Welcome back to another in
search of the truth program.
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I'm Karen Byrd.
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While my family was
living on the Island of Saipan
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we so much enjoyed the
coastline: the backside of the
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the island with its rugged lava
cliffs as well as the front side
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its lagoon and sandy beach.
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Once we even found a
bottle with a message in it.
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It had been washed up on a
narrow beach near the piece of
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lava called
"Old Man by the Sea."
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We weren't able to read the
message because it was in Polish
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but it was still exciting to
think some sailor on a merchant
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ship had thrown the bottle
into the sea not knowing if
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anyone would ever find it.
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Suppose you had found
and opened the bottle.
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Would you be surprised
if it was addressed to you?
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What if the message had four
predictions about your life?
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Would you believe them?
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You'd probably be a bit
skeptical but very curious.
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There are many skeptics in the
world today who question whether
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the Bible could possibly be true
or accurate because we don't
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have the original manuscripts
written by say, Moses, Daniel,
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Paul, or Matthew.
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And even if we did, how could
we be sure they were messages
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from God?
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If God looked into the future
and saw that we would have these
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perplexing questions He might
have been wise to take some
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of the old manuscripts, seal
them in a bottle kind of like a
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time capsule and then have them
found say, 2,000 years later.
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It would also be most convincing
if He wrote in some prophecies
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so that when the message in the
bottle was found, we would know
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for sure that He knew
well in advance what was going
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to happen.
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Did you know that's
exactly what God did?
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It's true! God literally
put His message in not one,
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but many bottles.
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Today, Charles is taking an
important look at the Bible.
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He'll even visit Qumran by the
Dead Sea as he seeks to answer
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the questions, "Is the Bible
a trustworthy message from the
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God of creation?
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Does the Bible have anything
relevant to say about our lives
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in the 21st century?
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Join us as our search for the
truth investigates the message
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in the bottle.
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In Search of the Truth
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Message in a Bottle
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with Charles Byrd
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Last time we were together we
looked at the Genesis question.
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We were wondering if the
evidence, the facts, supported
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belief in evolution as the means
of our arrival on the stage of
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life OR if our creation was
at the hands of an intelligent
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designer.
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Now of course,
none of us were there.
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Either conclusion takes
a certain degree of faith.
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But I trust that we came to
the conclusion together that our
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faith can safely
rest on the facts:
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That scientific study proves
that we did not and could not
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have evolved.
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We were looking for some
reasonable anchor on which to
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base our faith.
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Not blind faith,
but rational faith.
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Let's review quickly
what we discovered last time.
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While there are left and
right handed amino acids,
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the basic building blocks
for cells, we learned that
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everything that is living
is only made up of left handed
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amino acids.
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The chance of that happening
by pure random selection is
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one in 10 followed by 123 zeros!
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But that's not enough.
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All these left handed amino
acids have to line up in just
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the right order so
they can make a protein.
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What is the possibility
of that happening by chance?
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One in 10 followed by 240 zeros!
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But that's not
enough to have life.
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The protein has to have
DNA to reproduce itself.
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What is the chance that
this happened all by itself?
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We stagger to understand
that it is one in 10 followed by
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147 zeros YEARS!
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The estimated 20 billion years
since the "big bang" is not even
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close to enough time to
have created ONE usable cell
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let alone all the plant
and animal life on earth.
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Molecular biology's clear
demonstration that a single cell
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is vastly complex makes the
accidental origin of life in
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a single cell a
mathematical absurdity.
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FOOLISHNESS to believe we
came about by random selection
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or arbitrary chance.
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But just knowing this -
that there is a pattern-
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that someone very intelligent
put us here causes me to ask,
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who is he? Where
is he? What is he?
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Does he care about me?
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Does he, she or it
know that I even exist?
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Where can we go
to find the answer?
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Do we go to the
book of Islam, the Koran?
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Will we find the answer in
the writings of Confucius or
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Buddha?
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Or do we go to the Bible?
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THE BIBLE!
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I hear the critics saying
you want me to believe the fairy
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tales of the bible?
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You want me to believe that the
earth was actually created in
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just six days?
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That there was enough rain
to cover the whole earth with a
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flood, that a person is
swallowed by a fish and burped
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up on land? Aren't
these stories a little
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bit unbelievable?
That snakes can talk?
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That the ground opens up
to swallow just Moses enemies?
