And now our
morning call to worship
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comes to us from
Psalm 67 and it reads,
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"May God be gracious to us,
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and bless us and
make His face shine on us,
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so that your ways
may be known on earth,
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Your salvation
among all nations.
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May the peoples praise You God,
may all the peoples praise You,
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may the nations be
glad and sing for joy,
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for You rule the
people with equity
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and guide the
nations of the earth."
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Let's pray together.
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Father, we confess
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that sometimes
the world seems dark.
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The challenges mount,
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the pestilences
seem to increase.
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But we are gathered here
together online and in person
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because we believe
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that the Lord is a mighty tower.
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He is that
fortress that we depend on.
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And so today as we worship,
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we just thank You for
receiving our worship,
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because it's done in faith.
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Our eyes are on You,
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we thank You in
the name of Jesus.
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Amen.
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A message of God's
protection from Psalms 46.
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"Come see the works of the Lord,
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what desolations He
has made in the earth.
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He makes wars to cease
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to the farthest
places in the earth.
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He breaks the bow and
cuts the spear in pieces.
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Be still and know that I am God.
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I will be exalted
among the nations.
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I will be exalted in the earth.
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The Lord of hosts is with us,
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the God of Jacob is our refuge."
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A mighty fortress is our God
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A bulwark never failing
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Our helper He, amid the flood
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Of mortal ills prevailing
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For still our ancient foe
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Doth seek to work us woe
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His craft and power are great
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And armed with cruel hate
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On earth is not his equal
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Did we In our
own strength confide
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Our striving would be losing
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Were not the
right man On our side
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The man of God's own choosing
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Dost ask who that may be?
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Christ Jesus, it is He
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Lord Sabaoth His name
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From age to age the same
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And He must win the battle
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And though this
world, With devils filled
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Should threaten to undo us
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We will not fear
For God hath willed
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His truth to triumph through us
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The prince of darkness grim
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We tremble not for him
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His rage we can endure
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For lo! His doom is sure
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One little word shall fell him
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That word Above
all earthly powers
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No thanks to them, abideth
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The Spirit And
the gifts are ours
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Through Him who with us sideth
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Let goods and kindred go
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This mortal life also
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The body they may kill
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God's truth abideth still
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His kingdom is forever.
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Amen.
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A message of hope in
Christ from Romans 8,
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"For I am convinced
that neither death nor life,
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nor angels nor principalities,
nor powers nor things present,
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nor things to come,
nor height, nor depth,
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nor any other created thing
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will be able to separate
us from the love of God,
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which is in
Christ Jesus our Lord."
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Amen.
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In Christ alone My hope is found
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He is my light
My strength, my song
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This Cornerstone
This solid ground
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Firm through
the fiercest drought
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And storm
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What heights of
love What depths of peace
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When fears are stilled
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When strivings cease
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My Comforter, my all in all
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Here in the love of Christ
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I stand
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In Christ alone
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Who took on flesh
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Fullness of God In helpless Babe
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This gift of
love And righteousness
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Scorned by the
ones He came to save
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'Til on that cross As Jesus died
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The wrath of God was satisfied
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For every sin on Him was laid
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Here in the
death of Christ I live
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There in the ground His body lay
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Light of the
world By darkness slain
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Then bursting
forth In glorious day
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Up from the grave He rose again
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And as He stands in victory
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Sin's curse has
lost its grip On me
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For I am His and He is mine
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Bought with the
precious blood Of Christ
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On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
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All other ground Is sinking sand
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All other ground Is sinking sand
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On Christ the Solid Rock I stand
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All other ground Is sinking sand
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All other ground Is sinking sand
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No guilt in
life, No fear in death
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This is the
power of Christ In me
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From life's first
cry To final breath
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Jesus commands my destiny
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No power of
hell No scheme of man
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Can ever pluck me from His hand
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'Til He returns Or calls me home
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Here in the power
of Christ I'll stand.
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Happy Sabbath.
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Welcome to church today.
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Our scripture reading
is found in Daniel 12:1,
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Matthew 24:21, and Luke 21:28.
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Daniel 12:1 says,
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"At that time Michael,
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the great prince who
protects your people,
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will arise.
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There will be a time of distress
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such as has not happened
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from the beginning
of nations until then.
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But at that time your people,
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everyone whose name is found
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written in the
book will be delivered."
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Matthew 24:21,
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"For then there
will be great distress,
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unequaled from the
beginning of the world
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until now
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and never to be equaled again."
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And Luke 21:28,
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"When these things
begin to take place,
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stand up and lift up your heads,
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because your
redemption is drawing near."
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Oh, God, here we
are, we're ready to go.
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Word of God in front of us.
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People gathering
on the National Mall
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as we speak right now.
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Concern for America,
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concern for where
this nation is headed.
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Dear God, make
sense of Jesus' teaching.
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We humbly pray
in His name, amen.
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That's right there on
the National Mall right now,
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two separate groups
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who
coincidentally chose this day
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to be the
gathering of their followers
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to pray for a nation.
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Many are
concerned is under judgment,
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this pandemic, everything.
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Is America under judgment?
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I'm talking
about divine judgment.
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I'm talking about America.
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You know, my country
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'tis of thee
sweet land of liberty,
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in thee I sing.
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That's America
I'm talking about.
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Is America under judgment?
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Is this pandemic a
judgment of God on America?
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My friend Cliff Goldstein
wrote a piece this summer
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in Liberty magazine.
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He wrestles with the question,
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title of his piece, avert wrath?
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Subtitle on God's wrath
being poured out on America.
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He reminds us
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that the beloved
President Abraham Lincoln,
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in his second inaugural
address spoke these words.
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I want you to see them
on the screen right now.
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Abraham Lincoln,
"Fondly do we hope,
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fervently do we pray,
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that this mighty
scourge of war, "
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that was the Civil
War still in progress,
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"may speedily pass away.
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Yet if God
wills that it continue
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until all the
wealth of this nation
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piled by the slaves
250 years of unrequited
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never got a penny for toil,
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even if all that wealth
has to be lost, " keep going.
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"Even if every drop of blood
drawn with a taskmaster's lash
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shall be paid by
another drawn with the sword
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and blood was
being shed as he spoke
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as was said 3,000 years ago, "
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quoting the Old Testament,
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"so still it must be said
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the judgments of
the Lord are true
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and righteous altogether."
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"America is under
judgment," he said.
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Is America under
judgment right now?
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This pandemic,
the social racial,
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economic fracture that
has divided this nation.
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Are we under judgment?
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Jerry Falwell,
the late clergyman,
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right after September 11,
2001, the Twin Towers tragedy
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announced to the country
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what was the
cause of that tragedy.
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Let me read it.
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"God allowed the attacks
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because the United
States has become a land of,"
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and I'm quoting him now,
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"pagans,
abortionists, feminists, gays,
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lesbians,
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the American
Civil Liberties Union
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and the people
for the American way."
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We are under
judgment because of them.
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He later apologized to
the gays and the lesbians.
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Is this pandemic a
judgment on America?
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Albert Mohler, president
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of the Southern
Baptist Theological Seminary
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down in Louisville, a
city in turmoil today.
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Brilliant mind, I
listened to his podcast,
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I don't always agree
with him, but brilliant.
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He heard those words of Falwell
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and he responded,
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and I now want you
to just hear the wisdom
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in Mohler's response.
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"There is no doubt
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that America has
accommodated itself
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to so many sins
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that we should
always fear God's judgment
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and expect that in due
time that judgment will come.
