Last week on 3ABN
Sabbath School Panel,
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we took on a study,
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a very
interesting study entitled
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Creation: Genesis
as Foundation, Part 1.
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And, of course,
there's got to be a Part 2
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and that's exactly
what we're gonna be studying
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this week in our overall study
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entitled How to
Interpret Scripture.
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We're gonna be
taking on study number 9
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entitled Creation:
Genesis as Foundation, Part 2.
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And in the case
that you may not have
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a copy of this lesson,
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you can still get one if
you go to absg.Adventist.org
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and there you can access a
copy of the study for free.
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Until then we want
you to go grab yourself,
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your family members,
your friends, your enemies,
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anyone that you
can gather them around,
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and let's go
study the Bible together
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in this exciting
Bible study adventure.
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Hello and welcome back to
3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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Again, we are always so
happy that you are joining us.
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We know that you're taking
time out of your busy day,
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your busy week to
study with us here
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and we're so grateful for that.
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And you know
what we're continuing
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through this series of studies
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because we're
over halfway through,
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we're on lesson number 9,
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just a few left
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and last week we talked
about Genesis as Foundation,
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Part 1 and this
week lesson number 9,
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Creation: Genesis
as Foundation, Part 2.
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So I'm excited to study this.
I don't know about you guys.
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We have some very
interesting topics
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today as well.
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But before we go any further,
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I wanna go ahead
and introduce the panel
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in case you're
watching for the first time.
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We have Miss Jill Morikone,
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and it's always a blessing
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and an honor to
have you on here.
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Thank you so much, Pastor
Ryan, joy to study God's Word.
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Praise the Lord.
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We have Pastor
Lomacang to her left.
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How are you,
Brother? I'm doing well.
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We've enjoyed the
topic of creation.
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And we're praying
that God can give us wisdom
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to make this one very clear.
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Praise the Lord.
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And we have Pastor John Dinzey,
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General Manager of 3ABN Latino.
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It's a blessing to
have you here, Brother.
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It's again, a
blessing to be here.
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And God is good.
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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And, my good friend, my
brother from another mother,
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Pastor Kenny Shelton.
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I love your wisdom and
your knowledge, Brother,
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it's a blessing to
have you on everything.
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It is a blessing to be
here and share the Word of God.
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Thank you. Praise the Lord.
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Amen.
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You know, when I was studying
for this particular lesson,
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it caught me off guard.
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I'm gonna
introduce what that is.
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And if you have a
copy of this lesson,
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then you know exactly
what I'm talking about.
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And I kind of see now exactly
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where the author
was going with this
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because we're talking about
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How to Interpret
Scripture, right?
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And so I can see that
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as we take on some
of these more difficult
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and sometimes strange topics
like why are we studying this?
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There is a purpose.
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Sometimes you're
gonna have questions,
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people are gonna
challenge you with things that,
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you know, you have to
be able to give an answer
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for the Bible
tells us to be able to,
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you know, be
ready to give an account
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for the things that
we are challenged about
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and be able to
stand on God's truth
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and allow the Word of
God to speak for itself.
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Our memory text, of
course, comes from Psalm 19:1,
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and I'm gonna read that
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and then we're
going to have a prayer,
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but notice what it
says here, Psalm 19:1,
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this comes from the New
King James Version, it says,
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"The heavens
declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament
shows His handiwork."
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And on that
note, Pastor Lomacang,
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would you like to
have this prayer for us?
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Loving Father in heaven,
thank You for the opportunity.
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You have reveal to us
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the truth of Your unerring word.
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Give us wisdom now to handle
it for Your glory and honor,
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we pray in Christ's name.
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Amen. Amen.
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Praise the Lord.
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In the study on
Sabbath Afternoon,
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there was some
interesting statistics
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and information given there
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that I would like
to read at this time
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to set us up for Sunday's lesson
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which is quite
interestingly entitled,
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A Flat Earth?
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Question mark. A Flat Earth?
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Notice what
Sabbath Afternoon says,
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"Many great thinkers
were inspired by Scripture
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to explore God's created world.
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As a result,
modern science was born.
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Johannes Kepler, Isaac
Newton, John Ray, Robert Boyle,
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and other early great scientists
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believe that their work revealed
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even more about the
handiwork of God's creation.
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After the French
Revolution, however,
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19th century science
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began to move from
a theistic worldview
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to one based on
naturalism and materialism,
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often with no place at
all for the supernatural.
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These philosophical
ideas were popularized
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by Charles Darwin
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On the Origin of Species,"
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of course, the
book that he wrote.
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"Since that time,
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science has
increasingly distanced itself
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from its biblical foundation,
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resulting in a
radical reinterpretation
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of the Genesis story."
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Which is what we talked
about essentially last week.
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We're gonna continue
that theme this week.
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"Does the Bible
teach and an antiquated,
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unscientific view of cosmology?
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Was the biblical
account simply borrowed
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from the
surrounding pagan nations?"
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And there are some
people that say that,
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of course, you know,
the stories of Gilgamesh
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and all the other
different writings
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that are out there, they say,
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"Oh, you know, the Bible
had to have come after that."
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Well, that's what
the author's asking here.
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"Was the Bible
culturally conditioned
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by its place and time,
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or does it
inspired nature elevate us
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to view of origins
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that is complete in
its divine framework?"
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And so we're gonna continue
through this study and again,
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Sunday's lesson, A Flat Earth?
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You know, I have
over the years, you know,
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traveling in evangelism,
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doing many
different Bible studies
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in many different churches,
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you run across people
who they're confident,
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and they're passionate about,
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that they believe,
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according to
their personal research,
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that the earth is flat,
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and they believe that it
is foundation in Scripture.
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Now you and I, who
might have a more a different,
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probably more popular
view that the world is round,
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rather than flat.
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We think of that and going,
how could you get that, right?
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From Scripture, but nonetheless,
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let's look at a
couple of examples
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in Scripture.
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We're gonna go to
the Book of Revelation.
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These are texts
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in which someone
might go to and say,
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"Wait a second, if the
Bible words it this way,
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then there must be
indeed a flat earth."
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So Revelation Chapter
7, we're gonna begin there.
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Revelation 7:1,
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notice what the Bible says,
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it says, "After these
things I saw four angels
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standing on the four
corners of the earth,
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holding the four
winds of the earth,
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that the wind should
not blow on the earth,
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or on the sea, or any tree."
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So again, the four
corners of the earth.
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Now skip over to Revelation 20.
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We're gonna look
at verses 7 and 8
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from Revelation Chapter 20.
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So these are
some biblical examples
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of where someone might say,
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"Wait a second,
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is the earth flat
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or do we live on a
flat earth, right?"
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Revelation 20:7-8
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speaking of that
period of 1,000 years
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or after the
1,000 years it says,
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"Now when the
thousand years have expired,
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Satan will be
released from his prison
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and will go out to
deceive the nations which are,"
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notice again,
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"in the four corners of
the earth, Gog and Magog,
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to gather them
together to battle,
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whose number is as
the sand of the sea."
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Four corners, the
four corners of the earth.
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Well, if the earth is round,
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and why does it
have four corners, right?
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I think a common explanation
of this is, first of all,
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we have to recognize
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that the Book of Revelation
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is a very, very
highly symbolic book.
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There's lots and
lots of figurative
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and symbolic language
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flooded throughout this book
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from Revelation
1 to Revelation 22.
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And so John is simply
using the term four corners
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to communicate the
four compass points
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of the circular earth.
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And we're gonna
show biblical proof
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as to how we know
that in just a moment,
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he is using symbolic
and figurative language.
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It's kind of like, you
know, we might say, you know,
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the sun sets in the west, right?
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That's figurative language.
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And we know that the
sun is not literally setting
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or sitting in the west, right?
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And so in the same thing,
the sun is rising in the east,
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wrote rose in
the east, you know,
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it's a figurative
language that we use to describe
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the events around us
in particular to the sun
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to insist on a literal
interpretation of this.
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If we were to read these
texts literally and say, okay,
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this earth has to be flat
because of these four corners.
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To insist on a
literal interpretation
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of the text
would be irresponsible
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and I say this respectfully,
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somewhat unintelligent
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because of the scientific
proof that we have today.
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And it would be
taking the passage completely
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out of context.
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Now, just to further
establish this point,
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we know that not
only does Bible prophecy
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often use this
figurative language
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or the symbolic language,
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but we also see even
Jesus in His teachings
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and His parables
and His discourses
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often used this
figurative language,
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symbolic language to
communicate a moral point.
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For instance, Matthew 15:19
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would be a
prime example of this.
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So again, Matthew 15:19, says,
and this is Jesus speaking,
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"For out of the heart
proceed evil thoughts, murders,
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adulteries,
fornications, thefts,
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false witnesses
or false witness,
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and blasphemies."
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So again, if we were
to take this text literal,
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okay, you know, we
would have to assume
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that Jesus is
talking about that,
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you know, cardiac pump
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in our chest, that something,
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all these things
are coming out of,
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and of course, we read that
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and it's somewhat
silly to even think
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that that's the case, right?
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Because we know that He's using
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a figurative speech to
communicate a moral point.
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Now I said earlier
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that we would
look at biblical proof
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as to where we get the concept
of living on a round earth
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because we know that
the earth is not flat,
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the Bible tells us
that it's not flat.
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Let's go to Job Chapter 26.
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Job Chapter 26.
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And we're gonna be
looking at verses 7-10.
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Job 26:7-10.
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Somebody have that
wanna read it for us?
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Job 26:7-10.
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"He stretches out the
north over empty space,
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He hangs the earth on nothing.
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He binds up the
water in His thick clouds,
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yet the clouds are
not broken under it.
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He covers the
face of His throne,
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and spreads His cloud over it.
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He drew a circular horizon
on the face of the waters,
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at the boundary of
light and darkness."
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Okay, so right there we
have a clear indication that,
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you know, this
earth is circular.
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And you'll notice that
these are not prophetic
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or figurative words.
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These are not symbolic words.
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This is a clear
description from Job,
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obviously under the
inspiration of the Holy Spirit,
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recounting the creative
works of Jesus at the beginning.
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Of course, we're talking
about Creation with Genesis
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as the foundation.
