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>>Franklin D. Roosevelt:
Yesterday, December 7th, 1941,
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a date which
will live in infamy,
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the United States of America
was suddenly and deliberately
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attacked by naval and air
forces of the Empire of Japan.
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>>John Bradshaw:
December the 7th, 1941,
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a day which then-President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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predicted,
correctly, would live in infamy.
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On that day, 350 aircraft
of the Empire of Japan attacked
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the United States at Pearl
Harbor on the island of Oahu,
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which was then part of
the territory of Hawaii.
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All eight US Navy battleships
in Pearl Harbor were damaged.
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Four of them were sunk,
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although three were
raised and returned to the war.
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Still other ships were sunk;
188 US aircraft were destroyed.
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And more than 2,400
Americans were killed
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and almost 1,200 wounded.
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But it could've been worse.
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A couple of
weeks after the attack,
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Admiral Chester Nimitz observed
that if Japan had attacked
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Pearl Harbor on a
weekday rather than on a Sunday,
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casualties would've been
as much as 10 times higher.
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If the repair stations in
Pearl Harbor had been hit,
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then damaged US warships
would've had to have been taken
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back to the mainland.
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And if the massive fuel
reserves just five miles
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out of Pearl
Harbor had been taken out,
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Nimitz said the
war would've dragged on
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for at least another year.
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So as bad as the
attack on Pearl Harbor was,
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it could've been much worse.
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Japan's burning desire
to become a great empire
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drove it to try to
grab control of the Pacific.
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Just hours after the
attack on Pearl Harbor,
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Japan attacked the
Philippines 5,000 miles away.
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But while the United
States had a military presence
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in the Philippines,
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it wasn't enough to
counter a Japanese onslaught.
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US forces in the Philippines
were under the command
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of General Douglas MacArthur.
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He'd retired from the
United States military in 1937.
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He became a field
marshal in the Philippines army
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and a military advisory to
the Philippines government.
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MacArthur came out of
retirement to be the commander
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of the United States
Army forces in the Far East,
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but it became very clear that
not even MacArthur's experience
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and military expertise,
along with the combined
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US-Filipino forces
in the Philippines,
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were any sort of
match for the Japanese.
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The American and
Filipino troops retreated
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in the face of attack by Japan.
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Eventually, 70,000 men--
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12,000 Americans
and 58,000 Filipinos--
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withdrew to the
Bataan Peninsula,
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leaving them
essentially helpless
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against the Japanese onslaught.
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The surrender of American
forces on the Bataan Peninsula
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took place in April of 1942.
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The only American stronghold
left in the Philippines
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was Corregidor.
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The Island of Corregidor
at the entrance to Manila Bay
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covers just two square miles.
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For perspective,
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Manhattan Island in New
York City is 11 times larger.
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Corregidor was often
referred to as "the Rock"
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because that's
essentially what it is.
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As small as it was,
the Rock was the scene
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of some of the most
intense bombing of World War II,
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most of it
confined to a tiny area.
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Millions of dollars had been
spent fortifying Corregidor,
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which had been controlled by
the United States since 1898.
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But the advent of air
attack meant that those defenses
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became obsolete.
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In May of 1942, the thousands
of US troops on Corregidor
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couldn't hold out any longer.
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Manila had proved
to be indefensible.
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Bataan fell.
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Corregidor fell.
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American POWs
were taken to Manila
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or sent on the
catastrophic Bataan Death March.
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The Philippines, as far as
the United States was concerned,
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was lost to Japan.
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Except for one thing.
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On March the 12th, 1942,
MacArthur, along with members
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of his staff and family, was
evacuated from the Philippines.
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A B-17 transported him to Darwin
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in Australia's
Northern Territory.
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And from there, he
took a train to Melbourne
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in the state of Victoria.
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As he was changing trains at a
railway station in a little town
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called Terowie, 120 miles north
of Adelaide in South Australia,
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MacArthur faced
the assembled media.
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He said, "The President of
the United States ordered me
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to break through the
Japanese lines and proceed
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from Corregidor to Australia for
the purpose, as I understand it,
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of organizing an American
offensive against Japan,
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the primary purpose of which is
the relief of the Philippines.
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I came through
and I shall return."
