Hello and welcome
to 3ABN today live.
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This is our 2
hour sitting together,
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so allow me
please to welcome you
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and thank you for
sharing this part of
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your day with us
and this is gonna
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be a really
exciting time of sharing
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because of my subject matter and
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because of my
very special guest,
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now we use that
term kind of a lot here,
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we say special
guest, special guest,
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special guest but
tonight guest truly
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is a very special
guest. He is not an
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unfamiliar face
to those who watch
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this channel and
other religious channels,
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very popular speaker and really
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kind of a neat guy. You know,
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you meet people sometimes and
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from the time you meet them you
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kind know that
kind of just a neat guy,
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loves the Lord,
Christian but a very
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regular guy. My
guest is Shawn Boonstra.
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Shawn good to have you here.
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It's good, you
know, you're the first
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person to call me
special, and a few
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teachers call me
special on the way.
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That could be
special as those who
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are not as you can see fun guy
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who loves the Lord and we've got
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a lot of talk
about, we're gonna talk
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about prophecy, we're gonna try
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to interview that
with current events
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and things that are going on as
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you look at, three
very crucial chapters
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in the Book of Revelation,
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so we're gonna have really good
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times and I want
to draw up close,
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hit the record
button if you dare
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and really give
ear to what we're gonna
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talk about
because Shawn has brought
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a lot of stuff with
him and we want to go
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through it all
as much as we can,
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this very evening. You are the
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speaker director
for "It is written."
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That's right. Tell us what that
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means and what you do?
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Well, "It is
written" was a telecast,
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the first one
on the air in 1956,
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now obviously I
didn't go on the air in 1956,
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but as I
understand it was the first
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religious telecast
in color and founded
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by George Vandeman and then
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George therefore a long time and
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then in early 90s
Mark Finley was the
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speaker of "It is
written" and then for.
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I guess the
last 5 or 6 years now
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I've had that position where
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primarily a
television program that is
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all about
proclaiming Christ to the world.
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Our new motto,
where it is written
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simply believe, believe.
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We believe that what God ask the
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church to do can
be done and we are
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encouraging the
world to believe that
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Jesus gave his
life for them that Jesus
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is coming again. So we are now
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on in a 143
countries in 11 languages.
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Alright, well done. Let's take a
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moment Shawn, I
want to demythologize,
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demystified Shawn Boonstra.
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Not much I am not a
hot guy to figure out.
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I know you are a fellow Canuck,
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you are a
Canadian. I am Canadian.
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And you are from the
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Western part of the country.
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I am from British Columbia.
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I was born in
the town of Smithers,
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British Columbia
and I am guessing
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somebody in Smithers
is watching 3ABN tonight.
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Well, praise the
Lord. You maybe otherwise
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know Smithers. I've
not heard of Smithers.
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Up behind the Alaska Panhandle
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just the
Southern tip, go 5 hours
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in land and you are in Smithers.
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Okay. I see. Grew up
in an Adventist home,
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little background.
No, no, not at all.
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I did grow up in Christian home,
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mom and Dad were believers.
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They believed in
Christ, took us to
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Church every
week, didn't grow up
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an Adventist. I
made a decision to
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become a part of
Adventist Christianity,
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part of the Adventist church.
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Later on in life
I think I was 21 or
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22 years old then it was through
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the influence
of "It is written."
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Ah, interesting enough. Well,
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you kind a
seeking for something,
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were you satisfied
where you were? Oh,
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absolutely,
looking for something just
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because you grow
up in a Christian home
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doesn't make you a Christian.
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Mom and dad
read the Bible to us,
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I went to a
church school but Christ
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didn't really
become real to me until
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I heard some of
the things we're gonna
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talk about
tonight it was through
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Bible prophecy
and "It is written"
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teaches a lot of Bible prophecy,
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public seminars.
It was through Bible
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prophecy that I
really saw how real
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God is I mean I
knew the whole thing,
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I knew Jesus
died for me but what
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really made it come
to life is when I saw
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just how intricate
the prophetic message
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of Bible, the
Bible is, how real it is,
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how current it is
and it was through Bible
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prophecy that I
finally realize Christ
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didn't just die for
the world he died for me.
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Now that's interesting Shawn
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because that sort
of biting of at the
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heavy end you
know most people don't
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start with
prophecy, they start with
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sort of Jesus
loves me this I know and
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work they were into that,
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you started with the heavy
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meat and sort of
cut your teeth there.
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Yeah, probably so, I mean there
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is a lot of things
going on if you go back
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this is I guess 17 years ago,
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it's 2010 now
imagine that, yeah,
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and I think the
first Gulf war was on
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and the whole world was watching
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what's going on in
Iraq and I remember
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watching the
tracer bullets on the news
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each night going
up into the sky and
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I keep thinking
and everybody says
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something is gonna happen in the
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Middle East. And
I started digging
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into Bible prophecy,
lot of things happened,
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actually the
Book of Revelation got
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my attention as
a young man coming
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upon 20 roughly I
had read it before.
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My parents gave
me a Bible in 1976.
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I sat down and read Revelation,
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one of the first things I read.
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I remember
running on the backyard
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looking up in the
sky, thinking well he
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is got to be
coming any minute now and
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then kind a went
own way as a teenager,
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and it was
through Bible prophecy
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long story short we got to spent
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2 hours on this one. Lord really
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got my attention through some
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of the material,
some of which we look
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at tonight and say
this is real, it's now
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I know who you
are. I followed you all
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your life that
was evident to me and
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I want you in my
family before Jesus comes.
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Did you, you know you grow up
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with the cool
mental Christianity.
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Did you have wildness years or
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where you kind
of predicted that.
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No I have
absolutely, I never get
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into much detail because I don't
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like given the
devil credit for what
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he did to me. Sure, understood.
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And why glorify
that stuff when Jesus
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says I forgot
about it, so you forget
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it about it too.
So that's behind me
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but as a mid to
late teenager for
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a while yeah, I went my own way.
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Yeah, when did
that light sort of come
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on for you as far
as not only becoming
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Adventist, but that there was a
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call in your life for ministry?
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How you know that, oh man,
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we could do 2
hours on that one too.
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You know, I like
to yak, I like to talk
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and again I did not
want to be a minister
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that was not my
life's ambition and
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those who referred
me to tell the story,
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you know, I wanted to run for
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public office. That was my big
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ambition and one
day imperceptibly those
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who have had
this happen well you
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know what I am talking about.
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There is a tap on
my shoulder you're
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not gonna do this
what I'm gonna to do.
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You're gonna be a minister and I
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thought no way,
that's nice and here
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I am 20 years later
and I am a minister.
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Praise the Lord, praise God.
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A little bit
about, are you married?
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Yes, I am. I
have been married now
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16 or 17 years
it somewhere right
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around there,
sorry honey, would you
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have your cameras on and I just,
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it's been a long
time I mean it seems
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like it just
happened yesterday and
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happily married to Jean.
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I couldn't have gotten a better
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wife from the Lord,
two girls, 10 and 7.
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Praise the Lord,
yeah, praise God.
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I am getting education.
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I am the only man in the house,
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and I have no sisters and
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so, this is really an adventure.
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Wow! Wow! I
want to get into some
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of the background moving into
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"It is written"
before we go to our music.
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How did "It is
written" happened,
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how did that
because one day Marks
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there and then
its Mark and Shawn
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and then it Shawn and you kind
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of rose up kind
a quickly, how did
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"It is written" come
of that? I have no idea.
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I just have no
idea. What's interesting
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I started with "It
is written" in Canada.
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I was the speaker/director
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of "It is written" Canada after
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Henry Feyerabend
retired from that
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position, a well-known name in
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Canada and in
Brazil, Very much so.
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And I was Pastoring
a church in Northern
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British Columbia
or number of churches
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and they came and asked me.
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I guess about 12
years ago, and so far
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12 years either
in Canada or the US
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I have been with "It is written"
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and I guess about 5 to 6 years
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ago just before Mark went to his
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current position as a general
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vice-president of
the general conference
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that I was asked,
Mark asked me honey
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would you be interested I said,
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I will pray and I
will see what God says,
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and God answered very clearly
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another long
story if we wanted to
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but answered very
clearly and I guess
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I have been there
almost 6 years now.
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Have you asked on these kind
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of ontological
high concept questions?
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No, I'm no good
at. I'm not good at.
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I don't even know
what ontological means.
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Basically
comment is that what you
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see as your focus, your aim,
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your objective, your agenda
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for "It is written" where
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are you going with that?
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It's one thing
only. There is really
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only one reason that
"It is written" exist.
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It was the way that it was
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founded with
George, George started
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the program as the way of going
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into a community
before evangelistic
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meetings, it's always been about
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evangelism.
Beginning to end that's
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Mark took it to
new heights with the
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net meetings and so on.
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We are soul
wining, soul winning,
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soul winning and I
am not always behind
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the camera. I am always going
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to the next city
and we invite those
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who watch the program to come
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and meet Jesus
and we study prophecy
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that's my theme.
Last time that happened
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was in Los Angeles in
the Claim L.A. project
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that I did there with the
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Southern California conference.
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Yes, yes, yes, I
heard a little bit
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about those
meetings. Oh, it's great
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we are in earthquake
during an altar call.
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Absolutely an
earthquake right I was
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calling people to
make a decision and
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a little voice
said call them now and
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I thought oh,
that's not time tonight
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but we did an
altar call. I said those
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making decision
stand and earthquake
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hit the second
everybody stood. Wow.
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It was amazing then of
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course other started standing.
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That's great
casting man. That's great.
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On the way home,
I prayed Lord and
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I'm only half
feeling, Lord can I order
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those because that's
great, and the audience
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took it as a sign
from God that they just
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done the right
thing as it was the very
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second they stood
and what I had just
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said to the audience
was do you understand,
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the God would move heaven and
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earth to get you
into his kingdom,
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and tonight he is asking you for
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a decision, and they stood in
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that second, this earthquake
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hit, it was awesome.
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You couldn't
dial it up any better
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than that. No,
you can't. I really do
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believe God did
that, yes, and the
00:11:03.18\00:11:05.10
audience took at their way.
00:11:05.13\00:11:06.23
They were I
thought they would run
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for the doors,
they were cheering
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and singing and
shouting Hallelujah
00:11:08.42\00:11:10.27
like an old
time revival meeting.
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Yeah, praise God,
yeah, so the calling
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on your life it's
evangelism you are an
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evangelist with
the television program,
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as I suppose the
other way around.
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That's it. Yeah, how many
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meetings you run a year?
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Now a days just 2, I used to do
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5, 6, 7, 8 but they are month
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long and so I do two a year,
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generally one
inside of North America
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and one elsewhere in the world.
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This year was
Los Angeles and Lima
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Peru and in a
few weeks I'm going
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to the Rome, Italy
for the next month.
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Yeah, we're gonna
talk little bit more
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about that. Well,
that must be exciting.
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Yeah, I like
Rome, it's a great city.
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Yeah, yeah, praise God. Well,
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before we unpackage more of your
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story and then sort
of I am gonna sort of
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lose you and let
you go and taught us
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the other way. So
I don't get run over.
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We've got a
couple of things to do.
