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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Fate of the Lost (Part 1) | June 1, 2025
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- Male announcer: coming to you from new york city at
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- The historic manhattan center, with your host doug batchelor.
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- Join this exciting journey of discovery as we learn the truth
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- About bible prophecy, explore the timeless wisdom of god's
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- Word, and see how it relates to our lives today.
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- Stay tuned, your "amazing facts" adventure begins now.
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- Doug batchelor: from the beginning of the bible to the
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- End of the bible, it talks about two destinations, two destinies:
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- The saved and the lost.
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- We talked about christ and the devil, good and evil, light
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- And darkness.
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- Jesus said, "if you're not with me, you're against me."
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- There are two roads, there are two faiths.
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- You want to be on the winning team, am i right?
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- Now i don't want you to hyper focus on the losing team, but we
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- Need to understand because not understanding this affects what
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- You believe about the reward and the rewarder, and that's why
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- This subject is such an important subject in our
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- Study tonight.
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- You know, i always like to begin with an amazing fact.
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- A couple of years ago, karen and i, with some friends from the
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- Amazing facts board, we went to italy and we visited the city
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- Of pompeii.
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- It was my second time; first time i went, i was 16 years old.
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- I was living on a sailboat in the mediterranean, and they've
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- Done a lot more excavation, i've found, since then.
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- You probably have heard the story about the cities of
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- Pompeii and herculaneum, that they're at the base of mount
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- Vesuvius, a massive volcano in the background.
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- And even from 62 a.d.
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- They started noticing that the ground would occasionally
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- Rumble, and they'd have these earthquakes, and they seemed to
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- Be having signs that there was some growing activity and
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- Swelling on the mountain.
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- For the next 17 years, the signs continued to mount and increase,
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- But the people in these cities, they didn't seem to worry too
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- Much about it.
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- Now, pompeii and herculaneum, pompeii in particular, they were
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- Something like the las vegas of the roman empire.
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- In fact, a lot of the soldiers would go there after they served
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- Their term for r&r.
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- It was something of a reward.
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- And so during this 17 years of time, the volcano tremors
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- Increased, some of the--even springs dried up.
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- They knew there was a lot of seismic activity, but life went
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- On day after day, people were just pre-absorbed in their fun,
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- Their hedonism, pursuit of pleasure, and then the whole
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- Thing blew.
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- In 79 a.d.
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- There was a massive eruption that buried both of the cities
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- In ash and pumice, and some that were not killed right away, were
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- Killed by the pyroclastic cloud of superheated gasses that came
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- Rolling down the mountain like a tsunami, and they were scorched
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- Alive the first time they inhaled it.
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- Well, years later, about 1748, 1,600 years later, they did some
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- Excavations and they started to find the ruins buried under all
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- Of this ash.
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- And they noticed that they kept running into these cavities in
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- The ash, and someone said, "you know, there was probably
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- Something there."
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- And so they poured the "plaster of paris" into these cavities
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- And they found the grizzly truth, that these were the
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- Hollowed out spaces where people had been.
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- Their bodies had decomposed other than the bones, and they
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- Were able to see people all around the city, thousands had
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- Died in the very positions, in their final writhing deaths,
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- That the disaster caught them.
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- It makes us think about another terrible destruction that came
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- That the bible speaks of.
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- By the way, just a little side note you may want to
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- Think about.
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- Jerusalem had been destroyed by the armies of titus in 70 b.c.
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- I heard one historian say that hypothetically based on the time
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- That they served, many of the soldiers that were involved in
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- The destruction of jerusalem could have been vacationing at
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- Pompeii when the city was destroyed.
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- Well, bible kind of compares this to the destruction of
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- The wicked.
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- And we're going to go find out what do the people on the
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- Streets have to say about this subject of hell and the
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- Punishment of the law.
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- So let's roll that right now.
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- Male: i think the purpose of hell is just to let people know
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- That there's negative repercussions for things that
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- You do in this world, whether you get punished for it right
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- Away, like it is coming later on.
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- So, like, it's a belief system within yourself to be like,
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- "okay, i'm doing something wrong.
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- Nobody could see me, but there's a thing coming later on in the
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- Future that will punish me.
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- So let me," you know, "watch myself and know that god's
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- Watching me and," you know, "live a good life."
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- Female: to scare people away from doing bad things.
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- Male: the absence of god is hell, and that can be here, that
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- Can be the afterlife, it can be anywhere.
