(MUSIC)
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>>WELCOME TO
SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR.
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WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU
ARE TUNING IN AND JOINING WITH
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US, LIKE YOU DO
EVERY WEEK, FROM ACROSS THE
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COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD.
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CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS
YEAR HAS GONE SO QUICKLY AND
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IT'S ALREADY TIME TO
SING YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS
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SONGS AND TODAY WE ARE
GOING TO BE DOING THAT AND
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WE ARE VERY EXCITED THAT
OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND
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THE WORLD - WE CAN
ALL JOIN TOGETHER AND SING
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ABOUT JESUS' BIRTH.
LET'S SING OUR FIRST SONG
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AND THEN I WILL TELL
YOU ABOUT A BOOK OFFER
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THAT WE HAVE FOR
TODAY. OUR FIRST ONE IS HARK!
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THE HERALD ANGELS SING -
#122 - AND WE WILL DO ALL
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THREE STANZAS. JOIN WITH US.
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PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS
AND SING WITH US - #122.
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(MUSIC) >>HARK!
THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
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"GLORY TO THE
NEWBORN KING; PEACE ON EARTH,
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AND MERCY MILD, GOD
AND SINNERS RECONCILED!"
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JOYFUL, ALL YE NATIONS,
RISE, JOIN THE TRIUMPH OF
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THE SKIES; WITH
TH'ANGELIC HOST PROCLAIM,
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"CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM!"
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HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
"GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING."
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CHRIST, BY HIGHEST
HEAVEN ADORED, CHRIST THE
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EVERLASTING LORD; IN THE
MANGER BORN A KING, WHILE
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ADORING ANGELS SING,
"PEACE ON EARTH, TO MEN
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GOOD WILL;" BID THE
TREMBLING SOUL BE STILL,
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CHRIST ON EARTH HAS
COME TO DWELL, JESUS, OUR
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IMMANUEL! HARK!
THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
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"GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING."
HAIL! THE HEAVEN-BORN PRINCE
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OF PEACE! HAIL! THE
SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS!
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LIFE AND LIGHT TO ALL HE
BRINGS, RISEN WITH HEALING
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IN HIS WINGS. MILD
HE LAYS HIS GLORY BY,
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BORN THAT MAN NO MORE MAY
DIE BORN TO RAISE THE SONS
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OF EARTH, BORN TO
GIVE THEM SECOND BIRTH.
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HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING,
"GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING."
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>>I ALWAYS IMAGINE THE
SHEPHERDS OUT ON THE HILLS
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OF BETHLEHEM THAT NIGHT
AS THEY WERE SITTING AROUND
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THE FIRE - MAYBE THERE
WAS A FIRE, MAYBE THERE
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WASN'T, BUT IF THEY'RE
OUT IN THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM
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IT WAS PRETTY BLEAK.
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IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE
YOU'VE SEEN WHAT IT'S LIKE
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- AND SUDDENLY, THE
SKY WAS FILLED WITH ANGELS
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SINGING 'HARK!
JESUS HAS BEEN BORN!'
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YOU KNOW, THOSE
SHEPHERDS HAD BEEN SEARCHING THE
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SCRIPTURES AND THEY
KNEW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE
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HAPPENING AT SOME TIME.
IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THEM -
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HAVING THAT AMAZING NEWS
THAT JESUS HAD BEEN BORN.
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YOU'D BE BURSTING AT THE
SEAMS, RUNNING AND TELLING
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EVERYONE THAT YOU
KNEW AND STRANGERS.
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AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID.
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THEY SAID, 'JESUS HAS
BEEN BORN AND YOU WILL FIND HIM
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IN A MANGER.' WE'RE GOING
TO GO RIGHT TO THAT SONG -
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MY FAVORITE -
SILENT NIGHT - #143.
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YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING
ABOUT THAT WE WERE SINGING
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THIS SONG, AND WITH THE
EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED
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WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS,
THE BLOODSHED AND THE EVIL
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THAT IS IN THIS WORLD -
IT'S LIKE, HOW DO YOU TIE
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THAT IN WITH SILENT
NIGHT WHEN LAST NIGHT IN PARIS
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IT WAS FAR FROM A SILENT
NIGHT. IT WAS A HORRIBLE NIGHT.
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AND I CAN'T WRAP MY
HEAD AROUND HOW YOU PUT THOSE
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TWO TOGETHER,
BECAUSE IT'S JUST EVIL.
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AND OUR HEARTS AND
THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE
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WITH EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN
AFFECTED BY THAT TRAGEDY,
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BUT WE, AS CHRISTIANS,
WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO -
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BECAUSE OF THAT
NIGHT SO MANY YEARS AGO IN
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BETHLEHEM, IN A MANGER,
IN A STABLE - THAT WE KNOW
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THAT THE EVIL IN THIS
WORLD ISN'T GOING TO LAST
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FOREVER. SO AS WE SING SILENT
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NIGHT , THINK ABOUT THE
WORDS THAT YOU'RE SINGING:
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'SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT'.
ONE DAY WE'LL BE IN HEAVEN
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- #143 - ALL
FOUR STANZAS. (MUSIC)
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SILENT NIGHT, HOLY
NIGHT ALL IS CALM, ALL IS
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BRIGHT; ROUND YON
VIRGIN MOTHER AND CHILD!
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HOLY INFANT, SO TENDER
AND MILD, SLEEP IN HEAVENLY
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PEACE, SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE.
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SILENT NIGHT, HOLY
NIGHT, DARKNESS FLIES, ALL IS
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LIGHT. SHEPHERDS HEAR THE
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ANGELS SING,
"ALLELUIA! HAIL THE KING!
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CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN,
CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN."
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SILENT NIGHT, HOLY
NIGHT, SON OF GOD, LOVE'S PURE
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LIGHT; RADIANT BEAMS
FROM THY HOLY FACE, WITH THE
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DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE,
JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH,
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JESUS, LORD AT THY
BIRTH. SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT,
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WONDROUS STAR, LEND THY
LIGHT; WITH THE ANGELS LET
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US SING, ALLELUIA TO OUR
KING; CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN,
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CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN.
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>>BEFORE WE HAVE OUR
PRAYER, I'M GOING TO TELL
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YOU ABOUT A BOOK
OFFER THAT WE HAVE.
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IT'S A FREE OFFER
FOR YOU THIS WEEK.
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IT'S CALLED THE
REST OF YOUR LIFE!
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EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO
KNOW ABOUT THE SABBATH .
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IT'S A BEAUTIFUL
SHARING MAGAZINE PUT OUT BY
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AMAZING FACTS, FULL OF
LOTS OF PICTURES AND GREAT
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INFORMATION ON THE SABBATH.
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SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU
TO CONTACT AMAZING FACTS.
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YOU CAN CALL 866-788-STUDY
MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966
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AND IT'S OFFER
#813. SO IF YOU'VE NEVER
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CONTACTED US AND YOU
WOULD LIKE THIS, I ENCOURAGE
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YOU TO DO THAT. THE
REST OF YOUR LIFE - A
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BEAUTIFUL
MAGAZINE ABOUT THE SABBATH.
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BEFORE PASTOR DOUG BRINGS
US OUR LESSON STUDY, LET'S
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HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER.
FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK
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YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WILLING
TO COME DOWN TO THIS WORLD,
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TO GIVE UP THE GLORIES OF
HEAVEN, TO SAVE ME, AND TO
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SAVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON
ON THIS WORLD. FATHER, WE JUST
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HAVE TO CHOOSE THAT GIFT
THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO US.
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AND YOU KNEW, WHEN YOU
MADE THAT DECISION TO COME
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DOWN HERE TO SAVE EACH
AND EVERY ONE OF US, THAT MOST
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PEOPLE WOULD REJECT
YOU AND SOME OF THEM WOULD
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EVEN PUT YOU ON A CROSS.
BUT YOU LOVED US ENOUGH TO
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LOOK PAST THAT TO THE
DAY WHEN YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO
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COME BACK TO THIS WORLD
A SECOND TIME AND TAKE US
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IN THE CLOUDS
OF GLORY TO HEAVEN.
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FATHER, MAY WE EACH BE READY
FOR THAT DAY WHEN YOU COME.
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AND AT THIS TIME OF
YEAR, AS THE CHRISTIAN WORLD IS
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LOOKING AND CELEBRATING
YOUR BIRTH, FATHER, MAY WE
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JOIN WITH OUR FRIENDS,
OUR FAMILY, OUR NEIGHBORS,
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STRANGERS IN SHARING THAT
HOPE OF YOUR SECOND COMING
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VERY SOON. BE
WITH PASTOR DOUG AND
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WE THANK YOU SO MUCH
THAT HE'S BACK FROM THE OTHER
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SIDE OF THE PLANET
AND HE'S BRINGING US OUR
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LESSON STUDY TODAY.
IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN.
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YES, PASTOR DOUG AND
HIS LOVELY WIFE, KAREN, HAVE
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BEEN IN FIJI AND NEW
ZEALAND, HAVING MEETINGS
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OVER THERE, AND WE
SHARED THEM WITH YOU FOR THREE
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WEEKS AND WE'RE GLAD
THAT THEY'RE BACK AND PASTOR
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DOUG WILL BE BRINGING
US OUR LESSON STUDY FOR
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TODAY. >>OUR LESSON TODAY, IN
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JEREMIAH 10, IS ABOUT
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM.
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AND, TO BE HONEST, IT'S
KIND OF HEAVY SO I THOUGHT
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I MIGHT LIGHTEN IT UP A
LITTLE BIT AND SHARE WITH
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YOU A BRIEF MISSION
REPORT ON WHERE WE WERE AND WHAT
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WAS GOING ON FOR THE
LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS.
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I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR
GIVING US LEAVE TO GO AND
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TALK TO THAT PART OF THE WORLD.
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ALSO, I THINK IT'S
RELEVANT BECAUSE THE
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PEOPLE IN FIJI AND
NEW ZEALAND THAT WE SAW
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VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE
WE WENT, WATCH SABBATH
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SCHOOL, SO THEY ARE
PART OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS.
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NOW SOME OF THEM WATCH,
LIKE, ON A THURSDAY OR A
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FRIDAY AND THEN THEY GO
TO THEIR CLASSES ON SABBATH,
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BUT I THINK JUST ABOUT
EVERYWHERE WE WENT WE SAW
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PEOPLE WHO WERE WATCHING.
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THIS IS A - JUST A
QUICK GOOGLE EARTH SHOT OF THE
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PART OF THE WORLD
THAT KAREN AND I WERE IN.
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WE WERE GONE FOR ABOUT
TWO WEEKS - I TELL YOU, 11
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AIRPLANES, KAREN COUNTED,
NINE DIFFERENT HOTELS AND
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HOUSES THAT WE STAYED
IN, SO THIS IS A RECORD FOR
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THE NUMBER - YEAH, 17
PRESENTATIONS - THIS IS
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THE RECORD FOR THE
NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE CHANGED
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AIRPLANES AND
HOTELS ON ONE TRIP.
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WE, BASICALLY, NEVER
TOOK OUR CLOTHES OUT OF THE
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SUITCASE AND PUT
THEM IN A DRAWER.
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SO - BECAUSE JUST ONE
DAY AFTER ANOTHER WE HAD TO
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THROW IT BACK IN THE SUITCASE.
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AND - BUT WE WERE IN
THREE DIFFERENT ISLANDS IN FIJI
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AND TWO ISLANDS IN NEW ZEALAND.
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THEN HERE'S A
LITTLE MAP OF FIJI.
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WE FLEW IN TO
NANDI AND SPOKE THERE.
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I SPOKE AT THE MISSION
OFFICE. DROVE OVER TO - ACTUALLY
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FLEW OVER TO SUVA AND
SPOKE THERE AND THEN WE
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WENT ON TO THE ISLAND
OF VANUA LEVU AND WENT TO A
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MISSION THERE AND
SPOKE THERE AS WELL.
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MATTER OF FACT, IF WE GO
TO THE NEXT PICTURE - I'M
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NOT SEEING IT ON MY
PREVIEW SCREEN - OH, ONE
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OF THE NEAT THINGS
THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE FIRST
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SPOKE AT THE MISSION
OFFICE THERE - I DON'T
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KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD,
BUT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF FIJI,
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WHO WAS JUST VOTED IN
THIS MONTH - HE WAS VOTED IN
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AND I THINK HE WAS
INAUGURATED THIS MONTH -
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BROTHER MAJOR GENERAL
CONRADI IS NOW THE PRESIDENT OF
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FIJI - SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
- AND SO HE'S THE FIRST
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SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST
PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY.
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HE MET WITH US AND KAREN
AND I, WE HAD PRAYER WITH
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HIM WITH A DIFFERENT
MISSION - MATTER OF FACT,
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HE MET WITH US
TWICE. HE WAS SO VERY NICE.
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WHEN WE LEFT THE
COUNTRY HE HAD - WELL, WHEN WE
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ARRIVED AND THEN
WHEN WE LEFT, HE HAD A
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PRESIDENTIAL ESCORT.
IT WAS A LITTLE OVER THE
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TOP FOR WHAT WE
EXPECTED, BUT IT WAS VERY NICE.
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BUT THEY WERE RUNNING CARS
OFF THE ROAD AS THEY DROVE US.
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THIS IS - WE MET IN THE
VODAFONE ARENA - AND THIS
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IS ONE OF THE LARGEST
INDOOR ARENAS IN SUVI -
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AND MET THERE - HAD ABOUT
3,000 PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT
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AND THAT WAS ON A
WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SO
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THAT WAS VERY GOOD ATTENDANCE.
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THE NEXT SLIDE -
LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE HERE.
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THIS IS - THEN WE
WENT TO THE FULTON COLLEGE.
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THIS IS A BRAND-NEW CAMPUS.
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THEY MOVED FROM THE
VERY WET SIDE OF THE ISLAND
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OVER AT SUVA AND
WENT TO NADI AND - JUST A
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BEAUTIFUL
PICTURESQUE SPOT THERE.
