How firm a foundation
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Ye saints of the Lord
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Is laid for your faith
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In His excellent Word
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What more can He say
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Than to you He hath said
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To you who for
refuge to Jesus hath fled?
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Fear not I am with thee
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O be not
dismayed For I am thy God
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And will still give thee aid
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I'll strengthen thee, help thee
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And cause thee to stand
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Upheld by my
righteous omnipotent hand
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When thro' the deep waters
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I call thee to go
the rivers of sorrow
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Shall not overflow
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For I will be thee
thy troubles to bless
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And sanctify to
thee thy deepest distress
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When through fiery
trials thy pathway shall lie
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My grace all
sufficient shall be thy supply
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The flames shall not hurt thee
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I only design
thy dross to consume
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And thy gold to refine
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The soul that on Jesus
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Hath leaned for repose
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I will not, I will
not desert to His foes
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That soul, though all hell
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Should endeavor to shake
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I'll never, no
never, No never forsake
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Standing on the
promises of Christ my King
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Thru eternal ages
let His praises ring
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Glory in the highest
I will shout and sing
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Standing on the promises of God
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Standing
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Standing
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Standing on the
promises of God my Savior
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Standing
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Standing
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I'm standing on
the promises of God
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Standing on the
promises that cannot fail
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When the howling storms
of doubt And fear assail
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By the living word
of God I shall prevail
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Standing on the promises of God
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Standing
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Standing
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Standing on the
promises of God my Savior
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Standing
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Standing
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I'm standing on
the promises of God
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Amen. You may be seated.
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During this final hymn,
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Julie and I are
gonna hum together
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so we can hear the
chimes lead us in this verse.
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My hope is built
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On nothing less
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Than Jesus' blood
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And righteousness
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I dare not trust
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The sweetest frame
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But wholly lean on Jesus' name
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On Christ, the solid Rock
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I stand all other ground
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Is sinking sand
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His oath, His covenant
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And blood Support me
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In the whelming flood
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When all around
my soul gives way
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He then is all my hope and stay
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On Christ
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The solid Rock
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I stand all other ground
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Is sinking sand
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Good morning.
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Our scripture reading from today
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is found in Revelation 14:12-13.
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"Here is the
patience of the saints,
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here are those
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who keep the commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus.
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Then I heard a voice
from heaven saying to me,
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"Write,
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'Blessed are the dead
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who die in the
Lord from now on.'"
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"Yes," says the Spirit,
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"that they may
rest from their labors,
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and their works follow them."
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Oh God, that is the question
on our minds and hearts.
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When shall we see Jesus?
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You know the answer.
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We want to be ready.
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Let this teaching be clear.
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We pray in His name.
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Amen.
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You've been tracking
the news this last week.
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Did you hear
about that spacecraft?
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They landed on an asteroid.
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Did you hear about that?
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Amazing feat of technology.
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There's an asteroid
200 million miles away
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and it's called Bennu.
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They say it's about as tall
as the Empire State Building.
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And NASA landed a spacecraft
on the spinning asteroid,
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robotic arm
grabs a handful a rock
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and it's coming back to earth.
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It will arrive
September 24, 2023,
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somewhere in a Utah Desert.
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Can you believe that?
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But let's just say for
the sake of illustration,
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that there's
another asteroid out there.
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Well actually,
there's a whole bunch
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of other asteroids unidentified.
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NASA thinks they're probably
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about 2 million
asteroids out there,
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30 meters or larger.
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Okay, so those are fairly big
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of which only 18, 000 had
been identified and tracked.
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So let's say one
slams into earth,
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nobody knew it was coming.
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I got an email from a
geologist friend of mine
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living out on the West Coast.
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I'm gonna read it to you.
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"Hey, Dwight, we
haven't talked in a while
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but your sermon this
morning, all caps, WOKE ME UP."
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Few weeks ago,
some of you remember
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we had a
presentation on asteroids.
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Remember that?
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And we're looking at Luke 21.
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Jesus says,
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"Hey, the powers of
heaven are going to be shaken
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just before I come back."
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And asteroids are
hugely in the news right now.
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So she's thinking out loud,
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"So hugely woke me up,"
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she says, "so an asteroid"
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she suggests,
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"hit San Francisco or LA.
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Millions die.
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But why would other
countries tremble in fear?"
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Now Jesus said,
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"The whole planet
will be seized with terror
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because of the
heavens being shaken."
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But if it's in San Francisco,
who cares around the world?
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But the geologist
answers her own question,
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"Because if the asteroid
triggers a Richter Scale 10
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on the San Andreas Fault,
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I have been told
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the earth will ring like a bell.
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I think the
chains of fault systems
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around the world
would be activated.
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The destruction of
all the major cities
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and some nuclear
plants sitting on the faults
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will get everyone's attention
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the ground will
tremble worldwide.
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The tsunamis,"
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Jesus talks about
that as well in Luke 21,
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"will make our oceans roar,
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add to all of this
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the activation of
the volcanic chaos
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and yes, globally,
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people will tremble in fear
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with one asteroid."
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Wow. Could it happen?
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And if it did,
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what would
happen on this planet?
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Fascinating.
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A social scientist
named Michael Barkun
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from the University of New York
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in Buffalo research
the effect of disasters
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on people's attitudes
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published his research
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under the title
Disasters and the Millennium.
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Marvin Moore my friend reports
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on the findings in his own book,
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could it really happen?
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So let me put Michael Barkun
on the screen for us right now.
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One of his most significant
conclusions was that quote,
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quoting Barkun,
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"Disaster creates
conditions peculiarly fitted
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to the rapid
alteration of belief systems."
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Given what we're about to
discover in the apocalypse,
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it is really important
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that you pay attention
to this research right now.
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I'll read two
more lines from him.
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Michael Barkun on the
screen, line number two.
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"Disaster
produces the questioning,
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the anxiety and
the suggestibility
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that are required for
a belief system change."
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Keep reading.
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"Only in its wake
in disasters wake,
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are people moved to
abandon old values of the past."
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Guess what?
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When we're faced with
a disaster, individually,
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collectively or nationally,
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the deep shaking that
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that disaster
brings to our psyches
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cuts loose values
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that we thought
were deeply rooted.
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Let me put one
more up, Michael Barkun.
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"A disaster population suffers
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a temporary sense of incapacity
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vulnerability and confusion.
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The collapse social structure
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renders traditional
authority relationships
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less effective
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and traditional
statuses less meaningful."
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Now here comes the big line.
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"Belief systems which
under nondisaster conditions
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might be dismissed,"
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I don't believe that,
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"now receive
sympathetic consideration."
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Now listen, this doesn't
even have to be an asteroid.
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We're talking disaster.
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It could be a killer quake.
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It could be an
economic collapse.
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It could be a government coup.
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It could be a civil war.
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It doesn't matter
what you want to call it,
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if it's a disaster,
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something happens
to the human psyche
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and trying to
cope with survival.
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We're gonna look at
a scenario right now
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that with a disaster
could happen overnight.
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Open your Bible with me
to Revelation Chapter 13.
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Let's go.
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We had been to
this chapter before,
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but not in this detail.
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Come on.
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Revelation Chapter 13.
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The Bible's last book.
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American apocalypse, is
the religious right wrong?
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Let's go.
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Revelation Chapter 13.
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Let's pick it up in verse 11.
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"Then I saw a second beast
coming up out of the earth."
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Hit the pause
button right there.
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The moment we read second beast,
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we know something
about this chapter.
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And that is
there's a first beast
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to Revelation 13.
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Yep, there is.
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It comes out of
the sea dripping brine,
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seven heads, with
blasphemy all over their heads.
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Yeah, the beast has
already been introduced.
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And John the
Revelator says that.
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By the way, I need to tell
you about beast number two.
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But let's go back
to beast number one.
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I want you to go up in the
2:3, speaking of the sea beast,
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with the seven heads.
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"One of the heads of the beast
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seemed to have
had a fatal wound,
00:15:36.53\00:15:39.80
but the fatal
wound had been healed.
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The whole world
was filled with wonder
00:15:42.14\00:15:43.64
and followed the beast."
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Verse 14,
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"People worshiped the dragon
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because he had given
authority to the beast,
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and they also
worshiped the beast and asked,
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'Who is like the beast?
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Who can wage war against it?"
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Whoa, whoa, whoa, stop, stop.
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So this first
beast, seven heads,
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obviously it's
a religious power,
00:16:02.36\00:16:04.36
because the heads
all have blasphemy.
00:16:04.39\00:16:06.23
And what is blasphemy?
00:16:06.26\00:16:07.60
By usurping God's
power for diabolical reasons
00:16:07.63\00:16:11.60
and it receives worship.
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An atheistic institution
will never receive worship.
00:16:13.27\00:16:16.44
It says, "What? Are you crazy?"
00:16:16.47\00:16:19.91
It's a religious
power, it has to be.
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And clearly,
00:16:25.61\00:16:26.95
this beast rules
with global cloud.
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It is a global superpower.
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Daniel 7, Revelation 13,
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the great Protestant reformers.
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As they studied those
two apocalyptic chapters,
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were led to the conclusion
00:16:46.37\00:16:48.40
that they must
identify this sea beast
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as the Antichrist power
00:16:50.54\00:16:52.51
that ruthlessly ruled
00:16:52.54\00:16:54.28
during the dark and
bloody Middle Ages from Rome.
