This was a bombing that
took place for hours and hours
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relentlessly
pounding away all night.
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When the
devastating attack was over,
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rescue volunteers were frantic.
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Just digging, pawing,
desperate to reach the dead
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and injured trapped in
that huge pile of rubble
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and they worked day and night
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when suddenly a chaplain
helping with the rescue effort
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heard something a
child's muffled cry.
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With a new rush of adrenaline,
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rescue workers
redoubled their efforts
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and cleared the
wreckage clawing away.
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Four days, four
nights desperately recovering
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every person living or dead
in the chaplain's own words,
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"When we heard that feeble cry,
we thought no one could survive
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the cold and
exposure, least of all a child."
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But sure enough, they
found that little fellow there,
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when they got him out,
he was still conscious,
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with no food, no water for
all that time of four days.
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Now, how did that child survive?
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It was a miracle of mother love
and sacrifice the little boy
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lay sheltered beneath
his mother's lifeless body
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some how
sensing imminent danger,
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that brave mother deliberately
curved her strong body
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over and above her child.
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When the building collapsed,
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she took the full
weight of the crashing stone,
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and underneath her protection,
her little son was safe.
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You know John Masefield,
the poet laureate of England,
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wrote these words "Oh, Mother,
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when I think of thee
'Tis but a step to Calvary."
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That dear, little Belgian
mother sacrificed her life
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to save her own flesh and blood
the little one who loved her.
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But ladies and gentlemen,
God sacrificed His Son
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not just to save
those who loved Him
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but also to save His
enemies those who hated Him.
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Isaiah 53 one of my
favorite passages says,
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"He is despised
and rejected by men,
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a Man of sorrows and
acquainted with grief.
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He was wounded for
our transgressions,
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He was bruised
for our iniquities
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and by His
stripes we are healed.
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All we like sheep have
gone astray He was afflicted.
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Yet He opened not His mouth,
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He was led as a
lamb to the slaughter."
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The question tonight
is, who was this Jesus?
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Why does the Bible
say in Revelation 5:12
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"Worthy is the
Lamb, who was slain."
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Tonight ladies and gentlemen,
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as the Voice of Prophecy speaks,
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we discover an
amazing technique of God
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absolutely profound in the
way that He deals with people.
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When you and I take a
closer look at the Bible record,
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you will discover
that whenever this planet
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has experienced
cataclysmic catastrophic,
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spiritual crisis judgments
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God always first sends a prophet
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with a message of
salvation, a loving prediction
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warning about that crisis coming
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and that message results
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in the inauguration of a
movement a remnant people
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who respond to
that prophetic message,
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they therefore
avoid the judgment,
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and they move
safely through another--
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that crisis into
another epoch of human history.
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And all throughout the
Bible it is always the same.
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There are at least five
major epochs in human history
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that illustrate this point.
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I want you tonight
to watch very carefully
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and notice how the
Voice of Prophecy speaks.
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Because it has
something to do with Armageddon,
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it has something
to do with left behind
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and it has something
to do with you tonight.
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You tell me out loud what
is the first cataclysmic crisis
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we come to in the Bible?
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Genesis 6, the
flood, the flood of Noah.
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Genesis 6:5-8
says, "The Lord saw
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that the wickedness of
man was great in the earth,
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and that every
intent of the thoughts
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of his heart was
only evil continually,
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and the Lord was sorry that
He had made man on the earth,
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and He was grieved in His heart.
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So the Lord said,
'I will destroy man
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whom I have created
from the face of the earth,
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both man and beast,
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creeping things
and birds of the air,
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for I am sorry
that I have made them.'
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But Noah what?
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Found grace in
the eyes of the Lord."
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Trouble coming, Noah.
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Big time was he surprised? No.
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Because before
God sends judgments,
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first He sends a prophet.
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Well who was the preacher
prophet sent before Noah's day?
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I mean Noah preached a 120 years
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warning before
this great flood came.
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Did someone precede Noah?
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Well, the tiny little
New Testament Book of Jude
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that's only one page
long says "Now Enoch,
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the seventh from Adam,
prophesied about these men."
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Yes, there it is.
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Before Noah's
catastrophic flood,
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God first sent
Enoch a prophet, it says.
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You know that
Enoch the Bible tells us
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he had a son by
the name of Methuselah.
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Genesis 5:21 says
Enoch, lived 65 years
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and begot Methuselah."
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But Methuselah
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became the turning
point in world history.
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A changing point in
Enoch's life as a prophet.
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You see, part
of Enoch's prophecy
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was in the very name
that he gave Methuselah.
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May be you know
that in Bible times
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often when people
named their children,
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God helped them give them a name
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that kind of had something
to do with their own future
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as well as with history, right?
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Methuselah, he
was the longest person
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to ever live in
the Bible wasn't he?
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Well Methuselah's
name actually means,
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if you would
translate it from Hebrew,
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it literally means "at
his death it will come."
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What will come at his death?
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Well now, if you ever
go to a buy a new Bible,
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you always try to buy one
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with a nice
centered marginal reference.
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If you look at the margin
in your Bible you'll find out
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that there is just as valid
an alternate of the translation
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to that word Methuselah,
because it literally means,
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"at his death the
sending forth of waters."
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In other words
if you would greet
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little
Methuselah, you would say,
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"Hi, at your death the
sending forth of waters."
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But I want you to
notice how amazing
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an accurate prophecy is here.
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God makes a
prediction you see to Noah,
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"I'm going to send a flood."
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But first the
prophet Enoch predicts it
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through his son
Methuselah, by naming his son,
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"at his death, the
sending forth of waters."
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And if you read the record,
in Genesis 5:27, it says,
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"So all the days of Methuselah"
how long did he live?
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"Nine hundred
and sixty-nine years,
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and he died."
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He lived clear up
to the time of Noah,
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when you see God raised
up another prophet, Noah.
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Who began an evangelistic
campaign kind of like this
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when we are doing, saying,
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"Folks, a flood is
coming get on board, everybody."
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And every time
Noah was preaching,
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there in his
audience sat great, great,
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great, great,
grandpa Methuselah,
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and Noah would point
to him and say, "Folks.
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There he is. When
he dies it will come."
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We don't know the day,
we don't know the hour,
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but it's coming.
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People poked fun at Noah.
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The Bible says,
they didn't believe it.
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But one day his
great, great, great, great,
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great
grandfather died, Methuselah,
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and at his funeral
Noah preached and said,
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"Please folks, now
you've got to come in the ark
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because it's here.
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But you know that
only eight people believed.
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The rest of the
planet was destroyed.
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But notice what happens.
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God led His little
remnant prophetic people
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those eight people, safely
through the cataclysmic flood
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into the next
epoch of human history.
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Now the point is
tonight ladies and gentlemen,
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we see a technique of God here
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if you watch the
screens for a moment.
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God calls a prophet.
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Through that
prophet He makes a prophecy.
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At the end of
that prophetic period,
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God raises up another prophet
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who takes that prophecy,
starts a movement of people
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who go safely
through the crisis,
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and on into the next
epoch of human history.
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Now if we want to see that again
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let's move to exhibit two.
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The major crises
of the Old Testament
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is the crises of Exodus.
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Probably the most remarkable
prophecy in all of the Bible
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which I will
probably has or to guess
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you probably never
heard preached on a Sunday
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or a Saturday any other morning.
