Imagine that you
develop a serious headache
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that just doesn't go away.
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It last for a week and
your head is just pounding.
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Finally you decide to
visit your family physician
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and he runs a series
of tests and to his horror
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he discovers that you
have a massive brain tumor.
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Now what does a good
doctor do at that point?
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It's not pleasant
to tell you the facts,
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so should he just say
here's a couple of aspirin
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and go home and go to bed.
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Of course not.
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A good doctor will sit you down
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and he will tell
you the unpleasant truth
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that you need to know.
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He's gonna recommend
an emergency operation
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because that's what
you need to save your life.
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Welcome to
"Earth's Final Crisis"
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what you must know to
survive the days ahead.
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The Bible is very
clear about what is coming
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and as a minister and
as a good spiritual doctor
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it is my responsibility
to tell you the truth.
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In Daniel 12:1
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this is what the
scripture prophesies.
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That the time is coming
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when there will be
a "time of trouble,
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such as never was
since there was a nation
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even to that same time."
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As you look around
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it's very
obvious at least to those
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who have eyes to
see and ears to hear
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that ancient
prophecies are being fulfilled
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and that we are on the edge
of the apocalyptic grand finale,
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the time of trouble
predicted in the Bible.
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The signs are everywhere,
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increasing
natural deadly disasters
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like hurricanes, earthquakes,
tsunami's, fires, floods
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they just keep
coming in rapid succession
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one after another.
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Extreme bizarre
weather patterns,
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record heat, record cold,
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people have never seen
the kind of strange weather
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that they're seeing right now.
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Increased
immorality, it's all around us.
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People don't know
what's right anymore,
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what's wrong.
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We live in an age
of moral confusion.
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Economic uncertainty
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we're teetering on the edge
of a global economic meltdown
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and a lot of
economist they know it,
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maybe it's not in the news
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but they know
that we're in a very,
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very precarious condition.
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Increased
pollution, dangerous toxicity
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that is in the environment
that is making people sick
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with strange
and bizarre diseases
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that just can't be
cured by modern medicine.
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Mass animal die-offs,
I've done a lot to research
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about the birds and bats
and the bees and the fish
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and the whales and
dolphins that are dropping dead
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around the world for
very mysterious reasons
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that people just can't
quite put their finger on.
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One of them has
to do with the bees,
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the bees it's a,
it's a big crisis
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I don't know if you
are aware of this or not
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but this is the front cover
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of other recent
issue of Time Magazine
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and it's all about
the vanishing of the bees
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which is called
Colony Collapse Disorder.
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It says here, a
world without bees.
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It's very frightening
to read this article.
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The feature story says
that you can thank the bees
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for one in every
three mouthfuls of food
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that you eat.
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Honey bees are the glue
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that holds our
agricultural system together
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and that glue is failing.
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Here it says
one-third at the US honeybees
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the colonies have
died or disappeared
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during the past winter.
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A 42 percent
increase over the year before
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and well above the
10 to 15 percent losses
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that beekeepers
use to experience
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in normal winters.
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Something is going
on, something a strange
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and they really can't
quite figure out exactly
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why all these bees are dying.
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Now here it says that
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what is really
scary is the fear that
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these may be a sign
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of what is to come a
symbol that something
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is terribly wrong
with the world around us.
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If we don't make
some changes soon
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we are going to see disaster
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and the bees are
just the beginning.
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When you put all
these signs together
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from earthquakes to
fires to floods to immorality
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what's happening in
nature, it's very obvious again
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that the biblical signs
are fulfilling all around us
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that the
apocalypse that has been
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predicted in
Scripture is at the door
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and just like the Bible says
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"there will be
a time of trouble,
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such as never was
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since there was a
nation even to that same time.
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" We are on the
edge of that time,
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but it's not all bad news.
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Thank God there is
good news in the book.
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It says, at that time
your people shall be delivered
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everyone that shall be
found written in the book.
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God is going to have
a people that survive,
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that go through the final times
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that go through
the seven last plagues
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described in
Revelation Chapter 16,
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they are going to make it,
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they are going to be rescued,
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they're going to be delivered
at the return of Jesus Christ.
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And that's what I'm
here to tell you about
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as we continue on
with this very timely
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and practical program telling
you things that you need to know
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to get ready for the future.
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In Daniel 12:4 it tells us
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that there will be a
final time right before the end
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when God is going to be
giving special information
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to His people.
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Daniel 12:4 talks about a
time called the time of the end.
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"And when the
time of the end comes
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many shall run to and fro,
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and knowledge
shall be increased."
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Now time of the
end is not the end
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but it's the time
right before the end
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when God is giving prophetic
intelligence information
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to his people to get
them ready for the crisis.
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In Daniel 12:10
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it continues and talks
about this time period.
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Says that, in
the time at the end
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"Many shall be purified."
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Now notice it says many not all.
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Some don't want to hear,
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some just would
rather be entertain,
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they rather just
watch the sports game
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they don't really
want to know the facts.
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They like to be like an ostrich
that puts its head in the sand
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and they just
really don't want to know.
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So not everybody is going
to be upon this information
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but many will,
many will be purified--
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God is gonna purify the people,
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He's gonna purify their heart.
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He is gonna cleanse
their lives from sin
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and He's getting a
people ready right now.
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Many shall be
purified and made white.
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They will be
clothed with the white robe
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of the
righteousness of Jesus Christ
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and then they will be
tried, they'll be tested,
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they'll be in the
middle of the storm
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but they will stand up for God
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and do what's
right when a crisis hits.
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And then it says "but the wicket
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would be wickedly
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and none of the
wicked will understand,
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the wicked just they
just don't want to know.
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They'd rather take two aspirin
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and go to bed
then learn the facts.
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The wicked will do wickedly
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and none of the
wicked will understand
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but the wise
they shall understand.
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God is going to have
a people who are wise,
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people who study the
Bible, people who know the facts
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and who
understand what is coming.
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There are many verses
in the Book of Revelation
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that talk about the future.
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Revelation 3:10 tells us
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that we are on the
edge of the hour temptation
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which shall test those
who dwell upon the earth.
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Revelation 13:16, 17
says that the time is coming
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when something
called the mark of the beast
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will be enforced
around the world,
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which we will talk
about in a little while.
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Revelation 16:14-16 tells
us that there is a final battle
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the great day of God Almighty
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and that we need
to be on God's side
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and not on the
side at the enemy.
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which takes us down
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to the very last
chapter of the Bible,
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the very final words
of God before the end,
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chapter 22, verse seven says
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Jesus says "Behold,
I am coming quickly"
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I am coming quickly.
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The conclusion of
all of these signs
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and all at this apocalyptic,
this the final scenario
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is ultimately the
return of Jesus Christ.
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Jesus says, "Behold,
I am coming quickly."
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And that being
the case the key to--
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our preparation is
not guns, it's not gold,
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it's not a charcoal filters
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and dried fruit
and beans and getaways
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and hide outside as important
as some of those things maybe.
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The golden key to
getting ready for the apocalypse
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it's getting to know
the one who is coming again.
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It's getting to know Jesus.
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He says "Behold I
am coming quickly."
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And then He says
"Blessed is he who keeps
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the saying at the
prophecy of this book."
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God has given us a book.
He's given us information.
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He's given us biblical
prophecy that we need to know
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the real
intelligence information
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that you need and I need.
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It's not going to
come from Nostradamus,
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from Edgar Casey, from
Greek or Roman Oracle's,
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it's not going to
come from Chinese Sears
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or astrologists or witches
or horoscopes or palm readers.
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It's going to come from
the prophecy of this book.
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It's gonna come from
God's book, God's word.
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In Revelation 22:10 it
says "Seal not the sayings
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of the prophecy of this book
for the time years at hand."
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The seconds are
ticking, time is running out,
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the signs are all
around us, the final crisis,
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the time of trouble is coming,
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the mark of the beast is coming,
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the last battle is
coming and we need to make sure
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that we are
survivors, that we make it
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through these final
dates that we are among those
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who are ready for the
return of Jesus Christ
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and that's what
Earth's Final Crisis
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what you must know
to survive is all about.
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So don't go
away as a good doctor
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I'm about to give you the
facts that you need to know
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to be ready for the
return of Jesus Christ.
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describes the final battle
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between good and evil.
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Verse 16 calls it Armageddon.
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In verse 14 it
tells us that this is,
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"The battle of the
great day of God Almighty."
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We want to be on God's side,
in that final war we want to be
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on the side of
truth and righteousness.
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But in order for
us to be on God's side
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it is also very helpful
to us to know our enemy,
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to know what he's up to,
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to understand his satanic
strategy in these end times
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and part of that
strategy is revealed two verses
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before verse 16 in verse 14.
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It tells us that
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"They are the spirit's
of devils, working miracles,
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which go forth to
the kings of the earth
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and the whole world, to
gather them to the battle
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of the have a great
day of God Almighty.
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Revelations 16:14 predicts
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that there will be final
burst of devilish activity
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around the world to
fasten people in deception.
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They're called spirits
devils working miracles.
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Now it's a fact that
millions of people today
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don't even believe in a devil.
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They don't think
there is a personal
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being named Lucifer or Satan.
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Somebody once said that
one of the greatest deceptions
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of the devil is
to convince humanity
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that there is no devil.
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And that's true,
there is a devil,
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the Bible is very
clear and Revelation 16:14
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tells us that the
spirits of devils will go out
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and they will work miracles
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right before the
final battle of Armageddon.
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One of the ways that the
devil performs his miracles
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to deceive is to impersonate
those that have died.
