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Welcome to Heavens Declare.
I'm Jim Burr sharing more of the
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heavens. Today actually we are
going to talk about the star of
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Bethlehem. In our series
sometimes we run out of time
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and we aren't able to finish all
the pictures we wanted to share.
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So I guess you could call
this maybe astronomy a la carte
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because we're going to hit
several different subjects.
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Maybe that's not unusual because
I know a lot of times I get off
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on bunny trails anyway. But
we're going to talk about the
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star of Bethlehem. The
Bible talks about the Pleiades.
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In Job 38:31 and 32 it talks
about several things in the
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heavens and it was a question
God asked Job. He had 80 some
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questions for Job. Where were
you when I laid the foundations
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of the earth. But God asked Job,
can you bind the Pleiades, can
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you loose the belts of Orion,
can you bring forth Mazzaroth
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in its season, can you guide
Arcturus with its suns? Now this
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is an amazing, amazing scripture
amazing insight there into the
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heavens. Because first off God
said can you bind the Pleiades.
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Well the Pleiades we call them
the seven sisters. We see seven
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stars with the naked eye. There
are actually about 500 in the
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Pleiades group. They are moving
to the east at 90,000 miles an
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hour, bound together. Now if you
have watched other programs you
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have seen stars going every
direction in the video clips
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that we've had and
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yet the Pleiades are bound
together. And that was kind of
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interesting. God said can you
bind the Pleiades and they're
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moving to the east at 90,000
miles an hour. When I was first
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studying astronomy I thought man
I better look at them this week.
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Do you know where the Pleiades
are going to be next year.
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Multiply 90,000 miles an hour
times 24 hours a day times 365
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and as I continued to study, I
discovered it takes 33,000 years
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for the Pleiades to move
the distance of the moon, like
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across the moon in the sky. So
I'd like to show you a picture
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of the Pleiades and there
they are, the seven sisters,
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beautiful, beautiful star scene
and the Pleiades have clouds
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around it, we call it nebulosity
the gaseous clouds around the
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Pleiades but the interesting
thing is God said can you bind
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them. We now know that there
are actually 500 stars that are
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bound together moving to the
east, actually towards Orion.
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The Pleiades are located
just to the west of Orion in the
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constellation of Taurus, Taurus
the Bull. The scripture says can
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you loose the belts of
Orion, the bands of Orion, some
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translations would say the bands
and can you guide Arcturus and
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bring forth Mazzaroth? If you
look in the margin of your Bible
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you'll see that's the signs
of the Zodiak. Job can you bring
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around the signs of the Zodiak.
Now I should mention Christians
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should not get involved
in astrology. There's a big
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difference between astronomy
and astrology. Astrology I
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believe is perversion by
the devil to have people look at
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their stars and think the stars
have something to do with their
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life. It's quite popular. It's
in the newspaper all the time.
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What's your sign? Actually
the signs are off a whole
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constellation. They haven't even
caught up with the procession of
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the equinox. Earth has a wobble
and we call it the procession of
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the equinox. The earth like
a top is spinning and it has a
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26,000-year wobble so the
constellations are changing over
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time. In fact, in the time
of Christ the Southern Cross was
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visible in the northern
hemisphere which it is not today
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But we'll pick up the belts of
Orion but first let's talk about
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Arcturus. Now Arcturus is...
God said to Job, can you guide
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Arcturus? We now know Arcturus
is a runaway star. Arcturus is
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traveling through our galaxy,
it is a runaway star doing about
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400,000 miles an hour through
our galaxy. Astronomers have
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been saying since I've been
reading, 20, 30 years, Arcturus
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may just leave the galaxy. New
articles have come out recently
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with the question, did another
galaxy give us Arcturus? So
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astronomers are thinking this
run away star may have come from
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another galaxy, traveling
through our galaxy, may just
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leave our galaxy. When you look
at the galaxy and you realize
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that Arcturus is traveling
through there at 400,000 miles
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an hour, here's an example
of the galaxy, and hasn't yet
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collided with another star.
That's pretty amazing. But what
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is even more amazing, if you
read Job, God said to Job, can
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you guide Arcturus with it's
suns. If you google Arcturun
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group you will discover that
Arcturus has 52 little stars
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traveling through the galaxy
with it. It's fun to see the
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scripture being played out in
the heavens scientifically and
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accurately when so many other
religions taught... There's one
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that taught that there are
people living on the sun, people
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living on the moon. There were
five villages on the moon and
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seven villages on the sun
and describes the people and so
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forth. They used to think the
Earth was supported on the backs
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of turtles and elephants.
