The title of this series
is Three Cosmic Messages:
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Earth's Final Conflict.
If you're joining us for
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the first time... welcome!
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This is the 10th
presentation in the series
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so you want to be sure to
watch the previous presentations
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to kind of get caught up.
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If you've been with
us each presentation,
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we've been unfolding
the prophecies of the book
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of Revelation,
particularly Revelation 14:6-12.
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Let's suppose that you live
quite a distance in the country
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and that there's a narrow
road coming to your dwelling.
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Let's suppose there's a river
and a bridge that you have to go
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over to get to your
dwelling... to your home.
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Your son, at 17, has just
gotten his driver's license.
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It's a dark, rainy
night; your boy is not home.
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You get word that
the bridge is out.
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You get word that
there is trouble on the road.
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What's your first instinct?
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Well, it's to text him
to let him know, right?
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Or to call him
immediately on the telephone.
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Will he resent that warning?
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If the bridge is out, he
certainly wants the warning.
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In the book of Revelation
God appeals to us in love
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but there also are some warnings
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because in the future
there are some bridges out
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that God wants us
to be able to span
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that river of error that
flows and understand His truth.
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And He wants us to
get home. Let's pray.
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Father in heaven, You have that
great longing to bring us each
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home. You have that great
longing to get us from earth
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to heaven, and
like a loving Father
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who wants His son home on
a dark, rainy, stormy night
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You want to take
us through the storm
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across the river of
difficulty and get us home.
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And we thank you that You've
given us messages in the book
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of Revelation to do just that.
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In Christ's name, Amen.
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My topic during
this presentation is:
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The book of Revelation unmasks
the plans of the evil one
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and it reveals the plans of God.
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A young woman, Mary Kellerman,
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woke up that morning
with a terrible headache.
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A brief history of what
happened was recently written
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by Dan Fletcher. This young
woman's name was Mary Kellerman.
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Because she had a
headache and symptoms of a cold
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her parents gave her
Tylenol when she woke up.
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Four hours later 12-year-old
Mary Kellerman was dead.
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The parents were
absolutely devastated.
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But that was just the beginning.
That September morning
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in 1982 in Chicago.
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Not long after that
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a postal worker by the
name of Adam Janus also died
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soon after taking Tylenol.
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Before the day was over
the death toll began to grow.
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In fact, in a few days
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it had grown significantly.
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The only link being
that each victim had taken
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Extra Strength Tylenol.
Now when the police began
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to look into this, when
the experts in chemistry
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began to look into it they found
that these Tylenol capsules
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were produced in
different plants. They were sold
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in different stores.
Their only conclusion
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is that somebody was tampering
with these Tylenol capsules.
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Their only conclusion
was somebody was lacing them
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with potassium cyanide poison.
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The city - and
nation - was in panic.
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Upon testing each of the
capsules proved to be laced
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with potassium cyanide
at a level toxic enough
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to provide
thousands of fatal doses.
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Some madman, some maniac,
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some insane person was
tampering with those capsules.
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There was a nationwide panic.
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The Tylenol capsules
and Tylenol was recalled
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from stores costing the manu-
facturer millions and millions
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of dollars.
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The police went
through the streets of Chicago
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with a loud speaker
announcing to people:
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"If you have
Tylenol on your shelf,
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discard it... throw it away be-
cause it's laced with poison. "
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As I read this very tragic
story this thought came to me:
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the people that
took these capsules
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actually thought that
they were taking something
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that would benefit their
health, something that would
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reduce the fever, something
that would reduce the headache.
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They thought they were
taking something beneficial
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but yet they were taking a
poison that would lead to death.
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Could it be possible
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that in the
generation that we live in
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could it be possible
that in this generation
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there is a spiritual type
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of laced Tylenol capsule?
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You say: "What are
you talking about? "
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Could it be very possible
that we're taking a spiritual
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poison that we
think brings us life
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but it's actually false
doctrine the wine of Babylon
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that Revelation speaks
about that indeed is fatal?
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The Bible says in Prov.
16:25, don't miss this text:
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Somebody say: "Well
isn't sincerity enough? "
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You can be very
sincere but in actual fact
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you can be sincerely wrong.
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If I'm driving on a foggy night
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and there's a bend in the road
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and I keep going
straight off a cliff,
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I may be very sincere
but it may end up in death.
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So God's Word
informs our thinking.
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It's more than sincerity.
It's the sincere desire
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to know truth in God's Word.
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If our hearts are
honest before God,
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Jesus in fact said to the
people in His day in John 7:17
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He said: "If any
man will do My will,
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he will know of the doctrine. "
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So sincerely
desiring to do God's will
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and opening the Scripture
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the Holy Spirit reveals
to us what God's will is.
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But we may be ever sincere
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but trusting in our own opinion,
trusting in church leaders,
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trusting in a
religious political organization
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that the Bible calls Babylon.
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The book of
Revelation reveals God's plans
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and it exposes error in
the last and final generation.
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God's end-time message
is being pictured as being
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carried by three
angels in mid heaven.
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The first angel
flies and the Bible says:
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"I saw another angel
flying in the midst of heaven
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having the everlasting gospel. "
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That first angel has the
gospel of God's goodness;
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the gospel of God's grace;
the gospel of God's mercy;
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the gospel of God's
life-changing power.
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That first angel reveals
that there is nothing we can do
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to save ourselves...
that salvation is totally
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in Jesus Christ.
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That message is to go to
every nation, kindred, tongue,
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and people. But
the angel emphasizes
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aspects of the gospel
that have been long neglected
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by Christianity.
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The angel says with a loud voice
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so all the world can hear:
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"Fear God and
give glory to Him. "
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Fear, respect, obey God.
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Give Him glory
in your lifestyle:
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in that which you take into
your body, that which you eat.
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That which you drink and what
you see, what you listen to,
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the places you go. So
this message of the first angel
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is a call to obey God
because we're saved by grace.
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It's a call that our lives
reflect a commitment to God.
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Why? Because the hour
of His judgment is come.
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We're living on the
knife-edge of eternity.
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We're living where the
sands of time are running out
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of that hourglass of
time. Living just before
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the coming of Christ.