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This is part of
his satanic strategy
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to fasten people in his snare
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because if they believe
that the devils are really
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the spirits of the dead
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then Satan can instruct
them according to his will.
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It's very easy for
the spirits of devils
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and for satanic
agencies to appear,
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to look like, to act like,
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and to talk like
those that have died.
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They can appear as celebrities,
they can appear as politicians,
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they can appear
as your relatives,
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your parents, your
great-grandparents,
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even your
children if unfortunately
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your children die before you do.
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The devil is
ruthless and he is pulling out
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all the stops
in these last days.
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And in just a few
minutes I'll show you
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what the Bible actually
says about talking to the dead.
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But first in 2 Thessalonians
2:9-12 God clearly warns us
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about these fall satanic
miracles designed to deceive.
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In verse 9 it talks
about the "working of Satan
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with all power and
signs and lying wonders,
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and all deceivableness
of unrighteousness
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in them that perish
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because they received
not the love of the truth,
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that they might be saved."
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God tells us that truth
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is what we need to
avoid satanic deception.
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Truth is what we need to survive
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and it's not just
knowing the truth its--
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and it's not
just loving the truth,
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it is receiving
the love of the truth
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that we might be saved.
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Verse 11 says
"And for this cause
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God will send
them a strong delusion,
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that they should
be leaving a lie,
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that they all might be damned
who believed not the truth,
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but had pleasure
in unrighteousness."
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These words deeply impress me
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that we're in a battle between
lives and strong delusion
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and the truth and God
wants as to know the truth.
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He wants us to love the truth.
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He wants us to
receive the love of the truth.
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This is part of the
resources that He's given us
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to help us to
survive in the final days,
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so that we're not
duped and deceived
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by the spirits of devils
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and their global
satanic manifestations.
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Now let's go to the Book of Job
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and see what it
says about dead people
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coming back and talking to us.
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In the Book of Job 7:9,
10 the Bible is very clear.
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The scripture says
"As the cloud is consumed
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and vanishes away so,
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he who goes down to the
grave shall come up no more.
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He shall return
no more to his house,
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neither shall his
place know him any more."
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These verses are very
clear that when a person dies
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they can't just come back
to their home and talk to you.
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I remember when
I was a little boy
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there was a woman that claimed--
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my father's house
in Southern California
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and I remember
her name was Mary.
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And one day Mary came up
to me and she said Steve,
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you never gonna
guess what I saw.
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And I said, what?
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I was just maybe
nine or ten years old
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and Mary said that
her husband had died
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and that one
night he walked right in
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through the screen
door into her bedroom
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and had a conversation with him.
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And She told me
she said, it was him,
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I talk to my dead husband.
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And as a nine-year-old I
really didn't know what to say.
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I hadn't studied my Bible,
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I didn't know what
Job taught about this
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and so I just
probably just thought wow,
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that's quite amazing.
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A number of years
ago I was a pastor
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in North Dakota and
by this time I'd grown up
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and I was studying
my Bible and I knew
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what God had to say about this.
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And there was a story
circulating around the town
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where I lived, just a small town
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about a little
boy that had died.
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And this boy was
maybe 13 or 14 or maybe 12
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and he started appearing to his
relatives and talking to them.
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And so the stories
were really going around.
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Wow, this little
boy's ghost has come back.
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Well, as time went on eventually
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this ghost appeared
to this little boy's--
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this young man's
grand grandmother
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and this
grandmother knew her Bible.
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She knew what the Bible says
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that those who go down
to the grave don't come back
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and that they do not
return anymore to their houses.
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And she knew this
and when this ghost
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of this young boy
appeared to this grandmother
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and started talking to
her she remembered the Bible
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and she confronted the spirit
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and she said in the
name of Jesus Christ
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get out of here in
the name of Jesus go.
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And all of a sudden that
boyish face just changed,
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it was transformed
into a hideous expression
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and then it was gone.
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And word continued to
spread around the town
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that obviously that
ghost was not the ghost
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of that little boy it
was a spirit of a devil
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that was
impersonating a dead loved one.
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We need to know what the Bible
says about the topic of death.
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We need to know what's
gonna happen when we die.
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If we don't we're subject
we're actually sitting ducks
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that can easily be
misled and be deceived
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by spirits up devils
impersonating the dead.
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Somebody once said
be careful a half-truth
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because you may end
up with the long half.
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We need more than half
truths in these last days.
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We need the whole truth
and nothing but the truth.
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So help us God and
that truth is in the Bible
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and the Bible is very
clear that communication
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with the dead is taboo, its out.
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God says no, stay away
from it don't involved at all.
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Now here's the reason, in
the Book of Ecclesiastes 9:5
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the Bible gives us
a very pointed truth
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that many refused to
accept, they refused to believe
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but its right
here in God's book.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5 says that
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"The living know
that they will die
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but the dead
know not any thing."
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The dead don't know anything.
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And verse 10 it says
"Whatever your hand finds
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to do you do it with your
might for there is no work,
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nor device, nor knowledge,
nor wisdom in the grave,
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where you are going."
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According to these
inspired words dead people
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they just don't know anything.
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They're not up
there looking down on us.
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They're not down
there looking up on us.
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They can't go
into the spirit world
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and then come
back and forth at will.
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They certainly don't
return as a mouse or frog.
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The Bible is very
clear that these things
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are just they're just not true.
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God's word says that the
dead they don't know anything.
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Now let me just
give you a quick survey
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of some very
powerful biblical facts
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that we need to know
to survive the deceptions
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that are going
to be all around us
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in the last days of
this earth's history.
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Psalm 6:5 says that
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"In death there
is no remembrance"
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of God, in the grape
who will give you thanks."
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In Psalm 115: 17
the Bible is very clear
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that "The dead do
not praise the Lord,
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nor any that go
down into silence."
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In Psalm 146:4
and you can look up
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all these verses in your
own Bible they're right there.
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Psalm 146:4 says
that in the very day
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when a person dies
"His thoughts parish,
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he doesn't
continued think after death."
00:20:08.30\00:20:11.07
He is dead as
Ecclesiastes 9:5 says,
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"The living know
that they will die,
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but the dead know not anything.
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First Corinthians 15:3, 4
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tell us in the
midst of the bad news
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it tells us the good
news that there is hope
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on the other side of the grave
00:20:28.29\00:20:30.43
that death is not the last word,
00:20:30.46\00:20:32.89
that when we
breathe our final breath
00:20:32.93\00:20:35.90
that we can
still hope for a future
00:20:35.93\00:20:37.87
and it's a beautiful future.
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In 1 Corinthians 15:3, 4
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it tells us what
Jesus did for us,
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the gospel, good
news of our Savior.
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Paul wrote "I
delivered to you first of all
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that which I also
received, how that Christ died
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for our sins
according to the scriptures
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that he was buried,
and that he rose again
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the third day
according to the scriptures."
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Go back all the way
to beginning at the Bible
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when God made a
perfect world and then
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Adam and Eve chose to
sin and follow the serpent
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to follow Lucifer the
whole world has fallen
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and as a result we die.
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Death has entered
humanity because of sin
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but the good news is
that God still loves us.
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He hasn't forsaken His world,
00:21:20.74\00:21:22.31
He hasn't turned
His back on us forever
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but He sent His own Son
to come down into human form,
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to live a perfect life,
a holy life, a loving life,
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a godly life and at
the end at of that life
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the Bible says that Christ
He died, He gave His life.
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He suffered in
Gethsemane and on the cross
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and He died for our sins
according to the scriptures.
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And He was really dead.
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Jesus Christ really didn't
die, He entered the grave,
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He was placed in
Joseph's Tomb and a big rock
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was placed over the
darkness of that tomb.
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He was buried
but on the third day
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He rose again from the dead
according to the scriptures.
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Jesus died, was
buried and He rose.
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Here is
resurrection from the dead.
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Verse 6 says "That,
He was seen by about
00:22:03.18\00:22:05.69
five hundred people
after his resurrection,
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of whom the greater
part remain to this present,"
00:22:08.19\00:22:10.69
but then Paul says "some
of them have fallen asleep."
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Which means they've died.
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In the Bible death is
simply described as a sleep.
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Just like when you
go to bed at night,
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you are out and if
you have an alarm clock
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in the morning it wakes you
up and it's time to wake up.
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And the Bible talks
very clearly about death,
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burial and resurrection.
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In Daniel 12:2, 3 it says that
00:22:31.28\00:22:34.75
"Many of those who
sleep in the dust of the earth
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will one day awake,
some to everlasting life
00:22:37.15\00:22:40.16
and some to shame an
everlasting contempt."
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In John Chapter 6,
Jesus very clearly tells us
00:22:44.09\00:22:48.60
four times about
the hope that we have
00:22:48.63\00:22:51.93
as believers in Him,
those who trust in Jesus,
00:22:51.97\00:22:54.84
who give Him their sins
and receive His forgiveness.
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John 6:39, Jesus said
00:22:58.01\00:23:00.24
"I will raise them up
again at the last day."
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Verse 40, "I will raise
him up at the last day."
00:23:02.78\00:23:06.55
Verse 44, "I will raise
him up at the last day."
00:23:06.58\00:23:09.98
Verse 54, "I will raise
him up at the last day."
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Four times in John
Chapter 6, Jesus Christ promised
00:23:14.02\00:23:17.76
that those who believe
in Him will be resurrected
00:23:17.79\00:23:20.36
at the last day and
Jesus strongly taught
00:23:20.40\00:23:22.83
death burial and resurrection.
00:23:22.86\00:23:26.33
In 1 Thessalonians Chapter
4 and this is a wonderful
00:23:26.37\00:23:30.51
and it's an encouraging
and it's a powerful passage
00:23:30.54\00:23:33.14
in the Bible which I
have read to bereaved families
00:23:33.17\00:23:37.31
many times after they have
laid a loved one into the grave.