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Or that the ocean opens up
wide enough for several million
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people go through on dry land,
and then they get out the other
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side and the people drink
water out of the rocks and
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groceries fall from skies?
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And fiery windy
chariot takes people to heaven?
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Why should we believe
the bigoted claim that
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only the
Christian's Bible is the truth?
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That's a great
question, and a valid question.
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And I believe I have the answer
to that question, "Why believe
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in the Bible of the
Jews and the Christians?"
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In a word...PROPHECY
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LET ME ILLUSTRATE...
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I'm going to prophecy several
things about you personally.
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First...
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Tomorrow at 9:31 a.m. there will
be an earthquake registering
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6.9 on the Richter scale.
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The epicenter will be on
Wall Street in New York City...
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The only video footage of
the event will be taken by a
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relative of yours.
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One week from now you
will win the lottery...
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One month from now all the kids
you went to school with in first
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grade with drop in to visit you
on a Wed morning at 5 a.m. ...
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One year from now you
will be named as the next vice
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president of the
island nation of Tonga...
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One decade from now you
will be dead from choking on
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a toothpick.
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Suppose the first prediction
came true. The very earthquake
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with the all the
details I predicted comes true.
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What would you think of me then?
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Suppose that in one week you win
the lottery and you didn't even
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buy a ticket, it was given
to you for buying your gas.
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Just for the sake of the story
suppose that one month from now
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all the kids you went to school
with in first grade did drop in
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to visit you on
Wednesday morning at 5 a.m.
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And since this story is only in
our imagination, let's suppose
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that by some twisted set
of events in one year you did
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become the new vice president
of the nation of Tonga.
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How seriously would
you take what I say?
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Would give
credence to what I say?
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Would you think
I was trust worthy?
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Even though the last of the
5 predictions is 9 years away,
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would you ever
use toothpicks again?
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So you would believe in me
just for making these simple
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predictions that
came true for you?
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This is why I believe
in the Bible. Prophecy!
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Let me show you what I mean.
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Nebuchadnezzar was king of
Babylon, the first world empire
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and he had a troubling dream.
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But the next morning he couldn't
remember the dream that had
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troubled him so greatly.
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He was certain that it held
special significance for himself
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and his kingdom.
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He had a consuming passion
to recall the dream or have it
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revealed to him. You
can read the whole account
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of it for yourself
in Daniel chapter 2.
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Under a miraculous set
of circumstances Daniel,
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a Hebrew captive from Jerusalem
is able to tell the king what he
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dreamed...in his
own bed chamber!!
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"You, O King, were watching;
and behold, a great image!
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This great image, whose splendor
was excellent, stood before you;
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and its form was awesome.
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"This image's head was of
fine gold, and its chest and
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arms of silver, its
belly and thighs of bronze,
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"its legs of iron, its feet
partly of iron and partly of
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clay.
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"You watched while a
stone was cut out without hands,
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which struck the image on
its feet of iron and clay,
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and broke them in pieces.
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"Then the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver
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and the gold were crushed
together, and became like chaff
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from the summer threshing floors
and the wind carried them away
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so that no trace
of them was found.
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And the stone that struck the
image became a great mountain
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and filled the whole earth.
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"That's it." "That's it."
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I can hear
Nebuchadnezzar saying,
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"That's exactly what
I dreamed in my own bed!
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Now Daniel, what does it mean?
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I know you can tell me.
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Anyone who can tell me what
I dreamed in my own bed in my
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own palace can surely
tell me what it means."
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And so Daniel unfolds the
dream and its interpretation.
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In Daniel chapter 2:36 you read:
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"This is the dream. Now we will
tell the interpretation of it
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the king."
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"You, O king,...
are this head of gold"
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But after you shall
arise another kingdom inferior
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to yours [just as silver is
inferior to gold]; then another,
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a third kingdom of bronze,
shall rule over the earth."
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...the fourth kingdom
shall be as strong as iron,
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in as much as iron breaks in
pieces and shatters all things;
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and like iron that
crushes, that kingdom will break
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in pieces and crush all others."
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Then something
interesting happens.
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Daniel doesn't
predict another world empire.
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"Whereas you saw the feet and
toes, partly of potter's clay
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and partly of iron, the
kingdom shall be divided;
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And as the toes of the feet
were partly of iron and partly
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of clay, so the kingdom
shall be partly strong and
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and partly fragile."
