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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 1) | January 23, 2025
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- It's the most read book in the world,
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- Selling close to 4 billion copies
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- Over the past 50 years.
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- The bible is an amazing book, unlike any other.
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- Although it was written over a period of around 1,500 years
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- By 40 different people on three continents,
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- The bible maintains incredible harmony
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- Throughout its 66 books.
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- A long list of bible predictions have come to pass
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- That confirms scriptures are divinely inspired,
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- But none of them were dramatically fulfilled
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- Than 125 prophecies about the messiah
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- That were fulfilled to perfection
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- In the life of jesus.
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- Various old testament books predict with great precision,
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- The place of his birth,
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- His trial, the manner of his crucifixion,
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- The timing of his resurrection,
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- And many other aspects of his life.
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- One thing is for certain, the dozens of prophecies
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- And predictions about his life
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- Could never have happened by chance alone.
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- Jesus is the bible's central figure, but who is he?
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- And how is your life affected by his?
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- Join me now, as we take a closer look
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- At this hero of revelation.
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- Our presentation tonight dealing
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- With the hero of revelation
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- Is part of our prophecy encounter series.
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- This is really a new series, we call it prophecy encounter
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- Because we're hoping that through the study of prophecy
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- That people will encounter the hero of revelation.
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- And i think we all know who that is.
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- Matter of fact, if you read the first words in revelation,
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- It's not a revelation of the beast,
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- It's not a revelation of the antichrist.
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- People say, "i want to read
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- About the antichrist in revelation."
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- Are you aware the word antichrist
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- Does not appear in the book of revelation?
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- It's in the letters of john.
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- The book of revelation is about jesus.
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- He is the central figure,
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- But not just the book of revelation.
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- The whole bible is about jesus
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- As you'll discover in our study tonight.
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- First verse, revelation 1:1,
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- "the revelation of jesus christ,
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- Which god gave to him to show his servants things
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- Which must shortly come to pass."
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- So the book of revelation and the things
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- We're going to study in revelation,
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- Bible tells us way back in the time of christ
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- They were about to come to pass.
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- So the prophecy at least begins during the time of christ
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- And carries on until, of course,
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- We're in heaven if you read revelation 21 and 22.
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- There are over 300 old testament prophecies
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- That provide a number
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- Of precise identifying characteristics
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- Regarding the messiah.
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- A lot of people in the world think that jesus was just one
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- Of many religious leaders.
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- You cannot really believe that and be a christian.
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- Bible says, "there is no other name given among men
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- Whereby we must be saved."
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- Jesus is not just another religious teacher.
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- God became a man.
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- It's called the incarnation in christ to save us
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- And we need to know who he is.
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- The christian religion is all about jesus
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- And you need to know who he is.
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- The whole bible tells us about that.
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- We're going to delve into some of these.
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- First prophecy is in the book of genesis.
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- Genesis 3:15.
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- This is after adam and eve sinned
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- And god then, speaking to adam and eve,
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- And because of the serpent was the medium
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- Through which lucifer spoke,
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- God said "and i will put enmity,"
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- That's where you get the word enemy.
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- It means there is animosity, there is friction,
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- There is a polar resistance, "between you and the woman,"
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- Between the serpent and the woman.
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- That comes up in revelation, so i want you to note that,
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- "between your seed," the seed of the serpent,
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- "and her seed," the seed or the offspring of the woman.
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- The seed of the woman,
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- It's talking about is the messiah.
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- Goes on to say, "and he," the seed of the woman
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- "will bruise your head."
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- Christ would bruise the head of the serpent,
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- And you shall bruise his heel."
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- The progress or the walk of the christian church
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- Has been impeded,
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- Slowed by the work of the devil.
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- There is a battle in this world between good and evil,
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- Between the woman and the serpent
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- That carries all the way through.
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- You read in revelation 12,
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- We don't have to guess who the serpent is.
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- "so that great dragon was cast out,
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- The serpent of old called the devil and satan,
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- Who deceives the whole world."
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- How much of the world does he deceive?
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- The whole world.
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- So where did jesus come from?
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- That's a very important question.
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- Is he just a man?
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- Was he born like other men?
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- Christ made some pretty bold claims.
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- For one thing, he said in john 6:38,
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- "for i have come down from heaven..."
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- Well, not everybody says that.
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- I mean, if you meet somebody that says,
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- "i've come from heaven" and you know the bible,
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- We talked a little last night
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- About people who claim to be christ.
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- And there is some prominent characters
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- That claimed to be jesus
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- But there's also some that are locked up here and there.
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- And i met somebody once that claimed to be jesus
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- That i'll never forget
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- Because i was by myself up in the mountains.
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- I lived in a cave back then.