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When we read that
Genesis creative account,
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we can accept it by faith.
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Even though we weren't there,
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we know that it was true, right?
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Let's go to Isaiah 40:21-22.
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Isaiah 40:21-22.
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And if we have someone
that could read that as well?
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Okay.
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Here it is, 21 and 22.
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Twenty one and twenty two.
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"Have you not known?
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Have you not heard?
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Has it not been told
you from the beginning?
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Have you not understood
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from the
foundation of the earth?
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It is He who sits above
the circle of the earth."
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There it is. Right.
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"And its inhabitants
are like grasshoppers,
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who stretches out the
heavens like a curtain,
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and spreads them out
like a tent to dwell in."
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Okay, so again,
again, this is Isaiah
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now the prophet who
is clearly communicating,
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not from a figurative speech,
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not from a symbolic language,
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but he's simply recounting
the creative works of Jesus
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from the beginning of creation.
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And so we see
right there, verse 22,
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is that He who sits
above the circle of the earth,
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and so, you know,
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it almost would seem
and I say this respectfully,
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and I think anybody who knows me
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would understand that.
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It almost seems silly to
even have to talk about this
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because again, of all
of the multiple evidences
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that we have today
that we live on a round,
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circular planet, but again,
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there may be
someone watching right now
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that says, "You
know what, I'm convinced
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that this earth is flat."
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And we wanna show you
from a biblical perspective
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that God did indeed create
this earth as a round sphere
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or a circular round object.
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And so additionally,
in the closing moments,
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I have considered
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just some of the
scientific evidence,
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some of the
common sense reasoning
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that we can just say, "Okay,
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we have to be on a round earth."
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For instance, if
you go to a harbor,
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and you look and
you watch a ship,
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I don't know if
you've ever seen this before.
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I've been to
many different oceans.
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And if you watch a ship
sail out across the ocean,
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You will know that the earth
has to be some type of shape
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other than a flat
because you'll start to see,
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the ship doesn't
just go out of thin air
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it literally it's like almost
like it's sinking in the water,
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you start to see
it go down, down.
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That's because it's
going over the horizon,
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I think of a lunar eclipse.
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A lunar eclipse is probably
one of the clearest indications
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that we live on a round planet
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because when a
lunar eclipse happens,
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you know, you don't
see a flat straight line
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that goes
through that moon, right?
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You know, it's because the earth
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is between the sun and the moon,
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so you would have to see
the shape of the earth, right?
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It's a circular or round shape
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when you
consider a lunar eclipse.
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I consider the
time zones and, Pastor,
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we were talking about
this earlier, he said,
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"You know, get on a plane."
And he's absolutely right.
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If you've ever been
35,000 to 37,000 feet
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in the air on an airplane,
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just cross over a few time zones
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and you can simply
when you get that high,
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you will see the
curvature of the planet
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and you can clearly see
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that we are living on
a round circular planet.
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In the time zones,
again, I mentioned,
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the time zones
are a clear indication
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because again,
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my mom called me
last year when I was in
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or in previous year
when I was in Australia.
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It was like 2
o'clock in the morning
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where I was and it was,
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you know, I don't know,
several hours in the afternoon.
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How can that be
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if we're living on
a flat earth, right?
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So the point is, we can
trust the science evidence
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that proves that and
we can trust the Bible,
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most of all to know
that God got it right
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the first time.
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Amen.
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Thank you so much for
that study, Pastor Ryan.
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And, you know,
we think flat earth
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the Word of God
says round earth,
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but there are so many
winds of doctrine blowing.
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There are so many
theories out there
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that we need to go back
to a thus saith the Lord.
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Thank you for
that biblical proof.
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On Monday's
lesson, we look at Creation
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in Ancient
Literature, and we see today,
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an attack on
the Genesis account.
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By that I mean an attack
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on the biblical
story of creation
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recorded in the Book of Genesis.
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This is a quote from the lesson,
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we'll start here, it says,
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"Archaeologists
have discovered texts
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from ancient
Egypt and the Near East
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that contain early histories
of the Creation and the Flood."
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So the question arises instantly
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you think, well,
that's not an issue.
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There's no big deal with
that, but the question comes in,
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was the Genesis
account of creation
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borrowed from
these pagan sources?
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Is it somehow dependent on them?
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Or is it completely
separate and thereby inspired?
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So that's what we're
gonna take a look at.
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We're gonna take a
look at this discovery
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that archaeologists have made
and we will see that in fact,
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they are vastly different,
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and that the
creation account in Genesis
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was inspired by God Himself.
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So Atra-Hasis
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is the title of
an 18th-century BC
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Akkadian epic,
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recorded in various
versions on clay tablets.
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There were three clay
tablets that they discovered.
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They're currently
cuneiform tablets.
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They're currently now
residing in the British Museum.
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Atra- asis was the
protagonists of this story.
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And it was written in an
extinct East Semitic language
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that was spoken
in the ancient world
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that is extinct
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and it's not even
used anymore today.
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There were these three tablets.
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The oldest known copy
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can be dated to the reign
of Hammurabi's great grandson,
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that would be 1646 to 1626 BC.
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Interesting.
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So there's stories
on these three tablets.
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We're gonna look at
them briefly so we can see
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the disparity between them
and the account in Genesis.
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Tablet I
contained the creation myth.
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The Sumerian gods,
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we know they had
polytheistic religion
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they had made, they
believed in many gods.
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They had three gods,
I can't pronounce them,
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but we're just gonna call
them Anu, Enlil, and Enki.
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And I'm sure that's not right.
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Anu ruled the sky
or so they taught.
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Enlil ruled the
earth or so they taught.
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And Enki ruled
the fresh water sea.
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Enlil assigned junior divine
or junior gods or lesser gods
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to do farm labor
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and maintain the
rivers and canals.
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Now this is how
the pagan story goes.
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After 40 years,
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these lesser gods
rebelled and they said,
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"We're done with work.
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We don't wanna do
strenuous labor anymore."
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Instead of punishing them,
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the gods suggested that humans
be created to do the work.
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So as the story goes,
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the Mother Goddess
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is assigned the
task of creating humans
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by shaping clay figurines,
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mixed with the flesh and
blood of a God that they killed.
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All of the gods
then spit on the clay
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and after 10 months,
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especially made womb breaks open
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and the humans are born.
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You know, when I
read that exactly right,
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and you started to laugh.
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When I read that
you think, "Really?"
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So Tablet II contains legends
about overpopulation of humans,
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about famine and drought,
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and then a decision
that they're going to,
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these gods are going to cause
a flood to destroy mankind.
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And Tablet III contains
their version of the flood.
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Now the lesson actually
quoted from the Atra- asis Epic,
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and this is what it said,
"When the gods instead of man,
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did the work, bore the load,
the gods' load was too great,
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the work too hard,
the trouble too much.
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Let the
womb-goddess create offspring,
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and let men bear
the load of the gods!
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Geshtu-e, a god
who had intelligence,
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they slaughtered
in their assembly.
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Nintu mixed clay
with his flesh and blood."
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Now that's just not
even very pleasant to read.
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So, but if you look at
the only similarity I see
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in this account to
the creation account
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is that they had clay.
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That's the only
similarity I see instead.
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And the first humans obviously
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were made from
the dust of the ground
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and they said clay
mixed with some other things
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which we won't discuss,
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but there are vast differences
in these two accounts.
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And let's look at them.
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The first is, I want to look
at God's purpose in creation.
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In Genesis, the
biblical account,
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we say that God
created the world
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and everything in it
for humans, for us to enjoy.
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Humanity was the culmination
of His creative work.
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He created light and
darkness and plants and animals,
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but humans, man and woman
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was the culmination
of that creative work.
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God created the world to
show His goodness and His glory.
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We see that in Psalm 19:1,
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"The heavens
declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament
shows fourth His handiwork."
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We see that also in
Psalm 50:6, that Psalm 50:6,
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"Let the heavens
declare His righteousness,
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for God Himself is Judge."
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We also see that in Psalm 89:5,
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that Psalm 89:5,
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"And the heavens
will praise Your wonders,
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O Lord."
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God wanted us to be His children
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and we are made in His image.
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We studied that
in a previous lesson,
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Genesis 1:26.
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He considers us His children
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and we are made
in the divine image,
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the image of God.
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1 John 3:1. I
love this scripture.
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1 John 3:1,
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"Behold what manner of love
the Father has bestowed on us,
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that we should be
called the children of God!"
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You see in this
pagan epic Atra- asis,
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humans were created
so the gods could rest.
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Man worked for the gods
so that they could rest.
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That's the opposite
of the God that we serve.
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Our God has
self-sacrificing love.
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And He created us
because He loves us
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and wants us to be His children.
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By contrast in Genesis,
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we see that God
rested with His creation.
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See in this
pagan mythology story,
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the lesser they created
humans so that they could rest.
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No, God did all this work,
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and then He allowed us to
rest with Him on the Sabbath.
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Genesis 2:1-3,
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"Thus the heavens and the earth,
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and all the host of
them, were finished.
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And on the seventh
day God ended His work
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which He had done,
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and He rested on
the seventh day."
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And He blessed and
sanctified and hallowed it.
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So the first difference
is God's purpose in creation.
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The second difference is
God's desire to communicate
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with His creation.
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We see in Genesis that
God wanted to communicate
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with His children.
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He wanted to have
00:21:59.21\00:22:00.55
a relationship
with His children.
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Genesis 3:8, once sin entered,
00:22:02.72\00:22:06.45
that brought division
between God and humanity.
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Remember Genesis 3:8,
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Adam and Eve
actually hid from God.
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"They heard the
sound of the Lord God
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walking in the garden
in the cool of the day,
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Adam and his wife hid themselves
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from the
presence of the Lord God
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among the trees of the garden."
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But before sin,
00:22:24.07\00:22:25.41
they had open
communion with God.
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By contrast, in
this pagan mythology,
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there is no mention of a
garden created for humans.
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There is no mention or
of the desire for the gods
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to communicate with humans
or be in fellowship with them.
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Difference number three,
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is God's desire to
create man and woman.
