Our God is an awesome God
He reigns from heaven above
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With wisdom, pow'r, and love
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Our God is an awesome
God Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, pow'r, and love
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Our God is an awesome
God Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, pow'r, and love
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Our God is an awesome God
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Our God is an awesome God
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Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, pow'r, and love
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Our God is an awesome God
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Our God is an awesome God
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He reigns from heaven above
With wisdom, pow'r, and love
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Our God is an awesome God
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Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
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Humble thyself in
the sight of the Lord
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And He shall lift
you up Higher and higher
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And He shall lift you up
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And He shall lift
you up Higher and higher
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And He shall lift you up
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My God is a rock
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In the weary land
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And He is a shelter
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In the time of storm
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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In a weary land In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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Shelter in a time of storm
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Oh won't you stop and let me
tell you 'bout the Chapter One
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When the Lord
God's work was just begun
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And won't you stop and let me
tell you 'bout the Chapter Two
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When the Lord God's
written His Bible thru
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And won't you stop
and let me tell you
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'Bout the Chapter Three
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When the Lord
God died on Cavalry
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And won't you stop and let me
tell you 'bout the Chapter Four
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He preached the Good News
unto the sick and the poor
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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In a weary land In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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Shelter in a time of storm
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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In a weary land In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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Shelter in a time of storm
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He is a rock
Oh, yes He is a rock
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A shelter in a time of storm
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He in a time of storm
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And let me tell you
'bout the Chapter Five
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When the Lord God
raised the dead alive
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Stop and let me tell
you 'bout the Chapter Six
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When He went to
Jerusalem and healed the sick
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Oh, won't you stop
and let me tell you
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'Bout the Chapter Seven
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When He died and rose
again and went to heaven
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Oh, won't you stop
and let me tell you
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'Bout the Chapter Eight
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When John saw Him
standing at the Golden Gate
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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In a weary land In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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Shelter in a time of storm
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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In a weary land In a weary land
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My God is a rock In a weary land
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Shelter in a time of storm
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My God is a rock
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Oh, yes He is my shelter
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My God is a rock
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Night time when
night falls to sleep
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My God is a rock
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And He is a shelter in a storm
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Stop and let me tell
you 'bout the Chapter Nine
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When the Lord God
changed the water into wine
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And won't you stop let me
tell you 'bout the Chapter Ten
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Saint John saw Him
come into this world again
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My God is a rock
Yes, He is a rock
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My God is a rock
Yes, He is a rock
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My God is a rock
Yes, He is a rock
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Shelter in a time of storm
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My God is a rock
Yes, He is a rock,
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I know He is a rock
Oh, yes He is a rock
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My God is a rock
Yes, He is a rock,
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A shelter in a time of
storm He in a time of storm
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My God is a rock
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In a weary land
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And He's a shelter
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In a time of storm
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He is a rock He is a rock
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My God is a rock
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Beautifully rendered,
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we're off in a
journey with God, New Year.
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I want to pray with you, plunge
into today's Bible teaching.
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Holy Father, Your
handprints are all over us
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because You are the
creator and we're Your creatures
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and Your children,
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and it is good to
bask here in Your presence
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and know that Your
throne is high and lifted up.
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We've sung of Your
sovereignty today, Your majesty,
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and Your holiness,
and your love, and...
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our hearts are full.
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You have a teaching for us
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because it's not enough
for us to commune to You.
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You've got to speak
to us in worship as well.
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This is two way and so
through Holy Scripture today
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please as we
launch a new series,
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let the teaching be clear,
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only Your, only Your
finger prints, dear Father
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and just Your voice deep
with in us, just Your voice.
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We pray together
in Jesus' name. Amen.
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To illustrate to you how
jittery this world has become...
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even over the summer.
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I need to tell
you about a bus ride
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that Karen and I took in
just outside of London, England
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back in July.
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We were over
there for ASI Europe
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and I had a weekend
preaching series to do
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with those business
leaders from across Europe.
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And before the
meetings began that evening
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Karen and I took
a city bus into a--
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a city called Bracknell,
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maybe you've never heard of it
but a nice little English town
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and we got on the bus
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and some rambunctious school
kids got on the bus with us,
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since so I figured that's why
we were hearing this recording.
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Because no sooner had the kids
gotten on the bus then this PA,
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it's just a pre-recorded voice
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speaks out over the
intercom system of the city bus,
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a very proper
English male accent
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and he spoke words
I'd never heard before
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and so I had my bus ticket,
I'm carrying this in my wallet.
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And so I scribbled it down
on the back of this bus ticket
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because the-- the
voice over the PA says,
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this bus is under
attack, please dial 999.
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Now 999 is their equivalent of
our 911, our emergency number.
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This bus is under attack, it
kept repeating please dial 999.
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And I'm looking
around to everybody,
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it looks fairly
normal to people on this bus.
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This bus is under
attack, please dial 999.
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As we are now
driving down the road,
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I'm realizing that the
people outside of the bus
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are hearing the same recording.
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And the poor bus
driver, he is pounding the dash
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trying to get this
pre-recorded message off.
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Because it's
somehow accidentally got on.
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Now, guys, we laugh
but let me tell what,
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I never knew this before
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but just a year
ago when we were there,
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in fact they had a minute
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Big Ben told at
noon the next day
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one minute of silence
across the United Kingdom
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because of the terror
attacks exactly a year earlier
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on the double-decker bus,
you remember it in the subway.
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So yeah, we
laughs, well, come on,
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they now have all
their city buses equipped
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so that in a moment of emergency
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that driver can reach
over and just push this button
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and he can alert the
whole world around the bus,
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we are under
attack somebody call 999.
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We got off that bus, by the
way I took a picture of the bus,
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I want you to see it and it's
a beautiful little English bus.
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It's advertising a movie on
the back entitled Spellbreaker.
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I thought boy
that's 'cause that's what--
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that's what that bus
was, it broke the spell.
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Can you imagine,
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city bus is now
equipped for terrorism attacks?
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The driver said as we're
getting off the bus, he said,
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I saw three people
pull up their cell phones
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and dialed 999.
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He says, it's a wonder
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the police haven't found us yet.
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What's the point,
ladies and gentlemen?
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I tell you what the point
is. The point is very simple.
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Given the events of the
last few weeks and months
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on this planet,
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we are living in a civilization
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where 999 or 911 has become
the operative number anymore.
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Coincidently just
days after we were there,
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Scotland Yard
arrested 20 English terrorists
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because of an alleged plot
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to blow up 10
transatlantic flights
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from England to
the United States.
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Days later the Israeli
Hezbollah war breaks out.
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I'm telling you what,
after just this summer
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you may as well
re-record that message.
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This world is under
attack, please dial 999.
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We're starting
to hear them, folks.
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We are starting to hear
them, rumors from the east.
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We launch a
brand new series today
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and with that title
"Rumors from the East."
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They're growing
louder and louder
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and in this series
not coincidentally,
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not coincidentally tie to
my friend Doug Batchelor's
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most amazing prophecies
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that begins two
weeks from last night.
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Doug and I are both moving
into prophecy this semester,
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you know why?
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Because as true
preachers of the Bible,
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we've come to recognize and
I'm gonna blame us baby boomers,
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don't you feel
like I'm blaming you.
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It is not your fault
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but those of us
who are baby boomers
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and who have
children, it's our fault.
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We got so burn with prophecy,
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so tired of hearing
prophecy being preach
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that as a defensive mechanism,
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we baby boomers have
backed off and we've now raised,
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I'm sorry but we've raised now
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a prophetically
illiterate generation
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in our community of
faith, prophetically illiterate.
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Most of you don't know
diddly-squat about prophecy.
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It's true, you don't 'cause
nobody had spent time with you.
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So Doug's coming two
weeks, nine nights in a row,
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you gonna, you'll
never be the same again
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because of that Bible teaching.
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And I hope that
this little series
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will take us only half
way through this semester
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book ended on either
side of Doug Batchelor
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will be helpful for you as well.
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We're gonna go today
for example to a prophecy,
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most of you have never
read this chapter in he Bible,
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we'll read the
chapter together today.
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The Book of Daniel,
open your Bible please
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to the Book of
Daniel Chapter 10.
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Daniel Chapter 10, this
will be obscure prophecies
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that we go to by the
way because some of you--
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some of you wise and
old veterans are saying,
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there is nothing in this for me.
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We're gonna go to
prophecies you have been to.
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We're gonna go
deep into the Bible.
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It's time for new generation to
reclaim its prophetic heritage.
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Amen.
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You're the generation
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and you've never
read Daniel 10 before,
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so today you're
gonna read it in church.
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I'm gonna be in the
New King James Version
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which incidentally
will be the version
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that my friend Doug will be in,
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Pastor Doug will be
in the New King James.
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That's the pew
Bibles are New King James,
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I want to invite you
to select a translation,
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doesn't matter to
me which one you pick.
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You can pick the
New International,
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I love that one,
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but pick a Bible that you're
now gonna begin to mark up.
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Your Bible is going to change,
its appearance will change.
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You gonna get study guides
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for all our
Sabbath morning teachings
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and Doug will
have handouts as well.
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Bring your same-- the same
old Bible that you are used to
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and let that be
the one that you that--
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that you go to in
this teaching time.
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So I'm gonna be
in the New King James
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for this entire teaching series.
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I think on the balance,
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it's gonna be the most
effective translation for us.
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Daniel Chapter
10 page number if--
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if you didn't bring your Bible,
we'll put it on the screen
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but please don't take
the screen's word for it,
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I want you to read
it from your pew Bible
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and that would be page 604,
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pull your Pew
Bible out, page 604.
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Everybody's got a Bible today.
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Daniel 10:1 "In the
third year of Cyrus..."
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Everybody turn to Cyrus
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"Cyrus king of Persia a
message was revealed to Daniel,
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whose name was
called Belteshazzar."
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How do you like that?
That boy has two names.
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Do you know why
he has two names?
