Mamma, she often told me
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That soon you would take us home
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But the years flew
past and now at last
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I have children of my own.
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Now I can't help, but wonder
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When I look at
my daughter's eyes
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How can I keep her hoping
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How can I keep the dream alive
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Of Your appearing
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How I long for You to come
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Just to know the battle's won
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And my journey will be
done at Your appearing.
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Lord, can You
speed that blessed day?
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In my heart and soul
I pray to keep the faith
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'Till Your appearing.
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Sometimes I sit in silence
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And gaze at the Eastern sky
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Then I dream of
when You'll come again
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And I hear that midnight cry.
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But then Your tender mercy
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you tarry just one more day
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Knowing there's
one who has not heard
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but longs to know the
way that You're appearing
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Will all share an eternal life
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It will in the warning strife.
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There're won't be no more
sad goodbyes at Your appearing
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Lord can you
speed that bless a day
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In our hearts we all
must pray to keep the faith
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Till Your appearing
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How long, dear Lord
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Till You come to earth
to claim us for Your own
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We long to hear
the trumpet sounding
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That will call us to our home
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At Your appearing
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You will bring us to Your side
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It was for this
You bled and died
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Cause long to claim
Your bride at Your appearing,
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in a chariot of fire.
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Let it be our souls
desire to see Your faith
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At Your appearing
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At Your appearing
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Your appearing from Heaven
oh Lord, At Your appearing
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At Your appearing
from Heaven dear Lord
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Your blessed appearing.
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Your blessed appearing...
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The battle of Armageddon, is
this a great military battle?
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A nuclear disaster, is it
caused by famine or disease?
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Or even an asteroid
slamming into the planet?
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And what does a dragon,
a beast and a false prophet
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have to do with it?
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Right now, get ready for
Planet Earth's Final Battle.
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Again I want to welcome
all of you to the special
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meeting called "The Appearing".
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To all of you who are
joining us from locations around
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the country and around the
World welcome to you as well!
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This time is my privilege to
introduce to you Shawn Boonstra.
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Pastor Shawn Boonstra
is the speaker director
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for the "It is
Written" television program.
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He is leading this
special presentation on the
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appearing of Jesus Christ.
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Please welcome Shawn Boonstra!
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Good evening!
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Good evening and
welcome back to "The Appearing"
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We are now on night number two.
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Last night we looked
at a planet in upheaval.
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Our subject tonight is
Planet Earth's Final Battle.
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But before we get into it
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let me explain a
little bit what is coming.
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We're on night #2
of five presentations.
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If somebody is
joining us for the first time
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out there across
America and around the World,
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we'd invite you to
keep coming each night.
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Each night's presentation
is going to build on the
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information presented the night
before, so you don't want to
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miss any of it.
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It's just five short
nights, but they may prove
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to be some of the
most important nights
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you've ever spent.
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Because we're going
to open up the Bible.
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We're going to look
at ancient prophecies
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and we're going to see
what it is that God said
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is going to happen
just around the corner.
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Tonight's subject is...
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I've already
forgotten tonight's subject.
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What is it?
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Oh, I'm so proud of you.
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Planet Earth's Final Battle.
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Tomorrow night
will be "The Appearing".
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When the appearing happens,
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what will it be like?
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Then, on the next
night, the forth night,
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we'll be talking
about a medieval cover up.
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Something happened in
history. The subject is
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"When History Repeats Itself".
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Something happened in history
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that might be tampering
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with how you've
been viewing the world
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and how you've even
been viewing the Bible.
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That's on the forth night.
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And then on the fifth
night, "The Day After",
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what happens one
day, one minute, one hour,
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one heart-beat
after the appearing?
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Sure Planet
Earth comes to a halt,
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a lot of
catastrophic things happen,
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earth changes, but what
happens one minute after that?
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That's on the fifth night.
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Tonight's subject
Earth's Final Battle,
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The Battle of Armageddon.
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Now again tonight, our text
book is going to be the Bible.
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The Word of God.
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And it is my
firmly held conviction
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that this is not
like other books.
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This book changed my
life. If you would have met me
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twenty years ago, you wouldn't
have believed it was me.
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This book
changed my life because
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it introduced
me to a loving God.
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This book changed my
life because it taught me
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that God loved me,
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that He has a
plan for planet Earth,
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and He has a plan for my life.
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This book has a power
that God has breathed into it
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and because it's His book,
I'd like to ask His blessings.
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So why don't we bow our
heads together and just pray?
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Father in Heaven,
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tonight we are delighted again
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to have an opportunity
to open the Word of God.
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We are delighted
to be able to hear
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the voice of our Creator.
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It is our prayer tonight,
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as we study the Scriptures,
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that You would help us
to hear Your voice clearly.
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That we'd be able to
put aside the distractions
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of the world for just a moment.
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That we can step
into Your presence
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sit at Your feet
and learn from You.
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Gracious Lord, most
of all, we would like
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to see the face of Jesus.
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We know when He
appears, we will see it.
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I ask tonight though that
we can catch a glimpse of Him.
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That You would bless
the words that I speak.
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So that tonight I could
represent the courts of Heaven.
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Lord, I am a sinner and
I need You to forgive me.
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I ask that You
would bless me in a way
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that I don't deserve
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so that we could see
truth from the Word of God.
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I ask in Jesus' name.
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Amen.
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Earth's Final Battle,
the Battle of Armageddon.
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Let me ask you a
question tonight.
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What is the
Battle of Armageddon?
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I could walk into any bookstore
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in your city here,
in Southern California,
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in your city out there,
in the satellite audience,
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I could walk into any bookstore
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and there will be ten,
twenty, a hundred books
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on the subject of Bible prophecy
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and probably the biggest section
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out of all those books
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will be the books that deal
with the Battle of Armageddon.
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And I've noticed
something interesting.
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I have this
disease, I can't help it.
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I must buy books.
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I buy two or three books a week.
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Sometimes I go into a store
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and I will clean
them out. I can't help it.
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I go on a trip. My
wife the first question
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she asks when I come home is:
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How many did you buy?
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I buy thousands of books
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they are stacked high in
my garage four feet deep.
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I have bought
every book in existence
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on the Battle of Armageddon.
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Unless one has been
printed in the last 24 hours,
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and I don't know
about, I have got them all.
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And I've noticed something.
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When you open those books
and you begin to read them,
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no two of them agree at all.
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Nobody seems to know exactly
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what the Battle
of Armageddon is.
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I've actually gone
out into the streets
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both in North and South America
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and I've asked
people: What do you think
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the Battle of
Armageddon is all about?
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I have gotten the
most remarkable answers
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you can imagine.
Some people would say:
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Hey, I know what the
Battle of Armageddon is.
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The Battle of Armageddon
is going to be this great
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military conflict.
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Somehow,
probably, in the Middle East
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probably in the
nation of Israel,
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an army will come from
the North maybe the Russians,.
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although some people are
changing their minds on that
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since 1989,
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but maybe the Russians,
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will come and
there will be this great
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military conflict
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and that will be the
Battle of Armageddon.
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Other people say:
No, that's not it at all.
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It's not a military conflict.
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It's when we have a nuclear
disaster that wipes us out.
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That's what the
Battle of Armageddon will be.
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And back before
1989, people said:
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Hey, it's going to be Russia,
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and The United States of America
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but since then, they
kind of changed their minds
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and said maybe it's going to
be some rogue nation out there
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that finally has the
audacity to push the button
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send up a missile
and wipe us all out.
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We saw last night that we have
the ability to wipe us all out
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fifty times over
in one hour today with
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all the nuclear war heads
on the face of the planet.
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So, some people say:
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Okay, it's going to
be a nuclear disaster.
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That's what the Armageddon is.
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Other people say: No,
no, that's not it at all.