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The sea beast,
but it was wounded.
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In fact, in 1798
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speaking of the
French Revolution.
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Napoleon sends in
his general Berthier.
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And he takes the pope
captive, Pope Pius VI,
00:17:13.73\00:17:17.07
the Vatican is
shut down, wounded.
00:17:17.10\00:17:22.24
Now that's just transpired.
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Verse 10 describes it
being taken into captivity.
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Then, on the heels of
that, we read these words.
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What do we just read?
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A second beast
coming up out of the earth?
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Whoa, what's the second beast
coming up out of the earth?
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Well, the first beast
came out of the water.
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Water, Revelation 17:15,
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the water is a symbol of people,
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nations, kindreds, languages.
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The first beast
comes up out of the people
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thoroughfares of Europe,
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but the second beast
comes not out of water,
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it comes out of earth,
dry earth, barren wilderness,
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a place called the New World.
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That beast was wounded in 1798.
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Coincidentally,
00:18:03.81\00:18:05.15
this beast arises to
power in the late 1700s,
00:18:05.18\00:18:09.68
same time.
00:18:09.72\00:18:11.29
And the Greek
word for springing up
00:18:11.32\00:18:13.46
describes a weed, it grows fast.
00:18:13.49\00:18:15.86
And it becomes a
global superpower
00:18:19.19\00:18:20.56
as we're
immediately gonna notice.
00:18:20.60\00:18:22.40
Global superpower, late 1700s,
00:18:22.43\00:18:25.97
barren
wilderness of the New World,
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guess what?
00:18:27.54\00:18:28.87
There's only one
nation on this planet
00:18:28.90\00:18:30.37
that could fit this description.
00:18:30.41\00:18:32.51
And you know who it is?
00:18:32.54\00:18:33.88
It's the United
States of America.
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Read the verse again.
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"And then I saw a second beast
coming up out of the earth.
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And it had two horns."
00:18:42.72\00:18:44.05
Oh, I love this. It
had two horns like a lamb.
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Mary had a little
lamb, little lamb,
00:18:46.29\00:18:48.26
little fuzzy curly hair
00:18:48.29\00:18:49.86
and lambs had
these little tiny horns,
00:18:49.89\00:18:51.59
you know, just
little protrusions here,
00:18:51.63\00:18:53.19
two horns.
00:18:53.23\00:18:55.76
It's youthful.
00:18:55.80\00:18:57.30
It's a symbol of youthfulness.
00:18:57.33\00:18:58.80
It's a symbol of innocence,
00:18:58.83\00:19:01.17
perhaps it's a symbol
of the two great liberties
00:19:01.20\00:19:03.74
that this land has
always championed civil liberty
00:19:03.77\00:19:06.47
and religious liberty.
00:19:06.51\00:19:07.84
Maybe that's what
this is all about.
00:19:07.88\00:19:09.34
It has two horns,
what a fitting description.
00:19:09.38\00:19:14.35
In the latest edition
issue of Liberty magazine,
00:19:14.38\00:19:17.95
there's a piece by Ron Capshaw
all about Roger Williams.
00:19:17.99\00:19:21.29
Do you remember Roger Williams,
00:19:21.32\00:19:22.69
the Baptist
minister who founded a colony
00:19:22.72\00:19:24.66
Rhode Island in the early 1600s.
00:19:24.69\00:19:26.76
You remember him?
00:19:26.80\00:19:28.13
This is an article about him.
00:19:28.16\00:19:29.50
And I want to put Capshaw's
words on the screen here.
00:19:29.53\00:19:31.50
Roger Williams
established the first area,
00:19:31.53\00:19:34.07
or we call it colony
00:19:34.10\00:19:35.87
to practice the
separation of church
00:19:35.90\00:19:38.07
and state in the New World.
00:19:38.11\00:19:40.61
He codified the idea
00:19:40.64\00:19:42.78
that the government could
rule only in civil matters.
00:19:42.81\00:19:46.21
As such, the Providence,"
00:19:46.25\00:19:47.78
that's Providence, Rhode Island,
00:19:47.82\00:19:49.15
"the Providence government
00:19:49.18\00:19:50.52
could not punish
those who violated, "
00:19:50.55\00:19:52.35
and these are
Roger Williams' words,
00:19:52.39\00:19:55.82
"the religious principles
00:19:55.86\00:19:57.19
contained in the
Ten Commandments,
00:19:57.23\00:19:58.99
such as
idolatry, Sabbath-breaking,
00:19:59.03\00:20:01.50
false worship and blasphemy."
00:20:01.53\00:20:03.23
Williams goes on.
00:20:03.26\00:20:04.60
"The laws of the First
Table of the Ten Commandments
00:20:04.63\00:20:07.57
are not
regulations for civil society
00:20:07.60\00:20:10.17
or a political order.
00:20:10.21\00:20:11.54
They belong to the realm
of religion, not politics.
00:20:11.57\00:20:15.78
Not politics.
00:20:15.81\00:20:17.78
And so for two
and a half centuries,
00:20:22.02\00:20:24.69
in this great nation,
00:20:24.72\00:20:26.15
America has championed
00:20:26.19\00:20:27.52
the separation of church
and state and rightfully so.
00:20:27.56\00:20:30.83
Roger Williams was
the one who taught us
00:20:30.86\00:20:33.03
to favor neither
religion over government,
00:20:33.06\00:20:35.90
nor government over religion.
00:20:35.93\00:20:37.63
You got to keep them separate.
00:20:37.67\00:20:39.00
Keep them separate,
don't pull them together.
00:20:39.03\00:20:41.54
That's been the
genius of this land.
00:20:41.57\00:20:44.81
But something dreadful happens.
00:20:44.84\00:20:47.54
This global superpower
begins to speak like a dragon.
00:20:47.58\00:20:52.95
Enter earth beast, phase two.
00:20:52.98\00:20:57.39
Revelation 13:11 again,
00:20:57.42\00:20:58.99
"Then I saw a second
beast coming out of the earth.
00:20:59.02\00:21:02.76
It had two horns like a lamb,
00:21:02.79\00:21:04.93
but it spoke
like a dragon Satan."
00:21:04.96\00:21:08.53
Verse 12,
00:21:08.56\00:21:09.90
"It exercised,
the Greek present,
00:21:09.93\00:21:12.63
historical
present is used, actually.
00:21:12.67\00:21:14.34
So these are all in the
present tense in the Greek.
00:21:14.37\00:21:16.04
"It exercises all the
authority of the first beast,
00:21:16.07\00:21:19.44
that would be Rome,
00:21:19.47\00:21:20.81
on its behalf
and makes the earth
00:21:20.84\00:21:23.85
and its inhabitants
worship the first beast,
00:21:23.88\00:21:27.08
whose fatal
wound has been healed."
00:21:27.12\00:21:31.39
Wow.
00:21:31.42\00:21:33.05
How could that humanly?
00:21:33.09\00:21:34.56
How could that
conceivably even be possible
00:21:34.59\00:21:38.16
in a freedom loving church
00:21:38.19\00:21:39.56
and state
separating land like America?
00:21:39.59\00:21:42.13
Indeed, it is incomprehensible
00:21:42.16\00:21:44.57
unless or until you introduce
00:21:44.60\00:21:50.14
an unexpected,
00:21:50.17\00:21:51.57
debilitating cataclysm
00:21:51.61\00:21:56.61
that strikes this nation
and suddenly all bets are off.
00:21:56.64\00:22:02.18
Something obviously
has gone terribly wrong.
00:22:05.35\00:22:07.79
We don't know what it is.
00:22:07.82\00:22:10.63
But it's gone
terribly wrong to the place
00:22:10.66\00:22:12.86
that not only the
citizens, did you notice that?
00:22:12.89\00:22:14.80
Not only the
citizens of the United States,
00:22:14.83\00:22:16.73
but the inhabitants
of the entire planet
00:22:16.77\00:22:18.47
are so shaken and threatened,
00:22:18.50\00:22:20.07
that in a state of
cognitive confusion,
00:22:20.10\00:22:22.10
they allow the abrogation
00:22:22.14\00:22:23.74
or the tearing down
of the very freedoms
00:22:23.77\00:22:26.44
and liberties they
once so ardently championed.
00:22:26.47\00:22:28.81
Something has happened.
00:22:28.84\00:22:30.18
It is a crisis on this planet,
00:22:30.21\00:22:31.75
and new voices speak up
00:22:31.78\00:22:33.31
and entire playing
field has been changed.
00:22:33.35\00:22:38.62
Could it happen?
00:22:38.65\00:22:40.06
Are you kidding?
00:22:40.09\00:22:42.82
Will it happen?
00:22:42.86\00:22:44.19
Listen,
Daniel's already told us,
00:22:44.23\00:22:45.56
it's gonna happen.
00:22:45.59\00:22:46.93
Watch this.
00:22:46.96\00:22:48.30
This is Daniel 12:1,
00:22:48.33\00:22:49.66
"There will be
at the end of time
00:22:49.70\00:22:51.03
such a time of distress
00:22:51.07\00:22:52.80
such as has not happened
00:22:52.83\00:22:54.27
from the beginning
of nations until then."