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It's the prediction
God gave to Abraham,
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400 years before
the Exodus, dramatic,
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remarkable prophecy
for filled 400 years later.
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If you have your Bibles
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you can turn with
me to Genesis 15:13, 14
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notice this technique
of God at work once again.
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There is a crisis
coming, Gods people is real
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are going to be
in slavery 400 years.
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But God comes to
His friend Abraham.
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And He makes His dire
prediction of bad news
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but then some good news.
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Notice, God calls
Abraham, a prophet.
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"Know certainly
Abraham, that your descendants
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will be strangers in a
land that is not theirs,
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and will serve them,"
meaning the Egyptians "
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and they will afflict
them four hundred years.
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And also the
nation whom they serve"
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that's Egypt "I will judge
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afterward they will come
out with great possessions."
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So notice again God
gives a prophecy to Abraham,
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makes a prediction
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that exactly 400 years
of slavery and persecution
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there would come then a
deliverer another prophet--
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oh, by the way, if we
include the call of Abraham
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and well, he was
still over there Bagdad,
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or remember the soldiers,
our troops what right up
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through or even the
news were CNN were saying,
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this is where Abraham came from.
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If you include the
time that he was there
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before he went to the Palestine,
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he was there 430 years.
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You'll see that's
important at the moment.
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But we should
expect that after that 400
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or 430 years
passed another prophet
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400 years later
would come along,
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take that original
prophecy, start a movement
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that
inaugurates a remnant people
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who respond to
that prophetic message,
00:12:00.56\00:12:02.68
and they avoid that judgment,
and move safely through that
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crisis to another epoch of time.
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Did it happen?
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Well, all you have to do is
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read the story of
Moses and the Exodus.
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It fulfilled prophecy
dramatically and remarkably.
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Notice please with me
Exodus 12:40-42: it says
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"Now the sojourn of
the children of Israel
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who lived in Egypt was
four hundred and thirty years."
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Notice this next line.
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"And it came to pass at the end
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of the four
hundred and thirty years
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on that very same
day it came to pass
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that all the armies of the Lord
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went out from the land of Egypt.
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It is a night of
solemn observance to the Lord
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for bringing them out
of the land of Egypt."
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And right on into a
brand new epoch of time.
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That is one of
the most remarkable
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most amazing
prophecies in all of the Bible.
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Fulfill the Bible
says, to the very same day
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when the Passover took place.
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You see this is the
same technique of God
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always since scripture.
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A prophet makes a time prophecy,
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toward the end of which another
prophet raises up to apply
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that prophecy to his
generation and begin a movement
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that goes into the
next epoch of history.
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Let's try it again
with exhibit number three.
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The 70 years of
Babylonian captivity exile.
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You talked about
Blitzkrieg and Baghdad.
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We know from history
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that these years of
the Babylonia Captivity
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for the Jews,
under Nebuchadnezzar
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were from history
tells us 606 to 536 B.C.,
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you count down
when you are in B.C.
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Seventy years of
captivity-- catastrophe.
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But now notice what happens.
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Jeremiah the
prophet made the prediction
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that God's people would
go into 70 years of exile
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because of their wickedness,
backsliding, apostasy,
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worst catastrophe
ever to come to Israel.
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Capture by Babylon,
exile, a time of crisis.
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Jeremiah 25:11-12
"And this whole land
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shall be a
desolation and an astonishment,
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and these nations shall serve
the king of Babylon 70 years.
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Then it shall come to pass,
when 70 years are completed,
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that I will punish
the king of Babylon."
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Now, friends listen carefully.
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If the technique of
God is to be consistent
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and we saw that it holds
true in the case of flood,
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it held true in
the case of the Exodus,
00:14:44.64\00:14:46.86
two instances,
then we should expect
00:14:46.89\00:14:49.56
that a prophet or may
be even several prophets
00:14:49.59\00:14:52.43
should come on the scene
00:14:52.46\00:14:53.55
at the conclusion
of this 70 year period
00:14:53.58\00:14:56.00
lead God's people
through that crisis
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on into a new epoch, a new era.
00:14:58.31\00:15:02.00
Well, exactly 70
years later, what happened?
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Sure enough,
three prophets show up,
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Daniel, Haggai and Zechariah
down to the very year 536 B.C.
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We'll just pick on one of them
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for a quotation from
Daniel 9:1, 2 he says,
00:15:17.40\00:15:22.41
"In the first year
of Darius I, Daniel,
00:15:22.44\00:15:26.08
understood by the
books the number of the years
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specified by
the word of the Lord
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through Jeremiah the prophet,
that He would accomplish
00:15:30.91\00:15:34.04
seventy years of
desolation of Jerusalem."
00:15:34.07\00:15:37.12
You see Daniel takes
the prophecy of Jeremiah,
00:15:37.15\00:15:40.98
applies that
prophecy to His day.
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And so God begins a remnant,
00:15:43.54\00:15:46.15
who went back to Jerusalem,
started a new movement
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and moved into a brand new
epoch for the nation of Israel.
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I mean it's
absolutely thrilling.
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Folks, God is the same
yesterday, today and what?
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Forever, God rules,
folks. He's in control.
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But now hold on to your
seats because tonight's message
00:16:03.19\00:16:06.86
is one of the
most amazing examples
00:16:06.89\00:16:08.94
of this prophecy
principle in all of the Bible.
00:16:08.97\00:16:12.14
The 490 year
prophecy of Daniel 9:25.
00:16:12.17\00:16:18.21
Now most people
who studied the Bible,
00:16:18.24\00:16:20.87
they know that there is
over 300 little prophecies
00:16:20.90\00:16:23.58
in the Old Testament
00:16:23.61\00:16:24.89
pointing forward
to Jesus, Messiah.
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Every detail is
there about His lifetime.
00:16:27.71\00:16:30.23
We call those
"Messianic prophecies"
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and we'll look at a few
before the evening is done.
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But For thousands of years
back there in the Old Testament,
00:16:35.48\00:16:38.71
people would offer sacrifices
and they would slay a lamb,
00:16:38.74\00:16:41.80
and they would
sprinkle the blood of the lamb
00:16:41.83\00:16:44.11
on the doorposts of their
homes clearly teaching people
00:16:44.14\00:16:47.38
before Jesus came
to died on Calvary
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that the only way to be
saved from their sins is,
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John 1:29 says, is to
"Behold the Lamb of God
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who takes away
the sin of the world!"
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Messiah is coming.
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Hebrews 9:23, says
very-- verse 22 says
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"without the shedding of
blood there is no remission."
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So you see God Himself
set up that ceremonial system
00:17:09.69\00:17:12.68
for all those
millennia on purpose
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to point forward to
Messiah the Lamb of God.
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He's coming.
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The most
important crisis, crucial,
00:17:19.51\00:17:22.09
cataclysmic event in
the history of the universe.
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Jesus' death on Calvary's cross.
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But let's stop tape right here.
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Let's refocus the camera
and let's back up 500 years.
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Five centuries.
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Daniel, the prophet
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was carefully
studying the prophecies
00:17:40.12\00:17:42.50
and praying for
His people Israel.
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Remember he is in
Babylon. He is a captive.
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But he got excited
because he notice that
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one of the
prophesies about the exiles
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it was the 70 year
captivity prophecy of Jeremiah
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and he realized the
prophecy that had been predicted
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about that captivity
was going to come to end
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for him and his
people in about five years.
