Greetings, whoever you
are and wherever you are.
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I'm glad you're here
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because I'd like to
invite you to journey with me
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in the witness of
something very special.
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It's an
eye-opening, heartwarming,
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21st century high-tech portrayal
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of God's word
for this generation.
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Now every generation has
had his word from the Lord.
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But you will agree
no people has ever been
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more in need of that word
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than the
frightened and fretful morally
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debauched
generation in which we live.
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And as we shall
see in what follows,
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none of God's
servant speak more forcefully
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to modern humanity
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than the two prophetic
Titans of holy scripture,
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Daniel of the Old Testament
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and John the
Revelator of the new.
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Now the bad news
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is that things
couldn't get much worse.
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Our drug dazed, celebrity craze,
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terrorist infested,
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commandment contested generation
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is literally tottering
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on the edge of physical
and moral self-destruction.
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But the good news
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is that in the
midst of all evil views
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and failed philosophies
pervading our planet,
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there is a clear
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and positive word from the Lord,
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and as explained
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by the four
scholarly pastors who follow,
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it's an
exciting, healing, helpful,
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hopeful word
presented with sights and sounds
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that make it an experience
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you won't forget
and will want to share.
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So here it is,
Daniel and the Revelation.
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Bible truth linked
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in four prophetic
segments, science,
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Daniel, Revelation
and the grand conclusion,
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the second coming of Christ.
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Ready for the journey? Good.
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Then let's begin.
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Good morning Seattle.
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Jeffrey D here
bringing you the low down
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so you can wake up.
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Temperature is
roughly 70 with a high of 80
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and you bet your life,
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it's gonna rain, rain,
rain but cheer up, folks,
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did you hear that?
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Good evening.
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We continue our coverage
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of this morning's
two tragic events.
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A display of
aggression that is being called
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the worst act of
terror in modern history
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and also the
unprecedented earthquake
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that has left
several countries in ruin.
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As world leaders scramble
to determine their next steps,
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we are being told
that in a few minutes,
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the president will be coming
out of protective isolation
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to make a statement.
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Madam President, we
just heard from the UN.
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It's in the speech. Yes, ma'am.
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Cameras rolling.
Quiet on the set.
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You're on in
five, four, three, two.
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My fellow Americans
and for that matter,
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fellow citizens of
this troubled planet.
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It is with both
respect and with sorrow
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that I address you following
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what is
undoubtedly the worst days
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in recorded history.
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The sheer scope and
number of lives lost
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or forever scarred by
the events of this morning
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is hard to wrap
our minds around.
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I have no doubt
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that the perpetrators
of this horrific act
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did not anticipate
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that as they
planned to hurt humanity,
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nature would also be
about to unleash her own fury
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at the very same time.
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The chances of
this occurring together
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were almost zero.
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One in billions
and the combined effect
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has been almost
biblical in proportion.
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It is obvious I think,
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especially in
light of recent events
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such as the growth
of the unity coalition
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and our global efforts
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to maintain a
spiritual base presence
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in every nation
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that this is
God's way of telling us,
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we need to bond together
to enforce a moral revolution.
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Many of you
have lost loved ones.
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As you know, I
have lost loved ones.
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But now the nation is
wondering what we will do.
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The world is looking
to us for leadership.
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I have spoken
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with
representatives of other nations
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as well as UN representatives
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and I have their support
in finding the guilty parties
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of this act of terror.
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But also in sanctioning those
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who oppose the unity
coalition in its cause.
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I urge the rest of
the world to join us
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as we do God's work.
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I wish to assure the
citizens of this country,
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and of those abroad
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that we stand on
the side of light,
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and with God's help
justice will be served and right
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will be returned to our society.
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Thank you.
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God bless you, and God bless
the United States of America.
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Brothers and sisters,
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as we consider the world
and the time in which we live,
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I'm sure, you'd agree with me
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that we're living in a
very fast paced society.
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I mean compared to
a hundred years ago,
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things have
changed dramatically.
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We are referred to
as the now generation.
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We want what we
want and we want it now.
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We're into quick fixes
and get rich quick plans
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and fast transportation,
fast communication,
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easy relationships
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and of all these things
plus many different activities,
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we're being pulled in so
many different directions.
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And keep in mind that
in the busyness of life,
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it's important
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that if you want
to get anything done,
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to make sure you
manage your time wisely.
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A schedule is
very, very helpful.
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We have
deadlines and appointments,
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things pulling us here
and there and everywhere
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and everything that we
do is dependent upon time.
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And, friends,
the same is the case
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in the spiritual realm.
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I want us to
notice what the Bible says
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in the Book of Romans 13:11.
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The Apostle Paul wrote this.
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"And that, knowing the time,
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that now it is a high
time to awake out of sleep:
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for now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed.
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The Bible calls us to realize
that right now is a high time,
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an urgent time, a solemn time.
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It's not a time
for us to be sleepy
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but a time for us to
arouse from spiritual slumber
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because Jesus is coming soon.
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Today, we're going to see
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how we can know
for sure that this,
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His second coming
is very, very near.
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How many of you have
ever had to catch a plane
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that left very
early in the morning?
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If you're anything like me,
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you know that the only way
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you're gonna catch that plane
is if you set the alarm clock.
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You see the
purpose of an alarm clock
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is to make you
aware of the current time
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so that you can get up
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and get ready
before it's too late.
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Have you ever
slept through an alarm?
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It's not a good thing, is it?
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Have you ever
hit the snooze button
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over and over again
just thinking to yourself,
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oh, let me just
sleep a little bit longer.
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Well, friends,
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God in His Holy Word
has given us some alarms.
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Alarms to help us wake up
from spiritual slumber because,
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friends, we have a
celestial flight to catch.
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A flight from earth to heaven.
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But the only way,
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we will be ready for that flight
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is if we are stirred up
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and awakened to realize
the urgent and solemn time
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in which we're living in today.
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So God in His
infinite mercy and love
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has given us signs of alarms
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to arouse us from
spiritual slumber.
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But it's tragic and unfortunate
that many people are sleeping
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through the alarms or worse yet,
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they are actually some
who are awakened momentarily
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and they recognize
the signs of the last days
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and yet they are content to hit
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the spiritual
snooze button and they say,
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let me just sleep
a little bit longer.
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But, friends, to
sleep spiritually
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during the signs
that Jesus has given us,
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to sleep spiritually
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during this
crisis hour is fatal.
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I want to tell what
Jesus said in Matthew 24:33.
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Jesus here gives
us signs of alarm.
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He said, "So likewise you,
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when you shall
see all these things,
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know that it is
near, even at the doors."
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In other words,
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God has given us
some visible signs
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that we can see with our eyes
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to let us know
that the end of time
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is very near.
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It's almost here
and it's not mere few.
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So let's discover what
are these signs of alarm
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that Christ gave to arouse
us from spiritual slumber.
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I mean, how do we know
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that we are really
living at the end of the world?
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Friends, as we consider
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the economical,
social, political,
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natural and religious conditions
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of our world,
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we would discover
that the only logical,
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reasonable and
consisting conclusion,
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we can come to is
that we are truly living
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in the final hours
of this world's history.
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If this world is going
to end, the question is how.
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But we don't have to
guess or speculate in our minds.
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All we have to do is
open the Word of God,
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especially in the
Book of Revelation,
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God tells us how
this world is gonna end.
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In fact, He
repeats it three times.
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In the last chapter, of
the last book of the Bible,
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Revelation 22,
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I want you to notice what
the Bible says in verse 7.
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Jesus says,
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"Behold, I come quickly:
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blessed is he that keeps
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the sayings of the
prophecy of this book."
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And then He repeats it
a second time in verse 12,
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"And behold, I come quickly,
and my reward is with me,
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to give every man
according as his work shall be."
