I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Removing pain
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Lord, let my words
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Heal a heart that hurts
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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I want to spend my life
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Mending broken people
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Hello and welcome to a
very special 3ABN Today
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and we're coming to
you from the ASI meetings
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for 2016 here in
Phoenix, Arizona.
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It is hot outside but
it's pretty cool inside
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and we're praising the Lord.
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I've got my buddy
Shelley Quinn with me,
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Shelley, good to have you here.
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It's lovely to
be here as always.
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And Shelley figures very
intimately and intricately
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into the programme we're
going to be talking about today.
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This is gonna be
a very fun program
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and a very exciting program.
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Our guest is Lauren Cole.
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He of Desire Media, president,
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speaker, director, cook,
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bottle washer, he does it all.
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Janitor, yeah.
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Lauren good to have you here...
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Janitor when necessary, yeah.
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Let me give you
the punch line first,
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because Shelley
is a part of this
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and we are very, very excited.
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We're going to show you
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before this
program shall have ended,
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a video entitled
The Seventh-day Beavers.
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Seventh-day Beavers, yeah.
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And this is an exciting
thing you know the Bible says,
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Shelley in Psalms 19:1
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that "Evidently
clear the glory of God
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and the Earth
shows his handiwork."
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And really is race and tells us
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that I think look in nature
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as you study nature
not only plants and flowers
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but animals all be speak
the creative power of God.
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And this is something
that Lauren and his family
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they're all a part
of this media project.
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They put together,
they saw something,
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they began to record something
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and they saw the
hand of God in nature
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and that's what we're
going to be talking about
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for the next several moments.
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The project is the
Seventh-day Beavers,
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it is a video project.
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Shelley and I
have both watched it.
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Shelley is in it.
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I'm going to talk to her
about that in just a moment
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but Lauren, we want to
start on how many years
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did it take you to
put this thing together?
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Okay.
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I started the
project in the year 2000
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and so I had and the first part
of it was intensely studying
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and filming and
video and documenting
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for the first two years
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and then maybe three
years to two or three years
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but then I'm an
ongoing all the way till 2016.
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So we decided to
production on this video.
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The video took us three years
which started three years ago.
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And so, you know,
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we really re-went into it
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with a lot of intensity
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and so the last three
years more of the same,
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every day out
for hours and hours
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out there
observing this family Beaver
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following them up
and down the creek,
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you know, because
they move a little bit.
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So we're moving
around in the snow.
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You'll see in the video
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that there's some
of the worst weather
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but so a total of
actually 16 years.
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If you want to be.
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you know, nitti about,
you know, 16 years altogether.
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Wow.
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But the first two years, intense
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What caught your attention
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to get you
started on this quest?
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Well, you know, I
never would have even noticed
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beavers resting if it hadn't
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for my friend
of mine named Bill.
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When we were living
in Southern California,
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before we moved up to
the National Forest area.
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Bill rented our garage from us
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to offset our rent a little bit.
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He told me one day,
before we moved up here,
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he told me about these bees
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that lived in the
orange groves out there,
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they would fly in
these certain patterns
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but on Saturday, he
just told me out of the blue
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on Saturdays
they don't fly anymore
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and it didn't really
mean much to me at the time
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because I
wasn't really religious
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and, you know,
I was in ministry,
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it didn't mean
anything but I remembered it.
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And then when we
moved up to the country
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we would take
Sabbath afternoon walks,
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you know, that's what we do,
we take Sabbath afternoon walks
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and I came across this
incredible beaver colony
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and I was just like, Wow.
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Obviously very busy animals,
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they're building
these dams and huge dams
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and I would go on Saturdays,
I never see the animals
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but I would see
what they would do.
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Until one day, I
went on a non Sabbath day
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and there they
were, I mean they were out
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and about doing their thing,
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you know, swimming with sticks
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and you know and then I'd
come back on Saturday, nothing.
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And this happened,
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this pattern went
on for a little while
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until finally, I remembered
the bees, Bill's bees.
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And in fact Bill is
on the DVD, on the video
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and so I remember
I thought I wonder
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if these beavers
are like Bill's bees
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and that they're
not working on Saturday.
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So that's why I decided
to do a little experiment.
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You know, this could
be quite significant.
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I thought to myself
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and I didn't plan on making
a video or any thing about it
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but I wanted just for
myself to do this experiment.
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So that's when I decided,
I'm going to go routinely,
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Sunday through Saturday,
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every week I'm going to go
at a certain time every day
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and I'm going to watch
and I started on Monday.
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I started filming and there
they were every day of the way
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and then the big
day Saturday came along
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and also they're
not there anymore.
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And so I thought
they were dead at first
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when this first happened,
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I thought something
happened to these beavers
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they're not
coming out they're gone,
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what happened to my beavers.
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So I snuck up to the
lodge and sure enough,
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I could hear him in there,
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you know, it's like to
have a little Bible study
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in there or something
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but you can hear chewing
and you can, you know, eating.
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In fact some of the
sounds that I heard,
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you can hear it from
the outside of the lodge
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are on the DVD, on the video
and it was just incredible,
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it struck me that
this is this is amazing.
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Week after week,
another week same thing
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Sunday through Friday
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there they are,
Saturday, no beavers.
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And so that
continued on and on and on
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until I was thoroughly convinced
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this is something you
know what's happening here.
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Was Desire Media
created out of this project
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or did Desire exist
before this project?
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Desire Media existed
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when my
children were very young.
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It was actually called
Desire of all Children.
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We were making a
book and video series
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about the desire
of ages, for children
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and so we started filming
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and making little
pictures and it's for our kids.
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I wanted them to fall in
love with my favourite book,
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the desire of ages
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and I wanted them to grow up
with that with that background.
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So we started
doing that we got into
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about maybe five or
six book and video series
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and then we got involved
in other media projects,
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let that go, it was
kind of a lot of work
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and it was...
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And the kids kind of grew
up and then we started getting
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called into to
preaching in different churches
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I started doing that and then
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and then my kids
started filming that
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and so Desire
Media grew out of that.
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We changed the name
from Desire of all children.
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We didn't change it.
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We just added a
DVA of Desire Media,
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so now it's Desire Media,
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we're 501c (3)
we're incorporating.
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Now you and your wife Mickey
both have a health background.
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Yes.
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Do you not? Yeah.
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we're both graduates,
Loma Linda University,
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me in physical therapy
her in dental hygiene and so.
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But I actually retired...
You did that for many years?
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Many years, I
retired about the time
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I started observing beavers.
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When my wife was pregnant
with our fifth child, Carter,
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you know, Carter.
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The Holy Spirit
just spoke to me and said
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it's time for you to quit
and stay home be a parent,
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you know, this
is this is too much
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for Mickey at home by herself.
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So we, you know, I quit my job
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and the Lord provided a
little home business for us
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that kind of
grew and grew and grew
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and then and then it
shrunk and shrunk and shrunk.
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In 2008 when the
heavy economy tanked,
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but our ministry just blossomed.
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We were called into evangelism
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in the Gulf
states in '09 and in '10
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and I developed this
real evangelistic series.
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I wrote a whole series of
study guides for that series
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and then we were
appalled by the conferences
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in the Gulf states
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and we started
doing public evangelism.
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And then we moved
back out to the West Coast
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after the
tornadoes hit us and 2011.
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We're out of there.
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My wife wanted nothing
more to do with the South.
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So we moved back to our
home and in the West Coast
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and then the Oregon
conference started calling
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and now and then
the Northern California
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and now we're all
over the place now.
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Very good, very good.
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Now Shelley, you
were mentioning to me
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just before we came on
air that you observed some,
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you and JD observed
some similar phenomena
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because your husband
is a avid bird watcher,
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and we've been out with you.