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"Wow, well, we Jews are gonna
get to go back to Jerusalem.
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God's about to set us free."
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Well, as Daniel
was speaking to God
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and thanking Him in prayer,
for this wonderful revelation,
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the angel Gabriel
came, Daniel 9:22, 23 says
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"And he informed me, and
talked with me, and said,
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'O Daniel, I have now
come forth to give you skill
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and understanding for
you are greatly beloved"
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wouldn't you like to have
God save of you through Gabriel?
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You-- God thinks
you are really special.
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"Therefore Daniel
consider the matter,
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and understand the vision."
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So, notice now, hear
again we have a prophet,
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God's giving the
prophet Daniel a vision,
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a new prophecy,
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And Gabriel told Daniel
00:18:49.69\00:18:51.47
"I've got some good
news and some bad news.
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Let me give the
bad news first, Daniel.
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Another big crisis is coming:"
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Daniel 9:24 "Seventy weeks
are determined for your people."
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In other words your
Jewish nation Daniel,
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has got 70 weeks to
get their act together
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or God says I'm through.
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It will be finished,
it will be over kaput."
00:19:15.11\00:19:19.09
Well, Daniel's heart stops cold.
00:19:19.12\00:19:22.11
Why, with this be Gabriel?
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Daniel 9:24, "For your
people and your holy city,
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to finish the transgression
to make an end of sins,
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to make
reconciliation for iniquity,
00:19:31.06\00:19:33.18
to bring in
everlasting righteousness,
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seal up the vision and prophecy,
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and to anoint the Most Holy."
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Well, Daniel was
troubled about this.
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The vision haunted him for days
and the Bible says for weeks.
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He couldn't understand it.
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He couldn't sleep,
he Stayed up nights
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thinking about it
because it wasn't clear.
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Because you see,
Daniel knew that in prophecy
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when you compute
apocalyptic prophetic time,
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end time events prophecies.
00:20:01.78\00:20:05.37
He knew that one prophetic day
00:20:05.40\00:20:08.35
really stands
for a literal year.
00:20:08.38\00:20:12.04
I mean that's how
prophetic time works.
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Daniel knew about
Ezekiel 4:6 and Numbers 14:34,
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you can get it
that discover lessons,
00:20:18.83\00:20:20.84
be sure you pick up your
copy at the-- the table tonight.
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They spell out very clearly
00:20:24.94\00:20:26.89
that "I have appointed
thee each day" for what?
00:20:26.92\00:20:31.61
"A year."
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So, first of all,
says Gabriel to Daniel,
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who was a prophet remember
00:20:35.00\00:20:36.68
in this prophecy here of
this 400-- this 70 weeks.
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This prophetic
period of 490 literal years
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that's 70 weeks,
70 times 7 is 490.
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That's how long the
Jews have to get with it.
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Four hundred
ninety literal years
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are measured off
for the Jewish nation,
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to repent, to be
saved as a nation of Israel.
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And this is also Daniel,
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a special period of
grace for the Jewish nation.
00:20:58.85\00:21:01.67
But then, Daniel, a big
crisis is coming, big time.
00:21:01.70\00:21:07.23
But Daniel,
here's the good news.
00:21:07.26\00:21:09.31
I want you to notice that
during this 490 year period
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some great things
are gonna take place.
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Some events leading up to,
00:21:16.22\00:21:18.44
hold on to your
seat Daniel, Messiah.
00:21:18.47\00:21:22.25
Really? That's right.
00:21:22.28\00:21:23.86
Daniel, during this long
time prophecy all of these rites
00:21:23.89\00:21:28.01
and ceremonies
and blood sacrifices
00:21:28.04\00:21:30.06
was would brought to an end.
00:21:30.09\00:21:31.79
Pay attention, Daniel.
00:21:31.82\00:21:33.20
This is the greatest
prophecy God has ever given.
00:21:33.23\00:21:36.29
Four specific events leading
up to ground zero, Calvary.
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I'm gonna tell
you exactly Daniel,
00:21:42.86\00:21:44.46
listen I'm gonna tell
you the year Messiah comes,
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exactly when He will
officially begin His ministry,
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how long His ministry will
be, even to when He will die
00:21:50.77\00:21:55.45
to the year, month,
day and hour of time
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and much, much more, Daniel.
00:21:59.93\00:22:01.46
Wow, thought Daniel. Wow.
00:22:01.49\00:22:05.31
"Gabriel, when does
this prophecy begin?
00:22:05.34\00:22:07.09
When did it start,
what's the beginning date?
00:22:07.12\00:22:08.50
I'd like to know, so
may be I can start computing
00:22:08.53\00:22:10.71
when all these
things will happen."
00:22:10.74\00:22:12.21
Gabriel says to Daniel
in verse 25, Now listen,
00:22:12.24\00:22:15.76
it just takes a little
bit of simple arithmetic.
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You can start
figuring out this prophecy
00:22:18.91\00:22:21.49
and all of its finer details
from the time of the decree
00:22:21.52\00:22:25.85
to restore and
rebuild Jerusalem.
00:22:25.88\00:22:29.33
Notice, "Know
therefore and understand,
00:22:29.36\00:22:32.29
that from the going
forth of the command to restore
00:22:32.32\00:22:35.00
and build Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince,
00:22:35.03\00:22:39.55
there shall be seven
weeks and sixty-two weeks."
00:22:39.58\00:22:44.33
Oh, says Daniel. Sure enough.
00:22:44.36\00:22:47.97
I'm here in Jerusalem,
it's in ruins at this time.
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Daniel and the Jews they are
captive prisoners in Babylon.
00:22:50.62\00:22:53.56
Gabriel says, get out
your stopwatch Daniel,
00:22:53.59\00:22:56.34
well, a decree is
made to rebuild Jerusalem.
00:22:56.37\00:22:59.56
All right, says
Daniel. Can't miss that.
00:22:59.59\00:23:01.97
I mean this is like
"WordPerfect for Dummies."
00:23:02.00\00:23:04.96
And we find that decree recorded
00:23:04.99\00:23:07.12
in the Book of Ezra
Chapter 6 and 7 in fact,
00:23:07.15\00:23:10.25
the Jews wrote it
everywhere in the Old Testament,
00:23:10.28\00:23:12.94
so nobody would miss it.
00:23:12.97\00:23:14.34
But, well, let's pick
on Ezra 7:7, 13 tell us
00:23:14.37\00:23:18.52
"In the seventh year
of Artaxerxes the King"
00:23:18.55\00:23:21.53
King of Persia and it
gives such and such a day
00:23:21.56\00:23:24.46
and such and such month.
00:23:24.49\00:23:25.86
"I make a decree, that all
they of the children of Israel
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of their own freewill
can go up to Jerusalem."
00:23:30.24\00:23:35.31
Well, history tells us that
the decree of King Artaxerxes
00:23:35.34\00:23:38.91
to rebuild Jerusalem was
issued in the year 457 B.C.
00:23:38.94\00:23:44.91
the year, the month
and even the day are given.
00:23:44.94\00:23:48.06
The angel says,
Daniel, get out your pencil.
00:23:48.09\00:23:51.93
This prophecy is so simple
00:23:51.96\00:23:53.16
an eighth grader
can figure it out.