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- Female: in christianity specifically, i would say it's
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- Just, i think there's a lot of fear mongering around it, but i
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- Think it's also just, i think it's really supposed to be like
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- A place without god.
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- I don't think there's a--i think a lot of the talk about it is
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- Not exactly what the book says, you know?
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- Male: to ensure that you make decisions that are going to be,
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- That are not going to negatively impact the people around you.
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- Female: hell represents a very hot place from my
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- Religious background.
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- Male: a place for non-believers that, you know, you go after you
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- Die if you like, have not done enough good deeds within
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- Your lifetime.
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- Male: i think it's a place where like the most evil and wretched
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- People go.
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- Male: in the bible it describes hell as, like, a place where
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- Non-followers of christ go.
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- Female: i believe hell is a place where all the bad people
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- Go in the end.
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- Male: i feel like we're living in hell.
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- I feel like this is hell right here and heaven is like a place
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- You'll be at peace.
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- Female: i don't believe in hell.
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- Male: according to the word of god, there's a lake of fire,
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- It's eternal.
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- Male: i think that hell doesn't exist.
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- Male: i think hell is everlasting.
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- Depends on how you spend your life here.
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- Male: i don't think hell is just straight fire.
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- There might be some fire in there, but i don't feel like
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- It's like that.
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- But there is some type of torture there for sure.
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- Male: i think hell is definitely a place.
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- Male: oh yeah, spiritually, yes, it's on fire.
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- I wouldn't want to go there.
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- Male: yes, this is a place of fire where you suffer all
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- For eternity.
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- Female: i feel like what hell truly is, is your own
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- Perspective of your own reality of life.
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- Doug: well, that's interesting.
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- You know, i actually found that in the answers from the people
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- On the street, there's a little more unity on this subject than
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- Some of the others.
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- You know it's interesting, is virtually every religion in the
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- World believes that there is some kind of reward.
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- Even those that believe in reincarnation think if you live
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- A bad life, you're going to come back as, you know, something
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- Else, a crocodile or who knows.
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- But you live a good life, there's a reward.
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- And almost all religions understand that there are
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- Consequences for the way that you choose to live your life.
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- But where do we get our answers?
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- Interviewing people on the street or is the word of god the
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- Final arbiter?
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- We're going to find out what does the bible say on
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- This subject.
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- There's a lot of misunderstandings on the subject
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- Of hell.
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- First of all, question number one, we're going to go using our
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- Question answer method.
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- You've got your lessons. this is lesson number five.
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- What two cities mentioned in the bible that are sort of infamous,
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- Are given as an example of the destruction of the wicked?
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- You can read in 2 peter 2, verse 6, and don't forget, you can
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- Call out the answers there in the light blue color with me.
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- "and turning the cities of sodom and gomorrah into ashes, [god]
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- Condemned them to destruction, making them an example to those
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- Who afterward would live ungodly."
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- So if we want to know what is going to happen to the wicked,
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- God said, "well, what you saw happen to sodom and gomorrah,
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- They were burnt, they were burnt up."
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- And you can read here in jude chapter 1, verse 7, "sodom and
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- Gomorrah, are set forth as an example, suffering the vengeance
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- Of eternal fire."
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- Eternal fire meaning that the results of the fire are eternal.
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- You're looking at just a google earth map there that shows an
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- Area where archaeologists believe approximately that
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- Sodom was.
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- Now, in case you don't know, the bible describes this if you go
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- To genesis chapter 19, it tells us that lot and abraham
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- Were related.
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- Lot was the nephew of abraham, and they had so many cattle, the
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- Shepherds were fighting, and they needed to separate to keep
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- Peace in the family.
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- And lot cast his eyes towards sodom because it was watered
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- Like the garden of god.
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- It was like the garden of eden.
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- It was lush, it was tropical.
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- There was an abundance of vegetation for the animals.
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- And he thought, "you know, i think my flocks will really grow
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- Down there and things will really prosper."
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- And his wife said, "you know, they got really good malls in
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- Sodom," and who knows?
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- But anyway, they moved down there.
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- But the bible goes on to say that was not a wise decision
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- Because the men of sodom were sinners before the
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- Lord exceedingly.
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- Now some people are shocked to find out that the bible says,
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- Before god punished sodom and gomorrah, god saved sodom
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- And gomorrah.