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He loves watching birds,
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but you seen this
kind of phenomenon
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on Sabbath too, haven't you?
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Yes, you know, I
really hadn't put it together
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till I was speaking with Lauren
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and he was telling me
about that and we would go out,
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we would take people out
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at the crab orchard in reserve
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and you go out
there and bird watch
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or see the deer and the turkey,
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but there's a family of beavers
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and we'd go out
sometimes on Sundays
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taking other
people out to show them
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and they'd be there
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but when we go out
on Sabbath afternoons,
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we wouldn't see them
and I never even really,
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you know, we'd always thankful
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these are lazy
beavers where are they?
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And never really had
made that connection.
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And we haven't
gotten several testimonies
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from people who
have been supporting
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the production
of our project here.
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The same story exactly
what Shelley just said.
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But we can't you, let's say
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'cause we want to
be perfectly clear
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is that you don't know for sure
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there's not been
enough of a deep study
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to know that if this is
truly the pattern of all beavers
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but it is fascinating.
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Yeah.
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This is just one
family of beavers
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over several generations.
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I have to say though
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that I have seen beavers
out on Sabbath not these beavers
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but I have seem some
beavers out on Saturday,
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in fact just this year,
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we went up to a
place called dismal swamp,
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different area
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and we saw some
beavers on a Saturday.
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But it was during the day,
it was probably like 6:00 pm,
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actually technically the
sun was behind the mountain
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when I saw them out.
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It was daytime but they
were behind a big tall mountain
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and they were
swimming around I'm going,
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"What you guys doing?"
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So they achieved
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as of the Sabbath a
little bit, Shelley.
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Yeah, yeah, thy were tramping...
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But these beavers,
the one I observed,
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I've never see them out
of their lodge on Saturday.
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Friday night sundown
to Saturday night sundown.
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So you see that there
and you see that also.
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So there is a
pattern to be found
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and maybe some deep
scientific study is to be done
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but your 16 years and
that's a fairly decent
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slice of a person's
life over the six...
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Now all seasons
spring, summer, winter, fall.
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Spring summer, yeah.
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Beavers are a little less active
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where we live in
the, in the winter time
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but they don't hibernate
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so they do come
out in the winter time.
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Not quite as often
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never on, these ones
never on Saturday so,
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and that's in
the video, you'll see
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but because we do
have some closing shots
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in this like Shelley saw it,
it in this terrible blizzard.
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Yeah.
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We go out any time,
I mean, we'll go out,
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we want to see what...
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I love the snow anyway
so beavers don't really it
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but they don't
hibernate, they should hibernate
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but I wish they, they did
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because some of the winners
are pretty hard up there.
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So Shelley when you got
the call to be a part of this,
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it not strange for you
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because you had
seen this phenomena.
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Yes.
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Well, actually it
was at the 2015 ASI,
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where Lauren
approached me about doing this
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and it was just so fascinating
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when he told me
about it and he said,
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would you mind making
a comment on the Sabbath,
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and I said not at all.
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I think the input
Shelley has in there
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is the best we have in the video
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because she comes out
with, I mean, we wanted,
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we didn't want this just to
be a testimony in nature video,
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we wanted some theology in it,
you know, there's a lot about.
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The Sabbath in the
video and it has...
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One comment came back
from another supporter
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who said everything about
the Sabbath is in that video,
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anything you want to know.
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We have three major
theological questions.
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Let's see what
were the three questions
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so when you
answered all three of them.
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I don't think... disputable.
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What's so special about Saturday
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that would cause
an animal to rest?
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Okay, then does
the Bible mention
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anything about
animals resting on Sabbath
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and then if
Saturday is the Sabbath day.
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Why do Christians
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all over the world
go to church on Sunday?
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And so we slip
that in the video.
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This video makes an
excellent sharing tool,
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I think, in my
opinion. Oh, yeah.
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It is something that
people will be interested in
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because it is
fascinating about...
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I mean it's different.
It's documentary on beavers.
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I'm an evangelist so
this is an incredible tool.
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You know, I'm going to use this.
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This is about the Sabbath.
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And it's done in sort
of a documentary style
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it is not particularly preachy.
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It's done.
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Here's a fact that
we're trying to prove.
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We've observed something
and here is what we believe
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that this means and, of course,
your whole family was involved,
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your son's, you got
three big boys, big tall boys.
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In fact, Jackson, now
Jackson, the middle one,
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the tallest one,
he's our producer,
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he's the guy that has all the...
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I don't know where he
got it but it's instinct,
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you know, he's got
the brains, he can edit.
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I mean, he's got a...
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He develops apps
for Apple and, you know,
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he's got one of best
selling apps in France,
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from time to time he's got...
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And so he is...
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I don't know where
he gets all the skills
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but he can work for cameras.
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He can you know he
does a computer stuff
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and all this technical
stuff, Jackson is the man.
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And when we first started,
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when I first started
observing the beavers
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it was in the year 2000
that was when Jackson was born.
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I used to put
Jackson in the backpack.
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When I would go observe beavers
and the little round there
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and he's in the pacifier.
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And he's out there with me,
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now he's grown up
and he's produced a video
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about this whole project.
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Wow. Praise the
Lord. So it's really.
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That's kind of fascinating.
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And your sons have,
each have a great testimony.
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Yeah. They really, really do.
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And so Alex is
in it too and Carter
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and the girls, the girls are in.
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Because they helped,
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they did a lot of observing
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and I dragged them up there
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and, you know,
particularly on Saturday.
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Saturday is kind of a boring day
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to go to watch beavers
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'cause we have
nothing happening there.
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And we would spend
extra time on Saturday
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like hours and
hours five six hours
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just waiting something you know.
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Yeah.
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And so it was...
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I remember one time on...
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You know it was Sabbath, it
was getting late in the day,
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wasn't watching the clock,
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we had been there for
maybe five or six hours.
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Nothing but, you know,
we're objectively watching
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because we want to know,
if they come out on Saturday,
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you know, we want to see that.
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So I'm looking out there
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and all of a sudden a
beaver pops out of the pond,
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and it's Sabbath
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and I look at my watch and I go,
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Oh, it's 8 o'clock,
I thought it was like,
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I thought he was cheating on me.
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You know, coming out on Sabbath.
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You know we looked up,
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sun's behind and
you know it's down,
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it's 8 o'clock
it's late in the day,
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and the mountains are
kind of big around there but...
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so far never seen
him out on Saturday.
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So, I guess, they
had just finished worship
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it was time to come on out
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and get a little
air kind of thing.
00:15:04.23\00:15:05.77
But as you said Lauren it is
and I think it's an excellent
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way to introduce its
someone to the Sabbath truth,
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because it isn't
meant to be necessarily...
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well, it's a teaching tool.
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It is not as you
said a preaching tool.
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And to just observe
this is quite interesting.
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Yeah, we believe this is going
to be an excellent sharing too.
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In fact, if you
go to our website.
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you can find an area
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there where you can
order these in sleeves
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for really cheap in huge bulk,
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hundreds of them
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and I think it would make
an excellent sharing tool.
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Yeah.
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Now when you do this,
Lauren, you and family,
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you didn't have in mind, okay,
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going introduce this
and make a lot of money.
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You really have the idea
of sharing your Sabbath belief
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and the fact that God
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is doing something
that is demonstrably
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that we can see
that you can see.
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Yeah.
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And it's a way of
introducing Sabbath
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to maybe a sceptical
mind or a scientific mind
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or a person is not particularly
disposed to go to church.
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Here's a way to
sort of bring Sabbath
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to them in a very palatable way.
00:16:05.76\00:16:07.83
Yeah, who's going to argue with,
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you know, these facts
about an animal, right,
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I mean, he's not
trying to keep the Sabbath,
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he's not like humans.
