Good evening
ladies and gentlemen.
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Say, it's good to see you.
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You can tell the "A" students.
They're always here on time.
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Have their notebooks out and
their text book in their hands.
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Isn't it
wonderful to have a Bible?
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Have the privilege and
the freedom to read and
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study from a Bible?
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Each evening at 7:00 o'clock,
we travel to some country
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that it has been
my privilege to visit.
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The travel is related to
the subject matter that we
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study from the Bible later.
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And just now, I'm
going to ask you please
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lean back, relax,
fasten your seat belts,
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we're going to be on
our way this evening.
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We're going to go to
what is said to be the most
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romantic city in all the world.
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Maybe I ought to
have a little contest.
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Where do you think
we're going, the most
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romantic city in the world?
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Where do you think?
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Paris, how many of you
said Paris, you thought Paris?
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How many of you?
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You're all wrong.
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Come on.
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I heard somebody say Ritzville.
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Alright.
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No, we're going to Venice.
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And then we'll decide in a
bit if we think it's the most
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romantic city in all the world.
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I left from the
city of Florence in Italy
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at about 5:00 o'clock in
the morning by way of train.
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And I traveled a few hours
to Venice, got off the train.
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And everything that I
would do from that point on
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by way of conveyance or
travel, other than foot travel,
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would be done in a boat.
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For this city,
you see, is unique.
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It is made of the result
of a confluence of rivers.
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In Alaska, I suppose, they
might call them chain rivers.
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Where one river runs
through another and they
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co-mingle like this, you see.
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Intermingled together.
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This co-mingling, this
confluence has resulted
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in a bit over 100
islands, most of them fair size.
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And upon these 100 islands,
the city of Venice originated
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several hundred years ago.
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It was in fact, America's
foremost literalist and writer
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of the past century,
Mr. Ernest Hemingway,
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who because of his love of the
city went here and spent months
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and ended up
writing a book entitled,
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"Across the River
and Into the Woods"
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Across the rivers,
there were once dense forests.
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Hardwood forests, Oak and Larch.
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And they cut those trees
down, made pilings or ties
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out of them, brought
them back and drove them down
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into the mud, and then built
the city atop those pilings.
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And so tonight, we're
going to be seeing a number of
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different kinds of boats.
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And perhaps I'll point
some of them out to you.
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Here over on the left hand
side, we see a boat that is
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Philippine mahogany.
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A plank mahogany boat
and it's a fair size boat.
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And that tells us that the
owner of that boat is either a
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fairly successful business
man or a wealthy family.
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It's not unlike
having a Rolls Royce Corniche
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down in the Hollywood area.
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And those boats are very,
very expensive and they're
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really quite rare now.
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And then in the center
picture, we see the city bus.
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It's a fiberglass boat.
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And if you want to travel
from one island to the next,
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or at any distance at all, you
get aboard the city bus boat.
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And then over to the right
hand side, you see the boat
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that's called
the boat of romance.
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That is the Gondola.
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And we're going to
talk much more about those
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in just a little bit.
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But now, let's move in.
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Just today, as I was
driving down Broadway Street,
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I saw the ambulance
going with lights and
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siren flashing and all.
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And it reminded me of
this picture on this occasion.
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This is the ambulance
in the city of Venice.
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And aboard that
boat, they have all the
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measures for life support.
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Oxygen and the defibrillators,
and all of the rest.
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And they will attempt to
stabilize someone while they're
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rushing them to the hospital.
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They do it aboard a boat.
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But that's not all.
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If there is a funeral, that is
the hearse ladies and gentlemen.
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And someone's taking
the last ride in that boat.
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This will give you a little
bit of an idea of main streets
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sort of intersecting
with lesser streets.
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Perhaps you have heard
that the city has been sinking
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down into the mud.
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Well that's not exactly true.
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While the water is
getting higher and doing
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more and more
damage to the buildings,
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it's really not the
result of the city sinking.
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Matter of fact, in the
last few years there has been
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an up thrust, there
has been a push up against
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those planks and timbers
that are down in the mud.
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And the city has been
raised up just a fraction.
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But in spite of
that, there is more water.
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And that may
sound strange but here
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is the answer to the riddle.
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In order to get the bigger
ships nearer and nearer to town,
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in order that the vegetable
ships can come right in to the
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vegetable warehouses,
they have widened the canals
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and deepened the channel.
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And that, of course, lets
more water come in from the sea.
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The sea, by the
way, is the Adriatic.
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Which is just an arm or a
branch off of the Mediterranean.
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Consequently, the deepening
of the water has ruined
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some of the most wonderful,
some of the most famous art
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in all the world.
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And it's caused some
other problems as well.
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Now here we see
streets and alleys.
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You see a
sidewalk there with folks
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walking over the top of it.
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And down beneath
it, you see a boat going
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through the archway there.
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And this also gives us a pretty
fair idea of the construction.
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Remember, driven
down into the mud
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are those pilings of hardwood.
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And then atop those are the
foundations stones, big stones.
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And then atop those big stones
there have been laid bricks.
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And the bricks have then
been covered over with plaster.
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And it seems to matter little
whether or not you repaint.
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Because, they will
repaint these buildings
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and make them bright and lovely.
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And just a matter of days,
as a result of the destruction
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of the salt
water and the pollution
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that comes from the factories.
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By the way, this is the center,
you ladies of course knew this,
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this is the center of the
most lovely lead crystal glass
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in all the world.
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Venetian glass.
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And something
else originated there.
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Could you guess
what it might be?
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It covers the windows.
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That's right, Venetian blinds.
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So it has lots of factories.
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And those factories
belch out pollution.
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And we're going to
talk more about that
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as we go along as well.
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Now this is the police cruiser.
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This last night,
my officer buddy sat
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right over here near the front.
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And we conversed a
little bit, do you remember.
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Officer Twigg.
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Well, this is the cruiser
and they pulled someone over
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and they're
writing him a ticket.
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I don't know if he was
speeding or maybe driving
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under the influence
of something or another.
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But I thought about this.
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It'd be a
little bit embarrassing
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to be pulled over
and written a ticket
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right on your front
step, wouldn't it now.
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I'll bet all the neighbors
are looking and laughing, huh.
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Boy, it's about time, huh.
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I'm tired of him
speeding by and razing a wake.
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This, ladies and
gentlemen, is the Grand Canal.
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We would call it main street.
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And across this main street,
there is a bridge called Rialto.
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You may want to go home and look
it up and read a bit about it.
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It is the second oldest
bridge in all the world.
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It was built in 1588.
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There is one older bridge and
we'll see that in another city,
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not so far away,
on another evening.
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The Grand Canal.
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I have noticed that when
folk come to this auditorium,
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whomever drives often
lets out the passengers
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out near the entry and
then backs away, or drives away,
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to park somewhere
in the parking lot.
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Well, this is
the way it is here.
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This is one of
the many cathedrals.
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And they have one for
each island, you might
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be interested to know.
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And whomever drives here brings
the passengers right over here
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and they off load.
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And then he backs the
boat away and parks it
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somewhere over
here in the parking lot.
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In Europe, Paris and Rome,
certainly in other major cities,
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they have their
outdoor restaurants
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which are lovely through
the spring, summer, and fall.
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And folks are
asked when they enter,
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"Would you prefer to
dine inside or alfresco?"
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Outside.
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Well here, they're
not going to be outdone.
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They have built an addition
to the front of the restaurant
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a wharf, I guess we
could say, or a dock.
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And they've put awnings and
they have put tables and chairs.
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And you're given the
option to dine outdoors.
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I noticed this,
however, if you're seated on the
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backside of the table,
the maitre d' will whisper
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in your ear, "Be
careful when you push away. "
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Not a bad idea, I'll tell
you. Not a bad idea at all.
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Well, this is a typical home.
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There's the front door.
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It opens onto the
canal, as you can see.
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I've thought about this, it
wouldn't be a good situation
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if you had a
problem with somnambulates.
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And if there's anyone
here from Idaho, that means
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someone who sleepwalks.
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We'll pick on the
Idahoans a little more later.
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Because I'm laughing at myself.
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You know that by now, don't you.
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Ole Idaho Lyle.
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By the way, down in Salem
where I worked a while back,
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before we were finished they
were calling me Spuds Albrecht.
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And that's okay.
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But I'll tell you what, if
you wandered out of that door
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in your sleep, you'd be for
a rude awakening by the time
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you hit that polluted water.
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But now notice
up the second level
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and you'll see
this lady's garden.
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These happen to be flowers.
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But I have seen in similar
pots, tomatoes, bell peppers,
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other kinds of garden things
that you might put in a salad.
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For you see, the folks
have no opportunity to go
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into the backyard
and grow a garden.
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There's no backyard,
and so they do the best
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that they're able to do.
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And that we're now passing by.
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This is parade day
on the Grand Canal.
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And you see the boats coming.
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And traditionally,
whether it's 4th of July or
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some other
occasion in our environment,
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the band leads the parade.
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And the drums
beat and the horns blow
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and the marchers
come behind them.
