My wife and I did a
Revelation Now in Havana, Cuba.
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One of the
first Protestant teams
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to preach the gospel in Cuba.
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And every morning we would go
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to take our morning
walk, to get a little exercise
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and it wasn't
long until I noticed
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that almost every single person
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walked along the side
walk with their heads down.
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Rarely would
someone be looking up.
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Every once in a while, we
would see someone looking up.
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When we did, I saw
what I called hollow eyes,
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emptiness, nothingness, despair
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because they had no
hope for anything better.
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And, you know, the disturbing
thing about that to me
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is that I'm beginning
to see those hollowed eyes,
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right in our own country.
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People living without a hope.
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Just this
morning I saw in the news
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economy looses 85,000 more jobs
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as the economists
were disappointed,
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they're expecting
it to show growth.
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The sharp drop in the
work force 661,000 fewer people
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showed that more of
the jobless are giving up.
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You see the 10% unemployment
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only shows those who
are trying to find the job.
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Once you give up and
quit trying to find the job,
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you don't count anymore.
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It should be in
17% instead of 10.
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But people are giving up,
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giving up
because they have no hope
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fear striking the
hearts of men and women.
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Just last October Gordon Brown
of the United Kingdom said,
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he warned that "The UK
faces a catastrophe of floods,
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droughts and killer heatwaves
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if the world fails to agree
on a deal on climate change.
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Negotiators had 50 days to save
the world from global warming.
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They are afraid, men
and women are afraid,
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afraid of climate change,
afraid of global warming,
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afraid of the economy,
afraid of homelessness,
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afraid of loosing
jobs, afraid of swine's flu.
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I remember one of my neighbors.
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He happens to be the
editor of the local newspaper.
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After Katrina, after tsunami,
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after Katrina, after
almost every disaster,
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he says, "Jac, what's going on?"
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Does the Bible have anything
to say about this? It's scary.
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And I said the Bible
does have something to say.
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You need to come
to Revelation Now.
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Scary, the disciples ask
Jesus, what are the signs--
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how we're gonna
know when the end comes?
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And Jesus said in Luke 21.
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He said, "You'll
see these signs."
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Verse 10, "Nation
will rise up against nation
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and kingdom against kingdom
and there will be earthquakes
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and famines and
pestilences in various places,
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and fearful events and
great signs from the heavens."
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Mathew said these are just
beginning of the birth pains.
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There will be signs in the sun,
the moon, the stars, the earth,
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the nations will be in aguish,
perplexity at the roaring
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and the tossing of the
seas, sounds like tsunamis,
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sounds like hurricanes,
sounds like Katrina's.
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Men will faint from terror,
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apprehensive of what
is coming on the world
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for even the heavenly
bodies will be shaken.
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Jesus said, "There will
be disaster after disaster,
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war after war,
nations after nations."
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The Bible is telling
us that we should expect
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something terribly
wrong with our planet
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and look around,
you're seeing it.
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Now lot of these things have
been going on for a lot of times
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and that doesn't
mean that these are prove
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that Jesus is coming right now.
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He said, it's like birth pains
coming on to a pregnant women.
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Birth pains take time
and everyone is a reminder
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that, yes, it hurts now but
it's going to get better later.
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And everyone
getting closer and closer
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and more and
more intense remind us
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that we're getting
closer and closer to the end.
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It is going to be bad,
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bad things are gonna happen
Jesus said, but there's hope.
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And that brings us to
the last book of the Bible.
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In fact the last
chapter of the last book.
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In Revelation 22, Jesus says,
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three times with
steadfast firmness,
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He says, "Behold,
verse 7, I'm coming soon.
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Blessed is the one who
keeps the words of this book."
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Verse 12, "Behold, I am
coming soon," Jesus said.
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Verse 20, "He who
testifies to these things
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says, 'Yes, I am coming soon.'"
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Amen. Come, Lord Jesus.
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The bad news is that
things are getting worse
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and worse and worse.
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The good news is that
Jesus is coming soon, amen.
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He is coming soon.
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And more and more
people are becoming aware
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of the fact that
Jesus is coming soon.
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Millions of people are beginning
to turn to faith in Jesus.
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But I know also the Bible says
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in the last days
there will be scoffers.
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In 2 Peter 3:3, "First
of all, you must understand,
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in the last days
scoffers will come,
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scoffing and following
their own evil desires.
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They will say, "Where is this
'coming' that you have promised?
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Where is this 'coming?'
Jesus hasn't come yet."
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Church, you have been
saying for 2000 years,
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Jesus is coming soon not
here yet, I don't see Him.
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The astronaut Yuri Gagarin
years ago flying up in space
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looked out of
his capsule and said,
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"I didn't see God out there."
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Where is this
coming? They're skeptics?
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Maybe you can write
here in your own town.
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If there are any
skeptics, I hope you're here
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because I've got
good news for you.
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Jesus is coming again
and you can know that.
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You can know without a doubt
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that we are
living in the end times
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that this is the word of God
and that Jesus is coming soon.
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But you know
sometimes we do things.
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Now I don't want you
to get the wrong idea,
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I don't make it a
habit of buying these.
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I call them grocery
store scandal sheets.
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I didn't buy
this one, my wife did.
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She brought it because she
knew, I would want it those.
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Several years, 10 years ago,
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over 10 years ago
now, July 20, 1999.
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The world will end in the
year 2001, Bible scholars.
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Did you hear about
that? Sure, you did.
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All over the place
leading up to 2001.
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Look at the headlines here.
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Caution to readers, the
message is published inside
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warned about
the end of the world
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and they maybe
terrifying to some people,
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be careful when
sharing it with others.
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So I'm trying to be careful
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if you don't' want to
hear this, plug up your ears.
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The world will end in the
year 2001, Bible scholars.
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Look at that, 12 of them.
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Twelve top clergymen tell,
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why the world must
end by the year 2000.
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No wonder my wife
brought this for me.
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And I began to read through
this Reverent Roger Clairpool,
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chairman of the Anglican
Institute for Bible study.
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He should know careful reading
of the Book of Revelation
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makes it clear
that doomsday will occur
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at the end of the second
millennium, the year 2000.
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Here is another one,
Father Vincent Donatello.
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librarian at the
Vatican, surely, he should know.
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The Book of Revelation indicates
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the world will
end in the year 2000.
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Twelve scholars,
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Dr. Hameed
Saeed, Islamic minister.
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Professor Joan
merchant of Tulsa, Oklahoma,
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Rabbi Herzl Rosenblum,
author of Interpreting
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the Dead Sea Scrolls.
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The Jewish scholar says,
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the world will
end in the year 2000.
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But here is my favorite one.
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My favorite one,
Professor Huang Trang Wa,
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Buddhist monk and special envoy
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of the Dalai Lama
in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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The Dalai Lama has told me
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that the world will
end by the year 2000.
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Someone asked him, what
should we do to be prepared?
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And the word from the Dalai Lama
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through
Professor Huang Trang Wa,
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you gonna like this.
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Except Jesus
Christ as your savior
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even if Jesus was not really God
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it's no harm in
hedging your bets.
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Folks, you don't
have to hedge your bets.
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Jesus is God. This is His word.
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I'm gonna prove it to you.
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But how can 12 Bible
scholars get it so wrong.
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How can they get it so
wrong? They make two mistakes.
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First of all
Jesus said, no man knows
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the time when
He's going to come.
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So I don't care if they're a PhD
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or any kind of diddly bop
at all behind their names.
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If they say that the
Bible teaches the world will end
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by the year 2000 or 2010 or 2020
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or whenever they're
wrong because no man knows.
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But the second reason is that
many people don't understand.
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Revelation is not
like any other book.
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But Revelation
is written in code
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and you have to know
how to crack the code.
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But the problem is that
so many people are trying
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so many different
methods of cracking the code
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when the answer to the code
is found in the book itself.