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Because he is a
captive that's why.
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He got the second name
for being taken into exile.
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I mean, come on, guys,
those of you that are freshmen
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because Daniel was 18
we know that Daniel was 18
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at the time of his
arrest in captivity,
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so you try to imagine this,
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the rest of us can plug
into his sandals as well.
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Try to imagine,
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you're just getting
ready to go after collage,
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18 or 19 years of age,
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terrorists rage your hometown
and in the middle of the night
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kidnap you from
out of your own bed.
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Gag you, bound, they bind you,
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toss you in the back of a trunk,
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trunks driven to a truck,
truck is driven to a plane,
00:15:02.77\00:15:06.24
plane flies,
flies who knows where,
00:15:06.27\00:15:08.58
and when it's all
taken off, you discover
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that you are now the
resident of a foreign nation.
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You are given a foreign
name belonging to a foreign God,
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from a foreign religion that
you are now required to attend.
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You are sent to foreign
schools with a foreign language
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in order that you might one
day serve a foreign government.
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Some of you international
students are saying,
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you know what,
that's exactly how it was
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coming to Andrews University.
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That was Daniel, 18 years of age
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Chapter 1, 605 BC
taken into captivity
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70 years later we
come to Daniel 10,
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70 plus 18 he is 88 years of age
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but way back here at
the age of 18 Daniel said,
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I maybe a captive but I'm
not gonna serve my captor's God,
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I will always belong
to the God of Israel.
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Amen.
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The God of the redeemer,
the God of the creator,
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the God who is the God,
Almighty God of the universe.
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But you think about it,
guys, 70 interminable years.
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You never gonna see
your mom and dad again,
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never gonna see
mom and dad again,
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be like you could never go home,
00:16:21.80\00:16:22.83
you're here at Andrews,
you'll never go home again.
00:16:22.86\00:16:25.59
Never see your
own bedroom again,
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never see your baseball
card collection again, never.
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70 years you're gone,
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you are now 88 years
of age, that's Daniel.
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And by the way
Daniel's name 'God is my judge'
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that's what it
means in the Hebrew.
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Go ahead and call Belteshazzar,
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named after Bel
the Babylonian God.
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You may call me after your God,
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but I have a name
and my God is my judge.
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Every time Daniel
whispered his name to himself
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because nobody
else called it that way.
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He would whisper
but I'm Daniel, God,
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El the God is my
judge, he never forgot.
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Daniel 10:1 "In the third
year of Cyrus king of Persia
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a message was
revealed to Daniel,
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whose name was
called Belteshazzar.
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The message was true, but
the appointed time was long
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and he understood the message,
00:17:12.95\00:17:14.43
and had
understanding of the vision."
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Daniel is about to receive
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the most comprehensive
and detailed prophecy
00:17:21.36\00:17:24.61
recorded anywhere in scripture,
00:17:24.64\00:17:26.60
it's not just Daniel 10,
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it's also Daniel
11, it's also 12,
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it's the longest
in the whole Bible.
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It will be his final prophecy.
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It's the last prophecy,
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he will write
before he dies of old age.
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This is it. Do you know
what the prophecy is about?
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Verse 1 that we
just read is actually
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a one sentence summarization
of this long prophecy
00:17:44.68\00:17:49.33
but I must tell you
00:17:49.36\00:17:50.39
here we just started
with the New King James,
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the NIV actually more
accurately renders this verse
00:17:51.69\00:17:54.61
and so I want to put
the NIV on the screen.
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One sentence summary of
this longest of all prophecies
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"Its message was
true and it concerned"
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say it with me
"It concerned a" what?
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"A great war."
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In fact that
summation is so critical,
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I wish you'd write it down.
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Take out your study guide.
00:18:08.75\00:18:09.78
You have one in your
worship bulletin this morning.
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By the way do you like
the new worship bulletins?
00:18:11.91\00:18:14.31
I hope you get to like them.
00:18:14.34\00:18:15.95
Do you have any suggestions,
00:18:15.98\00:18:17.01
you know, we gave
you an email address,
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so you send us, you let
us-- let us hear from you.
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Open up your worship bulletin,
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there is a
brand new study guide.
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Now look at it, a bunch of
you came in with one bulletin
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so that means the
ushers know what to do.
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Hold your hand up
because there is some--
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there are some key teachings
here that you must get.
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Hold your hand up.
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We'll make sure you get it
and while they're doing that,
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those of you are watching
on television right now,
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let me put our
website on the screen.
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And you can go and get the
same the identical study guide
00:18:39.86\00:18:42.70
www.pmchurch.tv.
00:18:42.73\00:18:46.49
You see it there on the
screen. Go to that website.
00:18:46.52\00:18:48.69
If you're watching a
DVD, the neat thing is
00:18:48.72\00:18:50.52
you can just put your
DDV on pause right now,
00:18:50.55\00:18:52.44
lock that
website on your screen,
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go to your
computer and go to the web
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and download the study guide.
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You will have the
identical study guide as we do.
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I mean you'll have the
answers even at the bottom.
00:19:01.55\00:19:03.87
And so that's all there for you.
00:19:03.90\00:19:05.75
We'll give you
moment to do that.
00:19:05.78\00:19:07.48
Hold your hand
up in the balcony.
00:19:07.51\00:19:08.74
I want to make sure
everybody gets today's teaching.
00:19:08.77\00:19:11.92
As we launch this new
series "Rumors from the East."
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And by the way those
of you going to the web,
00:19:14.34\00:19:15.83
that's what you got to go for.
00:19:15.86\00:19:16.89
You look for the
series "Rumors from the East."
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This is part 1,
Rumors from the East, part 1,
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click on there, and
you get your study guide.
00:19:21.96\00:19:24.14
All right let's
fill it in. Study Guide--
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right there at the top of
the study guide you see it.
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Now, I'm gonna get mine
here, all right there it is,
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fill it in please Daniel 10,
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you have to
write in the number 10.
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"Daniel 10 is the introduction
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to the longest and
most comprehensive prophecy
00:19:36.63\00:19:39.69
in all
scripture, all the Bible."
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Jot that down
please, keep your pen moving.
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It is summarized. Daniel 10 is
summarized with this sentence.
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"Its message was true
and concerned a great war."
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Daniel 10:1 NIV,
write in the word war.
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Now I love the American
English because what we do is
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we take a noun and
we turn it into a verb,
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we do it all the time
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and so I'm gonna
now use it a noun that--
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that we've all
turned into a verb.
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Google, when
you Google all right
00:20:05.18\00:20:08.00
it sounds dumb, don't it?
00:20:08.03\00:20:09.46
When you Google the
words World War III,
00:20:09.49\00:20:14.62
go to your web and do that,
00:20:14.65\00:20:17.03
you will be as
astounded as I was
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to discover how often
those words World War III
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are now appearing
on the lips of the--
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the talking heads, the
political commentators,
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you know, politicians,
00:20:29.36\00:20:32.06
just this last week,
it's in your study guide,
00:20:32.09\00:20:33.87
just this last week the what's--
00:20:33.90\00:20:36.03
what's this called
the Angus Reid Global Scan
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released a poll.
00:20:38.07\00:20:39.50
Get this.
00:20:39.53\00:20:40.89
42% of American
respondents think
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humanity is headed
towards World War III,
00:20:43.77\00:20:47.90
and 20% believe
it has already begun.
00:20:47.93\00:20:52.01
Isn't that amazing?
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Just as a result of this summer,
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rumors from the east.
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And I don't know
what you're thinking,
00:20:57.38\00:20:58.41
when you think of those rumors
for the east, you're saying,
00:20:58.44\00:21:00.13
oh, come on, Dwight, what
it's gonna be, Iran today,
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Iraq next Sabbath,
Israel the following Sabbath,
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Islam the fourth those are
four great I's, you are right.
00:21:06.05\00:21:09.69
And I tell you what?
00:21:09.72\00:21:11.83
A media fed public
is developing anxiety
00:21:11.86\00:21:15.31
over those four great I's
Israel, Iran, Iraq and Islam.
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But I need to tell you, I
need be really upfront with you,
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these rumors that
we are now hearing,
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growing louder and louder
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straight out of
ancient prophecy.
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These rumors do not
have to do with the four I's
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of our preoccupation today.
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No, no, no, no, no it's gonna
come from another direction,
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that's all a distraction,
that's all a distraction.
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Look at World War III
may come, I have no idea,
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but the rumors from the east
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are not about
World War III either.
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Another set of rumors
in the midst of all of this
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that we have to
begin to hear it clearly.
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All right, let's go to
verse 2 so in those days, okay,
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third year of
Cyrus and this is verse 2
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"In those days I, Daniel,
was mourning three full weeks."
00:22:01.78\00:22:06.67
What did he do during
those three full weeks,
00:22:06.70\00:22:08.70
verse 3 "I ate no pleasant food,
00:22:08.73\00:22:11.14
no meat or wine
came into my mouth,
00:22:11.17\00:22:13.30
nor did I anoint myself at all,
00:22:13.33\00:22:15.37
till three whole
weeks were fulfilled."
00:22:15.40\00:22:20.64
What's happening here?
00:22:20.67\00:22:21.70
Daniel has heard
some rumors from the west,
00:22:21.73\00:22:24.47
because you
see, he is in Babylon
00:22:24.50\00:22:26.12
and to the west of
Babylon is... home Jerusalem.
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Now Daniel on
purposely puts the date
00:22:32.24\00:22:34.35
the third year of Cyrus the king
00:22:34.38\00:22:36.19
so that we know that he knows
00:22:36.22\00:22:38.73
that there is
trouble brewing at home.
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Because Daniel watched as
this mighty Medo-Persian king
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pronounces and heed
it and says that handful,
00:22:44.30\00:22:46.92
that rag tag band of
exiles you may go back,
00:22:46.95\00:22:49.95
you may begin to
rebuild your city.