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It's not really
unlike that here.
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In the first boat is the band.
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Now, when we decorate up a wagon
or we decorate up something,
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and put it in a
parade, what do we call it?
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What do we call that?
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A float, exactly so.
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The Pasadena Rose
Parade, here comes the
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float from the Jaycees.
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This whole idea of floats
originated here in this city,
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in the parades.
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Those are the original
floats, ladies and gentlemen.
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And the folks who live
in along the Grand Canal and
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have apartments up
above, lofts, if you please,
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have a really good
view of the parade.
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Now let's talk a little
bit about this boat of romance,
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the Gondola.
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Originally, it was a war ship.
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The Doge family who
ruled the city/state here
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for decades and decades and
decades, kept here a large army.
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Hundreds and
hundreds of sailors and a
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large ground force as well.
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They had here 1600
boats, some of them large,
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but the majority of them
were gondolas, war ships.
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And these are not so terribly
different from the war canoes
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of the native
Americans who lined the
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Oregon, Washington,
British Columbia coasts
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a few hundred years back
or even less time than that.
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Less than a hundred
years in some instances.
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Well, since there is no
longer a great navy here,
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or a need for it, they
have turned these boats
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into boats of romance.
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Ladies and gentlemen, it
is said in study after study
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that there are more
folk who come to this city
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to be engaged, to
celebrate Valentine's Day,
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to celebrate an anniversary, or
to have their wedding performed.
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More folks come
here in that way than
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any other single
city on the earth.
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I'm not sure of the
accuracy of that statement,
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but the folks over here
certainly advertise in that way.
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Now as soon as I got back from
this trip, someone asked me,
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"Did you take a gondola ride?"
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And I said, "No, I did not. "
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For a couple of reasons.
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Firstly, I was
traveling with three preachers
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and I wasn't feeling
particularly romantic.
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But secondly and
more importantly really,
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while the canals in
these pictures don't show it,
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they are terribly polluted.
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Now you just think
with me for a moment.
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Here is a city that was
built hundreds of years ago.
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Built in and on the water.
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Where do you suppose the
sewer all originally went?
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If you have a
leaking pipe today,
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where do you suppose it goes?
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You know where it goes.
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I shot this film with
Kodak kodachrome film,
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and these pictures
on kodachrome film.
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And kodachrome has the effect
to make reds more brilliant,
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blues more blue, and
greens a brighter green.
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In spite of that, you can see
that the waters here are brown.
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They're nasty, they're
ugly, they're polluted.
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And they smell badly.
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And I could not see the
romance in paying some guy
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a 100 bucks to paddle
me through the city sewer.
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I just couldn't do it.
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But lots of folks were doing it.
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They were lined up in
a line over a block long,
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paying their money.
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And the gondolier will take
the lovers out onto the canals
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and he will ask them, if
they're celebrating perhaps
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an anniversary, "What
song was sung at your wedding?"
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Or what song were they singing,
what was playing on the jukebox
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when you first
danced and fell in love?
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And then he will sing that song.
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And they know nearly
all the great standards,
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the great love songs.
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And with their Italian
tenor voices, they sing.
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And it's quite nice really,
to hear those pretty voices
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coming across the
waters of the canals and
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then perhaps even the Adriatic.
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Now this is an aerial
view of what I believe to be
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one of the most fascinating
churches in all the world.
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This is the
cathedral of St. Mark.
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And I want to just
point out a couple of things.
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Notice there, the
onion shaped domes.
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Anytime you see a dome
like that, you know that you're
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seeing the result of the
influence of ancient Byzantium.
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That's
Byzantine in architecture.
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And today, of course,
we call that area Turkey.
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But this church was built to be
a special place of internment,
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a special place of
burial for St. Mark.
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And here is the
history behind it.
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While the Doge family was
having the cathedral completed,
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they sent an armada of
ships from here, Venice,
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over to Alexandria on the north
of the continent of Africa,
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on the north of
Egypt, for that matter.
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And there, Mark had
died on a mission journey.
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You see, in the early
centuries 1st, 2nd, 3rd,
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Alexandria was a
Christian outpost.
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And many an
apostle went out from there
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to other places in the world.
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They'd catch the ship in
Alexandria and go elsewhere
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to share the love of Jesus.
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And Mark was there when he died.
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And in a quiet
little place, he was buried.
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Over the centuries,
Islam replaced Christianity.
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While once it was a great
Christian center, it is today
00:17:24.95\00:17:28.10
and has been now for hundreds
of years, a very strong center
00:17:28.13\00:17:31.72
of the faith of Islam.
00:17:31.75\00:17:33.40
Consequently, the
tomb of Mark the evangelist
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went unnoticed and the
grounds went into disrepair,
00:17:37.08\00:17:40.68
and largely the
place was ignored.
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And the Doge family, with strong
feelings about that neglect,
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decided they would
exhume his remains and have them
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brought over to Venice and
interred beneath the high altar
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inside this cathedral.
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And so when the
cathedral was near completion,
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they sent some ships
and some sailors from Venice
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over to Alexandria to
exhume the remains of Mark.
00:18:03.70\00:18:08.61
And they went first
to the city fathers.
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And they asked the city
fathers, "Would it be alright
00:18:11.21\00:18:14.57
if we exhume Mark's
remains and took him to Venice
00:18:14.60\00:18:18.19
to bury him in a sacred place?"
00:18:18.22\00:18:20.16
And without thinking really,
the fathers said, "No, no way. "
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And the sailors plead
the case of the Doge family
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and the idea behind it.
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"You folks are
followers of Islam.
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There are hardly any
Christians within miles of here.
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We'd like to give him a sacred
Christian place of burial.
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Why not?"
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And the city fathers said,
"Look, this is where he died
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This is where he's buried.
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This is where
history knows about him.
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And this is where
he's going to stay. "
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Well, without arguing, the
sailors went back to their ships
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but they didn't
immediately leave.
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A couple of nights later,
under the cover of darkness,
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a sky with no moon, they
went to the grave of Mark
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with their
shovels and their spades,
00:19:05.15\00:19:07.54
and they exhumed his remains
and wrapped them in burlap,
00:19:07.57\00:19:11.68
and headed back to their boat.
00:19:11.71\00:19:13.78
At about
daylight, they were stopped
00:19:13.81\00:19:16.15
by the local constabulary.
00:19:16.18\00:19:18.27
The policemen stopped them and
said, "What do you have there?
00:19:18.87\00:19:22.02
What are you
taking aboard your boat?"
00:19:22.05\00:19:23.70
And the sailors said, "We're
ready to go back now to Venice.
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We're ready to take the bad news
back to the Doge leadership.
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But before we left, we
thought we would take some
00:19:33.20\00:19:37.32
protein to eat on the way.
00:19:37.35\00:19:38.98
And so we have been out to
a farmer just outside of town.
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And he butchered a
couple of hogs for us
00:19:42.40\00:19:44.94
and we wrapped
them in this burlap.
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Would you like to see our pork?"
00:19:46.57\00:19:48.47
And the leaders of Islam
and the jurisdiction, they said,
00:19:48.50\00:19:52.45
"We don't even
want to hear about pork.
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You go ahead and
get on your boat. "
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And in that way, history
says, they brought Mark back
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and buried him on the inside.
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And so in just a moment,
we're going to go inside.
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But before we do that, I
wanted you to notice this.
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This is, today, the bell tower.
00:20:09.86\00:20:12.07
The bells for the
cathedral are up in there.
00:20:12.10\00:20:14.30
And every hour, on
the hour, they ring.
00:20:14.33\00:20:16.23
You, by the way, can go up
inside there and climb stairs,
00:20:16.26\00:20:19.97
get up in there and walk in
and around, amongst the bells.
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But from
experience, I can tell you this.
00:20:23.47\00:20:25.79
You don't want to be on there
when the clock strikes the hour.
00:20:25.82\00:20:28.75
Because you're ears are going
to ring for a good long while.
00:20:28.78\00:20:31.59
I could give several tourist
tips but let that be one to you.
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It originally, this tower,
was a lookout for the sailors.
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And always there were
the lookouts, two or three,
00:20:41.15\00:20:45.60
that were watching the
canals and watching the Adriatic
00:20:45.63\00:20:49.10
to see if a ship
be friend or foe.
00:20:49.13\00:20:51.72
And if they didn't know
who it was, then they would
00:20:51.75\00:20:53.90
send out the war ships.
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Now before we go
inside St. Mark's cathedral,
00:20:56.00\00:20:58.91
I want you to notice
the beauty of the exterior
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of the architecture.
00:21:02.02\00:21:03.37
Those statues that
we're looking at on the spires
00:21:03.40\00:21:06.88
are standing about 22
feet high from their base.
00:21:06.91\00:21:11.31
And they're made of
pure Carrera Marble.
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And this was done
1000 years ago folks.
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Long before power tools,
long before pneumatic tools.
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It was done by men with hammers
and chisels in their hands.
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And I suggest to you,
they did a really good job.
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What do you think?
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Yea, they did a good job.