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First, let's go to our music.
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Emily
Felts-Jones is a great friend
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of this ministry, a
great personal friend,
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one of her song
is on my CD project
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just a wonderful Christian young
00:12:04.67\00:12:07.14
lady and she is
going to be singing
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for us "My Jesus I love thee."
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My Jesus, I love
Thee, I know Thou art mine;
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For Thee all the follies
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of sin I resign.
My gracious Redeemer,
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my Savior art Thou;
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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I love Thee because
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Thou hast first loved me,
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And purchased my pardon on
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Calvary's tree; I
love Thee for wearing
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the thorns on Thy brow;
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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Jesus I adore
you, I leave my life
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before you; How I love you,
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I'll love Thee in life, I will
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love Thee in
death, And praise Thee as
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long as Thou lendest me breath;
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And I'll say when the death
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dew lies cold on my brow,
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If ever I loved
Thee, my Jesus, 'tis now.
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Amen, well done
Emily Felts-Jones.
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What a beautiful
person and beautifully
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song. We were
talking during the break
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a little bit
about you are going into
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tough to tough
towns to show that
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the power of God
can reach even these
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tough cities,
just talk a little bit
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about that
before we get into here.
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Well I am, you
know there was one
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a while ago
that Portland, Oregon
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people said
that's postmodern secular
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you just can't go and preach out
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of the Bible,
nothing will happen
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and you know we
put a card in the
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mail there up
in Portland, Oregon
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that said, are you
interested in Bible
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prophecy and we had like 2,200
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people respond
to that asking well
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somebody come study with me
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and News Week
said forget that town.
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You can't preach
the Gospel there.
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Los Angeles we were just there
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with a Claim
L.A. project and same
00:16:05.12\00:16:07.84
thing we put
same card in the mail
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in L.A., we had 2,800 responses
00:16:09.35\00:16:11.74
to that for
personal Bible study,
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we had 3,000 people come out
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opening weekend through our
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Revelation speaks peace seminar
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that I teach Book of Revelation
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publicly thousands came and that
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was a project that
rolled across the city,
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we were in the
shrine auditorium.
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There was some outlying areas
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there as well
some Spanish meetings
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and nine of
those and a meeting up
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in Antelope
Valley, we saw better
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than 1200
people across that city
00:16:35.51\00:16:37.61
come to Christ in
that project earlier
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in 2009. It's just remarkable,
00:16:40.50\00:16:42.50
and again people said, ah L.A.,
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it will never go
over here you can't
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just preach the
Bible who is gonna
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listen to that,
nobody will come and
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the traffic will stop them,
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people came from
hours every single
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night, never missed, you know,
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I don't preach
three nights and pull
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out of town it's
2530 meetings and
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they don't miss
them. It's remarkable and
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further we get into history,
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the hungry of
people are getting.
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So you are grounded or convinced
00:17:04.37\00:17:06.52
to the fact that prophecy has an
00:17:06.55\00:17:08.13
appeal to the modern mind.
00:17:08.16\00:17:09.14
No, no, question about it.
00:17:09.17\00:17:10.39
Take a look at what comes out in
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Hollywood. I mean last film out
00:17:11.60\00:17:13.07
there gate was 2012 and here the
00:17:13.10\00:17:16.16
clinging to these little scrappy
00:17:16.19\00:17:17.84
details from Nostradamus who has
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got an accuracy
rate of 9 percent,
00:17:20.51\00:17:23.41
you can write 9 percent I did
00:17:23.44\00:17:24.90
the math on
this, 9 percent and are
00:17:24.93\00:17:27.22
willing to put
hundreds and millions
00:17:27.25\00:17:28.26
into a movie, why? They know the
00:17:28.29\00:17:30.17
audience will
come and in the Mayan
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Calendar, but they did build on
00:17:33.33\00:17:34.44
sketching
details and we don't have
00:17:34.47\00:17:35.79
to be sketchy. The Bible is not
00:17:35.82\00:17:37.98
sketchy at all. The details are
00:17:38.01\00:17:40.66
stunning and the accuracy rate
00:17:40.69\00:17:43.65
is 100 percent.
Praise the God, yeah.
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Thousands of
years not one mistake,
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Nostradamus 9 percent and you
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will go to a 9 percent dentist,
00:17:51.15\00:17:52.66
would you, no sir, I get to
00:17:52.69\00:17:54.70
write 9 percent of the time.
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As you can loss
a mouthful of teeth
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that way. I want to lose you
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unless you go man because I know
00:18:00.81\00:18:01.89
you've got lot of
stuff dealing with
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prophecy I want to take care
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of one house keeping business
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before we do
that and that is our
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special offer for the evening.
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This is a lovely
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going to send to you,
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British Columbia who is a
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it's a beautiful
painting and Marian
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has been here and in the coming
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weeks you will meet
her on today's show.
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She is gonna talk
about some of these
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painting and how God has blessed
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her life and her touch.
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She is a
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is one of her finest works,
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so we would like
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Brother Shawn, let's go.
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Alright, we're
gonna study prophecy
00:19:25.50\00:19:26.69
tonight and we're gonna look at
00:19:26.72\00:19:28.47
chapter 12, 13, and 14 of the
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Book of Revelation
and that a lot to bite
00:19:31.73\00:19:33.81
off in one night. Indeed it is.
00:19:33.84\00:19:35.12
In matter of fact, we probably
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not get done so
here is what I've
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done in advance.
I've got my study
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notes all
organized and people can
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download them for free at
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thefinalmoments.com,
so they want to
00:19:44.36\00:19:47.07
follow along or I don't get done
00:19:47.10\00:19:49.08
either way thefinalmoments.com.
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Thefinalmomements.com.
Very good.
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Now 13 and 14,
why those chapters,
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well, the Bible
structured differently
00:19:55.42\00:19:58.00
then our
western books are today.
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We kind of think
our books make the point
00:20:00.58\00:20:02.81
1, 2, 3 and in the
big ending the climax
00:20:02.84\00:20:05.41
is at the end of the book.
00:20:05.44\00:20:06.41
The Bible is a
little different as a matter
00:20:07.34\00:20:09.62
of fact they
usually put the big key
00:20:09.65\00:20:11.44
thought right in the middle,
00:20:11.47\00:20:12.63
right in the Book of Psalms,
00:20:12.66\00:20:13.87
a lot of the Psalms you looked
00:20:13.90\00:20:15.29
to the middle
and it kind a gives
00:20:15.32\00:20:17.27
thought a, b, c
big idea and then
00:20:17.30\00:20:20.34
it backs out
with the same ideas in
00:20:20.37\00:20:22.01
verse c, b, a,
they call it chiastic
00:20:22.04\00:20:24.07
structure. Oh,
yeah. Well, Revelation
00:20:24.10\00:20:25.87
the big ideas
in the middle, it's
00:20:25.90\00:20:27.89
all important. There
is a climax at the end.
00:20:27.92\00:20:30.08
There is a heaven
in the New Jerusalem
00:20:30.11\00:20:31.45
but 12, 13 and
14 is kind of where
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all comes into focus. Now I want
00:20:33.88\00:20:36.90
to give a little
disclaimer before
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we get into it and say what we
00:20:38.29\00:20:39.43
are not gonna
do. Christians have
00:20:39.46\00:20:41.87
been famous for years.
00:20:41.90\00:20:43.47
For trying to use Bible prophecy
00:20:44.98\00:20:46.19
like a crystal
ball, yes, this is gonna
00:20:46.22\00:20:48.28
happen that's gonna happen,
00:20:48.31\00:20:49.31
Jesus is gonna come in 88,
00:20:49.34\00:20:50.42
remember the book 88 Reasons
00:20:50.45\00:20:52.03
Jesus. Oh, yes, yes, yes, yes.
00:20:52.06\00:20:53.71
I'm not gonna
do that. That's not
00:20:53.74\00:20:54.87
really what prophecy is about.
00:20:54.90\00:20:56.06
I see three
purposes for studying
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prophecy. Number one, it is a
00:20:57.87\00:21:00.65
time clock. It shows you where
00:21:00.68\00:21:01.93
you are in history
but why, it scare us,
00:21:01.96\00:21:03.85
absolutely not. God
has given a job to do.
00:21:03.88\00:21:07.59
He only lives the
disciples with one
00:21:07.62\00:21:09.85
instruction when he
goes back to heaven.
00:21:09.88\00:21:11.25
He doesn't say now sit down and
00:21:11.28\00:21:13.64
figure out last
day events in their
00:21:13.67\00:21:15.73
sequence. Nobody
told the disciples.
00:21:15.76\00:21:17.22
He said go, go, go, go to the
00:21:17.25\00:21:19.87
outermost parts of the earth.
00:21:19.90\00:21:20.87
That time clock
tells us where we are.
00:21:20.88\00:21:22.87
It's kind a like
the time clock for
00:21:22.90\00:21:24.37
5 o'clock deadline come in at
00:21:24.40\00:21:26.02
the end of the
day. Prophecy tells us
00:21:26.05\00:21:28.01
where we are, what we can expect
00:21:28.04\00:21:29.63
in our work as a
church. Second of all,
00:21:29.66\00:21:32.17
it's a tool to build our belief.
00:21:32.20\00:21:34.67
Jesus said in
John 13, I tell you
00:21:34.70\00:21:37.33
these things now so that when
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they come to pass you will know.
00:21:39.43\00:21:41.44
Precisely. So it's not about
00:21:41.47\00:21:43.04
predicting it's
about saying hey,
00:21:43.07\00:21:44.57
look at what just happened the
00:21:44.60\00:21:48.42
Bible said that
what happened, ah,
00:21:48.45\00:21:49.42
it's true I
can't, God knows what
00:21:49.43\00:21:50.73
we are like. We change our
00:21:50.76\00:21:51.73
minds everyday. You
eat too late at night,
00:21:51.74\00:21:53.41
the next day you
are in a bad mood,
00:21:53.44\00:21:54.66
your faith is
crushed and prophecy
00:21:54.69\00:21:57.38
keeps this in
line. Third reason,
00:21:57.41\00:21:59.70
the Lord knows what a
painful world this is.
00:21:59.73\00:22:02.65
It is a painful
place, and he knows it
00:22:02.68\00:22:04.80
because he has been here,
00:22:04.83\00:22:05.80
came in human
flesh, walk this place.
00:22:05.81\00:22:07.87
He understands
lonely, tried, hungry,
00:22:07.90\00:22:10.77
rejected he gets
it all. And prophecy
00:22:10.80\00:22:13.84
offers hope,
saying look there is a
00:22:13.87\00:22:16.37
resolution of all
this. Your heart tells
00:22:16.40\00:22:18.18
you something is
wrong with this world
00:22:18.21\00:22:19.55
and I am telling you there is
00:22:19.58\00:22:21.17
something wrong in this world
00:22:21.20\00:22:22.26
and here is the
solution I am offering.
00:22:22.29\00:22:24.57
Good deal. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:22:24.60\00:22:26.37
So they are the real purposes.
00:22:26.40\00:22:27.37
We're not gonna try and
00:22:27.38\00:22:28.35
prognosticate, but we're gonna
00:22:28.36\00:22:29.33
say where are we and what can we
00:22:29.36\00:22:32.77
expect and let's
build our faith with it so.