00:22:49.98\00:22:53.59
But it's gone bad
for that rag tag band
00:22:53.62\00:22:57.20
and Daniel is worried
sick over rumors from the west,
00:22:57.23\00:23:02.08
and so he sets to praying.
00:23:02.11\00:23:04.37
He sets out to do
what Daniel does best
00:23:04.40\00:23:06.52
whenever he runs into a crisis.
00:23:06.55\00:23:07.97
Write this down please
00:23:08.00\00:23:09.04
when Daniel is
faced with the crisis,
00:23:09.07\00:23:10.96
he goes to his knees
over and over and over again
00:23:10.99\00:23:15.08
in the Book of Daniel.
00:23:15.11\00:23:16.14
He goes to his knees.
In fact jot this down.
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I kind of liked how this
look like a side of a pyramid.
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You can only do
that in English language,
00:23:22.60\00:23:24.03
but jot this
down, crisis chapter--
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Daniel Chapter 1
crisis over a diet.
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Write that down,
crisis over morality,
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concerning the body temple.
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I like that
little expression we saw
00:23:32.45\00:23:34.67
a moment ago on the sanctuary.
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When I think of sanctuary
I think of my body temple.
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It's not a bad
thing to think about.
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Crisis over diet,
Daniel goes to his knees.
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Daniel 2, crisis over a dream.
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Nebuchadnezzar's
dream big crisis.
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You're gonna be dead if
you don't tell me the dream.
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Crisis 3 is
from Daniel Chapter 6
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that's over a decree, remember?
00:23:52.04\00:23:54.36
The decree for 30 days,
00:23:54.39\00:23:56.03
30 days nobody prays
to anybody but the king.
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Daniel kneels down
and praised his God
00:23:59.68\00:24:01.23
still three times a day.
00:24:01.26\00:24:03.18
Crisis number 4
Daniel Chapter 9,
00:24:03.21\00:24:05.08
it's crisis over a decision.
00:24:05.11\00:24:06.81
God, what are
You going to deicide
00:24:06.84\00:24:08.41
about the holy people, Israel?
00:24:08.44\00:24:11.31
And crisis number
5, we just read it.
00:24:11.34\00:24:13.47
It's crisis over a difficulty.
00:24:13.50\00:24:15.01
Some of you are gonna
have difficulty back at home
00:24:15.04\00:24:17.26
a long ways away from where
you are in this school year,
00:24:17.29\00:24:19.90
its' gonna be a crisis for you.
00:24:19.93\00:24:21.51
Stuff is happening in
your parents marriage,
00:24:21.54\00:24:23.63
stuff is happening back at home
00:24:23.66\00:24:25.07
and it's gonna be a
crisis for you here,
00:24:25.10\00:24:26.78
you're gonna have
to do like Daniel did.
00:24:26.81\00:24:28.95
You got to go to your knees.
00:24:28.98\00:24:30.11
When you come to a
crisis, you go to your knees.
00:24:30.14\00:24:32.27
Because there are times
00:24:32.30\00:24:33.42
when the only potent
recourse for you and me
00:24:33.45\00:24:36.54
is to fast and pray.
00:24:36.57\00:24:39.07
Some of you right now
are in a private crisis,
00:24:39.10\00:24:41.35
can you believe this?
00:24:41.38\00:24:42.41
The year is just days old
00:24:42.44\00:24:43.99
and you're already
in a private crisis.
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Not all of you are students.
00:24:47.49\00:24:49.45
Some of you have a private
crisis going on right now.
00:24:49.48\00:24:52.02
Nobody knows about
it but you and God,
00:24:52.05\00:24:53.89
maybe nobody needs to
know about it but you and God,
00:24:53.92\00:24:55.79
but that
doesn't matter you know.
00:24:55.82\00:24:57.60
I just want to
appeal to you, my friend,
00:24:57.63\00:24:59.26
as I appeal to myself,
00:24:59.29\00:25:01.13
I hope we are not of
this self sufficient mindset
00:25:01.16\00:25:04.00
that says, huh, you know what?
00:25:04.03\00:25:05.65
God already
knows about my trouble,
00:25:05.68\00:25:07.15
I'm not gonna get all
00:25:07.18\00:25:08.22
twitter painted in
prayer over this thing,
00:25:08.25\00:25:09.99
I'll just let Him handle it.
00:25:10.02\00:25:11.54
No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no
00:25:11.57\00:25:14.55
if it's a crisis, it's a crisis.
00:25:14.58\00:25:17.32
And if it's important to
you, it's important to God.
00:25:17.35\00:25:19.68
You better talk to God
earnestly about that crisis,
00:25:19.71\00:25:23.48
and so Daniel does.
00:25:23.51\00:25:25.37
And he goes to his knees,
00:25:25.40\00:25:26.43
in fact here's
the lesson to Daniel
00:25:26.46\00:25:27.60
whether you're 18 or 88
or somewhere in between,
00:25:27.63\00:25:29.70
the lesson of Daniel is
when life gets in your face,
00:25:29.73\00:25:32.58
you get on your knees.
00:25:32.61\00:25:34.00
That's the lesson.
00:25:34.03\00:25:35.43
Life gets in your
face, you get on your knees.
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Humble your heart
before God, admit to Him,
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You know what God, I can't
pull myself out of this one.
00:25:42.51\00:25:45.52
There is no way I can do
it please help me right now.
00:25:45.55\00:25:48.88
By the way that's why here
in the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:25:48.91\00:25:50.95
where I'm pointing
that banner right there,
00:25:50.98\00:25:52.67
forward on our knees because
our mission statement begins
00:25:52.70\00:25:55.29
with the recognition that
only God is able to help us
00:25:55.32\00:25:59.10
fulfill the greatest dream
and vision and passion of life.
00:25:59.13\00:26:02.74
Forward on our knees it begins.
00:26:02.77\00:26:05.27
And by the way please
note this, jot this down.
00:26:05.30\00:26:08.23
You can
practice a modified fast,
00:26:08.26\00:26:11.12
a modified fast
just like Daniel did.
00:26:11.15\00:26:13.72
Write in the word modified
00:26:13.75\00:26:14.78
because did you
notice from reading verse 3,
00:26:14.81\00:26:16.66
he did not resort to
total abstinence from food.
00:26:16.69\00:26:19.59
He went ahead and kept eating,
00:26:19.62\00:26:20.68
it says here I
left off pleasant food.
00:26:20.71\00:26:23.22
What's pleasant food?
That would be deserts.
00:26:23.25\00:26:27.25
Sorry, you know,
it's not a bad idea
00:26:27.28\00:26:29.74
once in a while
just cut off deserts,
00:26:29.77\00:26:31.17
you don't need all sugar
pumping through your system.
00:26:31.20\00:26:34.33
We got a new ice cream,
00:26:34.36\00:26:35.39
we got a new ice cream place
in town since you are gone,
00:26:35.42\00:26:37.02
do you know where is that?
00:26:37.05\00:26:38.10
Don't you go, I'm
gonna be driving around there
00:26:38.13\00:26:39.54
to seeing who is there.
00:26:39.57\00:26:42.90
Actually not, looking
forward to get in there
00:26:42.93\00:26:44.60
maybe over this holiday weekend.
00:26:44.63\00:26:49.95
But anyway I just ruined
out whole point, didn't I?
00:26:49.98\00:26:54.38
So anyway he's
fasting from pleasant food.
00:26:54.41\00:26:56.13
You know, some of us could just
yeah, just lay off for a while.
00:26:56.16\00:26:59.41
No, he didn't quit eating.
00:26:59.44\00:27:00.47
He said, no, I'm gonna leave off
00:27:00.50\00:27:02.03
all that sugar content, why?
00:27:02.06\00:27:03.74
I have to have a clear mind,
00:27:03.77\00:27:05.12
and it also says, he
fasted from meat and wine.
00:27:05.15\00:27:08.47
Now some scholars believe
including my friend Jack Tocan
00:27:08.50\00:27:11.38
that in fact what Daniel saying
is I didn't take the Paschal,
00:27:11.41\00:27:14.18
the Passover Lamb,
00:27:14.21\00:27:15.33
and I didn't drink the
four cups of obligatory wine,
00:27:15.36\00:27:18.06
I is-- because we
know from the date
00:27:18.09\00:27:19.75
it's the spring Passover,
00:27:19.78\00:27:21.83
probably he is going on during
the three weeks but he says,
00:27:21.86\00:27:23.97
I'm so earnest God over this,
00:27:24.00\00:27:26.04
I'm not even gonna
celebrate the Passover.
00:27:26.07\00:27:27.69
Who feels like celebrating now?
00:27:27.72\00:27:29.59
He will hold
himself from the Passover
00:27:29.62\00:27:31.57
and one more thing it says here.
00:27:31.60\00:27:33.02
He did not anoint himself
00:27:33.05\00:27:34.59
which meant he did not
take the equivalent of a bath
00:27:34.62\00:27:37.61
which nobody by the way
is recommending for you.
00:27:37.64\00:27:41.60
Please we got to
worship with you.
00:27:41.63\00:27:43.95
Three weeks and no bath, please.
00:27:43.98\00:27:46.62
I won't even sing in the choir
00:27:46.65\00:27:47.70
if you haven't
taken a bath again.
00:27:47.73\00:27:50.58
Point is Jesus says,
00:27:50.61\00:27:51.64
Jesus comes along with
the Sermon on the Mount,
00:27:51.67\00:27:53.11
Mathew 6:17 and Jesus says,
00:27:53.14\00:27:54.68
I want to tell you
the truth about fasting,
00:27:54.71\00:27:56.55
He says, when
you fast don't stop,
00:27:56.58\00:27:58.89
you just go ahead and anoint,
00:27:58.92\00:28:00.56
wash your face
and anoint your head.
00:28:00.59\00:28:02.52
Put on your cologne.
00:28:02.55\00:28:04.02
Don't walk around
like a human wreck
00:28:04.05\00:28:06.58
when you're fasting.