00:21:31.15\00:21:32.71
There is that bell tower
that we spoke about a bit ago.
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And up inside
there, the sailors watched.
00:21:37.68\00:21:40.96
And that original tower though,
I should tell you, fell down.
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It literally collapsed and this
one is from more modern times.
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Not in just the last few
years but from what we would
00:21:50.04\00:21:52.71
call historically, modern times.
00:21:52.74\00:21:55.06
Now we're going to go
through the entry door.
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Inside and there at the altar,
00:21:58.88\00:22:02.36
we have at the
base, the tomb of Mark.
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Mark was not one of
the twelve disciples.
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And this is a strange
idea, and I'll just share this
00:22:12.95\00:22:15.29
with you quickly because
you may find it of interest.
00:22:15.32\00:22:18.74
It'll help you
in your Bible study.
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You cannot study, carefully,
the gospels without recognizing
00:22:22.30\00:22:26.31
almost immediately,
that the leader of the
00:22:26.34\00:22:28.90
disciples was Peter.
00:22:28.93\00:22:30.40
When there was a questions
asked, Peter gave the answer.
00:22:30.43\00:22:33.38
When there was an action
to be taken, whether it was
00:22:33.41\00:22:35.08
jumping out of the boat
or whipping out his sword,
00:22:35.11\00:22:36.78
Peter takes the action.
00:22:36.81\00:22:38.41
Peter, indeed, was the
leader of the disciples.
00:22:38.44\00:22:43.03
We have the
gospel according to John.
00:22:43.87\00:22:46.73
We have the gospel of Luke.
00:22:46.76\00:22:49.02
We have the gospel of Matthew.
00:22:49.05\00:22:51.41
But no gospel of Peter?
00:22:51.44\00:22:53.29
When he was the leader? Strange.
00:22:53.32\00:22:55.72
No, on the other hand we do.
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You see, Mark, was a
traveling companion of Peter.
00:22:58.18\00:23:01.91
When Peter would go out
as an apostle and preach,
00:23:01.94\00:23:05.37
Mark would write
down his sermons.
00:23:05.40\00:23:07.42
So therefore then, when we're
reading the gospel of Mark,
00:23:07.45\00:23:10.64
we're, in reality, reading
the gospel according to Peter.
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Now we're going to move again
and go out the rear exit and
00:23:15.29\00:23:19.66
as we do, we notice the beauty
of the interior of the dome.
00:23:19.69\00:23:22.35
They have mosaic stories
and art stories, Bible stories.
00:23:22.38\00:23:27.46
These, built during the
dark ages when folks couldn't
00:23:27.49\00:23:30.26
read or write, were beautifully
decorated with Bible art.
00:23:30.29\00:23:33.63
And the leaders of the church
would take the folks around
00:23:33.66\00:23:36.33
and show them the art
and tell them the Bible story
00:23:36.36\00:23:38.80
that went with them, and
educate them in that way.
00:23:38.83\00:23:41.69
Now we're going to go around
by boat to the Doge chapel.
00:23:42.54\00:23:47.34
On weekends they worship
in the cathedral of Mark.
00:23:49.01\00:23:51.93
But during the week, morning
and evening, those who wanted,
00:23:51.96\00:23:56.07
and most did,
worship inside the chapel.
00:23:56.10\00:23:59.46
And I want you to go
with me up those marble steps,
00:23:59.49\00:24:02.89
past those statues of
Neptune, god of the sea,
00:24:02.92\00:24:06.82
and we'll go right through this
door into what I believe to be
00:24:06.85\00:24:10.43
one of the most beautiful
rooms in all the world.
00:24:10.46\00:24:12.97
Some of the most gorgeous
parquet hardwood flooring.
00:24:13.00\00:24:17.16
is to be found in that floor.
00:24:17.19\00:24:19.22
And over the
centuries it's been beautifully
00:24:19.25\00:24:20.97
kept and redone and redone.
00:24:21.00\00:24:22.88
And then you'll notice up
in the ceiling the hardwood
00:24:23.28\00:24:26.92
has been hand carved.
00:24:26.95\00:24:28.52
Delicately carved and then
covered over with gold leaf.
00:24:28.55\00:24:31.47
That is not spray
paint, that's the real thing.
00:24:31.50\00:24:34.57
But my reason for wanting you
to come inside with me tonight,
00:24:34.60\00:24:38.05
was to show you this
painting that decorates
00:24:38.08\00:24:41.11
the front of the chapel.
00:24:41.14\00:24:42.63
We're going to move in for
a little bit of a close-up.
00:24:42.66\00:24:44.97
And what we have?
00:24:45.00\00:24:45.97
We have our Lord
Jesus seated on the throne,
00:24:45.98\00:24:49.77
coming back from
heaven on a rescue mission.
00:24:49.80\00:24:52.39
Coming on clouds. "And
every eye shall see Him. "
00:24:52.42\00:24:55.66
And He said, "When I
come, I'll come with the
00:24:55.69\00:24:57.69
glory of all of My angels. "
00:24:57.72\00:24:58.92
There they are on the
clouds, all of the holy angels.
00:24:58.95\00:25:01.90
And He said, "I'll come
with the glory of My Father. "
00:25:01.93\00:25:03.74
There in the
painting is the Holy Father.
00:25:03.77\00:25:07.84
Coming to rescue the children.
00:25:07.87\00:25:10.49
And this is what thrilled me so.
00:25:10.52\00:25:12.75
Even during the darkest of
ages, ladies and gentlemen,
00:25:13.86\00:25:17.06
during the darkest of
ages, at a time when Bibles
00:25:18.75\00:25:22.17
were extinct, people
were disallowed to read them.
00:25:22.20\00:25:26.75
And the Bibles that were
around were literally chained
00:25:26.78\00:25:28.98
to monastery desks and were
for the private interpretation
00:25:29.01\00:25:32.73
of the pastors only.
00:25:32.76\00:25:34.20
During the darkest ages,
the church never completely
00:25:34.23\00:25:38.27
lost sight of the
beautiful teaching of the
00:25:38.30\00:25:41.06
second coming of Jesus.
00:25:41.09\00:25:42.82
And I hope that
we're emphasizing it
00:25:43.32\00:25:45.55
to our benefit each evening,
at least as we conclude,
00:25:45.58\00:25:49.06
and lifting up Jesus.
00:25:49.09\00:25:50.40
And your heart, like mine, will
long to see Him face to face.
00:25:50.43\00:25:54.76
He is coming again.
00:25:54.79\00:25:57.54
Thank you for traveling with me.
00:25:57.57\00:25:58.74
As I travel the major
cities of the United States,
00:26:02.06\00:26:04.17
and other of the
world for that matter,
00:26:04.20\00:26:05.58
and I'm introduced
as a native of Idaho,
00:26:05.61\00:26:08.79
I often become the
brunt of Idaho jokes.
00:26:08.82\00:26:12.51
I'll share one or two
of them with you folks.
00:26:12.92\00:26:15.45
"What's the difference,"
I've been asked, "in Idaho
00:26:16.35\00:26:19.32
between a
tornado and a divorce?"
00:26:20.20\00:26:23.28
"Oh, I don't know. "
00:26:23.31\00:26:25.04
"Well either way someone's going
to lose their trailer house. "
00:26:25.65\00:26:28.25
How do you know
when you're in Idaho?
00:26:32.91\00:26:34.53
Well, if your wealthiest
relative invites you over
00:26:34.56\00:26:37.97
for a house
warming, and before you leave
00:26:38.00\00:26:41.34
they ask you to help
take the tires off the house,
00:26:41.37\00:26:44.46
you're probably in Idaho.
00:26:44.49\00:26:46.04
If you decide finally you're
going to mow the front lawn
00:26:50.41\00:26:53.83
and you find there a
1960 Plymouth Valiant,
00:26:53.86\00:26:58.25
you're probably in Idaho.
00:26:58.28\00:27:00.14
Now I'm not trying
to be a standup comic,
00:27:01.99\00:27:03.82
and those things sound to
me like kind of remakes of
00:27:03.85\00:27:05.84
Jeff Foxworthy, but at
any event, my point is this.
00:27:05.87\00:27:09.40
We folks who've lived in
and around Idaho, and perhaps
00:27:09.43\00:27:12.48
some of you who are
neighbors to us, have sort of
00:27:12.51\00:27:15.66
been looked down
upon as hay seeds.
00:27:15.69\00:27:18.11
Like we've fallen off the
turnip truck fairly recently.
00:27:18.14\00:27:21.38
And that in Idaho, we have a
lot of junk along the roadsides,
00:27:21.41\00:27:26.02
and a lot of old
refrigerators in the backyard.
00:27:26.05\00:27:29.08
And tragically, a
lot of that is true.
00:27:29.11\00:27:31.63
Tragically.
00:27:31.66\00:27:32.91
I use to often drive, I now
more often fly, but when I would
00:27:32.94\00:27:37.33
drive from the east to the west,
or go from Oregon or Washington
00:27:37.36\00:27:41.94
into Idaho, it seemed
I could almost tell when
00:27:41.97\00:27:44.43
I had crossed the
border because there was
00:27:44.46\00:27:46.48
a lot of trash
along the highway.