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Two thousand years ago,
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as the battle for control
of planet earth was raging,
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Jesus left a group of
His closest followers,
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His best friends, deep in
the heart of enemy territory,
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and He said to them,
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"I go to
prepare a place for you.
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And if I go and
prepare a place for you,
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I will come again, and
receive you unto myself;
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that where I am,
there ye may be also."
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"I shall return."
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History tells us
that MacArthur did return,
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but not immediately,
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and not before a long, costly,
bloody, drawn-out struggle.
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Jesus will
return. He's promised.
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It's been two millennia
since He made that promise,
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and those 2,000 years
have been marked by loss
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and desperation and death.
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So what does the promise
of Jesus' return mean for us?
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I'll have more in just a moment.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thank you
for joining me on It Is Written.
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After General Douglas
MacArthur was evacuated
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from the Philippines in 1942,
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he made a promise that was
heard all around the world.
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MacArthur said,
"I shall return."
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Two thousand years ago, standing
in the shadow of the cross,
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knowing that virtually everyone
in Israel would've judged
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His campaign a
spectacular failure,
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Jesus said
virtually the same thing.
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He said, "I will come again."
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The Bible speaks about
the Second Coming of Jesus
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again and again.
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The Apostle Paul
referred to the return of Jesus
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to the world as
the "blessed hope."
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But the New Testament
isn't alone in forecasting
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the greatest event since
the creation of the world.
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Even the book of Job,
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considered to be the
first book of the Bible written,
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speaks about Jesus'
return to the earth.
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Job 19:25-26--
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"For I know that
my Redeemer lives,
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and He shall stand
at last on the earth;
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and after my skin is
destroyed, this I know,
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that in my flesh
I shall see God."
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He's referring directly to
the hope of the Resurrection,
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which takes place after
Jesus returns to the world.
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Virtually all of
Matthew chapter 24,
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which was spoken by Jesus, deals
with the Second Coming of Jesus,
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with Jesus saying in verse 36,
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"But of that day
and hour no one knows,
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not even the angels of
heaven, but my Father only."
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Which raises an important point.
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Jesus went out of His way to
tell us that while we can know
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when His coming is near,
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there's no one who
can accurately forecast
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the day of Jesus' return.
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People who say,
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"Jesus is coming back on
this day or on that day"...
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No. The Bible
says we cannot know.
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We don't know,
and we won't know.
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And while Jesus waits, planet
earth descends ever deeper
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into secularism and
post-modernism and atheism,
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God allowing us to see that our
-isms are not the way forward.
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You can get a sense
of the want of the world
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for the Second Coming of Jesus
by thinking about what went on
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here at Corregidor in
Manila Bay in the Philippines.
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It was held by the United
States between 1898 and 1942,
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and was taken by Japan
as part of Japan's quest
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to take the Pacific.
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It was a desperate struggle.
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The Philippines
suffered immensely
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under Japanese occupation.
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Thousands of servicemen,
Filipino and American,
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were killed.
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Servicemen
suffered from diseases
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like beriberi and scurvy.
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Hundreds of thousands
of civilians perished.
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Manila was destroyed.
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MacArthur's biographer wrote
that only Warsaw suffered more
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among Allied
cities in World War II.
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Seventy-five percent of Manila's
factories were destroyed,
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80 percent of the
southern residential district,
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100 percent of
the business district.
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And after
American troops retreated
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to the Bataan Peninsula,
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they were marched to what's
known today as Camp O'Donnell
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on what's now referred to
as the Bataan Death March.
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Thousands of men died.
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The cruelty they experienced
is almost impossible to believe.
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But there was
something that gave them hope:
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General MacArthur
had made them a promise,
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and the people
here in the Philippines,
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the POWs, the Filipinos
who wanted their country back,
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American POWs who'd
been taken from here to Japan
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to toil as slaves--
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they didn't think that MacArthur
was one to break his promise.
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He said he'd return, and
they hung on to those words.
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He would return.
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On October the 20th,
1944, MacArthur returned
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to the Philippines, coming
ashore on the island of Leyte,
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350 miles away.
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And that's when things
really started to heat up
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on Corregidor.
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You look at Corregidor today,
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and you know that the
fighting here was intense.
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One of the main landmarks
on the island is what was known
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as the Mile-Long Barracks.
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In reality, they
were 1,500 feet long,
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not quite a third of a mile.
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But a good name goes a
long way in the service.