00:22:32.80\00:22:36.38
And that it is and so Shawn,
00:22:36.41\00:22:37.38
is a viable
exercise to know that
00:22:37.39\00:22:38.73
we don't know exactly when he is
00:22:38.76\00:22:40.55
coming but we know it is soon,
00:22:40.58\00:22:41.90
we know our time to get going
00:22:41.93\00:22:43.95
is short so we
need to get going.
00:22:43.98\00:22:46.10
That's right.
One of our personal
00:22:46.13\00:22:47.21
level if you
haven't chosen Christ yet,
00:22:47.24\00:22:49.74
if you have been holding back on
00:22:49.77\00:22:50.92
giving your heart to
God, don't wait. Yeah.
00:22:50.95\00:22:54.25
And then on the
church level get busy.
00:22:54.28\00:22:57.09
Right. Get busy. You are running
00:22:57.12\00:22:59.29
out of time and we really are.
00:22:59.32\00:23:00.56
So 12, 13 and 14
it's a lot to bite off,
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but it's
important that we look at
00:23:04.41\00:23:06.67
those all in
context, so really we're
00:23:06.70\00:23:10.42
gonna look at Revelation 30,
00:23:10.45\00:23:12.40
that's one
everybody knows about,
00:23:12.43\00:23:14.04
there is a beast
coming out of the sea,
00:23:14.07\00:23:15.59
there is a beast
coming out of the earth,
00:23:15.62\00:23:17.29
and there is the
mark of the beast in 666
00:23:17.32\00:23:19.84
and so on, very
exciting stuff, and
00:23:19.87\00:23:22.38
what happens on
almost a weekly basis,
00:23:22.41\00:23:24.59
is somebody runs
hog wild with one
00:23:24.62\00:23:26.28
little idea of that chapter.
00:23:26.31\00:23:27.55
Runs for the end zone with it,
00:23:27.58\00:23:29.18
declares a touch
down and next week
00:23:29.21\00:23:30.85
they have to change their mind.
00:23:30.88\00:23:31.96
Oh, yeah. But
you don't have to do
00:23:33.61\00:23:34.58
that in context.
If you look at sort
00:23:34.59\00:23:37.17
of the stall
works of the Christian
00:23:37.20\00:23:38.58
faith over the years it never
00:23:38.61\00:23:40.26
had to change your mind about
00:23:40.29\00:23:41.63
Revelation 13,
which been a threat of
00:23:41.66\00:23:43.96
thought that's been
there for 2000 years
00:23:43.99\00:23:45.79
that's consistent because it's
00:23:45.82\00:23:47.25
in context. So
watch that context?
00:23:47.28\00:23:50.04
Revelation 12 sets the stage.
00:23:50.07\00:23:53.07
Oh, it does, true it does. Yeah,
00:23:53.10\00:23:54.99
Revelation 12 sets the stage,
00:23:55.02\00:23:56.24
it tells the back
story and if you evolve
00:23:56.27\00:23:58.19
the back story you
are not gonna get it,
00:23:58.22\00:23:59.48
so I turn it to
Revelation chapter 12
00:23:59.51\00:24:01.67
and this gives us
the cast of characters,
00:24:01.70\00:24:03.75
very simple.
Revelation 12 verse 1,
00:24:03.78\00:24:06.20
there appeared a great wonder
00:24:07.33\00:24:09.38
in heaven; a woman
clothed with the sun,
00:24:09.41\00:24:13.18
there is your
first character a woman.
00:24:13.21\00:24:15.33
Well, in scripture what would
00:24:15.36\00:24:17.30
John have understood by the
00:24:17.33\00:24:18.53
symbol of a woman. Church.
00:24:18.56\00:24:19.99
Yeah, church,
absolutely, Jeremiah
00:24:20.02\00:24:21.91
6:2, I have likened
the daughters of Zion
00:24:21.94\00:24:23.83
to a comely and delicate woman.
00:24:23.86\00:24:25.24
Ephesians 5 Church
is the bride of Christ.
00:24:25.27\00:24:27.78
Right. She is
clothed with the sun,
00:24:27.81\00:24:30.04
the moon under her
feet, and on her head
00:24:30.07\00:24:32.01
a crown of twelve stars.
00:24:32.04\00:24:33.93
Stars or angels or
apostles and so on.
00:24:34.49\00:24:37.09
This is the sun
full light, the moon
00:24:37.12\00:24:39.42
reflected light, its
kind a like Old and New
00:24:39.45\00:24:41.86
Testament like.
This is God's people.
00:24:41.89\00:24:43.67
Oh, yes.
Alright, first character.
00:24:43.70\00:24:45.60
Second character in verse 2.
00:24:45.63\00:24:46.81
She being with
child cried, travailing
00:24:46.84\00:24:51.10
in birth.
Alright, God's people are
00:24:51.13\00:24:54.21
expecting a
child, what child would
00:24:54.24\00:24:56.51
that be. Here the first prophecy
00:24:56.54\00:25:00.00
of the Bible.
That is why prophecy,
00:25:00.03\00:25:01.11
so most of the
Bible is prophecy.
00:25:01.14\00:25:02.78
First one is Genesis 3, right.
00:25:02.81\00:25:04.77
The seed of woman will come and
00:25:04.80\00:25:07.08
crush the head of the serpent.
00:25:07.11\00:25:08.17
This is Jesus, so
we have God's people,
00:25:08.20\00:25:10.12
we have Jesus. Verse 3 there
00:25:10.15\00:25:12.59
appeared another
wonder in heaven;
00:25:12.62\00:25:13.81
and behold a great red dragon,
00:25:13.84\00:25:16.36
you know, who is that.
We don't have to guess.
00:25:16.39\00:25:18.55
No, you keep reading it's there.
00:25:18.58\00:25:19.84
Yeah, first I'm said.
00:25:19.87\00:25:20.84
That's serpent, the devil. Yes.
00:25:20.87\00:25:23.58
Spells it out, you don't have to
00:25:24.08\00:25:25.05
guess if you read the book,
00:25:25.06\00:25:26.03
so here is the
cast to care it's God's
00:25:26.04\00:25:27.63
people Jesus and the devil.
00:25:27.66\00:25:30.44
We have the fall of
the devil in Verse 4,
00:25:30.47\00:25:33.51
he tells you the
third part of the stars
00:25:33.54\00:25:35.82
of heaven, Revelation 1, Job 38,
00:25:35.85\00:25:37.93
stars represent angels. Right,
00:25:37.96\00:25:41.02
cast into the earth, the dragon
00:25:41.05\00:25:42.96
stood before the woman which was
00:25:42.99\00:25:44.32
ready to be
delivered, for to devour
00:25:44.35\00:25:47.53
her child as
soon as it was born.
00:25:47.56\00:25:49.29
Well did the devil
try to wipe out Jesus.
00:25:49.32\00:25:51.00
Oh, yes, he did,
yes, he did. Slowly,
00:25:51.03\00:25:52.94
Herod, yeah you
get that beautiful
00:25:52.97\00:25:55.09
text in Matthew chapter 2, where
00:25:55.12\00:25:56.75
Rachel crying for her children,
00:25:56.78\00:25:57.84
can't be comfort because they
00:25:57.87\00:25:59.36
are all dead of
course. So, absolutely,
00:25:59.39\00:26:02.15
it's Johns
writing this some you know
00:26:02.18\00:26:04.26
90 years. This is
a quite while after,
00:26:04.29\00:26:06.71
not 90 years,
but as you know it's
00:26:06.74\00:26:08.24
decades after this
event, this all fit.
00:26:08.27\00:26:11.36
Verse 5, she
brought forth a man child,
00:26:11.39\00:26:13.76
Jesus is born,
who was to rule all
00:26:13.79\00:26:16.57
nations with a
rod of iron: and her
00:26:16.60\00:26:18.12
child was caught up unto God,
00:26:18.15\00:26:19.44
and to his
throne. The devil failed
00:26:19.47\00:26:21.22
Jesus went back
to heaven. Oh, yes.
00:26:21.25\00:26:23.54
Verse 6, the woman fled into the
00:26:23.57\00:26:25.69
wilderness,
where she had a place
00:26:25.72\00:26:27.39
prepared of God that they should
00:26:27.42\00:26:28.84
feed her there a
thousand two hundred
00:26:28.87\00:26:30.26
and three score
days. Jesus lives the
00:26:30.29\00:26:32.61
woman as to hide.
For talks in Verse
00:26:32.64\00:26:34.90
7 about war in heaven: Michael
00:26:34.93\00:26:36.55
and his angels
and so on, but I want
00:26:36.58\00:26:38.26
to jump down
because we are really just
00:26:38.29\00:26:39.42
setting the table
for, 13 and 14. Okay,
00:26:39.45\00:26:43.39
Jesus goes back to heaven,
00:26:43.42\00:26:44.39
the woman has to
fled into the wilderness,
00:26:44.40\00:26:45.79
why? Verse 12,
Therefore rejoice,
00:26:45.82\00:26:48.90
ye heavens.
Verse 11, is important,
00:26:48.93\00:26:50.95
it's all
important, it talks about they
00:26:50.98\00:26:52.68
overcame by the
blood of the Lamb,
00:26:52.71\00:26:54.07
and by the word
of their testimony,
00:26:54.10\00:26:55.22
rejoice, ye heaven, and ye that
00:26:55.25\00:26:57.17
dwell in them. This is good news
00:26:57.20\00:26:58.85
Jesus conquered at the cross.
00:26:58.88\00:27:00.44
Woe to the
inhibitors of the earth
00:27:00.47\00:27:02.66
and the sea! for the devils come
00:27:02.69\00:27:04.04
down unto you. Verse 17,
00:27:04.07\00:27:06.89
the dragon was
wroth or angry with
00:27:06.92\00:27:09.27
the woman, and went to make war
00:27:09.30\00:27:10.73
with the remnant of her seed,
00:27:10.76\00:27:12.01
which keep the
commandments of God,
00:27:12.04\00:27:13.87
and have the testimony of
00:27:13.90\00:27:15.24
Jesus Christ. He
can't touch Jesus
00:27:15.27\00:27:17.44
anymore, so he turns his wrath
00:27:17.47\00:27:19.77
on the church. On the church.
00:27:19.80\00:27:21.60
On God's people. Yeah.
00:27:21.63\00:27:22.91
That's how you set the table for
00:27:22.94\00:27:25.59
Revelation
chapter 13, so what do
00:27:25.62\00:27:29.39
we have, a woman
waiting for a child,
00:27:29.42\00:27:30.84
dragon takes one-third of the
00:27:30.87\00:27:32.68
angels out of
heaven, Jesus escapes,
00:27:32.71\00:27:34.65
turns his wrath
against the church.
00:27:34.68\00:27:37.33
There is our background.
00:27:37.36\00:27:39.12
Now there is war, that's a big
00:27:39.15\00:27:43.16
concept and how do you get war
00:27:43.19\00:27:45.25
in this Universe.
What is the war over?
00:27:45.28\00:27:47.63
Now we go to chapter 13 and God
00:27:47.66\00:27:51.03
begins answering some questions.