Charles Atlas was holding the
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Earth up and God hangs the Earth
on nothing. So Arcturus, a run
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away star traveling through
space with its 52 suns. The
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rest of that scripture is
talking about Orion and it says
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can you loose the belts or the
bands of Orion? Low and behold
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we've discovered there are three
stars that have left the belt of
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Orion at a high speed and I'll
share that graphic with you next
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and you see the belt there
in the very center, those three
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stars would be the belt stars
of Orion and these stars have
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traveled through completely
other constellations at very
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high speeds. They have traced
them back to the belt of Orion.
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So I just wanted to share that
with you. Once again the Bible
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is accurate. Now as we
move along there is a very
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interesting nebula. There are
basically four type of nebulae
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in the sky. There are nebulae
that glow because they're hot.
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We see them because they're
hot and they're glowing. Nebulae
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that glow because they're
embedded with bright stars.
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There are nebulae like the horse
head nebula which we have seen
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in the past here and then we
have these super nova eruptions
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which we call planetary nebulae
because when we look at them
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in a telescope we see a disk
rather than a pinpoint of light.
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I remember the first time I
discovered the picture, the next
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picture we're going to have up.
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It's called the Witch's Head
nebula. You certainly see the
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picture there, arrow pointing
to the nose, arrow pointing to
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the mouth of the witch. The
first time I discovered this
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years ago I'm saying did God
do this or did this just happen?
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Now when I see a picture of
a witch I think of something
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connected with Satan. So in my
mind I'm thinking, there are 88
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places this could be, 88
constellations in the heavens
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would there be a message with
the Witch's Head nebula? So I'm
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I'm thinking something connected
with Satan so I'm think well he
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was the dragon. Would it be
in Draco the dragon. He was a
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roaring lion. Would it be in Leo
the lion? He was a snake. Would
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it be in the constellation
Serpa which is a snake. There's
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another snake, Hydra, and I'm
going through my mind trying to
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think of where the witch would
be. And I could not even find
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the best place for the witch.
You know where the witch is?
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In the lake of fire, Eridanus
the lake of fire. The witch is
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located 2-1/2 degrees west of
Rigel. Rigel now is the westerly
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most foot star in Orion. And
the Witch's Head nebula is in
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Eridanus, the river of fire
or the lake of fire prepared for
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Satan and his angels. I was so
excited. I was like praising the
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Lord, called my wife, guess what
guess what I saw a message in
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that picture. Now there are
88 constellations where it could
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be, but it was in an area that
had a message for us. Well the
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Lake of Fire was prepared for
Satan and his angels. I want to
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go to the next graphic and you
will see Orion. You'll see the
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Lake of Fire there, you see the
river of fire coming out of the
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bottom. See Taurus which is
a constellation, see Taurus the
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bull. You see Orion to the left
and he's holding a lion's skin.
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Up at the top you see a shepherd
with the lamb in the lap of the
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shepherd. Now
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there was a woman who
was studying this. Frances
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Rolleston, who was an authority
in ancient languages, began
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studying star names in ancient
languages. We have star names
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that have come down from ancient
history, over 150 star names.
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In ancient languages every name
had a meaning. If your name was
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Phillip it meant lover of
horses If it was Joshua it meant
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Jehovah is my God. If it
was Esau it meant hairy. So in
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Bible times, in those
olden times, names had meanings.
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Frances Rolleston started
looking at star names in ancient
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languages and she began to see
the story of salvation told in
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the constellations. In Taurus
the Bull she saw the judgment,
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the judgment of God. And she
sees in Orion a type of Christ.
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And in the lion's skin a type of
Satan defeated. Then in Auriga
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the saint sitting in the lap of
the shepherd. We might go back
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to that slide again and take
another look at it and you'll
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see that Orion she's saying is
a representation of Christ. He's
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holding up a lion's skin which
is about to be dropped into the
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lake of fire. Frances never
wrote a book. She made lots of
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notes and many others have come
along and written books about
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the story of salvation in the
heavens but they are suggesting
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Isaiah 40:11 is what
we're looking at the top of the
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picture there where it says...
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And then we have Daniel 7 where
it says a fiery stream issued.