00:28:06.61\00:28:08.02
Just look normal, look normal.
00:28:08.05\00:28:11.23
You don't have to
do like Daniel did.
00:28:11.26\00:28:13.46
But Daniel said, I'm so--
00:28:13.49\00:28:15.12
Daniel did, Daniel did fasting
00:28:15.15\00:28:16.72
in order to get God's attention.
00:28:16.75\00:28:17.91
God doesn't need
fasting to get His attention,
00:28:17.94\00:28:19.44
He already has His eye--
00:28:19.47\00:28:20.52
His eyes on the
sparrow, His eyes on you.
00:28:20.55\00:28:22.36
He doesn't need
fasting to get your attention,
00:28:22.39\00:28:24.00
to for you to get His attention.
00:28:24.03\00:28:26.04
Daniel did it from
mental acuity sake,
00:28:26.07\00:28:28.48
I have to think
clearly as I pray to You
00:28:28.51\00:28:31.25
so an 88 year old man went
three weeks on a modified fast,
00:28:31.28\00:28:34.43
88 years old.
00:28:34.46\00:28:35.83
Oh, I notice how God honors
at the end of those three weeks.
00:28:39.05\00:28:42.45
Look at this, this is,
we'll pick it up in verse 4.
00:28:42.48\00:28:45.05
"Now on the twenty-fourth
day of the first month..."
00:28:45.08\00:28:47.02
Nisan spring,
00:28:47.05\00:28:48.34
"As I was by the
side of that great river,
00:28:48.37\00:28:50.14
that is, the Tigris."
00:28:50.17\00:28:51.21
50 miles south of the Euphrates,
00:28:51.24\00:28:53.08
south of Babylon
is the Tigris River.
00:28:53.11\00:28:55.50
"I lifted up my eyes, verse
5, and I looked, and behold,
00:28:55.53\00:28:57.86
a certain man clothed in linen."
00:28:57.89\00:29:00.37
White linen.
00:29:00.40\00:29:01.43
A moment ago we sang
to Jesus our high priest,
00:29:01.46\00:29:03.17
you remember that song?
00:29:03.20\00:29:04.24
He was dressed in white linen.
00:29:04.27\00:29:05.74
This is the garb
of the high priest,
00:29:05.77\00:29:08.30
white, pure white.
00:29:08.33\00:29:10.74
I see this man in white
linen, not just any old linen
00:29:10.77\00:29:14.20
"Whose waist is
girded with gold of Uphaz!"
00:29:14.23\00:29:18.75
And verse 6 says,
"His body was like beryl,"
00:29:18.78\00:29:20.68
which is a yellowish hue.
00:29:20.71\00:29:22.19
"His body was like beryl,
00:29:22.22\00:29:23.25
his face like the
appearance of lightning,
00:29:23.28\00:29:24.54
his eyes like torches of fire,
00:29:24.57\00:29:25.79
his arms and feet like
burnished bronze in color,
00:29:25.82\00:29:27.88
and the sound of his words
like the voice of a multitude.
00:29:27.91\00:29:30.24
And I, Daniel,
alone saw the vision,
00:29:30.27\00:29:32.38
for the men who were with
me did not see the vision,
00:29:32.41\00:29:34.37
but a great
terror fell upon them,
00:29:34.40\00:29:35.81
so that they fled
to hide themselves."
00:29:35.84\00:29:37.53
Therefore verse 8,
00:29:37.56\00:29:38.59
"I was left alone when
I saw this great vision,
00:29:38.62\00:29:41.34
and no strength remained in me,
00:29:41.37\00:29:43.73
for my vigor was
turned to frailty in me,
00:29:43.76\00:29:46.06
and I retained no strength."
00:29:46.09\00:29:47.48
And finally 9, "Yet I
heard the sound of his words,
00:29:47.51\00:29:50.91
and while I heard
the sound of his words
00:29:50.94\00:29:53.28
I was in a deep
sleep on my face,
00:29:53.31\00:29:57.31
with my face to the ground."
00:29:57.34\00:29:58.92
Write it down.
00:29:58.95\00:29:59.98
Daniel has just been granted a
vision of Almighty God Himself.
00:30:00.01\00:30:05.00
He has seen God
and he says, I'm dead.
00:30:05.03\00:30:09.67
How do we know?
00:30:09.70\00:30:10.74
Keep your pen moving,
00:30:10.77\00:30:11.85
"Because the accounts of
Ezekiel 1 and Revelation 1
00:30:11.88\00:30:15.55
offer the very same portrayal."
00:30:15.58\00:30:18.09
Three theophanies an old word
00:30:18.12\00:30:20.05
that means the
manifestation of God,
00:30:20.08\00:30:21.91
three appearances
00:30:21.94\00:30:23.11
and all three describe
this being the same way.
00:30:23.14\00:30:28.28
You can look up Ezekiel
1 some time in your leisure
00:30:28.31\00:30:30.62
but right now I want to show you
00:30:30.65\00:30:32.11
this is why I wanted to make
sure you get the study guide,
00:30:32.14\00:30:33.86
this is fascinating.
00:30:33.89\00:30:35.30
I want to share with
you some stunning parallels
00:30:35.33\00:30:37.66
between Daniel the
prophet in Daniel 10
00:30:37.69\00:30:39.82
and John the
Revelator in Revelation 1,
00:30:39.85\00:30:42.40
stunning parallels.
00:30:42.43\00:30:43.64
Keep your pen moving.
00:30:43.67\00:30:44.70
Seven of them, here we go.
00:30:44.73\00:30:46.30
Parallel number one.
00:30:46.33\00:30:47.79
Both men are in their late 80s.
00:30:47.82\00:30:50.81
Isn't that amazing?
00:30:50.84\00:30:52.02
Both men late 80s,
00:30:52.05\00:30:53.77
perhaps early 90s for
John, we're not sure with him,
00:30:53.80\00:30:56.45
Daniel we know 18
at the age of exile.
00:30:56.48\00:30:59.14
Both men are in their late 80s.
00:30:59.17\00:31:00.20
Number two, both are in exile.
00:31:00.23\00:31:02.01
Both of them Patmos penal colony
00:31:02.04\00:31:05.06
and Babylon city of exile.
00:31:05.09\00:31:08.38
Number three, both
are beside the water,
00:31:08.41\00:31:11.12
the blue green
agency for John at Patmos
00:31:11.15\00:31:13.78
and then the
roaring Tigris for Daniel.
00:31:13.81\00:31:16.88
Number four, most of you
did not know this at all.
00:31:16.91\00:31:20.72
Most of you did not know this.
00:31:20.75\00:31:21.87
Number four, both
received their vision
00:31:21.90\00:31:23.73
on the seventh day Sabbath.
00:31:23.76\00:31:25.99
Seventh day Sabbath,
00:31:26.02\00:31:27.45
both visions of God
come on the Sabbath.
00:31:27.48\00:31:29.94
You say prove it to me.
00:31:29.97\00:31:31.19
I'm glad you ask, here we go.
00:31:31.22\00:31:32.46
In Daniel 10:2, I put
it up again Daniel 10:2.
00:31:34.22\00:31:37.09
"In those days I, Daniel,
was mourning three full weeks."
00:31:37.12\00:31:40.58
The Hebrew literally
reads three weeks of days.
00:31:40.61\00:31:44.74
In other words it's at the
ends of a three week cycle,
00:31:44.77\00:31:48.05
it has to be the
seventh day Sabbath,
00:31:48.08\00:31:50.22
it has to be
according to the Hebrew.
00:31:50.25\00:31:52.33
Now what day was
John worshiping on
00:31:52.36\00:31:54.90
when he received his vision?
00:31:54.93\00:31:55.96
Let's put Revelation
1:10 what day Revelation 1:10
00:31:55.99\00:32:00.20
"I was in the
Spirit on the Lord's Day,
00:32:00.23\00:32:05.20
and I heard behind me a
loud voice, as of a trumpet."
00:32:05.23\00:32:08.55
So here is the question.
00:32:08.58\00:32:09.88
John says I was in the
spirit on the Lord's Day.
00:32:09.91\00:32:11.59
Question, what
day is the Lord's,
00:32:11.62\00:32:14.21
let's put it up now,
00:32:14.24\00:32:15.29
guys, up there in
the booth, there you go.
00:32:15.32\00:32:16.81
What day is the Lord's Day?
00:32:16.84\00:32:19.23
The Bible is clear only one
day of the week, watch this.
00:32:19.26\00:32:21.99
You have it in your
study guide, Mark 2:28.
00:32:22.02\00:32:23.78
Let's put that
verse on the screen.
00:32:23.81\00:32:24.98
Jesus speaking,
00:32:25.01\00:32:26.05
"Therefore the Son of
Man is Lord of..." What day?
00:32:26.08\00:32:27.80
What day?
00:32:27.83\00:32:28.86
Say it to me "Is
Lord of the Sabbath day."
00:32:28.89\00:32:31.37
So Mark 2:28 is clear.
00:32:31.40\00:32:34.35
The Sabbath is the Lord's Day.
00:32:34.38\00:32:35.63
Let's see if the
Old Testament agrees,
00:32:35.66\00:32:36.76
Isaiah 58:13,
take a look at this.
00:32:36.79\00:32:39.04
God speaking, "If
you turn away your foot--
00:32:39.07\00:32:41.60
turn away your
foot from the Sabbath,
00:32:41.63\00:32:43.73
From doing your
pleasure on..." whose day?
00:32:43.76\00:32:46.81
"My holy day, And you
call the Sabbath a delight,
00:32:46.84\00:32:49.96
The holy day of... " Of whom?
00:32:49.99\00:32:52.46
"Of the Lord."
00:32:52.49\00:32:53.54
The Lord's day,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:32:53.57\00:32:55.85
Unequivocally
it's clear in scripture
00:32:55.88\00:32:58.03
when the Bible
calls it the Lord's Day,
00:32:58.06\00:33:00.29
it's the Sabbath Day,
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:33:00.32\00:33:03.33
Both John and Daniel received
their vision on the Sabbath.