00:22:54.30\00:22:58.04
There's something yet ahead,
00:22:58.07\00:22:59.61
Jesus picks up on Daniel.
00:22:59.64\00:23:01.11
And in the little
apocalypse of Matthew 24,
00:23:01.14\00:23:04.15
notice the word,
the prediction of Jesus
00:23:04.18\00:23:06.01
just before I return,
00:23:06.05\00:23:08.45
watch what's going
to be on this planet.
00:23:08.48\00:23:09.88
"For then there
will be great distress
00:23:09.92\00:23:13.22
unequaled from the
beginning of the world until now
00:23:13.25\00:23:16.73
and never to be equaled again."
00:23:16.76\00:23:19.86
If those, in fact,
00:23:19.89\00:23:21.23
"If those days had
not been cut short,
00:23:21.26\00:23:23.43
no one would survive, but
for the sake of the elect,
00:23:23.47\00:23:27.07
the friends of God on earth,
those days will be shortened."
00:23:27.10\00:23:32.31
If it had been allowed
00:23:32.34\00:23:33.68
for the crisis
to continue to mount
00:23:33.71\00:23:35.18
and the entire
human race would be gone.
00:23:35.21\00:23:39.08
But for the sake of his
friends, enough, enough.
00:23:39.11\00:23:43.79
And then what does
Michael Barkun remind us?
00:23:47.42\00:23:53.03
What does he remind us?
00:23:53.06\00:23:54.80
Put it on the screen again,
00:23:54.83\00:23:56.30
please one more
time Michael Barkun,
00:23:56.33\00:23:59.00
social scientist.
00:23:59.03\00:24:00.54
"Disaster
produces the questioning,
00:24:00.57\00:24:03.34
the anxiety,
00:24:03.37\00:24:04.71
and the suggestibility
00:24:04.74\00:24:06.21
that are required
for belief system change.
00:24:06.24\00:24:11.35
Only in its wake
00:24:11.38\00:24:13.62
are people move to
abandon old values of the past."
00:24:13.65\00:24:19.15
And what old values of the
past will America abandon."
00:24:19.19\00:24:23.12
What have we already read?
00:24:23.16\00:24:24.99
Political power will
enforce religious worship.
00:24:25.03\00:24:29.60
You've never
heard of such a thing
00:24:29.63\00:24:32.43
in the history of this nation.
00:24:32.47\00:24:35.87
But there's a
dusty old book that says,
00:24:35.90\00:24:37.47
"You watch,
00:24:37.51\00:24:38.84
this will happen
00:24:38.87\00:24:40.44
to the United
States of America."
00:24:40.48\00:24:44.51
Wow. Read it again.
00:24:44.55\00:24:46.28
Verse 11.
00:24:46.31\00:24:47.65
"And then I saw a second beast
coming up out of the earth.
00:24:47.68\00:24:52.02
It had two horns like a lamb,
but it spoke like a dragon.
00:24:52.05\00:24:56.46
It exercised all the
authority of the first beast
00:24:56.49\00:24:59.33
on its behalf,
00:24:59.36\00:25:00.70
and made the earth
and its inhabitants
00:25:00.73\00:25:03.20
worship the first beast,
00:25:03.23\00:25:04.70
whose fatal
wound had been healed.
00:25:04.73\00:25:06.53
And it performed great signs
00:25:06.57\00:25:08.57
even causing fire to come down
00:25:08.60\00:25:10.71
from heaven to the earth
in full view of the people."
00:25:10.74\00:25:14.81
Sounds to me a whole
lot like Mount Carmel,
00:25:14.84\00:25:18.11
Elijah and the
prophets of Baal redo.
00:25:18.15\00:25:21.42
Only know what's
different this time?
00:25:24.59\00:25:26.62
The dragon who
watched Mount Carmel,
00:25:26.65\00:25:29.22
which was a
spectacular revelation
00:25:29.26\00:25:31.36
of supernatural power
00:25:31.39\00:25:32.73
to turn the hearts of
the people from the devil
00:25:32.76\00:25:35.90
back to the Creator God.
00:25:35.93\00:25:37.53
The devil says, I'll
take that same miracle
00:25:37.57\00:25:39.23
and I'll reverse it,
00:25:39.27\00:25:40.60
I will turn to the bringing down
00:25:40.64\00:25:42.30
of whatever it is,
00:25:42.34\00:25:43.67
fire from heaven,
00:25:43.71\00:25:45.04
I will turn the world away
00:25:45.07\00:25:47.14
from the Creator God to me.
00:25:47.18\00:25:50.51
I'll put it off.
00:25:50.55\00:25:52.75
Mercy.
00:25:52.78\00:25:54.25
And by the way,
00:25:54.28\00:25:55.62
that's been the
ambition of the dragon
00:25:55.65\00:25:57.62
from the very beginning.
00:25:57.65\00:25:59.02
The dragon who, of course,
00:25:59.05\00:26:00.76
is the greatest
Antichrist of all.
00:26:00.79\00:26:03.09
Verse 14,
00:26:07.30\00:26:09.03
"Because of the signs..."
00:26:09.06\00:26:10.90
By the way,
00:26:10.93\00:26:12.27
these signs
apparently are so persuasive.
00:26:12.30\00:26:14.34
Listen, listen, listen,
this is a university community.
00:26:14.37\00:26:18.07
They are so persuasive
that atheist scientists,
00:26:18.11\00:26:23.51
says the whole world.
00:26:23.55\00:26:24.88
Atheist scientists
00:26:24.91\00:26:26.78
who will not be
able to explain this,
00:26:26.82\00:26:29.38
and can only determine
00:26:29.42\00:26:31.12
it must be the finger
of the Almighty Himself
00:26:31.15\00:26:35.72
because it's the whole world.
00:26:35.76\00:26:37.16
Verse 14,
00:26:41.56\00:26:42.90
"Because of the signs,
00:26:42.93\00:26:44.27
it was given power to perform
00:26:44.30\00:26:46.27
on behalf of the first beast,
00:26:46.30\00:26:48.74
it, this country,
00:26:48.77\00:26:50.41
deceives the
inhabitants of the earth."
00:26:50.44\00:26:52.37
We have now a confederacy
of two global superpowers
00:26:52.41\00:26:56.44
who have confederated
together to rule the planet.
00:26:56.48\00:26:59.21
That's what's going on.
00:26:59.25\00:27:00.88
It, this second beast power,
00:27:00.92\00:27:02.92
deceives the
inhabitants of the entire earth.
00:27:02.95\00:27:05.42
It's global.
00:27:05.45\00:27:06.86
"It ordered them to set up
an image in honor of the beast
00:27:06.89\00:27:10.23
who was wounded by
the sword and yet lived."
00:27:10.26\00:27:13.03
Verse 15,
00:27:13.06\00:27:14.40
"And the second
beast, this country,
00:27:14.43\00:27:15.76
was given power to give breath
00:27:15.80\00:27:17.43
to the image of the first beast,
00:27:17.47\00:27:19.13
that global
superpower out of Rome,
00:27:19.17\00:27:21.10
so that the image
could speak and cause
00:27:21.14\00:27:23.71
all who refused to
worship the image to be,"
00:27:23.74\00:27:26.57
what?
00:27:26.61\00:27:28.71
We're going to kill you.
00:27:28.74\00:27:30.08
Do you understand that?
00:27:30.11\00:27:31.61
Hey, folks, guess what?
00:27:31.65\00:27:33.08
This is a story of Shadrach,
00:27:33.11\00:27:34.45
Meshach and Abednego
all over again in spades.
00:27:34.48\00:27:38.55
You remember that story,
00:27:38.59\00:27:39.92
don't you of the
three young Hebrew worthies?
00:27:39.95\00:27:42.09
King Nebuchadnezzar said,
00:27:42.12\00:27:43.46
I got an image right
here, you see that baby?
00:27:43.49\00:27:45.39
I want you to bow down.
00:27:45.43\00:27:46.90
You're gonna bow down
00:27:46.93\00:27:48.26
and if you don't
bow down we will.
00:27:48.30\00:27:49.63
It's over.
00:27:49.66\00:27:51.00
Do you understand that?
00:27:51.03\00:27:54.04
This is the story replayed.
00:27:54.07\00:27:57.51
The whole world,
00:27:57.54\00:27:59.64
we command that
you worship that?
00:27:59.67\00:28:02.38
Will there be an Abednego?
00:28:02.41\00:28:04.98
Will there be a Meshach?
00:28:05.01\00:28:07.22
Will there be a Shadrach
on this planet at that moment
00:28:07.25\00:28:10.05
that will stand up and say,
00:28:10.09\00:28:11.42
I don't care what
this power declares,
00:28:11.45\00:28:13.86
I refuse to bow
down to that image.
00:28:13.89\00:28:16.42
You may kill me if you wish.
00:28:16.46\00:28:19.29
God if He wants can deliver
me but even if He doesn't,
00:28:19.33\00:28:22.86
I will not bow down to you.
00:28:22.90\00:28:26.57
Here I stand.
00:28:26.60\00:28:28.50
So help me God.
00:28:28.54\00:28:31.67
Yeah, apparently, there
will be a few who resist.
00:28:31.71\00:28:37.38
Well, there are
only two verses left.