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- I was a hermit for about a year and a half
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- And i was all by myself.
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- And a hiker came by the cave and that was not that unusual,
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- I'd see people from time to time.
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- He stayed and he visited for a little bit
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- Then said he was jesus.
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- And at first i thought,
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- "i've got some spanish friends named jesus, maybe that's..."
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- He didn't look spanish.
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- And then he said, "no i am christ."
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- He said, "my name is michael david harper".
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- They said, "that's my earthly name,
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- But i've come from heaven."
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- Well, i'll tell you, it's a little spooky
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- When you're by yourself up the hills
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- And you meet somebody that says,
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- "i'm jesus, and i have come."
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- And i wasn't quite sure what to say
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- Because, you know, i just started reading the bible.
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- I thought, "well, if it is jesus,
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- I've got a lot of questions.
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- And if it is jesus, i don't want to show a lack of faith
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- And hurt his feelings."
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- I mean, all kinds of crazy things
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- Are going through your head, you know?
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- And i didn't want to make him mad,
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- Whether he was jesus or wasn't jesus.
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- I didn't want.
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- And so i said, "well, the bible says
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- That when you come
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- That everybody is going to see you,
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- It will be like lightning".
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- He says, "that's true."
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- He says, you know, "but i'm coming specially
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- To prepare some other people early."
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- And he had like an answer for everything,
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- He knew the bible and he stayed with me
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- For two or three days
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- And ate all my food so i knew he wasn't jesus
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- And he didn't clean up and...
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- And i saw him a week or so later
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- And he actually had found an apostle.
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- Some guy was following him around saying, "this is jesus".
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- And then i saw him a few weeks later,
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- We lived on the streets back then
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- When i wasn't up in the cave
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- And he was missing a tooth
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- Because he had got into a fight.
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- I felt so much better
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- Because i know jesus has all his teeth.
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- But you know you meet
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- All kinds of strange people out there.
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- Well, so, when jesus said, "i've come down from heaven"
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- And then he told pilate in john 18:36,
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- "my kingdom is not of this world."
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- "i am from out of this world."
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- Well, what is he, an extraterrestrial?
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- Where did jesus come from?
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- He's making some bold claims.
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- And so we need to evaluate that.
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- Did jesus claim divinity?
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- Did he claim to be god?
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- In a word, yes.
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- And here's some verses that illustrate that.
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- John 8:58, "jesus said to them,
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- 'most assuredly i say to you before abraham was, i am.'"
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- Now, you might be thinking,
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- "well, that doesn't mean he was claiming to be god."
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- The jews who were listening to him that day believed
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- He was claiming to be god because god said to moses,
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- "i am that i am."
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- That was a title for god, the self-existent one.
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- They took up stones to stone him for blasphemy
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- Claiming to be god and jesus did not retract that.
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- And he said, you know, "before abraham was,"
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- He says, "i preexisted."
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- And then you can read again in john 17:18,
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- "therefore my father loves me, because i lay down my life
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- That i might take it again."
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- And not too many people lay down their lives
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- And take it again.
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- He says, "no one takes it from me.
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- I am laying it down and i'm taking it up."
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- And then he goes on and he says in mark 2:10,
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- "the son of man has power on earth to forgive sins."
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- And you can read where it says,
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- "god and god only can forgive sins."
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- And so, there's a lot of ways
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- That jesus explained he had divine prerogatives.
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- And so, yes, jesus is not just another man.
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- He said he preexisted before he came to this world.
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- Had power to forgive sin.
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- How can we evaluate his claims?
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- How do we test to see if this is true?
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- C.s. lewis, the christian philosopher said,
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- "you really only have three choices with jesus."
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- No question that he lived.
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- What year is it right now?
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- I know i'm just testing. 2017 what?
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- The whole dating method
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- That the world uses is based on the birth of christ.
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- I told you they got that off a little bit
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- But it was ostensibly dated from christ.
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- So you can't deny that he lived.
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- History doesn't challenge his existence that he lived.
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- So it's like c.s. lewis said,
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- "he was either a liar, or he was a lunatic,
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- Or he's lord.
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- Those are really the only three options that we have."
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- Hi, friends, don't go anywhere,
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- In just a moment we will be back
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- To complete today's presentation.
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- Have you ever wondered about this enigmatic character
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- In the bible called michael the archangel?
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- Well, that's the title of the book
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- We'd like to send you for free.
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- Michael suddenly appears in the old testament,
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- He is worshiped by joshua,
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- And in other place he is involved in the resurrection.
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- The bible says, he's connected with the second coming.
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- The lord himself will descend from heaven
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- With the voice of the archangel.
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- You even find michael fighting with the devil in revelation.
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- To get your free copy, call the phone number on your screen
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- And ask for offer number 170 or visit the web address.