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First Thessalonians
4:16 tells us that some day
00:23:42.28\00:23:45.62
and I believe it's very soon
00:23:45.65\00:23:47.29
"The Lord himself will descend
from heaven with a shout,
00:23:47.32\00:23:49.96
with the voice of the archangel,
00:23:49.99\00:23:51.43
with the trumpet of God
00:23:51.46\00:23:52.79
and the dead in
Christ will rise first"
00:23:52.83\00:23:55.16
that's a resurrection
"then we who are alive
00:23:55.20\00:23:57.63
and remain shall
be caught up together
00:23:57.67\00:23:59.33
with them in the
clouds, to meet the Lord
00:23:59.37\00:24:01.50
in the air so shall
we ever be with the Lord.
00:24:01.54\00:24:05.34
Wherefore comfort one another"
Paul says "with these words."
00:24:05.37\00:24:09.78
These words from God
have been given to us
00:24:09.81\00:24:12.21
to comfort us in time of loss.
00:24:12.25\00:24:14.98
I heard an old--
about an old saint who said,
00:24:15.02\00:24:17.09
"If you miss me don't dismay.
00:24:17.12\00:24:18.89
I may have to rest
in a mound of clay,
00:24:18.92\00:24:21.16
but when I hear
the trumpet sound
00:24:21.19\00:24:22.62
I'm coming out off
the cold, cold ground."
00:24:22.66\00:24:25.76
These words from
God are the truth.
00:24:25.79\00:24:28.50
We cannot afford
in these last days
00:24:28.53\00:24:30.60
to simply trust our hearts,
00:24:30.63\00:24:31.97
we can't trust
just our feelings,
00:24:32.00\00:24:33.50
we can't trust impressions
00:24:33.54\00:24:35.37
or what many popular preachers
may say, we can't even trust
00:24:35.40\00:24:39.14
at New York
Times bestselling books
00:24:39.17\00:24:41.04
that claim to have people
seeing things on the other side
00:24:41.08\00:24:44.78
that really just
don't agree with the Bible.
00:24:44.81\00:24:48.08
And we certainly
can't just rely on miracles
00:24:48.12\00:24:50.69
because many of the signs
and wonders will be false.
00:24:50.72\00:24:52.82
They'll come from the spirits
of devils trying to trick us
00:24:52.85\00:24:56.26
and to lead us
away from Bible truth.
00:24:56.29\00:24:59.79
If we don't know
the truth about death,
00:24:59.83\00:25:02.23
burial and resurrection
according to the Bible
00:25:02.26\00:25:06.33
we don't have a
ghost of a chance.
00:25:06.37\00:25:10.14
But if we want to be ready
00:25:10.17\00:25:11.51
for the battle of the
great day of God Almighty,
00:25:11.54\00:25:14.44
if we want to
survive these final days
00:25:14.48\00:25:17.45
then we need to know the truth
of what Jesus Christ taught
00:25:17.48\00:25:21.25
and hold on to
it no matter what.
00:25:21.28\00:25:24.29
The Book of Revelation is
the last book of the Bible.
00:25:24.32\00:25:26.69
It's the greatest book
on prophecy ever written.
00:25:26.72\00:25:29.22
And in chapter 14 we read
about three angels messages
00:25:29.26\00:25:33.36
that God sends
to the whole world
00:25:33.40\00:25:35.56
to help people to get ready
for the return of Jesus Christ.
00:25:35.60\00:25:39.23
In Revelation 14:6 the
first angel talks about
00:25:39.27\00:25:41.94
the everlasting gospel
which is the good news of Jesus
00:25:41.97\00:25:45.41
that He came down
here, became a man,
00:25:45.44\00:25:47.61
died on the cross
for all of our sins
00:25:47.64\00:25:49.84
and then rose from the dead.
00:25:49.88\00:25:51.75
In verse 7 it says
"Worship him that made heaven,
00:25:51.78\00:25:55.58
and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of waters."
00:25:55.62\00:25:59.15
And verse 12 says
00:25:59.19\00:26:00.66
"Here is the
patience of the saints,
00:26:00.69\00:26:02.76
here are they that
keep the commandments God,
00:26:02.79\00:26:06.59
and have the faith of Jesus."
00:26:06.63\00:26:09.20
And these people, these saints,
00:26:09.23\00:26:11.03
these commandment keeping saints
00:26:11.07\00:26:12.83
who follow Jesus are
the ones that are ready
00:26:12.87\00:26:15.67
for the return of Christ.
00:26:15.70\00:26:17.04
In verse 14 John wrote
"And I looked, and behold
00:26:17.07\00:26:20.08
a white cloud,
and upon the cloud
00:26:20.11\00:26:22.01
one sat like the Son of man,
00:26:22.04\00:26:23.75
having on his
head a golden crown,
00:26:23.78\00:26:25.41
and in his hand a sharp sickle."
00:26:25.45\00:26:27.92
So the
sequences in the last book
00:26:27.95\00:26:29.88
in the Bible in Revelation 14
00:26:29.92\00:26:31.82
we have the three
angels messages talking about
00:26:31.85\00:26:34.02
worshipping the Creator,
keeping the commandments,
00:26:34.06\00:26:36.42
following the everlasting gospel
00:26:36.46\00:26:38.19
and those
messages develop people
00:26:38.23\00:26:41.00
who are ready for the
return of Jesus Christ.
00:26:41.03\00:26:45.27
The world that we live
in is filled with laws.
00:26:45.30\00:26:48.94
Every country has its laws.
00:26:48.97\00:26:50.31
There even a lot
of laws in the Bible
00:26:50.34\00:26:52.61
but there is one set of laws
that tower above all other laws
00:26:52.64\00:26:58.01
that have ever
been written by man.
00:26:58.05\00:27:00.35
I have here two
solid tables of stone.
00:27:00.38\00:27:04.59
These are the Ten Commandments
00:27:04.62\00:27:06.19
and what makes the Ten
Commandments so unique,
00:27:06.22\00:27:08.72
so different from
every other body of laws
00:27:08.76\00:27:11.23
is that they were
written not with a pen,
00:27:11.26\00:27:13.60
not with a pencil, not
with some kind of a stylus
00:27:13.63\00:27:16.97
or computer mouse
or speech recognition,
00:27:17.00\00:27:21.17
audio speech recognition,
it's not some high-technology
00:27:21.20\00:27:24.91
but these
commandments were written
00:27:24.94\00:27:27.84
with the finger of God himself
that's what the Bible says
00:27:27.88\00:27:30.65
in Exodus chapter
31:18 and they were written
00:27:30.68\00:27:33.92
on solid stone which
means that they can never,
00:27:33.95\00:27:37.59
they can never be changed.
00:27:37.62\00:27:39.55
And the Bible
tells in Revelation 14:12
00:27:39.59\00:27:42.52
that God is
going to have a people,
00:27:42.56\00:27:44.26
a group of saints who
keep the commandments of God
00:27:44.29\00:27:47.56
and have the faith of Jesus
00:27:47.60\00:27:49.53
and who are prepared for
the return of Jesus Christ.
00:27:49.56\00:27:52.77
Now I want you to sit
down and brace yourself,
00:27:52.80\00:27:55.74
because I'm gonna tell you
00:27:55.77\00:27:57.67
something that is
not politically correct,
00:27:57.71\00:27:59.74
it's not in many
religious circles
00:27:59.77\00:28:02.41
its not religiously correct,
00:28:02.44\00:28:04.71
it's an unpopular
truth but it's a solid
00:28:04.75\00:28:08.02
as what was written
with the finger of God.
00:28:08.05\00:28:12.05
We ready in chapter 14 verse 7
00:28:12.09\00:28:14.99
that God is going
to have the people
00:28:15.02\00:28:16.96
"who worship
him who made heaven,
00:28:16.99\00:28:20.13
and earth, the sea,
and all that is in them
00:28:20.16\00:28:22.06
who worship the Creator."
00:28:22.10\00:28:23.47
Verse 12 says "the
saints are going to keep
00:28:23.50\00:28:26.43
the commandments of God."
00:28:26.47\00:28:28.40
Now it is a fact that
when you look at the Big Ten
00:28:28.44\00:28:31.27
the Ten
Commandments there is only one,
00:28:31.31\00:28:34.91
only one of these ten
that specifically talks about
00:28:34.94\00:28:38.31
the Creator of heaven on earth,
the sea and everything in it
00:28:38.35\00:28:41.88
and it's right
there in the very heart
00:28:41.92\00:28:43.75
at the law of God
and it is commandment
00:28:43.79\00:28:46.82
number four that
talks about remembering
00:28:46.86\00:28:50.26
and not forgetting the Sabbath.
00:28:50.29\00:28:52.59
Now if you have a
Bible I invite you to open up
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.43
to Exodus Chapter 20
and let's take a look
00:28:55.46\00:28:59.63
at this fourth
commandment which is written
00:28:59.67\00:29:04.17
with the finger
of God on tables,
00:29:04.21\00:29:06.61
which was written
with the finger of God
00:29:06.64\00:29:08.44
on a table of stone.
00:29:08.48\00:29:10.61
Exodus 20:8 the Bible says
00:29:10.65\00:29:14.48
"Remember the Sabbath
day, and keep it holy.
00:29:14.52\00:29:20.56
I think it's safe to say
that there are millions of Bible
00:29:20.59\00:29:23.53
believing Christians
today that have a general belief
00:29:23.56\00:29:27.26
in the Ten Commandments,
00:29:27.30\00:29:28.63
they believe in the
authority of God's law.