00:27:51.06\00:27:53.01
Oh, yes. In chapter 13 and 14
00:27:53.04\00:27:54.95
you see two
sides of this conflict.
00:27:54.98\00:27:56.86
The conflict
emerges in chapter 12
00:27:56.89\00:27:58.86
and chapter 13 you
have the dragon side,
00:27:58.89\00:28:01.69
yeah, of the
conflict. In chapter 14
00:28:01.72\00:28:04.19
you have the churches side.
00:28:04.22\00:28:06.45
Now what's the big issue in
00:28:06.48\00:28:08.39
Revelation 13, turn on the TV
00:28:08.42\00:28:10.58
today and somebody will convince
00:28:10.61\00:28:11.76
you the big issue
is a microchip in your
00:28:11.79\00:28:13.47
forehead or it's your visa card
00:28:13.50\00:28:15.33
or your debit card or a dictator
00:28:15.36\00:28:17.39
in Europe, but the
rule for study is let
00:28:17.42\00:28:20.52
the Bible speak
for itself, surely,
00:28:20.55\00:28:23.89
so what is it
say? Now Verse 3 of
00:28:23.92\00:28:26.64
chapter 13, is
this beast, I saw one
00:28:26.67\00:28:29.04
of his heads as it
were wounded to death;
00:28:29.07\00:28:31.11
and his deadly wound was healed:
00:28:31.14\00:28:33.10
and all the world wondered after
00:28:33.13\00:28:34.81
the beast and they did what?
00:28:34.84\00:28:38.07
Worshipped,
worshipped the dragon
00:28:38.10\00:28:40.69
which gave power to the beast:
00:28:40.72\00:28:41.77
and they worshipped the beast.
00:28:41.80\00:28:43.85
That shows up twice but it shows
00:28:43.88\00:28:46.09
up again Verse 8,
all that dwell upon
00:28:46.12\00:28:48.47
the earth shall worship him,
00:28:48.50\00:28:50.24
the beast whose names are not
00:28:50.27\00:28:51.24
written in the
Book of Life. Verse 11,
00:28:51.25\00:28:53.98
a second beast
comes out of the earth,
00:28:54.01\00:28:56.45
and in Verse
12, he exercises all
00:28:56.48\00:28:59.50
the power of the
first beast before him,
00:28:59.53\00:29:01.24
and causes the earth and them
00:29:01.27\00:29:02.26
who dwell in it to worship the
00:29:02.29\00:29:04.82
first beast. Then we get down to
00:29:04.85\00:29:06.45
Verse 15, he had
power to give life
00:29:06.48\00:29:09.08
into the image of
the beast, the image
00:29:09.11\00:29:10.38
of both speak in, causes as many
00:29:10.41\00:29:12.40
as would not worship the
00:29:12.43\00:29:13.76
image of the beast to be killed.
00:29:13.79\00:29:14.98
Would be killed.
Worship, worship,
00:29:15.01\00:29:16.32
five times it comes up.
00:29:16.35\00:29:17.43
Then in the next
chapter God sited
00:29:17.46\00:29:19.65
the equation it comes up again,
00:29:19.68\00:29:21.40
God's people in
the last days have
00:29:21.43\00:29:23.49
a message for he
world in chapter 14.
00:29:23.52\00:29:25.37
Yes. And in
Verse 6, here is that
00:29:25.40\00:29:27.50
message. I saw
another angel fly in
00:29:27.53\00:29:30.64
the midst of heaven, having the
00:29:30.67\00:29:32.28
everlasting
Gospel to preach unto
00:29:32.31\00:29:34.48
them that dwell on the earth,
00:29:34.51\00:29:35.62
and to every
nation, and kindred,
00:29:35.65\00:29:36.95
and tongue, and
people, saying with
00:29:36.98\00:29:38.35
a loud voice, Fear
God, and give glory to him;
00:29:38.38\00:29:40.67
for the hour of
his judgment is come:
00:29:40.70\00:29:42.60
and worship him
that made heaven,
00:29:42.63\00:29:48.03
and earth, so two sides only two
00:29:48.06\00:29:50.76
in the end, and they are both
00:29:50.79\00:29:52.50
calling for worship. Yeah.
00:29:52.53\00:29:54.76
There is your
big issue, now most
00:29:54.79\00:29:56.82
Christians recognize, hey,
00:29:56.85\00:29:57.82
when any Christ shows up I am
00:29:57.83\00:29:58.87
not gonna worship him.
00:29:58.90\00:30:00.05
Clearly the
Bible would be against
00:30:00.08\00:30:01.11
that and so they are looking
00:30:01.14\00:30:02.11
and wanting
what's the big issue?
00:30:02.13\00:30:03.96
Should I be looking for some guy
00:30:03.99\00:30:05.22
with an evil
laugh and slick suit
00:30:05.25\00:30:07.25
that shows up in
a European nation
00:30:07.28\00:30:08.91
somewhere had to be.
00:30:08.94\00:30:10.03
The issue is in politics,
00:30:10.06\00:30:12.04
the issue is worship.
00:30:12.07\00:30:14.95
Yeah, then the
devil has never been
00:30:14.98\00:30:16.14
ablated, these
many things and we
00:30:16.17\00:30:18.88
are not stupid. That's right.
00:30:18.91\00:30:20.40
Very slick and as
you have rightly said,
00:30:20.43\00:30:23.22
the issue has
always been worship.
00:30:23.25\00:30:26.25
That's it. Yeah. It
is always been worship.
00:30:26.28\00:30:28.32
It's worship so.
Here is what we know,
00:30:28.35\00:30:31.40
here is what we know just by
00:30:31.43\00:30:33.37
reading it. When
you worship the beast,
00:30:33.40\00:30:35.95
you're really
worshipping the dragon.
00:30:35.98\00:30:37.18
He is calling for
worship and he uses
00:30:37.21\00:30:39.03
the vehicle of the beast. Yes.
00:30:39.06\00:30:40.05
It says it's a global issue.
00:30:40.08\00:30:42.28
The message goes to the whole,
00:30:42.31\00:30:43.47
all the world
wondered after the beast
00:30:43.50\00:30:44.91
or every nation,
kindred, tribe, tongue,
00:30:44.94\00:30:46.79
and people being
invited to worship
00:30:46.82\00:30:48.44
the creator, it's
global, and it comes
00:30:48.47\00:30:50.57
at some point in
history to a crises.
00:30:50.60\00:30:52.59
In chapter 13,
there is the mark of the
00:30:52.62\00:30:55.40
beast and the
death penalty if you
00:30:55.43\00:30:57.04
don't comply.
This comes to a head
00:30:57.07\00:31:00.06
at some point.
The issue is worship.
00:31:00.09\00:31:02.39
It's global and
it's going to come ahead
00:31:02.42\00:31:05.12
before Jesus
come. Now question is
00:31:05.15\00:31:08.52
what's up with the dragon?
00:31:08.55\00:31:10.78
What's his
problem? What's his problem?
00:31:10.81\00:31:15.63
Yeah, Right. That's where we
00:31:15.66\00:31:17.37
need the back
story and we should
00:31:17.40\00:31:19.07
probably breeze
with the back story
00:31:19.10\00:31:21.23
so that we get,
time to go into 13,
00:31:21.26\00:31:23.39
but very simple,
the Bible talks in
00:31:23.42\00:31:26.15
Ezekiel 28
Isaiah 14 about Lucifer.
00:31:26.18\00:31:29.26
What is the
Lucifer? That's a Latin
00:31:29.29\00:31:31.58
word means light bearer.
00:31:31.61\00:31:33.90
It's interesting
that seraph as in
00:31:33.93\00:31:37.25
seraphim kind a
means the same thing
00:31:37.28\00:31:39.01
it's the shining
one. So it's a position
00:31:39.04\00:31:41.85
that you hold,
you can be a seraph
00:31:41.88\00:31:44.50
and then lose
your job as seraph,
00:31:44.53\00:31:47.50
no longer be
seraph, but still be
00:31:47.53\00:31:48.82
an angel. So
it's really a position
00:31:48.85\00:31:51.13
and title. He
is the shining one.
00:31:51.16\00:31:53.17
In an Isaiah 14, the issue is he
00:31:53.20\00:31:56.41
starts to cover
the throne of God.
00:31:56.44\00:31:57.69
He says wait a
minute, look at me
00:31:57.72\00:32:00.88
I am the best
looking angel on the lot,
00:32:00.91\00:32:02.74
it's true the Bible only speaks
00:32:02.77\00:32:04.82
of Lucifer when it
comes to looks. Right.
00:32:04.85\00:32:06.50
Doesn't talk about
the looks of the rest
00:32:06.53\00:32:08.17
says he is
beautiful, Ezekiel 28,
00:32:08.20\00:32:10.30
and he falls in
love with himself.
00:32:10.33\00:32:12.58
Eyes off of God, eyes on self.
00:32:12.61\00:32:16.14
He begins to covet the throne of
00:32:16.17\00:32:17.82
God and he attempts to take
00:32:17.85\00:32:20.35
God's place and
have worship directed
00:32:20.38\00:32:22.48
toward him. Isaiah 14,
00:32:22.51\00:32:24.72
How art thou fallen from heaven,
00:32:24.75\00:32:27.18
O Lucifer, son of the morning!
00:32:27.21\00:32:28.54
how art thou cut
down to the ground,
00:32:28.57\00:32:30.44
which didst weaken the nations!
00:32:30.47\00:32:31.59
You've setting your heart,
00:32:31.62\00:32:32.59
I will ascend into heaven,
00:32:32.60\00:32:34.11
I will exalt my throne above the
00:32:34.14\00:32:35.98
stars of God, I
will sit on the Mount
00:32:36.01\00:32:38.05
of the congregation in the sides
00:32:38.08\00:32:39.41
of the North, I
will ascend above
00:32:39.44\00:32:40.67
the high, I, I,
I, I will be like the
00:32:40.70\00:32:43.48
most high he
says. I want to sit on
00:32:43.51\00:32:45.93
the throne. And
we're all worshiping
00:32:45.96\00:32:47.59
God but what about me, yeah,
00:32:47.62\00:32:50.08
why not me. That's his belief.
00:32:50.11\00:32:53.12
He has kicked
out of heaven we read
00:32:53.15\00:32:54.38
in Revelation
chapter 12, he takes
00:32:54.41\00:32:56.03
a tort of the
angels with him but he
00:32:56.06\00:32:57.93
does not give up. He is out of
00:32:57.96\00:32:59.04
heaven but he
still wants worship.
00:32:59.07\00:33:01.15
Matthew chapter 4,
now I like Matthew 4,
00:33:01.18\00:33:04.34
'because over and
over that chapter says,
00:33:04.37\00:33:06.30
"It is written"
it's like advertising
00:33:06.33\00:33:09.94
for "It is written" that's where
00:33:09.97\00:33:12.38
George Vandeman got
the name of the show.
00:33:12.41\00:33:13.78
It's the temptation of Christ,
00:33:14.85\00:33:16.01
the devil takes
Jesus up into a high place,
00:33:16.04\00:33:18.50
right, shows from the kingdoms
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.45
of the world, this
is hey, I own this now.