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OK you see the fiery
stream there. Issued...
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So what they're suggesting
is this is the judgment scene at
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the very end of time.
Now if you read your National
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Geographic's you're going to see
Orion has a bow and an arrow.
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He's going to shoot Taurus. But
if you look at the star charts
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that astronomers use and I think
we may have that graphic up
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actually the old star charts
show a lion's skin and Orion
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is holding up a lion's skin
about to be dropped into the
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lake of fire. If you look up at
the upper right there you'll see
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It say's lion's skin there
at the right hand corner. So the
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ancient star charts actually
show a lion's skin there about
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to be dropped into the lake
of fire. Well, I thought I would
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share a few more pictures with
you on the story of salvation
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told in the constellations. And
some of these you go like that,
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how did we miss it particularly
the last one when you see Orion
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you see the bull and the saint
in the lap of the shepherd and
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the judgment and all of that.
We have another graphic which
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Virgo, the virgin, the mother of
Christ and in her hand she has
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a stock of corn in one hand and
she has a branch in the other.
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Christ was the seed of the woman
He was also known as the branch.
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Above that you see Coma Berenice
with the Christ Child in her lap
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Now this more of an original
picture but if you go back to
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the ancient ones you'll see the
virgin with a child. Today you
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will see a woman's wig there and
that the story that had to do
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with Ptolemy and it's kind of
a long story I won't go into but
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that has changed. Some of these
we know have been changed. So
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you probably can't make all the
constellations stand on all four
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but as I look I begin to see
the story of salvation. If we go
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to that graphic you will all see
Bootes. Now Bootes is a shepherd
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you see he has a sickle in
one hand, he has a staff in the
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other. And that is a symbol of
Christ who is the good shepherd,
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came with a staff, and he has
the sickle. At the end he comes
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to harvest with the sickle. Then
if you go down below you see
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Centaurus and the legend is
that Centaurus was immortal. He
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voluntarily laid his life down
and you see the two natures of
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Christ there in Centaurus. Then
we have I think one more graphic
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and that has to do with
Ophiuchus. Ophiuchus is a
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mighty man. He's doing
battle with a serpent there.
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The serpent is trying to seize
the crown that Adam and Eve lost
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and the scorpion right below
that, his head is being crushed.
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Genesis 3:15 says I will
put enmity between thee and the
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woman, between they seed and
her seed. It shall bruise thy
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head and thou shall bruise
his heal. So we see the battle
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between Christ and Satan there.
The scorpion they are saying is
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representing Satan about to
be crushed by the foot of Christ
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and then above that we see
the constellation Hercules again
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which is a representation of
Christ and he known as the man
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upon his knees. So from here
we're going to turn and talk
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about the star of Bethlehem. Now
movies have been written, books
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have been written, all kinds
of speculation. People running
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their computers backwards. Now
we've got computers, we can run
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computers backwards and we can
find anything. I mean, you can
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take Halley's comet and you can
run it for 2,000 years forward
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or backward and you can find
out what was in the sky at any
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particular time that you want on
these computers. So people have
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run it back and forth trying to
figure out what was the star of
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Bethlehem thinking that it was
some natural event; thinking it
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was a comet. Maybe it was a
conjunction of Venus and any of
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the bright planets. Maybe it was
a super nova explosion. So all
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kinds of speculation. There
is on video that's been out.
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The guy has done an unbelievable
research about the star of
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Bethlehem but he does not have
it figured out. He says it was
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the conjunction of Saturn and
Regulus, the star in Leo, the
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bright bottom star in Leo and
that we know as the earth goes
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around everything moves to the
west by one degree but by the
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rotation of the earth all of
a sudden some stars appear to go
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backwards for a few months. He
traced that back to Saturn and
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Regulus. Saturn every day is
moving one degree and then all
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of a sudden it stopped and
starts moving backward because
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of the rotation of the earth.
And he said that was the star of
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Bethlehem that led the wise men.
Well folks let me tell you, if
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you know how stars move in the
sky, if you have a map and if
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you have your Bible, I will show
you five problems. Anybody who
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says it was comet, it was a
conjunction, it was a super nova
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has got problems. There are five
basic problems. It could not
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have been a natural event. I'll
illustrate that and it's going
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be so clear I think. If you know
how the stars move in the sky,
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if you have a Bible and if
you have a map. Here's the deal.