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Amazing! This is
exactly what History portrays!!!
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Unlike my 5-point prophecy
that covered a mere ten years,
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this prophecy begins in 605 B.C.
and outlines the future of the
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world for 2,600 years.
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If you take the metallic
image of Nebuchadnezzar's dream
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and you lay it on its side
it becomes a prophetic timeline.
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First Babylon, then Media-Persia
represented by the silver
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chest and arms.
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A third kingdom, a kingdom
of bronze Daniel named as Greece
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in chapter 8 nearly 200
years before it happened.
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Then history reveals that Rome
came onto the scene in 168 B.C.
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And last, the partly strong,
partly weak, iron and clay
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kingdom replaces
the world powers.
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The known world around
the Mediterranean fragmented
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apart and no one has ever been
able to put it back together
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again.
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This is what Daniel prophesied!
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"They shall not cleave
one to another, even as iron
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is not mixed with clay."
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Among others, Charlemagne,
King of the Franks and founder
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of the first empire in Western
Europe after the fall of Rome
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tried and he failed to
reunite the Mediterranean world.
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Napoleon, a French general,
political leader, and emperor
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of the late eighteenth and
early nineteenth centuries,
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tried and failed.
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Hitler in the 20th century
tried and miserably failed.
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Every year that goes by without
Europe reuniting is another year
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the Bible stands
vindicated as a book worthy
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of our attention and trust.
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This is the book that
tells us who the creator is.
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This is the book that tells us
who created all the amino acids
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line them up in
the correct order.
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This is the book that
tells us who created our DNA.
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This is the book that tells
us scientific facts long before
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science had the tools
to even prove it right.
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In the Book of Job
chapter 26:7 we read,
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"He... hangeth the
earth upon nothing."
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It took us a while
before we could confirm it,
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but we now have pictures
to prove that God did exactly
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what he said.
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We can trust this book.
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"It is he that says Isaiah
that sitteth upon the circle of
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the earth."
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The Bible said the earth
was round centuries before
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man found out.
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This book was inspired by
God who created all things.
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It can be trusted.
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In Job 19:20 says he
"escaped with the skin of
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[his] teeth." Just
a figure of speech?
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No, science has now
discovered that there is
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in fact a skin of our teeth.
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All these truths are
in the book that starts,
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"In the Beginning God..."
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Dr. Arthur Compton,
Nobel prize-winning, physicist,
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commenting on Genesis 1:1 wrote,
in the Chicago Daily News:
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"For myself, faith begins with
a realization that a supreme
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intelligence brought
the universe into being and
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created man. It is not difficult
for me to have this faith,
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for it is incontrovertible
that where there is a plan,
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there is an intelligence-
an orderly unfolding universe
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testifies to the truth of
the most majestic statement,
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"In the Beginning God."
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Since the first five predictions
of Daniels end time prophecy
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have come true, do you think
we can trust the sixth and final
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of the prophecy? Let's
consider it for ourselves
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and in Daniel 2:34
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...a stone was cut out without
hands, which struck the image on
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its feet of iron and
clay, and broke them in pieces."
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"Then the iron, the clay, the
bronze, the silver, and the gold
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were crushed together,
and became like chaff from the
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summer threshing floors;
and the wind carried them away
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so that no trace
of them was found.
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And the stone that
struck the image became a great
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mountain and
filled the whole earth."
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What was the
stone that Daniel saw?
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He gives us the interpretation
in Daniel ch 2:44.
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"And in the days of
these kings the God of heaven
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will set up a kingdom
which shall never be destroyed;
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and the kingdom shall
not be left to other people;
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it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms,
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and it shall stand forever."
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All of this has come true.
All of this is history for us.
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But for Daniel, who was
way back here, what the creator
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God showed him was
history in advance.
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Do you realize what this means?
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We are right here.
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The only thing left to happen in
this prophecy is for the creator
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God of the universe to set
up his kingdom here on earth.
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We'll talk more about that
in our next program together.
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This book, the Bible,
written over a period of nearly
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1,600 years by 40 different
authors on three continents
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and one island appears to
have been managed by one person.
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Though the penmen, the scribes
include kings, shepherds,
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scientists, attorneys,
an army general, fishermen,
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priests, and a physician,
yet in theme and purpose,
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the Bible is a single book.
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The Bible makes this
exaggerated claim about itself.