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I'm gonna show you nine keys
to understanding Revelation.
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It begins with these very words
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that give us the
most important secret.
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It begins with the words
the Revelation of Jesus Christ.
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So that tells me
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that the Book of
Revelation reveals Jesus Christ.
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He's the center of the book.
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The hero of the
Book of Revelation
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is not the beast, it's the Lamb.
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Everybody wants to
know about the beast.
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Everybody wants to know
about the Mark and those 666
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and the false
prophet and Armageddon.
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Everybody wants to
know about these thing,
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but it won't do you any
good to know about the Beast
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and the Mark and Armageddon,
if you don't know the Lamb.
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The Book of Revelation is
the revelation of Jesus Christ,
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the Lamb of God and
you need to know Him first.
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So all of the
prophecies must center through
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and pass through Jesus Christ,
if you want to get them right.
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And then the second key
to understanding Revelation
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and this one is
almost always overlooked.
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But I have a scholar
friend in the seminaries,
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written a lot of
books on Revelation
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and studied it for 35 years.
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And he has found that
the Book of Revelation,
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the last Book in the
Bible quotes refers to
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or alludes to the Old Testament
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over 600 times, over 600 times.
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In fact a friend in Australia
just published the new Bible
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where he highlights
all of the references
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in Revelation to
the Old Testament.
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He claims they're
over 900 allusions
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or references to
the Old Testament.
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Now I don't know about that,
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haven't had time to
check them all out yet,
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but I'm sure
about 600, 600 times.
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Now for those of you that are
not to up to speed on the Bible,
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the Bible has two main sections.
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The Old Testament
and the New Testament.
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The Old Testament
consists of 39 books
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that were written
before Jesus came.
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The New Testament
consists of 27 books
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that were
written after Jesus came,
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that's the
difference between the two.
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66 books, 37 of them
in the Old Testament.
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The Book of Revelation quotes
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those Old Testament
texts over 600 times.
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So here's the key.
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You have to have a
foundation in the Old Testament
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if you ever going to understand
the Book of Revelation.
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Every three verses
in Revelation quotes
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or alludes to the Old
Testament at least two times.
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So you have to know something
about the Old Testament.
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And then the third key.
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No private
interpretation allowed.
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All of the interpretations
you read from the enquirer
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were private interpretations.
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The only kind of
interpretation I'm interested in
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is the one that God
intended for us to get.
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Well, how can you be
sure that you're doing it?
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By letting the
Bible interpret itself.
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Oh, how do you let the Bible
interpret itself? It's easy.
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Just compare
scripture with scripture.
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Line up all the Bible
verses that talk about the topic
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that you're
studying and you watch,
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they all point in one direction
and that is to Jesus Christ.
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So let's put these principles
together and start using them.
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I'm gonna start with one
of the most difficult themes
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in the Book of
Revelation, just a little order,
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just a little
introduction, Revelation 16.
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In Revelation
16, the Bible says,
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verse 19. "The great
city split into three parts,
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the cities of
the nations collapsed
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and God
remembered Babylon the Great
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and gave her the
cup filled with the wine
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of the fury of His wrath."
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Now God is not happy
with Babylon for some reason.
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Why and what is the meaning of
Babylon and the fall of Babylon?
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What does it care
about us? Why do we care?
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These are questions
that you're gonna understand
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as we dig in to Revelation now.
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Remember the Book
of Revelation quotes
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or alludes to the Old
Testament over how many times?
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600. Over 600 times.
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So that's one of
the places, let's go.
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One of my favorite spot to
talk about the fall of Babylon,
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Daniel, the Book of Daniel.
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So turn there to Daniel 1.
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In the first chapter
you're gonna discover
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Daniel in Revelation go together
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like a hand
fitting into a glove.
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Daniel 1:1. "In the third
year of the reign of Jehoiakim
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the king of Judah,
that's Gods people.
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Nebuchadnezzar,
the king of Babylon
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came to
Jerusalem and besieged it.
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The Lord delivered--''
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Now notice God is
doing something here.
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"The Lord delivered Jehoiakim,
the king of Judah into his hand,
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along with some of the
articles from the temple of God.
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And he took these
articles, golden cups,
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he took them back to Babylon
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and put them in the
treasure house of his God."
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So what's happening?
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This wicked pagan
wild king, Nebuchadnezzar,
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who had nothing to do with God
sent his armies to Jerusalem.
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They captured the city.
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But even worse than
that, they captured the people
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and even worse they
captured the temple of God
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and went into the
temple and took some cups
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that God had said were holy
and brought them back to Babylon
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and put them in
the Babylonian temple
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and used them to drink
to the Babylonian gods.
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That was the
ultimate insult in your face
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attack to the power
of the Most High God.
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And the people
believed in those days
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that when one nation came in
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and attacked another
nation and defeated it,
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that was the proof
that that nation's God
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was stronger then the other God.
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So picture in
your mind, God's people
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the people of
the all mighty God,
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captive, walking on
burning hot desert sands
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to Babylon leaving
their homes in rubbles,
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leaving everything
behind, prisoners in Babylon.
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What do you
think they are thinking
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as they walk through the desert?
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I will tell you
what they were thinking.
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They're thinking, where is God,
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where is God, people
are wondering that today.
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We did Revelation Now
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on the Soviet Union
on the eastern edge.
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A lady came up to me and said,
you know, about 50 years ago,
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the German armies
came in through here
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and they took my son,
he was only 18 years old.
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And they made him join the army
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and march to
fight against the Russia
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and I have been praying
for my son for 50 years now
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and your God has never answered.
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Tell me where is God?
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Cuba, the folks that we were
staying with in their homes,
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said, we have been
praying for 40 years
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that God would deliver us
from this horrible dictator.
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Where is God?
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Have you ever
wondered where is God?
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Cancer strikes, planes
crash into the twin towers,
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where was God?
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He could have
prevented that, couldn't He?
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Where was God
when that happened?
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It seems like no time when
the twinkle in the bride's eye
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turns to tears
in a divorce court,
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where is God?
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A baby dies before he has
time to take his first breathe,
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where is God?
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Have you ever
wondered, where is God today?
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Unemployment
soars, foreclosures soar,
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people are loosing their
jobs, loosing their homes,
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loosing their family, destitute,
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hungry and
homeless. Where is God?
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That's what they were wondering
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as they wondered through
the desert sands, captive.
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But there's always a little
glimmer of hope in the darkness
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when you study God's word.
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God is the God who can
turn defeat in the victory,
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did you know that?
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And there were four young men
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Daniel, Shadrack,
Meshach, Abednego,
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they were among
those taken captive.
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The king saw something in them.
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God impressed him to
see something in them.
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And verse 5 tells
us, that they were
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to be trained for three years
and enter the king service.
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The king assigned
them daily amounts
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of food and wine
from the king's table.
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So these four young men
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are ray of lightness
coming into the darkness.
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They were selected to be trained
to serve in the king's court.
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But the problem was
they had to eat at his table
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and there were
things on the table
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that God had asked them
not to eat and not to drink.
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What would you do if
you were the guest of a king
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and you sat at his
table and he says eat
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and there were things
there that God said not to eat.
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And he says drink and
there were things there
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that God said not to drink.
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What would you do
if you were there?
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But Daniel, the Bible
tells us purposed in his heart
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to stay faithful
to God, in verse 8.
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He trusted God and
so he said in verse 10.
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We don't want to eat some
of those things at the table.
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Can you give us
permission not to eat that?
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And the God says, "Well, no."
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He says, "I am
afraid of my lord the king,
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who has assigned
your food and drink.
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Why he would see you looking
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worse than the
other men your age?
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And because of that
he would have my head
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because of you, eat it.
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Now what are they gonna do?
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Sooner something really
neat happening in verses 9.
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God calls the official to show
favor and sympathy to Daniel.
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You see God isn't just a
God up there and we're down here
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but God interacts, He
intervenes in our lives.