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In Genesis we see God
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physically forming Adam and Eve,
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Adam from the
dust of the ground,
00:22:52.17\00:22:54.50
and breathing
into Adam's nostril
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God breathed
into Adam's nostrils
00:22:57.24\00:22:58.94
the breath of life.
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And Adam became what?
00:23:00.58\00:23:01.91
A living soul.
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We see God causing
Adam to go to sleep
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so that then He could create Eve
00:23:06.35\00:23:08.68
from a rib from Adam's side.
00:23:08.72\00:23:10.95
By contrast, in
this pagan mythology,
00:23:10.99\00:23:14.16
we see instead,
00:23:14.19\00:23:15.76
a God being killed
00:23:15.79\00:23:17.46
so that they can
somehow mix his blood
00:23:17.49\00:23:19.49
with this clay
00:23:19.53\00:23:20.86
that is vastly different
00:23:20.90\00:23:22.60
from the
biblical creation account.
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Finally, number four,
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difference we see God's desire
00:23:27.20\00:23:29.10
is to love His creation
and to have a world of peace.
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In Genesis, we see His love
00:23:32.84\00:23:34.54
first in creating
humankind later after they sin.
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We see God's desire to
reconcile them to Himself
00:23:38.68\00:23:42.78
by the promise of
sending His Son, Jesus.
00:23:42.82\00:23:46.82
In this pagan mythology,
00:23:46.86\00:23:49.12
there's only
conflict and violence.
00:23:49.16\00:23:51.39
In the creation of humans,
there's conflict and violence,
00:23:51.43\00:23:54.26
and definitely the gods
00:23:54.30\00:23:55.63
weren't willing to
die for the humans.
00:23:55.66\00:23:57.67
So what a difference in that.
00:23:57.70\00:23:59.97
And from there, we can
see that Moses did not borrow
00:24:00.00\00:24:03.17
from these pagan stories
00:24:03.20\00:24:04.67
when he wrote
the Book of Genesis.
00:24:04.71\00:24:07.31
By contrast,
00:24:07.34\00:24:08.68
all scripture including
00:24:08.71\00:24:10.48
the Genesis account of creation,
00:24:10.51\00:24:12.95
is given by inspiration of God
00:24:12.98\00:24:15.65
and I'm so grateful that it is.
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.59
Praise the Lord.
00:24:17.62\00:24:18.95
You know, as I'm
listening to this study,
00:24:18.99\00:24:20.52
my study, your study,
00:24:20.56\00:24:21.89
and I know this
is gonna continue on.
00:24:21.92\00:24:23.63
The devil is attacking this.
00:24:23.66\00:24:25.39
He's attacking
God's creative work,
00:24:25.43\00:24:26.93
His creative power,
00:24:26.96\00:24:28.30
and just think about
it if it's good enough
00:24:28.33\00:24:31.53
to get the devil's time,
00:24:31.57\00:24:33.27
you know, to take
his time and efforts
00:24:33.30\00:24:34.80
to try to skew the
truth of God's Word
00:24:34.84\00:24:36.87
in relation to
creation, then you know what?
00:24:36.91\00:24:39.41
Praise God for the Bible account
00:24:39.44\00:24:40.78
that we have
00:24:40.81\00:24:42.14
because we know God
always gets it right
00:24:42.18\00:24:43.61
the first time.
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We're gonna kick it
over to Pastor John Lomacang
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for Tuesday's lesson.
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Genesis versus Paganism.
00:25:31.96\00:25:33.93
Thank you, Jill,
for doing the job
00:25:33.96\00:25:36.03
on a topic that
was introduced to me
00:25:36.06\00:25:37.70
for the first time today.
00:25:37.73\00:25:39.63
And what an amazing thing,
00:25:39.67\00:25:41.00
you know, the
writers of this lesson
00:25:41.04\00:25:42.50
have done an extremely good job
00:25:42.54\00:25:44.47
thinking outside the box
00:25:44.51\00:25:46.74
of issues that are
very confrontational
00:25:46.78\00:25:49.64
that we would have to address
from a Christian perspective
00:25:49.68\00:25:53.52
and we were doing our part
to try to eliminate the things
00:25:53.55\00:25:56.52
that are controversial.
00:25:56.55\00:25:57.99
Genesis versus Paganism,
00:25:58.02\00:25:59.59
the question is and
we read Genesis 1:14-19.
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Let's do that very quickly
00:26:03.32\00:26:05.03
because this talks about stars
in greater light, lesser light.
00:26:05.06\00:26:08.70
Let's see what the Bible says
about Genesis versus Paganism
00:26:08.73\00:26:12.80
because in paganism,
00:26:12.83\00:26:14.37
it seems as though
they give different purposes
00:26:14.40\00:26:17.37
for the illuminated
bodies above the earth,
00:26:17.41\00:26:20.31
but here's what
the Genesis account
00:26:20.34\00:26:21.68
is all about.
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What scripture you're
reading? Verse 14, Genesis 1:14.
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Okay, got you.
00:26:25.45\00:26:26.78
"Then God said,
'Let there be lights
00:26:26.82\00:26:28.52
in the firmament of the heavens
00:26:28.55\00:26:30.05
to divide the
day from the night,
00:26:30.09\00:26:32.02
and let them be for," what?
00:26:32.05\00:26:33.39
Signs.
00:26:33.42\00:26:34.76
"Signs and seasons,
and for days and years,
00:26:34.79\00:26:38.36
and let them be for lights
in the firmament of the heavens
00:26:38.39\00:26:41.33
to give light on the
earth,' and it was so.
00:26:41.36\00:26:44.53
Then God made two great lights,
00:26:44.57\00:26:46.67
the greater
light to rule the day,
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and the lesser
light to rule the night.
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He made the stars also.
00:26:51.81\00:26:54.08
God set them in the
firmament of the heavens
00:26:54.11\00:26:56.75
to give light on the earth,
00:26:56.78\00:26:58.38
and to rule over the
day and over the night,
00:26:58.41\00:27:01.25
and to divide the
light from the darkness.
00:27:01.28\00:27:03.52
And God saw that it was good.
00:27:03.55\00:27:05.75
So the evening and the
morning were the fourth day."
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Let's think about
that the lesser light,
00:27:10.99\00:27:13.33
the greater light,
the moon the lesser light,
00:27:13.36\00:27:15.66
the sun the
greater light, the signs,
00:27:15.70\00:27:18.57
the seasons,
the days, the years,
00:27:18.60\00:27:21.10
God established all
these illuminated bodies
00:27:21.14\00:27:24.47
to establish a cadence.
00:27:24.51\00:27:26.51
And the heavens have been
00:27:26.54\00:27:27.88
so beautifully
orchestrated by God,
00:27:27.91\00:27:29.94
you know, I have a program
00:27:29.98\00:27:31.31
that it's about
looking into the heavens,
00:27:31.35\00:27:33.75
I'm an amateur,
amateur, amateur astronomer.
00:27:33.78\00:27:37.62
So amateur, I
don't have a telescope.
00:27:37.65\00:27:40.12
I do it all on my iPad.
00:27:40.16\00:27:42.29
Well, that's an affliction,
but when you think about it,
00:27:42.32\00:27:46.09
we can program
literally by telescopes,
00:27:46.13\00:27:48.86
my wife and I intend to do that.
00:27:48.90\00:27:50.90
Well, we can
program in coordinates,
00:27:50.93\00:27:53.84
and it will point to stars
00:27:53.87\00:27:55.90
and bodies that
have never moved.
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How does that happen?
00:27:58.84\00:28:00.18
Coincidentally?
No, providentially.
00:28:00.21\00:28:02.54
What I wanna do with
you on my remaining time
00:28:02.58\00:28:04.41
is share with you from
the perspective of people
00:28:04.45\00:28:07.52
that are not
necessarily Christians
00:28:07.55\00:28:10.22
as to how they know
00:28:10.25\00:28:11.92
that the creation of
the earth and the world
00:28:11.95\00:28:14.59
is the part of
the divine designer.
00:28:14.62\00:28:17.06
Let's begin reasons to believe
00:28:17.09\00:28:19.13
in the existence
of God and His Word,
00:28:19.16\00:28:21.40
and the complexity of creation.
00:28:21.43\00:28:24.57
The complexity of our planet,
00:28:24.60\00:28:25.93
I'm reading and you just follow
00:28:25.97\00:28:27.80
is connected to a
deliberate designer,
00:28:27.84\00:28:30.61
who not only
created the universe,
00:28:30.64\00:28:33.38
but also sustains it.
00:28:33.41\00:28:35.64
Let's talk about the size
of the earth and by the way,
00:28:35.68\00:28:37.81
the earth is not round,
it's spherical or ellipsoidal.
00:28:37.85\00:28:42.28
It's spherical,
rather than just round.
00:28:42.32\00:28:45.99
The earth, and its perfect size.
00:28:46.02\00:28:48.92
According to one scientist,
00:28:48.96\00:28:50.39
the earth size and
corresponding gravity
00:28:50.43\00:28:53.73
holds a thin
layer of mostly nitrogen
00:28:53.76\00:28:57.63
and oxygen gases only
extending about 50 miles
00:28:57.67\00:29:02.34
above the earth's surface.
00:29:02.37\00:29:04.04
Let's see if
that's coincidental.
00:29:04.07\00:29:05.41
Let's see what they said.
00:29:05.44\00:29:06.78
If earth was smaller
like the planet Mercury,
00:29:06.81\00:29:09.64
an atmosphere
would be impossible.
00:29:09.68\00:29:11.71
If earth were
larger like Jupiter,
00:29:11.75\00:29:13.52
its atmosphere would
contain free hydrogen.
00:29:13.55\00:29:17.35
Earth is the only known planet
00:29:17.39\00:29:19.45
equipped with an atmosphere
of the right mixture of gases
00:29:19.49\00:29:23.46
to sustain plant,
animal, and human life.
00:29:23.49\00:29:27.06
And the question is,
where did it come from?
00:29:27.10\00:29:28.93
In the beginning, God,
come on, can we say amen?
00:29:28.96\00:29:30.80
Amen. Amen.
00:29:30.83\00:29:32.17
What about water?
Water and its necessity.
00:29:32.20\00:29:34.80
Water is colorless,
odorless, and without taste,
00:29:34.84\00:29:37.74
and yet no living
thing can survive without it.
