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00:35 >>WELCOME TO SABBATH SCHOOL STUDY HOUR. 00:37 WE'RE SO GLAD THAT YOU ARE TUNING IN AND JOINING WITH 00:40 US, LIKE YOU DO EVERY WEEK, FROM ACROSS THE 00:42 COUNTRY AND AROUND THE WORLD. 00:44 CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS YEAR HAS GONE SO QUICKLY AND 00:47 IT'S ALREADY TIME TO SING YOUR FAVORITE CHRISTMAS 00:51 SONGS AND TODAY WE ARE GOING TO BE DOING THAT AND 00:54 WE ARE VERY EXCITED THAT OUR EXTENDED FAMILY AROUND 00:57 THE WORLD - WE CAN ALL JOIN TOGETHER AND SING 01:00 ABOUT JESUS' BIRTH. LET'S SING OUR FIRST SONG 01:06 AND THEN I WILL TELL YOU ABOUT A BOOK OFFER 01:08 THAT WE HAVE FOR TODAY. OUR FIRST ONE IS HARK! 01:11 THE HERALD ANGELS SING - #122 - AND WE WILL DO ALL 01:15 THREE STANZAS. JOIN WITH US. 01:17 PULL OUT YOUR HYMNALS AND SING WITH US - #122. 01:20 (MUSIC) >>HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING, 01:32 "GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING; PEACE ON EARTH, 01:39 AND MERCY MILD, GOD AND SINNERS RECONCILED!" 01:46 JOYFUL, ALL YE NATIONS, RISE, JOIN THE TRIUMPH OF 01:53 THE SKIES; WITH TH'ANGELIC HOST PROCLAIM, 02:00 "CHRIST IS BORN IN BETHLEHEM!" 02:04 HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING, "GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING." 02:15 CHRIST, BY HIGHEST HEAVEN ADORED, CHRIST THE 02:20 EVERLASTING LORD; IN THE MANGER BORN A KING, WHILE 02:29 ADORING ANGELS SING, "PEACE ON EARTH, TO MEN 02:36 GOOD WILL;" BID THE TREMBLING SOUL BE STILL, 02:42 CHRIST ON EARTH HAS COME TO DWELL, JESUS, OUR 02:49 IMMANUEL! HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING, 02:55 "GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING." HAIL! THE HEAVEN-BORN PRINCE 03:05 OF PEACE! HAIL! THE SUN OF RIGHTEOUSNESS! 03:11 LIFE AND LIGHT TO ALL HE BRINGS, RISEN WITH HEALING 03:18 IN HIS WINGS. MILD HE LAYS HIS GLORY BY, 03:24 BORN THAT MAN NO MORE MAY DIE BORN TO RAISE THE SONS 03:32 OF EARTH, BORN TO GIVE THEM SECOND BIRTH. 03:38 HARK! THE HERALD ANGELS SING, "GLORY TO THE NEWBORN KING." 03:51 >>I ALWAYS IMAGINE THE SHEPHERDS OUT ON THE HILLS 03:54 OF BETHLEHEM THAT NIGHT AS THEY WERE SITTING AROUND 03:58 THE FIRE - MAYBE THERE WAS A FIRE, MAYBE THERE 04:01 WASN'T, BUT IF THEY'RE OUT IN THE HILLS OF BETHLEHEM 04:03 IT WAS PRETTY BLEAK. 04:04 IF YOU'VE BEEN THERE YOU'VE SEEN WHAT IT'S LIKE 04:07 - AND SUDDENLY, THE SKY WAS FILLED WITH ANGELS 04:12 SINGING 'HARK! JESUS HAS BEEN BORN!' 04:16 YOU KNOW, THOSE SHEPHERDS HAD BEEN SEARCHING THE 04:19 SCRIPTURES AND THEY KNEW THAT IT WAS GOING TO BE 04:21 HAPPENING AT SOME TIME. IMAGINE BEING ONE OF THEM - 04:26 HAVING THAT AMAZING NEWS THAT JESUS HAD BEEN BORN. 04:31 YOU'D BE BURSTING AT THE SEAMS, RUNNING AND TELLING 04:34 EVERYONE THAT YOU KNEW AND STRANGERS. 04:36 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. 04:37 THEY SAID, 'JESUS HAS BEEN BORN AND YOU WILL FIND HIM 04:41 IN A MANGER.' WE'RE GOING TO GO RIGHT TO THAT SONG - 04:45 MY FAVORITE - SILENT NIGHT - #143. 04:51 YOU KNOW, I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT WE WERE SINGING 04:54 THIS SONG, AND WITH THE EVENTS THAT HAVE HAPPENED 04:57 WITHIN THE LAST 24 HOURS, THE BLOODSHED AND THE EVIL 05:02 THAT IS IN THIS WORLD - IT'S LIKE, HOW DO YOU TIE 05:05 THAT IN WITH SILENT NIGHT WHEN LAST NIGHT IN PARIS 05:09 IT WAS FAR FROM A SILENT NIGHT. IT WAS A HORRIBLE NIGHT. 05:15 AND I CAN'T WRAP MY HEAD AROUND HOW YOU PUT THOSE 05:18 TWO TOGETHER, BECAUSE IT'S JUST EVIL. 05:22 AND OUR HEARTS AND THOUGHTS AND PRAYERS ARE 05:25 WITH EVERYONE WHO'S BEEN AFFECTED BY THAT TRAGEDY, 05:30 BUT WE, AS CHRISTIANS, WE CAN ALWAYS COME BACK TO - 05:34 BECAUSE OF THAT NIGHT SO MANY YEARS AGO IN 05:39 BETHLEHEM, IN A MANGER, IN A STABLE - THAT WE KNOW 05:45 THAT THE EVIL IN THIS WORLD ISN'T GOING TO LAST 05:47 FOREVER. SO AS WE SING SILENT 05:50 NIGHT , THINK ABOUT THE WORDS THAT YOU'RE SINGING: 05:55 'SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT'. ONE DAY WE'LL BE IN HEAVEN 06:02 - #143 - ALL FOUR STANZAS. (MUSIC) 06:20 SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT ALL IS CALM, ALL IS 06:35 BRIGHT; ROUND YON VIRGIN MOTHER AND CHILD! 06:45 HOLY INFANT, SO TENDER AND MILD, SLEEP IN HEAVENLY 06:58 PEACE, SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE. 07:10 SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT, DARKNESS FLIES, ALL IS 07:24 LIGHT. SHEPHERDS HEAR THE 07:30 ANGELS SING, "ALLELUIA! HAIL THE KING! 07:42 CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN, CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN." 07:59 SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT, SON OF GOD, LOVE'S PURE 08:13 LIGHT; RADIANT BEAMS FROM THY HOLY FACE, WITH THE 08:25 DAWN OF REDEEMING GRACE, JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH, 08:40 JESUS, LORD AT THY BIRTH. SILENT NIGHT, HOLY NIGHT, 08:57 WONDROUS STAR, LEND THY LIGHT; WITH THE ANGELS LET 09:10 US SING, ALLELUIA TO OUR KING; CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN, 09:30 CHRIST THE SAVIOR IS BORN. 09:43 >>BEFORE WE HAVE OUR PRAYER, I'M GOING TO TELL 09:45 YOU ABOUT A BOOK OFFER THAT WE HAVE. 09:47 IT'S A FREE OFFER FOR YOU THIS WEEK. 09:49 IT'S CALLED THE REST OF YOUR LIFE! 09:52 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW ABOUT THE SABBATH . 09:55 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL SHARING MAGAZINE PUT OUT BY 09:59 AMAZING FACTS, FULL OF LOTS OF PICTURES AND GREAT 10:02 INFORMATION ON THE SABBATH. 10:04 SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CONTACT AMAZING FACTS. 10:07 YOU CAN CALL 866-788-STUDY MORE - THAT'S 866-788-3966 10:16 AND IT'S OFFER #813. SO IF YOU'VE NEVER 10:19 CONTACTED US AND YOU WOULD LIKE THIS, I ENCOURAGE 10:22 YOU TO DO THAT. THE REST OF YOUR LIFE - A 10:25 BEAUTIFUL MAGAZINE ABOUT THE SABBATH. 10:28 BEFORE PASTOR DOUG BRINGS US OUR LESSON STUDY, LET'S 10:31 HAVE A WORD OF PRAYER. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK 10:35 YOU SO MUCH FOR BEING WILLING TO COME DOWN TO THIS WORLD, 10:40 TO GIVE UP THE GLORIES OF HEAVEN, TO SAVE ME, AND TO 10:45 SAVE EVERY SINGLE PERSON ON THIS WORLD. FATHER, WE JUST 10:51 HAVE TO CHOOSE THAT GIFT THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN TO US. 10:55 AND YOU KNEW, WHEN YOU MADE THAT DECISION TO COME 10:57 DOWN HERE TO SAVE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US, THAT MOST 11:03 PEOPLE WOULD REJECT YOU AND SOME OF THEM WOULD 11:07 EVEN PUT YOU ON A CROSS. BUT YOU LOVED US ENOUGH TO 11:10 LOOK PAST THAT TO THE DAY WHEN YOU WOULD BE ABLE TO 11:16 COME BACK TO THIS WORLD A SECOND TIME AND TAKE US 11:19 IN THE CLOUDS OF GLORY TO HEAVEN. 11:22 FATHER, MAY WE EACH BE READY FOR THAT DAY WHEN YOU COME. 11:27 AND AT THIS TIME OF YEAR, AS THE CHRISTIAN WORLD IS 11:30 LOOKING AND CELEBRATING YOUR BIRTH, FATHER, MAY WE 11:35 JOIN WITH OUR FRIENDS, OUR FAMILY, OUR NEIGHBORS, 11:40 STRANGERS IN SHARING THAT HOPE OF YOUR SECOND COMING 11:45 VERY SOON. BE WITH PASTOR DOUG AND 11:49 WE THANK YOU SO MUCH THAT HE'S BACK FROM THE OTHER 11:51 SIDE OF THE PLANET AND HE'S BRINGING US OUR 11:53 LESSON STUDY TODAY. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. 