00:33:03.36\00:33:08.95
Here comes parallel number five,
00:33:08.98\00:33:10.47
Both are visited
personally by Christ.
00:33:10.50\00:33:14.17
Write that down.
00:33:14.20\00:33:16.17
The descriptions of
Daniel 10 and Revelation 1
00:33:16.20\00:33:18.25
are too similar.
00:33:18.28\00:33:19.72
It' the same Christ
that shows up to His
00:33:19.75\00:33:22.36
two dear, elderly friends.
00:33:22.39\00:33:27.64
That's good news by the way for
this Andrews University Church,
00:33:27.67\00:33:30.45
the Pioneer Memorial Church
00:33:30.48\00:33:31.65
that very obviously
is focused on the young.
00:33:31.68\00:33:35.09
I want you, who are young adults
00:33:35.12\00:33:36.47
to listen very carefully please.
00:33:36.50\00:33:38.42
I want you to look around,
look around you right now.
00:33:38.45\00:33:40.98
The reason you are
surrounded by people of all ages
00:33:41.01\00:33:44.70
is because that is
an intentional strategy
00:33:44.73\00:33:46.93
to keep you immersed in a
real life community of faith.
00:33:46.96\00:33:50.92
Now we have other universities
00:33:50.95\00:33:53.06
that will take
all the young adults
00:33:53.09\00:33:54.42
and put them in a corner
00:33:54.45\00:33:55.48
somewhere else
away from the church,
00:33:55.51\00:33:57.12
you just worship by yourself,
you sing your own songs,
00:33:57.15\00:33:59.48
you pray to your own God
00:33:59.51\00:34:00.62
and we'll go ahead
and have church over here.
00:34:00.65\00:34:02.32
But we have refused to subscribe
00:34:02.35\00:34:04.96
to that kind of mentality.
00:34:04.99\00:34:06.48
We want the entire
community immersed together
00:34:06.51\00:34:11.22
because when you
leave this place,
00:34:11.25\00:34:12.99
there will be no
young adults choir
00:34:13.02\00:34:14.91
at the front of that 60
member church, trust me.
00:34:14.94\00:34:19.43
It's you five elderly ladies...
00:34:19.46\00:34:22.91
Now they're wonderful
people wherever you go,
00:34:27.81\00:34:30.18
but the point is that's
why we're all here together.
00:34:30.21\00:34:34.02
And you know why?
00:34:34.05\00:34:35.23
The truth is, the older you get,
00:34:35.26\00:34:37.80
the older you get, the
closer you grow to Jesus.
00:34:37.83\00:34:43.31
That's why we're
keeping you around old people.
00:34:43.34\00:34:48.27
Because the older you get,
the closer you get to Jesus
00:34:48.30\00:34:52.57
and you need to be around
people who are close to Jesus.
00:34:52.60\00:34:56.40
Amen.
00:34:56.43\00:34:57.47
Hallelujah.
00:34:57.50\00:34:59.11
That's why we
don't segregate you here.
00:34:59.14\00:35:01.29
By the way same
for house of prayer.
00:35:01.32\00:35:03.48
When we gather
here in house of prayer,
00:35:03.51\00:35:04.54
we don't have a
prayer meeting for the young
00:35:04.57\00:35:05.77
and prayer meeting for the old.
00:35:05.80\00:35:07.76
When we gather
on Wednesday nights
00:35:07.79\00:35:08.98
it's everybody to pray,
00:35:09.01\00:35:10.26
everybody for a few
minutes of Bible study,
00:35:10.29\00:35:12.89
everybody together.
00:35:12.92\00:35:14.08
Why? Because we are
in the journey together.
00:35:14.11\00:35:16.52
By the way this Wednesday night,
00:35:16.55\00:35:17.69
we're starting a brand
new house of prayer series,
00:35:17.72\00:35:19.31
brand new.
00:35:19.34\00:35:20.37
Get in ready for Doug.
00:35:20.40\00:35:21.43
We're calling this
series finding Jesus in D&R.
00:35:21.46\00:35:24.19
D&R that would mean
Daniel and Revelation.
00:35:24.22\00:35:28.91
Finding Jesus
because you know what?
00:35:28.94\00:35:31.20
A little lady
about a century ago
00:35:31.23\00:35:33.09
wrote some very
interesting words.
00:35:33.12\00:35:34.99
She said, when this
particular community of faith
00:35:35.02\00:35:38.34
get serious about
those two books D& R,
00:35:38.37\00:35:40.59
Daniel and Revelation,
00:35:40.62\00:35:41.93
there will arise within
the community a great revival.
00:35:41.96\00:35:46.03
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:35:46.06\00:35:47.73
this world is under
attack, please dial 999.
00:35:47.76\00:35:50.50
It seems to me
00:35:50.53\00:35:51.56
it would be the right
time for a great revival.
00:35:51.59\00:35:53.80
What do you say? Amen.
00:35:53.83\00:35:55.42
So let's get
serious about the book.
00:35:55.45\00:35:57.22
Come and join me
this Wednesday night.
00:35:57.25\00:35:59.16
We'll have you out
of here before 8 o'clock
00:35:59.19\00:36:01.28
a little bit of teaching time.
00:36:01.31\00:36:04.54
All right, okay, back
to the stunning parallels.
00:36:04.57\00:36:06.90
So this is stunning
parallel number six,
00:36:06.93\00:36:09.85
similarities
between Daniel and John,
00:36:09.88\00:36:12.89
both are visited
personally by Christ
00:36:12.92\00:36:14.43
and notice this,
both fall on their faces.
00:36:14.46\00:36:18.69
Identical response, they
fall on their faces before him.
00:36:18.72\00:36:21.75
And finally number seven,
00:36:21.78\00:36:22.81
both hear the
words, do not be afraid.
00:36:22.84\00:36:26.67
You know, I love that.
00:36:26.70\00:36:28.26
Some of you are not certain
00:36:28.29\00:36:29.32
what this New
Year is gonna bring.
00:36:29.35\00:36:30.38
I tell you what, nobody knows
00:36:30.41\00:36:31.44
what it will
bring to the planet.
00:36:31.47\00:36:32.50
We didn't know
about Katrina last year.
00:36:32.53\00:36:33.67
We didn't know about Israel
and Hezbollah this summer.
00:36:33.70\00:36:35.78
We have no idea
what's coming ahead.
00:36:35.81\00:36:37.40
But I love that ammunition.
00:36:37.43\00:36:39.06
You don't have to be
afraid when you've got God.
00:36:39.09\00:36:43.24
Don't be afraid, the
living, the living...
00:36:43.27\00:36:47.45
the living Christ
says, don't be afraid.
00:36:47.48\00:36:51.39
All right moving
to the punch line,
00:36:51.42\00:36:54.02
now here comes the
punch line in verse 13,
00:36:54.05\00:36:55.65
but I got to start with verse 10
00:36:55.68\00:36:56.77
"Suddenly, a hand touched me..."
00:36:56.80\00:36:58.47
Okay, so he is deep
in sleep on the face,
00:36:58.50\00:37:01.02
he is like he is dead and he
is on his face on the ground.
00:37:01.05\00:37:03.56
"A hand touched me, which
made me tremble on my knees
00:37:03.59\00:37:06.55
and on the palms of my hands."
00:37:06.58\00:37:07.62
You can picture
he is on all force.
00:37:07.65\00:37:09.68
And he, this person says to me,
00:37:09.71\00:37:12.53
''O Daniel, man
greatly beloved.''
00:37:12.56\00:37:14.91
The moment we hear
those words we know who it is
00:37:14.94\00:37:17.23
because it's the
language of Gabriel.
00:37:17.26\00:37:19.17
Gabriel has met Daniel
before and he called him,
00:37:19.20\00:37:22.00
you are beloved friend.
00:37:22.03\00:37:23.29
I would like to be
a friend of heaven.
00:37:23.32\00:37:25.29
Wouldn't you like to
be a friend of heaven?
00:37:25.32\00:37:26.47
You are a friend of heaven.
00:37:26.50\00:37:27.86
You start thinking of
yourself as a friend of heaven.
00:37:27.89\00:37:31.28
This my beloved daughter
00:37:31.31\00:37:32.34
and I'm very well please in her.
00:37:32.37\00:37:33.40
This is my beloved son
00:37:33.43\00:37:34.46
and I'm very
well pleased in him.
00:37:34.49\00:37:36.68
Heaven loves you.
00:37:36.71\00:37:38.87
You are not trying to
convince heaven to love you.
00:37:38.90\00:37:40.09
They love you with all
their hearts, you're my beloved.
00:37:40.12\00:37:44.59
O Daniel, Gabriel
says, man greatly beloved.
00:37:44.62\00:37:48.71
From the first day, hold on
now, I jumped ahead, verse 11
00:37:48.74\00:37:51.52
"And he said to me, ''O
Daniel, man greatly beloved,
00:37:51.55\00:37:53.06
understand the
words that I speak to you,
00:37:53.09\00:37:54.83
and stand upright.'"
00:37:54.86\00:37:55.89
Come on boy, get on your feet.
00:37:55.92\00:37:57.16
"For I have now
been sent to you.
00:37:57.19\00:37:58.81
And While he was speaking this
word to me, I stood trembling."
00:37:58.84\00:38:01.96
There with those legs and
then he said to me verse 12,
00:38:01.99\00:38:04.50
"Do not fear, Daniel,
00:38:04.53\00:38:06.19
for from the first day that you
set your heart to understand,
00:38:06.22\00:38:09.64
and to humble
yourself before your God..."
00:38:09.67\00:38:11.58
From the first day
we heard you praying.
00:38:11.61\00:38:13.93
"Your words were heard,
00:38:13.96\00:38:14.99
and I have come
because of your words."
00:38:15.02\00:38:17.46
But Daniel says, but then
why did it take you three weeks.