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He can set things up for us
just like He did for Daniel.
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I'm gonna show
you how He does that.
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And so Daniel in
bold and said in verse 12,
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"Test us for ten days.
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Give us nothing
but vegetables to eat
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and water to drink and see,
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ten days and he
said, okay, ten days."
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Verse 15, "At the
end of the ten days
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they looked
healthier and better nourished
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than any of the young
men who ate the king's food."
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Now I want to tell you,
Gods way is always the best way.
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Amen. God's way is best.
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When God says
something you can trust Him.
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Daniel trusted
Him. You can trust Him.
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God's ways is the best,
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no matter what you'll see
on T.V except Revelation Now.
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No matter what you
read in the news paper.
00:24:16.78\00:24:19.61
No matter what
anybody tells you,
00:24:19.64\00:24:21.28
God's way is the best way.
00:24:21.31\00:24:27.82
The were wiser then
the rest of the men.
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Verse 17, "To
these four young men
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God gave knowledge
and understanding."
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You see God will
do things for us.
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Verse 18, "At the end of
the time set by the king,
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they were to appear before Him."
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Final exam time and in
every matter, verse 20.
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"In every matter of
wisdom and understanding
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about which the
king questioned them,
00:24:49.35\00:24:50.60
he found them ten times
better than all the magicians,
00:24:50.63\00:24:54.22
wise man,
enchanters in his kingdom.'
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Would you like to
be ten times wiser
00:24:56.42\00:24:59.05
then the wisest people on earth?
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You can be if
you too like Daniel
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purpose in your
heart to trust God.
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Now in Chapter 2 we're
gonna look at some of the wisdom
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that will be good for the world
leaders today to understand.
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I call it God's road map
00:25:17.78\00:25:21.91
to help us navigate
through the confusion
00:25:21.94\00:25:25.58
and the morass that
we see around us today.
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Daniel 2:1. "In the
second year of his reign
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Nebuchadnezzar had a
dream, his mind was troubled."
00:25:34.19\00:25:36.71
So he called his magicians,
his wise men, his astrologers,
00:25:36.74\00:25:39.74
tell me what my dream
was and interpret it for me?
00:25:39.77\00:25:42.83
So they got their
crystal balls out,
00:25:42.86\00:25:45.17
they plotted, they got
their charts of the stars
00:25:45.20\00:25:47.94
and they got their tarot cards
00:25:47.97\00:25:49.58
and whatever out say
wanted to bring out to the table
00:25:49.61\00:25:52.49
and they pondered over them
00:25:52.52\00:25:54.08
but they couldn't
come up with the dream.
00:25:54.11\00:25:55.87
So they finally
went to the king.
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Tell us what the dream is
00:25:57.27\00:25:58.36
and we'll tell you
the interpretation.
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Oh, I know you guys.
00:26:00.39\00:26:02.34
If I tell you the dream,
you'll make up an interpretation
00:26:02.37\00:26:04.59
and I won't know that is true.
00:26:04.62\00:26:06.99
So tell me the dream
00:26:07.02\00:26:08.64
and then I will know that
the interpretation is true.
00:26:08.67\00:26:11.48
If not I would just
cut you up in little pieces
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How do you like to
live in a place like that?
00:26:14.53\00:26:19.30
Well, they couldn't tell
him even though they boasted
00:26:19.33\00:26:21.84
they would be able to
do all of these things.
00:26:21.87\00:26:23.68
They couldn't do it.
00:26:23.71\00:26:26.80
King ordered them to
be all chopped into pieces
00:26:26.83\00:26:29.38
and finally, Daniel said,
00:26:29.41\00:26:32.08
make an appointment
with the king for me.
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Now Daniel did not know
the dream when he did that.
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He didn't know the
dream but Daniel knew God.
00:26:39.44\00:26:47.41
Make an appointment for me.
So they made an appointment.
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And the Bible tells us
Daniel went home and prayed,
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I believe that,
in his three friends
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Shadrach, Meshach,
Abednego, they prayed,
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just listen to a little
piece of this prayer, verse 20.
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"Praise be to the name
of God for ever and ever,
00:27:02.50\00:27:05.25
wisdom and power are his.
00:27:05.28\00:27:07.04
He changes times and seasons;
00:27:07.07\00:27:09.24
he sets up kings
and deposes them.
00:27:09.27\00:27:11.66
He gives wisdom to the wise,
knowledge to the discerning.
00:27:11.69\00:27:14.80
He reveals deep
and hidden things.
00:27:14.83\00:27:21.03
Praise be to the name of God."
00:27:21.06\00:27:25.63
God knows everything
and all power is His.
00:27:25.66\00:27:32.78
God can do anything.
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And He doesn't ask
you to accept it blindly.
00:27:37.20\00:27:41.64
But in Daniel 2 is
ample proof for anyone
00:27:41.67\00:27:46.13
who really wants the
answer to that question.
00:27:46.16\00:27:52.24
He gives wisdom to the wise,
knowledge to the discerning.
00:27:52.27\00:27:55.99
He reveals deepen
and hidden secrets.
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I'm gonna show you how
to tap in to that power.
00:28:00.49\00:28:05.49
To probe into those
deep and hidden secrets,
00:28:05.52\00:28:08.25
experience it in your own life.
00:28:08.28\00:28:10.76
And those of you
that are watching on TV
00:28:10.79\00:28:12.97
be sure you check
the television record,
00:28:13.00\00:28:15.00
see when we are
on again next time,
00:28:15.03\00:28:16.56
put a circle around that day,
00:28:16.59\00:28:18.09
you're not
gonna want to miss it.
00:28:18.12\00:28:25.30
So he goes into the
king and the king asked him,
00:28:25.33\00:28:28.78
tell me the dream are you able?
00:28:28.81\00:28:31.38
And Daniel replied in verse 27.
00:28:31.41\00:28:34.76
"No wise man,
magician, enchanter diviner
00:28:34.79\00:28:37.81
can explain to the king
00:28:37.84\00:28:39.09
the mystery that
he has asked about,
00:28:39.12\00:28:41.98
but there is a God in
heaven who reveals mysteries
00:28:42.01\00:28:47.78
and He has shown
King Nebuchadnezzar
00:28:47.81\00:28:50.45
what will happen
in the days to come."
00:28:50.48\00:28:53.37
No man can tell you, O king
00:28:53.40\00:28:55.16
but there is a God in
heaven and He can tell you.
00:28:55.19\00:29:01.03
He didn't go in there and said,
00:29:01.06\00:29:02.09
oh, I'm so much
smarter then these magicians.
00:29:02.12\00:29:05.83
He gave all the glory to God.
00:29:05.86\00:29:09.79
And then He began
to tell him the dream.
00:29:09.82\00:29:11.66
I want you to watch this.
00:29:11.69\00:29:13.95
Just picture in your
mind what Nebuchadnezzar saw,
00:29:13.98\00:29:17.36
verse 31, "You looked, O king,
00:29:17.39\00:29:19.42
and there before
you was a large statue,
00:29:19.45\00:29:23.41
dazzling,
awesome in appearance."
00:29:23.44\00:29:25.32
Can you see it a big tall
statue awesome in appearance.
00:29:25.35\00:29:29.26
Verse 32 "The head of the
statue was made of pure gold."
00:29:29.29\00:29:33.00
Look at it big
statue, pure gold head
00:29:33.03\00:29:36.21
shining in the
sun, get it in focus.
00:29:36.24\00:29:38.55
"The head of your
statue, pure gold,
00:29:38.58\00:29:40.65
its chest and arms with
silver, flashing in the sun,
00:29:40.68\00:29:44.13
belly and thighs were
bronze, the legs of iron,
00:29:44.16\00:29:47.65
and its feet were
partly iron and partly clay.
00:29:47.68\00:29:50.75
And while you were
watching that image,
00:29:50.78\00:29:53.84
a rock was cut out,
but not by human hands.