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And if twice wasn't enough,
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Jesus says it the
third time in verse 20.
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"He who testifies
of these things says,
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surely, I come quickly.
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Amen.
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Even so, John the Revelator
responds, come, Lord Jesus."
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Here we find that in
the last book of Bible,
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the last chapter of
the last book of the Bible,
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Jesus repeats thrice,
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three times, I
am coming quickly.
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I am coming quickly,
then the third time He says,
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surely I am coming quickly.
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You see, friends,
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the Book of Revelation beats
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with a sense of
urgency of the second coming,
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the return of King Jesus.
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This is how the world
is gonna come to an end.
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And it's a glorious hope
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that God has
given to His children
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who are living in this
crazy and chaotic world.
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But the question
is, how soon is soon?
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How quickly is
quickly and how near is near?
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Haven't people in
other generations believed
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that Jesus was
coming in their lifetime,
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and yet those generations
have passed off the scene
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and Jesus had not yet come?
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How do we know
that we are not like
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all the other
previous generations
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who thought Jesus
would come but didn't.
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Now, friends,
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I know that in the
Christian world today
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there have been
individuals who are doomsdayers.
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People who'll talk
about the end of time
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in a sense of doom and gloom.
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There are many people
who have set false alarms
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and certain dates
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for the second coming of Christ.
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And all these predictions
have failed over and over again
00:16:38.99\00:16:41.43
and unfortunately
many of these false alarms
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have caused people
to become desensitized
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and callous to reality of
the soon coming of Christ.
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Just like the little
child in the story of the boy
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that cried wolf.
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You remember that story, right?
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The little boy
gave false alarms.
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When people came,
nothing took place.
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But those false
alarms did not stop
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the wolf from eventually coming
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and just because
there are many false alarms
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in the religious world today,
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doesn't mean that
the wolf will never come.
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Of all these false
alarms have been given,
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Jesus is still
going to come, friends.
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In fact notice
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what the Bible
says in Matthew 24:36.
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Jesus says,
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"But of that day
and hour no one knows."
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Friends, no one knows
00:17:31.51\00:17:32.85
the exact day or
hour of Jesus' return.
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However Christ
has given us signs
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to warn us that
the end is very near.
00:17:38.25\00:17:41.69
He has given us
these signs not to scare us
00:17:41.72\00:17:44.23
but so that we can
sense the urgency of the hour
00:17:44.26\00:17:47.73
and prepare for
His glorious return.
00:17:47.76\00:17:50.87
And, friends, I
would like you to consider
00:17:50.90\00:17:53.23
that not only
are religious people
00:17:53.27\00:17:55.30
talking about the end of time,
00:17:55.34\00:17:57.11
but I want us to notice
00:17:57.14\00:17:58.47
that even secularists,
and humanists, and atheists,
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and agnostics are recognizing
00:18:01.44\00:18:03.95
that we're living
in unprecedented times.
00:18:03.98\00:18:07.22
A time in which a
crisis is about to take place.
00:18:07.25\00:18:11.19
People today all over
the world are realizing
00:18:11.22\00:18:13.96
that the time in which we live
00:18:13.99\00:18:15.32
now is different
from just 50 years ago.
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I invite you to notice
with me a few examples of this.
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I'm sure, many of you
heard of Dr. Stephen Hawking.
00:18:22.06\00:18:24.97
He's an astrophysicist,
00:18:25.00\00:18:26.33
currently holding Sir
00:18:26.37\00:18:27.70
Isaac Newton's chair
00:18:27.74\00:18:29.07
of mathematics at
Cambridge University.
00:18:29.10\00:18:30.57
He's written one
00:18:30.61\00:18:31.94
of the best-selling
science books of all time,
00:18:31.97\00:18:34.74
entitled A
Brief History of Time.
00:18:34.78\00:18:37.51
And this man,
Dr. Stephen Hawkings
00:18:37.55\00:18:39.88
is known as by
many as the greatest
00:18:39.91\00:18:42.28
scientific mind
in the world today.
00:18:42.32\00:18:44.32
He's known as
Einstein's successor.
00:18:44.35\00:18:46.69
But unfortunately
this genius of a mind
00:18:46.72\00:18:48.52
is trapped in a
debilitated body.
00:18:48.56\00:18:50.99
He has Lou Gehrig's disease
00:18:51.03\00:18:53.19
which means he's
confined to a wheelchair.
00:18:53.23\00:18:55.03
He can't speak.
00:18:55.06\00:18:56.46
He has a little bit of
movement in his hand and fingers
00:18:56.50\00:18:59.03
which enables him to speak
00:18:59.07\00:19:00.64
through a voice synchronizer
as he types on the screen.
00:19:00.67\00:19:03.64
And not long ago,
00:19:03.67\00:19:05.27
Dr. Stephen Hawking
00:19:05.31\00:19:06.84
had a speech at
Cornell University.
00:19:06.88\00:19:09.68
He was giving a lecture to
a group of thought leaders,
00:19:09.71\00:19:12.35
lecturing about
the future of mankind
00:19:12.38\00:19:14.05
and the future of our world.
00:19:14.08\00:19:15.42
Now I want you to notice
00:19:15.45\00:19:16.79
what this secular
scientific mind had to say
00:19:16.82\00:19:18.89
and keep in mind,
friends, he's an atheist.
00:19:18.92\00:19:21.86
He does not believe
in the Bible or God.
00:19:21.89\00:19:24.86
But I want you to notice
00:19:24.89\00:19:26.23
what this
scientific atheistic mind
00:19:26.26\00:19:28.36
had to say concerning
the time in which we live.
00:19:28.40\00:19:31.80
Dr. Stephen
Hawking said and I quote,
00:19:31.83\00:19:34.50
"Our long term survival
00:19:34.54\00:19:36.64
and any hope for our
species is in question.
00:19:36.67\00:19:39.54
However if we can keep
from destroying each other
00:19:39.57\00:19:42.14
for the next one hundred years,
00:19:42.18\00:19:44.11
sufficient technology
00:19:44.15\00:19:45.48
would develop to
distribute humanity
00:19:45.51\00:19:48.92
to various planets
and then no one tragedy
00:19:48.95\00:19:52.05
or atrocity will
eradicate all at the same time."
00:19:52.09\00:19:57.66
Dr. Stephen Hawking,
a scientific, secular,
00:19:57.69\00:20:01.50
atheistic minded,
00:20:01.53\00:20:03.13
as he considered the
condition of our world,
00:20:03.16\00:20:05.23
he said that we're living
00:20:05.27\00:20:06.60
in a very questionable
time in this world's history.
00:20:06.63\00:20:09.57
And his solution to the problems
00:20:09.60\00:20:11.37
that we're facing in
our world is science.
00:20:11.41\00:20:14.68
He says that as
technology develops,
00:20:14.71\00:20:17.35
we can go to other
planets and so that
00:20:17.38\00:20:19.48
if there is a
tragedy or catastrophe
00:20:19.51\00:20:22.25
that will take place on earth,
00:20:22.28\00:20:23.89
that the human species
will continue to survive
00:20:23.92\00:20:27.36
on different planets.
00:20:27.39\00:20:29.59
Here savior is science.
00:20:29.62\00:20:32.26
Oh, friends, I
want to submit to you
00:20:32.29\00:20:33.63
that we need a
far greater savior
00:20:33.66\00:20:35.56
than what science can offer.
00:20:35.60\00:20:37.57
But here is an
example of a secular mind,
00:20:37.60\00:20:40.34
not a religious mind,
00:20:40.37\00:20:42.00
but a secular mind's perspective
00:20:42.04\00:20:43.84
on the end of time.