00:33:20.48\00:33:23.01
Adam and Eve gave
their hearts to me.
00:33:23.04\00:33:24.56
They gave me the
keys to this place.
00:33:24.59\00:33:26.57
It's mine. I know
why you've come here.
00:33:26.60\00:33:28.30
You know, I've
read the prophecies,
00:33:29.75\00:33:31.19
I know why you've come here,
00:33:31.22\00:33:32.33
but here is the
deal. You don't have
00:33:32.36\00:33:33.34
to go to Gethsemane. You don't
00:33:33.37\00:33:35.32
have to go to the cross. He says
00:33:35.35\00:33:37.44
in Verse 9, if
you just fall down
00:33:37.47\00:33:39.87
and worship me. I will give it
00:33:39.90\00:33:43.50
all back, what does you want?
00:33:43.53\00:33:45.11
Worship. That's it. It's it,
00:33:45.14\00:33:48.39
it's not the rest
of it, it's really
00:33:48.42\00:33:50.55
an issue to him, the rest of is
00:33:50.58\00:33:52.53
peripheral
making us do bad things,
00:33:52.56\00:33:54.14
all peripheral.
What is after is worship.
00:33:54.17\00:33:57.06
Jesus goes back
to heaven, he can't
00:33:57.09\00:33:59.15
touch Jesus,
turns his wrath on the
00:33:59.18\00:34:01.18
church the Bible says.
00:34:01.21\00:34:02.26
Second
Thessalonians 2 has a warning
00:34:02.29\00:34:04.98
about what we should watch
00:34:05.01\00:34:06.24
for as
Christians. Paul writes this
00:34:06.27\00:34:08.55
in second Thessalonians
2 Verse 3, Let no man
00:34:08.58\00:34:12.55
deceive you by any means:
00:34:12.58\00:34:13.55
for that day shall not come,
00:34:13.56\00:34:15.48
talking about the second coming
00:34:15.51\00:34:16.83
of Christ, except
there come a falling
00:34:16.86\00:34:19.42
away first, that's
interesting thought.
00:34:19.45\00:34:21.52
Paul is talking to Christians
00:34:21.55\00:34:23.83
he is saying watch
for a falling away.
00:34:23.86\00:34:25.66
Yes. Where? He is talking to the
00:34:25.69\00:34:28.38
church, and that man of sin be
00:34:28.41\00:34:30.66
revealed, the
son of perdition who
00:34:30.69\00:34:32.77
opposes and exalts himself above
00:34:32.80\00:34:34.39
all that is
called God or that is
00:34:34.42\00:34:36.00
worshipped; so
that he is God sits
00:34:36.03\00:34:38.03
in the temple of
God, showing himself
00:34:38.06\00:34:39.47
that he is God. God sure.
00:34:39.50\00:34:42.49
What does he do
next? It doesn't say
00:34:43.93\00:34:46.15
he shows up as an atheist
00:34:46.18\00:34:47.36
or communist. No, no.
00:34:47.39\00:34:48.94
There is a falling
way among God's people
00:34:48.97\00:34:50.91
and he possess as
God himself, wants to
00:34:50.94\00:34:53.52
sit on God's throne and tries to
00:34:53.55\00:34:55.11
convince the
church to worship him.
00:34:55.14\00:34:58.52
To worship him. You know, Shawn
00:34:58.55\00:34:59.92
and not to say
you, but I've over the
00:34:59.95\00:35:02.23
years I've talked
with a number of people
00:35:02.26\00:35:04.06
who have been
baptize in a lot of
00:35:04.09\00:35:05.36
show business
people, yeah, and one
00:35:05.39\00:35:06.97
of the things that they told me
00:35:07.00\00:35:08.12
universally is that
the most adductive part
00:35:08.15\00:35:10.77
of being famous is
the God like adulation
00:35:10.80\00:35:15.64
and worship, its not
necessarily the money,
00:35:15.67\00:35:17.75
it's when I stand
on stage I am worship.
00:35:17.78\00:35:21.43
As I was telling
you I have some old
00:35:21.46\00:35:24.30
footage or some
old Beatles concerts
00:35:24.33\00:35:26.06
and if you look at
the response of the
00:35:26.09\00:35:28.24
audience the tears
and the hands raise,
00:35:28.27\00:35:30.78
it's worship and
I remember years ago
00:35:30.81\00:35:33.74
Mick Jagger, rolling stone said,
00:35:33.77\00:35:35.66
you know I don't
want to be 55 years old
00:35:35.69\00:35:37.48
and sing in
satisfaction, but what
00:35:37.51\00:35:39.19
does he today? He is 55 sing in
00:35:39.22\00:35:40.81
satisfaction, and
its worship because he
00:35:40.84\00:35:43.48
has got all the money he needs,
00:35:43.51\00:35:44.59
it's decided that
people worship you
00:35:44.62\00:35:46.90
and human beings are not
00:35:46.93\00:35:48.72
mentally
equipped to take worship.
00:35:48.75\00:35:51.16
Absolutely. It
only belongs to God
00:35:51.19\00:35:52.42
and so it is the
most adductive part
00:35:52.45\00:35:54.52
of being ball
players and when we hear
00:35:54.55\00:35:58.31
sports figures,
this idea that you can be
00:35:58.34\00:35:59.86
worshipped and
that people are falling
00:35:59.89\00:36:01.88
down at your
feet. It's addictive and
00:36:01.91\00:36:03.64
we don't deserve
it and it does not
00:36:03.67\00:36:05.11
belong to us and
if Satan can get you
00:36:05.14\00:36:07.24
twisted to want to have that is
00:36:07.27\00:36:11.04
the first step to
predict, it's the road,
00:36:11.07\00:36:13.07
the road down, so
it truly, the argument
00:36:13.10\00:36:16.17
is not and has always been who
00:36:16.20\00:36:18.14
you are gonna worship,
00:36:18.17\00:36:19.14
who you are gonna serve.
00:36:19.15\00:36:20.12
That's it,
absolutely, and you're
00:36:20.13\00:36:21.10
gonna serve
somebody. And precisely.
00:36:21.11\00:36:22.84
It's the old song. Right, yeah.
00:36:22.87\00:36:24.11
You're gonna serve some, was it
00:36:24.14\00:36:25.37
Bob Dylan I think. And we're
00:36:25.40\00:36:26.95
gonna serve somebody.
00:36:26.98\00:36:28.06
You're gonna
serve somebody, yeah.
00:36:28.09\00:36:29.06
And it's true. You
can't help yourself,
00:36:29.07\00:36:30.47
and when we like go of God in
00:36:30.50\00:36:31.82
North American
society you turning
00:36:31.85\00:36:33.64
on something, you turning
00:36:33.67\00:36:34.64
on sports here, you turning
00:36:34.66\00:36:35.63
on a pop star, you know and
00:36:35.64\00:36:37.67
for the life of me I think about
00:36:37.70\00:36:40.44
that why would
you adulate somebody
00:36:40.47\00:36:42.84
who can dance
around to a sound track
00:36:42.87\00:36:45.39
and who are our
heroes? What is his desire,
00:36:45.42\00:36:48.84
we all have the
desire to worship we
00:36:48.87\00:36:50.31
like to go to the God, we're
00:36:50.34\00:36:51.31
gonna worship something else.
00:36:51.32\00:36:52.50
Right, right. Here is the thing
00:36:52.53\00:36:54.63
that I've often wondered, okay,
00:36:54.66\00:36:57.81
Lucifer wants worship.
00:36:57.84\00:36:58.85
The Bible says there
is billions of angels,
00:36:58.88\00:37:01.03
you know, ten
thousands times and thousands
00:37:02.63\00:37:03.75
and thousands, and thousands,
00:37:03.78\00:37:04.82
so there is billions
of them. Why not give them
00:37:04.85\00:37:06.37
a little corner,
you know, alright, there
00:37:06.40\00:37:07.85
is a thousands
angels they can worship you.
00:37:07.88\00:37:10.13
Yeah, great point.
Throw him a bone, yeah,
00:37:10.16\00:37:12.00
you take a cup I
got a big cup. Just
00:37:12.03\00:37:14.15
I wonder, just
asking for a little corner.
00:37:16.98\00:37:19.52
Interesting that
point. Yeah, why not. Yeah.
00:37:19.55\00:37:21.45
First of all his
eyes are on self.
00:37:22.22\00:37:23.50
That's a bottomless
pit; it wouldn't be good for
00:37:24.22\00:37:26.52
him even if it was
permissible because
00:37:26.55\00:37:28.30
you can't get to the
bottom of this adulation.
00:37:28.33\00:37:30.25
Right, you can't
get enough. I want more.
00:37:30.28\00:37:31.78
Mick Jagger was a great,
00:37:31.81\00:37:33.32
you can't get
enough of that. Yeah.
00:37:33.35\00:37:34.99
And you don't want
to serve somebody who
00:37:36.63\00:37:37.61
is got that defect in character;
00:37:37.64\00:37:38.98
you must work
for a boss that only
00:37:39.01\00:37:40.60
cares about
himself. Precisely, yeah.
00:37:40.63\00:37:42.56
But that's not I mean
that, that's a thought
00:37:43.36\00:37:45.99
that I've had. The
Bible identifies very clearly
00:37:46.02\00:37:48.30
why he can't be
worshiped over and over again
00:37:48.33\00:37:50.60
the Bible gives
God's credential.Oh, yes.
00:37:50.63\00:37:52.69
Nehemiah chapter 9 and verse 6.
00:37:52.72\00:37:55.67
Nehemiah 9 verse 6,
imagine how hard it was
00:37:56.66\00:37:58.49
to look this stuff up
before we put chapters
00:37:58.52\00:38:00.18
and verses in the
Bible. You will be like Paul,
00:38:00.21\00:38:03.03
he always somewhere
it is written. Right.
00:38:03.06\00:38:04.70
Yeah it is written.
We are gonna find it.
00:38:04.73\00:38:06.03
Thou this is
verse 6 of Nehemiah 9,
00:38:08.51\00:38:10.50
Thou, even thou, art LORD alone;
00:38:11.55\00:38:13.55
thou hast made
heaven, the heaven of heavens,
00:38:14.62\00:38:16.44
with all their host, the earth,
00:38:16.47\00:38:17.83
and all things that
are therein, the seas,
00:38:17.86\00:38:19.61
and all that is
therein, and thou preserves
00:38:19.64\00:38:22.50
them all; God created
it and he hold it together
00:38:22.53\00:38:25.08
to this day, yes,
and the host of heaven
00:38:25.11\00:38:27.11
worships here.
Why do we worship him?
00:38:27.14\00:38:29.28
As he is a
creator. Creator. Yeah.
00:38:29.31\00:38:31.06
Jeremiah 10, this is Verse 11,
00:38:31.81\00:38:34.23
The Gods that have
not made the heavens and
00:38:34.26\00:38:36.42
the earth, even they
shall perish from the earth.
00:38:36.45\00:38:38.15
Why are they
qualified to be God's?
00:38:38.18\00:38:40.41
Why are they gonna disappear?
00:38:40.44\00:38:41.61
They didn't
create. Make anything. No.
00:38:42.56\00:38:44.47
It's a source of life. Yeah.