00:27:46.51\00:27:48.20
And there were a
lot of trashy old places
00:27:48.23\00:27:50.47
and a lot of junk parked around.
00:27:50.50\00:27:52.80
You know, spare parts.
00:27:52.83\00:27:54.61
I confronted one
Idahoan about it.
00:27:54.64\00:27:56.78
And I said, "You know, you could
clean up a little around here. "
00:27:56.81\00:27:59.34
He said, "Well, I'll tell you
what, I just got religious. "
00:27:59.37\00:28:02.77
He said, "I was just
born again and I don't believe
00:28:02.80\00:28:05.59
in righteous by works. "
00:28:05.62\00:28:07.21
Our Lord Jesus told a
story, a parable that He called
00:28:11.97\00:28:17.17
the parable of the steward.
00:28:17.20\00:28:19.14
And in that parable, He
made it abundantly clear to us
00:28:19.44\00:28:22.04
that this world
does not belong to us.
00:28:22.07\00:28:25.32
My backyard is
not mine to trash.
00:28:25.35\00:28:27.94
The highways upon
which I drive are not mine
00:28:27.97\00:28:32.07
to through my garbage upon.
00:28:32.10\00:28:33.83
But rather, I am
to be the caretaker.
00:28:33.86\00:28:36.89
I am to watch over
His world and I am to take
00:28:36.92\00:28:40.14
very good care of it.
00:28:40.17\00:28:41.28
And in His word, He has
warnings for me if I choose
00:28:41.31\00:28:44.84
to do otherwise.
00:28:44.87\00:28:45.92
Now I want to share
with you very quickly,
00:28:45.95\00:28:47.30
something that I
think is related.
00:28:47.33\00:28:49.02
And before we conclude, I
believe you'll agree with me.
00:28:49.05\00:28:51.74
On Fox news this evening, there
was the report that fuel prices
00:28:51.77\00:28:55.41
across the United States
in the last 10 days have risen
00:28:55.44\00:28:59.20
as much as 20 cents.
00:28:59.23\00:29:00.51
Now that's not news to you.
00:29:00.54\00:29:01.96
Especially the price of diesel.
00:29:01.99\00:29:03.57
You farmers know
what's been going on.
00:29:03.60\00:29:05.34
Even that red stuff has
gone out of sight in cost.
00:29:05.37\00:29:08.52
And they went on to say
that farming and manufacturing
00:29:09.28\00:29:12.67
and delivery by rail and
by truck are all affected.
00:29:12.70\00:29:16.26
And that at the grocery store,
whether we're going to get
00:29:16.29\00:29:18.68
Cheerios or a head of lettuce,
we're going to pay more money.
00:29:18.71\00:29:24.74
And then they gave
some illustrations.
00:29:24.77\00:29:26.67
They said that in the last
10 months, in the major grocery
00:29:26.70\00:29:30.22
chains in the United States,
a loaf of bread has increased
00:29:30.25\00:29:33.24
in price 35 percent.
00:29:33.27\00:29:35.74
And that during the same
last 10 months, the price of a
00:29:35.77\00:29:39.05
gallon of milk has
gone up 40 percent.
00:29:39.08\00:29:42.10
And it's largely due
to the great increase
00:29:42.13\00:29:45.34
in the cost of fuel.
00:29:45.37\00:29:47.24
Now, George Will, in
last weeks Newsweek Magazine,
00:29:47.93\00:29:52.02
did a little bit of a commentary
on his page, "The Last Word".
00:29:52.05\00:29:57.68
And I'm not going to
read to you from that tonight
00:29:57.71\00:30:00.18
because I've much other to read.
00:30:00.21\00:30:01.35
And by the way, when tonight
I read perhaps more than usual,
00:30:01.38\00:30:04.29
it's because I want to
share original sources.
00:30:04.32\00:30:07.76
I think it's not fair
for Lyle to stand up here
00:30:07.79\00:30:10.80
and sort of set up straw men,
00:30:10.83\00:30:13.39
and leave folks with the
idea that maybe he made that up.
00:30:13.42\00:30:16.70
Where's the background, where
is the origin for that resource?
00:30:16.73\00:30:19.73
I, further, want to go on
record at the outset tonight
00:30:19.76\00:30:22.31
by saying that I am
not some kind of a fanatic.
00:30:22.34\00:30:25.46
I am not a Greenpeace nut.
00:30:25.49\00:30:28.11
I am not a tree hugger.
00:30:28.14\00:30:30.41
I am an old logger.
00:30:30.44\00:30:32.45
And I'll go, at the same
time, on record to say to you
00:30:32.48\00:30:35.12
that I have always strongly
been against clear cut logging.
00:30:35.15\00:30:38.87
And I'm against the
slaughter of what's left
00:30:38.90\00:30:41.89
of our old growth forests.
00:30:41.92\00:30:44.22
Okay? So you know where I
stand on some of these issues.
00:30:44.25\00:30:47.43
But at any event, George Will
says that, "The American people,
00:30:47.46\00:30:50.70
it seems obvious, have decided
to avoid drilling up in the
00:30:50.73\00:30:54.65
Alaskan area where
we could get enough oil
00:30:54.68\00:30:57.98
to provide our needs
for at least several years.
00:30:58.01\00:31:00.22
We have chosen instead to
destroy the forests of the earth
00:31:00.25\00:31:05.18
and create all
kinds of greenhouse gases.
00:31:05.21\00:31:08.09
And to grow a lot
of corn and soybeans
00:31:08.12\00:31:11.76
and try to make
fuel out of that. "
00:31:11.79\00:31:13.15
And he said, "It's going
to cost us more in the diesel
00:31:13.25\00:31:16.75
for the tractors to
grow the soybeans than it is
00:31:16.78\00:31:19.49
if we would do some
exploration off shore
00:31:19.52\00:31:22.00
or maybe up in Alaska. "
00:31:22.03\00:31:23.38
And so, the point that I
want to make at this juncture is
00:31:23.41\00:31:26.39
that we're caught in a catch-22.
00:31:26.42\00:31:28.81
We really are, we're in
that proverbial vicious cycle.
00:31:28.84\00:31:32.24
Now I'd like you, ladies and
gentlemen, if you will please
00:31:32.27\00:31:34.65
to open your Bible's
to our first scripture,
00:31:34.68\00:31:36.99
Revelation chapter 11.
00:31:37.02\00:31:38.79
We've said over and over again
that the book of Revelation
00:31:39.51\00:31:42.83
is for those who
live in the last days.
00:31:42.86\00:31:44.62
It's not the last book by
accident, but by God's design.
00:31:44.65\00:31:48.81
It's information for those
who live in the very last days.
00:31:48.84\00:31:52.15
And I also, while we're turning
to Revelation 11, want to
00:31:52.18\00:31:55.86
say once more that prophecy
is history written in advance.
00:31:55.89\00:32:00.23
It's God pulling aside the
curtain that veils the future
00:32:00.26\00:32:02.96
and giving us insights
as to what the future holds
00:32:02.99\00:32:06.19
in order that we might
get ready, make preparation.
00:32:06.22\00:32:09.67
Spiritual, most of all.
00:32:09.70\00:32:11.39
On the other
hand, history is the
00:32:11.42\00:32:14.08
mirror reflection of prophecy.
00:32:14.11\00:32:15.88
It is prophecy fulfilled.
00:32:15.91\00:32:18.05
And prophecy and history go
together like identical twins.
00:32:18.08\00:32:22.49
Now, we're ready then to
read from Revelation chapter 11.
00:32:23.10\00:32:28.18
Revelation chapter 11, and
I'm going to read at verse 18.
00:32:29.15\00:32:34.03
"The nations were
angry, Your wrath has come,
00:32:38.03\00:32:43.01
and the time of the dead,
that they should be judged,
00:32:43.04\00:32:45.40
and You're going to reward those
Your servants and the prophets
00:32:48.33\00:32:52.18
and Your saints, and those that
have done work in Your name,
00:32:52.21\00:32:57.74
both small and great, and You're
going to destroy those who... "
00:32:57.77\00:33:03.53
There it is.
00:33:04.47\00:33:05.44
Did you know that the
Bible was filled with warning
00:33:05.45\00:33:08.32
about destroying our planet?
00:33:08.35\00:33:10.38
God says that in the end time,
"I'm going to have to destroy
00:33:11.37\00:33:14.44
the folks that
willingly and flagrantly
00:33:14.47\00:33:18.02
and purposely
destroy the earth. "
00:33:18.05\00:33:20.34
Those who pollute and
know they're polluting
00:33:20.73\00:33:22.90
are going to come to a sad end.
00:33:22.93\00:33:25.28
In the beginning,
ladies and gentlemen, we lived,
00:33:25.31\00:33:27.72
our parents, I should better
say, lived in a perfect world.
00:33:27.75\00:33:30.71
And the record of
Genesis is abundantly clear.
00:33:30.74\00:33:32.87
God, in the center of the
universe, placed planet earth.