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"All scripture is given
by inspiration of God, and is
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profitable for doctrine,
for reproof, for correction,
00:17:01.51\00:17:05.65
for instruction
in righteousness;"
00:17:05.68\00:17:08.22
All scripture had the God of
creation directing the penmen,
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the authors in what to say.
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That makes sense and gives a
reasonable explanation as to why
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this book has one
central message in both the New
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and Old Testaments.
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That also explains why it speaks
of one God, why it reveals
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one Savior, why it uplifts
one standard of righteousness.
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It also explains how and why the
prophecies can be so accurate.
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"For the prophecy came not
in old time by the will of man:
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but holy men of God
spake as they were moved by the
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Holy Ghost."
00:17:48.26\00:17:50.10
The prophecies in this book
are not made up by crafty men
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with a 50% or even
80% accuracy rating.
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They are given to us by an
intelligence that knows the
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future with pinpoint
accuracy before it happens,
00:18:00.58\00:18:04.03
even thousands of
years before it happens!
00:18:04.06\00:18:07.19
But the skeptic says, how
the Bible you hold in your hand
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has gone through some many
revisions, so many translations,
00:18:11.06\00:18:14.82
so many human hands that
it can't even be the same
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book that was
originally written.
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"Not so!" says archeology!
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In the summer of 1947 a Bedouin
shepherd boy was keeping his
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his flocks near the
Dead Sea south of Jericho.
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Having lost one of his wayward
goats went looking for him
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in what we now call cave number
one, wondering if his wayward
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beast had climbed in to
the cave, he threw in a rock
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to shoo him out.
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He waited to see if the goat
would come out he didn't hear
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a goat but what he did hear
was surprising, it was the sound
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of a clay jar breaking.
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Upon investigation he
discovered what we now know
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as The Dead Sea Scrolls.
00:19:00.03\00:19:02.21
While in Bethlehem I was
privileged to visit the Kando's
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Inticquity shop.
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There I spoke with some of the
sons and grandsons of the man
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who purchased most of
the scrolls from the Bedawin
00:19:10.78\00:19:13.92
Shepard's.
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My name is Edmund K my Father
is the man which he bought
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all the Dead Sea Scrolls
which have been discovered since
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1948 up to the last minute.
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In front of us is one of
the original jars, which one of
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the scrolls have been wrapped
with with Linen and hidden in?
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In the book, "Great People
of the Bible and How They Lived"
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we learn that the contents
of the scrolls include fragments
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of all the books of the
Old Testament except Esther.
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The careful transcriptions were
done on animal skins marked with
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horizontal lines for writing
and verticals for margins.
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These Bible texts
predate the oldest scriptures by
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a thousand years.
00:20:00.97\00:20:02.35
Written mostly during the three
centuries before the fall of
00:20:02.39\00:20:05.85
Jerusalem in A.D. 70.
00:20:05.88\00:20:07.95
They had been hidden in these
caves just before the Romans
00:20:07.99\00:20:11.56
destroyed their
community at nearby Qumran.
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When the scrolls were
first found Edmund told us,
00:20:15.00\00:20:18.43
some scholars regarded
them as forgeries but after the
00:20:18.47\00:20:22.47
carbon 14 dating set their
age at 2000 years, these scrolls
00:20:22.51\00:20:27.40
from Qumran were recognized
as documents of great historical
00:20:27.43\00:20:30.93
value. Some have now
come to believe they are
00:20:30.96\00:20:34.41
the archeological
find of the century.
00:20:34.44\00:20:37.57
The Qumran community
just west of the Dead Sea
00:20:37.61\00:20:42.30
was a place where they gather
together to preserve scripture.
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After taking their ceremonial
baths the men of the community
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would walk through this room
to the author's room and here
00:20:50.01\00:20:53.94
in the author's room they would
copy scripture word for word
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as dictated by the reader.
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We are told that this is
how the copies were made in
00:21:00.34\00:21:03.71
the Scriptorium...
00:21:03.74\00:21:04.91
As the reader would stand up
to read he would read something
00:21:04.95\00:21:08.10
like "in the Beginning God."
00:21:08.13\00:21:10.34
All the scribes
would then repeat out loud
00:21:10.38\00:21:13.13
"in the Beginning God".
00:21:13.16\00:21:15.74
Then the writers would take
their pens and begin to write.
00:21:15.78\00:21:20.87
In, and as they wrote it would
say, "In the Beginning God."
