels about God's message.
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Revelation 12
and verse 7, it says,
00:20:47.31\00:20:49.94
"And the dragon was
wroth with the woman... "
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that word "wroth"
is not just angry...
00:20:54.15\00:20:58.09
he is livid...
00:20:58.12\00:21:00.39
his jugular veins
sticks out of his neck
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and his face is red.
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He's so angry...
00:21:06.13\00:21:07.93
the devil is
angry with the woman...
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"went to make war with
the rest of her offspring. "
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That is... all of God's
people who stand for the truth,
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the devil is against.
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Those particularly
who are faithful to Jesus
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and faithful to
His commandments.
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They're the two identifying
marks in the last days
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of God's people
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whom the devil is
particularly angry with
00:21:35.19\00:21:38.23
against Jesus, of course,
00:21:38.26\00:21:42.50
and because they're
faithful to Jesus, he's angry
00:21:42.53\00:21:45.97
but also because they're
faithful to His Commandments
00:21:46.00\00:21:49.40
which means that the
devil is not very concerned
00:21:49.44\00:21:53.34
about the three angels' messages
being taken to every nation,
00:21:53.38\00:21:57.25
kindred, tongue and
people... is that true?
00:21:57.28\00:21:59.11
Absolutely not...
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he's very, very
concerned about it.
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Pause...
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If fact, he's so concerned
that he called together
00:22:06.05\00:22:11.16
all his evil angels.
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and they worked out a strategy
00:22:15.10\00:22:19.53
as to how they were going to
oppose these three messages...
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how they were going to oppose
the message that arose in 1844
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and the first
thing they came up with
00:22:30.38\00:22:33.92
was an opposing theology
00:22:33.95\00:22:36.28
so, they
developed two theologies...
00:22:36.32\00:22:39.82
but the devil soon realized
that those who love the Lord
00:22:39.85\00:22:47.00
and those who are
studying the Bible
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will soon see the difference
between the false and the true.
00:22:50.60\00:22:55.20
So, he said, "That's not
going to deceive everybody,
00:22:55.24\00:22:58.54
we have to work
on other strategies
00:22:58.57\00:23:01.94
so that we involve
every person in the world
00:23:01.98\00:23:05.25
because one strategy is not
going to appeal to everybody.
00:23:05.28\00:23:09.25
Pause...
00:23:09.28\00:23:13.42
So, he decided,
"Well, we will pervert truth"
00:23:13.46\00:23:16.36
one of his angels
said, "Let's pervert truth. "
00:23:16.39\00:23:19.09
Now, that had a very, very
big effect upon many Christians
00:23:19.13\00:23:22.93
because they had been
taught to follow the truth
00:23:22.96\00:23:27.67
and now the devil brought
in a perversion of that truth.
00:23:27.70\00:23:31.74
But that wasn't enough
00:23:31.77\00:23:35.78
because that wouldn't
appeal to everybody either
00:23:35.81\00:23:38.35
because he realized
00:23:38.38\00:23:40.88
that any person who
had a relationship with God
00:23:40.92\00:23:43.42
was going to work
the difference out
00:23:43.45\00:23:45.72
between that which
was a perverted truth
00:23:45.75\00:23:47.99
and that which
was the real truth.
00:23:48.02\00:23:49.66
Pause...
00:23:49.69\00:23:51.76
Then he brought
in another strategy.
00:23:51.79\00:23:53.73
This strategy was to
bring in a lukewarmness
00:23:53.80\00:23:57.60
among those who
are giving the truth...
00:23:57.63\00:24:00.40
a lukewarmness among those
who are preaching the truth.
00:24:00.44\00:24:04.11
Pause...
00:24:04.14\00:24:07.04
and that was extremely effective
00:24:07.08\00:24:09.28
and it continues to
be extremely effective.
00:24:09.34\00:24:13.62
Now, I want to have a look
at some of these strategies
00:24:13.65\00:24:17.15
that the devil used because
00:24:17.19\00:24:19.02
the first one was to
set up a counter theology.
00:24:19.05\00:24:22.72
Pause...
00:24:22.76\00:24:25.13
Now, you will remember
that in the Sabbath Conferences,
00:24:25.16\00:24:28.16
those sincere
Christians of all denominations
00:24:28.23\00:24:31.23
when they came together...
00:24:31.27\00:24:32.60
pause...
00:24:32.63\00:24:34.84
they took the
Bible and the Bible only
00:24:34.87\00:24:37.81
and they said,
"This is where we stand...
00:24:37.87\00:24:40.78
nothing more... nothing less"
00:24:40.81\00:24:43.98
and that was the foundation.
00:24:44.01\00:24:47.12
Now, what was the significant
year that we're talking about
00:24:47.15\00:24:51.15
that has changed
the modern world...
00:24:51.19\00:24:52.69
what was the date?
00:24:52.72\00:24:54.06
1844.
00:24:54.09\00:24:55.76
Pause...
00:24:55.79\00:24:57.69
In that very year...
in the month of August,
00:24:57.73\00:25:04.77
1844... just before God's
message was to be announced,
00:25:04.80\00:25:12.27
two men met in
a... in a Cafe in Paris.
