Hello, friends, grab
your Bible and a friend
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and sit back as we
explore God's word together
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on this edition
of "House Calls."
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Welcome to another journey
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and get your backpacks ready
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because this is a journey
for only those who are prepared.
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In your backpack
you just need a Bible
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but you need prayer to guide you
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and you need the Holy
Spirit to work through you.
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Welcome to House Calls program.
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My name is John
Lomacang, good to have you.
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Joining us today, hit record,
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you don't want
to lose this program
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because it's not
just me, it's me and C.A.
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Good to have you
here. Good to be here, John.
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I tell you, it's always
fun to have you with me.
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Thank you. It's fun to be here.
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I always enjoy studying
the Word of God with you.
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I like having John
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and sometimes we have John Dinzy
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or John Stanton or C.A.
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and John Stanton or
John Lomacang and C.A.
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you know, we mix it up here
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but we still use the same Bible,
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the authorized Word of God
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which I encourage you to get.
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Get your pens and sit back
for a very exciting program
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as we continue on our
topic, "Our God Shall Come."
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We are looking forward
to the coming of our Lord.
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It's not a
cliché, not a billboard,
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it's not a stamp on our shirts
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but it's a promise in our hearts
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and we are longing for the day
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that Jesus is going to come.
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But before we go any further,
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we like you to pray for us.
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Glad to do so, shall we pray?
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Heavenly Father, again
we thank You for Your word
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which is a lamp unto our
feet, a light into our path
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and we thank You for that light
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which shines on
the path before us
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that comes from Your word.
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We ask you now to
enable us to walk in that light
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so that we can
know Your will for us.
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We can walk in that will
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and we can be prepared
for the soon coming day
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when Christ will
put in His appearance
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and end this era
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and assuring a
brand new era of love joy
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and peace
throughout all eternity.
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We thank you for this day
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and for the study of the Word
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in Jesus name, amen. Amen.
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Friends, you know, I mean,
if you watch the program before,
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by the way, if you
are a first time viewer,
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welcome to "House
Calls." Here's what we do.
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You have a Bible question,
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you are excited
about what you hear
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or may be upset by what you hear
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or maybe you
have an enquiry mind
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and you want to know even more
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or may be you have a comment.
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Here's what you'll
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or question to
housecalls@3abn.org,
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that's housecalls@3abn.org.
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We go to the
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we print them out, we
put them on our laptops
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or whatever and when
we sit down like this,
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we read your question, if
you like to have a private,
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non-on-the-air
response, let us know.
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Try to make a
concise into the point
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so we can get to it.
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If it's really
long, we sometimes say,
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that's a book and
we go to the next one.
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Am I right?
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But here's what we
are going to do today.
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We're going to have,
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we're going to
dive into our questions
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because we so enjoy
this part of the program.
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It helps us respond
to the needs you have
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and your desire to know
more deeply the Word of God.
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And I have a seasoned
professor with me here today.
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My pastor, I am his pastor
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and we are both
natives of New York City,
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how about that. Yeah.
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I am actually native of Buffalo
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but spend so much
time in New York City,
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I feel like I am a
native of New York City
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and of course you
are a Brooklyn born guy
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and we spend so many
years in New York City together.
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Actually, I was
born in Manhattan.
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And across the river, okay.
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So we are going to just say,
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we own the state, we
identify with the state
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but we both Brooklyn raised,
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we have the flavor
from New York City. Yeah.
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You were born in
Manhattan, I didn't know that.
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I was born on 72, Central Park.
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I was born in upper
echelon of the city.
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That's a high
territory up there.
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I left at three months old,
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I couldn't get a place that I
really felt good to stay with.
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That's not really the case
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but I want you
to get your Bibles.
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We have this
question that I like,
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I like the
questions that come in here.
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This one is Matthew 11:11,
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try to say that 15
times, Matthew 11:11.
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And the question is,
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"What was the Lord really saying
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concerning the fate
of John the Baptist?
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Some say, he that is
John will not be in heaven
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because of his doubt.
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Let's take a look
at this, Matthew 11:11.
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"Verily I say unto you,
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among them that
are born of women
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there hath not risen
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a greater than John the Baptist,
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notwithstanding he that is
least in the kingdom of heaven
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is greater than he."
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Sounds like a
riddle, doesn't it?
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A little bit. But
it's not a riddle.
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And by no means, let
me just get directly--
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well, let me have you register,
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what do you think
this text is saying?
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I mean, it's talking
about John on two extremes here.
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This-- first of all it's not to
put down the John the Baptist.
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Right. It is not.
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It's talking about
the glories of entrance
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into the kingdom of God.
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It's looking at it, dare I say
from a heaven's point of view.
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John was a great,
great servant of the Lord
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but those who are saved,
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those who are finally accounted
worthy to live with Christ,
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even the least I say,
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the Bible says is
greater than that.
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It's comparing the
glories of being saved
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as opposed to the servant hood
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as great as that
is here on earth.
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And notice the things
that this is where it kind of,
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some people get thrown by this
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when it says,
"Among those born of women
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there is not risen one
greater than John the Baptist."
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What makes, let's
talk about the greatness
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and the leastness
of John the Baptist?
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The greatness side of it is
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how special would you
feel if you were the one
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to introduce Jesus
to the world? Precisely.
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He was the fort--he was
the table setter. That's right.
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You know, in basketball
you have the point guard
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who handles the ball,
who feeds it to the big man
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because a big man can't
dribble and get it for himself.
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So he is the one
that, he's a seven footer
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but the seven footer
needs that little point guard
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to help him to be
all that he can be.
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Well, it's a kind of
inaccurate, you know, depiction
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but John was a
table setter for the Lord.
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He was the one who
was the Herald of Christ,
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the one who had the privilege
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of announcing the
coming of the Messiah.
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It doesn't get
any better than that.
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So he got the
privilege of saying--
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I am not minimizing this
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but for many, many
years Ed McMahon used to say,
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"Here's Johnny." Yeah.
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You know, you got to be
older if you can get that.
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So if that went over you head,
that was just simple a show
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where one was
introducing the other. Yes.
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But John said,
"Behold, the Lamb of God
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that taketh away
the sin of the world."
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Now the reason why it
talks about him as being great,
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that was his calling.
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The Lord, his-- Elizabeth,
the cousin of Mary-- Yes.
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That have this
meeting, Jesus in--
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this is just,
this is mind-boggling,
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Jesus and his cousin John
meets before they are born.
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Precisely. Yeah, yeah.
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They meet when Mary is
running, trying to figure out
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how to explain to
Joseph for pregnancy.
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She goes to Elizabeth
because the angel Gabriel says,
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"Somebody knows how you feel."
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Elizabeth is already old,
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she is having a baby.
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Nobody said that will happen.
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Zechariah is at
home, dumfounded.
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How does this happen?
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He can't speak
because he doubted it. Yes.
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See, and Mary doesn't know
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how to tell
Joseph who is an upright
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and just man
that she is pregnant
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and they are not
even married yet.
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Right. Okay.
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And John the Baptist, when
Mary walks in another room,
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in the stomach of
Elizabeth, John leaps.
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John leaps in the womb.
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That's powerful. Yeah, yeah.
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And Elizabeth
says, "He knows that
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that's the divine
one." That's powerful.
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Calling from even in the womb,
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he was going to be
the Herald of the Lord.
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And not withstand that
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he did not live
a long successful--
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well, I should
not say successful
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but a long, quite peaceful life,
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his life was very
turbulent as you well know
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because he spoke out
against the powers that being
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the powers that
be-- had him killed
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but he fulfilled
his task in a great way
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and then have
to suffer martyrdom
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but is he in the kingdom?
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Oh my soul, I
would say yes. Yeah.
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John will be in the kingdom
but here's the least part
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and this is the side that
really great in the introduction
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but you know what sad
about that introduction
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is John left the
scene very quickly. Yes.
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John wasn't there
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when the
multitudes were being healed.
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John wasn't there
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when the
multitudes were being fed.
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John didn't see the
sight restored to the blind.
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John didn't see the
glorious resurrection of Jesus.
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John wasn't at the
tomb with Mary saying,
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I am here with you.
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John passed of
the scene so quickly
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and he was the forerunner.
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He was-- his whole existence
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was to prepare
the way for the Lord.
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And so when it
says he is the least
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that means in the
sense of his experience
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he didn't really have,
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I mean, I saw Jesus
give that man back his sight,
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I saw Him restore the blind.
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I saw Him raise her to life.
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I saw Him feed multitudes
which is loaves and fishes.
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He didn't have
the-- and the others
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that came after
John had the privilege
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of being in the
presence of Christ.
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That's why he said,
"In the kingdom of heaven
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he won't have
very much testimony."
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Because he said, "I
need you guys to tell me
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what happened
after I left." Yeah.
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Because so much did happen,
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so many great
and wonderful things
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that he never got a
chance to be a part of.
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That's why he--
that's why they said,
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he will be least in the kingdom.
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And those who are
least in the kingdom
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will be greater than He
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because they will
have more testimony.
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They have a lot--
I mean, even today,
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even I would be in
a greater testament
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setting than John was.
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But I would love being
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the John to
introduce Jesus to the world.
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Suffice to say that all of
them though are in the kingdom.
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That's right.
Yeah, no body is out.
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They are all in. That's' right.
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They will be there
when the Lord come.
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We are going to
be in that number
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when Jesus comes back
but John is going to say,
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"You know, I understand it now
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but when I was in
that tomb languishing
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and Jesus didn't come to see me.