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- And after you read this incredible resource,
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- Make sure and share it with a friend.
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- Well, let's get back now to today's presentation
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- And learn some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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- So how do we determine.
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- Where do we go to find out?
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- The bible tells us and jesus himself said in john 5:39,
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- "search the scriptures,
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- In them you think you have eternal life,"
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- He said, "these are they that testify of me."
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- Now when jesus said that,
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- How much new testament was written?
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- None. none.
- 00:10:51.376 --> 00:10:53.411
- And so, let me see if i can illustrate something
- 00:10:53.411 --> 00:10:55.480
- Llll i am glad to see some of you
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- Brought your bibles here. i'm going to quickly...
- 00:10:56.815 --> 00:10:58.616
- Oh, good, i've found it right away.
- 00:10:58.616 --> 00:11:00.885
- This is your bible, i've divided it
- 00:11:00.885 --> 00:11:02.654
- Just visually so you get a rough idea.
- 00:11:02.654 --> 00:11:04.989
- You know, there's some contents and concordance
- 00:11:04.989 --> 00:11:07.125
- And stuff in the front and the back,
- 00:11:07.125 --> 00:11:08.760
- But approximately three quarters of the bible,
- 00:11:08.760 --> 00:11:11.896
- Old testament, this is written before jesus.
- 00:11:11.896 --> 00:11:15.200
- Matter of fact, the last book malachi in the old testament
- 00:11:15.200 --> 00:11:17.635
- Was written about 400 years before jesus was born.
- 00:11:17.635 --> 00:11:20.939
- So there's a nice spread between the two.
- 00:11:20.939 --> 00:11:23.007
- And then you get to the new testament,
- 00:11:23.007 --> 00:11:24.709
- It talks about the birth of jesus christ.
- 00:11:24.709 --> 00:11:27.645
- First words in revelation are the revelation of jesus christ.
- 00:11:27.645 --> 00:11:30.248
- First words in the new testament,
- 00:11:30.248 --> 00:11:31.616
- The genealogy of jesus christ.
- 00:11:31.616 --> 00:11:34.185
- So it tells about the coming of the messiah.
- 00:11:34.185 --> 00:11:36.788
- The old testament foretells when the savior would come,
- 00:11:36.788 --> 00:11:39.758
- When god would become a man.
- 00:11:39.758 --> 00:11:41.993
- And a lot of the old testament is talking about christ.
- 00:11:41.993 --> 00:11:45.196
- There are hundreds of prophecies.
- 00:11:45.196 --> 00:11:46.698
- So we're going to be looking now at a lot of prophecies here
- 00:11:46.698 --> 00:11:50.568
- That were written hundreds, in some cases,
- 00:11:50.568 --> 00:11:52.470
- More than a thousand years before christ was born,
- 00:11:52.470 --> 00:11:55.406
- And then we're going to see here
- 00:11:55.406 --> 00:11:57.075
- That exactly what was foretold happened.
- 00:11:57.075 --> 00:12:00.411
- And this is one reason
- 00:12:00.411 --> 00:12:01.746
- I think this is not just white pages and black ink.
- 00:12:01.746 --> 00:12:04.716
- I believe the bible
- 00:12:04.716 --> 00:12:06.050
- Is a supernatural correspondence with humanity
- 00:12:06.050 --> 00:12:09.954
- And god has done something miraculously
- 00:12:09.954 --> 00:12:12.223
- To protect this book.
- 00:12:12.223 --> 00:12:13.892
- So we're going to look in the bible.
- 00:12:13.892 --> 00:12:15.226
- Furthermore, luke 24:27, jesus,
- 00:12:15.226 --> 00:12:20.565
- When he was talking to the two disciples
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- On the road to emmaus,
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- He said, "he expounded unto them beginning at moses
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- And all the prophets he expounded to them
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- In all of the scriptures
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- The things concerning himself."
- 00:12:31.910 --> 00:12:34.078
- So jesus gave a bible study to these two disciples
- 00:12:34.078 --> 00:12:36.781
- And he showed them through all of the scriptures,
- 00:12:36.781 --> 00:12:39.450
- Prior to the new testament, things concerning himself.
- 00:12:39.450 --> 00:12:42.320
- And you're going to see
- 00:12:42.320 --> 00:12:43.655
- That jesus is all the way through there.
- 00:12:43.655 --> 00:12:45.857
- I've been to churches before where they supply a bible
- 00:12:45.857 --> 00:12:48.560
- And all they have is a new testament.
- 00:12:48.560 --> 00:12:50.261
- They say, "well, we're a new testament church,
- 00:12:50.261 --> 00:12:51.830
- We don't, that's the old covenant."