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- Did you know that before their great judgment day came, five
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- Kings from the north, led by an assyrian named chedorlaomer,
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- They had a confederacy.
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- They came down and they attacked the kings of sodom and gomorrah,
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- And four of the other cities of the plain.
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- And they conquered them and they carried them all away captive,
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- And lot and his family were carried away in the destruction.
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- It was a judgment to get their attention, to turn them to
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- Repentance because god wants everyone to be saved.
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- And abraham came together with some of the other mighty
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- Sheikhs, and they went and they delivered them.
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- They got their soldiers, you know, abraham had an army of 300
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- Men, over 300.
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- And they delivered them, they conquered these other kings, and
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- They rescued all the people from sodom and gomorrah.
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- They had been saved.
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- And god was hoping they'd change their ways, but they didn't.
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- They went back to the old ways and got even worse.
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- And it got so bad that even when god sent angels to rescue lot
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- And his family from sodom, that the people in the city wanted to
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- Abuse the angels.
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- And finally god said, "flee lest you be consumed, flee from the
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- Wrath to come."
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- And he said, "don't even look back."
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- And the angels took lot and his daughters and his wife by the
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- Hand, and basically had to pull them out of the city.
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- And then god reigned upon sodom and gomorrah fire and brimstone
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- Out of heaven.
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- Abraham could look from the mountains of hebron towards the
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- Plain of sodom, by the way, it's the lowest place on the planet,
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- Did you know that?
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- 1,300 feet below sea level, the jordan valley.
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- And it says the smoke of the place went up like a furnace.
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- Karen and i, you probably just heard in the news a few weeks
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- Ago, we had a fire up near orville, california.
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- And karen and i were coming down the road and we could see it
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- From a distance and it looked like a nuclear explosion.
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- This campfire was so big, big mushroom cloud.
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- And god destroyed these cities of the plain with fire from
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- Before the lord.
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- And the bible tells us that god is going to ultimately make a
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- New heaven and new earth, but i want to show you something.
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- I'm going to bring karen out here.
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- I want something a little unique that i want to demonstrate.
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- People think that you got the story of sodom and gomorrah and
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- That it's just, it's a myth or it's a fairy tale to try and
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- Teach a lesson.
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- So i've got, we were just down in masada, or maybe three years
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- Ago, down in the jordan valley.
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- And in the area where sodom and gomorrah are believed to be, the
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- Hills are full of ash, and in the ash they've got these sulfur
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- Balls that are embedded.
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- It's the only place in the world that they know of where you can
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- Find this.
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- The mountains are embedded with these sulfur balls.
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- I'm going to get over here, maybe we'll get this on
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- The camera.
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- You let me know if you get this focused in.
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- Oh, see, look at that.
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- It took off already.
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- I just touched it for a second with a lighter.
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- I don't know if you can see that bubbling and smoking.
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- These are sulfur balls that are embedded in, y'all see
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- The smoke?
- 00:13:38.334 --> 00:13:39.702
- I just snapped it for a second and it took right off.
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- You don't want to be in sulfur and brimstone.
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- I'll let you go put that out dear, before the fire department
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- Shows up, don't put it on the phone.
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- The reason i go through that is to tell you, this is not a myth.
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- It really happened, this was real destruction.
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- There are consequences for sin according to the bible.
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- Can you say amen?
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- Question number two--people on the front row probably smell
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- Rotten eggs right now.
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- When will the wicked be destroyed in hellfire?
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- Answer, it says, "the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of
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- Temptation and how to reserve the unjust under punishment for
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- The day of judgment."
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- Now, when we talk about the subject of hellfire, there are a
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- Couple of extremes.
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- One group is going to say there's really no such thing.
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- That it's just there to scare.
- 00:14:33.022 --> 00:14:34.657
- Matter of fact, one of the people on the street said, "oh
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- Yeah, hell it's just there to scare people, and it doesn't
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- Exist at all."
- 00:14:39.995 --> 00:14:41.330
- Some people say then, that it burns forever and ever and
- 00:14:41.330 --> 00:14:45.067
- They've got this picture of people burning in hell.
- 00:14:45.067 --> 00:14:48.704
- And they say they're in molten fire and brimstone, and they're
- 00:14:48.704 --> 00:14:53.609
- Burning and it never stops and they have no relief, how long?
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- Forever and ever.
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- Now, i don't know friends if you can comprehend that, what it
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- Would be like.