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I realized, man,
what a short life
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but I must
decrease, He must increase."
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So he knew his
mission. Yeah, yeah.
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You know, just let me touch
on something, John. Go ahead.
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You know, the idea that
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God is not
dismayed by our doubts. No.
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You know, those who
have had great trial
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have sometime
been subject to doubt.
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God can deal with your doubt.
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In fact I was talking with--
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I was at a conference
just yesterday where I spoke
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where wives have
been victims of abuse
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and this one
former youth pastor said,
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I just, I just--
I screamed at God.
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I just, I yelled at God.
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How could you let
this happen to my wife?
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And he said, I felt bad
and I said to Him you know,
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God can take
your finger pointing,
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God can take-- you saying,
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I don't understand
what I am going through,
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I don't understand
why you are allowing this,
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I don't
understand what is going on.
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God's skin is not so thin,
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He can take that. That's right.
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What He doesn't want
you to do is give up.
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If you got to tear out your hair
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and scream and hover at Him
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and shake your fist at Him,
well, you won't be the first.
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As long as you don't
turn your back on Him,
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as long as you
don't run away from Him.
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John was in
prison, tough place to be.
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You know, rough situations.
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He went to Christ, are you it
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or should I look for
somebody else, you know.
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This it-- he had
this little dip in faith
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but he died in
triumph. He died believing.
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He fulfilled his mission
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and that's what God
want all of us to do.
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Even if you have
these little dips,
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sometimes your faith
will get little weak,
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just don't turn
your back on Him.
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Don't turn away from Him,
He can take your fist shaking
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and your finger pointing
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but don't turn away from Him,
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that's when you are in trouble.
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So do you got to
question Him, question Him.
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Sometimes He will answer you,
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sometimes he will
let you go through it,
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answer you on the other side
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but don't ever
turn away from Him.
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He will be with
you all the time.
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I appreciate that. That is true.
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We have to let our humanity
be put aside for the questions
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that divinity still
lives in our path. Precisely.
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Because
divinity, what it means is
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He knows what he did,
you don't have to know.
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He knows why He did it.
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And what does
the song writer say,
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we will understand
it-- Better by and by.
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Suffice it to say,
that's what we fit into
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the scheme of what
the Lord wants to do.
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Another gentleman wrote.
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Matter of fact
her name is Nancy.
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Thank you so much, Nancy.
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She wanted the references
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to topic we
talked about on Sabbath.
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The number of times
that Acts is mentioned
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that in the Book of Acts
the word Sabbath is mentioned.
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By the way it's
mentioned nine times.
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And I am glad
you brought that up.
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C.A., sometimes people say,
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Jesus did away with the Sabbath
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when He died on the cross.
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They say, He nailed it to
the cross, He got rid of it.
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It's no longer binding on us,
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it's no longer an observation,
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we got to get rid of that day.
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Who wants a day anyway?
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But in the Book of Acts
the unquestionable authority
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of the validity of the Sabbath
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continues in the Book of Acts.
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One of the first
ones you find is,
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matter of fact, let me
give you the references here.
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I like to do that, I have in
front of me a laptop computer.
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The first one you
find is in Acts 1:12,
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where you find the
Sabbath day's journey
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talked about, that's the
first reference, Acts 1:12.
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And since you're recording,
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I will go ahead
and make sure that
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you get all these on the record.
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Acts 1:12, if you are
listening on the radio,
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grab these as I go by.
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Acts 13:14 is the other one,
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then the other one
Acts 13:14 is there,
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Acts 13:27 where
it talked about how
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"For they all
dwell at Jerusalem,
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because they knew Him not
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nor yet their
voices of the Prophets
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which they had
read every Sabbath day,
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and they fulfilled
them in condemning Him."
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That's one.
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They kept going
over the life of Jesus.
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Simply,
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but Acts 13:42, this
is Paul and Barnabas. Yes.
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Where they-- "And when the Jews
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were gone out of the synagogue,
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the Gentiles
begged that these words
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might be preached to
them the next Sabbath."
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So that's Acts
13:42. Then verse 44.
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Verse 44 picks it up again.
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Says this, "And the next Sabbath
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almost the whole
city came together
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to hear the word of God."
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So you see, Jews, Gentiles
and look at the next one.
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Read that one
for us, Acts 15:21.
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Acts 15:21. Yeah, Acts 15:21.
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So this is showing
that the apostles did
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what was continually referenced
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in the Old Testament.
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They didn't break stride.
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Notice what it
says in Acts 15:21.
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"For Moses of old
time hath in every city
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them that preach him,
being read in the synagogues
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on every Sabbath day." Okay.
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So they remind the
newer generation of Moses,
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the work that he had done
and how often do they hear it?
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Every Sabbath. Every Sabbath.
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So they are showing
not one but every Sabbath.
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Another one, look at Acts 16:13.
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That's reference number seven.
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You have that one?
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"And on the sabbath
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he went out of the
city by a river side,
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where prayer was want
to be made and he sat down,
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and spake unto the
women which resorted thither."
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In another words
who met him there.
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The reason why this is
something I look that up
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and I said, now, John,
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I mean, Paul is down by
the river side on the Sabbath.
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Why was he there?
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And notice he said,
he spoke to the woman.
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The custom was--
this was a custom,
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this is no longer
applicable today in our society
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but there needed
to be at least 10 men
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in the congregation for
them to build a facility. Yes.
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They didn't have 10 men.
Just a woman met him there.
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So that's why they had
no facility to meet in.
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And I thought why the
woman, they mentioned a woman
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and one thing you will discover
as you study God's word,
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words are not
mentioned arbitrarily.
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True, very true.
They are there for reason.
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They are there to
make you look it up.
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Why did Paul have to go down
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by where the prayer was
customarily made by the river.
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And he went, sat down and spoke
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to the woman who met there.
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And when do they meet?
They met on the Sabbath to pray.
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They went out of the city,
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that's where they met
to pray every Sabbath.
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Yes, yes.
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Because they had no
place to meet in the city
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because there was
not 10 men at least
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added to the congregation.
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And last one, Acts
17, well, the last two.
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Acts 17:2 is the other reference
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to the Sabbath
in the Book of Acts.
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"And Paul, as his manner was,
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went in unto them,
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and three Sabbath
days reasoned with them
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out of the scriptures."
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And of course that
reminds us of Luke 4:16.
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Christ as His custom was
went out on the Sabbath day,
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Paul as his manner is,
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his custom is three Sabbath days
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he reasoned with him
out of the scriptures.
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And the cities
that are mentioned there
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that he reasoned are in verse 1.
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He passed through Amphipolis,
Apollonia, Thessalonica
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where there was a
synagogue of the Jews.
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But when you
follow the references,
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he spoke to both, Jews
and Gentiles and Greeks.
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And so this was not some--
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and the last reference
in Acts of the Sabbath,
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Acts 18:4. Read that one there.
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"And he reasoned again in
the synagogue every Sabbath,
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and persuaded the
Jews and the Greeks."
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Okay. So there you go.
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So the Sabbath wasn't
just the Jewish thing,
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it was for the Greeks
and you go in Acts 13,
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the Gentiles and they
were also proselytizing done,
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converts coming into the truth
of the New Testament church.
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So the Sabbath day
there are nine references.
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Once again, Acts
1:12, Acts 13:14,
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Acts 13:27, Acts 13:42-44,
00:18:47.64\00:18:52.11
Acts 15:21, Acts 16:13,
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Acts 17:2 and Acts 18:4.
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Hope you got those.
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And just want to
recap those very quickly.
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This one was a cute
one here. I like this.
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And why I say I
like this, that's--
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I say that so
much, I like them all.
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I am from New
York, I like anything.
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I like it, I like it,
it's a good one. Here it is.
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Okay, okay, they
start with the word, okay.
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Matthew 27:51-53. Okay.
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They put, "Okay.
Matthew 27:51-53. Okay.
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In verse 52, we read
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that the graves of many bodies
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of the ones that
were dead arose."
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Read that for us
from Matthew 27:51-53.
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Read that for us. 27:51-53.
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"And, behold, the veil of
the temple was rent in twain
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from the top to the bottom,
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and the earth did
quake, and the rocks rent.
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And the graves were opened,
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and many bodies of the
saints which slept arose.
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And came out of the
graves after his resurrection,
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and went into the holy city,
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and appeared unto many." Okay.
00:20:06.70\00:20:09.08
This is the person's question.
00:20:09.11\00:20:10.67
After they said, they
said, "But in verse 53 it says,
00:20:15.26\00:20:19.90
after Christ
resurrection then they came out.
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That was the third day.
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What did they do
for all that time,
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just sit in the hole?"
00:20:29.55\00:20:33.02
Okay. Okay. My
reaction was identical.
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So what he's in essence--
00:20:37.96\00:20:39.70
what they're in
essence saying is,
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okay, they were
brought back to life,
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verse 52, many of the saints
00:20:43.72\00:20:46.16
who had fallen
asleep were raised
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and coming out of the
grave after his resurrection.
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They went into the holy
city and appear to many.
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What he is doing
is, he is separating
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verse 52 and verse 53.
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You notice what I am saying?
00:20:57.68\00:20:59.03
He is separating verse
52 as different time frame
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and verse 53 as
another time frame.
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He is saying, okay,
00:21:03.14\00:21:07.12
the resurrection
is talked about here.