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WATER COMES RIGHT
DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS.
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BUILT A
BRAND-NEW FACILITY THERE.
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BY THE WAY, SOME OF YOUR
13TH SABBATH OFFERING THAT
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YOU SEE ON THE BACK OF
YOUR QUARTERLY HELPED TO
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BUILD THAT UNIVERSITY
THAT SERVICES A LOT OF THE
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YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE
PACIFIC ISLANDS THERE.
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AND AT THE MEETING
THERE FOR FRIDAY, SABBATH, AND
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SUNDAY - IT MIGHT
HAVE BEEN THURSDAY, FRIDAY,
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SABBATH - ANYWAY, WE HAD
THREE OR FOUR MEETINGS THERE.
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THEY HAD - 5,000 PEOPLE
CAME AND IT WAS JUST - IT
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WAS REALLY, REALLY
EXCITING. THEY SAID IT WAS THE
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LARGEST ATTENDANCE
THEY HAD IN THE NEW CAMPUS.
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AND BOY, THEY
STAYED ALL DAY LONG TOO.
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WE THOUGHT AFTER CHURCH
THEY'D GO HOME, BUT THEY
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JUST SAT ON THE FLOOR,
HAD THEIR LUNCH, AND SAT THERE
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ALL DAY LONG WITH
THEIR PROGRAMS AND SANG AND
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PARTICIPATED. THEN
WE WENT FROM THERE -
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WE FLEW OVER TO THE
NATUVU CREEK MISSION.
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THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL
MISSION THAT HAS BEEN
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BUILT BY DOCTORS TOM
AND MARTA TOOMA AND THIS IS
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THE STAFF - THE
KALBERMATTERS - NANI AND
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DR. ANIBAL AND SOME OF
THEIR FAMILY THAT MET WITH US.
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THIS IS A MEDICAL MISSION
THAT IS ON - IT'S RIGHT AT
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THE END OF THE
NATUVU CREEK AND THEY HAVE A
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CLINIC THERE AND WE
HAD TURNED IT INTO A LITTLE
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EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM.
PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN COMING
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FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT TO
THE CLINIC, THEY HAD BEEN
00:16:30.62\00:16:32.55
WATCHING THE AMAZING FACTS
DVDS. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN
00:16:32.55\00:16:35.52
WATCHING THE
SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM.
00:16:35.52\00:16:37.46
WE MOSTLY HAD EVENING
MEETINGS BUT WE DIDN'T GET
00:16:37.46\00:16:40.30
ANY GOOD CAMERA SHOTS
BECAUSE IT WAS SO DARK.
00:16:40.30\00:16:42.66
AND THIS IS THE FINAL
MEETING WE HAD DURING THE
00:16:42.66\00:16:45.27
DAY THERE, BEFORE WE
DROVE OVER TO LABASA.
00:16:45.27\00:16:49.57
NOW THE PEOPLE AT LABASA
- AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN
00:16:49.57\00:16:52.47
JUST A SECOND - WHEN
WE FINISHED AT THE CREEK
00:16:52.47\00:16:56.44
THERE, WE WERE CATCHING
THE PLANE AT LABASA TO GO
00:16:56.44\00:16:59.58
OVER TO NEW ZEALAND
THE NEXT DAY AND THEY SAID,
00:16:59.58\00:17:03.28
'WILL YOU PLEASE PREACH TO US?'
00:17:03.28\00:17:04.85
AND WE SAID, 'WE'RE
SORRY, WE'RE NOT EVEN LEAVING
00:17:04.85\00:17:07.29
UNTIL, YOU KNOW, 6:00 AND
IT'S A 3-HOUR DRIVE AND WE
00:17:07.29\00:17:10.93
WON'T GET THERE UNTIL
LIKE 9:45 OR 10:00.' THEY SAID,
00:17:10.93\00:17:13.76
'WE'LL WAIT.' AT
NIGHT! AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL,
00:17:13.76\00:17:17.87
THERE'S NOT GOING
TO BE ANYBODY THERE.
00:17:17.87\00:17:20.20
AND IT TOOK LONGER THAN
WE THOUGHT SO, BY THE TIME WE
00:17:20.20\00:17:23.10
DROPPED KAREN - AND JARED
WASN'T FEELING WELL AT THE
00:17:23.10\00:17:25.57
HOTEL - WAYNE AND I WENT
OVER JUST TO SPEAK TO THE
00:17:25.57\00:17:29.54
PEOPLE THERE.
THE PLACE WAS PACKED.
00:17:29.54\00:17:31.81
THERE WERE 300 PEOPLE
THERE THAT HAD WAITED -
00:17:31.81\00:17:33.98
SOME OF THEM FIVE HOURS
- BECAUSE THAT WAS THE LAST
00:17:33.98\00:17:36.69
BUS IN. AND WE WERE SO MOVED BY
00:17:36.69\00:17:39.62
THAT - THE
DEDICATION - THEY WERE HAPPY.
00:17:39.62\00:17:41.49
THEY WEREN'T MAD THAT WE
WERE LATE, THEY WERE JUST
00:17:41.49\00:17:42.99
HAPPY WE CAME. AND
SO WE SHARED A QUICK
00:17:42.99\00:17:46.19
MESSAGE FOR THEM
BECAUSE WE WERE TIRED TOO.
00:17:46.19\00:17:50.23
SO THAT WAS THE - THE
THREE LARGEST CITIES IN
00:17:50.23\00:17:53.23
FIJI WE SPOKE AND WENT
TO THE THREE LARGEST ISLANDS
00:17:53.23\00:17:55.80
- ONE OF THE INTERESTING
THINGS - SEE THIS PICTURE
00:17:55.80\00:17:57.87
HERE? THIS IS TAVEUNI.
YOU SEE THE DARK YELLOW
00:17:57.87\00:18:00.88
LINE GOING THROUGH THE MIDDLE?
THE INTERNATIONAL DATELINE
00:18:00.88\00:18:04.48
GOES THROUGH THERE AND
SO WE DID AN AMAZING FACT OF
00:18:04.48\00:18:08.85
FAITH WHILE WE WERE
THERE ABOUT HOW - IT WAS VERY
00:18:08.85\00:18:11.05
INTERESTING - YOU COULD
GO LIKE THIS AND YOU COULD
00:18:11.05\00:18:12.52
STEP FROM ONE DAY TO THE OTHER.
00:18:12.52\00:18:13.79
(LAUGHTER) SO WE TRIED
TO MAKE SOME ILLUSTRATIONS
00:18:13.79\00:18:17.46
ABOUT TIME TRAVEL AND
PROPHECY AND - I DON'T
00:18:17.46\00:18:20.40
KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING,
BUT WE DID AN AMAZING FACT
00:18:20.40\00:18:21.96
OF FAITH WE RECORDED -
IT'S NOT OUT YET - AT THE
00:18:21.96\00:18:24.27
INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE.
IT'S A VERY INTERESTING SPOT.
00:18:24.27\00:18:27.30
AND NEXT PICTURE -
OH, THERE'S SOME PRETTY -
00:18:27.30\00:18:29.87
THIS IS ON THAT SAME ISLAND.
00:18:29.87\00:18:31.41
BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS -
THEY TOOK US UP THROUGH
00:18:31.41\00:18:33.64
SOME OF THE - JUST PRISTINE.
00:18:33.64\00:18:35.31
THERE ARE SOME
BEAUTIFUL SPOTS IN FIJI.
00:18:35.31\00:18:37.05
AND KAREN AND I ALSO
WENT SCUBA DIVING, OH THREE OR
00:18:37.05\00:18:40.25
FOUR TIMES, I FORGET -
AND JUST SAW SOME - SOME OF
00:18:40.25\00:18:43.52
THE BEST CORAL AND TROPICAL
FISH I'VE EVER SEEN IN THE WORLD
00:18:43.52\00:18:48.42
WERE AROUND FIJI.
AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SAW
00:18:48.42\00:18:50.36
THAT WATERFALL, YOU
KNOW WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN?
00:18:50.36\00:18:53.19
I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT
IS, BUT SOMEBODY COULDN'T
00:18:53.19\00:18:57.17
RESIST JUMPING
IN THAT WATER THERE.
00:18:57.17\00:19:00.84
I THINK SEVERAL OF US
DOVE IN THAT DAY, BUT IT WAS
00:19:00.84\00:19:03.51
JUST A
BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SPOT.
00:19:03.51\00:19:05.17
ALRIGHT, AND THEN WE
WENT FROM THERE DOWN TO
00:19:05.17\00:19:06.68
NEW ZEALAND. AND
THIS IS THE FIRST
00:19:06.68\00:19:10.91
ADVENTIST CHURCH IN
THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE.
00:19:10.91\00:19:13.65
WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT,
I THOUGHT IT SAID 'POISON
00:19:13.65\00:19:15.88
BY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH' BUT IT'S THE
00:19:15.88\00:19:18.75
PONSONBY SEVENTH-DAY
ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THIS
00:19:18.75\00:19:22.49
IS ACTUALLY A NEW FACILITY
ATTACHED TO THE ORIGINAL
00:19:22.49\00:19:24.76
FACILITY WHERE ELLEN
WHITE ACTUALLY PREACHED IN THIS
00:19:24.76\00:19:27.23
CHURCH. AND IT WAS
PACKED. I DON'T REMEMBER
00:19:27.23\00:19:30.80
HOW MANY WERE THERE.
WE HAD SEVERAL HUNDRED IN
00:19:30.80\00:19:32.67
THE OVERFLOW, BUT
EVERY SEAT WAS FULL.
00:19:32.67\00:19:35.50
THE PEOPLE WERE VERY RECEPTIVE.
00:19:35.50\00:19:37.04
THEY ARE PART OF OUR
EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL
00:19:37.04\00:19:38.87
CLASS. MATTER OF FACT, I WANT TO
00:19:38.87\00:19:40.24
WAVE TO OUR FRIENDS IN
FIJI AND IN NEW ZEALAND.
00:19:40.24\00:19:43.78
THEY SAID - I SAID, 'WE'LL
WAVE TO YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE
00:19:43.78\00:19:45.61
PART OF OUR CLASS
THERE.' AND THEY - MANY OF THEM
00:19:45.61\00:19:49.95
WATCH WITH US EVERY
WEEK. SO WE DID A PROGRAM THERE
00:19:49.95\00:19:52.72
AND THEN WE WENT TO
THE LARGEST - AND THIS IS
00:19:52.72\00:19:54.29
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND
- A SUBURB OF AUCKLAND,
00:19:54.29\00:19:57.09
ACTUALLY - AND THEN WE
WENT TO THE TOWN HALL IN
00:19:57.09\00:19:59.26
AUCKLAND AND THAT WAS
THE LARGEST, BY FAR, MEETING.
00:19:59.26\00:20:02.33
THIS IS A VERY LARGE
OLD HISTORIC GATHERING PLACE
00:20:02.33\00:20:06.87
IN AUCKLAND. I THINK IT'S OVER A
00:20:06.87\00:20:08.04
HUNDRED YEARS OLD. IT
WAS FULL TO THE GILLS.
00:20:08.04\00:20:11.81
PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED -
THERE WERE - OVER 2,000
00:20:11.81\00:20:13.58
PEOPLE CAME AND THEY
WERE STANDING UP IN THE BACK,
00:20:13.58\00:20:16.58
THERE WAS 400 IN AN
OVERFLOW ROOM, AND IT WAS
00:20:16.58\00:20:19.55
ALSO STREAMED ON THE INTERNET.
00:20:19.55\00:20:21.28
JUST LOVELY,
LOVELY PEOPLE THERE.
00:20:21.28\00:20:23.89
AND NEXT PICTURE - I
THINK - OH YEAH, THE MAYOR OF
00:20:23.89\00:20:27.62
THE CITY CAME, LEN BROWN,
AND HE KIND OF SURPRISED US
00:20:27.62\00:20:31.16
ALL WHEN HE SANG
TO EVERYBODY TOO.
00:20:31.16\00:20:33.26
NOT ONLY DID HE WELCOME
EVERYBODY FROM THE CHURCH
00:20:33.26\00:20:36.56
- AND THIS WAS
RECORDED FOR THE HOPE CHANNEL IN
00:20:36.56\00:20:38.60
THE SOUTH PACIFIC - BUT
THEN HE SANG AND THE NEXT
00:20:38.60\00:20:41.10
DAY WE SAW HE WAS IN THE
PAPER WITH PRINCE CHARLES.
00:20:41.10\00:20:43.20
KAREN AND I JUST MISSED
PRINCE CHARLES AND CAMILLA
00:20:43.20\00:20:47.51
AND THEY CAME TO
THE SAME AUDITORIUM.
00:20:47.51\00:20:52.05
I WANT YOU TO KNOW, WE
HAD A MUCH BIGGER CROWD THAN
00:20:52.05\00:20:54.18
THEY DID. (LAUGHTER) I JUST WANT
00:20:54.18\00:20:55.68
EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT.
(LAUGHTER) SO WE HAD SOME
00:20:55.68\00:20:58.25
WONDERFUL MEETINGS IN AUCKLAND.
00:20:58.25\00:20:59.55
THEY TOOK US AROUND THE CITY.
00:20:59.55\00:21:00.72
KAREN AND I HAD A
BEAUTIFUL DAY OFF WHERE WE
00:21:00.72\00:21:02.66
WENT ACROSS THE HARBOR
AND JUST FINALLY WE HAD A DAY
00:21:02.66\00:21:04.76
TO TOTALLY RELAX. WE
SPOKE EVERY OTHER DAY
00:21:04.76\00:21:07.03
EXCEPT, I THINK, MAYBE ONE DAY.
00:21:07.03\00:21:08.86
I DON'T KNOW, I THINK
MAYBE WE SPOKE EVERY DAY,
00:21:08.86\00:21:10.17
ACTUALLY. AND WE WENT TO
00:21:10.17\00:21:13.54
CHRISTCHURCH NEXT -
AND YOU HEARD ABOUT THE
00:21:13.54\00:21:15.20
TERRIBLE
EARTHQUAKE THERE IN 2011.
