So many years we have waited
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but time just seems to creep
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we long to reach
our bright eternal home.
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So many miles along
the road we've traveled,
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the pathway seems so steep
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but through it all,
we've never walked alone.
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On the edge of eternity
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we stand by
God's grace and mercy,
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we will reach the promised land,
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we must fix our eyes on Jesus,
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as we travel hand in hand,
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for we stand on
the edge of eternity.
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Oh, can you see
the signs around us,
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it's happening every day.
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There's poverty,
there's famine, there is war,
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We can not help, but
watch it all and wonder,
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we can not help, but say:
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He's coming soon,
He's almost at the door.
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On the edge of eternity we stand
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by God's grace and mercy
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we will reach the promised land,
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we must fix our eyes on Jesus
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as we travel hand in hand,
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for we stand on
the edge of eternity.
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We long to be made willing
to walk by faith not sight,
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to trust His word
and lift his banner high,
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put on our Savior's royal armor
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and never quit the fight
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for someday soon will
light the Eastern sky.
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We will meet Him in the sky.
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On the edge of eternity,
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we stand by
God's grace and mercy,
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we will reach the promised land,
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we must fix our eyes on Jesus,
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as we travel hand in hand,
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for we stand on
the edge of eternity.
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There's where we stand,
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for we stand on the edge...
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We are bound for
the promised land,
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We are bound for
the promised land,
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Oh, who will come
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and go with me?
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I am bound for
the promised land,
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I am bound for
the promised land.
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We are bound for
the promised land,
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we are going to
the promised land.
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It's been called the
worst disaster in U.S history.
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An entire American city
wiped out in a heartbeat,
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by the terrible
forces of nature.
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Why does it seem like
disasters are getting worse
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with each passing year?
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Is something
happening to our planet,
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that we should be aware of
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and is it possible that ancient
prophets saw hurricane Katrina?
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Are we living on a
planet in upheaval?
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Ladies and gentlemen
it's my great delight tonight
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to introduce
Shawn Boonstra to you.
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Shawn is the
speaker director of the
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"It Is Written"
television program.
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Has been here in Southern
California from his native
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Canada, for almost a year now.
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And I tell you what,
Shawn is someone who loves God.
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He loves the Lord with all
of his heart, he's passionate,
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as I know you will find
out, about what he believes and
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what he wants to share with you.
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Please welcome
tonight Shawn Boonstra.
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Good evening.
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Is everyone feeling
good this evening? Yes.
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Yeah. There are more of you
here than that, I can see you.
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Is everyone
feeling good this evening?
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I'm glad that you've
come to The Appearing
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and if you're joining
us by satellite television,
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I'm glad you've joined
us, wherever you happen to be
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across the
continent or around the world.
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What are we going to
do the next five nights?
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We going to talk about an
event that has been predicted
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for thousands of years to
happen here on planet Earth.
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And people are starting to sense
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Time magazine polls,
News week magazine polls,
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even The Economist have told us,
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that the general
public is beginning to sense
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that we are sitting on the verge
of that very event the Appearing
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For five nights we're going to
look at what the ancients said
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about that event.
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We're going to examine the
prophecies, we're going to see
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if they fit the modern
day world that we live in,
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and we're going to let
God speak to our hearts
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about what it is
that's just around the corner
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here on planet Earth.
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Now, each evening's
presentation is going
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to build on the night before,
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so you're not going to
want to miss one of them.
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Each night you going to
find that what we studied the
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night before is important to
what we're studying that night.
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And in the next night
we'll build on the second night,
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the forth on the third
and the fifth on the forth.
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And I almost said, and so on...
but there are only five nights.
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Five nights: "The Appearing".
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Our subject tonight will
be "Planet Earth in upheaval".
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It is my conviction
that something has changed
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here on planet Earth,
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that things are changing;
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that the world we live in
today is not the world that
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we lived in yesterday, certainly
not the world we lived in
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a generation ago.
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Tonight our subject
is: "Planet in upheaval"
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but it is my conviction that
every time we open the Bible,
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God's word, that we ought
to ask God's blessing on it.
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I don't believe that the
Bible is like other books,
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I believe that the Bible
is an extraordinary book.
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It is my belief that
every time you open it
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you don't hear
men's opinion, you hear
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the voice of Almighty God.
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And so tonight just
before we open the Bible
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and we look at our subject,
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I'd like to bow our heads where
ever you happen to be tonight,
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and just ask God's
blessing, very briefly.
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Gracious Father in heaven,
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tonight we count it a privilege
to be able to open the Bible,
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the word of God,
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we believe that when we
read the words of the Bible
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we are going to hear an opinion
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that matters more than any
other opinion in this Universe.
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We believe that we are
going to hear the truth,
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we believe that we are going to
hear the voice of Almighty God.
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And so tonight as we turn
to the pages of the Bible,
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we ask that You would
bless our understanding,
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I ask that You would bless
my lips, that I could speak
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only Bible truth,
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that I would
only be able to speak
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those words which would
represent the courts of heaven.
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I ask Father, most of all,
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that we would see a
picture of You tonight.
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And I ask these things in the
precious name of Jesus Christ.
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Amen.
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There is a prophecy
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recorded in the Bible
that has hunted the human race
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for 2000 years.
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It has bothered
people as they've read it and
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they've often
wondered: will I live
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to see its fulfillment?
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Let me set the stage for
you just a little bit tonight:
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Jesus and His
disciples are walking past
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the temple in Jerusalem,
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and as they go by it
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the disciples point to
that temple and they said:
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Jesus, look at this temple,
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this is a symbol of the
fact that God has blessed
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our nation above
every other nation.
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This is a symbol of how
important our nation is.
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This temple is an attraction
that draws the whole world.
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Jesus looks at that
temple with His disciples
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and in His mind He knows that
just 40 years down the road the
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Roman armies are going to
come and destroy the city of
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Jerusalem,and as He looks
at that temple He says to the
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disciples: I'm
telling you, that one day soon
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there will not be one
stone left upon another
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here at this temple sight.
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Not one stone on top of another.
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The disciples are taken aback.
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They can't believe what
it is they've just heard;
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and they think in
their minds, if the temple
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is going to be destroyed,
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if that magnificent
structure is going to come down
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it must be the end of the world.
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So they confer with each other
and than they come to Jesus
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with a question.
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Here's the
question they asked Jesus,
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in Matthew, chapter 24, verse 3.
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And as He sat upon
the mount of Olives,
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the disciples came unto him
privately, saying, 'Tell us,
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when shall these things
be? And what shall be the sign
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of Your coming...
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The sign of Your what?
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Coming. What will be the
sign of Your coming, end of the
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end of the age?' "
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Than Jesus speaks some words
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that have hunted us
for nearly 2000 years.
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Because Jesus tells
us, what to watch for,
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as we wait for His
coming, and the end of the age.
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Listen carefully now to
the words that Jesus spoke,
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beginning in Matthew
chapter 24 and verse 4.
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The Bible says:
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And Jesus answered
and said unto them:
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"Take heed that no
one deceives you. "
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For many will come in my name...
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How many will come?
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...many will come in my
name, saying, 'I am the Christ;
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and will deceive many.
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And you will hear of
wars and rumors of wars.
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See that you are not
troubled; for all these things
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must come to pass,
but the end is not yet. "
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Verse 7.: For nation
will rise against nation,
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and kingdom against kingdom.
And there will be famines,
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pestilences, and
earthquakes in various places.
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Some translations of the Bible
says divers or different places.
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Watch out, said Jesus, when
you see these things happen,
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you will know that my
coming, the Appearing,
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is getting very very close.
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Just like Jesus
says in the same passage,
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if you see a fig tree
putting out it's leaves,
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you know that
it's almost summertime
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when you see all
these things, you will know,
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that it's just about
time for the Appearing.
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Nonsense, says the skeptic.
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People look at this
prophecy today and they say:
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that's not true.
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That can't possibly be so;
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we have always had earthquakes,
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we have always had famine,
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we have always had pestilence,
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we have always had warfare,
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we've always had kooks
and nutcases running around
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claiming to be Jesus Christ.
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These are not signs of
the end, say the skeptics.
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You can't count on those things,
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they don't say a thing about
where we live in Earth's history
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it's a bunch of nonsense.
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But the skeptics
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forgot to read verse 8.
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Here's what it says
in Matthew 24, verse 8.
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Jesus finishes the
prophecy by saying this:
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The beginning of what? Sorrows.
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That is a very interesting
word, that Jesus chose.
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I believe, He chose
that word on purpose.
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It was 1:30 in the afternoon,
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I was sitting at
my desk, in my office,
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and the telephone
rang, I picked it up,
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it was my wife,
Jean on the phone.
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Honey, she said,
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I'm about to get into the car
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and drive over
the office to see you.