00:29:53.87\00:29:58.08
And that rock struck
the statue on its feet
00:29:58.11\00:30:00.61
of iron and clay
and it smashed them.
00:30:00.64\00:30:02.71
And the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver
00:30:02.74\00:30:04.41
and the gold were broken
to pieces at the same time
00:30:04.44\00:30:07.41
and they became like chaff on
a thrashing floor in the summer.
00:30:07.44\00:30:11.63
The wind swept them
away without leaving a trace.
00:30:11.66\00:30:14.76
But the rock
that smash the image,
00:30:14.79\00:30:18.04
that rock became a huge mountain
that filled the whole earth."
00:30:18.07\00:30:22.82
That's it, Nebuchadnezzar
says, that's exactly what I saw.
00:30:22.85\00:30:25.71
Now tell me what it means.
00:30:25.74\00:30:26.77
Did you see a big
image, a head of gold,
00:30:26.80\00:30:29.24
the breast and arms of silver,
body and thighs of bronze,
00:30:29.27\00:30:31.96
legs of iron,
feet of iron and clay.
00:30:31.99\00:30:34.30
And the big rock comes
and it smashes that image.
00:30:34.33\00:30:38.17
All the nations and
it becomes big enough
00:30:38.20\00:30:41.55
to fill the whole
earth. That's what I saw.
00:30:41.58\00:30:47.05
Now what does it mean
00:30:47.08\00:30:50.07
and Daniel gives
in the interpretation.
00:30:50.10\00:30:53.04
Look at it with me verse 36.
00:30:53.07\00:30:56.55
"This is the dream, now we
will interpret it to the king.
00:30:56.58\00:30:59.76
You, O' king, are
the king of kings.
00:30:59.79\00:31:02.55
The God of heaven
has given you dominion
00:31:02.58\00:31:04.64
and might and power,
you are the head of gold."
00:31:04.67\00:31:08.24
Oh, Nebuchadnezzar
like that interpretation
00:31:08.27\00:31:10.68
well, his chest was sticking
out his buttons popping off.
00:31:10.71\00:31:14.24
I'm the head of gold.
00:31:14.27\00:31:17.55
He represented
his kingdom Babylon.
00:31:17.58\00:31:22.47
He was the head of gold,
the king over all the kings.
00:31:22.50\00:31:27.42
Babylon did rule.
00:31:27.45\00:31:29.79
Practically the entire
civilized world at that time.
00:31:29.82\00:31:33.95
Nebuchadnezzar like
that interpretation.
00:31:33.98\00:31:37.30
605 B.C, Babylon
captured God's people
00:31:37.33\00:31:41.39
and that established him over
to the even the people of God.
00:31:41.42\00:31:46.94
But he didn't like
what came next, verse 39.
00:31:46.97\00:31:50.66
"After you, another kingdom
will rise inferior to yours.
00:31:50.69\00:31:53.43
Next, a third
kingdom, one of bronze,
00:31:53.46\00:31:55.21
will rule over the whole earth.
00:31:55.24\00:31:56.55
Finally, there will
be a fourth kingdom,
00:31:56.58\00:31:57.98
as strong as iron."
00:31:58.01\00:31:59.40
So the head of gold the
breast and arms of silver,
00:31:59.43\00:32:02.20
the body and torso of
bronze, the legs of iron.
00:32:02.23\00:32:04.97
They all represent kingdoms
00:32:05.00\00:32:06.91
that will dominate and rule over
God's people and over the earth.
00:32:06.94\00:32:14.42
We know the head of
gold symbolized Babylon,
00:32:14.45\00:32:16.59
so who's next?
00:32:16.62\00:32:18.78
I could tell you who's next,
00:32:18.81\00:32:20.94
but you see that
would be my interpretation.
00:32:20.97\00:32:23.89
Remember we need to let
the Bible interpret itself
00:32:23.92\00:32:26.29
and we compare
scripture with scripture.
00:32:26.32\00:32:29.69
And so hold your
place in Daniel 2
00:32:29.72\00:32:31.42
and let's find out who's next.
00:32:31.45\00:32:32.82
Who is symbolized by that
breast and arms of silver?
00:32:32.85\00:32:36.28
And we go to the
fifth chapter of Daniel
00:32:36.31\00:32:39.61
at the end of Daniel
5:30, that night Belshazzar,
00:32:39.64\00:32:43.82
now
Nebuchadnezzar by now had died.
00:32:43.85\00:32:45.96
His son Belshazzar was the king.
00:32:45.99\00:32:48.16
"Belshazzar, king of
the Babylonians was slain,
00:32:48.19\00:32:51.82
and Darius the Mede
took over the kingdom,
00:32:51.85\00:32:54.48
at the age of sixty-two."
00:32:54.51\00:32:56.09
So the Bible tells us that
Babylon was overthrown by Mede
00:32:56.12\00:33:00.86
and Mede joined
together with Persia
00:33:00.89\00:33:03.27
was a Medo-Persian empire.
00:33:03.30\00:33:06.19
And that's exactly
the way it happened.
00:33:06.22\00:33:08.82
History confirms
in the year 538 B.C.
00:33:08.85\00:33:13.05
Medo-Persia overthrew
the Babylonians umpire
00:33:13.08\00:33:15.95
and ruled over God's people,
00:33:15.98\00:33:17.87
just the way God
said it would happen.
00:33:17.90\00:33:21.98
Well, then, what is
symbolized by the torso,
00:33:22.01\00:33:25.81
the body of bronze
and the thighs of bronze.
00:33:25.84\00:33:28.67
The third kingdom, who is that?
00:33:28.70\00:33:30.90
I could tell you but we're not
interested in my interpretation.
00:33:30.93\00:33:34.31
We want God's interpretations,
00:33:34.34\00:33:35.89
so let's apply
the principle again
00:33:35.92\00:33:37.86
compare scripture
with scripture, Daniel 8.
00:33:37.89\00:33:40.88
And there it is, in Chapter 8:4.
00:33:40.91\00:33:43.28
"A ram charging to the west."
00:33:43.31\00:33:45.21
Verse 5, "A goat with a
big horn between his eyes
00:33:45.24\00:33:48.65
came from the west and
he charged towards that ram
00:33:48.68\00:33:52.02
and trample the ram under
his feet and then the goat--
00:33:52.05\00:33:56.60
verse 8, became very great,
00:33:56.63\00:33:58.80
but at the height of his power
that large horn was broken off,
00:33:58.83\00:34:03.15
and in its place four
prominent horns grew up
00:34:03.18\00:34:05.63
toward the four
winds of heaven."
00:34:05.66\00:34:07.28
So now we see this goat
symbolizing the third kingdom
00:34:07.31\00:34:11.42
trampling the Medes and
the Persians under foot.
00:34:11.45\00:34:14.53
Who is that goat?
Well, the Bible tells us.
00:34:14.56\00:34:17.54
verse 20, "The
two-horned ram that you saw
00:34:17.57\00:34:20.21
represents the
kings of Media and Persia.
00:34:20.24\00:34:22.75
The shaggy goat
the king of Greece."
00:34:22.78\00:34:25.80
And so now the
third kingdom is Greece
00:34:25.83\00:34:27.80
and the large horn between
his eyes is the first king.
00:34:27.83\00:34:30.75
You know, everyone
knows the first king
00:34:30.78\00:34:33.36
of Greece was
Alexander the Great,
00:34:33.39\00:34:35.99
the big horn between his eyes,
00:34:36.02\00:34:37.85
but it was broken off
at the peak of its power.
00:34:37.88\00:34:40.85
32 years old Alexander conquered
all that he could conquer.
00:34:40.88\00:34:44.80
Nothing more to
do, turn to alcohol,
00:34:44.83\00:34:47.20
died in the drunken
stupor at the peak of his power.