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But we ought to be very careful
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about pointing
to any circumstance
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or any specific tragedy and say
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that this thing has happened
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because this is
God's direct punishment."
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Very wise counsel,
wouldn't you agree?
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Mm-hmm.
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So maybe we ought not
to be asking the question
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is America
under divine judgment?
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We ought to wonder aloud,
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will America come
under divine judgment?
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I'm going to invite
you to go to a chapter
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most of you have never read
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in your life and
it's in the Bible.
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And as soon as you
hear the name of that book,
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everybody is, well,
I'm not going to that book.
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The young prophet
Ezekiel Chapter 7, come on,
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could he be
speaking even of today?
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Open your Bible
to Ezekiel Chapter 7,
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it's in the Old
Testament, Chapter 7,
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young prophet in
exile, he writes about Israel.
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There probably has
been a preacher or two
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who has preached about America
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because of this passage,
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first time I've
ever preached from it.
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This will get us
to the words of Jesus
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in a split second.
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Watch this verse 1, Ezekiel 7,
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"The word of
the Lord came to me:
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'Son of man,
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this is what the
Sovereign Lord says
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to the land of Israel:
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'The end!
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The end has come
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upon the four
corners of the land!
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The end is now upon you,
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and I will unleash
my anger against you.
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I will judge you
according to your conduct
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and repay you
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for all your
detestable practices.'"
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Drop down to verse 5.
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"This is what the
Sovereign Lord says:
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'Disaster! Unheard of disaster!
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See, it comes!
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The end has
come! The end has come!
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It has roused
itself against you.
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See, it comes!' "
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Drop down to verse 17.
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"Every hand will go limp,
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every leg will
be wet with urine."
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That's a rather
graphic description
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of the human reaction to fear.
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Verse 18, "They
will put on sackcloth
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and be clothed with terror.
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Every face will be
covered with shame,
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and every head will be shaved."
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Verse 19, "They will throw
their silver in the streets, "
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it's not worth anything anymore,
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"and their gold will be
treated as a thing unclean."
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Drop down now to verse 25,
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"When terror comes," key word,
"they will seek peace in vain.
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Calamity upon
calamity will come,
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and rumor upon rumor.
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They will go searching
for a vision from the prophet,
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priestly instruction
in the law will cease,
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the counsel of the
elders will come to an end.
00:24:17.02\00:24:20.12
The king will mourn,"
00:24:20.16\00:24:21.49
the political
leader of the land,
00:24:21.52\00:24:23.06
"the prince will be
clothed with despair,
00:24:23.09\00:24:25.03
and the hands of the people
of the land will tremble..."
00:24:25.06\00:24:29.96
My Lord, what is going on here?
00:24:30.00\00:24:35.60
Mercy.
00:24:35.64\00:24:38.04
Reminds me the words
of the American prophet.
00:24:38.07\00:24:41.98
Put them on the screen for you.
00:24:42.01\00:24:43.81
"Transgression has
almost reached its limit.
00:24:43.85\00:24:46.78
Confusion fills the
world, and a great terror, "
00:24:46.82\00:24:50.02
that's the key word
you'll hear it again,
00:24:50.05\00:24:52.55
"is soon to come
upon human beings.
00:24:52.59\00:24:54.82
The end is very near.
00:24:54.86\00:24:57.89
We who know the truth
00:24:57.93\00:25:00.00
should be
preparing for what is soon
00:25:00.03\00:25:01.86
to break upon the world
as an overwhelming," what?
00:25:01.90\00:25:05.93
"Surprise."
00:25:05.97\00:25:07.30
Surprise, nobody
knew it was coming.
00:25:07.34\00:25:09.30
Nobody knew that would happen.
00:25:09.34\00:25:10.67
Nobody knew it will be
an overwhelming surprise.
00:25:10.71\00:25:16.28
What's going on here?
00:25:16.31\00:25:19.28
A great terror is soon
to come upon human beings.
00:25:19.31\00:25:22.75
How did Ezekiel put a
calamity upon calamity,
00:25:22.78\00:25:24.95
rumor after rumor,
00:25:24.99\00:25:26.49
the hands of the
people are trembling.
00:25:26.52\00:25:28.79
Could this be what Jesus meant?
00:25:28.82\00:25:31.13
Was He drawing from Ezekiel 7,
00:25:31.16\00:25:33.76
to make the same
sort of prediction
00:25:33.80\00:25:36.90
for the planet?
00:25:36.93\00:25:38.60
Now check it out.
00:25:38.63\00:25:39.97
You have read these words
so many times, but you never,
00:25:40.00\00:25:42.64
will never have read them
the way we'll read them today.
00:25:42.67\00:25:46.81
Ezekiel 7 goes to Luke 21.
00:25:46.84\00:25:49.41
Come on, find Luke 21.
00:25:49.44\00:25:50.91
Jesus will be dead
in hours on the cross.
00:25:50.95\00:25:54.32
Luke 21, red
letter words in my Bible.
00:25:54.35\00:25:57.65
Luke 21:25 and 26.
00:25:57.69\00:26:01.19
That's it.
00:26:01.22\00:26:03.06
Jesus speaking, we're listening.
00:26:03.09\00:26:05.83
Verse 25, Jesus says,
00:26:05.86\00:26:08.00
said, speaking of
His Second Coming,
00:26:08.03\00:26:10.00
"There will be signs in
the sun, moon and stars.
00:26:10.03\00:26:14.34
On the earth,
nations will be in anguish
00:26:14.37\00:26:16.97
and perplexity at the
roaring and tossing of the sea."
00:26:17.01\00:26:21.04
Now, verse 26,
00:26:21.08\00:26:22.81
"People will faint from terror,"
00:26:22.84\00:26:25.11
there's that word again,
00:26:25.15\00:26:26.51
"apprehensive of what
is coming on the world,
00:26:26.55\00:26:29.15
for the heavenly
bodies will be shaken."
00:26:29.18\00:26:33.19
Wow. Is that amazing?
00:26:33.22\00:26:35.29
Now watch what Jesus does.
00:26:35.32\00:26:36.69
First He talks about
this, the sun, moon and stars.
00:26:36.73\00:26:40.83
And then He starts
talking about the sea
00:26:40.86\00:26:42.43
that's in turmoil.
00:26:42.46\00:26:44.07
And then He quickly goes
back to the heavenly bodies.
00:26:44.10\00:26:47.14
Boom, boom, boom,
what's going on here?
00:26:47.17\00:26:50.34
What is He describing?
00:26:50.37\00:26:51.77
As a consequence of
whatever has just happened
00:26:57.25\00:26:59.81
on this planet,
00:26:59.85\00:27:01.18
did you catch that?
00:27:01.22\00:27:02.55
The inhabitants of earth
not just this nation now,
00:27:02.58\00:27:05.52
the whole planet,
00:27:05.55\00:27:06.89
the inhabitants of
earth are thrown into deep,
00:27:06.92\00:27:11.03
what are the two words?
00:27:11.06\00:27:12.39
Anguish and perplexity.
00:27:12.43\00:27:15.83
Verse 25, two words,
anguish and perplexity.
00:27:15.86\00:27:19.60
What's that mean?
00:27:19.63\00:27:20.97
My friend Marvin
Moore, in his book,
00:27:21.00\00:27:23.07
"The Coming Great Calamity."
00:27:23.10\00:27:26.57
Marvin has helped me see
what I hadn't seen before.