00:38:17.49\00:38:20.64
I've been
praying for three weeks
00:38:20.67\00:38:22.83
and Gabriel says, I
got to tell you why,
00:38:22.86\00:38:25.11
I got to tell you why
I'm late in getting to you.
00:38:25.14\00:38:28.80
What you're about to read
00:38:28.83\00:38:29.94
is the most dramatic
one sentience revelation
00:38:29.97\00:38:32.65
in the entire
corpus of Holy Scripture
00:38:32.68\00:38:35.45
that pulls the veil side
00:38:35.48\00:38:37.87
and allows us to
stare at the immense war
00:38:37.90\00:38:43.00
between heaven and earth.
00:38:43.03\00:38:44.87
This is the only verse
that does it so dramatically.
00:38:44.90\00:38:48.06
He says, Daniel say, why
won't you hear 21 days ago,
00:38:48.09\00:38:50.90
if you heard me
right at the beginning?
00:38:50.93\00:38:52.07
He says, I got my
reason right here verse 13.
00:38:52.10\00:38:54.26
Here is where we end,
00:38:54.29\00:38:55.56
"But the prince
of the kingdom..."
00:38:55.59\00:38:57.41
I was coming to you.
00:38:57.44\00:38:58.62
"But the prince of
the kingdom of Persia..."
00:38:58.65\00:39:01.02
By the way this is
the prince not the king,
00:39:01.05\00:39:02.66
this is not Cyrus.
00:39:02.69\00:39:04.06
This is somebody
who says Persia is mine.
00:39:04.09\00:39:07.74
By the way
Jesus in John 14 says,
00:39:07.77\00:39:09.62
I need to tell
you about the devil,
00:39:09.65\00:39:10.87
he is called the
prince of this world.
00:39:10.90\00:39:13.34
This is the prince,
this is an evil prince,
00:39:13.37\00:39:16.29
this is a demonic prince,
this is a prince that says,
00:39:16.32\00:39:20.63
Berrien Springs is
mine, I hold this place.
00:39:20.66\00:39:25.85
You come here,
you come through me.
00:39:25.88\00:39:29.42
There is a prince
that was holding Persia.
00:39:29.45\00:39:33.09
You come here,
you come through me.
00:39:33.12\00:39:36.54
And Gabriel who was
on his way to Daniel
00:39:36.57\00:39:38.88
stops and for 21--
watch this for 21 days,
00:39:38.91\00:39:42.55
"But the prince of
the kingdom of Persia
00:39:42.58\00:39:44.29
withstood me twenty-one
days, until finally, Michael,
00:39:44.32\00:39:47.53
one of the chief
princes, came to help me,
00:39:47.56\00:39:49.87
for I had been left alone
with the kings of Persia."
00:39:49.90\00:39:53.91
It says as if Gabriel is
saying, hey, Daniel, Daniel.
00:39:53.94\00:39:55.84
What?
00:39:55.87\00:39:56.90
We heard you
praying three weeks ago
00:39:56.93\00:39:59.00
and I was assigned to
come to you from God--
00:39:59.03\00:40:00.69
to bring God's
response but I couldn't
00:40:00.72\00:40:02.60
because the dark
prince of Persia opposed me,
00:40:02.63\00:40:04.93
he was all over Cyrus the
king and the instructions are
00:40:04.96\00:40:08.14
you got to save
Cyrus whatever you do,
00:40:08.17\00:40:10.98
he is our only
hope to get Israel back.
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.89
And so I had to stay with Cyrus,
00:40:13.92\00:40:17.16
the battle was so
strong, you know, what Daniel?
00:40:17.19\00:40:19.84
I went three weeks, three weeks
00:40:19.87\00:40:22.23
but I could not
win until Michael came.
00:40:22.26\00:40:27.56
And Michael just took over
00:40:27.59\00:40:29.39
which freed me
to come to you boy.
00:40:29.42\00:40:31.95
I got the answer for
you now, isn't that amazing?
00:40:31.98\00:40:35.28
Three weeks, you and I think,
00:40:35.31\00:40:37.19
oh, come on
heaven, are you kidding?
00:40:37.22\00:40:41.30
Are you kidding me?
00:40:41.33\00:40:43.36
For reasons we do not
understand the angelic forces
00:40:43.39\00:40:46.94
that surround this planet 24x7
00:40:46.97\00:40:49.13
and you have a guardian angel
standing right beside you now
00:40:49.16\00:40:51.32
that belongs to
the kingdom of heaven.
00:40:51.35\00:40:52.97
And you have an
angel that tracks you
00:40:53.00\00:40:54.72
like a lion night and day,
00:40:54.75\00:40:56.78
who belongs to the
kingdom of darkness.
00:40:56.81\00:40:58.40
We have two angels
00:40:58.43\00:41:00.46
always battling for
our loyalty and our love.
00:41:00.49\00:41:07.25
All the time 24x7.
00:41:07.28\00:41:11.17
Some of you say, I don't
have any conflict, no conflict.
00:41:11.20\00:41:15.37
You don't want to say that.
00:41:15.40\00:41:16.96
You don't want to say that
00:41:16.99\00:41:18.02
because if there is no conflict,
00:41:18.05\00:41:19.16
if there is no warfare
going in your life right now,
00:41:19.19\00:41:21.97
you've already been
kidnapped by the terrorist.
00:41:22.00\00:41:25.60
And he doesn't
trouble you anymore.
00:41:25.63\00:41:28.40
You are His.
00:41:28.43\00:41:30.86
You've got to have conflict,
00:41:30.89\00:41:33.02
it's conflict that reminds
us, we are on this planet.
00:41:33.05\00:41:38.99
And our loyalty
is been battled for.
00:41:39.02\00:41:44.89
Three weeks
later Michael shows up.
00:41:44.92\00:41:46.50
By the way who is this Michael?
00:41:46.53\00:41:48.55
Come on, let's put
on the screen for you.
00:41:48.58\00:41:49.84
This guy you
gonna be clear on this,
00:41:49.87\00:41:51.12
I hope by the time we're
through who is this Michael?
00:41:51.15\00:41:53.39
Number one Michael the
name means 'who is like God.'
00:41:53.42\00:41:56.41
Now that can be a
question, who is like God?
00:41:56.44\00:41:58.27
Or can be a
statement, who is like God.
00:41:58.30\00:42:00.98
Wherever Michael goes people
say, hey, who is like God,
00:42:01.01\00:42:05.23
Michael reminds people
of God, whoever Michael is
00:42:05.26\00:42:07.81
we don't know
anything else so far
00:42:07.84\00:42:09.07
but we know that
wherever he shows up,
00:42:09.10\00:42:10.60
they say, hey, who is like God.
00:42:10.63\00:42:13.20
You see so that's Michael,
we know the meaning of his name.
00:42:13.23\00:42:15.85
Number two, what do we know?
00:42:15.88\00:42:17.31
Daniel 10:13 Jacques
shared this or Doukhan.
00:42:17.34\00:42:24.39
The Hebrew, you know,
what it says here one of the--
00:42:24.42\00:42:26.03
one of the chief princess
00:42:26.06\00:42:27.09
but the Hebrew really reads
the correct translation reads
00:42:27.12\00:42:30.28
'the first of
the great princes.'
00:42:30.31\00:42:33.08
'The first of the chief.
00:42:33.11\00:42:34.28
He is the number one of
all the princes, number one.
00:42:34.31\00:42:38.14
So what do we know
about Michael so far?
00:42:38.17\00:42:39.25
That's what we
know. Let's add a verse.
00:42:39.28\00:42:41.63
Let's add Jude 9, Jude 9
00:42:41.66\00:42:43.64
in Jude 9 Michael is
called the archangel,
00:42:43.67\00:42:45.43
so now we know
he is an archangel.
00:42:45.46\00:42:46.92
Let's go to 1 Thessalonians 4:16
00:42:46.95\00:42:49.33
Paul tell us that it would
be the voice of the archangel
00:42:49.36\00:42:51.60
that raises up the
dead at the end of time.
00:42:51.63\00:42:54.87
Let's go to the John 5:28
00:42:54.90\00:42:56.14
where Jesus
announces it will be my voice
00:42:56.17\00:42:58.54
that raises the dead
at the end of the time.
00:42:58.57\00:43:01.69
Now you've learned a
little bit about syllogisms
00:43:01.72\00:43:04.30
and logic already and you know,
00:43:04.33\00:43:07.07
the great Protestant reformer,
write this down please,
00:43:07.10\00:43:09.31
the great
protestant reformer Melanchthon
00:43:09.34\00:43:11.22
the sidekick of Martin
Luther himself concluded
00:43:11.25\00:43:15.13
based on what we
just shared that in fact
00:43:15.16\00:43:17.36
Michael is none other
than the pre-incarnate Christ.
00:43:17.39\00:43:20.60
I believe that Melanchthon
is right... absolutely.
00:43:20.63\00:43:25.17
Keep your pen moving.
00:43:25.20\00:43:26.26
And what's interesting
about Michael is that
00:43:26.29\00:43:29.48
he only appears in
apocalyptic literature,
00:43:29.51\00:43:32.05
Daniel, Jude and Revelation
00:43:32.08\00:43:33.23
only those three
books you'll find his name
00:43:33.26\00:43:35.40
and he always shows up
only where there is a battle
00:43:35.43\00:43:38.90
between the forces
of light and darkness.
00:43:38.93\00:43:41.03
Only where there is a battle
that's where Michael shows up
00:43:41.06\00:43:43.65
and by the way
whenever he shows up
00:43:43.68\00:43:45.77
get this down he
wins, every time he wins.
00:43:45.80\00:43:49.24
Amen.
00:43:49.27\00:43:50.30
He wins when he shows up.
00:43:50.33\00:43:53.46
Praise God. I love that.