And then the Bible calls us
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in an age of evolution,
in an age of dehumanization
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of human beings, it calls
us back to worship the Creator.
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Back to the sanctity of life.
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That's the
first angel's message.
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It's a big message...
a message to all mankind,
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a message that has the
foundation of all the Biblical
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truth in it. A
message of the gospel;
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a message of obedience;
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a message of the judgment;
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a message of the
second coming of Christ;
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a message of the
sanctity of life;
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a message of
worshiping the Creator.
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But then the second
angel flies and he says:
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"Babylon is fallen! Is fallen! "
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As we have studied
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God is calling us
to live godly lives
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in the light of
the judgment hour.
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He's calling us to have nothing
between our soul and our Savior.
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He's calling us to decision
in this hour of earth's history.
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But then that other angel does
fly in Revelation 14 verse 8.
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It says:
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We introduced this
second angel's message
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in our last program...
our last presentation.
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We pointed out
that Babylon represents
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a false religious system.
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Revelation 17 describes a woman
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riding on a
scarlet-colored beast.
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This woman is dressed
in purple and scarlet.
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In the Bible a woman
represents Bible prophecy.
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We find that in
Jeremiah 6 verse 2
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and Ephesians chapter 5.
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The true woman is
the bride of Christ.
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The fallen woman is
one who has left Jesus,
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united with the state power.
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So the woman - the fallen
church - rides upon the state.
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She has BABYLON THE
GREAT written on her forehead.
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In our last
presentation we noticed
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that the term Babylon
represents an apostate religious
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system that distorts truth,
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substitutes man-made theories
for the teachings of the gospel.
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We understood that the
word Babylon means confusion.
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Confused religious values.
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Human opinions
substituted for the Word of God.
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Human opinion
substituted for divine truth.
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We continue unfolding the
mystery of BABYLON THE GREAT
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in this presentation.
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In Daniel chapter
7 verses 17 and 23
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the Bible talks about beasts
and symbolizes them as kingdoms.
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So when we read in Revelation 17
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about Babylon,
the mother of harlots
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we read about a great
mother church dressed in purple
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and scarlet. We pointed
out in our last presentation
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that that great mother church
sitting on the seven-hilled city
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was certainly the Roman church.
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She directs state powers.
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In the last days
of earth's history
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church and state will unite.
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Religious liberty
will be undermined
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and religious
liberty will be something
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that is usurped
by the state power.
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But there are two central
pillars of Satan's strategy
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to lead to this
union of church and state
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that we want to take
a very careful look at
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in this presentation.
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These two central pillars
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come directly out of Babylon.
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They're part of
MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT.
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Babylon, of course,
represents religious confusion.
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What were the two
prime pillars of Babylon?
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What was
Babylonian religion like?
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And how will that be translated
into spiritual Babylon?
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Now remember Revelation 18:2:
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So... habitation of demons.
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That has to do
with spiritualism.
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That has to do with the
working of evil spirits.
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So ancient Babylon was
the center of spiritualism.
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The spirits were
feared by the people.
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They believed in the
reincarnation of the dead.
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When the dead lived they
lived on and would come back
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in another form.
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Babylon was the
center of immortality.
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It was the center of the
idea that there was this kind of
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immortal essence, this
immortal part of an individual.
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We might call it
the "immortal soul. "
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That was indeed part
of Babylon's philosophy.
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They believed that when a person
died they actually lived on
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in immortality and at
times they could return.
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So that's why they
worshiped these images
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because they believed that
they were images or incarnations
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of those who had
died... or the gods, actually.
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And they believed that
they were worshiping those gods.
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You say: "Where does
this idea come from? "
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And so they believed
that at death there was a soul
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that left the body. It
came from Greek philosophy
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but where did they get it from?
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They, of course,
got it from Babylon.
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When you go back to
Ezekiel chapter 8 verses 13-14
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there are women who
come to the temple of God
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and they've accepted
these Babylonian ideas.
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They've actually slipped
into the church, slipped into
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ancient Israel, and
notice what the prophet says:
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Now here in Israel, in the
temple of the Lord's house,
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you have Israelite women
that are weeping for who?
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Tammuz. Now who was Tammuz?
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Tammuz was one
the Babylonian gods...
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the Babylonian
god of vegetation.
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And what did the
Babylonians believe?
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They believed that
when their god died...
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... and Tammuz would live again.
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So they had this
whole idea of immortality.
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That when you die you don't
die; the dead really live on.
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Now why would Satan use that
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as one of his major
pillars in ancient Babylon?
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And how would the immortality
of the soul come into
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Christianity as
one of Satan's pillars?
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What is Satan's
strategy in all that?
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Satan's strategy
is precisely this:
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if you can get people
believing in immortality,
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if they believe that the
dead who died can come back,
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they will be
captured by evil spirits
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and their minds will be led from
the clear teachings of the Bible
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to the teachings
of these evil spirits.
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So that's part
of Satan's strategy.
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Ecclesiastes 9:5 tells
the Biblical concept of death.
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So in the Bible when
God created the human race
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He created Adam out of
the dust of the ground.
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Breathed into his
nostrils the breath of life -
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the life-giving power
of God - and man became
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a living soul, a living
creature, a living being.
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The Bible does not say
God put a soul into man.
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The soul is the
product of the body God created
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and the breath of life. When
a person dies, what happens?
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The Bible says
Ecclesiastes 12 verse 7:
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when a person dies
the body goes to the dust
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and the spirit, that's
the life-giving force of God -
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not something that thinks,
not something that reasons -
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goes back to God.
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So the soul is the
product... it is the result of
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God breathing His
breath into human beings
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and forming the body.
It's the result of that.
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Another word for
soul is a living being.
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Sometimes a person
goes to the grocery store.
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They get their task
done much more quickly
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and they come back and say:
"There was not a soul there! "
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What did they mean? There's
not some conscious being there?
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Not at all. They mean
there's not a person there.
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"The living know that
they shall die. " In the Bible
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death is but a sleep and
the dead don't know everything
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they know nothing.
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In a sermon called Is
Man by Nature Immortal?