- 00:12:51.830 --> 00:12:53.631
- You can't understand the new testament
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- Without the old testament.
- 00:12:56.100 --> 00:12:58.169
- It's the moon that the woman stands on,
- 00:12:58.169 --> 00:13:02.140
- Though she is clothed with the sun of the new testament,
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- It's the foundation.
- 00:13:04.442 --> 00:13:05.877
- The old testament is so important
- 00:13:05.877 --> 00:13:07.512
- To understand the new.
- 00:13:07.512 --> 00:13:09.547
- And again, hebrews 10:7, "he said, 'behold, i come.
- 00:13:09.547 --> 00:13:13.952
- In the volume of the book it is written of me
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- To do your will, o god."
- 00:13:16.988 --> 00:13:18.323
- So the whole bible is telling us about jesus.
- 00:13:18.323 --> 00:13:21.826
- Does prophecy foretell the messiah's family tree?
- 00:13:21.826 --> 00:13:26.364
- And the answer is, absolutely yes.
- 00:13:26.364 --> 00:13:29.167
- For one thing, god told abraham
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- He was calling him from mesopotamia.
- 00:13:32.403 --> 00:13:35.373
- He said, "through your descendants,
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- The messiah would come."
- 00:13:37.675 --> 00:13:39.010
- And you find that in genesis 12:3,
- 00:13:39.010 --> 00:13:41.412
- "in you shall all the families of the earth be blessed."
- 00:13:41.412 --> 00:13:45.383
- Through your descendants
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- That the messiah would come through the hebrew line.
- 00:13:46.718 --> 00:13:49.754
- Now you realize, a jew and a hebrew is different.
- 00:13:49.754 --> 00:13:52.957
- Abraham had more children than just isaac
- 00:13:52.957 --> 00:13:54.926
- And isaac had more children than just jacob.
- 00:13:54.926 --> 00:13:57.862
- And jacob had more children than just judah.
- 00:13:57.862 --> 00:14:00.198
- The word "jew" kind of comes from the descendants
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- Of judah, principally.
- 00:14:02.934 --> 00:14:04.269
- But we often use it to talk about hebrews, in general.
- 00:14:04.269 --> 00:14:07.872
- But the messiah would come through
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- The descendants of not only abraham, but isaac.
- 00:14:09.874 --> 00:14:12.377
- You read in genesis 26:4, it says
- 00:14:12.377 --> 00:14:14.913
- "i will give your descendants these lands,
- 00:14:14.913 --> 00:14:17.382
- And in your seed all the nations of the world
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- Would be blessed."
- 00:14:20.051 --> 00:14:21.386
- Because jesus did not just come for jews, did he?
- 00:14:21.386 --> 00:14:23.655
- He came to save everybody.
- 00:14:23.655 --> 00:14:25.523
- "whosoever will" the promise is.
- 00:14:25.523 --> 00:14:28.226
- He told the disciples, go to the ends of the earth.
- 00:14:28.226 --> 00:14:30.728
- And then, not only did it come from abraham through isaac,
- 00:14:30.728 --> 00:14:34.232
- See abraham also had ishmael
- 00:14:34.232 --> 00:14:36.467
- And several other children through keturah.
- 00:14:36.467 --> 00:14:38.970
- Isaac also had esau.
- 00:14:38.970 --> 00:14:41.673
- But he said the blessing would come through jacob
- 00:14:41.673 --> 00:14:44.409
- And jacob prophesied.
- 00:14:44.409 --> 00:14:46.811
- You see the prophecy in numbers 24:17.
- 00:14:46.811 --> 00:14:49.247
- "a star will come out of jacob,
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- A scepter" a scepter's what a king holds,
- 00:14:50.815 --> 00:14:53.384
- "will rise out of israel."
- 00:14:53.384 --> 00:14:55.153
- There would be this king,
- 00:14:55.153 --> 00:14:56.521
- The king of kings that would come.
- 00:14:56.521 --> 00:14:58.189
- By the way, that's the prophecy, probably,
- 00:14:58.189 --> 00:14:59.757
- That the wise men in the east were reading when they came
- 00:14:59.757 --> 00:15:03.428
- And followed the star.
- 00:15:03.428 --> 00:15:04.762
- The star that said, there was a new king that would come.
- 00:15:04.762 --> 00:15:07.966
- And then when he was dying there in genesis 49, jacob,
- 00:15:07.966 --> 00:15:12.270
- Later called israel, he prophesied that of his sons,
- 00:15:12.270 --> 00:15:15.974
- And he had 12 sons and one daughter,
- 00:15:15.974 --> 00:15:17.542
- The messiah would then be coming
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- Specifically through which one?
- 00:15:19.110 --> 00:15:21.946
- Judah, right?