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- I don't know how many of you remember a few years ago when
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- The us was battling with isis.
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- A jordanian fighter was shot down, a young pilot.
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- He was actually the son of someone else i believe that was
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- In the military.
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- And he thought he was being involved in the negotiation for
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- A prisoner swap, but in reality, they brought him out, they
- 00:15:24.039 --> 00:15:27.576
- Videotaped him, and they took him out in the desert and they
- 00:15:27.576 --> 00:15:31.780
- Put him in a cage, a metal cage, no way to escape.
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- They doused him with gasoline or some incendiary fluid, and with
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- Their video rolling, they threw a match in and set them on fire.
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- And then they broadcast this.
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- They put it up on the internet and showed what they were doing
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- To this pilot, and it took several minutes for him in
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- Tremendous agony to die.
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- And his father was shown that.
- 00:16:01.610 --> 00:16:05.147
- Now you and i, we hear that and it just, i can see the
- 00:16:05.147 --> 00:16:08.217
- Expressions on your face, it's horrific.
- 00:16:08.217 --> 00:16:11.687
- Here's a question, do you believe that our heavenly father
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- Would take the objects of his creation that were made in his
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- Image, that are born with some natural propensity to sin, and
- 00:16:21.130 --> 00:16:25.868
- If we do not manage to overcome, he says, "if you don't love me,
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- I'm going to burn you.
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- But i'm not just going to burn you, i'm going to burn
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- You forever."
- 00:16:32.274 --> 00:16:34.109
- You know, the bible doesn't teach that.
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- The bible does teach there's a hell, just like there was sodom
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- And gomorrah, they were punished.
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- The bible teaches the wicked are burnt in hell.
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- Now here's the question, when does that happen?
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- What did we just read?
- 00:16:46.855 --> 00:16:48.390
- It says, "the lord knows how to deliver the godly out of
- 00:16:48.390 --> 00:16:50.959
- Temptation and to reserve," you ever reserve a table at
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- A restaurant?
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- That means you'll hold it until you get there, right?
- 00:16:56.031 --> 00:16:59.401
- So if god is reserving the wicked for the day of judgment,
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- How many people are burning in hell right now?
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- Is the judgment day passed or is it future?
- 00:17:06.008 --> 00:17:09.545
- It's pretty clear.
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- Jesus said the judgment day, the last day he calls it, the
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- Judgment day is in the future.
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- People are not burning in hell before the judgment day.
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- And does everybody burn forever?
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- Doesn't the bible say there are varying degrees of rewards?
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- If there are varying degrees of rewards, how fair would it be if
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- Some teenager that, you know, they misbehaved, they live the
- 00:17:29.832 --> 00:17:33.469
- Wrong kind of life, and they die lost, and they're going to burn
- 00:17:33.469 --> 00:17:36.839
- As long as stalin and hitler?
- 00:17:36.839 --> 00:17:40.976
- That one didn't seem very just.
- 00:17:40.976 --> 00:17:42.978
- I wanted to just stir up your pure minds and have you think,
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- And we're going to give you a scripture for everything we say.
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- Now i know there's some difficult verses, we're going to
- 00:17:47.916 --> 00:17:50.419
- Answer them all.
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- We're not afraid of any scriptures, amen?
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- When are they judged?
- 00:17:54.256 --> 00:17:55.624
- "the word that i have spoken will judge him," in when?
- 00:17:55.624 --> 00:17:59.428
- "the last day."
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- Let's talk about the day of the lord, the judgment day.
- 00:18:00.929 --> 00:18:03.599
- And again, jesus tells a parable in matthew 13, talking about the
- 00:18:03.599 --> 00:18:08.570
- Separating the wheat and the tares, and it says, in the end
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- Of the world, the angels will go forth, they will gather the
- 00:18:11.740 --> 00:18:15.344
- Weed, the tares in bundles and burn them.
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- When does it happen?
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- "at the end of this age.
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- The son of man will send out his angels.
- 00:18:23.318 --> 00:18:25.387
- They will gather together those who practice lawlessness, and
- 00:18:25.387 --> 00:18:28.957
- Cast them into a furnace of fire."
- 00:18:28.957 --> 00:18:31.693
- Now, is it pretty clear from the teachings of jesus that there is
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- A punishment?
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- What do you think, yes?