00:25:12.31\00:25:16.34
Pause...
00:25:16.38\00:25:18.21
The first man's
name was Karl Marx,
00:25:18.25\00:25:21.72
the second
man's name was Engels.
00:25:21.75\00:25:25.52
and they then met
a little bit later
00:25:25.55\00:25:29.29
on the 19th of November 1844,
00:25:29.32\00:25:31.73
and Engels wrote to
Marx these words, listen,
00:25:31.76\00:25:35.73
"We are at present
holding public meetings
00:25:35.76\00:25:39.70
all over the place,
00:25:39.73\00:25:41.07
to set up societies for
the advancement of the workers.
00:25:41.10\00:25:45.94
By a large majority, everything
'Christian' has been bound
00:25:45.97\00:25:50.98
and banned from the rules... "
00:25:51.01\00:25:53.15
and then he continued on...
00:25:53.18\00:25:55.25
"the criticism of religion
00:25:55.28\00:25:57.55
is the
pre-requisite of all criticism
00:25:57.59\00:26:00.19
and we are working for
the abolition of religion
00:26:00.22\00:26:03.53
and for real happiness. "
00:26:03.56\00:26:05.39
Pause...
00:26:05.43\00:26:08.16
Now, that would suggest to me
00:26:08.20\00:26:09.53
that if you go into a
Marxist Society today,
00:26:09.56\00:26:13.50
they are all happy people
smiling... living in utopia
00:26:13.54\00:26:17.94
because that's what
Engels was writing to Marx about
00:26:17.97\00:26:22.34
and we know, of
course, that that's not true
00:26:22.38\00:26:25.45
but the devil
brought this counterfeit in
00:26:25.48\00:26:30.15
and is it dead today?
00:26:30.19\00:26:31.72
Is Marxist philosophy...
is that dead today?
00:26:31.75\00:26:35.12
No, we see it... the
hammer and the sickle
00:26:35.16\00:26:38.49
in the Trade Unions.
00:26:38.53\00:26:39.89
Pause...
00:26:39.93\00:26:41.26
The very basis of Trade
Unionism here in Australia
00:26:41.30\00:26:45.67
and around the world is
largely Marxist's philosophy
00:26:45.70\00:26:50.11
and they carry the...
00:26:50.14\00:26:54.08
as I said, the
hammer and the sickle
00:26:54.14\00:26:55.64
and it satisfies those who
are downtrodden in our society
00:26:55.68\00:26:59.48
who are told that they can
rise to the top of the pile
00:26:59.51\00:27:03.28
without any reference to God.
00:27:03.32\00:27:04.99
Pause...
00:27:05.02\00:27:07.36
And then, there
was the intellectual.
00:27:07.39\00:27:08.99
The devil said, "Well,
we haven't appealed yet
00:27:09.02\00:27:11.43
to the intellectual. "
00:27:11.46\00:27:12.79
Pause...
00:27:12.83\00:27:15.00
With appeal to the
perversion of truth,
00:27:15.03\00:27:16.83
with appeal... by
bringing in a false theology,
00:27:16.87\00:27:21.10
with appeal to the
workers who feel downtrodden,
00:27:21.14\00:27:24.74
but we haven't
attacked the intellectuals yet.
00:27:24.77\00:27:28.34
Pause...
00:27:28.38\00:27:31.51
What's the year? 1844...
00:27:31.55\00:27:34.28
in that very year, a man by
the name of Charles Darwin...
00:27:34.32\00:27:38.65
you heard of him?
00:27:38.69\00:27:40.02
In that very year... 1844...
00:27:40.06\00:27:43.76
Charles Darwin begins to write
00:27:43.79\00:27:47.66
the first sketch of
his "Origin of Species. "
00:27:47.70\00:27:51.17
The very year when
God's message goes out
00:27:51.23\00:27:54.64
to worship God as the Creator...
here Satan is inspiring this man
00:27:54.67\00:27:59.87
to write a philosophy
00:27:59.94\00:28:01.28
that is the very
opposite to God's message...
00:28:01.31\00:28:05.61
in the very same year
that God raised up that message
00:28:05.65\00:28:10.75
and I must admit,
I find it difficult
00:28:10.79\00:28:13.82
to understand how
intelligent human beings...
00:28:13.86\00:28:17.39
especially,
educated human beings
00:28:17.43\00:28:22.26
can come to the conclusion
00:28:22.30\00:28:24.67
that everything that we have
in the world came from nothing
00:28:24.70\00:28:27.74
and we have the
Hawking's and the Dawkins
00:28:27.77\00:28:33.88
in our society
00:28:33.91\00:28:36.51
who were the heads of Oxford
and Cambridge Universities
00:28:36.54\00:28:40.42
in England,
00:28:40.48\00:28:41.82
until Hawking's death
00:28:41.85\00:28:44.65
and they formed a group
together called "The Bright's"
00:28:44.69\00:28:51.19
which meant that if you
didn't accept the philosophy
00:28:51.26\00:28:57.30
of Hawking's and Dawkins,
then you weren't bright.