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Looking at the ruins here,
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you can only imagine
how fierce the fighting was.
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Corregidor was an ideal sort
of a place once upon a time.
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There used to be
the island headquarters,
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a theater, a nine-hole
golf course, a parade ground.
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The vast majority
of what's here today
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testifies to the
destruction of war.
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And as bad as it was that
the buildings were destroyed,
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the loss of life is
what really mattered.
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In the 1920s, US Army
engineers had carved out
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a labyrinth of
tunnels on Corregidor.
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The Malinta Tunnels were a
maze of tunnels that burrowed
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as far as 1,450 feet
back into the hillside.
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There was a main tunnel
and then a network of tunnels
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that spread out
from the main tunnel.
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The tunnels were originally
designed for storing supplies,
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ammunition, and equipment.
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They were a bomb-proof bunker.
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MacArthur and the
Philippines president, Quezon,
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lived here in 1942.
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But as the war
overtook Corregidor,
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the Malinta Tunnels
became a defensive fortification
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and the home of a
1,000-bed hospital.
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One general remembers
these tunnels being a scene
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of unbelievable disorder,
congestion, and confusion.
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On May the 2nd,
1942, the Japanese bombing
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was so intense that
in one 5-hour period,
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3,600 240-millimeter
shells blasted the islands,
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mainly in just two locations.
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That's more than 720 an hour,
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more than one
every five seconds.
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One day in May, more than
16,000 shells hit Corregidor.
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An American general recalled
that "life on Corregidor
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could be compared to sitting
in the middle of a bull's-eye
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during
rapid-fire target practice."
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But still, men hoped.
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MacArthur said he'd return.
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What other hope did they have?
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I wonder what
other hope we have.
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Those -isms I
referred to earlier--
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today the world is assailed
by secularism, postmodernism,
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atheism, agnosticism,
capitalism, Communism,
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polytheism, spiritualism.
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What's it all achieved?
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Have our developments and
our enlightenment brought peace
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and security to the planet?
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No, far from it.
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Life can be so
challenging that you can feel
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like you're in your
own personal war with life
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or with circumstances or
with destiny or the future.
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What hope, really, does a
person have beyond this world?
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When you're looking into
the eyes of death or loss
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or despair, what
hope do you have?
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Well, there is hope
because 2,000 years ago,
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Jesus said, "I will come again."
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More in just a moment.
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>>John: In
Guatemala, Central America,
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a volcano had been erupting
on and off for many years.
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In June of 2018, everything
changed for the people
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living beneath it.
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"Danger on the Doorstep"
from It Is Written takes you
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to Volcán de Fuego, the
"Volcano of Fire," in Guatemala.
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We speak to survivors
of the devastating eruption
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and join heartbroken people
looking for their families
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in the aftermath.
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Join It Is Written
on location in Guatemala
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for "Danger on the Doorstep"
as we visit those rebuilding
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their lives after they'd
lost their homes, possessions,
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and even their families.
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And could it be
that you are living
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with danger on your doorstep?
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The Bible speaks of the
spiritual danger confronting
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our world and helps
us to take concrete steps
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to be spiritually safe.
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"Danger on the Doorstep,"
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>>John Bradshaw: General Douglas
MacArthur led the United States
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and Filipino troops
early in World War II from here
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on Corregidor Island in
Manila Bay in the Philippines.
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In October of 1944,
MacArthur put his feet
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on Philippines soil once
more, and in February of 1945,
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Corregidor was retaken.
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Of course, historians
differ in their estimation
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of General MacArthur.
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But he said, "I shall
return," and return he did.
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And not long after his return,
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America took the
Philippines back.
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But it took almost two
weeks of ferocious fighting
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to win back Corregidor.
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When American soldiers
returned to wrest the Rock
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from the
control of the Japanese,
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Japanese soldiers holed up
here in the Malinta Tunnels.
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Of course, they
didn't have a chance.
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Those that emerged
ran directly into the path
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of waiting American guns.
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Rather than surrender, 2,000
or so Japanese soldiers chose
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to commit suicide
here in the tunnels.
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They detonated explosives and
brought down enormous amounts
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of rock upon themselves,
burying themselves beneath.
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The bodies are still there,
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behind or
beneath all of that rock.
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Their remains have
never been brought out.
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Makes you wonder, doesn't it?