00:27:26.61\00:27:31.91
Marvin Moore says
00:27:31.95\00:27:33.28
you want to
take these two words,
00:27:33.31\00:27:34.65
let's parse these two words.
00:27:34.68\00:27:36.02
Anguish, what's that mean?
00:27:36.05\00:27:37.39
Anguish means this
hurts a lot. This is terrible.
00:27:37.42\00:27:39.19
Oh, oh, anguish,
anguish, anguish.
00:27:39.22\00:27:41.12
What's perplexity?
00:27:41.16\00:27:42.49
Perplexity is,
what do we do now?
00:27:42.52\00:27:44.79
So you have this hurts
a lot, what do we do now?
00:27:44.83\00:27:47.26
And here's how
Marvin Moore puts it,
00:27:47.30\00:27:48.63
on the screen.
00:27:48.66\00:27:50.00
"Anguish and perplexity
is what you would feel
00:27:50.03\00:27:52.13
if you were to
come home one night
00:27:52.17\00:27:54.87
and find your house in flames."
00:27:54.90\00:27:58.21
Anguish,
perplexity, what do I do?
00:27:58.24\00:28:03.98
What's going to
happen to us now?
00:28:04.01\00:28:05.55
I share all of this with you.
00:28:08.95\00:28:11.32
Because when
Seventh-day Adventist
00:28:11.35\00:28:12.69
read the words
that we just read,
00:28:12.72\00:28:14.62
from the Lord Jesus,
00:28:14.66\00:28:15.99
His prediction
of signs in the sun,
00:28:16.02\00:28:17.66
the moon and the stars
before He returns, what we do,
00:28:17.69\00:28:21.10
and rightfully so,
00:28:21.13\00:28:22.46
is we view historical events
00:28:22.50\00:28:26.47
that preceded a
final time period
00:28:26.50\00:28:30.01
that Daniel and
Revelation and the Lord Jesus
00:28:30.04\00:28:32.94
refer to as the time of the end,
00:28:32.97\00:28:35.11
the time of the end,
00:28:35.14\00:28:36.48
the Bible refers to
it, the time of the end.
00:28:36.51\00:28:38.88
And we say, well,
that's understandable.
00:28:38.91\00:28:42.08
Time at the end,
it's the late 1700s,
00:28:42.12\00:28:43.82
early 1800s, all right.
00:28:43.85\00:28:46.22
So Jesus said,
there'll be signs in the sun,
00:28:46.25\00:28:48.96
the moon and the stars.
00:28:48.99\00:28:50.33
And we say, okay,
so what that means is
00:28:50.36\00:28:53.40
that launching
this new prophetic,
00:28:53.43\00:28:55.66
the last prophetic time period,
00:28:55.70\00:28:57.60
the time of the end,
that the stars will fall.
00:28:57.63\00:29:01.70
And guess what they did?
00:29:01.74\00:29:03.07
In, the stars
fell in November 1833.
00:29:03.10\00:29:07.48
There'll be a dark
day, the sun will go out,
00:29:07.51\00:29:09.18
the moon will come
up that night blood red.
00:29:09.21\00:29:11.95
It did, Old Testament predicted,
00:29:11.98\00:29:13.85
it did.
00:29:13.88\00:29:16.82
November, no, no, May 19, 1780.
00:29:16.85\00:29:21.79
And we say, see, that's it.
00:29:21.82\00:29:24.13
That's what those
two verses are all about.
00:29:24.16\00:29:26.59
Oh, really?
00:29:26.63\00:29:28.06
Aren't you serious?
00:29:28.10\00:29:29.73
Come on, stay
with me. Stay with me.
00:29:29.76\00:29:32.53
None of the celestial
signs that we just talked about
00:29:32.57\00:29:35.94
elicited a global response.
00:29:35.97\00:29:37.41
The key word is
global here. Yes.
00:29:37.44\00:29:39.64
Go on the eastern
seaboard there was that
00:29:39.67\00:29:41.24
and yes, over there in
the West, there was that.
00:29:41.28\00:29:44.21
But none of this was global.
00:29:44.25\00:29:45.98
None of this was worldwide.
00:29:46.01\00:29:48.78
It was just localized.
00:29:48.82\00:29:51.59
And yet God used
those celestial events
00:29:51.62\00:29:54.86
to prepare for a
revival that would sweep
00:29:54.89\00:29:57.49
like fire up and
down the East Coast.
00:29:57.53\00:30:00.96
But we say well, that's it.
00:30:01.00\00:30:02.33
Jesus' two verses,
He's talking about those,
00:30:02.36\00:30:04.07
those events are now past.
00:30:04.10\00:30:05.43
Oh, really?
00:30:05.47\00:30:06.80
How could they
be past when Jesus
00:30:06.84\00:30:08.37
whatever
happens with the heavens
00:30:08.40\00:30:10.27
in its
relationship to the planet,
00:30:10.31\00:30:12.31
there's going to be anguish
and perplexity, a global panic,
00:30:12.34\00:30:17.75
if you will,
00:30:17.78\00:30:19.11
because of what just transpired.
00:30:19.15\00:30:22.48
Come on, I need
you to hang on now.
00:30:22.52\00:30:24.72
I repeat, the reaction Jesus
00:30:24.75\00:30:26.86
explicitly predicts of people
00:30:26.89\00:30:28.32
fainting from
terror around the world,
00:30:28.36\00:30:30.33
on what is just
transpired on this planet
00:30:30.36\00:30:32.33
concern something that
comes out of the heavens.
00:30:32.36\00:30:34.16
There's something that powers
of the heavens will be shaken,
00:30:34.20\00:30:36.20
something comes
out of the heavens,
00:30:36.23\00:30:37.77
some event, some
natural occurrence,
00:30:37.80\00:30:39.87
which feels terribly
unnatural and unexpected,
00:30:39.90\00:30:42.97
but it's so
devastatingly cataclysmic
00:30:43.00\00:30:45.37
that the entire
planet is paralyzed
00:30:45.41\00:30:47.68
and the public panic response
00:30:47.71\00:30:50.01
that Jesus clearly describes,
they are apprehensive of,
00:30:50.05\00:30:54.45
there's going to
be more behind this,
00:30:54.48\00:30:55.95
something is coming,
00:30:55.98\00:30:57.79
people feigning from terror.
00:30:57.82\00:30:59.69
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:30:59.72\00:31:01.12
what happened at the
beginning of this time period
00:31:01.16\00:31:05.33
will pay you apparently
from Christ's own words,
00:31:05.36\00:31:10.50
before what happens at
the end of that time period
00:31:10.53\00:31:15.27
where we're living right now.
00:31:15.30\00:31:18.71
Now stay with me.
00:31:18.74\00:31:20.31
Don't you get distracted now.
00:31:20.34\00:31:23.58
Some other sign will
come, sometime in the future,
00:31:23.61\00:31:29.78
wherein the heavenly
bodies will be shaken
00:31:29.82\00:31:31.55
and the earth will be
thrown into global panic.
00:31:31.59\00:31:34.32
What celestial sign
could that possibly be?
00:31:34.36\00:31:38.33
A sign, not at the beginning,
00:31:38.36\00:31:39.69
but this major
sign global at the end.
00:31:39.73\00:31:43.03
What could that sign be?
00:31:43.06\00:31:45.23
I'm going to take you to
a website, planetary.org.
00:31:45.27\00:31:49.94
Put it on the screen for you,
a little bit of history here.