00:23:53.19\00:23:55.54
The beginning date of this
long 490 year prophecy period
00:23:55.57\00:24:00.02
is when this decree
is issued in 457 B.C.
00:24:00.05\00:24:03.94
Daniel, put it
down. Write it down.
00:24:03.97\00:24:06.06
But notice now,
that Daniel is gonna be
00:24:06.09\00:24:08.40
several amazing subdivisions
in this 490 year period.
00:24:08.43\00:24:13.06
Write these down.
00:24:13.09\00:24:14.26
But 457 B.C.
starts the clock ticking.
00:24:14.29\00:24:19.15
But the very first thing
Daniel to watch for to happen
00:24:19.18\00:24:21.51
after that is going to be
you'll see Jerusalem rebuilt.
00:24:21.54\00:24:26.52
Daniel 9:25 "to
restore and build Jerusalem
00:24:26.55\00:24:30.87
shall be" how many weeks?
00:24:30.90\00:24:32.85
"Seven weeks.
00:24:32.88\00:24:34.29
The street will be
built again, and the wall,
00:24:34.32\00:24:36.72
even in troublesome times."
00:24:36.75\00:24:38.27
Well, Seven weeks how many days?
00:24:38.30\00:24:42.40
Come on, 49, seven--
00:24:42.43\00:24:46.81
seven weeks times
seven days in a week 49 days.
00:24:46.84\00:24:50.82
Actual prophetic days,
but now we want actual years,
00:24:50.85\00:24:54.85
so that's 49 years that's right
00:24:54.88\00:24:58.31
for the rebuilding of Jerusalem.
00:24:58.34\00:24:59.56
Bingo, that brings
you down to 408 B.C.
00:24:59.59\00:25:03.53
you do the math.
00:25:03.56\00:25:04.61
History tells us
that dates correct
00:25:04.64\00:25:07.29
because Artaxerxes, Longimanus
completed the work in 408 B.C.
00:25:07.32\00:25:14.34
But, now, Daniel,
says Gabriel, from 457 B.C.
00:25:14.37\00:25:17.81
this prophecy also is to
go down and reach to Messiah,
00:25:17.84\00:25:23.37
the anointed one, verse 25,
"Know therefore and understand,
00:25:23.40\00:25:28.51
from the going
forth of the command
00:25:28.54\00:25:30.22
to restore and build Jerusalem
until Messiah the Prince,
00:25:30.25\00:25:34.53
shall be seven weeks
and sixty two weeks."
00:25:34.56\00:25:37.48
What's sixty two in
seven? Sixty nine, all right.
00:25:37.51\00:25:41.98
Do a little math,
seven times, 69 is 483 days
00:25:42.01\00:25:47.75
or we're looking
for real years now.
00:25:47.78\00:25:50.42
Four hundred and
eighty years later
00:25:50.45\00:25:52.65
after Artaxerxes
original decree brings us down--
00:25:52.68\00:25:56.03
you actually have
to go down to zero
00:25:56.06\00:25:57.39
and now you are up into
A.D. you count up to 27 A.D.
00:25:57.42\00:26:01.81
That's the year that Messiah
should officially appear.
00:26:01.84\00:26:06.13
What happened in that year?
00:26:06.16\00:26:07.82
You go to your gospels
Matthew, Mark, Luke, John
00:26:07.85\00:26:10.63
even the Book of Acts
they all tell us precisely
00:26:10.66\00:26:13.90
that year happen
to be the 15th year
00:26:13.93\00:26:16.77
reigning of Tiberius Caesar,
00:26:16.80\00:26:19.72
and it says the John the Baptist
00:26:19.75\00:26:21.65
was baptizing people
over in the Jordan River
00:26:21.68\00:26:24.29
and one day Jesus
came down to that river
00:26:24.32\00:26:26.48
and He asked John,
00:26:26.51\00:26:28.20
I want to be
baptized in the Jordan River.
00:26:28.23\00:26:30.34
John, I want you to
anoint Me. Now says John.
00:26:30.37\00:26:36.09
Now says Jesus. The
prophetic clock has struck.
00:26:36.12\00:26:40.30
Notice, Mark 1:15 Jesus
said, "The time is" what?
00:26:40.33\00:26:46.04
"Fulfilled, and the
kingdom of God is at hand."
00:26:46.07\00:26:49.77
And John looks with
prophetic inside and says.
00:26:49.80\00:26:52.50
"Behold.
00:26:52.53\00:26:53.90
The Lamb of God
00:26:53.93\00:26:55.40
who is gonna takes
away the sin of the world!"
00:26:55.43\00:26:57.78
People, look at
him, this is Messiah.
00:26:57.81\00:27:00.18
He is showing up
right on schedule
00:27:00.21\00:27:02.43
as the prophecies indicate.
00:27:02.46\00:27:04.17
In fact Luke
pinpoints this very year
00:27:04.20\00:27:06.52
that Jesus was
anointed at His baptism,
00:27:06.55\00:27:09.29
Luke tells us it's
in the fall of A.D. 27.
00:27:09.32\00:27:13.59
Luke 3:1, 22, 21.
00:27:13.62\00:27:16.54
"In the fifteenth year of
the reign of Tiberius Caesar
00:27:16.57\00:27:18.99
and praying, the
heaven was opened,
00:27:19.02\00:27:21.75
and the Holy Ghost
descended in a bodily shape
00:27:21.78\00:27:24.24
like a dove upon him,
00:27:24.27\00:27:25.94
and a voice came
from heaven, which said,
00:27:25.97\00:27:28.32
'Thou art my beloved Son,
in thee I am well pleased.'
00:27:28.35\00:27:35.94
" God anointed Jesus.
00:27:35.97\00:27:39.01
Messiah, anointed One,
right there at His baptism.
00:27:39.04\00:27:44.20
And Paul states in Acts 10:38,
00:27:44.23\00:27:46.62
"God anointed Jesus of
Nazareth with the Holy Ghost."
00:27:46.65\00:27:50.99
In the fall of A.D.
27 and that's important
00:27:51.02\00:27:55.04
because it fulfills the 483 year
00:27:55.07\00:27:58.30
part of that prophecy
down to the very month.
00:27:58.33\00:28:01.54
I mean is this just an accident?
00:28:01.57\00:28:03.21
Why wasn't Jesus baptized
in the spring or the summer?
00:28:03.24\00:28:07.81
Just
happenstance here. No friend.
00:28:07.84\00:28:10.92
The prophecy said
Jesus would be anointed
00:28:10.95\00:28:13.72
exactly at that
time so that Messiah
00:28:13.75\00:28:16.93
could not possibly be Buddha
nor could it be Confucius.
00:28:16.96\00:28:22.08
It cannot be Mohammed.
00:28:22.11\00:28:24.48
This is no
coincidence because it proves
00:28:24.51\00:28:26.83
Jesus was indeed who
He claimed to be, Messiah.
00:28:26.86\00:28:31.32
In fact, Jesus himself
preached everywhere He went,
00:28:31.35\00:28:33.86
Mark 1:15 "The
time is fulfilled,
00:28:33.89\00:28:36.51
the kingdom of God is at hand.
00:28:36.54\00:28:38.28
Repent, and
believe in the gospel."
00:28:38.31\00:28:39.91
He said to the people,
00:28:39.94\00:28:40.97
My whole life is
based on prophecies.
00:28:41.00\00:28:44.31
Oh, but listen,
hold on there's more.