00:29:37.77\00:29:40.74
Plants, animals, human
beings, consist mostly of water.
00:29:40.78\00:29:44.88
About two thirds of
the human body is water,
00:29:44.91\00:29:48.05
who designed that?
00:29:48.08\00:29:49.42
God. Only God.
00:29:49.45\00:29:50.79
Water is a
temperature regulator.
00:29:50.82\00:29:53.32
Water is a universal solvent.
00:29:53.36\00:29:56.16
Water is also chemically neutral
00:29:56.19\00:29:59.06
without affecting the makeup
of the substances it carry.
00:29:59.09\00:30:02.83
Water enables food, medicine,
00:30:02.86\00:30:06.30
and minerals to be
absorbed and used by the body.
00:30:06.33\00:30:09.30
Who else can
create that, but God?
00:30:09.34\00:30:12.31
Water has a
unique surface tension.
00:30:12.34\00:30:14.84
Water in plants
can therefore flow
00:30:14.88\00:30:17.91
upward against gravity.
00:30:17.95\00:30:20.38
Who can do that, but God?
00:30:20.42\00:30:21.85
Bringing life giving water
00:30:21.88\00:30:23.65
and nutrients to the top
of even the tallest trees.
00:30:23.69\00:30:27.22
If you go to the Avenue
of the Giants in California,
00:30:27.26\00:30:29.66
they say the amount of water
00:30:29.69\00:30:31.03
that those trees
absorb in one day,
00:30:31.06\00:30:33.29
God put that
water in the atmosphere.
00:30:33.33\00:30:36.97
Who else can do that but God?
00:30:37.00\00:30:38.57
Also water is transformative.
00:30:38.60\00:30:41.17
Ninety-seven
percent of the earth's water
00:30:41.20\00:30:43.77
is in the oceans,
00:30:43.81\00:30:45.14
but on our earth
there is a system designed
00:30:45.17\00:30:48.41
which removes
salt from the water,
00:30:48.44\00:30:50.65
and then distributes that water
00:30:50.68\00:30:52.71
throughout the globe.
00:30:52.75\00:30:54.72
Evaporation
takes the ocean waters
00:30:54.75\00:30:56.62
leaving the salt
00:30:56.65\00:30:57.99
and forms clouds
00:30:58.02\00:30:59.35
which are easily
moved by the wind
00:30:59.39\00:31:01.09
to disperse water over
the land for vegetation,
00:31:01.12\00:31:04.09
animals and people.
00:31:04.13\00:31:05.46
Who can design
00:31:05.49\00:31:06.83
such a complex
system of sustenance?
00:31:06.86\00:31:08.20
God.
00:31:08.23\00:31:09.56
Now let's think
about the human brain.
00:31:09.60\00:31:11.17
The human brain
simultaneously processes
00:31:11.20\00:31:14.17
an amazing
amount of information,
00:31:14.20\00:31:16.71
"The human brain processes
00:31:16.74\00:31:18.11
more than a
million messages a second,
00:31:18.14\00:31:20.41
your brain waves the
importance of all its data,
00:31:20.44\00:31:24.05
filtering out the
relatively unimportant."
00:31:24.08\00:31:27.08
So 10 years from
now, you might say,
00:31:27.12\00:31:29.08
"I remember seeing that."
00:31:29.12\00:31:30.49
And you just saw it
as you were driving by
00:31:30.52\00:31:32.25
on a sign somewhere.
00:31:32.29\00:31:33.62
That's how amazing the brain is.
00:31:33.66\00:31:35.59
What about the human eye?
00:31:35.62\00:31:37.29
The human eye
distinguishes 7 million colors.
00:31:37.33\00:31:42.26
It has automatic
focusing, camera people,
00:31:42.30\00:31:45.70
and handles an
astounding 1.5 million messages
00:31:45.73\00:31:49.24
simultaneously.
00:31:49.27\00:31:51.07
Who can do that, but God?
00:31:51.11\00:31:53.07
Astrophysicist Robert
Jastrow said these words,
00:31:53.11\00:31:56.61
"The seed of everything
00:31:56.64\00:31:58.31
that has
happened in the universe
00:31:58.35\00:32:00.15
was planted in
that first instant,
00:32:00.18\00:32:02.58
every star, every planet
00:32:02.62\00:32:04.29
and every living
creature in the universe
00:32:04.32\00:32:06.19
came into being
as a result of events
00:32:06.22\00:32:09.16
that were set in motion
00:32:09.19\00:32:10.93
in the moments of
the cosmic explosion."
00:32:10.96\00:32:14.70
Bang! God said
it and it happened.
00:32:14.73\00:32:16.56
Okay.
00:32:16.60\00:32:17.93
"The universe
flashed into being.
00:32:17.97\00:32:20.14
And an Astrophysicist
Robert Jastrow says,
00:32:20.17\00:32:23.00
"And we cannot find out
what caused that to happen."
00:32:23.04\00:32:27.51
In the beginning God, come on...
00:32:27.54\00:32:29.04
That's right.
00:32:29.08\00:32:30.41
The universe operates
by uniform laws of nature,
00:32:30.45\00:32:33.21
he continues, "It
is atomically accurate.
00:32:33.25\00:32:38.15
The greatest
scientists have been struck
00:32:38.19\00:32:41.09
by how strange this is.
00:32:41.12\00:32:43.06
There is no logical
necessity for a universe
00:32:43.09\00:32:46.19
that obeys rules,
00:32:46.23\00:32:47.56
let alone one that abides
by the rules of mathematics."
00:32:47.60\00:32:51.80
Astrophysicists says, "How?"
00:32:51.83\00:32:53.67
In the beginning, come on God.
00:32:53.70\00:32:56.00
Richard Feynman, a
Nobel Prize winner said,
00:32:56.04\00:32:59.27
"For quantum electrodynamics
00:32:59.31\00:33:02.74
he said why
nature is mathematical
00:33:02.78\00:33:05.71
is a mystery.
00:33:05.75\00:33:07.08
The fact that
there are rules at all
00:33:07.12\00:33:09.45
is a kind of miracle."
00:33:09.48\00:33:11.52
In the beginning, God.
00:33:11.55\00:33:13.69
Let's look at one
other thing, the DNA code.
00:33:13.72\00:33:16.36
How God puts in the DNA code
all the information necessary.
00:33:16.39\00:33:20.36
So pagans have no
answer for any of these,
00:33:20.40\00:33:25.13
what they might call anomalies
00:33:25.17\00:33:27.50
which we call
simply divine designs.
00:33:27.54\00:33:30.77
All instruction and
teaching and all training
00:33:30.81\00:33:33.48
comes with intent.
00:33:33.51\00:33:35.21
Someone who writes
an instruction manual
00:33:35.24\00:33:37.21
does so with purpose.
00:33:37.25\00:33:38.65
In every cell of our
bodies, there is existing,
00:33:38.68\00:33:41.78
a very detailed
instruction book,
00:33:41.82\00:33:44.69
much like a
miniature computer program,
00:33:44.72\00:33:47.76
and get this in
every single cell
00:33:47.79\00:33:50.06
there is a
miniature computer program.
00:33:50.09\00:33:53.83
Finally, let me give you
the most powerful testament
00:33:53.86\00:33:56.13
about how God's
creation is not an accident.
00:33:56.16\00:34:00.20
A former atheist by the
name of Marilyn Adamson,
00:34:00.24\00:34:03.71
she said,
00:34:03.74\00:34:05.07
"I found it difficult to refute
00:34:05.11\00:34:06.51
the
continuously answered prayers
00:34:06.54\00:34:09.34
and quality of
life of a close friend.
00:34:09.38\00:34:11.95
In challenging the
beliefs of her friend,
00:34:11.98\00:34:13.75
Marilyn was amazed
to learn the wealth
00:34:13.78\00:34:16.28
of objective evidence
00:34:16.32\00:34:17.69
pointing to the
existence of God.
00:34:17.72\00:34:22.09
After about a year of
persistent questioning,
00:34:22.12\00:34:24.83
she responded to God's
offer to come into her life
00:34:24.86\00:34:28.50
and has found faith in Him
to be constantly substantiated
00:34:28.53\00:34:33.20
and greatly rewarding."
00:34:33.23\00:34:34.80
A former atheist
now believes in God,
00:34:34.84\00:34:37.04
but here's what she said.
00:34:37.07\00:34:38.74
"I was an atheist at one time.
00:34:38.77\00:34:41.24
And like many atheists,
00:34:41.28\00:34:42.61
the issue of
people believing in God
00:34:42.64\00:34:44.15
bothered me greatly.
00:34:44.18\00:34:45.68
What is it about atheists
00:34:45.71\00:34:48.85
that we would
spend so much time,
00:34:48.88\00:34:51.19
attention, and
energy refuting something
00:34:51.22\00:34:54.52
that we don't
believe even exists?"
00:34:54.56\00:34:58.29
Here's the answer. The
Bible makes it very Clear.
00:34:58.33\00:35:00.80
Job 38:4-5.
00:35:00.83\00:35:03.87
"Where were you when I laid
the foundations of the earth?
00:35:03.90\00:35:07.17
Tell Me, if you
have understanding.
00:35:07.20\00:35:09.87
Who determined its measurements?
00:35:09.90\00:35:11.77
Surely you know!
00:35:11.81\00:35:13.41
Or who stretched
the line upon it?"
00:35:13.44\00:35:16.24
Friends, no coincidence.
00:35:16.28\00:35:18.41
"The heavens
declare the glory of God,
00:35:18.45\00:35:21.05
the firmament
shows His handiwork.
00:35:21.08\00:35:23.72
Day unto day utters speech,
00:35:23.75\00:35:25.52
and night unto
night reveals knowledge.
00:35:25.55\00:35:27.59
There is no speech nor language
00:35:27.62\00:35:29.59
where their voice is not heard."
00:35:29.62\00:35:31.36
Psalm 19:1-3.
00:35:31.39\00:35:33.50
Pastor Dinzey.
00:35:33.53\00:35:34.86
Nice. Amen.
00:35:34.90\00:35:36.23
Praise the
Lord. Praise the Lord.
00:35:36.26\00:35:37.73
Praise God.
