From Melbourne, Australia,
HKEA Evangelistic Alliance
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presents "God in Ancient China."
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Who did the
ancient Chinese worship
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in the first 2000 years of
their long unbroken history?
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Be amazed, at Bible messages
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embedded within
ancient Chinese characters
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that are older than
even the time of Moses.
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So sit back, grab a
friend and be astounded
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by this fact filled presentation
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that has opened
ordinance everywhere.
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If you are traveling
in an arrowed landscape
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with your
friends, a long time ago,
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you're on a camel
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and you're
friends are on a camel
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and you've got a long
journey a head of you.
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And you are using something
in the sky to guide you,
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to give you
direction and position.
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So that you'll
reach your destination
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and it's a long journey.
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This is gonna take
more than two months,
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would a star be
more useful to you,
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or would a comet
be more useful to you,
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which of these
two heavenly phenomena
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would be more useful
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from a navigation point of view.
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I'd put it to you
that perhaps a comet,
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because it has
a head and a tail.
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The Chinese's astronomers
were far more advanced
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than their western counterparts.
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The Chinese
astronomers according to NASA
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kept very
meticulous records about comets
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when they appeared,
when they disappeared,
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and these records
were called Comet Atlases.
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And a typical comet atlas
looks something like this.
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Doesn't mean
much to an American,
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or an
Australian, or an Englishman,
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but to the Chinese
people this is a detailed record
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of when a comet
appeared in the sky,
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and how long it lasted?
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And when it appeared?
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On the 9th of March, 5 BC,
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this record appeared
in the astronomy records
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of the book of the Han Dynasty
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and translated into English
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it reads "In the second
month of the second year,
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of Jian Ping, the
comet was out of Altair."
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Altair is a star, this
comet came out of a star
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and it lasted for
more than 70 days.
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And It is said, "Comets
appear to signify the old
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being replaced by the new."
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"Altair, the sun, the
moon, and the five stars
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are in movement to signify
the beginning of a new epoch,
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the beginning of a new year,
a new month and a new day."
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This is dated that
9th of March, 5 BC.
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That's Altair, it's in
the constellation of Aquila,
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its' the brightest star in
the constellation of Aquila.
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And the Chinese
astronomers are saying,
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"On the 9th of March, 5
BC, this comet appeared out of,
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seemingly
appeared out of the star
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and it lasted for
more than 70 days."
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The appearance of this comet
undoubtedly symbolizes change.
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They said, "The
extended appearance of the comet
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for more than 70 days
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indicates that this
is of great importance."
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And there is the
reference on the screen.
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The Bible says, "The wise men
who came to visit Jesus Christ
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who was to be
born in Bethlehem."
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They said, "We've seen His star
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in the east and
we've come to worship Him."
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The wise men
thought it was a star.
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The Chinese astronomers
who knew nothing about this
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thought it was a comet.
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To them it looked like a comet,
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to the wise men it
looked like a star.
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This record is dated 31 AD,
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and it's in the history
of The Later Han Dynasty
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and there is the
reference and it says,
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"Summer, fourth
month of the year
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on the day of Ren Wu,
the imperial edict reads,
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'Yen and Yang have
mistakenly switched,
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and the sun and
moon were eclipsed.
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The signs of all--
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The sins of all the
people are now on one man.
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Pardon is proclaimed
to all under heaven.'"
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They knew nothing about
Jesus and this is dated 31 AD.
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They knew nothing
about Jesus Christ,
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but in their
soul, in their spirit,
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they felt that this
sudden eclipse of the sun,
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unexpectedly meant that
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the sins of people were pardoned
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and had been placed on one
man, that's amazing, isn't it?
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And then it goes on to say
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"The Eclipse on
the day of Gui Hai,
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Man from heaven died."
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How did the
Chinese people know this?
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They're in China, Jesus Christ
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was being
crucified in Jerusalem.
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They knew nothing about it,
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but in their records
when they saw this eclipse.
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These imperial astronomers wrote
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"Man from heaven has died."
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Then three days later,
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there was halo around the sun,
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360 degrees
rainbow halo, 3 days later.
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"During the reign
of Emperor Guang Wu,
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on the day of Bing Yin of
the fourth month Jiang Wu,
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a halo, a rainbow
encircled the sun,"
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three days later.
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So folks, here
is the resurrection
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of Jesus Christ.
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They didn't know
what they were writing.
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They were simply
recording what they saw,
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not knowing what it meant.
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And so here folks to start
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of this amazing message tonight,
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we have three evidences,
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where the Chinese
astronomers unknowing to them,
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pinpointed the
year of Christ birth,
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the year of His death,
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and three days
later His resurrection.
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And I hope if you watching,
I've now got your attention.
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Because this is
the type of evidence
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that we're gonna present.
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New to westerners,
new to Chinese listeners,
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and Asian listeners,
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perhaps you've
never heard this before.
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But what you are
going to hear tonight
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and for the rest of the
message is even more amazing.
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The ancient Chinese
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have amazing contributions
to make to the world
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and they confirmed
the book of Genesis.
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They confirmed
the story of Genesis,
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and if Genesis
is not true, folks,
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then you can
through the Bible away.
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Because if the
first book is wrong,
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the other 65 books
of the Bible are wrong.
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Because Genesis talks
about sin, and creation,
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and the flood, and
the Tower of Bable,
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and if all those
things are just a story
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and there is no reality there,
then the whole Bible is wrong.
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Because the other
65 books of the Bible
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are based on the
veracity of Genesis.
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So during this presentation,
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we're going to
touchup on these four areas.
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What did the
Chinese say about creation?
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What did the Chinese
say about the fall of man?
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What did the Chinese say about
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the flood and
the Tower of Bable?
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But we need a very quick
lesson in Chinese tonight.
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For those of us,
who don't know Chinese,
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this is a mouth, and the Chinese
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characters are
not a hieroglyphics.
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The Chinese
characters are a pictogram,
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and so when the
Chinese see your open mouth,
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they say, "Well, the character
that we're going to create
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for mouth is going
to resemble a mouth."
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So there you have the first word
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"Kou," which is mouth.
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It can mean a
person, it can mean breath,
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it can mean a man.
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And this one is very obvious,
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this is a tree and
this one is two trees.
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So it can be a
garden, or it can be a forest,
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or it can be two trees,
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and so when we
put them together,
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we've got one person
in a garden, you see that?
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Now that we understand
Chinese, we can proceed.
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Let's look at something
about the flood, the Bible says,
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"There were eight
people who entered the ark,
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Noah, his wife,
Noah's three sons,
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and Noah's three son's wives
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a total of eight
entered the ark."
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The Chinese word
for big boat is "Chuan,"
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and it is made up
of these components.
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A boat with a number eight
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and what's that
symbol at the bottom?
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That's mouth or people.
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So we have a boat
with eight people inside it
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and this character is as old,
almost as old as time itself.
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It goes back before
Moses, it goes back to 2200 BC.
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Where did they get this from?
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How did they know they
were eight people in the ark?
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They didn't get it from Moses.
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Now we'll pick
something in creation.
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The Bible says, "God
created man in His own image,
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He spoke and it was done."
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The word for create in Chinese,
or to make, or to concoct,
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or to put together
something is "Zao,"
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and its made up
of these components,
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words were spoken,
you see the open mouth.
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Words were spoken
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and as words were
spoken movement happened.
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Now I would have thought
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if I was going to create a
Chinese character for create,
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or to make I would have a
pair of hands making something.
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What has spoken words got to do
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with moment
happening all of a sudden?
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Because this agrees
with the Bible story,
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and this word is old.
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This older than
Moses, the Bible says,
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"God spoke, and it was done."
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Talking about
creation the Bible says,
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"God formed man from
the dust of the ground
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and breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life,
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and man became a living being,"
that's what the Bible says.