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It's going to be a famine.
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When I was born and
I am not all that old,
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but when I was born there
were about 4 billion people
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on the face of the planet.
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At the turn of the last century
I don't know how many it was?
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Two, three billion at
the beginning of the 1900's.
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Today it's 6.5 billions
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and they're saying that
in a short space of time,
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we're going to have ten
billion, fifteen billion,
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twenty billion,
probably in our life time.
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And it's crowding
gets worse, and worse.
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We're going to run out of food
faster that we've ever dreamed.
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And, so
Armageddon is going to happen
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when we run out of food,
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people raise up
against each other,
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it is going to be a famine.
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No way, somebody else says.
It's not going to be a famine.
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It is going to be pestilence.
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It's going to be all
those funny diseases that
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are breaking out in
hospitals all over the place
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those big, killer super bugs,
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one of them will get out of the
hospital doors into the streets
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and people will
going to die in droves
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and that's going
to be the Armageddon.
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On, no, said somebody else.
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That's not Armageddon.
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Armageddon is when
an asteroid or a comet
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slams into the face of the Earth
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and wipes us all out.
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Kind of the way
that some people believe
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it wiped out all the dinosaurs.
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Now, Hollywood
believes this scenario
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they came out with a
movie a few years ago
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starring Bruce
Willis and was called
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Armageddon.
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And the whole premise
of the movie was that they
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had to get out in outer space
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and they had to blow the comet
up before it hit the Earth.
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Some people say:
That's it, it's going to be
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this body, this
object from outer space
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that smashes into the
Earth. We're going to have a...
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I guess it won't be a
nuclear winter, we would have
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an asteroid winter
here on planet Earth.
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And everything
is going to change:
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the climate is going to
change, and there is going to be
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survival of the
fittest after that.
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I have heard every
answer you can imagine.
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In the streets of
Sao Paolo, Brazil,
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I asked a bunch of people
what do you think Armageddon is?
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And I got every
one of those answers
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I just gave to
you, plus one more.
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One guy said: Oh, Armageddon
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I know what that
is... Just a minute...
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Yeah, it's that cream
that you put on your feet
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for athlete's foot.
That's what Armageddon is.
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I have had every
answer under the Sun.
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And some people said to
me: You know why you're getting
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all those answers?
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It's because you can't
understand Bible prophecy anyway
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You read the book of Revelation
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and everybody
has their own opinion
00:14:04.17\00:14:06.01
they just make up whatever fits.
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I remember as a kid I
opened the book of Revelation.
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My parents gave me a Bible
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the finest gift
they ever gave me.
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I opened the Bible and I started
to read the book of Revelation.
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And had vials and
trumpets and beasts and plagues
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and a whole bunch of stuff
that I just didn't understand.
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And some people say:
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Hey, nobody
understands that stuff.
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Nobody can understand it, that's
why you have so many opinions.
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I remember one family
member who I love dearly
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came to me once and
said: Why do you study all that
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End-of-the-world
stuff from the Bible anyway?
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It doesn't matter.
Nobody understands it.
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It doesn't make any sense.
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Just one question that I have.
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If it's in the Bible and
it doesn't make any sense,
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why did God put it in there?
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Is He playing a game with the
human race? Is He just saying:
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Hey, I'm going to put
a bunch of stuff in there
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that nobody is going to
understand and I'm going to sit
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back and watch
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as everybody debates it?
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People have been
saying for generations:
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you can't understand
prophecy, you can't understand
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the Book of Revelation.
Billy Graham tells the story,
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in his
autobiography, 'Just as I am'.
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About the day, that his
mother picked up her Bible,
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and decided, that she is going
to read the Book of Revelation.
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And he describes how
she finds joy in that Book,
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because it spoke about
the appearing, about how
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Jesus was coming again.
And that gave her great hope.
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But then her pastor found out,
that she was reading the Book
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of Revelation, and
he got a little worried.
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And he paid a visit to
Mrs. Graham, and he said:
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Mrs. Graham I understand,
that you have been reading
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the Book of
Revelation, is that true?
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Oh, yes it is, she said.
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I find such hope in
that book, it gives me joy.
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He said: You
can't read that book.
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She said: Why not?
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He said: Well if you read
that book, you'll go crazy.
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Now, I can understand
why he might have said that.
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I can understand, because if you
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look at the
history of this world,
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in the last generation or
two, you can find a whole bunch
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of people, who
started to read Bible
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prophecy and went
a little bit crazy.
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David Koresh in Waco, Texas
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believed himself
to be Jesus Christ.
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He issued a manifesto
on the Book of Revelation.
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He said, we will come
out, if you read our manifesto
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on the radio waves. It was
all based in Bible prophecy.
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He took a little bit of
Bible prophecy and he went
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completely off the deep end.
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Charlie Manson, the same thing.
A story that a lot of people
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don't know, is that Charles
Manson was a member of a cult,
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in his youth,
known as The Process.
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And in the Process, he
learned a lot of strange
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things about Bible Prophecy.
The reason that Charlie Manson,
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ordered the killings
in 1969 of Sharon Tate...
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The reason he
ordered the killings in 1969,
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was that in he mind he thought,
that one race will blame
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another race for those murders.
And it will start a great
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race war, which would develop
into the battle of Armageddon.
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and that he would rise to
the top, as the world's savior.
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A lot of people have taken
a little prophecy and they've
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gone off the deep end,
so in a way I don't blame
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Mrs. Graham's preacher for being
just a little bit concerned.
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But the question
again tonight is this:
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Is Bible prophecy
really unintelligible?
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Is that like a
violin, that you can
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play any old tune you want on?
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And invent
whatever meaning you want,
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'cause nobody can understand
it anyway? I don't believe it.
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I don't believe God toys with
us, I don't believe God trifles
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with us, I believe
He wants us to know,
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what the future holds, because
He wants us to have a security,
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that He is in control, and
this planet is headed somewhere.
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The very title of the
Book of Revelation tells you,
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that it's not unintelligible.
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It's called the revelation,
in Greek the Apocalypse,
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what is it mean? It
means the unveiling,
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it means the revealing.
God's not trying to confuse you,
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He's trying to reveal
something to you, and He says so
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in the first few verses
of the Book of Revelation, in
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Revelation 1:3, an angel appears
to John the apostle and says:
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Now, let me ask
you a question tonight,
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it's not a difficult
question. The question is this:
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If this Book is unintelligible,
is it possible that God could
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still bless us for reading
it? The question is this:
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Does it sound to you, from
the words of revelation itself,
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as if God meant for this Book to
be a big confusion? Yes or no?
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No, that wasn't very
fast, I put everybody to sleep
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in six minutes flat tonight.
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Does it sound to you, like
God didn't intend for us to
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understand this
Book? No, He said, listen:
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You read that
book and I bless you.
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You keep the words of
that Book, and I bless you.
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God said, you were
suppose to understand this,
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and He says it again,
at the end of the Book.
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The angel comes back to
John in chapter 22, and says:
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This was not a closed Book. This
is not meant to be something
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that was sealed up
and shut away forever.
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So let me ask you
a question tonight:
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what does the Bible say
about the battle of Armageddon?
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If God meant for us to
understand it, and to read it,
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what does it actually say
about this epic last day battle.
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Does everybody's opinion matter?
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Does
everybody's opinion on equal
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footing, equal bases, does it
matter what we believe about it?
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What does the Bible actually
say about this last day battle?
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Would you like to see it?
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Yes.
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Only half of you would
like to see it this evening.
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Would you like to see it?
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Yes!
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All right, I'm
going to show you.
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But buckle your seat
belts, we going to turn
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to the Book of
Revelation, chapter 16:12.
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The Bible says
in Revelation 16:12
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Let me pause there,
and point something out.
