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Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 2)

January 26, 2025 | S25:E12

Pastor Doug Batchelor is an energetic speaker of vision and deep spirituality.

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Amazing Facts | Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 2) | January 26, 2025

Doug batchelor: one of the most famous attractions
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In the san francisco bay area
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Is the iconic golden gate bridge.
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During its construction, the golden gate bridge
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Had one of the best safety construction records
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Of any project during that time.
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Because of the extreme risks,
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The chief engineer was absolutely adamant
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About their using the most rigorous safety precautions
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That had ever been used in bridge building.
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But the most conspicuous safety measure
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Was a gigantic net suspended from end-to-end
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Under the bridge about halfway between the bridge and the bay.
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During construction,
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This net saved the lives of 19 men
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Who were later known as the half way to hell club.
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With the net in place,
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These men were much more courageous
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And brave during construction
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Because they knew there was a mechanism to protect them
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If they should fall.
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Friends, as christians we get to participate with jesus
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In building a bridge
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That will connect heaven and earth.
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There are dangers along the way,
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But jesus has promised to protect us,
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And we don't need to be afraid.
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So join me now as we discover the fascinating bible facts
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About the hero of revelation.
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During the civil war, there was this one individual
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That really surprised everybody.
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His name was joshua lawrence chamberlain.
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He was actually from maine.
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He was a schoolteacher, english major,
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Actually majored in rhetoric and different languages,
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Seemed like something of a bookworm.
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But he had very strong convictions about slavery.
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And when, finally, the civil war broke out,
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Even though his family was very religious
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And he, maybe, was a pacifist by nature,
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He thought the cause deserves
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That we lay our lives down for this,
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And he joined the forces.
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Because of his education they quickly promoted him.
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And the next thing he knew,
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He was involved in the battle of gettysburg.
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Some of the soldiers under him were a little worried.
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They said, "this guy is always reading.
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He's a bookworm, he's a lamb."
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And he seems so polite and he seems so articulate,
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They thought, "what's he going to do on the battlefield?"
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Well, it turned out, in one of the biggest
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And the bloodiest battles of the civil war,
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The battle of gettysburg,
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50,000 people died in one day.
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It's been the bloodiest battle in american history,
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In any of our wars.
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The south was trying to take this hill,
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And they were trying to flank around the troops of the north,
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And chamberlain knew
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That he needed to hold that hill at all cost
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And they--
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For three days, the battle raged,
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And the south continued to throw soldiers at that hill
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Trying to get behind the troops and to defeat them.
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And they fought the group from maine that he was over,
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They fought until they ran out of ammunition.
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And finally, he told them, "fix your bayonets and charge."
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When they were coming up the hill after them,
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He told his men to charge back at them
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With just bayonets.
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And it so terrified the southerners
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That they turned and they ran.
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They didn't realize they had run out of bullets.
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They later called him, instead of the lamb,
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They called him the lion of little round top.
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Little round top was the hill that they were defending.
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Well, you know, jesus, when he comes again,
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He's coming like a lion.
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When he came the first time, he came like a lamb.
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But he is the central focus of the entire bible.
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And our presentation tonight,
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Dealing with the hero of revelation,
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Is part of our prophecy encounter series.
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I've got a lot of material to cover.
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You may want to have a pen or pencil handy
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Because we're going to give you some notes.
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We're going to be looking at prophecies in revelation,
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In daniel, and all through the bible,
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That show us who jesus is,
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So we can know that he is the central focus.
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If you look in daniel chapter 9.
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Daniel is praying.
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God's people are captives in babylon.
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He's saying, "we've been here 70 years."
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Daniel is reading the prophecy of jeremiah
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That said after 70 years they would go home.
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So even daniel read the prophets.
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And he's praying saying,
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"lord, we've been here 70 years.
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How long?
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How long will you tolerate your people?
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How long till the savior the messiah comes?"
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While daniel is praying, the angel gabriel comes,
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Same one that appears to mary,
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And he hasn't aged a bit when he appears to mary
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At 500 years later.
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And he gives this prophecy,
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"70 weeks are determined for your people..."
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I'm in daniel 9:24,
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"for their holy city, to finish transgression,
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To make an end of sins,
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To make reconciliation for iniquity,
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To bring in everlasting righteousness,
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To seal up the vision and the prophecy..."
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Talking about the visions
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About the coming of the messiah.
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"and anoint the most holy."
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Very clear that this is a prophecy
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That talked about the most holy being anointed,
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70 weeks.
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So what does the 70 weeks represent?
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Now, in the bible, a day equals a year.