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Two thousand men gave
their lives for their emperor,
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a man who claimed to be--
and who they believed to be--
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a living god.
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They could've given
their lives for a Man
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who actually was
God in the flesh.
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We still have the
opportunity to do that today.
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To do otherwise, it's
all a bit like this, really.
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Although trees and vegetation
have pretty much swallowed up
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this island over the years,
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graphic reminders of the war
on Corregidor are still visible
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just about everywhere you turn--
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huge guns, craters in the ground
produced by massive explosions,
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damage from artillery.
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The Pacific War Memorial
stands in honor of the American
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and Filipino troops who gave
their lives here on Corregidor.
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And beneath the memorial's
dome is a circular altar,
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upon which are
inscribed the words,
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"Sleep, my sons, your duty done
...for freedom's light has come.
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Sleep in the
silent depths of the sea,
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or in your bed of hallowed sod,
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until you hear at dawn the
low, clear reveille of God."
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Which is the thought
expressed by the Apostle Paul
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in 1 Thessalonians chapter 4:
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"For the Lord Himself
will descend from heaven
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with a shout, with
the voice of an archangel,
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and with the trumpet of God.
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And the dead in
Christ will rise first.
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Then we who are alive and remain
shall be caught up together
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with them in the clouds
to meet the Lord in the air.
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And thus we shall
always be with the Lord."
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First Thessalonians 4:16-17.
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About 210 Americans died in
the battle to retake Corregidor,
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790 were wounded, and
5 were reported missing.
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Of the Japanese,
almost 6,000 died,
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20 were
captured, and 30 escaped.
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Atomic bombs were dropped
on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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on August the
6th and August 9th.
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Japan's emperor, Hirohito,
surrendered on August 15,
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and the instrument of
surrender was signed on board
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the USS Missouri in
Tokyo Bay on September the 2nd.
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When Jesus comes
back to the earth,
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there'll be no more war.
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In fact, Revelation 21:4 says,
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"And God shall wipe away
all tears from their eyes;
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and there shall
be no more death,
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neither sorrow, nor crying,
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neither shall
there be any more pain:
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for the former
things are passed away."
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The return of Jesus to
this earth is going to be
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the greatest event
in all of human history.
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Unless, of course, it isn't.
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You get to decide.
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For those who've chosen
Jesus as their Lord and Savior,
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for those who've
surrendered their hearts to Him,
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for those who've chosen
to believe that God is love,
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well, the prophet Isaiah puts
it this way in Isaiah 25:9--
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"And it shall be
said in that day,
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'Lo, this is our God;
we have waited for Him,
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and He will save us:
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this is the Lord;
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we have waited for Him,
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we will be glad and
rejoice in His salvation."
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But in every war,
there's a defeated side.
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Revelation 6:14-17 looks at it
from the opposite point of view.
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"And the heaven
departed as a scroll
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when it is rolled together;
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and every mountain and island
were moved out of their places.
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And the kings of the
earth, and the great men,
00:22:41.36\00:22:44.53
and the rich men,
and the chief captains,
00:22:44.56\00:22:47.30
and the mighty
men, and every bondman,
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and every free man,
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hid themselves in the dens and
in the rocks of the mountains;
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and said to the
mountains and rocks,
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'Fall on us, and hide
us from the face of Him
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that sitteth on the throne,
00:23:01.18\00:23:02.74
and from the wrath of the Lamb:
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for the great day
of His wrath is come;
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and who shall
be able to stand?'"
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So who shall be able to stand?
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Well, it's all
incredibly simple.
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Back in Matthew
chapter 24, there's an emphasis
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on responding to the signs
of the times and being ready
00:23:20.96\00:23:25.37
for the return of Jesus.
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Jesus said, "Watch therefore,
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for you do not know what
hour your Lord is coming."
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Two verses later:
"Therefore you also be ready,
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for the Son of Man is coming
at an hour you do not expect."
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Other than the
sound of the surf,
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the beaches of
Corregidor are quiet now.
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No more American
soldiers waiting here to welcome
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the barges bringing
Japanese soldiers ashore.
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The sounds of
artillery are no longer heard.
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Corregidor is a peaceful place.
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One day soon, the battle
raging here on planet earth
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is going to come to an end.
00:24:07.08\00:24:08.91
What, then, for you?
