Good morning,
brethren. Good morning.
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I am very
encouraged about being here.
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I told my seminar earlier
today that when I came at 8:30,
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I was delighted to see that the
front row was already occupied.
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Typically that's
not common in churches.
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But I know
you're eager to be here
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and I'm glad to be here myself.
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As a matter of fact,
it's quite responsibility
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as you can
imagine to take the time
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of a large number
of people particularly
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when they're busy people
and bread winners and so on.
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But I believe
that God has given me
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a message to share with you.
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And I will tell
you what I'm gonna say
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and then I'll tell you.
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First of all, I wanna give you
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an introduction to
the topic high time.
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Then I wanna show you
with some PowerPoint slides,
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some current events
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that I believe are
fulfillments of prophecy.
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And then after the pictures,
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I want to give you a
challenge from God's word
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in my own personal testimony
about what it means to be ready
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and what we can
do as men of faith.
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First of all, we'll open
our Bibles to Romans Chapter 13
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and this is the theme
text for us this morning.
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Romans Chapter 13,
beginning with verse 11.
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I've prayed earnestly that
God would send the Holy Spirit
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that inspired the Bible writers
here to inspire each of us
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as we look at these words.
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"And do this, knowing the time,
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that now it is high
time to awake out of sleep,
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for now our
salvation is nearer than
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when we first believed.
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The night is far
spent, the day is at hand,
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therefore let us cast
off the works of darkness,
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and let us put on
the armor of light.
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Let us walk
properly, as in the day,
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not in revelry and drunkenness,
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not in life
sensuousness and lewdness,
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not in strife and envy.
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But put on the
Lord Jesus Christ,
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and make no
provision for the flesh,
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to fulfill its lust."
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Seventh-day
Adventists have been known
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as Adventists or people
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who talk about the
second coming of Christ.
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I know that you have probably
in your life contemplated,
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why or how can the
church always be excited about
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the second coming when people
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who have fervently believed
it for years are now dead?
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Well, I'm gonna
give you some thoughts
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from my own
prospective in this regard
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and here's what I
believe about that.
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No one has waited 2,000
years for the second coming.
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We only have our lifetime
to prepare and to be ready.
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And God has put it in
the heart of every one of us
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just like He has put
in the heart of women
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a mother's love for a child,
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that maybe we
could be the generation
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that would see
the second coming.
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The bottom line really
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is there's a
great prophetic timeline
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that I'm
discussing in my seminars.
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And then there's a second way
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and that is the
great signs of the end.
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Now I'm gonna give
you a little indication
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as we go through here
about some incredible things
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that Jesus did the
first time to make a point
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about the second coming.
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I believe that
if you love Jesus,
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you'll be excited about
the second coming. Amen.
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I travel almost every weekend,
about 42 weekends a year
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and the happiest day of
every weekend is the day
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I'm going home to see my wife.
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We've been married for 39 years
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and Kathy is more
precious to me every day.
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Now I'm gonna tell
you something incredible
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about this
second coming business.
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If you really love Jesus,
you will think about it a lot.
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Now I'm excited about this hour.
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But I know at
7:10 in the morning
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at Lansing there's a plane
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that's headed to
Detroit and then to Baltimore.
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And I plan to be on it.
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I'm already thinking about it.
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If you love Jesus, you
will think about it a lot.
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If you really love Jesus,
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then you'll wanna
tell someone else about it.
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And that's what our
witnessing is all about.
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This wicked world as
we know it is not going
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to go on forever and
ever. As a matter of fact,
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I'm gonna tell you
something quite bold today.
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Seventh-day
Adventists of all people have
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what we call inside information.
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Now in the world of
finance, that is illegal.
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Martha Stewart is a good example
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of what you can get involved in
if you have inside information.
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But every one of you
have inside information
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and the inside
information is very simple.
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This world and all
the stuff in it including
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all of our possessions
are gonna be burned up. Amen.
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And that will reduce
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its value
considerably as you can imagine.
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So if you're smart,
it's time to transfer
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our wealth to
the other side. Amen.
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This is important
that I'm telling you about.
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I'm gonna put it in
perspective a little bit.
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The second coming of Jesus
will be the most cataclysmic
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event to occur on the
earth since the creation.
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It will affect every man, woman,
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and child on the
earth, all 6 billion of us.
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Now I wanna
tell you a few things
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about the first coming
to set it just a little tone
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for the second coming part.
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When Jesus came to
earth the first time,
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it was as a
suffering Savior as you know.
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The life of Jesus was awesome.
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Have you ever thought
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what it must've been like
to be one of Jesus' disciples?
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The closest thing
I've ever come to it
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is I bought a
series of cassette tapes
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that a trained
professional actor from New York
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narrated or read
through the entire book
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Desire of Ages. It's 32 tapes.
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And on an occasion
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when I had a speaking
appointment in Florida,
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I was living in Georgia,
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I listened to those
tapes, every one of them,
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all the way
through down and back.
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And when I got home,
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I thought I was one
of Jesus' disciples.
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In fact, there were about
10 minutes on the last tape
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and I didn't get out of the car
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and I had been
gone for several days.
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My wife came and said,
"Ed, aren't you coming in?"
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I said, "I've got 10
more minutes on this tape."
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That's an incredible experience.
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But just imagine
when Jesus fed the 5,000
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with a little boy's lunch.
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Just imagine that you
were with Him on the sea
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when those awesome waves
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were so big
like we've seen on TV
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with these hurricane waves.
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The disciples,
who a number of them
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were trained seamen,
were feared for their lives
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and had given up hope.
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But Jesus stood up
and said just three words
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and calmed the whole
thing. "Peace, be still."
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Even the winds and the
waves obey Him, they said.
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And then you remember that time
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it was probably
Jesus' most awesome miracle.
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When He raised a
man from the dead
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who have been dead for 4 days.
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Again with just
three words, the Bible says
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He cried out loud.
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After crying to
express His sympathy with us
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who go through difficult times,
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again just three words,
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"Lazarus come
forth." And Lazarus came out,
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bound hand and foot
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and even covered his face
by the power of Almighty God.
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The death of Jesus was also
quite an awesome experience.
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If you can imagine the
Creator, the Life Giver,
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the Sustainer,
the Miracle Worker,
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the Sinless One, the
epitome of innocence,
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crucified between two thieves,
killed by His own creation.
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"Crucify Him," they had shouted.
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Can you imagine
that in your eye?
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We sing about
it. We talk about it.
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Sometimes we pray about it.
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Hanging on the
cross, naked, bruised,
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bleeding, dying for me, for you.
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But listen, Jesus again
is speaking and He says,
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"Father, forgive
them for they don't know
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what they're doing."
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The resurrection of
Jesus was also very awesome.
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The sonic boom of just one
angel descending from heaven
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caused a great earthquake.
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In the glory of that one angel
was as bright as lightning.
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Just His appearance
caused the whole army
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detail on duty
to fall as dead men.
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Then He rolled away
the stone and sat on it.