11:57 YES, PASTOR DOUG AND HIS LOVELY WIFE, KAREN, HAVE 12:00 BEEN IN FIJI AND NEW ZEALAND, HAVING MEETINGS 12:03 OVER THERE, AND WE SHARED THEM WITH YOU FOR THREE 12:07 WEEKS AND WE'RE GLAD THAT THEY'RE BACK AND PASTOR 12:09 DOUG WILL BE BRINGING US OUR LESSON STUDY FOR 12:11 TODAY. >>OUR LESSON TODAY, IN 12:15 JEREMIAH 10, IS ABOUT THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. 12:17 AND, TO BE HONEST, IT'S KIND OF HEAVY SO I THOUGHT 12:20 I MIGHT LIGHTEN IT UP A LITTLE BIT AND SHARE WITH 12:22 YOU A BRIEF MISSION REPORT ON WHERE WE WERE AND WHAT 12:26 WAS GOING ON FOR THE LAST COUPLE OF WEEKS. 12:28 I WANT TO THANK YOU FOR GIVING US LEAVE TO GO AND 12:32 TALK TO THAT PART OF THE WORLD. 12:34 ALSO, I THINK IT'S RELEVANT BECAUSE THE 12:36 PEOPLE IN FIJI AND NEW ZEALAND THAT WE SAW 12:39 VIRTUALLY EVERYWHERE WE WENT, WATCH SABBATH 12:42 SCHOOL, SO THEY ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED CLASS. 12:45 NOW SOME OF THEM WATCH, LIKE, ON A THURSDAY OR A 12:47 FRIDAY AND THEN THEY GO TO THEIR CLASSES ON SABBATH, 12:51 BUT I THINK JUST ABOUT EVERYWHERE WE WENT WE SAW 12:54 PEOPLE WHO WERE WATCHING. 12:55 THIS IS A - JUST A QUICK GOOGLE EARTH SHOT OF THE 12:58 PART OF THE WORLD THAT KAREN AND I WERE IN. 13:00 WE WERE GONE FOR ABOUT TWO WEEKS - I TELL YOU, 11 13:05 AIRPLANES, KAREN COUNTED, NINE DIFFERENT HOTELS AND 13:09 HOUSES THAT WE STAYED IN, SO THIS IS A RECORD FOR 13:13 THE NUMBER - YEAH, 17 PRESENTATIONS - THIS IS 13:16 THE RECORD FOR THE NUMBER OF TIMES I HAVE CHANGED 13:19 AIRPLANES AND HOTELS ON ONE TRIP. 13:21 WE, BASICALLY, NEVER TOOK OUR CLOTHES OUT OF THE 13:23 SUITCASE AND PUT THEM IN A DRAWER. 13:25 SO - BECAUSE JUST ONE DAY AFTER ANOTHER WE HAD TO 13:28 THROW IT BACK IN THE SUITCASE. 13:31 AND - BUT WE WERE IN THREE DIFFERENT ISLANDS IN FIJI 13:35 AND TWO ISLANDS IN NEW ZEALAND. 13:37 THEN HERE'S A LITTLE MAP OF FIJI. 13:39 WE FLEW IN TO NANDI AND SPOKE THERE. 13:44 I SPOKE AT THE MISSION OFFICE. DROVE OVER TO - ACTUALLY 13:49 FLEW OVER TO SUVA AND SPOKE THERE AND THEN WE 13:53 WENT ON TO THE ISLAND OF VANUA LEVU AND WENT TO A 13:57 MISSION THERE AND SPOKE THERE AS WELL. 14:01 MATTER OF FACT, IF WE GO TO THE NEXT PICTURE - I'M 14:03 NOT SEEING IT ON MY PREVIEW SCREEN - OH, ONE 14:05 OF THE NEAT THINGS THAT HAPPENED WHEN WE FIRST 14:06 SPOKE AT THE MISSION OFFICE THERE - I DON'T 14:10 KNOW IF YOU HAVE HEARD, BUT THE NEW PRESIDENT OF FIJI, 14:13 WHO WAS JUST VOTED IN THIS MONTH - HE WAS VOTED IN 14:16 AND I THINK HE WAS INAUGURATED THIS MONTH - 14:18 BROTHER MAJOR GENERAL CONRADI IS NOW THE PRESIDENT OF 14:23 FIJI - SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST - AND SO HE'S THE FIRST 14:25 SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST PRESIDENT OF THE COUNTRY. 14:28 HE MET WITH US AND KAREN AND I, WE HAD PRAYER WITH 14:31 HIM WITH A DIFFERENT MISSION - MATTER OF FACT, 14:32 HE MET WITH US TWICE. HE WAS SO VERY NICE. 14:34 WHEN WE LEFT THE COUNTRY HE HAD - WELL, WHEN WE 14:37 ARRIVED AND THEN WHEN WE LEFT, HE HAD A 14:39 PRESIDENTIAL ESCORT. IT WAS A LITTLE OVER THE 14:41 TOP FOR WHAT WE EXPECTED, BUT IT WAS VERY NICE. 14:45 BUT THEY WERE RUNNING CARS OFF THE ROAD AS THEY DROVE US. 14:47 THIS IS - WE MET IN THE VODAFONE ARENA - AND THIS 14:53 IS ONE OF THE LARGEST INDOOR ARENAS IN SUVI - 14:56 AND MET THERE - HAD ABOUT 3,000 PEOPLE THAT CAME OUT 14:58 AND THAT WAS ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT AND SO 15:00 THAT WAS VERY GOOD ATTENDANCE. 15:02 THE NEXT SLIDE - LET'S SEE WHAT WE HAVE HERE. 15:04 THIS IS - THEN WE WENT TO THE FULTON COLLEGE. 15:08 THIS IS A BRAND-NEW CAMPUS. 15:10 THEY MOVED FROM THE VERY WET SIDE OF THE ISLAND 15:12 OVER AT SUVA AND WENT TO NADI AND - JUST A 15:16 BEAUTIFUL PICTURESQUE SPOT THERE. 15:18 WATER COMES RIGHT DOWN FROM THE MOUNTAINS. 15:20 BUILT A BRAND-NEW FACILITY THERE. 15:21 BY THE WAY, SOME OF YOUR 13TH SABBATH OFFERING THAT 15:24 YOU SEE ON THE BACK OF YOUR QUARTERLY HELPED TO 15:26 BUILD THAT UNIVERSITY THAT SERVICES A LOT OF THE 15:29 YOUNG PEOPLE IN THE PACIFIC ISLANDS THERE. 15:31 AND AT THE MEETING THERE FOR FRIDAY, SABBATH, AND 15:35 SUNDAY - IT MIGHT HAVE BEEN THURSDAY, FRIDAY, 15:37 SABBATH - ANYWAY, WE HAD THREE OR FOUR MEETINGS THERE. 15:39 THEY HAD - 5,000 PEOPLE CAME AND IT WAS JUST - IT 15:42 WAS REALLY, REALLY EXCITING. THEY SAID IT WAS THE 15:44 LARGEST ATTENDANCE THEY HAD IN THE NEW CAMPUS. 15:48 AND BOY, THEY STAYED ALL DAY LONG TOO. 15:49 WE THOUGHT AFTER CHURCH THEY'D GO HOME, BUT THEY 15:51 JUST SAT ON THE FLOOR, HAD THEIR LUNCH, AND SAT THERE 15:54 ALL DAY LONG WITH THEIR PROGRAMS AND SANG AND 15:57 PARTICIPATED. THEN WE WENT FROM THERE - 15:59 WE FLEW OVER TO THE NATUVU CREEK MISSION. 16:03 THIS IS A BEAUTIFUL MISSION THAT HAS BEEN 16:06 BUILT BY DOCTORS TOM AND MARTA TOOMA AND THIS IS 16:10 THE STAFF - THE KALBERMATTERS - NANI AND 16:13 DR. ANIBAL AND SOME OF THEIR FAMILY THAT MET WITH US. 16:17 THIS IS A MEDICAL MISSION THAT IS ON - IT'S RIGHT AT 16:22 THE END OF THE NATUVU CREEK AND THEY HAVE A 16:26 CLINIC THERE AND WE HAD TURNED IT INTO A LITTLE 16:28 EVANGELISTIC PROGRAM. PEOPLE WHO HAD BEEN COMING 16:30 FOR MEDICAL TREATMENT TO THE CLINIC, THEY HAD BEEN 16:32 WATCHING THE AMAZING FACTS DVDS. SOME OF THEM HAVE BEEN 16:35 WATCHING THE SABBATH SCHOOL PROGRAM. 16:37 WE MOSTLY HAD EVENING MEETINGS BUT WE DIDN'T GET 16:40 ANY GOOD CAMERA SHOTS BECAUSE IT WAS SO DARK. 16:42 AND THIS IS THE FINAL MEETING WE HAD DURING THE 16:45 DAY THERE, BEFORE WE DROVE OVER TO LABASA. 16:49 NOW THE PEOPLE AT LABASA - AND I'LL GET TO THAT IN 16:52 JUST A SECOND - WHEN WE FINISHED AT THE CREEK 16:56 THERE, WE WERE CATCHING THE PLANE AT LABASA TO GO 16:59 OVER TO NEW ZEALAND THE NEXT DAY AND THEY SAID, 17:03 'WILL YOU PLEASE PREACH TO US?' 17:04 AND WE SAID, 'WE'RE SORRY, WE'RE NOT EVEN LEAVING 17:07 UNTIL, YOU KNOW, 6:00 AND IT'S A 3-HOUR DRIVE AND WE 17:10 WON'T GET THERE UNTIL LIKE 9:45 OR 10:00.' THEY SAID, 17:13 'WE'LL WAIT.' AT NIGHT! AND I THOUGHT, 'WELL, 17:17 THERE'S NOT GOING TO BE ANYBODY THERE. 17:20 AND IT TOOK LONGER THAN WE THOUGHT SO, BY THE TIME WE 17:23 DROPPED KAREN - AND JARED WASN'T FEELING WELL AT THE 17:25 HOTEL - WAYNE AND I WENT OVER JUST TO SPEAK TO THE 17:29 PEOPLE THERE. THE PLACE WAS PACKED. 17:31 THERE WERE 300 PEOPLE THERE THAT HAD WAITED - 17:33 SOME OF THEM FIVE HOURS - BECAUSE THAT WAS THE LAST 17:36 BUS IN. AND WE WERE SO MOVED BY 17:39 THAT - THE DEDICATION - THEY WERE HAPPY. 17:41 THEY WEREN'T MAD THAT WE WERE LATE, THEY WERE JUST 17:42 HAPPY WE CAME. AND SO WE SHARED A QUICK 17:46 MESSAGE FOR THEM BECAUSE WE WERE TIRED TOO. 17:50 SO THAT WAS THE - THE THREE LARGEST CITIES IN 17:53 FIJI WE SPOKE AND WENT TO THE THREE LARGEST ISLANDS 17:55 - ONE OF THE INTERESTING THINGS - SEE THIS PICTURE 17:57 HERE? THIS IS TAVEUNI. YOU SEE THE DARK YELLOW 18:00 LINE GOING THROUGH THE MIDDLE? THE INTERNATIONAL DATELINE 18:04 GOES THROUGH THERE AND SO WE DID AN AMAZING FACT OF 18:08 FAITH WHILE WE WERE THERE ABOUT HOW - IT WAS VERY 18:11 INTERESTING - YOU COULD GO LIKE THIS AND YOU COULD 18:12 STEP FROM ONE DAY TO THE OTHER. 