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I should: Well
that's lovely honey,
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but it's 1:30 in the afternoon,
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I have a lot to do yet today,
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why in the world are
you coming over to see me,
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at 1:30 in the afternoon?
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She said: I'm coming to see
you at 1:30 in the afternoon,
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because I've been in labor
for the last hour and a half.
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I said: okay, you better
come, we only had one car
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or I would have
gone to pick her up.
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Jean got in the car, she
drove over to the office,
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I'll never forget it.
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She came up the
stairs, into my office
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we had a big, ugly, yellow
couch right there in the foyer.
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Foyer? I'm
learning to speak American.
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She sat down very
gingerly in that couch,
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and she looked me in
the eye and she said:
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Now, Shawn there's something
you need to understand.
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I know what you're
like, you panic all the time,
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so I don't want you to panic,
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I'm going to sit
here on this couch
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and we have all
the time in the world,
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this baby is not
coming anytime soon,
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you go and finish
what you're doing.
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I said: Are you
sure? She said: Absolutely.
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The contractions
are 20 minutes apart,
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we have all the
time in the world.
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The baby is not coming
anytime soon, I just want to
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be here so that you can relax.
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Are you sure? She
said: Yes, I am sure
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so I went back into my
office and I finished the letter
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that I've been writing.
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When I was done I put my
head out of the door and I said:
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Jean how are you doing?
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She said: Fine,
still 20 minutes apart,
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we have all the
time in the world.
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The baby is not coming.
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So I went back into my
office, I finished the sermon
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that I was working on,
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than I alphabetized my books,
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I've got 3000, put them all in
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Alphabetical order,
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and I dusted the bookshelves
and finally I couldn't handle it
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anymore, I went out
and said: Jean, that's it.
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We're going to the hospital, I'm
not going to wait here anymore,
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it's killing me. She said:
we can't go to the hospital,
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It is far too soon
to go to the hospital,
00:14:54.55\00:14:56.56
they're going to laugh at me,
they're going to send me home,
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I know what, she said: You
haven't eaten all day, have you?
00:14:58.83\00:15:01.65
Why don't we go out for lunch?
00:15:01.68\00:15:03.63
I said, I'm not going out
for lunch, when you're in labor.
00:15:03.66\00:15:06.46
I am not going to
have my baby in Denny's.
00:15:06.49\00:15:08.86
It's just not going to happen!
00:15:08.89\00:15:10.33
She said, okay, if you wont go
for lunch, why don't we go down
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to Best Buy, and we
can go computer shopping.
00:15:13.33\00:15:15.21
I know how you like to
look at all the new gadgets, and
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than I could walk
up and down the aisles,
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and it will help me feel better.
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I said, I am not
going to Denny's.
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My second child is not going
to be born, in the computer
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department at Best Buy.
We're going to the hospital.
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She said, we are
not, it is far too soon.
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I said, well, if you
won't go to the hospital
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maybe we could take
our oldest daughter,
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over to our friends house,
and drop her off, so she can
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spend the night
there. And at least we
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are doing
something, to get ready.
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Okay, she said, I'll do
that. So we took Natalie,
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with her little suitcase, we
went over to our friends' house,
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we dropped her
off at the front door.
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Rang the bell, and they opened
it up, Natalie ran inside,
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and at that very
moment, my wife doubled over,
00:15:54.38\00:15:57.36
and grabbed her tummy. I
said, what's the matter honey?
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She said, I just had a
contraction, just like that.
00:16:00.63\00:16:03.15
I just had a contraction.
00:16:03.18\00:16:05.10
I said, how far apart
now? She said, ten minutes.
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There ten minutes
apart, I said that's it,
00:16:07.94\00:16:09.94
we're going to the hospital.
She said, no it's far too soon,
00:16:09.97\00:16:12.89
they're going to send me home.
00:16:12.92\00:16:14.44
We got to go, do something else,
why don't we go home and drink
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herbal tea together.
00:16:17.48\00:16:18.67
I said, we are not drinking
herbal tea together, we are
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going to... This is the
only argument I ever won
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in 12 years of marriage.
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I got in the car, with my wife,
we drove down to the hospital,
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we pulled into the park-ade,
and as we pulled in, my wife
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grabbed her tummy again.
I said, how far apart now?
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She said, three
minutes. Three minutes.
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I said, let's go inside.
She said, no why don't we sit
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out here, and listen to
the radio for a little while.
00:16:40.31\00:16:42.80
I said, your kidding,
right? I got out of the car,
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I walked all the way
around to the other side,
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I opened her door for her,
00:16:47.97\00:16:49.52
and I grabbed her by the
elbow and yanked her out.
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I pulled her along
to the hospital door.
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And she had three contractions
on the way from the car
00:16:54.92\00:16:57.49
to the door. Three of them.
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As we got upstairs, we got
into the admissions department
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in the maternity ward,
she sat down in her chair,
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and looked the
nurse in the eye and said:
00:17:06.35\00:17:10.79
I have no idea why I'm here.
00:17:10.82\00:17:14.74
And the nurse
looked her over, and said:
00:17:15.38\00:17:17.46
I have a pretty good
idea, why you're here today.
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They admitted her, they put
her in the observation room,
00:17:20.23\00:17:22.88
and they put the
little monitor on her tummy,
00:17:22.91\00:17:25.04
to check the baby's
heartbeat. As they did that,
00:17:25.07\00:17:27.71
Jean looked at me and
said: Listen you still haven't
00:17:27.74\00:17:30.28
eaten today, why
don't you run downstairs,
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and get a sandwich.
00:17:31.84\00:17:33.12
I said: OK, you're in
good hands now, I will.
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So I ran downstairs, and I
went and bought a sandwich,
00:17:35.45\00:17:38.61
it was the worst
sandwich, I have ever had.
00:17:38.64\00:17:42.38
Is anybody here a
hospital cafeteria worker?
00:17:42.41\00:17:45.53
Somebody by satellite is
a hospital cafeteria worker.
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It was the worst
sandwich I have ever had.
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Noah left it on the ark,
because it was stale then.
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And I ate that
sandwich, I ran back upstairs,
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ran into the maternity
ward, around the corner
00:17:56.56\00:17:59.10
to my wife's
bed, and she was gone.
00:17:59.13\00:18:04.28
I turned around,
there was nobody there.
00:18:04.31\00:18:06.18
There was no
doctor, there was no nurse,
00:18:06.21\00:18:08.22
there were no aids,
there was nobody there.
00:18:08.25\00:18:10.41
I stepped outside, I looked down
00:18:10.44\00:18:12.02
the corridor, there
must have been 30 doors.
00:18:12.05\00:18:15.18
and I sent up a little prayer.
00:18:15.21\00:18:17.62
Dear Lord,
honestly, I prayed it,
00:18:17.65\00:18:20.53
I really don't want to
step into the wrong one.
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I walked down the hallway, and
I listened at the first door.
00:18:23.82\00:18:27.15
Is that Jean? No.
00:18:27.18\00:18:29.20
Second door, is that her? No.
00:18:30.26\00:18:33.38
Third door,
that's not her either.
00:18:33.41\00:18:36.63
Fourth door? Maybe.
00:18:36.66\00:18:38.83
So with one eye pinched
shot I pushed the door opened
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- it was the right room.
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That baby came at six o'clock.
00:18:48.17\00:18:50.86
We have checked into
the hospital at 4:30.
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The doctor almost
didn't make it there.
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I'm glad she did, or I would've
had to deliver our second child.
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I don't have the stomach
for that. Here's the point.
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The skeptics say: All those
things have always happened.
00:19:02.71\00:19:06.05
We've always had earthquakes,
we've always had famine,
00:19:06.08\00:19:08.63
we've always had pestilence,
we've always had war,
00:19:08.66\00:19:11.03
we've always had
religion gone bad.
00:19:11.06\00:19:12.78
Those aren't signs
of the end of the time.
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Nonsense they say, but
they forget what Jesus said.
00:19:15.25\00:19:18.20
He said:
00:19:18.23\00:19:19.20
What is that word, He used?
00:19:23.29\00:19:24.89
It's "Odin", it's
contractions, it's labor pain.
00:19:24.92\00:19:30.14
My wife said: This
baby is never going to come!
00:19:30.30\00:19:33.02
The skeptics say,
Jesus is never going to come.
00:19:33.05\00:19:36.61
But Jesus said:
Listen, I know that
00:19:36.64\00:19:39.23
there've always
been earthquakes, I know
00:19:39.26\00:19:41.14
there's always been war, I
know there's always been famine,
00:19:41.17\00:19:44.04
I know there's
always been pestilence,
00:19:44.07\00:19:45.85
I know those things
happen. But, said Jesus,
00:19:45.88\00:19:49.13
when the contractions get
bigger, when the contractions
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become more intense, when
they become more frequent,
00:19:53.46\00:19:56.42
then you know
that I'm almost there.