00:28:57.33\00:29:03.34
If you believe
in the supernatural,
00:29:03.37\00:29:05.31
you are not bright.
00:29:05.34\00:29:06.68
that's a very,
very clear implication.
00:29:06.71\00:29:11.28
In fact, Dawkins
wrote in his book,
00:29:11.31\00:29:16.08
the most absurd statement
00:29:16.12\00:29:18.65
I think I've read
for a long, long time
00:29:18.69\00:29:20.86
and it's on the screen.
00:29:20.89\00:29:22.29
"God almost
certainly does not exist. "
00:29:22.32\00:29:25.73
Have you... just imagine...
just think about that.
00:29:25.76\00:29:29.96
"God almost
certainly doesn't exist. "
00:29:30.00\00:29:34.14
That's an
impossible statement...
00:29:34.17\00:29:36.20
so-called
"intellectual" makes it.
00:29:36.24\00:29:39.61
Now, either God
exists or He doesn't exist
00:29:39.64\00:29:44.18
but you can't say,
00:29:44.21\00:29:45.95
"He almost
certainly doesn't exist. "
00:29:45.98\00:29:47.88
Pause...
00:29:47.92\00:29:51.69
That teaching appeals
to those who want to reason
00:29:51.72\00:29:55.62
that God doesn't... doesn't
need to be a part of my life.
00:29:55.69\00:30:01.53
That's why
evolution appeals to people.
00:30:01.56\00:30:04.87
It's not because the
Science is on their side...
00:30:04.90\00:30:07.50
pause...
00:30:07.54\00:30:10.61
it's simply because it
gives people the opportunity
00:30:10.64\00:30:17.05
of not accepting
God and still remaining
00:30:17.08\00:30:20.95
intellectually...
00:30:20.98\00:30:23.39
well they feel...
intellectually acceptable.
00:30:23.42\00:30:29.09
Pause...
00:30:29.12\00:30:32.73
Now, the devil realized
that this idea of evolution
00:30:32.76\00:30:39.30
is not going to
appeal to everybody either.
00:30:39.33\00:30:41.17
There are other Christians...
and he wanted to get them.
00:30:41.20\00:30:46.31
So, he worked on a man...
00:30:46.34\00:30:50.15
and what was the
year are we saying?
00:30:50.18\00:30:52.01
Audience: 1844...
00:30:52.05\00:30:53.88
he worked on a man by
the name of J.N. Darby.
00:30:53.92\00:30:58.15
Pause...
00:30:58.19\00:31:00.56
Now, J.N. Darby
taught what is referred today
00:31:00.59\00:31:07.33
as "Dispensationalism. "
00:31:07.36\00:31:09.80
Now, Dispensationalism,
00:31:09.83\00:31:12.20
for those of you who
perhaps don't understand this,
00:31:12.23\00:31:15.64
and that wouldn't surprise me,
00:31:15.67\00:31:17.57
but Dispensationalism...
00:31:17.61\00:31:20.68
Darby divided the
world-period into seven sections
00:31:20.71\00:31:25.08
and God, he said, used a
different method of salvation
00:31:25.11\00:31:29.48
for each one of
those seven periods.
00:31:29.52\00:31:31.95
For example,
00:31:31.99\00:31:34.06
in the Old Testament it was Law
00:31:34.12\00:31:35.56
and people were
saved by keeping the Law
00:31:35.59\00:31:37.59
in the Old Testament.
00:31:37.63\00:31:38.99
In the New
Testament, we're saved by grace
00:31:39.06\00:31:42.30
which means, you
don't have to keep the Law,
00:31:42.33\00:31:45.17
this is his argument.
00:31:45.20\00:31:46.53
Pause...
00:31:46.57\00:31:49.10
And that year was 1844.
00:31:49.14\00:31:51.47
"But now in these end
times... " Darby said,
00:31:51.51\00:31:57.01
that there was a difference
between Israel and the Church.
00:31:57.05\00:32:01.28
God is working
presently with the Church
00:32:01.32\00:32:05.65
and then the church
will be "raptured" away...
00:32:05.69\00:32:10.43
you've heard of
the "Secret Rapture"
00:32:10.46\00:32:12.39
the church will be raptured away
00:32:12.43\00:32:14.36
before the "Tribulation"
00:32:14.40\00:32:15.73
and then, God is
going to work on the Jews
00:32:15.76\00:32:19.47
and give them another chance.
00:32:19.50\00:32:20.84
This is basically the philosophy
of "Dispensationalism"
00:32:20.87\00:32:25.74
and associated
with "Dispensationalism"
00:32:25.77\00:32:28.78
was Antinomianism.
00:32:28.81\00:32:30.21
Now, that's a big word,
00:32:30.25\00:32:31.58
it simply means
that they were teaching
00:32:31.61\00:32:33.72
that the Law has
been done away with...
00:32:33.78\00:32:35.88
"Anti" meaning against...