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We know that the stars rise
in the east and set in the west.
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I'm going to use this for
a telescope because it's much
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lighter to move than that one
behind me. So we basically would
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look in the east. We'll look at
a star rising through the night
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and then it sets in the west.
During the day it's down towards
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China. We basically put a
motor on the telescope. We put a
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24-hour clock on the telescope.
So this thing is going to go
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around like 24 hours. So
we would put it on a star.
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No matter where we go in
the sky it makes no difference.
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We rotate this with the North
Star, the north pole of the
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earth, the rotation of the earth
So basically we put a 24-hour
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clock motor that's going to line
up this with the North Star and
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follow any star in the sky
throughout the night. Now there
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is only one star that's
stationary and that's the
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North Star and all night long
it's there and so a telescope
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with this motor would simply
rotate. So stars rise in the
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east, they set in the west. OK.
We put a 24-hour clock motor on
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a telescope and what is so cool
during the daytime, our star is
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down by China. The telescope is
still pointing towards the star.
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And we put a motor on
here and this will never move.
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The telescope never moves even
though it's got a 24-hour motor
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on it. Basically it allows
and permits the earth to turn
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underneath the telescope. So
when we build a telescope we put
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a 24-hour clock motor, we line
it on the North Star, and it's
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never going to move. Even though
during the day it's pointed
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towards China, it stood still.
Just the earth turned underneath
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it. Are you with me? Are
you following? Isn't that cool?
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Then tomorrow night when the
star is right here we are within
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one degree. Stars only move one
degree a day. So the next night
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the clock is going to be just
within one degree of that star.
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And again as it rotates. We
just put a 24-hour clock on our
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telescope, line it up with the
North Star. It never moves, but
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the earth is going to rotate
underneath it and that's how we
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follow the stars, how we track
the stars with a telescope.
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So now if we look at our
Bible and we look at the star of
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Bethlehem and in the book of
Matthew it says that the wise
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men had seen his star and they
came to Jerusalem, We have seen
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his star in the east. No problem
that's cool. Whether they were
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in the east or the west and
the star was in the east or they
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were in the east, it makes no
difference. Because if you look
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at the map... In fact, OK, let's
just go to that map, I think in
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the next graphic. And so coming
from the east, no problem.
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They come to Jerusalem and
now there's basically a problem
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because the star disappears.
Well, stars don't disappear,
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comets don't disappear,
super nova's don't disappear,
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conjunctions don't disappear.
Because they get to Jerusalem,
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they say we've seen his star in
the east, we've come to worship
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him and the star disappears. So
they inquire, where is he that
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is born king of the Jews and
they're told they need to go to
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Bethlehem. Now you'll see
on the map, you'll notice that
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Bethlehem is south. So we've
got a problem because there's
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nothing in the sky that makes
left turns, nothing in the sky,
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the comets, the conjunctions,
the super novas, none of them
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will make a left turn, but
the star of Bethlehem did make a
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left turn to lead them down to
Bethlehem. Now the next problem,
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so that's two problems. The
third problem is the Bible said
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the star came and went before
them. So here we see the star
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getting to Jerusalem, the star
stops, they make a left turn,
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the star appears again and
now they start south towards
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Bethlehem. Well the next problem
is you cannot get to Bethlehem,
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you cannot get south by
following a star because the
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star is going to move, you're
going to end up in the west
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following a star because of the
rotation of the earth. The stars
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don't stay in the south
all night long. They're moving
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gradually and would take you
off course. So again if it was a
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conjunction of the planets, if
it was a super nova, if it was
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a comet, if it was any natural
event, the Bible could not get
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you to Bethlehem because you're
going to end up in the west
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instead of going south. Like I
said, you need a map to see that
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That's four problems, OK. The
star had no problem getting to
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Jerusalem, but the star stopped,
that's the first problem. Second
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the star made a left turn, that
is the second problem. The third
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problem is the star started up
again, it came and went before
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them. Fourth problem, you can't
get south by following a star.
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Fifth problem, the Bible says
the star came and stood over
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the manger. Now as a said, there
are no stars that stop their
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moving all night long except the
North Star and we're going south
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So it had to be a miracle of God
It was obviously probably a band
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of angels because the Bible says
suddenly there was with them the
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whole heavenly host. So anybody
who tells you well I have a book
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The Super Nova of Bethlehem,
the Comet of Bethlehem, the
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Conjunction. It had to be a
miracle of God because there's
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nothing in the sky that would
explain that. I know a lot of
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people are going to, I think,
appreciate this because of all
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the talk about the star of
Bethlehem. We're going to change
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course a little bit and
talk about last day events.