00:31:49.97\00:31:52.77
In 1998, all right,
00:31:52.81\00:31:54.21
so that's 22
years ago right now,
00:31:54.24\00:31:55.68
"In 1998,
00:31:55.71\00:31:57.08
the United States
Congress directed NASA, "
00:31:57.11\00:31:59.51
that's the National Aeronautics
and Space Administration,
00:31:59.55\00:32:02.98
"to initiate what
they called SpaceGuard,
00:32:03.02\00:32:07.02
an effort to find and track
00:32:07.06\00:32:08.89
90% of all near-earth Objects, "
00:32:08.92\00:32:13.09
NEO the acronym,
near-earth objects,
00:32:13.13\00:32:15.90
what are you talking about?
00:32:15.93\00:32:17.27
We're talking about comets,
we're talking about asteroids,
00:32:17.30\00:32:19.03
we're talking
about meteors, right?
00:32:19.07\00:32:20.40
They just go, swish,
swish, swish, they're out there.
00:32:20.44\00:32:22.47
We all know that.
00:32:22.50\00:32:24.47
And by the way, we
want you to track 90%
00:32:24.51\00:32:26.78
of all of those
objects that are one kilometer.
00:32:26.81\00:32:30.58
Do you know what
how long a kilometer is?
00:32:30.61\00:32:32.61
A 1,000 meters,
okay, a 1,000 meters.
00:32:32.65\00:32:34.75
Got to be thousand meters
or larger, please, track them.
00:32:34.78\00:32:40.22
And by the way, a
kilometer asteroid
00:32:40.26\00:32:42.02
is mass extinction,
00:32:42.06\00:32:43.89
mass extinction because...
00:32:43.93\00:32:47.96
And we want you
please to do that by 2008.
00:32:48.00\00:32:49.56
We're going to
give you 10 years,
00:32:49.60\00:32:50.93
would you please do it?
00:32:50.97\00:32:52.30
Now keep, the
history keeps going.
00:32:52.33\00:32:53.67
Next slide, please.
00:32:53.70\00:32:55.04
In 2005,
00:32:55.07\00:32:56.40
so they haven't
gotten to 2008 yet.
00:32:56.44\00:32:57.77
Congress now has
been doing some thinking
00:32:57.81\00:32:59.14
and further scientific study
00:32:59.17\00:33:00.51
and they're saying no, no,
no, no, no, not a 1,000 meters,
00:33:00.54\00:33:02.81
we want you to shorten it.
00:33:02.84\00:33:04.18
We want you to find everything,
140 meters and longer,
00:33:04.21\00:33:07.25
and mark them down.
00:33:07.28\00:33:08.62
Tell us where they are,
when they're coming, please.
00:33:08.65\00:33:12.92
And we'll now
give you till 2020.
00:33:12.95\00:33:16.86
Hey, could you go back please?
00:33:16.89\00:33:18.23
Ninety percent of them,
just find 90% larger by 2020.
00:33:21.46\00:33:25.80
Now, please, next slide.
00:33:25.83\00:33:27.54
Guess what?
00:33:27.57\00:33:29.07
I got bad news.
00:33:29.10\00:33:30.44
"Only 40% of these
objects had been found to date.
00:33:30.47\00:33:33.51
At current detection rates,
00:33:33.54\00:33:35.18
it will be another 30 years
before NASA meets the goal."
00:33:35.21\00:33:40.22
Well, don't feel so
bad? How old are you?
00:33:40.25\00:33:42.18
Add 30 to your life.
00:33:42.22\00:33:43.59
Hey, nothing to worry about.
00:33:43.62\00:33:46.45
Maybe, maybe.
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.66
Oh, by the way,
00:33:48.69\00:33:50.03
this is not
taking another 30 years,
00:33:50.06\00:33:51.39
it will finally happen.
00:33:51.43\00:33:52.76
No, just get it
done in another 30 years.
00:33:52.79\00:33:55.63
My, my, my, my, my,
what's going on here?
00:33:55.66\00:33:57.73
What in the world, you say,
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.10
Dwight, this is all a
bunch of gobbledygook, man.
00:33:59.13\00:34:00.84
Move on, cut to the chase.
00:34:00.87\00:34:02.40
All right, I will.
00:34:02.44\00:34:03.97
I'm talking about asteroids.
00:34:04.01\00:34:06.44
The preoccupation of
the news today by the way,
00:34:06.47\00:34:09.08
asteroids, let
me have an asteroid.
00:34:09.11\00:34:10.51
Oh, that's not
an actual photograph
00:34:10.55\00:34:12.88
by the way.
00:34:12.91\00:34:14.38
That's just an
artist's rendition.
00:34:14.42\00:34:16.65
Everybody knows asteroids.
00:34:16.69\00:34:18.79
By the way. I got
to show this to you.
00:34:18.82\00:34:21.09
Did you see this
headline? I'm gonna hold it up.
00:34:21.12\00:34:23.59
Maybe the center
camera can zero in on.
00:34:23.63\00:34:25.79
You see the headline?
00:34:25.83\00:34:28.06
So they're quoting NASA.
00:34:28.10\00:34:29.60
We're quoting NASA here.
00:34:29.63\00:34:31.20
Asteroid headed toward
earth before November election.
00:34:31.23\00:34:35.24
You know what,
that's about all we need.
00:34:35.27\00:34:37.14
I mean, just send us
an asteroid, come on.
00:34:37.17\00:34:40.31
Is it been a
dull, uneventful year,
00:34:40.34\00:34:42.11
just give us an asteroid,
00:34:42.14\00:34:43.48
give us something to
get us juiced up again.
00:34:43.51\00:34:47.68
You can't believe it.
00:34:47.72\00:34:49.05
And the fact of the
matter is, the good news,
00:34:49.08\00:34:50.59
the asteroid's
only two meters long
00:34:50.62\00:34:52.69
and so, if it comes into
the earth's atmosphere go,
00:34:52.72\00:34:56.02
just burn apart.
00:34:56.06\00:34:58.59
But I tell you the truth,
00:34:58.63\00:34:59.96
on Thursday I sit
down to write this homily.
00:35:00.00\00:35:01.43
On Thursday, I find
out that that very day,
00:35:01.46\00:35:05.53
in the morning,
before I began to write,
00:35:05.57\00:35:08.97
Asteroid 2020SW
00:35:09.00\00:35:10.74
estimated to be
about between four,
00:35:10.77\00:35:13.94
four and a half to
10 meters in diameter,
00:35:13.98\00:35:15.94
whizzed by the
earth and get this,
00:35:15.98\00:35:17.95
got within 17,500 miles of us.
00:35:17.98\00:35:20.65
You say, "Dwight,
that's really far out."
00:35:20.68\00:35:22.02
Guess what?
00:35:22.05\00:35:23.39
We have satellites out there
00:35:23.42\00:35:24.75
circling the
earth farther than that.
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.19
So it came inside
the satellite belt.
00:35:26.22\00:35:28.86
It got that close?
00:35:28.89\00:35:30.73
Oh, wow.
00:35:30.76\00:35:33.90
But for me, the
paradigm shifted,
00:35:33.93\00:35:36.26
the game changer
00:35:36.30\00:35:37.87
because I've been
reflecting on this
00:35:37.90\00:35:39.23
for ever since 1997.
00:35:39.27\00:35:41.84
Marvin Moore shared a paper
that he'd written unpublished.
00:35:41.87\00:35:44.87
I read that
paper, it's in my file,
00:35:44.91\00:35:46.94
and I've just been
brooding over that.
