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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - 144,000 and the Seal of God (Part 1) | March 16, 2025
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- Doug batchelor: each branch of the us armed services
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- Has one or more elite teams of commandos.
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- They fight using sophisticated guerrilla warfare tactics.
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- To serve in one of these select units,
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- A soldier must be highly disciplined,
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- And they pass through incredibly difficult physical
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- And mental training.
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- Even a small team of these commandos,
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- Because of their intense training,
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- Can achieve great victories in a short time.
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- During the gulf war, a team of us navy seals
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- Created a convincing diversion
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- By storming the beaches of kuwait.
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- And they created such havoc that the iraqi generals
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- Were completely fooled into thinking the us-led attack
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- Was coming from the sea.
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- Within a couple of days, the whole war was over.
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- And it all started with less than 20 soldiers.
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- The book of revelation tells about
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- Another special forces unit,
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- An army of 144,000 that have the greatest mission
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- In the last days, to prepare the world for jesus' return.
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- Let's explore together what the bible facts are,
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- About the 144,000, and learn how you can receive
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- The seal of the living god.
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- Doug: tonight, our presentation is going to be dealing
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- With the subject of the 144,000,
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- Which you find in chapter 7
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- And 14 of revelation, and the seal of god.
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- And it pictures a time when angels are holding
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- Back winds of strife.
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- And i remember hearing a story about...
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- I think it was in 2012, in march,
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- Paul walden had his wife and daughter call.
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- They were at work and they said,
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- "have you seen the news?
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- There's a terrible stream of tornadoes
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- That are coming through."
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- And he never paid much attention to storm warnings,
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- But he thought he ought to step outside
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- And look at the sky.
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- And, right when he went out to look up at the sky,
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- He saw this great big gray wall that was moving towards him,
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- That was churning up his neighbor's house.
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- He thought, "oh, this is the real thing."
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- He ran inside, he grabbed a couple of dogs,
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- And he jumped in the closet right by their staircase.
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- And then it hit.
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- You've heard the expression "it sounds like a freight train
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- Is going by when you have a tornado go by"?
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- And the whole house began to shake
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- And he had both hands on the door,
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- With all of his strength he was hanging on
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- And trying to keep the door shut
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- As the suction of the storm
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- Was trying to pull the door open
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- And suck out him and his dogs.
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- And it wasn't very long before it stopped,
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- The noise settled, it moved down and passed away,
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- And he finally got the courage to open the door,
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- And this is a picture of what he saw
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- When he stepped outside.
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- The house was gone, he walked out of the closet
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- And he saw blue sky, everything was gone
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- Except the closet and some of the stairs.
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- And he said it wasn't long after he walked outside
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- And the closet fell over and then hail began to fall
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- And he felt like he was getting beaten up
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- By a baseball bat.
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- And he found a container that held vacuum cleaning
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- Supplies he put it on his head, he said,
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- Or he would have died from the hail.
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- And his wife always teases him about walking around
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- With a vacuum cleaner accessory box
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- On his head to save his life.
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- But he was trying to hold back the storm.
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- Well, humans aren't very good at that, angels do a good job.
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- Revelation pictures this happening.
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- Let's start with the 144,000 in chapter 7 of revelation
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- And you can begin with verse 1, chapter 7, verse 1,
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- "after these things, i saw four angels standing
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- At the four corners of the earth..."
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- Now what do the four angels represent?
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- The divisions of the compass.
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- It's talking about simply north, south, east, and west,
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- It's a universal problem.
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- It's a universal sealing that's going to take place.
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- "holding the four winds of the earth,
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- That the wind should not blow on the earth, or the sea,
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- Or any tree."
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- That's talking about everything on the planet, the earth,
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- The sea, the trees until something happens,
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- It's going to blow eventually.
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- Those winds of strife are really...
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- They're kind of summarized in the seven last plagues.
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- "then i saw another angel ascending from the east,
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- Having the seal of the living god.