00:28:44.34\00:28:47.58
It really gets beautiful
and wonderfully technical.
00:28:47.61\00:28:50.71
In fact, this is my
favorite part of the prophecy.
00:28:50.74\00:28:54.40
Because you see in from 27 A.D.
00:28:54.43\00:28:56.95
when Jesus arrived there
is still seven more years
00:28:56.98\00:29:00.93
left in that
prophecy for the Jews
00:29:00.96\00:29:03.22
to get with it, right.
00:29:03.25\00:29:04.86
From Christ's baptism in 27 A.D.
00:29:04.89\00:29:07.60
clear up to A.D. 34
for seven more years
00:29:07.63\00:29:12.44
after the Savior
entered His ministry in A.D. 27,
00:29:12.47\00:29:15.29
the gospel was
preached especially to the Jews.
00:29:15.32\00:29:19.11
For three and half
years preach to them
00:29:19.14\00:29:21.48
by Christ
Himself, and then afterward
00:29:21.51\00:29:23.68
when He went back to haven
the apostles preached the Jews.
00:29:23.71\00:29:27.03
But look,
something else happens first
00:29:27.06\00:29:30.82
before that Jewish
nation falls apart in A.D. 34,
00:29:30.85\00:29:34.94
Daniel 9:26, 27 say's
in the midst of the week,
00:29:34.97\00:29:42.82
"Messiah shall be cut
off, but not for Himself."
00:29:42.85\00:29:49.85
For others He'd be killed.
Now look closely what happens?
00:29:49.88\00:29:54.29
Right smack in the
middle of this last 7 years,
00:29:54.32\00:29:57.80
from 27 A.D. to 34 A.D.
right in the middle 31 A.D.
00:29:57.83\00:30:03.30
it says, "And He shall confirm
00:30:03.33\00:30:04.87
the covenant with
many" for how long?
00:30:04.90\00:30:07.44
"One week at seven years
and in the midst of that week
00:30:07.47\00:30:12.06
He will cause the sacrifice
and oblation to cease."
00:30:12.09\00:30:16.62
In other words, exactly
three and one-half years
00:30:16.65\00:30:20.35
after Jesus baptism,
00:30:20.38\00:30:23.06
by sacrificing Himself
halfway through this week,
00:30:23.09\00:30:27.14
He would bring
an end to the entire
00:30:27.17\00:30:29.02
sacrificial system of
the Jewish Old Testament.
00:30:29.05\00:30:32.35
Now I want you
to count it with me.
00:30:32.38\00:30:33.82
Hold up your hand. I
want you to use your fingers.
00:30:33.85\00:30:37.25
There is one, two, three years
00:30:37.28\00:30:39.20
and we're gonna go into
the half of this fourth one.
00:30:39.23\00:30:41.76
The fingers are just the
edges of the years, okay?
00:30:41.79\00:30:44.24
From the fall of A.D. 27
you go to the fall of A.D. 28,
00:30:44.27\00:30:49.46
that's one year, to the
fall of A.D. 29, two years,
00:30:49.49\00:30:52.78
to the fall of
A.D. 30, three years
00:30:52.81\00:30:56.14
and then you don't go
to the fall of A.D. 31
00:30:56.17\00:30:59.47
its only half year.
00:30:59.50\00:31:00.90
From the fall
you'll go to winter,
00:31:00.93\00:31:03.18
and then what's the next season?
00:31:03.21\00:31:05.13
The spring of A.D. 31.
00:31:05.16\00:31:07.87
When is Easter? The spring.
00:31:07.90\00:31:11.92
Prophecy was fulfilled
exactly history tells us
00:31:11.95\00:31:15.15
it was Passover in 31 A.D.
00:31:15.18\00:31:18.08
exactly three and half
years after His baptism.
00:31:18.11\00:31:21.86
In the middle of
this prophetic week,
00:31:21.89\00:31:23.68
Jesus died as the
perfect Lamb of God.
00:31:23.71\00:31:26.40
He the true sacrifice offered
on Calvary the Bible says,
00:31:26.43\00:31:29.98
was suddenly cut off,
killed, hung on a cross.
00:31:30.01\00:31:35.08
And scripture even tells us,
00:31:35.11\00:31:36.33
it was on the 14th day
of the first Jewish month
00:31:36.36\00:31:40.06
equivalent
precisely to our Easter time.
00:31:40.09\00:31:43.17
And you very well
remember what happened that day?
00:31:43.20\00:31:45.73
Mark records it.
00:31:45.76\00:31:46.92
Says it was
Passover in Jerusalem,
00:31:46.95\00:31:49.41
and it says that
just as the priest
00:31:49.44\00:31:51.95
was there in the temple,
00:31:51.98\00:31:53.15
there was about to
slay the lamb on the altar,
00:31:53.18\00:31:55.23
suddenly it says "the veil
in the temple behind him bushed"
00:31:55.26\00:31:58.32
by the way was six inches thick
00:31:58.35\00:32:01.59
was suddenly torn from top
to the bottom by an unseen hand.
00:32:01.62\00:32:05.62
In horror, the High
Priest dropped the knife,
00:32:05.65\00:32:08.22
and all the people now
for the very first time
00:32:08.25\00:32:10.41
could see right
into the most Holy Place
00:32:10.44\00:32:12.35
which only the high
priest was ever supposed to see.
00:32:12.38\00:32:15.38
But all of that rigmarole
and ceremony was worthless now.
00:32:15.41\00:32:19.39
It meant nothing. Why?
00:32:19.42\00:32:22.41
It all came to
an end at the cross.
00:32:22.44\00:32:25.16
Because at that very moment,
00:32:25.19\00:32:27.50
Jesus outside the
wall of Jerusalem,
00:32:27.53\00:32:29.73
hung on Calvarias
hill and He cried out
00:32:29.76\00:32:31.85
at that very instant.
00:32:31.88\00:32:33.00
Look John 19:30
"It is finished."
00:32:33.03\00:32:39.93
The Bible said that
Jesus would be crucified
00:32:39.96\00:32:43.22
when the Passover Lamb was slain
00:32:43.25\00:32:45.39
three o'clock on the afternoon
00:32:45.42\00:32:46.73
on the 14th day of the
first month in A.D. 31.
00:32:46.76\00:32:50.25
On the very month, the very day,
00:32:50.28\00:32:52.78
the very hour
and the very second
00:32:52.81\00:32:56.62
that the lamb in
the temple was slain
00:32:56.65\00:32:59.82
meeting the
specifications of prophecy
00:32:59.85\00:33:01.72
in every single minute detail.
00:33:01.75\00:33:05.50
You see the time
had come for the rights
00:33:05.53\00:33:07.64
and the ceremonies of
the Old Testament to cease.
00:33:07.67\00:33:10.10
No more sacrifices to show faith
00:33:10.13\00:33:11.90
anymore in a coming Messiah.
00:33:11.93\00:33:13.84
Messiah Changed the
World. What a prophecy.
00:33:13.87\00:33:18.50
Can you say amen? Amen.
00:33:18.53\00:33:20.32
Fantastic, because no
other person on the planet
00:33:20.35\00:33:23.27
could possibly
fulfilled history as Jesus did.
00:33:23.30\00:33:27.07
Oh, but friend, the
prophecy isn't ended.
00:33:27.10\00:33:30.06
Three and one-half
more years remember
00:33:30.09\00:33:33.46
were measured off for
the Jews ending in 34 A.D.