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First let's talk about the starting point here.
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It tells us that it says,
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"from the going forth of the commandment..."
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If you read in daniel 9:25,
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What's the starting point for this prophecy?
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"from the going forth of the commandment
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To restore and build jerusalem."
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Jerusalem had been destroyed by nebuchadnezzar.
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The persian king, artaxerxes, issued a decree.
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You can find that in your bible in ezra chapter 7.
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That they could go back
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And he also helped subsidize their mission
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To rebuild the city, to rebuild the temple.
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And the bible says that would be
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The starting point of this 70 week prophecy.
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"from the going forth of the command
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To restore and build jerusalem
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Unto the messiah the prince, there'll be seven weeks..."
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Now he breaks up that 70 weeks into three parts:
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There'll be seven weeks, and 62 weeks,
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Then you have your final week.
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Okay?
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And so seven weeks was the time it took them
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To rebuild the walls and the streets
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And troublous times in the temple.
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Then there were 62 more weeks,
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The most holy would be anointed.
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Then during that last week,
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He would confirm the covenant with the people,
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But in the midst of that last week
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He'd make the sacrifice cease.
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Now i've said it, i'm going to say it several times
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Because i know this is a lot of information,
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And i want you to have this clear in your mind.
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First of all, when you're dealing
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With a large bible time prophecy like this,
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There's a pretty safe principle
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That you apply a day for a year.
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And there's three references there,
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You can see that support that principle.
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Now i'm going to put a chart up on the screen
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And explain this time prophecy.
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You see the decree is given 457 b.c.
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Artaxerxes you can find it in ezra 7.
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It's a pretty well accepted date
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In ancient history.
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And so, 483 years after the command
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Is when you would expect to see the messiah anointed.
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He begins his ministry.
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He then confirms the covenant with god's people
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For the last seven years.
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In the midst of that last seven years
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He makes the sacrifice cease.
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Stay with me.
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All right, jesus was baptized when?
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You can read in the gospel of john 1:29.
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He came to john the baptist, and it says,
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"john saw jesus coming to him and said,
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'behold! the lamb of god
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That takes away the sin of the world!'"
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You know, if you read in luke,
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It tells us that the year
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That john was preaching when jesus was baptized,
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It talks about pontius pilate being in power.
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You've got tiberius caesar, you've got herod.
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There is only one year in history
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When these three characters, their reigns overlapped
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And it was 27 a.d.
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27 a.d. is exactly 483 years after
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King artaxerxes' decree in 457.
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That's when the messiah was baptized.
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What happened at the baptism of jesus?
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You can read in acts 10:38 where peter said,
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"god anointed jesus of nazareth
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With the holy spirit..."
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He was the anointed, the christ.
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"and with power, who went about doing good
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And healing all who were oppressed by the devil,
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For god was with him."
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And so jesus was anointed by the holy spirit
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Exactly 483 years,
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But now you've got one week left
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Still to get to 490, right?
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Now we're going to talk about what happened
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During the ministry of jesus.
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We're parking the prophecy of daniel.
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So you all with me? we're going to come back to it.
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It said that he would confirm the covenant during this week.
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What did jesus do during that time?
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Let's look at the ministry of christ
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And are there prophecies about the ministry of christ?
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So i'm putting layers in here. prophecies in prophecies.
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Isaiah 61:1, first sermon jesus preached
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He quotes from this in nazareth,
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His home church.
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He said, "the spirit of god is upon me
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Because the lord has anointed me
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To preach the good news to the poor."
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Christ is the anointed.
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He's telling people, "i am the anointed."
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"he has sent me to heal the brokenhearted..."
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Did jesus do that?
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"to proclaim liberty to the captives",
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People captive by the devil and sin.
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"and the opening of prison to those who are bound."
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He came to set the captive free
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And to proclaim liberty to the captives
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And the great day of the lord.
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And people that came to hear jesus preach,
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You know, spies were sent to arrest him
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And they came back
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And the leader said, "where is he?
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We told you to arrest him." you know what their answer was?
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"never man spoke like this man."
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And i can testify to you, that was my impression
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Because i grew up believing that jesus was...
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In our home, my mom didn't say very nice things about jesus.
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Came, like i said, from a jewish background,
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And we thought christians were the problem.
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My jewish relatives,
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They'd tell me "oh, yeah, jesus was...
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He was a good man. he was a teacher."
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And i would ask my grandfather,
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I'd say, "now you realize
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That he said he was the messiah.
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Do you think he told the truth?"
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They said, "oh, yeah, he was a good man.