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by Amos Phelps, a
great Protestant preacher
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of a couple generations ago,
00:19:24.69\00:19:26.80
he traces the idea
of the immortal soul
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very powerfully. He says:
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What did Lucifer say
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to Eve when he
came to the garden?
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He said to her: "You
shall not surely die. "
00:20:21.28\00:20:25.69
"You are naturally immortal. "
00:20:25.89\00:20:28.09
"There's an essence
in you that's immortal. "
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"You can take of this
fruit and you will not die. "
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So the idea of the
immortality of the soul -
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the idea that
death is not death -
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the idea that you know more
in death than you did in life -
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that comes not from Christianity
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but it's one of the
Babylonian teachings
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that comes right
from the Garden of Eden
00:20:47.38\00:20:50.51
in Satan's words that
"You shall not surely die. "
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The devil uses that in the
last days of earth's history
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as one of the
points of deception.
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What is the battle of the
great day of God Almighty?
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It's the battle of Armageddon:
00:21:16.71\00:21:18.44
this final conflict
between good and evil,
00:21:18.64\00:21:21.91
this final conflict
between Christ and Satan,
00:21:22.11\00:21:24.91
this final conflict
where church and state unite
00:21:25.11\00:21:28.75
and all the forces of hell
are focused upon God's people
00:21:28.95\00:21:33.05
to destroy them. But what
is it at a time of crisis?
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What is it at a time
of economic disaster?
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What is it at a time
of political disaster?
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What is it at a time
when this entire world
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seems uncertain
and falling apart?
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What is it that brings
the world back to this unity?
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It is the spirits of demons
00:21:53.04\00:21:55.51
working miracles
through false religions
00:21:55.71\00:21:59.98
to unite the kings of
the earth in a power block
00:22:00.18\00:22:04.39
to oppress the people of God
00:22:04.59\00:22:07.16
and try to bring world unity
in one great world unification
00:22:07.36\00:22:13.09
approach. You see,
why is it that this idea
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of the immortal
soul... what does this do?
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How does it impact
practical Christianity?
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Well, the pagans
- the Babylonians -
00:22:26.01\00:22:28.31
would bring
offerings for the dead.
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And they would come there to
the shrine of those that died.
00:22:31.45\00:22:35.48
And in some world
religions that's true today.
00:22:35.68\00:22:38.05
In Buddhism this
certainly is true
00:22:38.25\00:22:40.39
where offerings are
brought for the dead.
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This is true in a number
of world religions today.
00:22:43.59\00:22:47.53
Why is this one of
Satan's central pillars?
00:22:48.50\00:22:51.67
We pointed out first:
because it becomes a counterfeit
00:22:51.87\00:22:55.84
revelation of truth
and it leads people from
00:22:56.04\00:22:59.94
the objective truth, the
clear truth of the Word of God.
00:23:00.14\00:23:03.35
But also these
offerings become a substitute
00:23:03.75\00:23:08.95
of a heart commitment to Jesus.
00:23:09.15\00:23:11.09
And the spirits of the demons
00:23:11.49\00:23:14.06
become substitutes for
the one Redeemer of our world
00:23:14.26\00:23:19.56
Jesus Christ. There
is only one offering
00:23:19.76\00:23:23.37
and that's the
offering of Jesus.
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He's already made that
offering so we need not come
00:23:25.23\00:23:28.50
with the offering of our
works, our righteousness.
00:23:28.70\00:23:32.54
We need not come in
fear trying to make ourselves
00:23:32.74\00:23:36.54
right with God. We
come to God through Christ.
00:23:36.75\00:23:39.81
We come with the One who
says: "Him that cometh to Me
00:23:40.02\00:23:42.25
I will in no wise cast out. "
00:23:42.45\00:23:43.79
We come in deep
commitment to the One who says:
00:23:43.99\00:23:47.02
"Come unto Me. " The
gentle, loving, compassionate
00:23:47.22\00:23:51.09
Christ whose grace
flows from His heart
00:23:51.29\00:23:54.70
says: "Come unto Me. "
00:23:54.90\00:23:56.26
So we need not come
with offerings for the dead.
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The book of
Revelation is very, very clear.
00:24:12.01\00:24:14.62
The dead rest from their labors.
00:24:15.02\00:24:17.59
As the book of Job
says: "They shall never return
00:24:17.79\00:24:20.62
to their house again. "
00:24:20.82\00:24:22.39
They rest.
Fifty-three times the Bible says
00:24:22.59\00:24:26.33
death is but a sleep.
00:24:26.53\00:24:29.16
In the Bible death is a rest.
00:24:29.36\00:24:32.20
When we die, we rest
from the calamity of life.
00:24:32.40\00:24:35.74
We rest from the pain
of these physical bodies.
00:24:35.94\00:24:39.14
We rest from the distress
that occurs here in this life
00:24:39.34\00:24:44.21
and all of its
pain and suffering.
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We rest. You know,
when you go to sleep
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you sleep momentarily
and the next moment you know
00:24:49.02\00:24:52.75
you're waking up, right?
00:24:52.95\00:24:54.36
When you go to sleep if
you are in a sound sleep
00:24:54.56\00:24:57.19
you don't say: "Well, it's
10 o'clock when I went to bed
00:24:57.39\00:25:00.20
but now it's 11. " And
your mind doesn't register
00:25:00.40\00:25:02.56
all of that. Why? It's
this perfect total rest.
00:25:02.76\00:25:05.93
So in Scripture
contrary to the deceptions
00:25:06.33\00:25:11.54
of Satan that
flow through the stream
00:25:11.74\00:25:15.14
of spiritual
Babylon from pagan Babylon
00:25:15.34\00:25:18.38
contrary to that God teaches
us the truth about death.
00:25:18.58\00:25:23.15
And look: why does
Satan try to perpetrate
00:25:29.92\00:25:33.03
this error of the immortal soul?
00:25:33.23\00:25:35.23
Because he hates the doctrine
of the second coming of Christ.
00:25:35.43\00:25:39.10
See, if the dead
already go to heaven,
00:25:39.83\00:25:41.54
why would Jesus come again?