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If we take this word "Zao"
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apart just that top bit
that you see on the screen,
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just that top
bit, take it a part.
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This is what we
get, we get dust,
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and we get breath,
there is the mouth,
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and the result
is something living.
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This is exactly
what the Bible says
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and this the Chinese word
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for to make or for to create.
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The Chinese history goes back
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in an unbroken
record of 4,500 years.
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That's very
similar to the Hebrew race,
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an unbroken history of
four and half thousand years.
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They've records,
they've kept writing,
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there is no
other civilization like
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the Hebrew and the Chinese.
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And this is going
to be very helpful
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as we unfold some
of the truths tonight.
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The very first
emperor of China is Huang Di.
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He's called the
"Yellow Emperor,"
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Di means "Emperor,"
and Huang means "Yellow."
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And this emperor
reigned from 2500 BC,
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a 1000 years
before Moses to 2400 BC
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and it is attributed to him
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that all the Huang Chinese
people come from Huang Di.
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It's also attributed to him
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that Chinese
writings system was developed,
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that's 2500 years
BC we are talking.
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Moses lived around 1500 BC
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a 1000 years before
Moses, Huang Di existed.
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And under his reign a
writing system was developed.
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You could almost say,
"He's a bit like Abraham
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from him came
the Chinese people."
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But what sort of God
were they worshiping?
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What sort of God that the
ancient Chinese believe in?
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We think, well, they're all
into Daoism, and Confucianism.
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And they're into
Buddhism in China,
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yes, today that is the case,
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that's predominately
the main religion of China.
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But these religions entered
China round 600 to 500 BC,
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and Huang Di lived 2500 BC.
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So the question
I want to ask is,
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what sort of God
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where the ancient
Chinese worshipping
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before Daoism, and Buddhism,
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and
Confucianism came into China?
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There is a 2000 year gap there
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and the answer come from Chinese
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greatest
historian called Sima Qian.
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He is highly
respected, he is highly reveled,
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very few criticize this man.
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And when he writes,
people take it as fact
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and he wrote, that Huang Di
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built an altar in
Tai Shan to worship a God
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that they called Shang Di.
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Di means emperor.
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So today their
God was Emperor Shang,
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but it was their God,
it wasn't a human being,
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and so they worshiped Shang
Di a 1000 years before Moses.
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Now second answer comes
from Confucius and Sima Qian.
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Confucius wrote
five classics of poetry,
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and Sima Qian wrote
the historical records,
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highly
respected, and both say that
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the people of the Shang
Dynasty worshiped Shang Di.
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Now The Shang
Dynasty goes back to 1776 BC.
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When Moses was leading
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the children of
Israel out of Egypt,
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through the red sea,
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200, 300 years before that event
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the Shang Dynasty
was alive and well.
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And the Shang Dynasty is unique
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because they kept records.
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They kept documents, and
when you can record things,
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and document things
you can record history.
00:16:07.12\00:16:12.38
Here is a picture of my
Seventh-day Adventist friend,
00:16:12.41\00:16:16.76
Victor Lee
holding a tortoise shell,
00:16:16.79\00:16:21.65
that is dated 1770
BC, and he is holding it,
00:16:21.68\00:16:26.65
he should be holding
it a lot more carefully,
00:16:26.68\00:16:28.28
I would have thought.
00:16:28.31\00:16:29.59
He is holding with two figures,
00:16:29.62\00:16:31.41
it is very old and
on that tortoise shell
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is some very
ancient Chinese writing
00:16:34.52\00:16:37.68
and this is how old
it goes back to 1770 BC.
00:16:37.71\00:16:43.54
So when Moses
was writing Genesis,
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300 years before that
00:16:48.66\00:16:50.12
the Chinese
were already writing.
00:16:50.15\00:16:54.99
So there is the timeline,
00:16:55.02\00:16:56.99
you can see Huang Di, 2500 BC,
00:16:57.02\00:17:00.33
you can see the Shang Dynasty,
00:17:00.36\00:17:01.77
with the tortoise
shell and the writing.
00:17:01.80\00:17:04.07
1770 BC and Moses looks
00:17:04.10\00:17:07.96
as though he is
arrived a little bit late,
00:17:07.99\00:17:11.11
he has arrived at 1500 BC.
00:17:11.14\00:17:14.19
But the Chinese
were already writing
00:17:14.22\00:17:16.57
and recording and
capturing concepts
00:17:16.60\00:17:20.42
that are embedded in the Bible
00:17:20.45\00:17:23.10
and it's embedded
in there language,
00:17:23.13\00:17:25.79
and if I was Chinese, I
would be so proud tonight.
00:17:25.82\00:17:29.61
I would be so proud
because you got there first.
00:17:29.64\00:17:34.53
You had Biblical
concepts in your language,
00:17:34.56\00:17:37.15
before the Jews, before
the Hebrews, before Moses.
00:17:37.18\00:17:42.05
And so you can see the
Daoism, and Confucianism,
00:17:42.08\00:17:47.44
and Buddhism
they came very late.
00:17:47.47\00:17:50.43
They came very late.
00:17:50.46\00:17:53.46
And so here is the
letter for Shang Di,
00:17:53.49\00:17:56.46
there is no image of him.
00:17:56.49\00:17:58.34
There is no sculpture of
him. There is no idol of him.
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Because they didn't
believe in idolatry,
00:18:02.07\00:18:04.78
they just wrote a
character to describe, Shang Di.
00:18:04.81\00:18:10.84
We know that
Hebrew's worshiped Yahweh,
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or Jehovah, or Elohim.
00:18:14.48\00:18:18.45
The Chinese worshiped Shang Di.
00:18:18.48\00:18:20.94
And I want to
put it to you tonight
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that Shang Di and
Jehovah or Yahweh are the same.
00:18:23.72\00:18:29.07
I'm going to show you proof
and evidence from Confucius.
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That the Shang Di has
the same characteristics
00:18:35.50\00:18:40.27
of Yahweh, in his five classics,
00:18:40.30\00:18:47.36
Confucius describes a
175 references to Shang Di.
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And we are not gonna
through them all tonight,
00:18:52.39\00:18:53.91
we'd be here forever,
00:18:53.94\00:18:55.57
but I'll give
you some descriptors
00:18:55.60\00:18:57.60
from the five
classics of Shang Di.
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Shang Di is
described by Confucius
00:19:00.75\00:19:03.56
as a "God is all powerful,
00:19:03.59\00:19:05.54
a God who has
authority over all nations,
00:19:05.57\00:19:08.35
a God who is all knowing,
a God who is ever present."
00:19:08.38\00:19:12.43
You might say, "Well,
that could be anybody.
00:19:12.46\00:19:14.81
That could be any Pagan God,
most Pagan Gods claim this."
00:19:14.84\00:19:19.13
But wait, there
is one descriptor
00:19:19.16\00:19:23.52
that sets Shang Di
apart from all the Pagan Gods
00:19:23.55\00:19:28.13
and that is that
Shang DI is a "God of love"
00:19:28.16\00:19:31.42
and that is very unique.
00:19:31.45\00:19:33.77
This is not a Pagan
God, this is the same God
00:19:33.80\00:19:38.21
as the God of the Bible.
00:19:38.24\00:19:41.20
This is the same God as Yahweh
00:19:41.23\00:19:43.93
and so to summarize
00:19:43.96\00:19:46.17
some of those
recitations of Shang Di,
00:19:46.20\00:19:49.73
"He is a God of
justice, and wisdom,
00:19:49.76\00:19:52.09
and grace, and holiness,
and faithfulness, and mercy,
00:19:52.12\00:19:56.72
and righteousness,
and he's eternal."
00:19:56.75\00:19:59.09
These are the
characteristics of Yahweh.
00:19:59.12\00:20:02.00
These are the characteristics
of the God of the Bible.
00:20:02.03\00:20:05.35
And so Shang Di and
Yahweh are the same.