18:13 (LAUGHTER) SO WE TRIED TO MAKE SOME ILLUSTRATIONS 18:17 ABOUT TIME TRAVEL AND PROPHECY AND - I DON'T 18:20 KNOW WHAT WE WERE DOING, BUT WE DID AN AMAZING FACT 18:21 OF FAITH WE RECORDED - IT'S NOT OUT YET - AT THE 18:24 INTERNATIONAL DATE LINE. IT'S A VERY INTERESTING SPOT. 18:27 AND NEXT PICTURE - OH, THERE'S SOME PRETTY - 18:29 THIS IS ON THAT SAME ISLAND. 18:31 BEAUTIFUL WATERFALLS - THEY TOOK US UP THROUGH 18:33 SOME OF THE - JUST PRISTINE. 18:35 THERE ARE SOME BEAUTIFUL SPOTS IN FIJI. 18:37 AND KAREN AND I ALSO WENT SCUBA DIVING, OH THREE OR 18:40 FOUR TIMES, I FORGET - AND JUST SAW SOME - SOME OF 18:43 THE BEST CORAL AND TROPICAL FISH I'VE EVER SEEN IN THE WORLD 18:48 WERE AROUND FIJI. AND, YOU KNOW, WHEN I SAW 18:50 THAT WATERFALL, YOU KNOW WHAT HAD TO HAPPEN? 18:53 I DON'T KNOW WHO THAT IS, BUT SOMEBODY COULDN'T 18:57 RESIST JUMPING IN THAT WATER THERE. 19:00 I THINK SEVERAL OF US DOVE IN THAT DAY, BUT IT WAS 19:03 JUST A BEAUTIFUL, BEAUTIFUL SPOT. 19:05 ALRIGHT, AND THEN WE WENT FROM THERE DOWN TO 19:06 NEW ZEALAND. AND THIS IS THE FIRST 19:10 ADVENTIST CHURCH IN THE SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE. 19:13 WHEN I FIRST SAW THAT, I THOUGHT IT SAID 'POISON 19:15 BY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH' BUT IT'S THE 19:18 PONSONBY SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH AND THIS 19:22 IS ACTUALLY A NEW FACILITY ATTACHED TO THE ORIGINAL 19:24 FACILITY WHERE ELLEN WHITE ACTUALLY PREACHED IN THIS 19:27 CHURCH. AND IT WAS PACKED. I DON'T REMEMBER 19:30 HOW MANY WERE THERE. WE HAD SEVERAL HUNDRED IN 19:32 THE OVERFLOW, BUT EVERY SEAT WAS FULL. 19:35 THE PEOPLE WERE VERY RECEPTIVE. 19:37 THEY ARE PART OF OUR EXTENDED SABBATH SCHOOL 19:38 CLASS. MATTER OF FACT, I WANT TO 19:40 WAVE TO OUR FRIENDS IN FIJI AND IN NEW ZEALAND. 19:43 THEY SAID - I SAID, 'WE'LL WAVE TO YOU BECAUSE YOU'RE 19:45 PART OF OUR CLASS THERE.' AND THEY - MANY OF THEM 19:49 WATCH WITH US EVERY WEEK. SO WE DID A PROGRAM THERE 19:52 AND THEN WE WENT TO THE LARGEST - AND THIS IS 19:54 AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND - A SUBURB OF AUCKLAND, 19:57 ACTUALLY - AND THEN WE WENT TO THE TOWN HALL IN 19:59 AUCKLAND AND THAT WAS THE LARGEST, BY FAR, MEETING. 20:02 THIS IS A VERY LARGE OLD HISTORIC GATHERING PLACE 20:06 IN AUCKLAND. I THINK IT'S OVER A 20:08 HUNDRED YEARS OLD. IT WAS FULL TO THE GILLS. 20:11 PEOPLE THAT ATTENDED - THERE WERE - OVER 2,000 20:13 PEOPLE CAME AND THEY WERE STANDING UP IN THE BACK, 20:16 THERE WAS 400 IN AN OVERFLOW ROOM, AND IT WAS 20:19 ALSO STREAMED ON THE INTERNET. 20:21 JUST LOVELY, LOVELY PEOPLE THERE. 20:23 AND NEXT PICTURE - I THINK - OH YEAH, THE MAYOR OF 20:27 THE CITY CAME, LEN BROWN, AND HE KIND OF SURPRISED US 20:31 ALL WHEN HE SANG TO EVERYBODY TOO. 20:33 NOT ONLY DID HE WELCOME EVERYBODY FROM THE CHURCH 20:36 - AND THIS WAS RECORDED FOR THE HOPE CHANNEL IN 20:38 THE SOUTH PACIFIC - BUT THEN HE SANG AND THE NEXT 20:41 DAY WE SAW HE WAS IN THE PAPER WITH PRINCE CHARLES. 20:43 KAREN AND I JUST MISSED PRINCE CHARLES AND CAMILLA 20:47 AND THEY CAME TO THE SAME AUDITORIUM. 20:52 I WANT YOU TO KNOW, WE HAD A MUCH BIGGER CROWD THAN 20:54 THEY DID. (LAUGHTER) I JUST WANT 20:55 EVERYONE TO KNOW THAT. (LAUGHTER) SO WE HAD SOME 20:58 WONDERFUL MEETINGS IN AUCKLAND. 20:59 THEY TOOK US AROUND THE CITY. 21:00 KAREN AND I HAD A BEAUTIFUL DAY OFF WHERE WE 21:02 WENT ACROSS THE HARBOR AND JUST FINALLY WE HAD A DAY 21:04 TO TOTALLY RELAX. WE SPOKE EVERY OTHER DAY 21:07 EXCEPT, I THINK, MAYBE ONE DAY. 21:08 I DON'T KNOW, I THINK MAYBE WE SPOKE EVERY DAY, 21:10 ACTUALLY. AND WE WENT TO 21:13 CHRISTCHURCH NEXT - AND YOU HEARD ABOUT THE 21:15 TERRIBLE EARTHQUAKE THERE IN 2011. 21:17 I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYTHING LIKE THIS, FRIENDS. 21:19 KAREN AND I GOT DROPPED OFF AND WE WENT WALKING 21:22 AROUND THE CITY LOOKING FOR A PLACE TO EAT AND 21:24 IT'S LIKE EVERY OTHER BLOCK HAD BEEN BOMBED IS 21:27 WHAT IT LOOKED LIKE - EVEN THOUGH THIS HAS BEEN FIVE 21:29 YEARS - FOUR AND A HALF YEARS AGO, THEY STILL 21:31 HAVEN'T HAD A CHANCE TO REBUILD IT. 21:32 THEY HAVE BUILDINGS PROPPED UP AND HELD UP AND BLOCKED OFF. 21:35 A LOT OF CONSTRUCTION NOISE EVERYWHERE FROM 21:37 DEMOLITION AND CONSTRUCTION, BUT THEY'RE 21:39 JUST REBUILDING THE WHOLE CITY. 21:41 MANY ANCIENT CHURCHES WERE DECIMATED. 21:44 BIG BUILDINGS THAT LOOK RELATIVELY NEW WERE 21:47 CONDEMNED BECAUSE THEY HAD CRACKED DURING THE EARTHQUAKE. 21:50 AND IT WAS ONLY, ROUGHLY, A 7 ON THE RICHTER SCALE, 21:52 WHICH IS BIG, BUT THE GROUND UNDER CHRISTCHURCH 21:54 LIQUEFIED AND SO MANY FOUNDATIONS WERE DESTROYED, 21:58 BUT THEY'RE REBUILDING AND SO WE - THE PLACE WE MET IN ACTUALLY 22:04 WAS THE REPLACEMENT CHURCH FOR THIS CHURCH. 22:06 IT'S A TEMPORARY CHURCH THEY BUILT AND THEY CALLED 22:08 IT 'THE CARDBOARD CATHEDRAL' AND SO THIS IS 22:11 WHERE WE MET TWO OR THREE TIMES AND SO ABOUT THREE 22:15 HUNDRED PEOPLE CAME. NOW THEY DIDN'T ADVERTISE 22:17 OUR MEETINGS TO THE OTHER CHURCHES IN CHRISTCHURCH. 22:20 THEY ADVERTISED, PRINCIPALLY, TO THE PEOPLE 22:22 WHO HAD BEEN WATCHING ON TV. 22:24 THERE'S A TELEVISION PROGRAM ON ALL OVER NEW 22:26 ZEALAND - IT'S ADVENTIST PROGRAMMING. 22:28 IT'S KIND OF LIKE 3ABN DOWN THERE - IT'S CALLED FIRSTLIGHT . 22:31 FREE TO AIR IN OUR HOTEL - EVERYWHERE PEOPLE HAVE 22:34 BEEN WATCHING OUR PROGRAMS ALONG WITH A LOT OF OTHER 22:36 PROGRAMS - AND THEY ADVERTISED THROUGH THE TV 22:39 PROGRAM AND SO 50% OF THE PEOPLE THAT CAME WERE 22:42 NON-MEMBERS AND SO IT WAS REALLY EXCITING TO SHARE 22:46 THERE AT THE CARDBOARD - THEY CALL IT THE CARDBOARD 22:47 CATHEDRAL BECAUSE IT WAS DESIGNED AND BUILT - THE 22:50 CORE OF IT - THE GIRDERS AND EVERYTHING - ARE MADE 22:52 OUT OF CARDBOARD AND THEY NEEDED TO PUT IT UP VERY 22:55 QUICKLY. I DON'T KNOW IF THAT WAS THE LAST PICTURE. 22:58 I FORGET WHAT'S NEXT. OH, THAT'S RIGHT. 23:00 THEN WE DROVE - WE FINALLY GOT TO DO SOME SIGHT 23:03 SEEING AND DROVE FROM CHRISTCHURCH DOWN TO 23:06 QUEENSTOWN - COVERED SOME BEAUTIFUL COUNTRY AND IT'S 23:09 JUST - IT'S SPECTACULAR VISTAS. 23:14 IT LOOKS LIKE A COMBINATION OF THE ROCKY 23:16 MOUNTAINS AND THE ALPS AND THE AIR IS VERY CLEAN AND 23:18 THE WATER IS BLUE, BLUE FROM MELTED GLACIERS AND 23:21 WE WENT TO THIS LITTLE TOWN OF QUEENSTOWN AND 23:23 THERE IS A COMPANY OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS 23:27 THAT WE MET WITH THERE AND WE SHARED AND SPOKE WITH THEM. 23:30 AND THEN KAREN AND I GOT TO DO A LITTLE SIGHT 23:32 SEEING AND WE FLEW HOME. SO IT WAS BUSY EVERY DAY, 23:36 PREACHING FROM TOWN TO TOWN AND MEETING PEOPLE. 23:38 I THINK KAREN SAID 17 DIFFERENT SPEAKING 23:41 APPOINTMENTS AND WE WENT TO FIVE DIFFERENT ISLANDS 23:44 AND JUST A WONDERFUL EXPERIENCE. 23:48 BELIEVERS EVERYWHERE AND THE WORK IS GOING FORWARD 23:50 SO THAT'S OUR MISSION REPORT. 23:52 GREETINGS AGAIN. I PROMISED I'D WAVE TO OUR 23:53 FRIENDS THAT ARE WATCHING IN NEW ZEALAND AND IN FIJI 23:56 AND NOW TO OUR STUDY, WHICH IS A SOMBER ONE. 24:01 WE'RE IN LESSON #10 IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH AND IT'S 24:04 THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. I'M GLAD THERE'S GOING TO 24:07 BE A NEW JERUSALEM BECAUSE THE OLD JERUSALEM IS 24:10 PROBABLY THE MOST FREQUENTLY DESTROYED 24:12 CITY IN THE WORLD. IT HAS BEEN DESTROYED AND 24:15 REBUILT 27 TIMES, I THINK I READ ONE PLACE. 