Nothing compares to
the promise I have in...
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Shout to the Lord
All the earth let us sing
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Power and majesty
Praise to the King,
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Mountains bow down
And the seas will roar
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At the sound of Your name
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I sing for joy at
the work of Your hands
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Forever I'll loveYou,
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forever I'll stand
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Nothing compares
to the promise I have
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Nothing compares
to the promise I have
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Nothing compares to the promise
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I have in You
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Be seated.
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Is there any thing really
that compares with the promise
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that we have in God
that we have in Jesus.
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Is there anything
that compares to Him?
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I suppose we
answer that everyday
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by the way we live our lives.
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But today we're here to add
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to our lives by
our praise to say Lord,
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no matter what's happened,
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no matter how
I've lived this week.
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I'm here today to praise you.
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God's promised His grace
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is available to
all of us this morning,
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all of us right now.
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You join us as we
praise the Lamb of God.
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Jesus is the Lamb
and it's through Him
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that all of God's
promises come to us
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free of charge yet
at an infinite cost,
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sing.
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Your only Son, no sin to hide
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But You have sent
Him from Your side
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To walk upon this guilty sod
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And to become
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the Lamb of God
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Your gift of love they crucified
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They laughed and
scorned Him as He died
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The humble King,
they named a fraud
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And sacrificed the Lamb of God
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Oh, Lamb of God,
sweet Lamb of God
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I love the holy Lamb of God
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Oh, wash me in
His precious blood
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My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God
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I was so lost,
I should have died
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But You have
brought me to Your side
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To be led by Your staff and rod
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And to be called the Lamb of God
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Oh, Lamb of God,
sweet Lamb of God
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I love the holy Lamb of God
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Oh, wash me in
His precious blood
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My Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God
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Oh, Lamb of God,
sweet Lamb of God
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I love the holy Lamb of God
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Oh, wash me in
His precious blood
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My Jesus Christ,
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the Lamb of God
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run after You
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run
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after You
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I invite you to come forward.
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If there's anything
that you have on your heart
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to bring before the Lord today,
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special
requests, special praise,
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a heavy burden, special joy.
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Join us at the front for prayer.
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Just slip out of your seats.
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Come right down front as
we approach our God in prayer
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and sing with us, Draw me, Lord.
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run after You
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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Oh, draw me, Lord
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And I'll run
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after You
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Let us kneel.
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Our God and King,
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lift up your
voice and with us sing
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hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Oh, burning sun with golden beam
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and silver moon
with softer gleam.
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Oh, praise Him, oh, praise Him.
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Hallelujah,
hallelujah, hallelujah.
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Or we come before
You singing Your praises
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but we know
there's no amount of words
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that can bring you to
glory that You deserve.
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Well, that's why today we
come before with open hearts,
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open to You, open to Your love,
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open to Your Holy Spirit.
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Lord, we ask for Your strength
and healing for these people,
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Jean Starky,
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Charlotte Graff and Don Snyder
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and Pamela Pauline's father.
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Oh, we bring them before you,
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and Lord we know that
You have amazing power.
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And Lord, we also
come to You this morning
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with broken hearts.
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Lord, there have been
so many losses this week
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but we know that
You are always with us,
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no matter how much we lose,
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there's so much to
gain with You Lord.
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And this morning, I
just want to lift up,
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Richard Orison on the
death of his sister in Virginia
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and Harris on the death
of her brother in California.
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Larry Booth on the death of
his father John William Booth,
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Marylyn Bower on the
death of her mother Helen Hayes.
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Terry Robertson on
the death of his mother
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and Loris Sedol on
the death of his brother.
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Lord, we are so
desperate and anxious
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and waiting for
Your second coming word
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because we know that
with that trumpet call,
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those Lord didn't knew
just raise up and we are so,
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so looking forward to that day.
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Please, come soon Lord Jesus.
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Oh, God, we also come
before you with grateful hearts.
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We have so much to be
thankful for Your word
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that tells us not to
be anxious about anything.
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But in everything
present our prayer request
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with thanks giving
before you our God and King.
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Lord, we thank You
for the breathe of life
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that You've given all of us.
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We thank You for Your guidance
and Your love that never fails.
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We thank You because
You listen to our hearts.
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And we thank You
because You provided prayer,
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a means to talk to You Jesus.
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Help us to always be
thankful in all circumstances
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and Lord on the Sabbath day,
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may we honor You in
everything that we do and say,
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maybe we'll
reflect Jesus Christ.
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Thank You, Jesus.
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Thank You for Your Son.
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Thank you for the
blood of the Lamb, amen.
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than silver or gold
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I'd rather be His
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than have riches untold
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than houses or land
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I'd rather be led
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by His nail
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pierced hand
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Than to be the queen
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of a vast domain
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And be held in sin's
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dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than houses or land
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I'd rather be faithful
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to His dear cause
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than worldwide fame
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I'd rather be true
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to His holy name
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He's fairer than lilies
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of rarest bloom
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He's sweeter than honey
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from out the comb
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He's all that my hungering
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spirit needs
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I'd rather have Jesus
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and let Him lead
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Than to be the queen
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of a vast domain
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And be held in sin's
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dread sway
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I'd rather have Jesus
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than anything
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This world
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affords
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today
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Oh, Father, Sofia's
testimony is ours as well.
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There is so much that is offered
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in this culture in this life.
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But with her youthful
voice we too want to say,
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we want Jesus first.
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We'd rather have
Him than anything.
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And when the story ends,
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is it shall end one
day for this civilization
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may that be our
testimony then as well we pray.
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Now teach us in Holy Scripture
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and let the teaching be
clear for the glory of Christ,
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we pray in His name, amen.
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Let's begin this
morning referencing a book,
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you've probably never heard off.
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The White House
has heard of this book.
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Staffers in the White House
have actually read the book.
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Because the author of
this book has been invited
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into the White House
to conduct Bible studies
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with some of the staffers.
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Autograph copies of his book
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have been given by
liaison friends to the president
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and the vice president,
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although we do not know whether
those two leaders of our nation
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have opened the
book or even touched it.
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The author is a Jew,
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who converted to
evangelical Christianity.
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His name's Joel Rosenberg
and according to his own blog.
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He has served as
senior advisor to major US
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and Israeli
political leaders including
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the former prime minister
of Israel Benjamin Netanyahu.
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His genre as a
writer religious fiction,
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here are some of his titles.
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Best selling titles by the way,
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The Last Jihad, The Last
Days, The Ezekiel Option.
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That title won the coveted
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evangelical
publishing communities
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gold medallion award
for the best novel of 2006.
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But the book I'm referencing
is his first non fiction work
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that was just released this
September title of the book.
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Epicenter: Why
the Current Rumblings
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in the Middle East
Will Change Your Future.
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Now his blog also boasted
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that he's been interviewed
by more than 300 radio
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and TV shows including
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the major network
and cable news outlets.
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You see his
picture on the screen,
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the reason Rosenberg has caught
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the eye and ear
of the White House
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is because of his
dramatic proposition
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that Bible prophecy predicts
that Russia and Iran will unite
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in a final
global conflict against
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Israel and the United States.
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And you can understand why
that would get the attention
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of some in this nation.
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He's not alone by the way.
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Evangelical
preachers across this land
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espouse the same conviction.
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Bible prophecy, I don't
know if you've missed this
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but Bible prophecy has
become avant-garde again.
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In a moment I'm gonna quote
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from an interview Rosenberg gave
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just last week
in which he voiced
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troubling recommendations
for the president.
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We'll get to that in a moment.
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Question is the end
going to come the way
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Rosenberg predicts?
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I do not doubt that Rosenberg
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and this cadre of evangelical
preachers are sincere,
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but I must tell you
they are sincerely wrong.
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They are dead wrong as
the explosive Bible prophecy,
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we are gonna study
this morning will teach us.
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Open your Bibles please to
the twin book to the apocalypse.
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This book is in
the Old Testament,
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it's the book of Daniel,
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Open your Bible
to Daniel Chapter 11.
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Let us strap on our seatbelts
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and fly through
this teaching today.
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Daniel Chapter
11, Old Testament.
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If you didn't
bring your Bible today,
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grab the pew Bible
right in front of you.
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It's the same translation
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that I'll be
reading from this morning,
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the New King James Version,
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it would be page 606.
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Daniel Chapter 11, page 606.
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We're gonna
drop down to the end.
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This is the
Bible's longest prophecy.
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It starts in Daniel 10,
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it goes all the
way through Daniel 11
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and goes into Daniel 12 as
we will know in just a moment.
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All right, let's
go Daniel Chapter 11.
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Drop down to the end
of the chapter verse 40.
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I'll start reading in verse 40.
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Daniel 11:40, and at that time,
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"At the time of the end..."
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By the way very
fascinating about this prophecy,
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it moves from
the time of the end
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all the way to the end of time
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as you will know
in just a moment.
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"At the time of the end
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the king of the
South shall attack him..."
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Who's him? The
king of the north.
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"And the king of the
North shall come against him,
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the king of the
south, like a whirlwind,
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with chariots and
horsemen, and with many ships,
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and he shall
enter the countries,
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overwhelm them
and pass through."