00:29:28.66\00:29:30.47
If you ask them
should we avoid idols
00:29:30.50\00:29:32.83
which is commandment
number two, they say of course.
00:29:32.87\00:29:35.14
What about lying? Should we lie?
00:29:35.17\00:29:37.01
They'd say no, definitely not.
That's commandment number nine.
00:29:37.04\00:29:40.31
Commandment number
six talks about killing,
00:29:40.34\00:29:42.48
number seven talks
about committing adultery,
00:29:42.51\00:29:45.11
commandment number five says,
honor your father and mother
00:29:45.15\00:29:47.78
and most Christians would agree.
00:29:47.82\00:29:49.75
Yes, we need to
follow those commandments,
00:29:49.78\00:29:51.75
they're just,
they're just basic moral laws
00:29:51.79\00:29:54.56
that we need to live by.
00:29:54.59\00:29:56.59
But when it comes to
commandment number four,
00:29:56.62\00:29:58.69
when it comes to the commandment
00:29:58.73\00:30:00.50
that says "Remember the
Sabbath day to keep it holy"
00:30:00.53\00:30:04.33
for some strange
reason many just flip flop
00:30:04.37\00:30:07.17
and all the
sudden they say that,
00:30:07.20\00:30:08.90
you know, really that command
it just really doesn't make
00:30:08.94\00:30:11.61
any difference what day you keep
00:30:11.64\00:30:13.68
but that doesn't make any sense.
00:30:13.71\00:30:15.04
Does it make sense
that the only commandment
00:30:15.08\00:30:18.18
that God says
remember is the only one
00:30:18.21\00:30:21.98
that it's okay for us to forget?
00:30:22.02\00:30:24.82
No, it doesn't
make any sense at all.
00:30:24.85\00:30:28.32
The fourth
commandment continues and says
00:30:28.36\00:30:30.56
"Six days you shall
labor, and do all your work.
00:30:30.59\00:30:32.99
But the seventh day is
the Sabbath of the Lord
00:30:33.03\00:30:36.26
your God in it you
shall not do any work."
00:30:36.30\00:30:39.63
Now what is that
seventh day anyway?
00:30:39.67\00:30:42.34
Which day of the week is that?
00:30:42.37\00:30:44.27
If you ask any Jew or at
least if he's a good Jew,
00:30:44.31\00:30:47.31
he'll tell you that
the seventh day Sabbath
00:30:47.34\00:30:49.64
is from sundown Friday
night to sundown Saturday night.
00:30:49.68\00:30:52.58
If you look up
Saturday in the dictionary
00:30:52.61\00:30:56.79
it'll tell you it's the
seventh day of the week.
00:30:56.82\00:30:58.85
If you look it
up an encyclopedia
00:30:58.89\00:31:00.66
it will tell you it's the same.
00:31:00.69\00:31:02.42
Matthew, Mark, Luke and
John in the New Testament
00:31:02.46\00:31:04.59
are very clear
that Jesus Christ rose
00:31:04.63\00:31:07.40
from the dead not
on the seventh day
00:31:07.43\00:31:09.33
but on the
first day of the week,
00:31:09.36\00:31:11.23
that's the day that
Jesus rose which is Sunday.
00:31:11.27\00:31:14.40
He rose on the
first day the week,
00:31:14.44\00:31:15.77
but the first day that
week is not the seventh day
00:31:15.80\00:31:17.94
it's not the day
that is specified
00:31:17.97\00:31:20.24
in the fourth commandment.
00:31:20.28\00:31:22.61
In Exodus 20:11
Gives us the reason
00:31:22.64\00:31:27.65
why we should keep
the seventh day Sabbath.
00:31:27.68\00:31:30.35
It says "For in six days
the Lord made heaven and earth,
00:31:30.39\00:31:34.06
and the sea, and
all that in them is,
00:31:34.09\00:31:36.26
and he rested
on the seventh day,
00:31:36.29\00:31:38.36
wherefore the Lord
blessed the Sabbath day,
00:31:38.39\00:31:41.63
and hallowed it."
00:31:41.66\00:31:43.30
He made that particular
day a holy, special day.
00:31:43.33\00:31:48.40
Now let me just give
you a brief history lesson
00:31:48.44\00:31:51.27
based on the Bible.
00:31:51.31\00:31:52.64
I don't have time to
read all of these verses
00:31:52.67\00:31:54.64
but you can write them down
or you can look them up later.
00:31:54.68\00:31:58.71
They're very clear
right in the Bible.
00:31:58.75\00:32:01.05
In Genesis Chapter 1 and 2
which is the very beginning
00:32:01.08\00:32:04.12
of have the Bible
when God made the heavens
00:32:04.15\00:32:06.25
and the earth, He
made the earth in six days
00:32:06.29\00:32:08.62
and He rested on the seventh day
00:32:08.66\00:32:10.93
and He blessed that day
00:32:10.96\00:32:12.36
and he made that
day a holy, special day
00:32:12.39\00:32:14.86
because it is a
day to commemorate
00:32:14.90\00:32:17.13
who He is as the
Maker of all life.
00:32:17.17\00:32:21.30
When you go down to
Exodus 20 as we've already read
00:32:21.34\00:32:23.81
God put that day
into the heart of His law,
00:32:23.84\00:32:26.64
the lawless command of
all the fourth commandment
00:32:26.68\00:32:29.74
which says
remember the Sabbath day
00:32:29.78\00:32:31.81
and keep it holy.
00:32:31.85\00:32:33.31
If everybody did that
00:32:33.35\00:32:35.08
there'd be no
struggle over evolution,
00:32:35.12\00:32:36.89
people wouldn't think
that we came from the goo,
00:32:36.92\00:32:39.55
the cosmic goo
or through a monkey
00:32:39.59\00:32:42.19
eventually it became you and me.
00:32:42.22\00:32:43.96
People wouldn't
believe any those things
00:32:43.99\00:32:45.36
because they'd
know what the Bible says
00:32:45.39\00:32:47.00
that God made the
heavens and the earth
00:32:47.03\00:32:49.46
and He rested
on the seventh day.
00:32:49.50\00:32:52.07
When Jesus Christ was
here, in Luke 4:16 it says,
00:32:52.10\00:32:56.10
that as His custom was He went
00:32:56.14\00:32:58.17
into the synagogue
on the Sabbath day.
00:32:58.21\00:32:59.94
Jesus was a Sabbath keeper.
00:32:59.97\00:33:02.01
In Mark-- Matthew 12:8
00:33:02.04\00:33:05.21
Jesus said that He was
the Lord of the Sabbath day.
00:33:05.25\00:33:08.58
In verse 8 and verse 12
He said it's lawful to do
00:33:08.62\00:33:11.25
good on the Sabbath day
and He is Lord of that day.
00:33:11.29\00:33:15.42
The Bible tells us
that Jesus Christ died
00:33:15.46\00:33:18.69
on the day before the Sabbath.
00:33:18.73\00:33:20.43
In Luke Chapter
23 it's very clear
00:33:20.46\00:33:22.10
that He died on the preparation
day right before the Sabbath.
00:33:22.13\00:33:25.13
He rested in the
tomb on the Sabbath
00:33:25.17\00:33:27.84
and then He rose
from the dead on Sunday.
00:33:27.87\00:33:29.97
Which is, is a parallel
to the creation of this world
00:33:30.01\00:33:33.21
that God made
the earth in six days
00:33:33.24\00:33:35.28
and then He finished His work
00:33:35.31\00:33:37.31
and then He rested
on the seventh day.
00:33:37.35\00:33:39.61
And Jesus rested in
the tomb on the Sabbath
00:33:39.65\00:33:41.95
and then He rose from
the dead on Sunday morning.
00:33:41.98\00:33:44.92
In Luke 23:56 it tells us
plainly that the disciples
00:33:44.95\00:33:49.76
of Jesus Christ kept the Sabbath
00:33:49.79\00:33:52.46
according to the commandment
after Jesus Christ died.
00:33:52.49\00:33:57.23
That's what the
Bible says it Luke 23:56.
00:33:57.27\00:34:01.80
In Acts 13:42-44
the Bible says that
00:34:01.84\00:34:05.71
when Paul was
going out as a missionary
00:34:05.74\00:34:07.94
and preaching the
gospel that gentiles
00:34:07.98\00:34:10.48
kept the Sabbath day
that they gather together
00:34:10.51\00:34:12.98
on the Sabbath day
to hear the Word of God.
00:34:13.01\00:34:16.25
In Acts 16:13 the
Bible tells us that
00:34:16.28\00:34:19.92
on the Sabbath day Paul prayed
00:34:19.95\00:34:22.66
and he went out by river
to spend some time in prayer
00:34:22.69\00:34:25.23
even when there were no Jews.
00:34:25.26\00:34:26.86
Even when he was
doing missionary work
00:34:26.90\00:34:28.66
among the gentiles he
was still keeping the Sabbath
00:34:28.70\00:34:31.20
a long way from Jerusalem.
00:34:31.23\00:34:33.44
In Acts 16:13,
00:34:33.47\00:34:36.50
when you go all the way
down to the Book of Revelation,
00:34:36.54\00:34:39.47
Revelation is the
last book of the Bible
00:34:39.51\00:34:41.21
and its special number is seven,
00:34:41.24\00:34:42.98
there are seven
churches, there seven trumpets,
00:34:43.01\00:34:44.91
there are seven
plagues, there are horns,
00:34:44.95\00:34:47.05
seven eyes, seven angels,
there's all kinds of sevens
00:34:47.08\00:34:50.89
and eventually God
warns us about the number 666
00:34:50.92\00:34:54.62
which is not quite seven.