00:35:46.98\00:35:49.08
Could it happen here?
00:35:49.11\00:35:52.68
The game changer for me
was on February 15, 2013.
00:35:52.71\00:35:56.52
It was a Friday morning,
00:35:56.55\00:35:57.89
I'm down in my
study when I get the word
00:35:57.92\00:36:00.29
that there has been an explosion
00:36:00.32\00:36:02.22
near the Russian
city of Chelyabinsk.
00:36:02.26\00:36:05.93
And some of you remember this,
00:36:05.96\00:36:07.30
the eyewitness news accounts
00:36:07.33\00:36:08.66
reported a streaking asteroid
captured on multiple dash cams.
00:36:08.70\00:36:14.34
They were having
carjackings in that region.
00:36:14.37\00:36:16.17
And so the owners
would mount these dash cams
00:36:16.20\00:36:20.58
and it was before sunrise
00:36:20.61\00:36:22.41
and so all these
dash cams recorded it.
00:36:22.44\00:36:25.21
You can go on
YouTube and see them,
00:36:25.25\00:36:27.42
the same asteroid.
00:36:27.45\00:36:30.22
The asteroid was
only 20 meters long,
00:36:30.25\00:36:32.75
but it entered
earth's atmosphere
00:36:32.79\00:36:34.46
at a speed of
42,900 miles an hour.
00:36:34.49\00:36:39.23
Shew.
00:36:39.26\00:36:41.46
Boom!
00:36:41.50\00:36:44.67
It exploded with a blast yield
of 400-500 kilo tons of TNT,
00:36:44.70\00:36:49.17
which is 30 times the energy
of the Hiroshima atomic bomb,
00:36:49.20\00:36:53.48
my homeland where I was born,
00:36:53.51\00:36:55.44
30 times that
atomic bomb that A-bomb,
00:36:55.48\00:36:58.55
that little 20 meter.
00:36:58.58\00:37:01.38
A hundred years earlier
in the same land of Russia
00:37:01.42\00:37:03.95
now in Eastern
Siberia, June 13, 1908,
00:37:03.99\00:37:07.39
an asteroid now known
as the Tunguska asteroid
00:37:07.42\00:37:11.26
estimated now to be
00:37:11.29\00:37:12.63
to have been
perhaps 65 meters in length
00:37:12.66\00:37:15.23
still under the 140,
00:37:15.26\00:37:18.10
exploded over Eastern Siberia
00:37:18.13\00:37:21.90
with a 15-megaton blast
00:37:21.94\00:37:24.97
which is 1,000 Hiroshima A-bombs
00:37:25.01\00:37:29.01
simultaneously.
00:37:29.04\00:37:32.55
Eighty million trees,
00:37:32.58\00:37:34.52
they got pitched
up, just flat over what,
00:37:34.55\00:37:39.62
830 square miles.
00:37:39.65\00:37:41.99
Now let me just
share this with you
00:37:42.02\00:37:43.36
because there are
scientists in this room.
00:37:43.39\00:37:46.19
There are two
interesting realities
00:37:46.23\00:37:48.23
about these two
over Russia asteroids.
00:37:48.26\00:37:52.43
Reality number one, get
this, they were too small.
00:37:52.47\00:37:55.74
Twenty meters and 65 meters
00:37:55.77\00:37:57.84
to ever have
been spotted by NASA
00:37:57.87\00:38:01.11
which is looking
for 140 meters over.
00:38:01.14\00:38:06.01
They never would have
been, nobody's looking for them,
00:38:06.05\00:38:08.22
nobody's looking
for these small ones.
00:38:08.25\00:38:10.59
And yet look at
the damage they did.
00:38:10.62\00:38:14.29
That's the other factoid.
00:38:14.32\00:38:16.29
Tiny little asteroid.
00:38:16.32\00:38:17.99
Astronomers
estimate, may I continue,
00:38:22.70\00:38:25.60
there are 2 million 30 meter
00:38:25.63\00:38:28.04
and larger
asteroids in the solar system
00:38:28.07\00:38:30.94
with only 18,000 of them
identified at the present time.
00:38:30.97\00:38:37.48
The rest are just circling.
00:38:37.51\00:38:39.25
And here's
another little caveat.
00:38:39.28\00:38:41.58
The only way you can identify
an asteroid is with a lens.
00:38:41.62\00:38:46.02
You cannot radar
it, you cannot radar it.
00:38:46.05\00:38:48.66
It has to be seen.
00:38:48.69\00:38:51.59
NASA has now
mounted the telescope
00:38:51.63\00:38:53.53
and it's
circulating out there the NEO,
00:38:53.56\00:38:56.36
the NEO
Surveillance Mission telescope
00:38:56.40\00:38:59.20
and it's just looking,
00:38:59.23\00:39:00.57
snap, snap,
snap, snap, snap, snap,
00:39:00.60\00:39:05.17
seen anything different
from yesterday's pictures?
00:39:05.21\00:39:07.74
Snap, snap.
00:39:07.78\00:39:11.05
Desperately looking for
what might come upon us.
00:39:11.08\00:39:16.82
And one more caveat.
00:39:16.85\00:39:19.19
If they come
from out of the sun,
00:39:19.22\00:39:22.76
you will never see them.
00:39:22.79\00:39:24.66
Too bright.
00:39:24.69\00:39:26.96
You look at the sun,
you will never see them.
00:39:27.00\00:39:29.96
And guess what?
00:39:30.00\00:39:31.33
The closest one
00:39:31.37\00:39:34.80
just came in August.
00:39:34.84\00:39:39.17
August, they named the asteroid
00:39:39.21\00:39:44.21
2020 2G
00:39:44.25\00:39:46.38
flying at 7.7 miles per
second coming out of the sun,
00:39:46.41\00:39:51.15
approached the
earth and blew past us
00:39:51.19\00:39:53.96
at 4:08 Universal Time,
00:39:53.99\00:39:56.46
that's early in the morning
00:39:56.49\00:39:57.89
and you know
how far it was away?
00:39:57.93\00:40:00.10
Only 1,831 miles from us.
00:40:00.13\00:40:04.97
In fact, it got so
close earth's gravity
00:40:05.00\00:40:07.67
and you'll look at
the charts pulled it
00:40:07.70\00:40:10.07
and the
trajectory of the asteroid
00:40:10.11\00:40:12.01
just went different trajectory.
00:40:12.04\00:40:15.64
It got that close.
00:40:15.68\00:40:18.08
And you know when
they found out about it?
00:40:18.11\00:40:20.95
Six hours after it came.
00:40:20.98\00:40:23.49
Too late.
00:40:23.52\00:40:25.49
Too late.
00:40:25.52\00:40:28.26
What are you trying
to do, Dwight, scare me?
00:40:28.29\00:40:29.76
No, I'm not trying to scare you.
00:40:29.79\00:40:33.63
The point is, this
really is rocket science.
00:40:33.66\00:40:39.67
In fact, a group of scientists,
00:40:39.70\00:40:41.04
they're calling
themselves the B612 Foundation.
00:40:41.07\00:40:43.61
On their website,
00:40:43.64\00:40:44.97
you will find it
today this one sentence,
00:40:45.01\00:40:47.91
"It's 100% certain
00:40:47.94\00:40:50.01
we'll be hit by a
devastating asteroid,
00:40:50.05\00:40:52.98
but we're not
100% certain when."
00:40:53.01\00:40:57.25
Well, I find that very helpful.