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Not a clue yet,
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not a clue yet who
these two kings are.
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Don't you dare
miss next Sabbath.
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We get the
summation of this series
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comes next
Sabbath and you will know,
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you will know who these
two kings are next week.
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So the king of
the north verse 41,
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"He shall also
enter the Glorious Land,
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and many countries
shall be overthrown,
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but these shall escape
from his hand: Edom, Moab,
00:20:18.95\00:20:22.05
and the
prominent people of Ammon."
00:20:22.08\00:20:23.74
Verse 42, "He,
the king of the north,
00:20:23.77\00:20:25.61
shall stretch out his
hand against the countries,
00:20:25.64\00:20:27.66
and the land of
Egypt shall not escape."
00:20:27.69\00:20:29.95
Verse 43, "He
shall have power over
00:20:29.98\00:20:32.01
the treasures
of gold and silver,
00:20:32.04\00:20:33.36
and over all the
precious things of Egypt,
00:20:33.39\00:20:35.46
and also the
Libyans and Ethiopians
00:20:35.49\00:20:37.24
shall follow at his heels."
00:20:37.27\00:20:38.71
Now here it comes verse 44,
00:20:38.74\00:20:41.35
New American Standard
Version reads this way
00:20:41.38\00:20:43.86
"But rumors from the east."
00:20:43.89\00:20:47.54
You see that's the
title of this teaching series,
00:20:47.57\00:20:49.21
it's coming to an end next week.
00:20:49.24\00:20:50.55
Rumors from east this says,
00:20:50.58\00:20:52.25
"But news from
the east and the north
00:20:52.28\00:20:54.24
shall trouble him,
00:20:54.27\00:20:55.63
therefore he, the
king of the north,
00:20:55.66\00:20:57.11
shall go out with
great fury to destroy
00:20:57.14\00:20:59.96
and annihilate many."
00:20:59.99\00:21:01.41
Verse 45, "And he
shall plant the tents
00:21:01.44\00:21:03.28
of his palace between the seas
and the glorious holy mountain,
00:21:03.31\00:21:07.25
yet he shall come to his
end and no one will help him."
00:21:07.28\00:21:13.58
We'll decide for that next week.
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Now there is no break.
00:21:15.25\00:21:16.58
When Daniel is writing
this, there is no chap.
00:21:16.61\00:21:18.41
He said, oh, I need
to get to chapter 12.
00:21:18.44\00:21:19.95
There were no chapters,
00:21:19.98\00:21:21.44
so it needs to
just keep reading.
00:21:21.47\00:21:22.63
We need to just keep reading,
00:21:22.66\00:21:23.73
as if there were no break.
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Chapter 12:1 And at that time
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they follow the
king of the north.
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"At that time
Michael shall stand up,
00:21:28.16\00:21:31.22
The great prince
who stands watch over
00:21:31.25\00:21:32.95
the sons of your people,
00:21:32.98\00:21:34.34
And there shall
be a time of trouble,
00:21:34.37\00:21:35.83
Such as never was
since there was a nation,
00:21:35.86\00:21:37.65
Even to that time.
00:21:37.68\00:21:38.91
And at that time your
people shall be delivered,
00:21:38.94\00:21:41.60
Every one who is
found written in the book.
00:21:41.63\00:21:43.71
And many of those
who sleep in the dust
00:21:43.74\00:21:45.36
of the earth shall awake,
00:21:45.39\00:21:46.81
Some to everlasting life,
00:21:46.84\00:21:48.81
Some to shame and
everlasting contempt."
00:21:48.84\00:21:52.56
Take a breath, that's it.
00:21:52.59\00:21:56.41
Suffice it to say
ladies and gentlemen,
00:21:56.44\00:21:58.96
what we have just read contains
00:21:58.99\00:22:00.36
two pieces of good news
and one piece of bad news.
00:22:00.39\00:22:03.16
And with your permission,
00:22:03.19\00:22:04.34
we'll put the
bad news in between
00:22:04.37\00:22:06.00
the two good news pieces.
00:22:06.03\00:22:07.90
They're three
prophetic news bulletins.
00:22:07.93\00:22:09.97
Take your study
guide out and jot down,
00:22:10.00\00:22:11.66
what we know from
our cursory reading
00:22:11.69\00:22:13.64
that we have
just taken together.
00:22:13.67\00:22:15.19
Three news bulletins,
prophetic news bulletins.
00:22:15.22\00:22:20.04
The study guide in
your worship bulletins.
00:22:20.07\00:22:22.59
Ushers let's go, Let's
get the study guides out.
00:22:22.62\00:22:24.65
If you didn't get a study guide,
00:22:24.68\00:22:25.71
just hold your hand up,
00:22:25.74\00:22:26.77
our friendly
ushers will do everything
00:22:26.80\00:22:28.47
they can to make
sure that all the way
00:22:28.50\00:22:29.89
to the back in the balcony
00:22:29.92\00:22:30.95
that everybody
gets a study guide.
00:22:30.98\00:22:32.89
Just hold your hand up, you're
gonna want this study guide,
00:22:32.92\00:22:35.02
trust me you will want it.
00:22:35.05\00:22:36.62
And while they're doing that,
00:22:36.65\00:22:37.97
let me talk to
you on the television.
00:22:38.00\00:22:41.07
There's a website, let's
put it on the screen right now,
00:22:41.10\00:22:43.09
there it goes.
00:22:43.12\00:22:44.77
That's our
website www.pmchruch.tv.
00:22:44.80\00:22:48.37
Please go to our website.
00:22:48.40\00:22:51.05
Click on there to
this teaching series
00:22:51.08\00:22:53.06
called Rumors From The East.
00:22:53.09\00:22:54.64
This is the next
to the last piece
00:22:54.67\00:22:56.13
and it's
entitled The Last Sonset,
00:22:56.16\00:22:58.69
S-o-n-e-t. The Last Sonet.
00:22:58.72\00:23:01.78
There it says
study guide click that
00:23:01.81\00:23:04.13
and you have the
very same study guide
00:23:04.16\00:23:06.75
that we will be filling
out here together this morning.
00:23:06.78\00:23:09.93
So take your study
guide, everybody have one.
00:23:09.96\00:23:13.09
We're gonna move now.
00:23:13.12\00:23:14.46
You gonna need a pen.
00:23:14.49\00:23:15.57
We're gonna start
writing, Let's go.
00:23:15.60\00:23:17.08
Bulletin number one.
00:23:17.11\00:23:18.23
All right, there are
three news bulletins,
00:23:18.26\00:23:19.91
prophetic news bulletins
in what we've just read.
00:23:19.94\00:23:21.81
Bulletin number one,
this is a good news bulletin,
00:23:21.84\00:23:23.76
The King of the
North will come to his end.
00:23:23.79\00:23:27.82
Write in the word north
please, the king of the north.
00:23:27.85\00:23:31.41
You say what so
good news about that?
00:23:31.44\00:23:32.47
Well, given the
fact he is dark and evil,
00:23:32.50\00:23:35.02
this is very good news.
00:23:35.05\00:23:37.74
Trust me.
00:23:37.77\00:23:38.94
The next Sabbath the
entire series shuts down
00:23:38.97\00:23:41.42
in the teaching
entitled King of the north.
00:23:41.45\00:23:43.01
Don't miss it.
00:23:43.04\00:23:44.07
We'll give prayerful,
00:23:44.10\00:23:45.13
careful study to the
final verses of Chapter 11.
00:23:45.16\00:23:47.84
Not today, not
today, don't have time.
00:23:47.87\00:23:49.75
News bulletin number two,
00:23:49.78\00:23:51.90
oh, this is bad
news, write it down.
00:23:51.93\00:23:54.30
We are facing the
worst global crises
00:23:54.33\00:23:56.26
in time of trouble in the
history of the civilization.
00:23:56.29\00:23:59.74
Daniel 12 have
just made that point.
00:23:59.77\00:24:02.48
Still ahead of us by the
way, we are not in it now.
00:24:02.51\00:24:04.84
No, no, no, it's-- the
worst in history of civilization
00:24:04.87\00:24:08.84
is yet ahead of us.
00:24:08.87\00:24:10.01
Bulletin number two and
now bulletin number three,
00:24:10.04\00:24:12.17
good news again,
00:24:12.20\00:24:13.23
Michael will
stand up and deliver.
00:24:13.26\00:24:15.97
Write in that word deliver.
00:24:16.00\00:24:17.54
He will deliver Daniel's people
from out of that awful crisis
00:24:17.57\00:24:21.85
also Daniel 12:1, 2.
00:24:21.88\00:24:24.55
In fact let's
read verse one again,
00:24:24.58\00:24:25.72
Daniel 12:1 "At that
time Michael shall stand up,
00:24:25.75\00:24:29.58
The great prince
who stands watch over
00:24:29.61\00:24:30.86
the sons of your people,
00:24:30.89\00:24:32.23
And there shall
be a time of trouble,
00:24:32.26\00:24:33.32
Such as never was
since there was a nation,
00:24:33.35\00:24:35.30
Even to that time.
00:24:35.33\00:24:37.24
And at that time your
people shall be delivered,
00:24:37.27\00:24:40.09
Every one who is
found written in the book."