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In Matthew 24 verse 6 we're told
for nation will rise against
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nation and kingdom against
kingdom and there will be
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famines and pestilence and
earthquakes in various places,
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but the end is not yet. And
if we continue on in Matthew 24
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verse 14 it says this gospel of
the kingdom will be preached in
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all the world for a testimony
to all nations and then the end
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will come. So we see all these
events happening but it isn't
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yet, the end is not yet, until
the gospel goes. What I'm so
00:24:08.18\00:24:12.38
excited about, I see
the gospel go like wildfire.
00:24:12.41\00:24:15.62
It's unbelievable how the gospel
is going. We also see another
00:24:15.65\00:24:21.72
prophecy of the end time would
be Daniel 12:4 where it says
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But thou Daniel, shut up the
words and seal the book to the
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time of the end. Many shall run
to and fro and knowledge will be
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increased. Yes it is definitely
being increased like crazy, with
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the media, with what's happening
in 3ABN with nine satellites
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going around the world and many
channels actually. What I see is
00:24:47.68\00:24:54.12
God fulfilling this prophecy.
The gospel will be preached.
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There is a man who has put
up over 200 radio stations from
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Radio 74. Life Talk Radio has 99
stations. You know Hope TV is on
00:25:03.63\00:25:07.57
13 full time channels. They're
carried on Dish and Direct which
00:25:07.60\00:25:13.17
have 20 million viewers. 3ABN
is carried on Dish which has 14
00:25:13.21\00:25:17.88
million viewers, 3ABN has world
satellite coverage, they've got
00:25:17.91\00:25:22.38
like 164 TV stations, they've
got like 400 channels in North
00:25:22.42\00:25:30.23
America. We have 3ABN Latino
on 400 million cable companies,
00:25:30.26\00:25:35.46
400 million people subscribing.
Doug Batchelor is heard over
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like 1000 times a week. It Is
Written is on 7,700 channels in
00:25:40.97\00:25:46.91
143 countries. Adventist World
Radio is just totally amazing.
00:25:46.94\00:25:53.62
They had last year 5.8 billion
downloads of our sermons on
00:25:53.65\00:26:00.26
Adventist World Radio. The last
I heard, this last August, they
00:26:00.29\00:26:08.16
actually had 11 million people
a day downloading their sermons.
00:26:08.20\00:26:14.17
They had 8.5 billion last year
but 11 million a day. The gospel
00:26:14.20\00:26:19.97
is going like wildfire and that
prophecy tells us that when the
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gospel will be preached, then
the end will come. And I just
00:26:24.61\00:26:28.35
see that happening and it is
just so amazing to see what God
00:26:28.38\00:26:31.99
is doing because you realize
this church has a message that
00:26:32.02\00:26:35.39
others do not have. There are
people out there who think once
00:26:35.42\00:26:38.79
saved always saved. Walk
the aisle and pray the sinner's
00:26:38.83\00:26:41.96
prayer, you're in, you're going
to heaven and that's not true
00:26:42.03\00:26:46.87
folks. Because Jesus comes there
are people that think they are
00:26:46.90\00:26:50.41
Christians but they don't know
Jesus. He says depart from me,
00:26:50.44\00:26:53.94
I never knew you. We have
a proper message, a correct
00:26:53.98\00:26:59.71
message about once saved, always
saved, about ever-burning hell,
00:26:59.75\00:27:05.62
God's not burning people forever
in hell. We have the Sabbath,
00:27:05.65\00:27:11.49
the people need to hear about
the Sabbath, truths from the
00:27:11.53\00:27:16.63
word of God that are not
proclaimed throughout the world
00:27:16.67\00:27:21.87
but only by this message,
this channel and this network.
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So I want to thank you. Boy our
time just goes so fast. Thank
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you for watching Heavens
Declare. We just enjoy sharing
00:27:29.84\00:27:33.15
the heavens with you and the
beautiful things God has created
00:27:33.28\00:27:36.69
Certainly the heavens do declare
the glory of God. I invite you
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to join us again next week as
we explore more of the heavens.
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Thank you for watching.
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