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- And he cried with a loud voice...
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- Saying, 'do not harm the earth, or the sea,
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- Or the trees till we have sealed
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- The servants of our god on their foreheads.'"
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- And it goes on to say, "i heard the number of those
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- That were sealed and it was 144,000,
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- 12,000 from each of the 12 tribes of israel."
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- And it's an interesting list that is given.
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- Then you'll also read in chapter 14 of revelation,
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- You find the second reference to the 144,000,
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- And it gives us a little more information about them.
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- "i looked, and behold, a lamb,"
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- This is verse 1 of chapter 14 revelation,
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- "a lamb standing on mount zion,
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- And with him 144,000 having his father's name
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- Written on their foreheads."
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- Well, 7 said it was the seal of god,
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- Here it says his father's name. they must be similar.
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- "and i heard a voice from heaven,
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- Like the voice of many waters,
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- And like the voice of loud thunder.
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- And i heard the sound of harps
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- And harpists playing their harps.
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- And they sang as it were a new song before the throne,
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- Before the four living creatures,
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- And before the elders, and no one could learn
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- That song except the 144,000
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- Who were redeemed from the earth.
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- These are the ones
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- Who were not defiled with women,
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- For they are virgins."
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- What does that mean?
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- "these are the ones who follow the lamb wherever he goes.
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- They were redeemed from among men
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- Being the firstfruits to god and to the lamb.
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- And in their mouth was found no deceit for they are
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- Without fault before the throne of god."
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- And then it goes on to another passage
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- That is related, but we'll pause right there.
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- So you've got the 144,000 are obviously
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- A very important group.
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- You've got chapter 7 addresses them,
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- Chapter 14 addresses them.
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- They're very close to the lord.
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- They receive a special seal.
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- Now, typically, if you talk to somebody about revelation
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- And something in the forehead, what do you think about?
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- Everybody automatically thinks about,
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- "oh, you don't want anything in your forehead
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- In the last days."
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- Someone tries to put anything in your forehead,
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- Run the other way.
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- But if you study the bible, you'll find out, in revelation,
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- Everybody's got something in their foreheads
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- In the last days.
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- You've either got the mark of the beast
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- Or you have the seal of god.
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- You just want to make sure you've got the right mark.
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- Amen.
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- And, sort of, with that as an introduction,
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- Let's go through some of our questions now
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- That talk about the 144,000 and the seal of god.
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- First question, what clues does revelation provide
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- To help us identify who are the 144,000?
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- Well, there's several things, first of all,
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- It says there's 12,000 from the 12 tribes of israel.
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- Now the list of tribes that are given in revelation
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- Is different from any other list in the bible.
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- The twelve tribes are listed many times in the bible.
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- They usually start with the firstborn
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- Who was judah...
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- I'm sorry, reuben.
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- But, in revelation, it starts with judah.
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- It's different. it's a different list.
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- You'll find that it talks about joseph,
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- But ephraim is left out.
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- And so it's a unique list and you need to just say,
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- "what's going on here?
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- Are these real, literal jews it's talking about?"
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- In the last days, he's going to get 12,000
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- From each of the tribes.
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- If you know your jewish history,
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- You'll know that some of the tribes
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- Had very few people, and judah had lots of people,
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- Hundreds of thousands.
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- And so the idea of getting an even number
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- From each of the tribes, that would be interesting,
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- But i believe they're actually talking about spiritual jews.
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- That means it can include literal jews
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- And it can include people who have been adopted
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- Into the seed of abraham by accepting christ.
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- Let me tell you why.
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- You read in the bible in the old testament,
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- For instance, go to 2 kings 17, verse 6.
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- Ten of the tribes were conquered
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- By the assyrians way back hundreds of years
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- Before jesus was born.
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- You read there,
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- "in the ninth year of king hoshea,
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- The king of assyria took samaria"
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- That's the capital of israel, the northern kingdom.