00:24:40.12\00:24:44.55
So who is this Michael?
00:24:44.58\00:24:47.19
This being whose name means,
00:24:47.22\00:24:48.35
who is like God?
It'll be a question,
00:24:48.38\00:24:50.40
who is like God or
can be a statement.
00:24:50.43\00:24:51.81
Who is like God.
00:24:51.84\00:24:53.49
You remember those
of you who have been
00:24:53.52\00:24:54.59
a part of this entire
teaching series. In part one,
00:24:54.62\00:24:56.84
we actually spend some time
actually looking at Michael,
00:24:56.87\00:24:59.30
so the website that we
just noted a moment ago,
00:24:59.33\00:25:03.18
if you go back to that website,
00:25:03.21\00:25:04.24
go to teaching number one.
00:25:04.27\00:25:05.30
Rumors from the
East teaching number one,
00:25:05.33\00:25:07.08
it'll all be there
in that study guide.
00:25:07.11\00:25:08.59
Let me just take a moment
00:25:08.62\00:25:10.18
and we'll put it
on the screen for you.
00:25:10.21\00:25:11.99
Refresh your memory
as to who Michael is?
00:25:12.02\00:25:14.28
By the way the name only appears
00:25:14.31\00:25:15.34
in apocalyptic literature.
00:25:15.37\00:25:16.51
That would be
the Book of Daniel,
00:25:16.54\00:25:18.58
the Book of Jude, in
the Book of Revelation.
00:25:18.61\00:25:20.47
Only appears there
always when there is a war,
00:25:20.50\00:25:23.66
when there's a war between the
forces of light and darkness,
00:25:23.69\00:25:26.15
Michael shows up.
00:25:26.18\00:25:28.02
And by the way he wins
every single time. Hallelujah.
00:25:28.05\00:25:31.88
Every time he shows up he wins.
00:25:31.91\00:25:33.92
Who is Michael?
00:25:33.95\00:25:35.46
That's our review on
the screen, in Jude 9,
00:25:35.49\00:25:38.33
Michael is called the archangel.
00:25:38.36\00:25:40.06
So form Jude 9,
00:25:40.09\00:25:41.28
we know Michael
equals archangel.
00:25:41.31\00:25:43.45
Now 1 Thessalonians 4:16,
00:25:43.48\00:25:45.63
you want to jot this down,
you may 1Thessalonians 4:16,
00:25:45.66\00:25:49.04
"The voice of the archangel,
Paul writes raises the dead."
00:25:49.07\00:25:53.72
And then Jesus in John 5:28-29.
00:25:53.75\00:25:57.62
Jesus says, "It's My
voice that raises the dead."
00:25:57.65\00:26:01.62
Leading the great Protestant
reformer Philipp Melanchthon.
00:26:01.65\00:26:05.53
Melanchthon concluded on the
basis of this biblical evidence
00:26:05.56\00:26:08.54
that Michael is none other
than the pre-incarnate Christ.
00:26:08.57\00:26:13.98
Jot that one down.
00:26:14.01\00:26:15.67
It's good
enough for Melanchthon,
00:26:15.70\00:26:16.96
it's good enough for me.
00:26:16.99\00:26:19.14
Michael, the mighty
second person of the guarded,
00:26:19.17\00:26:22.31
who whenever he shows up in
battle is shown up as Michael.
00:26:22.34\00:26:27.22
So what do we know
from what we've just read.
00:26:27.25\00:26:29.54
We know that
when Michael shows up
00:26:29.57\00:26:31.06
and stands up on behalf
of Daniel's people, he wins.
00:26:31.09\00:26:33.91
Here's the question, who?
00:26:33.94\00:26:36.75
This is the great question now.
00:26:36.78\00:26:38.28
Who are Daniel's people?
00:26:38.31\00:26:42.50
Joel Rosenberg
comes along he says,
00:26:42.53\00:26:43.73
oh, I know who
Daniel's people are,
00:26:43.76\00:26:45.69
evangelical American preachers
across this nations say,
00:26:45.72\00:26:48.71
oh, we know who
Daniel's people are.
00:26:48.74\00:26:50.79
Rosenberg and those
preachers all agree,
00:26:50.82\00:26:54.12
they are modern
Israel and Jews living today.
00:26:54.15\00:26:59.74
That's their conclusion.
00:26:59.77\00:27:02.66
I was watching TV
evangelist Jimmy Swaggart,
00:27:02.69\00:27:05.19
do you remember that name?
Just a couple of Sundays ago,
00:27:05.22\00:27:07.11
I'm watching him preach
and he's preaching in front
00:27:07.14\00:27:08.92
of this massive backdrop,
00:27:08.95\00:27:10.86
a map of the Middle East.
00:27:10.89\00:27:12.70
And he's preaching his heart out
00:27:12.73\00:27:13.85
because he's
absolutely convinced that Israel
00:27:13.88\00:27:16.15
is strategic to
God's end time game plan.
00:27:16.18\00:27:22.05
Oh, boy,
00:27:22.08\00:27:24.12
that's why Joel Rosenberg
just last week in an interview
00:27:24.15\00:27:27.31
with the
Washington Times newspaper
00:27:27.34\00:27:29.31
in the Nation's capital.
00:27:29.34\00:27:31.02
That's why he
made these statements.
00:27:31.05\00:27:33.35
I'm gonna put Rosenberg's
words on the screen for you,
00:27:33.38\00:27:35.93
I'll read them.
00:27:35.96\00:27:37.15
This is a part
of that interview.
00:27:37.18\00:27:38.66
Now he's
talking to the reporter,
00:27:38.69\00:27:39.91
"The key is we
don't know at this moment
00:27:39.94\00:27:43.15
whether the alliance
00:27:43.18\00:27:44.24
that's emerging
between Russia and Iran
00:27:44.27\00:27:46.40
and these other
Middle Eastern countries
00:27:46.43\00:27:48.11
is in fact a fulfillment
of Ezekiel 38 and 39."
00:27:48.14\00:27:51.86
His new book says,
00:27:51.89\00:27:52.92
that's what those
chapters are teaching,
00:27:52.95\00:27:55.47
we just don't know if it's now,
00:27:55.50\00:27:57.32
but notice his point.
00:27:57.35\00:27:59.42
"Therefore, we can't
base American foreign policy
00:27:59.45\00:28:02.95
on the supernatural
intervention by the God
00:28:02.98\00:28:05.71
of Israel to protect Israel."
00:28:05.74\00:28:07.63
This may not be the time for God
00:28:07.66\00:28:09.15
to step in which case we better
help him, that's his point.
00:28:09.18\00:28:11.55
We need to take action
to protect ourselves...
00:28:11.58\00:28:15.46
I believe that 2007,
00:28:15.49\00:28:16.86
Rosenberg is going to
be the year of decision
00:28:16.89\00:28:19.06
for President Bush.
00:28:19.09\00:28:20.15
Either he's going to
take some form of action
00:28:20.18\00:28:21.68
to stop Iran from going nuclear,
00:28:21.71\00:28:23.50
or the moment may be lost.
00:28:23.53\00:28:25.12
2008 is a
presidential election year.
00:28:25.15\00:28:27.96
The year 2009 is the beginning
of a new administration,
00:28:27.99\00:28:30.59
and by then it may be too late.
00:28:30.62\00:28:32.89
Iran could have
nuclear weapons by then...
00:28:32.92\00:28:35.03
If Iran goes nuclear
on President Bush's watch,
00:28:35.06\00:28:38.07
it will erase all of the
gains that we've made thus far
00:28:38.10\00:28:40.72
in the war
against radical Islam."
00:28:40.75\00:28:42.41
And now here's the
line that jumped out at me,
00:28:42.44\00:28:44.42
"I believe an
apocalyptic war is coming
00:28:44.45\00:28:47.11
in the Middle East
in the next few years.
00:28:47.14\00:28:51.98
Either Iran is going to
launch it at us and Israel,
00:28:52.01\00:28:54.66
or we're going to
take action to stop them."
00:28:54.69\00:28:57.24
Washington Times last week.
00:28:57.27\00:29:00.81
So question.
00:29:00.84\00:29:03.83
Is Rosenberg right?
00:29:03.86\00:29:07.45
Or is he looking in
the wrong direction.
00:29:07.48\00:29:14.34
Would it'd be something?
00:29:14.37\00:29:15.88
If in fact all of this is
a part of a dark diversion
00:29:15.91\00:29:18.06
and deceptive distraction.
00:29:18.09\00:29:19.49
Not intentionally, I'm
not talking about Rosenberg,
00:29:19.52\00:29:21.58
I'm not talking about
these TV preachers in the land.
00:29:21.61\00:29:23.82
But what if--
00:29:23.85\00:29:25.51
what if the prince of
this world has much to gain
00:29:25.54\00:29:28.11
by keeping the attention of the
world focus on the Middle East,
00:29:28.14\00:29:33.07
all the while the
impending crisis is coming
00:29:33.10\00:29:35.77
not from the east
but out of the north,
00:29:35.80\00:29:38.36
the king of the North.
00:29:38.39\00:29:40.47
Wouldn't that be
brilliant, brilliant strategy?