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Just in case you haven't focused
the picture in your own mind.
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One angel did all of this
and God has jillions of them.
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This is
incredible to understand.
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And then Jesus
rose from the dead.
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One of the most
amazing things about
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the resurrection is that
when Jesus' disciples showed up
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at the tomb
early Sunday morning,
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the angel who was
sitting on the stone
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said those awesome words,
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"Why are you seeking the
living from among the dead?
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He isn't here because
He has risen, He is alive."
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This is an incredible statement.
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Christians are the only
people who serve a living God.
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We sing about it.
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I serve a risen Savior,
but it's an absolute fact.
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I think the ascension is
one of my favorite things
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because I remember
when I was selling books
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as a student colporteur
in volume 7 of the 10 volume
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set of Arthur
Maxwell's Bible story.
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I was trying to think of the
name and the author at the same
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time, where Russell Harland
drew that picture of Jesus
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going up into the clouds.
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Most of you are well
aware if you've studied this
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that Jesus did not walk
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to the point of
ascension with anyone.
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He told them where to meet Him
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and they all gathered
around, but where's Jesus?
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And suddenly He
appeared in their midst.
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And He gave them
those awesome words
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about going into
Jerusalem and Judea,
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Samaria and the outermost
part of the world and saying,
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"I'm with you always,
even to the end of the world."
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And that means
right here in Michigan.
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And then Jesus
began to levitate.
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He was taken up
into a cloud of angels
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and then He was gone.
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It's incredible that
the Bible says then two men
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in white apparel were standing
there. Also just appeared.
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This is amazing because
you can read about it in Acts.
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Some of you have
probably read it there before.
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The first chapter of Acts,
the angel said, "Men of Galilee,
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why do you stand
gazing up into heaven?
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This same Jesus who was
taken out from you into heaven
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will so come in like manner
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as you have seen
Him go into heaven."
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And so these awesome
things that Jesus did,
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His suffering and death,
were all for one purpose.
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So He could come again.
And I think that's incredible.
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If He doesn't come
back, it was all for nothing.
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But He did this so
He could come back.
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And that's why we
should be so excited
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and that's why I
get excited about it.
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Now I have some good news
and some bad news for you.
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The good news is that
according to the Bible,
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He is even at the
door. The coming is near.
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The bad news is
this transition time
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is going to be
a time of trouble.
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That includes a time of trouble
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such as never was
since there was a nation.
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People don't like
to talk about that.
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I don't like to
think about it either.
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But I know if Jesus
can save people in a boat
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when there was a big storm,
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He can save me and
whatever happens to me.
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Amen. He's able to do that.
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And we need to have
that same confidence.
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In the
providence of Almighty God,
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we have been born and now
live in what the Bible calls
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the time of the end and
we are rapidly approaching
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the end of time as we know it.
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The devil also
knows that time is short.
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And he is doing
everything he can
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to cause havoc on
the earth to distract us
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from what should
be our primary focus
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and that is getting
ready to meet Jesus.
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Now this is an incredible
thing that we understand.
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Maybe you'd like to
look at just one passage
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as far as the sign. I'm
not gonna mention it later,
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but in Luke chapter 17,
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and I believe that
we would find it in--
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I'm gonna-- I'm
sorry, it's Luke 21.
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Luke 21:25, very
appropriate for today.
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"There will be signs in the
sun, the moon and the stars.
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And on the earth, distress
of nations with perplexity."
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By the way, for
those of you who care,
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this is the only
time the word perplexity
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occurs in the entire Bible
and it's translation literally
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is people think
there's no way out.
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And then it says, "The
sea and the waves roaring."
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In a minute, we're gonna
talk about natural disasters.
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You're gonna be
able to understand that
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what is happening today is not
the result of global warming.
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It is the result of Jesus'
signs telling us the end is near
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and it's very
incredible that we see this.
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Perilous times are coming.
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So I'm gonna go
now to the screen
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and you'll probably want to
turn your attention over there.
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And I will just tell you that
in the 24th chapter of Matthew,
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Jesus' disciples
came to Him privately
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and they said, "Tell us
when will these things be
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and what will be
the sign of your coming
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in the end of the age?"
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Now this is interesting because
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how many signs did
they actually asked for?
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Only one. Tell us what
will the sign of your coming.
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By the way, the people living
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at the time of
Noah got just one sign.
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Isn't that true?
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Most of the people
living in the time of Noah
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would have thought He was crazy.
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I mea,n every one of
you, if you live near a city,
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when you drive into the
city if every time you go,
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somebody is building this
big boat in his spare time.
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He's standing on the corner
telling you Jesus is coming
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back. After 120 years,
you would think he was crazy.
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How did the people
know he wasn't crazy?
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Only one sign that God gave
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and that was when the animals
came by twos and by sevens
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and the birds without
any help from men or animals,
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no border collies
or anything like that.
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And they came into the
ark in an orderly fashion.
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Everybody who
had a lick of sense
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would have known this
was a supernatural miracle.
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You wanna know something
interesting about that sign?
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Best we can tell, not one
person changed their mind.
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Now listen
carefully for the value
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of this kind of meeting.
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Don't think for a minute,
you can watch signs go by
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and if you don't change
and look at them as signs,
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think you can change at the end.
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When I see the Sunday Law come,
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then I'm gonna
catch up on my back tithe,
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and I'm gonna start
going to prayer meeting
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and I'll be kinder to my spouse.
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It's not gonna happen.
It's just not gonna happen.
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So when the time is when
we hear the events to look up
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our redemption is nigh is to
make the appropriate occasion.
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So what I'm gonna show
you actually is if I can get,
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there we go. Seven
incredible signs of the end.
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And the first one is Daniel.
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And I'm gonna tell you I
know that in a group this large,
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there's gonna be
some theologians here.
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I heard a
theologian one time say,
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"If I ever hear about
the increase of knowledge
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that has to do with cell phones
and laptop computers again,
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I think I'm gonna lose
my mind." I will tell you
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I know that Daniel
12:4, "At the time of the end,
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many shall run to and fro,
and knowledge shall increase."
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That the primary
application is knowledge
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of Daniel's
prophecies would increase."
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Don't we all understand that?
There's no question about it.
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But there is just as
valid a secondary application
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and that is that
knowledge of communication
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and travel would
increase to facilitate
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the spread of the
gospel worldwide."
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Now this is pretty interesting
because when you see it,
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you can remember
something interesting.
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Way back from the time of Adam,
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if you want to
present like creation
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is way over there by that side
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and the second coming
is way over on this side,
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do you know that
for communication
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and travel for
5,900 years has been
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the same thing
over and over again?
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If you want to go
somewhere, what do you do?
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You ride a horse.
If--I mean this just really,
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really incredible
when you think about it.
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Trying to get my little
laptop thing to work here.
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There's lots of horses.
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But I'm just gonna show
you this one right here.
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Now this is amazing because
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if you wanted to
communicate with somebody,
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how did you do it way
back in the horse days?
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Just talking or shouting.