00:20:05.38\00:20:10.63
Now Huang Di, we
are told built an altar
00:20:10.66\00:20:14.69
to worship Shang Di.
00:20:14.72\00:20:18.49
And every year, every year,
00:20:18.52\00:20:22.11
the ancient Chinese
people had a major event,
00:20:22.14\00:20:25.24
a major religious event
called "The Border Sacrifice."
00:20:25.27\00:20:29.32
And it was moved according
00:20:29.35\00:20:31.08
to where the capital city
of China was of that time,
00:20:31.11\00:20:34.68
wherever the capital city
was that's where they had it,
00:20:34.71\00:20:37.96
and this happened every year.
00:20:37.99\00:20:40.32
Imagine all the Christians
in the world getting together,
00:20:40.35\00:20:44.10
into one place,
every year to worship God.
00:20:44.13\00:20:48.01
This is what the
Chinese were doing.
00:20:48.04\00:20:50.20
They made every year
00:20:50.23\00:20:52.51
huge crowds to worship Shang Di.
00:20:52.54\00:20:56.40
And Confucius tells us
00:20:56.43\00:20:59.43
"The ceremonies of the celestial
00:20:59.46\00:21:01.83
and terrestrial sacrifices
00:21:01.86\00:21:05.81
are those by which
men serve, Shang Di."
00:21:05.84\00:21:10.99
"And on that day, the
emperor became priest."
00:21:11.02\00:21:16.62
Now this is very
similar to the day
00:21:16.65\00:21:19.48
of atonement of
the ancient Hebrews.
00:21:19.51\00:21:23.97
Where they met once a year
00:21:24.00\00:21:26.63
and the high
priest became priest
00:21:26.66\00:21:30.38
and represented all the people
00:21:30.41\00:21:32.24
and here the
ancient Chinese emperor,
00:21:32.27\00:21:36.09
the king became priest.
00:21:36.12\00:21:38.93
And they offered blood sacrifice
00:21:38.96\00:21:41.51
as atonement to Shang Di.
00:21:41.54\00:21:44.64
And if you go to
South of Beijing today,
00:21:44.67\00:21:48.04
Southern Beijing, you'll
have this massive complex,
00:21:48.07\00:21:52.44
the Temple of Heaven,
and the Altar of Heaven.
00:21:52.47\00:21:57.20
There is the Temple of Heaven,
here are no idols in there.
00:21:57.23\00:22:00.11
There are no statues in there.
00:22:00.14\00:22:02.14
There is the Altar of Heaven,
00:22:02.17\00:22:03.89
where this blood sacrifice
used to be offered once a year.
00:22:03.92\00:22:09.25
And then suddenly
it all came to an end,
00:22:09.28\00:22:13.33
this emperor, Qin
Shi Huang in 259 BC,
00:22:13.36\00:22:19.13
he put an end to
the worship of Shang Di,
00:22:19.16\00:22:23.41
and he said, "No more
blood sacrifices to Shang Di.
00:22:23.44\00:22:27.07
And he lowered the
boon, and he stopped it."
00:22:27.10\00:22:29.88
And this is why
Buddhism and Confucianism
00:22:29.91\00:22:33.68
and Daoism began to flourish
00:22:33.71\00:22:38.02
and it's still
flourishing in China today.
00:22:38.05\00:22:40.64
If the Chinese
people only understood
00:22:40.67\00:22:45.20
that you are
worshiping the same God,
00:22:45.23\00:22:47.77
it's the God of the Bible.
00:22:47.80\00:22:50.00
You would look at this
again through intelligent eyes,
00:22:50.03\00:22:54.11
through discerning eyes,
00:22:54.14\00:22:55.80
and see that it
is in your history,
00:22:55.83\00:22:58.48
it's in your culture,
and it is this emperor,
00:22:58.51\00:23:01.83
Qin Shi Huang who stopped it.
00:23:01.86\00:23:06.61
So if we put it
on the time chart
00:23:06.64\00:23:08.33
you can see the
line of Huang Di 2500 BC,
00:23:08.36\00:23:11.48
the Shang Dynasty 1770 BC,
with the oracle bone script,
00:23:11.51\00:23:17.60
the ancient writing
on those tortoise shells,
00:23:17.63\00:23:20.77
Moses 1500 BC, and
the religions of China
00:23:20.80\00:23:25.61
they started to come in 500 BC.
00:23:25.64\00:23:32.50
Now here is my friend,
00:23:32.53\00:23:33.56
Victor Lee holding this
very old tortoise shell.
00:23:33.59\00:23:39.40
And on that
tortoise shell are inscribed
00:23:39.43\00:23:42.61
very ancient Chinese
characters dated to 1770 BC,
00:23:42.64\00:23:48.41
they called them
"oracle bone scripts."
00:23:48.44\00:23:51.45
Why oracle?
00:23:51.48\00:23:53.48
The writing was
on bone, animal bone,
00:23:53.51\00:23:56.11
or it was on tortoise shell,
00:23:56.14\00:23:59.43
so what's oracle
got to do with it?
00:23:59.46\00:24:01.52
Well, what they use to do?
00:24:01.55\00:24:03.94
they would heat
the tortoise shell
00:24:03.97\00:24:05.93
or they would
heat the animal bone
00:24:05.96\00:24:08.11
with these characters on it,
00:24:08.14\00:24:10.16
and then the
tortoise shell will crack
00:24:10.19\00:24:14.06
or the bone would crack,
00:24:14.09\00:24:15.79
and depending on the
formation of the cracks
00:24:15.82\00:24:17.73
in relation to the
characters written on it
00:24:17.76\00:24:20.04
they would start
to tell your fortune
00:24:20.07\00:24:22.21
or they would
start to tell an oracle,
00:24:22.24\00:24:24.83
and so it's called
oracle bone script.
00:24:24.86\00:24:27.19
But when no heat is applied,
00:24:27.22\00:24:30.12
it is simply called
bone or shell script
00:24:30.15\00:24:34.25
and it goes back to 1770 BC,
00:24:34.28\00:24:39.43
is that clear?
00:24:39.46\00:24:42.20
It was written on
bone, or shell, or pottery,
00:24:42.23\00:24:45.88
and even in axe heads.
00:24:45.91\00:24:47.42
They are starting to
discover ancient writing
00:24:47.45\00:24:49.30
on Chinese axe heads
00:24:49.33\00:24:51.04
and they are now
dating this to 2200 BC.
00:24:51.07\00:24:55.18
So the Chinese
writing goes back further
00:24:55.21\00:24:58.12
than the Shang Dynasty.
00:24:58.15\00:25:00.02
The Chinese writing is older
than just oracle bone script
00:25:00.05\00:25:03.89
and there is the evidence.
00:25:03.92\00:25:05.59
And the Chinese archeologists
are now pushing back
00:25:05.62\00:25:10.09
the origin of a Chinese
character by a 1000 years.
00:25:10.12\00:25:14.52
They thought it was
around 1500 BC, 1200 BC,
00:25:14.55\00:25:19.34
that's as all has it got.
00:25:19.37\00:25:20.88
But now they're saying
00:25:20.91\00:25:22.87
"It's older than
that by a thousand years."
00:25:22.90\00:25:24.89
Why is that important?
00:25:24.92\00:25:26.31
Because it means
that these characters
00:25:26.34\00:25:28.66
that have Bible
concepts in them predate, Moses.
00:25:28.69\00:25:34.94
They didn't copy it from Moses
00:25:34.97\00:25:37.27
and Moses didn't
copy it from them.
00:25:37.30\00:25:39.68
It was given to
them by word of mouth
00:25:39.71\00:25:42.87
after the Tower of Babel
when the people dispersed.
00:25:42.90\00:25:47.46
Here is a website
called "China View"
00:25:47.49\00:25:51.03
and it says, "New
technology discovery rewrites
00:25:51.06\00:25:55.06
earliest Chinese
character dating 2200 BC."