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That's exactly
what's been referred to
00:21:09.39\00:21:11.19
and so when it says,
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and coming out of the
graves after His resurrection,
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he is not saying
they came to life
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and just laid there saying,
00:21:17.64\00:21:18.67
"Okay, we got two more
days before we get out of here."
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That's what he is
in essence asking.
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You know, that's not the case.
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While you separate the events,
00:21:25.50\00:21:27.55
the coming to life and
coming out of the grave
00:21:27.58\00:21:30.36
happen on the same day
after His resurrection.
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But sometimes people tend
to separate those two events.
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They was the beauty,
the resurrection of Christ,
00:21:36.67\00:21:39.56
coming out of the grave,
they didn't get life on one day
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and come out the
next day. Oh, I see.
00:21:43.73\00:21:45.89
And that's what the
person was thinking there.
00:21:45.92\00:21:49.01
So your opinion is
needed and I really would like,
00:21:49.04\00:21:52.67
I need your opinion, thank God.
00:21:52.70\00:21:54.75
Thank you so much, Wallace,
for sending us that question.
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Isaiah 26:19 is a
passage that would do well
00:22:00.63\00:22:04.51
because you know
when it says, come out.
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Let's look at Isaiah 26:19.
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Some of the same
language is used in Isaiah 26,
00:22:09.97\00:22:12.93
but you will notice,
when you get to that, C.A.,
00:22:12.96\00:22:17.14
read that for us, Isaiah 26:19
00:22:17.17\00:22:23.12
Isaiah 26:19, this
is a brand new Bible
00:22:23.15\00:22:29.28
and I should know better than
00:22:29.31\00:22:32.42
bring a brand new
Bible on set with me
00:22:32.45\00:22:35.66
because it-the pages
still stick together.
00:22:35.69\00:22:39.01
26:19, "Thy dead men shall live,
00:22:39.04\00:22:43.03
together with my dead
body shall they arise.
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Awake and sing, ye
that dwell in dust,
00:22:46.21\00:22:50.37
for thy dew is the dew of herbs,
00:22:50.40\00:22:52.80
and the earth shall
cast out the dead." Okay.
00:22:52.83\00:22:56.53
"Your dead men shall live,
00:22:56.56\00:22:57.89
together with my dead
body shall they arise."
00:22:57.92\00:23:00.96
The one I want
to point out here is
00:23:00.99\00:23:03.11
the arising part
and the singing part
00:23:03.14\00:23:05.64
happens the same time.
00:23:05.67\00:23:08.13
They are not coming to
life and then singing later on
00:23:08.16\00:23:11.17
but they arise, awake and sing,
00:23:11.20\00:23:14.15
you who dwell in the dust.
00:23:14.18\00:23:15.48
Notice what it
says, you who dwell.
00:23:15.51\00:23:16.95
And the word
there dwell means live.
00:23:16.98\00:23:19.40
And the reason I am
using this reference is
00:23:19.43\00:23:20.91
because if you would to
put this in the vernacular
00:23:20.94\00:23:24.08
of just talking
about a common setting,
00:23:24.11\00:23:26.44
you say they live in New York
00:23:26.47\00:23:27.95
and I could
just-- let me go ahead
00:23:27.98\00:23:29.14
and substitute the word here
just to illustrate my point.
00:23:29.17\00:23:31.79
"Awake and sing you
who dwell in New York."
00:23:31.82\00:23:35.29
I am saying
they live in New York
00:23:35.32\00:23:36.46
but I want them
to wake up and sing.
00:23:36.49\00:23:38.61
So the context here is,
they are not alive in the dust,
00:23:38.64\00:23:42.79
they are dwelling in the dust.
00:23:42.82\00:23:44.65
That's the place that they are
going to be until they awake,
00:23:44.68\00:23:48.93
until they are brought
back to life again. Okay.
00:23:48.96\00:23:51.62
I hope I am making my
illustrated point well here
00:23:51.65\00:23:54.01
and the point is in
the Book of Matthew 27,
00:23:54.04\00:23:57.02
they were still asleep.
00:23:57.05\00:23:59.15
They were not awake one day
00:23:59.18\00:24:01.04
and came out of
grave the next day
00:24:01.07\00:24:02.79
waiting for Jesus' resurrection
to come out of the grave.
00:24:02.82\00:24:05.83
So therefore they were not
00:24:05.86\00:24:06.89
just sitting in the
grave or sitting in the hole,
00:24:06.92\00:24:09.08
waiting for the grave to
open up and let them out.
00:24:09.11\00:24:11.37
There was no consciousness.
00:24:11.40\00:24:13.74
Ecclesiastes 9:5,
00:24:13.77\00:24:15.10
"The living know
that they will die
00:24:15.13\00:24:16.42
but the dead know
not any thing." Okay.
00:24:16.45\00:24:19.43
Also their love and their hate
00:24:19.46\00:24:20.66
and their envy is now perished.
00:24:20.69\00:24:22.82
So Psalms 146:4,
00:24:22.85\00:24:26.39
"His breath goeth forth,
he returneth to his earth,
00:24:26.42\00:24:28.43
in that very day
his thoughts perish."
00:24:28.46\00:24:30.52
Psalms 115:17, "The
dead do not praise the Lord,
00:24:30.55\00:24:34.07
neither any that
go down into silence."
00:24:34.10\00:24:36.15
So those passages
are there to let us know
00:24:36.18\00:24:38.12
until they are
coming out of the grave,
00:24:38.15\00:24:39.60
they won't be singing,
they won't be rejoicing,
00:24:39.63\00:24:43.02
they won't be
witnessing about Christ
00:24:43.05\00:24:45.78
in His resurrection. Okay. Yes.
00:24:45.81\00:24:47.53
Isaiah here of course
spoke so much about Christ,
00:24:47.56\00:24:50.45
His work, His death, His life.
00:24:50.48\00:24:52.00
Here he is talking
about a special resurrection.
00:24:52.03\00:24:56.29
And when we go back to
the New Testament text,
00:24:56.32\00:25:02.84
the text says many other things.
00:25:02.87\00:25:04.61
This is not a
blanket declaration
00:25:04.64\00:25:07.02
for all of the saying
00:25:07.05\00:25:08.42
but Christ chose many
of the saints as trophies,
00:25:08.45\00:25:13.22
emblems of His resurrection.
00:25:13.25\00:25:15.62
And they went into
the city and witnessed.
00:25:15.65\00:25:18.62
And so they were
powerful evangelist
00:25:18.65\00:25:21.14
for the power of
the resurrected Lord.
00:25:21.17\00:25:25.27
He chose some, many,
not all, not everybody.
00:25:25.30\00:25:28.22
So it's not a blanket doctrine.
00:25:28.25\00:25:30.10
This is a special
resurrection that Christ chose
00:25:30.13\00:25:34.23
really to hail or
highlight His victory
00:25:34.26\00:25:40.25
over sin and death at that time.
00:25:40.28\00:25:42.07
And so these people
are very powerful witnesses
00:25:42.10\00:25:44.25
for the power of
the resurrected Lord.
00:25:44.28\00:25:46.19
Showing that He is in fact
00:25:46.22\00:25:47.47
the resurrection in
the life. Precisely.
00:25:47.50\00:25:49.55
You know the
beauty of the being--
00:25:49.58\00:25:53.47
I call it spiritual fallout.
00:25:53.50\00:25:56.72
If you are in the
grave where Jesus--
00:25:56.75\00:25:58.34
if you're in the
cemetery where Jesus was buried,
00:25:58.37\00:26:01.00
you're coming
out with Him, okay.
00:26:01.03\00:26:03.36
It says some
powerful resurrection there.
00:26:03.39\00:26:05.74
And it didn't say that
they were in the same cemetery.
00:26:05.77\00:26:08.35
I am not highlighting that.
00:26:08.38\00:26:09.57
But the point of the matter is
00:26:09.60\00:26:10.63
wherever you are and
Jesus wants you to arise,
00:26:10.66\00:26:12.29
you are going to arise.
00:26:12.32\00:26:14.76
What's also nice
about that is this,
00:26:14.79\00:26:18.66
He could have said
00:26:18.69\00:26:20.25
or His
disciples could have said,
00:26:20.28\00:26:22.24
he rose and
people would have said,
00:26:22.27\00:26:23.98
"I didn't see Him." Yeah.
00:26:24.01\00:26:26.46
But the number that
arose and went into the city
00:26:26.49\00:26:30.96
and testifies that Jesus rose,
00:26:30.99\00:26:32.88
somebody said, "Wait a minute,
00:26:32.91\00:26:35.57
step brother so and so, now--"
00:26:35.60\00:26:37.78
I was at that
funeral. I know that guy.
00:26:37.81\00:26:40.85
I was at that one,
I know that was him
00:26:40.88\00:26:42.68
and he is back.
00:26:42.71\00:26:44.13
Something powerful
must have happened here.
00:26:44.16\00:26:46.01
Something really,
really spectacular
00:26:46.04\00:26:47.31
must have happened, yeah.
00:26:47.34\00:26:48.37
And you're
saying, wait a minute,
00:26:48.40\00:26:49.71
brother, that is him.
00:26:49.74\00:26:52.22
And could you explain
what just happened here?
00:26:52.25\00:26:55.24
He said, and then he testifies
00:26:55.27\00:26:56.57
at the
resurrection of the Jesus.
00:26:56.60\00:26:57.76
Powerful
witness. Powerful witness.
00:26:57.79\00:26:58.87
I mean, we skip by
that, I want to highlight
00:26:58.90\00:27:00.63
because we escape by that.