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Everybody here has
probably taken American history
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and you remember
the ride of Paul Revere,
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riding his horse through Boston?
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What was he doing? Shouting.
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He was not on the cell phone.
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But something incredible
happened about 103 years ago.
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And I'm gonna show you
what it was. This is it.
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On December 17,
1903, two brothers
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Orville and Wilbur Wright
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who had been the
workers in a bicycle shop,
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in Dayton,
Ohio, had been working
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in their spare time
to make the right flyer.
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They had studied
everybody from before and so on.
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They thought they could
make a heavier than air machine
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that would carry
a man into the air.
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On December 16, they
tried it out at the Banks--
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The Outer Banks of
North Carolina at Kitty Hawk.
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And the plane
crashed and they spent
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most of the night repairing it.
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They thought the
next day that it would fly
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so they hired a photographer.
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Most everybody has seen
this picture in an encyclopedia.
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Orville won the coin toss.
He's actually at the controls
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laying down and Wilbur
was running along and holding
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the wing until it lifted
off into the air and he said,
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"If this thing gets off
the ground, take a picture."
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So you saw the picture.
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The plane was in
the air 12 seconds
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and flew 120 feet.
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Later that day,
Wilbur at the controls
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flew the plane 852 feet and
it was airborne for 59 seconds.
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You can go to Kitty Hawk today
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and in the
Wright Brother's museum,
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you see the telegram
that they sent back to Dayton,
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Ohio. "Success at last.
Will be home for Christmas."
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Now remember,
this was 5,900 years
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after the creation time.
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So not nearly 6,000
years, but 66 years later,
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we had another
amazing thing happen.
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And that was the
voice of Apollo 11 Commander
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Neil Armstrong
heard on the radio
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all the way from the moon.
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"Houston, Tranquility Base
here, the Eagle has landed."
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Now everybody
knows what he said next,
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but what he said next
was said for a reason.
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"One small step for man.
One giant leap for mankind."
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So if you're standing at
the back of the auditorium
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and you see a
picture of all time,
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you got people galloping
on horses for 5,900 years
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and then incredible
things begin to happen.
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And that's what
we're gonna see here.
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Around the world, we're seeing
this air--in communication.
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It's just
really, really amazing.
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So what I'm gonna show you is
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from horseback to
the moon in one century
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So if you're graphing this,
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it's a flat liner for
most of earth's history
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and then what does it do?
Goes straight up to the moon.
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This to me is very amazing.
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Now the second one,
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I'll talk to you about
is wars and rumors of wars.
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If you read Matthew 24:6,
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the big wars at the
end are not at the very end
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because if you read
Matthew 24:6, it says,
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"There will be wars
and rumors of wars."
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But what? The end is not yet.
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So we're gonna see
something quite amazing here.
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And that is in
the Bible it says,
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"There will be wars
and rumors of wars."
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And the most
interesting part about it
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nation rise against
nation, kingdom against kingdom.
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The last century was actually
the bloodiest of all that
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we've seen before.
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And I'm gonna show
you what we mean by that.
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Only two of these big,
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huge mushroom
clouds have occurred
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in battle on earth's history.
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Most of you are well aware
from reading your history books
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that on August 6, 1945,
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especially equipped
B-29 bomber took off
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in Tinian Island in
the Central Pacific.
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Colonel Paul
Tibbets, the pilot didn't know
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if he would return because
they had never dropped the bomb
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that would send
flames and superheated gas
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40,000 feet into the air,
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much higher than
the planes could fly.
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On the day before,
he took a paint brush
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and wrote on the
fuselage of his B-29,
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Enola Gay, which was
the name of his mother.
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That big bomb was
designed to detonate
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1,000 feet above Hiroshima.
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Four and half hours later,
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they were approaching the
coast of Japan and the bombadier
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lined up his sights
right on that bridge
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between the two
halves of Hiroshima.
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When the bomb dropped,
they quickly banked the plane
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to get out of the way
of course because they knew
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this huge cloud would come up.
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But 1,000 feet above the ground
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right as they had planned,
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it detonated
and killed more than
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100,000 people in 10 seconds.
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Many thousands more died
after that from the radiation
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and the injuries
that they received.
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Three days later,
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a second bomb was
dropped in Nagasaki
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as you can understand.
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Now something amazing happened
with these World War II things.
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"Modern estimates
place the number of deaths
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from those two
world wars at 69 million
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military and civilian personnel.
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More people have been killed
by war in the past 100 years
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than in all of the other wars in
the earth's history combined."
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To me, this is an
incredible thing to understand.
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Now we're going to
look at another sign.
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This is lack of self control.
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And I'm just gonna go
through a couple of slides here.
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Violence, these
things are quite amazing
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when you think about all that's
happening in the world today.
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Gambling,
essentially out of control.
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Do you know that
Hurricane Katrina
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ruined 16 gambling
casinos, these floating casinos
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off the coast of the
Southern Mississippi and so on?
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Quite interesting
when you see them.
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I may have to
have somebody go over
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and sit by my laptop
and press the down key
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because I'm not
getting my-- there we go.
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Pornography, we
even have someone
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talking about that here
today from one of our seminars.
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I need to go
really fast through this.
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Would someone be
willing to go over
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and just there's a cursor key
just the arrow of the down key
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because I wanna go
though this rather quickly.
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You can be able to
view it right there.
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Corrupt business leaders,
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greed and
fraudulent business practices,
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Violence,
immortality on television,
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crime out of
control, selfishness abounds.
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Let's go to the next one.
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Now we're gonna talk
just briefly about earthquakes
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and natural disasters.
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Matthew 24,
Matthew, Mark, and Luke
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all talk about earthquakes.
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Now there may not be
many earthquakes in Michigan.
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But if you understand,
go on to the next slide
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there are hundreds of just--
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maybe the down cursor key, yeah.
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The Bible says,
"There will be earthquakes."
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Okay? 6,000 major
earthquakes each year.
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Now in addition, go on
to the next one, please.
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Earthquakes will
happen all over the world,
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we're told, but they
don't have to happen right
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where you live
because we see them
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various places the Bible says.
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Okay? In the 10year
period from 1900 to 1910,
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earthquakes worldwide,
there were three of them
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on 6.0 or greater
on the Richter scale.
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In the last 10
years of our century
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from 1990 to
2000, 943 earthquakes
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worldwide on the Richter scale,
314 times greater frequency.
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This is really incredible.
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Now before I talk
about the pestilence,
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I just want to tell you
that if you look under--
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in the little
book Last Day Events,
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there's a
section called "Cities"
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and it will tell you there are
other references but it says,
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"Near the end,
the coastal cities
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that are plagued with
wickedness will be swept away."
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I don't need to tell you.
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If you want to
get on the internet,
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you can check out
what I'm telling you.
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But on the
weekend before Labor Day,
00:24:50.97\00:24:53.55
every year in New
Orleans since 1972,
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thousands and thousands--
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they were
expecting 125,000 homosexuals
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for the
southern decadence parade
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and week of
celebration in New Orleans.