00:40:57.29\00:40:58.62
I don't know about
you, but I just, you know,
00:40:58.65\00:41:00.39
I was getting worried
about these crazy asteroids.
00:41:00.42\00:41:03.32
There's nothing.
00:41:03.36\00:41:06.73
That's where
science is right now.
00:41:06.76\00:41:09.53
I'm not belittling science.
00:41:09.56\00:41:11.23
It's science that's
trying to wake us up.
00:41:11.27\00:41:13.50
All it would
take to fulfill Jesus'
00:41:19.51\00:41:20.98
startling
prophecy of a global panic
00:41:21.01\00:41:23.95
because the
powers of the heavens
00:41:23.98\00:41:25.31
had been shaken is a
single celestial event.
00:41:25.35\00:41:28.82
One asteroid
undetected until too late
00:41:28.85\00:41:31.42
or perhaps never detected at all
00:41:31.45\00:41:33.79
slams into this terrestrial ball
00:41:33.82\00:41:35.76
that is home.
00:41:35.79\00:41:38.23
You don't need to know science
00:41:38.26\00:41:42.36
to understand
that if the Tunguska,
00:41:42.40\00:41:44.83
the asteroid,
00:41:44.87\00:41:47.90
or even the other
the little mini one,
00:41:47.94\00:41:50.54
66 feet long, 20 meters.
00:41:50.57\00:41:52.84
If it had landed
in an urban area,
00:41:52.87\00:41:59.18
that they estimate
00:41:59.21\00:42:00.55
that if the Tunguska asteroid
struck just rural America now,
00:42:00.58\00:42:04.52
70,000 people
just like that gone.
00:42:04.55\00:42:07.06
And billions of
dollars of damage.
00:42:07.09\00:42:10.56
If it lands in
New York, Chicago, LA,
00:42:10.59\00:42:13.90
I mean, this is
the stuff of Hollywood.
00:42:13.93\00:42:16.23
If it lands there,
00:42:16.26\00:42:18.47
we're talking
millions of deaths.
00:42:18.50\00:42:23.14
Let's say there were two
that hit rather close together,
00:42:23.17\00:42:26.47
what would
happen on this planet?
00:42:26.51\00:42:29.31
Ladies and gentlemen,
this is not rocket science.
00:42:29.34\00:42:31.55
Now this is just thinking.
00:42:31.58\00:42:34.22
Can you understand
00:42:34.25\00:42:35.62
that the human
race would itself panic,
00:42:35.65\00:42:39.45
Jesus describes it, they...
00:42:39.49\00:42:41.66
How did He put it here?
00:42:41.69\00:42:43.06
Well, let's read
the two verses again.
00:42:43.09\00:42:45.39
This is Luke
21:25, Jesus speaking,
00:42:45.43\00:42:48.33
"There will be signs in
the sun, moon and stars.
00:42:48.36\00:42:51.70
And on the earth,
00:42:51.73\00:42:53.07
nations will be in anguish
and perplexity at the roaring
00:42:53.10\00:42:55.70
and tossing of the sea.
00:42:55.74\00:42:57.21
People will faint from terror,
00:42:57.24\00:43:00.21
apprehensive of what
is coming on the world,
00:43:00.24\00:43:02.58
for the heavenly
bodies will be shaken."
00:43:02.61\00:43:04.71
That's not the Second
Coming of Christ by the way,
00:43:04.75\00:43:06.98
because they're
anticipating even more.
00:43:07.02\00:43:08.65
This isn't like,
oh, here's Jesus.
00:43:08.68\00:43:10.12
Let's say that that must be it.
00:43:10.15\00:43:11.59
No, whatever's
happened could keep on happening
00:43:11.62\00:43:14.82
and people are panicked.
00:43:14.86\00:43:16.29
And if you
determine it is an act of God,
00:43:16.32\00:43:18.99
you know, these
people that are praying
00:43:19.03\00:43:20.36
on the National Mall right now,
00:43:20.40\00:43:21.73
they'll have a lot
to be praying for them.
00:43:21.76\00:43:23.20
Because if this is an
act of God, guess what?
00:43:23.23\00:43:25.00
We are under judgment.
00:43:25.03\00:43:26.37
And this whole
baby is coming to an end
00:43:26.40\00:43:28.30
unless we get God
to reverse His mind.
00:43:28.34\00:43:32.27
Guys, you can
get there from here.
00:43:32.31\00:43:35.11
Do you understand that?
00:43:35.14\00:43:36.61
And what you thought
would take months now
00:43:36.64\00:43:37.98
happens overnight.
00:43:38.01\00:43:39.35
Why?
00:43:39.38\00:43:40.72
Because we just
got hit by an asteroid.
00:43:40.75\00:43:42.08
Do you understand, sir?
00:43:42.12\00:43:43.45
You got a problem with that?
00:43:43.49\00:43:45.15
No.
00:43:45.19\00:43:47.02
I'm not trying to scare anybody.
00:43:47.06\00:43:49.29
But, oh, man, I'm
trying to awaken somebody.
00:43:49.32\00:43:53.46
You can't keep
dealing with this slide.
00:43:53.50\00:43:55.50
I know you're 18.
00:43:55.53\00:43:57.60
I can see that.
00:43:57.63\00:43:59.83
I know you're in your early 20s.
00:43:59.87\00:44:01.34
Good for you. I'm proud of you.
00:44:01.37\00:44:03.54
But I'm telling you,
00:44:03.57\00:44:05.14
you can't just go on living
00:44:05.17\00:44:07.08
as if life is going to go
on forever and ever, amen.
00:44:07.11\00:44:10.81
It won't.
00:44:10.85\00:44:12.51
This country is
already on a trajectory.
00:44:12.55\00:44:15.32
It will not be stopped.
00:44:15.35\00:44:19.45
Please,
00:44:19.49\00:44:21.49
Jesus is coming soon.
00:44:21.52\00:44:26.80
Man, oh, man.
00:44:26.83\00:44:29.43
Put that quote up again
please from Ellen White,
00:44:29.46\00:44:32.80
"Transgression has
almost reached its limit.
00:44:32.83\00:44:34.50
Confusion fills the world,
00:44:34.54\00:44:35.87
and a great
terror is soon to come
00:44:35.90\00:44:37.24
upon human beings.
00:44:37.27\00:44:38.61
The end is very near.
00:44:38.64\00:44:40.18
We who know the
truth should be preparing
00:44:40.21\00:44:42.38
for what is soon to
break upon the world
00:44:42.41\00:44:44.08
as an overwhelming surprise."
00:44:44.11\00:44:46.25
How better to
describe an asteroid?
00:44:46.28\00:44:48.02
I'm not saying
00:44:48.05\00:44:49.38
that she's
describing an asteroid.
00:44:49.42\00:44:50.75
I'm not.
00:44:50.79\00:44:52.12
I'm not saying that
what I've shared with you,
00:44:52.15\00:44:53.49
in fact, is rock solid
00:44:53.52\00:44:54.86
that we're just
locked into this.
00:44:54.89\00:44:56.22
But I am saying that
you, what if we were?
00:44:56.26\00:44:59.83
What if it is true?
00:44:59.86\00:45:02.56
Jesus is not describing
the falling of the stars,
00:45:02.60\00:45:05.63
I'm sorry,
something else will explode
00:45:05.67\00:45:09.60
across the earth
00:45:09.64\00:45:11.14
and the entire population
will panic with terror.