00:25:41.74\00:25:43.41
To somehow unite
dead bodies to souls?
00:25:43.81\00:25:47.11
That doesn't make
sense! But the Bible says:
00:25:47.31\00:25:49.01
Imagine this scene:
your father has died.
00:26:13.54\00:26:17.41
You long to see him
again. Your mother has died.
00:26:17.61\00:26:20.08
You long to see her again.
00:26:20.28\00:26:21.91
A brother, a sister, a child.
00:26:22.11\00:26:24.21
But one day
lightning flashes from the east
00:26:24.41\00:26:27.85
even unto the west.
00:26:28.05\00:26:29.38
One day the earth shakes
with a mighty earthquake.
00:26:29.52\00:26:32.12
One day the sky is illuminated
with the glory of God
00:26:32.32\00:26:35.49
and Jesus descends
down the corridors of time.
00:26:35.89\00:26:38.73
He says: "John, come
forth; Mary, come forth. "
00:26:38.93\00:26:42.66
"Peter, come forth;
Alice, come forth. "
00:26:43.06\00:26:45.43
"The Lord Himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout,
00:26:45.63\00:26:48.30
with the voice of the archangel,
with the trump of God. "
00:26:48.50\00:26:51.21
It's the voice of victory!
Sin and suffering and heartache
00:26:51.41\00:26:54.08
will be no more!
The devil hates that
00:26:54.28\00:26:56.81
so he perpetrates this
idea upon the human race.
00:26:57.21\00:27:01.25
"Oh, don't think much
about the coming of Christ.
00:27:01.45\00:27:03.72
because there's kind of a soul
that's kind of this ethereal,
00:27:03.92\00:27:07.06
mystical thing that kind
of wings its way to heaven. "
00:27:07.26\00:27:10.66
Why do so many
churches lack spiritual power?
00:27:10.86\00:27:14.10
Because the preaching of
the second coming of Christ
00:27:14.50\00:27:18.23
is no more in
many of those churches.
00:27:18.43\00:27:21.07
Many have lost the urgency
of the second coming of Christ.
00:27:21.27\00:27:24.57
But down through the ages when
the urgency of the second coming
00:27:24.77\00:27:29.18
beats in your heart, when
you long for the second coming
00:27:29.38\00:27:32.45
of Christ, you are
driven to your knees with deeper
00:27:32.65\00:27:36.22
commitment to Jesus and
a deeper sense of His love
00:27:36.42\00:27:40.69
and His grace.
Satan has introduced
00:27:40.89\00:27:44.19
even to Christianity a
false doctrine from Babylon
00:27:44.39\00:27:48.63
to undermine the whole idea
of the second coming of Christ
00:27:48.83\00:27:53.40
and to place peoples' minds
in a position to be deceived
00:27:53.60\00:27:57.67
by spiritualism.
The hope of this world
00:27:57.87\00:28:01.54
according to the apostle
Paul Titus chapter 2 verse 13
00:28:01.74\00:28:05.05
and onward. He says...
00:28:05.25\00:28:06.58
he talks about we are
looking for "the Blessed Hope. "
00:28:06.61\00:28:09.38
There is hope for our
weary, war-torn planet.
00:28:09.58\00:28:13.02
There is hope for our
confused, chaotic world.
00:28:13.22\00:28:16.22
There is hope for a planet of
disease and disaster and death.
00:28:16.42\00:28:20.30
There is hope for this planet,
00:28:20.50\00:28:22.26
and that hope is in the
second coming of Christ.
00:28:22.46\00:28:24.97
The book of
Revelation rings with hope.
00:28:25.17\00:28:28.00
The book of Revelation
is saturated with hope.
00:28:28.20\00:28:30.67
The book of Revelation and
these three cosmic messages
00:28:30.87\00:28:34.54
beat with the urgency of
the second coming of Christ
00:28:34.74\00:28:38.71
and give us a new hope.
00:28:38.91\00:28:40.82
Whereas spiritualism prepares
our mind for deceptions,
00:28:50.53\00:28:55.00
whereas spiritualism
takes us from the reality
00:28:55.20\00:28:59.57
of the second coming of Christ,
00:28:59.77\00:29:01.40
sun worship undermines
our confidence in the Creator
00:29:01.60\00:29:05.57
and leads men and women
to disobey the clear command
00:29:05.77\00:29:09.21
of God that said:
"Remember the Sabbath Day
00:29:09.41\00:29:12.01
to keep it holy. "
00:29:12.21\00:29:13.98
Ancient sun worship comes from
Egypt... where they worshiped
00:29:14.18\00:29:18.62
Amun Ra, the sun god;
00:29:18.82\00:29:20.76
Babylon, where they worshiped
Bel Marduk, the sun god;
00:29:20.96\00:29:24.43
Persia, where
they worshiped Mithras;
00:29:24.83\00:29:27.00
going on to Rome and the
sun god Eternity Veritas.
00:29:27.20\00:29:31.40
And so all these pagan
cultures worship the sun god.
00:29:31.60\00:29:36.00
Now there is an amazing
story that takes you back
00:29:36.20\00:29:40.68
in the book of Dr.
James Frazer, vol. 1 p. 529
00:29:40.88\00:29:45.45
in his book The
Worship of Nature.
00:29:45.65\00:29:47.25
An amazing story in
which he points out:
00:29:47.55\00:29:50.99
So the sun became that
luminous object in the heavens,
00:29:57.03\00:30:00.70
and as the pagans
looked at this luminous object
00:30:00.90\00:30:04.43
in the heavens they
believed that when the sun shone
00:30:04.63\00:30:08.80
in proper proportions
that their crops grew.
00:30:09.00\00:30:12.97
When the sun god
was angry with them
00:30:13.17\00:30:15.91
he would burn up the crops.
00:30:16.11\00:30:17.48
When darkness hid the
sun and it didn't rain
00:30:17.68\00:30:20.82
the crops would
wither as well and die.
00:30:21.02\00:30:24.09
So they saw the sun as a god
and they worshiped the sun god.