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Two days before that happened,
the Lord closed the city down.
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I believe that. It
was not a coincidence.
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And that's an
incredible thing to see that.
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Let me just tell you I
was in Norway this summer
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for a camp meeting and
an amazing thing happened.
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A lady came to me and she
just couldn't stop talking.
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She said, "Do you
remember the tsunami
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on the 26th of
December last year?"
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She said, "There were
50 families from Norway.
00:25:27.33\00:25:29.62
My husband and
some of his coworkers
00:25:29.65\00:25:31.56
and myself and so on,
00:25:31.59\00:25:33.27
50 families in a
hotel in Thailand.
00:25:33.30\00:25:36.84
We don't know why,
00:25:36.87\00:25:38.24
but we chose our
daughter asked us,
00:25:38.27\00:25:39.84
if we can sit on the back table.
00:25:39.87\00:25:42.14
We wanted to be close
where we could see the ocean.
00:25:42.17\00:25:44.36
But when the tsunami came
and it crashed through the walls
00:25:44.39\00:25:46.78
and people, and tables, and food
were coming tearing toward us.
00:25:46.81\00:25:50.46
We were thrown
out of the building
00:25:50.49\00:25:52.42
into the back of a pickup truck.
00:25:52.45\00:25:55.53
And that pickup was
washed two and half kilometers
00:25:55.56\00:25:58.43
inland over a mile."
And that family of four
00:25:58.46\00:26:03.06
were the only family who
did not lose either else,
00:26:03.09\00:26:06.11
everyone in the family
or someone in the family,
00:26:06.14\00:26:08.34
this Adventist family. She said,
00:26:08.37\00:26:11.05
"We were just hugging each other
and crying all soaking wet.
00:26:11.08\00:26:14.69
Thankful that we were saved
and we heard this terrible crash
00:26:14.72\00:26:17.35
and here came the second wave."
00:26:17.38\00:26:18.96
And she said, "We all
climbed separate palm trees
00:26:18.99\00:26:21.76
and God spared our
life the second time."
00:26:21.79\00:26:24.62
Incredible. You've seen
the cities that bond, actually
00:26:24.65\00:26:27.58
just completely wiped
out. Not even there anymore.
00:26:27.61\00:26:30.40
Okay, we're gonna
go on to Pestilence,
00:26:30.43\00:26:31.84
but I wanna show you,
00:26:31.87\00:26:33.24
"In different places
there will be pestilence,
00:26:33.27\00:26:35.14
earthquakes," and so on.
00:26:35.17\00:26:36.54
Go on to the next slide.
Now this is an amazing thing.
00:26:36.57\00:26:39.08
I will only
mention one of these.
00:26:39.11\00:26:40.95
And this one is
the idea of AIDS.
00:26:40.98\00:26:45.76
It's very, very interesting
to recognize that 25 years ago,
00:26:45.79\00:26:49.83
nobody had ever heard
00:26:49.86\00:26:51.54
the words
immunodeficiency syndrome,
00:26:51.57\00:26:55.03
this acquired
immunodeficiency syndrome, AIDS.
00:26:55.06\00:26:58.41
But in the last 25 years,
00:26:58.44\00:27:00.08
more than 60 million
people have contracted AIDS.
00:27:00.11\00:27:03.46
More than 20 million
have already died from it.
00:27:03.49\00:27:06.49
And if you look in the
national news, magazines
00:27:06.52\00:27:09.59
and so on, you know
that in Sub-Saharan Africa,
00:27:09.62\00:27:12.06
there are now more than
12 million AIDS orphans.
00:27:12.09\00:27:15.82
These are
children, little children
00:27:15.85\00:27:17.33
who've lost
both parents to AIDS.
00:27:17.36\00:27:19.39
It's an incredible thing.
00:27:19.42\00:27:20.79
And by the way we haven't
even seen the peak of it yet.
00:27:20.82\00:27:23.50
Now we're seeing big ones
in the former Soviet Union
00:27:23.53\00:27:26.09
that is big incidence of it,
00:27:26.12\00:27:28.12
also in China and in
Southeast Asia, incredible.
00:27:28.15\00:27:31.67
Okay, let's go
along real quickly
00:27:31.70\00:27:33.07
to the next one here on again.
00:27:33.10\00:27:35.82
I want to go to the
next-- there we are.
00:27:35.85\00:27:38.09
Now I want to tell you that
I would typically not do this
00:27:38.12\00:27:42.35
at a general public meeting.
00:27:42.38\00:27:44.26
But I want you
to know that a sign,
00:27:44.29\00:27:46.25
a fulfilling of
Revelation 13 is occurring
00:27:46.28\00:27:48.84
in a tremendous way today
00:27:48.87\00:27:50.96
and I will have to assume that
you are familiar with Daniel 2,
00:27:50.99\00:27:54.69
and Daniel 7, and Revelation 13.
00:27:54.72\00:27:56.94
And that you understand
the players at the end of time.
00:27:56.97\00:27:59.40
So I wanna talk to you about
00:27:59.43\00:28:00.80
the union of the
church and state,
00:28:00.83\00:28:02.20
the Roman
Government and the church,
00:28:02.23\00:28:04.08
and
particularly church and state
00:28:04.11\00:28:05.48
in the United
States. We'll go on ahead.
00:28:05.51\00:28:08.65
I'm just gonna show
you in this particular one,
00:28:08.68\00:28:10.76
this is a picture--
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.16
I scanned it actually
out of inside the Vatican.
00:28:12.19\00:28:14.55
But President Bush,
00:28:14.58\00:28:16.17
the president of
the United States
00:28:16.20\00:28:17.57
who was present for the opening
00:28:17.60\00:28:18.97
of the Pope John Paul
the II Cultural Center
00:28:19.00\00:28:21.28
which is the little
Vatican, they call it,
00:28:21.31\00:28:23.80
on the campus of Catholic
University in Washington DC.
00:28:23.83\00:28:26.86
And by the way,
00:28:26.89\00:28:28.26
I will just point out to
you, this particular picture
00:28:28.29\00:28:30.89
also is kind of interesting
because Jim Nicholson
00:28:30.92\00:28:33.53
was Chairman of
Republican National Committee
00:28:33.56\00:28:35.59
from 1997 to the year 2000.
00:28:35.62\00:28:37.63
Most of you probably
never heard of this name.
00:28:37.66\00:28:39.03
But he's the primary politician
in the Republican Party.
00:28:39.06\00:28:41.80
The next picture
actually shows him
00:28:41.83\00:28:43.70
what he did for
the next 4 years.
00:28:43.73\00:28:45.67
He became the U.S.
ambassador to the Vatican.
00:28:45.70\00:28:47.92
This is rightly a
mixture of church and state
00:28:47.95\00:28:49.81
as you can understand.
00:28:49.84\00:28:51.21
But notice what I
have at the bottom there.