00:45:11.17\00:45:16.85
Now, you figure it out.
00:45:16.88\00:45:18.91
You figure it out.
00:45:18.95\00:45:20.38
You think,
00:45:20.42\00:45:22.08
watch, hear,
00:45:22.12\00:45:25.52
think.
00:45:25.55\00:45:29.26
Do you think God
gets joy out of this?
00:45:29.29\00:45:30.73
He gets no joy.
00:45:30.76\00:45:32.46
Do you think God gets joy
out of watching the fracturing
00:45:32.49\00:45:35.66
the racial socio-economic
fracturing in America?
00:45:35.70\00:45:38.47
He gets some
kind of pleasure out,
00:45:38.50\00:45:40.04
out of it, are you kidding?
00:45:40.07\00:45:41.40
You think this
pandemic has brought heaven joy?
00:45:44.31\00:45:46.14
The devil's
invented the pandemic
00:45:46.17\00:45:47.94
and then and the
heaven gets joy out of it.
00:45:47.98\00:45:49.61
Well, trying to get in
these children's attention,
00:45:49.64\00:45:52.15
are you kidding?
00:45:52.18\00:45:54.15
Do you think that
devastating hurricane,
00:45:54.18\00:45:55.82
the ravaging
floods that followed it
00:45:55.85\00:45:57.45
was some sort of pleasure moment
00:45:57.49\00:45:59.19
for the kingdom of
God in the universe
00:45:59.22\00:46:01.62
watching this
planet get pummeled
00:46:01.66\00:46:04.23
calamity after
calamity after calamity?
00:46:04.26\00:46:07.50
Do you think God
says, well, who cares?
00:46:07.53\00:46:11.00
Love can become so
desperate that it cares.
00:46:11.03\00:46:14.07
C.S. Lewis was
absolutely right when God,
00:46:14.10\00:46:16.44
when we experience
prosperity, God whispers.
00:46:16.47\00:46:22.81
When we experience pain,
God with his megaphone shouts.
00:46:22.84\00:46:27.62
Love can be so desperate
00:46:27.65\00:46:30.79
that in order to
awaken human beings
00:46:30.82\00:46:33.89
from the stupor
00:46:33.92\00:46:38.19
of their lethargy.
00:46:38.23\00:46:41.20
A page is drawn
out of a playbook
00:46:41.23\00:46:42.70
that the human race
has never seen before.
00:46:42.73\00:46:46.80
You gonna blame God for that?
00:46:46.84\00:46:48.67
Are you kidding?
00:46:48.70\00:46:50.21
He's not trying to scare you.
00:46:50.24\00:46:51.57
He's trying to waken you up.
00:46:51.61\00:46:55.71
One more quote.
00:46:55.74\00:46:57.48
"Calamities will
come," same author,
00:46:57.51\00:46:59.78
"Calamities will come,
00:46:59.81\00:47:01.72
calamities most
awful, most unexpected, "
00:47:01.75\00:47:04.39
the title of this homily,
00:47:04.42\00:47:05.85
"and these
destructions will follow, "
00:47:05.89\00:47:09.72
like planes at O'Hare runway.
00:47:09.76\00:47:14.03
Keep going.
00:47:14.06\00:47:15.40
"But if men and women
who have been deceived
00:47:15.43\00:47:17.27
continue in the same way
00:47:17.30\00:47:18.63
in which they
had been walking, "
00:47:18.67\00:47:20.00
and living as if
they had forever,
00:47:20.04\00:47:21.77
"disregarding the law of
God and presenting falsehoods, "
00:47:21.80\00:47:25.37
teachers, "presenting falsehoods
00:47:25.41\00:47:26.91
before the
people, " keep reading,
00:47:26.94\00:47:28.64
"God allows them
to suffer calamity,
00:47:28.68\00:47:32.21
" He allows it,
"that their senses may be,"
00:47:32.25\00:47:34.92
what's the word?
00:47:34.95\00:47:36.45
"Awakened."
00:47:36.48\00:47:37.89
Hey, do you remember when
we used to stay in hotels?
00:47:37.92\00:47:42.59
Huh?
00:47:42.62\00:47:44.63
Those are the days where they,
they actually made your bed.
00:47:44.66\00:47:48.90
Now you got to
make your own bed.
00:47:48.93\00:47:51.37
So last time I stayed in a hotel
00:47:51.40\00:47:52.83
was in the month of February,
00:47:52.87\00:47:54.20
I'm in
Pennsylvania, it's wonderful.
00:47:54.24\00:47:57.97
But you know what,
00:47:58.01\00:47:59.34
when you got an
early morning flight out
00:47:59.37\00:48:00.74
from wherever you are
00:48:00.78\00:48:02.24
and it's usually
the flight going home
00:48:02.28\00:48:04.01
that you don't want to miss,
00:48:04.05\00:48:05.38
I don't mind
missing the one going.
00:48:05.41\00:48:06.75
I hate folks that
just couldn't make it,
00:48:06.78\00:48:08.12
miss the plane.
00:48:08.15\00:48:09.48
But going home and I'm so jazzed
00:48:09.52\00:48:10.85
and ready to get back
to Karen and life here.
00:48:10.89\00:48:12.99
So that I don't
trust this little iPhone
00:48:13.02\00:48:16.42
in my hip pocket.
00:48:16.46\00:48:17.96
So you know what I
do? I do something else.
00:48:17.99\00:48:19.43
Just as insurance,
00:48:19.46\00:48:21.13
I call down to the front desk
and do you know what I request?
00:48:21.16\00:48:23.87
Tell me what I request.
00:48:23.90\00:48:25.97
I request a wake-up call.
00:48:26.00\00:48:28.30
That way I will not sleep,
00:48:28.34\00:48:29.70
I will not sleep
through this alarm,
00:48:29.74\00:48:31.61
do you understand me?
00:48:31.64\00:48:32.97
That ringing phone
will make sure I wake up.
00:48:33.01\00:48:34.68
Oh mercy, I got to get going.
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We are experiencing
today a wake-up call
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from the Almighty Himself.
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This pandemic is not a
little something or other,
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this pandemic is to
awaken the human race.
00:48:45.09\00:48:49.42
If I can get the whole
world in a series of days,
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how do you suppose
I could get the world
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in one minute?
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Jesus just told us how.
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Wake-up call,
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I'm not trying to scare anybody.
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But I'm trying to wake us
up while Ellen White wrote
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a one sentence prayer,
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I have it written in my Bible,
"God of heaven, wake us up!"
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Six words long.
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"God of heaven, wake us up!"
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Hey, let's repeat
that prayer together
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out loud in your mask.
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God of heaven,
wake us up. Come on.
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God of heaven, wake us up.
00:49:24.59\00:49:26.76
She wrote that
prayer desperate as she was.
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I'm desperate.
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God is desperate.
00:49:32.60\00:49:34.60
We're running out of time.
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And we're acting
as if we have forever.
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Manana, manana.
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Not now. Not now.
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One day I'll choose Jesus.
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One day I'll give
my life fully to Him.
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Not now, I got a lot to live.
00:49:47.12\00:49:50.05
You are crazy.
00:49:50.09\00:49:51.42
You don't have manana.
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I want to ask you something.
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How many not now's do
you think you have left?
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No, I'm serious.
00:50:01.20\00:50:02.53
How many not
now's do you have left?
00:50:02.56\00:50:05.00
Hey listen, give
me your death date.
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Just give me your death date.