00:20:43.87\00:20:45.67
Here is another
example for you to consider.
00:20:45.71\00:20:48.14
A man by the
name of Eugene Linden.
00:20:48.18\00:20:50.41
Eugene Linden
is an award winning
00:20:50.45\00:20:51.95
journalist and author.
00:20:51.98\00:20:53.68
He writes for many high
profile secular magazines
00:20:53.72\00:20:55.98
like Time and
Wall Street Journal
00:20:56.02\00:20:58.09
and National
Geographic and Fortune Magazine.
00:20:58.12\00:21:01.42
He also wrote a book entitled
"The Future in Plain Sight'.
00:21:01.46\00:21:06.56
He's writing
from a non-religious,
00:21:06.59\00:21:08.23
non-biblical point of view,
00:21:08.26\00:21:10.07
and in this book Eugene Linden
00:21:10.10\00:21:11.57
gives nine compelling arguments
00:21:11.60\00:21:14.60
as to why this world
can't last much longer
00:21:14.64\00:21:17.14
in the condition it's in today.
00:21:17.17\00:21:19.34
Nine clues to the coming
instability and, friends,
00:21:19.37\00:21:23.35
as we compare what the
secular minds are saying
00:21:23.38\00:21:25.88
to what the Bible says,
the only logical reasonable,
00:21:25.91\00:21:29.72
intelligent
common sense conclusion
00:21:29.75\00:21:31.65
we can come to
00:21:31.69\00:21:33.02
is that the end
of time is very near.
00:21:33.05\00:21:35.32
It's almost here
and it's not mere few.
00:21:35.36\00:21:39.19
See, friends, the only
solution to the problem
00:21:39.23\00:21:42.23
that we are
facing in our world today
00:21:42.26\00:21:44.63
is the second coming of Christ.
00:21:44.67\00:21:46.97
You see, my
brothers and my sisters,
00:21:47.00\00:21:48.34
there is no
politician or political party
00:21:48.37\00:21:52.04
that has the answers
to the problems our world
00:21:52.07\00:21:54.14
is facing today.
00:21:54.18\00:21:56.18
Free healthcare is not
going to stop disease and death.
00:21:56.21\00:21:59.98
Bearing arms is not
going to keep people safe.
00:22:00.02\00:22:03.28
Welfare is not going to
stop hunger and homelessness.
00:22:03.32\00:22:06.92
National security will not
stop the conflict and the chaos.
00:22:06.96\00:22:10.63
Making more laws
is not going to stop
00:22:10.66\00:22:12.99
the lawlessness in our world.
00:22:13.03\00:22:14.86
The only
solution to the pollution,
00:22:14.90\00:22:17.17
the only answer to
the cancer of our world
00:22:17.20\00:22:19.63
is the coming of
Christ and, friends,
00:22:19.67\00:22:21.44
I'm so glad that
He's coming soon.
00:22:21.47\00:22:24.77
He's coming
soon, He's coming soon.
00:22:24.81\00:22:28.54
So I encourage
you, I invite you,
00:22:28.58\00:22:30.11
I challenge you to get
ready, get ready, get ready,
00:22:30.15\00:22:34.55
Jesus is coming soon.
00:22:34.58\00:22:36.02
I was there in
the beginning watching
00:23:17.06\00:23:20.40
from above as
Adam and his wife Eve
00:23:20.43\00:23:22.90
were promised that
the deliverer would come.
00:23:22.93\00:23:26.03
Even there in the
unfolding of earth's history,
00:23:34.71\00:23:38.58
the plans of God were laid
and etched into prophetic time.
00:23:38.61\00:23:43.12
Throughout the
millennia in which I have served
00:23:49.39\00:23:51.99
as God's messenger,
00:23:52.03\00:23:54.83
I've witnessed the
ebb and flow of empires,
00:23:54.86\00:23:58.60
the rise and fall of kings.
00:23:58.63\00:24:05.27
I've seen famine, fire, flood,
00:24:05.31\00:24:10.21
conquest and triumph.
00:24:10.25\00:24:14.75
I smiled as men and
women learned of the heavens
00:24:14.78\00:24:18.65
and when they reached
them, I swelled with pride.
00:24:18.69\00:24:22.72
Yet, man can be so arrogant.
00:24:27.36\00:24:34.04
He believes
that he is the author
00:24:34.07\00:24:37.04
of his destiny,
00:24:37.07\00:24:38.47
that he is the
writer of history.
00:24:38.51\00:24:42.68
He believes that
upon his shoulders
00:24:42.71\00:24:45.75
the future is carried
00:24:45.78\00:24:47.68
and that at his own
efforts the past is laid.
00:24:47.72\00:24:54.29
But truly, the past,
present and the future spawn
00:24:54.32\00:25:01.16
in the mind and lie
00:25:01.20\00:25:04.00
in the hands of one,
00:25:04.03\00:25:08.14
the author, the writer,
00:25:08.17\00:25:13.74
the king and forever...
00:25:13.78\00:25:18.51
He reigns.
00:25:25.95\00:25:28.26
In the early '80s,
00:26:06.80\00:26:08.46
there was a
controversy in our church
00:26:08.50\00:26:12.73
over the understanding
of some of our doctrines.
00:26:12.77\00:26:17.24
They were seriously
brought into question
00:26:17.27\00:26:20.88
by a couple of very well known
00:26:20.91\00:26:24.65
and very educated individuals.
00:26:24.68\00:26:27.95
And so as I was
praying about it,
00:26:27.98\00:26:29.98
the thought occurred to
my mind and that was this,
00:26:30.02\00:26:33.59
to take my Book of Daniel
00:26:33.62\00:26:36.83
and to read it
over and over again.
00:26:36.86\00:26:40.66
And, my friends,
00:26:40.70\00:26:42.03
it was one of the
most thrilling experiences
00:26:42.06\00:26:44.73
I've ever had.
00:26:44.77\00:26:46.53
I clearly saw that what we teach
00:26:46.57\00:26:49.70
about the prophecies
00:26:49.74\00:26:51.17
in the Book of
Daniel are real and true.
00:26:51.21\00:26:54.94
So what I hope to
accomplish with you
00:26:54.98\00:26:58.38
is that I would
inspire you to read your Bible,
00:26:58.41\00:27:03.18
especially the Book of Daniel
00:27:03.22\00:27:06.65
because if you do,
00:27:06.69\00:27:08.89
you will be tremendously blessed
00:27:08.92\00:27:10.73
the way I was.
00:27:10.76\00:27:13.16
So take your Bibles
and turn to chapter 2.
00:27:13.19\00:27:18.50
"Now in the second year
of Nebuchadnezzar's reign,
00:27:18.53\00:27:22.60
Nebuchadnezzar had dreams,
00:27:22.64\00:27:26.14
and his spirit was so troubled
that his sleep left him.
00:27:26.17\00:27:31.31
Then the king gave the
command to call the magicians,
00:27:31.35\00:27:34.22
the astrologers, the sorcerers,
00:27:34.25\00:27:36.48
the Chaldeans to
tell the king his dream.
00:27:36.52\00:27:41.69
So they came and they
stood before the king.
00:27:41.72\00:27:45.13
And the king said to
them, "I have had a dream,
00:27:45.16\00:27:48.73
and my spirit is
anxious to know the dream."
00:27:48.76\00:27:53.84
And then the Chaldeans
spoke to the king in Aramaic,
00:27:53.87\00:27:57.81
"O king, liver forever!
00:27:57.84\00:28:00.01
Tell your servants the dream,
00:28:00.04\00:28:03.35
and we will give
you the interpretation."