00:21:15.20\00:21:17.77
I'VE NEVER SEEN
ANYTHING LIKE THIS, FRIENDS.
00:21:17.77\00:21:19.74
KAREN AND I GOT
DROPPED OFF AND WE WENT WALKING
00:21:19.74\00:21:22.78
AROUND THE CITY
LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO EAT AND
00:21:22.78\00:21:24.61
IT'S LIKE EVERY OTHER
BLOCK HAD BEEN BOMBED IS
00:21:24.61\00:21:27.32
WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE -
EVEN THOUGH THIS HAS BEEN FIVE
00:21:27.32\00:21:29.25
YEARS - FOUR AND A
HALF YEARS AGO, THEY STILL
00:21:29.25\00:21:31.29
HAVEN'T HAD A
CHANCE TO REBUILD IT.
00:21:31.29\00:21:32.75
THEY HAVE BUILDINGS PROPPED
UP AND HELD UP AND BLOCKED OFF.
00:21:32.75\00:21:35.82
A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION
NOISE EVERYWHERE FROM
00:21:35.82\00:21:37.76
DEMOLITION AND
CONSTRUCTION, BUT THEY'RE
00:21:37.76\00:21:39.96
JUST REBUILDING THE WHOLE CITY.
00:21:39.96\00:21:41.60
MANY ANCIENT
CHURCHES WERE DECIMATED.
00:21:41.60\00:21:44.20
BIG BUILDINGS THAT
LOOK RELATIVELY NEW WERE
00:21:44.20\00:21:47.20
CONDEMNED BECAUSE THEY HAD
CRACKED DURING THE EARTHQUAKE.
00:21:47.20\00:21:50.01
AND IT WAS ONLY, ROUGHLY,
A 7 ON THE RICHTER SCALE,
00:21:50.01\00:21:52.47
WHICH IS BIG, BUT THE
GROUND UNDER CHRISTCHURCH
00:21:52.47\00:21:54.94
LIQUEFIED AND SO MANY
FOUNDATIONS WERE DESTROYED,
00:21:54.94\00:21:58.15
BUT THEY'RE REBUILDING AND SO WE
- THE PLACE WE MET IN ACTUALLY
00:21:58.15\00:22:04.02
WAS THE REPLACEMENT
CHURCH FOR THIS CHURCH.
00:22:04.02\00:22:06.62
IT'S A TEMPORARY CHURCH
THEY BUILT AND THEY CALLED
00:22:06.62\00:22:08.66
IT 'THE CARDBOARD
CATHEDRAL' AND SO THIS IS
00:22:08.66\00:22:11.03
WHERE WE MET TWO OR
THREE TIMES AND SO ABOUT THREE
00:22:11.03\00:22:15.36
HUNDRED PEOPLE CAME.
NOW THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE
00:22:15.36\00:22:17.30
OUR MEETINGS TO THE
OTHER CHURCHES IN CHRISTCHURCH.
00:22:17.30\00:22:20.04
THEY ADVERTISED,
PRINCIPALLY, TO THE PEOPLE
00:22:20.04\00:22:22.37
WHO HAD BEEN WATCHING ON TV.
00:22:22.37\00:22:24.11
THERE'S A TELEVISION
PROGRAM ON ALL OVER NEW
00:22:24.11\00:22:26.37
ZEALAND - IT'S
ADVENTIST PROGRAMMING.
00:22:26.37\00:22:28.38
IT'S KIND OF LIKE 3ABN DOWN
THERE - IT'S CALLED FIRSTLIGHT .
00:22:28.38\00:22:31.05
FREE TO AIR IN OUR
HOTEL - EVERYWHERE PEOPLE HAVE
00:22:31.05\00:22:34.28
BEEN WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS
ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER
00:22:34.28\00:22:36.62
PROGRAMS - AND THEY
ADVERTISED THROUGH THE TV
00:22:36.62\00:22:39.99
PROGRAM AND SO 50% OF
THE PEOPLE THAT CAME WERE
00:22:39.99\00:22:42.62
NON-MEMBERS AND SO IT
WAS REALLY EXCITING TO SHARE
00:22:42.62\00:22:46.23
THERE AT THE CARDBOARD -
THEY CALL IT THE CARDBOARD
00:22:46.23\00:22:47.76
CATHEDRAL BECAUSE IT
WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT - THE
00:22:47.76\00:22:50.17
CORE OF IT - THE GIRDERS
AND EVERYTHING - ARE MADE
00:22:50.17\00:22:52.80
OUT OF CARDBOARD AND
THEY NEEDED TO PUT IT UP VERY
00:22:52.80\00:22:55.54
QUICKLY. I DON'T KNOW IF
THAT WAS THE LAST PICTURE.
00:22:55.54\00:22:58.51
I FORGET WHAT'S
NEXT. OH, THAT'S RIGHT.
00:22:58.51\00:23:00.91
THEN WE DROVE - WE
FINALLY GOT TO DO SOME SIGHT
00:23:00.91\00:23:03.04
SEEING AND DROVE
FROM CHRISTCHURCH DOWN TO
00:23:03.04\00:23:06.28
QUEENSTOWN - COVERED SOME
BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND IT'S
00:23:06.28\00:23:09.52
JUST - IT'S SPECTACULAR VISTAS.
00:23:09.52\00:23:14.42
IT LOOKS LIKE A
COMBINATION OF THE ROCKY
00:23:14.42\00:23:16.36
MOUNTAINS AND THE ALPS
AND THE AIR IS VERY CLEAN AND
00:23:16.36\00:23:18.53
THE WATER IS BLUE, BLUE
FROM MELTED GLACIERS AND
00:23:18.53\00:23:21.90
WE WENT TO THIS
LITTLE TOWN OF QUEENSTOWN AND
00:23:21.90\00:23:23.83
THERE IS A COMPANY OF
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS
00:23:23.83\00:23:27.30
THAT WE MET WITH THERE AND
WE SHARED AND SPOKE WITH THEM.
00:23:27.30\00:23:30.34
AND THEN KAREN AND I
GOT TO DO A LITTLE SIGHT
00:23:30.34\00:23:32.04
SEEING AND WE FLEW HOME.
SO IT WAS BUSY EVERY DAY,
00:23:32.04\00:23:36.01
PREACHING FROM TOWN TO
TOWN AND MEETING PEOPLE.
00:23:36.01\00:23:38.71
I THINK KAREN SAID
17 DIFFERENT SPEAKING
00:23:38.71\00:23:41.58
APPOINTMENTS AND WE WENT
TO FIVE DIFFERENT ISLANDS
00:23:41.58\00:23:44.82
AND JUST A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE.
00:23:44.82\00:23:48.32
BELIEVERS EVERYWHERE AND
THE WORK IS GOING FORWARD
00:23:48.32\00:23:50.63
SO THAT'S OUR MISSION REPORT.
00:23:50.63\00:23:52.13
GREETINGS AGAIN. I
PROMISED I'D WAVE TO OUR
00:23:52.13\00:23:53.70
FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING
IN NEW ZEALAND AND IN FIJI
00:23:53.70\00:23:56.97
AND NOW TO OUR STUDY,
WHICH IS A SOMBER ONE.
00:23:56.97\00:24:01.50
WE'RE IN LESSON #10 IN
THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH AND IT'S
00:24:01.50\00:24:04.84
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM.
I'M GLAD THERE'S GOING TO
00:24:04.84\00:24:07.58
BE A NEW JERUSALEM
BECAUSE THE OLD JERUSALEM IS
00:24:07.58\00:24:10.28
PROBABLY THE MOST
FREQUENTLY DESTROYED
00:24:10.28\00:24:12.81
CITY IN THE WORLD. IT
HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND
00:24:12.81\00:24:15.75
REBUILT 27 TIMES, I
THINK I READ ONE PLACE.
00:24:15.75\00:24:20.19
NOW, TO
UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON.
00:24:20.19\00:24:22.66
YOU REMEMBER IN THE
BOOK OF JEREMIAH, IN THE
00:24:22.66\00:24:24.43
BEGINNING, ONE OF THE
THINGS - ONE OF THE REASONS
00:24:24.43\00:24:28.00
THAT THE CITY WAS GOING
TO BE DESTROYED IS BECAUSE
00:24:28.00\00:24:30.47
THEY HAD JUST GIVEN THEMSELVES
OVER TO APOSTASY SEVERAL TIMES.
00:24:30.47\00:24:34.40
READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN
JEREMIAH 1:16 - IT SAYS,
00:24:34.40\00:24:38.84
"I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS
AGAINST THEM CONCERNING
00:24:38.84\00:24:41.64
ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS,
BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN
00:24:41.64\00:24:44.75
ME, BURNED INCENSE TO
OTHER GODS, AND WORSHIPED
00:24:44.75\00:24:48.02
THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS."
00:24:48.02\00:24:50.55
THEY HAD BEEN BURNING
INCENSE TO OTHER GODS.
00:24:50.55\00:24:53.32
AND, MATTER OF FACT,
YOU KNOW I FORGOT THE MEMORY
00:24:53.32\00:24:56.32
VERSE. YOU MIND IF I BACK UP?
00:24:56.32\00:24:58.86
MEMORY VERSE IS JEREMIAH
29, VERSE 7 AND IF YOU'LL
00:24:58.86\00:25:02.73
SAY THAT WITH ME, I'M
DOING IT FROM THE NEW KING
00:25:02.73\00:25:04.77
JAMES VERSION - JEREMIAH
29:7, "AND SEEK THE PEACE
00:25:04.77\00:25:09.20
OF THE CITY WHERE I
HAVE CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED
00:25:09.20\00:25:12.51
AWAY CAPTIVE, AND PRAY
TO THE LORD FOR IT; FOR IN
00:25:12.51\00:25:16.31
ITS PEACE YOU WILL HAVE PEACE."
00:25:16.31\00:25:19.65
GOD WAS TELLING
THEM, 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE
00:25:19.65\00:25:21.42
CAPTIVE IN A
FOREIGN LAND BECAUSE OF YOUR
00:25:21.42\00:25:23.22
UNFAITHFULNESS BUT, EVEN
WHILE YOU'RE THERE, I WANT
00:25:23.22\00:25:26.39
TO USE YOU AS A
WITNESS IN YOUR CAPTIVITY.' NOW
00:25:26.39\00:25:30.59
JEREMIAH WAS NOT ALONE
IN HAVING TO WARN THE PEOPLE
00:25:30.59\00:25:34.10
ABOUT THE JUDGMENTS. YOU CAN
READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN EZEKIEL -
00:25:34.10\00:25:38.67
EZEKIEL WAS A
CONTEMPORARY OF JEREMIAH.
00:25:38.67\00:25:41.47
NOW JUST REMEMBER,
WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, BUT I
00:25:41.47\00:25:43.41
WANT TO REMIND YOU
THAT THE CAPTIVITY OF THE
00:25:43.41\00:25:47.84
HEBREWS IN
BABYLON CAME IN STAGES.
00:25:47.84\00:25:52.78
FIRST, NEBUCHADNEZZAR
CAME AND BASICALLY CONQUERED
00:25:52.78\00:25:55.22
THEM, SURRENDERED AND
THEY MADE A COVENANT WITH
00:25:55.22\00:25:58.32
HIM AND THEY SAID, 'WE
WILL SERVE YOU.' HE SAID,
00:25:58.32\00:26:00.49
'ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO
LET ONE OF THE SONS OF KING
00:26:00.49\00:26:02.72
JOSIAH REMAIN KING AND HE
PUT ZEDEKIAH ON THE THRONE.
00:26:02.72\00:26:05.73
ZEDEKIAH MADE A
COVENANT AND SAID, 'I'M GOING TO
00:26:05.73\00:26:07.36
SERVE YOU. WE'LL PAY TAXES.
00:26:07.36\00:26:09.30
WE'LL SUBMIT.'
AND THEN THEY DIDN'T.
00:26:09.30\00:26:12.47
BUT FOR, OH, ELEVEN OR
TWELVE YEARS SOME OF THEM
00:26:12.47\00:26:16.57
HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY -
DANIEL, HANANIAH, MISHAEL,
00:26:16.57\00:26:21.08
AZARIAH, EZEKIEL,
AND MANY OTHER JEWS.
00:26:21.08\00:26:23.71
EZEKIEL PROPHESIED
FROM BABYLON AND THE AREA OF
00:26:23.71\00:26:27.38
PERSIA TO THE JEWS AND
HE SENT MESSAGES WHEN THEY
00:26:27.38\00:26:30.72
WERE THERE AND THIS IS
ONE OF THE PROPHESIES OF
00:26:30.72\00:26:32.49
EZEKIEL AND THIS
IS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:26:32.49\00:26:34.22
EZEKIEL 8, VERSES 8
THROUGH 16 - AND I'LL READ
00:26:34.22\00:26:37.36
THIS. SOMEBODY, IN A MOMENT IS
00:26:37.36\00:26:38.86
GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES
36 - KAREN WILL DO THAT.
00:26:38.86\00:26:43.80
EZEKIEL 8:8, "THEN HE
SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, DIG
00:26:43.80\00:26:47.27
INTO THE WALL'; AND WHEN
I DUG INTO THE WALL," - YOU
00:26:47.27\00:26:50.97
SEE, I TELL PEOPLE MY
NAME IS A BIBLE NAME."
00:26:50.97\00:26:53.21
- THERE YOU HAVE IT,
D-U-G (LAUGHTER) - "'SON OF MAN
00:26:53.21\00:26:57.01
DIG IN THE WALL'; AND
WHEN I DUG INTO THE WALL, THERE
00:26:57.01\00:26:59.88
WAS A DOOR. AND
HE SAID TO ME, 'GO
00:26:59.88\00:27:02.85
IN, AND SEE THE WICKED
ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY
00:27:02.85\00:27:05.59
ARE DOING THERE.' SO
I WENT IN AND SAW, AND
00:27:05.59\00:27:08.82
THERE-EVERY SORT OF
CREEPING THING, ABOMINABLE
00:27:08.82\00:27:11.63
BEASTS, AND ALL THE
IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL,
00:27:11.63\00:27:14.83
PORTRAYED ALL
AROUND ON THE WALLS.