00:27:00.66\00:27:02.52
And it's like, you know,
00:27:02.55\00:27:04.30
like somebody beep
their horn and went by.
00:27:04.33\00:27:05.78
But that's a
powerful illustration
00:27:05.81\00:27:07.53
of how the testimony of Jesus
00:27:07.56\00:27:10.24
resonated everywhere they went.
00:27:10.27\00:27:12.18
And before they
got together with Him,
00:27:12.21\00:27:14.04
that's why the
Book of Acts says,
00:27:14.07\00:27:15.31
you know, He was
seen by disciples,
00:27:15.34\00:27:18.12
Mary and the woman that
came from Galilee saw Him.
00:27:18.15\00:27:20.48
He was seen upwards of about 500
00:27:20.51\00:27:22.78
and then He had
a band of testim--
00:27:22.81\00:27:24.95
He had a ban of
people testifying
00:27:24.98\00:27:26.70
of His resurrected power
00:27:26.73\00:27:28.08
because they too
came out of the grave.
00:27:28.11\00:27:30.67
He of course still
was limited in place
00:27:30.70\00:27:32.65
He could be in those who saw Him
00:27:32.68\00:27:33.80
but this group of evangelists
00:27:33.83\00:27:36.66
filtering their
way through the city.
00:27:36.69\00:27:38.14
What a powerful witness
for the resurrection Lord,
00:27:38.17\00:27:40.52
John, that you have
these people who were dead.
00:27:40.55\00:27:43.73
We know that he was dead.
00:27:43.76\00:27:45.45
What's he doing walking around?
00:27:45.48\00:27:46.59
Well, Christ brought
me back. For what purpose?
00:27:46.62\00:27:49.25
To testify of His goodness,
of His resurrecting power.
00:27:49.28\00:27:51.82
In fact that He is a
risen Lord, I am witness.
00:27:51.85\00:27:54.74
That's right. That
He is a risen Lord.
00:27:54.77\00:27:56.47
I am the
resurrection of the life. Yeah.
00:27:56.50\00:27:58.25
And he that believeth
in me, though he were dead,
00:27:58.28\00:28:00.32
yet shall he live. Yeah.
00:28:00.35\00:28:01.57
That's what He tried to
tell Martha that day in John 11,
00:28:01.60\00:28:04.69
I am the resurrection,
00:28:04.72\00:28:05.81
you gonna see your brother again
00:28:05.84\00:28:06.87
because I am the resurrection.
00:28:06.90\00:28:08.27
And He does
something special for them.
00:28:08.30\00:28:09.74
So friends,
know the dead weren't
00:28:09.77\00:28:14.81
sitting around, waiting around
00:28:14.84\00:28:16.23
anymore than anybody right now
00:28:16.26\00:28:17.45
are sitting
around waiting around.
00:28:17.48\00:28:20.18
That's what the whole
purpose of sleep is all about.
00:28:20.21\00:28:22.82
When I went to bed last
night, I surely would have,
00:28:22.85\00:28:25.25
you know, my wife gave
me this urgent statement,
00:28:25.28\00:28:27.19
she says, "Uh, I
just--" she was so tired,
00:28:27.22\00:28:30.92
she says, "I
just want to sleep."
00:28:30.95\00:28:32.75
And it was around 10 o'clock
00:28:32.78\00:28:34.17
and I said, "But, I
got to get my question
00:28:34.20\00:28:36.76
and all ready for
House Calls tomorrow."
00:28:36.79\00:28:38.46
She said, "But you know,
00:28:38.49\00:28:39.76
the best sleep
is before midnight."
00:28:39.79\00:28:41.80
And I got to bed before midnight
00:28:41.83\00:28:44.28
and I praise God for that.
00:28:44.31\00:28:45.80
But you know what
when the resurrection comes
00:28:45.83\00:28:48.03
those who are going to
come forth from the grave
00:28:48.06\00:28:49.98
at the resurrection
are not going to say,
00:28:50.01\00:28:52.86
"Finally, it's
been 1,500 years."
00:28:52.89\00:28:56.64
You know, they
are not going to know.
00:28:56.67\00:28:58.22
It's going to be
like they went to sleep
00:28:58.25\00:29:00.59
and they just, in a
twinkling of an eye,
00:29:00.62\00:29:02.82
I think that's
what that talks about.
00:29:02.85\00:29:03.95
Indeed. Wow.
00:29:03.98\00:29:05.94
Well, thank you
for your questions.
00:29:05.97\00:29:07.92
We have covered a
number of very important ones.
00:29:07.95\00:29:10.08
We have number
more in our hands here
00:29:10.11\00:29:11.48
but I for the sake of our topic
00:29:11.51\00:29:13.46
want to go ahead and segue now
00:29:13.49\00:29:14.68
but if you have any
questions or comments
00:29:14.71\00:29:15.99
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we said here today
00:29:16.02\00:29:17.80
or something you like us
to address on House Calls,
00:29:17.83\00:29:19.88
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00:29:19.91\00:29:21.12
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00:29:23.88\00:29:27.20
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00:29:27.23\00:29:30.19
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00:29:30.22\00:29:32.11
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00:29:34.57\00:29:37.52
We are talking about
the ultimate deliverance,
00:29:37.55\00:29:39.95
"Our God Shall Come."
00:29:39.98\00:29:41.96
And we ended with the
fact that when the Lord comes,
00:29:41.99\00:29:46.47
He is not coming back silently.
00:29:46.50\00:29:50.57
I want to start
by talking about that
00:29:50.60\00:29:53.38
briefly here a little, C.A.,
00:29:53.41\00:29:54.53
because there is something
00:29:54.56\00:29:56.16
that has taken
the world by storm,
00:29:56.19\00:29:58.63
million of these
books have been written
00:29:58.66\00:30:03.03
and brought and sold
00:30:03.06\00:30:05.02
and churches have
entertained, the DVDs.
00:30:05.05\00:30:08.87
You know what I
am speaking about,
00:30:08.90\00:30:10.56
left behind the secrete
rapture theory that somehow
00:30:10.59\00:30:16.20
the Lord is going to
say, "Hey, guys, time to go.
00:30:16.23\00:30:21.96
The others will figure it out."
00:30:21.99\00:30:24.79
That's the
secret rapture theory.
00:30:24.82\00:30:27.31
All of a sudden
saints have disappear
00:30:27.34\00:30:28.89
from the dinner
tables, from airplanes,
00:30:28.92\00:30:30.46
from cars on the
highway, from the toll booth,
00:30:30.49\00:30:33.19
your wife is disappears
from the kitchen table
00:30:33.22\00:30:36.20
and you realize that
you have seven more years
00:30:36.23\00:30:38.34
if you're going
to see her again.
00:30:38.37\00:30:39.57
Yes. Yes. You see.
00:30:39.60\00:30:41.59
And so what is that done
to the faith of Christian?
00:30:41.62\00:30:43.65
I think, it's kind of sad.
00:30:43.68\00:30:46.08
It turns God into a bit of
hocus-pocus artist, you know.
00:30:46.11\00:30:51.21
Somebody is flying a
plane and they're gone
00:30:51.24\00:30:53.23
and the plane needed to
fly, crashes in the ground.
00:30:53.26\00:30:55.63
You got lives on that
plain that are lost or at stake.
00:30:55.66\00:31:01.00
It's a theory that
has been put together
00:31:01.03\00:31:03.61
sort of with the house of cards.
00:31:03.64\00:31:05.77
And when you really examine it--
first of all it's not biblical
00:31:05.80\00:31:09.87
but more than
it's counterintuitive
00:31:09.90\00:31:12.78
and doesn't really make sense,
00:31:12.81\00:31:15.19
why God would
chose to do it that way.
00:31:15.22\00:31:17.72
Now you can say, well,
God does what He want's to do
00:31:17.75\00:31:19.48
but there is order
to what the Lord does.
00:31:19.51\00:31:22.00
And a rapture theory
is just not sequester
00:31:22.03\00:31:25.56
with the God that we know.
00:31:25.59\00:31:27.69
And then it's not biblical.
00:31:27.72\00:31:28.85
Right. And I like that
fact you said, rapture theory.
00:31:28.88\00:31:32.09
It was a theory
classically orchestrated
00:31:32.12\00:31:35.70
in the 15th and 16th centuries.
00:31:35.73\00:31:40.23
Luis De Alcazar
and Francisco Ribera,
00:31:40.26\00:31:43.97
you can say with
that nice Latino flavor.
00:31:44.00\00:31:46.81
His wife could
do it really well.
00:31:46.84\00:31:48.21
I am just
slaughtering that, so forgive me
00:31:48.24\00:31:50.79
but if you look up
the rapture theory,
00:31:50.82\00:31:52.40
also called the gap theory.
00:31:52.43\00:31:54.73
And I was saying,
there was an attempt
00:31:54.76\00:31:56.75
by the church
of the Middle Ages,
00:31:56.78\00:31:58.68
the Church of Rome to say
that there is no possible way
00:31:58.71\00:32:01.71
that the antichrist
could be existing in the system
00:32:01.74\00:32:03.94
of the Dark Ages
because He is going to come way
00:32:03.97\00:32:07.50
down the road after
the saints disappear.
00:32:07.53\00:32:10.11
And so they came up
with this possible theory
00:32:10.14\00:32:12.16
one was called preterism
00:32:12.19\00:32:14.68
and the other
one called futurism.