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He was a teacher. he's a prophet."
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"well, he said he was the son of god.
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He said he was the only one. he's the only door."
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And so they used to kind of stumble over that.
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So i was very antagonistic about jesus.
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When i finally started reading the bible,
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So i could argue with christians.
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And i'd read where it says,
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"he that is without sin cast the first stone."
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I had heard that expression all my life.
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I said, "oh, jesus said that."
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"turn the other cheek." oh, jesus said that.
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"go the second mile."
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And all of these things
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I was reading in the sermon on the mount,
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I'm going, "i've been hearing these things all my life.
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I had no idea that jesus said them."
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I said, "wow, he was really smart."
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I mean, he just said,
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He's the most quoted person in history.
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Nobody ever spoke like this man spoke.
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Now you look at the prophecies
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And the events surrounding the cross.
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Are there some of those in the old testament?
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For one thing, just the week before he was crucified,
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They call it the triumphal entry.
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"rejoice greatly, o daughter..."
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By the way, this is zechariah 9:9,
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"rejoice greatly, o daughter of zion!
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Shout, daughter of jerusalem!
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Behold, your king is coming to you.
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He is just and having salvation, lowly
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And riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey."
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And then you go to the new testament
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And then you see the story where jesus rode into jerusalem
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Through the golden gate on a donkey.
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Justice had been foretold with all the people rejoicing.
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Doug: don't go anywhere, friends.
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We will be back in just a moment
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To complete today's presentation.
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Can you imagine what it would be like to be out in the middle of
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A dark ocean by yourself, floating around, and then
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Discovering you're surrounded by hungry sharks.
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You would be so thankful if a helicopter
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Came by to rescue you.
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Well, let's get back now to today's presentation and learn
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Some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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Doug: are there prophecies about the betrayal of jesus?
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Yes, quite a few.
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Matter of fact, you can read in psalms,
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A thousand years before jesus was born,
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King david wrote, "even my own familiar friend
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In whom i trusted, who ate my bread,
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He has lifted up his heel against me."
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After they ate bread together,
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Judas went out and he betrayed him.
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And then, again, you read in zechariah,
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It says, and this is 11, verse 12,
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"then i said to them, 'if it is agreeable to you,
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Give me my wages, and, if not, refrain.'
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So they weighed out for my wages
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Thirty pieces of silver.'"
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How much was jesus sold for?
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Thirty pieces of silver, exactly.
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And then it goes on to say, "and the lord said to me,
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'throw it to the potter,'
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That princely price that they set upon me.
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So they took the thirty pieces of silver
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And they threw them into the house of the lord,
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To the potter."
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You know what judas did with the money
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When he was overcome with guilt?
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He went into the house of the lord,
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He threw the silver down.
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They did not know what to do with the money
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Because it was blood money.
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They used it to buy a potter's field
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To bury strangers in.
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What precise details were foretold
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Hundreds of years earlier, thousand years earlier.
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No, this one hundreds of years earlier
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Regarding the betrayal of christ.
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What about the manner of his death?
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Was that foretold?
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You realize when some of these prophecies were written,
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They didn't practice crucifixion.
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But you look in psalm 22.
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Now, do you know what the first words are
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In psalm 22?
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"my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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Does that sound familiar?
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That's what jesus uttered from the cross.
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People think, "did he say that because he was discouraged?"
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No, jesus said that because later in that psalm
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You find these other predictions.
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Read in psalm 22:16,
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"for dogs have surrounded me,
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The congregation of the wicked has enclosed me.
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They pierced my hands and my feet..."
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Describing crucifixion.
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It's in that same psalm, that messianic passover psalm
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Where he says, "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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Christ had not lost courage,
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He was directing them to the psalm
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That showed the very thing that was happening that day
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As he hung up on the cross.
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It says, "they divided my garments among them,
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And they cast lots for my clothing."
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What a precise detail.
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And then you read, of course, in the new testament
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There, mark 15:24 at the foot of the cross,
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"when they crucified him, they divided his garments,
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Casting lots for them
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To determine what every man should take."
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Gambling there at the foot of the cross.
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But when they came to jesus,
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It also says none of his bones would be broken
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In that prophecy in psalm 22.
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It says, "when they came to jesus
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After breaking the bones of the thief
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On the right and the left,
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They saw he was already dead
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And they did not break his legs."
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Notice john goes on.
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John quotes from the prophecy,
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"but one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear,
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And immediately blood and water came out."
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Talks about christ, the messiah being pierced.
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Blood and water came out
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But they did not break his bones.