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Here we have, the
Bible says, in the last days
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kind of a counterfeit trinity.
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There are three of them,
there is the dragon, the beast
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and a false prophet. This
last day deception that goes
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out across the whole world,
a global spiritual deception.
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That expression only happens a
few time in the Bible, and every
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single time it's in reference
to the second coming of Jesus.
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In which language?
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In the Hebrew, Armageddon.
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What in the world, does
it mean, all that stuff?
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The beast, the
dragon, the false prophet,
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gathering everybody together,
in the place called in the
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Hebrew tongue, Armageddon,
Jesus comes as a thief.
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What in the world does it mean?
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I'm going to give you a
key tonight, that unlocks
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the Book of Revelation in a way
you may've never seen before.
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Approximately
two-thirds of the language
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of the Book of Revelation
is borrowed or quoted directly
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from the rest of the Bible. If
you open the Book of Revelation,
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I wish somebody had explained
to me this sooner in life.
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If you open the Book
of Revelation, and you see
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something you don't understand,
chances are you can look it up
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in the rest of your
Bible, and it will spell it out
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as plain as day. Now,
this is a specially true
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of the Book of Daniel.
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If there is something in
Revelation, you don't understand
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go to the Book of Daniel,
it will probably explain it.
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And incidentally
the reverse is true.
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If you see something in
Daniel, you don't understand,
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chances are, the Book of
Revelation will explain it.
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Two-thirds of the Book of
Revelation is language borrowed
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from the rest of the
Bible. And God says, here is how
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He want you to study. He
actually lays it out in detail
00:22:36.01\00:22:38.76
in the Book of Isaiah, as He
talks about how He communicates
00:22:38.79\00:22:42.05
with His people. He says:
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Now what's God saying?
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I have a friend, who recently
had a surgery and they had to
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remove mussels from this part
of his body, to the other part.
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And he said: I feel like, I
came right out of Isaiah 28.
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Here a little, there a little,
line upon line, they took...
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What's God trying to say?
God's trying to say, that you
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need to study your Bible,
the way you do a jigsaw puzzle.
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What do you mean by that pastor?
I mean, go through the whole
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Bible, gather all the texts on
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any given subject,
that you try to study.
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Get them all.
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Pastor that sounds like
work. Well, yes, it is work
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and God wants you to do
that work. That is the only way,
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you get any benefit
out of reading the Bible.
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Go get all the texts, put them
together, and then you'll get a
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a picture, that is unmistakable
and can only be interpreted,
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one way. It's like
doing a jigsaw puzzle.
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I don't do jigsaw puzzles,
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so I don't know what
a big one looks like.
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But let's say that you have
a 50,000 piece jigsaw puzzle.
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I don't know, if
that's a big one?
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Is that a big one? All right.
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50.000 pieces, you pick up
a little piece, and you say,
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hey look at this.
This is a picture of a dog.
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I know what the whole picture
is, it's a picture of dogs.
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So you put it on the table.
You pick another piece, and say
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oh, no this one is
a pig, it doesn't fit.
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You think, OK now I've
got it, it's pigs and dogs.
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I got to work
this in, it has nothing
00:24:04.31\00:24:06.09
to do with the
sermon tonight at all.
00:24:06.12\00:24:08.12
My daughter said the
other day: Mommy, Daddy,
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when they sheer sheep,
do they turn into pigs?
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I said, what in the
world made you think that?
00:24:15.68\00:24:17.72
Because I heard, she said, that
when you shave a sheep, it likes
00:24:17.75\00:24:20.91
to roll around in the
mud - it must become a pig.
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So you've got your
dog, and you got your pig.
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Then you say, this is
it, it's dogs and pigs.
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But soon you have
a barn, and the next
00:24:28.19\00:24:30.02
thing you know,
you have some cows,
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and you have a house,
and you have a sunset,
00:24:31.75\00:24:33.96
and you think,
ah, the whole picture
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is a country side.
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You got to go
through the Bible, and
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get all the
pieces line upon line,
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precept upon
precept. Let's do that.
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with the battle
of Armageddon, and
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see how clearly God can speak.
00:24:45.31\00:24:47.02
Here is what we already
know, about this battle.
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It is a global,
spiritual deception.
00:24:50.17\00:24:52.76
We heard about the beast,
the dragon, the false prophet
00:24:52.79\00:24:55.49
going to all the world,
they perform sings and wonders.
00:24:55.52\00:24:58.17
Which incidentally
is important to note,
00:24:58.20\00:25:00.95
if something is miraculous,
it is not necessarily of God,
00:25:00.98\00:25:05.10
particularly in the last
days, God says, watch out,
00:25:05.13\00:25:07.66
even demons perform signs.
00:25:07.69\00:25:09.47
There is a global
spiritual deception.
00:25:09.50\00:25:11.57
It told us about
Kings from the East,
00:25:11.60\00:25:13.66
it talked about the
Euphrates being dried up.
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It talked about "I come as a
thief", which we already know.
00:25:16.26\00:25:19.75
and you'll see in your
lesson. This is a reference.
00:25:19.78\00:25:22.56
to Jesus
appearing. The appearing.
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And then it talks about
this place, called in the
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in the Hebrew
tongue: Armageddon.
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Now, this word is a
very important clue.
00:25:29.81\00:25:33.11
Because the entire Book
of Revelation was written,
00:25:33.14\00:25:35.66
in the Greek language.
But John changes languages
00:25:35.69\00:25:39.29
for one word, and He says:
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God gathers everybody,
into this place called
00:25:40.75\00:25:43.33
in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.
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What does that word mean in
Hebrew? It's actually two words.
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Har Megiddon.
What does that mean?
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It means: "The
mountain of Megiddo".
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That is an
important clue. OK preacher?
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What is the mountain of Megiddo,
have to do with anything?
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I'll show you.
I'm glad you asked.
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Megiddo is a little
valley, out in the Middle East,
00:26:07.77\00:26:10.63
in the nation of Palestine.
00:26:10.66\00:26:13.03
The origin of
Palestine nation is Israel.
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This is a little valley,
Megiddo, it is only 20 miles
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A little tiny place,
00:26:18.69\00:26:20.76
and yet somehow the whole
world will be gathered there.
00:26:20.79\00:26:23.39
Now, in this valley
are three mountains.
00:26:23.42\00:26:25.43
There is Mount
Carmel, now that's the place
00:26:25.46\00:26:28.15
where Elijah met
the prophets of Baal.
00:26:28.18\00:26:30.85
Elijah stood up, because God's
people turned away from God,
00:26:30.88\00:26:34.44
and he
challenged them to return.
00:26:34.47\00:26:36.33
That's significant.
That's in the valley of Megiddo.
00:26:36.36\00:26:39.18
On another edge is Mount Tabor.
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Some scholars believe,
Mountain Tabor is where
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the transfiguration
on the mount took place.
00:26:43.94\00:26:46.19
What's the
transfiguration on the mount?
00:26:46.22\00:26:48.25
Well, the transfiguration
on the mount is when Jesus
00:26:48.28\00:26:50.77
appeared in all His glory,
to three of His disciples.
00:26:50.80\00:26:53.37
He was transfigured,
He became glorious,
00:26:53.40\00:26:55.72
and next to Him
appeared Elijah and Moses.
00:26:55.75\00:26:58.87
One person who had died,
and one person who had been
00:26:58.90\00:27:01.42
caught straight up to heaven.
00:27:01.45\00:27:02.73
If you read that story,
it says a little bit before,
00:27:02.76\00:27:05.26
Jesus told his disciples,
some of you here will not die,
00:27:05.29\00:27:08.26
until you will see
Me coming in My glory.