00:28:51.24\00:28:52.81
The Holy See that is
the central government,
00:28:52.84\00:28:54.52
the Roman Catholic Church
00:28:54.55\00:28:55.92
has now full diplomatic
relations with 172 nations.
00:28:55.95\00:28:59.14
Actually since I did this slide
a week ago its 173 nations now.
00:28:59.17\00:29:02.50
But out of 228
recognized are sovereign nations
00:29:02.53\00:29:05.00
by the United
Nations. That is 76%
00:29:05.03\00:29:07.98
of all of the
sovereign nations on earth
00:29:08.01\00:29:10.31
have full diplomatic
relations with the Vatican.
00:29:10.34\00:29:12.83
Okay? Now I'm gonna show you
00:29:12.86\00:29:14.44
how again church
and state is working.
00:29:14.47\00:29:16.01
Most of you have know
these two people just by sight
00:29:16.04\00:29:18.37
because they're
very common in America.
00:29:18.40\00:29:20.39
The man on the
left is Karl Rove,
00:29:20.42\00:29:21.91
who is the political strategist
for the Bush administration.
00:29:21.94\00:29:24.64
And the man on the
right is Jerry Falwell
00:29:24.67\00:29:26.65
who is a very influential,
evangelical leader in America.
00:29:26.68\00:29:30.30
They met together at Liberty
University in May of 2004
00:29:30.33\00:29:33.61
because Karl Rove
told Jerry Falwell,
00:29:33.64\00:29:36.03
we need to get the president
00:29:36.06\00:29:37.43
re-elected and if we need
to do that to be successful,
00:29:37.46\00:29:40.50
we'll need to have
the Christians to help us
00:29:40.53\00:29:42.35
and they believed
that that happened.
00:29:42.38\00:29:44.67
I'm just going to tell
you that after the election,
00:29:44.70\00:29:47.44
Jerry Falwell just the
bottom paragraph there,
00:29:47.47\00:29:49.78
"We're gonna be
organizing in all 50 states,
00:29:49.81\00:29:52.32
and enlisting and
training million of Americans
00:29:52.35\00:29:54.19
to become partners
in this exciting task
00:29:54.22\00:29:57.40
of bringing this nation back
to the moral values of faith
00:29:57.43\00:30:00.07
and family on
which it was founded."
00:30:00.10\00:30:02.21
On to the next one, please.
00:30:02.24\00:30:03.93
Now this is a common
face for most of you.
00:30:03.96\00:30:06.16
But what I'm gonna
tell is not well known.
00:30:06.19\00:30:09.49
Then next-- Doctor James Dobson,
00:30:09.52\00:30:12.00
of Focus on the family
just before last years election
00:30:12.03\00:30:15.40
resigned his position as the
president of Focus on the family
00:30:15.43\00:30:18.84
and started a new organization
that would not be hampered
00:30:18.87\00:30:22.27
by the restrictions
for 5013C corporations.
00:30:22.30\00:30:27.03
The next slide
please, brother. Thank you.
00:30:27.06\00:30:29.54
I'm just gonna read
a quote from U.S. News
00:30:29.57\00:30:31.23
and World Report
of January 17, 2005,
00:30:31.26\00:30:33.58
"Before the
election, November 2004,
00:30:33.61\00:30:36.01
Dobson stepped down
from the presidency of Focus,
00:30:36.04\00:30:38.34
he's still the chairman
00:30:38.37\00:30:39.74
but to launch Focus
on the Family Action,
00:30:39.77\00:30:41.90
a fund-raising and
grass-roots organizing engine
00:30:41.93\00:30:44.59
free of the
political spending limits
00:30:44.62\00:30:45.99
imposed on the nonprofit focus.
00:30:46.02\00:30:48.55
The more-- the
move allowed Dobson
00:30:48.58\00:30:51.07
to make his first presidential
endorsement for President Bush
00:30:51.10\00:30:53.65
and to write
hundreds of thousands
00:30:53.68\00:30:55.05
of Focus constituents in states
00:30:55.08\00:30:56.78
with tight Senate
races with political advice,
00:30:56.81\00:30:59.27
and to appear in TV ads to
unseat Senate Minority Leader,
00:30:59.30\00:31:03.68
Tom Daschle in South Dakota."
00:31:03.71\00:31:05.74
Now do you
understand that James Dobson
00:31:05.77\00:31:07.88
made videos or movies
00:31:07.91\00:31:09.55
that were played on
the television stations
00:31:09.58\00:31:11.42
and he personally went
to South Dakota to defeat
00:31:11.45\00:31:13.89
the Senate Minority
Leader, Tom Daschle?
00:31:13.92\00:31:16.54
He is out of his job.
00:31:16.57\00:31:18.10
Does everybody understand that?
00:31:18.13\00:31:19.78
James Dobson now says
to all of the other centers
00:31:19.81\00:31:22.75
take a lesson from Tom Daschle.
00:31:22.78\00:31:24.58
You vote like we want you
to or you're gonna be history.
00:31:24.61\00:31:27.55
You understand the
power now of religion
00:31:27.58\00:31:29.89
in the political
process in America.
00:31:29.92\00:31:32.20
Now I'm gonna show you
something real interesting
00:31:32.23\00:31:33.89
because the
pope's funeral showed us
00:31:33.92\00:31:35.88
two very, very
interesting things.
00:31:35.91\00:31:38.04
The first one I'll point
out to you is that this "M"
00:31:38.07\00:31:41.21
on the pope's coat of
arms talks about Mary,
00:31:41.24\00:31:44.04
I'm all yours. Okay?
00:31:44.07\00:31:46.09
The next one is during the
pope's funeral--by the way,
00:31:46.12\00:31:51.63
if you watched television
the day of the pope's funeral
00:31:51.66\00:31:54.02
from 3 o'clock in the
morning in the United States
00:31:54.05\00:31:55.63
to 9 o'clock in the morning
that was all that was on TV.
00:31:55.66\00:31:58.49
So most of you if you watched
TV during that period of time,
00:31:58.52\00:32:00.72
you saw this that he was
buried in a little pine box.
00:32:00.75\00:32:03.71
But his will was
released at that same time
00:32:03.74\00:32:06.58
and he said, speaking to Mary,
"I'm completely in your hands."
00:32:06.61\00:32:10.15
That was his last
will and testament.
00:32:10.18\00:32:12.22
So he also has that little M
on the casket as you can see.
00:32:12.25\00:32:15.79
And then we also wanted to
mention something interesting.
00:32:15.82\00:32:19.78
"Christianity Today"
which is the largest circulated
00:32:19.81\00:32:22.64
evangelical
publication in the world
00:32:22.67\00:32:24.50
is now encouraging
Protestants to also accept Mary.
00:32:24.53\00:32:28.55
Now the reason
that I mention this is--
00:32:28.58\00:32:30.88
because you are well
aware that spiritualism
00:32:30.91\00:32:33.41
has two constituent elements.
00:32:33.44\00:32:35.30
One is that you
believe in the conscious
00:32:35.33\00:32:37.56
existence of man after death.