00:32:35.92\00:32:38.39
the Law of God
00:32:38.42\00:32:40.12
and that surfaced
with "Dispensationalism"
00:32:40.16\00:32:44.79
and just about every
Evangelical Christian today,
00:32:44.83\00:32:49.73
has accepted
J.N. Darby's theology.
00:32:49.76\00:32:53.74
That is... if you go to
talk to your Baptist friends
00:32:53.80\00:32:57.41
and your Pentecostal friends,
00:32:57.44\00:32:59.51
they have been
steeped in this theology
00:32:59.54\00:33:04.15
and you've heard of
the "Secret Rapture"
00:33:04.18\00:33:08.55
that's where it all comes from
00:33:08.58\00:33:10.09
and it was
another aim of the devil
00:33:10.12\00:33:12.99
to divert people
away from the truth...
00:33:13.02\00:33:15.86
that they would get
sucked in by a false theology.
00:33:15.89\00:33:20.43
Now, J.N. Darby, by the
way, didn't invent this theory.
00:33:20.46\00:33:25.77
It was actually
invented by the Catholic Church
00:33:25.80\00:33:30.04
as a result of the Reformation.
00:33:30.07\00:33:32.91
You may have heard in history...
the Counter-Reformation
00:33:32.94\00:33:37.21
which means that
they... that the Catholic Church
00:33:37.25\00:33:40.82
instituted a "counter"
to what Luther and Knox
00:33:40.88\00:33:44.42
and all the
Reformers were teaching.
00:33:44.45\00:33:47.36
Countered them...
00:33:47.39\00:33:48.72
and they came
up with this theory
00:33:48.76\00:33:54.03
and a man over there in Chile
00:33:54.06\00:33:59.37
accepted this theory...
00:33:59.43\00:34:01.60
he was a Jesuit, by the way,
00:34:01.67\00:34:03.30
and his name was Manuel Lacunza
and he lived in the late 1700s.
00:34:03.37\00:34:11.68
and he posed as a converted
Jew under the synonym Ben-Ezra
00:34:11.71\00:34:20.72
and so he took
this apocalyptic writing
00:34:20.76\00:34:26.63
and he composed a book
00:34:26.70\00:34:29.66
and the book was entitled:
00:34:29.70\00:34:32.60
"The Coming of Messiah
in Glory and Majesty. "
00:34:32.63\00:34:37.01
Now, this was written in Spanish
00:34:37.04\00:34:38.97
and so, it wasn't
making much in-road
00:34:39.01\00:34:43.21
into the English-speaking world
00:34:43.24\00:34:44.58
until a man by the name
of Edward Irving in England
00:34:44.61\00:34:49.82
translated it into English
00:34:49.88\00:34:53.15
and he popularized
this... this theory
00:34:53.19\00:35:02.00
in the English-speaking world
00:35:02.03\00:35:03.37
and by-the-way, it was
in Edward Irving's church
00:35:03.43\00:35:06.53
that "speaking in tongues"
00:35:06.57\00:35:10.27
modern "speaking
in tongues" began.
00:35:10.31\00:35:13.44
and so, J.N.
Darby took the doctrine
00:35:13.48\00:35:16.54
and he modernized it
into Christianity today
00:35:16.58\00:35:21.42
and as I said, just about every
Evangelical Christian today
00:35:21.45\00:35:25.49
that you meet
and that you talk to
00:35:25.55\00:35:28.19
has been soaked in this theology
00:35:28.22\00:35:31.09
and today, you
need to understand it
00:35:31.13\00:35:33.93
if you're going to be
able to communicate with them
00:35:33.96\00:35:35.90
because, when they're talking
about the coming of Jesus,
00:35:35.93\00:35:38.63
they're not talking about
it as many of us understand it.
00:35:38.70\00:35:41.37
Pause...
00:35:41.40\00:35:44.07
Now, the devil
realized then, of course,
00:35:44.11\00:35:46.57
that it needs to be vibrant.
00:35:46.61\00:35:50.98
If it's going
to win people over,
00:35:51.01\00:35:54.55
this theology and
idea needs to be vibrant...
00:35:54.58\00:35:58.02
it needs to be a vibrancy
00:35:58.05\00:36:00.72
and so, what year?
00:36:00.76\00:36:03.76
1844...
00:36:03.79\00:36:05.83
in Hydesville in New York,
00:36:05.86\00:36:10.70
pause...
00:36:10.73\00:36:14.34
a house was bought
00:36:14.37\00:36:16.87
and a few years later,
00:36:16.91\00:36:19.34
that house was
occupied by the Fox Sisters
00:36:19.37\00:36:23.71
pause...
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.25
and you will remember
that the Fox Sisters...
00:36:26.28\00:36:28.78
the rappings...
00:36:28.82\00:36:30.39
and modern spiritualism was born
00:36:30.42\00:36:32.89
in that decade.
00:36:32.92\00:36:35.26
You know, I meet some people
00:36:35.29\00:36:38.99
who tell me that
1844 is a non-event.
00:36:39.06\00:36:43.80
Pause...
00:36:43.83\00:36:46.80
I've heard some of these people
00:36:46.84\00:36:49.00
say that it's a non-event.