00:30:24.29\00:30:30.26
In Ezekiel chapter 8 verse
16 this Babylonian influence
00:30:30.66\00:30:35.83
from sun worship
actually came into Israel.
00:30:36.03\00:30:40.84
That's right at the temple.
00:30:45.74\00:30:47.08
Now if your back is
toward the temple of the Lord...
00:30:57.19\00:31:00.79
The temple faces toward the east
00:31:00.99\00:31:04.43
so if your back
is toward the temple
00:31:04.63\00:31:07.93
of the Lord what are you facing?
00:31:08.13\00:31:10.27
You're facing
east. So the Bible says:
00:31:10.47\00:31:12.70
Can you imagine? In Israel
00:31:18.37\00:31:20.98
where God said to
Israel in the commandments
00:31:21.18\00:31:24.31
"Remember the
Sabbath Day to keep it holy.
00:31:24.51\00:31:28.28
Six days shalt thou
labor and do all thy work
00:31:28.48\00:31:32.92
but the seventh day is the
Sabbath of the Lord thy God.
00:31:33.12\00:31:36.06
For in six days the
Lord made heaven and earth. "
00:31:36.26\00:31:39.29
You see, the Sabbath
command that God said "Remember"
00:31:39.49\00:31:43.67
was given in
memorial of creation.
00:31:43.87\00:31:48.17
And here, into Israel
- the very people of God
00:31:48.37\00:31:53.88
to whom were given the
very commandments of God -
00:31:54.08\00:31:58.68
for every generation and for
mankind throughout its history
00:31:58.88\00:32:02.82
slipped into that community
00:32:03.02\00:32:06.62
this limited amount of sun
worship that the devil wanted
00:32:06.82\00:32:10.76
to impact the
entire community with.
00:32:10.96\00:32:13.40
And that's why the
issue of Sabbath worship
00:32:20.90\00:32:23.41
is so significant.
00:32:23.61\00:32:25.17
If you turn from
worshiping the Creator,
00:32:25.57\00:32:29.34
the logical conclusion
is to worship the creation.
00:32:29.54\00:32:34.38
If you turn from
worshiping the Creator,
00:32:34.78\00:32:37.82
the logical conclusion
is that you'll worship works
00:32:38.32\00:32:42.39
of your own hands
00:32:42.59\00:32:43.93
and the human is
exalted above the divine.
00:32:43.99\00:32:47.43
Sabbath worship calls us
back to rest in our Creator,
00:32:48.46\00:32:52.43
to trust in our
Creator's love and grace,
00:32:52.63\00:32:55.37
to trust in our Creator's power,
00:32:55.57\00:32:57.77
and to be changed by
our Creator's strength.
00:32:57.97\00:33:01.54
It calls us back
to rest in His grace.
00:33:01.74\00:33:04.51
To trust Him completely.
00:33:04.71\00:33:06.82
Here in Israel there were
those that turned their backs
00:33:07.22\00:33:11.59
on the law of God, turned their
backs on the temple of God,
00:33:11.79\00:33:15.79
turned their backs on the
Creator of heaven and earth
00:33:15.99\00:33:20.00
and faced indeed the
east and worshiped the sun.
00:33:20.20\00:33:24.07
You say: "How in the
world could that happen? "
00:33:32.77\00:33:35.51
Let me go back... back
to the early centuries.
00:33:35.91\00:33:38.88
Back to history
00:33:39.28\00:33:40.65
when the Roman
Empire is falling apart.
00:33:40.85\00:33:43.18
The Roman church is
growing in its authority,
00:33:43.39\00:33:46.29
growing in its power.
00:33:46.49\00:33:48.59
John Eadie wrote in the
Bible Encyclopedia page 561:
00:33:49.99\00:33:54.96
You see, the sun
god was predominate
00:34:06.88\00:34:09.64
in these pagan cultures.
00:34:10.05\00:34:12.18
So in the weekly
calendar they named Sunday
00:34:12.58\00:34:16.38
the first day
because it was the chief god.
00:34:16.58\00:34:18.19
Monday was moon's day and so
forth throughout their culture.
00:34:18.39\00:34:23.22
Well, how did this
Sunday worship ever slip in
00:34:23.43\00:34:27.30
to the Christian church?
00:34:27.50\00:34:28.83
Sunday worship came
in over a period of time.
00:34:29.66\00:34:33.47
It took
centuries for it to develop
00:34:34.17\00:34:37.44
but it came to the forefront
00:34:37.84\00:34:40.28
particularly in the
days of Constantine.
00:34:40.48\00:34:42.61
Notice this statement by
Edward Gibbon, the author
00:34:47.55\00:34:51.09
of The History of the Decline
and Fall of the Roman Empire
00:34:51.29\00:34:53.52
volume 3 page 237:
00:34:53.72\00:34:56.06
He says:
00:34:56.26\00:34:57.59
So Constantine has
this affinity for the sun.
00:35:04.93\00:35:07.97
The Roman Empire in the days
of Constantine is falling apart.
00:35:08.37\00:35:12.77
By that time
Barbarian tribes from the north
00:35:13.91\00:35:16.81
are coming down. Constantine
wants to do everything he can
00:35:17.01\00:35:20.75
to redeem, to save his empire.
00:35:20.95\00:35:22.88
Eventually he moves his capitol
from Rome to Constantinople.
00:35:23.08\00:35:27.06
But in an attempt
to save his empire
00:35:27.59\00:35:30.36
Constantine does this:
00:35:30.56\00:35:33.46
Why? Because the pagans are
already worshiping the sun god.
00:35:46.21\00:35:50.35
Christians have now
begun to... many of them...
00:35:51.28\00:35:55.12
to worship Sunday because Christ
rose from the dead on that day.
00:35:55.32\00:35:59.22
Now the Bible never tells
us to worship Sunday because
00:35:59.62\00:36:02.16
Christ rose from
the dead on that day.
00:36:02.36\00:36:03.73
But some Christians
began to drift to be in harmony
00:36:03.93\00:36:07.96
with the
majority of that society.
00:36:08.16\00:36:10.27
Notice... here is the
first Sunday law, AD 321:
00:36:10.47\00:36:15.27
Now notice: this
is not a worship law.