00:24:08.94\00:24:11.61
You know, there's no
reason that you should be lost.
00:24:11.65\00:24:14.02
There's no reason anybody
should be left out of heaven.
00:24:14.05\00:24:17.69
There's no reason
that this earth is all
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that you should
have to look forward to.
00:24:19.62\00:24:21.92
God wants you to
have everlasting life.
00:24:21.96\00:24:25.33
Matthew 11:28--
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"Come to me, all you who
labor and are heavy laden,
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and I will give you rest."
00:24:30.73\00:24:32.90
John 6:35--
00:24:32.93\00:24:35.60
"I am the bread of life.
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He who comes to me
shall never hunger,
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and he who believes in
me shall never thirst."
00:24:40.94\00:24:45.01
The last invitation in the
Bible is found just five verses
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from the end of the Bible--
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Revelation 22:17.
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"And the Spirit and
the bride say, 'Come!'
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And let him who
hears say, 'Come!'
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And let him who thirsts come.
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Whoever desires, let him
take the water of life freely."
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Jesus invites you to
come to Him in faith.
00:25:06.20\00:25:09.80
If you've already done that,
00:25:09.84\00:25:11.14
then rededicate
your life to God now.
00:25:11.17\00:25:13.51
Tell Him that you want
Him to keep you and save you.
00:25:13.54\00:25:16.88
If you've never done so,
00:25:16.91\00:25:18.01
if you've never accepted
Jesus as your Lord and Savior,
00:25:18.05\00:25:21.15
if you've never
accepted God into your life...
00:25:21.18\00:25:25.09
You know, the Bible says
that Jesus is coming back soon.
00:25:25.12\00:25:28.39
You don't wanna miss that.
00:25:28.42\00:25:30.26
Can you open up
your heart to God now?
00:25:30.29\00:25:33.53
Tell God you want
Him to keep you close.
00:25:33.56\00:25:36.20
Tell God that you
want His perfect will
00:25:36.23\00:25:39.43
to be done in your life.
00:25:39.47\00:25:42.00
General Douglas MacArthur
once said, "I shall return."
00:25:42.04\00:25:47.78
Jesus once said,
"I will come again."
00:25:47.81\00:25:52.95
And if you'll allow it to be
so, then when Jesus comes back,
00:25:52.98\00:25:58.32
He'll come back for you.
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>>John: The greatest
event in all of history--
00:26:02.29\00:26:04.96
the Second
Coming of Jesus Christ.
00:26:04.99\00:26:06.90
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>>John Bradshaw:
Let's pray together now.
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Our Father in heaven, we
thank You for the promise,
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for the certainty, the assurance
that Jesus is coming back
00:26:36.86\00:26:41.90
to this world.
00:26:41.93\00:26:43.37
We thank You for
those wonderful words:
00:26:43.40\00:26:45.30
"I will come again and
receive you unto myself."
00:26:45.33\00:26:50.34
So, inherent in the promise
of the Second Coming of Jesus
00:26:50.37\00:26:53.17
is Your desire to
receive us to Yourself,
00:26:53.21\00:26:56.75
so that we can be with You
throughout the ceaseless ages
00:26:56.78\00:26:59.61
of eternity.
00:26:59.65\00:27:00.95
Friend, are you
waiting? Are you resisting?
00:27:00.98\00:27:02.98
Don't wait; don't resist.
00:27:03.02\00:27:05.42
Can you offer
God your heart now?
00:27:05.45\00:27:08.26
Can you ask Jesus to
forgive you and cleanse you
00:27:08.29\00:27:10.39
and make you His?
00:27:10.43\00:27:11.39
He will do it, gladly so.
00:27:11.43\00:27:15.46
Lord, we wait in hope.
00:27:15.50\00:27:17.73
Thank You for the great promise,
00:27:17.77\00:27:19.67
the reality that
Jesus is coming back soon.
00:27:19.70\00:27:23.64
Make us ready for
that day, now and always.
00:27:23.67\00:27:28.98
We pray and thank
You in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
00:27:33.01\00:27:35.15
Thanks so much for joining me.
00:27:35.18\00:27:36.62
I'm looking forward to
seeing you again next time.
00:27:36.65\00:27:39.45
Until then, remember:
00:27:39.49\00:27:41.86
"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
00:27:41.89\00:27:46.73
but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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