00:35:37.77\00:35:39.10
The scriptures
are a sure foundation.
00:35:39.13\00:35:41.00
Praise God for that.
00:35:41.04\00:35:42.37
Well, my part is
Creation and Time.
00:35:42.40\00:35:45.87
And as we
continue in this study,
00:35:45.91\00:35:48.28
I have the part
where some people
00:35:48.31\00:35:50.41
they begin to study the Bible
they get to the genealogies.
00:35:50.45\00:35:52.58
They say, "Oh,
no, the genealogies."
00:35:52.61\00:35:55.62
But the genealogies
are there for a purpose
00:35:55.65\00:35:58.05
and they establish time.
00:35:58.09\00:36:01.36
And so let's go through
the suggested scriptures
00:36:01.39\00:36:05.29
that are here in the lesson.
00:36:05.33\00:36:07.90
They pointed out
to Genesis Chapter 5.
00:36:07.93\00:36:10.80
And in Genesis Chapter 5,
00:36:10.83\00:36:13.80
we really can't
read the whole thing
00:36:13.84\00:36:15.37
because of lack of time.
00:36:15.40\00:36:16.77
I'm gonna read a few
verses to establish something,
00:36:16.81\00:36:19.14
and then I'm gonna
have to skip some verses
00:36:19.17\00:36:22.04
because of lack of time,
00:36:22.08\00:36:23.71
but to establish
the genealogy of time
00:36:23.75\00:36:26.28
that it's brought out here.
00:36:26.31\00:36:28.48
In Genesis 5:1,
we began verse 1,
00:36:28.52\00:36:33.09
"This is the book of
the genealogy of Adam.
00:36:33.12\00:36:36.16
In the day that God created man,
00:36:36.19\00:36:38.36
He made him in
the likeness of God.
00:36:38.39\00:36:40.73
He created them male and female,
00:36:40.76\00:36:42.43
and blessed them and called them
00:36:42.46\00:36:43.97
Mankind in the
day they were created.
00:36:44.00\00:36:46.63
And Adam lived one
hundred and thirty years,
00:36:46.67\00:36:49.47
and begot a son in his likeness,
00:36:49.50\00:36:51.51
after his image,
and named him Seth."
00:36:51.54\00:36:54.58
Notice where it picks up.
00:36:54.61\00:36:55.94
He doesn't
mention Cain and Abel.
00:36:55.98\00:36:58.58
"After he begot Seth,
00:36:58.61\00:36:59.95
the days of Adam
were eight hundred years,
00:36:59.98\00:37:01.95
and he had sons and daughters.
00:37:01.98\00:37:03.65
So all the days that Adam lived
00:37:03.69\00:37:06.29
were nine
hundred and thirty years,
00:37:06.32\00:37:07.96
and he died.
00:37:07.99\00:37:09.32
Seth lived one
hundred and five years,
00:37:09.36\00:37:11.49
and begot Enosh.
00:37:11.53\00:37:13.06
After he begot Enosh,
00:37:13.09\00:37:14.83
Seth lived eight
hundred and seven years,
00:37:14.86\00:37:17.03
and he had sons and daughters."
00:37:17.07\00:37:19.63
Okay. It continues.
00:37:19.67\00:37:22.17
I'm gonna now go to verse 28
00:37:22.20\00:37:25.14
because it brings you
00:37:25.17\00:37:26.64
to the end of the
genealogy time here.
00:37:26.68\00:37:29.61
Lamech lived one
hundred and eighty-two years,
00:37:29.64\00:37:32.65
and had a son.
00:37:32.68\00:37:34.02
And he called his
name Noah, saying,
00:37:34.05\00:37:35.62
'This one will
comfort us concerning our work
00:37:35.65\00:37:38.65
and the toil of our hands,
00:37:38.69\00:37:40.42
because of the ground
which the Lord has cursed.'
00:37:40.46\00:37:44.06
After he begot Noah,
00:37:44.09\00:37:45.49
Lamech lived five
hundred and ninety-five years,
00:37:45.53\00:37:48.53
and had sons and daughters.
00:37:48.56\00:37:50.20
So all the days of Lamech
00:37:50.23\00:37:51.80
were seven hundred
and seventy-seven years,
00:37:51.83\00:37:54.24
and he died.
00:37:54.27\00:37:55.60
And no was five
hundred years old,
00:37:55.64\00:37:58.17
and Noah begot
Shem, Ham, and Japheth."
00:37:58.21\00:38:03.04
And I like to focus
on Shem at this moment
00:38:03.08\00:38:06.01
because we're gonna
pick up with him later on.
00:38:06.05\00:38:08.48
So we have here, a
description, a genealogy,
00:38:08.52\00:38:12.59
and years and the
years of so and so lives,
00:38:12.62\00:38:17.03
and so many
years and so many years
00:38:17.06\00:38:18.39
and begot sons and daughters.
00:38:18.43\00:38:19.76
This
establishes beginning points
00:38:19.79\00:38:22.86
where you can
calculate and some have done so,
00:38:22.90\00:38:25.70
some of you may
remember the astrochronology..
00:38:25.73\00:38:28.94
And they account
for about 4,000 years
00:38:28.97\00:38:32.67
the first part
00:38:32.71\00:38:34.18
and so when you look
at these genealogies,
00:38:34.21\00:38:38.21
you have a record of
time that helps us understand
00:38:38.25\00:38:41.58
that this world is not
00:38:41.62\00:38:43.32
hundreds of
thousands of years old.
00:38:43.35\00:38:46.69
It is but a few
thousand years old,
00:38:46.72\00:38:48.62
and it's more close to,
00:38:48.66\00:38:51.29
we lived around
6,000 years, not us lived,
00:38:51.33\00:38:54.03
but mankind has lived, human,
the word now is humankind.
00:38:54.06\00:38:58.80
You probably saw that introduced
00:38:58.83\00:39:00.74
a few years ago.
00:39:00.77\00:39:02.30
But anyway,
00:39:02.34\00:39:03.67
let's continue in
Genesis Chapter 11.
00:39:03.71\00:39:05.84
In Genesis Chapter 11,
00:39:05.87\00:39:07.21
there's another
genealogy and there's a reason
00:39:07.24\00:39:09.41
why we're going through this.
00:39:09.44\00:39:11.01
In Genesis 11:1-9, 10,
00:39:11.05\00:39:14.62
talk to you about
the Tower of Babel
00:39:14.65\00:39:16.28
and their attempt
00:39:16.32\00:39:17.65
to build a tower to
escape another flood.
00:39:17.69\00:39:21.16
Not believing what God has said
00:39:21.19\00:39:22.89
that He will not destroy
the earth with a flood again.
00:39:22.92\00:39:26.19
Let's begin in Genesis 11:10,
00:39:26.23\00:39:29.56
"This is the genealogy of Shem."
00:39:29.60\00:39:33.13
Noah's son.
00:39:33.17\00:39:34.50
"Shem was one hundred years old
00:39:34.54\00:39:36.34
and begot Arphaxad
two years after the flood.
00:39:36.37\00:39:40.24
After he begot Arphaxad,
Shem lived five hundred years,
00:39:40.28\00:39:44.05
and begot sons and daughters.
00:39:44.08\00:39:45.81
Arphaxad lived
thirty-five years,
00:39:45.85\00:39:47.68
and begot Salah.
00:39:47.72\00:39:49.22
After he begot Salah,
00:39:49.25\00:39:50.69
Arphaxad lived four
hundred and three years,
00:39:50.72\00:39:53.86
and begot sons and daughters.
00:39:53.89\00:39:55.66
Salah lived thirty
years, and begot Eber.
00:39:55.69\00:39:58.39
After he begot Eber,
00:39:58.43\00:39:59.76
Salah lived four
hundred and three years,
00:39:59.79\00:40:01.50
and begot sons and daughters."
00:40:01.53\00:40:02.90
And you can continue reading,
00:40:02.93\00:40:04.57
establishing a chronology
00:40:04.60\00:40:07.34
of people that lived so
many years and continues.
00:40:07.37\00:40:10.47
So you can
calculate these years.
00:40:10.51\00:40:12.61
I think even Doug
Batchelor has done this,
00:40:12.64\00:40:14.31
at one point, he said.
00:40:14.34\00:40:16.48
Let's move now to verse 26
00:40:16.51\00:40:21.38
to pick up another
person that is well-known.
00:40:21.42\00:40:24.25
"Now Terah lived seventy
years, and begot Abram, Nahor,
00:40:24.29\00:40:29.06
and Haran.
00:40:29.09\00:40:30.53
This is the genealogy of Terah.
00:40:30.56\00:40:32.09
Terah begot
Abram, Nahor, and Haran.
00:40:32.13\00:40:35.66
Haran begot Lot."
00:40:35.70\00:40:37.30
So Abram, is the
person well-known.
00:40:37.33\00:40:40.20
And so when you get
to Matthew Chapter 10,
00:40:40.24\00:40:42.40
you see that it
picks up from Abram,
00:40:42.44\00:40:44.77
and talking to you
about the genealogy of Jesus.
00:40:44.81\00:40:49.11
"There's one element
00:40:49.14\00:40:50.48
that makes these
genealogies unique
00:40:50.51\00:40:52.18
in the Bible,"
the lesson brings out,
00:40:52.21\00:40:54.08
"they contain
the element of time,
00:40:54.12\00:40:57.12
causing some scholars
to correctly call them
00:40:57.15\00:40:59.42
'chronogenealogies.'
00:40:59.45\00:41:01.96
They contain an
interlocking mechanism
00:41:01.99\00:41:04.16
of descent information
coupled with spans of time,
00:41:04.19\00:41:08.13
so that 'when
Person 1 had lived x years,
00:41:08.16\00:41:11.47
he fathered Person 2.
00:41:11.50\00:41:12.83
And Person 1,
00:41:12.87\00:41:14.20
after he begot
Person 2 lived y years,
00:41:14.24\00:41:16.77
and he fathered
other sons and daughters.'
00:41:16.81\00:41:19.17
And so Genesis 5
adds the formula phrase,
00:41:19.21\00:41:22.31
'And all the days of
Person 1 were z years.'"