00:36:49.07\00:36:52.44
I like to remind them,
00:36:52.47\00:36:55.78
"You might
think it's a non-event
00:36:55.84\00:36:57.95
but I tell you who
doesn't think it's a non-event
00:36:57.98\00:37:00.22
and that's the
devil himself... "
00:37:00.25\00:37:02.38
because the devil
understands Daniel 8:14
00:37:02.42\00:37:06.59
and as I said,
he's no revisionist.
00:37:06.62\00:37:09.36
He's no modern Christian.
00:37:09.39\00:37:13.43
He is fundamental...
he's conservative...
00:37:13.46\00:37:18.77
and he understands exactly.
00:37:18.83\00:37:22.44
That's why he has
brought all these delusions in.
00:37:22.47\00:37:27.74
In fact, in the early 1800s,
00:37:27.78\00:37:31.01
there was a man born by
the name of Joseph Smith.
00:37:31.05\00:37:34.22
Pause...
00:37:34.25\00:37:38.59
Joseph Smith
believed that we are divine
00:37:38.62\00:37:42.62
and that we are of
the order of Melchizedek
00:37:42.66\00:37:46.59
and then on June 27, 1844
you remember, he was murdered
00:37:46.63\00:37:53.34
but the Mormon
Church has gone on
00:37:53.40\00:37:57.07
and has grown over those years,
00:37:57.11\00:38:00.71
so, here we have
another counterfeit
00:38:00.74\00:38:03.24
that the devil has raised up
00:38:03.31\00:38:06.08
once again to divert that
person who that appeals to
00:38:06.11\00:38:10.39
to get into that area
00:38:10.42\00:38:11.95
because every one of
these different strategies
00:38:11.99\00:38:15.49
that the devil is using
00:38:15.52\00:38:16.86
doesn't appeal to everybody
00:38:16.89\00:38:18.99
but what he's doing is,
00:38:19.06\00:38:21.20
he's got a hat
for every-size head
00:38:21.23\00:38:24.97
and he knows human beings
that's why all of these "isms"
00:38:25.03\00:38:31.97
all of these
strategies that he developed
00:38:32.04\00:38:34.28
all began in 1844.
00:38:34.34\00:38:36.71
In that decade of the 1840s
is the most significant decade
00:38:36.75\00:38:42.98
of modern time.
00:38:43.02\00:38:44.35
Pause...
00:38:44.39\00:38:47.46
Then you have the
spiritualistic secret society...
00:38:47.49\00:38:50.53
the Delta, Kappa, Epsilon,
00:38:50.56\00:38:53.60
commonly known as the DKE
00:38:53.63\00:38:56.56
and there are about
58 chapters of the DKE
00:38:56.60\00:39:02.94
throughout North
America and Canada.
00:39:02.97\00:39:07.74
It started in
Yale College in 1844.
00:39:07.78\00:39:11.15
Now, he's into the universities.
00:39:11.18\00:39:14.52
Pause...
00:39:14.55\00:39:17.65
Then you have the Bá'haí faith.
00:39:17.69\00:39:20.09
Pause...
00:39:20.12\00:39:23.73
The Bá'haí Faith was
begun by an Iranian in Iran...
00:39:23.76\00:39:28.16
a member of a section
or a part of the Shiites
00:39:28.20\00:39:32.63
which are very
strong, of course, in Iran
00:39:32.67\00:39:36.74
and this young man proclaimed...
00:39:36.77\00:39:41.88
and called himself the Báb
00:39:41.91\00:39:44.91
and his philosophy was that
there was Moses as a prophet...
00:39:44.95\00:39:50.02
that there was Jesus
Christ as a prophet...
00:39:50.05\00:39:52.22
there was
Muhammad as a prophet...
00:39:52.25\00:39:54.76
and now there's going
to be another prophet...
00:39:54.79\00:39:57.19
pause...
00:39:57.23\00:40:00.96
and that's the
basis of the Bá'haí faith.
00:40:01.03\00:40:05.80
Once again, it
began in the year 1844...
00:40:05.83\00:40:10.57
the very year that
God's message was proclaimed
00:40:10.61\00:40:14.74
and in and around 1844,
00:40:14.78\00:40:18.01
we find the
Feminist Movement began.
00:40:18.05\00:40:19.81
This is when the
Ecumenical Movement began.
00:40:19.88\00:40:23.75
All began in that very year...
00:40:23.79\00:40:27.22
in that very period
00:40:27.26\00:40:28.99
and Satan brings in
counterfeits in various forms
00:40:29.02\00:40:36.00
to appeal to different peoples
00:40:36.03\00:40:38.03
and different brains and
different thought patterns
00:40:38.07\00:40:41.80
and the devil is not worried
00:40:41.84\00:40:45.01
whether a person
accepts this strategy
00:40:45.07\00:40:47.68
or that strategy
or the other strategy
00:40:47.71\00:40:50.25
as long as... they
don't accept God's truth
00:40:50.28\00:40:54.12
and that's why...
that's how the devil has worked
00:40:54.18\00:40:57.32
over the years
00:40:57.35\00:41:00.49
all around 1844.