- 00:15:21.946 --> 00:15:24.749
- You all with me? you all knew that, didn't you?
- 00:15:24.749 --> 00:15:26.784
- The messiah would come through of the 12 sons of jacob,
- 00:15:26.784 --> 00:15:29.988
- He would come through judah.
- 00:15:29.988 --> 00:15:31.322
- And he says there in genesis 49,
- 00:15:31.322 --> 00:15:33.358
- "the scepter will not depart from judah,
- 00:15:33.358 --> 00:15:35.727
- Nor a lawgiver from between his feet, until shiloh come,"
- 00:15:35.727 --> 00:15:39.530
- That means the king of peace.
- 00:15:39.530 --> 00:15:41.566
- And unto him shall the gathering of the people be.
- 00:15:41.566 --> 00:15:44.702
- So it would come through the tribe of judah.
- 00:15:44.702 --> 00:15:46.904
- "there will come forth a rod from the stem of jesse..."
- 00:15:46.904 --> 00:15:49.340
- Jesse was the father of david.
- 00:15:49.340 --> 00:15:51.609
- "and a branch will grow from his roots."
- 00:15:51.609 --> 00:15:53.745
- It said the messiah would come from the household of david.
- 00:15:53.745 --> 00:15:56.714
- "and the spirit of the lord will rest upon him."
- 00:15:56.714 --> 00:15:59.617
- Well, why does it say, "the spirit of the lord?"
- 00:15:59.617 --> 00:16:02.086
- The very word "messiah"
- 00:16:02.086 --> 00:16:03.855
- In the old testament means anointed,
- 00:16:03.855 --> 00:16:07.792
- The word christ, christos, it's greek for the anointed.
- 00:16:07.792 --> 00:16:12.830
- You know, when they christen a ship,
- 00:16:12.830 --> 00:16:14.799
- They splash the bottle of champagne or wine on it
- 00:16:14.799 --> 00:16:17.301
- And it's called a christening.
- 00:16:17.301 --> 00:16:19.203
- An anointing means to shower something.
- 00:16:19.203 --> 00:16:22.140
- Jesus was to be showered with the holy spirit of god
- 00:16:22.140 --> 00:16:26.210
- And they called him the anointed
- 00:16:26.210 --> 00:16:28.046
- That came through the descendants of david.
- 00:16:28.046 --> 00:16:31.249
- Now you go to the new testament
- 00:16:31.249 --> 00:16:33.351
- And you see was it fulfilled?
- 00:16:33.351 --> 00:16:35.987
- And you can read in luke 1:26,
- 00:16:35.987 --> 00:16:38.823
- "now in the sixth month the angel gabriel
- 00:16:38.823 --> 00:16:42.060
- Was sent by god to a city in galilee named nazareth..."
- 00:16:42.060 --> 00:16:46.097
- Where'd the angel go?
- 00:16:46.097 --> 00:16:47.899
- I want you to catch that
- 00:16:47.899 --> 00:16:49.233
- Because there's going to be a problem here in the moment.
- 00:16:49.233 --> 00:16:51.803
- "to a virgin that was betrothed to a man
- 00:16:51.803 --> 00:16:53.738
- Whose name was joseph of the house of" where?
- 00:16:53.738 --> 00:16:56.974
- "house of david.
- 00:16:56.974 --> 00:16:58.309
- The virgin's name was mary."
- 00:16:58.309 --> 00:16:59.644
- And this all sounds like a christmas sermon.
- 00:16:59.644 --> 00:17:01.045
- You all know this story, right?
- 00:17:01.045 --> 00:17:03.414
- But both mary and joseph were descendants from david.
- 00:17:03.414 --> 00:17:06.517
- You find the genealogy of mary
- 00:17:06.517 --> 00:17:08.886
- Going through her father back to jesus in luke,
- 00:17:08.886 --> 00:17:12.690
- And the genealogy follows joseph in matthew.
- 00:17:12.690 --> 00:17:15.460
- So either way they were both descendants of david
- 00:17:15.460 --> 00:17:20.731
- And, furthermore, it says that jesus
- 00:17:20.731 --> 00:17:22.533
- Would come through not just the house of david,
- 00:17:22.533 --> 00:17:24.469
- But the mother would be a virgin.
- 00:17:24.469 --> 00:17:25.803
- Now that certainly is unique, right?
- 00:17:25.803 --> 00:17:28.239
- You read that prophecy in isaiah 7:14,
- 00:17:28.239 --> 00:17:33.077
- "behold a virgin will conceive and bear a son,
- 00:17:33.077 --> 00:17:36.247
- And they'll call his name immanuel,"
- 00:17:36.247 --> 00:17:38.883
- Which means god with us.