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- "and carried israel," those are the ten tribes,
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- "away to assyria."
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- Now, later, the southern kingdom of judah,
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- They were carried to babylon, but they came back.
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- Those carried off to assyria largely intermarried
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- And disappeared as a distinct people.
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- And so when revelation says
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- 12,000 from the tribe of manasseh,
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- Can you please show me somebody
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- From the tribe of manasseh today?
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- Or issachar or zebulun?
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- When you talk about jews, you're typically talking
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- About people who are from levi, judah, and benjamin.
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- You read the bible, long before jesus was born,
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- It tells exactly what happened to the tribes.
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- Some of them came back down and joined judah.
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- They intermarried with the tribe of judah.
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- You're not going to find people who are purebred people
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- From zebulun, manasseh, issachar, and so forth.
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- So what does it mean when it says that?
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- Galatians 3:29, "and if you are christ's,
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- Then you are abraham's seed,
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- And heirs according to the promise."
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- All the promises god made to the jews in the bible,
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- New and old testament,
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- You can claim through christ, amen?
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- That's a wonderful promise, paul said that,
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- This is new testament.
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- Paul said, in romans 2:28 and 29,
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- "for he is not a jew which is one outwardly,
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- Neither is that circumcision, that is outward in the flesh,
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- But he is a jew, which is one inwardly,
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- And circumcision is that of the heart..."
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- This was the message of jesus and john the baptist,
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- They said to their jewish brethren,
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- "do not think to say within yourself
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- 'god must save us, we are children of abraham.'
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- God is able to raise up
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- From the stones children unto abraham."
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- And jesus said, "many will come from the east
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- And the west and sit down in the kingdom
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- With abraham, isaac, and jacob,"
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- Meaning the gentiles coming from the east and the west,
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- And the natural children, some of them who don't believe,
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- Will be in outer darkness.
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- And so the new testament is really clear that
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- Now the gospel goes to everybody whosoever will.
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- God is no respecter of persons.
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- So the idea that to be 1 of the 144,000
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- You must have a dna test is not taught in the bible.
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- God does not discriminate that way.
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- If you are abraham's seed, you are heirs
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- According to the promise, okay?
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- Doug: don't go anywhere, friends, we'll be back
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- In just a moment with the rest of today's presentation.
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- Are you weary of the never-ending,
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- 24/7 schedule in today's hectic world?
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- Is this stressful grind really the way that life
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- Was meant to be lived?
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- Or is there something better out there waiting for you?
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- Well, what if i told you that god had originally designed
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- Mankind to take a regular refreshing weekly break,
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- Amazing facts from the word of god.
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- Doug: so why does it give this list and why is the list unique
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- In revelation chapter 7?
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- I'm going to read something to you.
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- You know, in hebrew, when they name someone,
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- Every name had a meaning.
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- You read the story about when, you know,
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- Jacob ended up with four wives, he only wanted rachel.
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- He ended up with rachel and leah and bilhah and zilpah,
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- Their handmaids,
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- And every time they're all fighting
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- Over his attention, every time they got pregnant,
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- They had a child, the mothers would name the child
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- And make a statement because the names
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- All mean something in hebrew.
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- The name judah means "i will praise the lord."
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- And we're putting this up for you on the screen.
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- Reuben means "he has looked on me,"
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- Gad "given good fortune," asher means "happy am i,"
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- Naphtali means "my wrestling,"
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- Manasseh means "making me to forget."
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- It says, simeon means "god hears me,"
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- Levi "attached to me," issachar, "purchased me,"
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- "dwelling" is zebulun,
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- Joseph, "god will add to me,"
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- Benjamin, "son of his right hand."
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- Now what's fascinating is, if you take these twelve names,
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- Line their meanings up the way they're given there
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- In revelation, this is what it says,
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- Look at this paragraph,
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- "i will praise the lord for he has looked on me
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- And granted good fortune,
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- I am happy because my wrestling,
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- God is making me to forget.