00:34:47.23\00:34:50.22
The horn broke off
exactly the way the Bible said
00:34:50.25\00:34:53.37
it would happened
hundred of years in advance
00:34:53.40\00:34:56.48
God knows the future,
00:34:56.51\00:34:58.59
God reveals the
future and here's the proof.
00:34:58.62\00:35:06.59
That horn was broken off,
00:35:06.62\00:35:08.27
four little horns
came up in its place,
00:35:08.30\00:35:10.71
dividing the kingdom of
Greece among his four generals,
00:35:10.74\00:35:13.76
Cassander, Lysimachus,
Seleucas and Ptolemy,
00:35:13.79\00:35:16.29
just the way it
said would happen.
00:35:16.32\00:35:17.86
Now Greece is
weakened and weakened Greece
00:35:17.89\00:35:21.45
paves the way for
that fourth kingdom,
00:35:21.48\00:35:23.99
the iron legs as
every school child knows
00:35:24.02\00:35:28.48
the iron monarchy of Rome.
00:35:28.51\00:35:33.15
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece, Rome rising and falling
00:35:33.18\00:35:39.79
just exactly the way the
Bible said it was gonna happen.
00:35:39.82\00:35:43.42
By 169 B.C Rome rose to power
dominating over Gods people
00:35:43.45\00:35:51.42
and ruling practically
the entire civilized world.
00:35:52.44\00:35:58.42
But it is not over yet.
There's more in the prophecy.
00:35:58.45\00:36:03.16
Verse 41, "Just as you
saw the feet and the toes
00:36:03.19\00:36:05.77
were partly baked
clay and partly iron,
00:36:05.80\00:36:07.64
so this will be
a divided kingdom."
00:36:07.67\00:36:11.42
In verse 42, "As the toes were
partly iron and partly clay."
00:36:11.45\00:36:14.99
So here is a divided kingdom,
divided into the ten toes.
00:36:15.02\00:36:21.88
And we know, history confirms
the massive barbarian invasions
00:36:21.91\00:36:27.84
dividing the mighty Roman empire
00:36:27.87\00:36:31.32
into the nations that
today have become Europe.
00:36:31.35\00:36:36.63
The Vandals, the Ostrogoths,
the Heruli, the Alemanni,
00:36:36.66\00:36:39.90
Anglo-Saxons, the Burgundians,
the Suevi, the Visigoths,
00:36:39.93\00:36:42.97
the Franks
swarmed over the empire.
00:36:43.00\00:36:47.19
Three of those the
Vandals, the Ostrogoths,
00:36:47.22\00:36:49.13
and the Heruli were uprooted
and taken out of the way.
00:36:49.16\00:36:53.85
But the Anglo-Saxons
settled in the England
00:36:53.88\00:36:56.39
and the goths in Spain,
00:36:56.42\00:36:59.22
forming the modern nations
of Europe as we know it today.
00:36:59.25\00:37:02.61
Hundreds of years in advance,
God said there would be Babylon,
00:37:02.64\00:37:07.25
Medo-Persia, Greece,
Rome and Rome would be divided
00:37:07.28\00:37:11.10
and precisely the way God
said it would happen, it did.
00:37:11.13\00:37:16.30
You can trust the Bible,
00:37:16.33\00:37:17.98
you can trust
God's word, it's true.
00:37:18.01\00:37:22.48
And some say,
well, how do we know
00:37:22.51\00:37:23.90
it was written
hundreds of years in it?
00:37:23.93\00:37:25.65
Hold on, I'm coming to that
00:37:25.68\00:37:29.18
because the prophecy isn't
over yet, there's still more.
00:37:29.21\00:37:33.18
Look, verse 43, "Just as you saw
the iron mixed with baked clay,
00:37:33.21\00:37:38.29
so the people will be a mixture
00:37:38.32\00:37:39.66
but they will
not remain united."
00:37:39.69\00:37:42.19
Now, I like the way
00:37:42.22\00:37:43.25
the King James
Version says it there,
00:37:43.28\00:37:45.40
it says there will not
cleave one into another.
00:37:45.43\00:37:48.33
They will mix, they will mingle
but they won't stick together.
00:37:48.36\00:37:53.13
Up until that
time there was Babylon,
00:37:53.16\00:37:55.07
Medo-Persia, Greece and Rome.
00:37:55.10\00:37:56.61
169, Rome rose to power
and then by the year 496 A.D
00:37:56.64\00:38:01.32
the massive barbarian
invasions were complete.
00:38:01.35\00:38:04.02
Rome was divided
and God said no more,
00:38:04.05\00:38:06.92
never again, no single nation
00:38:06.95\00:38:09.42
will ever dominate
and rule over the earth.
00:38:09.45\00:38:13.75
They will not
cleave one unto another.
00:38:13.78\00:38:19.07
Many world leaders tried to weld
those toes back together again
00:38:19.10\00:38:25.10
and to form a United Europe
and many world leaders failed.
00:38:25.13\00:38:30.73
Men like
Charlemagne, Louis the XIV,
00:38:30.76\00:38:32.92
Charles the V, Charles V.
00:38:32.95\00:38:36.53
Mighty warrior,
rode on a battlefield
00:38:36.56\00:38:38.91
till he was 70 years
old, had nine horses killed
00:38:38.94\00:38:42.40
from underneath him
while he was fighting
00:38:42.43\00:38:45.66
and his goal was to
build the United Europe
00:38:45.69\00:38:47.70
and it looked as
though he was going to succeed
00:38:47.73\00:38:50.12
but then finally
towards the end of his reign,
00:38:50.15\00:38:52.60
revolutions broke
out all over his empire.
00:38:52.63\00:38:55.11
He was finally forced
to abdicate his throne.
00:38:55.14\00:38:57.32
He gave to his son
Phillip II, the Central Europe
00:38:57.35\00:39:01.91
and his brother
Ferdinand all of the rest
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.07
and Charles the
V, the mighty warrior
00:39:04.10\00:39:07.01
retired to a lonely castle,
00:39:07.04\00:39:13.73
no doubt tormented by the words,
00:39:13.76\00:39:17.42
"They shall not
cleave one into another".
00:39:17.45\00:39:25.17
And no man can ever change
00:39:25.20\00:39:27.93
one word that comes
from the word of God.
00:39:27.96\00:39:34.20
Napoleon, they
called him the little giant
00:39:34.23\00:39:40.56
little because he
was only five feet two,
00:39:40.59\00:39:44.19
giant because he
was a military genius.
00:39:44.22\00:39:46.15
He put together a
military that began to pulverize
00:39:46.18\00:39:49.75
the surrounding
nations of France.
00:39:49.78\00:39:52.49
His goal was to
build the United Europe
00:39:52.52\00:39:55.10
and it looked as though nothing
was going to stop Napoleon.
00:39:55.13\00:39:59.21
In fact when he was
in prison, Napoleon said,
00:39:59.24\00:40:01.82
I wanted to found
the European system,
00:40:01.85\00:40:03.59
a European court of law,
a European court of appeals.
00:40:03.62\00:40:06.58
There would be one
people throughout all Europe.
00:40:06.61\00:40:08.85
Europe would
sooner become one nation.
00:40:08.88\00:40:12.76
But Napoleon met Lord
Wellington at Waterloo
00:40:12.79\00:40:17.38
and there in the form
of torrential rain storms,
00:40:17.41\00:40:20.73
Napoleon met his
waterloo and was defeated.
00:40:20.76\00:40:27.14
But I want to
suggest to you tonight
00:40:27.17\00:40:28.87
that it was not Lord Wellington
who defeated Napoleon.
00:40:28.90\00:40:35.39
Look Magazine put
together a team of researchers
00:40:35.42\00:40:40.39
and they studied
that Battle of Waterloo.