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Humans, we've got to
work at keeping this out.
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With the
beavers it's an instinct
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with this family anyway.
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And you mentioned making money.
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I mean, let me tell you
it costs us, I mean, dearly,
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this is an expensive
project over the years
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so out of pocket, you know.
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We had a number of
supporters on the film
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and there are
credited in the credits
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but I would say
90% of the production
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came out of,
you know, my pocket.
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Family pocket.
And our family pocket.
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So it was, you know,
was just a sacrifice.
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I'm kind of glad it's over.
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You don't think as I'm
a little tired of all that
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because you got to
get back to business.
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I know you got one vehicle
that took an awful beating
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during the time.
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Yup, '96 Chevy Tahoe. Yeah.
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Awesome vehicle that was
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it was really
helpful to have that
00:16:55.84\00:16:57.21
but we went
through a lot of tyres,
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lot of flat tyres and
yeah that took a beating.
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And it's for sale, by the way,
00:17:01.62\00:17:02.95
if anybody
wants a beaver mobile,
00:17:02.98\00:17:04.32
we've got that on
the market for sale.
00:17:04.35\00:17:06.89
And it's a nice vehicle
00:17:06.92\00:17:08.26
and it's really
capable off road.
00:17:08.29\00:17:09.62
Indeed.
00:17:09.66\00:17:11.46
It's featured a
little bit in the video.
00:17:11.49\00:17:12.93
Now along with Shelley
and what she had to say
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you had some other individuals
00:17:15.13\00:17:16.46
who came and gave
some technical input,
00:17:16.50\00:17:19.97
some expertise in the video.
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Yeah, that's a theological side.
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They answer the Bible question,
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we had Shelley and
we had Dr Neil Natalie,
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he had done some interesting
studies on Sabbath keeping
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and how it relates to depression
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and versus resting on a
different day of the week
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and he contributes
a significant story
00:17:36.05\00:17:40.29
in that regard.
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And so he's in it
and then my old partner,
00:17:41.69\00:17:43.83
Steve Wahlberg's in it.
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So Steve Wahlberg's is in
it, he contributes lot too,
00:17:45.23\00:17:48.30
especially, the last question
00:17:48.33\00:17:49.66
where we talk about
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why do so many
Christians keep Sunday,
00:17:51.07\00:17:53.07
if God's Sabbath is Saturday
00:17:53.10\00:17:54.84
and so he
contributed to that a lot
00:17:54.87\00:17:56.37
and so he's in that
00:17:56.40\00:17:58.01
and we're happy to have him.
00:17:58.04\00:17:59.71
And then Jerry
Bardy another good friend.
00:17:59.74\00:18:02.21
Jerry Bardy, a
theologian and you know,
00:18:02.24\00:18:04.41
a guy maybe not a
lot of people heard of
00:18:04.45\00:18:06.18
but he's a local for
me too, good for the mind.
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Lauren, tell us the story.
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There's also a little
part, I haven't seen this yet,
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but I know you
mentioned it was on the DVD
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about the Seventh-Day Ox.
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Yeah and that's a
story a lot of people
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who may have heard
of the Seventh-Day Ox.
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That's a story about a
pastor name Nikolai Panchuk
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who was thrown into a
Siberian Russian prison
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for I think it was for
not working on Saturday
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or for advocating Sabbath rest.
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When he got out into prison,
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it was a prison labour camp
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and he was forced
to work on Saturday
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but he refused
to work on Saturday.
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So in exchange for his refusal,
00:18:41.02\00:18:42.98
he was confined in
this little tiny box
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for ten days at a time,
00:18:44.99\00:18:46.99
which nearly killed him.
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Finally, he made a
bargain with one of the wardens
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that if he could get all
his work done in six days.
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Could he have the Sabbath off,
00:18:54.40\00:18:56.43
so the good hearted warden said,
00:18:56.46\00:18:58.07
"Okay, we'll give it a try."
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And they gave him
the an unfortunate task
00:18:59.47\00:19:02.04
of hauling water for the camp
00:19:02.07\00:19:04.01
with this horrible Ox
00:19:04.04\00:19:06.21
that was lumber
some slow and just hard,
00:19:06.24\00:19:08.54
he had to beat to get
it to go and everything.
00:19:08.58\00:19:10.75
So he would get going on Sunday
00:19:10.78\00:19:12.65
all the way through to Thursday,
00:19:12.68\00:19:14.02
he's way behind schedule,
he's not going to make it.
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But when Friday came,
00:19:16.05\00:19:17.72
the Ox would run all
day long and in fact he said
00:19:17.75\00:19:20.26
he had trouble
keeping up with the Ox.
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So he would run all day long
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and just before the sun
would go down on Friday night,
00:19:23.26\00:19:26.16
he would have all the
water hauled for the camp
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and he would his Saturday's off.
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And so that in there,
00:19:30.37\00:19:31.70
we've got maybe a
two or three minute,
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.37
a little section
00:19:33.40\00:19:34.87
with the actual
Russian prison camp,
00:19:34.90\00:19:38.07
a labor camp
00:19:38.11\00:19:39.44
and the guy coming
back and then recounting
00:19:39.47\00:19:41.61
and actually meeting the warden
00:19:41.64\00:19:43.04
and so it's on there and
it's an incredible story.
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I've read studies that
where Russia and other countries
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have tried to
change the 7-day work week
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to 10-day work week
00:19:53.49\00:19:55.12
and they have found that
00:19:55.16\00:19:56.83
after six
consecutive days of work,
00:19:56.86\00:19:59.33
if someone is not
resting that seventh day,
00:19:59.36\00:20:03.13
behavioral
analysis has seen that
00:20:03.16\00:20:05.23
the production goes way down
00:20:05.27\00:20:08.27
people become depressed,
there's all kinds of things.
00:20:08.30\00:20:11.31
So God designed us. Yes.
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There's a rhythm in there.
00:20:13.64\00:20:15.68
In fact, it was
in France, I think,
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where they tried to
go to a 10-day work week
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and that threw the whole nation
into a, you know, a conundrum,
00:20:19.91\00:20:23.35
I guess, you could say
00:20:23.39\00:20:24.72
but it caused a
lot of health problems.
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Yes.
00:20:26.42\00:20:27.76
And, yeah, I think
00:20:27.79\00:20:29.19
there's a, they
call circadian rhythms.
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There's another
rhythm it's not circadian
00:20:31.33\00:20:33.40
but it's another
name for a 7-day cycle.
00:20:33.43\00:20:36.06
And we've got another supporter,
00:20:36.10\00:20:37.43
a doctor from South America
00:20:37.47\00:20:39.17
who is studying
the circadian rhythms
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and other rhythms
that are biological rhythms
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and have to do a 7-day
cycle and he's very interested
00:20:43.77\00:20:46.84
and has been
supporting this feature.
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And, so, yeah,
there's a lot of people
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doing studies on that.
00:20:51.55\00:20:52.88
So just a few
moments we're going to
00:20:52.91\00:20:54.32
let you see this wonderful video
00:20:54.35\00:20:55.95
and then give
you some information
00:20:55.98\00:20:57.32
as to how you can contact.
00:20:57.35\00:20:58.69
But, Shelley, I joined
Adventist Church young,
00:20:58.72\00:21:01.26
but you came from
the first day keeping
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to seventh day Sabbath keeping.
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In just a minute, was
it a strange thing for you.
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Was it a natural
settling in to you,
00:21:08.63\00:21:10.20
were you convinced
that this was the right day.
