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."
  • 00:10:22.138 --> 00:10:25.608
  • And so they used to kind of stumble over that.
  • 00:10:25.608 --> 00:10:27.610
  • So i was very antagonistic about jesus.
  • 00:10:27.610 --> 00:10:29.578
  • When i finally started reading the bible,
  • 00:10:29.578 --> 00:10:32.114
  • So i could argue with christians.
  • 00:10:32.114 --> 00:10:34.150
  • And i'd read where it says,
  • 00:10:34.150 --> 00:10:36.185
  • "he that is without sin cast the first stone."
  • 00:10:36.185 --> 00:10:37.953
  • I had heard that expression all my life.
  • 00:10:37.953 --> 00:10:39.455
  • I said, "oh, jesus said that."
  • 00:10:39.455 --> 00:10:43.025
  • "turn the other cheek." oh, jesus said that.
  • 00:10:43.025 --> 00:10:46.595
  • "go the second mile."
  • 00:10:46.595 --> 00:10:48.564
  • And all of these things
  • 00:10:48.564 --> 00:10:49.899
  • I was reading in the sermon on the mount,
  • 00:10:49.899 --> 00:10:51.267
  • I'm going, "i've been hearing these things all my life.
  • 00:10:51.267 --> 00:10:52.902
  • I had no idea that jesus said them."
  • 00:10:52.902 --> 00:10:55.538
  • I said, "wow, he was really smart."
  • 00:10:55.538 --> 00:10:58.207
  • I mean, he just said,
  • 00:10:58.207 --> 00:10:59.542
  • He's the most quoted person in history.
  • 00:10:59.542 --> 00:11:01.143
  • Nobody ever spoke like this man spoke.
  • 00:11:01.143 --> 00:11:04.847
  • Now you look at the prophecies
  • 00:11:04.847 --> 00:11:06.182
  • And the events surrounding the cross.
  • 00:11:06.182 --> 00:11:09.118
  • Are there some of those in the old testament?
  • 00:11:09.118 --> 00:11:11.487
  • For one thing, just the week before he was crucified,
  • 00:11:11.487 --> 00:11:14.290
  • They call it the triumphal entry.
  • 00:11:14.290 --> 00:11:16.392
  • "rejoice greatly, o daughter..."
  • 00:11:16.392 --> 00:11:17.993
  • By the way, this is zechariah 9:9,
  • 00:11:17.993 --> 00:11:20.129
  • "rejoice greatly, o daughter of zion!
  • 00:11:20.129 --> 00:11:22.264
  • Shout, daughter of jerusalem!
  • 00:11:22.264 --> 00:11:24.066
  • Behold, your king is coming to you.
  • 00:11:24.066 --> 00:11:26.435
  • He is just and having salvation, lowly
  • 00:11:26.435 --> 00:11:29.438
  • And riding on a donkey, a colt, the foal of a donkey."
  • 00:11:29.438 --> 00:11:33.442
  • And then you go to the new testament
  • 00:11:33.442 --> 00:11:34.844
  • And then you see the story where jesus rode into jerusalem
  • 00:11:34.844 --> 00:11:37.546
  • Through the golden gate on a donkey.
  • 00:11:37.546 --> 00:11:40.349
  • 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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  • Some more amazing facts from the word of god.
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  • Doug: are there prophecies about the betrayal of jesus?
  • 00:12:41.110 --> 00:12:43.946
  • Yes, quite a few.
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  • Matter of fact, you can read in psalms,
  • 00:12:45.681 --> 00:12:47.149
  • A thousand years before jesus was born,
  • 00:12:47.149 --> 00:12:50.186
  • King david wrote, "even my own familiar friend
  • 00:12:50.186 --> 00:12:53.022
  • In whom i trusted, who ate my bread,
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  • He has lifted up his heel against me."
  • 00:12:55.958 --> 00:12:59.094
  • After they ate bread together,
  • 00:12:59.094 --> 00:13:00.429
  • Judas went out and he betrayed him.