00:40:40.42\00:40:43.47
They got all the
information they could get,
00:40:43.50\00:40:45.17
put it into the
computer with some new software
00:40:45.20\00:40:48.51
and finally when they had
all of that information together
00:40:48.54\00:40:53.13
they clicked the
mouse and the computer said,
00:40:53.16\00:41:00.23
Napoleon cannot loose
00:41:00.26\00:41:04.71
but the
computer couldn't see God
00:41:04.74\00:41:09.00
standing with one foot in France
00:41:09.03\00:41:12.05
and one foot on
the continent of Europe
00:41:12.08\00:41:14.27
saying they shall not
cleave one into another.
00:41:14.30\00:41:22.27
And no man, not even
Napoleon can change one word
00:41:22.30\00:41:26.98
that comes from the word of God.
00:41:27.01\00:41:32.45
Guys like William
boasted, I'll build my rear road
00:41:32.48\00:41:35.92
all the way from
Berlin to Baghdad
00:41:35.95\00:41:38.53
and he called his
men sons of destiny
00:41:38.56\00:41:41.78
because he believe
that God commissioned him
00:41:41.81\00:41:45.10
to unite those ten toes
together again, sons of destiny.
00:41:45.13\00:41:52.98
But William was defeated on
the first battle of the march
00:41:53.01\00:41:58.54
because he
couldn't see God standing
00:41:58.57\00:42:00.33
with one foot in Germany
00:42:00.36\00:42:01.54
and one foot on
the continent of Europe
00:42:01.57\00:42:03.48
saying, "they shall not
cleave one unto another."
00:42:03.51\00:42:09.48
William was sincere.
00:42:09.51\00:42:12.41
He believed
with all of his heart
00:42:12.44\00:42:14.88
that his men
were sons of destiny.
00:42:14.91\00:42:16.92
He believe God wanted him
to build the United Europe.
00:42:16.95\00:42:20.47
He was sincere but he was wrong.
00:42:20.50\00:42:23.27
You see, you can
be sincere and wrong,
00:42:23.30\00:42:26.32
we need to be
sincere and right, amen.
00:42:26.35\00:42:32.19
And then finally Adolph
Hitler rose out of nowhere
00:42:32.22\00:42:38.79
repudiated the Versailles Treaty
00:42:38.82\00:42:41.92
and began to
build mechanized army
00:42:41.95\00:42:44.15
and air force
bombing and capturing
00:42:44.18\00:42:46.47
all of the surrounding
countries of Germany.
00:42:46.50\00:42:49.55
He said, I'll build an empire
00:42:49.58\00:42:51.40
that will last
for thousand years
00:42:51.43\00:42:55.79
and it looked
as though he would.
00:42:55.82\00:42:57.42
He had Norway, Denmark, Holland,
00:42:57.45\00:42:59.60
Czechoslovakia, Austria, Poland.
00:42:59.63\00:43:02.62
Now his appetite
for conquest was wedded
00:43:02.65\00:43:05.83
and he launched
his mighty blitzkrieg
00:43:05.86\00:43:07.96
against the Scandinavian
countries of Belgium and France.
00:43:07.99\00:43:11.05
And when he was in France,
00:43:11.08\00:43:12.80
he visited Napoleon's tomb
and he scarf that Napoleon.
00:43:12.83\00:43:17.59
He said Napoleon, you fool, I
will succeed where you failed.
00:43:17.62\00:43:24.23
And it looked as
though Hitler would succeed
00:43:24.26\00:43:27.79
because there was
only one nation left
00:43:27.82\00:43:30.61
and that was a
tiny Island of England.
00:43:30.64\00:43:35.66
The German scientists were
00:43:35.69\00:43:37.61
on the brink of
building an atomic bomb.
00:43:37.64\00:43:42.56
And Wernher von
Braun who defected,
00:43:42.59\00:43:45.82
he came to America later.
00:43:45.85\00:43:48.26
Their leading
scientist was building a rocket
00:43:48.29\00:43:51.33
capable of
delivering that atomic bomb.
00:43:51.36\00:43:57.08
Now we didn't have long
range bombers in those days.
00:43:57.11\00:44:01.41
I was assigned to a bomb
crew in a strategic air command,
00:44:01.44\00:44:06.11
Barksdale Air
Force Base, Louisiana.
00:44:06.14\00:44:09.80
We flew B-52s,
we could take off,
00:44:09.83\00:44:12.72
meet up with the
tanker in the air KC-135
00:44:12.75\00:44:15.90
full of fuel and he
would offload fuel to us
00:44:15.93\00:44:18.31
and we could just
keep going and going
00:44:18.34\00:44:19.81
till the wings
fell off the airplane
00:44:19.84\00:44:21.62
but they couldn't
do that back then.
00:44:21.65\00:44:25.43
Didn't have the range,
00:44:25.46\00:44:26.68
the capabilities
that we have now.
00:44:26.71\00:44:29.04
So in order to bomb
that research facility,
00:44:29.07\00:44:32.28
we had to launch our
bombers from England.
00:44:32.31\00:44:38.01
If Hitler would
have captured England,
00:44:38.04\00:44:40.61
we wouldn't have able
to launch our bombers.
00:44:40.64\00:44:43.93
Instead of the bombs
falling on Hiroshima, Nagasaki,
00:44:43.96\00:44:46.81
it would have been New
York and Washington D.C.
00:44:46.84\00:44:51.03
And you know an
interesting thing,
00:44:51.06\00:44:52.19
I was talking
about this one night.
00:44:52.22\00:44:54.36
And after the
service a man came up to me
00:44:54.39\00:44:56.72
and he said
pastor, you're right on.
00:44:56.75\00:44:58.75
I said, well, I know
but why do you think so?
00:44:58.78\00:45:02.19
Is that because I
flew that bombing machine,
00:45:02.22\00:45:06.08
I dropped my bombs on
that research facility
00:45:06.11\00:45:08.82
and bomb that facility that
was building an atomic bomb.
00:45:08.85\00:45:16.82
Well, Hitler had
driven the allied armies
00:45:16.85\00:45:19.26
clear up the coast and it looked
like nothing was gonna stop him
00:45:19.29\00:45:21.98
once again till a
dense fog settled in
00:45:22.01\00:45:25.32
and the allies
were able to evacuate
00:45:25.35\00:45:27.20
there forces
against the English channel,
00:45:27.23\00:45:29.34
across the
English channel and then
00:45:29.37\00:45:31.51
going against everything that
he had ever written in his books
00:45:31.54\00:45:33.70
when he said, you should
never fight a war on two fronts.
00:45:33.73\00:45:36.22
For some reason even his leading
generals never understood.
00:45:36.25\00:45:39.20
Hitler divided his army.
00:45:39.23\00:45:42.00
Kept half of them in Europe,
00:45:42.03\00:45:43.10
the other half marching
across Russia towards Moscow,
00:45:43.13\00:45:46.66
slaughtering the
Russians all the way.
00:45:46.69\00:45:48.25
It looked as though
nothing was gonna stop them
00:45:48.28\00:45:50.34
until the weather
entered the picture once again.
00:45:50.37\00:45:52.28
This time the coldest
winter in over 75 years.
00:45:52.31\00:45:55.80
Hitler's gun froze up,
his men froze, his tanks froze
00:45:55.83\00:46:00.37
and the mighty Hitler
was defeated by a snowflake.
00:46:00.40\00:46:06.44
I have been to the Soviet Union,
00:46:06.47\00:46:08.01
I was there when it
was still the Soviet Union
00:46:08.04\00:46:10.11
doing Revelation Now meetings.
00:46:10.14\00:46:12.28
And they took us on a tour
out to the outskirts of Moscow
00:46:12.31\00:46:15.85
and showed us this big
huge concrete tank trap.
00:46:15.88\00:46:19.72
They like to make big
monuments and it was huge
00:46:19.75\00:46:23.16
reaching way up in the air.