00:34:54.66\00:34:56.42
Seven is God's number
from Genesis to Revelation
00:34:56.46\00:35:00.23
it is a number
that represents Him
00:35:00.26\00:35:04.00
as the Creator
of heaven and earth.
00:35:04.03\00:35:06.20
In Isaiah 66:22,
23 the Bible also says
00:35:06.23\00:35:10.21
that the Sabbath will
be kept in the new earth
00:35:10.24\00:35:12.84
that from one
Sabbath to another all flesh
00:35:12.87\00:35:15.34
in God's new earth will
be keeping His holy day.
00:35:15.38\00:35:18.61
Now follow this is true
which it is from the Bible,
00:35:18.65\00:35:21.58
then the big question is well,
00:35:21.62\00:35:22.95
how did the
Sabbath get changed anyway?
00:35:22.98\00:35:25.85
Here have in my
hand Convert's Catechism
00:35:25.89\00:35:28.66
of Catholic Doctrine from
the Roman Catholic Church.
00:35:28.69\00:35:31.56
It says on page 50, question
"what day is the Sabbath day?"
00:35:31.59\00:35:35.36
Answer, "Saturday
is the Sabbath day."
00:35:35.40\00:35:37.90
Question, "Why then
do we observe Sunday
00:35:37.93\00:35:39.93
instead of Saturday."
00:35:39.97\00:35:41.30
Answer, "We observe"
00:35:41.34\00:35:42.67
that's Catholics
"Sunday instead of Saturday
00:35:42.70\00:35:45.11
because the Catholic
Church transferred the solemnity
00:35:45.14\00:35:49.54
from Saturday to Sunday."
00:35:49.58\00:35:52.45
It's an amazing
admission but its right there.
00:35:52.48\00:35:55.58
And really,
ultimately the question
00:35:55.62\00:35:57.45
we have to ask ourselves
00:35:57.49\00:35:59.49
and the decision
that we have to make is,
00:35:59.52\00:36:01.29
are we gonna follow a man?
00:36:01.32\00:36:02.66
Are we gonna follow
the Catholic Church?
00:36:02.69\00:36:04.16
Are we gonna follow
even what the pope says
00:36:04.19\00:36:06.03
or are we gonna
follow what God says
00:36:06.06\00:36:08.76
and what He wrote with
His own finger on solid stone?
00:36:08.80\00:36:12.53
That's the issue, man or God.
00:36:12.57\00:36:15.54
I've made my decision and I hope
00:36:15.57\00:36:17.77
that you will
make yours as well.
00:36:17.81\00:36:20.38
Now what about Grace?
I are we saved by grace?
00:36:20.41\00:36:23.21
We don't need to keep the law
00:36:23.24\00:36:24.58
because we're
saved by grace many say.
00:36:24.61\00:36:26.05
When you look Ephesians 2:8
Paul is very clear that yes,
00:36:26.08\00:36:30.62
we are saved by
the grace of Jesus.
00:36:30.65\00:36:32.45
That what happened was on cross
00:36:32.49\00:36:34.12
Jesus took our
sins of breaking His law
00:36:34.16\00:36:36.52
into His mind into His
mind and into His heart
00:36:36.56\00:36:39.29
and He died on the cross
00:36:39.33\00:36:40.66
for every sin
we've ever committed.
00:36:40.70\00:36:42.03
Praise God.
00:36:42.06\00:36:43.40
But that doesn't
change God's law.
00:36:43.43\00:36:44.97
He rose from the dead
00:36:45.00\00:36:46.37
but that doesn't
change God's law.
00:36:46.40\00:36:48.14
In the same Book
of Ephesians 6:1-3
00:36:48.17\00:36:52.11
Paul is very clear
that Christian children
00:36:52.14\00:36:54.84
should still obey
the fifth commandment,
00:36:54.88\00:36:57.35
honor your
father and your mother.
00:36:57.38\00:36:59.75
In John 14:15 Jesus said,
00:36:59.78\00:37:02.95
"If you love Me
keep my commandments,"
00:37:02.98\00:37:06.92
which is actually a quote
00:37:06.96\00:37:08.29
from the third
commandment right here
00:37:08.32\00:37:10.03
written with the finger of God.
00:37:10.06\00:37:12.16
So yes, we're saved by grace,
its grace that that forgives us
00:37:12.19\00:37:16.13
because we've broken God's law.
00:37:16.16\00:37:17.50
Its grace that clothes us
00:37:17.53\00:37:19.27
in Christ robe of righteousness.
00:37:19.30\00:37:21.44
Its grace that gets
us out of the pit of sin
00:37:21.47\00:37:24.04
but when we're changed by grace
00:37:24.07\00:37:25.84
and when we've been
renewed and transformed
00:37:25.87\00:37:27.78
by His love and His
goodness and His power
00:37:27.81\00:37:30.45
then we are going to
become commandment keepers
00:37:30.48\00:37:34.45
because that's
what the Bible says.
00:37:34.48\00:37:36.89
Back to Revelation
Chapter 14, Chapter 14
00:37:36.92\00:37:41.02
we have the three angels'
messages to the whole world.
00:37:41.06\00:37:43.26
Verse 6 talks about
the everlasting good news.
00:37:43.29\00:37:45.53
Verse 7 says
"Worship him that made heaven,
00:37:45.56\00:37:48.63
and earth, and the sea,
and the fountains of water."
00:37:48.66\00:37:51.97
And then verse 12 says
00:37:52.00\00:37:53.50
"Here is the patience of saints,
00:37:53.54\00:37:55.70
here are they that keep
the commandments of God,
00:37:55.74\00:37:58.57
and the faith of Jesus."
00:37:58.61\00:38:00.31
It is a fact that when
you look at the Big Ten
00:38:00.34\00:38:03.21
which God wrote
with His own finger
00:38:03.24\00:38:05.25
onto two tables of
stone there is only one,
00:38:05.28\00:38:08.95
only one
commandment that has to do
00:38:08.98\00:38:11.19
with worshiping the
Creator of heaven and earth,
00:38:11.22\00:38:13.59
the sea and everything in it
00:38:13.62\00:38:15.16
and that is the
fourth commandment
00:38:15.19\00:38:17.03
that tells us to
remember not to forget
00:38:17.06\00:38:19.79
the seventh day Sabbath
00:38:19.83\00:38:21.56
because that is God's
day to commemorate Him
00:38:21.60\00:38:25.13
as the maker of
heaven and earth.
00:38:25.17\00:38:28.90
"Here's the
patience that the saints,
00:38:28.94\00:38:30.71
here they that keep
the commandments to God,
00:38:30.74\00:38:33.21
and the faith in Jesus."
00:38:33.24\00:38:34.71
Verse 14 "I looked,
and behold a white cloud,
00:38:34.74\00:38:37.71
and he that sat upon the
cloud was the Son of man."
00:38:37.75\00:38:40.95
God is gonna have a
group of commandment
00:38:40.98\00:38:42.78
keeping people who love
Jesus, who follow the Bible,
00:38:42.82\00:38:45.65
who are ready for His
return that is the truth
00:38:45.69\00:38:49.79
that you need to know
00:38:49.82\00:38:51.39
and may God help all
us to follow His truth.
00:38:51.43\00:38:55.73
The Book of Revelation is
the last book of the Bible
00:38:55.76\00:38:58.03
and it contains God's last
warning for perishing world
00:38:58.07\00:39:01.40
before the
return of Jesus Christ.
00:39:01.44\00:39:03.57
That last message is
called the third angels message.
00:39:03.61\00:39:06.91
In Revelation
14:9-12 the Bible says
00:39:06.94\00:39:10.55
"And the third
angel followed them,
00:39:10.58\00:39:12.01
saying with a loud
voice, if any man worships
00:39:12.05\00:39:15.25
the beast and his image,
00:39:15.28\00:39:16.95
and receive his
mark in his forehead,
00:39:16.99\00:39:19.69
or in his hand,
the same shall drink
00:39:19.72\00:39:22.26
the wine of the wrath of God,
00:39:22.29\00:39:24.13
which is poured out
without mixture into the cup
00:39:24.16\00:39:27.10
of at his indignation
and he shall be tormented
00:39:27.13\00:39:29.86
with fire and brimstone
00:39:29.90\00:39:31.23
in the presence
of the holy angels,
00:39:31.27\00:39:32.93
and in the presence at the Lamb,
00:39:32.97\00:39:34.67
and the smoke of
their torment ascends up
00:39:34.70\00:39:36.74
for ever and ever and
they have no rest day or night,
00:39:36.77\00:39:39.84
who worship the
beast and his image,
00:39:39.87\00:39:41.91
and whoever receives
the mark of his name."
00:39:41.94\00:39:45.88
This is the most
solemn warning in the Bible
00:39:45.91\00:39:48.48
and it's a warning about getting
00:39:48.52\00:39:51.59
or not getting
the mark of the beast.
00:39:51.62\00:39:56.22
The mark of the beast is
obviously not a minor matter
00:39:56.26\00:39:58.99
it's a life or death matter.
00:39:59.03\00:40:00.50
It has to do with our
souls and with eternity,
00:40:00.53\00:40:03.26
the Bible is very clear on that.
00:40:03.30\00:40:05.53
Those who get the
mark they will not survive.
00:40:05.57\00:40:09.07
Now there is a lot
of speculation about
00:40:09.10\00:40:11.47
what this mark is,
00:40:11.51\00:40:12.84
who the beast
is, what the mark is?