24:20 NOW, TO UNDERSTAND WHAT'S GOING ON. 24:22 YOU REMEMBER IN THE BOOK OF JEREMIAH, IN THE 24:24 BEGINNING, ONE OF THE THINGS - ONE OF THE REASONS 24:28 THAT THE CITY WAS GOING TO BE DESTROYED IS BECAUSE 24:30 THEY HAD JUST GIVEN THEMSELVES OVER TO APOSTASY SEVERAL TIMES. 24:34 READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN JEREMIAH 1:16 - IT SAYS, 24:38 "I WILL UTTER MY JUDGMENTS AGAINST THEM CONCERNING 24:41 ALL THEIR WICKEDNESS, BECAUSE THEY HAVE FORSAKEN 24:44 ME, BURNED INCENSE TO OTHER GODS, AND WORSHIPED 24:48 THE WORKS OF THEIR OWN HANDS." 24:50 THEY HAD BEEN BURNING INCENSE TO OTHER GODS. 24:53 AND, MATTER OF FACT, YOU KNOW I FORGOT THE MEMORY 24:56 VERSE. YOU MIND IF I BACK UP? 24:58 MEMORY VERSE IS JEREMIAH 29, VERSE 7 AND IF YOU'LL 25:02 SAY THAT WITH ME, I'M DOING IT FROM THE NEW KING 25:04 JAMES VERSION - JEREMIAH 29:7, "AND SEEK THE PEACE 25:09 OF THE CITY WHERE I HAVE CAUSED YOU TO BE CARRIED 25:12 AWAY CAPTIVE, AND PRAY TO THE LORD FOR IT; FOR IN 25:16 ITS PEACE YOU WILL HAVE PEACE." 25:19 GOD WAS TELLING THEM, 'YOU'RE GOING TO BE 25:21 CAPTIVE IN A FOREIGN LAND BECAUSE OF YOUR 25:23 UNFAITHFULNESS BUT, EVEN WHILE YOU'RE THERE, I WANT 25:26 TO USE YOU AS A WITNESS IN YOUR CAPTIVITY.' NOW 25:30 JEREMIAH WAS NOT ALONE IN HAVING TO WARN THE PEOPLE 25:34 ABOUT THE JUDGMENTS. YOU CAN READ, FOR INSTANCE, IN EZEKIEL - 25:38 EZEKIEL WAS A CONTEMPORARY OF JEREMIAH. 25:41 NOW JUST REMEMBER, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS, BUT I 25:43 WANT TO REMIND YOU THAT THE CAPTIVITY OF THE 25:47 HEBREWS IN BABYLON CAME IN STAGES. 25:52 FIRST, NEBUCHADNEZZAR CAME AND BASICALLY CONQUERED 25:55 THEM, SURRENDERED AND THEY MADE A COVENANT WITH 25:58 HIM AND THEY SAID, 'WE WILL SERVE YOU.' HE SAID, 26:00 'ALRIGHT, I'M GOING TO LET ONE OF THE SONS OF KING 26:02 JOSIAH REMAIN KING AND HE PUT ZEDEKIAH ON THE THRONE. 26:05 ZEDEKIAH MADE A COVENANT AND SAID, 'I'M GOING TO 26:07 SERVE YOU. WE'LL PAY TAXES. 26:09 WE'LL SUBMIT.' AND THEN THEY DIDN'T. 26:12 BUT FOR, OH, ELEVEN OR TWELVE YEARS SOME OF THEM 26:16 HAD BEEN CARRIED AWAY - DANIEL, HANANIAH, MISHAEL, 26:21 AZARIAH, EZEKIEL, AND MANY OTHER JEWS. 26:23 EZEKIEL PROPHESIED FROM BABYLON AND THE AREA OF 26:27 PERSIA TO THE JEWS AND HE SENT MESSAGES WHEN THEY 26:30 WERE THERE AND THIS IS ONE OF THE PROPHESIES OF 26:32 EZEKIEL AND THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT. 26:34 EZEKIEL 8, VERSES 8 THROUGH 16 - AND I'LL READ 26:37 THIS. SOMEBODY, IN A MOMENT IS 26:38 GOING TO READ 2 CHRONICLES 36 - KAREN WILL DO THAT. 26:43 EZEKIEL 8:8, "THEN HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, DIG 26:47 INTO THE WALL'; AND WHEN I DUG INTO THE WALL," - YOU 26:50 SEE, I TELL PEOPLE MY NAME IS A BIBLE NAME." 26:53 - THERE YOU HAVE IT, D-U-G (LAUGHTER) - "'SON OF MAN 26:57 DIG IN THE WALL'; AND WHEN I DUG INTO THE WALL, THERE 26:59 WAS A DOOR. AND HE SAID TO ME, 'GO 27:02 IN, AND SEE THE WICKED ABOMINATIONS WHICH THEY 27:05 ARE DOING THERE.' SO I WENT IN AND SAW, AND 27:08 THERE-EVERY SORT OF CREEPING THING, ABOMINABLE 27:11 BEASTS, AND ALL THE IDOLS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL, 27:14 PORTRAYED ALL AROUND ON THE WALLS. 27:17 AND THERE STOOD BEFORE THEM SEVENTY MEN OF THE 27:20 ELDERS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL," - HOW MANY MEN? 27:22 THAT NUMBER IS GOING TO COME UP LATER - "AND IN 27:26 THEIR MIDST STOOD JAAZANIAH THE SON OF 27:29 SHAPHAN. EACH MAN HAD A CENSER IN 27:30 HIS HAND, AND A THICK CLOUD OF INCENSE WENT UP. 27:33 THEN HE SAID TO ME, 'SON OF MAN, HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT 27:35 THE ELDERS OF THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO IN THE DARK,'" - 27:38 DOES GOD SEE WHAT HAPPENS IN THE DARK? 27:39 DOES JESUS SAY IN THE JUDGMENT, 'THOSE THINGS 27:41 DONE IN SECRET WILL BE PROCLAIMED FROM THE HOUSETOP? 27:44 WAS GOD SHOWING THE PROPHET WHAT WAS HAPPENING? 27:47 THEY THOUGHT NOBODY SAW THEIR IDOLS THEY WERE 27:49 WORSHIPING - "'HAVE YOU SEEN WHAT THE ELDERS OF 27:53 THE HOUSE OF ISRAEL DO IN THE DARK, EVERY MAN IN THE 27:55 ROOM OF HIS IDOLS?'" - IN THE CHAMBER OF IDOLS. 27:58 NOW SOME HAVE WONDERED - THERE'S A COUPLE OF THINGS 27:59 THIS MAY MEAN. 28:00 IT MAY MEAN BOTH - THAT EVEN IN THE HOUSE OF THE 28:03 LORD THEY HAD IDOLS THAT THEY WERE WORSHIPING - 28:06 TRYING TO COVER ALL THEIR BASES - BUT 'IN THE 28:08 CHAMBERS OF THE HOUSE' CAN ALSO MEAN, YOU KNOW, IN 28:12 THEIR MINDS THEY HAD IDOLS - IN THEIR HEARTS - JESUS 28:16 SAID, 'IF THAT WICKED SERVANT SAYS IN HIS HEART, 28:19 'MY LORD DELAYS HIS COMING' AND BEGINS TO LIVE 28:21 LIKE THE DRUNKEN AND THE WORLD.' AND SO SOME PEOPLE 28:25 HAVE IDOLS IN THEIR HEART THAT PEOPLE DON'T SEE, BUT 28:27 THEY LITERALLY HAD IDOLS THAT WERE BROUGHT INTO THE 28:30 TEMPLE OF THE LORD ON SEVERAL OCCASIONS. 28:32 YOU REMEMBER WHEN SOLOMON GOT OLD AND HIS PAGAN 28:34 WIVES BEGAN TO URGE HIM TO SET UP IDOLS TO THEIR GODS? 28:39 AND MANASSEH BROUGHT IDOLS INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE 28:41 LORD. AND ONE OF THE QUEEN 28:43 MOTHERS BROUGHT AN IDOL INTO THE TEMPLE OF THE 28:46 LORD, AND SO IT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE. 28:50 DO WE SOMETIMES HAVE GOLDEN CALVES THAT 28:52 SOMETIMES FIND THEIR WAY INTO GOD'S CHURCH? 28:55 YEAH, IN THE WORSHIP STYLES AND IN THE WAY THAT 28:58 WE WORSHIP, SOMETIMES IDOLS ARE BROUGHT INTO THE TEMPLE. 29:01 WE'RE NOT IMMUNE FROM THE PROBLEMS THAT THEY HAD 29:04 BACK THEN - "'FOR THEY SAY, 'THE LORD DOES NOT 29:07 SEE US, THE LORD HAS FORSAKEN THE LAND.''" - 29:10 AND SINCE GOD'S FORSAKEN, WE'D BETTER GET THE GOD'S 29:11 OF THE LOCALS - "'AND HE SAID TO ME, 'TURN 29:14 AGAIN,''" - GOD'S SPEAKING TO EZEKIEL - "'TURN AGAIN, 29:17 AND YOU WILL SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS THAT THEY ARE 29:19 DOING.' SO HE BROUGHT ME TO THE DOOR OF THE NORTH 29:21 GATE OF THE LORD'S HOUSE;" - THIS IS IN THE LORD'S HOUSE. 29:24 AND TO MY DISMAY, WOMEN WERE SITTING THERE WEEPING 29:27 FOR TAMMUZ." - THAT'S THE CHAPTER HEADING - WEEPING FOR 29:31 TAMMUZ . TAMMUZ WAS THE CHIEF SUMERIAN FERTILITY DEITY, 29:38 SIMILAR TO THE GREEK GOD ADONIS AND ITS NAME IS DERIVED FROM THE 29:43 SUMERIAN DAMUZI AND IT WAS A PRE-DELUVIAN SUMERIAN SHEPHERD 29:47 GOD WHO MARRIED THE GODDESS ISHTAR AND WHEN HE DIED, SHE 29:51 FOLLOWED HIM INTO THE UNDERWORLD AND TRIED FOR HIS RELEASE 29:55 AND IT'S CONNECTED WITH EVERY TIME SPRING CAME SHE 29:57 WAS TRYING TO RESURRECT TAMMUZ AND THEY WOULD WEEP 30:00 FOR TAMMUZ AND IT WAS A WHOLE PAGAN FERTILITY RITES AND A LOT 30:03 OF WICKED THINGS THAT GO WITH FERTILITY RELIGIONS. 30:06 AND SO, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND THE CONSTERNATION OF 30:09 EZEKIEL WHEN HE SEES THERE THE WOMEN ARE DOING JUST 30:12 LIKE THE PAGAN WOMEN - IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD 30:15 THEY'RE WEEPING FOR TAMMUZ IN GOD'S HOUSE. 30:18 AND THAT WASN'T ALL - VERSE 15, "THEN HE SAID TO 30:24 ME, 'HAVE YOU SEEN THIS , O SON OF MAN? 30:26 TURN AGAIN, YOU WILL SEE GREATER ABOMINATIONS THAN 30:28 THESE.'" - ABOMINATIONS - THAT WORD'S ONLY USED A 30:33 FEW TIMES - 'ABOMINATIONS IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD' 30:36 - IS IT POSSIBLE THAT IN THE LAST DAYS THE DEVIL 30:39 WILL TRY TO BRING IN THINGS THAT GOD CALLS AN 30:43 ABOMINATION? ARE THERE THINGS THAT ARE 30:45 HIGHLY ESTEEMED AMONG MEN THAT JESUS SAID ARE AN 30:48 ABOMINATION TO THE LORD? AND JESUS IS TALKING TO 30:51 THE CHURCH WHEN HE SAYS THAT. 30:53 HE'S NOT TALKING TO THE WORLD. 