00:19:56.45\00:20:00.15
Just like the fig tree
puts out its leaves in summer.
00:20:00.18\00:20:04.01
You know, that summertime is
coming when you see those leaves
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when the contractions
get big, then you know.
00:20:07.40\00:20:09.79
Let me ask you a
question tonight.
00:20:09.82\00:20:11.46
How big are the
contractions, in Planet Earth?
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Are there any? Are
they getting bigger?
00:20:16.30\00:20:19.18
Jesus gives us signs to watch
for, in three general areas.
00:20:19.21\00:20:25.05
He gives us signs to watch
for in the Religious World.
00:20:25.08\00:20:27.99
He gives us signs to watch
for in the Political World.
00:20:28.02\00:20:31.13
He gives us signs to
watch for in the Natural World,
00:20:31.16\00:20:34.47
the environment
around us, and Jesus says:
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When the contractions
get big in these three areas,
00:20:37.34\00:20:40.89
then you know, that
My coming is almost here.
00:20:40.92\00:20:44.52
That it's just about
time. Let's ask a question:
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How big are the contractions
in these three areas?
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I wish we have a lot more time,
than we have tonight, but let me
00:20:50.33\00:20:53.94
give you just a taste of
where our world is tonight,
00:20:53.97\00:20:57.73
in these three areas
that Jesus speaks about.
00:20:57.76\00:21:00.59
First of all, He speaks about
signs in the Religious World.
00:21:00.62\00:21:04.74
Jesus said: "For many
will come in My name... "
00:21:04.77\00:21:07.26
How many?
00:21:07.29\00:21:08.32
Many will come in My
name, saying, 'I am the Christ,'
00:21:08.68\00:21:12.38
and will deceive many'.
00:21:12.41\00:21:14.88
You know, as you look
through history books,
00:21:14.93\00:21:17.15
and you examine the history of
Christianity, you will discover
00:21:17.18\00:21:20.22
there have always
been one or two people
00:21:20.25\00:21:22.29
scattered all the way through
history, that have thought
00:21:22.32\00:21:25.37
for some reason or other,
that they were Jesus Christ.
00:21:25.40\00:21:28.26
Almost every century
has somebody that got the
00:21:28.29\00:21:31.73
Messiah complex.
00:21:31.77\00:21:33.05
Somebody who believed
themselves to be divine.
00:21:33.08\00:21:36.38
But have you noticed,
in the last 30 or 40 years,
00:21:36.41\00:21:40.98
how bad it's gotten?
How many of them there are?
00:21:41.01\00:21:44.40
Let me give you just a taste.
00:21:44.43\00:21:46.19
Many of you will
remember Jim Jones and his cult.
00:21:46.22\00:21:49.88
Jim Jones in San Francisco
managed to convince his
00:21:49.91\00:21:52.50
followers, that he
was indeed Jesus Christ.
00:21:52.53\00:21:54.69
They followed him
down to Jonestown, Guyana
00:21:54.72\00:21:57.35
where because they
believed he was Christ,
00:21:57.38\00:21:59.82
drank poisoned Kool-Aid in
honor of him, at his command.
00:21:59.85\00:22:04.63
Jim Jones was just one of that
era, then we have Charles Manson
00:22:04.66\00:22:08.67
right here from
Southern California.
00:22:08.70\00:22:10.84
Charles Manson
convinced his followers,
00:22:10.87\00:22:13.20
that he was Jesus Christ, and
they were so convinced of it,
00:22:13.23\00:22:17.25
that they were
ready to kill for him.
00:22:17.28\00:22:20.11
Not only Charles
Manson, we have Sun Myung Moon,
00:22:20.14\00:22:22.55
who is still active today.
He heads the Unification Church.
00:22:22.58\00:22:27.00
The Unification Church
you may know as the Moonies.
00:22:27.03\00:22:30.09
They are the ones who
have the big mass wedding.
00:22:30.12\00:22:32.39
Sun Myung Moon, has thousands,
upon thousands of followers,
00:22:32.42\00:22:36.66
and he has told
them now at this point,
00:22:36.69\00:22:39.16
that he is God in the
flesh. And they believe him.
00:22:39.19\00:22:43.44
Not only Sun Myung Moon,
we have David Koresh in Waco.
00:22:43.47\00:22:46.78
David Koresh convinced
his followers, that he was
00:22:46.81\00:22:49.68
the
reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
00:22:49.71\00:22:51.75
He said: Jesus had to come
the first time, and be sinless,
00:22:51.78\00:22:55.36
but now he'd come
again to indulge in sins,
00:22:55.39\00:22:58.03
so that He could see what it was
like. If you can imagine that.
00:22:58.06\00:23:01.24
His conned followers
were so convinced of it,
00:23:01.27\00:23:03.48
they wouldn't leave
the compound in Waco,
00:23:03.51\00:23:05.71
and they lost
their lives for it.
00:23:05.74\00:23:07.46
Then there was Marshall
Applewhite, in San Diego.
00:23:07.49\00:23:09.95
That's two in a row
in Southern California.
00:23:09.98\00:23:13.07
Marshall Applewhite in San
Diego, convinced his followers
00:23:13.10\00:23:16.75
that he was the
incarnation of Jesus Christ.
00:23:16.78\00:23:19.74
He said: I am here, to
help you ascend to the next
00:23:19.77\00:23:23.77
level of existence,
above human existence.
00:23:23.80\00:23:27.01
There is, he said, if you
remember the story, there is
00:23:27.04\00:23:29.92
a flying saucer,
hiding behind comet Hale-Bopp,
00:23:29.95\00:23:33.43
and if we were to
just take our lives,
00:23:33.46\00:23:35.48
that flying saucer would take us
up to the next level above human
00:23:35.51\00:23:38.63
and they did it.
00:23:38.66\00:23:39.96
They all went out for dinner one
night, and when they got home,
00:23:39.99\00:23:43.01
they poisoned themselves,
and suffocated themselves
00:23:43.04\00:23:45.68
because they believed, that
Marshall Applewhite was indeed
00:23:45.71\00:23:50.88
the
reincarnation of Jesus Christ.
00:23:50.91\00:23:53.25
As the millennium approached,
so many people showed up in the
00:23:53.28\00:23:56.30
city of Jerusalem, in the year
1999, that they actually had to
00:23:56.33\00:24:00.11
come up with a name for
it. So many people showed up in
00:24:00.14\00:24:03.36
Jerusalem, believing
themselves to be Elijah,
00:24:03.39\00:24:06.46
John the
Baptist, or Jesus Christ,
00:24:06.49\00:24:09.28
that they came up
with a name for it,
00:24:09.31\00:24:11.11
it's now called
the Jerusalem Syndrome.
00:24:11.14\00:24:14.50
People show up there in droves
believing they are Jesus Christ.
00:24:14.53\00:24:18.28
Jesus said: When many say
00:24:18.31\00:24:21.18
that they are
Christ, that's a contraction.
00:24:21.21\00:24:24.62
Then you know, that
My coming is very close.
00:24:24.65\00:24:27.31
It is just about
time for the Appearing.
00:24:27.34\00:24:29.45
Watch, said Jesus, for
signs in the Religious World.
00:24:29.48\00:24:32.12
But that's not all
He said, to watch for.
00:24:32.15\00:24:34.13
He said, watch for signs
in the Political World too.
00:24:34.16\00:24:38.31
Because they're
going to be there.
00:24:38.34\00:24:39.93
Watch for signs, in
the way that nations
00:24:39.96\00:24:42.97
relate to each other.
Jesus' actual words were,
00:24:43.00\00:24:45.96
in Matthew 24, verse 6.
00:24:45.99\00:24:47.72
You know, the famous
German philosopher, Nietzsche
00:24:54.15\00:24:57.18
at the end of the
eighteen hundreds,
00:24:57.21\00:25:00.03
looked at the 20th century.
00:25:00.06\00:25:01.81
He convinced himself,
that God did not exist.
00:25:01.84\00:25:04.55
And as a matter of fact,
Nietzsche managed to convince
00:25:04.58\00:25:07.14
a whole bunch of other
people, that God did not exist.
00:25:07.17\00:25:10.44
And as he wrote,
that God no longer exists,
00:25:10.47\00:25:13.86
that God is dead, he
said: If this is true,
00:25:13.89\00:25:16.25
if nobody believes in
God, then the 20th century
00:25:16.28\00:25:20.05
will be the bloodiest century in
the history of the human race.
00:25:20.08\00:25:24.45
And he was right.
Nation rose against nation.
00:25:24.48\00:25:27.68
In the 20th century
203 million people died
00:25:27.71\00:25:33.10
as a result of warfare.
00:25:33.13\00:25:34.72
203 million, more then in
any other stretch of history,
00:25:34.80\00:25:39.35
in the history
of the human race.