00:29:40.50\00:29:46.81
May I share with you,
00:29:46.84\00:29:49.65
why I respectfully
believe that Rosenberg is wrong?
00:29:49.68\00:29:54.84
And why Israel in particular
00:29:54.87\00:29:56.40
and tangentially Iran and Russia
00:29:56.43\00:29:58.98
are not the key players
in earth's final movements.
00:29:59.01\00:30:01.97
May I share that with you?
00:30:02.00\00:30:03.11
Jot them down please, I
want to share with you now.
00:30:03.14\00:30:04.90
Four principles of
Bible prophecy interpretation
00:30:04.93\00:30:09.10
particularly Old
Testament prophecy.
00:30:09.13\00:30:11.08
Four Old Testament prophecy
principles of interpretation.
00:30:11.11\00:30:13.73
Jot these down, Number
one, write it down please.
00:30:13.76\00:30:16.07
"The Old Testament prophecies
regarding the future glory
00:30:16.10\00:30:18.60
of Israel and Jerusalem
are primarily conditioned
00:30:18.63\00:30:22.27
upon Israel's obedience to God."
00:30:22.30\00:30:27.40
Obedience, write
that word in please.
00:30:27.43\00:30:29.89
And now you need to hear
God make the very point Himself.
00:30:29.92\00:30:32.50
God back three
books to Jeremiah.
00:30:32.53\00:30:35.77
I want you to read
this in your own Bible,
00:30:35.80\00:30:37.87
Jeremiah 18,
what's that page number.
00:30:37.90\00:30:41.45
Jeremiah 18 that's page 521.
00:30:41.48\00:30:44.24
All right, in the pew Bible,
00:30:44.27\00:30:47.06
familiar story that
begins this passage.
00:30:47.09\00:30:52.20
Some of you might
remember the story.
00:30:52.23\00:30:54.47
Begins in verse
1 of Jeremiah 18,
00:30:54.50\00:30:56.62
The word which came to
Jeremiah from the Lord, saying,
00:30:56.65\00:31:00.35
verse 2, hey, Jeremiah,
00:31:00.38\00:31:02.44
"Arise, and go down
to the potter's house..."
00:31:02.47\00:31:04.56
Do you know what a potter is?
00:31:04.59\00:31:06.46
It's an artist
that works with clay.
00:31:06.49\00:31:08.01
You see the
wheels-- with their feet
00:31:08.04\00:31:11.33
and they keep their
hands-- hands get all red
00:31:11.36\00:31:13.14
and brown wet as they
carefully shape those vases
00:31:13.17\00:31:16.72
and whatever is
they make, all right.
00:31:16.75\00:31:19.28
So "Arise, and go
down to the potter's house,
00:31:19.31\00:31:21.33
Jeremy and there I will
cause you to hear my words."
00:31:21.36\00:31:24.29
Verse 3, "Then I went
down to the potter's house,
00:31:24.32\00:31:26.55
and there he was making
something at the wheel."
00:31:26.58\00:31:29.12
And verse 4, "And the vessel
00:31:29.15\00:31:30.67
that he made of clay was marred"
00:31:30.70\00:31:32.94
Ooh, a mistake,
crazy thing breaks.
00:31:32.97\00:31:38.08
"It was marred in
the hand of the potter:
00:31:38.11\00:31:39.64
so he made it again,
00:31:39.67\00:31:42.06
took it all apart made
it into another vessel,
00:31:42.09\00:31:44.65
as it seemed good
to the potter to make."
00:31:44.68\00:31:46.77
Now I'm gonna put the words
on the screen because God says,
00:31:46.80\00:31:48.68
I'm making my point
now, this is verse 5,
00:31:48.71\00:31:51.10
"Then the word of the
Lord came to me, saying,"
00:31:51.13\00:31:53.12
Verse 6 "O house of Israel,
00:31:53.15\00:31:55.79
can I not do with
you as this potter?"
00:31:55.82\00:31:58.43
says the Lord.
00:31:58.46\00:31:59.55
"Look, as the clay
is in the potter's hand,
00:31:59.58\00:32:02.11
so are you in My
hand, O house of Israel!"
00:32:02.14\00:32:04.41
Look at this verse 7,
00:32:04.44\00:32:05.47
"The instant I
speak concerning a nation
00:32:05.50\00:32:08.14
and concerning a
kingdom, to pluck up,
00:32:08.17\00:32:09.90
to pull down, and to destroy it,
00:32:09.93\00:32:11.64
if that nation against whom
00:32:11.67\00:32:13.27
I have spoken
turns from its evil,
00:32:13.30\00:32:17.24
I will relent of
the disaster that
00:32:17.27\00:32:18.30
I had thought to
bring about upon it."
00:32:18.33\00:32:21.91
Look at verse 9, and by
the way flip side is true
00:32:21.94\00:32:24.51
"And the instant
I speak concerning
00:32:24.54\00:32:26.15
a nation concerning a kingdom,
00:32:26.18\00:32:28.14
to build it up, to plant it,"
00:32:28.17\00:32:30.40
"If, verse 10, it
does evil in My sight
00:32:30.43\00:32:33.43
so that it does not obey..."
00:32:33.46\00:32:36.82
key word "it does not obey
My voice, then I will relent,
00:32:36.85\00:32:42.27
I'll change my
mind concerning the good
00:32:42.30\00:32:43.95
with which I said,
I would benefit it."
00:32:43.98\00:32:45.83
Who's got talking
to verse 11 cinches it
00:32:45.86\00:32:48.80
"Now therefore,
speak to the men of Judah
00:32:48.83\00:32:51.43
and to the
inhabitants of Jerusalem,"
00:32:51.46\00:32:53.74
I'm talking to you
people the chosen ones.
00:32:53.77\00:32:56.92
I'm talking to you God says.
00:32:56.95\00:33:00.93
Write it down
please in your study guide
00:33:00.96\00:33:02.21
Jeremiah 18:11 teaches
us that Divine prophecies
00:33:02.24\00:33:05.66
are conditioned
upon human response.
00:33:05.69\00:33:09.38
Response, the
response is the key.
00:33:09.41\00:33:13.55
Classic, I mean, let's
look at two classic exhibits.
00:33:13.58\00:33:16.63
Classic exhibit number A,
00:33:16.66\00:33:17.95
letter A rather is Nineveh,
What did God do to Nineveh?
00:33:17.98\00:33:20.88
He said, Jonah and the Nineveh,
00:33:20.91\00:33:22.06
he said, hey, Jonah,
tell 'em I'm gonna nuke,
00:33:22.09\00:33:23.69
I'm gonna nuke that city.
00:33:23.72\00:33:25.52
40 days and it's over.
00:33:25.55\00:33:27.22
When the word went out
and Jonah walked the streets.
00:33:27.25\00:33:29.71
Nineveh from the king on
down to the lowest slave,
00:33:29.74\00:33:33.73
they all repented and God said,
00:33:33.76\00:33:35.73
man I can't do
this, they changed.
00:33:35.76\00:33:39.07
Changed my mind,
I won't destroy it.
00:33:39.10\00:33:40.62
Classic exhibit A Nineveh.
00:33:40.65\00:33:42.36
Classic exhibit B Israel,
00:33:42.39\00:33:44.68
write it down, Israel.
00:33:44.71\00:33:46.33
I'm gonna make you
last forever and ever.
00:33:46.36\00:33:48.25
I want to give you a kingdom
00:33:48.28\00:33:49.31
that shall never come to an end.
00:33:49.34\00:33:51.11
But then Israel walks away,
00:33:51.14\00:33:53.79
from the one that
raised him up and God says,
00:33:53.82\00:33:57.73
change my mind,
I'm not gonna do it.
00:33:57.76\00:34:01.39
Does God had the
right to do that?
00:34:01.42\00:34:02.51
But of course he's the potter.
00:34:02.54\00:34:04.90
Jeremiah 18, you cannot miss
the teaching in Jeremiah 18.
00:34:04.93\00:34:07.92
So that's
interpretive principle.
00:34:07.95\00:34:10.09
Number one for Old
Testament prophecy,
00:34:10.12\00:34:11.65
here comes
number two, as a nation,
00:34:11.68\00:34:13.54
Israel rejected God's
appeal through Christ.
00:34:13.57\00:34:19.75
Write in the word rejected.
00:34:19.78\00:34:21.43
By the way let me
be quick to insert
00:34:21.46\00:34:24.24
this is not an
anti-Semitic proposition.
00:34:24.27\00:34:27.32
No, no, no the mass, come on,
00:34:27.35\00:34:29.11
the masses of
Israel during the time
00:34:29.14\00:34:31.45
of Jesus gladly heard him.
00:34:31.48\00:34:33.59
Gladly embraced him as Messiah
00:34:33.62\00:34:35.59
and particularly
after His crucifixion,
00:34:35.62\00:34:37.92
resurrection and ascension
by the tens of thousands Jews
00:34:37.95\00:34:41.98
accepted Christ as the Messiah.
00:34:42.01\00:34:44.60
But tragically the
national religious leadership
00:34:44.63\00:34:49.43
rejected him.