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  • And then, again, you read in zechariah,
  • 00:13:03.766 --> 00:13:05.234
  • It says, and this is 11, verse 12,
  • 00:13:05.234 --> 00:13:07.536
  • "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.'"
  • 00:13:15.978 --> 00:13:18.514
  • How much was jesus sold for?
  • 00:13:18.514 --> 00:13:21.050
  • Thirty pieces of silver, exactly.
  • 00:13:21.050 --> 00:13:23.319
  • And then it goes on to say, "and the lord said to me,
  • 00:13:23.319 --> 00:13:25.955
  • '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?
  • 00:13:36.899 --> 00:13:38.234
  • 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
  • 00:13:41.036 --> 00:13:42.571
  • 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.
  • 00:13:45.574 --> 00:13:47.943
  • What precise details were foretold
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  • Hundreds of years earlier, thousand years earlier.
  • 00:13:50.512 --> 00:13:54.083
  • No, this one hundreds of years earlier
  • 00:13:54.083 --> 00:13:56.352
  • Regarding the betrayal of christ.
  • 00:13:56.352 --> 00:13:59.221
  • What about the manner of his death?
  • 00:13:59.221 --> 00:14:00.556
  • Was that foretold?
  • 00:14:00.556 --> 00:14:02.925
  • You realize when some of these prophecies were written,
  • 00:14:02.925 --> 00:14:05.160
  • They didn't practice crucifixion.
  • 00:14:05.160 --> 00:14:06.629
  • But you look in psalm 22.
  • 00:14:06.629 --> 00:14:08.998
  • Now, do you know what the first words are
  • 00:14:08.998 --> 00:14:10.332
  • In psalm 22?
  • 00:14:10.332 --> 00:14:12.001
  • "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
  • 00:14:12.001 --> 00:14:15.037
  • Does that sound familiar?
  • 00:14:15.037 --> 00:14:16.805
  • That's what jesus uttered from the cross.
  • 00:14:16.805 --> 00:14:18.307
  • People think, "did he say that because he was discouraged?"
  • 00:14:18.307 --> 00:14:21.010
  • No, jesus said that because later in that psalm
  • 00:14:21.010 --> 00:14:24.246
  • You find these other predictions.
  • 00:14:24.246 --> 00:14:26.181
  • Read in psalm 22:16,
  • 00:14:26.181 --> 00:14:28.784
  • "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.
  • 00:14:36.425 --> 00:14:38.260
  • It's in that same psalm, that messianic passover psalm
  • 00:14:38.260 --> 00:14:42.531
  • Where he says, "my god, my god, why have you forsaken me?"
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  • Christ had not lost courage,
  • 00:14:45.968 --> 00:14:47.303
  • 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.
  • 00:14:51.340 --> 00:14:52.908
  • It says, "they divided my garments among them,
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  • And they cast lots for my clothing."
  • 00:14:55.544 --> 00:14:57.613
  • What a precise detail.
  • 00:14:57.613 --> 00:14:59.748
  • And then you read, of course, in the new testament
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  • There, mark 15:24 at the foot of the cross,
  • 00:15:01.583 --> 00:15:05.387
  • "when they crucified him, they divided his garments,
  • 00:15:05.387 --> 00:15:08.123
  • 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,
  • 00:15:16.365 --> 00:15:18.067
  • It also says none of his bones would be broken
  • 00:15:18.067 --> 00:15:19.935
  • In that prophecy in psalm 22.
  • 00:15:19.935 --> 00:15:22.271
  • 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,
  • 00:15:25.040 --> 00:15:26.475
  • They saw he was already dead
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  • And they did not break his legs."
  • 00:15:27.810 --> 00:15:29.345
  • Notice john goes on.
  • 00:15:29.345 --> 00:15:30.746
  • John quotes from the prophecy,
  • 00:15:30.746 --> 00:15:32.648
  • "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,
  • 00:15:45.260 --> 00:15:47.363
  • 'not one of his bones would be broken.'"