00:33:32.90\00:33:36.16
In the center of planet earth,
he placed a beautiful garden.
00:33:36.19\00:33:38.94
In the center of the garden, He
placed our parents Adam and Eve.
00:33:38.97\00:33:41.71
My daughter called me from the
Big Island of Hawaii yesterday.
00:33:42.50\00:33:46.29
She said, "Dad, you
won't believe where we are. "
00:33:46.32\00:33:48.63
She said, "We're
in a botanical garden.
00:33:48.66\00:33:51.08
We're in a natural
garden alongside the sea. "
00:33:51.11\00:33:54.12
And she said, "There's the most
lovely plants and flowers. "
00:33:54.15\00:33:57.60
"In fact," she said, "I
and the grandkids were just
00:33:57.63\00:34:00.90
saying a bit ago, it reminds
us of the Garden of Eden.
00:34:00.93\00:34:04.41
It must have
been much like this. "
00:34:04.44\00:34:06.20
It was indeed beautiful.
00:34:06.23\00:34:07.81
More beautiful, I'm sure, than
anything we've ever imagined.
00:34:07.84\00:34:10.68
And so God said to our parents
Adam and Eve, "Live here. "
00:34:10.71\00:34:13.90
"Make this your
home, train the vines,
00:34:13.93\00:34:16.47
name the
animals, raise your kids.
00:34:16.50\00:34:18.57
I'll stop by in the evening
time to visit with you. "
00:34:18.60\00:34:21.70
And then, as you read on,
you find God giving instruction.
00:34:21.73\00:34:27.52
And let's go
there to read, shall we.
00:34:27.55\00:34:28.69
We ought to do that together.
00:34:28.72\00:34:30.33
It's one thing
for Lyle to say it.
00:34:30.36\00:34:31.87
It's something else again for
us to read it from our Bibles.
00:34:31.90\00:34:34.25
Genesis chapter 1,
beginning with verse 27.
00:34:34.28\00:34:37.65
Here was God's
instruction to the family
00:34:37.68\00:34:39.82
shortly after He'd
placed them inside the garden.
00:34:39.85\00:34:42.98
Genesis chapter 1,
beginning to read at verse 27.
00:34:43.01\00:34:48.23
"God created them in His
image; in the image of God
00:34:53.45\00:34:56.26
He created them; male and
female He created them both.
00:34:56.29\00:34:59.73
And then God blessed
them, and He said unto them,
00:34:59.76\00:35:01.57
'Be fruitful and multiply, and
replenish the earth, subdue it;
00:35:01.60\00:35:07.40
have dominion over
the fish in the sea,
00:35:08.57\00:35:10.96
and over the fowls of the air,
00:35:10.99\00:35:12.66
and every
moving, living thing. '"
00:35:12.69\00:35:15.25
This is your home,
you're in charge of it all.
00:35:15.28\00:35:17.62
Take care of it.
00:35:17.65\00:35:18.89
And then you continue your
study in the book of Genesis.
00:35:20.27\00:35:22.57
And you come over to chapter 7.
00:35:22.60\00:35:25.91
And we don't
have time to turn and
00:35:25.94\00:35:27.35
read chapter 7 and 8, of course.
00:35:27.38\00:35:28.75
The story of the
great flood and of the
00:35:28.78\00:35:31.39
great
destruction that would come.
00:35:31.42\00:35:33.45
Men had become so sinful and so
belligerent against God's truths
00:35:34.23\00:35:37.75
that God said, "I'm going
to have to destroy the thing. "
00:35:37.78\00:35:40.24
"Noah, you better build
a big boat. " And he did.
00:35:40.27\00:35:42.59
And then the flood
waters came and the earth
00:35:42.62\00:35:44.74
was drastically changed.
00:35:44.77\00:35:46.09
And from that point on,
we Christians believe in what
00:35:46.12\00:35:49.02
we call catastrophism.
00:35:49.05\00:35:50.70
Some folks look at the
age of the earth through
00:35:51.17\00:35:53.53
the eyes of the evolutionists.
00:35:53.56\00:35:54.80
And they see millions and
millions and millions of years.
00:35:54.83\00:35:57.76
Other folks, Christians in
particular, look at the earth
00:35:57.79\00:36:00.99
through God's eyes and from
the vantage point of God's word.
00:36:01.02\00:36:03.86
And we see catastrophe
that changed the earth
00:36:03.89\00:36:07.76
instantly and
suddenly, and did not require
00:36:07.79\00:36:10.68
millions of millions of years.
00:36:10.71\00:36:12.22
But only just a
few thousands of years.
00:36:12.25\00:36:15.26
I remember so very well
and not so very long ago,
00:36:15.29\00:36:17.85
a man who was leading a group
of tourists down into the bottom
00:36:17.88\00:36:22.10
of the Grand Canyon.
00:36:22.13\00:36:23.53
They were riding
on the backs of mules.
00:36:23.99\00:36:26.48
And they would go a ways
and down a few switchbacks,
00:36:26.51\00:36:29.01
and then they would dismount.
00:36:29.04\00:36:30.64
And the guide would point out
00:36:30.67\00:36:32.43
various strata
and various ideas.
00:36:32.46\00:36:34.70
And then he looked down
into the bottom of the canyon,
00:36:34.73\00:36:38.05
pointed out the
little narrow ribbon of water
00:36:38.08\00:36:40.34
that was the Colorado River.
00:36:40.37\00:36:41.69
And he said, "Now, look
at the river and then slowly
00:36:41.72\00:36:45.41
raise your eyes and look
up to the rim of the canyon.
00:36:45.44\00:36:48.23
And imagine how many
millions and millions
00:36:48.26\00:36:51.10
and millions of years it
took that tiny little bit
00:36:51.13\00:36:53.75
of water to carve
this massive canyon. "
00:36:53.79\00:36:56.38
And folks jaws dropped, "yea".
00:36:56.41\00:36:59.08
They said they'd
heard of scientific fact.
00:36:59.11\00:37:00.93
And a little bit later,
the guide stopped the group.
00:37:01.71\00:37:05.84
And he made this remark,
"Those of us who have spent
00:37:07.04\00:37:10.18
a lifetime studying the
canyon and its environment
00:37:10.21\00:37:14.27
have seen the mud of the
canyon turn into stone. "
00:37:14.30\00:37:19.83
Now he didn't seem to catch
it, but he'd raised a question.
00:37:20.29\00:37:22.74
Did the Colorado River carve
that massive canyon out of stone
00:37:22.77\00:37:26.88
or out of mud?
00:37:26.91\00:37:28.48
I was a student at Walla
Walla college when there came
00:37:28.51\00:37:31.94
a break in the irrigation ditch
out in the countryside east.
00:37:31.97\00:37:35.52
And by the next morning, there
was a washout in the sand hills
00:37:35.55\00:37:39.23
that you could park, I don't
know, 50 or 60 big trucks in.
00:37:39.26\00:37:44.20
And it happened just like that.
00:37:44.23\00:37:45.85
And so there are several
ways to look at the world
00:37:45.88\00:37:49.02
and its origin, its beginnings.
00:37:49.05\00:37:50.80
And no matter how you
look at it, it requires faith.
00:37:50.83\00:37:54.66
Now, we want to read
together from Genesis chapter 9,
00:37:54.69\00:37:58.93
because this is God's
instruction now after the flood.
00:37:58.96\00:38:01.81
And we're going to
begin at the very first verse,
00:38:01.84\00:38:03.96
Genesis chapter 9.
00:38:03.99\00:38:06.00
Genesis 9 and reading forward.
00:38:06.03\00:38:09.11
"God blessed Noah and also
his sons, and He said unto them,
00:38:09.64\00:38:14.06
'Be fruitful now and multiply
and replenish the earth. '"
00:38:14.09\00:38:18.34
And so, man did a really good
job of replenishing the earth.
00:38:19.72\00:38:22.75
And I want to just share with
you now, the facts in regard to
00:38:22.78\00:38:26.92
the growth of the
population on planet earth.
00:38:26.95\00:38:29.32
Scientists who mathematically
study these kinds of events
00:38:29.35\00:38:32.71
say with some certainty
that before there were ever a
00:38:32.74\00:38:36.44
first billion people here
who'd lived on planet earth,
00:38:36.47\00:38:39.26
it took 5000 years.
00:38:39.29\00:38:41.50
Do you have that now?
00:38:41.53\00:38:42.50
You "A" students are
going to want to write it down.
00:38:42.51\00:38:43.88
It took 5000 years to
produce the first billion people
00:38:44.65\00:38:48.36
here on planet earth.
00:38:48.39\00:38:49.40
The second billion
took only 100 years.
00:38:49.43\00:38:54.22
Now look at that leap.
00:38:54.25\00:38:55.39
From 5000 years to 100
years for the second billion.
00:38:55.42\00:38:59.03
The third billion
took only 35 years.
00:38:59.06\00:39:01.34
The fourth billion took 5 years.
00:39:01.37\00:39:03.65
And the fifth
billion took only 2 years.