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Well, what happened for me was
00:21:12.80\00:21:14.44
when I went into
full-time ministry,
00:21:14.47\00:21:16.17
the Lord impressed me to
forget what I thought I know
00:21:16.20\00:21:19.01
and come sit at
his feet, he'd teach me
00:21:19.04\00:21:21.44
and he took me on a
study of the sanctuary
00:21:21.48\00:21:25.08
and that's when I found
that the Ten Commandments
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were inside the ark
that the book of the Covenant
00:21:27.92\00:21:31.29
was on the side of the ark.
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So that brought, you
know, I started studying
00:21:33.42\00:21:36.52
and I praised God
for Bible software
00:21:36.56\00:21:38.79
because I was able to study
in the Hebrew and the Greek
00:21:38.83\00:21:41.56
and as I
re-examined Colossians 2:14
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and found that the commandments
were not nailed to the cross.
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But what it was,
was the ceremonial law
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then what happened to me
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was the only thing
I wasn't keeping...
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Only
commandment I wasn't keeping
00:21:57.68\00:21:59.25
was the Sabbath.
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And for me the
clincher was Exodus 31:13.
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When I realized, you know,
God is a covenant keeping God,
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He always has a
sign of his covenant.
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With Noah the
sign was the rainbow.
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But actually the Sabbath,
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He said it is a sign
of his covenant of grace
00:22:17.33\00:22:20.80
because he said
the Sabbath is a sign
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that I am the one
who is sanctifying you.
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So you know for me
00:22:26.24\00:22:27.58
when I started
celebrating the Sabbath
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it was just like
because I had all my life
00:22:29.68\00:22:33.21
been trying to save myself
be good enough to save myself
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and the Sabbath is a
weekly reminder to me
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that there is a coveted of grace
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that God is the one
that's working in me,
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the willing to do is
good pleasure and it's just...
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Praise the Lord.
It was wonderful.
00:22:47.50\00:22:49.93
So without further ado
we want you to sit back
00:22:49.96\00:22:52.47
and really enjoy a good piece
of video a good piece of work
00:22:52.50\00:22:55.90
but also a strong message
about God's creative power
00:22:55.94\00:22:59.64
and the Seventh-day
Sabbath, the fourth commandment,
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here now the
Seventh-day Beavers.
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It all started when
we moved out of the city.
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We moved way up here,
00:23:23.97\00:23:26.13
way up to this remote area
by the Modoc National Forest.
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Here, I discovered this
really neat beaver colony.
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I was so excited by this
close encounter with nature
00:23:36.78\00:23:40.98
that I started to
film with a video camera.
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That's when I made a
remarkable observation.
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These beavers were out and about
00:23:49.96\00:23:52.06
every day of the
week except Saturdays.
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I was never able to get
any pictures on Saturdays.
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So I decided to
do a little study.
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The incredible results,
00:24:04.51\00:24:06.14
I want to share with
you in this documentary,
00:24:06.17\00:24:09.24
I call The Seventh-day Beavers.
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Saturday, what's
so special about it?
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Why would Saturday be different
than any other weekday?
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Here I am in the
forest watching beavers
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and wondering why
they work six days a week
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and then rest on
this one particular day.
00:24:49.92\00:24:54.82
Welcome to the
Seventh-day Beavers,
00:24:54.86\00:24:58.76
the story of animals that rest.
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So here's the question,
00:25:07.37\00:25:09.50
what's so
special about Saturdays
00:25:09.54\00:25:12.87
that would cause
something in nature
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to recognize it.
00:25:14.78\00:25:16.98
Saturday is the
seventh day of the week.
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You can discover that by
looking at any good dictionary
00:25:19.45\00:25:21.95
or encyclopedia.
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It is also the
original day that God rested on
00:25:23.42\00:25:26.76
when he created this world.
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It says in the beginning
of the Bible in Genesis 2:3
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that God blessed the seventh day
00:25:33.03\00:25:35.80
and he sanctified it
00:25:35.83\00:25:37.17
because in it he had
rested from all his work,
00:25:37.20\00:25:40.50
which God created and made.
00:25:40.54\00:25:42.80
If anything in
nature still recognizes
00:25:42.84\00:25:46.04
the significance of the Sabbath.
00:25:46.07\00:25:48.51
It would be a
remnant or a carry over
00:25:48.54\00:25:51.75
from the early days
at the beginning of time.
00:25:51.78\00:25:55.38
In the Bible after God
finished creating the world
00:25:55.42\00:25:58.05
in six literal days.
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He created one more thing.
00:25:59.59\00:26:01.52
He created a day,
Genesis 2 to tell us,
00:26:01.56\00:26:05.29
on the seventh day
God rested from his work
00:26:05.33\00:26:08.30
which he had made and
God blessed the seventh day
00:26:08.33\00:26:11.23
and sanctified it.
00:26:11.27\00:26:12.93
So right from the
beginning of time we see
00:26:12.97\00:26:15.70
that the seventh day is special
to the creator of this earth.
00:26:15.74\00:26:19.67
Then it Exodus,
00:26:19.71\00:26:21.04
He commanded his people to
remember it by not working.
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You also see in Isaiah 56
00:26:24.85\00:26:26.61
that God invited foreigners
00:26:26.65\00:26:28.12
to join with his people, Israel,
00:26:28.15\00:26:30.35
and to keep the Sabbath also.
00:26:30.39\00:26:34.22
In July, 1999, we made a
big decision in our family.
00:26:34.26\00:26:40.33
We decided to
move out of the city
00:26:40.36\00:26:44.47
and into the country.
00:26:44.50\00:26:47.97
My wife and I had both
graduated from college.
00:26:48.00\00:26:51.31
We were both in debt.
00:26:51.34\00:26:53.11
We had our first two children
00:26:53.14\00:26:55.18
and we were living smack
dab in the middle of a city
00:26:55.21\00:27:00.12
in a tract housing development.
00:27:00.15\00:27:03.22
One day after work
I decided to stop off
00:27:03.25\00:27:06.22
at the local
Christian bookstore.
00:27:06.25\00:27:08.02
And see if I can get a book
to help to be a better parent.
00:27:08.06\00:27:12.39
While browsing
through the Family section
00:27:15.40\00:27:18.83
my eye caught the
sight of a book called
00:27:18.87\00:27:23.61
"Country Living."
00:27:23.64\00:27:25.21
This book really
jumped off the shelf by itself
00:27:25.24\00:27:27.84
into my arms.
00:27:27.88\00:27:29.21
While perusing through the book,
00:27:38.89\00:27:41.09
I felt strongly impressed
00:27:41.12\00:27:42.92
that God wanted us to
move out into the country.
00:27:42.96\00:27:48.36
But we had this problem of money
00:27:48.40\00:27:51.40
and us being starving
students just out of college,
00:27:51.43\00:27:55.00
we would of course need jobs
and so that doesn't come easy.
00:27:55.04\00:27:59.17
But about this time,
00:27:59.21\00:28:01.24
this little simple,
little three bedroom house
00:28:01.28\00:28:03.85
was offered to us for free.
00:28:03.88\00:28:07.88
You know it's really not much
00:28:07.92\00:28:10.25
but it was free and that's
about all we could afford.
00:28:10.29\00:28:13.46
That would give us
a really good chance
00:28:13.49\00:28:14.82
to pay off our debts,
00:28:14.86\00:28:16.52
get on our feet a little bit.
00:28:16.56\00:28:18.73
Having a house for free is nice
00:28:18.76\00:28:20.46
but, of course, you're
going to have to have jobs.
00:28:20.50\00:28:22.46
Way out here in
the middle of nowhere
00:28:22.50\00:28:23.87
where would we find
jobs, we work in hospitals.
00:28:23.90\00:28:28.80
So I decided to
call the local hospital.