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- God hears me and is attached or joined to me."
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- It's like a marriage,
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- "he has purchased me a dwelling"
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- I've gone to prepare a place for you
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- "and he will add to me the son of his right hand,"
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- Meaning christ.
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- The whole story of salvation is told in the names,
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- The way they're arranged there in revelation.
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- It's the story of redemption, isn't that beautiful?
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- That's why the bible is such an incredible book.
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- It tells us the 144,000 have special robes.
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- The bible tells us they have washed their robes
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- And made them white in the blood of the lamb,
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- Symbolizing they are covered
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- With the righteousness of christ.
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- It tells us they sing a unique song.
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- That doesn't mean that you can't read off their music
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- Because it's their song, it means they've gone
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- Through an experience.
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- It's like when the children of israel went through egypt,
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- They sang this song of deliverance led by miriam.
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- And, at the end of their 40 years,
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- Moses wrote a song that talked about those
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- Who had survived their wanderings
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- And how god would be first.
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- Sometimes a song, you have to have the experience
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- To know how to sing the song.
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- It's like sometimes you'll hear a choir,
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- You might hear a choir in ireland
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- Singing a negro spiritual.
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- They may not know how to sing it the way
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- It was written because they have not had
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- The experience that gave birth to the song.
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- Does that make sense?
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- And so those who are the 144,000,
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- They're singing a song nobody else can sing. why?
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- Because it says there in revelation,
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- These are those who--
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- They've come out of a great tribulation.
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- They followed the lamb in a close way,
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- Unlike anyone else.
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- It says they sang, as it were, a new song.
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- Something else it tells us,
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- They follow the lamb wherever he goes.
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- By the way, if you want to follow the lamb there,
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- Then, you must first follow the lamb here now.
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- And you can't say, "well, i can't wait to get to heaven
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- And start following the lamb."
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- You won't be in heaven unless you start following him now.
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- A christian is a follower of christ.
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- And it says they are virgins,
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- And this has always thrown people.
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- Does that mean all the 144,000 are women?
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- Because the term there, in greek,
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- It does seem to imply the feminine side.
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- Keep in mind, in revelation, it talks about babylon
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- Has daughters that are harlots, unfaithful.
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- The 144,000, it's saying they are virgins
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- For they are not defiled.
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- It's talking about they are a part of the truth,
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- They've not been defiled by the wine of babylon.
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- It's simply saying, they're not talking about
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- Sex at all, it's talking about they are a pure group
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- Because they believed the teachings of jesus.
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- They are undefiled by the false teachings.
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- Everything that we've been telling you
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- About the 144,000, you know what the key is
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- To understanding it?
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- They represent modern-day apostles.
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- See, in the old testament, i'm sorry,
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- In the new testament, rather, jesus picked
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- Twelve apostles and he said,
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- "i want you to be my advocates
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- To take this message to the world."
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- But they were not the only ones saved,
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- They were a special group of leaders.
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- Before the holy spirit is poured out
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- In acts chapter 2, judas has killed himself,
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- Peter said, "there's only 11 of us now,
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- We need to replace judas and get back to the number 12."
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- When they replaced judas,
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- The holy spirit falls out in the next verse.
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- But there's not just 12 that receive the holy spirit,
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- There's a 120 in the upper room,
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- And then 3,000 are converted as a result of what they do
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- Which leads to the next question,
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- Are the 144,000 the only ones saved when jesus comes?
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- Well, if you do the math, that would be pretty sad
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- Because there are about 7 billion people
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- In the world today, there's more than 7 billion.
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- And if only 144,000 are going to be saved,
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- That means your chance is about 1 out of 50,000.
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- It's still better than the lottery in florida,
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- Did you know that?
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- But it's not good.
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- No, they're not the only ones saved,
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- They are a special group of leaders.