00:25:39.38\00:25:42.09
Something has changed.
Right now, tonight as we are
00:25:42.12\00:25:45.38
gathered together,
studying what Jesus said,
00:25:45.41\00:25:47.67
about a day, that was coming.
00:25:47.70\00:25:49.46
There are 38 armed conflicts,
being fought right this moment,
00:25:49.49\00:25:53.19
in 28 countries,
all around this world.
00:25:53.22\00:25:55.94
Not only is it
warfare, Jesus said,
00:25:55.97\00:25:57.96
nation would rise against nation
and right now, at this moment
00:25:57.99\00:26:01.93
Without exception, all
192. Watch it, said Jesus.
00:26:11.46\00:26:16.91
When all the nations are
rising up against each other,
00:26:17.02\00:26:20.11
when the contractions
are getting stronger,
00:26:20.14\00:26:22.21
and closer together, then you
know that My coming is close.
00:26:22.24\00:26:26.87
Then you know, not only that.
00:26:26.90\00:26:29.56
We know now that
the 8 countries we know
00:26:29.59\00:26:32.56
that have nuclear weapons...
00:26:32.59\00:26:34.27
Now, there are 8,
that we know about.
00:26:34.34\00:26:36.18
We're a little worried
at this point, that there
00:26:36.21\00:26:38.49
might be a few,
that we don't know about.
00:26:38.52\00:26:40.50
In one hour!
00:26:51.11\00:26:52.44
Now, it's not what we used
to fear, was the nuclear threat.
00:26:52.60\00:26:56.46
It's not we fear most
anymore though. Is it?
00:26:56.49\00:26:58.98
Sure there are 8 countries,
with nuclear warheads,
00:26:59.01\00:27:01.42
but that's not the
scariest thing anymore.
00:27:01.45\00:27:03.67
It's just not the
scariest thing anymore.
00:27:03.70\00:27:06.10
Because nuclear
warheads are expensive.
00:27:06.13\00:27:08.38
The human race has
been thinking about this,
00:27:08.41\00:27:10.73
and we've
managed to come up with
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.35
a way, to do it
much less expensively.
00:27:12.38\00:27:15.54
In the former
Soviet Union, there is a
00:27:15.57\00:27:17.85
little community
known as Stepnogorsk.
00:27:17.88\00:27:20.35
Stepnogorsk is a planned
city for five thousand people.
00:27:20.38\00:27:24.55
The Soviets built it
to house 5,000 scientists,
00:27:24.58\00:27:28.75
whose sole job it was to
develop biological weapons.
00:27:28.78\00:27:32.71
That's all they
did, day in, and day out.
00:27:32.74\00:27:36.30
Now, when the Soviet
Union collapsed in 1989,
00:27:36.33\00:27:40.12
and the wall
came down in Berlin,
00:27:40.15\00:27:43.60
all of the scientist left,
00:27:43.63\00:27:45.86
but all of the
weapons stayed behind.
00:27:45.89\00:27:48.68
How many biological
weapons did they make?
00:27:48.71\00:27:51.07
One former employee said:
00:27:51.10\00:27:53.74
It all stayed behind, and
it's just a few kilometers away
00:27:56.97\00:28:02.55
from the Afghanistan
border. All sitting there.
00:28:02.58\00:28:05.38
Now, some of you I
can see tonight saying:
00:28:05.41\00:28:07.74
You know, I felt pretty
good, before I came to this
00:28:07.77\00:28:10.23
meeting of yours tonight.
00:28:10.26\00:28:11.49
Hang in there, there's a point.
We're going somewhere with this.
00:28:11.52\00:28:15.82
Terrorism, you
know, that in 2003 we set
00:28:15.85\00:28:18.67
a world record
for terrorist events?
00:28:18.70\00:28:20.79
There were 175 terrorist events,
everyone looked at, and said:
00:28:20.82\00:28:24.64
We have never had so much
terrorism, in all the world's
00:28:24.67\00:28:28.25
history, as 175
events, in one year.
00:28:28.28\00:28:32.35
In 2004, it was 655 events.
00:28:32.41\00:28:35.46
655, watch it, said
Jesus, when you see those signs
00:28:36.21\00:28:40.62
when you see those
contractions, you know,
00:28:40.65\00:28:43.38
that it's just about
time for the Appearing.
00:28:43.41\00:28:45.51
What was Jesus trying to
do, scare us? Not at all.
00:28:45.54\00:28:49.01
He's trying to tell us,
00:28:49.04\00:28:50.21
look as the world
seems to be falling apart,
00:28:50.24\00:28:52.36
lift up your
heads, and take some hope,
00:28:52.39\00:28:54.67
because it's almost
time for the Appearing,
00:28:54.70\00:28:56.79
and I'm going to
turn it all around.
00:28:56.82\00:28:59.12
Natural signs, Jesus said,
one more general area to watch.
00:28:59.15\00:29:02.83
He said, when you
see signs, contractions
00:29:02.86\00:29:05.51
and the natural world
around you, you will know
00:29:05.54\00:29:08.21
that it's just
about time for My coming.
00:29:08.24\00:29:10.35
In Matthew 24:7, He said:
00:29:10.38\00:29:13.21
Different places. All
over the face of the earth.
00:29:20.42\00:29:25.16
I wonder, if there are any
00:29:25.19\00:29:26.93
contractions in
these areas tonight?
00:29:26.96\00:29:29.66
I have looked at famine
and hunger, on Planet Earth
00:29:29.69\00:29:32.76
and I'm
convinced, there are more
00:29:32.79\00:29:34.36
contractions, that
there have ever been.
00:29:34.39\00:29:36.28
Right now, tonight, 28 million
people face food shortages
00:29:36.31\00:29:40.75
in sub-Saharan Africa.
00:29:40.78\00:29:42.45
They don't have enough
to eat. That's 28 million.
00:29:42.48\00:29:44.81
That's almost the population
of my whole home country.
00:29:44.84\00:29:48.86
28 million, right now tonight.
00:29:48.89\00:29:51.87
A child dies of
starvation every six seconds.
00:29:51.90\00:29:56.51
Every six seconds!
There are 850 million people
00:29:56.54\00:30:00.17
almost 1/6 of the
Earth's population,
00:30:00.20\00:30:02.68
that do not have enough food
for basic nutritional needs.
00:30:02.71\00:30:07.71
And 4 out of 5
children who are born tonight
00:30:07.74\00:30:10.56
are born into
families that can't possibly
00:30:10.59\00:30:13.62
afford to feed them.
00:30:13.65\00:30:14.93
"Watch it", said Jesus.
00:30:14.96\00:30:16.34
When famine is on the rise,
when it's a real problem that
00:30:16.37\00:30:19.43
nobody has an answer to,
00:30:19.46\00:30:20.99
I'm telling you something: it's
just about time for me to come
00:30:21.02\00:30:24.20
and I will have an answer to it.
00:30:24.23\00:30:25.92
I will feed the nations
00:30:25.95\00:30:27.46
and hunger won't
be a problem anymore.
00:30:27.49\00:30:29.84
Pestilence. What's pestilence?
00:30:29.87\00:30:31.98
Pestilence is a weird disease.
That's what pestilence is.
00:30:32.01\00:30:34.77
I don't have a dictionary
definition for you tonight.
00:30:34.80\00:30:37.87
But pestilence
is a weird disease.
00:30:37.90\00:30:39.69
It's something that
kills off your crops
00:30:39.72\00:30:41.67
or kills off your
animals, or kills off you.
00:30:41.70\00:30:44.36
Pestilence. Jesus said:
"Watch for increased pestilence"
00:30:44.39\00:30:48.40
I've been
keeping a little telling.
00:30:48.43\00:30:50.04
Not because I like
the idea of pestilence.
00:30:50.07\00:30:52.15
But I've been wondering
over the last few years
00:30:52.18\00:30:54.69
do we have any new
diseases in circulation?
00:30:54.72\00:30:57.34
Do you think we do?
00:30:57.37\00:30:58.71
Have I put
everyone to sleep tonight?
00:30:58.74\00:31:00.71
I still have the satellite
audience, they're with me.
00:31:00.74\00:31:03.63
Do we have any
new diseases? Yeah.
00:31:03.66\00:31:05.30
Oh, yeah, we do.
Let me list a few.
00:31:05.33\00:31:07.42
Remember? Streptococcus A.
00:31:07.45\00:31:08.88
They used to hang out
in the back of your throat.
00:31:08.91\00:31:11.31
It used to give
you a strep throat.
00:31:11.34\00:31:13.01
And maybe it will
give you scarlet fever
00:31:13.04\00:31:14.97
if it got a little
bit out of control.
00:31:15.00\00:31:16.98
Then Streptococcus A decided
to leap out from your mouth
00:31:17.01\00:31:19.73
and all over your body.
00:31:19.76\00:31:21.06
And it begin the
flesh eating disease.