00:32:14.71\00:32:17.06
And the one that called almost
futurism on the foundation
00:32:17.09\00:32:19.91
which the rapture
theory was built saying
00:32:19.94\00:32:24.02
that when the
saints are raptured away,
00:32:24.05\00:32:26.97
then we know
that the tribulation
00:32:27.00\00:32:29.79
is just about to begin,
seven years of tribulation.
00:32:29.82\00:32:32.79
The Jews are going
to evangelize the world.
00:32:32.82\00:32:35.10
The singular antichrist
man is going to be set up
00:32:35.13\00:32:39.58
and then all of a sudden we will
have seven more years before
00:32:39.61\00:32:42.12
we see our love
ones again if in fact
00:32:42.15\00:32:44.31
we are converted because
we missed the first train.
00:32:44.34\00:32:47.17
Yes, yes, yes.
It's-- and that's basically,
00:32:47.20\00:32:49.79
and we can get very
complex and take a lot of time
00:32:49.82\00:32:51.82
with this because it's
based on the 70 weeks process,
00:32:51.85\00:32:55.74
it's taking that
last week and moving
00:32:55.77\00:32:58.96
all the way to the end of time.
00:32:58.99\00:33:01.04
You know, you get your
69 weeks then all of sudden
00:33:01.07\00:33:03.06
you take that
last week and you tag
00:33:03.09\00:33:04.20
it on with the end week
of the time not understanding
00:33:04.23\00:33:07.19
that those that
70 week is a package.
00:33:07.22\00:33:09.54
They all go
together, its not 69 here
00:33:09.57\00:33:12.64
and then 2000 years
later we tack on another week.
00:33:12.67\00:33:15.37
No, it's a package
and may be we got to do
00:33:15.40\00:33:18.43
a study on that one time.
00:33:18.46\00:33:21.04
If you get a chance
you have done that already
00:33:21.07\00:33:23.31
but it's a theory that
respond a lot of sadness
00:33:23.34\00:33:26.09
and a lot of confusion
as you went out in the ranks
00:33:26.12\00:33:28.89
of Christendom
because it's non biblical,
00:33:28.92\00:33:31.49
it's based on a
lot of conjecture
00:33:31.52\00:33:33.65
and it's not substantiate
about the Word of God.
00:33:33.68\00:33:37.46
The point was so
wonderfully made,
00:33:37.49\00:33:38.75
I mean, I couldn't even add
any more to that but you know
00:33:38.78\00:33:41.67
I am going to.
00:33:41.70\00:33:44.04
And I am only doing that
to reiterate and to emphasize.
00:33:44.07\00:33:47.15
That was
beautifully said, I don't know
00:33:47.18\00:33:48.77
if you catch that again.
00:33:48.80\00:33:50.16
It's a 70 week
prophecy, Daniel 9:24-27,
00:33:50.19\00:33:54.36
there's a 70 week
prophecy there that pertains
00:33:54.39\00:33:57.30
to the activities
of the Jewish nation.
00:33:57.33\00:34:00.40
And in that 70
weeks 70 x 7 is 490 years.
00:34:00.43\00:34:04.69
Matter of fact,
let's go and walk them
00:34:04.72\00:34:06.52
through really briefly.
00:34:06.55\00:34:07.72
I think this fits so wonderfully
because you have to see
00:34:07.75\00:34:09.92
that there's no
room for a gap to cause
00:34:09.95\00:34:12.29
this still to be
legitimist prophecy.
00:34:12.32\00:34:14.33
You can't add time to it
to make it legitimate because
00:34:14.36\00:34:17.49
it is taken from
a larger time frame.
00:34:17.52\00:34:19.61
It's taken from a
larger, a much larger picture
00:34:19.64\00:34:23.76
than it's here to fore
present it and those who do that
00:34:23.79\00:34:28.67
are not making it
a 490 year prophecy.
00:34:28.70\00:34:31.86
And by the way
you may ask yourself,
00:34:31.89\00:34:33.30
how do we get to 490 from 70?
00:34:33.33\00:34:36.27
Well, Ezekiel 18:4,
00:34:36.30\00:34:41.34
not Ezekiel 18:4.
00:34:41.37\00:34:45.06
I will get the
passage here in just a moment.
00:34:45.09\00:34:46.81
When you look at
the prophecy the day,
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year, principle in prophecy.
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The 70 weeks, 70 x 7,
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there are seven days
in a week, 70 x 7 is 490.
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70 week prophecy, 70 x
7, those are how many days
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in a week is 490 years total.
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So you have this breakdown
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and I am going to
start in Daniel 9.
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And we are going to see
this thing unfold beautifully.
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That's just so nice
about the Word of God,
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it's not a book of
confusion but it's a book--
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and the setting is
Daniel is still in captivity
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and he is wondering how long
we are going to be here, Lord?
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What's going to happen?
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And so the first the Lord gives
him in Daniel 8:14, 2300 days.
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And then in the smaller picture
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of that 2300 days,
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the Lord gives him a
small portion of 490 years.
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So, 2300 years is a
small section of only 490 years
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that pertains just to
Daniel and his people.
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And the Lord says, I
am giving you a particular
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timeframe to do
certain things. Okay.
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Let's start that out verse 24.
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"Seventy weeks
are determined upon
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thy people and
upon thy holy city,"
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Okay, notice who it's for.
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Right away Daniel's
people and about the holy city
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pertaining to
Daniel's people. Go ahead.
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And the word for
determine is cut off
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so it's a section cut
out like a slice of cake
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cut out from a larger cake.
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So I am hearing you say the word
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determine means cut off.
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To cut off, right. To
separate out, to cut off.
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Slice, all right. Got
it. Yeah, to slice out.
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Okay. All right, "Are determined
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upon thy people and
upon thy holy city to finish
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the transgression, and
to make an end of sins,
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and to make
reconciliation for iniquity,
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and to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
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and to seal up the
vision and prophecy,
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and to anoint the Most Holy."
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Six things. Now I
want you get this because
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this where the prophecy
sets a beautiful foundation
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to anoint the Most Holy.
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You will see when we began
to go through this in particular
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that those who came up
with the theory have taken away
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the Most Holy from the prophecy
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and put the most unholy in here.
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You notice that? Yeah.
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They have focused this
prophecy on the most unholy,
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not on the Most Holy.
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Go to verse 25 now.
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Okay, here we go,
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"Know therefore and understand,
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that from the going forth
of the commandment to restore
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and build Jerusalem
unto the Messiah the Prince
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shall be seven weeks, and
threescore and two weeks."
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Shall be seven weeks.
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I am sorry, I said seventy?
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I meant seven. "seven weeks
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and threescore and two weeks."
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So that is 7 + 62
or 69 week. Exactly.
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So notice here,
finish your point.
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Well, I am saying
that's two Messiah.
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Right. Right,
that's two Messiah.
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So it's what is eluded to
on 24 is clearly stated in 25.
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I will read again,
"From the going forth
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of the commandment to
restore and to build Jerusalem,"
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that's a starting point.
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"Unto Messiah
shall be seven weeks,
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and threescore and two
weeks or total of 69 weeks."
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And notice in two passages
so far we have seen clearly
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who the focal point
of this prophecy is,
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the Most Holy
and the Messiah. Yes.
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It is once again
giving us a timeframe,
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the Jews needed to be very clear
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that they had a certain window
of time in order to prepare
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themselves to do
these six things starting up
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by making an end
of transgressions.
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Making an end of
sins or reconcile--
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and making
reconciliation for the iniquity.
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Bring an
everlasting righteousness.
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Seal up the vision in prophecy
and anoint the most holy.
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They had a time to do that.
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And the time was,
you need to get that done
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before Jesus shows up.
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Precisely,
precisely. Okay. Go ahead.
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Yeah. And what comes up next,
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John, as you well
know is the rational
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for connecting all of
this together and not allowing
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for gap theory because
what's going to happen is all
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of this is going to take place
during the lifetime of Messiah.
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That's right. You
don't have that 2000
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or how many years you
want to put in that gap,
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it all happens
during lifetime of Messiah.
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Let's go to 26, "And
after threescore and two weeks
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shall Messiah be cut
off, but not for himself
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and the people of the
prince that shall come
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shall destroy the
city and the sanctuary
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and the end thereof
shall be with a flood,
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and unto the end of the war
desolations are determined."
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Okay. So you see-and one point
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I want to get real quickly here,
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we didn't finish
verse 25, but it says,
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in the middle of
verse 25, after the phrase,
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until Messiah the Prince
is there shall be seven weeks,
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and sixty two weeks: the
street shall be built again,
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and the wall, even
in troublous times.
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This is so powerful.
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When you read the
story of Nehemiah--.
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Yes. The project was almost done
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and the people of
God fell into disrepair.
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They got discouraged. Yeah.
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There they were in Jerusalem.
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By the way one of the
things we have to point out
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is one of the reasons
why this facade exist today
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is there were three decrees that
were generally on the forefront.
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Cyrus to build the temple,
Darius to build the city,
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to build the wall and
then Nehemiah to build
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the whole thing,
restore the city,
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finish the
walls, restore the city.
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The system both
financially and economically
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and politically
finished the whole thing.
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And the people had got into
the Cyrus' part and Darius' part
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but they didn't get
o the Nehemiah part.
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They needed Nehemiah push
to finish the whole project.
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And by the way, if you
follow the story of Nehemiah,
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it only took them
52 days to finish it.
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But the reason why it got
stopped is because the enemy
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came and resisted the
people and that's why it says
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in the verse, "The
street shall be built again,
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and the wall, even
in troublous times."