00:27:08.29\00:27:10.30
The
transfiguration on the Mount,
00:27:10.33\00:27:11.95
if you will, is like
a little tiny picture,
00:27:11.98\00:27:14.65
of the
appearing of Jesus Christ.
00:27:14.68\00:27:16.88
And, so that mountain
is also in this valley.
00:27:16.91\00:27:19.30
There's a third mountain,
Gilboa, I don't know yet,
00:27:19.33\00:27:22.25
why Gilboa, I
don't know if there
00:27:22.28\00:27:23.95
is a connection, or anything
00:27:23.98\00:27:25.29
interesting there,
but three mountains
00:27:25.32\00:27:27.24
a little
valley, 20 miles across,
00:27:27.27\00:27:29.47
this is one of the most
active pieces of real estate,
00:27:29.50\00:27:32.05
on the face of the
planet, historically speaking.
00:27:32.08\00:27:34.94
This is the cross
roads of the ancient world.
00:27:34.97\00:27:37.57
From here you can take
a road North, to Europe,
00:27:37.60\00:27:40.07
you can take a
road East, to Persia,
00:27:40.10\00:27:41.95
and you can take a
road South, to Africa,
00:27:41.98\00:27:44.18
All the roads of the ancient
world met in this valley.
00:27:44.21\00:27:47.02
And because they
did, all the armies
00:27:47.05\00:27:50.14
of the ancient world met
in this little 20 mile valley.
00:27:50.17\00:27:54.86
And when they met,
what do you think they did?
00:27:54.89\00:27:59.73
What do armies
do when they meet?
00:27:59.76\00:28:01.66
Fight. I knew you are
an intelligent audience.
00:28:01.69\00:28:04.19
When they got
together in this little valley,
00:28:04.22\00:28:06.54
they fought. More
battles have been fought here,
00:28:06.57\00:28:09.13
then just about any
other piece of real estate
00:28:09.16\00:28:11.34
on the face of the
planet. It was in this valley,
00:28:11.37\00:28:14.08
in the Old Testament,
that Deborah and Barak
00:28:14.11\00:28:16.76
defeated the armies of
Sisera. It was in this valley
00:28:16.79\00:28:19.65
that Joshua leading
the nation of Israel
00:28:19.68\00:28:22.47
defeated the Kings of Canaan.
This a valley, where a lot
00:28:22.50\00:28:25.62
of literal military
conflicts took place.
00:28:25.65\00:28:28.97
But it's also a place, where a
00:28:29.00\00:28:31.06
lot of spiritual
conflicts took place.
00:28:31.09\00:28:33.37
It was in this valley,
over on the eastern edge
00:28:33.40\00:28:36.07
in a little place called
Endor, that King Saul went
00:28:36.10\00:28:39.62
to a spiritualist
medium for advice,
00:28:39.65\00:28:42.82
against the will of God.
And the next day, the Bible says
00:28:42.85\00:28:45.86
with that advice he
went out to the battle field,
00:28:45.89\00:28:48.50
and lost his life.
00:28:48.53\00:28:50.32
There was a military conflict
going on, but the bigger issue
00:28:50.35\00:28:53.78
was the spiritual conflict.
And of course it was in this
00:28:53.81\00:28:57.29
valley where Elijah
confronted the priests of Baal
00:28:57.32\00:29:00.28
at Mount Carmel.
00:29:00.31\00:29:02.05
In Megiddo a lot of
battles have been fought,
00:29:02.08\00:29:04.74
both literal battles
and spiritual battles.
00:29:04.77\00:29:08.60
So the question is, why
does God refer to that valley
00:29:08.63\00:29:12.27
in the prophecy of Armageddon?
00:29:12.30\00:29:14.80
What's the point that
He's trying to get to?
00:29:14.83\00:29:17.88
Why does he talk about Megiddo?
00:29:17.91\00:29:20.90
Well, for the answer...
00:29:20.93\00:29:22.27
I want to invite you in
your imagination at least,
00:29:22.30\00:29:25.15
to travel back in
time with me 2,500 years
00:29:25.18\00:29:29.58
to the city of Babylon.
00:29:29.61\00:29:31.30
This is one of the
most important cities
00:29:31.33\00:29:33.30
in Earth's history.
00:29:33.33\00:29:34.30
And it was the center of
the world 2,500 years ago.
00:29:34.33\00:29:38.46
And as you and I are standing
outside this marvelous city,
00:29:38.49\00:29:41.71
coming from inside the city,
00:29:41.74\00:29:44.00
we can hear the
voices of partying,
00:29:44.03\00:29:46.71
and carousing and carrying
on. There is a party going on
00:29:46.74\00:29:51.52
in the city of Babylon.
00:29:51.55\00:29:53.12
The weird thing about it is, is
while they were partying inside,
00:29:53.15\00:29:57.13
there is an army gathered
around the outside of that city,
00:29:57.16\00:30:00.78
and everybody knew it.
00:30:00.82\00:30:02.39
They all knew
that army was there
00:30:02.42\00:30:05.00
and yet they
were throwing a party.
00:30:05.03\00:30:07.09
The Bible describes that
party in Daniel, chapter 5
00:30:07.12\00:30:10.26
which proves to be
one of the important keys
00:30:10.29\00:30:12.42
to understanding the
Battle of Armageddon.
00:30:12.45\00:30:14.47
Here is the party.
00:30:14.50\00:30:17.12
Inside the city they knew
the Persian army had gathered.
00:30:36.25\00:30:39.99
They knew there was an attempt
to take down the city of Babylon
00:30:40.02\00:30:43.45
But the king
said: Conquer Babylon?
00:30:43.48\00:30:45.58
That's not even possible!
00:30:45.61\00:30:47.65
Our walls are so high,
no army will ever go over.
00:30:47.68\00:30:51.84
Our walls are so thick,
you can drive two chariots
00:30:51.87\00:30:54.97
side by side of top of the wall,
00:30:55.00\00:30:57.45
no army will ever
dig through that wall.
00:30:57.48\00:30:59.95
We have enough
food for twenty years,
00:30:59.98\00:31:01.94
and we have the
river, the river Euphrates,
00:31:01.97\00:31:04.51
they goes right through
the middle of that city,
00:31:04.54\00:31:06.80
we have all the water,
we will ever, ever need.
00:31:06.83\00:31:10.00
Bringing it on.
History tells us,
00:31:10.03\00:31:11.67
they were so
confident at points,
00:31:11.70\00:31:13.50
they were throwing
food off the walls,
00:31:13.53\00:31:15.37
to the Persians, taunting them,
00:31:15.40\00:31:16.98
saying: "You will
never ever take Babylon!"
00:31:17.01\00:31:21.20
Secure in themselves,
even though the armies
00:31:21.23\00:31:24.63
from the East
were outside that city.
00:31:24.66\00:31:28.13
And as they were partying,
the Bible says, that suddenly
00:31:28.16\00:31:32.07
a severed bloodless
hand appeared in mid air,
00:31:32.10\00:31:35.22
and in flaming letters,
wrote four words on the wall:
00:31:35.25\00:31:39.35
"Mene, Mene, Tekel Upharsin. "
00:31:39.38\00:31:44.86
All of a sudden the
party ground to a halt.
00:31:44.89\00:31:47.93
The king's knees
began to knock together,
00:31:47.96\00:31:50.48
he called the wise men
00:31:50.51\00:31:51.63
of the kingdom and said: What
in the world does that mean?
00:31:51.66\00:31:54.49
On the wall, I want
to know what that means.
00:31:54.52\00:31:56.14
Nobody could interpret it.
00:31:56.17\00:31:57.79
One old queen said: "You know,
we used to have somebody here,
00:31:57.82\00:32:00.82
who could
interpret stuff like that.
00:32:00.85\00:32:02.60
His name is Daniel. "
00:32:02.63\00:32:04.16
"Go, get him" said the king.
