>>John Bradshaw:
This is It Is Written.
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I'm John Bradshaw.
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Thanks for joining me for
part 5 of our five-part series,
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"Conspiracy, More
Than Just a Theory."
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We're looking at the
greatest conspiracy of them all,
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the conspiracy to bring
down the government of God
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and to cause Planet Earth
to fall finally and forever
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into the hands
of a fallen angel.
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This conspiracy is actually
quite easy to see through,
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but like most
modern conspiracies,
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your ability to see this
one for what it really is
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correlates with your desire
to actually want to do so.
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Look around the world.
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Standards are
down. Violence is up.
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The amount of
people in the United States
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who claim no
religious faith at all
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has risen more than 250 percent
in the last 25 years or so.
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While the internet can
be a tool for great good,
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it's also a toxic wasteland.
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Morality as we used to know
it has been turned upside down.
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It's evidence that
there's something going on
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behind the scenes.
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There's a
spiritual war taking place,
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a battle for the soul
of every person alive.
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The Bible says in
the book of Revelation,
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"Rejoice, ye heavens,
and ye that dwell in them.
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Woe to the [inhabitants]
of the earth and of the sea!
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For the devil is come down
to you, having great wrath,
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because he knows that
he has...a short time."
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The less time he has, the
more furiously the devil works.
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What that means for
us today is that you have
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an increasing amount of
people departing more and more
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from solid biblical principles.
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Now, you might expect
that as knowledge increases,
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that as we march down
through the stream of time,
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that people would
actually trend towards believing
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what makes sense, what's
true, and what's accurate.
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But in this massive
universe-wide conspiracy,
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that's not what's happening.
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Now, I'm going to
give you an example of that
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in just a moment, but
first, let's take a look
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at another
modern-day conspiracy theory.
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When I was a kid growing up,
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we had in our
family home a globe.
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I was fascinated by that globe.
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Far-off countries and
continents and vast oceans.
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And like every other globe I had
or have ever seen, it was round.
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It was a
representation of Planet Earth,
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and it was
spherical, like a ball.
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Every photograph that you have
ever seen taken of Planet Earth
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from outer space--
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and there have been countless
thousands of them taken--
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shows that this earth is round.
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But in spite of what most would
believe is scientific evidence,
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photographic
evidence, eyewitness testimony,
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the flat earth
movement is alive and well.
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It was on the brink of dying
out when the internet was born.
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And with the advent of
Facebook and then YouTube,
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there's no shortage of people
willing to share their claims
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that the earth is not spheroid.
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A number of very high-profile
people have come out
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and stated very publicly that
they believe the earth is flat.
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In fact, there's a
surprising chorus of voices
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around the world
stating that, in their opinion,
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the earth is not a sphere.
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And why do they think that?
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Well, they believe it's
all a conspiracy led by NASA
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and other government agencies.
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What about those photos
that we've seen from space?
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It's showing us, we
thought, the earth is round.
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Well, they say
they're all fakes.
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So there's a belief system that
flies in the face of everything
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we were taught to
believe when we were kids.
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It seems to contradict evidence
that we would look at and say,
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"The evidence is clear."
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Now, the same thing
happens spiritually.
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And I'm going to show
you how in just a moment,
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but first, there's a reason I'm
in beautiful Washington state.
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I've come here to talk to
a man who is fully persuaded
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the earth is flat.
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His name is Mark Sargent.
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Mark, let me begin
by asking you this.
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>>Mark Sargent: Yes.
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>>John: How did you get into,
how did you come to embrace
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the idea that the earth is flat?
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>>Mark: Boredom,
sheer conspiracy boredom,
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and that, and that is
not a lie, and by that I mean
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I was into just about every
conspiracy you can think of.
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And I wasn't a
tinfoil hat-wearing, you know,
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Ted Kaczynski type guy.
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I was, I had an opinion on
just about every conspiracy.
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And every conspiracy
person knows about flat earth,
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and they all hate it.
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It's a book on the shelf
you're never going to read;
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it's the DVD you bought
you're never going to unwrap.
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It's terrible.
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Everyone knows--it's
like flat earth is silly.
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Uh, it's ridiculous.
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And it was one
of my bucket lists.
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It's like, okay, I
can shut this thing down.