00:31:21.09\00:31:23.53
An amazing thing that wasn't
there when I was a little kid
00:31:23.56\00:31:26.31
I'm not all that old. This
showed up in our life time.
00:31:26.34\00:31:29.31
Spinal
Meningitis on the way back
00:31:29.34\00:31:31.36
and people are
having trouble treating it.
00:31:31.39\00:31:33.46
The Black Plague
is making a come back
00:31:33.49\00:31:35.38
in the streets of India.
00:31:35.41\00:31:36.55
We thought it was long gone.
00:31:36.58\00:31:38.07
And then all of a
sudden it showed up again.
00:31:38.10\00:31:40.19
The Ebola Virus. You know the
Ebola Virus is very interesting.
00:31:40.22\00:31:43.41
A lot of people think
that happens out there,
00:31:43.44\00:31:45.60
over there somewhere
00:31:45.63\00:31:46.79
That disease has
touched down in North America
00:31:46.82\00:31:49.23
by accident, once
already in Philadelphia.
00:31:49.26\00:31:51.24
They just managed to contain it.
00:31:51.27\00:31:52.85
Tuberculosis is making a
come back and they don't know
00:31:52.88\00:31:55.59
what to do with the
super strains of Tuberculosis.
00:31:55.62\00:31:57.98
SARS, that's a new disease.
00:31:58.01\00:31:59.76
That wasn't there and a
few years ago showed up in
00:31:59.79\00:32:02.54
Asia, showed up in
my city of Toronto.
00:32:02.57\00:32:04.61
I was living there at that time.
00:32:04.64\00:32:06.27
West Nile Virus, we
didn't deal with that
00:32:06.30\00:32:08.43
when I was a little kid.
00:32:08.46\00:32:09.69
One of my own
friends has already succumbed
00:32:09.72\00:32:11.92
to the West Nile Virus disease.
00:32:11.95\00:32:13.80
Mad Cow Disease.
What in the world is that?
00:32:13.83\00:32:17.11
Where did that come from?
00:32:17.14\00:32:18.41
I noticed something
the other day, by the way.
00:32:18.44\00:32:20.72
Mad Cow Disease.
00:32:20.75\00:32:21.76
I saw this restaurant
in Southern California
00:32:21.79\00:32:24.06
It was called the "El Pollo
Loco". "The crazy Chicken".
00:32:24.09\00:32:27.94
And I'm just wondering
00:32:27.97\00:32:29.31
if they picked that
name before Mad Cow Disease.
00:32:29.34\00:32:32.11
Have you thought about this?
00:32:32.14\00:32:33.96
Where did all
those diseases come from?
00:32:33.99\00:32:36.26
Pestilence. Right now...
00:32:36.29\00:32:38.86
During the World Wars we turned
to antibiotics and we said:
00:32:45.19\00:32:48.11
"Here is something
that will help us".
00:32:48.14\00:32:49.94
And it did. I
praise God for the minds
00:32:49.97\00:32:52.04
that examined those
things and gave us those things.
00:32:52.07\00:32:54.70
But all of the sudden, the
bugs turned around and said:
00:32:54.73\00:32:57.36
"We're bigger than that".
00:32:57.39\00:32:58.70
And we can't control it anymore.
00:32:58.73\00:33:00.80
Jesus said: "When
you see contractions,"
00:33:00.83\00:33:03.11
"in that world, in
the realm of pestilence",
00:33:03.14\00:33:06.00
"then you'll know".
That's not all He said.
00:33:06.03\00:33:08.30
Earthquakes He talked about.
00:33:08.33\00:33:10.00
Jesus said:
earthquakes in various places
00:33:10.03\00:33:12.69
Now... earthquakes are
a little bit confusing.
00:33:12.72\00:33:14.85
Because everybody that talks
about earthquakes as a sign of
00:33:14.88\00:33:17.81
the times we live in
00:33:17.84\00:33:19.02
applies different
criteria to the earthquakes.
00:33:19.05\00:33:21.63
They choose the ones they're
going to report differently.
00:33:21.66\00:33:24.54
So I decided to
go to the library
00:33:24.57\00:33:26.72
up in Victorian British Columbia
at the University of Victoria.
00:33:26.75\00:33:29.77
And I went to the geography
and seismology departments
00:33:29.80\00:33:32.94
and I got down every
book they had on the subject.
00:33:32.97\00:33:35.33
They've got 1,5 million
volumes in that library.
00:33:35.36\00:33:38.04
I had hundred of
books and I thought
00:33:38.07\00:33:40.14
I'm going to find out for myself
00:33:40.17\00:33:42.17
if there has been any
increase in the contractions.
00:33:42.20\00:33:44.70
Any increase at all.
00:33:44.73\00:33:46.23
And I went through a number
of volumes and I discovered
00:33:46.26\00:33:49.12
no matter how you
choose your criteria,
00:33:49.15\00:33:51.52
no matter how in the
world you divide the pie,
00:33:51.55\00:33:54.68
it always comes up
looking exactly the same.
00:33:54.71\00:33:57.17
The numbers might
look a little different,
00:33:57.20\00:33:59.25
but the chart looks the same.
00:33:59.28\00:34:00.70
In the first three
hundred years since Jesus,
00:34:00.73\00:34:03.04
we had one major earthquake.
00:34:03.07\00:34:04.54
How do you pick a major
earthquake? I picked the ones
00:34:04.57\00:34:07.15
that brought down
houses and destroyed cities.
00:34:07.18\00:34:09.38
We had one in
three hundred years.
00:34:09.41\00:34:11.12
In the next... How many?
300 or 500? I'm new to Math.
00:34:11.15\00:34:14.76
300 to 500, next two
hundred years we had two.
00:34:14.79\00:34:17.45
The next three
hundred years we had one.
00:34:17.48\00:34:19.42
The next two hundred
years there was three.
00:34:19.45\00:34:22.48
Now... a little bit of increase.
Three in two hundred years.
00:34:22.51\00:34:25.46
In the one thousands we had two.
00:34:25.49\00:34:27.36
And in the eleven
hundreds it went up to two.
00:34:27.39\00:34:29.52
Let's fast forward a little bit.
00:34:29.55\00:34:31.18
Let's go to the 1300's. Again,
just one for that century.
00:34:31.21\00:34:34.26
In the 1400's, one.
The 1500's we had two.
00:34:34.29\00:34:37.33
Then something very interesting
happened in the 1600's.
00:34:37.36\00:34:40.36
We jumped to
seven in one century.
00:34:40.39\00:34:43.24
Then we get to the 1700's.
It went to 13 it doubled nearly.
00:34:43.27\00:34:47.11
Then in the
1800's it went up to 26.
00:34:47.14\00:34:50.06
In one century.
00:34:50.09\00:34:51.35
And then in the 1900's I stopped
counting after I got to 130.
00:34:51.38\00:34:55.42
Because I couldn't
keep up with it anymore.
00:34:55.45\00:34:57.65
A hundred and
thirty in one century.
00:34:57.68\00:35:00.96
Then we come to
December 26th, of 2004.
00:35:00.99\00:35:04.28
The Tsunami Earthquake.
00:35:04.31\00:35:05.86
It was 9.3 on the Richter scale.
00:35:05.89\00:35:08.25
Remember the one
in the Indian Ocean?
00:35:08.28\00:35:10.25
I mean, what is 9.3?
That is a massive earthquake.
00:35:10.28\00:35:14.14
It is huge.
00:35:14.17\00:35:15.44
We were worried when
we see 7 or 8. It was 9.3!
00:35:15.70\00:35:19.41
This was the first earthquake
to be felt by every seismograph
00:35:19.44\00:35:22.52
on the face of the earth.
00:35:22.55\00:35:23.80
It is the longest earthquake in
recorded history: 10 min. long.
00:35:23.83\00:35:28.08
And it ripped a gash in the
Ocean floor: 800 miles long.
00:35:28.11\00:35:32.37
CNN reported in
their science report
00:35:32.40\00:35:34.66
that even veteran
scientists and seismologists
00:35:34.69\00:35:37.75
were silenced by the
magnitude of this earthquake.
00:35:37.78\00:35:40.53
They've never
seen anything like it.
00:35:40.56\00:35:42.25
Jesus said: "You watch out".
00:35:42.28\00:35:44.92
When all these
things happen you know.
00:35:44.95\00:35:49.22
"Watch!", said Jesus.
00:35:50.17\00:35:51.96
I know these things
have always happened.
00:35:51.99\00:35:53.92
I know they
have always happened.
00:35:53.95\00:35:56.31
But when the
contractions get bigger,
00:35:56.34\00:35:58.33
and the
contractions get stronger,
00:35:58.36\00:36:00.04
then you know beyond
the shadow of a doubt
00:36:00.07\00:36:03.56
that My coming is getting close.