00:38:44.50\00:38:45.95
This only make
sense, now the Bible says
00:38:45.98\00:38:47.52
the wages of sin is
death, while you cut yourself
00:38:47.55\00:38:50.04
far from the source of
life and natural consequence
00:38:50.07\00:38:53.11
is death . Paul
speaking to the Athenians,
00:38:53.14\00:38:56.53
Acts chapter 17,
this is verse 24,
00:38:57.17\00:39:00.35
I looked them all
up ahead of times,
00:39:02.15\00:39:03.12
so I don't have
to, now we see how fast
00:39:03.13\00:39:06.37
we can flip back
and forth and everybody
00:39:06.40\00:39:08.47
stumps so. God that
made the world and all
00:39:08.50\00:39:10.72
things therein seen
that he has Lord of heaven
00:39:10.75\00:39:12.87
and earth, dwells not
in temples made with hands;
00:39:12.90\00:39:14.90
Paul contrasting
him to other Gods,
00:39:15.77\00:39:17.25
Neither is
worshipped with men hands,
00:39:18.10\00:39:19.50
as though he needed
anything seen that he
00:39:19.53\00:39:21.55
gives to all life, and
breath, and all things;
00:39:21.58\00:39:24.02
why is he
different. He gives you a life.
00:39:25.26\00:39:26.55
Because he gives life, yeah.
00:39:26.58\00:39:27.81
Revelation 4, the
elders the beast and heaven
00:39:28.47\00:39:32.05
are singing to
God thou art worthy,
00:39:32.08\00:39:33.72
O Lord to receive
glory and honor and power
00:39:33.75\00:39:35.86
for thou hast
created all things. Yeah.
00:39:35.89\00:39:38.10
Bottom line, we
only worship the creator.
00:39:38.33\00:39:40.72
Precisely, yeah,
without him we would not be
00:39:41.36\00:39:43.18
here to do anything. So
the fact that he made us
00:39:43.21\00:39:47.65
and sustains us. He
deserves our worship.
00:39:47.68\00:39:50.11
Obviously. Yeah. And
he is the only logical
00:39:51.09\00:39:53.43
candidate, precisely,
he is a God of love, yeah,
00:39:53.46\00:39:55.79
for God his love,
it's not a bottom was pit
00:39:55.82\00:39:59.53
with him. He gives
more than he ever take.
00:39:59.56\00:40:01.21
Precisely, yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:40:01.24\00:40:03.17
He is about
giving, he is about you,
00:40:03.20\00:40:04.71
so you can love a God like that,
00:40:04.74\00:40:08.38
you can respect
a God like because
00:40:08.41\00:40:09.57
he is as concerned
about you, more concerned
00:40:09.60\00:40:11.32
about you then he is
yourself. And I think
00:40:11.35\00:40:13.44
your point is
well taken, why would
00:40:13.47\00:40:16.20
I worship
someone who only takes in
00:40:16.23\00:40:18.25
and does not give?
Why would I serve someone
00:40:18.28\00:40:21.59
who is only
concerned about themselves
00:40:21.62\00:40:22.92
who would give
me nothing in return
00:40:22.95\00:40:24.77
and who does not
really care about me.
00:40:24.80\00:40:26.42
All my worship to
that being does is feed
00:40:26.45\00:40:30.28
his ego. It gives
me nothing because
00:40:30.31\00:40:32.41
he is not about me,
he is about himself.
00:40:32.44\00:40:33.93
And everybody loses. Precisely.
00:40:33.96\00:40:35.35
Everybody loses. Yeah, yeah.
00:40:35.38\00:40:36.93
So there we have it, Lucifer,
00:40:36.96\00:40:39.07
I want to be
worshiped. He is not qualified,
00:40:39.10\00:40:40.98
yeah, even before
he failed he wasn't
00:40:41.01\00:40:43.39
qualified. Never
will be qualified,
00:40:43.42\00:40:45.98
only a God of love is qualified.
00:40:46.01\00:40:48.02
He is worthy, worthy worth ship,
00:40:48.05\00:40:51.44
that's where the
word worship comes
00:40:51.47\00:40:53.09
from saying you are worthy
00:40:53.12\00:40:55.33
and Lucifer is just not. Yeah.
00:40:55.36\00:40:57.91
He just not but
he craves it. Yeah.
00:40:57.94\00:41:00.37
He can't let go of
this thing, and so he tries
00:41:00.40\00:41:03.89
to steal worship away from God
00:41:03.92\00:41:05.71
and he has three
primary tools, he deceives.
00:41:05.74\00:41:08.97
Did God really
says he is deceived.
00:41:09.00\00:41:11.50
Did God really
say, yeah, he deceives
00:41:11.53\00:41:13.69
the whole world,
Revelation chapter 13,
00:41:13.72\00:41:15.60
so he lies.
This tool number one,
00:41:15.63\00:41:18.47
tool number two, he
forces, there is a death
00:41:18.50\00:41:20.38
penalty if you
don't come on board. Yeah.
00:41:20.41\00:41:22.21
If deception
doesn't work, death penalty
00:41:22.24\00:41:24.99
might scary into
it. Third, the Bible
00:41:25.02\00:41:28.22
identifies
another tool that he uses,
00:41:28.25\00:41:31.05
let's go back to second
Thessalonians chapter 2,
00:41:31.08\00:41:33.54
this is really,
really important.
00:41:33.57\00:41:35.40
In 2nd Thessalonians chapter 2,
00:41:35.43\00:41:38.11
we read about the man of sin,
00:41:38.14\00:41:39.53
the son of
perdition who exalts himself
00:41:39.56\00:41:41.28
above all, a little
bit later Paul makes
00:41:41.31\00:41:44.67
this important
point for the mystery
00:41:44.70\00:41:48.34
of iniquity this is
4:7, does already work
00:41:48.37\00:41:51.46
that word
iniquity literally in the
00:41:51.49\00:41:53.31
Greek language and if somebody
00:41:53.34\00:41:54.50
is reading from another version
00:41:54.53\00:41:55.77
it will say lawlessness. Yeah.
00:41:55.80\00:41:59.21
The mystery of
lawlessness does already
00:41:59.24\00:42:01.94
work, only he who
now let's will lead,
00:42:01.97\00:42:04.48
somebody holding it
back from really exploding
00:42:04.51\00:42:07.27
back in Paul's day,
until he will be taken
00:42:07.30\00:42:09.13
out of the way and
then shall that wicked
00:42:09.16\00:42:12.25
be revealed again in
the original language,
00:42:12.28\00:42:14.24
the lawless one,
hope you alright.
00:42:14.27\00:42:17.03
This counterfeit of
the devils wants worship
00:42:17.06\00:42:22.14
and promotes
inequity, wickedness
00:42:22.17\00:42:26.32
or in the
literal language lawless.
00:42:26.35\00:42:29.36
Three tools, deception,
force and lawlessness.
00:42:29.39\00:42:35.89
And Jesus identifies lawlessness
00:42:35.92\00:42:38.71
as a last day
issue, right, in Matthew 7,
00:42:38.74\00:42:42.04
he says, "Not
everyone who says to me,
00:42:42.07\00:42:44.62
'Lord, Lord,' will be
in the kingdom of heaven,
00:42:44.65\00:42:47.46
but he that does
the will of my Father,
00:42:47.49\00:42:49.35
and is one of the saddest verses
00:42:49.38\00:42:51.11
in the Bible as
Matthew 7 Verse 23,
00:42:51.14\00:42:53.42
Jesus is saying in the
last day I will profess
00:42:53.45\00:42:56.51
to them, well I
will read the whole thing
00:42:56.54\00:42:57.94
this is an
important text, Not everyone
00:42:57.97\00:43:00.63
that says to me,
'Lord, Lord,' will enter
00:43:00.66\00:43:02.28
the kingdom of
heaven, this is Verse 21,
00:43:02.31\00:43:04.17
but he that does
the will of my Father,
00:43:04.20\00:43:06.42
which is in
heaven. Many will say to me
00:43:06.45\00:43:09.07
in that day:
Lord, Lord, have we not
00:43:09.10\00:43:11.35
prophesied in thy
name. These are congress.
00:43:11.38\00:43:14.45
Yeah, now these
are church members.
00:43:14.48\00:43:16.40
Church members.
Yes, sir. And in thy name
00:43:16.43\00:43:18.32
of cast out devils
and in thy name done
00:43:18.35\00:43:20.02
many wonderful works
and then I will profess
00:43:20.05\00:43:22.50
unto them, I
never knew you depart
00:43:22.53\00:43:25.70
from the either work,
inequity, lawlessness.
00:43:25.73\00:43:30.65
Here it is again,
big last day issues
00:43:30.68\00:43:33.23
for our Jesus is concerned
00:43:33.26\00:43:34.45
and where does it happen?
00:43:34.48\00:43:37.22
Yeah, in the
presence of the house of God.
00:43:37.25\00:43:39.72
Amazing. Yeah, in a church.
00:43:39.75\00:43:41.36
So here we are,
looking for a dictator
00:43:41.39\00:43:43.48
in Europe. We
are looking all over
00:43:43.51\00:43:45.31
the place and the
issues are right at home.
00:43:45.34\00:43:48.15
Yeah. And God says,
I mean Jesus is watch
00:43:48.18\00:43:51.24
for false Christ,
watch for lawlessness
00:43:51.27\00:43:53.82
in the church,
and new believers.
00:43:53.85\00:43:55.47
Yeah. Amazing.
Yeah, we have seen
00:43:55.50\00:43:57.72
the enemy, Shawn,
and the enemy is us,
00:43:57.75\00:43:59.06
you know, I've heard Pastor say,
00:43:59.09\00:44:01.51
who work for the conference,
00:44:01.54\00:44:03.79
it's getting
tougher to Pastor because
00:44:03.82\00:44:06.23
people don't want
rules, they don't want
00:44:06.26\00:44:08.34
regulations, they
want sort of Chinese menu,
00:44:08.37\00:44:13.25
I will take this or
I'm gonna take that,
00:44:13.28\00:44:14.96
I will take this,
I'm gonna take that,
00:44:14.99\00:44:16.72
I will take this
it's this individuality
00:44:16.75\00:44:20.67
which mass this, you
know, which masquerade
00:44:20.70\00:44:23.77
as freedom but it
is not, which makes it
00:44:23.80\00:44:26.61
tough to bring
people together because
00:44:26.64\00:44:28.52
there is this
lawless period even
00:44:28.55\00:44:30.52
in the house of God. Yeah.
00:44:30.55\00:44:31.93
I like what you
said about masquerade
00:44:31.96\00:44:33.80
as freedom. I had a
good preacher friend
00:44:33.83\00:44:36.71
who died a couple of years ago,
00:44:36.74\00:44:37.75
he used to say, he used
to talk about this thing
00:44:37.78\00:44:40.63
about rules in the
church, and frankly
00:44:40.66\00:44:43.82
we will come to
this but rules in tonight
00:44:43.85\00:44:46.22
study as a matter of fact,
00:44:46.25\00:44:47.22
rules is not
really what it's about.