00:32:04.19\00:32:06.14
Daniel came in and
interpreted it for him.
00:32:06.17\00:32:09.08
King, he said, it says:
00:32:09.11\00:32:12.84
Belshazzar was so confident that
night that nothing could happen,
00:32:20.62\00:32:24.10
nothing could change that
he had taken the sacred vessels
00:32:24.13\00:32:27.21
out of God's
temple in Jerusalem,
00:32:27.24\00:32:28.90
the vessels which his
grandfather had ceased,
00:32:28.93\00:32:31.60
as he conquered Israel
00:32:31.63\00:32:32.90
and they were
throwing a blasphemous party
00:32:32.93\00:32:35.26
with the temple vessels.
00:32:35.29\00:32:37.07
They were so confident.
00:32:37.10\00:32:38.85
Daniel said: "This is it.
00:32:38.88\00:32:41.14
There really is a God,
He's been watching you,
00:32:41.17\00:32:44.14
you've been found wanting
and tonight Babylon will fall.
00:32:44.17\00:32:48.25
That's exactly what happened.
00:32:48.28\00:32:50.14
Cyrus, the general, the Persian
general was outside the city,
00:32:50.17\00:32:53.25
and he looked and he
thought: "We can never get over
00:32:53.28\00:32:55.78
those walls, they are too high.
00:32:55.81\00:32:57.32
We can't dig through
those walls, they are too wide.
00:32:57.35\00:33:00.73
But maybe...
00:33:00.76\00:33:01.88
we can go under the walls.
00:33:03.22\00:33:05.93
And they went upstream
on the Euphrates river,
00:33:05.96\00:33:08.23
he dug 180 channels
00:33:08.26\00:33:10.15
on both sides of that river,
00:33:10.18\00:33:11.62
he diverted the flow, and as
the water went lower and lower,
00:33:11.65\00:33:15.48
he created a virtual highway
under the wall into the city.
00:33:15.51\00:33:18.55
The only obstacle
left was a set of walls
00:33:18.58\00:33:21.09
that ran the whole
length of that river,
00:33:21.12\00:33:23.31
and they had
locked gates in them.
00:33:23.34\00:33:25.44
But that night
00:33:25.47\00:33:27.04
they were so busy drinking,
they forgot to lock the gates
00:33:27.28\00:33:32.77
and Cyrus took the city.
00:33:32.80\00:33:34.56
Now here's what's stunning.
00:33:34.59\00:33:36.33
In the book of Isaiah,
more than a hundred years
00:33:36.36\00:33:38.79
before Cyrus was
born, the Bible told us
00:33:38.82\00:33:41.23
it was going to happen.
00:33:41.26\00:33:43.83
He names him,
00:33:46.23\00:33:48.54
God named Cyrus a hundred
years before he was born.
00:33:48.57\00:33:54.29
Prophesied in detail, a hundred
years before Cyrus was born.
00:34:15.75\00:34:20.96
Now, let's think
about this story,
00:34:20.99\00:34:22.92
because it is the key to
the battle of Armageddon.
00:34:22.95\00:34:25.73
In this story the
Euphrates river is dried up,
00:34:25.76\00:34:29.09
so Cyrus can go under the wall.
00:34:29.12\00:34:30.89
Kings from the East, yes plural,
00:34:30.92\00:34:33.21
because the Persian government
was a dual government,
00:34:33.24\00:34:36.85
the Medes and the Persians.
00:34:36.88\00:34:38.83
The Kings from the East
marched to the city of Babylon.
00:34:38.86\00:34:41.72
In the Bible, Cyrus is
called "God's anointed one. "
00:34:41.75\00:34:45.91
In the Hebrew is Meshach.
00:34:45.94\00:34:48.03
It's Messiah, the
word that' actually used.
00:34:48.06\00:34:50.58
Cyrus, it says, it's
the picture of the Messiah
00:34:50.61\00:34:53.79
Than after Babylon falls,
the Persians let Israel go back
00:34:53.82\00:34:57.54
to the promised land,
00:34:57.57\00:34:58.66
God's people go home.
00:34:58.69\00:35:00.62
Now, this is
important to understanding both
00:35:00.65\00:35:03.72
the battle of
Armageddon and the appearing,
00:35:03.75\00:35:06.79
the second coming of Christ.
00:35:06.82\00:35:08.31
Let's look at the
Prophecy one more time.
00:35:08.34\00:35:10.72
Revelation 16: 12
00:35:10.75\00:35:12.94
When John writes this
prophecy, he's thinking back
00:35:25.89\00:35:29.20
well, he's thinking
back 500 years at this point,
00:35:29.23\00:35:33.09
to the fall of the city
of Babylon, he's saying,
00:35:33.12\00:35:36.08
if you want to understand
something about the appearing,
00:35:36.11\00:35:38.80
go back in time, look
at Babylon, that's the key
00:35:38.83\00:35:42.62
to understand the appearing,
the second coming of Christ.
00:35:42.65\00:35:45.93
John is telling the
story of God defeating
00:35:45.96\00:35:49.13
a last day spiritual Babylon,
so that he can take His people
00:35:49.16\00:35:54.45
to their promised land.
00:35:54.48\00:35:56.80
When Jesus appears.
Mathew 24 says that Jesus
00:35:56.83\00:36:01.23
is the King from the East.
00:36:01.26\00:36:04.19
And when Jesus
comes, the Bible says,
00:36:11.55\00:36:13.91
He conquers the city of Babylon.
00:36:13.94\00:36:15.72
Revelation 16, the
very same prophecy,
00:36:15.75\00:36:18.25
a few verses later.
00:36:18.28\00:36:20.40
This is a prophecy
about spiritual Babylon
00:36:32.58\00:36:35.77
in the last days.
00:36:35.80\00:36:36.92
The battle of Armageddon is
primarily a spiritual conflict.
00:36:36.95\00:36:43.41
John is saying:
look back in history,
00:36:43.44\00:36:45.67
there was a
literal nation of Israel,
00:36:45.70\00:36:47.50
and a literal city of Babylon,
00:36:47.53\00:36:49.23
God had Babylon fall, so
that Israel could go home
00:36:49.26\00:36:51.89
to their Promised land.
00:36:51.92\00:36:53.68
Then he says, in the last days,
there'll be a spiritual Babylon,
00:36:53.71\00:36:57.80
and it's mentioned 6
times in the book of Revelation.
00:36:57.83\00:37:00.45
6 times Babylon is mentioned,
and it's always a symbol of
00:37:00.48\00:37:03.48
worldwide religious confusion.
00:37:03.51\00:37:05.99
God said that it will be
a Babylon in the last days.
00:37:06.02\00:37:08.68
And the Bible says in
the Galatians chapter 3,
00:37:08.71\00:37:11.43
that everyone who is
Christ's, is Abraham's seed.
00:37:11.46\00:37:15.53
There will be a spiritual
Israel in the last days,
00:37:15.56\00:37:18.98
a people that
God will bring home,
00:37:19.01\00:37:21.86
as he defeats Babylon. The
Bible describes it in detail.
00:37:21.89\00:37:26.12
Why the valley of Megiddo?
00:37:26.15\00:37:28.78
It's because the
primary mountain in Megiddo
00:37:28.81\00:37:31.93
is mount Carmel,
00:37:31.96\00:37:33.32
where Elijah called the
prophet of Baal to task.
00:37:33.35\00:37:37.33
he stood on the
mountain and he called Israel,
00:37:37.36\00:37:39.68
who had once served God,
00:37:39.71\00:37:41.29
who had once
worshiped God, but had gone away
00:37:41.32\00:37:43.68
he called them back to
God, he said: "Come back,
00:37:43.71\00:37:46.56
before it's too late. "
00:37:46.59\00:37:48.04
The Bible records his message.