00:21:20.91\00:21:25.12
Then the copyist would pick
up their parchments and read
00:21:25.16\00:21:29.34
"In the Beginning God,"
as the reader would compare
00:21:29.37\00:21:32.61
what was said with
what was on the original.
00:21:32.64\00:21:35.56
This is why these
manuscripts show remarkably few
00:21:35.60\00:21:38.58
few discrepancies with what
we read in our bibles today.
00:21:38.62\00:21:41.91
Now, some people are going to
keep on believing in evolution
00:21:41.95\00:21:45.21
even though chance
is stacked against them.
00:21:45.24\00:21:47.58
They will believe that a single
cell evolved even though the
00:21:47.62\00:21:51.95
the chance of that happening is
one in 10 followed by 123 zeros,
00:21:51.99\00:21:56.29
and another 10
followed by 240 zeros,
00:21:56.32\00:21:59.54
and then another 10
followed 147 zeros years!
00:21:59.58\00:22:03.82
Some of those same people
will make fun of the person who
00:22:03.86\00:22:07.72
believes in the Bible because
of some seemingly impossible
00:22:07.75\00:22:11.40
stories found there.
00:22:11.43\00:22:13.16
But let me show you how much
less faith it takes to believe
00:22:13.20\00:22:16.15
in the prophecies of the Bible.
00:22:16.18\00:22:18.72
In the back of my bible,
the New King James version,
00:22:18.76\00:22:22.72
the open bible, is a chart
with 44 prophecies about the
00:22:22.76\00:22:26.68
coming of the creator of
all our amino acids and DNA,
00:22:26.71\00:22:30.73
to dwell with us, to be
with us, to bring us back into a
00:22:30.76\00:22:34.75
relationship with Himself.
00:22:34.78\00:22:36.44
I've been told
that there are more than
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125 of these prophecies.
00:22:38.73\00:22:41.43
For the sake of time
can we quickly look at just
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eight of them? Real fast...
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Daniel predicted the very
time of His birth in Daniel ch 9
00:22:45.78\00:22:49.56
and Luke ch 2 says
He came right on time.
00:22:49.59\00:22:53.76
Micah ch 5 says He
would be born in Bethlehem and
00:22:53.80\00:22:58.41
Dr. Luke says in Luke 2
that's exactly where He was born
00:22:58.45\00:23:02.09
in a stable.
00:23:02.12\00:23:03.54
Isaiah ch 7 says He
would be born of a virgin
00:23:03.58\00:23:06.98
Luke 1 says He was born
of Mary who was a virgin.
00:23:07.02\00:23:10.66
Malachi 3 says He would
be preceded by a forerunner
00:23:10.70\00:23:14.54
and Luke ch 7 says that
forerunner was John the Baptist
00:23:14.57\00:23:18.38
Zachariah 9 says He
would make a triumphal entry
00:23:18.41\00:23:21.61
into Jerusalem riding on
a donkey and Mark 11 says
00:23:21.65\00:23:24.82
that's exactly what happened.
00:23:24.85\00:23:27.06
Is 53 said He would be silent
before His accusers and at
00:23:27.10\00:23:31.70
His trial that's exactly what
He was according to Mark 15.
00:23:31.74\00:23:36.31
Isaiah 53 says He would
be rejected by His own people
00:23:36.34\00:23:41.10
and John and Luke
both record that He was.
00:23:41.13\00:23:44.98
Psalm 16 says He
would be resurrected.
00:23:45.01\00:23:48.79
Mark 16 and Acts 2 tell us
that we serve a risen Lord.
00:23:48.83\00:23:54.52
We used probability theory to
determine that chance evolution
00:23:54.56\00:23:58.05
could not have taken
place. Let's USE IT AGAIN.
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How likely is it that a
person could "just happen"
00:24:01.59\00:24:05.03
to fulfill all these
predictions so perfectly?
00:24:05.06\00:24:07.93
In Science Speaks, Dr. Peter
Stoner uses probability theory
00:24:07.97\00:24:12.24
to test how likely it is
that just eight of the many
00:24:12.27\00:24:15.20
prophecies about Jesus
could happen by chance.
00:24:15.23\00:24:18.41
His results, checked by the
American Scientific Affiliation,
00:24:18.45\00:24:22.27
show that the chance of any
man might have lived from when
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the prophecy was made to
the present time, and fulfilled
00:24:25.66\00:24:28.95
all eight is just one
in 10 followed by 16 zeros.