00:40:12.87\00:40:14.74
Many think that it's
some kind of high-tech
00:40:14.78\00:40:16.78
computerized
microchip that's gonna be placed
00:40:16.81\00:40:19.51
under the skin in the
hand and in the forehead.
00:40:19.55\00:40:23.08
There are some
problems with that idea.
00:40:23.12\00:40:25.55
First of all you know,
what if technology changes?
00:40:25.59\00:40:27.46
So what if they do an upgrade?
00:40:27.49\00:40:28.82
What if their computer breaks?
00:40:28.86\00:40:31.46
There's a lot of
the issues to deal with
00:40:31.49\00:40:33.06
but the bigger question is,
00:40:33.09\00:40:34.76
is that really
what the Bible says?
00:40:34.80\00:40:36.70
Is the mark of the beast
00:40:36.73\00:40:38.07
something that is just skin deep
00:40:38.10\00:40:39.60
or is it
something much, much deeper
00:40:39.63\00:40:42.17
that that goes to our
minds and to our hearts.
00:40:42.20\00:40:45.71
Well, let's find out,
let's have a Bible study
00:40:45.74\00:40:49.04
about this very
controversial subject.
00:40:49.08\00:40:52.61
In Revelation 14:9 we
again read about a warning,
00:40:52.65\00:40:57.09
about worshiping the
beast and getting the mark.
00:40:57.12\00:41:00.72
Obviously we need to
know who this beast is,
00:41:00.76\00:41:03.79
in order to
understand the subject.
00:41:03.83\00:41:06.46
So I hope you're sitting down
00:41:06.49\00:41:07.83
because I've got some solemn
information to share with you.
00:41:07.86\00:41:11.53
When it comes to the beast,
00:41:11.57\00:41:12.90
if you were to go back 400 years
00:41:12.93\00:41:14.57
from today approximately
and find Martin Luther
00:41:14.60\00:41:19.11
who founded the
Lutheran Church and ask him
00:41:19.14\00:41:21.34
who do you think the beast is?
00:41:21.38\00:41:22.71
He would give you
a straight answer.
00:41:22.74\00:41:24.15
If you were to
talk to John Calvin
00:41:24.18\00:41:26.11
who founded the
Presbyterian Church
00:41:26.15\00:41:27.68
and ask him who is the beast?
00:41:27.72\00:41:29.42
He would give
you the same answer.
00:41:29.45\00:41:31.19
If you were to ask John Wesley
00:41:31.22\00:41:32.89
who founded the Methodist Church
00:41:32.92\00:41:34.26
who is the beast?
00:41:34.29\00:41:35.62
He would give
you the same answer
00:41:35.66\00:41:36.99
or Charles Spurgeon one of
the greatest Baptist pastors
00:41:37.03\00:41:40.00
who ever lived or
countless other scholars,
00:41:40.03\00:41:42.60
reformation scholars
00:41:42.63\00:41:43.97
who have lived for
the last 400 years.
00:41:44.00\00:41:45.83
Who is the beast?
00:41:45.87\00:41:47.54
They would give
you the same answer.
00:41:47.57\00:41:49.40
I have in my hand
here one of the classics
00:41:49.44\00:41:51.61
in Christian history
called Foxe's Book of Martyrs
00:41:51.64\00:41:54.94
and Foxe's Book of Martyrs
is also very, very clear.
00:41:54.98\00:41:58.21
You can get this book in
any Christian books store.
00:41:58.25\00:42:00.25
If they don't have
it they can order it.
00:42:00.28\00:42:02.72
On page 43 it talks
about the people church,
00:42:02.75\00:42:06.96
the Roman Catholic Church
00:42:06.99\00:42:08.32
and refers to it as
having the power of the beast,
00:42:08.36\00:42:12.73
the power of the beast.
00:42:12.76\00:42:14.10
This is what
Protestants used to believe,
00:42:14.13\00:42:16.90
this is the reason why
they left the Roman Church
00:42:16.93\00:42:19.27
and eventually
protested in became Protestants
00:42:19.30\00:42:22.04
because they saw all of
these different teachings
00:42:22.07\00:42:24.11
and doctrines they
were in the Roman Church
00:42:24.14\00:42:26.37
and they realized
that these doctrines
00:42:26.41\00:42:28.61
did not agree with the Bible.
00:42:28.64\00:42:31.71
They didn't apply the
beast to individual people
00:42:31.75\00:42:33.95
but to a system that
leads away from scripture,
00:42:33.98\00:42:37.19
that teaches praying
to Jesus through Mary,
00:42:37.22\00:42:40.46
that teaches penance
to earn the favor of God,
00:42:40.49\00:42:43.63
that talks about
indulgences to cover sin,
00:42:43.66\00:42:46.39
confession of sins to priests
00:42:46.43\00:42:48.13
that, when you die
you go to purgatory,
00:42:48.16\00:42:50.67
salvation through the church
00:42:50.70\00:42:52.33
rather than through
faith in Jesus Christ.
00:42:52.37\00:42:54.90
These are all
doctrines of the Roman Church
00:42:54.94\00:42:56.60
which really do not
line up with scripture.
00:42:56.64\00:42:59.64
And so if the beast as described
00:42:59.67\00:43:02.94
in Revelation refers
to the papal power then
00:43:02.98\00:43:07.05
what about the mark?
00:43:07.08\00:43:08.42
I have an
amazing old Bible here,
00:43:08.45\00:43:10.59
this Bibles
practically falling apart.
00:43:10.62\00:43:12.52
It was the Bible lay
Presbyterian preacher
00:43:12.55\00:43:16.62
and somehow I inherited this
00:43:16.66\00:43:18.36
and gonna handle
it very carefully.
00:43:18.39\00:43:20.20
But in Revelation 13:16
00:43:20.23\00:43:23.90
when it talks about
the mark of the beast,
00:43:23.93\00:43:25.33
notice what it says here.
00:43:25.37\00:43:26.97
It says, "A mark, it has to
do with submission to the rights
00:43:27.00\00:43:30.77
and the ceremonies
of the people communion
00:43:30.81\00:43:34.24
in their right hand
represents active obedience
00:43:34.28\00:43:37.61
to the papal power
and in the forehead
00:43:37.65\00:43:40.95
that represents
outward profession
00:43:40.98\00:43:43.72
of its doctrines and
infallible authority."
00:43:43.75\00:43:46.76
These are the footnotes
of an old Presbyterian Bible
00:43:46.79\00:43:50.19
and it shows that not only
did the old ancients believe
00:43:50.23\00:43:54.56
that the beast
was the papal power
00:43:54.60\00:43:56.50
but they also connected
00:43:56.53\00:43:57.93
the mark of the
beast to this same power.
00:43:57.97\00:44:01.74
Now, let's go back to
our Bibles and I'm gonna,
00:44:01.77\00:44:04.77
I'm gonna lead you
in a very, very solemn
00:44:04.81\00:44:07.31
and powerful
sequence of clear scriptures
00:44:07.34\00:44:10.58
that we have to understand
00:44:10.61\00:44:12.35
in order to
understand the subject.
00:44:12.38\00:44:13.95
the first angel says
00:44:13.98\00:44:19.39
"Worship him that made
heaven, and earth, and the sea,
00:44:19.42\00:44:22.56
and the fountains of waters."
00:44:22.59\00:44:23.93
Verse 9 warns
"Don't worship the beast
00:44:23.96\00:44:27.13
and the image and
don't get the mark."
00:44:27.16\00:44:29.30
So verse 7 tells us
to worship the Creator
00:44:29.33\00:44:31.90
and verse nine says
don't worship the beast.
00:44:31.93\00:44:34.50
And then verse 11
talks about "whoever receives
00:44:34.54\00:44:37.21
the mark of his name
the mark of the beast."
00:44:37.24\00:44:40.51
And then verse 12 says
00:44:40.54\00:44:41.88
"Here's the
patience of the saints,
00:44:41.91\00:44:43.58
here are they that
keep the commandments of God
00:44:43.61\00:44:47.15
and the faith of Jesus."
00:44:47.18\00:44:49.75
These scriptures
are very, very clear.
00:44:49.78\00:44:53.09
They tell us to worship
the Creator, not the beast.
00:44:53.12\00:44:55.92
They tell us to, they tell
us to keep the commandments
00:44:55.96\00:44:59.03
and to avoid the mark.
00:44:59.06\00:45:00.80
And as I mentioned
in the last segment
00:45:00.83\00:45:02.90
when you look at the
Big Ten the Ten Commandments
00:45:02.93\00:45:05.73
which God wrote with His
own finger on solid stone
00:45:05.77\00:45:08.90
there's only one
commandment about the Creator
00:45:08.94\00:45:12.07
which is the fourth commandment.
00:45:12.11\00:45:13.84
That says
remember the Sabbath day
00:45:13.88\00:45:15.58
and to keep it
holy, and that commandment
00:45:15.61\00:45:18.25
has been specifically changed
by the Roman Catholic Church.
00:45:18.28\00:45:23.55
Here again the catechism
of the Catholic Church.
00:45:23.59\00:45:26.25
I didn't write this,
00:45:26.29\00:45:27.62
this is an
official document from Rome,
00:45:27.66\00:45:30.43
from the Roman Church.
00:45:30.46\00:45:31.79
Page 50 Question,
"What day is the Sabbath day?
00:45:31.83\00:45:34.13
Answer, "Saturday
is the Sabbath day."
00:45:34.16\00:45:35.90
Question, "Why then
do we observe Sunday
00:45:35.93\00:45:38.23
instead of Saturday?"
00:45:38.27\00:45:39.60
Answer "We observe
Sunday instead of Saturday
00:45:39.63\00:45:41.90
because the
Catholic Church transferred
00:45:41.94\00:45:44.67
the solemnity from
Saturday to Sunday."