00:44:47.23\00:44:49.47
There is logic
to it. But the rules
00:44:49.50\00:44:51.88
are therefore a reason
and he used to describe
00:44:51.91\00:44:54.10
like this my friend.
He used to say Tennis
00:44:54.13\00:44:56.31
would be so much
better if that net wasn't
00:44:56.34\00:44:58.35
in the way. But
there is no game anymore.
00:44:58.38\00:45:04.67
There is no game,
right, yeah, yeah.
00:45:04.70\00:45:06.58
No game anymore. Yeah.
00:45:06.61\00:45:07.58
And maybe without the
rules there is no life
00:45:07.59\00:45:08.91
anymore.
Precisely. Yeah, and rules
00:45:08.94\00:45:10.76
help us all pull
together in the same
00:45:10.79\00:45:12.29
direction, do so. Absolutely.
00:45:12.32\00:45:13.79
They do, yeah. Paul
warning the last days
00:45:13.82\00:45:16.30
in 2nd Timothy 3, about
a situation where people
00:45:16.33\00:45:20.80
have a form of Godliness. Yeah.
00:45:20.83\00:45:23.54
But deny the
power. The big problem,
00:45:23.57\00:45:26.27
the big last day
issues in the Book of
00:45:26.30\00:45:28.31
Revelation aren't out there.
00:45:28.34\00:45:30.14
They write it
home, they write it home,
00:45:30.17\00:45:32.29
and that's
realization that's hard to come
00:45:32.32\00:45:34.59
to grip, it was so busy
looking for credit cards
00:45:34.62\00:45:38.25
and chip
implants, they were missing
00:45:38.28\00:45:41.16
the message that
God has for believers.
00:45:41.19\00:45:44.56
Revelation chapter 12, we read
00:45:44.59\00:45:48.42
this a moment
ago. At the very end
00:45:48.45\00:45:51.04
when the dragon is
angry with the woman.
00:45:51.07\00:45:53.35
Jesus has gone back to heaven,
00:45:53.38\00:45:55.60
he turns his
wrath against the woman
00:45:55.63\00:45:57.08
in Verse 17,
the dragon was wroth
00:45:57.11\00:46:00.34
with the woman, angry with her,
00:46:00.37\00:46:01.67
and went to make war
with the remnant of her
00:46:01.70\00:46:05.07
seed which keep the
commandments of God,
00:46:05.10\00:46:09.16
and have the
testimony of Jesus Christ.
00:46:09.19\00:46:12.18
Who does the devil
hate? Those who are
00:46:12.21\00:46:14.70
not lawless. Yeah.
He is trying to stir up
00:46:14.73\00:46:18.50
lawlessness.
God's people Revelation
00:46:18.53\00:46:21.21
chapter 14,
describes here as the patient
00:46:21.24\00:46:23.45
of the saint,
here are they that keep
00:46:23.48\00:46:25.29
the
commandments of God. Oh, yes.
00:46:25.32\00:46:27.34
Law is a big issue.
We don't like to say
00:46:27.37\00:46:30.38
that anymore for
the last 50 years of
00:46:30.41\00:46:31.97
Christianity, no,
no, no, no, I don't want
00:46:32.00\00:46:33.75
to be in that
business. Right, don't want
00:46:33.78\00:46:34.75
to hear that. That's because we
00:46:34.78\00:46:35.75
misunderstand it.
Here is what we know,
00:46:35.76\00:46:37.45
Lucifer wants to be worshipped
00:46:37.48\00:46:39.91
but that's not
possible, he is not qualified,
00:46:39.94\00:46:42.80
he doesn't have the credentials,
00:46:42.83\00:46:44.18
prideful not the
creator. He is not
00:46:44.21\00:46:47.02
the source of life, he
is kicked out of heaven
00:46:47.05\00:46:48.74
and he makes
trouble for Planet Earth
00:46:48.77\00:46:50.57
and he still
doesn't get the message
00:46:50.60\00:46:52.26
he still perusing
worship using deception,
00:46:52.29\00:46:55.83
force and lawlessness.
And lawlessness, yeah.
00:46:55.86\00:46:59.24
The big question
why lawlessness. Yes.
00:46:59.27\00:47:04.24
You know, what you do as a kid,
00:47:04.27\00:47:07.10
you probably
remember the cartoons,
00:47:07.13\00:47:08.73
you got a guy who
is trying to make a
00:47:08.76\00:47:10.48
decision and there is
an angel on one shoulder,
00:47:10.51\00:47:12.59
and little devil the
pitch fork on the other
00:47:12.62\00:47:14.70
shoulder. Devil
is trying to talk
00:47:14.73\00:47:16.51
and do what's
wrong. I've often wondered
00:47:16.54\00:47:19.02
why would the
devil want lawlessness?
00:47:19.05\00:47:22.62
The Bible say sin
is the transgression
00:47:22.65\00:47:25.48
of the law. Why does he want it?
00:47:25.51\00:47:29.19
Is it like a
demerit system where
00:47:29.22\00:47:31.75
if he can get me
to break enough of God
00:47:31.78\00:47:34.15
commandments that
I lose oop 100 points
00:47:34.18\00:47:38.25
against Shawn and I go roast
00:47:38.28\00:47:40.24
and toast
throughout the seedless
00:47:40.27\00:47:41.39
ages of eternity,
flipping and frying
00:47:41.42\00:47:43.11
what chocolate note for
Dallas like a basketball
00:47:43.14\00:47:45.54
game, I got
another one. Is that really
00:47:45.57\00:47:47.89
what's going on? Now
we know the big issue
00:47:47.92\00:47:50.18
is his pride and the
desire to be worshipped.
00:47:50.21\00:47:52.95
Is there
something about God's law
00:47:52.98\00:47:56.93
that he doesn't want
us to see. Is it more than
00:47:56.96\00:48:00.38
just a set of rules?
Does that law show us
00:48:00.41\00:48:05.26
something that devil
is afraid for us to know.
00:48:05.29\00:48:08.18
I don't think it's
about just getting us
00:48:08.21\00:48:10.09
to do bad things.
No. I think it is.
00:48:10.12\00:48:12.74
That's a mechanism.
It's a means to an end.
00:48:12.77\00:48:14.96
Yeah. But it is
not the end in itself.
00:48:14.99\00:48:17.13
You know, I read
the great preachers
00:48:17.16\00:48:20.27
spurgeon from, I
guess two centuries ago now,
00:48:20.30\00:48:22.88
but he used to say
I preach the cross,
00:48:22.91\00:48:26.59
he would have
5000 in his church.
00:48:26.62\00:48:28.32
He said I preach
the cross of Christ
00:48:28.35\00:48:29.88
and when I talk
about the agony of Christ
00:48:29.91\00:48:31.71
there is not a
dry eye in the room,
00:48:31.74\00:48:33.52
and I am thinking
what's the last time we saw
00:48:33.55\00:48:36.23
that, you know
suddenly it occurs to me that
00:48:36.26\00:48:40.02
all these violence on
television that were are
00:48:40.05\00:48:42.91
all raised on 20
some hours a week.
00:48:42.94\00:48:44.67
I don't know how
many murders we see
00:48:44.70\00:48:46.98
by the time we are
18. Is that really just
00:48:47.01\00:48:49.49
showing us bad
things or is he trying
00:48:49.52\00:48:51.60
to anesthetize us
against something.
00:48:51.63\00:48:53.66
Also in the cross
does not have the impact
00:48:53.69\00:48:55.76
if you stay.
Precisely. So why break the law
00:48:55.79\00:48:59.49
just because he
likes to get us to do
00:48:59.52\00:49:00.99
naughty things or
is he hiding something?
00:49:01.02\00:49:04.39
There is a fascinating passage.
00:49:04.42\00:49:06.61
I don't know if we
have time before the break
00:49:06.64\00:49:08.02
to delve into I think we do.
00:49:08.05\00:49:09.23
Yeah, we do, yeah, we do.
00:49:09.26\00:49:10.72
When Moses,
remember Moses comes down
00:49:10.75\00:49:13.93
from the mountain
and he breaks the stones
00:49:13.96\00:49:16.77
because he sees the
children of Israel dance
00:49:16.80\00:49:18.84
around a Golden Calf
that broken him already.
00:49:18.87\00:49:20.53
And you got to get
another set of stones
00:49:20.56\00:49:23.37
go back up the
mountain and there is an
00:49:23.40\00:49:27.23
interesting
passage. It's in Exodus
00:49:27.26\00:49:28.90
chapter 34, and
it really boost us
00:49:28.93\00:49:31.32
to take a careful look at it,
00:49:31.35\00:49:32.80
it's one of the
keys that unlocks the
00:49:32.83\00:49:34.92
Book of
Revelation. Remember when John
00:49:34.95\00:49:37.19
writes Revelation
2/3rd of the language
00:49:37.22\00:49:39.59
he uses is borrowed
from the rest of Bible.
00:49:39.62\00:49:41.91
Yeah. Right. True. He can't read
00:49:41.94\00:49:44.06
just Revelation 12
or 13 or 14, the news
00:49:44.09\00:49:47.21
is if you really
want to understand it,
00:49:47.24\00:49:48.61
you got to read the
whole Book of Revelation
00:49:48.64\00:49:50.06
and then you got to
read the whole Bible.
00:49:50.09\00:49:53.43
Or you're not
gonna get. You know,
00:49:53.46\00:49:56.36
I have students come and say,
00:49:56.39\00:49:57.95
wait a minute
how much, you know,
00:49:57.98\00:49:59.85
you got to read the whole book,
00:49:59.88\00:50:01.06
the whole Bible.
Yeah, you have the whole
00:50:01.09\00:50:02.72
Bible you will never
get it. He uses language
00:50:02.75\00:50:05.71
that everybody in his
day knew was from the rest
00:50:05.74\00:50:08.06
of the Bible and here is
one of those important passages.
00:50:08.09\00:50:11.13
It's in Exodus 34 and Verse 4,
00:50:11.16\00:50:14.42
everybody ought to have
00:50:14.45\00:50:15.87
this marked or
underline in their Bible.
00:50:15.90\00:50:18.19
Here is Moses, in Verse 4,
00:50:19.41\00:50:21.74
he hewed two tables
of stone like the first;
00:50:21.77\00:50:24.56
first one got
broken, and Moses rose up
00:50:24.59\00:50:28.56
early in the morning,
and went up to Mount Sinai,
00:50:28.59\00:50:32.05
as the LORD had commanded him,
00:50:32.08\00:50:33.30
and took in his hand
the two tables of stone.
00:50:33.33\00:50:35.37
And the LORD
descended in the cloud,
00:50:36.32\00:50:38.83
and stood with him there and
here is the fascinating part,
00:50:38.86\00:50:42.11
and proclaimed
the name of the LORD.
00:50:43.11\00:50:46.06
Yes. So God
comes to Moses and says
00:50:46.09\00:50:50.42
I'm gonna tell you my name.
00:50:50.45\00:50:51.70
What is that mean?
What does God say next?
00:50:52.25\00:50:54.57
Yahweh, Jehovah, Adonai, Elohim,
00:50:54.60\00:50:57.09
which one does he choose?
00:50:57.12\00:50:58.36
Not from the
above. Yeah, he is just
00:50:58.39\00:51:00.30
pronouncing his name,
alright; get your pen out Moses.