00:37:48.07\00:37:51.24
The issue in
Armageddon is a spiritual issue,
00:38:02.34\00:38:05.82
we have gotten so wrapped up in
that little piece of real estate
00:38:05.85\00:38:08.93
I'm not going to say, there will
never be a military conflict
00:38:08.96\00:38:11.85
in the Middle East.
It's actually pretty likely
00:38:11.88\00:38:14.14
something like
that is going to happen.
00:38:14.17\00:38:16.04
But it's not the primary issue.
00:38:16.07\00:38:18.13
The issue in Armageddon
is not a military issue,
00:38:18.16\00:38:21.88
It's a spiritual issue.
00:38:21.91\00:38:23.31
The Bible says, God
calls the entire human race
00:38:23.34\00:38:26.59
up to mount of Megiddo and the
message on the mount of Megiddo:
00:38:26.62\00:38:30.07
How long are you going to
halt between two opinions?
00:38:30.10\00:38:32.94
If the Lord is
God, then worship Him.
00:38:32.97\00:38:36.37
It's a spiritual issue.
00:38:36.40\00:38:38.47
And the Bible says, that
the battle of Armageddon ends
00:38:38.50\00:38:41.58
as the appearance
take place and Jesus comes.
00:38:41.61\00:38:45.25
Revelation 19:
00:38:45.28\00:38:46.80
Who is he talking
about? That's Jesus.
00:39:06.92\00:39:11.27
..."And the armies...
00:39:11.30\00:39:12.27
That in the Bible, by the way,
you'd seen it in your lesson,
00:39:18.40\00:39:21.34
represents the Word of God.
00:39:21.37\00:39:24.34
The issue is spiritual.
00:39:31.20\00:39:33.74
There may be tanks and planes
and guns in the Middle-East
00:39:33.78\00:39:36.55
very soon, I don't know.
00:39:36.58\00:39:38.97
But the issue
primarily is spiritual.
00:39:39.00\00:39:41.22
God gathers the whole
world unto that mountain
00:39:41.25\00:39:43.93
and He says: 'How long
are you going to halt?'
00:39:43.96\00:39:46.64
You're just about out
of time, Jesus is coming.
00:39:46.67\00:39:50.25
Why would you choose anything
but the Kingdom of Heaven?
00:39:50.28\00:39:54.32
Why would you choose anything,
00:39:54.35\00:39:56.44
but a God who loved you
enough to give His life for you?
00:39:56.47\00:40:00.50
Jesus'
vesture's dipped in blood.
00:40:00.53\00:40:02.86
You know who's
blood I believe that is?
00:40:02.89\00:40:05.05
It's not violence on the
planet, it's His own blood.
00:40:05.08\00:40:08.16
It's dipped in His own blood
because He would do anything,
00:40:08.19\00:40:11.25
to make sure you made it,
00:40:11.28\00:40:13.53
that you made it on
the day of the Appearing.
00:40:13.56\00:40:16.76
A reporter was in
the city of Chicago.
00:40:16.79\00:40:19.28
He was staying up on
the 18th floor of a hotel.
00:40:19.31\00:40:21.79
As he was working in his
room one afternoon when he heard
00:40:21.82\00:40:24.38
a terrible
ruckus in the hallway.
00:40:24.41\00:40:25.98
And he stuck his head out on the
hallway and heard people yelling
00:40:26.01\00:40:29.13
'Fire, fire!'
00:40:29.16\00:40:30.58
So he closed the door,
00:40:30.86\00:40:31.97
he got a towel, he made it
wet and put it under the door.
00:40:32.00\00:40:34.78
And then he called his editor:
'You're not going to believe
00:40:34.81\00:40:36.94
this! I'm up on the
18th floor of this hotel
00:40:36.98\00:40:40.26
and it's on fire!
00:40:40.29\00:40:41.80
This is the greatest thing
that has ever happened to me.
00:40:41.83\00:40:44.27
I'm going to sit
here in the hotel,
00:40:44.30\00:40:46.09
I'm going to report what it's
like to be in a burning hotel,
00:40:46.12\00:40:48.82
you can print it
in the newspaper!'
00:40:48.85\00:40:51.32
The editor said:
00:40:51.35\00:40:52.32
'You are a fool.
Get out of that hotel!'
00:40:52.35\00:40:54.31
'No, there's no convincing
me. I'm going to stay.
00:40:54.34\00:40:56.57
I have an exit plan!
00:40:56.60\00:40:58.10
I will make my
decision to get out of here
00:40:58.13\00:41:00.11
a little bit later.
I'll get out, don't worry!'
00:41:00.14\00:41:02.51
So he sat there, he
reported, what it was like
00:41:02.54\00:41:04.57
to hear the
noise in the hallway.
00:41:04.60\00:41:06.25
These people
panicked to get out.
00:41:06.28\00:41:07.85
He reported what it
was like to feel the
00:41:07.88\00:41:09.80
door of his hotel get warm.
00:41:09.83\00:41:12.11
He reported what it
was like to smell smoke.
00:41:12.14\00:41:15.74
And than the
time came to get out.
00:41:15.77\00:41:17.62
So he hung up the phone,
00:41:17.65\00:41:19.46
he pulled the towel away,
00:41:19.49\00:41:20.68
opened the door, gone
on his hands and knees,
00:41:20.71\00:41:22.92
crawled down the
hallway to the fire exit
00:41:22.95\00:41:25.48
and it was completely
blocked off. Couldn't get out.
00:41:25.51\00:41:28.03
So he crawled very
quickly back to his hotel room,
00:41:28.06\00:41:30.85
closed the door,
put the towel back,
00:41:30.88\00:41:32.60
got out to the window,
opened it up, looked down,
00:41:32.63\00:41:35.32
and there were
some firemen down below.
00:41:35.35\00:41:37.21
'Help!'- he said.
00:41:37.24\00:41:39.30
Firemen looked up, they
couldn't believe there's still
00:41:39.33\00:41:41.90
somebody in there,
00:41:41.93\00:41:42.90
when there was time enough
00:41:42.93\00:41:44.20
for everybody to get out.
00:41:44.23\00:41:46.97
They looked up, they said:
00:41:47.00\00:41:48.27
'We don't have a
ladder that goes that high.
00:41:48.30\00:41:50.14
You're going to have to jump!'
00:41:50.17\00:41:52.68
He got up on the ledge,
00:41:52.71\00:41:55.24
braced himself
between the two sills,
00:41:55.27\00:41:58.55
closed his eyes,
00:41:58.58\00:42:00.35
took a deep breath,
00:42:00.63\00:42:02.32
thought about where the net was,
00:42:02.35\00:42:05.16
and jumped.
00:42:05.19\00:42:06.41
...And the newspaper
said he missed the net.
00:42:09.00\00:42:13.45
...And what a shame,
00:42:13.84\00:42:15.79
when everybody
has time to get out.
00:42:16.11\00:42:19.78
God says,
00:42:19.81\00:42:20.88
the issue in the
last days is spiritual.
00:42:21.14\00:42:24.59
There's all the time in
the world to get out now.
00:42:24.62\00:42:27.05
'I gave my life for you.
00:42:27.08\00:42:29.13
Why not come home with me?'
00:42:29.16\00:42:31.24
It's a spiritual issue.
00:42:31.27\00:42:32.91
And it's a decision the
whole world is faced with
00:42:32.94\00:42:35.81
just before Jesus comes!
00:42:35.84\00:42:38.39
Now it's time
00:42:38.42\00:42:39.39
to get out lesson number 2.
00:42:39.42\00:42:41.39
We're going to look at
what we've just covered.
00:42:41.42\00:42:43.49
Open the Bible,
00:42:43.52\00:42:44.58
go into it in just
a little more depth.