00:28:28.84\00:28:30.77
I call them up
and I said to him,
00:28:30.81\00:28:34.64
I wanted to work four days
a week as a physical therapist
00:28:34.68\00:28:37.38
and the reason
four instead of five
00:28:37.41\00:28:39.11
is because I want to take
one day off so my wife can work
00:28:39.15\00:28:42.38
who is a dental hygienist
00:28:42.42\00:28:44.09
and she wants to
work one day a week.
00:28:44.12\00:28:46.59
So I told this to
the man on the phone.
00:28:46.62\00:28:48.86
Then there were
silent on the phone
00:28:48.89\00:28:50.33
for a little while.
00:28:50.36\00:28:51.69
Finally, he came back on
00:28:51.73\00:28:53.06
and he said did you say
physical therapy for four days
00:28:53.09\00:28:55.16
and dental hygiene for one day?
00:28:55.20\00:28:56.97
I said, "Yeah."
00:28:57.00\00:28:58.33
He said, "That's funny."
00:28:58.37\00:28:59.70
We're looking for
a dental hygienist
00:28:59.73\00:29:01.10
to work one day a week
00:29:01.14\00:29:02.47
and a physical therapist
to work four days a week.
00:29:02.50\00:29:05.31
So God opened the doors up,
00:29:05.34\00:29:08.14
we moved into the house
and we moved out of the country
00:29:08.18\00:29:11.81
and started our life
here out in the country.
00:29:11.85\00:29:16.38
Yeah, you know
that was pretty amazing
00:29:16.42\00:29:19.49
and that nearest
hospital was about 40 miles away
00:29:19.52\00:29:23.36
and the fact
that they were looking
00:29:23.39\00:29:24.73
for the exact
same schedule told us
00:29:24.76\00:29:27.16
this must be a sign from God.
00:29:27.20\00:29:31.23
A free house, tailor-made jobs,
00:29:31.27\00:29:34.10
we did it, we made the big move.
00:29:34.14\00:29:36.17
So here we are in the country
living amongst the Beavers
00:29:43.28\00:29:48.48
and to tell the truth,
00:29:48.52\00:29:49.85
I never would have
even noticed them resting
00:29:49.88\00:29:52.32
if it wasn't for Bill.
00:29:52.35\00:29:54.39
Back when Larren and his
family still lived Redlands,
00:29:57.73\00:30:00.30
California, I
lived in their garage.
00:30:00.33\00:30:02.60
They ended up
converting their garage
00:30:02.63\00:30:04.17
into an apartment
then I rented it from them.
00:30:04.20\00:30:07.14
The property was
surrounded by orange groves,
00:30:07.17\00:30:09.27
which means lots of bees.
00:30:09.30\00:30:11.17
Now I notice
something very interesting
00:30:11.21\00:30:12.94
about these particular bees.
00:30:12.97\00:30:14.61
They flew in the
same pattern each day
00:30:14.64\00:30:17.45
they go zooming by
my garage every day
00:30:17.48\00:30:20.45
but on Saturdays, it was quiet.
00:30:20.48\00:30:23.69
No bees.
00:30:23.72\00:30:25.52
They didn't fly by on Saturday
like they did on the other days
00:30:25.55\00:30:29.72
and I had to tell
Larren about that.
00:30:29.76\00:30:31.46
Yeah, what Bill told me
that day was pretty interesting
00:30:36.73\00:30:39.47
but it really didn't
mean much to me at the time.
00:30:39.50\00:30:43.64
But I did remember it.
00:30:43.67\00:30:45.01
Let me take you up to the area
where my beavers actually live.
00:30:50.65\00:30:54.52
When we finally moved up here,
the thing that really contrasts
00:30:59.42\00:31:02.76
that our new
home with our old home
00:31:02.79\00:31:05.23
was the mountains,
00:31:05.26\00:31:07.20
we fell in love with
the mountains up here.
00:31:07.23\00:31:10.60
And since we
didn't work on Saturdays,
00:31:10.63\00:31:13.07
I had time to come up
here and explore the mountain.
00:31:13.10\00:31:16.04
That is on Saturdays.
00:31:16.07\00:31:18.14
One Saturday afternoon, I
ran across a huge beaver dam.
00:31:24.18\00:31:28.82
Now this discovery fascinated me
00:31:37.26\00:31:39.63
so I came back again and again
00:31:39.66\00:31:42.60
hoping to see the
beavers on Saturdays.
00:31:42.63\00:31:46.17
Saturday after
Saturday I came back
00:31:46.20\00:31:49.20
but I never saw
them and I wondered why?
00:31:49.24\00:31:53.78
Maybe beavers are just
real sneaky reclusive animals.
00:31:53.81\00:31:59.01
But then I got a surprise.
00:31:59.05\00:32:02.45
I got a chance to
go up to the beaver dam
00:32:02.48\00:32:04.82
on a different day.
00:32:04.85\00:32:06.22
And Wow!
00:32:06.25\00:32:07.76
There they were.
00:32:07.79\00:32:09.12
So here it is the home
of the Seventh-day Beavers.
00:32:22.57\00:32:29.54
This creek in the
national forest here
00:32:29.58\00:32:32.58
is only about 15
miles away from our home.
00:32:32.61\00:32:35.45
And over the years these beavers
00:32:38.49\00:32:40.52
have built several dams
00:32:40.56\00:32:42.09
some down the creek
and others up the creek.
00:32:42.12\00:32:45.79
And after coming up
to this particular dam
00:32:52.03\00:32:55.27
and visiting the
beavers several times,
00:32:55.30\00:32:58.54
I finally begin to wonder
00:32:58.57\00:33:00.61
why wasn't I
seeing them on Saturdays.
00:33:00.64\00:33:03.75
That's when I
remembered the bees.
00:33:03.78\00:33:09.35
It finally hit me
00:33:09.38\00:33:10.82
what Bill said about
the bees in Redlands.
00:33:10.85\00:33:13.66
How they didn't fly their
usual patterns on Saturdays
00:33:13.69\00:33:17.19
and I thought bee's and
beavers are kind of similar,
00:33:17.23\00:33:21.26
these live in colonies,
00:33:21.30\00:33:23.37
they work together in
a highly organized manner
00:33:23.40\00:33:26.00
performing specific
tasks that is to make honey.
00:33:26.03\00:33:30.61
I thought to myself,
00:33:30.64\00:33:31.97
now don't beavers
do the same thing.
00:33:32.01\00:33:34.71
Well they don't make
honey but they live in colonies
00:33:34.74\00:33:38.05
and they work together
in a highly organized manner
00:33:38.08\00:33:41.08
performing a specific
task that is building dams.
00:33:41.12\00:33:45.89
I wonder if somehow
00:33:45.92\00:33:47.79
these beavers are resting
on Saturdays like Bill's bees.
00:33:47.82\00:33:52.69
And so that's when I decided
to do a little experimenting.
00:33:52.73\00:33:57.73
So I decided to observe
00:33:57.77\00:33:59.30
the activity of the
beavers on a routine,
00:33:59.33\00:34:02.17
weekly basis
over a period of time.
00:34:02.20\00:34:06.11
Each weekday I'll
come up at the same time
00:34:06.14\00:34:09.08
and record what I observe.
00:34:09.11\00:34:11.68
And, of course, I'll be
using my trusty video camera
00:34:11.71\00:34:15.18
to help record the data.
00:34:15.22\00:34:18.02
Now according to what I've heard
00:34:18.05\00:34:20.02
beavers are most
active early in the morning,
00:34:20.06\00:34:24.06
late in the
evening and late at night.
00:34:24.09\00:34:27.70
Anyway, that worked
well with my schedule,
00:34:27.73\00:34:30.53
since I had to
work most weekdays.
00:34:30.57\00:34:33.37
So my plan was to observe them
each morning early before work
00:34:33.40\00:34:38.71
and late each
evening after work.