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- In the same way, let me make the 144,000 really easy for you
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- In the same way that jesus had 12 apostles
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- That followed him wherever he went,
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- That had a special relationship with him that sang...
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- You know, the bible says that jesus,
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- The only time he sang, he sang with the 12,
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- He sang other times, but the only time recorded,
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- In the bible, when jesus sang, he sang with the 12 apostles
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- Just before he went to the cross.
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- They sang with the lord a special song.
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- And so, all the things about the 144,000, by the way,
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- This was written by an apostle, isn't it?
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- He's talking about their relationship with jesus
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- During the first coming.
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- There's going to be an army of apostles
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- Getting the world ready for the second coming.
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- Amen. does that make sense?
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- That's the 144,000.
- 00:18:35.130 --> 00:18:37.065
- But now we've learned a little bit about them,
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- What's the special name in their foreheads?
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- It talks about a name, a seal.
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- Keep in mind, it's not talking about a tattoo.
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- You're going to find out all through the bible
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- In the old testament, it talks about
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- In the hand and in the forehead,
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- That means in your actions and in your thoughts.
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- In deuteronomy 5, moses repeats the ten commandments,
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- In deuteronomy 6, he says, "you'll bind them as a sign
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- On your hand, and they'll be as frontlets
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- Between your eyes," what's that?
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- Forehead, that the lord's law might be in your heart,
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- Another symbol.
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- In the hand means in the actions,
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- In the forehead means in the worship,
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- In the thoughts.
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- I'll make something really clear.
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- In the last days, if you've got the law of the lord
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- In your heart and your actions and your mind,
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- You will not have the mark of the beast.
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- If you don't have the law of god
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- In your heart and your hand and your head,
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- You will have the mark of the beast.
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- It's just one way or the other.
- 00:19:35.057 --> 00:19:38.560
- Now, you notice in ezekiel 9, we always think
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- The mark is the bad thing, if you read ezekiel 9,
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- There's another vision there.
- 00:19:43.131 --> 00:19:44.633
- By the way, revelation is referring back to ezekiel,
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- That everybody in jerusalem was to be destroyed
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- Except those that had this mark placed on them by the angel.
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- Everybody in ezekiel 9 who gets the mark is saved
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- Because they are sighing and crying
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- For the abominations that are done in israel
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- Because there was false worship that was happening
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- Among the people of israel.
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- And you read that chapter and you'll understand that.
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- So what is the seal of god?
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- All right, we talked about the 144,000,
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- We're going to spend the rest of our time talking about this
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- Very important subject, and you pray for me
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- As i proceed because i really want you
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- To get this, friends, it is very important.
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- All right, first of all, seal of god is the holy spirit.
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- You already sort of knew that.
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- Those that have the mark of the beast,
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- Whose spirit do they have?
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- Satan. the devil.
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- Those that have seal of god, whose spirit do they have?
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- It says there in ephesians 4:30,
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- "do not grieve the holy spirit of god,
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- Where with you are sealed for the day of redemption."
- 00:20:45.394 --> 00:20:49.665
- There's a seal of the holy spirit
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- That happens inside.
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- But there's something that is more tangible than that
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- That can be seen in the life,
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- And you'll find that in this verse,
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- Isaiah 8:16, "bind up the testimony,
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- Seal the law among my disciples."
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- Can the law be sealed in the heart?
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- So the law of god, in a sense, is the seal.
- 00:21:11.053 --> 00:21:13.055
- What's the new covenant?
- 00:21:13.055 --> 00:21:14.389
- "i'll take my law and write it in their hearts."
- 00:21:14.389 --> 00:21:18.160
- But we're going to go a step deeper
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- To find out what is that seal in the law.
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- I could... now, typically, a seal,
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- In bible times, you know,
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- When you would make a document official,
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- They'd pour wax on the seal like you do
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- With an envelope, they'd stamp it
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- With the government seal and the seal always contained
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- Three characteristics.
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- It would have the name of the official, the title,
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- And the territory.