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And so that's what I
wanted to do, and I said,
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"I'm going to look at flat
earth for the first time ever."
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And I clicked on a
flat earth video on YouTube
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and immediately had a
visceral response to it.
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Nine months later,
uh, beginning of 2015,
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I was, I was beside myself.
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I couldn't prove the
globe in a court of law anymore.
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So I made a series of videos
called "The Flat Earth Clues,"
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put them out to the internet.
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I said, you know what, the
internet's smarter than I am.
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tell me where I went wrong.
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And everybody
came back and said,
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"You know what, you
may be on to something."
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And here we are,
four years later.
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>>John: So, many people are
going to say--here's the earth.
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John: It's a very small
earth, if this was the earth.
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John: But here's the earth.
This is what we grew up knowing.
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>>Mark: Yeah.
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>>John: So--
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John:
...explain to me how that--
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>>Mark: How is--
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>>John: ...isn't that.
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>>Mark: Yeah, how is this
globe not what we think it is?
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>>John: Correct.
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>>Mark: And I'll give you some
short, the crib notes of this.
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Uh, mainstream science
says that we are exactly this.
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We are this tiny little
rock covered by a thin sheen
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of water, which is
covered by a thin sheen of,
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of smoky atmosphere that's
spinning around the universe
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in five different directions,
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and we are
absolutely meaningless,
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we have no purpose in
life, and we're an accident.
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Flat earth community
says the exact opposite--
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that you're not this, that
you're more something like this,
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which is about the
same size, by the way,
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uh, a flat enclosed world with
the North Pole at the center
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and the outer rim
being made out of a continent
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called Antarctica,
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that we're covered in some
sort of dome-like structure,
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that it was made by
the Creator, or God,
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and if it was
made by the Creator,
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then we absolutely have purpose.
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And this is what all cultures
believed in at one point.
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Up until really
about 500 years ago,
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just about every culture you
could think of drew this image,
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instead of this.
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And it was only science that
came along later that changed it
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from this to this.
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>>John: So why do you think
science would have done that?
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The, the understanding,
as I understand it,
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is that there
are people who, who,
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who know the earth is flat--
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John: ...claim,
however, that it is spherical.
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Why make that claim?
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>>Mark: Well, [sighs]
500 hundred years ago,
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I can't exactly tell
you why they said it,
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but what I'm saying here is
even our best and brightest,
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even our best scientists
didn't know until about 1960
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what the world
actually looked like.
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Remember, the, the first picture
that was ever taken of earth
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wasn't taken until 1972.
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So, the big
question is, is that, if you,
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the best and
brightest figured out in 1960,
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would they tell people?
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If they've been telling people
for 500 years that it was this,
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they say mathematically this
is what it should look like,
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and then 500 years later in 1960
it's not this, but it's this--
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would you tell people?
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No, no, you wouldn't
because at that point
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the major institutions
that you've built up
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over the last five
centuries are in jeopardy,
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so you have to keep this a
secret for as long as possible.
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>>John: So you think that
science just feels like it has
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too much to lose
because it would be embarrassed
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about its last
so many years of--
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>>Mark: Way, way more.
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>>John: ...teaching?
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>>Mark: Yeah,
way more than that.
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What I'm talking about
is, is three-fold, meaning--
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think about what would happen
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if all of a sudden
the UN announced that,
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"Oh, yeah, by the way,
this is what it looks like."
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Think of what might happen.
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Uh, first thing
would be academically.
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Uh, every
university in every country--
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we're talking
astrophysics and astronomy--
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would have to
shut down tomorrow.
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And they would not reopen.
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The remaining
physical sciences--
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geology, hydrology,
biology, archaeology--
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you'd have to be
retooled from the ground up.
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That's every university.
That's just academically.
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Economically, world
markets would have to shut down
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for several
months just to figure out
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what this means exactly.
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You know, I mean, come on,
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if Donald Trump
caught pneumonia tomorrow,
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the markets would react.
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Imagine what would
happen if you showed them this.
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But the big
thing is religiously,
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which is the five major
religious houses of this world,
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uh, Judaism, Hinduism, Buddhism,
Islam, and Christianity.
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You're all of a sudden giving
them leverage against science,
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and you're asking
them to show restraint.
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Not an easy thing to do
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because science
would come back and say,
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"Okay, so you
were wrong about this;
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what else are you wrong about?