00:27:14.83\00:27:17.27
AND THERE STOOD BEFORE
THEM SEVENTY MEN OF THE
00:27:17.27\00:27:20.24
ELDERS OF THE HOUSE OF
ISRAEL," - HOW MANY MEN?
00:27:20.24\00:27:22.90
THAT NUMBER IS GOING
TO COME UP LATER - "AND IN
00:27:22.90\00:27:26.84
THEIR MIDST STOOD
JAAZANIAH THE SON OF
00:27:26.84\00:27:29.14
SHAPHAN. EACH
MAN HAD A CENSER IN
00:27:29.14\00:27:30.98
HIS HAND, AND A THICK
CLOUD OF INCENSE WENT UP.
00:27:30.98\00:27:33.08
THEN HE SAID TO ME, 'SON
OF MAN, HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT
00:27:33.08\00:27:35.12
THE ELDERS OF THE HOUSE
OF ISRAEL DO IN THE DARK,'" -
00:27:35.12\00:27:38.02
DOES GOD SEE WHAT
HAPPENS IN THE DARK?
00:27:38.02\00:27:39.95
DOES JESUS SAY IN THE
JUDGMENT, 'THOSE THINGS
00:27:39.95\00:27:41.76
DONE IN SECRET WILL BE
PROCLAIMED FROM THE HOUSETOP?
00:27:41.76\00:27:44.73
WAS GOD SHOWING THE
PROPHET WHAT WAS HAPPENING?
00:27:44.73\00:27:47.40
THEY THOUGHT NOBODY
SAW THEIR IDOLS THEY WERE
00:27:47.40\00:27:49.50
WORSHIPING - "'HAVE
YOU SEEN WHAT THE ELDERS OF
00:27:49.50\00:27:53.03
THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO IN
THE DARK, EVERY MAN IN THE
00:27:53.03\00:27:55.07
ROOM OF HIS IDOLS?'" -
IN THE CHAMBER OF IDOLS.
00:27:55.07\00:27:58.44
NOW SOME HAVE WONDERED -
THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS
00:27:58.44\00:27:59.87
THIS MAY MEAN.
00:27:59.87\00:28:00.94
IT MAY MEAN BOTH - THAT
EVEN IN THE HOUSE OF THE
00:28:00.94\00:28:03.31
LORD THEY HAD IDOLS
THAT THEY WERE WORSHIPING -
00:28:03.31\00:28:06.58
TRYING TO COVER ALL
THEIR BASES - BUT 'IN THE
00:28:06.58\00:28:08.88
CHAMBERS OF THE HOUSE'
CAN ALSO MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN
00:28:08.88\00:28:12.89
THEIR MINDS THEY HAD
IDOLS - IN THEIR HEARTS - JESUS
00:28:12.89\00:28:16.73
SAID, 'IF THAT WICKED
SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART,
00:28:16.73\00:28:19.36
'MY LORD DELAYS HIS
COMING' AND BEGINS TO LIVE
00:28:19.36\00:28:21.86
LIKE THE DRUNKEN AND THE
WORLD.' AND SO SOME PEOPLE
00:28:21.86\00:28:25.47
HAVE IDOLS IN THEIR HEART
THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE, BUT
00:28:25.47\00:28:27.80
THEY LITERALLY HAD IDOLS
THAT WERE BROUGHT INTO THE
00:28:27.80\00:28:30.11
TEMPLE OF THE LORD
ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS.
00:28:30.11\00:28:32.17
YOU REMEMBER WHEN
SOLOMON GOT OLD AND HIS PAGAN
00:28:32.17\00:28:34.58
WIVES BEGAN TO URGE HIM TO
SET UP IDOLS TO THEIR GODS?
00:28:34.58\00:28:39.31
AND MANASSEH BROUGHT
IDOLS INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:28:39.31\00:28:41.88
LORD. AND ONE OF THE QUEEN
00:28:41.88\00:28:43.89
MOTHERS BROUGHT AN
IDOL INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:28:43.89\00:28:46.02
LORD, AND SO IT
HAD HAPPENED BEFORE.
00:28:46.02\00:28:50.73
DO WE SOMETIMES
HAVE GOLDEN CALVES THAT
00:28:50.73\00:28:52.23
SOMETIMES FIND THEIR
WAY INTO GOD'S CHURCH?
00:28:52.23\00:28:55.56
YEAH, IN THE WORSHIP
STYLES AND IN THE WAY THAT
00:28:55.56\00:28:58.00
WE WORSHIP, SOMETIMES IDOLS
ARE BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE.
00:28:58.00\00:29:01.70
WE'RE NOT IMMUNE FROM
THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY HAD
00:29:01.70\00:29:04.41
BACK THEN - "'FOR THEY
SAY, 'THE LORD DOES NOT
00:29:04.41\00:29:07.88
SEE US, THE LORD HAS
FORSAKEN THE LAND.''" -
00:29:07.88\00:29:10.15
AND SINCE GOD'S FORSAKEN,
WE'D BETTER GET THE GOD'S
00:29:10.15\00:29:11.88
OF THE LOCALS -
"'AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TURN
00:29:11.88\00:29:14.85
AGAIN,''" - GOD'S SPEAKING
TO EZEKIEL - "'TURN AGAIN,
00:29:14.85\00:29:17.02
AND YOU WILL SEE GREATER
ABOMINATIONS THAT THEY ARE
00:29:17.02\00:29:19.89
DOING.' SO HE BROUGHT
ME TO THE DOOR OF THE NORTH
00:29:19.89\00:29:21.89
GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE;"
- THIS IS IN THE LORD'S HOUSE.
00:29:21.89\00:29:24.99
AND TO MY DISMAY, WOMEN
WERE SITTING THERE WEEPING
00:29:24.99\00:29:27.50
FOR TAMMUZ." - THAT'S THE
CHAPTER HEADING - WEEPING FOR
00:29:27.50\00:29:31.93
TAMMUZ . TAMMUZ WAS THE
CHIEF SUMERIAN FERTILITY DEITY,
00:29:31.93\00:29:38.51
SIMILAR TO THE GREEK GOD ADONIS
AND ITS NAME IS DERIVED FROM THE
00:29:38.51\00:29:43.08
SUMERIAN DAMUZI AND IT WAS A
PRE-DELUVIAN SUMERIAN SHEPHERD
00:29:43.08\00:29:47.72
GOD WHO MARRIED THE GODDESS
ISHTAR AND WHEN HE DIED, SHE
00:29:47.72\00:29:51.72
FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE UNDERWORLD
AND TRIED FOR HIS RELEASE
00:29:51.72\00:29:55.12
AND IT'S CONNECTED WITH
EVERY TIME SPRING CAME SHE
00:29:55.12\00:29:57.33
WAS TRYING TO RESURRECT
TAMMUZ AND THEY WOULD WEEP
00:29:57.33\00:30:00.30
FOR TAMMUZ AND IT WAS A WHOLE
PAGAN FERTILITY RITES AND A LOT
00:30:00.30\00:30:03.73
OF WICKED THINGS THAT GO
WITH FERTILITY RELIGIONS.
00:30:03.73\00:30:06.67
AND SO, YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND THE CONSTERNATION OF
00:30:06.67\00:30:09.20
EZEKIEL WHEN HE SEES
THERE THE WOMEN ARE DOING JUST
00:30:09.20\00:30:12.74
LIKE THE PAGAN WOMEN -
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
00:30:12.74\00:30:15.11
THEY'RE WEEPING FOR
TAMMUZ IN GOD'S HOUSE.
00:30:15.11\00:30:18.75
AND THAT WASN'T ALL -
VERSE 15, "THEN HE SAID TO
00:30:18.75\00:30:24.35
ME, 'HAVE YOU SEEN
THIS , O SON OF MAN?
00:30:24.35\00:30:26.05
TURN AGAIN, YOU WILL SEE
GREATER ABOMINATIONS THAN
00:30:26.05\00:30:28.89
THESE.'" - ABOMINATIONS
- THAT WORD'S ONLY USED A
00:30:28.89\00:30:33.16
FEW TIMES - 'ABOMINATIONS
IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD'
00:30:33.16\00:30:36.73
- IS IT POSSIBLE THAT
IN THE LAST DAYS THE DEVIL
00:30:36.73\00:30:39.53
WILL TRY TO BRING IN
THINGS THAT GOD CALLS AN
00:30:39.53\00:30:43.34
ABOMINATION? ARE
THERE THINGS THAT ARE
00:30:43.34\00:30:45.91
HIGHLY ESTEEMED AMONG
MEN THAT JESUS SAID ARE AN
00:30:45.91\00:30:48.48
ABOMINATION TO THE
LORD? AND JESUS IS TALKING TO
00:30:48.48\00:30:51.78
THE CHURCH WHEN HE SAYS THAT.
00:30:51.78\00:30:53.95
HE'S NOT TALKING TO THE WORLD.
00:30:53.95\00:30:54.98
HE SAYS TO THE CHURCH,
'THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE
00:30:54.98\00:30:56.65
HIGHLY ESTEEMED, EVEN IN
THE CHURCH, THAT GOD CALLS
00:30:56.65\00:30:59.59
AN ABOMINATION THAT MAKE
THEIR WAY INTO THE CHURCH
00:30:59.59\00:31:01.92
OF GOD.' WE NEED 
TO PRAY THAT GOD WILL
00:31:01.92\00:31:04.13
OPEN OUR EYES AND GO BY HIS
HIS WORD SO THAT WE DON'T BE
00:31:04.13\00:31:06.83
MISLED BY THE WORLD
AROUND US INTO DOING THAT.
00:31:06.83\00:31:09.96
"...AND THERE, AT THE
DOOR OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD,
00:31:09.96\00:31:13.30
BETWEEN THE PORCH
AND THE ALTAR, WERE ABOUT
00:31:13.30\00:31:14.87
TWENTY-FIVE MEN" - FIRST
YOU HAD 70, NOW YOU'VE GOT
00:31:14.87\00:31:17.57
25 - "WITH THEIR BACKS
TOWARD THE TEMPLE OF THE
00:31:17.57\00:31:20.04
LORD AND THEIR FACES
TOWARD THE EAST, AND THEY
00:31:20.04\00:31:22.94
WERE WORSHIPING THE
SUN TOWARD THE EAST."
00:31:22.94\00:31:25.45
NOW THEY WERE TOLD NOT
TO WORSHIP THE SUN THAT WAS
00:31:25.45\00:31:28.78
MADE ON THE FOURTH DAY.
THEY WERE TOLD TO WORSHIP
00:31:28.78\00:31:31.42
GOD AND THEY WERE
TOLD THAT THE SEVENTH DAY
00:31:31.42\00:31:35.16
WAS THE SABBATH DAY.
YOU WONDER, COULD THERE
00:31:35.16\00:31:38.29
EVER BE SUN WORSHIP IN A
SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH?
00:31:38.29\00:31:43.70
I'LL STOP RIGHT THERE WITH THAT.
THAT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION.
00:31:43.70\00:31:47.20
2 CHRONICLES 33, VERSE 7 -
WHO ELSE HAD DONE IT BEFORE?
00:31:47.20\00:31:53.38
IT SAYS, "HE EVEN SET
A CARVED IMAGE, THE IDOL
00:31:53.38\00:31:56.75
WHICH HE HAD MADE, IN THE
HOUSE OF GOD, OF WHICH GOD
00:31:56.75\00:31:59.45
HAD SAID TO DAVID AND TO
SOLOMON HIS SON, 'IN THIS
00:31:59.45\00:32:02.42
HOUSE AND IN JERUSALEM,
WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN OUT OF
00:32:02.42\00:32:04.72
ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL,
I WILL PUT MY NAME FOREVER."
00:32:04.72\00:32:07.59
BUT MANASSEH HAD BROUGHT IDOLS
INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD.
00:32:07.59\00:32:11.69
SO IT HAD HAPPENED
THROUGH THEIR HISTORY.
00:32:11.69\00:32:14.10
SO WHEN JERUSALEM
FALLS GOD IS JUST HELPING YOU
00:32:14.10\00:32:16.36
SEE HE HAD BEEN PATIENT
WITH THEM FOR HUNDREDS OF
00:32:16.36\00:32:19.23
YEARS - ALL THE WAY
FROM SOLOMON WHO BUILT THE
00:32:19.23\00:32:21.87
TEMPLE - HE BEGAN TO
CORRUPT THE WORSHIP WHEN
00:32:21.87\00:32:24.47
HIS PAGAN WIVES INFLUENCED
HIM, TO MANASSEH AND OTHER
00:32:24.47\00:32:28.14
KINGS. THEY BEGAN TO COPY THE
00:32:28.14\00:32:30.78
ALTARS OF THE PAGAN
NATIONS, WHICH IS WHAT AHAZ DID.
00:32:30.78\00:32:34.82
AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, 2
CHRONICLES 36:14, PLEASE, KAREN.
00:32:34.82\00:32:38.95
>>"MOREOVER ALL THE
LEADERS OF THE PRIESTS AND
00:32:38.95\00:32:41.46
THE PEOPLE TRANSGRESSED
MORE AND MORE, ACCORDING
00:32:41.46\00:32:44.96
TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS
OF THE NATIONS, AND DEFILED
00:32:44.96\00:32:48.33
THE HOUSE OF THE LORD
WHICH HE HAD CONSECRATED
00:32:48.33\00:32:51.60
IN JERUSALEM."
>>WHEN GOD SETS SOMETHING
00:32:51.60\00:32:54.90
ASIDE AS HOLY AND HE
CONSECRATES IT FOR A HOLY
00:32:54.90\00:32:57.74
USE, HE WANTS US TO
KEEP IT HOLY AND WE NEED TO
00:32:57.74\00:33:01.78
REMEMBER THOSE PRINCIPLES
IN OUR DAY AND AGE, AMEN?