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- For example, i've got a copy here of queen elizabeth
- 00:21:44.686 --> 00:21:48.957
- And in canada, it says, "queen of canada, elizabeth"
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- And that's the name,
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- Queen, the office; elizabeth, canada.
- 00:21:55.430 --> 00:21:59.201
- And so you would have three characteristics.
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- When pontius pilate put a seal on the tomb of jesus,
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- What did it say?
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- Pontius pilate, his name, governor,
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- His office, judea, his territory.
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- When king darius put a seal, the bible says
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- He put a seal on the stone placed on the lion's den,
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- What did it say?
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- "darius, king, medo-persia," you've got those three things
- 00:22:19.688 --> 00:22:22.758
- Were always in a seal.
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- You ever see the presidential seal?
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- It's going to say the president's name,
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- President, united states of america.
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- And so you're going to have those three characteristics.
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- Do you find the seal of god in the law of god?
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- You do.
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- It's in the middle of god's law,
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- In the longest of the ten commandments,
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- And here's what it reads
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- And you read in exodus chapter 20, verse 8,
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- "remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy.
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- Six days you shall labor and do all your work,
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- But the seventh day is the sabbath
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- Of the lord your god.
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- In it you shall not do any work, you or your son,
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- Or your daughter, your male servant,
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- Or your female servant.
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- Nor your cattle, or your stranger
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- Who is within your gates."
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- Now here, watch carefully, "for in six days the lord"
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- Jehovah, his name, created "made",
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- His office he's the creator and sustainer
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- "the heavens and the earth, and the sea..."
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- There you have the name of god, the title of god,
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- The territory of god,
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- In the middle of the law of god is this seal.
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- And what we're going to be talking about now
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- Is the sabbath commandment and why it is
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- An important issue in the last days
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- Because it talks about resting in the lord.
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- It talks about having a relationship.
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- It talks about having the father's name.
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- Is the father's name in that commandment?
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- Jehovah, "the lord made heavens and the earth,
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- The sea and all this is in them,
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- And rested the seventh day.
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- Therefore the lord blessed the sabbath day
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- And he hallowed it."
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- That means he made it holy.
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- So here you've got those three characteristics,
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- You've got his title, you've got his territory,
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- You've got his name, all in the middle of the law.
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- Now i want you to just see, from the perspective
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- Of the bible and heaven, why this would be so important.
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- Is there a place in the world today
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- If i was going to say, "i'm going to the holy land.
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- I'm going on a holy land tour," where am i going?
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- Israel. israel.
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- Not too many people dispute that.
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- And, if i'm in israel, i'm going to say,
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- "i'm going to the holy city," where am i going?
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- Jerusalem. jerusalem.
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- And then, if i say, i'm in jerusalem,
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- I'm going to go visit the holy mount, mount moriah,
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- Sometimes called mount zion, it's where the temple was.
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- And, in ancient times, if you went to the temple,
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- You'd go to the holy temple.
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- And, in the holy temple, they had a place called
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- The holy place, but the holy place
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- Had an inner sanctum called the holy of holies,
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- And there was only one thing in the holy of holies.
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- What was it?
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- An ark, golden box, we've all heard about
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- This sacred golden box that's still missing today.
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- What made the golden box such a national treasure?
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- What did it have in there? ten commandments.
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- And, in the ten commandments, do you find the word holy?
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- Yes. how many times?
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- One time. where is it?
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- It's in the sabbath commandment.
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- Because god wants to make us holy.
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- And life is composed of time.
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- God is love. you with me?
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- You cannot love without time.
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- Wives usually get that better than husbands.
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- They say, "oh you never do anything with me."
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- "i've been home all day."
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- "but, yeah, you've been on your computer."
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- Now this conversation never happened in our home.
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- But i said, "i was here." "that's not quality time."
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- So we live all week long, but do we have quality time?
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- Because love is nourished in quality time.
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