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Let's revisit things
like carbon dating, evolution,
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the Big Bang
theory, dark matter."
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It goes on and on.
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>>John: I'm really fascinated
that you connect the flat earth
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with creation.
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>>Mark: Yes.
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>>John: And it seems that
you connect the spherical earth
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with Darwinism and evolution.
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>>Mark: Yes. Yeah,
very, very much so.
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Uh, science built their
institution off this icon.
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And it is an icon.
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Everything that they
do is based off of this.
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This is where the, this
is their starting point.
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>>John: So, we've
sent satellites to Jupiter
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and through, almost
through the bands of Saturn
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and so on and so on.
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John: What are
they sending back?
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What are we seeing
from the Hubble Telescope?
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>>Mark: You're seeing
what they want you to see.
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And that's a great
question because what I mean is
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every space story comes out,
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and we've been seeing a
lot more of them recently
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in the last few years.
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Ever since we
started doing our thing,
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there have been something--what
I call "space beat" stories.
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They don't care if
you even read the article.
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All they want you to do
is glance at the headline
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because if you
glance at the headline,
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and you even register
the words, just for a second,
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it's all the same
thing, and that is,
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"Hey, there's a thing on
Mars that could be a face."
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"Hey, there's a
hexagon on Saturn."
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"Hey, we're
reclassifying Pluto."
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"Hey, there's
something happening, you know,
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with the Mars rover."
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And so on and so on.
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It's all the same thing, and
that is, "You're on a globe."
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It's just
reenforcement for the globe.
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They're trying to keep this
as secret as long as possible,
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and it's only now
starting to fall apart.
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>>John: So, are the
other planets spherical?
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>>Mark: They don't even exist.
They're just lights in the sky.
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If you go to a planetarium,
and you look up at Jupiter,
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and you have a
pair of binoculars,
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well, does it make
Jupiter more or less real?
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It's like, well,
it doesn't matter
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because I'm in a building.
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It's like, yeah, who's
to say when you walk out
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of that building you're just
walking into a much bigger one?
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That's all we're
really talking about here,
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a giant Truman Show,
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a giant structure with
walls and a floor and a ceiling.
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>>John: As you
were researching this,
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you said it took you nine
months to arrive at the position
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you now find yourself in.
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>>Mark: Right.
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>>John: What were
the difficult questions
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where you said, "Ooh,
the, the round earthers
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have really got
a good point here"?
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>>Mark: When we
were going through this,
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there were very, there were
a few weak points, absolutely.
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Uh, but not enough to sway us
away from the flat earth model.
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So, on a flat
earth model, for example,
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the, probably the
weakest point we have--
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and it's not that weak
because there's nothing
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we can do about it--
is the Antarctic sun.
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Meaning, if the sun and
the moon are traveling around
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like mobiles above
a child's crib, uh,
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and the North
Pole's at the center,
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well, the Antarctic coastline
can't get 24 hours of sun
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unless you have
multiple light sources,
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or there's something
going on with the light sources
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that we don't know about,
and that wouldn't surprise me.
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Remember, the technology that
we have now that we're using
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at this point is
still not that advanced.
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We've only had HD
televisions for 20 years.
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So the Antarctic sun is
probably the, the, the worst,
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but compared to all
the other points we have,
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doesn't even begin
to balance the scales.
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>>John: So, tell me
about the flat earth community.
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How big is this community?
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>>Mark: It's huge.
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There's, there's so many
millions of people in this.
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I, I'm scared to even,
uh, suggest the numbers.
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Meaning, uh, and I didn't
even know how big they were
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until a survey came out by
a research company in Britain
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called You.Gov--but not
affiliated with us in any way.
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They're a
scientific research company.
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They wanted to
prove it for themselves,
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so they polled 10,000 Americans
to see who was believing in this
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and who wasn't.
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And the number that really,
really jumped out at them
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was the, uh,
18- to 24-year-olds,
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was a full third were
believing in this model.
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And that's what has
scared a lot of scientists
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to where there were scientific
people that were coming out
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and making articles, saying,
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"Well, it's obvious that
You.Gov did bad research."
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It's like, what are you
talking about? It's your guys.
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[Scoffs] Why are you
attacking your own team?