30:54 HE SAYS TO THE CHURCH, 'THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE 30:56 HIGHLY ESTEEMED, EVEN IN THE CHURCH, THAT GOD CALLS 30:59 AN ABOMINATION THAT MAKE THEIR WAY INTO THE CHURCH 31:01 OF GOD.' WE NEED TO PRAY THAT GOD WILL 31:04 OPEN OUR EYES AND GO BY HIS HIS WORD SO THAT WE DON'T BE 31:06 MISLED BY THE WORLD AROUND US INTO DOING THAT. 31:09 "...AND THERE, AT THE DOOR OF THE TEMPLE OF THE LORD, 31:13 BETWEEN THE PORCH AND THE ALTAR, WERE ABOUT 31:14 TWENTY-FIVE MEN" - FIRST YOU HAD 70, NOW YOU'VE GOT 31:17 25 - "WITH THEIR BACKS TOWARD THE TEMPLE OF THE 31:20 LORD AND THEIR FACES TOWARD THE EAST, AND THEY 31:22 WERE WORSHIPING THE SUN TOWARD THE EAST." 31:25 NOW THEY WERE TOLD NOT TO WORSHIP THE SUN THAT WAS 31:28 MADE ON THE FOURTH DAY. THEY WERE TOLD TO WORSHIP 31:31 GOD AND THEY WERE TOLD THAT THE SEVENTH DAY 31:35 WAS THE SABBATH DAY. YOU WONDER, COULD THERE 31:38 EVER BE SUN WORSHIP IN A SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH? 31:43 I'LL STOP RIGHT THERE WITH THAT. THAT WAS A RHETORICAL QUESTION. 31:47 2 CHRONICLES 33, VERSE 7 - WHO ELSE HAD DONE IT BEFORE? 31:53 IT SAYS, "HE EVEN SET A CARVED IMAGE, THE IDOL 31:56 WHICH HE HAD MADE, IN THE HOUSE OF GOD, OF WHICH GOD 31:59 HAD SAID TO DAVID AND TO SOLOMON HIS SON, 'IN THIS 32:02 HOUSE AND IN JERUSALEM, WHICH I HAVE CHOSEN OUT OF 32:04 ALL THE TRIBES OF ISRAEL, I WILL PUT MY NAME FOREVER." 32:07 BUT MANASSEH HAD BROUGHT IDOLS INTO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. 32:11 SO IT HAD HAPPENED THROUGH THEIR HISTORY. 32:14 SO WHEN JERUSALEM FALLS GOD IS JUST HELPING YOU 32:16 SEE HE HAD BEEN PATIENT WITH THEM FOR HUNDREDS OF 32:19 YEARS - ALL THE WAY FROM SOLOMON WHO BUILT THE 32:21 TEMPLE - HE BEGAN TO CORRUPT THE WORSHIP WHEN 32:24 HIS PAGAN WIVES INFLUENCED HIM, TO MANASSEH AND OTHER 32:28 KINGS. THEY BEGAN TO COPY THE 32:30 ALTARS OF THE PAGAN NATIONS, WHICH IS WHAT AHAZ DID. 32:34 AND GO AHEAD, READ FOR US, 2 CHRONICLES 36:14, PLEASE, KAREN. 32:38 >>"MOREOVER ALL THE LEADERS OF THE PRIESTS AND 32:41 THE PEOPLE TRANSGRESSED MORE AND MORE, ACCORDING 32:44 TO ALL THE ABOMINATIONS OF THE NATIONS, AND DEFILED 32:48 THE HOUSE OF THE LORD WHICH HE HAD CONSECRATED 32:51 IN JERUSALEM." >>WHEN GOD SETS SOMETHING 32:54 ASIDE AS HOLY AND HE CONSECRATES IT FOR A HOLY 32:57 USE, HE WANTS US TO KEEP IT HOLY AND WE NEED TO 33:01 REMEMBER THOSE PRINCIPLES IN OUR DAY AND AGE, AMEN? 33:05 ALRIGHT, AND THEN YOU GO TO THE NEXT SECTION, IT'S 33:07 THE UNHAPPY REIGN OF KING ZEDEKIAH. 33:11 NOW ZEDEKIAH WAS ONE OF THE DESCENDENTS OF KING 33:14 JOSIAH WHO WAS A GOOD KING. 33:16 AND WHEN HIS NEPHEW, THE SON OF JOSIAH, WAS CARRIED 33:20 OFF TO BABYLON - YOU REMEMBER THE BOOK OF 33:23 JEREMIAH ENDS BY SAYING, 'IN THE THIRTY-SEVENTH 33:28 YEAR OF THE REIGN OF - THE CAPTIVITY OF JEHOIACHIN, 33:34 EVIL MERODACH, KING OF BABYLON, BROUGHT HIM OUT 33:36 OF JAIL.' SO JEHOIACHIN WAS PUT IN JAIL; HIS 33:40 UNCLE, ZEDEKIAH SAID TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR, 'I MAKE A VOW. 33:43 I WILL OBEY. I WILL SUBMIT.' BUT HE 33:46 DIDN'T KEEP HIS PROMISE. MATTER OF FACT, IF YOU 33:49 TURN TO THE BOOK OF EZEKIEL, THIS CORRESPONDS 33:52 WITH WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN HERE IN JEREMIAH. 33:53 TURN TO EZEKIEL 17 REAL QUICK - EZEKIEL 17 - AND 33:58 IF YOU START AT VERSE 15, "BUT HE REBELLED AGAINST 34:02 HIM" - ZEDEKIAH REBELLED AGAINST NEBUCHADNEZZAR - 34:06 "BY SENDING HIS AMBASSADORS TO EGYPT, THAT 34:09 THEY MIGHT GIVE HIM HORSES AND MANY PEOPLE." 34:11 - SEE, ZEDEKIAH SAID, 'I'M NOT GOING TO SERVE 34:12 NEBUCHADNEZZAR ANYMORE. IF I CAN GET THE 34:14 EGYPTIANS TO HELP ME. IF THEY'LL GIVE ME HORSES 34:17 AND SOLDIERS - I CAN HIRE THEM - WE CAN FIGHT THE 34:19 BABYLONIANS AND STOP PAYING TAXES TO THEM.' 34:22 AND HE BROKE HIS COVENANT. HOW IMPORTANT WAS A 34:25 COVENANT MADE IN THE NAME OF THE LORD IN GOD'S EYES? 34:28 HAVE YOU READ THE BOOK OF JOSHUA CHAPTER 9, WHERE 34:32 THE GIBEONITES GET THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL TO MAKE 34:35 A COVENANT THAT THEY WOULD PROTECT THEM AND THEY 34:37 WOULD BE THEIR SERVANTS? AND EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE 34:41 TRICKED, THEY HAD TO KEEP THEIR LAW. 34:43 THEY KEPT THEIR COVENANTS. A COVENANT MADE IN THE 34:45 NAME OF THE LORD WAS VERY IMPORTANT. 34:47 NEBUCHADNEZZAR TRUSTED THAT THEY WOULD NOT BREAK 34:49 A COVENANT MADE IN THE NAME OF JEHOVAH. 34:52 HE LET THEM KEEP THE TEMPLE OF JEHOVAH AND KEEP 34:54 THEIR WORSHIP, BUT WHEN THEY BROKE THE COVENANT 34:56 MADE IN THE NAME OF THEIR LORD, THAT'S WHY 34:58 NEBUCHADNEZZAR DESTROYED THEIR TEMPLE. 35:00 HE SAID, 'YOU DO NOT RESPECT YOUR OWN GOD, 35:02 NEITHER WILL I. AND SO KING ZEDEKIAH BROKE 35:06 HIS COVENANT THAT HE HAD MADE TO NEBUCHADNEZZAR. 35:09 AND HE GOES ON AND HE SAYS, "WILL HE WHO DOES 35:12 SUCH THINGS ESCAPE?" - EZEKIEL IS ASKING - 35:15 "CAN HE BREAK A COVENANT AND STILL BE DELIVERED? 35:18 'AS I LIVE,' SAYS THE LORD GOD, 'SURELY IN THE PLACE 35:20 WHERE THE KING DWELLS WHO MADE HIM KING, WHOSE OATH 35:24 HE DESPISED AND WHOSE COVENANT HE BROKE - WITH 35:27 HIM IN THE MIDST OF BABYLON HE SHALL DIE. 35:30 NOR WILL PHARAOH WITH HIS MIGHTY ARMY AND GREAT 35:33 COMPANY DO ANYTHING IN THE WAR, WHEN THEY HEAP UP A 35:35 SIEGE MOUND AND BUILD A WALL TO CUT OFF MANY PERSONS." 35:39 EZEKIEL FORETOLD, 'BECAUSE YOU'VE GONE TO PHARAOH FOR 35:41 HELP, PHARAOH'S NOT GOING TO HELP YOU. 35:43 AND BECAUSE YOU HAVE BROKEN THIS COVENANT, 35:45 YOU'RE GOING TO GO TO BABYLON AND YOU'LL DIE 35:47 THERE.' AND THAT'S WHAT HAPPENED TO ZEDEKIAH. 35:49 SO ZEDEKIAH, HE DID NOT LISTEN TO THE LORD. 35:52 NOW ONE REASON - SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ JEREMIAH 35:55 37:5 - WHO HAS THAT? OKAY, ALBERTO, WHY DON'T 35:58 YOU GET READY TO READ THAT. ONE REASON THAT THEY 36:05 BELIEVED THAT THEY COULD ESCAPE - WHAT HAPPENED 36:09 DURING THE TIME OF KING HEZEKIAH? 36:11 DID HEZEKIAH HAVE THE ASSYRIAN ARMY SURROUND THEM? 36:16 AND WHILE THE ASSYRIAN ARMY SURROUNDED THEM, 36:19 THERE WAS A BATTLE AT LIBNAH AND THEY HAD TO 36:21 WITHDRAW AND THEY TOOK THE WITHDRAWAL AS A SIGN THAT 36:25 GOD WOULD FIGHT FOR THEM. THEY CAME BACK AGAIN, BUT 36:28 185,000 OF THE ASSYRIAN SOLDIERS DIED. 36:32 AND SO, WHEN THEY WITHDREW THEY THOUGHT, 'THIS IS A 36:35 SIGN GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER US. 36:37 SURE, WE'RE BESIEGED, BUT GOD'S GOING TO DELIVER US 36:40 BECAUSE HE DID HEZEKIAH. WELL HEZEKIAH 36:42 TURNED TO THE LORD. THEY DID NOT. 36:44 AND SO THEY WERE HOPING THAT THE SAME - THAT 36:47 HISTORY WOULD REPEAT ITSELF. 36:48 BY THE WAY, THIS HAPPENED AGAIN WHEN THE ROMAN ARMY 36:51 SURROUNDED JERUSALEM. THE EMPEROR DIED AND TITUS 36:56 AND HIS FORCES BRIEFLY WITHDREW. JESUS HAD TOLD HIS 36:59 BELIEVERS, 'YOU BETTER FLEE FOR THE HILLS WHEN YOU SEE JERUSALEM 37:02 SURROUNDED.' THAT WAS A SIGNAL FOR CHRISTIANS 37:04 TO RUN. BUT THE JEWS TOOK IT - 37:06 THEY SAID, 'OH, AS GOD DELIVERED HEZEKIAH, HE'LL 37:08 DELIVER US AGAIN.' BUT HE DIDN'T. 37:11 THE ROMANS DESTROYED THE CITY AND THE TEMPLE AGAIN. 