00:32:37.59\00:32:39.29
And the second one is you
believe that being or person
00:32:39.32\00:32:41.91
who's died can communicate
with people on the earth.
00:32:41.94\00:32:44.40
So spirit Mariology by
definition is spiritualism.
00:32:44.43\00:32:48.05
But here's Christianity today,
the blessed evangelical Mary.
00:32:48.08\00:32:51.78
And also on Time Magazine
00:32:51.81\00:32:53.28
"Hail, Mary"
Catholics have long revered her.
00:32:53.31\00:32:55.89
Now Protestants are
finding their own reasons
00:32:55.92\00:32:58.61
to celebrate
the mother of Jesus.
00:32:58.64\00:33:01.08
So you
understand, this is the glue
00:33:01.11\00:33:02.82
that's kind of
bringing together.
00:33:02.85\00:33:04.22
Okay? I wanted to
show you something also.
00:33:04.25\00:33:07.02
Before the pope died,
the year before in June,
00:33:07.05\00:33:09.37
the President of
the United States
00:33:09.40\00:33:10.77
went to the Vatican and gave
the pope the Medal of Freedom
00:33:10.80\00:33:13.14
which is the highest
honor that the United States
00:33:13.17\00:33:15.34
can honor to anyone.
00:33:15.37\00:33:16.96
Okay, we'll go rapidly through
some of these other ones.
00:33:16.99\00:33:19.33
This is the flag on the
White House at half-staff
00:33:19.36\00:33:24.18
during the pope's funeral day.
00:33:24.21\00:33:26.65
And it's kind of interesting
that the President made an order
00:33:26.68\00:33:29.27
that all government buildings,
00:33:29.30\00:33:30.97
all government
embassies around the world
00:33:31.00\00:33:32.65
and all of our ships
at sea have their flags
00:33:32.68\00:33:34.95
at half-staff in
honor of the pope.
00:33:34.98\00:33:37.82
The pope appeared on the
cover of many, many magazines
00:33:37.85\00:33:40.58
and I'm gonna show you. Go
ahead to the next one, please.
00:33:40.61\00:33:43.54
He appeared a record
16 times on Time Magazine.
00:33:43.57\00:33:47.73
The next one
actually shows you 15 of them
00:33:47.76\00:33:49.87
and that other
one was one of them.
00:33:49.90\00:33:51.63
Uh, go ahead.
Under his leadership,
00:33:51.66\00:33:53.99
of course Newsweek
Magazine says that,
00:33:54.02\00:33:56.38
"Pope John Paul who helped
bring down the Iron Curtain,
00:33:56.41\00:33:58.70
the Holy See gained
more political clout
00:33:58.73\00:34:00.49
than it had enjoyed
since the Renaissance."
00:34:00.52\00:34:04.90
The pope's funeral
was the largest attended
00:34:04.93\00:34:07.35
funeral in world history.
00:34:07.38\00:34:09.16
More than a million
people actually came to Rome.
00:34:09.19\00:34:12.37
And I'll just go on
quickly and show you
00:34:12.40\00:34:13.88
some of the others.
Revelation 13:3, it says,
00:34:13.91\00:34:16.75
"And I saw one of his heads
as it were wounded to death;
00:34:16.78\00:34:19.01
his deadly wound was healed;
00:34:19.04\00:34:20.41
and all the world
wondered after the beast."
00:34:20.44\00:34:22.53
Now the interesting thing about
00:34:22.56\00:34:23.95
that you've seen picture likely.
00:34:23.98\00:34:26.08
It's been on the cover of
Liberty Magazine and so on.
00:34:26.11\00:34:29.43
But you have the
President of the United States
00:34:29.46\00:34:31.53
kneeling here, his wife,
Laura Bush kneeling here,
00:34:31.56\00:34:34.70
former President Bush kneeling,
00:34:34.73\00:34:36.10
Bill Clinton kneeling,
Condoleezza Rice kneeling.
00:34:36.13\00:34:38.94
By the way, there were only five
00:34:38.97\00:34:40.34
from the American delegation
00:34:40.37\00:34:41.74
because it was the largest
gathering of world leaders
00:34:41.77\00:34:46.25
in the history of
earth went to the funeral.
00:34:46.28\00:34:49.84
And we were actually
00:34:49.87\00:34:51.28
limited to only five
people to go from the U.S.
00:34:51.31\00:34:54.27
Jimmy Carter wanted to go too,
00:34:54.30\00:34:55.89
but there was not room for
him with those others there.
00:34:55.92\00:34:58.51
Presidents and
Kings, Prime Ministers,
00:34:58.54\00:35:00.32
Heads of State from
more than 100 countries.
00:35:00.35\00:35:02.44
And they said it was the
largest funeral in history
00:35:02.47\00:35:04.51
and there is never been
a-- these are the--by the way,
00:35:04.54\00:35:07.00
are from inside the Vatican.
00:35:07.03\00:35:08.60
These pictures and this
little statement, thank you.
00:35:08.63\00:35:11.47
By the way, the new
Pope Cardinal Ratzinger was,
00:35:11.50\00:35:14.66
for the past 24 years,
the leader of the Congregation
00:35:14.69\00:35:16.77
for the Doctrine of the Faith,
00:35:16.80\00:35:18.17
formerly called the Office of
the Inquisition in the Vatican.
00:35:18.20\00:35:21.13
Now I want to give
you just a little insight.
00:35:21.16\00:35:23.15
Go--another one,
please. Another one too.
00:35:23.18\00:35:26.49
I want to get right over
to the U.S. Supreme Court
00:35:26.52\00:35:28.66
because our time is up
here and everybody's hungry
00:35:28.69\00:35:30.98
and I just want you to
see these even farther.
00:35:31.01\00:35:33.71
Go on till you see the
Supreme court, even more.
00:35:33.74\00:35:35.97
Okay, there we are. And
I'll give you just one--
00:35:36.00\00:35:38.90
there are the names of
the Supreme court justices,
00:35:38.93\00:35:41.59
and go to one more,
00:35:41.62\00:35:43.11
and you can see
there are their ages.
00:35:43.14\00:35:45.46
Three of the
Supreme court justices,
00:35:45.49\00:35:47.08
Antonin Scalia on the left,
Clarence Thomas right here,
00:35:47.11\00:35:50.52
and Anthony Kennedy
right there are Roman Catholics
00:35:50.55\00:35:53.68
and the reason I mention that
is because the Catholic church
00:35:53.71\00:35:55.87
has recently
printed in the publication
00:35:55.90\00:35:57.74
"I Receive in Sight."
00:35:57.77\00:35:59.66
Our Sunday visitor, that if--
go to the next slide, please.
00:35:59.69\00:36:03.79
If John Roberts,
who was just recently
00:36:03.82\00:36:06.36
approved by the
Senate Judiciary committee.
00:36:06.39\00:36:08.38
If he is
approved, this next week
00:36:08.41\00:36:09.78
will be the
fourth Roman Catholic
00:36:09.81\00:36:11.38
on the U.S. Supreme court.