00:41:00.52\00:41:03.56
Let me just go back
now to the year 1844...
00:41:03.59\00:41:08.90
there was a Seventh-day Baptist
lady by the name of Rachel Oaks.
00:41:08.93\00:41:15.70
She was a Sabbath keeper...
00:41:15.74\00:41:19.67
pause...
00:41:19.71\00:41:23.14
and she met a Millerite man
by the name of Frederick Wheeler
00:41:23.21\00:41:28.85
and Frederick
Wheeler was a Sunday keeper
00:41:28.88\00:41:32.62
and Rachel Oakes
said to Frederick Wheeler.
00:41:32.65\00:41:37.29
"Do you believe
in the Commandments?"
00:41:37.33\00:41:39.29
And he said, "Absolutely. "
00:41:39.33\00:41:40.80
"Well," she said,
"what about number 4
00:41:40.83\00:41:43.63
about the Sabbath?"
00:41:43.67\00:41:45.00
And she gave him a
Bible Study about the Sabbath.
00:41:45.03\00:41:48.64
And Wheeler went
home and he studied it
00:41:48.67\00:41:52.14
and he re-studied it
00:41:52.17\00:41:53.51
and he became convinced
that the Sabbath was correct...
00:41:53.54\00:41:58.01
that Rachel Oakes was
correct in her teaching
00:41:58.05\00:41:59.95
on the Seventh-day Sabbath
00:41:59.98\00:42:02.55
and as a result of
that he began to preach it
00:42:02.58\00:42:08.02
and to teach it
and on March 1844,
00:42:08.06\00:42:13.40
he preached his
first sermon on the Sabbath
00:42:13.43\00:42:18.67
and so the Sabbath
was rediscovered in 1844
00:42:18.70\00:42:24.77
pause...
00:42:24.81\00:42:26.41
and re-established.
00:42:26.44\00:42:28.98
In 1844, a man by
the name of Joseph Fitch
00:42:29.01\00:42:34.45
Charles Fitch... I'm
sorry... Charles Fitch.
00:42:34.48\00:42:39.25
He discovered the
Biblical truth on soul sleep
00:42:39.29\00:42:44.03
and so we find
that soul sleep...
00:42:44.06\00:42:47.66
that is... when
you die, you sleep
00:42:47.70\00:42:51.27
until Jesus comes back,
00:42:51.33\00:42:53.17
that was re-discovered in 1844.
00:42:53.23\00:42:58.14
Then we find that in 1844,
00:42:58.17\00:43:02.54
the Spirit of
Prophecy was re-discovered...
00:43:02.58\00:43:06.61
and amazing that God's
church in the last days
00:43:06.65\00:43:10.65
has to have the
Spirit of Prophecy
00:43:10.69\00:43:12.59
because Revelation says that
God's message in the last days
00:43:12.62\00:43:17.33
will have the Commandments
and the testimony of Jesus
00:43:17.36\00:43:21.33
of Revelation
19:10 says very clearly
00:43:21.36\00:43:24.50
that the testimony of
Jesus is the Spirit of Prophecy.
00:43:24.53\00:43:27.67
So, if a church doesn't
have the Spirit of Prophecy,
00:43:27.70\00:43:30.77
it is not God's
last true church.
00:43:30.81\00:43:33.17
It's got to have it
00:43:33.21\00:43:35.71
and this was
rediscovered in 1844
00:43:35.74\00:43:40.15
and what a
wonderful gift that has been.
00:43:40.18\00:43:42.45
You know,
sometimes people say to me,
00:43:42.48\00:43:44.69
"Well, do you think
that God is going to raise up
00:43:44.72\00:43:48.12
another prophet, now
that the prophet's been dead
00:43:48.16\00:43:51.53
for over a 100 years.
00:43:51.56\00:43:55.26
Pause...
00:43:55.30\00:43:59.20
Do you think that God
might raise up another?"
00:43:59.23\00:44:01.80
Well, I like to
answer that question
00:44:01.84\00:44:05.11
by going back to the type,
00:44:05.14\00:44:06.61
you know, in the Bible,
00:44:06.64\00:44:08.04
there are some
wonderful lessons to be learned
00:44:08.08\00:44:10.55
by following the
type and anti-type
00:44:10.61\00:44:13.31
and one of the
greatest types in the Bible
00:44:13.35\00:44:17.39
or illustrations that the
Bible uses of last-day truth
00:44:17.42\00:44:21.22
is the experience of
the children of Israel
00:44:21.26\00:44:24.86
going through the wilderness...
00:44:24.89\00:44:26.43
leaving Egypt
through the wilderness
00:44:26.46\00:44:28.13
to the Land of Canaan,
00:44:28.16\00:44:29.66
because 1st
Corinthians chapter 10 says,
00:44:29.70\00:44:33.94
that all these
things happened unto Israel
00:44:33.97\00:44:38.21
as an example or an illustration
00:44:38.24\00:44:41.14
for those of us who are
living in the end of the world
00:44:41.18\00:44:45.01
and so, if we want to
find out what God's truth is
00:44:45.05\00:44:48.82
in the last days,
00:44:48.85\00:44:50.19
simply go back to the type
00:44:50.22\00:44:51.75
and let's have a
look at the type.