00:42:44.61\00:42:46.94
Your local moderator wherever
you are in the world tonight
00:42:46.97\00:42:49.78
it's going to lead you
through this Bible study
00:42:49.81\00:42:52.00
and we're going to
go through it right here
00:42:52.03\00:42:54.00
in Southern-California too.
00:42:54.03\00:42:56.95
OK. If you're
staying with us tonight,
00:43:48.08\00:43:50.29
here in Southern-California,
joining our discussion,
00:43:50.32\00:43:52.86
it is time to get
out lesson number 2.
00:43:52.89\00:43:54.70
And again tonight, my friend,
Dan Houghton is going to come up
00:43:54.73\00:43:57.85
and lead us through the
lesson. Dan, come on up.
00:43:57.88\00:44:03.30
Thank you, pastor Shawn.
00:44:04.01\00:44:06.60
You know, isn't it
exciting to think about
00:44:06.63\00:44:09.28
the fact, that there
is a final battle and
00:44:09.31\00:44:11.82
you have a little
glimpse into what that might be?
00:44:11.85\00:44:15.72
I want to invite
you to take your lesson.
00:44:15.75\00:44:20.13
You should have it.
Looks just like this,
00:44:20.16\00:44:22.29
for those of you
who are joining us
00:44:22.32\00:44:24.57
from wherever you are
00:44:24.60\00:44:26.27
in this country
or in this world.
00:44:26.30\00:44:27.87
You should have a
little lesson like this.
00:44:27.90\00:44:29.89
It's called 'The Appearing'.
00:44:29.92\00:44:31.27
Lesson number 2.
00:44:31.30\00:44:32.52
We're going to open that
up and we're going to fill out
00:44:32.55\00:44:34.96
each one of these blanks.
00:44:34.99\00:44:37.64
You're a great class.
00:44:37.67\00:44:39.47
It's time for the
quiz, as they say.
00:44:39.50\00:44:41.21
But it's an opened-book
quiz, that's the good news.
00:44:41.24\00:44:44.72
Okay!
00:44:44.75\00:44:45.72
Revelation is a
book that some people
00:44:46.68\00:44:50.91
have said is sealed.
00:44:50.94\00:44:52.36
You heard pastor
Shawn talking about that.
00:44:52.39\00:44:54.39
You can't understand it!
00:44:54.42\00:44:55.85
It doesn't make any sense.
All those things are confused
00:44:55.88\00:44:59.24
to our modern-day mind.
00:44:59.27\00:45:01.84
Question number 1.
00:45:02.12\00:45:03.66
"Throughout history many
have suggested that the book
00:45:03.69\00:45:06.27
of Revelation is a
mysterious sealed book,
00:45:06.30\00:45:09.52
that it's virtually
impossible to understand. "
00:45:09.55\00:45:12.94
What does the
Bible say about this?
00:45:12.97\00:45:16.77
I want you to look
00:45:16.80\00:45:17.93
at Revelation
chapter 1, verse 3:
00:45:17.96\00:45:21.68
Does that sound like God
doesn't want us to understand
00:45:22.00\00:45:24.64
what's in the
book of Revelation?
00:45:24.67\00:45:26.26
A blessing is pronounced,
00:45:26.29\00:45:29.01
1. There's a
blessing. A special blessing.
00:45:37.16\00:45:40.02
carries this on
to the next level:
00:45:42.19\00:45:46.09
Right there the angel
says: 'Don't seal this book. '
00:45:50.17\00:45:55.66
When someone tells you,
00:45:55.69\00:45:57.43
that the book of
Revelation can't be understood,
00:45:57.46\00:45:59.78
you shouldn't read it
00:45:59.81\00:46:01.12
or that it is sealed
in for some other time,
00:46:01.15\00:46:03.29
what are you going to say?
00:46:03.32\00:46:05.29
It's wrong. That's not the case.
00:46:05.32\00:46:07.20
So, the answer to this question,
00:46:07.23\00:46:09.01
what does the Bible
say about Revelation
00:46:09.04\00:46:11.14
being impossible to understand?
00:46:11.17\00:46:13.19
1. God offers a blessing.
00:46:13.22\00:46:16.17
There's a special blessing
00:46:16.67\00:46:18.66
to those who read Revelation
00:46:18.69\00:46:20.61
and do what it says.
00:46:20.64\00:46:22.57
2. And the angel declares
that the book is NOT sealed.
00:46:22.60\00:46:28.74
It's not sealed.
00:46:29.04\00:46:30.49
The book of Revelation is for
you and for me and for our time
00:46:30.52\00:46:34.70
specifically.
00:46:34.73\00:46:36.01
Question number 2.
00:46:36.04\00:46:38.01
You heard pastor
Shawn talking about that.
00:46:43.59\00:46:46.53
There's one book
of the Bible that
00:46:46.56\00:46:49.26
is borrowed from very heavily.
Do you know what that book is?
00:46:49.29\00:46:52.81
The book of
Daniel, that's right.
00:46:52.84\00:46:54.84
Especially the book of Daniel.
00:46:54.87\00:46:57.67
You also may want
to put a little note
00:46:57.70\00:46:59.84
in your lesson, there
you heard pastor Shawn say,
00:46:59.87\00:47:02.24
that 2/3 of the
book of Revelation is
00:47:02.27\00:47:04.69
drawn from other
parts of Holy Scripture,
00:47:04.72\00:47:07.77
but particularly
from the book of Daniel.
00:47:07.80\00:47:11.53
Number 3.
00:47:11.56\00:47:12.58
Okay?
00:47:22.86\00:47:23.86
Line upon line,
00:47:25.49\00:47:27.16
precept upon precept,
00:47:27.19\00:47:29.46
you know what does
that really saying?
00:47:29.86\00:47:31.94
Okay. Isaiah 28:10
00:47:31.97\00:47:33.99
'precept upon
precept' says it twice.
00:47:35.59\00:47:39.74
The Bible gives it's own best
00:47:42.14\00:47:43.82
approach to
interpreting it's prophecies.
00:47:43.85\00:47:45.89
What is that?
00:47:45.92\00:47:47.39
It is comparing
Scripture with Scripture,
00:47:47.42\00:47:51.49
allowing the Bible
to interpret itself.
00:47:51.52\00:47:54.97
Not taking the word
of some human scholar,
00:47:55.00\00:47:59.00
but letting the
Bible itself explain
00:47:59.03\00:48:01.92
what it means.
00:48:01.95\00:48:03.18
And it allows you that
way to get the big picture.
00:48:03.21\00:48:06.15
When you take here a
little, there a little,
00:48:06.18\00:48:08.55
you get a complete picture
of what Scripture is saying.
00:48:08.58\00:48:13.31
The word Armageddon.
00:48:13.34\00:48:15.51
How many of you've
noticed every time there is a
00:48:15.81\00:48:18.16
conflict of any kind of
significance in our world.
00:48:18.19\00:48:22.71
The news anchors will
use the word Armageddon,
00:48:22.74\00:48:27.86
as if they say
'This may be'. It is like
00:48:28.26\00:48:30.79
our whole society is
wondering: is this the big one?
00:48:30.82\00:48:36.64
Mountains of Megiddo.
00:48:47.35\00:48:48.54
You heard pastor Shawn
talk about the importance
00:48:48.57\00:48:51.09
of that little
20 mile wide valley
00:48:51.12\00:48:54.64
in the Nation of
Israel, where a cross roads of
00:48:54.67\00:48:58.41
our world met many
battles were fought.
00:48:58.44\00:49:01.50
But what is the
significance in Scripture
00:49:01.53\00:49:04.08
of that particular
piece of real estate?
00:49:04.11\00:49:07.29
Remember? They
were three mountains.