00:28:42.32\00:28:44.85
Here it comes.
00:28:44.89\00:28:46.59
That mysterious
mark of the beast.
00:28:46.62\00:28:48.56
Verse 16.
00:28:48.59\00:28:49.92
"And it,"
00:28:49.96\00:28:51.29
the second
global power, America,
00:28:51.33\00:28:53.86
"forces all
people great and small,
00:28:53.90\00:28:56.93
rich and poor,
00:28:56.97\00:28:58.50
free and slave
00:28:58.53\00:28:59.93
to receive a mark
on their right hands
00:28:59.97\00:29:02.80
or on their foreheads
00:29:02.84\00:29:04.37
so that they
could not buy or sell
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.01
unless they had the mark."
00:29:07.04\00:29:08.74
Apparently this power,
00:29:08.78\00:29:10.11
this global power has
control of the finances
00:29:10.15\00:29:14.35
of the human race.
00:29:14.38\00:29:16.48
And it can say,
00:29:16.52\00:29:18.45
if I say you spend you spend,
00:29:18.49\00:29:21.36
if I say you have
no access to spending,
00:29:21.39\00:29:24.36
you have zero access.
00:29:24.39\00:29:26.43
I have a little switch here.
00:29:26.46\00:29:27.80
Everything's
electronic. It's over.
00:29:27.83\00:29:31.40
Apparently,
00:29:31.43\00:29:33.77
the second beast
has the wherewithal
00:29:33.80\00:29:36.91
to economically
throttle this planet.
00:29:36.94\00:29:41.24
Man, oh, man.
00:29:41.28\00:29:44.38
Let's read verse 17 again,
00:29:44.41\00:29:45.75
"So that they
could not buy or sell
00:29:45.78\00:29:48.25
unless they had the mark
00:29:48.28\00:29:50.62
which is the name
of the first beast,
00:29:50.65\00:29:53.02
the Antichrist,
00:29:53.05\00:29:54.86
or the number of its name."
00:29:54.89\00:29:57.49
There you have it,
00:30:02.16\00:30:04.20
the dreaded and
mysterious mark of the beast,
00:30:04.23\00:30:07.30
but in a freedom
loving church and state
00:30:07.34\00:30:10.24
separating America,
00:30:10.27\00:30:11.77
how can that be?
00:30:11.81\00:30:14.41
Look at this.
00:30:14.44\00:30:15.78
Let me quote
Richard Evans in his book,
00:30:15.81\00:30:17.31
The Coming of the Third Reich.
00:30:17.35\00:30:20.42
On the screen, he
asks only four questions.
00:30:20.45\00:30:23.35
Four questions he
asks, here they are.
00:30:23.39\00:30:25.69
How was it
00:30:25.72\00:30:27.19
that an advanced and
highly cultured nation
00:30:27.22\00:30:29.86
such as Germany in the 1930s,
00:30:29.89\00:30:32.99
could give in
to the brutal force
00:30:33.03\00:30:35.56
of National Socialism
so quickly and so easily?
00:30:35.60\00:30:40.37
Good question.
00:30:40.40\00:30:41.74
Question number two,
00:30:41.77\00:30:43.10
Why was there such
little serious resistance
00:30:43.14\00:30:45.67
to the Nazi takeover?
00:30:45.71\00:30:47.74
Question number three.
00:30:47.78\00:30:49.14
How could a party
of the radical right
00:30:49.18\00:30:51.85
rise to power with
dramatic suddenness?
00:30:51.88\00:30:57.15
And now question number four.
00:30:57.19\00:30:59.29
Why did so many
Germans fail to perceive
00:30:59.32\00:31:03.26
the potentially
disastrous consequences
00:31:03.29\00:31:06.23
of ignoring the violent,
00:31:06.26\00:31:08.06
racist and murderous
nature of the Nazi movement?
00:31:08.10\00:31:11.23
I add three
questions to these four.
00:31:14.27\00:31:16.84
Question number five.
00:31:16.87\00:31:18.37
How could a man
like Adolf Hitler
00:31:18.41\00:31:20.44
walk away with the
churches of Germany
00:31:20.48\00:31:23.21
in his hip pocket?
00:31:23.24\00:31:25.31
How does that happen?
00:31:30.89\00:31:32.95
Question number six.
00:31:32.99\00:31:34.86
Where was the
Christian resistance
00:31:34.89\00:31:36.59
to a ruler and party
00:31:36.62\00:31:38.09
so Antichrist in
their governance?
00:31:38.13\00:31:42.16
And question number seven.
00:31:42.20\00:31:44.40
And when Hitler declared
00:31:44.43\00:31:45.77
that has blamed the
Sabbatarians for our ills,
00:31:45.80\00:31:48.70
why did so preciously
00:31:48.74\00:31:50.34
few religious leaders
00:31:50.37\00:31:51.77
challenged his corrupted
logic regarding the Jews?
00:31:51.81\00:31:55.81
Instead what do you have?
00:31:55.84\00:31:57.18
You have the clergy of the day
00:31:57.21\00:31:59.01
careening up to
the Fuhrer's table.
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.55
They want to sit at that table.
00:32:02.58\00:32:05.32
Power is contagious.
00:32:05.35\00:32:10.03
I worry today.
00:32:10.06\00:32:12.63
I worry today.
00:32:12.66\00:32:15.60
Could it happen in America?
00:32:15.63\00:32:18.47
I'm deeply concerned
00:32:18.50\00:32:20.77
for clergy
00:32:20.80\00:32:22.64
seeking to sit at
the table of power.
00:32:22.67\00:32:27.08
I am concerned.
00:32:27.11\00:32:28.44
That I got an email from
one of our viewers who said,
00:32:31.35\00:32:33.58
I see you're going to
talk about the religious right.
00:32:33.62\00:32:36.35
Don't forget the
irreligious left.
00:32:36.38\00:32:40.79
So that's a good point.
00:32:40.82\00:32:42.49
I agree.
00:32:42.52\00:32:45.09
But the history of
Germany, we just saw it.
00:32:45.13\00:32:49.03
The history of
Germany is a stunning reminder
00:32:49.06\00:32:51.10
that even good hearted Christian
00:32:51.13\00:32:53.17
men and women and
leaders can be duped
00:32:53.20\00:32:56.24
into embracing an
Antichrist set of values.
00:32:56.27\00:33:00.71
How serious is this
mark of the beast business?
00:33:00.74\00:33:04.75
Oh, mercy.
00:33:04.78\00:33:06.45
You want to read how serious
this is just across the page.
00:33:06.48\00:33:09.18
Go to Revelation Chapter 14.
00:33:09.22\00:33:11.02
This is how serious it is.
00:33:11.05\00:33:12.69
There are three
angels here in Revelation 14.
00:33:12.72\00:33:14.86
They are uttering and
issuing God's final strategic,
00:33:14.89\00:33:18.96
passionate appeal
to the human race.
00:33:18.99\00:33:21.16
Two angels have
already sounded their warnings
00:33:21.20\00:33:23.47
and their cries.
00:33:23.50\00:33:24.83
Here comes angel
number three now.
00:33:24.87\00:33:26.84
Verse 9, Revelation 14,
00:33:26.87\00:33:29.00
"And a third
angel followed the two
00:33:29.04\00:33:31.47
and said in a loud voice."
00:33:31.51\00:33:32.94
There's that
megaphone voice again.
00:33:32.97\00:33:34.74
"If anyone worships
the beast and its image
00:33:34.78\00:33:39.05
and receives its
mark on their forehead
00:33:39.08\00:33:41.48
or on their hand,
00:33:41.52\00:33:43.65
they too will drink
the wine of God's fury,
00:33:43.69\00:33:46.65
which has been poured out
00:33:46.69\00:33:48.02
full strength into
the cup of his wrath.
00:33:48.06\00:33:50.26
They will be
tormented with burning sulfur
00:33:50.29\00:33:52.59
in the presence
of the holy angels
00:33:52.63\00:33:54.36
and of the Lamb
00:33:54.40\00:33:55.73
and the smoke of their torment
will rise forever and ever.
00:33:55.76\00:33:58.77
There will be no rest day
00:33:58.80\00:34:00.64
nor night for those
who worship the beast
00:34:00.67\00:34:02.94
and its image
00:34:02.97\00:34:04.31
or anyone who
receives the mark of its name."
00:34:04.34\00:34:06.84
Have mercy.
00:34:06.88\00:34:08.21
That little apocalyptic classic,
00:34:11.11\00:34:12.45
The Great Controversy,
00:34:12.48\00:34:13.82
you know how it calls,
00:34:13.85\00:34:15.18
you know how it describes
this message right here?
00:34:15.22\00:34:17.32
The most fearful threatening
00:34:17.35\00:34:18.75
ever addressed to mortals
00:34:18.79\00:34:20.46
in the history
of the human race.
00:34:20.49\00:34:22.19
You just read it.
00:34:22.22\00:34:25.03
Man!
00:34:25.06\00:34:27.86
Something is obviously
hugely at stake for God
00:34:27.90\00:34:32.47
to be so dire in His warning.
00:34:32.50\00:34:35.74
Because you see,
00:34:35.77\00:34:38.11
the apocalypse dramatically
describes the contrast
00:34:38.14\00:34:43.21
between the mark of the
beast and the seal of God.