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Yes, yes. They had a tough
time doing it, the enemies.
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Let's go
Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arab.
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Precisely. They
resisted Nehemiah,
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what did they try to do?
00:41:12.23\00:41:13.26
They try to get
him to stop the work
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and come down from the building.
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And of course he persisted
and said about his task.
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What he kept say-- remember
the city name, the city of Ono.
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Ono, yeah. Yeah. Ono.
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Ono, yeah. They
say, come on down,
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let's go to the city of Ono.
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And I-- you know,
we all as preacher
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say and Nehemiah said-- Ono.
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Don't come on down, Ono.
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And he didn't. He
said as a matter of fact,
00:41:36.14\00:41:38.75
the people labored
with a torch in one hand--
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a sword in one hand and a
labor in-- a torch in another.
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They labored. They
wouldn't come down.
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He refused to come
down from the wall.
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So the devil attacked
this prophecy in another way.
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John, that's good
council for us today.
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The devil
couldn't threaten him down,
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could not co-opt
him, couldn't coerce him.
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He stayed about his task
and we need to stay about
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our task too. That's right.
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When it comes to
serving the Lord.
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Let's go to verse
27, "And he shall confirm
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the covenant with
many for one week;
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and in the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice
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and the oblation to cease."
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Now this is the part
of the text that gets
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a lot of the people in trouble.
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Oh, yeah.
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Let me just read on,
"And for the overspreading
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of abominations he
shall make it desolate,
00:42:20.67\00:42:23.49
even until the consummation,
and that determined
00:42:23.52\00:42:26.92
shall be poured
upon the desolate."
00:42:26.95\00:42:30.36
That's a powerful
language, I mean--
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Yeah, this is heavy
stuff right here because
00:42:32.19\00:42:34.88
this is the lynchpin for a
lot of theology of the end times
00:42:34.91\00:42:39.69
and for the theory that
we've been talking about.
00:42:39.72\00:42:42.18
"He shall confirm the
covenant with many for one week;
00:42:42.21\00:42:45.17
and in the midst of the week
he shall cause the sacrifice
00:42:45.20\00:42:48.68
and the oblation to cease."
00:42:48.71\00:42:50.41
There in is the key.
00:42:50.44\00:42:51.88
You know what's amazing about
00:42:51.91\00:42:53.16
that and you're
listening to this sometimes
00:42:53.19\00:42:55.08
when we read this even to people
00:42:55.11\00:42:56.82
who have been
seasoned in this prophecy.
00:42:56.85\00:42:59.16
Sometimes you
listen to that and you say,
00:42:59.19\00:43:01.41
"He shall do what?"
00:43:01.44\00:43:04.26
The oblation, the over
spreading of the desolation,
00:43:04.29\00:43:06.55
what on earth is that all mean?
00:43:06.58\00:43:08.47
So don't get discourage.
00:43:08.50\00:43:09.71
Let me break it
down really quickly here.
00:43:09.74\00:43:11.25
First of all when
you look at the prophecy
00:43:11.28\00:43:13.09
and I am going to
show you how, how a Lord
00:43:13.12\00:43:16.57
who had only been on the
earth, how Jesus who only had
00:43:16.60\00:43:19.08
three and half year
ministry was able to confirm
00:43:19.11\00:43:21.36
His covenant for seven years.
00:43:21.39\00:43:23.17
That's the big
thing here because
00:43:23.20\00:43:25.85
if He wasn't able to do
that, then you have some
00:43:25.88\00:43:27.58
somewhat of
legitimacy to take that prophecy
00:43:27.61\00:43:29.86
and take it all the way down.
00:43:29.89\00:43:31.35
First thing, if you
start with Cyrus or Darius
00:43:31.38\00:43:35.24
you never come up
with these dates matching.
00:43:35.27\00:43:39.23
You don't get up to
the Messiah the prince.
00:43:39.26\00:43:41.42
So you don't get to the
year that Jesus was anointed,
00:43:41.45\00:43:44.93
the word Messiah
means the anointed one.
00:43:44.96\00:43:47.03
Acts 10:38 talks
about Him being anointed
00:43:47.06\00:43:49.79
in the 15th year of the
reign of Tiberius Caesar.
00:43:49.82\00:43:53.38
So he was
anointed in that very year.
00:43:53.41\00:43:55.56
So when you look at
the time prophecies,
00:43:55.59\00:43:57.03
notice this very quickly.
00:43:57.06\00:43:58.84
When the Bible breaks the time
down and I said to you earlier
00:43:58.87\00:44:02.06
that the times are
not mentioned arbitrarily.
00:44:02.09\00:44:05.44
There shall be, in
Daniel 9:25, "There shall be--"
00:44:05.47\00:44:08.94
talking about until
the Messiah the prince,
00:44:08.97\00:44:10.37
"there shall be seven
weeks and sixty two weeks."
00:44:10.40\00:44:12.58
That's 69 total.
00:44:12.61\00:44:14.78
In the year 457 BC,
00:44:14.81\00:44:20.95
this prophecy began.
00:44:20.98\00:44:23.28
That's the time of
the decree by Artaxerxes,
00:44:23.31\00:44:27.66
he gave Nehemiah, this decree
was given to start rebuilding.
00:44:27.69\00:44:31.92
And you try to come up
with that name and spell that.
00:44:31.95\00:44:35.78
Have fun doing that.
00:44:35.81\00:44:37.25
But notice, there's a
seven year period there.
00:44:37.28\00:44:40.40
So how many days
are in seven year?
00:44:40.43\00:44:47.74
Seven times seven is what 49.
00:44:47.77\00:44:51.08
So when you began to
see how long it took,
00:44:51.11\00:44:53.35
that whole process took 49 years
00:44:53.38\00:44:57.72
from the beginning of the
decree till the time the wall,
00:44:57.75\00:45:01.61
the city and the
streets and the economy
00:45:01.64\00:45:03.39
and the political
system was fully established.
00:45:03.42\00:45:05.80
That was completed,
that's why it was broken down.
00:45:05.83\00:45:08.05
And then now, since
that part of what was done
00:45:08.08\00:45:10.95
then you had 62 weeks left
00:45:10.98\00:45:13.35
or the 400 and something
year period left right there.
00:45:13.38\00:45:20.85
I am not mathematically so much.
00:45:20.88\00:45:22.70
I am trying to run
through my head here.
00:45:22.73\00:45:24.40
But the whole thing
was 483 years up to Christ.
00:45:24.43\00:45:26.82
Correct. So you
get down to Christ
00:45:26.85\00:45:29.20
and you have 483
years, the year He is baptized
00:45:29.23\00:45:32.51
the last seven years began.
00:45:32.54\00:45:35.30
And here is the
biggest question, friends.
00:45:35.33\00:45:36.98
And this is the
crux of the whole thing.
00:45:37.01\00:45:39.96
If the rapture theory is
true, seven year tribulation
00:45:39.99\00:45:43.25
that has been
pushed to the future,
00:45:43.28\00:45:45.40
then here is the problem.
00:45:45.43\00:45:47.64
The last seven
years of this prophecy
00:45:47.67\00:45:49.42
never happened which
says, Jesus was never baptized,
00:45:49.45\00:45:54.85
He was never anointed,
He was never on this earth
00:45:54.88\00:46:00.48
to perform His ministry.
00:46:00.51\00:46:03.45
He couldn't have been cut
off in the middle of the week
00:46:03.48\00:46:06.13
because according
to the rapture theory
00:46:06.16\00:46:08.27
there was no middle of the week.
00:46:08.30\00:46:10.20
That's going to happen later on.
00:46:10.23\00:46:12.41
So the problem
here is you take Jesus
00:46:12.44\00:46:15.23
totally out of the prophecy.
00:46:15.26\00:46:16.72
Who do you think
would want to take Jesus
00:46:16.75\00:46:18.48
totally out of the prophecy?
00:46:18.51\00:46:19.86
Got to be Satan himself.
00:46:19.89\00:46:22.04
So-- Yeah. And who's at
00:46:22.07\00:46:24.48
the evangelical center
00:46:24.51\00:46:28.26
of this prophecy? The Satan.
00:46:28.29\00:46:31.90
There are those who say that,
he shall confirm the covenant
00:46:31.93\00:46:34.86
with many means he is going
to make a deal with the devil.
00:46:34.89\00:46:38.22
And the Lord has never
made any deals with Satan.
00:46:38.25\00:46:43.15
He shall confirm
the covenant with many
00:46:43.18\00:46:45.16
was his preaching ministry.
00:46:45.19\00:46:46.78
That was His ministry
during that time and of course
00:46:46.81\00:46:49.36
we know three and half years
later Christ went to the cross.
00:46:49.39\00:46:52.61
So it fits perfectly and what
did His going to the crops do?
00:46:52.64\00:46:55.75
It caused the
sacrifice to cease.
00:46:55.78\00:46:59.56
It just didn't
make any sense anymore.
00:46:59.59\00:47:02.02
The veil was rent
from top to bottom,
00:47:02.05\00:47:04.57
the sacrifice is
over, it was ended.
00:47:04.60\00:47:06.47
That system was not any good
anymore because it foreshadowed
00:47:06.50\00:47:09.27
what Christ is going to do.
00:47:09.30\00:47:10.90
Christ did it so that
sacrifice is not necessary,
00:47:10.93\00:47:13.73
not of any value anymore.
00:47:13.76\00:47:15.67
And you know
what so amazing about
00:47:15.70\00:47:16.81
this prophecy
too, C.A., is this.