00:36:22.24\00:36:24.75
It is a law that
comes in socially
00:36:24.95\00:36:27.25
for what Constantine
believes is the best of society.
00:36:27.45\00:36:30.19
But the church,
uniting with the state,
00:36:30.59\00:36:33.76
through church
councils establishes Sunday
00:36:33.96\00:36:37.43
as the day of rest and
worship contrary to the Bible.
00:36:37.63\00:36:40.60
... in contradiction to
the law of God that says:
00:36:47.44\00:36:52.27
"Remember the Sabbath
Day" fourth commandment
00:36:52.47\00:36:54.91
"to keep it holy. Six
days shall thou work...
00:36:55.11\00:36:58.11
labor and do all thy
work but the seventh day is
00:36:58.31\00:37:00.52
Sabbath of the Lord thy
God. " God said "Remember. "
00:37:00.72\00:37:02.62
Why? Because He
knew that in those early
00:37:02.82\00:37:05.82
centuries that compromise would
enter the Christian church.
00:37:06.02\00:37:11.09
Is there historical
evidence that this took place
00:37:11.29\00:37:15.50
and that compromise took
place in those early centuries
00:37:15.70\00:37:19.87
to amalgamate, that is to
unite, these two festivals
00:37:20.07\00:37:23.94
together:
paganism and Christianity?
00:37:24.14\00:37:25.81
So what happened?
At a time of crisis
00:37:52.77\00:37:56.37
when the Roman
Empire was falling apart
00:37:56.57\00:37:59.14
Constantine established
a social day of rest.
00:37:59.54\00:38:04.38
Church leaders in church
decrees and church councils
00:38:04.78\00:38:09.55
to bring the empire together
and to evangelize the pagans -
00:38:09.75\00:38:14.42
they had already adopted
the vestments of the pagans
00:38:14.62\00:38:18.36
with the priest wearing
often purple and scarlet -
00:38:18.56\00:38:22.03
they had already
renamed many of the pagan images
00:38:22.23\00:38:25.73
and brought them into the church
and named them for the saints:
00:38:25.93\00:38:28.97
Peter and so forth.
00:38:29.17\00:38:30.51
Now in another
compromise measure
00:38:30.61\00:38:33.64
to unite
Christianity with paganism
00:38:33.84\00:38:37.01
and to make it easier for
pagans to become Christians
00:38:37.21\00:38:39.65
they adopted Sunday.
00:38:39.85\00:38:42.35
So what do we see? We're
seeing the wine of Babylon.
00:39:00.40\00:39:04.51
We're seeing the images of
Babylon come into the Christian
00:39:04.71\00:39:07.71
church. We are seeing the idea
of the immortality of the soul
00:39:07.91\00:39:12.11
that the soul lives on
come into the Christian church.
00:39:12.81\00:39:15.82
We are seeing Sunday worship
come into the Christian church.
00:39:16.02\00:39:19.32
This is contrary to the
teachings of God's Word.
00:39:19.52\00:39:23.96
That's why God sends
them three cosmic messages.
00:39:24.16\00:39:28.63
That's why God sends His
message of the second angel
00:39:28.83\00:39:32.13
saying: "Babylon is
fallen! Is fallen! "
00:39:32.33\00:39:34.27
"My people: come from it's
errors. Don't be intoxicated
00:39:34.47\00:39:38.64
by its wine. "
00:39:38.84\00:39:40.58
So what happened in
those early centuries:
00:39:50.49\00:39:52.79
pagan practices according to
history flooded into the church
00:39:52.99\00:39:56.22
and paganism and
Christianity shook hands.
00:39:56.42\00:39:59.53
I call you today
00:39:59.73\00:40:01.60
not to a fusion of
paganism and Christianity
00:40:02.63\00:40:06.33
but to the pure
Bible truth of God's Word.
00:40:06.53\00:40:10.81
God is
developing a group of people
00:40:11.01\00:40:13.91
whose hearts are
subject to His Word,
00:40:14.11\00:40:16.81
whose minds are
subject to His Word.
00:40:17.01\00:40:19.61
... in a compromise
role to save the empire.
00:40:25.42\00:40:29.52
Dr. Edward Hiscox, the
author of the Baptist Manual,
00:40:29.72\00:40:33.43
spoke and shocked a large
group of Protestant ministers
00:40:33.63\00:40:38.03
when he said:
00:40:38.23\00:40:39.57
Dr. Edward Hiscox,
author of the Baptist Manual,
00:40:56.18\00:40:58.99
understood what happened.
00:40:59.19\00:41:00.52
He understood that
Sunday comes branded
00:41:00.92\00:41:04.06
with the mark of paganism.
00:41:04.26\00:41:05.99
The Sabbath is a sign...
it's a sign of allegiance.
00:41:18.21\00:41:21.74
It's a sign of loyalty to God.
00:41:21.94\00:41:24.91
It's a sign that we
accept God's authority.
00:41:25.11\00:41:28.95
The Sabbath has
been undermined by Satan
00:41:29.15\00:41:33.36
who has wanted to destroy
the authority and the word
00:41:33.56\00:41:37.89
of the Creator God.
00:41:38.09\00:41:39.69
But God is calling us back.
00:41:39.89\00:41:41.23
"Babylon is fallen! Is fallen! "
00:41:41.43\00:41:44.90
The teachings of ancient Babylon
00:41:46.23\00:41:49.14
unfortunately, regrettably
00:41:49.54\00:41:53.04
have slipped in to
the Christian church.
00:41:53.24\00:41:56.04
God raised up
great men of faith,
00:41:56.44\00:42:00.62
great women of
faith, reformers who began
00:42:00.82\00:42:06.05
in the Reformation to lead His
people back to the Word of God.
00:42:06.25\00:42:10.53
Back to salvation by
Jesus Christ and Christ alone.
00:42:11.26\00:42:15.16
Back to understanding
the truth of His Word.
00:42:15.56\00:42:19.80
And He's completing
that Reformation today
00:42:20.20\00:42:23.17
by raising up a movement...
a movement that will indeed
00:42:23.37\00:42:28.48
lead people back to His Word.