00:41:22.34\00:41:26.35
This is an interlocking system
00:41:26.38\00:41:29.02
that makes helps us understand
the chronology of time.
00:41:29.05\00:41:35.06
If you want a more
complete genealogy of people,
00:41:35.09\00:41:40.60
then other than you
see in Genesis Chapter 5
00:41:40.63\00:41:42.93
and Genesis Chapter 11,
00:41:42.96\00:41:44.30
you can go to 1
Chronicles 1:1 and onward.
00:41:44.33\00:41:50.27
The problem is that some
people over the last few decades
00:41:50.31\00:41:54.54
have tried to look
at Genesis Chapter 5
00:41:54.58\00:41:57.18
and Genesis
Chapter 11, and said,
00:41:57.21\00:41:59.28
"Oh no, there must be
longer periods of time here."
00:41:59.31\00:42:02.85
And even in creation,
some people have said,
00:42:02.88\00:42:05.22
"Actually, I have
a book in a box now,
00:42:05.25\00:42:07.89
not in my library."
00:42:07.92\00:42:09.26
It's in a box,
00:42:09.29\00:42:10.63
where some Christian group
00:42:10.66\00:42:12.46
trying to adapt to
the scientific discoveries
00:42:12.49\00:42:16.23
or the so called
scientific knowledge
00:42:16.26\00:42:17.80
at that time,
00:42:17.83\00:42:19.17
they came to the
conclusion in error
00:42:19.20\00:42:22.70
that each day of
creation was 7,000 years long.
00:42:22.74\00:42:29.24
Of course, what happens
when you have the evening,
00:42:29.28\00:42:32.61
you have 3,500
years of darkness,
00:42:32.65\00:42:37.69
and then you have
3,500 years of light.
00:42:37.72\00:42:40.99
Animals and
plants cannot survive
00:42:41.02\00:42:43.12
under those conditions.
00:42:43.16\00:42:44.49
So these are
people trying to adapt
00:42:44.53\00:42:46.59
to science a great mistake.
00:42:46.63\00:42:49.33
You don't adapt the,
00:42:49.36\00:42:51.00
your understanding of the Bible,
00:42:51.03\00:42:52.37
but what science says,
00:42:52.40\00:42:54.20
science has to adapt
to what the Bible says
00:42:54.24\00:42:56.57
because here is your
true knowledge and wisdom.
00:42:56.60\00:43:00.58
I'd like to
bring this quote to you
00:43:00.61\00:43:03.68
from Patriarchs
and Prophets, page 113.
00:43:03.71\00:43:06.08
If you have not read this book,
I encourage you to read it.
00:43:06.11\00:43:08.62
Notice, "Those who
leave the Word of God,
00:43:08.65\00:43:11.59
and seek to account
for His created works
00:43:11.62\00:43:14.39
upon scientific principles,
00:43:14.42\00:43:16.66
are drifting
without a chart or compass
00:43:16.69\00:43:19.56
upon an unknown ocean.
00:43:19.59\00:43:21.70
The greatest minds,
00:43:21.73\00:43:23.06
if not guided by the Word of God
00:43:23.10\00:43:24.60
in their research,
00:43:24.63\00:43:25.97
become
bewildered in their attempts
00:43:26.00\00:43:28.14
to trace the relations
of science and Revelation.
00:43:28.17\00:43:32.27
Because the
Creator and His works
00:43:32.31\00:43:34.24
are so far beyond
their comprehension
00:43:34.28\00:43:37.21
that they are unable to
explain them by natural laws,
00:43:37.25\00:43:40.45
they regard Bible
history as unreliable, "
00:43:40.48\00:43:43.39
a great mistake.
00:43:43.42\00:43:45.22
"Those who doubt the
reliability of the records
00:43:45.25\00:43:48.16
of the Old and New Testaments,
00:43:48.19\00:43:49.56
will be led to
go a step further,
00:43:49.59\00:43:52.86
and doubt the existence of God,
00:43:52.89\00:43:55.33
and then having
lost their anchor,
00:43:55.36\00:43:57.10
they are left to beat
00:43:57.13\00:43:58.47
about upon the
rocks of infidelity."
00:43:58.50\00:44:01.67
Great mistake.
00:44:01.70\00:44:03.07
So I encourage you to
consider the Bible record
00:44:03.10\00:44:06.27
as a reliable record of history
00:44:06.31\00:44:09.91
that helps us understand
that this world has not existed
00:44:09.94\00:44:12.68
for millions and
millions of years.
00:44:12.71\00:44:15.28
In fact, I even heard one
individual in a lecture say
00:44:15.32\00:44:19.49
that makes sense to me.
00:44:19.52\00:44:20.86
He says, "The amount
of people upon the earth
00:44:20.89\00:44:24.39
accounts for a
few thousand years."
00:44:24.43\00:44:27.36
Not hundreds of
thousands of millions of years,
00:44:27.40\00:44:29.66
the amount the population,
00:44:29.70\00:44:31.30
he says, even
taking into account wars,
00:44:31.33\00:44:35.24
and these
diseases, they wiped out
00:44:35.27\00:44:37.04
hundreds and thousands,
00:44:37.07\00:44:38.51
the amount of people
00:44:38.54\00:44:40.71
account for a few thousand years
00:44:40.74\00:44:42.58
of the earth and
people existing upon it.
00:44:42.61\00:44:45.51
And actually, he
had a picture he says,
00:44:45.55\00:44:47.98
if we were to take
00:44:48.02\00:44:50.59
some of these
thousands and thousands
00:44:50.62\00:44:52.09
or hundreds of
thousands of years,
00:44:52.12\00:44:53.72
I mean, you'd be standing
next to people you can even,
00:44:53.76\00:44:56.66
you can even lay down
00:44:56.69\00:44:58.53
because there's
one commandment people
00:44:58.56\00:45:00.40
have obeyed
00:45:00.43\00:45:01.76
and that's the ones
be fruitful and multiply.
00:45:01.80\00:45:04.97
And so, the
amount of people today
00:45:05.00\00:45:07.87
accounts for a
few thousand years
00:45:07.90\00:45:10.14
of the earth
existing upon the earth.
00:45:10.17\00:45:14.18
I wish I had more
time to talk to you
00:45:14.21\00:45:15.54
about the genealogy of Jesus,
00:45:15.58\00:45:16.95
if you wanna look at
the genealogy of Jesus
00:45:16.98\00:45:18.85
in Luke Chapter 3
is very interesting.
00:45:18.88\00:45:21.32
It starts from Joseph
being the Father of Jesus
00:45:21.35\00:45:26.59
through Mary and
Joseph, through the Holy Spirit,
00:45:26.62\00:45:29.26
but it goes
backwards and it says,
00:45:29.29\00:45:31.76
and Adam, the
Son of God, powerful.
00:45:31.79\00:45:37.17
So the Bible is reliable. Amen.
00:45:37.20\00:45:40.20
Praise the Lord.
All right, good job.
00:45:40.24\00:45:41.87
Heavy difficult
subject, isn't it?
00:45:41.90\00:45:43.44
But you made it
plain, it was good.
00:45:43.47\00:45:45.47
Thank you so very much.
I have Thursday's lesson.
00:45:45.51\00:45:48.14
And it's called
Creation in Scripture.
00:45:48.18\00:45:50.61
And if you have
your lesson book,
00:45:50.65\00:45:52.51
and you look down through there,
00:45:52.55\00:45:53.88
it starts out and just starts
00:45:53.92\00:45:55.25
giving you a bunch of
passages of Scripture.
00:45:55.28\00:45:56.62
So we're gonna follow that plan
00:45:56.65\00:45:58.09
and look at the
lot of the passage
00:45:58.12\00:45:59.52
of scripture, look up.
00:45:59.55\00:46:00.89
And it starts with
the earlier question.
00:46:00.92\00:46:02.69
Notice, says,
00:46:02.72\00:46:04.06
"Read the
following scriptural passages
00:46:04.09\00:46:06.09
and write down how
each of these writers
00:46:06.13\00:46:08.86
referred note to Genesis 1-11."
00:46:08.90\00:46:12.43
And so again,
Creation in Scripture,
00:46:16.30\00:46:17.91
I think it just
follows everything
00:46:17.94\00:46:19.27
that we've been
studying since the beginning,
00:46:19.31\00:46:21.04
at least, lesson number one,
00:46:21.08\00:46:23.45
you know, New
Testament writers built
00:46:23.48\00:46:25.21
on a foundational,
the nature of Genesis.
00:46:25.25\00:46:28.52
So we realized,
00:46:28.55\00:46:29.88
we have been
building, we've been gonna,
00:46:29.92\00:46:31.25
everything went
back, we've all, I think,
00:46:31.29\00:46:32.62
referred back to
Genesis Chapter 1.
00:46:32.65\00:46:35.56
In the beginning, God,
00:46:35.59\00:46:37.56
and that's exactly
the way that it should be,
00:46:37.59\00:46:40.13
at least in my opinion,
00:46:40.16\00:46:41.50
goes right back to
God in the beginning.
00:46:41.53\00:46:43.90
Now to show the modern reader
00:46:43.93\00:46:45.27
the significance
of the literal event.
00:46:45.30\00:46:48.20
Paul in Romans Chapter 5,
00:46:48.24\00:46:50.57
he makes a link
from Adam to Jesus.
00:46:50.61\00:46:53.78
So we're linking
up here a little bit
00:46:53.81\00:46:55.14
before we read those passages.
00:46:55.18\00:46:56.51
And notice there are at
least six times he does this.
00:46:56.54\00:46:59.05
There must be some
significance to that.
00:46:59.08\00:47:01.68
Romans 5:12, 14-19.
00:47:01.72\00:47:05.85
Romans 5:12, 14-19
just jot them down,
00:47:05.89\00:47:08.36
we're not gonna read them all.
00:47:08.39\00:47:09.72
It simply says,
00:47:09.76\00:47:11.09
Paul assures the
literal existence of man.
00:47:11.13\00:47:13.83
So in these passages,
00:47:13.86\00:47:15.23
there's a surety
based upon the Word of God.