  • 00:15:47.363 --> 00:15:49.898
  • And again another scripture says,
  • 00:15:49.898 --> 00:15:51.233
  • "they look on him whom they had pierced."
  • 00:15:51.233 --> 00:15:54.003
  • 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?
  • 00:15:59.975 --> 00:16:01.910
  • Do the prophecies all talk about jesus?
  • 00:16:01.910 --> 00:16:04.013
  • 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."
  • 00:16:14.423 --> 00:16:18.494
  • Was jesus cut off? yes.
  • 00:16:18.494 --> 00:16:20.629
  • And when a person dies of old age,
  • 00:16:20.629 --> 00:16:22.765
  • That's not being cut off.
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  • But when they're 30 years old,
  • 00:16:24.099 --> 00:16:27.002
  • 33 and a half, he died in his prime.
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  • He was cut off from the land of the living.
  • 00:16:31.640 --> 00:16:33.208
  • But not for himself, for who?
  • 00:16:33.208 --> 00:16:35.844
  • 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.
  • 00:16:41.517 --> 00:16:43.152
  • And then it said, "he would confirm the covenant
  • 00:16:43.152 --> 00:16:44.920
  • With many for one week."
  • 00:16:44.920 --> 00:16:46.355
  • So that last seven years, from his baptism
  • 00:16:46.355 --> 00:16:49.591
  • Until seven years later,
  • 00:16:49.591 --> 00:16:52.628
  • He is confirming the covenant with the jewish people.
  • 00:16:52.628 --> 00:16:55.597
  • Three and a half years in person,
  • 00:16:55.597 --> 00:16:58.767
  • 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
  • 00:17:06.375 --> 00:17:08.077
  • 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.
  • 00:17:11.280 --> 00:17:12.815
  • He's falsely accused and then he is executed
  • 00:17:12.815 --> 00:17:16.752
  • 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,
  • 00:17:20.956 --> 00:17:22.858
  • He makes the offering and the sacrifice to cease.
  • 00:17:22.858 --> 00:17:26.261
  • Three and a half years after jesus was baptized,
  • 00:17:26.261 --> 00:17:28.797
  • When he dies on the cross, what happened in the temple?
  • 00:17:28.797 --> 00:17:32.101
  • You read in matthew 27:51,
  • 00:17:32.101 --> 00:17:34.403
  • "behold, the veil of the temple was torn in two
  • 00:17:34.403 --> 00:17:37.339
  • From top to bottom, and the earth quaked,
  • 00:17:37.339 --> 00:17:39.808
  • And the rocks were split..."
  • 00:17:39.808 --> 00:17:42.177
  • And the veil of the temple is torn,
  • 00:17:42.177 --> 00:17:44.880
  • Showing that the purpose
  • 00:17:44.880 --> 00:17:46.215
  • For that sanctuary was complete.
  • 00:17:46.215 --> 00:17:50.185
  • Jesus said, "destroy this temple made with hands
  • 00:17:50.185 --> 00:17:52.121
  • And in three days i will make one without hands."
  • 00:17:52.121 --> 00:17:53.922
  • He spoke of his body, the church.
  • 00:17:53.922 --> 00:17:56.892
  • Two things were torn, the temple was torn
  • 00:17:56.892 --> 00:17:59.228
  • And the high priest tore his garments.
  • 00:17:59.228 --> 00:18:00.963
  • We now have a new priesthood.
  • 00:18:00.963 --> 00:18:02.965
  • If you are a believer in christ,
  • 00:18:02.965 --> 00:18:04.700
  • Then you are part of that royal priesthood. amen?
  • 00:18:04.700 --> 00:18:07.436
  • And we also have a new temple.
  • 00:18:07.436 --> 00:18:08.770
  • If you are a believer in christ,
  • 00:18:08.770 --> 00:18:10.239
  • You are a living stone in that building.
  • 00:18:10.239 --> 00:18:12.174
  • That's what paul and peter say. we are the household of god.