00:46:23.19\00:46:24.65
A tank trap,
concrete and the sign said,
00:46:24.68\00:46:27.69
this is the very spot
where the mighty Russian army
00:46:27.72\00:46:31.17
stop the Germans but
they didn't understand
00:46:31.20\00:46:35.32
that it wasn't Russia,
it was the Almighty God
00:46:35.35\00:46:38.95
standing with
one foot in Germany
00:46:38.98\00:46:40.79
and one foot in Russia saying,
00:46:40.82\00:46:42.82
"they shall not
cleave one into another."
00:46:42.85\00:46:45.59
And no man can change one word
that comes from the word of God.
00:46:45.62\00:46:50.61
And even Hitler
wrote to his people,
00:46:50.64\00:46:57.20
we don't need anything from God,
00:46:57.23\00:46:58.83
we don't ask anything from
him except that he let us alone.
00:46:58.86\00:47:02.29
We want to fight our own war
with our own guns without God.
00:47:02.32\00:47:05.72
We want to gain our own
victory without the help of God,
00:47:05.75\00:47:08.28
signed, Adolf Hitler.
00:47:08.31\00:47:09.73
But Hitler knew the
prophecies of the Bible.
00:47:09.76\00:47:12.30
He knew about Daniel 2
and his nurse tells us a story
00:47:12.33\00:47:15.97
that one day Hitler was
sick lying in bed reading
00:47:16.00\00:47:19.79
and his Bible was
opened to Daniel 2.
00:47:19.82\00:47:22.62
And when he got to the words,
00:47:22.65\00:47:24.36
"they shall not
cleave one into another".
00:47:24.39\00:47:27.16
Hitler sprung out of
bed, picked up his Bible
00:47:27.19\00:47:30.43
threw it across the
wall, hovering, ranting
00:47:30.46\00:47:34.00
and raving like a mad
man, I will, I will, I will.
00:47:34.03\00:47:42.00
Today Hitler is dead,
but God word still stands.
00:47:44.13\00:47:50.69
Amen. You can't change.
00:47:50.72\00:47:57.17
No one can change one
word in the word of God.
00:47:57.20\00:48:02.85
In more modern
time, I remember 1958,
00:48:02.88\00:48:05.15
my old high school's
loudspeaker begin to crackle
00:48:05.18\00:48:08.18
and the announcement came
Russia launched the satellite
00:48:08.21\00:48:10.86
Sputnik going around the
globe and everybody got scared.
00:48:10.89\00:48:13.99
We didn't know for
sure what that meant.
00:48:14.02\00:48:15.59
I don't know about up
here but down in New Orleans,
00:48:15.62\00:48:17.37
Louisiana, we
built bomb shelters.
00:48:17.40\00:48:19.20
Did you do that up here?
00:48:19.23\00:48:21.38
None of you were
around back then.
00:48:21.41\00:48:23.67
We built bomb shelters,
00:48:23.70\00:48:24.77
we knew Russia is
going to bomb the world
00:48:24.80\00:48:26.50
and we're gonna
all be destroyed.
00:48:26.53\00:48:27.97
So we built bomb
shelters, we was scared.
00:48:28.00\00:48:31.41
The Bible says no more.
00:48:31.44\00:48:32.60
Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
00:48:32.63\00:48:34.49
Rome divided and they will
not cleave one into another,
00:48:34.52\00:48:37.53
there will be no more.
00:48:37.56\00:48:39.28
Two years later
1958, Nikita Khrushchev,
00:48:39.31\00:48:42.40
I know some of
you remember that.
00:48:42.43\00:48:43.92
He came over here
to United Nations,
00:48:43.95\00:48:45.81
took off his shoe and banged
it on the desk and he said
00:48:45.84\00:48:49.79
United States of
America, we will burry you,
00:48:49.82\00:48:53.33
while the Soviet
Union is history today
00:48:53.36\00:48:55.53
and the United State
of America still stands.
00:48:55.56\00:48:57.93
God's word cannot
change. Trust Him, trust Him.
00:48:57.96\00:49:05.59
But some people
asking, Pastor, how do you know
00:49:05.62\00:49:08.60
that Bible wasn't written,
00:49:08.63\00:49:10.19
how do you know that
the Bible wasn't written
00:49:10.22\00:49:11.95
way back after all of
these stuff had happened?
00:49:11.98\00:49:16.27
Babylon, Medo-Persia,
Greece and wrote it like it was
00:49:16.30\00:49:18.89
a prophecy but it wasn't
really, it's just the history.
00:49:18.92\00:49:21.43
No way, that's impossible
00:49:21.46\00:49:23.42
because the way
we predict the future
00:49:23.45\00:49:25.58
is to look at what
happened in the past.
00:49:25.61\00:49:27.66
Isn't that right? We
don't know the future.
00:49:27.69\00:49:30.20
We just look at the past and
extrapolated into the future.
00:49:30.23\00:49:33.05
I can tell you at
8:30 tomorrow morning
00:49:33.08\00:49:35.11
my breakfast is
going to be on the table
00:49:35.14\00:49:36.89
and my wife who have it ready,
00:49:36.92\00:49:38.23
how do I know that because
she's done it all the time.
00:49:38.26\00:49:42.73
But that doesn't
prove it's gonna happen.
00:49:42.76\00:49:45.87
You see we predict the
future by looking into the past.
00:49:45.90\00:49:48.19
So suppose if Daniel wrote
this after it all happened.
00:49:48.22\00:49:53.88
And he's writing Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome.
00:49:53.91\00:49:57.12
Rome divide as a history.
00:49:57.15\00:50:01.29
That makes it even
worse for the skeptic.
00:50:01.32\00:50:04.83
Because we predict the
future by looking at the past.
00:50:04.86\00:50:07.24
He would have seen four nations
00:50:07.27\00:50:08.65
rise and fall in a brief period
of time, historically speaking
00:50:08.68\00:50:12.12
and then 1,600 years have passed
00:50:12.15\00:50:15.22
and they have not cleaven
one onto another 1,600 years.
00:50:15.25\00:50:19.23
How could he say no
more when looking back,
00:50:19.26\00:50:22.23
he saw four rise and fall?
00:50:22.26\00:50:24.70
You can trust the Bible.
00:50:24.73\00:50:26.49
You can trust this
book and it isn't over yet.
00:50:26.52\00:50:29.34
Watch this, best
part coming, verse 44,
00:50:29.37\00:50:33.87
"In the time of those kings,
the God of heaven will set up
00:50:33.90\00:50:35.81
a kingdom that will
never be destroyed."
00:50:35.84\00:50:38.16
There will be another
kingdom, not a nation on earth,
00:50:38.19\00:50:41.24
not by any leader
or a potentater king,
00:50:41.27\00:50:43.76
it will be the Lord God,
He will set up His kingdom.
00:50:43.79\00:50:46.93
In verse 44, "In
the time of those kings,
00:50:46.96\00:50:49.92
the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom,
00:50:49.95\00:50:51.77
it will never be destroyed.
00:50:51.80\00:50:53.42
It will crush
all of those kingdoms
00:50:53.45\00:50:55.32
and bring them to an end,
00:50:55.35\00:50:56.71
but itself it
will endure forever.
00:50:56.74\00:50:58.86
This is the meaning of
the vision of the rock,
00:50:58.89\00:51:01.30
cut out of the
mountain that smashed the image.
00:51:01.33\00:51:04.02
The great God has shown the king
00:51:04.05\00:51:06.70
what will take
place in the future.
00:51:06.73\00:51:08.65
The dream is true,
00:51:08.68\00:51:10.33
the
interpretation is trustworthy."
00:51:10.36\00:51:14.72
You can know the future
as God reveals it to you,
00:51:14.75\00:51:19.08
the stone is gonna
come. Who is the stone?
00:51:19.11\00:51:22.63
Peter said, come to
him, the living stone.