00:36:11.41\00:36:13.07
The largest number in
the history of the court.
00:36:13.10\00:36:15.39
And of course, John
Roberts is 50 years old
00:36:15.42\00:36:17.60
and would likely be on the
Supreme Court for many years.
00:36:17.63\00:36:20.19
And of course,
there's even another vacancy.
00:36:20.22\00:36:22.00
Let's go on to the next one.
00:36:22.03\00:36:23.57
Alberto Gonzales was
also a Roman Catholic.
00:36:23.60\00:36:25.96
That is the
current Attorney General.
00:36:25.99\00:36:28.05
The President had said
he would like him to be
00:36:28.08\00:36:29.58
but he may be too
controversial to be confirmed.
00:36:29.61\00:36:31.91
Let's go on--keep going until--
this was one I want you see.
00:36:31.94\00:36:36.04
This is one of
the last slides here
00:36:36.07\00:36:37.50
before I just show
you the seventh sign.
00:36:37.53\00:36:39.73
And that is-- this
is on the Roman Catholic
00:36:39.76\00:36:42.17
website called Glenmary.org.
00:36:42.20\00:36:44.44
G-L-E-N. Just one N.
The Roman Catholic church
00:36:44.47\00:36:48.40
actually has a goal of
having the predominant religion
00:36:48.43\00:36:51.65
in every county
in the United States.
00:36:51.68\00:36:53.96
That is every voting
precinct to be Roman Catholic.
00:36:53.99\00:36:57.15
In the United States
of the 3,143 counties
00:36:57.18\00:37:00.95
and independent
cities they state,
00:37:00.98\00:37:02.72
they are the predominant
religion of 1,295 counties
00:37:02.75\00:37:06.10
or 40% of the counties,
00:37:06.13\00:37:07.72
which is represented
here in blue, by the way.
00:37:07.75\00:37:10.16
The red are the
southern Baptists down here.
00:37:10.19\00:37:12.66
You can see where
Michigan is there,
00:37:12.69\00:37:14.14
all but about seven counties
predominantly Roman Catholic.
00:37:14.17\00:37:16.72
Now the reason that this
is the goal of the church is
00:37:16.75\00:37:18.94
because they want
to be very prominent
00:37:18.97\00:37:21.07
in all of the election processes
that go forward in America.
00:37:21.10\00:37:24.73
Okay, now the last
one and the greatest one
00:37:24.76\00:37:27.69
is the Gospel is
going to all the world.
00:37:27.72\00:37:29.95
And I think this is
absolutely incredible.
00:37:29.98\00:37:32.27
I do not think of
myself as a TV star,
00:37:32.30\00:37:34.50
but I can just tell
you most everywhere I go,
00:37:34.53\00:37:36.67
whether it's
South Africa or Norway
00:37:36.70\00:37:38.62
and Japan or
whatever, people say to me,
00:37:38.65\00:37:40.70
"We've seen you on
3ABN." 3ABN has a footprint now
00:37:40.73\00:37:44.23
that covers
virtually the entire earth.
00:37:44.26\00:37:46.28
Adventist world
radio, the same thing.
00:37:46.31\00:37:48.42
It's really
incredible to understand
00:37:48.45\00:37:50.53
that the Gospel will be
preached to all the world,
00:37:50.56\00:37:53.01
then the end will come.
00:37:53.04\00:37:54.44
And I want to go on to
another slide near the end.
00:37:54.47\00:37:57.16
One big problem faces people
00:37:57.19\00:37:58.81
and that's not
everyone that says to me,
00:37:58.84\00:38:00.50
"Lord, Lord" will
enter the kingdom,
00:38:00.53\00:38:02.11
but he that does
the will of my father.
00:38:02.14\00:38:04.57
And there's another
final picture there,
00:38:04.60\00:38:06.33
go on to the next one.
00:38:06.36\00:38:09.00
There's one more, I
think. I want to show you
00:38:09.03\00:38:10.79
a final one of
the second coming.
00:38:10.82\00:38:12.89
And this one is--
their it is, right there.
00:38:12.92\00:38:15.62
When Jesus comes,
will you be ready?
00:38:15.65\00:38:18.22
Now let me just give you
about 2 minutes of an appeal.
00:38:18.25\00:38:20.36
This is my last slide.
00:38:20.39\00:38:21.85
I want to tell
you it's high time,
00:38:21.88\00:38:25.33
that we as Christian leaders
recognize that God is giving us
00:38:25.36\00:38:29.70
signs coming out of our ears.
00:38:29.73\00:38:32.35
We are near the end. I
think, that as Christians,
00:38:32.38\00:38:37.01
we ought to recognize a
number of important points.
00:38:37.04\00:38:40.32
And that is, we know that,
00:38:40.35\00:38:42.32
we've been told
in great controversy,
00:38:42.35\00:38:43.78
page 593 and 594,
00:38:43.81\00:38:45.61
no one but those
who have their minds
00:38:45.64\00:38:47.76
fortified with God's
word are going to stand
00:38:47.79\00:38:49.55
through the last
time. The big question is,
00:38:49.58\00:38:51.74
are we fortifying our
minds with God's word?
00:38:51.77\00:38:54.37
Do you understand?
00:38:54.40\00:38:55.77
I mean, we know the
answer to this question.
00:38:55.80\00:38:58.44
I don't think my
mind is fortified.
00:38:58.47\00:38:59.97
I love this Bible and I
have this one pretty well marked
00:39:00.00\00:39:02.37
and so on and it's
even taped together.
00:39:02.40\00:39:04.44
But for the last 5
years, my wife Kathy
00:39:04.47\00:39:07.50
and I have been reading
the Bible through together
00:39:07.53\00:39:10.13
out loud every year.
00:39:10.16\00:39:11.60
That means three chapters
a day and four on Sabbath.
00:39:11.63\00:39:14.00
And even I call
her on the cell phone,
00:39:14.03\00:39:16.20
and we do the readings
that we-- when I'm away.
00:39:16.23\00:39:19.67
Because we want to have
00:39:19.70\00:39:22.05
our minds fortified
with the word of God.
00:39:22.08\00:39:24.94
Someone asked me recently,
00:39:24.97\00:39:27.14
"How do you have time
to write all these books?"
00:39:27.17\00:39:29.50
And I said, "It's
simple. No television."
00:39:29.53\00:39:35.05
Most of the
people you see on TV,
00:39:35.08\00:39:38.47
with the exception of
3ABN, but let me just tell you,
00:39:38.50\00:39:41.08
most of the people
you see on broadcast,
00:39:41.11\00:39:42.95
normal broadcast
television ABC. CBS, NBC, CNN.
00:39:42.98\00:39:46.39
Most of those people
00:39:46.42\00:39:47.79
are not even
planning to go to heaven.
00:39:47.82\00:39:50.98
I'm not judging
these people, you ask them.
00:39:51.01\00:39:53.68
This great Peter
Jennings who recently died,
00:39:53.71\00:39:55.60
not one word was
said that he's in heaven.