00:43:53.49\00:43:56.86
The point is
ladies and gentlemen,
00:43:56.89\00:43:58.78
the point is
forget about Israel,
00:43:58.81\00:44:00.30
forget about
Hezbollah, forget about Iraq,
00:44:00.33\00:44:01.99
Iran and the Middle East.
00:44:02.02\00:44:03.05
We are-- we were
already in a massive conflict
00:44:03.08\00:44:06.52
before they
arrived on the scene.
00:44:06.55\00:44:08.77
24X7 giant cosmic controversy
00:44:08.80\00:44:14.07
swirling around the
mind of every man, woman
00:44:14.10\00:44:16.99
and child on this planet,
00:44:17.02\00:44:18.06
two angels, two angels,
two choices, two choices.
00:44:18.09\00:44:22.19
Not three, just two, two.
00:44:22.22\00:44:26.40
There is a little book
called Great Controversy
00:44:26.43\00:44:28.10
based on teaching of
Daniel 10:13 and in this book,
00:44:28.13\00:44:32.42
and the
introduction of this book
00:44:32.45\00:44:34.42
one line I want
you to get in your--
00:44:34.45\00:44:36.27
in your study guide please.
00:44:36.30\00:44:37.33
"The great controversy
between good and evil
00:44:37.36\00:44:39.05
will increase in intensity."
00:44:39.08\00:44:41.04
Write it in.
00:44:41.07\00:44:42.10
It will increase in intensity
to the very close of time.
00:44:42.13\00:44:45.15
Keep your pen moving.
00:44:45.18\00:44:46.30
"In the war that we
are in, intensification
00:44:46.33\00:44:50.36
is the operative
strategy of both sides."
00:44:50.39\00:44:55.40
Both are ratcheting
down, both tightening up.
00:44:55.43\00:45:01.33
Haven't you noticed life on
this planet is intensifying?
00:45:01.36\00:45:03.37
I mean it, come on, am I
the only one seeing this?
00:45:03.40\00:45:06.64
Last Sabbath I
was in New Orleans
00:45:06.67\00:45:07.74
to preach at a church
00:45:07.77\00:45:08.81
that was devastated
by hurricane Katrina,
00:45:08.84\00:45:11.04
they put the
pews in last Thursday.
00:45:11.07\00:45:12.50
And then on Sabbath
we worshiped three times.
00:45:12.53\00:45:15.58
Devastated, they took me
to the St. Bernard Parish
00:45:15.61\00:45:18.15
where there are blocks and
blocks of houses abandoned,
00:45:18.18\00:45:21.90
no electricity, 300,000
people have left New Orleans
00:45:21.93\00:45:24.27
and have never come back.
00:45:24.30\00:45:26.18
We've never seen that
00:45:26.21\00:45:27.25
in the history
of the United States
00:45:27.28\00:45:28.50
an entire city displaced.
00:45:28.53\00:45:31.21
Intensity,
nature is intensifying,
00:45:31.24\00:45:34.47
politics, war, the
economy, intensify, intensify.
00:45:34.50\00:45:39.86
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:45:39.89\00:45:41.99
that means that God's
side is also intensifying
00:45:42.02\00:45:44.32
its desperate efforts
to save the human race.
00:45:44.35\00:45:47.16
God is intensifying which is
why two weeks from last night,
00:45:47.19\00:45:51.22
two weeks from last night,
put it on the screen please
00:45:51.25\00:45:54.57
my friend Doug
Batchelor is gonna be here
00:45:54.60\00:45:57.11
standing right here
for only nine nights,
00:45:57.14\00:45:59.72
he is just writing this series,
00:45:59.75\00:46:00.97
you heard Pastor
Skip say a moment ago
00:46:01.00\00:46:02.54
the most amazing prophecies,
00:46:02.57\00:46:05.18
Doug is coming because we have
00:46:05.21\00:46:07.03
by satellite we'll be
hooked up to the world live.
00:46:07.06\00:46:09.58
Why?
00:46:09.61\00:46:10.65
Because God is intensifying His
efforts to save the human race.
00:46:10.68\00:46:14.98
You got a generation
not only in this church
00:46:15.01\00:46:16.73
but outside the church
00:46:16.76\00:46:17.79
that is
prophetically illiterate.
00:46:17.82\00:46:19.48
It has no clue
about what's coming.
00:46:19.51\00:46:22.01
Everybody thinks, it's
over in the Middle East,
00:46:22.04\00:46:24.55
that is isn't it,
that's subterfuge,
00:46:24.58\00:46:27.90
that won't be
where the end comes,
00:46:27.93\00:46:32.11
trust me, trust Daniel and John.
00:46:32.14\00:46:35.55
You find out in this
Rumors from the East.
00:46:35.58\00:46:38.77
But you heard Skip
make an impassioned appeal,
00:46:38.80\00:46:40.77
I'm gonna simply add my
humble little voice to his.
00:46:40.80\00:46:43.55
We still need help.
00:46:43.58\00:46:44.62
We need help in the
children's divisions.
00:46:44.65\00:46:46.47
You know, we had
an ice cream free
00:46:46.50\00:46:47.58
for the freshmen the other night
00:46:47.61\00:46:49.21
bunch of organizations
00:46:49.24\00:46:50.38
and so Pioneer has
a little table there.
00:46:50.41\00:46:53.22
I was amazed how
many freshmen came up
00:46:53.25\00:46:55.16
and on there own
asked me new students,
00:46:55.19\00:46:57.59
we heard about the
Doug Batchelor series
00:46:57.62\00:46:58.76
can we help
00:46:58.79\00:46:59.82
and so I'm heading out these
sign up forms right and left,
00:46:59.85\00:47:02.48
praise God.
00:47:02.51\00:47:04.68
Are you a sophomore,
00:47:04.71\00:47:06.36
don't let the
freshmen out shine you, please.
00:47:06.39\00:47:11.39
Are you junior, are you senior?
00:47:11.42\00:47:13.40
Shall I come on,
Dwight, I want to hear Doug,
00:47:13.43\00:47:14.78
I want to hear Doug, you
gonna hear him every morning,
00:47:14.81\00:47:16.40
you gonna hear him every
morning in the week of prayer.
00:47:16.43\00:47:18.40
You can be
praying in the night time.
00:47:18.43\00:47:22.06
We need some of you. You don't
have to do it all nine nights.
00:47:22.09\00:47:23.88
If we can get rotating
crew, you get five friends,
00:47:23.91\00:47:26.17
each of you two take two nights,
00:47:26.20\00:47:27.92
one will have only one.
00:47:27.95\00:47:30.71
We just need you
00:47:30.74\00:47:31.81
so inside your bulletin
there is a little insert.
00:47:31.84\00:47:34.05
What can I do to volunteer
for the Doug Batchelor's series?
00:47:34.08\00:47:36.41
I wish you fill it out,
I'd be at that door at the end.
00:47:36.44\00:47:38.19
Hand me--hand me
you are filled out form.
00:47:38.22\00:47:39.97
Just write your
name I'll serve anywhere.
00:47:40.00\00:47:41.92
Love to work with kids. Why?
00:47:41.95\00:47:44.35
Intensification,
intensify, look at this, folks,
00:47:44.38\00:47:47.01
two sides, two
sides one strategy,
00:47:47.04\00:47:50.54
intensify, intensify,
you know, what that means?
00:47:50.57\00:47:53.96
I'm sitting down, I'm
gonna sit down right now,
00:47:53.99\00:47:55.37
but before I sit
down I have to say this,
00:47:55.40\00:47:56.98
do you know what that means?
00:47:57.01\00:47:58.38
That means it's
time to intensify.
00:47:58.41\00:48:00.18
Some of you are
praying 10 minutes a day.
00:48:00.21\00:48:02.75
I got some good news for you
00:48:02.78\00:48:03.91
because of the hour
in which we're living,
00:48:03.94\00:48:05.96
would you make it 20,
00:48:05.99\00:48:07.40
double the time
you're spending in prayer,
00:48:07.43\00:48:09.01
10 minutes make it 20.
00:48:09.04\00:48:10.43
Some of you are reading
one chapter in the Bible a day,
00:48:10.46\00:48:13.33
I mean a week, one a week.
00:48:13.36\00:48:15.37
I'm suggesting why
don't you just read
00:48:15.40\00:48:16.96
one story in the gospel a day?
00:48:16.99\00:48:18.86
Intensify
whatever you're doing now,
00:48:18.89\00:48:21.27
what are you doing
in your worship now?
00:48:21.30\00:48:22.89
Intensify it,
00:48:22.92\00:48:24.09
intensify that's the
point whatever you're doing.
00:48:24.12\00:48:26.89
Intensify your
friendship with Jesus.
00:48:26.92\00:48:28.45
Intensify, intensify, intensify,
00:48:28.48\00:48:29.62
intensify your
relationship with God.
00:48:29.65\00:48:31.51
You know what some
of you are gonna do?
00:48:31.54\00:48:32.57
You gonna be so
excited about these prophecies,
00:48:32.60\00:48:35.08
you gonna form
little study groups
00:48:35.11\00:48:36.96
in the dormitory
or in the community
00:48:36.99\00:48:38.37
and you gonna have people,
00:48:38.40\00:48:39.43
you gonna come
together a bunch of students
00:48:39.46\00:48:40.74
and you gonna
study and pray together.
00:48:40.77\00:48:43.12
And your lives are gonna
be watered by the Holy Spirit.
00:48:43.15\00:48:46.77
One week from
last night, all right?
00:48:46.80\00:48:48.91
One week from last night.
00:48:48.94\00:48:50.92
2006 ministry fair
called the conduit this year,
00:48:50.95\00:48:54.29
not in the church, if
you've been here before
00:48:54.32\00:48:55.82
we've had in another church.
00:48:55.85\00:48:56.89
No, we're gonna
over to each pack
00:48:56.92\00:48:58.34
right in the middle of Fusion,
00:48:58.37\00:49:00.66
we're gonna have
that ministry fair.