00:25:55.09\00:26:01.58
So this is probably
new to many listeners
00:26:01.61\00:26:04.91
who always thought that
Chinese writing is no older
00:26:04.94\00:26:08.05
than 1200 BC maybe 1500 BC
00:26:08.08\00:26:12.12
and at a stretch,
at a stretch 1700 BC.
00:26:12.15\00:26:16.60
But now Chinese
archeologists are saying,
00:26:16.63\00:26:19.42
"It's a lot older than that."
00:26:19.45\00:26:22.03
So Huang Di, who lived 2500 BC
00:26:22.06\00:26:27.87
who under his reign developed
a Chinese writing system
00:26:27.90\00:26:31.84
and everybody thought,
00:26:31.87\00:26:33.09
that's a bit of an exaggeration.
00:26:33.12\00:26:35.26
People thought that was a story
00:26:35.29\00:26:36.71
just made up to
make him look famous.
00:26:36.74\00:26:40.43
But the
archaeologists are now saying,
00:26:40.46\00:26:42.02
"Yes, there was Chinese writing
around the time of Huang Di."
00:26:42.05\00:26:48.91
So just to sum up, we have shell
00:26:48.94\00:26:52.82
and bone script
that's dated 2200 BC,
00:26:52.85\00:26:57.86
no oracle, no heat applied,
no cracking of the media.
00:26:57.89\00:27:02.68
Then we have
oracle script 1770 BC
00:27:02.71\00:27:07.45
and the characters on
the oracles bone script
00:27:07.48\00:27:10.37
are identical to the characters
on the non-oracle bone script.
00:27:10.40\00:27:16.99
They didn't
invent a whole new set
00:27:17.02\00:27:18.40
of characters for oracle bone.
00:27:18.43\00:27:21.08
It's the same set of
characters and from oracle bone
00:27:21.11\00:27:24.49
characters comes
classical Chinese characters,
00:27:24.52\00:27:27.83
and from
classical Chinese characters
00:27:27.86\00:27:29.78
comes Cantonese and Mandarin.
00:27:29.81\00:27:32.92
Can you see the pedigree?
00:27:32.95\00:27:34.57
So what we are
going to look at tonight
00:27:34.60\00:27:37.17
is classical Chinese
characters because most people,
00:27:37.20\00:27:40.23
who are Chinese
watching, viewing,
00:27:40.26\00:27:42.80
can understand these characters,
00:27:42.83\00:27:44.23
you can't read
oracle bone script,
00:27:44.26\00:27:46.02
but you can read
traditional Chinese,
00:27:46.05\00:27:48.60
but even that's
becoming a rare thing in china.
00:27:48.63\00:27:52.00
As the younger generation
00:27:52.03\00:27:54.24
is now focusing
on the modern script.
00:27:54.27\00:27:57.83
And the classical
script comes from oracle bone,
00:27:57.86\00:28:01.80
and oracle bone
comes from non-oracle bone.
00:28:01.83\00:28:05.03
So the pedigree
for classical Chinese
00:28:05.06\00:28:07.66
goes right back to 2200 BC.
00:28:07.69\00:28:12.40
Now in 2009, the
Chinese government opened
00:28:12.43\00:28:17.08
a museum in Anyang called
"The Chinese Character Museum"
00:28:17.11\00:28:24.32
and I'm glad they did
00:28:24.35\00:28:26.30
because everything
I'm telling you tonight
00:28:26.33\00:28:28.16
can be verified if
you go to this museum.
00:28:28.19\00:28:31.93
And it's a
magnificent structure.
00:28:31.96\00:28:34.63
A museum dedicated
to Chinese characters.
00:28:34.66\00:28:38.67
A museum
dedicated to the heritage
00:28:38.70\00:28:41.43
and culture of Chinese writing.
00:28:41.46\00:28:45.36
Here is my friend, Victor Lee,
00:28:45.39\00:28:47.07
Seventh-day
Adventist, Christian,
00:28:47.10\00:28:50.66
holding that oracle bone script
written on tortoise shell.
00:28:50.69\00:28:55.64
And here he is standing
00:28:55.67\00:28:57.96
in the Chinese character museum.
00:28:57.99\00:29:00.76
This looks like the "Great
Wall of China" doesn't it?
00:29:00.79\00:29:04.27
This enormous wall,
00:29:04.30\00:29:06.88
that houses
oracle bone characters
00:29:06.91\00:29:10.54
and the classical
Chinese character equivalent.
00:29:10.57\00:29:15.24
This is a Seventh-day
Adventist researcher,
00:29:15.27\00:29:17.73
Dr. Ethel
Nelson who wrote a book
00:29:17.76\00:29:22.09
on this very subject called
00:29:22.12\00:29:24.06
"God's Promises to the Chinese."
00:29:24.09\00:29:26.95
And she is a pathologist,
and she is an author,
00:29:26.98\00:29:30.83
and she meticulously traces
00:29:30.86\00:29:34.39
the history of
oracle bone script
00:29:34.42\00:29:36.36
in relationship
to Biblical concepts.
00:29:36.39\00:29:39.63
But the world
doesn't know about it,
00:29:39.66\00:29:41.56
and that's why
tonight we're recording
00:29:41.59\00:29:44.16
this program
and broadcasting it.
00:29:44.19\00:29:46.58
To get the message out
and I take my head off,
00:29:46.61\00:29:49.99
I salute the Chinese
people for your culture
00:29:50.02\00:29:52.92
and your
heritage and your history
00:29:52.95\00:29:55.89
and your Chinese characters,
00:29:55.92\00:29:58.04
which contain Bible
truths, Bible concepts.
00:29:58.07\00:30:02.89
Here is an oracle
script that means woman.
00:30:02.92\00:30:07.72
Very old script
this is probably 1770 BC,
00:30:07.75\00:30:14.17
if not older and next to it
00:30:14.20\00:30:17.03
is the character
for desire, or to covet,
00:30:17.06\00:30:21.49
or to have greed in your heart.
00:30:21.52\00:30:24.04
That's the oracle bone
script for that concept
00:30:24.07\00:30:27.02
and there is the classical word.
00:30:27.05\00:30:29.21
You can see
there is a similarity.
00:30:29.24\00:30:31.52
There are two little
trees above the woman.
00:30:31.55\00:30:33.92
The woman is below the trees.
00:30:33.95\00:30:35.67
And it's the same in
the classical character.
00:30:35.70\00:30:37.85
So let's take the
classical Chinese character
00:30:40.26\00:30:42.55
to desire something,
and to covet something,
00:30:42.58\00:30:45.66
and to have greed in your heart.
00:30:45.69\00:30:47.63
There is the classical character
00:30:47.66\00:30:49.57
and it comes from
this oracle bone script,
00:30:49.60\00:30:52.11
which is dated 1770 BC
and it's made up for two trees
00:30:52.14\00:30:57.50
with a woman
kneeling under them.
00:30:57.53\00:31:00.15
The Bible says
when Eve, the woman
00:31:00.18\00:31:03.00
committed the first
sin, she had a choice between
00:31:03.03\00:31:07.36
the tree of life says the Bible
00:31:07.39\00:31:11.42
and the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil,
00:31:11.45\00:31:14.31
two trees, not
four, or three, two.
00:31:14.34\00:31:18.53
And this ancient
Chinese character
00:31:18.56\00:31:20.45
that's older than
Moses puts the woman
00:31:20.48\00:31:24.36
under two trees,
isn't that amazing?
00:31:24.39\00:31:27.84
That's exactly
what the Bible says.