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It's like, "Well, they
obviously did it wrong.
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The numbers can't be
30 percent, 34 percent
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for 18- to
24-year-olds; it cannot be."
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It's like, yeah, it is.
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I'm, I'm
absolutely guaranteeing that
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because not only am I talking
to the 18- to 24-year-olds;
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I'm talking to the
12- to 17-year-olds.
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They're contacting me daily
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and trying to get me
to do things with them.
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>>John: Mark, thank you,
really appreciate your time.
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>>Mark: Thank you.
>>John: Thank you very much.
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>>John Bradshaw:
Thanks for joining me today
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on It Is Written.
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This is "Conspiracy,
More Than Just a Theory."
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So you've got people who
believe that the earth is flat.
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Well, how do we know it isn't?
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Eyewitness accounts.
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You've seen the photos,
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and people have been up there
and seen the spherical earth.
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Does it matter what you believe?
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Well, you might debate
that one way or the other
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when it comes to
the earth being flat,
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but what about spiritually?
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Does it really
matter what you believe?
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Look at this with me.
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It's Revelation 19,
starting in verse 11:
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"And I saw heaven opened,
and behold a white horse;
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and He that sat upon him
was called Faithful and True,
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and in righteousness He
doth judge and make war.
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His eyes were
as a flame of fire,
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and on His head
were many crowns;
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and He had a name written, that
no man knew, but He Himself.
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And He was clothed with
a vesture dipped in blood:
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and His name is
called The Word of God."
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Goes on for two
or three more verses.
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It's the return of
Jesus to the world.
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Paul wrote about that
same event in several places.
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Here's how he described it
to the church of Thessalonica:
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"For the Lord Himself
shall descend from heaven
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with a shout, with the
voice of the archangel,
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and with the trump of God:
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and the dead in
Christ shall rise first:
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then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up
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together with
them in the clouds,
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to meet the Lord in the air:
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and so shall we
ever be with the Lord."
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Does it matter what you believe?
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Well, absolutely, as far
as that affects your readiness
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for the return of Jesus.
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What you believe
impacts how you live.
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Satan knows better than
anyone that Jesus is coming back
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to the earth, and he doesn't
want you to be ready for that.
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He's even
prepared a huge deception,
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a huge issue at the
close of time that will cause
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masses of people to
lose their way spiritually.
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Revelation 13:3 says,
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"And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death;
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and his deadly wound was healed:
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and all the world
wondered after the beast."
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Now verse 8:
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"And all that dwell upon
the earth shall worship him,
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whose names are not
written in the book of life
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of the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world."
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Then later in the chapter:
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"And he causeth all,
both small and great,
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rich and poor, free and bond,
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to receive a mark in their right
hand, or in their foreheads:
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and that no man might buy or
sell, save he that had the mark,
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or the name of the beast,
or the number of his name."
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If you were to read
that without any sort of view
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of the big picture,
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it might sound as
farfetched to you as the idea
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that the earth is
flat, or that Bigfoot exists,
00:16:56.24\00:16:59.91
or that chemtrails
are poisoning the planet,
00:16:59.95\00:17:02.92
or that aliens are
being kept at Area 51,
00:17:02.95\00:17:05.52
or that the moon landing
never happened and was faked.
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But when you look at
the Bible, there's no doubt.
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It's all leading to
the return of Jesus,
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and when Jesus returns,
00:17:14.13\00:17:16.26
time is up for the
inhabitants of Planet Earth.
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Revelation 22:11 says,
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"He that is unjust,
let him be unjust still:
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and he which is filthy,
let him be filthy still:
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and he that is righteous,
let him be righteous still:
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and he that is holy,
let him be holy still."
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There will come a time
that it will be too late;
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salvation will no
longer be on offer.
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It's important to be
ready for Jesus' return.
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As Jesus Himself
said in Matthew 24,
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"Therefore you also be ready."
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What does the ending of
this great conspiracy mean
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for people on Planet Earth?
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Well, one day
there'll be no more sin
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and no more of
everything bound up with sin.
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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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No more death, no more funerals,
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no more
surgery, no more illness,
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no more violence, no more crime.
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No more. Not forever.
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The Bible says we'll live
in a place where the streets
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are paved with gold.