00:49:00.69\00:49:02.35
You say, pastor, what's
the ministry fair about?
00:49:02.38\00:49:04.54
It's about you
intensifying your involvement
00:49:04.57\00:49:07.12
with the kingdom
of the Lord Jesus
00:49:07.15\00:49:08.46
by getting involved
in a volunteer ministry.
00:49:08.49\00:49:10.86
We'll have over
60 ministries there.
00:49:10.89\00:49:12.93
You sign up with just
one, just one you sign up.
00:49:12.96\00:49:16.00
And we will be
the richer forward.
00:49:16.03\00:49:17.69
Intensify, intensify
because ladies and gentlemen,
00:49:17.72\00:49:21.27
if I read my Bible correctly,
this longest of all prophecies
00:49:21.30\00:49:24.21
when Michael does step
in this time, it's all over,
00:49:24.24\00:49:27.85
it's all over
except for the shout.
00:49:27.88\00:49:30.77
When Michael stands up
and steps in its curtains,
00:49:30.80\00:49:35.92
which is why we need to
stand for Michael today.
00:49:35.95\00:49:38.27
We need to stand
for Michael today.
00:49:38.30\00:49:41.58
A little school boy
00:49:41.61\00:49:44.36
new bus schedule
in his neighborhood,
00:49:44.39\00:49:46.73
he's got the
schedule all fouled up.
00:49:46.76\00:49:48.11
Every morning when
he goes running out
00:49:48.14\00:49:49.31
with his little
backpack he's late.
00:49:49.34\00:49:52.20
This particular
morning, cool out of morning
00:49:52.23\00:49:53.88
he still doesn't
have the scheduled out
00:49:53.91\00:49:55.30
and so the boy goes
raising out he is late
00:49:55.33\00:49:57.62
but he's gonna catch the bus
00:49:57.65\00:49:58.68
and as it when he comes
to that bus stop just in time
00:49:58.71\00:50:02.54
he sees the red tail light
disappear around the corner.
00:50:02.57\00:50:05.09
He has missed the bus again.
00:50:05.12\00:50:06.81
His neighbor was standing in
that driveway and saw the boy
00:50:06.84\00:50:09.38
and the neighbor
called out to the boy,
00:50:09.41\00:50:10.90
he said, hey, boy looks
like you didn't run fast enough.
00:50:10.93\00:50:15.78
Oh, no, sir,
the boy called back,
00:50:15.81\00:50:17.57
I ran fast enough I just
didn't start soon enough.
00:50:17.60\00:50:23.20
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm not
worried about you running fast,
00:50:23.23\00:50:25.54
this is about the fastest campus
00:50:25.57\00:50:27.17
I've ever known in my life,
00:50:27.20\00:50:28.85
it's not about fast
now, it's about soon,
00:50:28.88\00:50:30.91
it's about now,
starting, start now.
00:50:30.94\00:50:34.62
Intensify, intensify, intensify.
00:50:34.65\00:50:38.95
Now so the service is over,
but I need to make an appeal.
00:50:38.98\00:50:46.56
If you are a
collage student here,
00:50:46.59\00:50:47.83
a university student
at Andrews University,
00:50:47.86\00:50:49.56
I'm gonna ask you right now,
00:50:49.59\00:50:50.89
if you would be
willing to go on record with me
00:50:50.92\00:50:55.03
in asking Jesus to
do whatever it takes
00:50:55.06\00:50:56.90
to intensify my
friendship with him.
00:50:56.93\00:50:59.83
Whatever it takes.
00:50:59.86\00:51:01.56
You'd be willing to
ask Jesus to do that,
00:51:01.59\00:51:02.93
I want you to
stand on your feet,
00:51:02.96\00:51:04.08
would you please as if
you are a university student
00:51:04.11\00:51:05.93
would you just come
right here to the front,
00:51:05.96\00:51:07.34
we gonna close with prayer,
00:51:07.37\00:51:08.40
would you come
right here to the front.
00:51:08.43\00:51:09.97
If you are university student
00:51:10.00\00:51:11.84
and you want to intensify
00:51:11.87\00:51:13.40
your relationship
with the Lord Jesus,
00:51:13.43\00:51:15.00
just come right
here to the front.
00:51:15.03\00:51:16.18
You're not
promising anything to me.
00:51:16.21\00:51:17.82
You're saying, Jesus I
want this is Michael's hour,
00:51:17.85\00:51:20.86
I want to
intensify with You Jesus,
00:51:20.89\00:51:23.36
I want to intensify with You.
00:51:23.39\00:51:26.15
I want to invite you
if you are faculty member
00:51:26.18\00:51:27.82
here at Andrews University,
you are on the staff.
00:51:27.85\00:51:30.20
I want to invite you
if you want to join me
00:51:30.23\00:51:32.20
in intensifying your life
this New Year in ways we--
00:51:32.23\00:51:36.11
I don't know how
God is gonna do all this
00:51:36.14\00:51:38.19
but you want to make
your life available as I do
00:51:38.22\00:51:41.19
for the intensification
that Christ longs for.
00:51:41.22\00:51:43.80
If you are a faculty member
00:51:43.83\00:51:44.86
or a staff member
here at this university,
00:51:44.89\00:51:47.03
I wish you'd stand and
just step into the aisles
00:51:47.06\00:51:48.70
if you still can.
00:51:48.73\00:51:49.76
Just stand.
00:51:49.79\00:51:50.82
If you can't get
into the aisle now
00:51:50.85\00:51:51.88
just stand where you are seated.
00:51:51.91\00:51:53.71
If you are
faculty or staff member
00:51:53.74\00:51:55.65
and you want to join
in that intensification.
00:51:55.68\00:51:57.52
And I need to appeal to those
of us who live in the community
00:51:57.55\00:52:00.92
because this university
is under the direction,
00:52:00.95\00:52:05.99
and the leadership of
the mighty spirit of Christ,
00:52:06.02\00:52:08.22
the spirit of Michael.
00:52:08.25\00:52:09.54
And I want to be
a part of something
00:52:09.57\00:52:11.13
that's happening
right here in this midst
00:52:11.16\00:52:13.23
and so if you live
in the community as I do
00:52:13.26\00:52:15.13
and you want to commit to that
intensification with Christ,
00:52:15.16\00:52:18.43
would you stand to
your feet where you are.
00:52:18.46\00:52:20.38
Just stand to your feet and
say Jesus do whatever You wish.
00:52:20.41\00:52:26.20
I maybe just a visitor
here today Jesus but I--
00:52:26.23\00:52:28.64
I want you to intensify,
intensify in my heart and life.
00:52:28.67\00:52:34.04
Oh, Christ, Holy
Father, Mighty Spirit,
00:52:34.07\00:52:41.37
the New Year commences
and we stand before You
00:52:41.40\00:52:43.93
even as Michael
shall stand up one day,
00:52:43.96\00:52:46.24
we stand for Him
today, and we humbly pray
00:52:46.27\00:52:51.04
that you would take
our little old lives,
00:52:51.07\00:52:54.39
there is nothing
special about any of us
00:52:54.42\00:52:57.04
but just take little
old me and him and her
00:52:57.07\00:53:01.48
and would you intensify
take us deeper this year,
00:53:01.51\00:53:04.64
deeper with You, deeper with--
00:53:04.67\00:53:07.89
with our Heavenly Father
then we've ever gone before.
00:53:07.92\00:53:10.61
Clear the decks like Daniel.
00:53:10.64\00:53:13.45
We want to belong
exclusively to You,
00:53:13.48\00:53:16.31
a generation Holy Father
a generation for this hour.
00:53:16.34\00:53:20.77
Seal this moment,
don't let us forget.
00:53:20.80\00:53:23.31
We got stuff coming
00:53:23.34\00:53:24.89
but don't let us forget
we made this decision today,
00:53:24.92\00:53:28.86
through the power and
for the glory of Michael,
00:53:28.89\00:53:32.46
our Lord Jesus Christ that all
the people say, amen and amen.
00:53:32.49\00:53:36.91
Now, I want you to sing with me.
00:53:36.94\00:53:38.08
Oh, we end every opening Sabbath
00:53:38.11\00:53:40.51
with this Steve and Zork
00:53:40.54\00:53:42.95
at the microphone
will gonna sing together
00:53:42.98\00:53:45.43
the Lord's prayer.
00:53:45.46\00:53:46.95
Just close your
eyes, lift your head up,
00:53:46.98\00:53:48.58
sing this prayer to
all Mighty God as we begin.
00:53:48.61\00:53:52.45
Our Father
00:53:59.54\00:54:07.23
Which art in heaven
00:54:08.94\00:54:16.35
Hallowed be thy name
00:54:20.00\00:54:28.00
Thy kingdom come
00:54:37.93\00:54:45.62
Thy will be done
00:54:45.65\00:54:52.33
On earth
00:54:52.36\00:54:57.46
As it is in heaven
00:54:57.49\00:55:05.46
Give us this day our daily bread
00:55:23.47\00:55:31.47
And forgive us our debts
00:55:34.10\00:55:40.72
As we forgive our debtors
00:55:40.75\00:55:48.72
And lead us not into temptation
00:55:53.51\00:56:00.61
But deliver us from evil
00:56:00.64\00:56:07.76
For Thine is the kingdom
00:56:07.79\00:56:15.46
And the power
00:56:15.49\00:56:19.23
And the glory, forever
00:56:19.26\00:56:27.23
Forever
00:56:35.94\00:56:43.94
Amen.
00:57:02.21\00:57:03.78
Before you go, I wanted to take
00:57:06.40\00:57:07.74
one more moment to let you know,
00:57:07.77\00:57:09.19
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00:57:09.22\00:57:10.99
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00:57:11.02\00:57:13.28
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00:57:13.31\00:57:14.71
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00:57:14.74\00:57:16.04
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00:57:16.07\00:57:19.10
I'm grateful that we have
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00:57:19.13\00:57:21.36
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00:57:21.39\00:57:22.64
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