00:34:38.74\00:34:41.74
Then on Saturdays and Sundays,
00:34:41.78\00:34:43.55
I'd be able to spend a
little extra time observing.
00:34:43.58\00:34:47.35
This will be fun I thought.
00:34:47.38\00:34:49.05
I'll pretend like
00:34:49.08\00:34:50.42
I'm a Mutual of Omaha's
Wild Kingdom nature film
00:34:50.45\00:34:53.05
or something.
00:34:53.09\00:34:54.92
So I went to work each
day making my observations
00:34:54.96\00:34:59.43
and making notes to
keep track of the data.
00:34:59.46\00:35:02.33
This is week
one and it's Monday,
00:35:05.40\00:35:09.57
and there they
are doing their thing.
00:35:09.60\00:35:16.38
They're very active swimming,
00:35:16.41\00:35:19.75
carrying branches
around and eating.
00:35:19.78\00:35:25.55
They seem to be most
active here in the evening
00:35:25.59\00:35:29.72
more so than in the morning.
00:35:29.76\00:35:33.43
So I'll make a note of this
00:35:33.46\00:35:36.03
in my beaver log
and mark it down.
00:35:36.06\00:35:39.97
So I went to work
starting on a Monday.
00:35:44.11\00:35:48.04
I continued
observing the next day.
00:35:48.08\00:35:50.45
So it's Tuesday and
they are very active today.
00:35:56.95\00:35:59.49
Sure enough there
they were still at it.
00:36:02.62\00:36:05.86
Swimming, splashing, eating
all the normal beaver activity.
00:36:05.89\00:36:11.13
And the next day, Wednesday,
there they were still busy.
00:36:11.17\00:36:16.07
I also got a chance to see
00:36:16.10\00:36:17.44
quite a variety of
other wildlife too.
00:36:17.47\00:36:22.04
I think there's a big
Sandhill crane out here.
00:36:22.08\00:36:26.45
Two, big Sandhill
cranes are over there.
00:36:29.48\00:36:31.22
I even saw a baby black bear
right here in the same spot.
00:36:35.32\00:36:39.06
Thursday.
00:36:44.23\00:36:45.57
Just like the previous day,
the beavers were still busy.
00:36:45.60\00:36:48.44
On Friday, same thing,
swimming, splashing, eating,
00:36:58.48\00:37:03.72
the beavers were
consistently active
00:37:03.75\00:37:06.15
Monday through Friday
at the same time each day.
00:37:06.19\00:37:09.32
Now the next day was Saturday,
00:37:13.70\00:37:16.13
the first
Saturday of the experiment.
00:37:16.16\00:37:19.13
What will I see
when I come tomorrow.
00:37:19.17\00:37:22.37
So here's a question
00:37:26.01\00:37:27.84
does the Bible
mention anything anywhere
00:37:27.88\00:37:31.01
about an animal
resting on Sabbath?
00:37:31.05\00:37:35.68
Well, what the Bible
says, actually what Jesus said
00:37:35.72\00:37:38.75
is that Sabbath
was made for man.
00:37:38.79\00:37:41.52
And when we think about that
00:37:41.56\00:37:43.63
he is saying this is the day
00:37:43.66\00:37:45.23
that God has
given you as a gift.
00:37:45.26\00:37:47.23
But in fact,
00:37:47.26\00:37:48.60
the fourth
commandment does mention
00:37:48.63\00:37:50.57
animals being involved in that
00:37:50.60\00:37:52.33
because it says in
it, on this Sabbath,
00:37:52.37\00:37:55.60
you shall do no work, not
you, your son or your daughter,
00:37:55.64\00:37:58.97
your
manservant, your maidservant
00:37:59.01\00:38:00.88
nor your cattle
nor your stranger
00:38:00.91\00:38:02.64
that was within your gates.
00:38:02.68\00:38:04.75
The cattle are to rest.
00:38:04.78\00:38:06.92
These were
normally working animals
00:38:06.95\00:38:10.02
but not only the
cattle even the strangers
00:38:10.05\00:38:12.39
that were to visit them.
00:38:12.42\00:38:13.76
Anyone who was on the property
was not to work on the Sabbath.
00:38:13.79\00:38:19.23
One other time,
00:38:19.26\00:38:20.60
the Bible mentions loosing an Ox
00:38:20.63\00:38:22.13
to lead it to
water on the Sabbath
00:38:22.16\00:38:23.87
which indicates it's
resting from the work
00:38:23.90\00:38:26.40
it normally would be doing
for a man on the Sabbath day.
00:38:26.43\00:38:31.17
And so yes working animals
were to rest on the Sabbath.
00:38:31.21\00:38:36.51
Okay. It's Saturday
and this is amazing.
00:38:39.81\00:38:43.15
There's nothing
absolutely nothing.
00:38:43.18\00:38:47.22
Completely still.
00:38:47.26\00:38:49.66
I'm here the
same time as yesterday
00:38:49.69\00:38:51.56
when they were
out about swimming
00:38:51.59\00:38:53.03
and doing all kinds of stuff.
00:38:53.06\00:38:54.66
But today, nothing, quiet.
00:38:54.70\00:38:58.40
I know they're alive
00:39:06.27\00:39:07.61
because I can hear them,
00:39:07.64\00:39:09.04
I can hear them
inside that lodge here.
00:39:09.08\00:39:10.41
Listen to this.
00:39:10.45\00:39:12.51
I guess these guys
need a day off too.
00:39:24.39\00:39:27.20
But why did they pick Saturday.
00:39:27.23\00:39:29.76
Do they even know it's Saturday
00:39:29.80\00:39:32.40
or maybe it's
just a coincidence.
00:39:32.43\00:39:35.00
The only way to find out
just to keep on observing
00:39:35.04\00:39:38.04
through another week.
00:39:38.07\00:39:39.41
It's Sunday, and the
beaver are back, out and busy.
00:39:49.02\00:39:54.06
They've obviously
come back out of the lodge
00:40:06.67\00:40:10.41
they look healthy
00:40:10.44\00:40:13.91
so I'll just keep watching
00:40:13.94\00:40:15.78
and see what's on their schedule
00:40:15.81\00:40:17.15
for this week.
00:40:17.18\00:40:21.45
Another week of observation
00:40:21.48\00:40:23.75
and the beavers were
out every day busy as usual,
00:40:23.79\00:40:28.22
Sunday through Friday
00:40:28.26\00:40:29.69
at about the
same time every day,
00:40:29.72\00:40:33.93
and then came Saturday.
00:40:33.96\00:40:40.30
And just like the first
week all was quiet again.
00:40:40.34\00:40:43.57
This continued
on week after week,
00:40:49.21\00:40:51.35
month after
month summer and winter
00:40:51.38\00:40:53.65
with the same results.
00:40:53.68\00:40:55.38
My dad has been
watching these beavers
00:41:22.04\00:41:23.88
for about 16 years.
00:41:23.91\00:41:27.52
He's been getting to be,
00:41:27.55\00:41:28.88
kind of, an
expert on beaver behavior
00:41:28.92\00:41:30.45
at least with
this family of beavers.
00:41:30.49\00:41:32.25
They seem like normal animals
00:41:40.96\00:41:43.03
except we've never once
seen them out on Saturdays.
00:41:43.06\00:41:46.03
Notice something
interesting about beavers,
00:41:55.84\00:41:59.11
you see how close their
front arms and shoulders
00:41:59.15\00:42:01.68
are to their head.
00:42:01.72\00:42:04.05
It almost looks like their arms
00:42:04.09\00:42:05.69
come out the side of their neck.
00:42:05.72\00:42:08.56
Now this makes them really good
00:42:08.59\00:42:10.29
at handling things
close to their mouths.
00:42:10.33\00:42:13.73
But not so good at running.