00:39:55.63\00:39:57.95
Is that true or not?
00:39:57.98\00:39:59.35
Have you ever
heard anybody say it?
00:39:59.38\00:40:00.75
They're not going to say
it. He wasn't planning to go.
00:40:00.78\00:40:05.51
And if we live and
act like people on TV,
00:40:05.54\00:40:07.58
we're probably not going either.
00:40:07.61\00:40:09.65
I think it is time for us
to spend time in the word.
00:40:09.68\00:40:12.64
This is very, very
important. And to pray regularly
00:40:12.67\00:40:16.42
and to share
God's word with people.
00:40:16.45\00:40:18.73
We know where we are in time,
00:40:18.76\00:40:20.62
it's very, very important.
00:40:20.65\00:40:22.64
Now I'm going to
meddle a little bit,
00:40:22.67\00:40:24.15
because this is my role in
the North American division.
00:40:24.18\00:40:27.61
But it's pretty simple to me.
00:40:27.64\00:40:29.84
If I as a man, and
not willing to trust God
00:40:29.87\00:40:34.77
and be faithful with my
tithe and offerings at a time
00:40:34.80\00:40:37.79
when it is relative prosperity.
00:40:37.82\00:40:39.92
What am I going to do
when I can't buy or sell?
00:40:39.95\00:40:43.63
Do you understand
what I mean by that?
00:40:43.66\00:40:45.93
If I can't trust God to
take of my family right now,
00:40:45.96\00:40:49.84
will I trust him then?
00:40:49.87\00:40:51.97
It is time for us to recognize
that a great revival in Malachi,
00:40:52.00\00:40:56.66
the third chapter,
beginning with verse six.
00:40:56.69\00:40:58.76
God says, "Return to me
and I will return to you."
00:40:58.79\00:41:02.61
So we're talking
about important things here.
00:41:02.64\00:41:05.07
Faithfulness,
and for our families
00:41:05.10\00:41:07.44
and our children to
know that we love God
00:41:07.47\00:41:09.14
and we pray for them
and we do things with them.
00:41:09.17\00:41:11.23
And we make Sabbath
00:41:11.26\00:41:12.63
a special day
for them and so on.
00:41:12.66\00:41:14.61
It's an awesome
thing to understand
00:41:14.64\00:41:17.16
what we know and not
tell anybody about it.
00:41:17.19\00:41:21.62
You remember that experience
in the siege of Samaria
00:41:21.65\00:41:24.32
when the lepers went out.
00:41:24.35\00:41:26.75
And they said,
"If we stay in here,
00:41:26.78\00:41:28.15
we're going to
die. If we go out there,
00:41:28.18\00:41:29.55
they might just kill us."
00:41:29.58\00:41:30.98
But when they went out
there, the Syrians were gone
00:41:31.01\00:41:34.42
and they had all
this food out there.
00:41:34.45\00:41:36.22
And they first jump in
and started eating like crazy,
00:41:36.25\00:41:38.63
and then they thought,
"Man, we've got all this stuff
00:41:38.66\00:41:41.46
and there's people
starving back inside.
00:41:41.49\00:41:43.06
We ought to tell them."
00:41:43.09\00:41:44.53
Do you understand the point?
00:41:44.56\00:41:46.26
Somehow the good news needs
to be shared with other people.
00:41:46.29\00:41:50.55
Jesus is coming.
The one who died for us,
00:41:50.58\00:41:52.99
the one who calmed the storm,
00:41:53.02\00:41:54.39
and raised the dead and
fed the 5,000, all of that.
00:41:54.42\00:41:57.70
That awesome
God did all of that,
00:41:57.73\00:42:00.57
so he could come back.
00:42:00.60\00:42:02.55
So I'm going to encourage you
00:42:02.58\00:42:04.66
as you're here to pray together
and to attend the seminars
00:42:04.69\00:42:09.18
and make a commitment
that you will be faithful.
00:42:09.21\00:42:12.16
Do you know that we
are told that Jesus said,
00:42:12.19\00:42:15.35
"Where two or three
are gathered together,
00:42:15.38\00:42:16.86
I'll be in midst with
you." So we know God's here,
00:42:16.89\00:42:19.98
we know the
holy angels are here.
00:42:20.01\00:42:21.38
We've invited them.
00:42:21.41\00:42:22.78
They're going to send
a report back to heaven.
00:42:22.81\00:42:26.09
Would you like them to
tell the heavenly beings there
00:42:26.12\00:42:29.31
that you're
planning to come soon
00:42:29.34\00:42:30.97
and you thank God that
you're seeing all these signs?
00:42:31.00\00:42:33.25
Would you like to
just raise your hand
00:42:33.28\00:42:34.69
and let the Lord know
that? Thank you very much.
00:42:34.72\00:42:37.56
I want to pray for you
and ask God to bless you.
00:42:37.59\00:42:40.36
We're going to sing
just one stanza of a song,
00:42:40.39\00:42:42.67
I believe, and
have a benediction
00:42:42.70\00:42:44.43
and then some information
about the meal together.
00:42:44.46\00:42:48.74
Let's bow our heads.
00:42:48.77\00:42:50.91
Father, I want to
thank you for the opportunity
00:42:50.94\00:42:53.27
we have of being together today,
00:42:53.30\00:42:55.68
for the
inspiration of this hour.
00:42:55.71\00:42:57.82
You've seen the commitment
of those who are here today,
00:42:57.85\00:43:00.39
wanting to take
seriously the signs
00:43:00.42\00:43:02.44
and spend more time in your word
00:43:02.47\00:43:03.92
and talking with you
in prayer and sharing
00:43:03.95\00:43:06.18
and with our families.
00:43:06.21\00:43:07.58
May we have your blessing
as we make these commitments.
00:43:07.61\00:43:10.62
May this be a
special day for each of us
00:43:10.65\00:43:12.84
as we go to our places of rest.
00:43:12.87\00:43:15.54
Later, we pray
that you'll help us
00:43:15.57\00:43:17.03
to contemplate individually
and may our prayer life
00:43:17.06\00:43:19.51
and our devotional time
with you grow and strengthen
00:43:19.54\00:43:22.20
so that very soon
we can hear the words,
00:43:22.23\00:43:24.74
"Well done, good
and faithful servant.
00:43:24.77\00:43:26.50
Enter thou into
the joy of thy Lord."
00:43:26.53\00:43:28.87
I pray that you'll bless
each family that's represented.
00:43:28.90\00:43:31.56
The leaders of our churches
00:43:31.59\00:43:32.96
and the leaders
of the conference
00:43:32.99\00:43:34.36
and the fathers and the brothers
and the--everyone who's here.
00:43:34.39\00:43:38.14
I pray that you'll help us to be
00:43:38.17\00:43:39.54
so committed to you that
people will be able to tell
00:43:39.57\00:43:41.67
that we've been with Jesus.
00:43:41.70\00:43:43.28
In his name we pray, amen.
00:43:43.31\00:43:45.24