00:36:03.59\00:36:05.46
Lift up your heads,
there's hope around the corner.
00:36:05.49\00:36:08.05
This planet is not
going to end in a whimper,
00:36:08.08\00:36:10.12
this planet is not
going to end in a bang,
00:36:10.15\00:36:12.08
this planet is going
to end with the Appearing.
00:36:12.11\00:36:14.18
Jesus is coming back.
00:36:14.21\00:36:15.72
Let me ask you a
question tonight.
00:36:15.75\00:36:17.36
What time is it?
00:36:17.39\00:36:18.92
What time is it
in Earth's history?
00:36:18.95\00:36:20.64
I've been
looking at the headlines
00:36:20.67\00:36:22.26
for just the last few years,
00:36:22.29\00:36:23.78
I've gathered the
Time Magazine covers,
00:36:23.81\00:36:25.67
since the Twin
Towers fell in 2001.
00:36:25.70\00:36:29.21
And I asked myself: did
something change that year?
00:36:29.24\00:36:31.87
I think it did.
00:36:31.90\00:36:33.29
Watch the pace of
change in our world today.
00:36:33.32\00:36:36.11
Many of us have
already forgotten
00:36:36.14\00:36:37.72
what's happened
in the last 3 years.
00:36:37.75\00:36:39.42
Shortly after
the Twin Towers fell,
00:36:39.45\00:36:41.67
somebody started
sending Anthrax in the mail.
00:36:41.70\00:36:44.08
Remember that?
It scared everybody.
00:36:44.11\00:36:46.30
Now we're getting the pestilence
through the U.S. postal service.
00:36:46.33\00:36:50.08
Then shortly after that we
went to War in Afghanistan.
00:36:50.11\00:36:53.02
That war is still
ongoing to the tune of one
00:36:53.05\00:36:55.68
billion U.S.
dollars every single month.
00:36:55.71\00:36:57.96
Then shortly after that
there was flooding in Europe
00:36:57.99\00:37:00.82
that drove nearly a
hundred thousand people
00:37:00.85\00:37:03.05
out of their
homes that same year.
00:37:03.08\00:37:05.35
Then a Nuclear threat
showed up in North Korea.
00:37:05.38\00:37:07.97
We still haven't
decided what we're going to do
00:37:08.00\00:37:10.31
to respond to that
00:37:10.34\00:37:11.42
and just when we think
we're within a heart's beat
00:37:11.45\00:37:14.39
of peace on the
face of this Earth,
00:37:14.42\00:37:16.38
somebody does
something to disturb the peace.
00:37:16.41\00:37:19.19
Jesus said: "Watch
as the contractions get"
00:37:19.22\00:37:22.05
"bigger and stronger the
next event is My coming".
00:37:22.08\00:37:24.74
Shortly after that somebody
went loose in Washington D.C.
00:37:24.77\00:37:27.77
shooting people for
the fun of it. I know
00:37:27.80\00:37:30.15
people have been shot
before. But not like this.
00:37:30.18\00:37:33.88
When I was a kid people got shot
but it was a hunting accident
00:37:33.91\00:37:37.68
or an act of rage
but this was for fun.
00:37:37.71\00:37:41.27
Something's gone
wrong. Shortly after that
00:37:41.30\00:37:43.70
we went to War in Iraq.
00:37:43.73\00:37:45.24
That war is ongoing to the tune
of 4 billion dollars a month.
00:37:45.27\00:37:49.35
Then SARS showed up. I was
living in Toronto at the time.
00:37:49.38\00:37:52.99
I remember what is was like.
00:37:53.02\00:37:54.73
The set up a thermo
imaging device at the Airport.
00:37:54.76\00:37:57.53
So they can
take our temperatures
00:37:57.56\00:37:59.41
as we boarded the plane.
00:37:59.44\00:38:00.67
And if you had a fever
they pulled you out of line,
00:38:00.70\00:38:03.20
and they
quarantined you for ten days.
00:38:03.23\00:38:05.01
I had a fever as I
was boarding a plane.
00:38:05.04\00:38:07.05
I was worried they
would quarantine me.
00:38:07.08\00:38:09.03
And the fever broke
as two people ahead of me
00:38:09.06\00:38:11.48
were standing in
front of the imaging device,
00:38:11.51\00:38:13.71
I got on the airplane.
00:38:13.74\00:38:14.79
SARS, a brand new disease.
00:38:14.82\00:38:17.55
Holy Jones. Let me go
to a more American example.
00:38:17.58\00:38:20.17
Elizabeth Smart abducted.
00:38:20.20\00:38:21.85
Children have
been abducted before,
00:38:21.88\00:38:23.72
but not like they
are being abducted now.
00:38:23.75\00:38:26.07
And this was
somebody who was abducted
00:38:26.10\00:38:28.31
by some religious nutcase
who had a religious motivation.
00:38:28.34\00:38:31.98
"Watch out", said Jesus,
"when religion goes bad",
00:38:32.01\00:38:34.94
"when crime is on the rise".
00:38:34.97\00:38:36.31
Then next summer we
didn't have a flood in Europe,
00:38:36.34\00:38:38.88
it changed all the way
around, we had a heat wave
00:38:38.91\00:38:41.33
that killed thousands in Europe.
00:38:41.36\00:38:43.25
Then we discovered in the news
there was a Smog Cloud in Asia
00:38:43.28\00:38:46.50
that was stretching all
the way from India over to the
00:38:46.53\00:38:49.21
East Coast of China
00:38:49.24\00:38:50.69
so thick that it was
disrupting the ecosystem
00:38:50.72\00:38:53.29
and tens of thousands
of people have been driven
00:38:53.32\00:38:55.52
from their ancestral farm lands.
00:38:55.55\00:38:57.58
Then the Mad Cow crisis
00:38:57.61\00:38:59.36
showed up first in
my country of Canada.
00:38:59.39\00:39:01.64
And then we brought
it down here for you.
00:39:01.67\00:39:03.91
Mad Cow Crisis.
00:39:03.94\00:39:06.21
Shortly after that we
heard about the West Nile Virus,
00:39:06.36\00:39:09.40
then Hurricane Isabel
went up to East Coast in 2003,
00:39:09.43\00:39:12.85
one week later
hurricane Juan went up to Coast
00:39:12.88\00:39:15.63
and then the next
fall, in 2004 we had
00:39:15.66\00:39:18.71
four hurricanes in six weeks
00:39:18.74\00:39:20.74
through the Caribbean
and up to Coast of Florida
00:39:20.77\00:39:23.04
that left more
than 2,000 people dead.
00:39:23.07\00:39:25.53
"Watch out", said Jesus.
00:39:25.56\00:39:27.25
"When all changes, then
you'll know, lift up your heads"
00:39:27.28\00:39:30.59
"I am almost there, it is
almost time for the Appearing".
00:39:30.62\00:39:34.82
Discover Magazine, January 2005.
00:39:34.85\00:39:37.47
Just this year called
2004 "the year of calamity"
00:39:37.50\00:39:41.65
because never in the
history of the Earth,
00:39:41.68\00:39:44.16
have they seen so many
natural disasters in one year.
00:39:44.19\00:39:46.93
And that went to press just
before the news of December 26
00:39:46.96\00:39:50.56
when the biggest
earthquake in recorded history
00:39:50.59\00:39:53.07
caused the biggest devastation
00:39:53.10\00:39:54.92
the Tsunami of December 26.
00:39:54.95\00:39:57.62
Just a while back,
the London bombings.
00:39:57.65\00:40:01.74
One thing after
another. Then most recently,
00:40:01.77\00:40:05.29
an entire American
city, wiped out in a heartbeat
00:40:05.32\00:40:08.56
by the terrible
forces of nature.
00:40:08.59\00:40:11.05
Let me ask you
what time it is tonight.
00:40:11.08\00:40:13.55
Is it time to be worried,
is it time to be afraid?
00:40:13.58\00:40:16.48
Not at all.
00:40:16.51\00:40:17.78
Jesus said in John 16
00:40:18.29\00:40:20.69
as He talks about
His Appearing, He said:
00:40:20.87\00:40:25.52
Jesus said: "Sure
it's going to be painful".
00:40:45.14\00:40:47.06
Sure there will be contractions,
warfare, pestilence,
00:40:47.09\00:40:49.96
earthquakes, disease,
00:40:49.99\00:40:51.77
all those things
are going to happen
00:40:51.80\00:40:53.66
but Jesus said: "You
will soon forget about it"
00:40:53.69\00:40:56.11
"when you see Me
coming in the sky".
00:40:56.14\00:40:57.92
When the Appearing takes place,
00:40:57.95\00:40:59.44
you won't remember the pain
you had to live for, for joy.
00:40:59.47\00:41:03.77
But the Child has been born.
00:41:03.80\00:41:05.66
Jesus said: "They
were contractions".