00:28:03.38\00:28:07.15
This interaction between
00:28:07.18\00:28:09.42
the king and the wise men
went on three times in a row,
00:28:09.45\00:28:14.29
and all three
times they made excuses
00:28:14.32\00:28:16.99
because they knew,
they could not deliver.
00:28:17.03\00:28:20.06
Finally the king lost his temper
00:28:20.10\00:28:23.26
and declared that all of
them are going to be destroyed
00:28:23.30\00:28:26.90
if they can't tell the dream
as well as the interpretation
00:28:26.94\00:28:32.07
and that's when
00:28:32.11\00:28:33.44
the executioner
came to Daniel's door.
00:28:33.48\00:28:36.81
Now, we find this
to be very interesting,
00:28:36.85\00:28:40.02
for we're pretty sure
that Daniel wasn't called
00:28:40.05\00:28:42.82
in with the wise men,
00:28:42.85\00:28:44.72
probably because
00:28:44.75\00:28:46.32
he's a foreigner
and they don't like him.
00:28:46.35\00:28:50.03
But when they go to execute,
00:28:50.06\00:28:52.59
they come to Daniel
and Daniel asked them,
00:28:52.63\00:28:55.70
what are you doing,
and why are you doing this?
00:28:55.73\00:28:58.57
He told them the story.
00:28:58.60\00:29:00.57
So Daniel then went to
the king and asked for time
00:29:00.60\00:29:04.61
and, folks, here we
are in a serious situation,
00:29:04.64\00:29:07.58
Daniel's life is on the
line and what does he do?
00:29:07.61\00:29:11.65
He comes back to his room,
00:29:11.68\00:29:13.85
he gets Shadrach
Meshach and Abednego
00:29:13.88\00:29:16.69
and they have a prayer meeting.
00:29:16.72\00:29:19.15
That's exactly what it
says here in the Bible.
00:29:19.19\00:29:22.99
It says, "That they might
seek the mercies of God..."
00:29:23.02\00:29:25.99
Verse 18.
00:29:26.03\00:29:28.46
"The God of heaven
concerning the secret,
00:29:28.50\00:29:31.50
so that Daniel
and his companions
00:29:31.53\00:29:33.77
might not perish with the rest
of the wise men of Babylon."
00:29:33.80\00:29:38.74
We need to be
praying people like Daniel.
00:29:38.77\00:29:41.84
In fact, what would
happen, if you were told,
00:29:41.88\00:29:43.95
we came to kill you,
00:29:43.98\00:29:46.01
would you think of prayer first
00:29:46.05\00:29:47.58
or would you think
of everything else?
00:29:47.62\00:29:49.78
Daniel said, give me time,
00:29:49.82\00:29:51.29
then he went and prayed
and God gave him the answer.
00:29:51.32\00:29:56.16
And so he comes to
the king and this is...
00:29:56.19\00:29:59.76
Here is one of the high
points of the chapter to me.
00:29:59.79\00:30:04.00
Daniel answered in the presence
of the king and he said,
00:30:04.03\00:30:07.10
"The secret which
the king has demanded,
00:30:07.14\00:30:10.07
the wise men, the
astrologers, the magicians,
00:30:10.11\00:30:12.84
the soothsayers
cannot declare to the king.
00:30:12.87\00:30:17.28
But there is a God in
heaven who reveals secrets,
00:30:17.31\00:30:21.72
and He has made known
to King Nebuchadnezzar
00:30:21.75\00:30:24.82
what will be in the latter days.
00:30:24.85\00:30:27.39
Your dream, and
your vision on your head
00:30:27.42\00:30:30.03
upon your bed, are these."
00:30:30.06\00:30:32.29
My friends, there
might be something here
00:30:32.33\00:30:34.30
you never noticed.
00:30:34.33\00:30:36.40
Daniel said there is a
God in heaven who does what?
00:30:36.43\00:30:42.24
He reveal secrets.
00:30:42.27\00:30:45.17
In fact, I want you
to look at how many time
00:30:45.21\00:30:48.31
the word secret is in chapter 2
00:30:48.34\00:30:53.52
is repeated over and over.
00:30:53.55\00:30:56.62
And I just hear
God trying to say,
00:30:56.65\00:30:59.59
my people, this
book holds the wisdom.
00:30:59.62\00:31:03.79
Not the universities,
00:31:03.83\00:31:06.36
not the internet
necessarily but this book.
00:31:06.39\00:31:11.43
God is the one
who reveal secrets.
00:31:11.47\00:31:13.40
Have you ever felt
I can never understand
00:31:13.44\00:31:15.57
the Book of Revelation?
00:31:15.60\00:31:17.81
Have you ever felt that I don't,
00:31:17.84\00:31:19.41
I can never understand
00:31:19.44\00:31:21.14
the prophecies of
the Book of Daniel.
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.51
Then pray, my friend.
00:31:24.55\00:31:26.15
That's what God is
waiting for His people to do.
00:31:26.18\00:31:29.12
In the last days,
there is gonna be a crisis,
00:31:29.15\00:31:31.55
the crisis is coming.
00:31:31.59\00:31:32.92
People need to be prayed up.
00:31:32.95\00:31:35.06
They need to pray about
everything all the time.
00:31:35.09\00:31:37.39
We need to be praying churches.
00:31:37.43\00:31:40.06
We need to be praying pastors.
00:31:40.10\00:31:42.03
We need to be praying people.
00:31:42.06\00:31:45.10
God reveal secrets.
00:31:45.13\00:31:47.37
In fact, you
know, what Amos says,
00:31:47.40\00:31:49.04
"He reveals His secrets to
His servants, the prophets."
00:31:49.07\00:31:52.51
Therefore we should be reading
00:31:52.54\00:31:54.71
the Books of
Daniel and Revelation.
00:31:54.74\00:31:56.75
We should be studying them
00:31:56.78\00:31:58.31
and when we are perplexed
we should pray about it.
00:31:58.35\00:32:01.28
That's what Daniel did,
Hananiah, Mishael, Azariah.
00:32:01.32\00:32:04.92
And God revealed it to Daniel.
00:32:04.95\00:32:07.02
Daniel answered in the
presence of the king and said,
00:32:14.76\00:32:19.20
"You, O king, were watching,
00:32:19.23\00:32:22.54
and behold, a great image!
00:32:22.57\00:32:25.61
This great image,
whose splendor was excellent,
00:32:28.78\00:32:32.08
stood before you,
and its form was awesome.
00:32:32.11\00:32:37.55
This image's
head was of fine gold,
00:32:37.59\00:32:40.82
its chest and arms of silver,
its belly and thighs of bronze,
00:32:40.86\00:32:47.76
its legs of iron,
00:32:47.80\00:32:50.60
its feet partly of iron
00:32:50.63\00:32:53.77
and partly of clay.
00:32:53.80\00:32:58.24
You watched while a
stone was cut out without hands
00:32:58.27\00:33:02.91
and struck the image on
its feet of iron and clay,
00:33:02.94\00:33:06.55
and broke them in pieces.
00:33:06.58\00:33:11.65
Then the iron, the
clay, the bronze, the silver,
00:33:11.69\00:33:14.62
and the gold
were crushed together,
00:33:14.66\00:33:17.76
and became like chaff
00:33:17.79\00:33:19.93
from the summer
threshing floors,
00:33:19.96\00:33:22.73
the wind carried them away
00:33:22.76\00:33:24.27
so that no trace
of them was found.
00:33:24.30\00:33:27.64
And the stone
that struck the image
00:33:27.67\00:33:29.70
became a great mountain
and filled the whole earth.
00:33:29.74\00:33:36.51
This is the dream.
00:33:36.54\00:33:38.91
Now we will tell
the interpretation of it
00:33:38.95\00:33:41.45
before the king.
00:33:41.48\00:33:43.79
You, O king,
are a king of kings.