00:39:03.68\00:39:07.12
At the present rate of
growth around the world,
00:39:07.15\00:39:09.23
by the year 2020, there
shall be 16-18 billion of us.
00:39:09.26\00:39:14.61
More than we can
possibly feed and clothe.
00:39:14.64\00:39:16.77
And that is from,
that is a fact, a statement
00:39:16.80\00:39:19.21
from the scientists.
00:39:19.24\00:39:20.39
Not from Lyle's library.
00:39:20.42\00:39:22.74
Mike Wallace from 60
Minutes Magazine made this
00:39:22.77\00:39:25.97
report recently,
and I jotted it down.
00:39:26.00\00:39:28.01
He said, "Today
around the world, there are
00:39:28.04\00:39:31.45
1 million new
people every 48 hours. "
00:39:31.48\00:39:35.69
A million folks, new
babies, every 48 hours.
00:39:36.65\00:39:41.66
A few years ago, a group of
scientists formed a think tank.
00:39:42.69\00:39:48.35
They formed a study
group to try to look at the
00:39:48.38\00:39:51.27
problems of pollution
and population explosion.
00:39:51.30\00:39:54.16
And the feeding of humanity
and what the future might hold.
00:39:54.19\00:39:57.38
And they gave themselves
the title, "The Club of Rome"
00:39:57.41\00:40:00.74
because that was sort
of a central meeting place.
00:40:00.77\00:40:03.20
Had nothing to do
with religion or church.
00:40:03.23\00:40:05.13
The Club of Rome,
and I want to read to you
00:40:05.16\00:40:07.98
a little bit of
what they have said.
00:40:08.01\00:40:09.64
They were formed in 1968.
00:40:10.14\00:40:12.21
They're made up of economists,
humanists, civil servants,
00:40:12.24\00:40:15.22
and governors and so forth.
00:40:15.25\00:40:17.81
Now listen, "We members
are united by an overriding
00:40:17.84\00:40:22.65
conviction that the earth's
major problems are so complex
00:40:22.68\00:40:26.97
that traditional
policies are not going
00:40:27.00\00:40:29.06
to be able long to cope. "
00:40:29.09\00:40:30.29
"The trouble," in big caps
now, "WE ARE IN DEEP TROUBLE,
00:40:30.32\00:40:36.10
BIG TROUBLE."
00:40:36.13\00:40:37.46
Massachusetts
Institute of Technology
00:40:37.49\00:40:40.25
recently presented this fact.
00:40:40.28\00:40:41.97
They said, "The
present model that we now study
00:40:42.00\00:40:46.37
of interaction
between the population
00:40:46.40\00:40:48.90
and its
relationship to agriculture,
00:40:48.93\00:40:50.80
industrial
production, natural resources,
00:40:50.83\00:40:53.47
and environmental health and
degradation is frightening. "
00:40:53.50\00:40:58.37
Now these are scientists,
these are not preachers.
00:40:58.40\00:41:00.46
These are not
maniacs who've escaped from a
00:41:00.49\00:41:02.21
looney bin somewhere.
00:41:02.24\00:41:03.66
These are the scientists.
00:41:03.69\00:41:05.52
You know, if a few
years ago, a preacher said
00:41:05.62\00:41:07.84
something like this,
he'd be immediately tagged as
00:41:07.87\00:41:10.07
some kind of a weirdo from a
storefront church down on Main.
00:41:10.10\00:41:13.59
You know?
00:41:13.62\00:41:14.62
But no longer.
00:41:14.65\00:41:15.70
Now the scientists are
saying it, and the men who spent
00:41:15.73\00:41:17.93
years and years
and years studying it.
00:41:17.96\00:41:20.03
And then they go on,
from The Club of Rome,
00:41:20.06\00:41:22.58
to spell down
some of the problems.
00:41:22.61\00:41:24.30
Number 1, too many children.
00:41:24.33\00:41:26.52
Too many children.
00:41:32.50\00:41:33.47
Number 2, agricultural burning.
00:41:33.48\00:41:36.55
Number 3, over consumption.
00:41:38.78\00:41:44.29
And number 4, improper
waste disposal of our household,
00:41:44.32\00:41:47.81
our kitchen garbage.
00:41:47.91\00:41:48.88
Number 5, improper
human waste disposal.
00:41:48.89\00:41:53.17
And that includes the sewer.
00:41:53.20\00:41:55.54
And then number 6,
pesticides and overcrowding.
00:41:55.57\00:42:00.98
And finally, economic
dependence upon growth.
00:42:01.01\00:42:04.50
And what they're saying
is that the economies of the
00:42:04.53\00:42:07.48
industrialized
world's depend upon
00:42:07.51\00:42:10.16
a super abundance of people.
00:42:10.19\00:42:11.88
We must have more people so
we can have more refrigerators.
00:42:11.92\00:42:14.48
And vice versa, you see.
00:42:14.51\00:42:15.57
More people so we can sell more
automobiles, and vice versa.
00:42:15.60\00:42:18.37
And so we're caught in
that catch-22 once again.
00:42:18.40\00:42:21.46
"And it's out of hand,"
say the leaders of the world
00:42:21.49\00:42:23.85
who study this thing.
00:42:23.88\00:42:24.87
Now listen to me.
00:42:25.71\00:42:26.89
I began to speak to you about 11
minutes ago, there's the clock.
00:42:26.92\00:42:29.80
About 11 minutes ago,
I began to talk to you.
00:42:29.83\00:42:32.65
10 minutes ago, in the last
10 minutes, I should better say,
00:42:32.68\00:42:38.96
there have been 565 people born.
00:42:41.16\00:42:43.75
3 per second.
00:42:45.82\00:42:46.84
In the last 10 minutes,
58 have died from hunger,
00:42:49.50\00:42:52.58
from starvation.
00:42:52.61\00:42:53.67
In the last 10
minutes, 327 acres of wild lands
00:42:54.20\00:42:58.39
have been lost.
00:42:58.42\00:42:59.42
1.7 acres per second.
00:42:59.46\00:43:01.95
In the last 10 minutes, 140,893
metric tons of carbon dioxide
00:43:02.39\00:43:07.92
have been released
up into the atmosphere.
00:43:07.95\00:43:10.40
That's 708 tons per second.
00:43:10.43\00:43:15.68
10 minutes ago, since the last
10 minutes, 148,853 metric tons
00:43:16.41\00:43:22.24
of top soil have
been lost by erosion.
00:43:22.27\00:43:25.06
That is 747.5 tons per second.
00:43:25.09\00:43:28.83
Thousands and
thousands of acres of farmland
00:43:29.72\00:43:32.53
in the last short while
have been concreted over.
00:43:32.56\00:43:35.73
Have you folks
noticed that in your area?
00:43:35.76\00:43:37.56
Let me tell you a
little bit about what has
00:43:37.59\00:43:39.17
happened in my home town.
00:43:39.20\00:43:40.60
And I say that kind of loosely
because I haven't lived there
00:43:40.63\00:43:43.88
for a while, but I refer often
to Boise, Idaho as my home town.
00:43:43.91\00:43:47.61
Born nearby and
raised nearby, and lived in
00:43:48.31\00:43:51.39
the city itself
for several years.
00:43:51.42\00:43:53.19
Boise took an explosion, a
growth spurt a few years ago,
00:43:54.87\00:43:58.71
that has continued and
increased at a phenomenal rate.
00:43:58.74\00:44:01.71
They're so far behind
now in their infrastructure,
00:44:01.74\00:44:04.58
in the roads and sewers
and streets and sidewalks
00:44:04.61\00:44:07.96
and schools, that they don't
know if they'll ever catch up.
00:44:07.99\00:44:10.68
Now, the Treasure Valley which
extends from Ontario, Oregon
00:44:11.88\00:44:14.99
out to near Mountain Home,
Idaho is one of the most fertile
00:44:15.02\00:44:19.42
valleys in all of this world.
00:44:19.45\00:44:21.20
I mean, you put a
seed in the ground,
00:44:21.23\00:44:23.60
you give it a little
water, and it's going to grow.
00:44:23.63\00:44:26.49
And grow very, very well.
00:44:26.52\00:44:28.31
And you folks have some
similar soils around here.
00:44:28.34\00:44:30.99
It's volcanic and alluvial, and
it's great and really very good.
00:44:31.02\00:44:34.63
About 4 years
ago, the city of Boise
00:44:38.12\00:44:41.64
surpassed Spokane, Washington.
00:44:41.74\00:44:43.15
Spokane had been the
3rd largest city in the
00:44:43.18\00:44:45.27
Pacific Northwest.
00:44:45.30\00:44:46.27
There was Seattle,
there was Portland,
00:44:46.28\00:44:47.70
and then there was Spokane.
00:44:47.73\00:44:49.02
But 4 years ago,
Boise surpassed Spokane,
00:44:49.42\00:44:52.49
became the 3rd largest.
00:44:52.52\00:44:53.86
18 months ago, Boise
surpassed Olympia, Washington.
00:44:53.89\00:45:00.20
And now it is Seattle
and Portland, and then Boise.