00:34:43.24\00:34:48.88
And the critical ID factor.
00:34:53.12\00:34:56.22
Both are about worship.
00:34:56.26\00:34:59.73
Let me show you.
00:34:59.76\00:35:01.10
Let's go to the seal of God.
00:35:03.87\00:35:05.20
We already know
the mark of the beast.
00:35:05.23\00:35:06.57
We just read the description.
00:35:06.60\00:35:07.94
Just go back a few
pages, this is Revelation 7.
00:35:07.97\00:35:10.44
Revelation 7:1,
00:35:10.47\00:35:12.91
"After this, I saw four angels
00:35:12.94\00:35:14.34
standing at the four
corners of the earth,
00:35:14.38\00:35:16.24
holding back the four winds,
00:35:16.28\00:35:17.61
north, south, east west.
00:35:17.65\00:35:19.55
Something is just busting out
00:35:19.58\00:35:22.98
of the seams to
destroy this planet.
00:35:23.02\00:35:24.75
But these angels have
been assigned to hold it back,
00:35:24.79\00:35:26.65
hold it but not yet, not yet.
00:35:26.69\00:35:29.66
Holding back the
four winds of the earth
00:35:29.69\00:35:31.73
to prevent any wind
from blowing on the land,
00:35:31.76\00:35:34.06
or on the sea, or on any tree."
00:35:34.10\00:35:36.50
Verse 2,
00:35:36.53\00:35:37.87
"Then I saw another
angel coming up from the east
00:35:37.90\00:35:41.10
having the seal of the
living God, there it is,
00:35:41.14\00:35:43.81
and He called
out in a loud voice,
00:35:43.84\00:35:45.41
another megaphone
voice to the four angels
00:35:45.44\00:35:47.41
who had been given power
to harm the land and the sea."
00:35:47.44\00:35:50.51
Verse 3,
00:35:50.55\00:35:51.88
"Do not harm the land
or the sea or the trees
00:35:51.91\00:35:54.95
until we put a
seal on the foreheads
00:35:54.98\00:35:58.35
of the servants of our God."
00:35:58.39\00:36:03.09
What do we already know
about the mark of the beast?
00:36:03.12\00:36:05.49
Let's just review this.
00:36:05.53\00:36:08.26
It'll help us
with the seal of God.
00:36:08.30\00:36:09.96
Now the mark of the
beast, where did it go?
00:36:10.00\00:36:11.43
Do you remember where
the mark of the beast went?
00:36:11.47\00:36:12.80
Come on, help me out.
00:36:12.83\00:36:14.17
It went first where?
00:36:14.20\00:36:15.94
Right hand.
00:36:15.97\00:36:17.31
Tap your right hand
right now, tap your right hand.
00:36:17.34\00:36:19.21
That's the hand, it'll go there.
00:36:19.24\00:36:21.11
What is this
some embedded QR code?
00:36:21.14\00:36:24.18
No.
00:36:24.21\00:36:25.55
Supermarket barcode? No.
00:36:25.58\00:36:27.32
That's the stuff you read
from the National Enquirer.
00:36:27.35\00:36:30.09
We'll find out what it is.
00:36:30.12\00:36:31.45
So need to go
here or to go where?
00:36:31.49\00:36:34.09
The seal of God,
where does it go?
00:36:34.12\00:36:37.23
It does not go
here. You know why?
00:36:37.26\00:36:39.89
Because the hand
represents compliance.
00:36:39.93\00:36:41.86
The hand represents the
crowd just is dragging me along.
00:36:41.90\00:36:44.43
Wherever the guys
are going, I'm going.
00:36:44.47\00:36:45.93
Wherever the girls
are going, I'm going.
00:36:45.97\00:36:47.30
Some people follow the crowd.
00:36:47.34\00:36:48.67
They'll follow
the crowd by gaming,
00:36:48.70\00:36:50.14
lemmings over a cliff.
00:36:50.17\00:36:52.77
There will be nobody
going into the kingdom of God
00:36:52.81\00:36:54.64
being dragged along.
00:36:54.68\00:36:56.01
God does not have a crowd
being dragged into heaven.
00:36:56.04\00:36:57.78
God only has people who do this
00:36:57.81\00:37:00.02
who think, who think, who think.
00:37:00.05\00:37:02.18
Great news for a
university that's paid to think,
00:37:02.22\00:37:05.22
they think critically,
prayerfully cautiously,
00:37:05.25\00:37:09.52
they choose here.
00:37:09.56\00:37:14.70
So you got two competing
seals or marks, two of them.
00:37:14.73\00:37:19.43
Wow.
00:37:19.47\00:37:21.74
You choose.
00:37:21.77\00:37:23.10
Whom shall I obey?
00:37:23.14\00:37:24.91
You choose.
00:37:24.94\00:37:26.27
Whom shall I worship?
00:37:26.31\00:37:27.64
Come on, you
choose, because you see,
00:37:27.68\00:37:30.68
the seal of God and
the mark of the beast
00:37:30.71\00:37:33.18
represent two sources
of authority, watch this.
00:37:33.21\00:37:36.72
The mark of the beast
00:37:36.75\00:37:38.09
symbolizes the
authority of the Antichrist,
00:37:38.12\00:37:39.82
that would be human authority.
00:37:39.85\00:37:41.36
The seal of God
00:37:41.39\00:37:43.39
represents the
authority of the Creator,
00:37:43.43\00:37:45.36
that would be divine authority.
00:37:45.39\00:37:47.96
Plain and simple.
00:37:48.00\00:37:49.86
In fact, my friend Jiri Moskala,
00:37:49.90\00:37:51.60
who is the dean of
the theological seminary
00:37:51.63\00:37:53.30
here on campus.
00:37:53.34\00:37:54.67
He wrote a piece
00:37:54.70\00:37:56.04
in this month's
Adventist Review.
00:37:56.07\00:37:58.67
And it's spot on,
00:37:58.71\00:38:00.04
I wanna put this
on the screen for you.
00:38:00.08\00:38:01.41
The three angels' message,
00:38:01.44\00:38:02.78
he is dealing
with all three of them
00:38:02.81\00:38:04.15
as one message.
00:38:04.18\00:38:05.61
The three angels'
message is God's response
00:38:05.65\00:38:08.18
to the demands of
the satanic trinity.
00:38:08.22\00:38:10.59
Good night.
00:38:10.62\00:38:11.95
What is this?
00:38:11.99\00:38:13.32
Well, let's see what he
says. He says it's a dragon.
00:38:13.36\00:38:14.72
Okay, we got that one,
00:38:14.76\00:38:16.09
that Satan, the
sea and land beast.
00:38:16.12\00:38:18.16
Okay, Rome, America.
00:38:18.19\00:38:19.63
Oh, the satanic trinity.
00:38:19.66\00:38:21.30
Go back please to
that satanic trinity.
00:38:21.33\00:38:23.70
Yeah, so what's he saying here?
00:38:23.73\00:38:26.57
The three angels'
message is God's response
00:38:26.60\00:38:28.87
to the demands of
the satanic trinity.
00:38:28.90\00:38:31.11
What are they
demanding? Keep going now.
00:38:31.14\00:38:32.94
They're demanding
universal obedience.
00:38:32.97\00:38:35.24
Guess what?
00:38:35.28\00:38:36.61
People who hate
obedience, it won't matter,
00:38:36.64\00:38:38.38
in that day you have to obey.
00:38:38.41\00:38:40.15
And both forces,
00:38:40.18\00:38:42.45
the forces of Christ
00:38:42.48\00:38:43.82
and the forces of
the fallen dragon,
00:38:43.85\00:38:46.19
Lucifer, both forces
will demand obedience.
00:38:46.22\00:38:52.46
There is no middle ground,
00:38:52.49\00:38:54.00
but I don't wanna,
I'm not gonna obey either.
00:38:54.03\00:38:55.66
No, I'm sorry.
00:38:55.70\00:38:57.03
It's either one or the
other, and they will demand it.
00:38:57.07\00:38:59.53
Keep reading.
00:38:59.57\00:39:00.90
But the three angels'
message shows the Holy Trinity.
00:39:00.94\00:39:04.31
Now in contradistinction,
00:39:04.34\00:39:06.88
exposing these
end time deceptions
00:39:06.91\00:39:09.28
and fake news
00:39:09.31\00:39:10.65
helping people to
make right choices
00:39:10.68\00:39:13.72
and worship the Lord in truth.
00:39:13.75\00:39:16.69
In fact, get this,
00:39:16.72\00:39:18.05
Jiri Moskala in
this article describes
00:39:18.09\00:39:19.65
how between
Revelation 13 and 14,
00:39:19.69\00:39:22.92
these two chapters
between the two trinities.
00:39:22.96\00:39:26.39
Worship,
00:39:26.43\00:39:27.76
the word worship occurs
eight times, eight times.
00:39:27.80\00:39:32.63
Let's put the
sentence on the screen
00:39:32.67\00:39:34.24
so that we will never forget it.
00:39:34.27\00:39:35.60
Worship is a huge deal
00:39:35.64\00:39:38.04
in the end game
for the human race.
00:39:38.07\00:39:41.14
Worship, worship, worship.
00:39:41.18\00:39:43.28
You cannot define that
end game any other way.