00:33:43.82\00:33:48.42
For the God of heaven
00:33:48.46\00:33:49.79
has given you a
kingdom, power, strength,
00:33:49.82\00:33:53.03
and glory, and wherever
the children of men dwell,
00:33:53.06\00:33:57.33
or the beasts of the field
and the birds of the heaven,
00:33:57.37\00:34:01.57
He has given
them into your hand,
00:34:01.60\00:34:04.14
and has made you
ruler over them all.
00:34:04.17\00:34:07.88
You are this head of gold.
00:34:07.91\00:34:12.08
But after you shall arise
00:34:12.11\00:34:14.88
another kingdom
inferior to yours,
00:34:14.92\00:34:17.85
then another, a
third kingdom of bronze,
00:34:17.89\00:34:21.86
which shall rule
over all the earth.
00:34:21.89\00:34:25.09
And the fourth kingdom
shall be as strong as iron,
00:34:25.13\00:34:29.80
inasmuch as
iron breaks in pieces
00:34:29.83\00:34:32.03
and shatters everything,
and like iron that crushes,
00:34:32.07\00:34:37.21
that kingdom
will break in pieces
00:34:37.24\00:34:40.11
and crush all the others.
00:34:40.14\00:34:43.28
Whereas you saw
the feet and toes,
00:34:43.31\00:34:45.38
partly of potter's
clay and partly of iron,
00:34:45.41\00:34:49.05
the kingdom shall be divided,
00:34:49.08\00:34:51.72
yet the strength of
the iron shall be in it,
00:34:51.75\00:34:55.22
just as you saw the
iron mixed with ceramic clay.
00:34:55.26\00:35:00.10
And as the toes of the
feet were partly of iron
00:35:00.13\00:35:03.00
and partly of clay,
00:35:03.03\00:35:05.13
so the kingdom
shall be partly strong
00:35:05.17\00:35:08.17
and partly fragile.
00:35:08.20\00:35:10.74
As you saw iron
mixed with ceramic clay,
00:35:10.77\00:35:13.94
they will mingle
with the seed of men,
00:35:13.98\00:35:16.91
but they will not
adhere to one another,
00:35:16.95\00:35:20.55
just as iron does
not mix with clay.
00:35:20.58\00:35:24.19
And in the days of these kings
00:35:24.22\00:35:26.72
the God of heaven
will set up a kingdom
00:35:26.76\00:35:30.63
which shall never be destroyed,
00:35:30.66\00:35:32.79
and the kingdom
shall not be left
00:35:32.83\00:35:34.76
to other people,
00:35:34.80\00:35:36.13
it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms,
00:35:36.16\00:35:41.30
and it shall stand forever.
00:35:41.34\00:35:45.27
Inasmuch as you saw the stone
00:35:45.31\00:35:47.38
was cut out of the
mountain without hands,
00:35:47.41\00:35:50.51
and that it broke
in pieces the iron,
00:35:50.55\00:35:53.72
the bronze, the clay,
the silver, and the gold,
00:35:53.75\00:35:59.25
the great God has
made known to the king
00:35:59.29\00:36:03.63
what will come
to pass after this.
00:36:03.66\00:36:07.13
The dream is certain,
00:36:07.16\00:36:09.46
and the interpretation is sure."
00:36:09.50\00:36:12.97
And so he tells the king,
00:36:18.47\00:36:20.08
you saw a great image
and the king's eyes got wide.
00:36:20.11\00:36:23.65
Oh, yeah, but it was peculiar.
00:36:23.68\00:36:26.82
Well, they had
many different metals.
00:36:26.85\00:36:29.88
Oh, that's right.
00:36:29.92\00:36:31.25
Head of gold,
breast and arms of silver,
00:36:31.29\00:36:34.96
thighs of brass, legs of iron,
00:36:34.99\00:36:37.26
toes of iron and clay
00:36:37.29\00:36:39.16
and then a rock was
cut out without hand
00:36:39.19\00:36:41.73
and smote the image at
the feet and the whole image
00:36:41.76\00:36:44.90
just disappeared and blew away
00:36:44.93\00:36:47.17
and the rock
filled the whole world.
00:36:47.20\00:36:50.84
That's it Daniel, that's it.
00:36:50.87\00:36:53.04
You're right, you
know it, you knew it.
00:36:53.07\00:36:55.54
This is
incredible. What does it mean?
00:36:55.58\00:36:57.68
What does it mean?
00:36:57.71\00:36:59.91
And then Daniel told him.
00:36:59.95\00:37:02.42
King, you're that head of gold
00:37:02.45\00:37:05.32
but after you there is
going to be another kingdom.
00:37:05.35\00:37:08.99
Now, my friends,
when we study prophecy,
00:37:09.02\00:37:11.36
one of the things we have to do
00:37:11.39\00:37:13.13
is let the Bible
interpret itself.
00:37:13.16\00:37:16.56
And so now we
know that in prophecy,
00:37:16.60\00:37:19.33
metal represent kingdoms
and they follow in order
00:37:19.37\00:37:24.71
and the description
00:37:24.74\00:37:26.94
of these kingdoms give a
clue to who they represent.
00:37:26.98\00:37:32.25
But Daniel immediately
pinpointed in chapter 2
00:37:32.28\00:37:37.72
that Babylon is
the head of gold.
00:37:37.75\00:37:40.22
What kingdom followed Babylon?
00:37:40.26\00:37:42.79
Get out your history book.
00:37:42.82\00:37:44.83
Medo-Persia overthrew Babylon.
00:37:44.86\00:37:47.40
Who overthrew Medo-Persia?
00:37:47.43\00:37:49.76
The Greeks overthrew Persia.
00:37:49.80\00:37:52.07
And you'll find that the history
00:37:52.10\00:37:54.44
is laid out for us here.
00:37:54.47\00:37:56.84
And then he goes down,
00:37:56.87\00:37:58.21
he gets all the
way to the legs of iron
00:37:58.24\00:38:02.38
which stand for the Roman Empire
00:38:02.41\00:38:05.58
and then he says
something very interesting.
00:38:05.61\00:38:09.22
Verse 40,
00:38:09.25\00:38:11.05
"And the fourth kingdom
shall be as strong as iron,
00:38:11.09\00:38:15.02
inasmuch as
iron breaks in pieces
00:38:15.06\00:38:17.36
and shatters everything,
00:38:17.39\00:38:19.49
like the iron that crushes,
00:38:19.53\00:38:21.60
the kingdom will break in pieces
00:38:21.63\00:38:23.67
and crush all others.
00:38:23.70\00:38:26.57
Whereas you saw
the feet and the toes,
00:38:26.60\00:38:29.90
part of potter's
clay and part of iron,
00:38:29.94\00:38:32.94
the kingdom shall be divided."
00:38:32.97\00:38:38.08
How would anyone
but a prophet know
00:38:38.11\00:38:41.72
that after the
fourth world kingdom Rome,
00:38:41.75\00:38:45.55
there would be no
fifth world kingdom.
00:38:45.59\00:38:48.52
It would be a divided one,
00:38:48.56\00:38:50.83
and so we see
00:38:50.86\00:38:52.43
that embedded in the
prophecies themselves
00:38:52.46\00:38:56.20
are these proofs
that we need to show us
00:38:56.23\00:38:59.73
that Daniel indeed was a prophet
00:38:59.77\00:39:01.90
just like Jesus said he was.
00:39:01.94\00:39:04.61
And that he can be trusted
these prophecies are real.
00:39:04.64\00:39:08.14
These stories are true
and we must study them.
00:39:08.18\00:39:13.08
And so he said,
00:39:13.11\00:39:15.78
this kingdom will be divided
00:39:15.82\00:39:19.39
and not only that, I
want you to jump to verse 43.