00:33:01.78\00:33:05.61
ALRIGHT, AND THEN YOU GO
TO THE NEXT SECTION, IT'S
00:33:05.61\00:33:07.92
THE UNHAPPY
REIGN OF KING ZEDEKIAH.
00:33:07.92\00:33:11.29
NOW ZEDEKIAH WAS ONE
OF THE DESCENDENTS OF KING
00:33:11.29\00:33:14.29
JOSIAH WHO WAS A GOOD KING.
00:33:14.29\00:33:16.56
AND WHEN HIS NEPHEW, THE
SON OF JOSIAH, WAS CARRIED
00:33:16.56\00:33:20.06
OFF TO BABYLON -
YOU REMEMBER THE BOOK OF
00:33:20.06\00:33:23.73
JEREMIAH ENDS BY
SAYING, 'IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH
00:33:23.73\00:33:28.20
YEAR OF THE REIGN OF -
THE CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN,
00:33:28.20\00:33:34.48
EVIL MERODACH, KING OF
BABYLON, BROUGHT HIM OUT
00:33:34.48\00:33:36.81
OF JAIL.' SO
JEHOIACHIN WAS PUT IN JAIL; HIS
00:33:36.81\00:33:40.55
UNCLE, ZEDEKIAH SAID TO
NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 'I MAKE A VOW.
00:33:40.55\00:33:43.32
I WILL OBEY. I
WILL SUBMIT.' BUT HE
00:33:43.32\00:33:46.35
DIDN'T KEEP HIS
PROMISE. MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU
00:33:46.35\00:33:49.26
TURN TO THE BOOK OF
EZEKIEL, THIS CORRESPONDS
00:33:49.26\00:33:52.16
WITH WHAT'S GOING TO
HAPPEN HERE IN JEREMIAH.
00:33:52.16\00:33:53.86
TURN TO EZEKIEL 17 REAL
QUICK - EZEKIEL 17 - AND
00:33:53.86\00:33:58.30
IF YOU START AT VERSE
15, "BUT HE REBELLED AGAINST
00:33:58.30\00:34:02.87
HIM" - ZEDEKIAH REBELLED
AGAINST NEBUCHADNEZZAR -
00:34:02.87\00:34:06.94
"BY SENDING HIS
AMBASSADORS TO EGYPT, THAT
00:34:06.94\00:34:09.14
THEY MIGHT GIVE HIM
HORSES AND MANY PEOPLE."
00:34:09.14\00:34:11.31
- SEE, ZEDEKIAH SAID,
'I'M NOT GOING TO SERVE
00:34:11.31\00:34:12.65
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
ANYMORE. IF I CAN GET THE
00:34:12.65\00:34:14.22
EGYPTIANS TO HELP ME.
IF THEY'LL GIVE ME HORSES
00:34:14.22\00:34:17.99
AND SOLDIERS - I CAN
HIRE THEM - WE CAN FIGHT THE
00:34:17.99\00:34:19.75
BABYLONIANS AND STOP
PAYING TAXES TO THEM.'
00:34:19.75\00:34:22.82
AND HE BROKE HIS
COVENANT. HOW IMPORTANT WAS A
00:34:22.82\00:34:25.16
COVENANT MADE IN THE NAME
OF THE LORD IN GOD'S EYES?
00:34:25.16\00:34:28.36
HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK
OF JOSHUA CHAPTER 9, WHERE
00:34:28.36\00:34:32.23
THE GIBEONITES GET THE
CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO MAKE
00:34:32.23\00:34:35.40
A COVENANT THAT THEY
WOULD PROTECT THEM AND THEY
00:34:35.40\00:34:37.47
WOULD BE THEIR SERVANTS?
AND EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE
00:34:37.47\00:34:41.38
TRICKED, THEY HAD
TO KEEP THEIR LAW.
00:34:41.38\00:34:43.61
THEY KEPT THEIR COVENANTS.
A COVENANT MADE IN THE
00:34:43.61\00:34:45.38
NAME OF THE LORD
WAS VERY IMPORTANT.
00:34:45.38\00:34:47.92
NEBUCHADNEZZAR TRUSTED
THAT THEY WOULD NOT BREAK
00:34:47.92\00:34:49.75
A COVENANT MADE IN
THE NAME OF JEHOVAH.
00:34:49.75\00:34:52.19
HE LET THEM KEEP THE
TEMPLE OF JEHOVAH AND KEEP
00:34:52.19\00:34:54.12
THEIR WORSHIP, BUT
WHEN THEY BROKE THE COVENANT
00:34:54.12\00:34:56.69
MADE IN THE NAME OF
THEIR LORD, THAT'S WHY
00:34:56.69\00:34:58.66
NEBUCHADNEZZAR
DESTROYED THEIR TEMPLE.
00:34:58.66\00:35:00.66
HE SAID, 'YOU DO NOT
RESPECT YOUR OWN GOD,
00:35:00.66\00:35:02.60
NEITHER WILL I. AND
SO KING ZEDEKIAH BROKE
00:35:02.60\00:35:06.30
HIS COVENANT THAT HE
HAD MADE TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR.
00:35:06.30\00:35:09.17
AND HE GOES ON AND HE
SAYS, "WILL HE WHO DOES
00:35:09.17\00:35:12.61
SUCH THINGS ESCAPE?"
- EZEKIEL IS ASKING -
00:35:12.61\00:35:15.61
"CAN HE BREAK A
COVENANT AND STILL BE DELIVERED?
00:35:15.61\00:35:18.41
'AS I LIVE,' SAYS THE
LORD GOD, 'SURELY IN THE PLACE
00:35:18.41\00:35:20.85
WHERE THE KING DWELLS
WHO MADE HIM KING, WHOSE OATH
00:35:20.85\00:35:24.55
HE DESPISED AND WHOSE
COVENANT HE BROKE - WITH
00:35:24.55\00:35:27.32
HIM IN THE MIDST OF
BABYLON HE SHALL DIE.
00:35:27.32\00:35:30.76
NOR WILL PHARAOH WITH
HIS MIGHTY ARMY AND GREAT
00:35:30.76\00:35:33.06
COMPANY DO ANYTHING IN
THE WAR, WHEN THEY HEAP UP A
00:35:33.06\00:35:35.96
SIEGE MOUND AND BUILD A
WALL TO CUT OFF MANY PERSONS."
00:35:35.96\00:35:39.03
EZEKIEL FORETOLD, 'BECAUSE
YOU'VE GONE TO PHARAOH FOR
00:35:39.03\00:35:41.24
HELP, PHARAOH'S
NOT GOING TO HELP YOU.
00:35:41.24\00:35:43.10
AND BECAUSE YOU HAVE
BROKEN THIS COVENANT,
00:35:43.10\00:35:45.07
YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO
BABYLON AND YOU'LL DIE
00:35:45.07\00:35:47.04
THERE.' AND THAT'S
WHAT HAPPENED TO ZEDEKIAH.
00:35:47.04\00:35:49.11
SO ZEDEKIAH, HE DID
NOT LISTEN TO THE LORD.
00:35:49.11\00:35:52.98
NOW ONE REASON -
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ JEREMIAH
00:35:52.98\00:35:55.32
37:5 - WHO HAS THAT?
OKAY, ALBERTO, WHY DON'T
00:35:55.32\00:35:58.92
YOU GET READY TO READ
THAT. ONE REASON THAT THEY
00:35:58.92\00:36:05.19
BELIEVED THAT THEY
COULD ESCAPE - WHAT HAPPENED
00:36:05.19\00:36:09.23
DURING THE TIME
OF KING HEZEKIAH?
00:36:09.23\00:36:11.90
DID HEZEKIAH HAVE THE
ASSYRIAN ARMY SURROUND THEM?
00:36:11.90\00:36:16.37
AND WHILE THE
ASSYRIAN ARMY SURROUNDED THEM,
00:36:16.37\00:36:19.44
THERE WAS A BATTLE AT
LIBNAH AND THEY HAD TO
00:36:19.44\00:36:21.94
WITHDRAW AND THEY TOOK
THE WITHDRAWAL AS A SIGN THAT
00:36:21.94\00:36:25.75
GOD WOULD FIGHT FOR
THEM. THEY CAME BACK AGAIN, BUT
00:36:25.75\00:36:28.62
185,000 OF THE
ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS DIED.
00:36:28.62\00:36:32.65
AND SO, WHEN THEY WITHDREW
THEY THOUGHT, 'THIS IS A
00:36:32.65\00:36:35.52
SIGN GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER US.
00:36:35.52\00:36:37.49
SURE, WE'RE BESIEGED,
BUT GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER US
00:36:37.49\00:36:40.16
BECAUSE HE DID
HEZEKIAH. WELL HEZEKIAH
00:36:40.16\00:36:42.43
TURNED TO THE
LORD. THEY DID NOT.
00:36:42.43\00:36:44.50
AND SO THEY WERE
HOPING THAT THE SAME - THAT
00:36:44.50\00:36:47.00
HISTORY WOULD REPEAT ITSELF.
00:36:47.00\00:36:48.04
BY THE WAY, THIS HAPPENED
AGAIN WHEN THE ROMAN ARMY
00:36:48.04\00:36:51.14
SURROUNDED JERUSALEM.
THE EMPEROR DIED AND TITUS
00:36:51.14\00:36:56.04
AND HIS FORCES BRIEFLY
WITHDREW. JESUS HAD TOLD HIS
00:36:56.04\00:36:59.65
BELIEVERS, 'YOU BETTER FLEE FOR
THE HILLS WHEN YOU SEE JERUSALEM
00:36:59.65\00:37:02.62
SURROUNDED.' THAT WAS
A SIGNAL FOR CHRISTIANS
00:37:02.62\00:37:04.09
TO RUN. BUT THE JEWS TOOK IT -
00:37:04.09\00:37:06.39
THEY SAID, 'OH, AS GOD
DELIVERED HEZEKIAH, HE'LL
00:37:06.39\00:37:08.19
DELIVER US
AGAIN.' BUT HE DIDN'T.
00:37:08.19\00:37:11.16
THE ROMANS DESTROYED THE
CITY AND THE TEMPLE AGAIN.
00:37:11.16\00:37:13.86
THEY WERE LOOKING BACK IN
HISTORY TO THIS MIRACULOUS
00:37:13.86\00:37:16.30
DELIVERANCE OF HEZEKIAH,
BUT IN HEZEKIAH'S DAY THEY
00:37:16.30\00:37:19.10
REPENTED, THEY HUMBLED
THEMSELVES, THEY SPREAD
00:37:19.10\00:37:20.87
THE LETTER BEFORE THE LORD,
THEY TURNED FROM THEIR SINS.
00:37:20.87\00:37:23.24
THEY WANTED THE
DELIVERANCE WITHOUT THE
00:37:23.24\00:37:24.94
REVIVAL AND IT DIDN'T COME.
00:37:24.94\00:37:27.58
ALRIGHT, SO GO AHEAD AND
READ FOR US JEREMIAH 37:5.
00:37:27.58\00:37:31.18
>>"THEN PHARAOH'S ARMY
CAME UP FROM EGYPT; AND
00:37:31.18\00:37:34.75
WHEN THE CHALDEANS WHO
WERE BESIEGING JERUSALEM
00:37:34.75\00:37:36.99
HEARD NEWS OF THEM, THEY
DEPARTED FROM JERUSALEM."
00:37:36.99\00:37:40.62
>>BRIEFLY THE BABYLONIANS
WITHDREW TO FIGHT WITH
00:37:40.62\00:37:43.32
EGYPT AND THE PEOPLE
IN JERUSALEM SAID, 'AHA!
00:37:43.32\00:37:47.40
DELIVERANCE!
THIS IS OUR MOMENT!'
00:37:47.40\00:37:49.86
BUT IT WAS A FALSE
ALARM. IT DIDN'T LAST.
00:37:49.86\00:37:53.57
SOMETIMES GOD GIVES A
LITTLE REPRIEVE SO PEOPLE
00:37:53.57\00:37:56.54
CAN ESCAPE AND SO
PEOPLE CAN REPENT.
00:37:56.54\00:37:58.74
BUT THEY DIDN'T. THEY KEPT IN
00:37:58.74\00:37:59.81
THEIR WICKED WAYS.
YOU READ JEREMIAH 37,
00:37:59.81\00:38:02.58
VERSE 6 - JUST GOING ON
WITH THE NEXT VERSE, "THEN THE
00:38:02.58\00:38:05.61
WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO
THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SAYING,
00:38:05.61\00:38:08.35
'THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF
00:38:08.35\00:38:10.29
ISRAEL, 'THUS YOU SHALL
SAY TO THE KING OF JUDAH,
00:38:10.29\00:38:12.49
WHO SENT YOU TO ME TO
INQUIRE OF ME: 'BEHOLD,
00:38:12.49\00:38:15.26
PHARAOH'S ARMY WHICH
HAS COME UP TO HELP YOU WILL
00:38:15.26\00:38:18.19
RETURN TO EGYPT,
TO THEIR OWN LAND.
00:38:18.19\00:38:20.46
AND THE CHALDEANS
SHALL COME BACK AND FIGHT
00:38:20.46\00:38:22.50
AGAINST THIS CITY, AND
TAKE IT AND BURN IT WITH
00:38:22.50\00:38:25.53
FIRE.'''" CAN YOU
UNDERSTAND WHY JEREMIAH
00:38:25.53\00:38:27.27
WAS NOT POPULAR?
THAT WAS NOT A VERY GOOD
00:38:27.27\00:38:30.54
CHEERLEADER SONG THAT HE WAS
SINGING. "...BURN IT WITH FIRE."
00:38:30.54\00:38:36.28
- GO TO VERSE 9,
"THUS SAYS THE LORD, 'DO NOT
00:38:36.28\00:38:38.55
DECEIVE YOURSELVES,
SAYING, 'THE CHALDEANS
00:38:38.55\00:38:41.12
WILL SURELY DEPART
FROM US,' FOR THEY WILL NOT
00:38:41.12\00:38:43.72
DEPART.'" THEY
WERE TRUSTING IN WHAT
00:38:43.72\00:38:46.12
HAD HAPPENED BEFORE
IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH.