00:42:13.76\00:42:17.00
Also, notice how
fast they submerge
00:42:17.03\00:42:19.90
when they slap their tails.
00:42:19.93\00:42:22.20
I used to think
beavers slap their tails
00:42:22.24\00:42:24.94
to warn others of danger
00:42:24.97\00:42:27.41
but after studying
them for a long time,
00:42:27.44\00:42:29.51
I don't think that's the case.
00:42:29.54\00:42:31.85
It looks to me like
00:42:31.88\00:42:33.25
they're trying to
get underwater quickly.
00:42:33.28\00:42:36.48
I don't think
they're warning others
00:42:36.52\00:42:38.02
because sometimes
they slap their tails
00:42:38.05\00:42:40.19
when no others are
around or if others are there.
00:42:40.22\00:42:44.46
The others don't
respond by running off
00:42:44.49\00:42:46.63
when they hear the slap.
00:42:46.66\00:42:49.60
Beavers can't
see very good at all.
00:42:49.63\00:42:52.63
In fact, I've
been able to film them
00:42:52.67\00:42:54.84
within just a few feet
without them seeing me.
00:42:54.87\00:42:59.24
They can smell
and hear very well
00:42:59.27\00:43:01.64
but they have
very poor eyesight.
00:43:01.68\00:43:03.75
So to me it looks
like they slap their tails
00:43:03.78\00:43:07.28
because they're not
sure if danger is present
00:43:07.32\00:43:09.45
and they want to get
under the water quickly
00:43:09.48\00:43:11.69
just in case.
00:43:11.72\00:43:13.79
Because when they
don't slap their tails
00:43:13.82\00:43:15.86
submerging takes a bit longer.
00:43:15.89\00:43:18.09
Sometimes only come
up here on Saturdays,
00:43:21.40\00:43:23.57
we're a little worried,
when do we see the beavers out.
00:43:23.60\00:43:27.14
After all this time,
00:43:27.17\00:43:28.54
that would
really ruin our study.
00:43:28.57\00:43:30.91
But no, every Saturday
00:43:30.94\00:43:32.67
when we come
everything is quiet here
00:43:32.71\00:43:35.24
at the Beaver dam.
00:43:35.28\00:43:36.61
Getting to be to beaver
dams has been a challenge.
00:43:43.02\00:43:47.79
Over the years
we've been very thankful
00:43:47.82\00:43:49.69
for the old Chevy Tahoe,
it's been pretty capable.
00:43:49.72\00:43:54.03
It's gotten us in and out
of some pretty rough places.
00:43:54.06\00:43:57.60
Yeah, you know, we've logged
00:44:00.87\00:44:02.20
thousands of miles on this truck
00:44:02.24\00:44:04.67
and on some of
the roughest terrain.
00:44:04.71\00:44:06.71
Oh, boy.
00:44:17.59\00:44:18.92
Besides down the
trees are the trail,
00:44:30.93\00:44:37.01
flat tires were
par for the course.
00:44:37.04\00:44:42.78
Yup, another flat.
00:44:42.81\00:44:46.21
There we are minding
our own business, flat.
00:44:46.25\00:44:50.45
Out in the middle of nowhere.
00:44:50.49\00:44:53.09
I got muscles.
00:44:53.12\00:44:54.46
One of the biggest flats,
I think, we've ever gotten.
00:44:54.49\00:44:56.42
Tire is eager come off...
00:45:01.40\00:45:02.73
It's already loose.
00:45:02.76\00:45:04.10
Like a loose tooth.
00:45:04.13\00:45:05.47
Ready.
00:45:08.07\00:45:10.51
Wow.
00:45:10.54\00:45:12.37
Let's try different one.
00:45:12.41\00:45:13.74
I don't think I'd like this one.
00:45:13.78\00:45:15.21
This is of the same size tire?
00:45:15.24\00:45:16.58
We finally had a breakdown
00:45:32.93\00:45:34.26
and buy some really tough tires.
00:45:34.30\00:45:36.20
Keys.
00:45:36.23\00:45:37.57
All right, I will let
John know you're here.
00:45:41.34\00:45:43.74
Okay. Thank you.
00:45:43.77\00:45:45.44
We're getting the
old flat tire problem
00:45:45.47\00:45:47.34
fixed right now.
00:45:47.38\00:45:51.28
All right, no more flats for us.
00:45:51.31\00:45:53.01
Great. All right...
00:45:56.89\00:45:58.32
Peter, thank you.
00:45:58.35\00:45:59.69
If Saturday is God's Sabbath day
00:46:03.02\00:46:07.26
then why do
Christians all over the world
00:46:07.30\00:46:11.33
go to church on Sunday.
00:46:11.37\00:46:14.04
Well, that's
really a good question
00:46:14.07\00:46:15.70
because there's
nothing to validate
00:46:15.74\00:46:18.17
the keeping of
Sunday in the Bible.
00:46:18.21\00:46:20.44
It's merely tradition.
00:46:20.48\00:46:23.11
Surely tradition.
00:46:23.14\00:46:24.48
There's only eight verses
on the first day of the week
00:46:24.51\00:46:28.82
in the Bible and
none of them talk about
00:46:28.85\00:46:31.09
transferring the worship of God,
00:46:31.12\00:46:34.69
the day that God
sanctified from the seventh day
00:46:34.72\00:46:38.06
to Sunday.
00:46:38.09\00:46:39.66
And actually the
tradition dates all the way back
00:46:39.69\00:46:42.73
to a few centuries after Christ
00:46:42.76\00:46:45.10
when Constantine
legalized Christianity.
00:46:45.13\00:46:48.00
And he acted the very
first Sunday observance law.
00:46:48.04\00:46:51.37
You can read about it
in a lot of encyclopedias.
00:46:51.41\00:46:54.91
Collier's encyclopedia says that
00:46:54.94\00:46:57.05
on the venerable day of
Sun, let the magistrates
00:46:57.08\00:47:00.78
and the people
residing in cities rest
00:47:00.82\00:47:03.55
and let all the
workshops be closed.
00:47:03.59\00:47:06.76
Then in 364 AD in
the council of Laodicea
00:47:06.79\00:47:11.33
they passed a law requiring
00:47:11.36\00:47:13.23
that Christians must not Judaize
00:47:13.26\00:47:15.86
by resting on a Saturday.
00:47:15.90\00:47:18.13
The religious leaders led
by Bishop Eusebius stated,
00:47:18.17\00:47:22.30
all things whatsoever
00:47:22.34\00:47:24.07
that it was duty
to do on the Sabbath
00:47:24.11\00:47:26.94
these we have
transferred to the Lord's Day,
00:47:26.98\00:47:30.25
which was the name
they gave to Sunday.
00:47:30.28\00:47:33.65
70 AD Roman armies
conquered Jerusalem
00:47:33.68\00:47:36.72
and burned the
Temple to the ground.
00:47:36.75\00:47:39.05
At that time it
became very unpopular
00:47:39.09\00:47:41.52
throughout the Roman Empire
to be like the Jews in any way
00:47:41.56\00:47:46.13
and Christian churches
had recently been established
00:47:46.16\00:47:49.13
throughout the empire
especially in the city of Rome.
00:47:49.16\00:47:51.83
And so because of
this war against the Jews
00:47:51.87\00:47:54.60
it became very unpopular
to be like the Jews in any way
00:47:54.64\00:47:59.51
and the Bible
Sabbath looked Jewish
00:47:59.54\00:48:01.54
because the
Jews kept it as well.
00:48:01.58\00:48:04.25
And so a tremendous pressure
00:48:04.28\00:48:06.41
was exerted upon the
early Christian churches
00:48:06.45\00:48:08.72
especially in Rome to move
away from the Bible Sabbath.