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Revelation 21:21 says,
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"And the twelve
gates were twelve pearls:
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every several
gate was of one pearl:
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and the street of
the city was pure gold,
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as it were transparent glass."
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The tree of life will be there.
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"In the midst of
the street of it,
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and on either side of the river,
was there the tree of life,
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which bare
twelve manner of fruits,
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and yielded her
fruit every month:
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and the leaves of the tree were
for the healing of the nations."
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A world without
sin, which means a world,
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a universe without the devil.
00:19:08.24\00:19:11.75
Ultimately, sin and
Satan will be no more.
00:19:11.78\00:19:15.98
That's God's plan for the world.
00:19:16.02\00:19:17.89
And of course,
it's God's plan for you.
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God wants you to be saved.
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John 3:16 tells us that
00:19:22.96\00:19:24.43
"God so loved the world that
He gave His only begotten Son,
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that whosoever believeth in Him
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should not perish, but
have everlasting life."
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Peter wrote that God is "not
willing that any should perish,
00:19:32.63\00:19:37.07
but that all should
come to repentance."
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That's 2 Peter 3, verse 9.
00:19:39.44\00:19:41.68
Not that everyone
will come to repentance,
00:19:41.71\00:19:44.41
but that's God's will.
00:19:44.45\00:19:45.68
It's what God is striving for.
It's what His Spirit works for.
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It's why angels minister,
to turn you towards heaven
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in one of the last
days of the earth's history.
00:19:53.72\00:19:56.83
But the devil works: temptation,
distraction, self-interest,
00:19:56.86\00:20:00.96
pride, skepticism,
and on and on and on.
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So what is it
that God is offering?
00:20:05.80\00:20:08.04
In just a moment, I'm going
to answer that question for you.
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I'll be right back.
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God gave His Ten Commandments,
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writing them on stone,
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to take down from the
mountain to the people.
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>>John Bradshaw: Thanks for
joining me on It Is Written.
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A moment ago I
asked you to think about
00:21:55.58\00:21:57.48
what God is offering you--
that is, offering you and me
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and, in fact,
even the whole world.
00:22:01.25\00:22:03.65
The answer is simple:
God's offering freedom.
00:22:03.69\00:22:08.59
On the other hand,
what's the devil offering?
00:22:08.62\00:22:10.73
The devil's offering slavery.
00:22:10.76\00:22:13.66
You see it when people
are free to have a good time,
00:22:13.70\00:22:16.97
and then they wake up hungover
00:22:17.00\00:22:18.90
or sick or in
jail or deeply ashamed.
00:22:18.93\00:22:23.24
The devil has convinced people
00:22:23.27\00:22:24.57
it's a bright idea to
live independently of God.
00:22:24.61\00:22:28.01
Or worse, that they
can claim to believe,
00:22:28.04\00:22:31.75
while that belief doesn't
really change their lives--
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people who call themselves
Christian while their actions
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definitely say otherwise.
00:22:38.85\00:22:40.46
They might have
fooled themselves;
00:22:40.49\00:22:42.59
they haven't fooled God.
00:22:42.62\00:22:44.43
There's not a person alive who's
smart enough or strong enough
00:22:44.46\00:22:49.06
to defeat the devil.
00:22:49.10\00:22:50.53
This conspiracy
against the God of heaven,
00:22:50.57\00:22:52.93
against His
government, against His Word,
00:22:52.97\00:22:56.07
in this conspiracy
you've got on the one side
00:22:56.10\00:22:58.31
human beings who have been
weakened by 6,000 years of sin,
00:22:58.34\00:23:02.48
who live in a world that
is marinating in wickedness,
00:23:02.51\00:23:05.28
and on the other side,
you have a fallen angel
00:23:05.31\00:23:08.28
who once dwelled in
the presence of God,
00:23:08.32\00:23:10.35
and his followers who
also are fallen angels.
00:23:10.39\00:23:14.72
What chance do we have?
00:23:14.76\00:23:16.83
Well, thank God,
we have every chance.
00:23:16.86\00:23:19.89
While human beings are under the
death sentence that sin brings,
00:23:19.93\00:23:23.13
the Bible says in
1 John 1, verse 9,
00:23:23.16\00:23:26.50
that "if we confess our sins,
00:23:26.53\00:23:29.30
He is faithful and
just to forgive us our sins,
00:23:29.34\00:23:33.04
and to cleanse us
from all unrighteousness."