00:42:28.68\00:42:30.91
At a time when, according
to Ezekiel 22 verse 26:
00:42:31.11\00:42:35.38
The religious leaders in
Israel violated God's law
00:42:38.19\00:42:41.59
and it's happening
again today, my friend.
00:42:41.79\00:42:43.59
And there for many the Bible
Sabbath is just this common
00:42:49.06\00:42:52.77
ordinary day of sports and
buying and selling and shopping.
00:42:52.97\00:42:56.24
In other words,
eat anything you want;
00:43:03.61\00:43:04.95
drink anything you want.
00:43:05.11\00:43:06.45
See, that's why this message
of the three cosmic messages,
00:43:06.48\00:43:11.22
the message of the
three angels, is so important.
00:43:11.42\00:43:13.25
It calls us back to the gospel.
00:43:13.46\00:43:15.92
It calls us back
to obedience to God.
00:43:16.12\00:43:18.29
Calls us back to treating
our bodies like the temple
00:43:18.49\00:43:22.53
of God and not a funhouse.
00:43:22.73\00:43:24.27
It calls us back to
the second coming of Christ
00:43:24.43\00:43:26.94
and the judgment
hour. It calls us away from
00:43:27.14\00:43:29.64
the polluted
doctrines of Babylon.
00:43:29.84\00:43:32.24
Religious leaders today: hiding
their eyes from the Sabbath.
00:43:38.81\00:43:41.78
Where is all this headed?
00:43:41.98\00:43:43.62
Many of God's people
are still in Babylon.
00:43:48.06\00:43:50.86
Satan's pillars of his strategy:
spiritualism - to deceive -
00:43:51.06\00:43:55.30
sun worship.
Again, at a time of crisis
00:43:55.50\00:43:59.13
to bring the
world together again.
00:43:59.33\00:44:01.44
One who wrote with
penetrating insight,
00:44:01.84\00:44:04.67
Ellen White, in the book Great
Controversy, p. 588, says this:
00:44:04.87\00:44:08.21
The wine cup of
Babylon will be passed out.
00:44:20.32\00:44:24.06
Church and state will unite.
00:44:24.26\00:44:26.70
Men and women will be intox-
icated with the false doctrines
00:44:27.10\00:44:31.40
of Babylon. The false doctrines
of the immortality of the soul
00:44:31.60\00:44:36.50
which will prepare them for
the deceptions of spiritualism
00:44:36.71\00:44:40.74
that will take
the world captive.
00:44:40.94\00:44:42.28
Sunday worship, which like
in the early days of the Roman
00:44:42.48\00:44:45.75
Empire was a vehicle
to unite church and state
00:44:45.95\00:44:49.22
in the world...
that will come again.
00:44:49.42\00:44:52.19
Notice... this
statement goes on:
00:44:52.39\00:44:54.36
They have no protection because
they accept the immortality
00:45:15.54\00:45:17.68
of the soul.
00:45:17.88\00:45:19.21
What happened in the
days of ancient Babylon?
00:45:36.67\00:45:40.40
Nebuchadnezzar
established a counterfeit image.
00:45:40.60\00:45:44.87
He passed a
decree compelling worship
00:45:45.07\00:45:49.74
and those who did not bow down
faced severe penalty of death.
00:45:50.15\00:45:55.68
In the last days
of earth's history
00:45:56.08\00:45:57.95
just before that happens
00:45:58.15\00:46:00.56
God's clarion call is
going out to the world.
00:46:00.76\00:46:04.33
His messages are going
out to the ends of the earth.
00:46:04.73\00:46:08.50
This gospel of the
kingdom - the gospel of truth -
00:46:09.56\00:46:12.63
must be preached to
the ends of the earth
00:46:12.83\00:46:15.04
so that men and women will
fully understand the issues
00:46:15.24\00:46:19.11
before the
second coming of Christ.
00:46:19.31\00:46:21.74
The message will go out of
the second angel in Rev. 14:8.
00:46:21.94\00:46:26.58
"Babylon is fallen! Is fallen!
Come out of her, My people. "
00:46:26.78\00:46:31.85
But we are secure in Jesus.
00:46:46.87\00:46:50.47
We have our confidence in Jesus
00:46:50.67\00:46:53.38
not in man-made creeds.
00:46:53.78\00:46:56.28
Not in human ideologies.
00:46:56.48\00:46:58.88
Not in the ideologies or
teachings or traditions of men.
00:46:59.08\00:47:04.85
In Christ we are secure.
00:47:05.05\00:47:07.19
In Christ we find our
refuge as it says in Psalm 46:1:
00:47:07.39\00:47:12.16
When all of this world
is in chaos and confusion
00:47:17.77\00:47:21.34
when the greatest time of
trouble in the history of the
00:47:21.54\00:47:24.57
world comes we
find security in Christ.
00:47:24.77\00:47:28.31
We find our refuge in Christ.
00:47:28.71\00:47:31.28
We find our hope in Christ.
00:47:31.48\00:47:33.78
We find our
confidence in Christ.
00:47:33.98\00:47:36.69
We find our
protection in Christ.
00:47:36.89\00:47:39.35
We find our strength in Jesus!
00:47:39.55\00:47:42.32
This message of the three angels
00:47:42.52\00:47:45.16
is given by a God of love...
00:47:45.36\00:47:47.76
a God who wants you with Him.
00:47:47.96\00:47:50.47
A God who does not
want you to be deceived
00:47:50.67\00:47:53.54
in the last days
of earth's history.
00:47:53.74\00:47:55.30
You may be a
Christian committed to Christ
00:48:13.59\00:48:17.29
and you've never
heard these things before.
00:48:17.49\00:48:20.43
But you hear the
message of truth:
00:48:20.63\00:48:23.16
a message that is not being
preached, has not been preached
00:48:23.37\00:48:27.04
in your church, a
message of the three angels,
00:48:27.24\00:48:30.01
a cosmic message to
prepare men and women
00:48:30.21\00:48:32.91
for earth's last conflict.
00:48:33.11\00:48:34.51
Your heart responds...
it's time to step out.