37:13 THEY WERE LOOKING BACK IN HISTORY TO THIS MIRACULOUS 37:16 DELIVERANCE OF HEZEKIAH, BUT IN HEZEKIAH'S DAY THEY 37:19 REPENTED, THEY HUMBLED THEMSELVES, THEY SPREAD 37:20 THE LETTER BEFORE THE LORD, THEY TURNED FROM THEIR SINS. 37:23 THEY WANTED THE DELIVERANCE WITHOUT THE 37:24 REVIVAL AND IT DIDN'T COME. 37:27 ALRIGHT, SO GO AHEAD AND READ FOR US JEREMIAH 37:5. 37:31 >>"THEN PHARAOH'S ARMY CAME UP FROM EGYPT; AND 37:34 WHEN THE CHALDEANS WHO WERE BESIEGING JERUSALEM 37:36 HEARD NEWS OF THEM, THEY DEPARTED FROM JERUSALEM." 37:40 >>BRIEFLY THE BABYLONIANS WITHDREW TO FIGHT WITH 37:43 EGYPT AND THE PEOPLE IN JERUSALEM SAID, 'AHA! 37:47 DELIVERANCE! THIS IS OUR MOMENT!' 37:49 BUT IT WAS A FALSE ALARM. IT DIDN'T LAST. 37:53 SOMETIMES GOD GIVES A LITTLE REPRIEVE SO PEOPLE 37:56 CAN ESCAPE AND SO PEOPLE CAN REPENT. 37:58 BUT THEY DIDN'T. THEY KEPT IN 37:59 THEIR WICKED WAYS. YOU READ JEREMIAH 37, 38:02 VERSE 6 - JUST GOING ON WITH THE NEXT VERSE, "THEN THE 38:05 WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO THE PROPHET JEREMIAH SAYING, 38:08 'THUS SAYS THE LORD, THE GOD OF 38:10 ISRAEL, 'THUS YOU SHALL SAY TO THE KING OF JUDAH, 38:12 WHO SENT YOU TO ME TO INQUIRE OF ME: 'BEHOLD, 38:15 PHARAOH'S ARMY WHICH HAS COME UP TO HELP YOU WILL 38:18 RETURN TO EGYPT, TO THEIR OWN LAND. 38:20 AND THE CHALDEANS SHALL COME BACK AND FIGHT 38:22 AGAINST THIS CITY, AND TAKE IT AND BURN IT WITH 38:25 FIRE.'''" CAN YOU UNDERSTAND WHY JEREMIAH 38:27 WAS NOT POPULAR? THAT WAS NOT A VERY GOOD 38:30 CHEERLEADER SONG THAT HE WAS SINGING. "...BURN IT WITH FIRE." 38:36 - GO TO VERSE 9, "THUS SAYS THE LORD, 'DO NOT 38:38 DECEIVE YOURSELVES, SAYING, 'THE CHALDEANS 38:41 WILL SURELY DEPART FROM US,' FOR THEY WILL NOT 38:43 DEPART.'" THEY WERE TRUSTING IN WHAT 38:46 HAD HAPPENED BEFORE IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH. 38:48 BY THE WAY, YOU FIND THE DELIVERANCE OF HEZEKIAH 38:50 MENTIONED IN 2 KINGS 19, VERSE 20. 38:54 YOU CAN ALSO READ VERSES 32 AND 34. 38:56 AND GOD PROMISED HEZEKIAH HE WOULD DELIVER THE CITY. 38:59 THEN YOU GET TO THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. 39:03 SO THERE IS A SIEGE AGAINST JERUSALEM - NOW, 39:06 YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT A SIEGE IS? 39:08 A SIEGE IS - NOW A SIEGE DOESN'T WORK LIKE IT DID 39:12 BACK IN BIBLE TIMES BECAUSE OF AIRCRAFT. 39:15 YOU CAN TAKE A HELICOPTER AND YOU CAN USUALLY FLY 39:18 OVER AND DROP FOOD INTO A CITY - UNLESS THEY'VE GOT 39:21 LIKE ANTI-AIRCRAFT MISSILES, BUT IN BIBLE 39:24 TIMES, IF YOU COULD COMPLETELY SURROUND AND 39:26 CUT OFF THE CAPITAL OF YOUR ENEMY, WHERE ALL 39:29 THEIR POWER - THE SEAT OF POWER WAS - PREVENT ANY 39:33 FOOD FROM COMING IN. DON'T ALLOW ANYONE TO GO 39:35 OUT TO GET MESSENGERS WITH HELP OR TO BRING SOME 39:40 EMISSARIES WITH MONEY TO PAY FOR MERCENARIES - JUST 39:43 LOCK 'EM UP - AND WHAT YOU DO IS YOU STARVE THEM. 39:47 EVENTUALLY THEY RUN OUT OF RESOURCES. 39:49 A LOT OF THE CAPITAL CITIES WERE VERY CAREFUL 39:51 TO MAKE SURE THEY HAD WATER - BECAUSE YOU CAN 39:53 LIVE A LONG TIME WITHOUT FOOD, OR YOU CAN GET BY 39:56 WITH VERY LITTLE FOOD, BUT YOU DON'T LAST WITHOUT WATER. 39:58 HEZEKIAH, TO PROTECT JERUSALEM IN THE EVENT OF 40:02 A SIEGE - HE BUILT A LONG TUNNEL. 40:04 HAVE YOU HEARD OF HEZEKIAH'S CONDUIT? 40:07 THERE WAS A SPRING OUTSIDE OF JERUSALEM. 40:09 HE KNEW THEY NEEDED THAT WATER IN THE CITY, SO HE 40:12 HAD HIS MEN, STARTING AT TWO DIRECTIONS, DIGGING 40:15 THROUGH SOLID ROCK. I'VE NOT BEEN THERE. 40:17 I WANT TO GO SEE IT SOMEDAY. 40:18 THEY DUG THIS TUNNEL AND - IT'S AMAZING THAT THEY 40:21 WERE ABLE TO DO IT BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, TO MAKE 40:23 WATER FLOW YOU HAVE TO HAVE VERY PRECISE ANGLES 40:26 OR IT'LL - WATER DOESN'T FLOW UPHILL - AND SO, WITH 40:30 JUST VERY PRIMITIVE INSTRUMENTS AND DEAD 40:32 RECKONING, THEY WERE ABLE FROM TWO DIFFERENT 40:34 DIRECTIONS - TO DIG A TUNNEL THAT WAS SO PRECISE 40:37 WHEN IT CAME TOGETHER - I THINK IT'S ONLY OFF BY 40:39 THAT MUCH - AND THE WATER FROM THE SPRING OUTSIDE 40:42 RAN INTO THE CITY AND THEN THEY BLOCKED UP AND FILLED 40:45 IN THE SOURCE SO THAT THEY INVADING ARMIES WOULDN'T 40:48 KNOW THERE WAS A SPRING THERE AND THE SPRING RAN 40:51 INTO THE CITY AND IT PROVIDED WATER SO WHENEVER 40:53 JERUSALEM WAS BESIEGED THEY HAD WATER. 40:56 IT STILL RUNS TODAY FROM HEZEKIAH'S CONDUIT. 40:59 YOU NEEDED WATER IN THE CITY. 41:01 THEY HAD WATER IN MEGIDDO - IN SAMARIA - THEY HAD 41:04 DIFFERENT SPRINGS. BABYLON HAD THE EUPHRATES 41:07 RIVER RUNNING UNDER THE WALL. BUT IF YOU COULD SURROUND 41:10 THEM AND STARVE THEM SO THEY COULDN'T HAVE FOOD, 41:13 THEY COULDN'T FIGHT. THERE ARE SOME EXAMPLES 41:15 OF THIS YOU FIND IN THE BIBLE. 41:17 SOMEBODY'S GOING TO READ FOR ME JEREMIAH CHAPTER 41:21 38, VERSE 9 IN JUST A MINUTE. 41:24 ALRIGHT, HOFDIS, SO LET ME READ JEREMIAH 38:2, "THUS 41:27 SAYS THE LORD: 'HE WHO REMAINS IN THE CITY SHALL 41:30 DIE BY THE SWORD, BY FAMINE, AND BY PESTILENCE; 41:34 BUT HE WHO GOES OVER TO THE CHALDEANS (THE 41:36 BABYLONIANS) SHALL LIVE; HIS LIFE SHALL BE AS A 41:38 PRIZE TO HIM, AND HE SHALL LIVE.'" 41:40 DID YOU GET THAT? THOSE WHO REBEL AND STAY IN 41:42 THE CITY OF DESTRUCTION WILL PERISH. 41:47 BUT THOSE THAT SURRENDER TO THE GOLDEN EMPIRE OF 41:49 BABYLON WILL LIVE. IS THERE AN ANALOGY THERE? 41:54 SURRENDER AND LIVE/REBEL AND DIE? 41:57 AND THEY SAID, 'NO, WE'VE GOT TO FIGHT, FIGHT, 41:59 FIGHT.' THEY WERE IN THE DOOMED CITY THAT HAD REBELLED. 42:03 GO AHEAD, PLEASE READ JEREMIAH 38:9. 42:07 >>"'MY LORD THE KING, THESE MEN HAVE DONE EVIL 42:10 IN ALL THAT THEY HAVE DONE TO JEREMIAH THE PROPHET, 42:13 WHOM THEY HAVE CAST INTO THE DUNGEON, AND HE IS 42:16 LIKELY TO DIE FROM HUNGER IN THE PLACE WHERE HE IS. 42:19 FOR THERE IS NO MORE BREAD IN THE CITY.'" 42:22 >>ALRIGHT, AND THIS IS THE PLEA FROM EBED-MELECH, 42:25 THE ETHIOPIAN EUNUCH WHO HAD GONE TO PLEAD WITH ZEDEKIAH IN 42:30 BEHALF OF JEREMIAH. AND HE WAS THE SOURCE OF 42:33 SAVING JEREMIAH WHO WAS STARVING IN THIS DRY 42:37 CISTERN - YOU KNOW, THEY USED TO STORE WATER IN THE 42:39 CISTERNS - THIS CISTERN WAS DRY AND ALL THEY HAD 42:41 WAS MUCK AT THE BOTTOM AND THEY DROPPED HIM IN THIS PIT. 42:44 THEY WERE SO - THEY DIDN'T WANT TO KILL HIM BECAUSE 42:46 HE WAS A PROPHET, BUT THEY WERE - DIDN'T LIKE HIM 42:48 EITHER, SO THEY DROPPED HIM IN THIS PIT AND HE 42:49 SANK DOWN IN THE MIRE IN THIS PIT. 42:52 IT'D BE BAD TO BE IN JERUSALEM DURING A TIME OF 42:55 FAMINE. HAVE YOU READ, FOR 42:57 INSTANCE, 2 KINGS? WHAT HAPPENED WHEN SAMARIA 43:01 WAS BESIEGED BY THE ASSYRIANS? LISTEN: 2 KINGS 24, 43:06 'IT HAPPENED AFTER THIS THAT BENHADAD, KING OF SYRIA, 43:09 GATHERED ALL OF HIS ARMY AND HE WENT AND BESIEGED SAMARIA.' 43:12 SAMARIA, NOW, WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE NORTHERN KINGDOM. JERUSALEM, 43:16 OF COURSE, WAS THE CAPITAL OF THE SOUTHERN KINGDOM. 43:18 'HE BESIEGED SAMARIA AND THERE WAS A GREAT FAMINE 43:21 IN SAMARIA.' - PEOPLE IN THE CITY ARE STARVING - 43:23 'INDEED, THEY BESIEGED IT UNTIL A DONKEY'S HEAD WAS 43:27 - NOW IS A DONKEY A CLEAN OR AN UNCLEAN ANIMAL? 