00:45:00.23\00:45:04.40
The third largest city.
00:45:04.43\00:45:06.12
And they have poured
concrete and pavement
00:45:06.15\00:45:08.53
over the most
fertile soil that I have ever
00:45:08.56\00:45:10.95
known in my lifetime.
00:45:10.98\00:45:12.64
And I wonder now when I drive
through the Treasure Valley;
00:45:12.67\00:45:15.80
where in the world are
we going to get our spuds?
00:45:15.83\00:45:17.91
And when you look at
this whole situation from the
00:45:19.83\00:45:22.02
farmers point of view,
you have to be sympathetic.
00:45:22.05\00:45:24.73
You know, they've struggled
and struggled and struggled,
00:45:24.76\00:45:26.99
and worked and worked,
and often they've gone behind
00:45:27.02\00:45:29.84
for that year.
00:45:29.87\00:45:30.84
And they wonder how they're
going to buy the fuel and
00:45:30.85\00:45:33.58
the fertilizer for next year.
00:45:33.61\00:45:35.15
And then someone
comes along and offers them
00:45:35.18\00:45:37.11
millions and millions of
dollars for those few acres,
00:45:37.14\00:45:39.53
you can't blame
them for selling out.
00:45:39.56\00:45:42.05
I read, by the way, about
a farmer in Iowa who'd won
00:45:42.08\00:45:45.27
several million
dollars at the lottery.
00:45:45.30\00:45:47.17
And the reporters went to him,
as reporters often do when such
00:45:47.20\00:45:50.30
good news comes to a
community, and they said to him,
00:45:50.33\00:45:52.46
"What do you plan to
do with all that money?"
00:45:52.49\00:45:54.21
And the guy said, "Well, I
guess I'll just keep farming
00:45:54.24\00:45:56.73
until it's all gone. "
00:45:56.76\00:45:57.97
Scientists from the
Central Institute in New Zealand
00:46:02.86\00:46:04.99
say that the present
global population of 6 billion
00:46:05.02\00:46:09.20
is 30% more than the
earths biological capacity
00:46:09.23\00:46:12.94
to sustain the
present standard of living.
00:46:12.97\00:46:16.28
Growth may not even
be able to be stabilized.
00:46:17.37\00:46:21.28
It's projected to be 10
million in a few short years.
00:46:21.58\00:46:24.62
There are 51 billion
hectares of earth's surface.
00:46:24.65\00:46:28.75
But only 13 billion of these are
arable and suitable for farming.
00:46:28.78\00:46:33.96
3.3 billion are used as
pasture land to feed cattle.
00:46:35.21\00:46:41.00
The world needs to
immediately reduce its
00:46:41.68\00:46:44.13
carbon dioxide
emissions by at least half.
00:46:44.16\00:46:47.46
The United Nations recognized
this desperation and they
00:46:47.49\00:46:50.75
put out the warnings.
00:46:50.78\00:46:52.20
But few, it seems, at
least in the third world,
00:46:52.23\00:46:55.51
are paying any attention.
00:46:55.54\00:46:57.11
And then they go on to say
that the industrialized nations,
00:46:57.14\00:47:02.93
and that includes us, we're
right at the top of the list,
00:47:02.96\00:47:05.15
are the biggest polluters.
00:47:05.18\00:47:06.77
You see again the
conundrum, the catch-22.
00:47:06.80\00:47:09.50
And when a country
becomes industrialized,
00:47:09.53\00:47:12.77
such as now is happening
in China and out in India,
00:47:12.80\00:47:15.06
they pump out more and
more and more pollution.
00:47:15.09\00:47:17.94
And the problem increases,
drastically increases.
00:47:17.97\00:47:20.99
I want to read you
again from the scientists
00:47:21.02\00:47:23.43
of The Club of Rome
only just very briefly.
00:47:23.46\00:47:26.21
I'm going to read it.
00:47:26.71\00:47:28.15
"Changing weather patterns
are reducing permanently
00:47:30.06\00:47:33.98
the amount of arable land
and the growing population is
00:47:34.01\00:47:36.61
simultaneously
demanding more food.
00:47:36.64\00:47:38.52
Water is essential for the
supply of both domestic use
00:47:38.55\00:47:45.11
and agriculture purposes,
and is becoming critical
00:47:45.14\00:47:47.67
in so very many countries.
00:47:47.70\00:47:49.30
Some states are looking for
desalinization as the solution.
00:47:50.73\00:47:53.88
This means pumping water
over long, long distances
00:47:53.91\00:47:58.19
which demands
more electrical power.
00:47:58.22\00:48:00.13
With our growing population,
there is an increasing problem
00:48:00.16\00:48:02.60
of pollution in our
drinking water sources.
00:48:02.63\00:48:05.12
Much power is generated
from oil and natural gas.
00:48:05.15\00:48:08.28
New reserves will
continue to be discovered, but
00:48:08.31\00:48:10.96
recent detailed reports
suggest that we now find
00:48:10.99\00:48:20.83
1 new barrel of oil for
every 4 that we consume. "
00:48:20.86\00:48:24.27
Amazing, amazing.
00:48:24.30\00:48:28.01
"In spite of the best
efforts of technology,
00:48:29.53\00:48:32.28
we have no
alternatives for oil and gas.
00:48:32.31\00:48:34.87
Technology cannot
replace limited resources. "
00:48:34.90\00:48:39.55
I told you folks, I
think a night or two ago,
00:48:39.95\00:48:43.18
but just during the
announcement period,
00:48:43.21\00:48:44.76
that while I was in
Phoenix, Arizona there came
00:48:44.79\00:48:47.10
the announcement that
over in Los Angeles that day
00:48:47.13\00:48:51.43
they began to drink, for
the first time, the water
00:48:51.46\00:48:54.37
that had been in
their toilets 3 days before.
00:48:54.40\00:48:57.72
And they say the water is pure,
and as pure as that which is
00:48:57.75\00:49:00.78
coming down from the
Shasta Mountain snow melt.
00:49:00.81\00:49:03.21
Pure water.
00:49:03.24\00:49:04.52
Some were shocked at
that but it's been happening
00:49:04.55\00:49:07.09
in and around Denver, Colorado
for years and years and years.
00:49:07.12\00:49:09.99
And when I moved to
the Denver area to work,
00:49:10.02\00:49:12.18
it was suggested to me by some
of the folks that I might take
00:49:12.21\00:49:15.45
my cup of drinking water
and hold it up to the light
00:49:15.48\00:49:19.20
and then decide whether or not
I was really all that thirsty.
00:49:19.23\00:49:23.25
Here's one again.
00:49:23.65\00:49:24.99
Here's one for you.
00:49:26.35\00:49:27.52
And this comes from the
scholars over in France.
00:49:27.55\00:49:30.03
"The global economy is using
natural resources faster than
00:49:31.77\00:49:35.49
they can be renewed. "
00:49:35.52\00:49:36.81
This from Lester Brown
of the Washington based
00:49:37.71\00:49:40.00
Earth Policy Institute.
00:49:40.03\00:49:42.39
"We're releasing carbon
dioxide into the atmosphere
00:49:42.89\00:49:45.45
faster than the earth
can begin to absorb it.
00:49:45.48\00:49:47.38
Our economy is
based upon cutting trees
00:49:47.41\00:49:49.79
faster than they can
grow, over pumping aquifers
00:49:49.82\00:49:52.47
and draining rivers,
soil erosion of our crop lands
00:49:52.50\00:49:55.40
exceeds new soil formation.
00:49:55.43\00:49:57.37
We're taking fish from the ocean
faster than they can reproduce.
00:49:57.40\00:50:01.33
We're creating an
economy who's output is inflated
00:50:01.36\00:50:04.38
by drawing down the
earth's national capital.
00:50:04.41\00:50:06.82
The challenge is to deflate
the global economic bubble
00:50:06.85\00:50:09.91
before it bursts with an
effect to the entire world.
00:50:09.94\00:50:13.08
To avoid this, action
has to be taken to reduce
00:50:13.11\00:50:15.80
water consumption
to a sustainable level,
00:50:15.83\00:50:18.35
to address the population of the
world to a point of stability
00:50:18.38\00:50:22.40
in the developing countries, as
well as stabilizing emissions.
00:50:22.43\00:50:27.09
Avoiding the effects of higher
temperatures on crop yields
00:50:27.12\00:50:30.41
means quickly stabilizing
the climate by cutting
00:50:30.44\00:50:33.21
global carbon emissions
in half by at least 2015."
00:50:33.24\00:50:38.29
But those who
are in the know say
00:50:38.32\00:50:39.91
that is quite, quite impossible.
00:50:39.94\00:50:42.88
Bad news, huh?
00:50:44.24\00:50:45.47
Someone said, bad
news travels like wildfire
00:50:46.92\00:50:49.92
while good news travels slow.
00:50:49.95\00:50:53.56
But there is good
news, ladies and gentlemen.
00:50:53.59\00:50:56.32
There is good news.
00:50:57.27\00:50:58.35
One day, our Lord
Himself is going to come
00:50:58.38\00:51:00.66
and purify this earth.