00:31:27.87\00:31:30.81
And so here we are today
00:31:30.84\00:31:33.53
and we're going
back in time 4,200 years
00:31:33.56\00:31:37.22
when shell
script, and bone script,
00:31:40.56\00:31:42.96
were produced and before
that was Huang Di in 2500 BC
00:31:42.99\00:31:48.97
and the Shang
Dynasty in 1770 BC,
00:31:49.00\00:31:51.62
I'm just summarizing so
you can put it all together
00:31:51.65\00:31:56.33
and there is Moses 1500
BC, 700 years before Moses.
00:31:56.36\00:32:02.93
The Chinese had
developed characters
00:32:02.96\00:32:05.92
that carry the Bible story.
00:32:05.95\00:32:08.47
This is not an American import.
00:32:08.50\00:32:11.54
Christianity is not an
invention of the Americans.
00:32:11.57\00:32:15.06
Christianity is not an invention
00:32:15.09\00:32:17.97
of people in
Australia, or New Zealand,
00:32:18.00\00:32:21.61
or even the Middle East.
00:32:21.64\00:32:25.26
Christianity is
embedded in your culture,
00:32:25.29\00:32:28.52
and in your language,
and in your characters.
00:32:28.55\00:32:31.70
And if you go to that
Chinese Character Museum
00:32:31.73\00:32:35.19
in Anyang you will see that.
00:32:35.22\00:32:38.79
And your current
religions, which I respect,
00:32:38.82\00:32:42.85
came a lot, lot later
then your original religion.
00:32:42.88\00:32:50.23
And so you are worshipping
00:32:50.26\00:32:53.02
one supreme god called Shang Di,
00:32:53.05\00:32:55.90
"the creator of
heaven and earth"
00:32:55.93\00:32:58.37
and you did not copy this
from Christian missionaries,
00:32:58.40\00:33:02.43
you did not get this
from a Christian evangelist
00:33:02.46\00:33:04.67
who came to China.
00:33:04.70\00:33:06.09
Because the first Christians
to go China was in 620 AD
00:33:06.12\00:33:13.72
long after you had already
00:33:13.75\00:33:15.38
developed your
character language.
00:33:15.41\00:33:17.86
So there they are the
Christian missionaries
00:33:17.89\00:33:20.07
coming in very late long after
00:33:20.10\00:33:22.60
you'd already
developed your writing.
00:33:22.63\00:33:25.78
And so we can say that
once you know how to write,
00:33:25.81\00:33:30.32
you can start
documenting history,
00:33:30.35\00:33:32.81
you can start recording
things, if you know how to write
00:33:32.84\00:33:36.23
and we're going back to 2200 BC.
00:33:36.26\00:33:39.19
And so you can write about
00:33:39.22\00:33:41.41
how many bags of rice
you have in your shed.
00:33:41.44\00:33:44.47
You can write about
how many donkeys you have,
00:33:44.50\00:33:47.30
or how many sheep you have.
00:33:47.33\00:33:49.27
These are mundane trivial things
00:33:49.30\00:33:52.01
but when something major happens
00:33:52.04\00:33:54.65
like the creation of the world,
00:33:54.68\00:33:57.05
or the entry of
sin into the world,
00:33:57.08\00:33:59.66
or the fall of man,
and the flood, Noah's Ark,
00:33:59.69\00:34:03.62
and the Tower of
Babel, these are big events.
00:34:03.65\00:34:06.91
These are headline events.
00:34:06.94\00:34:08.74
When things like that happened
00:34:08.77\00:34:12.05
you would be recording
that would you now think,
00:34:12.08\00:34:14.91
if you can write
and record they did.
00:34:14.94\00:34:17.88
Let's look at creation
the Bible says in Genesis,
00:34:17.91\00:34:21.71
"God blessed Adam and Eve saying
00:34:21.74\00:34:24.62
'Be fruitful and multiply.'"
00:34:24.65\00:34:28.27
The Chinese word
for blessed is "Fu."
00:34:28.30\00:34:31.48
And "Fu" means good
fortune, prosperity.
00:34:31.51\00:34:36.02
If you are running a business,
you're a Chinese businessmen
00:34:36.05\00:34:39.20
you probably have this letter
above your business place.
00:34:39.23\00:34:42.35
Because it means
"May I be profitable,
00:34:42.38\00:34:45.31
may I experience good fortune."
00:34:45.34\00:34:47.66
But the word blessed
has these components.
00:34:47.69\00:34:51.06
God together with
one person with a mouth,
00:34:51.09\00:34:56.34
there is the mouth, you
see the little mouth shape,
00:34:56.37\00:34:59.25
"Kou"
00:34:59.28\00:35:02.27
in the garden.
00:35:02.30\00:35:04.21
God and man have a relationship
in a fruitful garden,
00:35:04.24\00:35:11.54
to have a fruitful family
00:35:11.57\00:35:13.64
and that's what
the word blessed means.
00:35:13.67\00:35:15.98
That's what the
word prosperity means,
00:35:16.01\00:35:18.89
nothing to do with business,
00:35:18.92\00:35:21.02
nothing to do with
making a lot of money.
00:35:21.05\00:35:23.27
It's got everything to do with
00:35:23.30\00:35:25.05
one person having a
relationship with God
00:35:25.08\00:35:28.03
and being blessed
in that relationship.
00:35:28.06\00:35:31.18
The Bible also says,
"The Lord took the man
00:35:33.57\00:35:37.16
and put him in
the Garden of Eden
00:35:37.19\00:35:40.19
to tend and to keep it."
00:35:40.22\00:35:43.48
The word for Garden is "Yuan"
00:35:43.51\00:35:47.49
and it is made up of
these components clay,
00:35:47.52\00:35:52.43
breathing with a mouth,
there is the "Kou" symbol,
00:35:52.46\00:35:57.22
or the mouth symbol.
00:35:57.25\00:35:58.79
Breath, clay
breathing with a mouth on a man,
00:35:58.82\00:36:01.95
and out of the side
of the man comes a woman.
00:36:01.98\00:36:04.31
Have a look, there is the woman
00:36:04.34\00:36:06.29
coming out of
the side of the man,
00:36:06.32\00:36:08.89
just as the Bible says
that "Eve the woman says,
00:36:08.92\00:36:13.07
'The Bible was formed
from a rib of the man,
00:36:13.10\00:36:16.34
came out of came out
of the side of the man."'
00:36:16.37\00:36:18.38
And your word for
garden has this concept.
00:36:18.41\00:36:22.51
The woman is coming
out of the side of the man
00:36:22.54\00:36:24.86
and then they are
placed in the garden.
00:36:24.89\00:36:27.24
And this is exactly
what the Bible says,
00:36:27.27\00:36:29.26
"God took the man and put him
00:36:29.29\00:36:31.24
in the Garden of Eden
to tend and to keep it."
00:36:31.27\00:36:34.54
And this is in your word, Garden
00:36:34.57\00:36:37.11
and it agrees with the Bible.
00:36:37.14\00:36:40.10
Then the Bible says,
00:36:40.13\00:36:41.17
"The Lord
commanded the man saying,
00:36:41.20\00:36:43.19
'Of every tree in this
garden you can freely eat
00:36:43.22\00:36:47.45
but the tree of the
knowledge of good and evil
00:36:47.48\00:36:50.09
you shall not eat of this tree.
00:36:50.12\00:36:52.70
Because the day that you
eat of it, you will die."'
00:36:52.73\00:36:55.73
And so the Chinese
word to forbid is "Jin"
00:36:55.76\00:37:01.71
and it is made up of two trees,
00:37:01.74\00:37:05.21
and it is made up of the
man getting a revelation,
00:37:05.24\00:37:10.13
receiving a revelation
about these two trees,
00:37:10.16\00:37:13.13
this is the word for forbid.
00:37:13.16\00:37:15.63
And so God gave the
man the Bible calls Adam,
00:37:15.66\00:37:20.68
God gave this
first man a revelation
00:37:20.71\00:37:23.28
about these two trees.