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It says, "for these things were done
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That the scripture should be fulfilled,
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'not one of his bones would be broken.'"
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And again another scripture says,
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"they look on him whom they had pierced."
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Quoting again that scripture, jesus was pierced,
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His bones were not broken, he was crucified,
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They gambled for his clothing.
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Was he the one?
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Do the prophecies all talk about jesus?
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Now i told you, don't forget about daniel.
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We're going back now to daniel chapter 9.
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We got one week to go.
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And it says, "after the sixty-two weeks
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Messiah will be cut off, but not for himself."
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Was jesus cut off? yes.
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And when a person dies of old age,
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That's not being cut off.
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But when they're 30 years old,
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33 and a half, he died in his prime.
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He was cut off from the land of the living.
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But not for himself, for who?
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For us. for me, for you.
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He died for you as though you were the only one
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Who had ever sinned.
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He loves you that much.
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And then it said, "he would confirm the covenant
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With many for one week."
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So that last seven years, from his baptism
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Until seven years later,
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He is confirming the covenant with the jewish people.
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Three and a half years in person,
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Three and a half years through the apostles,
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Until, finally the first christian martyr,
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Which is stephen,
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He is tried by the jewish supreme court
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For his faith.
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They do the same thing to him they did to jesus.
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They bring him out of the city.
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He's falsely accused and then he is executed
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And he prays for the forgiveness
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Of those who kill him, the same thing jesus did.
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In the middle of the week he causes,
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He makes the offering and the sacrifice to cease.
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Three and a half years after jesus was baptized,
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When he dies on the cross, what happened in the temple?
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You read in matthew 27:51,
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"behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two
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From top to bottom, and the earth quaked,
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And the rocks were split..."
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And the veil of the temple is torn,
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Showing that the purpose
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For that sanctuary was complete.
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Jesus said, "destroy this temple made with hands
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And in three days i will make one without hands."
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He spoke of his body, the church.
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Two things were torn, the temple was torn
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And the high priest tore his garments.
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We now have a new priesthood.
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If you are a believer in christ,
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Then you are part of that royal priesthood. amen?
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And we also have a new temple.
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If you are a believer in christ,
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You are a living stone in that building.
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That's what paul and peter say. we are the household of god.
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Church is not a building, church is the people.
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Now, go back, i want you to see the chart again.
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And you notice here, we got from the decree
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Until the 69 weeks are complete,
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You've got 483 years and 69 weeks.
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Four hundred and eighty three days
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And a day is a year.
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Christ is baptized 27 a.d.
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He confirms a covenant with god's people
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For another week
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Before the gospel goes to the gentiles.
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Three and a half years in person,
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Then he dies and he causes the sacrifice to cease.
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Then he does another three and a half years
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Through those that heard him.
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And you'll find this is in hebrews 2:3
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Where it says that,
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"how shall we escape..." notice this.
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"how shall we escape
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If we neglect so great a salvation,
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Which at the first began to be spoken by the lord..."
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27 a.d.
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From his baptism began to preach
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For three and a half years until he was executed.
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"and was confirmed to us by those that heard him,"
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For three and a half years.
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Do you know the jews did not go when christ rose?
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They did not go to the world yet.
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He said, "first begin in jerusalem and judea."
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He says, "do not go,
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But first to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
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The apostles' ministry
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For the first three and a half years
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Was exclusively to the jewish nation.
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At pentecost, when the holy spirit is poured out,
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It says there were devout jews
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Dwelling in jerusalem from every nation.
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They preached to jews.
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In acts chapter 3, acts chapter 5,
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They're all jews being baptized.
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It wasn't until stephen was stoned,
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It says, "a great persecution arose
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And the gospel went everywhere."
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Then paul is converted, following that,
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In the next chapter.
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Peter then goes to cornelius
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And starts to preach to the gentiles
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Who he had been calling unclean.
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Finally the gospel began to go to everyone.
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That was exactly 490 years
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After, as daniel had said that prophecy.
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You've got the decree, 457,
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The baptism of jesus marks the last week
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Of that prophecy,
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First three and a half years he confirms the covenant.
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He then causes the sacrifice
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To cease by his death on the cross.
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Then he says to the disciples, "as the father sent me,
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Now you go confirm the covenant with the lost sheep
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For another three and a half years.
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Stephen is stoned.
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And he says, "now the gospel goes
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To the gentiles and everybody, whosoever will.
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This is exactly what god said would happen.
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There's no question that jesus was the messiah
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That daniel foretold.
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And i've even got a quote here from josephus,
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The jewish historian,
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That to me it just blows me away.