00:51:00.69\00:51:02.74
One day Jesus is going to
come riding down the skies.
00:51:02.77\00:51:06.01
And He's going to bring
an end to all of these things
00:51:06.04\00:51:09.19
that we have
brought upon ourselves,
00:51:09.22\00:51:10.78
or the devil has been in
partnership in bringing upon us.
00:51:10.81\00:51:14.20
I want to elude
quickly to a book now.
00:51:14.23\00:51:16.56
Some of you may
want to go and buy it.
00:51:16.59\00:51:18.34
It's entitled, "Ten
Billion Mouths to Feed"
00:51:18.37\00:51:21.41
and the author
is David Pimentel.
00:51:21.44\00:51:24.21
Listen to him.
00:51:24.24\00:51:25.75
"What will the
world do for fertility
00:51:26.25\00:51:29.13
when petroleum is gone?
00:51:29.16\00:51:31.14
What will happen to
people's crops when the
00:51:31.17\00:51:34.19
over pumped aquifers deplete?
00:51:34.22\00:51:36.66
Hydrologists say
we're running out of water.
00:51:36.69\00:51:39.64
The chemists say
we're running out of air.
00:51:39.67\00:51:41.40
The botanists say
we're running out of food. "
00:51:41.43\00:51:42.98
But Lyle says, the Bible
says we're running out of time.
00:51:43.01\00:51:47.82
We're out of time.
00:51:48.74\00:51:49.87
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen,
while we're gathered here,
00:51:50.79\00:51:53.52
8 million in the third
world are starving to death.
00:51:53.55\00:51:58.59
8 million.
00:51:59.45\00:52:00.82
The Weyerhaeuser company
for whom I worked at a time
00:52:03.70\00:52:06.53
began on the east coast.
00:52:08.12\00:52:09.70
And with their
handsaws, they chopped their way
00:52:10.63\00:52:13.85
through the eastern forests
in a couple of generations.
00:52:13.88\00:52:17.48
And then they
moved to the heartland,
00:52:17.51\00:52:19.99
to Wisconsin and Minnesota.
00:52:20.02\00:52:21.71
And it was said when they moved
there, there was timber enough
00:52:21.74\00:52:24.22
to last forever.
00:52:24.25\00:52:26.15
But within 25 years, they had
cut the majority of the forests
00:52:26.76\00:52:31.00
of mid-America.
00:52:31.20\00:52:32.55
And then they moved
to the Pacific Northwest.
00:52:32.58\00:52:35.15
And when they saw the old
growth and the virgin forests
00:52:35.18\00:52:37.70
of the Pacific Northwest,
the Weyerhaeuser company said,
00:52:37.73\00:52:40.06
"We have timber enough to last
now, indeed, forever and ever.
00:52:40.09\00:52:44.66
We shall never be able to
get ahead of the growth. "
00:52:44.69\00:52:48.62
Well you and I know better.
00:52:48.65\00:52:50.03
We know better.
00:52:50.57\00:52:51.86
And I appreciate
the timber companies,
00:52:51.89\00:52:54.60
Weyerhaeuser and
Boise Cascade and others,
00:52:54.63\00:52:57.13
that are replanting
and that kind of thing.
00:52:57.16\00:52:59.39
But you know folks,
we're really not keeping up.
00:52:59.42\00:53:02.45
We're not keeping up,
we're not getting ahead.
00:53:02.48\00:53:05.03
We're continuing to
destroy our forests.
00:53:05.43\00:53:07.87
Forests that take a lot
of pollution out of the sky
00:53:07.90\00:53:11.15
and make our air so
much better to breathe.
00:53:11.18\00:53:14.05
In Isaiah 51:6, God described
what would happen to this world
00:53:15.27\00:53:19.88
before Jesus comes back.
00:53:19.91\00:53:21.63
He said, "This earth is going
to wax old like a garment. "
00:53:21.66\00:53:26.76
Like your clothes wear out
when they get old and tired.
00:53:26.79\00:53:30.11
And then in Joel 1:17 there God,
through the prophet Joel said
00:53:30.14\00:53:34.60
that in the last days the
seed would rot under the clod.
00:53:34.63\00:53:39.35
And that's happening
all around the world.
00:53:39.38\00:53:41.70
The Gobi Deserts and the
other, the African desert,
00:53:41.73\00:53:44.22
and some of the
South American deserts
00:53:44.25\00:53:46.04
are growing by
acres, multiplied acres.
00:53:46.07\00:53:49.02
Every single day, the deserts
are moving on a march northward.
00:53:49.05\00:53:54.13
Northward still.
00:53:54.16\00:53:56.23
I suggest to us tonight that
instead of putting our minds
00:53:56.64\00:54:01.27
totally upon solutions, and
there's much we can do about it,
00:54:01.30\00:54:04.40
don't get me wrong.
00:54:04.43\00:54:05.53
And there is much
we must do about it
00:54:05.56\00:54:07.62
because we are stewards now.
00:54:07.65\00:54:09.45
But instead of setting
our hearts on this world and
00:54:09.96\00:54:12.65
putting our hope in a fix, I
suggest that we place our minds
00:54:12.68\00:54:18.21
and hearts, like
Abraham did, on the next world.
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Because the apostle Paul, as he
sat in jail and wrote his last
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lesson, would say, "I
look for the blessed hope,
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the glorious
appearing of our great God and
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Savior Jesus Christ. "
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This preacher
tonight wants to say to you,
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I believe it's our only hope.
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He must come again, and
indeed, He's going to do that.
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Get our priorities in order.
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The ostrich syndrome is
not going to work for us.
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We began our first night
with the story of a lady,
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who near her death called in
the pastor and gave instructions
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for her funeral.
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Do you remember? How
many of you were here?
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That was the first night.
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Do you remember, yes?
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And she said, "Pastor, I don't
want to be in my casket with
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my hands over my
chest and folded together.
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No, I want my
hands to be by my side.
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And in my left, I want my Bible.
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And in my right
hand, I want a fork. "
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And the preachers
jaw dropped and he said,
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"What do you mean,
what's with the fork?"
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She said, "Pastor, I
always really get encouraged
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when at the end of the
fellowship dinners at church,
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those who come by to
clear the tables say to me,
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keep your fork.
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Because then I know that
something better is coming. "
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So each of you tonight
again, this preacher would say,
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"Keep your fork. "
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Keep your fork.
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In Psalm 37:25, there
God said through David,
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"I've never seen God's children
going hungry or begging bread. "
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Things are going to get better.
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In John 10:10, Jesus said, "I've
come that you might have life,
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and that more abundantly. "
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So keep your fork.
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In Jeremiah 11:5, God said,
"I'm going to take you to a land
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flowing with milk and honey. "
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Keep your forks now.
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In Isaiah 65:21-22, God
said, in the earth made new
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you're going to plant vineyards
and grow wonderful gardens.
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In Revelations 22:1-4, God
says, "I'm going to take you
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to a place that I have remade.
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And you're going to eat from
the fruit of the tree of life. "
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And then you move
through your Bibles
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to the last three chapters
of the book of Revelation.
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And what do you find?
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You find the earth restored.
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You find in the center of
this restored, remade earth
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the garden of Eden.
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Beautiful as ever it was,
even perhaps, more lovely.
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In the center of the
garden is the tree of life.
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And where in Genesis,
the folks were forbidden
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to eat from the tree, and
the flaming sworded angel stood
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in front to guard it,
it says in the Revelation
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that we shall eat
regularly from the tree.
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And it's fruit is for
the healing of the nations.
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You see my dears,
everything lost in the
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first 3 chapters of
Genesis because of sin,
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is restored in the last 3
of Revelation because of grace.
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And it's not an accident.
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Because in every
passage, in every chapter,
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every book between, you
find God running around,
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And begging, through His
Son and through His prophets,
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"Accept Me, let
Me be your Lord. "
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We thank You, dear
Lord, for Your promise.
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Our hearts could
be worried, upset.
00:57:41.69\00:57:44.78
We could develop diseases; high
blood pressure, hypertension,
00:57:44.81\00:57:49.15
ulcers, as we look at the things
that have come upon the earth.
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You predicted
that in the end time,
00:57:52.50\00:57:54.12
men's hearts would
fail them for fear.
00:57:54.15\00:57:56.21
But then we see and read Your
promise, "I will come again. "
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"I'll restore
everything, even better than
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it was to begin with. "
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Thank You, dear Lord
Jesus. Thank You for Your love.
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Thank You that You've
become the hound of heaven.
00:58:08.49\00:58:10.96
You go into the
cities, into the skyscrapers,
00:58:10.99\00:58:14.30
looking for Your
children and calling them out.
00:58:14.33\00:58:16.54
You go into the
mountains and into the woods
00:58:16.57\00:58:19.39
and into the
wildernesses seeking Your own.
00:58:19.42\00:58:22.04
Calling them, "Come to Me. "
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"I want to restore to
you the best of everything. "
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Thank You tonight.
In Jesus' name, amen.
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