- 00:18:36.899 --> 00:18:39.034
- Is it pretty clear from the teaching of jesus that there is
- 00:18:39.034 --> 00:18:42.571
- Going to be fire involved in that?
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- Yes, absolutely.
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- Number three, if the wicked who have died are not in hell yet,
- 00:18:47.176 --> 00:18:54.216
- Where are they?
- 00:18:54.216 --> 00:18:56.285
- Are they in limbo?
- 00:18:56.285 --> 00:18:57.953
- Are they in purgatory?
- 00:18:57.953 --> 00:19:00.722
- Are they in, you know, some medium place?
- 00:19:00.722 --> 00:19:05.027
- Abraham's bosom, some say, what does the bible say?
- 00:19:05.027 --> 00:19:07.896
- Jesus said, john 5, 28 and 29, "the hour is coming."
- 00:19:07.896 --> 00:19:12.100
- When he says he's coming, does that mean past or future?
- 00:19:12.100 --> 00:19:15.404
- "the hour is coming in which all that are," where are they?
- 00:19:15.404 --> 00:19:19.441
- "in the graves will hear his voice and come forth...those
- 00:19:19.441 --> 00:19:24.513
- That have done evil, to the resurrection of condemnation."
- 00:19:24.513 --> 00:19:28.650
- Do you know the bible teaches there are two resurrections.
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- The bible tells us there is a resurrection of the just, the
- 00:19:32.187 --> 00:19:35.424
- Dead in christ rise first, that's up.
- 00:19:35.424 --> 00:19:38.460
- If you've got a first resurrection, what does
- 00:19:38.460 --> 00:19:39.962
- That mean?
- 00:19:39.962 --> 00:19:41.396
- Somewhere you got a, what?
- 00:19:41.396 --> 00:19:42.931
- A second, first is a sequential word.
- 00:19:42.931 --> 00:19:46.368
- No sense saying first if there's nothing else.
- 00:19:46.368 --> 00:19:49.438
- Says there's a first resurrection, and the rest of
- 00:19:49.438 --> 00:19:52.274
- The dead live not again until the thousand years are finished.
- 00:19:52.274 --> 00:19:55.077
- This is revelation chapter 20.
- 00:19:55.077 --> 00:19:57.145
- So if the dead in christ are first, who are the rest of
- 00:19:57.145 --> 00:19:59.481
- The dead?
- 00:19:59.481 --> 00:20:01.283
- Those out of christ, the lost.
- 00:20:01.283 --> 00:20:03.885
- Jesus said they are where?
- 00:20:03.885 --> 00:20:05.587
- In their graves.
- 00:20:05.587 --> 00:20:08.257
- Now that is so important, because there are some people
- 00:20:08.257 --> 00:20:10.959
- That believe they have loved ones that have died lost, they
- 00:20:10.959 --> 00:20:14.696
- Believe that they are down right now burning in, you know, people
- 00:20:14.696 --> 00:20:19.101
- Believe that hell's got a torture chamber down there
- 00:20:19.101 --> 00:20:22.237
- Somewhere, and there are people who are burning.
- 00:20:22.237 --> 00:20:25.641
- I remember going through the line in a supermarket and i saw
- 00:20:25.641 --> 00:20:29.378
- One of these tabloid magazines.
- 00:20:29.378 --> 00:20:32.114
- They got pretty outrageous coverage.
- 00:20:32.114 --> 00:20:33.448
- You have to laugh sometimes.
- 00:20:33.448 --> 00:20:35.784
- And it said, "well drillers in siberia go too deep,
- 00:20:35.784 --> 00:20:40.322
- Demons escape."
- 00:20:40.322 --> 00:20:43.725
- And they say they've actually drilled into hell and the demons
- 00:20:43.725 --> 00:20:48.363
- Are escaping.
- 00:20:48.363 --> 00:20:50.165
- And i suppose there's some people who believe that.
- 00:20:50.165 --> 00:20:52.801
- But that's not what the bible teaches.
- 00:20:52.801 --> 00:20:54.936
- They're in their graves, again, another verse for you.
- 00:20:54.936 --> 00:20:57.439
- Job 21, verse 30 and 32.
- 00:20:57.439 --> 00:21:00.309
- "the wicked are reserved for the day of doom...he will be brought
- 00:21:00.309 --> 00:21:04.313
- To the," where?
- 00:21:04.313 --> 00:21:05.881
- "the grave, and a vigil kept over the tomb."