- 00:17:38.883 --> 00:17:41.319
- Jump to the new testament.
- 00:17:41.319 --> 00:17:42.653
- By the way, that's written 700 years
- 00:17:42.653 --> 00:17:44.489
- Before jesus was born,
- 00:17:44.489 --> 00:17:46.224
- Foretold that the messiah would be born of a virgin.
- 00:17:46.224 --> 00:17:49.093
- Now you go to the new testament and you read in matthew 1:18.
- 00:17:49.093 --> 00:17:53.064
- It says that, "now the birth
- 00:17:53.064 --> 00:17:55.133
- Of jesus was as follows:
- 00:17:55.133 --> 00:17:57.101
- After his mother mary was betrothed or engaged to joseph,
- 00:17:57.101 --> 00:18:01.038
- Before they came together,
- 00:18:01.038 --> 00:18:03.107
- She was found to be with child."
- 00:18:03.107 --> 00:18:05.910
- And, of course, we all know about the virgin birth of mary,
- 00:18:05.910 --> 00:18:11.549
- Virgin birth of jesus, but mary was the virgin.
- 00:18:11.549 --> 00:18:13.885
- Yeah.
- 00:18:13.885 --> 00:18:16.654
- What about where he would be born?
- 00:18:16.654 --> 00:18:18.523
- Does the bible talk so we wouldn't have any doubts
- 00:18:18.523 --> 00:18:20.625
- About who the savior of man would be?
- 00:18:20.625 --> 00:18:23.027
- No doubts about when god became a man.
- 00:18:23.027 --> 00:18:24.795
- Who is it?
- 00:18:24.795 --> 00:18:26.130
- It wasn't just one of many wise men or prophets through time.
- 00:18:26.130 --> 00:18:29.333
- It was jesus.
- 00:18:29.333 --> 00:18:30.668
- The place of his birth is foretold
- 00:18:30.668 --> 00:18:32.503
- In the book of micah
- 00:18:32.503 --> 00:18:33.871
- About 600 years before christ.
- 00:18:33.871 --> 00:18:36.207
- He specifically said, "but you, bethlehem ephrathah,
- 00:18:36.207 --> 00:18:39.610
- Though you are little among the thousands of judah,
- 00:18:39.610 --> 00:18:42.947
- Unto you, yet out of you shall come forth to me
- 00:18:42.947 --> 00:18:46.083
- The one who is to be the ruler in israel,
- 00:18:46.083 --> 00:18:48.486
- Whose goings forth are from old,
- 00:18:48.486 --> 00:18:50.922
- Even from everlasting."
- 00:18:50.922 --> 00:18:52.757
- So it's another prophecy here.
- 00:18:52.757 --> 00:18:54.592
- What does it tell us about jesus?
- 00:18:54.592 --> 00:18:56.127
- He's from everlasting.
- 00:18:56.127 --> 00:18:57.762
- See, christ didn't just appear
- 00:18:57.762 --> 00:18:59.564
- When he was born from everlasting to everlasting.
- 00:18:59.564 --> 00:19:02.300
- You know, in revelation, he's referred to as the eternal one.
- 00:19:02.300 --> 00:19:07.538
- He's the "i am" there.
- 00:19:07.538 --> 00:19:09.674
- He's the one who is the first and the last,
- 00:19:09.674 --> 00:19:12.610
- The alpha and the omega.
- 00:19:12.610 --> 00:19:14.712
- So christ is from everlasting to everlasting.
- 00:19:14.712 --> 00:19:17.048
- He was eternal.
- 00:19:17.048 --> 00:19:18.849
- And it says that he'd be born in bethlehem.
- 00:19:18.849 --> 00:19:21.485
- Did that happen?
- 00:19:21.485 --> 00:19:23.087
- Now, we've got a problem.
- 00:19:23.087 --> 00:19:24.422
- When the angel came to mary, you heard me say a minute ago?
- 00:19:24.422 --> 00:19:27.091
- Where was she?
- 00:19:27.091 --> 00:19:29.093
- Galilee. and what city? nazareth.
- 00:19:29.093 --> 00:19:32.096
- I've got a map up here on the screen.
- 00:19:32.096 --> 00:19:33.631
- Now you're going to see nazareth
- 00:19:33.631 --> 00:19:34.966
- As the crow flies about 70 miles away.
- 00:19:34.966 --> 00:19:38.202
- She's great with child.
- 00:19:38.202 --> 00:19:39.537
- She's a long way from home.
- 00:19:39.537 --> 00:19:40.871
- How are we going to get the messiah born,
- 00:19:40.871 --> 00:19:42.673
- As he's supposed to be born,
- 00:19:42.673 --> 00:19:44.308
- In the city of david, bethlehem?