00:38:46.12\00:38:48.69
BY THE WAY, YOU FIND
THE DELIVERANCE OF HEZEKIAH
00:38:48.69\00:38:50.63
MENTIONED IN 2
KINGS 19, VERSE 20.
00:38:50.63\00:38:54.30
YOU CAN ALSO
READ VERSES 32 AND 34.
00:38:54.30\00:38:56.53
AND GOD PROMISED HEZEKIAH
HE WOULD DELIVER THE CITY.
00:38:56.53\00:38:59.83
THEN YOU GET TO
THE FALL OF JERUSALEM.
00:38:59.83\00:39:03.04
SO THERE IS A SIEGE
AGAINST JERUSALEM - NOW,
00:39:03.04\00:39:06.51
YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A SIEGE IS?
00:39:06.51\00:39:08.51
A SIEGE IS - NOW A
SIEGE DOESN'T WORK LIKE IT DID
00:39:08.51\00:39:12.55
BACK IN BIBLE TIMES
BECAUSE OF AIRCRAFT.
00:39:12.55\00:39:15.55
YOU CAN TAKE A HELICOPTER
AND YOU CAN USUALLY FLY
00:39:15.55\00:39:18.12
OVER AND DROP FOOD INTO
A CITY - UNLESS THEY'VE GOT
00:39:18.12\00:39:21.22
LIKE ANTI-AIRCRAFT
MISSILES, BUT IN BIBLE
00:39:21.22\00:39:24.49
TIMES, IF YOU COULD
COMPLETELY SURROUND AND
00:39:24.49\00:39:26.83
CUT OFF THE CAPITAL
OF YOUR ENEMY, WHERE ALL
00:39:26.83\00:39:29.23
THEIR POWER - THE SEAT
OF POWER WAS - PREVENT ANY
00:39:29.23\00:39:33.30
FOOD FROM COMING IN.
DON'T ALLOW ANYONE TO GO
00:39:33.30\00:39:35.54
OUT TO GET MESSENGERS
WITH HELP OR TO BRING SOME
00:39:35.54\00:39:40.21
EMISSARIES WITH MONEY TO
PAY FOR MERCENARIES - JUST
00:39:40.21\00:39:43.91
LOCK 'EM UP - AND WHAT
YOU DO IS YOU STARVE THEM.
00:39:43.91\00:39:47.75
EVENTUALLY THEY
RUN OUT OF RESOURCES.
00:39:47.75\00:39:49.85
A LOT OF THE CAPITAL
CITIES WERE VERY CAREFUL
00:39:49.85\00:39:51.75
TO MAKE SURE THEY HAD
WATER - BECAUSE YOU CAN
00:39:51.75\00:39:53.92
LIVE A LONG TIME
WITHOUT FOOD, OR YOU CAN GET BY
00:39:53.92\00:39:56.29
WITH VERY LITTLE FOOD, BUT
YOU DON'T LAST WITHOUT WATER.
00:39:56.29\00:39:58.89
HEZEKIAH, TO PROTECT
JERUSALEM IN THE EVENT OF
00:39:58.89\00:40:02.33
A SIEGE - HE
BUILT A LONG TUNNEL.
00:40:02.33\00:40:04.83
HAVE YOU HEARD OF
HEZEKIAH'S CONDUIT?
00:40:04.83\00:40:07.70
THERE WAS A SPRING
OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM.
00:40:07.70\00:40:09.80
HE KNEW THEY NEEDED
THAT WATER IN THE CITY, SO HE
00:40:09.80\00:40:12.74
HAD HIS MEN, STARTING
AT TWO DIRECTIONS, DIGGING
00:40:12.74\00:40:15.34
THROUGH SOLID ROCK.
I'VE NOT BEEN THERE.
00:40:15.34\00:40:17.71
I WANT TO GO SEE IT SOMEDAY.
00:40:17.71\00:40:18.95
THEY DUG THIS TUNNEL
AND - IT'S AMAZING THAT THEY
00:40:18.95\00:40:21.82
WERE ABLE TO DO IT
BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE
00:40:21.82\00:40:23.25
WATER FLOW YOU HAVE TO
HAVE VERY PRECISE ANGLES
00:40:23.25\00:40:26.69
OR IT'LL - WATER DOESN'T
FLOW UPHILL - AND SO, WITH
00:40:26.69\00:40:30.16
JUST VERY PRIMITIVE
INSTRUMENTS AND DEAD
00:40:30.16\00:40:32.66
RECKONING, THEY WERE
ABLE FROM TWO DIFFERENT
00:40:32.66\00:40:34.73
DIRECTIONS - TO DIG A
TUNNEL THAT WAS SO PRECISE
00:40:34.73\00:40:37.47
WHEN IT CAME TOGETHER -
I THINK IT'S ONLY OFF BY
00:40:37.47\00:40:39.50
THAT MUCH - AND THE
WATER FROM THE SPRING OUTSIDE
00:40:39.50\00:40:42.90
RAN INTO THE CITY AND
THEN THEY BLOCKED UP AND FILLED
00:40:42.90\00:40:45.77
IN THE SOURCE SO THAT
THEY INVADING ARMIES WOULDN'T
00:40:45.77\00:40:48.51
KNOW THERE WAS A SPRING
THERE AND THE SPRING RAN
00:40:48.51\00:40:51.38
INTO THE CITY AND IT
PROVIDED WATER SO WHENEVER
00:40:51.38\00:40:53.55
JERUSALEM WAS
BESIEGED THEY HAD WATER.
00:40:53.55\00:40:56.32
IT STILL RUNS TODAY
FROM HEZEKIAH'S CONDUIT.
00:40:56.32\00:40:59.92
YOU NEEDED WATER IN THE CITY.
00:40:59.92\00:41:01.82
THEY HAD WATER IN
MEGIDDO - IN SAMARIA - THEY HAD
00:41:01.82\00:41:04.43
DIFFERENT SPRINGS.
BABYLON HAD THE EUPHRATES
00:41:04.43\00:41:07.36
RIVER RUNNING UNDER THE
WALL. BUT IF YOU COULD SURROUND
00:41:07.36\00:41:10.17
THEM AND STARVE THEM SO
THEY COULDN'T HAVE FOOD,
00:41:10.17\00:41:13.23
THEY COULDN'T FIGHT.
THERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES
00:41:13.23\00:41:15.24
OF THIS YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE.
00:41:15.24\00:41:17.94
SOMEBODY'S GOING TO
READ FOR ME JEREMIAH CHAPTER
00:41:17.94\00:41:21.38
38, VERSE 9 IN JUST A MINUTE.
00:41:21.38\00:41:24.65
ALRIGHT, HOFDIS, SO LET
ME READ JEREMIAH 38:2, "THUS
00:41:24.65\00:41:27.85
SAYS THE LORD: 'HE WHO
REMAINS IN THE CITY SHALL
00:41:27.85\00:41:30.05
DIE BY THE SWORD, BY
FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE;
00:41:30.05\00:41:34.29
BUT HE WHO GOES OVER
TO THE CHALDEANS (THE
00:41:34.29\00:41:36.22
BABYLONIANS) SHALL
LIVE; HIS LIFE SHALL BE AS A
00:41:36.22\00:41:38.83
PRIZE TO HIM,
AND HE SHALL LIVE.'"
00:41:38.83\00:41:40.06
DID YOU GET THAT?
THOSE WHO REBEL AND STAY IN
00:41:40.06\00:41:42.76
THE CITY OF
DESTRUCTION WILL PERISH.
00:41:42.76\00:41:47.00
BUT THOSE THAT SURRENDER
TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE OF
00:41:47.00\00:41:49.84
BABYLON WILL LIVE. IS
THERE AN ANALOGY THERE?
00:41:49.84\00:41:54.58
SURRENDER AND
LIVE/REBEL AND DIE?
00:41:54.58\00:41:57.75
AND THEY SAID, 'NO,
WE'VE GOT TO FIGHT, FIGHT,
00:41:57.75\00:41:59.58
FIGHT.' THEY WERE IN THE
DOOMED CITY THAT HAD REBELLED.
00:41:59.58\00:42:03.69
GO AHEAD, PLEASE
READ JEREMIAH 38:9.
00:42:03.69\00:42:07.06
>>"'MY LORD THE KING,
THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL
00:42:07.06\00:42:10.33
IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE
DONE TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET,
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.76
WHOM THEY HAVE CAST
INTO THE DUNGEON, AND HE IS
00:42:13.76\00:42:16.03
LIKELY TO DIE FROM
HUNGER IN THE PLACE WHERE HE IS.
00:42:16.03\00:42:19.23
FOR THERE IS NO
MORE BREAD IN THE CITY.'"
00:42:19.23\00:42:22.60
>>ALRIGHT, AND THIS IS
THE PLEA FROM EBED-MELECH,
00:42:22.60\00:42:25.94
THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH WHO HAD
GONE TO PLEAD WITH ZEDEKIAH IN
00:42:25.94\00:42:30.01
BEHALF OF JEREMIAH.
AND HE WAS THE SOURCE OF
00:42:30.01\00:42:33.55
SAVING JEREMIAH WHO
WAS STARVING IN THIS DRY
00:42:33.55\00:42:37.72
CISTERN - YOU KNOW, THEY
USED TO STORE WATER IN THE
00:42:37.72\00:42:39.62
CISTERNS - THIS CISTERN
WAS DRY AND ALL THEY HAD
00:42:39.62\00:42:41.32
WAS MUCK AT THE BOTTOM AND
THEY DROPPED HIM IN THIS PIT.
00:42:41.32\00:42:44.99
THEY WERE SO - THEY
DIDN'T WANT TO KILL HIM BECAUSE
00:42:44.99\00:42:46.43
HE WAS A PROPHET, BUT
THEY WERE - DIDN'T LIKE HIM
00:42:46.43\00:42:48.10
EITHER, SO THEY
DROPPED HIM IN THIS PIT AND HE
00:42:48.10\00:42:49.83
SANK DOWN IN THE
MIRE IN THIS PIT.
00:42:49.83\00:42:52.60
IT'D BE BAD TO BE IN
JERUSALEM DURING A TIME OF
00:42:52.60\00:42:55.97
FAMINE. HAVE YOU READ, FOR
00:42:55.97\00:42:57.81
INSTANCE, 2 KINGS?
WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SAMARIA
00:42:57.81\00:43:01.11
WAS BESIEGED BY THE
ASSYRIANS? LISTEN: 2 KINGS 24,
00:43:01.11\00:43:06.08
'IT HAPPENED AFTER THIS
THAT BENHADAD, KING OF SYRIA,
00:43:06.08\00:43:09.38
GATHERED ALL OF HIS ARMY AND
HE WENT AND BESIEGED SAMARIA.'
00:43:09.38\00:43:12.82
SAMARIA, NOW, WAS THE CAPITAL OF
THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. JERUSALEM,
00:43:12.82\00:43:16.09
OF COURSE, WAS THE
CAPITAL OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM.
00:43:16.09\00:43:18.23
'HE BESIEGED SAMARIA
AND THERE WAS A GREAT FAMINE
00:43:18.23\00:43:21.23
IN SAMARIA.' - PEOPLE
IN THE CITY ARE STARVING -
00:43:21.23\00:43:23.70
'INDEED, THEY BESIEGED
IT UNTIL A DONKEY'S HEAD WAS
00:43:23.70\00:43:27.90
- NOW IS A DONKEY A
CLEAN OR AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL?
00:43:27.90\00:43:29.74
>>UNCLEAN. >>AND
IF YOU'RE GOING TO
00:43:29.74\00:43:32.01
EAT A DONKEY, WHAT
PART WOULD YOU WANT TO EAT?
00:43:32.01\00:43:34.48
THAT'S NOT THE BEST CUT, IF
YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MEAT.
00:43:34.48\00:43:39.75
I MEAN, WHO WANTS
TO EAT A COW'S HEAD?
00:43:39.75\00:43:41.78
A DONKEY'S HEAD? THE
SIEGE WAS SO BAD THAT
00:43:41.78\00:43:47.72
A DONKEY'S HEAD WAS
SOLD FOR 80 SHEKELS OF SILVER
00:43:47.72\00:43:51.23
AND ONE FORTH OFF A CAB
OF DOVE DROPPINGS - ABOUT A
00:43:51.23\00:43:55.86
PINT - FOR FIVE
SHEKELS OF SILVER.
00:43:55.86\00:43:58.67
AND YOU READ ON, IN
THAT SAME CHAPTER, IT GOT SO
00:43:58.67\00:44:00.80
BAD THEY TURNED TO CANNIBALISM.
00:44:00.80\00:44:03.51
YOU KNOW, WHEN WE
WERE FIJI, THEY TOOK US TO
00:44:03.51\00:44:05.27
THESE - THEY HAVE
THESE PLACES CALLED 'CANNIBAL
00:44:05.27\00:44:07.68
CAVES.' AND WE DID
AN AMAZING FACT ABOUT
00:44:07.68\00:44:10.81
CANNIBALISM. WE SAID, 'YOU KNOW,
00:44:10.81\00:44:12.28
THE BIBLE ENDORSES
CANNIBALISM? JESUS SAID,
00:44:12.28\00:44:15.52
'UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH
AND DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE
00:44:15.52\00:44:17.52
NO LIFE IN YOU.' BUT
THE OTHER CANNIBALISM
00:44:17.52\00:44:20.66
IS NOT ENDORSED
BECAUSE YOU'RE UNCLEAN.
00:44:20.66\00:44:22.69
PEOPLE ARE IN
THE UNCLEAN CATEGORY.
00:44:22.69\00:44:25.26
DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT?
I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE.
00:44:25.26\00:44:26.70
I HOPE NO ONE'S
REALLY TROUBLED BY THAT.
00:44:26.70\00:44:29.73
BUT IT GOT SO BAD THAT
THEY DEVOURED EACH OTHER.