00:39:43.31\00:39:46.68
But pointing out that
it is the issue of worship
00:39:46.72\00:39:50.49
at the very end of time.
00:39:50.52\00:39:52.05
Either it will be the
Creator and His authority
00:39:57.03\00:40:01.13
or the Antichrist
and his authority.
00:40:01.16\00:40:02.86
Can you prove that, Dwight?
00:40:02.90\00:40:04.23
Of course, I can,
put it right here.
00:40:04.27\00:40:05.60
Let's put the two
verses on the screen here.
00:40:05.63\00:40:08.04
These are the verses
that talk about worship.
00:40:08.07\00:40:09.84
The first angel's message,
00:40:09.87\00:40:11.21
worship Him the Creator
00:40:11.24\00:40:12.57
who made heaven and earth
and the springs of waters.
00:40:12.61\00:40:14.98
That worship is the
big deal with the Creator.
00:40:15.01\00:40:16.91
Of course, it is.
00:40:16.95\00:40:18.28
And we just read
it, Revelation 13:15.
00:40:18.31\00:40:20.32
And the second beast, America,
00:40:20.35\00:40:21.88
was given power to give breath
00:40:21.92\00:40:23.39
to the image of the first beast,
00:40:23.42\00:40:24.89
Antichrist and Rome,
00:40:24.92\00:40:26.25
so that the image could speak
00:40:26.29\00:40:28.12
and cause all who
refused to worship
00:40:28.16\00:40:31.29
the image to be killed.
00:40:31.33\00:40:33.13
Worship, worship,
00:40:33.16\00:40:34.70
it's the end game's last appeal.
00:40:34.73\00:40:38.83
Whom shall I worship?
00:40:38.87\00:40:43.41
Whose authority takes
precedence in my life?
00:40:43.44\00:40:46.14
God's or man's?
00:40:46.17\00:40:49.11
Christ, my Creator?
00:40:49.14\00:40:52.25
Or the dragon
and his antichrist?
00:40:52.28\00:40:54.85
I have to choose.
00:40:54.88\00:40:57.09
Wow.
00:40:57.12\00:40:58.85
I must remind you
00:40:58.89\00:41:00.22
that the Creator
could hardly be clearer
00:41:00.26\00:41:02.26
about His authority.
00:41:02.29\00:41:03.63
Let's put it on
the screen once again.
00:41:03.66\00:41:04.99
The fourth
commandment from the Decalogue,
00:41:05.03\00:41:06.53
the Ten Commandments.
00:41:06.56\00:41:07.90
By the way, the Creator
and in the New Testament
00:41:07.93\00:41:09.60
it's clear that
Jesus is the Creator
00:41:09.63\00:41:11.77
that appears in
Genesis 1, 2 and 3.
00:41:11.80\00:41:13.54
The Creator with His own finger
wrote these words in granite,
00:41:13.57\00:41:17.74
so that they
could not be erased.
00:41:17.77\00:41:20.28
All right, what did He
write in the fourth commandment?
00:41:20.31\00:41:21.64
Well, let's read it.
00:41:21.68\00:41:23.01
"Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy.
00:41:23.04\00:41:24.85
For in six days,
00:41:24.88\00:41:26.21
the Lord made the
heavens and the earth,
00:41:26.25\00:41:28.22
the sea and all that is in them
and rested the seventh day."
00:41:28.25\00:41:31.85
Keep going.
00:41:31.89\00:41:33.22
"Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
00:41:33.25\00:41:35.99
and hallowed it.
00:41:36.02\00:41:37.49
He has put His divine imprimatur
00:41:37.53\00:41:40.73
on that seventh day Sabbath
00:41:40.76\00:41:42.43
from the
beginning of human time,
00:41:42.46\00:41:44.10
and He's never taken it off.
00:41:44.13\00:41:46.13
He has hallowed it.
00:41:46.17\00:41:47.54
He sealed it.
00:41:47.57\00:41:50.07
Oh, boy!
00:41:50.11\00:41:51.44
Have you ever seen one of these?
00:41:51.47\00:41:52.81
Come on. Come on.
00:41:52.84\00:41:54.18
Again, bugging
me this whole time
00:41:54.21\00:41:55.54
sitting in my pocket.
00:41:55.58\00:41:56.91
But have you ever
seen one of these?
00:41:56.95\00:42:00.45
You've seen these little
seals, you can buy the seals.
00:42:00.48\00:42:03.22
And you can
emboss a piece of paper,
00:42:03.25\00:42:05.59
a letter that you're signing.
00:42:05.62\00:42:06.96
And when you
put this seal on it.
00:42:06.99\00:42:08.32
Oh, boy, that's official,
00:42:08.36\00:42:09.92
because that came
with your seal on it.
00:42:09.96\00:42:11.53
This is a seal.
Everybody knows a seal.
00:42:11.56\00:42:13.56
Now look it.
00:42:13.60\00:42:15.00
If I were president
of the United States,
00:42:15.03\00:42:17.93
you can be
thankful that I'm not.
00:42:17.97\00:42:19.43
If I were president
of the United States,
00:42:19.47\00:42:21.67
I would have a seal for myself.
00:42:21.70\00:42:23.61
Yes, I would.
00:42:23.64\00:42:25.91
And this is how
my seal would read.
00:42:25.94\00:42:28.31
True, this is really
how my seal would read.
00:42:28.34\00:42:30.78
Let's put it on the screen.
00:42:30.81\00:42:32.15
Dwight's seal.
00:42:32.18\00:42:33.72
That's not an animal.
00:42:33.75\00:42:37.25
This is not sea world.
00:42:37.29\00:42:39.89
You understand that, do you?
00:42:39.92\00:42:41.26
This is a seal.
00:42:41.29\00:42:42.62
All right, Dwight's seal.
00:42:42.66\00:42:44.26
So my seal would have
my name, Dwight Nelson.
00:42:44.29\00:42:46.53
It would have my
office, President.
00:42:46.56\00:42:48.06
And by the way, that
is a capital P President.
00:42:48.10\00:42:50.90
All right?
00:42:50.93\00:42:52.27
And it would
have my jurisdiction,
00:42:52.30\00:42:53.64
United States of America.
00:42:53.67\00:42:55.00
Just lock this
screen in your mind.
00:42:55.04\00:42:57.67
And I wanna ask
you the question,
00:42:57.71\00:42:59.04
is it too late
to get on the ballot
00:42:59.07\00:43:00.41
for this election?
00:43:00.44\00:43:01.78
I'm just wondering, look.
00:43:01.81\00:43:05.11
Of course not.
00:43:05.15\00:43:06.61
So that's what goes into a seal.
00:43:06.65\00:43:08.38
When the President
takes his personal seal,
00:43:11.69\00:43:14.02
so he's going to
sign an executive order.
00:43:14.06\00:43:15.66
But when he signs
the executive order,
00:43:15.69\00:43:17.03
and then he seals it
00:43:17.06\00:43:18.39
with the seal of the
President of the United States,
00:43:18.43\00:43:21.70
he has locked in his
authority to what is now sealed.
00:43:21.73\00:43:26.20
His authority is all over it.
00:43:26.23\00:43:27.84
Of course, it is.
00:43:27.87\00:43:30.61
Does God have a seal?
00:43:30.64\00:43:31.97
Oh, yes, He does.
00:43:32.01\00:43:33.34
Oh, what's in God's seal?
00:43:33.38\00:43:34.71
His name, His
office, and His jurisdiction.
00:43:34.74\00:43:38.01
Come on. Are you serious? Yes.
00:43:38.05\00:43:39.38
We just read God seal.
00:43:39.41\00:43:41.45
Let's go back to
the fourth commandment.
00:43:41.48\00:43:42.82
Let's do it. Come
on. Fourth Commandment.
00:43:42.85\00:43:45.22
Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy,
00:43:45.25\00:43:47.02
the seventh day of the week.
00:43:47.06\00:43:48.49
For in six days the Lord,"
00:43:48.52\00:43:50.46
stop, stop, stop
that's His name Yahweh,
00:43:50.49\00:43:53.03
seal the place
where He's named here.
00:43:53.06\00:43:54.50
Look at, this is the law
giver, He has the authority.
00:43:54.53\00:43:58.83
So we see His name.
00:43:58.87\00:44:00.50
For in six days the Lord made,
00:44:00.54\00:44:04.51
oh, stop, stop, stop
because made He's a maker.
00:44:04.54\00:44:06.91
That's His
office. He's the Creator.
00:44:06.94\00:44:08.34
He's the maker.
00:44:08.38\00:44:09.71
He made, now keep reading,
the heavens and the earth,
00:44:09.74\00:44:13.01
the sea and all that is in them.
00:44:13.05\00:44:15.08
We'll stop again.
00:44:15.12\00:44:16.45
That's His jurisdiction.
00:44:16.48\00:44:17.82
Ladies and gentlemen,
just look at that screen.
00:44:17.85\00:44:19.32
He has a seal with His name,
00:44:19.35\00:44:21.09
His office and His jurisdiction
00:44:21.12\00:44:22.79
plainly shown and it
was carved in granite
00:44:22.82\00:44:26.16
so that nobody
could stand up and say,
00:44:26.19\00:44:29.40
"No, no, the seal
should be in my name.