  • 00:18:12.174 --> 00:18:15.144
  • Church is not a building, church is the people.
  • 00:18:15.144 --> 00:18:17.880
  • Now, go back, i want you to see the chart again.
  • 00:18:17.880 --> 00:18:20.782
  • And you notice here, we got from the decree
  • 00:18:20.782 --> 00:18:24.286
  • Until the 69 weeks are complete,
  • 00:18:24.286 --> 00:18:27.856
  • You've got 483 years and 69 weeks.
  • 00:18:27.856 --> 00:18:31.460
  • 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.
  • 00:18:34.129 --> 00:18:37.132
  • He confirms a covenant with god's people
  • 00:18:37.132 --> 00:18:38.934
  • For another week
  • 00:18:38.934 --> 00:18:40.269
  • Before the gospel goes to the gentiles.
  • 00:18:40.269 --> 00:18:42.804
  • Three and a half years in person,
  • 00:18:42.804 --> 00:18:45.007
  • Then he dies and he causes the sacrifice to cease.
  • 00:18:45.007 --> 00:18:48.343
  • Then he does another three and a half years
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  • Through those that heard him.
  • 00:18:50.112 --> 00:18:51.480
  • And you'll find this is in hebrews 2:3
  • 00:18:51.480 --> 00:18:56.552
  • Where it says that,
  • 00:18:56.552 --> 00:18:58.086
  • "how shall we escape..." notice this.
  • 00:18:58.086 --> 00:19:00.055
  • "how shall we escape
  • 00:19:00.055 --> 00:19:01.423
  • If we neglect so great a salvation,
  • 00:19:01.423 --> 00:19:03.559
  • Which at the first began to be spoken by the lord..."
  • 00:19:03.559 --> 00:19:07.396
  • 27 a.d.
  • 00:19:07.396 --> 00:19:08.730
  • From his baptism began to preach
  • 00:19:08.730 --> 00:19:10.532
  • For three and a half years until he was executed.
  • 00:19:10.532 --> 00:19:14.136
  • "and was confirmed to us by those that heard him,"
  • 00:19:14.136 --> 00:19:17.573
  • For three and a half years.
  • 00:19:17.573 --> 00:19:18.907
  • Do you know the jews did not go when christ rose?
  • 00:19:18.907 --> 00:19:21.343
  • They did not go to the world yet.
  • 00:19:21.343 --> 00:19:23.445
  • He said, "first begin in jerusalem and judea."
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  • He says, "do not go,
  • 00:19:27.716 --> 00:19:29.051
  • But first to the lost sheep of the house of israel."
  • 00:19:29.051 --> 00:19:31.653
  • The apostles' ministry
  • 00:19:31.653 --> 00:19:33.055
  • For the first three and a half years
  • 00:19:33.055 --> 00:19:34.489
  • Was exclusively to the jewish nation.
  • 00:19:34.489 --> 00:19:37.159
  • At pentecost, when the holy spirit is poured out,
  • 00:19:37.159 --> 00:19:39.461
  • It says there were devout jews
  • 00:19:39.461 --> 00:19:40.963
  • Dwelling in jerusalem from every nation.
  • 00:19:40.963 --> 00:19:42.898
  • They preached to jews.
  • 00:19:42.898 --> 00:19:44.700
  • In acts chapter 3, acts chapter 5,
  • 00:19:44.700 --> 00:19:46.435
  • They're all jews being baptized.
  • 00:19:46.435 --> 00:19:48.070
  • It wasn't until stephen was stoned,
  • 00:19:48.070 --> 00:19:50.239
  • It says, "a great persecution arose
  • 00:19:50.239 --> 00:19:52.374
  • And the gospel went everywhere."
  • 00:19:52.374 --> 00:19:54.343
  • Then paul is converted, following that,
  • 00:19:54.343 --> 00:19:57.479
  • 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,
  • 00:21:25.767 --> 00:21:29.004
  • 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,
  • 00:21:42.351 --> 00:21:43.952
  • "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."