00:44:51.79\00:44:53.22
The type was led by a prophet.
00:44:53.25\00:44:56.06
His name was Moses
00:44:56.09\00:44:58.86
pause...
00:44:58.89\00:45:01.36
and Moses wrote
down all the instructions
00:45:01.40\00:45:04.37
that God gave to him.
00:45:04.40\00:45:05.73
Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus,
Numbers and Deuteronomy
00:45:05.77\00:45:09.80
pause...
00:45:09.87\00:45:12.07
and that was
designed to guide God's people
00:45:12.11\00:45:17.01
in their wilderness wanderings
00:45:17.05\00:45:19.15
pause...
00:45:19.18\00:45:21.18
and you will remember
00:45:21.22\00:45:22.55
that Moses took
the children of Israel
00:45:22.58\00:45:24.95
into the Promised
Land, true or false?
00:45:24.99\00:45:27.56
False...
00:45:27.59\00:45:29.52
Because he died just before
going into the Land of Canaan.
00:45:29.56\00:45:36.36
Pause...
00:45:36.40\00:45:39.37
And so, we look at the type
00:45:39.43\00:45:41.70
then we look at the anti-type...
00:45:41.74\00:45:43.57
the church in the last days
00:45:43.61\00:45:46.07
that is based on the type
00:45:46.11\00:45:48.38
and by-the-way,
every single truth
00:45:48.41\00:45:52.48
that is part of
this message today
00:45:52.51\00:45:56.55
is found in that "type. "
00:45:56.58\00:45:59.22
Doesn't matter
what you talk about,
00:45:59.25\00:46:01.72
the Sabbath... the
State of the Dead...
00:46:01.76\00:46:04.03
our stand on health reform...
00:46:04.06\00:46:08.06
because Moses wrote
down in the instruction
00:46:08.10\00:46:11.83
that he gave before he
died, all about health reform.
00:46:11.87\00:46:15.17
Isn't that right?
00:46:15.20\00:46:16.54
And the anti-type
is exactly the same.
00:46:16.57\00:46:20.24
and he died just before
the children of Israel went in
00:46:20.28\00:46:24.01
and then was resurrected
00:46:24.05\00:46:25.48
and I believe exactly
the same with the anti-type.
00:46:25.51\00:46:31.29
Ellen White died just
before the people would go
00:46:31.35\00:46:37.13
into the true land of Canaan.
00:46:37.16\00:46:38.93
But before she died, she
wrote all the instructions down
00:46:38.96\00:46:44.23
for us to follow.
00:46:44.27\00:46:46.17
We don't need
any other prophet...
00:46:46.20\00:46:48.10
we're not even following all
that she gave us, is that true?
00:46:48.14\00:46:50.84
Audience: Yes.
00:46:50.91\00:46:52.24
Why would God give us more
when we haven't even followed
00:46:52.27\00:46:56.54
that which He has already given?
00:46:56.58\00:46:58.15
Audience: Agreeing.
00:46:58.18\00:47:00.25
And it's wonderful to see
and to study that... that type
00:47:00.28\00:47:05.59
and she talked about a
special resurrection...
00:47:05.62\00:47:08.16
remember in Daniel chapter 12,
00:47:08.19\00:47:10.06
one of the people
that's going to be raised
00:47:10.09\00:47:12.76
will be some of those in
the early Advent message...
00:47:12.79\00:47:16.06
they're going to be
raised to see Jesus return
00:47:16.10\00:47:19.67
in the clouds of heaven.
00:47:19.70\00:47:22.64
What year was the
sanctuary re-discovered?
00:47:22.70\00:47:26.34
1844...
00:47:26.37\00:47:28.91
the very year when
God raised up His message
00:47:28.94\00:47:34.05
and then in the
Sabbath Conferences in 1848,
00:47:34.08\00:47:39.75
those messages were formalized
00:47:39.79\00:47:42.66
and today, our
understanding is really based
00:47:42.69\00:47:48.66
on those Sabbath Conferences
that were developed in 1848.
00:47:48.70\00:47:53.27
But the devil has come
along with all his counterfeits
00:47:53.30\00:47:56.87
to try to divert...
to try to confuse people
00:47:56.91\00:48:03.31
and that's his strategy
00:48:03.35\00:48:06.35
and today we are not
immune to being confused
00:48:06.38\00:48:11.62
and being diverted ourselves
00:48:11.65\00:48:13.76
pause...
00:48:13.82\00:48:15.99
when we understand
the importance of this
00:48:16.02\00:48:18.63
and so, those people,
00:48:18.69\00:48:20.60
as they began to
study Revelation chapter 14,
00:48:20.63\00:48:23.83
the message was to go
to every nation, kindred,
00:48:23.87\00:48:27.04
tongue and people,
00:48:27.07\00:48:28.40
suddenly they realized,
we have to be missionaries.