00:47:15.26\00:47:18.00
But if you notice this,
00:47:18.03\00:47:19.37
but if the
evolution theory is believed,
00:47:19.40\00:47:23.00
how things that
means how things began,
00:47:23.04\00:47:24.87
the literal reading of
the text is compromised.
00:47:24.91\00:47:28.74
So we have to go right
back and read it the way
00:47:28.78\00:47:30.45
God put it in His Word.
00:47:30.48\00:47:32.08
Notice the link, if
you will, between Adam,
00:47:32.11\00:47:35.32
and between Jesus.
00:47:35.35\00:47:36.99
Let's read just a
couple of passages.
00:47:37.02\00:47:38.69
I think this
verse had been read,
00:47:38.72\00:47:40.06
I don't know how many times
since we began the lessons,
00:47:40.09\00:47:42.22
but I don't think it
hurts to read it again,
00:47:42.26\00:47:44.16
if it's all right.
00:47:44.19\00:47:45.53
In Romans 5:12.
00:47:45.56\00:47:48.20
Romans 5:12, the Bible
says, "Wherefore, as by," what?
00:47:48.23\00:47:53.44
"One man sin
entered into the world, "
00:47:53.47\00:47:56.04
and we'll skip down the bottom,
00:47:56.07\00:47:57.57
"and by death," what?
00:47:57.61\00:47:59.54
"And death by sin."
00:47:59.57\00:48:01.68
Romans 5:14 says,
00:48:01.71\00:48:03.24
"After the similitude
of Adam's transgression,
00:48:03.28\00:48:06.48
who is in the figure
of him that was to come."
00:48:06.51\00:48:10.69
Romans 5:15.
00:48:10.72\00:48:13.52
"If through the
offense of one many be dead,"
00:48:13.56\00:48:16.79
notice this, "but
the gift of grace,
00:48:16.83\00:48:19.63
which is by one
man, Jesus Christ,
00:48:19.66\00:48:22.76
hath abounded unto many."
00:48:22.80\00:48:24.83
That's just a powerful
kind of condensing it down,
00:48:24.87\00:48:26.74
but that's just
powerful scripture
00:48:26.77\00:48:28.97
that God would
have us to feed on.
00:48:29.00\00:48:31.27
We need to be feeding
00:48:31.31\00:48:32.64
on these positive
powerful passages of Scripture
00:48:32.67\00:48:35.71
that gives us hope in a world
00:48:35.74\00:48:37.68
that is all
messed up, all torn up.
00:48:37.71\00:48:41.42
And God has delegated people,
He's chosen people to what?
00:48:41.45\00:48:46.22
Give a special
message to this world
00:48:46.25\00:48:49.09
to give hope and
give encouragement
00:48:49.12\00:48:50.86
to His coming and I like it
00:48:50.89\00:48:52.23
because it's
mentioned in Revelation 14,
00:48:52.26\00:48:54.56
three angels' message.
00:48:54.60\00:48:55.93
So just remember,
00:48:55.96\00:48:57.30
as we're talking about
that the New Testament writers
00:48:57.33\00:48:59.27
we know inspired
by the Holy Spirit
00:48:59.30\00:49:01.70
of the Living God,
00:49:01.74\00:49:03.17
that just helps
to make it clear,
00:49:03.20\00:49:04.54
then just settle your mind.
00:49:04.57\00:49:05.91
The Scriptures are
inspired by the Holy Spirit.
00:49:05.94\00:49:08.88
And they have to be right.
00:49:08.91\00:49:10.58
The Holy Spirit
doesn't say one thing
00:49:10.61\00:49:11.95
in the Old Testament
00:49:11.98\00:49:13.31
and another thing
in the New Testament,
00:49:13.35\00:49:14.68
they all harmonize
00:49:14.72\00:49:16.05
because one spirit
is doing the leading
00:49:16.08\00:49:17.45
and the impressing.
00:49:17.49\00:49:18.82
So we have the creation account
00:49:18.85\00:49:20.62
which is the part
of this lesson here
00:49:20.66\00:49:22.46
is reliable.
00:49:22.49\00:49:23.83
And if you look at it,
00:49:23.86\00:49:25.19
I think it was you
did pastor mentioned
00:49:25.23\00:49:26.56
that the proof is overwhelming.
00:49:26.59\00:49:28.13
Proof is overwhelming,
00:49:28.16\00:49:29.50
just like a few things
that you were able to mention
00:49:29.53\00:49:31.67
about the world of things
in order where it's water,
00:49:31.70\00:49:33.77
whatever it is,
it's just overwhelming.
00:49:33.80\00:49:35.67
The proof is, I'm just wondering
00:49:35.70\00:49:37.27
why we just don't
by the grace of God
00:49:37.31\00:49:38.71
except that settle down
into say, amen, this is good.
00:49:38.74\00:49:40.81
Amen. It's a good.
00:49:40.84\00:49:42.18
God's way.
00:49:42.21\00:49:43.55
God's way is the
best way, is it not?
00:49:43.58\00:49:45.15
So these Bible
texts, I'm gonna state
00:49:45.18\00:49:46.82
how each of the
writers went back.
00:49:46.85\00:49:48.98
So now remember if
these writers went back
00:49:49.02\00:49:51.02
to Genesis 1-11,
00:49:51.05\00:49:53.15
so on through there
00:49:53.19\00:49:54.52
and used it for
reliable history,
00:49:54.56\00:49:57.66
if they use it
for reliable history,
00:49:57.69\00:49:59.29
why shouldn't we?
00:49:59.33\00:50:00.66
I think we should, don't you?
00:50:00.70\00:50:02.16
First one is Matthew 19.
00:50:02.20\00:50:03.53
We'll go through
00:50:03.57\00:50:04.90
as many as we
can get through here.
00:50:04.93\00:50:06.27
Matthew 19:4-5.
00:50:06.30\00:50:08.74
I like it against
what the Bible said.
00:50:08.77\00:50:10.47
"Jesus refers to
the writing of" who?
00:50:10.51\00:50:12.81
"Of Moses,
00:50:12.84\00:50:14.18
and the creation
of male and female."
00:50:14.21\00:50:17.71
Paul refers to what?
00:50:17.75\00:50:19.08
The creation to
make a theological point
00:50:19.11\00:50:22.58
in Acts 17:24.
00:50:22.62\00:50:24.85
So instead of reading at all,
00:50:24.89\00:50:26.22
we've got to condense it
down as quickly as we can.
00:50:26.25\00:50:29.19
Notice Mark 10:6-9,
00:50:29.22\00:50:32.09
it's giving an
account of marriage here,
00:50:32.13\00:50:34.70
where it says,
00:50:34.73\00:50:36.06
"From the beginning of
creation God made them," what?
00:50:36.10\00:50:40.34
"Male and female." So
we're just using what?
00:50:40.37\00:50:42.87
Scripture as proof, right?
00:50:42.90\00:50:44.24
We're just going
back to Scripture.
00:50:44.27\00:50:46.61
Luke 11:50-51.
00:50:46.64\00:50:50.38
Jesus is pronouncing some woes.
00:50:50.41\00:50:53.35
And I would assume with
Jesus of pronouncing some woes,
00:50:53.38\00:50:55.65
we need to listen to
those, don't you think?
00:50:55.68\00:50:57.62
Some woes, and
He does it on whom?
00:50:57.65\00:50:59.59
He does it on the
Scribes and the Pharisees.
00:50:59.62\00:51:01.99
Now notice this.
00:51:02.02\00:51:03.36
May I say they were
up to no good again.
00:51:03.39\00:51:04.79
Notice, it said, "The
blood of all the prophets,
00:51:04.83\00:51:07.16
which was shed
00:51:07.20\00:51:08.53
from the
foundation of the world,
00:51:08.56\00:51:10.80
may be required
of this generation."
00:51:10.83\00:51:13.37
Notice.
00:51:13.40\00:51:14.74
"From the blood of Abel
into the blood of Zacharias
00:51:14.77\00:51:18.24
which persuaded them,"
00:51:18.27\00:51:19.61
notice this, I think, yeah,
00:51:19.64\00:51:22.54
"perish between the
altar and the temple."
00:51:22.58\00:51:26.38
So Jesus pronouncing these woes,
00:51:26.41\00:51:28.28
but notice what they're doing?
00:51:28.32\00:51:29.65
They're
referring back to Genesis
00:51:29.68\00:51:31.92
In the beginning,
00:51:31.95\00:51:33.29
God so to me that safe,
but these men, these writers,
00:51:33.32\00:51:36.42
these inspired writers
by the Holy Spirit of God,
00:51:36.46\00:51:39.03
they're taking
these from the beginning,
00:51:39.06\00:51:40.40
and they're putting them
00:51:40.43\00:51:41.76
in a New
Testament even settings.
00:51:41.80\00:51:43.23
And so we can
draw from those things
00:51:43.26\00:51:45.47
that simply give proof
00:51:45.50\00:51:47.14
of certainly the reliability
historical perspective here.
00:51:47.17\00:51:50.91
John 1:1-3,
00:51:50.94\00:51:52.87
how many times have
we been through that?
00:51:52.91\00:51:54.24
Yes. You know what?
00:51:54.28\00:51:55.61
It's still, if you're like
I am it just does not get old.
00:51:55.64\00:51:58.08
Never. This never gets old.
00:51:58.11\00:51:59.91
There's always something
that we can learn from somebody
00:51:59.95\00:52:02.28
brings out from it
00:52:02.32\00:52:03.65
or Holy Spirit inspires you with
00:52:03.69\00:52:05.02
and we just did
00:52:05.05\00:52:06.39
and it just in the
beginning was what?
00:52:06.42\00:52:08.16
Word. Beginning was the word.
00:52:08.19\00:52:09.52
When we go through all that,
00:52:09.56\00:52:10.89
but in the
beginning was the word
00:52:10.93\00:52:12.26
the same was in the
beginning with God's
00:52:12.29\00:52:14.13
we know the true.
00:52:14.16\00:52:15.50
All things were made
by Him, in Him was life.
00:52:15.53\00:52:18.83
Well, praise God for that.
00:52:18.87\00:52:20.84
There is no life
then without Him.