00:48:34.71\00:48:37.41
Maybe you've heard
these things before.
00:48:37.61\00:48:39.61
Maybe you're an Adventist
Christian but you've been
00:48:39.81\00:48:41.98
sitting in the pew, you've
been complacent... Laodicean...
00:48:42.18\00:48:44.99
but you sense that there
is a message for your heart.
00:48:45.19\00:48:48.46
And God is calling you! He says:
00:48:48.66\00:48:52.16
With gentle tones Christ appeals
"Come out of her, My people. "
00:49:41.38\00:49:44.51
Jesus' people are in Babylon.
00:49:44.91\00:49:47.92
Jesus' people have
drunk of the wine of Babylon.
00:49:48.12\00:49:50.82
And He loves them, and
with tones of tenderest love
00:49:51.02\00:49:54.52
He makes that appeal:
00:49:54.72\00:49:56.06
So God calls us from
every law-breaking church.
00:50:04.40\00:50:09.57
As it says in the commentary
of Jamieson, Fausset and Brown:
00:50:09.77\00:50:13.27
That's the appeal to
your heart right now:
00:50:20.92\00:50:23.45
"Come out of her, My people. "
00:50:23.65\00:50:25.99
Come out of the
false ideology of Babylon.
00:50:26.39\00:50:29.66
Accept the pure truth
that comes from God's Word.
00:50:30.16\00:50:33.90
Come from every
man-made teaching.
00:50:34.30\00:50:37.37
Come to Jesus. You say:
"I've followed Jesus before. "
00:50:37.57\00:50:41.34
He has something deeper for you.
00:50:41.54\00:50:43.47
He has another
step for you to take.
00:50:43.87\00:50:45.87
You are one of His people.
00:50:46.07\00:50:47.91
He identifies you
as one of His people.
00:50:48.11\00:50:50.35
Nearer, still
nearer... close to my heart.
00:50:50.75\00:50:56.48
Jesus is drawing
you right now nearer.
00:50:56.69\00:51:00.32
Will you respond to
His grace as Charles sings?
00:51:00.52\00:51:04.29
Nearer, still nearer...
00:51:21.78\00:51:27.25
close to Your heart
00:51:29.08\00:51:33.92
draw me, My Savior,
00:51:35.42\00:51:40.76
so precious Thou art!
00:51:41.53\00:51:47.27
Fold me, O fold me
00:51:49.10\00:51:54.81
close to Thy breast.
00:51:55.64\00:52:01.18
Shelter me safe
00:52:02.05\00:52:06.96
in that haven of rest...
00:52:09.06\00:52:14.26
shelter me safe
00:52:15.26\00:52:20.57
in that haven of rest.
00:52:22.20\00:52:27.61
Nearer, still nearer...
00:52:32.61\00:52:38.62
nothing I bring.
00:52:41.06\00:52:44.63
Naught as an offering
00:52:46.13\00:52:51.23
to Jesus, my King.
00:52:52.27\00:52:58.17
But only
00:52:59.47\00:53:01.74
my sinful
00:53:01.94\00:53:05.91
now contrite heart.
00:53:06.31\00:53:11.52
Grant me the cleansing
00:53:13.19\00:53:18.23
Thy blood doth impart...
00:53:20.10\00:53:25.20
grant me the cleansing
00:53:26.63\00:53:32.41
Thy blood
00:53:32.97\00:53:35.58
doth impart.
00:53:35.98\00:53:39.58
Nearer, still nearer...
00:53:43.25\00:53:49.16
Lord, to be Thine.
00:53:49.86\00:53:55.33
Sin with its follies
00:53:56.56\00:54:01.20
I gladly resign.
00:54:01.70\00:54:07.41
All of its pleasures,
00:54:09.21\00:54:15.12
pomp, and its pride.
00:54:15.45\00:54:21.09
Give me but Jesus,
00:54:21.72\00:54:26.73
my Lord,
00:54:26.93\00:54:30.30
crucified...
00:54:31.03\00:54:33.90
give me but Jesus,
00:54:34.50\00:54:40.28
my Lord
00:54:40.48\00:54:44.31
crucified...
00:54:44.51\00:54:46.82
Give me but Jesus,
00:54:47.22\00:54:53.05
my Lord crucified.
00:54:53.25\00:54:59.19
Nearer, still nearer...
00:55:04.57\00:55:09.77
while my life shall last.
00:55:10.47\00:55:15.08
Till safe in glory
00:55:16.41\00:55:21.68
my anchor is cast.
00:55:21.88\00:55:27.46
Through endless ages
00:55:28.79\00:55:34.46
ever to be
00:55:34.96\00:55:40.87
nearer, my Savior,
00:55:41.27\00:55:46.44
still nearer to Thee...
00:55:46.94\00:55:52.91
nearer,
00:55:53.95\00:55:57.02
my Savior,
00:55:57.22\00:56:02.29
still
00:56:03.63\00:56:06.09
nearer
00:56:06.29\00:56:11.70
to
00:56:13.30\00:56:18.14
Thee.
00:56:18.81\00:56:24.78
We can never be nearer
if we stay where we are.
00:56:33.82\00:56:39.16
God is inviting you to
take a step closer to Him today.
00:56:39.66\00:56:45.17
He's inviting you to make an
eternal decision in your life
00:56:45.37\00:56:48.87
right now that you are
going to follow His will.
00:56:49.07\00:56:53.01
Will you do that as we pray?
00:56:53.21\00:56:55.44
Lord, give us the courage
00:56:55.84\00:56:57.31
to help us to step
out from the majority.
00:56:57.51\00:56:59.71
Give us the courage if
we're already Christians
00:56:59.91\00:57:01.78
to help us step out
from the complacency
00:57:01.98\00:57:04.09
of popular church religion.
00:57:04.29\00:57:06.49
Help us have that
passion to follow You
00:57:06.69\00:57:08.86
and give us the
strength and courage to do that.
00:57:09.06\00:57:11.39
In Jesus' name, Amen.
00:57:11.59\00:57:13.80
Jesus invites you
to have a blessed day.
00:57:14.86\00:57:18.23