- 00:21:05.881 --> 00:21:09.051
- It says they're in their graves, they're in the tomb, they're
- 00:21:09.051 --> 00:21:12.921
- Brought to their graves, they're waiting for the judgment day.
- 00:21:12.921 --> 00:21:16.992
- You know, i believe there are folks that have been driven to
- 00:21:16.992 --> 00:21:19.394
- The point of insanity thinking that someone they love died and
- 00:21:19.394 --> 00:21:23.498
- While they walk the earth, these people are writhing and
- 00:21:23.498 --> 00:21:26.034
- Screaming and shrieking in the flames.
- 00:21:26.034 --> 00:21:29.738
- I was listening years ago to a christian radio station.
- 00:21:29.738 --> 00:21:36.011
- And the people would call in bible questions.
- 00:21:36.011 --> 00:21:39.748
- And the bible questions were all across the board.
- 00:21:39.748 --> 00:21:42.951
- I mean, the station had some good music and they'd read the
- 00:21:42.951 --> 00:21:45.287
- Bible, the good things, but when this guy came on and started
- 00:21:45.287 --> 00:21:47.456
- Answering questions, i had real issues with him.
- 00:21:47.456 --> 00:21:50.892
- And i remember hearing one time a mother called, and you could
- 00:21:50.892 --> 00:21:54.363
- Tell from the cracking in her voice that she was obviously in
- 00:21:54.363 --> 00:21:57.099
- A lot of grief.
- 00:21:57.099 --> 00:21:59.334
- And she said, "brother so and so," talking to the pastor, the
- 00:21:59.334 --> 00:22:02.070
- Host of the program.
- 00:22:02.070 --> 00:22:03.572
- She said, "my son died a few days ago instantly in a
- 00:22:03.572 --> 00:22:08.210
- Car accident.
- 00:22:08.210 --> 00:22:09.878
- He made no profession of believing in god.
- 00:22:09.878 --> 00:22:12.214
- He was living an ungodly life, and i've just got to know, is he
- 00:22:12.214 --> 00:22:15.484
- Burning in hell right now?"
- 00:22:15.484 --> 00:22:17.886
- Well first he tried to skirt the question.
- 00:22:17.886 --> 00:22:20.389
- She said, "no, no, i'm just telling you that if there's any
- 00:22:20.389 --> 00:22:23.658
- Evidence at all that a person was lost, he just cursed god and
- 00:22:23.658 --> 00:22:27.829
- Lived a wicked life, and he ran into a tree and died instantly.
- 00:22:27.829 --> 00:22:31.733
- Is he burning in hell?"
- 00:22:31.733 --> 00:22:34.236
- And finally, after trying to evade a direct answer, he said,
- 00:22:34.236 --> 00:22:37.139
- "well, you know, according to the bible, if he died without
- 00:22:37.139 --> 00:22:39.441
- Christ, then next stop without passing go is he's in hell,
- 00:22:39.441 --> 00:22:44.546
- In hellfire."
- 00:22:44.546 --> 00:22:46.982
- And how long will he be there?
- 00:22:46.982 --> 00:22:49.684
- Forever, now, have you ever thought about how forever, how
- 00:22:49.684 --> 00:22:54.289
- Long that is?
- 00:22:54.289 --> 00:22:56.258
- That means that if a person dies and they are burning in
- 00:22:56.258 --> 00:22:59.161
- Hell--you ever burn yourself for a minute?
- 00:22:59.161 --> 00:23:03.799
- A person dies and they're in hell, that means a million years
- 00:23:03.799 --> 00:23:08.270
- From now, you try to swim to the surface and call out for help,
- 00:23:08.270 --> 00:23:12.908
- And god says, "you still haven't begun."
- 00:23:12.908 --> 00:23:15.410
- You never reach the beginning.
- 00:23:15.410 --> 00:23:17.846
- You never stop feeling the agony and the misery and the
- 00:23:17.846 --> 00:23:21.550
- Shrieking, intense, burning pain forever, and ever, and ever for
- 00:23:21.550 --> 00:23:26.988
- The sins of one lifetime.
- 00:23:26.988 --> 00:23:29.524
- How long is 80, 90 years compared to eternity?
- 00:23:29.524 --> 00:23:34.663
- It's nonexistent.