00:37:23.31\00:37:25.37
The tree of life,
the tree of knowledge
00:37:25.40\00:37:27.76
of good and evil and God said,
00:37:27.79\00:37:29.69
"You can eat of any
tree, but not this one."
00:37:29.72\00:37:33.35
And this is embedded in
the Chinese word to forbid.
00:37:33.38\00:37:41.25
Let's look at something
now about how sin and wrong,
00:37:41.28\00:37:44.73
and how evil
came into the world,
00:37:44.76\00:37:47.35
according to Chinese characters.
00:37:47.38\00:37:49.19
The Bible says, "The
serpent was more cunning
00:37:52.30\00:37:54.32
than the beast of the field,
00:37:54.35\00:37:55.93
which the Lord God had made."
00:37:55.96\00:37:57.59
The word for tempter is "Mo"
and it is made up of a garden,
00:38:00.12\00:38:07.99
and then there was a
movement in the garden,
00:38:08.02\00:38:12.80
and one came to a man
and it was done secretly.
00:38:12.83\00:38:19.51
So somebody came very secretly
00:38:19.54\00:38:21.65
and sneakily to
the man in the garden
00:38:21.68\00:38:27.09
and at this point the word
is "Gui," which means devil
00:38:27.12\00:38:30.82
and the devil
came among two trees.
00:38:35.90\00:38:39.68
Secretively undercover,
00:38:39.71\00:38:42.27
this is the
Chinese word for tempter.
00:38:42.30\00:38:45.42
And this is exactly
what the Bible says,
00:38:45.45\00:38:48.64
"That the devil sneaked around,
00:38:48.67\00:38:52.53
and seduced, and deceived,
00:38:52.56\00:38:55.71
and tricked the
first man and woman."
00:38:55.74\00:39:00.68
He didn't do it openly, he
did it sneakily in a garden,
00:39:00.71\00:39:04.93
two trees are involved
exactly as the Bible says.
00:39:04.96\00:39:10.04
Isn't that amazing?
00:39:10.07\00:39:11.84
Then the Bible says,
00:39:11.87\00:39:12.90
"When the woman saw that
the tree was good for food,
00:39:12.93\00:39:16.16
and that it was
pleasant to the eyes,
00:39:16.19\00:39:18.08
and a tree
desirable to make one wise.
00:39:18.11\00:39:22.04
She took of its
fruit and she ate."
00:39:22.07\00:39:26.64
The word for greed,
we've already covered this,
00:39:26.67\00:39:28.78
remember when we
went to the oracle
00:39:28.81\00:39:31.20
the Chinese
Character Museum in Anyang.
00:39:31.23\00:39:35.09
The word for greed is
"Lan," we looked at it earlier,
00:39:35.12\00:39:39.09
and it's made up of two
trees with a woman underneath.
00:39:39.12\00:39:43.16
The woman fell into sin
because of lust and greed,
00:39:43.19\00:39:46.73
coveting and desiring.
00:39:46.76\00:39:48.59
And this is
embedded in your character,
00:39:48.62\00:39:50.68
your word for greed
and coveting and lusting.
00:39:50.71\00:39:54.14
Then the Bible says, "The
eyes of both of these people
00:39:54.42\00:39:57.29
were opened and they
knew that they were naked,
00:39:57.32\00:40:00.57
the moment they sinned
they realized they were naked."
00:40:00.60\00:40:03.81
And the word for naked is "Luo"
and it is made up of clothing.
00:40:03.84\00:40:10.69
Your clothing is gone
when you eat of the fruit.
00:40:10.72\00:40:15.65
What has fruit got
to do with being naked?
00:40:15.68\00:40:22.36
I would have thought,
if I was going to draw
00:40:22.39\00:40:24.15
a picture of a naked
person I would just draw
00:40:24.18\00:40:26.50
a stick person without clothing.
00:40:26.53\00:40:29.30
But here this
character for naked
00:40:29.33\00:40:32.69
is embroiled in the
concept of you are now naked
00:40:32.72\00:40:37.92
because you ate a fruit and
that's the story of Genesis.
00:40:37.95\00:40:41.86
And we read on "And they
heard the sound of the Lord God
00:40:44.15\00:40:47.34
walking in the garden
in the cool of the day
00:40:47.37\00:40:50.05
and Adam and his
wife hid themselves
00:40:50.08\00:40:51.94
from the presence of the Lord
among the trees of the garden."
00:40:51.97\00:40:54.97
And the Chinese
word for to hide is "Duo"
00:40:55.00\00:40:58.07
and it means his body
00:40:58.10\00:41:02.02
is superimposed to the trees.
00:41:02.05\00:41:06.35
He now looks like a tree,
he is hiding behind the tree.
00:41:06.38\00:41:10.58
You can't see him.
00:41:10.61\00:41:12.32
He's hiding behind a tree
00:41:12.35\00:41:15.26
because of the guilt of
sin and the shame of sin.
00:41:15.29\00:41:19.70
And the word for guilt is "Kui"
00:41:22.30\00:41:25.75
and it's got to
do with the heart
00:41:25.78\00:41:28.27
and the devil "Kui"
gets into your heart
00:41:28.30\00:41:33.39
and you feel guilty when
the devil get's into your
00:41:33.42\00:41:37.01
heart because of sin and this
is the Chinese word for guilt.
00:41:37.04\00:41:40.38
The Bible says, "The
Lord set a mark on Cain,
00:41:40.41\00:41:43.41
Cain killed his
brother who was called Abel
00:41:43.44\00:41:48.81
because he was jealous
that Abel's religious sacrifice
00:41:48.84\00:41:52.66
was acceptable to
God and his was not.
00:41:52.69\00:41:55.64
And so jealousy consumed him
00:41:55.67\00:42:00.33
and he killed his brother Cain."
00:42:00.36\00:42:03.18
Now the word for
brother in Chinese is "Xiong"
00:42:03.21\00:42:06.21
and it looks like that,
but the Chinese word for murder
00:42:06.24\00:42:11.47
looks exactly the
same except it has a mark
00:42:11.50\00:42:15.60
and it's exactly
the same word "Xiong,"
00:42:15.63\00:42:18.38
pronounce the same,
00:42:18.41\00:42:19.82
it's a different representation.
00:42:19.85\00:42:22.97
But the murderer has a mark
00:42:23.00\00:42:25.61
and the murderer has
a mark on his forehead.
00:42:25.64\00:42:28.50
Do you see that?
00:42:28.53\00:42:29.57
And that's exactly
what the Bible says.
00:42:29.60\00:42:33.21
It's exactly what the Bible says
00:42:33.24\00:42:35.28
and it's in your language.
00:42:35.31\00:42:37.08
Where does it come from?
Where did you get it from?
00:42:37.11\00:42:40.13
Isn't that amazing?
00:42:40.16\00:42:42.86
Let's go to the Tower of Babel.
00:42:42.89\00:42:46.05
The word for Tower is
"Ta" let's take the first bit.
00:42:46.08\00:42:50.39
All the people were
speaking with one mouth
00:42:50.42\00:42:55.08
and they were united.
00:42:55.11\00:42:57.06
They had one vision,
they had one language,
00:42:57.09\00:43:01.13
and they were united together.
00:43:01.16\00:43:03.52
Then we take the
second bit for Tower
00:43:03.55\00:43:06.32
and it says, "All the people
was speaking with one mouth
00:43:06.35\00:43:10.20
and they took
grass, or they straw,
00:43:10.23\00:43:13.03
and they took clay,
and they built something."
00:43:13.06\00:43:16.10
The first time
in Chinese writing
00:43:16.13\00:43:20.04
with the word Tower is created.
00:43:20.07\00:43:22.98
It has to do with
people who are in unity,
00:43:23.01\00:43:27.51
who are building a Tower
00:43:27.54\00:43:29.87
out of bricks
made of clay and straw.
00:43:29.90\00:43:34.14
Isn't that amazing?