00:34:49.46\00:34:53.24
That's why you have the
prophecy in Daniel 9: 24,
00:34:53.27\00:34:58.12
just a few pages
earlier in Daniel,
00:34:58.15\00:35:00.59
God's talking about
a probationary period
00:35:00.62\00:35:02.39
that He's gonna
give after the exile
00:35:02.42\00:35:04.74
that He's gonna give
to the children of Israel,
00:35:04.77\00:35:06.85
70 weeks Daniel.
00:35:06.88\00:35:08.57
Bible scholars are
clear that's 490 years,
00:35:08.60\00:35:10.95
"Are determined For your
people and for your holy city,
00:35:10.98\00:35:13.83
To finish the transgression,
To make an end of sins,
00:35:13.86\00:35:16.91
To make
reconciliation for iniquity,
00:35:16.94\00:35:18.80
To bring in
everlasting righteousness,
00:35:18.83\00:35:20.69
To seal up vision and prophecy,
00:35:20.72\00:35:22.72
And to anoint the Most Holy."
00:35:22.75\00:35:26.23
God said, I want
to give 490 more years
00:35:26.26\00:35:28.73
but still the national
leadership of Israel said no,
00:35:28.76\00:35:33.64
and God has no choice
but to honor the freedom
00:35:33.67\00:35:36.59
of even the community of faith.
00:35:36.62\00:35:38.48
And it must have broken--
00:35:38.51\00:35:40.07
it must have broken Jesus' heart
00:35:40.10\00:35:42.55
to sob these words.
00:35:42.58\00:35:44.04
In Matthew 23, look at this,
00:35:44.07\00:35:45.95
Matthew 23:37, "O Jerusalem,
00:35:45.98\00:35:49.77
Jerusalem, the one
who kills the prophets
00:35:49.80\00:35:52.93
and stones those
who are sent to her!
00:35:52.96\00:35:55.12
How often I wanted to
gather your children together,
00:35:55.15\00:35:58.07
as a hen gathers her
chicks under her wings,
00:35:58.10\00:36:00.43
but you were not willing! See!
00:36:00.46\00:36:02.93
Your house is left
to you now desolate."
00:36:02.96\00:36:06.26
It is over.
00:36:06.29\00:36:09.86
Broken hearted God
must accept free choice
00:36:09.89\00:36:15.81
and Jesus does.
00:36:15.84\00:36:18.02
And as the consequence
00:36:18.05\00:36:19.13
the greatest
Christian who ever lived,
00:36:19.16\00:36:20.75
who was an orthodox
Jew and a rabbi himself.
00:36:20.78\00:36:24.36
The mighty Apostle Paul
gives us interpretation.
00:36:24.39\00:36:26.88
Number three
clue to how interpret
00:36:26.91\00:36:29.14
Old Testament prophecy
write this down please.
00:36:29.17\00:36:30.88
God turned as a result of
their rejecting the Messiah,
00:36:30.91\00:36:34.41
God turned from a geographical
Israel to a spiritual Israel
00:36:34.44\00:36:39.33
and a spiritual Jerusalem
to become the recipients
00:36:39.36\00:36:43.08
of the Old Testament's
prophecies of future glory
00:36:43.11\00:36:46.44
for Israel and Jerusalem.
00:36:46.47\00:36:48.53
Take a look at
this incontrovertible.
00:36:48.56\00:36:50.53
Look at this Romans
9:6 Paul is writing.
00:36:50.56\00:36:53.39
But he says, hey
readers, I want you to know,
00:36:53.42\00:36:55.44
"It is not that the word
of God has taken no effect.
00:36:55.47\00:36:58.71
For they are not all
Israel who are of Israel."
00:36:58.74\00:37:02.25
Just because you say I got
DNA that says I'm from Israel.
00:37:02.28\00:37:05.46
Paul says, too bad,
everybody from Israel
00:37:05.49\00:37:07.43
is not really the Israel
that has God has promised.
00:37:07.46\00:37:10.13
Notice the next verse.
00:37:10.16\00:37:11.36
"Nor are they all
children because, hey, Abraham,
00:37:11.39\00:37:14.24
I get my family tree
tied to his, but rather,
00:37:14.27\00:37:17.32
"In Isaac your
seed shall be called.
00:37:17.35\00:37:20.52
That is, those who are
the children of the flesh,
00:37:20.55\00:37:22.65
these are not
the children of God."
00:37:22.68\00:37:24.13
It has to be out of faith.
00:37:24.16\00:37:25.42
You have to
receive it out of faith.
00:37:25.45\00:37:27.26
"The children of the promise
are counted as the seed."
00:37:27.29\00:37:29.73
And now get this
guys, this is incredible.
00:37:29.76\00:37:31.55
Little bit
earlier in Romans 2:28,
00:37:31.58\00:37:35.08
Paul says, you want to
know who the real Jew is?
00:37:35.11\00:37:36.85
Take a look at this, "For he is
not a Jew who is one outwardly,
00:37:36.88\00:37:40.77
nor is circumcision that
which is outward in the flesh."
00:37:40.80\00:37:44.58
Forget it, forget it.
00:37:44.61\00:37:45.73
Well, what are you
talking about them, Paul?
00:37:45.76\00:37:47.11
Verse 29, "He is a
Jew who is one inwardly,
00:37:47.14\00:37:51.33
and circumcision
is that of the heart,
00:37:51.36\00:37:53.57
in the Spirit,
not in the letter,
00:37:53.60\00:37:55.89
whose praise" catch
that word, knows that word,
00:37:55.92\00:37:58.45
"whose praise is not
from men but from God."
00:37:58.48\00:38:01.79
Paul is doing a little bit
of a-- a play on words here
00:38:01.82\00:38:04.04
then the name Jew
comes from the name Judah
00:38:04.07\00:38:07.95
and Yehudah mean praise.
00:38:07.98\00:38:10.39
You wanted-- you
want true praise,
00:38:10.42\00:38:12.59
it won't be the cutting of your
flesh or the DNA in your blood.
00:38:12.62\00:38:17.07
It will be the change of your
heart by faith in the Messiah.
00:38:17.10\00:38:22.63
That's his point.
00:38:22.66\00:38:23.72
One more just in case you say,
00:38:23.75\00:38:25.81
you're still not
sure this will accentuate.
00:38:25.84\00:38:27.43
Galatians 3:28,
"There is neither now,
00:38:27.46\00:38:31.19
neither Jew nor Greek,
slave nor free, male nor female,
00:38:31.22\00:38:35.12
for you are all
one in Christ Jesus.
00:38:35.15\00:38:37.81
If you belong to Christ,
then you are Abraham's seed,
00:38:37.84\00:38:41.51
and heirs
according to the promise."
00:38:41.54\00:38:45.86
Would you write it down please,
00:38:45.89\00:38:47.08
this is Paul's
point, jot it down.
00:38:47.11\00:38:49.24
"Through faith in Christ
00:38:49.27\00:38:51.44
a new spiritual Israel,
00:38:51.47\00:38:54.62
write in the
world new has been born,
00:38:54.65\00:38:56.49
inheriting all the
promises made to Abraham,
00:38:56.52\00:38:59.54
the father of the Jews.
00:38:59.57\00:39:01.18
And by the way the
great Jew who became
00:39:01.21\00:39:04.95
the foremost leader of
the New Testament church,
00:39:04.98\00:39:06.82
Peter himself
agrees at what Paul says,
00:39:06.85\00:39:08.61
write on Paul look at this,
00:39:08.64\00:39:10.17
1 Peter 2: 9, Peter
is writing to Gentiles,
00:39:10.20\00:39:13.41
"But you are a
chosen generation,
00:39:13.44\00:39:16.64
a royal
priesthood, a holy nation,
00:39:16.67\00:39:19.43
His own special people,
00:39:19.46\00:39:20.86
that you may
proclaim the praises."
00:39:20.89\00:39:22.85
See there's the
word praise again.
00:39:22.88\00:39:24.45
The true Jew is
the one in Christ,
00:39:24.48\00:39:26.37
"That you may
proclaim the praises of Him
00:39:26.40\00:39:28.75
who called you out of darkness
into His marvelous light,"
00:39:28.78\00:39:31.78
Guys, jot this down
real quick, Peter's point,
00:39:31.81\00:39:34.24
"The new community of spiritual
Israel is a holy nation.
00:39:34.27\00:39:39.61
God has a new
Israel, It's a nation.
00:39:39.64\00:39:42.46
It's no longer
tied to geography.
00:39:42.49\00:39:44.46
It's tied to the heart,
00:39:44.49\00:39:46.42
the heart's
response to the Messiah,
00:39:46.45\00:39:48.69
a spiritual
community, a nation he calls it.
00:39:48.72\00:39:52.42
Wow, therefore we
have principle number four,
00:39:52.45\00:39:54.95
jot it down.
00:39:54.98\00:39:56.10
"Old Testament prophecies
regarding Israel's future,
00:39:56.13\00:39:59.23
that would have
been literally fulfilled
00:39:59.26\00:40:01.43
had Israel
remained obedient to God,
00:40:01.46\00:40:04.01
must now be
reapplied to spiritual Israel,"
00:40:04.04\00:40:08.07
There is the key point
focusing on spiritual intent
00:40:08.10\00:40:12.08
rather than
geographical detail anymore.