- 00:23:34.663 --> 00:23:37.199
- To burn a person forever, and ever, and ever, and ever, for
- 00:23:37.199 --> 00:23:43.638
- This minuscule life, please explain the justice.
- 00:23:43.638 --> 00:23:47.042
- And when you ask some pastors that say, "well, you know, who
- 00:23:47.042 --> 00:23:49.744
- Are we, we don't understand how bad sin is, and he's god and
- 00:23:49.744 --> 00:23:53.215
- That's the punishment."
- 00:23:53.215 --> 00:23:55.584
- Now, let me get you to think about something, friends,
- 00:23:55.584 --> 00:23:57.752
- Be honest.
- 00:23:57.752 --> 00:23:59.788
- How many of you would admit that as humans, all sin and fall
- 00:23:59.788 --> 00:24:04.359
- Short of the glory of god?
- 00:24:04.359 --> 00:24:06.194
- Bible says all, we've all sinned.
- 00:24:06.194 --> 00:24:08.296
- We all kind of have a natural bent to sin, and to then torture
- 00:24:08.296 --> 00:24:13.768
- A person through eternity that you've created, you ostensibly
- 00:24:13.768 --> 00:24:18.106
- Love, and you are a just god, forever and ever, for the sins
- 00:24:18.106 --> 00:24:24.012
- Of a very brief life, does that make sense?
- 00:24:24.012 --> 00:24:29.784
- It's not biblical, i'm going to show you from the bible, amen?
- 00:24:29.784 --> 00:24:33.822
- First of all, nobody's burning yet.
- 00:24:33.822 --> 00:24:35.223
- Number 4, what are the only two choices for all people?
- 00:24:35.223 --> 00:24:39.461
- That's why this is an important subject.
- 00:24:39.461 --> 00:24:42.264
- The bible says, jesus said, "for god so loved the world, he gave
- 00:24:42.264 --> 00:24:46.468
- His only begotten son, that whoever believes in him should
- 00:24:46.468 --> 00:24:50.505
- Not," do what?
- 00:24:50.505 --> 00:24:52.007
- "perish but have everlasting"--what are the
- 00:24:52.007 --> 00:24:54.943
- Two choices?
- 00:24:54.943 --> 00:24:56.411
- Life or perish?
- 00:24:56.411 --> 00:24:59.814
- Perish means you cease to exist.
- 00:24:59.814 --> 00:25:02.918
- When you go to the market and you buy things that are
- 00:25:02.918 --> 00:25:05.186
- Perishable, that means you better get them in the
- 00:25:05.186 --> 00:25:07.756
- Refrigerator or eat them quickly, because they're
- 00:25:07.756 --> 00:25:10.325
- Going to perish.
- 00:25:10.325 --> 00:25:12.060
- They do not last.
- 00:25:12.060 --> 00:25:13.962
- What did god say to adam and eve?
- 00:25:13.962 --> 00:25:15.497
- If you eat the forbidden fruit, you will surely die.
- 00:25:15.497 --> 00:25:19.501
- There are two choices, friends, you've got life or death.
- 00:25:19.501 --> 00:25:22.871
- Death is the absence of life.
- 00:25:22.871 --> 00:25:25.240
- God did not say you've got eternal life in heaven or
- 00:25:25.240 --> 00:25:27.542
- Eternal life burning, isn't that right?
- 00:25:27.542 --> 00:25:31.379
- Moses, before he died, he stood before the children of israel.
- 00:25:31.379 --> 00:25:34.182
- He said, i set before you this day two options: life, good,
- 00:25:34.182 --> 00:25:38.954
- Blessing; death, evil, cursing.
- 00:25:38.954 --> 00:25:42.123
- Choose life.
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- Doug: friends, i hope you've been blessed by today's message,
- 00:25:43.992 --> 00:25:46.761
- But really the reason we do this is so that people might
- 00:25:46.761 --> 00:25:49.598
- Know christ.
- 00:25:49.598 --> 00:25:50.966
- You know, information is not going to save us, it's a
- 00:25:50.966 --> 00:25:53.501
- Relationship with jesus, the one who died on the cross for
- 00:25:53.501 --> 00:25:56.204
- Your sins.
- 00:25:56.204 --> 00:25:57.539
- You must personally accept him, and that's the most important
- 00:25:57.539 --> 00:26:00.408
- Thing and why we do these programs.
- 00:26:00.408 --> 00:26:02.510
- If you've not asked him into your heart before, then i'd
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