43:29 >>UNCLEAN. >>AND IF YOU'RE GOING TO 43:32 EAT A DONKEY, WHAT PART WOULD YOU WANT TO EAT? 43:34 THAT'S NOT THE BEST CUT, IF YOU KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT MEAT. 43:39 I MEAN, WHO WANTS TO EAT A COW'S HEAD? 43:41 A DONKEY'S HEAD? THE SIEGE WAS SO BAD THAT 43:47 A DONKEY'S HEAD WAS SOLD FOR 80 SHEKELS OF SILVER 43:51 AND ONE FORTH OFF A CAB OF DOVE DROPPINGS - ABOUT A 43:55 PINT - FOR FIVE SHEKELS OF SILVER. 43:58 AND YOU READ ON, IN THAT SAME CHAPTER, IT GOT SO 44:00 BAD THEY TURNED TO CANNIBALISM. 44:03 YOU KNOW, WHEN WE WERE FIJI, THEY TOOK US TO 44:05 THESE - THEY HAVE THESE PLACES CALLED 'CANNIBAL 44:07 CAVES.' AND WE DID AN AMAZING FACT ABOUT 44:10 CANNIBALISM. WE SAID, 'YOU KNOW, 44:12 THE BIBLE ENDORSES CANNIBALISM? JESUS SAID, 44:15 'UNLESS YOU EAT MY FLESH AND DRINK MY BLOOD, YOU HAVE 44:17 NO LIFE IN YOU.' BUT THE OTHER CANNIBALISM 44:20 IS NOT ENDORSED BECAUSE YOU'RE UNCLEAN. 44:22 PEOPLE ARE IN THE UNCLEAN CATEGORY. 44:25 DID YOU ALL KNOW THAT? I JUST WANT TO MAKE SURE. 44:26 I HOPE NO ONE'S REALLY TROUBLED BY THAT. 44:29 BUT IT GOT SO BAD THAT THEY DEVOURED EACH OTHER. 44:34 PAUL TALKS ABOUT 'BEWARE, LEST YOU BE CONSUMED OF 44:38 ONE ANOTHER AND YOU BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER.' 44:41 SOME CHRISTIANS ARE VEGETARIAN CANNIBALS. 44:45 THEY BITE AND DEVOUR ONE ANOTHER WITH THEIR WORDS 44:49 AND THEY CUT DOWN PEOPLE'S REPUTATIONS. 44:51 SO THEY HAD TURNED TO CANNIBALISM. 44:53 YOU CAN READ - THIS WAS ALL FORETOLD BY MOSES. 44:56 IF YOU GO TO DEUTERONOMY 28:52 - THIS IS AMAZING - 44:59 A THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER, LISTEN TO WHAT MOSES SAID: 45:03 IF THEY TURNED AWAY FROM GOD AND WENT TO PAGAN 45:06 GODS, HE SAID, "THEY SHALL BESIEGE YOU AT ALL YOUR 45:09 GATES UNTIL YOUR HIGH AND FORTIFIED WALLS, IN WHICH 45:13 YOU TRUST, COME DOWN THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR LAND;" 45:16 - THIS IS EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED - "AND THEY SHALL 45:18 BESIEGE YOU AT ALL YOUR GATES THROUGHOUT ALL YOUR 45:20 LAND WHICH THE LORD YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU. 45:22 YOU SHALL EAT THE FRUIT OF YOUR OWN BODY, THE FLESH 45:24 OF YOUR SONS AND YOUR DAUGHTERS WHOM THE LORD 45:26 YOUR GOD HAS GIVEN YOU, IN THE SIEGE AND DESPERATE 45:28 STRAITS IN WHICH YOUR ENEMY SHALL DISTRESS YOU." 45:31 AND THERE'S MORE IN THAT CHAPTER I WON'T READ 45:33 BECAUSE IT'S VERY TROUBLING. 45:35 HE GOES INTO DETAIL ABOUT HOW BAD IT WOULD BE IF 45:37 THEY TURNED AWAY FROM THE LORD AND THEIR ENEMIES 45:40 BESIEGED THEM. AND IT'S EXACTLY WHAT HAPPENED. 45:43 MOSES FORETOLD IT. HOW DOES THE DEVIL TRY 45:47 TO CONQUER GOD'S PEOPLE? YOU KNOW WHAT A SIEGE WAS? 45:52 A SIEGE WAS YOU WOULD SURROUND THEM AND STARVE 45:54 THEM SO THEY COULDN'T FIGHT. 45:56 YOU BASICALLY STARVED THEM INTO SURRENDER. 45:59 NOW WHAT ARE CHRISTIANS SUPPOSED TO EAT? 46:01 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO EAT GOOD FOOD. 46:04 GOD'S BREAD, LIVING WATER, AND IF YOU DON'T EAT GOD'S 46:08 FOOD, ISAIAH SAYS, 'WHY DO YOU EAT THAT WHICH IS NOT 46:12 BREAD?' IF WE'RE EATING THE FOOD 46:13 OF BABYLON, YOU'RE NOT GOING TO HAVE STRENGTH TO FIGHT. 46:17 AND A LOT OF PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH, INSTEAD OF EATING 46:19 GOD'S FOOD, THEY'RE EATING DONKEY HEAD AND DOVE DROPPINGS. 46:23 'WHY DO YOU EAT THAT WHICH IS NOT BREAD? 46:26 MAN SHALL NOT LIVE BY BREAD ALONE, BUT BY EVERY 46:29 WORD.' AND SOME PEOPLE HAVE ALMOST NO DEVOTIONAL 46:32 LIFE AND THEY WONDER WHY THEY CANNOT FIGHT THE ENEMY. 46:35 THEY ARE BEING STARVED INTO SURRENDER. 46:38 THEY SURRENDER WHEN TEMPTATION COMES BECAUSE 46:40 THEY HAVE NO SPIRITUAL NOURISHMENT. 46:43 HOW DID JESUS FIGHT TEMPTATION? 46:45 THE BREAD OF LIFE. 'IT IS WRITTEN. IT IS WRITTEN. 46:48 IT IS WRITTEN.' AND SO THE DEVIL HAS NOT CHANGED HIS 46:51 TACTICS. HE TRIES TO STARVE GOD'S 46:53 PEOPLE SO THAT WE DON'T HAVE STRENGTH TO FIGHT. 46:56 YOU LOOK AT THE GREAT REFORMERS, WHEN THEY 46:57 FOUGHT AGAINST THE WICKEDNESS OF THEIR AGE, 47:00 THEY QUOTED THE WORD. AMEN? 47:03 I MEAN, ALL THE WAY FROM MARTIN LUTHER ON DOWN, 'IT 47:05 IS WRITTEN BY THE WORD OF GOD.' YOU GO TO JEREMIAH 47:09 CHAPTER 39, "IN THE NINTH YEAR" - FINALLY THE SIEGE 47:13 GOT SO BAD - YOU READ WHERE IT SAYS THERE WAS NO 47:15 BREAD IN THE CITY. PEOPLE ARE STARVING. 47:20 "IN THE NINTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH KING OF JUDAH, IN 47:23 THE TENTH MONTH, NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF 47:25 BABYLON AND ALL HIS ARMY CAME AGAINST JERUSALEM, 47:28 AND BESIEGED IT. IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF 47:30 ZEDEKIAH," - SO YOU GO FROM THE NINTH YEAR TO THE 47:32 ELEVENTH YEAR AND THIS TALKS ABOUT THE FALL OF JERUSALEM. 47:36 THE SIEGE OF JERUSALEM BEGAN IN 588 BC AND IT LASTED UNTIL THE 47:41 SUMMER OF 586 BC. YOU KNOW, YOU COUNT 47:45 BACKWARDS WHEN YOU GO FROM BC TOWARDS AD. 47:49 A NEARLY TWO-YEAR SIEGE. YOU CAN'T LEAVE THE CITY. 47:53 ALL THE FOOD IS GONE - EVERYTHING THEY HAD STORED UP. 47:55 AND THEY ARE SO WEAK THEY CAN'T FIGHT. 47:59 - "IN THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF ZEDEKIAH, IN THE FOURTH MONTH, 48:01 ON THE NINTH DAY OF THE MONTH, THE CITY WAS PENETRATED." 48:04 - BABYLONIANS, DURING THOSE YEARS, HAD BEEN 48:06 HAMMERING THE WALLS - BEEN THROWING - YOU'VE PROBABLY 48:08 SEEN THESE CATAPULTS THAT THROW GREAT STONES AT 48:10 THESE ANCIENT WALLS - THEY'D BEEN BATTERING 48:13 AGAINST THE WALLS - AND IT'S A LONG PROCESS. 48:15 THEY DON'T HAVE THE BIG OLD BOMBS THAT WE HAVE. 48:18 GUNPOWDER WAS NOT INVENTED YET, BUT THEY USED TO 48:20 PUMMEL THE WALLS WITH LARGE STONES AND, FINALLY, 48:24 THEY BROKE THROUGH AND THE WALL WAS PENETRATED - 48:28 THEIR DEFENSE - THE OUTER WALL, IN ANY EVENT, AND 48:32 ZEDEKIAH THOUGHT THAT HE COULD ESCAPE AND THAT 48:35 NIGHT, THEY KNEW THERE WAS ONE WEAK SPOT IN THE WALLS 48:37 OF THE BABYLONIAN DEFENSES - ZEDEKIAH ABANDONED HIS 48:41 PEOPLE AND HE AND SOME OF HIS CRACK FORCES THAT HAD 48:45 BEEN EATING ENOUGH FOOD TO KEEP THEM GOING, THEY TOOK 48:48 THE FEW HORSES IN THE CITY THAT COULD STILL RIDE AND 48:50 THEY ESCAPED THROUGH A CRACK IN THE WALL - 48:55 THERE WAS ACTUALLY THE KING'S GARDEN AND THERE WAS A GATE 48:59 THAT WAS UNFORTIFIED. THEY ESCAPED AND THEY MADE 49:01 IT THROUGH THE BABYLONIAN DEFENSES AND THEY 49:03 TRIED TO RIDE AWAY. THEIR HORSES WERE SO WEAK 49:06 THEY COULD NOT OUTPACE THE BABYLONIANS THAT 49:08 EVENTUALLY CAUGHT UP WITH THEM IN THE PLAINS OF JERICHO. 49:12 THEY MADE IT AS FAR AS JERICHO AND THEN THEY EXECUTED JUDGMENT. 49:15 ALL HIS SOLDIERS FORSOOK HIM. 49:16 ZEDEKIAH AND HIS SONS WERE CAPTURED AND HE SAW HIS 49:21 SONS SLAIN BEFORE HIM ONE AT A TIME AND THEN THAT 49:25 WAS THE LAST THING HE SAW. THE KING PUT OUT HIS EYES 49:27 AND CARRIED HIM TO BABYLON WHERE HE DIED. 49:29 THE VERY THING HE SAID. AND IT'S SUCH A SAD STORY 49:31 BECAUSE JEREMIAH HAD TOLD HIM. 49:34 ZEDEKIAH BROUGHT JEREMIAH IN. 49:36 HE SAID, 'WHAT'S THE WORD OF THE LORD?' 49:37 HE SAID, 'THERE'S STILL HOPE' - JEREMIAH SAID - 49:40 'IF YOU SURRENDER - IF YOU REPENT AND YOU GO OUT TO 49:43 THE KING OF BABYLON YOU WILL LIVE. 49:45 THE TEMPLE WILL NOT BE DESTROYED. 