- 00:19:44.308 --> 00:19:46.777
- Well, this is one of the only times in history
- 00:19:46.777 --> 00:19:49.146
- We need to thank a politician for doing a tax increase.
- 00:19:49.146 --> 00:19:54.585
- Caesar augustus.
- 00:19:54.585 --> 00:19:56.220
- Luke 2:1, issued a decree,
- 00:19:56.220 --> 00:20:00.024
- "and it came to pass in those days
- 00:20:00.024 --> 00:20:01.926
- That there went out a decree from caesar augustus
- 00:20:01.926 --> 00:20:04.528
- That all the world should be taxed
- 00:20:04.528 --> 00:20:06.998
- And they had to go register for the tax in their own city.
- 00:20:06.998 --> 00:20:11.402
- And joseph also went up from galilee
- 00:20:11.402 --> 00:20:14.639
- Out of the city of nazareth into judea
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- There to be registered,
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- To be taxed and registered with his wife,
- 00:20:19.744 --> 00:20:21.979
- Mary" or his espoused wife "being great with child."
- 00:20:21.979 --> 00:20:26.050
- And, of course, while they are there we know what happened.
- 00:20:26.050 --> 00:20:29.887
- "and so it was, while they were there,
- 00:20:29.887 --> 00:20:31.589
- The days were accomplished that she should be delivered.
- 00:20:31.589 --> 00:20:34.392
- And she brought forth her firstborn son."
- 00:20:34.392 --> 00:20:37.795
- And this is, of course, fulfilling that the messiah
- 00:20:37.795 --> 00:20:39.764
- Would be born in bethlehem.
- 00:20:39.764 --> 00:20:41.098
- When the shepherds saw the angels where were they?
- 00:20:41.098 --> 00:20:43.534
- "there were dwelling in those days
- 00:20:43.534 --> 00:20:44.869
- Outside bethlehem shepherds watching their flocks."
- 00:20:44.869 --> 00:20:48.239
- Now, you know it's always been amazing to me,
- 00:20:48.239 --> 00:20:51.242
- You know what bethlehem means?
- 00:20:51.242 --> 00:20:54.011
- Beth means house.
- 00:20:54.011 --> 00:20:55.379
- Bethlehem, that means house of bread.
- 00:20:55.379 --> 00:20:58.983
- And jesus is the bread of life.
- 00:20:58.983 --> 00:21:01.452
- And after he was born, he was placed in a manger.
- 00:21:01.452 --> 00:21:04.121
- A manger is a trough for putting grain for the animals.
- 00:21:04.121 --> 00:21:08.259
- So here you've got the bread of life
- 00:21:08.259 --> 00:21:09.627
- Born in the house of bread placed in a trough for bread.
- 00:21:09.627 --> 00:21:12.930
- Jesus is the bread of life.
- 00:21:12.930 --> 00:21:16.167
- "and so she brought forth her firstborn son,
- 00:21:16.167 --> 00:21:18.235
- Wrapped him in swaddling clothes,
- 00:21:18.235 --> 00:21:20.204
- And laid him in a manger,
- 00:21:20.204 --> 00:21:21.839
- Because there was no room for him in the inn."
- 00:21:21.839 --> 00:21:25.409
- And again the angels said "for unto you is born"
- 00:21:25.409 --> 00:21:28.579
- They told the shepherds, "in the city of david."
- 00:21:28.579 --> 00:21:30.915
- Jesus would be a descendant of david born in the town of david
- 00:21:30.915 --> 00:21:34.452
- And it was all foretold by the prophets,
- 00:21:34.452 --> 00:21:37.121
- The savior who is christ the anointed, the lord.
- 00:21:37.121 --> 00:21:41.292
- And when christ was a baby, eight days old,
- 00:21:41.292 --> 00:21:44.261
- They bring him to the temple to be named and circumcised,
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- Which was technically the first time he shed blood.
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- When they called his name jesus,
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- He will save his people from their sins.
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- The priest there in the temple, simon,
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- Took him up in his arms and blessed him.
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- And they said to his mother,
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- "behold, this child is destined for the fall
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- And the rising of many in israel,
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- And for a sign that will be spoken against.
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- Yes, a sword will even pierce through your own soul,"
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- Foretelling, of course, the sufferings
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- That jesus would be going through,
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- "that the thoughts of many hearts might be revealed."
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- So even at the very beginning mary was given a prophecy
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- To let her know that jesus was coming, not just as a lion,
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- But he would first have to come as a lamb
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- And suffer for the sins of the world.
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- Well, then, when christ was still a child,
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- They're living in bethlehem,
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- Herod the king wanted to exterminate jesus as a baby.
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- You know there's three times in the bible
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- When the devil made an effort
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- To try to keep the savior from coming.