00:41:05.69\00:41:08.09
Jesus said: "They
were birth pains".
00:41:08.12\00:41:10.36
And He said when the
birth pains have passed,
00:41:10.39\00:41:12.60
you won't remember anymore.
00:41:12.63\00:41:15.61
I have two little kids, now.
00:41:15.81\00:41:17.74
Some of you might think:
00:41:17.77\00:41:19.12
You never finished the
story. What did you have?
00:41:19.15\00:41:21.82
I had a baby,
that's what we had.
00:41:21.85\00:41:24.82
My wife actually had the baby.
00:41:24.85\00:41:26.96
I have two little girls.
00:41:26.99\00:41:29.54
As they ride in
the back of the car
00:41:29.57\00:41:31.53
and we're driving long
distance, I bet you can't guess
00:41:31.56\00:41:34.35
what their favorite question is.
00:41:34.38\00:41:36.60
Are we there yet?
00:41:36.63\00:41:38.55
Daddy, are we there yet?
00:41:39.01\00:41:41.21
Next favorite question is: Are
we near a gas station, daddy?
00:41:41.24\00:41:44.59
Are we there yet?
00:41:44.62\00:41:46.54
Jesus knows what we're like.
00:41:46.57\00:41:49.22
So many people are hanging
on to the guard rail of life
00:41:49.25\00:41:52.03
with white knuckles,
00:41:52.06\00:41:53.09
afraid of what
might happen next.
00:41:53.12\00:41:55.22
And Jesus says: "Look, I know
you're riding in the back seat"
00:41:55.25\00:41:58.45
"and My children and
My people are crying out"
00:41:58.48\00:42:01.78
Are we there yet?
00:42:01.81\00:42:03.73
He said: "Watch".
00:42:04.03\00:42:05.53
"Just like when the fig
tree puts out its leaves",
00:42:05.56\00:42:08.75
"you'll know".
00:42:08.78\00:42:10.35
You hang on, we're almost there.
00:42:10.43\00:42:13.78
And when you'll see
Me, you won't remember
00:42:13.81\00:42:17.07
a bit of the pain you had
to live with in this life.
00:42:17.10\00:42:21.09
We're going to open the Word
of God tonight, we're going to
00:42:21.12\00:42:24.24
study what the Bible
says on what we've just seen.
00:42:24.27\00:42:27.38
We're going to take a few
moments and examine the Bible
00:42:27.41\00:42:30.03
texts and wherever
you are, now is time
00:42:30.06\00:42:33.68
to pull out Lesson number 1.
00:42:33.71\00:42:35.76
Lesson number 1 and we're
going to open the Word of God
00:42:35.79\00:42:38.41
and we're going to talk about
00:42:38.44\00:42:40.20
what Jesus says about the
day and age that we live in.
00:42:40.23\00:42:46.36
Now, if you're
still with us tonight and
00:43:36.87\00:43:38.80
I'm glad that you are,
00:43:38.83\00:43:40.06
this is the time to
pull out lesson number 1.
00:43:40.09\00:43:42.21
We're going to spend a
little time now going through
00:43:42.24\00:43:44.64
what the word of God
says about the subject
00:43:44.67\00:43:46.73
and we're going to
just review very quickly
00:43:46.76\00:43:48.65
and maybe
00:43:48.68\00:43:49.66
enhance a few thoughts
and to help me do that tonight
00:43:49.69\00:43:52.23
is my friend, Dan Houghton.
00:43:52.26\00:43:53.56
Dan, why don't you come on up?
00:43:53.59\00:43:57.11
Thank you, Shawn.
00:43:57.14\00:43:58.11
Can you think of
anything more exciting than the
00:43:58.44\00:44:00.79
Appearing, that you've
been hearing about here tonight?
00:44:00.82\00:44:05.10
You know, if there's
any one thing I want to be
00:44:05.59\00:44:09.49
on time for,
00:44:09.52\00:44:10.74
it's the
Appearing when it comes.
00:44:10.77\00:44:12.41
You have your lessons out?
00:44:12.44\00:44:13.99
Okay... thank you!
00:44:14.02\00:44:15.63
We're going to go
right to the very first
00:44:15.66\00:44:18.77
question, a Planet in Upheaval.
00:44:18.80\00:44:22.17
And this is the question:
00:44:23.22\00:44:25.18
The signs that
Jesus gave to us, to watch
00:44:25.21\00:44:29.14
for can be broken down
into three general areas.
00:44:29.17\00:44:31.65
Okay?
00:44:31.68\00:44:32.65
Do you remember what
those three were? Anyone?
00:44:32.68\00:44:34.86
Remember what
those three areas of...
00:44:34.89\00:44:37.64
okay?
00:44:37.67\00:44:38.64
Religious is the
first one, religious.
00:44:39.15\00:44:42.84
Political
00:44:42.87\00:44:43.84
and in the natural world.
00:44:45.29\00:44:48.09
And that you
would have to be blind
00:44:48.12\00:44:49.60
not to see all of
those things happening
00:44:49.63\00:44:51.61
around us where
we live in our world.
00:44:51.64\00:44:53.39
If you watch CNN or
Fox News, or any newscast,
00:44:53.42\00:44:57.02
you see those things happening
all around this in our world.
00:44:57.10\00:45:00.63
Now!
00:45:00.66\00:45:01.73
Your next question.
00:45:02.22\00:45:04.32
Is it true or false? You
feel like you're in class
00:45:04.35\00:45:06.88
this evening?
00:45:06.91\00:45:08.33
Okay...
00:45:08.83\00:45:09.80
Okay! Do you
think that's the case?
00:45:18.05\00:45:19.72
You think we might be
able to figure out a date
00:45:19.75\00:45:22.05
when the Appearing
may take place? No?
00:45:22.08\00:45:24.15
Okay!
00:45:24.18\00:45:25.15
Let's look at Matthew 24:36
00:45:25.16\00:45:28.25
and see what the
Scriptures say. Okay?
00:45:28.77\00:45:32.97
You talk about a situation
00:45:41.99\00:45:44.07
where secrecy
surrounds the event!
00:45:44.10\00:45:47.51
This is one that God the Father
00:45:47.54\00:45:49.34
is not even
trusting the angels to know,
00:45:49.37\00:45:52.06
because He does
not want the evil one
00:45:52.09\00:45:55.64
to be able to counterfeit
00:45:55.67\00:45:57.42
or to know when
that time might come.
00:45:57.45\00:45:59.98
So you are right, it is false.
00:46:00.01\00:46:02.98
You can mark
that in your lesson.
00:46:03.01\00:46:04.57
Those of you who may be watching
00:46:04.60\00:46:06.14
and
participating in this program
00:46:06.17\00:46:08.39
from a church or
from an auditorium
00:46:08.42\00:46:10.19
or home some place.
00:46:10.22\00:46:11.48
I hope that you
are also filling out
00:46:11.51\00:46:13.25
your lessons as
well this evening.
00:46:13.28\00:46:15.58
Question number 3.
00:46:15.61\00:46:17.58
You think we'll be able
to tell when it'll happen?
00:46:20.96\00:46:23.44
Yes, absolutely
we will know that.
00:46:23.47\00:46:25.35
What does Jesus
compare the signs
00:46:25.38\00:46:27.83
that were coming
down to that time?
00:46:27.86\00:46:30.31
What does He compare
those signs to in Matthew 24:32?
00:46:30.34\00:46:35.31
It's being compared to
the leaves on a fig tree.
00:46:48.77\00:46:51.97
I have two fig trees in my yard.
00:46:52.00\00:46:55.62
Some of you, I can
see by the nods, you have
00:46:55.78\00:46:58.58
fig trees as well.
00:46:58.61\00:46:59.58
Isn't it
something whenever you see
00:46:59.61\00:47:01.52
those leaves start to come?
00:47:01.55\00:47:02.85
Now one of the things that's
fascinating about a fig tree
00:47:02.88\00:47:05.22
every time a leaf comes out
00:47:05.25\00:47:06.94
what comes out
along with that leaf?
00:47:06.97\00:47:09.65
It's the fig. For every leaf
00:47:09.68\00:47:11.14
there's a little
place where there's a fig.
00:47:11.17\00:47:13.33
And Jesus says:
'Whenever you start
00:47:13.36\00:47:15.13
to see those fig leaves,
you can know that it's summer.
00:47:15.16\00:47:17.44
When you see all these signs,
00:47:17.48\00:47:19.16
that pastor Shawn
talked about this evening,
00:47:19.19\00:47:21.34
you can know
00:47:21.37\00:47:22.35
that we are headed
right towards the Appearing.
00:47:22.38\00:47:27.30
Yes, we certainly will.
00:47:29.84\00:47:32.39
If you want to fill that in
00:47:32.65\00:47:34.01
the blank on your lesson.