00:39:19.42\00:39:24.16
"As you saw iron
mixed with ceramic clay,
00:39:24.19\00:39:28.63
they will mingle
with the seed of men,
00:39:28.66\00:39:31.57
but they will not
adhere to one another,
00:39:31.60\00:39:34.30
just as iron does
not mix with clay."
00:39:34.34\00:39:39.17
And I point that out to you
00:39:39.21\00:39:40.58
because, he said, it
would be a divided kingdom.
00:39:40.61\00:39:43.41
It will never unite
and throughout history
00:39:43.45\00:39:45.95
there has been a
number of individuals
00:39:45.98\00:39:48.05
who have tried to unite it
00:39:48.08\00:39:49.62
and it has never ever worked.
00:39:49.65\00:39:51.75
Why?
00:39:51.79\00:39:53.12
Because the Bible says
00:39:53.15\00:39:54.49
they will not
cleave one to another.
00:39:54.52\00:39:58.33
They will not unite.
00:39:58.36\00:40:00.16
They will always be
separate and even some thought
00:40:00.20\00:40:03.47
when the Euro Zone came in
00:40:03.50\00:40:05.67
that this was going
to defeat the prophecy,
00:40:05.70\00:40:08.74
but you can already see
00:40:08.77\00:40:10.11
that there is people
pulling away from the Euro Zone
00:40:10.14\00:40:13.61
or it's nothing more than
00:40:13.64\00:40:15.08
just an alliance
on a piece of paper.
00:40:15.11\00:40:17.75
They still are the
individual nations,
00:40:17.78\00:40:21.28
political units themselves
with their own leaders.
00:40:21.32\00:40:25.49
They will not cling together.
00:40:25.52\00:40:28.36
Until the
coming of Jesus Christ,
00:40:28.39\00:40:30.33
they will be separate.
00:40:30.36\00:40:33.29
And so we see how
important prophecy is.
00:40:33.33\00:40:36.13
It prepares us for the
future and we can look back
00:40:36.16\00:40:40.27
and we can see
what has happened,
00:40:40.30\00:40:43.41
the Bible said would happen,
00:40:43.44\00:40:45.51
and now we have
confidence in the Bible
00:40:45.54\00:40:48.24
in spite of the fact
00:40:48.28\00:40:49.91
that many intellectuals
today are ridiculing the Bible,
00:40:49.94\00:40:56.08
its veracity and Christians
00:40:56.12\00:40:58.62
in general for believing this.
00:40:58.65\00:41:03.26
In verse 44,
00:41:03.29\00:41:05.59
there are in my
Bible seven words
00:41:05.63\00:41:09.86
that are just outstanding.
00:41:09.90\00:41:11.93
And here is what it says.
00:41:11.97\00:41:13.57
And in the days of
these kings, what kings?
00:41:13.60\00:41:17.97
In the days of
divided kingdom of Europe,
00:41:18.01\00:41:23.91
what will happen?
00:41:23.95\00:41:25.51
The God of heaven
will set up a kingdom
00:41:25.55\00:41:29.48
which shall never be destroyed
00:41:29.52\00:41:30.92
and the kingdom
00:41:30.95\00:41:32.29
shall not be
left to other people,
00:41:32.32\00:41:34.36
it shall break in pieces
and consume all these kingdoms,
00:41:34.39\00:41:38.49
and it shall stand forever.
00:41:38.53\00:41:41.53
My friends, we're
living in that day
00:41:41.56\00:41:44.23
even though the Europe
00:41:44.27\00:41:46.20
has been in
existence for a while now,
00:41:46.23\00:41:48.74
we're living in that day.
00:41:48.77\00:41:50.71
Why is it taking so long?
00:41:50.74\00:41:52.51
Because God is waiting
for more people to accept Him
00:41:52.54\00:41:55.68
so He can have a bigger
kingdom than He has now.
00:41:55.71\00:41:59.15
He's waiting for His people
00:41:59.18\00:42:01.25
to sow longingly
desire His coming
00:42:01.28\00:42:05.79
that we will help
further His kingdom
00:42:05.82\00:42:09.59
and final decisions
will be made on both side
00:42:09.62\00:42:12.99
and He can hasten back.
00:42:13.03\00:42:15.03
Imagine having the
most dire yet most wonderful
00:42:55.00\00:42:58.77
and most important message
00:42:58.81\00:43:00.74
ever to be given
to the human species.
00:43:00.78\00:43:03.48
Imagine how after seeing
millennia of suffering, war,
00:43:09.55\00:43:14.29
trials, plague and fear,
00:43:14.32\00:43:17.59
you bear good news
of a coming deliverance.
00:43:17.63\00:43:20.63
You bear glad
tidings of the end of war.
00:43:20.66\00:43:25.10
You bear this news
yet few will listen.
00:43:25.13\00:43:28.54
Since the beginning,
we have walked among you,
00:43:39.91\00:43:43.18
sometimes seen, mostly unseen.
00:43:43.22\00:43:47.29
We've cried when you've cried,
cheered when you've tried,
00:43:47.32\00:43:51.19
triumphed when you triumphed.
00:43:51.23\00:43:54.46
We've merged leaders,
00:43:54.50\00:43:56.33
shielded
prophets, turned battles,
00:43:56.36\00:43:59.93
working behind
the scenes to protect,
00:43:59.97\00:44:03.20
to guide history,
00:44:03.24\00:44:04.84
fight injustice and
to fulfill prophecy.
00:44:04.87\00:44:09.01
We have this duty
00:44:16.99\00:44:19.02
in the quest to
carry out God's will
00:44:19.05\00:44:21.26
to save you.
00:44:21.29\00:44:25.16
Ye, even when you crucified Him,
00:44:25.19\00:44:29.20
we stood by awe
00:44:29.23\00:44:31.80
so that
salvation may be reachable,
00:44:31.83\00:44:34.80
and that one day
00:44:34.84\00:44:36.74
we could bring
this message to you.
00:44:36.77\00:44:41.21
The King is coming.
00:44:41.24\00:44:44.05
The King is coming.
00:44:44.08\00:44:47.42
The King is coming.
00:44:47.45\00:44:50.39
Yet few will listen.
00:44:54.82\00:44:57.33
Maybe you hope to
hide behind ignorance,
00:44:57.36\00:45:00.73
maybe you feel that
by closing your ears,
00:45:00.76\00:45:04.13
your eyes, this wretched
age may last a bit longer.
00:45:04.17\00:45:09.30
You may live in sin a bit longer
00:45:09.34\00:45:13.04
and Jesus will forever delay.
00:45:13.07\00:45:18.68
But may friends,
00:45:18.71\00:45:21.68
he that shall come will
come and will not tarry.
00:45:21.72\00:45:27.06
After all you have endured,
00:46:00.26\00:46:02.99
after all He
has endured for you,
00:46:03.02\00:46:06.93
hear this message and be ready.
00:46:06.96\00:46:11.13
In chapter 14 of the
Book of Revelation...
00:49:01.80\00:49:04.37
the work of the
church is announced.
00:49:08.91\00:49:10.78
Angels fly
carrying the great message
00:49:14.22\00:49:16.32
representing the
work of the church.
00:49:16.35\00:49:17.75
And then as you get down
toward the end of that book,
00:49:23.16\00:49:26.19
it describes the
beginning of the end
00:49:26.23\00:49:31.03
of Christ's enemy.
00:49:31.07\00:49:34.87
In Revelation Christ wins.
00:49:34.90\00:49:39.31
In the Book of
Revelation Christ wins,
00:49:39.34\00:49:41.48
therefore the believers win.