00:43:34.17\00:43:36.52
Genesis tells
us, "The whole earth
00:43:36.55\00:43:39.12
had one
language and one speech."
00:43:39.15\00:43:42.92
And they said,
"Let's build a tower
00:43:42.95\00:43:44.64
whose top is in the heavens,
00:43:44.67\00:43:46.68
let's make a name for ourselves,
00:43:46.71\00:43:48.85
lest we be scattered over
the face of the whole earth."
00:43:48.88\00:43:53.07
That's in the Bible
00:43:53.10\00:43:54.75
and the Chinese word
for confusion is "Luan"
00:43:54.78\00:44:00.06
and we break it
down, we get your tongue
00:44:00.09\00:44:05.74
with your right leg
scattering in one direction.
00:44:05.77\00:44:10.45
Because of the
words that were spoken
00:44:10.48\00:44:13.53
the people were scattered.
00:44:13.56\00:44:15.47
You see the mouth symbol there,
00:44:15.50\00:44:18.76
words were
spoken, tongue was used,
00:44:18.79\00:44:22.20
the right leg is
scattered in one direction,
00:44:22.23\00:44:25.26
and because of
these spoken words,
00:44:25.29\00:44:27.46
because of these
confusion of language
00:44:27.49\00:44:30.06
at the Tower of Babel,
00:44:30.09\00:44:31.56
the people were
scattered and confusion reigned.
00:44:31.59\00:44:36.00
The word for
scatter is "Fen san".
00:44:36.03\00:44:39.04
And there's the first bit "Fen"
00:44:39.07\00:44:41.27
and then we'll
do the second bit.
00:44:41.30\00:44:43.03
"Fen" means to divide,
00:44:43.06\00:44:45.29
it's made up of the
number 8 and with a knife
00:44:45.32\00:44:51.32
8 generations from
creation to the Tower of Babel.
00:44:51.35\00:44:56.67
And they were
divided by the knife.
00:44:56.70\00:44:59.62
After 8 generations,
that's in that word "Fen."
00:44:59.65\00:45:04.56
Then we take the
second bit "San,"
00:45:04.59\00:45:07.12
which is dispel
and it all the people
00:45:07.15\00:45:10.92
in the flesh followed.
00:45:10.95\00:45:12.78
All the flesh
followed the people because
00:45:12.81\00:45:16.64
of the confusion and
this is the word for dispel.
00:45:16.67\00:45:21.65
So scatter those two
words together "Fen san."
00:45:21.68\00:45:27.66
We looked at that,
generations were divided,
00:45:27.69\00:45:31.86
8 generations, from creation
00:45:31.89\00:45:34.60
to the Tower of Babel
were divided by the knife.
00:45:34.63\00:45:39.28
And all the flesh,
all the people followed.
00:45:39.31\00:45:43.74
That's the
Chinese word for scatter.
00:45:43.77\00:45:48.62
The Bible says, "Its
name is called 'Babel'
00:45:48.65\00:45:52.38
because there the Lord confused
00:45:52.41\00:45:55.25
the language of all the earth
00:45:55.28\00:45:58.05
and from there the
Lord scattered them
00:45:58.08\00:46:00.50
over the face of the earth."
00:46:00.53\00:46:04.97
From the Tower of Babel
that the Bible talks about
00:46:05.00\00:46:08.90
this is where the
Chinese people come from.
00:46:08.93\00:46:11.25
Yes, Huang Di is
your original ancestor
00:46:11.28\00:46:15.17
but where did
Huang Di come from?
00:46:15.20\00:46:17.13
He came from the Tower of Babel
and that's in the Middle East
00:46:17.16\00:46:22.28
and one group
after the scattering,
00:46:22.31\00:46:25.02
they traveled to the East.
00:46:25.05\00:46:27.63
The Chinese people originate
00:46:27.66\00:46:29.38
from this group that
traveled to the East.
00:46:29.41\00:46:32.18
They migrated to the East.
00:46:32.21\00:46:34.08
And word for
migrate is broken up
00:46:34.11\00:46:37.75
and it means something big,
00:46:37.78\00:46:40.56
big division, from the west.
00:46:40.59\00:46:43.91
And people were scattered,
a big division from the west.
00:46:48.00\00:46:53.55
You know this is very funny.
00:46:53.58\00:46:55.64
The Chinese people refereed
to the west as westerners
00:46:55.67\00:46:59.83
and they come from the East.
00:46:59.86\00:47:02.40
Now let me put it to you,
that you are the westerner.
00:47:02.43\00:47:04.77
The Chinese people
are the true westerners.
00:47:04.80\00:47:07.28
Because you came from the west
00:47:07.31\00:47:10.30
and you moved to the
east and settled in China.
00:47:10.33\00:47:15.21
But you came from the west
00:47:15.24\00:47:16.91
and this is in
your word migrate.
00:47:16.94\00:47:20.06
It says in the word
migrate you came from the west,
00:47:20.09\00:47:24.77
just as the Bible says.
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So Huang Di was
familiar with him
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by now he's a
descendent from Babel.
00:47:33.58\00:47:38.39
We've looked at
these characters.
00:47:38.42\00:47:39.84
We've seen how
their writing system
00:47:42.89\00:47:46.91
was developed under Huang Di,
00:47:46.94\00:47:49.43
and the oldest
writing is on shell bone,
00:47:49.46\00:47:52.14
and pottery
pieces, and axe heads,
00:47:52.17\00:47:57.40
and bones script
2200 BC, we've seen that.
00:47:57.43\00:48:02.40
We've seen that
the truth of creation,
00:48:02.43\00:48:08.51
the entry of a sin, the flood,
00:48:08.54\00:48:10.99
and the Tower of
Babel and the scattering,
00:48:11.02\00:48:15.11
are all embedded in
your Chinese characters.
00:48:15.14\00:48:20.28
And they can't be
removed overnight,
00:48:20.31\00:48:23.85
that'd be an awful
lot of undoing to do.
00:48:23.88\00:48:27.33
That you were ahead of
the Hebrew people in terms of
00:48:27.36\00:48:32.21
getting these truths
embedded in your writing
00:48:32.24\00:48:36.02
because the earliest
writing of the Hebrew people
00:48:36.05\00:48:38.81
is around the time of Moses.
00:48:38.84\00:48:40.87
There is Moses in
the meridian dessert,
00:48:44.97\00:48:49.16
in the Midian
dessert, before the Exodus,
00:48:49.19\00:48:54.72
he's a shepherd and he's
writing a book of Genesis.
00:48:54.75\00:49:00.19
Some say, "He wrote
is after the Exodus,"
00:49:00.22\00:49:02.69
doesn't really
matter, 1500 BC, 1400 BC
00:49:02.72\00:49:06.59
it's not a lot, it's not a lot--
00:49:06.62\00:49:09.30
Chinese writing
goes back 2200 BC
00:49:09.33\00:49:12.63
and the Chinese are
there in the Shang dynasty
00:49:12.66\00:49:15.94
on the writing on oracle
bone, 1770 BC under Huang Di.
00:49:15.97\00:49:22.00
Chinese writing system was
developed long before Moses.
00:49:22.03\00:49:26.32
Now I don't want to
end this meeting tonight
00:49:26.35\00:49:29.42
without saying
something about salvation.
00:49:29.45\00:49:32.35
How did the Chinese
people see salvation?
00:49:32.38\00:49:35.23
How did your
ancient ancestors see
00:49:35.26\00:49:40.32
that will be
made right with God?
00:49:40.35\00:49:42.74
How that would be
made right with Shang Di?
00:49:42.77\00:49:45.42
How that would be
made right with Yahweh?
00:49:45.45\00:49:47.58
How did you see that?
00:49:47.61\00:49:49.80
Huang Di built his
altar to worship Shang Di
00:49:49.83\00:49:53.21
and the word for
sacrifice is "Xi"
00:49:53.24\00:49:57.51
and it's made up
of a cow and the lamb.