00:33:33.49\00:33:38.97
As a nation they have
three and one-half more years
00:33:39.00\00:33:40.78
to straighten
out, to accept Jesus
00:33:40.81\00:33:43.05
and the message
of the disciples.
00:33:43.08\00:33:44.80
But you know what the
New Testament tells us
00:33:44.83\00:33:46.75
they never did.
00:33:46.78\00:33:47.83
The Jews-- the
disciples tried to win them
00:33:47.86\00:33:51.31
but the Jewish nation officially
00:33:51.34\00:33:52.74
rejected their
message and finally
00:33:52.77\00:33:56.19
when Jews
stoned Stephen to death
00:33:56.22\00:33:58.95
in A.D. 34 they
finally sealed their doom.
00:33:58.98\00:34:03.94
The rejection of the
gospel Stephen became
00:34:03.97\00:34:06.41
the first martyr of
the Christian church,
00:34:06.44\00:34:09.04
and that's when the
prophetic clock struck again
00:34:09.07\00:34:12.25
right on time, that
490 years of prophecy.
00:34:12.28\00:34:16.94
That's when the Jews finally
had broken the camel's back.
00:34:16.97\00:34:20.25
The last straw persecuting
not only the Messiah's
00:34:20.28\00:34:23.54
putting Him to death but
now it's persecuting His church.
00:34:23.57\00:34:26.86
So God sent word that because
00:34:26.89\00:34:28.67
they had
rejected Him as a nation,
00:34:28.70\00:34:31.03
He finally had to reject them.
00:34:31.06\00:34:33.71
And the disciples,
under intense persecution
00:34:33.74\00:34:36.73
were scattered and Acts 8:4 says
00:34:36.76\00:34:38.55
"They went everywhere
now preaching the word."
00:34:38.58\00:34:41.66
Preaching the Gospel
now to the Gentile world.
00:34:41.69\00:34:45.74
If God couldn't use the
Jews, God would use the Gentiles
00:34:45.77\00:34:49.45
to proclaim His truth
and formulate His church.
00:34:49.48\00:34:52.09
We know this
exactly what happened.
00:34:52.12\00:34:53.97
Acts 13:46 gives the CNN
News report from Antioch,
00:34:54.00\00:35:00.24
when the Jewish
fiercely opposed the apostles,
00:35:00.27\00:35:02.57
it says "Then Paul and
Barnabas grew bold and said,
00:35:02.60\00:35:07.11
'It was necessary
that the word of God
00:35:07.14\00:35:09.56
should be spoken to you
first, but since you reject it,
00:35:09.59\00:35:12.99
and judge yourselves
unworthy of everlasting life,
00:35:13.02\00:35:15.62
behold, we turn
to the Gentiles.'"
00:35:15.65\00:35:20.30
Ending the 490
year prophecy of Daniel
00:35:20.33\00:35:25.27
end of the Jewish theocracy
Jesus has said in Luke 13:7.
00:35:25.30\00:35:30.11
"Look, for three years
I have come seeking fruit
00:35:30.14\00:35:33.58
on this Jewish fig tree
this Jewish nation, I find none.
00:35:33.61\00:35:38.39
Cut it down."
00:35:38.42\00:35:40.13
The Jews are obstructing
Gods plan of Salvation.
00:35:40.16\00:35:42.85
And that's why
shortly after A.D. 34
00:35:42.88\00:35:45.89
the Jewish nation and Jerusalem
was terribly totally sacked,
00:35:45.92\00:35:50.31
leveled by the
Roman armies in 70 A.D.
00:35:50.34\00:35:52.97
Just like Daniel 9:26 foretold.
00:35:53.00\00:35:56.09
Just like Jesus
foretold in Matthew 8:12
00:35:56.12\00:35:58.97
"The children of the Kingdom
00:35:59.00\00:36:01.33
shall be cast out
into outer darkness."
00:36:01.36\00:36:05.96
You see, friend, the 70 week
prophecy is not only correct
00:36:05.99\00:36:11.53
it's accurate to
the very moment of time.
00:36:11.56\00:36:14.23
Every little subdivision
met complete fulfillment
00:36:14.26\00:36:17.49
in history proving
beyond the shadow of a doubt,
00:36:17.52\00:36:20.11
Jesus of Nazareth was
Messiah, foretold in Scripture.
00:36:20.14\00:36:26.09
Jesus began His ministry,
He accomplished His death
00:36:26.12\00:36:29.20
at the very times
specified in prophecy.
00:36:29.23\00:36:31.52
I mean who else
could it be? No one.
00:36:31.55\00:36:34.65
It's not
Confucius, it's not Gandhi,
00:36:34.68\00:36:38.54
it's not Buddha,
it's Jesus. Amen.
00:36:38.57\00:36:42.45
But notice that we see
it again a technique of God.
00:36:42.48\00:36:46.19
We see the consistency of God.
00:36:46.22\00:36:48.74
A prophet makes
a time prediction
00:36:48.77\00:36:52.36
at the end of which
another prophet raises up
00:36:52.39\00:36:56.22
to form a movement
a nucleus of people.
00:36:56.25\00:36:59.43
They lead that remnant
through the time of crisis
00:36:59.46\00:37:02.73
and on into a new epoch
because our God is the same.
00:37:02.76\00:37:08.00
He is predictable
because He doesn't change.
00:37:08.03\00:37:14.32
And by the way in the very last
days of this earth's history
00:37:14.35\00:37:18.57
there's one more prophecy
we don't have time for tonight
00:37:18.60\00:37:21.20
it's the most
exciting one of all,
00:37:21.23\00:37:22.79
of tremendous
global and cosmic interest
00:37:22.82\00:37:25.70
that follows the
identically same pattern.
00:37:25.73\00:37:28.18
It's the final prophecy
that leads out the final people
00:37:28.21\00:37:32.13
in the final crisis the
final jeopardy on this planet.
00:37:32.16\00:37:36.06
This time not into just
another human epoch of time
00:37:36.09\00:37:39.49
this time into eternal life.
00:37:39.52\00:37:43.00
You don't want to miss
that message on Friday night.
00:37:43.03\00:37:46.89
I mentioned there are hundreds
of other detailed prophecies
00:37:46.92\00:37:50.18
in the Bible that
point with stupendous
00:37:50.21\00:37:52.27
and astonishing
accuracy to Jesus.
00:37:52.30\00:37:54.92
I'll just touch on a few.
00:37:54.95\00:37:56.48
He is prophesied as
being the true Lamb of God.
00:37:56.51\00:38:00.45
And these are all evidence of
course that He is the Messiah.
00:38:00.48\00:38:02.66
His miraculous
birth it was predicted
00:38:02.69\00:38:05.01
that He would be
born of a virgin.
00:38:05.04\00:38:08.11
Isaiah talked about
that in Isaiah 7:14.
00:38:08.14\00:38:10.66
His birth place
was given in Micah 5:2
00:38:10.69\00:38:13.41
but Thou Bethlehem
of Ephratah remember?
00:38:13.44\00:38:15.71
His betrayal by Judas
was fore told in the Psalms,
00:38:15.74\00:38:18.83
Psalm 41:9.
00:38:18.86\00:38:20.56
The price paid to the
betrayer was how much?
00:38:20.59\00:38:24.02
Thirty pieces of silver.