00:51:00.33\00:51:03.80
You got two tables
of stone, get ready,
00:51:03.83\00:51:05.36
not at all, here is
the fascinating bit,
00:51:05.39\00:51:08.29
proclaimed the name of the
LORD, and the LORD passed by
00:51:08.32\00:51:12.43
before him and proclaimed,
now here comes his name.
00:51:12.46\00:51:15.76
The Lord, the LORD
God, merciful and gracious,
00:51:15.79\00:51:19.67
longsuffering, and
abundant in goodness and truth,
00:51:19.70\00:51:22.09
keeping mercy for thousands,
forgiving iniquity and
00:51:22.12\00:51:27.12
transgression and sin,
and that will by no means
00:51:27.15\00:51:31.69
clear the
guilty; so you got both.
00:51:31.72\00:51:33.97
God says here's
who I am a merciful,
00:51:34.00\00:51:36.90
I am abundant to mercy, I
am gracious longsuffering,
00:51:37.35\00:51:40.25
abundant in goodness and truth,
00:51:40.28\00:51:41.38
I am merciful and I am just.
00:51:41.41\00:51:43.38
Yes. That's who I
am. That's who I am.
00:51:43.41\00:51:45.67
That's my name.
Alright. How is that your name?
00:51:45.70\00:51:49.06
Its interesting
Jesus in John 17,
00:51:49.09\00:51:52.21
during the Lord's
prayer, the real Lord's prayer,
00:51:52.24\00:51:55.62
where he is
speaking to his father.
00:51:55.65\00:51:56.86
I love that chapter
because we get to eavesdrop
00:51:57.20\00:51:59.08
on a conversation
between the son and the father.
00:51:59.11\00:52:01.00
Precisely, yeah.
And he says in Verse 6,
00:52:01.03\00:52:04.30
Father I have manifested
your name to my disciples.
00:52:04.33\00:52:08.55
What? You write God's name
on a slip of paper and said,
00:52:08.58\00:52:10.75
here fellows. No. Jesus came
to show us what God is like,
00:52:10.78\00:52:17.31
his name is who he is.
His name is his character,
00:52:17.34\00:52:22.41
is his character. We're
still familiar with that today.
00:52:22.44\00:52:24.63
If I am talking
about my reputation I say,
00:52:25.33\00:52:27.54
don't tarnish my name,
yeah, don't tarnish my name.
00:52:27.57\00:52:31.18
We still use that expression.
00:52:31.21\00:52:32.63
God's name is not just
his label, it's who he is.
00:52:32.66\00:52:37.49
And how he acts
towards his people.
00:52:37.52\00:52:39.70
Absolutely. Yeah, yeah.
So God says this just as
00:52:39.73\00:52:43.36
Moses getting
ready to write down
00:52:43.39\00:52:44.71
the Ten Commandments again.
Why does God connect the two?
00:52:44.74\00:52:48.33
Very interesting.
It's because if you
00:52:48.36\00:52:50.67
look at God's commandments,
00:52:50.70\00:52:51.95
it's not just to set a rules,
it's a picture of who he is.
00:52:51.98\00:52:55.35
Precisely. Right, when
God says thou shall not steal.
00:52:55.38\00:52:59.21
What is he saying,
alright, you know, what
00:52:59.24\00:53:01.46
I want a universe
without stealing and to ruin
00:53:01.49\00:53:04.02
everybody's fun I
just make that illegal.
00:53:04.05\00:53:06.65
No, it's more than that.
00:53:06.68\00:53:08.47
God saying he says
thou shall not steal,
00:53:08.50\00:53:10.80
he is saying I want you to
be honest because I am honest.
00:53:10.83\00:53:13.89
Because I am honest, yeah.
00:53:13.92\00:53:14.89
Alright, he says,
thou shalt not kill,
00:53:14.90\00:53:16.17
he is saying I
want you to value life
00:53:16.20\00:53:18.46
because I value life,
00:53:18.49\00:53:20.45
I am the creator,
the source of life.
00:53:20.48\00:53:21.89
That's who I am. When he
says thou shall not covet.
00:53:21.92\00:53:25.66
He is saying I don't
want you to have eyes on self;
00:53:26.60\00:53:30.14
I don't have eyes on
self. It's a picture of him.
00:53:30.17\00:53:34.39
God's law is his character,
and his character is his name
00:53:34.42\00:53:39.94
and his name is merciful,
just, and loving in soul.
00:53:39.97\00:53:43.43
It's interesting.
God's law is his character,
00:53:43.93\00:53:46.62
so here is what we
know so far in our study.
00:53:46.65\00:53:48.43
Lucifer, booted out
of heaven because he
00:53:48.46\00:53:52.00
covets God's throne
and he can't have it.
00:53:52.03\00:53:54.19
He still wants worship
and he promotes lawlessness.
00:53:54.22\00:53:57.98
Why does he want lawlessness?
00:53:58.14\00:53:59.88
There is something in that law
00:53:59.91\00:54:01.01
he does not want
people to say. Yes.
00:54:01.04\00:54:02.51
He has been accusing
God of being incapable
00:54:02.54\00:54:04.45
of running the government.
00:54:04.48\00:54:05.62
He says I ought
to sit on that throne
00:54:05.65\00:54:07.26
and he knows if
people study God's law
00:54:07.29\00:54:09.89
they're gonna see
what God is actually like,
00:54:09.92\00:54:13.00
yeah, and Lucifer loses.
00:54:13.03\00:54:14.56
So he doesn't want
that. We know the Bible says
00:54:15.07\00:54:18.11
there would be a
people who cherish God's law
00:54:18.14\00:54:19.78
in the last days, oh
yes, and the devil hates them,
00:54:19.81\00:54:22.62
he doesn't want them to
show the world what God is like.
00:54:22.65\00:54:26.91
Yeah, yeah. That is
so very, very powerful,
00:54:26.94\00:54:29.04
and we are coming down to
the end of our first hour.
00:54:29.07\00:54:31.37
We've gotten here
so very, very fast,
00:54:31.40\00:54:32.62
but I think you are painting
a compelling picture of God
00:54:32.65\00:54:35.68
and one of the things
we know when we go to God,
00:54:35.71\00:54:37.99
we're gonna find him,
the same yesterday, today,
00:54:38.57\00:54:41.26
and for he is consistent
because if he asks us not
00:54:41.29\00:54:44.70
to do these things we know
that these are part of him,
00:54:44.73\00:54:47.53
so when I go to God I
know I never get a God
00:54:47.56\00:54:49.95
who is in a bad
mood or having a bad day.
00:54:49.98\00:54:52.28
He is consistent, so
whenever I go whatever shape,
00:54:52.31\00:54:54.73
whatever condition I am
in, I know I'm gonna find a God
00:54:54.76\00:54:57.23
who even in my inconsistency
is gonna be very consistent.
00:54:57.26\00:55:00.79
I can go to
him, I know what I am
00:55:00.90\00:55:02.48
going to get when I get there.
00:55:02.51\00:55:03.55
Absolutely.
Yeah. He does the same,
00:55:03.58\00:55:05.81
yesterday, today
and forever. Precisely.
00:55:05.84\00:55:06.97
Just like God's
law never changes.
00:55:07.00\00:55:09.58
It's always wrong to murder,
yes, it's always to steal,
00:55:09.61\00:55:11.76
and thank goodness in
the world we have to elect
00:55:11.79\00:55:13.96
new government every
couple of years. Yeah.
00:55:13.99\00:55:15.65
There is one
government never needs changing.
00:55:15.68\00:55:17.59
Amen. It's God. Yeah,
yeah. It's God, and that's what
00:55:17.62\00:55:20.26
the devil does
not want you to see.
00:55:20.29\00:55:21.52
He does not want you to see
the perfect character of God,
00:55:21.55\00:55:23.93
yeah, and why
God should be on the
00:55:23.96\00:55:25.07
throne of the
universe, yeah, and your heart.
00:55:25.10\00:55:26.58
So as he erases law,
he erases the picture
00:55:26.61\00:55:29.15
of the image of
God. You've got it.
00:55:29.18\00:55:30.64
You've got it.
Yeah, yeah. You've got it.
00:55:30.67\00:55:31.90
And half the world
hates God today because
00:55:31.93\00:55:34.47
they don't understand him.
00:55:34.50\00:55:35.47
They don't
understand, powerful, powerful.
00:55:35.48\00:55:37.44
Before we get to the
end of this particular hour,
00:55:37.47\00:55:39.58
I want to just
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00:56:23.68\00:56:26.06
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study during our second hour.
00:56:26.09\00:56:30.38
You got all the
numbers in there though.
00:56:30.41\00:56:31.75
Yeah, they are all.
Can I remind them about
00:56:31.78\00:56:33.22
the notes of free copy
of this study. Please do.
00:56:33.25\00:56:35.49
You can download
it as a PDF because
00:56:35.77\00:56:37.81
we're going so fast
thefinalmoments.com,
00:56:37.84\00:56:41.42
thefinalmoments, just
my study notes actually
00:56:41.45\00:56:44.40
what I have here
what you download there
00:56:44.43\00:56:46.25
is better than this and then
you can tell me what I missed.
00:56:46.28\00:56:50.88
Yeah, praise the
Lord, this is good material
00:56:50.91\00:56:53.28
and this will
buttress your faith.
00:56:53.31\00:56:54.88
You wonder why there is
such lawlessness in the land,
00:56:54.91\00:56:57.87
there is such evil in the land.
00:56:57.90\00:56:59.55
Well Satan has got
an agenda and it's not
00:56:59.58\00:57:01.49
law breaking for the
sake of law breaking.
00:57:01.52\00:57:03.86
It's law breaking as it
takes our mind away from
00:57:03.89\00:57:06.75
and erases the character
and image of God in mankind,
00:57:06.78\00:57:10.44
so Satan has got an agenda,
and God has got an agenda
00:57:10.47\00:57:14.00
and is our job to
follow the leading of God
00:57:14.03\00:57:16.93
to hold up the hand of God
to obey the commandments of God
00:57:16.96\00:57:19.53
and then so
reproduce the character of God
00:57:19.56\00:57:21.95
in our own very, very
lives not written on tables of
00:57:21.98\00:57:24.51
stone anymore but
written in our heart.
00:57:24.54\00:57:26.77
Could you say Amen
to that? Amen, I would.
00:57:26.80\00:57:28.63
And praise the
Lord. Alright, we are
00:57:28.66\00:57:30.12
coming down to
the end of our hour,
00:57:30.15\00:57:31.65
I would want you to run,
get little drink of water,
00:57:31.68\00:57:33.31
do whatever you want to
do, but come right back because
00:57:33.34\00:57:35.22
this is good stuff and
this will buttress your faith
00:57:35.25\00:57:37.73
and encourage
you, so let's together
00:57:37.76\00:57:39.21
we walk that road
that leads to glory.
00:57:39.24\00:57:41.47
We are gonna take
a little bit of break
00:57:41.50\00:57:43.14
and we will be back
in just a few moments
00:57:43.17\00:57:45.03
about to
continue our study again.
00:57:45.06\00:57:46.96