00:24:28.98\00:24:33.00
The possibility of one
DNA happing by chance is
00:24:33.03\00:24:37.47
considerably more 10
followed by 147 zeros years.
00:24:37.50\00:24:41.91
10 followed by 147 zeros
or 10 followed by 16 zeros?
00:24:41.94\00:24:47.29
You tell me
which takes more faith.
00:24:47.32\00:24:50.19
Since you have no concept
of what 10 followed by 16 zeros
00:24:50.23\00:24:53.74
looks like let's
let Dr. Stoner explain.
00:24:53.77\00:24:57.19
He illustrates by saying that
if we took that number of silver
00:24:57.23\00:25:01.24
dollars, spread them over the
state of Texas, they would cover
00:25:01.27\00:25:05.25
the whole state two feet deep!
00:25:05.28\00:25:08.13
Dr. Stoner then explains:
Now mark one of these silver
00:25:08.17\00:25:11.40
dollars, stir the whole mass
thoroughly, all over the state.
00:25:11.44\00:25:14.89
Blindfold a man and tell
him that he can travel as far as
00:25:14.92\00:25:18.71
he wishes, but he must pick
up one silver dollar and say
00:25:18.75\00:25:22.51
this is the marked one.
00:25:22.54\00:25:24.56
What chance would he
have of getting the right one?
00:25:24.60\00:25:28.62
Just the same chance that
the prophets would have had of
00:25:28.66\00:25:31.70
writing these eight prophecies
and have them all come true
00:25:31.73\00:25:34.94
in any one man, from their day
to the present time providing
00:25:34.97\00:25:38.15
they wrote in their own wisdom.
00:25:38.18\00:25:39.93
But they didn't
write in their own wisdom.
00:25:39.97\00:25:42.43
They were inspired by the
same intelligence that created
00:25:42.47\00:25:45.80
amino acids but only
used left handed ones to make
00:25:45.83\00:25:49.50
living things.
00:25:49.53\00:25:50.93
The inspiration of this book is
from the same being that created
00:25:50.97\00:25:55.33
DNA, the marvel of all
00:25:55.36\00:25:58.86
scientists. Hey, I am a rational
00:25:58.89\00:26:00.64
being. I don't want to
believe with blind faith.
00:26:00.68\00:26:03.36
But when I run the numbers
it makes a whole lot more sense
00:26:03.40\00:26:06.24
to believe in a pattern-making
creator God who really cares
00:26:06.27\00:26:09.88
about me than to believe
that I am a chance accident of
00:26:09.91\00:26:13.92
random forces.
00:26:13.95\00:26:15.44
This book tells me how I got
here, it tells me of the one who
00:26:15.48\00:26:19.73
put me here and loves me enough
to plan a fantastic kingdom,
00:26:19.77\00:26:23.38
and build me a home in His
awesome city so that I can live
00:26:23.42\00:26:27.00
with Him someday very soon.
00:26:27.03\00:26:28.89
This book tells me that He
loved me enough to die for me.
00:26:28.92\00:26:33.62
I'm special to
the God of creation.
00:26:33.65\00:26:36.13
He knows my name,
He knows where I live,
00:26:36.17\00:26:38.66
He knows the number
of hairs on my head.
00:26:38.69\00:26:41.15
And that same God loves you too.
00:26:41.18\00:26:44.61
You are important to Him.
00:26:44.64\00:26:48.16
You don't have to wait to hear
God's message of Love for you.
00:26:48.20\00:26:52.19
Besides, bottles can
take along time to get there.
00:26:52.22\00:26:56.48
This book has proven
itself to be His message.
00:26:56.52\00:27:00.76
In this book He says,
I have loved you with an
00:27:00.79\00:27:05.00
everlasting love.
00:27:05.03\00:27:06.79
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In our Next broadcast Charles
is going in search of Heaven,
00:28:12.83\00:28:17.69
and the New Jerusalem.
00:28:17.72\00:28:19.31
In His search he has discovered
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00:28:19.34\00:28:23.03
was given all the facts
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00:28:23.06\00:28:26.58
structure.
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You've never seen any picture
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00:28:27.83\00:28:30.33
that looks like this one.
00:28:30.36\00:28:31.58
Join us next time as we
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00:28:31.62\00:28:34.84
about "Our Final Home.
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