49:47 THE CITY WILL NOT BE BURNT, BUT YOU WILL BE 49:49 CARRIED OFF TO BABYLON BUT YOU'LL LIVE. 49:51 YOUR SONS WILL LIVE. REPENT.' AND HE WANTED SO 49:53 MUCH TO DO IT, BUT HE WAS AFRAID OF WHAT THE OTHER 49:55 PRINCES WOULD THINK AND HE WENT WITH THE CROWD AND 49:59 HE DIDN'T LISTEN TO THE PROPHET. 50:01 IS THERE A RISK THAT SOMETIMES WE MAKE THE SAME 50:02 MISTAKE? FOLLOW POPULAR OPINION 50:05 INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD? AND IT WAS REALLY SAD 50:07 BECAUSE HE WAS SO CLOSE TO DOING THE RIGHT THING. 50:10 NOW JEREMIAH 39:11, "NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF 50:14 BABYLON GAVE CHARGE CONCERNING JEREMIAH" - SO 50:18 THEY BROKE INTO THE CITY, THEY SET THE CITY ON FIRE, 50:21 THEY KILLED ALL THE LEADERS THAT HAD REBELLED 50:23 AGAINST THEM, THEY LET THE POOR PEOPLE LIVE, THE 50:25 TEMPLE WAS BURNT ONLY AFTER THEY TOOK ALL THE 50:28 VALUABLES OUT OF THE TEMPLE, AND JUST ONE 50:31 LITTLE FOOTNOTE I SHOULD MENTION AT THIS POINT: 50:34 WHEN IT LISTS ALL THE ARTICLES OF THE TEMPLE 50:37 THAT ARE CARRIED BY NEBUCHADNEZZAR TO BABYLON, 50:40 IT TALKS ABOUT THE LAVER AND IT TALKS ABOUT THE 50:42 BRONZE AND THE PILLARS AND THE UTENSILS AND THE ALTAR 50:44 OF INCENSE, I THINK, IS MENTIONED AND IT NEVER 50:47 MENTIONS THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. 50:49 ARK OF THE COVENANT IS NEVER HEARD FROM AGAIN. 50:52 IT WAS IN THE TEMPLE IN THE DAYS OF HEZEKIAH. 50:55 IT WAS STILL - PRESUMABLY STILL IN THE TEMPLE DURING 50:57 THE DAYS OF JEREMIAH, BUT IT DISAPPEARS AND IT'S 51:01 BELIEVED THAT WHEN THEY SAW THAT THE CITY WAS 51:04 GOING TO BE TAKEN THAT JEREMIAH AND THE PRIESTS - 51:06 BY THE WAY, YOU READ THIS IN THE BOOK PROPHETS AND 51:08 KINGS - JEREMIAH AND SOME OF THE LOYAL PRIESTS TOOK 51:11 THE ARK AND THEY HID IT IN A CAVE. 51:13 IF YOU KNOW JERUSALEM, IT IS RIDDLED AND HONEYCOMBED 51:17 WITH CAVES UNDERNEATH THE CITY - CAVES AND GRAVES - 51:20 AND THEY PUT IT IN, PROBABLY, SOME GRAVE - 51:23 SOME UNMARKED THING - THEY SEALED IT UP AND IT HAS 51:25 NEVER BEEN FOUND. I BELIEVE IT'S 51:27 STILL THERE TODAY. AND SO IT'D BE SOMETHING 51:29 TO DISCOVER THE ARK, WOULDN'T IT? 51:31 AND SO - THEN THEY SHOWED MERCY TO JEREMIAH. 51:37 JUST LIKE THE MEDO-PERSIAN KING SHOWED MERCY TO 51:41 DANIEL - DANIEL, WHO FORETOLD THE FALL OF 51:44 BABYLON BECAUSE OF THE WICKEDNESS OF BELSHAZZAR, 51:48 NEBUCHADNEZZAR SHOWED MERCY TO JEREMIAH BECAUSE 51:50 HE GOT INTELLIGENCE OF WHAT WAS HAPPENING IN THE 51:52 CITY AND HE SAID, 'THERE'S A PROPHET THAT IS TELLING 51:55 THEM THAT THEY SHOULD SURRENDER TO YOU.' AND HE 51:57 KNEW THAT JEREMIAH DID NOT APPROVE THAT THEY HAD 52:00 BROKEN THEIR COVENANT TO HIM AND HE LET JEREMIAH 52:03 NOT ONLY LIVE, HE SAID, 'HERE'S AN ALLOWANCE. 52:06 HERE'S A REWARD FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS AND YOU GET 52:09 TO GO WHERE YOU WANT. YOU WANT TO GO TO BABYLON? 52:10 YOU CAN GO TO BABYLON. YOU WANT TO STAY HERE? 52:11 YOU CAN STAY HERE. YOU'RE FREE. 52:15 SO IT'S GOOD TO KNOW THAT WHEN THE KING COMES, THAT 52:19 THOSE WHO ARE SERVING HIM HERE, THAT HE WILL WATCH 52:22 OVER US. AMEN? >>AMEN. 52:25 >>"NOW NEBUCHADNEZZAR KING OF BABYLON GAVE CHARGE 52:26 CONCERNING JEREMIAH TO NEBUZARADAN THE CAPTAIN OF 52:30 THE GUARD, SAYING, 'TAKE HIM AND LOOK AFTER HIM, 52:32 AND DO HIM NO HARM; BUT DO TO HIM JUST AS HE SAYS TO 52:36 YOU.'" THEN THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD TOOK JEREMIAH 52:40 AND SAID UNTO HIM, 'LORD - THE LORD THY GOD HAS 52:43 PRONOUNCED EVIL ON THIS PLACE.' NOW THE LORD - DO 52:45 YOU NOTICE THEY KNOW THAT IT WAS THE LORD THAT DID 52:47 IT. THEY'RE NOT GIVING THE 52:48 CREDIT TO, YOU KNOW, ONE OF THE BABYLONIAN GODS. 52:52 'AND THE LORD HAS BROUGHT IT AND DONE IT ACCORDING 52:54 AS HE SAID.' THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD IS SAYING, 52:56 'JEREMIAH, ACCORDING TO YOUR WORD GOD HAS DONE 52:58 BECAUSE YOU HAVE SINNED AGAINST THE LORD.' WHAT A 53:01 REBUKE. IT'S COMING FROM - A 53:03 BABYLONIAN GENERAL IS SAYING WHAT HAPPENED - 'AND YOU'VE NOT 53:05 OBEYED HIS VOICE. THEREFORE THIS THING HAS 53:08 COME UPON YOU AND NOW, BEHOLD, I LOOSE YOU THIS 53:10 DAY FROM THE CHAINS WHICH WERE ON YOUR HAND. 53:13 IF IT SEEMED GOOD UNTO YOU TO COME WITH ME TO 53:15 BABYLON, COME. I LOOK WELL TO YOU. 53:17 BUT IF IT SEEM ILL UNTO THEE TO COME WITH ME TO 53:19 BABYLON - TO FOREBEAR - THE LAND IS BEFORE YOU. 53:23 WHETHER IT SEEMS GOOD AND CONVENIENT FOR YOU TO GO, GO. 53:26 I'M GIVING YOU COMPLETE FREEDOM.' ALRIGHT, LAST 53:28 SECTION, WE'VE GOT ABOUT THREE MINUTES. 53:30 ALL YOUR HEART - NOW SOMEONE'S GOING TO READ 53:33 JEREMIAH 29:13. GOD, EVEN IN THEIR 53:37 CAPTIVITY, PROMISED TO WATCH OVER THEM IF THEY 53:39 WOULD SEEK AFTER HIM AND THAT'S - WHY DON'T YOU GO 53:42 AHEAD AND READ THAT FOR US, SAM. 53:44 >>"AND YE SHALL SEEK ME AND FIND ME WHEN YE SHALL 53:48 SEARCH FOR ME WITH ALL YOUR HEART." 53:50 >>THAT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES IN THE 53:53 BIBLE, JEREMIAH CHAP - MATTER OF FACT, IF I SIGN 53:55 ONE OF MY BOOKS, I OFTEN PUT IN THAT VERSE - 53:58 JEREMIAH 29:13 - "YOU WILL SEARCH FOR ME AND FIND ME 54:01 WHEN YOU SEARCH FOR ME WITH" - HOW MUCH? 54:03 >>ALL. >>NOW WHERE DOES HE GET THAT? 54:07 DID JEREMIAH MAKE THAT UP OR IS HE QUOTING THE 54:09 BIBLE? LOOK IN DEUTERONOMY - 54:11 WHO WROTE DEUTERONOMY? >>MOSES. 54:14 >>HE'S, AGAIN, TALKING ABOUT IF YOU'RE CARRIED 54:15 AWAY CAPTIVE BECAUSE OF YOUR UNFAITHFULNESS. 54:18 DEUTERONOMY 4:27, "AND THE LORD WILL SCATTER YOU 54:23 AMONG THE PEOPLES, AND YOU WILL BE LEFT FEW IN 54:25 NUMBER AMONG THE NATIONS WHERE THE LORD WILL DRIVE YOU. 54:28 AND THERE YOU WILL SERVE GODS, THE WORK OF MEN'S 54:30 HANDS, WOOD AND STONE, WHICH NEITHER SEE NOR HEAR 54:33 NOR EAT NOR SMELL. BUT FROM THERE YOU WILL 54:37 SEEK THE LORD YOUR GOD, AND YOU WILL FIND HIM IF 54:40 YOU SEEK HIM WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND WITH 54:41 ALL YOUR SOUL." SEE WHAT JEREMIAH'S DOING? 54:44 HE'S CLAIMING AND HE'S QUOTING THE PROMISE GOD 54:47 MADE THROUGH MOSES A THOUSAND YEARS EARLIER. 54:50 MOSES EXACTLY FORETOLD WHAT WOULD HAPPEN TO GOD'S 54:53 PEOPLE. DID EVERYTHING MOSES SAY HAPPEN? 54:56 WERE THEY CARRIED OFF? DID THEY TURN TO OTHER GODS? 54:59 >>YES. >>DID THEY PRAY FROM BABYLON? 55:01 DID HE BRING THEM BACK AGAIN WHEN THEY FINALLY 55:03 SOUGHT THE LORD WITH ALL THEIR HEARTS? 55:05 YOU READ THE PRAYER OF DANIEL IN CHAPTER 9 YOU 55:07 CAN SEE IT'S HAPPENING. AND HE SAID 'I'LL BRING 55:12 UPON YOU THE CURSING AND THE BLESSING, BUT IF, FROM 55:15 THAT LAND, YOU SEARCH WITH ALL YOUR HEART AND SOUL, 55:19 THE LORD'LL BRING YOU BACK. 55:20 YOU CAN LOOK ALSO IN 1 CHRONICLES 28:9, "AND 55:23 THOU, SOLOMON MY SON, KNOW THOU THE GOD OF THY 55:26 FATHER, AND SERVE HIM WITH A PERFECT HEART AND WITH A 55:29 WILLING MIND: FOR THE LORD SEARCHETH ALL HEARTS, AND 55:32 UNDERSTANDETH ALL THE IMAGINATIONS OF THE 55:34 THOUGHTS: IF THOU SEEK HIM, HE WILL BE FOUND ON 55:37 THEE; BUT IF THOU FORSAKE HIM, HE WILL CAST THEE OFF 55:41 FOR EVER." WHAT DID JESUS SAY? 55:42 'SEEK AND YOU'LL FIND.' NOTHING MORE IMPORTANT 55:44 THAN SEEKING AFTER THE LORD TO LOVE HIM WILL ALL 55:46 OF YOUR HEART. 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