00:49:10.98\00:49:13.03
You're right. The
mountain of Carmel.
00:49:13.06\00:49:16.20
Mount Carmel as I
remember pronouncing it
00:49:16.23\00:49:19.20
from my early
study of Scripture.
00:49:19.23\00:49:21.11
Mount Carmel. What
happened on that mountain?
00:49:21.14\00:49:25.02
Elijah challenged
00:49:25.05\00:49:27.74
the prophets of Baal.
And there was a spiritual
00:49:27.77\00:49:30.16
show-down. Is that right?
00:49:30.19\00:49:31.92
What happened there?
00:49:31.95\00:49:34.13
That was the site of Elijah's
spiritual challenge to those
00:49:34.16\00:49:38.13
involved in false religion.
00:49:38.16\00:49:40.73
And that is an
incredibly important point
00:49:40.82\00:49:43.47
with this lesson
and this presentation.
00:49:43.50\00:49:47.69
When we talk
about the appearing,
00:49:47.72\00:49:49.47
what happens just
before the appearing.
00:49:49.50\00:49:53.25
There is a
call, a spiritual call
00:49:53.28\00:49:56.21
to all peoples of the world
00:49:56.24\00:49:59.05
who are all gathered
00:49:59.08\00:50:01.09
for the great
battle of Armageddon.
00:50:01.12\00:50:03.46
And what that
says from a spiritual
00:50:03.49\00:50:06.99
way is a challenge to
00:50:07.02\00:50:08.86
false religion, so
that everybody has a choice
00:50:08.89\00:50:12.85
that they can make for truth.
00:50:12.88\00:50:15.55
Okay?
00:50:15.69\00:50:16.69
as we move along.
00:50:16.72\00:50:20.59
The fall of Babylon, okay?
00:50:31.95\00:50:34.85
All right. And
that was number six.
00:50:45.23\00:50:48.44
The fall of Babylon, Cyrus
diverted the Euphrates river
00:50:48.47\00:50:52.23
and it was dried up so
that they could walk in. Now!
00:50:52.26\00:50:58.18
Now we're going to read
two passages of Scripture,
00:51:06.78\00:51:12.08
This ancient city is
still symbolic of this desire
00:51:26.31\00:51:30.53
on the part of
humanity gone astray
00:51:30.56\00:51:33.48
to rebel against God.
00:51:33.51\00:51:35.53
And it comes down the symbolism
right before the appearing.
00:51:35.56\00:51:38.45
What's the significance of the
white horse? Anyone remember?
00:51:45.53\00:51:48.47
White horse is
how the king comes.
00:51:48.50\00:51:50.46
Okay? Jesus is riding on that...
00:51:50.49\00:51:54.11
This is a spiritual
judgment and a spiritual
00:51:58.88\00:52:01.70
world where's this taking place.
00:52:01.73\00:52:05.36
Okay?
00:52:13.77\00:52:14.77
Jeremiah 29:10
00:52:15.18\00:52:16.78
This is talking
about literal Babylon.
00:52:29.33\00:52:32.45
Cyrus comes in and
00:52:32.48\00:52:34.18
makes the judgment
allowing the children of Israel
00:52:34.21\00:52:37.38
to go back to their home
country, their home land.
00:52:37.41\00:52:41.67
So what was the main
reason why this happened?
00:52:41.70\00:52:46.07
He was causing you
to return to this place.
00:52:46.10\00:52:48.94
Okay?
00:52:48.97\00:52:49.94
Number 7 in your lesson.
00:52:50.18\00:52:51.70
Be sure that you write that
down. What was the reason why?
00:52:51.73\00:52:54.90
We need to say a
loud Amen for that.
00:53:04.93\00:53:07.63
Can you say Amen
about that? Amen! Thank you!
00:53:07.66\00:53:09.49
You know, that's something that
when you talk about deception,
00:53:14.49\00:53:18.30
and if you look
back at the issue
00:53:18.33\00:53:20.49
that Elijah was dealing with
00:53:20.52\00:53:22.59
on Mount Carmel.
00:53:22.62\00:53:24.39
There was an issue between
what was true and what was false
00:53:24.81\00:53:27.70
in worship. Prophets
of Baal, prophet of God.
00:53:27.73\00:53:32.34
Just because there are miracles,
00:53:32.37\00:53:34.57
if they go against
what's in God's word,
00:53:34.60\00:53:36.49
even the demonic
powers can work miracles.
00:53:36.52\00:53:39.29
Read Revelation 13:13-14.
00:53:39.32\00:53:42.09
Now, if that kind of
deceptions going to be going on,
00:53:53.18\00:53:55.70
how important is
it for you to know
00:53:55.73\00:53:58.24
what the word of God says?
00:53:58.27\00:54:01.19
Very, very important.
00:54:01.67\00:54:03.97
Very, very important
00:54:12.98\00:54:14.59
for you to know the
difference, and that is based
00:54:14.62\00:54:17.47
upon the revealed
word of God in Scripture.
00:54:17.50\00:54:22.32
I want you to
visualize that for a minute.
00:54:26.32\00:54:29.28
What is it mean for
Jesus to have a sword
00:54:29.31\00:54:32.34
coming out of His mouth?
00:54:32.37\00:54:33.90
What is that sword represent?
00:54:33.93\00:54:36.12
It's symbolic. Would you
agree with me? It's symbolic.
00:54:36.15\00:54:38.71
Okay?
00:54:38.74\00:54:39.71
The sword represents what?
00:54:40.20\00:54:42.89
Let's look at
Hebrews 4:12 first.
00:54:42.92\00:54:48.14
Now we'll look
at Ephesians 6:17.
00:54:54.90\00:54:58.75
When He comes, He is
coming with His own words
00:55:03.40\00:55:07.03
in His mouth. So
how important is it,
00:55:07.06\00:55:09.24
that we know what his words say,
00:55:09.27\00:55:12.00
if He's coming at the appearing
00:55:12.03\00:55:14.28
with His word in His mouth,
00:55:14.31\00:55:15.87
we better know
what His Word says.
00:55:15.90\00:55:18.42
Let's look at the lesson, at
the conclusion of the battle.
00:55:18.45\00:55:21.25
Jesus has a sword
coming out of His mouth.
00:55:21.28\00:55:23.33
What does that represent? Please
write this down in your lesson.
00:55:23.36\00:55:26.06
The Bible, the Holy Scriptures
are where the answers are.
00:55:43.06\00:55:47.74
And I thank God that
pastor Shawn was able to open up
00:55:47.77\00:55:50.28
from Scripture tonight,
00:55:50.31\00:55:51.84
to give us
another little insight
00:55:51.87\00:55:54.53
into the things that are
building up to the Appearing.
00:55:54.56\00:55:59.50
Now, I believe that the battle
of Armageddon is complete.
00:55:59.53\00:56:03.07
You have finished your lesson.
00:56:03.10\00:56:04.51
I guess the big question
that I have again tonight
00:56:04.54\00:56:09.03
is where are you going to be,
00:56:09.06\00:56:11.51
when the appearing occurs?
00:56:11.54\00:56:13.94
I'd like to invite you to bow
your heads with me as we pray.
00:56:13.97\00:56:17.85
Heavenly Father,
00:56:17.88\00:56:19.60
I just want to thank You
for the privilege that we have,
00:56:19.86\00:56:22.62
of exploring
deep into Your Word.
00:56:22.65\00:56:26.24
I want to thank You that You are
appearing again on this planet
00:56:26.27\00:56:29.35
to take us all home.
00:56:29.38\00:56:31.14
Continue to open our minds
and bless us as You are revealed
00:56:31.17\00:56:34.74
during these meetings.
00:56:34.77\00:56:36.11
In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.
00:56:36.14\00:56:38.02
Amen.
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