00:40:12.11\00:40:15.34
No more geography
now, it's over, it's over.
00:40:15.37\00:40:18.99
Which means
that Joel Rosenberg's
00:40:19.02\00:40:20.45
use of Ezekiel, listen carefully
00:40:20.48\00:40:21.53
now 'cause you're
gonna move in circles
00:40:21.56\00:40:23.83
where this wil
be brought to you.
00:40:23.86\00:40:25.71
Joel Rosenberg's
use of Ezekiel 38 and 39
00:40:25.74\00:40:29.57
that's the ancient
prophecy about a king name Gog,
00:40:29.60\00:40:33.24
from a land called Magog.
00:40:33.27\00:40:34.53
You've heard of-- have
you heard of Gog and Magog?
00:40:34.56\00:40:36.44
He says, that's Russia and Iran
00:40:36.47\00:40:38.97
coming against Israel that means
00:40:39.00\00:40:40.54
based on this four principles
00:40:40.57\00:40:42.04
that Joel
Rosenberg's using that prophecy
00:40:42.07\00:40:45.36
to prove his prediction
00:40:45.39\00:40:46.71
that Russia and Iran will
one day unite against Israel.
00:40:46.74\00:40:50.22
And by political and
evangelical extension,
00:40:50.25\00:40:52.44
the United States
is simply sadly wrong.
00:40:52.47\00:40:57.49
It's wrong,
00:40:57.52\00:40:59.49
it would have come true,
00:40:59.52\00:41:00.90
had Israel after the
exile remain true to God,
00:41:00.93\00:41:03.56
but it did not.
00:41:03.59\00:41:05.49
Rosenberg obviously is
oblivious to these four
00:41:05.52\00:41:10.68
critical Bible
prophecy interpretation
00:41:10.71\00:41:14.42
principles that
we've just shared.
00:41:14.45\00:41:19.67
You can answer anybody...
00:41:19.70\00:41:25.55
anybody.
00:41:25.58\00:41:27.26
Lock on but in the
Bible interpret itself.
00:41:27.29\00:41:30.67
And so Joel
Rosenberg, Tim LaHaye,
00:41:30.70\00:41:33.05
have you heard of him?
00:41:33.08\00:41:34.83
Left behind the identical
00:41:34.86\00:41:38.47
premise that drives
LaHaye, drives Rosenberg,
00:41:38.50\00:41:41.15
these other
evangelical preachers
00:41:41.18\00:41:42.96
by the way well
meaning though they are,
00:41:42.99\00:41:45.70
have mistakenly interpreted
Old Testament prophecies
00:41:45.73\00:41:49.16
to continue to be
literal unconditional prophecies
00:41:49.19\00:41:52.68
that can be applied to
Israel at the end of time.
00:41:52.71\00:41:55.22
And that simply is wrong,
00:41:55.25\00:41:58.04
Paul has made his point.
00:41:58.07\00:42:00.38
You say, oh, come on, Dwight,
00:42:00.41\00:42:01.56
come on pastor,
what's the big deal?
00:42:01.59\00:42:03.44
Let it go,
00:42:03.47\00:42:04.90
I would let it go
00:42:04.93\00:42:07.85
and the reason why I'm
so passionate about this.
00:42:07.88\00:42:10.77
Were it not for the danger
that such an interpretation
00:42:10.80\00:42:14.10
brings to the Christian
community in this nation
00:42:14.13\00:42:16.88
and around the world.
00:42:16.91\00:42:18.17
Clearly the dark and
evil prince of this world
00:42:18.20\00:42:21.11
is working overtime
to distract the church
00:42:21.14\00:42:23.59
by events in the Middle East.
00:42:23.62\00:42:25.08
Hey, guys,
look, look, look, look
00:42:25.11\00:42:27.10
and while
everybody staring over there.
00:42:27.13\00:42:28.89
Here it comes
gaining ahead of steam,
00:42:28.92\00:42:31.35
the king of the
north not the east,
00:42:31.38\00:42:33.16
it's the north.
00:42:33.19\00:42:35.36
If I were the devil,
I'd do the same thing.
00:42:35.39\00:42:38.13
Get everybody looking here.
00:42:38.16\00:42:39.84
Surely something's gonna happen
here for the end time scenario
00:42:39.87\00:42:43.05
and boom out of the back
00:42:43.08\00:42:46.14
and brought down.
00:42:46.17\00:42:47.86
Brilliant devil,
00:42:47.89\00:42:55.02
as we will discover
next week in the conclusion.
00:42:55.05\00:42:58.59
Go back to Daniel 12
00:42:58.62\00:43:01.29
we read again Daniel 12:1,
00:43:01.32\00:43:04.61
"At that time
Michael shall stand up,
00:43:04.64\00:43:07.53
The great prince who stands
00:43:07.56\00:43:08.82
watch over the
sons of your people,
00:43:08.85\00:43:11.45
And there shall
be a time of trouble,
00:43:11.48\00:43:12.65
such as never was since there
was a nation even to that time.
00:43:12.68\00:43:15.08
And at that time your people
shall be delivered, Daniel.
00:43:15.11\00:43:18.29
Every one who is
found written in the book."
00:43:18.32\00:43:20.89
The four interpretation
principles that you
00:43:20.92\00:43:23.02
and I have just noted
mean that Daniel's people
00:43:23.05\00:43:25.67
who are delivered at the
end of time are not modern Jews.
00:43:25.70\00:43:28.76
They are not modern Israel,
00:43:28.79\00:43:30.11
they are the people of God
00:43:30.14\00:43:32.45
living in the final generation.
00:43:32.48\00:43:34.30
In fact would you
jot this down please,
00:43:34.33\00:43:35.80
the deliverance promised here
00:43:35.83\00:43:37.83
is not for the nation of Israel
00:43:37.86\00:43:39.69
but rather for the people of God
00:43:39.72\00:43:41.85
the world over.
00:43:41.88\00:43:43.96
Keep your pen moving,
00:43:43.99\00:43:45.06
Daniel is clear.
00:43:45.09\00:43:46.21
They are not delivered
because they are his people,
00:43:46.24\00:43:48.53
they are delivered because
their names are in the book.
00:43:48.56\00:43:51.66
What book? The twin
book that Daniel tells us,
00:43:51.69\00:43:54.08
it is the Lamb's book of life.
00:43:54.11\00:43:57.03
Write that down.
00:43:57.06\00:44:00.30
A people at the end of
time who will stand radically
00:44:00.33\00:44:03.56
and boldly for
the Lord Jesus Christ.
00:44:03.59\00:44:06.44
And by the way would
you jot this down too--
00:44:06.47\00:44:08.13
let's not escape the bad news,
00:44:08.16\00:44:10.02
and who this people will face
00:44:10.05\00:44:11.74
the most dreadful
crisis in the history.
00:44:11.77\00:44:14.62
Write it down, in
the history of time.
00:44:14.65\00:44:19.15
Oh, mercy,
00:44:19.18\00:44:20.30
notice Jesus somber declaration
00:44:20.33\00:44:23.68
in the gospel's little
mini apocalypse Matthew 24,
00:44:23.71\00:44:26.90
the science of the times chapter
00:44:26.93\00:44:27.96
is that little mini apocalypse,
00:44:27.99\00:44:29.97
Jesus quotes Daniel,
00:44:30.00\00:44:31.71
as he describes
this final crises,
00:44:31.74\00:44:33.22
this is Matthew 24:21,
00:44:33.25\00:44:35.32
"For then there will
be great tribulation,
00:44:35.35\00:44:38.03
such as has not been
since the beginning of the world
00:44:38.06\00:44:41.07
until this time,
00:44:41.10\00:44:42.41
no, nor ever shall be."
00:44:42.44\00:44:43.54
Direct quote out
of Daniel, all right.
00:44:43.57\00:44:45.33
"And unless those
days were shortened,
00:44:45.36\00:44:48.66
no flesh would be saved,
00:44:48.69\00:44:50.40
but for the elect's sake
00:44:50.43\00:44:52.17
those days will be shortened."
00:44:52.20\00:44:55.83
Jot that down Jesus says,
00:44:55.86\00:44:57.15
unless those days were shortened
00:44:57.18\00:44:59.57
no flesh would be saved.
00:44:59.60\00:45:02.36
The New
International translate it
00:45:02.39\00:45:03.71
"No one would survive"
00:45:03.74\00:45:06.63
Ladies and gentlemen,
we're not talking about
00:45:06.66\00:45:07.88
a little conflagration
in the Middle East here.
00:45:07.91\00:45:11.46
This is massive,
00:45:11.50\00:45:13.27
it is global and it is
before the return of Christ.
00:45:13.30\00:45:17.96
The worst in the history
of this race is yet ahead,
00:45:17.99\00:45:21.36
that's the bad news.
00:45:21.39\00:45:22.49
By the way that
little apocalyptic classic
00:45:22.52\00:45:24.09
Great Controversy
page 622, Jot this down.
00:45:24.12\00:45:26.64
"It is often the case
that trouble is greater
00:45:26.67\00:45:28.60
in anticipation
than in reality."