00:47:34.04\00:47:36.81
Now, if you
will look on number 4
00:47:44.84\00:47:47.94
on your study
guide, in Matthew 24:8
00:47:47.97\00:47:51.73
Jesus describes the
signs of His Appearing
00:47:51.76\00:47:55.25
and the end of the
world as the beginning
00:47:55.28\00:47:57.24
of sorrows. Now I wanted to make
00:47:57.27\00:47:58.77
sure you note this word.
00:47:58.80\00:48:01.47
The original word...
00:48:01.50\00:48:04.65
You heard
pastor Shawn describing
00:48:08.57\00:48:11.05
how the contractions are getting
closer and closer together.
00:48:11.08\00:48:14.85
Now, the original word
00:48:14.88\00:48:16.29
used in the Greek text is
00:48:16.32\00:48:17.49
Odin and it means
birth pains. Please write
00:48:17.52\00:48:19.80
that in your lesson.
00:48:19.83\00:48:22.05
What are some of the
signs that you are looking for?
00:48:39.31\00:48:41.93
War, I thought
someone said that: war.
00:48:41.96\00:48:44.28
What's another
sign that we can be
00:48:44.31\00:48:46.07
anticipating?
00:48:46.10\00:48:47.25
False religion, famines.
00:48:47.28\00:48:49.56
You know, it
breaks my heart to think,
00:48:49.96\00:48:52.37
as pastor Shawn
pointed out a few moments ago,
00:48:52.40\00:48:54.60
how many children
are starving to death
00:48:54.63\00:48:57.41
every second that
goes by in our world.
00:48:57.44\00:49:00.74
Famines around our
world. Pestilences...
00:49:00.77\00:49:03.99
You know, these unusual diseases
00:49:04.09\00:49:05.96
that are striking
people down around our world.
00:49:05.99\00:49:08.29
Another sign:
earthquakes. Somebody mentioned
00:49:08.32\00:49:10.49
that a moment ago. And of
course, in Southern-California
00:49:10.52\00:49:13.23
we are very
tuned to earthquakes.
00:49:13.26\00:49:14.89
And we're grateful that God has
mercy on us just a little bit
00:49:14.92\00:49:17.80
longer, but around our
world in lots of places
00:49:17.83\00:49:20.04
earthquakes...
00:49:20.07\00:49:21.54
We also have false prophets
00:49:21.71\00:49:26.06
and a general
state of lawlessness.
00:49:28.81\00:49:31.29
Doesn't it seem to you,
00:49:31.32\00:49:33.21
that in the world
we live people are
00:49:33.24\00:49:35.19
more and more careless
about what anybody else thinks,
00:49:35.22\00:49:37.77
particularly law.
00:49:37.80\00:49:38.80
They want to do...
everybody wants to be a law
00:49:38.83\00:49:41.17
in and of themselves and
do whatever they'd like to do.
00:49:41.20\00:49:44.38
What was the world
like in the days of Noah?
00:49:44.41\00:49:47.66
Okay? Number 6
in your study guide.
00:49:47.78\00:49:50.91
Matthew 24:37-39.
00:49:50.94\00:49:53.72
Jesus makes
reference to the fact that
00:49:53.76\00:49:56.00
the world will resemble the days
00:49:56.03\00:49:58.13
of Noah just
before His Appearing.
00:49:58.16\00:50:00.82
What was the world
like in those days?
00:50:00.85\00:50:02.77
We're going to
read in Genesis 6:5.
00:50:02.80\00:50:06.52
Have you heard anyone
in our political world
00:50:16.18\00:50:19.20
speak of the word evil?
00:50:19.23\00:50:21.13
When they talk in terms of
terrorism and some other things.
00:50:21.16\00:50:24.02
Evil only continually, God
had to bring the destruction
00:50:24.05\00:50:27.63
to the world for the
first time with the flood
00:50:27.66\00:50:30.00
at the time of
Noah, because the thoughts
00:50:30.03\00:50:32.62
of men's heart was
only evil continually.
00:50:32.65\00:50:36.54
Matthew 24:44.
00:50:50.44\00:50:52.98
What did Jesus say on this
subject? I want you to write
00:51:03.10\00:51:05.81
this down in your study guide.
00:51:05.84\00:51:09.16
Be ready at any time,
anytime, because Jesus is coming
00:51:09.19\00:51:14.94
in an hour when
you do not expect Him!
00:51:14.97\00:51:18.50
For whatever reason
He's choosing to do this
00:51:19.53\00:51:21.71
as a surprise,
00:51:21.74\00:51:23.31
He's not wanting
people, because, let's face it,
00:51:23.72\00:51:26.42
if you knew, when
Jesus was going to come,
00:51:26.45\00:51:29.23
if you could pick the date,
00:51:29.26\00:51:31.49
what would be
happening in our world?
00:51:31.52\00:51:34.02
There be a party going on,
right up unto the last minute,
00:51:34.05\00:51:36.82
because our human nature
is such that we'd want to try
00:51:36.85\00:51:39.54
to figure out
how to have the best
00:51:39.57\00:51:41.79
of the world we live in and
than slide in to home plate.
00:51:41.82\00:51:46.16
Jesus has wisely said: 'No, I'm
not going to let you know when,
00:51:46.37\00:51:50.22
you could see all the signs,
you could know when it's going
00:51:50.25\00:51:52.98
to come, you can
have a general idea,
00:51:53.01\00:51:54.81
but you're not going to
know the day or the hour,
00:51:54.84\00:51:57.12
and be ready,
because when I come,
00:51:57.15\00:51:59.57
it's going to be a surprise.
00:51:59.60\00:52:02.12
He asked us to be
ready. Is it your desire today
00:52:02.62\00:52:07.48
to be ready for the
Appearing? Is it your desire?
00:52:07.51\00:52:10.91
You know, whenever pastor Shawn
00:52:11.03\00:52:14.02
was talking
about his little girls,
00:52:14.05\00:52:15.86
as they are riding on a trip,
00:52:15.89\00:52:17.80
and they're trying to go
to some distant destination,
00:52:17.83\00:52:21.33
and those little girls
are sitting in the back seat
00:52:21.36\00:52:23.80
and time seems to go so slowly.
00:52:23.83\00:52:27.01
And they cried out what? Do
you remember what he told you
00:52:27.04\00:52:29.81
they said just a moment ago?
00:52:29.84\00:52:31.95
Are we there yet?
00:52:31.98\00:52:34.50
And, oh... some times we
get to be very-very impatient.
00:52:34.80\00:52:39.19
We say: Oh, Lord,
can You come tomorrow?
00:52:39.22\00:52:42.24
If not tomorrow, how about the
next day? Or maybe next week?
00:52:42.27\00:52:45.39
But, you know,
before two weeks...
00:52:45.42\00:52:47.05
Have you ever had the desire:
00:52:47.08\00:52:48.57
Lord, would You
please come quickly?
00:52:48.60\00:52:50.34
You know, it may be
that you have experienced
00:52:50.37\00:52:53.35
a loss in your
life, that has created
00:52:53.38\00:52:56.00
a little bit of
anxiety and pain.
00:52:56.03\00:52:59.10
You say: Oh, Lord, can
You just hurry and come?
00:52:59.13\00:53:03.42
I know that I have been through
some of those circumstances,
00:53:03.45\00:53:06.33
and I can hardly
wait for Jesus to come.
00:53:06.36\00:53:08.74
I long to see His face.
00:53:08.77\00:53:11.39
I'm going to invite
you where you are just now,
00:53:11.76\00:53:14.75
to bow your heads with me
00:53:14.78\00:53:16.39
as we pray and ask in your
hearts while we're praying.
00:53:16.42\00:53:20.02
I want you to
think of this question:
00:53:20.05\00:53:21.81
Where will you
be at the Appearing?
00:53:21.84\00:53:25.81
Where will you
be at the Appearing?
00:53:26.08\00:53:28.41
Heavenly Father,
it is our privilege,
00:53:28.44\00:53:32.56
to study Your Word and to
explore what You have said
00:53:32.87\00:53:37.19
through Your prophets
and through Your own words
00:53:37.22\00:53:40.70
about Your Appearing.
00:53:40.73\00:53:43.00
We know that You
have not left our planet
00:53:43.19\00:53:46.18
and the people on it,
each one of us, alone.
00:53:46.21\00:53:49.43
We know that Your Spirit is here
00:53:49.46\00:53:51.51
and You are longing to
come back and take us home.
00:53:51.54\00:53:53.91
Lord, I pray that
every single person
00:53:53.94\00:53:56.34
who is here in our
live studio audience
00:53:56.37\00:53:58.82
and those who are watching
and participating in this study,
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wherever they
may be in our world,
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I just pray Lord, that You would
cause each one of us to have
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in our hearts a deep yearning
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to be there for Your Appearing.
I pray in Jesus' name, amen.
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