  • 00:21:58.133 --> 00:22:00.402
  • So i want you to consider what we've looked at here.
  • 00:22:00.402 --> 00:22:02.838
  • 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,
  • 00:22:05.907 --> 00:22:10.011
  • The type of ministry, the events of his betrayal,
  • 00:22:10.011 --> 00:22:12.781
  • The manner of his execution,
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  • His resurrection, his ascension.
  • 00:22:14.583 --> 00:22:16.184
  • This is all foretold in the old testament.
  • 00:22:16.184 --> 00:22:19.354
  • And then people say, "pastor doug, we had a question
  • 00:22:19.354 --> 00:22:21.456
  • I didn't read tonight.
  • 00:22:21.456 --> 00:22:22.924
  • How do you know the bible is true?"
  • 00:22:22.924 --> 00:22:24.259
  • I'm going, pff!
  • 00:22:24.259 --> 00:22:25.594
  • What evidence will you accept?
  • 00:22:25.594 --> 00:22:28.563
  • What evidence will you accept?
  • 00:22:28.563 --> 00:22:30.365
  • The book has been supernaturally preserved.
  • 00:22:30.365 --> 00:22:32.367
  • Everything it says has come true.
  • 00:22:32.367 --> 00:22:34.436
  • And jesus is the best evidence of all.
  • 00:22:34.436 --> 00:22:37.572
  • You start to put the pieces together, friends,
  • 00:22:37.572 --> 00:22:39.508
  • And you can see jesus
  • 00:22:39.508 --> 00:22:40.842
  • Is what the whole bible is talking about.
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  • Amen?
  • 00:22:43.145 --> 00:22:44.479
  • Congregation: amen.
  • 00:22:44.479 --> 00:22:45.814
  • 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,
  • 00:22:52.721 --> 00:22:54.456
  • "i've given you an example
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  • That you should walk as i've walked."
  • 00:22:55.791 --> 00:22:58.260
  • Jesus christ came and that, by the way, is john 13:15.
  • 00:22:58.260 --> 00:23:03.064
  • "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.
  • 00:23:07.402 --> 00:23:10.772
  • He said, "he who has seen me has seen the father."
  • 00:23:10.772 --> 00:23:15.043
  • And then, finally, he said,
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  • "i've come because i want to take your place."
  • 00:23:17.145 --> 00:23:20.015
  • He is our substitute.
  • 00:23:20.015 --> 00:23:22.184
  • He died as a sacrifice for our sins
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  • Because he loves us.
  • 00:23:24.085 --> 00:23:25.954
  • But there's something that we need to do.
  • 00:23:25.954 --> 00:23:28.290
  • We need to accept that sacrifice in our behalf.
  • 00:23:28.290 --> 00:23:32.828
  • You know, when jesus was being tried,
  • 00:23:32.828 --> 00:23:35.931
  • Pilate said to him,
  • 00:23:35.931 --> 00:23:37.365
  • "what am i supposed to do with jesus
  • 00:23:37.365 --> 00:23:39.401
  • Who is called the christ?"
  • 00:23:39.401 --> 00:23:40.769
  • Everyone really needs to answer that question.
  • 00:23:40.769 --> 00:23:42.804
  • He is the central figure of human history.
  • 00:23:42.804 --> 00:23:46.341
  • All of history dated from his birth.
  • 00:23:46.341 --> 00:23:48.510
  • You cannot just ignore jesus.
  • 00:23:48.510 --> 00:23:50.745
  • God has given an incredible gift
  • 00:23:50.745 --> 00:23:53.248
  • That we might be forgiven.
  • 00:23:53.248 --> 00:23:55.917
  • I remember reading a story years ago about this,
  • 00:23:55.917 --> 00:23:58.887
  • A railway switch keeper in prussia over in europe
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  • Where they had this span that crossed the bridge,
  • 00:24:03.758 --> 00:24:06.928
  • A railroad track crossed the river
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  • And there was a drawbridge.