00:47:16.84\00:47:18.54
When the bible
says, he shall confirm
00:47:18.57\00:47:20.27
his covenant with
many for one week.
00:47:20.30\00:47:22.55
Well, you ask the question,
well, Jesus only preached
00:47:22.58\00:47:24.88
for three and half years how do
you get seven years out of that?
00:47:24.91\00:47:27.48
Ha, go with me to
the Book of Hebrews.
00:47:27.51\00:47:31.06
How do you get
seven years out of that?
00:47:31.09\00:47:32.52
How does He confirm
anything if He's only been--
00:47:32.55\00:47:34.97
how can He confirm something
that has a seven year span
00:47:35.00\00:47:37.86
if He's only preaching and
on the earth in that ministry
00:47:37.89\00:47:40.72
settings for
three and half year?
00:47:40.75\00:47:42.01
You know while you are heading--
while we are heading Hebrews,
00:47:42.04\00:47:43.95
Hebrews is such a
necessary book because
00:47:43.98\00:47:45.95
it drives the nail
home in the mediatorial,
00:47:45.98\00:47:51.95
the sacrificial
ministry of Jesus.
00:47:51.98\00:47:53.44
Over and over we see
in the Book of Hebrews,
00:47:53.47\00:47:55.75
if they had bulls and goats
we've got something better.
00:47:55.78\00:47:58.27
If they had blood of
rams, we got something better.
00:47:58.30\00:48:00.77
We got this more sure
sacrifice and ministry
00:48:00.80\00:48:04.32
that is Jesus Christ and that's
00:48:04.35\00:48:06.04
the burden of
the Book of Hebrews.
00:48:06.07\00:48:08.36
Where do you want to go?
00:48:08.39\00:48:09.42
Hebrews 2 and
notice, we're going to--
00:48:09.45\00:48:11.42
we are focusing on the word,
confirm because the Bible says,
00:48:11.45\00:48:14.12
He, that is Messiah will confirm
00:48:14.15\00:48:16.48
His covenant with
many, not the antichrist.
00:48:16.51\00:48:19.53
The rapture theory has put
00:48:19.56\00:48:20.86
the antichrist in
the place of Christ.
00:48:20.89\00:48:23.92
That's not what the bible says.
00:48:23.95\00:48:25.88
Let me pick up my glasses here.
00:48:25.91\00:48:27.33
Notice verse 2, verse 3.
00:48:27.36\00:48:30.12
Hebrews 2:3, notice
what it starts with,
00:48:30.15\00:48:32.06
"How shall we
escape, if we neglect
00:48:32.09\00:48:35.49
so greater salvation;
which at the first began
00:48:35.52\00:48:40.14
to be spoken by the Lord."
00:48:40.17\00:48:42.62
Who started it? The Lord.
00:48:42.65\00:48:44.98
"And was confirmed to
us by those who heard him."
00:48:45.01\00:48:49.57
Who confirmed it?
00:48:49.60\00:48:51.60
His disciples.
His disciples, right.
00:48:51.63\00:48:53.68
When Jesus
left-- and by the way,
00:48:53.71\00:48:55.41
once again this prophecy
pertains to the house of Israel.
00:48:55.44\00:48:59.16
Before the gospel
went to the Gentiles,
00:48:59.19\00:49:01.13
Jesus said to them,
00:49:01.16\00:49:02.27
"First go to the lost
sheep of the house of Israel."
00:49:02.30\00:49:06.17
Okay, how long did they do that?
00:49:06.20\00:49:07.43
Yes, yeah, three and half years.
00:49:07.46\00:49:08.69
Three and half years.
00:49:08.72\00:49:10.25
Now get that friends,
Jesus, three and half years,
00:49:10.28\00:49:13.69
His disciples for the
next three and half years
00:49:13.72\00:49:16.10
and the year that Steven
was stoned marked the end
00:49:16.13\00:49:19.34
of that three and
half year, remember that?
00:49:19.37\00:49:20.72
Precisely. And
it fits perfectly,
00:49:20.75\00:49:23.20
it is biblically sound.
00:49:23.23\00:49:24.85
And His ministry was
amplified and continued
00:49:24.88\00:49:28.42
after his going to heaven
by those who are with Him,
00:49:28.45\00:49:31.62
who talked with
Him, who ate with Him,
00:49:31.65\00:49:33.92
who sup with Him,
who learned from His own
00:49:33.95\00:49:37.55
very lips for that
next three and half years.
00:49:37.58\00:49:39.48
And, you know, what's
so beautiful about that,
00:49:39.51\00:49:41.74
since it happened
in the days of Steven,
00:49:41.77\00:49:43.30
since this prophecy does
point out that the gospel
00:49:43.33\00:49:46.07
was going to the
Gentiles at one point because
00:49:46.10\00:49:48.35
He was going to confirm His
covenant for just seven years.
00:49:48.38\00:49:50.81
Let me show you in
the Bible where that,
00:49:50.84\00:49:52.76
that switch-over did take place.
00:49:52.79\00:49:54.68
Go with us to
that Book of Acts 13.
00:49:54.71\00:49:56.86
And by the way this fits into
one of the references of Sabbath
00:49:56.89\00:49:59.57
that you asked for earlier.
00:49:59.60\00:50:01.65
Acts 13, by the
way, Paul was referred
00:50:01.68\00:50:05.34
to as the apostle
to the Gentile. Why?
00:50:05.37\00:50:08.68
Because the Lord was done
appealing to the Jewish leaders.
00:50:08.71\00:50:11.38
Let me make this
clear, not the Jewish nation
00:50:11.41\00:50:13.80
but the Jewish leaders.
00:50:13.83\00:50:15.93
A lot of times
we heard the phrase
00:50:15.96\00:50:17.00
that the Jews can't be saved.
00:50:17.03\00:50:18.54
Well anybody could be
saved if they go through Christ.
00:50:18.57\00:50:21.02
Lord is not singling people out.
00:50:21.05\00:50:23.32
But look at setting here
and I want you to get this,
00:50:23.35\00:50:26.43
Steven was stoned, they
thought they could stop it there
00:50:26.46\00:50:29.38
but there was-- that
when Steven was stoned,
00:50:29.41\00:50:31.57
it closed probation
that is for the leaders,
00:50:31.60\00:50:34.30
but notice how
thy seal their fate.
00:50:34.33\00:50:37.38
Here's it was, Acts 13:42,
00:50:37.41\00:50:41.54
"So when the Jews
went out of the synagogue,
00:50:41.57\00:50:43.87
the Gentiles bade or
be sought that these words
00:50:43.90\00:50:47.31
might be preached to
them the next Sabbath1."
00:50:47.34\00:50:49.93
Verse 43, "Now
when the congregation
00:50:49.96\00:50:51.86
had broken up, many of the Jews
00:50:51.89\00:50:54.44
and devout proselytes
followed Paul and Barnabas,
00:50:54.47\00:50:59.47
who, speaking to
them, persuaded them
00:50:59.50\00:51:01.85
to continue in
the grace of God."
00:51:01.88\00:51:04.35
Verse 44, "And
on the next Sabbath
00:51:04.38\00:51:07.12
almost the whole city together
to hear the word of God.
00:51:07.15\00:51:10.50
But when the Jews
saw the multitude--"
00:51:10.53\00:51:13.53
now if that had
finished their transgression,
00:51:13.56\00:51:17.09
they wouldn't be
all upset like this.
00:51:17.12\00:51:19.69
"But when the
Jews saw the multitude,
00:51:19.72\00:51:21.23
they were filled with envy;
00:51:21.26\00:51:22.29
and
contradicting and blaspheming,
00:51:22.32\00:51:24.03
they opposed the
things spoken by Paul."
00:51:24.06\00:51:26.69
And here is the closing out,
00:51:26.72\00:51:29.49
"Then Paul and
Barnabas grew bold and said,"
00:51:29.52\00:51:32.68
here is the way it
works, "It was necessary
00:51:32.71\00:51:35.35
that the word of God
should be spoken to you first."
00:51:35.38\00:51:37.99
There is the order of it.
00:51:38.02\00:51:40.04
Given to you first, they
had it for thousands of years.
00:51:40.07\00:51:43.37
"But since you
reject it," That's exactly
00:51:43.40\00:51:47.30
what the word says.
00:51:47.33\00:51:48.44
What they do on God's
work, they rejected it.
00:51:48.47\00:51:50.37
Rejected it, sure.
"And judge yourselves
00:51:50.40\00:51:52.72
unworthy of everlasting life,
00:51:52.75\00:51:54.32
lo or behold, we
turn to the Gentiles.
00:51:54.35\00:51:58.50
For so the Lord has commanded us
00:51:58.53\00:52:00.24
'I have set you as a
light to the Gentiles,
00:52:00.27\00:52:03.49
That you should be for salvation
to the ends of the earth.'
00:52:03.52\00:52:06.09
Now when the
Gentiles heard this,
00:52:06.12\00:52:07.79
they were glad and
glorified the word of the Lord.
00:52:07.82\00:52:10.69
And as many as
had been appointed
00:52:10.72\00:52:13.85
to eternal life believed.
00:52:13.88\00:52:15.92
And the word of
the Lord was being
00:52:15.95\00:52:17.63
spread
throughout all the region.
00:52:17.66\00:52:20.21
But the Jews
stirred up the devout
00:52:20.24\00:52:22.46
and prominent women and
the chief men of the city,
00:52:22.49\00:52:24.66
raised up persecution
against Paul and Barnabas,
00:52:24.69\00:52:27.20
and expelled them
from their region."