00:38:24.05\00:38:25.08
That was talked
about in Zechariah 11:12.
00:38:25.11\00:38:27.42
His Beating and His abuse
in Isaiah 50 and Isaiah 53
00:38:27.45\00:38:31.10
that they would
pierced His hand and His feet
00:38:31.13\00:38:33.22
Psalms talked about
that in Psalms 22:16.
00:38:33.25\00:38:36.21
It says that he would be
numbered with the transgressors
00:38:36.24\00:38:38.76
and He was
crucified between two thieves
00:38:38.79\00:38:41.19
Isaiah 53:12 talks about that.
00:38:41.22\00:38:43.21
It even
predicted in psalms 22:18
00:38:43.24\00:38:45.09
That they would cast
lots for His clothing
00:38:45.12\00:38:47.32
and we know the
Romans solider did that.
00:38:47.35\00:38:49.01
Even the Words on the Cross
were predicted in Psalm 22:1
00:38:49.04\00:38:52.79
when Jesus said "My God, My God,
00:38:52.82\00:38:54.97
why hast thou forsaken me?"
00:38:55.00\00:38:56.66
Ladies and
gentlemen, of the jury tonight,
00:38:56.69\00:39:00.86
Jesus Christ was not
only truly everything
00:39:00.89\00:39:04.96
He claimed to be the Messiah.
00:39:04.99\00:39:08.26
There's only one
Person in the world
00:39:08.29\00:39:10.41
who could fulfill all the
Biblical rubrics of prophecy.
00:39:10.44\00:39:13.79
Amen. I mean there's no mistake.
00:39:13.82\00:39:16.87
And friend, as our Lord
hung upon that cruel cross
00:39:16.90\00:39:19.50
fulfilling prophecy
to the very split-second
00:39:19.53\00:39:22.33
with His back
lacerated, the cruel beatings
00:39:22.36\00:39:25.11
and His hands and feet
driven through with spikes,
00:39:25.14\00:39:28.02
His nails pierced and
the thorns in His brow,
00:39:28.05\00:39:31.77
enduring the mockery and
jeers of the crowd you know,
00:39:31.80\00:39:37.47
He could have
called 10,000 angels
00:39:37.50\00:39:41.67
to destroy the
world, set Him free.
00:39:41.70\00:39:45.00
He was God.
00:39:45.03\00:39:46.99
But you see, He couldn't
save Himself and save us too.
00:39:47.02\00:39:52.74
Do you ever wonder
if anybody is out there
00:39:52.77\00:39:56.71
who really cares about you?
00:39:56.74\00:39:59.51
Oh friend, Jesus does.
00:39:59.54\00:40:03.35
Two thousand years ago
00:40:03.38\00:40:05.05
He proved just how much He cares
00:40:05.08\00:40:08.02
as He poured out His
life for you on a lonely hill
00:40:08.05\00:40:09.97
just outside of Jerusalem.
00:40:10.00\00:40:12.60
What incredible love.
But listen, friend, listen.
00:40:12.63\00:40:17.90
Just as all these prophecies
of Christ's first coming,
00:40:17.93\00:40:22.86
His first advent announced His
kingdom of His amazing grace,
00:40:22.89\00:40:28.19
so the message of
Christ second coming
00:40:28.22\00:40:32.16
announces the
kingdom of His glory.
00:40:32.19\00:40:34.92
And the second coming prophecies
00:40:34.95\00:40:36.56
and the second coming messages,
00:40:36.59\00:40:38.10
are even more
than the first coming,
00:40:38.13\00:40:40.08
based on the prophecies
hundreds and hundreds of them.
00:40:40.11\00:40:43.45
The Voice of Prophecy speaks.
00:40:43.48\00:40:46.96
Back the angle Gabriel told
Daniel about our day tonight.
00:40:46.99\00:40:51.76
The last days.
00:40:51.79\00:40:52.87
When he said in Daniel 12:4,
00:40:52.90\00:40:54.88
"Many would run to and fro,
and knowledge shall increase."
00:40:54.91\00:40:59.01
The wicked will do wickedly,
00:40:59.04\00:41:00.70
none of the
wicked shall understand,
00:41:00.73\00:41:03.71
but the wise shall understand.
00:41:03.74\00:41:09.20
My friend, that's
why you're here tonight
00:41:09.23\00:41:12.93
and why you've just
received understanding
00:41:12.96\00:41:16.26
because tonight, it's
closing time for this old world.
00:41:16.29\00:41:20.33
We've reached the time foretold
in all these scriptures.
00:41:20.36\00:41:24.50
The time of the end is come.
Solemn, swift, certain, soon.
00:41:24.53\00:41:31.31
My dear friend, George Vandeman,
00:41:31.34\00:41:33.28
Connie's father the
late George Vandeman
00:41:33.31\00:41:35.76
I worked for
them for five years.
00:41:35.79\00:41:36.92
Jeannie and I travel all
over the world with them.
00:41:36.95\00:41:39.02
George Vandeman
used to tell the story
00:41:39.05\00:41:40.44
a number of years
ago about a lighthouse.
00:41:40.47\00:41:42.78
That was being built on
the rock-bound coast of Wales.
00:41:42.81\00:41:46.71
When the building
was nearly completed,
00:41:46.74\00:41:49.06
unfortunately one
of the workmen stumbled
00:41:49.09\00:41:51.68
and fell back
through the scaffolding
00:41:51.71\00:41:53.53
down to the rocks below.
00:41:53.56\00:41:55.81
The other workmen were shocked.
00:41:55.84\00:41:57.89
They didn't dare even look down
00:41:57.92\00:41:59.23
for fear of being
unnerved at the sight.
00:41:59.26\00:42:01.66
With heavy hearts
they kid of slowly
00:42:01.69\00:42:03.28
backed down the
ladders to the ground.
00:42:03.31\00:42:05.00
But to their
surprise and their joy
00:42:05.03\00:42:08.61
they saw their fellow
workman lying on a tuft of grass
00:42:08.64\00:42:11.93
kind of shaken up.
00:42:11.96\00:42:13.26
Shocked and bruised of course.
But not seriously harmed.
00:42:13.29\00:42:17.69
But right beside
him lay a dead lamb.
00:42:17.72\00:42:23.44
A flock of sheep had been
wandering by that very moment,
00:42:23.47\00:42:26.99
and a lamb had
broken that mans fall.
00:42:27.02\00:42:31.40
Friend, a lamb broke
your fall. A lamb broke mine.
00:42:31.43\00:42:38.63
Jesus, the Lamb of God
00:42:38.66\00:42:39.90
that takes away
the sin of the world.
00:42:39.93\00:42:42.51
Wouldn't you like
to lift your heart
00:42:42.54\00:42:43.90
to prayer in
heaven right now and say,
00:42:43.93\00:42:45.53
"Yes, Jesus, I
see it now clearly
00:42:45.56\00:42:48.34
He who really are
Messiah, my Lord, my Savior.
00:42:48.37\00:42:52.27
You were the fall guy for me.
00:42:52.30\00:42:56.34
Lord I accept You, I
give my heart to You."
00:42:56.37\00:43:01.59
Breathe that prayer just now
00:43:01.62\00:43:04.52
as the broke happen start those
response cards down take it,
00:43:04.55\00:43:10.03
make an
indication, turn your life
00:43:10.06\00:43:12.16
over to Jesus as Joey sings.