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Josephus, flavius josephus
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Was a contemporary of the apostles
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And he wrote this from the time of christ.
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"now there was about this time, a wise man,
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If it be lawful to call him a man,
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For he was a doer of wonderful works,
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And a teacher of such men
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As receive the truth with pleasure.
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He drew over to him both many of the jews
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And many of the gentiles, he was the christ."
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This is coming from a jewish scholar
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Who is not writing in the bible.
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It says, "and when pilate,
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At the suggestion of principal people among us,
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Had condemned him to the cross,
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Those that loved him
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At the first did not forsake him,
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For he appeared to them alive again
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After the third day."
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So this is not just the bible, friends, this is history.
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And even this jewish historian says,
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"yeah, he was the messiah,
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He appeared, he rose from the dead."
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"as the divine prophets had foretold these things
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And ten thousand other wonderful things
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Concerning him.
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And the tribe of christian continues with us
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And they are not extinct even to this day."
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So i want you to consider what we've looked at here.
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There are prophecies that tell about the time of his birth,
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That he'd be born of a virgin, the time of his baptism,
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The type of ministry, the events of his betrayal,
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The manner of his execution,
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His resurrection, his ascension.
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This is all foretold in the old testament.
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And then people say, "pastor doug, we had a question
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I didn't read tonight.
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How do you know the bible is true?"
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I'm going, pff!
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What evidence will you accept?
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What evidence will you accept?
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The book has been supernaturally preserved.
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Everything it says has come true.
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And jesus is the best evidence of all.
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You start to put the pieces together, friends,
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And you can see jesus
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Is what the whole bible is talking about.
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Amen?
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Congregation: amen.
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Doug: so why did he come?
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Three quick reasons we're going to review.
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One he came as our example.
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Jesus, he said,
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"i've given you an example
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That you should walk as i've walked."
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Jesus christ came and that, by the way, is john 13:15.
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"i want you to live as i have lived."
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A christian is a follower of christ.
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He came to show us the father, is the second reason he came.
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He said, "he who has seen me has seen the father."
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And then, finally, he said,
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"i've come because i want to take your place."
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He is our substitute.
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He died as a sacrifice for our sins
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Because he loves us.
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But there's something that we need to do.
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We need to accept that sacrifice in our behalf.
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You know, when jesus was being tried,
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Pilate said to him,
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"what am i supposed to do with jesus
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Who is called the christ?"
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Everyone really needs to answer that question.
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He is the central figure of human history.
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All of history dated from his birth.
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You cannot just ignore jesus.
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God has given an incredible gift
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That we might be forgiven.
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I remember reading a story years ago about this,
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A railway switch keeper in prussia over in europe
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Where they had this span that crossed the bridge,
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A railroad track crossed the river
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And there was a drawbridge.
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And whenever the train was approaching
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It would toot its whistle
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And he would raise this flag and said,
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"all clear, keep going."
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And one day, while he was at his station
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Waiting for the train, it tooted the whistle
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And he gave the all clear sign.
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But that was also a day that he had brought
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His 4-year-old son with him to work
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And he had taken his eyes off his son
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Who had wandered out on the trestle
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And he saw the train coming.
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Knowing the speed of the train,
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Seeing how far out on the track his son was,
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He thought, "what do i do?
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If i leave the bridge up,
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The train will go off and all those people
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Will perish in the river.
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If i don't switch the train off the track,
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My son is going to perish."
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And so he shouted out to his son,
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"lay down now.
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Lay down and do not move."
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And he knew the boy couldn't outrun the train
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And the boy just lay down.
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The bridge went down,
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The train went across the river
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And the man never knew, and the people went by,
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They are waving at the man in the booth.
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They had no idea that
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What the decision he had just made.
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After the train passed, he ran out there expecting
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Maybe to find the mangled remains of his children.
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His boy had obeyed and he was alive.
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The whole train went over him.
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Next day the king of prussia gave that man a reward
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For being willing to sacrifice his son
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To save all those people.
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His son did not die.
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You've probably heard variations of that story.
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But it is true that our father gave his son
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And he did die.
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And a lot of the world doesn't even know,
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As they go on their merry way,
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They're alive today because of the grace of god,
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Because the penalty for sin is death.
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And why aren't these people all dead?
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Because jesus, by his sacrifice,
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Bought the human race time,
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Probation to make a decision.
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We've got just this life. one life to make a decision.
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That's why all the prophecies are there
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That you might have an encounter with jesus.
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Doug Batchelor - The Hero of Revelation (Part 2)

January 26, 2025 | S25:E12

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