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God will forgive
you of your sins.
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"There is therefore
now no condemnation to them
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which are in Christ Jesus,
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who walk not after the
flesh, but after the Spirit."
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Romans 8, verse 1.
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Then Jesus Himself will
fill you with His presence.
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The Holy Spirit brings
the personal presence of Jesus
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into your life.
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Paul wrote in Romans 6:18 that,
"Being then made free from sin,
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ye became the
servants of righteousness."
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God frees us
from the power of sin,
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enabling us to live His
way and not our own way,
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to live lives characterized
by love and not selfishness.
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Paul said that if
anyone is in Christ,
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that person is a new creature.
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"Old things are
passed away," he wrote,
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"behold, all
things are become new."
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Second Corinthians 5:17.
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With faith in Jesus,
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you can live confidently as
you look forward to eternity.
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He died for you.
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He's your Mediator in heaven,
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and He'll keep
you through His power.
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And He's coming
back to the earth
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to end this whole terrible thing
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that the devil has
pressed upon the world.
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There's a massive spiritual
battle raging in our world
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right now, but not a
single person needs to end up
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on the wrong side of this.
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If you've sinned,
God will forgive you.
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If you're weak, God
will strengthen you.
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In fact, He says
that His strength
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"is made perfect in weakness."
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If you're a failure,
God will give you success.
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If you're new to faith in God,
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He pledges to grow you
and nurture you and guide you.
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And God says
He'll never leave you,
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and He'll never
ever forsake you.
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>>Announcer: Many
nations are mentioned
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in the prophecies of the Bible,
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but what prophetic role
does the United States play
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in earth's final days?
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Will freedom always ring?
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Be sure you get your free offer,
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"The United States
in Bible Prophecy,"
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presented by
Pastor John Bradshaw.
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This DVD presentation
explores what the Bible says
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about the United
States in prophecy.
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>>John Bradshaw: I'm grateful
that throughout eternity
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sin will never rear
its ugly head again.
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And through all eternity we'll
be in the presence of Jesus.
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If it's hard to
imagine what that'll be like,
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it won't be hard for much longer
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because surely Jesus is
soon to return to this world.
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Now, the question
is, will you be ready?
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Let's not make the mistake
of looking into the future
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and saying, "I don't know
if I can be good enough then."
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It's not a question
of being good enough.
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It's a question of accepting
Jesus as your Lord and Savior
00:26:20.11\00:26:23.08
and claiming His
goodness as your own.
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When you've done
that, you grow in His grace,
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and you just keep on
growing in His direction
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and grow towards His kingdom.
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If you claim Jesus as
your friend, as your Savior,
00:26:32.52\00:26:35.02
as your Lord, you're
claiming everlasting life.
00:26:35.06\00:26:38.79
You're claiming
readiness for Jesus' return.
00:26:38.83\00:26:42.93
Let's accept that
readiness from Jesus now.
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Our Father in heaven,
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no, we're not good enough,
no, we're not righteous enough,
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not righteous at all,
and so we claim Jesus,
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not
presumptuously, but in faith.
00:26:55.71\00:26:57.88
We claim Him, saying
thank You for His righteousness.
00:26:57.91\00:27:01.92
And thank You for
changing us from the inside out,
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for making us what we
could not make ourselves.
00:27:05.49\00:27:07.59
Friend, are you
willing to accept Jesus?
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I'm sure you are.
He's willing to accept you.
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When we say
"amen" in just a moment,
00:27:12.79\00:27:14.30
I want you to say "amen"
knowing that heaven is yours,
00:27:14.36\00:27:18.37
that your name is
written in the book of life
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and that when Jesus comes back,
00:27:20.07\00:27:22.24
gravity will lose its power
over the soles of your feet,
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and you will go up.
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Our Father, we thank You
for the reality of Your love,
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of Your goodness,
00:27:30.78\00:27:31.98
and of Jesus' return
and of eternity with You.
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We thank You in Jesus' name.
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Let's say together: Amen.
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Thank you.
Thanks for joining me.
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I'm looking forward
to seeing you next time.
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Until then, remember:
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"It is written, 'Man
shall not live by bread alone,
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but by every word that proceeds
from the mouth of God.'"
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