00:44:29.73\00:44:34.14
PAUL TALKS ABOUT
'BEWARE, LEST YOU BE CONSUMED OF
00:44:34.14\00:44:38.11
ONE ANOTHER AND YOU
BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER.'
00:44:38.11\00:44:41.61
SOME CHRISTIANS ARE
VEGETARIAN CANNIBALS.
00:44:41.61\00:44:45.55
THEY BITE AND DEVOUR
ONE ANOTHER WITH THEIR WORDS
00:44:45.55\00:44:49.12
AND THEY CUT DOWN
PEOPLE'S REPUTATIONS.
00:44:49.12\00:44:51.22
SO THEY HAD
TURNED TO CANNIBALISM.
00:44:51.22\00:44:53.25
YOU CAN READ - THIS
WAS ALL FORETOLD BY MOSES.
00:44:53.25\00:44:56.22
IF YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY
28:52 - THIS IS AMAZING -
00:44:56.22\00:44:59.46
A THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER,
LISTEN TO WHAT MOSES SAID:
00:44:59.46\00:45:03.97
IF THEY TURNED AWAY
FROM GOD AND WENT TO PAGAN
00:45:03.97\00:45:06.27
GODS, HE SAID, "THEY
SHALL BESIEGE YOU AT ALL YOUR
00:45:06.27\00:45:09.84
GATES UNTIL YOUR HIGH
AND FORTIFIED WALLS, IN WHICH
00:45:09.84\00:45:13.21
YOU TRUST, COME DOWN
THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR LAND;"
00:45:13.21\00:45:16.58
- THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT
HAPPENED - "AND THEY SHALL
00:45:16.58\00:45:18.38
BESIEGE YOU AT ALL YOUR
GATES THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR
00:45:18.38\00:45:20.18
LAND WHICH THE LORD
YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU.
00:45:20.18\00:45:22.02
YOU SHALL EAT THE FRUIT
OF YOUR OWN BODY, THE FLESH
00:45:22.02\00:45:24.12
OF YOUR SONS AND YOUR
DAUGHTERS WHOM THE LORD
00:45:24.12\00:45:26.32
YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU,
IN THE SIEGE AND DESPERATE
00:45:26.32\00:45:28.42
STRAITS IN WHICH YOUR
ENEMY SHALL DISTRESS YOU."
00:45:28.42\00:45:31.56
AND THERE'S MORE IN
THAT CHAPTER I WON'T READ
00:45:31.56\00:45:33.36
BECAUSE IT'S VERY TROUBLING.
00:45:33.36\00:45:35.26
HE GOES INTO DETAIL
ABOUT HOW BAD IT WOULD BE IF
00:45:35.26\00:45:37.27
THEY TURNED AWAY FROM
THE LORD AND THEIR ENEMIES
00:45:37.27\00:45:40.14
BESIEGED THEM. AND
IT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED.
00:45:40.14\00:45:43.61
MOSES FORETOLD IT.
HOW DOES THE DEVIL TRY
00:45:43.61\00:45:47.18
TO CONQUER GOD'S PEOPLE?
YOU KNOW WHAT A SIEGE WAS?
00:45:47.18\00:45:52.51
A SIEGE WAS YOU WOULD
SURROUND THEM AND STARVE
00:45:52.51\00:45:54.45
THEM SO THEY COULDN'T FIGHT.
00:45:54.45\00:45:56.35
YOU BASICALLY
STARVED THEM INTO SURRENDER.
00:45:56.35\00:45:59.39
NOW WHAT ARE
CHRISTIANS SUPPOSED TO EAT?
00:45:59.39\00:46:01.79
WE'RE SUPPOSED TO EAT GOOD FOOD.
00:46:01.79\00:46:04.59
GOD'S BREAD, LIVING WATER,
AND IF YOU DON'T EAT GOD'S
00:46:04.59\00:46:08.90
FOOD, ISAIAH SAYS, 'WHY
DO YOU EAT THAT WHICH IS NOT
00:46:08.90\00:46:12.03
BREAD?' IF WE'RE EATING THE FOOD
00:46:12.03\00:46:13.40
OF BABYLON, YOU'RE NOT
GOING TO HAVE STRENGTH TO FIGHT.
00:46:13.40\00:46:17.17
AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN
THE CHURCH, INSTEAD OF EATING
00:46:17.17\00:46:19.91
GOD'S FOOD, THEY'RE EATING
DONKEY HEAD AND DOVE DROPPINGS.
00:46:19.91\00:46:23.51
'WHY DO YOU EAT
THAT WHICH IS NOT BREAD?
00:46:23.51\00:46:26.38
MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY
BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY
00:46:26.38\00:46:29.65
WORD.' AND SOME PEOPLE
HAVE ALMOST NO DEVOTIONAL
00:46:29.65\00:46:32.52
LIFE AND THEY WONDER WHY
THEY CANNOT FIGHT THE ENEMY.
00:46:32.52\00:46:35.72
THEY ARE BEING
STARVED INTO SURRENDER.
00:46:35.72\00:46:38.33
THEY SURRENDER WHEN
TEMPTATION COMES BECAUSE
00:46:38.33\00:46:40.66
THEY HAVE NO
SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT.
00:46:40.66\00:46:43.40
HOW DID JESUS FIGHT TEMPTATION?
00:46:43.40\00:46:45.70
THE BREAD OF LIFE. 'IT
IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN.
00:46:45.70\00:46:48.94
IT IS WRITTEN.' AND SO
THE DEVIL HAS NOT CHANGED HIS
00:46:48.94\00:46:51.34
TACTICS. HE
TRIES TO STARVE GOD'S
00:46:51.34\00:46:53.14
PEOPLE SO THAT WE
DON'T HAVE STRENGTH TO FIGHT.
00:46:53.14\00:46:56.21
YOU LOOK AT THE
GREAT REFORMERS, WHEN THEY
00:46:56.21\00:46:57.41
FOUGHT AGAINST THE
WICKEDNESS OF THEIR AGE,
00:46:57.41\00:47:00.05
THEY QUOTED THE WORD. AMEN?
00:47:00.05\00:47:03.35
I MEAN, ALL THE WAY FROM
MARTIN LUTHER ON DOWN, 'IT
00:47:03.35\00:47:05.45
IS WRITTEN BY THE WORD
OF GOD.' YOU GO TO JEREMIAH
00:47:05.45\00:47:09.09
CHAPTER 39, "IN THE
NINTH YEAR" - FINALLY THE SIEGE
00:47:09.09\00:47:13.86
GOT SO BAD - YOU READ
WHERE IT SAYS THERE WAS NO
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.86
BREAD IN THE CITY.
PEOPLE ARE STARVING.
00:47:15.86\00:47:20.77
"IN THE NINTH YEAR OF
ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN
00:47:20.77\00:47:23.94
THE TENTH MONTH,
NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF
00:47:23.94\00:47:25.51
BABYLON AND ALL HIS
ARMY CAME AGAINST JERUSALEM,
00:47:25.51\00:47:28.18
AND BESIEGED IT. IN
THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF
00:47:28.18\00:47:30.68
ZEDEKIAH," - SO YOU GO
FROM THE NINTH YEAR TO THE
00:47:30.68\00:47:32.45
ELEVENTH YEAR AND THIS TALKS
ABOUT THE FALL OF JERUSALEM.
00:47:32.45\00:47:36.82
THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM BEGAN IN
588 BC AND IT LASTED UNTIL THE
00:47:36.82\00:47:41.89
SUMMER OF 586 BC.
YOU KNOW, YOU COUNT
00:47:41.89\00:47:45.13
BACKWARDS WHEN YOU
GO FROM BC TOWARDS AD.
00:47:45.13\00:47:49.90
A NEARLY TWO-YEAR SIEGE.
YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE CITY.
00:47:49.90\00:47:53.23
ALL THE FOOD IS GONE -
EVERYTHING THEY HAD STORED UP.
00:47:53.23\00:47:55.07
AND THEY ARE SO
WEAK THEY CAN'T FIGHT.
00:47:55.07\00:47:59.44
- "IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF
ZEDEKIAH, IN THE FOURTH MONTH,
00:47:59.44\00:48:01.38
ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE
MONTH, THE CITY WAS PENETRATED."
00:48:01.38\00:48:04.15
- BABYLONIANS,
DURING THOSE YEARS, HAD BEEN
00:48:04.15\00:48:06.08
HAMMERING THE WALLS -
BEEN THROWING - YOU'VE PROBABLY
00:48:06.08\00:48:08.82
SEEN THESE CATAPULTS
THAT THROW GREAT STONES AT
00:48:08.82\00:48:10.95
THESE ANCIENT WALLS
- THEY'D BEEN BATTERING
00:48:10.95\00:48:13.05
AGAINST THE WALLS -
AND IT'S A LONG PROCESS.
00:48:13.05\00:48:15.79
THEY DON'T HAVE THE
BIG OLD BOMBS THAT WE HAVE.
00:48:15.79\00:48:18.03
GUNPOWDER WAS NOT
INVENTED YET, BUT THEY USED TO
00:48:18.03\00:48:20.26
PUMMEL THE WALLS WITH
LARGE STONES AND, FINALLY,
00:48:20.26\00:48:24.17
THEY BROKE THROUGH AND
THE WALL WAS PENETRATED -
00:48:24.17\00:48:28.60
THEIR DEFENSE - THE
OUTER WALL, IN ANY EVENT, AND
00:48:28.60\00:48:32.21
ZEDEKIAH THOUGHT THAT
HE COULD ESCAPE AND THAT
00:48:32.21\00:48:35.14
NIGHT, THEY KNEW THERE
WAS ONE WEAK SPOT IN THE WALLS
00:48:35.14\00:48:37.95
OF THE BABYLONIAN DEFENSES
- ZEDEKIAH ABANDONED HIS
00:48:37.95\00:48:41.62
PEOPLE AND HE AND SOME
OF HIS CRACK FORCES THAT HAD
00:48:41.62\00:48:45.25
BEEN EATING ENOUGH FOOD
TO KEEP THEM GOING, THEY TOOK
00:48:45.25\00:48:48.16
THE FEW HORSES IN THE
CITY THAT COULD STILL RIDE AND
00:48:48.16\00:48:50.53
THEY ESCAPED THROUGH
A CRACK IN THE WALL -
00:48:50.53\00:48:55.43
THERE WAS ACTUALLY THE KING'S
GARDEN AND THERE WAS A GATE
00:48:55.43\00:48:59.50
THAT WAS UNFORTIFIED.
THEY ESCAPED AND THEY MADE
00:48:59.50\00:49:01.24
IT THROUGH THE
BABYLONIAN DEFENSES AND THEY
00:49:01.24\00:49:03.20
TRIED TO RIDE AWAY.
THEIR HORSES WERE SO WEAK
00:49:03.20\00:49:06.07
THEY COULD NOT
OUTPACE THE BABYLONIANS THAT
00:49:06.07\00:49:08.28
EVENTUALLY CAUGHT UP WITH
THEM IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO.
00:49:08.28\00:49:12.11
THEY MADE IT AS FAR AS JERICHO
AND THEN THEY EXECUTED JUDGMENT.
00:49:12.11\00:49:15.35
ALL HIS SOLDIERS FORSOOK HIM.
00:49:15.35\00:49:16.85
ZEDEKIAH AND HIS SONS
WERE CAPTURED AND HE SAW HIS
00:49:16.85\00:49:21.76
SONS SLAIN BEFORE HIM
ONE AT A TIME AND THEN THAT
00:49:21.76\00:49:25.46
WAS THE LAST THING HE
SAW. THE KING PUT OUT HIS EYES
00:49:25.46\00:49:27.50
AND CARRIED HIM TO
BABYLON WHERE HE DIED.
00:49:27.50\00:49:29.33
THE VERY THING HE SAID.
AND IT'S SUCH A SAD STORY
00:49:29.33\00:49:31.63
BECAUSE JEREMIAH HAD TOLD HIM.
00:49:31.63\00:49:34.30
ZEDEKIAH BROUGHT JEREMIAH IN.
00:49:34.30\00:49:36.00
HE SAID, 'WHAT'S
THE WORD OF THE LORD?'
00:49:36.00\00:49:37.04
HE SAID, 'THERE'S
STILL HOPE' - JEREMIAH SAID -
00:49:37.04\00:49:40.08
'IF YOU SURRENDER - IF
YOU REPENT AND YOU GO OUT TO
00:49:40.08\00:49:43.85
THE KING OF
BABYLON YOU WILL LIVE.
00:49:43.85\00:49:45.91
THE TEMPLE WILL
NOT BE DESTROYED.
00:49:45.91\00:49:47.52
THE CITY WILL NOT BE
BURNT, BUT YOU WILL BE
00:49:47.52\00:49:49.22
CARRIED OFF TO
BABYLON BUT YOU'LL LIVE.
00:49:49.22\00:49:51.05
YOUR SONS WILL LIVE.
REPENT.' AND HE WANTED SO
00:49:51.05\00:49:53.52
MUCH TO DO IT, BUT HE
WAS AFRAID OF WHAT THE OTHER
00:49:53.52\00:49:55.69
PRINCES WOULD THINK AND
HE WENT WITH THE CROWD AND
00:49:55.69\00:49:59.06
HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE PROPHET.
00:49:59.06\00:50:01.10
IS THERE A RISK THAT
SOMETIMES WE MAKE THE SAME
00:50:01.10\00:50:02.96
MISTAKE? FOLLOW POPULAR OPINION
00:50:02.96\00:50:05.20
INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF
GOD? AND IT WAS REALLY SAD
00:50:05.20\00:50:07.87
BECAUSE HE WAS SO CLOSE
TO DOING THE RIGHT THING.