00:44:29.43\00:44:32.27
I am the one that decides."
00:44:32.30\00:44:33.94
No, you are not.
00:44:33.97\00:44:36.50
Every seventh day of
the week brings the seal.
00:44:36.54\00:44:38.87
Come on, read
the last line please.
00:44:38.91\00:44:40.41
And what did God do this,
the one who seals the law,
00:44:40.44\00:44:43.35
He rested on the seventh day.
00:44:43.38\00:44:45.95
Therefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day
00:44:45.98\00:44:49.92
and hallowed it.
00:44:49.95\00:44:52.22
There it is,
ladies and gentlemen.
00:44:52.25\00:44:56.02
The seventh day Sabbath
is God's seal of authority.
00:44:56.06\00:45:00.23
As the creator of the universe,
00:45:00.26\00:45:01.73
and when I
worship Him on His day,
00:45:01.76\00:45:04.37
I am declaring to the universe
and to everybody on earth,
00:45:04.40\00:45:07.54
I have one source of authority,
and that is my Creator.
00:45:07.57\00:45:11.34
I owe my allegiance
to Him forever and ever.
00:45:11.37\00:45:14.54
Amen.
00:45:14.58\00:45:15.91
That's what I say,
when I worship on His day.
00:45:15.94\00:45:20.05
Now in opposition
to the seal of God,
00:45:20.08\00:45:24.09
the mark of the beast is
a counter authority seal,
00:45:24.12\00:45:27.56
and I want you to
see it right here.
00:45:27.59\00:45:30.93
The Roman Catholic
Church, this is a direct quote,
00:45:30.96\00:45:34.80
Sunday is our mark of authority.
00:45:34.83\00:45:41.20
I didn't write this.
00:45:41.24\00:45:42.94
They did.
00:45:42.97\00:45:44.31
Sunday is our mark of authority
that church is above the Bible.
00:45:44.34\00:45:50.08
And this transference
of Sabbath observance
00:45:50.11\00:45:52.58
is proof of that fact.
00:45:52.61\00:45:57.39
There are two seals.
00:45:57.42\00:45:59.92
One's called a
mark, the other is seal.
00:45:59.95\00:46:03.29
One's the mark of the beast,
the other is the seal of God.
00:46:03.32\00:46:07.83
And it will come down
00:46:07.86\00:46:09.96
to a very plain
and simple choice,
00:46:10.00\00:46:12.47
put it on the screen here.
00:46:12.50\00:46:14.40
You will choose
either the seal of God
00:46:14.44\00:46:16.37
in His seventh day Sabbath.
00:46:16.40\00:46:18.87
There's not a third,
there's nothing here.
00:46:18.91\00:46:20.61
There's no third choice.
00:46:20.64\00:46:21.98
Well, I'm going to take
this one, you can't, you can't.
00:46:22.01\00:46:25.21
You choose the seal of
God in His seventh day Sabbath
00:46:25.25\00:46:27.52
or the mark of the beast
in its substitute Sunday.
00:46:27.55\00:46:32.15
That's the only choice.
00:46:32.19\00:46:34.29
The only choice.
00:46:34.32\00:46:35.66
And the majority of this planet,
00:46:38.79\00:46:40.33
as we just read
in Revelation 13,
00:46:40.36\00:46:41.93
the majority will say,
Okay, I'll go along with it.
00:46:41.96\00:46:44.93
I don't believe in it,
but I'll go along with it.
00:46:44.97\00:46:46.74
Or I believe in it.
00:46:46.77\00:46:48.50
You can count me in.
00:46:48.54\00:46:50.71
Will there be anybody to
say, excuse me, excuse me.
00:46:50.74\00:46:53.41
Timeout, timeout, excuse me.
00:46:53.44\00:46:56.21
Is there room
for a second opinion?
00:46:56.24\00:46:59.71
Yes, there will be,
00:46:59.75\00:47:01.08
there will be and
there will be a minority.
00:47:01.12\00:47:03.85
It will be small.
00:47:03.89\00:47:06.09
But the Apocalypse is clear,
God does not lose in the end.
00:47:06.12\00:47:10.79
Watch this.
00:47:10.83\00:47:12.16
Revelation 14:12.
00:47:12.19\00:47:13.83
We just read it in our scripture
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.20
reading a moment ago.
00:47:15.23\00:47:16.73
Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:47:16.77\00:47:19.70
here are those who
keep the commandments of God
00:47:19.73\00:47:23.27
and the faith of Jesus.
00:47:23.30\00:47:25.31
There will be a minority
sabbatarians to the end.
00:47:25.34\00:47:31.35
There will be.
00:47:31.38\00:47:32.91
Oh, and there's one
more verse Revelation, 12:17,
00:47:32.95\00:47:35.55
And a dragon, Satan
was enraged with a woman,
00:47:35.58\00:47:38.52
the pure woman,
God's true church,
00:47:38.55\00:47:40.56
he was enraged with a woman
00:47:40.59\00:47:42.32
and he went to
make war with the rest,
00:47:42.36\00:47:45.33
the remnant of
her seed or offspring
00:47:45.36\00:47:48.16
who keep the
commandments of God.
00:47:48.20\00:47:50.27
I guess that includes
the fourth commandment,
00:47:50.30\00:47:52.53
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:47:52.57\00:47:55.34
Ladies and gentlemen,
00:47:55.37\00:47:56.71
the good news is
00:47:56.74\00:47:58.07
God the Creator
will have a people
00:47:58.11\00:47:59.81
who are Sabbath keeping,
00:47:59.84\00:48:01.18
Creator obeying and
Jesus loving worshipers
00:48:01.21\00:48:03.68
at the end of time,
00:48:03.71\00:48:05.05
no matter how hot
00:48:05.08\00:48:06.41
that furnace is stoked up to be,
00:48:06.45\00:48:08.18
they will say I cannot
and I will not change my mind.
00:48:08.22\00:48:14.99
I'll stand for Him.
00:48:15.02\00:48:16.66
Do whatever you want.
00:48:16.69\00:48:18.03
Question: Does anybody have
the mark of the beast today?
00:48:23.13\00:48:28.67
Answer: No.
00:48:28.70\00:48:31.64
The sea beast has
yet to collaborate
00:48:31.67\00:48:34.51
with the earth beast
in this global confederacy
00:48:34.54\00:48:37.55
for the end game.
00:48:37.58\00:48:40.45
The truth is there are
tens of thousands of Christians
00:48:40.48\00:48:44.45
today who
worship Jesus on Sunday
00:48:44.49\00:48:46.72
believing it's the Lord's Day.
00:48:46.76\00:48:49.26
They love Him
with all their hearts.
00:48:49.29\00:48:51.39
Nobody has told them otherwise.
00:48:51.43\00:48:53.40
Their pastors
haven't corrected them
00:48:53.43\00:48:55.73
because their
pastors don't know.
00:48:55.76\00:48:58.23
And so with sincerity
00:48:58.27\00:48:59.77
and devotion to their Lord,
00:48:59.80\00:49:01.14
they are living
up to all the light
00:49:01.17\00:49:02.60
that is shining
on their pathway.
00:49:02.64\00:49:04.24
Nevertheless,
00:49:04.27\00:49:05.94
to observe the
seventh day Sabbath
00:49:05.97\00:49:07.51
still remains God's
will for all Christians,
00:49:07.54\00:49:11.11
whether the mark of the beast
has been formed yet or not,
00:49:11.15\00:49:14.52
it does not matter.
00:49:14.55\00:49:16.42
So what should you do?
00:49:16.45\00:49:17.79
I grew up in Japan.
00:49:20.79\00:49:23.49
And I used to go
to school every day
00:49:23.53\00:49:25.13
on the trains of Japan,
00:49:25.16\00:49:26.49
back and forth, back and forth,
back and forth, back and forth.
00:49:26.53\00:49:28.40
A few years ago, Karen
and I went to visit Japan,
00:49:28.43\00:49:30.97
my homeland.
00:49:31.00\00:49:32.33
Had a wonderful
time, got on a train,
00:49:32.37\00:49:33.70
sat back, man,
this is gonna be...
00:49:33.74\00:49:35.07
Oh, look at the
beautiful countryside.
00:49:35.10\00:49:37.24
The city of Tokyo. Wow!
00:49:37.27\00:49:39.64
And then I saw
there was this map,
00:49:39.67\00:49:42.78
a railway system map
00:49:42.81\00:49:44.68
on the side of the train
car and I'm looking at it
00:49:44.71\00:49:47.42
and reading it and
I'm saying wait a minute,
00:49:47.45\00:49:49.05
wait a minute.
00:49:49.08\00:49:51.35
We are going in
the wrong direction.
00:49:51.39\00:49:55.72
These Japanese
trains are something.
00:49:55.76\00:49:57.33
Let me tell you
about Japanese trains.
00:49:57.36\00:50:00.13
Once you discover,
you've got the right ticket,
00:50:00.16\00:50:03.00
but you're on the wrong train.
00:50:03.03\00:50:06.47
You have two choices.
00:50:06.50\00:50:08.37
You can stay on
that train and keep going
00:50:08.40\00:50:09.74
to where you never wanted to go.