00:51:22.66\00:51:27.11
The stone is Jesus Christ
just as surely as there was
00:51:27.14\00:51:31.65
Babylon,
Medo-Persia, Greece, Rome,
00:51:31.68\00:51:34.46
just as surely as Rome divided,
00:51:34.49\00:51:36.99
just as surely as
1,600 years have passed
00:51:37.02\00:51:40.21
and they have
not joined together.
00:51:40.24\00:51:42.62
You can know the
stone is gonna come.
00:51:42.65\00:51:47.10
But what about
the European Union,
00:51:47.13\00:51:49.17
they've already joined
together. No, they haven't.
00:51:49.20\00:51:53.94
Ask a French man,
if he's a Spaniard.
00:51:53.97\00:51:57.88
Haven't joined together.
00:51:57.91\00:51:59.95
Every time they
came up with a document,
00:51:59.98\00:52:01.92
somebody fusses and fights
about it and they can't sign it.
00:52:01.95\00:52:06.76
But it's closed maybe,
but what does that tell us?
00:52:06.79\00:52:10.05
That tells us, folks,
that we are closed to the end
00:52:10.08\00:52:12.61
because in the
days of those kings,
00:52:12.64\00:52:14.70
the stone is gonna
come, Jesus is coming again.
00:52:14.73\00:52:17.97
We are living in the
toe-nail time of that image.
00:52:18.00\00:52:23.96
And you can
trust the word of God.
00:52:23.99\00:52:27.24
Daniel saw it and John saw
it in the Book of Revelation.
00:52:27.27\00:52:32.37
Revelation 21, "I saw a
new heaven and a new earth,
00:52:32.40\00:52:36.59
because the first heaven and
the first earth had passed away.
00:52:36.62\00:52:40.63
A new heaven, a new earth.
00:52:40.66\00:52:42.31
I saw the holy
city, the New Jerusalem,
00:52:42.34\00:52:44.60
coming down out
of heaven from God."
00:52:44.63\00:52:47.76
And then verse
3, "I heard a voice,
00:52:47.79\00:52:49.75
"Now the dwelling
of God is with men.
00:52:49.78\00:52:52.95
And he will live with him
and they will be his people
00:52:52.98\00:52:56.24
and God himself will be
with them and be his God."
00:52:56.27\00:52:59.35
Now we understand
Babylon captured God's people,
00:52:59.38\00:53:03.94
marched them
through the desert sand
00:53:03.97\00:53:06.08
and they were
wondering where is God?
00:53:06.11\00:53:09.15
Finally God answers and
says, I'm here, I'm with you,
00:53:09.18\00:53:13.86
I'm in the New Jerusalem
and this is your home forever.
00:53:13.89\00:53:17.40
Hold on, I'm here.
00:53:17.43\00:53:25.40
"And then on
each side of the river
00:53:26.48\00:53:27.68
was a Tree of Life
bearing 12 crops of fruit."
00:53:27.71\00:53:32.95
I want to eat
some of that fruit.
00:53:32.98\00:53:36.17
I don't know what it is.
00:53:36.20\00:53:38.13
Doesn't say, I used to
think that some of them
00:53:38.16\00:53:40.96
on that tree had to Fuji apples.
00:53:40.99\00:53:45.57
But we did a
Revelation Now in Wenatchee
00:53:45.60\00:53:47.77
about three years
ago, right at harvest time
00:53:47.80\00:53:50.64
and they brought us a
brand new honey crisp,
00:53:50.67\00:53:54.29
that's got to be right
from the Tree of Life, right?
00:53:54.32\00:53:57.36
Mangoes, papaya,
watermelon sweet as honey,
00:53:57.39\00:54:00.96
I can't wait to eat the
fruit from the Tree of Life.
00:54:00.99\00:54:03.83
There will be no
more hungry people.
00:54:03.86\00:54:07.45
Amen. You want to live there?
00:54:07.48\00:54:10.64
Doing only what you want to do,
00:54:10.67\00:54:11.88
never having to do
anything you don't want to do
00:54:11.91\00:54:13.56
'cause you live
forever like that?
00:54:13.59\00:54:15.01
Oh, man, imagine, the
most exciting best thing
00:54:15.04\00:54:18.06
you've ever done in your life
00:54:18.09\00:54:19.37
and have that kind of experience
00:54:19.40\00:54:21.35
moment after moment after moment
00:54:21.38\00:54:23.25
forever and never getting
tired, I want to live there.
00:54:23.28\00:54:28.34
These words are
trustworthy and true.
00:54:28.37\00:54:31.49
The things that
must soon take place,
00:54:31.52\00:54:34.29
behold I'm coming
soon, Jesus is coming soon.
00:54:34.32\00:54:40.74
In the meantime, there will be
trouble, there will be strife.
00:54:40.77\00:54:45.44
Hold fast, he says, I'm
coming, in the meantime.
00:54:45.47\00:54:53.44
1866, I finished flight school
before going to my assigned base
00:54:57.94\00:55:04.69
I had to go to survival training
00:55:04.72\00:55:07.08
in Spokane, Washington,
Fairchild Air Force Base.
00:55:07.11\00:55:12.14
Part of my
training the last week,
00:55:12.17\00:55:14.32
that the last few days,
00:55:14.35\00:55:16.13
they had us
memorized a dummy mission
00:55:16.16\00:55:20.68
and then they put us
in a simulated POW camp.
00:55:20.71\00:55:25.15
I was in a little cubical
4 feet square, 4 feet tall.
00:55:25.18\00:55:30.71
I couldn't even
stand up in there.
00:55:30.74\00:55:33.55
And they
wouldn't let us lay down
00:55:33.58\00:55:35.43
and there was no
light and it was pitch dark.
00:55:35.46\00:55:39.82
Every once in a
while they shove something
00:55:39.85\00:55:41.38
through a hole in the door,
00:55:41.41\00:55:42.58
they called it
soup, it was awful.
00:55:42.61\00:55:46.79
I was in there for three days
and they wouldn't let us out
00:55:46.82\00:55:49.85
except for when they
wanted to interrogate us.
00:55:49.88\00:55:53.51
To see if we would
tell that dummy mission,
00:55:53.54\00:55:57.34
but before they took
us to the interrogators,
00:55:57.37\00:56:00.39
they put us in a box.
00:56:00.42\00:56:03.75
This was a little
box about that tall,
00:56:03.78\00:56:07.54
not even as
broad as my shoulders,
00:56:07.57\00:56:09.60
the hinge to the
door was at the bottom
00:56:09.63\00:56:11.44
and then it made a
ramp and a bag over my head
00:56:11.47\00:56:14.59
and I had to walk up that ramp,
00:56:14.62\00:56:16.68
duck walk in
there, couldn't quite fit.
00:56:16.71\00:56:18.98
They picked up the door and
forced me in and locked it shut.
00:56:19.01\00:56:23.66
And the way I got in there
00:56:23.69\00:56:25.30
was the way I was
gonna stay until I got out.
00:56:25.33\00:56:28.71
I couldn't move a finger,
I couldn't move anything,
00:56:28.74\00:56:31.81
it was so dark, I couldn't even
scratch my nose when it itched.
00:56:31.84\00:56:38.30
I don't know how long I was
in that box, seem like forever,
00:56:38.33\00:56:44.55
and the long I was in there,
00:56:44.58\00:56:45.92
the tighter it seemed to
get and the harder I got.
00:56:45.95\00:56:51.07
And the more and more
00:56:51.10\00:56:52.59
the thought kept
going in my mind,
00:56:52.62\00:56:54.99
let me out of
this box! Let me out.
00:56:55.02\00:57:01.27
And the only thing
that enabled me to survive
00:57:01.30\00:57:05.73
was that I knew
someone was gonna
00:57:05.76\00:57:10.25
open that door and
let me out, I had hope.
00:57:10.28\00:57:17.03
Sometime life is like that,
00:57:17.06\00:57:18.93
it squeezes us and
we think let me out.
00:57:18.96\00:57:26.15
Hang on. Jesus is coming again.
00:57:26.18\00:57:31.85