00:49:41.51\00:49:46.55
It's like the end of the movie,
00:49:46.58\00:49:50.09
the events, the last
events are rapid ones.
00:49:50.12\00:49:53.36
The work of the church,
00:49:53.39\00:49:55.76
the beginning of
the fall of Babylon,
00:49:55.79\00:49:58.23
Revelation 14.
00:49:58.26\00:50:00.43
Seven last
plagues are announced,
00:50:00.46\00:50:02.26
Revelation 15.
00:50:02.30\00:50:04.27
Seven last plagues
fall, Revelation 16.
00:50:04.30\00:50:08.97
The last exposure and
identity of the wicked church
00:50:09.00\00:50:14.04
represented as a
woman, chapter 17.
00:50:14.08\00:50:18.41
The wickedness of
the church that is,
00:50:18.45\00:50:21.12
that part of the church
that is anti-God, anti-Christ,
00:50:21.15\00:50:24.35
that part of the church
that would distort His word
00:50:24.39\00:50:27.56
and distort His message
00:50:27.59\00:50:28.92
and His character
falls in chapter 18.
00:50:28.96\00:50:31.19
And then in chapter 19
00:50:31.23\00:50:34.36
verse 11.
00:50:34.40\00:50:37.53
"And I saw heaven opened,
00:50:37.57\00:50:41.34
and behold a white horse,
00:50:41.37\00:50:44.77
and he that sat up on
him called Faithful and True,
00:50:44.81\00:50:49.84
and in righteousness
he doth and make war.
00:50:49.88\00:50:52.41
His eyes, verse 12:19,
were as a flame of fire,
00:50:52.45\00:50:58.52
on his head were many crowns,
and he had a name written,
00:50:58.55\00:51:03.56
that no man knew but he himself.
00:51:03.59\00:51:07.46
And he was clothed
00:51:07.50\00:51:08.83
with a vesture dipped in blood."
00:51:08.86\00:51:11.10
Verse 13 of chapter 19,
00:51:11.13\00:51:12.83
"And his name is
called the Word of God."
00:51:12.87\00:51:15.60
And I told you,
00:51:15.64\00:51:18.31
how that Revelation dips
into every book in the Bible.
00:51:18.34\00:51:21.58
It's in John.
00:51:21.61\00:51:23.45
When John wrote his gospel,
00:51:23.48\00:51:25.98
he identifies
Jesus as the Word of God.
00:51:26.01\00:51:28.48
In the beginning
was the Word, remember,
00:51:28.52\00:51:31.05
and the Word was with
God and the Word was God,
00:51:31.09\00:51:33.46
all things were made by Him,
00:51:33.49\00:51:35.36
without him wasn't
anything that was made,
00:51:35.39\00:51:39.33
and then in verse 14
and the Word was made flesh.
00:51:39.36\00:51:43.43
Well, we know
without a question then
00:51:43.47\00:51:46.67
that this person
riding this horse
00:51:46.70\00:51:51.71
is in fact Jesus Christ Himself.
00:51:51.74\00:51:56.81
Verse 14, "And the armies
00:51:56.85\00:51:58.18
which were in
heaven followed him
00:51:58.21\00:51:59.55
upon white horses,
00:51:59.58\00:52:00.95
clothed in fine
linen, white and clean."
00:52:00.98\00:52:03.45
Now this is the same dress
00:52:03.49\00:52:06.55
that's described to God's people
00:52:06.59\00:52:08.29
in chapter seven
and in chapter 14.
00:52:08.32\00:52:12.09
"And out of his mouth
goeth a sharp sword..."
00:52:12.13\00:52:14.86
Of course we know in Hebrews,
00:52:14.90\00:52:16.30
see all of the
Bible comes in Revelation,
00:52:16.33\00:52:18.77
Hebrews, "The word
of God is called a sword
00:52:18.80\00:52:21.80
and with it he
should smite the nations,
00:52:21.84\00:52:23.87
he shall rule them
with a rod of iron."
00:52:23.91\00:52:26.14
Remember, rod of iron,
that was in chapter 12.
00:52:26.17\00:52:29.88
That they will
rule with a rod of iron.
00:52:29.91\00:52:31.61
So this is the same Jesus.
00:52:31.65\00:52:34.52
"And he treadeth the
winepress of the fierceness
00:52:34.55\00:52:36.69
and the wrath of Almighty God.
00:52:36.72\00:52:39.32
And he hath on his vesture
00:52:39.35\00:52:40.69
and on his thigh a name written,
00:52:40.72\00:52:42.09
King of kings,
and Lord of lords."
00:52:42.12\00:52:48.36
It's Jesus.
00:52:48.40\00:52:49.83
In Revelation, Jesus wins.
00:52:49.86\00:52:55.57
It's the most
comforting aspect of the book.
00:52:55.60\00:52:58.37
Without His
victory, we have no victory.
00:53:01.64\00:53:05.81
Without His
success, we have no success.
00:53:05.85\00:53:10.79
Without His
overcoming, we cannot overcome.
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Without His death,
00:53:15.79\00:53:18.19
His life, His resurrection,
00:53:18.23\00:53:22.46
His ascension, we
can have none of that.
00:53:22.50\00:53:26.77
In fact Paul said it.
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He said, if Christ
did not die and raised,
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then we have lived in vain.
00:53:30.17\00:53:32.31
We believed in vain.
00:53:32.34\00:53:35.44
In Revelation,
00:53:35.48\00:53:37.65
Christ wins.
00:53:37.68\00:53:43.18
Revelation 20 then,
00:53:43.22\00:53:44.75
it introduces us to that
period of a thousand year
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when the earth is desolate
and Satan is locked in a pit,
00:53:47.69\00:53:51.13
the bottomless
pit is this earth.
00:53:51.16\00:53:53.56
With no human beings
alive because when Jesus comes,
00:53:53.60\00:53:57.27
the living
wicked are struck dead.
00:53:57.30\00:54:00.97
The dead wicked stay dead.
00:54:01.00\00:54:03.27
The righteous dead rise up
00:54:03.30\00:54:06.74
and the righteous
living are caught up.
00:54:06.78\00:54:09.14
So the earth is
desolate for thousand years.
00:54:09.18\00:54:12.41
And in Revelation 20
reveal that we are with Christ,
00:54:12.45\00:54:17.62
judging, judging, marvelous,
00:54:17.65\00:54:20.46
marvelous piece
in Revelation 20.
00:54:20.49\00:54:22.86
And then in Revelation 21...
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"I saw new
heavens and a new earth:
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for the first heaven
00:54:32.23\00:54:34.20
and the first
earth were passed away,
00:54:34.24\00:54:38.11
there was no more sea."
00:54:38.14\00:54:39.47
We're going all the
way back now to Genesis,
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the Book of Genesis, remember.
00:54:41.04\00:54:42.48
When the earth was made,
there were rivers but no seas.
00:54:42.51\00:54:46.82
The new heavens and a new earth.
00:54:46.85\00:54:48.62
The earth will be
remade, like it was before.
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But it gets better than that.
00:54:53.56\00:54:55.62
"And I John saw the
holy city, new Jerusalem,
00:54:55.66\00:54:58.09
coming down from
God out of heaven,
00:54:58.13\00:55:00.26
prepared as a bride
adorned for her husband.
00:55:00.30\00:55:02.33
And I heard a great
voice out of heaven saying,
00:55:02.36\00:55:04.17
Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men,
00:55:04.20\00:55:08.10
he will dwell with them,
they shall be his people,
00:55:08.14\00:55:11.24
God himself shall be
with them, and be their God."
00:55:11.27\00:55:13.54
Christ now
makes this planet over
00:55:13.58\00:55:17.21
which the great controversy
00:55:17.25\00:55:18.78
has been fought
His headquarters.