00:45:28.63\00:45:31.21
Have you ever had to
have surgery? Have you ever?
00:45:31.24\00:45:34.22
You know what the worst part
of surgery is not the surgery.
00:45:34.25\00:45:36.72
It's the
countdown to the surgery.
00:45:36.75\00:45:38.54
I visit people all the time,
00:45:38.57\00:45:39.89
I was just as one
of our dear member shot
00:45:39.92\00:45:41.15
a graft this last week who came
00:45:41.18\00:45:42.24
very successfully
through a surgery.
00:45:42.27\00:45:44.20
But boys, I'm visiting with her,
00:45:44.23\00:45:45.82
it's the
anticipation that kills you.
00:45:45.85\00:45:48.19
Once a surgery is over,
hey, hallelujah, I made it.
00:45:48.22\00:45:51.87
Now that's often
the way it is in life
00:45:51.90\00:45:53.54
but notice the point
the author is making here.
00:45:53.57\00:45:55.51
Very significant.
00:45:55.54\00:45:56.60
"It is often the case
that trouble is greater
00:45:56.63\00:45:58.59
in anticipation than in reality,
00:45:58.62\00:46:00.55
but this is not true
00:46:00.58\00:46:03.88
of the crisis yet ahead of us.
00:46:03.91\00:46:06.98
The most vivid presentation
cannot reach the magnitude
00:46:07.01\00:46:11.03
of the ordeal.
00:46:11.06\00:46:13.81
When I first
came into this parish
00:46:13.84\00:46:17.44
some years ago, a
seminary professor took me aside
00:46:17.47\00:46:19.82
and said hey, Dwight.
00:46:19.85\00:46:21.41
There's a little
concern about how the children
00:46:21.44\00:46:22.61
are being prepared and he said,
00:46:22.64\00:46:25.64
you know what we--
00:46:25.67\00:46:27.51
you can't be teaching
at the time of trouble.
00:46:27.54\00:46:28.74
You can't be
teaching-- you can't scare kids
00:46:28.77\00:46:30.58
into accepting
Jesus as savior please.
00:46:30.61\00:46:35.05
You know what?
00:46:35.08\00:46:36.14
I concur with
that professor then
00:46:36.17\00:46:37.69
and I can concur still today.
00:46:37.72\00:46:40.81
However fear's not--
00:46:40.84\00:46:42.72
fear is not the
proper motivation forever.
00:46:42.75\00:46:45.19
It's not the proper
motivation for coming to Jesus,
00:46:45.22\00:46:46.80
I understand that.
00:46:46.83\00:46:48.00
However I do fear
00:46:48.03\00:46:50.64
that the pendulum has swung
so far the other way that today
00:46:50.67\00:46:54.50
we are practically oblivious
to the impending crisis
00:46:54.53\00:46:58.01
that is going to
crash down around us.
00:46:58.04\00:47:00.47
Oh, man, you
don't have to worry,
00:47:00.50\00:47:03.68
please it's no big deal.
00:47:03.71\00:47:07.29
You better tell that to Jesus
00:47:07.32\00:47:08.89
and then you'll
tell it to Daniel.
00:47:08.92\00:47:11.39
And why you had
to tell the writer
00:47:11.42\00:47:12.49
of Great Controversy the same.
00:47:12.52\00:47:15.59
Jacques Doukhan my friend
here in the theological seminar,
00:47:15.62\00:47:17.95
he's written a
book Secrets of Daniel.
00:47:17.98\00:47:19.52
Look at these words of Jacques.
00:47:19.55\00:47:21.80
"We have no knowledge as
yet of the nature of the despair
00:47:21.83\00:47:24.21
that will torment the last
survivors of human history."
00:47:24.24\00:47:27.67
It got no concept.
00:47:27.70\00:47:29.89
"It has no historical precedent.
00:47:29.92\00:47:32.03
And I want to just hit
the pause button right there.
00:47:32.06\00:47:33.78
There is no
historical calibration, okay.
00:47:33.81\00:47:36.40
Let's see, like
it was back there,
00:47:36.43\00:47:37.89
that's what it'll be now.
00:47:37.92\00:47:38.97
No, no, no
00:47:39.00\00:47:41.11
there's nothing ever been
00:47:41.14\00:47:43.76
like what's coming.
00:47:43.79\00:47:45.44
You get the point? It's bad.
00:47:45.47\00:47:47.75
All right,
that's Doukhan's point,
00:47:47.78\00:47:49.65
It has no
historical precedent....
00:47:49.68\00:47:51.47
History becomes a battlefield
00:47:51.50\00:47:52.58
that's what'll
happen at the end.
00:47:52.61\00:47:53.70
A battlefield of raging forces,
00:47:53.73\00:47:55.25
and evil seems to
have triumphed over good.
00:47:55.28\00:47:57.63
"Why go on?"
People would wonder.
00:47:57.66\00:47:59.40
"Doubts smother the
feeble flame of faith.
00:47:59.43\00:48:01.44
With nowhere to turn,
00:48:01.47\00:48:02.50
God's people seem
to have no hope left.
00:48:02.53\00:48:04.68
It is truly 'a time of distress'
00:48:04.71\00:48:06.52
quoting Jeremiah 30:7.
00:48:06.55\00:48:08.41
It is a time of
trouble such as has never been.
00:48:08.44\00:48:11.61
The Bible is clear,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:48:11.64\00:48:13.23
The Last Sonset
will usher in a very--
00:48:13.26\00:48:18.50
the darkest night in the
history of the human race
00:48:18.53\00:48:23.05
Save for Gethsemane,
00:48:23.08\00:48:24.90
save for Gethsemane.
00:48:24.93\00:48:28.62
We don't need the impending
time of trouble to motivate us,
00:48:28.65\00:48:30.96
I agree with you.
00:48:30.99\00:48:33.09
Although we surely
need to be reminded
00:48:33.12\00:48:35.06
do we not that we
do not have forever.
00:48:35.09\00:48:37.78
The spiritual decisions
you are waiting to make,
00:48:37.81\00:48:39.88
that character changes.
00:48:39.91\00:48:41.01
You are waiting to undertake
00:48:41.04\00:48:43.66
ought not to be put off.
00:48:43.69\00:48:48.53
Same book
00:48:48.56\00:48:49.64
that tells us it'll be
worse than anticipation.
00:48:49.67\00:48:52.22
Great Controversy,
00:48:52.25\00:48:53.49
beautiful here
00:48:53.52\00:48:54.55
and you got it
in your study guide.
00:48:54.58\00:48:55.87
"It is in this life
00:48:55.90\00:48:57.30
that we are to
separate sin from us,
00:48:57.33\00:49:00.09
through faith..." I love this,
00:49:00.12\00:49:01.36
"Through faith in the
atoning blood of Christ."
00:49:01.39\00:49:04.04
Michael became Emmanuel,
00:49:04.07\00:49:06.35
the second person of the God
00:49:06.38\00:49:07.45
had become one
with the human race.
00:49:07.48\00:49:10.10
"The atoning blood of Christ.
00:49:10.13\00:49:11.24
Our precious Savior
00:49:11.27\00:49:13.68
invites us to
join ourselves to Him,
00:49:13.71\00:49:16.07
to unite our
weakness to His strength,
00:49:16.10\00:49:17.92
our ignorance to His wisdom,
00:49:17.95\00:49:20.48
our unworthiness to His merits.
00:49:20.51\00:49:22.63
God' providence is the school
00:49:22.66\00:49:25.75
in which we are
to learn the meekness
00:49:25.78\00:49:27.79
and lowliness of Jesus."
00:49:27.82\00:49:29.64
And here's the line that got me,
00:49:29.67\00:49:30.89
"The Lord is ever
setting before us,
00:49:30.92\00:49:33.40
not the way we would choose."
00:49:33.43\00:49:36.14
And that's something
I'm always given God orders.
00:49:36.17\00:49:39.27
I'm always telling him this
is what will be best for me,
00:49:39.30\00:49:41.38
then I need this
and then you do this.
00:49:41.41\00:49:43.46
And if you will
just cooperate with me,
00:49:43.49\00:49:44.81
we'll get along just fine.
00:49:44.84\00:49:47.69
Do you ever do that with God?
00:49:47.72\00:49:50.91
Nag, nag, nag, nag,
00:49:50.94\00:49:53.63
what's the point here?
00:49:53.66\00:49:54.80
This hit me,
00:49:54.83\00:49:56.39
The Lord is ever
setting before us,
00:49:56.42\00:49:57.53
not the way we would choose,
00:49:57.56\00:49:59.64
God doesn't choose death,
God doesn't choose disease.
00:49:59.67\00:50:01.81
God doesn't choose
divorce, God didn't choose evil.
00:50:01.84\00:50:05.45
But He let you go through it.
00:50:05.48\00:50:07.65
He let you go through it.
00:50:07.68\00:50:09.40
He chose that way.
00:50:09.43\00:50:11.19
He said, I'll be with you,
00:50:11.22\00:50:12.76
always even to
the end of the age.
00:50:12.79\00:50:15.41
Trust me, it's best for you.