00:48:08.75\00:48:13.36
But at the same time,
00:48:13.39\00:48:15.36
Sunday was a day
that was recognized
00:48:15.39\00:48:18.26
throughout the Roman
Empire as the day of the Sun.
00:48:18.29\00:48:21.83
The Romans
worship the Sun on Sunday.
00:48:21.86\00:48:25.60
And so as the
Christians were feeling pressure
00:48:25.63\00:48:28.57
to get away from
anything that looked Jewish
00:48:28.60\00:48:31.34
they started thinking
about this and they said,
00:48:31.37\00:48:34.34
"Hey, you know what,
Jesus rose on Sunday anyway."
00:48:34.38\00:48:38.48
And so it became a very
convenient rash rationalization
00:48:38.51\00:48:43.28
to move away from the what was
00:48:43.32\00:48:45.05
what looked
like a Jewish Sabbath
00:48:45.09\00:48:47.26
and to move toward Sunday.
00:48:47.29\00:48:48.76
If you've heard the expression
when in Rome do as the Romans.
00:48:48.79\00:48:52.63
That really
originated over this issue
00:48:52.66\00:48:55.50
and so the shift took place.
00:48:55.53\00:48:57.27
Gradually especially in
Rome and in Egypt in Alexandria
00:48:57.30\00:49:01.50
and as time went on
the Roman Catholic Church
00:49:01.54\00:49:03.94
really became a
dominant advocate
00:49:03.97\00:49:06.88
for Sunday observance
00:49:06.91\00:49:08.91
as a replacement
to the Bible Sabbath.
00:49:08.94\00:49:11.68
Nevertheless the Bible
itself does not change.
00:49:11.71\00:49:15.22
And the fourth
commandment still says
00:49:15.25\00:49:17.69
that the seventh day is
the Sabbath not of the Jews
00:49:17.72\00:49:21.56
but of the Lord.
00:49:21.59\00:49:22.92
Well, as you can see,
00:49:27.50\00:49:28.83
winter has settled in
here at the beaver pond
00:49:28.86\00:49:31.20
but the beavers are still active
00:49:31.23\00:49:32.57
and still coming out
Sunday through Friday.
00:49:32.60\00:49:35.44
Not quite as much but
they're still coming out.
00:49:35.47\00:49:39.21
I just finished observing
several more weeks here
00:49:39.24\00:49:42.84
and still no Saturday activity.
00:49:42.88\00:49:45.78
Now it's not that they
just stop working on Saturday.
00:49:45.81\00:49:49.45
I haven't seen them
come out of their lodge
00:49:49.48\00:49:51.85
on Saturday.
00:49:51.89\00:49:53.46
It's as if they go in
there Friday night at sundown
00:49:53.49\00:49:56.39
and then hibernate for 24 hours.
00:49:56.42\00:49:59.56
I've been observing this now
00:49:59.59\00:50:00.93
for over 10 years and
here's what I think...
00:50:00.96\00:50:04.50
I think something is
causing the beavers to rest
00:50:04.53\00:50:07.87
on Saturday something
inherent or something unseen.
00:50:07.90\00:50:12.61
My hunch is this the
designer who created the beavers
00:50:12.64\00:50:16.48
must have programmed a
rest period in their brains
00:50:16.51\00:50:20.12
and that designer has
to be the God of the Bible
00:50:20.15\00:50:22.38
because they're resting occurs
only and routinely on Saturdays
00:50:22.42\00:50:26.96
which is the
biblical day of rest,
00:50:26.99\00:50:28.72
the same day that God rested
00:50:28.76\00:50:30.96
when he created this world
and so I'm impressed by this.
00:50:30.99\00:50:35.86
Now, I don't know if
all beavers rest like this
00:50:35.90\00:50:39.20
but the next
logical step would be
00:50:39.23\00:50:41.07
to organize another study
00:50:41.10\00:50:43.84
involving other families
of beavers and find out.
00:50:43.87\00:50:47.64
If you have any questions
00:50:47.68\00:50:49.14
or you would
like more information
00:50:49.18\00:50:51.41
or maybe if you'd
like some free study guides
00:50:51.45\00:50:53.95
about the Sabbath day,
00:50:53.98\00:50:55.42
you can contact me at my website
00:50:55.45\00:50:57.42
at www.desiremedia.org.
00:50:57.45\00:51:02.16
And thank you for watching
the Seventh-day Beavers.
00:51:02.19\00:51:04.83
Just finished filming,
Seventh-day Beaver film
00:51:16.04\00:51:19.67
just about wrapped up
here and we've got a long walk.
00:51:19.71\00:51:22.14
We couldn't even bring
the truck in here today
00:51:22.18\00:51:24.28
because it's so deep.
00:51:24.31\00:51:26.21
In fact, we got stuck up
there once, we're good now.
00:51:26.25\00:51:28.75
You know, Larren that is
00:51:36.12\00:51:37.46
first of all it's
a fun piece to watch
00:51:37.49\00:51:39.49
and that's sixteen
years of your life,
00:51:39.53\00:51:41.36
16 years of dedicated work
00:51:41.40\00:51:42.86
and Shelley, I agree
that the words you said
00:51:42.90\00:51:44.67
were very, very important
00:51:44.70\00:51:46.03
and it works it's
something you couldn't give this
00:51:46.07\00:51:48.77
to a non
Adventist, a non-Christian,
00:51:48.80\00:51:52.41
a person who is
just into science,
00:51:52.44\00:51:54.04
who's into nature,
00:51:54.08\00:51:55.41
who's into
animals who just like.
00:51:55.44\00:51:56.98
Children can watch this.
00:51:57.01\00:51:58.35
It's really a
video for all ages.
00:51:58.38\00:52:00.15
Did you intend
to do it that way?
00:52:00.18\00:52:01.52
Oh, yeah, yeah.
00:52:01.55\00:52:02.88
In fact, you'll see on the video
00:52:02.92\00:52:04.25
that I purposely
use the word Saturday
00:52:04.29\00:52:06.59
as I don't use the
word Sabbath it's Saturday.
00:52:06.62\00:52:09.56
So absolutely I
want this to be a tool,
00:52:09.59\00:52:12.06
you know, I'm an
evangelist, I want to win souls.
00:52:12.09\00:52:14.40
So yeah I intended to do that.
00:52:14.43\00:52:17.33
So we use the word Saturday,
00:52:17.37\00:52:18.70
we try not to look too,
00:52:18.73\00:52:20.90
you know it gets
a little theological
00:52:20.94\00:52:22.40
at the end with our
Bible experts who come in
00:52:22.44\00:52:24.37
but we call it Saturday.
00:52:24.41\00:52:25.84
But I don't
think you come across
00:52:25.87\00:52:27.21
to heavy or that
children can't understand
00:52:27.24\00:52:28.98
what you're trying to say,
00:52:29.01\00:52:30.35
it's kind of for all
ages don't you agree?
00:52:30.38\00:52:32.15
You know, I had really no
idea what he was going to ask me
00:52:32.18\00:52:34.78
when he sat down.
00:52:34.82\00:52:36.15
I remember, I was doing a...
00:52:36.18\00:52:37.62
Larren came in and sat up.
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I was doing as
seminar at ASI in 2015
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and he came in
and sat up and said,
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"Here we are
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but you need to know
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how you can get
this wonderful video,
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and I think we've
got an address role
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that is ready for you.
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If you would like to
contact Desire Media,
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you can do so at...
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Post office box 185,
New Pine Creek, Oregon.
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97635.
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That's Post office box
185, New Pine Creek, Oregon.
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97635.
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Or you can visit them
online at LarrenCole.com.
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That's LarrenCole.com.
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Contact them today,
they'd love to hear from you.
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