00:50:06.40\00:50:07.74
I was in the home of a family
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grieving over one dead
right there this morning.
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How many? When's
your death day coming?
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Just give me the date.
00:50:13.31\00:50:14.91
You can't do it, can you?
00:50:14.94\00:50:16.28
You cannot do it.
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If you're 18, you can't do it.
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If you're 88, you can't do it.
00:50:19.05\00:50:20.52
Why? Because we don't know.
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I'm not trying to scare you,
but I am trying to awaken you.
00:50:23.25\00:50:25.32
You cannot keep living life
at this tepid, lethargic pace.
00:50:25.35\00:50:29.52
Something has to
change and it has to be you
00:50:29.56\00:50:31.99
asking for that change.
00:50:32.03\00:50:35.00
Jesus is coming soon.
00:50:35.03\00:50:37.37
There will be a
generation like the flood
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that will have heard
it but said nah, too late.
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If Jesus were to come
tonight, would you be ready?
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You say, well, listen,
00:50:49.98\00:50:51.31
I want to live till Jesus comes.
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Okay, be my guest.
00:50:52.71\00:50:54.05
But if He were to come
tonight, would you be ready?
00:50:54.08\00:50:57.45
That's what I'm talking about.
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You can't keep putting this off.
00:51:00.42\00:51:03.36
Ralph
Carmichael, a great composer,
00:51:03.39\00:51:06.76
few years ago
wrote a wonderful song,
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"The Savior is
waiting to enter your heart."
00:51:09.90\00:51:13.13
Do you remember that one? Yeah.
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Why don't you let Him come in?
00:51:15.54\00:51:17.14
There's nothing in this
world to keep You apart.
00:51:17.17\00:51:19.77
What is your answer to Him?
00:51:19.81\00:51:22.74
Hours after Jesus
spoke these words,
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He's hanging on Calvary.
00:51:24.48\00:51:25.81
Greater love
has no man than this
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than to lay down His
life for His friends.
00:51:27.22\00:51:29.18
You are a friend of
God in that balcony.
00:51:29.22\00:51:31.19
You are a friend of God
00:51:31.22\00:51:32.55
watching alumni on online today.
00:51:32.59\00:51:34.52
You are a friend of God
00:51:34.56\00:51:35.89
sitting up here in
front of the church,
00:51:35.92\00:51:37.26
you are a friend of God.
00:51:37.29\00:51:38.96
Jesus laid down
His life for you.
00:51:38.99\00:51:43.26
God has
demonstrated His own love for us
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and that while we were
sinners, Christ died for us.
00:51:45.70\00:51:48.70
You are loved, my man, you
are loved today to the max.
00:51:48.74\00:51:53.61
As that line go,
see what great love
00:51:53.64\00:51:55.58
the Father is lavished on us
00:51:55.61\00:51:57.45
that we should be
called the children of God.
00:51:57.48\00:52:01.05
Everything's ready for you.
00:52:01.08\00:52:03.15
All Jesus needs is
for you to say yes, Lord,
00:52:03.18\00:52:06.62
I didn't know I was
going to be in church today
00:52:06.65\00:52:08.36
but that guy's got me thinking.
00:52:08.39\00:52:10.46
Yes, Lord, I give You my heart.
00:52:10.49\00:52:13.43
I give You my
life. You may have me.
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And I'll do
whatever You ask of me.
00:52:17.67\00:52:21.14
And the only thing
He would ever ask of you
00:52:21.17\00:52:23.17
is what you would want.
00:52:23.20\00:52:24.71
And you can see the whole
story from His vantage point.
00:52:24.74\00:52:28.54
He loves you.
00:52:28.58\00:52:30.55
The Savior is
waiting to enter your heart.
00:52:30.58\00:52:35.38
I've asked Chuck Reed,
my friend to sing this song.
00:52:35.42\00:52:37.52
It's just, is a
powerful song. You know what?
00:52:37.55\00:52:40.49
He may be
singing the words to you,
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I don't know
00:52:42.79\00:52:44.13
but He may be
singing the words to you.
00:52:44.16\00:52:47.20
Listen, please.
00:52:47.23\00:52:48.76
The Savior is waiting
00:53:07.22\00:53:12.15
To enter your heart
00:53:12.19\00:53:17.03
Why don't you Let Him
00:53:17.06\00:53:20.53
Come in?
00:53:20.56\00:53:24.17
There's nothing in this world
00:53:24.20\00:53:28.17
To keep you apart
00:53:28.20\00:53:33.14
What is your answer
00:53:33.17\00:53:36.91
to Him?
00:53:36.95\00:53:42.18
Time after time
00:53:42.22\00:53:46.45
He has waited before
00:53:46.49\00:53:51.56
And now
00:53:51.59\00:53:53.83
He is waiting again
00:53:53.86\00:54:00.74
To see
00:54:00.77\00:54:03.20
If you're willing
00:54:03.24\00:54:05.81
To open the door
00:54:05.84\00:54:11.45
Oh, how He wants to come in
00:54:11.48\00:54:17.92
If you'll take one step
00:54:20.96\00:54:24.39
Toward the Savior, my friend
00:54:24.43\00:54:30.67
You'll find His arms
00:54:30.70\00:54:34.10
Open wide
00:54:34.14\00:54:38.81
Receive Him
00:54:38.84\00:54:41.41
And all of your
darkness Will end
00:54:41.44\00:54:48.12
Within your heart
00:54:48.15\00:54:51.65
He'll abide
00:54:51.69\00:54:57.63
Time after time
00:54:57.66\00:55:02.26
He has waited before
00:55:02.30\00:55:07.84
And now He is waiting again
00:55:07.87\00:55:13.61
To see
00:55:16.95\00:55:19.38
If you're willing
00:55:19.41\00:55:22.48
To open the door
00:55:22.52\00:55:29.09
Oh, How He wants
00:55:29.12\00:55:34.00
To come in.
00:55:34.03\00:55:38.97
Oh, God, we lift
up our hearts to You.
00:55:43.34\00:55:47.14
These moments in the word,
00:55:47.18\00:55:50.58
the spirit was here,
00:55:50.61\00:55:53.48
that we want to be
obedient to whatever you wish.
00:55:53.52\00:55:56.95
Jesus is coming soon.
00:55:56.99\00:55:58.99
It isn't even rocket science.
00:55:59.02\00:56:03.73
We want to be that friend
00:56:03.76\00:56:08.13
that Jesus called us
00:56:08.16\00:56:09.50
before He laid
down His life for us.
00:56:09.53\00:56:12.30
We want Him as our friend,
00:56:12.33\00:56:14.80
we want the Father,
our friend, the spirit,
00:56:14.84\00:56:16.71
our friend forever and ever.
00:56:16.74\00:56:18.81
Take our decisions that
are being made right now.
00:56:18.84\00:56:21.58
As far as this electronic signal
00:56:21.61\00:56:23.08
is reaching right now,
00:56:23.11\00:56:24.45
be with the man, the woman,
the teenager, at this moment,
00:56:24.48\00:56:28.88
struggling over a decision
00:56:28.92\00:56:30.42
that you're
calling them to make.
00:56:30.45\00:56:35.72
We hear you.
00:56:35.76\00:56:37.53
One day, we'll see You.
00:56:37.56\00:56:39.53
But till then, dear
Jesus, hold us close.
00:56:39.56\00:56:45.77
In Your mighty name
that all the worshipers say,
00:56:45.80\00:56:49.94
amen and amen.
00:56:49.97\00:56:51.97
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