00:45:44.71\00:45:48.81
The Roman Catholic
Church not only changed
00:45:48.84\00:45:51.65
the Bible Sabbath which
God wrote with His own finger
00:45:51.68\00:45:54.08
on stone into the
first day of the week
00:45:54.12\00:45:57.19
and claim that
change has her act,
00:45:57.22\00:45:59.85
but she also believes
that that act is a mark
00:45:59.89\00:46:04.43
of her spiritual authority
00:46:04.46\00:46:07.20
that she really is the
true Church of Jesus Christ.
00:46:07.23\00:46:11.47
That is a belief
of the Roman Church.
00:46:11.50\00:46:16.34
Changing the Sabbath
according to Rome is,
00:46:16.37\00:46:20.71
and represents a
mark of its authority.
00:46:20.74\00:46:23.85
Who else could
change the law of God?
00:46:23.88\00:46:26.21
Except the true church says,
00:46:26.25\00:46:28.28
Rome but as I
look at these issues
00:46:28.32\00:46:31.42
my conclusion is that
what God wrote is above
00:46:31.45\00:46:35.92
and beyond anything
that man has to say.
00:46:35.96\00:46:39.89
Revelation 13:16 tells us
that at some point in the future
00:46:39.93\00:46:45.07
when the final crisis
hits, as a result of this crisis
00:46:45.10\00:46:48.60
and as an apparent
solution to a crisis
00:46:48.64\00:46:51.54
there will be the
enforcement of the mark.
00:46:51.57\00:46:54.48
Revelation 13:16
says "He causes all,
00:46:54.51\00:46:57.75
both small and
great, rich and poor,
00:46:57.78\00:46:59.91
free and bond, to receive
a mark in their right hand,
00:46:59.95\00:47:03.99
their right hand
or in their foreheads
00:47:04.02\00:47:06.09
that no man might buy or
sell save he that had the mark,
00:47:06.12\00:47:09.52
or the name of the
beast, or the number his name."
00:47:09.56\00:47:13.36
If it is true
what I'm telling you
00:47:13.40\00:47:16.26
and what on other people believe
00:47:16.30\00:47:18.30
who have studied
this out very carefully.
00:47:18.33\00:47:19.83
If it's true that
the mark of the beast
00:47:19.87\00:47:23.64
is the mark of the
authority of the Roman Church
00:47:23.67\00:47:27.11
in changing the Bible Sabbath
into the first day of the week,
00:47:27.14\00:47:31.11
if that is true and if Sunday
00:47:31.15\00:47:33.65
is to become the
final mark of the beast
00:47:33.68\00:47:36.32
in the last days
then we must expect
00:47:36.35\00:47:39.95
that there would
be Sunday legislation
00:47:39.99\00:47:42.82
around the world at
the very end of time.
00:47:42.86\00:47:45.36
Is that a possibility,
could such a thing ever happen
00:47:45.39\00:47:49.66
especially in
America, the land of the free
00:47:49.70\00:47:52.50
and the home of the brave?
00:47:52.53\00:47:53.94
Well, let me give you
a little history lesson.
00:47:53.97\00:47:56.24
Sunday has been
enforced by law for a long time.
00:47:56.27\00:47:59.47
It started in the year 321
00:47:59.51\00:48:01.81
by the Emperor
Constantine in Europe.
00:48:01.84\00:48:04.51
All right,
study European history
00:48:04.55\00:48:05.98
you will find Sunday
legislation in various degrees
00:48:06.01\00:48:08.92
that has happened off and on.
00:48:08.95\00:48:10.35
In the history of
Britain, of England
00:48:10.39\00:48:13.05
there were Sunday laws.
00:48:13.09\00:48:14.72
Go to the time of
early colonial America
00:48:14.76\00:48:17.23
when the pilgrims
came across of the Atlantic
00:48:17.26\00:48:19.79
and began to settle
and to develop colonies.
00:48:19.83\00:48:23.10
There were strict Sunday
laws in the American colonies,
00:48:23.13\00:48:26.30
they were called Blue Laws.
00:48:26.33\00:48:28.54
There are organizations today
00:48:28.57\00:48:30.21
such as the at
European Sunday Alliance
00:48:30.24\00:48:33.81
that are pushing
for Sunday legislation.
00:48:33.84\00:48:36.41
There are Sunday laws
right now to various degrees.
00:48:36.44\00:48:39.35
In Germany the
Roman Catholic Church
00:48:39.38\00:48:41.85
is pushing for
Sunday legislation.
00:48:41.88\00:48:43.99
They would like to
see it around the world.
00:48:44.02\00:48:46.39
Is this possible
that Sunday could ever be
00:48:46.42\00:48:48.26
globally enforced by law?
00:48:48.29\00:48:49.92
I like to take you
back to the fateful Tuesday,
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.99
September 11, 2001
00:48:53.03\00:48:54.66
when the two
twin towers came down
00:48:54.70\00:48:57.53
in New York in the
heart of our financial center.
00:48:57.57\00:49:01.70
That crisis,
September 11 was on a Tuesday.
00:49:01.74\00:49:05.97
Remember that
Tuesday crisis-hit.
00:49:06.01\00:49:08.21
Friday three days later
there was a big church service
00:49:08.24\00:49:11.71
in the national religious,
00:49:11.75\00:49:13.58
the National
Cathedral in Washington DC.
00:49:13.62\00:49:17.05
All the living presidents
where there, senators,
00:49:17.09\00:49:18.79
Congressmen, there were
major religions represented.
00:49:18.82\00:49:22.92
Billy Graham was there talking--
00:49:22.96\00:49:24.33
representing the
Protestant world.
00:49:24.36\00:49:25.69
There was a Catholic
Cardinal that was there.
00:49:25.73\00:49:27.20
A rabbi was there, an
imam was there representing
00:49:27.23\00:49:30.57
the Muslim community
and they came together
00:49:30.60\00:49:32.90
to pray in the
midst of a crisis.
00:49:32.93\00:49:36.30
And I certainly
believe in prayer
00:49:36.34\00:49:37.77
during the crisis but
as I observe these events
00:49:37.81\00:49:40.58
I noticed we had
a crisis on Tuesday
00:49:40.61\00:49:42.74
and then on Friday
a move toward unity.
00:49:42.78\00:49:44.85
And then what
happened two days later?
00:49:44.88\00:49:47.05
What happened two days later?
00:49:47.08\00:49:48.42
Significantly
church attendance on Sunday
00:49:48.45\00:49:51.92
went through the
roof all around world.
00:49:51.95\00:49:55.32
In Australia, in Europe
people work keeping Sunday,
00:49:55.36\00:49:58.29
going to church on
Sunday because they knew
00:49:58.33\00:50:00.60
that this was a
crisis, a big crisis
00:50:00.63\00:50:02.30
that has a
potential ripple effect
00:50:02.33\00:50:04.40
to affected the global economy.
00:50:04.43\00:50:06.33
And so people were
scared and they were praying
00:50:06.37\00:50:08.74
that God would help
humanity in this crisis.
00:50:08.77\00:50:12.54
And I looked at that scenario,
00:50:12.57\00:50:14.08
that week and I
saw crisis on Tuesday,
00:50:14.11\00:50:16.75
unity of the
world's religions on Friday,
00:50:16.78\00:50:19.31
and then church attendance
00:50:19.35\00:50:20.68
going through
the roof on Sunday.
00:50:20.72\00:50:22.38
Crisis unity
Sunday, crisis unity Sunday,
00:50:22.42\00:50:25.85
and I learned a
big lesson from that.
00:50:25.89\00:50:27.52
Now thankfully that
crisis didn't continue to deepen
00:50:27.56\00:50:30.79
and unravel and
eventually things got better
00:50:30.83\00:50:34.86
but one of these days
the Bible is very clear
00:50:34.90\00:50:37.57
that a final crisis is coming.
00:50:37.60\00:50:39.07
Daniel 12:1 says "There
will be a time of trouble
00:50:39.10\00:50:41.50
such as never was
since there was a nation."
00:50:41.54\00:50:44.14
The biggest crisis
of all is at the door,
00:50:44.17\00:50:48.18
it's on the horizon.
00:50:48.21\00:50:50.05
And when it happens
we'll see the same things
00:50:50.08\00:50:52.15
as what happened
during the week of 9/11.
00:50:52.18\00:50:54.52
We will see
crisis, we'll see unity,
00:50:54.55\00:50:56.99
and we will see people
flocking to church on Sunday
00:50:57.02\00:51:00.36
to pray for God to do something
in the midst of this crisis.
00:51:00.39\00:51:04.96
And if that crisis
00:51:04.99\00:51:06.36
which eventually
this is gonna happen
00:51:06.39\00:51:08.46
if it doesn't go
away, if it deepens
00:51:08.50\00:51:11.23
and if it gets worst,
00:51:11.27\00:51:13.17
you will see
governments working together.
00:51:13.20\00:51:15.37
You will see religions
working with government
00:51:15.40\00:51:17.94
and you will
eventually see Sunday attendance
00:51:17.97\00:51:21.58
shipped to Sunday legislation.
00:51:21.61\00:51:24.75
It's a, it's as plain
as the rabbi is Jewish.
00:51:24.78\00:51:27.62
It's as plain as
the pope is Catholic.
00:51:27.65\00:51:29.82
This certainly will
happen, crisis, unity, Sunday
00:51:29.85\00:51:33.59
attendance, finally
Sunday legislation in the midst
00:51:33.62\00:51:37.09
of at the final crisis
in history of this world.