00:50:07.87\00:50:10.74
NOW JEREMIAH 39:11,
"NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF
00:50:10.74\00:50:14.54
BABYLON GAVE CHARGE
CONCERNING JEREMIAH" - SO
00:50:14.54\00:50:18.81
THEY BROKE INTO THE CITY,
THEY SET THE CITY ON FIRE,
00:50:18.81\00:50:21.25
THEY KILLED ALL THE
LEADERS THAT HAD REBELLED
00:50:21.25\00:50:23.05
AGAINST THEM, THEY LET
THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE, THE
00:50:23.05\00:50:25.75
TEMPLE WAS BURNT ONLY
AFTER THEY TOOK ALL THE
00:50:25.75\00:50:28.46
VALUABLES OUT OF
THE TEMPLE, AND JUST ONE
00:50:28.46\00:50:31.09
LITTLE FOOTNOTE I
SHOULD MENTION AT THIS POINT:
00:50:31.09\00:50:34.46
WHEN IT LISTS ALL THE
ARTICLES OF THE TEMPLE
00:50:34.46\00:50:37.37
THAT ARE CARRIED BY
NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO BABYLON,
00:50:37.37\00:50:40.30
IT TALKS ABOUT THE
LAVER AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE
00:50:40.30\00:50:42.07
BRONZE AND THE PILLARS
AND THE UTENSILS AND THE ALTAR
00:50:42.07\00:50:44.97
OF INCENSE, I THINK,
IS MENTIONED AND IT NEVER
00:50:44.97\00:50:47.78
MENTIONS THE
ARK OF THE COVENANT.
00:50:47.78\00:50:49.81
ARK OF THE COVENANT IS
NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN.
00:50:49.81\00:50:52.68
IT WAS IN THE TEMPLE
IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH.
00:50:52.68\00:50:55.58
IT WAS STILL - PRESUMABLY
STILL IN THE TEMPLE DURING
00:50:55.58\00:50:57.89
THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH,
BUT IT DISAPPEARS AND IT'S
00:50:57.89\00:51:01.72
BELIEVED THAT WHEN
THEY SAW THAT THE CITY WAS
00:51:01.72\00:51:04.36
GOING TO BE TAKEN THAT
JEREMIAH AND THE PRIESTS -
00:51:04.36\00:51:06.59
BY THE WAY, YOU READ
THIS IN THE BOOK PROPHETS AND
00:51:06.59\00:51:08.10
KINGS - JEREMIAH AND
SOME OF THE LOYAL PRIESTS TOOK
00:51:08.10\00:51:11.57
THE ARK AND THEY
HID IT IN A CAVE.
00:51:11.57\00:51:13.80
IF YOU KNOW JERUSALEM, IT
IS RIDDLED AND HONEYCOMBED
00:51:13.80\00:51:17.21
WITH CAVES UNDERNEATH
THE CITY - CAVES AND GRAVES -
00:51:17.21\00:51:20.91
AND THEY PUT IT IN,
PROBABLY, SOME GRAVE -
00:51:20.91\00:51:23.75
SOME UNMARKED THING -
THEY SEALED IT UP AND IT HAS
00:51:23.75\00:51:25.85
NEVER BEEN FOUND. I BELIEVE IT'S
00:51:25.85\00:51:27.12
STILL THERE TODAY.
AND SO IT'D BE SOMETHING
00:51:27.12\00:51:29.82
TO DISCOVER THE
ARK, WOULDN'T IT?
00:51:29.82\00:51:31.99
AND SO - THEN THEY
SHOWED MERCY TO JEREMIAH.
00:51:31.99\00:51:37.56
JUST LIKE THE MEDO-PERSIAN
KING SHOWED MERCY TO
00:51:37.56\00:51:41.93
DANIEL - DANIEL,
WHO FORETOLD THE FALL OF
00:51:41.93\00:51:44.77
BABYLON BECAUSE OF THE
WICKEDNESS OF BELSHAZZAR,
00:51:44.77\00:51:48.10
NEBUCHADNEZZAR SHOWED
MERCY TO JEREMIAH BECAUSE
00:51:48.10\00:51:50.61
HE GOT INTELLIGENCE OF
WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE
00:51:50.61\00:51:52.51
CITY AND HE SAID, 'THERE'S
A PROPHET THAT IS TELLING
00:51:52.51\00:51:55.18
THEM THAT THEY SHOULD
SURRENDER TO YOU.' AND HE
00:51:55.18\00:51:57.71
KNEW THAT JEREMIAH DID
NOT APPROVE THAT THEY HAD
00:51:57.71\00:52:00.88
BROKEN THEIR COVENANT
TO HIM AND HE LET JEREMIAH
00:52:00.88\00:52:03.82
NOT ONLY LIVE, HE
SAID, 'HERE'S AN ALLOWANCE.
00:52:03.82\00:52:06.62
HERE'S A REWARD FOR
YOUR FAITHFULNESS AND YOU GET
00:52:06.62\00:52:09.22
TO GO WHERE YOU WANT.
YOU WANT TO GO TO BABYLON?
00:52:09.22\00:52:10.79
YOU CAN GO TO
BABYLON. YOU WANT TO STAY HERE?
00:52:10.79\00:52:11.99
YOU CAN STAY HERE. YOU'RE FREE.
00:52:11.99\00:52:15.83
SO IT'S GOOD TO KNOW
THAT WHEN THE KING COMES, THAT
00:52:15.83\00:52:19.80
THOSE WHO ARE SERVING
HIM HERE, THAT HE WILL WATCH
00:52:19.80\00:52:22.47
OVER US. AMEN? >>AMEN.
00:52:22.47\00:52:25.07
>>"NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR
KING OF BABYLON GAVE CHARGE
00:52:25.07\00:52:26.98
CONCERNING JEREMIAH TO
NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF
00:52:26.98\00:52:30.18
THE GUARD, SAYING,
'TAKE HIM AND LOOK AFTER HIM,
00:52:30.18\00:52:32.91
AND DO HIM NO HARM; BUT
DO TO HIM JUST AS HE SAYS TO
00:52:32.91\00:52:36.42
YOU.'" THEN THE CAPTAIN
OF THE GUARD TOOK JEREMIAH
00:52:36.42\00:52:40.26
AND SAID UNTO HIM,
'LORD - THE LORD THY GOD HAS
00:52:40.26\00:52:43.39
PRONOUNCED EVIL ON THIS
PLACE.' NOW THE LORD - DO
00:52:43.39\00:52:45.99
YOU NOTICE THEY KNOW
THAT IT WAS THE LORD THAT DID
00:52:45.99\00:52:47.50
IT. THEY'RE NOT GIVING THE
00:52:47.50\00:52:48.60
CREDIT TO, YOU KNOW,
ONE OF THE BABYLONIAN GODS.
00:52:48.60\00:52:52.97
'AND THE LORD HAS
BROUGHT IT AND DONE IT ACCORDING
00:52:52.97\00:52:54.60
AS HE SAID.' THE
CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD IS SAYING,
00:52:54.60\00:52:56.77
'JEREMIAH, ACCORDING
TO YOUR WORD GOD HAS DONE
00:52:56.77\00:52:58.27
BECAUSE YOU HAVE SINNED
AGAINST THE LORD.' WHAT A
00:52:58.27\00:53:01.98
REBUKE. IT'S COMING FROM - A
00:53:01.98\00:53:03.21
BABYLONIAN GENERAL IS SAYING
WHAT HAPPENED - 'AND YOU'VE NOT
00:53:03.21\00:53:05.81
OBEYED HIS VOICE.
THEREFORE THIS THING HAS
00:53:05.81\00:53:08.18
COME UPON YOU AND NOW,
BEHOLD, I LOOSE YOU THIS
00:53:08.18\00:53:10.29
DAY FROM THE CHAINS
WHICH WERE ON YOUR HAND.
00:53:10.29\00:53:13.05
IF IT SEEMED GOOD
UNTO YOU TO COME WITH ME TO
00:53:13.05\00:53:15.39
BABYLON, COME. I
LOOK WELL TO YOU.
00:53:15.39\00:53:17.63
BUT IF IT SEEM ILL
UNTO THEE TO COME WITH ME TO
00:53:17.63\00:53:19.93
BABYLON - TO FOREBEAR
- THE LAND IS BEFORE YOU.
00:53:19.93\00:53:23.13
WHETHER IT SEEMS GOOD AND
CONVENIENT FOR YOU TO GO, GO.
00:53:23.13\00:53:26.07
I'M GIVING YOU
COMPLETE FREEDOM.' ALRIGHT, LAST
00:53:26.07\00:53:28.57
SECTION, WE'VE GOT
ABOUT THREE MINUTES.
00:53:28.57\00:53:30.57
ALL YOUR HEART - NOW
SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ
00:53:30.57\00:53:33.34
JEREMIAH 29:13.
GOD, EVEN IN THEIR
00:53:33.34\00:53:37.25
CAPTIVITY, PROMISED TO
WATCH OVER THEM IF THEY
00:53:37.25\00:53:39.85
WOULD SEEK AFTER HIM AND
THAT'S - WHY DON'T YOU GO
00:53:39.85\00:53:42.68
AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US, SAM.
00:53:42.68\00:53:44.45
>>"AND YE SHALL SEEK ME
AND FIND ME WHEN YE SHALL
00:53:44.45\00:53:48.66
SEARCH FOR ME
WITH ALL YOUR HEART."
00:53:48.66\00:53:50.86
>>THAT'S ONE OF MY
FAVORITE VERSES IN THE
00:53:50.86\00:53:53.50
BIBLE, JEREMIAH CHAP -
MATTER OF FACT, IF I SIGN
00:53:53.50\00:53:55.86
ONE OF MY BOOKS, I
OFTEN PUT IN THAT VERSE -
00:53:55.86\00:53:58.63
JEREMIAH 29:13 - "YOU
WILL SEARCH FOR ME AND FIND ME
00:53:58.63\00:54:01.94
WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR
ME WITH" - HOW MUCH?
00:54:01.94\00:54:03.64
>>ALL. >>NOW
WHERE DOES HE GET THAT?
00:54:03.64\00:54:07.31
DID JEREMIAH MAKE THAT
UP OR IS HE QUOTING THE
00:54:07.31\00:54:09.41
BIBLE? LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY -
00:54:09.41\00:54:11.98
WHO WROTE DEUTERONOMY? >>MOSES.
00:54:11.98\00:54:14.28
>>HE'S, AGAIN, TALKING
ABOUT IF YOU'RE CARRIED
00:54:14.28\00:54:15.78
AWAY CAPTIVE BECAUSE
OF YOUR UNFAITHFULNESS.
00:54:15.78\00:54:18.82
DEUTERONOMY 4:27, "AND
THE LORD WILL SCATTER YOU
00:54:18.82\00:54:23.73
AMONG THE PEOPLES, AND
YOU WILL BE LEFT FEW IN
00:54:23.73\00:54:25.79
NUMBER AMONG THE NATIONS
WHERE THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU.
00:54:25.79\00:54:28.50
AND THERE YOU WILL
SERVE GODS, THE WORK OF MEN'S
00:54:28.50\00:54:30.97
HANDS, WOOD AND STONE,
WHICH NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR
00:54:30.97\00:54:33.70
NOR EAT NOR SMELL.
BUT FROM THERE YOU WILL
00:54:33.70\00:54:37.51
SEEK THE LORD YOUR GOD,
AND YOU WILL FIND HIM IF
00:54:37.51\00:54:40.01
YOU SEEK HIM WITH
ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH
00:54:40.01\00:54:41.91
ALL YOUR SOUL." SEE
WHAT JEREMIAH'S DOING?
00:54:41.91\00:54:44.35
HE'S CLAIMING AND HE'S
QUOTING THE PROMISE GOD
00:54:44.35\00:54:47.02
MADE THROUGH MOSES A
THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER.
00:54:47.02\00:54:50.92
MOSES EXACTLY FORETOLD
WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO GOD'S
00:54:50.92\00:54:53.72
PEOPLE. DID
EVERYTHING MOSES SAY HAPPEN?
00:54:53.72\00:54:56.46
WERE THEY CARRIED OFF?
DID THEY TURN TO OTHER GODS?
00:54:56.46\00:54:59.03
>>YES. >>DID THEY
PRAY FROM BABYLON?
00:54:59.03\00:55:01.63
DID HE BRING THEM BACK
AGAIN WHEN THEY FINALLY
00:55:01.63\00:55:03.97
SOUGHT THE LORD
WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS?
00:55:03.97\00:55:05.87
YOU READ THE PRAYER OF
DANIEL IN CHAPTER 9 YOU
00:55:05.87\00:55:07.44
CAN SEE IT'S HAPPENING.
AND HE SAID 'I'LL BRING
00:55:07.44\00:55:12.21
UPON YOU THE CURSING AND
THE BLESSING, BUT IF, FROM
00:55:12.21\00:55:15.91
THAT LAND, YOU SEARCH
WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL,
00:55:15.91\00:55:19.01
THE LORD'LL BRING YOU BACK.
00:55:19.01\00:55:20.42
YOU CAN LOOK ALSO IN
1 CHRONICLES 28:9, "AND
00:55:20.42\00:55:23.72
THOU, SOLOMON MY SON,
KNOW THOU THE GOD OF THY
00:55:23.72\00:55:26.45
FATHER, AND SERVE HIM
WITH A PERFECT HEART AND WITH A
00:55:26.45\00:55:29.29
WILLING MIND: FOR THE
LORD SEARCHETH ALL HEARTS, AND
00:55:29.29\00:55:32.23
UNDERSTANDETH ALL
THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE
00:55:32.23\00:55:34.10
THOUGHTS: IF THOU SEEK
HIM, HE WILL BE FOUND ON
00:55:34.10\00:55:37.53
THEE; BUT IF THOU FORSAKE
HIM, HE WILL CAST THEE OFF
00:55:37.53\00:55:41.04
FOR EVER." WHAT DID JESUS SAY?
00:55:41.04\00:55:42.24
'SEEK AND YOU'LL
FIND.' NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT
00:55:42.24\00:55:44.97
THAN SEEKING AFTER THE
LORD TO LOVE HIM WILL ALL
00:55:44.97\00:55:46.84
OF YOUR HEART.
WELL, WE CAN - WE'VE KIND
00:55:46.84\00:55:48.84
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FALL OF JERUSALEM.
00:55:48.84\00:55:50.68
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