00:52:20.87\00:52:23.10
Like you're talking
about there's no life
00:52:23.14\00:52:24.47
without the water,
00:52:24.51\00:52:25.84
there's no life
without the oxygen,
00:52:25.87\00:52:27.21
you know, the right
mixture and so on so forth,
00:52:27.24\00:52:29.08
that God put there for us.
00:52:29.11\00:52:30.45
Praise God for
that. Going to Acts 14:15.
00:52:30.48\00:52:34.55
Acts 14:15.
00:52:34.58\00:52:35.92
We have Paul and
Barnabas preaching.
00:52:35.95\00:52:37.69
Now the reason I'm
leaving through them
00:52:37.72\00:52:39.05
not reading them all
00:52:39.09\00:52:40.42
because how can we get through
how many was it 13 or a lot?
00:52:40.46\00:52:43.16
That was it as
good, that one question.
00:52:43.19\00:52:44.79
So here's all these
passages to go through.
00:52:44.83\00:52:46.76
We might read
one or two or three.
00:52:46.80\00:52:48.20
So this is where
your Lesson Study Guide
00:52:48.23\00:52:49.76
comes in.
00:52:49.80\00:52:51.13
Be sure and get
you one if you haven't
00:52:51.17\00:52:52.50
that way you can go
and read them for yourself.
00:52:52.53\00:52:54.17
Acts 14:15 Paul and
Barnabas preaching said,
00:52:54.20\00:52:57.41
"Ye should turn
from these," what?
00:52:57.44\00:52:59.34
"These vanities
unto the living God,"
00:52:59.37\00:53:02.28
who, the living
God who did what?
00:53:02.31\00:53:03.98
"Who made heaven and earth."
00:53:04.01\00:53:05.71
And that's Acts 14:15,
00:53:05.75\00:53:07.52
"Which made heaven,
and earth, and the sea,
00:53:07.55\00:53:09.52
and all things
that are therein."
00:53:09.55\00:53:11.35
Paul going right
back to the beginning.
00:53:11.39\00:53:13.05
Paul going right back to
00:53:13.09\00:53:14.42
and talking again
to brings us to, what?
00:53:14.46\00:53:16.12
Our message that it was
people are to give to the world
00:53:16.16\00:53:18.46
into three angels' message,
00:53:18.49\00:53:20.13
encouraging people to
go back to the beginning.
00:53:20.16\00:53:23.37
You know why?
00:53:23.40\00:53:24.73
Because we've
left the beginning.
00:53:24.77\00:53:26.70
We've left, we
forgot who God is?
00:53:26.74\00:53:28.24
We forgot that He's our Creator,
00:53:28.27\00:53:29.70
and we're giving
that call to come back.
00:53:29.74\00:53:31.64
Romans 1:10.
00:53:31.67\00:53:33.21
Very familiar, I'm sure to you,
00:53:33.24\00:53:34.81
Paul showing the
Gentiles there's no excuse
00:53:34.84\00:53:37.75
for their unrighteous acts.
00:53:37.78\00:53:39.71
For they're doing wrong.
00:53:39.75\00:53:41.08
Paul says
there's really no excuse.
00:53:41.12\00:53:42.45
For he says,
00:53:42.48\00:53:43.82
"For the invisible things of him
00:53:43.85\00:53:45.29
from the creation of
the world are," what?
00:53:45.32\00:53:48.32
"Are clearly
seen." Where does Paul do?
00:53:48.36\00:53:50.26
He goes back to their
creation of the world.
00:53:50.29\00:53:52.39
He said, being understood
by the things that are, what?
00:53:52.43\00:53:56.00
That are made
even his eternal power
00:53:56.03\00:53:59.10
and Godhead
00:53:59.13\00:54:00.47
so that they are without excuse.
00:54:00.50\00:54:03.00
And, you know, I've often said,
00:54:03.04\00:54:04.47
we may do something wrong,
00:54:04.51\00:54:05.84
we may make a wrong
choice or wrong decision,
00:54:05.87\00:54:08.21
but, you know, over the years
I've tried by the grace of God
00:54:08.24\00:54:10.48
is not to make excuse
where I've fallen short
00:54:10.51\00:54:12.41
and did something is wrong.
00:54:12.45\00:54:13.78
It's not to make an
excuse for it, right?
00:54:13.82\00:54:15.88
We blame ourselves and say,
00:54:15.92\00:54:17.49
God give me grace and
strength to gain that victory.
00:54:17.52\00:54:20.02
In 2 Corinthians 4:6.
00:54:20.06\00:54:22.29
2 Corinthians 4:6,
Paul warns us not to preach,
00:54:22.32\00:54:27.60
notice, not to preach ourselves.
00:54:27.63\00:54:29.56
And I'm gonna jump right
to verse 5 where it says,
00:54:29.60\00:54:31.80
"But preach the one
00:54:31.83\00:54:33.17
who commanded the
light to do, " what?
00:54:33.20\00:54:35.47
"To shine out of darkness."
00:54:35.50\00:54:38.37
Where does that
take us once again?
00:54:38.41\00:54:40.11
Proof history, we go
back to the very beginning
00:54:40.14\00:54:42.58
in creation there.
00:54:42.61\00:54:43.95
2 Corinthians
4:6. Ephesians 3:9.
00:54:43.98\00:54:47.75
Ephesians 3:9,
we're getting to the end,
00:54:47.78\00:54:49.62
notice,
00:54:49.65\00:54:50.99
Paul warning the
church to experience
00:54:51.02\00:54:52.99
the principalities
and powers of heaven.
00:54:53.02\00:54:56.06
We need to
experience that today.
00:54:56.09\00:54:58.19
We need to
understand there's power
00:54:58.23\00:54:59.56
in the Word of God.
00:54:59.59\00:55:00.93
There's power when we study,
00:55:00.96\00:55:02.30
there's power
when we come together,
00:55:02.33\00:55:03.67
there's power
when we pray together,
00:55:03.70\00:55:05.13
there's power when
we studied together
00:55:05.17\00:55:07.07
of God's Word,
00:55:07.10\00:55:08.44
and notice what he said,
he goes back and he says,
00:55:08.47\00:55:10.27
"To make all men to
see what is the fellowship
00:55:10.31\00:55:12.94
of the mystery,"
00:55:12.97\00:55:14.31
notice,
00:55:14.34\00:55:15.68
"which from the
beginning of the world
00:55:15.71\00:55:17.05
hath been hid in God,
00:55:17.08\00:55:18.41
who created all
things by Jesus Christ."
00:55:18.45\00:55:21.88
I think the Bible
00:55:21.92\00:55:23.25
is reliable source
of history, don't you?
00:55:23.28\00:55:25.09
We can go right back.
00:55:25.12\00:55:26.45
And it certainly tells us
00:55:26.49\00:55:27.82
the powers and
principalities of heaven.
00:55:27.86\00:55:29.39
And you know, to me, I
just wanna tell you quickly,
00:55:29.42\00:55:31.39
I believe that tells
that Jesus is coming.
00:55:31.43\00:55:32.93
I think it tells us
00:55:32.96\00:55:34.30
how we can be
ready for that coming.
00:55:34.33\00:55:35.70
We've missed heaven.
00:55:35.73\00:55:37.07
We've missed our
purpose for being here.
00:55:37.10\00:55:38.60
God bless each one.
00:55:38.63\00:55:39.97
And we thank you
for tuning in today.
00:55:40.00\00:55:41.90
It's a lesson
I've enjoyed it. Amen.
00:55:41.94\00:55:43.71
That's a lot of stuff to
take, we can all breathe now.
00:55:43.74\00:55:46.27
Yeah, there you
go. Take a breath.
00:55:46.31\00:55:48.34
Man, that's a
lot of information.
00:55:48.38\00:55:49.78
Just hearing brother John
go through those genealogies.
00:55:49.81\00:55:52.88
I'm over here just
like, "Man, this is so,
00:55:52.91\00:55:54.75
it's lot of information."
00:55:54.78\00:55:56.58
But we have just a
couple of minutes left.
00:55:56.62\00:55:58.59
Let's go back
through and allow you guys
00:55:58.62\00:56:00.19
to give a final comment.
00:56:00.22\00:56:01.82
On Monday we looked at Creation
00:56:01.86\00:56:03.19
in Ancient Literature
00:56:03.22\00:56:04.56
and really we looked at
00:56:04.59\00:56:05.93
did the creation
account come first
00:56:05.96\00:56:07.30
or did this pagan
mythology came first?
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And I am so grateful that
the Word of God was first.
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That God
pre-existed from eternity.
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And that when God
says it, we can believe it,
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and that can settle it for us.
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Paganism versus Creation.
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What an anomaly, what
an odd thought, paganism,
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something that
came along a long-time
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after versus creation
that pre-existed all of sin.
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Isaiah 45:12 says,
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"I have made the
earth, and created man on it.
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I, My hands
stretched out the heavens,
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and all their
host I have commanded."
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That settles it for me.
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Amen. Amen.
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I like to read from
Patriarchs and Prophets,
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116 because it
gives you a balance here.
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It says, "The works of creation
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testify of God's
power and greatness.
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'The heavens
declare the glory of God,
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and the firmament
shows His handiwork'"
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Psalm 19:1.
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"Those who take the written word
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as their counselor
will find in science
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an aid to understand God.
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The invisible things of Him
from the creation of the world
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are clearly seen,
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being understood by
the things that are made,
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even His eternal
power and Godhead.'"
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Romans 1:20.
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So using the Bible as a guide,
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science can help us
understand more about God.
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Amen. Amen.
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Quick thought here
on Spiritual Gifts,
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book 3 says this,
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"When men leave the Word of God
00:57:31.38\00:57:32.71
in regard to the
history of creation,
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seek to account for
God's creative works
00:57:34.42\00:57:37.59
upon natural principles,
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they are upon a
boundless ocean of uncertainty."
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Amen. Praise the Lord.
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Hey, you walk
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through the front
door of the Bible,
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God's creating, you know,
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through the back
door of the Bible,
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God is recreating.
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I can't wait for
that second time around
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'cause we'll get
to see everything done
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and performed by
God at that point.
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We are so thankful as always
that you have joined us here
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in 3ABN Sabbath School Panel.
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And, of course, we hope
that you join us next week
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for another exciting study,
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but until then, may
God bless you abundantly.
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Have a good day.
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