00:48:28.44\00:48:31.97
Give me a date...
00:48:32.01\00:48:34.21
what date...
00:48:34.24\00:48:36.64
1844...
00:48:36.68\00:48:38.71
a man by the name
of Samuel Morse...
00:48:38.75\00:48:42.45
ever heard of him?
00:48:42.48\00:48:44.22
What did he discover?
00:48:44.25\00:48:45.89
You will
remember that Samuel Morse
00:48:45.92\00:48:51.16
was the first man who
discovered the telegraph...
00:48:51.19\00:48:56.00
and in... in Washington, D.C.
00:48:56.03\00:49:00.07
he had his friend,
Vail, go down to Baltimore
00:49:00.10\00:49:04.87
and he typed out
those words... four words...
00:49:04.91\00:49:09.61
"What hath GOD wrought"
00:49:09.64\00:49:15.02
and Vail, in Baltimore,
typed back the message,
00:49:15.08\00:49:19.02
"What hath GOD wrought"
00:49:19.05\00:49:21.62
that was discovered...
telegraph was discovered in 1844
00:49:21.66\00:49:26.86
the very year that God's message
now needs to go to every nation,
00:49:26.90\00:49:31.00
kindred, tongue and people.
00:49:31.03\00:49:32.70
And by-the-way,
00:49:32.73\00:49:35.97
Samuel Morse was a
very, very good Bible student.
00:49:36.00\00:49:39.61
He studied
Daniel and Revelation...
00:49:39.67\00:49:43.95
he was an expert...
00:49:43.98\00:49:45.48
in fact, he wrote more
on Daniel and Revelation
00:49:45.51\00:49:48.25
than he ever did on telegraph.
00:49:48.28\00:49:49.78
Pause...
00:49:49.82\00:49:52.49
God has given to us a message
which is absolutely water-tight
00:49:52.52\00:49:56.69
pause...
00:49:56.73\00:49:58.59
and the trouble
is and the tragedy is
00:49:58.63\00:50:01.80
that today, we are
trying to water down the message
00:50:01.83\00:50:05.57
that God has given to us
00:50:05.60\00:50:07.60
pause...
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and it's interesting that
Columbus Xenia Railroad...
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the railway was
first built in 1844
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so that the
message could be taken
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on land and sea.
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In fact, let me just read
you some of the discoveries
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that took place in
the decade of the 1840s.
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Railroads were
discovered in the 1840s.
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Oceangoing steam ships were
discovered in... in the 1840s.
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The electric
telegraph as we have noticed.
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They discovered the Penny Post.
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Up until this stage,
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the only persons that ever
had a post... a letter delivered
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were the very wealthy.
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Then they
developed the Penny Post
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and if you look
up the Penny Post,
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you will find that this
is the development of...
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of the Post as we know it today
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when letters could be delivered.
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Up until 1840s,
that wasn't the case.
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Pause...
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This was when photography
with negatives was discovered
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and in 1844, the first
news to provide sanitation
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in English
cities, was legislated.
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If you want to read
something that will turn you...
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don't do it
before you have a meal
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but if you want
to read something
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that will turn your stomach,
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just read how they were living
before the 1840s in Briton
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and the filth and the sanitation
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was absolutely nil in existence
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and Daniel
chapter 12 and verse 4...
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that wonderful verse
that we have always understood
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says, "Many shall run
to and fro and... " what?
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"knowledge shall increase. "
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In that very year,
the knowledge of God...
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God allowed
knowledge to increase
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and all these amazing
discoveries took place
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so that His
message could be taken
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to every nation,
kindred, tongue and people
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and today, the devil
is attacking the remnant
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because how it is attacking
the remnant is to make us unsure
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of what we believe
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because once you're unsure...
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once question marks
come into your mind,
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I tell you, you're not
going to share the truth
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because your always thinking,
"Maybe it's not right... "
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and so, the worst
thing that can ever happen
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is uncertainty that
will come into our hearts
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and that's why the
devil is trying to disseminate
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uncertainty among us
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pause...
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and today there's a stupor...
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a sleepiness among many of us,
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in fact, let me
read you a statement,
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"As the Lord's people show
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their determination to follow
the light that has been given,
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the enemy brings all his powers
to bear to discourage them.
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But they are not to give
up because of the difficulties
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that arise when they try to
follow the counsels of the Lord.
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Every wind of doctrine is going
to blow before Jesus returns
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and today, God is
appealing to us...
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He has given us evidence
upon evidence upon evidence
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that this
message is water tight.
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There is nothing in this message
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that we need to
be apologetic for.
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This message is God's message
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and God is calling
for us to be faithful
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in the giving of that message.
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May God help us to do that.
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Let's just bow
our heads in prayer.
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"Our Father in heaven,
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I just want to
thank You today, Lord,
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for the wonderful message.
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Those three
messages of Revelation 14
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that ought to be taken
to every nation, kindred,
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tongue and people.
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Please Lord, help
us to be faithful.
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Help us to spend time
not only getting to know you
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but in sharing this
wonderful truth with others...
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I pray for
Christ's sake, amen. "
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