00:52:27.23\00:52:29.23
Kick them out.
00:52:29.26\00:52:31.03
And friends, this theory today
00:52:31.06\00:52:33.09
is trying to get
rid of all of that.
00:52:33.12\00:52:34.76
Yes. Very much so.
00:52:34.79\00:52:35.96
You see, registering on that.
00:52:35.99\00:52:37.36
Yeah, very much so.
00:52:37.39\00:52:38.46
This was the
inauguration of a new--
00:52:38.49\00:52:41.54
I may use a word dispensation,
00:52:41.57\00:52:43.44
but a new era in
promulgating the gospel.
00:52:43.47\00:52:48.76
That's right. It was
not going to be limited
00:52:48.79\00:52:50.57
to a particular group of people.
00:52:50.60\00:52:52.91
There were not
going to be tasks anymore
00:52:52.94\00:52:55.33
with spreading the gospel.
00:52:55.36\00:52:57.60
It was going to move now to
the broader Gentile community.
00:52:57.63\00:53:02.26
And this was the kick
off, shall we say for that.
00:53:02.29\00:53:06.63
Yeah. Three and half years
00:53:06.66\00:53:08.08
on the other side of
the resurrection of Jesus.
00:53:08.11\00:53:11.54
It was time now for
gospel to take wings
00:53:11.57\00:53:14.42
as it were and to
go to a wider audience.
00:53:14.45\00:53:16.69
And as a matter of
fact, that's exactly
00:53:16.72\00:53:19.69
what this whole thing is about.
00:53:19.72\00:53:20.84
The Lord didn't come for
the gospel to be exclusively
00:53:20.87\00:53:23.29
for a particular nation
but just like the post office,
00:53:23.32\00:53:25.93
just life UPS and FedEx and DHL,
00:53:25.96\00:53:28.77
I want to keep
them all in there.
00:53:28.80\00:53:30.18
Just like a letter
that's vitally important,
00:53:30.21\00:53:32.55
the whole purpose of
Jesus is to get the message out.
00:53:32.58\00:53:36.44
It's not so much the
exclusivity of the people
00:53:36.47\00:53:38.76
and their
nationality but he said,
00:53:38.79\00:53:40.62
I've chosen you
to be a light. Yes.
00:53:40.65\00:53:43.28
But seeing you judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life,
00:53:43.31\00:53:47.00
I got to get
somebody else to do the job.
00:53:47.03\00:53:48.93
Yeah. And I would submit
00:53:48.96\00:53:50.10
that if you have a
job and you don't do it,
00:53:50.13\00:53:51.55
your boss is going to
say, I rather you do it,
00:53:51.58\00:53:53.61
or what's he going to say?
00:53:53.64\00:53:55.07
If you can't do it, I
will find someone who can.
00:53:55.10\00:53:56.89
And that's exactly what it is.
00:53:56.92\00:53:58.45
That's precise and you know,
we talked about chosen people,
00:53:58.48\00:54:00.85
you got to finish the
sentence, chosen for what?
00:54:00.88\00:54:03.20
Thank you. What
were they chosen for?
00:54:03.23\00:54:04.84
Chosen to be
alike. That's right.
00:54:04.87\00:54:06.91
And if you are
not going to be alike,
00:54:06.94\00:54:08.06
well, I've got somebody else
who's going to shine for me.
00:54:08.09\00:54:10.25
And today there's
this over emphasis on--
00:54:10.28\00:54:13.16
and I am being very kind here.
00:54:13.19\00:54:14.47
Let me just put this
in the right context.
00:54:14.50\00:54:16.13
The Lord has not closed the
door of salvation to anyone.
00:54:16.16\00:54:20.44
Amen. I am reiterating that,
00:54:20.47\00:54:21.84
Jew nor any other nation
nor any other nationality,
00:54:21.87\00:54:25.20
no matter how fair your
skin or how dark your skin,
00:54:25.23\00:54:27.58
the gospel message
is for every nation,
00:54:27.61\00:54:29.48
kindred, every
tongue, every people.
00:54:29.51\00:54:31.48
Today, there's
this inordinate emphasis
00:54:31.51\00:54:33.88
though on Jew,
Jew, Jew, Jew, Jew.
00:54:33.91\00:54:36.97
You get my point.
00:54:37.00\00:54:38.14
There's this inordinate emphasis
00:54:38.17\00:54:39.62
that the Jews are got to
be still the chosen people,
00:54:39.65\00:54:42.14
they got to be the
chosen people of God.
00:54:42.17\00:54:43.84
No, that's not the
emphasis the scripture gives.
00:54:43.87\00:54:47.33
That's why even today,
00:54:47.36\00:54:48.69
there's this inordinate push
00:54:48.72\00:54:50.82
in the Middle East, inordinate
emphasis in the Middle East.
00:54:50.85\00:54:55.80
And brethren,
the Lord is saying,
00:54:55.83\00:54:58.40
I have come to save mankind.
00:54:58.43\00:55:01.94
For God so loved the world. Yes.
00:55:01.97\00:55:04.17
See, so what's
happening nowadays,
00:55:04.20\00:55:05.80
we are focusing
the gospel off of Jesus
00:55:05.83\00:55:08.18
and putting it to the Jews. Yes.
00:55:08.21\00:55:10.15
When there was a purpose of
the Jew to focus it on to Jesus.
00:55:10.18\00:55:14.15
And that's what
this is all about,
00:55:14.18\00:55:15.40
this idea that a
temple must be rebuilt
00:55:15.43\00:55:17.39
and so everything must happen.
00:55:17.42\00:55:18.48
It's trying to underpin a theory
00:55:18.51\00:55:22.78
that is erroneous
at its very heart.
00:55:22.81\00:55:24.78
It simply is, is unbiblical.
00:55:24.81\00:55:26.68
All of that 490 years
takes place within the lifespan
00:55:26.71\00:55:32.01
of the Jewish nation
and the last week of course
00:55:32.04\00:55:34.35
within the lifespan of
the ministry of Jesus Christ.
00:55:34.38\00:55:37.03
And to take that
last week and tuck it down
00:55:37.06\00:55:40.35
at the end of the
time and have this big gap,
00:55:40.38\00:55:42.34
it just doesn't imply,
it's not biblically sound.
00:55:42.37\00:55:44.79
The homiletics is bad,
the acts of Jesus is bad.
00:55:44.82\00:55:47.82
It just doesn't work.
All of this we have shown
00:55:47.85\00:55:50.87
from the Bible takes
place within the life
00:55:50.90\00:55:52.79
and times of Jesus
Christ and the Jewish nation.
00:55:52.82\00:55:54.89
And if you look up that phrase,
secret rapture on the internet,
00:55:54.92\00:55:57.81
we have this World Wide Web.
00:55:57.84\00:55:59.55
Use it for the right
reason, look up secret rapture.
00:55:59.58\00:56:02.55
Look up Francisco
Ribera or Luis De Alcazar.
00:56:02.58\00:56:10.37
If I am incorrect you
can get the correct spelling,
00:56:10.40\00:56:12.19
the internet will even
correct you in that area.
00:56:12.22\00:56:14.12
Look up the gap theory.
00:56:14.15\00:56:15.63
Look up a man by
the name of J. N Darby.
00:56:15.66\00:56:18.33
Look up C. I. Scofield
and you see how these men
00:56:18.36\00:56:21.45
have contributed
to the proliferation
00:56:21.48\00:56:23.86
of something that's
antithetical to the gospel.
00:56:23.89\00:56:26.58
It doesn't
match, it doesn't fit.
00:56:26.61\00:56:28.63
It has taken Jesus out.
00:56:28.66\00:56:30.05
And the focus today is now
back to the nation of a people
00:56:30.08\00:56:33.48
rather than the
Christ of the world.
00:56:33.51\00:56:36.76
And so we believe that
the Lord is coming soon.
00:56:36.79\00:56:39.57
In this last day the gospel
is going to the entire world.
00:56:39.60\00:56:42.92
Why do they choose the
Jewish nation, to get it there.
00:56:42.95\00:56:45.89
Now you and I are all chosen
generation royal priesthood.
00:56:45.92\00:56:51.27
No longer the need for a nation.
00:56:51.30\00:56:52.57
What do you say?
Precisely. I say amen and amen.
00:56:52.60\00:56:56.47
And you know, where we are,
00:56:56.50\00:56:58.49
we are so mindful of the fact
that the Lord is coming soon,
00:56:58.52\00:57:00.89
friends, here at 3ABN.
00:57:00.92\00:57:02.47
We are so
mindful that no cliche,
00:57:02.50\00:57:05.76
we are living in
the day that we believe
00:57:05.79\00:57:08.80
is just before
the coming of Christ.
00:57:08.83\00:57:10.22
That's why staying in the
word is so vitally important
00:57:10.25\00:57:13.66
but even more than
just reading the Bible
00:57:13.69\00:57:15.69
for intellectual stimulation,
00:57:15.72\00:57:17.68
get to know the
Christ of the word.
00:57:17.71\00:57:19.92
When He comes and makes a house
call on your life as on ours,
00:57:19.95\00:57:24.18
we want to be
ready when Jesus comes.
00:57:24.21\00:57:26.20
Thank you so much for tuning in.
00:57:26.23\00:57:27.95
Get to know that
Christ today and God bless you
00:57:27.98\00:57:30.71
and have a great day in Christ.
00:57:30.74\00:57:33.33