00:43:12.19\00:43:15.20
If you are
aimlessly wandering alone
00:43:16.91\00:43:24.38
Turn your life over to Jesus
00:43:24.41\00:43:32.38
If you need
someone to call your own
00:43:32.41\00:43:39.04
Turn you life over to Him
00:43:39.07\00:43:45.94
You can depend on
the love He will provide
00:43:45.97\00:43:52.98
All your confusion
in Him you can confide
00:43:53.01\00:44:00.98
He gave His own life to save you
00:44:01.01\00:44:08.98
Why don't you give yours to Him?
00:44:09.01\00:44:16.98
Won't you bow your head with me
00:44:19.13\00:44:20.59
and let's pray and
talk to the Lord right now.
00:44:20.62\00:44:24.67
Gracious Heavenly
Father, as we begin tonight
00:44:24.70\00:44:28.56
to comprehend through prophecy.
00:44:28.59\00:44:32.29
The significance
of Jesus sacrifice,
00:44:32.32\00:44:34.81
tonight we simply want to
pause and say "Thank You."
00:44:34.84\00:44:39.53
Thank You for
spelling it out so clearly
00:44:39.56\00:44:42.00
that You came on
purpose to fulfill prophecy
00:44:42.03\00:44:45.09
and to bring Your
free gift of salvation.
00:44:45.12\00:44:47.88
We certainly didn't deserve it,
00:44:47.91\00:44:50.27
but Lord your prophecies
show us time and again
00:44:50.30\00:44:53.90
You're a God who is consistent.
00:44:53.93\00:44:57.03
You're predictable.
We can count on You.
00:44:57.06\00:45:01.41
So just now by faith we choose
to make a decision and respond,
00:45:01.44\00:45:05.09
by accepting You.
00:45:05.12\00:45:07.08
Claiming You by faith tonight.
00:45:07.11\00:45:10.62
Lord as our heads are bowed
00:45:10.65\00:45:11.79
and we're in attitude of prayer,
00:45:11.82\00:45:14.38
I want to invite all of
you wherever you're located
00:45:14.41\00:45:16.97
in the downlink location
to join us here in Colombia.
00:45:17.00\00:45:20.10
Just open your eyes and
look down at that response card
00:45:20.13\00:45:22.99
make some kind of
a tangible commitment
00:45:23.02\00:45:26.30
to the Christ of
prophecy tonight.
00:45:26.33\00:45:28.91
He's spoken through
His word to our hearts
00:45:28.94\00:45:31.39
throughout this auditorium
through out the world,
00:45:31.42\00:45:33.53
wherever you
people are listening.
00:45:33.56\00:45:35.62
Will you say, Lord, Lord, you
can count me in on this prayer
00:45:35.65\00:45:40.61
by marking your
commitment, the first one
00:45:40.64\00:45:44.31
many if you may want to check
and say you know I see it now,
00:45:44.34\00:45:47.30
I want accept
Gods plan for my life
00:45:47.33\00:45:49.52
and I look toward
a better tomorrow.
00:45:49.55\00:45:53.06
Check the first one.
00:45:53.09\00:45:54.55
Some of you may also
want to check the second one.
00:45:54.58\00:45:57.07
Oh, I see it I want
to accept Jesus Christ
00:45:57.10\00:46:00.09
and His plan of salvation,
00:46:00.12\00:46:02.37
just put check there
00:46:02.40\00:46:03.48
right there
clearly in number two.
00:46:03.51\00:46:05.67
And then number three I
hope many will say tonight
00:46:05.70\00:46:09.12
perhaps for the
first time you know
00:46:09.15\00:46:10.28
I want to get out my
Bible, I want to study it daily,
00:46:10.31\00:46:12.94
I'm gonna pick up
those discover lessons
00:46:12.97\00:46:15.07
and I we're gonna pray for
the guidance of the Holy Spirit
00:46:15.10\00:46:18.08
from now on in my life
would you check number three.
00:46:18.11\00:46:21.74
And finally
number four you may have
00:46:21.77\00:46:22.99
a special
personal prayer request
00:46:23.02\00:46:25.37
we want you to check that
in write your request down
00:46:25.40\00:46:27.85
or at least a
little summary of it
00:46:27.88\00:46:28.91
we'd like to pray for you.
00:46:28.94\00:46:29.98
You could write on the
back if you'd like as well.
00:46:30.01\00:46:32.47
Lord, we're gonna
continue you to pray
00:46:32.50\00:46:33.87
just now as a responding.
00:46:33.90\00:46:36.64
Please accept our thanks
00:46:36.67\00:46:37.96
and accept our
commitments to You.
00:46:37.99\00:46:40.89
And as we leave this auditorium
00:46:40.92\00:46:42.22
and surround us
with Your promised power
00:46:42.25\00:46:44.32
and Your presence,
and Your forgiveness
00:46:44.35\00:46:47.21
and Your love, because
we pray it in Jesus' name.
00:46:47.24\00:46:50.62
If you are
aimlessly wandering alone
00:46:53.48\00:47:00.37
Turn your life over to Jesus
00:47:00.40\00:47:08.27
If you need
someone to call your own
00:47:08.30\00:47:14.98
Turn you life over to Him
00:47:15.01\00:47:22.05
You can depend on
the love He will provide
00:47:22.08\00:47:29.40
All your confusion
in Him you can confide
00:47:29.43\00:47:37.40
He gave His own life to save you
00:47:37.43\00:47:43.47
Why don't you give yours to Him?
00:47:46.49\00:47:53.40
Turn your life over to Him
00:47:53.43\00:48:01.40
Right now we're gonna
ask those row captains
00:48:07.67\00:48:09.72
to make sure that the
containers moved pass that row.
00:48:09.75\00:48:13.29
Thank you for
turning in your decision
00:48:13.32\00:48:15.17
and your commitment tonight.
00:48:15.20\00:48:17.62
Tomorrow night
right back here same time,
00:48:17.65\00:48:19.66
same place and all the locations
00:48:19.69\00:48:21.47
from Australia the Pacific rim
00:48:21.50\00:48:23.49
to our friends
up there in Canada
00:48:23.52\00:48:25.12
the Spanish world is
listening to this translators
00:48:25.15\00:48:27.53
all through out South
America in the Spanish world.
00:48:27.56\00:48:30.12
And in Korea is being
translated every night
00:48:30.15\00:48:32.41
our Korean translators back here
00:48:32.44\00:48:34.06
we might get them to come out
00:48:34.09\00:48:35.92
and say hello some evening here.
00:48:35.95\00:48:37.82
Thank you for
listening, thank you for coming.
00:48:37.85\00:48:39.84
Tomorrow night
subject don't forget it,
00:48:39.87\00:48:42.27
because the Bible tells us
in a very, very different way
00:48:42.30\00:48:45.51
if you're born once
you're gonna have to die twice.
00:48:45.54\00:48:52.31
But if you're born twice
you'll only have to die once.
00:48:52.34\00:48:57.50
Amen. Born to live forever.
00:48:57.53\00:49:02.20
As we close our
broadcast every day,
00:49:02.23\00:49:04.43
I want to leave you
these words remember friend,
00:49:04.46\00:49:07.16
God really does love you.
00:49:07.19\00:49:12.10
Amen. Good night everyone.
00:49:12.13\00:49:13.80