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- You can read about the devil thought maybe
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- That a savior was coming when the children of israel
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- Were in egypt.
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- So he wanted all the baby boys to be exterminated.
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- And yet moses was miraculously spared, the savior was spared.
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- And then during the time
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- Of queen jezebel's daughter athaliah,
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- She killed all of the seed of david.
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- Again, the devil trying to keep
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- The messiah from coming.
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- But, miraculously, joash was spared.
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- And then, of course,
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- During the time when christ was a baby,
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- Herod sent his soldiers to bethlehem
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- To kill all the baby boys, once again,
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- To try to keep the savior from coming.
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- And joseph was warned in a dream to go down to egypt
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- And you read in the new testament
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- That after he received that warning.
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- He said, "he arose and he took the young child
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- And his mother by night and he departed for egypt..."
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- Notice what matthew says, "that it might be fulfilled
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- Which was spoken by the lord through the prophet saying,
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- 'out of egypt i have called my son.'"
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- And, here, he's quoting hosea.
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- And so, even the new testament writers, like matthew,
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- Could often see how jesus
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- Was a fulfillment of all these prophecies.
- 00:23:54.258 --> 00:23:56.760
- They all combined and concentrated
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- And focused in his life.
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- You know, i get excited when i talk about this
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- Because there's just no question
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- That jesus is who he says he was.
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- All right, and then you can say
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- And he came when he was a child.
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- He moved back then, after egypt to nazareth
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- And he was subject to his parents
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- "that it might be fulfilled
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- That was spoken of by the prophets,"
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- Another prophecy, "he will be called a nazarene."
- 00:24:18.816 --> 00:24:22.586
- Now they're talking about when samson's parents were told
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- That this promised child would be a nazarene.
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- Several of the types in the bible,
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- Like samuel and samson, had the vow of a nazarite.
- 00:24:31.929 --> 00:24:36.567
- Typically, jesus is painted with long hair.
- 00:24:36.567 --> 00:24:39.670
- And yet, you know, there's a scripture that says
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- "it's a shame for a man to have long hair."
- 00:24:41.305 --> 00:24:43.140
- But the nazarites were not supposed to cut their hair.
- 00:24:43.140 --> 00:24:45.876
- And so some have wondered,
- 00:24:45.876 --> 00:24:47.211
- "did jesus's parents have the vow of a nazarite on him
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- Up until he was baptized?"
- 00:24:51.448 --> 00:24:53.050
- Because a person could have a nazarite vow
- 00:24:53.050 --> 00:24:54.952
- For a varying length of time.
- 00:24:54.952 --> 00:24:57.187
- It wasn't necessarily a lifelong vow.
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- Nazarites could not eat
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- Or drink anything from the vine.
- 00:25:01.191 --> 00:25:03.360
- Jesus obviously drank grape juice.
- 00:25:03.360 --> 00:25:05.996
- And so, he may have just been a nazarite
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- Up until his baptism or followed that vow.
- 00:25:07.731 --> 00:25:10.634
- We're not sure
- 00:25:10.634 --> 00:25:11.969
- But he's typically painted with long hair
- 00:25:11.969 --> 00:25:13.737
- And that's one of the reasons for that.
- 00:25:13.737 --> 00:25:16.140
- But that was foretold.
- 00:25:16.140 --> 00:25:17.775
- "and then he went down with his parents
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- And he came to nazareth,
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- And he was subject to them."
- 00:25:20.911 --> 00:25:23.213
- You know, there's all these theories that say,
- 00:25:23.213 --> 00:25:24.848
- You know, the reason jesus was so brilliant
- 00:25:24.848 --> 00:25:27.418
- Is because, from the time he was born,
- 00:25:27.418 --> 00:25:30.421
- His parents then took him
- 00:25:30.421 --> 00:25:31.755
- And he studied under these wise gurus in india,
- 00:25:31.755 --> 00:25:36.093
- Or he went to egypt and he studied there.
- 00:25:36.093 --> 00:25:38.028
- And they've got all these theories
- 00:25:38.028 --> 00:25:39.530
- About where jesus got his great knowledge
- 00:25:39.530 --> 00:25:41.265
- Because it says that he was uneducated in jerusalem.
- 00:25:41.265 --> 00:25:44.735
- It tells us that he learned the scriptures
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- Right there from his parents in home.
- 00:25:47.237 --> 00:25:49.440
- He didn't go off
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- And wasn't secretly taught by any,
- 00:25:50.774 --> 00:25:53.143
- You know, kung fu experts off there somewhere.
- 00:25:53.143 --> 00:25:55.713
- And then come back
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- And have this great enlightenment.
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- He went to his parents.
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- He lived a normal life for the first 30 years
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- Until his baptism.
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