00:50:09.77\00:50:12.44
Or you can find a train
00:50:12.47\00:50:17.48
that's going the
way you wanted to go
00:50:17.51\00:50:20.58
and you change trains.
00:50:20.62\00:50:22.85
It's that simple.
00:50:22.88\00:50:24.75
God is crying
out to the human race
00:50:24.79\00:50:26.42
to change trains,
00:50:26.45\00:50:28.92
and come to Him
00:50:28.96\00:50:31.19
as the creator
of the human race.
00:50:31.23\00:50:34.80
You've never, you
may never have believed
00:50:34.83\00:50:36.30
in a Creator at all.
00:50:36.33\00:50:37.67
You've grown up atheist.
00:50:37.70\00:50:39.03
You have never even entertained
the thought even for you.
00:50:39.07\00:50:43.57
The creator of the universe
00:50:43.61\00:50:45.07
stretches out His
nail scarred hands.
00:50:45.11\00:50:48.14
Says, come on, change trains,
00:50:48.18\00:50:50.55
change trains, come to me.
00:50:50.58\00:50:56.02
Antichrist says, no, no, no, no.
00:50:56.05\00:50:58.59
Come this way.
00:50:58.62\00:51:00.86
But he can only take you
where you never wanted to go.
00:51:00.89\00:51:04.36
The Creator says, no, no,
no, no, no, no, come this way.
00:51:04.39\00:51:07.73
And I'll take you
00:51:07.76\00:51:09.10
to where you've
always wanted to go.
00:51:09.13\00:51:10.60
Because when it
comes to the Sabbath,
00:51:10.63\00:51:14.94
it has always
been all about Jesus.
00:51:14.97\00:51:19.14
And that's the good news.
00:51:19.17\00:51:20.98
And it's that simple.
00:51:21.01\00:51:22.64
Come to Me.
00:51:22.68\00:51:24.11
Come to Me, and
I'll give you rest.
00:51:24.15\00:51:27.42
A Sabbath rest like
you have never had before.
00:51:27.45\00:51:32.99
Come to me.
00:51:33.02\00:51:36.76
Let's pray.
00:51:36.79\00:51:38.13
Oh, Jesus, Creator,
Redeemer, Lord and Savior.
00:51:38.16\00:51:43.73
Wow.
00:51:43.77\00:51:45.10
There are people right now
whose minds are scrambling.
00:51:48.47\00:51:51.74
They're saying, I'd
never heard this before.
00:51:51.77\00:51:54.91
What am I supposed to do now?
00:51:54.94\00:51:57.81
Oh, Father, draw
especially close to those,
00:51:57.85\00:52:01.18
close to those
whose minds are racing.
00:52:01.22\00:52:04.32
Whisper in his ear,
00:52:04.35\00:52:06.19
whisper in her
heart that it's okay,
00:52:06.22\00:52:10.53
that you make a way.
00:52:10.56\00:52:13.46
You open the door.
00:52:13.50\00:52:17.27
And you will guide that life.
00:52:17.30\00:52:21.50
We have nothing to
fear for the future.
00:52:21.54\00:52:25.14
Our creator God still
reigns, He's coming soon.
00:52:25.17\00:52:30.68
And the choice is a
simple one, human authority,
00:52:30.71\00:52:35.15
God's authority.
00:52:35.18\00:52:36.69
Read every one of
our hearts, Father.
00:52:36.72\00:52:39.32
Let the record show
00:52:39.35\00:52:40.86
that we choose the
authority of God our creator,
00:52:40.89\00:52:46.16
no matter what the cost will be.
00:52:46.19\00:52:50.50
In the name of Jesus,
00:52:50.53\00:52:52.20
who died for us
that all the people say
00:52:52.23\00:52:57.51
amen.
00:52:57.54\00:52:58.97
Amen.
00:52:59.01\00:53:00.98
There's a connect card
at the end of this teaching.
00:53:01.01\00:53:04.18
Put it on the screen for you.
00:53:04.21\00:53:05.55
If you go to
pmchurch.org/connect.
00:53:05.58\00:53:08.35
You'll see connect and
you just click on there.
00:53:08.38\00:53:10.22
Let's put it on
the screen please.
00:53:10.25\00:53:11.59
My next step
today is box number one,
00:53:11.62\00:53:14.19
I want the seal
of God upon my life.
00:53:14.22\00:53:16.02
I accept the seventh day Sabbath
00:53:16.06\00:53:17.89
as Jesus gift to me.
00:53:17.93\00:53:20.53
I hope you put
a checkmark there.
00:53:20.56\00:53:22.00
Look it, there's
nobody gonna see you but you.
00:53:22.03\00:53:24.03
Put that checkmark there,
00:53:24.07\00:53:25.53
make a decision
00:53:25.57\00:53:26.90
that you will begin
to follow after today.
00:53:26.94\00:53:29.20
Box number one.
00:53:29.24\00:53:30.57
Okay, box number two,
00:53:30.61\00:53:31.94
I would like to study
more about the Sabbath.
00:53:31.97\00:53:33.31
Please send me study material.
00:53:33.34\00:53:34.68
If you put your email address
00:53:34.71\00:53:36.04
on that little
digital connect card,
00:53:36.08\00:53:39.81
we'll send electronically,
00:53:39.85\00:53:41.78
we will send you
some study material.
00:53:41.82\00:53:43.69
Put a checkmark there,
00:53:43.72\00:53:45.05
we'd be happy to send it to you.
00:53:45.09\00:53:46.42
Finally box number three.
00:53:46.45\00:53:47.79
I want to follow
Jesus in baptism.
00:53:47.82\00:53:49.69
Never been baptized before,
you've been putting it off.
00:53:49.72\00:53:52.16
Never thought about it before.
00:53:52.19\00:53:53.70
All you have to do
is just begin to think
00:53:53.73\00:53:57.83
about His invitation.
00:53:57.87\00:53:59.20
Put a checkmark there.
00:53:59.23\00:54:00.57
If you put your
email address as well,
00:54:00.60\00:54:02.00
we'll be in
touch with you and say,
00:54:02.04\00:54:03.44
hey, is there
anything we can do to help?
00:54:03.47\00:54:06.04
I'm glad Chuck is
standing right here.
00:54:06.07\00:54:07.68
There's this
great old gospel hymn
00:54:07.71\00:54:11.05
and I need to just
sit down for a moment.
00:54:11.08\00:54:12.81
We just got to
catch our breath here.
00:54:12.85\00:54:14.48
He's only gonna
sing two stanzas of it.
00:54:14.52\00:54:16.45
I will follow thee my savior,
wheresoever Thy cross may lead.
00:54:16.48\00:54:22.19
Chuck, please.
00:54:22.22\00:54:24.19
I will follow Thee
00:54:38.94\00:54:43.58
My Savior
00:54:43.61\00:54:46.25
Wheresoever my lot may be
00:54:46.28\00:54:52.55
Where Thou goest I will follow
00:54:52.59\00:54:58.76
Yes, my Lord
00:54:58.79\00:55:02.20
I'll follow Thee
I will follow Thee
00:55:02.23\00:55:06.03
My Savior
00:55:10.04\00:55:13.04
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:55:13.07\00:55:16.64
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:55:20.98\00:55:24.89
By Thy grace
00:55:28.56\00:55:31.83
I'll follow Thee
00:55:31.86\00:55:34.63
Though to
Jordan's rolling billows
00:55:38.30\00:55:42.04
Cold and deep
00:55:45.21\00:55:47.88
Thou leadest me
00:55:47.91\00:55:51.91
Thou hast crossed
the waves before me
00:55:51.95\00:55:58.65
And I still will follow Thee
00:55:58.69\00:56:04.89
I will follow Thee
00:56:06.66\00:56:10.40
My Savior
00:56:10.43\00:56:13.50
Thou didst shed Thy blood for me
00:56:13.54\00:56:18.97
And though all men
should forsake Thee
00:56:22.24\00:56:26.01
By Thy grace
00:56:31.12\00:56:34.66
I'll follow Thee
00:56:34.69\00:56:38.49
Before you go,
00:56:45.03\00:56:46.37
let me take an extra
moment to share with you
00:56:46.40\00:56:47.74
an opportunity to
get into the Bible
00:56:47.77\00:56:49.30
in a fresh new way.
00:56:49.34\00:56:51.34
All across the
world more and more
00:56:51.37\00:56:52.71
people are hearing the call
00:56:52.74\00:56:54.08
to examine
scriptures for themselves.
00:56:54.11\00:56:56.28
If you felt drawn to
learn more about God's Word,
00:56:56.31\00:56:58.48
but you don't
know where to start,
00:56:58.51\00:56:59.85
or you're just looking for
a more in-depth examination
00:56:59.88\00:57:02.32
of Bible truths,
00:57:02.35\00:57:03.69
then I have something right here
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I want to send
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This one's entitled, Why
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Each guide begins with a story
00:57:12.29\00:57:13.96
and introduction of the subject,
00:57:14.00\00:57:15.36
then to a series
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00:57:15.40\00:57:17.57
You'll be learning
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you may never have known before.
00:57:19.00\00:57:20.34
And when you're through,
00:57:20.37\00:57:21.70
you'll be able
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00:57:21.74\00:57:23.07
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00:57:23.10\00:57:24.97
So just call our
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Call that number and then again,
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New Perceptions.
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