00:55:18.81\00:55:22.42
So since in Revelation,
00:55:22.45\00:55:23.92
Jesus wins in Revelation we win.
00:55:23.95\00:55:27.82
Great victory, "God, verse 4,
00:55:32.09\00:55:34.13
shall wipe away all
tears from their eyes,
00:55:34.16\00:55:35.86
and there shall be no
more death, neither sorrow,
00:55:35.90\00:55:38.53
nor crying, neither
shall there be any more pain,
00:55:38.57\00:55:41.27
for the former
things are passed away."
00:55:41.30\00:55:45.04
It's in the Book of 2 Peter
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that we read that
when Christ comes,
00:55:53.08\00:55:55.48
the very elements will
melt with fervent heat.
00:55:55.52\00:55:57.19
I keep telling
you that Revelation
00:55:57.22\00:55:58.99
has in it every
part of the Bible.
00:55:59.02\00:56:03.79
But now let me just
pause a minute here.
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Christ wins, we
win but let me pause.
00:56:07.26\00:56:11.83
You cannot read
the Book of Revelation
00:56:11.87\00:56:16.81
without understanding
how totally devastating sin
00:56:16.84\00:56:21.08
has been to this planet.
00:56:21.11\00:56:25.28
The molecules...
00:56:25.31\00:56:26.65
the Bible calls
them the elements,
00:56:29.68\00:56:32.92
the atoms, the bacteria,
00:56:32.95\00:56:38.43
the viruses.
00:56:38.46\00:56:42.10
We're just a polluted people
00:56:42.13\00:56:45.17
living on a polluted planet
00:56:45.20\00:56:49.40
saved by an undefiled God.
00:56:49.44\00:56:53.07
And this is why
Christ has to do it.
00:56:56.11\00:56:59.51
See only the
creator can recreate
00:56:59.55\00:57:04.39
and sin has been so devastating,
00:57:04.42\00:57:06.89
so demeaning, so
destructive to this planet,
00:57:06.92\00:57:11.69
it needs recreation.
00:57:11.73\00:57:13.06
You can't...
00:57:13.09\00:57:14.66
It's like a house
that has been in a storm.
00:57:14.70\00:57:18.37
You can't go and
repaint the walls.
00:57:18.40\00:57:20.67
You have to tear the walls down.
00:57:20.70\00:57:24.71
You got to tear it down.
00:57:24.74\00:57:27.58
You got to do demolition
before you do reconstruction.
00:57:27.61\00:57:30.51
That's how this planet is.
00:57:30.55\00:57:32.11
That's how we are.
00:57:32.15\00:57:34.02
So Jesus declares
00:57:34.05\00:57:35.38
that this mortal
shall put on immortality,
00:57:35.42\00:57:37.92
this corruptible
shall put on incorruption.
00:57:37.95\00:57:40.69
He has to redo the whole thing.
00:57:40.72\00:57:43.19
Oh, by the way,
00:57:43.22\00:57:44.56
it's time for me to say
00:57:44.59\00:57:45.93
therefore that the only
thing that's gonna go with you
00:57:45.96\00:57:48.66
from this earth to the
next is your character.
00:57:48.70\00:57:53.10
Your connection with Jesus
00:57:53.13\00:57:56.27
and the Book of
Revelation appeals to you.
00:57:56.30\00:57:58.87
I mean listen, listen,
look at this, look at this,
00:57:58.91\00:58:01.14
look at this, look at this.
00:58:01.18\00:58:02.91
"And the Spirit and the
bride, Revelation 22, say Come.
00:58:02.94\00:58:06.31
Let him that heareth say, Come.
00:58:06.35\00:58:08.25
Let him that is athirst come.
00:58:08.28\00:58:09.98
Whosoever will let him come
00:58:10.02\00:58:11.59
and take of the
water of life freely."
00:58:11.62\00:58:14.92
Revelation ends with
an appeal, an appeal.
00:58:14.96\00:58:17.53
Accept the Jesus who did it.
00:58:20.66\00:58:24.67
Accept the Jesus who died.
00:58:24.70\00:58:28.50
Accept the Jesus who took
the book of seals and owned it.
00:58:28.54\00:58:31.77
Accept the Jesus who stands
at the door and knock saying,
00:58:31.81\00:58:35.68
if any man here, let him come.
00:58:35.71\00:58:37.55
Accept that Jesus, the
book ends in an appeal.
00:58:37.58\00:58:40.75
Verse 14, Revelation 22,
00:58:44.95\00:58:48.36
"Blessed are they
that do his commandments,
00:58:48.39\00:58:51.79
that they may have
right to the tree of life,
00:58:51.83\00:58:54.10
and may enter in through
the gates into the city."
00:58:54.13\00:58:56.80
Do you see it?
00:58:56.83\00:58:58.63
Revelation 21
paints that new world.
00:58:58.67\00:59:01.44
And no more death and
dying, and crying and pain,
00:59:01.47\00:59:04.51
and so forth,
00:59:04.54\00:59:05.87
and how that earth is gonna look
00:59:05.91\00:59:07.24
and no darkness there
00:59:07.28\00:59:09.04
and oh, it's all
marvelous, it's marvelous,
00:59:09.08\00:59:12.05
but Christ wins
00:59:12.08\00:59:15.75
and the
question is will you win?
00:59:15.78\00:59:21.29
Let me put it a
bit more frankly.
00:59:24.69\00:59:28.43
Are you a born loser?
00:59:28.46\00:59:29.86
No, you're not.
You know, you're not.
00:59:34.97\00:59:39.71
You hook your wagon
now to the Christ who win.
00:59:39.74\00:59:42.54
You hook your wagon
to the Jesus who came.
00:59:42.58\00:59:46.61
You hook your wagon
00:59:46.65\00:59:49.38
to the Christ revealed
in the Book of Revelation,
00:59:49.42\00:59:52.19
You hook your hope and
your faith to the Jesus
00:59:52.22\00:59:56.69
who can defeat His enemy
while hanging on a cross.
00:59:56.73\01:00:00.20
You hook your
hopes to the Christ
01:00:00.23\01:00:03.97
who has power over death.
01:00:04.00\01:00:07.40
And He's introduced that
way in the very beginning
01:00:07.44\01:00:10.84
of the Book of Revelation.
01:00:10.87\01:00:12.67
He's introduced that way,
I'm the Alpha and the Omega,
01:00:12.71\01:00:16.18
the beginning and the end.
01:00:16.21\01:00:19.21
Which is and which
was, which is to come,
01:00:19.25\01:00:24.09
the all mighty in
the Book of Revelation.
01:00:24.12\01:00:29.96
Jesus wins
01:00:29.99\01:00:33.83
and the whole
purpose of the book
01:00:33.86\01:00:36.67
is to reveal to
you how He does it.
01:00:36.70\01:00:41.94
He does it
01:00:41.97\01:00:44.17
by keeping the
commandments of God.
01:00:44.21\01:00:48.64
He does it
01:00:48.68\01:00:50.98
by staying true to the Father
01:00:51.01\01:00:54.92
and He does it
01:00:54.95\01:00:57.09
by being unwavering in
His loyalty to that Father.
01:00:57.12\01:01:01.82
Therefore, you can.
01:01:05.33\01:01:06.66
Don't miss part two of
Daniel and the Revelation,
01:01:13.70\01:01:17.44
"The Return of Christ".
01:01:17.47\01:01:19.84
As light of
God's presence shines
01:01:48.84\01:01:50.61
through the very
foundations of the city shines
01:01:50.64\01:01:53.78
through the walls, in
fact, transparent gold.
01:01:53.81\01:01:56.38
Those walls of earth.
01:01:56.41\01:01:58.08