  • 00:24:08.663 --> 00:24:10.198
  • And whenever the train was approaching
  • 00:24:10.198 --> 00:24:12.000
  • It would toot its whistle
  • 00:24:12.000 --> 00:24:14.402
  • And he would raise this flag and said,
  • 00:24:14.402 --> 00:24:16.137
  • "all clear, keep going."
  • 00:24:16.137 --> 00:24:18.073
  • And one day, while he was at his station
  • 00:24:18.073 --> 00:24:19.708
  • Waiting for the train, it tooted the whistle
  • 00:24:19.708 --> 00:24:22.544
  • And he gave the all clear sign.
  • 00:24:22.544 --> 00:24:24.913
  • But that was also a day that he had brought
  • 00:24:24.913 --> 00:24:26.314
  • 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.
  • 00:24:32.587 --> 00:24:34.656
  • Knowing the speed of the train,
  • 00:24:34.656 --> 00:24:35.991
  • Seeing how far out on the track his son was,
  • 00:24:35.991 --> 00:24:39.661
  • He thought, "what do i do?
  • 00:24:39.661 --> 00:24:41.096
  • If i leave the bridge up,
  • 00:24:41.096 --> 00:24:43.231
  • The train will go off and all those people
  • 00:24:43.231 --> 00:24:44.599
  • Will perish in the river.
  • 00:24:44.599 --> 00:24:47.002
  • If i don't switch the train off the track,
  • 00:24:47.002 --> 00:24:49.938
  • My son is going to perish."
  • 00:24:49.938 --> 00:24:52.407
  • And so he shouted out to his son,
  • 00:24:52.407 --> 00:24:54.676
  • "lay down now.
  • 00:24:54.676 --> 00:24:56.111
  • Lay down and do not move."
  • 00:24:56.111 --> 00:24:58.647
  • And he knew the boy couldn't outrun the train
  • 00:24:58.647 --> 00:25:01.550
  • And the boy just lay down.
  • 00:25:01.550 --> 00:25:03.518
  • 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,
  • 00:25:07.889 --> 00:25:09.691
  • They are waving at the man in the booth.
  • 00:25:09.691 --> 00:25:12.561
  • They had no idea that
  • 00:25:12.561 --> 00:25:14.162
  • What the decision he had just made.
  • 00:25:14.162 --> 00:25:16.498
  • After the train passed, he ran out there expecting
  • 00:25:16.498 --> 00:25:18.733
  • Maybe to find the mangled remains of his children.
  • 00:25:18.733 --> 00:25:21.169
  • His boy had obeyed and he was alive.
  • 00:25:21.169 --> 00:25:23.805
  • The whole train went over him.
  • 00:25:23.805 --> 00:25:26.374
  • Next day the king of prussia gave that man a reward
  • 00:25:26.374 --> 00:25:29.411
  • For being willing to sacrifice his son
  • 00:25:29.411 --> 00:25:32.047
  • To save all those people.
  • 00:25:32.047 --> 00:25:35.083
  • His son did not die.
  • 00:25:35.083 --> 00:25:37.719
  • You've probably heard variations of that story.
  • 00:25:37.719 --> 00:25:41.056
  • But it is true that our father gave his son
  • 00:25:41.056 --> 00:25:43.458
  • And he did die.
  • 00:25:43.458 --> 00:25:45.093
  • And a lot of the world doesn't even know,
  • 00:25:45.093 --> 00:25:46.828
  • As they go on their merry way,
  • 00:25:46.828 --> 00:25:48.163
  • They're alive today because of the grace of god,
  • 00:25:48.163 --> 00:25:50.632
  • Because the penalty for sin is death.
  • 00:25:50.632 --> 00:25:52.133
  • And why aren't these people all dead?
  • 00:25:52.133 --> 00:25:54.402
  • Because jesus, by his sacrifice,
  • 00:25:54.402 --> 00:25:56.504
  • Bought the human race time,
  • 00:25:56.504 --> 00:25:59.107
  • 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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