00:50:15.44\00:50:21.28
"The Lord is ever
setting before us,
00:50:21.31\00:50:22.34
not the way we would choose,
00:50:22.37\00:50:24.03
which seems easier
and pleasanter to us,
00:50:24.06\00:50:25.75
but the true aims of life.
00:50:25.78\00:50:27.06
It rests with us to
co-operate with the agencies
00:50:27.09\00:50:28.75
which Heaven employs
in the work of conforming
00:50:28.78\00:50:31.74
our characters to
Jesus, the divine model.
00:50:31.77\00:50:34.28
None, final sentence,
00:50:34.31\00:50:35.82
none can neglect
or defer this work
00:50:35.85\00:50:37.83
but at the most
fearful peril to their souls."
00:50:37.86\00:50:41.51
Which being interpreted
means ladies and gentlemen,
00:50:41.54\00:50:44.19
we cannot-- we dare not
00:50:44.22\00:50:46.98
put off to tomorrow,
00:50:47.01\00:50:49.31
which you know in your heart.
00:50:49.34\00:50:50.74
You have got to do today.
00:50:50.77\00:50:53.30
You can't put it off.
00:50:53.33\00:50:54.84
How do you know you're
gonna be here tomorrow?
00:50:54.87\00:50:57.55
How do you know you're
gonna be here tomorrow?
00:50:57.58\00:51:00.06
You have no knowledge.
00:51:00.09\00:51:02.76
I may bury you this week.
00:51:02.79\00:51:04.31
You say, well,
'cause you said that
00:51:10.70\00:51:12.92
I'll make sure you're
not the one burying me.
00:51:12.95\00:51:16.44
He got the point,
00:51:16.47\00:51:22.72
that's what our power 24,
00:51:22.75\00:51:25.82
focus these 24
hours is all about.
00:51:25.85\00:51:30.27
We cannot put off
a seeking a deeper
00:51:30.30\00:51:33.47
more meaningful
relationship with Christ.
00:51:33.50\00:51:36.51
There comes a time
when you clear the desk,
00:51:36.54\00:51:39.33
and you go without
what's your favorite activity.
00:51:39.36\00:51:41.53
You go without
what's your favorite food
00:51:41.56\00:51:43.43
and you're just praying.
00:51:43.46\00:51:45.54
You go deep over Jesus,
00:51:45.57\00:51:47.06
and you say Jesus take me
to another level with you.
00:51:47.09\00:51:50.51
I want to go deeper with you,
that's what power 24 is about.
00:51:50.54\00:51:54.16
You don't have
tomorrow, you got today.
00:51:54.19\00:51:57.28
Oh, great, shall we
fear tomorrow, never.
00:51:57.31\00:52:01.56
Oh, mercy, why?
00:52:01.59\00:52:02.93
Because we've got Michael.
00:52:02.96\00:52:04.46
Read it again one last time.
00:52:04.49\00:52:05.95
Chapter 12:1, "At that time
00:52:05.98\00:52:07.68
Michael shall
stand up, hallelujah.
00:52:07.71\00:52:10.96
The great prince who stands
00:52:10.99\00:52:12.03
watch over the
sons of your people,
00:52:12.06\00:52:13.80
And there shall
be a time of trouble,
00:52:13.83\00:52:15.03
Such as never was
since there was a nation.
00:52:15.06\00:52:16.74
Even to that time.
00:52:16.77\00:52:17.81
And at that time your
people shall be delivered,
00:52:17.84\00:52:20.49
Every one who is
found written in the book."
00:52:20.52\00:52:24.08
We have Michael
00:52:24.11\00:52:26.16
and when you've got
Michael, you've got God.
00:52:26.19\00:52:28.67
And when you've got God,
00:52:28.70\00:52:29.81
there is nothing to
fear for the future.
00:52:29.84\00:52:31.51
And when there is
nothing to fear for the future,
00:52:31.54\00:52:33.26
there is nothing in the
present that can hold you back.
00:52:33.29\00:52:37.10
489 years ago,
00:52:37.13\00:52:39.50
this very weak
00:52:39.53\00:52:42.92
young German monk
00:52:42.95\00:52:45.47
spreading those fallen
autumn leaves in Wittenburg,
00:52:45.50\00:52:49.12
strode up to the
university bulletin board
00:52:49.15\00:52:51.03
which happened to be the wooden
doors of the cathedral church.
00:52:51.06\00:52:54.42
And he hammered up on that door,
00:52:54.45\00:52:57.20
his 95 thesis, 95 convictions,
00:52:57.23\00:53:00.71
Martin Luther posted.
00:53:00.74\00:53:02.96
Why I believe that
ultimately salvation
00:53:02.99\00:53:05.92
cannot be sold by an
institutional church.
00:53:05.95\00:53:08.30
Cannot be manipulated
or controlled by a power
00:53:08.33\00:53:11.71
that is only in Christ Jesus.
00:53:11.74\00:53:13.30
I believe that,
00:53:13.33\00:53:14.89
and nailed it up
and 489 years later.
00:53:14.92\00:53:20.18
His battle cry is still true.
00:53:20.21\00:53:22.11
A mighty fortress
00:53:22.14\00:53:24.11
is our God never failing.
00:53:24.14\00:53:29.76
I love that
second stanza of his,
00:53:29.79\00:53:31.93
put it on the screen for you
00:53:31.96\00:53:33.44
"Did we in our
own strength confide,
00:53:33.47\00:53:37.00
our striving would be losing,
00:53:37.03\00:53:39.97
were not the
right man on our side,
00:53:40.00\00:53:43.71
the man of God's own choosing.
00:53:43.74\00:53:45.66
Dost ask who that may be?
00:53:45.69\00:53:47.11
Christ Jesus, it is he,
00:53:47.14\00:53:49.97
Lord Sabaoth, his name,
00:53:50.00\00:53:51.97
from age to age the same,
00:53:52.00\00:53:53.58
and he must win the battle."
00:53:53.61\00:53:58.37
Daniel declares not
must He does, He wins,
00:53:58.40\00:54:02.79
Michael shows up and
when Michael shows up
00:54:02.82\00:54:05.87
the right man on
our side, Michael wins.
00:54:05.90\00:54:09.09
And please do not forget this,
00:54:09.12\00:54:11.14
when Michael
wins, we win with him.
00:54:11.17\00:54:16.89
Which is an ending,
00:54:16.92\00:54:17.95
you got to-- you lock this away.
00:54:17.98\00:54:19.63
That is an ending
we must never forget
00:54:19.66\00:54:22.72
as we prepare to face
the king of the north.
00:54:22.75\00:54:28.40
It may look like it's all over
00:54:28.43\00:54:33.44
but never forget,
00:54:33.47\00:54:35.08
Michael wins.
00:54:35.11\00:54:36.68
Michael wins, don't you ever--
00:54:36.71\00:54:40.55
don't you ever
step away from Michael,
00:54:40.58\00:54:43.95
which is why by the way,
00:54:43.98\00:54:45.23
we need a new generation
of Martin Luther's today.
00:54:45.26\00:54:49.10
I'm gonna end with an appeal.
00:54:49.13\00:54:53.43
If you are a young man
00:54:53.46\00:54:56.46
hear now.
00:54:56.49\00:55:01.69
Like Martin Luther,
00:55:01.72\00:55:03.98
and you'll be willing
to make your life available
00:55:04.01\00:55:05.82
to the Lord Jesus
Christ to Michael himself,
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to stand just like Jacques did.
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To stand even if
you have to stand alone.
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If you're a young man here,
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I want to invite you to
stand to your feet right now.
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I don't care
what's your major is,
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I don't care
what your career is,
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it doesn't matter to me.
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If you're willing
to stand as a young man
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for the Lord Jesus Christ
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and you don't have to
be a young man either.
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I see some of the older
men stood up and that's good.
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Yeah, you stand.
00:55:31.90\00:55:34.98
We need a generation
of Martin Luther's today.
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Unafraid and un-intimidated,
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who will stand for
Michael who has stood for them.
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How about you women?
00:55:44.29\00:55:45.34
Young women,
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young women willing
to stand up in the circus
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where Jesus has
placed you on this campus
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or in this community
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I don't care what's your major
is or what's your calling is,
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stand for Jesus.
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You're young women,
00:55:57.39\00:55:58.66
and not so young women
00:55:58.69\00:56:00.92
and you're willing
to stand for Jesus.
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We need a generation,
it's not based upon age.
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It's based upon
commitment to Michael.
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To the Michael who
stands for us, hallelujah.
00:56:08.94\00:56:13.56
Oh, holy father,
just because of that truth
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your kingdom is forever
00:56:15.78\00:56:18.65
that we have nothing
to fear for the future.
00:56:18.68\00:56:22.28
Michael stands
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and when Michael stands he wins.
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We chose Christ Jesus today.
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Let the record show we
have stood to choose Him
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that we too might stand for him
00:56:37.25\00:56:40.47
in this hour of history.
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We are not afraid holy father
00:56:43.34\00:56:45.79
for our Christ has
truly promised us lo,
00:56:45.82\00:56:51.66
I'm with you always
even to the end of the age,
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even so come Lord Jesus, amen.
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Before you go I wanted
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a civilization
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of constant upheaval and change.
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I'm grateful that we have
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aren't you?
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