00:49:59.55\00:50:07.39
You take a cow
and you take a lamb
00:50:07.42\00:50:09.26
and they must
be without blemish.
00:50:09.29\00:50:13.30
And that's exactly
what the Holy Bible says
00:50:13.33\00:50:17.49
that "Jesus who
this lamb represents
00:50:17.52\00:50:24.24
had to be without
blemish, had to be without sin,
00:50:24.27\00:50:27.98
had to be perfect."
00:50:28.01\00:50:29.81
And this cow and
lamb without blemish
00:50:29.84\00:50:32.92
was a symbol Jesus
Christ who was to come
00:50:32.95\00:50:36.49
in the future
without sin, without blemish,
00:50:36.52\00:50:39.64
and He would be the sacrifice
for the sins of the world
00:50:39.67\00:50:43.28
and it's embedded in your
language in the word sacrifice.
00:50:43.31\00:50:48.00
And you kill this lamb
and this cow without blemish
00:50:48.03\00:50:51.81
with a spear and offer
this as a sacrificial atonement
00:50:51.84\00:50:57.41
to get at one with God again
00:50:57.44\00:51:01.03
and this is the
truth of the Bible.
00:51:01.06\00:51:03.31
This is what Jesus
Christ came to do and He did it
00:51:03.34\00:51:06.67
on the cross but it is embedded
00:51:06.70\00:51:08.82
in your language
and I thank you for it.
00:51:08.85\00:51:11.94
In Leviticus in the Bible,
the book written by Moses,
00:51:15.15\00:51:19.47
he writes that you
take an unblemished cow
00:51:19.50\00:51:22.28
and you take an unblemished lamb
00:51:22.31\00:51:24.58
and you offer it as a sacrifice
representing Jesus Christ
00:51:24.61\00:51:29.35
who was to come into the
future and do exactly that.
00:51:29.38\00:51:33.54
Jesus, Son of God, Lamb of God
00:51:36.34\00:51:40.96
that takes away
the sin of the world,
00:51:40.99\00:51:43.65
unblemished took the
sin of mankind upon Him
00:51:43.68\00:51:49.36
to take away the
sin of the world.
00:51:49.39\00:51:51.52
He is the sacrifice. He
is the unblemished lamb.
00:51:51.55\00:51:57.20
Now the word for righteousness,
00:51:57.23\00:51:58.48
I find this absolutely amazing.
00:51:58.51\00:52:01.70
As a Seventh-day
Adventist Christian,
00:52:01.73\00:52:03.91
I understand what
righteousness means,
00:52:03.94\00:52:06.37
what the gospel
means, when it comes to
00:52:06.40\00:52:08.15
how you get it, how
you get righteousness,
00:52:08.18\00:52:11.09
but it is in your
word for righteousness "Yi"
00:52:11.12\00:52:15.00
and it is made up of a lamb.
00:52:15.03\00:52:18.82
And then the lamb is over me
and that's the word righteous.
00:52:18.85\00:52:24.04
If I want to be right with God,
00:52:24.07\00:52:25.59
I've got to make sure
that I am covered by the lamb.
00:52:25.62\00:52:30.05
The lamb is over me,
I'm not over the lamb
00:52:30.08\00:52:33.94
and if I take the word apart,
00:52:33.97\00:52:36.39
just a little bit more
I get even more meaning,
00:52:36.42\00:52:41.14
I learned if I
take that bottom bit
00:52:41.17\00:52:43.64
of the word "Yi" I
get this with a hand
00:52:43.67\00:52:49.28
and a spear is
used against the lamb.
00:52:49.31\00:52:56.30
And this word
is 4,200 years old,
00:52:56.33\00:53:00.47
2,200 years before Jesus
Christ died on the cross.
00:53:00.50\00:53:06.52
Your Chinese character
script had a word that captured
00:53:06.55\00:53:11.30
the good news of the
gospel where a spear was used
00:53:11.33\00:53:16.10
against the innocent
lamb representing our sins
00:53:16.13\00:53:21.01
that killed the
unblemished lamb of God
00:53:21.04\00:53:25.07
to take away the
sins of the world.
00:53:25.10\00:53:27.11
Praise God.
00:53:30.00\00:53:31.28
Christ's death on the cross
prophesy in Chinese writing,
00:53:36.71\00:53:43.70
isn't that just amazing?
00:53:43.73\00:53:48.07
So if we put it
all on the chart,
00:53:48.10\00:53:50.33
we can see while the Egyptians
00:53:50.36\00:53:52.74
were building
the pyramids in Egypt
00:53:52.77\00:53:55.44
you had already
developed a writing system
00:53:55.47\00:53:58.34
that contained the
great truths of Scripture
00:53:58.37\00:54:03.46
and I am just so
excited about this
00:54:03.49\00:54:06.37
and I hope if you are
watching or if you have a DVD,
00:54:06.40\00:54:10.13
that you get it
into the hands of some
00:54:10.16\00:54:12.96
of the government leaders in the
00:54:12.99\00:54:14.65
People's Republic of China
00:54:14.68\00:54:17.00
because I
believe that if they see
00:54:17.03\00:54:20.38
that they have this
head start on the Hebrews
00:54:20.41\00:54:26.89
that they have the Bible
concepts in their writing.
00:54:26.92\00:54:31.09
That it's not
an American import,
00:54:31.12\00:54:33.25
that its not a foreign religion,
00:54:33.28\00:54:35.94
that it is embedded in
your culture and writing.
00:54:35.97\00:54:38.77
I believe if government
leaders in China knew this,
00:54:38.80\00:54:42.25
they would open the doors
00:54:42.28\00:54:43.85
to the proclamation
of the gospel of Jesus
00:54:46.16\00:54:50.16
to the Chinese people.
00:54:50.19\00:54:52.69
All these great truths
the lamb being pierced,
00:54:52.72\00:54:56.59
blood sacrificing,
righteousness by faith,
00:54:56.62\00:55:01.08
being washed
clean, and eternal life,
00:55:01.11\00:55:03.47
these are all
embedded in your characters.
00:55:03.50\00:55:06.61
And I recommend for
those who want more reading,
00:55:06.64\00:55:09.93
to get this book
by Dr. Ethel Nelson,
00:55:09.96\00:55:14.13
you can get it
online, Amazon.com
00:55:14.16\00:55:17.46
"God's Promise to the Chinese."
00:55:17.49\00:55:21.42
And for those
who want more reading
00:55:21.45\00:55:23.87
there's another one called,
"God and the Ancient Chinese"
00:55:23.90\00:55:27.67
by Dr. Ethel
Nelson, her second book.
00:55:27.70\00:55:31.88
And for those who
want even more reading
00:55:31.91\00:55:34.58
there is another book
00:55:34.61\00:55:36.06
"Chinese Traditions and Beliefs"
00:55:36.09\00:55:39.36
by Daniel Tong,
a Christian writer.
00:55:39.39\00:55:42.83
And for those who
want even more evidence
00:55:42.86\00:55:45.14
and I want to do more reading
00:55:45.17\00:55:47.01
there's a 200 page
manuscript dated 1852
00:55:47.04\00:55:52.54
by the Reverend James
Legge from Princeton University
00:55:52.57\00:55:56.59
who studied
Chinese characters script
00:55:56.62\00:55:58.69
and the concepts of
the Bible in your language.
00:55:58.72\00:56:02.97
May God bless you,
00:56:03.00\00:56:04.69
as you reflect on the
contents of this message,
00:56:04.72\00:56:07.46
that it is
embedded in your language
00:56:07.49\00:56:09.95
and I thank God for the Chinese.
00:56:09.98\00:56:12.53
Amen.
00:56:12.56\00:56:13.99
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00:56:17.60\00:56:20.02
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