00:51:37.13\00:51:41.26
And when that time
comes then humanity
00:51:41.30\00:51:44.33
will find itself in the middle
at the Book of Revelation,
00:51:44.37\00:51:48.00
in the middle of the apocalypse.
00:51:48.04\00:51:49.77
You mean in the middle
of the last test of God
00:51:49.80\00:51:53.98
that will come
to the whole world.
00:51:54.01\00:51:57.08
the third angels message
00:51:57.11\00:52:00.22
will sound with a
loud voice and say
00:52:00.25\00:52:03.22
"if any man worships
the beast and his image,
00:52:03.25\00:52:06.05
and gets the
mark in his forehead,
00:52:06.09\00:52:08.06
or in his hand,
the same will drink
00:52:08.09\00:52:09.72
the wine of the wrath of God."
00:52:09.76\00:52:11.49
And then verse 12
will appeal to people
00:52:11.53\00:52:13.86
"don't do it but
be among the saints
00:52:13.90\00:52:16.67
who keep the commandments of God
00:52:16.70\00:52:19.13
and the faith of Jesus."
00:52:19.17\00:52:20.84
Be among that
group that love Jesus,
00:52:20.87\00:52:22.74
that follow Jesus,
that have been saved
00:52:22.77\00:52:24.47
by His grace and
touch by His power
00:52:24.51\00:52:27.11
and because they love the Lord
00:52:27.14\00:52:28.78
they're willing to stand up
for all the Ten Commandments
00:52:28.81\00:52:31.55
including the one
that God said remember,
00:52:31.58\00:52:34.68
remember don't forget.
00:52:34.72\00:52:37.65
Everyone will
have to make a choice
00:52:37.69\00:52:39.35
during that final crisis
when people hear the truth
00:52:39.39\00:52:41.66
that they must know to survive.
00:52:41.69\00:52:43.22
Those that reject
it, those that believe
00:52:43.26\00:52:46.13
in the beast will get
his mark in their foreheads
00:52:46.16\00:52:49.70
which represents
their mind, their minds
00:52:49.73\00:52:52.10
and God will see that.
00:52:52.13\00:52:53.47
Those who go
along with the beast
00:52:53.50\00:52:55.04
will get the mark in their hands
00:52:55.07\00:52:56.60
because they're doing
what they shouldn't be doing.
00:52:56.64\00:52:58.67
They're rebelling against
God Himself fighting His law
00:52:58.71\00:53:01.88
and they're following the
beast and getting the mark.
00:53:01.91\00:53:04.25
But God will have a
people who will not do it.
00:53:04.28\00:53:07.05
Who will stand for
Jesus no matter what,
00:53:07.08\00:53:08.65
even if they
have to-- they don't--
00:53:08.68\00:53:10.25
they can't buy or sell
00:53:10.29\00:53:11.62
no matter what
they're gonna follow Jesus
00:53:11.65\00:53:13.42
and keep the Commandments
of God and the faith of Jesus.
00:53:13.46\00:53:15.62
These people will be
sealed and protected.
00:53:15.66\00:53:18.26
When the seven last
plagues in chapter 16
00:53:18.29\00:53:20.96
following those that
get the mark of the beast
00:53:21.00\00:53:22.76
when the final
trouble hits the world
00:53:22.80\00:53:24.50
God will have a
people who go all the way
00:53:24.53\00:53:26.37
through to the
end and you are ready
00:53:26.40\00:53:28.97
for the second
coming of Jesus Christ.
00:53:29.00\00:53:31.27
I want to be
one of those people.
00:53:31.31\00:53:33.14
During the American Civil War
00:53:33.17\00:53:34.71
somebody asked Abraham Lincoln
00:53:34.74\00:53:36.41
and they said Brother Lincoln,
you think God is on our side?
00:53:36.44\00:53:39.31
And his response was,
00:53:39.35\00:53:40.78
I'm not concerned
whether God is on our side.
00:53:40.82\00:53:43.25
The big question is, are
we on His side in this war.
00:53:43.28\00:53:47.79
May God help you and me
to be on God side to survive,
00:53:47.82\00:53:52.29
to go all the way through
00:53:52.33\00:53:53.66
and to be ready for
the return of Jesus Christ.
00:53:53.70\00:53:56.70
In the last chapter of the Bible
00:53:57.83\00:53:59.50
in verse 16 Jesus says,
00:53:59.53\00:54:01.70
"I Jesus have sent my
angel to testify to you
00:54:01.74\00:54:05.57
these things in the churches.
00:54:05.61\00:54:07.48
I am the route and
the offspring David,
00:54:07.51\00:54:09.54
and the bright
and the morning star."
00:54:09.58\00:54:11.85
A number of
months ago my little boy
00:54:11.88\00:54:13.65
who at that time
was eight-years-old
00:54:13.68\00:54:15.02
came running
into the living room
00:54:15.05\00:54:16.38
early in the morning.
00:54:16.42\00:54:17.75
His name is Seth and
he said daddy, daddy,
00:54:17.79\00:54:19.65
I just had a dream.
00:54:19.69\00:54:21.02
And he said, in my
dream I was taken up
00:54:21.06\00:54:23.49
to the New Jerusalem.
00:54:23.53\00:54:25.33
Daddy, I saw
the streets of gold.
00:54:25.36\00:54:27.30
And then he said, daddy, I
saw a thrown inside the city
00:54:27.33\00:54:30.57
and on the throne he said daddy,
00:54:30.60\00:54:32.43
I saw Jesus Christ.
00:54:32.47\00:54:33.84
And He was so bright,
00:54:33.87\00:54:35.30
He was so bright I had to squint
00:54:35.34\00:54:37.07
in order to look at Him.
00:54:37.11\00:54:38.94
And I thought wow, what a dream.
00:54:38.97\00:54:42.41
The truth is that Jesus Christ
00:54:42.44\00:54:44.58
is the center of
the entire Bible.
00:54:44.61\00:54:46.98
In John Chapter
1, it tells us that
00:54:47.02\00:54:48.98
Jesus is really the one
who made the earth in six days
00:54:49.02\00:54:52.25
and who rested
on the seventh day.
00:54:52.29\00:54:54.66
When Adam and Eve
sinned and went against God,
00:54:54.69\00:54:56.89
Jesus did not forsake us.
00:54:56.93\00:54:59.13
On Mount Sinai it
was Jesus that came down
00:54:59.16\00:55:01.56
and wrote the Ten
Commandments with His own finger
00:55:01.60\00:55:03.73
to show us what's right
00:55:03.77\00:55:05.10
and what's
wrong and what sin is.
00:55:05.13\00:55:07.07
The New Testament tells us
00:55:07.10\00:55:08.67
that "God so loved the world,
that He sent His own Son."
00:55:08.70\00:55:11.77
That Jesus came down
here born in Bethlehem.
00:55:11.81\00:55:14.08
He lived a perfect life.
00:55:14.11\00:55:15.44
He kept the Ten
Commandments for us
00:55:15.48\00:55:17.41
and then in
Gethsemane and on the cross
00:55:17.45\00:55:19.31
He took our
sins, all of our sins
00:55:19.35\00:55:21.45
into His mind, into His heart.
00:55:21.48\00:55:23.12
The finger that was on a hand
00:55:23.15\00:55:25.52
that wrote the law
was also on the same hand
00:55:25.55\00:55:29.46
that was nailed to
cross for our sins.
00:55:29.49\00:55:32.23
Praise God. And then
He rose from the dead.
00:55:32.26\00:55:35.00
He went to heaven.
00:55:35.03\00:55:36.67
And it was Jesus that
gave us the Book of Revelation
00:55:36.70\00:55:40.00
to tell us about
earth's final crisis
00:55:40.04\00:55:42.50
and what we need
to know to survive.
00:55:42.54\00:55:44.94
It's Jesus who warns us
about the mark of the beast
00:55:44.97\00:55:47.48
and calls us to
be among the saints
00:55:47.51\00:55:50.18
who keep the Commandments of God
00:55:50.21\00:55:52.08
and the faith of
Jesus and who are ready
00:55:52.11\00:55:54.62
for His second coming.
00:55:54.65\00:55:57.22
One of these days
all sin is gonna be gone,
00:55:57.25\00:55:59.65
all pain and suffering, sorrow
and death will all be behind us
00:55:59.69\00:56:03.49
and God will have a
people who enter a bright
00:56:03.53\00:56:06.93
and beautiful eternity
where they will live with Him
00:56:06.96\00:56:10.30
forever and ever.
00:56:10.33\00:56:11.90
In verse 17 the Bible says
00:56:11.93\00:56:14.27
"And the Spirit and
the bride say, Come.
00:56:14.30\00:56:16.27
Let him who hears let him, come.
00:56:16.30\00:56:18.67
Let him who is
thirsty, let him come.
00:56:18.71\00:56:20.71
And whosoever will, let him
take the water of life freely."
00:56:20.74\00:56:26.15
In order for us to
survive earth's final crisis
00:56:26.18\00:56:29.85
we must know Jesus Christ
and we must know Bible truth.
00:56:29.88\00:56:33.99
That's how we can be ready
for the second coming our Lord,
00:56:34.02\00:56:37.83
so that we can live
in a bright, beautiful,
00:56:37.86\00:56:40.83
sinless, happy, loving tomorrow
where we can look at Jesus
00:56:40.86\00:56:45.57
as He sits upon His throne
00:56:45.60\00:56:47.44
and be with Him
forever and ever and ever.
00:56:47.47\00:56:50.64
May God help you
and may He help me
00:56:50.67\00:56:53.11
to be among those who survive.
00:56:53.14\00:56:57.31
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